SNEAKO - June 07, 2025I'M BACK
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Summary
In this episode of Neistat What's Bad? , I sit down with my good friend Casey to talk about what it's like to work for one of the most influential artists in the world, Kanye West. We talk about how he got his start in the music industry, what it was like living with the greatest artist alive, and why he decided to quit his day job.
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I'll be there in six minutes and I looked at my laundry and found these.
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Do you know about the smoke situation right now?
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And all the smoke sort of blown over the east coast of the United States.
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After spending five weeks living with this autistic genius who's the greatest artist alive,
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and me personally believe that's the best of all time,
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it's going to take more than one vlog to fully explain what that experience was like.
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I've worked with Ye before and got fired, so coming back after three years was nothing more than humbling in the beginning.
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I arrived there a little bit cocky, coming off of six months of vlogging daily in a space where nobody's trying to create anything new anymore.
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And with two years of film school under my belt, being in a space where everyone's just trying to make brain rot content,
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I was excited to prove that I knew what I was talking about.
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But immediately, I understood what it's like to be around a real perfectionist.
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And not a perfectionist like you need to color coordinate your post-it notes like Howard Hughes, autism level perfectionist.
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Stanley Kubrick, do 80 takes until you start crying level perfectionist.
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At first, it's infuriating to delete a week's worth of footage that would make seven videos for yourself.
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But when you look back at it after he color corrects it and borders it properly
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and gets the aspect ratio and the zoom and the crop the way he wants it, you realize, oh yeah, yeah, he's right.
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So it wasn't a hard decision to decide to pause the daily vlogs I promised for this year,
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because the main mission in the beginning of 2025 was to get Elon Musk to recognize,
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I'm making the best content on this website, maybe start monetizing it.
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So when you get the opportunity of a lifetime, you don't really have to second guess it.
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I was with the A, formerly known as Kanye West,
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It's like the best time to leverage creativity, you know?
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But, with kids I keep like normal office hours.
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And I find that like, all throughout the day, phone calls, Zoom, meetings, no matter how
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much you avoid them, they're inevitable and like it's hard to edit or do anything creative.
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If you need to dig a ditch or build a house, you can pull up the shingles and then go away
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But when you're editing a video, you know what I mean?
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You take a break on that edit, then you come back, it's like you're starting over again.
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And naturally, because streaming is my main source of revenue, people complain and call
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you a slave when I take a break and do what I want to do instead of dance for them for
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In a way, it kind of reminds me when Ye was going around New York delivering beats to people's
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doors for a couple hundred dollars trying to fund his solo career the same way I'm using
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my streaming career to make what I want to make.
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So I think most people understand why I chose to pause Project X and even the comments about me being
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a slave trapped in a Spanish prison I thought were funny because, hey, I'm in Mallorca, Spain
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in a mansion with chefs, security guards, and you get to work alongside the best artists of all time,
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getting the best learning experience you've ever had, doing exactly what you've wanted to do your whole life.
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Like, why do I even feel the need to respond to this?
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For me, it was a no-brainer, but the only apprehension other people had was PR, PR, because that was my initial goal
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going into these daily vlogs this year was to make videos so good that people were going to forget about
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You had the biggest streamers coming up to me, not being afraid to be seen next to me on camera,
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The CEO of streaming websites invited me on their podcast to talk and potentially bringing my show over
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But the only person who would be able to undo that PR run is a guy who's talking about certain events
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And even though a couple of weeks ago, Ye said he's done with anti-Semitism and spewing anything hateful.
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It's like, bro, I've been here for three weeks while you're doing that.
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But I definitely think the mission to get myself unbanned on social media platforms everywhere,
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most likely that's going to be halted for a little while.
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But it's a sacrifice that I was very willing to take.
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And I was proven right because as soon as I came back,
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everything that you see from the mainstream is starting to slowly unfold
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as the most bullshit fraudulent group of people that have ever existed in humanity.
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The mainstream streamers go around these streamer events like the cool kids in high school
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that if you're not one of us, you can't come sit at our table.
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You have Disney-backed, Roc Nation-backed celebrities threatening to commit suicide with a newborn child.
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And yet still the majority of the mainstream fan bases, they don't care.
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They dislike DDG for some reason so much that even though she's clearly the aggressor,
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she's clearly the one who's mentally unstable,
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they'll still side with her because Disney called her a little mermaid.
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I don't pay too much attention to them, but...
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Seems like that guy just got all kinds of shit falling on him, you know?
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Well, we go away for the summer for like, you know, like a month, two months.
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We take the kids to Massachusetts to get them out of the city.
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So it's like getting all this shit organized before we leave the city.
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And for me, it's like getting all my ducks in a row with work.
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Well, there's nothing like this place in the summer.
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Because all the old people like me leave the city.
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So in the summer, it was just like, you own the city.
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You start to see the same people if you go to the same bathroom.
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What do you think I should do in the city this summer?
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You know, I think like, one part of your videos that you do such a nice job of is kind
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of picking different environments from different locations and they're not necessarily like
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And the city is a different city in the summer, you know?
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I know what you should do this summer in the city.
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But when people are like, I don't understand why anyone would smoke cigarettes.
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But man, I haven't smoked in 20 years or whatever, I still think about cigarettes.
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My wife keeps a pack of cigarettes in our refrigerator and in her office.
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Sometimes she'll take one out and put it in her mouth.
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This is about half a mile less than we did last time.
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But once you get in the groove, you start getting easy, really.
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Walking back now, I'm realizing I definitely could have ran as far as last time because
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But I told myself before I got here, just waking up and doing the run was a win.
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It's really more of a mental thing than anything.
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I understand the necessity of having people that can exist in an atmosphere that's advertiser
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friendly, but the industry as a whole has so many cracks in the cement very soon, sooner
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Once this weird, edgy, fringed part of the internet is soon going to become the norm in
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the mainstream, the same way the edgy outsider Donald Trump with this orange hair became the
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And you also come to realize the people that obsess over their PR and their networking
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and all this homosexual activity, they're only going to be able to work with other homosexuals.
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I find it ironic how I'm criticized so much for pointing the finger at mainstream industry
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plants and making fun of networkers who rent cars to look cool in front of people they don't
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That without even playing your gay game, I'm better at it.
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I can confidently say that I accomplished the dreams I had when I was 12, not because
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I played the game they tell you to play, but because I made something so dope that people
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I've worked and became friends with all the people that inspired me back when dreams were still
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I'm saying the right thing, pretending to care about bullshit like pride month.
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I did it by not compromising what I knew to be dope.
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