The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - Backwoods Backstage @ ONE Music Fest w/ Kenny Burns

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

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From exactly right and adonde media, this is two-faced, John of God. Listen on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, welcome back. We live at One Music Fest. Yes, I've been kicking it with the homies from poor minds all day. Lex and Dreia Drea and Lex. Yes, honey. The girls.

Yes. I told y'all. Match is real. And Kenny, motherfucking burn. Important people. You know, Kenny is our partner, though. I know. I have to give Kenny his flowers because I love, like Carlos, you saw the vision, you know what I'm saying?

And we had just moved in our studio, it was still tough for us to get guests. And Kenny was like, man, I'm coming on that. I fuck with y'all. Kenny was one of the first big guests we had on the show. He came and you showed us love. You are sweet. You are knowledgeable. You are funny.

And I just want to say thank you. Because when you came on, everybody was like, all right, I guess I can rock with him and see them. Yeah. Listen, y'all light so bright, and I told y'all when I met y'all. Thank you. And then in tandem, it's extra powerful. Yeah. I salute you.

And I'm here whenever y'all need me for whatever whenever. Thank you. Yeah. None other than Mr. Kenny Barry. Exactly. Y'all want to say this before we get started, God damn. I've been in Atlanta since 1992. Okay.

I just saw Gip Goody and Uzi. I said, start telling me, nigga, I'm from here. I came here 18 years old. I'm from Washington, D.C. Yeah. I think people always having this conversation about Atlanta and how, if you ain't from here, I'm like, nigga, I'm part of every piece of this fabric.

Yeah. So I just want to shout out the city I love, because I love it too. This motherfucker, we got to get the music back. on track. We got one music festival which is happening right now. I mean, a long time ago, you couldn't be in Piedmont Park doing nothing. Yeah, fat. Nothing.

It's 16 years of this fly shit, so. Yeah. And we at here all day, yeah. Yeah. Y'all doing y'all thing. I saw everybody on Instagram yesterday on day one. I was like, I got to go see them tomorrow. Yeah. N. D.D. Nights get off at 3.45. I'm going straight to the goddamn podcast.

So good to see y'all. Yes, we're so glad you pulled up on the edge. Yeah, man. Now this atmosphere, you know, this music fest, this isn't your wheelhouse, man. What are you seeing from the executive side and why it's important for it to be in Atlanta? Anytime some niggas come out in the rain, you know you got something. Yeah. I walk on stage, I swear to God, it started rain soon as well.

They ain't moved. Yeah. I love my people, man. And because we don't have things like this consistently, because things happen all the time. I mean, you just heard of Howard University. They five people got shot second day. So everybody's paranoid the next day to go on the yard. We need to keep showing up and showing that we are powerful in numbers.

Because if we can't do that, you see what's happening politically. We fucked. So we got to keep this energy. And I can't say enough about the team here and the things that they are putting on, not just for the city of Atlanta, but for great artists. I just had Luke Skywalker on my stage. I had Ari Lennox on my stage. Carl Thomas.

You can't do that nowhere else. Mix the generations up and everybody going crazy. And that's what I love about this festival, too, in particular, is that I feel like it's a lot of older legends. But then it's also a lot of, like, the new school artists that are really making a buzz. Like, I think with a lot of other festivals, it's either, like, younger people or older people. No question. But y'all, babe, to that point, y'all know y'all motherfucking, I ain't going to say elders like they, that motherfucker old. But Luke, damn there.

But y'all know pop that. Y'all know goddamn, you know what I'm saying? Birthday. So, you feel what I'm saying? Look at Lex. Yeah, yeah. We don't pop that for sure. No, so it's a thing of like, you know your history.

Yeah, yeah. And you feel that here so nobody feels excluded. You know what I've been noticing since we've been out here this time at this festival? Yeah. With the crowd, it's like, they're not picking and choosing who they're showing love to. Yeah. Like, Ray J getting the same energy that future gets. Yeah.

You get what I'm saying? Yeah. So, like, that's the amazing part. Because we can be, we line dancing one second, then we got Chief Keep the next. Yeah. We got Dungeon family coming through. Then we got, like you said, R.A. Lennox and then with Case, and then we got Carl Thomas. Yeah.

Like, it's everybody. It's music all over. It is. People are running from side to side to watch all the performers. It's like you just said about the music. Yeah. It's Atlanta. Like Atlanta's home of every thing you could imagine.

You know, David O is from Atlanta. Yeah, fact. And a lot of people don't know that. He was raised here. Yeah. So, like, we, our musical, you know what I'm saying, like, influence. It's so broad and so vast that you can't deny Atlanta, even though we're in a weird time music,

but we're gonna bounce back. Yeah, I love it. I think it's a little weird. I think it's definitive now of what's next. And I don't think we leading it for the first time in a long time. I love that they mixed it up though with this festival because you know, bitches love so good.

But we also have one wish. Yeah, you need that one wish. You need that next. Nowadays. Great segue. You like that? Influents are the new. new celebrities, right?

They get booked to, you know, do interviews, host events. And a lot of times people be upset because when you host the event, you are control of the tone of the crowd. Yeah. And seeing you host an event, like nobody can party. Nobody hosting an event like you. Thank you. So what advice do you have for?

I like how you remix that shit, Lex. Your media chops are here. No, I'm with you, though. I got an answer for you. I think that it's about. confidence. That's why I'm celebrating y'all and even my brother. Yeah. We just did earn your leisure, you know, Vest Fest together. And I told him, I'm just so fucking proud of you because I know this is his brain child. And like when I see him,

I just see hustle. I see the excitement about being in it. You know, we had a conversation about our other brothers. It's like the reason I really love Carlos because he fucking going be in the street. You did what I'm saying. And that's where it all starts. So that's why I'm so accepted. That's why I'm so respected. people know I love people. And I don't say my name on the mic. If you were just on that stage, it was 4,000 over there. I ain't say my name once.

Yeah. Because it's not about me. When I come into a venue, I want everybody to feel the feels. If it's your birthday, if you got them just got married, you ain't had sex in a while, and goddamn pretty brown eyes make you want to fuck. I want to evoke the most, I want, that's what I, and I'm married with kids and everybody know that.

Yeah. Still got to have me. But the point is, is that I make people feel. Yeah. And that's what I want Atlanta to do with the music. I know they got away from that topic. You're a vibe curator. Before they had the time for you.

Everybody swear they had a vibe curator. You're not a vibe curator for you. Yeah, but if you don't understand what women need through experience, if you don't understand what men need through experience, you can't possibly need nobody, lead nobody. I agree. You can't. Yeah.

And Carlos is a visionary because you're right. Carlos, you know, Carlos found us. Is he the reason why I'm age? Y'all nigger, he got more great than me, first of all. Falking pepper game. Yeah. He really, I know him and known about him for a long, you know what I'm saying? So when you see somebody hustle like that and really make it happen, a lot of niggas,

I saw a guy come up to Ludacris last night. He had a dinner. A big shout to DTP and Ludacris, 25 years of their amazing offering the culture and Atlanta culture. I saw a nigga real sick because he was around at the beginning. But you've been around a lot of motherfuckers, but you forged your path. It wasn't about ties to nobody. When you got your own will, when you got your own hustle, your own excitement about life, can't nobody do nothing with you.

And you don't have to attach yourself to nobody. And that's the point. That's what I love about y'all. The people come on an interview with y'all, people come to see y'all. Y'all are dynamic. And that's what your whole movement about, what the fucking 85-south movie is about. It's about dynamic personality. Y'all are actually bringing stars back.

Radio them fucked off because they bring the niggas. They can just pay to do whatever. They need stars, but y'all are out here. our world making star shit happening again. I'm telling you what I know. Thank you. I've been outside a long time. Yeah, for sure.

Podcasting is definitely like, I feel like, I don't want to say it's replacing radio because I feel like radio is still needed. Yeah. But at the same time, like, when it comes to interviews. Y' ain't got a report to Nilsson sounds fair. Yeah. Y'all ain't got a report to no overbearing whack-ass motherfucking PDs. We get to get the raw shit.

Yeah. It's unfiltered. I don't even say the word. And I'm talking about one PD in particular at all. I don't because the podcast is the box. That's the discounted that they're going to put it in there that act like, no, it ain't media. It's media. We dropping consistently.

We're working. We're in the studio. We are. Five times a week. Yeah. We're making sure we hit these deadlines and editing. Because we could just throw a bunch of shit out there. Absolutely.

We are actually producing a whole show. We really a TV show that ain't on TV. But you're also going on tour. Y'all are also doing a traveling. I mean, what you do with Chico and your brother, D.C., that shit is y'all on stage making that shit up as it happens. Right. Y'all going around the world. Who don't want to go on the road with you two, motherfuckers?

I want to go. I want to go. Right. This is a real thing, but people don't evoke that feeling no more, and both of y'all's movements is exactly that. So I'm proud of y'all, like a motherfucker. That means a lot. Yeah. It does.

You ain't about no money with me. You feel I'm saying? I know that's right. I ain't got to say things to goddamn get no favor. I say how I feel and that's why I really shine y'all niggas is it. So look, so normally we spin it and then it got to land somewhere, but we're going to do a fit check. Yeah, we got to do a fit check. Because we gotta, we gotta know what you got on because this is flying.

You know, this is the Balenciaga sweatsuit. Oh, yeah. No, Balenciaga shoes, the Rockefeller chain, you can't buy this. Yeah. I got some other shit under down. That ain't gold. That's road. Yeah, it's gold.

It's gold, though, down there. I love that wrist is stacked. Yeah, you know, we're doing that. And then we got the, what's the nigga that created Bitcoin? I forgot the name. Oh, I can't remember his name. Yeah, whatever that. What's the name of the nigga that created a big, Bitcoin?

Nobody knows. This line right here. You're the only one with Bitcoin. Well, anyway, that's a half. I don't know how Bitcoin. No, I ain't going to lie to you. I got a little bit. Yeah, we got a little bit.

One Bitcoin, like $120,000 right now. It is now, yeah. I got a little bit. Yeah. That's one train I hate I miss. Like, buying it when it was like worth like $400, $600, $600? $600? I mean, I hate that I sold mine that I had.

You faulty? Yeah. Oh. How much you sell it for, though? I'm 15. You made some money? 15. Well, I made some money with Uncle Niers.

The fastest growing independent on whiskey in American history. Bix out the phone we don't believe in hot. Yeah. Since you're talking about the whiskey and let me get a shot of that and, you know, I'm saying. Yeah. Let me get my 3%. Come on. I put the girls down with my other liquor, L.S. Cream.

L.S. I break bread. I don't know what everybody else doing. That was my money. partnership. Yeah. Yeah. You did a,

know it. Y'all did a great thing for the brand, man. Yeah. Yeah. You got to renew it. Stop hate.

Y'all got stops. Listen, hate it is not supporting. Yeah. I just want to say that for the record. Support these motherfucking kings and queens.

Man, they got, y'all got culture by the motherfucking neck. You know what? Yeah. If we got to ask him, we don't want to talk that shit. I just saw this post

where this nigg said, man, niggas at my job found out I own the vending machine and stop eating snacks. Oh. That's real, though. Damn.

That's why I understand a lot of the time, though, why people don't want to put their face on the brand, because sometimes people won't want to support you just because they know it's your shit. Well, let me tell you. Some people think that if they buy some shit from you for $5, now you got $5 more than them, and they don't like that type of shit. They want to see you have it, but they don't want to help you get it. Let me tell you.

With this current administration, y'all better get with that subscription model. Y'all better get with direct money from the people to y'all. Do y'all know the most money is made by politicians by $20, $15, $5 donation? Stop depending on these people, man. Stop depending on these people to support y'all. Y'all are the fucking talent. They need y'all. Go to the people.

Absolutely. Make them motherfuckers get into that subscription-based mentality so we can really motherfuck to eat. I'm telling you. Go to the source. I've been saying it. Yeah. The more we own, the more we're going to. But the OG is Stanford.

Your motherfucking, your motherfucking sediment. I appreciate that. Yes, sir. We're looking forward to getting some more work in with you. Love you, man. Whatever that look like. Love you, like, cool. One of them cool last parties where we can get flying and all that shit, too.

And I want to do something with y'all, so we got to figure that out. Let's do it. I want to do a trip part of the next season with y'all. Yeah, that would be fine. You know? Or we need to do like a brunch party or something out here in Atlanta. We can do that. We can do that.

A-s-s-up. We got to plan the trip. I'll get the sponsor. That's what happened when you come sit on the couch with us over here. We started making deals happen. We started writing song. Yeah. We started making, come on, man.

I did it all today. You did it all the day, bro. These are not interviews, bro. This is really business corner over here. Come on. Make this shit happy. Poor minds, 85 South. Kenny Byrne.

Come on, man. This is the remix. You did, done it. Over the last couple years, didn't we learn that the folding chair? was invented by black people because of what happened in Alabama. This Black History Month, the podcast Selective Ignorance with Mandy B, unpacked black history and culture with comedy, clarity, and conversations that shake the status quo. The Crown Act in New York was signed in July of 2019, and that is a bill that was passed to prohibit

discrimination based on hairstyles associated with race. To hear this and more, listen to Selective Ignorance with Mandy B from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Saturday, May 2nd, Country's biggest stars will be in Austin, Texas. At our 2026, I-Hard Country Festival

presented by Capital One, C, Cain Brown, Parker McCollum, Riley Green, Shaboozy, Dylan Scott, Russell Dickerson, Gretchen Wilson,

Chase Matthew, Lauren Elena, tickets are on sale now. Get yours before they sell out at Ticketmaster. And the winner of the IHeart Podcast Award is you can decide who takes home the 26 IHard Podcast Awards podcast of the year by voting at IHeartPodcastawards.com now through February 22nd. See all the nominees and place your vote at IHeart Podcast Awards.com. Audible is a proud sponsor of the Audible Audio Pioneer Award. Explore the best selection of audiobooks, podcasts, and originals all in one easy app. Audible. There's more to imagine when you listen. Sign up for a free trial.

at audible.com. People who didn't do what John of God wanted them to do, they usually disappeared. John of God was once Brazil's most famous spiritual healer. But in this limited series podcast, we uncover the darker truth behind his global empire of faith and fear. From exactly right and Adonde Media,

this is Two-Faced, John of God. Listen on the IHeart Radio, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast, guaranteed human.