Donnell Rawlings
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But what he did, I didn't know until years later, Bill Byrd, when we'd meet up, he would buy a fucking like 12 piece of Popeye's chicken, right?
And he knew me and Charlie would devour that chicken and we would be in a sleep coma right the next 15 minutes.
And it was almost like he gave us sleeping pills and shit.
He would get us a chicken, we'd be knocked out and then he'd just go and just laugh at us and shit.
But that time, that was such a great time because you saw people's careers being born.
Like Bill was already on a trajectory
to be great, you know what I'm saying?
But at that time, and this is when I say, the stories that you remember, I'm pretty sure Bill still remembers.
This was the first time that he was making regular good money every week.
You know how it is for Bill fucking,
headlining that's doing $800 a weekend, or they give you a deal, $2,000, and then you get a $500 bonus when you sell or give away 300 tickets.
And you're not working every weekend.
And you're not working every weekend, and then you got club bonus.
Your bonus is supposed to be at 300, and they'd be like, couldn't give you that bonus.
I'd be like, motherfucker.
I could have bought those.
They lie about how many tickets you sold.