 You know, before we get on to this, I'm just having my last little sip of coffee, man. You know, it's been so much black excellence coming through here, so hard, and so fast. Hold up, man. I can't, I need to, one more piece of rick for go. That lady made me drink that strong-ass shot. I ain't even had a drink. Y'all know I don't drink, but I can't be disrespectful. Land it up. We celebrating black. What? We celebrating. This is the coffee that's kept. Y'all thought this, what y'all thought this was? This is a celebration of black people being good at shit. Yeah, yeah. He's right. Correct. Y'all better stop taking this shit so seriously. This is us rubbing it in their face. This is our BET Awards, 365 days a year. I can't do this shit by myself. That's why we gotta make sure we do this shit right. J.O.N., I can't even see you over there, my boy. That's how much excellence we got going on today. I'm with it, though, I'm with it. Yeah. J.O.N., a lot of people ain't gonna believe this, but you know, I am a huge fan of artwork of all categories, walks of life. I like abstract monochromatics. You know, I go crazy for a good piece of artwork. I think that's where I'm gonna put some money in one day when I get real rich and old. I'm having one of them little monocles with gold chain on it and a bunch of exotic arts and shit. I'm all over the world, Brazil, West Africa, shit like that. International. But that ain't, that's neither here nor there. You know what this sound right here means, J.O.N.? What that name is? You see how long I ring the bell? That's cause the money long. They let you know that it's money in the field, man. Welcome back to the black market. None other than your man Carlos Miller and you see what we owe today. As we're walking through the black market, we just so happen to walk through the art department. Now you're gonna look at the wall and see, we got all kinds of art from all over the world that's been sent in, blown in, drove in, hand delivered, by all kinds of people from all kinds of different walks of life and it's all different and that's the beauty of art that is all interpretation. And today, we got a cold one in here with us today, y'all. Right here from Atlanta, you see what he doing. You see what he doing. He got the 85 South Shore cold shit. I was high in that, I was high right there. I know where he got the inspiration from. Down to the details, look how big that bag of weed on the couch is. You even put the couch on there. You even put the last one on the couch, man. None other than Abdul Barnes is here with us today. And you got the whole black family experience and you got a creative expression through your art. And we see what you're doing with it, man. Give a crowd the intro. I mean, the people who watch it at home, let them know what's going on, what you do. My name is Abdul Barnes. I'm from Pittsburgh, you know what I'm saying? I was born out there, but I was raised there in Atlanta. My mind here is just creating, you know what I'm saying? I do this every day, you know what I'm saying? I just make things. You can follow me on Instagram, at Astro Abdul underscore. You captured the anger of that black woman perfectly. Man, she was very devastated. I just really had to put my own little twist to it because everything is expression, you know what I'm saying? I'm always expressing myself. I do more than paintings. I'm also, I go to SCAD, which is an art school, you know what I'm saying? And I'm learning how to make couches and things of that nature. Really? Tell you what I'm saying. I got you, bro, I got you. Thanks for the measurement. I got you, bro, I got you. Yeah, yeah. You learning how to make couches, right? Yeah, so my major is industrial design. So I can choose anything and we can just print it out, you know what I'm saying? But it's all about architecture, you know what I'm saying? And like design. I use this. I got an idea I need made. I ain't met nobody that can bring shit to life. I want it to look like a couche. Hey, I'm also. I want the chair to be inside. So I'm like sitting in the couche and I can like peek out. You feel what I'm saying? I got a homie that made something like that for the city girls. He made like a pussy in the background. It was crazy. I want this. Say I'm sitting right here. Then this is the pussy right here, like the outer pussy. Like a spaceship. But I want it to be encapsulated, so I can like peek out. Oh, that's what you're doing. And then I want the curtains to kind of like. It's like an astronaut suit. All right, we'll wrap. A spaceship. Like a slap brush and you can like leave them up and then you just tap them and they'll close up. Yeah, like the lips. It'll be, we'll wrap, we'll wrap. You're the artist. I got you, I got you. I'm also a mechanic too, bro. You know what I'm saying? Word? Yeah, I work on trucks, cars, all that shit. You bullshitting. You just saying that because you know I got them old school. I got a 77 Lincoln kind of noodle. I just got them up. Come on, man. Talk to them. Thank you, Lincoln. Yeah, yes, sir. Yes, sir. I mean, when you started with the, when you started with the art and the mechanics and all of this shit and the engineering and everything. I've always been an artist, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. When I was a kid, just like, it's just, it's serving things. You know what I'm saying? Just like looking at things like down. This is how this works. I look at shit in equations. You know what I'm saying? I understand how to take a part of a car and put it back together without looking at a book and then like that. I learned when I went to the military. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm a veteran, you know what I'm saying? I was in the army. OK, shout out to all the vets. All the vets, man. Thank you for your service. I appreciate it, I appreciate it. Yeah, but I just been like pushing that shit. Like I just been pushing positive energy, you know what I'm saying? And I'm a Muslim too, you know what I'm saying? OK. I just. How's Ramadan? It's beautiful, you know? I talk to her a lot every day, you know what I'm saying? Before I even walked up here, you know what I'm saying? It's beautiful. I just like to be thankful, you know what I'm saying? I'm very grateful for everything. I appreciate y'all for it. I was just about to ask you how you discovered the 85 self show. Man, my homie's right. I always seen y'all, but like I always got homies just. I've been in the city for a minute, you know what I'm saying? Creating, been in art shows, things of that nature, you know what I'm saying? Talking to Maya Bailey, things like that. I'm working with this artist named Fabian right now. He does like murals in the city. Yeah, yeah. Like Edgewood and everything. Yeah. Yeah, we working with like Gip, you know? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I just really hit up my boy, Tyher. And he was like, yeah, just do that. And I just made it. Yeah. And Tyher, he's over the audio. Yeah, that dude is a genius. Yes, sir. Yeah, he's literally a genius. He know how to do all kinds of shit. Yes, sir. Yeah, for real. Man, so people watching, they don't want to know how they can get in touch with you and all of that. Man, how can they find you? So look, I got this Instagram, Astro, Abdul, astroabdull underscore. And I got a website, too. My name, abdullbarns.netliffy.app. It's a weird name, but that's what it is. Yeah. Well, shit, we'll post it on there and make sure that they can find you. Check me out. Check me out. You got some dope shit going on. Anything else you want to say to the people? I want to check out them cars, you know? I want to check out them old schools. Oh, man, you in the city. You could rap and make that shit happen. That's easy. What you going to do with this Lincoln? Well, I'm just trying to get it out of where I'm at right now. I live on the east side, just trying to get it out of there. Yeah, you got to hurry up. They'll help you move it. They'll help you move it if you don't get there. Hurry up and move it. It'll be very light and very easy to move. It'll be very long enough. I already know. But nah, man, I really appreciate you stopping through here and parking with us on the black market. And notice your first half. And so don't let it be the last. We got to freestyle. Come on, man, we'll do all that. But first, I got to ring this bell and let these people know. The black market is open. That's good. Yes, sir.