Club Shay Shay - Karlous Miller Part 2

Episode Date: November 6, 2024

Join us for part 2 as Karlous talks about his experiences navigating Hollywood, discussing both the highs and lows. He recounts on his time on MTV's Yo Mama with Wilmer Valderrama, his appearances on Hell Date, and being hired from Wild 'N Out. He also opens up about his friendship with D.C. Young Fly, his decision to go independent, using Steve Harvey’s studio, and embracing ownership within the comedy business. He also recalls moments smoking with Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg. The conversation transitions to his experience on set with notable comedians like Katt Williams, Keke Palmer, Sinbad, Deon Cole, and Earthquake —reminiscing on his "two minutes of fame" on Two Minutes of Fame, he explains that although his role was small, it was a significant step in expanding his career, and he embraced the opportunity fully. He also touches on his respect for Katt Williams, who has recognized and supported him as an emerging comedian.The conversation shifts to the beef between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Karlous dives into why some might find Drake "too easy to hate," attributing it to his effortless appeal and success, contrasting it with Kendrick's upbringing in Compton and his grounded authenticity. He also talks about Kanye West, expressing nostalgia for Kanye's earlier work. He explains how Kanye’s artistic shift affected him as a fan, preferring Kanye’s older, more soulful and conscious music. He humorously adds how Twitter interactions often escalate but insists his comments were rooted in admiration for the "old Kanye." Karlous proudly talks about his relationship with his son, sharing his joy in nurturing his son's talents in music and academics. He reflects on his own parenting style and expresses a desire to have had more children, noting the deep fulfillment he gains from being a father. He also briefly touches on Ja Morant's incident and dynamics of Memphis. As Karlous and Shannon share laughs, they also explore the importance of staying true to oneself in an ever-evolving industry. Karlous offers wisdom on the art of performance, the value of a strong support system, and the joy in each step of his journey. Tune in to Club Shay Shay for this unforgettable conversation, filled with humor, grit, and plenty of heart.   #volumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway. Let me ask you a question. You want to get married? I don't know. I don't know. How the hell you don't know at your age? Because what marriage represents

is too much for me right now. I got to promise you forever. Forever. Forever. Forever. Forever. Forever? I don't know.

I ain't really good at relationships, man. It is what it is. I ain't really good at relationships, man. Mm. It is what it is. I tried. You tried if you was engaged, you tried to... Did your lady live with you? Yeah. And what happened? What you mean, what happened?

What happens when people break up? Ha ha ha! She got all her shit and went home, man. That's... She left. I'm a black man, so guess what? Whatever happened is my fault, right? I don't get to have no say so in nothing. Oh, so you know how it go.

When they sick of you, you the worst motherfucker they ever had. That's normally happened. I mean, when I broke up with my girlfriend, I told my coach, he asked me what happened. And I say we were both sick. He looked at me. I said, I was sick of her. She was sick of me. Yeah.

That's what happened. We was about to get married. I was engaged one time. Yeah. Yeah. It worked. What happened? What happened?

What happened, she said she didn't want to be in the relationship anymore. She ain't say that. That's how you sum it up. She ain't say that. That's how you sum it up. She ain't say that though. Carlos, I'm just telling you what you were saying. I mean, I'm just, I'm telling you, I'm looking at the black men over here laughing

because we know that ain't what happened. Why would I lie about something like that? Why wouldn't you? I know you'll lie about something like that. Look at the white dude. I don't know what they're talking about. I've been with my girl since fourth grade. So let me make you a question.

But you know how it is. When a woman ready to go, she's ready to go. There ain't nothing you can do to her. But here's the thing though. She's not impulsive. When she decide, when she leaves, oh, she been thinking about this. This ain't no one week.

They be gone before they leave. Absolutely. They been checking. Yes, they done checked out on you. They just checked out, they just hoping, like I ain't here, you know, and he ain't, mm-mm, mm-mm. We, we'll make a split second decision. That's not, women don't operate like that.

Yeah, I think with me though, I think a lot of, like when you deal with somebody for an extended amount of time, they be like, I think a lot of women, they love the potential. Right. And they be waiting on you to extended amount of time. I think a lot of women, they love the potential. They be waiting on you to change on their time. But some men at some point, at certain levels of life, ain't looking to change.

I'm doing what works for me. Ain't no way I could be right in every aspect of everything else in my life, in my business, in my career, everything going right except with you. That don't mean shit wrong with me. I just picked the wrong person. It happens. You look good, but that don't.

If you were to get married, how long do you think a person should date before they get married? It ain't no time. Ain't no time. You could meet somebody and be with them for 10 years, and you could meet somebody this weekend and be like I can't live without you I am yeah, it ain't never happened to you

I've seen some that I wanted to take but yeah, it's one now though I'm gonna keep you real which is this mother so bad. I'm talking about bad bad This motherfucker so fine. I like her Her eyeballs is sexy. I don't think you look at her eyes. This mother fucker got sexy eyeballs. Does she? I ain't never seen no shit like that.

Ears, she got cute little ears. She tall? Hell no. Damn. Fine, I'm talking about fine like a ticket on the window. Ooh. Bad. Ooh.

So what's the problem? What's the holdup? She be eating good Oof. So what's the problem? What's the holdup? She be eating good vegetables. What's the problem? What you mean? What you mean what's the problem? I mean you say she bad, I mean you done locked her down? Uh uh.

I'm just lurking. No that's the problem. Sometimes we move too fast. Move too fast. We just gotta watch and see. I just wanna see how she do in the next quarter What she got coming up? Okay, but she bad Does she know you lurking she know I don't hit her that much

Yeah, I ain't trying to be you will hey, I just call to see how you doing, you know, I ain't want anything man Oh, she didn't start confessing all of I'm just sitting here just, yeah, for real? Oh, okay. He did it again? Okay. Man, you're dirty, man. No, I'm not. You not supposed to be the shoulder she cry on.

I'm not. I just, I can assess a situation. I just know that she just got a little bit more than she got to work out for. Right. Then I'm a... You feel me? You talking about what's the budget? See you gotta open up the budget for one of these like that. Huh? Yeah you gotta... She like that? She bad. I'm tellin' ya. And ain't nobody never spend no bread on her. But you about to. I'm tellin' ya, she at that stage where she act like she don't even like nice shit because she ain't got no...

Oh, man. She ain't got no Louis, none of that. She ain't never had one. You buy a car? Hell yeah. Huh? Hell yeah, I'm going to get her a car. Oh, Lord.

Hell yeah, I'm getting her a car. Because she going to appreciate it. Damn. I ain't got to buy the $600. Like $55 car, huh? Hell, huh? All she want is the C-Class. You know that little bitch.

Yeah, yeah, I know that. They just throw you the key to that. She want a little 250, 300? Hell, yeah. 10 to wonders. Trying to do it. I'm out here living wrong, there, hon. I'm telling you, bruh, you really overthinking it.

Really overthinking it. I can't believe you out here with this much paper, you ain't having your way. Oh, no. I got a little paper and I'm like, boy. And I'm having the time of my life. Man, I got two much responsibility, Carlos. Hey, man, everybody grown.

Everybody grown. Yeah, I get it, but I just, like I said, I got kids, I got a mom, I got a sister. Hey, bro, you kid grown, man. They are. They married and everything. No, my son married. I still got two daughters.

I just put her through med school. I got another daughter. So bro, I gotta be smart with my paper. You don't, you just gotta get more paper but that requires me to work more oh you don't have no more days oh I don't you ain't no more working don't you good sell some more of this liquor I'm trying to sell it we selling it promoted drop no drop it promoted yes tell them yes hey go get some of this my name is Carlos Miller and Sell it! We selling it. Promote it, you ain't dropping no, drop it, promote it! Yes. Tell them!

Yes. Hey, go get some of this! My name's Carlos Miller and I don't even drink, but when I do, I'm drinking this. You shoulda called this shit, ump. Oh man. Lord, have mercy. But that's the thing about it, man.

We laughing and we be like, as black men, when you get to a level of success where you got a little extra and you could do little things like that to help out the family and have a little free little weekend to kick it with that girl with them nice ass, that's what make it all worth it. Yeah.

Ain't nobody holding on to this shit cause I ain't never seen nobody take none of it with them. Nah, I think for me is that to make sure like my family, the kids, my sister, that they get an opportunity to like, cause me and my brother, we came up the same. We were in the same house. My sister, we was in the same house. My mom, you know, even though my grandparents raised me,

my mom had it hard, my mom struggled. So now that I'm in a situation, it's like, I don't sound like you just got this paper though. No, I really, I- You I really I for about 30 years. No, I just got kind of disposable paper. I got disposable paper. I mean paper. I got paper now. It's like you know what? Okay, fine. You want that? I go get it. See, I call bro. I'm like bro. Let's go and go ahead. Oh, what? Oh, whatever it is. The

family. No, no, no, my brother don't work. My brother got retired, so now it's my responsibility. My responsibility to take care of everybody. Bro, you gotta stop making your brother cry all the time, too, bro. All these beautiful ass stories. I know Sterling's gonna be wanting to chill sometime. Then you come out of nowhere once.

I remember when I was six years old. I'm not even the best football player in my family. My sister is. I'm like, what? Oh, you're tripping. Eric Charles Sterling goes somewhere, and he ain't go with this. I love my little brother, bro. We got quick as fuck, dog.

Eric Charles Sterling come outside, you make him cry, bro. Let him make it. OK, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye. Wilding out. What's been your experience on Wilding Out? What you want to talk about? How they fired me or what? That's what you're getting at?

Well, how you got fired? Is that what you're getting at? Just ask me how you got fired on your day off. You see how I'm sitting here talking to you? I'm not acting. This is me. I say the wrong shit all the time. Come on.

You can't say the wrong thing to the wrong person, though. Yes, you can. That's what I say the wrong all the time. Come on, you can't say the wrong thing to the wrong person though. Yes you can. That's what I've been trying to tell you. That's the same thing I was saying about Monique. Bruh, I am a professional comedian. Right. I'm a talker.

I know we can't keep saying that, but I am. Right. So if you hire me to do that, let me do that. Let me do that. I don't know what happened. That was a dope experience. I was on that. I don't know what happened. That was a dope, that was a dope experience. I was on that show for like 10, 11 years. Damn. Yeah. When they first brought it back, season five, yeah, me and Chico and Conceited and Manuel Hudson, we was the original

like from the season five that they brought back. So I've been on there ever since they brought it back. Like I even did a couple episodes on the last season that they did. So it's just been up and down, bruh. I think I probably got the record now for being let go the most. Let me ask you a question. Who's been your favorite guest?

You had Michael Blackson, who's unbelievable, with a Kevin Hart cap. Why would you say Michael Blackson? You know what? I like Michael Blackson. He's just a sh** talker. He would never be my favorite. That's my dog. No, I'm saying who's been your favorite. I'm saying he's been on... I'm just naming people that have been on there. Shout out to Michael Blackson. But you know, he gonna...

Every time he see me, he be like, that black son of a... He gonna talk about me anyway. But that's been my partner for a long time. But he ain't even close to the top of who my favorite is, bruh. I will say Kevin Hart, but every time he come on there, don't nobody get to say he talked the whole time. Probably Snoop. Snoop come, he bring us a whole bunch of Snoop accessories and then he makes sure everybody has some and then he walk off right just he

atmosphere has changed But Jay Leno came on while now one time. Let me see who else I like when they had like the fine R&B single latest to right Who else? My probably my favorite guess of all times would probably be Tammy Roman though. Really? Tammy Roman is funny as hell. So shout out to her.

She was very, very entertaining. Jocelyn Hernandez was dope. And a lot of people, T-Pain. But it's always the cast that make it fun. Like being on set with DC, Chico, Conceited, Justina, and maybe with Hudson, one of the funniest people that you will ever see in person, cause he don't have to be doing nothing.

He could be complaining and it'd be funny. It's always dope to go in there and like take shit from Nick Room, cause he always got $100,000 worth of clothes and he don't even wear them. He just be on there with no shirt on. So just go in there, take something from him, he don't even wear them. He just be on there with no shirt on. So we just go in there, take something from him. He don't even know he's missing.

Well then, how you get fired then? I don't know, honestly. Do you say something about that man, woman? Probably, I said all kind of crazy about Nick. That's what I do. But it wasn't even him that fired me. It was the other people. You know how that should be.

He ain't try to get you back? I don't know. He did a little bit. But yeah, it was the other people. You know how that shit go. He ain't try to get you back? I don't know. He did a little bit. But yeah, it was cool. I ain't trippin'. Let me ask you this. Bruv, you a black man and you ain't never been fired, you ain't workin' hard enough.

Yeah. Why? Let me go. Open me up for some more opportunities. Why is this, why do you feel it's so important for black men to have communication after they have a disagreement? So don't nobody get shot. That's why.

But we gonna have to do a better job for the next generation to let the young brothers know that it's all right to express yourself. It's okay to have feelings. It's okay to have a disagreement. It's okay to have a disagreement, but that don't mean that this got to be it. You get what I'm saying?

So I think discourse and therapy is something that's just really readily becoming available to us as black people. And we don't know how to deal with that. And sometimes we, you know, a lot of us grew up in households around people who shouldn't have been around no kids, who told you how to, you know, who, you know, suppress your feelings and not be able to express yourself or not even be able to say nothing back. Let's talk them back, let's talk smart,

let's disrespect them. And a lot of that stuff gotta change inside the community. You get what I'm saying? So that's why it's important that we can have discourse and conversations and let people know that it's all right to have feelings. Men, black men, men in general. We don't really get to express ourself.

And that's why we don't live that long. How did you decide you, DC and Chico to come up with 85 Sound? Because the show that you see on the stage is how we really interact with each other. Okay. I feel like we're three of the coolest friends, but we don't never clash.

Like, we, it's just really like, like brothers. You know what I'm saying? Like, the same, but different enough where there'll never be a conflict, bro. Wow. Like, me and DC, when we left to go to Wild N Out, like, I think he came, he came season seven. So me and Ch Wild N Out, like, I think he came, he came

season seven. So me and G-Go was on, like, our third season when he came. So it was all new to him. And it was just dope to see somebody just enjoy something that, you know, that was, that was like an opportunity for us at a point. And now it's like, okay, now it's a job. But just to see is like, he's he still wide ass. So he brought the love and the passion back for that. Cause we like, okay, now it's dope. Now we got some people here that's gonna make it dope. So we were kicking it hard in Atlanta.

Then we got to New York and then I linked up with Chico and I couldn't find him then he came downstairs. He's like, oh, you just gonna throw me away cause you're with your real friends. And that's like, that's how the introduction, that's how we really got cool. And the way that we kick it with each other, we just like that all the time.

So it only made sense. Because we would always end up having like two, three hour conversations or just rapping or talking back and forth with each other. So that's how, that's the nucleus of the whole operation. Will you consider that one of your better decisions that you made? What?

To link up with DC and Chico and create that platform? Absolutely, because we all bring different weapons to the table. And it's dope to have somebody who could be strong when you weak, or somebody who got the same vision who could be like, oh, this what we doing? Well, I can bring that. So it's dope to have a team. And like I said, we're not all after the same vision, who could be like, oh, this what we're doing? Well, I can bring that. So it's dope to have a team.

And like I said, we're not all after the same thing, so we'll never step on each other. But how do you all, how do you guys, because everybody is great in their own right, to make sure your egos don't get in the way, because we've seen a lot of groups allow egos, allow money to get in the way, and it's never, and look, and sometimes, you know,

you can have success on your own, but you guys are really united as a group. How do you keep egos out of it? We don't. We love it. We encourage each other's ego. I think that's the biggest thing. Like, yeah, man, get all of it.

You're supposed to use it, they owe you that. So biggest thing. Like, yeah, man, get all of it. You're supposed to use them. They owe you that. So we encourage the ego, but it ain't never like somebody, you know, it ain't never individual. You know what I'm saying? Like, we trying to win for the team. We gonna go over there and we gonna drag it back over here. You feel me?

Everybody eats B. DC went through something. He lost the mother of his kids. Yeah. And I know how close you are. How were you able to be there for a friend to let him know, bro, I can't even imagine the pain that you're going through, but I just want you to know

that I'm here for you if you ever need me. Man, that was, that was a cry more than he did. I was, it was, you know what I mean, because I lost my mom and just not even knowing, you know, the uncertainty of the situation. Like, I don't know how to what to tell my little brother. I don't know what to say, but I'm here. I don't have no words. If you need anything, if you need me to go pick these kids up every day,

if you need me to whatever you need kids up every day, if you need me to whatever you need I'm extending myself to you, bro. That would really that caught everybody off guard because you got to keep in mind I Was with him the moment that he first saw her And it's like I remember when they didn't have no kids I remember when they was in the love. And all them kids was made out of love. And just to see how he fight and face the world, I made me so proud of him.

You get what I'm saying? Cause I met him when he was just a young, wild dude. And then to see the transition to being a man, to being a father, to being a father father. I'm proud of him. He handles it well. He prays, he stay prayed up. He ain't ask for no help.

He didn't go get a new chick to try to fill in that role. He did it by himself. He stepped up. He forever got my respect for that. What did that, in that most, in his most trying time, what did it tell you about your relationship with him? That it was, I was exactly where I was supposed to be. That outside of comedy, outside of, that's my partner,

God put us together for a reason. He put this team together for a reason. He put this family together for a reason. He gonna give you everything that you need So not only do we have everything that we need to have everything that we want on the entertainment side We got everything that we need in life, right? You get what I'm saying? It's different when The whole team strong or the whole team got money or the whole you know I mean when people gonna show up for you in real life moments

and not just be your entertainment friend. That was the biggest difference to me. Chico, have you convinced Chico to just let it go? Mm-mm, you gonna understand, bro. Chico been bald for 10 years. He didn't even know his hair could grow that long. He don't care about the ball. He care about the braids.

So in his mind, he's not lacking the front. He's rocking two hairstyles at the same damn time. He having a ball. You can't talk him out of it, bruh. And I don't let nobody else talk about it. You don't let nobody talk about it? Nah, he didn't know he could grow no braids until the pandemic hit.

Because the crazy part is we both bald, but we wasn't shaving our head through the whole pandemic. But once I got the little George Jefferson, I was like, uh-uh, I look 71. Yeah, cut mine off, bro. Cut mine off. Chico like, nah. He like, bro, I found somebody to braid this.

And Winnie got it braided. Living his best life, bro. How you gonna tell him? No. What? No, you can't tell him to me. Hey, you don't wanna hurt his feelings. He don't, you can't.

He don't care now. That's the best thing about Chico Bean, bro. Like a lot of people can sit there and try to convince you that they don't care what people say. This dude will actually show you. He don't give a damn what nobody says. That's what he brings to the 85 South Show, bro. It's like, he's standing on it.

He's standing in it. He don't hide it. He's not easily embarrassed. He's not a person who's gonna shy away from anything, bro. He stands in it. That's the best thing about Chico B. One of the realest. Steve Harvey. A lot of people man

Ricky smiley said entertainer Earthquake so many of the comedians that's come on my platform have said what Steve has done for them Steve let you guys use the studio for two years Come on, we'll correct it. Go ahead We use Steve's Studio for two years. He didn't know. He didn't know we was in there. He allowed it.

Once he found out, one night he showed up though. Oh, so y'all were doing it. And then he was like, man, what the hell y'all got going, boy. I'm finna kick some ass. I'm finna kick some ass. I'm finna kick some ass. He didn't allow it, but he didn't stop it. But once he found out he was cool, Steve cool as hell.

So how did you meet Steve? I ain't know him at first. My dog, nothing used to work for him. My whole team used to work for him. My boy Kat, my boy Joe, Chad, Ryan. We basically hired the whole staff that he fired. He had fired all my partners. Damn, they didn't even do nothing.

He just let everybody go. But he had another partner who was, like Steve had a homie who he knew had his, he was like his second in charge who wasn't all the way up the path. And he was trying to get them out of there anyway so he was like his second in charge, who wasn't all the way up the path. And he was trying to like get them out of there anyway, so he could pull his move. Then it happened like that.

So we were using the studio in the off time, cause you know, like he do the morning. So at night the whole, you know, the studio wide open. So we started putting it together, had his team of all the guys that he let go. And I guess they played him some of the show. And he was like, all right, since they ain't in there, you know, smoking up my studio or messing with nothing,

I let it go on until it can't go on. OK. But yes, shout out to Steve Harvey, because a lot of that, like, we probably used the studio for free probably a good two years. Wow. Y'all had no overhead. For free? No overhead? Like we probably used the studio for free probably a good two years. Wow Y'all had no overhead Why

What what is what would you like to tell people about ownership because a lot of time, you know people like man I just because you you you when you get a nine-to- somebody cutting you a check, you know that's the regular. But when you own something, you don't work, you don't get paid, Carlos. You gotta take a chance. Yeah, and a lot of people ain't willing to take that check. I can't make no checks. A lot of people ain't in a position to take the chance. But you gotta set yourself up,

because life is all about that. Like, we live in America, this is a capitalistic society. You don't have something for sale. You ain't gonna make it. Right. You gotta have something for sale. So what I would tell people about ownership, especially black people though, take the chance, invest in yourself. If you can go to somebody else's job and do it good enough that they'll pay you, that's a skill. Yes. So when you get out of there, you need to try to refine that skill and take it to another level. I think God gave everybody at least one good talent, one good gift.

And for you not to exercise it and use it is disrespectful. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody got the potential to be great. Right. A lot of people don't just, they don't take that chance. So when I got me a little piece of paper, I started looking around at all the rappers and entertainers and they just got all the cars and all the jewelry and like but don't nobody got no building. Yeah. You can't ride by nothing

and see a building. Like that's okay. That's the spot. I wanted that. Right. You know what I'm saying? I wanted my own studio. I wanted to be able to come in here and turn the lights on and create something. Yeah, we only. And Tyler Perry was one of my biggest inspiration. Yeah, man. I saw what he did down there with Fork McPherson. Fork McPherson.

In Atlanta, you mean, it should be one of them in every city. Yeah. You feel what I'm saying? Like, we need that. And then we can't complain about not having the opportunities. We got to create our own opportunities, man. We don't need Hollywood to pick one black person that they

like and put them in 50 movies. We need to pick our own stars, man. We need to make our own stars. So that's the whole motivation. I feel like this is just phase one for me. I can't wait to see what happens. I wanna get on here, talk my, let somebody see me. Then they hire me, give me another check.

Then I'm gonna take that check and get another studio, flip that studio, then we're gonna be making movies. Then we're gonna be shooting commercials. And then, you feel what I'm saying? I'm trying to get it on. There ain't nothing wrong with that. Exactly. The Netflix deal.

What did that mean to you guys like, Netflix came in and you guys got, you finally ironed it out and like, and you debuted at number one. Even bigger than the deal, it was debuting at number one, independently. That was the real stamp to let people know it's possible. Right.

Not only can we still be independent, have the ownership, but we can still broker a deal with a corporation like Netflix. They can trust us with a budget. They can trust us to put out a quality product. So I wanted that to parlay some more relationships. I want NBC to see it, and ABC, and Fox or whoever. Man, we've been working with NASCAR lately.

So it's just building that trust, especially independent. When you can do something like that, you stay independent and you can go corporate too, and not mess the money up, not say the wrong word, or not offend them people, and it's all good, they come back. What do you learn most about money? That you'll never have enough of it.

It's a strange relationship with money. Because the people who got half a million, trying to get to one million. The people who got one, trying to get five. The people who got five, trying to get 20. The people who got 20, trying to get 50. The 50 want 100. The 100 trying to get to 500.

The 500 trying to get to a billion. want 100, the 100 trying to get the 500, the 500 trying to get to a billion. It's a never ending game, bruh. And plus there's nothing that you can really do with it. You can use it to do some, but it ain't nowhere that you can just take that shit. That's what I try to tell people, Carlos. People are like, man, Shannon, you work too much. I say, bro, y'all don't tell Jeff Bezos that.

He got 200 billion. Yeah, he got more money than anybody. Elon Musk, look at the wealthiest people in the world. What they do, damn near every day, work. Exactly. But you think I got the little bit of paper, the little bit of paper I got, you want me to take time off, hell nah.

Nah, I'm trying to get more. Don't take, I don't need no vacation. I enjoy what I do. See, that's what I'm saying. I enjoy what I do. I don't have nobody yelling at me, telling me I need to be back in 30 minutes. It's bruh. I'm living my dream. I'm in it, right? These this is the stuff that I prayed for Yeah, so I would I want to do it

I want to be the one who go get the bag and bust it down and like you said, I got a team, too I got people who depending on me. Yes, nothing else That's it. So I gotta go get me some people who depending on me, who don't do nothing else. So I gotta go get me some and them some. And like you said, and then once you start looking at the family, they go my little niece, then my partner got three little girls and then we gotta get some more.

Plus I feel like as black people, we've been locked out of money too long. I'm still trying to get all this, they ain't letting my granddaddy get it. That's how I'm still trying to get all this. They let my granddaddy get. Yeah, that's how I'm living Is it true weed smoking weed make you smarter No, I just make you pay attention to details. Okay, that's what I think Make you hungry

Yeah, but I think I think that sometimes the weed kick. It's just like having a little highlighter All the little things that you miss. You can listen to a song that you've been listening to for 10 years, but if you listen to it and you had a little bit, like niggas, is them violence? Yeah. You'd be like, oh, so that's what they been saying. I never knew what they been saying. I never knew that.

Damn. Yeah. I don't think it's like, I don't think it's one of those things that it's like, it's not a necessity. Right. It's not something you, I don't feel like you can be addicted to it. There's a lot, there's a lot that goes into that. Could you stop smoking weed for a million dollars? Absolutely.

Give it here. What weed? I turned into Stephen H. Smith. Stay off the weed. Absolutely. How long the weed. Absolutely. How long? Forever? Yeah, that ain't enough forever.

Five million forever. Probably. Maybe. Maybe. Now, if you start back, you have to pay the five million back plus interest. All right. That's cool.

Because I'm sure they got some when you get, once you get $5 million, they got some shit over there that's probably better than weed. Yeah, whatever they got going on. They got some better shit going on over there anyway. You have smoked with celebrities? Yeah. They smoke good weed? Sometimes.

Now I know Snoop got the best bass. Snoop do with absolutely absolutely he got this call Khalifa Kush Lord have mercy this might be better than Snoop huh this crazy this is so good he came here about four months ago mm-hmm I still got a little, a little piece that he left me. I need to get back with him. Yeah, why'd you just have him drop you off a pound or something? I don't know, I don't even know if that's, I don't know.

I don't know. But I need to catch up with him, that's fire. Damn. Yeah, that's, I don't want that, I'm glad. Yeah, who else? It's a lot of people like, them dispensary people, they don't even be celebrities, they be having like some top shelf

So is the dispensary the best place to go get the weed now? You still can go for go to the man and get it The man ain't got no good weed. Street weed still bein' it. It's still better than the dispensary. Yeah, if you know the right people Absolutely. There's some people I know out in California, they some gang members, they got that. See you got to be able to trust them because they lacing it and dipping it and everything. Yeah you got, no it's not, trust me man, I will rap. I don't want none, I know some people. Yeah I believe you. I don't want to. don't wanna, I don't wanna. You said you would like to do movies.

Yeah. They don't even have to be comedy movies though. I really wanna play a villain. I wanna be a evil motherfucker. I'm like, you know you watch Law and Order. Yeah. I want one of them. Give me one of them.

Let me play the villain. Right. I wanna be able to call him like, look, you have two hours to get me my money. I'm driving. Yeah, that's what I'm on. It ain't gotta be comedy though. So is there any, like,

I had a couple of comedians on, it's like, look, I ain't wearing no dress. I ain't no, is there any role, is there anything that you wouldn't do in a movie? Yeah I don't want to do like that either. Okay, that's why I feel like I've been able to be successful as a comedian Don't nobody want to me They got people for that? Let them do that. Why would you need me in that? No, I don't.

Bruh, in this entertainment industry, you need black women around. Because sometimes black women can say things without saying it. They can just give you that, I don't know, honey, I don't know, child. You wearing that? And then it'll, I don't know, honey. I don't know, child. You wearing that? And then it'll just put you back in the perspective.

No, I'm not, no. No, they don't need me for that, bro. No, hell no. Two minutes of fame. Cat Williams, Kiki Palmer, Jess Hilaria, Sinbad, Dion Cole, earthquake. What was that experience like? What was it like to be on that one?

Cause I guess it's like when you, like when athletes get that one? Because I guess it's like when athletes get together, like when we get together, we go back to the Hall of Fame and we just laugh and talk and reminisce about stuff. So I can imagine it's very similar that when you're on the set and there's a lot of other comedians that you guys just go at it. Two minutes of fame. I'm in there about two minutes.

No! About two minutes. Right. It was cool though, man. It's always cool when you're trying to expand your empire. Right. You get to throw them little credits on there. I ain't one of the main cast members on there. But you ain't. But I took the opportunity to do it.

Right. You get what I'm saying? I had a day off. They called me. They was excited to have me on set. I came in. I did my thing. And I left.

I went right back to the ground. I'm all about collecting these checks, man. I'm all about collecting these checks, man. I'm all about collecting these checks, man. I'm all about collecting these checks, man. I'm all about collecting these checks, man. I'm all about collecting these checks, man. I'm all about collecting these checks, man. I'm all about collecting these checks, man. I'm all about collecting these checks, man. I came in I did my thing and I left I went right back to the ground, but I'm I'm all about collecting these checks man

When I had cat on he was one of the you were one of the young comedians that he mentioned by name, right? You see how crazy it is. I've been doing comedy for 20 years and still young and up and coming He's like he he say he loves some Carlos, he love what your guys be doing. Amen. We appreciate that, Kev, cause you came on this show and let the choppers sing. I didn't think you like nobody.

Man, talk to me, man, there was a lot going on this summer. Talk to me about that with Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Amen. That's just like, that's a whole nother show. That's a whole nother show. Did you see that coming? Did you see that popping off like that?

Yeah. Did you? I could see that happening in a lot of places. It's cause you gotta keep in mind, this is competition. It's friendly competition, but it's still competition. So some people, they can laugh and play with you because you ain't a threat to them.

Then if you step into that, like the UFC, them guys be cool as hell until they step into that octagon. Now anything that happen in that octagon, in these three, four minutes on this round, you either gonna whoop my ass or I'm gonna whoop yours right and we're gonna shake hands when we walk up out of here but the whole time we in here we're gonna fight like hell I don't think they ever liked Drake. They never liked Drake. But the man put so many people on how many people don't I mean think about it he too easy to hate on

everything going right. N***a tall, light skin, got curly hair, all the women love him, all this music good, got a whole bunch of money, ain't even from America. He too easy to hate. Then you got Kendrick Lamar. He grew up like us. He put his mama Van on his album cover.

He struggled for real. His daddy drunk asking for the dominoes. He had to grow up in Compton. It's rough out there. Drake ain't had no struggle in his life. He was doing good in Canada. He was dancing with his white friends, Jewish uncles. They had bar mitzvahs, good investments. You feel me? His mama's family got that check. Kendrick going through it, bruh. Yeah. He had a rough life.

That's too, you don't, you shouldn't, Drake shouldn't have messed with him anyway. You don't, you don't, don't start no with nobody from comp. Comp? Hell no. They been, they been running the rap game since 91. Right.

Why would you do that? Out of all the people to beef with? I'm telling you, Drake, he still Drake though. He could drop one of them. He could drop a whole R&B album and don't even worry about no rap no more. He good. But that was very interesting. Big salute to Kendrick Lamar. He took it to another level on that one.

The passing of Rich Army Quan, it really shook Atlanta. It did. What can we learn from that situation? To check on your people, man. To check on your people. Don't nobody never want to have to be that person. You get what I'm saying? Just say, hey man, you might be doing too much.

Or maybe you should stop doing that. Or maybe you should slow down or chill. That's what it showed me. That sometimes you stop doing that. Or maybe you should slow down or chill. That's what it showed me. That sometimes you gotta be that. Sometimes you gotta be the one that step up and say, hey, but it lets you know that no matter where you at in life or you're a celebrity or whatever it is, everybody dealing with someone,

they go home and close that door. You know what I'm saying? Everybody got them demons or everybody is fighting to stay relevant. So check on your people man. Make sure your people are good. Cardi B responded to one of your tweets when you said that Kanye had fell off. She said, Kanye found the Lord. How'd that fall off? Why you bother people all the time, man? I'm not, I'm not bothering nobody. That's his Twitter. Kanye finding the Lord ain't got nothing to do

with that tweet. Now you done brought it up, now he gonna be back mad. No, bro, but when I said that, I was just speaking from a fan. Right. Kanye West, I became a fan when he was all about trying to get in the game. Right.

When his girl was a Delta, when he was a backpack rapper. Yeah. When he had some consciousness to the music. And then he started just like, you know, not to hold him in one space creatively, but you know, that was a whole movement for a minute. I missed the old Kanye.

You know what I'm saying? So I can't, I don't know about the new, that's not the Kanye that I felt, you know, that made me a fan. Some of it's good, but I prefer, we could get some college dropout where you had them soulful samples. You know what I'm saying?

Where you had the teddy bear mascot and the graduation and all that. Beautiful dark twisted fantasy. Exactly, like that's the shit I wanna hear. And all this new shit with the clothes. I don't wanna, I ain't even trying to hear all that. Kais you call some you call some flack with the casa net when he's crazy What about them other tweets while showing love I just like bro why you why you in jail But then they was like loads you did a skit in jail. I was like, that's not what I'm whatever you can't win with the internet

No, you can't I'm like get on there every day and I make it a point to piss them off I'm not trying to be politically correct. Whatever they do ain't nobody gonna do that What type of father you I? Think I'm a damn good father. I gave my son all the advantages in life. My son is 6'4". He got a 4.0. You ain't given no athletic ability. My son is played basketball. He got that from mama.

All right. He got the band, he in the band too. Now he got the band from his mama. He's a dope musician. Okay. So he play a few instruments and my son real chill. Are you hands on? Absolutely, absolutely, bro.

Like me and my son got the dopest relationship cause it's not like, I'm not James Evans. You get what I mean? Ah! I'm not James Evans, so I'm not hard on him all the time. I appreciate him and I try to give him the option to pick. I'm not James Evans, so I'm not hard on him all the time, but I appreciate him, and I try to give him the option to pick, you know what I'm saying? So I love being a father, bro.

Make me wish that I would have had more kids, because at this point, it's just so fun. But you can! No, I mean, I wish I would have had more in that time. Right, well you can go ahead and start now. You can try to get me to have some. I will. I'm not scared of kids.

Kids don't scare me. Bet you ain't going to do it, though. I am. Wait, maybe next year when I might that girl with them pretty eyes. Well, I might do it if you do it. Pull up, man. Ah!

Damn, doc, do it. I ain't got nobody like that. Yes, you do. I ain't got nobody shit, pull up man. Ah! Damn dog, do it. I ain't got nobody like that. Yes you do. I ain't got nobody for 18 years, man. You got that good insurance. It is pretty good though. It damn good. Come on man, what we doing?

Come on man. You defend the John after you get a second, after John got his second incident with the gun, you defended him. You know what I'm saying gun, you defended him. You said, man, you can't walk around. I defend him right now. You can't walk around Memphis without a piece of.

You cannot walk around Memphis without no fire. Everybody know that. Everybody know that. And he from South Carolina. You can't be in South Carolina, this the South. Everybody got their fire. We love some fire down here. We are Second Amendment.

See, a lot of black people, they like some of that shit they be saying, but we second amendment, bruh. We love Jesus, we love some good, football and some food. That's top five in the South, bruh. Hey, John Moran ain't did nothing wrong. But y'all can have security though. No you can't.

Even if you got security, you still need that fire on you. No, I ain't going nowhere I need that fire. You going outside? Yeah, you need that fire everywhere you go. No, I'm going outside to go to the airport. I'm going outside. The airport's so gangster. The airport's so gangster, you can take your fire,

check your fire, get it when you get off the plane. Take it everywhere you go. That's what America was built on bruh. I can't wait for him to come back. Madame VP in an interview said she got that skit too. Exactly. Say hey run up in there if you want to. Exactly. Everybody gotta have that fire man. Not that you want to go out here and be ignorant. Right. Just to protect yourself. Sometimes when people know you got that fire on you, they leave you alone. They leave you alone, bro. Because they don't know if you crazy as they are, bro.

I'm letting mine go. I promise you I am. I'm a small man. I'm scared. I'm scared. Every time you look at me crazy, I'm scared. Somebody raise their boy, what are you hollering for? Pow, pow, pow! I ain't, uh-uh. Whole thing. It ain't gonna be no accident when they ask me, well, why you shoot so many times? I was still scared. I'm letting the fight go every time.

You, College Hill, you always get into it with Swaggy P. Me and Swaggy P stay into it. Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord, I heard that. I and Swaggy P stay into it. Oh Lord. Oh Lord. I told Swaggy P to shut up and drill him. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Now I had them people on college here that ain't hot at me, man.

They want to play politics. It ain't political. Right. Some things make sense. Right. Some things don't make sense. But you're not about to sit here and try to act like, these are my problems, they're problems.

And they need legit solutions. They're not my problems. That's all I'm saying. Did you get upset that Black China didn't know who you were? Why wouldn't I? Why would I be upset about that? Did you know who you knew who she was? Bro, Black China didn then came on Wild N Out

two or three times. Okay, I knew exactly who she was. She was a whole nother person then. I knew the old her. Right, you didn't know Angela. I don't know Angela. I never knew Angela. Right, yeah.

Do you ever worry about getting counseled? How they gonna counsel me? They didn't put me on. You didn't make me so you can't break me. Wow. Plus, I'm a comedian. They can counsel me on the internet all day, all day. I done been counseled by every, by the Nicki Minaj fans,

by the Rainbow folks, by the white people, I done had the Republicans, I done had the NRA, the NBA, the NFL, the extremists, Kassadin, I love Kassadin, my son put me up on that. All I was saying like, bruh, your platform huge right now, don't be a black man in jail. But then I watched it and I was like, nah, I thought it was real jail. So much other shit.

But big salute to all them. So I don't care about no big counsel brand. Plus when you're a comedian and then you go to the show, the people who come to these shows, they don't give a damn about what's going on on the internet. There's just some shits and giggles that I be having in my house and they think that I'm sitting here serious. I'm really sitting in my drawer, eating loops or something just on the internet talking.

The big thing is that a lot of what we were talking about, cat and a lot of comedians that come on my platform is joke stealing. Is that prominent? Yes, absolutely. So if somebody stole one of your jokes and they say, man I got this for my boy Carlos, you cool with it? That's not how they do it. They're just going to make it seem like that's their joke. They're the originator of that.

I don't even think they even do that. Sometimes comedians just be on stage scrambling and they'll do it unconsciously and then once they realize that that's what they done did, they don't. Do they call you? Have somebody ever stole your joke and say, Carl, man, bro, I'm sorry, bro, I used something you said. Nah, it don't work like that. They just gonna steal it and keep it moving.

But it's kind of just like when rappers rap and you hear a rapper use another rapper bar, you were like, you ain't stealing it, but you did say it. You get what I'm saying? So that could really be a thing though. That's some fist fighting type shit. Especially if, yeah, bro, comedians fight more than any group of people that I ever been around

for that right there. Cause you gotta keep in mind, this is an individual sport. And it's not like good jokes are just, some people don't create at the same speed, so they steal. But it's a group of them. Right. It's a group of stealers, they're still on purpose. They know they're stealing,

cause they just, they want it so bad. Not the joke, the admiration and the fame, and you know what I mean? Where people get lucky and be like, hey, you one of them ones. My man, you stole that. Being on the road with Mike Epps, Samore LaVelle Crawford, I've had LaVelle on it.

He's hilarious. No Mike a little bit, not much. I would love to have Samore. So if you're watching this, Samore, I'd love to have you. Yeah, man, you got mad at Mike. You can't be mad at Mike, man. I don't play like that. Play like what? I don't play like that. Play like what?

Mm-hmm. I don't play like that. That was for real. I was going to have a conversation with him. I said, well, I wanted to know why he felt like what he said was OK. And he's told me, man, I joke with Shaq all the time. I call Shaq Shrek.

I said, Mike, you think calling Shaq Shrek is the equivalent of what you're saying about me? Mm. He like, man, you know what, you right. You right. I said, bro, I ain't got no problem with you, bro. I said, but you know how people are very influential. Right.

I said, you say that, you say that, what Mike must know, and then it takes a snowball effect See, I said, let me go ahead and let me you them other people say I don't I say Mike you I say he said But I said I don't care about them. I say cuz they ain't got no weight I say but you you've been in this thing 30 years. You've been in major movies you different Them other clowns. I don't pay them no tension You gotta give everybody the same grace You different. Them other clowns, I don't pay them no attention. You got to give everybody the same grace.

Well, you know, that's part of it, though. Everybody ain't playing. Yeah. And see, and that's what I told him. I said, Mike, sometimes people hide how they truly feel in jokes. I said, there's a little truth. And there's a, hey, and what joke to you

might be deaf to somebody else. So be careful You're right. That's why you gotta keep that fire Cuz like you said sometimes when you you boy shitting and you joking, everybody ain't joking about something. That's the thing. You have to know when people, you have to know when people, everybody don't joke. And that's why my grandfather said, boy, everybody don't joke like you joke.

Right. So you have to be, you have to understand Carlos, I came from a different era. Men didn't play like that. You couldn't call somebody that. Right. They would fight you on sight. On sight.

Now we done got everybody like, oh, he said, no, no, no, bro, don't play with me like that. Cause do I strike you as a guy that play like that? And I said, Mike, if you saw what you said, if you saw me in person, you would never say that to me, bro. All them dude that be talking like that, what you think the likelihood of everybody that you heard say some comedians and all, if they saw me face to face, that's what they would

start with? Amen. I'm sitting here with you. Hey, bro, they wouldn't say that. You a big dude, bro. No, I don't bother nobody. I'm just a big dude. I'm a big dude.

I'm a big dude. I'm a big dude. I'm a big dude. I'm a big dude. I'm a here with you. Hey, bro. They wouldn't say this No, you're a big dude, bro. Oh, I don't bother nobody See that's the difference I bother people You do I do but you try to get me in some stuff no No I don't. Yeah you do. This not live. Yo this, kill it, hey. You did a 30 minute special on Kevin Hart's laugh, or what is it, laugh out loud? I forever love Kevin Hart, bro. Kevin Hart, G.

Kevin Hart getting so much paper. That you'll go work, he worked so fast. What we was talking about, now he gave me a fat check for that. I'm talking about as soon as I got done, I didn't have to wait, it wasn't in the mail or nothing. He just had to lay the leg all up. Oh, Lord, let me go and get up out of here. Hey, you need 30 more minutes?

Absolutely. Absolutely. Bro, Kevin Hart, a real one, bro. Real for real. And for him to have a platform, for him to be getting as much, he on rockstar status. For sure. For him to even give a damn about where anybody else got going on.

He picked a handful of comedians that he liked, that he personally selected, him and his team, and they were like, bro, we believe in you, we want you to rock out, no restriction, do what you do. And at that particular moment, it was the perfect time. So Kevin Hart, yeah yeah man that's my dog and he got a lot of dope cars so oh he does yeah he got he I mean no he got car cars absolutely I ain't talking about no Ferraris and stuff like that he got old

school I'm talking about old school yeah yeah yeah yeah if they were to do a Kings and Queens of Comedy today who would they select to do the Kings of Comedy in the Queens of Comedy? Besides us 85 so yeah, how many I get the pick Bro, how many with the King of Comedy with four people so I get to pick four. Yeah For and I'm not a cable comedy school one for you. I'm not I'm just I'm trying to get the parameters, right you get four Four kings and four queens. Yes. All right Okay, I'm gonna keep it all the way real bro. I think I think little real One of the funniest comedians like this whole generation like I think that dude funny as hell I

do little real I'm not including me Chico do I'm not putting this in there little real who else maybe like look damn this gonna be the whole Chicago were you gonna put Dedeon in there Were you gonna put Deion in there? I was gonna put Deion and Corey, but that's the whole Chicago. That's the whole Chicago. But Atlanta and Chicago always had the best comedians to me anyway.

I don't know, this hard. It is. This hard, because I be thinking like Kobe Bryant, bro. I don't really just be sizing up the competition. I just be like, line them up. We'll take over everybody. What about for you women? Let me see.

I gotta put my baby mama on there. She a me Franklin, she'll be on there. And then I put Jess Niche on there. And then I put Paris Sashay on there. And then I put Paris Sashay on there. And then I put shit. Maybe like Kelly Kels on there or Zaynab. Zaynab, she funny as hell. It's a lot of funny ass women.

But on the king side, bro, I like L'Rell. I like my boy Damn Fool out of Chicago. Damn, you don't wanna pick nobody but out of Chicago, huh? Them are my favorite comedians, bruh. Shout out to all the Chicago comedians. Let me see, I put my boy like James Davis, Sydney. I just named some niggas. Who else, man?

You put me on the spot. I wasn't expecting you to ask me no shit like that. My boy Ali Sadiq. I like my boy Ralph Barbosa. He's funny as hell. Who else, man? There's a lot of them though.

It's a gang of comedians that I like. It's like lot of them though. It's a gang of comedians that I like man It's like haha Davis. Yeah, Mojo Brooks another Chicago comedian Country Wayne. Yeah, definitely put country Wayne on there. I put You only got full spot. You ain't put nobody else on there. They Kings brown put everybody'll be a marathon. I put all of them on there. If we sit down five years from today, how different is Carlos Miller's life gonna be? What will he be accomplished in the next five years?

I ain't, man, I ain't really. I'm gonna be funnier, be finer. I'm gonna have a little more paper, probably be driving around in something, you know, a little bit more spiffy, you know. That cute-eyed girl, she gonna be gold. No, she ain't. She probably be having, she might have number two in her.

What? Number two or number three. I'm telling you, if I get in the club, I'm shooting the whole club up. Oh, man! Come on I'm shooting the whole club All that whole club she just that bad she bad off the rim Oh my god, I'm telling you she wanted to one bro. She from the country, too? Shh. By they ain't got a mosquito bite on it.

Just... Club Shay-Shay do not... What? Condone. Yes, you do? I'ma be on live with her, unh! I'ma be on live with her. There you go, baby! I'ma be on live with her. It's too soon. It's too soon.

I need about two more months. Let two more months pass. Oh no, it's out, no, it's out. It's out. You keep breaking it up. So, that's what I gotta do. I got to. I would have had me a sock bill

cause I would have knocked the phone on the floor. They would have leased all my socks. Ah! Ah! Ah! My aunt got me some socks coming out. Man, they need to get, yeah, you know what? I should get them grippy socks.

I already got them grippy socks. Oh man. You heard about them? They got grippy socks coming out. Yeah, you know what, I should get them grippy socks. I already got some grippy socks. Oh man. You heard about them? They got grippy socks, waterproof blanket, all that. I'm gonna get all that. I need my grippy socks. Grippy socks, kick your boy out. They will.

You got anything to promote? What you promoting? You know, we got an app. We got channel 85, but we dropping all our exclusive content, man. So download the app and support that. We on tour right now, big business. Me, Chico, in DC, selling out arenas, man, 15,000 seaters.

Wow. Yeah, we busy, bro. We trying to double back. We think we're going to do another Netflix joint. Everything 85 South, bro. If you looking for me or you need some laughs, 85 South. Carlos Miller, I'm coming. Auditions, TV shows, got some movies in the works.

People always say that, but you never see the movies. These ones really coming out. They really coming out. Carlos Miller with a K. Appreciate it, bro. Love. Love, say, say. Yeah, man, I'ma go on and get on up out of here.

I'm gonna take this shit, you don't need none of this bruh. Go ahead bro, you good? That's you. I've been grinding all my life, sacrifice, but so pay the price, want a slice, got to roll the dice, that's why, all my life, I've been grinding all my life