Curiosity piqued about the journey of a multifaceted filmmaker who wears many hats, from director to actor? You're in for a treat as we sit down with Type Banks, a hip-hop artist turned respected figure in the entertainment industry. Journey with us as we delve into his fascinating transition into the world of film, his creative process for generating captivating movie concepts, and the essence of acting as an art form. His insights into how his movie, To Be, opened new doors for Black creatives to authentically narrate their stories are truly inspiring.
Is the advent of streaming platforms shaping theatrical narratives and viewer experiences? Here's your chance to get the inside scoop. Our conversation delves into the impact of contemporary socio-political situations like George Floyd's tragic event on Netflix, the approach to creating slavery movies, and the enigma surrounding the popularity of gangster movies among Black audiences. We also shed light on the challenges of involving Black people in the Hollywood business, the influential role of 50 Cent in the entertainment industry, and the success of 2B originals like Cinnamon featuring Pam Grier and Damon Wayans.
Ever wondered how to harness the power of social media platforms to showcase your creative work? Type Banks gives you a front-row seat to his experience. You'll get a first-hand account of how he navigated the dynamic social media landscape to amplify the reach of his projects. As an added bonus, he shares invaluable advice for aspiring filmmakers and artists on creating an impactful project. Wrapping up with a dash of humor, we dive into comedian Rome's upcoming YAS comedy tour, his views on the importance of supporting creators, and a candid chat about the trials and triumphs spanning his past decade in the industry.
Curiosity piqued about the journey of a multifaceted filmmaker who wears many hats, from director to actor? You're in for a treat as we sit down with Type Banks, a hip-hop artist turned respected figure in the entertainment industry. Journey with us as we delve into his fascinating transition into the world of film, his creative process for generating captivating movie concepts, and the essence of acting as an art form. His insights into how his movie, To Be, opened new doors for Black creatives to authentically narrate their stories are truly inspiring.
Is the advent of streaming platforms shaping theatrical narratives and viewer experiences? Here's your chance to get the inside scoop. Our conversation delves into the impact of contemporary socio-political situations like George Floyd's tragic event on Netflix, the approach to creating slavery movies, and the enigma surrounding the popularity of gangster movies among Black audiences. We also shed light on the challenges of involving Black people in the Hollywood business, the influential role of 50 Cent in the entertainment industry, and the success of 2B originals like Cinnamon featuring Pam Grier and Damon Wayans.
Ever wondered how to harness the power of social media platforms to showcase your creative work? Type Banks gives you a front-row seat to his experience. You'll get a first-hand account of how he navigated the dynamic social media landscape to amplify the reach of his projects. As an added bonus, he shares invaluable advice for aspiring filmmakers and artists on creating an impactful project. Wrapping up with a dash of humor, we dive into comedian Rome's upcoming YAS comedy tour, his views on the importance of supporting creators, and a candid chat about the trials and triumphs spanning his past decade in the industry.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to brand new episode of the no ID podcast. We are in season eight. I have here director, producer, writer, actor, creative. This man has several hats, okay, you probably seen a couple of his show movies on to be hit a lick. One hit a lick to brown sugar liquor house comedy. He is a, in my opinion, the black spike Lee of to be right now and probably it's going to be more. It's going to be, it's going to definitely be on the bigger scale, bigger platform. It definitely is the one and only type banks how you doing today, sir.
Speaker 2:Doing great man, Thank you. Thank you for saying all that. Spike Lee's someone. I definitely admire man, so that's a huge compliment. I'm not there yet.
Speaker 1:Definitely we gonna get you there, brother, Cause you know. So how did you get into the whole creative realm of being a director, producer, actor and writer?
Speaker 2:I started off as a rapper man doing hip hop and all of that stuff and I pretty much morphed into it. Uh, I started doing, I was pretty much selling my CDs and I met a director to the store a hundred times Met a director. He kind of introduced me to that, you know, to the um, the other side of entertainment, and over time um kind of fell in love with doing it. And then I started seeing that I could have a little bit more control of what I wanted to do and products I wanted to put out If I became behind the scenes more. And that's how I kind of morphed into doing it, producing my own stuff, writing my own stuff and getting it out there. Yeah man.
Speaker 1:So how do you come up with coming to concepts of the movies like hit a lick one or two and brown sugar nights and liquor house, come on? How do you come up with those concepts? I'm pretty sure it's a process, right yeah?
Speaker 2:I mean well, um, when my first movie hit a lick, I just um, I wrote that pretty much 90% of I wrote that out myself. You know, what I did is, um, I went to uh, let's just wait tech as a technical community community college and learn how to write a script, because I wanted to write it. You know, I need to know how to write it the correct way. So that's what I did. I invested in that. Before I even did it, I knew that I had to have a solid story for something to start out with, cause, even when I was rapping, um, a lot of my strong points people would say would be storytelling. So I just kind of start thinking about ideas that I would like in music, and I still got ideas for old songs that I wrote that I'm going to turn into um, screenplays and things like that. So it was just a base of just dreaming about what you want to do, you know, and just pursuing it. That's pretty much it, definitely.
Speaker 1:Who was some of your inspirations? As far as the creative game, I know you said Spike Lee. Was there, anybody else?
Speaker 2:Oh man, it's been so much. Um, Mr Bill Duke, that's someone that I looked up to. Um, I look at a lot of stuff. He did a lot of stuff he continues to do and his approach to it is that you have to know how to do more than one thing to make it, and that he saw my Hollywood. So, being an independent, you know you basically two time in that, because you don't have the same amount of budget as you would if someone else was giving you that budget. You know what I mean. So that's another person.
Speaker 2:Um, it's just been numerous people from all different races to be honest with you, from all different races, all types of people that I admire with doing stuff. Um, of course, my favorite movie to me, the favorite movie to me, is the Dark Night, you know, and how that was made. Um, it's excellent to me. So I don't limit myself to just, uh, someone who's like me or look like me. I try to learn as much as I can from different people and sometimes it just be. It could be a sci-fi movie, it could be a lifetime movie, you know, I could just be watching something, get inspired by whoever. So it really doesn't. You know, it's not like. Uh, I couldn't pinpoint it to like one or two people. Do you know what I'm saying? Most definitely.
Speaker 1:Most definitely, and you act as well too. Did you take acting classes, or did you just, you know, got just the natural talent of being a great actor? Cause you got like what's his name? Idris Alba said he's never took a acting class before.
Speaker 2:Um that wasn't my process. Um, I had to learn how to act. Well, basically, yeah, I had to learn. That wasn't my process. Um, I had to learn how to act. I think that for some people like him, it could come, you know, it can be, uh, a gift that they already have and it can come out of them right, with the right direction, or whoever's directing him, or whatever you have, um, but for other people, they need to learn the basis of acting. It still is an art form, you know, and it's just like we're singing. Some people are nationally born to be able to sing and others have to take lessons. It doesn't mean that they're not a good singer, they just had to learn the correct way of doing things. So, in my experience, and what I suggest, people who really want to get into acting is to take classes and learn how to act, cause some people just want to be themselves, you know. So you really have to take it serious, and I'm pretty sure over the years, Idris has had different directors who showed them things, you know.
Speaker 1:So definitely, definitely. Now we joke on to be a lot. All right, we do come to you, but it has opened up the door for a lot of black creators. A lot of black creatives and showcasing how has to be been for you, since you know you've Made the move over. So because only has been around for nine, like nine years somewhat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, the thing I think I'm glad you said that like we joke on it, black people joke on to be that's the only group of people that's joking on to be like that and that's because to be recommends movies that you currently watch. So it's like an algorithm with anything else. So if you watching like YouTube videos, you notice it. Another video that's similar to that is gonna pop up or in that same Category that you've been watching before, right. So what happens is a lot of black people are watching movies that they like and it's based on people that look like them or had experiences like them. So they get recommend another movie that was just like theirs, the one that you previously watch, which could have been a low-budget film. But if you look at to be, to be zone by Fox, it's not some. Some little bootleg thing is on my Fox and it's also just partnered with HBO, with Disney. So if you look at to be, you see all these big movies coming there. So it's not something that's that's lower tier. They say the same thing about Amazon Prime, but what it's done for me is open up the door for me, as an independent, to be able to not have to go to Hollywood To try to get a deal. You still got to get a distribution deal to get on to be. So it's not like you upload and things to to be yourself and To be does have a curation thing. That I think is gonna get even more tighter as that catalog get bigger and bigger and bigger. So After a while you'll start see people, their perception of to be is gonna change Because they're gonna start expanding what they're watching themselves. So they're long no longer just gonna be watching black cinema. They're gonna see Like girls trip.
Speaker 2:This went up on there. You know, that's a Hollywood film just went up on there. I was the other one that, oh, it's a couple movie just put up there some big moves they just dropped on there. So you got all types of people on to be all types of actors and stuff. So it's not some some bootleg thing that the black community want to like, do and I think they just doing that because they really just downed themselves.
Speaker 2:Really, man. I mean, at the end of the day, that's what it's really about. You know it's a joke on. You know, because they'll point out that people who make a watch to be moves they ought to be watched that on videos and stuff. They'll make videos about what went wrong in the filming. And look at that leg I saw. Look at that hand I saw. Look at this book. You know to get real picky about that but it's really. It's really the black community thinking it's a lower level because black people have a Love for brands and brand names, so they think they're looking for it to be like this is a to be moving. None of the movies you make our to be moves because we don't work for to be.
Speaker 2:You see them saying when you see a to be original, that someone who sold their rights to to be and now they own that film. You Know me. So it's not like these people work for to be, they're working to get a. So it's not a to be movie, it's just on to be and you to do yeah you know so yeah just depends on your distributor and where they put it at. I.
Speaker 1:Will say this though um, as far as me being a comedian, well, I'm happy that to be has come along, because now I get to see those comedians that had the specials that Missed that on, like I was watching Tony Baker, tk Kirkland, I remember they had that.
Speaker 1:They did the partnership with the LOL network and they had all the episodes of deaf comedy jam up there, so shout out to them. Well, and for those that don't know, hbo pretty much did partner with to it. They did sell that Well, I don't know like half that catalog over. So when I saw the new space, jam was over there and now they got Uncle Drew and some other things going over there. It's like alright, well, cool, and I appreciate to, because it does open up the door for black independence, black creators, those they don't have to go to Hollywood and and it goes through.
Speaker 1:They do that and I know you know how that that comes along. Now you've done different genres. You've done I appreciate liquor house comedy, because I think I watched five of them. Oh, I, there, I did did the interview with get a Rache Dink and I was like damn, this is actually pretty good. So you, you're giving a shot to those. There's a I wouldn't say underrated I hate that word. That's right where they need to be, but it just need that push.
Speaker 2:Right, they ain't been discovered yet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, like they need that push. I think it's something great to go on a resume too, because if you say, hey, I did a special on two because liquor house comedy or I was in a movie, hit a lick one or two, or brown sugar, we're like, oh, okay, he, they're serious, right, yeah, yeah, man, yeah yeah, definitely I respect it. Man, would you still get the itch to go back into rapping?
Speaker 1:Because now you see, like I got a story to tell that's actually doing this, acting out like Jay-Z and Biggie Smalls lyrics and to our, to our shows. Do you still get the itch to go back into rapping?
Speaker 2:Not really man. But when you're a rapper man like I don't pretty much did all the stuff in hip hop. I was a DJ. I don't break dance, I did tag and I want good graffiti, but I could tag, you know, pop and all that stuff. I don't pretty much did all of it. I've been doing it all my life, so about like 14, you know. So it's just another form of expression.
Speaker 2:When I found what I really think that I love about hip hop is the entrepreneurship of it, and I think that's what's really would draw me to it. As a kid, you know, I didn't understand what was called back then, but I understand it now, you know. And far as rapping, that's just one part of it, man, you know I make beats too, you said to me, so it's like just another part of it. So saying do I get an itch to rap again is like saying do I get an itch to make a beat again? You know, it's like whatever I feel like it, I might, you know, write something down, but I don't. I don't really see myself right now like going on stage and the rap and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Nah, I think I found my passion with the films and I could always put my music and stuff in there and put people. I know I like to put other people I know into it too. You know like put their music into my movies, give them a scene in my movies, especially there from North Carolina, I really like to put people um, that's because I understand a journey you know. So I try to put them in something and share it like, and hopefully they, when they blow up, they'll look back and be like yo, I'm gonna throw, you know I come and do a role for you in a movie you got you know. So that's pretty much how I look at it, because you never know what some ones won't be. You know what I mean, you just never know.
Speaker 1:Nah, you never, do you never?
Speaker 2:do you never know.
Speaker 1:You never do and you know. I want to touch on something you said earlier about people that do the videos and trend on Twitter about the two weeks. There are a lot of white movies, or I won't even say white movies or bigger box movies. They actually have quote unquote flaws and things like that. Yeah, yeah. Netflix is, yeah, king of that shit. Excuse my language.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Excuse my language and to be is definitely, in my eyes, better than Netflix in my eyes. Sorry, netflix, but it's the truth. It's the truth, like we always ask for diversity and inclusion and, you know, in cinema for black people. And one of the things that really took me away from Netflix was when the George Floyd situation happened. They came up and they say, yeah, we support Black Lives Matter and in their catalog of movies they're putting like slavery movies in into the catalyst. That turned me off for it and I just discovered to be pandemic, like most people, the Oscar. We'd been in the pandemic. I was like, oh damn, what's this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, is that right? You said it, man, because I have, I think, with the slavery movies, because I've done one before I acting, the one before that went off. It was like in the theaters and everything like that, but it wasn't one of the slavery movies in history movie and all of us in there was playing slaves, or some of us in that right. But what I think about slavery movies is that it's a way to show how strong a group of people were. So I don't look at it as showing as oh, you weak and we beating you down, you do get a fan. It's a way to show the humanity that someone had towards someone else. So is your approach to how you do it and how you look at it. Because you look at other people, cultures, they'll show their suffering all day and they're ashamed of people who did it. And after a while the people like stop saying we want to look back. Do you see what I mean? Like you'll see people who constantly show you their suffering over and over and over and after a while you sympathize with them and say yo, that isn't right. You see what I mean. So it's how you approach to it.
Speaker 2:I'm making a slave movie, but I think people are. They're looking at it like, well, I'm tired of seeing this. I'm starting to see that, like they said, they're tired of seeing the gangster movies, you know. But to be honest with you, that's one of the top sellers. That's who Black people are watching it. 50 Cent is proving that. He was like they showed. This thing was a top 10 movies of what Top 10 series and everything. He had four or five of the top slots by himself, you know. So nobody's making people watch those movies. It's other movies out there, it's a lot of movies out there. I think this is what people are gravitating to, because they're not. One thing you got noticed by Hollywood man they're not going to lose no money. They're not trying to lose money. You said, oh, so they're not going to make something, they're going to make no money. If it's going to make them some money, they're going to do it. That's that's how they roll, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah so it's just business at the end of the day. It comes down to business. We just don't have a lot of people a part of that business. So you know, but to them it's just business to them.
Speaker 1:It's. Sometimes I try to figure out why don't I have a lot of people part of that business? I mean 50 has, yeah, it is, but like 50 has capitalized the the stars market. Like nobody watched the stars If it doesn't have power up there. Well, tyler Perry is talking over BT. Kind of did him dirty on that deal, but Tyler Perry took it over. Yeah, my man, byron Allen. He's now has comedy TV which just came to Virginia's network.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 1:I don't, not too long ago. So you see us doing it. I think we just don't support A lot. Oh, we get too afraid of it. Right, if that makes sense. Yeah, I think we get too afraid of seeing us all on the television and I think we hold ourselves to a higher standard than the big Hollywood wigs we win a big Hollywood with have a flaw in the movie. We don't call it out, we don't post it, we don't Twitter. I don't know. It's like a crabs in the barrel mentality.
Speaker 2:Well, the thing the good part about is, when they do that, it does drive traffic to your movie, you know. So the people are still getting paid, they're still helping them, but I kind of think the day it's a way of them to say we're less than and they're comfortable with that. Do you make sense? Like almost like the DVD era, you know, when everybody was bootlegging. I think they want to represent, they want us to be like on a tier bootlegging. Do you see me? I think that's what they want when they watch, when I feel like, oh, it's a bootleg, but horror films does crazy stuff all the time. Man, I mean, if you watch horror, horror people, horror films do some crazy stuff, like some really funny stuff sometimes, you know, but it's just the audience, man, it's just the audience, you know. And then sometimes they like stuff just because the people in it they don't even really have to be good actors or nothing. You know, they just might follow some celebrity or a local celebrity in their town. You know, it's just the fans.
Speaker 1:You know it's the fans.
Speaker 2:I know it's pretty good for you guys. Y'all got a lot of jokes out of it, though I know y'all like it, so you know it keeps y'all material going, I'm sure you know.
Speaker 1:It, do it, do it do. I'll make a joke. I make a joke here and there on 2B but honestly, like I'm not even saying it because I'm in front of you, it's been some time. It's been some times where I go home to be I'm like yo, they had life up there with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, right, which is my top movie to watch. And then I get there. Yeah, I'm like all right, bet. And then I watched a 2B original Cinnamon.
Speaker 1:And they had Pam Grin, damon Wans and they was like, damn, this is good, this is good. The only thing I wish 2B would do is like they have an option where you can actually pay to skip the commercials. But you know, but that wouldn't make sense because everybody would draw to the free, the free of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's not their business model. Their business model is advertising on demand, like YouTube, you know, which is a good thing in a way, Just depends on how you look at it. But that's what we're dealing with. You know, you two. You two got some good moves out there too. You just got to find them. You do 2B did a good job of where they come to Black Cinema, putting it all in one spot and giving it a category, you know. So they respect it because they see the traffic. You know they respect it because they see the traffic. Again, like I was telling you, Hollywood just care about the numbers, man, you know, and they respect that traffic. That's why you have a Black Cinema category. That's why you have what's hot on 2B up on the Black. That's why, you know.
Speaker 1:It did.
Speaker 2:So you know, man, but 2B is not some local owned or some little mom and pop situation. It's owned by Fox News. If you watch the NFL on Fox, you'll see they flashed and 2B up there right on there up under that sports game. You know they also have live channels up there, you know. So I don't know why people perception of it is that way, other than that they light down their own people's stuff. That's the only reason I can see it, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's the only reason. I think it's like an attention type of thing, like you hear one person talk about something and they're like, oh, I'm going to talk bad about it too, but it's got some hits, it's got some bangers. Like I said, I got rid of Netflix because of the George Floyd situation. Right, yeah, what's the other shit? No, that's it. I keep 2B, I keep 2B. 2b comes in handy. 2b comes in handy.
Speaker 2:You got Pluto too, man. I mean, it's Pluto out there, vimeo Voodoo, which is owned by Walmart.
Speaker 1:Correct Crackle, which is Tony.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a lot of them out there, man, it's not just. You know, it's Roku, roku, channel Roku. They got them too, so you know it's. You got Film Rise, you got Film Rise. So it's a lot of them out there. It's not just, it's just what is hot right now. Again, that's why I said black people like brands a lot, so if you got a brand they recognize they're going to go to your brand. One time when I first started putting comedy specials on getting it on 2B and stuff like that and I was telling people they're like what does 2B? You know they would. Even I put it on Amazon Prime. Even when I put stuff on Prime.
Speaker 2:It ain't Netflix. That's the feedback we was getting. It's not Netflix, you know. And now things have changed and now that Amazon curates a lot, you know Now they want to be on Amazon Prime. So it's kind of funny to me, you know. It's like you can't get up there more than likely, like I was doing it back then, because we got in early, you know. So, like you're going to be have a little rough a time to get on Prime nowadays, depending on what they're taking, you know you might can rent it and sell it yourself, but to get on the actual Prime, you know, for free for subscribers to watch, and free V, it's going to be rough to get on there. It's going to be rough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they create a little bit of hurdles because they usually just be like Amazon Prime upload or something like that you upload.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can still upload yourself. You can still load yourself, but they curate hard. So just because you upload on me, they're going to get in there. You know what I mean, so that's what's going on. You upload on me, they go past it, though. You know what I mean, so that's what's going on with that.
Speaker 1:Definitely. Have you ever had? I'm aware it is. Is there ever been a time where there has been like a writer's block or you've done a project, you be like you know what. I don't think this is the best work I'm gonna do and you didn't put it out. Or you did put it out and it got a Better result than what you thought it was gonna get.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, man, that's happened before. I made a movie before. Oh my, I tried on my cell phone because I heard all the derailleuse by that. They kept saying his move was shot on the iPhone. Shot on the iPhone. People kept talking about it. Right, it was um, I think the move was tangerine or something like that. I think that was the name of it they kept talking about. I was like, oh yeah, let me try that, you know. So I went and tried it. I did complete the movie. I use the iPad and the iPhone though, but I did complete the movie.
Speaker 2:The thing about it is, I found out, is that when you record the MP4 and this is some old technical stuff, the video people out there gonna understand we record MP4 you crush it. So it's kind of hard to get the coloring and everything done because it's already baked in. So it's hard to pull that coloring stuff out to get it where you want, to make it look a level and have it all Consistent throughout the whole movie, right. So that's all technical stuff. I don't get all that. But iPhone is cool for certain things. You know it's for certain things. But that's why we use black magic, sony's camera cannons and those big ones. That's red. That's why we use them, it's a reason why you know. But yeah, man, I put out a movie called bless your heart. It was funny, but I could have did it like today. I could do a lot better. Now I can do a lot better. Yeah, a lot better.
Speaker 2:But the thing is, man, I want to say to anybody there who thinking about making a movie, the main thing is completing it, because a lot of films don't get completed, a lot of them don't get completed. So I respect anybody who make a film and complete it. You know it's a long journey.
Speaker 1:Big facts. It's a long journey. I think I've had some comedy that I've wrote and didn't hit, and I got a better result, but I didn't finish the joke. It's been, it's been interesting. Well, it's been an interesting journey, man, but before we close out, is there anything that you want to say to those that's aspiring to do what you do With, like any words of motivational advice that you have?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I would say, before you make a film or write a story, um, think about the audience first. Uh, you think about who's gonna watch this, who's gonna invest their time in it. Because we got we're competing so much for time from people, right, um, be very mindful of what you're making and who's gonna make it. Know what you're gonna. You know, envision who the audience is, audience is. Do some research on them and make sure that that's what they want to see. You got a niche down, like almost double niche down. So, if you're doing a comedy, you got the side is gonna be a urban comedy, it's gonna be a clean comedy or is it gonna be faith-based. So, you know, do your research before getting out and you can do it. You can do it. Get you a good group of people together, but you can do it.
Speaker 1:Definitely. And if anybody wants to follow you, how do they get in contact with you? Or you know, see some more your work, your catalog, because you have an extensive catalog. I've been on the website a couple of times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go on my website tab banks, comms, tye, bnkscom pretty much everything's up there. You just one click and go see the different stuff, man, and I appreciate you that. Have me up here, man. Also, I got a new film, a new documentary I just released, called she bad, and it's out. It's about I'd be honest, it's about dancers and Actresses, ig models, and they pretty much giving men advice on dating. So that's something used to. You know, I think a lot of guys will watch. To give it a watch.
Speaker 2:It's a documentary about 45 minutes long and I interviewed about like six, about six women and a lot of them are in different videos. They're like boots of videos there and a lot of upcoming videos, a lot of upcoming videos. They some of the rappers I haven't seen yet and they from all over. Man, I shot in Atlanta, but the models are from all over and some of them are dancers, they'll be honest, some of them strippers that are the Dallas and whatever, but the information is very honest. It's very honest conversation. It'll give you an insight of how women view men right now. I'll say, not all women, but how a lot of. So that's only social media trying to highlight different women online to give you a good insight of how they Think right now. But it's called she bad that's the name of it and it's on to be for. It's on to be for free.
Speaker 1:Or you can read on amazon prime yeah, man, I appreciate you having me Like coming on the interview. Um, I reached up, man. I think I try to hit your IG up a couple of times.
Speaker 2:Oh, instagram, yeah, I'm not really crazy, I'm not really strong on Instagram. I need to pay more attention to it, you know, because I was like I don't have a lot of followers instagram, so I'm like you know whatever, but but, uh, I need to pay attention to it because I was like man, I sometimes I don't even look at it for weeks. Sometimes, right, I'm like, oh man, I'm gonna look at this, but, um, I'd be busy man and I'd be promoting my other stuff and I just sometimes forget to promote my own social media connections, you know.
Speaker 1:But it happens, man, we got so much social media. We got to be attached to being a creator Right. I still haven't jumped on the tiki-tok wave yet, like everybody like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I'm, like I. I mean, I understand it, I understand it, but it's like man. That's just another one. I gotta manage now because facebook right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, facebook right now got me pretty much, you know, busy, to be honest with you, you know, because that's most of my traffic is that facebook, you know, and I got I got the she bad page on there, man, and that's it going and Imagine that page. And I got other pages I'm managing with people. So, instagram, I have to connect it better, get my instagram back up. I don't even think I got a thousand followers on instagram, so, you know, I don't even got a thousand. I'm starting to pick up because, um, one of the ladies from the modeling agency tagged me, so now all these models are coming to my page, you know, because they saw the movie. Of course, you know they want to be a part of something. So, but, man, I appreciate it. Man, I really appreciate this interview, bro, taking the time out introducing it, I appreciate that that's what don't problem.
Speaker 1:That's what no idea is about man. It's about interviewing black and brown creatives on anything on their journey, on their life, on like any struggles. They had obstacles. That's what no idea was created for and that's why it's called no idea, cause it can go. It may have a model, may have a direct, may have a comedian I've had it wrestlers up here but this, this is this is why I created this platform, for I want to pick brains, I want to see why you got your start and it's very, it's very inspirational because I you know you saying rapping, like using and making beats. I think the microphone is the most powerful thing in the world. In my opinion. It's a gateway to open up doors for you, like, comedy with this microphone has got me into doors and rooms and I was like ain't no way in hell, I can get in there.
Speaker 2:Right, right, right. Yeah, I would say this too man, don't be afraid to like take the next cause. If you fail, you fail. Man Ain't no big deal, you know so. But don't be afraid, I've had a lot of. I put a lot of comedians in my new movie. Right now I'm editing it. I'm editing it right now. It's called yes. Now Black Womb say yes. You know, like that, that's the name of my new romantic comedy. It stars Lady Shamar, who's a standup comedian out of Greensboro, North Carolina. I got 10, over 10 comedians in this movie.
Speaker 1:Man Over 10, you know, I can only imagine the improv on that one.
Speaker 2:We're improv a lot of. I let them improv. They're not gonna listen to me, you know, like certain stuff they gonna do the own thing. You know how comedians are. They don't follow script. They gotta throw that little, you know. But I would definitely like to come back and talk about that, man, cause we doing a tour with that. I'm putting together a local tour with that to promote the movie. So we're gonna hit different places in North Carolina and it's gonna be the YAS comedy tour while the movie is out, you know. So it'll give them some shine, and give me some shine, give me some wind for everybody and every city that's there from they're the headliner of that city or they're the hostliner of that city, you know. So you can do it, man, if you can stick together, you can do a lot.
Speaker 2:You can do a lot.
Speaker 1:You can, you can. You're more powerful as a United Front.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Definitely, brother. If you guys wanna follow me, say any of my shows. See this podcast. My comedian profile is Comedian Rome. That's on Twitter and IG. Noid Media TV that's Facebook and IG and YouTube. So YouTube and NoID Media TV will give you everything from the comedy to interviews to the podcast. Even I think like one or two skits are up there, and I appreciate my man, Ty Banks, coming onto the show. Make sure you go to his website. It's tybankscom. You can find him. Watch a couple of the flicks, watch all the catalog honestly and just support Black creators Black independent creators as well too, because we be going through it. You know what I mean. I don't know, I can't see his head, but I can tell you with my hairline. You can see how much I don't want.
Speaker 2:How much hell I'm gonna grow. I might have been going through I've been okay, that off. I'm about 10 for 10 years ago, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you bro. Yeah, I appreciate you bro.
Speaker 1:I will say no now stop recording.