Hollywood Love Story (2018): Season 1, Episode 6 - Josh - full transcript

Some people move to Hollywood

and completely lose their mind.

They get involved in a lot
of negative things,

like drugs and bad people.

It can be hard to avoid if
you hang out in certain crowds,

because sometimes the bad people
have smiles on their faces.

I've seen them come out here
and do really well

and then ruin their chances
because they fall in love

with the party lifestyle.

The highest highs usually
come with the lowest lows.

My name's Joshua Scroggins.



But you always interrupt me...

The day I landed
in L. A., I was like,

"...I got to figure
this shit the... out."

I'm fashion, bro, and everybody
in rap wants to be fashion.

I'm on some creative shit,
but I'm from the hood,

so I still got to do what I got
to do to show the world.

There's no place like L. A.

If you can seize those
moments and realize

that you blessed to be here
and not supposed to be here,

you can... do
whatever the... you want.

You really can.

Just put your mind
to it and do it.

All of these... boys.

Look at these... heads.



Hey, you can't block
the sidewalk, bro.

What's up, fugly?

Pull up.

Pull up.

Should we go to the back?

No.
Pull up.

Why you got to
make it difficult?

I'm high as... bro.

Yeah. I don't know what
he's talking about.

Hey, so I can't leave
my whip here?

Yes, bro. Pull it in front
of the sidewalk, though.

What does that mean?
Oh, right there you mean?

- Yeah.
- All right.

How many times
I got to say that shit?

Oh, just a couple of
my young bloods right here.

You know, we got Miguel,
trap star.

We got Eugene,
young model finesse kid.

We got Mo, my designer, the beat
master cheffing it in the lab.

My youngins,
some of my youngins right now.

Josh is good people.
You know, I mean, it's L. A.

It's rare to find good people.

There's not a lot
of good people.

Yeah. When you find good people,
that's your people.

I mean, I've been
through some shit.

I shed light.

Like, it's what I do,
you know what I mean?

I keep them around to show me
what's new on the streets.

He's just not - He's just not
on that, like, thirst shit.

Like, he's cool and he
out here living his life.

- It's natural, like...
- Exactly.

...bro is doing him
and then mother...

- are slowly recognizing him...
- Exactly. Exactly.

...like, the shit,
and then...

It's not like he's trying
to do that shit.

...you know, that's
how you do it, though.

He's just doing his shit.

You know?
It's not some shit.

It's not like you trying.

You see mother...
wearing something.

It's like, you do you...

but you do some shit
that's different.

...all of that shit.

I moved to L. A.
from Richmond, Virginia,

like, 2010

because I was...
I was high.

I was out there trapping,
you know?

I was... up.

I'm a hustler,
You know what I'm saying?

I work how many jobs.

I model.
I style.

I... throw parties.

I mean, I'll still host here
and there,

but not as much as I used to.

I'm making music right now.

I came a long way, bro.

I came a long way, and I know
I have a purpose, like,

this fashion shit really isn't,

but this music
is gonna take off.

I already can feel it
in my bones.

I'm doing some stuff
with... Interscope, like,

a sublabel, I guess, and...

Yeah, man.

Thinking about
signing with them,

and I'm gonna bring the
fashion to the hip-hop world.

I'm gonna show them what it is.

Bro, stop hitting me up, dawg.

Yeah, that's tight.
Stop calling me.

I'll hit you in a minute.
I'm doing shit right now.

Oh, you a hoe.

I'm saying I got to use
my phone, bro,

and you keep...
with your ugly ass.

There's nothing like L. A.

You could be anything
you want to be in L. A.

All you have to do
is work at it.

I was in Jersey
in the middle of nowhere,

and now I'm in California.

He got his shirt off and
we're smoking weed in public.

Like, come on, bro.

Anything is possible, but you
got to believe in yourself.

Hold up.

- Want to do it again?
- Yeah.

All right.

So the music video,

we're still kind of
trying to figure out.

So we can do this track that we
just laid down, but, like,

I was thinking, you know, since
it's my first music video...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just do "Designer for Days."

- "Designer for Days."
- Yeah.

- Right?
- That's the most polished one.

Do like a shoot...
- We need a... shoot.

...with a bunch of girls, like,

do the wake-up-at-nighttime-type
vibe

when we're all flossy as...
Exactly.

When we walk out of a...

I like that.

...Like, 12 deep out
of a... tent

and start our night.
- That's what makes it surreal

and makes it more, like...

It's, like, dead, like,
a ghost town.

It's, like, it's apocalyptic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ghost town.

That's the vibe.

Hey, zoom in on this.

Don't. Don't do it.

Yeah.

I'm still drinking
out the bottle.

What else you got for us?

What questions?

Big dick bandits...
You know what it is.

We just out here just trying
to... maintain.

Oh, my... is here!

I ate some mushrooms, man,
and they had me...

Hey, I ate some mushrooms, too!

Hey!
I definitely do.

But they were blessed under
the full moon and, like...

We like to keep it
herbal, actually.

...by a shaman and, like,
know where you're

getting your drugs from.

Let me tell you guys.
Don't do drugs.

- Drugs are bad.
- Don't do drugs.

Mushrooms are real, dude.

They're natural.

But if you get good drugs,

you know what I mean, like,
from a reliable source

and, like, you know
where it's coming from.

A lot of people will try
to tell you they're reliable,

but don't... with that
unless they're your homey,

like, honestly, dude.

Exactly.
If you got some, like,

longevity in your relationship
with the guy, that's one thing.

You, whoever I'm
speaking to, listen.

Use your time wisely
because it's all you got.

I like to get up, like,
by 10:00, you know,

so I can have a morning.

Because it's probably, like...

- Hey.
- Hey.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

You know, I've actually got
a little film crew here.

They want to know what I
was like when I was a kid.

Sweet.

That's it?

That's all you got for me?

- A terror.
- A terror.

I had a brain tumor
when I was 16.

Yeah, look at the scar.
Show them the scar.

Look.

They said I'd never walk
or talk again...

Yeah, exactly.

...and...
I was like, "...that."

You know what I mean?

You can't tell me
some shit, like,

and that's how I beat
the whole thing.

She gave me this
for my birthday this year,

"Love You Forever."

It's a good one.

This fool gets into a muck,

but the whole thing,
you know what I'm saying,

she used to sneak
into his room every night

and sing "I love you forever.
I like you for always.

As long as I'm living,
my baby you'll be."

Then he, like, started getting
in trouble, whatever,

and she starts getting older

and he, like,
breaks into her house

and starts, like, rocking her
back and forth when she gets old

and, like, passes away,
and it's like,

"As long as I'm living,
my mommy you'll be."

Dukes. Mama Dukes
in the building.

- Yes.
- I wish you were here.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Why do you keep dropping shit?

...that's a wide liner.

That's bad luck.

That's a vice, man.
I'm gonna keep it.

Well, no.
That was mine.

That was mine.
- I don't care.

I dropped out of high school

and just started
getting into shit,

you know, selling drugs,

like, hustling,
doing stupid shit.

I got charges, and I decided,

"Why am I out here
doing stupid shit

when I could
better myself?"

I moved out here and handled
my shit, and then I, you know,

I got into fashion
the second I moved out here.

That was, like,
the only interest

that I've ever really
had other than trapping.

So I got Boris Bidjan socks,
Boris Bidjan Saberi.

All this stuff is one-of-a-kind.

It's made out of
vintage blankets.

It's called the loaner blanket.

Freaking...
but, yeah.

I love just, like,
being comfortable.

And I never left,
you know what I mean?

Today we are at Lush.

We're about to do
a little photo shoot.

Got your touch of color
over here.

You got your rocker's tee,
more elegant vibes.

When I was younger,
I was just trying to push weed

to all the kids in my school
and shit, and then, like,

I moved on to, like,
selling heroin and shit

that was really
making some money.

Acid, a lot of,
like, pressed pills

but with no...
stamp on them.

You would just get them
out of a tube

and then cut them ourselves

so they'd be, like,
quadruple... stacks,

...whatever stacks.

You wouldn't know

because we were cutting them
with razors.

And then, I guess, we'll do,
like, this one next.

Yeah.
That's my favorite.

Yeah, unfortunately.

It was in those days
was when the first, you know,

I was playing around with it
'cause I was selling it,

but I was just, like,
snorting it, whatever.

And it might have been
6 months or something,

the longest stretch.

Not a good drug.

When I first came out here,
I threw parties and shit,

and that's where I got
all my connections

to everybody, like,
wanting to come into the club

and, like, da da da da.

And I kinda, like, faked it
until I maked it kind of deal.

Like, people would see me out
and, like, be like,

"I like your style. Will you
style something for me?"

or "I like your stees.
Will you model this for me?"

It's not like my agency
did too much, you know?

I was out here just, like,
on my grizzy.

That's what you got to do.

Nobody's gonna do it
for you, bro.

O0 C1 Turn around.
You're ruining the shot.

No, turn that way.

Look over there.

Okay, fine, don't.

I love my life.
I feel so blessed.

I wouldn't trade this
for anything in the world,

and the one thing I love most
about it is making people happy.

Just meeting somebody and
seeing the smile on their face

and the effect that I've had
on certain people

is just one of the best
feelings in the world.

I think because I've been
doing this so long

that it's just,
like, a part of me,

from doing "The Simple Life"

and all these shows
and always being on camera.

I guess it just comes
natural to me.

Dawg, we about to do
the first scene

in my music video, bro.

First music video ever.
- What up?

I can't even explain
the feeling, you know?

The fam just pulled up.

It's a beautiful thing, dark.

Do you want to shoot kind of,
like, in the alleyways, like,

doors open, moving slow...
- Yeah.

...and they're just
kind of like, you know?

Kind of, like, this is, like...
This is, like,

our statement towards,
like, a rap video.

You know what I mean?

Pixel Face in a nutshell
is a genius.

Okay.

...his art
is so next level.

So always follow me.

Always listen to what I say.

Everything can go so much
faster if I don't have to, like,

shake you guys down,
say things twice.

I'm the director.
Josh is the artist.

The director has to suck it out
of them, you know what I mean?

You are in my world.

You are doing
what I tell you to do.

All right.
Everybody, to the alleyway.

Oh, he's skirting.

Hold on.
Let me get that on the camera.

Let me get that on my 'gram.

Work that bitch, man.

Hey.

All right. Play back.
Action!

All right. Turn up!
Turn up! Turn up!

I'm off it.
You have to listen.

You have to listen
to what I'm saying.

I'm serious.
I'm dead ass.

You got to listen
to what I'm saying.

- I'm sorry.
- I said, "turn up."

Oh, turn up.
Okay.

I'm gonna turn up.
My fault.

I'm gonna turn it up.
I got you.

Turn up.
- I don't care.

- They looking for us.
- For us?

They looking for Josh, for sure.

- They looking for somebody.
- They're looking for Josh.

I salute all the thots
out there.

Keep doing your thing.

Thot it up.

Thot is a girl
that doesn't give a...

She just wants some dick
just like you want some pussy.

She might be after something,

but she ain't getting
nothing but this dick.

Almost fell on that shit.

Almost fell, like,
almost fell back.

All right. We got to make sure
you don't fall back.

I'm a thot boy.
I ain't no... boy.

Don't never get that confused.
Don't never get that confused.

I'm a thot boy.

I'm thots we trust, bruh.

All right. I'm over it.
All right.

Now we're doing the next scene,
but it's not set up!

Hell yeah.

I'm happy every time
I got breath in my lungs.

I mean, I'm not supposed
to be here, bro.

Like I said, I'm blessed.

Come on.
We're losing time.

Walk across the street.

Like, you... listen to me,

and you do what I tell you
to do, and you suffer.

You... suffer
for two hours.

Get in trash.
Rub your titties.

Bounce on a dead man.
...smoke a blunt.

Do whatever the...
I tell you to do.

If you do that,
you will look tight as...

Is everybody ready?
- Yeah. Yeah. Yep.

- Play back.
- Action.

Now your mission
is to get to that tent

and get those girls in the tent.

When I say everybody get in
the tent, what does that mean?

No, you go to the - You guys
already have to be in the tent.

Like, come over here.
Get in the tent.

Get in the tent.
God... damn it.

Roz, get out of the shot!
Okay.

When I say, "Everybody
get in the big tent,"

what does that mean?

You... up my shoot.

I didn't hear you.

Come on.

We're filming a music video!

We're not having fun!

I'm not having fun!

What do they think,
a... video makes itself?

God... damn it.

That was exhausting, exhausting.

I mean, this is a dream
come true.

Like, I've been waiting my whole
life to, like, pull off

what I just pulled off.

I needed Josh to be on 10,000%,

you know what I'm saying, and
he gave me a great character.

He gave me himself,
and that's all I... wanted.

So now we're gonna take
that gold, that footage,

and we're going
to splice that together.

It's gonna be sick as...

I'm excited that this is
starting a new inertia.

Fools are gonna start
knowing that I make music now,

and maybe this could
start a new revenue.

This is what I'm trying to do,

so I just want to keep riding
my wave

and, you know,
see where it takes me.

L.A. is what you make it.

If you want to... kick it
with some scum bags

and, like... around
and just do nothing,

that's what the...
you're finna to do.

If you want to go to the club
and be a hood rat

and thot it up,
you gonna go thot it up.

You know what I'm saying?

It's going down tonight.

We're getting a 3,700-foot...
little loft downtown

for that pre-pre.

I'm gonna blow this Airbnb up.

It's gonna get stupid.

Shit's about to go straight up.

We got the Airbnbs out here.

We're gonna get
a little buck beforehand.

Joe, Corey,
what are you doing tonight?

You coming out with us?

We got the pre-party
for the Gari Safari,

you know what I'm saying?
Whoop-whoop.

We got some little Asian girls
coming through.

You know what I'm saying?

We got little Hispanic girls
coming through.

She got some big titties.

It's gonna be a rager, bro.

It's going till 9:00
in the morning.

It's finna be cracking.

I need that address, though.

I'm a hustler,
you know what I'm saying?

Lose yourself
to find yourself, man.

Yeah, brother.

I mean, because everybody
is confused, bro,

and then you got
to figure it all out.

You got to just get lost.

I'm not saying being
a hustler's a bad thing.

Like, I work hard. I hustle.

L.A. is about making it
and trying to survive.

I've seen guys who are a model,
club promoter, rapper,

they also want to design,

but then they're also going out
every night.

I've been in this town
for a long time,

and the guys I've seen
who lose themselves,

a lot of them
don't find their way back.

Be careful, Josh.