Staten Island Bonds: E Carterr and Chunk Reconnect Through Music and Comedy

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Two childhood friends reunite as grown creatives when comedian and musician @ChunkyDatDude joins journalist Elliott Carterr on LFTG Radio for a conversation that weaves through their shared past and artistic evolutions.

The interview takes a nostalgic turn as they reminisce about playing football together at just 11 years old—Elliott as quarterback, Chunky as running back—on the Staten Island Hurricanes. This foundation of early friendship provides a genuine backdrop to their current professional relationship, highlighting how childhood bonds can evolve into creative partnerships.

Chunky shares his current creative pivot, explaining his temporary step back from comedy skits to focus on developing his musical talents. "I kind of liked the music side," he explains, demonstrating the natural evolution many content creators experience as they discover their authentic artistic voices. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when they discuss Chunky's viral diss track targeting fellow Staten Islander C-Black. What seems like genuine beef is revealed as creative expression between actual friends—"That's the homie, that's the bro," Chunky explains, showcasing how content that appears confrontational often serves different purposes in close-knit creative communities.

Perhaps the most poignant moment comes when Elliott asks if he's the same person Chunky knew in their youth. Chunky's response resonates with wisdom beyond their specific friendship: "No one's the same. It's growth. You either grow and be like a psychopath or you grow and be what you create." The conversation wraps with mutual appreciation, highlighting how genuine support—like Chunky being the first to purchase Elliot's clothing line at full price—forms the foundation of real friendship. Follow both creators on Instagram at @LFTGRadio and @ChunkyDatDude to keep up with their evolving creative journeys and upcoming projects.

Also check out Chunk's music on soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/mr-chunks-432984211/like-that-remix-ar-yum-chunk-lenard?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&si=AE9F26759F7141EBA55C4B76E45A2EB0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://soundcloud.com/mr-chunks-432984211/sets/concession-stand-vol-1?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&si=C8BA5DC2E1B24FD7A12A73B774FFFBAE&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to LFTG Radio Reporting live from the gutters
, your boy, elliot Carter.
Y'all check out my YouTube.
Make sure y'all like, followand subscribe at LFTG Radio.
I'm here with my boy, chunkythat Dude, you know what I'm
saying A big time comedian fromStaten Island and you know he

(00:28):
always supported everything Ihad going on, trippy down to the
clothing line.
You know what I'm saying.
These are a few pictures of usback in the day in Staten Island
.
Shout out to Kayla for thatphoto shoot as well.
That's the last picture I got.
You know what I'm saying.

(00:49):
And yeah, chunky that dude, goahead and introduce yourself,
good brother.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
What's up y'all?
It's your boy Chunky, that dude, chunklin Art.
A lot of people know me asChunklin Art Instagram comedian
music lover and just like tomake people laugh.
Man, regular dude from theisland, just here to support my
boy Elliot.

(01:15):
What's the word E?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, you know the vibes.
I appreciate it, what you gotgoing on now, man what you got
going on now, man.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Um, right now I kind of I took a break from social
media, but I'm still working onsome little music here and there
.
I can never stop working onmusic.
Um, I didn't really love the,the, the skit side of everything
.
I kind of liked the music side,so I kind of wanted to revamp

(01:52):
my I mean, I'm still going toshoot skits, but I kind of
wanted to revamp my Instagramfor music and add official
content.
I don't just want shit done.
You know what I'm saying.
I want everything to beofficial.
So, yeah, just revamping myimage and Instagram and shit
like that.
But yeah, the page is Chunky.
That Dude on Instagram, activein the stories, active in your

(02:14):
comments.
You know what I'm saying.
But yeah, the content's comingsoon, got a couple music videos
about to drop and yeah, gotsomething planned for y'all.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Okay, speaking drop and um, yeah, got something
planned for y'all.
Okay, speaking of music videos,let's get into you and r yum's
music video, and I'm guessingthat it's true.
I went to Arlington to play 2K.
The whole crib smellin' likesome doo-doo.
Whole crib smellin' like somedoo-doo.
Whole crib smellin' like somedoo-doo.
Bang, bang, bang.
Whole crib smellin' like somedoo-doo.

(02:53):
Whole crib smellin' like somedoo-doo.
It's five in the morning.
Roaches crawlin' all over thisnigga's sink.
Ba-da-da-bum-bum.
He had the nerve to ask me ifI'm thirsty.
Do I want something to drink?
Nigga?
What the fuck you think?
Ba-la-la-bum-bum?

(03:14):
That nigga cry me houses fried.
It smell like someone trolledin it and died.
That nigga got bedbugs in hisride.
That nigga more black thanWesley Snipes.
That nigga shares outfits withhis guys.
That nigga shares outfits withhis guys.
I don't mean to sound bitter,but that nigga's a critter man.

(03:34):
He's such a dirty.
Nigga Got roaches on his dreadsoh, baby Dirty.
Nigga Got roaches on your tits.
Oh baby, oh oh.
The only thing I know thisnigga dirty from his head to

(03:59):
toes and yeah, he shit clotheswith all his bros.
He so dirty, so fucking dirty.
Look at his nigga.
I said the only thing I knowthis nigga dirty from head to
toe and, yeah, he shed clotheswith all his bros.
He's so dirty, so fucking dirty.
Look at his neck.
I said the only thing I know.
This nigga dirty from head totoe and, yeah, he shed clothes
with all his bros.
Now, give it to him, I'llfucking kill him.
I'll give it to him.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Flawless victory, all right, so what?
I want to know is how did y'alldeal with Kwame?
Uh say that again whatmotivated y'all, or inspired
y'all, to actually create amusic video and a diss song like
that to him?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
um, all right.
Well, there was this whole bigthing going around staten island
was like who's the ghost ofstaten island?
And and it it just.
The talk was just becoming sotoxic, like we just wanted to
like shed light to just you knowwhat I'm saying Just anyone.
It could have been anybody.

(04:59):
Honestly, we just chose to dothe track against C-Black
because we know him.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I don't really know thepolitics on the island as far as
beef or nothing like that.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So do y'all actually have smoke with C-Black Hell?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
no, no, that's the homie, that's the bro, that's
really the bro.
From back in the day, it wasnever no static or nothing.
If you never got into anargument with C-Black or a
verbal spat with C-Black, thenhe really don't know you or not.
Don't really fuck with you likethat.

(05:37):
You know what I'm saying.
But, yeah, like you know whatI'm saying.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
That's a fact.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Like you know what I'm saying.
So that's all that was.
It was just something to doSomething to.
You know what I mean Somethingto shake the burrow up.
Honestly, I just wanted to toshowcase that it's the other
side of of me, like you know I'msaying.
A lot of people know I'm goodwith vocals, but not to the
extent that I took it to on thatsong.
But that was just something todo, something fun.
And you know I'm saying hisresponse was just bigger, came

(06:06):
at us too.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
So it was just, it was fun, that's all yeah, I've
definitely seen a comment thatyou made on facebook speaking on
regards to his uh lastsituation.
I wanted you to speak on that.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Like, uh, you know just who he is to the island and
who he is to you um, oh yeah, Ihad said um regardless of your
feelings or, furthermore,emotions or opinions towards
C-Black, he represents thisborough, he represents Staten
Island and that's a whole solidfact.

(06:41):
Like I don't know if anyoneever felt that the diss track
was like, you know, beef oranything like that, but I don't
know that's first and foremostor anything like that, but I
don't know that's first andforemost.
But secondly, him being fromstaten island, he wear it on his
back every club, he go to everycity he's in.
You know, I'm saying that'sthat's just see black as a, as a

(07:03):
staten islander.
He reps his and you know whatI'm saying and I I respect that
wholeheartedly and nobody cantake that away from him.
He can't take that.
He's gonna take that everywherehe go.
I'm from Staten Island and I'veseen that in person.
Like I've seen him do that inmultiple locations.
You know what I'm saying Bigvenues, small venues, don't

(07:26):
matter, he's gonna wear that.
And yeah, shit, I used to workin summer youth with C Black
when I was like 15 years old andI was like that's how I met him
.
I think, yeah, I met the niggaworking at Summer Youth Back in
the day, nigga Young Jointsworking at 18, ps18 in West
Branton.

(07:46):
And yeah, nigga just never hadno, no fear in his heart or you
know what I'm saying, neverbacked down from nobody.
So whatever he got into atSummer Gym I don't really know
the politics between that.
But yeah, that nigga, if he sayyou from Staten Island, you're
not jacking it, he's not jackingyou.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, there we go, shit like that so I also got
some music.
First of all, I've known youfor years and I never knew that
you took music seriously or even, you know, created music as a,
as a musician.
Tell me a little bit about howyou got into that um, well,

(08:32):
music sound cliche.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Music's always been a part of my life as far as like
vocals, being growing up inchurch, being in choir I was in
chorus in elementary school,junior high school I was in
chorus, yeah, so that's alwaysbeen instilled in me.
So cause as well.

(08:56):
So, um, so, yeah, I guess musicis just something that I've
always just like to work on andin the dark parts of of my craft
and stuff like that.
But, um, I feel like that's the, that's like the, that's really
what I'm good at.
Besides, you know, contentcreation and skits and stuff
like that yeah, um, I got twosongs.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'm not gonna play them now, but I'm definitely
gonna put the links in the inthe bio bio for the songs to be
heard.
But tell me a little bit abouthow you got into comedy.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh shit, you don't get.
You, don't?
I feel like you don't get intowho you are.
It's like music you need to youknow, harness that, that, that
talent, and do something with it, or that's just not who you are
.
So I always been a jokester,class clown.
Um, even even when, when I metyou we met, we met playing

(09:54):
football it's like, yeah, youwas, you was a quarterback, I
was, I was a running back.
And then tell me, was I notalways doing dumb shit on the
field, joking around you knowwhat I'm saying kicking niggas
in the nuts and running awayLike, and yeah, so that's just
who I was as a person, just ajokester.
And then, once I found outabout you know, you could put it

(10:16):
on camera it was just like, ohshit.
So I guess more imaginationthan anything where did we?

Speaker 1 (10:24):
where did we play football together?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
that was jpd.
That was jpd, bro.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
The hurricanes that was a long hurricane bro niggas
was like 11 all right, so thisis my last question we could end
the interview with with this doyou think that I'm the same guy
from then that you knew?

Speaker 2 (10:47):
No one's the same.
It's growth.
You either grow and be like apsychopath or you grow and be
what you create.
So I can't really say you arethe same person, because back
when I knew you, you was myquarterback, respectfully.
Yeah, you are now a journalistand you know what I'm saying.

(11:10):
Your craft is way differentfrom just throwing a football.
Yeah, so that's my take oneverything.
If I could say anything aboutyou, I would just say that you
aren't scared to be heard or tobe seen I don't really know to

(11:33):
be seen, but just but you ain'tscared to be heard, man.
But yeah, bro, you definitelyit's good to see you as a man
now.
You know what I'm saying,that's what.
And just staying in contactwith you throughout the years
you know texting and shit likethat Just checking on you.
I hope you're all right.
You know whatever you got goingon one day at a time, bro, if

(11:53):
you ever need a shoulder, youknow, hit me up and I'm always
remaining that person you knowso well.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
I could uh, I could tip my hat to chunk as a friend.
He's always been an incrediblefriend.
You know what I'm saying.
He's always been a genuine,loving, caring, supportive dude.
You know what I'm saying.
Every business venture I ever Iever partook in, you know chunk
Chunk always showed up andparticipated and supported
wholeheartedly.
He's not one of those niggasthat's asking for a discount.

(12:28):
You know what I'm saying.
Like, chunk was the firstperson that actually bought my
jacket, and you know what I'msaying.
Like, of course, I offered itto him, but he paid full price
for that, you know, and he didthat out of love.
So I always got you know and hedid that out of love, so I
always got you know, the utmostlove and respect for Chunk.
You know what I'm saying.
But we're going to end theinterview on that note.
Y'all, make sure y'all like,follow and subscribe.

(12:50):
Y'all check out the YouTube atLFTG Radio.
Follow us on Instagram you knowwhat I'm saying at LFTG Radio
and his is at Chunky that Dude,and I appreciate you popping out
and showing love to theplatform.
Brody.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Not advised.
Bro, time tells, though tellskid Stay safe.
Yes, sir, you too.
Salute.