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Did Steve Aoki’s Famous Dad Fund His Music Career? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, superstar DJ. Steve Aoki
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  Speaker 1: is the son of the late successful entrepreneur Rocky Aoki,
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  Speaker 1: who founded Benny Hannah the restaurant chain. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people assume his dad helps Steve get his career off
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  Speaker 1: the ground. That's not the case. In fact, Steve had
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  Speaker 1: dug himself into a massive amount of debt trying to
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  Speaker 1: get his label off the ground, maxing out credit cards
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  Speaker 1: all over the place. He was six figures in the
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  Speaker 1: Red Tells Billboard. My dad never once gave me any money,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how rich he was. He never actually wrote
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  Speaker 1: a check and put in my account. I'm so grateful
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  Speaker 1: for that because he could have. He had the means
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  Speaker 1: to pull me out of this hole that I got
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  Speaker 1: into myself because my own recklessness and play naivete. It
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  Speaker 1: was a huge lesson for me when I have a kid,
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  Speaker 1: I imagine if my child is having a tough time,
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  Speaker 1: I'd want to help them, but it's toxic to enable
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  Speaker 1: that bad behavior. Steve new song with Kiara called Used
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood