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

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

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

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so join host Jacob and Ashley Schick as they bring you to the front lines of One Tribe's mission. One Tribe, save my life twice. Welcome to Season 2 of the Good Stuff. Listen to the Good Stuff podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, man, welcome back 2025 BETT Awards, Media House. Now, we're talking to the biggest stars today, bro. No, they're only. That's all we need to talk to.

That's it. Hey, look who we got in here with us now, bro. Yeah, let the go and play. Lefty Gunplay. Best Latino artists, you know, in Cali. Now, I said it a little louder in case they ain't hit. Hey, hey, the best Latino artists in all California. Yeah, for sure, man.

I'm the one, I'm the one. First of all, congratulations on all your success, bro. I appreciate you. Congratulations on y'all's success, man. Thank you, man. How you been to dust and tall, the newfound fame? It's happening so fast, but, you know, I'm learning as I go, and I feel sometimes I've got to get burned to learn from my...

But, you know, I learn from others' mistakes, too, but you either got it or you don't. Yeah. Hey, man, I got it. One thing that made people really connect with you who may not have been familiar with your movement is, bro, you drop a lot of real last interviews and you sing about real shit. Yeah, you got to keep it authentic, bro,

but it really, yeah, some people know me just from the interviews and then they'll tap in and see the music, but some people know me for the music and tapping with the interviews, so it's kind of a win-win situation. The songs are hitting a million and the interviews are hitting a million. Yeah.

You just dropped the album, not too much. You can't get right, produced by Problem and Mike and Keys. Oh, that's how. Yeah, and I got a couple billboards and, you know, all around the city. And the game, you know, the game's on there, Tide Dollar Sign, R.J. X4. Just in time. Yeah. Yeah.

And let me ask you this. How did you, what was your introduction to the music? Dr. Dre. Some Dr. Dre when I was young. The chronic album or the 2000? Yeah, I remember being a little 2001. 2001. He was being a little kid and just hearing it, you know, M&M and.

50 cent you know a lot of 50 cents I got a lot of West Coast in him you know Dr. Dre? Yeah. He's a West Coast sound to me. Yeah. I can definitely see that. The first 50 cent like before Dre like these mixed tapes that was like in New York but then

Gray got him on the with those beats. Yeah, Dre got yeah that's the one that's the man right there did beat from Dr. Dre. Yeah. So that's the you want one of them from Dr. Oh I got one. I got one. I always rap to Big Eagles and with Scott Storch

and I actually went to Scott Storch's house and he made me the beat and that's Lord forgive me from my sins on the number one it's the first song on Can't Get Right and he remade it with problem

from scratch for me. Why? My boy, a problem. Jason Martin. Shout us to Drake too. Like he'd be sending me his love through through you know other artists

you know. Yeah, so to know that he tapped in with you in. He was an inspiration for you it's good to know that huh yeah he was in his story but you know what i want to earn it i don't i don't want nobody to give me no hand out i want to you know earn it like i never nobody write my lyrics but i'm getting better and it feels better because that's my that's my stuff i never paid for feature i want i want to earn it when when it's dray's time to come give me a beat

or we work i'm gonna get it yeah i'm gonna get it the right way hey man you don't really hear people trying to take that approach too tough like that yeah but that's dope that you still got that old school work at you got to earn it man you got to earn that man how you're against the rapper and you can't even go back to your hood you know what I'm saying you got to be you got to be authentic

are you saying some shit there a lot of they can't get no shoes out there yeah you want to be the hood got to say that you good you know what I'm saying but man you was part of one of the biggest projects of the year

on the West Coast historical Probably of all time, probably in the West, you know. And the way that run came as well. That one really, like, the West really, you know, came together. You got a Hoover on there. You got a blood, a Crip, a Soreño. You know, he got a gang member, and, you know, we made that album. We made that album, and, you know, we all went platinum.

You know, I was just in jail. Everybody in that album was just sitting in jail, you know, all gang members. But, you know, Kada, he had his ear tapped into the streets of L.A., you know, he really is. And yeah, I say this, man, for somebody who never heard of you, but I think once you start rapping on the song, like, bro, who the fuck it is? Like, it'll make you like, like how you just came in, you came in with that confidence on them motherfuckers. Yeah.

Yeah, what I said, why? These essays outside. Without, no, group post, men, the hood would never ever be the same. You know, it's a goddamn same that you bang. What are that dang? Yeah, you told him. Yeah, but it's funny on that lyric, group post. like a group post with the homies like the hood would never be the same because some of them get life some of them piecey up some of them die you know i'm saying so you'll never get you know but i knew what it was when i signed up for it you know but i'm putting my hood on more by doing this you know yeah yeah i'm taking a different approach with it

i'm a king bonnet and i'm going to bust down all my homeboys whether i don't see out of iron them or not how my busts down and my buss down so i'm a bust them all down yeah and i look at it that way how's my road dog now have I have a bused down, but I'm all busted down, you know. You got to bust down the homie, too. Yeah. Hey, man. This is your first beat to you? It's my first BT award. This is, it's a blessing.

How you feel about it, man? Like, is it something you're looking at all. And being from the city. Yeah. It's cool, man. You know, it's, it's, I feel, I feel, I feel, actually, it's nothing but black people, right? Uh-huh. And I feel good.

Like, I feel like I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm embraced, you know. And that's a beautiful thing. That's part of bridging the gap, breaking the barrier in L.A., you know. Let me ask you this. Did you ever feel like it wouldn't be that, though? Yeah. When I was in prison, when I was in prison, because jail in L.A. segregates you from the jump.

So you go to Joe in L.A., the cops right away. S.A., you're in that tank. You black, you're not tank. So that's what they put in your head. And then the gangs, you're Mexican. You get in a Mexican gang. You're black. You cripple.

blood. And that's all the culture is, but for them to mix, and I'm the only, I'm probably one of the only ones, I don't, I don't say the N-word. You know, nowadays you get a lot of Latino kids and say the, I don't agree with that. I think that's, I think that's out. Turn in, tune in

your music. When I saw you say that on the end of you. Yeah. Tell the motherfuck, it's like, hey, I don't play that shit. Yeah, you can, you know what I'm saying? It's becoming a bad, happy with a lot of people, but you're not going to go say that with the big homie on the yard and talk like that. So, But you know the other side of it

So it's like It's a respect Factor It's very respectful Yeah very respectful And you know That's not me And now hopefully

I could make a difference With my people To sort of that And cut that out You know Because it's not cool You know It ain't

Definitely ain't But I was just You know black people We're the most Accepting people In the fucking world You know where there's something We love inside

The Knicks In gardens Inside the community in there Yeah And Watts it was all love in there I loved it I love Watts yeah man yeah

we definitely appreciate you stopping through here I appreciate so man catching us up on everything you got going on but we came up with our own segment specifically for the 2025 BET Awards yeah and that segment is called what the fuck you got on

and you just let us know what you got on yeah yeah you just pop your shit I got a whole lot of all right I got the mother this is my hood Kings. Okay. So he's kings. Kings.

I got the hood hat, Navy Blue. Some car seat pants. Some dodgerie. Uh, uh, uh, real buzz down. My teeth. You got to put that reel in front of the real bust out. He's a real bust out. I got the real Christian Dior, uh, bell on, on everything, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, yeah. I'm, I'm banging. Yeah. What's on your foot's, man? You got, yeah. Yeah. These are jays, like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah.

I just, I just went to, uh, uh, uh, the story and said, Navy blue. Yeah, and that's how I come. And that's what the fuck you got on? I got on some gangster shit all here. Yeah, I'm getting banged on out here. Hey, lefty gun play. 85 South, BET, media house. We out of here.

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There's a shootout in broad daylight. People using axes in really terrible ways, disappearances, legendary heists, the whole nine yards. So check out the Stuff You Should Know true crime playlist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Introducing IVF Disrupted, the kind of Body Story, a podcast about a company that promised to revolutionize fertility care. It grew like a tech startup. While Kind Body did help women start families, it also left behind a stream of disillusioned and angry patients.

You think you're finally like in the right hand. You're just not. Listen to IvyF Disrupted, the Kind Body Story, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the 1980s, modeling wasn't just a dream. It was a battlefield. It's a freaking war zone. These people are animals. The Model Wars podcast peels back the glossy cover

and reveals a high-stakes game where survival meant more than beauty. Hosted by me, Vanessa Grigoriatis, this is the untold story of an industry built a ruthless ambition. Listen to Model Wars on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an I-Heart podcast.

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