- Is everything right here?
- No, I bought a Rolex,
my rookie year.
That was 20.
And 20,
for my teeth.
[metal chiming]
[TV beeps]
- Hey, Everyone,
this is Shaquem Griffin.
- And this is Shaquill Griffin.
- [Shaquem And Shaquill] And this is how we spent
and invested our first million dollars.
[chill electronic music]
- We are from St. Petersburg, Florida.
- [Shaquill] Seven two seven, baby.
And I felt like St. Pete shaped us who we are today.
- [Interviewer] First job you ever had?
- First job.
It was a summertime job, was just taking staples
out of, like, bundles of papers
and being two guys with a lot of energy,
it was pretty tough to do that.
So, was times where we kind of fell asleep on the job.
- 'Cause we wasn't good at taking the staples.
So, they moved us to the storage room to move boxes.
Thing about that,
it's just, they only have so many boxes to move
and we moved them so fast and we got bored, once again.
- We started building clubhouses
in the back of the storage room with the boxes.
To hide ourself, so we can sleep even longer.
But, to summarize our story, we didn't finish the summer,
with that job.
- [Interviewer] Shaquill, you were a person to get drafted.
Did you start thinking, like,
"I'm going to make it to the NFL?"
- So at first, I wanted to be a physician assistant.
You know, my mom is a nurse.
Football was a backup plan.
My backup plan became my main priority,
as I got to college.
The day I was drafted,
third round came, this is the second day.
And Seattle gave me this call, but you can see my mom
in the kitchen, like shaking.
Can't believe this actually happening.
In my head, I'm thinking like,
"Oh man, I'm really fixin' to get paid,
I got drafted day two,
I don't know what I'm fixin' to get."
Only thing I could imagine was
where can I get my first champagne bottle at.
- [Interviewr] Did you get the champagne bottle?
- Yeah.
And then I got yelled at by my dad.
- [Shaquem] And he poured it on the floor.
- So, I got in trouble on my draft day.
- Congratulations.
- I'm still getting yelled at by my dad,
and I just got drafted to Seattle Seahawks.
- The day I was drafted,
throughout the weekend of waiting,
I was so anxious to receive it,
that the time that I put my phone down and said,
"You know, I forget it.
I ain't gonna worry about this phone.
I'm not looking at it no more."
I went to the restroom,
and my brother bust in the restroom while I'm using it,
and said, "Yo, answer this phone, I know this number."
Yeah, I answered the phone.
It was, it was Pete Carroll.
And he was like, "Man, you ready to do this?"
And I just remember saying I couldn't breathe.
And I just see everybody's breaking down, crying.
I have family's on the floor rolling.
It was going crazy in there.
- [Interviewer] So, when this money started coming in,
what was your first move?
- When it comes to how I spent and save,
actually learned that from my DB coach, Andre Curtis.
And he was saying the best way to do it is
you put up 80, you spend 20, you'll never have to worry
about looking for your next dollar,
if something all goes wrong.
- I kinda got mines from Beast Mode.
I mean, something that he was doing, is live
off his endorsement and saving his football money.
You know, I was blessed and fortunate
to get a lot of endorsements.
So, whatever I make from my endorsement money,
I just use that, and I create a budget
within myself.
You know, the money that I made from doing my day job,
that's what I'm going to build up
to make sure I make further
investments to make sure that, you know,
we have long money and not short.
[chill electronic music]
- Well, we talked about how we saved our money.
Now, I want to tell you guys how we spent that money.
[hip hop instrumental music]
The very first thing that I bought
when I made it to the league,
was my Dad's 1972
Caprice coupe.
So, my dad is a real old school car fan.
We fixed it up,
put rims on it, stereo system, the whole nine.
And he fell in love with it.
It was the first time I'd actually seen my dad cry.
The same car that I bought,
my dad won't let me drive it.
But it's all good.
- Best way to do it.
- It's a nice car.
It's really nice car.
- Best way to do it.
- After all the arrangements and stuff to get done,
it came up to $97,000.
Yeah. Love you, dad.
The next thing we did on our birthday, actually,
22 years old, we gave everybody in the immediate family,
$20,000 a piece.
My oldest brother,
the middle child,
my sister,
my mom,
and my dad.
But, it was a nice gift to give,
on the actual birthday.
- They was crying, so that was pretty cool.
- Yeah.
- That's the best reaction--
- Best reaction to have people cry on your birthday.
It's always great.
- I was so happy to go to the bank, just to do it.
- [Interviewer] Did you guys give them cash?
- [Shaquill And Shaquem] Cash.
- Cash.
- Yup, we wanted them to start counting it themselves,
so they knew we was serious about it.
- Cash gifts for the family on our birthday?
Honey cake.
Not much, just a little bit.
[Shaquill and Shaquem laugh]
- [Interviewer] Did you guys buy yourselves anything?
- Yeah, we bought a few things.
[Shaquem laughs]
The first car we got was technically, it wasn't a car.
It was a three-wheel motorcycle called a Vanderhall.
That goes 210 miles per hour.
It's pretty dangerous and fast.
- Be careful.
- So, it's like a collectible.
- You can take it to the racing track.
- And that was $30K cash.
They got that little old school look,
so it looked like a collector's item, so
no matter what cars you have,
it's all going to look good,
like "Man, that's a nice motorcycle
you got in there."
And, like, "Yes."
And it's nothing more than going fast.
- Top speed, so far?
I think I got it at 165.
- [Interviewer] With a helmet on?
- Definitely got a helmet on.
Definitely.
Next thing that we bought, wheel ride,
was a Can-Am 900,
which is another three-wheeler.
It's like, you got the one that you sit in,
and you can just drive like a car,
and you got the one I ride like a motorcycle.
And that was $10K.
Okay.
We doing good, we doing good.
- We gettin' there.
- The next thing that we bought,
a 2019 BMW i8,
flew in from Arizona,
literally off the plane,
my older brother and my sister picked us up
and we went straight to the BMW dealership,
bought the i8,
and then they let us drive it outside the store.
And that was a $100K, even.
$100K, BMW i8.
Okay, next vehicle,
was the 2020 G-Wagon.
We actually had the G-Wagon while we
was in Seattle,
roughly $200K.
- [Interviewer] When you guys get these cars,
do you customize them?
Are you buying--
- 'Course we customize them.
You don't want your G-Wagon lookin' like his G-Wagon.
No.
- So, with the G-Wagon,
what we did was,
we for sure had to get limousine tint.
Because people take pictures of our car.
Happens all the time.
- All the time.
- We got it lifted.
I wanna sit high, so people can see me up there.
Getting it wrapped,
actually as we speak.
So, this whole car is wrapped in matte black,
and then, like, the edges of the car,
or maybe, like, little parts of the rims,
we're gonna wrap that in that matte red.
So, it kinda pops out, a little bit.
We got our own little symbol,
a "SG" symbol.
Actually, I'm wearing it, right now.
We engraved that in every single car we have.
Everything is pretty much custom,
so when they see our car,
they know it's our car.
- [Shaquem] And this is our $200,000
G-Wagon.
- [Shaquill] That's the G-Wagon.
It's another car,
but it's not ours.
- Not ours.
- This is a retirement gift,
to my mom.
The car actually,
I been getting it worked on and wrapped.
So hopefully, this is not coming out
before she see it.
So, she'll see this car Saturday,
she has no idea.
Me and my brother bought her,
a 2021 LC500 two-door coupe.
Lexus.
A $150,000 car.
Me and my brother actually bought her a $20,000 Rolex.
To go inside the car for a retirement gift.
So yeah, she have no idea this is coming.
Hey, Mom,
happy retirement.
From your boys, right here.
Hope you really enjoy it.
Don't go too crazy, though.
Put your seatbelt on, drive safe.
So the car is 150 and then another 20
for the Rolex.
- We put the Rolex in the car.
- Happy retirement, Mom.
- That's you, Ma.
That's all you.
Retirement, happy retirement.
Okay, my jewelry box,
one, two, three,
four, five,
that's for the chain I'm wearing.
Can I borrow one?
One, two.
Can I get one more, please?
Three.
That's for, like, pinky ring,
for my bracelet.
Tennis chains.
I need one more, please.
My "brothers for life" chain
that we got made together.
- Yup, that's right here.
- This is my jewelry box.
$90K.
So, I'm probably short, but we don't really got
to top 100, right now, right?
God dang it.
Can you hand me one more?
My earring was, this was $10K, itself.
Custom "SG" earring.
With [unclear] in it.
And that's my jewelry box.
I don't know about his.
- Well, I was in the league a little longer.
- Yes.
- That is Shaquem's jewelry box.
Shaquill's jewelry box.
Gotta do the chains, first.
One, two,
three, four,
five, six,
seven,
$70K on chains.
One bracelet, two bracelets.
Two for 10,
the ring for 10,
then I got a ring for 8.
I'm gonna round it up to 10.
$50,000 on bracelets and rings.
- Is everything right here?
- Nope.
I bought a Rolex
my rookie year,
that was 20.
10 for my earring.
And 20,
for my teeth.
- I didn't add that to mines.
I'm sorry.
- Well, you got teeth, too,
so you wanna put 20 on yours?
My brother's got some for his.
You got teeth, too, brother.
I ain't pay for them.
- You wanna count that up for us, brother?
- Yeah, lemme see,
you got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
- $170K.
- $170,000, yeah,
$170,000 in my jewelry box.
- [Interviewer] Shaquem, you're actually at 120,
because of the teeth, right?
- Unfortunately.
[Shaquill and Shaquem laugh]
I try to keep it under 100 as much as possible.
I try to keep it at 100.
[chill electronic music]
- We actually put some money into
starting our own production company.
Starting our own YouTube channel.
It's called "Shaqing up with the Griffin Twins."
Everything we do outside of football,
that capture those moments,
and that was roughly,
$30K.
- Dang, you can throw the chef in there, too.
- Yeah, the chef in there somewhere, too.
We just kinda ran out.
But, it's a couple things.
- When you talking about our production team,
I wanna make sure that you stay tuned in
and follow "Shaqing it up with the Griffin Twins."
- We invented it for you guys,
so you can see it,
and that's $30K, right there, production.
- For all of our enjoyments.
[camera shutters]
- [Interviewer] Seeing it in front of you,
how do you feel about how you spent it?
- It look like it go fast.
[Shaquem laughs]
It's easy to spend when you see it.
That's exactly the way I felt.
'Cause it's gone, now.
And you can't get that back.
- This is how we spent our first $1,027,000.
- So, we talked about how we spent money,
but we also invested money.
You know, we got into a little bit of real estate.
Called the Twin Acres.
You know, so we got some money put up in that, too, as well.
So, we don't just spend crazy.
- We bought some land.
Back home in Bradenton.
$252,000,
just the lot, itself.
Next to the water.
And we bought a house,
the lot that we bought,
that's in a little under an acre,
that we can build and fixed on right now.
300 and--
- 25.
- 25, for.
We just put, what, another $75K in it.
Getting it fixed up,
we getting the whole yard done.
We getting the back of the pool
and the backyard area done.
We thought about adding a room,
but that's not the way you do it.
You can't purchase and fix up houses to sell,
for the best interest of yourself.
But for the families moving in,
so we made sure we done that right.
- And we just wanted people to see something
that's a little different than seeing us
playing football.
We do some smart things [unclear]
So, gotta stay smart with it.
Like I said before,
put up 80 and you spend 20.
Gotta do it the right way.
And I'm glad my coach taught me that--
- It's important to save.
- And I'm glad he learned what he learned.
- Both us together, $500K.
$500K to start up Twin Acres.
- Yup.
That started that whole process.
So, that's it.
Hope you guys really enjoyed how we spent
our first million.
- Just make sure you catch us on Sundays
on the football field,
'cause we gotta make some more.
- We ain't done, yet.
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