The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - #BlackMarket w/ Justin Tinsley

Episode Date: May 13, 2022

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if you're die hard for. Yeah, yeah. Like, when they go to the gym and they find people who be talking shit in the comments and they bust their ass. What's the, uh, the white boy nan that used to play for the Celtics. Scalabria. Yeah, they called him the white mama and people like, oh, he only average two minutes a game, he sucks. Now, this dude went into a gym and wiped the floor with everybody. Like, like, he looked like, he looked like. Jordan he got a cold following yeah he does he does like it's a lot of dudes like that in the NBA though like you go you know fan favorites mm-hmm fan favorites and then it's like the if you a basketball nerd it's like yeah this is my guy but he only average like 15 minutes

a game like old boy like from the Celtics that just got hurt wasn't there Robert Williams yeah like he was nice this year before he got hurt yeah everybody know lebron and kD and yonis Of course. Yeah, everybody know them, but... It's a cold world, man. It's a cold world. I know sports is your forte. I try, you know.

That's how you got into all this, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I learned very quickly. I was not going to be an athlete. I learned very quickly. I was not going to be Michael Jordan. Man, it took me a while before I gave up on my athlete's dream. I got hit one day, though, at football practice.

I was like, I'm good at other stuff. See, I'm good at other stuff. I always wanted to play football, and it's gonna sound dumb as shit, because it is. I was always afraid of, like, getting hit, and then I wouldn't be able to get my helmet off because I'm claustrophobic.

What? Yeah, it was the dumbest thing in the world. My mom always asked me, because I grew up in a football family. My grandfather was a football coach. She was like, Justin, why ain't you never wanna play football? I was scared of the helmet. I was like claustrophobic, and that was the only reason.

Then I was like, oh, this shit really just come off like that. I never played football, because I always play basketball. Man, you missed some great fun. Man, I did. I did. Football is what you find out, who really a bitch at school. No, like, I remember coming up in high school,

like, my school had, like, this big robbery with Petersburg High School. I went to the school called Motocca, and we would all be, we'd see each other at the mall every weekend and, you know, at the arcade and whatnot. And then sometimes fights with what happened at the mall. Like, oh, yeah, we got y'all next Friday.

We're going to whoop y'all last. We're going to whoop y'all ass. you would really see who would be fighting and who would be like, you know what, nah, I'm gonna chill because I ain't trying to, I ain't trying to go cross the middle on this dude. Oh man, that was the most fun. Oh man, look, you get caught across the middle.

Yeah, especially when you catch the ball and then you truck the motherfucker who's trying to hit you like, because their whole objective is to hit you why you're not looking. So it makes it look like. Oh yeah. It's way more impactful than it is,

but if you like, every team got that one motherfucker, or known that it's built like that. Oh, yeah. Can't nobody hit, can't nobody. So as long as you identify who that is early, but it can happen at any moment. It can happen at any moment. It can happen to anybody.

Like, my boys would tell me all the time, like this happened after high school, but it was like everybody want that one hit, especially if you a lineback or safety or something like that. You remember when Sean Taylor almost killed the punter in the Pro Bowl? Yeah. Like, everybody wants that hit.

Yeah. Because I mean, now you can't really hit like that. no more because the game has changed but like nah like my boy told me one time he got hit so hard run across the middle he was like tens i thought i was being born again i ain't know where i was like because he looked up it was a night game and all he saw was just like a white light he was like this is either the end or this is the beginning right i don't know which one it is but i have no clue he was like i ain't know where i was for the next three quarters he still played which is probably which is an issue but you know yeah you find out who's a bitch and who's yeah you definitely

and find out what they made up. But it's a gladiated sport. What position you play? I played, like, corner and safety and nickel and shit like that. I was just playing any position, really. I knew it. That's why you're so good at talking shit,

because you was a DB. Yeah, I was talking shit, whatever. Like, I would be on the scout team talking shit. Hey, as you should. Keep the same energy at all time. I just had to be doing something, you know. Like. Because, look, you may run by me,

but you ain't gonna like out joking. Like, I'm gonna get under your skin somehow, some way. Right, and however I'm coming, I'm coming like that every time. Exactly. They're gonna know that. You gotta earn your respect, bro. You're talking about like blindside hits.

That's where you really, that's where people, like the dirty shit. That's where it's really, you could really put your name out there. What would be going through your mind right before a blind side hit? Ooh, oh my goodness. Like we're talking about him playing like safety or something shit.

And you see them coming on the post and they just looking inside. I'm lying and that shit straight up. I'm talking about a textbook tackle. Straight across the body. I'm going right there. Like, you see this pose? Like, you gotta hit, like, right there.

I'm gonna get my angle together. You're trying to hit, like, leave with the show. Yeah, because I'm trying to put some pad in it too, because I'm going to be loud. Yeah. So it was going to like, damn! So you said it took a minute for you to realize, like, all right, well, I ain't going to.

Oh, you that day? Yeah, what was that day? We was like, you know what? I got to retire. It was actually, this is the thing about playing football. When you go from ninth grade to 10th grade, that's like from ninth grade football and varsity. But you start varsity football at the end of ninth grade. Yep.

Yep. So it's like. The game a little faster. It's a lot faster. These motherfuckers have been working out three years straight. They on creatine and everything. So one day I was playing corner on this side, right? I was playing left corner.

And the quarterback did an option where he came out, fake the pass, and took off running the other way. Ah, dang. So as I'm coming across the field, yeah. Fucking tight end is coming across the field also. I'm looking at the quarterback. Oh, God.

Man, the fucking tight end hit me and broke all the snaps on inside my helmet, sending of your flying. I was like... He was like, well... Like, well, I had a good run. And then I got up and the coach was like, are you okay? You know where you are? He crashed the shit out of me on that one.

Man, that was the one day I was like, this ain't it, bro. Man, for me in basketball, you remember it was like my basketball career ended early. I knew I was like, all right, I got a much better chance to be Stuart Scott than Michael Jordan after this. So you remember it was like 97 when Jordan had the... Everybody played basketball in 97. Yeah, everybody did. Yeah, I mean literally, everybody played. And, you know, Jordan had the flu game.

Yeah. I put flu game because I ain't never known a person to catch the flu in June. Yeah, he was just drunk. I thoroughly believe it was the hangover game. And to be quite honest with you, that's not a knock on mic. I think it's even more impressive. If you did it drunk, fucking flu. Right.

You might catch wind of this and be like, I don't want to be drunk. You ain't catching wind drunk. He was on that tequila. Look, man, Vegas was a 45-minute flight from Salt Lake City. The crazy part of Scott, he probably drunk more than him that night. Dennis drank more than all of them. Drunk as one, he just didn't eat. Yeah, that's the thing.

Hell, you're trying to blame it was bad pizza. Like, no, what? Look, I know them yellow eyes, Mike. Exactly. You ain't getting yellow eyes from pizza. And he was smoking cigars all night too. Look, I get it. Jalen Rose has subscribed to this theory as well,

so I'm not alone in this. We are not alone, we are a party of three. It was the hangover game, and that was more impressive than the flu. Hey, man, you heard it here first. Mike was drunk, we gonna put it out. He ain't gonna do shit to us. Drunk ass.

You tricked us as kids, we thought it was to go. But now you really to go, because you did it drunk. You really to go because you did it drunk. It was one of them drunks where you can't come down. You gotta keep drinking. You gotta keep going, because the moment you stop, and look, to Mike credit, he dropped four. 40 that game.

He dropped 40 in a must-win game on the road. Drunk. Tide 2-2. This is how you know he was drunk because he hugged Scottie. He didn't have to watch in the documentary. He ain't even fuck with Scott in like that. Boy, that documentary had people pissed the same way the whole winning time joint got people pissed now. Yeah.

They're telling the truth on this shit. Look, man, I, look, that drone is mad entertaining to me. I'll be watching. I'm like, I get it. It's TV. It's a dramatization. And I get it. Jerry West, you don't like it.

The thing about it is they didn't put enough in that. That's the thing. It's too specific. They couldn't put all the shit. No, no. You can't put it all in that. And it's already got renewed for season two. So there's a lot of people watching that joint.

And look, Kareem hate it. They picked the right team, though, because it's like, they got the Showtime Lakers. Think of the team that was terrible that year, the shit they had going on. That's the documentary you want to see. The 1980 Detroit Pistons before Isaiah Thomas and all of them. 84 Milwaukee books. The 95 Vancouver Grizzlies.

They were, they, man. Yeah, no. They were doing ecstasy at halftime. Look, you remember? They drafted big country. No, big country. Was the franchise? Big country, at least the jerseys was fire.

Come on. But no, you remember, what was name? Artes said it himself. He used to drink Hennessy at halftown. I believe. And I believe every single syllable. syllable 20 pounds just from not drinking he did look what well I test that's that's another one they could do a mini-series on like so but yeah now that flu game

that flu game drunk game had me believing I was like you know what I drink Gatorade I eat weedies right now look look I look they told me I could be like Mike if I do this Mike played with the flu that damn and I'm gonna play with the flu So, my brother and I, we shared a room growing up. And I'm like, yo, aunt, don't tell mom. I'm cutting the fan on, and I'm cracking the window. He was like, but it's like 30 degrees outside. But like, nah, I need to be sick so I could play like Mike.

I got sick. I got benched the entire second half. I ain't sniff 40 points. I was like 0 of 8. I ain't even hit the rim. I was turning the ball over. And my mom was like, how'd you get so sick? I ain't say anything.

My brother did. You just ain't that smart. Nah. Nah, because you thought you'd get claustrophobia wearing a helmet. Yeah, I did. You tried to get the flu. Yeah, to play like Mike.

I like to think that I've wizened up a little bit over the last 25 years. I mean, you know what, let me start this shit now. Black bargain is. I can't believe you for it. Hey, man, look. It's a safe space. I'm just being open and honest.

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So listen to There Are No Girls on the Internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, man, the black market is open, okay? And you do not need the flute to be great at nothing. Let me check my side notes, man. I got some info about you over here. Okay, all right, let me see. Well, I do know this is your second book. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's the second one I co-wrote, well, I wrote Duane Wade's Photographic Memoir that came out last year. Photographic memoir? Yeah, but... For those of you who don't know, got my man Justin Tinsman here with us today. today.

World renown, author, commentator. Hey, look, he called me world renown, so I'm world renown. This goes out to the whole world. Yeah, this is going to my LinkedIn. Yeah, world renown. Yeah, world renown. They're saying a lot of good things about you.

Hey, look, I'm trying to keep it that way. Plus you're doing it for the culture, man. You're doing, it's all the dream. You got a whole biography right here. Yeah. Definitely need that. Yeah, man. Catch us up.

Man. How did you get here? What was the start? The crazy thing is I'm almost a deleted email away from not sitting on this on his couch with you because it's like fall 2019 and I'm just deleting emails like spam emails and shit. I get one in the subject line says Biggie Smalls biography, you know, interests or something like that. I'm like, what the hell is this?

Like, and come to find out, it was from the guy who eventually became my editor on the book. His name is Jameson and he works at Abrams books out of Manhattan. And it was like, yo, I'm looking to commission somebody to write a book on Biggie ahead of what would have been, you know, his 50th birthday next month, May 22. And I'm like, yeah, that's cool. He was like, would you want to write it? And I'm like, it seems odd because everything I knew about the process is I come to you with an idea and you either green lighted or pass on it. And I wrote up a quick pitch and it was like, yeah, we want you to write the book, sign a contract. like January 2020 and I'm like ah shit money mm-hmm that check clear that was the biggest

check I ever had in my life at least at one time you know and I was like ah man this shit is lit I'm like yo I'm gonna go to New York I'm gonna chill in Brooklyn for a couple of weeks I'm gonna go to Atlanta because you know he had he had ties down here I'm gonna go to L.A. He had ties out there I'm gonna just travel the country just writing a book like oh man this is like a dream then March 2020 happened okay and I'm like you know I know what happened yeah yeah we all know what happened with March and make a long story short I just basically had to do all my research all my interviews via Zoom I couldn't go anywhere and I was just like it was daunting at first to be honest with you those like it's Biggie Smalls like it ain't exactly some unknown

musician like everybody know Biggie Smalls and I'm like what the hell can I say knew about this dude that will make people want to read it and I ain't a lot to you there was plenty of nights where I would just be like, I don't know what the hell I'm doing. Like, I gotta write 100,000 words on this, and like, this shit probably gonna suck. Like, I don't know, but- That doubt kicked in.

Yeah, that doubt, man, like, doubt is crippling. Yeah. And you, like, and if you allow yourself to stay in there, it could ruin your entire career. It can mess up personal relationships. It can mess up bags. And I'm like, nah, I like getting the bag. So let me figure out a way to,

get myself out of this and i did and i mean i'm i'm definitely pleased with the the final product of it man i think i think people are going to read it and it's not just you know sold some drugs made some great music beef with tupac and then died in a tragic manner like sure yeah a lot of life happened in between yeah like to talk about to tell a story about somebody's life you just can't talk about that life you know what i mean it ain't just like he just jumped off a stoop and sold drugs as like a 14, 15 year old kid in Brooklyn. It's like, this dude was born into a war that he didn't even know existed,

which was the war on drugs. And like, so we go back to like Richard Nixon passing legislation that made it easier to imprison people for like 15, 20 years for a small amount of drugs. And like all of these things played into, played into like who Christopher Wallace was and who Biggie eventually became. So I try to focus more on that than imposed to just,

just the salacious or the sexy headlines because they're in there, but it's far more than that. Yeah, so. That's dope, man. Yeah, man. What did it feel like seeing it in the physical form at this point? Bro, so this ain't funny, but it is. So in like September of last year, they started sending me like the early versions of it. It was like paperback.

and so they sent me like 10 copies in like a box and like whoever it was fedex amazon i can't remember who it was uh they dropped it off on my porch and i was in a meeting and my wife she was she was taking a shower and like so we got like the security cameras like on our doorbells so you can see who's there and i was like oh yeah you know my books came so she opened the door and she was like i don't see a box here i'm like i just saw them drop the box off we look on the camera we live in a in a transitioning neighborhood nice people there dude came and took the whole box took the whole box i don't know what i don't know if he thought it was like some shoes in there before it was like a gaming system i ain't know who it was so i go

across the street to my man so he's been living in the neighborhood for years he was like yo let me see the video he showed me the video and five minutes later i get a knock on my door and i I showed a video to another person and they tell me who it is. Them books was gone. He threw them books away because I was, he was somebody who used to live in the neighborhood and obviously he had fallen on hard times. And he's a guy that, like, he just tries to make money however he can. And so, you know, I was, I was pissed about it at first. I was like, damn, man, he got a chance to hold my book before I did.

But I started to learn about like his backstom. And I'm like, well, damn, man, whatever his intentions were, I hope he's all right. You ought to write a book about his books still in that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I didn't have him deliver it. And then when you see it and he's... Yeah, he was like, a book. He was like, books.

So this what y'all think about me? Yeah, I'm gonna call it September, whatever day it was. Yeah, put his name on there and be like, books still in that. Yeah, I should have thanked him in the liner notes. But, uh, yeah. So, yeah. to hold it like it's one thing to see it like in a Google doc it's another thing to you know see it see it come back from the editor with all the edits but it's another thing to like

hold it in your hand I I would imagine it's like if you're an artist and you're working on your debut album and especially back during the days when it was like cassettes and CDs you can actually hold it that's what I would imagine is the closest feeling to because it's something that especially your debut album like you spit you live your entire life creating that and although this isn't my life i put a definitely i put a lot of my life into it because i got memories of big going as far back when i was like in what second third grade you know sneaking and listening to like the unedited version of ready to die and you know singing one more chance and my mom's like what the hell are you talking about i'm like none

And you know, you just got memories to it. And we're all personally, especially within rap and in this culture, man, like, we're all deeply connected to it because we all got memories to it. We all got like, yo, I remember where I was in life when this song came out. I remember walking into a party in high school and, you know, the girl I wanted to dance with, you know, I danced with her to this song. So, like, music is way more than just sounds over a beat, man. It's just like, it's like part of the best music is part of your soul on wax. And that's, I hope this what this book is for a lot of people as well. What can they pick it up?

Man, you can pick it up anywhere books are sold, including the dude who stole my early copies in my book. If you ever, if you ever know where he is. He ran the neighborhood. I haven't seen him since, but they say. Because he know he wrong. Mm-hmm, he know he wrong. You had to run up on him like, yo, I need them books. I need him.

He was probably pissed when we started with books, too. He was. Yeah, books. Books. Anyways, can't sell no damn book. Right. Especially not these. Public.

Right, that's exactly what he said. But no, you can get it anywhere, like Amazon, books a million, black-owned bookstores. I've been trying to push those a lot. We know a few. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I'm trying to push it to all of those. And just, like, I tell a couple of them.

my homeboys hit me up. It was like, yo, Justin, like, we wanna support, but, uh, for I ain't read the books since high school. And I was like, don't worry about it. They got audio books for that now. They read to you. Nah, read the damn book. Look, I look, I don't care.

I don't care, just pre-order it. You sit it on the coffee table. Yeah, look, do what you gotta do. Like, it ain't going nowhere, so. Yeah. Well, there you have it, folks. My man, we're a now artists. You heard it.

Get the book. I'm taking this one. Yeah. I'm keeping this one, so I ain't gotta wait. No, that's yours, man. It's the illest. What's your social media, man? What's your next project you got coming up?

Are you in the book game now? Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to, I haven't decided what the second book is going to be. I'm on a two-book contract with my current publisher. So it's just a matter of thinking about what I wanted to be. I know I would love to. to, I just shouted my man out with his AI shirt. Like, you talk about a book I would love to write.

I would love to write Alan Iverson's autobiog. I'm going to get with you. I got a book idea. Hey, let's do it. Let's do it, man. No, what y'all got going on here? And I'm not even just saying it because I'm sitting on this set right now. Like, this shit is mad important.

Like, I look at this as, like, the same way my mom and grandma looked at Oprah every day. 4 o'clock shit we didn't get up there yeah yeah yeah no this shit is that important man and i love everything that y'all got going on y'all are so important man to sit on this couch i mean this like the third most popular couch it's like martin's couch and then it's the couch from season one of the wire that's that's how important it is to me i'm i i told you we We're over at the third spot. See? See?

We say, long as we stay top three, we good. Look, man, y'all are important, man. And y'all just highlighting just so many parts of our community, whether it's entrepreneurs, whether it's authors, whether it's, you know, whatever educators. Like, y'all give people a platform that honestly otherwise really wouldn't have to be themselves. You know, because we can go other places

and try to get promotions. but like, man, we spent the first, what, five, six minutes talking about trucks digging people in football. I can't do that everywhere. No, man, and that's what this whole platform is about, man. It's just, you know, getting some exposure inside of our community and letting people take to what they want to take to, just to let them know there's more options of us out there.

Look, and we greatly appreciate y'all, so thank you for real, man. Hey, man, anytime you got anything going on, stop through the black market. Hey, you already know. 85th South, Justin Tinsley. The black market is open. All the people on unemployment. Let's get a photo. Hold a book, man.

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