Shaboozey Talks 1st Music Advance at 21: ‘Never Seen That Much Money’

Shaboozey is opening up about his first big splurge after his breakout year.

Shaboozey, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly about his first major purchase after his crazy rise to fame, ahead of the release of his small screen appearance in his latest partnership with Cash App and the Visa Cash App Racing Bulls Formula 1 Team for the United States Grand Prix .

“I bought a house with a whole bunch of acres. Man, that was really cool. My only one worth sharing,” Shaboozey said.

Shaboozey admitted to Us that while he has no problem spending money on “food or jeans,” he’s pretty careful with large purchases.

“As far as like, being more selective with how I spend it and where I spend it, I would always say, I’ve always been like that,” Shaboozey said. “I think it’s just more, it’s not making any obscenely, large, just crazy purchases on a regular basis.”

The “A Bar Song (Tispy)” singer told Us also about signing a music deal at 21 and receiving his first music advance.

“I never seen that much money at that time. So, coming from a small town with families that are like middle income, you know, middle income households,” Shaboozey revealed to Us. “Being 21 and making more money than I’ve ever heard my parents talk about, it was definitely like, you know, kind of like, ‘You can’t tell me nothing, a little bit.’ Not, like, ‘You can’t tell me nothing.’ But I’m like this is like, ‘What. Dang, like, what do I do now?’ It kind of just hit me, doing, especially when you do it off of something you kind of love, or you’re doing it based off of like you’re gaining that lump sum money through your passions. It was definitely an eye opening experience.”

Shaboozey stars alongside friend and comedian Caleb Pressley in the playful short film directed by Alex Russell for the unveiling of the pearlescent black and amber tortoise pattern livery for the Visa Cash App Racing Bulls Formula 1 Team, to premiere at the Austin Grand Prix.

In the film, which is set in a diner, Shaboozey and Pressley are engaging in fun banter about their different tortoise accessories, with Shaboozey joking that “the tortoise thing is my thing, I suggest you get your own.”

This collaboration marks the second time Shaboozey has worked with the brand, with them initially partnering in February to announce the Cash App Tortoise Card, a prepaid Visa debit card with the “pearlescent tortoise design accented by gold detailing.”

The Visa Cash App Racing Bulls X Cash App replica team kit featuring the limited-edition tortoise design is available for fans to purchase at the Red Bull Shop prior to the Austin race. Shaboozey told Us about the “awesome moment” working with the Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team for the United States Grand Prix.

“I did the first piece with [Cash App], which came out, super cool. And then they flagged me to do this really awesome moment with F1 [for the United States Grand Prix] and it feels like it’s kind of like this full miniseries that people are getting to watch unfold. And it just keeps getting better and better,” Shaboozey said. “This time they brought a good friend of mine, Caleb Pressley, and we got to do some improv acting. So, it came out really cool. The tortoise card was awesome. I feel like people are gonna really, really like what they see and really buy into the world. No pun intended.”

Though already a multi-hyphenate — singing, rapping, songwriting and producing — Shaboozey said that he would “love” to venture into acting and filmmaking as well.

“I would love to get into some acting and filmmaking and just narrative work. So hopefully the future, you know, in the future, more of those opportunities [will] come across my table, my desk,” Shaboozey told Us.

Shaboozey said that he is drawn to limited series, but perhaps the show he would like to join is not out there yet.

“’Im loving these limited series and things like the Cash App film, where it’s just like, feels like it’s just this one story. And, I love it a lot,” Shaboozey told Us. “I think that thing that I want to be a part of hasn’t been made yet.”

Shaboozey, who has been touring the last few weeks as a part of the The Great American Roadshow Tour with Live Nation, said even while on the road, he’s “always working on music.”

“Gotta keep working. [I’m] always just trying to out do the last thing and just try to make something really cool for the fans,” Shaboozey told Us. “Sometimes it’s like you make stuff and you like it, or maybe you don’t like it, or you’re like, ‘Man, I like this, but what if no one else likes it as much?’ So just hopefully, whatever I do next, people enjoy and receive it the same way they received all my other stuff.”

Shaboozey told Us the “biggest” financial lesson he learned is the importance of saving and “making money work for you.”

“If you sit around and you just [ let money] sit in different accounts, in different places, it’s not really doing much,” Shaboozey said. “I’ve made a good amount of money when I was younger and was just like, ‘Oh, you know, I’m 21 like, I made it. I can retire now.’ No, you can’t, no matter how much money you make, you know, you gotta get out there and you gotta just make it work for you. Can’t just sit around and yeah. Got to go get it.”