The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - DreamVille Backwoods Lounge ft. BAZ & BLXCKIE

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

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Vine iconic. Listen to Vine on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Welcome back to Backwoods backstage. You already know we're rolling here at Dreamville, 2024. We're sitting down with artists Bass. Give it up for them, y'all. Yes. And you hit the stage today at Dreamville. So how you feeling? I feel great. Yeah. Happy to be back. Yeah, this, what year for you is this for Dreamville? I'm here every year. All the years. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. You're the first artist, period, when you. Yeah, yeah. So it's like, second nation, we're home. Did you get, do you get hype now or it's like, it's like regular, like. It's like home kind. No, when you're on stage, there's nothing like that adrenaline, you know. Right now you're just, you're probably getting back-to-back 7 a.m.

Night's energy for me. Okay. We was outside. No, for sure. Oh, y'all was turning up. You were in the city. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, I made the rounds.

But, you know, no, for sure. Once you touch that stage and you feel that energy from that crowd, there's nothing like it. Gotcha. I think we talk a lot, talk to a lot of Dreamville artists. Do you think, like, you set the, like, the standard for, like, because everybody says, like, it's so chill, like, everybody makes, you know what I mean? You feel welcomed, and there's no competition. There's no, like, you know, egos.

Like, everybody's so cool. around like the whole line up yeah I agree I think you know that's that's kind of our energy as a unit yeah and it's good to see that like people come and you know they foster that energy everyone's accessible back here you can chop it up with whoever you want you know take some pictures have a drink whatever the case may be everyone's you know real easy going yeah who were you excited to see like or even just run into on on a personal backstage or here at the festival like maybe somebody that you ain't linked with in a minute Definitely Rima.

We had spoke on the phone before, but I hadn't met him in person. I'm a big fan of his, so I'm excited to see him perform. I think he's a global icon, young African superstar, came all the way out here from Nigeria to play this festival. So, you know, I'm grateful and I'm excited to see him. Who else on the label? Like, you proud of, like, not, you know, not the, like, just thinking one, but, like, you know, like, it's good to see them on some. stage and just to see their stage presence um everybody man i think everyone is you know i know these guys so well i see like i see who they are in their show you know like i know earth gang like

those are you know what i mean so when i see them performing together and rocking a crowd it's like that's who they are like yeah like that's who they are you know what i mean like you know you get to see someone uh i think when you go on stage you really get to see someone's character and you know their personality shine through. Because all y'all so just, like, so chill. Yeah. But then when y'all hit the stage, it's like. It turned on.

It could be in hell? Yeah, yeah. It's that adrenaline, you know, for sure. Yeah. Who do you feel like pushes you to, like, push yourself? It's really, I mean, there's a few collaborators I work with. I think a lot of the producers in our camp, you know, even starting with Cole on a production level, you know, he'll always try to push.

me out of my comfort zone, whether it's like, yo, try singing this or, you know, try not writing this or, you know what I mean, or try taking it in this tone, like, certain things like that, that I think anyone you work where you want them to push you out of your comfort zone, because then you get to keep that ability, you get to go to another session, and you kind of keep that superpower that they gave you. You coming from New York, like, where you've been coming here the last, you know, a few years but before when you were here in north carolina you would think like what you would think about north carolina i always had family out here oh okay so you yeah yeah yeah you know new york

and carolina have like a you know there's like a relationship like that's where the they go when they leave like from the south they go to new york exactly exactly and and then a lot of people leave new york and we feel like it's the north i feel like it's a little bit more northern north Carolina? Yeah, we kind of put North Carolina. Oh, yeah, now I'm from Queens. It's definitely the south. Yeah, so, like, you feel like if you leave New York, that's south. Passed like D.C.

Or Jersey. Okay, okay, D.C. It's like the edge. Yeah, okay. But now they be thinking Virginia country. Yeah, yeah. I don't think Virginia country. I think it's like northern country. Okay. Like, it ain't southern country. Yeah, I mean, I think for us,

it's like any, you know, we're used to such a tempo of north and a speed of, like, a city. so anything that don't match that is just like you know we're somewhere else clearly who else you've been like listening to musically like that we probably wouldn't expect um man fkj i'm a big fkj fan uh jungle they're a really really cool band um my boy galah matthias i'm into a lot of genres you know got's i find i'll find more inspiration probably in other genres. My boy Blackie, straight from South Africa.

Yeah. Bring him in, y'all. He at the stage. Come on in. Yeah, come say, what's up, man? How did this connection come about? Man, S.A. How are you doing?

Nice to me. Spending some time in South Africa. My boy, what's up? Now sit over there with the mic. Sit right here. Yeah, put in the mic. Don't worry about it. With the mic.

With the mic. We got a mic for you over there. Like I said, right in the middle. He's like, what's up? I'm sitting next to my boy. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. He said, I'm going to sit by my dog.

What part of South Africa are you from? I'm from Durbin, but I stay in Johannesburg right now because that's where the work is, but originally from Durbin. Oh, okay. How does it feel to be here at Dreamville? First time ever, you know, for, like, infinitely grateful for the opportunity that, you know, Buz is giving me and the guys, me and Hoosh, me and Rubin, you know. Yeah, we've been torn together.

He's on my tour, so we're probably like 24, 25 shows in or something. So it's been a great run. But the music, y'all did that before the tour? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to put on to him just being outside in South Africa hearing his music ring off everywhere I went. I was like, I got a track, bro, down. So when he reached out, do you think it was like on some spam type shit? Like, what you were the thing is he didn't even reach out.

I just met him in the club, which is a bad part. And that's rare for somebody to tell you, like, in passing. And Dapio, like, yeah, bro, let's work together. And then it really comes. And it happens. It's the real occasion where, like, the conversations from the club actually get out of the club, because once in the time you just be spewing whatever. Yeah, yeah.

Let's build. Yeah, and they're like, hey, bro, we got to work. We got to get one in there. We're going to leave. No need to say it or no. No, we did. We did the work, for sure. Yeah.

Bro's an incredible artist. We just cut a couple more records on this tour. Oh, for sure. Keep it pushing. Yeah. What city have y'all hit lately on a tour that was like, damn, like it was lit? Atlanta was a good time Atlanta? Oh, for sure

Oh, when did y'all hit Atlanta? We missed that. Hey, black and shook your head hard. Yeah, Atlanta. Atlanta was on the fourth, right? What are we under six? Nine or seven? Oh, that was my birthday. Yeah.

And I'm from Atlanta, yeah. You ain't got no baby on the way down now, do you, Blackie? You were shaking her head too hard. No, I was, I've been recording in Atlanta. You're doing more than recording. You're too bad. I was there last year, and I was there for like three months just recording, so I built to sort of, you know,

You know, a little fan base out there, a little network. So when we got back for the tour, it was just, you know, that much better, you know. Any Atlanta artists that you want to work with? I saw a hunter today. He was fire. Yeah. Who else was out there? So, baby, always been a fan of him.

Yeah, then just like the, you know, the biggest, the Migos, for sure. Thugger, once he gets out for him. For him? Yeah. Yep. A lot of people would know, like, you got a cult fan base. Like, when they own you, like, it's not getting them off you. Like, you know what I'm saying?

Once they listen to you. How does that feel, though, like whether you know you could drop music and you, like, you please your, you know what I mean, the fan. Man, it's a blessing, especially for, you know, as long as we've been blessed to do it. You know, I signed a Dreamville in 2014, so to, you know, go out on tour and see that, you know, they're still showing up. They still know all the new music. You know, they're still growing with us every day.

And asking for new music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, we're blessed to have that community. Like, you know, you see it here. I was saying, like, we travel all the time and see these fans in different cities, but this is kind of the weekend where everybody, you know, people come from all over the world.

Every single state is represented. You know, the whole community's here. Yeah, okay. One thing I've been, like, learning today about every artist is that, like, artists, we like to explore, so our creativity in different ways. and it'd be like the most odd ways like one do play a whole bunch of instruments

the one dude one girl she liked to paint and do anime like what's something that you do in your free time that we wouldn't think that you would do both of y'all man free time or a way that you express yourself you like free time what's that

free time is a nice concept no I'm I'm big into film I love movies you know okay you can see yourself Probably not, but I would write something. Oh, okay. Okay, that's dope. Favorite movie all time?

Children of men. Okay, I never seen it. What about you, Black? Favorite movie? Or you mean like that? Oh, what you like to do? What I like to do. I started off drawing, illustrating.

I used to draw artists and get, like, a reception from them before. All these shit. He probably just made up some shit. You didn't see it. If you ain't seen it. You're seeing him drawing 25 cities. No, I mean, I'm gonna be sneaking high in this year when you go.

I let that go and I started rapping more. But yeah, that's what I used to do to get like a reaction from... Let's go. I was rapping at the same time and I was like, yo, if I could just use this as a door, a doorway, but they never worked out. Like, they just liked the art and then... You got to start doing your own artwork. For sure.

Oh, that'd be hard. Yeah. That'd be hard. That would be hard. Look at all. Executive producer mode. That's what I would say What do you want to tap into next

Like Where you see yourself or anything you feel like Doing next like you said Whether there's movies writing Executive Producing EPN I have a few ideas But I'm just so Into the music right now

And you know Just time is just You know there's a lot of time constraints I still feel like I'm growing as an artist I'm learning a lot So I still really just want to focus it's on my artistry.

Yeah. But not good music. Yeah. Consistently. Keep the main thing, the main thing. Did you, did you know might delete this later was dropping? Yeah.

You heard of, you heard of drop. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm on it. They better have told me. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, not for sure.

But I know, like, you knew it was going to drop, but did you know when it was going to drop? I had an idea. Okay. I don't think anyone really knew. win until it that's kind of how cold move you know

when it's time you're gonna get that text like it's coming at midnight you're like oh shit alright come on but yeah I love the project how you feel about

the not beef but the beef in the industry right now like the state of hip pop bars no comment all right that makes it

okay home team you know what it is I'm excited as a music fan we're excited to see, like, the music that comes out of it. Yeah, I think what people forget is, like,

it's a war for attention more than it is a war with, you know, any certain person. I think it's good for hip-hop when, you know, we can draw all this attention. We can become the trending topics. Just to hear new music. Yeah, and it's good for the genre. It's good for the culture. It's good for the business.

Yeah, uh-huh, definitely. Absolutely. What about you? Like, as an African artist coming over? you know doing a lot now collaborating with hip-hop like where do you see yourself going on what's some things that you really want to check off on your list in the industry um the thing i say to most is probably like the culture here is like so rich compared to hours back home it's still new you know because i do like hip-hop and rmb so like the hip-hop and rmv here is just such a

cornerstone of everything else all the pop all the other things that like spawned out of the hip-hop but hip hop is like the main thing you know what i mean and it's so rich and so many people doing it so many people have done it to the highest level that like you know it's only right to get you know my little my little thing on and see how much i can do you know so that's what i'm here for to just do all the work and see how that goes how they treat you back at home now not that is you on tour you know i haven't been it's been a month and i'm gonna go back home after after the new york show so that probably like they live in new york don't be the one Oh, yeah.

I'll see. You're excited about that? I see how they're coming, you know? It's been a while. Yeah. Nah, that's what's up. I know you're excited to just because I ain't going to be like, oh, shit, you've been all the major cities. Like, you've been touring.

You've been with some of the biggest. When or what was that moment for you like, damn, I can't believe I'm really doing what I love to do. Bro, that time we went to the tour, the Colin Drake one and we were backstage. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You said the what tour? We went, uh, we went linked up. We had an off day after our Houston show and, and Cole and Drake's tour was in New Orleans.

Oh, we're Cole and Drake. Oh, yeah. You know, we popped out, went backstage. You got to meet all the homies. Yeah. It's good time. So it was like, how did that feel like you bringing someone into that world? Because like, I'm, granted, like, you used to it and something like that,

but to show somebody else like, and you could do this too. Bro, he's hella cool. He's hell of talented. Like, I consider him a friend. I know you just not bringing everything. everybody around it. So it's like... No, of course.

But, you know, that's our whole community functions that way, you know? So it's like, it's only right. Like, people brought me into it and gave me access and introduced me to a bunch of people that helped further, you know, my career. So it's only right that you try to do the same for, you know, other people you see that promising. That was your first time me, either one of them? Yeah, yeah.

First time seeing anything of that statue in terms of just the tour, the fireworks. Yeah. The production was going crazy in there. Hey, backstage, they got different riders and shit. I'm about to say you're not just there witnessing a concert. You're there, there, like with them. I'm back stage. I'm meeting these people.

I'm seeing everything that goes on behind it. I watched that whole thing, like, twice. You know, we did both days. We did back to back. I watched it both times the whole thing through and through. Just, you know, super inspiring, first of all. But just definitely inspiration. To be there.

Yeah, definitely a moment that I'm like, yo, this is, I'm at the right place. What's something that you feel like you've learned just from, like, maneuvering through the industry thus far, like... Just being around your dog, like, you know? Um, I think the main thing I had to learn is probably that, like, I'm not the same artist that I am out in, out in essay for now, I guess.

You know, because it's a different crowd. It's more to prove, you know what I mean? It's more to do, you know? Keep you hungry. Yeah, I feel like at the... I mean, bro's got great humility about it. You know what I mean? I tell the crowd that every night.

like this niggas is the one back home you know what I mean like you're going to club you're going to hear shit ringing off hey it might sound crazy but it's kind of like coming to America like he the man what no he's the man way he at and they don't know no I feel you I feel you I bet it's like you know I remember my earliest tours you know opening up for whatever ab soul with those who knew knew even you know I went out with Tori Lane's one so it's like, you're always there to win other people's fans over, right?

Yeah. You know, you got to when you go out there and you're not the headliner, you just got to humble yourself and know I got to put on such a show that they're going to go and movie. That make motherfuckers come start sitting down and he got that drink line. Yeah. And he does that every night. Yeah. What's one of them songs

like if somebody knew one of the 85% of just watching this and they knew and they never heard your music back home? Like, what's the one of they playing on repeat? that we should go search and listen to it's probably a song called yeah I was going to say that but I was going to let you answer yeah yeah yeah yeah that's what put me on the bro

okay okay was in the club like yep what about you if someone I never heard of you and they just their first time watching they'd be like go check this out man I'll probably tribe yeah probably tribe I think that does a little bit of everything

I'm rapping on there I'm singing on there it's a good vibe it's a happy song yeah I like it yeah that's what's up man we appreciate y'all pushing up talking chat with us

you know what I mean we ain't gonna hold y'all look because I know you want to see Rema too I want to see Rammer come on let's go yeah I just see Ramma appreciate y'all appreciate y'all thank y'all for stopping through the track

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But in 2014, the youngest escaped. Listen to The Turning River Road on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. Adventure should never come with a pause button.

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And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there. No girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Do you remember Vine? It changed the internet forever. And it vanished in its prime. I'm Benedict Townsend, and this is Vine, six seconds that changed the world.

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