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Kid Super Does it All, and He's Doing It His Way

ONE37pm

Published Jan 27, 2021

When putting together a resume for Kid Super, it ain’t easy. He does a lot of things. Music, comedy, cartoons. But the common denominator amongst all of them?

No matter the job, he does it his way. He does it in his style.

Kid Super sat down with ONE37pm’s Tyler Schmitt for this week’s episode of Huh?.

Getting In The Game

ONE37pm: : When I think about you, you just got to get in the game to be in the game. All up through life, you think you are in the game… but you can do whatever the fuck you want actually.

Kid Super: “I was telling my Mom this the other day. Anything is possible when you try… That’s when you see successful people, you think, ‘why are they satisfied?’ It’s because more opportunities arose… now I can do this. Now I can do that.”

ONE37pm: And you realize that you don’t need permission to do it.

ONE37pm: : When I think about you, you just got to get in the game to be in the game. All up through life, you think you are in the game… but you can do whatever the fuck you want actually.

ONE37pm: And you realize that you don’t need permission to do it.

Kid Super: “The cool thing about the Kid Super brand is that I branded it as something where anything is possible and the more random and ridiculous shit I do, the more on-brand it is. That was my most genius thing I have ever done. Let’s brand this on the idea that I’m a Superhero, my powers are ever changing, but as long as you have the Kid Super spirit, it works.”

Reinventing Yourself

ONE37pm: As things are changing so fast now… TikTok, YouTube… there is a constant need to reinvent yourself. So with yourself, it's a cartoon, it’s music. Now it’s a boot with a superstar playing in the Premier league. How do you think about staying in one lane, and then pivoting?

Kid Super: “Everything now is becoming a trend. Mine was never a conscious ‘I need to reinvent myself. It was more like, ‘fuck.’ For me, it was never, ‘how do I stay on top of it.’ It was more, ‘holy shit, people are allowing me to do what I wanted.

The Beginning

ONE37pm: Young creators are hitting a quick moment of fame and brands want to tap into them for their audience. If the success comes fast, it’s easy to say ‘aight give me the check.’ But the reverse should be how can I do what i do for y'all?

Kid Super: “For me, they’ve also wanted my ideas. If I do a music video for an artist, say it’s claymation, it’s still a Kid Super moment. I’m lucky, brands want my juice... I wouldn’t say I’m an influencer, influencer. I make things that people like. No one's gonna say, ‘can you hold this product?’

ONE37pm: : Something I’m super interested in is creatives in general… a lot that I meet, don’t realize how good they are. Creativity is presented as something you do on the side, or a hobby… It takes a business mind to come along to tell you, “you’re dope.” Did you always think of yourself as a creative?

Kid Super: “I think I’m a little different in that aspect. I was always good at school, and sports, and creativity. But I was super rambunctious. I would get kicked out of so many classes, but get 100 on the test. It was more like, ‘fuck this kid is annoying’… I had no good relationships with teachers. For me, the creative thing… at an early age… it gave me a financial reward for being creative. So early on I was business-minded.”

ONE37pm: : For me, the dopest thing is people that are curious... Niche is dead. So if you are interested in a lot of things, it opens doors. It’s all about relationships… just build from there.

Kid Super: “You kinda just gotta be good…. All these little projects that people see. If you go back to when I was 15, it was there… we were trying. They are on a VHS somewhere… for me it was just finally getting opportunities. Everyone talks about mentors.. I’m like, ‘where the fuck are these mentors?’... I think low-key, I will become one, before I have one. I’m rarely asking for advice on things.”

ONE37pm: What’s it been like to have a team around you? It sounds like you are in go-mode?

Kid Super: “I’ve been watching this documentary. This kid is like, ‘When we do Kid Super projects, we are nervous, but we know it is going to work.’ And I’m like, there were so many moments where I didn’t know if it would work. Now, if we fail, it’s part of the story.”

Talkin’ Footy

ONE37pm: Let’s switch it up and talk footy. What’s your favorite thing about the sport?

Kid Super: “I play like soccer like I’m outside. I'm very creative. I’m number 10. I’m free. There is a moment in soccer where… you lose the fact that you are thinking. You get in this flow zone and you pull something off that you weren’t thinking. And that moment is pure bliss. I remember a couple of times in soccer, doing a move, and like, ‘who did that?’ It’s part of being super focused. Two, it’s training. Let’s say you do that in design… it is not easy in non-sports.”

The two discussed Ryan Reynolds becoming the owner of a football club in Europe, and how they both have aspirations of being in a managerial role with a team in the future.

ONE37pm: You gotta be in charge of the kit for the Ryan Reynolds team.

Kid Super: “Dude, I don’t even know the name of the production company I worked with, but I am going to hit them up right now.”

Flipping the Convo

Kid Super: What are you working on now?

ONE37pm: Really just ONE37pm. Just trying to build it up…. Like positivity and curiosity… I think a lot of male culture, it’s like ‘if you are on the inside, we fuck with you.’ But if we are on the outside it’s hard to get in… and if we can tell stories and be a platform that people can come to.

Kid Super’s tone and enthusiasm are very transparent in the conversation. He is a brilliantly creative mind, that doesn’t shy away from honesty. If he doesn’t like something of his, he will be the first to admit it.

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