Desus Nice has hit back at The Kid Mero after the latter made comments about their split.
Mero had said their professional and personal breakup was down to business decisions the duo could not see eye to eye on.
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But Desus appears to disagree with Mero’s version of events, posting in reply to the comments a gif of a man wearing an oversized cap, implying his former Desus & Mero co-host was lying.
Desus has yet to offer a further rebuttal, although he did like a post on X that said: “IDK. From this clip, it seems like Mero let it slip that he admits Desus was the more sought after talent.”
The Kid Mero, speaking on his 7AM in Brooklyn podcast with Carmelo Anthony, explained how their highly-publicized split had to do with trying to get a movie made in Hollywood.
“At first I was upset, it’s the business. There’s no friends in the business,” he began. “And we was in a situation where I got four kids, two mortgages … I got real-life situations going on so I’m like, ‘Yo, if we get an offer from DraftKings for $1.5 [million].’
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“And you’re like, ‘Nah bro, this ain’t it’ … And I’m like, ‘This is going places, bro, we need to do this.’ And you’re like, ‘Nah.’ I’m like, ‘Fuck outta here.’ To me, that’s like the beginning of this shit [being] corroded. We’re on different wavelengths.”
He continued: “The next level of Hollywood is the three of us: Desus, Victor [Lopez, the pair’s former manager] and myself, sitting down with Judd Apatow and saying, ‘Yo, we’re gonna do a movie.’ Then the movie gets written and Desus was like, ‘I ain’t really feeling this shit.’
“When I know in the business mind is like, yo, when you do a movie with this guy, you’re not just doing a movie with this guy. This dude is a kingmaker in the film industry. If you get in there, you make a banger with him. You solidified.”
“That’s what takes you up to the next level,” he added. “If you get a little taste of that Hollywood, get a couple Rollies and shit, you get access to things and you good with that? That’s not the type of time I was on.”
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Since sending their decade-long partnership in 2022, Desus Nice has gone on to guest host The Daily Show while Mero recently launched 7AM in Brooklyn along with another podcast called Victory Light.
