10 Things Marshmello Can't Live Without

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Yo what's up GQ.

It's Marshmello.

I'm here to talk about some essential items

that I need every day in my life.

I'm gonna share them with you.

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So we're going to start with my first essential,

which is a USB.

Might not seem like much,

but this is what all of the audio,

and basically the whole show when I play a show,

runs off of.

If I don't have it or I don't have my backups,

there's nothing.

[laughs]

We can have all the lights and stuff,

but that'd be no audio.

Super, super, super essential.

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Alienware Gaming Laptop.

I love playing video games as much as I can,

specifically on tour.

This is the easiest way to travel and play.

You don't have to carry a huge console around.

So I'll bring like a keyboard and a mouse and play on this.

I can just have pretty much any game on here.

Other people in my crew on the road

will bring laptops as well.

And we'll all just be in my hotel room

and play video games all the time,

So I like Call of Duty and I like Fortnite.

[Cameraman] It'd be sick to have a Marshmello

character running around.

In Fortnite?

[Cameraman] Yeah.

[Cameraman] There already is. There is?

Hell yeah, we dropped it like three years ago.

It's actually like a super-sought after skin.

When it drops,

It's like, I always see it on Twitter.

It's like trending. I'm like,

What? Like what's going on?

Why am I trending?

And it's always talking about my skin of Fortnight.

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Jordan 1s.

These are the trophy room Jordan 1s.

To love is sweet.

They're a little dirty.

I wore these shoes at Lollapalooza.

They got a signature right here.

Little sparkly.

I don't know if you could see it on camera.

When you look at them straight

and they're like no color,

but if you move, they sparkle.

Every show for the most part,

I'm gonna be wearing Jordan 1s.

They're just super comfy and durable.

I can move around when I lace them up like tight,

I can move around.

It feels good and this is definitely essential to a show.

I like like simple,

like nothing crazy, colors and stuff like that.

So anything with the white as the main,

and then the colors,

I really like.

How many Jordan 1s do I own?

I own probably about around 50 pairs easily.

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For my next essential,

we got the Backbone iPhone Gaming Controller.

This is insanely awesome.

You could play all your games and stuff with this thing.

It's basically like playing like on an Xbox or whatever,

but you can be sitting in a van on the way to the airport

or on the plane.

You actually also have like a huge advantage

using this to playing online phone games,

because most people are on their phones clicking,

but you have all these. [buttons clicking]

I just love it so much.

This is a super, super, super fire.

[Cameraman] Have you ever thrown it out of anger?

No, [laughs]

'cause then I'd be throwing my phone.

Now controllers on the other hand,

I've thrown controllers for sure.

But that's just cause I wanna win man,

and then it doesn't happen,

you know, you just get,

get a little upset.

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And now,

my latest essential,

Stuffed Puffs.

These are the big bites.

They already have the chocolate inside of them,

for example,

this is S'mores.

This is rolled in like graham crackers

with the chocolate inside

so it's like a S'more in one bite.

This is the Birthday Cake so the inside isn't chocolate,

it has like that Funfetti type stuff.

And then there's the Cookies 'n Creme

Everybody loves these.

I eat a little bit too much of them.

You can melt them down

and make Rice Krispies Treats with them.

I've done that, personally.

Anything you want,

you make cookies with them

Rice Krispies,

anything.

They're so fun,

love 'em.

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RX Nut Butter.

It's a pretty wild name,

but it tastes super, super, super good.

I put this on everything I can.

Eat it with fruit.

It's a great snack and it'll fill you up too,

so when you need to eat quick.

It's good with calories and stuff like that,

So I'll just eat it straight as well.

This is like an everyday thing, legit.

They have some other flavors,

but this is my main,

definitely my main one right here.

I have like a stockpile at my house.

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Hot sauce in general,

but this specific hot sauce,

Torchbearer.

It's super, super, super spicy, but I love it.

I actually put it on pretty much everything

that requires hot sauce.

You know, it obviously hurts with spicy stuff,

but I don't really like the feeling.

But it's like super intense, so it's fun.

I was in North Carolina on tour.

When I was first started touring,

I went to this place called Buffalo Brothers.

They had this wing chart, right?

So at the top, it was Ludicrous,

and we were with the whole tour,

all sitting around a table.

And I was like,

and a lot of us on the tour team,

we all are like down with hot sauces.

We'd send each other like hot sauces,

hot sauce pictures,

make our own, stuff like that.

And we're like,

Ah, yeah. We're going to take the Ludicrous.

They're like, Are you sure?

We're like Yeah.

They're like Okay, we're going to go get the waivers

that you have to sign.

And we're like What?

We had to sign this like release form

that we can eat these wings cause they were so spicy

and now I'm thinking Oh, whatever. They're just doing that,

cause it's like a huge thing.

But no,

as soon as they put down the wings

and it was like, I didn't even touch 'em.

It was like everybody's getting maced.

Like you couldn't like open your eyes.

You couldn't like breathe.

It was crazy.

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And we all did it.

And that was easily the spiciest thing I've ever had.

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All right.

So for my next essential would be Amiri pants.

I could have brought any Amiri pants,

but I decided to bring the coolest ones I own right here.

I'm also wearing them right now.

They're super durable and fit great.

And I have these Amiri pants

and actually this whole outfit right here.

This is actually a one-of-one that Mike made for me

for my performance at the UEFA Championships, for soccer.

He made this custom white and gray little outfit for me.

And I'm super thankful for that and super grateful.

So shout out, Mike.

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Pretty sweet.

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Gucci Guilty.

I've always worn this and you know,

it makes you smell good and makes you feel good.

You know?

[sprays]

Yeah, no, I don't make sense.

I actually watched Uzi's Essential and he was like,

he wears one and then two and then four,

and I'm like,

I didn't even know you're supposed to mix.

Like I just,

I just have the one and call it a day.

Nothing too complicated.

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Last but not least my most,

let's say most essential,

in my every day life,

my touring life,

everything in between,

is

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the Marshmello helmet.

I obviously need this everywhere I go,

every show I play,

every interview I do.

I've been through a lot of versions.

I'm obviously wearing the most recent version

and this is the version right before this one,

but they're still essentially the same,

just some different materials here and there.

But this is probably my

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ninth kind of

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generation

of the Marshmello helmet.

As we kept going,

they kept getting lighter and lighter.

So they're easier and they aren't as harsh

on my back and my neck and stuff.

Actually,

the first show I had with Skrillex and DJ Sliink

in New York for Halloween 2015,

we bring the helmet and we don't know anything.

I'm with,

I think, just my manager, Moe

and we get onto the plane and I put the,

I put the helmet,

I carry it on.

We get it through TSA.

They like scan it.

They're like What the hell is this?

I get it and put it in the overhead.

And it fits in fine, going in.

And we just got it,

it's brand new, never been worn.

Meanwhile, this, this helmet was,

think the helmet bag dan was about 13 pounds.

So there was like, carved art in it.

And like this, this part was like perforated steel.

Super happy.

I put it in into the overhead.

Cool.

We get up and I'm pulling it out

and it won't get out

but we really have to go.

I'm in a hurry so I rip it out.

I hear cracking and all this stuff.

I'm like,

Shit,

so we get out of the plane and the mouth is all,

the jaw is all cracked,

all this stuff and we're freaking out.

We don't,

we don't have the money and we don't have the manpower.

We can't get a helmet overnight,

so it's like What do we do? What do we do? What do we do?,

so we go to like Spirit of Halloween or something

and we put bandages on all the cracks

and put blood all over it.

So it's like for Halloween, right?

And then before we could get it fixed,

when it was November for Thanksgiving,

we put like feathers so it was like for Turkey.

[laughs]

And then for Christmas,

we did like a candy cane with red tape and taped over.

We ran,

we really ran with that before we could get a new helmet,

'cause we didn't have money to buy another one.

And it was just too much, right?

It was just too little time

'cause I was playing so many shows, you know?

So, yeah.

And then that's a story.

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All right. That is the end

of my Essentials list.

Thank you GQ for having me.

You guys heard me talk about my wardrobe stuff,

the food that I eat,

the way that I play video games on the road,

the way I do my shows and yeah.

I'll see you guys next time.