The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - JADAKISS | Backwoods Backstage: 85 South Show Live @ One Music Fest

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

JADAKISS sits down with Karlous Miller, backstage at One Music Fest!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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September 19th and 20th. On your feet. Streaming live only on Hulu. Ladies and gentlemen. Brian Adams. Ed Sheeran. Fade. Glorilla.

Shelley Roll. John Fogarty. Lil Wayne. L.L. Coulche. Mariah Carey. Maroon 5. Sammy Hagar. Tate McCray.

The offspring. Tim McGraw. Tickets are all sale now at AXS.com. Get your tickets today. AXS.com. All right, welcome back to the 85 South Show Backwoods Lounge. We live here at the One Music Fest with none other than one of hip-hop's greatest. The Jada Kid. One of the coldest niggins to ever do it.

My boy, Tachstone, say you can raise a child off Jada Kid's lyrics alone. None other than Jay to Kiss, and I got my dirty boy partner here with me today. My brother in radio. Come on, man. What's that then? It's a kiss, man. It's 50 years of hip-hop, bro. Yeah, it's lit.

Why? There's a whole lot of hip-hop shit going on right now. How y'all doing today, man? Amazing, man. Backwoods, backstage, one music fest. How you feeling? Feeling great. Weather is great.

You know, my people looking beautiful. What more can you ask for? What more can you ask for? here live at the One Music Fest. Now, kids, you're known for putting something in the air, man. And it's only right that you come over here and talk some shit at the Backwoods

Lounge. No doubt. How long you've been fucking with the Backwoods, gee? A few years now. You know, started, like everybody else, I started with Phillies, then Dutchies, and then

I transformed over to the backwoods, uh, rest in peace to Biggie, the first time I ever smoked the backwood was with Biggie. We never, we had never even seen or heard backwards and I think he may see gutter roll up some backwoods and we smoked with him, so we knew about them. Well, I say like the last five, last 10, seven to 10 years, I've been going strong with backs. Everybody, like, graduates to Backwoods as smokers.

You know, you got to graduate the Backwoods. It's like, that's when you know you're real smoker. You got to get professional with rolling backwoods first. I was about to say, what was that like learning? Rolling it ain't the easiest thing in the world. You got to, you got to really be a role with it. Be skilled. Yeah.

Because the edges off. You know what I'm saying? You got to wet it and paper towel it. Right. You know what's the whole point? You know what I'm being working real closely with the people over there at Backwoods. I got something coming out exclusively for the streets. What's called easy roll?

I mean, I might just sell it. pack of corners. All the corners that get cut off, I might just put all them together and make one flat leaf. I was just kicking some ideas around right now. That's fine. I wanted to ask you this. Hip-hop just had its 50th birthday, man. Yes, 50 years

of hip-hop. They were honoring some of the legends up there, but a lot of names got left off. Did you see anybody up there or did you see anybody who got left off that you felt might have should have got honored on the 50th anniversary? Because everybody got their OGs.

I've seen a lot of people get left off. Yeah. I think people got sidetracked with the whole 50 year, you know, the whole thing. And let some grates that shouldn't have slipped through the cracks. They didn't get the acknowledgement that they're supposed to get. I think that's always going to happen, though. Yeah. Especially in our genre, our people, we, you know, we don't tend to big up people to they no longer here or to something happens, you know what I mean, for the most part.

And the other genres of music, they would have made sure they covered everybody. Yeah. Who's somebody that you would have wanted to honor? Like, if you had, like, I just want to get this purse and their flowers now. So many I could name, but, you know, do that. Like Redman, Scarface, a lot of, I could go on, I could stay in for hours and name dudes that I feel are underappreciated. Yeah. But, you know, hip is an individual sport.

Music is like something that, whoever you like, that's your personal, you listen to it in your personal space and you feel a way about them that. nobody can feel about it, so that's the beauty, beautiful thing of music, you know what I mean? You get in the zone or in the mood, you could throw on whoever the fuck you want to listen to him and enjoy it for yourself. But you got to be a part of so many great moments and hip-hop for the last shit. Big years of hip-hop. You, shit, most of it. You've been there for a lot of it, man, a lot of great moments.

So what are some of those moments that stand out to you as personal? No favorites, man. Of course, you know, signing with bad boy, being able to meet big, going on tour with DMX. Just learning the game. Just being a fly on the wall in certain studio sessions, being able to be on the life after death double CD that didn't have that many features. So, you know, being young in the game and being honored to be on there was a big accomplishment that we felt being on Hove's album back in the, you know, early album, during the Reservoir

Dog song. Exactly. Like, that's what I'm saying. These are, these are moments that are gigantic. Yeah, those are, like, priceless. And, you know, it's pre-social media. So those are things that you just have to keep up here because it was no phones, no Johnny Nuneses.

Yeah. You know what I mean? And then you got to be a part of one of the most legendary groups in hip hop. Come on now. My brothers, you know that, Allowax for life. I was going to say, you know, hip hop has transitioned so much over the last 50 years. What's something, you know how big you say, like, we never thought they'd take it this far. What's something that you didn't.

see coming that you were like shocked that happened maybe a trend or something switching up in the game where you like dang i ain't expect this from hip hop it could be good or bad i mean just how just how they implement hip hop and everything that they try to sell or that they're trying to you know that they're trying to market or promote it started from that's just a bunch of noise and a bunch of thugs and a bunch of hoopla to they need that same noise and hooplaa to move the world. Yeah. You know what I mean?

No matter of the cell phones, automobiles, sneakers, you know, fast food. They call us for everything. Yeah, man. Without Janikis, nigga, the walls would never lift up. And the floor would never do a 360, my nigga.

Who else is going to have enough coat that they got to use the scale that they weigh the whales, man. And even entrepreneurship, like, you into Kiss Cafe. You got that going on. Like, a lot of, you see a lot of artists now, going to black businesses and making sure they invest in their money differently.

Like the cars and clothes is cool. I see a lot more artists graduating to entrepreneurship and buying real estate. Tell me about that. And your question, what you got going on? You know, rap is a stepping stone. Of course, when you're young, you're going to blow some money and have some fun and do some reckless things. But as you, if you're able to have a career and, you know, and be in it for a minute,

you want to start graduating and doing some things, owning some stuff. You know, we got, I think, five. We got six juice bars. Stiles and his wife, got the pharmacy for life. Oh, no. You know, the supplements are doing well. And then I got the Kiss Cafe coffee with my son and my dad. You know, the hip-hop industry could teach you a lot if you just keep your head up, eyes and ears open about ownership.

You go through so much stuff with clearances and things like that with the label that you should get to all. point in your life where you want to own everything yeah that you that your name is on or that you invest in you want to try to be the sole owner own a big percentage of it or own the whole thing come on you say hip hop is like y'all a lot of artists first introduction to entrepreneurship and real business yeah so it teaches you a lot i like to the trends that i'm seeing of like artists going taking more control of the health and being more on it like you said the juice bar because you know hip hop at one point it was a lot of about drugs, drugs, how much lean you could drink.

Excess, yeah. Yeah, and now that's the artist's life. Now, everybody talking about getting to the back, but if you ain't healthy, you're going to leave the back for somebody else to get to you. What was that moment, or when was that moment that you realized that or like in your life? For one, I got five kids.

Three of them is very young. Two nine-year-olds and one eight-year-old daughter. So you just want to be able to go of the parking, not pull a hamstring going on the slide with them anyway, but just traveling and, you know, being up late, not getting to sleep you need, we were able to bump into the juice ball and learn about taking care of your body. We all have mothers and fathers, grandmas, aunties that got high blood pressure or some of them type of ailments. We're just trying to lower that as much as we could in our communities. You know what I mean? If we could get

one person at a time that it's hard to just switch how you live or how you eat, but if you could just be mindful of it, then you'll start doing things a little differently. Baby steps. You're talking about health, right? Now, I'm a bald, nigga. I've been bald, right?

But you were bald for so long. And then you showed up with Braise, halelined, intact. So you was just bald because you wanted to be bald? I'm hot. I'm thinking you're bald because you're Good question.

Yeah. Good question. You weren't even bald no more. It was braids. And Y.O. That was like a, that was like the thing that, you know, X was like the king, the icon of the town. And ballheads was onyx. Ballheads was right.

And I always told Stausen Looch down the line when y'all shits go, I'm growing my head back. They used to be like, nah, whatever. Because they had afros, eye tops. Now I'm like, yo. Out of a joke. It's going to be a time. Y'all shit's going to go. I'm going to let my head grow back.

Fellas, what if that's the key to preserving your headline? You just got to be bald in your younger 20s and save your shit. Reverse. For later. Uh-uh. The reverse. You don't push your headline back. No, but you talked about being a dad.

I wonder, like, what has been a father that showed you or taught you differently about yourself? Like, just from being a man in general. Um, is a, is a, is, this, is a, is my stage name, it's my job, you know what I mean? There's a time when you, you got to turn that shit off. You're around your mother, your family, dudes you grew up with, you know, things of that nature. You go back to just being Jason, I mean, kisses for when they, when the lights and that, when the cameras go on and they hook up the mics, that's when I go to kiss, but other than that. Yeah.

I'm just Jay, I'm just regular Jason, you know, kiss, whatever. And when you keep that balance, you be your eye. You know, your kids, kids are the honest, the most honest people in the world. They're going to tell you they hate your sneakers. They hate you, they hate that song. Yeah. I mean, it's with no balance. So I try to use my kids, my younger ones, and my older ones that, you know.

I don't listen to them solely, but I take their advice and see what's going on in their world. Yeah. Man, you've said so much cold shit on records, so many of the coldest bars and all of this. Do you ever put, like, pressure on yourself to be like, nah, I ain't say enough shit on this one. Yeah, I mean, it gets a time, like, when you feel like, see, I love music so much.

I can just hear something and make me want to go to the stool. And I think as long as I feel like that, I always want to create. But yeah, sometimes I get on my, like, you got to go harder, man, going there. I throw a hole. I have something that I think is crazy. Like, now you got to be crazy in it now.

Man, you've been saying some crazy shit. Only put the coke in the tires if they miss you. Fess sending niggas way up by Lake Michigan. Come on, man. That shit crazy. My fucks would get aired out. I go way back. Good.

Knock yourself out. Man. She used to model for a year and a half. Legendary. Why she stopped? So you got... You ain't saying enough, because if she takes her hands out,

then a hair fall down to a cat. I don't know if it was spending too much money on hair products and she was breaking me. Some bad. She had to stop. She had to stop, though. Come on, man. Yeah, man.

Because you know, her man, he was the chef up north. and he would have got left but that's you know brother it's like you listen to this shit and it's like you got so many real life hood problems in there bro even when you said the niggas

had the Sprint cell phone and they was jerking every nigga can't relate to this shit bro you gotta try to do you gotta try to say this shit that that touch home right I mean everybody

everybody can't afford a Ferrari or everybody might not know about buying art or things of that. Yeah. But if you say everybody been behind on the bill or everybody knows some real-life shit, everybody had to make a grilled cheese or some shit like that. They're going, it's going to hit. It's going to hit.

Man, I appreciate you. I appreciate you dropping that type of shit in there and showing the growth and showing the progression. Like in the music, you can still say gangster shit, But you still have, you still make sense and you still give niggas, like, that direction to level up. Like, take my little man to the Gucci store and just show him the loafers. Show him the loafs, man. Don't even, even if he don't want the loafers.

Show him, man. Show him. Show him. Introduce him to us. Introduce him to some shit. He didn't think about it. Right. Come back down there and grab him next time.

I just wanted to let you know that that type of shit don't go unnoticed. And even the cats from the deepest, dirtiest parts of the South, man, we're just, We appreciate you always fucking with the South and jumping on them records and shouting us out and showing us love, man, because there's a lot of niggas from a lot of different places that didn't fuck with what we had going on. It's for a Southern hip-hop, but man, you have features from rappers all over the game from all over the South. So from the South, I just wanted to make sure you know that you love and you respect it out. Yeah, we appreciate it. Yeah. Big love.

For hip-hop. 85 South Show, Backwoods Lounge. None other. Jay Nick's, we in here. Join IHeart Radio and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one-year anniversary of I-Hart 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, I'm Novartis.

Just open the free IHeart app and search IHard women's sports to listen now. 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 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 IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Your entire identity has been fabricated. Your beloved brother goes missing without a trace. You discover the depths of your mother's illness. I'm Danny Shapiro. And these are just a few of the powerful stories I'll be mining on our upcoming 12th season of family secrets.

We continue to be moved and inspired by our guests and their courageously told stories. Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Our IHeart Radio Music Festival, presented by Capital One, is coming back to Las Vegas. Vegas. September 19th and 20th. On your feet. Streaming live only on Hulu. Ladies and gentlemen.

Brian Adams. Ed Shearin. Fade. Glorilla. Jelly Roll. Chon Fogarty. Lil Wayne. L.L. Cool J.

Mariah Carey. Maroon 5. Sammy Hagar. Tate McCray. The offspring, Tim McGraw. Tickets are on sale now at AXS.com. Get your tickets today. AXS.com.

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