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

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

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

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I only, that's all, that's my special. This is a ghetto legend. This is a real ghetto legend, bro. Like, for the kids who was coming up in the early 2000. We weren't even supposed to be listening to it. I don't think they're supposed to be insane in that shit. They weren't. These were some young-grown men.

Hey, man. But we're sitting down today with a real ghetto legend, nothing other than spectacular himself. Yeah. How you being, Gene? I've been spectacular, man. That's a great way to put it. That's why the name. I've been me

I've been feeling good life has been good God has been blessing me I'm feeling good Hey man you were part of one of the biggest groups and it's like seeing how young y'all were

navigating the music industry the ups the downs the journey but then seeing how y'all can still get together and put that shit together that's commend them especially when you have

so many personality types everybody think the way they think and you'll be surprised coming up with the smallest agreements would be a conflict right but when we know each other

we can kind of say that's on you you make the decision that's on you you make the decision and then everybody played a lane and that's what makes a great team I know that I'm not going to be under the goal

if I'm the point guard and if you're the center you ain't at the top of the key yeah but then it's like I wanted to ask you this too because everybody's active on social media these days and like the kids like I said not when I say kids I'm not saying like the youngsters but you got a whole generation of your peers who hold y'all like your music is their R&B yeah it was

their first you get what I'm saying introduction to it yeah the first introduction to like real relationship having a real boyfriend girlfriend type shit so I didn't make you feel to know that you played a vital role in a vital part of people's lives I never really I never thought about that. Real? Like that, like to the newer generation, like we are their key sweat.

Yeah. I never thought about that. That's how I knew I was getting older. They were like, I'm going to put on some old school R&B. Look, that's pretty rigged. Pretty rigged.

Yeah, but I'm saying it's like, they hold y'all to the same high regard as like my generation like Jodacy. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I never thought about that, man. It never crossed my mind.

But you're right. You're right because I was just around some younger. It was like, 20 something and they was like oh my god spectacular and I was like how old are you they was like I'm 21 like this is all 20 year anniversary yeah so we came out you was no you was won't even walking for real you weren't even walking you just said da da yeah so it did let me know like yeah they are growing up with and just like my mom used to play 12 play when I was

in the cloverly projects cleaning the house up put me on kills so I guess we at foot no for sure it makes sense okay I never thought about it hey man so like I was saying all the ups and downs

and shit being in a group that's a tough environment to be in where so like you said so many different egos clashing and shit like that like what are some of the some of the like

I guess I would say principles that even as a group in the midst of the turmoil like how did y'all keep that shit together. Well, number one, we got to all get to the point where we can agree to disagree, understanding that it's a group vote. And whenever we all say this is the vote, no matter if you like it or not, you're going to be 100%. And that's, that always been us. Like, if you disagree wholeheartedly, like 1,000 percent, I do not want to do that. And if you get

out voted, you do that. You got to do it. That's it. And when you have that type of commodity, it's hard to break that because it's loyalty at that point like it's a it's a brotherhood if you just want to go against the grain you can't because you outvoted and this is a brotherhood

so you can't outvote everybody because you don't want to do something and we all collectively want the same thing but it's going to be a time where I get outvoted with something I wholeheartedly do not want to do and everybody outvote me and now I got to be ten toes down you ever have one of those moments where it's like

maybe you wouldn't but then you seen it actually working you was like all right that happened before yeah but that's with anything you think you know but the reason why it's a vote system is because nine times out of ten three no more than the one yeah most of the time let me ask you this when it comes to the music was there ever a song where you was like i don't know i don't know maybe that ain't and then it became a hit nah so you just knew the hit yeah yeah because what we do is when we hear the hit you play it over and over and over and you feel the same way oh when we played when we when we made your body we drove all the way home we we live like in the outskirts in the suburbs when we start

getting to it we will play that song back to back the back the back the back the we was like yo this is it yeah same thing with on the hotline when we first played the beat before we even wrote one lyric we listened to that beat for like two hours man they're playing hotline at the colleges now That's what I'm saying. Like the new generation. This is the soundtrack of a generation, bro. That's that. Do you have a favorite song to perform, though?

Oh, to perform. Juicy, because I'll be giving them that lap dance. You know what I'm saying? You got to go ahead. Freaky spectacular. You got to give sexy spec. You got to get what they came for. You know, that's one thing about when Pretty Ricky hit the stage.

We want to give you more than your money's work. Yeah, a real show. So people are like to entertain and give them what you won't see on a normal basis. Everybody go up there and say. scene, dance two-step, but ain't nobody freaking getting your lap dance. Because somebody can play your music and get that same. And get the vibe. Yeah, yeah. But you were able to find

some success outside of music also, man. What's that journey been like? Oh, my God. That's been the most beautiful thing for me because it's one thing being on stage, that's my hobby. But my real love is helping somebody say, man, I quit my 9 to 5 job and now I'm a millionaire.

Or I had a company. I was struggling with, I was about to go out of business, and you gave me the accountability, the scalability, the systems, the processes, the mentorship, and now I made $3 million a year. Just for the people who don't know, let them know what your other business is. Yeah, so I have a school called Spectacular Academy, and we have systems, processes, social media, marketing, we teach all the framework on how to build and scale a business. So no matter where you are, if you just started, we have a blueprint for that. If you had a million dollar, a $100,000 mark, we have a blueprint for that.

If you're a million trying to get to $10 million, we got a blueprint for that. If you had $10 million, you wanted to get to $100 million, we got a blueprint for that. Hold on what show was that that you was on and they was talking about your business? People didn't know that you was getting to the paper paper like that for real. Well, at the beginning, they didn't really take me serious. You got to understand, I'm the guy with the baby oil on. Like, I'm the guy with the shirt on. My wardrobe is a towel.

You got to switch your image. Yeah. So, like, I'm literally Bruce Wayne. Like I'm in a boardroom and then I'm putting on the Batman costume And I'm like going to fight crime But this is like go ground on girls And that was the thing So when I transitioned it was hard to take me serious

So even though intellectually I was there Status-wise I wasn't there in the business world But now they call me when they need it Yeah they already had viewed you a certain type of way You know? Yeah exactly So you got to break out of that Did you want to scale back from the music When you start seeing that happen

or you like it'll organically happen because I don't do the right thing I always just did it in parallel I never like made one effect the other okay so that's what kind of led to me a master P partnership and had him come in he was like my unofficial mentor just like put me up on game all the time teaching me the ropes and I realized like this is the key to success like he told me one thing he would like spec don't do that get out of him man like I'm the new man around here now like master The game doesn't change.

I'm like, yeah, game done. One year later, bro, you was right, bro. My bad, bro. I was tripping, bro. I lost $350,000 from one sentence from him. One sentence he told me not to do. And guess what he said? He said, all right, well, cool.

I'm going to see you in a year from now. You let me know how that worked out for you. And I had to keep it 100 with him. I said, bro, that thing you told me not to do, I still did it. Bro, I lost $350,000. That's a lot of people on the year. I got to be accountable. I came back with my you know vulnerable and just letting them know like it was right

though you would have but you would have popped your shit but watch this watch this you can beat wisdom and he so if it had worked out and the wisdom told you it wasn't it was pretty much wasn't going to work out because he done that already right he has the blueprint to success he already been there he done been on the top of Forbes he done been through his peaks his valleys right everybody go through as entrepreneurs like that's how it work so if he can tell you something save you the time energy and money and shortcut you to the front of the line why would you say like no bro i got the right way it's like no i don't think like that when he said something i listen i don't i ain't but this is now now watch peep this it was the best 350 000 i lost in my life because you

learn from it i look i learn never take your eye off the prize ever the thing that making you the most money you don't try to create another source of income off of something else that's not working you double down on what is working and you put a thousand percent any energy in that

because what happens is you go through the honeymoon phase when shit is going really good you're like oh I'm making millions I'm good let me go launch this other new thing now nope let me create another source of income because they tell you got to have seven streams of income to become wealthy so my dumb ass going out there thinking

I need to create these multiple streams of income Instead of taking my same company that's making millions And just 10x in my energy 10x in my accountability And go all in on that one thing And then take the revenue that I'm generating from that And then invested to other people And let them do the work while I stay focused

And then I make the mailbox money with you You got a company, I make the mailbox money with you I pour my ideas that I got To start another business I give it to you that already have the business I'm the advisor I give you the money and I make money

off the profit share see this shit turned into a crash economic look now you know he's passionate about this shit now

better get the mail box from you lo before we wrap this up we gotta do it we gotta do our segment so for the 2025 BUT awards

me and nav have created our own segment and it's called what the fuck you got on and you just let us know what you got on

you pop your shit man Hey, man, listen, I just put it together. You did. This is how I feel right now. And whatever I felt like, I made them tailor it up, tailor it up. I say, that's the one. Stalys say, this the piece. I say, okay, let me see, all right.

I don't want to do the black. I don't want to do the white. I want to do the cream. Yeah. You know, and then I came in. I was like, all right, not too many Jews, just enough to shine. Yeah, yeah. That was the plate.

Uh-huh. What you went on your feet? Gucci's on the feet. Yeah, everybody's on the feet. Yeah, everybody's Gucci. you know i had these i had these shoes for two years and couldn't never find nothing when to go with it i was like look how that worked that's this the moment this the moment so a minute right now amen the cartier's on your face don't forget that got the cardiades got the cardiades look i made

this bracelet spectacular ice i got my chain right here just in case they peeking if they're speaking and i'm vibing right now you got to smell good look good for like a million dollars mixed up a If you look, I want to throw my synod dick and everybody can't be smelling like me now. It's like, I want to be like, what is that you got on? You know? And I want somebody called me out one time. Say, oh, you got on that Louis imagination.

I said, no, you ain't going to get me no more. Hey, you forgot the pendant, though. Oh, yeah, that's the spectacular star. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. That's the movement. And with the movement, see, that it represents strength. And then the star represents finding your purpose. Oh, man.

So, yeah, so I make sure I wear that every day. So if they're looking too close, they're seeing all that. Yeah, and then on the chain say health, wealth, family, and faith. So that's what I focus on. For sure. Health, well, family, and faith. That's hard right there, man. Well, look, much love and success to everything you got going forward.

You're part of a historic group. Pretty Ricky going to always be in the conversation, man. BETT Awards 2025, spectacular. That boy, Nav Green. We're out of here. Ah, come on, why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient. Still using yesterday's tech, upgrade to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon,

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powered by Intel Core Ultra processors so you can work, create, and boost productivity all on one device. December 29th, 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then, everything changed. There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal.

Just a chaotic, chaotic scene. In its wake, a new thing. kind of enemy emerged. Terrorism. Listen to the new season of law and order criminal justice system on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, it's AZ Fudd. You may know me as a gold medalist.

You may know me as an NCAA national champion. You may even know me as a people's princess. Every week on my new podcast, Fud around and find out. I'll be talking to some special guests about pop culture, basketball. and what it's like to be a professional athlete on and off the court. Listen to Fud Around and Find Out, a production of IHart Women's Sports and partnership with unanimous media on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

It's Black Business Month and Money and Wealth podcast with John Hope Bryant is tapping in. I'm breaking down how to build wealth, create opportunities, and move from surviving to thriving. It's time to talk about ownership, equity, and everything in between. Black and brown communities have historically been last in a lot. Let me just say this. AI is moving faster than civil rights legislation ever did. Listen to money and wealth from the Black Effect Podcast Network on IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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