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

Episode Date: December 18, 2023

Muni Long sits down with Karlous and Brii Renee' backstage at One Music Fest!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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like early, that's so dope and much respect you, especially in this music climate where people have to go online and download and streams is crazy. and for you to be getting that type of love, it's just dope. And you're staying so humble with it. I'm super grateful. Super. And to be helping bring R&B back, you revived.

One of the artists that's really reviving true R&B, bringing back love songs, bringing that feels. You know what? It's always been a dream of mine to sort of like breathe life into the industry, period, because I've been doing this for almost 15 years, and it's a lot different today than it was. in 2008, 2007. So I always said, like, I want to save music. Like, you know, I want to be doing this until I'm 70 years old,

but at the rate it's going, it may not be around. You know what I'm saying? At the level that I'm used to and that we like to consume music at, it just ain't, it ain't, the math ain't math. So I'm starting in R&B, and hopefully I can, you know, maneuver and move over to some other genres. right now, I'm sitting pretty comfortable, you know, serving my people, giving you all this music, talking about things that we go through. Yeah.

It's been fun. Yeah. What other genre of music or maybe even hip hop that you would like to, like, tap into? I would love to tap into rap, and, you know, I feel like I'm not a rapper, but the way that you do that is to, like, collaborate with rappers and give them, like, those R&B mainstream pop hits, you know, like how we used to have in the early 2000s, where it was a rapper and a singer. Yeah. Pop music. Obviously, that's where I started in this game, writing pop songs for other artists.

Country music. I've also done that. Had a lot of success there. I got a number one in country music with Carriander Wood and Miranda Lambert. Hold on, hold on. A number one, country music song? Yeah, that's dope. Come on now, we can't just act like we didn't hear you say that.

Got to give it up for that. Yeah, so, you know, I mean, I would do rock. I love rock. That would be dope. I love classical music. I just love music. Right. Let me ask you this.

For you to be doing music almost 15 years and to still be considered a new artist? How do you take that? I'm grateful. I'm grateful because it's billions of people in the world, right? So I feel like I'm going to be working until I'm done, like until I die, to make sure that my music and my creations touch every piece of the earth.

You know, it's certain people in certain countries that don't have a TV, they don't have a radio. and they get music through word and mouth still today so you know it's never um no ego it ain't never like you don't know who i am like and i learned that from maria carey she walked into a room of people and be like hi i'm maria she introduced herself like we don't know who she is right yeah so you never know man if it's people that still don't know who bianca is i got a lot of work to do yeah but what do you say like being in the game for 15 years and like you said still kind of being introduced to a lot of audiences what do you say to like new artists or people that's just tapping in or even the next generation that think everything is like overnight success quick you know all you need is one hit yeah that's a issue but I don't think it's just with the newer generation because like even my mom my dad my uncles my aunties people who are used to doing things a certain way they quit so easy like when they encounter the first little piece of resistance

They'll be like, oh, you know, they throw their hands up. And it's like, no, you got to keep pushing. You got to keep moving. It doesn't matter. That person that told you no or that's standing in your way. That doesn't mean that you're not great. That just means that they don't have the capacity to help you. So you just got to keep grinding until those people, you know, notice you or you're amplified to the point where they can't ignore you.

Right. Now, you got one of those songs. I won't say one, but you know exactly the song. referring to that gives that that soulful black love feeling and it's like how do how do you capture that moment when people hear you and they're like it's the same effect as like how soulful Anthony Hamilton is or it's like that genre with Jill Scott it's like you found that pocket where it's like ooh this that good clean up the house whether I'm you know what I mean like I can make love to this I could clean up sermons

I could cook to this like it feels like loving yeah what is what is money long ingredients to doing something like that? I don't know, just being real. Like, I'm a lover. I don't want to fight you. I will run you over with my car if you hit me. But I prefer love. I prefer, you know, treat everybody like family.

Like, we all cousins out here, you know what I'm saying? And so I just put my true feelings in the song. I think maybe that's what resonated with people. It's just the authenticity. And it's a lot of conversations about relationships and what can I curse on him You can say whatever the fuck you want to What niggas ain't doing

How old bitches ain't shit Like it's so much of that toxic conversation Right And I feel like the only people who talk like that Are people who never experience Real love And also I'm a little delulu

So like it don't matter how mad I am With my husband I'm still at the end of the day I want my fairy tale And so if I want my fairy tale I got to create it I have to create the space for it You know, people ask me all the time, how you get married so young?

I was behaving like a wife when I was single. And it's a lot of people that ain't going to do that. You know what I'm saying? Also, marriage ain't all that's cracked up to be. That's work. It's not just, oh my God, you love me so much, you buy me roses. That is work. It is a relationship.

You know what I'm saying? Like, you ain't going to always like your boss, but your boss sign your check. So you got to behave in a certain way if you want to get that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, how do you manage them time? is like you said when you might not always like each other but you love each other

so you like... You just go to your corner just like fam I'm over here leave me alone I'm watching my movie and then when you get hungry hey what you're trying to eat

like you know what I'm saying just like sometimes you might argue with your sister or your brother might can't stand your mama might can't stand your daddy but that's still my family so my husband is my family

no matter what like if we stay together or not that's my family you know what I'm saying so sometimes I can't stand him sometimes he do get on my nurse sometimes he walk up behind me when I'm brushing my teeth and scares the living daylights out of me and made me want

to punch them you know what I'm saying but it's just like this is the person who I'm going to break up with and make up with for the rest of my life you know what I'm saying and I think a lot of people want to agree with that a lot of people might say oh I don't know if it's possible for women to be sims but to be sims you know what I'm saying like you got to fight for what you want you got to work for what you want you got to work for the good like nothing is free nothing don't come easy and I think like a lot of people have this like delusional idea of what relationships are period like not just romantic but friendship um work relationship your relationship between you and God like they're not really putting into work no well you know back to the music I wanted to talk

about because you you were talking about adventuring into other genres but we backstage right now we're backwoods behind one one music fest live here in Atlanta are there any artists here that you hoping to maybe like run into or possibly want to collab with work with in the future um i don't be wanting to run into nobody because if you shade me and you start acting funny in person i'm oh you like it's on sight i'm like oh you all you don't know me now okay period right keep that same injury so um i don't be wanting to run into nobody like they're here to work y'all do y'all think but i do want to see kodak um okay i want to see meg i want to see janin i've never seen her live And then tomorrow, of course, there's a lot of dope artists performing as well that I want to see.

Anybody you would look or like to collab with on some work? I would love to collab with anybody who's on my same frequency. Like, if we in alignment, if it's meant to be, let's do it. Let's create some music that's going to change the world. But I'm not trying to force nothing. Like, I'm in this space right now of just complete authenticity. If it's meant for me, it's meant for me. If it's not, say it's not.

Sayonara. You see how she said that like she easy to get in touch with. Like, you are money long. No, it doesn't matter. Like, I just made a post about this on my Instagram. Like, people be price gouging. You know, it's all kiki, hi-ha, oh, hey, girl, in your face. But then, you know, and it could be, like, the management, the lawyers.

But I don't be with all that. Do you want to do it or not? That's a hell of an attitude to take. I mean, because I'm straight. I know where my help come from. The guy going to make sure I'm straight. So whether you get on the boat and join me in my success, I'm still going to be good, you know. I was going to ask that as an artist, like, would you want to work with another artist just because you know y'all can make a hit,

or do you feel like you got to really vibe with them on a real level first? I feel like energy is first, so I don't got to be best friends with you, but you can sit down with somebody for two minutes and just exchange a few words and know where that person is vibrational. If they talk about other people gossiping, hating, like, all right, this might not go that far because I don't be on that. You know what I'm saying? I remember one time I had a moment in the studio where Jay Cole was there and I was just having a bad day that day and I started just talking trash I was talking to my other friend Tehran Rock City who was also an artist and songwriter

and Cole came in the room and within two minutes he did not even he like sat down he heard what we were talking about he got up and left and I just remember being like damn what we say why didn't he do that but then I realized like my frequency we wasn't on the same frequency he not on that you know complaining and like man why these niggas always trying to play us and you know who they think they is that kind of conversation does not um circulate in higher level rooms so you know i love that he got up and left though and just like didn't even try to interject but just immediately protected his energy he didn't judge me he didn't say nothing bad he sat there he listened for like a minute and then he got up and left yeah

because i'll be if i sometimes when i'm in them situations i'd be like trying to bring frequency up like okay let me but no just leave because what happens is when you're high vibrational like that most likely those people are going to bring you down you're not going to be able to bring them up you know what I'm saying and if you do you're going to expend so much energy trying to bring those people up to your frequency that you won't have any more energy so eventually you it's like it's almost like a battery like you have a limited amount until you refresh it right yeah so like I'm not going to sit up here and argue with y'all because all it's going to do is deplete me of my high frequency, and then I'm going to end up having a charge up on yours, which is low.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You got it all figured out. Not everything. Well, a lot of it. Like the first part, at least. I got a little bit, not a lot.

Yeah. So, like, you were talking about marriage earlier. Mm-hmm. Is it difficult to maneuver through the industry as a wife? No, it's actually better because I don't care about no nigger. Right. None. And my confidence is such that, um,

because I have somebody that I can bounce things off of and because I know I got my partner at home like no matter what happens we might not even been having a good day that day together but if I come we are united against you know outside forces so it doesn't matter what anybody thinks about me I don't care any male can't tell me shit because the only person that I'm listening to is my husband and God you can't tell me nothing you know what I'm saying yeah it just it just makes my confidence level to so high. Yeah. And that's because you have that person in your corner that you know, like, it's going to be there and have your best interests at heart. I'm not trying to impress none of y'all. Right. If you don't like it, okay, like, I can admit when I don't look the best, when I got on a

whack outfit, when my hair don't look right, my makeup, I can admit all of that, like, because it don't matter. I got somebody that like it. That's good, though. I think that's something you really need. Like, I think every artist or creative should have a solid foundation, you know, even if it's not before marriage, if it's your homie or your friends or your loved one or just

yourself. Your mama, you need that. So when the comments or everybody hating the shade room or whatever, you know what I mean? You know how crazy you can get. You got that solid foundation in the back. Yeah, and I also think if I was out here single, I would be so distracted because I love love. So

if somebody want to take me on a date, I'm a go. And somebody want to fly me out, I'm a go. And, you know, it's like, girl, you need to be working on your music. You need to be rehearsing I'm like oh but you know I'm in Dubai you know that you're trying to find love yeah so I'm glad that I have that checked off that is dope that's dope well more can we expect for money loan from from this day going into the future what can we expect I'm gonna be a lot more vocal you know sharing my

personality sharing the knowledge that I have I just started doing it actually yesterday on Instagram just sharing like I realize a lot of people have no clue how this whole shit works, but they be trying to participate. Right. And so it gets frustrating because it's like, you don't know what you're talking about. Oh, my God. You know, so instead of complaining about that, I'm going to be the change

and start sharing what I know. And then I have a song out right now called May for Me's, playing on radio stations all over the U.S., produced by Germain Dupree, Brian McAcox, and a young producer named Jordan X.L. And so I'm promoting that right now, and I think it's in the top 15 at radio, so it's doing pretty well.

well. I got lots more music. I'm going to drop an album at the top of next year. Tour. I ain't going nowhere. I'm about to be in y'all face. What's the title? Can we get the title? The title of the album? Yeah. Oh, can I give him the title of the album to go? She's not. Shaka said, yeah. Okay, Shaka Zulu, if this don't go right, it's your fault. The title of the album is called Everything is a Game.

is a game. Everything is a game. I like that. Yeah, so that's exclusive. I never told nobody that. Okay, we got an exclusive out here. Because there's rules to everything. Everything is a game. Everything is a game. I feel like I used to waitress, right? And so being in the club, you know, that was like a game that I felt like I had to learn. And then once I graduated from the club and went to the entertainment industry, I realized this damn. They're the same game. I just got to play. The players switch. But so I like that everything. You just got to know the rules of each game. Each game. The rules switch a little bit. bit the players might switch out but it's also a game and if you don't know that you're playing the game baby you lost already yeah well you know we're kicking it with backwood so i want to play a little backwood trivia with you before you go okay but i used to smoke i used to have um you know be a smoker back in the days back in the days way long time ago way back in the days but i don't do it no more though okay well i need to know how many backwood flavors are there oh shit just take a game

This ain't trivia. This is a real test. I only know, like, four. Okay, well, name me. I was going to ask the next question that's named me for. And it's like some honey. Okay, that's one. Regular, original, Backwood.

Okay. Y'all, it's great. Y'all got great. Well, it's Barry, but we'll accept it. Okay, Barry. And shoot, like cream. It's like some cream. There you go.

Hey. See? Okay. I'll be up in the smoke shops, you know what I'm saying? How many backwoods come in a pack? three four four five five actually it's three and five and sometimes two it just depending on yeah the pack you get right okay sometimes one i've seen a one back i've seen a single as well yeah i was talking about the traditional but you answered it all okay and what flavor

of backwood do you see the most like when you out or original because the real smoker don't want no flavor they want to taste the weed there you go period there you go you know i'm up here telling them myself again. No, I'm working on some things over there with backwoods where we're trying to get like some backwoods reparations. Yeah, for the ones that got broken in transit, we're trying to negotiate what that number looks like. We might have had us as a consumer against them as the company, but it's real friendly right now. And I'd be so mad when you buy a pack of backwards and it be dry. Yeah, I'll be mad when you buy the pack and they only give you one dog skin backwood. And the rest Oh, see, I ain't never got daddy.

I like my mix. Yeah, yeah, you know, because the dog was burned longer for some reason. I ain't never got daddy. They be stronger. They're strong. The dark skin was doobia little stronger. Oh, my gosh, is that Keith Lee? I love him.

Who we got? Keith Lee, I'm a huge fan. Oh, Keith Lee. What's up? Are we back state? Food critic, Keith Lee. Come over here. We'll do an interview with Keith Lee.

He's amazing. Money long, we appreciate you stopping through the. 85 South. Listen, I'm a huge fan of the show. You're going to come on the show? Y'all got to have me come back. Will you come on the show? I will.

We're going to get your people info so you can come on the show. Thank you so much for stopping my backwards, backstage, one music fest. It's lit. It's lit. Money long. Thank you. We're out of here. Join IHeart Radio and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one-year anniversary of IHeart

Women's Sports. With powerful interviews and insider analysis, our shows have connected. I've 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 IHeart Women's Sports and our founding sponsors, Elf Beauty, Capital One, and Novartis. Just open the free IHeart app and search IHeard 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 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 Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. The untold story of genius, betrayal, and the app that died so that TikTok could thrive. From overnight stars to the fall that no one saw coming, we're breaking down what made Vine iconic. Listen to Vine on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I always had to be so good, no one could ignore me.

Carve my path with data and drive. but some people only see who I am on paper. The paper ceiling, the limitations from degree screens to stereotypes that are holding back over 70 million stars. Workers skilled through alternative routes rather than a bachelor's degree. It's time for skills to speak for themselves. Find resources for breaking through barriers at tetherpapersealing.org. Brought to you by Opportunity at Work and the Ad Council. 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. This is an IHeart podcast. Thank you.