Before the Boonk.IG instagram account would clock in 2 Million Instagram followers at
the time of this recording.
Before Boonk would team up with fellow social media star
Before Boonk would be arrested for robbing a Dunkin Doughnuts and found himself in jail
for two weeks for violating his probation.
Boonk born John Robert Hill Jr picked up the nickname of Boonk from his mother when he
was a new born.
It would be a name that John would detest throughout his early life but when he decided
to make a name for himself online he decdied to use it as his moniker.
Boonk initally got online posting rap videos, he then decided to mix things up with some
comedy sketches.
When he saw what Fatboy_SSE was doing on Instagram he was inspired to do some real hood humor
and he went from working at a Popeyes restuarant to robbing one as a mean to build up an online
following to promote his rap career.
What's going on guys?
My name is Michael McCrudden documenting the life and career of Boonk, prior to fame, here
for you on Before They Were Famous.
Now this has been the most requested video for me to do on this channel in quite a while.
So I got a hold of Boonk and he helped me put this video together.
Ya, this channel is coming a long way.
Were working on other collabs and requested video so keep them coming in.
Aright let's get into this.
Boonk was born on August 3rd 1996 in Jacksonville Florida.
The son of Simona Ariella Faust and to John Robert Hill Sr. His parents hooked up when
Simona was 16 and his father 21 but they eventually broke up and went on to re-marry.
Boonk has a total of 14 siblings. 8 on his father side and another 6 on his mothers side.
His mom re married a man by the name of Dirk Marcheel Williams Jr who became young Boonks
father figure and showed him love while he was growing up.
The day he was born, his mother refered to him as Boonk – a slang term for weed laced
with coke but for whatever reason his mom immediatly felt the nickname suited her little
boonky boonk.
It's important to note that the term has taken on a new meaning since Boonk has found online
fame with Ubran Dictionary now refering to it as the attempt to purchase an item, but
deciding to run away without paying for the item.
This has kid changed the world.
Growing up young Boonk was an aspiring athlete.
He played baseball starting out at 8 then got into Football at 10.
Around this time he also started writing down rap lyrics.
In high school he was on the track team, the basketball team and the football team attending
a Private Christian School but then at the age of 14 tragedy struck.
His mothers husband Dirk, the man who had raised young boonk as his stand in father
passed away due to cancer.
Soon after money got tight and Boonk, his siblings and his mother began moving around
Florida.
He bounced from Jacksonville to Clairmont near Orlando.
He didn't mind switching school because it meant he got a chance to meet new girls.
At the age of 15 he started redording his raps, here's his first song.
Now that he was attending Public school he started getting involved in the streets.
He would rob shit to get by.
He would finish high school receiving a certificate of completion but got no diploma.
He was pushing hard at becoming a rapper but things weren't moving fast enough and at 17
his mom kicked him out of the house – Never really having a steady home he was inspired
to get a tattoo of Vegbond under his eye in Han Characters.
He picked up his first job at 18, working at a Popeyes chicken.
In his spare time he would post comedic videos to Facebook and started to gain a pretty decent
following averaging 2K views per post.
At the time time he had a girlfriend who would tell Boonk that he wasn't going to amount
to shit.
That he was gonna alsways be working in fast food and that he was wasting his time.
Her nagging eventually led him to delete all of his previous work from facebook.
Although I did find this.
Him and his girlfriend would eventually call it quits and Boonk would move to Miami to
once again live with his mother.
As an athlere Boonk looked up to Michael Vick, in terms of music Boonk he's into Tee Grizzley,
Black Youngsta, Trippie Redd & YFN Lucci.
But as a performer he was majorly inspired by Fayboy_SSE.
After studying the content Fatboy was releasing and knowing that he too was an aspiring rapper
Boonk decided to give it another big push on social media as a performer.
He didn't care for Snapchat and had already tried using Facebook so he decided this time
to focus on Instagram.
He got his numbers up to 10K then 15K and during one live chat while at a Wendy's he
asked his fans what was something they've never seen anyone do before.
They told him to jump the counter at a fast food restaurant & that's what he did.
Seeing as he had worked at Popeye's they were his first taget.
This video blew up on Instagram and then again on Facebook clocking in over Million views
at the time of this recording.
From there Boonk knew he was onto something he continued to rob plenty of fast food restaurants,
he stole watches and headphones and even lit up in public place.
He immplemented his own challenges like the Get It Off Me Challange and the hood slip
and slide.
He quickly earned the title of most savage man on the internet and his intagram numbers
surpassed 1 Million.
To celebrate he went into a local Chick-Fil-A.
Initially Boonk was a little nervous committing these acts but the fans took away all his
nerves and he saw the opportunities that came with online fame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnolgTtp_I Eventually his stunts would catch the attention
of the Miami police when he robbed a dozen doughnuts from a Dunkin Doughnuts.
The judge joked, “Try Krispy Kreme, but stay
out of this Dunkin’ Donuts,” Boonk was sentenced to 60 days of probation after pleading
not guilty but he continued to post content and was arrested for violating his probation.
He spent a total of 2 weeks behind bars at Metro West Detention Center in Miami, FL until
a buddy posted his bond.
While locked up Boonk's only numbers only continued to climb.
The hashtag Boonkgang was being used widely and WSHH started pushing his music.
As for the rest of the story, well you can find, well that's pretty much it.
Because this is Before They Were Famous.
Thanks again to Boonk for the interview and for answering all my questions.
A link to his Instagram is down below.
My name is Michael McCrudden...