Episode 16 - From Being Bullied To Becoming A Top Model w/ Suede Brooks

On this episode of Legit Check, Yeezy Busta sits down with Suede Brooks who started her Youtube account when she was only 14 as an escape from being bullied. They talk about everything from her experience growing up to her love for sneakers, streetwear, and how she developed her brand from Youtuber to model. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on? Guys, Welcome back to legit Check. I'm
your host, Easybusta. I am here with old friend we
met a very long time ago, and it's funny because
people don't know the story. I don't know. This is
Swade Brooks. Hi, guys, I'm Swade Brooks. I've known him
for what five years? And he texted me, he said,
come on the podcast. I said, there's absolutely no way
I'll miss that. Now I'm here and we're gonna have

(00:21):
a good conversation. I'm excited to talk to you. Yes,
So first of all, let's start off like who are you.
I know it's a really hard question. Who are you?
What do you do? I'll give you the rundown, the
whole rundown, Sarah. I'm eighteen years old. My name is
Swade Brooks. I'm from Las Vegas, Nevada. I do a
lot of different things. I think my main thing is
just inspiring people. I love to inspire people in all

(00:43):
different types, whether it's on social media or just in
real life. I go to school, as I speak to
schools about, you know, my trials and tribulations of what
I've gone through as a kid. I'll probably get that,
get into that further on the episode. But I talked
about bowling, I talked about sexual harass, about things that
are actually real and that people need to learn about.

(01:06):
I also make YouTube videos. That's like where I started.
I make beauty and fashion videos. I've been on YouTube
for five years, which is insane. I started when Bethany Mota,
steel A Bebon nine, Michelle von Tyler Oakley, when those
were like they still are, they're still doing amazing. But
that was like my generation, and YouTube changed my life.
So it's very grateful for it. But yeah, that's kind

(01:27):
of a little bit just I love beauty, I love makeup,
I love fashion, and I just love inspiring young girls
to push through and know that you're not alone. That's amazing.
Well that's a that's an amazing intro. I love that,
so thank you. So well, let's let's just rip off
the band aid right off the start. It's it's a

(01:47):
really interesting story because I'm very like interested in hearing
how it all kind of like took off for you
because we met. I think it was longer than five
years ago. Because I'm twenty two. I didn't know your eighteen.
I just turned eighteen. Okay. So I think I was
a freshman in high school, I want to say. And
it was so random. Then I must have been like

(02:09):
eleven years old. Years old, was just running on the
beach if you were eleven and then, I mean I
was like either fourteen or fifteen, depending on the time
of the year. I mean you and kil were both young.
We were all young kids just having fun on the beach. Yeah,
it was it was so random. We'd like ran into
you guys, and you had one other friend with you.
It was a little I think I have a little cousin, Gabriella.

(02:31):
I don't think it was Gabriella. It was Gabrielle. It's crazy.
So so we met on the beach just hung out,
like literally just what were we doing. I don't even remember.
Just we're doing stunts. I think we're playing. Oh my god,
I wish I could find those photos. So that's crazy.
And and then we basically lost touch. We lost such
didn't see you for years ever since then, So that

(02:53):
was nine years ago. That's crazy. And I didn't That's
the thing. I didn't see you for eight years. And
I would always ask my sister, like, go whatever, because
we would always mean boys on the beach. It was
always like a thing that always have come up and
we have fun whatever go in the water. And I
always asked about you, always asked about you and Kale
because we we were making videos on the beach. We

(03:14):
were listening to music. And next thing, you know, eight
years go by and I'm on Instagram and I see
this kid blowing up making busting people for sneakers, for
fake sneakers. I'm like, I know those eyes, like I
know this half part. It just took me a while
the resist. It's it's interesting because a lot of people
are like, yeah, you know, I recognize your eyes, and

(03:34):
I'm like, mm, I don't know if I'm that distinguished
or boy? Am I No, You're not that hold on.
I think it's I'm sorry for cutting off, but I
think it's more so like if you know me, then
you could right off the roof, you know, you know,
like that right you have to like really examine it.
It did take me a while. I didn't know. At first.
I was like, I don't know if that's him, And

(03:56):
then my sister was like, I saw I remember that
day and now it's come a full circle. Now we're
here So, anyway, how did you get to the point
where you are today? Because I know you probably have
the same question for me, so let's hear first from you.
So when I was twelve years old, I was severely
bullied through middle school by this family and they were

(04:16):
my family friends. And I went through a very very rough,
rough rough life when I was a kid. Um I
had to file like I had to get the police involved,
have restraining orders, lawsuits against these people, and it really
just messed me up as a kid. And I would
come home every single day I saw my eyes on
my bed. I didn't eat. I had a really bad

(04:36):
eating disorder. I literally attempted twice, Like I was. I
put my parents through hell because I didn't. I wanted
nothing to do with life when I was going through
all of this, and like it didn't just affect me, No,
I'm so. I mean again, I'm so grateful that it
happened because if it didn't, I wouldn't be sitting here
where I am. But yeah, so going through that at

(04:57):
that age, I'm so blessed and grateful to that I
did it that back then because now these people are
going through these problems years old, and I YouTube was
just such an outlet for me. I would come home
and sit and watch these girls put on makeup for hours,
and I absolutely fell in love with it. And I

(05:17):
was like, Okay, if I'm learning all these beauty tricks,
if I'm learning how to do the perfect eye, perfect contour,
then why don't I do it myself? And I started
my YouTube channel. I was just posting consistently. I didn't
even know you could paying money. Again, I was twelve
years old, So I was just doing it because it
was an outlet for me. And I knew if I
wasn't doing that, I would be getting into something way
worse and way more just not good for me, you know.

(05:40):
So YouTube became like my thing and it was my hobby. Um.
I was a cheerleader and dancer growing up, and I
just always had this very business savvy mindset. I was
always hustling trying to make my money because I hated
asking money for my parents. So I once I found out,
like so, I did YouTube for like a whole year.
My parents didn't even know until like slowly it started,

(06:01):
you know, building. And I was in Target one day
and this little girl come up to me, like, oh
my god, this is the first time someone ever come
up to me in public and she's like, oh my god,
I love your videos. And my mom's standing right there
and target and she starts freaking out because she's like,
oh my god, why does this person want a video
of picture with you? Like, no, we're not doing that.
Keep walking. And then I had to tell her like, hey, mom,

(06:22):
I have a YouTube channel that's pulling in a lot
of views. People are enjoying it. And the next thing
you know, it turned into this full business for me
and it completely changed my life. Like it if it
wasn't for YouTube, I would be dead. And I can
say that because it's like it's real, it's true. Like
if it wasn't for an outlet that just like that
to be able to talk to people on like an

(06:44):
emotional level from all around the world, I yeah, I
would be out. I would be out by now, for sure.
So do you think that that whole experience when you
were younger, Like, first of all, I'm so sorry. I
mean that's why I go to schools now, because these
kids are going through a ten times worse than what
I went through, like back then, when I was not
even back then. It's a few years ago, when I

(07:05):
was in sixth grade seventh grade, phones were okay, they
were a thing. But now with social media and everything,
you can't escape from it. Like these kids are dying
day by day because of these people on the internet
saying negative things, or this girl is saying a horrible
thing to you in the bathroom, Like it's just not cool,
and people like there's a stigma around it now. It's like, oh,

(07:25):
if you're depressed, you're this or that, if you're dirty whatever.
It's like, no, these people are actually going through it.
So it's like you might and with me, I'm I'm
a young girl, Like I'm eighteen years old. I'm just
like every other eighteen year old girl. So it's like
I might as well stay, like share my story and
tell them, hey, I've been through it. I've been through hell,
and look where I mean. I'm not saying look where
I am now, but there's an outlet. You can find

(07:48):
something to make you happy. You've you just got to
find your purpose. And I think, I mean I'm getting there.
I haven't found my purpose one I'm a young girl,
but oh eventually get there. Absolutely. But yeah, YouTube, YouTube
was like the thing for me. I was my niche.
And then after that that just brought more opportunities and
like the modeling world, I started modeling, and like that
was a very new thing for me too, because it

(08:09):
was a whole another ballgame. But I think modeling modeling
has a cap on it once you're twenty five year out,
and I thought, I don't want to be tapped out
by twenty five, Like I want to build myself into
a brand. I want sway to be a brand. I
want to be able to, you know, sell things, have
product lines, do licensing deals. Because if I can inspire
young girls, then I know, I know they'll be able to,

(08:31):
you know, come on my video and be able to
find something that will make them happy. Like if my
video makes them happy, that's that's I did my job.
I'm cool off that. It doesn't matter about the money,
It doesn't matter about any of that. If I make
a little girl stop her from cutting herself or doing
horrible things, then I did my job. The money is cool,

(08:53):
Okay cool. I started this as a hobby. It's still
as my hobby. Still look at it as a hobby.
The money, okay, I don't need that much of the
eighteen years old yeah. That's why I also say save
your money kids five. Yeah, no, I respect that because
like growing up, I actually I bullied a lot too.
When I was in middle school. It was really bad.
It's horrible. These kids are horrible, absolutely horrible, and like

(09:17):
I hope no one ever goes through the things that
these kids are going through now, like especially in middle
school and high school. Like these kids are evil. I know,
it's bad. It's just like it's just a time when
like you know, their bodies are changing the hormone and
like you know, it's just like I was horrible when
I was. I was the Oh my god, I was

(09:39):
asshold my mom, I was. I had no That's why
I left my house of fifteen. Oh, I also moved
out of fifteen. That was like a big thing. Way
I moved out to l A when I was fifteen.
I'm like trying to like timeline this to make it
but makes sense. But yeah, So I started my YouTube
channel twelve years old. I was doing it for I
was going back and forth l A, back and forth.
I was missing school. I was like, oh my god,

(10:00):
this is like turning into a full time thing. And
I once my parents saw the money come in they realize, okay, wait,
she's actually onto something, like she can actually do this,
because no one was really making money off of YouTube
back then, five like five years ago. Now everybody wants
to be a YouTuber, everybody wants to be an Instagram
or it's a thing, it's a trend. But back then,
it was like I didn't even know that I was

(10:20):
just doing it because it was fun. Little girls could
relate to it, so I was like, oh, I like this, Well,
that's great that you're actually using your platform for for good.
For good. There's so many shallow influencers nowadays, like it's
I don't even want to call them influences anymore because
I hate that word. But it's like there's so many
people on Instagram that show off. It's just a highlight reel,
you know, like it's just people again. I'm I'm I'm

(10:43):
guilty of this. Everybody is guilty this. They only want
to show the good parts of their life. And that's
normal because you build a wall up and you build
a filter. But once you are able to break that
filter down and break that wall down, that's when you
become more successful because you have to be vulnerable in
this business. You have to be, especially if you want
to build something. People want to be able to feel
like they can relate to you and they feel like

(11:05):
they know you. They want to know, like, oh, what's
going on with this? What's going on with this? And
you might not think it's interesting, but to other people.
I always tell people this, you might not think it's interesting,
but to other people they find it. Like I've made
a video with it was like a day in my life.
It was like a morning routine, and I made sure
that I put every single step because you might not

(11:26):
think that people are interested in like what kind of
toothpaste you use, but you never know. A month later,
Chrest could come up, come email you and say, hey,
one video okay cool, because people love to know what
you're doing, whether it's like the smallest things of all,
I'm I'm making a salad, I'm brushing my eyebrows, like

(11:48):
the smallest things. People are so interested and you might
not think it, but it's true. Yeah. I always thought
that was flogs are so big, I know, and like
I never really understood it because growing up, like I
always like funny enough, like my favorite YouTuber growing up
with Shane Dawson and yeah, Like I don't really watch
him anymore. I've watched like a series now he's definitely changed. Yeah,

(12:11):
Like before I used to watch when he was like
se and like during like funny dumb ship and like
that's what I was into. But I never really was
into like, oh, let let me see like you know,
but that that's just me. So I never really understood it.
So I always found it weird whenever I posted a vlog,
even though it's so dumb, like what kind of socks
do you wear? What kind of like what car do
you drive? Like, it's always thought it was weird. House
tours are the biggest videos on YouTube. I've never done one,

(12:34):
but it's things like that to make them feel like
they're part of your life once. Once you have a
cult following, yeah you can run with that for as long,
like until until you die, because these people are gonna
be ride or dies for you. Anything you come out with,
anything you dropped there there no matter when it's hard
to build that. But the only way to build that
is to be vulnerable and to be relatable. Yeah, I know,

(12:57):
I I love every single one of my supporters. That's
I'm saying. I respond all my messages. I respond to
all my comments like it's because because at the end
of the day, they're the reason that you're making money.
There's the reason that you have the life that you have.
So you gotta be you gotta show love, you gotta
support back, you've got you have to. That's why I
loved going to school. That's my favorite thing because these
kids are like some of them may may not even

(13:20):
know who I am. But when I first started going
to high schools and speaking, I was a junior. It
was a junior in high school. But I've I've done
online school my whole until up until seventh grade, I've
done online school, so I just high school all online,
and I would go into these schools mine you, I
was a junior and I'm speaking to these high schools,
so there's a whole section of seniors that are older
than me. And that was like the first thing I
would always say when I come in there, I'm like, hey,

(13:41):
you guys. I know you guys are older than me,
but I think I got a little bit to say.
But it's important to be a role model. You want
to feel like I mean with people that I follow,
I always want like there's certain influencers that I love that.
I'm like, oh, I want to see what they're up to,
what do they do next? And you can see the consistency,
Like every you have to be on the grind seven.

(14:02):
If you're not, people are going to forget about you
and move on to the next person because there's always
somebody right behind you. They're like, oh they make better content.
Oh they make this that you just got to It's consistency. Yeah.
YouTube is really cut throat, you know. It's like they
have no chill, has no chill, no, not at all.
And it's crazy because I I'm very notorious for taking

(14:25):
breaks like me too. I think a year of break,
I stop YouTube for a whole year that I wanted
nothing to do with it. I haven't done a year.
I've done a couple of months at a time, and
I'm surprised, like and like, like I said, I like,
I love my supporters to death because I literally will
post a video after like not posting for a month
and it will still what like and it just it's

(14:47):
a blessing, you know, and everyone who's listening to this like,
I love you guys, because you guys are like, yes,
we love you. Thanks for listening things too, so kind
of like segueing off of you know, you speak speaking
at like high schoo close and stuff. So I know
you mentioned about the whole bullying thing. Obviously that was
a big part of your life. Absolutely, it was honestly

(15:08):
a very big part of my life. And I feel
like that's why I'm so thick skinned now. I know
you get sucked up it all the time because I
because I do. And it really changes you as a person.
And I don't condone bullying, and he's the most terrible
thing on this earth. I hate it. But it's interesting
how it like changes you as a person, you know
what I mean. I mean, it's just when I remember

(15:29):
when I got my first hate comment, or I remember
when I got my first you know, constructive criticism or whatever.
And when I first received those, I was like, Okay,
it's time to stop. But I don't want to do
it no more. No really yeah, because I didn't know
how to handle it. People were critiquing me but they
didn't even know me, Like they knew they knew ten
men to me, but they didn't know who I really was.

(15:52):
And it's and I think it's also like life lessons
teach you that too. Like I had to go through
so many things like negative press. I've dealt with so
many scandals on the internet, not even like bad ones,
but just things that are just false that people like
to say and do. Like you have. If you don't
have thick skin, then you're just you literally are going

(16:13):
to get to planish like completely in this indugy you
cannot like care what other people think of you. I know,
it's like it's really cliche to say, but it's like
you just have to do you. And if you do you,
and you keep doing you and you don't let nobody stop,
you just go let your wings flyde just do it. Yeah, absolutely, no,
I agree with you. I think it's just so it

(16:35):
is disheartening to see stuff like it hurts. But but
I don't know, I just got to the point where
whenever I see that, like, I don't I don't care
if someone calls me ugly because they can't even see
my face, right, But also like ugly is like really
that's all you like? Or it's like ugly fat. It's
just like the stupid gay is always the one everyone
always Oh dude, you're just gay. It's like okay, dude.

(16:58):
First of all, it's like you don't even know me, bro,
And it's like, okay, first of all, I'm going to
clear up all the rumors right now. It's all the haters.
I am not gay, okay. But even if I was,
who gives a who cares? Why are their business? Or
if I am fat, who gives a ship? Or if
I am ugly, who gives a ship? And you know,
you don't understand how harmful things like that can affect you.

(17:21):
Like when I was a kid, I remember going into
modeling agencies and they telling me, oh, you need to
lose twenty more pounds. Oh you need and mind you,
I was already a hundred twenty pounds. So they're telling me, okay,
you want me to completely shave my hip bones off
to get a thirty four to fit these what And
it traumatizes you. It traumatizes you as a kid. That's

(17:44):
why my sister had the most gnarly eating disorder I had,
Like I went through it because people don't understand that
like those words and when it's constantly in your brain
and like, of course I'm the type of person I
see a thousand positive comments, then I always see that one,
and I'm like, are you yeah? Trust men? And it's
so I hate I hate that. I it's like that.

(18:04):
But this industry is just like you, if you don't
have thick skin people are, You're just gonna be destroyed.
It's it's horrible. So I mean, as as creators, the
only thing we could do is just try to influence
people to be to not do it and to be
good people. And also I think it's important to not
to only influence people not to do it, but I

(18:26):
also think it's important to influence the people who have
been bullied to not take it so personally or to
just say fuck them, you know what I mean, Because
I think because no matter what, it's gonna happen, it's
gonna happen. And and and it's so terrible to say,
but it's just human nature, you know. Just how like
men um you know, can be like combative towards each

(18:48):
other or like make fun of each other or like
roast or whatever, and women could be catty and like,
you know what I mean, It's just it's a constant
battle and it's never gonna end. But there's a difference
between you know, being like ha ha, dude, you're just
an idiot or you're fucking ugly. Coquell yourself. There's like
as such a fun like you know what I'm saying,
there's a between like like clapping back or whatever. There's

(19:08):
like again, roasts are popular or all I do is
roast my friends and they roast me back, and it's
cool and it's but but that's but that's the thing
is that you've you've built you've built that relationship up
up with them to do that, and there's no personal ship.
And yeah, even and even if it is personal, it's
like you guys looking it. It's funny. It's hilarious because
you guys just attacking each other and it's cool and

(19:29):
like all you're doing is trying to bust each other's
buttons because you are that close. You've built that you know, relationship.
But when it's somebody, a random kid in Louisiana saying, oh,
I'm gonna find your address in come what ye like,
you're that board And I always think about that too.
It's like, at the end of the day, these are
just little kids you go to most of the time.
You go to their profiles and it's not even a

(19:51):
profile picture and they have two volumes because because certain people,
like if you think about it, nobody, no influencers and
no influen until people would ever do something like that.
I mean it's happened in the past, absolutely, But for
the people that I look up to, like people that
are my inspirations, I would never see them go comment
on somebody's photo and say that things because they've learned

(20:12):
that lesson. But these this new generation coming in, these
come on these babies, like it's gonna be a whole
another ball. And as long as you're starting to trend now,
and as long as you're speaking about it now, like
I speak about body positivity all the time because I
want to remind these girls that it's okay to be curvy,
it's okay to look the way you look, it's okay
to eat what you want, like don't you shouldn't punish

(20:34):
yourself for that. And because a lot of these girls
are have struggles with eating and things like that, like
and it's important to be relatable and say, hey, I
have it too, and look I'm trying and I'm working
out to be able to conquer that. And as long
as you see people that are trying, even when I
watch a video of somebody waking up at five am

(20:56):
and having a super productive morning or whatever. I get
inspired because I'm like, oh, I want to do that too.
So as long as you're stating that example, I mean,
that's all that you can really do to help these
young kids, you know, go through with the things that
they go through. No. Absolutely, And everybody has problems. Everybody
has family problems, everybody like, but there's a stigma around
it to not talk about it and like to like

(21:16):
like I'm doing, I'm making like No, like you can
clearly tell that person is going through it, but they
just don't want to talk about it. Yeah, cool to
like open up and like be like okay, yeah, same
because then you can I feel like you build a
relationship off of that. No, absolutely, instead of just talking
about shallow stuff like how's the weather outside? What's the
point where are we going to get with that? Yeah?
Of course, of course. I think it's really important to

(21:36):
have deep conversations that. Trust me, I've had four today,
so and it's great. No, And I love it and
it's it's great And I'm gonna go home like you
were saying, And I'm going to go home and literally
just think about everything that I, you know, learned, and
it's it digests, you know. So you mentioned something about
sex trafficking, so obviously that is a very real problem.

(21:57):
It's terrible, it's disgusting, it's crazy. And I interviewed this
lady and I had no idea about this industry, and
I had no idea the extent that this industry has,
but yeah, I talked about it, so I started. So
I didn't even think of starting the series on my channel,
but now it's actually turning into a series everyone, so
stay tuned. I got more of those coming for you,

(22:18):
but I made so. My mom called me one morning
and she was like, hey, I know this lady named
Lena Walter. She um owns a sex trafficking foundation here
in Las Vegas, and she like saves lives all around
the world of these kids that are sex trafficked and
like brought into this industry. I think last year brought

(22:39):
in forty billion dollars and it's a forty billion a year.
But listen, it's cash only, it's all cash. There's probably
a lot forty. When I heard that number, she told
me that absolutely more. But she was telling me it's
hard to deal with statistics, because you can only deal
with statistics if you catch them, you know what I'm saying.

(23:00):
So it's all there's probably so much more out there.
But I sat with this lady, I just I had
so many questions for her because being my age, being
from Las Vegas, Las Vegas is the number one most
sex traffic place to live, like going to malls, going
to yes, absolutely, because it's I mean, there's so many
things that that can happen in Vegas that just go
under the like the under the radar. But I I

(23:24):
just sat down and talked to her about like, Okay,
what do you think of this? How do we stop this?
What's the cause of this? And she was she told
me that the main causes child pornography and how like
that is the reason that these kids are being sex traffick.
And she told me the process like she knows. This
girl told me the process of like how they take
these women, like these ladies, these little girls from like
malls for example, this one like the survivor. She told

(23:46):
me she met this man at the mall and he
was like, Oh, you're so sweet, so beautiful. I'll buy
you some stuff whatever next thing you know, turns into
his boy like they were dating at that point, and oh,
I'll be your boyfriend. Whatever. Next thing, you know, she's
sex traffics. She's taken out across the country and sold
like and it happens like that. And I don't know.

(24:09):
Growing up, I watched all do you know what Taken is?
Have you ever watched Taken? So growing up, my mom
always every time anyone would come out, we'd all watch
it as a family and it was like a tradition.
But she sat us down and really showed us like
that movie was really an opener for me to be like, oh,
this stuff is actually real. People can actually literally take
you and there's no going back. And it was. It

(24:29):
was definitely very very heart wrenching to interview something like
that because it is of like a very heavy subject
and at my age, I'm not really I'm not really
experience in the interviewing the world. So I just basically said,
I just sat her down. Yeah, I just sat It
was like, listen, I have this, I want to know
all about it. And the video did very very well.
I was very surprised at the feedback. So now I'm gonna, yeah,

(24:51):
I'm gonna have Part two, Part three. Well, I'm happy
that you're using your platform for good and like trying
to raise awareness of that. That's great. That's the only
thing I can do because I mean, there's only so
many outfits and makeup looks that you can do. Yeah,
that's true. So that's that's That's what I'm saying. You
have to have depth to you because if you have
depth to you, then like broadcasters want to people want

(25:14):
you like because they know, oh, this is your story,
this is how you work, and you're not just a
You don't just wear cool shoes or you wear cool
off it's like you actually have a personality, a depth
to you, a life to you. I've personally notice that
because the amount of times that I've walked into broadcasters
and they've been like, Okay, you're okay, you have a
cool Instagram, we wear cool shoes, but what's the actual depth.

(25:37):
That's when you have to be like, oh, well I
do this, this, this, this and this, and that's what
if you can answer that question and be like, oh,
I don't just make YouTube videos or oh I don't
just put on makeup. To reals, I'm actually trying to
change the world, Like that's what that's what you grab
them totally. I mean, okay, well, yeah, I agree with you.
It's really important to have depth and like I do

(26:00):
a lot behind the scenes that I don't even talk
about on camera or on podcast microphone that but everybody does, yeah,
of course. And it's just I really think it's important
to give back not only to the community that supports you,
but like the things that you believe in, like like
what you're doing, and that's that's amazing. And I think
I think giving back is like the only way that
I like, It's like a stimulant for me almost. I

(26:23):
think if I'm not, like, if I'm not able to
share something with the world, then what's the point of
doing what I do. Now I feel really bad because
I wanted to ask you about sneakers. I love I
love that and I love anything sneakers. From what we
just talked about, it's very important to give back to
the community to be a good person, and especially like

(26:45):
when you're giving a platform to use it for good.
That's great. So now let's talk about more of the
lighter things. I'm glad we got that out of the way, though,
so now we can have an actual conversation. Yeah, no, no,
of course, I mean, nonetheless, this is all conversation. It's great.
It was great, um, and I'm happy to hear all
the things that you're doing. It's it's amazing. Thank you

(27:05):
so much. I appreciate it. It's hard, but I mean
I love what I do good. I'm happy, and I
love dressing cool and I love feeling fly. All right,
so let's talk more about that. So what what got
you into sneakers? Because I mean, like, I've followed you
on Instagram for a while now, and I've noticed you
wear like a lot of cool shoes, a lot of
cool sneakers, a lot of Jordan's. I think you were
working with stock x for at one point. There's the

(27:27):
great company. Me too, And so what got you into sneakers?
I've always loved fashion, and I've always loved shoes. Like
I would always go on my parents closet and steel
her my mom's boots or whatever it was. And my
mom always had like I always loved her style because
she was like a very my mom's like a rocker check.
And then I think what I feel like when I

(27:51):
bought my first pair of like air Force ones or
like one of the original Nikes. That was when I
was like, oh wait, I love sneak sneakers because they
were comfortable and because I'm so tall, like I'm six
ft tall. So whenever I wore like heels, I mind you,
I love being taller. I love heels, and I love boots.
I wore them all day. But I feel like with sneakers,

(28:12):
it was almost like I it was like this community
and I It kind of started honestly on YouTube. I
I found this kid, do you know Giane Carlo Is
Giane Carlo. Yes. So I remember going on YouTube. Somebody
was telling me about the hype, like the hype culture

(28:33):
on YouTube, and I had never really explored it to
that extent. So I went on YouTube and I found
Blazonry and I was watching his videos like, oh my god,
this kid's young. He's striving, like he's really going at it,
and I thought it was so cool, and I would
I looked at a sneaker collection and I was like,
it's crazy. And the fact that he was doing it

(28:53):
first job, I thought was so interesting. And I remember
messaging him and I was like, hey, I want to
do an interview with you. What But I actually haven't
met him like in real like I guess you would say,
in real life yet, but we've talked and I just
thought it was so cool. And I think after that
and then I found and then I started becoming friends
of this kid, Blake, and you know Blake Linda is so.

(29:16):
I I met Blake when I was younger, and he
was always like, Swede, you always wear the coolest shoes.
And I'm like really and he's like, yeah, like do
you know how like crazy those are? And I'm like,
what do you mean? He's like, those are like one
of a kind. And I had no idea that what
what I was really wearing because I bought them because
I liked the way they looked and I've always kind

(29:37):
of stood by that. And after that, that was when
like the off whites came out, and like the press
stoves came out, and like the Blazers, like the I'm
not good with the names, I really, I really am
not good with like the the logistics of it. But
people noticed that I really loved sneakers, and that's when
like companies finally would reach out and be like, hey,
we saw you in these sneakers. Let me send you

(29:57):
these and then it just kind of became this like
on my Instagram that like I was like the hype girl,
Like I didn't it didn't really turn into because half
the things I was wearing I didn't even know it
was like like hype. I was just I bought it
because I enjoyed it and I thought it was cool,
and I probably saw it on somebody else that I
thought was interesting. But it didn't really turn into this

(30:20):
like thing until probably about a year ago. And I mean,
I've I've always loved sneakers. I've always always loved them
because they were comfortable, and if I wasn't wearing heels,
I was wearing sneakers during the day. And I've always
I've always done that, but I've always been like a
Nike or like Adidas girl, So well, are you ready,
I'm going to give you a quiz? Ready, kid, I'm

(30:44):
not going to then. And then after that, it was
like I found this community on Instagram, like Blake, Blaze
and Dairy, like there were so many other people that
were doing it. I was like, this is and they're
like literally flipping these shoes. They're buying these shoes for
a hundred bucks and flipping them for twelve and I
it was like the most. And then that's when I
found stock X and then I really learned about and

(31:04):
then I said, I'm with Louie. You know Louie Castro.
Sat down with Louie and he was telling me like
this business. And then he told me, oh, yeah, the
shoe the shoe markets like a stock market. And I'm like, huh,
I'm like, what do you mean. He's like, yeah, sho's
go up and down. I'm like, I thought she was
were just at one price in one right, Like I
didn't know this was like a game. And then he
stepped like took me through the step by step process

(31:25):
on stock X. I started working with them, they really
bumped it up to like the next level because they
were like, okay, Swede, here's the budget, pick your whatever
shoes you want. And I remember I got, like I
remember my first order, my first stock X order. I
picked the Travis Scott the ones that have the the

(31:46):
you can change the swoosh, the yeah, the air Force ones.
I got those. I got the press does actually sold
my prestoes because I never wore them. Yeah, and then
I got they were the white ones, all white ones, yeah,
and then I think I got oh the Kith Coca

(32:06):
Cola Converse, okay, and those I love them. I just
love the look at them. And I brought them home
and my mom fell in love with them. She was like,
oh my god, Swait, these are so cool and then
you could like detach them. We just thought they were
the coolest thing. And then after that I started posting
those and then people are like, oh my god, she's
a HiPE queen. I love that. Yeah, I mean just
being in an industry that's so predominantly manated by Yes,

(32:30):
my following is five percent mail and yeah, but that's
crazy crazy, you know, that's another stigma I like to break,
Like I wear I wear men's shoes all the time,
Like I think all the Travis ones are men's. I
think they're men's, but who who cares? If they look
at them? Why don't you like? And that's why I

(32:52):
think people kind of like that, because I would wear
like literally I wear the press does and people were like, wait, yeah,
but it's kind of cool like if I liked it,
So if I liked it, then I mean other people
liked it. And I love getting compliments like all my sneakers,
I think that was like, I think my favorite thing
because when like guys are comeching me like, oh my god,

(33:12):
you look so like your outfit is so cool, but
your sneakers. I was like, oh, Like it was like
definitely like instead of just like another air force. You
know what I'm saying, You're going to get more male attention.
We sneakers. Yeah, but it was cool. Like I thought
it was so cool. I go to the club and
like all these girls were wearing heels, and I would
be the one with like the fly sneakers on. All
these guys are like, oh my god, a sneakers instead

(33:34):
of like, oh it's another like another heel. Yeah, kind
of a tomboy. I'm like a tomboy, but I can
also go very girly girl. So it's like if I'm
out with my friends, even if I mean it depends
like one night, I'll be all my friends just having fun,
pure fun. You're not going to see me in a
like a club dress and heels. I'm not doing that
unless I'm have a movie premiere or I have something
that I actually need to you know, get ready for.

(33:56):
I've always had this very casual kind of street style
look in I've just kind of ran with that, and
I mean it's been I must be doing something right.
So what would you say your favorite sneaker is. I
think my all time favorite sneakers probably just like plane
like why on White Air Forces, because I it's funny.
I have this girl that actually customizes them for me,

(34:17):
and she like, I've gone through like seven pairs of
this lady this girls, I think she's like sixteen years old,
and she be dazzles them for me and she be
dazzles the swoosh and then she writes my name on
the side too. And those have been my favorite right now.
But I wear them all the time. They're fun and
they're like it's a little twist on like a normal shoe.
But I also, um, I love my off white, my

(34:41):
all white they were like this, They're like this, but
they're the off white ones and they're all white Jordan
on the Europeans. Those are my favorite shoes that I own.
Probably those are very expensive and I got them from
stock thank Those are for sure my favorite, and they're
also I get so many compliments on every time I
go out. I want to get the New York ones.

(35:02):
That's the next I'm trying to get maybe you can
come with the get Ahold pretty expensive, but I think, um, yeah,
I love and I love off Way and I love that,
like he's so talented, and I think Virgil really like
broke another wave in the sneaker industry after releasing those. Yeah. Absolutely,

(35:23):
I mean right now it's just Kanye, Virgil and Travis
literally right now, and like the Travis is, um, I
remember how many shoes as you have? Now? Crazy? Let
me see one to three, four, five, six, seven, so insane.

(35:45):
I think it's crazy that that that's considered hype, Like
this isn't like a collaboration just a collaboration with celebrity
makes a sneaker go up thousands of dollars. Yeah, like
that doesn't. I think that's crazy. Like that's like to
explain that to my mom, Like when I got the
off White Air Forces in the mail, I was trying
to like my mom was like all, like, how are

(36:07):
you getting all these sneakers? They're all so cool, but
they all like are like similar, like they're all like
I'm like, mom, you don't and like trying to explain
to her like oh this is this, this is She's like, oh,
they just look like another white sneaker. I'm like, Mom,
these are three thousand dollars shoes on my feet. What
do you mean? That was always hard to like explain
to my parents, like, oh, these are like the height
like and they look the exact same, which is maybe

(36:29):
a different stitching or whatever. But it is funny how
brands work that way. Yeah, I mean the same thing
with my family. Like my family never really understood it.
I mean they kind of get it now. It's funny
because very much like you, like I chose a sneaker
to my dad and she's like, oh, these are like whatever,
and I mean, yeah, those are like dollars or whatever
would be expensive. And then he'd be like, what you

(36:51):
spent this much money on a shoe like investment. Yeah, no,
it totally is. So Yeah, that's funny. Well, it's interesting because,
like I said, it's all eyes and I want nothing
less than to have more girls in our industry. And
it's like, because I feel like, you know, girls like
you who you know, can influence younger girls to also

(37:13):
wear sneakers because not only are they more comfortable, I'm
assuming than heels. I'm assuming they're more comfortable, you can
run away faster. You know how many you know how
many times that saved me. It's like I'm in a
dangerous situation or I just don't feel like you know
how many girls behind me they're like, then there's me
just booking it. That's sneakers. They are functional. That's why

(37:34):
they're sneakers. But I've always been like, yo, like we
need to have more girls in it. You know, it's
a family kind of it is. Sneaker culture is very
like family oriented and I love it. Like they all
hang out with each other, they all make content together,
they all are like, oh, what's the next draw. I
think it's I think it builds excitement and I think
it's a really cool. I mean it's for sure an

(37:55):
outlet for these kids, absolutely because there that's their side hustle. Yeah,
I mean the culture it's really interesting. It's like not
very welcoming, you know, yeah, absolutely, you know, for lack
of like a better word, I would say sneaker culture
is like a dick measuring context. It's like, oh, yeah,
do you have these? No, do you know I have those? Oh?

(38:17):
I have these in dead stocks? Oh yeah, but but
you don't like you know, and I always always thought that.
I know it's a very crude way to put it,
but it's just it's true that that's what I don't
like about. It's competitive if you don't if you don't
have the press as your whack. Yeah. Yeah, I'm that
type of dude. I let all my homies wear my
shoes if they want to care, like you know, I mean,
but they keep them and they some of these kids
keep them in glass boxes and then they buy three

(38:39):
of the same pair and they just let them sit
until I'm guilty of that too. I'm not gonna lie,
but I wear at least one of them at least
enjoy it a little bit. But also part of it,
it's also the investment. You know. What I'm saying is
that's why I have those two. I look at close
the exact same way. Though. Yeah, like I it's not
just sneakers that I love. I do love, like, very

(38:59):
like clothing pieces. So so would you say that you're
into like high fashion more or streetwear? It's it's both. Yeah,
I like I like high fashion, and I do like
streetwear to it really, and I also like normal like
clothing stores. Yeah, it really just if I'm going to
buy a statement piece of course, like it's going to be,
of course, and that I love. But with like simple stuff.

(39:20):
I mean, I work with so many brands and I'm like, hey,
I need a few simple tank tops this to just
like add in whatever. But I've always loved fashion. I've
always had a passion for it. And that's I mean.
In the future, want to have like a clothing brand,
want to have like my own shoe. I think that
would be so crazy. Um do you think there's gonna
be Swede on the Swede sneaker? Of course? It's funny.

(39:42):
I know the other day I was where the other
day I was wearing Swede and I was like, look,
so what would you say, like your main inspiration behind fashion?
Would be my main inspiration. Honestly, it's it's the Internet.
Like I it's weird to say, but like a lot
of like and also my people who I grew up with,

(40:02):
like my sister, I always loved her the way that
she dressed. Um. But I think social media, especially because
the way that I grew up on it at such
a young age. I was constantly following these bloggers and
these YouTubers on social media, and I just, oh, I
like that Okay, cute. Oh I like this too. Okay,
I'm gonna trying to put this together. I'm still finding
myself to this day. Like there's certain things that like

(40:24):
I look back a year ago that I bawled out
of Barney's for no reason. I look at those pieces
and I'm like, why would I ever buy some people
like the amount of like like banties and like just
like stupid purchases I've made over the past few years.
You look back and like, why would I buy a
tied eye shirt? Like I was looking at this. No

(40:44):
hate to the brand. I love a Merry and I
love everything that a Mirry does. Everything that he does
is insane. But I bought this tied eye shirt for
five dollars at Barney's when I was like fifteen years old,
and it just says a Merry on it, And I'm like,
why would I do that? It's just a ted are
but because of because of the brand, I guess. But
now it's like I don't even like brand, Like I

(41:06):
won't ever you won't ever see me in like a
something that says, well, let's like something that's big and
over the top. I like to be like because that's
way more of a flex like it's it's only if
you know, you know absolutely, I'll actually be I'll actually
be impressed. If you know what I'm wearing, I'd be
very impressed. Let me see, I like the sneakers. The

(41:28):
pants are fired too, which one wh get the sweater,
the pants whatever, and just the shoes like that. I
would be surprised if you knew what brands are, like
my sweater and the pants are maybe the sweater, I'd
be very impressed. Actually it is a high fashion or
streetwear fashion high fashion. The sweater looks like it could
be like Berbery or like, I'll give you a hint.

(41:52):
It's a Japanese brand, okay or oh um Japanese. It's tough.
That's why I said would be I'd be impressed because
I like ship. I like how you were saying, like
you were like if you know you know that's like
sub it's not Japanese. If you say, I'm gonna be like,
oh Capital, I've you've never seen you've never seen the

(42:17):
brand with like all the bones and stuff like, oh,
I like I like the bones. That's cool. Yeah, Like
the back is let me see, oh fire, that's so cool. Yeah,
so I like, I like that though me too, I'm
on the same. Yeah, it's like if you know, that's
way better though. It cool then because then like you
can wear something and like the people that actually know
will be like facts, well, and that's way better than like, oh, like,

(42:40):
oh it's another blunt algatu. Yeah, no, exactly. And I'll
put you on at this brand because this brand actually
won the best Female brand last year. Yeah for two.
It's called Sikai. I've heard of it, I say, c Ai. Yes,
it's a dope brand. Really like it's dope fire. I
wish you guys it right. Do you see this coat? Know?

(43:04):
What is? I know what you're talking about? Do you
see this coat? Do you see these pants? But but yeah,
I'm like I'm into if you know, yeah exactly, And
I just love the fact that I can just wear
something that if you like, if the person knows, they know,
but if they don't know, like these pants could look
like yeah you know what I'm saying. Yeah, actually these

(43:25):
pants I get the most compliments on. I love them.
It's really interesting. I think they're great. I like the
dark green too, shout out. But I think putting me
on I also pay for quality to like, there's a
lot of things that like you feel and you're like, okay,
why would they charge that much for it? But then
when you were like, you can tell like, Okay, you
can buy this shirt of Barney's for okay, a hundred

(43:46):
and fifty dollars, but you can also buy this something
similar Target for ten dollars. But in the long run,
this one, the Target one's gonna cost you more than
the one you bought at Barney because this one's going
to rip in a week and you're gonna have to
buy another one and another one and another one. And
if you just buy this one, this is gonna last
you a few years. And it's like the quality. So
I think that's also another thing that I also like.
When I'm shopping. I also do a lot of online shopping.

(44:07):
Like I don't really go into stores really, I can't
do that. I can't shop online because I don't know,
like especially in men's clothes. I bet women's is the
same thing. But like literally I'll order off white shirt
that's the size large and it will fit like it
would big. Yeah, like like a large could fit a

(44:28):
small child or a sumo wrestler, like you never know,
you know what I mean. So that's why I don't
like doing that anymore, especially because I I can't even
tell you how many times I've ordered something and yeah,
the wrong side for me. I love going to this.
I love going Yeah, I'll going to stuf. But also
just like malls and things like like, oh my god,
it's such a and you never know what you're looking for.

(44:48):
I'll go to a mall if I'm like in for
one thing and one thing only, but I can't just
be at the mall be like strolling a road crazy.
But yeah, I've always loved fashion, and then I've like
with learning beauty and like being up on Growing up
on YouTube, there was girls that definitely influenced me, like um,

(45:11):
I would definitely say back, I mean back when I
was a kid. It was for sure like the top
YouTubers at that time, which was like Amanda Steel, which
I look up to so much. She's been there from
the start of my career and she's she was one
of the originate like original YouTubers um and now she
has her own clothing brand like Amanda Steel probably or
Maddie Bragg. She was another beauty like influence around YouTube.

(45:32):
And these are all the girls that I watched growing
up that I was so inspired by and now like
they're my closest friends, which is like the craziest thing
ever because like twelve year old me would be screaming
right now. Um, but yeah, I think I just like
I don't know, I would go and like I always
just kind of follow the trends, especially like when I
was in elementary school, middle school, I would always just
like see what other girls were wearing, see how I

(45:53):
can make a twist. But buying pants was always like
the struggle for me because I was so tall, Like
I would all the my pants would chop off at
my ankles. So like, there's certain brands that like I
love and like I'm gonna die for, Like this brand
I am GA, I'm a good die for because every
single thing is amazing, it fits me incredible, and her
pants are so long that they've hit me. Like she
makes stuff specifically for girls like like me that the best.

(46:15):
So it's always nice finding those clothing brands and you're
like I root for you, I'm there for you. But
I definitely want to work with them in the future,
Like I want to because I want to have my
own collection with them that's in the future. That's awesome.
So so when you say, like because you mentioned you
want to have your own clothing brand or like new collection,
like where do you where do you see yourself in
like five years? I think in five years, I'm gonna
be twenty three. I'm I hope to have my own Yeah,

(46:39):
my own clothing brand, have my like be able to
you know, still inspire other kids and build Swede as
like the biggest brand as I possibly can. That's awesome,
Like I got the OC know, I just gotta build,
you know, so um yeah, I definitely want. I don't
want to give away too much, but I think just
like my name let alone, like just weight, I just

(47:00):
want to run with that, like as far as I can,
whether it's coming out with makeup products, whether it's coming
out with eyebrow products, Like people follow me because people
who love my eyebrows so they're so big and bushy,
and I got I got bullied severely, like when I
was a kid for how bushy and like big my
eyebrows were. But now it's like a trend. So it's true, though,
isn't it weird? Like even it all comes first I'm
telling you it comes full circle. It will and it

(47:20):
always will. Fashion anything like even certain like toronres of,
like music always come back. Agreed, you know what I mean.
It's really interesting it is, and especially people take samples
from certain songs and they put it in the intro
and then they had to be and then yeah, it's crazy.
Do you think music had any sort of impact only?
I feel like music fashion go hand and at yeah,

(47:42):
like there's not there's not one big artist that's on
the charts right now that doesn't fly. I was to
a lot of like hip hop. I love like I
would like hip hop and like pop, like I can
go from like Lady Gaga, Lana del Rey, Halsey to
like Roddy Ridge, Gunna Young Thug like within, So you
wouldn't have like a favorite. Who would your Oh my gosh,
that's so hard. Which what what John right? I guess

(48:03):
I guess all time, all time of all time lot adult.
I just love her everything. Oh my god, she's a queen.
And then so that's like more like pop, I guess
you would say. I I also, yeah, I also love
Lady Gaga. I think she paved the way and just
like the way that she is and how like how
much of an active is she is. She just did

(48:24):
this interview with Oprah and it's all about mental health.
If you ever get a chance to watch it, just
look up Oprah and Lady Gaga. I highly recommend anyone
that's watching this to go watch that or listening to this.
Those are like probably like timeless inspirations. But like right now,
I love Miley Cyris. I think she's a queen. She
really came back, she snapped back. I think Roddy Ritch

(48:45):
is it's crazy to see him blow up because I've
been listening to him for years. A lot of my
friends are artists. A lot of my friends make music,
which is awesome because whenever I get to whenever something
comes out, I'm like, oh, I get to use whatever.
But I think it's crazy to see the way that,
like the rm BE culture has changed, and like the
hip hop culture and the rap culture, like that's really
taking like over. Like just to see Roddy Rich number one,

(49:08):
it was like the most crazy thing for people in
the music industry because he is rapp and you would
normally think that Taylor Swift would have a number one,
or Selena Gomos would have a number one. But it's
like no, this this, this new generation is really coming up.
But also it's like TikTok is the reason that these
songs are going to It's a whole another ballgame. So

(49:29):
if these if these people in the music industry aren't thinking,
like if they're not thinking the back of the head,
is this song going to be big on TikTok, then
in the music industry, because that's like the next thing.
But I don't know. I I think music and fashion
for sure go hand in hand. Like I love music.
If it wasn't for music, my music is like the

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most therapeutic thing people love to listen to what I
listened to, which I think it's cool too. That's why
I'm always sharing my music on my Spotify. I think
like tapping into the music industry would be super cool
in the future, like whether it's like teging or something.
I think music is something that's really important to people's lives,
you know, it really invokes. It's like it's like the mood,
like sets the mood. If you're getting get a car

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and you want to set the mood. Music is like
the first thing. Yeah, I mean music had such a
big impact on my life. Without Kandy, I wouldn't I
wouldn't be where I am. It lets your emotions out
and you don't have to do anything like you can.
You can listen to a whole album and you're like,
oh my god, I feel so much better because I
just let all my emotions out. But you were just
listening to someone again, back to like what we were
talking about, back to someone that's relatable you. Even in

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the music industry, you have to be vulnerable. You have
to tell your story. These biggest artists are big because
they're telling their real life stories, like through their music.
I used to when I was younger, Like growing up,
I would always just block my emotions away like I
was a I'm an Aquarius, so I like, I'm a
very I'm a very like everything just kind of like run,

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like I'm a very unemotional person. My mom my sister
are both Pisces, so they'll they cried whatever when something
happens they saw. I'm like, I just like it's things
just kind of go past me. But that's why I
feel like music. It helps me to like actually come
back to like reality and actually have feelings that have
feels like sorry and feel this because when I was fifteen,

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like making the money that I was and doing what
I was doing, I was bulletproof. Nothing nothing could get
like passed right here, even my parents. Like I put
my parents through so much growing up, and now it's like, okay,
well now I got to do the exact opposite. Now
I gotta get back to them. Now I gotta make
sure that they're taking care of their good which is

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something that like I never thought i'd be able to say.
But I mean, I'm so blessed to be able to
do what I'm able to do and help everyone around me.
So maybe maybe you should start like a series on
your channel where you do something with music. Yeah, but
that's very interesting, but also copyright. But I could, I'm
sure I could find away. There's there's I think you

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can only use like fifteen seconds of each song. Yeah,
maybe you just compile like I actually used to do
drive with Me videos where I would just sit in
my car and drive and then put my music on
my playlist. People. I think the fifteen seconds thing is
not true because I had one video they demonetized it
because there was two seconds, oh wow, two seconds of
a song, and they've been they copyrighted. So you know

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the the Curb your Enthusiasm theme song, like so I
you know how that was a huge meme. So I
made a meme with that song and it was literally
three seconds copyrighted. Wow, taken down. I lost all the
money for the video. It got taken down. I think
get taken down but take away. But literally no money

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from that video. Wow. I hadn't really idea. I try
to try to. I try to keep my music like
on I get on SoundCloud, I get the music on
soundclod and then I converted to an MP three. This
is for all you YouTubers other than want to find music.
This is a tip SoundCloud. Find it on SoundCloud and
and go to like a website that like converts it.
You can just look up like MP three convert verter,

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convert the file. Then you drop it into final cut
pro and then you then you're cool. It's fine. And
you can also make it SloMo, like make ITSLMO just
by like a half a second, and that'll make sure
that it's not going to get demonetized. Like I know
so many people that like, we'll get like a mainstream
song and they'll like SlowMo it by like just a
little bit, maybe like half a beat, and it's fine,

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and they don't get coveryrted. So there's definitely ways to
go around it. But I just I couldn't risk it.
I just feel like because that I was so pissed
about that, I was so mad and and like I've
had one video it was crazy. So I had I
did a video on Soldier Boy and there was an
interview that I used to she locked up. I have
no idea, I think so I think I'm assuming he

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doesn't posted anything in like six months. But I took
a snippet from one of his interviews and legit. The
second I uploaded it turned yellow and then said a copyright. Wow.
I was like, what the hell? So then I had
to do a voiceover, which was funny, but like literally
just a SoundBite from an interview. It's crazy. Yeah, I know,

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maybe they're out for you. Maybe YouTube's out for you.
Just I mean, I've never really dealt with something because
I don't really just music like that. I just kind
of like it's more vlogs more like the craziest thing
is all my music is all is all like original.
Like I had a friend who was giving me some
beats or yeah, you know, but I was just baffled
by the three seconds of the tribune. That is crazy

(54:31):
that Yeah, I mean people go through that now. I
mean especially because music is such a different I mean
I don't really, I don't know a lot about it.
So I only know, Like with me, I'm able to
make a video and release it and it's out to
the world. With music, there's a whole. It's a whole
another ballgame. Like seven people own one song, like my
my videos, I own all the like I own my videos.
Do you own your video? You own your podcast with

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other people? And like the music industry, five people can
be on one song they own and then they and
then somehow like the label comes in and then they
demonetize it on your channel. It's just like a whole boat.
I don't Yeah, that's why I think making you up.
That's why I just started making my own music. That's
what's up right, you know. Swede Brooks DJ coming out soon,
coming soon, Stay tuned. Wow, we talked about a lot

(55:16):
on this j Yeah, it has been great. It's been
great catching up. We haven't had like we haven't had
like a real conversationally. I love talking to people like
I love getting like deep with people because it's like
it's I think, I think it's interesting and I love
learning other people's stories, and especially with you. I mean,
it's been a long time. I know. It's crazy. When

(55:37):
when he when he reached out, when he reached out,
he was like, hey, I want you to come on
Whitey's podcasts, I'm like, oh my shout out, Blake, Blake,
I know you're gonna listen to this later. I love
the one that you did with him too. Oh thank you.
That one was crazy. But we talked about like all
the counterfeit. That's why that I brought it up because
I was like, I had no idea that that was
even a that's crazy. That's a whole different conversation. But yeah,

(55:58):
thank you for coming on. Thank you so much for
having me. I hope you guys enjoyed this listening. If
there's anything that you could leave the listeners with, whether
it be just plugging yourself or just like something you
want to share or and that's my name again, my
name is Swade Brooks. Any of you watching this, follow
your This is so corny and cheesy, but it's so true,

(56:19):
Like follow you your dreams and don't let anything stop it,
like literally just do it, and like that's straight out
of Nike, And like I tell that all the time
because it's true. Like people overthink things way too much
and think that, oh, I can't do this because I
don't have this resource or I don't have this and
this and this, But at at the end of the day,
it's like you're the only one stopping yourself. And that's
what I've taken with me my whole life. And also,

(56:40):
don't put other food down, like for what you're not
going to get nothing out of it. My Instagram Swede Brooks.
There it is Twitter, Swede Brooks. Actually know my Snapchat
stops just way more than all the other platforms stops.
Swede Brooks one follow me, it's my favor We'll make
sure you go check out Swede and all her various
or YouTube is one, well yeah anything just look at

(57:01):
my name is say Brooks. It's not the hard Yeah,
so go check her out. Thank you for coming on,
Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. We just
have to do this again. Yeah, maybe it'll be my
podcast and then I can there we go. Now we're
now we're talking podcast announcement. This well amazing. Well, thank
thanks again for coming on. I appreciate you. We'll definitely
have to have you back on legit Check. But you

(57:22):
know it's called legit check. I like that. Thank you,
I really like that. Do you have a legit check
on your Instagram? Yeah? Of course. Finally I flied the
longest time you weren't. I know, I know, I finally
got it like last year. Now you're leg That's so funny.
That's very fine. Well, anyway, guys, appreciate you. Guys. I'm
gonna kich you guys. Todos