Life & Work with DeQuann Piner

Today, we’d like to introduce you to DeQuann Piner.

Hi, DeQuann, I’m so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today.
Since a kid, I have always been a go-getter and had dreams of wanting to be a Chef at a young age by enrolling in cooking classes, reading nutrition labels, cans, and ingredients, watching cooking shows and movies, as well as enrolling in the boys & girls club throughout his school years when I graduated from high school in 2014, I enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Atlanta, GA that same year in August 2014.

I immediately began to study knife cuts, sauces, cooking techniques, measurements and even enrolled into the work force early to support my apartment expenses while attending culinary school, during the year 2015, I got his first management position working at a donut shop near my school. In 2016, I graduated from culinary school and relocated to Colorado & Wyoming to work for Vail Resorts to pursue my dreams of becoming a chef; in just two short years, he worked under a culinary arts program for his resort and learned about management, and worked his way up to become a Sous Chef at only the age of 23.

In 2019, he returned to Wyoming to begin his career as a traveling sous chef for two years until 2022, when DeQuann returned to Atlanta to focus on his Actor career. DeQuann has since changed his name to Chef Quann while in the kitchen and has become a monetized YouTuber (YungBartTV), been featured in a magazine in New York titled Longe & Massachusetts NVM Exclusive Magazine (October 2022 & December 2023), the most unique thing about The Story of DeQuann Piner is he did the almost impossible to get to where he is now, a Chef turned Actor: DeQuann proved that manifestation is just a waiting game and reality.

I’m hoping for 2024 to be my best year ever. It will be ten years since I graduated high school & I hope to look back in 10 years and be even more inspired.

Can you talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Every road will eventually get bumpy, I have no problem getting older & figuring out my next move however, I’m noticing what comes with age is losing people, I hate funerals and goodbyes seems in my 20s. Death was something that I have seen can happen anytime, anywhere. I pray I don’t have to experience any more funerals anytime soon.

The biggest challenge in my early 20s was a brief career change while balancing content creation, music production, and maintaining a regular day lifestyle; the type of lifestyle you want is out there; just understand the consequences of it.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe you can tell us more about your work next?
I am a Sous Chef, Music Producer, and YouTuber; & most recently began my acting career at the height of the pandemic.

I would say I am mostly known for how well I executed my culinary skills and worked my way up to becoming a chef; immediately after I graduated from high school, I attended Culinary School and eventually graduated & began working in a professional kitchen in Colorado, & Wyoming back and forth for about seven years of my life, but even before that I was well known in my hometown for making beats when I was younger I created a username that is also my alter ego, YouTube username, music producer name & lifetime nickname “YungBart” which comes from my favorite cartoon character Bart Simpson.

I have stuck with this name and use it mostly on my social media accounts. It has been a part of my lifestyle as well, so far as when I went to Las Vegas in 2023 for Super Bowl weekend, I decided to get a Bart Simpson tattoo (Hepa) and immediately posted the design on my Instagram many of my followers were not shocked they even thought the tattoo was real that’s how good it looked,

Although it was only a short-lived moment, maybe I should consider getting the real thing. I am most proud of how easily I was able to manifest my lifestyle and how much the hard work paid off: I had to make spending decisions, many long nights of studying, work daily while attending class, and cut out many distractions, but no matter what changes I had to make to succeed everything I wanted I eventually got once my hard work paid off: Becoming a traveling Chef, getting my YouTube channel monetized in a year (YungBartTV), maintaining a music production career while also releasing 2 Beat Tapes: “LIT LIFE & HIBERNATION,” all my creativity and manifestations all began to arrive in my life I would say the majority of my time spent in Atlanta.

I stick around this amazing city because it has helped make all my dreams a reality. I have a career now, and I am a jack of all trades, and soon, you will see me in more entertainment media. For now, catch me on Ms. Pat Settles it on BET. A model “thug” video background actor in Ben Reilly’s song “PhotoShoot,” as well as most recently working on multiple films and cameo appearances, DeQuann Piner is the definition of a “go-getter” I want the world to know no matter what you can do anything you set your mind to. What sets me apart is I am not afraid to pick up and relocate anytime, anywhere!

Can you share something surprising about yourself?
I just recently did a movie with someone famous.

Pricing:

• Buy my beats on my beat store. I make hip-hop, trap, lofi, & r&b beats.
• http://beatstars.com/YungBart
• $range anywhere from $15- $350

Contact Info:

• Instagram: http://instagram.com/Yungbart__
• Facebook: http://facebook.com/DeQuannP
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dequann-piner-b07800a7
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/Yungbart1
• Youtube: http://youtube.com/YungBartTV
• SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/DeQuann-Piner
• Other: https://yungbarttv.myspreadshop.com/

Image Credits
Luis Phillipi Santos