We got Blakk Stakkz, who's a character from Sidetalk. It was just really cool because we didn't just get to include the ASAP Mob in our videos, but our actual characters who make New York so special. They tasked us with making the announcements for Yams Day and helping them announce the Yammys which is their version of the Grammys. So how did this collaboration with ASAP Rocky and the ASAP Mob come together? The guys from ASAP Mob reached out because they really liked the energy in our videos and how authentic it was to New York.
We interviewed Simonian about how he started his one-minute show, how he linked with Spider Cuz, and what have been his craziest experiences hosting the show so far. The show has greatly reminded us that even in the middle of a pandemic, New York is still filled with people who are just on a different type of timing. Since Simonian and Byrne launched Sidetalk as freshman college students last year, their page has garnered over 170,000 followers. We go out to them and they are good for the camera.” “A lot of the times, we just see someone who we can tell will be good for the camera. “We just meet so many people every day,” says Trent Simonian, the 19-year-old NYU student who started the show last year with his producer Jack Byrne. Some of their best episodes have covered New Yorkers’ impassioned reactions to the plastic bag ban or the saying that “New York is dead.” Others have highlighted odd characters like Lil Agz (from the “oh, say less” meme), a Brooklyn-based rapper who looks like he just graduated fifth grade and claims he’s “your rapper’s favorite trapper, trapper’s favorite rapper.” Sidetalk’s minute-long episodes consist of man-on-the-street interviews that have highlighted some of the funniest, eccentric, and most controversial characters found on the streets of New York. The commercials included cameos from New York internet celebrities such as Spider Cuz-a living, Henny-guzzling incarnation of those “Deadass Spiderman” memes-and BKTidalWave, aka “The Queen of Brooklyn,” aka that Jay-Z fan from Brownsville who vowed to destroy ISIS herself in the middle of Union Square.Īnyone who’s been lurking on Instagram these last couple of months likely noticed that ASAP Rocky was hosting his own episode of a popular Instagram show that’s like New York Nico’s Instagram page colliding with Billy on the Street. “But remember, you do make a difference.Last week, ASAP Rocky released ads for Yams Day 2021 where he’s seen running up to random New Yorkers and humorously interviewing them on the street along with other members of the ASAP Mob. In a video posted earlier this week, McCreary revealed that she had shown TJ the GoFundMe, with the TikTok star telling his fans: “Hey, my people, thank you so much.
He is sober, he just needs a little push.”Īs of Friday, the crowdfunding effort for TJ, which was created with a goal of $5,000, had raised more than $35,000. This will help him get inside and a warm place to sleep at night and food to eat. We need to help TJ.”įollowing the supportive response, McCreary created a GoFundMe this week for TJ, where she wrote: “TJ is a homeless man trying to get his life together and off the streets. Someone else added: “This breaks my heart. “He should be getting the money for all the views he gets off those videos,” one person commented, while another said: “Why hasn’t he been getting paid!?” In the comments under the video, which has been viewed more than 9.9m times, viewers expressed their shock and outrage that one of their beloved TikTok “creators” was not making money off the widespread usage of his sounds. The clip concluded with McCreary encouraging her followers to “help TJ” before explaining that she would be making a GoFundMe for the New Yorker.
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