- This young brother did
his first comedy show at 15 years old, and it changed his life. But, little did he know years later, that it would be his baby boy, and a viral video that would elevate him beyond his wildest imagination. This brother's name is DJ Pryor. And so, I don't know if you saw this, but I wanna show you the
clip that went viral. - That's what I was wondering. I don't know what they're
gonna do next season, 'cause they did some stuff this time. (child talks gibberish) Exactly what I was thinking. (child talks gibberish) Oh yeah, yeah. (audience laughs) (child talks gibberish) Right, don't bring that in. You know what I'm saying? Don't do the same stuff. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I was thinking that, yeah. (audience applauds) - Please welcome DJ and his son Kingston. (audience cheers and claps) All right, man, so what made you record your
conversation with your boy? - Well, you know, I have an older son. His name is Jabari. He's eight years old. And so, as my kids are growing up, I like recording these videos of my kids, so like home movies. So I was recordin' this
stuff, and I was like, "Yo, man, I want them to have
this when they get older." And, me and my wife,
were watching "Empire," the season finale, and I was like, "Man, yo, I
don't know what's gonna happen, the ending of this." And, he's like, "What's
going on right now?" And, I was watching the ending of it, and I was like, "What's gonna happen?" Me and my wife really
having a conversation. He looking at me and her like, he looking at us like. I said, ""You feel me, man?" And, he climbs up on the couch,
and he just starts going in. And, I was like, "Yo."
(audience laughs) I was like, "Yo, this is
funny. Like, get the camera." And, I wanted him to see
it when he got older, man. But, he just really was going in that day. (audience laughs) - This dude is aware. - Right. He is alert. - This ain't no little
lost baby. He in there. (DJ and audience laughs) The hell? We ain't got these
many lights, what's happening? He don't even know he on TV. - [DJ] Right. - Yeah. So this thing went
really, really crazy viral. - Yeah. Yeah. - How has that changed
your life? What's happened? - It's my career, you know,
I'm a stand up comedian, so I've been going after this
since I was 15 years old. So I'm 31 now. This is 16
years of trying to make it. And then, all of a sudden,
now the world knows me. It's like, "Oh, man."
You know what I mean? The video goes viral in 10 hours. It did 25 million in 10 hours. Yeah. So it's like, "Yo, this is crazy." Now, you know, you go from being a nobody, now, everybody want to talk to you. Everybody know you. Go outside and the neighbors
just looking at us like this. (audience and Steve laugh) You
know? And, just looking at, it was weird, it was different. And, it has ultimately changed my life. Now I've become an advocate for talking about early
childhood development, and it's been something amazing. Yeah. (audience applauds) - I mean, but an advocate for child, you've been invited to
speak at different places. - Invited to speak, yeah. Which is, you know, it makes you nervous, 'cause you like, "I don't know
nothing about this stuff." But, it was just about authenticity. The authenticity of just being a parent, connecting with your child. People were saying, "You know, what you and your son were demonstrating is something called serve and return." And, I was like, "Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I knew that. Yeah, I knew that's
what I was doing. Yeah." Had no clue. And then, I got to learn more about it, and it really became
interesting, and it was like, there's a lot of stuff
that we do as adults that are things that
stem from my childhood. And serve and return
just says that, you know, he can say something to
me, and I listen to him, and let him know that
I'm listening to him, and then I shoot it back
to him, and this is great. And now, our communication
has just been amazing, and it helps them
develop a lot more mature than your average child. As y'all can see, he's very. (audience laughs) - Because now, he won't wanna
know, "Who is the people?" - [DJ] Right. - "Dad, I'm cool with this here. I seen him somewhere." - Right. - Two of these other people right here. You got a Denny's
commercial out of this, too? - Yes, yes, it was crazy. (audience applauds)
Yeah. - We have a piece of it. Let's see that.
- Is this your grand finale? Because if so, you buttered me up. You got me. (DJ laughs) You buttered me up. You won me over. (audience applauds) That's us. He said, "Yeah, that's us." - That's us. See, and can I tell you something, man? - [DJ] Yes, sir. - The reason it's happening for you now, can I explain something
to you about comedy? There are no great 15 year old comedians. What can you talk about at 15 that somebody would pay money to hear? Now, at 31 you have
something to talk about. What type of childhood?
Did you have problems? - My mother was verbal
and physically abusive. My mom had me when she was 13 years old, and so she was both verbally
and, and physically abusive. And, my biological father was more verbal. And so, both of them being young parents, they just didn't know. You know, they didn't
know what they were doing. And then, as I got older,
I just, I remember when I, right. - Love this dude, right here. "Yeah, tell it." (DJ laughs) - [Steve] Well, he done
ate that whole cracker. - He done ate that whole cracker? But, as I got older, I remember when I came to that
comedy was like my therapy. It served as my therapy. And, when I got on stage, I would talk about this
stuff as I got older. (audience laughs) You know, I'm just gonna
let you have your moment. I think he's a standup comedian, as well. I think he might be. We might be seeing him maybe take it. - Hey man, lemme ask you something. Let me ask you something. Did you feel like coming here today? (DJ laughs)
- [Audience] Aw. - He's like-
- "I'm gonna do your show, but I be damned if I do interviews." - [DJ] Right. "Now, you talk to my daddy all you want, but I'm not finna go viral with you." So is this your other kid and your. - Yes, that's my wife
right there on the end. And, that's my oldest
son right there, Jabari. - That's good. Jabari, how old are you? - Eight years old. Just like my dad. - He gonna get his shot. - I wanna be something just
like him when I grow up. He is like the stars in my life. He's like, the most best person, one of the most best person
I could ever have, right now. I just love him. I would never let anything happen to him. (audience applauds) - Woo! - Yeah, yeah. That messed you up. Yeah, you got pull yourself together, boy. - No, I'm good. - Yeah, no, no.
- Woo! - [Steve] Pull yourself together. - Woo!
- That right there. - I damn near cried. He ain't even my boy. - This is gonna be good.
- I don't even want - no more kids. (DJ laughs)
Woo! Yeah, that was a good
one right there, man. You know what you did, man? The father that you didn't have, you made sure you weren't that. (audience applauds)
That's what a lot of people don't understand. You know, my father used to always say, "Knowing what not to
do is just as important as knowing what to do. You saw what bad parenting looked like, and you made the
decision, if I have a kid, I'm not gonna ever do that. - Right. - Say, man, let me ask you something else. No, you. Can I ask you something else? (audience laughs) We ain't going to do it? (audience laughs) It was great to meet you
and your family, man. - Yes, sir. Great meeting you. Congratulations. (audience cheers and applauds) Appreciate you for showing us the strength of what real
fatherhood looked like, too. Hey, you made it to the end of this video. I got a lot more that you're gonna enjoy. So just click to watch the next one, and make sure you subscribe to
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