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CANADA - LET'S TALK TO THAT GUY IN CHICAGO THAT MADE THAT VIDEO ABOUT KEEPING YOUR FRIDGE STOCKED WITH LIQUIDS. Y'KNOW, THAT GUY FROM THE YOUTUBE.

Famous on the internet isn't famous-famous. There's no million dollar book deal or fire-side chats with Oprah, but if views were dollars, MrChiCity3 would be richer than you. They're not, and he probably isn't because he told us he works as a temp, but you get the idea. You've already seen "Keeping your refrigerator stocked will get you many women" which got a bazillion hits. One of the good things about internet celebrities is that you can just call them up and say hi, so that's what our intern Patrick did and he got his ear talked off! Interview after the jump.

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Vice: So why'd you start making videos?

Mr. ChiCity3: What happened was, in 2000, my homeboy goes to jail. Something silly. Right place wrong time, blah blah blah, average black life, whatever. He hit me up one day like, can you send me some pictures? He hadn't been to Chicago in years, so he wanted some pictures of what's going on. I was like, I'll do you one better: I'll post a Youtube video about my car. People don't really know, but my first video was me and my Chevy talking about the whip game proper.

So I guess he liked the video?

Yeah. So he hits me up, literally a day later, like, 'Yo, all my homeboys liked your video. If you can keep posting and keep us abreast of what's going on in Chicago…' So I was like, alright, that's cool.

Do the girls you sleep with know about your videos? Probably a million other people have seen them, so you'd think they might.

Some of them do. I've never took nothing too seriously, but they're really getting into this internet celebrity. To them, they think I'm important.

What drink do you give out the most?

Real talk, ever since I moved to the suburbs, it's the damn Snapples. I can't keep them in the fridge!

Where do you work?

I work a regular old part-time. It's a temp agency thing.

So what are your favourite spots in Chicago?

Man, okay. Madison Street, 'cause everything pops off there. You know, it's the hood. I like going downtown cause it gives me an idea of what life could be if a motherfucker got on his shit one hundred. Coffin's ribs, JJ's fish, and this place called Mr. Jay's because they got women in there for the low low.

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Why do you keep your face out of the video?

One, I feel like if nobody knows who I am, I can be real with you. I don't have to fake, I don't have to change, I can tell you what's really going on. But the main reason is, if you don't know who I am in terms of my face, for some odd reason on some turn of events-type-shit, you are forced to listen to my words.

Are you attractive?

Oh, I'm a cute motherfucker! Real talk, I'll be a hundred with you. But we tired of seeing these niggas with money and shit talking about what they do. We don't want to hear that shit no more. We want to hear what this regular nigga does. He's one of us:  he's addicted to internet porn and he likes eating Pizza Hut and sometimes he plays video games all night long and sometimes just because I'm desperate for it I may go hit up a 380 lb chick and I won't tell nobody.

No. I imagine not. So what's next for you? You should write a show.

Write a show? I'll be real. Some niggas off The Daily Show and NBC, they want me to do a video for them. These niggas at TBS talking about can we do a pilot. I'm thinking everybody's bullshitting me, these talent agencies, Crush Entertainment, Crenshaw, all these people want something. They want a nigga to write, but the reality is dawg, I'm not really a good writer.

You could try.

I'm just a regular everyday dude, I'ma keep it on Youtube straight one hundred. Everybody's telling me to get a TV show, but the reality is I'm not that dude. Who you see on that camera, who you talking to right now, is the real man. You know what I'm saying? I'm just gonna keep it right here.