- My littest place was Miami.
I'm not going back there ever again for a while.
Life's good, can't complain.
What's up, GQ?
It's your body, Ja'marr Chase AKA Uno.
I'ma tell you how I made, saved and spent my first million.
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I'm from Harvey, Louisiana on the west bank of New Orleans.
It was cool growing up there.
I was always in between Harvey and Grambling,
staying by my grandmother.
My first job, and I didn't get paid, though,
so it wasn't really a job.
I did it just for the fun of it.
I was working at this snowball stand in Pebble Walk.
Giving out snowballs, candies,
and then I also worked at a concession stand
at Oak Dale playground.
I was broke, man.
I ain't lying, ain't have nothing.
So the first thing that I bought with my own money
was some Alan Iversons, some Reeboks.
Those were the first pair of kicks I ever bought
but majority of my money just went to
straight shoes and sneakers, so
that was the main thing I was trying to grab.
Man, LSU's probably the best experience
I ever had, actually.
I had a blast, man, honestly.
The coaches, from the teammates to family and friends
all coming, so,
it was just a great time to be a part of LSU
and the time I walked through those doors,
they took great care of me.
If we're being honest,
I didn't really wanna go to school.
I don't think no athlete do.
But you know what I'm saying,
I went there and I used to say
I'm only here for football sometimes,
so that was my main goal to make it to the NFL.
The whole experience was, it didn't feel real.
Like it was surreal.
It just felt fake, man.
And then it happened so fast.
It was all in the blink of an eye
so I really wasn't at the drafts for more than two hours,
you know what I'm saying so,
I try to wait to hold my tears back
until I got back to the hotel room.
I did that, thank God,
so I just made sure I showed the lil happy side.
It was a fast process.
I flew out to Cinci like I think the next day.
Everything just went by real fast.
You can see the details of my first lead contract
right here.
[chill hip-hop music]
We talked about how I made my money.
Now we're gonna talk about how I spent my money.
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Yeah, so the first thing I bought was my mom's car.
That was about 65K, got her a Mazi.
My pops came to me about it.
She been having a Audi
and the Audi was real bad, the air stopped working in it
so she's not about to try to ride around in no hot car
so gotta get her a car ASAP.
It's like a midnight black with red interior Mazi.
It's real nice, already came stocked,
so I ain't paid no extra.
She was crying like tears of joy
so that was good to see.
She made me start crying.
[cashier register dings]
Then I got myself some jewelry.
50K on that.
Got me some grills, chain, watch, couple bust downs.
Got my Chosen 1 piece on.
One of one, chosen one, got Uno at the top of it.
Created real raw.
Jason of Beverly Hills.
Got this from my guy from New York, actually, out here.
Emerald cut diamonds, difference,
and the bracelets just came when,
you know what I'm saying, I'd get in love with jewelry
so shout out to Jason.
If I get a Jordan piece, I might get a big Cuban.
Something like that.
If I'm looking up to anybody with jewelry and clothing wise,
it would probably be Fab for sure.
'Cause Fab really just do everything, all of the above.
You know what I'm saying, he got a lot of different styles
so Fab is somebody I would be looking at the most.
[cash register dings]
[chill hip-hop music]
Next, I spent another 50K on clothes.
Had to stop coming with that drip, that sauce,
that melon, that swag.
[laughs] So another 50K on clothes.
I don't have a stylist.
I just go to somebody, like I shop to,
I got a couple different people that I talk to all the time
so they just send me all the stuff they get in new
and that's when I pick.
Got some off-white G Nikes.
The Trophy Room Fives.
I got some real limited edition kicks,
so that's just some stuff I always wanted
so I had to go get that.
[cash register dings]
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Next, I spent about maybe almost a rack on tattoos.
I got a portrait of my grandmother.
I got her birthday right here.
Last supper on me, no loyalty or betrayals.
I also got one on my rib too,
so I got a couple tattoos.
I try not to copy tattoos, man.
Tattoos are already permanent and it's hard
trying to come up with your own ideas of tattoos,
but growing up, Odell was definitely the main person
and then I started looking at Jamal Adams
'cause Jamal Adams got nice tattoos.
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Yeah so next, I made sure I looked out
for my brothers and sisters.
Gave them all 15K each.
Made sure they took care of all their needs.
Cars, anything they needed.
50K for my sisters and brothers.
I didn't really know how much
I was gonna give them at first.
I was gonna give them five or seven
but them getting that much just randomly,
I felt like they would splurge and get rid of it quick
so I just ended up doing 15K each
so they could actually put some aside and spend some too
so I just wanted to help them out a little bit.
Next, I got my mom's crib.
Paid the house off, so that's officially her house.
We own it.
That was about 100K.
Making sure the house is paid for and the bills are straight
so we can have somewhere and have the family crib.
We've been in there for about five, six years now.
You know, it was just a house that she wanted it.
You know what I'm saying,
she already made adjustments to it
and we was having a lot of hurricanes.
I think we had like two hurricanes came by
and messed up the crib so,
you know I was just making sure I took care of the houses,
making sure everything was good.
So that was the main goal I wanted to do.
[cash register dings]
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[chill hip-hop music]
Rookie dinner.
I paid for rookie dinner the whole season this year.
So I spent maybe, we had 17 games,
so you can do a little bit of math.
I spent probably about a band every game plus tax.
So rounds to about 20K, so rookie dinner.
Prom on 12 and Italian Prom,
those two spots was always the spots I was always going to.
- [Producer] Who on the team spends the most money
when you guys go out?
- Tyler Boyd, every time.
Preciate you [laughs].
He basically like the older brother for us,
so basically, he do the club and I do the food.
I never had any crazy bills.
The only bill that I had was like 5K for the rookie,
like another rookie dinner that I did
but that was about it.
So I passed like that.
Next, I got me something to ride around good in.
God my dream car, a little Wraith double R.
That came up to 300K.
Nice double R with orange interior seats.
Fur carpet.
You know what I'm saying, so it's worth it.
I've been wanting that car my whole life, honestly.
It was either a Wraith or a Ghost,
so I went with the Wraith.
After my pro day, I went training in Miami and HO8
and Jarvis Landry used to pull up in his Wraith all the time
and he had some nice Forgis on it, man,
so when I seen that, I was like I gotta get that whip.
You know what I'm saying?
I gotta add that to the collection for sure.
Next, I wanna get a Porsche.
I want something with two-wheel drive.
I don't know if I should call it a play car,
but that's what I'm gonna call it.
TechArt 911 maybe.
Something like that just to have something sporty and fast.
I want to try to go for something I like.
I don't really go for the style.
My favorite care is worth five mil right now.
I'm not getting that shit.
It's like a Bentley with a droptop.
It's like brand, brand, brand new.
So that's something I want but I know I ain't gon' get.
So yeah.
[cash register dings]
[futuristic music]
[chill hip-hop music]
The rest of this, I saved.
Just put away, made sure I had it for a good day.
Family, friends.
You know, something that's real important down the line.
Saving your money is way better than spending it.
You don't know how much you're losing when you spend it,
so trying to save is better.
I mean, I'm excited to have all this in front of me,
but I'ma be more excited when I see all my money
in front of me, you know what I'm saying, so,
this was definitely a goal of mine
to see a million dollars in cash
and I got a chance to do it.
Thanks for watching.
I just showed y'all my first mil.
I'll see y'all on the field.