IShowSpeed loves his job.
The 19-year-old recently sat down with Shannon Sharpe of Club Shay Shay. Sharpe asked if streaming is “harder than having a 9-to-5” around the 1:33:15 hour mark of the video below.
In response, Speed revealed that he had a job when he was 15.
“I worked in the kitchen in a caretaker’s home, and I was a server," he explained. "When I worked there, it was way harder. It’s just draining, you know? Mentally, it’s just—nah.”
Sharpe then gave his perspective. “I think that 9-to-5, most people are not in love with the 9-to-5," he said. "You love streaming, so you don’t look at that as work.”
Sharpe continued, “You work for you and you love what you do. That’s the thing that gets you out of bed every day.”
He then asked, “Is that how you feel? ‘Man, I can’t wait to stream,’” to which Speed said, “Yeah, yeah. I can’t wait to get some ideas in—can’t wait to work on this craft.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Speed and Sharpe teased each other for their recent internet blunders. Earlier this year, the former NFL star went viral when he appeared to stream himself having sex with a woman on Instagram Live. Last year, IShowSpeed accidentally flashed over 20,000 live viewers.
"Hol on, did they see me? Or did they see you?" Sharpe told the streamer. "You heard, but did they see?" Speed paused again before saying, "Yours was worse! You was making noise, you was really in it!"
