The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - Kountry Wayne - KountryDew

Episode Date: October 23, 2023

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Now, you guys know what it is. We're highlighting the lowlights. And I always say these are the stories behind the storytellers. Very excited to have this guest on today. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Country Wayne. Welcome to the honeydew. Thank you. How are you doing, my man? I'm very excited to have you here. Thanks, thanks. I am.

I was saying outside to you before, I want to give her credit. Jess Hilarious, I'm Baltimore. She's a Baltimore girl. I follow her and really liked her. And I discovered you through her. I was like, this dude's funny as shit. And you're clean. It's another thing.

And yeah, and until today, when you came here, I didn't know you did stand up. Because you didn't tell anybody you did here i didn't know you did stand up because you didn't tell anybody you did stand up or show anybody you did stand up and then you punch them in the mouth with the number one netflix special yeah man i my fans knew but i always the ones who knew knew the ones who didn't didn't but now they do yeah they they know now they do they know now so please promote plug everything and anything you like, tours, your special, whatever you got. Hey, man, just Country Wayne. You know, Google Country Wayne and everything up there. K-O-U-N-T-R-Y Wayne.

Well, I was saying to you, too, like I became a fan through that. And then I saw you pop up on Bert's podcast. And I was like, oh, fuck, yeah, he's doing podcast. I want to get him on. So thank you for doing this because, you know, we look you up and we research a little bit. I want to get into this, but I want to do them on. So thank you for doing this. Because, you know, we look you up and we research a little bit. I want to get into this, but I want to do some background first. But you had your first kid at 17. You have 10 children.

Yep, 10. How old are you? I'm 35. All right. Yeah. All right. I didn't have my first and only until I was 40. Wow.

Great. Congratulations. I still got six years on you. My first. Well, how you did that how you pull out man how you pull out all these years it wasn't hard it wasn't hard oh really it wasn't hard oh i'm sick of mine it wasn't difficult oh it wasn't all i can think about is i don't want 10 kids like i would say that to myself i don't we don't need 10 kids yeah all right i don't i deal with them i'm good for that country got that good all right so let's talk a little bit about where

you're from and your upbringing and then we'll get to 17 because also you don't have much that's you're already a dad at 17 you're not getting a lot of that that that college year stuff and that that 20 something fucking off and playing around either because you have i don't know how many people get to it i don't know how many kids you have by the time you're 22 or 23 we'll see nah but uh where are you from originally i'm from a small town called millen georgia millen yep millen georgia about 3 000 people all right and then uh how were your parents together when you know now my parents was definitely, weren't together, come from poverty, all that. They weren't married, but were they dating or were they just like?

Man, you ain't in poverty. You ain't doing nothing. You just scratching the ditch. We all in survival mode. So when you're married, you're not even married, for real. You just trying to get it. And I got it. So, you know, I couldn't really, I wasn't ever going to be able to play around in college and stuff anyway because my parents had played around enough.

So I was picking up debt from their playing around. So what's life like growing up? Do you have brothers and sisters? Are you an only child? On my mom's side, I had two sisters. So it's two sisters and me. I was the youngest. On my dad's side, I got seven siblings, but I'm the oldest.

Okay. Yeah. Now, how many at a time were you living together like your sisters and you and me my sisters and my mom okay and you were the youngest yeah so you're bringing you're being brought up on that side by all ladies all ladies okay women okay did you feel like that helped you understand women or you feel like it did not help you on this it helped me it definitely made me understand it that's why the name of my special is a woman's prayer because i understood the powerful the power in a woman's prayer man what a woman think of you and a woman connection to

the earth and all that yeah yeah that is powerful it's powerful women powerful man okay so you're raised by your sisters and your mom and how often is your dad around he ran every once in a while small time so he didn't like leave lee but you see he'd be around yeah he'll be around he didn't move out of state uh nah not not then he did later on yeah how many kids did he end up having he ended up having eight eight how many kids your mom ended up having three and you had 10. There's 21 kids involved in these three people. I had seven kids by the time I was 22. No, you did not. Yes, I did too.

You had seven kids by the time you were 22. I had seven kids, man. If you started at age three, that would average out every three years. That's insane. You had seven kids. How many different women? Five. Five? Yep. Really six, but me and one of them i got custody of my daughter so it's listen i don't know why i'm

saying this to you but when you really well also you were young too so your sperm is pow but the older you get it's not as easy i hope not it's not and it's not as easy it took me three tries thing and we were trying we were actually attempting and you know we weren't just fucking and having fun and any of that I'm not saying that you were yeah I'm not also not saying you were trying to have seven kids by the time I definitely wasn't trying. But you're how old now? 35? So would you say it's fair to say that from 22 to 35, three kids, you've slowed down?

Oh, 22 to 35. I've been, I've been, I had more women probably between the age of 14 and 22 than I had between 22 and 35. How many women would you say you dated? Not even slept with, just dated. What you mean? Like, I only went on, it was about three,

only three or four women that I really dated. I was going to say, you're in a small town, so it's not like you're in New York and there's tons of opportunities. No, I didn't really, really. I was with my high school sweetheart. Me and her got three kids. Okay.

And my ex-wife, we got three. So that's it. Okay. So the rest of them was just... But were they all local girls? Yes. Except for the last one. Girls on the road? No. Do these ladies all know each other too?

Yeah. Did they before? Yeah. I'm from that small town. I had the women before the fame. So a lot of mistakes when guys get out here, get excited about women on the road and all that, I had already did that. I was

famous in high school. I was famous in kindergarten. Why? Kindergarten? He said I was famous in kindergarten. I will be honest. Listen, my baby mama was homecoming queen. My mama was Miss Jenkins County. My sister was homecoming queen. My mama was Miss Jenkins County. My sister was homecoming queen.

Miss Jenkins County, is that what you said? Yeah. My son just won homecoming king. My family always been elite, popular in that small town. Okay. So in that small town, my mom was popular, my dad was popular. So you got a bunch of big fish in the small town. Yeah, a bunch of big fish in the small town.

So since everybody was popular, they knew you coming up anyway because everybody knew mom dad exactly i wrote i wrote off their fame but and i stood in it like okay it's like being lebron's son but really came in ball i i ball my parents falling literally literally all them kids yeah all right so growing up are you an athlete do you play sports what do you so growing up, are you an athlete? Do you play sports? What do you do growing up? I played basketball, baseball and football. What was your favorite?

Favorite basketball. I'm better at baseball though. I was going to ask, what was your, why is it just too boring, baseball? Basketball is a lot quicker. It was hot outside, man. What's that? It was hot outside.

Hot outside. You chose the AC over the hot. Black black people boy it gets get too hot that's funny all right so 17 is your high school sweetheart then right and this is your first child what happens how do you find out she tell you do you freak out do you how do you react uh well up here then come on and i was like oh good lord then you know you pray oh it's late every little spot you hope is the period coming on it didn't so then went to the doctor found out she was pregnant i was how old was she uh she was 18 okay i was in 11th grade so i signed up for the military immediately hold on there was no um talk or anything of of aborting the baby it was always we, we're going to have

this baby. Yeah, we talked. Her too, though, I mean. Yeah, but I gave her money. But she didn't do it. Did she get the money back? Nah. Took your money and gave you a baby, bro.

I got a joke about it on stage. Took your abortion money and gave you a baby, bro. I got a joke about that on stage. Took your abortion money and gave you a baby. I said, I told my son, I had a hit out on him. He don't like that joke, bro. It ain't a joke. All right. So now she says I'm going to do it. And how do you feel about this?

Are you freaking out or are you just like, all right, fuck it. Not really, man. Not really. I'm that type of person. Once I do something, I'm like i'm like hey man end of the day this is what it is i'm about to force nobody to do nothing i just was doing it i was just leaving it as an option in case she wanted to do that i don't want to make her have it either you know but it's just growing up in those environments but we had and i went i signed up for the military because my daddy said he said man you ain't even taking care of yourself yet so I'm like

okay but then he said I thought you was a smart one in front of somebody like trying to I said okay so I signed up for the military so they let you go

to basic training on the way to 11th grade I mean on the way to 12th grade and I supposed to go back to AIT after 12th grade but I ain't go back yeah

so I ain't go AWOL I just went BWOL okay I ain't go back you went, so I ain't go AWOL. I just went BWOL. Okay, I ain't go back. Bye, you went bye, y'all. Bye, y'all, bye. What branch was it? National Guard.

All right, well, thank you. 13 Bravo. Thank you for your abbreviated service, country. Oh, hell, oh, hell, artillery. I made it through basic training, though. I know a couple guys that did National Guard, because what was it, like one weekend a month and then two weeks a year or something like that you had to give

but we got to go on I was supposed to go back I just went to basic training so I did graduate basic training but then when you didn't go back they didn't come find you they tried to but I told them I told them I had scoliosis the first thing I'm thinking is I would have been like look I'm a teenage father you went had scoliosis. The first thing I'm thinking is I would have been like, look, I'm a teenage father.

You went with scoliosis. And I'm flat footed. Yeah. You don't want me on the front line. That's what I told him. I'm flat footed. So if you want somebody out there walking like this, back cricket, feet flat, looking like a duck,

they're not going to be scared of us. All right. So now you're out of the military. Mm-hmm. And what happens next? Man, went to the streets. Started hustling, man. I need some money. Okay.

Is your baby born at this point yet? Yeah. I had him. He was born. Okay. So you're first child to son. Yep. First month of 12th grade?

Yep. Are you back in school? first child with a son. Okay. Yep. First month of 12th grade. Yep. Are you back in school? Yeah, I'm back in school. What's it feel like to be a dad in class? Do you feel like, like. Man, I feel like. Do you feel older than the teacher? Yeah, I feel like, I feel like me and the teacher can hear these kids.

Yeah. I'm in here with these kids because my life was real. I had to buy milk, pampers, this little baby looking at me that i love so much now seeing it looking in my eyes and i'm like hey man it's my son and i gotta stand in it point blank period so then you go to the streets and start doing what what are you selling i'm selling cocaine coke and you do you ever get robbed you ever have any problems out there doing that people didn't pay me sometimes but I ain't really had too many problems. Nah.

And what's considered a good day for you on the street? Well, at that time, I was small town hustling, but later on, I got bigger. So you started in your small town? Small town. So then how'd you get bigger? Just my reputation is getting more money. You get a connection,

so I could buy more dope for a cheaper price. And you're using that dope money to feed your baby. Yeah. All right. Feed my baby and my dream. Just lay it on down the road. Okay. Baby and dream.

By the time I was 22, I was really pushing towards the dream. All right. But I did have a job. When I first started hustling right after school I got caught fast I got a felony I got 10 years probation how'd they catch you?

they really didn't catch me I ran I got away but I threw the drugs early and then they sent the dog to go look the dog couldn't find it either but the dog had to take a pee

and lift his right leg up and pee right there no yeah and he peed and sat down and was like it's right here it's like, it's right here.

It's right here. It's right here. Hey, guess what? I said, God, dog. I've been doggone. I know where that saying come from now. I'll be doggone. It's right there.

All right, so you get pinched, and you get out quick on that, though? I got 10 years. They let me out but i had to go to court i ain't no getting 10 years failing probation damn so now you got a felony you can't vote can't carry a gun can't do any of that shit yeah i ain't i ain't do none of that anyway so okay 17 kid number one how old are you when child number two happens child number two uh 18 so no 19 I had just turned 19. Same girlfriend? Same girl.

So you have your first three with her? Your first? No. I had another one. Two of them born at the same time. Like within two weeks apart. Same hospital. You had two kids born two weeks apart In the same hospital

When a nurse Seen me come in The second week They should just give you A wing down there Hey When a nurse Seen me come in

The second week She was like Mr. Coley Did you leave anything Yeah No I dropped Something else off So I'm looking

In the glass again Same situation Same doctors. No, that is terrible. Everybody's the same but the mom, huh? And the baby. And the baby. That's hilarious.

Yeah, and they best friends. Those two, they real close. Did they know each other? So wait, one and two are with high school sweetheart. How old are you when number three happens? Oh, shit shit you're you're the same week so the other one came okay so now you got three but the one i had the third one my baby mom but i had dealt with another girl so she eased in and stopped that number three spot

yeah and then four is number four back with one two okay one two then i had a i had another one i had another one oh the third three was actually somebody else somebody else went to this girl house one night man and that was it one time and i didn't even can i ask you that be honest with me you didn't even finish i thought i did but it was like you know how you finish but it'd be like but I finished but then the baby in my have you ever

truthfully be honest with me yes I have just had sex with a woman one time and got her pregnant and the only time

the only time let's say that my three yeah my three middle baby mamas. Each one of them got pregnant. Me dealing with them that one time. Just a one night stand.

That first night. All three of them? All three of them. All three of them. I promise you, God was like, you know better. That is wild, dude. I got something for you. All three?

All three. Okay, so you're, how old are you're 22 and you already have seven. How are you even doing that? Where do you spend most of your time? In the bedroom, mostly. In the pussies where you spend most of your time. In pussy. Yeah.

I'm from the country. We ain't have no kingdom. no case we have nothing to do in the country you created a country what the fuck are you talking about i did i created i created i created all right hold on i guess what i mean is are you staying like what's base camp for you so to speak are you staying with your high school sweetheart because you're you're a kid you're not are you still at home no my baby mama's house okay mom and dad don't say i was grown man i was already man i was already throwing parties making money i was i was getting money all right so you're staying at her place it was my it was my outlet you know i think i never did it would sound like an inlet i know i know a lot of leaving it in i never drank i never smoked i never parted for real so women was always that's your vice that that was my vice you know but these women i cared about you know and so now at at

22 with seven kids are you selling more what do you do do you get a different job like or is this one comedy you really start to lean into comedy no comedy didn't take out till I was like 26 27 but no that 27 I was on I was hustling and I was doing good in the streets but now I'm trying to make it I'm really trying to get out I'm trying to get me and my family out so I'm trying to do the rap I'm trying to be a rapper um all this throwing parties i'm hustling you know to figure things out and what are the ages of the kids one through seven at the time you're 22 22 you got what a five-year-old down to one newborn basically jesus christ yeah seven children under five yeah sure it was that's a lot, dude. That's crazy. That is.

Think of that. Wow. Just hear that. Yeah. What in the world? Seven whole children under the age of five. Oh, my God. That's a class, bro.

That is a class that people will be paid well to take care of. How did that make it? I don't know, dude. Wow. I don't know. How did you? That's what I'm saying. How are you seeing how are

you seeing everybody and is everybody in close proximity you're able to drive everywhere small time all right yeah small time man and to this day me and my kids man we it's love we all we all lit and all this because i always wanted a big family anyway you know uh i could have had about one woman but that wasn't my life and i don't regret it because the way it played out, that played out for me. Now, my son shouldn't do that. But the environment I was in, it was just, man, being in a relationship and thinking about marriage and all that. Man, we're trying to survive. In survival mode, you can't think about none of that.

You cannot, I don't care care you cannot be in love in survival mode you trying to get that's well said yeah that's not even usually right now you're just faking you coping with each other y'all each other coping coping mechanism i was woke i was like man we can't be if a bill come it could throw up our whole lovely day yeah if you go on a date and you happy and in love you and the kids but you got this somebody gets sick and you can't afford to pay it man you ain't you're nah so i was focused on getting out getting that money what are your parents saying i mean you just made them grandparents five times over by the time you're 22 nobody ain't taking nobody ain't have to take stand up for me did they help you did they want to help i won't let

nobody help okay i paid everybody babysit my kids i was i was always that type of person i don't want no favors because i ain't finna give you no favor back when it's time when i'm up so uh at that point i was just i was just man i knew i was gonna be successful so i was just like making it work where i was at i got a job for two years. Doing what? I worked at a power plant, and I tried to make it work, but the child support went up. I was like, this check ain't enough. So I got back in the streets.

Now from 20, go ahead, sorry. From 20 to 22, I had a job. Okay. Now 22 to 35, which you you are now you have three more kids how what how far apart does that happen you have a newborn right now i got a one year old got a one year old and a nine year old jesus two kids under six is a lot so you never felt like man i'm out of the woods now i'm not gonna go back and do that again you just were like, man, I'm out of the woods now. I'm not going to go back and do that again. You just were like, I'm going to just keep doing what I do. No, my ex-wife, two of them was with my ex-wife.

So I only had one since then. My ex-wife was the last two before the last one. Now, everyone you said gets along, which is amazing. Yeah, we was just up here celebrating in my house in Valero. My baby mama was up here. All the kids stay with each other. They all got rooms at my house. It's a big village.

Yeah. And do all the kids get along, too? Oh, yeah. Man, that is awesome. Oh, yeah. It's beautiful. That is awesome. Yeah.

And you're young enough now, too, honestly, to enjoy it. You're not 70 or 80 with all this going on. I'm having fun. Like I'm going to be. Yeah. It's fun because my son I play basketball with when they play varsity. One of them just went off to college to play basketball. They come home.

They make money with me online. Well, one of them I guess is 18 then, right? Yeah, 18. 17 and 35. Yeah. You got a full man already. He graduated last year. Damn, dude.

My kids older than me. Yeah. They keep me up on what's – it worked out for me. Now, they shouldn't do what I did because their environment different. So it wasn't right to do what I did, but it's my wrong. It ain't nobody else wrong. It was just like, man, when people would be – that's why I make jokes about it and talk about it on stage because I'm like, bro, nobody can't –

it took somebody in them environments to understand poverty. Man, you can't. Nah. So what's your relationship with your parents like who are you closest to your mom or your dad when i was 11 11 oh you were young yeah i was young oh you didn't have her and i didn't get her long no i had to grow up fast what was do you remember what that was like oh yeah i mean you're little but it was like you alone already you and that mama gone I'm too much you my mom once my land up on her she feels warm you know she's cooking so when you lose that the rest everything else you'd be like so what you just like I lost it at a young age so that was the

part of me that was like oh I had to learn how to nurture myself how'd you do that um I had to start being detailed like a woman things that my mama would do I had to learn how to clean up and um and and just be nurturing pay attention to myself like like a woman you know I really had to be detailed a lot because that part of me was gone so somebody got a mom out there man listen I don't care what you say you got a mama you got a wife in your life that's who keeping you detailed because i had to learn to be detailed you know uh because and would you would you say you picked that up from the different ladies along the way like no i'm more detailed than them no

i picked that up because when that part of you gone, you got, somebody got to fulfill it. If nobody don't come instantly fulfill it, you start to learn. And it's like a, it's like a turtle, a turtle with no shell.

You're going to be, you're going to build a shell. You're going to realize what your body needs. And what I was missing was nurturing. So I'm like, my mama would have did this. I can't sit around and watch myself not have nothing to eat. I got to learn how to cook. I got to learn how to dress. I got to learn how to

clean that up. Clean my room. Wash these dishes. You know what I'm saying? So I had to learn how to every time I pee, I wipe the toilet. And I taught my sons, only one of them, listen, my mama taught me that when I was young. She said, every time you pee, a man pee, take the tissue and wipe the toilet. Because even though you can't see the moisture, it's on there. So you'll have yellow stains on your toilet.

So I had to learn how to do certain things that my mom was gone and would have did for me. But you pick that up because ain't nobody was there to save me. Now, were your sisters at least helping out a little bit? Or were they also in their own survival mode um they had my grandma okay but my grandma wasn't nobody never really when it came to me my mama was my best friend she understood me because she knew country wayne before the world knew country wayne she always said you're gonna be a big star so it's like you had to handle me a little different because i'm don't i'm not falling for the bs i was a child i could see through the once i seen my parents take a drink,

I'm like, Ooh, they're not my leader. I'm like, Oh my God. So I was already woke as a child. Like you really on your own. Even as a child, your parents are just your provider, protecting the environment. You're never covered. Cause when a child can't go to a parent,

can't go to school with you, that child getting bullied. He can't come home and tell parents because it's like you don't know what's really going on. So I had to, man, I had to figure life out at a young age. For sure. Now is your dad,

when your mom passes, he come around a little more at all? He went further away. I came home one summer. I was supposed to be staying with him. I went to my cousin's house for the summer in Atlanta, came back, he was missing. I ain't seen my daddy

for three years. Years? Yeah. And you were supposed to be living with him? Yeah. Where'd he go? He'd be in town sometimes. They'd be like, you know your daddy was here? And I'd go look. And you're what, 11 or 12? Yeah, his name's Skip. So he skipped town.

He skipped town like a motherfucker. He lived up to his name. He lived up to his name. Okay. So let me ask you this. What would you say? You have how many, five different women you have kids with? What would you say you picked up

differently from each one of these ladies that you value like what is other than obviously they each have given you a child of course but i mean outside of that as a woman in your life what do you think you've picked up from each one of them i picked positive attributes positive i don't want you to be like that chick made made me start smoking. I feel like those women all prove to me, if you really got their back, unintentionals, if you love them unconditionally, like have their back and provide or protect for them without intentions of, you got to give me your body, or if I do this right, then that's the only way I get rewarded.

I take care of all those women. I got custody of one of my daughters, two of my daughters. The mom's not even, I mean, the mom's got custody of one of my daughters, two of my daughters. The mom's not even, I mean, the mom's not even around one of my children, and I still give the mom her child's board. So it's like, but they all and I learned

that, man, they will pray for you without praying for you. It's not like this, getting on their knees, but I know they all want me to win, because if I win, they win, and they truly know that. So it's like, they all want me to win because if I win, they win and they truly know that. You got to get the ego out of the way. And when a woman prayer is with you, man,

like I tell people, a woman got two vaginas. She got the regular vagina and that spiritual vagina. We know which one you came in on. I went for that spiritual vagina. I went out with y'all. I used to go for the physical vagina, but man, you got some ride to catch a bacteria fish.

That physical vagina is controlled by her, but that spiritual vagina is controlled by God. It's her prayer. That's what I learned, man. The women, if they know you got their back, they could be with somebody else, another man, but whoever they feel like got them. And that's how businesses stay up. They feel

like that's how the welfare and food stamps stay up because it's people praying that the government keep getting their cut so they can keep sending their money back. So it's like companies. You know, a good company, man man they praying

that this keep going so a woman prayer is more powerful so that's what i learned for sure and how many um boys and girls do you have what's the split on two boys eight girls what is it really eight girls yeah so you brought all the ladies into the world. You do have a feminine energy. And these women, oh my God, they all got it. Raising daughters, man. I have one. She's about to be nine next month. It's coming. It's already here.

It's already here. When they get five, when they get nine, ten, and when they get a teenager, you don't know nothing. That's what everybody tells me. You ain't going to know nothing. My daughters just think, yeah. And it's so bad because they'll say yes sir and listen and they're not listening nothing you're gonna know which child listening you're gonna be able to tell by the way i have to ask her back what i just say eight eight times out of ten she will get it yeah other times she's like i didn't i wasn't listening i'm like i know you weren't they don't listen yep what's the difference for you in raising boys

and girls um the difference with boys um and girls i feel like i feel like with the girls they love discipline more boys take it too personal sometimes. A woman, when your daughter, when you discipline your daughter, she don't like it, but she love it. She feel like that's my daddy love. She'll be like, she'll go tell her friend, my daddy don't play about me. Like he just won't let me do that. She kind of loved that because she recognized love more. Your son think you, hey man, he think you're trying to come at him and all that. But your daughter, I told my daughters, I said, I know y'all love and I discipline y'all. Because it's like if a woman put up a picture online and her boyfriend hit up, take that down. She going to be in front of her friend.

He just won't let me do nothing. He just love me so much. It's like a different vibe. She feel like that's my husband. Don't play by me. You know what I'm saying? So I think the daughters appreciate discipline more. Now with your son, he's 18.

Have you guys ever had a, is he bigger than you? Yeah. Yeah. My stepson, he's 20 now. That motherfucker's 6'5". Yeah, my son's 6'3". I'm 5'10". I'm little.

Yeah, he's 6'3". Has he ever messed with you? Act like he's going to take you? Nah, but what they do when we play basketball, they foul me extra hard and try to use. I'm like, where that come from? That's where they're getting it. Elbow to the neck.

Come on. And I seen your lip ball though. Yeah, yeah. What is that? Brother, I'm just trying to shoot a jump shot then they got the ball in the hip i'm like all that take out they do it in the game so i want to ask you this because you're out you said you went to the streets you sold dope or no coke excuse me you sold coke give me um I ask this a lot because I know we've had guests that's gone to prison and I ask them what they do miss about. What do you miss about it?

Do you feel like the hustle of that helped you with the hustle of life, with comedy, with, tell me. For sure. Do you think that taught you more than school or? Yeah, the hustling game taught me business. I understand if you ain't got no money in it you gonna get pimped so i it's like and you also were smart you never used your product i ain't never did that's the biggest problem most of the people never could get high off your own supply right that's the number one that's number one rule so it definitely helped me because i understood ownership through that so i'm not scared to put up my own money on my

businesses and projects I do I understand that so I came in this game as a as a dope boy as we call it in the hood I understand the business is a little different I understand you can't get no gotta put some money up in this world if you if you go if you build a business and they put too much time and too much money in it it's gonna get you go if you build a business and they put too much time and too much money in it it's gonna get you in the end agreed you need your time your attention and your money so it taught me a lot about flipping and and just how it taught me how to market because to be a drug dealer you got to be a great marketer because what do you do what are you doing here's why because i know a lot of guys do the pizza guy delivery what are you doing because it's a small town also so that means the cops probably know who everybody is as well

is that how are you getting around that because it was just like i sold weight so what i would do so you didn't do little bags no i did at first that's how i got caught so what i started doing i sold weight and so if i buy half a brick if I buy a brick that was 36 ounces, I take that one brick, put some cut on it, and turn it into two and a half. What do you cut that with? Manitou. Who's doing that? You? Me.

You're actually doing it yourself. I did my own process. You did? But it was on. But I did that. It wasn't nothing that. The Manitou was a neutralizer, a sweetener. So it didn't do nothing to you.

So my drills were actually weak. You couldn't. My uncle said he snorted something of mine when it took a p test in this day and probation officer and he was fine your coke didn't even show up man i cut my drill so bad i had to put it in the blender i I love that he didn't cook your coke anyway knowing he was doing a drug test the next day. Yeah, he was scared. He thought he was going to go to jail.

And the lady said, everything's fine. He said, man. You're good. He said, my nephew ain't nothing. My nephew's stash ain't shit. It ain't nothing. I was selling weight. I sold weight.

Oh, God damn. And it helped me to this day because that's probably why he hit my stand up. Because in a drug business, you got to market without marketing. So how are you doing that? Tell me how you're getting around town doing that. Word of mouth. That's it.

Word of mouth. Only people who knew what I was doing were people who knew what I was doing. Okay. So you're not going to clubs or bars or letting it be known or anything like that. It's a matter of time. I agree. It's just like you say when you ask about my stand-up. I didn't have the answer earlier, but now that's why I hid my stand-up.

I'm like, if they ain't paying for it, I'm not going to keep using my stand-up to advertise you to come see because then I got to come up with new jokes. So I give you this to advertise that I'm funny. Skits. But I hid my stand-up. People didn't know I did stand-up until the Netflix special. For real. All the people knew was my fans but now the world got to see because that's how i was moving in the dope game everything is money you got to monetize everything you do so ain't nothing that's why i love the parallels that's also why i love the wire they parallel the cops and the yeah and the and the drug uh side and how like the lower ranks come up.

But that's what I'm saying. That mindset of, man, you did it right. Yeah, but I could. I mean to say you had 10 kids. Two kids out there do not sell drugs. Do not. It's not worth it. Not these days.

You will die these days. You really can't do drugs these days. Don't do drugs. Don't do drugs. Yeah, don't. I promise you because if you do drugs, you're going to get took advantage of in business. I don't care what nobody say.

If you do drugs in life, you're going to get, just be know that it's going to be somewhere in life you're getting taken advantage of. Because you're not woke on every situation. So I understood that. Because my mama, my daddy, all of them did drugs. So smart men learn from his own mistakes. And wise men learn off the mistakes of others. So I just seen the game. so I understood that because my mama my daddy all of them did drugs so smart man learned from his own mistakes

a wise man learned all the mistakes of others so I just seen the game what do you learn from how many years did you do it

2010 2016 6 years you did it for a minute what do you learn the most dealing cocaine to people

what are those people like you seeing them are they business men you know what I'm saying you seeing all all what customers like yeah what your customers like customer service i was a chick-fil-a i'll wear it out in front of you so i'm not cheating you with the grounds if you buy point if you give them my pleasure every time hey man if you if you want 56 grounds i might 56.5 you know me i wear it out in front of you so they people love the feeling of something so that's why so you're letting them come right into you see you way and over you know it's not all right you need them somewhere and yeah it's like you know when i

meet them it's just a customer service yeah you want me to bring it to you i bring it to you you want to come get it come get it and other than the one time you got caught dealing smaller amounts, you never got pinched on the bigger stuff? No. When the Fed, I don't even want to talk about that. But they got my daddy. They ain't getting me. We end up selling drugs together. They got the right guy.

To make a long story short, me and my dad end up selling drugs together. No. From 2010 to 2016 can we talk about it yeah i talked about my stand-up all right good because you don't have a close relationship with the man to begin with so how does it come back first of all together just to be talking and communicating and then evolve into business together he got out of when i was in 11th grade, my daddy came back around for real, for real. No, night grade,

he came back around, but by the time I was in 11th grade, we was that close again. Okay. So we back close. 11th, 12th grade. And what was he in prison for? He sold drugs.

My whole family sold drugs. So everybody, he getting out and he's just going right back to it. Everybody, my whole family. Okay. Whole family sold drugs, did drugs.

That's it. And he went to prison when I was in 12th grade. Oh, he went back? Yeah, he went to prison when I was in 12th grade. For how long? He did four years the first time. And how long the second time? Five, four or five.

Damn. All for that? Drugs the first time. He got out 2009, and me and him started selling drugs 2010. How did that come about? Whose idea? Man, it was really his, kind of, because what happened was— But you're already doing it by yourself.

No, I'm not Selling Drills at this point. Oh, at that point. I'm working this job. Oh, shit. I'm working this job, but, man, we having fun every day. But one day, you know how you short on money working? You got a check coming, but you need some money to get you through the week I said daddy you got 40 I just did your $40 to help me with lunch uh all week he said dang son I was about to ask you for 40 we looked at each other

man I said we got to do something else man so I went to the bank I got a bank loan I used my car title um got got a bank loan, $5,000. And I left the money with him. And then when I went to work that week, came back, he done went and hollered at the plug in Florida and bought back a four and a half ounces of cocaine. Is that worth five grand? It was worth three. Okay. It was like $3,500.

I had spent some of the money getting ready. Okay. I had spent some of that five getting get my radiator. Okay. I had spent some of that fire to get my radiator fixed. Okay, yeah. My radiator and stuff fixed on my car, some new tires, on the box shift I had.

I didn't want to tell y'all that because I didn't know how much tires you had. This honeydew, not mildew, so I didn't want to dry your listeners' ears out. We're good.

We got time. I skipped parts of the story. We got time. We don't have to edit yeah so i um all right so you he goes and gets this brick or four way four and a half ounces okay four way and and it's just there and then he tells you this is what we we should do and he was like son yo and at the time he already had some connections i'm guessing because he was already dealing no he had a condition florida man they sold us some bad dope oh they did we got rid of it though but

it was bad then after i made that money back how do you know it was bad because you don't do it because when people coming back and telling you yeah it was weak people's like it was weak you know i mean you could smell it i just smell it but my dad did it you never did it on your gums no my dad was never done coke my dad scared my dad did it. You never did it on your gums? No, my dad was the tester. I've never done cocaine. I'm scared to death. My dad done cocaine. He used to test all the drugs. And one night.

He was the tester. He tested some one night, man. He snorted about seven grams. Because he's like, man, dang, this ain't nothing. That's a quarter ounce of cocaine. Yeah. He said, they done sold some fake drugs. Damn.

He snorted about a quarter ounce. He said, man, first thing in the morning, I'm going to call them, man. Because the plug wasn't answering the phone. I'm going to call them. It was about one o'clock in the morning. He's Yelp reviewing these. Connect wasn't answering the phone. So he said, in the morning, I'm calling

them. I'm taking this back. He said, man, I'm sorry. He said, son, I'm sorry, man. They got us, man. He snorted like seven grams. So I left the house about four o'clock in the morning. I get a call, phone ring. It's my daddy. I said, what's up, Pops?

Hey son. What's up? Ain't nothing wrong with that joke. It just take a minute to get you. That's what I know. He was like, I'll call you when my mom leave it open. He said, it's good, son.

It's good. And he said, I'll call you back. I'm in the hospital. I'm in the hospital. Bruh, he like to die. He said it snuck up on him. It was that cocaine. It hit you right there.

It was that cocaine, man. My mouth was blue to God. I said, man, for now on. Jaw, tooth, down and shit. Just snowed the ground. And we'll just wait and see before we call the blood again. It's always do it and wait an hour. It's always.

Yeah, do it and wait an hour. Whatever you think you should do, you do half of that and you wait an hour. He was supposed to die. Man, I went to him. His eyes. I was seeing his eyes were swollen. This man looked like he had some allergic seafood. This brother was.

I said, daddy, man, you supposed to die. He said, I know, son. He said his heart would beating so fast one time. He was scared to get up. He said he knew if he would have got up, he would have died. He said his heart was. I feel like I'm going to die. Oh, God damn, dude.

I remember him saying he felt like he had two hearts. He said they were like. He said it would be like. Yeah, man. He was a would be like. Yeah, man. Yeah, he was a tester, man. All right. Here's a question I have for you. Anybody ever surprise you?

You ever get a pastor or a teacher or someone you, you know what I mean? Somebody maybe you knew for elementary school teacher as a customer. I mean. Heck yeah. Yeah. People surprise me. you know what I mean somebody maybe you knew from elementary school teacher as a customer I mean heck yeah young people surprise me like like who who would come up

and be like no way this guy wants coke or this lady wants coke it's this lady who I really respect man and I don't lose respect

but she it wasn't even coke she had to deal with somebody I know she was on crack and I'm like god dog she holding up so well.

Oh, really? Yeah, and you couldn't see it on her. So now when everybody asking for money in my family and they be needing money too much, I'm like, are you on crack? I always ask that because of her because you couldn't see it on her. So I always learned that, man,

just because you don't see it on people. If you got money, that's why a lot of people who in the like in the industry or entertainers music or whatever they can't you'll never be able to tell because money can cover it up for a minute if you if you could put some gucci on some crackhead shoulders hey you can't tell it just looked like they just vibing you know but yo so it was heard and then after that i was just like this is what it is this is streets

so you and your dad do this for six years yeah and why do you end up stopping I went viral so while you were so you were doing

all this country weighing your sketches and stuff while you're dealing coke with your dad I'm too mean follow a strong still selling drugs no

popular for real country weighing you got a family business going on with your dad i can't i can't let it go right now because you know i'm famous but i ain't getting no show money yet so at two million followers you're still selling drugs with your dad yeah and then what happens what would it what puts you to the point where you're like all right i'm i'm done i don't need to ever again okay well. Well, first of all, he got.

And how does your business partner feel about you leaving the business? Oh, my God. My daddy was trying to hold me in the streets, bro. He did not want me to leave because he felt like. Hell no, he didn't. He didn't want me to leave. He was like. That's his cash cow.

He didn't want me to leave. And he pretended like he wanted me to go, but you just see the signs. Like, we trying to get out, but you, you, you just see the signs like, we try, we trying to get out, but you buying a car. Like, you know, so,

but he messed around and, uh, got caught one night. Oh, he did. And the police beat him, but he, uh,

he had an altercation with the police and they had to take him to the hospital and they forgot to arrest him. So when he got to the hospital, what do you mean? They forgot because they just fucked them up. No, they, they, they ain't do the, Oh, they didn't arrest him. So when he got to the hospital. What do you mean they forgot? Because he. They just fucked him up. No, they ain't do the. Oh, they didn't cuff him?

No, they cuffed him and everything, but they ain't do the process, whatever they call it. I forgot the name of it. I'll read them as Miranda rights and fingerprint them and all that stuff. Yeah, fingerprint them and all that. Book them or whatever it is.

They had him at the table, but then he was about to faint and they was like, what is wrong? So they take him to the hospital. So they never finished that part. Got it. let's take him to the hospital so they never finished that part so when he got to the hospital

so that's a technicality technicality hell yeah but when he got to the hospital the police was gonna sit there with him but the doctor said you can't sit here

because he's not arrested so they said we'll come back and get him in the morning so man I called him and checked on him I said it's alright Paul

so I'm gonna be alright out here man I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this music thing I'm gonna man something my spirit told me to call him back I said so it's all right, Pops. I'm going to be all right out here, man. I'm going to do this music thing. Man, something my spirit told me to call him back. I said, so when the police at?

They still outside? He said, no, they're going to come back and pick me up in the morning because they say, the doctor said I wasn't arrested. Man, do you know? I told my daddy, leave that hospital right now. This is 2014. I said, leave that hospital. He said, what?

I said, man, get out of there. You and your girlfriend and he make basically ran from the hospital and they was looking for him for two years so two years they'll know reason why we quit because when I finally went by and start doing shows I quit and the next day after I quit the feds came looking for him so it was like they was on us the whole time, you know, kind of. But, yeah, it was a crazy situation. A lot of crazy things happened. But that's how we ended up ending. I quit.

Feds came to get him because he was keeping going because they was looking for him for two years anyway. And then after that, man, I was country wang to the world, funny guy. So how many followers and, like, what level of fame do you hit where you finally walk away from dealing i was getting show money people started wanting to book me for five thousand here four thousand here so i was like and you're like i'm done with this i'm making i'm making 20 20 30 grand a month without drugs is it i'm gone yeah yeah without drugs that's right yeah

without hustling so going back to growing up earlier before we, one of your friends out there said you were a bad kid. Like what, tell me about you growing up as a kid, little country Wayne. Everything funny. I'm a pity. Like I just like to laugh. So that's what he mean by that.

You like play practical jokes on people and shit? Nah, I don't play like that. It's just like, it could be a real serious moment. I'm still going to laugh. Like, I'm a laugher. I like the joy. It ain't nothing that serious. Inappropriate times and shit is the best of best.

Church. Yeah. You ain't supposed to laugh. Mm-hmm. And then you see somebody laughing next to you, just shaking, and you trying to hold it in. I'm trying to hold it, man. When people go to crying about certain stuff, I'm like, come on, man. Don't make that face.

Oh, my God. You know, I can't help it. I like to laugh. That's what it means by that. I laugh at a lot of stuff. So talk to me about having 10 kids, man, because you got basically you said one i mean that's a newborn basically yeah all the way up to a grown man how do you balance that man you know um because i know every baby's different every this one might like to be swaddled this one might like to be held this one might

how do you and you've got eight ladies yep you kind of you just do what they like whatever they want whatever you feel like they need at the moment. You try your best to just do it. You know what I'm saying? That's what I do, for sure. Do you like being a dad? Oh, yeah. I love it, man.

It's the most fulfilling thing I got going on. I agree. It's nice to hear you say, too, because you have a lot going on in your life. You just dropped a Netflix special at number one. You got everything going on online. You got a tour going on in your life you just you just dropped a netflix special at number one you got everything going on online you got a tour going all that shit and here you are sitting here saying that the the best thing you do as a dad i love it that's it man my my most exciting thing this year and thank god i got number one on netflix i'm ready for my son varsity games yeah I take off I take off on I told my agency you know I said I'm taking off November through February I'm not going back on tour to March cuz for his basketball he's excited it's his first year being able to play varsity because he couldn't

play he transferred from a private school last year so it was a little miss up but he's on the varsity team and he's good and me and my family love to go see that so it's like the netflix special going number one i was grateful the most thing i was grateful for was my kids seeing that because i'm so my brand is positive but they listen to a lot of negative stuff negative music because you as a parent you got to compete with the world so i'm like I'm showing them that you could be positive and cool because my brain is Jesus is popping and everybody know that Wayne's positive I don't curse him a comedy or whatever so it's about them kids it's like when you get and life is really even when you get rich it's like the way taxes set up you

got to give it away anyway so you know it's just like that's what it's about that's why i watched the deon sanders i'm like people don't know i know that joy he feeling there's no amount of money a person can pay to feel that he's out there coaching his son dude i love it i got my colorado hoodie when i was in the hospital in january i'm so excited for what they're gonna do how old is your daughter she'll be nine next month yeah man when you see you know you know how you know, I'm pretty sure you don't have no moments where you looking at this what really matter. Dude, I do it every weekend.

I go to her soccer game. So you know what I'm saying? And I stand behind a goal and I see her in the net and I just look and I'm like, I don't give a fuck about anything else. When she stopped that ball or that feeling. Runs out there not scared and dives on it. Yeah, that feeling. And when she stopped that ball or that feeling's out there not scared and dives on it and yeah that's you like and when she's excited when you see her really excited about her work so that thing there man you know what else i love too is like sometimes i'll i'll i'll know i'm going

to one of her events but i don't tell her and then when i show up that excitement you see in a kid it's like man so somebody's here I'm being repped right now. I'm being loved. And, man, just to see it. And then she's got this energy, and I see her start acting differently with her friends. I fucking love being able to do that. That's real, man. Yeah.

That's real. And I think me not having my mom at that age, I think I needed that. To be honest, now, looking back, me having all them kids, I'm like, man, I need it. My kids are, they, because you can't man you can't replace that joy no and you don't get it you know it's already gone with your other son he's he's a man now yeah different joys different things will come you'll be a grandfather hopefully not too soon oh no i'm gonna be a deadbeat granddaddy you should be dude oh my god i'm a good daddy but i promise you i going to be the worst granddaddy

in history. I'm not keeping no kid. I don't care. Not a night. Nope. Not a night. Going to the store, going out, taking with you. I will call the people and tell them that you left a child out here abandoned. I'm going to be a dad. I tell my kids, boy, don't do it

because I'm not keeping no kid, man. You could be a legit grandfather under 40. easy well shit your your dad was he how was your dad when you made him a grandfather he was 40 40 it's a young grandfather but they better so let me ask you this the the two daughters you have complete custody of. And you're still good with their mom and everything. Oh, yeah. So what is it? It's so different.

How do you make time for all these kids? How do you make time to see them, talk to them? Do you FaceTime a lot? Because think about coming up. There wasn't that opportunity either. You know what I mean? If somebody didn't have a phone on the wall and you weren't there at the same time, you weren't talking to them.

So how are you, are you able to FaceTime? Yeah. FaceTime. FaceTime. And they, um, eight of my kids stay right around me in my house in Atlanta.

My son stayed with me 24 seven and on the rest of them, they mom stay right around the corner. So they all come there. Everybody's close. Everybody close. Hell yeah. And then when they spend the time with each other, they feel stay right around the corner. So they all come there. Everybody's close. Everybody's close. Hell yeah, I love it. And then when they spending time with each other, they feel like they spending time with me

because the other baby mamas might take them, go out of time with them. Oh, they will. They was all just up here. I may know my kids was here. One, two, four of my kids was up here. We had a Netflix celebration yesterday. They was up here.

They're going to go back. My other baby mama mama's keeping them while the other baby mama go on her vacation trip. So I finna have eight of my kids to my house. They all got rooms. So it's just like, it's a family, man. We all a family. I'm a whole family.

That's why my success, man. I take care of my whole family for real like everybody get a chick every month how's that feel for you it feels good man it does it feels good because i like that you're not just hoarding it and being like fuck all y'all this is my shit i did you gotta give away that money because uh uh uh they say you go money buying things but god say if you help people i got you it comes back i tell everybody all the time young 20 something i will i would have told 50 year old me fuck you that that's a twenty thousand dollars a lot of money these motherfuckers took from me and that's family i want that fucking money and for years i would think about that and then later in life i realized this don't worry this

shit's coming back it's coming back it's coming back it's gonna come when you really need it you didn't need it that moment you would have fucking fucked it off too on some stupid ass mustang or some dumb bullshit you know something you really don't even have so i feel you on that it does feel good to provide yeah i get i i get a joy out of that too but like i'll pay for that i got that like i sent my daughter and her mother i don't know it of that too but like i'll pay for that i got that like i sent my daughter and her mother i don't know it was a couple months ago i was on the road and i was like why don't you all do a mom daughter night and i told my daughter like go see little mermaid again and i paid for them to go watch you know look at get the popcorn do whatever go hang out with mom

yeah i don't know it feels good it feels good It ain't a fucking mansion in Bel Air with everybody, but I'll tell you what, it's popcorn. No, no, no. It's good. Hey, man. Get the medium size. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what it is, man.

Yeah. All right. So look, I told you outside we talked. This is your first time here. I want to hear it because this is a it's a just so for me i i understand where you're coming from my mom left our family early on and my dad died when i was 16 so from then on i have no parents and i feel you like i mean shit i learned how to tie a tie on youtube you know what i mean like i wish i had youtube when i was 16 and 1980 fucking nine, figuring this shit out on myself. So your story of coming up that way,

figuring it out yourself really resonates. You're a dad at 17. And I ask everyone their first time here advice that you would give to your 16 year old self. So I'm curious after just what we've talked about today, looking back, what advice would you give 16 year old country? Wayne?

Leave with love every time, not with lust. That's a great – that's great advice for 16-year-old you, dude. I like that instead of, like, pull out, you know. Yeah, it's like make sure there's – that connection is, it might be bigger than lust. Don't eliminate lust and see what that moment really is. Yeah, because lust can turn into a whole person. Yeah, lust turn into a whole person. A whole person.

With hands that do this. Yeah, and a mouth that needs to eat. Man, I'm telling you. Dude, Country Wayne, thank you very much for coming on. It's been one of the hardest times I've laughed in a minute. I needed one of these. Sometimes these get heavy as shit, and I appreciate you bringing lightness to this. So, again, please plug everything.

You're special. You're all of it. Yeah, man. Country Wayne, Netflix special, A Woman's Prayer. Just type in Country Wayne with a K and just follow the journey, man. Peace and love to everybody. All love.

That's awesome. Thank you. As always, Ryan Sickler on all social media, ryansickler.com. Come see me on tour. Tickets are on my website.

We'll talk to y'all next week.