A YouTube star is giving back to the people who helped pave the way for his success.
Timothy DeLaGhetto posted a YouTube video on Monday, showing his parents' reaction as he presented them with a check for $210,000 to pay off their mortgage. The 28-year-old rapper and funnyman was reportedly fulfilling a promise he made to his parents years ago.
"My family and my parents are a big part of who I am as a person and why I do what I do," DeLaGhetto said in the video. "I get my sense of humor from them and I'm just so grateful that they've raised me with so much love and such open minds, and one of the main reasons I go so hard at this entertainment grind...is so they don't have to work so hard, because they work so hard."
After being presented with a check in the amount needed to pay back the debt on their home, DeLaGhetto's father, Kongkiat Chantarangsu, is heard saying, "I knew you could do it," while his mother, Sukhon Chantarangsu, cries tears of joy and hugs her son.
Along with the check DeLaGhetto, whose real name is Tim Chantarangsu, paid off the bank mortgage for $130,000 for their house near Long Beach. He said he is hoping that his parents take some time off from working at the restaurant they own.
"I always told them I would buy them a house or pay off the house ever since I was a little kid," he told E! News. "When I quit school to pursue the whole entertainment thing, and they saw me working long nights on shoots and editing videos, I wanted them to know that it was for a reason. That's when it became a serious mission."
He added: "When I handed them the check I was just super anxious. I knew my dad was already expecting it, because I had been asking a lot of questions about the mortgage recently. When the camera was off, [my mom] told me, 'Now I can finally take a break,' and that's when it all hit me, cuz they've been working so hard all these years."
DeLaGhetto has been on YouTube for eight years and has over two million subscribers. He reportedly dropped out of college five years ago to pursue a career in the entertainment industry and now makes guest appearances on Nick Cannon's Wild N' Out on MTV 2.
