 And I just wanted to do something that didn't incorporate math. And then I always could talk like I did a speech from memory at four years old for an hour with Frederick Douglass. It's full, so I didn't always had that gift, but it just was never nurtured because for whatever reason. So when I graduated from college with a man's communications degree, my sociology, I was gonna be making $7.10 an hour entry level at a job. Which is, you know, not kind of the piece of purpose of having a college degree. I could have made that. I was making more than that in high school working at a shoe store. So I said, if I'm gonna be broken and struggling, I'd rather be poor and struggling, building my own legacy and helping somebody else continue to build their legacy. So I jumped in the car, always been interested in comedy. I always loved comedy. I watched it growing up. It was a big part of my interaction with the people that I looked up to in my life. And I was always told to do it because I was always funny. So when I got into the game, I just said, fuck it, I'm gonna do it. Four minutes on stage. I got on stage August 23rd, 2008, in the show and been doing it every since. It was crazy because I did a show for Nick in 2010, right? Yeah. Called The Fresh Faces of Comedy, my home girl, Dolly, who worked with Nick was in the system with the college with me. So he was doing this Fresh Faces of Comedy show. I was two years in the comedy at this time. I was like, yeah, you know what I mean? Nick wants you to come up and do the show. So when I went up to the comedy club, it was at Gotham, which is in New York City, the mecca of stand-up comedy for real. As far as the level of greatness that you have to display to be able to perform there and what it builds in you. So I get to the comedy club and the dude who's there tells me, hey man, I don't know you. So you can't curse, can't say the n-word, can't talk about anything in the rock tour. See if you're really funny. Why is it, man, if you know me? Because he didn't know if I was funny in that. So I hadn't built up any seniority to be able to just get on stage and lean on crutches that most people can lean on. Dick Pussy and nigga, it's really easy to dress that up as funny because it's controversial. So he's like, nah, I'm going to make sure you know if you're funny. And I'm going to see if you're really funny. So I was like, shit. So I didn't have a set anymore. Because at that point, that's all I was talking about. So my creative process is I walk around, talk to myself. That's how I get shit together. So I was outside walking around, talking to myself. And Nick pulled up and seen me. So I'm sure he just now I know he thought I was just some crazy nigga outside talking to myself in New York. So when I did my show, I just really talked about what happened to me that day. I talked about having to ride the bus from the airport. I talked about what was going on. Occupy Wall Street was going on at the time. I talked about that. And my set was just really, you can tell that it was genuinely done then. I was talking about in the moment right then. And the biggest show that I had ever done up until that point. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, I'm two years in a comedy. I'm in Gotham Comedy Club performing on the show with all these dudes with big names that record and it is Nick Cannon. And now I got to do a set based off of just something I'm making up right then. And so I smashed, killed. When I got off stage, Nick pulled me to the side and was like, yo, was you just making that up just now when I walked past you outside? And I'm like, yeah, he was like, yo, man, I'm going to keep it real with you. I'm around some of the best in the game, daily legends, and they cannot do what you just did. Keep working. That's special. So fast forward two years later, I'm still doing my comedy. I'm still grinding, working a little job to pay my bills and the shit take care of my family. I found out I'm getting laid off of my job. I was working social work, working with people with mental disabilities and substance abuse issues. I found out I'm getting laid off from the job in November when the recession hit real bad and they was doing budget cuts. So I'm panicking. I'm like, what the fuck am I going to do? I'm not making no money off comedy for real. You know, I'm not going to be able to stay. I got a daughter now. My daughter's one years old, about to be one years old. I'm like, man, what am I going to do? So I find out I'm on Twitter one day and I see Nick was like, yo, whoever's the funniest people on the internet, tweet them and I give them an audition for Wildin' Out. So I'm like, oh shit, they bringing Wildin' Out back and just my natural character, who I've always been my whole life, just fits into the scope of that show. I'm that nigga, walking around making up songs, being goofy and shit. I've been doing that shit my whole life. So I was like, yo, this is a great opportunity. Georgia 36. So I hit Dolly and I'm like, yo, is this real? Is he really bringing Wildin' Out back? She was like, yes, that's these consumer that was happening. So I'm like, man, whatever I gotta do to get a shot, to get an audition, let me know. So the way God worked, Nick ended up coming through Charlotte because he got from Charlotte, North Carolina because he got family down there. So he was going to do an audition in Charlotte. So I was like, true, that's cool. We going to go to the audition. Man, my boy beat out with to the audition. In my 2003 Saturn view with 212,000 miles on it at that time. Went down there, I did the audition. Mind you, there was hundreds of people there, man. And you know, I remember that my first interaction with Nick was that show and what he respected about what I did. So I'm like, even if he don't remember, I'm gonna make him remember me because I'm gonna do the same thing. So I walked around the building, got my shit together that I was going to do. Walked into the room and my homeboy, my OG Dorian now, who is family now, so crazy was sitting there. And I was probably like the 30th person to go. And he was sitting there just stone face. Stunning, big black Nick just stone mean looking motherfucker. So that's who I said him. That's my goal. I got to make him like that. So Nick was like, man, you know, you're warmed up, do a little stand up if you want to. So I was like, cool, that's cool, man. I do a little stand up, man. First of all, thanks for the opportunity, but I'm gonna go ahead and keep it 100, man. I don't know if this is as great of an opportunity as I thought it was. You know, I thought the child would be a little bit more intricate in picking the people. When I walked up and seen the line of people auditioning, I didn't know if it was an audition and we was handing out turkeys out this motherfucker. Like it just didn't seem like the type of people that I would be having an enduring dyes laughing. And then I get into my shit. And then I killed that audition. So Nick tells me after I finished, he was like, yo, I remember you from the show, you don't know that we did in New York. So if you want to, I'll give you an opportunity to come to the real audition. Because this was just something he was doing as a one-all. So he's like, you can come to the real audition, but you got to fly yourself to New York to get up there or get to New York on your own. But if you can get up there, I get your audition in front of the exec system. I'm like, man, let me know. So I found out the audition. My drive, I found out I'm getting laid off in November. This is the first Wednesday in December. The end of November I found out I was getting laid off. The first audition in Charlotte was the first Wednesday in December. Second Wednesday in December, I go up to New York and do the real audition that they was having with the people that I thought I was gonna see in Charlotte. Like all of the internet people and the other comedians that I knew about and all of that, you know what I mean? It's a bunch of people that I won't say no names because a lot of them didn't make the show, but you know what I mean? It was a lot of people there. So I went and did that audition. And what made me stand apart in that audition, it was like, you got to do some impression. So I did an impression on Uncle Ruckus. And I was like, Nick Cannon, you know why I love you? So I'm like, Nick Cannon. He was like, why? I was like, because niggas don't. And after that, that got me to the next audition, which was the audition, the group audition, that we all did together. Myself, Carlos, Emmanuel, Conceited. Who else was in there? Jacob, bunch of people that ended up making that first run. Was it the first time meeting Carlos and all? No, no, that's the thing. Me and Carlos knew each other years, met each other years prior. He came to my alma mater, Winston-Selton State, and we did a comedy show together years prior. He came with Zoo Man Miller. So we knew each other. So when we got there, we was like, oh shit, you know what I'm saying? We got to make this shit shake. So did that audition, killed that audition. Mind you, this is the third Wednesday of December. Final Wednesday of December, now Evans calls me. From my 818 number, I didn't answer it the first time, because I thought it was a bill collector, because I owed a lot of bills at that time. So I was like, fuck that. Then I called back again. So I asked, I'm like, hello? He's like, yeah, this is now Evans from MTV's Wildin' Out. I'm like, oh man, what's good? He was like, oh yeah, don't act relieved now, because you know I ain't a bill collector. I'm like, I'm relieved that you know that I thought you was a bill collector. So he was like, yeah, man, we just want to let you know, you know what I'm saying? That we reviewed everything, and we just want to say that you have made it, and we want to welcome you to the cast of Season 5 of Wildin' Out. This was the final Wednesday of December. It's not crazy how God worked. I got laid off officially January 11th, I believe it was, 2013. That was a Friday. That Monday, I flew out to shoot Wildin' Out.