Ever wondered how a comedian finds the spark to ignite a crowd with laughter? My latest guest, the effervescent Dontee' Ray, sits down with me, Jerome Davis, to unravel the magic behind his comedic journey. From his beginnings in improv with the Black Top Improv Group to lighting up the stage at Atlanta's Uptown Comedy Corner, Dontee' blends his Northern roots with a dash of Southern charm to create a brand of humor that strikes a chord with audiences everywhere. He opens up about his life philosophy, where kindness is king and positivity reigns supreme, sharing how his comedic heroes from Eddie Murphy to George Burns have influenced his path.
Laughter often mirrors life, and in this episode, we dissect how comedy resonates so deeply when it reflects our own experiences. Dontee' 'Sherman' character is a testament to that, and we muse over the quirks of fame and the evolving landscape of comedy from live skits to the digital age. I sprinkle in my two cents, drawing from years of mentoring Atlanta's up-and-coming laugh architects, and we stress the non-negotiable: professionalism is just as crucial offstage as on.
The standing ovation of our conversation crescendos with hard-won wisdom for the stand-up warriors braving hecklers and the sobering silence of virtual shows. Dontee' and I swap stories of resilience, the kind that has you bouncing back onto the stage after a tough night, and we paint a picture of the challenges during the pandemic when the lights dimmed on live entertainment. For those dreaming of a life in comedy, let Dontee's infectious spirit and dedication be your guide. I invite you to tune in, follow his journey, and let's keep the laughter echoing long after the curtain falls.
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Ever wondered how a comedian finds the spark to ignite a crowd with laughter? My latest guest, the effervescent Dontee' Ray, sits down with me, Jerome Davis, to unravel the magic behind his comedic journey. From his beginnings in improv with the Black Top Improv Group to lighting up the stage at Atlanta's Uptown Comedy Corner, Dontee' blends his Northern roots with a dash of Southern charm to create a brand of humor that strikes a chord with audiences everywhere. He opens up about his life philosophy, where kindness is king and positivity reigns supreme, sharing how his comedic heroes from Eddie Murphy to George Burns have influenced his path.
Laughter often mirrors life, and in this episode, we dissect how comedy resonates so deeply when it reflects our own experiences. Dontee' 'Sherman' character is a testament to that, and we muse over the quirks of fame and the evolving landscape of comedy from live skits to the digital age. I sprinkle in my two cents, drawing from years of mentoring Atlanta's up-and-coming laugh architects, and we stress the non-negotiable: professionalism is just as crucial offstage as on.
The standing ovation of our conversation crescendos with hard-won wisdom for the stand-up warriors braving hecklers and the sobering silence of virtual shows. Dontee' and I swap stories of resilience, the kind that has you bouncing back onto the stage after a tough night, and we paint a picture of the challenges during the pandemic when the lights dimmed on live entertainment. For those dreaming of a life in comedy, let Dontee's infectious spirit and dedication be your guide. I invite you to tune in, follow his journey, and let's keep the laughter echoing long after the curtain falls.
https://noidmediallc.komi.io
ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to a brand new episode of no id podcast. Is that your host, jerome davis, formerly known as rome davis? But right here I have a creative actor, comedian, content creator. Um, this guy is really next up, coming up into the comedy game. If you haven't seen him, you you will now, but we've seen him all across the internet. Some of y'all know him as Sherman, aka Her-Man, from the Country Wayne skits, dante Ray, the man the goat, the legend himself.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's a hell of an introduction. I appreciate that. Hey, I almost had to start looking around. What are you talking about? Thank you, though I'm humble how you doing brother.
Speaker 1:I'm great, bro. I really appreciate you giving me the opportunity to do this interview. Man and I'm blessed to have to pick your brain for a little bit, and I'm blessed whatever time we get together.
Speaker 2:Absolutely man. Yes, it's my honor man. It's my honor man, it's my honor. Excuse, my excuse, my background. I thought I had one, but you can check these blinds out man, I got my mama's carry yoke right here in the background yeah, we just got these lines. We just, we just put down the sheets last week, so we, uh, we coming up as a family so question I want to know is who is dante ray?
Speaker 1:how did you get your kind, your start in comedy and how has it been since you started?
Speaker 2:yeah, man, uh, a great question, who is dante ray man? I'm just, I'd like to say I'm a, uh, I'm a northern guy with some southern gentleman qualities. I'm originally from pontiac, michigan uh, that's where I was born and, I'm gonna say, mostly raised. But I moved to georgia at 19. I finished high school here in georgia. Um, so, man, I'm a hard-working guy, man who just like to look at life and like to have fun, like to look at life and make comments about it. Um, you know, I one thing I stand by is, you know, trying to make sure I'm treating everybody right, trying to the moment, trying to be present in the moment, and because I realize, you know, life is life is precious. So I try to look at all things positive in life.
Speaker 2:Been doing stand up for about 20 years, 15 to 20 years. There was a break in there, about like a six year break where I wasn't doing as much, I wasn't as focused on it. So I actually started off doing improv improv comedy and I worked with the Black Top Improv Group, which is at one point in the late 90s, mid-2000s, up until the mid-2000s, we were the only all-black improv troupe in the nation. So it comprises of six stand-up comedians guys. They've gone on to do other things as well, but we still perform once in a while. Got my man Swift. Got C-Dawg Sean Larkin, who wrote on the Neighborhood with Sad Entertainment, pat Brown she currently tours with Tracy Morgan Swift. He got a movie out called Generational Gap Lab Love. He toured with Courtney Not Courtney, but what's my man's name from Chicago. God, they play Black Jesus.
Speaker 1:Oh, Slink Johnson.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, corey, Corey Holcomb.
Speaker 1:Corey Holcomb. Yeah, Corey Holcomb.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, corey, Corey Holcomb, corey Holcomb, yeah, corey Holcomb, yeah, yeah. So it's a wealth of talent comprised in this group. So I've done that and that's spun off into stand-up comedy. So I started with improv. We used to perform at Uptown Comedy Corner here in Atlanta and we used to perform on open mic nights, so the improv would go first, then the open mic, and used to perform on open mic nights, so the improv would go first, then the open mic. So it was an opportunity for me to jump into the open mic side of things and just learn how to perfect my craft in doing stand-up comedy. So you know how it is. Once you get that first laugh on stage by yourself, it's addictive and I was always thought of as being a funny person in school or in in the family and people you know, like a lot of comedians, they say you should try to do it.
Speaker 1:I just never knew the avenue and then, once I found the avenue, I started doing comedy man and never, never looked back definitely who was some of the comedians that inspired you into getting in comedy, like who was that or was that special that made you say you know what? I think I can do this yeah, man, you know it's funny.
Speaker 2:I, there's one of those things like I knew I could do it. I just didn't know how to do it. Um, and but inspirationally, you know, I think, like everyone, I had my inspiration with eddie murphy, uh, richard pryor, george burns was an inspiration, honestly, yeah, it's funny. That's my first comedy movie. My dad was, I think, out creeping one time and he dropped me off at a theater, like four years old, watching this white man on the big screen doing the stand up thing. Didn't really know what it was, but I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I had different. I mean, even some of my peers are people that inspired me. So, just um, a lot of comedians, man, a lot of Carol Burnett, a lot of comedic work, comedic sketches. Uh, I just found them funny in a lot of things. And and there's something I just like I like being a funny person, I like when levity like breaks the tension in the room or something. So I've always like kind of been drawn to folk who can command a room, can get their point across, and they can do it with levity and, uh, and as they make you think, they also make you laugh.
Speaker 1:Yeah man, yeah, laughter is medicine and yeah, absolutely yeah, and I'm glad you said you know richard pryor, george burns um eddie murphy, because they did a lot of realism in theirs and yours is realism too, and I think I think yours is very genius, for you to take something in life and just make it funny, because I think you know, that's, that's the art. I think a lot of us in comedy all of us in comedy are high intellectual beings turn something like that into this. So salute to you, brother.
Speaker 2:I'm doing that man absolutely, man you, if you can observe stuff and then kind of put your own pov on your, your point of view and and people, you know they can start shaking their head or they can laugh. You know they may not agree with a lot of things but they start to see it from a different point of view and sometimes it's a lot of times you're just saying stuff that they're thinking and you're just saying it out loud.
Speaker 2:You know, especially if you're doing humor that people can connect with, especially in our community. You know we all got things that is very similar in the way we've been raised, the way we go. You know, go, our family functions, the family, uh, dysfunction, and I, you know everybody got it. So you know when you can relate things in a in a comedic way, I think that just that shows what you said your genius and your ability to connect with different people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely Now you started 20 years ago, right, yeah, you noticed the difference between 20 years ago, especially with the social media, the internet popping out. Man, how has that migration been?
Speaker 2:It's. You know, like everything I say is this you know everything evolves, right. We went from a house phone to a cell phone, so nobody has cell phones anymore, but we still talk on the phone, so you still got the base of communication right. So comedy is the same thing, I think, definitely.
Speaker 2:When I first started, comic view was really, really hot. You know, that was almost like if you got on comic view, that kind of gave you some cachet right, that kind of solidified you or qualified you to say, okay, you're a comedian, especially if you got multiple seasons. So it was Def Jam, common View, and at that time I think you really had to know the art of stand-up. I think you had to know how to structure a joke. You needed to know how to command the audience. You had to have time. You couldn't be a person who attracted an audience one way but then when it was time to hit that stage, you couldn't hold them because you didn't have the time or the material to have a show really.
Speaker 2:So now I don't think that's really as prevalent. You don't really need that as much, because you can get the social media following and they'll follow you to clubs to see you do your act, on what you do on social media. It can be a character or anything of that nature, and that's really about being a stand-up comedian, which is fine. I think it's just another lane of comedy. So that's the biggest difference. I think you don't have to be as uh, structured or technical with joke telling as you once did to get on, and it's to me now it's harder and it's easier, easier to start playing these comedy clubs and these arenas, because I'm seeing, you know, if you get the following on social media, that kind of catapults you to a level where these comedy club owners will start booking you because you fill seats and that's what it's all about. Then you get on these tours where there's multiple comedians and you're helping fill the seats and that's what it's all about. So I think that's the biggest difference.
Speaker 1:And, uh, 20 years ago till now, yeah, it is like you see what you hear about it online the beef between stand-up comedians and instagram comedians. I think it's the dumbest thing ever, because we're doing the same thing they acting out what we're saying.
Speaker 2:What we're saying, yeah, now, yeah, I think it's so stupid I know, man, it's like, yeah, how you beefing up in comedy, right, it's like that's crazy. I mean it's they trying to turn comedy to uh hip-hop. Like you got comedy, you doing uh joke this. You ain't doing no, this record, you got this joke, or something. It's, it's, I know this.
Speaker 1:I ain't gonna say that, I ain't gonna say that it's all good, man, it's all good because you do both. You do the skits and you do stand-up comedy, so you see both worlds and you get to work with some some big names um, from country wayne to chase, and chase with somebody that I, if he's watching the list and I let him know this and give him his flowers with he's. Somebody got me through college with the dj southern bread on youtube and so he got me through.
Speaker 1:But you with the sherman character on country wine is the by far. Your skits is what I look for from wendell the white, the hat, the glasses man. And then I see you on the stage man. You got like the stage presence, I see your attire and everything. So it's like you're just two different characters and that you know. That's a salute. Man, is there like any? Have you ever been starstruck? Or has there ever been any big names? You've been like damn, I can't believe I got to work with him, or no man, I think I probably hadn't met him yet.
Speaker 2:I, you know, I'm assuming like if, um, I'm just speaking this out when I start working with Eddie Murphy or something like Eddie Murphy, I'll probably be starstruck, uh, but uh, I think, like the biggest first, at the time I met Steve Harvey and got an opportunity to, uh, you know, kind of have a good conversation with him. He was talking to a bunch of comedians actually, when I did Common View and you know, I think one thing about this comedy world most people are, they understand your path, because it's pretty much the same journey. You know, you're trying to get to where they got. So it's like nothing really to be for me not starruck about. Plus, I'm a little older too.
Speaker 2:So you know, I ain't as, uh, I ain't as wide-eyed and bushy-tailed as I once. Now I'm like yo, I ain't got time to be being starstruck. We try to get to this deal or something. Bro, get me on, help me, let me perform what you will perform on your show or something. So you, you know it's more of a, it's definitely a respect thing, but I don't know about Starstruck. But you know, I'm just, I feel like I'm very fortunate to have to be able to meet people, to work with people you know, like with Chase, and that dude is. He's amazing with his eye and his concepts and the whole country running platform right.
Speaker 1:Can't hear you, thank you.
Speaker 2:Aw man, my bad bro.
Speaker 1:You okay, man Bill.
Speaker 2:Collector. This ain't live, is it?
Speaker 1:Nah, this ain't live. I'm going to get him. My homeboy just hit me up.
Speaker 2:He gonna chop it up for us. Okay, cool, cool, yeah, man. So whatever I was talking about, that's what I meant. I'm dead ass about that, bro, and uh, I stand on that.
Speaker 1:I'm standing on business. Yeah, yeah, I stand on business but yeah, it's been good.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was talking about the country wine platform man, so it's been a blessing man.
Speaker 1:It's really uh, you know, it's something I just recently came into too, so probably about six months ago but your character just really stands out with the skits man cause it reminds me I don't know how it is where you at but here. But your character just really stands out with the skits man because it reminds me I don't know how it is where you at, but here, my grandfather is, was the sherman character.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so yeah, yeah, man, yeah that's what I hear a lot, and it's like you know somebody's uncle. Everybody got this type of person in their family and you just take it from some. I've seen it too. I got uncles and daddies, my daddy's just like that, so stuff.
Speaker 1:I can relate to, Definitely, man. Now being 20 years in the game, a lot of people look at you more like an OG offering game or a vet. Is there like any any younger comedians that actually come to you for advice? So they say, hey, Mr Ray, I want to get mentored by you or take money if you want. Have you ever had that? If you did, how did that work?
Speaker 2:Well, no, they don't call me Mr Ray, but I'm old, I ain't that. I ain't call me Mr Ray, I'm old, I ain't that old. I don't think you know what it is.
Speaker 2:I offer too, Once you see the young comedians out here. Atlanta is a good place because there's a lot of comedians here, young cats that's coming up trying to do their thing. There's some comedians out here like Raheem Holt, a young brother out here. He's really making some moves. Uh, cool man, it's just a lot. Uh, cat named k strays, you know we out or something.
Speaker 2:I see something that, um, I can help them with, you know, I, I try to, but more or less, bro, I think comedy is also just a uh's, an individual sport too.
Speaker 2:Right, you kind of learn from people who've already been there, but that's if you want it, that's if you won't want to learn. You know, a lot of times it's this, this, this, this type of medium that you got to kind of bump your head in and really understand. You know the trials and tribulations, the ins and outs of it, the nuances of how to conduct yourself business-wise, how to conduct yourself onstage and offstage. I think that's one of the things. That is a difference too, when you say about 20 years ago and today, I think, with the rapid success that some comedians get, they don't have, they miss some of the professional part about it, the professionalism like how to show up to the show, how to conduct the show, how to conduct yourself offstage as well, then that was something I was able to learn from a Bruce Bruce and a Don DC Curry, and watching those cats what they did during the show and after the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, my thing is this is a marathon, not a race. When you're talking about rapid success, yeah, your time will come. I always tell people it's a marathon, not a race, it's a sprint, it's not a sprint, it's a sprint. It's not a sprint, it's a jog. So, you just can't rush the process.
Speaker 2:Can't rush it, man, bruce. Bruce told me this. He said if you chew to it, it'll be true to you. He told me that a long time ago. So that's all I think. I just you know. Be prepared for your opportunities. That's about it.
Speaker 1:That's about it. That's it. I think I heard Bernie Mac say it. Patrice O'Neal has said it. It's like you know, the fame comes before the money. Once you realize that, man, it'll be so much easier in the comedy game. Yeah man, yeah man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, man, you're right. I think I'm probably more recognizable now than I've ever been in my life, and the money is not as recognizable. That's it. It's all right, that is what it is.
Speaker 1:I think my first show I made, the first paid show I got, was $5 for 10 minutes. I just now, yeah, $5.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you living on Lappalux, you a young man, you got paid like that $5.
Speaker 2:I remember they Say I'll buy you a drink, bam, but it's the grind, and that's the thing. Say I'll buy you a drink, so damn, but it's the grind, bro, you know. And that's the thing, man. It humbles you too. That's what I love about it. It humbles you and you know how it is. You walk off stage sometime and you killed right, and you think you the best thing since sliced bread. Then that next show you come on, you don't do as well, that thing will bring you down a little bit and just, and what it does, it makes you say, okay, I have to continue to work, I have to continue to hone my craft, because you never, you never get it, you never, you never perfect it, you just get. You get so good that it just seems seamless.
Speaker 1:But it's something that you're always going to be working on, always going to be working yeah, my mentor shout out to james cooper told me that's when you're a true artist, because everybody could think that you've killed your set and you can kill your set, but you might be like man, I could have done better, I could have worked on this a little bit, your timing and but to everybody else it's impeccable. You know, I mean yeah, and he, uh, he schooled me because I have had that up and down, a comedy like I had. One month I opened up for dl hugley. Two weeks later I was performing at a bar with a crowd of seven people and six of us was comedians. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So tell me about no like like tonight. I had an opportunity to do a. Uh, I had opportunity to do an interview on CNN and they wanted to talk to me about the rise of the Sherman character and they was going to do it right before they started talking about what's going on in Israel and stuff. They had me like a special, but I said, no, I can't do that because I'm doing Jerome's podcast.
Speaker 1:I appreciate that.
Speaker 2:I understand the highs and lows of this. I'm doing Jerome's podcast as he talks to me from his mama's living room.
Speaker 1:He's still got JCPenney blinds up in the background. I got my mama karaoke in the background. He said JCPc penny blinds up in the background I got my mama karaoke in the background.
Speaker 2:Yo yo for a real talk. These are, uh, these ain't real blinds. These are, damn, what they call temporary shit where you go I'm right here.
Speaker 1:I don't know what's, I don't know. I don't know nothing about blinds, man. I've been, you know, rent free over here, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so let me ask you this I know you asked all the questions what got you into comedy stand up?
Speaker 1:I have no idea. Okay, one day it was New Year's Eve of 2018 me and this girl were going to go see Godfrey form at the.
Speaker 1:Virginia Beach Funny Bone and it was like, yeah, they got comedy schools. I remember just sitting out, you know, sitting there waiting for my date to come out the bathroom I'm looking like should I do it? And Godfrey walked past and said, yeah, you should do it. And God for all paths and said, yeah, you should do it. And from the first class my dad went with me with the first class. I was scared yeah, six weeks of that and I just hit the ground running and that was it. Like I don't reason. I have to podcast if you want to be asked about that one. I had a terrible show. I bombed so bad. I said you know what? I'm going to pivot to something else.
Speaker 2:I heard that I'm going to pivot. You're just like forget it. I'm going to be an interviewer, a podcaster.
Speaker 1:That must have been a pretty bad show.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, man, this lady I've shared it this lady wrote for three weeks I would go to this open mic at a bar for three weeks straight. She roasted me and I would ignore her because it was a church crowd didn't say nothing. That third week man I said her legs look like two rolled up sleeping bags dipped in marshmallow juice. They cut the lights off of me, cut the music on. I had to apologize to the host. I was like, okay, wow, um, a month later, a month later, uh, one of the guys that was at the show he we, I interviewed him lionel harris. He was like bro, you need to get back out there. I've had bad shows too and you know you had to do what you had to do because that lady was heckling. So I got back up there and then COVID started and that was the lockdown. So I don't know about you, but we got forced into Zoom comedy and that was rough.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I did one. No, I did maybe one zoom comedy show, horrible, horrible and uh, and I did like a, a game or something, me, uh, I think it was a coco brown, me, coco brown, and uh, my man out of houston I can't think of his name, I can't remember his name, but yeah, I hated that man. But luckily Atlanta stayed open pretty much. I think we shut down for like four or five hours during COVID. It was like shit, we back out here Just turn your head when you call. That's probably it and that's what we did, man. So we was able to have a comedy club. So we didn't slow down as much. We had a protocol which was nothing. Obviously, you know you'd be spraying and stuff had a mask on, and still we out here doing it.
Speaker 1:We was shut down. I did 17 or 18 I kept count because I downloaded the app to do it. Zoom shows and yeah, talk about thinking you bombing yeah yeah, that's, that's what I.
Speaker 2:It's hard to do comedy. You can't hear that instant feedback. I'd rather hear booze than nothing. Damn, definitely Yo you said you performed at the Virginia House of the Virginia.
Speaker 1:Beach Funny Bone.
Speaker 2:The Funny Bone in Virginia Beach. Okay, no, I wasn't there. There's another comedy. Was there a comedy house in Virginia Beach too?
Speaker 1:Virginia Beach House of Comedy. It's gone now's gone now that's gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I've been there a few, a couple times, yeah, yeah, okay, that's what's up, man there's only two comedy clubs here, man, it's funny bone.
Speaker 1:And and after that, man, you gotta go up north. So okay, yeah, yeah, he ain't been to VA in a minute. He ain't missing much. He ain't missing much. He ain't missing much, man. We gonna do that CNN interview next, though, but he ain't missing much yeah, for sure before we close out the interview, is there any advice, any jewels that you want to give to anybody that's looking to follow into your footstep or get inspired by you by watching your clips online and seeing your profile?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, man. I would say if you thinking about getting into comedy or becoming any entertainer, I would I definitely and humbly tell you don't do it. That's my advice, cause I ain't got mine yet and I don't need no more people out here trying to get and mess around and jump and leapfrog me. I'm going to be pissed at you. No, I just I think honestly, man, you know, life is too short not to dream big, dream big. Go after it. Go after it. If you got the support of your family and friends and family, all well. But even if you don't, if it's the thing that's keeping you up at night, if this is the first thing you wake up and that's what you're thinking about. That's your passion, you know, and you're scared to do it whatever. Let fear be the motivator that you do it, whatever it is, especially doing stand-up, just try it. Get on stage that one time and, regardless of how you do, I'm sure you're going to fall in love with it.
Speaker 2:If you want to be a stand-up comedian Because it's something about that microphone, that stage and being in front of those people and just opening up yourself to those folks I think it's a drug you can't match nowhere else. It's a high you can't match anywhere else. But I would definitely say you know, be true to yourself and in everything that you do, be true to yourself and go for it 100%. You know, don't put one foot in and have other foot tap dance somewhere else. If you're going to do it, especially if you're young, in at full, full throttle, don't stop yeah, man, I say do it when you got a hairline, because I'm losing my ass oh yeah, man, how old are you bro?
Speaker 2:34 at least you got to the 30s. I lost mine at 25, bro. Mine was looking just like that, that Nah, it wasn't looking like George Jefferson like that. But when I was in a wedding and they had an aerial shot man, my stuff was looking like a oh wait, I was missing all this right here. It was just thinning. Then I said, oh nah, I got to cut it. But I know there was a girl I was dating and this before cell phones. We just had pages, beepers and stuff. I used to be paging her when I was dating her. She'd take forever to call back. I'd be like man, where is this motherfucker? I'd be doing this shit. This chick made me rub all my goddamn hair out Now. I've been bald for almost 20 years now.
Speaker 1:I started losing my shit at 16, man I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2:You said you're 34?
Speaker 1:34.
Speaker 2:Go ahead and think about shaving it off bro.
Speaker 1:Nah man, you know what?
Speaker 2:Look at my age you look brown, you look real brown.
Speaker 1:I'm going to let this. It's cool, I can take the joke because I got a whole bit about me. My ball was sprinting by Beijing on the hill on that, so it's like yeah, but it's all good man.
Speaker 2:Yeah man, yeah bro. It's his signature move right now, so run with it.
Speaker 1:Definitely, bro. If anybody wants to get in contact with you or follow you, are they able to follow in contact with you or follow you? Are they able to follow you? How do they follow you?
Speaker 2:yeah, man, thank you. Uh, you can follow me at dante ray comedy. That's on ig, twitter, tiktok, that's d-o-n-t-e-e-r-a-y comedy. Dante ray comedy um, also, you can follow me. Watch me on country way. I think we drop in episodes like two or three times per day, man, it's a lot.
Speaker 2:So I play Sherman. Sherman wouldn't be yo, man, I call it the, what I say Sherman, the most loved, most hated sugar daddy in the world. They love me and they hate me at the same time. So, yeah, please keep watching that. I appreciate all the support, man and uh, with us and facebook. Dante ray, d-o-n-t-e-e-r-a-y. So hit me up. I love to. You know, chop it up with you, follow you, I'll follow you back. And, uh, when I come to virginia, man, uh, we definitely gonna link up, but I really appreciate this opportunity too, man, being on your on your platform. Jerome and uh, thank you for reaching out, man, and giving me the opportunity, and it was great meeting you as well, man, it's always good to see young people live the game, young brothers in the game and taking it seriously, bro. So I already know you got a long, a long road ahead of you that's going to be filled with nothing but great things, man.
Speaker 2:Just stay true to it and uh, you got. You got a great start already.
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Speaker 2:Peace and blessing. Let it out, the rest of your soul bro Thank you, thank you.