The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: 85 South Show Talks Ownership, The Art Of Roasting People, Legacy, Tour + More

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

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Starting point is 00:02:36 Don't stop that shit, man. We just got in here, man. Show them who we are, we are the Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building. Oh, guys. 85 South Pole. What up, what up, what up? Carlos Miller, Chico building. Oh, guys. What up? 85 South. What up? What up? Carlos Mella Chico Bean. Welcome, fellas. Man, whatever, man.
Starting point is 00:02:49 Why y'all got that freak ass picture of Big Sean on the table, man? I told you we got a picture of Big Sean. They keep throwing at me, man. He put it on his computer. Who keep throwing it at you? Why? What? He was asking. He wanted to know where Big Sean abs came from. And so they printed out a couple pictures.
Starting point is 00:03:03 You about to get this. I'm not getting no abs sketching man. You about to get a BBL? No. Don't do that Envy, you already rich bro, just get fat. That's what you're supposed to do when you get rich bro? I don't know why everybody want to be in shape. What happened to getting money and getting fat bro?
Starting point is 00:03:19 Well you want to live though, so you want to be alive, that's all. Aw man, get out of here. That's literally what you're do, get outta here. Just let me have one of them waters. Thank you. What y'all up here for man? I know y'all got your tour. What type of shit is this man? You know what? We ain't nobody got time for this man.
Starting point is 00:03:40 That is so foul. Man, it's disrespectful. What we up here for? Y'all ain't gonna let me finish. Y' in for? You're gonna be in for anyway, man. Well, like, I've been treating the guests lately. I saw the neon clip. Y'all have never started streaming career. Y'all are already blocked. The man shitted on Harriet Tubman, man.
Starting point is 00:03:55 He did. He shitted on who? Exactly. Somebody shitted on Harriet Tubman? That's what he did, man. Man, y'all listen, man. The content's fallen off. If y'all got to interview people that shitted on Harriet Tubman. That's what he did, man. Man, y'all listen, man. The content's falling off if y'all gotta interview people that shitting on Harriet Tubman. Y'all have lost your lustre. And y'all had him up here.
Starting point is 00:04:12 And then y'all, what we up here for? Charlie May invited him up here. You know, Charlie May. That's not true. What happened was he reached out to me to do his stream. But then he kept asking to come up here because he wanted to announce that he was leaving Kick to go to Twitch. To go to Twitch. I'm like, okay, we've had a stream up here before. DDG been up here because he wanted to announce that he was leaving. Kick. To go to Twitch.
Starting point is 00:04:25 To go to Twitch. I'm like, all right, okay, 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 even wanna announce it here. He was like, I'm not gonna break the news. I mean, we've interviewed people that are on the come up.
Starting point is 00:04:37 I bought this thing. We had Big Dank up here. Who was that? The Detroit rapper, you know, Big Dank. Oh, the one that had that lawsuit with the... Yes, yeah. You was on your flack? Yeah, Big Dane.
Starting point is 00:04:50 You was in Chicago? Nah, I was in Detroit working on my... Hey, you know what, see, man, look, man. You a terrible person. I don't understand. See that? He unraveling. You almost good.
Starting point is 00:04:58 Now you turn it back to his 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. You have hot flashes. Oh you're going through menopause. That's how it end here.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Man going through menopause man. But they end because they on tour y'all. I was about to say that before they came to me. You said what the hell y'all doing in the fed? I was going to say y'all like we just showed up on the track. First of all we love having y'all. up here? Y'all like, we just showed up on the floor. First of all, we love having y'all. Let's start there.
Starting point is 00:05:28 That's more like it. That's more like it. That's where you start. We love having Coles, Chico, and DC being DC always late. DC don't ever come up here. You know that. He always come up here. He on his way, man.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Y'all had that monsoon up here the other day. We all almost didn't get in. Y'all had the Ine Arms of the Angel. Y'all was struggling up here the other day. We all almost didn't get in. Y'all had to enter your arms of the angels. Y'all was struggling up here the other day. How do y'all like, y'all still like being on the road? Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:05:53 The road is where it said it's an entertainment, bro. You don't have to be at home, people giving you checks, eating good food, fine women. What's the favorite city? I know it's different for both of y'all. It's favorite cities, the hit. Wherever. You got a favorite. No, I don't,? I know it's different for both of y'all. Favorite city's the hit. Well, no, I don't, I mean, My favorite is whatever's so well.
Starting point is 00:06:10 Yeah, exactly. I mean, I love Detroit. I love Chicago. I mean, 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, Charlamagne,
Starting point is 00:06:21 like it's 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 gotta love it, because you get to do what you love,
Starting point is 00:06:33 and you get paid for it. It's a beautiful thing. How do y'all keep this? How do y'all work on material when y'all always on the road? Like y'all always out, whether it's together, whether it's apart, whether it's wild and out,
Starting point is 00:06:41 whether y'all always on the road. So how do y'all work on material? I mean, because you're always on the road. You see do y'all work on material? You're just doing what? 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. You know you perform everywhere.
Starting point is 00:06:50 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 wanna 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.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Plus when you're in different cities, you 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, it's been a block tour. That's y'all going back to the cities that shows y'all the most love.
Starting point is 00:07:19 It's kinda 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 here in different. Most loved places we had fun and places we just wanted to go back sometimes It's not just about the show is like sometimes the venue be hidden different Yeah, we you know since we 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 here They're doing big venues the out prefer the smaller venues because it's more in touch with people It's because y'all hop out in the crowd at times like y'all prefer the smaller venues because it's more in touch with people? Because y'all hop out in the crowd at times,
Starting point is 00:07:45 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's kind of still feels the same even though we in an arena because people still react the same way.
Starting point is 00:07:57 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
Starting point is 00:08:11 because it's always a different show. It's always improvisational. So we never know what we're gonna 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. Is it hard?
Starting point is 00:08:23 It seems like it's hard to do, right? Get that kind of intimacy in an arena? I guess there's a lot more ground to cover, but it's possible. You've seen how we do. We'll go all chico or jump off stage and run and be on the elevator. Be on the third floor.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Be on the elevator. And riding scooters to the 35th row. We don't care about that. We really just enjoying ourselves and selling these joints out and trying to keep the brand going. Chico, you already looking like Chico Lean, man. Yeah, man, I found out I had high blood pressure.
Starting point is 00:08:55 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 come in, you know you going to jail, that's how the black man came in. He was like, brother, I don't think they did a good enough
Starting point is 00:09:11 job of explaining to you the effects of high blood pressure is the biggest killer of black men. Heart attacks, all that type of, I'm like, well, what are the effects? He said erectile dysfunction. I was like, what I gotta change? I won't even need food no matter what. Soon as he said, that's all I needed to hear.
Starting point is 00:09:24 I'm like, nah, 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.
Starting point is 00:09:41 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, I was just talking in the green room, sugar is the worst drug in the world. Cause don't nobody stop you when you got it. You know, you can just have a plate full of sugar,
Starting point is 00:09:58 everybody be cool, you show up one crack rocker, what's wrong? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Crack disrespectful, bro. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Crack disrespectful, bro. You can't light up no crack. That secondhand crack smoke? Nah, don't do that.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Secondhand crack. Yeah, but that was- Let me try to steal your outfit. I just- I know, yeah, we, you know, Envy Lyskin, he been dressing like this. He been dressing like this since the 80s. He wanted to be in, what's that, Ready For The World.
Starting point is 00:10:20 Yeah. Y'all know that Envy audition for Ready For The World and they make it, but yeah 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 till you look at old pictures and be like, God damn, nigga was built bad.
Starting point is 00:10:37 But you know what I mean, the transition, I recommend all black men to go get their blood pressure checked, man. Cause it's very, very important and you'll end up walking around with one Jordan on if you don't. Man, listen, blood pressure. It scared me so bad when I seen them lose all their weight.
Starting point is 00:10:49 I just started losing weight, too. I was like, hey man, whatever it is, you know what, I'm about to do some of that. You going to the doctor, Carlo? Yeah. Okay. I got insurance, that's what you wanted to hear. Yes.
Starting point is 00:10:59 I got insurance. I root you out of the air. No, because, man, you get to a certain age, I'm 47 now, you got to go get. No, because 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 to heart attacks and what leads to strokes, the high blood pressure, the high cholesterol,
Starting point is 00:11:12 stuff we ain't never thought about. And you go to the doctor and you're like, what does that mean? And they explain it to you, it's like, oh, I gotta get right. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you definitely got right. You got right a long time ago, once you got that stuff done to your skin.
Starting point is 00:11:22 That's right. I know it's gonna be good. You know what I'm saying? You ain't bergmargung. Yeah, I know, he got everything taken done to your skin I knew it was gonna be good you know I'm saying yeah I know he got everything taken off man yeah he got everything taken off you know he got rid of all that, you know, he got rid of all that. He the first one ever. He look like Mr. Terrific from Superman. Yeah, you know what I mean? He be, he sleep with bobby pins,
Starting point is 00:11:49 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 very important, man. And like I said, black men for some reason, we don't like to go to the doctor and they just wanna keep drinking ginger ale and shit. Nah, go to the doctor.
Starting point is 00:12:02 The healthiest thing most black men do is walk to the store, girl. Yeah, that's most black men do is walk to the store, bruh. Yeah, that's it. What? Just walk to the store, that's all they ask you to do. This is from some ass. That's it. Wait till y'all gotta get them prostate checked, though.
Starting point is 00:12:12 All right, man, see there your freaky ass go, hey man, why you, come on, man. He talking about health, man. Nah, it's so much that you could've went to before that. You know what I mean? Wait till y'all get them prostate checked. Oh, it's such a beautiful experience, come on, man. You didn't get your prostate checked yet? He not that Asian. Nah, nah, nah, not yet. Have you? Yes. Prostate check on such a beautiful experience. Come on
Starting point is 00:12:29 Have you yes What's this? You say it like you do it on the record. I keep getting my check. Yeah. They say you got this 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?
Starting point is 00:12:55 I want to make sure I'm OK. I got to be healthy. When you're about 43, 44, if you got a history of it in your family, you're supposed to go get it checked. Yeah, I know they say you got to, to but you know, I ain't got there yet No, you got to Chico you got to you can't lose all right, you did. I mean, okay, I got you I one day I will and I'm not coming up here to talk to y'all They sexually assaulted you they got you on camera you went to a freak off
Starting point is 00:13:39 Holy bitches Assholid bitches Like problems making decisions cuz it is three all right and say if one of y'all don't want to do something how many of y'all, do y'all ever have problems making decisions? Because it is three of y'all, right? And say if one of y'all don't wanna do something. How many of y'all have to say no or yes for y'all to collectively agree or disagree on something? It ain't a whole lot of things we gotta collectively agree on. That's the best part about it. So sometimes we show up with two wrong answers
Starting point is 00:14:20 and the right one. And sometimes we have days where people just make their own decision. They're like, hey bro, do what you wanna 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.
Starting point is 00:14:35 We don't hang out at the same type of place. It's just, we got a dope bond where it's like, we just, we're brothers. Yeah, we're brothers and it's just, 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.
Starting point is 00:14:50 It's never public, you know, never for public consumption. And that's what makes 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 it's, that's what makes us special. Cause you know, you it make it easy, you know what I'm saying? And that's what makes us special,
Starting point is 00:15:06 because you do comedy, it's usually a one man sport, you're in the microphone, so what we do, we show that it's possible to be able to have that type of camaraderie 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 DC was doing,
Starting point is 00:15:20 and he was just talking about Los being the OG. Yeah, without question. Los being the leader. I think the question might have been who's the leader. And he's like, Lowe's the leader. And I've heard you say that too, Chico. You know how hard that is for men to do? Not for us, because you gotta think about
Starting point is 00:15:32 the place that we came from. We all started with nothing. Every time we come to New York, me and Lowe's had this conversation about how we was walking around sending $50 back home to Western Union and washing clothes in the basement of the hotel. And when you have that type of vision,
Starting point is 00:15:46 that's all you have is the vision at certain points. And he always had that vision to see past 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,
Starting point is 00:16:02 bro, when I get some bread, we gonna, hey, we gonna do this, for real, you got some chew 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 say, he always had the vision. He was one of the ones that sold when we were on Wild N Out, as great as the opportunity there was for all of us.
Starting point is 00:16:19 He was always the one like, man, look, we gotta look past this, we gotta do this, we gotta do that, we gotta do this. And I say that because he's the elder, he went through certain trenches that me and Fly didn't have to go. They didn't really even exist once we got in the game. I started in 08 and we was the last beacon of,
Starting point is 00:16:35 there he go. There he go. There he go. Look at his face. I think that boy. That nigga looks so mad right now, he's so mad. Yeah, we was just talking about the vision that Lowe's had. DJ, get this!
Starting point is 00:17:03 The vision that Loweose had just when we first was starting out to see past the moments that we were at and have the vision to understand that this was the direction to go in, you know what I'm saying? Oh yeah, for sure man. OG always had division, you dig what I'm saying? Like, since they won. He just jumped right in, you know exactly what we talking about.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Cause I mean, it's just- Why y'all didn't tell me y'all was winning Gucci though, bro, I ain't got no Gucci. You wouldn't have bought nothing either way. You don't care about that shit, man. That's what I none either way. You don't care about that shit, man. That's what I'm talking about. Only time you bad shut up, nigga. Everybody want you to try to change styles.
Starting point is 00:17:28 They got cars that work more than all this shit. We talking about, yeah, we don't care nothing about that. You spend $30,000 a week on skincare routines, nigga. This shit work. Over the years, that shit coming along. Ain't gonna lie, you don't look like an orange no more. He look like one of them oranges that's been sitting on the table for years. That's what he used to look like all the way.
Starting point is 00:18:00 But nah man, OGJ always had the vision. You dig what I'm saying? I think that's what it comes down to, if you got something going on and you know you need help, you feel what I'm saying? And then not only that, the dudes you asking for help from, they need help, you feel me? It's a group collective and I think that's what,
Starting point is 00:18:17 you know what I'm saying, us as black folk don't do together, bro. We don't come together and ask for help. Asking for help thinking you belittling yourself or you like, man I don't need a nigga. Bro, we need each together, bro. We don't come together and ask for help. Like, asking for help thinking like you belittling yourself or you like, man, 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 the only way we can go to the next step quicker.
Starting point is 00:18:34 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 what 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 Yeah, because you take away the Negotiation power from people when you own your product, you know
Starting point is 00:18:59 I'm saying people can't come and give you did You know give you terms and conditions that you have to adhere to because you need them. You know what I'm saying? And a lot of times in this industry, people are, especially the powers that be, they're used to you being in need, you know what I'm saying? And they're used to being able to throw anything at you and you'll take it because you don't know no better.
Starting point is 00:19:17 But when you own it, 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. 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 gotta get the dollar.
Starting point is 00:19:34 You know what I'm saying? They gotta 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 be like, well, why? Why though? What you want? Nothing, I just, I'm cool. Then they be like, well why? Why though? What you want?
Starting point is 00:19:45 Nothing, I just, I don't see what you, what you need me for. What you think, where we going? Yeah, it's way different when you can say no sometimes. And sometimes they also think that somebody's already behind you already. You know what I'm saying? Like they just swore we always work for somebody.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Since day one, not knowing that we'd 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's putting the money behind you and then we used our own money. You see what I'm saying? We can't mess up nobody else's money. We done messed up a lot of our money.
Starting point is 00:20:20 You know what I mean? We done messed up a lot of our money. But I think that's the groin pain, that's what comes with understanding. You know what? The mistakes ain't mistakes to us. The mistakes are learning lessons. So every mistake we had, we just figured out,
Starting point is 00:20:36 oh you know what, let's just do something different then. Versus, we gotta answer to somebody, be like, well why that didn't work then? When we don't see the vision, all right, season two council, like man, we been doing this since 2015. Yeah, we took our bumps with our own money. So then when we did get some of they money, we had already went through the errors and it worked out.
Starting point is 00:20:55 Yeah, it's a lot less pressure not having to recoup somebody else's bread. What, you talking about? You know what I'm saying? So you can get paid first when you use your own bread. You ain't gotta pay nobody back. I was wondering, you know, you guys have roasted anybody, anytime, anywhere, any place.
Starting point is 00:21:08 It depends. Who got the most sensitive when it came to roasting? It depends for real, DC? Yeah, it depends. See, I use that as a defense mechanism. It ain't just like, I'm just waking up like, you know, I want to get on somebody's nerve today. No, it ain't that.
Starting point is 00:21:18 You think you gonna say something to me? I got something bad. Like, this is my twin brother. Damn. This has always been my twin brother since the day of time, but it's just my uncle She ain't inviting none of us to the ceremony. I tell you that much. It was quick. It was quick.
Starting point is 00:21:50 She didn't even know. She just woke up. For real? I'm not lying. Hurry up. Y'all so fucking stupid. Did anybody get super duper sensitive abuse like let's leave him alone? Did that ever happen? Well, on 85 South? No, when you roasted somebody. to somebody whether it was in person
Starting point is 00:22:05 Oh, we've got the most You and Azalea banks that me I'm like, what do you want? DJ Indy. Is that just like your voice? Like did you effect that? Only get high pitched when y'all come around. Like you don't answer the phone like, no. Yo Charlamagne, what do you want?
Starting point is 00:22:27 This is gonna sound like a Nintendo Wii character. DJ Indy. What do you want? I ain't talking about no more. I don't know. I think it's the way that we do it. We don't never try to, it ain't never from like vicious. It's not malicious.
Starting point is 00:22:35 You get what I'm saying? It's not malicious. Even when we do roast people, it's still something that, you know, it's still something that we do. It's not like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's the way that we do it. We don't never try to, it ain't never from like vicious. It's not malicious.
Starting point is 00:22:45 You get what I'm saying? It's something that even when we do roast people, it's still something that even the people we roasting can laugh at. We don't try to just go for what's obvious. You get what I'm saying? Like it ain't just the most messed up person. Sometimes we wanna find somebody who you can tell
Starting point is 00:23:01 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 like it can't say nothing about me I think a bad part is like we we also have a connection you do what I'm saying Like we don't have to say none It's been plenty of time, but we never had to say none But we understood exactly like the look the little gesture that we did you like you caught that we don't have plenty of people on The show well we like oh these fo folks lame in here for real in real life, but we'll catch it. And we'll just look at each other and it be just hilarious.
Starting point is 00:23:31 They don't even know what we laughing at. Like, what y'all laughing at? Nigga, you? Nigga. We're funny. You funny. You funny. You and your whole untarung.
Starting point is 00:23:39 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 that go viral, or saying things what they think sound good. How do y'all stay grounded in truth while still keeping it funny?
Starting point is 00:23:56 I mean, 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.
Starting point is 00:24:12 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, like 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 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.
Starting point is 00:24:28 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 balls and your word. Like Scott face it. I like that fake real talk.
Starting point is 00:24:42 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 gotta love yourself first before you can love anything else second. Then they put the little piano behind it.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Change the little clip to black and white. That'd be the most cheap mother fucker on the home plate. I'm following that page with all that little fake motivation. I love that. I feel like, you know, I guess the fake real talk comes from the masses who would never have said nothing back in the day anyway.
Starting point is 00:25:15 You know, social media done enhanced on so much of foolery. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's no more morals no more, you see what I'm saying? It seems like the immoral is becoming the new norm 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.
Starting point is 00:25:40 You know what, it gives us a better feeling because now it tense, it tense everybody will be like, well, we can't say that you like why They can't say they can't see when you under somebody you work for somebody and you got interest and You got stuff to lose run. The only way you 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.
Starting point is 00:26:10 You get that corporate money, you get them corporate people behind, you gotta be complacent with the money because once they tell you what you can and can't say, that's what it is. Because nine times out of 10, you talking about them anyway. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:21 I honestly think it's because people can't fight. I think that a lot of people say- That too, and I know, motherfucker, I ain't finna walk up on me. Like, you not walking, you not getting in between three feet saying none of that shit you just said on the internet. A lot of times people think it's corporate.
Starting point is 00:26:33 It's like, no, he just don't want no problems. He just don't want no problems. I was gonna ask this, 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 daddy ever.
Starting point is 00:26:46 I remember that shit, bro. I bait him. When he was on MTV, on Uncommon Sense, them ex was like, we don't even understand what he's saying. Nick said that at the audition. Show me how good it can get today, God. And show the rest of the world what we already know. It can't get no better than being hella black,
Starting point is 00:27:02 hella queer, and hella Christian. My name is Joseph Rees. I am the creator and than being hella black, hella queer, and hella Christian. My name is Joseph Rees. I am the creator and host of Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian, a fully black, fully queer, fully human, fully divine podcast that explores society, culture, and the intersections of faith and identity. Listen to Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian to hear conversations about what it means
Starting point is 00:27:24 to sound the way you look. I think what I've had to make peace with is that every iteration of my voice is given to me by God, and I love it. Books that validated our identity. The library now for me is a safe space as someone who is writing books that they're trying to take off of shelves.
Starting point is 00:27:40 And how we as Black queer folks relate to our Christianity. Listen to Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebene, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebene, and every Tuesday,
Starting point is 00:28:04 I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that will challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all, childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles, and more, and found the strength to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential informant, but he wasn't shot on the street corner.
Starting point is 00:28:36 He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house, unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. The summer of 1993 was one of the best of my life. I'm journalist Jeff Perlman, and this is Rick Jervis.
Starting point is 00:29:07 We were interns at the Nashville Tennessean, but the most unforgettable part? Our roommate, Reggie Payne, from Oakley, sports editor and aspiring rapper. And his stage name? Sexy Sweat. In 2020, I had a simple idea. Let's find Reggie. We searched everywhere, but Reggie was gone. In February 2020, Reggie was having a diabetic episode.
Starting point is 00:29:32 His mom called 911. Police cuffed him face down. He slipped into a coma and died. I'm, like, thanking you. But then I see my son's not moving. No headlines, no outrage, just silence. So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A foot washed up, a shoe with some bones in it. They had no idea who it was. Most everything was burned up pretty good from the fire. Not a whole lot was salvageable. These are the coldest of cold cases. But everything is about to change.
Starting point is 00:30:17 Every case that is a cold case that has DNA right now in a backlog will be identified in our lifetime. A small lab in Texas is cracking the code on DNA. Using new scientific tools, they're finding clues and evidence so tiny, you might just miss it. He never thought he was going to get caught. And I just looked at my computer screen and I was just like, ah, gotcha. On America's Crime Lab, we'll learn about victims and survivors. And you'll meet the
Starting point is 00:30:45 team behind the scenes at Authram, the Houston lab that takes on the most hopeless cases, to finally solve the unsolvable. Listen to America's Crime Lab on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 Sonny Krak. Does success feel better when people are doubted so much?
Starting point is 00:31:11 Does it feel better? I wouldn't say it feels better. I think the proving people wrong part just feels good. You know what I'm saying? Because I think everybody in here can contest it. You always want support. You don't never want to just grow up and be like, damn, why you don't see the good in me? You see what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:31:27 Like, I ain't never no bad person. It's just, when you prove people wrong, and he be like, that feeling is kind of just like, you know what I'm saying? It just, it feels great, but I don't think the doubting part, you know what I mean? We don't want it. I don't know if it feel better,
Starting point is 00:31:40 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 shit it on me and then that motivated me to go back and now I got these hits. I don't never want to be like that. Like the teacher that told you you weren't going to be shit when they was in school. That's a goddamn lie.
Starting point is 00:31:59 All those teachers told me what to be shit. That's a lie. Them teachers gonna 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 it hurt his feelings. But I think success is subjective. You know what I mean? Everybody's definition of what success is is different.
Starting point is 00:32:17 But I know for us, we didn't beat the game so many times in comparison to what we were supposed to be. So you can't really look at it from what people think you supposed to have. You 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
Starting point is 00:32:36 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 gotta get that out the way early, bruh. 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 you or the people who get on your page
Starting point is 00:32:54 and call you ugly, because those not the people who put you in the position that you in anyway. You get what I'm saying? Like, we understand, that's why we call live fans the 85%ers, not the 100%ers, because everybody ain't gonna never like it, no matter how good it is, or you know what I'm saying? That's why we call our fans the 85%ers, not the 100%ers, because everybody ain't gonna never like it, no matter how good it is.
Starting point is 00:33:08 Or you know what I mean? Nobody gonna always support the greatness or they gonna wanna see you on that platform. It's some people who hope we fall out. Right now. I'm just saying longevity, right now we just, we just worrying about longevity now. How long can we do it?
Starting point is 00:33:22 That's easy for y'all though. Cause y'all got your own lane. There's literally nobody in y'all lane. There's nobody doing what's easy for y'all though. Cause y'all got y'all own lane. Like there's literally nobody in y'all 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 behind the real path. And then we came through with some dirt. For sure.
Starting point is 00:33:37 Then we came behind it with a little gravel. Now we coming through with the concrete. Did you see that, when you launched the podcast and you said, you don't want to get Chico, I want to get DC to do the podcast. Did you see this turning into the empire it's like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:48 you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:54 you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know,
Starting point is 00:34:01 you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just like, you know, you're just don't know how to do their hair. Or you know, this is for everybody who ever had to use Vaseline as grease. You feel me? So that's how we did this. So yeah, I always felt like, I still feel like this is just the beginning.
Starting point is 00:34:15 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 not for, niggas who gotta get put to sleep to get their prostate checked. Exactly! Who gotta put to sleep to get a prostate check No, the fingers the prostate prostate. Oh, okay. And that lasts three seconds. How many times you got your prostate checked? He like it, he go air weezing.
Starting point is 00:34:50 That's a guy, brother. That's a guy doing that. He went for a vasectomy, then it was like turn around. That's the only time I got it. You got a vasectomy? I went there for the consultation. And what'd they do when you got there? It turned to a prostate exam, so I didn't go back.
Starting point is 00:35:03 Oh. So you went to go get some clip, clip and you like, you know what? I went for the consultation and you know after they look at your shit and all that and the guy was just like yo What shit did they do what you had to get butt naked? Take your whole second stretch it then put a flashlight up See through it I don't think they want to see through it. I think they did. I know they didn't put it on a ground head.
Starting point is 00:35:25 And then they turned you around. That had nothing to do with it. No, 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 into a prostate exam? Man, when are y'all having these conversations? What was the thing back in the day they used to roll on the, uh, roll on the, uh, in the school, man? They used to put it on the light, on the light.
Starting point is 00:35:41 The projector. The projector. They put the balls on the projector. Put the balls on the light, on the light. The projector. The projector, put the balls on the projector! Ah! Ah! Put the balls on the projector. Yo. Yeah, we gonna need to check your prostate, sir. You got something going on.
Starting point is 00:35:54 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 wanna get this? Y'all see? Y'all see? What made you wanna get the, you already had all the real doctors, man. What made you wanna get it?
Starting point is 00:36:05 You already had all the kids and all that. My wife wanted me to get one. She didn't want no more kids. Oh, okay, gotcha. Yeah. She making you just cut your man a little. I haven't done it yet, though. Yeah?
Starting point is 00:36:15 Nah, I don't know. Be the man. Be the man of the household. Stop being a bitch. What the hell wrong with you? You better have pussy in the house, man. That's the end, great. All right, man.
Starting point is 00:36:23 Tie your nuts down, nigga. Cut your nuts off. Everybody got time for this. Then you a poodle. So what's the difference between? The prostate and the colonoscopy? Colonoscopy. Colonoscopy, they put you to sleep,
Starting point is 00:36:34 and they put a camera up your ass to make sure everything's good. That's right. That damn near the same shit. The other one, they put a finger up your ass. The prostate cancer and colon cancer. To make sure things are all right. And that's crazy,
Starting point is 00:36:43 because a lot of men have to go through that. You going? I'm nervous. But you going, though? I don't even like to doo-doo. What? Why you don't like to doo-doo, DC? Because I ain't got time to be going back.
Starting point is 00:36:54 I'm like, man, I wish I could just pull my pants right back up. You wish you had a self-cleaning ass, you know what I mean? I gotta go back there, too. I'm like, fuck. Oh, my god. I'm going to get one of them toys, man. I'm going to get back up. I'm going to get a scratcher shot. You know what I mean? That's funny as shit. I don't of them to you man. I'm gonna go do a scratchy shot.
Starting point is 00:37:06 That's funny as shit. Stop you're wiping your ass and pausing. You're pausing yourself. God damn DC. What is it like watching the poor minds fuck ass man? Beautiful. That's amazing. Beautiful, just seeing, first of all,
Starting point is 00:37:20 just seeing black women flourish. Let's just take a pause for that. Yeah, without question. Just black women flourish. Let's just take a pause for that. Yeah, without question. Just black women flourish and having kings behind them that's, you know what I'm saying, that's important. And don't look at them as sexual. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:37:34 Like, this is a family vibe. You dig what I'm saying? Like, we ain't got time for all that. Like, sometimes, me and 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.
Starting point is 00:37:47 Creating a safe space for our women. And for them too, to come and be secure. Without having to feel like they subjected to all of the things that come with the stigmas of being a woman, especially a black woman in this industry. 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 being looked at as objects, you know what I'm saying? And be able to really project their talents
Starting point is 00:38:11 out the right way. And that's something that we find really important because talking to our uncle and everything, like she'll let us know that the fights that we've been around her for years, 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?
Starting point is 00:38:28 So that makes it very difficult for black women in this industry. So we wanna create an environment where we, you don't have to worry about none of that coming over here. Whatever it is you do, that's what we looking at you to do, nothing else. They just as dope as they ever were. They didn't have to get dope.
Starting point is 00:38:42 I went and did the podcast with them a long time ago at Dre's house. They was just in the living room, just sipping wine, talking shit. And I was like, y'all got something. And I know that y'all some attractive women, people gonna wanna hear y'all opinion on certain stuff. And just to see where they took it is crazy.
Starting point is 00:39:01 That's dope. Not just poor minds, nabbed too. Money bag moppies. Money bag moppies. Everybody's nabbed going crazy. That's dope. Not just poor minds, Nave too. Money bag mobsters. Everybody's Nave going crazy. That's the thing about where you said the family environment, bro. We wanna be around talent that we respect. Because we know that these people have something different
Starting point is 00:39:17 than just, you know what I mean, than just being our friends. We respect the talent that they have. We love to see Moneybag go on stage or Clayton English get to talking, 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,
Starting point is 00:39:33 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 masses gonna mess with it. Y'all think cancel culture lost its power? Man, they canceled that. Don't nobody get canceled.
Starting point is 00:39:48 Don't nobody, ain't no such thing as cancel culture. Especially when God put you on. When God put you on, can't no 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? You can't close a door that got open. Especially because you got mad at something that,
Starting point is 00:40:13 what, because you don't understand? I think the current climate of the country doesn't breed cancel culture. You look at where the president is, and it ain't going down like that no more. I think the social norm of what is acceptable and not acceptable changed with the administration. So it's a lot more things that you can say and do now
Starting point is 00:40:31 because the powers that be aren't gonna 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, no, you know, you done 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
Starting point is 00:40:47 to tell somebody what they can and can't say. As long as you're not doing it maliciously. They should keep the cancel culture, but it shouldn't just apply to social media and celebrities and entertainers. They should start canceling the people who ruin the country. Right.
Starting point is 00:41:01 For sure. That ain't gonna happen. They should though. Because those are the people that's in control of the cancel culture. Right. That ain't gonna happen. They should. Because those are the people that's in control of the counselor coach. Exactly. And Carlos, you got a college hill season. I don't know what season it is. You coming back for another season?
Starting point is 00:41:11 He graduated too. That's not another season. I did this season. That was 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
Starting point is 00:41:21 what we got going on, Sharla Bam. God damn, Slim. He gonna ask this man about some shit that ed last year. I'm just randomly on Hulu like two days ago, maybe three over the weekend. I'm like Chico being lol live Yeah Instagram page I'm like talk. I miss this. Yeah, I don't know how you missed it. You don't give a fuck That's how you miss it I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like Chico being LOL live. Yeah. How did Chico did that? Talk to your Instagram page. I'm like talk. I miss this. Yeah, I don't know how you miss this.
Starting point is 00:41:48 You don't give a fuck. That's how you miss it. That ain't true, man. You don't give a fuck. You ain't got TV. Yeah, I did, man. It was I shot it last year with LOL, man. And it's dope.
Starting point is 00:41:57 I did it out in Vegas. And it's just an introduction to what people who know me and know what I do have already been accustomed to. So it's just introducing yourself to a new audience. 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 where people, you know, that's the beauty of what we do. We've been doing this for so long,
Starting point is 00:42:14 but there are so many people that still get introduced to us every day, every single day. So you never, you 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
Starting point is 00:42:28 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 was like, what you think? I was like, bruh, you better do that. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, because it's a great platform.
Starting point is 00:42:39 Kevin Hart, one of the biggest comedians that there ever was. Hell yeah. It's for him to say, hey, I got something for you, I wanna share my audience, put you on this platform, shoot a special, it ain't even gotta be an hour just to let the people know that you dope and you wanted them once.
Starting point is 00:42:55 He gave me the opportunity to do it when he first launched it. I got to be into the first set when he first did it and it was dope and I still see those clips. Like, they shot it dope and it's just one of those things that can live forever. Yeah that's really what it is. And I'm gonna see you during Cousins Festival in the next couple weeks. Oh yes yes yes the Cousins Festival man.
Starting point is 00:43:13 Jess is pulling up too. Oh you coming Jess? Oh yeah. Oh it's fun man it's dope man. What is? It's Pusha T and them 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 J outdoor festival, then they got an indoor festival, that's a concert. So they got GZ this year, T-Pain.
Starting point is 00:43:28 What day is it? August 30th. Yes. August 30th. Yeah, come through, man, it's dope. We did it last year, and DJ Envy was outside, they got the DJ sets. What are you doing?
Starting point is 00:43:38 DJ Envy. Yeah, all of that. DJ Envy, all of that, yeah. Two grown men wiping his forehead during the set. It was just random, just coming up, doing like this to his forehead. DJ Envy, they'll pull his hat back and wipe his forehead, and then he'll go back to DJing.
Starting point is 00:43:53 He was DJing. So that's how he said his name. All he was playing was ah, ah, fff. No. Yeah, then out of nowhere you just. He was about to do it, push it. Yeah, nah, for real. He was playing and out of a sudden you just heard,
Starting point is 00:44:04 follow me. I'm like, what sudden you just said, follow me. I'm like, what? Why don't you follow me? To a place where we all be free. He up there doing it, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, I don't know you. He's saying your name, they're wiping his. DJ Envy.
Starting point is 00:44:19 Thank you. DJ Envy. Stupid. Thank you. DJ Envy. DJ Indy. DJ Indy. DJ Indy. DJ Indy. DJ Indy. DJ Indy. DJ Indy. DJ Indy.
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Starting point is 00:44:45 Hey, that's all that comes from you. No, no, seriously, man. I was watching them suits. I was like, look at my nigga, man. Let me tell you something. Clothes might not have been the best dressed. But when it come to suits, my daddy taught me well. He said, listen, man, you might not
Starting point is 00:45:02 going to have the Jordans and all that shit, but I'm going to show you what tailored suits. I've been getting tailored. You gotta coordinate. I've been getting tailored since I was a youngin. You know what I'm saying? With the vest, before it was cool to have a vest in between the suit.
Starting point is 00:45:15 All that used to be country at one point in time. So it was just like, when you get into these, you know what I'm saying, these certain levels of your career, you wanna show people, you know what I'm saying, growth. You wanna show people like this is where you belong. You wanna show people certain levels of your career, you wanna show people growth. You wanna show people this is where you belong. You wanna show people this is how you do it because we gotta look. Yeah, I'm from the hood, we got a certain look,
Starting point is 00:45:33 but I'm like, guess what, man, we can get clean. Dynamic, switch it up. All about being diverse, man, you gotta be clean. And that's my element right there. And I was like, you know what, it's time for me to show the E4 how you really do this. So every time I, if you see my name on any red carpet, you better come with it Cuz your boy is coming and I got one of the best
Starting point is 00:45:52 Stylus in the world shot the mo she go crazy. She black DC did it the right way to when you talk about that cuz you've been you know, you've been living out loud forever So you went from fuck you mean what that mean what I don't like how you said that living out loud man people saw you grow up on social media say something else I don't like that one yeah that a cut off you living out loud he wasn't doing that
Starting point is 00:46:16 now that you think about it yeah that don't sound right he was living out loud he was doing something else yeah he was living out loud but people saw it go from the fuck you mean to being clean at the BET award you know what I mean You're doing something else. You ain't doing nothing. But people start going from the fuck you mean to being clean at the BET Awards. I mean, you know, it comes from just growth. Just growth, man.
Starting point is 00:46:34 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? Jess, you probably never saw yourself doing this, but once you came, you understood came you understood like you know what there's a line for me. Let me grow here Let me understand let me make my mark and and when other people see your talent your potential You know I'm saying even if you ain't already quite got it just yet. They still see is something there You just 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
Starting point is 00:47:08 And you know, they say it take 10 years to be overnight success. That's a fact. So my last question What does legacy look like to y'all? Is it money? Of course we just got in, man. I'm damn wrong. You got a prostate examined in a little bit. I know man. I'm actually going to feed the homeless right now, but is it money? Is it freedom? Is it respect? For me is to pitch over the fireplace, meaning that. You always say that. I look at life from a different vantage point.
Starting point is 00:47:31 I've lost so many people. I know that it's over with for everybody one day. One day will be your last day on this planet with everybody that you love. Where do you leave? You know what I mean? All of this ain't for me. You know, it's for the people that's gonna come after me.
Starting point is 00:47:43 Like I said, I done beat the game so many times over. For me, it's just about leaving a legacy that is gonna 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 gonna last long after I'm gone.
Starting point is 00:48:08 Yeah, well I wanna have that legacy where you leave a bunch of bread and change the whole family history. That's right. Yeah. Like you know when your granddaughter pulling up at college and like, you know her granddaddy had that bag. That's my stuff.
Starting point is 00:48:19 Yeah. Generational blessing. Yeah, that's what I mean. Generational blessing, and keep it going. And I want the family to have the education and the financial knowledge to take whatever I do and then flip that and then flip that again and then open some business,
Starting point is 00:48:31 then put out a family name on some buildings and buy some houses and some property and get a look. Nephew or something that's in Congress, I'm trying to change the whole everything. What about you DC? I mean, it's just the embark on everything they said, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:48:46 It's kinda like the same, you feel me? And also, have a level of sanity with dealing with everybody's problems because figuring out who gonna be next in the family is kinda 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
Starting point is 00:49:07 and understand that it's generation, that it's family, that's hard trying to do that when a family that's broken. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, dang, 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
Starting point is 00:49:29 If you didn't break it or somebody broke it before you then you kind of like tapped me to it to understand what it was So you trying to figure out do you even know what this is? Like you just looking at me on TV Do you is am I just funny? Mm-hmm? 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 buy you a car. Oh, I could just help you out with something right now. That ain't it.
Starting point is 00:49:55 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. Gotta 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 before y'all.
Starting point is 00:50:13 Who painted Styles P as Orlando Brown? You know that's Donnell Rollins too right there. Where? The one that looks like Shania. No, that's Donnell Rollins? Yeah, that's no shit in his head. Well that's Ashley Larratt. That's Donnell Rollins? Yeah, that's lotion in his hand. Well, that's Ashie Larratt. Ashie Larratt.
Starting point is 00:50:27 You see us, though? Yeah, we in there. We definitely look like us. But that's Orlando Brown. That ain't Styles P right there. Y'all remember who y'all was looking at in that picture? Something happened. My man from South Africa.
Starting point is 00:50:38 Trevor Noah. Oh, yeah, Trevor Noah. He said, you look like a mirror cat. Yeah. Jesus Christ. For 85 South Show, we appreciate you. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, we got two things to announce.
Starting point is 00:50:51 OK, OK. This is breaking. Come on, man. Bro, we just got the movie deal with Kevin Hart. Yes, we did. Hey! I'm gonna be the hero. I'm gonna be the hero.
Starting point is 00:51:00 85 South Show, damn. 85 South Show, damn. Stop playing man And we got a new tour Spend the Block Spend the Block 85SouthShow.com Or you can go to bmn.com
Starting point is 00:51:16 You know what I mean? They got two partners right here They black! They black! I love you see one white boy in the back but he don't care So y'all casting for this dead end what you mean? I'm talking about 85 South the dead end the movie Come on man, you don't have to audition Everything I know what you came for. I got a part for Jess. What? What can Jess do?
Starting point is 00:51:45 Everything. Whatever she want to do. I mean in the movie. You know what I mean? We just got it. We don't even know how it's going. Oh sorry. Damn.
Starting point is 00:51:53 They just handed me the dates so we starting off in Detroit. What up though Detroit? September 6th we 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, money. What's the website?
Starting point is 00:52:12 Hey, man, I don't like the way you just led it. Come on, snap. 85southshow.com. For sure, for sure. Channel 85 on the App Store. You can go to bmnshows.com and get tickets. You can hit the Instagram page. You can get tickets off the app. You can get tickets on the App Store. You can go to bmnshows.com and get tickets. You can hit the Instagram page.
Starting point is 00:52:28 You can get tickets off the app. You can hit DC DM, he getting away. That's what I'm saying, you and he on the Shutter Man shit right now. I was at Beyonce concert, four days in a row in that level. Shutter was there Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, who the hell do a show like that level shot it was down Friday Saturday Sunday any money Who the hell do you think about Beyonce concert a lot of people bought outfits for that concert?
Starting point is 00:52:49 We're crazy, and they don't have no way else to wear And for those who saying why we ain't coming to this city we come into a city that is drivable And for those who saying why we ain't coming to this city, we coming to a city that is drivable. So get in your car and drive there. We just can't come to that specific city. So all the cities we not going to, we going on the second leg. We going again.
Starting point is 00:53:15 For sure, for sure. Oh, I like that. Spin the block and then we might do one called the block was spent. Ooh. Let's make it wood and say the block was spun. Spunt. Sp-u-n-t. That's not a real word, that's one of my favorite words that ain't a word. Oh Say the block was spun 85 South show you got taught like that talk regular man. I'm sick of that shit. Yeah for sure man. This is regular. I'm getting done man. Talk regular nigga.
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