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

Episode Date: December 26, 2023

The one and only T-Pain sits down with Karlous Miller and Brii Renee' backstage at One Music Fest!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome back to the 85 South Show lounge. Backwoods, lounge. Backwoods, backstage. We got our own backstage. I see. Them boys is famous. And I got my lovely co-host with me over here, Miss Brie Renee. Bree Renee, she's from the A in the building.

And this is a different type of intro because T. Payne is family at this point. It's always fun, and he's always a great interview. And now we just talk a shit like first cousins at this point, man. First cousins that see each other a lot. Exactly. You're a lot of first cousins that don't really fuck with each other. No, like, I'm like like like, I'm like like sister. Right, absolutely.

Yeah, they made us do sleep on us just so they can go out. Exactly. They wanted to go out. But man, I got to talk about this first and foremost because you've been going up on the social media with your Twitch stream. Yeah. With the T-Pain podcast. Absolutely. And those two together on top of the videos and the music and the behind the scenes and the TikTok.

Yeah. Your presence is very strong, man. I'm doing what I can. to get back in front of the people like that. I think I've just been happier, you know what I mean? Like, just coming through and really taking care of my business, you know, with no manager, no, you know, no label and, you know, getting distraught through Empire.

I can kind of do what I want now. All my ideas are coming into fruition because I'm in charge of making that happen now. So just happier and just I'm okay. I don't cringe as much when I see myself on camera, you know what I mean? Do you feel like growing into that space of like being independent, and doing everything yourself, you feel like, dang, I should have been doing this, or being with the label, all of that was necessary. All that was necessary.

It was the right timing, because if I would have just done it myself, I wouldn't have known what to do. You know, none of this really came about until I got to the point to where I was like, hey, tell me what you do for me. Tell me what your job description is. And the people that couldn't, you know, do that, if you don't know what you do what the hell you're doing here, I don't need you then. You know what I mean?

Like, I can figure it out. I mean, I might get less work done with less manpower, but I'll be much happier and I'll get more money because I've got to pay you now. So this is dead weight. It's dead weight. Exactly. Now, I have noticed that you have been, like,

on your live joint. Yeah. And you've been showing a lot of the verses and songs that you threw away. Yeah. What made you get into that bag, bro? It didn't affect anything. Like, you know, a lot of people get online

and they're like, don't show nobody yourself recording or don't show them no old songs. They're going to leak it. And it's like, yeah, but it's been sitting there for seven years. It'll do better leaked somewhere than just sitting on my hard drive and nobody ever hearing it. So once I started showing people online

and then nothing changed, like, oh, I can just do this all the time. I got hundreds and hundreds of songs that I can just be showing people. You mean bullshit too, though. Because you would set it up all like, I hated this song. I'm glad this shit never came out. And then you'll play this shit

and be like, shit is fucking hard. Yeah. They should have put this out. I do that and then I realize I was the only one that thought that. You should drive a project of like all the forgotten songs.

I did. I did. I dropped two volumes of it. It was called Everything Must Go. I dropped at volume one and volume two and it's still a lot more that can get dropped. But again, we put it out. The songs were as ass as they were back then. People didn't gravitate towards them

so, you know, nothing changed. I put him out another trap. But you be a little bit too hard on yourself, girl. I feel like I can't say that personally. I don't know, but I know that you critique yourself hard as fuck. Yeah. And sometimes you just have to let shit just be great the way it is. I think I critique myself because I get to see the other team's playbook.

I get to, I look at my own stuff like I'm a hater or like I'm looking for something to say on my own post. Like even when I look at my post, I look at, can anybody see anything in the backgrounds and my hands ashy? who can, like, what can somebody say? I look at it myself first as a hater. Why do you think you do that? Because they're going to do that, and I need to not give them fuel for the fire. So I think I look at it in that way

to just make myself better and just kind of keep away from the comments and stuff like that. And once I do look at them, if somebody does say something, I know it's a reach because, like, I kind of checked all the boxes of my nigga, like,

yeah, you still found something? I don't like, I don't like it. You need to get your cat a haircut. Like, bro, just, my cat was in the background of the video for two seconds you couldn't find. Nothing else is saying in this video. I think I'll look at stuff like that as I hated first because it just kind of helps ease my mind.

It really kills the cringe afterwards too. So it helps out. I got to talk about this because I know you might not know, but T. Payne is a fellow car lover also. And around this time last year, he had to get in somebody's ass for wrecking his race car. Yeah. This man literally borrowed T. Payne's race car

and went on a full high-speed chase for a TV show, smashed the car all up. It just was like, T-Pain, I wrecked your car. Send me some money, I'll fix it. He was nice. He sent him the money like two or three times. Dude, fuck the money. I want him a car back.

Bro, just give me back my car. I won't tell nobody that you're fucking loser if you just give me back my car. He was like, T-Pain, I feel so bad. Just let me fix it, please. Nice guy. This guy is like, I'll give you one more chance. I'll get one more job.

I'll give everybody benefit of the doubt. make sure everybody get a chance to be a better person. You don't want to cut people off right away. I mean, it's the smart thing to do to protect yourself. But a little bit of sacrifice from yourself to see if somebody is going to be, just going to take the chance to be a good person. Because I know how many times. I don't fuck that.

I know how many times. You're like, I'm going to give you grace. Right. I know how many times. I don't fuck that. If my wife wouldn't give me as many chances that she has, I would have been over a long time ago. Some of my friends, I've been a shit friend a lot of times.

But it's always just that, man, I'm sorry man I have done some fucked up once people grow up and start to realize that and you give them that one more chance and then they change person forever because they know they're not going to get

that many chances out of a lot of people I was just catching them up on the story because you posted a video recently of you and your new race car and you look so happy you dropped a song he got a new one he got a new one

it's new and improved he's talking big shit he's doing donuts now. Hey, man. Drop the song. I'm better now. I'm better now.

I got better people around me. I know how to recognize better people now. I think I... But men are really, like, particular about their cars. Right. Can you explain that as a woman? Like, I think we like nice cars for a nice car, but... You like for men to have a nice car.

You like that. I do have a nice car myself, but I don't care about cars. Like, men care. Like, what is the attachment? Our cars are your shoes. Okay. Or curtsies Is it bags and shoes

Cicars and rims and shit? Absolutely Okay that makes I wanted to ask you about the new single You're keeping it lighthearted Having a lot of fun We just having fun I wouldn't even call it a single

I wouldn't even call it a single Baby Got Brab is just having fun It started as a joke It was a joke we were doing We were trying to come up with merch ideas And I had just bought an RX7 You know it's got the rotary engine So I was like I need a shirt

That's say Baby Got Brap And then hurt you know, my partner on the company was like, that'll be a dope-ass song. I was like, yeah, come on down to do a verse. He's like, I'm not a rapper. I was like, hey, man, people say I'm not either. Might as well, let's go try it out together.

So we just recorded this song and it ended up being a cool song, especially for the car community. So we just released it. We're just having fun, man. We're doing whatever we want to. And, you know, people think we're still trying to make chart-topping records.

I don't did, that shit. That shit old. Don't nothing change, but prices, those prices go back down until you do another one. It's a popularity contest that I am not trying to enter into anymore. I'm fine. I'm good, man. I like that you say that you at that point in your career as an artist, though,

because I think that takes maturity. When you first get in the game, you're trying to get you a hit. You're trying to make it to, you know, there's so many milestones that you want to hit. But, like, when did you make it to that point where you was like, man, I'm just having fun with it? It's just. When I found out that I can do other stuff, you know what I mean? A lot of people chase that feeling. They chase them number ones, and they chase that top spot because that's all they can do.

that's all they got. They don't have anything to go have fun. You go rent a Lamborghini in Italy, but, you know, you got to take that back. You know what I mean? But if you start building cars on the side and you really paying attention to how things work and you start getting other hobbies or even if you already had hobbies, which is the case with me because I've always had these hobbies. I've always been a gamer.

I've always been a car guy. I've always built cars. But my managers never wanted anybody to see that because it was deemed uncool for somebody at the top of the charts to be doing regular. the white dude shit. You know what I mean? I've always had these things. And once I start showing that part of me,

then people start gravitating more towards me and saying that T. Payne is one of us. See, Pange is a guy. And that's all I wanted to be. I didn't want to be the special guy. You know, again, I was signed as a writer to convict music, so I was never supposed to be in the foreground. I was never supposed to be in front of the camera.

So once all that started happening, I kind of had to get rid of, you know, the other things I did in my life. And now that I can express that and still be accepted, I'm good. That's, you know, being number one, that one thing is like... I think that's a gym, like a jewel, though, that you just dropped. Because a lot of artists don't take in time to pay attention to, like, what other things they're good at.

Because, like, you and Lowe's both have done that with, like, y'all passion for cars. But I'm sure there's a lot of other artists that got, you know, different passions that you can monetize. Yeah. Build communities. But I can see that space where they're scared to even let people know, hey, I draw horses. Yeah. I'm not an artist. But I have a thing for drawing horses.

Absolutely. And I'm pretty good at it. Yeah. That takes a lot of comfort to let people know what you really like. Absolutely. Unless you're a woman. Women can do that because it's empowering. We can do more than this.

We can do it. And you're a man. It's like, bro, get back in the studio, my nigga. Hey, man, shit. Getting your forces dirty with them horses and shit. You need to be out there in the goddamn studio. It's just, we don't, yeah. You know, we can't do anything.

We do what people know we're good at. and then that's what we just leave it at but you know once you go deep into your mind and deep into your thought deep into just yourself take care of yourself and the money gonna come the money come from everything and we all know the phrase find something you love

find something that you love and that you'll do for free and go get paid for it you remember the last time we was talking and I asked you about this T-Pain and top hat T-Pain and then you see the internet went back and was like LOS might be on or something that big of top hat

T-Pan was in a whole other world. Now, you know, it's the fall. Will Top Hat T-Pain be popping now for the fall, winter, Christmas? It is Top Hat-T-Pain. Season. It's Top-Hat-T-Pain season. And the person I am now is Top-Hat-T-Pain. Again, it's in different attire.

I can wear shit on planes now. I can come out dressed like this, you know? My Bill Gates shit, my Rich White, you know what I'm saying? I'm a rich white attire, and I think I think this will be fine. But the feeling that I had back then is back. You know what I mean? The happiness, the fun that I had doing music, not trying to, you know, make chart toppers or anything like that, that's back.

So it is type of had T-Paint on the inside, regular white dude on the outside. You got anything, any more animated stuff coming out? We are working on some more animated stuff. We're trying to get the Freak Nick, the musical part two together. Getting out to get a lot of people been asking for that. So just a general thing. We're having a Wisconsin University cartoon coming. Yeah, that's dope.

So, yeah, you know, all which, I would love you guys to be involved with. We would love to definitely be involved. Yeah, because they're both very black. Yeah, because the Wisconsin's the tour. Yeah. It was going crazy. That's about to happen again in June, you know, so get ready for that. Yeah.

We're going back to Wisconsin. The name of the tour is back to Wisconsin. Third installment of the tour. Yeah, we ending it off with the Wisconsin Fest. We'd love to have you again. We'd love to have you guys. I'll be there. None of this official and you're going to have like set dates I can play it on being there.

We got it. I'm going to text you this time. Br, you got anything else, babe? No, I mean, just keep killing that. You've been doing amazing. I've been a fan. My family owns a strip club, so when I'm in love when a stripper came out. That was monumental for me at the Blue Flame Lounge.

I love it. You know what I'm saying? Family ties, baby. So thank you for all your double hip-hop. That's one of our songs that we sing together. Yeah. You know, like, as a couple when you're in a car and you and your lady got that one that y'all sing. It's going to be all first dance song.

It's what it is? No, we just always sing in the love with the frivol. Because my family on the strip club, when I get married, I do want them to throw money on me, like as an African tradition. They get thrown. They get thrown to, I'm in love with a stripper. If they do it in the rows, they make a bouquet out of it. You can do the bouquet with the single dog. We do love and we enjoy singing your songs as a couple.

What's your favorite T. Payne song to sing? It definitely is I'm in love with a stripper. That's probably my top ones. But you know what's my other one? You know what's my other one, though? What's the other one? Cutty buddy with Mike Jones. Oh, yeah, you can be my cutty.

That is our shit. Wow. That is our shit. That's deep. Yeah. Because that's one of the Ron in the old school song. Yeah. It's got to be drop top.

Sunday, I'm about to say Sunday drop top. Very nice. That's a good choice. Yeah. Good choice. But we appreciate you stopping through the 85 South Backwoods Lounge, man. We're going to make sure you grab some merch or something. This is all very nice.

We're taking this show on the road. One day, man. I'm going to be up there with y'all one day. I'm going to have a little shack right next to y'all, huh? Anything you got coming up next or coming out soon that we need to be on the lookout for? I'm just dropping songs, man, dropping songs. The podcast is coming back. 24-hour live stream?

24-hour live stream at some point. If I can keep enough white claws on deck, I'm there. No, I saw I mention it in the comments. It's going to happen. I'll be on there. Thank you, man. You'll be saying shit, but you'll be on there. Because I don't want to get the arguing and back.

Let's get your ass on the tape band's enough to argue on that. I just have to sit back and lurk, you know. I love it. I appreciate it, man. Let's get it. 85 shop show, man. T-Pain, come out. Backwood's lounge.

That's how we're doing it. That's love. Ah, come on, why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient. Still using yesterday's tech, upgrade to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, ultra-light, ultra-powerful, and built for serious productivity, with Intel core ultra-processors, blazing speed, and AI-powered performance. It keeps up with your business, not the other way around.

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