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Fashion, Film & Fine Spirits with Lequan “YP” Hunt: The Visionary Behind Certified Ave

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From swap meet hustler to multi-industry entrepreneur, Laquan "YP" Hunt represents the relentless spirit of Vegas beyond the neon lights. As co-founder of Certify Avenue, his journey exemplifies how authentic hometown connections can fuel diverse business ventures in an evolving city.

Hunt's entrepreneurial path began with a $20,000 investment at a local swap meet in 2014, selling t-shirts branded with the "CH" logo from his former music group, Certified Hustlers. This humble start blossomed into four brick-and-mortar locations, with his current flagship store strategically positioned in Town Square Las Vegas. Rather than following traditional retail models, Hunt transformed his stores into Instagram-worthy spaces designed for content creation – a shrewd adaptation to today's social media-driven consumer culture.

What truly distinguishes Hunt's business approach is his seamless diversification across industries. While maintaining his clothing brand, he launched Certify Films Home Entertainment, producing "The SHOT Series" – powerful documentaries featuring survivors of gun violence that have garnered over a million views on streaming platforms. Not content with conquering just fashion and film, Hunt recently entered the notoriously competitive spirits industry with "Lie by You" vodka, currently available at select Vegas locations with ambitions for casino distribution.

Hunt's timing couldn't be better as Las Vegas transforms into what many call "Hollywood 2.0." As a native Las Vegan with deep community roots, he possesses the authentic connections that outside entrepreneurs can't replicate. "Vegas is about to be crazy in the next five years," Hunt predicts, positioning himself at the forefront of this evolution with upcoming projects including feature films and international documentaries.

For aspiring entrepreneurs watching Hunt's remarkable journey unfold, his advice remains refreshingly direct: "Just start." In a city known for reinvention, Laquan Hunt embodies the next generation of Vegas success stories – proving that sometimes the most valuable cards to hold are hometown knowledge, creative vision, and the courage to place your bet on yourself.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to Vegas Circle Podcast with your hosts, paki and Chris. We are people who are passionate about business, success and culture, and this is our platform to showcase the people in our city who make it happen. On today's podcast, we're sitting down with a true certified hustler yes sir Making moves in the fashion film and now in the spirits game. We're diving into his latest projects and getting his take on the business scene in Las Vegas. Let's welcome. Co-founder of Certify Ave, mr Laquan, yp Hunt man. What's up? Welcome, welcome.

Speaker 2:

So finally get a chance to sit down with you, man.

Speaker 3:

Bless you bless you. Yeah yeah, a lot of the same folks that we know, man. Man, I've been watching a lot of y'all work too.

Speaker 1:

We appreciate that man. We appreciate that is to you, man, like we talked about over the phone. So many hats in the business space. The brand is Certify Ave. Certify Avenue Avenue. I'm sorry, let's touch base on the business as far as clothing first. So now you guys actually have a clothing store inside Town Square in Las.

Speaker 3:

Vegas. Yeah well, actually it's like our fourth store.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's our fourth store. Well we're growing.

Speaker 3:

As we grow, we get bigger. We started at a swap meet 2014. Okay, yeah, so we started in 2014, the way it came from music I used to do music okay and the name of the group was certified hustlers that's what's up.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so you were artists and that was your group, okay artists.

Speaker 3:

It was five of us actually. One of us died in a car accident and then sorry to hear that just went away, but we used to have t-shirts with the CH on it. That was like our brand. We made all our clothing and stuff and so when the music kind of tarnished out and faded out a little bit, I started doing the clothing, because everybody wanted the shirts and stuff. That's what's up. I started in a swap meet selling shirts and T-shirts. I probably made about $20,000 in the swap meet.

Speaker 3:

That's what's up Not a lot of money, but from there.

Speaker 1:

It is a lot of money. $20,000 is good. That's your own brand. That's my own brand From there.

Speaker 3:

I got my own brick and border. So from 2017, we've been just elevating.

Speaker 1:

And that's a very hard great location to be.

Speaker 3:

They're making so many changes in town square. Yeah, it is actually. They just built some condos over there and a great restaurant over there.

Speaker 1:

The guest house is yeah, shout out to my guys over there guest house. Yeah, those are my guys over there.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's growing over there pretty good. Okay, what's the biggest?

Speaker 2:

challenge. When you open up a new store, right, you have your brand identity. Like I think you know there's people that like your brand. They go and seek it out and find it. But going into a new location is it hard to kind of pull people from a different location into a new more people walking around and just like the way it looks.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, more of urban. So since the social media world been coming apart, I tried to build a store like a social media platform, so every spot in the store you could take pictures and just do a whole bunch of social media content, things like that. So I'm trying to move towards that route a little bit more. But fashion is fashion. You know what I mean. You can have fashion anywhere. If somebody likes some garment and things like that, you're going to shop. That's 100%. This came from the Avenue. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3:

It's not my brand, but I carry other brands as well too.

Speaker 1:

And that's what I was going to ask you. So do you guys actually design your own clothing, basically label?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, we have our brand and then we brand out with a lot of uh, black companies out of throughout america.

Speaker 1:

so that's what's up. Okay, so this is strictly black owned. Yeah, oh yeah, business and you've got other other designers and everything from that whole setup, okay, wholesale with all different types of designers.

Speaker 3:

I love this man, yeah you know what's interesting man?

Speaker 1:

just to sidetrack for one second, shout out to my guy, rashim turner. That's based in atlanta. That's actually how I met my wife. He actually owned a company called Urban City Talent and that was the whole idea of putting a lot of businesses together. They had a fashion company. I did a lot of stuff with Bishop Down Wine from Chicago and the whole nine, but I love to be able to see you guys doing that, man. Yeah, it's a grind.

Speaker 3:

It's a grind, but you know they say one thing people love to look good and eat good, good. So those are the two things, that two businesses that you could kind of corner and keep a little little wave going throughout time. You know what I mean 100%.

Speaker 2:

How do you identify, right? So it's not like there's a people, like you said, fashion's fashion People like what they like, they wear what they want to wear and if it looks good they're going to, they're going to go and like it. But you know who's the person who's in charge of identifying that look? You know, as I'm like scouring the country, finding new trends, new people that are manufacturing, and I want to put it in my store because I want to put my name behind it right, how do you identify what that is and how do you keep track of what those trends are kind of moving towards?

Speaker 3:

I have a 15-year-old daughter.

Speaker 2:

I have a 15-year-old daughter. Actually, she's're a producer.

Speaker 3:

Don't go too hip-hop. Look like a producer.

Speaker 2:

So we went in the closet and she styled me.

Speaker 3:

So, yeah, I got a 15-year-old daughter and she's crazy into fashion at 15. The new kicks everything Like I'm going crazy over there trying to keep up with everything that she wants.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and she'll tell you if it's whack too, man, because kids, that's how you get to ask the honesty. Kids is a trend. You know what I mean it always starts with the kids.

Speaker 3:

And once you get them locked in, I mean, they're your fans forever. Like you still listen to artists your first artist you was listening to. You're still a fan of them to this day. You never let that because it's kind of like your first love.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's a good point. They spend a lot more money too, because I went to the same high school. I went for 10 years, Right.

Speaker 3:

Your parents. Like I just said, I'm spending so much money trying to keep her flying and things like that so we spend all the money to keep going.

Speaker 1:

So talk about brick and mortar. What would make you transition to just be strictly online? You know you're touching base with that. What would make you want to just do that?

Speaker 3:

Or do you like the idea of being able to feel and be able to be in? You know the touch of everything. I do like that, but I think online is the way to go. To be already honest with you, online is the world right now.

Speaker 1:

Because of the capital too. Yeah, Look at it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and it's easy. You know what I mean. You can just ship right from your home or right from you.

Speaker 1:

Direct to consumer.

Speaker 3:

Right to the consumer. So yeah, the Internet is social media and TikTok and all those things. You can sell a million T-shirts with just a good dance or a good trend.

Speaker 2:

You know what I mean.

Speaker 3:

You'll take off, so the Internet's really awesome.

Speaker 1:

Do you feel like at some point Certify Avenue, you will be out of brick and mortar and just go shop online?

Speaker 3:

I think this will be our last year, to be honest with you as far as brick and mortar Really. Because our whole brand is online. Now we're doing the production movies, we're doing podcasting, we got a modeling agency, so a lot of things is visual, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

So it's visual.

Speaker 1:

Click, click and it's done yeah.

Speaker 3:

Click, so it makes a lot of sense visual click, click and it's done.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, click, click and you can cut on the overhead too with the rent electricity everything that's on there.

Speaker 3:

I know it's not cheap at town square not at all and you know.

Speaker 2:

Do you feel like the clothing brand is a driver of all of these other businesses, or do you think the other businesses are a driver of your clothing brand?

Speaker 3:

well, at first I was the clothing brand that was driving it, but then, five years later, after I tapped into the movies, I'm going crazy because now I can product place all my stuff in my movies.

Speaker 2:

Good point.

Speaker 3:

So if you see, once you watch my films and they some really good films, really film good from Hollywood and everything. Everybody with the clothing on, from the females to the males, have Certified Avenue.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3:

So so now I'm just product placement and with that and I hit a million views already. So now the internet would really be the great time to jump on it, and you know what I mean.

Speaker 1:

That's what is that similar to not biting off Dame, right? That's what a lot what Dame did right as far as product placement inside the movies, with Rockefeller and Jay and all of them?

Speaker 3:

Man, I'm a fan of Dame Jay Irv. Yeah, I'm a fan of all those guys. Master P, everybody killing it.

Speaker 1:

That's excellent man. So jumping into the films, right? So Certify Film Home Entertainment is the film company, right? You're a producer of that which you sent me one of the links with. I need to check out that new series which we're going to get into. But talk a little bit about the SHOT, the SHOT series, okay.

Speaker 3:

So basically the SHOT series is true stories from victims of gun violence to live to tell a horrific story. So we sit them down kind of like in a journalist setting. Okay, they tell a story from the time they woke up to the time they ended up in the hospital and these are people that actually got shot. Yeah, these are actual victims, survivors. These are real survivors that's talking to us.

Speaker 3:

That's crazy yeah, and so from there they tell us from the day they woke up, from the time they woke up to the time they ended up in the hospital. And you know from what I learned from interviewing victims is they don't forget anything, from the smell to what they put on, just every little thing is is embedded in their brain from that day.

Speaker 1:

That's some trauma for real yeah.

Speaker 3:

It's real trauma. So and then I take that story from the, from what they tell me in that interview, I try to complete it to the T and film production. So in a small film I'm showing the actions of being a survivor of a gun.

Speaker 2:

So like recreated with like their interview as like a backdrop kind of deal, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3:

Well, the interview is after the show. Oh, that's great. And then I go get C-list, B-list actors to play the actual victims.

Speaker 1:

Oh wow, so you put it all together as a visualization. Okay, where can you?

Speaker 3:

watch this at now. It's on Tubi right now. Look who and a lot of other.

Speaker 1:

You said Look who Shout out to Byron. Byron picked it up as soon as I brought it in.

Speaker 2:

He picked it up. He loved it.

Speaker 3:

Shout out to Byron. Actually he's waiting on that second season.

Speaker 1:

It's coming. It's coming, that's excellent.

Speaker 3:

He picked it up, man, when did first? Well, not when he first started it, but when he started putting the energy into the. Look who app yeah that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1:

What would you say is kind of the difference, right as far as like distribution, between like a 2B, you know, a Netflix, obviously Look, who's got their whole platform on how they build out. You know, being able to the whole setup of Look who Shout out to. We had an interview with Byron so you can check out the past episode, but what?

Speaker 1:

would you say as far as distribution, what would you recommend to somebody, or how they would put out a film or a series or anything like that? Would you go straight to Netflix or what would you do as far as Netflix?

Speaker 3:

is the big play. You know what I mean. That's what. That's my next step. Yeah, cause of the eyes, or Netflix, because Netflix they with Look, who and Tubi. It's kind of streaming services. So the more views you get, the more money you get but Netflix, they're giving you the check right away.

Speaker 3:

They're buying the film, they're buying the rights and you know it'll take you to bigger, bigger platforms. So that's the way we're going. I got a new season and I'm pitching it to Netflix and these guys so Knocked on Wood. Netflix and these guys so knocked on wood.

Speaker 1:

Let's hope Netflix Can you talk a little bit about what the season is. Well, it's actually the second season. Oh, for the second season. Okay, second series.

Speaker 3:

Every episode is a different story. Got you?

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 3:

So we're looking to be the new urban law and order is what I call my episode, because it's a hunt. I mean you can go anywhere around the world and you can get stories from victims of gun violence. You know what I mean, no matter what background, ethnicity or whatever, because guns— it's there.

Speaker 1:

It's a real situation.

Speaker 3:

It's a problem that we have around the world and in America. So I'm trying to tap into that in an urban way so I can try to get some of these youngsters to really see the outcome of being out there in the streets. Because when you see these interviews, like they paraplegic, telling these stories, Like they only could talk from the neck down. I mean from the neck you know, what I mean and he's still flying everything, but it's like you know what I mean.

Speaker 1:

One decision or wrong place at the wrong time. Wrong place, wrong time. You know what I mean For one decision or wrong place at the wrong time.

Speaker 3:

Wrong place, wrong time. You know what I mean. And then another story is wrong place at wrong times. People was in the elevator and somebody opened the elevator and shot the whole elevator up.

Speaker 1:

Oh man, and this happened in.

Speaker 3:

Chicago, that's my hometown.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

So these are the stories that we're telling, and it's crazy.

Speaker 2:

And is that like kind of the plan right? I know you're trying to go. The goal is to get to Netflix right, yeah, that's where I'm going. When you're trying to pitch these things to them. How are they determining if it's something they want to pick up or not? I'm not super familiar with it. Do they track your viewership and do they track what's your engagement like? What kind of metrics are they looking?

Speaker 1:

for.

Speaker 2:

And how do you?

Speaker 3:

drive those I. That's what I'm trying to figure out too. I really don't know, but I think it's probably more of how many views we got a million views on one episode, but it's a season. But we got a million views on one episode. So trying to get the other episodes to get to a million views, but we already at one million with one episode. And I got a new season that's kind of more souped up than a. You know what I mean we done.

Speaker 2:

Graduated now so Okay, and how are you driving viewership, like you know? Because one thing I'll say you got, you know, like you said, a certified hustler. You got a lot of hands, a lot of different pots and they all have their own challenges of trying to elevate them to you know, certain levels of continuing and doing all that kind of stuff. I'm actually looking for a PR right now. It's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot.

Speaker 3:

But once it's on Tubi, it's worldwide you know what I mean, okay. And once the views start going on there, the show is recommended. That makes sense, so that makes it the algorithm go up and everything the algorithm go up but the algorithm kind of going down because it's been out a year now so nobody's watching the same episode. We're in post-production right now for the new season.

Speaker 2:

And you can track it like in a daily, weekly, monthly basis.

Speaker 3:

Algorithm, all that, yeah, the payments and all that. Shout out to Tubi, that's excellent.

Speaker 1:

How'd you get into the film space? Because that's a hard industry to be in, man.

Speaker 3:

Actually I used to do music, like I say, and all of our videos used to look like short movies. Short films Got it. So I always had this passion of really wanting to do movies, but I didn't have enough money and the movies it's just. You know, it's a lot to go into movies.

Speaker 1:

Very detailed, a lot, a lot.

Speaker 3:

So the music kind of died out and I was like asking people I want to do these movies, I want to do these movies. I got with a couple local guys and it just didn't give me the feel and I said, okay, let me get my money up, save some money, hired Hollywood to come out and we did the first season and it took off. And going from there and you're originally from Vegas, right, born and raised Okay.

Speaker 1:

So you know everybody, yeah, okay 2600 Marlitha King Boulevard.

Speaker 3:

Okay, that's what's up. I'm actually in the works right now writing a film about that, really. Yeah, it's called God Bless the Gang.

Speaker 1:

Excellent yeah.

Speaker 3:

With Too Short on the soundtrack. Oh, that's excellent.

Speaker 1:

It's so much going on in Vegas. I love all this creativity we talked about over the phone is kind of your plan of kind of showcasing you know things that are happening in Vegas.

Speaker 3:

In the home base, in the home base Beyond the lights, yeah.

Speaker 2:

And you think these things are getting a little easier. You know we're trying to break into it, but now you have, like AI. That's helpful. Now I have my cell phone that has a pretty damn good camera on it, you know now people are. You know things they could do post-ed editing from an AI perspective. Do you think that is helping you? Do you think you're getting into the right, perfect time to take advantage of a lot of those things?

Speaker 3:

Well, not right now, because AI with films, you have to have a lot of money. You can't do that from a phone. You can't do that from your computer or anything to make it the way it's supposed to be. What they give you right now is just enough for your apps and things like that. But as far as getting into production and movie and films, that's a lot.

Speaker 2:

That's a whole different. I get like 10 seconds on my AI videos.

Speaker 3:

That's a lot of AI and it gotta be really the AI have to be built for that film type thing Got it.

Speaker 1:

Okay, that makes sense. That shows, I would have never known that, now that you broke that down I. How do you feel about Hollywood 2.0 moving to Vegas? I love it, man. What I'm excited too. That is beautiful.

Speaker 2:

Perfect time.

Speaker 3:

Man, I think God blessed me.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think it was strictly for me, especially because you were born and raised from here.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think it was strictly for me. You know what I mean, so that's great man. Yeah, vegas is about to be crazy in the next five years.

Speaker 2:

I can't wait to see you.

Speaker 3:

Basketball team. Yeah, I just want one. I mean 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.1 of it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you know what I mean. I would think people who have been here 10 years longer or more are the people who are poised to take advantage of it.

Speaker 1:

Because a lot of people are going to try to come here and try to take advantage of it. But we got our roots, they're already coming. Yeah, it's hard, it's hard to break into.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, they just write down Las Vegas Boulevard. You ain't lying, yeah. And then you got to go through the back rooms. Yeah, you got to come all the way around. You know it's growing crazy.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's amazing. We got to talk about this vodka right. So and I got to say it right Lie by you. So talk a little about this man, the vodka industry, or just liquor spirits in general is one of the hardest industries to be in and you pick a lot of the hard industries. I mean that's where the big money is. I know it is. That's where the big money is.

Speaker 3:

Or if I'm at a small percentage, it'll trickle down to me to give me enough to feed my peoples.

Speaker 3:

But the vodka. I hooked up with some cats out of Iowa. My boy James he's in the background over there. He put the whole play together for me. He's a brand manager for them. Okay, nice, like same how. You've been watching me doing my thing and everything. He's been watching from afar and plugged me with the guy Brent and we did some promo for him and then after that promo he was on board so I showed him what I could do.

Speaker 1:

Where is it at now? How can you get the vodka?

Speaker 3:

Right now. It's only at Hacienda Liquors right now. Okay, Is that in Vegas? Yeah?

Speaker 1:

that's in.

Speaker 3:

Vegas. Okay, mariposa should be having it soon.

Speaker 1:

Shout out to Mariposa. Yeah, Ifapping Ash.

Speaker 3:

Okay. So right now we're trying to get also Hattie Marie's, my boy.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I had a meeting with him.

Speaker 1:

I have not went to Brandon's spot.

Speaker 3:

Oh, you got to check it out. I've heard nothing but great things.

Speaker 1:

My daughter love it.

Speaker 3:

I heard it's excellent food. Yams and the Mac. Yeah, yeah, that's. And hopefully with our distributor, if he get all the way locked in, we'll be in these casinos and then it's over from there or Walmart or Target, you know what.

Speaker 1:

I mean.

Speaker 3:

Whichever one, I won't complain.

Speaker 1:

They say like the toughest part. You hear like 50 talk about, you know, not even getting on the sidetrack about Puff and Ciroc and all that stuff. But being that it's not regulated, they say it's one of the hardest industries because it's so controlled.

Speaker 3:

It's like two companies that control the liquor space. And imagine how hard it is in Las Vegas. That's amazing.

Speaker 1:

Because we built the mecca of entertainment and alcohol and everything we built off liquor?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, but I think it'll be easy because I'm in the backyard of my hometown. Yeah, hometown, why not? What's?

Speaker 2:

kind of that process, one you start from manufacturing, then obviously distribution has its own issues, but then there's branding. There's a lot of different facets to kind of building out this brand. Is it? When you're trying to do it, do you have to taste a lot of different samples of what you like? How do you kind of go through that process of getting, like, say, I want Vegas Circle on this bottle. How do I do that?

Speaker 3:

You got to get with James.

Speaker 1:

You got to have an end? Yeah, but you got to have an end because it's definitely.

Speaker 3:

I don't even know how I got in, but, like I say, god always blessed me for some reason.

Speaker 2:

I feel like I'm a good guy.

Speaker 3:

So God always put me in positions to make miracles happen. So I don't even know how I got into it. And three months, four months later, now we're right here Cases. We distribute into the bars and things like that. So everything is working out, but it's real good though.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to try it.

Speaker 3:

If you're a fan of vodka, you would definitely love this one.

Speaker 1:

Chris is a yeah, that's his water. That's why I put it next to me.

Speaker 2:

I like, look, because I do it because I don't want to get a hangover, so I drink Absolute.

Speaker 3:

Oh, yeah, yeah, I thought you were going to say Tito's. You know, tito's don't get you no air. It does to me for some reason. Yeah, I like Tito's. I like Tito's too. I like Tito's. Is that better than Tito's? Better than Waze? I'm going to let you know. I'm going to let you know for sure. Yeah, yeah, you got to taste it.

Speaker 1:

So, from your perspective, man like what's clothing, film, liquor is a whole different space man, that's big boy. We're for real. Yeah, where, where do you see the opportunities you know taking you? As far as I know, there's detours that you probably have been through that still going through, going through all that. But where do you see the opportunity? You know, the biggest vision for this is it coming out with other brands that you want to work with.

Speaker 3:

yeah, actually I'm really indebted to films.

Speaker 2:

Okay, you know what I mean, that's the baby, but the liquor is.

Speaker 3:

that's my backyard. You know what I mean. I drink. I'm from Las Vegas, you know what I mean. I love to have a good time and I love to have a great tasting of drink to make me feel good, like you say, not having to hang over things in the morning and things like that, but filming going to be the next John Singleton of Las Vegas. That's what's up you know what I'm saying, so that's where I'm really going. I got some. We working on a lot of films right now.

Speaker 1:

What's kind of the resume? So I know about the Shot Series. What's kind of your resume from prior? You know things that you've worked on.

Speaker 3:

The Shot Series. Shot Series is my first one. Right now we working on a feature film. God bless the game. I did some short films, uh, hide and seek, and I actually got where I wrote a horror film. But a wolf, a urban wolf, oh, you got a spin on that yeah so it's really cool, though I give you a little taste of it.

Speaker 3:

Okay, the some friends are going on a trip. They buying some rugs from an old lady, but the rugs are made out of old wolf's wolf skin, where Wolf is around in the mountains and he's get a whiff of his brothers and his brothers and sisters and take a turn.

Speaker 1:

Oh, so you're ready to eat up the whole? Yeah, I can already imagine that sounds crazy. Yeah, we working man.

Speaker 3:

We working Certified films is definitely going to be.

Speaker 1:

That's exciting.

Speaker 3:

And I got a dope. Sorry, I forgot to tell you a documentary filmed in Indonesia. Get out of here. Yeah, okay, certify your hustle. That'll be coming out this In Indonesia, in Indonesia. Wow Okay, super crazy, super dope. I gave y'all a little behind the scenes, okay.

Speaker 2:

Would love to see that. Do you like to get into the movies or are you more like to be production?

Speaker 3:

Like. Do you like to be involved? Like so yeah. I'm going to be all the way in the mix going on. I did enough films and watched enough directors that I think I got the hang of it yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome, the creativity man is just unlimited. It's a lot of fun, man especially being able to showcase, you know, people's vision and documentaries and things.

Speaker 3:

Those are ones I love because you can be able to learn so much from people and you can just tap into and get you some insight on things not to do or be aware of 100%, because a lot of things is 360 around the world. I agree it happens the same, I agree.

Speaker 2:

And we're in a world right now, where everything is just content.

Speaker 1:

Content, content content.

Speaker 2:

People are just consuming it so fast.

Speaker 1:

The more you can pump out yeah, and it's music. I was just listening to music in the car with my boy. I think the song was a minute and a half, but it was a fire song. But that's all you got. Yeah, that's all you got is a minute.

Speaker 3:

That's a good point, because we're younger than a lot. Three and a half, four and a half, you get six minutes. Six minutes, teddy Grant, vibing, yeah, vibing, teddy's killing it.

Speaker 1:

You, right on that. Switch the subject a little bit about business advice. Man, what's one gem of business advice you could give maybe a young entrepreneur or maybe somebody that's building their business on the side right now? What would you say to them? Just because you've had so many layers to you Start?

Speaker 3:

That's the first thing Start. You know what I mean, because I think I set up for years just thinking of all the things I wanted to do, but never moved on it. The time that I started moving on it, before I knew it. I'm here now making films and all that. I can't even remember when I was. You just have to start Whatever dream you're feeling. Don't move on it. Time is really short, lifespan is really short. Everybody is making footprints in the world, so yeah put your foot down.

Speaker 2:

You got a lot of ideas right, so do you when you have them like, what like? Do you ever like man, I don't, I shouldn't do that, or this is the one that's like the right one.

Speaker 3:

I should do, because I feel like when you're creative person, like you're but this year, my brother told me that I need to slow down because, like the prior prior years, I just had put a lot on my plate.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I'm going to do this.

Speaker 3:

I'm going to think about it, but I don't like nothing to just sit on my mind because, now I got another problem on my mind.

Speaker 1:

Yep.

Speaker 3:

But, now I'm taking one step at a time, Like I'm dealing with the liquor and the films right now. That's it. My brother got the clothing. He's doing the clothing Assistant is doing the modeling agency, so I'm spreading out the work so I don't have to be hands-on.

Speaker 1:

That makes sense. That's excellent. Things be flowing. We always talk about restaurants, man. I know you talk about Hattie Marie's a little bit, but what's your favorite restaurant, especially being from Vegas, man? What's your favorite spot here to go to eat at?

Speaker 3:

I like Steakhouse.

Speaker 1:

Okay, del Frisco's. I think that's one of my favorites.

Speaker 3:

Frisco's is fire yeah, stk is all right. Stk is always good yeah, I like mom and pop joints too. I like Nora's. Nora's is great too, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, really good Tying a spot. Yeah, Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and I like hibachi spots too. Okay, I'm a hibachi person.

Speaker 1:

Second person to talk about. H? I sure love the vanilla rice man. Have you been to vanilla rice's spot? You? Got to check him out, man. So he just opened up a place off of Charleston Hibachi spot before. He used to have a takeout on the east side, if I remember correctly. But check him out.

Speaker 2:

He brought us some food here. It was excellent, excellent. We're putting this episode out soon, man. It was great. Big portions too, very good portions.

Speaker 1:

Anything we forgot to ask you, man, that you want to leave us out on. You got a lot going on.

Speaker 3:

You're motivating man, I'm just working. Man, shout out to Las Vegas. You know what I'm saying? We're about to be on the map with a lot of things. A lot of people is working and getting notarized and things like that. I agree.

Speaker 1:

But that's our goal too, man. With being you know people like yourself that, that we are really building the city, man. It's not just a strip. There's a lot of people out off the strip.

Speaker 3:

That's been building it. Yeah, we built the culture all the way around, even the gaming culture. We built that totally because we gave it all our money, yeah.

Speaker 1:

He said even the gamer coach you ain not lying, that's straight up facts, man.

Speaker 3:

What's your social handles people can reach out to you on and the business handles and stuff. Certified Avenue. Yeah, and you can check out the Shot Series. Just Google the Shot Series, it'll pull up on all the platforms. It's an original series made and brought to you by none other than Certified Hustlers out of Las Vegas, nevada.

Speaker 1:

That's what's up, man. We appreciate you hanging out with us, man, and check us out at VegasSoccercom. Appreciate you, man, keep doing it Already, already. That was excellent man.