The Tyrell Hampton Interview with Throwing Fits

Summary

Throwing Fits — The Tyrell Hampton Interview with Throwing Fits

Date: March 2, 2026
Guest: Tyrell Hampton (Photographer)

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Episode Overview

In this vibrant and high-energy conversation, the Throwing Fits boys sit down with Tyrell Hampton—one of fashion and downtown New York's most in-demand photographers and a rising personality on social media. They cover Tyrell’s style, creative philosophy, party scene lore, online persona, and his aspirations beyond the camera. The discussion is equal parts playful and thoughtful, touching on identity, career evolution, and the constant negotiation between public image and authentic self.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Early Vibes and Fit Check

• Tyrell's Arrival
  • Uber XL queen: "I enjoy it. It's actually my favorite thing to do is get in and feel like a skinny girl inside their big SUV, and the driver just doesn't talk to me." (01:31)
  • Uber preferences: hates Teslas as "black cars," prefers luxury like Lexus over electric; calls Teslas "not sexy to me" and "a Camry" (02:36).
• Fit Check Ritual
  • Chanel bag, Supreme hat ("Shout out the boys at the store who give me things for free"), counting a large bag collection—especially Chanel.
  • Mixes high and low: Fruit of the Loom t-shirt from Amazon, Screaming Ro jeans, Ugg slippers, Uniqlo socks, Calvin Klein coat (sent to him), Calvin x Palace underwear (07:00).
  • "My money is mainly spent on my bags and when I go to LA to hang out." (95:08)

The Bag Life & Style Philosophy

• Bag Lover, Not a Birkin Guy:
  • "I actually hate Birkin...it's just not what people make it. It's not a precious." (05:49)
  • Dream bag: "the new Chanel...rich red...ASAP Rocky wore it to the Chanel" (06:31)
  • Fashion philosophy: Mixes high fashion accessories with everyday basics.
• Thrifty vs. Luxurious:
  • Happy to shell out for bags, but not for much else—"I'm a fan of luxury," but also loves a military surplus camera bag from his early NYC days (05:25, 99:40).
• Spring/Summer Menswear Wishlist:
  • Wants to see the fellas in gray sweatpants, basketball shorts, baggy t-shirts. "I don't want to see a tank top...I'm interested in just chill, comfy." (56:16)

Biking, TikTok, and Creative Rituals

• Signature No-Hands Bridge Biking Videos
  • "Pilates... posture...lower abs and your Kegels." (09:50-10:09)
  • Describes the bridge as his "office," content creation happens when the bridge is empty—he's had close calls with crowds and loves the calm of mid-day ("That's my office!") (11:15).
  • "It's a little therapy for me," singing and biking as self-care (11:38).
• TikTok & Playlist Culture
  • People make bike ride playlists for him on TikTok; his own Spotify is public, but fans remix and repackage his content (11:51).
• Let Me...Brand Skit
  • Jokes about Kourtney Kardashian's "Lemme" supplements—"Let me shut the up" as a dream pill" (14:28).

Upbringing, Identity, and Manifestation

• Muslim Upbringing & Early Repression
  • Couldn’t listen to music, put up posters, or enjoy color at home; “everything was haram” (15:13).
  • Secretly “became a teenage white girl” with pop magazines and Hollister bags on his wall. Directly credits early vision-boarding with later shooting for Theory (17:23).
• Coming Out Narrative
  • Never formally came out—his family simply accepted him (15:39).
• Early NYC Years
  • Moved at 17 for college (Parsons), learned the difference between "GMO money" and "farmers market money," i.e. encountering deep wealth for the first time (19:01).

Party & Photography Lore

• Evolution of the Party Photographer
  • From party crasher to guest of honor: "Now I either stay inside or I get invited."
  • Winning formula for a good party: "The music...need lyrics...need to be able to zone out," hates parties where people are too focused on drinks, drugs, etc. (21:56)
• Approach to Shooting People
  • Used to "just shoot everything" as a teen; now more thoughtful and orchestrated—less "vibe killer" with a camera (22:46).
  • "I want people to look sexy. I want people to look hot." Never Photoshops—prefers authenticity and speed (24:45).
  • Compiling a photo book: "It's more of a love letter to the people around me than everything else." (26:11)
• Reading the Room
  • Dance background influences timing: "Body language...anticipating the moment on the dance floor." (26:52)
• Party Pic Consent
  • "No one ever asks me" for a party shot; prefers to capture genuine energy, not people peacocking for the camera (91:01).
  • "I'm too selective. And also they're too critical. You just need to ask someone else." (91:08)
• Being in Front of the Lens
  • Rarely photographed himself, sometimes begs friends to take candids; "it's a sad clown thing—who's gonna make the sad clown laugh?" (29:11)

Online Persona: Instagram vs TikTok vs Twitter

• Platform Contrast
  • TikTok: authentic, personal, chaotic energy/biking videos—his "real me" (38:15)
  • Instagram: portfolio, celebrity candids, high-gloss image—"adults should follow me on Instagram...business, investments..." (103:25)
  • Twitter: private, loose yapping, quote theft from Tumblr (37:25)
  • "I realized I am more than the party photos. I just want to have fun and take hopefully really good photos of people when I'm with them." (38:44)
• On Marketability & Fine Art
  • Grapples with not being seen as "serious" for fine art circles; working on a September show that is "completely different than the party stuff"—more composed, thoughtful, suitable for collectors and galleries (41:28).

Artistry, Adulthood, and Future Plans

• Turning 30 as a Chapter Break
  • "It's galleries, it's books, it's more intentional things in the world. Nothing will be by accident." (32:57)
  • Wants a "Nora Smith" life: cottage in Connecticut, husband, dog, housewife vibes—maybe by 40. (33:29)
• Longevity Anxiety & Role of His Mother
  • Pushes himself to "be grown" and have longevity ("My mom’s a Capricorn—five steps ahead") (42:21).
  • Success? "My mom thinks I am but still wants to know if I have work this week!" (43:03)
• Challenges Moving from Party Scene to Art World
  • Professionalizing means more email, more follow-up, more "adulting." Pressure to be taken seriously as an artist, not just a vibe supplier. (46:01, 41:00)

Relationships & Personal Life

• Dating Preferences
  • Attracted to straightforward, upfront, masculine energy—"just a man," someone who "takes the reins," wants a division between "the men watching sports" and himself chilling with "the girls." (52:28, 53:30)
  • No interest in dating within fashion—prefers "FedEx worker, construction, sports." (54:07)
  • Not interested in changing a partner's style: "I'd rather them just be who they are" (55:39)
• Type of Intimacy
  • "Side" describes a new gay archetype (cuddling/kissing, not necessarily sexual) (49:39)
• Personal Boundaries Online
  • No content from inside his home, family is off-limits. (71:06)
  • Will "bike, dance, take photos for money," but would never do makeup endorsements—keeps it authentic.

Notable Professional Moments & Philosophy

• Editorial Campaigns & Clients
  • Navigating client expectation: appreciates familiar producers who understand his creative process (68:40)
  • Rarely says no to paid work, but avoids projects not aligned with his vibe (84:15)
• On Creative Tools
  • Refuses to share his camera brand (a running Google search topic): "I just don't think you need my camera...be obsessed with photography." (89:24)
  • Urges young photographers: study great images, don't obsess over gear (92:54)
• Work Habits & Organization
  • For jobs: 1,000 shots per night to produce 50 selects (89:57)
  • For fun: often just a handful.

Fitness, Wellness, and Routine

• Staying Balanced
  • Pilates, hot yoga, swimming, dance—up to 7 days/week (73:06)
  • Gym is his remedy for brain rot and phone addiction (73:41)
  • Skin routine: basic, all-natural beauty: "You open up two gifts every morning: your eyes." (73:01)

Social & Pop Culture

• Reality TV Fixations
  • Watches or is curious about: Traders, Tell Me Lies, Jersey Shore; less into Real Housewives.
• Music Taste
  • Strictly R&B at parties: wants "Trey Songz, Usher, Rihanna" (77:32)
  • DJ is the core of any "10/10" party (21:56)
• Online Discovery
  • TikTok FYP: "bunch of men, giant schnauzers, Atlanta, baddies, fights, random drama" (75:51)
  • IG Explore: "workouts and men in Brazil—Carnival, favela boys, nice bodies" (77:40)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Biking for Content:
  "The bridge is your office." (11:17)
• On Party Photography Today:
  "I want people to look sexy. I want people to look hot. But I don't Photoshop. What we see is what we get." (24:45)
• On Creative Identity in the Age of Social:
  "I'm just trying to balance it, trying to understand how to market that. If you didn't make a book when you were 18, you're not going to be seen as a fine art photographer....I just like, want to have fun and I just take hopefully really good photos of people when I'm with them." (38:44)
• On Turning 30:
  "Just to close out the chapter of the reverence and all the childishness...we just need to be like, we're grown." (25:34)
• On Being Photographed:
  "It's a sad clown thing, where it's like, who's gonna make the sad clown laugh? I'm the clown." (29:11)
• On Party Consent:
  "No one ever asks me for a photo, and if they do, I say no. Even iPhone." (91:06)
• On Personal Style:
  "My money is my money, and your money is my money. If I'm going to the store, it's a one way street." (56:00)
• On Whimsy/Seriousness Balance:
  “When I'm older, and I'm sick of being childish and doing whimsical things, I can pick and choose what I do.” (32:23)
• On Gallery Art Direction:
  "How am I seeing this in the world? Can I explain this? Can I see this in someone’s house?" (41:45)
• On Upbringing:
  "If you want your children to grow up to be successful creatives with the joie de vivre and childlike wonder, just repress the sh*t out of them." (20:17)
• On Dating:
  "I want someone to take the reins. I want to be an elf, not even Mrs. Claus. Just a side dish. I want to annoy. Not the entrée. Maybe I'm the broccolini." (50:09-58:01)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Intro & Uber banter / Fit check: 01:17 – 07:22
• Chanel, Bag Philosophy: 04:23 – 07:00
• Biking Rituals, TikTok: 09:41 – 14:17
• Growing Up, Identity: 15:00 – 18:54
• NYC Arrival, Parsons, Early Influences: 19:01 – 20:17
• Transition to Party Photographer: 22:46 – 26:11
• Photo Book Plans & Next Career Phase: 25:21 – 27:03
• Pros/Cons of Social Media & Compartmentalization: 37:17 – 41:28
• Gallery Show & Artistic Intention: 41:28 – 42:59
• Parental Influence & Self-Assessment: 42:59 – 46:01
• Party Energy, Consent, Best Parties: 21:56 – 25:23, 91:01
• Photography: Gear, Process, Advice: 89:23 – 94:14
• Dating & Relationship Philosophies: 49:05 – 55:39
• Wellness, Fitness, Screen Time: 73:01 – 73:16, 74:25
• Professionalization, Agency Dynamics: 46:01 – 47:59
• Fashion Purchases & Style Evolution: 95:45 – 98:53
• Dreams for the Future: 32:57 – 33:51

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Final Thoughts & Plugs

• Where to Follow Tyrell: Instagram (portfolio, for "adults"/networkers), TikTok (fun, real self, for the kids), Twitter (chaotic/private), YouTube, Tumblr.
• Next Up: Working on a photo book and a major gallery exhibition in Fall 2026.
  "Stay tuned for an exhibition this fall, which is right around the corner." (103:45)

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Overall Tone

The episode is a wild, campy, sincere inside look at the making of a modern downtown NY creative—effortlessly funny, surprisingly honest, and self-aware. Tyrell manages to blend total industry savvy with childlike exuberance, never losing sight of his personal boundaries or the thrill of the next party, bag, or creative leap.

Transcript

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[Interviewer 1]

Our guest this week must be an astrophysicist because he be shooting stars. He's riding with no hands because you know sex sells even if the f stop. You've undoubtedly seen his photos from the parties you weren't invited to out on the covers of magazines you didn't read, but you did ogle over the picks on ig. He's your favorite model's favorite yapper and runs more sets than Bloods and Crips. And he got drip. That's that Hampton water. He took a day off from shooting for the biggest names in fashion to rip a pod with the boys and chat about the most diva slubs he's worked with. Dick pick pro tips and the next chapter of his career. Photographer Tyrell Hampton. Tyrell, how the hell are you?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm good. Happy, happy President's Day. That was insane. I'm obsessed. Do you like here? I did not bike here. I took a nice, fat suv.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, we should let us know.

[Interviewer 1]

We will.

[Interviewer 2]

Reimburs Uber. Not even kidding.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, totally. I. I enjoy it. It's actually like, my favorite thing to do is, like, get in and feel like. Like a skinny girl inside their big suv. And the driver just doesn't talk to me.

[Interviewer 1]

Uber black.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. Suv.

[Interviewer 2]

All right.

[Interviewer 1]

Even, of course, Uber xl. Of course an xl. Girly.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I have to. I need room for my chanels. Yeah, and I need room for my camera equipment.

[Interviewer 1]

Are you connecting to Bluetooth or are you just going sunglasses on AirPods in if they're nice.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And you can always judge if they're nice by, like, how they greet you when you get in the car. Okay, so if they greet me and they're like, hi, how are you? Then I'm like, oh, my gosh. Can I connect? Let's get started. And I can tell by their vibe what type of music we're going to listen to.

[Interviewer 1]

You're DJing for the crowd?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Wait, I'm a people pleaser.

[Interviewer 2]

So what was the situation on the way over here?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I played nothing. I was on TikTok. Okay. And watching you guys podcast, as I mentioned, with Hugo.

[Interviewer 1]

What's Your Uber rating?

[Tyrell Hampton]

4. 7. Oh, pretty great. 4.76.

[Interviewer 2]

I think it's like pretty A minus.

[Interviewer 1]

Just FYI, dip below 4.2 as I did one time. You just. You just make a new account. You're good.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You only get Tesla's after that.

[Interviewer 1]

Honestly.

[Interviewer 2]

Maybe that's a car sick after that.

[Interviewer 1]

They need to make a no Tesla option.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But like, if you get a black car, I just don't consider a Tesla and no shade to no all shade. Tesla as a corporation. Yolo, Teacher's own. But, like, it just doesn't count as a black car. No, it's not luxurious to me.

[Interviewer 2]

It's a Camry.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's not sexy to me.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah, give me a Lexus and a bus.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm like. And then they. And then they lie because there's colors on the app and it's like pink. And I'm like, I saw the reddest car I've ever seen my entire life.

[Interviewer 2]

This is not Nicki Minaj now being an Uber driver.

[Interviewer 1]

No.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And I'm like, even her. I maybe would get in no shade just to like, have like a taxi cab Confessions.

[Interviewer 2]

Wait, how do you get a 4.2 real quick? What did you do?

[Interviewer 1]

I used to just want to get out of the car while on a bridge and just.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Are you serious?

[Interviewer 1]

You should let me out here.

[Interviewer 2]

Talk to me, your therapist, about that.

[Interviewer 1]

I'm good.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Anxiety.

[Interviewer 1]

What?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Do you have anxiety?

[Interviewer 1]

No, I just, like, I was like, I fudgeing love New York. I just want to walk home now.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, you're just like, eager to get out. Yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

He loves. He has too much water. Viv, to be a five.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Are you one of those people who like, like, before you start peeing, you flush the toilet?

[Interviewer 1]

No.

[Tyrell Hampton]

There's people in the world who like to race it. Yeah. Like, they're like, just always in a rush.

[Interviewer 2]

Living dangerously.

[Interviewer 1]

No, no, it's more like I want to, like, savor the. You know, the life in this Life in the Big Apple.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, because then you like for it. That's my. My. My thing is I'm like, I already so I'm like, there's no point in me stopping this car because I. My money's gone. So I'm like, I might as well ride it to the last second, every last luxuriate, like. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like mine as well.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yolo.

[Interviewer 2]

I love that.

[Tyrell Hampton]

That's.

[Interviewer 2]

That's a great philosophy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'M very optimistic, you guys.

[Interviewer 2]

Will you mentioned the Shanay. Let's do a quick fit check. What's everything that you wore today to the podcast starting.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Let's start with the resistance.

[Tyrell Hampton]

My Chanel bag. I have my supreme hat. Shout out to all the boys that work at the store who give me things for free. And Melena, how big is your bag collection? It's huge. Yeah, it's actually, like, a few dozy, maybe more.

[Interviewer 1]

Really?

[Tyrell Hampton]

In terms of Chanel, I have three Chanels, but the rest, I. It's really expansive, and I'm trying to find a way to, like, not go full gay and have, like, a woman's, like, closet with my bags everywhere. But I'm trying to, like, make them not so just thrown everywhere.

[Interviewer 1]

What's your most used bag?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Right now, it's my other Chanel bag. Okay. It's a hobo bag, which was my favorite bag, and it's the first one that I wanted, and then I got that, and I just use it every day. But I was like, I'm not doing anything. And it. But my big thing with bags is I. When I first moved to New York, I went to the military store around the corner, like, on Houston, and I got this little bag, and it just fit my camera. So I just was like, I just need a bag to fit my camera.

[Interviewer 2]

For the tools. Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because I got money. I was like, okay, now we can, like, invest in, like, sexy moments. So now it's like, we throw the camera in the Gucci bag. We throw the camera in the web.

[Interviewer 1]

You kept the same shitty camera, but

[Tyrell Hampton]

we kept the same shitty camera.

[Interviewer 2]

But now a bag for every day of the week.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. But now I need the new bags fit, like, two or three. So I have, like, multiple cameras in the bag.

[Interviewer 2]

Your whole rig. Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But this one has literally nothing.

[Interviewer 1]

What's your dream bag? Talking Berkeys.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I actually hate Birkin.

[Interviewer 1]

Are we in a Berkey backlash? Because they're so, like, housewife.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I think it's, like, it's just not what people make it, what Jane would have wanted.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, it's been bastardized.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, you know what I mean? Like, it's not a precious.

[Interviewer 1]

James wanted Kanye handing out a dozen at Lucien.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, yes.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because Happy, like, history month.

[Interviewer 2]

Wow. You almost fell into that trap.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. For that. But I just don't think it was intended to be, like, this. Pristine.

[Interviewer 2]

Not beat up.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Worn in, lived. So I hate it. My dream bag would probably be. I think I got it, honestly, because I was. I Was saying I want to shop today and there's nothing that I really want, so.

[Interviewer 2]

Well, Celine, you mentioned I do want

[Tyrell Hampton]

the new Prada bag. I mean, the new, the new Chanel bag. There's a new Chanel? It's like amazing. Rich red. Travis Scott. Not Travis Scott. Asap. Rocky wore it to the Chanel, so it's probably like the bag that I want. It looks so rich and juicy and I just want that.

[Interviewer 1]

Juicy bags.

[Interviewer 2]

Well, if the pod goes well enough, you should treat yourself as.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I mean, hey, are.

[Interviewer 1]

Are bags your biggest, like, splash out thing? That in terms of clothing and accessories.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Honestly, like, I, I. Again with the, the outfit I'm wearing.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Fruit of the Loom. Yeah. From Amazon and Screaming Ro jeans and that's a splurge. And then Uggs.

[Interviewer 1]

What are the Uggs?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's like, yeah, the new Ugg.

[Interviewer 2]

The new Ugg slipper. Shout out our friends at Ugg.

[Interviewer 1]

What are these socks?

[Tyrell Hampton]

These socks are Uniqlo. Oh, I only buy socks at Uniqlo.

[Interviewer 1]

In the coat.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

My coat is Calvin Klein.

[Interviewer 2]

New Calvin or vintage Calvin?

[Tyrell Hampton]

They sent it to me, so I honestly.

[Interviewer 2]

Presumably, presumably do.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Namaste.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Panties.

[Tyrell Hampton]

The panties are. They're Calvins. They're Calvin and Palace. Have you shown.

[Interviewer 2]

Nice, nice.

[Interviewer 1]

Have you shot anything for Calvin?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes, I have, actually. I've shot something recently with Jenny. Oh, yeah. In the past I've shot in things when I didn't have any budget, but I have yet to be on the billboard yet. Oh, and I've been in a campaign as well with one of my good friends, Dominic Bike. And we look like we're in a relationship.

[Interviewer 2]

In front of it. Behind the lens.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. What can he do in front of the lens? In front of the lens shot by Alex Dare McLennan, who is one of my favorite photographers.

[Interviewer 1]

Did you guys stuff. Stuff the panties?

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I wanted to do. I worked out. I starved myself for a week to do that shoe because I thought I was going to get the underwear, but I didn't.

[Interviewer 2]

That was for.

[Interviewer 1]

Here, take a puffer jacket.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, they were like. They gave it to. What is it? My friend Giancarlos. They gave it to him and his body and his hair. It was him. It was. It was all about him.

[Interviewer 2]

Right.

[Interviewer 1]

So I once starved myself, AKA didn't drink for a month before a shoot that we had, and then ended up wearing to, like, slim down in the face and ended up just wearing like a full zip hoodie situation. So you can even see my face.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's so fucked up how they do that. Like, you're, like, preparing and doing all the things, and they're just like, let's just put you in a hoodie.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

What if a sleeping bag would look great.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Just did all this work. So that's why I'm in my single era. I know on Instagram, I'm doing. Taking every chance I have. Like, today I was like, whatever happens after this, like, I'm going to go outside and I need to, like, still try to find a husband, because that's my goal.

[Interviewer 1]

Listen, the photos that you're posting on IG recently, those are the types of photos that people put on Twitter and, like, Grok. Put them in a string bikini. Yeah, we're gonna. We're gonna get into thirst traps, dick pics and all that. What about the. The jewelry, the hardware? Is it earrings only?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's earrings only. They are from studs, and I have 20 pairs of them actually.

[Interviewer 2]

What?

[Tyrell Hampton]

One of my friends, actually, they break all the time. They're like. I wouldn't say they're cheap. No shade just does. But they just break so easily. They come out of my ears every other hour.

[Interviewer 2]

So you always have a pair on deck.

[Interviewer 1]

Break in case you're losing your earrings. That's just like.

[Interviewer 2]

It's the quality of studs.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But, yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

But again, no shade to studs.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm going to make this specific earring because I can't find anywh else.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, like custom, like, icy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. Got it. It's time. Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

All right. And you're sipping on some water.

[Interviewer 2]

Hydration is key, folks.

[Interviewer 1]

All right, Tyrell, most important question first. What is your secret to ripping over the Williamsburg Bridge on a city bike with no hands?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Pilates. And maybe not cardiac arrest. What's the word? Not scoliosis either. But it would be my posture, I say. I would say it's my posture.

[Interviewer 1]

Stand straight.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Squeeze your. Squeeze your core.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, it's. Yeah, it's like the lower abs and your Kegels. I actually don't do Kegels.

[Interviewer 1]

You're not gripping that seat.

[Interviewer 2]

Yes. Fighting for dear life.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It really is the abs.

[Interviewer 1]

Really.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It really is.

[Interviewer 1]

But how do you, like. See, here's the thing, right? You are filming with one hand, which is invisible, and then with the other hand, you're just belting away like a. Like a diva singing in Aria.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

In Les Mis. So we really are going no hands. And you're, like, swerving, too.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes, which is why I now bike at certain times of the day. So it's empty because there's always almost been accidents where I'm colliding because I'm just like willy nilly on the bridge.

[Interviewer 2]

You need a blank canvas for your content that is operating at an extremely high level.

[Interviewer 1]

There's like Run Club. There's like Hasidic families of like 12.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, literally. Then it's like right now like maybe like 3pm, 2pm all of a sudden there's like a bunch of kids getting out of school and then they. Sometimes I love you guys yell my name and then I get really scared.

[Interviewer 2]

Wow.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I love you. And I'm like, well, I'm focused right now, you guys.

[Interviewer 1]

I'm filming content.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I run into friends and one time I ran into a friend, I was wearing a cowboy hat and this whole like denim get up. And I was like, you just, just need to go. Like, I'm at work right now. You need to leave my office. Like, that's my office, my place.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, the City Bike is. The bridge is your office.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It really is.

[Interviewer 1]

There are a lot of run ins on the bike path and I always instinctively go to dap. And you're like, that's so stupid.

[Tyrell Hampton]

On the bike.

[Interviewer 1]

Like, yeah, like as you're crossing your friend, you're like, no, this is so dumb. Let's not do this.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I would be so scared.

[Interviewer 1]

When you do post like seven tick tocks in a row of you bombing down the bridge. Are you doing laps and like going down and like biking back up and then going down and then going back.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Are you? Yeah. Performative? Yes. I, I get a lot of energy and I sing my songs and it's like a little therapy for me, so.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, nice.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you have a City Bike playlist that we could maybe share?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't. I do have a Spotify. It's public, but I've come to realize that people have made Spotify playlists of the songs that.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, wow.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Wow, that's flattering on TikTok ye. That's pretty far with the funniest photos.

[Interviewer 2]

Like, oh, it's a cover image.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. So I'm like, this is, this is really amazing.

[Interviewer 2]

Have you ever had a moment when you're in the office doing your job that you had even one degree of being self conscious of? Like someone watching you do your thing or you. Like, nothing else is happening outside of

[Tyrell Hampton]

my nothing else happening. I only get scared when there's maybe again, if there's maybe too many people, which too many people to me is maybe like three plus me. So then I'm Like, I just need to be conscious of, like, how. How we're biking and being safety first.

[Interviewer 2]

Yes, of course. Good Samaritan over here.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm not wearing a helmet. I'm carrying flowers. I'm carrying suitcases.

[Interviewer 2]

A lot of props.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's. It's insane. So suitcases was making sure that sometimes there's ice cream, there's tacos.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So I'm just making sure that, like, everyone is, like, accounted for.

[Interviewer 2]

Big props guy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. There.

[Interviewer 1]

The lighting is great.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Bridge, I will say thank you.

[Interviewer 1]

What do you think of. What do you think of mom Donnie fixing the William? The Williamsburg Bridge bump on the Manhattan side?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It still causes traffic, so. But, yeah, I still appreciate him, but didn't really do anything for me because I'm never. That's not my. That's, like the doorway to my job. Yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

That's the front door to your office.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Like, that's like the hump right before. I'm like, okay, now it's time to clock in.

[Interviewer 1]

You need that boom to, like. Yeah, get lock in.

[Tyrell Hampton]

That's my shot.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah, exactly. It's like in Inception when you fall back, whatever.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. I just watched what is it with Bradley Cooper?

[Interviewer 1]

Limitless.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They just watched Limitless for the first time. Yes.

[Interviewer 2]

That's the pill.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Amazing.

[Interviewer 2]

So the Adderall, like, which I'm like,

[Tyrell Hampton]

okay, T. Like, I didn't know that this is what the vibes were. Like. I'm like, do I sign up? Do I not?

[Interviewer 2]

Like, sure, the water's warm.

[Interviewer 1]

Come on in.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I mean, hey, if it makes your eyes that blue, then I'm like, I'm low key down.

[Interviewer 1]

Think about how well, how many more, how better you could be at biking if you're just on Adderall.

[Tyrell Hampton]

True. I mean, I take lemmings. I don't know if you guys know. You guys know what that is? It's Courtney Kardashians. Like, gummies. Okay.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, I sometimes take your melatonin pills.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. But they have, like, gummies. Let me tone, let me deep blow, let me fiber, like, all these things, and it's. I don't know if it's a placebo or if it's working or if it's not working, but it genuinely gives me an energy boost. So.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay. Got to look into that.

[Tyrell Hampton]

There's a. Let me. There's. Let me play for, like, Karl Kardashian.

[Interviewer 1]

Let me sponsor the pod.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Namaste. Yep.

[Interviewer 2]

Got it.

[Interviewer 1]

I like the courting honey pack.

[Interviewer 2]

The Kardashian honey pack.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Precisely. Me and my friends Always try to make up a new, like, pill. Like, what is it we just did? Like, let me. Let me shut the up. And it's maybe like a. Some sort of like, it's just a giant pill.

[Interviewer 1]

That's a ball gag.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Or like, maybe like it's like a. It's like a micro dose of weed or something like that. And you're just like, let me shut the up. And now you're, like, just silent.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah. I'm having an anxiety attack on the inside, but I'm not ruining everyone else's time.

[Tyrell Hampton]

100 you're at the function and you're like, let me just take this really quick.

[Interviewer 1]

Speaking of living in momdanistan. Ramadan.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Mubarak.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

You grew up Muslim.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes, I did.

[Interviewer 1]

What? Is there anything in the fashion slash downtown party scene that you still consider haram that you won't touch?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Honestly, everything.

[Interviewer 2]

That's how you know it's fun and good.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Honestly, everything. I feel like, yeah, I'm pretty. I'm. When I grew up, I wasn't supposed to be doing anything. I couldn't listen to music I was not allowed to have posted on my wall. We listened to, like, prayer every morning in the. In the car. Like, it was very, like, black and white in the house. Like, no color.

[Interviewer 1]

You like to be gay?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No.

[Interviewer 2]

No. Number one on the list.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But I never came out. So shout out to my mom for that.

[Interviewer 1]

Are you still in the closet?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Like, I never had to.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, my God. Imagine.

[Interviewer 1]

Let me shut the up.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm like, mom, cut. Cut the cameras.

[Interviewer 1]

I need one of those. Let me shut the ups and out.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm Courtney. It's time, Courtney. Let me throwing fits.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Let me try to put everyone.

[Interviewer 1]

We're trying to keep everyone in the closet.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Hey. Tis the season 2026. When did you, like, find out that I was gay?

[Interviewer 1]

No, when did you. When were you able to spread your gay. When were you able to spread your gay wings and, like, put posters on your wall of hot boys?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Literally hot boys. Was that guy front and Corman blue? It was maybe in. Around, like, middle school we would go. When we'd go to Walmart, Shout out

[Interviewer 1]

Walmart, shout out Walmart saving closet boys.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Hey. One of the top ones at a time. Like, my mom's in one aisle and I'm just looking at the packaging. You know what I mean?

[Interviewer 2]

So take what you can get, you

[Tyrell Hampton]

know, one step at a time. I'm saying no. It was. There was the Tiger Beat magazines and, like, all those like, old pop star magazines were, like, basically teenage white women.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But I just thought that I was a teenage white woman myself when I was maybe, like, 11. So therefore, I took the liberty upon myself to have those magazines, ripped the things out, the magazines, take them home. I would put, like, the Hollister bags on my wall. I just became really into, like, literally the bags.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, savoring things. Like, I used to save receipts, tags. Like, every memory that I could ever find out, it would be on my wall. And from then, being black and white, my mom would just become acceptance. And I just like, stick a photo on there.

[Interviewer 2]

Right.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And she read magazines. So then I kind of, like, steal things from her magazines and, like, put them on my wall. And I didn't realize how much of, like, a manifestation those things were.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, wow.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because I had, like, the Theory ad. They had this, like, lookbook, and I got it and it was on my wall. And I've shot for Theory in the past, but I was like, nice thinking back. I was like, did I manifest that?

[Interviewer 2]

Put it into the universe for sure with your porn as packaging?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. I'm like, I didn't even realize that that's. That's what I wanted until it happened. Did you.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you think that, like, repressing not just your sexuality, but music, pop culture, I don't know, funds, partying, like, did. Did repressing that when you got to New York and you're on your own founding 18, we're just like, I gotta just eat up life.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I gotta do it all. Because I hate Real eater. Well, I was a hashtag in high school. It was very much like dance school. Like, the. My life was planned out for me every day. So I think I actually moved to New York when I was 17 and barely legal. I didn't. I didn't drink at all during high school, and I didn't have the time to, honestly. So even when I moved here, my main thing, it's kind of sad was to just, like, hang out with people.

[Interviewer 2]

That's not sad. That's called socializing.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. But, like, I feel like everyone else got that sort of moment in high school or middle school, like, where they could, like, hang out with someone after school. My mom had me when she was 21, so therefore I was just, like, watching my brother. And I had to grow up really fast, so I didn't have a childhood. So when I moved here, it was like my time to be like, I don't really care about anything. I just want to hang out. I just want to run Around, Like, I had my little camera. I would just, like, be by myself walking around the streets, listening to music. Like, I think that's where the.

[Interviewer 1]

You're like, vlogging the Farmer's Market.

[Interviewer 2]

His YouTube is available, folks. Check it out. Like and subscribe. Like and subscribe.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. I didn't even realize where I was in that farmer's market. Didn't even know that I was in Brooklyn at the time. I was just following my friends who were from la who just like, honestly, Parsons. I went to Parsons was like a wake up call. As much as like, I love Gossip Girl was kind of like, you go there and you're like, bitches is really rich. Yeah, like, bitches got money. Like, like, there's like a farmer's market money. No, like, farmers market money. No, like, organic money is very different than, like, GMO money. Like, GMO money. I'm on that GMO money. Like, I'm like, let's get the meal plan. Let's go to the.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And what we have to do. And seeing, like, all the. All the girls and the designers. I found Goyard there. I found all the Chanel, the Birkins in real life. And I was just like, this is just insane. I think that's when I was like, I. This is like my playground. You're my playground.

[Interviewer 1]

A real education, though, at the same time, you're soaking it all up.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And I was just shooting everything I could see, which I think is like, why I have this, like, childlike wonder still to this day. Like, I just was, like, enamored. Like, that's one of my things now. Sometimes I'm like, when shooting them, like, it's better if I don't meet the person or I don't know the person, so I can really explore them. And, like, be like, let's go for a walk. And like, let me try to understand you. And like, let's hang out.

[Interviewer 2]

Like, it should feel like you love hanging out. That's what I'm.

[Tyrell Hampton]

That's what I'm getting from this. I really do. Quality time. I love language. Right?

[Interviewer 1]

So, parents, if you want your children to grow up to be successful creatives with the joie de vivre and childlike wonder, just repress the out of them.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, well, make them grow up quick and then hit them with an Arrested Development on the flip side. And you're gonna get the perfect mixture

[Tyrell Hampton]

to get a time rail. Lock them in the room. Just be like, you have. Just have two kids. One, and then them 10 years apart, and then you're like, so the oldest. You are now the parent. I'm going to go out, live my life.

[Interviewer 2]

All right, because your mom didn't have your brother at 11. At 31.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Right.

[Interviewer 2]

I was just doing the math, and

[Tyrell Hampton]

I was like, okay, you're good. You're good. Taxes boys and stem repress boys. You guys can't do that.

[Interviewer 1]

Stem.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No boys in stem.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No women in stem.

[Interviewer 2]

What about us? Boys and podcast.

[Interviewer 1]

What about the straight boys?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, straight men. What about us?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Huh? I don't know.

[Interviewer 1]

Can we come to your parties?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't throw any parties, but there was a fat part on Friday that you guys miss at Emily's at Mulberry Bar.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh. Oh, we've. We've been.

[Interviewer 2]

We've been.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It was 10 out of 10. Oh, it was 10.

[Interviewer 1]

Where's the invite? We've been texting at that point.

[Tyrell Hampton]

We were texting. Honestly, it wasn't my party to do it. Right.

[Interviewer 2]

It wasn't your place.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I was more.

[Interviewer 1]

So, like, crash parties or do you just, like, show up and be like, oh, Tyrell's here.

[Interviewer 2]

You're good.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I used to crash parties.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah, but sneak.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Now I either stay inside or I get invited. Okay, so you're professional.

[Interviewer 1]

How many events are you hitting up every week?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It depends what kind of events we're talking about here.

[Interviewer 1]

Like, in any given week. Like, let's say if we're going, like,

[Tyrell Hampton]

out with friends, that's like, weekends. So maybe like, Friday, Saturday, maybe a Thursday situation. If it's like an event like this past Fashion week, it was kind of like one every day.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, wow. Well, I mean, it's the active time of year. Wait, what makes us. So you said a 10 out of 10 party. What makes a 10 out of 10 party?

[Tyrell Hampton]

The music.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'd hate uns. No shade to the people.

[Interviewer 2]

No Edmund need.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I need lyrics and I need to, like, that's. That was so great about the party on Friday is she played. There was a woman DJ woman in STEM was. She was playing, like, Chief Keef and, like, a Flocka and, like, I don't know them. You know what I mean? It was like 10 out of 10. Like, I was having the best singing along, shaking ass on the floor. And I just feel like if the music is horrible at a party, then you can't zone out. And if you can't zone out at a party and you're, like, too focused on, like, getting the drink or, like, doing the drugs or, like, doing the

[Interviewer 1]

thing, can zone out.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Get the ketamine you know what I mean? Like, if you. You need to be like, in the music and the vibes to be like, I'm just floating.

[Interviewer 2]

You want to let your flow state, let yourself go.

[Tyrell Hampton]

100.

[Interviewer 1]

When you're hitting flow state, are you like, oh, I gotta shoot this? Like, not like that, but, you know, namaste.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I used to. I don't do it much anymore because now I'm like, orchestrating the things and making it. Because I guess I'm getting older. I'm not a child anymore. I'm almost. I'm almost 30, so I feel like I can't, like, just shoot people willy nilly. And like, be.

[Interviewer 1]

Is that, like, messy to stick a camera in someone's face?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It was. When I was. When I was younger, people would get mad at me. I would definitely.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, you're a professional vibe killer.

[Tyrell Hampton]

100. 100. Because I just was like, I don't know if you guys know what China Chalet is.

[Interviewer 1]

China Chalet. Yeah, of course.

[Tyrell Hampton]

We're actually there, so I. Me too.

[Interviewer 2]

We lived it, brother.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Same here.

[Interviewer 1]

But we were of drinking it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Engaged. But that I would, like, go there and just shoot everything because obviously you guys know everyone was there. Everyone. All the models, producers, like, just fashion people. And it was just like. It was like my Sex in the City, my Gossip Girl. Like, the celebrities that I looked up to, I could like, shoot really nilly.

[Interviewer 2]

You're like a movie moment. Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. So, like, and the music was fab. It had a little bit of. A little bit of rap and a little bit of pop. Like, in different rooms.

[Interviewer 1]

Skater boys a melt.

[Interviewer 2]

A true melting pot.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So that was my flow state. I was like, moving in that bitch. Not that bitch. I was like, which room will I go in? Hey, guys, steal a seat here. Go there.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So pop up out. Yeah, but it would be like, then people were so not worried about the cameras, so I could shoot and like, go willy nilly. Now everyone's so, like, looking around, waiting for the camera.

[Interviewer 1]

I was going to say, before posting party pics the night before, do you have to get approvals from the people in the photos?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Really? I'm like, you know what you was doing? Well, the flash. So like, right?

[Interviewer 2]

The flash gives it away.

[Interviewer 1]

Do people are. People are like, yo, yo, don't like, no, I know I looked like.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No.

[Interviewer 1]

Or I know.

[Interviewer 2]

You know, because it's Tyrell, dude. I think there was some civilian, like, from shooting. People get duffed out.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Shout out me.

[Interviewer 1]

How.

[Tyrell Hampton]

How good.

[Interviewer 1]

How good are your photoshop skills at Erasing some Aaron White dust on nostrils.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't Photoshop.

[Interviewer 1]

So what we see is what. Or what we see is what we get.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Literally. I. I'm. I'm actually really bad at it. I had a teacher who was like, you just. You. You can't do Cosmic cosmetics. Like, cosmetic, like, photos. Right? Like, I don't know if I would be good at. Like, I've done makeup, brand and stuff before, but, like, really going in and being, like, editing and every blemish or whatever, I just can't. It's not. It's too time consuming.

[Interviewer 1]

But you never post anything where people

[Tyrell Hampton]

are like, no, I want a sexy photo. I want people to look sexy. I want people to look hot.

[Interviewer 1]

But engaging in, like, some. You know, I have in the past

[Tyrell Hampton]

when me and my friends were younger, and there's some of my favorite images. And who knows, you might see them in a book or something.

[Interviewer 2]

Some. Ryan, begin the action later on in life.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah, you got a book coming out.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, we're working on it. We're working on it. Dude.

[Interviewer 1]

What's the vibe?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's all the party stuff just to, like, finish that chapter. So I'm kind of like, again, I'm about to. I feel like every time I tell my agent this, I'm like, I'm almost 30. He's like, it's 30 is nothing.

[Interviewer 2]

Right.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But I'm like, just to close out the chapter of the reverence and all the. The childishness. I just want to be like, put

[Interviewer 2]

a bow on it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Like, obviously, I'm gonna shoot parties regardless. I just love to do it. But, like, we just need to be like, we're grown and, like, we can now orchestrate these things, and we have budget to orchestrate them in. In a sexy way and make it so, like, it's not me. A part of someone else's vision. It's my own vision.

[Interviewer 2]

Gotcha.

[Interviewer 1]

Is it gonna be like a kind of a snapshot, no pun intended, of like, a time and place in New York City, downtown culture, or is it just, like, your perspective of the world or combination or something else?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I haven't thought that deeply about it, honestly, but I just know that I just have so much work from my college years, my first initial years in New York of, like, China, Chile, and going out and like. Yeah, just all these people. Like, throughout the years, I've seen grown who, like, have cut their hair, who have had kids now and all this stuff. So I feel like that's kind of. It's more of a love letter. To the people around me rather than, like, everything else is hanging out of.

[Interviewer 1]

Quite the crew.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's a huge crew. And it's. It's only. You're officially at.

[Interviewer 1]

Yes.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So the next.

[Interviewer 2]

Why you're here.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You're the next. The next.

[Interviewer 2]

Is there a trick that you have to, you know when you're taking these photos, like, to make drunk people look good? Is there any, like, special trick that you have or.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It might be the dance background. I just feel like. And body language. I'm really good at reading body language. So, like, now when we're out in a club, I can tell when we're on the dance floor when someone's going to do something. And like, once.

[Interviewer 2]

That moment.

[Tyrell Hampton]

When's that moment you're anticipating?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Nice. It's like you're shooting ahead of the target.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Literally. But I see what I'm about, shooting guns, I would say really, like, at the target.

[Interviewer 1]

How many guns have you shot?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Well, I have straight friends, so. And I have a straight brother. So when we go and hang out, I'm like, shoot. What do you want to do? And then I'm like, shooting range. Yeah. So we go to the gun range.

[Interviewer 1]

Do people get pissed if you are shooting at a party and. Well, first of all, do people start, like, acting like. Oh, like. Oh, yeah, they start.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They start acting different when you start strolling by now.

[Interviewer 1]

Really?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

So. And do you. Do you indulge that or you're just

[Tyrell Hampton]

like, no, I do not. Entertain it.

[Interviewer 1]

All right, so if you want to get shot by this man and you're at a party, ignore him. Do not act inconspicuous.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Literally, I'm like, I. That's why one of my. One of my best friends, Jordan. How. Jordan Daniels, she just knows, like, now we shoot professionally on set.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And if we're shooting other models, she just. She can talk to them in a way that they can understand because I can't really explain what I want. But she can just be like, don't look at him. Just, like, hang out.

[Interviewer 2]

Like, she speaks model.

[Tyrell Hampton]

She speaks me, and I'm like that. But she does speak model.

[Interviewer 1]

She's translating between you and the model.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. Because I'm like. I'm like, don't, like, don't look at me like you're delaying Maxwell 100.

[Interviewer 1]

Sorry, that was not appropriate.

[Interviewer 2]

Especially not right now.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm screaming.

[Interviewer 1]

When you're out partying, do you like getting your photos taken or do you want to just, like, again, just remain in flow state?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No one takes My photo.

[Interviewer 2]

Get out of here.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They do. The BFA people do now. But I. I'm the one who just wants to take photos of other people.

[Interviewer 1]

That's.

[Interviewer 2]

That's kind of sad.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And even all my photo dumps, I post, I'm like, I'm begging my friends to take. I'm like, candid.

[Interviewer 2]

I can't take.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. That's why I'm like, I look good. I'm like. And the other night, I was out with my friend. We were going for a walk, and in my head, I'm like, I look so good. What the. And I'm like, we stop into this pizza store, and I'm like, you're gonna take photos of me. Go there, do this, blah, blah.

[Interviewer 1]

You got to stop hanging out with models because they're used to getting their photos taken. They're not the ones used to the ones taking the photos.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, but you know when everyone has the moment when they're hanging out, when they. They're in the flow state, and you're like, this is so fun.

[Interviewer 2]

I wish someone would. Yeah. Remember this.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But, like, sometimes everyone has their own personal moment where, like, I'm sure you guys do, where you're like, this is so fun. I want to be like, capture and remember this. So I'm like, why don't y' all want to capture my beauty? Like, I look good every day.

[Interviewer 1]

You don't selfie.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I do. I mean, I do what I can do, but I'm only.

[Interviewer 2]

Only so much.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm always one. Like, I'm only one person.

[Interviewer 1]

Who's taking the photos of you when you're in frog pose. Spread. Spread legged hole. A gape, I assume. Oh, Jesus in the dance.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No kegels there.

[Interviewer 1]

Who's taking that photo?

[Tyrell Hampton]

The people at Aloe. They are getting paid to promote that place, and that is one of the promotions, so namaste.

[Interviewer 1]

That is.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Wow. Heat of rivalry.

[Interviewer 1]

We can see your body of work there.

[Interviewer 2]

So if any of your friends are listening, take more Candid's photos of this man so he can remember his moments. He's doing it for you. It's kind of like a sad clown thing where it's like, who's gonna make the sad clown laugh? He's the clown.

[Interviewer 1]

We need you to be shot.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I'm the jester. And it's so annoying. Just like, what am I supposed to do? Yeah, but now I. I'm.

[Interviewer 2]

We corrected it on the record right now.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Period.

[Interviewer 1]

When we're out at your 10 and 10 next party, we'll take Photos of you.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, easy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Thank you.

[Interviewer 2]

I would love to. I'd be honored, Honest.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Okay. Period. But the thing is, I can't remind you.

[Interviewer 2]

No, you.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You have to know that I'm like. When I'm in it.

[Interviewer 1]

But do you ever. Are you at the stage in life where you're like, I don't want to take photos. I just want to, like, experience it? Or do you always. Do you feel like the photo needs to exist to, like.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't know. It depends. Honestly, like, I. I know what certain parties and people are gonna evoke the certain types of energy that I want or I look for in images. So it just depends on where we're going. Like, if I know I'm going to a huge dinner with a bunch of models, we're bringing that camera out.

[Interviewer 2]

Right? Okay. So it's. So you do think ahead of time.

[Interviewer 1]

We're gonna film it like a reality TV show.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I'm screaming. Yes. Yes, exactly. I know, I know. I pick and choose.

[Interviewer 2]

You're a producer.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I didn't bring. I. This is really. Silence. I didn't bring my camera today because I was like, I know that. We're gonna watch a podcast and. Namaste.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

If you could have your portrait. Your portrait on set, taken by anyone. Who do you want to shoot it?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm really obsessed with this. I like this artist, Drake Carr, but he doesn't take images. He's like, I don't even know what type of art you would categorize it as, but it's like, not a painting or a drawing, but, like, sort of that sort of art. Like, yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Not that photos aren't, but so would it be. What about photography?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't know. I feel like I. I take the best photo.

[Interviewer 2]

You need to clone yourself.

[Tyrell Hampton]

If there was two of me, I always say, y' all are not ready.

[Interviewer 2]

You finished?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Y' all are not ready.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Two plate. Me and two places at once. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding?

[Interviewer 2]

Maybe the end of the space time continuum.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Like, you're like, no.

[Interviewer 1]

The Williamsburg Bridge.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, they need to build another bridge. No, no, seriously. Hypothermia to my twin. And then, like, me, I'm at home, like, oh, okay, gotcha.

[Interviewer 1]

You ever feel overextended?

[Tyrell Hampton]

What do you mean?

[Interviewer 1]

Like, you have to be in too many places. You have to go to too many events. You just want to be inside.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, because I'm like, I'm young and, like, this is my chance to do everything, and I can have These conversations with my agent, and I'm just like, this is the time. Like, let's do it now. Like, let. I'm. Let's do the bike every day.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Let's, like, do the Haagen Dazs. Like, I'll go pink and I'll. Like, I will do. I will be the vessel for anyone else right now. Because when I'm older and I am sick of being childish and, like, doing whimsical things, I can, like, pick and choose what I do.

[Interviewer 2]

I hope that never happens. I hope you never lose your whimsical.

[Interviewer 1]

But are you clear?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, but it'll just be personal to me. Like, I just won't monetize it as much. I feel like when I got older,

[Interviewer 1]

like, are you seeing 30? Because you mentioned 30 a few times. Do you see 30 as, like, the start or the end of one chapter and the start of the next one?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

What's this next chapter? If you've given any thought to that?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It is. It's. It's galleries, it's books. It's just, again, like, more intentional things in the world. Like, nothing will be by accident. Everything will be, like, thought of, tangible. Like, I want to see more things in the world.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay, you do. You do sometimes post about wanting to quit fashion and walk away from this life of glamour and just disappear into a quiet, anonymous life, maybe in a cottage somewhere, screaming. Is there any truth to that? Like, do you actually have those feelings at times?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I. My goal, I want to be like Nora Smith and, like, move to Connecticut and, like, have a husband and, like, a big dog and just, like, chill and be a housewife.

[Interviewer 1]

And what is that after you've done the Haagen Dazs and the monetized whimsy. 40.

[Tyrell Hampton]

40. Yeah, yeah, let's say 40. Let's say. I would love it if it was, like, mid 30. Okay.

[Interviewer 1]

Like, would get bored being a fudgeing Connecticut housewife.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, because I don't. I don't train right away. Lose me. I just think that there comes a time when, like, all my friends in relationships, everyone's doing their own thing. I just think it'll be time for me to pick and choose when I am being seen, when I give my energy to people or energy to things.

[Interviewer 2]

Intentionality, like you mentioned.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. Mature.

[Interviewer 1]

Hashtag an important and important.

[Interviewer 2]

Hashtag intentionality. Hashtag mature.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And that's all you really need.

[Interviewer 2]

Hashtag real eater.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Screaming. Is that how you're feeling today?

[Interviewer 2]

I'm. Dude, I am the realest eater in the game, period. Yeah. I'll put that on record every day.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I didn't know you knew ball, but period All Stars. But isn't it right now?

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah, it was this past weekend. An important step in your husband journey. Gotta ask, what are. As a photographer, what are some pro tips on taking an elite dick pic?

[Tyrell Hampton]

An elite dick pic?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

How do you maximize girth? Girth, length, personality.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I appreciate mystery. So I actually don't like dick pics.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I like, like the sweatpants and, you know, the briefs and the. And. And like the. I love, like, honestly, like, swim trunks and things like that.

[Interviewer 2]

Leaving something to the imagination.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Like, I'd rather not see everything because then I'm like, well, then now there's no kind of. It's not fun.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

So we're talking about taking the photo.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Me?

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, I don't take those. Okay. No, I thought it was about like.

[Interviewer 2]

Like lighting.

[Interviewer 1]

It's like turning the camera upside down.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, I do not take.

[Interviewer 1]

And then cropping and flipping.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. I feel like I can't take nudes. I feel like that was like, really? I was in high school.

[Interviewer 1]

See your last IG pick.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. That's imagination. Like, that's like, boom.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

The farthest I'll go is like, torso and then some shorts or maybe like

[Interviewer 1]

doing the splits and some short shorts in the dance.

[Tyrell Hampton]

That's just showing you guys my range.

[Interviewer 2]

Right, right, right.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And showing you guys that what I'm capable of.

[Interviewer 2]

Imagine future husband, the spinning on it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You know what I mean? Yeah. Bouncing on the tricks. Like, you know, I have to let the people know that I am capable

[Interviewer 1]

of the floor routine.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Hey, it gets sweaty. Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

10.0 from the judges.

[Interviewer 1]

What does perform?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I hope so.

[Interviewer 1]

We. Okay, we know for a fact that on Tick Tock, the best performing content is your bike videos. Right. And we joked about it and you've joked about it, but it is true. You're like, yo, what's up? I'm with Celebrity xyz and people like, shut up.

[Interviewer 2]

Shut up. Give me the bike. Ride the bike. Ride the. Get back on the bike, Tyrell.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, they really doesn't.

[Interviewer 1]

With no hands.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I can do it with my hands.

[Interviewer 1]

What about on Instagram? Is it the party photos? Is it the showcasing your work? Candids of your celebrity friends or your scintillating thirst traps? What performs best for you?

[Tyrell Hampton]

The celebrities?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah. Really is ig that. I mean, I'm gonna ask. Is it that shall.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Obviously, it's the news now.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So I feel like that's just what people want to see. They want to see what happened the night before or what's happening with so and so or whatever the case may be. So I feel like that's why I know my audience on all the platforms. I'm just trying to make them want me more on Instagram so I can get that husband. So that's why I've just. I have so many things that like I haven't posted the Jenny photos. I know those would do really well, but I'm like, you guys can go to her page for that. Like, what can I do to bring you guys that you can't get anywhere else?

[Interviewer 1]

Which is the beginning is Instagram work and TikTok's fun. Like how do you. What's Twitter?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Screaming I actually I have Twitter, but now it's private because

[Interviewer 2]

it won't be private for much.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, that's not my. That's not my Twitter.

[Interviewer 1]

It's not.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, that's. They won't give me that name. I think some like 8 year old person who has had that name since 2014, you've tried. I've blocked because I've like, I refuse to acknowledge that you exist. But, but Twitter, I. No, no. Lol. But Twitter, I just yap random things and steal quotes from Tumblr and then classic Instagram is the celebrity news and then a hint of like me dancing.

[Interviewer 1]

That's like. But that's.

[Tyrell Hampton]

That's my website.

[Interviewer 2]

A drop of your website.

[Interviewer 1]

That's your portfolio.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes, yes. And then Tick Tock. I'm like, I just. This is me and my friends just

[Interviewer 2]

have the real me.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

But isn't it interesting though that you have like 7x followers on tick Tock of people that are. Where it's you being you versus like you portraying this like curated, polished portfolio of your work and your celebrity famous friends.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I mean it makes sense. I just realized early on that obviously I'm very different than a lot of my other counterparts.

[Interviewer 2]

Contemporaries.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. In the industry. On both sides, whether it be front facing or behind the scenes. So behind the scenes, obviously there's so many other photographers who just had a different upbringing than me or are in the museums and had like they just went a different route. And I'm just trying to. Like sometimes it's hard to sell that what I do or like the tick tock part or me front facing. So I try to leave it to the tick tock. And so that when people are on Instagram it's more so like the seriousness and like you guys I am an adult. I take my life, my work seriously. So I'm just trying to balance it on, trying to understand how to market that. It's a very interesting thing to do in this day and age because I feel like if you didn't like, make a book when you were like 18, then you're not going to be seen as like a fine art photographer or you're not going to be seen as like the serious person who orchestrates images and like, thinks really deeply about things. Because I'm like, I just like, want to have fun and I just take hopefully really good photos of like, people when I'm with them. But I don't know how to explain that or, like, talk deeply about that. It just is what it is.

[Interviewer 2]

So does the compartmentalization that's happening. Do you ever feel like people might underestimate you because they might just think of you or see you as a party photographer?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Does that 100%. 100%. And that's why I want to salting after. Yes. Because I just feel like again, this Rolodex of images that I have in my head thanks to like being on the Internet for my whole life, I feel like I am more than like, the party photos because that was just like when I was in college and like, having fun and things like that. Like, I just want to just. I don't know how to because I want to still do it just hard to, like, do that and then be taken seriously and do like campaigns and things like that.

[Interviewer 2]

But you are.

[Interviewer 1]

I mean, you are doing the campaigns and the covers. Yeah, but as you try to move into like the gallery and the museum and the serious art world, for lack of a better fudgeing phrase, like, yeah, have you. Is this all in your head perception or have you actually run into roadblocks? Because people just, you know, they. They see your silly goose personality online and like, oh, well, that's not an artist.

[Tyrell Hampton]

That. And also they just don't know who I am. The fine art world doesn't know who I am. So I feel like the books, like, I went to like some publishing companies and was like, can I make this book? And then they're like, this just isn't the book that we're making right now because that's. But I just want to be seen by some of those big corporations. And in order for me to be seen by those big corporations, I have to make a different type of work. So thus I'm like, really this year working on this show in September and things like that.

[Interviewer 1]

So can you tell us anything about the show?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, it's just completely different than the party. It's like the complete opposite. It's not at night time.

[Interviewer 1]

More like, compose photography.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's not women, so it's just very different.

[Interviewer 1]

Is it like composed photography? Is it like, it travels?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I would say, yeah. I would say thoughtful, like. Like, I'm going into every shoot that I'm doing and being like, how can I. How. How am I seeing this in the world? How can I explain this? Because I. I feel like I'm gonna have to. And also, like, can I see this in someone's house? Because at the end of the day, I do want to have. Yeah, I want to put them in. I want to have work in someone's house. I want them to live past me and immortalize.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, you want collectors?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. Should be grown.

[Interviewer 1]

I feel like you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself to, like, clothe. To, like, be.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Be grown.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you like, where does that come from?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It might be my mom. She's a Capricorn, so I feel like, what's. You guys signs, by the way?

[Interviewer 1]

Cancer.

[Interviewer 2]

Aries, period.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Okay. Slay. I'm running a good, good group.

[Interviewer 1]

And you?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm a Libra, of course. You know what that means?

[Interviewer 2]

Do you know what these mean?

[Interviewer 1]

Like, no air sign.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But my mom's a Capricorn, so she's very much a workaholic, so she just put a lot of. Not pressure, but maybe think of, like, five steps ahead.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So I'm like, That's why I'm always anxious about, like, what the next step is and trying to think what. How I can do to, like, what is it? Give myself longevity. Sure. With anything that I do.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you think you're successful right now?

[Interviewer 2]

Does your mom think you're successful right now?

[Tyrell Hampton]

My mom does think.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay, that's good, because I know it's. It's clearly important.

[Interviewer 1]

Like, Mom. Chanel.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But she called me, like, two days ago, and she's like, do you have work this week? And I'm like, I don't know how to be like, no, that's.

[Interviewer 1]

That's. That's Mom. That's Mom.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, but I'm like, like, what do you want from me?

[Interviewer 1]

Like, grandchildren, you know?

[Tyrell Hampton]

But I'm like, I'm trying, girl. Like, I'm trying. Like, it's just not that easy. But I think that's why I just want. And I also want to bring her into my world a bit. Her and my brother and the Only times they've ever been slightly intrigued is when I am doing celebrity work.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, really?

[Tyrell Hampton]

So I'm just trying to bring them into, like, something that they can feel, have access to regardless of the celebrities. Like, I will be, like, someone to, like, to my brother. What is it? Who did I shoot? I shot, like, some rapper. And then his friends found out about it, and then he was like, oh, I heard. And I was like, oh, okay, period. Like, this is fun. And then my mom.

[Interviewer 2]

I must feel good, right?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, it was. It was cool. But I was like, I don't know if this is what I want him to, like, think of me as.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, I see.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And then my mom, when I shot maybe, like, Billie Eilish, she was like, I know who Billie Eilish is. So it's just hard trying to, like, make them understand, like, what it all means. Sure.

[Interviewer 1]

I mean, welcome to our life, like, namaste, podcast.

[Interviewer 2]

Thanksgiving Thing about podcast, we can't be

[Interviewer 1]

like, Mom, I'll FaceTime you with Dua Loop. Dua Lipa. Come to Loopy. Come to my show in September.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But, like, like, you're like, I'm a professional yapper. And like, I. In a way, this is, like therapy. But it's, like, hard to, like, go to talk about it unless you're, like, about to, like, go deep into it and be like, what does this all mean?

[Interviewer 2]

We're motivational speakers. Don't worry about it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You know what I mean? But, like, how can you just let that be without you having to explain it?

[Interviewer 1]

But this is mom. This is Mrs. Ms. Hampton. I'm not sure. Just being Mom.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Mom vibes.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But it's just a lot. I feel like maybe because growing up with the dance background, it was a lot of pressure of, like, making sure

[Interviewer 2]

she was a dance mom.

[Interviewer 1]

Was she a dance mom?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I wouldn't say she was the quintessential dance mom, but she was definitely someone who was just like, are you stretching? Is your homework done? Like, you know, any. Any spare time you have?

[Interviewer 1]

Are you a heterosexual dancer?

[Tyrell Hampton]

You know? No. No.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay, good. We got that out of the way. We were still weren't sure.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Any spare time I had, I had to make sure that it was being used. Wisely accounted for.

[Interviewer 1]

Black Swan.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 2]

Kinda.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. Like, and I'm turning Corbin's because it's just, like, so much pressure.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm looking in the mirror, like, scrubbing my name off. Everything.

[Interviewer 2]

Full mental breakdown.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Literally.

[Interviewer 1]

Have you. Okay, besides your internal. Internal development and evolution and relationship with your mother, what have Been the hardest parts about transitioning from, like, party downtown fashion space into, like, the. The art gallery space.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm still doing it, but it's. It's just having serious conversations and following up, which is like. Which I feel like is about emailing. Being an adult, like, being professional. Yeah. And just being like, I'm so interested. Like, let's talk. Or like, you know, I didn't realize that the half of the. The to make all that happen is

[Interviewer 2]

me following up and circling back.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Welcome to earth, bro.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It sucks. You wake up in the morning and, like, you know, they're like. They're. They hit you back, like, five times. Like, I thought that's what it was. No one double texts in, like, adult.

[Interviewer 1]

No one double emails.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, no, no.

[Interviewer 2]

Just PR girlies.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Just Google being like, do you want to respond?

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Did you respond?

[Interviewer 2]

AI becomes your mom, where it's like, follow up. You gotta let them back.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And then it's like, what. It says the little. Like, the. The lick, not the conclusion. Like, the sparks notes of the things.

[Interviewer 2]

And I'm like, all right, summarizing.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And I'm like, what? Like, there's no person. Like, what am I supposed to. What am I supposed to say about.

[Interviewer 1]

You need a. Do you have. You have an agent?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I do have a.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you have a manager?

[Tyrell Hampton]

He's the. He's the all in one.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay. Oh, wow. They're not doing this work for you.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They're like.

[Interviewer 1]

They're, like, getting you deals, but they're

[Tyrell Hampton]

not like, well, no, no. He takes care of everything. But I also feel like. And I tell him all the. All the time, like, what can I do to help you so that I feel like I'm not sitting on my ass? And I'm just like, like, what can I do to, like, give us get this money.

[Interviewer 2]

When my mom calls and asks me if I'm working this week, I want to say, yes. What can I do to work?

[Interviewer 1]

Have you made yourself a dentist appointment in the last five years?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay, good.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm on my beautiful chompers. Thank you. I had braces, and I met my dentist at Lucien, which is really important. He looked at my teeth, and he was like, I can fix that for you.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, yeah, I had.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I could fix her. He fixed me.

[Interviewer 2]

How long did you have braces as an adult?

[Tyrell Hampton]

All of COVID so.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, perfect.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And an extra year was the best

[Interviewer 1]

thing that ever happened to you?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It was. And. But I kept calling because I'm so anal and I'm emailing, like, some like, is this still going to work? Like, do I need to come in and get them re tightened and.

[Interviewer 1]

He's right.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You're fine.

[Interviewer 1]

So dentistry, you're following up?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Hell, yeah. That's. Yeah. I'm like, I'm all for it.

[Interviewer 2]

Triple texting.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I'm. I still good to go? Yeah. What should I be doing? I'm. I'm chat. Gpting. Like, what? Vitamins? I'm like, cosmetic moods.

[Interviewer 1]

What about. Let's talk. Let's get into the. The lore of this mustache screaming, I got it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Maybe when I was like, 11.

[Interviewer 1]

You got it?

[Interviewer 2]

What?

[Interviewer 1]

Damn, that's.

[Interviewer 2]

This thicker?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Was it not this thick? But it started growing around, like, 11. Okay. And it was this thick. I would say 11, maybe my junior year or senior of high school.

[Interviewer 1]

And you've had it since then? For like 10, 15 years.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I mean, I, like. I just cut it off maybe like, two months ago.

[Interviewer 1]

How did that feel?

[Interviewer 2]

Naked?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It was weird. Yeah, it was weird.

[Interviewer 2]

What was the response from the homies?

[Tyrell Hampton]

They loved it.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, really?

[Tyrell Hampton]

They loved it.

[Interviewer 1]

Fresh set face.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They were all like, oh, my God, you're so cute. And I'm like, that's what I don't want. I want to be, like, grown and sexy.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh.

[Interviewer 2]

And you're like, I wasn't cute before, by the way. Like, what?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Right? But I'm trying to get fine. That's my goal. That's my goal.

[Interviewer 1]

Well, are you still. Speaking of fine, are you still into skater boys? Are you sick of sleeping on mattresses on the ground with no bed frames?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I've never had a skater boy.

[Interviewer 1]

Really?

[Interviewer 2]

Just coveted them from afar?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. I don't even think. I don't know. They're always like, all my friends are like, there's one gay one. And I'm like, what the fuck does that mean? So I. I've never had one.

[Interviewer 1]

Some of them are bi. Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And they say that. But then I'm like, we go out and. Because I feel like I am not shy, but around men that I like, I don't do much. Okay? So I'm like, I. And I'm also not very flamboyant, I would say when I'm around them.

[Interviewer 1]

You're like the pillow princess in the club, you know?

[Tyrell Hampton]

So I'm just trying to. I'm very side. I don't know if you guys know what that means.

[Interviewer 1]

Very side.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, it's a new gay term. Like, you don't, like, do anything else. You just, like, cuddle and, like, kiss.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, it's very Cute.

[Interviewer 1]

You're not.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Okay, so I. In the club, I'm not. I. I'm not doing. Oh, I'm very like.

[Interviewer 1]

You're siding in the club.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm chatting to my girls, being like, he's so cute. Like, what should I do?

[Interviewer 2]

Fluttering cuddle eyes.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I walk by and I just let it. See what it is.

[Interviewer 1]

You don't frog pose in front of them.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I'll. Hey, if there was space. If there was space, you know, just

[Interviewer 1]

drop into a split.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I want, I do want a skater boy.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I skater boys. I want like a dude. Like I like a FedEx worker fellow. Oh. Like I want just like shout out to again. J. Massacre.

[Interviewer 2]

Like daddy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I did. Yeah. Like just someone who's just like. I feel like I don't obviously don't know him and I want to project anything onto him, but from what I look like, I just feel he can take the reins.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, he's out here posting shirtless pics as well.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I mean, yes, I want someone to just take the reins. Like, okay, I don't want to do anything.

[Interviewer 1]

Like Santa Claus.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I am Mrs. Claus.

[Interviewer 2]

Stop looking for their.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Mrs. Claus is doing too much.

[Interviewer 1]

I'll be a reindeer.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm just. No, I just want. I want to be an elf. No, not even pressure.

[Interviewer 1]

Gonna be Dixon Ollie Pocket over here. Blitzens doing the splits in maybe the snow globe. Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't want to do anything.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay. I might have to do your side.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I'm inside. Like, I don't want to do anything. I just want to like be picked up in a cute car and sit pretty and talk. Like, I feel like I just want to do that.

[Interviewer 1]

I don't want a companion. Do you want to be like, do you want to be a kept.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I want a friend.

[Interviewer 2]

He wants a male friend is what

[Tyrell Hampton]

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[Interviewer 1]

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[Interviewer 2]

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[Tyrell Hampton]

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[Interviewer 1]

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[Tyrell Hampton]

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[Interviewer 1]

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[Interviewer 1]

What. Okay, what about. What are, like, the most attractive types of guy? Because we talk about skater boys. We talk about, like, I don't know, older bears.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Namaste.

[Interviewer 1]

What are we. What are we looking at these days?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Honestly, it's more attributes. Like, I just need, like, someone who's upfront and, like, it's just like, I want, like, just being like, hey. Or like, screaming.

[Interviewer 1]

You don't get that in New York.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I do, but from the wrong people. Like, they still have to be, like, physically attractive. I don't want no uggo just, like, saying, hi.

[Interviewer 1]

You don't want to sub five.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I want, like, a dude in like. Like, I had this screaming. I had one of my favorite munches I had was. Was one. He was my ex also, but one of the another ones I had was. He had tattoos and he was huge. And he was just like, such a man. And he just was like, let's go to the movies. And, like, I think that's attractive to me. You're like, okay, I can't do. I can't. I don't want to date someone who wears speedo. I can't do, like, any more flamboyant than me. Like, I just want my man to be playing with the other straight men in the other room, watching sports or whatever. And I'd be with my girls.

[Interviewer 2]

Right?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Just yapping like, that's. That's what I want.

[Interviewer 2]

You want to be a housewife like you said, that's been told.

[Interviewer 1]

What to do.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

We're going to the movies.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

We're watching the Super Bowl.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah, we're going to Celine.

[Tyrell Hampton]

We're going to Celine. And it's on your dime.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, he needs to be rich.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Or I wouldn't say he needs to have a job employed, because it's hard to find, honestly.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay, right. Well, if you look at the skater boys, maybe, but.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, but even they got some money, so.

[Interviewer 1]

Hey, do you prefer to date within the fashion world or is that too. Would you rather like a normie that's, you know, has all these attributes but is like a normie and is, you know, has like a 9 to 5 email job or something? Or is like a FedEx?

[Interviewer 2]

FedEx Employee of the month?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I do love Fedex I just love him, honestly.

[Interviewer 2]

Cute uniform.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It really just depends. If Brown do for you, teach me something else. What?

[Interviewer 1]

What can Brown do for you?

[Interviewer 2]

Ups.

[Interviewer 1]

But.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, but still.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Honestly, deliver my packages and vice versa.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, right. But air mail, that shit.

[Tyrell Hampton]

What is it? Just like. It's more just like the conversation. Like, I forget the question, but I

[Interviewer 1]

think dating, Dating inside or outside the fashion.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh. So, yeah, I can't. I don't know. I need someone to teach me something completely different.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, that's why I'm like FedEx. I'm like, let's go construction. Let's go like, trade. Let's go sports. Like, I don't. I know enough about my industry that I don't need someone. We don't need to be riffing.

[Interviewer 2]

Right. That's work.

[Interviewer 1]

But have you ever dated outside or bit or munched outside the fashion world where they're like, why are you always going out? Or like, why are you going like. Like they don't get your world?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Because if they're fun, which should be the root of the man that I. I see.

[Interviewer 1]

Yes.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They'll just want to hang out. Like, I used to not drink and go out so I could like, hang out and yap for hours and like, just have a good time. I don't need to like, really, like, party or whatever. Yeah, like, you can still. It's more just hanging out. Like, if you can hang.

[Interviewer 2]

Quality time, like you said.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. My favorite. Boom.

[Interviewer 2]

All right, all right. No fashion. No fashion guys need to apply here.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But you still gotta have some style. Oh, yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

What if they have bad style? Is that an immediate no?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 2]

You can't salvage them. You can't be like, let me dress you.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Because I don't want to change anyone. I'd rather them just be who they are and like, that be something they're. They're interested in. Like, if they're like, if I. If they have like a cute outfit on, it's just like. And they know that what they like. I'm like, more into that than us being like, let's go shopping and find you, like a cute, like, mew mew sweater.

[Interviewer 1]

Right.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm not trying to, like, be yourself. Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

I respect your personal style because his

[Tyrell Hampton]

money is my money and my money is my money. So, like, if I'm going to the

[Interviewer 1]

store, it's a one way street.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah. Then spend it on me.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah, exactly. When it does finally warm up and we're past, you know, we put the puffers back in storage. Screaming, what are you hoping to see the fellas wearing this spring and summer, whether they're your munch munchies or not?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Sweatpants. Okay. In the summer, gray sweatpants. Basketball shorts.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

You just want to see what religion they are.

[Tyrell Hampton]

100. Yeah. I like a, like, baggy T shirt. Like, under the muscle or over the muscles. Like, I don't want to see a tank top. I don't want to see the tha outfit, which used to be, like, the open flannel and the tank top and the, like, Carhartt pants. I'm interested in, like, just. Just chill. Just, like, comfy.

[Interviewer 1]

Do less.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Like, I love sex in the city. What's his name? Miranda's boyfriend? No.

[Interviewer 1]

Steve.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Steve didn't give a. Like, I want Steve.

[Interviewer 2]

Like, a Brooklyn guy. He looked cool.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Just, like, hang out. Like, who cares? Like, you're gonna look good regardless. Like. Like, wear the quarter zip if you want to. Like, who cares? Like, what?

[Interviewer 1]

The munchies to be comfy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. I. And I. I used to be obsessed with this man who wore crocs. I. I have a pair of Crocs also, but I'm like, that was just so hot to me.

[Interviewer 2]

Like, Crocs in the street, like, go off.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, you're just a dude. You don't care. Like, because I'm overthinking everything. So I'm like, maybe if he doesn't care, then it'll rub off on me.

[Interviewer 1]

The interior Yang.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Exactly.

[Interviewer 1]

Row jeans. He's in my croc. Shitty sweatpants.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And, like, I really just want to.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you feel like you don't have friends? You're surrounded by besties all the time.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I do. I do. I do. I do have male friends.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I do.

[Interviewer 2]

Good.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Just ones that I. I want one that I can sleep with, cuddle with. Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Sideways.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

A friend with benefits.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 2]

Side benefits.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. But the benefit being at some point,

[Interviewer 2]

you want a side piece.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Literally, I want to annoy. Side dish 100.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Not the entree.

[Interviewer 1]

And a moose bouche.

[Tyrell Hampton]

What is that?

[Interviewer 1]

A little starter period? What's a broccolini on the side?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Maybe I'm the broccolini.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And they're the entree. Like, I want to be the rock to their star. Like, I want them to shine, and I just play the back. Okay. Really? Yeah. But you're the star, and I know that. Yeah. Right. Which is why you can say this, and I can't. Exactly. I know what I. I know what I can bring to the table. So I just need to know that they can bring that to the table.

[Interviewer 1]

Well, look, you are flush with friends. Out of all your baddie besties that you've worked with, who's the biggest diva on set?

[Tyrell Hampton]

The biggest diva? Probably Jordan.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because she can just walk over me. Because she just. We're friends. She's like, I know what I want. And sometimes I'm like, but. And she's like, you don't get it. Like, she speaks makeup. She speaks glam. She speaks all the things. So I feel like that's a friend and like, someone who I work with a lot, that she's just like, you just don't get it. I'm just going to make it work and make it happen.

[Interviewer 2]

She's the dom, you're the sub. And you like that.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

Is that from a. Because you guys are like a dynamic duo, or is that just who she is?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I think no. I think it's because of our. Our duo. Okay.

[Interviewer 2]

You're the only photographer she treats like shit, is what you're saying.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes, But I can take it because I know that we're going to have the best end product.

[Interviewer 1]

And when she oversteps the diva threshold, are you like, bitch, get in line or.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. How do you. We. We go. We go back and forth. And then everyone else is kind of scared of us because they think that we're serious. Because I'm like, do what I said. And she's just like, no, I'm gonna do what the I. I want. Because you don't get it. And I'm gonna let me do my job. Like, we get into that fireworks on there.

[Interviewer 2]

Let me do free.

[Interviewer 1]

Let me do.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

My job.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Yeah. But in order for me to do my job, she has to be good at her job. So, like, it's all love, but it does. We're brother and sister.

[Interviewer 1]

Have you guys ever fought?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Not seriously play fighting, only like, you're like.

[Interviewer 1]

You're like. You're meowing on set, and then almost every effort is all just friends.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I don't consider the fights fights, because it's just, like, petty. Like, if it's a fight, it's kind of like, maybe like, in the studio, it's maybe about, like, hair and makeup, and I'm not understanding. And she has to, like, over explain, which is kind of annoying to someone who has to over explain. And then outside of the studio, it might just be like, I am not understanding what she's saying. Once again, like, she's like, you just don't get it. And I'm like. Because I forget that I'm a boy. And being around a lot of girls, you forget that, like, girls have different brains. Like, they. They see the world completely different. I'm, like, so advanced. I'm like. I'm just so chill. Times.

[Interviewer 1]

Literally, you're chill. And she's operating at a higher frequency.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. And so I'm like, I don't really understand what you're saying. And she's just like. And you don't, and you never will. And I'm like, okay. And sometimes I gotta be like, that's just the way.

[Interviewer 2]

It's a communication thing. That's facts.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

And then you go, yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And then it's all fun and games.

[Interviewer 1]

When was last time you were intimidated on set during photo shoot

[Tyrell Hampton]

during the gq. Man of the year. All those shoots with all those celebrities in a confined hotel in the chateau was very overwhelming. Who was that?

[Interviewer 1]

That was Walton Goggins. Right?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Walton Goggins.

[Interviewer 1]

Very naked.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Very naked.

[Interviewer 1]

Was he Walton Hawkins?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I didn't get a good look. Oh.

[Interviewer 2]

I mean, you could just Google this and see he wears a Speedo, like, for. He wore a speed of, like, all of 20.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Fine.

[Interviewer 1]

I'm screaming. But you weren't able to.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Cigarette was a hog. You weren't able to.

[Interviewer 1]

You weren't able to peep meat.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Okay. I don't think I. He's working.

[Interviewer 1]

Is that, like, a professional thing? Like, you know, I guess you don't want to sexually harass on set, I guess.

[Tyrell Hampton]

All right. Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

I don't.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Bruce Weber. He's not my type also. I will say so. I feel like that's why I would.

[Interviewer 2]

Too old?

[Interviewer 1]

Too bald?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I. No, he's not bald. Screaming. He doesn't have the.

[Interviewer 1]

What, Widow's peak?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Screaming.

[Interviewer 2]

He's not locked in like you, bro.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Screaming.

[Interviewer 1]

Who else was in that shoot? Walt Walton.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Seth Rogen. Okay. Stephen Colbert.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, that's right. Smoke.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Haley B. Yes. Which was iconic. That was really, really funny.

[Interviewer 1]

Was it real?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. I, I. It was just like. And then what annoyed me was, like, Haley had paparazzi. Was like an airplane or a drone was just like this. And I was like, this is just so. It was so much pressure, I think. And in those moments, I remember that I am still a kid, and I'm like, I need. Like, I need a matcha. I need some candy. Because this is, like, overwhelming, and, like, I'm a baby. I need kids. Yeah. Like, it was just like, celebrity here, celebrity there, and you forget that, like, they're. Everyone around you is, like, watching you guys, and it's still open and stuff like that. So it was just when you're having

[Interviewer 1]

your boys with Hailey, right?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. That's one of my best.

[Interviewer 1]

So it's not like. It's not the celebrity of it. It's more just, like, the scale of this one.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Shoot. Well, her and I are, like, locked in. Like, how mean Jordan are locked in. But, like, it's just everyone else, like, you. You forget that, like, not everyone else has the privilege, right, to. To be around them all the time for an.

[Interviewer 2]

A lesser. Like, a lister in that scenario who's not your bestie, like Haley. And you're having, like, this. You know, you're anxious. You're not having a meltdown, but you're going through it. How much patience does a guy like Seth Rogen or Colbert have for you in that moment?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I mean, what is it? Seth was honestly super chill. He was ready. He was. He was. He was fun in games. He was like, let's do it. I was like, okay, game. Stephen Colbert was also game. He's just like, I've just played music, which is why the club is my favorite. But I was just playing, like, screaming, like, rap music, like, IM Triplin and like, maybe Camila Cabello. And then I go like, Tate McRae and, like, I would just, like, sing along to my songs in order for me to, like, zone out what was happening. And I feel like that's how I would either make them laugh or get them to be like, we're here. It's you, me, together. So I feel like that was the easy part, but it was just how everyone around us was looking. And you're just like, I need some air.

[Interviewer 1]

Is that a key to your success? Is your childlike wonder and joie de vivre is, like, infectious that you know, the person you're shooting, they catch it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I mean, you guys tell me, I'm

[Interviewer 1]

feeling curious as fuck, boy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Hey, period. Hashtag yeah, hashtag curious.

[Interviewer 2]

As I think it's coming across. We've been doing this for an hour. It feels like 10 seconds, you know, period.

[Interviewer 1]

But is that, like, to get people, like, relax and chill besides giving Stephen Colbert some good La Kush again, I like hanging out.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So I think it truly is, like, in those moments when I don't know them or if I really know them, I just am like, at the end of the day, we're here, and, like, we just want to make fun pictures. So I'm like, what would I want to do if I was you? If I was in front of the camera right now what the fuck would I do? To be honest, I'd probably do a split or like a backflip or something. But I'm like, most.

[Interviewer 2]

You would do the most.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, but I'm like. To tone it down, like, you know, if I'm wearing this outfit, what can we do to, like, still make it fun and, like, you know, not so stiff and, like, we're doing this, like, huge shoot that everyone has to be so strong and fierce and, like, no energy, you know.

[Interviewer 1]

Who's the most fun celebrity you've ever shot that actually they brought the fun themselves.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm trying to think. That's a good question.

[Interviewer 1]

Because you've shot them all, baby.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Or like, they surprised you with how down to clown they were.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Been a while since I've been surprised

[Interviewer 1]

you cut because you knew them or you just were like, you've been around. You're a grizzled vet at this point.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, in the surprises that they were,

[Interviewer 1]

like, getting surprised, but just like, you know, who. Just who. Who had the most fun?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Who had the most fun on that shoe or just in general?

[Interviewer 1]

In general on any world?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'll say. Yeah. I'd probably say Haley. She's the best celebrity I would say to shoot. She's like my favorite person.

[Interviewer 1]

Does she bring Erlon? Shoots for everyone.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I've actually never had one bad friend. No. It's literally, like, too expensive. Either so hard to get one sold out or. Exactly so.

[Interviewer 1]

Or they're 4, 000 calories.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. It's a dessert. She says that it's a dessert.

[Interviewer 1]

It's a liquid cake.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. You don't like cake? Aren't you straight?

[Interviewer 1]

I'm a real. A real eater, too.

[Interviewer 2]

Straight men. Is that a stereotype that we love?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Cake?

[Interviewer 1]

Real cake eater.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Boom.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Hello. Hashtag. Talking about, but the real boss. Yeah, but she's. She's fun. I feel like whenever we're on set, we're just locked in. Like, we just can run around. Like, we just, like. That's how we first met. We were in a hotel room, and we just, like, shot around the hotel and we just, like, had fun.

[Interviewer 1]

Nice.

[Interviewer 2]

Are you thinking about when you're meeting a celeb for the first time and you're shooting them? Is there any part of you that's like, I am going to make this person love me and we're gonna have a relationship when the, you know, the lens cover goes back on? Do you think about that at all, or does it just happen supernaturally?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It just happens. The only Thing I think about before is what their sign is and if they're fun.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I'm like, just being like, are they actually, like, do they want to have fun? Like, do they want to explore and, like, run around, or do they want to just, like, whenever we. I'm shooting, to be honest, men, straight men, I'm usually like, I know that it's a smaller scale of, like, how much energy you guys are going to like, go off. Like, you don't have hair to flip and you don't have, like, boobs to play with and things like that.

[Interviewer 1]

We have pockets. Hand in this pocket. Hand in this pocket.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So you got to get creative.

[Interviewer 2]

Maybe sunglasses.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So that's why we have Stephen Colbert in the pool with the joint. We're like, how can we, like, make this next level but still have him look masculine?

[Interviewer 2]

How can we have this straight man pretend that he's having a good time?

[Tyrell Hampton]

But, you know, because sometimes it's hard to, like, you guys still want to. I still want to respect you guys masculinity and not.

[Interviewer 1]

Thank you.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You know, be like. So I want you guys in, like, this and a skirt and, like, all this stuff. Like, I don't want to project my thing. Sure. I want you to.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you ever feel like you're forced yet to force you? Like, so you see that fucking last night? Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, no.

[Interviewer 1]

You guys like tits?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Who loves boobs?

[Tyrell Hampton]

With my. With my friends.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, they. What were we watching before the Super Bowl? There was, like, some game we were watching, and they started talking about tits, and I was just, like, on my phone taking selfies, and then they were like, are you recording this right now? And I was just like, honestly? Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Thanks for asking.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because I'm like, what are you talking.

[Interviewer 1]

I'm holding you accountable.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And also, I'm like, there's nothing for me to do in this combo besides spy. No, literally. And give the tea back to my girls. Like, y' all better shut up.

[Interviewer 1]

So you know what these horn dogs are talking about?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Literally shocking stuff. Honest. It's just. It's insane.

[Interviewer 1]

Well, we're talking about how you do a lot of work for, you know, in editorial and ad campaigns for the. For the biggest brands in the world. What's the most annoying thing about working for or with clients?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Sometimes for the. It's for the. The first time. Usually it's the hardest because it's hard to, again, explain, like, my process to someone who doesn't know. And so that's just kind of nice to have the same Producers on the same sets so they can really explain how my process works and shield you

[Interviewer 1]

from, like, the big. The big fucking puppet master of money just to be.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Cause sometimes it can be like, they're like, something. They might see something on a screen, but it's not the final. So then they kind of. Of are like, well, this isn't really how it's supposed to look and how we wanted to look, but then it's like, just give me a second to, like, finagle. Yeah. Like, let me just, like, down, sweetheart. That's when I'm like, get into my head. I'm like, I'm just this child.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, no.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And I'm like, they don't see me and I need to, like, be an adult so they could be. So they can respect me and be like, let him do what he does.

[Interviewer 1]

But do you have conviction? Do you have. You have conviction in your own self now? Especially with, like, you can be like Gucci, like, you know, you can.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't mean. I don't do that. But on set now, I'm just like. I just say no. Like, if someone is pressuring me or wants me to do something.

[Interviewer 2]

Tinkering.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. I'm just like, so you're people pleasing.

[Interviewer 1]

You're combating your people pleasing, learning how to say no.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Powerful stuff, which is.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's truly. It's really hard.

[Interviewer 2]

Are you.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Are you.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you hate confrontation?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. No.

[Interviewer 2]

Seems like he kind of loves it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I love every act I do. That's my flirting technique. And I feel like it's got me in a lot of trouble.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you?

[Tyrell Hampton]

You don't say, it's got me in a lot of trouble, but I'll be making fun of someone, and then all

[Interviewer 2]

of a sudden you're nagging them.

[Tyrell Hampton]

My friend is like, you were just so rude to them. And I'm like, I'm sorry. I didn't. I was having so much fun.

[Interviewer 1]

You made the one gay skater boy cry.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I was having so much fun. I'm like, was he not having fun like this? Not.

[Interviewer 2]

You're bullying this guy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yolo. Yeah. I want someone to just go tit for tat, just a little bit.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay. Like a verbal sparring.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

As someone that puts their life out online so much like, you know, your personal self and what people are really gravitating and. And, you know, it's reverberating, resonating with. What aspects of your life do you refuse to put out there online?

[Tyrell Hampton]

There's no. There's no limit, I guess, really no, I've never been tested. To follow up.

[Interviewer 1]

I've never, like. So you've never put, like, STD test results on. On TikTok?

[Interviewer 2]

Because he's never been tested.

[Interviewer 1]

All right, guys, get ready with me to go to the testing center.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Yeah, I feel like part two.

[Interviewer 1]

See the results.

[Interviewer 2]

Come with me.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Boundaries. I have boundaries.

[Interviewer 1]

What are the boundaries?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I mean, I do not film in my house.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So no one.

[Interviewer 1]

What's your address?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No one's ever seen my house. I don't know what it is. Honestly, I couldn't tell. You

[Interviewer 2]

just moved.

[Interviewer 1]

Gotta ask your agent to put it in the Uber.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, no.

[Tyrell Hampton]

100. I just click home. Oh, I click home.

[Interviewer 2]

That's diva behavior. He doesn't even know his own address.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I don't shoot in my house. Else I probably. I don't really show my mom and my brother no family.

[Interviewer 1]

No direct family. Yeah, definitely.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Respect.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I don't. Yeah, that's. That's pretty.

[Interviewer 2]

But everything else, it's on the table for now.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Like, I. I will dance for money. I will bike for money. I will take a photo for money.

[Interviewer 1]

Not even for money.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Just.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah. For the people.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. So namaste.

[Interviewer 2]

Dance for the people.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because. Yeah. There's nothing like. I won't. I'm not a mate. I just won't do what. That isn't me. So I'm not. Makeup. I won't do makeup. Right.

[Interviewer 1]

Have you been asked to do stuff where you're just like, that's. I don't do that.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It was makeup. I just was asked to, like, promote, like, some sort of makeup, and I just was like, I don't wear makeup. Right. So I feel like it would just

[Interviewer 1]

be inauthentic and it's just your skincare routine. What do you.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I mean, now it's a three step. It's like a cleanser, a toner, maybe a little oil and then sunscreen.

[Interviewer 1]

What about these brows?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, they are. They have been that way since I've been born. I lied. You know, you came.

[Interviewer 1]

You came out the womb with these

[Interviewer 2]

thick boys with the caterpillars.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Really? Yeah. They would make fun of me in school. McDonald's. And then they.

[Interviewer 1]

Golden arches.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They would say the caterpillar.

[Interviewer 1]

Damn.

[Interviewer 2]

And they're your superpowers now.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They are. And if I was straight, I feel like every woman comes up to me and either compliments my lashes or my eyebrows.

[Interviewer 1]

You don't curl your lashes.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Wow.

[Interviewer 2]

That's just natural beauty.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I do nothing.

[Interviewer 2]

Wow.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I just wake up and Put the other one on. I go to the gym. I do go to the gym. That's about it.

[Interviewer 1]

You open up two gifts every morning.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Your eyes, literally.

[Interviewer 2]

What's the fitness routine? Just generally, it's a dance.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I do Pilates, hot yoga. I dance, I swim, I run. I. I do a lot.

[Interviewer 2]

He does it all, like, five days a week. Wow, Good for you, man.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Sometimes seven, because I just. Well, I'm like, if. I like the fashion week of it all. Didn't have time to do anything, so I. It makes up for those workouts when I have nothing going on.

[Interviewer 2]

Gotcha.

[Interviewer 1]

So when you're not in the gym and you're scrolling, how terminally online are you?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm actually not. I'm probably the worst at my phone, I would say.

[Interviewer 1]

What's your screen time?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, we gotta. Come on.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Let's see.

[Interviewer 2]

This is. You're about to purge yourself live. It's gonna.

[Interviewer 1]

And then we. And then we're gonna. We're also gonna do it by app as well.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Screaming, Y. Screen time.

[Interviewer 1]

Let's see. Drum roll, folks.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Four. Four hours.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, my.

[Interviewer 1]

Four and a half.

[Interviewer 2]

Four and a half. That's really impressive right now.

[Interviewer 1]

Wait, that's this week. That's only been two days. Go to last week.

[Tyrell Hampton]

How.

[Interviewer 1]

Swipe. Swipe. That way.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Actually screaming.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay. Four and a half hours.

[Interviewer 2]

I mean, there's going to be weeks where we're.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay, seven and a half.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Seven and a half.

[Interviewer 2]

That's normal.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Namaste.

[Interviewer 2]

Four and a half. Number one.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Number one is TikTok.

[Interviewer 1]

Number two.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Instagram number three messages. Okay. Okay.

[Interviewer 1]

You know what? If it's messages, I feel like that's okay. You're just communing with your friends, socialize.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But I don't. I'm. I may be on my phone, but I'm not like a responder to texts and calls. That's all me. I probably screen them and I just. Yeah, I'm like, I need a moment to myself and I only. Yeah. I give my first hangout to the first person that asked me. Oh, wow.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, first come, first served.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Everyone gets mad at me for it because I like, oh, I want. I want to do this, I want to do that. Well, I'm like, you should have asked me this morning.

[Interviewer 2]

So if it's like a tier C friend, but they ask first, they get hanging out.

[Interviewer 1]

Wow.

[Interviewer 2]

This is. Everyone pay attention.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you have multiple, like, different crews that you like? You're like, I'm with crew A. I'm with. I'm with the fashion crew. I'M with the dance crew. I'm with the eyebrow crew.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And yeah, those worlds, I don't mix them. They mix themselves sometimes because of parties in New York. Do you hate. But no, it makes it fun for me because I just love to just roam through the room. Like, I just like just go on

[Interviewer 1]

the move, talk, you're a skedaddler.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And then I, I risk bye.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, that's. You never, you never. You never let anyone know that you're leaving the function.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You're just out there. It's too much pressure. And I also hate saying bye.

[Interviewer 2]

Too many people to say bye to probably in your.

[Interviewer 1]

Honestly.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. And then you say one to one and then you can't, you can't leave.

[Interviewer 1]

It's the right thing to do.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

No one's ever going to remember the goodbye.

[Interviewer 2]

It's ethical, it's an ethical way to leave.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And I'm gonna text you in like five minutes. Yeah, fine.

[Interviewer 1]

What do you do to force yourself to log off and heal any brain rot you're experiencing?

[Tyrell Hampton]

The gym, okay. That's like you're solely your phone away in the locker gone.

[Interviewer 2]

Therapy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

What. What's your. For you page looking like these days?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's a bunch of men.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Interviewer 1]

It's this tick tock, tick tock.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, but it's a bunch of men. It's giant schnauzers, which is my dream dog. Okay. Them getting like their baths and stuff. And then it's just like Atlanta, tick tock. Like Zaxby's and like baddies and fights and like random drama and stuff like that.

[Interviewer 1]

Why Atlanta?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because I. Well, I guess being from Philly, it's just like I like a little like hood culture.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Atlanta, black Hollywood. It's the Philly, the South.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So yeah, so Philly's the Atlanta, the North. And I get my like my Baltimore club music and my like Detroit stuff. So I like to keep that alive. I have my one friend who's from Louisville, Kentucky, and her and I, that is like our world. Like, we watch the baddies. We know love and hip hop basketball wives. Like, that's our. Like, we know our. Like, we are like we hood fiends.

[Interviewer 2]

Like, let's, you know, ball when it comes to.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes, the Wags. Let's go play future somewhere. Like, where are they playing R B? Like, let's go hear Neo. Like, I don't want to hear nothing.

[Interviewer 1]

Where are they playing?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, where do you go out.

[Tyrell Hampton]

There's the, the. What is it? Record room. The red room.

[Interviewer 1]

Rec room.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's in Queens, but I honestly just follow DJs around. Okay, so there's his name. I don't know if it's. I think it's Mochi. He's my favorite DJ. He DJs at the Record Room in Queens, but he DJs other places in Brooklyn. And he only plays like 90s R B. Great. Like, I want to hear that.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah, you would. You would have Kinfolk. Oh, years ago.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, my God.

[Interviewer 2]

You missed a little era in Brooklyn.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Why does that sound so familiar?

[Interviewer 2]

It was.

[Interviewer 1]

It was a store. Well, there was a magazine, which is like white gentrifier shit.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. And then there was a.

[Interviewer 1]

There was a clubs slash bar slash retail store in Williamsburg.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, shit.

[Interviewer 1]

But yeah, damn, it was a moment.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Wow. Yeah, I only want to hear R B music. I want to hear Trey Songz and Usher and, like, I want. I want that vibe.

[Interviewer 1]

What about your IG Explore page? What are you seeing there?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's workouts and men in Brazil.

[Interviewer 1]

Carnival. Like the favela boys with the blonde hair?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, yeah. Bulky and like, they. They have nice body. So I feel like sometimes it's like a mix between attraction and also, like, the physique. I'm trying to like, aspirational.

[Interviewer 1]

Why don't you book a gig down there? Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Have you been?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I've never been. I'm not that gay yet, but you're

[Interviewer 1]

not a passport, bro.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, no. It's on my list, though.

[Interviewer 2]

Sex tourism. Sex tourism is on the list.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm scared. I don't. I'm like. I don't know if I can handle that. I am pretty. I am an inside person, as outside as I am. Like, I love my house and my couch and my tv. Like, I be chilling.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, what do we want? You're a big reality TV guy. What are we watching right now?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm. I'm going to start Traders.

[Interviewer 1]

Nice. It's from the beginning or this season.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Everyone says start season two because season one wasn't that good. No shade to Traders, but so gonna start there. I'm watching Tell Me Lies, which is the best show ever. I just watched a Love story. Honestly, not that much reality TV anymore because there's not that much good stuff. I'm not a Housewives guy.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, really?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm not.

[Interviewer 1]

If you could join one show for a season, what do you. What would you pick?

[Tyrell Hampton]

That's airing right now or.

[Interviewer 1]

No, just of all time.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Screaming. Either. Friends.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, like, like as a character.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I would obviously be.

[Interviewer 2]

Were you talking reality?

[Interviewer 1]

I think I was Talking reality.

[Interviewer 2]

I'd like to be on Seinfeld.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I would do traders.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Would you be.

[Interviewer 1]

Would you be a traitor or faithful,

[Tyrell Hampton]

whoever wins?

[Interviewer 2]

Well, it depends. How good of a gamer would you

[Interviewer 1]

be a good at? I think I'd be a scheming and lying.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Or would he be like, oh, damn you. Me?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Or would you be kind of like, trying to sniff out the schemers and the liars and the snakes and the goofies?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I think I'm more better at scheming.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, you're a traitor, dude. You were born to be a traitor.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I think I can keep a secret. That's so. I feel like that's why I could be a traitor. And I feel like I could win. That's the only. I don't know if you guys remember, like, I love Money with, like, I like New York.

[Interviewer 1]

I remember, like, I love New York. Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, Tiffany Pollard.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

She had a show called I Love Money where they, like, were all the people from, like, Rock of Love, Tila Tequila's stuff.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

We're just trying to win. I think it was, like, 50K.

[Interviewer 2]

So it's like a challenge.

[Tyrell Hampton]

50K.

[Interviewer 2]

Damn.

[Interviewer 1]

They're ruining their lives.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It was 2000.

[Interviewer 2]

They love money. You can't blame them.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They said they work Jersey Shore.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, Jersey.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I would do shore.

[Interviewer 2]

The first black man on Jersey Shore.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Miami.

[Interviewer 1]

Season two. Miami.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Miami. I would do my. Yes. And I would. Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

Are you following? Are you following all them now? Like, Sookie just had a cancer scare, but I think she's good.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like.

[Interviewer 1]

Like, the situation just opened up a rehab. It's not rehab.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Motivational center only, Sammy. I only. She's got married. Yeah. I only. I only, like, pay attention to her and, like, her store in Jersey should

[Interviewer 2]

have offered to shoot the wedding.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Not no Lookbook. Not no.

[Interviewer 1]

What about the Lookbook? Her store.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, if she. I will dm. I don't feel like. I feel like. I don't know if I'm her vibe. Sammy.

[Interviewer 1]

Sammy, sweetheart.

[Tyrell Hampton]

My Pisces queen.

[Interviewer 1]

If you had a reality show that focused on you and your friends, who would be starting the most

[Tyrell Hampton]

screaming?

[Interviewer 1]

And it can't be you. Who besides you would be starting due

[Tyrell Hampton]

to the show or just due to the friend group?

[Interviewer 1]

Due to the just dynamic of, like, oh, I'm on camera. Like, hey, did you hear what this person's playing it up?

[Tyrell Hampton]

You know, I would say, my friend Andrew, it's his dream to be a reality guy. Yes. So I feel like he would be the one whispering.

[Interviewer 2]

Hammond.

[Interviewer 1]

Is he. Is he like that in real life. Is he like, yo, honestly, hear what George?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, but he does know everything.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, but he doesn't move. Like his life is already a reality TV show.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, only, like, if we're in a party and he's just like, if. If we see a guy that he likes or someone that he used to talk to, then it turns into a reality show because it's kind of like, we're now We're. We're for the cameras. Right? So everyone's watching.

[Interviewer 1]

He loves the drama.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Interviewer 2]

Have you guys ever been approached because you. You guys are movers and shakers. Big personalities abound. Has anyone ever, like, been, like, what would it call? Like, how could we do this?

[Tyrell Hampton]

They have.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I knew. So hard to be in the rooms that I guess I'm in specifically with.

[Interviewer 2]

With a crew.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So I feel like. Because I'm. I'm the plus one in some. In some of those experiences, so I feel like it's kind of hard for me to, like, take the lead and be like. Like, follow me along to be the BTS guy.

[Interviewer 2]

The plus one.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Life of plus one. I mean, honestly, great concept, right?

[Tyrell Hampton]

But I don't know if everyone else.

[Interviewer 2]

I don't know if they would agree.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So family.

[Interviewer 2]

Bieber would love that, probably.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, she would not. I think she's more private than anyone I know for sure.

[Interviewer 1]

How about Justin on the show?

[Tyrell Hampton]

He's definitely not doing the show. He is. Definitely.

[Interviewer 1]

Who sucks? We'll talk skylark. We'll pretend it's good.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, no, it's so good. I just got the. The Haley coat. Coat.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, right.

[Tyrell Hampton]

The. The black one. It's in my dump. If you guys saw. But it's. It fits me so well.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah. How do we get those boxers?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I didn't know he made boxers. I was screaming, he's the billboard.

[Interviewer 1]

The Yukon boxers.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm screaming.

[Interviewer 2]

Who in your Rolodex is the most famous person that you could get on this podcast? Yeah, sure, sure. I'd rather you book someone famous on

[Tyrell Hampton]

our show for us. I don't. It depends who you want.

[Interviewer 2]

Anybody will take. Once we have you, then it's everywhere.

[Interviewer 1]

You bet. Again. Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

You have an open seat here whenever you want.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah. Third mic.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, it would be. Tell me who you want.

[Interviewer 1]

Doopy loopy.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, Doopey loopy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, come on.

[Interviewer 1]

You.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm screaming.

[Interviewer 2]

If you were a third mic, this pod would be eight times bigger, and we're already pretty big, so.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You are really big. I'm tuned in. Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

We got. No, no.

[Interviewer 1]

Jay. Jay Masqueray.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, my husband. That's actually if he's, like, single or not, so I don't want to, like, disrespect his. We'll. We'll talk.

[Interviewer 1]

We'll talk.

[Interviewer 2]

Hey, we're picking up what you're putting down because you are leaving it all out on the field.

[Interviewer 1]

We will chat.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm screaming.

[Interviewer 1]

We will chat. Or, you know what? If it's not him, at least we know that that's like.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Standard that we shoot for.

[Interviewer 2]

The bar has been set.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Also, he's a stylist. You're a photographer.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

I'm surprised you guys haven't worked together.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I've asked for him on some things, but I don't think he was available.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, you.

[Interviewer 2]

You. But you haven't begged yet or the client.

[Interviewer 1]

The client could afford him.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Maybe not, right?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I mean, they can barely afford.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

All the budget is already counted for, I would say.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you end up saying no to a lot of gigs because it's like. Well, do you say. End up saying no to a lot of gigs because it's not. It's a. Not a good look for you, regardless of the money?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, because I. I like working and I like staying busy, so I tend to say yes, but it just depends what they're doing.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, what the.

[Interviewer 2]

The project.

[Tyrell Hampton]

What the. Yeah, what the idea is, if it fits. Because I'm like, you could definitely. I'm like, if you want, like, film and like, you know, daytime and like all this other stuff, I'm like, that's just not me.

[Interviewer 2]

We've definitely had, like, stylists or photographers, like professionals on the show where, like, they do a lot of work that you will never see on their Instagram by design because it's. They want the bag and they want the work, but they're not, like, shouting from the rafters about X client. I don't know how often that happens for you.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm. I'm pretty happy about it. I just didn't. Adidas campaign. It's in the store and we. Pacings are around. But I'm just waiting on. The thing about working behind the scenes is you just don't receive anything. So I'm just waiting to get the images. Do you wait? Even though I took them and I.

[Interviewer 2]

And they're in stores and I'm weedpacing already.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you wait for the check to clear before you put it on your ig?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I really. Until it's out. Oh, I'm like, usually, I'm usually the first person because it's something I work hard for. Right?

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah. But if it's net 90 and you're like, come on.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I wouldn't know anything about N90. Oh,

[Interviewer 2]

are you a net zero, girly?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't, I just know that I don't.

[Interviewer 1]

It's Tyrell's terms.

[Tyrell Hampton]

He just knows.

[Interviewer 2]

He's never waited 90 days for anything.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't think so. Or at least I wouldn't know.

[Interviewer 2]

That's good.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you find. I, I think I know the answer at least from my, you know, my outside in perspective. Like, do you find that clients want to work with you because your name carries gravitas and heft with it where it's like prestige now that you know it's a Tyrell Hampton campaign or, or

[Tyrell Hampton]

cover shoot or something for the parties? Yes, I, I, it depends, it really depends on the brand and all the things because some brands are bigger than me and obviously, like, I'm doing a service for them and sometimes it's like an exchange, a two way street. Yeah. So it really just depends on the brand and like, like what?

[Interviewer 1]

Club swap.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, yeah. Do you look, when you look in the mirror, are you like, there is a brand that is Tyrell Hansen. Like, do you not. Can you acknowledge that or is that something that, like, you're, I'm too humble or. I don't want to think that way.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But maybe with the bike. But I, with the photos. I think it's still hard to like, see it or to understand.

[Interviewer 2]

You can feel it a little bit.

[Tyrell Hampton]

A little bit. Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay.

[Interviewer 2]

Party photos. There is an established, like, I'm the guy or I am one of the, the guys that.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 2]

But anything else.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay. It's me and the cobra.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Honestly, Mark is fast.

[Interviewer 2]

Mark.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I love him.

[Interviewer 2]

A legend.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I've been shot by him. So period.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you, does, do you feel like, or care or worry about the reverberations in like, media with new GQ editor in chief, new Vogue editor or head of content editorial, whatever. Are you like, oh, I gotta like, maintain these kind of media relationships as, like, as there's like tremors in the, in the media scape.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Or is that again, I'm really bad at that. Which is like the, this new chapter of like being adulting and following up and stuff. But it's more so like at the end of the day, they know who I am. I don't know who they are. Like, they're, in terms of, like, I know they're familiar with me in some extent. And so it just has to be the right thing. Like. Like, it's always, like, a matter of waiting for the. My favorite people to hit me up when they have something that they know I could fit into their world for.

[Interviewer 2]

You're not necessarily proactive in that regard.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay. That's your agent's job a little bit now.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, true. I guess that's not your purpose.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I've been. I used to. Last year, I did a lot of, like, asking him, like, maybe I'll go in for a meeting and, like, go say hi and, like, tell them I have ideas. Like, if I have an idea for something, then I'll definitely be like, I have an idea for this specific house brand magazine thing. Let's do it. Let's make it happen. So if that's how I feel, then that's how sometimes it happens. But sometimes they'll hit me up and be like, what do you want to do? You know, that's why I'm like, you know.

[Interviewer 1]

Have you ever interfaced with Anna?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Anna Wintour? I've seen her.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I've seen her, but I've never spoken to her.

[Interviewer 1]

Have you taken her photo because you're scared or.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I have taken her photo, I think a few times, actually.

[Interviewer 1]

Glasses on?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Both.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, really?

[Interviewer 2]

You have glasses off rare.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I think she was.

[Interviewer 1]

She didn't drone strike that off your phone?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I think she was talking to Mucha, maybe, like, backstage at Prada or something one year, or maybe Mew Mew one year. And I don't think she had glasses on the top.

[Interviewer 2]

Wow.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, she took him off as a sign of respect for.

[Interviewer 2]

That's crazy.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Wow.

[Interviewer 2]

And you got that.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But see, that's something that doesn't excite me.

[Interviewer 1]

You didn't turn really? You didn't turn to stone?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I. I ran away. What happens backstage is like. Like, I'm so, like, wormy that I take it, and then I'm like, okay, there's another place that I have to be. There's something. There's so many things happening all around the room that I'm, like, one and done so quick.

[Interviewer 2]

Even during an iconic moment. You're like, One picture. Okay, I'm out of here.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because sometimes you. I don't want to overstay my welcome. And sometimes they're really having deep combos and, like, glasses were off, so. Yeah. So I'm like, I know. But the thing is, I know my camera, and I know the. Like, I know everything.

[Interviewer 1]

What's your.

[Tyrell Hampton]

To make it happen?

[Interviewer 1]

What's your camera of choice.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Are you a secret? Oh, it's actually one of the things people Google, which I didn't know.

[Interviewer 2]

Wow.

[Tyrell Hampton]

People ask a lot and you can't get.

[Interviewer 2]

That's a trade secret.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you develop your own film or do you.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Film.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay, Digital. How many photos do you shoot per party on average? What do you say?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It depends. It really, it. Like, for a job, there's. There's a specific limit.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay, nice.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So maybe like 1000 is the limit. So there's that.

[Interviewer 1]

Thousand selects or a thousand, like, like,

[Tyrell Hampton]

I know I need a thousand in

[Interviewer 2]

order to give them their select 50 bangers.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, that's. That's an interesting shooting percentage.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So, yeah, so that's. That's that.

[Interviewer 1]

And if you're just shooting for fun, maybe like 13,000.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, no, like 13.

[Interviewer 1]

Total zilch.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Okay. Okay.

[Interviewer 1]

So for a client, for a job, you're like, just spraying and praying for, like a night. The homies, you're like, oh, this is a great moment.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Sometimes I orchestrate them because, thank God, I know a lot of the people at the parties. So I'm like, I know. I know what people want. I know what they want to see.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you have people. No shade to Lawrence. Do you have people texting? Be like, hey, Tyrell, I'm going to be at this party. Make sure you shoot me that. He does that with street soft talk.

[Interviewer 2]

No, just with my boys.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm screaming, period.

[Interviewer 2]

Closed mouth doesn't get fed.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Hello, you. If you want the pick, you got to do a close coat.

[Interviewer 1]

But don't get shot.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Shot. No. No one ever asked me. No.

[Interviewer 1]

Really? So that's.

[Tyrell Hampton]

There's.

[Interviewer 1]

That's the thing.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's more just like they respect you. You can tell in the moment when someone is ready for a photo.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, gotcha.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And then when someone asks me for a photo, I'm like, no. Can I like, even iPhone.

[Interviewer 1]

I'm just like a dj. No requests.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Even iPhone. I'm just like, there's no. Because it. I'm too selective. And also they're too critical. And I'm like, you just need to ask someone else.

[Interviewer 1]

Do you. Do you like, at the party or if someone's peacocking too hard. Are you talking, like, just wearing, like, an insane outfit?

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah. They're begging for screaming for it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't. I look for, like, energy. Like, I'm looking for the girl who's on the dance floor with. Okay. Swinging her hair.

[Interviewer 2]

Could care less that you're there.

[Interviewer 1]

The street guy, the Straight guy checking the weather app.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I want that.

[Interviewer 2]

You do want that guy in the

[Tyrell Hampton]

corner, like on their phone just like in their own world.

[Interviewer 1]

Like, I just making.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I want to be like a part of their world.

[Interviewer 1]

If I'm at a fashion party on DraftKings, making bets on Malaysian ping pong, you're going to shoot me?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. If you're like into it and you have on a sick outfit, then that's even better. I'm looking for the people chain smoking. I'm looking for like, like, where's everyone that's having fun?

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, can I ask you a question about smoking?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

Do people rely on it as a crutch for like, coolness factor in a photo or like some even like an action or movement?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It depends. Some people do chain smoking smoke. Sometimes I will be like, sometimes if, if someone's smoking and they already lit it, I'm like, you need to redo it. Yeah, sometimes the way it's so romantic, I think, and I think maybe it's my love of like New York and sex in the city and all that, that sometimes a cigarette just like, adds just a sweetness to like, the vibes.

[Interviewer 2]

Here's a super dumb question about the secret camera.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I want to think it's ever done.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay, so you're at a party and you're using your camera. That is this.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Everyone sees it.

[Interviewer 2]

Right.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So did you like the people who, who ask? Don't know because. Well, the thing is that this one person came up to me at the party. It's not even that.

[Interviewer 2]

It's like, if you have to ask, you probably can't afford it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, there's kids who come up to me and been like, I want to get in the industry and all these things. And I'm like, I just don't think you need my camera.

[Interviewer 2]

It shouldn't matter what the tools are. It's about who's using the tool.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I'm like, the new generation doesn't really understand that, like, you need to just look up, up a bunch of things and like, find out what you're interested in, do the work through. Like, being actually obsessed with it. Like, I'm actually obsessed with photography. Like, I look at it, I'm on Tumblr 24. 7, Instagram, 24 7, looking at magazines, all the things. So I'm like, that's what I'm. You should be looking at that. And that's how you make better images.

[Interviewer 2]

That's more important than the camera.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because the camera, you just, it's manufactured

[Interviewer 1]

what's your Tumblr Wang Sex.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm screaming no. Lol. No.

[Interviewer 1]

I think I clicked on it and it was like, restricted.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Where did you. How did you find that?

[Interviewer 1]

Your YouTube bio, bro.

[Interviewer 2]

This is on the Internet.

[Tyrell Hampton]

The thing is, I keep those things there for me. Same as like the tick tock. I'm like, it's more for me. So when someone brings it up to me in my. In real life, I'm like, oh, you saw this?

[Interviewer 1]

Wait, what?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like. Yeah, you're there.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, it is for everyone.

[Tyrell Hampton]

How many.

[Interviewer 1]

How many cameras did you run through before you settled on your current?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It was that one that was.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, really? One of them.

[Tyrell Hampton]

My mom got it on like, qvc.

[Interviewer 1]

So it really isn't even about, like. No, the camera. It's your eye and your vision and

[Tyrell Hampton]

your knowledge of like, it was just being there.

[Interviewer 2]

Also, I could see a young kid thinking it would be a shortcut, though. Like, okay, if I just got the right camera, I could be Tyrell, which is like, not the worst way to dream, but maybe there to dream a little bigger, darling.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I mean, just have. Have fun. That's. That's mine. Was obviously, like, by accident, like, my mom got the camera. I was like, you, what are you doing? And then I was like, well, now it's mine. Yeah. And then it turned into.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, she got it for herself. It wasn't a gift for you.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No.

[Interviewer 1]

Stole it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No. Yeah. And I took it to college and then. Then took it to the club top and down to. What is it? Down, down or whatever. Never. Never. And all those places. And then. Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

And that's how you ended up on throwing fits.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, Literally.

[Interviewer 1]

What do you like to spend your hard earned money on?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Chanel bags?

[Interviewer 1]

That's it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

That and probably my rent.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Food, I guess. No, not.

[Interviewer 1]

Are you, like, eating out every night? Not a real eater.

[Interviewer 2]

You cook?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I do cook, but not every night. I'm like, the. My money is mainly spent on my bags and like, when I go to LA to like, hang out and like, experience and stuff.

[Interviewer 2]

Vacay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

When you travel, are you staying. Are you staying at Sunset Tower or are you, like, crashing on the couch?

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, damn. Well, you said you hated it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Well, I just don't. I wouldn't stay there.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay. You want to hang there?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I would hang, get a martini there. There. I love, like, the. The restaurant. Obviously it's hard to get a reservation there, but like, the live music and things like that, like, the ambiance is great. I wouldn't stay there because I don't want to stay in a dorm where I see everyone that I know.

[Interviewer 1]

Sure. And it's on Sunset, so.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But when I'm in la, I usually am at this same hotel.

[Interviewer 1]

So just bags is what you spend your money on? Chanel bags.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

And then experiences traveling.

[Interviewer 1]

Was there a dumb purchase you made recently?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Oh, I'm screaming. I, I, what did I do? I mean, I'm obsessed with ties right now.

[Interviewer 1]

Cool. What do we, what are we tying?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, ties?

[Interviewer 1]

No, but what, like blue ties?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Vintage? No, Saint Laurent.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Interviewer 1]

Contemporary.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Anthony Saint Laurent.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So every time I, I just keep going in there and being like, do you have the specific tie? Like, do you have like a solid color? I'm like, no, we have like this and we have this and I go into like, like Prada and all these places just to find like a nice tie. Like, I'm looking for a specific, usually a specific tie to go with an outfit that I want. So that's usually what.

[Interviewer 2]

So you're getting suited and booted these days or is it a casual tie?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I like to, I do want to start wearing suits more like in the summer. It's definitely going to be like, suit jacket, opened up, unbuttoned shirt.

[Interviewer 1]

Like where you get, where do you like your suits from?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I get them from James Valoria Slave vintage.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But I love, like, I do love a Saint Laurent suit. I just think the baggy fit.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Is just amazing. But I buy the different pieces. Like, I have like Bodhi suit jackets and then I'll have like the rose suit pants mix and matching and like. Oh. But then I'll go to like, what is it? I love apc and they have really nice trousers. And I'll do that with like a nice button up. I'm just.

[Interviewer 1]

Are you gonna get the same or on thigh high boots?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, because I'm short.

[Interviewer 1]

Oh, they would like, they would make you look stunning.

[Interviewer 2]

They would go above the knees. Maybe even they go to the waist.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'm not, but I'm in my waiters guard vibes for like that type of like, like suiting. Like, I love that. But just I'm not that tall.

[Interviewer 2]

Because you want to wear it, not because you have to or something.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

You were one of the, I think the forgers of like the shirt, tie, jacket, which now is like a like straight guy. Like, like, you know, whatever.

[Interviewer 2]

It's like, oh, Tik tok Explore page.

[Interviewer 1]

It's like a Bravo summer house type fit. But like, you were, you were kind

[Tyrell Hampton]

of early on that the Bravo or The. No, the.

[Interviewer 1]

The shirt, tie, and, like, leather jacket.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I just love. I. I don't know.

[Interviewer 1]

Single Ron ties.

[Tyrell Hampton]

They're all. I have only sing ties. Wow.

[Interviewer 1]

Very particular.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Well, because they make the. The. The material is very specific. It's like a shiny. But it's not, like, too shiny like the nylon. Prada.

[Interviewer 2]

Gotcha.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So I really like that. That. But it's. It became this romantic thing because on the bike, I knew that I look. I look like a school boy.

[Interviewer 2]

Oh, got it.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I look like someone who better

[Interviewer 1]

not be wearing any Tom Brown. You'd look like a little British lad.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't have any Tom, but shout out to my Libra King.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah, but you look like a berries and cream ass, though, in a Tom Brown shorts.

[Interviewer 2]

It might actually just fit him like a normal suit.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Not. No, you would just be like, I'm

[Interviewer 1]

wearing just a suit.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Well, I just like plain colors. Like, I don't know if I could do this.

[Interviewer 2]

The piping and stride and all that.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So that's. That's why. But I knew that. I didn't know the video would go. Those Viking videos would go viral, but I knew that I was trying to put on a performance with the tie and the roses.

[Interviewer 2]

Right.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And my khakis and my, My. So. And now I'm like, now we're going form fitting.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You know, khaki, switching it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Evolving. We love that.

[Tyrell Hampton]

If we have to. Adulthood.

[Interviewer 1]

Do people ever see you. I mean, you mentioned the kids on the bridge, but if you're ever biking just because you get to get somewhere, people like, oh, my God, do the

[Tyrell Hampton]

thing, and you're like, I'm.

[Interviewer 1]

I'm biking here.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I bike really fast, so. No. Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

You ever thought about getting your own ebike? Or does it have to be a city bike for the. I like the aesthetic.

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I like to dock it and leave it. Oh, I don't want the.

[Interviewer 2]

You want to be responsible for this bike? Lock it up. All that.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah, I cannot, because friends have told me that the seats have been stolen. They stole, like, random parts of it.

[Interviewer 1]

I'm like, if the batteries always go.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. I'm like, if y' all do this. I'm not. I'm just. I'm gonna leave it there.

[Interviewer 2]

Right.

[Interviewer 1]

Is there anything you refuse to spend a lot of money on?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No.

[Interviewer 1]

Uber xl. Really? You don't.

[Interviewer 2]

Cheap.

[Interviewer 1]

You're not cheap to get on anything?

[Tyrell Hampton]

No, I, I, I. I'm a fan of luxury.

[Interviewer 2]

Welcome to the club, brother.

[Interviewer 1]

What's the most, like Luxurious ridiculous thing you've done of late.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Probably asking my agent to get me a driver for. Because I had a bunch of random events, but I Only for Fashion Week.

[Interviewer 2]

New York Fashion Week.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I was like, I just want a driver to like, keep pretty normal in the thing. But I would normally just. Normally I like the bike. Like, if it was. It's really nice out right now. Like, I would just be like, put everything in the book bag, like do my thing and get to where I'm going and be there, speedy.

[Interviewer 2]

Maybe that's the schoolboy thing, is because you have a backpack that also.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You're like, I gotta carry stuff. Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

You're like Bill Cunningham, but instead of his bike. It's a city bike.

[Interviewer 2]

You got to get to work Trail Cunningham.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Literally, if I could make a bike with the compartment big enough for that. Because sometimes I. I get on the.

[Interviewer 1]

The bridge, dude, the trade. That sucks.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's. It's a lot.

[Interviewer 1]

That's the one thing I should DM them about. That's one thing Paris line bikes have over.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

New York City and la.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But you can't drive the lime bike bikes in Beverly Hills, which is so annoying. Which is. I'm like, I would want to just bike around Beverly Hills and like, live in my fantasy. But you cannot bike in the radius. Oh, they like turned off.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And I was like, this is so.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah, they don't want. They don't want any bikers in there.

[Interviewer 1]

They're literally gatekeeping.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

Also the. The web where you can have your phone here on the line bikes is pretty.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I don't trust it. But I use the sticky thing like the octo, buddy.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah. You trust that.

[Interviewer 1]

The ones that the ones in Paris you should trust.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

They legit. They legit. Hold it. Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

For like, I get. I'm a germaphobe, so I feel like if I put it in there, I'm going to like, need to sanitize my phone and like, do the. Probably I sanitize the bikes before I get on them.

[Interviewer 2]

Wow. Like, wipe down the.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like the seat and just the handlebars.

[Interviewer 1]

Like Naomi Campbell flying business suit.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Like, I. I'm really especially. I'm like. I'm about to dig my hands and like, rip tight.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

So yeah. Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]

I get immediate hand wash. Tyrell, thank you for coming on to the.

[Interviewer 2]

This is great.

[Interviewer 1]

You said it was a dream of yours. Dream.

[Tyrell Hampton]

This was a dream of mine.

[Interviewer 1]

Talk about yourself. Dream achieved.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yes. 10 out of 10 experience.

[Interviewer 1]

Is there any constructed criticism you would like to give us before we get you out of here.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Nor.

[Interviewer 2]

We're perfect.

[Interviewer 1]

Could we come to your next party?

[Tyrell Hampton]

You're definitely invited. Are you going to be on DraftKings? Are you going to be on DraftKings?

[Interviewer 2]

No, I don't.

[Tyrell Hampton]

There's no. There's no paparazzi outside.

[Interviewer 2]

I don't.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Sorry.

[Interviewer 2]

I don't gamble because I have an addictive personality. But I will be. I could be in the corner and be a weirdo my own world. If that's what it takes to.

[Interviewer 1]

I did say. Actually we walked. This is funny. You'll appreciate this. We were walking to the E. House, lot of show.

[Tyrell Hampton]

And we got. Did you see me?

[Interviewer 1]

No, no.

[Interviewer 2]

See us.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Did you. I didn't see you guys.

[Interviewer 2]

Were you shooting or were you just passing the night?

[Tyrell Hampton]

I was just attending.

[Interviewer 1]

It was a.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It was a big, beautiful outfit.

[Interviewer 1]

But we.

[Interviewer 2]

Great room.

[Interviewer 1]

We walk out and it's nighttime and everyone's like, snapping our photo.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Brutal.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You were like, I'm Rihanna.

[Interviewer 2]

Whoa.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Because that's what. That's how I felt. I was like, oh, shit. This house. This is how she feels.

[Interviewer 2]

Flashing lights.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's just insane.

[Interviewer 1]

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2]

Well, because then you, like, it's done. And then you're like, I'm going to. I'm blind. I'm literally blind.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Then the walk away. The walk of shame. So sad after.

[Interviewer 2]

Okay, we're done with you. Oh, yeah.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You're just like.

[Interviewer 2]

Cuz you peaked and now it's.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Yeah. Like the road. You're like. Now everyone's like, who are you? And you're like, can't see.

[Interviewer 1]

There's guys trying to sell you fake AirPods.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Literally. Yeah, go off them, though.

[Interviewer 2]

But that one. But that one shining moment when it's.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Boom.

[Interviewer 1]

Okay, so besides wearing sunglasses to get photographed. No constructive criticism.

[Tyrell Hampton]

I'll take constructive criticism.

[Interviewer 2]

Perfect.

[Tyrell Hampton]

10 out of 10.

[Interviewer 1]

Where can the kids follow you on social media?

[Tyrell Hampton]

Is there anything you'd like to plug Tyrell Hampton? That's.

[Interviewer 1]

That's it too. On YouTube and tick tock. Playing sex on Tumblr.

[Interviewer 2]

Yeah. Let's go.

[Interviewer 1]

Where do you. Do you prefer people follow you on Tick Tock or ig?

[Tyrell Hampton]

It depends on what you're looking for. I. I say adults should follow me on. On Instagram so that, you know, know we could start business. We're investing, you know, stocks and all the things. All the kids were on Tick Tock and we're having fun. And if you want to laugh, there you go.

[Interviewer 1]

There you go.

[Tyrell Hampton]

But if you're serious and you're like

[Interviewer 2]

the dichotomy of man. It's a beautiful thing to see.

[Interviewer 1]

And stay tuned for a exhibition this fall.

[Interviewer 2]

Yes.

[Interviewer 1]

Which is right around the corner.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It really. It's scary.

[Interviewer 2]

It's happening. It's all happening.

[Tyrell Hampton]

It's gonna be really good, though.

[Interviewer 1]

It's all happening.

[Tyrell Hampton]

You guys are gonna be there.

[Interviewer 1]

It's gonna be Tyrell.

[Tyrell Hampton]

Thank you.

[Interviewer 2]

Thanks.

[Interviewer 1]

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[Tyrell Hampton]

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[Interviewer 1]

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[Interviewer 2]

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