They TRIED TO Bring Me Down but
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with one of Africa's most popular content creators, to talk about his rise to fame, dealing with the pressures of being a celebrity, and dealing with online haters.
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so interestingly you've blown up in the last year yeah and the celebrity and all the bullshit that
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comes with it i mean i've experienced it and i'm sure that what are you 26 yeah i'm 26 okay so
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there's a lot changing for you right now you're becoming a big deal how do you think you're
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handling that you ask very good questions you know um i would say at first um it was actually
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not hard for me um but i would say the bigger i've gotten it's very hard being like criticized over
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like every little thing and especially from a lot of i found reaction channels are really just like
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looking to take you out of context or they're just like and it's really not fair because they're not
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live and it's like they have pre-recorded edited stuff so if they say anything dumb they can just
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edit it out and you do long episodes and i do correct and i do three sometimes i've even done
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a five i've done a 24-hour live stream are they gonna clip anything that i said wrong in 24 hours
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hours and hours at foot like you're gonna find something and they are obviously because you are
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now money people can be your friend to get money people can insult you to get money that you are
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on the table nothing is off limits now and i noticed um recently i hope you don't mind me bringing this
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up because i found it fascinating when i first discovered you you had another almost a co-host you
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um bold-headed guy who was very articulate very good speaker and i thought you guys made a good team
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and he sort of um you know disappeared from the channel he then makes a video about you very recently
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accusing you of being a colonizer which i was like you know i'm not really sure where he's coming from
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this and i watched this video does he look like he has a gun to his head we've actually got an editor
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in the room who happens to also be a black man um so you know maybe this is evidence no he has a
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horrible life he looks really happy right now it's horrible yeah but and look to summarize the video
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just for people who haven't seen it give context the guy um said look on the one hand uh pearl's
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knowledge of uh the history of um african struggles uh was very limited and i had to educate her on how
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people colonize he said he said schooled me he schooled you yeah and then he takes that he takes
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that little footage he had of him explaining something to you about history yeah and then
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also then goes i had a historian actually reach out to me and say that he was wrong i don't know i'm
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not going to quote it yeah but i did have a historian like reach out to me and say like what he said was
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factually inaccurate and i was like well i don't know the thing that made it strange was that he then
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linked it to you then signing up uh content creators and he basically said you know on the
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one hand she didn't know anything about colonizing and on the other hand she's trying to sign these
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people up so therefore i mean she's a she's a colonist and i was like look mate you're putting
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two and two together and getting five here you're not even close to the truth like she you are creating
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an agency this is what you know this is the industry that music and many many other people are in
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where entertainment people spot talent they have a platform to boost that talent and you're actually
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helping people um so i i felt like it was very salty but it was for me watching you as a younger
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creator and blowing up i was like this is what happens you know people if they're not on the
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gravy train they'll turn on you very quickly and i thought it was a shame to see that happen to you
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so young yeah no i was very surprised by that video it was funny i saw it scheduled earlier in the
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day it said the truth about pearl and i thought it was gonna be him vouching for me oh no yeah no i
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really did i i was on the phone with my dad and i was like dad he wouldn't do that plus he's like
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twice my age so i'm like he's too old for this and then the video came out i was like what like when did
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yeah and um yeah that was i was you were friends right okay i thought he said we weren't friends
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but i met his son so i was like why would you bring your son to meet me if we weren't friends
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yeah and then there was like clips of him him insinuating like i wanted something with him and
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i was like no like what do you yeah and then then the the weirdest accusation
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was the sexual whiteboard parties did you see that at the end oh yeah where at the end he said
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it basically there's a cliffhanger which i was like i mean i rate the creativity of it because
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he made it look like you guys were having like orgies like fucking playboy mansion sober at that
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i was so mad it was like um oh my gosh it was so funny because one he put in videos of two producers
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that like like um blessing like he people know kind of know who he is but he's not on camera and some
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people don't want to be on camera so he put people in that video that like weren't a part of this you
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know and then the funny thing was it was like the tamest party ever it was um we gave everybody
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the big whiteboard right and we said you can do a speech on anything and you know uh my speech was
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the ways that men cap yeah because i was like i'm always on on the women today i'm switching teams
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you know yeah so i was like today yeah and then he just took that and like ran with it i guess
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well he made it a race issue which i think considering your channel is you know it's from people from
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all backgrounds consistently it just and i thought you're gonna have to have some hard evidence here
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and he had nothing no i i don't know why he did that um i could i could speculate but i i wish him
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well i hope he you know the fact that you're so gracious about it was surprising i hope he does his
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thing i wish he didn't that was a quite rude video if i may say so myself a lot of false accusations
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but i mean yeah maybe in a few years they'll be you'll be more prone to get a lawyer out when
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there those things happen i don't know because that's how things change unfortunately yeah i mean
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there is some legal stuff going on that i can't really talk too much about but yeah we're we're on
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it you got banned from tiktok right what was that for oh my gosh five times wow i'll tell you the
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original ban i've just got on tiktok so i better be aware of this yeah yeah you can't call women
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yeah so this is a problem yeah so we've already clipped that yeah yeah so my first go ahead i don't care
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so my first um tiktok i almost had to do a million followers because i was on tiktok before youtube
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that's why i've kind of blown up on shorts because i've done it before on tiktok so when i went to
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youtube i killed the shorts game you know what i mean so um on uh tiktok there was a video that i call
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this the attack i've spoken about this before so i'm doing my street interviews and this lady who
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who's i'm not gonna you know insult her and go up about her looks but yeah so if i had to if i had
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to use words we're talking about security and walking home alone at night and i just can't
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stand the women that are like oh my god i can't walk home alone at night i'm like okay neither can
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the nobody can you seem like you would be fine walking home alone and i think you might be fine
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like even you know if there's enough people you're fucked it doesn't matter how big you are right
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yeah yeah and so and men are more likely to be victims of a violent crime so i was just like
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nobody can walk home alone at night like maybe this is what i i was i'm solution minded so i said why
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don't you just not live in a big city that's dangerous and not walk home alone and i'm not i'm
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you know i live in the same city and there's sometimes i don't walk home alone because i'm scared
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and and she didn't like this so she just started freaking out and she's like i'll have you you
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slag i'll have you now i didn't know what a slag meant at the time okay because i'm american so we
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don't use slag i guess that's whore is that right whore which i was like rude now and so because she
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kept calling me a slag i was like whatever you're and so because you said that to her yeah yeah but she
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started it she called me a slag first like you know most of the time when i do call these women
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they call me something first i am i am responding i do say in generalities i could probably cut back
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on that but i think it's funny so i yeah i keep doing it so anyways so this girl came at me and
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then because i i when i put the captions on this video they i woke up my account was banned as many
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of you know i was just banned on tiktok and we are demonetized on a daily basis on this platform
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