The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - #BlackMarket - Tony Lewis Jr! #BlackExcellenceSpotlight with Karlous Miller and Chico Bean

Episode Date: November 22, 2021

Activist and author Tony Lewis Jr. blesses the trap living room with knowledge and inspiration! Tony Lewis Jr. is on a mission to keep people from being incarcerated! His father sold cocaine and now Tony Lewis Jr. has seen the whole game and made it his mission to turn the tide in Washington D.C. and beyond! #FreeTonyLewisCheck in and follow the movement now!http://www.tonylewisjunior.com/Hit Our Website for more info: https://www.85southshow.com/Get our custom merchandise: https://85apparelco.com/Subscribe To our Channel: bitly.com/85tubeWATCH KARLOUS' MILLER's COMEDY SPECIAL! https://vimeo.com/ondemand/karlousmil...FOLLOW THE CREWKARLOUS MILLER - https://www.facebook.com/karlousm/DCYOUNGFLY - https://www.facebook.com/DcYoungFly1/CHICO BEAN - https://www.facebook.com/OldSchoolFool/Director - JOE T. NEWMAN - www.ayoungplayer.comProducer CHAD OUBRE - https://www.instagram.com/chadoubre/Producer - LANCE CRAYTON - https://www.instagram.com/cat_corleone_/It's Jon - https://www.instagram.com/holaj_o_n/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The show tapes monthly at our studio in Atlanta, Georgia. To submit you or your organization for consideration, go to 85Southshow.com, backslash, black market. Free Tony! Free Tony! Free Tony! Yeah. We're in this bitch, man. You already know.

This is a special one for me, man. What you mean? Special, special one for me, man. Hold on, man. One drum lady. Just keep doing the clothes. Make the little bono. She got the eye and the bottom, the bottom wrinkles.

We don't need to be left you. You can try to make sure your shit right. Yeah. Can you respect, right? Tony Lewis, man. You all mean? Yeah, we got a minute. Yeah, I wasn't running you off, sweetheart.

I just made. Make sure you have enough water in your steamer. You know, we're getting you straight over here, man. Yeah, making sure it's right. But like I said, man, this is a very special one for me, because, you know, as everybody knows, as 85% as I'm born and raised in Washington, D.C. Stop playing.

Yes, indeed. For what part? Uptown to be exact. I think you want you to say it, can they keep asking me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, you know, why they ask me shit, man. I mean, they know, but this dude right here

is a product of Washington, D.C. You know, a lot of people, are big on activism and being woke and helping black people now but it's a lot of people that's been doing it before it was cool and this brother's one of them man he's uh from a neighborhood that i'm very familiar with i went to a high school done by high school that's you know close to his neighborhood and this dude has always been active always been a product that trying to stop a lot of the violence and a lot of the things that go on in our city and it's being a helping hand to the streets and it's something that i think needs to be you know a spotlight needs to be put

on this brother, man, a bigger one that already has, man. So I need everybody that's in here to make some noise for my big homie, Tony Lewis. Thank you, thank you, man. Thank you, that's so. Thank you, man. And you know, it goes without saying, but that's exactly what this platform is for, man.

It's to show love and respect to the people that we love and respect, man. So welcome to the Trap 85 South. Chico holds you very high regard, man, so you know. Well, Tom, tell him a little bit about who you are, man, in your background. I'm from the nation's capital. I've been a voice, a supporter pillar in the community for the last 21 years.

I'm 40, right? So that's half my life. The work saved my life. But my history, as it relates to Washington, I come from, you know, and I say this with all, you know, sort of deference and humility and I'm not somebody to glorify any of that. But I come from a street handling over a place that was synonymous with the drug trade, really sort of the first open-air drug market in our city. and my family members were very responsible for that, right?

And my father would grow to be, again, you know, somebody who was regarded as a drug kingpin, went to prison when I was nine years old on the biggest drug conspiracy in the history of our city. You know, I got life without a possibility of parole, right? Been in prison 32 years. That was significant for me, changed the trajectory of my life, my mother pretty much, you know,

started to battle severe mental illness. We growing up in, and in D.C., you know, crack impacted the whole country, every urban community in the country, but nowhere it didn't impact anywhere like what it did to D.C., right? You know, we talk about incarceration rates, addiction, murder rates, infant mortality, all of that data speaks to how to crack epidemic punished us in our generation. Right, right. And so I was able to navigate through something that most people weren't, you know what I'm saying, and being able to become a public servant violence interrupted, being able to become the person that when men and women return from

incarceration that I was there, along with others, obviously, right, to help get people stable to make sure that when those mothers and fathers return to the community, they wouldn't leave again. Somebody who spoke up, you know, in a correlation between another thing, D.C. has become sort of a gentrification capital of a other country, right? And it's a real parallel between being the crack capital or in the murder capital, through the 90s and now what we're seeing with justification. So I've been a bridge, I've been a translator, I've been

somebody who has ensured that legislation and policy changed in order to preserve. That's the real. Yeah, because it's not just about making noise with me, right? It ain't just about making noise. It's about being able to deliver

solutions and holding people that are in positions to change things accountable for doing that. We've, in an age of social media, which is an amazing thing, right? I don't, I love it, right? I think it's able enable people to connect, which is beautiful. But I think I come from a place where activism is personal. Right. Activism is something you do every day. You got to have a base, right? So if you walk through D.C., people out there may never heard of me, but if you walk through

D.C. with me. For My Heart Podcasts and Rococo Punch, this is The Turning. River Road. I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant. In the woods of Minnesota, a cult leader married himself to 10 girls and forced them into a secret life of abuse.

Why did I think that way? Why did I allow myself to get so sucked in by this man and in thinking to the point that if I died for him, that would be the greatest honor. But in 2014, the youngest of the girls escaped and sparked an international manhunt. For all those years, you know, he was the predator

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I've helped them. People from grandma to the kids to the uncle who just came home from doing 20, 20, 30 years. I've done something for them. And I say that to say this, is that I take a lot of pride in, that, right? And sometimes the work and being so attached and connected to the issues is really gotten away sometimes of me being able to do things like this. So I'm just so happy and honored

to be here and I really salute and respect what you guys do. You said something that stuck out to me. You say you a violence interrupter. Yeah. Speak on it. Yeah. Before you even go, I want to say something to that too, because that's the point that I was great to make. In the city that we come from, D.C. is a very violent city by nature, you know what I mean? That's why when he said a violence interrupt. Yeah, we grow up, you know, very violent, you know what I'm saying? And I come out of the streets and was active and lost plenty of family members that, you know, that I love and hold dear to me that and share blood in those streets. And what a lot of people don't understand is we have a hard time respecting people who don't come from where we come from and don't understand the things that we go through.

No matter where you're from, you could be an activist from Atlanta or activist from. Chicago, but if you don't know the streets of D.C. and how things operate in the D.C. We're not trying to hear that. So him being a person that can say he's a violent violence interrupter, it speaks to his character because he comes from the streets and he's respected in that space. So when he walks into these neighborhoods, people look at him as somebody who understands what we going through and what we're dealing with. You know what I mean? They're under date. It's not just coming in for the photo op or coming in to be able to say, I was here and I did this for a quota, he actually coming in because he understands that

what you're going through, I'm going through. And if you lose your uncle or aunt and your brother and sister, I know what you're going feel because I felt that pain. And that's very rare in our city. So, you know what I mean? Yeah, I appreciate that. But that's it. Right.

And so being able to be in a position to save lives, right, or at least attempt, right, to have that sort of buy-in and connectivity where at least somebody would come to the table or at least to try to squash something, right, that could lead to somebody. losing their life and then growing that to being able to influence legislation that would create programming that so now when I walk in the community or there's other people that came behind me being able to have something actually to offer too right so put put that gun down but pick this up right having programming as leading to family sustaining employment entrepreneurial

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I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant. For IHeart 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 IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast. or wherever you get your podcasts.

In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare. Someone was posting photos. It was just me naked. Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts. This is Levitown, a new podcast from IHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Collidercope, about the rise of deep fate pornography

and the battle to stop it. Listen to Levitown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.