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From mixtape superstar to Netflix comedy special, Chingo Bling has entertained crowds for more than a decade, and we find out, how it all got started
3 SHOTS 3 QUESTIONS with CHINGO BLING (transcript)
NTFG: You are a man of many monikers
Chingo Blingo with the big tamarindo, El Rey de foreplay. What else am I missing?
CHINGO: The Ghetto Vaquero, the Versaci Mariachi, the Masa Messiah Sasstradamus himself
NTFG: On this episode of 3 Shots 3 Questions we’re with the OG Tamale Kingpin himself, Chingo Bling. From mixtape superstar, to Netflix comedy special, he’s entertained crowds for more than a decade and we find out how it all got started
Chingo, thank you for joining us on 3 Shots 3 Questions man
CHINGO: Yeah man I was a little worried, little scared, but I trained my liver. I gave my liver a pep talk I said look man these are sacrifices we gotta make. This is what you do man. It’s three shots. It’s not two shots Chingo, and I thought. I was like maybe one of them could be water but you know I couldn’t live with myself. You know I was like man that’s the agave nectar of the Gods.
NTFG: The beverage of choice of our people
CHINGO: yeah
NTFG: We’ll take a shot of tequila I’ll ask you a question, and then we repeat that for questions two and three.
CHINGO: You know maybe space them out a lil bit but yeah. Oh, we, shit.
NTFG: Yeah we jump right into it so.
:: salud :: boom ::
NTFG: How did the Chingo Bling character come to be?
CHINGO: Imagination. Honestly man yeah that’s that’s kind of the answer because I knew I wanted to get in the game right, so I was I was a college radio DJ so I felt like man I have a hip-hop show Sunday night in San Antonio. People that are locked up you know tuning in. People that were cruising military like the hood the streets were like tuning in.
I felt like I had my foot in the game, and when I wanted to …man people
asking me to rap
because I used to freestyle on my radio show and that’s
where the Chingo Bling persona came about
because I’d be like what’s up man
you’re tuning in think it was 91 7 KRTU
I’m rusty
it’s 91 7 KRTU is the hip
hop Chop Shop the middleman mix show it’s your boy
I was DJ BIZ at the time
cuz I was a business major and I was about my paper
you know what I’m sayin’
and then and I was like hold on hold on hold on
Man, my primo Chingo man
he’s in town man from Mexico, and this fool
he’s blowing me up man
hey man you’re late fool!
come on Chingo, you can’t be doing that shit
“esperate guey, esperate
ya llege guey, esperate”
you know what I’m saying and
it’s like man come on I know you’re not fixna rap
“si guey, esperate, una rimas
apenas, la sabe, apenas apenititas guey
i didn’t even write ’em down puto”
and the hood went nuts.
I’d go make me a Jersey at one of the
malls like South Park Mall or something ,and I’d put like my name, like I’d put Chingo Bling on the back
so I put on the hat and I went to Goodwill got some
boots you know. I was on the budget.
and some shorts I was like yeah I was like
fuck it I’m gonna put a do-rag
I think in the beginning I even had like a little
wig like a chongo
just to make it like just mas spicy like
like a mullet just like extreme
I was like the new kid right
who had like a gimmick, who was a little
different the new kid that was kind of testing the boundaries of like
you know, what’s too far
and a lot of people were trying to baller block me
a lot of industry people
but we still here and we on 3 Shots and motherfucker
you can still try to baller block, but we still made it
NTFG: If you’re ready to move on to the second shot and second question
CHINGO: Jesus
NTFG: I got a great one for you
CHINGO: ay diosito
ay diosito
yo no puedo, diosito
woo
Viva Mexico!
you know it’s a good thing you don’t do all three shots at once in the beginning
because then the story would
be a lot different
NTFG: when did you decide I’m gonna do stand-up comedy?
CHINGO: I had tried it
it several times before I actually committed
from one day to the next you
can’t go from rapper to stand up
you cannot do it I mean it’s hard
you’re gonna look crazy this shit took years to slowly like just to even get
out of the the box of oh the guy with the cowboy hat that’s all he wears
he only wears cowboy hats like you’re not I literally was told no one’s gonna know who you are if you take it off
no one’s even gonna recognize who the fuck
you are like you’re totally throwing your whole image and brand in the trash like don’t fight it that’s what you are that’s the only way you’ll be
appreciated that’s your whole worth is what you put on your head
What?!
by slowly like doing other characters and you know fuck around do some shit on Facebook
they like did good or you fuck around do some shit like the Canelo thing
NTFG: have you heard feedback from Canelo Alvarez himself about your impression
CHINGO: nah he might have heard of me
he might I don’t know
but regardless if he knows or not the people know because I’ve been to a few Canelo fights and I’m dressed I’ll be dressed like regular
some little jewelry or whatever
and that we had to get security to get out
the place in Vegas he fought, Lara, the little Cuban dude from Houston
boy that motherfucker was running
Lara was just
and Canelo’s like
chingado guey, ya guey, esperate guey
ya fight me puto
and then we were leaving
and it was like oh shit Chingo Bling, Chingo Bling
like I’m very proud of that accomplishment I’m
not just this one this one thing
like yes it took time and it was like a crazy
how’d it like navigate that whole little time period and to come out with
this mthfkcrs on Netflix, he’s doin’ stand-up
like I’m super grateful that that
my fans grew up with me
like I grew up and my fans also grew up
so we don’t we
don’t do the same shit we used to do
now I’m more of a family man now
NTFG: tell me about the Neflix special how did that change things?
CHINGO: I actually have a few jokes about like
how it affected my life
Netflix called they’re like man you
broke a record
you’re the first comedian on here that still doesn’t have his own
Netflix account
and password you know
when you gonna sign up you know
you’re making us look bad
it’s only a few dollars a month do we
have to take it out of your check
but I went into it telling myself like let’s
pretend this motherfucker belly flops
and the day after it comes out Netflix
is like man we’re gonna take it off
because of the titles controversial
someone complained like you said too many bad words like it whatever or it
does well that can even affect you like worse
you know basically don’t get the
big head in case this shit really fucking happens
I went into it knowing
like hey man regardless of what this does you got to keep moving
you got to keep going what if there was bad reviews are like this muhfucka ain’t
funny fuck this dude
what are you gonna do?
motherfucker go into it already
knowing like we already thinking about the follow up
this this is the setup the
real punchline is coming
NTFG: do you feel like it has brought more legitimacy to your stand-up?
CHINGO: for sure
in a lot of people’s minds
because you have that as
seen on Netflix Chingo Bling thing
yeah on the marquee, yeah the marquees I mean
but here’s a beautiful thing
my shows were, thankfully, they were selling out before that
NTFG: if you’re ready for the 3rd shot…
what can fans expect next from Chingo Bling?
CHINGO: I might fuck around put out a book
that’s like a culture translator
like I mean I might do some book I don’t know
what the fuck I’m gonna do
you know I guess we gotta wait for this Netflix check to
run out so I can get my grind on really
but that hoe still sitting right there
I ain’t even touched yet player
y’all done fucked up
I want to do some
shit that just cuts through the noise
to where it’s like oh man this is the story
I want this I wanted to see it go down like
there’s this kid from Texas they
just made a fucking hood movie it’s funnier than a motherfucker and
everybody’s trying to be a part of it like watch it buy it they want the
poster they want to know if it’s going to theaters like the screening like like
the story, the writing, the comedian, the actors, is to where it’s like it’s our
fucking time so now just matter just doing it now right
ya, Chingo stop talking fool, like go
NTFG: Chingo, thank you for joining us on 3 Shots 3 Questions
CHINGO: for sure
cheers, cheers brotha
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