Before Chris Smoove would gain a youtube following
of over 4.5 million subscribers and would
have over 2.6 billion views total on his youtube
channel
Before Chris Smoove would coin the terms shot
clock cheese, I make it splash man and that’s
a smove move to name a few.
And of course.
Before Chris Smoove would do a face reveal
in a commercial with Tony Parker, star in
two PS4 commercial’s with David Ortiz and
John Wall, and do a Pepsi commercial for Super
Bowl 50
Before Smoove would make a diss track about
NBA 2k18, in the game itself
Chris Smoove has quickly grown a large following
on Youtube, instagram and twitter, having
a total of over 5.2 million followers or subscribers
across all three platforms.
Known for his hilarious commentary during
gameplay of the NBA 2k series, Call of Duty,
Madden, and of course, coverage of the NBA
throughout the year.
Smoove has been able to build quite a Smoove
Army over his 11 year Youtube career, currently
sitting at an estimated 3 Million dollar net
worth.
We’re here to tell you guys all about it
and his rise to being the Smoovest guy on
youtube, right here on Before They Were Famous.
What's going on guys?
My name is Jarred Bronstein and welcome back
to Before They Were Famous.
We’ve done a tons of videos on your favourite
Youtubers, both Before They Were Famous and
Rich Life videos and you guys requested this
video.
Over, and over, and over.
So We gotta give the people what they want!
Now I’ll be totally honest with you guys,
there really isn’t a ton of information
on this guy.
I did a ton of digging on Smoove, and even
messaged him on Instagram and Twitter ! But
he’s a busy dude, so hopefully he see’s
this, and is willing to do an interview with
us to make sure we get our facts straight.
Now before we start, I got a trivia question
that only the real OG fans of Chris Smoove
would know.
Before his channel was changed to Chris Smoove,
what was his channel name?
Ya’ll gotta let me know in the comments
down below.
Let’s see who’s really been a fan of this
guy since the beginning.
As always I’ll answer the trivia question
at the very end of the video and keep sending
in your requests in the comments down below.
Let’s get into this one.
Chris Smoove was born on November 27th, 1985
in the state of Florida.
He currently resides in South Florida according
to both his Twitter and Instagram page, although
the exact city is unknown.
Now unforunately I couldn’t get much info
on his parents.
In fact, the only thing I was able to really
find out about his parents is that they weren’t
too strict on him as a kid.
They would let him play video games as long
as he would attend school and get good grades.
He talks about it in a video here.
In the same video, Smoove talks about how
his uncle, his Dad’s brother, was strict
with his kids, only giving them a certain
amount of time to play on the TV and even
their computer.
He jokes that when his family would visit,
Smoove would tell his dad to unlock the TV
and leave it unlocked for his cousins so they
would get more tv time than normal.
Smoove also talks about his Grandmother who
lives in New York, which leads me to believe
that is most likely where his Dad’s side
of the family is from.
Now I couldn’t find any information on his
mom, like I said, there’s barely any information
on Smoove himself out there, but considering
how he was born in Florida, I’d speculate
that his Mom’s family is most likely from
there.
Assuming his father is from New York, I don’t
see why Smoove would be born and raised in
Florida if not for is Mother’s side of the
family being from there.
Again, it’s all speculation but Chris if
you’re watching this, hit me up bro.
What I can tell you about his parents is that
they raised a young man who knew education
was important.
Smoove originally made his YouTube account
back on March 19 2006, and it’s reported
the reasoning behind him making a channel?
To look at booty videos.
I like this guy already.
Smoove uploaded his first youtube video on
February 14th, 2008 as you can see right here
but he wouldn’t really start to see success
on youtube until he started uploading commentary
video’s while playing NBA2K games and Call
of Duty with his own personal commentary attached.
In fact, he started to do so well on youtube,
people would encourage him to just make it
a full time job and drop out of college.
Now back in 2012, when that video was posted,
Youtube was getting bigger and bigger but
it definitely wasn’t at the level it’s
at now.
Don’t get it twisted, people like Ray William
Johnson, Ryan Higa, Smosh and Jenna Marbles
to name a few we’re making a killing.
But no one could see Youtube becoming the
monster platform it’s become today.
Which is why in response to the people telling
Smoove to pursue youtube full-time, he told
them it’d be a noob move.
He admitted in the video that he doesn’t
know how sustainable being on YouTube really
is.
This was also around the time that he was
almost done his education, which unfortunately
I couldn’t find much on.
There is a fan theory that he went to FAU,
which is Florida Atlantic University because
in a video showing his 2k11 My player, he
listed his college as FAU.
Although it’s unclear what he studied, he
did buy a text book that included Beyonce,
although I’m not sure what program has Beyonce
in their text books.
And considering how Smoove was born and raised
in Florida, it would definitely make sense.
FAU is also located in South Florida, where
Smoove currently resides so I think we may
be on to something here.
God I’m so good at my job.
Alright maybe not.
Anyway Smoove would continue to upload videos
on Youtube daily on a regular basis, and eventually
he would partner with one of Youtube’s bigger
channels back in the day Machinima.
In 2010 he would even with the Machinima Sports
Best Commentary award which would help grow
his brand even more.
In 2013 Smoove would leave Machinima but would
drop some merch including t shirts his famous
catch phrases such as That’s a Smoove Move,
Come on Cuh and and I make It Splash man.
Although he does explain that people would
use the word Cuh in his middle school, specifically
this guy Moses who was considered the Cuh
champion of his school.
But if you want to hear the full story about
how Chris Smoove came up with Come on Cuh
go check out his video on his channel.
Now for those of you that don’t know, Smoove
wouldn’t reveal his identity until he teamed
up with Tony Parker, 4 time NBA champ, who
also retired this year, and Need for Speed
in this epic commercial which included his
face reveal.
Smoove continues to post daily videos on youtube,
as much as 2-3 uploads per day, and considering
how the basketball season has just concluded,
he’s mostly doing uploads about the free
agency.
In fact it seems like he’s dedicated his
channel to being a news source following all
the hottest stories in the NBA.
He hasn’t uploaded a call of duty gameplay
video in what seems to be about 5 years, and
he does still occasionally upload videos of
him playing 2k.
And as you 
can see, over his long youtube career, which
is still going strong boasting over 4.5 million
subscribers, Chris Smoove hasn’t changed
one bit.
He’s gone on to have partnerships with 2k,
who have sent him shoes and a boombox in the
past, PS4 and Pepsi who he did a Super Bowl
commercial with for Super Bowl 50 back in
2016.
Smoove also sells a ton of merchandise on
his website, from phone cases, to t shirts
to hoodies, the man is getting paid.
This is obviously on top of his ad revenue
he gets from youtube and any other partnerships
or investments we don’t know about.
It’s also fair to mention he’s got a couple
songs out on iTunes including That’s BS
and Waiting on a Noob.
Here’s a snippet of his music.
Although I don’t think he’s pursuing music
because that clips from back in 2011.
Now to answer our trivia questions which we
started the video with, what was Chris Smoove’s
youtube channel name before he changed it
to just Chris Smoove?
Well like most youtubers, it was his last
name Smoove, followed by a bunch of random
numbers.
More specifically, as you can see in this
old screen shot, his channel was Smoove7182954.
Eventually he would change it to Chris Smoove,
which I think has a better ring to it anyway.
As always you guys gotta let us know who you
want to see us cover next, be sure to share
this video and tag Chris Smoove so we can
hopefully get an interview with him!
I’d love to do a more in depth, updated
version, but we need the real facts from the
2k legend himself.
My name is Jarred Bronstein, be sure to check
out some of our other videos such as the Rich
Life of David Dobrik or SSsniperwolf, and
let me know in the comments down below what
your favourite Chris Smoove catch phrase is.
Mine’s definitely gotta be “Come on Cuuuuuh”.
You guys can catch me on social media @bronst7
and I’ll see you in the next one.
