Why am I saying this? Why am I telling this? What’s the point of this?” I feel all that type of anxiety with things. It’s like, “Man, I can’t even believe I wrote this. When anyone reads shit about themselves it sucks. But this took a lot out of me, and to be honest with you I feel like that in itself gave me a little bit of a boost, and a little kick in the ass unknowingly. Usually, when I do things - the two previous books I’ve done, Stoned Beyond Belief, F*ck, That’s Delicious - it was a joy. This book had nothing to fucking do with anything. Is that how the book came about? It’s being advertised as a self-help book. It made us look inside of ourselves, and be like, “Yo, we got to change and it’s time.” There’s no fucking better time than now. It was a forced slowdown, and it allowed us to get our shit together. I was just talking about this with my man today, that this whole slowdown was the thing that we all needed, and we didn’t even know it. I’m not trying to be in that percentile that’s at risk.ĭo you feel like the world being locked down gave you some space to focus on what you needed to do? It’s interesting that this transformation really clicked for you right around the start of Covid.
I love life, so I wouldn’t want to leave it for no damn Entenmann’s fucking cakes and shit. They want me around, and I want to be around to enjoy the fruits of everything. I feel like the motivation came from having a new baby, and my wife constantly being on me, you know? There was always somebody on me, and that means that they care. He spoke to Rolling Stone about his new book, weight loss, and his dream of hosting a Billy Blanks-style fitness show.Ī big topic of conversation has been your weight-loss journey. He’s also working on new music, which he hopes to release soon. “She was on my show called The Untitled Show at the time, and we just fucking painted something together,” he says. He credits an experience with boxing champ Laila Ali, the daughter of late legend Muhammad Ali, as inspiration for the latter pursuit. Now, he’s regularly in the gym and has taken up body surfing as well as honing his craft as a painter. He says that at the beginning of the process of writing the book he weighed around 400 pounds he’s since lost more than 100 pounds.įlashback: Tina Turner Covers Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson on Debut Solo Album “Look at fucking Patrick Swayze.” Bronson’s televised culinary adventures found him indulging in the world’s finest foods with abandon. Money, all this other bullshit really doesn’t mean a fucking thing if you’re not healthy,” Bronson says.
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The book’s release coincides with a dramatic new look for Bronson, who is known for outlandishly clever raps as well as possessing a one-of-a-kind onscreen charm, from his VICE TV cooking series F*ck That’s Delicious to his YouTube channel. What the fuck am I writing? This is fucking out of control. “It was one of those eye-opening things for me that was like, ‘Damn, all right. “I hated every second of it, but in a sense, it really did help me,” he says.
It’s not that Bronson, born Ariyan Arslani, thinks the book is bad - more that working on it forced him into an uncomfortable moment of self-reflection.
Over Zoom, he’s animated and seems relieved that the process of putting it together is finally over. Action Bronson makes sure to let me know that he does not want to promote his new book, F*ck It, I’ll Start Tomorrow: A True Story.
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