Kai Cenat discusses past and rivalries on Shannon Sharpe podcast

One of the most popular streamers in the scene, Kai Cenat, appeared as a guest on Club Shay Shay, the popular podcast of sports analyst and former NFL player Shannon Sharpe. And Kai had a lot to say.

Kai Cenat ended 2024 on a significant high by reclaiming his throne as Twitch’s most-subscribed streamer. In addition to beating the VShojo vtuber Ironmouse’s record, Kai’s record doubled the previous subs count at 326,252. This was a massive feat and the streamer ensured that whoever tries to beat his record would be required to achieve an even more impressive feat.

Kai’s Mafiathon 2 subathon event garnered massive views and the streamer collaborated with popular personalities during it. These ranged from childhood legend Bill Nye the Science Guy to the controversial magician Max Major. Now, the popular streamer has started the New Year with a bang by appearing as a guest on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast.

Kai Cenat opens up about his past with Shannon Shapre

The streamer talked about many things on the podcast with Shannon Sharpe ranging from his difficult childhood past to his journey to become a streaming icon.

The Club Shay Shay podcast started off with Shannon Sharpe questioning Kai Cenat about his childhood and where he grew up. This led to the streamer explaining that he is from the Bronx, New York, but later moved to Georgia and ended up in a homeless shelter.

Kai Cenat told Shannon and his listeners about his struggles and explained that he and most of his siblings only had their mother growing up. The streamer advised his viewers who might be struggling to keep their family close and to be grateful for the little things in life.

He explained that his mother is a “hero” who ensured that their family got through the tough times. Kai Cenat stated that he has a relationship with his father and he has since forgiven him for not being there in his life. The streamer said that he wants to help his father out so he can give his new kids things that he didn’t have for himself during his own childhood.

Kai Cenat says streaming is not harder than a 9-5 job

Kai Cenat sharply replied to the sentiment that streaming is harder than a regular job.

The content creator claimed that streaming is hard like any other job and takes effort, but it doesn’t compare to a regular job. Kai Cenat stated that a regular job’s lower salary is often directly going to bills and that creates its own hardship that must be accounted for.

He went on to elaborate that he loves his streaming career and that the normal blue-collar worker might not enjoy the lifestyle he has to live as a strearmer. He clarified that while streaming is hard, blue-collar jobs have their own unique struggles.

Kai Cenat claims IShowSpeed can’t beat him in basketball

Kai Centa claimed he played at an NBA level in response to Darren “IShowSpeed” Jason Watkins Jr’s claim that Kai Cenat isn’t good at basketball.

Shannon Sharpe questioned Kai Cenat on what he has to say about fellow streamer IShowSpeed’s claim that he can beat Kai in basketball. Kai Cenat replied that IShowSpeed is athletic, but “he ain’t cutting me in no basketball.”

The content creator elaborated that he played with NBA competition and shot 100% from the field. He stated that he is an LBA champion and that there’s simply no way that IShowSpeed is defeating him in basketball. To this Shannon Sharpe said that Kai was playing against 7-year-olds when he stacked up his most impressive stats. Kai countered that the competitors he stacked up his claimed statistics against were in fact a bit older than that, “almost 13.”

The topic of Kai’s beef with fellow streamer Félix “xQc” Lengyel also came up, but the streamer claimed that it was all down to a misunderstanding. He stated that he and xQc had worked it out and it wasn’t worth getting into further because the two were cool. Kai went on to say that a lot of things can be prevented with simple offline communications, perhaps a bit of irony coming from one of the world’s most popular online streamers.