The Breakfast Club - Best of full interview: 85 South Show Talks Ownership, The Art Of Roasting People, Legacy, Tour + More

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

Best of 2025- Best of Black Effect Podcast - 85 South Show Talks Ownership, The Art Of Roasting People, Legacy, Tour. Recorded 2025. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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chico bean welcome fellas man whatever man why y'all got that freak-ass picture of big sean on the table He put it on his computer. Who keep throwing it at you? Why? He was asking, he wanted to know where Biggs came from, and so we printed out a couple pictures. You're about to get to, you about to get no abs sketching, man. You about to get a BBL?

No. Don't do that, Envy. You're already rich, bro. Just get fat. How are you supposed to do when you get rich? I don't know why everybody want to be in shape. What happened to getting money and getting fat, bro? Well, you want to live, though, so you want to be alive.

That's all. Ah, man, get out of here. That's literally what you're going to do. Get out of here and get out of here. Just let me have one of them waters. Thank you. What you all up here for, man? I know y'all got to talk about.

Man, what type of shit is this, man? You know what? You know, that is so bad. Man, he disrespect what we're up here for. How are you going to be doing the guests lately? I saw the neon clip. Y'all have never started streaming career. Y'all are already blocked.

The man's shitting on Harry and Tubman, man. He did. He shit it on. Who shit on hurry and tell me? Exactly. Yeah, man. Somebody shitted on Harry and Tubman? That's what he did, man.

Man, you listen, man, the content's falling off. If y'all got to interview people that shitting on hurry and tummy. Y'all have lost your lustre. And y'all had them up here. And then y'all were what we up here for. Charlemagne invited him up here. You know, Sholomey. That's not true.

What happened was he reached out to me to do his screen, but then he kept asking to come up here, because he wanted to announce that he was leaving kick and go to Twitch I'm like I don't care we've had a scream up here before DDG been up here so why not he didn't even announce it after he was like I'm not announcing it here he was like I don't want to

I mean we've interviewed people that are on to come up I bought to say we had Big Dank up here the Detroit rapper you know Big Dank Oh the one that had that lawsuit with The shot you on your flight Yeah big tank

No, you know what? See, man, look, man, I don't understand. You see that? You're unraveling. You was good. Now you turn it back to the old you, man. He didn't got that glitter on the top of his head now. I don't know what that is.

What you did to your head? Man, why is it glittering? It's glittering. That's sweat. Yeah. Oh, you're going through menopause. Yeah, he's hot. You're going through menopause, man.

Man, going through menopause, man. But they're in because of day on tour, y'all. I was about to say that. You said, what the hell y'all doing? You're like, we just showed up. All right. First of all, we love having y'all. Let's start there.

Now, that's moly. That it feels like it's where you start. We love having Coles, Chico, in D.C., being D.C. always late. I mean, you know, y'all never come up here. You know that. He always comes up here. Nah, he on his way, man. Y'all had that monsoon up here the other day.

We all almost didn't get in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Y'all had the in the arms of the angel. Y'all was struggling up here over day. Yeah. How do y'all like, y'all still like, y'all still like being on the road? Yeah. Okay. Absolutely. The road is

where it said is an entertainer, bro. You don't have to be at home, people giving you checks, eating good food, buying women. What's the favorite city? I know it's different for both of y'all's favorite. The hit. You got a favorite. No, I don't, I mean, it's a place. My favorite is whatever so well.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, I love Detroit. I love Chicago. I mean, you know, you know, when you travel, you go to different places and you get responses from people that make you love the city for different things. But to answer your question, Shaulamaine, like, being on the road is the blessing. Like, I always tell people you can't complain about the blessings God give you, because if you didn't have it, that's what you would be asking for.

You would be asking to be on the road all the time. So, got to love it because you get to do what you love and you get paid for it. It's a beautiful thing. How do you have on the road? Like, you're always out, whether it's together, whether it's a part, whether it's wild and out, whether you're always on the road. So how do y'all work on the road? I mean, because you're always on the road.

You see things. You see different things. You see different perspectives when you go to different cities. Because you know you perform everywhere you go. They got different cultures and different ways of doing things. So you get to visualize all of that. And it goes into your stage show because when you're performing for people, they want to hear your perspective on their everyday life.

And you get to see that when you're on the road. So that's the best part about it. Plus, when you're in different cities, you only get, you're only there for a certain amount of time. So you don't get to see everything. So every time you come back, it's still new. Yeah. And then the tour that y'all doing is spent a black tour.

That's y'all going back to the cities that shows y'all the most love. It's kind of, most love places we had fun and places we just wanted to go back. Sometimes it's not just about the show. It's like sometimes the venue be hitting different. You know, since we're growing with the performance, some of these places we were like, yeah, we definitely got to come back if nothing else

just because we like to set up in it. They're doing big venues. Do y'all prefer the smaller venues because it's more in touch with people? Because y'all hop out in the crowd at times. Like, y'all touch the people. Yeah, but that's the good part about us is we have already performed for these people

in those intimate settings. So they used to seeing us that way. So it kind of still feels the same even though we're in an arena because people still react the same way. They'll come to the front to make sure that we see them or we'll be able to recognize somebody that came to the comedy show

when we was doing it at the comedy club and have those recollections to be able to do those type of things in an arena. So it just hit the same for us. And that's one of the good parts about what we do because it's always a different show. It's always improvisational. So we never know what we're going to say

every time it's a different show. So you get to do that even though we in an arena. The goal is to make the arena feel like the club. Yeah. Yeah. Is it hard, it seems like it's hard to do, right? To get that kind of intimacy in an arena?

I guess there's a lot more ground to cover. But it's possible. You're seeing how we do. We'll go all, Chico or jump off stage and run and be on the elevator. Be on the third floor. And riding scooters to the 35th row. We don't care anything about that, man. We really just enjoying ourselves and, you know,

selling these joints out. and trying to keep the brain gone. Chico, you all that looking like Chico Lean, man. Yeah, man, I found out I had high blood pressure. I had to change my diet around. I went to the doctor. They told me I had high blood pressure. I was like, whatever, I don't care nothing about high blood pressure.

And I went back to the doctor, and another doctor came in. Like, when that second police officer coming, you know you're going to jail, that's how the black man came in. He was like, brother, I don't think they did a good enough job of explaining to you the effects of high blood pressure is the biggest killer of black men. Heart attacks, all that type of me. I'm like, well, what are the effects? He said erectile dysfunction.

I was like, what, I got to change? I won't even eat food, no, man. As soon as he said, that's all I needed to hear. I'm like, no, I'm too young for that. But, yeah, I had to change a lot of stuff around, man. Can't eat chicken, can't eat bread, all that type of stuff. And that was one of the most hardest transitions. I tell people now that as black men, we work so hard to build our habits

because we start from nothing. So every habit that you get, you hold on to it. And what you put in your body is one of the first ones. You get some money. First thing you do is go eat good or what we consider to be eating good. So having to transition and shake that out, we were just talking in the green room. Sugar is the worst drug in the world because don't nobody stop you when you got it. You know, you can just have a plate full of sugar.

Everybody be cool. You show up one crack rocker. What's wrong? You know what I'm saying? Crack disrespectful, bro. You know what I'm saying? You can't light up no crack. That's secondhand crack smoke?

No, don't do that. Secondhand crack smoke. Yeah, but that was. Maybe try to steal your outfit. I know, yeah, we, you know, Envy, light skin. He's been dressing like this. He's been dressing like this since the 80s. He wanted to be.

and what's the Ready for the World? Y'all don't know that NB audition for Ready for the World and they make it. But yeah, man, I feel better, though. That's the best part about it. I feel so much better because once I made that transition that you look at yourself

and you don't really see it until you look at old pitches and be like, God damn. I think it was built bad. But, you know what I mean? The transition, I recommend all black men to go get their blood pressure check, man, because it's very, very important

and you'll end up walking around with one Jordan on if you don't. Man, listen, blood sprays me so bad. When I seen them lose all that weight, I just started losing weight, too. I was like, hey, man, whatever it is, you're doing. I'm about to do some of that. I hope you're going to the doctor, Carlo? Yeah.

Okay. I got insurance. That's what you wanted to hear. Yes. I got insurance. Insurance you wanted to do. No, man, you get to a certain age. I'm 47 now.

You got to go get everything checked. Because when you start to realize what leads the heart attacks and what leads the strokes, the high blood pressure, the high cholesterol, stuff we ain't never thought about. And you go to the doctor and like, what does that mean? And then they explain it to you? It's like, oh, I got to get right? Yeah, yeah, I mean, you definitely got right. You got right a long time ago once you got that stuff done in your skin.

That's right. I know it's going to be good, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I know. He got everything taken off, man. I just noticed that. Yeah, he got everything taking off. He bleached them. He got everything taken off.

You don't even notice, man. It wasn't the birth, it wasn't the birth? It was. Remember that birthed? Yeah, he got rid of all that. You know, he got rid of all. He's the first one ever. Those guys that looked like Mr. Terrific from Superman.

Yeah. You know what I mean? he'd be he's sleep with bobby pins pulling his skin back when he go to sleep at night he just be in the bed straight up like this i'm like so you know taking care of yourself is is very important man and i like i said black men for some reason we don't like to go to the doctor and he just want to keep drinking ginger ills and shit nah go the health the thing most black men do is walk to the stove yeah that's it what just walk to the store that's all that's that's it's it wait till y'all got to get the prostate check though

hey man see there your freaky ass go hey man why you come on man no it's so much that You could have went to before that. You know what I'm going to? You got them prostate check. Oh, it's such a beautiful experience. Come on, man. You didn't get your prostate check yet? He's not that.

No, no, not yet. Have you? Yes. You said that with price. Yes, I have. Yes, I have. Yes, I have. Twice, actually.

Twice. What was the first one, a trial run? You said like you do it on the regular. I keep getting it. They said he got his prostate check as a, you got a trial run Prostate check, I'm going to let you do it before I go to the doctor to warm myself up. The doctor telling, look, we don't got to do this every time you come. Why not?

Why not? I want to make sure I'm okay. I got to be healthy. When you about 43, 44, if you got a history of it and your family, you're supposed to go get a check. Yeah, I know they say it's you got to, but, you know, I ain't got there yet. No, you got to, Chico, you can't lose all that. Why you did, I mean, okay, I got you. All right, one day I will, and I'm not coming up here to talk to y'all freaking ass about it.

They put you to sleep. give you a drug. They shouldn't have to put you to sleep. Anytime they got a big put you to sleep. You ain't get the regular joke. No, that wasn't a regular one. They sexually assaulted you. They got you on camera.

You went to a freakoff. They're going to love to you, MV. You're talking about the colonoscopy. You're not even the same thing. I was going to the next one. No, you weren't. You're just on asshole adventures, man. You're just on asshole adventures all in, man.

What's up with your man? butt niggins on his stomach. Y'all ain't got nothing else. Yo. May y'all look crazy. Look, this would, I want a moment. Since it is three of y'all, do y'all ever have, like, problems making decisions?

Because it is three of y'all, right? And say if one of y'all don't want to do something. How many of y'all have to say, like, no or yes for y'all to, like, collectively agree or disagree on or something? It ain't a whole lot of things we got to collectively agree on. That's the best. best part about it. So sometimes we show up with two wrong answers and the right one. And sometimes we have days where people just make their own decision. And they're like, hey,

bro, do what you want to do, but you got my full support. It ain't a whole lot of things. We don't clash on nothing really. We don't like the same type of women. Yeah. We don't hang out at the same type of place. It's just, we got a dope bond where it's like we're just brothers. They're brothers. And it's literally family. You know what I'm saying? You know the things you go through with your family, whatever the conversation is, it's always in-house, and we always take care of it. It's never public, you know, never for public consumption, and that's what make things easier.

So when we got to make those decisions, it's always a collective bargaining agreement, and we, you know, whatever, whichever way it go, we all understand, it's all done out of love, so it make it easy, you know what I'm saying? And that's what makes us special, because, you know, you do comedy is you, it's a one-man sport, you're on the microphone, so what we do,

we show it it is possible to be able to have that type of camarader and still get the same product and the same result, even though we're doing it in a different way. And y'all trust each other. I saw an interview with D.C. was doing and he was just talking about Lowe's being the O.G. Yeah, without question. Lose being the lead.

I think the question might have been who's the leader. Yeah, he is. I've heard you say that too, Chico. Man, you know how hard that is for men to do? Not for us, because you've got to think about the place that we came from. Like, we all started with nothing. Every time we come to New York, me and Lose had this conversation about how he was walking around, sending $50 back home,

Western Union and washing clothes in the basement of the hotel. And when you have that type of vision, that's all you have is the vision at certain points. And he always had that vision to see paths wherever we were at in the moment. Always. And the biggest thing for me, too, I think it's because we was all broke together at some point. You know what I'm saying? And it was like, we had those conversations, those late nights sitting around. Like, bro, and I get some bread, we're going to, hey, we're going to do this.

For real, that's what you're on. I bet. And then it actually happened. So that was one of those things that really formed the bond, too. Yeah, he don't, like I said, he always had this. division. He was one of the ones that saw when we were on wild and out as great as an opportunity that was for all of us. He was always the one like, man, look, we got to look past this, we got to do this, we got to do that, we got to do this. And I say that because he's the

elder, he went through certain trenches that men fly didn't have to go. They didn't really even exist once we got in the game. I was, I started in 2008 and we was the, you know, the last beacon of, there he go. D.C. There he go. Look at his face. That nigga looks so mad right now. He's so mad. What's so mad?

Yeah, we was... We was just talking about just the vision that Lowe's had. What was up? DJ. Yeah. Division that Lose had just when we first were starting out to see past the moments that we were at and, you know, have the vision to understand

that this was the direction to go in, you know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah, for sure, man. Oh, G. had the vision. You dig what I'm saying? Like, since day one. He just jumped right. I didn't know exactly what we're talking about. I mean, I mean,

Hey, Ray Allen and telling me I was wearing Gucci, though, bro. I ain't got no Gucci. You wouldn't have bought nothing either way. That's what I'm talking about. Only time you, only time you're bad, shut up, nigger. By the way, you're about to try to chastise. You're talking about, yeah, we don't care

about that. You spend $30,000 a week on skin care routine. The shit worked. He said work. The shit worked. Over the year? That shit coming along My boy

That ain't gonna look You don't look like an orange No more Yeah He looked like One of them orange That's been sitting on the table For years

That's what it used to look like All the way No man O'GJ I always had the vision You dig what I'm saying Like I think that would It comes down to

Like if you got something going on And you know you need help You feel what I'm saying And then not all of that The dudes you ask For help from They need help

you feel me it's a it's a group collective and I think that's what you know what I'm saying us as black folk don't do together bro we don't come together and ask for help like asking for help thinking like you belittling yourself or you like I don't need a nigga bro we need each other bro and at the end of the day we can grow together bro that's that's the only way we can go to the next step quicker you know what I'm saying without you trying to do it by yourself I mean we all can do things by ourselves but you see as a collective when we do things together it's like effortlessly you feel I'm saying so what's been the biggest lesson in ownership y'all had to learn the hard way

niggas don't want to fuck with niggas that own shit damn yeah yeah because you take away the the negotiation power from people when you own your product you know what I'm saying people can't come and give you you know give you terms and conditions that you have to adhere to because you need them you know I'm saying and in a lot of times in this industry people are especially the powers that be they used to you being you know in need you know I'm saying and they used to being able to throw anything at you and you'll take it because you don't know no better but when you own it gives you a level of freedom that you don't have to worry about certain types of things happening in your negotiations or dealing with certain types of people

and being able to walk away from money being able to say no everybody thinks that the opportunity is attached to a dollar but a lot of times it's not but you're not able to see that if you got to get the dollar you know what I'm saying they got to handle you way different when they know you don't need it like when you said it don't matter the money sometimes you're like no I'm cool then they were like well why why don't what you want nothing i just i don't see what you what you see what you what you need me for what you think where we're going yeah it's way different when you when you can say no sometimes and sometimes they also think that somebody's already behind you already right you know what I'm saying like they just swore we always

work for somebody since day one not knowing that we start this from the ground up trying to figure it out and I think that it's a difference between when you got people that putting the money behind you and then we used our own money you see what I'm saying like we can't mess up nobody else money we don't mess up a lot of our money you know what I mean we don't mess up a lot of our money but I think that's the the growing pain that's what comes with understanding like you know what the mistakes ain't mistakes to us the mistakes are learning lessons so every mistake we had we just figure out oh you know what let's just do something

different then versus we got an answer to somebody but like well why that didn't work then oh my when we don't see the vision or all right season two council like man we've been doing this in 2015 yeah we took our bumps with our own money so then when we did get some of their money we had already went through the errors and

it worked out yeah it's a lot less pressure not having to recoup somebody else's bread what is you talking about so you can get paid first when you use your own bread you ain't got to pay nobody back I was wondering you know you guys are rokes anybody anytime anywhere any place it depends who got the most sensitive when it

depends for real DC? Yeah it depends See, I use that as a defense mechanism. They ain't just like, I'm just waking up like, you know, I want to get on somebody a nerd today. No, it ain't that. You're going to say something to me? I got something bad. Like, this is my twin brother.

This has always been my twin brother since the day of time, but it's just like. It's my uncle. That's your uncle. That's your uncle. I was my uncle ever before. I think when you got married, that's when you got uncle. Yeah, you became all of an old. Yeah, she became.

Yeah, she married. She's married. She's married. She got the ring. She got the ring on. She was married. Yeah, she was married. Yeah, she's married.

Yeah, she got married. She ain't inviting none of us to the ceremony. I'll tell you that much. It was quit. It would quit. She didn't even know. She just woke up. For real.

Oh, my God. You're all so fucking stupid. But did anybody get super duper sensitive? He was like, let's leave him alone. Did that ever happen? Well, when you roasted somebody, whether it was impersonal. You know who got the most sensitive. You, nigga.

You're a moly, but you don't ever do it. front of us, but you and Azilia Banks. Not me. Yeah, yeah. You've been that. You know, he's going to be mad. They always roast me. Yeah, DJ Envy. Is that just like your voice? Like, did you perfect? It only get high pitch when you're all coming around. Like, you don't answer to the phone

like that? No. No. Yo, Charlemagne, what do you want? This doesn't sound like a Nintendo Wii character. DJ Indy. What do you want? I ain't talking about. Nobody gets... I don't know. I think it's the way that we do. We don't never try to, it ain't never from like vicious. Not malicious.

You know what I'm saying? It's something that there, even when we do roast people, it's still something that even the people we roasting can laugh at. Because they're like, we don't try to just go for what's obvious. You know what I'm saying? Like, it ain't just the most messed up person. Sometimes we want to find somebody who you can tell when they think they like, they can't say nothing about me.

That's when you really can cook. You feel me? I think the bad part is like, we also have a connection. You did what I'm saying? Like, we don't have to say nothing. it's been plenty of time but we never had to say nothing but we understood exactly like

the look the little gesture that we did you were like you caught that we don't have plenty of people on the show where we were like oh these folks lame and hair for real in real life but we'll catch it

and we'll just look at each other and it'd be just hilarious man I'm talking about they only know what we're laughing at like what y'all laughing at nigga you what's funny you

you're funny you're your whole entourage man the thing I like about y'all though y'all all are still honest because I feel like we live in this era where it's a lot of fake real talk out here like people just saying things to go by or saying things what they think sound good how do y'all stay grounded in truth while still keeping it funny I mean you think I think it's just the era we come from and the environment we come from we all from different places but we really from the same exact place we all come from the same type of environment and when you come out of that environment you feel a certain connection to the truth because that's really all you have to live on. And then you judged on that when you come from the places we come from. So being in this era, like you said, with the fake real talk, that don't really apply to us because we know that the people that are watching us are looking to us to be able to confirm that what they feel is accurate.

And we owe that to the people that support us. We owe it to ourselves first. So it's just important for us to always be able to say whatever it is that's on our minds freely without having to worry about any backlash because at the end of the day, that's all you have is your, you know, your balls and your word. like Scott Faye said. I like that fake real talk. Really?

Yeah, when people say like fake deep stuff and they put the little soft music behind it. That's some of the best motivation right there. And like they'll slow the clip down. You know, sometimes you've got to love yourself first before you can love anything else second. Then they put the little piano behind the chance of a little clip to the black. That'd be the most cheap motherfucker on the home planet.

I follow that page with all that little fake motivation. I love it. I feel like, you know, I guess the fake real. talk is comes from the masses who would never have said nothing back in the day anyway. You know, social media done enhanced on so much

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now. And it's like the old norm is becoming weird or strange. You see what I'm saying? But I think comedy still has that effect. Like you have to be honest. No matter. You know what? It gives us a better feeling because now it tends everybody else like, well, we can't say that.

You'd be like, why? Who's going to get mad? The fake real people. said earlier you can't they can't say they can't see when you when you under somebody and you work for somebody and you got interests and you got stuff to lose right the only way you're keeping it is by keeping this job you do kind of have to filter yourself there's a lot of things that can't be said and a lot of people who can't say them corporate complacency that's what that is you know you get that corporate money you get them corporate people behind you got to be complacent

with the money because once they tell you what you can and can't say that's your that's what it is but nine times out of ten you're talking about them anyway yeah I think it's because people, I honestly think it's because people can't fight. I think that a lot of you're not going to walk up on me. You're not getting in between three feet saying none of that shit you just said. A lot of times people think it's corporate. It's like, no, he just don't want no problems. He just don't want no problem.

I was going to ask, the success feel better when a lot of people doubted all of y'all, right? When they doubted you at first. I remember when you first came out, they was like, we don't understand what he's saying this. For sure, for sure. I remember that shit verbatim. For sure, for sure. When he was on MTV on Uncommon Sense, the ex was like, we don't even understand what he's saying.

Nick said that at the audition. He was like, I don't know what you said, but it's funny. I was like, thank you. You know, because after this, I'm back to selling crack. Do you're stupid? Does the success feel better when people have doubted so much? Does it feel better? I want to say it feel better.

I think the proven people wrong part just feel good. You know what I'm saying? Because I think everybody in here can contest it is you always won't support. You know, and they don't want to grow up and be like, damn, why don't you don't see the good in me? you see what I'm saying like I ain't never no bad person it just when you prove people wrong it'd be like that feeling it's kind of just like you know what I'm saying it just it feels great but I don't think the the doubting part you know what I mean I mean I think so better but I always

show love because I don't never want to be somebody's reason you know what I'm saying when somebody be like yeah I tried to play my music for loads and then he shitted on me and then that motivated me to go back and now I got these hit I'll never like the teacher that told me you You weren't going to never, like every rapper got that teacher that told them they wasn't going to be shit when they was in school. That's a goddamn lot. That's a lot. All those teachers are supposed to be able to be shit.

They're a lot. That's a lie. Those teachers are going to be telling them students that. That lady asked that boy to read out loud. He got nervous in front of the class and messed up. And then they heard his feeling. But I think success is subjective. You know what I mean, everybody's definition of what success is is different.

But I know for us, like, we didn't beat the game so many times in comparison of what we were supposed to be. So you can't really look at it from what people think you're supposed to have. You know what I'm saying? Like, I think it feels good just to know that the trajectory of what brothers like us were supposed to be for us to be so many light years away from that. And ahead of that, that's success. So it's really nothing anybody can say to make you feel bad when you beat the game the way that we have.

And we keep doing it. You got to get that out the way early, bro. Wait, once you get to a certain level of your career, you can't be focused on the people who don't like you and don't love your other people. who get on your page and call you ugly because those not the people who put you in the position that you're in anyway. You get what I'm saying?

Like, that's why we call live fans the 85% is, not the 100% because everybody ain't going to never like it. Don't matter how good it is. You know what I mean? Nobody's going to always support the greatness or they want to see you on that platform. There's some people who hope we fall out. I'm just saying the longevity right now.

We're just worrying about longevity now. How long can we do it for y'all though? Because y'all, y'all lane, y'all got your own lane. Like, there's literally nobody in your lane. There's nobody doing what it is that y'all do. Do you understand the lane started as a little path that we cut? Absolutely. Behind the real path, and then we came through with some dirt.

For sure. Then we came behind it with a little gravel. Now we're coming through. It's concrete. Did you see that, when you launched the podcast and you said, you know, I want to get Chico, I want to get D.C. to do the podcast. Did you see this turning into the empire that's become? Yeah, that's why if you go back to the early episode,

when it was just us in the studio, with me and Chico and D.C., and then we always would say, hey, man, this is who the podcast for. This is for the podcast who, this podcast right here is for white women with black kids who don't know how to do their hair. Or, you know, this, this for everybody who ever had to use Vaseline is grease. You feel what I mean? So that's why we, that's how we did that.

So, yeah, I always felt like, I still feel like this is just the beginning. Like, we ain't did half the stuff that we know we're about to do. We got some big stuff coming up. I tell you who the podcast is not for, niggas, we got to get put the sleep to get their prostate check. Exactly. Who had to put sleep? You had to go to sleep.

You couldn't watch the game. What happened? You were like, you know what? That's not me back. Before you put your finger back then, that's not even how it goes. Yeah, I don't know. I'm talking about colonoscopy.

Colet. Ain't that the, uh... No, the finger's the prostate. Oh, okay. And that lasts three seconds. How many times you got your prostate check? He liked it. He goes air and weak.

That's a guy, man. He went for a vasectomy, it was like, turn around. And that's the long time I got it. You got a vasectom. I went to for the consultation. And what did they do when you got there? It turned to a prostate exam, so I had to go back. So you went to go get something clip, man.

You were like, you know what? No, I went for the consultation. And, you know, after they look at your shit and all that, and the guy was just like, yo, man, how old you? What did you? What did you get butt naked? What time? Tell that I was going.

They take your whole second stretch it, then put a flashlight up to it. They don't do it. They didn't want to see through it. it. I think they do it. I know they turned you around. Then they turned you around. There has nothing to do with that. He asked me a question and then when he asked me, I started hitting people to ask him, I'm like, man, is this supposed to turn it to a prostate

exam? Man, when are y'all having these conversations? What's the thing? Back in the day they used to roll on the, uh, roll on the in the school, man. They used to put it on the light. The projector. The projector. They put your balls on the projector. Put the ball on the projector. Yeah, we're going to need to check your prostate,

So you got something going on So they checked his prostate During that exam During the consultation I've never heard of that in my life Me either Not going to get the full Procedure

What made you want to get the You got to start going to real doctors man What made you want to get You already had all the kids and all that Like you wanted me to get one She didn't want them more kids Oh okay got you She's making you just cut your man

I haven't done it though Yeah Nah Be the man Be the man at a household Stop being a bitch Man That hell don't you

My man come to you Put you in the house, man. It's great. Tie your nuts down, nigga. Cut your nuts off. Nobody got time for this. Then you are a poodle. So what's the difference?

What's the difference between? The prostate and the colonoscopy? Colonoctin. Colony oxygen, but they put you to sleep. And they put a camera up your ass to make sure everything is that. That's right. The damn of the same shit. The other one that put a finger up your ass.

To make sure things are. And that's crazy because a lot of men have to go through that. You going. I'm nervous. Yeah, but you're going, though. I don't even like the doo-doo. What? why you don't like to do do you

because I ain't got time to be going back man I wish I could just pull my ass right back back to you know I got to

oh my god I'm gonna get one with you man why they beg up I just funny and shit I don't even like to do imagine wiping your ass

and pause you're pausing yourself I can't do damn DC yo what is it like watching the full minds um podcast

man beautiful that's amazing great beautiful just saying first of all just seeing black women flourish. Let's just take a pause for that. Yeah, without question. Just black women flourish and

and having kings behind them that's, you know what I'm saying, that's supporting and don't look at them as sexual. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's a family vibe. You do you know what I'm saying? Like, you mean, we ain't got time for all that. Like, sometimes men, we have to understand that we need to have relationships with women

without being sexual. That's right. Creating a safe space, especially as black men. Creating a safe space for women. And for them, too. To come and be secure. having to feel like they subjected to all the things that come with the stigmas of being a woman, especially a black woman in this industry. You know what I mean? We always try to make sure that our presence makes our women feel comfortable and safe,

that they can be themselves and not have to worry about getting judged or, you know, being looked at as objects, you know what I'm saying, and be able to really project their talents out the right way. And that's something that we find really important because talking to, you know, our uncle and everything, like, you know, she'll let us know that, you know, the fights that she's, we've been around. her for years like and she's had to push through so much just because of the type of person that she is and she ain't going for shit you know what I'm saying so that makes it very difficult for black women in this industry so we want to create an environment where we you know you don't have to worry about none of that coming over here you're going whatever it is you do that's what we're looking at you to do nothing else they just as dope as they ever were like they didn't have to get dope like I'd went and did the podcast with them a long time ago at at Drea's house they were just in the living room just you know sipping wine talking shit And I was like, y'all got something. And I know that y'all some attractive women, people are going to hear your opinion on certain stuff.

And just to see where they took it, it's crazy. That's dope. Got that fish. Money bag, money bag, mom, too. Money bag. Everybody's crazy. And that's the thing about when you said, the family environment, bro, we want to be around talent that we respect.

Because we know that these people have something different than just, you know what I mean? Then just being our friends, we respect the talent. that they have. We love to see Money Bad go on stage or Clayton English get to talk in, you know, deep conspiracy theories and then, you know, broken play and poor minds. So it's like, these are the things that we

want around us, people that we can have fun with, people that we can kick it with. And we know once they can get our attention because we're kind of tough critics. We know that the mass is going to mess with it. Do you all think cancel culture lost his power? Man, they canceled that. Don't nobody get canceled.

Don't nobody. I don't want to let me tell you something ain't no such thing as council culture especially when God put you on when God put you on can't know people stand outside the building and be like shut them off excuse me I will push you across the street

you dig what I'm saying like you can't close a door that God open especially because you got mad at something that what because you don't understand I think the current climate of the country doesn't breed cancel culture you know you look the president is. And I, you know what I mean?

It ain't going down like that no more. I think the, you know, the social norm of what is acceptable and not acceptable change with the administration. So it's a lot more things that you can say and do now because, you know, the powers that be aren't going chastise you for that. So I think that trickles down. I don't think it's the same no more. You know, like five, six years ago, you couldn't say nothing.

You know, you didn't have been canceled more than anybody in the country. So now I just think that the way that the world is set up now is no way for you to be able to tell somebody what they can and can. say you know as long as you're not doing them maliciously they should keep the council culture but it shouldn't just apply to like social media and like celebrities and entertainers they should start canceling the people who ruin in the country yeah right for sure that ain't going to happen they should because those are the people that's in control of the council coach exactly and call us you got a college hill season what's it I don't

know what season is you coming back for another season he graduated that's not another season I did this season as a season three oh so you already shot all that shit yeah we shot it Oh, I just saw a new commercial. Way to let a nigga know you ain't watching what we got going on, Shown, man. Yeah, damn, slim. Where's this man by some shit that ed last year? You know what I'm going to get in calling shit?

He's saying, nothing. They're getting his memory of race too. Speaking of that, I'm just randomly on Hulu, like, two days ago, maybe three, over the weekend, I'm like, Chico being L-O-L live. Yeah. Chico did that. Yeah, I was on your Instagram page. I'm like, talk.

I miss this. Yeah, I don't know how you missed this. You don't give a fuck. That's how you missed it. You don't give a fuck. You don't get a fuck. You don't get it. Yeah, I did, man.

I shot it last year with LOL, man, and it's dope. You know, I did it out in Vegas. And, you know, it's just a, you know, an introduction to what people who know me and know what I do, you know, have already been accustomed to. So it's just introducing yourself to a new audience, you know, and it's fun to do. Like, we've all done those type of things with people, you know, that's the beauty of what we do. We've been doing this for so long, but there are so many people that still get introduced to us every day. every single day. So you're never in a position

where everybody knows you. Most people still don't know who you are no matter what you've done. So that's just another opportunity for me to be able to put my talents out in front of the world and I'm proud of it, man. It was a dope opportunity

and shout out to Kevin Hart and laugh out loud and everybody that gave me that shot. He called me before he did it. He's like, what you think of? Like, bro, you better do that. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, because it's a great platform

on Kevin Hart, one of the biggest comedians that they ever was. He showed him to say, hey, I got something for you. I want to share my audience. and put you on this platform, shoot a special. It ain't even got to be an hour just to let the people know that you dope

and you're one of them once. He gave me the opportunity to do it when he first launched it. I got to be into like the first set when he first did it and it was dope and I still see those clips. Like it's, they shot it dope and it's just one of those things

that can live forever. Yeah, that's really what we did. And I'm gonna see you during Cousins Festival in next couple weeks. Oh yes, yes, yes. The Cousins Festival, man. The Cousin's festival. Oh, Jay, you coming, Jess?

Oh, it's fun, man. It's dope, man. It's a push-a-tee, and then in Virginia do it. It's a festival, they got an outdoor festival, then they got an indoor festival that's a concert. So they got Jeezie this year, T-Pain. What day is it? August 30th.

Yes, August 30th. Yeah, come through, man. It's dope. We did it last year, you know, and DJ Envy was outside. They got the DJ set. What are you doing? DJ Envy. Yeah, all of that.

DJ envy, all of that, yeah. Too grown, man, wiping his forehead during the set. It was just random, making him just coming up, doing it. Like this to his forehead, DJ, M. They'll pull his hat back and wipe his forehead, and then he'd go back to DJ. He was DJing. So that's how he's saying his name.

Was, ah, ah, ah, no. Yeah, then out of nowhere you did. He was planning out of a sudden you did, sir, follow me. Why don't you follow me? Who does it in a lot of? Where we all be free. You know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm like. He said a name and they wipe a hand. DJ Indy Thank you DJ Indy Stim Thank you DJ NV

Yeah, but that's going to be fun man It's going to be dope You know what I mean And shout out to DC too, man You had three outfit changes at the beach Man I'm listen, let me tell you something

man My man was the best dressed at the BGOW Straight up Hey buddy Hey that's all the coming for you Hey, man, that's what I mean? No, no, seriously, man, I was watching them suits.

I was like, look at my nigga, man. Now, let me tell you some, clothes might not have been the best dress. But when it come to suits, my daddy taught me well. He said, listen, man, you might not go have the Jordans and all that shit. But I'm going to show you what tailored suits. I've been getting tailored. You got to coordinate. I've been getting tailored since I was a young kid.

You know what I'm saying? With the vass, before he was cool to have a vass in between the suit. All that used to be country. at one point of time. So it was just like, when you get into these, you know what I'm saying, these certain levels of your career, you want to show people, you know what I'm saying, growth. You want to show people like, this is where you belong.

You want to show people like, all right, this is how you do it because you got a look. Yeah, I'm from the hood. We got a certain look, but I'm like, guess what, man, we can get clean. Dynamity. It's all about having, all about being diverse, man. It's got to be clean, and that's my element right there.

And I was like, you know what? It's time for me to show these for how you really do this. So every time I, if you see my name on any red car, you better come with it because your boy is coming and I got one of the best stylists in the world shout out the mo she'll go crazy she black it's really good DC did it the right way too when you talk about that because you've been you know you've been living out loud for ever so you went from fuck you mean what what I don't like how you said that living out loud people saw him grow up on social media

I don't like that I don't like that one yeah that ain't we're living out loud he wasn't doing that he wasn't doing that he wasn't As you think about it, yeah, that don't sound right. He was doing something else. But people start going to go from the fuck you mean to being clean at the Beatty Award. I mean, you know, it comes from just growth. Just growth, man. I feel like everybody just have to grow.

Every step that your career takes, understand your purpose and understand where you at. You know what I'm saying? Like, Jess, you probably never saw yourself doing this. But once you came, you understood, like, you know what? There's a lane for me. Let me grow here. Let me understand. Let me make my mark.

And when other people see your talent, your potential, you know what I'm saying? Even if you ain't already quite got it just yet, they still see it's something there. Like you said, we just got started. So guess what they're saying? There's something there. We're still growing and we've been doing it for 10 years. And we're not at the same level. And you know what they say it takes 10 years to be an overnight success.

That's a fact. So my last question. What does the legacy look like to y'all? Is it money? That question. We got to him. You got a prostate examiner a little bit. I'm actually going to feed the homeless right now,

but is it money, is it freedom, is it respect? For me, it's to pitch over the fireplace, meaning that you always say that. You know, because I look at life from a different vantage point. I've lost so many people. I know that it's over with for everybody one day. One day would be your last day on this planet with everybody that you love.

What do you leave? You know what I mean? All of this ain't for me. You know, it's for the people that's going to come after me. Like I said, I didn't beat the game so many times over. For me, it's just about leaving a legacy that is going to last beyond my generation, beyond my lifetime. You know what I mean? That's what real wealth is to me, being able to leave something for your people to not have to work anywhere near as hard as you work to get whatever it is that you received in life.

So that's what it's about for me, just being able to create something that's going to last long after I'm gone. Yeah, well, I want to have that legacy where you leave a bunch of bread and change the whole family history. Yeah. Like, you know, when your granddaughter pulling up at college, I'm like, you know, a granddad had that bag. That's my daughter. Generation of blessing. Yeah, that's what I mean.

And keep it going. And I want the family that had an education and the financial knowledge to take whatever I do and then flip that and then flip that again and then open some business, then put out of family name on some buildings and buy some houses and some property and, you know, get a little nephew or something that's in Congress. I'm trying to change the whole everything. What about you, D.C.? I mean, it's just to embark on everything they said.

You know what I mean? It's kind of like the same, you feel me? And also have a level of sanity with dealing with everybody's problems because figuring out who going to be next in the family it's kind of hard to decipher. Because this is a big job and it's a big, you know what I'm saying? But trying to instill those morals into them and understand that it's generation, that it's family.

That's hard trying to do that. the family that's broken you know what I'm saying so it's like dang what does what does it look like after me how long will it last so I feel like we work so hard just so we give our family time to figure it out yeah amongst each other because if you didn't break it or somebody broke it before you then you kind of like tap me to it to it understand what it was so you're trying to figure out do you even know what this is like you're just looking at me on TV do you you Am I just funny? It's ain't about me being funny.

Do you even know what God done blessed us with? Do you see it? Oh, I could just go by your car. Oh, I could just help you out with something right now. That ain't it. What happens if something happened to me tomorrow? Because we got it. But do you know what to do with it?

Put something with something. You got to put something with something. See what I'm saying? So just trying to instill those morals into the family is what I'm kind of like real big on. Hey man, quick question for you. Who painting styles P is Orlando Brown? You know that's Donnell Rawlins, too, right there. Where?

The one that looks like shit like that. No, that's Donnell Rawlins? Yeah, that's no shit in his head. Well, that's Ashley Larry. Ash Larrar. You see us, though? Yeah, we in there. We definitely look like us, but that's Orlando Brown.

That ain't Stiles P right there. You all remember who y'all was looking at in that picture? Something happened. My man from South Africa. Trevano. Oh, yeah. He said, you look like a mirror cat. Jesus Christ.

For 85-7 show, we appreciate you today. Hold on, hold on, we got two things to announce. Okay, okay. This is breaking. Come on, man. We just got the movie deal with Kevin Hart. Yes, we did. Yeah.

85-stop dead. Big show. 85-self dead. Stop playing, man. And we got a new tour. Spin the block. Spend the block. Spend the block.

85 south show.com or you can go to bm.m.com yeah you know i mean these are two partners right here they're black and you know what i mean they're black yeah they're black you know what i'm saying he ain't you don't care yeah yeah yeah he's all casting for this dead end what you mean gas talk that talk the i'm talking about the 85 south the dead end the movie the movie cast you're casting for it just come on man you don't have to audition unc come on that's what white people do when they don't believe in you they know what it is We know what you can't. We know what it is.

That's got a part for Jess? What? Man, Jess, everything. Whatever you want to do. You know what I mean? We just got it. We don't even know how it's going. Oh, sorry.

Damn. They didn't just handing me the date, so we're starting off in Detroit. What up, though, Detroit? September 6th, we're in Detroit, the 7th, Indianapolis. Then we in Columbia, Greensboro, Philly, Fairfax, Memphis, Nashville. I mean, Dallas, Houston, Hampton, Charlotte, Birmingham, New Orleans, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Atlanta. That's why you need somebody who graduated college on your team. Money, money, money.

What's the website? Hey, man, I don't like the way you just mentioned to that. 85tshow.com. Channel 85 on the app store. You can go to bmendshows.com and get tickets. You can hit the Instagram page. You can get tickets off the app. You can hit DC DMs.

He getting away tickets. That's what I'm saying. You and he on his shoulder to make shit right now. concert, four days in a row in that lounge. Shotta was down, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and the money. Who the hell do a show on Wednesday? Speaking of a Biont. A lot of people bought outfits for that concert.

They went crazy. And they don't have no way else to wear them. Wear them today to find cell show. Boots on the ground. Boots on the ground. Bring your fans and all that. And for those who are saying, while we ain't coming to this city, we're coming to a city that is drivable.

So get in your car and drive there. All right. We just can't come to that specific city. So all the cities we're not going to, we're going on the second leg. Right. We're going again.

For sure, for sure. Oh, I love that. Spend the block and then we might do one called the block was spent. Let's make it hood and say the block was spunt. Spunt.

That's not a real word. That's one of my favorite words that ain't a word. Spunt. Spunt. You never heard the dope boy say that. Why I spun that money.

Why I spun that money. Why I spun that money. What you spun that money on? 85 South show. You ain't got to talk like that. Talk regular, man. I'm sick of that shit. Yeah.

For sure, man. I'm getting done, man. Talk regular, niggler. It's the 85 South show. Thank you. It's the Breakfast Club. Thank you. It's the DJMV.

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