Making $20K/Month Selling Street Cocktails in NYC | Side Hustles

one thing my father told me you have to try you have to ask because only one of two things is going to happen you are going to get a yes and a no my name is obsession with Luke professionally I am the first assistant director on the production sets. I am a former professional basketball player. I also train children and I also prepare these drinks called oh yeah. I've been

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drinks since 2005. I started in college and now everyone knows me. like oh yeah mayo I'm the drink guy I'm the oes guy everyone in new york city calls them nutcrackers nutcrackers in new york are a summer staple you really find nutcrackers on the beach

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festivals it's really just a mix of different liquors with a nice sweet juice flavor, we have blueberries, what a great

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, no rain, all the sun, I mean, you can make more, it's 20 grand, you can't really sell nutcrackers, I was never one of the nutcrackers, that was of course. pretzels ain't shit he's like trying y'all ain't got no credit I got what you need no I don't do things I can't promote there's a reason I was never a drug dealer reason I was never a pimp 'cause I can I don't promote my drink, I can promote it here.

I've seen it in the New York Times. I was in the New York Times twice for my drinks. It may not be legit now, but the goal is to be legit. I've been doing this for 15 years. Six years ago I started the brand, oh yeah, and from the first day I started I saw the vision: I wanted this drink to be an airport, so I wanted this drink to be in stores and bars, in everyone's refrigerators and all this As long as I have been doing it for the last six years, I have not had that success, however, each year my hustle has increased, so definitely during this time of pandemic and coronavirus I have not been on any sets in the last three to five

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s and this is how I do it.

A lot of my money, a lot of the kids are not in school so I'm not training kids so this is very important for my livelihood to keep it afloat and even more important is putting oes in the store to make it something legal and

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it a worldwide phenomenon being out of the neighborhood Tennessee is one of people's favorite drinks they love mango cognac so I'm going to do the mango cognac special oh look at that brown one the brown is in town, yeah this heart has the Crazy thing is true, I've been making these drinks so much that I literally don't have to try them unless I'm trying a new flavor, but other than that, if you know, you know, no I'll tell you the type of juice I use. because it is a secret someone told me they told me not to tell anyone but before this I was not using this juice they told me that you have to find juice that is thick and that can hold the liquor some nutcracker manufacturers will make cognac and then they'll add some 151. it's like what are we doing here that's a headache in the morning I'm not going to do that I'm going to get the cognac I have the I have the honey I have the cognac with honey I throw it away half of that I'm from the neighborhood of south

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of jamaica queens west

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of america boulevard but I wasn't necessarily raised by the neighborhood it's a word that I created back in the day when I created oh yeah and the word is shabbalah and shabba means everything straight that goes forward and it's a gang of Shabbat is like a game, it's a game, you know, I know the vice, I know everyone was used to gangs, right?

But this is the most positive game you've ever heard of, it's Shabba's gang. and we live righteously and move forward and try to push each other to the top. I had a long day today, man, a lot of stops. I had about four or five hundred drinks today. I'm going to try to sell them all on Long Island. first queens brooklyn lower east side oeas during the summer here we go I'll teach you a little secret if you don't freeze them overnight you don't have enough time but buy yourself some dry ice this is a fun clue man it's about Oh yeah every time I hit the road I'll hit this left turn on Stuart Avenue, wait let me, I'm usually

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to New York City, now coverage 19 is here, hey, how you doing?

I started with deliveries. henny pattern to rock rum honey jack I went back about two years in my hustle we like mango I used to care about the customer but since I was in places where there were so many people I just made a good product and that's all I have to do now with Kovit I have to do a good product and I have to have a good relationship with my customers I do everything for six weeks I have to give the love always show the love baby how are you good to see you again man yeah? yeah I was going to make it work you can get 30 of these but you'll get it cool I put the killer dog outside okay yeah it's like two feet have the patrol handle I got the rum punch I threw. two big ones there just for love, you know what I'm saying, thank you, thank you, you got it and my daughter will be home.

I said she's fine, they just turned 21. Oh, oh, yes, I'll be here every weekend. He is good people. man, he comes, says what's up, it's a good vibe, gives you a little extra for the ride, that's crazy, right, right, he's very good at making connections with people beyond a simple transaction, the goal It's not just making all this money or being making money or

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drinks until you're 40 until you're 50 and then one day I realized, it's like, come on, let's get together, let's get going, so I come here, I'm usually making my menus. , presentation decks, the decks will be shown to potential investors right here I got my total profits which was in 2017 around 20 000 yes this is me, I just have the idea to say that I want to put together a deck, I want to present it to someone, it is okay, let me just put it. all together and I just did it and I didn't do anything with it but now is the time I was at a point in my life I'm going to continue doing it oh yeah I'm going to continue being a traveling trader I have my degree my resume is long I've done this I've done that I'm not going to continue doing this and it was like yeah I'm going to take the OJs through the roof I'd like to show this deck to future investors to anyone who understands what it takes to go from the bottom to the top those are the people I want invest people who invest in people right now we're in brooklyn we're about to go see my man uh super big guy fashion guy man, he's been doing it for a minute, he and his friends are going to buy a pair of drinks, that's the kid's super packaging, here you go, baby, I don't know how it all works legally, but it seems legal to get drunk to get drunk. get drunk that's what he doesn't have like half drunk there you go boom you know what you need you need a jaeger i know i'll hook you up with jaeger i definitely love it he was like pattern penny i was like where's the yeager version and then he's ready to talk about big business, yeah, and we're thinking the launch party is in the back of the pool and we're in vice right now, okay, then we'll show you, come on in, let's do it, that's right. where will the oas launch party be, yeah, right here I told you, this guy I'm thinking between two and three hundred today was amazing, this is the best summer day I've had since corona happened, probably recently over a thousand dollars I made didn't sell as much today as I normally do but it made a little more.

I didn't know I was going to call yeager and say hey you need to figure out how to make jagermeister oh yeah even if they don't invest in me at least they know they know I'm here. I see success in me now, but I don't see the success I want. It's not that I haven't reached the goal yet, but I have success in 2020 in me. Head was my last year selling drinks on the

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. It just happened that Covey came next year. You'll catch me in the stores. You'll catch me at the airport. She'll catch me in bars wherever you go.

You're going to catch the orange juice.