Before They Were Famous

Fyre Festival created by Billy McFarland. Long story short, it was a failure. A massive one. Lack of preparation and a flurry of unexpected setbacks, not to mention some very poor choices led to hundreds of people being stranded on the island without food, proper lodging, and worst of all... NO MIGOS. Fyre Festival was dubbed the world's biggest flop by several news sources. It was such a serious dud, that Billy was not only a laughing stock to the general public, but had a new name added next to entrepreneur... Criminal. At least he didn't have to do what Andy King ended up doing and at least he's not Ja Rule.

Alexis Skyy Mcfarland is an American reality television personality, entrepreneur, actress, and model. She is best known for being on Vh1’s tv show Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood and Love & Hip Hop: New York. Skyy has received media attention for her relationship with rapper Fetty Wap.

Samuel L. Jackson grew up around discrimination. A native of Tennessee during the Jim Crowe era, he had experienced racism his entire life. He even attended segregated schools. So when the Civil Rights Movement hit in the 1960s, he knew he had to do his part. While attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, he decided to indulge in his favorite childhood past time... going to the movies. During a screening of John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, a distraught man ran in and announced that Martin Luther King had been murdered. The theatre clearing out, he returned to the Morehouse campus to find many of his friends and classmates were burning down the neighborhood. Just four days after MLK's assassination in Memphis, he flew back to his home state to participate in the garbage workers strike that King had been leading up until his death. He then flew back to Atlanta to participate as an usher in his funeral. At 70 years old Sam Jackson is one of the most prolific actors in Hollywood. While going through his filmography for research, we didn't realize just how many iconic flicks he's done. The guy's had memorable bit roles such as Senior Love Daddy in Do The Right Thing, Stacks Edwards in Goodfellas, and the chain-smoking Mr. Arnold in Jurassic Park... You also can't forget career-defining roles as Nick Fury in the MCU or Jules Whinfield in Pulp Fiction, for which he received an Oscar nomination... There's no doubt that Sam has contributed to some of the defining movies of the last thirty years. But as it goes with most actors, his early life was actually quite troubled. A youth that involved a serious speech impediment as well as drug addiction.

Adrien Broner has been a force in the sport of boxing since 2008. Seriously... Nicknamed 'The Problem', this guy has been an issue for anybody looking to make a name for themselves in competitive boxing for the better part of a decade. Outside of the ring, you may know him for his larger than life antics, his rocky relationship with Floyd Mayweather, or his run-ins with the law. But his come-up story is even more remarkable than his achievements after fame. Starting his journey as a young kid, Adrien's neighborhood gym served as a safe haven from the brutal realities of the streets. Defeating numerous opponents on his way up the latter, Adrien was on his way to competing in the 2008 Olympics when the temptations of these same streets got the best of him. He was so wrapped up in crime at the time, his mom told him he could either be king of the streets or king of the ring. At just seventeen years old, Adrien was arrested by police for aggravated robbery and assault. Charged as an adult, he was facing fifty-seven years in the penitentiary. Sitting in his cell and writing rap lyrics, he began contemplating his possibilities if he was given a second chance.

A month ago, a song popped up online featuring two of the biggest names in SoundCloud rap today. Trippie Redd and Lil Xan. But it was the main artist on the track that caught people’s attention. An artist named Baby Goth with blue hair, half of her head shaved, and face tattoos who was singing about wearing Gucci and getting high. She seemed to have come out of nowhere and to get two massive features, you most likely have to have some industry connections. So people started doing some digging, and one YouTuber, in particular, found out that the industry’s newest sensation… Isn’t actually who she says she is. And in this video, we’ll dig a little bit deeper into that and her story.

SouljaBoy changed the game and is the founding father of making it off of the internet – plus the bag he collected off ringtones alone is still something we've yet to see be replicated At the time of this recording Soulja Boy is hot on a press run demanding the respect he feels he's never been given credit it for and to be fair the man has a point. He was posting videos to YouTube back in 2006, that's before PewDiePie or most of your favorite online performers gave it any thoughts. He was publishing his music online before SoundCloud was even a thing and performing shows in the Atlanta area while holding down a job at Burger King flipping patties. 2007 was SouljaBoy's breakout year and although his career has perhaps simmered down in the decade-plus that followed. He truly did pave the path for everyone who came after him online, not just rappers but I included. In fact, an old video has surfaced of Soulja Boy pumping up the crowd where he inspired a young Gazzi Garcia, aka Lil Pump.

As of 2018, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is one of the highest-paid actors on the Planet Earth, and boy does he sure know how to spend his dough. When you hear about what this guy purchased, I wouldn't surprised if the show Ballers was actually based on his real life. Starring in some of the biggest blockbusters of the past decade, the action icon pulled in an estimated $124 million in 2018 alone. Adding to his estimated net worth of $280 Million dollars. Now at the height of his film career, he demands over $20 million for a flick and received roughly 50% of the box-office receipts for both Central Intelligence and Skyscraper. It's work on films such as these that lets him blow close to fourteen hundred dollars per year on a certain kind of fish. I'll explain a little more about that in just a second.

Youngboy Never Broke Again dropped his debut mixtape Life Before Fame in 2015 at the age of just 15. An album he wrote primarily while he locked up in Juvenile Detention Centre. That year he dropped a total of five mixtapes while sleeping on an air mattress at a friend's house. He would spend his days driving all over his native Baton Rouge spending as much as 12 hours a day in the car doing quick gigs for $500 to $1,500 a pop. As word of his music spread so did his influence he has had one of the biggest come ups for any young rapper of his generation. But as he was ascending to the big leagues he was arrested in regards to an alleged drive-by shooting... we will get to more on that a little later in this video...

World Record Egg is not only the most liked photo on Instagram it's also the most liked post in history beating out the music video for Despacito. There have been plenty of questions asked over who the possible culprit behind this egg truly is. At first, everyone was throwing around the name How To Basic, an extremely popular YouTuber whose identity remains a mystery but he has a long documented love for eggs. More recently, Supreme Patty and his gang of Instagram stars including Long Neck, Wide Neck, A Millz, and more hinted at claims that they were the masterminds behind the world record egg. But there is also another mystery dude by the name of Marquis Trill... We're gonna get into all this in just a second, What's going on guys? It's your boy Michael McCrudden cracking the entire story surrounding this egg, here for you on AFTER They Were Famous.

Blocboy JB was born James Baker on May 19, 1996, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was named after his father, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence. When BlocBoy was only 12 years old, his dad broke out of prison just to spend time with his kids. Apparently, he pulled up to their house in a blue Jaguar to see a young James. But unfortunately, like most prison-breaks, well, unless your last name is Scofield, it eventually came to an end. Authorities found Baker Sr, and he was locked up again. Blocboy comes from a large family and is the third youngest of seven siblings. He says it wasn’t that hard to live with a lot of siblings, but they did have to get used to eating the same thing most nights: