Da'Vinchi
Appearances
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Absolutely. You got to protect your life because it's like, when a lot of things start revolving around you, you know, you're retiring your parents by the grace of God, you're taking care of so many people. Like so many people revolve around you. It's like, if your life were to stop, it's like, there's so many other lives that would be affected. So you can't move normal anymore.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And sometimes it's like when people have not involved in their thinking and they're around you and you're trying to tell them, it's like, bro, I can't just be hanging on a quarter. It's like shooting the shits and trying to talk to shorties. Like, but I, Can't do that. Like going to clubs and like talking to a girl like that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
First of all, if she belong to that man, he shoot me like I've been in like two shootouts already in that manner by mistake.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
By mistake. And I had none. And now I'm not doing nothing to get in trouble no more. But it's like sometimes. So it's like there's certain people I'm like, bro, like I'm not I'm not associating myself with you. And it's and it's tough because then people say, you know, you change or you Hollywood is just like it's like, bro, I can't even begin to explain to them because they don't have knowledge.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And the prophet Hosea in the Bible, chapter 4, verse 6, he said to the people of Jerusalem, he was like, my people perish for their lack of knowledge. So it's like, it's tough because it's just like when you're trying to explain something to someone who really don't have the knowledge, they're ignorant by definition. Like that's why in the Bible a lot when Jesus is talking to the Father, he's like,
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Father, forgive them, for they don't know. They're ignorant, right? And it's like, so sometimes when you're trying to explain to someone, you're like, bro, dog, you can't even understand. And it's the saddest thing, because it's like, you look crazy. And I'm like, bro, like, and this is really for your own good, too.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
But it's like, I think one of the hardest things you can go through is like, you're talking to someone that you love, and you almost love them more than they love themselves. And you're trying to really help them. but they really can't understand. It's like me telling my dog, like, yo, you got to pay the mortgage for the next 12 months. I don't care.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And the dog is like, woof. Like, what are you talking about? And that's how it is talking to people sometimes. And I just got to understand that. And I just got to love them from a distance. But it pains you. But to them, it's like, oh, you're just brand new. It sucks, man. It sucks.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I think a lot of people are just a little, like, they get coddled a little longer. But the way we grew up, it's like we became men, like, kind of quicker and women earlier.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Unfortunately, I didn't have that foundation growing up. I didn't understand the family value. I didn't understand why it was important. I was just. I was just. In a curse, you know what I'm saying?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And it's not until like I was getting in trouble, then I like moved to my father in Florida and I started having different influences around me and I started hanging out with families that, you know, were families. And I'm like, bro, this is cool. Like, I remember one of the, this is the craziest, like, this is such a sad moment. When I was in Florida, I'm going to high school.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I'm at, like, one of my friends' house. And they was like, oh, we're going to watch a movie. And I'm like, yo, y'all watching a movie as a family? And I'm like, yeah. And I'm like, and I'm like, bro, this is crazy. And then, like, they were like, and they would call me Abe. My first name is Abraham. My middle name is DaVinci. First name is Abraham. And so Abe is the nickname of Abraham, obviously.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
So they would call me. One of the moms was like, yo, Abe, can you, uh, go grab something in the pantry. And I was like, what the fuck is a pantry? Like that's how like, and I'm like, and then I was like, and I really, and I was just like, and I'm like, huh? And she was like, pantry. And I was like, damn. And I'm like, I really don't know. She was like, just grab the chips.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I'm like, damn, like what'd you, but like, no, but all jokes aside, like, no, no, no, all jokes aside, but I was just like seeing everything. I'm like, bro, they got like family thing and like kitchens really organized. Like, I ain't have none of that. So I had to really, like, learn that outside of my family. And don't get me wrong. My parents did the best they knew how.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Because if they knew more, they would have done better because their lives would have been easier. And a lot of times, like, our parents, they were so focused on just meeting the basic needs of our survival. They never focused on emotional needs or psychological needs. They never focused on any of that. They just, to them, and they're not from this country. They're from a third world country.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I was like, bro, you got... a bed, you got air, open the window, and you got water. You know what I'm saying? And they're like, bro, you're good. You don't need nothing. So whenever I'm like, Dad, I'm sad or whatever, it's like, I'll be in. And I'll be in. He's like, go take a shower. He's like, go take a shower.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Wow. So I never really like, but that's the beauty about books, though, because there's really successful people in this world. that they leave a blueprint behind in a book, man. And I remember when I read, there was like, this guy was like, if you want to hide something from a black man, put it in a book. And I was like, dang.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And I really just read my way into this thinking, but like, based off my environment, I need only, it's the grace of God. It's the grace of God. Yeah.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I think I've been studying a lot of sociology and a lot of psychology. I got a degree in criminal justice, so you got to study criminal behavior, the mind, certain things. And I furthered those studies and started studying sociology and anthropology. And I realized why some people want to take that out of school. I realized why, because the social sciences are so important.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And when you realize why we're disenfranchised, it's no joke. I mean, you have doctors physicians and people just in high positions that was Preaching this social Darwinism that black people are biologically inferior to white people Black people, pain tolerance is higher. Black people don't feel, like, black people aren't full human. So it's that system that built this country.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
It was definitely the politics. Like, it's, like, growing up, I loved music, right? I was, like, the Chris Browns, the Trey Shaws, the Ushers, like, everyone, right? I was like, yo, this is, like, what I want to be. And all the great rappers, the Hoves, 50, I love 50. I know his verses better than him. I know 50 songs way better than him. He don't even know.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And this country's only like 250 years old. Like, this country is young as hell. But we've been living in that way of thinking for so long that we are a bi, and that's fresh. Like, two humans ago, we was really in shackles. Like, people don't think about that. And it's like, when you realize that, you're like, yo, nah, I gotta like,
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I got to go back to my people and talk to them because the way I made it out, I didn't make it out by slinging dope at being a gangster. I had to start. I thought my way out of this, you know what I'm saying? And and I appreciate that. Thank you. And you start realizing that it's like sometimes the media, for some strange reason, they love to show us in these lights.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
That's actually leading to our detriment. Like it's like if you look at the content that we black and brown people consume, at the rate that we consume it, it's cancerous, bro. And it's just like, and we're not even deconstructing and fixing the problems of why we're in it. And we're just consuming this. So we're just building a generation to just ignorant people on top of ignorant.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
That's why there's some black people around the world. I didn't even want to say black, because that's not even something we would call ourselves. Some people of African descent around the world they don't even want to associate themselves with African-Americans. Because they just understand how this society is being curated to just keep them like this.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
That's why growing up, my parents always used to say, you're not Black American. That's not you. We the same. You know what I'm saying? We was just a little south from them, but it's like, we was doing the same thing they were doing.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
So that's why I feel this moral obligation is like, as I'm rising, I feel the need to break certain stigmas down to men, to my fellow men and my brothers and sisters, because we weren't given this access, this education to this knowledge. And when we start realizing the things that we go through, it's not crazy. You know what I'm saying? Like this is normal.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And we only show this side. So I'm like, you know, I need to, like, let these people know, like, bro, we're artists. Like, I'm talking painters. We're all this stuff. But all our work has been stolen and stripped and they just make us think in this one way. And I'm like, bro, you're so brilliant. I'll be going to school. I'll be talking to some smart ass kids.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And then they just, but they're like, no, I want to play basketball. I want to play football. I want to be an actor. I want to be a rapper. But it's just like, you have a hundred percent of a population going after something that only less than .0001 could achieve. That's a setup. You know what I'm saying?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
But like, but if you preaching the other stuff, having a family, becoming a doctor, normalized, like in my neighborhood, bro, I'm the only one that's really impressive. Everyone else is just regular. You know what I'm saying? And they're not black. You know what I'm saying? But if it's another black person, this man's probably won two Super Bowl rings He's doing this or, you know what I'm saying?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
But it's like, we just got to normalize being in these positions. But I think when you start, and we could use mental health to really understand that, dissect our brain, learn how it work and why we're being stared this direction, just only be consumers. And then right there, we could just start thinking different. And I feel like we could become great because black people, man, we special.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
That's why it takes a nation to do this to us. Yes. We're really special. When we put our head together, we do things that, People just, I could go on and on. I'm going to shut up, but we're real special.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
But nah, like I was really inspired by it. But then when you get there and it's not a figment of your imagination no more, you're like, nah, like they really want like a certain thing there. And I was just like, all right, I don't know. And I didn't know enough about gospel singers or gospel rappers to be like, oh, maybe I'm going to take that route.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Um, I feel like they gotta have God first. You gotta have God. And you gotta believe in God the way I believe in God. Like, it's rooted from the Bible. Because a lot of y'all, the universe and da-da-da-da, it's like, bro, y'all sending letters with no names and no address on it, and I don't know who we're going to. And the devil is strong. Y'all be underestimating Satan. That dude is smart.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
He know the Bible and everything way better than us. So some of y'all be like, oh, the universe. And Satan is like, all right, you want this? Say it again. You said two. And that's how it works. So I think if we're both rooted from God, like being Jehovah, Yahweh, and Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Then it's like, then that's number one.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Because as long as we don't have philosophical differences, we can build a union. But it's like a house divided can't stand. So it's like, what am I doing? Like, I'm not gonna look at you. If you believe in something else, stay your ass over there. But two, she gotta be educated. She gotta be educated, you know what I'm saying?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I think, and the dopest thing about women, you guys are so beautiful and powerful and really smart. God gave us brute force, right? We could pick y'all little ass up and be like, come here, and then do whatever. But God gave y'all this to where y'all could pick us up with y'all words.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Which is like, you know, which is different, because when a man, when we fall, Sometimes we try not to let no one else know, and we try to hold that in, but having a woman be able to articulate the right words to let me just start expressing myself, open myself, and she's carrying me and lifting me in that way, and she's really that support.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
That's why, by the way, I do believe if a woman is with a rich man and they divorce, she deserve half. Because what a woman does, honestly, if you're a real woman though, some of y'all going, yeah, I know. But if you're a real woman and you doing like real woman stuff, absolutely. Because the suffering you guys help us alleviate, there's no number that could be put on that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
You know what I'm saying? And that's why the unity between a man and woman is so destroyed in this country and family, because there's a reason for that. It's like, you have a family situation, you become very powerful. Very powerful. And then I would say, So spiritual in the same way, believe in God, educated, and just she cares about health, like physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Like she's a healthy person. Mm-hmm. You know what I'm saying? Like we're normalizing a lot of sick things that it's like, bro, this is not healthy. You know what I'm saying? So I just want us to consume things to where we could reap the fruits of the seeds that we plant. You know what I'm saying? And that's what I want. I don't really care about nothing. I don't care about your following.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
So I was just like, you know what, I'm cool off this. It's like sometimes they just really want some real killers, people that's just killing left and right. Like, that ain't me. And it's like, bro, I'm like, bro, like I've done some bad stuff. I got arrested when I was 13 and stuff, but I never once thought about killing someone. So I'm like, bro.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I don't care what you do. I don't care how much money you make. God will figure that out for us.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Thank you so much.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me. And thank you guys for welcoming me like this. You're so welcome. Thank you. This is amazing. Yeah, there's BMF. Well, I can't.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
It's going to come out. Season four is going to come out. Despite what's going on, season four is going to come out. I can't tell you when. And then you've got some movies and other stuff. And I've been producing and working on my own stuff. So there's definitely some stuff coming out. Then I'm going to do a comedy show probably, like a tour in probably June.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And another mental health tour. So, yeah, yeah. If y'all follow me, I'll definitely have some good stuff for y'all. I appreciate y'all.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
It was dealing in stolen property. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it was stupid. But anyway, yeah, but when I realized certain things, I'm like, bro, I can't. be preaching this message, bro. Like, it's like, I made it out of my situation because I stopped doing certain things. So I'm like, for me to then do this, I'm like, bro, that's, I'm lying. You know what I'm saying?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And I feel like God is, I'm gonna have to answer to God and I can't sleep well at night.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Broadway was hard. Broadway was really hard, I ain't gonna lie. Like, it was like, It was great because it teaches you something that film and TV can't teach you. Film and TV, there's a bunch of cut in and then it's like director cut, give you note, throw something new out. You get so many chances to redo it.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
But in Broadway, once you live and you front of a crowd like this, it's like, bro, I gotta go. And when you make a mistake, it's like, you better hope your partner just like wing it with you. Like there was moments I was just winging it and everyone's like, oh, that was so good. I'm like, you don't even know. I fucked this up. Like, I messed this all up. But it was great.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Acting, TV, and film is great because, I mean, it pays the bills.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
You know? But Broadway, it's like when you're doing Broadway, it's more of a craft thing. I mean, I don't know what the producers make on it, but as an actor, it's work. It's work. It's work.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
But it was great. I learned so much. And shout out to Keenan Scott. and the writers, the directors, like everyone, like I learned, I think that was the biggest class for me in my career.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
You know, that's a great question. I I feel like as an artist, you always want to push yourself. And for me, stand up is like it's like going skydiving. You know, it's like what is going to happen? If I go on stage and I just talk shit. Wait, wait, can I? I'm sorry.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Okay, okay, okay. I'm going to fix my language. I'm sorry. Forgive me, Mom, if you want to. But nah, it's like, I was like, yo, what if it's like the conversation that me and my boys be having?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
just like you just have it here and then the thing is it's like I've been doing mental health tours as well so I was like if I could infuse a little bit of that and make an educational just a little funny like what could happen and I was like even if I got booed it's like you're gonna leave with a message like because I'm it's not just like like stupid little jokes and me making fun of people it's like you really listen to you like oh no that kind of makes sense yeah I love that now are you planning on doing a tour for your comedy as well
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Yeah, last year I'd hit 10 cities up because we was just like, we didn't make an official tour. We was just gone. We was like, what can we do? And like, we're selling out here, selling out there. We're like, okay, okay.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's because of like All-American or BMF. You know what I'm saying? It's not because like people are respecting me as a real comedian.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. But I think over time that I'm going to get that respect as a comedian if I keep pursuing it. But I definitely think this summer I might do a tour.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Appreciate that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Yeah, it's been bad. It's crazy because I got over probably like 1,000 no's, and I only got like eight yeses. Did y'all hear that? Yeah, and the three of the eight yeses is All-American, BMF. and, like, another movie, and Grown-ish that, like, started making me, like, famous. Right. You know what I'm saying? But it's... Why are they laughing?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Like... Nah, this... But, nah, it was... It's tough. I mean, this is one of the few businesses in the world that you're constantly being scrutinized for how you look, your size. Calm down. Like, you're constantly being scrutinized. So it plays with your head, man. And a lot of times, like, I remember there was this producer. He was talking to me.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
He was like, you got to remember, this is the entertainment business, not the entertainment arts. You know what I'm saying? So, like, when he told me that, I was like, oh, I stopped taking things personal. Because it's like, like, for instance, like, I've went out for Haitian characters before. I'm Haitian. Both parents Haitian. I speak the language fluently. English ain't even my first language.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I speak French and Creole.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
But nah, but it's like, it's crazy though because I would go out for Haitian characters and they call in my team like, he doesn't look Haitian. You know what I'm saying? They want to make everyone look a certain way that, you know, so they're telling a narrative for us and it's like,
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
it's offensive you know what I'm saying to me so it's like there's a lot of moments to where you know I got a love-hate relationship with this business but that's why I try to invest and set myself up financially completely outside the business just so if everything goes south it's like my house ain't going nowhere my other house ain't going nowhere you know what I'm saying so it's like yeah so yeah that's so good speaking of finances and financial literacy I know
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I'm feeling great. I'm feeling great. How y'all feeling? Wow, this is a great crowd. It's a beautiful crowd.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
No, no, it's sick. It's like you think student loans are bad. It's like if you get a bill that you got to pay, pay Uncle Sam a million dollars? Y'all don't got enough? How am I contributing to this? It's sick. I remember the first time, I remember I was talking to my CPA and I was just shocked. I was like, no, this doesn't make sense.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I really did not understand that they were asking my little ass for this much money. I'm like, bro, y'all good. Y'all good. I was mad as hell. I was like, can I just do a payment plan? Honestly, but it's just like, no. You saw what happened to Chris Tucker. I was like, yeah, I'll pay this shit.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Oh, that's a good one. I think... Three years ago, I dealt with like, it's, everything in life has a side effect, right? It's like, you fly in an airplane, like the coolest thing about inventions, human beings, we're so smart, we're not inspiration from God, but there's always a side effect, right? So like, if you fly in an airplane, there's radiation, you know?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
If you take a car somewhere, you run the risk of XYZ and what it's doing to the planet, but it's like, it'll cut time down, you know? Instead of walking to California, it's gonna take you three months, You'll do it in a couple of hours, but it's like, it's a side effect. Being on screen, the cancer of that is fame. Like fame is not what it's all cracked out to be.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Like when shorties be online, like my man, my man, my man. Y'all dead ass. Like when y'all see us out and like we with our ladies, our significant other and whatever, and we like, y'all really on that type of time. And I'm just like, what?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
give you the he's saying y'all the loo loo loo and i was just like i'm like what have i done to make y'all feel that this is okay but because when you're an artist you're in such a unique experience a position because you allow people to feel this emotional connection so their brain is like undergoing neuroplasticity while looking at your face vocabulary right so it's like it's reshaping it so like you're if you're learning something watching an artist
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
It's like your brain is literally designing itself, right? It's malleable. It's like Play-Doh. So it's like, so you guys associate those nostalgic moments with us and we'll just be, I'll be in a grocery store just chilling and someone's like, They just run up to you and they're like, what are you doing here? I'm like, I got to eat, too. And I'm just like, what are you doing here this close?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Like, it's like this is crazy. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, this is not normal. But they feel so like involved in and like I've been followed before. And it's like and it's like, don't get me wrong, I love The fans aren't. I've never in my life thought I would ever be in a position to where somebody is saying my resume and then like, you know, everyone start clapping.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Like, it's a great position to be in. Don't get me wrong. But there is a side that comes with it that sometimes it's like, bro, it's a lot of pressure, you know, just even simple things like. If I wear this outfit out and I take a picture, can't wear it again.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
We be spending too much money on our clothes. I can't wear it again. Like, it's like, yeah. Or if I'm caught seeing, like, if me and you was having lunch and we chilling, we having a good conversation, I just touch your hand like, girl, like, that was so good. Like, ooh. Like, ooh, they go together. Picture. Go together. Now I got to answer questions.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I'm like, god damn, you being a gentleman, you holding someone's hands and helping them get, you know what I'm saying? It's like. It's like everything you do or say is gonna be used against you.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Right, right. But it's beautiful. I'm grateful for it. And who much is given, much is required, you know? I'm not complaining, I'm just letting y'all know what we go through sometimes, and sometimes we're just like, oh, wow, you know? Sometimes I'll be in a serious conversation. I'm talking to my mom about something, I'm like, no, mom, what do you mean we can't da-da-da-da-da?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
I mean, growing up in... Do we got any Brooklyn in the house? Brooklyn? That's what's up. That's what's up. What up? What up? Nah. Um... The dopest part about growing up in Brooklyn in a fast city like that and just up north in areas with trains and buses and all that stuff, you grow up fast. Or I wouldn't even say fast. I think you grow up at the rate that you were supposed to grow up at.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
And someone's like, I'm like, yo, hold on, hold on, please, hold on, hold on. And they're just like, no, please, can I just get it? And I'm like, yeah, just wait. And they're like, but it's my birthday. I'm like, of course, it's everyone's birthday.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
KIPS LIVE Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code w/ Da'Vinchi
Like, every day is someone's birthday, and they're making you feel bad, and you're just like, no, no, no, and I'm like, oh, man.