Before News of Brother Nature getting into a street tussle would go viral and get picked
up by the likes of TMZ.
Before Brother Nature would clock in 2.5 Million followers on Twitter, 2.7 Million on Instagram
and a modest 87K subscribers on YouTube at the time of this recording.
Before Brother Nature would collaborate with – Mason Ramsey, Jeffs Barbershop, Chief
Keef, David Dobrik, Faze Banks and sit down on the The Impaulsive Podcast...
Before the deer whisperer would start a non profit called Everybody Eats which spearheads
beach clean-ups, delivers food to families in need during the holidays, and raised money
for people affected by Hurricane Maria.
It all started with some deers but now this dude be hanging out with Lamas, Torotuses,
Giraffes and whatever the hell this is:
It's a crazy world we live in because this dude
got famous for being BFFs with deer a whole bunch of Deer and now the Deer are famous
than more people.
His Deer Squad consists of Money, Canela, Bambi and Lola.... am I missing any?
Cruising over Brother Natures Instagram it's obvious that he's had a life long appreciation
and love for animals.
There are pics of him kissing dolphins, feeding pigeons but who would of ever through that
a kid who was flipping burgers could transform his life and career becoming a modern day
Steve Irwin all through social media and some deer he found in his back yard.
We live in a crazy world people! Crickey!
Throwback photo of him feeding pigeons.
At 16 he was working a minimum wage job serving burgers.
What's going on guys?
It's your boy Michael McCrudden documenting the life and career of Brother Nature prior
to fame, here for you of course on Before They Were Famous.
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Live Serve.
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Aright, let's get into this video.
Brother Nature was born Kelvin Pena on August 11th, 1998 in New York to a Dominican father
and Puerto Rican mother.
We found a baby photo but he also posted this one which looks a little more accurate.
As an infant he moved to Carolina, Puerto Rico with his grandmother, where he lived
for eight years.
He lived in a house separated into three units; one unit he shared with his mother, and his
grandmother lived in another.
His Grandma or abuela as they say in Puerta Rico, she babysat him while his mother worked
hard to keep food on the table.
He told NBC news: I remember having a lot of friends and my
grandma taking care of me, I remember going on adventures to the lagoon by our house.
I just remember going to school, being a kid and having fun.
In a post about his mom the caption reads: Happy Mother’s Day momma, I’m so lucky
to have you as a mother, you’re my biggest inspiration and a true gangsta.
Still amazed at you everyday on how you maintained to take care of me and my brother despite
all the adversities life threw at us, I love you.
When he finished fourth grade, Kelvin and his mother moved to Killeen, Texas.
He would also spend summers in Washington Heights in New York City with his father and
this is where he first started spotting some deer.
His little brother seems to be following in his
footsteps.
& he recently welcomed a new baby sister.
Eventually his dad moved from Manhatten to somewhere with even more deer.
I'm talking Pennsylvania.
Kelvin moved out that way after he finished high school back in Texas in 2015 where he
attended Shoemaker High.
There he was on the swim team and he must of done something right because the kid got
plenty of scholarships.
Despite his luck from financial aid he posted to Instagram that he didn't have a date to
prom.
He did however have some solid photo shop skills posting himself next to Ariana Grande.
Brother Nature always had a close relationship with animals.
His American Bulldog Max was his first love and he grew up posting videos talking to Max.
As I mentioned in the intro there were pics of him with Brids and Dolphins and more.
His honest love and interest for animals is what changed his life forever in 2016.
At the time he was under the handle of ColdGameKelv on Social Meda and in an early interview with
BuzzFeed:
One day at my cousin's house, he was feeding Canela (another local deer Kelvin named) and
I thought it was really cool.
When I got home I saw Money in my backyard, walked up to him, and noticed he didn't run
away, so I felt we had a connection
Back then our boy was a little less polished and kept dropping the N word on them Deer.
I'm sure they didn't mind.
I went inside and grabbed him an apple, and he ate it.
I expected him to leave but he kept following me, so that's when I grabbed some Club Crackers
and started feeding him.
His name is Money 'cause I feel like he deserves that name
money makes me happy and he did too, so I felt like we had a friendship.
From there Money started showing up with his family and Brothers Deer Squad grew as did
his followers.
It was Instagram and Twitter where Cold Game Kelv first found a following surpassing 250K
before the end of 2016.
It helped that he had managed to become a local news legend.
Then the news went international.
& all of a sudden the camera crews were knocking
on his door.
Now with a following he began to diversify his content feeding different types of animals
and having fun with his deer like playing basketball.
As we know now, with anyone who finds massive online fame there are gonna be a few haters
and ColdGameKelv got exposed for some old tweets he posted when he was 12 years old.
After a public apology, he was quick to change the conversation by stating up his nonprofit
organization Everybody Eats which helps single-parent families during the holidays and after-school
kids year-round.
He also leveraged his audience to help raise money for victims of Hurricane Maria in his
native which devistated his native Puerta Rico.
From there on out a social media star was born.
Now if you clicked on this video soon after we released it you probably wanna know more
about the altercation Brother Nature found himself in a Miami Florida Sandwich Shop which
had this to say via Instagram:
Here is what really happened.
Brother Nature and a female friend of his were angry at someone who recognized him and
took a video of them.
They wanted the guy to delete the video.
He did not give them his phone so Brother Nature said he wanted to “take it outside”.
Our employee tries to keep them separated, one inside and one outside.and also we called
the police."
In the end, it looks like Brother Nature learned that humans ain't as nice as animals but not
to fret.
He's made a lot of big friends in high places posting pictures with celebs all over his
Instagram.
Everyone from Swae Lee to Lil Nas X, Mason Ramsey and more.
As for the rest of the story?
Well I'm gonna wrap this one up here because this is Before They Were Famous.