Before FlightReacts would inspire a Steph Curry MEME that went so Viral, even Curry
himself hopped on the bandwagon…
Before FlightReacts would have over a quarter million followers on Twitter, almost 400K
followers on Twitch, close to 1 Million followers on Instagram, and over 4 Million combined
subscribers across two YouTube channels at the time of this recording...
Before FlightReacts would start dropping banging rap tracks of his own…
Flightreacts has been around for a minute creating viral online content for YouTube
and other platforms.
My man has been holding down the fort since the early part of this decade, which is actually
right around the time I first started this channel as well.
Brother from another mother I tells ya.
The kid has blown up off his reaction videos to anything from trick shots… to women judging
his looks…
He's taken the internet by storm, and that’s without even mentioning the series of content
he posts involving sketches, basketball players, pranks, basketball players, video games, and
yes, even more basketball players.
During hard-ass times like these when the world doesn’t have any sports, at least
we still have Flight Reacts holding down the fort.
For this video I was actually able to get in contact with Kimani and he helped me piece
this one together answering all my questions.
What’s going on guys?
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Flight Reacts was born Kimani White on August 7th, 1995 in Washington D.C.
Flight spent the first year of his life living in the D.C. area, but at the age of one, his
family would pack up and move to West Palm Beach Florida, where he still lives to this
day.
Flight’s Dad worked as a wedding photographer, while his Mom stayed at home and held down
the home front.
He also has one sister who he is extremely close with.
Flight’s parents were always supportive of his goals and they’re hard working nature
inspired their children to stay focused and keep
out
of trouble.
Growing up, Flights’ top two priorities were Basketball and Music.
His biggest influences were Allen Iverson, Snoop Dogg, Fabolous, Chris Smoove, and of
course, Steph Curry.
At first, Flight attended school at Liberty Park Elementary from Kindergarten to Grade
2, then he moved onto Cholee Lake Elementary for Grades 3 through 5, before arriving at
Okeeheelee Middle for Grades 6 through 8.
Flight found Elementary and Middle school to be a rough time in his youth.
There was a lot of gangs, fights, drugs, and violence that intersected with his daily life.
He was bullied a lot in Grades 4 and 6 because of trivial things, like the type of shoes
he’d wear.
One day, while walking home from school in Grade 7, Flight was jumped by a gang and attacked.
It turned out to be case of mistaken identity, the intended target was someone who just looked
like him, but the damage had already been done.
To make matters worse, his Dad lost his job around the same time and was out of work for
close to a year.
At this point, everything in his home life was becoming very difficult and Flight took
to acting out at school by getting into fights and running his mouth to teachers…
… but Flight’s next chapter would come to define his life to this point.
Flight’s mother transferred him to newly built Palm Beach Central High school.
It was her hope that this school would offer her son better influences and keep him out
of trouble.
Her gambit paid off.
In 9th Grade, Flight joined his first and only basketball team.
It was something he deeply enjoyed doing, but unfortunately, midway through the season
he got a high-ankle sprain and couldn’t play in any more games.
During the downtime he spent healing, Flight became depressed from not being able to shoot
hoops and partake in the one activity that was keeping him off the streets and out of
trouble.
He started smoking weed during that summer, heading into Grade 10 and as his habit picked
up, his grades began to drop.
His GPA fell as low as 1.6 and he was rendered ineligible to return to the basketball team
because of his poor academics.
Flight tried to fill the hole in his life by taking on a part time job.
First, he got a gig at Steak N Shake….
But he soon got let go for showing up to work high all the time and messing up everyone’s
order.
Next, he tried his hand at Chick-fil-A…
But that didn’t turn out any better.
Flight was out of there in 4 months’ time.
It was during all this that Flight first came by the handle that the world would one day
call him by.
As he continued to attend most of his classes in 10th Grade high, people around the school
dubbed him Flight because he was “Always on a flight”, when they’d see him.
Now, as difficult a moment as it was in Flight’s life, it would actually come to be a bit of
a blessing in disguise because with all of this downtime, he started gaming a lot more
and watching YouTube where he fell in love with content creators like Chris Smoove.
Watching these videos inspired Flight to create his own content when he realized that someone
could take a hobby and actually make a career out
of it.
Flight would hold off on chasing his dream until after graduating High School, which
came a bit later for him than usual.
With his low GPA and after having failed the FCAT Reading State Test, it took Flight well
into his fifth year at Palm Beach Central High school to graduate.
Flight worked his ass off to get those numbers back up and looking respectable.
He worked hard enough that he even got accepted into Palm Beach State College…
Which he attended for one month before he dropped out to pursue the career he already
knew was calling his name.
Working off of his own muscle, Flight got his YouTube channels “NotYourAverageFlight”
and “FlightReacts” off the ground and soaring… sorry for the pun, but I had to.
At first, a lot of his content was video game related.
We’re talking 2K and NBA LIVE.
But it was the videos in which he put his personality front and centre that really began
to pay off for Flight.
Before he knew it, Flight was a bonafide YouTube personality and pulling in hundreds of thousands,
if not millions of views, on the regular.
Flight’s clout expanded so much that he even began dating rapper Ti from Taylor Girls,
throughout 2017 and 2018.
A relationship that he documented heavily on
his channel.
T
Flight’s come-up has been so prolific that he’s also got fans out there online looking
to make sure he winds up on the Golden State Warriors, playing next to his favourite player
of all time, Steph Curry…
And hey, even if it’s only for a 10-day contract during a season that’s been more
or less cancelled, I think he’d still take it.
I mean, who wouldn’t?
As for the rest of the story, I'm gonna wrap this one up here because this is Before They
Were Famous.
My name is Michael McCrudden but you already know that.
Be sure to let us know who to do next in the comments down below and I'll see you guys
in another video.
BOOM!