The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - STAY (+) | BLACK MARKET w/ Karlous Miller

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

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Hey, Waw. All right. Well, you know what that means. Hey, man. Let's get back to it. Welcome back to the black market. Let's get to the black market. You know the bill.

You don't know what the bell means? That means it's money on the flow. That means it's the money to kids. That's true. I love the bell. Can we get a ring one more. Shit, we'll ring it. We love abundance and money and prosperity and things in that nation.

We can grab my one sheet to let them love. Look, pick you a camera and tell them who we got in here with us today. You know, you're day one. Yes. Hi, I go by the name of Flaka. I am an entrepreneur. I have my own brand, media hosts, and yeah, all around creative. All around creative.

Now, give them the back story. Tell them about your history with the 85 South Shore. Wow, so, it's so crazy. I'm low-key, like, a day one. Talk your shit. I've literally, I met you guys back in 2016 when you guys were in this, it was like a small little area, brick wall. Yep.

That was Steve Harvard Studio. you were at in the picture well that go all way back before the brick wall that's that was steve harvester oh that was before the brick wall studio came after after and then oh my goodness i'm like i'm like anybody that came to steve studio that's that's literally the ground yeah yeah so i was just watched you guys grow like from like i said day one watch you guys grow and i'm so proud of you guys thank you it's just so amazing to see them i just get the amazingness of you guys That's just the growth. I just love it. It was so pure and organic. And just you guys being yourselves and it's just going to an empire. The whole empire. We're sitting in the whole studio right now.

A whole studio. Surrounded by greatness. What you bringing up today? So today I brought my brand called Stay Positive. It's about living life, staying positive, not laying negativity, getting away and following your dreams. So it's basically I promote positivity through clothing. That's what's up. I'm digging the fits. You like that? Yeah. Whatever you want, you can have on a table.

For real? Yes, yes. Even this little fuzzy? Yes, yes. That's one of my, everybody loves that one. Everybody loves, Chico would go crazy for that, wouldn't it? That's Chico all this. Oh, Chico, okay.

Yeah, you know, he loved a good fuzzet hat. So it was nice and fuzzet for a while. Most definitely. What's some of the inspirations behind some of these things? So, my grandma, I love her so much. She's always been a positive person. She's the most positive person to this day that I've ever met in my life. Like, shout out to grandma.

Shout out to grandma. And like when I'm going through stuff, she's like, you know, you gotta stay positive. And also what people know, a lot of people don't know about me is I was a nurse aide for like eight years. Really? Mm-hmm. I love science. I love anatomy.

I just like taking care of people. I love like people in general. And because I love science so much, okay, so bear with me. Okay, so bear with me now. Okay. I'm bearing. In the atom, it's a nucleus, right? nucleus, right? Not you're breaking down, I have to tell you. So it's the nucleus.

And within the nucleus, there's protons, neutrons, and electrons. And within that, the protons, they only are in the center and they focus on the protons and neurons. So they stick together. They're positive. The electrons, exactly. Electrons is surrounding it, is negative energy surrounding them. So even though they're positive, the negative energy is always surrounding them, but they never interact. And if they ever do, the positive protons are heavier in mass, so they crush the negative energy.

So that's how I got it. I know that's so corny and, like, nerdy and geeky, but that's how I'm able to follow because I just took a chemistry class. Oh, you did. We was talking about protrons. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Neutrons and all that.

Yeah, all that. You know, neutrons is neutral. Neutral. They don't hurt nobody. They just be outside. Absolutely. Just don't. Chilling.

Yep, exactly. Right back when the lights, before lights come on. On the block? Yeah. Look, where can they go support? Where can they get some of these flyers items that you brought? You can't take none of this with you.

Oh, no, okay. You got it. You got it. They can follow me, flock of land, or they can go on staypositive inc.com, stay positiveinc.com to support the movement and the brand. Now, I see you from Jersey. Yes.

You see our tour schedule. We got Jersey on there. I know. Man, you tell all your Jersey people. Oh, I am, and they're Haitian, too. They all gonna come. All of them? They probably will all come.

That's what's up. They love funny. My family, they're comedians themselves. They would, yeah, they would pull up. I've never seen no Haitian comedians. Oh, yeah. Except for like three. My family, they only own restaurant there, so if you need catering.

Where? In Jersey, it's a Haitian soul food, yep. Okay. Yeah. We plugged in all over the place. We got y'all. We got y'all. Tell them, Flocka Center.

Please do. What brought you to Atlanta? Well, honestly, my mom, when I was younger, moved down here. So. Why you make that face like you ain't like it? Honestly, no, not even that. Not even that. You know what?

It was the reason why behind it, we were down here. It was out of our control, so it's just like, that's why I've got to say positive. Stay positive. But yeah, I was, I was young, you know, it was out of my control, and we just came down here and made the best out of it. And I love it here. I'm so happy. I'm so happy.

I live in Atlanta. I'm glad you said that because at first you were like... I know, I know. It was a little memory like, oh, that's why I came here. But no, I was young, me and my mom and my brothers, and he just came down here and it's been beautiful ever since. What's your journey been like with, you know, being a young, creative black woman, starting a brand or business? Exactly. The journey, the journey's been ups and downs.

Yeah. Alley loop, alley-oops and all around. But what I can say is that it's taught me a lot about entrepreneurship. And like I said, I'm thankful for Atlanta because coming here, I feel like Atlanta is the black mecca. It's a Wakanda of the South. So I'm just thankful to be in the, I guess, yeah, like the mecca of the blackness.

So I'm just happy about that. I'm learning so much. And like I said, the journey's been ups and downs and just a learning process. Yeah. Especially being a black woman, like in my space. It can be hard because, you know, it's a man's world, corny as it seems, like I feel like with certain things.

But just perseverance, standing ten toes down, standing on business. Got to do that first of all. Yeah, yeah. Consistency, you know, boundaries. And yeah, all that. That's important. A black woman, you gotta.

You gotta, you gotta establish your boundaries. You have to, you have to. Because people will do anything. Anything. And they'll try you. They will. They'll try you. What advice do you have to the young black creators

who may be watching this, the future? What would you say to them? For the future, I would say stay consistent and don't look around what's happening around you and the people is having around you because they all had a beginning and yours is just a start. So I would just tell them to just stay consistent. keep up the work.

There will be hard times, but they don't last forever. They might last longer than you want to, but they don't last forever. And just stay focused and stay true to who you are. Grandma would be so proud of you. Grandma would be so proud of you. Let them know where they can go and support and shop with you and all that. Yeah, so it's Stay Positive Inc. That's Stay Positive, INC.

And also I want to tell you about how to pop-up shop in Ghana. Okay, let's wrap. Yeah, so, um, my pop-up shop. How'd it go? It went amazing. So, yeah, yeah. Honestly, have you ever been to Ghana? No.

You need to go. Please come in December. Really? Chico been inviting me for two years. Please, please. Listen to Chico, because it's amazing. And it's so funny, their, their capital, which is a cry, it literally is the original Atlanta. It's an original, let me explain.

Let me explain, let me explain, yeah. So, literally, they got, they got, they out. the support, they got the random people. When you pull up to the club, wherever you're at, you got random people telling you where to park, you got the scammers, you got the supporters, you got the blackness, of course. But it's just, I was there and I extended my stay a couple weeks.

A couple weeks? Yeah. Not a couple of days. A couple weeks. I just felt so at home. Like when you, I feel like every black American should go to Africa. And I was never wanted to, I'll be honest,

I'll never want to type to say, I want to go to Africa. But when I was there, I didn't want to come back. It just makes you feel like you're home. Like it's just like an inner body experience that tells you that you're home. And it's just everywhere around you just see like beautiful blackness, like just gorgeous people. Like you know, we're just, we're beautiful. You know what I'm saying?

It's just like seeing that all around you. And then like I said, you'll have like an inner body experience. Like you'll just be somewhere and just like, wow. Like we're really like, yeah, like we're really here. Yeah, so it was, um, The 10 other streetwear brands reached out to, and they were all, like, amazing, and there, the streetwear there is, is, is, chef's kiss. Amazing.

That's how hell. Salt Bayonne. So it really felt, it really felt amazing to be there, and everybody there are just, they're just so welcoming. Really, so let me ask you this, you were in, you were in Ghana, and you had having this antibody experience. You got Haitian roots. Yes, I do.

Did it activate something? It activated something. It was like, ooh, I don't know what it was. But it activated something. And it was just so powerful. And two, I would also suggest to kind of be like, do like an educational day. Go to Cape Coast, go to, I forgot the tower.

I know, I mean, the castle, the white castle, but that's a one and done thing. The point of the return door with the slaves. it can really mess you, mess you up, like, but it's good to know. I would never go back to that castle again, but I needed to go there. And just seeing how, where we come from and just going different parts of a cry, just seeing and living and being in the food. You like spicy, dude?

No. See, I'm not a spicy girl either, so I can tell you some places where they don't have the spice. Because Ghanese, they'll say something's not spicy, and your tongue will fall off. I can believe that. Yeah. But you would like, I think you would like Polo Beach Club, get their chicken burgers, they're not spicy at all, see the nice views of the beach, get you a little drink. Because everything in there, our dollar bill, our $1.78, so $100.000. A thousand cities of their money is only $78 of our money. A thousand cities is only $78 of their money. That's why I sit in my stay. I was getting an Airbnb.

for like $15 a night and you can live you when I when I was there for like a month last year I spent 800 just 800 US dollars in total for the month mm-hmm that's what I was that's what shopping and food and everything yeah but I'm just a girl there so I you know when I'm out I'm getting drinks I'm getting the stuff you know what I'm just a man no we're just a man you'll probably ain't no ain't like a thousand for a month a thousand $1,500 for the month. Okay. I can live with that.

I can't stay in the month. 30 days. I can't stay in no month. Okay. I'm just saying I can't go nowhere and stay for no month. I'm telling you, it's so much like Atlanta. It's so much like Atlanta. It's really funny.

I'm gonna go to check them out. Just yeah, just for two weeks. Y'n't go at least two weeks though. At least two weeks. That's a long as far. Yeah, it is. I don't know though. I'm a three day and I'm not in the time of place.

I'm telling you, you're not going to, if you go in December, you're not going to want you just leave three days. I heard. It's too eventful. You don't get any sleep. No sleep. They're five out, four hours behind. You had me until you said that now.

But it's, it's so much fun. You'll be having fun, and then you look up this. They parts. Sweetheart, I am old, baby. I am old. No, I'm telling you. Ock is going to bed. No.

I'm telling you. I'm telling you, you're going to love it there. Yeah. Yeah, but I think you're really like. All right. Well, you have done enough of selling me on a trip after in between you and my partner there. I'm happy. Yeah, most definitely.

Tell them what they can shop with you one more. Yeah, so please, please shop with me at staypositive inc.com, stay positive, I-N-C. Follow me on my socials, Flocka-L-L-C-A land, like a piece of land, Stay Positive, I-N-C. And I also have a new show that's coming out tomorrow called Flockers World. Thank you. What's the concept?

So the concept is really, I really just got tired of seeing certain shows of course not all interviews and scores like that because you know i love me i love me some 85 south black i'm on now you know and i really appreciate you guys even when i i was looking at um the certain interviews i love how you interview there's some people who don't look like us acts in us what are your top five rappers that are alive j z this that third and you just i was just tired of seeing those hearing those questions so what i did is because i do know I do know, like, certain people that are artists, I'm just like, you know what, I'm going to come up with my own show that's nostalgic and that's fun. And that just shows a different side of these artists and not just redundant questions.

Like, for example, like, I'll ask somebody, like, if you're on my show, I would ask you, like, were you ever the line leader in third grade? Like, just random fun questions that like me. Me either. They said I was too tall. For real? Yeah, I would always be in the back and they would have. have me cut off the light and close the door, because they said I was tall.

Exactly. So I'm just like, why I had grown people height? Yeah, I was growing people height. So I'm not even gonna hold you. I was, I was like an average probably like 18 year old little boy, a grown man at the fifth grade. Damn. Yeah, so I was just like, let me just.

I never got no special privileges. See, and that's the stuff I wanna talk about on my show. I used to get put out. My desk used to get put out the door. See, that's messed up. Look at you now. And you know that one student, it was like, not bad, but his desk was like,

right there by the teacher. Yes, I know what you're talking about. I spent a whole semester like the teacher desk space, like her desk is this way. My desk is literally right there. And then once I got grown and I realized it wasn't because I was bad. I was just the most entertaining person in the class. And she wanted to make sure that she could get those free labs. Yeah.

So she got to pay for them now. Absolutely. So then like once she moved my little desk right there, she thought I was her personal assistant. So I used to have to pass out papers and shit in. And then like get my kids. handy lads because she would like hook me up on the side. This is no special privileges. And like I would run across the school to drop some mall at one of her home girls or

something, little sticky note. I ain't know the teachers was home girls so I got growing. I'm thinking this is official school business, but I didn't make three, four trips back and forth, passing notes, stopping by the library, getting a projector. So it wasn't like I was having fun at all. No special privileges. Exactly. So it's just like, see like stuff like that, like you see,

Like that one question brought that out It's just like certain things And maybe your fans never knew about you And it's just fun and you know Just something That's one thing I've been real selfish But I don't be sharing a lot of my personal Yeah

With these people I'll just let them make up their own lives So then when the truth come out They just look dumb as hell So that's the thing like I tell all my My guests that Super personal family stuff off Like I don't touch that

I touch like stuff like we just talked about Like this just really cool stuff that Like random facts Give me another one Um, let's see, I'm still thinking about school, so that's all I'm thinking about, you just going back and what. School was a food where... Did you ever eat the cafeteria pizza? Yeah, the...

The morning, in the morning, was the two percent of them? I wasn't a full, I wasn't a fan of a breakfast piece. My favorite breakfast would probably be the cinnamon rolls. Oh, you were... They had these cinnamon rolls. On the south side of now here? No, we're in Mississippi. Like, we had, like, our food was hitting different because we actually had, like, black ladies from the community.

as our lunch ladies. Like every school, we always had the black lunch lady. Except for like, in middle school, we had this one white lady, she was cool as hell. Oh, we had the one go to right here. Yes, now she was on the hot side. You get the pieces, like, yeah, and the spaghetti and shit like this.

Big old glasses. And she was friends with Ms. Hosey May. She used to make sure I got extra slice of pieces, bro. Man, we had some dope-ass lunch ladies at our school. Chicken tender day. Oh, y'all had chicken tender day, the whole school dishes, bro. Everybody, everybody trying to come up with an extra dollar to get them extra three-tenders. Chicken tender day.

Chicken tender day, what's up? They probably went crazy in the back with the fry. They probably had a big, deep fry. Well, people used to, like, you know, people bring their lunch. People used to sell their lunch just to be able to get extra chicken tendons, bro. I'm talking about a big sandwich. They used to do that with us. Not the chicken dinner department, they used to sell their lunch.

Oh, man. It was so bad in high school, they made a rule where you could, like, on chicken tender day. Tender Day? Nobody even knew, like, what chicken tender day was. I think it was Wednesday, but some days they had, like, a random chicken tender day. Word or just get around school. And then they had this rule where it's like, you can't run to the cafeteria no more. You know what I mean? And then it's like, people were running, and then the principal were standing in the hallway. So then, like, when they get to the cafeteria, he'll, like, make them standing there and watch everything. And they were running out. Oh, it was the best.

He'll make him wait. Yeah, he'll make him wait to, like, to like. So it was like 10 minutes left and then they got to try to get their food and eat right quick. That's horrible. Oh man. Then the principal, he was a big man, he was a big old stumb, he used to hang everybody up. And if he ever caught you with like some snacks, he was taking them shit. And he'd be like, you come to my office at the end of the day and get him. Then you get to the office and he like, oh, I ate that show.

See, I thought it was all for him. Man, that was crazy. But I think he used to do it on purpose. Like when we was in middle school, he used to like, People leave school, like, you know, like right there at the end and then, like, run to the store and then try to run back and catch the bus. And he ever caught you coming back to try to get back on the bus, he would take your shit. And he would eat that for the night and he'll make sure you miss it. And he'll make sure you miss the bus.

Mm-hmm. That was a hater. That was a hater. He was hate. That's so funny. Like, I'll tell you, like, he was like thinking about this, like, that whole story, like, how your fans would never know about Chicken Tender Day. Man, chicken tender day was big. And then it wasn't even like it was a big meal.

It was just like chicken tenders, mashed potatoes, and like a roll. And they had like this sweet-ass, like sweet and sour sauce. Mm-hmm. Barbecue sauce. I was just about to ask you what should dip in sauce a choice. Whatever that knockoff dipping sweet and sour was, that shit used to hit so different. Man. But we had the real bread of chicken tenders?

Yeah. That shit used to cause a power out. The ones are, I remember, I remember. I remember my lunch late to this day, Ms. Valencia, she had a go-tooth, she had a high ponytail, and it was kind of like down to her back. She was big ladies, and everybody loved Miss Valencia. And she wrote, she, she substituted for the buses, too. She is just working for the whole schools.

She's working for the whole. She did the scooping, and everybody loved Ms. Valencia, and she, sometimes you catch her, you catch her on the buses, whatever route. We used to love Ms. Valencia, if our bus drive wasn't there, Ms. Valencia said, Let's go. So she would scoop, scoop, you know, she would give you extra big scoops at lunch. And then a couple hours later when the bell rang. That was the best lunch later, the ones who knew your mama. Yeah.

Because they knew you was hungry. They could just look you in your eyes. And they're the ones who, like, they'll let you slide to here forget your lunch money. Oh, don't even act like you don't know your number. Exactly. You look at that. Go ahead, baby. Yeah.

Because they tried to get me like that one. They would not give me free lunch. They tried to make it seem like we had. make it seem like we had paper. Yeah, that's a... Y'all ain't getting no free lunch. But you know what's worse than free lunch? What?

Reduce lunch. It is. They'll give you something from the back from three weeks ago. No, not that. Like, when you have to pay the price for reduced lunch, it'd be stupid like an ugly-ass amount. Like your lunch would be like 35 cent or some shit. 17 cent for breakfast.

You're like, what the fuck came up with this shit? I'll never get... With my reduced lunch, we would have like literally reduced. Like, we would not have what the other kids have. I'm like, why, how am I supposed to... That's when you can't pay for that shit. Yeah, I'm not supposed to, like, I'm literally my mind. Like, how am I supposed to be, like, I have reduced lunch?

It's not my fault. The grilled cheese with one piece of bread. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, or a peanut butter and jelly, and it's not grape jelly, it's apple jelly. Put it together. You don't know what type of bread they're going to put it on. And probably the bread in the front, you know, the front loaf of the bread. Oh, man.

Put it two together, and then that's what you got on reduced lunch. My cousin's home. Like, my cousin had this friend, and, like, her cousin was like, the lunch lady. that you see. Once she found that out, I would have free range. Milks, juices, all that. I used to, whatever excuse you used to tell them to get a juice for lunch. That was my excuse. Every year, I was like, yeah, I got an end of air, my ear. Something messed with me. I need a grape juice with mine because my end of the air. My sugar will get low. Well, look, I really appreciate you.

Yes. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Likewise. And having these good quality products. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're doing your thing, and you know you always welcome wherever we are. Yes, yes.

Thank you so much. Well, let's tell them the black market is wide open. Black market, come on. Put it up. Look. Stay positive. Come on. Let's take our picture and shit.

Oh, I can't move my hold on. I got wheels on my shit. Okay, thank. Join IHeart Radio and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one year anniversary of IHart Women's Sports. 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 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 My Heart Podcasts in 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 IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 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. This is an I-Heart podcast.