How 85 South Built a Comedy Empire with No Script & No Filter ft. Karlous Miller & Chico Bean

Summary

Earn Your Leisure Podcast Summary Episode Title: How 85 South Built a Comedy Empire with No Script & No Filter
Release Date: July 24, 2025
Hosts: Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings
Guests: Karlous Miller & Chico Bean

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1. Introduction to 85 South’s Journey

In this engaging episode, Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings delve deep into the entrepreneurial journey of 85 South, a formidable name in the comedy industry. Joined by guest Chico Bean, the hosts explore how 85 South cultivated a comedy empire without relying on traditional scripts or filters, blending authentic humor with savvy business acumen.

2. From Strippers to Real Estate: Chico Bean’s Transformation

Chico Bean shares his personal story of transitioning from the entertainment industry to real estate, highlighting the adaptability and entrepreneurial spirit prevalent within the 85 South community.

Chico Bean [04:43]: "A lot of the strippers who were around when I was around, I see them in the city now, and they’re doing great things. They’re selling houses, real estate."

3. Overcoming Personal Struggles Through Travel

Chico opens up about his emotional journey, particularly his trips to Ghana to cope with personal loss, emphasizing the therapeutic role of travel and self-discovery.

Chico Bean [08:52]: "One of the best times, most peace I ever had, man. And I went back the next year, and the first year I went was when Chance the Rapper did that concert out there."

4. Building an Independent Media Platform

Rashad discusses 85 South’s strategic shift from platforms like YouTube to their own independent media channel, Channel 85. This move was driven by a desire for greater control over their content and revenue streams.

DC Young Fly [27:44]: "Once institutional money comes in, like you said, it's tough to stop."

5. The Dynamics of Touring and Audience Engagement

The hosts and Chico delve into the complexities of organizing tours, from negotiating with venues to managing a growing team. They highlight the importance of genuine fan interactions and the unique bond they share with their audience.

DC Young Fly [39:57]: "It's a lot... being responsible for 35, 40 grown people having too much fun. That's the hard part."

6. Navigating Legal Challenges and Business Relationships

DC Young Fly recounts a legal tussle with a business partner, shedding light on the challenges of maintaining professional relationships and the importance of clear communication in business.

DC Young Fly [25:07]: "He sent the paperwork and made it look like they were still together. So when I signed to do the shows with his partner, I was like, nobody told me."

7. Impact on Fans and Community Empowerment

The conversation shifts to the profound impact 85 South has on their listeners, with fans sharing how the podcast has influenced their financial literacy and personal growth.

Chico Bean [64:31]: "I just watched it every day, and it just took my mind off of whatever it was that was going on."

8. Addressing Financial Responsibility and Support

Chico and DC discuss the ethical dilemmas of responding to fans seeking financial help, emphasizing responsible advice and the importance of financial independence.

Chico Bean [71:16]: "I choose me. I choose me."

9. Fostering Positive Relationships in the Comedy Industry

The hosts explore the often-contentious relationships between comedians, advocating for mutual support and collaboration over rivalry.

DC Young Fly [87:15]: "A lot of these niggas are just... they got some disagreements that they can't work out."

10. Future Endeavors and Expanding Influence

Chico and DC touch upon their collaborations with industry giants like Kevin Hart and discuss future projects, including innovative content platforms and expanding their comedic reach.

Chico Bean [93:58]: "Shout out to Kevin Hart, man. He produced the stand-up special that I got on Hulu."

11. Conclusion: The Essence of 85 South’s Success

Rashad wraps up the episode by commending 85 South for their relentless drive, authentic connections, and innovative approach to comedy and business, highlighting them as exemplary entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry.

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Notable Quotes

• Chico Bean [04:43]: "A lot of the strippers who were around when I was around, I see them in the city now, and they’re doing great things. They’re selling houses, real estate."
• Chico Bean [08:52]: "One of the best times, most peace I ever had, man. And I went back the next year, and the first year I went was when Chance the Rapper did that concert out there."
• DC Young Fly [25:07]: "He sent the paperwork and made it look like they were still together. So when I signed to do the shows with his partner, I was like, nobody told me."
• Chico Bean [64:31]: "I just watched it every day, and it just took my mind off of whatever it was that was going on."
• Chico Bean [71:16]: "I choose me. I choose me."
• DC Young Fly [87:15]: "A lot of these niggas are just... they got some disagreements that they can't work out."
• Chico Bean [93:58]: "Shout out to Kevin Hart, man. He produced the stand-up special that I got on Hulu."

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Key Takeaways

• Entrepreneurial Spirit: 85 South exemplifies how passion combined with strategic business moves can build a successful independent media empire.

• Authenticity: Their unfiltered and unscripted approach resonates deeply with audiences, fostering genuine connections.

• Community Impact: Beyond entertainment, 85 South plays a pivotal role in educating and empowering their community on financial literacy and personal growth.

• Resilience: Navigating legal challenges and industry dynamics showcases their ability to adapt and overcome obstacles.

• Future Growth: Collaborations with industry leaders and innovations in content delivery position 85 South for sustained success and influence.

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For those interested in entrepreneurship, comedy, and the intersection of entertainment with financial literacy, this episode of Earn Your Leisure provides invaluable insights into building and sustaining a media empire with authenticity and purpose.

Transcript

[Rashad Bilal]

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[Troy Millings]

Yes. Well, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

[Rashad Bilal]

85 fashion.

[Chico Bean]

Yes.

[Rashad Bilal]

The episode started when it.

[Troy Millings]

It started five minutes soon.

[Rashad Bilal]

20 minutes.

[Troy Millings]

Yeah, we need the band.

[DC Young Fly]

Oh, y' all are professional and structured learning. Not today, man.

[Troy Millings]

We learning today went and wrong.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, man. I'm in y' all shit today, though.

[Troy Millings]

What's up, my brother? How you been?

[DC Young Fly]

I've been great, man. What's been going on now? Every time I see y', all, y' all got some, like, something really good going on. Like we. You don't even know the flexes. We sitting here watching real live gorilla footage.

[Rashad Bilal]

First time scene.

[Troy Millings]

We're gonna take you. We're gonna take you to the gorillas.

[DC Young Fly]

I don't think I. That ain't really my thing.

[Troy Millings]

Why not?

[DC Young Fly]

I. I mean, I like to watch it, but I don't have to be there. I don't speak gorilla. I don't know what's been going on in the community.

[Rashad Bilal]

Is it a fear of animals?

[DC Young Fly]

No, it's not even a fear. It's more of a respect thing. Yeah, like when animals go off and they be animals and they doing what animals do when ain't nobody around. You got to respect it. Cuz you never know. They live in a community and you don't know what happened on your way up there, what they might have been like.

[Rashad Bilal]

Somebody could have got an argument.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, like, the next time the humans come, you.

[Troy Millings]

You had. You had pets growing up?

[DC Young Fly]

Dog, yeah, but not no gorilla. That wasn't the best transition. You had animals though, right? Dogs. They didn't even.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah, I think that the fact that they're in their natural habitat helps. And they teach you to be super submissive.

[DC Young Fly]

I can't learn that fast. I don't even like how that came up. They teach you to be submissive. I'm not being submissive.

[Rashad Bilal]

That could be a problem.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, I don't want to be submissive. Cuz I'm telling you, I'm not going to wait to react. I got to leave if I feel like, hey, man, he getting a little bit too aggressive. I'm out. Not waiting on the group.

[Rashad Bilal]

They tell you don't run. They tell you just kneel and don't run.

[DC Young Fly]

Do you think that that works? Be honest.

[Rashad Bilal]

I think so. I've seen it work.

[DC Young Fly]

Really?

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Troy Millings]

You think you can outrun a gorilla?

[Rashad Bilal]

No chance.

[DC Young Fly]

I don't think I could outrun any wild animals.

[Troy Millings]

There's no point. So you gotta.

[DC Young Fly]

You gotta.

[Rashad Bilal]

So it's fully like, yo, I don't want this problem.

[DC Young Fly]

You think?

[Troy Millings]

I like.

[DC Young Fly]

That's why we need people like y'. All. People who like y', all who can go out there and then get the footage.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

And then take it back to the studio and let some cool older white man do the voiceover with that shit in hd. I'm a consumer now.

[Rashad Bilal]

We should. You should do the voiceover.

[DC Young Fly]

I will.

[Rashad Bilal]

That shit would be fine.

[DC Young Fly]

As long as I don't have to do nothing else. Like, go out there.

[Troy Millings]

All right.

[Rashad Bilal]

What. What about a lion? Would you do that? No, Nothing. Is there any giraffes? Zebra?

[DC Young Fly]

Nothing, Nothing, Nothing.

[Rashad Bilal]

We got a new show.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

Carlos in the Wild.

[DC Young Fly]

No, that's not. You literally ain't gonna have no footage. Carlos in the Wild, I take my chances in. Like, I'd rather go to the hood.

[Rashad Bilal]

Take my chance in Atlanta, like.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah. Work with some hardheaded strippers or something.

[Troy Millings]

How the stripper economy doing these days?

[DC Young Fly]

I don't know. I haven't been around in a while. Yeah, a lot of the strippers who were, like, around when I was around, I see them in the city now and they doing great things. They selling houses, real estate.

[Troy Millings]

We got to talk about. We never really Talked about that, like, 80s being that whole real estate agent thing, kind of. It dwarfed between the two worlds. Dwarfed at some point. What year was that? Like, I just see on instagram and all of every. It's like everybody's selling homes. Like, Like.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, that's a great transition for retired dancers because they still got the body, and then once they put some real clothes on, they. They still as fine.

[Rashad Bilal]

They can sell some shit.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah. But they working like they great salesmen because they've been selling dances.

[Rashad Bilal]

They'Ve been selling a lifestyle.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

And they're really not the man.

[DC Young Fly]

Those are the women who have mastered the art.

[Rashad Bilal]

Right. They selling you the dream. So they. They went from selling you the dream to selling you the dream.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, they sell. They went from selling you their dreams to selling you yours.

[Rashad Bilal]

Makes sense.

[Troy Millings]

There we have it. All right, we got. We got the legend right here.

[DC Young Fly]

Hey, I got two of my homeboys in here. That don't. Between Chico and. And my boy Sean. Nobody got more outfits than these dudes, bro. What's up, my boy? How you living, man? Good to see you, bro.

[Troy Millings]

Oh, man.

[Rashad Bilal]

Chico Bean.

[Troy Millings]

No white. No white.

[DC Young Fly]

Fresh Chico Bean. Outfit King.

[Troy Millings]

Let's do the drip check before we do anything.

[Rashad Bilal]

Outfit sold separately.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. You. Nah, this is Monty, man. This is Monty. And then I got the. Now the kicks. The outfit is Monty the Kicks.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, get him right.

[Rashad Bilal]

And the Rosie.

[Chico Bean]

The.

[Rashad Bilal]

The red. The prezi is.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

Chocolate face.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, yeah, the chocolate face one.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, he been investing's been going wealthy.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I listen to y'.

[DC Young Fly]

All.

[Chico Bean]

I listen to y'. All. Them conversations we was having when he couldn't afford none of this stuff. Yeah, listen, these guys know what they talk about. I just saw you in China, man, getting your stuff from direct from Source, man. What was that like, man?

[Troy Millings]

No, it was crazy because, you know, it's so many misconceptions about China. Okay, y' all should go out to China. Let's do a comedy show in China.

[DC Young Fly]

No, we should.

[Troy Millings]

Why not?

[DC Young Fly]

Stop this. Why not?

[Rashad Bilal]

We leaving the United States.

[Troy Millings]

Yo, Los, what's up with you, man? Like, you don't want to go to Africa?

[Chico Bean]

I didn't never say no. He wanted to go to Africa.

[DC Young Fly]

I said I didn't want to go in a safari.

[Chico Bean]

Okay, that's that, too.

[Troy Millings]

Okay.

[DC Young Fly]

Oh, he got footage of baby gorillas.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, yeah, Yeah, I went in South Africa.

[Rashad Bilal]

Oh, yeah?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, I went on one of South Africa.

[Rashad Bilal]

You enjoyed it?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, it was dope, man. We was on the four wheelers and, you know, animals was just out free and everything. Yeah, it was dope.

[DC Young Fly]

They walked.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

We did a track, a gorilla track.

[Chico Bean]

You Ran a track?

[Rashad Bilal]

No, we a gorilla trek. You gotta, like, go into the jungle and.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, nah. Yeah. You was tripping.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah, yeah, we was. As we were in it, I realized this probably isn't the best idea. The night before, I was feeling a little angst. Then when we started doing it, about 50 minutes in, I'm like, yo, we really angry in the mountains, and I'm getting exhausted. And if we don't see something very soon, I'm turning around. And then couple more minutes, we saw a silverback gorilla with his family.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Was it a 100 of y'? All?

[Rashad Bilal]

It was N.

[Chico Bean]

You know, they was trying to get a hundred niggas to fight a gorilla. I thought they was trying to make y'. All. The ones to do it on their.

[DC Young Fly]

Head was the little African dude from the me. Oh, okay.

[Troy Millings]

That's crazy.

[DC Young Fly]

They don't understand nothing. They say.

[Chico Bean]

Yes.

[DC Young Fly]

Yes.

[Rashad Bilal]

It was 12 of us, and one of us had a weapon.

[Chico Bean]

Okay.

[Troy Millings]

Yeah. The guy had the rifle. He got the rifle. Just in case things went left.

[DC Young Fly]

Just in case.

[Troy Millings]

Just in case.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. But that. That was, you know, the. The safari I did was dope, though, man. Just to be able to have that experience out there was. Was fun, man.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

I mean, I've been trying to get this dude to go to Africa for the longest time. Yeah, he gotta go to Ghana first, man.

[DC Young Fly]

I go to Africa. Going on no safari.

[Rashad Bilal]

All right, we're gonna bring you to Ghana. You've been to Ghana?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, twice. Yeah. Yeah, twice. I went for the first time in 2023. Going into 2020. Yeah. Going into 2022. Going into 2023. Because, you know, I lost my mom in 2021. And I realized I hadn't started the grieving process yet, so I just went. Didn't tell nobody. I mean, I told this I was going, but I just went by myself. And you know what I mean? One of the best times, Most peace I ever had, man. And I went back the next year, and the first year I went was when Chance the rapper did that concert out there.

[Rashad Bilal]

Okay.

[Chico Bean]

By doing all of them, I went to that. And then the next year, I just went in and got to actually explore the city. You know what I mean? Charlemagne put me on with the dudes. That was big real estate guys out there. So, you know, I mean, I got into some of that. So it was dope. I had a good time out there.

[Rashad Bilal]

Oh, perfect. And we ain't got to tell you about it.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right.

[DC Young Fly]

Bet.

[Chico Bean]

Sure.

[Rashad Bilal]

Accra.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Cry. Yes, sir. Yes.

[Troy Millings]

So what made you just want to go out there, like, for the grieving process?

[Chico Bean]

Like, I just wanted to go somewhere where I knew that, you know, I mean, I never been. I've been to Egypt before, but I had never been to Africa, like, real Africa. I say Egypt is gentrified Africa.

[DC Young Fly]

Somewhere where you can cry and be ugly and don't know.

[Chico Bean]

You know what I'm saying?

[DC Young Fly]

He is so ugly.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, exactly. So that was. That was the point.

[DC Young Fly]

Ugly, crack, ugly, not be judged.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. So, you know, that was the reason, the biggest reason. Just going somewhere where I'd never been before, didn't know anything, didn't know anybody, and I just had time to just gather my thoughts, and that was one of the best decisions I ever made.

[Troy Millings]

Yeah, that's fire. So, all right, let's talk about this then. You talking about traveling? You guys got a tour coming up?

[DC Young Fly]

Most definitely.

[Troy Millings]

What makes you guys want to keep going out on the road? Cause I feel like y' all travel probably more than anybody. I've seen, like, y' all on the road all the time. Like, you don't ever get burnt out by that. Like, what's the motivation? Still fun. You never, like, all right, I'm over this.

[DC Young Fly]

No. Cause all the experiences is still new. Even if we've been to the place a hundred times, it's never like the last time.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, all the way. And then, you know, I know for us, you know, especially coming to New York, New York is where it started for us as far as getting the notoriety and getting the name. And, you know, I tell people all the time, like, there's no way I could ever complain about what I would be asking God for if I didn't have it. You know what I mean? If we weren't moving around as much as we move around and getting these shows and going to these cities, this would be what you would be working towards. So it's a blessing. So every time we get to do it, that just means that these people who have seen us three, four times. You know what I mean? Seen us together, seen us individually, they still love us enough to wanna come see us again. So that mean that the product that we're giving is something that motivates us to keep wanting to push, because that mean that we're doing something that's really never been done before.

[DC Young Fly]

That's the best part when they give you the updates of the last person that they seen. You know, I caught Chico, and then we went to D.C. in December, came to y' all show. Now he'll see you, boy.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, all the way. Every time. I just was in Columbus, Ohio, dude pulled up a picture of me and this nigga from a show from eight years ago. He was like, you remember this? Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

You know what? I think one of the dopest pictures, though, was that. That picture you took of that girl. Van. Van when she was. When she was a baby.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, I seen him in the airport going to the Essence Festival. I seen him in the airport. We took another picture. Her and her family was in the air, man, she. She doing it big.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, man.

[Chico Bean]

Doing it extra big.

[Troy Millings]

And y' all should just, like, real improv.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[Troy Millings]

Like, that's hard, too. Like.

[DC Young Fly]

Like, we gotta market it. Is that.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. I don't think we ever tell people.

[Troy Millings]

Yeah. Like, talk about that. Cause people. People don't fully appreciate unless you see the show. Like, I saw the show. So I'm like, oh, now, this is different. Like, y' all just. Oh, you got the blue shirt on. Da, da, da, da. Like, I mean, like, it's. That's difficult.

[DC Young Fly]

It's the hibachi of comedy, man. We cooking it up right there in front of you. And then when we post clips from the show, people be like, can't believe.

[Chico Bean]

Y' messing with them people.

[DC Young Fly]

Look, y' all are just bullying. Y' all picking on people. Like, everybody that's ever made it into a clip from us talking about them at a show definitely came and hollered at us after.

[Chico Bean]

After the show.

[DC Young Fly]

Then they be like, bro, y' all know y' all ain't had to do me.

[Chico Bean]

I mean, we didn't have people. I'm missing limbs and all types of stuff. I had a lady take her leg off and had me sign it. One time.

[DC Young Fly]

Somebody took their leg off and just threw it on stage.

[Chico Bean]

Threw it on stage.

[DC Young Fly]

Like, with that picture we just posted. Yeah, somebody's a fake. We don't know. We was just like, all right, man, let's get the picture. Then we usually turn around so the crowd is in the back. But somehow this leg ended up on stage. I was like, chica, hold up, bro. Somebody took their leg off. Put it in the picture.

[Chico Bean]

Put it in the picture. So. And then the thing is, that's what makes it fun, like, for people, because when you come, it's a. It's a space where you can. Nobody's off limits. We talk about each other, we talk about the crowd, we talk about security, we talk about whatever's going on. It's all improvisational. So, you know, you're getting an experience that's catered to the people that are there. And even though we've been to a lot of these cities before, that's why we call them Spin the Block, because we get to come back, and it's gonna be a new show. You've never seen the same show twice, because we always do it just as it happens. And that's the beauty of us being able to work with each other.

[DC Young Fly]

And it's a challenge to try to make something happen. You get what I'm saying? Like, what they giving us. We got all these people in here, what the energy, like, and it's just. You start pulling little elements, and once you get a whole arena of people in on a joke, it's. It's crazy.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah. I think the part that y' all don't highlight as well is that y' all independent media, right? Like, you. You talk about, like, the improv, which is incredible. We were literally having a conversation then y' all on stage, and we're like, how did that just happen? But y' all doing. We know the team, like, y' all independent media. Y' all doing this for 10 years. Talk about that. And the growing pains and learning lessons of starting 10 years ago as a company to where y' all at now?

[Chico Bean]

It's.

[DC Young Fly]

It's a lot of trial and error just trying to figure out little formulas of, like, okay, this works over here. When we. Once we. Once we get past the live show, like, we do the live show now, we. We recorded all this footage and all this backstage. Now we got to put it together. So it's like, people always, like, when y' all gonna do a special? Or, like, everybody's dropping a special every. Every week, literally independent. Every week.

[Chico Bean]

Every week. Literally for five, six years straight, every week. And, you know, we come from the wild n out space, so we got to see it from the corporate side first. So we got to see all of the things that we, you know, could learn from and the things that we didn't like on that side of the game. So we knew what to exclude, and that kind of made it a little bit easier to keep pushing, because if you know what to exclude, then you know how to avoid a lot of the pitfalls that caused the problems amongst, you know, people who try to do it themselves and, you know, not reach out to the powers that be for help. So I think that's one of the things that helped us push is that we. One, we're fans of each other. You know what I mean? And two, we understand the game from a point of being employees versus, you know, being in charge of everything and having.

[DC Young Fly]

And it's way better than being an employee.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

You know, you know what I'm saying? Just having the control to be like.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. You know, and then. Nah, yeah, yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

It'S way better. Like, I, I hate being an employee.

[Troy Millings]

Well, talking about that because you guys, okay, you, you built the, the umbrella 85 South. Now you got other talent. I don't want to say underneath, but in the fold of 85, it's under the umbrella.

[DC Young Fly]

But we don't, we're not nobody's boss.

[Chico Bean]

Nobody's.

[Troy Millings]

All right, so how does that work then? Because you got poor minds. You got.

[DC Young Fly]

We give that, we extend that same freedom to everybody who works with us. Yeah, because we don't want, we don't want nobody working for us or like under us. It's like, hey, man, you need to get this. Like, the whole point is like, to have a form of ownership so you.

[Troy Millings]

Provide the platform and then it's like you got, you gotta do what you can do with it.

[DC Young Fly]

Right?

[Troy Millings]

We're not gonna hold your hand like an independent record.

[DC Young Fly]

Like we will, we will hold your hand.

[Troy Millings]

Okay.

[DC Young Fly]

But you gotta keep in mind, if we're gonna hold your hand and you drop something, you didn't have a hand open, you could have had your own hand out. So it's like, we don' to hold hands for the security. It's like, hey, bro, stand right here by me. And it's like, hey, if it worked for you, if it worked for y', all, all we can do is show you what's been working for us and tell you the things that did work, what didn't work. Hey, this is where y' all benefit us. This is where we could benefit y'.

[Chico Bean]

All.

[DC Young Fly]

Because it's not, it's not like we're generating a bunch of money off of these other platforms, is that we're trying to make one big platform. You get what I'm saying?

[Chico Bean]

I mean, an in house, just conglomerate, if you will, of people who can just, you know, have a space where you can come in and, you know, do something like this and not have to wait on, you know, the approval of 3, 4 other people to be able to get the, the work done, you know, because that's really what it's about. Is this the content game now? It's just about constantly producing. Y' all understand that? And being able to consistently put out or consistently record to have something to put out and just having a space to be able to provide, not just our people, but just in general, you know, to have a space where people can come in that's safe, that you ain't got to worry about nothing. That's, you know, giving out quality production, great, you know, content. You know what I'm saying? When people see it, they know that it's of quality. That's what it's really about. So being able to provide that you don't have to be the boss to do that. You just gotta be reliable.

[DC Young Fly]

And the like. I feel like the silver lining of that is that all the people that's around us, they see us going hard every day. Whether it be a 85 south show, or promoting our own show, or working at other productions and networks and stuff like that. It's like they get to be around us to see hey man, these dudes, they grind hard and that's why they get what they get. The moment that you not grinding, that's when everything stop. And then you gotta get that momentum back up to get back in grind mode. So that's why I like to stay on the road or work all year. And then we had a, we got like a buffet of things that we do. Cuz every day we're not waking up doing the same thing. It's not just pull up at a city, be here for three, four, five days, sell out the comedy club, then just go home.

[Troy Millings]

But talk about that, cuz people are. You're a comedian so people might not know how hard you actually work. Right.

[DC Young Fly]

Cuz I got like 40, 50 jobs.

[Troy Millings]

You do the podcast every single week. Yeah, you do, you, you on the road with 85 self. Y' all all got the individual on your road. Yeah. So like talk about.

[DC Young Fly]

But even in between that, it's still, we still auditioning for TV shows, movies, sending in voiceover work, shooting ads and commercials, being fathers, being fathers. Then you ha. You know, it's so many little opportunities that fall in between that and then being the owners of a business and having to take meetings and set schedules.

[Chico Bean]

Sure.

[DC Young Fly]

Everybody else good, pay taxes, book hotels and pay taxes and, and catch flights and make sure you know, travel and sprinters and rental cars. It's, it's so much other stuff that's that goes on off stage. Like the show part is the easiest part.

[Chico Bean]

That's what you know, that's what you, that's the part that you get to. And you know you can do that with your eyes closed.

[DC Young Fly]

Fun and stuff, you know, traveling all day.

[Chico Bean]

Like this past weekend, the, My photographer that I had working for me. They had her stand in this comedy condo, and the pad broke on the door, and all her stuff was locked into place and we couldn't get in. So I had to find her a room and make sure she was straight. Like, all of those type of things are on you when you are the person that's in charge of what's going on. So those are the things that you gotta make sure. In order across the board. Because if your business isn't in order, then you can't just show up and say, here, take this, and we got you, and that's what we want.

[Troy Millings]

When did y' all learn, like, coming up did that. You learned a lot from Nick? Like, how'd you learn how to actually run a business?

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah. Cause, like, Nick is an amazing dude. I don't think he get enough credit. Like, I see this dude, and, you know, he is worth a crazy amount of bread. But he'll literally get in there and do the Grammy work with you.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, I mean, he'll be there early. Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

He'll stay late. He will make he work like he don't have it.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. And that's literally. I was just telling somebody that the other day when I was talking to the photographer, riding around, trying to find her a room. She was telling me, you know, how she had been on tour on a tour bus, and they didn't have any AC on the tour bus. And I was like, man, that first Wild N Out tour we did, we were taking showers at the Salvation Army.

[Troy Millings]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

In the arena.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, Coliseum. And he was right in there with us. And then, you know. You know damn well he didn't have to be.

[DC Young Fly]

Not in the shower.

[Rashad Bilal]

Not Chico. Chico.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

He wasn't in the shower.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, yeah, Paul. That's the truth, though. I. You know, the truth is that, y'.

[Rashad Bilal]

All, there was showers in the.

[DC Young Fly]

In the venue. In the.

[Chico Bean]

In the Salvation Army. We was in the Salvation army in the jail showers. I ain't open.

[DC Young Fly]

Truth.

[Chico Bean]

Shower heads. We.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, but we wasn't in the. Like, we did this Game seven. Hey, man, it's your turn.

[Rashad Bilal]

Game seven, y'.

[DC Young Fly]

All. Nah, nah, Give us three.

[Chico Bean]

So it wasn't like that, but, yeah, you learn a lot from just. And then watching everything that he had went through on the corporate side, too, and just knowing that no matter where you are in the game, you always gotta go through something. Nobody's above the bullshit.

[DC Young Fly]

And this is the thing about it. When it works, you look like a genius.

[Troy Millings]

That's a fact.

[DC Young Fly]

When it don't work, don't know how to.

[Troy Millings]

And everybody wants credit. Somebody said, success has a thousand father. Failure is a bastard child. Like, nobody wants to take responsibility for the failure. Everybody wants to take responsibility for the success.

[Chico Bean]

I heard something that was. That's even more in line with that. It said, when you are in a certain position or when you're in a position of success, your job is to do the impossible for the ungrateful.

[DC Young Fly]

Well, my brother told me the other day, all ideas. All thoughts ain't ideas.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, that's true.

[Rashad Bilal]

He right.

[Chico Bean]

That's very true.

[Troy Millings]

All 13 ideas.

[Chico Bean]

All 13 ideas.

[DC Young Fly]

That's hard.

[Chico Bean]

I like that one too, though.

[Troy Millings]

You gotta do the impossible for the ungrateful.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[Troy Millings]

That's a fact.

[Chico Bean]

And a good run is better than a bad stand. You know what I'm saying?

[Rashad Bilal]

So now we rolling.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

For real.

[Chico Bean]

You know, and it's like. But at this point, you know, even with this tour, like, with the people we working with, Blake and Diddy, like, Blake then been up with who? Change your name.

[DC Young Fly]

His name Sean?

[Rashad Bilal]

Nah, he's currently. He's not in the studio.

[DC Young Fly]

Okay.

[Rashad Bilal]

What you trying to do, man?

[Chico Bean]

I thought. I didn't know. I'm not gonna disrespect.

[Rashad Bilal]

No, his name is.

[DC Young Fly]

What's your name, man? His name's Sean Tripping. It ain't Sha John, though. I told him he gotta change it up. He can't be. Did he gotta be Sean? He gotta add a L or something. Gotta be diddly.

[Chico Bean]

Diddly is equal. The diddler.

[Rashad Bilal]

No, the diddler, that's synonymous with the other show.

[Troy Millings]

So is Diddy or Sean. Did he.

[Chico Bean]

Do nothing but buy outfits, products, and all that? You good, but rights reserved, you know, Blake, you know, then been around us like, you know, for years. Literally, like, you know, I mean, we was doing shows with 1500, $2500 with Blake, and now we during arena, so just being able to build those relationships that, you know, quality relationships that last and, you know, you treat people the right way and you do good business, and, you know, you gotta do good business.

[DC Young Fly]

That nigga sued me.

[Troy Millings]

Did he?

[DC Young Fly]

No.

[Chico Bean]

Blake sued.

[DC Young Fly]

He sued you? Yeah.

[Troy Millings]

Why?

[DC Young Fly]

It was a. I didn't know that. It was a. This is what happened. He had another. This is it. He had another partner, and they split, and I didn't know they split. And his partner didn't tell me that they split. So he sent the. The paperwork and made it look like they were still together. So when I signed to do the. With his partner, he was like, bro, what the. Is you doing? I don't. With him. I'm like, nobody told me. I don't even know this other name.

[Rashad Bilal]

And then he served you the paper.

[DC Young Fly]

He sent the. To the crib. Yeah, look, I got the certified letter. The big. You know, the. That come in, the big. He's like, what we gonna do? I was like, man, you gonna sue me?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

I was like, man, this lawsuit. Let's. Let's just do these shows.

[Rashad Bilal]

We on the phone, right?

[DC Young Fly]

I'm gonna do half of them with him, and I'll do the other half with you. And then after I do these, I never with them again.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, we ain't even.

[DC Young Fly]

I don't know if I was supposed.

[Chico Bean]

To tell y', all, but we all go through that. We just was going through it with this one. This man. What the. You people, man. I'm like, hey, Blake, man, I love you, so.

[DC Young Fly]

I feel like I made it.

[Chico Bean]

But, you know, he.

[DC Young Fly]

This is my first loss.

[Chico Bean]

The thing about it is, you can always call him and talk to him directly. He'll tell you exactly what he did. That's the good part. A lot of people, you don't have that relationship. Like, you can't call a nigga, put.

[Rashad Bilal]

Something in the middle for you, man.

[Chico Bean]

What was that shit you said, man?

[DC Young Fly]

Talk to my lawyer.

[Chico Bean]

You ain't gonna book me? Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

Nah.

[Chico Bean]

I mean, not right now, but I'm gonna tell you why. So it's like, all right, Blake. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, you gotta appreciate that, though, man. Cause, you know, we done been doing this for a long time, and I think that, you know, as long as we done been in the game now, it's easy to, you know, had those relationships where people look at you and be like, man, them.

[DC Young Fly]

That was a great lesson in business, though, bro. You gotta get. Let me.

[Rashad Bilal]

Let me just say, because you guys did something that was. Because you've been in this space for so long and you've grown a following. We watched it on YouTube. We watched it on Instagram. But then y' all decided, you know what? YouTube may not be the way for us anymore, and create channel 85. Talk about the transition into that, because even at the peak, right, we got YouTube and Google, as, you know, did billions of streams or billions of views every month, and y' all said, no, we're gonna do our own thing. What was the thought process in going to that? How's that been going?

[DC Young Fly]

It was quite simple. You notice, you know the YouTube game, right? One minute they'll pay you all the money you supposed to get. Then the next month they'll be like, you really do. Like, I ain't never got the same amount of money from YouTube from month to month.

[Troy Millings]

And they control who sees your video.

[DC Young Fly]

Exactly.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. And there's no way for you to really know what your reach is until you can centralize your crowd in the space where you can determine how many people are coming in and out and utilizing the space. And that's what Channel 85 does. It allows us to really be able to see how many people are willing to, you know, go behind a paywall. Cause that's dangerous when you've been giving it away for free for so long. That was a big risk because we was giving this content away for free for years. Every week, two, three hours of free comedy, you know what I'm saying? And then the podcast and then all of this stuff. When you take that and put it behind a paywall, it was an adjustment period for a lot of people because they like, man, it's hard to give money to something you've been getting for free. That's with anything, you've been getting it for free. Then all of a sudden it's like, I tell people all the time, if tomorrow we woke up and Instagram costs $12 a month, ain't nobody gonna be on there. Ain't nobody gonna be on there because nobody wants to pay for something that they had access to for free. So it was really us just saying, you know what? I believe in our consumer when a lot of people didn't, you know, they look at our consumer and think, you know, those are the people. You can overlook. Those are the people that aren't going to be, you know, that those are people that are throw away people. They ain't gonna pay for nothing. So we believe differently. We believe that our people will come to where we were, you know, and they will, and they will.

[Rashad Bilal]

Just a quick follow up because. Cause I'm wondering now when you have the behind the wall, right, the paywall, are you using those analytics to now look at how we're going out on tours, Right? Because if I know I got an audience here and I didn't know it prior, now we know we can do a show.

[Chico Bean]

No, I don't think so. I think that individually that's probably a better analytic for us because we go all of these places individually and as a unit. Like, there have literally been times where I'll have a show, then the next week Los will be there, then two weeks later, fly Be there. And in another two weeks, we there together.

[Rashad Bilal]

Gotcha.

[Chico Bean]

And all of the people that are there are telling us that they're coming to each other so that you can't. That's real life. That's in the field. Analytics that you're getting for people who are paying physical dollars to come see you three times within a month. You know what I mean? You can't. You know, that's something you can't really dictate unless you see it. There's nobody will believe that's possible if you say that. You know what I mean? Like, nobody's coming to see the same niggas three times. But for us, we've seen it. We've literally seen it from going to these different comedy clubs and cities and then coming back and doing it again in an arena or in a theater. And then, you know, it's like, those that really let us see that people are supporting what we're doing. They know we're giving, and they mad.

[DC Young Fly]

If they miss one of them shows. You know what I'm saying? They don't want to break up the set.

[Troy Millings]

So how was it? Let's talk about this. So the streaming service, right? What was the process of actually getting people to buy into paying and then, like, what's. What's your model as far as to make it as some. Is because you're still on YouTube also.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[Troy Millings]

So, like, you know, we've seen a lot. Joe Button, the Patreon. Like, so what's your model like? Y' all have certain episodes that only go on streaming services. Like, how do you. How do you do that?

[Chico Bean]

Both.

[DC Young Fly]

We got a lot of exclusive content that it ain't gonna be nowhere else.

[Troy Millings]

It's only footage for the streamer.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

The live show being one of the specific.

[Troy Millings]

All right, so all your live shows are on the stream now.

[Chico Bean]

And that's the bread and butter as far as, like, the. The thing that, you know, people gravitated towards initially. So we took the live show and said, you know, we can't get y'. All. We gave this away for free for five and a half years. Now you just pay, you know, for a year subscription, and you get to see them all immediately, as much as you want, and then people still take them and put them on YouTube anyway. But no, I mean, they got.

[DC Young Fly]

And a year subscription of the app is. It's cheaper than a year than a ticket. Yeah, it's cheaper than the cheapest ticket you can get.

[Troy Millings]

It's like $10 a month, if that.

[DC Young Fly]

No, no, it's actually like 8.50. 85.

[Chico Bean]

$85. So.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah.

[Troy Millings]

And then what it. So how'd you get people to buy in, to move over to actually promotion?

[DC Young Fly]

Just promoting.

[Chico Bean]

Keep letting. Letting people.

[DC Young Fly]

Let them see the progression we get. You know, we try to keep updated equipment and. And HD cameras and better audio. It's just. Keep climbing.

[Troy Millings]

Any pushback? Did you get any pushback?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, of course. But you gotta be consistent to be able to push past that. You know, it's no different, I look at that. No different than the. It's like the comments on videos that you put up. You know, if you ever go in to read your confidence up.

[DC Young Fly]

There'S too many good ones. Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

You ever go on the read nose and. And you know that that's pretty much the same push. You're gonna have people who gonna be like, ah, man, people come up to us. And that's the thing. We're all approachable. Like, people see us out when we go to these cities. Like, we are known to be out in the mall at the soul food spot. Or, you know, just. You might catch me walking up and down the street, you know what I'm saying? And people will come up and let you know, hey, man, what's up with the man? Why y' all ain't putting this show on YouTube no more? And then you got to explain to him like, hey, man, this is the reason why the motherfucker. I've literally seen people download the app in front of me because they got an explanation directly from me as to why they should be on the app. Like, you know what I mean? If you with us and you support us, we. And it's 85, you about to get us the Foot Locker. We both in Foot Locker, about to give our money to the Foot Locker. You don't know that you talking to me. So it's a direct to consumer. Just making them know that it's no different than what they getting on YouTube. It's just actually more personable than what they actually getting and making them understand.

[DC Young Fly]

Get more.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah. Is the live show that goes on channel 85, all three of you, or do you guys put like your individual sets maybe that y' all do?

[DC Young Fly]

We haven't done that in a while. We used to go out and do a set and do a show. Like all of us would do a set and we'd be like, man, we'll do. We're gonna do. We just gonna go out and hit them with a little five team. Then we do it. Then everybody end up doing 30.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

Then everybody. Then we end up coming on stage and doing another hour and a half.

[Chico Bean]

You know what I mean? And it made more sense to just do it together. You know what I'm saying? And once we started doing it together, we saw that it was the same thing. We just. And we able to do it off of each other, you know what I mean? And bounce off of each other. Pause with the jokes, you know what I mean? I can see this nigga looking at me like he waiting to say, your wordplay is crazy.

[Rashad Bilal]

He's on fire.

[Chico Bean]

You know? I mean. You know what I mean? But, yeah, we all different. Like, I just had a special come out on Hulu. Like, Hulu Special. And, you know, LOS did one with the laugh out Loud a couple years back. So, yeah, we always.

[Rashad Bilal]

Nobody clap for that. Can y' all clap for that?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, we always doing stuff, you know, that's. That's, you know, individual. But this is. This is something different. This is, you know, this is ordained. Like, you've never seen this before. And that's.

[DC Young Fly]

And then at this point, I feel like we earned it, too. Yeah, we really. Cause we put out. Between the three of us, we put out so many hours of comedy. And once you add up the time, bruh, if we. If you go back and you look at some of the older live shows, bruh, where, you know, we see, like, Chico go out and he in a pocket, and he'll do a 35 off. But it seemed like when you ask him, it's like, bro, it didn't. It felt like 10, because the. The energy was just crazy when you said three things, and they just keep making you talk about these things. And then D.C. go out, and then he find that pocket, and he do another 30. And then I come out and I do a 25 or 30. It's been shows where they literally had to just walk out and be like.

[Chico Bean]

Bro, hey, come on.

[DC Young Fly]

Did you know you've been out here for, like, 40 minutes? Come on, bro.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, with the mics and. And knowing even back that I think that was. That's crazy you say that, Los. Now that I think about it, I think that was the incept, us knowing or getting that chemistry of being together. Cause we. Me and Fly would be standing. Cause he would always go last, and me and Fly would be standing there and kind of just waiting on the right moment to walk on stage. And we always find that he'll say something, and then we'll just come Right on stage. So that's how we was learning. We literally were learning as we go in front of people. Most people don't do that. You know what I mean? They learn away from the crowd and then bring you the finished product. We let them see us build the product from the people, the. From the beginning to now.

[Troy Millings]

So let's talk about this touring. So you got Diddy.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Troy Millings]

His name right there.

[Chico Bean]

Call him brother man. We got brother Blake and the brother man. That's the name. That's the Blake and the brother man.

[Rashad Bilal]

And the other guy.

[Troy Millings]

So they. They run your touring. They run your touring. Is that correct, or.

[Chico Bean]

Well, yeah, this. This specific run. Yeah. You know what I mean? And. But we been working with Blake for literally years. Like, Blake does the. We. Them ones.

[DC Young Fly]

That's why I was so shocked when the sued me.

[Chico Bean]

Don't worry about it. You can't take it personal, man.

[DC Young Fly]

You know I'm gonna keep bringing it up.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Too many conversations now.

[DC Young Fly]

One thing about black dope is like.

[Troy Millings]

How'D that come about. How'd that relationship come about, bruh?

[Chico Bean]

It's a man.

[DC Young Fly]

He do good business.

[Chico Bean]

Besides suing you, I mean.

[DC Young Fly]

But I'm saying besides suing me, he do good business.

[Troy Millings]

Nothing personal. I was just business.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah. And another, he ain't never. He ain't never messed the money up ever, Ever.

[Chico Bean]

It always get. Whether it was 1500 or whatever the hell. Whatever he paying, he gonna have it.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

And he asked you if you want it in cash. I don't know how they do that, but it's always legal.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah. He do good business always. And he'll sue a. You need that type of go getter.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. You know, I mean, it's always. And then the thing is, Manny, you know, he. He had conversations with you. He'll let you know when you know. We didn't have conversations. He'll let you know when shit ain't right and when it is, he ain't keeping. He ain't making it seem like it all good. If it's not, then making it seem like it's all bad. If.

[DC Young Fly]

And I feel like his integrity is there, bro, it ain't just about a money play. He like Chico said, bro, when it's there, it's there. When it ain't here, call and say, bro, it ain't there. But I still want. I still with you.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

So if you still with me, we can make it up somewhere else.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, but.

[DC Young Fly]

But if you with me, I'm with you. But if you don't Want to with it. I completely understand.

[Troy Millings]

How important is that? Because we do events, right? So we understand putting together event from a marketing standpoint. We understand every aspect because we've done every aspect.

[Chico Bean]

Y' all do a whole fest.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

You be having niggas come in and talk from Budapest. We got the richest man in Budapest coming to talk about how he made money off grains, makes a billion dollars a year off.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, y' all got some crazy exes.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, man. Y' all is. All of y', all, man, for real. And then it's crazy to see how much y'. All. Cause when y' all first started coming to do this, the show, the podcast, it was like y' all was really just getting off the ground. Now y' all got Budapest connect.

[Troy Millings]

You the teacher, bro.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

Now you on safari.

[Rashad Bilal]

This is true. Educational safaris.

[DC Young Fly]

Exactly.

[Troy Millings]

So, yeah. Like, how important is that to have the right team in place when going on tour? And, like, how. How much lifting do you guys have to do? As far I know, you gotta promote it, like. But, like, talk about that. Cause people don't know how difficult it is to put together these events, bro.

[DC Young Fly]

It is. Cause you. You gotta keep in mind, somebody gonna have to be, like, responsible. It ain't just fun. Somebody gotta do the shit don't nobody wanna do. Somebody gotta be the person to get up at and make sure all the cameras is there. And somebody gotta make sure that the bills are paid. And somebody gotta make sure that the next city is. You know what I mean, booked out and everything.

[Chico Bean]

And don't nobody get responsible for.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, like, being responsible for 35, 40 grown people who having too much fun. That's the hard part.

[Troy Millings]

That's like, y' all travel with 40 people.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

You look up and then it's like. Yeah, it be. The circle was, like, five, six people when you started. Then you look up, and it's It. You. You've been in there like, bro, it's a hundred people.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, this is my apprentice right here.

[Troy Millings]

Like, where you come from?

[Chico Bean]

Like, you got an apprentice? Like, yeah, that's my understudy right here.

[DC Young Fly]

All right.

[Chico Bean]

What's up, bro? How you doing, man? Yeah, man. I'm teaching them out. Teaching them the ropes. I need you to hold the ropes. Yeah, I'm teaching them how to hold the rope better, you know what I'm saying? So you. But that's the type of environment that we have. We want to see prosperity, you know? I mean, it ain't no.

[DC Young Fly]

It feel good.

[Chico Bean]

It ain't no. You know, as they say big eyes and little you.

[Troy Millings]

What's the hardest part about being on the road?

[Chico Bean]

The hardest part?

[DC Young Fly]

Getting to the next.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Travel the actual bus.

[Troy Millings]

Got the bus. Or fly.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, we usually fly to make sure we get the.

[Chico Bean]

I drive. I'm. You know, I mean, he'll get off stage and drive, you know, anything less.

[DC Young Fly]

Than six hours, he drive.

[Chico Bean]

Blake, what you.

[DC Young Fly]

He will do his set.

[Troy Millings]

Oh, so I meet.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

But me and him started that a long time.

[Chico Bean]

A long time ago.

[DC Young Fly]

We would do the shows and. Cause we would drive to the shows.

[Troy Millings]

Do the show with your own car.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Hell, yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

Do the show and drive home. And he was be like, los, why you doing that? I'm like, bro, it's different when you wake up at home.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

You ain't got to spend all day driving. It's just like you went to work at the house and woke up with the money.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. I mean, so we would always leave. We'd be on tour, Blake. And be like, man, I don't never see. We could. He caught me at the. At the. At the. We stayed a lot of the same hotels that be checking in. Like, yeah, caught your ass. Caught you.

[Rashad Bilal]

Knew I seen you on the fifth floor.

[Chico Bean]

Damn. Like, yeah, man, I just drove down. Down 11, two o' clock in the morning. But, you know, that's the hardest part is just figuring out your routine and making sure that it's in pocket with the routine of the totality, routing.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah, that's what I said.

[Chico Bean]

Totally of everything, but just the logistics from it.

[DC Young Fly]

From the standpoint, like, trying to make it. Trying to make a weekend out of it.

[Chico Bean]

Right.

[Rashad Bilal]

Like, you're picking the cities and trying to figure out the routes that would make sense. The other part is that y' all been doing it for so long. Y' all been to these cities. When you talk to the venues, right? Are you negotiating different terms every time? Because when you. 10 years ago, y'.

[Chico Bean]

All.

[Rashad Bilal]

Not the 85 south that y' all are now.

[DC Young Fly]

Well, you know how venues are. Sometimes it'd be. Sometimes they call us and be like, what you got available? When can you come to this show? And then you hit some of the cities, you know, the las and the stuff like that. And you go, and they got a whole new theater, then they got a whole new set of rules. They got a whole new set of securities and deposits that they want and different insurance appearances and stuff like. Like, that's the part don't nobody ever talk about.

[Chico Bean]

And then you get there, you just want to see it, you know? What I mean, like, you get to the venue with all them deposits and all that, I'm like, y' all ain't checking up under the car. Like, y' all ain't got the dog, where the dog at? You know what I'm saying?

[DC Young Fly]

Y' all just letting everybody through, everybody through.

[Chico Bean]

You ain't running the dog up under the car. Y' all ain't got the. You know, so those type of things, you know, the. The learning process throughout. Cause we started in comedy clubs, right? Like, we would. We started out doing it in comedy clubs. Then we went to theater.

[DC Young Fly]

This is basically like. Like the. To put it in perspective, the comedy club is like a bowling alley. And then you go to the theater, the biggest one in or the arena in your city. It's. That's the. It's two different worlds. Comedy club will let anybody in here. This security guard ain't even in shape. But then when we got. We go downtown to, you know, Mercedes Benz or whatever, we got to make sure we got security that can actually move and walk. And them, they might have to get active. You know that. Now it's a different.

[Troy Millings]

And it's different from tick ticket master. The larger venues. Comedy club, you just selling tickets.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, they printing them joints.

[Rashad Bilal]

They get a ticket. Did y'?

[Chico Bean]

All.

[Rashad Bilal]

And we. We've spoken to people who've done events. Sometimes they work in the deals where it's like, we're getting a piece of concessions. We might get a piece of the bar. We might. If you're lucky. Sometimes they like, hey, we getting a piece of parking.

[DC Young Fly]

But think of how many people don't even know to ask for that.

[Rashad Bilal]

That's why we about to educate them. Right? Like, is that part of the process.

[Chico Bean]

Too, that Blake wanted to say something. I said, he set up on that one. Like, nah, nigga. Chicken strip the hardest to deal with.

[Rashad Bilal]

Most people know that they gonna sell merch at the. At their event.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, see, they ain't giving you. They ain't giving you none of that.

[DC Young Fly]

But see, another part about that, a lot of people don't know some of these venues. You have to pay to do that. You have to pay to do that. They want a percentage of that, even merch.

[Troy Millings]

Sometimes they take up as merchant.

[Chico Bean]

And that's the structure of most comedy clubs is they really don't care about the ticket. It's that two drink minimum they trying to make. So they'll pay for the room, they'll give away the ticket just so they can get you in there buying the quesadilla and the lemon drop.

[DC Young Fly]

$15.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. You know what I mean? So that's a whole nother part of the game. But it's very few people who get to monopolize that part. Like, you got to be.

[DC Young Fly]

You know, a lot of comedians don't get.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. You know, they don't even get John or one of them. You know, I mean.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, they don't make. They don't get to that part. They just. They take the flat rate just so they don't have to. Just so they can say, hey, this is gonna be. You're gonna guarantee to make this. Because they don't want to take the risk of having to promote it. And then if it don't sell now, you don't get no bread. But we all, collectively, at the same time of our career start part like, we made the decision to say, hey, we going here anyway. Why not take a chance? Why not take this chance? All right, bet. Cool. Now it's working. Let's put this up for some security and some safety. Then we're gonna put this. And then we'll put this over here, and then we'll flip this, and then we'll go independent, and then that's when it start making sense. We just had to keep taking them chances.

[Troy Millings]

How do y' all figure out which cities? Cause you go to a lot of cities that people. People might not hit. Like, y'. All. Y' all, like, in the Deep south, like Columbus, Ohio. Like, y' all going. Y' all go to major markets, and y' all go into small markets, too. Like, how do you determine?

[Chico Bean]

Because we've been there already, and we're like, we.

[DC Young Fly]

He went to college in a small market.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

And we know that. We know that when. When you're in a small market and you pick the right weekend, this is the event.

[Troy Millings]

That's the only thing. That's the only thing that's happening.

[Rashad Bilal]

Ain't nobody else coming.

[DC Young Fly]

And plus us having, like, love from them little pockets of. Know the small town. We know that it ain't a lot of people who going to even think to go over there.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

And these people, they. They want to be seen, too. They want you to come to they city and turn up one man. I seen Chico Bean.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

At the Walmart right here, bro. The one my sister work at.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

End up buying some T shirt, bro. Cool.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

I'm talking about. Took a picture with my kids and everything, bro. That sell more tickets than anything you can promote.

[Troy Millings]

Imagine, man, what city surprised y' all most.

[Chico Bean]

Man? That's kind of.

[DC Young Fly]

You know, for me, it wouldn't necessarily be the city. It'd probably be like, where we at or how far somebody came.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

You get what I'm saying? Like, it's people who are fly from Miami to go to the Cleveland show. He was like, why would you come to Cleveland?

[Chico Bean]

Miami?

[DC Young Fly]

I missed the show.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, I know one that surprised me, or the ones that surprised me are the ones that we go to that you don't think that is gonna be the demographic that is, like, Minneapolis. The first time we did that, I was like, yo, look at all these niggas.

[DC Young Fly]

It ain't never. It's never the city that surprised me. It's always the people who show up, bro.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. It's just. And it's like, people you.

[DC Young Fly]

I didn't even know. Like, it's. We got a lot of people that fuck with us, that we don't even be nowhere, bro. Like, one that stand out to me, bro. You remember when Paul George came to the show with his family and they just kicked it backstage?

[Chico Bean]

Oh, yeah. Oh, we done had a lot of that happen. And then it's like, you see people that you think it shocks you, like, y' all know who we are? Hell, yeah. We watching my daughter. And it's just like, people who look nothing like you, who, you know you have nothing in common with other than what you're doing. And that's the part that is, like, the most shocking, is when you see the reach that you have when you're not even, you know, targeting certain demographics. We're just doing what we're doing. But you never know the reach that you have until you enter them in them live shows and you see people and you like. I'm talking about rows and rows of people and you like, bro, what are y' all doing here?

[DC Young Fly]

We fucking love you, bro. We had Sugar Free come out and perform and, like, I don't know if he knew exactly, like, the magnitude of the show. Where were we at, kid? We were at the form, bro. So he backstage, right? He hear all the chaos, but he don't know that this whole joint sold out. So we, like. Before he go on, he going over the joint, like, yeah, I do this song and then I probably do the hook on this one. Then I just managed to end up performing, like, four, five records. He's like, we seen the moment he.

[Chico Bean]

Looked, he was like, all them was going crazy. He was like, we gonna share this. That took his button off his shirt. I'd rather give you my b Show. Yeah. It's about to go down.

[DC Young Fly]

It beat them type of moments.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, it be those moments, like, even, like, in Chicago, you know, that's what, you know, the Blake and them from Chicago. But going to Chicago and being able to rap with Twister in Chicago, like.

[DC Young Fly]

But it ain't just Twist. It's. Twister is in there. Shawna's in there. Do or Die is in there. Crucial conflict.

[Troy Millings]

Everybody.

[DC Young Fly]

Chance the Rapper. Yeah, the whole city is out.

[Chico Bean]

Just to be able to see that. That connect that you have with the people who are from there. And that's the thing that I love about what we've been able to do, is the connection that we have with these people. Like, I just went to the Essence Festival for the first time. I had never been. And, you know, I was supposed to get credentials and all that, but the shit fell through, so I was just like, it. I'm just gonna see what my face. Car get me. And literally, man, we was everywhere because the people who were working the venues and the people who were working the event. Hey, man, you came and performed at my college when I was in college. Hey, Chico, remember y' all came through here, man. Y' all took pictures with everybody, and y' all was, you know, so those relationships, that's what I. That's what prize for me, the biggest pride, is how we've treated people along the way. And they remember that, and they be excited to see us, you know?

[DC Young Fly]

And they know we not faking it, bro. Cause we get so. So we get love in places we ain't even supposed to get. Love, man. When you get up and you got the 4am flight, and then you drop in the rental car off, and then everybody who worked there come out and be like, bro, Chico out here, bro, calling me, man. Get a picture with me, bro.

[Chico Bean]

Every time we.

[DC Young Fly]

What do you see the nigga on the grill at the airport in McDonald's? He's like, hold up, bro. I'm coming, I'm coming.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Without question.

[DC Young Fly]

You were in your car from there.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

They don't get that. I got you.

[Chico Bean]

I got you. Yeah. Or telling like, there's never a time when we do. Hey, man. Yeah. Just seen your boy. Yeah, he just left, man. He got a. A Nissan, man. He got a Nissan. Big truck, The Armada. Yeah, he wasn't supposed to get it out.

[DC Young Fly]

When the manager. When the manager of Enterprise come out and say, look, when you come to Dallas, call me.

[Chico Bean]

Don't. I got you, bro.

[DC Young Fly]

You know what? They gonna put you in three Upgrade.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Like, that's. That's real.

[DC Young Fly]

It say. It's. It say, hey, come on, Excel.

[Rashad Bilal]

You got xl.

[DC Young Fly]

My name D. But my car is. Derek called, you know what I'm saying? Lock me in, bro. Put my number in you for.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, whatever you need. And they mean that, you know?

[DC Young Fly]

But when you go to, like, Waffle House or something, and they like, can't let you pay for this, bro. Can't let you pay for that, bro. Yeah, bro, I with you too hard, bro. When I'm in here on the grill, you know what I'm saying? I'm listening to y', all, bro. I don't fuck with no music.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Telling you, we not lying on you. End up standing in the mall holding hands with a. Like this.

[DC Young Fly]

My sister got pregnant, bro. All she listened to was 85 South. So he had the baby. The baby end up being twin. My nephew. Your real name and name. My nephew, his name d', Angely, she named d'. Angelo Indian. That cuz her baby daddy, d'. Angelo, she queen de Anthony. Cause of youth, you dc. You know what I'm saying? Y' all two together. You know what I'm saying? D. Anthony, put that. Let's get up on the flip, bro. Now, real, bro. I'm gonna come forward with you tonight. My girl getting her hair done. I'm gonna run downstairs. Get them shoes. I got my outfit already. What time you going on?

[Chico Bean]

Oh, man, we. You know, man.

[DC Young Fly]

What? Carlos that crazy. For real. Dc really like that boy crazy here. Hey, buddy. Hey, hey. They can't fold you on the album. You know what, boy, you crazy. Hell for them brave cut that off. Coming tonight. Hey, what time.

[Chico Bean]

What time.

[DC Young Fly]

What time to. Hold up. Hold up, bro.

[Troy Millings]

Hold up.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

You not gonna believe it. Hey, I'm in here with your boy. In here with your boy. Yo, yo. Yeah, yeah, I caught you.

[Troy Millings]

Right, man.

[Chico Bean]

All right.

[Rashad Bilal]

All right, bro.

[DC Young Fly]

All right.

[Troy Millings]

Hold up, hold up.

[DC Young Fly]

There you go. I call you back. Hey, the whole city.

[Chico Bean]

All right? That's what it is. But I'm telling you, dog, that's a fact.

[Troy Millings]

That's a 100%.

[DC Young Fly]

And you had to do this 30 times, bro.

[Troy Millings]

That's easy.

[Rashad Bilal]

Easy.

[Chico Bean]

I'm talking about easy, man. I'm talking. Me and this. Me and this man have been in the. Man, we have been some places, and I had some stuff happen, man. Man, we had a.

[DC Young Fly]

We was.

[Chico Bean]

What was we in la, man? We had some run from the one side of the mall, third floor.

[DC Young Fly]

We looking at them, bro.

[Chico Bean]

Full speed. By the time he got to us. He couldn't even speak. He was.

[DC Young Fly]

El Paso.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, no. We was in San Antonio. Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

Where we in this? The Y is in there. For real. These young ain't got no direction in San Antonio. They literally just sprint through the mall with the people at the mall, bro. Full speed running, knocking over, laughing. Run right past us, right? Like, bro, what the. It's the strangest, but we seen the outside running, so they was swing from outside, just running around with them. Young ran right up on us. Sweaty as hell.

[Chico Bean]

Y'.

[DC Young Fly]

All. Chico Bean column told you, boy. Took off running again.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, man. Just had to make sure when. Like, when you had those type of experiences and, you know, being accessible enough to be able to have those type of experiences. Because, you know, like I said, going to the Essence Festival gave me a good gauge of how people react to, you know, the.

[DC Young Fly]

And we still fans of this shit, too.

[Chico Bean]

You know what I mean? The general public. You see, I saw so many people doing what I guess is normal for a celebrity to do. You know what I mean? No pictures, you know, four, five people in front of them, blocking them off. Don't come when you can't get close to them. And, you know, like I said, I would assume that that's protocol, but that's so different than what we've done because we, on the way up, we had interactions with these people. So now when we go back, who will we be? Not to stop back past the soul food. They know us in there. They got pictures of us hanging up in there. So. So it's just like, the way that our journey has went. Like, we've always been in touch with the people to where they feel like they know us.

[Rashad Bilal]

Ground roof.

[DC Young Fly]

They seen them come up from trying to get backstage to hand off a plate. Now, you got. Oh, you went from. You had the food truck and you got the brick and mortar, bro. That's the crazy dope.

[Rashad Bilal]

And they do know you. That's the thing. Like, 10 years, even for us. It's like people feel like they know us because they do know us. They watch us in the dining room table. Like, I watched y' all when y' all had the wooden table that y' all was when y' all saw the show. So they've grown with y', all, and that's the beauty of it.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

How does it feel for y', all, though? Like, being as though y' all coming up on what? Year of Invest Fest. Now, this is year five, year five of Invest Fest, and it's. It's Bigger every year.

[Rashad Bilal]

Right?

[Chico Bean]

You know what I mean? Like, how does it feel for y' all to be able to put on a. Something that before y' all that really didn't exist in our community?

[DC Young Fly]

Y' all be getting savin them same moments, too, bro, where it's like. Like when you see people that you with. With you.

[Troy Millings]

Yeah, definitely.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah. People who you grew up in.

[Rashad Bilal]

Surreal.

[Troy Millings]

It's so two different questions. But to answer your question first, like, you.

[DC Young Fly]

Can you be trying to be tough? But I can see it in your. You had a few moments where you, like. I can't believe.

[Chico Bean]

Extra Smooth, bro. He don't even, like, joke on him like that. He looks.

[Rashad Bilal]

We had a moment with Nas, so, like, not. It was a moment where, like, we're sitting down with a. With a hero of ours. I would say, like, Nas is, like, the guy for us. And I told him to his face, I wanted to be you. Like, when I was 11 years old, I had that red disc listening to him. I wanted to be you. It was like a moment to me to tell him everything for 42 years of my life that I wanted to say. We had the opportunity to do it, and when it was over, I was like. Like, when people ask me, what's the greatest hip hop moment? It's gonna be this. I actually got to tell one of my heroes exactly everything that was on my mind for however long I knew him.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

And the fact that he was receptive to it. And the next time I saw him, he said my name. I was like, yo, that's crazy. Nas know my name. When I walked in, I was talking to the producer. He was like, yo, if I met Nas, I would cry in front of him.

[Chico Bean]

That's a good thing.

[Rashad Bilal]

That's how much he mean to us.

[Chico Bean]

That's a great experience.

[Rashad Bilal]

Still, man.

[Chico Bean]

We had that experience. Nas fucked up, man. We met.

[DC Young Fly]

My man's Cut it. You know Marcus, his barber?

[Chico Bean]

No, I swear to God, man.

[Rashad Bilal]

Wait, wait.

[Chico Bean]

I'm not bullshitting, man. That happened, man. We. We met Diddy, man. That came out the office in my line. He came out the office, walked straight up to me, and was like, chico, man, what's up, man? You look good. You've been working out, man. That's what it is. And I was like, oh, this know me now.

[Troy Millings]

This guy's crazy.

[Chico Bean]

Wow. You know what I mean, up, man.

[Rashad Bilal]

How the rest of the.

[Chico Bean]

No, it was dope. You know what I mean? It was dope. It was dope. You know what I mean? We had a good time.

[Troy Millings]

Nah, but invest fest, to answer that question, I mean, it's just dope to just have that idea. And y' all could, y' all could appreciate this, right? Like, you have an idea in your head, and then to actually see it come to fruition and then to see it even bigger than what you even envisioned it, like, you know, it's a very humbling experience. But it's. It's almost like. It's hard to really even explain. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I even, like, you go to, like, Dallas, like, when I go to, like, I seen, like, the, the stadium, and I'm like, damn. For somebody to think about that, like, Jerry Jones, that's in his head, right? And then to actually have it there and just like, yeah, that's just dope. So for us, it's like everything that we've been doing is really, like you said, there's really no blueprint before us because it's not like we was following somebody else. So whether it's Invest Fest or going to Ghana or doing a tour or doing, like, different, like, stuff that we're doing, it's just like, everything is just like, like actual history that's happening in real time.

[Chico Bean]

Has that been a favorite part for y' all along the way thus far?

[Troy Millings]

So many, bro. So many. Like, for me, it's traveling. I love to travel. So you said. I just came back from China. We was in Ghana. We was in Kenya. We was. We've been all over Nigeria, London, Toronto. So to be in different. And us, we talking about financial literacy and business. So it's like, you know what I mean? Like, it's a whole new genre that at least our culture has appreciated. So for us to like, how y', all, I, I, We've experienced that same thing. Yeah, but nobody would have ever thought that we'd be experiencing. Talking about stocks and crypto and real estate, like, you know what I mean? Like, so to see people have that same level of appreciation, like you said, the security, the guy like, yo, in between joints, I'm watching your joint because, you know, I just graduated. I'm trying to get off the ground, you know? Like, I done had experiences where it'd be like, real live street dudes at two o' clock in the morning come up, up, like, yo, look at my portfolio in the right joint, you know what I'm saying?

[DC Young Fly]

So. No, no, no, hold on, hold on. Just, just look at it. Yeah, just show me something.

[Chico Bean]

That's what I said.

[Rashad Bilal]

Every moment.

[DC Young Fly]

Just, hey, man, I got money on there. But, hey, buy something, bro.

[Troy Millings]

If I can give you 40, what can you do with it?

[DC Young Fly]

That's so bad?

[Rashad Bilal]

Like, when you say, what's the greatest moment? I think every time encounter, like, that happens, because that's never happened before where it's like, like, yo, you changed my life. And you like, yo, I appreciate you, man. They like, no, no, no. You changed my life. Like, I've never had this much money in my account. I didn't have the knowledge. I started the business. I did this. I went into real estate. I got these properties. I wouldn't have known that information if it wasn't for what y' all did.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

So every time you hear it, it's.

[Chico Bean]

Just like, more reaffirming is it's the best.

[DC Young Fly]

Like, as a comedian, when people come up to you and they say, imagine quick. Hey, bro. Yeah, you like comedians. When we around and we riffing and we just talking about whatever, we not having no concept of what we saying. We just we in the moment and we vibing. Right. But when people pull you to the side and say, man, that clip that I seen y' all do, man.

[Chico Bean]

I hadn't laughed in eight months, bro.

[DC Young Fly]

My sister got killed. My brother got killed.

[Chico Bean]

No, that's real.

[DC Young Fly]

That's the only thing took my life and watch, bro.

[Troy Millings]

That's fact.

[DC Young Fly]

You know what I'm saying?

[Troy Millings]

I had to laugh, escape from reality.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, I'm up to tell us that all the time. All the time. Like, man, I was in such a dark place. I was in a hospital. I had just went through this, that, and the third. And the only thing I can watch was y'. All. Y' all took me out of depression. Y' all raised me for, like, before y', all, and I couldn't. You know, I thought it was over with. I didn't have any inspiration to, you know, do anything until I got put on the Y'.

[Troy Millings]

All.

[Chico Bean]

And I just watched it every day, and it just took my mind off of whatever it was that was going on. When you get to be a part.

[DC Young Fly]

Of somebody therapy, bro, that's real.

[Rashad Bilal]

You said that people grew up on you, and that's. Think about that. Like, I wonder, do y' all look at that perspective? Whereas we grew up, we watched In Living Color, we watched Martin, we watched Fresno, we watched all these shows. And now in reacting back to the thing, though, you.

[DC Young Fly]

They watching your circle.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

All our heroes. When Chico would call me, and he on the road with Martin, and the first thing he say when he see me, one of the funniest niggas in the world crazy, bro. You can't tell me shit after that.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, I mean, I'm talking about.

[DC Young Fly]

I didn't have to say, bro, when.

[Chico Bean]

You get with Martin, please, you don't have to do that. I'm gonna do that regardless. Cause I want. You know what I mean, that confirmation. To be able to know, like, bro, this is what we. That's the best part for us.

[DC Young Fly]

Even better than the money sometimes.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. It's like, to be able to be amongst your hero and they know who you are. Like, it's like, not only know who you are. Can quote what you said. And, man, it's like.

[DC Young Fly]

And they like, what you do.

[Chico Bean]

Like, what the. Where am I? You know what I'm saying? It's the best feeling in the world because you don't account for that. Especially coming from our generation. Like, celebrity was a world away. It is not what it is now. Like, now, celebrity and fame is so easily accessible. You can just pull up your phone and go talk directly to. You know what I'm saying? And when we were coming up, you had to write a letter. You had to. You know, I mean, it was just so far away. Celebrity was inside that. That box. And now to be able to come in contact with these people for me, and we talk about it all the time. Like, it still feels like you that young nigga. Like, you said. Like, when you run, when Nas call.

[DC Young Fly]

You and be like, hey, man, what you think it is right here?

[Chico Bean]

Be like, nigga, where am I right now? Right? You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just. It's just. It's one of those things where you. And then in full circle, like, he said, to get to a point where now you had people coming up to us. Like, man, I've been watching you since I was in the fourth grade, 22 down.

[DC Young Fly]

So crazy.

[Chico Bean]

It's like, damn. You know what I'm saying? Like, you don't even realize that you've been doing it that long.

[Troy Millings]

It's hard to realize your impact when you still impact.

[Chico Bean]

When you still impact things. You know what I'm saying? So is it pressure on y'? All? Like, being as though, you know, we comedians, so. So people come up to us and tell the joke, be funny. Like, is it pressure when they come up, hey, man, I'm about to lose my house.

[Troy Millings]

That's a fact, though, because what am.

[Chico Bean]

I supposed to do?

[DC Young Fly]

You want me to buy some more crypto?

[Chico Bean]

All right, I'm saying, like, is that.

[DC Young Fly]

No, that's A good. That's come up to you with problems?

[Chico Bean]

Like yeah, like what?

[Troy Millings]

No, that's a good. You know, it's crazy. That's a, that's crazy because I literally just had that situation. Like I was out with my son a few, few days ago and it's like 10 o' clock at night, I'm outside on the street and somebody came to me. Like not that same as that, but it's like yo bro, like you know, I'm in between two jobs right now. Like you know, I'm kind of down on my luck. Da da da. Like what, what can I do? And it's, it's like, it's pressure like, you know what I'm saying? Because I don't have a magic answer that could just change your situation overnight. But I don't want.

[DC Young Fly]

Meet me at the bank at 10 in the morning, bring two forms.

[Troy Millings]

I don't wanna give you like a fluff answer, easy. I don't wanna disappoint you. Cause you know what I'm saying? So I had to really think about it and try to really craft a reply that I thought would be helpful. But now that does happen for sure. Cause it's like people that happens a lot even in the DMs like yo bro, I'm down. What can I do? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like that's kinda like they just flat.

[DC Young Fly]

Out ask me for money.

[Troy Millings]

For money.

[DC Young Fly]

I told you this stranger.

[Troy Millings]

Stranger just straight.

[DC Young Fly]

This lady hit me and my DM.

[Rashad Bilal]

Told me for me for sure.

[Chico Bean]

That's good.

[DC Young Fly]

I needed to help her buy a van so she could travel around United States and do holistic medicine.

[Rashad Bilal]

Strangers are asking for money like people.

[Chico Bean]

That know what's my.

[Troy Millings]

In person or dm?

[DC Young Fly]

Both.

[Troy Millings]

Cuz the DM people with the DM is. That's a little bit more like you could just say anything in the dm. You got to be bold to ask a stranger for money.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah, that's pretty wild.

[Chico Bean]

No, you know, you don't have to be bold. You have to have a dm. That's all you have.

[DC Young Fly]

Look at my life and be like, what did I do to make them think I had some money? Cuz y' all know I'm so anti.

[Troy Millings]

That's a fact.

[DC Young Fly]

Money.

[Rashad Bilal]

We're not talking about streams, bro.

[DC Young Fly]

And money so anti. I don't have nothing. I had a G shot. G shot. 85 south shirt. I am a few. I see mega accommodations. I'm Prince of King. Don't, don't make my look too good to invest, cuz I got to still be believable.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[Troy Millings]

I gotta resonate.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

Don't.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. I mean, I'm just going through nine. Just people can help me pay my rent. I got two kids.

[DC Young Fly]

But then I'll be like, what you gonna do next month?

[Troy Millings]

That's a fact.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah. I don't want to get involved in this country because then you're gonna be needing help all the time. Sometimes when you help, you ain't really helping.

[Rashad Bilal]

You're not.

[Troy Millings]

You're hurting people.

[DC Young Fly]

Some, some people go, I mean, as harsh as it sounds, somebody gotta get put out to know how serious is. You need that experience so you can feel them.

[Rashad Bilal]

I thought you want me to read it out loud.

[Chico Bean]

Read it out loud because they might be watching and then they'll know that I read that shit. So just read it.

[Rashad Bilal]

May I be a pest is crazy.

[DC Young Fly]

Damn.

[Rashad Bilal]

And you left it on red.

[Chico Bean]

I didn't know that's. No, no. You can't even reply because like you said, what are you going to do if you set up. Okay, yeah, stranger, like I'm going to do this and then what? You know what I mean? Like, is no consideration for the people that you are required to do these things for. All of those people. Me and this nigga have conversations all the time. We was talking about just how much. I asked him one time, I said, man, how much you think you would have if you never gave? Nothing.

[DC Young Fly]

All of it.

[Chico Bean]

All of it.

[DC Young Fly]

All of it.

[Chico Bean]

I have all of it.

[Troy Millings]

I have all of it.

[Rashad Bilal]

All of it is.

[Troy Millings]

Do you set like a. Okay, this is how much I'm gonna like for me personally. It's like I, I know if somebody ask me for money, right, That I know I have a max amount depending on who it is that I'll be willing to give.

[DC Young Fly]

And then after that I might, I, I got a. A max amount too. And I know if we exceed this or if I, if I go here or above, I know I, I'm gonna cut you off, right?

[Troy Millings]

That's what I'm saying.

[DC Young Fly]

I'm not gonna do.

[Rashad Bilal]

Right.

[Troy Millings]

I'm not even gonna, I'm not even gonna ask.

[DC Young Fly]

I just know this is how much it's gonna cost. Like for instance, I never have to.

[Troy Millings]

Deal with you hypothetically, right? Just hypoth. If somebody just says, like, Yo, I need 5,000, right? Me and that person, relationship might not be at 5000 level. I'll be like, I'll give them $500 because I do know you. But that's It. I can't help you anymore. And now I'm not expecting you to pay me back. So you can't really ask me for money again.

[Chico Bean]

I don't give anything that I need back. I mean, that's always been my mentality.

[Rashad Bilal]

There's no borrowing money.

[Chico Bean]

No, it's no borrowing money. And I've been as being somebody who's been getting my own money for so long in my life, like, I've always been somebody who had at least a dollar. You know what I mean? So somebody gonna ask you for a dollar, and you learn that wanting that dollar back is the worst thing you can do for relationships. Because it's when I need it. It's. You know what I mean, man? It's the most humble. Hey, man, I just. Man, thank you. But when you need it back, it's like, dang, you need a dollar.

[DC Young Fly]

My rule is I can't. Yeah, man, fuck you. I can't give you more than I could ask you for.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, then that's rough.

[Troy Millings]

You can't give more than you can ask for. But if somebody's asking you for money, they don't got money.

[DC Young Fly]

What I like, if you did, if you were in the position, you was normal.

[Rashad Bilal]

Like, most times, they're not gonna be in a position.

[DC Young Fly]

But what I'm saying, if you was normal, it was just you working, and it's Friday, you got your check. Like, I can't let you ask me for more than I could ask you for.

[Chico Bean]

See, I just look at it like I just had to.

[Rashad Bilal]

We're all blessed to be in a fortunate position where.

[DC Young Fly]

Who said that?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, I'm fucked up.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, I'm fucked up. Every time.

[Chico Bean]

I'm not claiming that every time. I mean, not fucked up.

[DC Young Fly]

I turn to say, I got some clothes, I got some jewelry, but all the rest is tied up in investment. Everything else tied up.

[Rashad Bilal]

I got your liquid.

[DC Young Fly]

Nothing liquid.

[Chico Bean]

I look at it like people just. When you get to a position of, like I said, is doing the impossible for the ungrateful. People love to hold you to a standard they don't hold themselves to. It's just. That's all it is. People will hold you to a standard that they don't hold themselves to, because the standard that you're holding me to, to want to do these things for you. If you held yourself to that standard, you wouldn't need me to do it for you, because you would be able to do it for yourself.

[Rashad Bilal]

That's why money's not the issue.

[Chico Bean]

No, money's never The.

[Rashad Bilal]

That's why we can't give it to them.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. I mean, it depends on who it is. There's certain people that are grandfathered in like, that you just got to. It's your people, your people. You know what I'm saying? Like. And it's just certain people that you know that because you're so close to them or because they are these people to you. I can see that you really trying to figure it out and shit just ain't working out for you. Yeah. So I'm not going to let you bump your head, and I'm not going to make you feel I'm doing something for you in the process. Cause I don't need that to be an extra thing that you need to worry about and trying to figure it out. But everybody else is like, come on, Slim. Like, stop.

[DC Young Fly]

But even if I do help, I'm not doing it on your terms. Come on, Los. I need it by the 13th. I ain't giving you that shit till, like, the 14th. Just.

[Troy Millings]

Cause.

[DC Young Fly]

Just to see if my rent's due.

[Rashad Bilal]

On the 15th, I'm gonna give it to you on the 21st.

[Troy Millings]

You gotta exhaust all other options first.

[Chico Bean]

Did you tra.

[DC Young Fly]

Don't never let me be your first call.

[Troy Millings]

That's a fact.

[DC Young Fly]

Call everybody else first.

[Rashad Bilal]

I'm creative for you.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

So I can. So I can be the hero. Like, man, Lo, you came through with that. But that little 400, I needed the last four. You call me when you need that last.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, you know the.

[DC Young Fly]

But even when I give it, I'mma act like. I'mma act so tight with mine. Like, I'm up. Like, I'm going. Act like whatever you ask me for. Now we switching positions. Like, man, is it terrible, man, when you gonna. All right, you know, do me a favor. Like, before I give it to him now, I'd be like, call my phone. See? You see how it went through, Right? So you see when you press this and you hit to call me, you can get in touch with me. You see that? Okay. Yeah. Don't act like that shit didn't happen once I give you this.

[Chico Bean]

You know what the most ironic part is? Me and this nigga was having a conversation one night. It was like, of all. All this stuff that we've done and do for people, we ain't never asked each other for shit. That's the most like. And there's no doubt in my mind, if I asked him for something, it wouldn't be no question, and vice versa. But we ain't Never asked each other.

[Rashad Bilal]

We've never asked each other for money.

[Chico Bean]

Never asked each other for money. Never no money, no monetary nothing. And it's like, that's where you find the soul. That said, at least I get to talk to another nigga who understand what I'm going through. That's all you get. You know what I mean? But at the end of the day, you look at it, and I just always like to look at the bright side of the bullshit. Like, I'm grateful at the fact that I can have these conversations with somebody who understands and ain't looking at you like, man, I don't want to hear about your mother. I got questions for everybody.

[Rashad Bilal]

But that's the beautiful part. I got a question you never asked him. But you.

[DC Young Fly]

If you.

[Rashad Bilal]

The first person you would call, possibly would be him.

[Chico Bean]

I mean. I mean, without question. Because, you know. You know that. You know, if it get down to that, then that's going to be the last thing a nigga worried about. Like, you know what I'm saying? I'm in. Me being the type of. I'm the shirt off my back type dud. So you ain't.

[DC Young Fly]

This is. That's my question. Everybody on the show, y' all talk a lot about responsibility and saving and earning interest and all that. What's the next thing you know for a fact you gonna. Some money up on. Not no investment. Not. Not when you say. When you say not no assets.

[Troy Millings]

When you say money up.

[DC Young Fly]

Like, not an asset. That's what I mean.

[Rashad Bilal]

Not an asset.

[DC Young Fly]

The next thing you know, you. Your next bad infl. Investment. Yeah. What's your next liability? That's my show. Earn your liabilities.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, mine is. That's easy, people. You know, I mean, human beings. Human beings.

[Rashad Bilal]

I think it's. It's got to be that, right? Like, we.

[DC Young Fly]

We.

[Rashad Bilal]

Our minds are so fixated on not doing that, that the only thing that we can't control is the people that are in our lives.

[DC Young Fly]

But, you know, you gotta spend some of this. Every. Every dollar you spend ain't gonna make it. So.

[Troy Millings]

That's a fact.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah, but you think differently about money, right? Like, we think. I can. Like, I think differently about money. We've done the. You know, we've had the. Cause we've had what, like, some of the frivolous. We've done it already. So the next thing, you're always thinking, like, how can we put money in position to make more?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Mine is always the picture over the fireplace.

[DC Young Fly]

Cause he ain't answered yet.

[Troy Millings]

The Biggest. The next liability.

[DC Young Fly]

The next liability. The next liability ability.

[Troy Millings]

The next. All right. Buying a home is a. Is a very tricky situation.

[DC Young Fly]

You the Internet up with that one story. You bought that spot.

[Troy Millings]

That's a fact. And I'm still. And I'm still putting money into this, huh?

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah. I was in. Yeah. He lived down the street.

[Troy Millings]

It's a. It's a bottomless pit.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. It's never ending.

[Troy Millings]

It's never ending. It's. And even when you get there, you got to pay. I don't want people to kill me. Like, that's irresponsible. I encourage home ownership. But when you actually.

[DC Young Fly]

When you gotta spend, like, $8,000 for your toilet to flush. Right? That's some.

[Troy Millings]

And then you got taxes and you got the school tax. Then you got the.

[Rashad Bilal]

Bro.

[Troy Millings]

The. The floor is gonna come, bro.

[Chico Bean]

We had.

[DC Young Fly]

I had a plumber cat come and tell. Like, the toilet was up. It was working before these came and dug up my whole yard. And Blake basically said, there's no way that toilet should have been flushing the way it is. It ain't level. Had 92 degrees.

[Chico Bean]

Blake was like, man, I'm not fitting to buy this and had to put my ass.

[Troy Millings]

It's the. It's the worst. At least if you got. Let's say a lot of people would say, like, a girlfriend, you could end a relationship like that, Right?

[DC Young Fly]

That was a good mood, my boy. I saved so much money.

[Troy Millings]

You.

[Chico Bean]

Your relationship status to single.

[DC Young Fly]

Switching back to me. God damn. Oh.

[Troy Millings]

Oh, you're single.

[DC Young Fly]

Oh, you know?

[Rashad Bilal]

No.

[Troy Millings]

So you want to answer that?

[DC Young Fly]

I'm single, baby. What's happening? Earn your leash. I'm about to get you up. You feel me? Oh, yeah.

[Chico Bean]

You was staying.

[DC Young Fly]

You was.

[Troy Millings]

You.

[Chico Bean]

You was.

[Troy Millings]

You was doing the whole love tour.

[DC Young Fly]

I was in love.

[Troy Millings]

Okay.

[Chico Bean]

Dealership tour we have all the time. Just know I've always been the voice of reason, man. Keep your eyes open. I ain't saying you wrong. I support.

[DC Young Fly]

Support you. I'd be so scared for Chico. Boy, he be talking about relationship because he'd be so anti. Relationship.

[Troy Millings]

Oh, Chico.

[DC Young Fly]

I remember, like, him in the back of my mind. Relationship, man.

[Troy Millings]

I saw. I saw that live show. Angel live show. Yes. He's like, I'm never. I'm never going.

[DC Young Fly]

But, like, I know he's standing on it, right? Yeah, he's standing on it. So I'm scared he gonna, like, never know get a partner with a stripper.

[Troy Millings]

Is that. Is that a trauma? Is that a trauma?

[Chico Bean]

No, it's not a trauma response. It's an understanding myself response. The thing is, I think a lot of men don't, don't do the necessary insight within themselves to figure out who they really are. Just because you don't want to be a bullshit nigga don't mean you are automatically supposed to be somebody's husband or boyfriend. And then the unfortunate part for me is niggas love to be a real everywhere but in the house they own.

[DC Young Fly]

So fat in their own house, you.

[Chico Bean]

Are staying on business everywhere else. But you go in that house, that woman ask you something.

[Troy Millings]

So what's stopping you from.

[Chico Bean]

Because the terms and conditions, they make no sense. Monogamy, none of them make sense to me. Like when I think about who I am as a person, there's no way as a man that I can have a woman somewhere thinking that the decision that I made that best suited me and whatever moment I choose to make it is somehow violating her. That's unfair to me as a man because I'm not doing anything that's wrong to. I'm a grown man. I know how to make decisions. You don't get to dictate my decisions based on a what, what do you call it? Social construct that we didn't even have a hand in creating. We going off of what everybody else is supposed to do or says you supposed to do.

[Troy Millings]

What if you could do it your your way?

[Chico Bean]

I do do it my way. That's why I don't want to be in a relationship.

[Troy Millings]

What if you have a relationship? What if you have the relationship? What if you can have a relationship and it's a woman that completely understands.

[Chico Bean]

I do. Every relationship that I have with a woman is exactly that because I'm explaining to them who I really am from the beginning. So that's what I'm saying. People are confused when they hear me talk to think that I'm saying I'm anti having a relationship with a woman. No, I have relationships with every woman that I deal with. It's just not the way that you respect it or you think it's supposed to be.

[DC Young Fly]

It's not traditional.

[Chico Bean]

It's non traditional if you want to call it. And everybody has to put a, a title or term on something. So if that's what you need to do to help you define my life, then go for it. But as far as me, I'm not. I'm not. No, it doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not. It's like an investment. It's like you look at he like.

[DC Young Fly]

The little Boy in the third grade on the playground, they all my girlfriend.

[Troy Millings]

But what I'm trying to say. All right, so. Because we travel a lot, right? So in different parts of the world, like, we went to k. We went to Kenya, right? And like, we went to certain parts of Kenya. Like, it's. It's socially acceptable to have five wives.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. If I really wanted to be married, I can just move to. You know, I can move.

[Troy Millings]

But you. It's not. It's not even about being different. You just don't want it.

[Chico Bean]

It's just the who I am as a person, it doesn't make any sense to me to go into a situation and set standards and rules based off of emotions that are temporary. Yeah, these are. Love is the. One of the most temporary emotions. It's the worst thing you can base a relationship off. Because what about the days when I'm not feeling love? Do I still look at you and see value in you when. Those days. And how do you establish that? And if we're going off the rules and regulations of how it's set up, then it's hard to be able to keep that in line because now you looking at me like I'm doing something wrong to you for doing something right for me. And I just don't understand that process said.

[Rashad Bilal]

I choose me. I choose me, huh?

[Chico Bean]

Without question. I don't have a choice because. And I'm raising a daughter. So you gotta understand, like, this is not just something that I'm doing on my behalf. I have to explain to my daughter my perspective. And I have to. People ask me all the time, well, how would you feel if your daughter was with a man like. Like you? I'd be overjoyed, because at least she knows what she's doing. If that's the decision that she wanted to make, she made it based off of reality. And that's all I can ask for.

[DC Young Fly]

At least you real enough not to lie to her and be like, look, it is what it is.

[Troy Millings]

Honesty is the best policy.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

No, it ain't.

[Chico Bean]

But it's not. No, No, I never said that.

[Troy Millings]

It's not.

[Chico Bean]

No. Hell no.

[Troy Millings]

Why not?

[Chico Bean]

Hell, you be out here telling the.

[DC Young Fly]

Truth you ain't never going to have.

[Chico Bean]

I just asked, like, this is a gauge that I do at all my shows. I always ask women, do you make some noise if you just want a man to keep it 100 with you? Majority of the women make noise. All right, fellas. So do that. But I would Never say hey, men tell the truth. They don't. That. Hell no. That's the worst thing you can do. And it's coming from somebody who tells the truth all the time. It doesn't work.

[DC Young Fly]

They don't.

[Chico Bean]

It doesn't work.

[Troy Millings]

You would advise people to lie?

[Chico Bean]

No, I would. If you a. That's trying to be in a relationship.

[Troy Millings]

Well, there's two different things though. There's a lie and then it's just not saying stuff that's not a lot.

[Chico Bean]

No, that's a mission. But that's just. That's a.

[Troy Millings]

You don't ask. Don't ask. Don't ask, don't tell.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. That's the light lie. Me, I choose to operate outside of the Matrix.

[DC Young Fly]

Is that a lie though?

[Chico Bean]

No, no, no, not at all. Because anything.

[Troy Millings]

No, no. But what I'm saying is that. All right, let's say hypothetically you're doing something, whatever it's never really asked of you. You don't volunteer the information.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, that's. That's. That's.

[DC Young Fly]

That's dishonest though.

[Rashad Bilal]

That's a whole different thing was you would have like last night.

[Troy Millings]

That's you asking me a question. But I'm saying.

[Chico Bean]

Can I just answer that? That's why I don't ever want to be a. Because you're conditioned to immediately say anything but yes or no. You know what I'm saying? I don't. I can't do that. But I wouldn't advise.

[DC Young Fly]

He was thinking of the answer.

[Chico Bean]

To do that. Because the reality is most. In my experience. I can't speak for everybody but in my experience most women have never had a man keep it 20 with him, let alone a hundred. So how do you know that's really what you want until you run it into it being as man. A man that tells the truth and don't lie. I know that it doesn't breed you any type of benefit. Benefit. It just keeps you from dealing with all of the consequences of being a lying ass. And we've all been there. We've all. And that just. You are just. She's justified to do whatever knock you upside your head. See, that's why I'm not House up and all that.

[DC Young Fly]

They need to meet him so they can appreciate the. That's like. Like me. I will tell you the best lies you ever heard but no apology, no apologies. We both lying. You don't even like me like that for real. I'm sick of you. You don't like me. We lying like we happy until we ain't happy no more. Now we free.

[Troy Millings]

Now we free.

[DC Young Fly]

So now we about to both hit these streets and enjoy these streets, like, in this freedom like we never have been.

[Rashad Bilal]

Streets is different now, though.

[DC Young Fly]

When it come to these hoes, I'm dmx. I'm gonna let them say whatever the they want to say. Whatever I did it. All these old. Yeah, whatever. I don't know no Kiana. You know, I know. Why you asking me how you know her? See, how do you.

[Troy Millings]

That's the question. That's the question. That's the question.

[Chico Bean]

Why.

[DC Young Fly]

Why are you asking me who I know?

[Troy Millings]

You got reverse engineering.

[Chico Bean]

That's all. They telling the truth. Keeps from having to deal with. I don't know how to have that conversation.

[DC Young Fly]

Yes, you do.

[Chico Bean]

I know how to have a conversation. And me not. Not. No, I'm not. No. Not when it come to a woman. I'm not. I'd rather have a conversation. Who the deal with that? Do you mean to tell me somebody accept that shit. I'm like, yeah, yeah. Would you be the one that's gonna.

[DC Young Fly]

Give you some head later on that day? Next one who want to sit there, the same ones that want to sit there and break down the dynamics of. Of that for two hours to suck some dick right after that.

[Troy Millings]

But no apology.

[Chico Bean]

I know this. I mean, hey, there's some truth to that, too.

[DC Young Fly]

But you so inquisitive. Let it go, Let it go. I'll tell y' all about it.

[Chico Bean]

Put your. You know what I mean? I thought you said you ain't want.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yo, Lord.

[Troy Millings]

Tell the truth.

[DC Young Fly]

Don't get some head. Lie. Get some head.

[Chico Bean]

I'm lying.

[DC Young Fly]

I'm a lie. That's the truth. The truth is I lied. You want the truth so bad? Let my lie go through. You have to swipe your card and that take a little minute. You know, it's some money on that bitch. Be like, hold up, hold up.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, see, that's a different.

[DC Young Fly]

I thought, the fuck so.

[Chico Bean]

That's a different. I'mma tell the truth now. I'mma tell the truth, not get the head and just tell myself something to make myself feel better when a nigga.

[DC Young Fly]

Like me show up and tell us some good lies.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Nah, that breath.

[DC Young Fly]

Get that head.

[Chico Bean]

Nah, I'm good.

[Troy Millings]

Yo, before we leave, I want to ask y' all this because y' all always been like. Y' all always stay y. Y' all just, like, keep it solid. But a trend has been happening over the last 18 months with comedians. I guess it's been Happening for a long time. But there's a lot of beef between comedians. I didn't know that this man, them n can't fight. But it. Where did that. Is that always been part of the comedian?

[DC Young Fly]

That's cause a lot of them niggas can't fight, man.

[Chico Bean]

Listen, let me tell you.

[Troy Millings]

That's the reason why.

[DC Young Fly]

Yes, comedians. Comedians are not good fighters, but they always fighting. I have played sports and been in all kinds of other shit. The only group of people I've been around that fight this much are comedians. Comedians stay in some shit.

[Troy Millings]

Why? Why?

[Chico Bean]

Because they don't like each other.

[DC Young Fly]

Limited resources. They don't like each other.

[Chico Bean]

He told me this when early. Early in the game, like. Cause Los is our elder. He been doing it, you know, doing 20 for longer than all of us, Especially when we came into, you know, getting notoriety. And it's always been my partner. So he was like, man, let me tell you something, man. These niggas don't fuck with each other. They hate each other. These niggas really hate each other, man. He said, and everything you gonna see when you around these niggas is gonna be in the vein of that. So don't be surprised when you see it. And from that point on, I've never been shocked. Like, I ain't never tried to be friends with nobody up other than my partners. Because I understand. I see it like, when you see it from that vantage point, that's where the beef come from. But these niggas get around each other and be.

[DC Young Fly]

That's the thing, though. They don't build fake love.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, it's a lot.

[DC Young Fly]

A lot of these niggas are just. When you think about it, a lot of these niggas be in their own world. So in your world, you the king. So none of this, you the baddest motherfucker in the world. Cause you ain't never got to see no nobody. You'll never have to interact with them. You might never even get to see these face to face if they don't want you to. But it's just. It's a lack of resources and opportunities, man.

[Chico Bean]

And ego.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah.

[Troy Millings]

Everybody's fighting for the same spot, right?

[DC Young Fly]

A lot of these people have ego because they do have flashes of greatness. But the world ain't gonna never get to see it.

[Rashad Bilal]

Other comedians, now, they don't like each.

[DC Young Fly]

Other because they like all that do. Is that one.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

That's what I'm saying. So, like, when y' all watch it from your perspective, right? Because when we think of comedians of this generation, obviously y' all are in that. That patheon of. Of greatness. Do y' all watch other comedians and say, that dude's fire or that that chick is fire? Who are those people, right. Opportunity right now that are not 85 south affiliated?

[Chico Bean]

It'll take us all day, you know, to tell you. You know, Mojo Brooks, I mean, you know, Nav Green, Money Bag Mafia, I mean, Bubba Dub, you know, the list goes on and on. Like. But we show love to everybody. Like, we.

[DC Young Fly]

That's why the beef shit be funny. Cause I think on the outside of people who. Not comedians, they always be missing a little part. It's always a little piece of the beef that's missing. That, like, that makes it make sense. But as far as just not liking each other, these niggas don't hate each other. They just got some disagreements that they can't work out. Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

And I think that's everywhere. That's everywhere. And then when you come from certain environments, like, we really feel from, like, different. Our background is real different.

[DC Young Fly]

I'll tell you, Right. Any beef between comedians is a few. It could be solved with a couple dollars. Not a lot. Not even a lot. Just a couple dollars.

[Rashad Bilal]

Dollars.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, couple dollars.

[Chico Bean]

Couple dollars, probably. And then, like, for me, I always looked at it like, I ain't got time to be having no problems with nobody doing this. I come from where problems were daily, you know, and really grew up in that environment, and that was normalized. So I refused to get that energy to now. So it's always been easier having that mentality moving through the game. And I always say, I've been blessing the game.

[DC Young Fly]

Everybody with all the comedians, everybody.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, how.

[DC Young Fly]

Just needed. Almost every time I get on the platform, I'm gonna start telling people, hire comedians. It don't even have to be me. Hire some comedians. Watch how much of this beef just dissipates. Whatever y' all got going on, bro. Hire a comedian. Go grab a look. A comedian. Comedian that you know from your hood. Grab them from your. Grab one from your hood, throw a little bread on them and keep them working.

[Troy Millings]

But that's the good thing with y'.

[Chico Bean]

All.

[Troy Millings]

Y' all don't have to be hired. You. You can get hired, but you created your own. Nowadays, you gotta self still accept jobs, though. No, no, for sure. But I'm just saying, I feel like the days of like. Like, struggling actor. Right? Or struggling comedian, but it's not. You have a struggle.

[DC Young Fly]

It's not like that for everybody.

[Chico Bean]

It's not like that. It's just as difficult. That's what people don't understand.

[DC Young Fly]

There's a lot of comedians that don't want to do sketches or do skits or be in a movie or be in a show or do comedians just.

[Chico Bean]

Want to tell jokes. Yeah. And some of them just want to do this. And. And you know, it's. It's just a different mentality you got, you know, it's kind of like the mentality of the young hating on the old, the old hating on the young. It's just people paying attention.

[DC Young Fly]

It's two different worlds.

[Chico Bean]

It's two different.

[DC Young Fly]

They don't even do the same thing. But if you a sketch comedian that do skits and things like. Like that, people always say, man, you so funny, you need to do standup. But they never tell funny ass stand up comedians, you need to do sketches. You need to do some sketches. Boy, hey, you need to start fucking with them sketches.

[Chico Bean]

They'll tell you you need to do movies. But now that's the world that we live in. You know what I mean? You look at the way that the consumer consumes media now. You got the ashospies, the castanets, the Drew skis. You know, the Drew skis and all of these different people who have innovated the way that people.

[DC Young Fly]

And desi banks.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

And see, that's what I was about to show you. That's how simple it is to start a beef with ComEd.

[Chico Bean]

You leave a name.

[DC Young Fly]

That's why when you said who? Some of the upcoming comedians. We ain't even really get to go into a whole list.

[Troy Millings]

Or you got somebody like Country Wayne, who literally started his own show.

[Rashad Bilal]

Everybody might have felt slighted by y'. All.

[DC Young Fly]

Right, where them don't ever meet.

[Chico Bean]

Never say my name.

[DC Young Fly]

Don't with me like that. But it sit there and ask him who he with. He said three, I bet.

[Troy Millings]

No, that's real, though.

[DC Young Fly]

That's how comedian. That's how comedian beef start.

[Rashad Bilal]

You said something about doing movies and you alluded to it as well. I know you got the partnership with Kevin Hart.

[DC Young Fly]

You do. Who told you?

[Rashad Bilal]

Heartbeat.

[Chico Bean]

Who told you?

[Rashad Bilal]

I mean, you talk about the highest level of comedian working with y' all talking about partnership and working, working together. How'd that deal come about, man? What's that? What's. What's the plans for it?

[DC Young Fly]

I don't know.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, me neither.

[DC Young Fly]

I don't. See, now, see, now you brought up the comedian beef. What if we don't answer the Right. And then Cam see this and be.

[Chico Bean]

Like, oh, yeah, y' all didn't give enough grave. That's why I don't nobody. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't even understand why you guys didn't give the thing about.

[DC Young Fly]

But think about it, though. Is been working with Kevin Hart for a long time.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

Like, I been knowing Kevin Hart since Laugh of Palooza. And he's one of the guys who he. He's. He's great when it comes to the business of entertainment.

[Troy Millings]

Smart guy.

[DC Young Fly]

And like you were saying earlier, he saw us grinding and building our own stuff and selling out tours, and sometimes we. He performing at these same venues that we perform at. And he knows. Know how it, like, what it takes to sell these joints out. I'm like, okay, y' all doing this. So y' all do. And looking at the numbers at the end of the year. And he saw the progress and he worked with all of us individually. And he came on Wild and now. And we've had real conversations. And then, you know, just in the process of moving out, moving around the entertainment industry, people start to fuck with you when they see you in places that ain't got nothing to do with work.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

Oh, we in Vegas. Oh, look, chico, come on. Come holl at us.

[Chico Bean]

Don't holler at us. Come with us.

[DC Young Fly]

It's a job for them to call you and say, come to Vegas with us this weekend. But if we see you, you good. Come over here and see what this superstar hitting like. Yeah. Between me and him and DC and all the. The entertainment circle.

[Rashad Bilal]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

That's how a lot of stuff happens. It ain't just the Kevin Hart. It's how a lot of our opportunities at.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. It'd be something simple as. Like you said when I came in, the first thing you said something about the watch. Like, I've had so many conversations. Just from this. Just from this. Somebody said, oh, man, that's a nice. That's.

[Troy Millings]

Where'd you get in the same club.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. You know. Yeah. Where'd you get that? And then you end up having a conversation and find out this own mustard.

[DC Young Fly]

Right.

[Chico Bean]

You know what I'm saying?

[DC Young Fly]

You be like, you own this again at the Super Bowl. He was like, he got another one. All right. Oh, oh, you do this.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[Rashad Bilal]

Switch your wash up.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah.

[Chico Bean]

Shout out to Kevin Hart, man. He produced the. The. The stand up special that I got on Hulu Heartbeat Productions. Laugh. How loud is his company?

[DC Young Fly]

That's the thing.

[Chico Bean]

He works with us.

[DC Young Fly]

Kevin Hart gave Me one of my first big checks. Yeah, for real, like big one.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah.

[DC Young Fly]

For the lol, Stand up Special. I'm talking. I did no questions asked do the.

[Rashad Bilal]

As soon as you.

[DC Young Fly]

It's a lady standing right there with an envelope with a chick, right? I'm talking about for a comedian, this life changing money right here, you don't like. It's right there. Soon as you finish. Ain't no wait, ain't no two weeks, ain't no check your mailbox. Kevin Hart, just real like that. And he has always shared his success with the rest of the comedy world.

[Chico Bean]

And that's why I say I've been blessing the game. Cause all of the OGs that I've had those experiences with, you know what I mean? Like, all the guys I been around, the D Rays, the Duvalls, the, you know, the Quakes, the, you know, I.

[DC Young Fly]

Mean, pretty much everybody who had paper.

[Chico Bean]

When we came around, that was the guys when we came around, they all showed us love and gave us gaming. And we ain't never been like shitted on by them niggas. And that helped. I haven't, you know, I can't say, you know, you've been doing it longer.

[DC Young Fly]

I done seen a few times what these niggas is not those people you name. But I'm saying in the industry and I've told you them stories.

[Chico Bean]

Oh yeah, no, that's why I say I've been blessed. Cause I ain't never had to deal with none of that personally. And I'm glad because I don't know how I would like. I don't. I'm not really set up like that. You're not gonna be able to, you know, chump me off like that. Like, you know, that's why I always say I'm nervous to meet Mike, meet Jordan. Cause I would hate for Jordan be like, man, take my ass. Why you got on. Look at your jeans.

[DC Young Fly]

The day you meet him, you ain't gonna have on no Jays. It's gonna be a. You don't. We like Adidas.

[Chico Bean]

Right? But I gotta ask y' all before we get out of here, man, what's, what's y' all opinion on crypt on bitcoin right now? Like, what's, what's, what's. You guys's, you know, your take on.

[Troy Millings]

It's, it's unstoppable. It's very resilient. You know, they about to pass this legislation. That's why it's been going crazy right now. Over 120,000. So I feel like for the future, bitcoin is very volatile. It goes up and goes down. But for the future, the trend is leading up. Now if you look at past 10 years, since it's been started, right? And it's something that once you start to see mass adoption, that's what we've seen. So you've seen blackrock, you've seen fidelity, you see it's traded on the stock market now as far as the etf. So it's almost like just normalized at this point, right?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, but that's why I asked because with regulation comes, you know, that changes the game. You know what I'm saying?

[Rashad Bilal]

Well, regulation brings institutional money.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, exactly.

[Rashad Bilal]

Once institutional money comes in, like you said, it's tough to stop. And you got an administration right now that is in favor of it. And so it's going to be easier to pass legislation than it would have been in the past. I'll put it like this. In terms of value and market caps, how companies are valued, they're worth right now, bitcoin, if it was a company, would be the fifth wealthiest company in the world, right? It's valued at over $3 trillion. They project it to be at 6 trillion by 2030.

[Chico Bean]

Okay, well, so it's up there you have it.

[Troy Millings]

What's going on?

[Chico Bean]

I just wanted to get their opinion, Ben, as though, you know, we talked about this years ago. You know, years and years ago. I mean everything from bitcoin to Chat GPT and you guys, you know, on the camera, off the camera we had on the came camera off camera.

[DC Young Fly]

We got to start doing this quarterly.

[Troy Millings]

Yeah, remember the chat GPT? That was the first time when y' all and y' all did this. We came in and then now it's.

[Chico Bean]

Like, yeah, now it's this.

[Troy Millings]

Every five year old got you. Exactly. It's the new Google.

[Chico Bean]

It's just the new Google.

[DC Young Fly]

I'm not using it. Right.

[Rashad Bilal]

That's a fact.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, I'm not using chat G. I ask dumbass questions what makes nipples pink and then.

[Rashad Bilal]

This is crazy.

[DC Young Fly]

I, I'm. I ain't used it, but nothing positive yet.

[Chico Bean]

But it answered it though, didn't it? The melanin in his nipple. You'd be like, oh, I'm there. I didn't figured out how to turn myself into a Sesame street character on that. I'd have been on there taking pictures. Man in the air. They man turned me in a spongebob like true story.

[Rashad Bilal]

It's going nowhere.

[Chico Bean]

We've had all of these conversations, you know, in Front of the people, man. So, you know, salute to y' all and thank y' all for always having us and always being a able to. Y' all gotta pull up, progressively push the conversation and not hide the information from the people, Man.

[DC Young Fly]

I need me some tickets to invest.

[Chico Bean]

Fish. Yeah, we gotta come to an.

[DC Young Fly]

I need a. I need a. A lanyard that make it look like I got a lot more to do with it than I actually do.

[Troy Millings]

Production.

[Chico Bean]

I was looking forward to Essence Festival, man.

[Troy Millings]

They ain't give me nothing VP production.

[Rashad Bilal]

But I wanna.

[DC Young Fly]

When I see y' all the headset.

[Troy Millings]

You need a headset.

[DC Young Fly]

Not necessarily a headset, but what.

[Chico Bean]

When y' all like, say, for instance, you y.

[DC Young Fly]

When y' all give me the. I' gonna act like I'm always looking for y'.

[Chico Bean]

All.

[DC Young Fly]

What you say, Rashad? So come on, let's run it. Let's just run it running.

[Chico Bean]

He's here. We got the talent here. Let's just run it. Let's just run it. Let's just run it. Mike's up.

[DC Young Fly]

If you ain't got one of these, you can't. That's. That's what I want to do. That's it. Get me one of them. You ain't got to worry about. Else I ain't coming to the bread up. But I want to just come and act like I'm real important. And when people ask you is that you don't know who the. That is. That's the. That invented Black gp. That's Black GPT.

[Troy Millings]

That's the Black GPT, dude.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, Black GPT. Yeah. Black GPT would be dope. The type of you could ask. Black GPT would be amazing. Like a. Like a. Like a black grandma.

[Troy Millings]

Give us an example.

[DC Young Fly]

When is bitcoin going. Going up, child? I don't know. It's going up directly. Going up to steel.

[Chico Bean]

Going up to stealing.

[DC Young Fly]

What should I do with this money? Well, if it's in the Lord's will, you'll always have it. If I live and don't nothing happen, I'm invest all my money at the investment.

[Chico Bean]

Black GPT.

[DC Young Fly]

The lowest defense.

[Chico Bean]

You know, it's legit. That's what it is. It's going down. We need to come up with that.

[DC Young Fly]

Come on. What's the blessing? Everything that you got that the Lord.

[Chico Bean]

Wants you to have.

[Rashad Bilal]

Did he about to trademark this?

[DC Young Fly]

I know that's why he's still waiting on this.

[Troy Millings]

Yeah, we want to appreciate y' all brothers, man. What's the. Is tickets on sale right now?

[DC Young Fly]

Tickets on sale. Hey, go get Download the app. Channel 85 is in the app store. You can get tickets off the app or you can just go to channel85.com. You can go to Ticketmaster.

[Chico Bean]

You can go to 85.

[DC Young Fly]

What's the website, Blake? BMN shows dot com. Anything 85 South. Follow us on social media. Chico Bean, Carlos Miller, DC Young Fly shout out to Nav Green, Money Bag Mafia, Clayton English, poor minds.

[Chico Bean]

And BMN stands for being Magnificent. Just in case you didn't know, being men is being magnificent. Magnificent shows. I thought.

[DC Young Fly]

I thought that was a suv. That's the hybrid.

[Chico Bean]

Oh, hey, man. But make sure you get your tickets to come see to spin the block to it, man. We coming to see y'.

[Troy Millings]

All.

[DC Young Fly]

Yeah, and when y' all come for Eyl, bro, we gonna. We gonna send some people back there and get some exclusive BTS scene. That's my young dog Marco right there.

[Chico Bean]

Yeah, we got to, man, because he.

[DC Young Fly]

Need a lane vineyard too.

[Chico Bean]

Send us.

[DC Young Fly]

Hey, man, what. What day is investment?

[Rashad Bilal]

August 22nd through the 24th.

[DC Young Fly]

So we gonna get the package of lanyards before that, like the week we're.

[Rashad Bilal]

Coming to see y'.

[Chico Bean]

All.

[DC Young Fly]

We took my envelope with the clasp in the back. Send me a few over. Let me know which one mine I want one that don't nobody have. Give me like, if I wanted the Eyl with like an orange trim or solid.

[Chico Bean]

Put a.

[DC Young Fly]

Put leather on my. Make my shitty. All right, y' all got it. Put leather on my. And I don't want no laminated. Like have somebody hand stitch that. Like one of these Africans in Harlem or something. You know what I'm saying? Some that I get. That's gonna. You know what I mean? Don't send me no cheap, bro. I'm telling like, bro, we've been friends.

[Rashad Bilal]

This is true.

[DC Young Fly]

Got too much money for me to n off of. We gotta stop being humble. Yeah, bro.

[Rashad Bilal]

Get my.

[DC Young Fly]

I'm just giving me iced out lanyard or something, bro.

[Chico Bean]

N got you. I take a watch, cuz. That said it slow. That's the one I want. I love that one. See, that's. People don't know about that one. See, these is the preis is dope. But that one, that one is one that's.

[Rashad Bilal]

I'm with Lo, man.

[Chico Bean]

Trying to figure it out.

[DC Young Fly]

Nah, this ain't even a real Rolex.

[Chico Bean]

It's a vitamin Timex.

[Rashad Bilal]

Timex?

[Chico Bean]

Yeah. You ain't about to do me. Come on, funky monkey on you all night. Hit you with the gun. With the Harlem nights man. But appreciate y' all man.

[DC Young Fly]

Congratulations on everything man.

[Chico Bean]

Always Love man for real.

[DC Young Fly]

85 sell.

[Carlos Miller]

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