Chef Boy Bonez
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We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
$165,000. I just want to encourage people, man, for my 13th birthday, hanging out with some kids who I thought were my friends. Later on in life, these guys are nowhere to be found. I was still trying to get hired, escape something else from trauma. Knowing now, as an adult, I can definitely look back and say this is the reason why
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Don't do it again. Oh, man. Talking about just probably just probably family, family, broken, broken home, broken childhood. You know, losing a lot of family members when I was young. I was very close to my. What did you lose? Just illnesses. Just a broken family. Like my uncle died when I was young. My grandmother. I was very close to my grandmother, my uncle.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And these are just family members that were, you know, close. My mom's my mom's and my dad were on drugs when they were young. When I was when I was young. So that probably was drug abuse in the home. You know, not my dad, not always being around. So just certain absences. Right. You know, being a villain. What led to the use?
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
But I have been so gone one time that my eyes popped out. That was my first time doing acid. On acid, your eyes? My eyes popped out on acid. I was in the mirror looking at myself in the mirror on acid. And I was staring at myself and I was like in disbelief that I could protrude my eyes the way I protrude my eyes. And I protruded my eyes in the, in the mirror off acid.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Ah! Ah! I can't. I can't. But yeah, the back on that story, I was off acid. I never wanted to do acid. Uh-huh. And I, um... My homies was in a studio session and my boy was buying acid in a big studio session we're in. And he happened to have these triple dose gummy bears and everybody cleared out the studio. And I'm in the studio session with my homie Razor. We're mixing the session.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And the homies like, you know, we're smoking weed. We're faded. We got the munchies. The homies like, damn, a pack of gummy bears. He starts smacking these gummy bears. I'm like, yo, throw me some. So I eat two gummy bears. My other homie Shady comes in. He eats two gummy bears. Shout out to my boy Wacko. We were at ABC Studios back in the day. My other homie comes in. He eats two gummy bears.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And I'm like, hell yeah. We're craving satisfied. 30 seconds later, my other homie Etai comes in, and he's looking for his gummy bears. He's going off. He's like, yo, who ate my gummy bears? I'm like...
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
You don't go to the studio unless you have that.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
in my pocket I'm like yo bro here's a dollar like my bag you know what I'm saying we didn't mean to eat your gummy I'll go get you some more if it's that serious he's like no he said you guys just ate three double dose gummies of acid whatever mind you I've never wanted to do this drug ever in my life and you're just telling me that I just ate two gummies with three drops of acid on it I freaked out I'm like oh my god I'm tripping so my homies down the hall these guys they're hippies they trip out they do that all the time so I run down to the hall
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
They're like, yo, what's up, Bones? I'm like, I just did acid. They're like, oh, yeah, finally. I'm like, no, no, no, no. They're like, how much you doing? I'm just like, two gummies with three drops. And they're like, oh. And these are my homies that do acid. They're like, yeah, your bots are going to trip, my boy. And I went on a trip that day. Yeah. Outer body experience.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Dude, I would have drank a half a bottle. You could have brain damage from that. And the crazy thing is, I wanted to throw it up. So I'm like, only thing I can think of is throw it up. Throw it up. No, you don't do that because when you throw it up, it hits your system even harder because it's coming out of the body.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
The ones who got money are getting it from people that are close to physicians. You know, I would say we're getting it to the closest plug that's getting it from a doctor. But the ones who don't have money are getting it from the street. And, of course, you know, the street... Yeah. The streets are, they're making it, whipping it up, cooking it, and making it right in the kitchen.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
If you had more, you'd be dead. I probably would have. I probably would have died that night. Right. I was so fried. I was so I was somewhere where I wasn't supposed to be, but I was still here. And the only thing that I could put together in my mind off this acid trip was that we are. Just spectacular beings greater than what we really know that we are. So you don't do acid or mushrooms? No.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I'll microdose on some shrooms, but I won't do acid again. That one trip took me to where I need to go. I feel like I never need to experience with any type of drug again after that acid trip.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Is my girlfriend watching this at the same time? I don't know. Can she watch it? Is this live showing? I'm sure they've got it on.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Probably 17 and women. Sorry. Right. There was this hot chick that lived next door to me. She was 24 years old. I was 17 at the time. I was only smoking weed. I hadn't done any drug ever, but smoke weed. And there was this hot girl that lived next door that everybody wanted. And she happened to...
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
be into well she was into me she was an every guy but I was the innocent guy like this innocent young handsome guy I happen to be and um I fell in love man with this chick next door cause she was just she was it she was just this bombshell and I'm just like in love with this girl she was everything she was kind hearted free spirit just
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Everything you can imagine, the girl next door, this is your girl next door. But she was heavenly off drugs and she was actually doing perks. She was doing real perks. This is back in like 2011. Right. So she was doing real shit, not this press that they're doing now. She was doing real drugs and she was doing mushrooms and perks and she was drinking liquor and she was just doing it all.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And that was the first time I ever did a perk. I was with this girl, and that was the first time I ever got drunk. I was with this girl, and drunk and off a perk. At 17? At 17. I was with this girl next door. And that was like a thing for like a year or two. You know? That was like a thing.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Yeah, that was like a thing or two, because I was in love with this girl, and that's all she did. So hanging out with her, I was kind of like dating her while she was dating the world. But she was, you know, she was like...
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
pimping all these dudes and i was just you know getting free and she was buying me whatever i wanted so it was like you know i didn't 17 she was 24 she was taking care of me and i was living next door i was like you know i didn't really know what life was that's what that's what life was it was just like i was just this hot chick she goes out we go to expensive dinners and you buy me all type of designer clothes and i don't really care who she's who her sugar daddy was it didn't matter to me that was none of my business you know what i'm saying that's awesome
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
So you don't know what you're getting at that point, but you're chasing that high. Right. You know, a lot of people are chasing that high, so.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Yeah, that's awesome. That's the first time. Why is that? Why?
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
No, yeah, it was a gateway drug. She definitely was a gateway drug. Because at that time, I always had my own life going on. I was in the streets. I was rapping. I was doing shit, but I wasn't into drugs. I was around homies that did drugs. Like I say, my homies were passing away doing heroin. They were smoking shit off of foil. And I had never touched a piece of foil in my life. Thank God.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I could take my hat off and kiss my baby to that. You know what I'm saying? I've never put a needle in my arm. I do. I have a seven-year-old. A nine-year-old. Damn, time flies by. I got a nine-year-old. Wow. Boy, Julius Legend Jones. Shout out, Legend.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
What is it? Julius. Like Yah. Yahweh. Yahshua. Yahshua. Yahshua. Yeah. That's what his name derives from.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
17, 24, that lasted about, like I say, two years. It ended because she ended up getting strung out I ended up moving. We ended up moving to a different part of the city and she just ended up getting strung out. And by the time I was 19, she just didn't look the same anymore. And our relationship had changed. You know, she had more bodies on her and I was, I was going at that point.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Yeah. I have, man, several friends, too many to sit here and name them one by one, or rest in peace to all of them, but I'm a Valley kid. I'm born and raised out here in California, and I was raised in Sherman Oaks. Mm-hmm. You know, right off of Ventura Boulevard, I spent a lot of my early days as a kid skateboarding on the block.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Like there was, if I had been maybe 24 in the same mindset as her, I probably would have, Because the chemistry me and this chick had was like, you know, I'm thankful that I have better chemistry with my girl than with now. But, you know, as far as that, that would have never lasted because she was on drugs. So that relationship never would have went anywhere.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
19, done with her, sipping lean, if I'm going to be honest. I was sipping promethazine codeine around that time. I was drinking lean on my partners, you know? We were sipping lean and popping Xanax, you know? And you're making music then. And I'm making music then. I'm rapping at the Basement 818. Shout out to Basement 818 on Ventura Boulevard. Oh, I've driven past that.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I'm a freestyle champion, you know what I'm saying? That's a club. It was a paint store slash record shop. I sold paint and they used to host battles every last Sunday of the month. Really? So I would go out there with my big brother, Top Notch, and we would rip heads off. I'm known in the Valley for sure. Besides my eyes, I'm like an underground MC.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I'm an underground rap legend from the 818, San Fernando Valley. So if people didn't know me from my eyes, which caught on later, years later, but I was known for my lyricism.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Um, in my thirties, looking back on all the years I've smoked marijuana, um, I have no regrets on doing it, but I do it moderately. Now I don't, I don't smoke as much as I used to. I will smoke like an ounce every other day. We're smoking like big, like I'm, I'm calling it with my brother. He's has a big weed brand. Like, We smoke pounds. I smoke weed. But it's all in moderation.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
You shouldn't stress the brain. I've been smoking for so long that at some point in time, you have to tell yourself when to stop. You got to take a break sometime. And that's part of that addiction. You know, weed is a very addictive drug. And it's not really that. It actually takes the back. It's not really the weed. It's the tobacco mostly for me because I split my weed.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
So I'll say I'm more addicted to tobacco than I am smoking marijuana.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
No, I'm a strong person. I'm strong minded. I've been through so much bullying. through my childhood that I've never ever got too strung out because at the same time I was, I've done drugs to escape certain situations, but I've seen it in my family firsthand. I've seen drug addicts in my family. I've seen what it does. It's two things, dead or in jail. I've seen that. I don't want to be dead.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I don't want to be in jail. It's a fine line. Pick one. So it's like it's moderation. I'm not going to sit here and let anybody say I've never done drugs before because I have. But am I a drug addict? Do I use drugs every day? No, I don't.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I count times in my life where I'm like, I should have been doing that, what I'm doing now. My other homie Etai comes in and he's looking for his gummy bears. He's going off. He's like, yo, who ate my, who ate my gummy, where's my gummy bears? I'm like, I'm in my pocket. I'm like, yo, bro, here's a dollar, like my bag. You know what I'm saying? We didn't mean to eat your gummy.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
You know, on my block, I would say Ventura Boulevard was my street. Cool street, cool area, calm, Sherman Oaks. But behind, you know, behind those walls as kids, a lot of kids was on drugs. A lot of my friends were ODing. A lot of my friends were heroin addicts, young, smoking off of foil. A lot of them were sipping from methamphetamine.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
To a certain degree. How does that make you feel? I love it because everything's perception. You know, one of my favorite comments that I love seeing, I love, I pin it every time I see this comment is a grown man, by the way. And they're referring to, you know, my videos like this is a grown man doing this. And I love it because in the end, I'm a kid inside. I'm never going to grow up.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And if you've grown up already, well, that sucks for you. And I just I pray for you because growing up sucks.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
It's OK, man. Just growing up sucks. It does. It does. But you can't let that be the end all. You know, we live. We came here not knowing we're going to leave not knowing. So just be that kid at all times. And keep that kid and you keep that kid alive. You can't want you. I feel like once you once that kid dies, you die. A secure man is cool with being underestimated. Right.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
There's nothing out there, man. I figured as I lost my mom two years ago. Rest in peace. Teresa Jackson's tattoo I got on my face right here. It's my mother's name. I put a bunch of the reason I even have face tattoos because I told myself. I was like, when I first titled myself, I said, I'm never going to work a job again. I was working at Time Warner Cable. Oh, that's awesome.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I was making $100,000 a year in sales. I was living a good, chill life. I'm 27 years old. I'm making $100,000 in sales. I'm killing them. I got the gift for gab. You know what I'm saying? I'm on the phone. I'm killing their ass. All right. I'm killing them so bad that they don't want to bring me up in the bracket. They don't want to make me supervisor. They don't want to make me a manager.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
They want to keep my ass right there on the phone. And I said, that's a problem. So I said, I can't work here anymore because I'm never going to own this business. I'm never going to be the owner here. I'm always going to be the yeah. So I tatted my face. I put my son's name. I have my son, Julius, back in 2004. And I tatted his name on the side of my face.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And I said, after this tattoo, I'm never going to work a job again. I tatted my son's name on my face. I literally made a video. Me and my buddies were sitting in the studio. And we're like, my boy's like, bro, he's like, you got all these talents, bro. You can rap. You're smart. You're this, you're that. But nobody knows you. He's like, you can pop your eyes out of your head, bro.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
He's like, let's go viral tomorrow. Let's do something. He's like, put it on the internet. And I was self-conscious about my eyes. I was doing it. Like I said, I'm a legend in the Valley. Everybody knows a guy that pops his eyes out at raps, but they don't know me on the internet. So this day, we all go to the store. We make a video. And I'm like, tomorrow we're posting it. This is it.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
We post the video in the morning. I wake up. It's a million views. I quit my job. And I've never worked a nine to five job since then. And then I continued to tat, you know, because I fell in love with the art. I got tats all over my body. It's covered. But the last tattoo I said I was going to put on my face was my mom's name. So that's the last one on my face.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
You know, I've lost 10 fingers how many friends I've lost from now on.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Music that I have continued to drop. I'm finally in a dropping zone. Check my music out. It's on all streaming platforms at Chef Boy Bones. Continue to follow me on all social media platforms. The only handle that I have is at Chef Boy Bones. And I just want to encourage people, man, to stream. I want to encourage people to drop content.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I want to encourage that fellow content creator, that rapper that's looking at this podcast, is watching this right now, man, put your shit out there in the world because you never know who's going to like it. That circle that you have of 10 friends or 20 people in your circle, the world is bigger than that. And I never knew how big the world was until I posted and believed in myself.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
So just put the content out there. You never know where it's going to go. Just create. Stay creative.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Yeah, I can definitely give you one for sure. Which one? Oh, man, that's a tough one. It'd have to be No Jumper Freestyle. It just dropped. I was on a roll to 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. We're 2,000 away. We'll probably be there by tonight. So that No Jumper Freestyle is dropping this Friday. All platforms. So go ahead and hit them with the No Jumper Freestyle. All right. We got that.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
We got that. All right. Hey, man. Y'all know the vibes. It's your boy, Chef Boy Bones. We'll see you next Tuesday.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Yeah. I mean, one of the homies, I'm not going to say his name, but he was getting perks from an unauthorized dealer. You know that we've known that this dealer presses pills and he still he still is getting them. He still wants to chase that high. You know, doesn't really get that. It's an addiction at a certain point. It's an addiction. Right.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
When you're addicted to something and I feel you don't really care, you're just chasing the high. You're chasing that feeling. Just for the viewers. Just for the viewers.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I'll go get you some more if it's that serious. He's like, no. You know a lot of people are chasing their eyes.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Oh man, a real, a real up one was, um, I'm not gonna say any names. One of my buddies, he died early off of a drug. And the crazy thing about it was he was a really good kid, nice family. His family had money. They were, you know, he wasn't struggling or anything like that. Like a list family and his mom and died actually died, uh,
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
early so all of his assets and she was left to him and his sister and his sister was obviously taking care of her little brother but he died so when he died It was like his mom, his mom and dad were already around. So that's I think was the biggest reason probably why he was on drugs, because he didn't have his mom and his father's mom and his father died.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And when his mom and father passed away, that's when he got really bad on drugs, because before his mom and dad died, he wasn't on drugs, but they died in a car crash. So do that car crash when his mom and dad died. He got off drugs. Everything was left to him and his sister. And he ended up passing away. I wasn't too close to his sister. So I don't know what her pain felt like.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
But I know my pain felt like I was his friend. And losing a friend is, you know, there's no happy feeling at all. But just to know his story, know where his pain comes from being older now, because back then I didn't really can put the two and two together. Like all this wise guy doing drugs like he's. he has the best life. I'm going over here.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I got a skateboard to school and he's, he's driving out of your school. It's like, you know, it's like, what the, why are you, why is your life so bad where you have to do drugs? I didn't understand the pain that he was going through, you know, whatever his coping mechanism was.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
That's what that is. That's a skill right there.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
That will make your eyes pop out. That's a lot of money. But there's no amount of money that, if the help is there, there's no amount of money in the world.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
That's all it is. That's all the industry is, is drugs. I mean, that's not all it is. Let me take that back because there are a lot of artists that don't do drugs. But yeah, for the most part, that's, you know, that's the starter.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Sure. Let's start there. So let's start there. The most recent. Actually, to be honest, marijuana. Marijuana is the catalyst for everything. The first time I smoked marijuana, I think that if I never smoked weed, I think I'd probably be a little bit further off in life. I'm in a great place and I'm thankful for where I am.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
You're doing better than me. Maybe I'd already be married already sitting in that freaking castle, but it's coming.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I'll never forget the day I smoked weed. I smoked weed on my 13th birthday. I'm hanging out with some kids who I thought were my friends later on in life. These guys are nowhere to be found and we're not friends anymore. So smoking weed with these guys on my 13th birthday when I should have been home. My mom planned a surprise birthday party for me. I never had a surprise party.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And instead, my homies were like, you know, after school, we're going to go get high. Come get high with us. And I'm like. Every birthday has been the same, not knowing my mom's throwing a surprise birthday party for me. So I'm like, can I go kick it with the homies? And they're always blazing. I was a square. I'm like, I'm not going to smoke. But today's my birthday. I'm 13.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I'm feeling like a man for some reason. And the homies are blazing. I'm like, I'm going to smoke today. So we went to the homies house and he was stealing weed from his mom. I never forget this. He went in and stole, stole some weed from his mom. Rolled a blunt up. We went on the side of his house. We smoked his blunt. And it was about 6 or 7. It started getting dark around there.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And I'm like, it's my birthday. I'm stoned already, though. I'm like, I got to get home. So I called my dad. My dad, he's pissed. He's like, where the fuck are you? It's your birthday. You should be here. And I'm like... every birthday has been the same. Like what's he's like, where are you? So my dad comes, he gets me, he picks me up.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
And then the ride that I'll never forget that ride home because I was so stoned that I didn't, this is my first time smoking weeds. I don't know what's going on. My dad is just pissed though. He's like, are you high right now? And I'm just like, Yeah. And he's like, you're smoking, you're making bad decisions. And I'm just like, this is going through one ear, out the other.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
When I get home and my whole family's there, my cousin's there, my mom's there, my daddy got a cake, my mom made me lobster and shit. And I just felt like a piece of shit because I was getting stoned. But yeah, 13 was the first time I smoked weed. That didn't keep you from getting stoned again. That didn't keep me from getting stoned again. That increased my love for marijuana.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Most artists are sipping lean, codeine with promethazine, perks, cocaine, E-pills, MDMA, you name it, it goes on. Shrooms. Shrooms are a little bit more on the cool side. They don't really overdo the shrooms, I would say. They don't overuse. Different vibe. Different vibe with the shrooms, but the 30s and the lean, Oh, yeah, that's like candy right there. That's like studio etiquette.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I still smoke to this day. I've been smoking marijuana since I was 13 years old. I've taken periodic breaks throughout this. All right, well, let's get off the marijuana thing because that's never killed anybody.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
So because of marijuana, that definitely opened up the doors later on.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
I think it was just, it was a drug. It was like, I did marijuana and it was like, okay, cool. And all these other drugs now are just like, okay, cool. It's like being at a club and people are in the bathroom doing bumps of cocaine. It's like, oh, you're doing a bump. Oh, you're doing a bump.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
No, but the marijuana gave me a feeling that. Time out. No, I didn't get high enough. That was the answer. No, I didn't get high enough. That's why. That's why it was the gateway drug for you. That's why it was a gateway drug for me. I didn't get high enough. That's right. I was still trying to get high, escape something else from trauma. Knowing now as an adult.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
Looking back at it now. Yeah, definitely. I can definitely look back and say this is the reason why I smoked these. And I count times, too. I'm like, I count times in my life where I'm like, I should have been doing that, what I'm doing now. But I was smoking weed and I'm like, oh, that's why I was smoking weed. Because that, you know, this is the reason why.
We're Out of Time
Chef Boy Bonez Reveals His True Self
But ultimately, healing that reason while smoking weed made it a little bit easier to get done what I had to get done. So I have two questions.