Kid Mero explains the breakup of Desus & Mero
Just like the rest of us, Melo and Joe wanna know what happened with Desus and Mero. pic.twitter.com/gbbu9L9c24
- 7PM in Brooklyn (@7PMinBrooklyn) February 15, 2024
-Seems like it was a conflict of interests and career paths.
Mero: "It's the business, there's no friends in the business, you know what I'm saying? We was in a situation where I got four kids, two mortgages. ... You know where I live, Joe. The taxes are crazy. I got real life situations going on."
"So I'm like, 'Yo, if we get an offer from DraftKings for 1.5 [million], before they got logos on the NBA court, and you're like, 'Nah, bro this ain't it.' And I'm like, 'Nah fam, I'm gambling illegally right now. This shit is legal in Jersey, I just moved here. ... This is going places, bro. We need to do this.' And they're like, 'Nah?' I'm like, 'Fuck outta here!' To me that's like, the beginning of like, 'Alright, this shit is corroding.' We're on different wavelengths."
-Mero also mentioning wanting ownership and making it into production company:
"I was very much so aiming for ownership. Being a production company. ... Like, owning your IP, because that's life or death in media. ... If you know that, you go into it with a certain approach, like, 'Yo, I need longevity, I need ownership.' We developed this shit out the mud so, this is us, we own this, we're not selling this to nobody. The key word here is 'licensing.' I'll license the shit to you for a term, two years, whatever, a one-and-one, but selling your IP, bro, selling your name?"
-Mero also addresses the Hollywood Desus claims after Joe Budden said it looked people were preparing Desus for Hollywood but Mero says the actual opposite happened:
"You know what's crazy? No. Like, the next level of Hollywood is the three of us-Desus, Victor [Lopez], myself-sitting down with Judd Apatow and saying, 'Yo, we're gonna do a movie.' And then the movie gets written and Desus is like, 'I ain't really feeling this shit.' When I know in the business mind, it's like, yo, when you do a movie with this guy, you're not just doing a movie with this guy. This dude is like a kingmaker in terms of in the film industry. If you get in there, you make a banger with him, you solidified. That's what makes you get up to the next level."
-He also mentions that he has had conversations with Desus here and there but mostly end up as "Aight, no doubt".
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Click to viewI thought it was interesting that he didn't bring up the rumor surrounding their manager Victor Lopez creating a toxic environment amongst the showtime staff. In that situation Showtime asked Lopez to not attend tapings and meeting anymore to which Desus agreed with that decision, Mero on the other hand sided with Lopez outta loyalty.
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