- Yeah, hanging out here with.
- Wassup peeps?
- With Kyle on the VMAs red carpet.
Rocking out because that's all we do here in the carpet.
You gotta dance out.
- That's what you gotta do on the carpet.
You gotta come to the carpet in carpet mood.
You know what I mean?
Even if your outfit looks awesome,
if your attitude doesn't look awesome,
what's the point in coming?
You feel me?
Just go and look good and take pictures somewhere.
- Are you a fan of going up to random people?
Like going up to them and just start dancing with them
on the red carpet?
Do you do that?
- You know what, nah,
'cause I feel like I might get beat up.
There's security guards here,
and who knows.
You never know who you're dancing behind.
You turn around, and it's Beyonce,
and then you're getting beat up.
- But you dance with Beyonce on the red carpet, though.
- That would be epic.
But then there's the other scenario
where Jay-Z turns around and is like,
yo, what you doing?
And then the security guard body slams me.
And that wouldn't be dope.
- You're a smart man, Kyle,
(laughs)
- Thank you, thank you.
- So I wanna talk to you about your Netflix movie,
The After Party, that comes out on Friday.
So exciting.
What are you most looking forward to?
Kind of talk about it.
- You know what?
For the most part, I was so nervous
about shooting my first movie
that after, I was just so nervous if, like,
you know, how it was gonna be received.
And then after doing a couple screenings
and showing it to people that I love
and that I'm fans of,
and they all loved it.
Now I'm just, I can't wait for it to come out.
I wish I could drop it now,
you know what I mean?
For real.
Yeah, yeah, I'm hella excited for it.
It was my first movie ever.
Thank you to Ian Edelman for casting me.
Thank you to Q from Worldstar for making it possible.
And so many other people.
Yeah, it's a hip hip comedy called The After Party
starring me, Harry Holzer, Shelley Hennig.
Blair Underwood plays my dad.
Jordan Rock is in it.
DJ Khaled's in it,
Wiz Khalifa's in it,
Teyana Taylor's in it.
It's insane, it's insane,
And if you love laughs,
if you love hip hop,
and you love a story,
a true story about chasing your dreams,
I think you're gonna love this movie.
- Do you think this is opening the door up
to other acting opportunities for you?
Do you wanna keep acting?
- Oh, definitely,
Nah, yo, that's what I'm saying.
At first, I was hella shook, right?
After I watched the movie for the first time,
when I left, I immediately wanted to shoot another movie.
That's all I could think about.
Now that I've done it,
I just wanna get better at it and,
yeah, do more, do different films.
Maybe be in a horror.
I don't know.
Maybe get chased by a monster.
I'm very open to the world of acting now.
- Who's an actor that you look up to,
that you feel like you kind of maybe aspire
to be like one day?
- Man, my biggest influences
or the people I wanna be like as an actor.
I would say Will Smith, number one,
Robert Downey Jr.
Denzel Washington.
I mean, so many people.
Leonardo DiCaprio is incredible.
Everybody.
Johnny Depp is epic.
The Pirates of the Caribbean is like my favorite movie.
- It's so funny--
Gangs in New York, I love that.
Daniel Day Lewis.
- It's so funny thinking about you being on set
with all these big rappers
like DJ Khaled, Wiz Khalifa.
And then, you guys are rappers first.
- Yeah.
- But then you're on the set of this movie.
What was that feeling like for you guys?
Did you talk music at all and stuff?
- You know what, nah, definitely.
That's one thing we know about,
so we're talking music.
We're all kind of there like,
yeah, this is weird being in a movie for the first time.
And they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think we were all kind of out out of our element
a little bit until we really got to work with the cast
and got to work with the director.
And there's such a huge team involved
with making a movie
that it really feels like,
it feels like a big football team.
And as long as you're a part of a good team,
you're gonna make a great film.
That's the way I see it.
So they all taught me about it.
And I mean, I studied,
I worked hard at it.
I think all the rappers did a great job.
Teyana Taylor is phenomenal in the movie.
I don't know how many films she's done before,
but it seems like she's done a mill,
you would've thought she's won an Oscar before.
You know what I mean?
That's how incredible she is in the film.
So I think it came very natural to all of us
because it was such an awesome environment.
- I feel like DJ Khaled,
he's always probably recruiting people
to be on his songs because he's always like,
all about the super, super group song.
So did you guys have conversations on set
about maybe all working together?
- You know what, I was talking to DJ Khaled,
and he was just giving us advice
on you know, not even necessarily music advice.
Just life advice.
It just really,
he just kept telling us about working hard,
and basically just being the best.
As cliche as that sounds,
DJ Khaled is very inspiring
when telling you that not only is he the best,
but you can be the best as well.
You feel me?
So shouts out to DJ Khaled for that.
- Did Asaad come on set at all?
- Nah, I didn't see Asaad.
I would've gave Asaad a hug.
I would've been like, "Bruh, you're such a mogul already.
"I wanna be like you, and you're like a toddler".
- He has more Instagram followers than me,
he probably makes more money than I do.
- Definitely.
He is closing off so many more deals than me.
Asaad has already been in so many more
big corporate CEO meetings, it's crazy.
- Awesome, Kyle, well let's end this interview
by dancing it out, right?
- All right, let's get it.
Hey.
- And we're out.
Billboard.
- We're hard.
Whoa-ho.
Whew.
Eh, hit it.
Oh, for sure, for sure.
There you go.
- Thank you so much.
It's so good to see.