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Yannis Pappas Hour

South Bronx to TikTok with Devon Rodriguez

Yannis Pappas Hour

Yannis Pappas

News, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, News Commentary

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The extremely talented Devon Rodriguez has amassed over 25 million (and counting) followers drawing portraits of strangers on the NYC subway. His videos have gone viral on TiKTok & Instagram and propelled him into stardom. Prior to going viral, he had features on his work in The New Yorker, The Smithsonian and The New York Times. He tells his story from growing up under the harshest circumstances to manifesting his dream. He’s an inspiration and he’s just getting started. Follow Devon: https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2mQhgA/ https://instagram.com/devonrodriguezart?utm_medium=copy_link Yanni tour dates & tickets: https://www.yannispappascomedy.com Join for weekly Bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yannilongdays LongDays is now officially going twice a week. Every Saturday & Thursday night. One weekly solo pod & a chat pod on Thursdays. Enjoy you hyenas! The show goes out every Saturday night & Thursdays to youtube and podcast audio platforms but while it's being recorded the show goes LIVE on Yannis' Instagram on Wednesdays. Come join in on the LONG DAY & Follow Yannis Pappas Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yannispappas/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/yannispappas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everybody, welcome to another episode of Long Game.

0:29.9

We have another guest. Now that we're going twice a week, I am very excited about this guest. He makes the BX

0:37.2

Self-proc, self-proc. Very proud. New York's own. Probably the biggest artist on the internet. Yo, my artist.

0:46.6

Yo, my artist. You remember that era? Everyone's like, yo, I got every one of you a manager. They go, I got three artists.

0:52.0

This is my artist. This is my artist. But he's actually a real artist. He's a real artist. You know, from TikTok, you know, from Instagram.

0:59.1

I'm a pronounce it a few different ways, because depending on where you from, you might pronounce it differently.

1:03.6

Devon. Yo, Devon. Devon. Devon. Devon. Devon.

1:10.7

Depending on where you are, you get different, right? Yeah, that's so fun. How do you like it to go?

1:15.4

Just Devon. Devon. Devon. Yo, you heard? That's Devon for the block. Do good. So you go back to the Bronx and yo, Devon, do my portrait, son?

1:24.1

When you can give me up on your talk, I got a, yo, I got an album coming out. When you go promote my shit on your talk, son, I'll be following you, my man done good.

1:33.0

That's funny. Do you get that a lot? You predicted my whole life right there. You get it, right? With the names, the promotions, you got it all.

1:39.8

Look, I'm your mom's age. You've been around this world a little bit. I got wisdom. I know how people are. Once you blow up, people, I always, I always supported you as an artist.

1:48.6

I always knew you had that talent to mark.

1:51.7

So you're probably getting tons of pussy now. What's that like?

1:58.1

Skip. No, yeah, you are. You're doing real good, man. Your art is very, very good.

2:05.2

Jesse, Jesse Skatorra behind me. He's the artist. He draws. He did. You know, I don't, you don't know, uh, Mr. Pano's, but he sculpted that is my other character besides

2:14.5

Maurice, who probably your mom go crazy. If you found out you would say with Maurice, he'd be like, did you got a, get a t-shirt for me?

2:20.2

You was sitting down with Maurice, huh? That's it.

2:23.5

I'm not bitch. I want to go to was just so we're home, but I had to start the great car to Mr. Pano's and Jesse

2:30.2

scopes and he paints and he does all that. We can pull up his shit and everything so you can see it. And then I want you, I want to hear what you guys think of each other's art.

2:38.6

Can you, like, do you get together with artists? Is it like an artist's community? What is the artist's community feel about you now that you've blown the fuck up on tech talk to Vaughn?

2:49.4

I hope they like me. I hope they catch up to what I'm doing now because I feel like a lot of artists are stuck in like the gallery space tradition thing and

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