WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:00.600 Welcome. 2 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.399 Thank you for coming on Private Talk. I'm excited to 3 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:04.759 talk to you. I'm scorry do you have you. 4 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:05.200 On our count? 5 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:06.040 Thanks for having me. 6 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.039 You're an entrepreneur, businessman, you've kind of been you know, 7 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:12.919 your business is known as from promoting and things like that. 8 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.800 How has it affected your business with COVID going on? 9 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:22.199 Oh yeah, I mean as far as like a night life. 10 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:24.280 Everything shut down in California. 11 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:26.480 So how do you adjust to something like that? 12 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.039 Since you're the biggest Hollywood promoter, you have all these 13 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:31.000 big parties going on in LA is like. 14 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:33.200 The number one place that's shut down. They don't want 15 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:33.719 to let us. 16 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:35.880 Live shit, I mean, I concurse right. 17 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.320 Yes, it's private talk. We can get as private as 18 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:40.039 you want, baby. 19 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:44.520 Yeah. So for me, I was in a unique position 20 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:49.640 when COVID first hit from some of the other promoters 21 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:52.679 I worked with, I had a lot of cash, so 22 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:56.000 I after I caught COVID, I was sick as hell. 23 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.880 I'm like in March, I was like borderline, like I 24 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.600 was gonna die. I felt like I got I had 25 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.439 a chance to put things back into perspective, and then 26 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:08.079 there was like a glimmer of hope where I thought 27 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:09.840 they was going to open the clubs back up, and 28 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:16.359 they didn't, and then unfortunately the George Floyd thing happened. 29 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:21.120 And I was, you know, a loud voice at the time, 30 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:25.400 you know, putting together marches and white rids with my 31 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:34.040 boy Carver, and I just remembered, like reading a book 32 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:38.879 that doctor Claude Addison wrote just about It's called Paranomics 33 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:44.079 and just about how to really transform black people and 34 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.400 where we are in society. And I just stepped away 35 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:51.400 from like, you know, doing all the posts on my Instagram, 36 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:54.000 and I started to just buy business, you know, buy 37 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.560 back the block. I bought a restaurant, I bought a 38 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:02.040 smoke shop, and a friend into mind gave me the 39 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.120 honor of being able to invest in his cannabis business. 40 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.360 And that's really what kept me, you know, cash ready 41 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:11.560 and being able to sustain throughout this thing. 42 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:12.960 But are they all here locally? 43 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:15.879 In La Everything is in LA And the restaurants called 44 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.960 Chicago's It's on Magnolia right in the heart of like 45 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:20.039 the arts district. 46 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:22.400 So you opened up all these things during COVID. 47 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.319 Well, well, the restaurant not open, but I purchased them. Okay, 48 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.439 So but the smoke Shop is open. I bought it. 49 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:30.360 It was already open. The restaurant actually was too, but 50 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.759 I wanted to shut it down and revamp it. So 51 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:34.840 now we're just going back and forth with the city 52 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:36.639 right now about the best time to open it. 53 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:40.000 So before, like obviously you're an entrepreneur, you know, did 54 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.479 you have these aspirations of being a restaurant owner or 55 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:44.199 smoke shopping or is it something that you just kind 56 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:45.960 of like fit into place with what was going on 57 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:47.159 in the world and society. 58 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.680 Well, the first investment I made was a place called 59 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:53.680 World on Wheels. I did it and me myself Nipsey 60 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:59.759 Hustle bk Rude from Brooklyn, close ties with Diddy. We 61 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:01.479 just I had to do that. That was the thing 62 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:03.560 we wanted to do as black Man and put back 63 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.919 skating in mid city. You know, Los Angeles is like 64 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:11.639 a big skate place. People love to skate. 65 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.280 Here's like a nostalgia thing, like I can on the 66 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:15.680 skates bringing it back. 67 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:20.400 So I already thought in that way, but COVID forced 68 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.240 me to ship scar put my foot on the gas. 69 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:26.840 I had another restaurant to small restaurant called the Fish Stop, 70 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:29.159 which is still open. Right now. So it was something 71 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.240 that I was already doing, so. 72 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:32.800 You knew how to do. Wasn't something you were doing 73 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:33.800 completely from scrap. 74 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:36.159 The smoke shop. Yeah, that's like a whole new thing. 75 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:36.639 I'm learning. 76 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:37.400 Are you a smoker? 77 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.919 I don't smoke. I don't smoke weed or cigarettes and nothing. 78 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.639 So I definitely had to even with the cannabis business, 79 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.639 I had to like learn all these different stress. 80 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:50.039 Great, that's a great business to learn, especially in times 81 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:52.439 like this. You know, it's like that's the one thing 82 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:54.560 that it's like never going to go away, you know, 83 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:55.560 and hard times of coding. 84 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:58.240 Every think people are smoking and drinking like crazy. 85 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:02.159 Yeah, whether you're happy or say, you're gonna smoke and drink, 86 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:02.400 you know. 87 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:08.120 Sure, So how did you actually start in the entertainment 88 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:10.639 night life? You came from Chicago, and how did you 89 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:11.599 get your start in La? 90 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:21.079 I mean no, no, no, So I came to California. 91 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:23.240 I sing and do music and right, so that's how 92 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:28.399 I came to Yeah. So I started like that, like 93 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:30.720 you know, trying to you know, all the dream I'm 94 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.439 gonna go to Hollywood and I'm gonna be the next jay. 95 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:35.279 Z or whatever, and there's not that many people that 96 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:37.120 do the both right right right. 97 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:38.959 So I was one of the first guys doing that, 98 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:44.120 you know, before Drake even became successful with doing it. 99 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.000 And I, uh, that was my thing, but it wasn't 100 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:49.560 making me no money, you know what I'm saying. And 101 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:54.480 I'm a hustler, So I had an opportunity to It's 102 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:56.720 weird because I was like just showing up to this 103 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:00.800 guy's party and bringing girls and not getting paid because 104 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:04.240 I literally didn't have nowhere to live and I would 105 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:06.439 like invite girls to come hang out. I knew if 106 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:10.800 I got the right girl, you know, you know, salty enough, 107 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:12.199 I could go home with her at least I have 108 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.199 a place to sleep for that night and get a 109 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:16.720 shower in and you know, I was living out my car, 110 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:18.319 So that was like the plan I had, like I'm 111 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:20.319 invite twenty girls. One I'm gonna let me go home 112 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:22.519 with him. So I had a lot of dud knights, 113 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:24.079 but you know, most of the time I was able 114 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:28.680 to execute my plan. And then shit, he presented me 115 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.040 the opportunity like, y'all, I pay you to bring girls, like, 116 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:34.079 you know, a lot of girls. I'm like, he was 117 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.879 already a promoter I met him through the guy came 118 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:39.240 out here with hit Maker. He was an artist at 119 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.519 the time, he had a big song out and I 120 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.759 used to kind of like play, you know, management middleman 121 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:46.800 for him and people when they wanted to talk to him. 122 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.079 You know, he's a big celebrity at the time, and 123 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:55.000 I had all these numbers of people, girls, different other celebrities, 124 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.680 promoters who would want to book him to do clubs. 125 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:02.800 I had the roller, so I had already knew this guy, 126 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.199 and like I say, I would just show up and 127 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:08.199 hang out at his table with a bunch of girls, 128 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.199 and he like, yeah, I pay you ten dollars per 129 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:12.639 girl you bring to the club. And that's how I 130 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:14.000 got into doing parties. 131 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:14.959 That's cool. 132 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:16.240 I feel like it's one of those things you kind 133 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.240 of like, it's just you gotta know game. And if 134 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:19.639 you see it in front of you, like you said, 135 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:21.160 if it was because at the time you were living 136 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:22.560 in your car and it was one of twenty was 137 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:24.399 gonna let you in and be whatever that that was 138 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:26.120 your game. And then you're like, Okay, now ten dollars 139 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.120 ahead means this, and now we're gonna equate it to 140 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:31.000 this whole bigger thing. And then like LA is like 141 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:33.839 it's so like people are like it's so big but small. 142 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:36.040 It's like everybody is used the same circles when you know, 143 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:38.279 it's two degrees of separation of like knowing what is 144 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:38.920 all going on. 145 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:42.199 So how was your experience on Love and Hip Hop? 146 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:48.480 It was all right. I think, you know, for where 147 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:50.519 I was in my life at the time, it made sense. 148 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:53.839 I wasn't looking to be on TV or nothing, but 149 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.160 it just kind of happened organically through my relationship with 150 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:00.480 Mona Scott Young. I knew her just from doing parties 151 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.839 and stuff, and she her and Nicki Minaj had this 152 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.759 like a little wine mixed mescatto, this little. 153 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:09.639 Wine I remember when I came out. 154 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.439 Would do little events and have Nicki and Mona would 155 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:14.680 call me to help out with little events and stuff. 156 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.399 And then one Love and Hip Hop came to Hollywood, 157 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:20.160 because it already I think was in Atlanta and New 158 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:23.199 York prior when they came to Hollywood, my name just 159 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.000 kept coming up in the circles with some of the 160 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.680 people they were interviewing about being on there, and Mona's like, oh, 161 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:31.120 you know, I know sincere I'm gonna give him a call, 162 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:32.759 and you know that's how I ended up. 163 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:34.319 So it's one of those things like you said you 164 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:36.319 didn't really want to be on TV, but it's like 165 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:39.120 you're already. 166 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:39.920 I had never thought about it, you know what I'm saying, 167 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.680 Like from that perspective, you know what I mean, Like 168 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:48.439 I came to LA to be a musician, and at 169 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.519 some point I was like, man, fuck this music. I'm 170 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:53.399 tired of like this struggle struggling artists. I just want 171 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:55.759 to make money. I didn't care about being famous and 172 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:58.120 none of that. And the weird thing is that's when 173 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.959 you got a calling, once you're destined with it, just 174 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:04.120 show up for you. And I became like lent as 175 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.160 a fucking promoter, Like I didn't even know that was 176 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.120 a thing until I did it, you know what I'm saying, 177 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:12.240 Like I feel like I'm one of the i'man outside 178 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.720 of like Don King is someone who promoted a box 179 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.000 boxing and shit back in the day. But I'm one 180 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.199 of the first people that made being a promoter like 181 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:22.000 some cool shit, some fly shit. I'm pulling up in 182 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:25.480 rose Resus, made back my cars. I'm showing these guys 183 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:27.920 like you could make money from doing parties if you 184 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:29.879 do it the right way. And I had never really 185 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:32.320 seen anybody do it the way I did it. And 186 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:35.879 you know, I started putting out like a blog series 187 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.600 of parties and celebrities and getting co signs from Rihanna 188 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:42.759 to these people, and I turned, I transformed myself into 189 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:46.000 a celebrity in Hollywood amongst the people that frequent the 190 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.840 night life scene, you know what I mean. So it 191 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:49.679 was a vibe for me. 192 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.320 Do you feel like it's kind of major friendships in 193 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:53.559 La even more tight knit? 194 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:55.320 Or do you feel like that you having the show, 195 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:55.840 I mean. 196 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.080 With with who with like the TV show? Yeah, did 197 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:00.720 it make my friendship more tighten it? 198 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:04.519 Or did you misse friendships because of the show and 199 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:06.480 people wanting to be maybe friends with you that were 200 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:08.000 just trying to get limelight kind of thing or was 201 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:10.279 it just I mean I knew everything that was kind 202 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:12.519 of funny. Sometimes, Yeah, you already know the people. It's 203 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:14.240 not like you, you know, the show made you friends 204 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:16.559 with these people already know the same circles. But it's like, 205 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:18.879 did it help your relationships or make it worse? With 206 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:20.639 being on a show being so televised. 207 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:25.879 I think I managed to uh, maintain a certain level 208 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:29.159 of dignity on the on the show. So now I 209 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:32.240 wouldn't say, I mean it made me more famous obviously, 210 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:34.600 like walking the streets, people want to take pictures and 211 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:39.440 stuff like that. But I wouldn't necessarily say like it 212 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:42.320 had real impact. I mean, maybe girls probably want to 213 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:43.600 fuck me more, you know what I'm saying. 214 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.120 A lot of girls selling in your DM since here. Yeah, 215 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:47.960 I mean now they're getting you up to see where 216 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:49.480 they can stay, and they're sleeping in their. 217 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:53.879 Facts, you know, you know, just I think I think 218 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:57.159 like when I was a kid, you know, people, it's 219 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.639 like something about this guy, I always ready already had 220 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:04.120 that thing whatever that it factor is. So it was like, and. 221 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:05.519 You're saying early on as a kid. 222 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.960 Early on, for sure, people just knew I was different. 223 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.159 Like it's fascinating how that really plays a part, because 224 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:13.720 it's like even though, like you said, that time, you 225 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.639 didn't know that promoting would make you be not necessarily 226 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.360 your thing that makes you who you are, but maybe 227 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:21.799 where people knew who you were, and it's like, you know, 228 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.440 and it just kind of like happens where it's like 229 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:25.279 now your name is in everybody's mouth, they're like, what 230 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:26.799 are you going to do now You're an entrepreneur. 231 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:28.879 Now You're like, it's like you're leveling up every year. 232 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:32.759 I think for me, it just really it was like 233 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.200 people knew something and then when that happened, it's like, 234 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:38.559 all right, now he got to take it to the 235 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:42.080 next level. So I think, you know, for me, the 236 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:45.799 my level of success, I haven't peaked at all, Like 237 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.360 it's I'm like just at the surface right now. So 238 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.080 I'm definitely like I'm still young. I'm thirty two, so 239 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.200 I got a long time. I've been like I've been 240 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.399 lit for ten plus years. 241 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.759 Is there something that's like kind of like teetering around 242 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.679 or like that you want to do that you can see, 243 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:04.879 like what's your next thing going on? Like you have 244 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.240 the restaurants, you have the smoke shop, you have cannabis, 245 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:09.360 but those don't really seem like your passion. It seems 246 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:10.639 like more just investig. 247 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:11.600 Those business, you know what I mean. 248 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.679 So it's like, is there something that you have always 249 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:16.360 wanted to do that you probably just haven't. 250 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.759 Well, obviously music, right, I do that too, right, I 251 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:21.240 put out music at a rate the pace that I 252 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:24.519 want to and I'm not really necessarily trying to be Drake, 253 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.039 you know, but I'm passionate about that. I'm passionate about 254 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.039 entertainment as a whole. So even like during COVID, I 255 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:34.960 wrote two scripts or two TV shows in one movie, 256 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:39.720 like completed them. I'm talking about taught myself literally before 257 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:41.320 I had never done it before. I just had these 258 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:44.519 ideas in my head, you know. So I wrote out 259 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:48.240 like one Made in Hollywood is about me. You know. 260 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.039 Start off, I'm like living in my car, and then 261 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.759 I become this promoter. Is like comedy, like dramedy, like 262 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:57.559 a black Entourage type show. And then I kind of 263 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:01.759 like compiled just stories from girls that I would you know, 264 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:04.440 a lot of girls they get into this life and 265 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:08.799 doing prostitution or porn or whatever it is, and I 266 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:11.559 wrote a TV show about It's a one girl, but 267 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:15.639 it's multiple girls stories in this one girl and she 268 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.240 likes you know, grows up in the Bay Area during 269 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:21.000 the recession, and she has to figure out a way 270 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:25.759 to make money. So she starts she starts off doing prostitution, 271 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.879 but then she goes to porn, and then she's like 272 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.480 back to stripping, and then she ends up being a pimp. 273 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.000 Herself in Vegas and making all this money and like 274 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.759 learning how to play poker and like just a crazy thing. 275 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:39.799 So yeah, man, you know. 276 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:41.840 Just AT's been picked up? 277 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:45.039 Nah, I haven't even so I'm probably going more than 278 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:48.159 likely funded myself. So I haven't really been looking for 279 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:50.600 like a showers, like a network or something to pick 280 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:52.960 it up. I'm just interested in directing it. 281 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.559 And that's I mean, it seems like an interesting concept, 282 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:57.039 you know that set the least, it's one of those 283 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.480 things that people want to know about, not only them 284 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.799 night life, but like the adult entertainment of anything and 285 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:04.559 what you know, what moves and what ticks and what 286 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.799 happens if it's the evolution of all these stories being 287 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:07.639 together and happening. 288 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.039 So I just think a lot of the stories are 289 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:14.480 told wrong, you know what I'm saying, Like especially when 290 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.320 it comes to like sex workers too, or even like 291 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.120 the aspect of like whenever I see like a pimp movie, 292 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:25.679 it's like this majestic guy who's able to trick these 293 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:30.600 women into and it's like, nah, it's coming, but it's 294 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:32.639 like it's women out here that they do. They want 295 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:34.519 to do their own thing too. It ain't about they 296 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:36.679 just want to get some money, and I think it's they. 297 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:38.879 Just don't know how so it's like they like need 298 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:41.840 that person or nah nah nah no. 299 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:47.159 So so I don't think it's so my show in particular, 300 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:49.399 not about a guy. You know what I'm saying. I 301 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.600 think the girl thinks she needs a guy, but ultimately 302 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:55.120 she don't, and that's how she ends up becoming very 303 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:57.120 successful on her own without a guy, you know what 304 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:01.399 I'm saying. And I you know, I don't want because 305 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.799 women have the right to choose what they want to 306 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.600 do too. So it's more for me, like she's empowered 307 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:09.600 to do this or she feels as if she is right, 308 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:14.360 and it's more that than like, uh, you know, her 309 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:16.480 need even needing to do it, because at some point 310 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.039 she becomes very successful and financially and she like, nah, 311 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.200 it's just what I do. This is just what I do. 312 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:24.639 Well, if you ever need any notes, you know, I'm oh, yeah, 313 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:26.200 I'm in my business. 314 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:26.519 You know. 315 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.960 I know it's like the living and life and somewhat 316 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:32.159 level of what it is because it's like I I 317 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:34.879 didn't it wasn't empowered by the money. I was empowered 318 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.000 by what it gave me, and I didn't know what 319 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.519 that was at the time, but it was my sexuality 320 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:42.159 and my sensuality of who I was becoming as a woman. 321 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:43.919 I was twenty one when I first started, so it 322 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.360 was like you didn't like I was young, dumb and 323 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:48.279 full of come, but I didn't really know what that 324 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:50.840 really was aspiring to be and what that was going 325 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:52.799 to become. So it's like for me, it's always treated 326 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.919 as a business, and I always like it was just 327 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:56.799 something that I enjoyed doing. 328 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:58.399 Are you really from Texas? 329 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.200 I am from the San Antonio area, And. 330 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:03.960 Did you like have a traditional upbringing or I did? 331 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:05.919 I mean yeah, for the most part, my mom and 332 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:07.159 dad were together. 333 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:08.720 Until I was at the age of nine, and then 334 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:12.039 they got divorced and remarried. But for the most part, yeah, 335 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:14.799 I mean there was nothing traumatic what that went on. 336 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:16.799 I was, you know, I was my military family. I 337 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:19.039 was raised. It was middle class, so it was raised 338 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:19.519 with everything. 339 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:22.080 You just made a decision, like I made a decision. 340 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:25.240 I was always a sexual person, and so for me, 341 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:27.799 sex is how I expressed myself and so for me, 342 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:29.799 I wanted to do it in a controlled environment that 343 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.519 it was safe for me to express myself. How I 344 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.279 wanted to. And again, like I'm saying, when I did it, 345 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.440 and the first I didn't know what me wanting to 346 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:38.679 express myself was, but I knew that there was a 347 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:41.759 higher meaning to what that all became. And that's why Alexis, 348 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:44.919 Texas kind of grew into what I am now. 349 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.639 But that's see, that's the story, right, because I think 350 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:52.320 the problem is in anything in society, right, it's the 351 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:57.440 narratives that's created around something. So from the beginning of 352 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:00.120 like sex work, there's this dark. 353 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:02.879 There's a stigma of yea, I must have been molested 354 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.120 or someone's take advantage of me, someone told me something. 355 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:08.799 That's not at all, and it's a lot of women 356 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:10.240 that's not their story facts. 357 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.159 And that's why I think what your concept that you 358 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:14.120 have is really good. And like the following thing is 359 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.679 because everyone wants to like. What I don't like is 360 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:18.720 the portrayal of and exactly why I do my show 361 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:20.480 is like people think. 362 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.440 I'm only one lane, I'm only this. 363 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.399 That or whatever, or they can have their own conception 364 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:25.879 about me about a lot of things, but for me, 365 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:29.279 this is about a way to show the dimensions. 366 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:30.480 To what it really is. 367 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:33.519 And I feel like people give porn the ones that 368 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:35.799 I've done, like documentaries or these series and all these 369 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:37.720 things have been in a really negative way when I 370 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:40.799 never had that issue for myself personally, not saying that 371 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:42.759 no one ever has, and not saying that these people 372 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:46.559 are lying, but they over embellish of certain situations that. 373 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.840 Make it just look awful, and you know what I mean. 374 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:51.120 And even I was seeing some kind of stupid meme 375 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:53.600 like that someone put on this TikTok thing about why 376 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:55.679 porn ruins relationships this on the other and I'm like, 377 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:58.279 that's your opinion, but that doesn't mean that that makes 378 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:00.480 it fact and factual for everyone. You can and try 379 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:02.120 to tell everyone that it is, but that doesn't mean 380 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:04.279 it's still right. So I like the fact that the 381 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:07.799 angle of like this is more empowering because that's what 382 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:09.960 it's done for me in my life. It's only empowered 383 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:13.000 me more to open more doors and business adventures that 384 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:14.440 I would never have been able. 385 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:15.559 To have the capacity to do. 386 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.200 Maybe maybe or not, but like without having my name 387 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:20.720 and my brand of words at one and now. 388 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:23.119 You could use that name and brand and do anything 389 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.839 you want to sell clothes, you want to sell makeup, 390 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.160 you could do that shit. And I and you know, 391 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.279 I'm not here to try to be an advocate for 392 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:35.640 women to use their bodies to make money by any means, 393 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:39.160 but there is a degree of empowerment that comes with that. 394 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.160 And I think, you know, the same way we want 395 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:44.720 women to have a right of choice to have a child, 396 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:47.160 they should be able to use their body to make 397 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:48.079 money if they want to. 398 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:50.799 I feel like, and that's why for me, also with 399 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:52.920 the hostigma of it, it's okay for a man to 400 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:54.880 do it, but it's not okay for a woman to 401 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:55.200