The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - #BlackMarket - Butter with Karlous Miller!

Episode Date: March 22, 2022

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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's why it's always one red one at the top. I think that red one is more expensive than the black ones, which is racism. Right. It's always racism, man. I'm just saying, man. Hey, let me ask you this before we start this shit.

What do you think would be the best way black people could profit off of racism? The best way back to be profit off of racism. Like, we see it's not going anywhere. How can we profit off of it? All let's get together and buy Racism.com And tricked them, all us put in 20 bucks, go buy racism.com, and then, uh, trick them, trick them racist to coming in and signing up, you know what I'm saying? Get some web trap tweet.

We would manufacture racism to the people that... Yeah, we control it, though. It's our own version of it, you know what I'm saying? I used to do IT, man. I'm telling you, bro. I knew you was smart. I think I made folks going to Google every day and type in racism, just like looking for the most race. What if we actually controlled that?

You know how much, you know, the number, I would imagine it's over a million searches a day for the word racism. Imagine if we controlled the platform or all that traffic got directed to. Yeah, that should pay us a nickel for every time. You can get all that ad revenue, you can trick people, you can get it.

Then when they get there, you know, just be your black ass, just they're like, ah, got you. You know what I'm saying? They can't even do something you white folks be doing. Change the whole definition. Change the whole definition. of it. You know what I'm saying?

I think we just got to get together, you know, get all our resources together, be like, you know what, we're just been to buy race up, we know, about dot com, dot net, dot biz. Dot org, you know what I mean? Start a nonprofit, all that shit. Start a for-profit. Start a for-profit and a nonprofit.

Yeah, the nonprofit just to, yeah. They gonna think they found something. You know what I'm saying? They're gonna be signing up, join the email list. Will they know? Hey man, welcome back to the black market. We're just over strategizing and is trying to figure out, you know, how we could take over the world.

I was just on the Instagram, Butter ATL. Got a special guest in the house with me today, man. Let them know who's in the trap with us. You know, Brandon Butler, executive director, founder of Butter ATL, man. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, talk your shit, man. Let him no ass thought it.

You know, Atlanta's Culture Channel. man. We launched back in 2018 in partnership with Dagger, which is an agency out here. And then it kind of just blew up. And it got so big that we actually split it off from Dagger. And I'm being very specific when I say that because a lot of y'all think that white folks behind me pulling the strings that it ain't. We got our own thing now. We got our own business. We got an all-black team. Super proud of a dude right here in Atlanta. We just make dope content about the city. And, you know, we started off at just like an Instagram page, you know, meme account. but I always told folks I ain't, I ain't get my MBA from Georgia Tech to do no Instagram page.

But you should? I should have, though. It's money. I mean, I know how to build Instagram. Now is the time. But now is the time, right? So we took that platform, we leveraged it, started getting noticed in the city,

kind of became like the new creative loafing, the new Atlanta magazine, a lot of senses. People started coming to us for, like, news and information, kept, you know, expanding, you know, in the last few months. Ludacris just named his new single, Butter A-TL, after us. Okay. Okay.

So we did a dope collaboration. Shout out to Luton, DCP, did the artwork for the single. So that just dropped a few weeks ago. And then a couple weeks ago, too, we just opened up, we just partnered with Crystal, the fast food chain. Hey! My man Fabo was up here. Yeah, so funny story about Favo.

So I was the one they helped get Fabo connected with Crystal. Yeah. Because that's one of my clients. So, you know, we were talking. We were talking, we just knew each other, and I actually was like pitching them on, I said, y'all need a new spokesperson. And it was like, who you think we should get?

And I was like, y'all ain't gonna, you ain't gonna believe me, but I said, Fabo. And I got the DMs and text to prove it. I literally hit him up, was like, yo, I got this crazy idea with Crystal, you down, and he was like, I'm down. Next to you know, Fabo was a spokesperson for Crystal. That started popping off.

Bruh, I said that shit like two years ago. Yeah. I've been told him to fuck with Fabo. No, it was crazy. So that popped off, and then we kept on, you know, building the relationship and then they basically gave us our own location so if you go down to 14th in north side here in Atlanta we just completely rebranded that that location right there that's the one i'm going to yeah it's the the crystal by butter so we repainted it inside outside

decked it out we had a big launch event um we're doing activations events and stuff out there so again we're making it like a landmark in the city for just you know the culture and everything dope and we just going to do doing cool shit out there man that's what's up man Atlanta wanted to coolest cities out here man like what's what's the process of keeping up with everything that's going on in here no you can't man i think you know there's so much just so many dope people don't stuff going on Atlanta man you try to kind of keep your finger on the pulse right one of the things i had to do was i had to just surround myself with like younger cats you know what i'm saying folks is in the know because you know i ain't out there in them streets like i used to be yeah i'm out here

trying to you know build a business and then build a brand so one of the most important things i always say is is you gotta surround yourself with people that, you know, I always tell my team, only do what you can do. Right. And so like, I made it a point to get, you know, young cats, you know, guys, girls, people that's in the music,

people that's in the finance, and I just surround myself with them. And I let them tell me what's popping. And I, you know, I always say like my dad told me there's a difference between old heads and OGs, right? Like old heads, they hate on the new stuff. And like, oh, I wish it was like back in my day, this and that.

And I mean, I'm the biggest outcast fan in the world, but I respect with these young and these new cats are doing now. So when, you know, they come and they tell me what's popping, they tell me about, you know, artists and music who I might not have heard, I don't hate on it. I just said, all right, let's rock with it and see. And like, the audience is gonna tell us what pops, right?

So I try to definitely be, you know, more of an O.G. to them than an old head and just be open to just knowing what I don't know and surrounding myself with people that are, you know, got they're into the streets in areas that I might not be in. Right, right. Bro, Georgia Tech, and you was, you said your background is in IT? Yeah, it's in tech, man.

went to Georgia Southern undergrad, you know what I'm saying, and came back, got my NBA from Georgia Tech. Somebody back there went too. Hey, go Eagles. Hey, go Eagles, you know what I'm saying? And got my NBA at Georgia Tech. I was number one in my class for the NBA program. Fucking nerd.

I am, man. I'm gonna kick your ass nerd. I wear the same thing every day, man. Like, I kind of checked out, Steve Jobs, you know what I said? Black t-shirt and jeans every day, man. That's the billionaire outfit. Yeah, bro, like, you know, I can get away with it now too. Like, I got enough credibility now, right?

And everybody knows this is kind of my uniform. You know what I'm saying? Right, right. But, no, tech was cool, man. You know, had an interesting time, spent a few months in China, traveling the world doing... What you're doing over there in China, man? Oh man, we were doing, you know, lots of, you know,

interested in collaboration. Tell me. No, man, we spent some time in Beijing and Shanghai. It was a part of a international residency. So I got a certificate from the University of Beijing in the international business. business at working out there. And just, again, we were, like, working with, like, the Georgia Tech equivalent of

Georgia Tech out there in China. So that was cool. It was part of the NBA program, came back. We, you know, part of the program you have was kind of called a capstone project. So you basically spend like a year and a half working on a startup idea. Our idea ended up coming in first place. We had the only all-black team. We kicked everybody ass.

We kicked their ass so bad that they actually try to change the rules on us. us, you know what I'm saying? So they were like, whoa, whoa, y'all can't be that good and have, you know, all the black folks on your team. But I love y'all anyway, you know what I'm saying? Did that, raise some money, had a little startup. And then after that got done, kind of rolled this into butter ATL now, and now I'm running this.

Man, that's a dope-ass story. I mean, that's just the last five years, man. I got, you know, some other stuff beyond that. Like what? You know, just again, I got this history of, you know, tech, so if you out here in Atlanta, There was a big radio station called 790 in the Zone for a long time. I was the first head of digital for them.

Head of digital for public broadcast in Atlanta. I ran digital and tech for the biggest PR firm in the world. It's called Edelman out here in Atlanta for like six years. So again, man, just got me behind the scenes. I even at one point had a chain of web design stores inside malls. That was like my first little, you know, foray in a like real entrepreneurship. And I actually won some awards from like Black Enterprise and raise some money off that for I sold that business.

So, you know, man, just been a, out here trying to put into work, man. Shit, you're doing it. You know, I am doing it, man. I appreciate it. You know, you don't really down playing stuff. My homeboy, my boy, my boy, Bam, get on me about that all the time, man.

He's like, you ain't trying, you doing, so. Talk it up. I love to see black folks out here doing it. A lot of see folks out here making it happen, because it's like we say, but I think Atlanta is one of those places where it's still possible. It is, man, because it's such a given place, man. The city, it's like the energy here is like it wants you to thrive, man.

Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, and I mean, you, For folks who haven't traveled as much, one of the things I always say is, you know, just next time you leave Atlanta and when you come back, when you get off the plane at the airport, just look around. You're never gonna see that many black people at all walks of life, you know,

from the janitors, the business people, the pilots, all kind of folks in the airport. I mean, when you travel to other places, you don't see nothing like that in this country. When you touch down Atlanta, from the moment you walk off that plane, you see black faces at all walks in life, doing everything. And I think that's just what makes it so special.

special out here, you know what I'm saying? Like a whole other country. Yeah, bro, it is like its own world. I mean, you really appreciate it when you travel, you know, when you go other places, you'd be like, yo, I feel, what the black folks at? What the black folks at? You know what I'm saying?

I'll be traveling, I'll Google, like, all right, where the black folks go? You know what I'm saying? Trying to figure out where I feel safe at, you know? I mean, how deep are you right now in the tech game? I still rock with it, man. I mean, you know, I'm, again, I'm focused on butter stuff, but I still know what's going on, you know,

I'm big into kind of like crypto and just making sure people are aware of that stuff. You know what I'm saying? I just think again there are... What's your crypto advice right now? Well, you know, biggest crypto advice man is I think every person should own at least, you know, what they call one million Satoshes, which is essentially like a fraction of a Bitcoin. So I think that like every black person should at least own because at least own like a tenth of a Bitcoin. And the reason why I say that is is there's a very good chance in the future. there's not going to really be a millionaire anymore because especially if we get off of dollars

become like not necessarily the world standard and people start moving towards crypto there's a big opportunity i think right now for you to get in like again a couple of years ago man you could have bought bitcoin for a couple hundred bucks now it's at you know what is it 50 000 now 40 50 000 now so there's a lot of folks that you know kind of went all in on it i think if you'd put like a thousand bucks in you know 10 years ago you'd be in the hundreds of millions of dollars now And there's still, you know, some other cryptos out there besides Bitcoin that have a lot of opportunity. Ethereum is probably the next biggest one. That's essentially programmable money.

So anything dealing with money in the financial space, you know, I learned a long time ago, like, that's where you want to kind of be paying attention to because then folks don't play about their money, you know? Right. Right. You're dropping game over here. Hey, man, I try to, you know, I try to give you. I just, you know, try to share some of the stuff that I learned over the years because I had to figure this stuff out myself. You know what I'm saying? like ain't nobody lay it out for me

so I had to kind of piece it together from different places and I'd be the first one to kind of say yo do this, look at this and I think there's again there's a lot of opportunity there's a lot of money in the system right now right you know like even when

you know like the pandemic and stuff hit last year and like everything shut down like these folks ain't stupid they knew what they were doing and I just think you know you got a you know like a Warren Buffett says man like when everybody's being fearful you got to be greedy

and so like when these big things kind of happen in the world, you really got to kind of take a step back and be like, especially you got to follow the money. Always follow the money. I don't care what nobody says, always follow the money because you know who's in control of the money. Right. And until they start tripping, you just, you just do what they doing and you'll be good. Good, good, good. There you have it, folks. You don't get no real other than that. So, like, have you always been interested in, like, the internet and shit like that. Yeah, man, my dad was a music producer growing up.

He actually did a bunch of stuff. He helped produce a bunch of albums from Michael Jackson back in the day. Oh, wait, wait a minute, man. You think you're just gonna sit here and say that type of shit and just casually? Your dad was producing albums for Michael Jackson. Yeah, I remember growing up, he used to,

like, he used to fly back and forth to L.A. And I used to go out there with him and stay out there sometimes. And I remember he took me to this dude house named Bruce Swedeen. You can look him up. Bruce was like Mike's, like, number one producer this old fat white guy, right?

I remember we went to Bruce's house and I had never seen this. This dude had, you know, folks have like a piano in their house? This motherfucker had a Bentley in his house. Like just you walk in the foyer and it was just like a white Bentley right there and he was like, yeah, Mike gave this to me.

And so like we're walking around like the compound. He's like, yeah, let me show you around. So we get in the golf cart and we like riding around this like huge like compound. has right now never forget this he's like we go to this one part of the area the one part of the area right and he's got like three full-sized houses like not his house he's got like this humongous mansion but he's got you know three like you know two-story houses right he's like yeah these are the guest houses he said let me show you some crazy shit so we go to one house we open up the door

and i swear bro it was a million cats inside that house and he was like my wife loves cats i can't stand them i told to put all the cats in here so think about how rich you got to be to have a two-story house with nothing but cats in it. Bro, that is the freakest shit I have ever heard. I mean, you open the door, they're gonna stop and look at you. You know what, I'm saying, I'm like, yeah, I ain't going in there. So you're telling me the dude who produced music from Michael Jackson got a house full of cats? He had a house full of cats, man, next to his other three houses on his property.

And you saw him. I saw him. A whole ass house. A whole house. Full of cats. And this was a house. And this was in, you know, probably like the mid-90s. You know what I'm saying?

He probably got two houses full of cats now. Damn. Maybe three. Damn. So that's what I'm saying, man. When you get exposure to stuff like that at an early age and you start seeing how other people are living and, like, how crazy this game is,

it just, that's the one thing I always appreciated. Like my dad, you know, I mean, he didn't stay in the business. You know, he got out and started doing some other stuff. But, like, it gave me exposure because even with him, I remember he was first-person game. me a computer. I remember he came home, probably one of the Michael Jackson checks, and I remember he brought a computer home. And I remember

clear his day, he was like, fuck with this. He just was like, he was like, don't do what I'm doing. He was like, fuck with this. And so I just started taking the computer apart, messing with it, figuring out how it worked, rebuilding it, you know, then started like working on computers and all that kind of

stuff. And I, you know, even when I was in college, you know, when everybody else was like, you know, working little side jobs at restaurants and stuff, I was able to be out, you know, building websites, and getting paid, you know, 30, 40 bucks an hour as a 19-year-old, you know what I mean? And this is, again, back in the early 2000s, you know, and like I said, for folks that no Georgia Southern, no Statesboro, you know, that's like making a million dollars a year, you know what I'm saying?

So I've always, you know, been attached to it. It's always been a part of me. And I think that's even what makes Butter so successful now is, you know, I know how these guys that build this technology think. Right. So we even try to, like, engineer some of our content so that it really works with the system and the algorithms. so we kind of get the most out of it, you know what I'm saying?

Right. Well, shit, man. Anything we can do over here at the 85 South Show, Black Market, to help push y'all to the next level because what you're doing over there is dope, man. Yeah, man, we're just trying to spread the word, man. I think, you know, again, like a lot of folks think, you know, there's a lot of crazy content and stuff online right now,

especially in the social space, and I think a lot of folks think that because we don't get into that stuff, like we ain't black or black enough, and I always tell folks, I don't associate. I mean, bro, you, you, you, you're an IT black dude, man. What you're supposed to do? Yeah, I just say, like, we don't have to associate, you know, crime and all that stuff with blackness, right?

I think we're trying to kind of show the other side of Atlanta, you know, the other side of being black, not just like the crazy shit you see all the time, right? So I just want people to know there's, you know, more options for content out here, you know? I always say there's three kinds of content, right? There's vitamin, candy, and painkillers. Yeah.

And, you know, I think there's a lot of candy content out there right now. And, like, candy tastes good, but if all you eat is candy, it's going to rock your teeth. If all you watch is Fox News, you're going to be thinking about crazy stuff, right? So you can't just live off of candy. You know, on the flip side, you know, there's a lot of vitamin content, right? There's a lot of, like, motivational, go hustle content. But here's a thing, if you don't actually do the work, you don't matter how many vitamins. You can take vitamins all day long, but if you don't go to the gym, ain't shit going to happen.

Right. Right. And then there's pain kills. There's content that solves problems. So, like, we try to have a balance of all those things. And I think there's a lot of folks out here that get a little bit too caught up in one or the other. And I just want people to know there's other alternatives. There's other platforms and other voices.

And we're also just trying to, again, put Atlanta in a certain kind of light because when people see all that crime, they think that's what the city's about. Right. And they come here. They think that everybody down here is going to get shot at Linux. They think something crazy is going to happen. And we're just trying to show folks like Atlanta has never just been that and it's way more than that. You know what I'm saying? Those are just like certain voices that are just loud us in the room,

but we're trying to, you know, kind of round it out a little bit. There you have it, folks. Over here at the Black Market, my man, Brandon. Hey, man, you know, appreciate y'all, man, you know. What can Butter do for y'all, man? How can I help you? What you got? What you need?

How can I help you? I don't know, man. We'll figure it out, though. We have this bitch, Black Market. My man. 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 IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Join IHart Radio and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one-year anniversary of IHart Women's Sports. With powerful interviews and insider analysis, our shows have connected fans with the heart of women's sports. In just one year, the network has launched 15 shows and built a community united by passion. Podcasts that amplify the voices of women in sports. Thank you for supporting IHart Women's Sports and our founding sponsors. Elf Beauty, Capital One, and Novartis.

Just open the free IHeart app and search IHeard Women's Sports to listen now. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeney, and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would 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 Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. This is an IHeart podcast.