0:37ALike, chase faith. Chase fulfillment.
0:38BI just keep on Boston. Like, granted, even me, I’m part of the problem, but also, like, just make sure we keep God first.
0:43DIt was a lot going on.
0:44BYou know, that’s what he pushes. So that’s why it’s like people forget that God is going to be the first thing. And doing your own craft, regardless if you met him right now, this is a moment. Like, if you really want to create a lifestyle doing this, you got to be active.
0:56AYou got to show up.
0:57BCreate something for yourself the same way God did, the same way Duke did.
1:00EThat’s what I’m saying.
1:01DHow long you been doing content?
1:01A6 months ago.
1:03BI just started and I’m already at 1,100 followers, bro. I’m saying, bro, I’ll be going crazy. I made a trailer too. No bullshit. I made a trailer. That shit was fire.
1:11AOkay.
1:11BI made a good trailer.
1:12AI’m not gonna lie. What’s your socials? What’s your socials?
1:14BMy name is Amadeus. Everybody calls me AD, but Amadeus, the D is a 6. A-M-A-6-E-U-S.
1:19AOkay.
1:20EOkay.
1:20AOkay. I like that.
1:21C13 people in here.
1:23BI got Raphael Solo. You know Raphael Solo?
1:26AYeah. I said what’s up to him already. So I can ask you a question? You got a message for the people that were out here today? I have a message for the people that are out here today.
1:35EOut here today.
1:36DUm, don’t give up.
1:40CKeep cooking. Keep being.
1:44AYeah. What’s your name?
1:45FMashana.
1:46AMashana?
1:47CYeah.
1:47ANice to meet you, Maceo.
1:48CWhat is it?
1:49AMaceo.
1:50FMaceo.
1:50ANice to meet you.
1:51CYeah.
1:51BYeah. Yeah.
1:51FAnd what?
1:52CYou have like an Instagram or something? I’m trying to find my phone.
1:54AOh yeah, I hear that. You have an Instagram? I’m trying to do like journalism content, like like short documentaries. So I did like probably 100 interviews out here today, and I just want to take the best moments and put it in like a short documentary about this moment in streaming. Ask people like what’s Kai’s impact on a culture.
2:07GCulture.
2:08ASo like something that showcases like what is streaming university, who is Kai, what is streaming. I feel like it’s at an inflection point, right? So TV’s not TV no more.
2:15CYou know Judy, what’s her name? That she kind of like does journalism but for like outfits.
2:22AI don’t know about that.
2:24CShe does like an interview style thing, so it’s kind of cool to see. Look into her. She does it in New York.
2:30AOkay, Judy what?
2:31CInstagram Judy. I forget.
2:33AIt’s okay. Fashion journalism Judy.
2:35CYeah, just look it up in New York.
2:36DYou see all the vibes?
2:37BJust looking for my phone.
2:39ALike that.
2:41CYeah. And I want to take his Instagram.
2:45AI appreciate that. And what’s your name?
2:47EMy name is Yizzy West.
2:48AIzzy West? Wizzy West?
2:50ENo, Yizzy.
2:51AI came Yizzy West. Yeah. It’s very nice to meet you.
2:54ENice to meet you.
2:54ANice to meet you. How long you been streaming doing content?
2:55ESo I’ve been streaming since I’m not gonna lie since January.
2:59AOkay.
2:59EFrom then I’ve been kind of having a crazy impact on my community. I finally hit two K. Okay. You know. Congrats.
3:06DMy shit.
3:07EI just been honestly showing out for my community.
3:09DWhat’s your community?
3:09EWhen you say my community.
3:11AWho’s my community?
3:12FYeezyverse.
3:12ESo it’s just my, my whole community, you know. We -- I do a lot of IRLs. I do a lot of crazy shit. I kind of do like a -- I’ll do, I do certain shit you’ll see like on like, you know, 8 PM shit. I do firework chasing. I do a lot of U-Haul segments. I do a lot of --
3:26Awhat is the U-Haul segment?
3:27ESo yes, in the U-Haul, 420, I did a U-Haul segment.
3:30AWe have like hotbox U-Haul.
3:30EIt’s kind of crazy. It went crazy.
3:32AI believe that.
3:33EIt went so lit. But think like that, like networking. I’m from 401, so we smallest state in the city. So I’ll be trying to network, you know.
3:41AJust smallest what?
3:41GSmallest city, um, smallest state in the US.
3:44AWhat state?
3:45ERhode Island.
3:46AOkay.
3:47DOkay.
3:47ESo when it comes to networking, there’s not a lot. That’s why I like to network a lot and get a lot of people together.
3:52AThat’s why you’re a community person. Okay. And so you were trying to audition for Streamer U today?
3:56FI was, but I didn’t make it.
3:59EIt’s okay because I already put -- I feel like I put passion and fire in my application. So you feel me? I’m going to show that I’m still popping out.
4:07FWho knows?
4:07EYou never know who’s watching. So I’m popping out. They see that I’m still popping out. I live 4 or 5 hours away. Still popped out.
4:13CFacts.
4:13EYou drove here? No clipping.
4:16AOkay. Okay. You clip your own stuff?
4:17EYep.
4:18AOkay. I like that.
4:20GOne woman machine.
4:21EOne woman machine. No cameraman, no nothing. I did this shit by myself.
4:24AOkay. Okay. What’s the goal for you?
4:26EMy goal is pretty much to network where I’m just -- I’m more of like, I put on for my city since I’m a small-ass city, but I also want to network everywhere else, like Miami, ATL. I want to be able to do sick-ass segments with people. I like doing fun segments. I’m about to rent out a whole roller skating rink, do like an ’80s kind of date, quick date thing.
4:45GI like doing fire things.
4:45EYou feel me? Like I like it the ball.
4:48AThat’s super fire.
4:48EDoing it in my city, so it’s like we got to come up. We got to do it for our.
4:52AI like that you’re in the vacuum. I like that.
4:53EYou feel me?
4:54AYour first mover. Most definitely.
4:57EMost everybody else is hungry, but you never know how many plates they want. I want it all.
5:00DOh, I want it all.
5:03ALike I like that. You sure you’re not a New Yorker?
5:04ENo, I’m not from New York.
5:06AYou got a message for Kai?
5:08EUm, yo, I didn’t make it to the applications, but I definitely put my application first when y’all dropped it. So yo, I did not come here to apply. I came here to graduate. That’s all I got to say. Okay, okay, okay.
5:17AAnd what’s Kai? impact on the culture?
5:20EUm, I feel like he impacted people to want to kind of step out their zone. Like, for me, I’m always --
5:24DI’m --
5:25FI used to be an introvert.
5:26ELike, I, I hate talking to people.
5:27AReal talk.
5:28EI hate talking to people. Like, I’m nervous. Like, I really hated that shit. I was always sitting by myself at lunch, but I kind of pushed myself to be like, yeah, no, I’m funny as shit. Like, I really am a funny-ass person. My friends like, like, why aren’t you doing something to broadcast yourself? And I’m like, you know what, you’re right. So I’m just like, you know, push myself out there. And from there, I’m just like, I love what I do. It’s just like, at the point, at the end of the day, I love what I do. It’s like, I have -- I already have like a pink collar job. I already have like my life set up. I don’t want that shit though. I’m chasing my dreams. I want to be free, financial freedom. I want to be traveling everywhere, meeting with everybody, you know, you feel me? Next thing after that, building businesses once I get my name up.
6:02FLike, it’s just, it’s all --
6:03Care you still content?
6:04ESo I just, I do a lot of IRLs, but I’m in the works of trying to do my own clothing business. It’s in my own works right now. I haven’t really put anything out to the world, but just manifesting it.
6:14DManifesting it.
6:15ESame shit.
6:16DSame shit.
6:17AI appreciate you. I appreciate you.
6:18DYeah, for sure. For sure.
6:19AWhat’s that?
6:20DWhat you do? I’ve been doing like journalism, like short Documentary type content.
6:23AI walk around and interview people at conferences, at events, anything where I feel like there’s a little opportunity for the zeitgeist.
6:30DI mean, I mean, on the ground.
6:32AI’m gonna give you my grandma.
6:33DLet me give you my. My shit clap.
6:36AAC in the flesh.
6:37CMy shit clap. It’s big clap, dogs.
6:44ETwo is better than one.
6:52CDamn, that shit works so much.
7:05ANah, the sun is crazy now.
7:08CI like the fact that it’s raining and the sun is out.
7:10FOh yeah, for sure.
7:12AThe rain was crazy though. The rain was insane.
7:15EI’m not gonna lie, I called for the rain, you heard?
7:18AI asked God, I asked God for the rain. It definitely was hot as shit, but for it to be flooding outside of Starbucks was definitely crazy.
7:26EI got a couple of down Puerto Rico coasting the coast.
7:29ANo, her tats are fire, right? No, most definitely. She fire, period.
7:33DWhere you from?
7:34ERhode Island.
7:35ARhode Island?
7:36DDamn. Not because I heard people travel to get tats.
7:40EYeah, I got my tats.
7:41AHow you doing, man? What brought y’all today?
7:42DUh, of course the Castaneda event, man. Came for opportunity.
7:46AOkay, I’m just talking to people. And how’d it go?
7:49DYou was in the front or you didn’t wait in line?
7:50AI didn’t, I didn’t get in line at all.
7:52DWell, good thing you didn’t wait in line. You want to know why?
7:54AWhy?
7:54DThe line was wrapped around the block. I came at 11 o’clock because I would not spend no overnight I’m not doing that, bro. So I came in, my man said, yo, I’m in the front somewhere. He hopped over. He said, yo, we can get further down. He hopped over again. When you get in there, you get pushed. You can barely -- you might tear your ACL. I almost got hurt, bro. I almost got thrown on the floor, bro. That shit crazy. And I ain’t even get to see Kai. Nigga said, yo, fuck it. Kai went home. Shit was bad, man. What brought you out here, man? Just to catch the people coming by?
8:21AYeah, I mean, it’s a moment, right? It’s a moment in streaming. So I’ve been trying to lock in, shoot content. Uh, I knew -- I saw he posted about StreamerU and I was like, fuck it, I’m gonna pop up. I said last night, And I was like, I live in Philly, so I took the bus here this morning at like 6 AM.
8:33DYeah, yeah.
8:36AI mean, it’s not that far. It’s only on the East Coast.
8:37DSo, so what’s your main, your main platform? Is YouTube, TikTok?
8:40AYouTube and Instagram. YouTube primarily though.
8:42DAre you, are you gonna start doing Twitch too or not?
8:44AUh, maybe at some point, but right now I’m really not stressed about, about Twitch, right? I’m really trying to build like, how can we build like a platform? How can we build like a network? That’s more, more my type channel.
8:53DThat’s valid. Listen, keep doing your thing, bro. Don’t even let nothing discourage you. Me personally, I came out here fully knowing I’m probably not gonna make it, but you know, content is content. I can still cast the people.
9:00AI can still get the vibe.
9:00DIt’s almost like a Documentary. It’s everything is telling story, bro.
9:04AI’m here to do. I’m doing a documentary about Kai, about the whole thing.
9:07DSo I got a whole footage of like the thing. If you want me to send you, I can send you footage about how long the lines was. You’ll probably see on my Instagram, bro.
9:12AI got I got I got hours of footage today.
9:13DSo it’s like yo, bro, down the block, son. As long as you was able to cut, you was good. It’s just that they just ain’t making it, bro. My back hurting right now. I feel injured, bro. Feel really handicapped, bro. I’m thirty, bro. But I look like I’m twenty.
9:24AYou’re funny. You’re funny. How long you been doing content?
9:26DOh, I’ve been doing content for a couple years. I’m about I’m about to hit forty K. I just took a little break so I could work on myself, get the gym, be healthy. So I want to start another page for like people who. Want to be healthy, but can’t always cook food because I get a lot of my stuff dieting just outside.
9:38AOkay, okay.
9:39DAnd that’s the reason I say like if you can’t cook, you can’t be my bitch. Gangster. If you can’t fucking cook, you can’t be my bitch. She just stuck right here.
9:46CNo, no, no.
9:47DAnd I need you to make oxtail, nigga. Hold on.
9:49ALet me talk.
9:49DLet me talk.
9:50BLet me talk.
9:50AHold up with the ice spice t-shirt to give us the free game.
9:53DOxtail and brown rice, nigga. I could get a hundred ice spices and I need them all to cook. That’s why I’m filtering y’all out. Y’all already gotta have an ass. Y’all already gotta have an ass and a back and a nice body to even come in the in the in the conversation.
10:04GWhat the fuck?
10:06DFuck, it’s an oxtail, my nigga.
10:07ABut she can’t define herself.
10:08DYou want a girl who can’t define herself? Can she make oxtail? Why? That’s all that matters? Yes. Oh damn, shit, fuck it. I guess he found someone. I mean, no, if a big giant, big fat girl trying to come swing on me, you got to be able to defend the gangster. I’m not touching her. Oh, what? I’m not touching her. But yo, what’s your channel though? Tell them to my people.
10:30AOh, so my channel is We Them Media. W-E space them media.
10:34DSay it again.
10:35AOh, no worries. We Them Media.
10:36DWe Them Niggas.
10:36CWe Them Media.
10:36AWe Taking over the whole world is ours. I’m making sure niggas know the platform, public media, the whole diaspora, the whole world. We got people down in Mexico. Hablo español también. Estamos preguntando todo, hablando a todos. Espera.
10:48DOh yeah, look, I see you, my brother. I see you. What are you? What’s your nationality?
10:52EHuh?
10:52DWhat’s your nationality?
10:53ANah, I’m just black. I’m just African.
10:54GBlack.
10:54BOh, he’s black.
10:55ABut I speak Spanish.
10:55DOh, but he mad educated. You can tell by the way he talking. So he even said the word nigga. That shit threw me off. Threw me for a loop. We them niggas media. Like, come on, bro. This nigga really could afford the nigga, bro.
11:05AFuck.
11:05DBut you fluent in Spanish?
11:06AYeah, I’m fluent in Spanish.
11:07DYou getting all the few.
11:08FI ain’t gonna hold you.
11:09AI don’t even know Spanish.
11:11DI’m Puerto Rican, but I still want Dominican tongue, bro. Oye, ¿qué lugar, mami? Mangú. Like, come on, bro. That’s all I know though. Zapatos.
11:20AZapatos.
11:21DYou’re funny.
11:22AZapatos. That’s hilarious. I like that.
11:26DI like that. Are we out?
11:29AWhat the fuck you saying that, man?
11:34ELook up to Ice Spice.
11:36DMy hero right here.
11:37EYou look up to Ice Spice?
11:39DShe the reason I’m here today.
11:39BOkay.
11:39EShe taught me how to be a Bad bitch.
11:43DOkay, show me how to be a baddie.
11:44ETell me a little bit more.
11:46DI’m a real fucking baddie.
11:47FNow what is it?
11:50DConfident, walking in the room, own that shit, always looking good. What the fuck? These other patties be fake. I’m a real baddie.
11:59EFake baddies, fake baddies. These are the real baddies. Okay, what’s your gram at?
12:05DI go by Styles Food, S-T-Y-L-E-Z Food, type shit.
12:09FOkay, my Twitch is UC Web.
12:20DYeezy West.
12:22FYes.
12:22CDamn.
12:23EJust like that.
12:26DWhat’s in Rhode Island?
12:27EWhat’s in Rhode Island?
12:29AWhat’s your name?
12:31FMy name is Ashley.
12:32AAshley, it’s nice to meet you.
12:33FMaceo. Maceo.
12:34AYeah, Maceo. Just like that. So how long you been doing content?
12:39FOh my God, I’ve been doing content for like 2 years, but really like 4 years because I did it and I Then I did it again, then I stopped. And then the 2 years is when I was being consistent. But, uh, yeah.
12:52AWhat’s been the biggest challenge?
12:53FThe biggest challenge is honestly, like, becoming, like, clouded and then, like, not knowing who your real friends are. That’s, like, the biggest challenge.
13:04AYou feel like people are trying to use you?
13:05FIt’s not so much using you, but it’s like when you’re being genuine and then they just give you the ink or the vibe that they’re just using you because of what you have to offer.
13:14CAnd, um, that shit, that shit be so sad.
13:17FAnd also, like honestly, like making sure your content is different from everybody else. Because at the end of the day, like you don’t want to just be known as okay. Like yes, a person that do skits, but like you want to like you want to have some type of like differentiability. That’s a fucking word.
13:34AYeah, yeah, it’s a word. You just made it. If it’s not, it is.
13:36FYeah, this is my shit, nigga. You want to have some type of different shit about you. You know what I’m saying?
13:40ASo yeah. And where are you from?
13:41FOh, I’m from Queens, but I live in L.I.
13:43ALong Island.
13:44FYeah.
13:45AL.A. Yeah, I was confused.
13:46FI’m so bad with eye contact, so I’m not really confused.
13:47ENo, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter.
13:49Cmatter.
13:50AAnd so what’s it called? You were trying to audition for Streamer U today?
13:52FI definitely was trying to audition for Streamer U University. I definitely put my sweats, my lace front, my fucking clothes, my white shirt, my pussy on the line.
14:02DYou’re hilarious.
14:03FTo get inside, and I did get inside.
14:05DOh, you did?
14:05FYeah, but unfortunately I got in too late.
14:07ADamn.
14:08FSo it’s like, damn, I was this close and I didn’t get to make it.
14:11EBut at the end of the day, like, I’m still not gonna give up.
14:13FI, I pray and hope to God that he did see my application. I pray and hope to God that eventually what I did do was enough for me to get in.
14:19AUm, unfortunately he couldn’t meet me in person But if I do get in, then he can meet me in person. How long were you here today?
14:26FI got here -- definitely other people that put in way more pain than me. I got here at 9:30 in the morning.
14:33AThat’s still early.
14:34FAnd got inside. But there definitely was so many other people that got -- that put that pain in. And, you know, I’m just blessed. And like, obviously God wanted me inside, but he just didn’t want me to cross that finish line.
14:47DOr the devil didn’t want me to cross that finish line. You have a message for Kai?
14:53FMy message to Kai is, um, I know you got a lot of people that wants this shit, but hopefully you take the time out of, you know, looking at everybody’s application and you take -- and you look at my shit. Look at my film, look at my, my video.
15:05AYou make films?
15:07FI made a little like 3-part film and, um --
15:10AThat’s cool. You edit it yourself?
15:12FUh, I, I directed it myself.
15:14AThat’s still cool.
15:15FYeah, and I made the whole shit and, um, I just hope he sees it. Like, at the end of the day, like, fuck if I -- like, I want to get in, but if I don’t get in, then like, I just want you to see it.
15:25DLike, you know what I’m saying?
15:26FLike, I did put hard work in this year, so --
15:29AYou feel like he should do like a reaction marathon stream?
15:31FI think that he should do whatever his heart desires. I feel like he knows what he wants for his shit, and, um, he’s gonna do what he has to do. And I just hope I’m just one of the few that get selected. I deserve it, and I think I deserve it.
15:49AAnd hopefully Yeah, why not? And I’m curious, what do you like? Hey man, here to stay in the back seat.
16:00FExactly, be in the back, nigga.
16:01DKnow where you belong.
16:03AWhat’s it called? How do you see this moment and like media changing? Like streaming, we used to have TV, everybody on like TikTok, shit like that.
16:08FI think the streaming shit fucked shit up for us, fucked the youth up. Hey, we just going with the flow at this moment. We can’t do anything. Streaming definitely changed the game. Higher doors. Wait, did you get inside? I did get inside. Oh my God.
16:25DI stink.
16:25FI stink too, but, um, bitch, you better be -- I only want you to get in. I didn’t get -- I didn’t get to see him, but I got inside. I didn’t get to go upstairs. But you did your video, right?
16:37BThat nigga’s hungry, bro. I got pizza.
16:38FThere’s no way he don’t pick you, gang. He’s gonna pick you. I know you really want to get in, and I really want you to get in because you’re gonna be fire. You would --
16:47Ethat go crazy.
16:48FNah, you’re good.
16:51ANah, I agree with that. We’re rooting for you.
16:51DWe the media, that’s for sure.
16:53ASo what’s your handles and stuff like that?
16:55FOh, Ash Baby, Ash Baby, Baby Three Wise.
16:57AHey guys, bye bye. Appreciate you, appreciate you. Ash Baby Nicker, I fuck with it. I fuck with it.
17:04BOh, yo, we got -- look, yo, I need a cameraman though. I need a cameraman. Oh, suck it, homie. Oh yeah, yeah, no, you good, you good.
17:12FYo, we got pizza, man.
17:13BBro, we got pizza in this bitch.
17:14AI’m surprised about this shit.
17:15BYo, bro, you’ve been out here all day.
17:16AI’m hyped.
17:17FYeah, that shit good.
17:19AThat shit from Rhode Island.
17:20EThat’s some Rhode Island pizza.
17:21COh really?
17:22ERhode Island pizza.
17:22AOkay, from, from the way. Oh, who we got right here?
17:34GReed Estrella, man. We read from Reed Zero, bro.
17:37AHe the first Sword Saint and the only one to reach the Heavenly Sword, bro. Get in there, bro.
17:42GLike I said to her, I forgot my wig, but then again, it might have been a good thing. I might have had a heat stroke if I had it on this 94-degree weather. That shit would have been insane.
17:51ABut where you from?
17:52GI’m from Baltimore. From Baltimore, man. Coming to New York. Coming a new man, bro.
17:59AI believe that. I believe that. Say more about that.
18:03GStarted in Baltimore, bro. We end up with Dundalk County. Moved to New York because most of my family here.
18:09ABut we chilling now.
18:10CWe good.
18:11GThat’s about it for me.
18:12AWhere we find you?
18:15GOoh, TikTok, IG, bro. At Kuro Tensa. K U R O T E N S A.
18:21AEasy, man. Appreciate you, man.
18:23GAppreciate you.
18:23FOh yeah, later, bro.
18:28CI’m wilding.
18:37BBro, why is there sauce on your leg, bro?
18:40CI don’t know where it came from.
18:43AYou got the mafia down Crocs. That’s kind of fire. You want to use it for your pizza? You said what?
18:48CYou want to use the sauce for your pizza?
18:50AYou think I would?
18:50DNo.
18:50AThat charges ice. You’re gonna go on Huh? In the car?
18:55CNo, inside.
18:56AOh, like some people were going up in over there, but I’m not really like that. Not really, not really. So, so what you have to say the people?
19:21CArtists took the note.
19:22AYeah, you said how pot impacted the culture.
19:24CYeah, what else should I say?
19:31BWhy you do this?
19:35CI would rather do this than work a job.
19:38AIf you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing?
19:40CWorking a job. So I would rather do this than work a job any day.
19:47AWhat’s been the hardest part of doing this?
19:49CNo motion.
19:51ASay having no motion. And so how’d you go from no motion to motion?
19:55CAct like you have motion. You just keep grinding every day. You show up when no one else does, and then eventually people will know to expect that you’re going to show up, and they’ll show up.
20:08AOkay, I like that.
20:10CDo you need napkins?
20:11AThat’s a nice question.
20:13BYou want to get it on the
