Danny Jones Podcast - #1 - Omar the Director
Aired: 2018-11-04
Duration: 01:32:45


=== The Ominous Director in the Shadows (03:29) ===

[00:00:00]  No, really, welcome to the Concrete Podcast.
[00:00:02]  Today we got the infamous Omar, the director, Academy Award winning hip hop video director, working with the likes of Plies, Kodak Black, Gucci Man, and pretty much all the biggest names in the game.
[00:00:18]  What's up, dude?
[00:00:19]  How are you doing, man?
[00:00:20]  Good.
[00:00:20]  Thanks for having me.
[00:00:21]  Yeah, of course.
[00:00:22]  What have you been up to?
[00:00:23]  Shut that shit down a little bit, though, because I can't really.
[00:00:26]  Yeah, I got ADD, man.
[00:00:26]  We're going to get a copyright claim on this video.
[00:00:28]  Turn it up too loud.
[00:00:29]  Yeah.
[00:00:30]  So, what's up, dude?
[00:00:31]  How you been?
[00:00:32]  I've been good, man.
[00:00:32]  I haven't seen you in a while.
[00:00:33]  Yeah, it's been a minute.
[00:00:34]  Yeah.
[00:00:35]  The egg beater video.
[00:00:37]  You let us shoot the behind the scenes.
[00:00:38]  Oh, man.
[00:00:38]  Yeah, that's good.
[00:00:39]  Was that the last time?
[00:00:41]  Maybe not.
[00:00:42]  I believe so.
[00:00:43]  That was crazy, though.
[00:00:44]  That was really crazy.
[00:00:45]  You got real high that night, right?
[00:00:46]  Yeah.
[00:00:47]  Oh, my God.
[00:00:47]  I did get really high.
[00:00:48]  Where was that at?
[00:00:50]  That was in downtown Clearwater.
[00:00:52]  They were shooting the video.
[00:00:55]  PB was like the first one there.
[00:00:57]  And he was rolling backwards back to back to back to back.
[00:01:02]  And I think I hit one like towards the end of the night, and then I was just.
[00:01:06]  Fucking done after that, dude.
[00:01:07]  I was so fucked up.
[00:01:10]  I couldn't even look at a video camera.
[00:01:12]  I had to go home.
[00:01:14]  That's great.
[00:01:14]  But yeah, that was fun, dude.
[00:01:15]  That was a sick video.
[00:01:17]  I like that.
[00:01:19]  It turned out pretty good.
[00:01:20]  So, pardon my terrible introduction, but for those people who may not know who you are, give them the full story for people that may not comprehend.
[00:01:33]  Give me the elevator pitch of Omar.
[00:01:35]  Omar, the director.
[00:01:36]  Oh man, this is why I started doing that because I hate elevator pitches, but.
[00:01:41]  That's how you gotta sell.
[00:01:42]  You know, I just do hip hop videos, specifically like the trap genre is like really where I believe I've made a dent, if you could say.
[00:01:53]  Mm hmm.
[00:01:54]  Yeah.
[00:01:55]  I edit, I shoot, I direct, kind of where you know, wear multiple hats.
[00:01:59]  So.
[00:01:59]  Mm hmm.
[00:02:00]  You're kind of like one of the guys, I mean, from my point of view at least, it seems like you're one of the guys that's more like ominous, that kind of like stays in the shadows.
[00:02:06]  You don't really like.
[00:02:08]  You don't really put yourself in the spotlight too much.
[00:02:10]  You kind of like try to stay, you're more ominous than the rest of the guys.
[00:02:14]  You seem like, I don't know, you just seem like more behind.
[00:02:15]  You seem, a lot of people don't really know what you look like.
[00:02:19]  I mean, you post a couple pictures, but.
[00:02:21]  No, you're right about that.
[00:02:23]  I agree.
[00:02:24]  Because it's funny, like a lot of people think I'm black.
[00:02:26]  Really?
[00:02:27]  So, yeah, you know, like, so when they meet me for the first time, like they'll either walk right past me or just not pay attention.
[00:02:33]  Yeah.
[00:02:33]  And it's like, hey, you know, I'm Omar.
[00:02:35]  Yeah.
[00:02:36]  And oh, shit, oh no, oh man.
[00:02:38]  Even on set.
[00:02:39]  And then it's like, I thought you were black, man, you know?
[00:02:40]  So.
[00:02:41]  It's funny, like, uh, what's the craziest time that's at?
[00:02:44]  Like, I'm gonna tell you, like, I was on FaceTime with Waka Flocka, and he's looking right at me, and he's like, Omar, and I was like, Yeah, what's up, bro?
[00:02:53]  Stop, and he's like, Damn, I thought you were black, like, you know, and he really couldn't believe it.
[00:02:59]  Like, he was actually kind of upset, I think.
[00:03:02]  Like, I could tell that he was like, Damn, like, what the he wanted you to be black, but it's funny.
[00:03:06]  I mean, I kind of just take like a compliment because I feel like, you know, it's like that's not my world, but right, it's like I've I feel like I've like portrayed it and brought it to life in a very particular manner.
[00:03:19]  Yeah.
[00:03:19]  And people from that world like love it.
[00:03:23]  Yeah.
[00:03:24]  You know?
[00:03:25]  That's crazy.
[00:03:25]  Yeah.
[00:03:26]  So, like, where did this whole thing start?
[00:03:28]  Like, take me back to the beginning.

=== Growing Up Without Grandparents (02:51) ===

[00:03:29]  Like, how did you get into doing all this?
[00:03:31]  And what made you want to start making videos or even rap videos for that matter?
[00:03:37]  I think I've always wanted to do something like in the art, you know, like artistic field, right?
[00:03:43]  Whether it's like photography or.
[00:03:46]  When I look back, I remember being very young and trying to steal my dad's camcorder or something.
[00:03:54]  Not steal it, but like try to use it or just to try to do stuff or.
[00:03:58]  Yeah.
[00:03:59]  But I think, to answer your question, just like corporate America, you know, I had like a job and all that and just.
[00:04:05]  What were you doing?
[00:04:06]  I was in the financial industry, you know.
[00:04:08]  Oh, really?
[00:04:08]  Yeah.
[00:04:10]  And it's just, I don't know, I just, I just, I had this calling, like I felt like I needed to do something, you know?
[00:04:18]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:04:19]  And literally just, I just, I bought a camera and that's where this all started.
[00:04:24]  Really?
[00:04:24]  I love, I mean, I always loved rap music.
[00:04:27]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:04:27]  And.
[00:04:29]  I was just watching videos and I was like, these videos like suck.
[00:04:32]  Or, like, you know, like you, like you, this is like, you know, like a while ago, this is like before the whole like YouTube thing.
[00:04:36]  Yeah.
[00:04:37]  So, like, you'd love a song, like, listen to it forever.
[00:04:40]  And then, like, you want the video to come out.
[00:04:43]  The video comes out, you're like, what the fuck was that?
[00:04:45]  Just let down.
[00:04:47]  Can we cuss on here?
[00:04:48]  Yeah, yeah, of course.
[00:04:48]  Oh, yeah.
[00:04:49]  So, I'm like, you know, so you're like, what the fuck was that?
[00:04:51]  Like, man, you know what I mean?
[00:04:52]  You feel cheated as like a fan or a consumer or whatever.
[00:04:56]  So, that's really why I started doing it.
[00:04:59]  You know, I felt like I could do it better.
[00:05:01]  Where are you originally from?
[00:05:03]  Like, what do you mean?
[00:05:04]  Where are you from?
[00:05:04]  Like, where were you born and raised?
[00:05:05]  Like, where were you born?
[00:05:07]  Where's your, if you want to go back to where your family's from, then where, tell me, like, give me, like, a timeline.
[00:05:11]  So, I was born in Pakistan.
[00:05:13]  Okay.
[00:05:13]  You know, and pretty much grew up in America.
[00:05:18]  How old were you when you moved here?
[00:05:20]  I don't even know, to be honest with you, but I know it was probably like third grade or something like that.
[00:05:25]  Did you move here with your parents or by yourself?
[00:05:27]  Yeah, yeah, no, I moved here with my parents.
[00:05:29]  You did?
[00:05:30]  Yeah.
[00:05:30]  Okay.
[00:05:30]  But you go back, do you ever go back there?
[00:05:34]  Yeah.
[00:05:36]  You know?
[00:05:37]  I love to travel, but.
[00:05:38]  You got family there?
[00:05:39]  Yeah, all my family is there.
[00:05:40]  Really?
[00:05:40]  So it's like very interesting because I don't have any family here.
[00:05:44]  Yeah.
[00:05:44]  It's just in the States.
[00:05:46]  Like, no grandparents.
[00:05:47]  Like, I never had that.
[00:05:48]  Like, grandparents or like cousins or, you know?
[00:05:51]  Yeah.
[00:05:52]  That's crazy.
[00:05:52]  I remember I saw your, I think it was like an Instagram story or something like a year ago, and I saw all this crazy shit in Pakistan.
[00:05:59]  I'm like, what the fuck?
[00:05:59]  This dude's like, got this, like, he's from a rich, royal Pakistani family out in Pakistan.
[00:06:04]  No, man.
[00:06:06]  I hate, yeah.
[00:06:07]  I mean, I don't know, man.
[00:06:08]  It's like a double edged sword, right?
[00:06:10]  Yeah.
[00:06:10]  But.
[00:06:11]  That's crazy, though.
[00:06:12]  That's really cool.
[00:06:13]  Shout out to them.
[00:06:14]  Shout out to all the Pakistani fans, bro.
[00:06:16]  Shout out to Pakistan.
[00:06:17]  They don't have to leave, so they don't leave.
[00:06:18]  Let's put it that way.
[00:06:20]  That's right.
[00:06:20]  You know what I mean?

=== Hanging Out with Chicago Stars (15:40) ===

[00:06:21]  That's what's up.
[00:06:21]  Yeah.
[00:06:22]  But I'm here, you know, so.
[00:06:25]  And I love it.
[00:06:25]  Like, this is where I want to be.
[00:06:27]  And came to Florida first, or?
[00:06:28]  No.
[00:06:29]  So, like, Seattle's kind of like where I grew up.
[00:06:32]  Okay.
[00:06:32]  Right?
[00:06:33]  Oh, really?
[00:06:33]  Yeah.
[00:06:34]  And then I went to college in Chicago at DePaul.
[00:06:38]  And a lot of people think, like, oh, like, he went to film school there.
[00:06:42]  I wish I did.
[00:06:43]  Like, I remember walking by like the film school and all that and like seeing these kids like on their bikes and shit and just like laughing.
[00:06:50]  Yeah.
[00:06:50]  It's sad, you know, like laughing, like, haha, like they're going to be broke or, you know, like what the mentality is.
[00:06:55]  Like, oh, you know, people don't take it seriously.
[00:06:59]  I feel like in our culture for the most part, and especially in my culture, it's like they don't even really respect like the arts.
[00:07:05]  Right.
[00:07:06]  So, and I wish it wasn't like that because I would have probably gotten a really early start, you know.
[00:07:12]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:07:12]  Yeah.
[00:07:13]  So.
[00:07:14]  That's great.
[00:07:14]  But yeah, no, so I went to DePaul.
[00:07:16]  It was actually for business, you know, not for film.
[00:07:20]  And then through that, you know, I was actually able to be a part of this like very interesting kind of like role, you know, with a company.
[00:07:28]  And they had an opportunity for someone, you know, they needed somebody down in Tampa.
[00:07:33]  And I like jumped on it.
[00:07:35]  So that's when you moved down here?
[00:07:36]  Yeah.
[00:07:37]  How old were you then?
[00:07:39]  I don't know.
[00:07:40]  You're young?
[00:07:40]  I graduated college, like, I want to say kind of late.
[00:07:44]  Okay.
[00:07:44]  So I took like some years off and like I traveled and stuff.
[00:07:47]  Right, right, right.
[00:07:48]  But I don't even remember, man.
[00:07:49]  I got to.
[00:07:51]  Like 10 years ago.
[00:07:52]  No, no, no, no.
[00:07:53]  Like less than that.
[00:07:54]  Oh, less?
[00:07:54]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, less than that.
[00:07:56]  I haven't been here that long.
[00:07:57]  So, you got out of the financial business and you bought a camera.
[00:08:00]  Yeah.
[00:08:00]  Then what happened next?
[00:08:02]  Well, I was still working, right?
[00:08:03]  So, bought a camera.
[00:08:05]  Then, you know, it's like you start like taking pictures and stuff.
[00:08:08]  Yeah.
[00:08:09]  And I felt like that was kind of like easy for me, just to be honest.
[00:08:12]  Like, it was like I wasn't like swimming upstream or whatever, right?
[00:08:16]  So, bought a camera, took pictures.
[00:08:19]  You know, you put them on like Facebook was like big, you know, like a while ago before Instagram.
[00:08:23]  People like would just like love it.
[00:08:25]  And so, I'm like getting all this feedback and I'm like, yeah, you know.
[00:08:29]  Kind of believing my own bullshit at the time, I guess.
[00:08:30]  Right.
[00:08:32]  That kind of turned into like, you know, like the video.
[00:08:34]  I mean, it was always about doing video, but as a beginner, it's like everyone tells you the same shit.
[00:08:39]  Oh, you have to like do, you have to be a photographer first.
[00:08:42]  You have to get your style because, you know, the labels and the people won't hire you because they want to hire you for your style.
[00:08:49]  And that from like a, coming from a business background, like never made sense to me.
[00:08:53]  Like, why would I want to appeal to just one kind of a product line or whatever?
[00:08:58]  So, you know, whatever, videos.
[00:09:00]  I remember like, I used to like beg my friends to like make videos.
[00:09:03]  You know what I mean?
[00:09:04]  Like, because it's like, you know, I need to, like, how do you find this stuff to shoot?
[00:09:08]  Right.
[00:09:08]  You know, so it started from, like, just, oh, it's a Halloween party going on.
[00:09:13]  Okay, I'm just going to, like, film my friends, like, getting ready for Halloween and, like, just whatever.
[00:09:17]  And it's actually, that video is on YouTube.
[00:09:19]  Is it really?
[00:09:20]  It's on my channel.
[00:09:21]  Wow.
[00:09:21]  Like, literally, it's on my channel, bro.
[00:09:23]  That's crazy.
[00:09:24]  Yeah.
[00:09:24]  And then, so, like, how did you transition into shooting, like, with, with, like, recording artists?
[00:09:28]  Like, who was the first recording artist you.
[00:09:31]  The first, it's very funny.
[00:09:32]  So, there was another co worker that I had, actually, at the time, and he.
[00:09:37]  He, you know, he still is a manager.
[00:09:39]  Shout out to him, you know, Jason Johnson.
[00:09:42]  He's a good guy.
[00:09:45]  He used to manage like some artists or whatever.
[00:09:47]  He was like, hey, you know, do you want to like come down to like, they were having a show.
[00:09:50]  So, whatever, like, you know, I wanted to go see their show in Tampa.
[00:09:53]  And then I actually asked him, like, hey, like, you know, could I shoot a video for you guys?
[00:09:58]  And they weren't like taking me seriously because, like, one of the artists he had, like, you know, he was kind of like, you know, he was kind of like, you know, like doing his thing, like bubbling.
[00:10:06]  He had a deal, he had a record deal at the time and he was signed to like some, you know, Grammy winning people.
[00:10:12]  Producer guys, Justice League.
[00:10:14]  Really?
[00:10:14]  Yeah.
[00:10:15]  And I remember like chasing, not chasing it, but I remember like the whole like phone tag thing and that whole thing.
[00:10:23]  But it actually, you know, it came refreshing.
[00:10:25]  So I drove to Atlanta at the time to where he was staying and we shot a video, which was like my first video.
[00:10:32]  Yeah.
[00:10:33]  I remember releasing it like on Christmas.
[00:10:35]  Really?
[00:10:35]  And it ended up being like one of the top 30 watched videos on YouTube.
[00:10:40]  What?
[00:10:41]  Yeah, like for that day.
[00:10:42]  It was insane.
[00:10:44]  And it was just like very weird.
[00:10:46]  Like, I remember my mom was in the hospital that day.
[00:10:48]  Was this like pre Worldstar?
[00:10:53]  Or was it like when Worldstar was started?
[00:10:54]  No, this is like, I think Worldstar was there, but nobody was going on there.
[00:10:58]  Right.
[00:10:58]  Yeah.
[00:10:59]  Not like they are now, like every video goes on there.
[00:11:01]  No, now it's, you know, Worldstar is like every music, TV channel combined into one.
[00:11:07]  I don't think people understand that.
[00:11:08]  Yeah.
[00:11:08]  You know, because a lot of people ask me, like, oh, have you been on TV?
[00:11:13]  Yeah.
[00:11:13]  Short answer is yeah.
[00:11:14]  Yeah.
[00:11:15]  Or it's like saying the real answer is I don't give a fuck, bitch.
[00:11:19]  I've been on Worldstar, right?
[00:11:20]  I'm on Worldstar every week.
[00:11:21]  Yeah, it's like saying, Have you been on radio?
[00:11:23]  You know, like I'm on the top of Worldstar every week, so I don't give a fuck about MTV, right?
[00:11:29]  I've been on MTV too, but it's like Worldstar is all that shit combined into one.
[00:11:33]  Yeah, you know, it's there's no comparison.
[00:11:36]  That's crazy.
[00:11:37]  When you started shooting like actual hip hop videos, like the kind of stuff similar to what you do now, like where were those people from, and like how did they start like hitting you up and and Actually, like asking you, or were you reaching out to them being like, Hey, let me shoot your video?
[00:11:51]  This is the stuff I've done before.
[00:11:53]  Like how did you how did you get those connections?
[00:11:55]  It was really it was some real like grassroots grinding Yeah, like straight up like You know obviously I already had like some work I had done it wasn't like famous people or whatever however you want to say it.
[00:12:08]  Yeah, yeah, yeah I felt like it was good music and I felt like we had good videos, you know, so I Actually what I would do is like sending emails or were you no fuck all that bullshit, bro like I'm gonna tell you exactly what I did actually.
[00:12:25]  You know, there's a festival in Atlanta, it's called A3C.
[00:12:27]  It's like, I want to say outside of South by Southwest, it's like one of the bigger ones.
[00:12:31]  Yeah.
[00:12:32]  You know, I went to South by Southwest.
[00:12:35]  This is like iPad days, iPad, you know, whatever.
[00:12:38]  Yeah.
[00:12:38]  Like when it was like, you know, cool to have one.
[00:12:40]  But I was like, how do I use this shit to my advantage?
[00:12:42]  I put my director's reel on the iPad.
[00:12:44]  Okay.
[00:12:45]  I went out there.
[00:12:46]  All these guys were there, like the rappers, their managers, the fucking people from the labels.
[00:12:50]  Yeah.
[00:12:51]  And I would go, like, I would see one in passing.
[00:12:54]  Like back to Walker Flocker.
[00:12:55]  I ran into him at the gas station there.
[00:12:58]  What?
[00:12:58]  Talked to him, showed him my.
[00:13:00]  He's pumping his gas in his Bentley.
[00:13:02]  I'm like, hey, you know what, Walker Flocker, check me out, man.
[00:13:04]  You know, shoot videos.
[00:13:05]  He's, you know, I press play.
[00:13:06]  I'm showing him, you know, just back to the business thing, trying to be efficient.
[00:13:10]  Like, here, look.
[00:13:12]  10 seconds in, he's like, no, bro, turn that shit off.
[00:13:15]  Like, I already, I get it.
[00:13:16]  Like, yeah, you shoot my video.
[00:13:17]  Like, stop.
[00:13:18]  Really?
[00:13:18]  You know?
[00:13:20]  That's the first time you met him?
[00:13:21]  That's the first time I met him.
[00:13:24]  And actually, I never shot his video.
[00:13:25]  No.
[00:13:26]  And then we actually reconnected like five years later and we shot a video.
[00:13:30]  No way.
[00:13:30]  What video was it?
[00:13:31]  It was actually a video with him in Eldorado Red.
[00:13:34]  We shot it, I want to say, last year sometime.
[00:13:36]  Really?
[00:13:37]  Yeah.
[00:13:38]  And he actually remembered like the encounter and everything.
[00:13:40]  Did he really?
[00:13:40]  But outside of that, you know, I met other rappers there.
[00:13:45]  So, you know, I felt like that was like a way to meet them face to face and show them what I had going on.
[00:13:50]  Yeah.
[00:13:50]  Because I knew one thing like the product, my product, Like, you can't, it's undeniable.
[00:13:56]  Yeah.
[00:13:56]  You just had to get into it.
[00:13:56]  I knew that.
[00:13:57]  Yeah.
[00:13:58]  Like, I knew that.
[00:13:58]  And I believed in that.
[00:13:59]  Like, there's, it's just undeniable, you know?
[00:14:02]  How did you, like, is there, like, how did you develop your, your, your, like, filming and editing style?
[00:14:08]  Like, obviously, you didn't go to school for that.
[00:14:10]  Like, how did you, how did you learn how to do it all yourself?
[00:14:12]  And, like, for, you know, how did you, was there, like, somebody you looked up to?
[00:14:18]  Or was there, like, another, another filmmaker or someone that you kind of, like, looked at and, like, liked their style and kind of wanted to, like, follow in their footsteps?
[00:14:25]  Or did you just, I don't think, like, there's anybody's style that I, like, Copied or whatever because, like, I'm really not like I don't want to be like that guy that says, Oh, like, I'm a filmmaker and like I love this director and this is like film is life.
[00:14:41]  I'm not that guy, yeah, but I am the guy that will tell you, like, I love to tell stories and I loved I love for people to like be where I'm at without being there, you know, so I think that was my approach.
[00:14:54]  Obviously, I love Hype Williams's shit, yeah, yeah, I think it was dope because that's what he used to make me feel like.
[00:15:01]  I'm in Chicago on the fucking train.
[00:15:03]  It's snowing.
[00:15:04]  Like, yeah, I want to be where those palm trees are and all that shit and where all the awesome shit's going on with the yacht and all this stuff.
[00:15:10]  You know, like, it wasn't just about showing those things.
[00:15:13]  It was just like, the way he did it, it's like, you wanted to be a part of it.
[00:15:17]  Or if you weren't there, like, you got it.
[00:15:19]  Like, this is what that life's about.
[00:15:21]  You know, so, but do I copy Hyde Williams?
[00:15:24]  Fuck, no, I don't.
[00:15:25]  You know, but I mean, it's good to be inspired by people too.
[00:15:28]  But I took that from it.
[00:15:29]  Like, I guess, you know, I like that aspect.
[00:15:31]  So that's what I try to make my videos be like.
[00:15:34]  Yeah.
[00:15:34]  Like, I feel, you know, I feel like some of my videos you watch them, like, you can smell my video.
[00:15:39]  Oh, yeah, for sure.
[00:15:40]  You know what that smells like, bro.
[00:15:42]  Yeah.
[00:15:43]  Like, it's just like, I'm trying to hit all your senses, bro.
[00:15:45]  Like, you know, like, scent, you know, like, all of them.
[00:15:49]  Which video is this?
[00:15:51]  Nothing else to talk about?
[00:15:52]  Yeah.
[00:15:52]  Yeah.
[00:15:55]  How long ago was this shot?
[00:15:56]  I don't even know, man.
[00:15:57]  I shoot so many fucking videos.
[00:15:59]  I want to say, like.
[00:15:59]  What's your schedule like, dude?
[00:16:01]  Like, how many fucking.
[00:16:02]  I'm going to go shoot one after I leave, bro.
[00:16:04]  2016, June.
[00:16:05]  Okay, there you go.
[00:16:06]  So, two years ago?
[00:16:07]  Yeah.
[00:16:07]  Yeah.
[00:16:08]  I remember when this came out.
[00:16:09]  I remember when you released this.
[00:16:11]  Two years ago.
[00:16:13]  This video right here, bro, was like.
[00:16:15]  It really set a lot of trends in the industry.
[00:16:17]  All these muzzle flashes you see going on.
[00:16:18]  Yeah.
[00:16:19]  No one had done that before.
[00:16:20]  Right.
[00:16:21]  I was the first one to do that.
[00:16:22]  You know, yeah, they would all just point the guns at the cameras.
[00:16:25]  There wouldn't be those.
[00:16:25]  Yeah, it's like they were pointing at a gun, but nothing comes out.
[00:16:28]  Yeah, you know, so once again, like my favorite comment of this video is I think it's the top rated comment on the comment section of this video.
[00:16:36]  I think it's goes something like 1,000 videographers were killed during the making of this video.
[00:16:43]  Yeah, bro, can we talk about that word videographer?
[00:16:47]  Yeah, I hate the word videographer.
[00:16:49]  This is my videographer.
[00:16:50]  Do not call me if you call me that, like we're not shooting videos.
[00:16:53]  Yeah.
[00:16:54]  Like, we're not doing it.
[00:16:56]  Let's explain to the people listening, though, why.
[00:16:58]  Like, how it makes you feel.
[00:17:00]  It's like a.
[00:17:01]  It's just like degrading, right?
[00:17:01]  I feel like a videographer is just a guy that presses a record button.
[00:17:05]  Right.
[00:17:05]  You know, it's like the dude that comes and films your prom or something.
[00:17:08]  Yeah.
[00:17:09]  I'm not that guy.
[00:17:10]  Trust me.
[00:17:10]  Yeah.
[00:17:10]  A videographer is like someone who shoots and records weddings.
[00:17:13]  Or, ah, we don't want to piss them off because, you know, they got a lot of.
[00:17:16]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:17:17]  We don't want to disrespect the wedding guys either.
[00:17:19]  It's like anybody you hire to do anything to say he's your guy for that.
[00:17:23]  Like, this is my.
[00:17:25]  My car wash guy, or this is it's just like people love to do that, right?
[00:17:28]  It's just super, yeah.
[00:17:29]  Because at the same time, there's like proud videographers out there, yeah.
[00:17:33]  So I don't want to like take anything from them, but I'm not that.
[00:17:36]  I feel like, yeah, I bring more to the table, definitely.
[00:17:39]  You know, I'm gonna if you're up for it, if you want to know, like, I'm gonna tell you how to dress, right?
[00:17:44]  I'm gonna tell you where the location needs to be, yeah.
[00:17:46]  I'm even like tell you how to you know perform, yeah.
[00:17:49]  This is how you should do it to convey that line better, or this, you know, what we shouldn't even show you wrapping this word, we should show something else happening, you know, yeah.
[00:17:58]  So, what's your schedule like with these videos, dude?
[00:18:00]  You pump out so many fucking videos.
[00:18:02]  How do you like have time to do anything?
[00:18:04]  How many you do in a year right now?
[00:18:05]  You think?
[00:18:07]  I was just counting the other day because somebody asked me on Instagram, but like average, like let's just say, I would say like 80 to 100.
[00:18:14]  Right.
[00:18:15]  Yeah.
[00:18:15]  So every week you're doing a new video at least?
[00:18:18]  Yeah, multiple videos.
[00:18:19]  Multiple videos in one week?
[00:18:20]  Yeah.
[00:18:21]  What video are you shooting after this?
[00:18:24]  Or can you not talk about it?
[00:18:27]  Yeah, I don't think I can talk about that one.
[00:18:29]  Yeah.
[00:18:29]  You know, but we got some fire coming.
[00:18:32]  We got something going on today.
[00:18:33]  Some heat coming.
[00:18:34]  Yeah.
[00:18:35]  Do you ever get in any like weird, sticky situations from being like hanging out with these guys?
[00:18:39]  Because I remember you were saying earlier before we were recording, you got to hang out with so many different types of people that aren't necessarily don't have the same background or personality as you have.
[00:18:49]  Like, have you ever just been like chilling and just like been in like a really sketchy, weird situation that made you feel uncomfortable or?
[00:18:57]  Man, I try to keep it professional, but I can't even lie.
[00:18:59]  Like, I was in Lakewood, right?
[00:19:01]  Yeah.
[00:19:02]  With, like, this artist Rachi.
[00:19:04]  Yeah.
[00:19:04]  So, this is like where, like, Young Thug, like, Pee Wee, all these guys kind of grew up out there.
[00:19:09]  Yeah.
[00:19:10]  And, like, all of a sudden, like, someone that was in the video, his girlfriend pulled up and they got into, I guess they were in an argument and she started shooting.
[00:19:20]  No.
[00:19:20]  Now, I don't know, like, what the fuck is, all I see is people running, like, everybody's just running, you know?
[00:19:25]  And it was kind of like pretty, it was kind of crazy because it's like, you just don't know, like, I just, you know, I'm like, I hear something, but I don't know, like, what's going on, like, where it's coming from, or what's going on.
[00:19:37]  So, that was kind of crazy.
[00:19:39]  This was like in the middle of a scene, yeah.
[00:19:41]  We're in the middle of a scene.
[00:19:42]  So, what do you do?
[00:19:42]  You shut down and pack up, or you just keep going?
[00:19:46]  Yeah, I mean, yeah, we cool down a little bit in the moment, we stop, right?
[00:19:50]  And then I was obviously ready to leave.
[00:19:52]  Right.
[00:19:53]  Because I don't think it's cool.
[00:19:55]  Like, safety or.
[00:19:57]  Right.
[00:19:57]  That's not a cool thing.
[00:19:59]  Right.
[00:19:59]  It's not necessary.
[00:20:00]  Like, I value my life.
[00:20:02]  Right, of course.
[00:20:02]  You know?
[00:20:03]  So, I wasn't happy about the fact that that happened or whatever.
[00:20:09]  So, but then, you know, Rachi kind of explained some things to me.
[00:20:12]  He's like, no, you know, like, let's finish.
[00:20:15]  Like, you know, nothing's going to happen.
[00:20:17]  Yeah.
[00:20:18]  You know, the person, whatever.
[00:20:20]  You know, like, they kind of had it under control.
[00:20:21]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:20:21]  I don't want to go into too much, but.
[00:20:23]  Yeah.
[00:20:23]  That was pretty crazy.
[00:20:25]  That is insane.
[00:20:26]  It was, and I never thought that would happen, but it did.
[00:20:30]  And I definitely kind of changed some things around after that happened.
[00:20:33]  You did?
[00:20:34]  Yeah.
[00:20:35]  A lot of the guys that you might think are dangerous dudes or have a lot of shit going on, if we do hang out, it's like we're not hanging out on those terms.
[00:20:45]  Right, of course.
[00:20:47]  If I see Pee Wee, we're just hanging out, doing our thing.
[00:20:51]  We're probably in the studio, listening to songs, trying to think of video ideas.
[00:20:56]  Yeah.
[00:20:57]  You know, we're just not.
[00:20:58]  I don't think I've ever been in an environment like that with any rapper.
[00:21:03]  Yeah.
[00:21:04]  So you're like.
[00:21:05]  So, I mean, I wouldn't even know if they're in those environments.
[00:21:08]  I just know that I hear a song, I bring it to life.
[00:21:11]  Yeah.
[00:21:12]  Oh, yeah, for sure.
[00:21:15]  What's that like?
[00:21:16]  Coming up with ideas for videos?
[00:21:18]  Is it always just you?
[00:21:20]  Always, or they got ideas?
[00:21:21]  It's all my ideas.
[00:21:22]  It's easy.
[00:21:24]  When I hear the music, I just close my eyes.
[00:21:27]  I just start singing random shit.
[00:21:28]  I see colors.
[00:21:28]  I see all kinds of stuff.
[00:21:30]  You listen to it and put it together.
[00:21:31]  Yeah.
[00:21:33]  That's funny because I feel like everything I've ever made, like any kind of video I've ever made, I feel like I've always stolen something from somewhere else.
[00:21:41]  Oh, yeah.
[00:21:42]  I feel like, yeah, I feel like that because I feel like I've always, like, all the shit that I've seen, I'll be like, I'll see one video.
[00:21:48]  I'm like, I fucking love how they shot that and how they did this the whole time.
[00:21:52]  I want to take that and, like, remake it into my own, like, my own thing.
[00:21:55]  You know what I mean?
[00:21:56]  I feel like I'd never taken something just completely original out of there.
[00:22:00]  You know what I mean?

=== Visualizing Colors and Evil Genius (09:13) ===

[00:22:01]  Yeah.
[00:22:01]  What?
[00:22:01]  So you haven't gotten caught.
[00:22:03]  Yeah, I haven't gotten caught, right?
[00:22:03]  So then you're pretty good.
[00:22:05]  What is the quote?
[00:22:06]  The most creative people are just the best at hiding their sources.
[00:22:09]  Yeah, there you go.
[00:22:10]  Yeah.
[00:22:11]  That's funny, though.
[00:22:12]  I mean, there's so much going on.
[00:22:14]  Even if you're not trying to copy or let's just say being inspired by something, the odds are you're going to probably end up having something similar to somebody else in different directions.
[00:22:24]  Chances are you're the first one to do anything.
[00:22:26]  Exactly, yeah.
[00:22:27]  Exactly.
[00:22:29]  Are there any other guys that are kind of in your lane right now that you like what they're doing or that you work with?
[00:22:36]  No.
[00:22:36]  I don't watch anybody else's shit.
[00:22:38]  No?
[00:22:39]  Nobody.
[00:22:39]  You don't keep up on it.
[00:22:40]  I'm in my own world, bro.
[00:22:41]  Yeah.
[00:22:42]  That's how you stay focused, right?
[00:22:44]  Yeah, for sure.
[00:22:45]  You got to have.
[00:22:45]  I mean, like, I know some guys, but I don't watch their videos.
[00:22:48]  Like, I know them.
[00:22:48]  Like, they follow me on Instagram.
[00:22:49]  Yeah.
[00:22:50]  I'm going to follow them back.
[00:22:51]  But you got to know some people, though, right?
[00:22:53]  I mean, people don't reach out to you at all.
[00:22:54]  Like, no other, like, video directors or people creating, like, big, dope hip hop videos ever reach out to you, like, trying to collab or anything?
[00:23:04]  I guess you could say that they do.
[00:23:06]  Besides me, at least.
[00:23:09]  I mean, yeah, they do, but I don't really.
[00:23:10]  I'm not into that shit, man.
[00:23:11]  Yeah.
[00:23:12]  Yeah.
[00:23:13]  So, what have you been doing lately?
[00:23:14]  Like, what's some of the latest stuff that you've been.
[00:23:15]  I know you've been working on a lot of new Gucci videos for the Evil Genius.
[00:23:20]  The Evil Genius, man.
[00:23:21]  What's up with that?
[00:23:22]  How did that all happen?
[00:23:24]  Shout out to Gouap.
[00:23:24]  Yeah, shout out to Gouap, man.
[00:23:26]  Evil Genius.
[00:23:27]  I don't know.
[00:23:28]  I think you'd have to ask him how it happened, but.
[00:23:32]  We should have brought him on the studio.
[00:23:34]  We need him here.
[00:23:35]  You know, we've shot some videos.
[00:23:38]  I think they're pretty exciting.
[00:23:39]  I know you've been doing videos.
[00:23:40]  Like, the first video with him was.
[00:23:42]  Way, way back, way before he even got locked up the last time, right?
[00:23:46]  Yeah, I was actually with him like three days or two or three days before he got locked up.
[00:23:50]  Really?
[00:23:50]  Yeah, in Atlanta, like at the studio.
[00:23:54]  He was playing, at that time, the new project he had coming out.
[00:23:58]  What was that?
[00:24:00]  You know, the song he had, like Pablo, Pablo, Pablo.
[00:24:03]  It was with him and Honorable Cino.
[00:24:04]  It was like a whole project.
[00:24:06]  I remember the El Chapo.
[00:24:08]  I don't know, something like that, bro.
[00:24:10]  Anyways, it was like a new project he had coming out.
[00:24:12]  It was dope.
[00:24:14]  I don't think it was Trav God, but.
[00:24:15]  He's got like a trillion projects.
[00:24:17]  Yeah, but I know him since those days.
[00:24:19]  How did you link up with him?
[00:24:21]  How did that happen?
[00:24:22]  I was shooting a video with the Ogadi.
[00:24:25]  At the time, it was in Orlando during All Star Weekend.
[00:24:30]  And it was a song with Jules Santana, Yo Gotti, and Gucci Man.
[00:24:36]  Really?
[00:24:37]  Yo Gotti had commissioned it, but Gucci was on there.
[00:24:40]  And that was like my first time meeting him.
[00:24:43]  And you shot the video.
[00:24:44]  We kind of had a short conversation.
[00:24:48]  Yeah.
[00:24:48]  And I kind of explained some ideas I had for him at the time.
[00:24:53]  And immediately he was like, hey, like, take my number down.
[00:24:55]  Really?
[00:24:56]  And I took his number down and I hit him and he actually hit me back and I was kind of surprised.
[00:25:00]  Wow.
[00:25:01]  And it kind of went from there.
[00:25:02]  That's so sick.
[00:25:03]  Yeah.
[00:25:04]  That's dope.
[00:25:05]  And then what happened recently with the recent projects you've been working on with him?
[00:25:08]  Yeah, off of his Evil Genius project.
[00:25:11]  I can't give away the details.
[00:25:13]  I mean, we all saw the teaser.
[00:25:15]  I mean, we all saw the details.
[00:25:16]  Yeah.
[00:25:16]  You know, because I feel like he hasn't even put some of that stuff out.
[00:25:19]  But let's just say it's some really awesome songs with him and other people.
[00:25:25]  And where did you shoot?
[00:25:27]  How many videos did you shoot?
[00:25:28]  Three.
[00:25:28]  Three.
[00:25:29]  All in like the past.
[00:25:30]  Couple weeks, uh, it's been like, yeah, it's been a few weeks, yeah.
[00:25:34]  And you shot him where'd you shoot him?
[00:25:35]  Miami, Miami, in and out of different parts of Miami, yeah, really.
[00:25:38]  Shot all of them, yeah.
[00:25:39]  And and um, who's all in the videos?
[00:25:42]  Are there any other people he collabs with in the video?
[00:25:43]  Yeah, there's some big like collabs in there.
[00:25:46]  One I can tell you because we put the trailer out, it's him and Rich the Kid, him and Rich the Kid, yeah.
[00:25:51]  That's the other one I can't say, you can't say about it.
[00:25:53]  Once you see it, that's awesome, yeah.
[00:25:55]  My favorite Gucci video out of, I mean, there's thousands of them, but I think my favorite.
[00:26:01]  I mean, you gotta like, you have like the favorite OG ones, but like my favorite modern Gucci video is the Last Time video.
[00:26:08]  You remember that one?
[00:26:09]  No, how does it go?
[00:26:10]  So you just don't watch any other videos.
[00:26:12]  I don't know, tell me.
[00:26:13]  Can you pull it up?
[00:26:14]  Yeah, which one?
[00:26:15]  It's just called Last Time, but it's basically, I don't know if Harmony Kareen did direct it or if he had anything to do with the creative of it, but he must have, but because he's in it.
[00:26:27]  And it's with him and Travis Scott, I think.
[00:26:30]  Yeah, and it's the car's on fire the whole time, and the car starts lifting up into the air.
[00:26:36]  That video just does something to me.
[00:26:41]  It moves me.
[00:26:42]  I think we're supposed to say pause after this.
[00:26:44]  It's like rap, right?
[00:26:46]  Yeah.
[00:26:47]  Pause it for sure.
[00:26:48]  Pause, Danny.
[00:26:53]  Like this look right here, this black light type look.
[00:26:56]  It's like night vision.
[00:26:57]  Yeah, the night vision.
[00:26:58]  Yeah, that's what I meant.
[00:27:02]  How sick does he look in night vision, dude?
[00:27:04]  You can see all the tattoos perfectly.
[00:27:05]  Oh, yeah, it says harmony.
[00:27:06]  What do you think I have that shot over?
[00:27:10]  Yeah, how do they get that night vision, dude?
[00:27:12]  My camera doesn't have the A7S and the red don't have night vision.
[00:27:16]  It's like the old mini DV cameras used to film like that.
[00:27:18]  Yeah, the DV cameras actually had it built in.
[00:27:20]  Yeah, yeah, they also have a Sony.
[00:27:22]  I still have a Sony.
[00:27:23]  So do I.
[00:27:24]  That has that.
[00:27:25]  It's got the night vision in there.
[00:27:26]  Really?
[00:27:26]  You could use it to look through people's clothes and shit.
[00:27:29]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:27:31]  I never did that.
[00:27:31]  There's like a cheesy effect in Premiere.
[00:27:34]  You can get that, but I don't know if that's what they did.
[00:27:37]  My camera here is.
[00:27:41]  Everybody.
[00:27:41]  Oh, yeah.
[00:27:41]  Bro, what the fuck?
[00:27:42]  Get him a seat, bro.
[00:27:43]  That's my third video.
[00:27:46]  We need Forrest in here, man.
[00:27:48]  I love that video.
[00:27:49]  That's like the best video, period.
[00:27:51]  Like, straight up, is that when he's driving the Lambo doors open?
[00:27:54]  It's blue, the Venador, his foot out the car.
[00:27:58]  I think it's a Mercilago.
[00:27:59]  The blue, oh, yeah, my fault.
[00:28:01]  It's a Mercilago, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:28:06]  And he has that, uh, I forgot about that blue Kenny chain, bro.
[00:28:08]  He hit the Kenny chain.
[00:28:10]  Oh my god, if you don't know about like the whole Gucci main, like Kenny chain phase, like you're not even a real fan, bro.
[00:28:19]  What about the dog?
[00:28:22]  Oh, the Odie?
[00:28:23]  That's like a throwback.
[00:28:24]  Super throwback.
[00:28:25]  That's a dope video, though.
[00:28:26]  Same size as the Grim.
[00:28:27]  Yeah, the last time video was probably one of my recent favorites.
[00:28:30]  Yeah.
[00:28:30]  But yours hasn't come out yet, so I'm sure the last time.
[00:28:32]  Yeah, it's going to be like this shit.
[00:28:34]  Yeah.
[00:28:35]  I can't wait.
[00:28:35]  Yeah.
[00:28:37]  Look, okay, I'll tell you what.
[00:28:41]  I guarantee you, like, at least one video will get like 100 million views.
[00:28:44]  100 million.
[00:28:45]  Within the first month.
[00:28:46]  I don't know if they have it.
[00:28:47]  First month, 100 million.
[00:28:48]  Yeah.
[00:28:49]  So you put them all on WorldStar?
[00:28:53]  I mean, like,.
[00:28:55]  I guess, yeah.
[00:28:55]  I mean, not all of them get dated, but you know, Worldstar, but they all pretty much end up on Worldstar.
[00:29:01]  Yeah.
[00:29:01]  Yeah.
[00:29:02]  What video that you've made are you most proud of?
[00:29:05]  What's your favorite?
[00:29:06]  What's your favorite of all time?
[00:29:07]  Like, which video could you look at and you could say defines you?
[00:29:11]  It's not, we're not there yet.
[00:29:12]  You're not there yet?
[00:29:13]  No.
[00:29:13]  So, to date, which video do you think you're most proud of?
[00:29:15]  I couldn't even say it because they're all, like, for me, I can't watch them.
[00:29:19]  They're frustrating for me to watch.
[00:29:21]  Really?
[00:29:21]  Because it's always going to be something that I couldn't have finished in the video or didn't get done or.
[00:29:26]  Yeah.
[00:29:27]  Um,.
[00:29:27]  I kind of think that's what keeps me going, bro.
[00:29:32]  We're trying to get to that point where it's like I can say, yeah, this is it.
[00:29:35]  Yeah.
[00:29:36]  You're grinding to get to the right.
[00:29:38]  What's that Pee Wee video where the monkeys are drinking lean and all those chicks are in the hot tub twerking?
[00:29:46]  Jumanji.
[00:29:46]  Jumanji.
[00:29:47]  Yeah.
[00:29:48]  Yeah, we shot that in Tampa, by the way.
[00:29:49]  Explain to me how the fuck you pulled that off.
[00:29:53]  How did you get monkeys to drink lean?
[00:29:56]  Who's the guy on the Hernara Bill?
[00:29:58]  What's his name?
[00:30:00]  Ben Frank.
[00:30:01]  Old Ben Franklin.
[00:30:02]  There's a price tag on anything.
[00:30:03]  Price tag on anything.
[00:30:05]  It's cool.
[00:30:06]  Yeah.
[00:30:06]  I mean, and you know what's funny about him is like people probably don't even know this.
[00:30:10]  He's not, that's just, he's just being himself, bro.
[00:30:13]  Yeah.
[00:30:13]  Yeah.
[00:30:14]  I've already seen Phoebe with 10 bitches doing that in real life.
[00:30:17]  So it's not hard to recreate it.
[00:30:19]  It seems to be like he's like a real life cartoon, dude.
[00:30:22]  Like in real life, he's just like so animated and everything he does.
[00:30:27]  Yeah.
[00:30:30]  Like, he already does that in real life, bro.
[00:30:34]  Like, so this is like him every day, normally absurd.
[00:30:38]  I mean, I'm just saying, bro, like, the dude's really that's his life.
[00:30:41]  That's it.
[00:30:42]  Look at his fucking necklace, bro.
[00:30:44]  Look at his fashion sense.
[00:30:45]  Like, he's independent.
[00:30:47]  Like, that whole outfit, right?
[00:30:48]  It's a thing, it's a brand called Off White.
[00:30:51]  Like, bro, this shit's like three months old.
[00:30:53]  Like, people are just buying that shit now.
[00:30:56]  Right.
[00:30:56]  Yeah.
[00:30:58]  Where did you get those?
[00:30:59]  Do they, like, contact him and just send him free shit or?
[00:31:03]  No, I think what it is is they just know that he has the buying power for this shit.
[00:31:08]  So, like, you know, he gets it.
[00:31:09]  Hey, you finally have the chance to get in there.
[00:31:10]  But obviously, they want him promoting it, you know, in the videos.
[00:31:13]  Yeah.

=== Capturing Drag Queens in Savannah (14:22) ===

[00:31:14]  I mean, jet skiing the pool, right?
[00:31:18]  That's what you were saying?
[00:31:19]  Yeah.
[00:31:19]  I remember we were talking about that before.
[00:31:21]  Yeah.
[00:31:21]  We made it happen, bro.
[00:31:22]  You made it happen.
[00:31:25]  Got a crane.
[00:31:26]  You got a crane to get in there?
[00:31:27]  Yeah.
[00:31:29]  No, what?
[00:31:30]  Was this house on the water?
[00:31:31]  Mm hmm.
[00:31:32]  Okay.
[00:31:32]  Yeah, it was.
[00:31:34]  He was on like the same thing the monkeys were on, so we couldn't really go too crazy.
[00:31:38]  You have to be safe, you know?
[00:31:40]  Yeah.
[00:31:40]  Yeah, so, but it was definitely on, bro.
[00:31:44]  That's the other thing.
[00:31:45]  Like, we don't do no fake shit, bro.
[00:31:47]  Is that camera still on?
[00:31:48]  We don't do green screen.
[00:31:49]  No, yeah.
[00:31:49]  I hate it.
[00:31:50]  I'm trying to capture the real deal.
[00:31:53]  In this video, right?
[00:31:54]  So let's just say it wasn't just about getting a house.
[00:31:57]  The people had to be comfortable with having a jet ski.
[00:31:59]  Of course, yeah.
[00:31:59]  Right, that's what I'm saying.
[00:32:01]  Yeah, we're going to have monkeys.
[00:32:03]  So maybe it wasn't like the house I wanted, but then they're the ones willing to let us do the jet ski thing.
[00:32:08]  Right.
[00:32:08]  So that's kind of how it goes.
[00:32:09]  You kind of drill it down and get what you can get.
[00:32:13]  We want to use your pool.
[00:32:14]  We're going to have a jet ski.
[00:32:16]  Yeah.
[00:32:17]  And then you show up with four monkeys.
[00:32:20]  Yeah, maybe you leave the monkeys in there.
[00:32:21]  10 gallons of lean and 20 strippers.
[00:32:26]  What, what, like, what does something like that cost?
[00:32:29]  It wasn't bad.
[00:32:30]  The jet ski was like three grand.
[00:32:31]  I remember that.
[00:32:32]  Really?
[00:32:33]  I don't remember the total cost, but I want to say, like, I don't know, man.
[00:32:37]  Like, that was like a lower budget one for him.
[00:32:39]  Like, maybe like $25,000 for that one.
[00:32:43]  Wow.
[00:32:43]  Yeah.
[00:32:44]  Some of the simplest videos do the best.
[00:32:46]  Yeah.
[00:32:47]  But the simplest concept, one shot.
[00:32:49]  It's back to the whole, like, storytelling thing, right?
[00:32:51]  Yeah.
[00:32:52]  Like, I think people like really connected with that video.
[00:32:55]  Yeah, I think so.
[00:32:56]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:32:56]  I think, I think, I think there's something about just the simplicity of something like that that people really just like, they just get it and then it just resonates more with a lot of people.
[00:33:09]  It's funny.
[00:33:09]  Like, I don't watch these videos.
[00:33:11]  Like, I'm like watching it right now.
[00:33:13]  Yeah.
[00:33:14]  Like, I'm catching myself watching my own video because I don't fucking watch them.
[00:33:18]  So, what do you film them and then you edit them, put them out?
[00:33:20]  How long does that take between filming and putting it out?
[00:33:24]  Just kind of depends on the vibe, but that one right there was like overnight.
[00:33:28]  Yeah, so you film it, you go home, you edit it.
[00:33:30]  It had to go on a World Star the next day, so we have to meet the deadline.
[00:33:34]  So we're like, boom, we're shooting it.
[00:33:37]  I didn't even know I could do that, bro, until I shot a video with Plies called Ritz Carlton.
[00:33:44]  Or it was called Ran Off on the Plug Twice, I think, or something like that.
[00:33:48]  And yeah, bro, we shot a video.
[00:33:52]  He was like, hey, oh, you know.
[00:33:55]  I have a slot on Worldstar for this day, you know.
[00:33:59]  I'm going to change up the video that I'm going to put out.
[00:34:01]  There's a new song I'm going to put out.
[00:34:03]  And I was like, oh shit, okay, boom.
[00:34:04]  So we shot the video, and then it was like the next day, it had to go out.
[00:34:11]  You know, we shot the video, I think in Orlando, drove home to Tampa.
[00:34:15]  No way.
[00:34:16]  And this song was huge.
[00:34:17]  That ran off on the plug twice dance, like went crazy viral.
[00:34:20]  That was my first video, man.
[00:34:21]  Yeah, it was like that was my first overnight.
[00:34:23]  That was a whole where it ran off on the plug twice, like it ran the internet.
[00:34:28]  Yeah, like it just happened out of like necessity.
[00:34:31]  Like I knew I had to get it done.
[00:34:32]  Like, so I made, I just found a way to get it done.
[00:34:35]  Sometimes that bad shit happens under those circumstances when you're under a certain, like a huge, like a really strict deadline.
[00:34:42]  Have you heard of like the mastermind molecule?
[00:34:45]  No, what's that?
[00:34:46]  Bro, there's a book called Mastermind.
[00:34:47]  You should read it.
[00:34:48]  But like that shit really happened to me that night.
[00:34:51]  Really?
[00:34:51]  Yeah.
[00:34:51]  And I mean, I'm a firm believer in that.
[00:34:53]  What is it?
[00:34:54]  What is it?
[00:34:55]  It's just like, um, It's basically saying that your brain has the power to do anything.
[00:35:04]  Yeah.
[00:35:06]  When it comes down to it.
[00:35:08]  Right.
[00:35:08]  If it's like a life or death.
[00:35:09]  Like if somebody has a gun to your head and you have to fucking make a million dollars by the end of the week or your.
[00:35:14]  The mastermind molecule is getting in that mindset without being in that position.
[00:35:19]  Yeah.
[00:35:19]  So imagine that.
[00:35:21]  Getting there naturally.
[00:35:22]  Yes.
[00:35:23]  Turning it on and off.
[00:35:24]  Right.
[00:35:24]  Yeah.
[00:35:25]  Wow.
[00:35:27]  Who's that book by?
[00:35:28]  I don't remember the author.
[00:35:29]  The what was it, Mastermind Molecule?
[00:35:31]  Just, I think you feel like a Mastermind.
[00:35:32]  It's a really cool logo.
[00:35:33]  It's like an M, like a yellow M. Is this the most viral video you've ever done?
[00:35:37]  No.
[00:35:38]  It's the first one, though.
[00:35:39]  It's the first one?
[00:35:40]  Yeah.
[00:35:41]  But it's like, this is what, like two years old?
[00:35:43]  Probably.
[00:35:44]  How many views is this one?
[00:35:45]  I don't know if it's even that old, is it?
[00:35:47]  I feel like I wasn't long enough.
[00:35:48]  This got 15, almost 60 million views.
[00:35:51]  Yeah, 60 million real ones.
[00:35:53]  So this was 2015.
[00:35:55]  November.
[00:35:56]  But three years old.
[00:35:57]  On social media, we're probably talking billions.
[00:36:00]  Right.
[00:36:00]  Between everybody doing holidays.
[00:36:01]  Between everybody's grandma doing the dance.
[00:36:03]  Yeah.
[00:36:03]  Yeah.
[00:36:04]  Yeah, it's billions easily.
[00:36:08]  So you pretty much shoot all Ply's videos now?
[00:36:12]  I'm not sure.
[00:36:12]  Ply is like, yeah, he's funny.
[00:36:14]  Like, he always has something up his sleeve.
[00:36:17]  What do you mean?
[00:36:19]  I just, I don't know.
[00:36:20]  I feel like he probably has like 30 videos ready to go.
[00:36:23]  Really?
[00:36:26]  No, I'm going to look at it.
[00:36:27]  I got my phone right here, bro.
[00:36:28]  I'm going to tell you right now.
[00:36:29]  The DMT spirit molecule.
[00:36:37]  Yeah, it's funny.
[00:36:38]  You'll never know what will pop off.
[00:36:40]  Sometimes the stuff that you put the least amount of work into.
[00:36:43]  No, we put some work into that one, though.
[00:36:45]  It's, you know, once again, it's true to life.
[00:36:48]  Songs called Ritz Carlton.
[00:36:49]  Like, we're really at the Ritz Carlton.
[00:36:50]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:36:51]  Like, we're really there.
[00:36:52]  Now, is this like one of those situations where you would like, you'd rather beg for forgiveness than ask for permission?
[00:36:58]  You just kind of like go, just kind of like.
[00:37:00]  We asked them, though.
[00:37:01]  Oh, you did?
[00:37:01]  Yeah, we did.
[00:37:03]  You know.
[00:37:04]  Sometimes you just got to run and gun.
[00:37:05]  Sometimes you just got to fucking go.
[00:37:07]  I mean, with the bigger artists like that, like, I can't risk.
[00:37:11]  Asking for forgiveness because there's so much at stake, right?
[00:37:13]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:37:15]  But like with an indie artist, yeah, we might do some shit where we'll just try to get it done.
[00:37:21]  What's it like working with an artist like this where you have to go through a label?
[00:37:24]  Like, do a lot of labels try to breathe down your neck when you're making a lot of videos and really fuck with you?
[00:37:30]  I can't speak on anybody else's experience, but I think me personally, I haven't had that.
[00:37:34]  No?
[00:37:35]  Yeah, I haven't had that.
[00:37:36]  See, they pretty much give you complete freedom.
[00:37:38]  I deal with my relationships have always been with the artist.
[00:37:42]  So it's like.
[00:37:43]  Even if it's a label situation, it's like the artist saying, Hey, I want to shoot with Omar.
[00:37:48]  You know, boom, boom, whatever.
[00:37:49]  And the label steps in and does whatever they need to take care of.
[00:37:53]  But you don't ever communicate with the labels at all.
[00:37:55]  Yeah, I do.
[00:37:55]  You know, like you have to for the whole legal thing.
[00:37:58]  Yeah.
[00:37:58]  You know?
[00:37:59]  Yeah.
[00:37:59]  Yeah.
[00:38:00]  Sometimes disbursement of funds.
[00:38:01]  I mean, it just doesn't matter.
[00:38:03]  It differentiates.
[00:38:04]  Yeah.
[00:38:05]  And who's that girl you were working with that you saw the music video with?
[00:38:08]  Recently?
[00:38:08]  Yeah.
[00:38:10]  Who was it?
[00:38:10]  Asian Doll?
[00:38:11]  Yeah.
[00:38:11]  Asian Doll.
[00:38:12]  Yeah, I did one with her.
[00:38:13]  Yeah.
[00:38:13]  What was that?
[00:38:14]  I was thinking of somebody else.
[00:38:16]  Tell me about her.
[00:38:17]  I don't really know much about her.
[00:38:18]  She's dope.
[00:38:19]  Gucci signed her, right?
[00:38:20]  Yeah, Gucci signed her.
[00:38:21]  That song we shot the video for, I saw her record it that day.
[00:38:25]  Really?
[00:38:26]  What's that?
[00:38:27]  She recorded the song the same day she shot the video.
[00:38:29]  Well, we shot it the next day.
[00:38:30]  We wanted to shoot it that same day, but I was there for the whole process to actually have it on video.
[00:38:36]  She's a girl, bro.
[00:38:37]  She's super organized.
[00:38:39]  She's about her business.
[00:38:42]  Next Cardi B.
[00:38:43]  She did a whole project with Southside in one day.
[00:38:48]  No way.
[00:38:50]  One day, bro.
[00:38:52]  And, like, it was awesome, like, seeing, because I have, it was my first time seeing, like, a girl in the studio.
[00:38:57]  Yeah.
[00:38:58]  Making music.
[00:38:59]  And it was pretty cool.
[00:39:00]  Really?
[00:39:00]  She definitely, like, has a more, like, methodical, is that a word, methodical?
[00:39:06]  Maybe.
[00:39:07]  It is for now.
[00:39:08]  Approach, you know?
[00:39:09]  You just made it a word.
[00:39:10]  I just made it a new word.
[00:39:11]  Where's she from?
[00:39:12]  I think she's, I want to say she's from Dallas.
[00:39:15]  I might be wrong.
[00:39:16]  Okay.
[00:39:16]  But I know, you know, she's 10, 17, so she's all over now.
[00:39:19]  Yeah.
[00:39:19]  She's, For sure.
[00:39:20]  I don't think I've seen her in the same city for two days ever since I've met her.
[00:39:24]  Hey, Asian, if you're watching this interview, can we just go to Tokyo, please, and shoot like three videos?
[00:39:31]  Yeah, let's do it.
[00:39:32]  I'm going to come too.
[00:39:33]  And you know what?
[00:39:34]  Fuck that.
[00:39:35]  One in Tokyo, one in Bangkok, and one in Shanghai.
[00:39:42]  All three back to back?
[00:39:44]  Yeah, and I pay for my own flights because I got hella miles on Emirates.
[00:39:48]  Oh, shit.
[00:39:48]  Yeah, straight up business class.
[00:39:50]  We'll be riding business class.
[00:39:51]  We ain't worried about that flight shit.
[00:39:53]  Let's get out there, though.
[00:39:57]  So, why over there in Asian?
[00:39:59]  You think that's what you see for her, right?
[00:40:02]  She's an Asian doll.
[00:40:03]  Just close your eyes and you visual it, bro, right in the middle of Tokyo.
[00:40:07]  We need to connect that dot, bro, because I feel like all the Asian dolls in Asia need to see her.
[00:40:13]  Yes.
[00:40:14]  She needs to see their game.
[00:40:16]  It'll be crazy.
[00:40:17]  Have you shot over there before?
[00:40:19]  Nothing, like professionally.
[00:40:20]  Yeah.
[00:40:21]  Like me, just fucking around.
[00:40:22]  I've shot stuff.
[00:40:23]  Yeah.
[00:40:23]  Yeah.
[00:40:24]  Do you have a place that was like your favorite place that you shot a video or?
[00:40:30]  Or I don't know, a different country you went to or something?
[00:40:33]  Not really, bro.
[00:40:34]  I prefer to shoot videos in Miami, though.
[00:40:36]  Yeah.
[00:40:36]  As a preference, yeah, is that where you shot the uh money to my ear video?
[00:40:41]  Racks up to my ear, oh, racks up to my ear, yeah, that was that was in Miami.
[00:40:45]  Is that where you guys?
[00:40:46]  I mean, I figured that like the drag queens dancing, drag queens, yeah, dude.
[00:40:50]  There was like a bunch of guys dressed as chicks.
[00:40:53]  What are you talking about, bro?
[00:40:55]  Racks up to my ear, yeah, play it.
[00:40:58]  Was it the applies one, yeah, that one.
[00:41:03]  I swear they've been watching, there was a couple videos, yeah, no, that was in this video, dude.
[00:41:08]  I'm positive, yeah.
[00:41:11]  Where this is Miami.
[00:41:16]  Is this with this is with Dolph?
[00:41:17]  With Dolph, yeah.
[00:41:18]  Shout out, young Dolph.
[00:41:20]  Oh, yeah.
[00:41:29]  He's got to be a funny character, right?
[00:41:31]  To work with.
[00:41:32]  He just seems like a comedian, super funny.
[00:41:35]  Yeah, he's funny, but he's also like very.
[00:41:37]  I respect him, bro.
[00:41:38]  He's a really professional.
[00:41:39]  No, I don't mean that in a disrespectful way.
[00:41:41]  I just mean.
[00:41:41]  No, I know, I know, I know too, but I don't.
[00:41:42]  Yeah, like I've definitely learned a lot from him.
[00:41:46]  Yeah.
[00:41:46]  You know, like I don't think any artist from like his era has been able to do what he did.
[00:41:50]  Yeah.
[00:41:51]  Like he's still relevant today.
[00:41:52]  Right.
[00:41:52]  Yeah.
[00:41:52]  He's been around a long time.
[00:41:57]  He just clowns in every video.
[00:41:58]  It's so funny.
[00:42:01]  Yeah.
[00:42:03]  Where's the drag queens?
[00:42:04]  They're coming up.
[00:42:04]  You'll see.
[00:42:07]  Cue the drag queens.
[00:42:08]  Just show me when it comes up.
[00:42:09]  I can't look at this right now.
[00:42:11]  You can't watch this.
[00:42:12]  I'm already looking at shit that I should have done a bit different.
[00:42:14]  So, when you ever watch your stuff, is that why you don't do it?
[00:42:17]  You just see stuff you would have done differently and then you start to critique it.
[00:42:21]  It's just like, to me, it's like always you're always turning in an incomplete final essay or something.
[00:42:26]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:42:27]  You always see things that you can fix or do better or do different.
[00:42:30]  So, you look at, yeah, you just critique your work and.
[00:42:32]  So, you don't even watch it because of that?
[00:42:34]  Yeah, you just gotta pump out shit.
[00:42:35]  When you're pumping out that much shit, you just gotta be a factory, man.
[00:42:39]  You can't worry too much about perfection, though.
[00:42:42]  While I'm editing, though, I definitely have a feeling that I get.
[00:42:45]  Right.
[00:42:45]  That I know that it's okay.
[00:42:47]  Yeah, well, so you get a certain feeling, you know, all right, I'm at a point where this is good.
[00:42:51]  Yeah, like sometimes I know that shit's gonna go crazy.
[00:42:54]  Yeah.
[00:42:54]  I already know it.
[00:42:55]  Yeah.
[00:42:55]  Like I just know.
[00:42:56]  I think I've called you a couple times, like, yo, bro, I got some shit coming out.
[00:42:59]  Yeah, I guarantee you this is gonna be something special.
[00:43:02]  And was it?
[00:43:03]  Oh, yeah, every single time, right here.
[00:43:05]  You just missed it.
[00:43:06]  Run it back.
[00:43:07]  Rewind, rewind by like 10 seconds.
[00:43:12]  Right there, bro.
[00:43:13]  That's a lady.
[00:43:14]  That's a chick, yeah.
[00:43:15]  That looked like a dude to me when I saw it.
[00:43:18]  No, that's a woman.
[00:43:18]  I hope it wasn't anybody's mom.
[00:43:21]  She's out there in Houston, man.
[00:43:23]  She's uh, oh, she's so she's like a girl you worked with before, like, or no, no, she's like an Instagram, but that's Savannah right there.
[00:43:31]  Is that Savannah?
[00:43:32]  Savannah, right there.
[00:43:36]  Where she should.
[00:43:36]  Yeah, who is Savannah for the people listening?
[00:43:38]  Right there, Ling Ling.
[00:43:39]  Look, look, Ling Ling.
[00:43:40]  Pause it on Savannah.
[00:43:41]  Instagram star.
[00:43:42]  Yeah, we got to pause it on Savannah.
[00:43:50]  It's Dolph.
[00:43:52]  There we go.
[00:43:53]  Boom.
[00:43:53]  What's up with Savannah?
[00:43:54]  So she's making music.
[00:43:55]  She's another future legend in the making.
[00:43:58]  Yeah.
[00:43:59]  Yeah, bro.
[00:44:00]  But once again, back to the real stuff, right?
[00:44:03]  That's her money.
[00:44:04]  She does that anyways.
[00:44:05]  Yeah.
[00:44:06]  If you go on her page, she's been doing that shit.
[00:44:10]  Yeah, she's sick.
[00:44:12]  She's from Houston.
[00:44:13]  She's from Houston too?
[00:44:14]  What does she do?
[00:44:14]  Is she just an Instagram star?
[00:44:16]  Yeah, well, she's an artist too.
[00:44:18]  She's released a few successful videos.
[00:44:20]  I did a video for her.
[00:44:22]  Yeah.
[00:44:22]  Bro, it did.
[00:44:24]  1.6 million views on Instagram.
[00:44:27]  So, once again, I think.
[00:44:29]  Just like a teaser?
[00:44:31]  A teaser, yeah.
[00:44:32]  One point.
[00:44:33]  Like, that's insane.
[00:44:34]  You know?
[00:44:36]  That is fucking wild.
[00:44:37]  How old is she?
[00:44:38]  Did you already say?
[00:44:40]  I'm not sure.
[00:44:40]  She's young, though.
[00:44:41]  She's definitely the youngest flexer in the world.
[00:44:43]  I want to say she's now she's like 12.
[00:44:47]  Really?
[00:44:47]  Yeah.
[00:44:48]  I did like the.
[00:44:49]  So far, we have a few of them coming out, but the one that's out is called Chun Lee Remix.
[00:44:54]  Yeah.
[00:44:55]  You know who, like, Jimmy Boy is?
[00:44:57]  The jeweler, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:44:59]  That's his daughter.
[00:45:00]  Oh, is it really?
[00:45:01]  Yeah, in a small world, Jimmy.
[00:45:07]  Well, he's like a jeweler for the artists and stuff, right?
[00:45:10]  Yeah, celebrity jeweler, yeah, right.
[00:45:14]  What about Florida?
[00:45:14]  So, like, what's coming up next?
[00:45:16]  Any big, any big artist coming out of Florida that you've been working with?
[00:45:18]  What do you, how are you feeling about Florida right now?
[00:45:20]  It's on fire, Florida's on fire, on fire, on fire, yeah.
[00:45:26]  What do you mean?
[00:45:27]  Who everyone's from Florida right now, yeah.
[00:45:29]  Really?
[00:45:30]  In all parts of Florida.
[00:45:31]  What do you think about all the new Kodaks coming out?
[00:45:35]  All the new Kodak Blacks that are coming out of the woodwork?

=== Buying Domains for Christmas Gifts (04:24) ===

[00:45:37]  I can't wait to see what Kodak says about it.
[00:45:39]  What do you think he's going to say about it?
[00:45:41]  I'm not sure.
[00:45:41]  I'm not sure.
[00:45:43]  He gets out soon, right?
[00:45:45]  Yeah.
[00:45:45]  Next year?
[00:45:46]  No, this year?
[00:45:46]  A couple weeks, bro.
[00:45:47]  Oh, in a couple weeks?
[00:45:48]  Yeah.
[00:45:49]  No shit.
[00:45:50]  A couple weeks, yeah.
[00:45:53]  What about Lil Pump?
[00:45:54]  Lil Pump's awesome.
[00:45:55]  He's from Florida, too.
[00:45:56]  I actually have him.
[00:45:57]  He's from Florida.
[00:45:58]  Yeah.
[00:45:58]  Yeah, he's from Miami.
[00:45:59]  Or I don't know what part of Miami, but.
[00:46:01]  We have a video coming out.
[00:46:02]  You do with Lil Pump?
[00:46:03]  Yeah.
[00:46:04]  He's on fire now, too.
[00:46:05]  Little pump in who?
[00:46:08]  I don't remember.
[00:46:09]  Beep.
[00:46:10]  Yeah, we'll send you that.
[00:46:12]  It was like a while ago, but there's some dope shit coming out with him.
[00:46:16]  Yeah, we just shot a kind of like a vlog style video with Rod Wave and Glock 9.
[00:46:26]  And then we shot their show.
[00:46:28]  And everybody compares him to Kodak.
[00:46:30]  And he sounds just like Kodak.
[00:46:32]  Really?
[00:46:32]  I mean, he sounds.
[00:46:33]  What did you say about it?
[00:46:34]  He said he has one song where it's called Tom Bout that he just came out with, and like the first line of the song is like, Tom Bout, the next next Kodak.
[00:46:42]  Uh uh, I want to be Glack Nine.
[00:46:44]  But like any any YouTube video, any conversation about him has Kodak's name in it, rightly so.
[00:46:51]  He sounds identical.
[00:46:52]  You can't say they don't sound similar, no, they definitely sound similar, but I mean, given they're from the same area almost, you know what I mean?
[00:46:59]  They're not far apart, it's like a Florida thing, yeah, mid Florida.
[00:47:03]  I feel like.
[00:47:05]  You know, and it's just hot right now.
[00:47:07]  Yeah, I mean, that is hot.
[00:47:08]  You could have more of the same product if there's enough demand.
[00:47:12]  Why not?
[00:47:12]  Right, you know, there's definitely a lot of demand now that Kodak, but if people are saying, I mean, I don't know who you're talking about, but if people are saying that, like, I think it just speaks to like Kodak's greatness.
[00:47:22]  Yeah, because he's getting that while he's still alive, bro.
[00:47:25]  Because usually people you don't get people emulating you till you're dead, right?
[00:47:28]  That's true.
[00:47:29]  Yeah, Kodak's a legend.
[00:47:32]  Yeah, he's already a legend.
[00:47:34]  This is him.
[00:47:35]  This is Glock 9.
[00:47:50]  I don't know how old he is.
[00:47:51]  I think he's like 18 or something.
[00:47:52]  He's from Orlando.
[00:47:54]  Yeah.
[00:47:54]  Well, I can't see him in the video, really.
[00:47:57]  What's the videographer doing here?
[00:47:59]  I don't know what he's doing, dude.
[00:48:01]  I don't know who the hell shot this.
[00:48:04]  Maybe it's his thing, though, like mysterious and shit.
[00:48:06]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:48:07]  I can dig it.
[00:48:09]  That's cool.
[00:48:11]  So, what else, bro?
[00:48:12]  What's next?
[00:48:13]  What do you got cooking?
[00:48:15]  Man, Walmart's got a movie coming out soon.
[00:48:17]  Oh, yeah?
[00:48:17]  Yeah.
[00:48:18]  Full length movie.
[00:48:19]  Full length movie.
[00:48:20]  So.
[00:48:22]  If you love the videos, you're going to love the movie.
[00:48:25]  So I expect everyone to download it, stream it.
[00:48:29]  Don't torrent it.
[00:48:31]  What's the premise of the movie?
[00:48:32]  What's the inspiration of the movie?
[00:48:34]  Lifestyle shit, same shit.
[00:48:35]  I like to just.
[00:48:36]  So it's like the next belly?
[00:48:38]  No, not at all.
[00:48:39]  Not at all.
[00:48:41]  But it's definitely going to be something that's going to entertain you, make you ask questions.
[00:48:46]  Got some big artists in there.
[00:48:48]  Maybe create some arguments.
[00:48:49]  Yeah.
[00:48:51]  Yeah, I'm going to have a few artists in there.
[00:48:53]  Yeah.
[00:48:55]  Any names you can give us?
[00:48:57]  Any kind of details?
[00:48:59]  If you see them on my Instagram pages, they're probably going to be on it.
[00:49:01]  They're on it.
[00:49:02]  Yeah.
[00:49:03]  That's sick.
[00:49:04]  So, everybody.
[00:49:06]  Everybody.
[00:49:07]  Knock on.
[00:49:08]  You got a name for it or anything?
[00:49:10]  No, I haven't bought the domain yet.
[00:49:12]  You haven't bought the domain yet?
[00:49:14]  Oh, yeah.
[00:49:14]  Don't say the name then.
[00:49:15]  What's ETA and when we're going to get this?
[00:49:17]  I want it for Christmas.
[00:49:19]  Christmas.
[00:49:19]  It's my Christmas gift.
[00:49:20]  It's your Christmas.
[00:49:20]  This Christmas.
[00:49:21]  This Christmas.
[00:49:22]  No way.
[00:49:22]  Have you already been filming?
[00:49:24]  I'm sure.
[00:49:25]  No?
[00:49:26]  No.
[00:49:26]  He's gonna shoot it out by Christmas.
[00:49:28]  Hey, bro, we shoot critically acclaimed music videos in 24 hours, shoot them, edit them, and release them in 24 hours.
[00:49:38]  So just wait till what I do in this movie.
[00:49:40]  It's gonna be like a 48 hour film project, it's gonna fucking bang that out in no time.
[00:49:45]  Not that I mean, I don't want to say, I don't want to come myself short, but yeah, where are you gonna release it?
[00:49:50]  I can do it.
[00:49:51]  How are you gonna distribute it?
[00:49:52]  Speaking to a couple of people right now about that.
[00:49:54]  Okay, yeah, I know possibly not the internet, it's definitely internet, definitely, it's definitely internet.

=== Lil Hank's New Age Tech Vision (15:30) ===

[00:50:01]  I know where I want to go, but just trying to work through a couple of different offers right now.
[00:50:07]  Bro, we got to get Forrest on the mic because Forrest was.
[00:50:09]  Forrest, come ask one question.
[00:50:10]  Forrest had a couple gymnastics.
[00:50:11]  Come ask.
[00:50:12]  He had some gymnastics.
[00:50:13]  Walk around the other way.
[00:50:13]  Yeah, fuck that.
[00:50:14]  Maybe Forrest has some spice for this.
[00:50:16]  This is podcast 1.5.
[00:50:18]  Get Forrest in here.
[00:50:20]  Forrest, ask whatever you want.
[00:50:21]  What have we got?
[00:50:23]  This is Ask Me Anything.
[00:50:25]  Here, take this.
[00:50:26]  All right.
[00:50:27]  Well, I was just wondering, like, on a lot of those videos.
[00:50:29]  Forrest, by the way, just for everyone out there, Forrest is.
[00:50:32]  Basically, a prodigy tech genius.
[00:50:37]  He can wire any sound or visual system anywhere in the world.
[00:50:42]  And he's.
[00:50:42]  I have a failed YouTube channel that me and Danny tracked.
[00:50:44]  He has his own YouTube channel.
[00:50:46]  It's called, what's it called?
[00:50:47]  Feld Tech TV.
[00:50:48]  Feld Tech TV.
[00:50:49]  You can look it up.
[00:50:50]  It'll be in the description.
[00:50:51]  You can check it out as well.
[00:50:52]  Omar will be in the description.
[00:50:53]  So, what's your question?
[00:50:54]  I was wondering, like, on a lot of these videos, like you're in the middle of the street or you're in some type of weird area.
[00:50:59]  Talk to the mic.
[00:51:00]  You gotta, like, shut down that area?
[00:51:02]  Or how do you, like, if you wanna, like, film on, like, I 4, like, on a street, like, how do you get that?
[00:51:06]  That's like a big ask, isn't it?
[00:51:08]  Yeah, it just depends on the budget.
[00:51:10]  So, you're saying anything can get done with money?
[00:51:13]  No, I don't know if it can or can't, but that's like a pretty crazy statement.
[00:51:19]  But it's true.
[00:51:20]  I know that, you know, I've gotten permits in the past for like bridges and different areas that do have high traffic.
[00:51:26]  And if you do like at a certain time or if you pay their fee, which they call it a business impact, like how much money like the town or whatever is losing, then, you know, you can do it.
[00:51:38]  Yeah.
[00:51:38]  Yeah.
[00:51:39]  So, Omar is like the, he creates the magic.
[00:51:41]  Like, you think of something crazy, like, I wanna.
[00:51:44]  Well, Omar pretty much will think of it if it's.
[00:51:46]  Yeah, he thinks of it.
[00:51:47]  He thinks of it as you can just guarantee it's fucking crazy as fuck.
[00:51:50]  You know what?
[00:51:51]  I think that's where the magic is making it happen and with the budget that you have because that's the constant battle.
[00:51:59]  But it's like once you have that vision in your head and you see, I want him on a jet ski in a pool with monkeys, you're going to find a way to make that happen no matter what you have to do.
[00:52:09]  The mastermind.
[00:52:11]  That's what seems like his secret sauce is he makes it happen the right way.
[00:52:15]  He doesn't cut corners.
[00:52:16]  He got a crane.
[00:52:17]  He didn't try to rig it up.
[00:52:19]  He made it happen.
[00:52:20]  He does make shit happen.
[00:52:21]  That's why he's Omar, the fucking director.
[00:52:23]  You guys are crazy, bro.
[00:52:26]  What about these cars, these expensive cars?
[00:52:28]  Are a lot of these the artist's cars, or do you rent them?
[00:52:32]  Of course, you've got to rent some of them.
[00:52:33]  Yeah, some you rent, and some they own.
[00:52:37]  But look, sometimes they might own the exact car, but it's not the color that you want in the shot.
[00:52:42]  I've got artists that have a Lamborghini, but it wasn't the color that we needed.
[00:52:47]  Even like stuff in, I think it was the Stepped On video where we used Ben's Rolls Royce?
[00:52:53]  Was it oh, yeah, that wasn't stepped on.
[00:52:55]  So, like, Omar was in, in, he was here in Clearwater and he had to finish up one of Pee Wee's videos that was, I think it was due like the next day or something.
[00:53:02]  I don't remember what it was.
[00:53:03]  And he needed, he needed a quick shot of lean pouring on the high tech.
[00:53:08]  Yeah.
[00:53:08]  The high tech.
[00:53:09]  I remember that in your blog.
[00:53:10]  I saw that.
[00:53:10]  Yeah, he needed the high tech going on the, on the Flying Lady of the Rolls Royce.
[00:53:14]  Yeah.
[00:53:14]  So he came over to Ben's house.
[00:53:16]  That video is so crazy.
[00:53:17]  Like, I got like death threats from like the people in the church, bishops and all kinds of shit.
[00:53:24]  It was.
[00:53:24]  Crazy that video was so sick, and like a lot of people thought that it was like an angel that we were pouring blood on.
[00:53:30]  It was people are crazy, bro.
[00:53:32]  Do you have when it comes to religion, people are absolutely insane.
[00:53:35]  This is the stepped on video.
[00:53:36]  Do you have anybody that you won't shoot for?
[00:53:38]  Like, is there anybody that you don't?
[00:53:39]  That's a good question for us.
[00:53:41]  That's why I'm here, man.
[00:53:42]  I had to step in, I couldn't stand amateur hour.
[00:53:46]  Danny's just like, Uh, you, uh, you drink Diet Coke?
[00:53:51]  Fuck you.
[00:53:53]  I mean, I'll shoot for anybody, bro.
[00:53:55]  Really?
[00:53:56]  In any genre, I feel like I would love to do some different things.
[00:54:00]  That's cool.
[00:54:00]  That could really open your horizon.
[00:54:02]  How about Lil Hank?
[00:54:04]  Oh, that'd be crazy.
[00:54:05]  I'd give Lil Hank the most fucking awesome video ever.
[00:54:08]  I guarantee you.
[00:54:09]  Lil Hank's the shit.
[00:54:10]  I bet you all the people that hate on Lil Hank after the video will love him.
[00:54:13]  Hell yeah.
[00:54:14]  Lil Hank, if you're watching this.
[00:54:16]  Only if Omar did the video, though.
[00:54:17]  If not, it would be pointless.
[00:54:20]  Fuck with Omar.
[00:54:22]  How often do you guys see videos and you hate them when they come out?
[00:54:26]  A lot of times they don't.
[00:54:27]  A lot of times they just.
[00:54:29]  They're a letdown when the song's really good and you see the video.
[00:54:31]  It's like.
[00:54:32]  They're just me just doing some field research.
[00:54:34]  Yeah.
[00:54:35]  A lot of people, it just seems like they just don't even have a plan, right?
[00:54:37]  They just go off and turn the camera on.
[00:54:40]  Have you ever been starstruck?
[00:54:41]  Like, you got a call from somebody and you're just like, holy crap, I can't believe it.
[00:54:44]  I'll tell you, like, I don't know if it's called Starstruck, but I didn't believe it.
[00:54:47]  Is that what that means?
[00:54:47]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:54:48]  I think that's why I have no pictures with any artists.
[00:54:50]  Yeah.
[00:54:50]  Because I don't really care about that.
[00:54:52]  But I got an interesting story I'll tell you.
[00:54:55]  Um.
[00:54:57]  I was eating like dinner one night, and I think it was like I was having sushi somewhere.
[00:55:02]  I got a phone call, and it was like, Hey, what's up?
[00:55:05]  You know, like this is Yogati.
[00:55:08]  And I was like, What?
[00:55:09]  And you never talked to him before?
[00:55:10]  Yeah, no, I hung up the phone.
[00:55:12]  I was like, Who the fuck's kind of praying on me and shit?
[00:55:14]  Yo, God, you know?
[00:55:15]  Yeah.
[00:55:16]  So a few minutes later, I think I was leaving the place.
[00:55:19]  He called again.
[00:55:19]  He's like, Yo, like, and I could tell he had a little, you know, he was more assertive.
[00:55:25]  I could tell in his tongue.
[00:55:26]  He's like, Hey, you know, This is Yogadi, like, what's up?
[00:55:29]  You know, trying to get a video.
[00:55:31]  And I was like, oh, and I heard more, since I heard him speak a little more, I was like, oh shit, this is Yogadi, like, you know.
[00:55:36]  So he didn't say, like, he didn't, like, answer the phone and go, it's your boy, Yogadi.
[00:55:39]  Nah, man.
[00:55:40]  Like, I mean, I thought right away he'd say that, you know.
[00:55:43]  Nah, Yogadi's another person that's like super fucking about their shit, bro.
[00:55:48]  There's like a few people when you meet them that you just know why they're successful.
[00:55:51]  Yeah.
[00:55:52]  You see it.
[00:55:52]  Of course.
[00:55:53]  Plain sight.
[00:55:54]  What's the most cash that you've ever had?
[00:55:57]  Like, you know how pretty much every video you shoot has a lot of cash in it.
[00:56:00]  Bro, I'll tell you.
[00:56:00]  Okay, look.
[00:56:01]  Before the music video stuff, it was a million.
[00:56:04]  It was 1.2 million.
[00:56:06]  And I did it because of my job, right?
[00:56:07]  I was at the Federal Reserve in, I think, Ohio.
[00:56:10]  I don't know the city.
[00:56:12]  And I.
[00:56:13]  I and at the Fed, right?
[00:56:14]  Yeah, and I grabbed like 1.3 million in cash.
[00:56:17]  In cash, whose bank account works stuff?
[00:56:20]  I don't know.
[00:56:21]  And like, I remember picking it up, and it was so heavy.
[00:56:25]  I was like, Yeah, like if you steal this, like you can't even get far with it, it's so heavy, you know.
[00:56:30]  But on music videos, like, like 2 million one time in cash, in real cash, bro.
[00:56:38]  No, I don't think it should be real.
[00:56:41]  I don't, I don't, I don't know why.
[00:56:43]  Hip hop artists are like so into cash.
[00:56:49]  No, it's not about that.
[00:56:50]  I feel like people judge them too much and they expect too much out of them.
[00:56:55]  Like, oh, you need to, you don't expect like Martin Scorsese to have real money in Wolf of Wall Street.
[00:57:01]  Because do we agree that that money was not real?
[00:57:03]  Yeah, for sure.
[00:57:04]  The fun coupons were just that coupons.
[00:57:06]  Yeah.
[00:57:07]  Right?
[00:57:07]  Yeah.
[00:57:08]  So why do we expect like a rapper to do it?
[00:57:13]  Yeah.
[00:57:13]  Omar's videos are real.
[00:57:14]  Maybe because they're portraying themselves.
[00:57:17]  You know, in the movie, you're portraying somebody else.
[00:57:20]  Yeah.
[00:57:21]  But we accept it either way, though.
[00:57:23]  I think it's like an unbelievable thing.
[00:57:24]  Like, people look at it and be like, damn, I wish I had that stack.
[00:57:27]  I think, you know, I could have, you know.
[00:57:29]  No, I'm going to go into detail about that, bro, because look, that needs to change.
[00:57:34]  We just extended this motherfucking podcast.
[00:57:36]  That needs to change because, like, it's just like when a rapper gets in legal trouble, you know, they get, like, persecuted because of, like, their lyrics.
[00:57:46]  But then we don't say, oh, like, it's entertainment.
[00:57:49]  Right.
[00:57:50]  So it's like we need to like clearly define that and then stick to it, and then I'll say, okay, fine.
[00:57:55]  But like somebody who like was a played a mass murder, like they don't get to say, oh, you're look at how he was acting in this movie.
[00:58:02]  Like that was really him.
[00:58:03]  I see what you're saying, right?
[00:58:05]  And and what you were saying was true.
[00:58:07]  I'll agree with you 10 years ago, but this new era of rap, this new shit going on, like it doesn't matter, bro.
[00:58:15]  Like these the new wave rappers are not the street guys.
[00:58:19]  If you don't know, I'm just gonna let you know now.
[00:58:22]  Yeah.
[00:58:22]  It's pure fantasy, bro.
[00:58:23]  It's straight up.
[00:58:25]  It's really some on some DiCaprio shit.
[00:58:27]  It's who can look the part.
[00:58:28]  Do you think some of them put on a.
[00:58:31]  I always think this is not rap, but like Lady Gaga, she puts on a persona and that's her brand.
[00:58:35]  She sells to her people.
[00:58:37]  She's a branding expert.
[00:58:39]  Some of these guys, they're really not like that in real life, but they just do that for their videos and stuff because that's their brand.
[00:58:44]  I think all the new guys, that's why they're always getting robbed and shit because they're not really that guy.
[00:58:50]  You know what I mean?
[00:58:51]  Yeah.
[00:58:51]  Straight up.
[00:58:53]  But that's like you said, you know, you go to business school and you push the brand.
[00:58:56]  You wear Coke shoes, Coke shirt, you're going to sell Coca Cola.
[00:59:00]  You know what I mean?
[00:59:01]  Yeah.
[00:59:02]  Like that's what you do.
[00:59:03]  You just push it all day, all night.
[00:59:05]  But how do you think that'll change?
[00:59:06]  I mean, do you think it's possible for that kind of.
[00:59:09]  I mean, if it needs to, I guess, you know?
[00:59:12]  But like right now, like that's.
[00:59:14]  I'm all about change, by the way.
[00:59:15]  So I'm not knocking the new guys for faking it or.
[00:59:20]  Yeah.
[00:59:20]  If they can rap about something better than the guy who's living it, like, why not?
[00:59:26]  You know what I mean?
[00:59:29]  I don't care.
[00:59:31]  Hardcore guys, yeah.
[00:59:39]  And it's proven to work though, not going that way.
[00:59:42]  I mean, if you look at, you know, like a lot of like a lot of like the new guys, like, he's not new, but like if you look at Yachty style or XXX, you know, his style, Extension, Extenticon, however you say it.
[00:59:57]  Man, or, uh, bro, you gotta get more respect.
[01:00:00]  How do you say it?
[01:00:01]  I mean, I think it's XXX Tentacion.
[01:00:04]  XXX Tentacion.
[01:00:05]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:00:06]  RP.
[01:00:07]  Bro, you know, I never like, I never heard his whole project.
[01:00:10]  Yeah.
[01:00:11]  Until like after he had passed, and like I regret that.
[01:00:15]  I feel like I was like, Man, I wish I knew about his greatness while he was still alive because he was dope.
[01:00:20]  Yeah, he was dope.
[01:00:21]  I like his age to do all that.
[01:00:23]  It's I really like what he did.
[01:00:24]  I like the style.
[01:00:25]  I wasn't like that type of music, I'm not like the biggest fan of that kind of music.
[01:00:29]  Yeah, but what he was doing was dope.
[01:00:31]  Like, have you heard his project?
[01:00:33]  Which one, the latest one that he released?
[01:00:36]  I, yeah, I did.
[01:00:37]  I listened, I didn't listen to the whole thing, but I listened to it.
[01:00:40]  I can tell because you need to listen to the whole thing.
[01:00:42]  All right, let's do it.
[01:00:43]  Because you can't even say his style because there's so much variety on there.
[01:00:49]  I think that's why I really respect him because it's really, truly a gift.
[01:00:53]  Yeah.
[01:00:54]  Kodak, same thing.
[01:00:55]  Yeah.
[01:00:56]  The way Kodak explains things is special, bro.
[01:01:00]  Yeah, it's special.
[01:01:02]  And he was doing that, you know, he's been in the game now for a while, but like, he was doing that at a much younger age.
[01:01:10]  Can I say something for the haters here?
[01:01:11]  Yeah.
[01:01:13]  Sometimes when I'm listening to the newer rap and you go back to the old stuff like Young Jeezy or you go back to like 3 Six Mafia, like you know, the beginning stuff, or even that's a little bit after the beginning, a little closer.
[01:01:23]  But like I see like a lot of that rap, like you know, the lyrics were like more real to me, you know what I mean?
[01:01:28]  Like I could listen to them in the car and they're talking about like their daily life and stuff like that, you know, and the struggles that they had in their life.
[01:01:34]  And then you listen to some of the rap now and they've got some elements of that, but it's more just like kind of not like not.
[01:01:39]  I listen to rap now too, so I'm not hating, but like a lot of it's a lot just nonsense, you know, it's like there's not.
[01:01:45]  Like you say, telling a story.
[01:01:46]  Like Young Jeezy used to tell stories about, you know, this is what I do for a job, this is what I do when I get home, and this is what, you know, my trouble is my life.
[01:01:53]  And now it's just like, you know, like a, it just seems like to me like it's less of a story.
[01:01:58]  Yeah, who do you like now?
[01:02:00]  Oh, jeez.
[01:02:01]  Oh, now you're fucked.
[01:02:04]  I mean, Rick Ross still has, he's still got some stuff.
[01:02:07]  It's not kind of new age.
[01:02:08]  No, but Rick Ross, yes.
[01:02:09]  I'm saying new age, who you like?
[01:02:11]  I'm trying to think.
[01:02:13]  You don't have to love him.
[01:02:14]  I'm saying you like it.
[01:02:15]  Like, what's some new rapper you listen to recently?
[01:02:16]  One song.
[01:02:17]  Yeah.
[01:02:18]  I'm going to get crucified on the comments.
[01:02:22]  No, dude, you're a legend.
[01:02:23]  The comments are going to love you, dude.
[01:02:25]  What's your name?
[01:02:27]  I like a lot of the woman MCs, like the Nicki Minaj stuff.
[01:02:31]  She's not new age, though, bro.
[01:02:33]  Cardi B's rap.
[01:02:34]  I really like stuff where they mix in the Spanish stuff, like Pitbull.
[01:02:38]  Some of his stuff's cool.
[01:02:39]  I know he's not really a hard rapper, like street trap stuff.
[01:02:42]  Yeah.
[01:02:42]  Oh, I do listen to some of the trap stuff, but it's not something that I'd tell my mom about.
[01:02:48]  You know what I mean?
[01:02:49]  Oh, I listen to Lil Pump.
[01:02:51]  You got to, bro.
[01:02:52]  You know, my mom listens to all that.
[01:02:53]  Really?
[01:02:54]  Yeah.
[01:02:54]  I was going to ask you that.
[01:02:55]  Like, when you go back.
[01:02:55]  My mom's been on FaceTime with Kodak the whole nine, bro.
[01:02:58]  That's crazy.
[01:02:58]  Your mom has?
[01:02:59]  Yeah, she had pictures with Gucci, man.
[01:03:01]  Yeah.
[01:03:01]  I love, by the way, Gucci.
[01:03:02]  I like, you know, I listen to his stuff, and that's kind of new age, too, but not really.
[01:03:06]  I mean, yeah, he has like a newer style, I think, now.
[01:03:10]  He's evolved.
[01:03:10]  Like, he's evolved.
[01:03:11]  Yeah.
[01:03:12]  Crazy evolved, bro.
[01:03:13]  Like, if you go back and listen to Nelly, like, Country Five.
[01:03:15]  Yeah.
[01:03:15]  No, look.
[01:03:16]  Like, that's crazy different than now.
[01:03:18]  I'm going to help you out, bro.
[01:03:19]  I'm going to put all your frustrations with this shit together.
[01:03:23]  I'm just talking.
[01:03:24]  We're just Talking, it's two different things, you shouldn't compare them.
[01:03:26]  Maybe it's just two different genres.
[01:03:28]  I'm just, yeah, yeah, it's not, it is because I have all those CDs, bro.
[01:03:35]  Like, I got the CDs of all this shit you're saying, like the Jeezy CD, and you know, like back when you, you know, Ludacris and all that.
[01:03:44]  But I remember at that time listening to this stuff, like loving it and being entertained by it, and listening to like Little Pump Today or like Smoke Perp or whatever.
[01:03:54]  And I'm entertained just as much.
[01:03:57]  Yeah.
[01:03:57]  You know?
[01:03:58]  And it's like an evolution, I guess.
[01:04:00]  And I'll try to, if I, and it's like, if you go to certain like markets, they will, they play a lot of the older shit on the radio still.
[01:04:07]  Yeah.
[01:04:08]  And I can't stand it.
[01:04:10]  Because I don't want to sit, you know, speaking back to the.
[01:04:13]  No, because it's like back to the whole change thing.
[01:04:15]  Like, I'm like a million miles a minute.
[01:04:17]  I really don't want to, like, decipher the fucking lyric and see what the guy meant.
[01:04:22]  It just entertained me, bro.
[01:04:23]  Like, some of the best stuff.
[01:04:24]  Smoke perp song, a minute and 56 seconds.
[01:04:26]  Perfect, bro.
[01:04:27]  Yeah.
[01:04:28]  Boom.
[01:04:29]  It gets the job done just as effectively as, like, some Nas shit that I used to love.
[01:04:33]  Yeah.
[01:04:33]  Some of the best stuff is, like, Gucci is, like, one of the best because he could come up with, like, the most absurd lyrics that you've ever heard of.
[01:04:40]  The watch around my wrist cost some Mercedes truck.
[01:04:43]  Have you ever seen a CD picture perfect, picture perfect?
[01:04:46]  How I'll hold the pot like every other line is just some fucking absurd thing he made up.
[01:04:52]  One of my favorite, yeah, I mean, records is he had a mixtape that he made on the phone from jail.
[01:04:56]  Oh, yeah, I remember that.
[01:04:57]  That shows that.
[01:04:58]  Oh, that's so good.
[01:04:59]  Yeah, it's just and the way they mix it is so good.
[01:05:02]  Um, when you go back home, and you know, are you is your family like, do they can you get this kind of music over there?
[01:05:08]  Like, I know, with the internet, I'm sure you can, but even before.
[01:05:11]  Is there like radio stations?
[01:05:12]  Everything.
[01:05:13]  Really?
[01:05:13]  Yeah.
[01:05:14]  That's pretty cool.
[01:05:14]  I don't know who someone big just did a concert out there, too.
[01:05:17]  I don't know if it was like Calvin Harris or somebody.
[01:05:19]  Somebody did a big concert out there.
[01:05:21]  I heard like some of the guys over there, like, you know, the big money, like they have like personal, like they have Beyonce and Jay Z come, like, do a show for just them for $10 million or something like that.
[01:05:30]  Probably, man.
[01:05:30]  They do all kinds of weird shit out there.

=== Big Brands vs. Cheap Cameras (12:28) ===

[01:05:32]  How do they make their money out there?
[01:05:33]  Oil, mainly?
[01:05:34]  I don't know.
[01:05:35]  Oh, no.
[01:05:36]  No, no, no.
[01:05:37]  In general, no.
[01:05:38]  Pakistan's like big in the.
[01:05:40]  That's just what Ben told me.
[01:05:41]  Yeah, Ben doesn't know shit.
[01:05:43]  Next subject.
[01:05:44]  Next subject.
[01:05:45]  Next.
[01:05:46]  No, it's our biggest export is like, well, anything white, like we deal in heavily.
[01:05:53]  Really?
[01:05:54]  Yeah, so.
[01:05:56]  No, no, no.
[01:05:57]  Like, so, like, cotton, right?
[01:05:58]  It's white.
[01:05:59]  Heavily, like, the best.
[01:06:01]  Salt.
[01:06:02]  Like, you heard Himalayan salt?
[01:06:03]  Yeah.
[01:06:04]  That's where it comes from.
[01:06:05]  Really?
[01:06:05]  You know, the Himalayas are in my country.
[01:06:09]  In my mother country, yeah.
[01:06:11]  Yeah, Himalayan mountains.
[01:06:12]  You ever thought about rapping yourself?
[01:06:14]  Oh, all the time, man.
[01:06:15]  I wish I could.
[01:06:16]  I don't know how.
[01:06:17]  I wish I could though.
[01:06:18]  You got like all the greats in your phone.
[01:06:20]  I know.
[01:06:20]  I could, bro.
[01:06:21]  Like my mixtape would be lit.
[01:06:23]  Yeah, it would.
[01:06:24]  I'd have all the like super produced fucking beats.
[01:06:26]  I was actually thinking about that.
[01:06:28]  Your phone must be like a treasure trove of numbers of like, if like a fanboy got your phone, they'd probably.
[01:06:34]  Yeah, like I don't use like, what's that shit called?
[01:06:37]  Apple Cloud?
[01:06:38]  iCloud?
[01:06:38]  Yeah, I don't use iCloud for that reason.
[01:06:40]  Yeah.
[01:06:40]  Got an extra long password.
[01:06:44]  That'd be a good rap song too.
[01:06:45]  Extra long password.
[01:06:46]  Yeah.
[01:06:48]  You should be a ghostwriter for us.
[01:06:49]  Who, me?
[01:06:50]  Yeah, I'd do it on the side.
[01:06:52]  That'd be dope.
[01:06:53]  That'd be dope.
[01:06:53]  And then Omar can make my videos.
[01:06:55]  Yeah.
[01:06:57]  If people want to find out more about what you're working on and stuff, I know you got Instagram and stuff like that, but you have somewhere we can go see a blog or something like that.
[01:07:05]  Twitter?
[01:07:07]  No, I have all the different social hours or whatever, but I'm just heavy on Instagram, bro.
[01:07:14]  You're heavy on Twitter too, aren't you?
[01:07:15]  You tweet a lot.
[01:07:17]  Twitter is sporadic, man.
[01:07:18]  We'll link it.
[01:07:19]  Yeah.
[01:07:20]  So, if somebody wants a video by Omar, they Instagram you.
[01:07:22]  That's how.
[01:07:22]  But I changed my Twitter, though.
[01:07:24]  You what?
[01:07:25]  I changed up my tweets.
[01:07:27]  Did you?
[01:07:27]  I only tweet real shit, like personal shit now.
[01:07:30]  Oh, really?
[01:07:31]  Yeah, like what I'm going through.
[01:07:32]  So it's like non music.
[01:07:33]  What made you decide to do that?
[01:07:35]  I feel like I needed a place to not vent, but just to be me.
[01:07:40]  Therapeutic.
[01:07:42]  Yeah, exactly, bro.
[01:07:44]  It's very important.
[01:07:47]  I'm around so many different personalities.
[01:07:49]  And then you bring drugs into the equation and all this shit.
[01:07:54]  You can't forget who you are in the middle of all of that.
[01:07:57]  It's my work.
[01:07:58]  It's my passion.
[01:08:00]  It should be one part of me, not the only part.
[01:08:05]  Right now, you're kind of underground, so people don't really know what you look like.
[01:08:08]  Like, like on the street, but are you ever afraid that you're gonna get like so people are like, you know, be on like paparazzi and stuff on the street?
[01:08:14]  Just be like, that's like, like DJ Cal, like he started off as a DJ.
[01:08:17]  Oh, yeah.
[01:08:18]  I mean, bro, like in some bigger cities, it does happen though.
[01:08:22]  Like, people want to like take pictures or ask, yeah, like they do, but not like a celebrity or whatever.
[01:08:30]  I guess you could get to that, like, that could be like overnight, like in one video hits it off and you get famous.
[01:08:35]  I mean, I can't wait till that Omar direct the Omar the director video comes out, the Pee Wee video, the Pee Wee song.
[01:08:42]  Can you talk about that?
[01:08:42]  Oh, shit, man.
[01:08:43]  Oh, shit, we're dropping it here now live.
[01:08:45]  Bro, we need to ask him.
[01:08:46]  Is he ever going to put it out, bro?
[01:08:48]  He's going to text me.
[01:08:49]  Let's FaceTime him live on the podcast.
[01:08:51]  I don't know if he'll fucking pick up.
[01:08:53]  We got to FaceTime.
[01:08:54]  We got to ask him about the Omar video.
[01:08:55]  Bro, you guys, you could just be like, hey, we're on this podcast.
[01:08:58]  We need to know, is this song coming out?
[01:08:59]  Pee Wee.
[01:09:00]  By the way, are you feeling better now that I came in the podcast?
[01:09:02]  Are you waking up?
[01:09:03]  I know, dude.
[01:09:04]  You made it so much better for us.
[01:09:07]  I couldn't take it.
[01:09:09]  Pee Wee wrote a song about Omar.
[01:09:12]  That's hilarious.
[01:09:13]  Pee Wee looks like a funny guy from all the videos.
[01:09:16]  I had never heard of him before today.
[01:09:17]  I'm gonna check him out after.
[01:09:22]  This is live right here, live from Concrete Studios.
[01:09:26]  Live from Concrete Studios.
[01:09:29]  Can I ask a nerd question?
[01:09:31]  Yeah.
[01:09:31]  What do you edit on?
[01:09:32]  Mac or PC?
[01:09:33]  Mac, yeah.
[01:09:34]  Yeah, Mac Pro.
[01:09:35]  Yeah.
[01:09:36]  Yeah, but he still edits on Final Cut.
[01:09:40]  I just got some new shit called the iMac Pro.
[01:09:42]  Oh, damn.
[01:09:44]  That thing looks dope.
[01:09:45]  He's got everything the best.
[01:09:46]  He does?
[01:09:46]  Sponsored Danny, you got it.
[01:09:48]  The iMac Pro looks good.
[01:09:49]  You just got the old one, you got the new one, so I got the trash can one, the old one.
[01:09:53]  That's why, yeah, bro.
[01:09:55]  Like, not Danny.
[01:09:56]  Nerd question like, that shit, you could edit 8K on it.
[01:09:59]  Yeah, it's like, that's really red raw 8K, no problem.
[01:10:03]  Yeah, I did it.
[01:10:04]  Yeah, it's pretty cool.
[01:10:06]  You talk to the guys at Red, like they know you, or you know, they don't, bro.
[01:10:10]  A lot of that shit, bro.
[01:10:11]  Like, I feel like a lot of people who should know me and like want to like collaborate on stuff and like these big brands.
[01:10:17]  They've just like not been around because of like the stigma on hip hop type shit.
[01:10:21]  So now that it's like more accepted, they're still not really there.
[01:10:27]  They don't know, bro.
[01:10:28]  They're so out of the loop.
[01:10:29]  Cause I'll see brands like link up with the most weirdest fucking artists.
[01:10:32]  I'm like, yeah, that guy was hot like five years ago.
[01:10:35]  Like, what are you doing?
[01:10:35]  Like, I have to do with the label too, right?
[01:10:37]  It's just like a cycle.
[01:10:38]  Cause it's like, then you, like, if you're a whatever brand and you give this guy money, it doesn't do shit for you, then now you'll probably never will give money again in that industry, you know?
[01:10:50]  Yeah.
[01:10:52]  Yeah.
[01:10:52]  When you guys get paid for your videos, do these rappers pay you in a briefcase with cash or they give you a check that says Gucci Man on it?
[01:10:59]  Oh, yeah.
[01:10:59]  No, I mean, I don't know about other people.
[01:11:02]  I prefer a bank wire.
[01:11:05]  I'm not going to like the.
[01:11:06]  Yeah.
[01:11:07]  No, I mean, shit, people want to know what I mean.
[01:11:10]  Yeah, but it's just like, then you have like, what do you do with all this cash?
[01:11:13]  I just have to take it to the bank and deposit it.
[01:11:15]  Get this cash off me.
[01:11:16]  You know, then they're like, what are you doing?
[01:11:18]  Are you stripping on it?
[01:11:20]  Shooting rap videos.
[01:11:20]  What do you expect?
[01:11:21]  You can ask Gucci next time you see him if his.
[01:11:22]  Credit card says Gucci Man on it.
[01:11:25]  Yeah, yeah, no, it probably does.
[01:11:27]  He probably has one that says Gucci Man, right?
[01:11:28]  Yeah, he probably has Gucci Man LLC.
[01:11:30]  You can get it like a card with whatever.
[01:11:33]  That's pretty legit.
[01:11:33]  Yeah.
[01:11:34]  They wouldn't do that for me.
[01:11:35]  Would you ever do you think you'll ever shoot any big commercials for like big brands?
[01:11:40]  I would love to.
[01:11:41]  I feel like I have so much to offer the big brands.
[01:11:43]  Yeah.
[01:11:43]  I understand like my world.
[01:11:46]  Like I feel like I get it.
[01:11:48]  And like the, you know, like the engagements there on the social media.
[01:11:51]  Yeah, for sure.
[01:11:52]  So I feel like they need to like reach out, bro.
[01:11:56]  I think so too.
[01:11:56]  I think eventually the lines will get more blurred.
[01:11:58]  And I think that, yeah, I think I'm not trying to yank your chain or anything, but like, I was saying, you have like the business side, you got the video side, you got the creative side.
[01:12:07]  So, like, a lot of these guys, like, they just go to Kmart or Best Buy, they buy a camera and they go, I'm a creator, you know, I'm a director.
[01:12:14]  Oh, yeah.
[01:12:14]  And that's the thing, they got to realize, like, you know, the value proposition that you get when you hire Omar is more than just a guy with a camera.
[01:12:22]  But that's what I'm learning that now, though.
[01:12:24]  I have like the best cameras and shit, too.
[01:12:26]  Don't get me wrong.
[01:12:27]  But, and I have like the stuff that is not really up there in price.
[01:12:31]  But if anyone tries to sell you on their, Product of what they own.
[01:12:36]  Sorry, if they're trying to sell you on their equipment, just look the other way, bro.
[01:12:40]  Run.
[01:12:40]  Run.
[01:12:41]  But that's like, really fast.
[01:12:42]  This is like the YouTube era.
[01:12:43]  That's what I would do, you know?
[01:12:44]  That's like, this is like the YouTube era.
[01:12:46]  Like, everybody buys a Mac, they buy a camera, and they go, I'm going to go make videos, which, you know, which is how you started, but there's a difference between.
[01:12:53]  Yeah, but that doesn't mean like they're going to be successful at it.
[01:12:55]  Right.
[01:12:55]  You know, so.
[01:12:56]  But that doesn't mean also that they can't be successful at it.
[01:12:59]  It doesn't.
[01:12:59]  Yeah, it doesn't.
[01:13:00]  It really, you're right.
[01:13:01]  It doesn't.
[01:13:02]  But if you're an artist and, you know, you're trying somebody that's new, not, you're past that now, but let's say you were new, you know, you're taking a risk.
[01:13:09]  You know, hiring somebody that might be the next to Omar, or they might be not.
[01:13:14]  Right.
[01:13:14]  You don't know.
[01:13:15]  You get what you pay for, though.
[01:13:18]  That's very true.
[01:13:19]  To get in while Omar is still inexpensive, relatively speaking.
[01:13:23]  Oh, yeah, yeah, because I feel like I'm a bargain for what I do.
[01:13:26]  For what I do.
[01:13:27]  I'll tell you how much they are.
[01:13:29]  And you tell me if it's a lot.
[01:13:30]  Off the A?
[01:13:31]  Well, yeah, I'm going to tell you right now.
[01:13:34]  Okay.
[01:13:37]  Oh, that's way less than I thought it would be.
[01:13:39]  You know what I mean?
[01:13:40]  Yeah.
[01:13:40]  That is a bargain.
[01:13:41]  I feel like that's a bargain for what you're getting.
[01:13:43]  Because you're going to make millions off the shit.
[01:13:45]  Yeah.
[01:13:46]  Why are you guys telling secrets?
[01:13:47]  It's less than a Lambo.
[01:13:48]  Yeah.
[01:13:49]  Less than a Lambo?
[01:13:50]  Yeah.
[01:13:50]  That's a fucking deal, though.
[01:13:51]  You can buy an Omar video, make money off of that.
[01:13:53]  Or you can buy a Lambo, make nothing.
[01:13:55]  I mean, which one are you going to buy?
[01:13:56]  Right?
[01:13:57]  Yep.
[01:13:57]  But the thing about, I mean, yeah, obviously it's not about equipment, but do you honestly like shooting with Reds?
[01:14:03]  No.
[01:14:04]  I hate shooting with Reds, dude.
[01:14:06]  I feel like they're great for movies, which is why they're made, right?
[01:14:09]  Yeah.
[01:14:10]  And for 8K.
[01:14:12]  And in studio.
[01:14:13]  Yeah.
[01:14:13]  Like, We're not in, we don't have the luxury of being in Hollywood, bro.
[01:14:16]  Like, there's no Paramount studios here.
[01:14:18]  And yeah, you know, people spend the same amount of time grading footage that they will editing an entire video.
[01:14:24]  Like, if you want to spend 18 hours color grading all your footage, I mean, is it like you shoot on a red?
[01:14:30]  Let's talk about that because people ask me that question a lot.
[01:14:32]  Really?
[01:14:33]  Like, is it better?
[01:14:35]  It is.
[01:14:36]  Do I feel like the average consumer can tell the difference?
[01:14:38]  No, absolutely not.
[01:14:40]  Not on YouTube.
[01:14:41]  And also, you know, it's sometimes with these deadlines, you know, you can't, it's not practical to use it, right?
[01:14:48]  Yeah.
[01:14:48]  I've had like because I've shot a commercial for Land Rover USA like five, six years ago.
[01:14:57]  And I shot the original video on a Canon 7D, right?
[01:15:01]  Yeah.
[01:15:01]  And it was like, I fucking knocked it out of the park with the video.
[01:15:04]  Like the video turned out perfect.
[01:15:06]  They paid me for it or whatever, but they asked me to reshoot it on a red.
[01:15:13]  So when I went back again to shoot it on the red, and I had never shot anything on a red before that.
[01:15:19]  I went and reshot it the whole fucking second.
[01:15:21]  The whole, the second video sucked.
[01:15:23]  It was just not anywhere near, it wasn't nearly as good.
[01:15:26]  The lighting was different because we tried to go big budget on the second commercial by hiring a whole freaking grip department.
[01:15:33]  We had giant nine foot freaking screens we were bouncing light off of, and like a whole monitor set up, like a whole video village set up, and everything.
[01:15:44]  And it was just a disaster, dude.
[01:15:45]  Like the best one was the one we did on a whim in one hour in a parking garage with no lights on a 7D.
[01:15:53]  And then now we got all this red footage with the color grade and do all this stuff, and it was just It was honestly, it was a nightmare for me.
[01:15:59]  Yeah.
[01:15:59]  You know what I was just thinking about is like when they spend money on these videos, like that's literally like going back to the business side.
[01:16:05]  Like that's an investment.
[01:16:06]  Like, so if you have a good video, like that could make you millions of dollars.
[01:16:11]  Yeah.
[01:16:11]  Like these videos go viral.
[01:16:13]  You know, you have a good song, that's cool.
[01:16:14]  But like you get the video, you get the whole package, it goes on, you know.
[01:16:18]  So like you're really investing, when you buy these videos, you're really investing in your brand.
[01:16:23]  So it's a no brainer.
[01:16:24]  Buy today.
[01:16:25]  Buy now.
[01:16:25]  What does Ben always say?
[01:16:27]  Buy now.
[01:16:28]  Buy today.
[01:16:29]  Don't delay.
[01:16:29]  Buy today.
[01:16:32]  No, but I feel like Red needs to step it up, bro.
[01:16:35]  Red.
[01:16:35]  I buy all my shit, so I'm going to tell the truth.
[01:16:37]  Like, I don't care.
[01:16:38]  You ever heard of Black Magic?
[01:16:39]  Yeah, they're cool.
[01:16:40]  I don't like them.
[01:16:41]  I don't like them either.
[01:16:41]  The, the, the, what do you call it?
[01:16:44]  Reliability shit.
[01:16:45]  So it's like, we can't be doing all this.
[01:16:47]  We can't have monkeys sipping lean and then the camera turns off.
[01:16:51]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:16:51]  But Red, like, if they want to get into the music video world, which I don't think they give a shit, they got to do better, bro.
[01:16:57]  Because it's like, you can't go past the native ISO is, I think, 800.
[01:17:02]  So if you go past it, it gets noisy.
[01:17:04]  So, night shoots, music videos, you have darker skin tones.
[01:17:08]  Good luck.
[01:17:09]  You know, like it's just not good luck getting a kid.
[01:17:11]  It's not practical.
[01:17:13]  Good luck getting a kid coming up who's you 10 years ago buying a fucking red camera.
[01:17:19]  Yeah.
[01:17:19]  You're not going to get anyone.
[01:17:20]  You're not going to get people who don't want to spend more than two grand on a camera nowadays.
[01:17:23]  I don't care how good.
[01:17:24]  Yeah.
[01:17:24]  You can shoot fucking any of these music videos on a $2,000 Sony camera or Panasonic camera.
[01:17:29]  I mean, it's not about the equipment.
[01:17:30]  Like you said, it's about everything else.
[01:17:33]  Yeah.
[01:17:33]  I mean, there's so many, there's so many.
[01:17:35]  Other things that matter besides like resolution, yeah.
[01:17:38]  Resolution is just some marketing, bro.
[01:17:40]  You know, I mean, like, you gotta know how to use it, yeah.
[01:17:42]  I mean, you go when you go to the movie theater, bro, it's usually like a 2k image, and most Hollywood movies get mastered in 2k because it's too expensive to do 4k, you know.
[01:17:54]  What's the craziest shoot?
[01:17:56]  I was just thinking about the monkeys, I was like, Oh, yeah, is that was that the craziest one, or can you think of one that was crazier?

=== Real Snakes and Confessional Vibes (05:21) ===

[01:18:00]  Like, you're like, I can't believe this is going on.
[01:18:02]  I think for me personally, like, stepped on was like the video.
[01:18:05]  With Pee Wee, because I didn't even know this till like later that night when we wrapped up.
[01:18:10]  But like, he was going through like a legal situation and it was pretty serious at the time.
[01:18:15]  Yeah.
[01:18:16]  And you know, it was everything like we wrapped up, went back to like the studio.
[01:18:23]  His lawyers walking up, like, you know, like super happy, like, you know, hey, everything is like resolved.
[01:18:29]  Like, you know, like you weren't at fault.
[01:18:31]  And that's what they, you know, said.
[01:18:34]  And then she was telling me like what was really going on.
[01:18:36]  And the fact that he was shooting a music video.
[01:18:40]  And doing all these scenes and just the way his demeanor was that day, I was like, man, this guy's like insane.
[01:18:44]  Like, to be able to keep his composure, like, doing this, you know, while he was going through a really serious situation personally, no one knew.
[01:18:55]  Right.
[01:18:56]  Yeah.
[01:18:56]  It made me, like, not just get more respect for him, but just know that, like, he's putting in work.
[01:19:01]  It was crazy.
[01:19:02]  I was like, damn, like, he really did this shit.
[01:19:04]  And you couldn't even tell, like, for face value.
[01:19:06]  I mean, back to, like, the persona shit, right?
[01:19:09]  Like, all the shit people rap about, like, he was really that fucking guy.
[01:19:13]  Right.
[01:19:13]  I got him to like crawl on the ground and like roll over on stairs and all this kind of shit.
[01:19:18]  Because like he respects me and what I, my vision is as much as I do his.
[01:19:24]  Like he believes in that enough to do it.
[01:19:26]  Right.
[01:19:26]  Wearing a $6,000 outfit, you know, $1,500 shoes.
[01:19:30]  Like he really got on the ground for that video.
[01:19:32]  I can't get enough, you know?
[01:19:34]  And crawl down the stairs.
[01:19:35]  Get all that, you know?
[01:19:37]  So it's like, you know, gotta love it, right?
[01:19:41]  Oh, it's what you do, man.
[01:19:42]  Every day, all day.
[01:19:44]  Omar, the director.
[01:19:47]  But look, see, like on his collar, it was like a real snake that Gucci had on their camp in their line of that season.
[01:19:53]  And we had the real snake from that.
[01:19:54]  Oh, really?
[01:19:55]  On his collar.
[01:19:56]  Because he said Gucci on my collar in the verse.
[01:19:59]  You know?
[01:20:00]  Oh, so you get deep with some of these shots.
[01:20:02]  Yeah, I mean, if you like those people that like sit there and like, you know, look at this shit and like, you know, like write it out and find all the hidden meanings and shit, there's so much here.
[01:20:15]  And this is like right here.
[01:20:16]  This is like a little like intermission part where there's some like, Church music in the back.
[01:20:20]  This part's not in the song, right?
[01:20:21]  No, it's not.
[01:20:22]  What do you think of Little Dickie?
[01:20:26]  He was dope.
[01:20:26]  I mean, I haven't heard shit from him in a while, though.
[01:20:29]  But his music video with the Save That Money, I always think of that because you're talking about how much his shoots cost.
[01:20:34]  I haven't seen it, but I remember reading about it.
[01:20:36]  It's like he did it for free or something like that.
[01:20:38]  Yeah, he tried to do it as at least cost as possible, and it actually came out pretty cool.
[01:20:42]  He just likes Little Dickie because they're both Jewish.
[01:20:44]  Yeah.
[01:20:44]  Are you Jewish, bro?
[01:20:45]  Yeah.
[01:20:45]  That's what's up, man.
[01:20:46]  Those pork chops, dude.
[01:20:48]  Yeah.
[01:20:50]  That's cool.
[01:20:51]  I went to business school, man.
[01:20:52]  That's what we do.
[01:20:53]  Did you really?
[01:20:54]  Yeah.
[01:20:54]  I have an MBA.
[01:20:55]  Really?
[01:20:55]  Yeah.
[01:20:55]  I didn't even know that.
[01:20:59]  That's why I can see the value in Omar.
[01:21:01]  That's what I learned in school.
[01:21:02]  That's the smart side of the table.
[01:21:03]  That's what to look for.
[01:21:05]  Look for skills.
[01:21:05]  Look for value.
[01:21:06]  We're not the world.
[01:21:07]  You guys value from the face.
[01:21:08]  We're just the pawns.
[01:21:09]  Yeah.
[01:21:11]  That's dope, though.
[01:21:12]  No, but it's interesting.
[01:21:14]  That's my favorite shot shooting through the screen of the altar.
[01:21:17]  So that wasn't even an altar or a confessional?
[01:21:20]  Confessional.
[01:21:20]  Confessional.
[01:21:21]  It was a 1999 little thing from Home Depot.
[01:21:26]  It's a screen?
[01:21:27]  Yeah, that I made look like a confessional.
[01:21:29]  That was sick, dude.
[01:21:30]  That was like.
[01:21:31]  And that, like, I had no choice because no church would let us do that.
[01:21:35]  Like, that's like the whole scandal shit was going on with the Catholic stuff.
[01:21:38]  Yeah.
[01:21:39]  And they were like, no, like, you cannot go in the confessional and shoot.
[01:21:43]  So I was like, fine, we'll just make something.
[01:21:44]  I saw a thing.
[01:21:45]  That was so sick, dude.
[01:21:46]  There was some music video that was shot in a church and they got in big trouble for letting it happen.
[01:21:50]  Yeah, it's probably this one.
[01:21:51]  Bro, I got a crazy voicemail.
[01:21:54]  It was from, like, nice to, like, aggressive to, like, Death threat.
[01:21:58]  You ever worry about that kind of stuff?
[01:22:00]  Because I know in the rap game, and I'm super not in the rap game.
[01:22:04]  So, in the rap game, there's a lot of people that are like Howard Stern.
[01:22:12]  These guys have people that don't like them or whatever.
[01:22:14]  And then if you're friends with Gucci and they don't like him, they probably won't like you.
[01:22:18]  And then that makes you a target.
[01:22:20]  You know what I mean?
[01:22:21]  No, I've never really thought about it like that.
[01:22:23]  I'm afraid of everything.
[01:22:25]  I'm not Gucci man at the end of the day.
[01:22:28]  But you're his posse.
[01:22:29]  I'm really not.
[01:22:30]  I'm just the director doing the video.
[01:22:33]  Yeah.
[01:22:34]  But when he makes the song called Omar.
[01:22:36]  Pee Wee made that.
[01:22:38]  No, I know, but when the rappers make that, that makes you like you're his boy.
[01:22:41]  I mean, yeah, I mean, I guess with Pee Wee, yeah, that is my boy, but he doesn't have that kind of energy.
[01:22:47]  He's not putting that energy out in the world.
[01:22:48]  He's a musician, so.
[01:22:49]  Yeah.
[01:22:50]  I don't think.
[01:22:51]  I'd be scared.
[01:22:51]  I'd have like an armored car and shit.
[01:22:53]  Yeah, I mean, I don't think at the end of the day, I don't think Omar would be shooting videos with dudes who had a lot of people that wanted to fucking kill them or something.
[01:23:01]  Yeah, or that too, though.
[01:23:02]  I mean, I guess to answer your question, like, I do say no a lot.
[01:23:06]  Not just because it's like dangerous or something, but you have to know, like, what's.
[01:23:10]  Because you have relationships you have to maintain.
[01:23:12]  Yeah, I'm afraid of people all the time.
[01:23:15]  Yeah, you up for videos.
[01:23:17]  Yeah, I'm afraid everybody, dude.

=== Diamond Grills and Rap Tutoring (09:23) ===

[01:23:21]  Yeah, exactly.
[01:23:23]  Which, which also kind of sucks at the same time because it's like if you go to the mall, like a Nordstrom, like they don't care, like where what you do, or it's so much easier, right?
[01:23:33]  Like, you know, yeah.
[01:23:35]  So, but, but I guess in music for some reason, it's like more personal, but yeah, you definitely have to know like one to say no and yeah, and one to say yeah.
[01:23:45]  But it's also a luxury.
[01:23:46]  But if you have it, please do it.
[01:23:50]  Please.
[01:23:51]  Yeah.
[01:23:51]  Have you ever had any situations where you wish you would have said no?
[01:23:56]  In the past, probably, but I don't like to repeat history, so not recently, though.
[01:24:02]  I feel like if someone really can't afford the video, then I don't do it.
[01:24:07]  Or if they're having to like.
[01:24:09]  Because I feel like they're going to expect too much out of it.
[01:24:12]  You ever throw anybody free video?
[01:24:14]  Just because you're like, I know this guy's good, I know he's going to be up and coming.
[01:24:18]  You know, if I throw them a video now, I might, you know, help them out to, you know, like, at this point.
[01:24:24]  Like, if you believe in them, like, if you believe they really got potential, but they might not have money.
[01:24:27]  You don't have to find somebody at this point.
[01:24:28]  I don't, man, because I don't even gamble and shit.
[01:24:31]  I say that as a gamble.
[01:24:32]  Yeah.
[01:24:33]  I don't think it'll ever pay off.
[01:24:34]  I've done videos for people in the past because I just wanted to do it.
[01:24:38]  Yeah.
[01:24:39]  But it wasn't because, like, oh, they might blow up.
[01:24:41]  Yeah.
[01:24:41]  Because you, I don't know.
[01:24:42]  But, I mean, on the flip side of that, if you really want to make, if you're not established and you want to make a name for yourself, you should do as much.
[01:24:48]  Free shit as you can.
[01:24:49]  Oh, this is like, oh, that's a different question.
[01:24:51]  That's a completely different topic.
[01:24:52]  Yeah, obviously.
[01:24:53]  If you feel like that will help you, then you should do it.
[01:24:55]  Right.
[01:24:56]  You know, but the problem is, from what I've been hearing, it doesn't really work out, you know.
[01:25:01]  So you think that from the beginning, you said Yogati was your first major.
[01:25:06]  He was the first one, yeah.
[01:25:08]  Was that like the turning point where it was like, this is where, like, you know, like if you could think back, it was at the turning point where it was like everybody started calling me after I did the Yogati video.
[01:25:16]  That video went viral.
[01:25:18]  So that was it.
[01:25:19]  Before, like, that was the thing.
[01:25:21]  It was a big deal at that time in those days, I think.
[01:25:23]  So, you should take Yogati out to like Waffle House or something.
[01:25:26]  Yeah, man.
[01:25:27]  Yogati, shit.
[01:25:28]  We had plenty of dinners at like Ruth Chris and shit like that, bro.
[01:25:32]  He's the man.
[01:25:33]  Yeah, I guess you got to go to the high class places, right?
[01:25:36]  Extra butter.
[01:25:37]  I've done a lot of his videos.
[01:25:39]  We actually, one of the last ones I did, though, was the one he basically put out right before he signed his first big deal with Epic.
[01:25:47]  Yeah.
[01:25:48]  Really?
[01:25:48]  Yeah.
[01:25:49]  We shot it in Miami, like at my condo, believe it or not.
[01:25:51]  That's hilarious.
[01:25:52]  Yeah, which is pretty cool.
[01:25:53]  That's so sick.
[01:25:56]  I love that you guys just rolling up into Ruth Chris.
[01:25:58]  It's probably like all old people, like trying to be quiet, having like, and then you go up in there with the Yo Gotti.
[01:26:03]  That's hilarious.
[01:26:04]  Yeah.
[01:26:06]  Shout out to Ruth Chris.
[01:26:09]  Shout out to Waffle House.
[01:26:12]  Great.
[01:26:12]  This was an awesome podcast.
[01:26:13]  Two hours, two hours of straight heat.
[01:26:15]  I feel like I got nothing out there into the universe that I wanted to.
[01:26:19]  Really?
[01:26:19]  Well, what else?
[01:26:20]  Get it out.
[01:26:21]  Get it out now.
[01:26:21]  Let's get it out.
[01:26:22]  Here's what they should take away with the video.
[01:26:24]  All marks the best.
[01:26:25]  If you invest in Omar's video, you get a good return.
[01:26:27]  I'm in Tampa right now, though.
[01:26:28]  How far?
[01:26:29]  30 minutes, probably?
[01:26:30]  Yeah, 30 minutes.
[01:26:31]  Half an hour.
[01:26:31]  Let me see if this guy's.
[01:26:34]  Any shout outs, Omar?
[01:26:36]  He's probably got a lot.
[01:26:40]  I'm just thinking, like, if you want to give a shout out.
[01:26:42]  I love this fucking video.
[01:26:43]  Look, I want to give a shout out, but I'm going to do a little cryptic shout out because I think it's cool.
[01:26:47]  Pull up that Step Down video.
[01:26:49]  I notice all your videos, you have, like, colors popping.
[01:26:52]  Yes, because that's what I, you know, I feel like that helps you figure out what we're doing.
[01:26:57]  What about the tag?
[01:26:58]  The Omar.
[01:27:00]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:27:00]  Where is that from?
[01:27:02]  Who is it?
[01:27:04]  I don't know who it is, but I paid someone to do it.
[01:27:07]  Is it the same one you've always used?
[01:27:08]  You never read it?
[01:27:09]  Yeah, same one.
[01:27:10]  You get on Fiverr.
[01:27:12]  Fiverr?
[01:27:14]  No, no, it's actually a producer from Tampa.
[01:27:16]  His name is Elliot the Craftsman.
[01:27:18]  He's the one that I was like, you don't need to tag.
[01:27:20]  I want someone saying my name.
[01:27:22]  But he's the one that put that together, like finding the person, putting that cool echo on there.
[01:27:27]  Like, that was just genius, you know?
[01:27:28]  Do you think girls are like, in order to have a rap video, you need to have girls in it?
[01:27:35]  Or is that just a person?
[01:27:35]  No, I don't, because some of my biggest videos have no girls in them.
[01:27:38]  Yeah.
[01:27:40]  There's no girls that run off on the plug, right?
[01:27:42]  Nope.
[01:27:44]  So, how do you know when to use them or not?
[01:27:47]  Or it just feels right.
[01:27:49]  It's all about the idea for us.
[01:27:51]  At the same time, I don't think you could go wrong with having a girl in your house.
[01:27:54]  Yeah, you could throw a girl in and it won't ruin it.
[01:27:56]  Well, that's such a big component of rap, though.
[01:27:59]  Would you ever consider doing consulting for other directors?
[01:28:02]  Yeah, yeah, I'll do all that shit, bro.
[01:28:05]  Make good money doing that.
[01:28:06]  I really feel like I have a lot to offer these brands, bro.
[01:28:10]  They're so oblivious.
[01:28:11]  But a lot of these brands want to get into the culture, they want to understand it, and it's a lot to go over.
[01:28:15]  They'll pay so much fucking money for it.
[01:28:17]  Yeah, bro.
[01:28:19]  But you have a good grasp on it, you know, so like, and you have the business side of it, like, you know, no disrespect at any time.
[01:28:25]  I'm hoping they catch up, but I don't want it to be a situation where, like, they get hip too late.
[01:28:30]  Yeah.
[01:28:30]  Because that doesn't help me.
[01:28:31]  Like, I want my fly shit now, just like everybody else, you know?
[01:28:34]  Well, like, if you needed, like, this sounds really weird, but like rap tutoring, like your business, Mr. Businessman, you want to get, you know, sell your stuff to the rap game.
[01:28:42]  Yeah.
[01:28:42]  Like, these guys, they're good rappers, but they might not be the best at business.
[01:28:46]  So, like, directors have to do both sides of it to make it happen.
[01:28:49]  Yeah.
[01:28:49]  Do you do any management?
[01:28:50]  Do you manage any artists?
[01:28:53]  I got one artist right now.
[01:28:54]  I don't want to say his name yet, though, because we're not ready to go out there.
[01:28:56]  Yeah.
[01:28:57]  I mean, it goes right along with video.
[01:28:59]  I just feel like it was a situation where it made sense.
[01:29:03]  You know?
[01:29:05]  Just play it, it'll pop up.
[01:29:08]  Damn, his grill is pretty, looks pretty expensive.
[01:29:13]  Oh, his grill?
[01:29:14]  He has a new one now with diamonds in it.
[01:29:17]  Shout out to that person right there, bro.
[01:29:19]  That's like my secret weapon.
[01:29:20]  Shout out to the girl with the blonde hair and the golden pistol.
[01:29:24]  Yeah.
[01:29:24]  I don't know if it's blonde.
[01:29:26]  That might be gray.
[01:29:27]  Daniel, is that gray?
[01:29:29]  Put in the comments who you think it is.
[01:29:32]  Yeah, that right there, man.
[01:29:33]  That's my secret weapon, bro.
[01:29:35]  My secret weapon with a weapon right there.
[01:29:37]  Shout out to her.
[01:29:37]  Yeah.
[01:29:37]  Tell her to be careful.
[01:29:39]  We got Pee Wee hitting back, so you could tell her to introduce yourself.
[01:29:43]  Yeah, we got to introduce Forrest to Pee Wee.
[01:29:44]  Oh, God, this is.
[01:29:45]  Yo.
[01:29:46]  Hey, man.
[01:29:47]  Hey, these people got a question for you, bro.
[01:29:49]  What was my question?
[01:29:51]  I'm going to let you talk to them.
[01:29:53]  Here you go.
[01:29:53]  Hey, make sure the mic can hear him.
[01:29:55]  What's up, dude?
[01:29:56]  How are you doing, man?
[01:29:58]  Look at this.
[01:29:58]  We're doing this podcast here.
[01:30:00]  Look at this.
[01:30:01]  We got microphones.
[01:30:02]  What's up, we?
[01:30:05]  What's up, man?
[01:30:07]  Yeah, we're talking about your boy Omar.
[01:30:08]  We're talking about how legit his videos are for you.
[01:30:13]  How legit Omar makes videos for you.
[01:30:16]  Oh, man, man.
[01:30:17]  It's top shelf, man.
[01:30:17]  Like everything is top shelf.
[01:30:19]  You know what top shelf is on?
[01:30:21]  Yeah, yeah, definitely.
[01:30:22]  It's definitely, and it's way more organic than any other video, man.
[01:30:25]  Yeah.
[01:30:26]  On Earth.
[01:30:27]  Damn, you know, I like looking at you.
[01:30:28]  You're the only person on FaceTime where I like looking at their teeth.
[01:30:37]  Ask him about the Omar song, the song about Omar.
[01:30:40]  What about it?
[01:30:41]  Ask him to say, What's up with the song about Omar?
[01:30:43]  You wrote a song about Omar.
[01:30:44]  What's up with that?
[01:30:47]  State of the art material?
[01:30:51]  I love it.
[01:30:57]  You got any more questions for him?
[01:30:58]  I don't want to take up too much of your time, man.
[01:30:59]  No, I'm good, man.
[01:31:01]  You know, Omar's bad.
[01:31:03]  I know, Omar's man.
[01:31:04]  Look at him, he's chilling right here.
[01:31:05]  Hey, see you soon, bro.
[01:31:08]  All right, Pee Wee.
[01:31:10]  All right, thanks, man.
[01:31:12]  Appreciate it, man.
[01:31:16]  Dude, he's the fucking man, bro.
[01:31:19]  Dude, all I saw the whole time was just straight diamonds.
[01:31:22]  It looked like freaking Zales or something.
[01:31:25]  Bro, I don't think Zales has those diamonds.
[01:31:27]  No, I tell you what, he had a smile on his face the whole time he was talking to me.
[01:31:30]  Bro, that's the real deal right there, bro.
[01:31:32]  Yeah.
[01:31:33]  You know what I mean?
[01:31:35]  I think.
[01:31:35]  I don't think.
[01:31:36]  You met him, so you kind of know what I'm talking about.
[01:31:37]  Yeah.
[01:31:38]  He is.
[01:31:38]  He's the real fucking deal, man.
[01:31:40]  Well, like, look at what, like, freaking, you have just any, like, people, like, listen to these rappers on the radio, and you're just like, oh, let me call Pee Wee real quick.
[01:31:47]  Yeah, like, Omar's my dog.
[01:31:48]  That's just so cool.
[01:31:50]  No, it is, bro.
[01:31:51]  I think it's definitely special.
[01:31:52]  I'm not going to downplay it, but it's cool.
[01:31:55]  It's super cool.
[01:31:55]  But I like what we do together more.
[01:31:57]  Yeah.
[01:31:58]  I feel like.
[01:32:00]  So when you hit it super big and you're a millionaire, what kind of car are you going to buy?
[01:32:04]  How do you know he's not already a millionaire?
[01:32:05]  Car, I love cars, by the way.
[01:32:08]  Just, I've, you know, I've owned a lot of cars already that I love.
[01:32:11]  Like, what was your favorite one?
[01:32:12]  I don't want to put it out there, but, um, like, yeah, I mean, I would love selling, like, a Lambo or something like that.
[01:32:18]  Yeah.
[01:32:18]  That'd be cool.
[01:32:19]  No candy, candy Cadillac or something like that.
[01:32:22]  Nah.
[01:32:23]  Not my style.
[01:32:24]  Yeah.
[01:32:24]  Yeah.
[01:32:25]  The foreign.
[01:32:26]  He fucks with the foreign cars.
[01:32:27]  I saw you, like, all the colors and stuff.
[01:32:29]  I see, like, oh, yeah, yeah.
[01:32:30]  You can get, like, Captain Crunched Cadillacs and stuff.
[01:32:33]  Yeah.
[01:32:33]  Lime green, like, a Ventador, super veloce, you know, ready to go.
[01:32:38]  Danny's got the plug on Lambos.
[01:32:40]  Yeah.
[01:32:40]  Do I?
[01:32:40]  Yeah.
[01:32:41]  With who?
[01:32:41]  That Lambo video.
[01:32:42]  Oh, yeah.
[01:32:43]  Yeah.
[01:32:43]  I do have the plug on Lambos.
[01:32:44]  Mm hmm.