The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - Dreamville Backwoods Lounge! Navv Greene & Brii Renee ft. DOMANI

Episode Date: April 25, 2024

Domani stop through & chops it with Brii Renee and Navv Greene at the Backwoods Backstage Dreamvillefest.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The energy was amazing. It was, man. Yeah, I'm glad to be here. It felt like you had control as soon as you walked out there, though. That's crazy. Yeah. You did, huh? Hey, man.

No, it definitely was a click It was a little switch For sure Speaking to switch What usually like How do you be before this The show? Like before you get on stage

Because you perform so much now It's kind of second nature Or are you still Do you still get nervous? Not necessarily like nervous But I'm like Thinking about all this Like today I walked in

I forgot I had my air pods in my ear So I was thinking about that I'm thinking like Damn I still hear the music What is this in my ear It's not my what you call it So I was trying to think about that um my phones was in my pocket i'm just thinking about a bunch of weird stuff

so oh so you just zoned out and just performing your mind somewhat completely different yeah i was i was i was gonna stay thinking about my phones weighing my pants down my air pod in my ear let me take my air pot out all type of stuff so that's good it looked effortless thank you thank you man you got a song with dc young fly absolutely and setty hendrick right now absolutely bro that's the one that's the one that's what i'm telling me yeah So how did that come together? Can you tell us about that? SETI pulled up to the studio.

Boom. That might have been the first beat we played. And then he got on there and did the hook in like 12 seconds, came out. I'm doing my verse. I see D.C., he's just already there. He's in the hallway. And I say, you want to get on this? This man, he said, yeah.

And he prayed in the hallway and walked in the booth and laid all that down what he did. And it just happened just like that. Organic. Like it wasn't nothing like, you know what I mean? you had to map out it's just nothing was orchestrated nothing was thought out we just made that song and it just happened just like that because i feel like in the sense of that like you a lot of people like you show you how how your art comes out and like with fly they try to put him in the box but right what y'all come together on the song now it's like oh yeah absolutely man we're

showing the world we could do um there's no limitations right for sure absolutely man yeah but that was a beautiful night you knew that night it was going to do that though at me Nah, but you could just feel when a song is just good, you know what I'm saying? But, nah, we didn't know it was going to take off like that. But that's the beauty about music, man. And I've been hearing it on the radio, too, in the city playing. How does it feel when you ride around Atlanta, like, in places that you grew up and you dreamed about hearing your music on the radio, now you actually get to hear it in your city.

It's just confirmations. We just know that it's working. And the video. Yeah, visual is going crazy. Yeah. Yeah, that man, DC, the crazy thing out, in the music video, the man, almost, we almost had to do all that over because it was one take. DC was late coming out when he was, when he popped out the door, I had to yell, DC, come on. Yeah.

He came on to know what it, we made it. Y'all did it all in one take? That was one take, yeah. Oh, wow. That's what's up. Y'all just like, that's it right there. Yeah, that's the one. We said, yep, nothing else.

For sure. Keeping it organic. Just like how y'all did the song. What y'all got going on out here, though? Oh, we, you know, we. always rock up and pull with, bro with backwoods. For sure.

At different festivals, you know, I think we saw you on one music fest. Weren't you out there at one music? Me and Lose was out there then. So, yeah, when we had, you know,

all the different events and festivals that's going on, we're trying to pull up and just talk to the artists. Y'all doing y'all thing, too, though. Y'all talking about me. Y'all done y'all thing. I've been seeing y'all.

Oh, thank you. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah, and I've been killing it. He got the show with Druski. Yeah, for you on that. For sure.

Yeah, and just touring and everything I'm on Trap News on 85 South now You gotta, I don't know if you've seen it But it's so funny You gotta check it out Man What's special about the Dreamfield Fest Like what set it apart

That's a great question Man, it's just more quality I felt like That's why I was That's why I was so grateful To be on the list Because It wasn't nothing but great people on the list

Everybody don't make that list Right everybody don't make the list You know other festivals There'd be like that who it is 12 people right here. Yeah, you'll be a lot more artists. You'll have some head on them. On this one, it's like, we ain't nothing,

but just hitters on this list. So I was just, that's what I feel like sets Stringville apart from everybody else. It's just nothing but quality. Right. From beginning to end, like it ain't with like I come around when they perform like, no, you want to get that

when it's open up and catch everybody that hit the stage. They whole setup is just amazing, man. They got stations, juice, water. They take care of you out here. And no, but just good vibes. It's good energy. Food would be important.

Food, yeah. The atmosphere. Yeah. But even cold with them being stamped on there, how does that feel like you coming up? I know they kind of compare y'all a lot. Yeah. Do you feel, how do you feel being that somebody that's been in the game for a minute? And we grew up listening to them.

I take it like, man, it's a compliment. Of course, we are our own person. I take it as a compliment because I feel like that's how people used to getting introduced to something. Like if you eat some food and it tastes good and you're trying to explained it to somebody else like oh it tastes like this and that put together yeah yeah yeah so I understand um yeah man Cole's a good person to be in the same same sentence yeah so you being a music connoisseur mm-hmm Kendrick Cole and Drake yeah Kendrick Cole and Drake but Cole just responded I know you heard it yeah what you think about it one thing

Cole gonna do he gonna spit man he gonna yeah he's a real lyric at all and it's always better than the last it's always better than what he put out before that so um man that man's just constantly raising the bar um i feel like it's gonna be nothing but good music that come from this for that's what i said i don't see nothing wrong yeah because i don't heard you a lot of times say them two of your favorite rappers yeah so with them what you being a fan of bow do you feel like sometimes rap beef is sort of necessary to keep the game sharp or like you said to keep good music coming out i don't look at like beef i look at it like they just trying to see who who's sharper they're being competitive yeah yeah they're on the court they on the field exactly they're trying to see

who got the sharpest pin right now um and that's all it is man um like i said ain't nothing but good music can't come from it so but yeah i do feel like if it it lets people uh you can't slack you can't get comfortable it's like it's hard to get comfortable when you know this dude back here think he just as good as you or even better than you. So I got to go 110 percent and yeah I feel like he didn't necessarily. Who somebody you listening to the money like that you will put in that

spectrum that people might not know about like you know and that. Ruben Vincent he's on he's signed to Rock Nation. He's with 9th Wonder. Okay. If you don't know about Ruben Vincent check him out. Check him out. Absolutely. You could be a beat playing

you could you could make a beat with your mouth and say rap and he'll free down and tell you all who are all here put y'all all in the rap and everything that how I met him I said yeah we got it we got a forming alliance y'all didn't want to go

yeah yeah I don't want no smoke bro that man is dope let's get one of yeah let's collab yeah that's what's up I was gonna say any other like what song do you have in rotation

right now what you feel like let me hear this put that on Jordan Ward I like his his last project Crocs Let me see Cizor

For show What you got The new Cizor Or are you still on That last album I had this album Pulled up too Oh yeah

You got J Cole album pulled up Oh dang Stevie Wonder I've been playing Stevie Wonder I've been playing Stevie Wonder Back to back

So Okay What's one of your favorite Stevie Wonder songs It's called As A S Um I love

that or Saturn. You like Steve Warner? I do, but I don't have a favorite. Like, he's not somebody that I would put on. I'm more of a put on some Luther or Whitney. Yeah. I like Stevie won the Christmas songs. You know, you got to know.

Yeah. For sure. Christmas time in the city, all that type. Ribbon in the sky. Yeah. I feel like if we had to pick, if I had to pick an artist to listen to, like, all day. Not all day, but like for the rest of my life, it would be Steve Warren. And I think my dad would not like the fact that I said that.

Yeah. Speaking of that. Yeah. You him and King, how that song? It's amazing, man. It's just moments, man. I was just grateful that it got a chance to get out into the world and leave the studio. A lot of songs, a lot of dope moments stay in the studio, stay on the hard drive.

The fact that they got a chance to really come out and people got a chance to see that moment was amazing. yeah man we just we just like music we all be in the studio making music yeah so that's artistic do you feel like you always had some inner competition in the family with somebody where you was like trying to out prove your talent to them or or like against somebody else like you said they're friendly competition it's always competition but with the family we probably like but who you feel like they'd be trying to come for you nobody like coming for me like king or do something that like right now he's going to crazy with the merch like his his uh just his merch packaging the way the quality of his

merch is going crazy and i'm not like hating on it like i'm not i'm like oh i need to step my merch you know right yeah yeah yeah so it's something that and messiah with his whole look and the fact that he picked up multiple instruments the guitar the keys the drums the bass and learn all those instruments like oh i need to you and yours more like bad exactly so so it's It's nothing but that. Absolutely. That's what's up. Your album is called Dear Jane.

Who is Jane? That's what it is. The album is nobody. It's just that question. You know how they're like John, though? It's somebody. You know what I'd be like. Or it's a few somebodies.

Hey. You don't want to get in trouble. It's so, it's dead. He's smart. No. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know how they want to be like John, though. Yeah.

The female version is Jane though. Yeah. So it's Dear James. okay yeah whatever if a female say that's me you talking about yeah that was you you to jane absolutely yeah that was you yeah absolutely y'all don't do cyphers at the house no they be being on the table i'm just saying like all y'all musically inclined i'm thinking like you know what i'm saying like it's like but sire you might come we've used to though okay not like not recently well i know they're christmas telling shows but what what's

now but you know it's kind of sometimes it's a lot of pressure growing up with like not even a famous parent but a very successful parent so you're like you know how when you're coming out of the hood sometimes you like oh when I get on I want to buy my mama house or I want to do this like so you know that you made it or you feel accomplished or like you prove yourself to your parents do you have something like what is that for you to feel like okay I know when I do this I know I made my daddy proud or do you already feel like that's a great question I would say a family trip to pay for the family trip pay for the whole family trip and boy y'all go on some trips yeah yeah yeah so boy you gotta go to the ball of ease and you might well buy a house out y'all yeah yeah that I would say

the whole family trip yeah come on let's go but the whole family my family too though so okay for sure and me one thing about it I noticed when they were doing the we the ones tour you remember your dad was headlining that and he would bring you out

and like I could just tell like it was like the finding moment for him to look and see like damn my son really doing this shit on a big stage right and like you be like I don't know like you say it clicks like you be in your zone like I don't think you'd be looking out there like I don't cause I'd probably be quiet I'd probably be just to myself when you go out there yeah yeah they're like where this come from sure yeah um yeah man I just I love those moments like I said I'm glad that song those moments was able to just be released because you know I'd be in my head um just thinking like Because the song we got, I was thinking about not releasing it because I know that sound crazy, but because I ain't want to get overshadow. People think like, oh, that's just because of what I've been thinking like that my whole life. So like you was in your own head coming. Yeah.

But I think a lot of artists say that the songs that be popping, the ones that be taken off, be ones that they don't even think is their best or like you said, you're in your head about it. But it still be taking out. As an artist, do you have, like, do you have, a checklist of like, no, this is why I can't, I can't release this because, or, or do you allow yourself to release as much as you create? Like you said, do you keep a lot of stuff because you waiting on things or do you allow

yourself the freedom to like, okay, if I made it and it got done or it's on a hard drive, at this point it need to be out there. Right. The only, like lately, if I'm thinking like that, it'll be like, dang, I don't want this to hurt somebody. Like if I'm talking about something, that's what I use, my music. for to like to talk about real life how I feel like I don't want this to hurt somebody so maybe I should change the lyrics or not release it at all okay so it's just finding that

balance right there I think everything else is like if I'm like I don't like my verse and then my team say no I like that verse that verse was fine then I put it out I got outvoted I allow myself to get outvoted yeah and then yeah a lot of the music come out because I got outvoted not you take constructive criticism yeah that's good how I feel rolling with KP man KP, that's my guy, man. I just value his opinion so much because I know he's seen so much and he just has that eye, he has that ear. Yeah, so that's what I was thinking like with somebody like that around you and then you got Dre. So it's like you have like different people like that you're usually people have like that they only grew up with.

You got different spectrums like older, like you know what I'm saying, you got a wise team around you. Yeah. And KP and when he said he's like, dang. see that's how that the spirit just moved right no they just didn't nail that shit good they still went with me too

but look when KB said he likes them I know that it's good yeah he know the formula yeah he can't even argue yeah he ain't gonna gash you right he'll tell you straight like it ain't I mean to call him my asshole

no no he he know he know how to tell you something nicely that what I was saying so like oh he's gonna say it nice yeah he'll say it nice I always say he said nice.

I'm his nephews. I don't know. I know me, if he don't like it, he knows how to say he don't like it nicely. So when he say he do like it, I know that's good. Because you know when bad music get out, you always be like,

who the fuck was in the studio when this nigga made this? Who okayed it? Yeah. Who got done confirmed? Who gave a check off? Right, right. So that's good

that you got people that's going to keep it real with you. Like I said, with the experience, too. For sure, yeah. Yeah, we were talking good about the case. You need to talk to it Yeah, okay, okay What's on your checklist as an artist?

I know this event was a checklist, right? I know you're still living in the moment, but You want to do movies, you want to, where you want to go as an artist? Yeah, I would say this. This was a checklist, but it's so much more work to do, man. It's so much more work. Movies, yeah. I like movies.

I just like just expressing myself for real whether that's design and clothes or that's playing a character in a movie I don't get to act like this or I've never even got to live from this perspective so that's why I like acting but yeah I open up

I want a headline for sure and you're going to see the progression absolutely is there any place you want a headline like whether it's a war show or something like that. Ward show. I like the awards.

I like stuff like this more, though. Like the festivals. Because you see the people and feel the energy, huh? Exactly, man. The award shows be a little too orchestrated, which is still cool. Like, it's an art in that, and I love that too, but I like this.

Yeah. And then it's in, you don't even feel like you're in North Carolina right now. Yeah. Yeah, it don't feel like we're in North Carolina. Yeah, it feels like you're in. Somewhere else. Somewhere else. I'm not saying.

Riley ain't Turk. No, you know, it's a lot of people. No, no, rally turk this weekend, though. For sure. The city, there's a lot of people here. But I'm saying, this is a put eyes on the city like now. Absolutely, we got to go back to Raleigh. But then you're like, okay.

Yeah, it's beautiful. Absolutely. A lot of people drove out here for this, flew out here for this. Yeah, they do. Man, yes. Absolutely. What you got coming up next? Something you could tell us, like, something exclusive.

Like, not no generic answer. Not nothing you gave them. Give us something exclusive. No, no, no, okay. I got another EP. coming out boom okay got shows I got shows

I'm gonna be at the 420 you gonna be in Atlanta 420 yeah I'm gonna come yeah we got the 420 event music that's all I'm gonna tell you I got a movie I got a movie coming up

Waterboy look you're doing movie yeah yeah I was the antagonist so that was fun okay what's the name of the movie I think they call it the water boys you said you were the what not boosting not the boozy not the booze

not the booze no I'm saying what you said you were the antagonist the antagonist the antagonist and the protagonist They go them words, you know. Y'all should be throwing words around like everybody know that. Explain it to the viewers, not me. I know what you mean.

It's like the villain, the bad person. Okay, gosh. You got the protagonist. Yeah, yeah. In case y'all didn't know. Yeah. Man, we appreciate you coming through and chopping up with a backwood backstage, man. Appreciate you.

You all right now. DeMani. Y'all go listen to the new EP is out right now. Dear Jane, right now. Dear Jane, man. My dog. My dog. Good. Thank you.

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