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Gorilla Nems: Why Most People Don’t Know What They Want | DSH #1727

01 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: Why do most people struggle to know what they want in life?

0.031 - 18.546 Gorilla Nems

People don't know who they are in life, what they want in life. So they look for someone else to provide that information to them. Yeah. I'm not looking for that, man. I know what I want out of life. I know where I want to go in life. Somebody else's opinion or somebody else's mind frame doesn't affect it. So, you know, fuck they life.

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23.605 - 31.535 Sean Kelly

Alright guys, Complex on day two. We got Gorilla Nems here. Yow yow, fuck your life. Let's get it baby. How's the event been for you?

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32.156 - 45.313 Gorilla Nems

It's good. It's work. Everything I do, like I just told you before, I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. So for me, having fun is working. Living my dreams. You know what I'm saying? So it's been fun. I like that.

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45.373 - 46.154 Sean Kelly

You're locked in right now?

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46.615 - 47.095 Gorilla Nems

Absolutely.

47.135 - 50.119 Sean Kelly

All the time. No distractions? Never. What about the ladies?

50.285 - 55.276 Gorilla Nems

Ladies, you know, it could be a distraction. But I'm a window shopper.

55.998 - 56.138 Sean Kelly

Yeah.

Chapter 2: How can discipline help eliminate distractions?

56.479 - 57.1 Gorilla Nems

Window shopper.

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57.12 - 59.726 Sean Kelly

You still out in New York? Brooklyn, big time. Brooklyn?

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Coney Island.

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60.628 - 62.131 Sean Kelly

You been paying attention to the mayor race?

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62.612 - 87.6 Gorilla Nems

Nah, not really. You know what? I feel like with politics, either way... They're lying to you. No matter what party, no matter what, they're human beings just like us that have an agenda just like everybody else does. So they're just going to tell you what we want to hear. It doesn't affect my daily living. I'm going to win. I'm going to make money.

87.64 - 96.501 Gorilla Nems

I'm going to do what I want to do, be productive, no matter who's mayor, no matter who's president. I'm gonna do what I gotta do regardless.

96.521 - 101.292 Sean Kelly

I got the same mindset, but a lot of people think there's so much power in those political positions.

101.853 - 112.658 Gorilla Nems

Yeah, a lot of people feed into that. A lot of people don't know who they are in life, what they want in life, so they look for someone else.

Chapter 3: Why don't politics dictate personal success?

112.942 - 114.845 Gorilla Nems

To provide that information to them.

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115.025 - 115.506 Unknown

Yeah.

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115.526 - 129.991 Gorilla Nems

I'm not looking for that, man. I know what I want out of life. I know, you know, where I want to go in life. And somebody else's opinion or somebody else's mind frame doesn't affect it. So, you know, fuck their life.

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130.251 - 131.473 Sean Kelly

Where'd you get the chain from?

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132.044 - 142.444 Gorilla Nems

This was like my first, you know, rapper chain that I bought. I got it in like 2018. Now it's become one of my smaller chains.

142.604 - 144.828 Sean Kelly

Okay. You had to level up a little bit, huh?

144.848 - 146.752 Gorilla Nems

You got to. That's what life is about.

146.992 - 147.653 Sean Kelly

The rollie too?

148.335 - 153.104 Gorilla Nems

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you got the AP. I got the brick. I got the brick. I got the offshore.

Chapter 4: What does it mean to win regardless of who’s in power?

165.092 - 165.893 Sean Kelly

What else you got going on?

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166.534 - 186.508 Gorilla Nems

I'm here just, I'm outside with it, man. Just like in New York, I'm outside. I'm living, this is my dream. This is my goal, man. I love being outside. When I stay home, a day or two, just relaxing, I feel like I'm missing out. You know what I'm saying? I feel like I'm not, pushing towards my goal.

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186.569 - 195.205 Gorilla Nems

Every day I got to be pushing towards the goal or furthering my dream in some type of capacity to make me feel like, you know, I'm doing something.

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195.226 - 196.107 Sean Kelly

What is the dream for you?

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196.588 - 219.156 Gorilla Nems

The dream is to become, well, the goalposts always move. So at first it was to not work a nine to five. Once Bing Bong and all of that happened, I quit my job. Then it was to get a record deal. I signed a three album deal with Paul Rosenberg, Goliath Records, Virgin Records. So now that goalpost has moved. Now the dream is to...

219.136 - 239.997 Gorilla Nems

get my my second home and and you know then it was by rolex by chain i did that the goalpost move um and that the ultimate goal though is to be comfortable where i don't have to answer to anybody and be happy in life and the people around me well taken care of box i love that second second home uh

239.977 - 257.312 Sean Kelly

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Chapter 5: How did quitting a 9-to-5 change the guest's life?

311.644 - 312.165 Gorilla Nems

What part?

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312.185 - 312.665 Sean Kelly

Bridgewater.

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313.106 - 314.548 Gorilla Nems

Okay. North Jersey.

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314.568 - 315.249 Sean Kelly

Somerset County.

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315.529 - 315.95 Gorilla Nems

Okay.

315.97 - 318.633 Sean Kelly

Yeah, yeah. I'm looking in North Jersey as well. Jersey's beautiful, man.

318.853 - 320.095 Gorilla Nems

I like it. I like it.

320.415 - 333.536 Sean Kelly

As I've gotten older, I've come to realize I didn't appreciate it when I was younger. What made you come out here? Well, I tried LA out and I hated it. So I drove to Vegas unplanned. And I like Vegas. I've been here for four years.

333.757 - 337.062 Gorilla Nems

I know a couple of people that's made the move over here and they love it.

Chapter 6: What does redefining success as freedom look like?

372.194 - 377.6 Gorilla Nems

And one thing I love about the West Coast, which happened today because it's Sunday, is football at 10 AM.

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378.741 - 379.302 Sean Kelly

Starts early.

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379.582 - 380.163 Gorilla Nems

I love that.

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380.504 - 382.085 Sean Kelly

BSPN over there is watching the game.

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383.087 - 405.324 Gorilla Nems

I love that. I woke up this morning. Put it on TV as I'm shouting. I'm like, oh, it's 10 in the morning, and the games are on, even though my Giants weren't on. I was just going to ask. Giants. Big time. Big time Giants. I only mess with really two sports. I watch football and MMA. Big UFC fan. Last year when we was on tour out here, I got to tour the UFC Apex Center.

405.885 - 413.075 Gorilla Nems

I'm mad the fights weren't here this weekend. I would have definitely went to that. Yeah. But I'm a big UFC guy. Jon Jones, the GOAT? GOAT, 100%.

413.555 - 413.816 Sean Kelly

Agreed.

413.836 - 430.316 Gorilla Nems

100%. There's no man in any weight division besides, you know, him that could beat him. He's, let's say, he's the heavyweight. He was the heavyweight champ. Light heavyweight champ can't beat him, and the guys under can't beat him, so that makes him the GOAT.

430.336 - 432.338 Sean Kelly

Yeah. Aspinall didn't look too good yesterday.

Chapter 7: How does the guest view the importance of evolving goals?

432.619 - 452.824 Gorilla Nems

That was a... i'm glad i didn't buy that pay-per-view that would have been such a disappointment the eye poke to end the fight is so disheartening yeah yeah people are saying he could beat john jones but i don't know he didn't look like it yesterday not at all and john jones what he did to cyril gone was ridiculous yeah he made him look so juvenile

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452.804 - 454.487 Sean Kelly

So you don't watch the Knicks?

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455.209 - 477.874 Gorilla Nems

Of course. I watch the Knicks. I'm a Knicks fan. The Knicks with the bing bong whole situation, I love the Knicks. I'm a lifelong Knicks fan. I just feel like we got into a crossroads where I wasn't Whatever, I love the Knicks regardless. I still watch them.

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478.274 - 483.184 Sean Kelly

We'll leave it there. 6'9", trying to make a comeback right now to social media. What do you think about that?

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484.346 - 506.2 Gorilla Nems

The more energy you give to people like that, the bigger they get. So, listen, how I grew up is you don't tell, regardless of what the circumstances were. You knew what you signed up for. That's how I look at it. Regardless if people did something to your girl. When you signed up for that life,

507.175 - 530.955 Gorilla Nems

know what comes with that and you by getting into that are agreeing that whatever comes with that life you you stay down and uh he didn't so i don't really pay attention to what he says i see little stuff like that makes me laugh you know he seems like a personable guy uh but that's where that's where it ends for me i might you know i'll scroll past it i really don't give that much energy yeah i'm not

531.762 - 534.847 Gorilla Nems

I'm a productive member of society now. I'm not a thug. I used to be.

535.027 - 535.267 Unknown

Yeah.

535.387 - 542.438 Gorilla Nems

But I'm an adult now. So that life, you know, I don't really pay that much more to it.

Chapter 8: What role does freedom play compared to fame in achieving happiness?

546.564 - 549.529 Gorilla Nems

It was kind of seamless. Wow.

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549.689 - 550.55 Sean Kelly

I don't hear that often.

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551.191 - 580.078 Gorilla Nems

Yeah. You know what? When you really are at the bottom and really are in the trenches... For a number of years, it's not fun. It becomes not... In the beginning, it might be fun. In the beginning, you might do some, you know, some gangster stuff. By the end, man, you're tired of it. You're weary of it. There's only two options. Death or jail. And I want to live. So once I really...

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580.615 - 607.77 Gorilla Nems

thought about that it was seamless i got a nine to five and i just went that route i feel that man but still was pushing you know my music stuff yeah i saw your interview with ray yesterday you you really had no idea who that kid was no i didn't he's one of the biggest streamers in the world i don't really what i'm not i'm trying to get into the streaming world i don't i'm like i said i'm outside every day yeah so i don't really get to watch streams streamers and stuff like that but uh

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Once people told me, I saw a little clip and said, he's hilarious. He's hilarious. And I feel like that was cool that I didn't know he wasn't. But now I do. It's a nice little introduction.

618.999 - 621.287 Sean Kelly

Yeah. He could get you to cast an eye, man.

621.385 - 630.662 Gorilla Nems

Yeah, shouts to all of them, man. Everything I see of these streamers are hilarious. I love them. I just don't get the chance to watch all the time.

630.802 - 633.848 Sean Kelly

Yeah. They're like the, I would say they're the modern day celebrities.

634.048 - 644.01 Gorilla Nems

Big time. Big time. When you see any of them walking through here, they're the ones followed like they're fucking rock stars. They're 100% the new rock stars out here.

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