The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - STEVE HARVEY GLOBAL | BLACK MARKET w/ Karlous Miller

Episode Date: November 8, 2023

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The offspring. Tim McGraw. Tickets are on sale now at AXS.com. Get your tickets today. AXS.com. We recorded in Steve Harvest Studios for about two and a half, three years on the low, on the cool. He didn't even know we was running the show out of there to somebody showed him a clip. And he was like, what the hell? Hold on, dog. Y'all recording the show. Y'all been recording the show.

Ain't nobody said nothing. y'all recording a damn show. Who the hell? Who the hell said y'all can record a damn show? That's damn good, man. Man, that's what he said. And then he's seen us one night.

He was leaving late. He walked down and he was like, What the hell? I tell you what, dog. Don't sign nothing. until we talked. That was the last time I seen him. That sound better than Jefferson.

Had I not seen him that, I'm talking about had I listened to him. Yeah. I'd be fucked up right now. I'd be dead-ass fucked up had I been waiting on Steve. Yeah, I wasn't there yet. Yeah, well, I'm letting you know how long

you've been born shit me. I've been since, when you see Steve, you tell him don't go on nobody else's show I don't want to see him talking to Shannon Sharp or nobody. I don't want to hear none of that till he come holl at me. I got you, man. Hell yeah. I got you.

Tell him bring one of them purple suits. I want purple suit, Steve Harbin, to come to the trap. Shit. And then do 85 South. Purple suit. He got a purple. I know he do. So he got a purple.

I just had to get it off my chair. No, that's all good. It's all good. You know how I clear the app. Legally, legally. I'm protected by it. Second Amendment. By the law.

Yeah, Second Amendment. Freedom of speech. That ain't even the Second Amendment. I don't want nobody out here to be missing for himself. Do your own research. But Jay Nguyen, that's enough about me and my personal problems. I told you it's Monday I'm going through something. But this is the black market.

Do it matter? It doesn't matter. Nobody wants to hear about that. Just ring the bell, let them know black market is open. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. That's how you feel. You know what?

We only bring in the best people over here on the black market. So we're searching high and low, in between all. We know people who know people who was in touch with the people that we already knew. And they're introducing us to new people. And I was just vending from years and years ago. Now you're in position. That just comes with the position. You might have the handle that.

He might call you and say, hey, hell on that. This is true. You already here, he might say, throw him, you know what I see you again, then I get back to you. I got you. Because that's just, you know, I mean, Steve Rock. I get it. Well, no, without further ado, I'm gonna just go ahead and give you a brief intro, let these people know who we got in here with us today. Man, we got Mr. Brandon Williams in here, S-wife.

Not the magazine, not the magazine, bro. This dude, we're official with it. Now you're all over the world with it. You already told me you're international. How did we get here, Brandon? I mean, I'm an Atlanta kid, so I grew up here. Went to Morehouse, went to Emory Law, and then I worked at a big firm in the city. I like how you didn't give him low press.

You were like, just a big firm? Nah, just a big firm in the city. Yeah. Used to represent a bunch of folks. Met Steve through one of my clients. See? Started representing him. And then he called me in 2016 and was like, yo, I want you to.

leave your firm and I was like what you mean and how you're supposed to be like what you mean and so after some deliberation I left moved to L.A. and then start representing him and then you know as that kind of grew the stuff started happening in Africa, Middle East, Europe, wherever and I've been just kind of continuing to represent folks so as I started there then just other entertainment people um other clients other businesses but all of it the reason i love what y'all done because all the folks that i wanted to represent when i was at austin was folks that was like us right like we don't necessarily always have like super high level legal experience from especially like in the business setting like we can hire the best criminal lawyers known to mankind we don't have

i don't even know a shit criminal we don't have folks that know how to do deals and business that look like us that represent people like us. Right. That was really my goal. And so that's what I've been doing for the last, you know, 20 plus years. I think doing it successfully, but represent entrepreneurs, establish business people, entertainment folks that doing what you're doing, all of the above, but giving them like the legal services I think people deserve.

I don't like how you're working with people that's doing what we doing, but not us. Well, listen. That's like when a girl would be like, I hope I find a dude just like you. Bitch, I am me. Well, I mean, I know your CEO, so, like, that ain't. Who CEO? That ain't my fucking CEO. Boy, you got your pay.

Hey, you better get him on my paperwork. I don't have no fucking CEO. Sure enough. Yeah. You know my partner. Yeah. Yeah. I ain't got no CEO.

Sorry. I didn't, I didn't mean to represent that way. Yeah. Well, where am I there? The man. Yeah, I'm crazy. Yeah. Plain and simple.

All right. You're sitting in the chair, so you're asking the question, so you're a man. Yeah, like I said. I was just fucking what you do. No, that ain't my CEO, though. I won't work for nobody. I work with some money. I misspoke.

I don't work for nobody. I misspoke. Oh, you know? I was just generally referencing. Yeah, legally. Yeah, that. You do not work for anybody. Yeah.

No, you got your own business. Exactly. You know how that should be. I do. I start them up every day. them up every day so folks like you they got their own business I start those businesses I advise those businesses I help run those businesses so yeah I've got a few that I'm coming out with this year I don't want to say I'm on on this show

but I got some shit that people ain't got no idea that it's gonna be me oh I know it's gonna be legit oh we're gonna wrap yeah let's do we're gonna wrap so what kind of advice would you give the entrepreneurs who may be watching this who not at their level yet where they can afford the services yeah I think you got to think beyond what you think you can afford today because there are so many people that are willing to work with folks whatever their financial situation is and that they believe in like what they're doing and so you just got to speak to people that are willing to help like I can't tell you how many clients that I took on what a person said they didn't have the money and it didn't matter

because what I always believe in is the people right right and so if you had a great story you had a great drive you had a great movement I would represent you it wasn't even pro bono for me it was just like I want to see you when and especially for people to look like us right like we don't have people to just give us anything so for me if I'm ever in a position or opportunity to like give to some folks that helps them like grow their businesses like I'm in there 100% so for me that's what I would start with is just like don't worry about what the money looks like if you got a story to tell and you got a business to like push like go push it and like people are going to believe and support you it comes with the energy of what you're bringing so if you

got the energy, you got the belief, you got the knowledge, folks will come along whether the money's there or not. What's your journey been like the past 20 years? So, you know, I mean, it's been blessed, to be quite honest, man, like, you know, there are people that work for the firms that I work for the firm that I work for, and they look like us, they don't make it to where I made it to. And I don't mean that as like a pat on the back. It's just like, my journey's been great.

I was there for 15 years. I was a partner at the firm. It's one of the biggest firms in the world. And like, I left willingly, right? Like, you don't get to leave willingly, right? Those folks, you need to get pushed out. You either get pushed out, and, you know, there were folks that asked me, like,

how could you be leaving this opportunity? And my view was, I don't even feel like I'm leaving the opportunity, I feel like I'm accepting another one that might take me to a different place. So the journey's been great, man. I've seen the world, like, five, six times over. I've represented some of the, like, best talent, best businesses that you can represent.

I mean, I love what I do. I love being folks advisor, lawyer, speaker. Every one of my clients got my text phone, my number. Let me ask you this. Let's do it. What's one of the coldest deals you've been a part of? Wow. Without violating the NDA.

Yeah, yeah, no, it's cool. You know, I love the deal, like the initial deal, but I like the initiatives that be thrown in there, be like, yeah, and you gotta buy me a Ferrari and get all my niggas half cut, like the extras. That'd be my shit. think man like you know if I were to give to they're kind of the same but but a little bit different um it was a deal we did with Kevin Hart to take him to the Middle East and then most

recently like the end of last year did a deal with Jason Memorial Aquaman to take him to the Middle East and like they got the Middle East connect I want to go yeah well we got you yeah they all have their challenges um but you know I think the reason I say those two is because they combine like every single bit of knowledge that I've gained over the last 20 years. Negotiation, people skills, being able to deal with like multicultural or whatever, and then you deal with two of the biggest stars in the world.

And they're different camps, right? Like Kevin Hart people, way different than Jason Morris people. Yeah. So being able to like manage that, get those deals done from across the world, right? Like that was as good as it gets. What deal took you the longest to close? I guess the longest deal I've ever done is probably maybe nine months.

Word. Well, what's coming up next, man? Yeah, man. I think, you know, look, I'm growing my business, continue to, like, pick up clients day in, day out. Yeah. I represent a bunch of talent just, like, coming up with some dope projects. I'm super excited about that.

Now, let me ask you this. Do you work, because you know in the entertainment business, there are a lot of people who are unknown, but they got the money. you work with them also yeah yeah I work I represent like a little bit so think about it from the talent side yeah but I also represent companies that put money into like talent I represent you know people that look like me and you that you would never like you see on walk across the street and they paying you know hundreds of thousands millions of dollars for whatever yeah to present

something order to buy you know to particularly buying so I it's all business but like then add entertainment you know let me ask you this final question yeah last one in the deposition all good what advice would you give to the up-and-coming talent just talent in general yeah how could they protect their intellectual property on on that level where they're just starting out where they may not have the money what kind of steps can they take to start protecting their intellectual property I think man you know to be like a little bit selfish call somebody like me you know what I mean like because

I give advice all the time, whether it's... What can they reach you on social media or stuff like that? You can reach me, my company is called LawCorp LLC. My email is Brandon at LawC-L-A-W-C-O-R-P-L-C-L-C-L-C-L-C-L-C-L-C-L-C-L-L-C-L-L-C-L-L-L-L-A-W. Any of those places, I'm free, available, you can reach me and ask me the question. Like, whatever it is that you need protecting, M-R-B-I-Z-L-W, there you go boom y'all he official even though he's spelled business wrong he'll feel like I swear to look man you already know you're part of the team man

you always welcome to come here anything you got coming up anything you want to promote any anything that come across your desk that you want to let the fans know the people know the artists the talent no this the platform to get directly to the people so I say I appreciate y'all and like what's all a building growing being here man just coming to see what y'all's facility like this is what it's about like building it from the ground up everything y'all doing building your shows building whatever i'm extremely like honored to be here and proud of everything you're doing it so thank you for having me and like appreciate everything man man that means the most man you already know the black market is open man

i appreciate you man man that's good right let's get a clue Join IHart Radio and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one-year anniversary of IHart 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, and Novartis. Just open the free IHart app and search IHard Women's Sports to listen 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 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 podcast. Our I Heart Radio Music Festival Presented by Capital One Is coming back to Las Vegas September 19th and 20th On your feet Streaming live only on Hulu

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