What's up world it's your boy Kway.
As known as Blame it on Kway on Instagram.
"What's wrong? You don't want to have sex no more?"
"No. I mean yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah."
And I Blew-A-Bag. I Blew-A-Bag.
Y'all may know me from a couple of places.
I did a dope video with Janet Jackson.
Let's see I got my own restaurant.
I just had a press release for the Tyler Perry tour Madea's
Farewell. And I can't forget about
Fear Factor on TV and my hit show,
number one hit show, on Zeus Network TiTi Do you
Love Me? A lot of people don't know this,
but I got a pretty big history in the mall.
I used to work at Christian Louboutin
in fact that was the last place
I worked before I gave them the deuces.
Working at Louboutin was pretty lit.
I mean who doesn't want a pair of Red Bottoms?
So I felt felt really lucky to be able to work there,
but at the same time your boy
had 2 million followers working for somebody else.
And the moment that I realized that I had to do this fearlessly
and just go after my dreams
wholeheartedly is when I had no hold backs from quitting.
It's time to go.
You know the whole time working at Louboutin
I was scared as hell.
I ain't gonna lie, but LaLa had quit maybe let's say,
maybe like a year and a half before I quit.
And she had been begging and begging and begging
and begging for me to leave and I finally just said,
"You know she surviving and she holding down on Instagram
and social media in general might as well do the same."
That's exactly what happened too.
I remember just like it was yesterday at the time
I had just went viral.
I had a video, as you guys may know,
where I was yelling at Tyra Banks and I was like,
"Okay Tyra bring it down three more notches
'cause I ain't the one."
We were all rooting for you. How dare you.
Okay Tyra.
Learn something from this.
Okay. Tyra look. Look Tyra-
You go to bed tonight and you
I'm gonna need for you to bring it down three more notches bitch
'cause I'm not the one. That saying was everywhere.
I mean it went super duper viral.
So I decided to put it on some T-Shirts
and I put TiTi's face big as there on the T-shirts.
And I never forget I made the account on Shopify
and I linked it
and I just put it out into the universe and I looked up
and that was my first time getting paid
from like my followers kind of like.
And I got over $25000 on that and that's when I knew.
I think that was, at that point I knew it's time to bizounce
and just really, really,
really dive deep into this content.
The thing is I had that was the first time I had released like
'cause it was mugs and T-Shirts and it was a little over 25,
but after that I was getting booked for like $1600.
When I had maybe 1.5,
close to 2 million followers I thought $1600 was a lot.
And people was flying me out every weekend.
And I moved to LA with my best friend La.
Coming from Houston moving to LA
I ain't gonna lie was scary as hell.
Trying to figure out how I was gonna get my next check.
So when it came to my brand I really wanted to rebrand myself
and have a certain look for TiTi.
And when I gave her that certain look which was the green hair
and I gave her the pink lipstick
and more of a consistence type of outfit
then I started to get book all over the place.
Everybody was wearing green wigs all the time.
My fans started to wear green wigs
and stuff like that during Halloween.
I really started to flip my brand
and turn it into something special.
Really polishing TiTi is what led to a lot of bigger bags.
I ain't gonna lie. For instance Burger King.
When I rebranded TiTi and I kind of polished her
a little bit Burger King gave me my first big bag.
It was about $12000. I blew it fast as hell.
But it didn't stop there.
When I rebranded TiTi I came to LA, built a team,
a team of eight actually and we really started to brand.
That was around the time where TiTi started to get
a little bit more feminine. So TiTi was wearing bundles,
Titi was wearing makeup which led to Rihanna Fenti
reaching out to me which led to ShesHappyHair.
Wanted to revisit that contract.
It led to bigger bags for sure when I polished TiTi up.
When those bags started to come in I ain't gonna lie to y'all.
I'm gonna be honest.
I was super, super duper irresponsible.
I mean anybody that knows me knows
I love Christian Louboutins
so I was buying Louboutins every other day.
I was coming home buying TiTi ...
TiTi expensive as hell.
I'm taking her Forever 21, buying her clothes.
And she likes expensive shoes too.
She like her hair did and her makeup done on the weekends.
So I had to take care of TiTi on top of that.
Moving to K-town
and getting that beautiful home with LaLa.
That shit was expensive,
but where my money really went is into my content.
Most of my money went into investing in myself.
I flipped it and I would get costumes made for videos
like the Janet Jackson video Made For Now.
I literally booked the whole venue which is hell expensive.
I literally dressed Janet Jackson.
I spent the money to go towards the outfit
that she had on including my dancers.
Crafty, my freaking, my team.
I really poured back into my content
as far as like YouTube videos, Instagram videos,
Facebook videos, social media in general.
When it comes to my content whatever I'm making
I pretty much pour it back into my videos.
The biggest most irresponsible decision
I have ever made when it came to me
spending money on stupid shit
got to be what I wore to the BET awards.
BET Hiphop awards maybe two years ago.
It was a tank top that was bedazzled.
It had a skeleton and it still makes me made to this day
'cause I spent $3500 on that tank top.
And I still ain't got more than five compliments on it.
So interestingly enough I tried to take the tank back,
but I used to work for the company
and they saw me wear it on TV.
So I was caught red handed. I was caught red handed.
So if you're up and coming on social media
and you climbing the social media ladder
and you getting these checks left
and right it's super important
that you pour back into yourself.
You got to invest in yourself
and as an example for what I did for myself is I got a team.
I got a team of eight. I got a videographer.
I got a director.
I have a stylist. I have an assistant.
I have people that I have surrounding me
to make my life easier.
So when it comes to the money that you're getting in not
only are you pouring it back into your content
or putting it towards your passions,
but you're also saving it
and putting it towards something for the future.
I.E. for what I did for myself
was I got my own restaurant.
I poured over $100000 into this restaurant business
and I already flipped it in less than a month.
We trying to come to LA and in two weeks
and we going to Atlanta too in about a month.
So as long as the money that you coming in you
putting it in investments
or something for your future. It's gonna work out.
So when I first started out on social media I never imagined,
ever, ever imagined being where I am right now.
Back in the day we had those little snack videos.
The 15 second videos and before I knew it I had one video
after maybe releasing over a 100 that went viral.
It literally changed my life over night.
I remember going to the airport the next day and I had like hit.
Rihanna was following me. Nicki Minaj was following me.
I had hit like 300K in less than two days.
And people are stopping me and asking me for pictures.
People are booking me and before I knew it like from one video
it's literally what changed everything.
So somethings you can look forward to from your boy
is I'm about to drop some dope ass content on YouTube.
I got this fire ass restaurant.
If you have not tried Krab Queenz
I encourage you to fly down to Houston or drive to Houston
'cause it's definitely worth the drive or the fly.
For sure, for sure.
We got those bomb ass crab legs
and some dope good tasty daiquiris.
Not only that, but I'm about to go on tour,
if you didn't know,
with Tyler Perry for about a whole six months.
I'm trying to rest up for that now so stay tuned.
Now you all know what I blew my bag on.
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With some discipline maybe you won't blow it.
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