The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - BET Awards Media House ft. Bellygang Kushington

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

Karlous and Navv sit down with Bellygang Kushington at the BET Awards!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There are people out there that absolutely know what happened. Listen to Paper Ghosts, The Texas Teen Murders, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you get when you mix 1950s Hollywood, a Cuban musician with a dream, and one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time? You get Desi Arness. On the podcast star in Desi Arness and Wilmer Valderrama, I'll take you in a journey to Desi's life, how he redefined American television, and what that meant for all of us watching from the sidelines, waiting for a face. like hours on screen. Listen to starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valdarama on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Robert Smith, and this is Jacob Goldstein, and we used to host a show called Planet Money. And now we're back making this new podcast called

Business History about the best ideas and people and businesses in history. And some of the worst people, horrible ideas and destructive companies in the history of business. First episode, how Southwest Airlines use cheap seats and free whiskey to fight its way into the airline is. The most Texas story ever. Listen to business history on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

On an all new episode of IHeartRadios Las Culturistas, Jennifer Lawrence is dishing. Jennifer Lawrence. Let's go! From her hilariously awkward run-ins with A-Lister's. I don't know what I was expecting, but he was just like, nice to meet you. To her

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I want to tell you about my new podcast called Not My Best Moment, where I talk to artists, athletes, entertainers, creators, friends, people I admire who have had massive success about their massive failures. What did they mess up on? What is their heartbreak? And what did they learn from it? I got judged horribly. The judges were like, you're trash.

I don't know how you got on the show. Check out Not My Best Moment with me kept on stage on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, man, welcome to the 2025 BET Awards Media House. Now, we got it. You've been talking about it all day. Who we got it in there with? We got it. belly gang cushioning in the middle

niggia this the introduction how you say that word bro man I did nigga this introduction yeah baby I called my phone on trapping I don't know what the fuck that you pronounce every syllable in that word

niggum hold up right this must have shut down 285 with 285 75 75 on 705 don't play with him I used to live on the

spareway before rap might well live on them you know what I'm doing the right thing yeah so don't get them too much Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man, like that little GAP watching, you know what I'm we've been watching, man, to come up, like, break out artists of it in Atlanta, man, man, that shit feel, you know how that shit is to get the city up, like when you get Atlanta behind, yeah, yeah, yeah,

it crazy because, like, Atlanta behind me, but I'm behind Atlanta, I'm pushing that back of those two, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, but now, it feels surreal, like, damn, like, it's really happening, like, going on to a Wayne, like, I can't even believe this shit, real to be. running, which I'm a hustle, though. I just keep working. I don't even want to feel it. I just want to keep working, keep putting out art.

You know what I'm saying? Keep doing me, for sure. Man, what, like, made you gravitate toward the music, man, my home boy who died, it crazy because he died last year on the day I put my Ferdivirus song out, you know what I'm saying? But he made me rap. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Yeah, he made me start rapping. We were just in the studio, I wasn't really doing that. He's like, bro, you got a rap. I'm like, how to hear you rap? He was like, put hat, rack, cat back, put sentences in front of it. Yeah. It went from there. I did my first song.

That might be a hack that some other motherfuckers need to hit, I did my first song, shit, that motherfucker went crazy. History from there. And been locked in ever since. And I think I like the fact that you keep it at Lama, like even like the, you know what I mean, the throwback songs you were like, you know what I mean, bring into form like a not like with the beef it up.

You know what I mean, just that type of stuff. Like you bring that nostalgia of Atlanta back, you know what I'm saying? You're really rapping on that shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's me. Like I'm trapped music Furborn baby You know what I'm saying

Like my era We're right after that era You know what I'm saying So like I'm gonna fill out of that I'm gonna do all that Like you know what I'm saying I'm put all that in my music

Jay that jay had come out Gotcha I fuck with the fact that you You put your music Across multiple platforms Yeah I'm saying you go Fuck with some big name shit

Then you fuck with some Independent shit And you fuck with some shit Inbetween Yeah Yeah And say a lot about you As a person

Because a lot of motherfuckers look down on shit be like man gonna fuck with him i'm too big for that i'm too big for that type of hell no i see that you've been putting the groundwork in yeah fucking with the big platform you know i know he was real he did the other part that crucially yeah yeah yeah yeah that's a sold out show he had crucial with yeah yeah yeah yeah we open up crucially and sold that motherfucker out you know what i'm saying yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah now i just like to keep keep doing what i like you know what i start doing what i think other people think i need to do to get this type of look yeah they're gonna fuck you fucking poor yeah no like i

make the wave when it come to me you know what i'm saying my motion like yeah i like bro what if somebody watching this right now that ain't heard now song what would you tell them the start introduction yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you let that motherfucker ride out yeah yeah yeah yeah you got go listen to introduction first song on the album streets is your for sure is this your first btt award yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah anything you're looking forward to you're right no vibe No, I'm just playing. I'm just looking forward to just red carpet. You know what I'm saying?

I can't believe they're going to ask me questions. Like, I'm looking forward to see how it worked behind the scene, all that. Yeah. Oh, it's some, it's some food. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's some pretty girls out of here, too. It's some very pretty girls out. You know what I'm saying?

You're like, damn, like, you know, ran into it, like, bump, shoulder with, like, damn. Yeah, yeah, I got their number. Yeah. No, I'm just playing. I was just playing. It's the introduction you on. Yeah, for sure. Bro, like, being from Atlanta and shit like that,

what type of music was you raised up on? What was your shit? Shit, for show, geez, and T.I. Out of the trap mute, you know what I'm saying? But I took a liking to droop, you know what I'm saying? Not for sure. You know what I'm saying? Then, of course, you had the rich kid era.

You know what I mean? A lot of folk don't know. Like, school had paid away for the sound. School had been in every era of Atlanta music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They got to put some respect on school in name, like, just on that. He started a lot of stuff. And he's still in the game?

They still going crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, y'all was just with that boy at the block party with Lucha the other day, you know what I'm saying? For a school to still get that reaction like Ted, like that's a real legend. But yeah, hell, yeah, I grew up on all that shit, all that line of shit. I was going to ask you, though, like, what it feels like to get embraced by some of these people that you named? All of these people that you named, basically. Man, it's crazy because, like, he ain't about no music.

You would think, like, shit, about music and they're like, they really hit me up, like, they kick it. you know what I'm saying yeah crazy like and I see how you vibe and put something together even though even how you did on the Be Easy beat like yeah yeah yeah like damn like he's going crazy yeah and nigga that's that's that's a big one because yeah that's a that motherfucker be easy is a classic already man that was my manager told when I was doing I pulled the beat up he was like nah don't fuck with that because you got to go crazy on that mo but when he heard he was like oh yeah that's yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he said that that what made me go crazy He's like, I can't have a step on it.

Yeah, I can't bullshit with it. When you linked up with TIP, what do you say about it? Tilt was like, you're a black man. Don't let nobody else tell you that did. Hey, that will Tilt. Yeah, hey, yeah, hey, yeah. That Tilt. Nah, nah, Tilt gave me a lot of advice.

Tilt, like, one of the first ones to reach, like, tell me, like, two hours worth of advice. Like, in the studio. Oh, that's the memo. He ain't going to talk to you less than two hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's good to just see it at, Lamma getting behind and stuff, yeah. That's why I was like, I wonder what these,

because that nigga, he would have told you me. Yeah, yeah. No, he told me like, do this, do there, but you got these folk. But, like, just dude there, you show me how to, you know what I'm saying, craft it the right way for sure. Yeah. This ain't your first time in L.A. is? Hell, no, I'm in L.A. hundreds of times.

Oh, okay, okay. But since the, since the rap, oh, now I had an L.A. run, I had some interviews and shit, like, probably, like, I'm going to say, like, two months ago. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What's the next for you?

Man, we just dropped the album. Before I go on tour Wayne, I'm gonna drop the other deluxe. Then while I'm on tour Wayne, I'm gonna drop album too, man. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going crazy. I ain't stopping. You're gonna stay with it.

Yeah, for sure, man. I'm here to stay till I get tired of this shit. And I don't think I'm gonna ever get tired of this shit. Right. Hey, man, you're dropping music at a very rapid pace. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think about dropping four video this week. I don't know, though.

Jeff, what a fucker. Yo, Jay for the fuck. Jeffee in the street. Yeah, yeah. All right, man. For the 2025 BETT Awards, me and now came up with our own segment. Mm-hmm.

And it's called, what the fuck you got on. And you just let her know what you got on, man. And you just pop that shit the way you pop that shit. Yeah, I got on a dope bag, yeah. I got on a lot of cost of, you know what I'm saying? I usually go like two, three pale low-top white L4-1,

but I did the mid-top today. Yeah, yeah. We in Cali, man, they don't got a lot. lot of white f-o-1 for some reason they don't got a lot of dope but clothes i said fuck it give me the mid-talk now i'm gonna go mid-talk you know what I'm saying and the motherfucker fresh out the box yeah y'all chained these motherfuck like two three times a day you know what I'm saying yeah I just didn't want to brain the motherfuckers in here with me yeah they're in the truck though what's size you are 10 to half oh when you take them all give me them there shit ain't no since they're going

to wait hey man we got to catch up with you when we get back to the scene yeah yeah yeah yeah popping through here fucking with a nab you got any more question man this is a lair question then we got like who's somebody you you know what I mean looking forward to working with you know putting on you know what I mean collaborating with a song adele and Beyonce I want to hear that you and Adele I ain't gonna lie pain music yeah yeah I guess I'm gonna turn with Beyonce I'm gonna pain with Adele yeah for sure shit you get on that with Beyonce get what hold gonna say oh shit you can't be rapping like that on my girl shit I gotta get on that too now is you whole and Beyonce on the same song.

Yeah, yeah, that hard, they're hard. You're talking about beyond. When you said Adele, boy, everybody know how I am about Adele. He fucked up by Adele. I'm fucked up about it. And it's really just on the music, though. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

Just let bro come in there and sit down. When she came in and she said, hello? I just sat up. And then she hit me with the East Me. All I know. I felt like she was talking Straight to me, bro Next thing

I don't know I didn't pull the over Like Yeah, yeah Yeah, for sure Yeah You can't You can't

I'm thinking about that shit bro That shit feels like Time up By had too many Gangsons in a bit Man you're sitting next To a gangster

You're crying That shit I'd be crying Listen to music Oh okay bad Me too then Every time I listen to

I want to be out of loop Dude or shit like that I'm crying I cried to ride La night Yeah I go to sleep Damn

If I don't cry for I go to sleep It'd be a long morning for me I gotta get that shit out of me Hey man I'll just let you know That we all go through the same shit Yeah for sure When I listen to some music about like a fan woman

I just feel like she's talking to me Yeah yeah yeah They do be talking to it You know what I'm saying For sure Who's some new artists you'd be listening to New artists I'd be listening to Trap Lotto

You know what I'm saying On June of VVS That boy E-Man You know what I'm saying? E man free now. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Putting everybody down.

You don't put old YK niece. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Oh, talking about that whimmy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, for sure. Yeah, for sure. They get them going.

Hey, man, it's exciting to see you do your thing. Yeah, I appreciate that. And seeing and watching you come up, bro. Keep doing your motherfucking. As an Atlanta resident, man, you're popping your shit properly. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. It's on be fucking traffic up, though.

Yeah, yeah. Somebody got to tell you. You know, so I'm done with that. I'm done with that. Stay the fuck off the 285. Especially 285. It's, in the time you did it, man. You could have did that shit at 10.30 in the morning, but you probably went up there.

Yeah, no, I went to anymore. Yeah. Don't be fucking the traffic because we don't need no more goddamn traffic. That shit made the news. I'm like, man, what the fuck? We think it's an accident. That nigger thumbing through that shit. That ain't going to make niggas hate.

They're going to keep counting shit. The nigga ain't ran out yet. Yeah, they're crazy. Man, I appreciate y'all, man. Goathe, for real, man. I feel good. Oh, y'all fucking with me, man. Nah, bro, when we saw your name on the list, I told him, I said, we got to get him.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we can go to lunch now. Fuck everything, yeah. Yeah, we can talk to everybody from Atlanta. Say that, man. Hey, man, Billy Gang Cushing, and we're out of here. Yep. And she said, Johnny, the kids didn't come home last night.

Along the Central Texas Plains, teens are dying. suicides that don't make sense. Strange accidents and brutal murders. In what seems to be, a plot ripped straight out of Breaking Bad. Drugs, alcohol, trafficking of people. There are people out there that absolutely know what happened. Listen to paper ghosts, the Texas teen murders, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you get when you It makes 1950s Hollywood, a Cuban musician with a dream, and one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time. You get Desi Arness.

On the podcast starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama, I'll take you in a journey to Desi's life, how he redefined American television and what that meant for all of us watching from the sidelines, waiting for a face like hours on screen. Listen to starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

I'm Robert Smith. And this is Jacob Goldstein, and we used to host a show called Planet Money. And now we're back making this new podcast called Business History about the best ideas and people and businesses in history. And some of the worst people, horrible ideas and destructive companies in the history of business. First episode, How Southwest Airlines Use Cheap Seats and Free Whiskey to fight its way into the airline is. The most Texas story ever. Listen to Business History on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. On an all new episode of IHard Radio's Las Culturistas,

Jennifer Lawrence is dishing. Jennifer Lawrence. Let's go. From her hilariously awkward run-ins with A-Lister's. I don't know what I was expecting, but he was just like, nice to meet you. To her unfiltered take on beauty treatments. I'm so upset I think the Botox before that.

And a jaw-dropping reveal you won't see coming. I don't know if I can announce this, but I'm just going to. Open your free IHeard Radio app. Search Loss Culturista. And listen to the full podcast now. What up, y'all? It's your boy, Kevin on stage. I want to tell you about my new podcast called Not My Best Moment,

where I talk to artists, athletes, entertainers, creators, friends, people I admire who had massive success about their massive failures. What did they mess up on? What is their heartbreak? And what did they learn from it? I got judged horribly. The judges were like, you're trash. I don't know how you got on the show.

Check out Not My Best Moment with me, Kevon Stage, on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an IHeart podcast.