 J-O-Win, I think it's about time that you play me some pimping, please. Play me some motherfuckin' pimping. Summoned. I like that. Oh, you got some wings? Oh, what? You gonna go to the grocery? Man. No, go ahead. Eat your food, man. I don't think I can do this if you hungry. I'm dragging this right now. It don't matter. I'm hungry. No, man, you eat, baby. But we got wings, we got fish. I see. No, we try. Man, don't put y'all over here. This ain't the first time. Hey, man, you know how we do that. Can't catch fortune. I said that. That nigga don't offer his food to no fuckin' bro. Yeah, right. Right. Right. We done had 100 gifts. That nigga ain't never offerin' nobody shit. No, you appreciate any boy. No, he say, what it is you got over there? I tell you, he's on the wings. You ain't time to see something golden fried. You better say something. Come on. Yeah. I fuck with that J-O-Win. Yeah, my food, yo food. Need whatever you want. I appreciate you. Whatever you need. Y'all need, huh? Nah, we straight. Ain't no more. We finna have us a fish. You know what this is about. Managed boy, hunchin' behind the house. Yeah, hunchin' behind the house. That's that old school shit. We used to hunch behind the house. If a mama gone, go win, hunch on the couch. Love in her mouth. What was that really about? Then I got grown and start pullin' it out. Don't get too nasty or don't get too graphic. Because you know I'm black and they wanna see me in plastic. See that be tragic and tragic. That's what I'm coming with. I'm staying flippin' and gettin' up on that money shit. I came through and I'm whippin'. I got a dummy bitch. She be dummy thick. She takin' dummy dick. She's a crash dummy. She got that ass on her. And if you walk around, I swear you ain't gonna pass on her. She be thicker than the tension in the room. With a big booty and two big old booze. You might see me on the Channel 6 News. Just bein' a nigger, just doin' what I do. Like breakin' in the footlock or still a display shoe. Or gettin' to it in the lunch line. That's what a nigger do. And they done caught me with some drugs on me. And then they say I had them guns on me. The judge don't wanna put no bond on me. He leaves some info from my other homie. But ain't nobody gonna tell him shit. Don't be quiet and burn down on this shit. And go to court with the lawyer. Beat the fuckin' charges. And then take the rest and buy two piranha dodgers. Like a challenger or a motherfuckin' charger. I be ridin' like a motherfuckin' dodger. I'm talkin' shit like a motherfuckin' flop. Yo, you better get off it and go home, Roger. Nah, I'm thinkin' that ain't just this 85 South Show and the vision comin' true. Right now, shit, we doin' it behind the fence. But give me a little time. I make it all make sense. Ain't no rent, bitch. We in both the studio. And welcome back to the 85 South Show. That's just all that I just thought about this shit. That shit just came up. I felt that in my spirit. That was all right. Man, come on, bro. Let's go. Come on, man. Come on. All I'm comin' for in 2023 is what's probably already old to me. Right. Yeah. I'm comin' for it, bro. Well, I know y'all comin' strong in 2023. 2023, roundup time. This studio is impressive. I mean, y'all ain't seein' it cause y'all just see this, the backdrop and shit. But man, these gentlemen, this whole team that they got here, it's some shit. I'm havin' it. Now, this is all like Top River. Shit, you like this? I mean, man, what I respect is I'm seein' growth. I'm seein' evolution. You know what I'm sayin'? I'm seein' black entrepreneurship. I'm seein' black access. That's what we brought you in here, man, cause you are legendary. Man, I appreciate it. And then you're legendary. Some of the most. Appreciate y'all. Get ol' legendary shit. Now, everybody, I could name off... I told them over there. I told you over there. You the Black Forest Gump there. You always seem to slump on new places. It's great time. On his feet and in the right position. When it's all said and done, man, you gon' have... Hit movies. No cap. Hit songs. Hit TV shows. Hit TV shows. It's up. Nigga, I'm sure you done wrote a bunch of shit. Facts. Nigga, and this is the highest honor of all. This is how I wanted to introduce you to the 85 South Show. I appreciate it. Nigga, you so cold. They let you play Black Michael Jackson. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. They did. Hey, the man's song for Simba. Yes, he did. Come on, man. Nah, man. The song for Simba. Yeah, I know. Y'all know about that. This was the second oldest boy. That's right, man. That's right, man. That's right. We were only on for nine episodes, but... Nigga, they're nine episodes. That's when Brandi had braces. Come on, man. Brandi had braces. Yes, she did. Brandi, come on, man. Come on, man. Real observing. I remember that. Because I remember when she got the movies and I was like, I was worried about her. That was her. But she came out on time. Before all that. Before all the people in D.C. age bracket. Nobody look left. Look right. See that. He did all that. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Look at her. Come on. Yeah, man. Nah, man. Nigga. I love y'all. I love y'all. Thank y'all so much. Hey, to everybody out there too. Even before we start talking. Hey, man. Thank y'all, everybody. Seriously. Especially my community. You know what I'm saying? Everybody that I have kind of grown up with indirectly. In some kind of way. You know, people out randomly running to the grocery store, the airport or whatever. And people take time out of their day to stop and acknowledge you and your work. I know I'm not going to get the opportunity to meet everybody individually out there. So I just want to take this opportunity on 85 South. Yeah. Yeah. My favorite show. I'm so honored to be here. So I want to take this opportunity on 85 South to just thank everybody out there for supporting my career. And especially my black community. My brothers and my sisters. Because throughout this whole journey, y'all have stood by me, man. And supported me. Even when I've probably done some films that were bullshit. But my community is always. Always. We definitely. No. My community has always stood up for me and been down for me. So thank y'all, man. Yeah. Come on, man. Come on, man. Come on, man. We'll see. Let's take it from the top, bro. How did all of this come about? How did you start? What was your introduction to the game? Man. When did your people recognize your talent? You know what? My talent was recognized. I've always had a passion. You know, for people that don't know, I'm born and raised in Chicago. Shout out. Shout out all day. You know, I've always had a passion for the arts. I come from a musical family. My mother started off singing jingles and stuff like that. And in the jingles industry, back in the 80s, like late 70s and 80s, a jingle business, especially for black performers. What was her number one? Her biggest dream? Don't tell her you know some of the jingles. What is she doing? If the tribute to Dr. King, if we could light a candle, it was something that McDonald's did. It was their main campaign every year. And that was actually my first recording session. I was four. I was on the backgrounds on that record. And that was my first recording session at Chicago Recording Company on Ohio Street. And I was a little kid. And my mother's saying to lead on that. So that's what I came up under. Like, you know, my cousin Tricky. Shout out to my cousin Tricky Stewart. People may know his work. From like Beyonce with Single Ladies to the new one up. What is it? Something my soul? Break my soul. Sorry Tricky. Your cousin produced that? Yeah. My cousin produced and co-wrote that record with Dream. Shout out to Dream. Dream wrote that shit. Dream wrote that shit. And the other hit that she got out. Shout out to Dream. I mean, all those guys like, you know, it's my fan. Tricky's my blood. But Dream's an extended part of our family. But yeah, I come from a musical background. And so I just grew up looking at movies. And the E.T. And seeing Drew Barrymore and all them like little kids acting. And it just, it was fascinating to me. And I expressed to my mom, I was like, you know, I think I want to, I want to do that. I want to try that. And just, you know, based on the relationship she had been able to develop over that period of time and being in the jingle industry. It was kind of natural for me to start auditioning for commercials and stuff like that. Because Chicago in the 80s was a hub for that. Like all of the ad campaigns were created on Madison Avenue in New York. But the music and the energy that would drive people to buy the products. It was coming from Black. And it was coming from Black creators, producers, songwriters, musicians. Still. Still. Shout out to Burrell, Burrell Communications. For people that don't know that history, you can look it up. You can Google it. But Tom Burrell and Burrell Communications was the first major Black advertising firm in the country. And it was based in Chicago. Is that what Boomerang based off of? It might be. Loosely. It might be loosely based off. I mean, just the company, not the story. No, no, it possibly could be. Because they were the only Black advertisement firms. So everybody in Chicago that was a singer, actor or whatever, we all got our start through Burrell Communications doing commercials and jingles. That's how it happened. So shout out to Burrell. Yeah, and I definitely got to make sure I get him props. Because they don't get enough props. It's firms like that to where a performer is like myself and others. We still don't have shoulders, man, to where we could get our opportunity and where we could springboard and have careers. And they don't get the credit that they rightfully deserve because they were just doing their job. But now I'm in a position where I can give them their flowers. Like, I do want to tell them, thank you publicly. I hope y'all see this. So y'all know that people from the city that took advantage of the opportunities that y'all provided, especially young Black kids, like, we still here. So, man, thank you. Real shit. And so, man, from there, I started auditioning for, you know, for films and stuff like that. Where was your first film? The Long Walk Home with Whoopi Goldberg, Sissy Spacey. That's how you jump out the gate in your first film with the motherfuckers. That's like 91? Yeah, that was, no, that was 89. Okay, damn. I was 89 because that's when I do the right thing and come out. And we had all gone to the theater and see that. That shit was hard. Yeah, we shot that in Montgomery, Alabama. It was a period piece. It talked about the two families during the start of the civil rights movement and the Montgomery bus boycott. And it was a phenomenal film to be a part of because I got to work with Whoopi. Got to work with Sissy Spacey. And I got to do a period piece that meant something, you know, to our story, our particular struggle. And so I got a chance to like even meet people. You know how you have background actors and extras on set and stuff. So usually a lot of those people that's on set that's in these movies, they don't have a connection to the story that we're telling. With this film, it was actually women that were there, women and men that were there who were older, but they marched. They were doing the sit-ins. They were, you know, part of the freedom rider. So it was like I was getting the experience of being on set and training as an actor, but I was learning more about who I was. Like embracing my identity more as a young black boy that eventually is going to come into the world as a black man. So it was like this. My first experience in film was just this shit, man. It was incredible. Man, incredible. God's been good. What would you say you start seeing the early success in first, the musical to acting? The acting. And it was after... But let's see what I'm saying. I always talk about this. How did you parlay... Since you said you got the acting first, how did you parlay and bring the music around to your acting? I did it. All those opportunities as it relates to me doing music were like organic opportunities and blessings that were just brought into my life through God because there was a time, and see it's different for you now. And I love that because it's guys like yourself that in that regard who have a multi-skill set. It's still hard. But man, it was so much harder because you had people on the music end who were trying to discredit you and saying you're not really a singer because you're not devoting all of your time to this. But then you had people in the film world who weren't really respecting what you were doing in music because they were going, well, you can make so much more money over here. You just want to be a star and be on stage. And so I was always in this weird position of trying to balance myself within that and constantly trying to prove myself. And even as a young performer, you were already going through adolescence and your body switching up, your voice had changed. Well, mine didn't. But in most cases, your voice changed. So you deal with all these different insecurities coupled with the pressure of trying to maintain a career in both of these different genres of entertainment. But again, I give God the credit for that and my mother because no matter what, it was like she always supported me. So anytime that I would doubt myself, I get to that point where I get discouraged or disheartened. She remind me of who I was like in our legacy and the family that we come from and also reminded me too that, you know, me being in the business, that doesn't define who I am. That's just a part of who I am. You know what I'm saying? So I was able to in my mind put it all together and find a way to still be able to be constructive and like, and be productive and do my thing without losing myself in the process. At the Johnny Mercer Theater I've been having a ball in Oakland I love this goddamn city. Y'all got the funniest homeless people I've ever seen. I gave a nigga three dollars. He act like those were the three he needed to not be homeless no more. Soon as I gave him the money you didn't put me back in the motherfucking game. Niggas tried to whistle at me didn't even whistle just made the noise. Now if you come here, I'll ask you right quick. Johnny Mercer Theater February 18 at the end of the day Carlos Miller 8 o'clock is going down in Savannah. Hit the link get those tickets man you already know. February 18 at the Johnny Mercer Theater I will be in Savannah because at the end of the day you need to come see me. What's up y'all show girl next P and it's your girl Drayna Cole and one thing about us baby we gonna be outside. And we gonna do some karaoke. Y'all have been asking us for the longest to have a karaoke night and we finally got that shit together. And on top of that not only is it just me and Lex we got music so child too. So if you wanted to have your mommy and really sing in front of everybody and blow you I don't care if you singing juggling rapping whatever you do we want y'all to send y'all tapes in. Now there's only a few slots available. You have to be in Atlanta. This event is that City Winery in Atlanta on March 1st. So you have to be in Atlanta to participate. So if you're in Atlanta send y'all tape in we wanna hear you sing, rap, juggle, blow fire, whatever you do whatever you do we want to see that shit. Send the tapes in. And mind you this is a competition so me, music, Andrea will be judging you. And on top of that if you win you get a grand prize. So make sure y'all come and see us and even if you just want to come turn up come on City Winery. Come watch the show. Link below. See y'all soon. Period. What was the first track like when you finally displayed it and they started taking you serious as both? It was it was the Cheney record. No, yeah it was the Cheney record man. I wanted to say the Cheney but I felt like it was something before that. So it was the Cheney record because okay let me keep it real. In Chicago my city know what the fuck I'm about. It was a record that they played and they knew it was you and it got it was love ambition. It was love ambition produced by Keith Crouch and written by Rosson Patterson and Uncle Kipper. Shout out to those guys Kipper Jones. And that record was released during my ten year Motown but it didn't reach national ten year. I'm sorry. But you was on Motown but I wasn't on it that long. But what ended up happening was is that the record didn't really take off on the national level but Chicago because it was a stepper's record and it had that groove to it and in the city like we support our own. We may look crazy sometimes on the news but when it all boils down to it Chicago we support our own. So when that record came out it was like radio kind of got behind it but it was the people that got behind it and so when you hear Chicagoans talk about love ambition that's a very personal record for us. Especially with the stepper crowd. That was like my coming out party as an artist and at that time Chicago was the only city with the exception of like New Orleans maybe a couple others that really embraced me man and made me feel confident in my journey moving forward. We ought to throw a stepper's ball. Y'all should. That will be hard. Talking about like a stepper's ball. We can have the people who want to come like we can come and do like some sessions with like the stepper coach. But you can only come you gotta bring your own girl. Don't say y'all gonna do that shit. You gotta bring your own shit. Y'all got Chicago looking at this right now and then we'll talk about your way. The dance is stepping where you got a party. We talking about stepping. We talking about like no. That just goes to show how old I am. No. No. Like stepping the name of Lil. Okay. Okay. So that's a big thing. You gotta have your own partner. Like we not letting no singles in. You gotta have a routine. It's real classy. It's something that you do with your lady. You have a nice leaving it out. Y'all have a little matching suits on. You go dance and step. You got your fly gators on. That's real Chicago shit. Shout out to the crib. I wanted you to talk about Chicago a little bit because like you said it's so much negative press out there. Like they can put on for the city basically right now. Let me know from somebody who really from there. Let me tell y'all something man. Chicago in my opinion is the most beautiful city on the planet and it's not just the city landscape and all of that. It's really the people and especially the black community that exists there. The families on the south side and the west side. That's what gives Chicago its identity. Chicago is a working class blue collar town filled with people that keep their head down don't complain. They go to work every day. They support their families and they try their best to get to different points in their life where their view is being successful. But they're unsung heroes but they're not haters. If they see somebody else coming up and doing a thing and especially if you're from the city man you'll get the support. You'll get the love. And it won't be a thing where you have a bad trip. Like regardless of whatever it's going to be some folks still in Chicago that's going to play step in the name of love regardless of however you feel about them and that's your individual prerogative but there are some people that are going to continue to support his music and what he does because he's from the town. That being said there is a lot of violence that happens. There is that gang culture that gang element but I think we are getting to a place that actively is black people all over this country in this world. We're getting to a place where we're understanding that that's so counterproductive and it's so putting us further behind the eight ball it just doesn't make sense but you're beginning to see now a lot of the young cats taking more of an initiative to speak out to be more active in their communities like G Herbo you know what I'm saying like you see him in the neighborhood doing certain things shout out to Englewood Barb people from this city activists, my man Justin Morgan people that are coming to the forefront now who want to be leaders I sit on the board of directors for an organization called Hello Baby which is geared towards keeping the black family nucleus intact the headquarters is literally right on east 61st in St. Lawrence in the middle of the shit like where FBG ducking on them is from there's a community where we're promoting unity within the community especially amongst the youth and with single mothers and single black fathers so those of us who grew up in the city that know what it is know how beautiful it is we're trying our best to present a different narrative and it's going to take some time because mainstream media still wants to present a certain kind of story but as long as you got guys like myself and especially people like Lena Waithe who are really pushing the line you know what I'm saying we're like telling a real story like what y'all see on the shot that's in Chicago I know I grew up going to cookouts going to my grandmother house hanging out with my friends going to limbs barbecue going to heros chicken shit like that going to Markham skate and rink that's in Chicago I know I knew some GDs, I knew some BDs I knew some Latin kings and all of that but I didn't want to be a part of that so I didn't get wrapped up in it if you want to be a part of that you can find what you're looking for but if you cats like myself and many others that live there and that are part of that community who are looking for something better and looking to spread a different kind of message we exist man, Chicago is the shit man y'all come see us man don't come during the winter you won't have a good time come during summertime we'll show y'all a good time I had to learn at the hardware I went up there doing shows in the winter and I was like oh I know I was just having to get shows no I was looked in the north when it get cold now I know and then they come back and they hit you with the summer date and that shit is amazing when you go up there man it's a y'all tour too y'all really be out with the people so you can see how these different cities like they flow and you know they chemistry and how they react to you but Chicago is like one of them places nothing else like you posted something about Detroit like that you was like man if they fuck with you they coming up they coming out they fuck with you Chicago the same we were on the road that shit be amazing it literally feel like we from 20 different cities they're like the country people ask us like what's your favorite city man can't even describe it they in competition with each other they gonna out love them and they love y'all man it's so beautiful and I know y'all probably hear that all the time man it's really dope what y'all doing man we appreciate it family because you're giving people a platform you know where they can tell their stories and back stories like I saw the episode with Snoop man that was a great episode and see people don't get a chance to hear them snoop stories like that to hear the really easy I can't believe how much stuff that I hadn't heard I'm sitting here I watched it back and I was still like I can't believe Snoop ain't never met Michael Jordan yeah Michael Jordan gonna hear that shit and be like man somebody call this nigga bro Snoop out was on that road for 8 months that's it in my head I said bro he was with them for like 5 years he said bro I ain't know anything for like 8 months but they were so active because I was out in California during that time during the east coast west coast shit but it felt like it was going on forever yeah I'm sure it did man that shit was that was something like and especially a cat either one of those places like god damn this shit is serious you didn't learn all that shit I didn't know that's what they meant this is a true story so we out we out for the Soul Train Awards I'm on Motown this is when Andre Harrell was there so he was putting forth like this whole new media blitz to kind of promote him coming over to Motown so he had billboards and shit everywhere and when the Soul Train Awards came to LA he threw a big Motown coming out party like this is my thing I'm taking over the helm and I would never forget it it was in Sunset Plaza that little strip on Sunset Boulevard and it was a restaurant there where he had this party it was kind of like open so we in there in module I'm like 16 at the time I shouldn't even been in that shit but I would and I'm in there dancing with this chick or whatever stepping I think I was moonwalking I was still playing my Michael Jackson you know what I'm saying so I'm dancing and shit all of a sudden it was just this huge commotion you just saw people kind of like fleeing and going to all these different parts of the clubs I'm looking around and I just see like a red Bentley pull up and I think it was like a black Bentley and like Shook and I jumped out of separate Bentley's and they I mean they skirted past security in a whole night security didn't even they didn't even ask them what they were doing they were searching that nothing they breezed past security and they went around the party looking for like members of bad boy and like and looking for Andre and shit like that because that was during that whole that was at the beginning of the shit and they left you in there man my right hand a guy my cousin Kevin he was my guardian he was traveling with me at the time so we we both in the spot hanging out and doing our thing because it was a festive it was the soul train it's supposed to be fun the niggas came through there it's supposed to be fun but man they came through like they were pushing the line what happened I seen Andre and Andre I love you I just saw because we were laughing about something maybe five minutes prior to that but man with them niggas came through I didn't see Andre and I was like man Drake where'd you go he was like man I ain't fucking around he was like man I was out but it was one of those situations where I saw all of that like up close and personal like seeing pocket sugar real aggressive out in the LA streets with all the death row like all the pushing the line it was something to see but then it was also cool to see bad boy and what they were doing they had such a you know interesting energy like you know shout out to slim pickings all the all the cats in the Super Mario all the cats in the street team where they had to picket signs and they'd be going up and down you know streets in New York like a real movement like how y'all got y'all's jackets it was reminiscent when I saw that and that's why I was smiling to myself inside because I've seen that before I saw that with bad boy and that energy and that presence that y'all have just being young black and brilliant and creative and pushing the line like it was that that energy I saw too early on so I've been able to see quite a bit man you grew up in the industry but like me and Clayton was talking about earlier bro you got to tell us about your experience working on Thea bro nine episodes but this shit gonna live like you said that's one of the ones that the black community ain't gonna never forget about yeah man Thea was a I gotta say that was a great show personally for me to be a part of I won't get too heavy into it there was a lot of behind the scenes drama that went on not to rehash between like Thea and Brandi there was like a somewhat of a negative undertone as far as that's concerned but the experience of for me personally working at Universal Studios working on the back lot you know being on the same lot with fucking Martin where me and Brandi would walk down to the Martin set like on our lunch break and watch them rehearse to be able to like freely you know walk up to Universal Studios and get on the amusement rides hold on man y'all watch Martin rehearsals? real talk man we and then go ride listen I'm like die listen Brandi and y'all can ask her this when the fuck we gonna ask Brandi you come on Brandi come on I would love to see Brandi Hey what's up we're on Friday February 17th we're back at that 8 o'clock North Charleston Performing Arts Center in North Charleston, South Carolina that's where I'm gonna be at big city women take that probe every day at the same time 520th album 540 no matter what they had in the world that bitch coming off sitting in traffic ah shit pull that bitch out of the sleeve then the first thing they gonna do is scratch under that city ooh shit you know why they do that cause big titties itch on the bottom lil titties itch on the top so everybody in the chuck town go ahead and grab those tickets and come pull up on me at 8 o'clock man if y'all still pulling up around 8 o'clock we'll wait a little bit but you know it's black people time so don't even worry about it I know how y'all get down in South Carolina Hey what's up it's me Carlos Miller it's a new year so hopefully you're not giving out the old you that's right this episode is sponsored by Blue Chew Blue Chew is the unique online service that delivers the same active ingredients as Viagra and Cialis but intruable tablets and at a fraction of the cost you can take them any time day or night so you can plan ahead or be ready whenever an opportunity arises the process is simple sign up at www.bluechew.com consult with one of the licensed medical providers and once you approve you will receive your prescription within days so if you can benefit from extra confidence when it's time to 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DraftKings Sportsbook with code 85 South minimum age and eligibility restrictions apply void in Ohio I'll call it but what happened was we would have lunch breaks and the Martin said like you would come out of stage 5 I think that was our stage and you could make a right and walk maybe like what would be equivalent to like a half a block and it was Martin's stage and then we would just walk in because we were the only other black show on a lot so we all knew we was there together and they never hated on this like they would let us you know Martin Tisha, Tommy Godres his soul Carl because we all kids they'd be like man y'all go up in the stairs man y'all chill out and so we would see the Martin show like two weeks before that shit would come out so I would be calling these back home like man wait till y'all see this shit that happens how do you know that I'd be like you know that but watch this shit when Martin would say this so I would see and you know all of that stuff growing up and me and Brandi would you know walk back and just sit and I can't speak for her but for myself I would apply the things that I would learn watching them subtle nuances little things it wasn't like jokes it was a facial expression it was a mannerism it was the letting the joke live learning that chemistry of letting your costar have his or her moment learning that space in comedy which we all know there's a it's a dance and especially when you work and it's a beat so I was learning all of that and that was my college man was sitting here and watching you know them do their thing and they were so gracious I met Eddie Murphy there too when we did the he was doing Beverly Hills Cop 3 on universal and me and Brandi walked over there during our lunch break and they go down and I know the PA was like do we have eyes on Brandi do we have eyes on Jason do we have eyes on Jason they would know where we would be going because anything that was black that would pop up in you know and especially you saw Eddie Murphy and Martin and come on man that's my Olympus of black starter so now we going over there to study and you know I know where they are and Eddie was so nice he signed man I asked that nigga to sign 16 man sign this for my best friend my teacher wanted me to he signed it he asked all our questions and you know for me that was a lasting impression man that taught me how to be gracious like interacting with your fans interacting with people who are at Myers of your work like those guys taught me how to be a star because they were like they super stars and they still were taking the time to like so man you know what you want to do well how y'all like filming over there oh yeah okay you know like yeah man they were cool your little brother on theater huh your little brother oh you talking about his fame he had the worst haircut in black TV history that might have been that was one of the top three worst they still talking about your haircut man he ain't never gonna get some of that he didn't not choose that as a child biological father had a lot to do with that no he didn't he said something he was mad he had to be I'm sorry Brennan but I gotta tell the truth cause they do what you dirty out here no Brennan didn't want his hair cut like that his mom was cutting his hair like that and Brennan's dad he was a real one he was a nice guy but you know he's like one of those quiet guys like a quiet husband you should have let me cut it you would just see him looking at his boy and you should see him laughing inside himself like alright I can't oh shit alright now how the hell you get on smart guy first of all Ty just got damn light skin the other nigga is light skin and daddy is light skin and you was dark skin I was like how in the hell that happens now I'm gonna keep it real with you DC man that audition was flawless bro that's one of the ones where you just knew that audition everybody wanted to make a brother like you I appreciate it I feel like that shit you learned from Martin you we were two then bro I ain't gonna hold you shout out to Omar Gooden too man we would after work we would study other sitcoms and other performances so we would study Jamie and this is the work we were doing after work because we would go home we order pizza smoke a little something chill out you know what I'm saying and they would be like man let's look at what's on so what I'm doing so we turn on the show we study we gonna do that shit better next week we gonna flip it like this so me and Omar was like doing that all the time you know just playing with the craft just trying to figure out how to be better you know what I'm saying how you got young niggas that work on a jump shot and me and Omar would do every day after work we would just sit down and we look at shows and we look at different performers and we would just find those different things that maybe weren't in your face but they were subtle things that we knew that we could play on to make them our own right the best big brother I ever seen growing up it was like okay you got your little brother from the college school with you like he ten but it can't fuck up my cool yeah but how can I embrace my ten-year-old little brother fuck it not only that is he catching up to me it was a lot of shit as a child that y'all taught us as kids and then it was black fatherhood yeah black parenting man we didn't know DC man the kind of example that we were setting man just keeping it all the way a hundred we were just having fun and I think for me and Omar in particular we wanted to show young black kids who we really were versus how sitcom TV would try to portray us a lot of times like hokey and corny or you know having just some weird shit that they were saying in the lines we'd be like how the fuck they get away with saying that so it was like we were the kids where if they gave us a line and we knew that shit wasn't going to fly in the community we'd be like I'm not saying it like I'm not saying that bro like okay you want to get that kind of joke across why don't we say it like this and I'll give them credit shout out to Danny Kalis the creator of the show he listened to it like he went came down the wardrobe I was like man ain't no young black kid walking around wearing them shit on their feet I was like yo I need some J's man that's a pro kid I'll be calling up to Nike because they don't want you to have the little logo and all that shit they wouldn't want to have logos on anything they wouldn't want to pay for it so they'd be like man who cares we gotta be cool so like I need the Iversons before everybody else has them on the show let's do an episode how about this let's do an episode he needs the Iversons then they become one but it was ideas like that and we could toss them around and being that Iverson was such a controversial figure in sports at that time they were like okay you can wear the shoes you just don't want to do a lot of bigging up on it let's go to hip hop because we were introducing vernacular and slang we were bringing all of that to the show but it was still a Disney show so we just had to find a balance but thankfully man like we have producers shout out to Suzanne DePas who is my former manager Suzanne DePas let me give her credit right now cause she's another one that doesn't get enough credit some of y'all's favorite shows from the Jackson's mini series Jackson's an American dream sister, smart guy I'm sure there are a few a few more after that but Suzanne DePas y'all is a brilliant black woman who's been in this industry since the Motown days since the 60's she was the one that discovered Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 we have those shows right now that everybody can go back and look at because of her she was the one that kicked open the door for Tia Tamera and Taj and the whole Maury family she was the one that kicked open the door for me hey Suzanne thank you I'm just telling the people because they need to know your name there was a black woman that blazed that trail there was a black woman that blazed that trail what the hell that was after the Jackson mini series go to the Jackson go to the Jackson and he's ready to get there alright alright to play black Michael Jackson it was like honor but again that was another situation that God presented that opportunity because and this is just to bring up the thing about Lion King and I'll go back to the Jackson how I got that was I was shooting the scene the live scene of who's loving you and that particular day we had already pre-recorded it alright and all I had to do was just sing with the track but for some odd reason that day sound was down and I had to sing that shit live like all day long so man it was like maybe after the fourth set up shot I'm kind of exhausted vocally but I'm like really warmed up so I'm belting this shit out and we on stage and the lights are shining our way so we don't see who's out in the audience we just kind of see the cameras on the dolly but we don't see who's out there out there so we get through with the day we get through with that scene we moving on me and my mom was walking back to the trail and she was like yo you know who just came up to me and asked me about you I was like oh my she's like Elton John Elton John was just here he's saying he's doing some kind of movie with Disney he's saying that you'd be perfect for it I'm like Elton John the Benny and the Jets I'm like that guy and I'm sorry sir Elton but I really wasn't into Elton John like that back then I was a kid you know what I'm saying so I mean I appreciate his work now I love Elton John especially what he did for me he did but as a kid she was a major as a child I didn't know but she said he wants you to audition for this singing role and this new animated thing that they're doing for Disney called The Lion King and I was just like okay cool well let's do it so we I think two days later we wrapped the Jacksons and then Disney had took over everything from that point on like our hotel and everything and so I'll never forget man like the day after we wrap I went down to Burbank at the Disney recording studios that was another song I sang down maybe like three or four times they had cameras that's what I vividly remember they had cameras set up like this in a vocal booth and they were just telling me they was like these animated as you can like if you're just seeing it to the world so any movements you want to do like even if you're not on the mic just move around because we're going to put all of that in a character so I'm like I don't even make anything but I did it anyway so there's actually footage that I saw online where they showed me performing the song in the studio that day and that was one of the cameras and so a lot of that stuff that you see with Simba in the animation with stuff that I was doing Saturday, February 18th at eight o'clock we will be at the Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savannah, Georgia Big 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got really excited and this is the true story after I sang the song the producers were looking at each other and they were like whispering to each other so I'm looking so would you be able to stay in Los Angeles for a little bit longer I was like yeah sure I really didn't want to go home I'm just gonna go back to school so I was like I'll stick around they were like well reason why we want you to stick around because we think we may want you to do the voice of this character like you're perfect for Simba so I'm like oh shit that sounds kind of big man like 15 minutes later business affairs from Disney called back and they just closed their deal with Jonathan Taylor Thomas so the deal had been finalizing clothes but if they would have waited if his agent would have waited another 2 hours to close that deal I would have had that role so wait a minute wasn't your voice I was the singer voice the actor was Tool time yeah I met Jonathan and hung out with him on a couple different occasions because home improvement their soundstage on Disney was next to smart guy so like the voice of Simba was right there and then the singing voice sounds like yep that's what happened and then when that came out you know people didn't know that it was a black kid behind that voice and I wasn't really tripping on it because I knew that I was a part of it anyway and nobody could take that away from me so if we knew you were black it's possible but that just goes to show you everything is supposed to happen when it's supposed to happen when God wants it to happen because when it was finally revealed who the voice the singing was behind it the singing voice behind it I think it was more impactful at that time especially when the community was made more aware of it because this is a time this is a black renaissance that we're in now and especially here in Atlanta and you're seeing so many people emerge or come to the forefront that you didn't know were a part of these iconic projects they just seemed like it was kind of like a snowball effect you know of all this information coming out that our people could learn and be aware of so I don't regret it like you know my whole journey in this industry good bad or ugly man the journey has just been absolutely incredible I feel like we still got a lot more left to do but man what God has taken me thus far man it's just been nothing short of amazing especially a kid coming from Chicago like there's not too many of us that get opportunities like that you know what I mean man shit keep you a check man why do you get into ATL cause I've been wearing these skates this whole goddamn year you gotta do the American dream shit oh oh okay hold on and then we're going to ATL alright come on why you want to skate and I happen to get it together like Warner Brothers man y'all need to stop playing let's do an ATL too come on man stop playing man we gotta figure this out man we gotta do ATL too but anyway the Jackson's mini series how that came about real quick my cousin Laney Stewart another successful music producer multi-platin music producer was being managed by Susanne DePas at that time and he was working with like Aaron Hall and Chante Moore and Keith Washington's real old school R&B they were all coming up to Chicago working in his studio and so one of Susanne's representatives came up to Chicago from LA and I was there at the studio cause that's when I first started songwriting that's when me and Tricky were like first training him as a producer and me as a songwriter and I was like 11 years old and Ruth Carson that's her name she would come to the studio like he's always singing he's always dancing like because I don't know if y'all know this but we about to do this biopic about Michael Jackson and his family and he need to audition for that shit like I'm gonna tell Susanne that he need to audition for that shit so I was like man whatever out of all the kids that could play Michael Jackson they gonna pick me so I'm like man whatever she just talking sure enough like I get a call from my agent I had a local agent at the time from Chicago, shout out to Elizabeth she called me and said yo the casting director from the Jackson's in American Dream wants you to audition so come down here to the offices when you still had to actually go to someone's office they put you on videotape they have to FedEx the tape out it was like a whole fucking process so I go audition maybe about two weeks later ABC and the producers call back and said they want to fly me out to LA for producers call back go out to LA and here's some other real shit the minute I was supposed to audition for the Jackson family because even when you got to LA there was a round of audition there was like three rounds of audition that you had to go through before you got to audition for the actual Jackson family so I had to go through that gauntlet of just like stuff to finally make it to audition in front of them and so when I finally got there there was an assistant casting director who I guess that day had just been having a shitty day and she was just over it so she was just passing sides out to the kids that were left and so she wasn't taken into consideration the kids who had been told who they were specifically auditioning for so she had handed me some sides for like Randy or some shit sorry Randy and there's no fancy me but it was Randy Jackson he said to me don't let me make it no it was two pages of gauntlet and I was like I'm here to do I'm here to do Michael and so I'm saying that in my mind but I'm scared you're gonna say it out loud you're gonna say it out loud so I'm gonna start my first little brandy shit not real shit here you go no and there was a kid I'm about to go in there was a kid that came out and I guess he had a horrible audition and he threw his sides in the garbage can next to me I'm gonna couch like this with a mic side so I took him about a garbage can and I just started reviewing him real quick trying to get reacquainted with the dialogue and I just did like a quick jam crash course and then they called my name and I went in but then that's when they started asking me to sing and I was so like me and my mother rehearsed those routines so much man I could have did that shit in my sleep and it was like and I'll never forget I knew I kinda had the part sorta when I saw Mrs. Jackson smiling at me and she had looked over at the director and she was like he's good and so I was like okay cool but I didn't get the part that day they put me on the red eye me and my mother back to Chicago shit and I waited maybe about five months because Michael was on tour and then Michael had finally seen the tape and he made the decision to hire me for the role and that's how I got shout out to Mike so Mike had the Mike had the he had to make the final decision all three actors that played him the young one the middle one which was me and my man Wiley Draper got rest Wiley Soul who was Atlanta native who was from here in Atlanta he picked us like we were the ones that Michael personally chose and so you know all we knew we had to do was when we got on set we had to live up to his expectations because we were just on it like man if Michael sees something and it's like we gotta be on our shit and we worked hard I worked seven days a week on that shit willingly, voluntarily let me make this clear we technically only worked five days a week but the cast we all would get together on Saturday and Sunday and rehearse like every weekend no matter what and I'm talking about five, six hours a straight dance rehearsal in front of a mirror in the conference room at the hotel we were staying at and Bumper Robinson was the one who orchestrated shout out to Bumper but he was like yo man we about to be portraying the Jackson family like this is black royalty we cannot fuck this up this is like we cannot work this up so everybody be on your shit vocalize every day have your shit together and we were on point by the time that came out and we looked back on the work that we did oh it made sense that's the one that held up man thank you man man I appreciate y'all real shit that means a lot to me because I've been in this business a long time and I think you guys know from being in the industry for the amount of time you all have been in you all are vets as well you can kind of get a little jaded man because you go through so much shit you know what I'm saying leading up to whatever that opportunity is that takes you into your next chapter of life in your career and so when you get the opportunity to meet with your peers to build with your peers and they express to you how much they appreciate your work and that they see you that means a lot to me man because real shit I would be thinking about y'all I would be thinking about y'all I'd be thinking about who's the next generation like coming up after what kind of example are we setting like what are we saying because I want kids to come up after us knowing that they can do it but like man we got a real responsibility so now to have this opportunity to meet y'all and to build with y'all and to see y'all exceed and pass what we've done because honestly looking this whole situation over here man this is taking whatever ground work and foundation that we laid as young black performance man y'all taking a shit to the next level and having ownership in what it is that y'all do so right Is this this platform we cherish it because we get to sit here and have people that we're fans of like just to see that you say that it's like but still we had to watch y'all for us to know what the blueprint was like for us anyway you see what I'm saying and for us to been doing it for the amount of time that we're doing it and for us to even have people like you to come on and just hear how we make you feel we'd be really be like you hear what I'm saying you hear what I'm saying but we had to keep our composure but we love this job some month because it allows us to engage with the people that inspired us and we get y'all to kick it and we tell it and I'm going to say this too man you one of them people that need to be celebrated more man I feel like a lot of times just in our community a lot of times everything we celebrate is the negative and the worst of the shit they celebrate the fall off they celebrate how a nigga fell off they want to do what happened to the shit but talk about the motherfuckers that's still here talk about the motherfuckers I feel like it's more the game from somebody who did good business and did continually succeed at their craft than looking at the tragedy and travesty shit I appreciate that because there are a lot of us man who have been able to maintain careers without like you know what we discussed early we all human beings we all had our shit you know what I'm saying but we've been really really blessed in a way where the mistakes that we've made that have helped us grow as men we've been able to do that in private like without you know having social media you know TNZ people like that on your back where you can make your mistakes as a human being and grow and evolve so I was even blessed with that as well where you know my mother created a certain type of balance in my life where work was over in Los Angeles and we'd be back on the plane I'd be right back in the neighborhood like interacting with my friends going to school going to the grocery store having a real life having a real life and where I could see what my neighbors were going through and their everyday lives whatever struggles that they may have had and then that would allow me to look back and go man I'm really blessed man like man I'm getting on the fucking plane tomorrow to go to a place that man I never thought I'd go to to do make believe where they make fucking TV at that shit will blow your mind and it blew my mind man it's been such a fucking blessing man I'm just grateful man just grateful to God for everything grateful for the support from the community I can't stress that enough it's like what you said we live in a time where people kind of find joy in your pain or the struggles that you go through but I've just been really really blessed where with our community in particular it's all been about celebrating and acknowledging the work that I've done and like letting me know on the street but let me know on social media amen keep doing your thing in fact you know what I'm saying like black men coming up to me like especially with the shy like with the show on and all of that with the character that I'm portraying like I know a lot of guys like that back home whose stories never get told like that so I'm having guys come up to me and be like hey Joe man I appreciate you man cause that's how that shit really is you know what I'm saying for you to tell in a way you're not glorifying it you're not glamorizing it like you telling it what it is to hear that shit from other black men like that means a lot cause we don't talk we don't talk and even if a nigga like you he be like I ain't going to be fat I ain't no fan I don't want to be like no fan I don't want to be no fan let me get you a picture for my whole life you a fan it's okay so all you real niggas out there they even seen you in public man say what's up man but not only that it's history but even knowing that it's history just like you said miss what's her name Susanna for her to even put the things in place and we don't know that you see what I'm saying so it's like so when you hear her name you're like okay she's important she's part of the history she's kind of an icon out there and pioneer who we don't know about oh and let me tell you they know y'all though because the one thing about those pioneers and people like susanna pass who are trailblazers they always keep their ear to the street they always checking to see what the youth is talking about where it's relevant in the culture it may seem like they distant and that they over in just hollywood but not they watching because they're the ones that find that talent and go man they need to be on a bigger platform and so nah just and I want y'all to know that y'all know this already but man please know that the work that y'all doing and the platform that y'all providing for guys like myself for the OGs like Snoop man we appreciate this man because we don't get a lot of opportunities to speak to our community directly like that and give them the real you know what I'm saying and for black men to celebrate one another the way that y'all do us like man the world needs to see that so that's why y'all winning because y'all some real niggas with that shit well you heard him it sound different it sound different bro hold up we got to get to ATL please we got to get to ATL he got his case on man chillin with big family man none other than Jason Williams come on man nigga put your tie over then you need none of them J.J. know how that shit that's why he had I feel like I have the sharks out here too we do all of them at the same day J.J. Harrell in Atlanta you gonna be able to get at least two restaurants from wherever you from we got Harrells we got a few Harrells that'll give you enough sauce no one in Marietta do it yeah one in Marietta they give you sauce the one on Auburn Avenue they got their rationing after sauce look we get sauce I put sauce on you they try to do that thing they shot it at the ice bar at the ice bar they ain't really livin about the sauce no more sauce in Chicago they put sauce on your bag they don't give a fuck no more sauce everything you had to open that shit you just push it out of there oh you talking about ATO though I'm gonna let y'all go you gonna let us go I gotta get this out cause this is important Atlanta history we in Atlanta listen shout out to Dallas Austin let me tell y'all something about Dallas Austin for those of y'all who may not know know Dallas Austin is a mega super producer who has been producing some of the biggest records in the music industry since the late 80s going into the 90s he discovered Monica another vacation boys to men he was responsible for that it was a whole movement listen the face records all that the foundation of Atlanta he's one of the founding fathers he's there with Jermaine he's there with organized noise he's there with camp talk your La baby face who else I mean the list goes on and on but he's one of founding fathers yeah the reason why y'all have movies like drumline and ATL is because of Dallas Austin yes sir oh he had the crazies yeah he was he came to the night in Madonna's castle and a ghost was in there yeah yeah Dallas got some fucking crazy start man you told both y'all both y'all y'all running close with Dallas is even crazy now you grew up in the whole industry you didn't probably seen the weirdest shit that's true but Dallas founded a city he did he founded an entertainment capital like we all came down here cash them up north and like from the west coast of LA we all came down here because we just try to fuck with Dallas in Jermaine and organize nut that's why I came down here I was trying to fuck with them and like learn what this was and I knew that there was a component to this town where it could be a film in TV town but those were the guys I'd never seen that before I never seen niggas pulling up like young niggas pulling up in Ferraris and shit and you go into their houses and they sitting on acres and where they fucking houses all the way back there like I've never seen that before and so Atlanta opened my eyes to that and Dallas was like one of the first people to do that and like to welcome me and my family to this city so when ATL came up Dallas and I had already done drum line together right we already did drum line so we had had some success on the film side but ATL was originally titled jellybean it was going to be based on the story of Dallas like discovering TLC and all of that because jellybean was like where all of those groups went the outcast and all that that's where they went and hung out when they were kids you know I'm saying so we were trying to retell that story it evolved over time and especially with the studio's involvement the script adjusted but Dallas hit me one day and he was like hey man you know I'm doing another movie down here like you fucking with me because you ain't auditioned for it I was like well I didn't even know what was going on and that's when I got rid of my agent that I was with because this thing that fucked that up dropped the ball right so I called him I was like hey man they shoot another movie down here in Atlanta a big budget film called jellybean man and like Tim supposed to be in it and all these different people I was like how they gonna shoot a movie down here like that and I'm not in it and so they found a way for me to audition right and I came in at the tail end they hadn't cast Teddy yet they hadn't cast Esquire or Teddy yet so audition for Esquire wasn't really convincing with that one um but Teddy it was like I mean cuz I like to kick it with guys like that at 559 and 112 so you know I know what it is so when I auditioned for that role everything just rolled into place and it just made sense and man we had a ball how long was y'all shooting a bit uh two months but every day was a video shoot I should we live man it was lit I mean we had so much fun man to this day like I may not speak the tip every day I may not see Lauren every day I may not see Jackie but man let us run into each other in the street somewhere just some random shit right man we together for the rest of the night like we all became a real family on that show and we just enjoyed we genuinely enjoyed each other's company tip was gracious because you know I've been living in Atlanta for a long time but there was still some things I didn't know about it and in the rest of them they were all out from California shit right so they think of it after we get through rehearsing at skate town he'd get everybody in the car we would like go through the swaths we go through bank here he was like should we go down Simpson roll then we go to like Buckhead he would take us around the city so we could get a feel with the like what's going on with the people in the culture and the energy and just him being so gracious big boy like big boy would always set up where he had a masseuse come if we had like a hard day on set and we've been skating all day he would have like his private masseuse come and like give everybody back rubs and you can get your nails done and shit it was some player shit we had a ball shout out to Chris Robinson shot to Will Smith who was one of our executive producer he was one of the EP's anti-boss overbrook did it right yeah yeah James Lasseter those guys be more Charlie Mack was down here Charlie everything she got to she got a story to tell she really got to come to you I feel like you still the jellybean movies did need to be made fat that was my generation they got to stand when y'all made it look look I'm gonna take it back when they said cascade I grew up on cast I grew up in the cascade scary that's my shit I was the first young skating crew cascade ever had we don't want competitions I don't care what nobody said that's my shit okay you understand me first open up nigga dust used to be coming down in our eyes my nigga you know I'm saying we got shit straight in a bitch so when y'all came down they were like yeah they about to shoot a movie in this bitch because we thought it was our shit this is our hangout yeah we were like they not about to make a movie about skaters they like nigga they finish it's bitch down about two and a half months and we got nowhere to go so we was mad about not having nowhere to go but we was like we can't wait to see the movie cuz we want to see what type of shit they don't portray about ATL nigga y'all had skate crews who I used to skate with in the movie autumn nigga Mario the nigga who took took Lauren from in the club in the house party yeah I know that okay he was in there talking like he mad but it was like when that shit came out bro Atlanta was so we was excited and we appreciate the movie so cuz that's our shit yeah that's like whole world get to know about ATL so that goddamn movie and a lot of people in the movie theater resonated with you more so because you was in it who did it goes yeah it goes with the nigga at the time everybody knew I don't know what to make it goes to be yeah that's what we say you want to know we said I'll The rest of this video, go to that. Just in case you're wondering what we're doing, we are now showing you just how important having the 85 South Shore app is because you was watching this show thinking, oh, they didn't finally put the shit back on YouTube. They was listening, we weren't. We weren't. It's on the app. It's on the app. The rest of this, listen, the rest of the audience was on the app. Apple TV, wherever you get your subscription. No, it's not. It's just available directly where they sell apps. Boy, they don't sell apps on Apple TV? Well, y'all should fuck with us too, Apple TV. It is on the app. Don't say fuck nobody. No, I didn't say fuck nobody, I said put it, I thought we fucked with it. Oh, we do. I have full of real coupes. They're real coupes most everywhere. Yeah. So subscribe to the app. It's only $8.99 a month or $85 a year. So you get a whole year for $85. Did you know that? It's $8.50 and then you gotta pay taxes. Yeah, so, you know, it's $8. You know, we get them all type of content. You know what? We gon' tell them who you got your glasses for. Until they get on the app. I mean, hey, you gotta watch this. The app, the app is available. All of these people that say we should keep putting this on YouTube for free. What about the years of freeness that we've already provided upon you? We gave this away for free for years. Let's move together $85 a year. Why would you let somebody come invest in the show and put it on another network and you're buying their subscription? You don't ask them why you're buying their shit? So don't ask us. We're putting it on the app. Who's over the app? We saw what you said in the comments. We saw it. We saw it. The good, the bad, and the ugly. So you know what? We folding under this pressure. We hear you. We hear you. We win indeed. We'll just get the fuck on that y'all way. Just for an hour though. That's all you get is an hour. So though you can't complain about it, we're the rest of it. You think they should get 37 minutes? I don't see. We gotta hurry up. We just put a whole bunch of ads in between. Like long way in there, like five minute ads. Hey, how you doing? How you doing? Slow motion ads. Slowest doing now. Waste a motherfucking time. Yeah, let's just go ahead and make sure. Channel 85.com. I wanna make sure I read what they wrote. They wrote some shit out for us. These niggas don't know how to spell or type proper sentences, but they trying to get us to get y'all to buy the app. What you think we wanna read this shit? Channel 85, man. So we can talk that shit, man. Ladies, don't shoot like this. That's right. On the app, uncensored, unfiltered, and edited. Can you believe that? I'm talking about with actual production in it. Jump cuts, clips, all types of exclusive shit that they don't even know that we did. They don't even know that we got a show where we'd be cooking like, exotic foods and shit. That's on the app. Yep. Chico got a handwriting class that he teach. Nobody passed it, because that's why the shit look like this. But we're working on it, and you can see it on the app. They didn't even tell them about the tax course that we had uploaded on there. They don't even know that we got a whole show about Wall Street. And a $5,000 on the app. Right. And we got the arts in the end until the color purple up there. Oh, man. We got the raw dishes, all the uncut, all the bloopers. We got all that. Right, it's on the app. So if you want to see some shit that you know they trying to have from me, go to the app. I'm leaving, though. Channel 85.com, go get the app. You got an hour for free. We gave you what you wanted. Now give us some subscriptions to the app. We are going on the app. 50, 899 with tax, $85 a year. Channel 85.com, 85 Sound Show. Get the app. You see, this is what they don't know. The app, really $3, but adjusted for inflation, is 8,000, yeah. Well, low C, get the app, man. Stop bullshitting. We out of here, man. 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