Kevin Watson is an enigma. He’s a walking episode of MTV’s Diary. You think you know T-Weed, but you really have no idea. The (location) native is known to all as T-Weed, the flashy baller worth $100 Million Dollars.

As I Love New York got deeper, the fellas had to give financial presentations to New York, Sister Patterson and villainous vixen… Omarosa. Mr. Watson gave a lot of hoopla and made the boisterous claim of being worth Donald Trump money. All in all, a background check seemingly proved otherwise and Kevin Watson was viciously booted off the show.

HHDX sits down with the man with the plan, T-Weed as he talks about his elimination from I Love New York, his business endeavors and backs up his $100 million dollar claim.

HHDX: Before joining up with the cast of I Love New York, what all were you doing?
KW: I was doing what I always do… running my company MP3NY.com, serving clients and just helping to brand these corporations. Before I joined up with the show, I was working with Danity Kane and Lionel Ritchie. Jesse Terrero [acclaimed music video director] hired my company to help brand his burgeoning film company. My client base consists of Poker Battle, Ed Hardy, and plenty of others. That’s what I’ve been doing. How I got onto the show was that someone introduced themselves to me in the club. They asked me to be a part of the show. After I got the business card, I had left to New York and Chicago to handle some business. When I finally got back to Los Angeles, we coordinated time to meet and I got into the show.

HHDX: So, if you were involved in all of these money-making businesses… why audition to be on the show?
KW: What’s interesting about it is that being involved with branding and marketing is that it’s work heavy and it doesn’t leave a lot of time to do anything with my social life. When I first looked at the show, I didn’t really know what it was all about. You find that out what you’re getting into after you go through all your tests. When I first started the show, I thought that it was a cast full of herbs. But after the initial shock wore off, I figured that this was going to be a really fun experience. I’d get a chance to know her. But I was just doing me. Who I was on the show is who I am, period. You know that you’re there to speak to New York and her mother, but I was myself this whole time. That wasn’t a full representation of T-Weed on that show.

HHDX: You’ve appeared in movies like Brown Sugar, Something’s Gotta Give, Natural Born Killers, The Pink Panther and the cult classic – Original Gangstas. But you never really mentioned that side of your hustle when you were on the show. Why?
KW: I bought cars and started my businesses from royalties from my work. I have been in commercials with KFC and Sprite. Freddie Rodriguez and I were break dancers when we were kids, so I knew that what I wanted to do since I was a shorty. The Sprite commercial was directed by Marcus Nispel and it had featured A Tribe Called Quest and Darrin Dewitt Henson. By that time I was in my early twenties, I had made so much loot off of commercials and movies that I had learned what it’s like to be on both sides of the camera. But that wasn’t my true hustle. To me, that was such young revenue; that’s old money to me. I have been so involved in the corporate world that that wasn’t anything that I wanted to pursue. I have never studied acting. My main focus has been something that merges entertainment with science. At a company called Attik, a design firm, I was the youngest exec in Silicone Valley. I had a salary of a $180,000. I basically set up their multimedia division. My teammates and I worked with, basically, a whole bunch of companies. We set up shop in San Francisco on Bush Street and I developed my company MP3NY.com. I had already been at a point to where people made money off of me, so I wanted to switch seats and make all the revenue for myself.

HHDX: There’s a lot of criticism associated with your name. You claimed to be worth $100 million dollars, yet the show had your background check and said that you were nowhere close to that. Who’s right… you or the show?
KW: The thing about it is that I’m not here to debate anything. There a lot of people who do wonderful things that aren’t noticed. Right now, I’m in a situation where I have done something that I am proud of. I am representing what’s real.

HHDX: I guess from reading your resumé and the other links that you provided, you have been a part of things that would warrant your claims. But some would think that you’re maybe embellishing on your credits.
KW: You know what’s funny… I can send you the initial pitch with Musicmatch. When you’re developing a brand, they hire you. Musicmatch hired the company, Attik, based on our creative design. Every stage of development was a part of the company, with people who worked under me. I flew to San Diego to work on that product. So, when you deal with branding, you deliver it to the technical guy and move on. They solely hired our division to help brand them. They paid X-amount of dollars. [Laughs] The first year The Sopranos won their Emmy, we built their website… that was a pretty significant. We helped developed Avril Lavigne’s enhanced CD. It credits MP3NY.com. In business, the consumer is always going to know who’s going to create the stuff. I never cared about communicating that I did all this work. I never had press releases. We were the guerillas in the bushes, so to speak. If you looked at the amount of dollars that I’ve made from commercials, you can see that I have worked my ass off to get where I’m at. I am not a sports person or an entertainer, but I have done billboards for Coors Beer. So, you have companies that are making revenue off of me.

HHDX: Well, back to the show… On your date with New York, she felt that you were more adept at talking about yourself than paying attention to her. How have the ladies been treating you since your appearance on the show?
KW: On the show, New York failed to show you our whole conversation from the time that we left the house till the time we got there. We had a two-hour conversation, but it was definitely shortened for the TV show. As far as how the ladies have been treating me… I’ll keep that confidential. Let’s put it this way though, more people knew me before the show. The show was funny. New York’s mother is the same person who said that she was dying when she was on Flavor of Love. She made claims that were false. Since when are they the moral characters of what’s credible in society? You have a person who’s Christian who allows a group of men to be around her daughter! You told your daughter all these are lies to keep her from being truly happy.

HHDX: The other contestants felt that how New York and her mother blasted you on the show was foul. What did you think as they read the background check on camera, in front of millions of viewers?
KW: What they didn’t show on the show was me cooking for cats in that house. They didn’t show any of that. But when they did the elimination thing, all I saw was a piece of paper, dude. You know what I’m saying? Just a day before that I had got significant wires from these clients that I work with. So, when she pulled out her “background check”… I thought that it was a joke. But when she said that she was serious, hell, I was out after that. If a person wants to put you in a box, that’s fine, but I’m not the one to be boxed in. I never even had any taxes filed as an employee with Munchie’s Pizza. If you go to Bed-Stuy Online, you couldn’t even put a pizza place like that in Brooklyn. It was a beautiful café… we served things like smoothies and shrimp scrampi. It was on Franklin Avenue. Since I put that store up, it was great experience.
HHDX: It doesn’t seem like you’ve been fazed by the criticism, but in an interview with Onix he said that VH1 and the show would vindicate you if you could accurately back up your claims. Is there any chance of you putting your “actual” background check here on HipHopDX.com?
KW: That’s too confidential. Is someone going to give me money for that? What would I get out of putting my background up online? It doesn’t change my money flow. It doesn’t change the property that I own here and abroad. The show did me a favor. My clients are now more overly resounding of how I left the show. Something like that [the background check] comes out of left field. It’s kind of like… “We have your hands tied, now box!” At the end of the day, I grew up from the Southside of Chicago, baby. I have never been incarcerated. I went to great schools. My father was a Vice President of a bank in my neighborhood. I grew up in a very successful household. I grew up around success. I went to Homewood-Flossmoor High School. I grew up on 49th street in the center of Hyde Park. I went to St. Thomas the Apostle Grammar School. So, I shouldn’t have to prove where I’m from and what I do, because people already know.

HHDX: Since you’ve been eliminated from the show… and we don’t know if New York found love… what would be your advice to someone who is looking to be the love of New York’s life?
KW: What would be my advice to someone? She’s a wonderful woman that is being steered by others. Therefore, do you and hope for the best [laughs]. You dig what I’m saying? At the end of the day, I think she doesn’t know how cracking that she had it in the game. I wasn’t bragging about what I was doing. I wasn’t even coming at her like that. We make a lot of revenue with the companies that I do work with. I support families, man! So, at the end of the day, it’s all about empowerment. New York isn’t a gold digger. She’s sincerely looking for love. I have no hate for her or her mother, but sometimes… you can be mad at a person’s ignorance.