(light techno music)
- Ready to get the party started? (laughs)
(typewriter clacking)
Well my name is Shiggy
and most people know me for starting the
Do The Shiggy challenge to Drake's In My Feeling.
♪ Kiki, do you love me ♪
♪ Are you riding ♪
♪ Say you'll never ever leave from beside me ♪
♪ 'Cause I want ya, and I need ya ♪
- Whatever day the album came out, right?
It was the day after.
So I was coming from Long Island,
I was out with my friend, just hanging out and chilling.
We're just thinking of video ideas
and the song just happened to come on.
I never heard it before,
that was the first time me hearing the song, too.
I didn't really know what I was gonna do 'til the video.
And I just started dancing to the words.
Honestly, I was just looking forward
to just getting the numbers on my page
and it just did way more than that.
Odell Beckham Jr., he did it.
And the thing about him doing it is, when he posted it,
he's the one who hashtagged Do The Shiggy.
I was hype, because he did all the extra hashtagging,
gave me all the credit.
But he's the one who started it as a challenge
to make it more and bigger and make it as a movement,
rather than me just posting a video on my page.
♪ Kiki, do you love me ♪
♪ Are you riding ♪
♪ Say you'll never ever leave from beside me ♪
♪ 'Cause I want ya ♪
- Will Smith had this whole team here.
He had a drone.
Yeah, he always do his videos big.
So when Shade Room finally reposted it,
it was even bigger.
Shade Room, that's a page that people wait
to see certain things get on,
so I had popular things, but I don't have anything
that really everyone followed me for, you know?
I was in LA with my friend Ben.
He was introducing me to Drake,
he realized it was me and he gave me a big hug
and that's when he said,
"This is the guy who made number one."
I was like I didn't even know the song went number one,
'cause the song went number one that day.
And one of the biggest artists of the time can say
listen this guy helped me out with my song.
For him to say that at that time was big.
That's like helping out Mike Jackson, know what I'm saying?
He's pretty big, it's a different level, different scale.
One of the things I said is like,
man you've got to put me in a video.
Listen I don't care who he is.
Drake, sir, we're ready for you.
(quirky guitar music)
That moment was so dope, 'cause Drake, he's funny.
You know what I'm saying?
- Go out, you can go outside.
- I can go? - Yeah.
- Okay, I'm just gonna sit right here
and wait for you right here.
And the chemistry we had at that moment just like,
it was so easy we did that scene like one, two, three.
It was just big too,
'cause it showed me off my acting skills too,
so it really helped me out in that aspect, too.
- [Drake] Just, if you're gonna stand outside, please.
- Okay, you want me to go, okay.
Want me to go? - Get out of my beard.
- They did say you need ten minutes though, okay?
Just ten, should be about nine now, right?
I'm like yeah man, I gotta go on tour with you.
One moment the conversation was like
yeah, it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen.
But the thing is, I didn't know when it was gonna happen.
So the day I got the, "Yo, today is the day, you ready?"
I got it the day before I was like,
I was so nervous.
When I first ran out on stage,
people didn't really know.
But when the song dropped, and then everybody sees me,
the crowd goes crazy.
Now I'm just in dance mode inner instinct.
And he brought me out Madison Square Garden
and the Barclays.
To even be brought out once is big,
but to be brought out twice is crazy, ridiculous.
- I need to know Shiggy,
you got the followers, you got the likes,
but is all of this translating into money?
- The breakfast club interview, that was fun.
It was nerve-wracking 'cause everybody's afraid
of how Charlamagne will react to you.
- The Give Shiggy a Check Challenge.
- Yeah, yeah. - Do you feel like Drake
owes you a check?
- You've either gotta give me the $250 or plus ASAP
or you gotta let that rumor go away,
'cause I ain't get it yet. - Nah yeah, nah,
you know the internet's crazy man.
- Yeah. - Yeah, it's crazy.
I got you, though. - You got me?
- Yeah, I got you.
- The downside of going viral is,
people are kinda sorta, they simple.
They like to see you do the same things
over and over and over and over and over.
But the thing, this thing going so big.
It's like I can't do this over and over and over, I can't.
So it's just like the tension
and the expectations of continuously going viral.
That's the only downfall of it.
- How, how I'm a clown?
How I'm a clown?
How I'm a clown, tell me how I'm a clown?
Tell me, please.
I would like to know, how I'm a clown?
I'm still trying to process this.
But at the same time, I still have to wonder,
or get ready for the next step, 'cause.
It's like you really have to top this,
you know what I'm saying?
It's like going number one,
you can't really go back.
- [Male Fan] I mean like what you got coming up next, bro?
- Hey, I don't know, I'm just trying to figure it out man.
I'm just enjoying life right now.
- [Male Fan] How you don't know what you got next?
- I mean I don't know, I just,
I haven't really thought about it.
- [Male Fan] I don't understand how you don't know--
- I said I don't know!
I don't know what's next!
I don't know, I'm not thinking about it.
I'm thinking about what's now.
I don't know!
Man, back on the old block. - Hey, what's going on man?
- Back on the old block where it all started.
Sup, Millie?
- [All] Hey, yeah.
- This is the spot where a lot of videos go down at,
so it feels kinda good to show people where it started at,
but for me, it's regular.
All the moves?
Okay, cool, one second.
Step on the penny.
That's a fresh move.
And then, my knee's a little bad now.
And then the other one was like, uh.
And just kinda like a bounce, I was bouncing to it.
And then I said
♪ Kiki, do you love me ♪
♪ Are you riding ♪
♪ Say you'll never ever leave ♪
♪ From beside me ♪
And after that, then I started
getting light, getting crazy,
then I did the same thing again.
(arrow wooshing)
Just, make sure you network.
That's the biggest thing when you go viral.
Even if you don't go viral,
just make sure you network.
Befriend people, you know what I'm saying?
In this business, 'cause a lot of people say
there's shady people in the business.
But at the same time, there's a lot of good people
in the business that are willing to help you
and willing to see you succeed.
So make sure you're always networking.
Just, stay positive too.
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