The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - Backwoods Backstage w/ DJ Drama, NIKO BRIM and KAI CA$H| 85 SOUTH SHOW

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

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Like the OG sensei Carlos Miller would love to say, man, who always like to say, hey, man, you know, got DC Young fly in the building, you got Paul Mize in the building, you dig what I'm sayin? Backwood backstage in the building down here in Dreamville man but it's not about us right now we got some real legends in the building right now coming straight out of New York City up Mount Vernon Vernon. It be exact. Brooklyn, it be exact. We got none other than Kai Cash and Nico Brill.

Yeah. Talk the talk. What's up, bros? How you doing? How y'all doing? Sorry about that. We're good. How are y'all?

It's hot. Yeah. It is hot. We feel amazing though. We just came up the stage. How you feel man, first performance at Dreamville? Oh, first performance at the last Dreamville at that, bro. That shit is amazing, you know what I'm saying?

Is this the last one? Yeah. Yeah, this the last one. It's surreal. That's supposed to be! Oh, that's what I'm saying! I think it was, but then I have to say, now it's not anymore. Okay, okay. Well, it's one of them ones have to say it's not anymore. Okay, okay.

Well, it's one of the ones. Right. One of the ones. But it feels great. It's surreal. Like, it's a dream. Nico and I have been working very, very hard for a long time. We cousins.

Right. We can't be like blood cousins or just like Chris Brown's cousin. Blood couldn't make us no more. You know? Yeah, blood was the best. Right. But yeah, no, it was fire. We went out there and we just

seen people piling in as the show kept going on you know what I mean so like just to see the reception up there for us to go up there as family and shut it down like that shit is major. So being from New York you know there's a lot of legendary rappers from New York do y'all feel a lot of pressure coming up to being like the new school from New York? Um yeah and no. I'm gonna say yeah because we're students of the game so we study you know the predecessors the people that come before us from the town but in the current climate it's like no it's not really no pressure because it's tough. It's terrible. Right. It's terrible out there right now. I feel like we like it's an opportunity to carry the torch.

Right. If there's anybody I bank on, it'd be him and vice versa. So, you know, we representing New York, but we just going to carry the torch and push this shit forward. Okay. So who would you say are some of y'all musical influences? I mean, I would say Nas for sure. Tokyo Talk.

Nas Cole, you know what I mean, was heavy. I had Mace, Big, Mary Jane Lodge, Jay Z, and now Kendrick. Because you know what it is, bruh, everybody from New York stick with they people. Yeah. When people from the south, all I'm hearing is I heard nobody cross the jane tonight. To get more people to like outcasts and fire.

And you know, when we go out there, we do an audio thing. I feel like there's a heavy inspiration that I used to want to be juvenile. When I was little, I used to take the the winter fresh dumb rapper. I got to talk to her way Winterfresh dumb rapper. Everybody had to talk. We were all living the same life.

Just in different areas. Y'all are sharing chemistry on stage. Similar to what me and my brothers do. Explain to the people how you guys share showmanship and understand like, all right, it's time for my bro to shine, let me back him up, and when it's time for me to do my thing, he does the same. I feel like it's about having a friendship first,

with anything, because it just allows you to grow closer. We know each other as people, before we knew each other as artists, and I wanna see him move like I wanna see myself move, it's kind of easy for me to know like I the sneak moment for him to know okay this is Cosmo. Same thing and I feel like when you when you have that type of brotherhood with somebody's like you just know and you know how like when you do with your boys like this nigga don't even got to say nothing. He better go great. I see him on stage I say I need somebody to say the words, right? Right.

So, I'm gonna do the words, so. You know, I feel like we just been doing it for so long, like, you know what I'm saying? Like you said, it's real love, it's respected, so it just helps us navigate. Most definitely. Now you guys are at a time where you're starting to see, you know what I'm saying, your dreams come true,

you're starting to see, you know what I'm saying, your success rise. Is there anybody that you guys want to work with? Hell yeah. They here! Yo, yeah, so I'm missing out on them here now. I'm on stage right now. Seth, you gotta get over Ab. Seth, you wanna get over Cone.

Uh huh. I was on the hook for Wayne Jordan with Wayne the Rapsody prior, but now I need a verse in verse with Wayne. Hold on, time out, time out, time out, time out. We never walk past that. He's talking that talk. Hold on, time out, time out, time out. You're not gonna walk past that. You're talking that talk. You on the hook with who? With Rapsky and Wayne. Yeah.

You his cash money. What you talking about? And I got a record with Corey Gus too, man. See what I'm saying? Talking that talk. You talking that talk. I would have to say Kendrick, Brent Fiers, J. Cole Drake, of course. This artist, her name is Ari Lennox, I mean not Ari Lennox, but Ari Lennox, Alex Izee.

And I gotta get against the grills, you know? Gotta get against the grills. I gotta get against the grills, bro. That's easy, that's easy. See, that's all he can do. So I have a question if somebody was new listening to your music, what song would they need to hear? they should hear Michelin Star

OK they should hear For the Company those records are for both of us and we also do our own thing individually right so, I know for me you could listen to Southside Sunday, Bankroll, Marley, UCI, 07 Vent, The West, What You Want, and Cash Loose is on the way. I was just going to say you guys got albums now. Yeah. Cash Loose, what are you doing? April 25th. April 25th.

Woo! April 25th. You're dropping right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're gonna drop right now for the summer? April 25th, come on. It's a backwards backstage. It's soo Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're gonna drop right now for the summer? This is for the 25th. Come on. This is a backwards backstage. It's juicy. So can we get a sneak peek of features? No. Not just one. Listen, listen, let me tell you something.

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you know what I'm saying, you got Poor Minds, you got 85, tapping into three different brands right now. What do you want the people out there to know about you guys? I'll say no politics, also on the way, that's my hour. We don't got a date on it yet, but it's coming. Make sure you all tap into the merch. Y'all can go to createdbynico.com. I got all my merch up there finals t-shirts, you know And you know look out for more shit for me and my brother man, you know, we we're here to stay

Thanks. I got merch on me right now You know, try to live big Um, follow me. I see I could do that right yeah I'm just happy to be here because you know I'm fans of both sure we need to do Thank you all for pulling up. Thank you, thank you. And good luck to all y'all future and living. Thank you so much. Thank you. and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one year anniversary of iHeart Women's Sports. With powerful interviews and insider analysis,

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I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant. For my heart podcasts and Rococo Punch, this is the turning, River Road. In the woods of Minnesota, a cult leader married himself to 10 girls and forced them into a secret life of abuse. But in 2014, the youngest escaped. Listen to the turning river road on the I heart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2020, a group of young women found themselves in an AI-fuelled nightmare.

Someone was posting photos. It was just me naked. Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg, and Kaleidoscope about the rise of deepfake pornography and the battle to stop it. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebene, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebene, and every Tuesday, I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that will challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network.

Tune in on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.