What's up with y'all?
Man, it's your boy King Keraun, and I blew a bag.
Y'all probably know me from the Gram, you know,
social media, Facebook, Vine, Twitter.
I parlayed that video success into TV, movies, standup.
Now you know, I'm just making my way
through this comedy/entertainment world
doing my thing.
Last job I had, I was working at this oil field
where we cleaned out these chemical barriers
and these big chemical trucks.
We cleaned them out for the company.
Only felons could work on this job.
I was a felon. Most of y'all know my story.
Y'all know I did three years in the pen. I got out.
I was working at this oil field, nose was bleeding every day
from the chemicals coming out my nose.
I thought I was about to die, to be quite frank with you.
I quit, I ain't going to lie to you.
I just up and quit.
I was like, "Man, I'm not about to die for no job."
That's the last thing I'm about to do.
So I said, "I'm out." My mom was messed up about it.
She was like, "Well, what you going to do,
since you're just going to your job?"
I was like, "Shoot, I think... I don't know.
I'm going to do videos." And that's how it all started.
When I first quit my job, I was just like,
"Man, anything is better than this."
At this time, people weren't doing Instagram videos
or nothing like this. Vine had just came out.
I was like, "While I'm waiting to find another job,"
because I'm going to find a job eventually,
"I'm going to just do these videos on this new app
called Vine just to pass the time."
Actually, I stumbled into my new job, which was comedy.
My first big video was...
I did a video about the Meek Mill Intro song
about how you feel when you listened to it.
I played the beginning of the song.
In the beginning of the song, I had on an outfit
like I was at church, you know, a little suit,
and I was singing the Meek Mill song.
Halfway through when the beat drop and he goes crazy,
I cut to how I'm acting at that part.
I got my shirt off screaming, "Hold up, wait a minute.
Y'all thought I was finished."
I posted it on my Instagram and it went crazy.
The numbers went stupid, and the next thing I know,
I look up and Jay Prince, Jr.
texts me, who's a friend of Meek Mill
and is a partner of mine. We're both from Houston.
You know, his father is Jay Prince.
He hits me and says,
"Hey, send me that video you did about Meek,
because I'm going to send it to Meek."
I was like, "Oh shit, well bet."
Because this was before they had the apps
where you could pull videos. This was the early stages,
before you could even pull videos and repost.
If wanted somebody's video to repost,
you had to get that physical video from them.
So I sent the video to Jay Prince,
who sent it to Meek Mill.
He sent Meek Mill the video, and my @.
Meek Mill posted it with my @,
and that day I gained 15000 followers.
Everybody thought I was from Philly.
I'm really from Houston.
Because Meek Mill's from Philly and they saw the beard,
they thought I was from Philly. So literally two weeks later
I got booked in Philly to come to a club.
So Meek helped me get my first Vine video,
and he helped me get paid for the first time.
The first big text that I knew this is what I was going to do,
was when I started booked in all the clubs.
I was doing funny videos,
and then the next thing I know I started getting club bookings,
you know what I'm saying? 5K, 10K. Things like that.
So when I started getting these club bookings
where all I had to do was get drunk for a bag,
I was like, "Okay. I like this life.
Yeah, this is real dope right here."
That was when I was like,
"Yeah man, I got to parlay this into some more success."
When I got the fame, people started treating me different
because I was known around Houston.
Houston's my city. I was born and raised there.
But now I'm going to those same clubs
that I was just paying $10.00 to get in,
and they was letting me in the club for free.
Then they were giving me a bottle for free.
And then they went from giving me a bottle for free,
to saying I can bring four or five people with me.
I was like, "Okay, well Slim Thug
just brought four or five people,
and I can bring four or people?
Oh, okay. I'm up there with Slim Thug."
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with videos, you become monetized.
You gain so many followers where people like YouTube and Facebook
pay you to put ads in between your videos.
So I got to a certain point where I had so much fame
where now YouTube companies like Maker were offering me
$200,000.00 contracts to bring my YouTube over
and do my YouTube videos under their network
so they can help me get the ad money
and be a part of them.
That was the first big check I got.
I was getting these little 20, 10K checks,
and then out the blue I got a call and they were like,
"We're going to give you $200,000.00 for your YouTube,"
and I was like, "What? $200,000.00 for my YouTube?
You can have this YouTube, sir."
Now, I'm living in an apartment at this time.
I'm paying $800.00 a month. I just got my party money,
and now I just got me a little Challenger,
you know what I'm saying?
That was my first car I got in my own name.
I was just happy about that.
I just got me a little Challenger,
and now he's talking about $200,000.00 for YouTube.
I'm like, "Man, you can have this, sir. You got it.
Anything else you need?
You need me to clean some dishes or anything?
I got that too."
There was company, and they're a big company too
and I'm not going to say their name
because they might give me some more money.
Their thing said they were supposed to pay me
after 30 days, and they tried to wait 31.
I was like, "No, sir. Uh-uh (negative).
No. It's day 31, sir. I need that check."
"It's in the mail."
"No, you're supposed to have it here on day 30.
Not put it in the mail day 30.
It don't work like that. I needs my coins."
You can't pay me for my services to help make you funny.
Either you're funny or you're not funny.
If I collab with somebody, it's because my audience
can see you and your audience can see me.
I respect what you do. You respect what I do.
And now we're doing this together,
and shoot we can help get this money together
because your audience sees me, and my audience sees you.
I don't really collab with people.
I collab more with companies, because companies pay on time.
They give you an invoice,
and they give you when they're going to pay.
They'll say, "Look, we're going to pay this invoice in 30 days,"
so you can put it on the calendar.
You're getting that money in 30 days.
But with a [inaudible 00:06:43],
you can't put 30 days on the calendar.
Ain't no way. That ain't going to work.
My family, they didn't treat me different,
but they treated me different.
They only treated me different with asking me for stuff,
because they know I got it.
Now, my sisters, my little sisters,
oh they don't spare me nothing.
Every problem they got that's financial, they come to me.
They let me know why this happening,
and what they're trying to do with it, and why they need it.
It's up to me to say yes or no,
and they try to make me feel bad.
Like, I ain't have you.
Mama and Daddy had you. Go ask your daddy.
The only time that I could remember that I splurged,
I got a big check, I ain't going to lie.
I got a big check.
It was a big six figure, half a million dollar check,
and I was like, "Man, I'm about to have fun with this."
So I went and bought a Maserati cash,
and I was like, "All right, look I got a Benz,
but I'm going to get the Maserati just in case
I want another car to drive around in.
If I don't like it, I can always sell it back,"
you know what I'm saying? So I ended up buying a Maserati,
and then I ended up buying my sister a car.
That was a wild time,
because right after I bought the car I went to The Galleria
and I splurged in a couple of stores.
But that was the only time I ever splurged.
It was just because that check was calling my name now.
I mean, that check was a half of a million dollars.
Look where I come from. Now I got a check like this,
and they just telling me to act regular?
I'm like, "Nah, nah, nah
I've got to throw some of this around."
But besides that, I've been great with it.
I just make sure to take care of family, and family only.
So that was that Maserati.
I've got partners who come up to me
and they try to come to me about their dreams.
You coming to me talking about how you really wanted
to be a photographer your whole life,
and how you need a $2,500.00 camera.
Who you think you fooling?
I think that's got to be the worst one,
when you feel like it's a slap in the face.
Like you don't even do that, young sir.
You don't even do that.
That ain't even the type of person you are.
Talking about you need some money to help train
because you're about to take the League serious.
Man, you're 33. It's over with.
Dating in LA is different than dating in Houston,
because these women out here in LA,
they a little more aggressive.
They come for what they want, and they come for blood.
Houston, you've got little Southern Belles.
They ain't going to really jump out there
and [inaudible 00:09:31].
But these LA girls, they [inaudible 00:09:33].
They come get it. They come get what they want.
They ain't playing with you, whether it's money,
or if you've got some fame,
or if you can put them in a video
and get them some followers. They going to go get it.
And if you don't give them what they want,
they're going to come and they're going to tell
everybody else a story about you.
They got these little things going on now
where girls are getting in these sex cults,
these many women out here
getting in these sex cults for followers.
I'm taking this entertainment thing to the next level,
you know what I'm saying? I'm studying my crafts,
making sure my crafts get better.
You know, I'm not trying to be stagnant
and trying to sit in the same place.
I'm taking this gift God gave me,
and I'm trying to run it it up, you know what I'm saying?
I know that ain't all just money-wise.
You've got to run up the talent too.
You've got to keep working on your craft.
That's what I'm about every day.
Every day, I'm trying to hustle to work this craft
because the more opportunities come, the more you work.
I started working,
and I started getting opportunities out of the blue.
They throwing bags everywhere, 20K for this, 50K for this,
100K for this, I got 40K40, I got 70.
I'm like, "Yeah, give me all them bags."
Keep working. They're going to come.
Once again, it's your boy King Keraun, and I blew a bag,
but I made sure to have a bag behind that bag.
If you're going to blow a bag, then you need to have a bag
behind the bag to cover for the bag you just blew.
Because if you have you just blew,
now you ain't living like Nipsey tried to tell us to live.
You've got to live the way Nipsey told us to live,
I'm trying to tell you. I watched all the Nipsey videos,
and that's my financial consultant even now.
I'm telling you, I listen to what Nipsey said.
What would Jesus do? You got What would Nipsey do?
Because if Nipsey wouldn't invest in it,
I ain't investing in it.
[inaudible 00:11:09] Nipsey, man. Let it be known.