We recently had the chance to connect with Jamez Hunter and have shared our conversation below.
Jamez, it’s always a pleasure to learn from you and your journey. Let’s start with a bit of a warmup: What is a normal day like for you right now?
A normal day for me includes waking up early, showering, and taking my dogs outside to potty. I then head to work to clock in and work a 8-12+ hour shift. During my lunch break, I go home briefly to let my dogs back outside again. When I get home after finishing my shift, I take my dogs out again, and then start on my homework assignments that are due for the week. Juggling a fulltime job (50-55 hours/6 days a week) and being enrolled in school fulltime can definitely be a struggle at times.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Jamez Hunter, and I’m the founder of Haus Of The Baddest, which is a creative powerhouse built to amplify voices, push boundaries, and turn bold ideas into reality. What makes my brand unique is its versatility: we create gaming content, funny food review videos, and podcasts that spark open-minded conversations on pop culture, music, sex, and controversial topics. At the same time I am a screenwriter and entrepreneur, along with being an aspiring author. My first official piece of work is planned to be released the beginning of 2026.
Haus Of The Baddest is about more than entertainment. It is about representation, resilience, and building a community where creativity thrives. My work blends humor, authenticity, and storytelling with an unapologetically queer perspective, making it both relatable and disruptive in industries that often overlook voices like mine.
Right now, I am focused on scaling the company into a multi-million-dollar brand within the next seven years while also creating YouTube videos, writing novels, and filming video podcasts. Everything I do ties back to one mission—proving that being your most authentic self is not just powerful, but also profitable.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
Before the world told me who I had to be, I was just a kid full of imagination, curiosity, and unapologetic energy. I was someone who dreamed out loud, who loved to create, and who felt things deeply. I was authentic before I even knew what that word meant. Then, of course, the world tried to put me in boxes: too loud, too Black, too queer, too ambitious. But the truth is, that original version of me never really disappeared. He just got buried under expectations until I learned how to dig him back out. Now, everything I build with my brand, my writing, and my art is really just me honoring that original self, the one who existed before society tried to edit the story.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering taught me patience, resilience, and the art of truly knowing myself in ways success never could. Pain has a way of stripping everything down until you’re face-to-face with who you are at your core. It showed me that strength isn’t about always winning, but more about surviving the days you thought would break you. Success feels good, but it can be shallow if you haven’t endured. Suffering taught me compassion, empathy, and how to appreciate small victories. It forced me to build character, to develop faith, and to understand that joy hits different when you’ve had to fight through the darkness to find it. In short, success gave me recognition, but suffering gave me wisdom.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
One important truth I believe, though not everyone agrees with me, is that hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. A lot of people worship natural talent, as if being gifted automatically guarantees success. I’ve seen plenty of talented people get left behind because they relied too much on their gifts and not enough on their grind. Discipline, consistency, and persistence will take you places raw talent never could. Talent might open the first door, but hard work is what keeps you in the room.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. What do you think people will most misunderstand about your legacy?
I think what people will most misunderstand about my legacy is my outspokenness. I’ve always been the one to call out the unfairness and favoritism that gets shown to certain people, not because they’re necessarily more deserving, but because of what they can offer in return, whether it’s bookings, services, or potential career connections. I refused to sit silently and watch others get overlooked, so I chose to be a voice for the underdog. Unfortunately, that often made me the scapegoat. People confused my accountability with animosity. What they may not realize is that it was always done out of love and a genuine desire to see everyone treated fairly. Yes, I had moments where I got pulled out of character, but at the heart of it, my intentions were rooted in equity, truth, and lifting others up, even when it cost me.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @ItsJamezHunter
- Youtube: @JamezHunterGamez
