He maintains that his persona and financial bragging are a calculated way to play the hand he was dealt in a business that involves a lot of hate.

“you take whatever hand your whatever hand you're dealt in life you take that hand and you play it just like in space just take the hand that you you don't play it and be the best that you can be”

He believes that by leveraging his social media presence to control his narrative, he could successfully build his brand alongside his athletic career.

“I start to use social media to really control my narrative with each like small win you know whether it was putting out a video and like it going viral or whether it was reaching out to a brand and saying listen man like I'm doing this over here take it like take a shot on me”