Atlanta’s DC Young Fly roasts Kevin Hart on Instagram
Another young comedian using the web as his come-up
This is why you gotta love social media. It levels the playing field with the quickness.
A young, unheard of Vine comedian who calls himself DC Young Fly and decides to roast established box-office draw Kevin Hart this week and he’s suddenly gone local to global. Or something like that.
Like locally-based comics before him — such as the Hudson Brothers, who were featured in last week’s CL issue, and Lil Duval — DC Young Fly is using the web as his come-up. Laughspin has a thoroughly documented account of his roasting of Hart. The Atlanta-based comic who recently surpassed 1 million followers on Instagram has a style reminiscent of a young Chris Tucker.
He hashtags each video post with the same ratchet call-outs that he uses to bookend each of his hood snap sessions: #bringdatassheaboi and #fukumean. In between, he goes in like lightning. Over the course of a day, he posted several Instagrams poking fun at Kevin Hart’s diminutive stature. The YouTube below captures them all in order.
Kevin Hart, who’s used to getting roasted by comedians on Twitter, responded with his own hashtagged assault cracking on Young Fly’s face and neck tattoos. So far, the Internet seems to be favoring the heavyweight over the contender. But by virtue of the fact that we now know DC Young Fly’s name, I’d say he won easy. It was cool of Kevin Hart to throw the young one a bone.
Eager to keep the buzz going, DC Young Fly came back with several more videos that portrayed him having a phone conversation with Hart afterward; it was really just one of his comedy buddies Tattoo Man Paige mimicking Kevin Hart. You can follow the rest of their back and forth below.
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Peep the rest over at Laughspin.