Adin & Bronny React To Tyceno Returning!
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how I went from being broke to being financially stable, and how I became a full time 2K streamer. I also talk about the struggles I went through growing up in a broken home and how it all led me to becoming a full fledged streamer and content creator.
Transcript
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So Javi, I don't know who Tycee anyways, I'm from the 2K community, he's a 2K YouTuber, uh, he's been very, like, MIA, nobody really knew, you know, where he was, but there was jokes about, not jokes, but just crazy fuckin' conspiracies about his girl being pregnant and shit, uh, oh, and then there was a fucked up thing that somebody said he had cancer, fuckin' weirdos, bro, but anyways, um, yeah, let's just, I wanna watch this shit and see where he's been at, um, yeah.
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Alright, so, for the last four months, you guys know I've been absolutely gone from YouTube, Twitch, everything, and, um, there's a reason for that, I just want you guys to know that, and I'm about to explain all of that in this video.
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Now, for you guys to really understand what I'm talkin' about, and just, just how much this-
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Tee Grizzly's in my chat, he just said, Gaten Ross. Hey, Tee Grizzly, everyone at Tee Grizzly, tell me how badly you wanna fuck him.
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Hey, Tee Grizzly, shut the fuck up and fuck you, bitch.
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Uh, also, uh, Tee Grizzly's coming to my house, I think Friday, or Saturday, or, or Thursday, uh, we will be doing a stream as well.
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Tomorrow, I already told you guys I have G Herbo coming over, uh, but Tee will be here.
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Please don't, please don't do no gay shit to him, bro.
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You wanna get a Polo G reaction, that nigga gonna beat your ass.
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And he gonna leave, the first thing you say, he gonna leave, bro.
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So really quickly, basically four years ago, 2017, I was absolutely dead broke.
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I was like, I think I remember a day where it was about negative 1,500 in my bank account in 2017.
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Um, I was working at 8 to 5 that I absolutely hated.
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Now, how the hell did you have negative 1.5 in your bank account if you had an 8 to 5 job?
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Well, you guys gotta understand, I finished high school at 18 and I had no other choice except to get a job, okay?
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She had to work two jobs because my dad didn't have to pay child support once I turned 18.
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Didn't have to make the payments and I mean my mom was behind on rent, on bills, everything.
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And I was forced to work at that point basically because I couldn't go to uni.
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It would just be a hellhole with all the bills that would use.
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And I just worked and worked and worked and worked and worked and worked and worked and most of it was payday to payday because I couldn't buy anything else much, man.
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It was kind of that sad environment where there were just so many people working that job who just seemed really sad and depressed and it made me depressed, man.
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2017, where I was working, wasn't making me happy, okay?
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I was typing court cases and it was just a depressing environment.
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Now, long story short, every day after work I decided to push myself and I decided to say, okay, from 6pm to 1am I'm going to work and grind and stream and learn how to edit and record videos.
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And I was inspired by guys like Pretty Boy Fredo, Alex K, Cash Nasty.
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I actually used to watch Annoying back then, back in like 2K16.
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I used to come home and I used to, I used to jam for hours after school and I would-
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And you guys are giving me shit for using that word.
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Always consider myself to be a very good 2K player.
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Just like, I don't know, I played that game so much.
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I love basketball and I was just like, wow, I'm pretty good at this game, man.
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Why not just sit there and just start recording videos?
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Some of them get some good viewership and then I move on and on and on.
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And all of a sudden, from tutorials, I go to versing other YouTubers.
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Pushed that game to a limit that it never should have reached.
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Just based on what 2K20 was in the game, the community-
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The community pushed that game and the viewership and the content to new heights.
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That game had no business getting millions of viewers.
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That game had no business getting millions of viewers.
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But thanks to the community, thanks to all the creators, that game did-
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So that was those wages and 2K20 when my life really started going fucking nuts.
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The money was flying in, going from a dude who just had nothing to nearly everything,
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Lockdown, no lie, it helped a lot because everyone was at home and my-
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Like, it jumped to like 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 in some of the big wages.
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That little show that we set up was really big for me.
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And obviously, it was for Aiden and everyone involved in that.
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There was so much big stuff that happened in 2K20.
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We had to play in, like, his servers and for 50 racks?
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That was before, that was before that nigga step back rat was us.
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I said, bro, I'm going to pretend you're on a hotspot right now.
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Me and Bronny just fucking, like, we finessed, like, thousands of people.
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Y'all don't want that, if y'all don't want that agent, y'all never got paid.
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Bronny, if it were the one, we were not going to get paid on God.
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Who, who here actually is going to tell me and sit in my, sit in the front of my face and
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The game is not good on next gen or current gen.
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It's a game that you can play, but it's not a game that you love or that you really want
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And it's sad because 2K20 was such a good game, but it was the creators that pushed it there,
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Now, this is where the thing, this is where my problem started, okay?
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This is where everything got really interesting for me because it was in this little transition
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A few months ago, about four months ago, just when I stopped uploading, I got offered, I
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I got offered 1.2 million US dollars by a rival company to Twitch, to stream exclusively
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on their platform and to grind on their platform.
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So that, I, so, so I knew that, I'm not going to leak my DMs to Tycino, but Ty told me
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And, uh, that's the reason why he was, I don't know, I think he was a gun assigned, but he
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But he already got money, so like, he don't need it.
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You guys see why I said at the start I was broke in 2017, okay?
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You guys gotta understand, for someone to go from broke to getting offered over a million
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US dollars, in the span of three to four years, that is not something you can process
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That's something you have to think about, you have to sit down about, you have to be like,
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I had to, I had to sit down, I had to think, I had to be like, okay.
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Bitch, you're talking about, think about it, nigga, I would've took that bitch in rain with
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Bitch, you dumbass, I would've slept with it, buried with it, followed with it, I would've
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It's like, in my opinion, yeah, yeah, no, but in my opinion, yeah, no, but in my
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opinion, it's like, if you go to Facebook in a way, it's kind of like, and you're selling
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Yeah, like, I feel like you're selling yourself short, because Twitch is the biggest community,
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it's the best community, and the chat's the best, the community's the best.
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Yeah, he has, like, Twitch is the best platform right now.
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It'd be like, Chad, if I were to go sign with another, it would be like leaving you guys
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Yeah, I didn't even know you had to leave in Twitch, I just wouldn't do it.
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I'm not exclusive, nigga, I ain't sold my soul.
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I know, I'm just saying, though, but, like, a big creator, I know, I know, but I'm saying,
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I'm saying, like, I'm saying, like, if somebody, you've been shooting on Twitch so long, you
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No, that's different with Zane, though, because Zane got banned.
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It's not, yeah, it's not Zane, yeah, it's just, like, people, like, A&R, they do that,
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You're selling your, you're selling your entire community out, bro.
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Because they know when you're 15 years old, you're using Facebook, bro.
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Yeah, because, Chad, do you guys see yourselves going on Facebook every day, though?
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Yeah, it was, like, no, it was not 10 mil, bro.
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Now, Chad, if someone offered me a guarantee 50 mil, bro.
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Yeah, you can give away a few, like, a, like, a milli, bro.
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You can probably still do good on Facebook, though.
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Like, you wouldn't, you wouldn't get, like, that, bro.
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Yeah, you'd probably get, like, let's see, like, 20.
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I just wouldn't, I would, I would not do it, unless.
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But probably, if they offer you 5 million, you gonna take it?
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I was on a path to, like, big things in gaming, okay?
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Do I just take that short-term 1.2 mil, grind on a platform that I'm obviously not gonna be able,
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as litters on Twitch, like, Twitch is the litters streaming platform out.
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Right now, Twitch is the litters streaming platform out.
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And, um, you just, like, to leave that for 1.2 million, I had to think about it.
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And, um, I had to think about my mom and my family, too, okay?
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And just the fact that I have four, four years later, I have a 1.2 million dollar contract
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I can take the short-term 1.2 mil and risk losing a lot of my viewership.
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Or I can play the long game with Twitch and stay on Twitch.
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I know Aiden's in LA now doing all that crazy stuff.
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But from what I know from my DMs with him, he's always been really humble and really cool
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If he stayed on 2K, number one, let's be real now, he'd only be making 10K viewers, okay?
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If he stayed on 2K, that game has a ceiling that is impossible to break.
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And that's why I thank myself that 2K fucked up this year.
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I think if 2K didn't fuck up this year, it would put a ceiling in a cap.
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If the game is good, people are going to watch good games.
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Because the game was good and he was entertaining.
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Now, personally, I don't think 2K will ever be that good again.
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2K is the company that sold their souls for money.
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It's bad to the point where they tried to pay me money to say good things about their game.
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See, if NBA Live just get up and just like, oh my God.
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If NBA Live just grab a lot of creators and they just listen to them and they just make
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Bro, if NBA Live put a Discord together with like Ticino and like, you know, like streamer
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agent, like Nade, just like a bunch of people like that, bro.
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Like a bunch of people that play different perspectives of the games, man.
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COD used to have a ceiling before Warzone came out.
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But right now, 2K has a ceiling and nobody is breaking that ceiling because there is a
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2K20, we pushed that ceiling to the absolute fucking limit.
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But it's back again because 2K21 is pretty ass.
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If he stopped and took $1.2 million, like 2K was dying now, he took $1.2 million, he
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never would have had the blowout that he had because he would have left Twitch and he
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would have went somewhere else, taking $1.2 million.
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But Aiden right now is making millions and millions and millions.
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Yo, Harambe, there's going to five gifted subs.
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Hey, no, but I want to say, you know, the thing is, it just comes down to it.
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It's like, you guys got to know not to just sell yourselves out for short.
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I remember I used to talk in Disco Recoff and Snaggy Bo and like, be like, bro, like, what
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I remember I came up with this gaming show because it was so bad.
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Hey, nigga, I'm about to do Family Feud on Twitch.
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Shout out to Tee Grizzly because if it wasn't for Tee Grizzly, I wouldn't be where I'm at.
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And, you know, like, in the GTA world because GTA, you know, Tee Grizzly fucking...
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Tee Grizzly was the ultimate connection to get me in the rap game.
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Like, when it came to, like, collaboration-wise.
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I feel like playing it off-street would be better.
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He is making way more than a million dollars a year.
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And he would have missed out on every single bit of that if he had taken a salad offer like
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He would have had the money, but he never would have blown up like he did.
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Do you take the short-term 1.2 mil, or do you go long-term with Twitch and play this game
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You guys think about music careers like rappers and stuff.
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A lot of them sign these big-ass advances on these contracts.
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They'll get, what, $800K a million, 1.2 mil, 1.5 mil.
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They will sign these big advances on these contracts because as soon as they start blowing
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And they're like, yo, we'll offer you 1.5 mil if you sign with us for the next three years
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and you do this and you make this many albums, all that bullshit.
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And a lot of artists get fucked over by these labels like that, okay?
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There's a lot of shady gaming deals out there now too.
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Now, I'm not saying at all that my deal was shady.
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I'm here to announce to you guys that after thinking about everything, after sitting down
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and after four months of just being like, what the fuck do I do?
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By the way, I also had a good break during these four months.
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I don't want you guys to think that I was just out here stressing the whole time.
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But after these four months, I have decided that I am going to stay on Twitch.
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Okay, I've talked to Twitch and they are really keen to keep me on.
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They want to offer me a custom sort of contract that I can't really talk about.
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So, your boy is going to be back and staying on Twitch.
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So this month, I'm starting again sometime early May.
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I kind of want to set something big up for the first few days.
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Nigga, I'm sorry, that's going to get 100K views, bro.
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No, look, again, when it comes to viewers, it is what it is.
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I'm saying, like, you remember you said you could break that off of Twitch?
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I feel you because, bruh, giving 2K that attention...
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But listen, after that wager, it's not like we're going to be playing, like, every day.
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I heard that they finished making 2K22 already.
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Hey, I said, you think they're going to listen to us, gang?
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Yeah, bro, I mean, that shit's trending number one.
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Nah, this was the biggest downfall they had, though.
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Previous, them bashing me, trying to talk shit, and make me feel bad about leaving 2K.
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Wait, so you don't want to, like, play it, like, at all?
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Just for time, just for time, see what you're saying, though.