What up, go on it’s your boy Sean Kingston.
And I up blew a bag today, I blew a bag today,
you know what it is man. Blew a rack here man.
The first job I ever had, was me cutting grass.
So basically I was 15 years old.
You know my my mom got to sent to prison when I was 13
so I kinda really had a lot of pressure.
You know what I’m saying.
So I said what’s the quickest way
I can really get some money right now.
And my nextdoor neighbor he had a plan.
He was like yo, I want you to cut grass.
I want go around, I said okay let’s do it.
So I ain’t gonna lie, he had me edging and cutting,
slaving out there for just $40 a day or $30 a day.
But it was cool to get some pocket change
in my pocket at the time.
At the time, like I said my mom was locked up,
so I was kinda going from house to different houses,
different house, trying to... sleeping on my homie
Reggie’s couch and my auntie Marlene.
Then she kicked me out at one point.
So I was just kind a like moving around and stuff like that.
And I say you know what,
I really want to do this music thing.
I always had a buzz when music come out in high school,
middle school.
I used to always follow this guy named J.R. Rotem.
And I just gave it my best shot and sent him some music.
And it was like he loved it, he loved it.
He was like let’s do a meet up the next day.
Now here I am, blowing a bag, you dig.
I have an aunt that was like yo, she’s like you can’t stay here,
you really got to go. I’m like well my mom’s in prison
and I’m literally like 16 years old.
I’m a juvenile, you’re really just gonna kick me out
with no where to go. You know what I’m saying.
She was like yo, I don’t want you doing music,
it’s the devil’s music.
The music is the devil’s playground.
I can go on a corner right now
and find a hundred people that’s doing music.
How you know you’re gonna make it.
That made me look in her face like you know what,
I’m gonna make it. This is my passion.
This is my life. It’s something I love to do.
I feel music is all I know at this point.
I’m like this is what I’m gonna do it.
And I was just like you know what,
I’m going to L.A. and I did it.
And guess what, that same auntie called me like hey,
Sean I need help on the mortgage,
it’s the seventh and they been waiting on me since the first.
Is there anything you can do for me?
Please, just come help me right now.
What’d I do, handled the situation. Crazy.
First paycheck I got was actually $500,000
and that was for my publishing deal.
That was crazy man. I’ll never forget.
My eyes got big as hell. I looked at the check,
I was like what the, this is crazy.
I was like you now what, hm,
I don’t really want to be the typical rapper
but I just got to get my chain.
My brother’s like bro, what are you doing,
we got a village in Jamaica we got to take care of.
We got people that you really-
my mom’s locked up in prison,
talking about she need commissary
and you’re talking about some chain.
I said Kirk listen,
’cause you know I was young, he was my power of attorney.
My brother, he was my power of attorney, so he’s like
I’m not letting you buy this chain.
I said Kirk listen bro, you do not want to argue,
I’m not going to let...
I need this chain. He was like what do you want.
I was like a Jamaican flag. He was like cool, cool.
Biggest purchase, I definitely would say,
would have to be a gold iPad.
It was a 24 karat gold iPad, I bought it from Dubai.
It’s so crazy, Lamborghini Gallardo,
I literally remember being on World Star
and just watching Soulja Boy and Bow
Wow competing about their Lambos.
And I’m like yo, why are they talking about we gonna race this
for pink slips, I guess they had a little thing going on.
And they’re like man anybody with,
all the rappers with they Lambos come get ...
I say you know mon, no Bow Wow and Soulja
Boy ain’t gonna out do me man. I know I’m fat
but I’m gonna get me this Lambo. I need that Lambo tomorrow.
We go to the dealership, copping a Lambo.
It was a Lamborghini Gallardo.
I’ll never forget, black with Jamaican colors on the rims.
It had yellow, green colors on the rims. It was crazy.
The most I spent in a day.
Is when I bought my mom a Bentley.
It was getting bad it was like yo man,
yo Sean, you spending too much money.
You my brother, can’t really talk to me
because like you see it’s my money,
but you know what I’m saying, I’m getting at times.
So I’m like I’m not trying to get nothing,
I’m trying to turn up. You feel me.
And my mom called me like yo listen, when I get home,
I’m on your ass.
I’m listen mom, cool, you got it.
When she came home, she’s like
Sean listen, this is what we want to do.
Put away some of this right here,
gonna buy some property, we’re gonna do some investments.
That’s why I am who I am now
’cause I got two properties, condominiums,
in Port St. Lucie, Florida. I got one in Tampa.
You know what I’m saying, Bay Shore in Tampa.
So it’s kinda like it paid off.
You know what I’m saying. Keep some revenue.
My mom’s like hey, listen.
I know you’re a rapper,
but you ain’t gonna be the typical rapper.
I want to make money while you’re sleeping.
I say okay, let’s do it ma.
So my mom came out, she just ... she was on some OG status
like okay this is what we gonna do.
We’re gonna move, we’re gonna take that, move that here.
We’re gonna flip this, we’re gonna flip that home.
And now look, we good for a rainy day.
You know what I’m saying.
The music industry go up and down so you never know.
So, listen I’m definitely thankful.
You know what I’m saying.
Mama Kingston wherever you at, look at, ta-ting.
I don’t really like buying gifts and taking it back.
But I had to do this with one of my exes.
It was actually a 3.4 karat earrings.
Earrings I think they were $35,000 a piece.
The biggest rumor to me is oh Sean Kingston’s broke.
Oh he has $500 in his bank account.
Are you guys serious?
But it’s kinda like you got to look at factuals.
When I go to Jamaica and I cash out on a house
that’s 2.2 million dollars and I’m showing it on my Snap
and I’m showing it on my Instagram.
It goes nowhere right.
But as soon a as a jeweler comes out
and say you know what Sean Kingston owe me some money,
then y’all post that. But you’re not posting the crib
that’s in Jamaica that’s $2.4. You know what I’m saying.
That’s two point something million dollars.
Y’all not posting the Benz GL450
that I bought straight cash off the lot, brand new 2018.
I actually just bought this two weeks ago.
This is a million dollar watch right here.
It’s called a Hublot King Power.
Got to be smart, you know what I’m saying.
Don’t wear your watch. Don’t wear a million dollar
watch on Hollywood Boulevard with no security.
The older Sean would tell the younger Sean, to be smart.
Just don’t because you got the cash in your pocket
right now be like I want this
and I want to cash out right now.
You know what I’m saying.
No, just like calm down, think about do you really need this.
What happens is when an artist gets a deal,
they have to recoup.
Unfortunately some artists when it starts throwing down,
you have one, two big hits
and then you start putting out some more stuff
and it doesn’t end up doing what you think it’s gonna do.
It’s so crazy because
I was always one of them type of friends
that I don’t only want to be the bread winner, right.
’Cause I feel like guess what,
if the bread winner stop making money,
you ain’t gonna have nobody else to fall back on.
So I feel like guess what, if I have my people
that’s been there with me through thick and thin,
that supported me, that believed in me.
I’m gonna give them a shot of doing other stuff too
just in case that if anything don’t go good with me,
I could be like you know what, hey let me hold something b-dog.
Let me come...
I need a favor real quick, you feel what I’m saying.
So it’s like for me it was kinda like my best friend at the time,
his name was Hype.
And I remember me going to Car Max in Fort Lauderdale.
Going to Car Max, I go what do you want.
He was like yo, I want an Audi R8.
You know Audio R8, I bought the Audi R8 for him,
took care of him. You know what I’m saying.
And then he ended up selling a chain
that I gave him basically. I gave him a chain,
it was a ten inch chain with a cross on it, all VVS.
The chain was about $50,000.
And what hurt me about it is because he could have asked me
for the $50,000 and I would have gave it to him.
But the gift I gave to him that was real sentimental to me,
he sold it to the pawn shop.
You know what it is. This the end.
All great things got to come to an end.
♪ It’s so hard to say good bye. But I got to get paid. ♪
Hey, check this out. Don’t ever forget,
your boy Kingston, you know what I’m saying,
came out with the island pop sound.
That was me. Don’t ever, ever,
ever forget that Sean Kingston wrote Jason Derulo Whatcha Say.
Whatcha Say, don’t ever forget that Sean Kingston wrote Moses.
Moses, French Montana, Chris Brown and Migos.
Don’t ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
ever forget that I was the one who signed Tory Lanez,
found him off YouTube and discovered him.
You know what I’m saying.
So at the end of the day, keep them rumors to y’all self.
I’m living my best life. I ain’t going back and forth with y’all.
I’m really, really blessed. You know what I’m saying.
And I love y’all man. To all my haters,
all my supporters, I love y’all, God bless.
We out, my pony up. I blew a bag.