Druski

Druski said sitting in silence with yourself, rather than while high, drunk or distracted, is the key to figuring out your purpose.

“that is one of the main things that shifted my entire life was sitting down in silence and figuring out what is it that I want to do”

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Druski argued that focusing on the distant goal is paralysing and that progress comes from seeing and taking small steps.

“if you focus on the far goal, no, you'll never achieve shit”

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Druski said he is happy but not fulfilled, and that hunger must never stop for anyone pursuing greatness.

“Anybody that is pursuing greatness will never tell you that the hunger has stopped. It has to continue to keep going”

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Druski said an armed robbery during a scam gone wrong was the moment he decided to commit fully to comedy.

“That was the moment I noticed, okay, if I survive this, I am going to turn my life around and I'm not going to go to a job”

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Druski said his epiphany came from realising every person he looked up to was a comedian.

“I think all the people I look up to are all like comedic legends”

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Druski said he forgave his father both mentally and face to face, arguing a grudge is a burden on the person holding it.

“A grudge is on you as a burden. That's a burden to everything. It's not just physical. It's a mental thing that can really rot people's brain out”

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Druski argued he could not be broken by career pressure because he was already broken at an early age.

“how could I be broken? If I feel like I've already gone to my furthest extent, I can only continue to push myself to higher levels”

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Druski said his brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and suggested he never found a coping mechanism like comedy.

“He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as we continued to go through puberty and got older. Whereas for me, I feel like I might have found a coping mechanism with comedy”

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Druski described his household as emotionally broken rather than financially poor, noting his father was a United Airlines pilot and his mother worked for the CDC.

“We were a broken home. We weren't a broke home. My dad was a airline pilot for United Airlines for entirely my whole younger life. My mom worked for the CDC”

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Druski said his father taught through physical punishment, to the point that he and his brother flinched when his father raised a hand.

“he'll reach out his hand and we'll flinch like that because it became a normal thing for him to always lift up his hand”

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Druski stated his 30-year goal is to be the number one comedian of his generation and the face of comedy.

“my next 30-year goal is to be the number one comedian of my generation and be the face of comedy for the next 30 years”

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Druski said most people claim to want greatness but do not show up for the work repeatedly.

“Everybody wants to be the top of the list, but nobody really wants to do the work”

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Druski said his comedy always comes from a healing place and that he never punches down.

“I never tend to punch down. I like to find the funny, but also the good side of funny and not look at the negative for my type of comedy”

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Druski said he turned down easy money from promotional and music video work because it would dilute his brand.

“Some people glorify money than they glorify the actual pursuit of the greatness. Most people will go and grab the money because the money's good and they will dilute the whole brand”

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Druski said he keeps his comedy brand safe by never punching down and by avoiding politics and religion entirely.

“I don't even touch on none of that political or religion or none of that stuff”

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Druski argued that success in the entertainment industry is mostly about relationships and how you treat people.

“Even in the biggest buildings, majority of it is relationships. Of course, your talent weighs a lot, but relationships are very much key”

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Druski said the streamers that rejected him now want to buy the shows he made himself.

“Now they want to purchase these shows that we've made and do more in the future”

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Druski said he was repeatedly rejected by FX, Amazon and Netflix and responded by funding his own YouTube productions.

“instead of going and buying a car or another house or maybe a nice jewelry and all this stuff, I'm going to invest in myself”

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Druski argued most people quit at the point where everything falls apart and so never see the real side of success.

“most people never get a chance to see the real side of success because they quit”

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Druski said the first goal he wrote down was to have no plan B.

“The first one I ever wrote was, don't have a plan B, your plan A will work”

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Druski claimed every very successful person wonders whether a partner loves the celebrity rather than the person.

“It's a question in every superstar's mind. I guarantee you, even when they are with somebody fully, they still have a question in the back of their mind. Does this person just love the superstar of me?”

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Druski said he pulls back from women once he gets too close, likening it to reversed magnets, and linked it to never having seen a healthy parental relationship.

“It's almost like a magnet when you reverse it on the other side. It's like when it comes too close, it starts to repel itself”

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Druski said the Collect and Praise show with Mike Epps, about mega pastors, would arrive in November on Netflix and YouTube.

“The Collect and Praise show that's coming out in November. Me and Mike Epps. It's a show about mega pastors”

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Druski said The Catch, in which he stars with Emma Stone and Chris Pine, is due out in May 2027.

“The Catch with Emma Stone, Chris Pine is coming out in... May of 2027”

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Druski said Drake casting him in the Laugh Now Cry Later video changed his career by making brands treat him as a star.

“the thing that changed my life at the time was, was Drake calling for the Laugh Now Cry Later music video. Everything shifted after that because brands started to take me seriously”

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Druski described his college depression as isolating himself in his dorm room, stopping attending classes for a full semester and stockpiling food to avoid socialising.

“I stopped going to classes for like the whole second semester of being at that school, no classes, sat in my room”

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