Druski on Creating His Viral Skits and Standing on Business

Druski’s mother reached a breaking point with his career before he did. Speaking with Rolling Stone, the 29-year-old comedian recalled a pivotal day when she came home and broke down. “She just laid it all on me in the middle of me shooting a skit. I had all the furniture upside down in the house and it was like a come to Jesus meeting,” he remembered in a video interview. “I might have been 22 or 23, one of those ages, and it was just like, ‘What are you doing?'” He was done with school, done with work, and hyper-focused on learning how to go viral.

Luckily, it didn’t take long for Druski to crack the code, and his mom had offered him an essential piece of advice. She encouraged him to write down his goals and to map out a clear path toward success rather than counting on chance and coincidences.

“I had written goals down, but it just wasn’t very specific on what I wanted to do. It was like unachievable things you could do in a year. I’m talking about being a millionaire in the first year of me doing this shit,” he explained. “I just had to get real specific, and I taped it on the door, so I had to look at it every day before I walked out that door. Anything I’m doing, I wrote everything down specifically. I knocked all those goals out that year, too. I still have, too. I have a lot of my goals that I wrote down from back in the day, going back to 2015, 2016, 2017.”

All the while, he was collecting inspiration to push his content forward — and all he had to was live his life. “My big thing on getting comedy material and stuff is it comes from real life situations. Even when we experience things that may get on my nerves, or we’re in a situation where it’s maybe bad, I’ll always be like, okay, let me just live in the moment. You can always get communicative material from anything. Some of my best work is from real-life moments and being around these types of people.”

Most recently, he’s been really invested in dissecting what it means to stand on business and do your big one.

“Living in Atlanta, you know all the new lingo that everybody’s saying and talking about. So, I’ve always been hip. And, of course, help from my friends — being around people who are always saying different lingos like that,” Druski added. “We would joke around and talk about standing on business for a minute before we even shot that skit. I don’t feel like I created the stand on business thing, I think we heightened people using it. I have so many characters that I do and that I would love to do a movie on, but it just takes the right timing and the right people to put certain stuff together.”

It’s another goal to add to the list, but even this conversation was a bullet point of its own. “This has been honestly amazing. I’ve been excited for real. When I told my mom, she was just like, ‘Rolling Stone?!’ This is a big deal for me, for sure.”