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

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

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

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, man, welcome back to the BETE House 2025 for the BETT Awards. And man, when you talk about, independent grinding when you talk about literally getting it out the mud

I'm talking about the mud in the backyard come on you got to bring up that boy La Russell Yes sir

He's here man Miggas gonna get that bang Yeah niggas ain't even getting a walk off

Yeah niggas ain't did enough to get a walk off We've seen you go from 15 20

A 20 35 38 A boo boom Boom Boom Yeah

45 Five part of seven. We've seen you do. How you been, man? Come on, man. I've been well. Bro, before we even get into this interview, I got a shout out to your mom,

bro. You already know why. Mom's real to hell, show up, talking shit. All that, bro. Come on. How you been? Man, I've been great.

That's what's up, bro. It's been a journey. Your energy is infectious, man. Gratitude. See you on there having fun and smiling and laughing. The little kids rapping your verses and shit,

bro, that shit do something to us. Yeah. And like the way you bring the legends back And be full circle Where they happen to come Perform in the backyard Like how that make you feel though Like they want to

Man that shit is like the greatest Like we just had the bum B piece go viral Oh boy Doing I choose you And it was like Man It's just a special thing You feel I mean

Like I really came up on this coach So be able to be able to pour back into the cup And get him Because you know a lot of the OG Don't know how to use social media So it's like they got the skill and talent But they be like here let me show you something and like being able to create these moments man they just mean a lot so it go like hand to hand like yes and you like you probably like like a fan watching that shit like organically go yeah yeah you know what was crazy man when rich and rich knee popped out and he kept rapping document it like this this shit was not normal like you can literally see the kneecap smushed i didn't even know your kneecap could like me either move as a as a as a old year

young nigga, a young old nigga, that scared the shit out of me. I'm like, nigga, one day. Especially rapping like, your shit is going to bend back. It could just be on this side one day. No route running, no crossover. He didn't even do shit. That nigga just went up three steps up. Keep the beat going.

Bro, that's the first time I realized it's really like a cap on the knee. It was like, that was his knee cap. Knee cap. Like the top was off. I ain't talking. I tried enough. My neighbors, you got a whole sponsorship with crocs.

Yeah. And you ain't took them off since. You hear me? Do you even own shoes? I had them all, only very, very, very little pair. Only if I'm like hooping or something. But if I go hooping crocs, I would. They're going to make some for you.

They're going to make some for you, though. We're trying to get it right. Don't do that. Real shit. That shit happened to my son, bro. And his foot went through the crock and broke the toe nail, bray. He had to have surgery on his big toe because

some crazy shit. shit happened man oh yeah what's next bro man i'm just living it i'm living it you feel me like i i i don't know i just be working i wake up i make music we shoot content we do dough whatever come to me i just kind of go with it yeah and you're keeping it all the way independent man you i know you let fans go to the website and then you drop a album i'm like shit pay whatever you want to come on come on that's a hell of a business model bro hey man when you got zero dollars you figure out that one dollar better than no dollars. Man, talking.

Me, it was like... Man, I like your hustle, man. Like, how you even doing the promotion for, like, the tow truck company or whatever? Like, in your city, like, you go from doing that for the Giants. Now you're doing it for... Back to the... Yeah, what's up. Exactly. I still come get that money from you, too.

You hear me? You hear me? I don't discriminate. I don't discriminate. I like my paper all colors. You hear me? I like my paper all colors. with Joe. Hey man, BT Awards 2025. Do you have anything you're looking forward to? Any predictions? Anybody you want to see somebody you might want to bump into, man.

What are you looking forward to this weekend? Man, I'm just really grateful to be here. Like, to go from watching this on the couch to being in it with niggas from the turf with me and they get the experience and see it. For me, like, it don't even make sense. It's still incomprehensible. Hey, man, you know one of another. thing that I respect about you as an artist

is like, you don't shy away from when shit didn't work out. When you say, man, shit, I try to do it. We ain't sell it out. Oh, God. It didn't work. It didn't work. I just feel like that's the better way to go. You feel me? Because like, I really build a community based on transparency, so it's

like they kind of rally around being able to know that. Like, it just made it's like, hey, we didn't make it happen this time. We're going to do it on this one. You feel me? That's the best way to go. And then you see the progression yourself like okay i ain't sell out this time i came around i'm selling out bro and i feel like that's a beautiful thing for fans to witness instead of lying to them if they witness you go from hey we couldn't do it to next year it's pat water wall man that that's celebratory to me that ain't

nothing to run from that's like nigger you seen what i just did now don't get it fucked up we see you out here enjoying the lifestyle and you know i mean being amongst the fans and being a man other people, but don't never forget you be rapping your ass off too. You hear me? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. So, some forget. You know, they see all the fun and the smile

and they forget, I really get down. Yeah. I really get out. Who's some of your favorite lyrics, man? Because once you start listening to the cadence and like, oh, then you're going to come back with the double entendre? Oh, okay, and then you're going to triple stack right there.

Yeah. Then you're going to switch the beat and get it to a whole other. I'll be peeping shit. Like that. Come on. What were some of your favorite lyrics is and performers, bro? Man, DMX. Okay.

Pop. You saw that clip when DMX performed. It looked like the nigga had a whole country out there, bro. Oh, my God. That's one of my favorite, like, moments that I used to study a lot of different artists performing when I was getting into this. Because I'm like, okay, how you do it right? And I was one of them clips that's like, bro, he rapping it live, too, not missing the beat and just the energy. Breath control.

Everything stays present. It's like the art kind of depreciated through the years. So like the ones that got it, man, I'm a fan forever and I study. Yeah. D.Mex probably one of the only artists that can perform any cut off the CD and in the crowd. Oh, hell, yeah. Man, even if they don't, you're going to feel it. Yeah.

Even if you don't know it, you're going to feel it. So you got DEMX. Who else on that list, man? Yay, of course. Like, you know, Kanye was one of the first artist. he's the reason I'm able to be funny in verses and put like punchlines in comedy where it's like you know like when you listen to a good verse

that should make you smile or laugh and like that that's that yayhole Mac Dre yeah like Matt Dre just the sauce the sauce different you feel me like that a lot the sauce just different

California Bell that's my favorite Mac Dre tag of all times come on 40 That nigga Faultie said I can sell the White House black paint What would they need that for? Shit Hey, I could sell the White House black paint That's some ultimate hustling shit, boy

When that niggas said I'd be more hip than a hippopotamus Get off in your head like a neurologist Been pushing more weight than Nautilus Got a homie by the name of Tupacolus That ain't even his name. That ain't his name at all I fucks with E-Jays and Lord way Right, right?

And Foti's still human Like he He really really rooted and grounded In his humanity Like you Like bro you Be legit, man Yeah

The whole click Yeah What you were saying about me You one of us like I was supposed to be a rapper Not on no rap shit Like on some human shit Like even when we came to see your show

Like you really rooted And grounded in who you are And there's some of us that get a little lost on the way and you kind of grow like an egoic delusion as you get success and I get it like I've been there where I had to come back the course but it's like the ones that

be really really grounded and that's why I like, nigga you want to be it from where you from. Exactly. You feel me? But it's it's because you hear because you being you completely. Yeah. Completely. You know what's crazy? Like I'll be doing shit like this and people see me doing a lot of media online

they'd be forgetting all about the live shows like I ain't a bad motherfucker Oh, that stage, boy. That stage is different. Come on. It ain't this. This is not that. I'm not acting like a comedian right now.

This is my day job. Yeah, this light. I'm on the clock. It's got nothing to do with this. I'm a whole other nigga. Niggas buy tickets to this. Come on, man. Sell them out.

Niggas buy tickets to this. Hard-earned dollars. Liggas get mad when they be like, it's sold out. Bitch what you mean? Right. They don't even leave. They're just staying in the parking lot. Yeah.

Hey man, we came up with our own segment for the BET Awards 2025. There's a lot of media in here, but everybody ain't got a segment. Come on. Me and Nav came up with a segment called. What the fuck you got on? And you just telling what you got on, you popped your shit like you popping. This corner right here, well, I want nobody being humble. When you come over here, you got to pop your shit.

Oh, way. Hey, you know how you do that? We want one of them. You feel me? Listen here. I'm from Valo, Smilifonia. My name La Russell. You know, when you go to the bottom, you got the crocs.

Not just any crocs, though. These are the winter boots. Come on. Because some niggas, some niggas feet cold out there. I don't get cold feet. I got on winter boots. You hear me? Hey, when you come up, Mayleine put this together for me.

And she's from the whole team. This ice cream, you feel me? Ice cream tea, ice cream hoodie. On the hat, you know, you got to always be able to shake them dread. Silly rat. Silly rabbit. Trix is for kids. Come on, man.

Hey, you feel, but the main component is like, it's in me, not on me. So the real thing is, you can't even, I can't even put it on. I'll wake up with it. Hey, man, I know you're about to get to get back in the backyard. We've been saying we're coming for three summers. Come on.

We're waiting for three summers. This summer, you know, last summer they had the fires of shit. Yep, yep. So it was a look, you know, between touring and trying to get over here. But soon as you drop the dates, the whole 85 South Shore crew. Let's go. Hey, man, y'all going to have the best time of your life, too. I already know.

The best time of your life. Hey, man, we're looking forward to it, though. I love it. Man, much love and success to everything you got going on moving forward. Let them know where they can find you and follow your movement, websites, whatever you got. Come on. I'm at La Russell, everywhere like air, you hear me? Hey, we had the BETT Awards and they're talking about the backyard.

That's culture. Yeah, that's coaching. We pull it up. And I got a little chick, she wants to make some potato salad. I don't know if you're going to do some grilling or something out there. Come on. Shit, I'll put some on the grill. You throw something on the grill.

Look at. Where are your sandals at? Oh, I'm going to get them, nigga. Trust me. I'm going to have him, man. That's what we want to call the show. Throw something on the grill. Throw something on the grill.

A little linen suit. Hey, that's a whole little live, Siri. Man, yeah, because when we come to the A, we're going to throw something on the grill. Come on. And when we get the old girl back to the room, get what? We're going to throw something on that grill. Oh, hey. 25B2.1. We're out of here.

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