SNEAKO - December 19, 2024
THE COLLEGE DROPOUT.
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about why I decided to drop out of college, why I dropped out of school, and why it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I also talk about how I got my start as a rapper, and how I went from being a loser to becoming a viral sensation.
Transcript
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This was me two years after I moved from New York City to New Haven, Connecticut, thinking 2003.
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This is me the next year in Haiti, visiting my family.
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Then this is me six years ago to this day, when I had an opportunity overnight to change my life forever.
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Oh, he's got to really time up with the drop too, maybe.
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100K, I used to work at the Sunway. I fucking worked here.
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I had already been doing YouTube for five years, and then overnight I went from 30 to 100,000 subscribers.
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The next summer is when I decided to drop my ass about a college.
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My teacher said I was a loser. I told her, why don't you kill me?
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I give a fuck if you feel me. I'm gonna fire.
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You want to hit you with the scissors and the clipboard?
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Your lineup could have been a lot more sharper.
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He could have hit you with the little details, man.
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I mean, he could have done a lot sharper without going beyond the hammer, but good, man.
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My whole childhood, I never knew if college was in my story.
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And this is the story of why I dropped out of college.
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There's something undeniably rebellious about dropping out of school.
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I always knew it was something the main character does.
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The main character doesn't do what he's told and follow the path that's already paved.
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This picture embodies exactly what it was like for me growing up.
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But this picture is in Haiti because I'm part Haitian.
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But I was born in New York City, but grew up in a dangerous part of Connecticut while still
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going to a private school full of waspy white people.
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Around the world, everyone will tell you nobody loves talking about race more than Americans.
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So I don't take full responsibility for the fact that I never fit into any box.
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Internally, I always knew that my path to success had to be driven by me.
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The visionary is not supposed to see what everybody else is seeing.
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In fact, school is the real contradiction because we teach kids to grow and change
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Yet change is impossible if everything you're learning has already been taught.
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And there's no better example of curriculum than school.
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True innovators can't repeat what has been taught.
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Because my father as a photographer is most likely the reason that I always view life
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And one of the most cinematic moments of my life was when I finally decided
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I was driving from Long Island, New York to Myrtle Beach alone during the summer
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I've always found the best place to process thoughts is on a long road trip
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Why I decided to go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, I don't know why
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But I knew that I had to get out of New York and go somewhere that I had never been before
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It was around a nine hour drive one way and I had went by myself
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Most of the ride I was listening to podcasts and trying to get a new perspective
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But when I played the album Yay and specifically heard the song Ghost Town
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That's when I rolled down the windows, put my arms out, felt the breeze of the mountains
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With tears running down my face about being real
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Speeding down the highway in a car that I should not have been speeding in
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And I think I'm still on that road trip to some extent
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There was one road trip I took with my sister from the top of California to the bottom
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And that's when I developed a lot of my creative style
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And realized exactly what I want to put out into the world
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There was one road trip I took with my brother across the country
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And we even stopped in Wyoming where this album cover was shot
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The actual specific part of the song where I pulled the trigger in my mind to quit
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This was a difficult time because I knew that I didn't want to be in school
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Through the most hedonistic activities possible
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I was going out and partying three, four nights a week
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I was sleeping with as many women as I possibly could
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But there were very few times where I actually did pay attention during film school
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And work at a news station operating the camera
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I'm not in film school to be bound by the corporate life
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Not only was I now in a quarter million dollars
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And you can't blame your family for cutting you off
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Because I knew I needed that pressure to succeed
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My favorite moment during his Netflix documentary
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And he doesn't know where the documentary is going
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This is why tourists in New York City have that reputation