0:00 [Music] Welcome back to a fiery episode of the camera boys where we have Tatiana back with us today. And guess what else is back? Firefest 2.0. No. Stop. Is it by Ja Ru? Dude, I Hey, I support it though. Do tell. I do support it because I think Firefest one was so popular like it the the debacle was more popular than the intended like thing, right? And now people know what they're getting into and I think they want to be part of a disaster. No way. I think so. I think that's the only that's the only explanation. Nobody really believes it's going to work. I think they all just want to be they want to experience the debacle that is Firefest. I want their lunch. But okay. Well, for them to even experience it. Right now, Firefest is
0:50 set to happen May 30th to June 2nd. There's no lock down location yet because Yeah, they're having location issues. Yeah, they're having location issues. All the places, even Ply Carman, like wherever that they're supposedly supposed to have this thing that they're already selling tickets for with no lineup, by the way. Right. So, about the island they use, they're all saying there's no tourist permit for it. There's no event that kind of genius and people are buying the ████ out of it. letting you know this is about to be disaster number two and people are like take my money. The cheapest ticket is $1,440 and the most expensive Prometheus package or whatever to like walk with the gods of fire or whatever is $1.1 million and it's and like walk with the gods of fire. There's like might be concepts of advertisement where you might you might have an MMA champion fighter teach you MMA moves in the morning. You might be able to scuba dive with a pop artist.
1:41 You might whatever. everywhere. Well, he said this in an interview, Billy McFarland, the guy who was like running it and you know, he's out of jail, huh? Oh, resurgence. Yeah. For fraud. No. No. And then even an interview asking him, he's like, "You keep saying like, might does that mean this not locked in?" And he's like, "Well, I'm not in charge of like the bookings or anything like that." So, like, I hope that they, you know, the team pulls through. Way to pass the book. Like, if you think about it, dude, it's great. It's the king of It brought it gave birth to something new. It's the anti-experience. The Willy Wonka experience was the same thing. This is just the king of those people who purposely want to go. They were scam events that went viral for being a scam and people bought tickets the next time they did it because it was like I want it to be this bad. I think it's hilarious. No. Damn. Who Who are you working for?
2:33 You're the host. You work for bro. No, it was um God. What did they call it? They I I can't even remember what the ████ it's called. Um but it was so crazy. They they promised me they were like, "Oh yeah, you can be the host of this and we need you to MC." And I was like, "Okay, cool." They actually had like real artists on this lineup. So Alina Barazz was one of them. Um which I was like, "I don't know how they" and these were like some homies that like one guy I went to church with like growing up. So I was like, "Okay, yeah, you're scams." What was that? Yeah. So I trusted him, right? And I was like, "Yeah, sure. I'd love to help out with whatever you got going on. And they um rented out this huge warehouse in downtown LA or like in the arts district. They said that yeah, they they sold like 500 5,000 tickets and all of this, right? And I'm I show up late cuz
3:26 I kind of knew that it wasn't going to start on time, so I was like whatever, ████ it. Um I get there and like literally is just the people working there. They didn't even do soundcheck yet. The show was supposed to start at 8:00 p.m. Um, it I got there at like 8:30 and literally like nothing was happening there and but they had a full staff of people working. It was I was like, "Okay, yeah, this looks legit." I go and I meet the artists and you know, I get their information like how they want to be brought up, like you know, all of that. I uh uh they start soundcheck at like 8:39. Mind you, the flyer time was 8:00 p.m. Um, they start letting people in around 10:00 p.m. Were there a lot of people waiting? It was like maybe 50 people in this big ass ████
4:16 warehouse. It was so weird. And they they made like the entrance. I guess they wanted it to be an experience. Like they said, "Oh, it's like you going on the subway in New York." When I tell you it was just like literally crates. It was just like crates and mirrors. And they made like a little section to walk into. So you didn't feel the New York vibe. It was so ghetto, bro. I would know. Yeah. I was disrespected. Thoroughly disrespected. Great. I was like, "Okay, you know what? ████ it." Like, "Let's just start the show, right?" So, I start I get up there. I'm just like getting the energy up, telling some jokes here and there, but like getting the energy up with the people that are there. And when I was like, "Oh, 50 people. It's so spread out." And they they had the nerve to have like a VIP section cut out and then everybody else in the back. Um how many people did the VIP? It
5:06 was like maybe 10. 10 people. It was so bad. Fifth of the audience. Yo, the first artist goes up. Um he's a rapper. Um he's from out here too. Uh I can't remember anybody's names. No. No. I he he would have told you this crazy ass story. He gets up there and like after his second song, boom, all the lights go out. Oh, all the lights in the house, like the short circuits. So, what ends up happening is the lighting people packed up and left cuz they weren't paid. Oh, yo. And it turns out nobody got paid. No, nobody had deposits. And the DJ was like, I've been I've been DJing for 4 hours. Our contract only said an hour and a half. Yeah. And he's he also didn't get paid. So, everyone's just like packing up and
5:57 leaving. Oh my god. And I'm like, what the ████ I'm I'm panicking cuz I don't know what to do. The two guys who run this whole thing go awall. They were there all night. They literally disappeared. So, because I'm the person on stage, everyone's coming to me like, "What's going on? What's going on?" I'm like, "Y'all, I ain't got ████ to do with this. I have nothing." They're like, "Are we going to get our money back?" I'm literally packing my ████ I'm like, "I have no idea." And I ████ did, bro. And it was like a whole Yeah. I It had a moment online where people like, "This was a ████ scam." And uh Yeah. It really was. Like people got charged like crazy prices for those tickets, too. No way. Yeah. Yeah. Like more than $500. No, no, no. Not like $500, but still like, you know, like I think it was likeundred bucks feels like a lot if you have to sit through that. Yeah. Did you end up finding out what happened? No. They literally ghosted me. Holy
6:48 ████ He didn't go back to church. The guy that you knew like ghosted you too. Yeah. He didn't go back to church. Holy ghosted her. Holy. So ████ bad. Your own restaurant. Careful. Then you're next to a professional. Um I I mean I remember them, but I don't have like contact with him. So sad. The restaurant on fire. You got a restaurant? Yeah. Burn it down. But he brought me back. Yeah. No, actually, you know what? I did get a I got a hold of the guy that I grew up with actually like 3 weeks later. I was like, "Bro, what the ████ was that?" And then he told he pretty much passed the buck on the other guy he worked with. He's like, "You have no idea what I've been through. This guy equipment. He was doing drugs in my apartment." I was like, "All right, let's start a business with And I was doing it with him." Yeah. He told me Yeah. He told me that he lost his eyesight and then he had to go back
7:39 to New York and like get to find it. Yeah. I left it on a train. He's on a train. Left it on the subway experience. Yo, subway. No, for real, dude. Like, that was probably one of the craziest situations I've been a part of. That is crazy. Especially if everyone's coming to you for answers and you're like, "Dude, I'm just Yeah. Just I'm literally just the personality. That's it. That's it. I'm here. The face. That's why people were like, "What's going on? How come the sound guys didn't leave with the lighting guys? That's ████ the lights and leaving is hilarious. Midset, too. Midset. Sound guy's like, should we leave? Leave it on. Leave it on. Let it cook. Let it cook. Let it cook. That's why I think
8:30 when when bad events go viral, you you reach a different audience. And it's these people that like the idea of going to something that's a sham. Yeah. Like if you're looking at Firefest number one, you see s█████ ass like little dome tents and then the the the lunch was like a cheese sandwich or something. There is a weird part of you that's like, "Yeah, I'm down to pay $1,000 to fly to Mexico and get the same ████ ████ We must be different, bro." I wonder. No. Yeah, it's not. We're not those guys. I wonder if the ████ lawyer is still a part of it. Oh, yeah. Lawyer. Remember how he was? Bring him back. I just found the flyer for it, too. No vacancy. Yeah, it's And they put me on the flyer. They put me on the flyer. It's hella vacant. It was all vacancy. It looks like your event. Wait, is it does look like my Yeah, she is. Did she not like How do you not Her and her team
9:22 just dipped, too? Did they show up and go, "Nah, no. They were there. They were doing her hair and makeup, her wardrobe, all of that." Yeah. In the green room. Um I don't know at what point they dipped. Um no vacancy artist showcase. Yeah. Holy crap. ████ crazy. That's crazy. Wow. Is that Justin Chan? Is that the guy who was rapping? No, that's Makina Red. Makita Red. Wasn't the Wasn't the dick sucking lawyer from the Firefest? Wasn't he like the most down dude though? Wasn't he like, "Am I going to have to suck dick to make this work?" And he was like, "I was prepared to suck some dick." Like, you need one of those guys on every team. Like, it wasn't his fault, you know? Yeah. He goes, "I was prepared to suck some cock." That's That's a pretty tight move. Wasn't it for water bottles or something? Yeah, it was. It was for water bottles, right? Yeah, it was. Cuz I remember it being
10:12 for something very like small, but it was very small, but it was something that was like really important. That's why I think those people obviously they didn't like the event cuz they weren't ready for it. But if you knew what it was going in and you knew you were going to have like a parody of a time, boy, you'll pay a million for that. Not a million, but like I think people are buying them because of that reason. I'd suck some dick for a billion dollars. What? Wait, that wasn't even on social media though. The question is not would you suck dick for a billion dollars. The question is how low would that number go where you would still do it. The question is would you pay a billion dollars to suck dick for a water bottle? Lose lose situation. That's true. Use water. That's what happens. That's what happens at Firefest. Pretty free resource. But wasn't Jaw Rule a part of it? Yeah. Yeah. But as like in what capacity was he investor or like was he about to I think he was going to perform
11:02 too Jaw Rule in the lineup. It's a good show. Is it? That lineup had that lineup had everybody. I don't care. I'd be down to watch nostalgic. And then I would pay 2x if I knew Ashanti was going to come out. No way. And then and then 3x if 50 Cent goes there and bullies them. Yeah. Buys the whole front row. Yes. 50 level petty. Why does he bully Jaw Rule so much? It's so funny. I can't remember what the original origin of the beef is. His pettiness is like real good though, dude. I love it. Is it cuz Jaw Rule was like pretending to be a somebody or like and then was like Oh, same with like remember Jay-Z how he has like ████ with Jay-Z too. 50? Yeah. Only because Jay-Z said something like nobody's scared of you 50 Cent or something. And then like 50 went on a thing and was like he goes, "Nobody's
11:52 ever asked if anyone was afraid of you." Yeah. And he's so calm, too. He's so ████ calm when he delivers it. He's like his, you know, it's funny because we were like younger when he came out. I didn't know the scope of his sales. I didn't know that 50 had killed it that hard. He killed it. I didn't realize that until now. Yeah. cuz I'm like, you know, like DMX 50, like they're all they were all the same to me when I was that age. But then now when you look back at the records and what they how big they were, 50 is ████ way ahead. I thought he was a mixtape content king though cuz remember when 50? Yeah. like he would have a lot of uh just like mixtape or like he would go on um he would just have tracks that were like and there were so many just non50cent original
12:42 tracks but he would just rap on a ton of instrumentals before he had his albums. Oh, I didn't even know that. I just know him for his albums like around the time. So, this is before he went solo and he was like I think he was a part of D12 or like uh Eminem's crew and then he was creating a ton of mixtapz. Oh, that's tight. Yeah. This guy sold 23 million albums. Jesus. At that time. Damn. That era. That's crazy. That is crazy. Yeah. 12 million of them were from Get Rich or Die Trying. One of my budd One of my buddies asked me. So, wow. He was like, "What's your favorite 50 song?" And I was like, "Man, that's a good question. I can't think about that." I was going to say many men, right? And then he goes, but then he goes I was like, "What's yours?" He goes, "B████, get in my car." And I was like, "That song is such a banger." I don't even know that song. You don't know that song? Play like two seconds of it. Can you play the
13:33 hook? You never heard that song? I don't even know that song. Oh, damn. ████ get in my car. ████ get in my car. That's what Hannah tells me. ████ get in my car. Get in. It's just Get in my car. Just get in my car. Get in the zone. Get in the zone. Auto zone. My car. Yeah, this one's been sampled. That's tight. Yeah, it's been sampled a million times. Yeah. And I was like, man, I totally forgot about that, dude. Candy Shop. Holy ████ Yeah, that's a good one. I was like in third grade when that came out. Disco Inferno, yelling it. Just no business. Oh yeah, play magic stick. Yeah, he got so many songs, man. I totally It didn't hit me until like now.
14:24 Nothing but bangers, dude. Window shopper. And on top of that, like window. Yeah. Not being able to be taken out by nine bullets. I know. To me, one of the invincible. You're like, "No one can touch me." No one's been shot more than him in the rap game, right? No. That's crazy. That survived, right? No. Even the guys who had died have had less shots. Yeah. Yeah. That's a fact. And it wasn't even in like one shooting. It wasn't like multiple shootings throughout his life, right? Well, and he took him in the face, right? That's crazy. Yeah. That's why you be talking like this. You should play him in the biopic. I should play 15. Crazy. He was like a hometown hero, too, cuz he he is from uh Jamaica, Queens. Or really a story of Queens. Queens. This is the next Yeah, it's the next city over from where I grew up. And like he would come, you would know because he'd come in his uh white G Wagon and just park in the fire
15:15 lane and he would always get CDs for his mom. Yeah. It was like a big deal. Uh oh. At the Best Buy that I worked at, everyone was like, "50's here. 50's here." Oh my god. You would see him? Yeah. We would see him. That's tight. Yeah. Yeah. Straight hometown hero ████ and stuff. No. No. Did he walk around the CD aisle and go, "Hm, which one should I buy?" Dude, that probably get rich trying. Get rich or die. It's only him every time. If he's like, "My hard drive won't detect." Yeah. He fight. You're all like, "God damn, 50 loves porn." Yeah, he's so tight. He has two terabytes. Talk about your on a different episode. Your geek squad thing. I don't think we talked about that. Oh, yeah. He does say, we will save that for a different one. He he does say in his
16:05 autobiography, uh, after I got shot nine times at close range and didn't die, I started to think that I must have a purpose in life. Oh, it was all one shooting. I thought it was multiple shootings. That's crazy. Close range. Make music nine times in one time. He did so well. He did so well with alcohol and with with uh show with producing shows. Yeah. Did you see that studio that water? That's what made him really rich, though. Yeah. Vitamin Water. Oh, dude. The Vitamin Water. God, dude. Crazy too. Crazy. Remember? Yeah. Remember those commercials? He'd be on the treadmill and he sweats like orange. Yeah. I was like, "Oh s███." Yeah. We really thought that would happen. I know. I was like, "I'm going to get some of that." That's dope, man. I'll be buffed like 51 days. I like Yeah. I like when he has beef with people. It's funny. He He allegedly pocketed around $100 million from the deal. Jeez. Remember when uh P Diddy was getting
16:56 heat? Like I love watching 50s page like nonstop. Oh yeah, he was coming at him. He was coming at him. He was in the comments of everything like just be like just come out already, man. You like booty. That's okay. Like he was really kind. That's so cool. Yeah, man. I love that. I love a good beef. I think cuz 50 Cent's not afraid to just say it. Yeah. Why should he be afraid? Yeah. That dude has too many things going for him, man. No, that's a fact. And he can't be shot. He own Yeah, he owns all his businesses. So, what are you going to do? Fire me, ████ What are you supposed to How do you threaten a guy like that? You don't you Maybe he's weak to stabbing. He's probably been stabbed. Amen. Yeah.
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