Charlamagne Tha God (3:18)

You ready? Caresha Charlamagne how you feeling?

Caresha (Young Miami) (3:24)

I feel good. How you feeling?

Charlamagne Tha God (3:25)

I'm blessed. Black and highly favored man. I'm happy to see you. I've been wanting to argue with you for so long.

Caresha (Young Miami) (3:29)

I don't want to argue with you. I don't want to argue with you. You know, I always say you one of my favorites.

Charlamagne Tha God (3:35)

I appreciate you too.

Caresha (Young Miami) (3:36)

I really look up to you. I really do. Like, I just feel like you are a straightforward and you tell her how it is and it come from a mature space.

Charlamagne Tha God (3:46)

I appreciate it.

Caresha (Young Miami) (3:46)

Like you gonna say how you feel and that's just what it is. It ain't. It ain't. Cause you feel away like if you like you like it, if you don't, you don't.

Charlamagne Tha God (3:52)

Absolutely.

Caresha (Young Miami) (3:53)

And I respect that.

Charlamagne Tha God (3:53)

I respect you too. You know, I fuck with you, but I heard you say that. What did you say? You said that a man needs a net worth of $100 million.

Caresha (Young Miami) (4:00)

Oh my God.

Charlamagne Tha God (4:01)

To date you. You about to date.

Caresha (Young Miami) (4:03)

You got 100 million and I know you married and stuff. I'm just saying. Stop, stop. You work to that point, you know how good you feel.

Charlamagne Tha God (4:09)

I don't know what you're talking about.

Caresha (Young Miami) (4:10)

Okay.

Charlamagne Tha God (4:12)

I'm just saying, you know, less than one thousandth of 1% of people reach that type of net worth.

Caresha (Young Miami) (4:18)

I know. And that mean you a hard working man. If you got that.

Charlamagne Tha God (4:22)

Damn.

Caresha (Young Miami) (4:22)

And I want me a hard working man.

Charlamagne Tha God (4:23)

Well, does it have to be. You didn't mean 100 though.

Caresha (Young Miami) (4:26)

I didn't mean it literally, but I would love for him to have at least. But that don't mean nothing. Money don't mean everything, you know, but. But I'm just saying like you know I say a lot of shit. But I did mean it though.

Charlamagne Tha God (4:38)

Could you date a regular dude though? Like Just you down in Miami. Dude work at FedEx. He got a benefit. God damn.

Caresha (Young Miami) (4:45)

And not even just that. I just. I like what I like. I just. I think that I'm like, you know, I'm into nice things. And not saying that a man that work a job can't give me nice things, but I think I want to date somebody that's like, in the same caliber of me.

Charlamagne Tha God (4:57)

Absolutely. I understand.

Caresha (Young Miami) (4:59)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (4:59)

Now, what happened to the Caresha Please podcast? You know, everybody loved the podcast. You were supposed to be the next black Oprah. You said you.

Caresha (Young Miami) (5:05)

I'm still is the next black Oprah. Oprah.

Charlamagne Tha God (5:07)

Already black, though.

Caresha (Young Miami) (5:09)

But I'm like the. You know how, like, a person is like black, but they like black black.

Charlamagne Tha God (5:13)

Got you. Oprah. Black, black girl.

Caresha (Young Miami) (5:18)

I'm saying, like, it's like the hood from the hood. Okay, that's what I mean. Let me, Let me. Let me not. I mean, the hood over. Like, it's gonna be like Oprah, but on a hood level. And Caresha, please. You know, I spoke to you about it. I'm just trying to find the right home, the right partner to come back for season three.

Charlamagne Tha God (5:36)

Oh, we'd love to have you on Black Effect, but are you gonna be. We need you to be consistent, though. Like, how often would you wanna do it?

Caresha (Young Miami) (5:42)

I think with me being an artist, realistically, and I honestly think it's a flow of things and how you do things. I think for me, Caresha, Please work. Because people wanted it. It was like, I want more. I want more. And I. On top of having a podcast, I still gotta be an artist. I still gotta release music. So you don't wanna just see too much of me. Cause it's like, they gotta see them. They gotta have the music and then they go into the podcast. I would love to be consistent, but I also think that's what worked for me. I love the flow of it.

Charlamagne Tha God (6:08)

I love that you said that you think artists nowadays are too overexposed.

Caresha (Young Miami) (6:12)

Yes. And I think we feel like we know them too much like superstars. Back then, you just knew them as Michael Jackson or performer. Now we know what happened with your baby daddy. We could get the police reports. We could hit a 911 call. It's just too much that it kind of leaves like, child, that's this person or that's that person. It don't give the celebrity status because it's too accessible.

Charlamagne Tha God (6:36)

Did you ever feel like you was too overexposed?

Caresha (Young Miami) (6:39)

I do. I think when people know too much of your personal Life, it just make them feel like they know you on a personal level when it's not supposed to be like that. So, yeah, I do.

Charlamagne Tha God (6:49)

So, I mean, I know you had the BET reality show that you were filming. Did you take a step back from that because you felt like it was too over exposed going into it?

Caresha (Young Miami) (6:57)

I was excited about it. I'm like, oh my God, I'm gonna have a reality show. But I think once I got into it, it's not really reality. Like it's stage, it's staged reality. And I'm the type of person, I want everything real, raw and uncut. I don't wanna go, go back and do that again. Cause I can't go back and do that again. That's just what it was. And I think that it became too much of that, that it didn't feel real. And I was just like, I don't like this. Cause they take certain sound bites and it become a whole story. That's not kind of like what you signed up for. So I had to take a step back and was like, if I'm gonna do something like that, I wanna do it on my own.

Charlamagne Tha God (7:31)

I feel like you've been trying to find a space to be comfortable, to really just express yourself.

Caresha (Young Miami) (7:39)

Yeah, because I think that I am a real raw, authentic person. And I'm not strategic. Like, I just show up as me. And whatever you get is, that's me. That would be your experience in me. And I think that the world now, like the world that we live in now, you gotta just. You gotta just move a certain way and just. Just be so polished and it's not fun. And I think that I can't live and be creative in a space like that. Like, I can't be my. My best self if I have to be strategic or I gotta move this way. I can't do this. And I can't say that it's not fun.

Charlamagne Tha God (8:15)

I feel like, though, you know, when you see people like Cardi, for example. Cardi's always herself. I feel like she made it to where you can be yourself if you're not afraid to be yourself. I think sometimes people be afraid to be theyself. Cause they're afraid of the backlash, of what social media is gonna say.

Caresha (Young Miami) (8:31)

I get crucified for being myself. Like, I can say anything. And it just. When it comes to certain people, they take it a certain way. It's like if this person said, but when I said we all, I'm saying the same shit. But when I said it's just like, well, God damn. Like I just said, you know, I think it's. I can't explain it, but I feel like I be myself. I'm myself. I'm not never. Like, I say a lot of shit. I do a lot. That's me just being myself. Like, I like to go live, have fun. That was another thing that people loved about me, my personality. Going live with Santana, just getting on there. We just talking shit about each other. That's us in our natural form. Some people understand it, some people don't. Some people, like, that can never be my friend. That's our friend group. That's how we have fun. But it's all love. We understand each other.

Charlamagne Tha God (9:18)

Yeah. I don't think people dislike you like, they act like they do on social media. I think that you give them a response. And when you give somebody a response, they keep messing with you just to get a response.

Caresha (Young Miami) (9:28)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (9:28)

I bet you sometimes you be hitting people and they be like, I just wanted you to reply no all the time.

Caresha (Young Miami) (9:32)

They be like, oh, my God. But you exactly. Like, why you with me? I'm cool. Like, I'm really a cool person. I'm a human. Like, I'm a great. I feel like I'm a great human. Like, I am a genuine person. If I don't like you, I ain't even coming your way. If I with you, I with you. But. And I'm just. I'm literally, like, I come from nothing. So people have to understand, like, this is how I was brought up. I. It's still room to grow, and I still gotta, you know, grow. I still have a lot to learn, but it's like, I'm learning as I grow. And I just think that it's, like, for my upbringing, like, I literally grew up in Opal Locker in the projects. Like, I go over there, I just did my music video news flash there, and I'm just like, I get it. People walk around like, they don't dress up. It's bunnies slides. Like, how you wake up is how you going outside, you know, it's not like. It's just. They in the hood.

Charlamagne Tha God (10:25)

How do you think you made it up?

Caresha (Young Miami) (10:28)

I think I was always destined to be who I am because I always just had a personality. And even though I grew up in the hood, my mom dated men with money. Like her. The man she dated, they took care of her. They made sure our kids were straight. So she always tried to provide the best life she can. And she was, like, also popular. She was, like, a Booster. And she just was booster. Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (10:51)

Boosters be popular.

Caresha (Young Miami) (10:52)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (10:52)

She probably had all the old Tommy

Caresha (Young Miami) (10:53)

Hill figures because they come to you to buy all the shit.

Charlamagne Tha God (10:55)

Yep, yep, yep.

Caresha (Young Miami) (10:56)

Yes.

Charlamagne Tha God (10:56)

Was she clothes or appliances?

Caresha (Young Miami) (10:58)

Clothes.

Charlamagne Tha God (10:58)

Okay, so Tommy Hilfiger, Polo.

Caresha (Young Miami) (11:00)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (11:00)

Gotcha.

Caresha (Young Miami) (11:01)

All that. So, you know, just. Just seeing that and just seeing her make away, it's just. Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (11:08)

Are you scared right now?

Caresha (Young Miami) (11:09)

Scared of what?

Charlamagne Tha God (11:10)

Cause you out here solo.

Caresha (Young Miami) (11:12)

No, I love it.

Charlamagne Tha God (11:13)

Okay.

Caresha (Young Miami) (11:13)

I love it. I think that it's a new era for me. I feel like from the time I came out, it always been people saw me, they learned me as the city girls. I was going through the stuff with my mom. My mom went to prison. I was raising her kids. I always was, like, holding something down. I never really got a chance to pour into me or just be the best version of myself or really enjoy it, because I was always holding something down or had to work extra hard. My mom went to prison. I had to take care of her kids. Soon as the group break, JT go to prison, then she come out. We go through all of this stuff that we going through. So, like, now I'm just like, yes. Like, I get a chance to be creative. I get a chance to just make my own decisions. I get a chance to just be free, like. And I also learned so much from a group and just. I know more of the business, like, you know, so I just feel good. Like, I feel happy. I feel like I'm ready. I'm not scared. I'm ready.

Charlamagne Tha God (12:12)

So who is young Miami without the city girls, without celebrity relationships, without the headlines?

Caresha (Young Miami) (12:18)

No, your Miami is that you are all that. Yeah, that's your Miami. I mean, that was the start of my career, and that's everything I went through that shaped me as yo Miami. I feel like I can't run away from that. I can't run away from yo Miami of the city girls. I can't run away from yo Miami that went through that. Y' all saw me in every phase of my life, and y' all gonna continue to see me in my new era.

Charlamagne Tha God (12:40)

So are you trying to show people more of the evolved young Miami or just the real caresha?

Caresha (Young Miami) (12:46)

Both. Cause I have evolved. I think the last time I came on a breakfast club, I probably was, like, in my 20s. I'm 30 now, so I do look at life different. I do see things differently. I do want to move different. Like, sometimes I'm like, bang up. Like, even though I love it, I be like, girl, shut your ass up. When I be looking Back at it. Like sometimes you ever. Like, this is a real thing. You go to the club, you drunk, you look at your story, you wake up and you delete all that. So sometimes that's how I feel. Like I look at somebody like it's room for improvement there, you know, like you gotta clean up at some point. You gotta get these brands to wanna, you know, like, yeah, we love real. Yeah, we love authentic. But you gotta show some era of growth or elevation or you, you, you. People gonna look at you as you ain't. You ain't showing nothing new.

Charlamagne Tha God (13:34)

But on this new album, you still giving them classic young Miami. You still out here, you know, you

Caresha (Young Miami) (13:39)

still gotta finesse me.

Charlamagne Tha God (13:39)

Yeah, you still out here finessing these.

Caresha (Young Miami) (13:41)

You still gotta have your hand out.

Charlamagne Tha God (13:42)

Okay.

Caresha (Young Miami) (13:44)

We still gotta.

Charlamagne Tha God (13:45)

Oh, you can build your own. You doing that too?

Caresha (Young Miami) (13:47)

No, of course. Yeah, of course, of course. But I do feel like men should be some type of support. That's the message I be trying to get through. I just feel like, I feel like sometime men. And I say this a lot because I done. And that's why I'll be like, I want me with $100 million. A lot of men just see a pretty face, see a pretty body, and for them it's like, this is another picture on my roster. Like, they be building rosters. Like a lot of men are mature in mind and you have to be as a woman, you have to be. You gotta know what you want in life. You gotta know what you want. I know what I want. So if I know that we're going to have sex, we gonna have sex. But you have to do something for me. And it's not prostitution. It's not. It's just I'm a woman. Like, you gotta add value to me. And sometimes I gotta leave this relationship situationship with something because if not, we fuck when we in our teens. That's something you do in your 20s. I'm 30 now.

Charlamagne Tha God (14:40)

No, listen, I feel like a man's job is to protect and provide. I understand the logic. I'm just saying bring the number down. 100 million.

Caresha (Young Miami) (14:48)

Well, Charlamagne, that's how I'm at. I'm trying to go up. Listen, I want a vacation. I got kids. I'm trying to live my best life. Life is, you know, life. Life is weird these days. Like, I just want to live my best life while I can. And I just feel like that's what I want at this point.

Charlamagne Tha God (15:02)

You're not afraid to talk about your roster, though. I heard caresha's. Tales where you flipped the two short joint Freaky tales. What made you want to want to do that record?

Caresha (Young Miami) (15:11)

I think it's hip hop. When I listen to, like, records like that, like Lil Kim, even Nicki Minaj just coming up as a new artist, I want to have that impact. Like when people go, like people that are young Miami fans. Like when. Oh, I remember she did that too short, and she flipped it like this. Like, that's what inspired me.

Charlamagne Tha God (15:28)

I'm only gonna assume that everybody on the record is real. Cause one line is definitely real. So I'm just gonna assume everybody on the record is real.

Caresha (Young Miami) (15:36)

It's some truth to every story.

Charlamagne Tha God (15:37)

Okay. Why do women like to shame men for eating boonki, though? Cause on freakytails, you say lame, goofy ass nigga always trying to eat bitch. Booty ass nigga. Why you shaming men for that?

Caresha (Young Miami) (15:49)

You must be eating booty Charlemagne.

Charlamagne Tha God (15:52)

I'm from South Carolina. I'm from the South.

Caresha (Young Miami) (15:56)

I mean, yeah, that's a grown man's sport.

Charlamagne Tha God (15:58)

That is a grown man sport, but why shame men for it?

Caresha (Young Miami) (16:01)

I'm not. No. What? I'm just saying, like. Cause it's like, I got two hoes. Why you want to eat the one that's in the back?

Charlamagne Tha God (16:08)

But what if he doing both? Appetizer, entree, entree, appetizer, whatever you into.

Caresha (Young Miami) (16:15)

It's no shame to it, but it's like you always want to eat the back when it's one in the front. It's of kind. Kind of like. Okay, no, no, no offense to the man. They do it like shout outs to you.

Charlamagne Tha God (16:23)

See, I like when I hear women talk like that because you get to see what women really think. So when guys be trying to do that, y' all be talking shit about them.

Caresha (Young Miami) (16:31)

I'm just not. Like, I don't like that whole bag that'll be wet. Like, I just feel weird. So it's not my preference. We all got preference, and I just don't like that.

Charlamagne Tha God (16:41)

Okay.

Caresha (Young Miami) (16:42)

Whole being wet.

Charlamagne Tha God (16:43)

All right, let's stay on Freaky Tales. You say you name a bunch of men and you say, my billionaire nigga that stay on the island used to tell me, take that, take that while he fucked me for hours. Now we know who that is. That's Diddy. In light of everything that transpired, why weren't you afraid to still say that?

Caresha (Young Miami) (17:01)

Because I think that I should be able to be. I should be able to express myself. I should be able to say my life experiences. I don't feel like I should be silent, or I can't speak on anything, or I should be scared because I just was in a relationship with somebody and what we had wasn't a crime or it was wrong. So it's like I'm expressing myself. It's music. It's my music. It's my time to tell my story, and I want to have fun. I'm gonna do that.

Charlamagne Tha God (17:27)

When someone you know you were connected to becomes the center of serious allegations and legal issues, how do you reconcile the person you knew with the headlines everybody else see?

Caresha (Young Miami) (17:38)

I think in life you always get put in something or a situation where you gotta. You know, you gotta make a life decision. You gotta look back and say, like, what. What makes sense for me right now? You know, like, I can love this person, but I can love this person from a distance. Or, you know, I can have a relationship with this person. Well, maybe I gotta come back to it. Like, maybe I gotta come back around. And I think that that was one of those situations.

Charlamagne Tha God (18:02)

You wrote a letter about you for Diddy's character, and a lot of people were upset because they were like, you know, how could she do that? After seeing the video with Cassie, a lot of people wanted to know why you decided to still write that letter.

Caresha (Young Miami) (18:14)

I think I wrote a letter for a change, man. I think that the man that I met and that I experienced was changed. I'm not going justify some bush or, like, support some bush. If I felt like that person was a change and I felt like the person that I met was changed, it was a different experience. So that's why I wrote a letter.

Charlamagne Tha God (18:34)

Do you think you owed, like, your fans an explanation, or do you feel like your personal relationships are nobody's business but your.

Caresha (Young Miami) (18:41)

I feel like both. I feel like as people that's supporting you, that's buying into you and that love you, you have to get them some type of, you know, it's. They gotta be able to connect with you. So I can't just be like y'.

Charlamagne Tha God (18:54)

All.

Caresha (Young Miami) (18:54)

This my personal life. I don't owe y' all shit. It's having me that do feel like they were, at the end of the day, being a real person. You know, I feel like that door is open to them.

Charlamagne Tha God (19:04)

How do you reconcile supporting someone publicly when the court of public opinion is saying something completely different?

Caresha (Young Miami) (19:14)

Because if I meet you today or if my time that I experience with you is one way, I can only judge that person that way. So it's just like, I can't speak to nothing that I don't know of. I can only. I can only speak to the person that I met. And if I met this person that changed my life, that helped me grow, that treated me like a queen, that made me believe in myself, it's like, that's what I know. And I feel like people can have opinions, but I can only judge a person off of what I know and what I experience. Like, I can't speak on nothing that I never was a part of, that I never knew. Like, I can only judge who I met. I could only judge who I was in a relationship with.

Charlamagne Tha God (20:00)

Were you afraid that they might call you to testify?

Caresha (Young Miami) (20:03)

No. I never hid nothing. I don't have nothing to hide.

Charlamagne Tha God (20:06)

You seem like a very loyal person.

Caresha (Young Miami) (20:08)

I am.

Charlamagne Tha God (20:09)

At what point does loyalty become a liability?

Caresha (Young Miami) (20:15)

That's a good question. Charlamagne.

Charlamagne Tha God (20:17)

We got time. We can just sit here, tell you.

Caresha (Young Miami) (20:21)

I mean, meaning.

Charlamagne Tha God (20:22)

Cause you might be with somebody, and at some point you realize just. You even being loyal to this person to a fault, at some point, you might have to cut them off because they might start bringing you down.

Caresha (Young Miami) (20:31)

Yeah, I mean, I understand that. But also, I just feel like if a person. Let's just say, for instance, right? I'm gonna just use this as a scenario. Imagine a person, help you become a better version of yourself, or help you believe in yourself, or help you just experience new things or just introduce you to new things that was. That you was able to take in, you know, create, Create, keep creating for your family. Or it just. It's still a positive for you. It's kind of hard to say, you. You going through this. I don't go like, I gotta just. You. It's hard. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's. It's very hard because it's like, I don't want to kick somebody while they down. And I don't want to just say, you. You going through that. You got to figure it out. Because I like you, my friend. I have a relationship with you. I have a personal relationship with you. Like, I know you. It's like family. Like, we, like, locked in. So it's like, that's a hard situation. And it's just like, I cannot just turn my back on somebody like that easy like that mean, it was never no love there. Whatever I did for you, it meant nothing. It just. That would be a fake person to me.

Charlamagne Tha God (21:44)

What did this whole situation teach you about who's really in your corner? Cause I feel like. I don't know. When I listen to the album and I hear you in interviews sometime, I feel like people turn their back on you the way you wouldn't have done if the roles were reversed.

Caresha (Young Miami) (21:57)

So many people did. And that. Go back to the liability question. Like, some people just gonna do what makes sense. You get what I'm saying? And some people just gonna ride out with you. Like, we gonna figure this out. Cause things do turn around. You know what I'm saying? So I think I'm just focused on the people that stay down with me. The people that left, they wasn't supposed to be here.

Charlamagne Tha God (22:16)

Did being tied to the Diddy situation impact your brand in any way?

Caresha (Young Miami) (22:20)

It did.

Charlamagne Tha God (22:21)

Really?

Caresha (Young Miami) (22:21)

It did bad.

Charlamagne Tha God (22:23)

Like, I'm not talking about just social media. Nobody in real life.

Caresha (Young Miami) (22:26)

It did.

Charlamagne Tha God (22:28)

Like, what?

Caresha (Young Miami) (22:30)

It just. It was a lot like, I lost deals, I lost money, I lost relationships. I lost a lot. And, you know, here I am.

Charlamagne Tha God (22:41)

Wow. After everything you've experienced, right? Like, I mean, there's so many things you've experienced on a personal level, on a, you know, business level, you know, how has your relationship with trust changed?

Caresha (Young Miami) (22:56)

I don't trust nobody.

DJ Emmy (22:58)

Damn.

Caresha (Young Miami) (22:58)

I'm not gonna lie. Like, trust is, like, the only person I probably trust is God and my kids. And I think that I don't know what trust is built on because you could be knowing a person, your whole. Like, your kids will turn on you. So I don't. When it comes to trust, I don't. I only trust God. I got friends that I love and that I trust to a certain extent, but it ain't never in the back of my mind, like, a person wouldn't do something to me.

Charlamagne Tha God (23:24)

Was there a particular situation that made you feel like that or just life,

Caresha (Young Miami) (23:29)

just seeing everything unfold, how people would be with you. And then when something get hot, they just like. They ain't trying to stand by you. They ain't trying to support you. They just get the fuck on.

Charlamagne Tha God (23:39)

Do you expect you from other people?

Caresha (Young Miami) (23:41)

I do.

Charlamagne Tha God (23:41)

And that's very disappointing when you.

Caresha (Young Miami) (23:43)

It is. I expect me and every person that I meet, I be like, I won't do that. They won't do that to me. And when they do it, I just be like, whoop dee doo.

Charlamagne Tha God (23:52)

Now, you know I love the city girls, so I hate to see you and JT not together anymore. What's the status of y' all relationship now?

Caresha (Young Miami) (24:00)

I think that when it comes to me and jt, I feel like it was a marriage, right? You. You meet somebody, y' all fall in love, shit happen, y' all break up, y' all Get a divorce. It could be ugly or it could be good. It could be one that y' all just get a divorce and y' all move on. It could be one that we find in front of the public. And I think that it was one of those situations where, like, you know, we childhood friends, that love is always going to be there. That's why even when the whole thing on the Internet happened, I'm like, jt, like, what we doing here? I. We can never go. This never gonna go nowhere because it's like, I'm never. We ain't. We both ain't gonna go that far. Like, we family. So you said y' all got your

Charlamagne Tha God (24:44)

period at the same time?

Caresha (Young Miami) (24:45)

Yeah. Like, you as a. As a woman, as a. A girlfriend group, if you be around somebody every day, y' all get y' all period at the same time, around the same month. So it was at one point, we'll be on tour like, bitch, you got a tampon. You got a tampon. Like, we real friends. We grew up together. That's gonna always be a person that I got love for.

Charlamagne Tha God (25:06)

When something like the City Girls ends, It's not just business, though. Like, that's a piece of your identity. So what did you have to. I guess. What did you grieve in letting that version of yourself go?

Caresha (Young Miami) (25:18)

It was just like losing like, a. A friend, like a. A sister.

Charlamagne Tha God (25:24)

Did it feel like a Death

Caresha (Young Miami) (25:27)

hurts? I won't say death, because that person is never coming back. She's still here, so it's always room for us to have a conversation. So I ain't going to say death, but it hurts. It's like getting your heart broke for the first time.

Charlamagne Tha God (25:41)

What made you two actually grow apart from, like, everybody thought it was Caresha. She got the podcast. Now she doing the reality show. She getting her Beyonce on.

Caresha (Young Miami) (25:50)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (25:51)

People thought, well, JT takes music more seriously than Caresha does. What was it?

Caresha (Young Miami) (25:56)

No, I think it was just more of. She felt like, you know, JT into, like, fashion and so many different other things. She got her own lane that she. And I think just like, we are in just two different lanes, like, our brands. It's just two different brands, and it's like two different people trying to be one that's just never going to work. And I think it was more of like, she just had a lane that she wanted to go in. And it just wasn't the same type of time I was on. So it was just more of like, I'm kind of ready to do my own thing. Like, you know, I don't really want to do this shit. No. My own getting older, because she's older than me. So it was more of like, I'm just ready to go.

Charlamagne Tha God (26:32)

I've heard you say JT hasn't been the same since the Fed case. What case you talking about?

Caresha (Young Miami) (26:37)

When she went to prison.

Charlamagne Tha God (26:39)

Got you. You think jail changed her?

Caresha (Young Miami) (26:42)

Yeah, I think jail shaped people. I think when you go to jail, if you, you know, you sober in there. Not saying that she do drugs. I'm just saying, like, people when you go in there, that's like time out. Like, you have no time. You have nothing to do but to sit and think and reflect. And it can. Like, it could fuck you up or it could help you grow, but it mentally do something to you. Cause it's like you got time away from everybody. You just. Just sit and reflect. And I think that before JT went in, me and her was like this. Like, we were so like this. And when she came home, I just felt a shift. But it wasn't bad. Like, I didn't take heat to it because my mom been in prison. So I know what it's like to be in jail and come home. They see the world differently because they just went in time out. So I feel like that was my experience.

Charlamagne Tha God (27:30)

Did you ever feel. I don't know. I don't know if I call it jealousy, but, you know, she had a man and she spent more time with her man now. And you probably was used to y' all being together all the time. Was there anything like that?

Caresha (Young Miami) (27:42)

Not when it comes to a man. Cause as women, we all wanna be with our men. Like, I don't. I'm an Aquarius, so I'm very big on space. And I like to be alone a lot. So I think it was me. Like, I. Like, I disconnect a lot of times. And it could come off as in, like, I'm disconnected, but sometimes I gotta just go and just be by myself.

Charlamagne Tha God (28:02)

Have y' all talked about any of this?

Caresha (Young Miami) (28:08)

We have. We. I think we need a therapist. We need somebody to come in here, both sides. Cuz when we trying to, like, express ourselves, it's like, what you did is to me, but you did this to me. We just pointing the finger at each other. It's like, you made me feel this way. Well, you made me feel this way. I ain't do nothing to you and you ain't. It's like we not getting nowhere. So we gotta literally have someone come in and say, look, she feel like this. And you feel like this. And, like, what's the solution?

Charlamagne Tha God (28:33)

You clearly love jt. I do. That's what I'm saying. So why not go get a counselor or a therapist and y' all just go have a couple of sessions with each other and put everything on the table and see if, you know, y' all can resolve the relationship.

Caresha (Young Miami) (28:45)

Because I think we both need time to do our own thing. Cause I think that when JT Was doing her thing, I never wanted to make it about me. Like, I didn't want to. Oh, you see, I'm doing my thing now. You trying to come back now. Now you trying to make things, and I don't want it to feel like that when I'm doing my thing. So I think she did her thing. I'm doing my thing now. Let us both grow, you know, as individuals. And I think that time will come. And I also think we both got to be ready. It can't just be, like, when I feel like I'm ready or when she feel like she ready. Like, we both got to be in a space where we could sit down as adults and say, okay, we in a better space now, and I think we need that time apart.

Charlamagne Tha God (29:23)

So the city girls aren't done. It's just like a season of separation kind of.

Caresha (Young Miami) (29:26)

Yeah. I wouldn't never. Just off the city girls. We built this together, you know, like, we did a lot together. To just say that it never happened or just act like it's just dead, you know, like it's. It's forever going to be the city girls. Like, we both come from the hood. We got to. That's an accomplishment for both of us. So I look at it like that.

Charlamagne Tha God (29:49)

You know, people on the Internet were saying that it was a lovers quarrel. Like, y' all be scissoring or something like that.

Caresha (Young Miami) (29:54)

Who? I ain't never seen her. That's what they do on the Internet, though. People make up shit and then start believing it.

Charlamagne Tha God (30:05)

If the city girls never make music again, what would you want that legacy to be? Just the city girls, you and J.T.

Caresha (Young Miami) (30:11)

i want it to be two young girls that got. That grew up together. They came and they made history, and it was sisterhood. It was built off of sisterhood.

Charlamagne Tha God (30:22)

Yeah, you've had to process a lot of loss, publicly and privately. Like, you got relationships changing, people you love no longer here. How do you even begin to separate your personal grief from what the world is consuming as entertainment?

Caresha (Young Miami) (30:39)

And that's the part I feel like they don't understand. Like, for Them, it's just like, they don't give me that grace. And I think it's hard going. It's. It's hard going through everything publicly with the world just being a weird and angry place. And I think that I haven't really got a chance to actually sit and go through my grieving stations because it's like I always had to work or I always got to defend myself or it's just in front of the world. So I just work through the bullshit. Like, I haven't really had the time to really sit and digest everything that's happened to me.

Charlamagne Tha God (31:13)

But, you know, they say staying busy is a response to trauma. So you're trying to run from what you probably actually should be sitting down and dealing with.

Caresha (Young Miami) (31:21)

So why I need to deal with it?

Charlamagne Tha God (31:23)

You said what?

Caresha (Young Miami) (31:23)

Why do I need to deal with it?

Charlamagne Tha God (31:25)

I mean. Cause I always feel like if you don't deal with your trauma, your trauma will ultimately deal with you. Like, you know, the example I like to use. Remember when Will Smith was at the Oscars?

Caresha (Young Miami) (31:35)

Mm.

Charlamagne Tha God (31:36)

That's the biggest night of his life, right? He bout to get crowned, he bout to get best actor. And like everything just, you know, came out at once. He lashed out and he lashed out in that moment. That's why I say deal with your trauma. Your trauma ultimately deal with you. You can't run from it forever. Caresha.

Caresha (Young Miami) (31:56)

I gotta deal with that when I go when God called for me. Charlemagne. I don't want to deal with it right now. I got too much to focus on. I think that it just puts you in a depression that it's hard to pull yourself out of. And it's just like, I don't want to deal with that right now. Like, right now I got kids to raise and I got things that I need to do. I don't want to be dealing with trauma.

Charlamagne Tha God (32:18)

You know, speaking of your kids, you know, like, it's the last question I'll talk about with grief, but you did lose the father of your child, and that's a different kind of grief because it's not just yours, it's your child's as well. How has that changed the way you show up as a woman and as a mother?

Caresha (Young Miami) (32:34)

I mean, it's so hard as a woman losing like a male figure, because it's like, I always check on my son. Are you okay? You know, mentally, how are you? And I feel like he always like, I'm okay, but I feel like even if he's not, he wouldn't put it on Me, because I think, you know, he's a young man that's growing up. He probably don't even want to put that on me. So, like, for me, it's just, it's hard. Cause I be like, damn, I'm raising my son. He's 12 now. He about to be a teen. So I know he about to get into teenager things. Who's that? Like, him and his dad was like this. So who's that male figure in his life that's gonna replace his dad? It's not nobody, and it's me. So I feel like I put a lot of pressure on myself, and I try to apply myself as much as I can and really, you know, try to make sure that he knows, like, hey, I'm here for you. You can come to me about anything. I don't give a fuck what it is. We gonna figure it out together.

Charlamagne Tha God (33:30)

Did he talk to you about everything?

Caresha (Young Miami) (33:34)

Um, no.

Charlamagne Tha God (33:36)

Really?

Caresha (Young Miami) (33:36)

Mm. Mm. He's shy. He's very shy. Like, he's really, really, really shy. He got my little sister, which is his aunt. I feel good about that. Cause that's my sister that he talked to.

Charlamagne Tha God (33:47)

Do you tell him that he has to have $100 million? A girl's not gonna want to date him?

Caresha (Young Miami) (33:50)

No, I don't even instill that type of stuff at all. Like, I, I, I literally hate when he get on the Internet and see me say stuff like that. I feel like I need to stop.

Charlamagne Tha God (33:58)

Oh, man. People don't think about that. They don't think about when you got kids old enough to be online and see what people are saying about their mom or what their mom is saying about other people. You ever had to explain that to him?

Caresha (Young Miami) (34:11)

My son is so smart. He's like a. He's smart and he loves. That's something I love about my son. He's into school. Like, if I go out, he'd be like, mommy, you know, I gotta go to school tomorrow. Like, how I'm getting to school tomorrow? He be on me. Like, school tomorrow. I got a test. He's very love school. So he, he know that. Like, that's not something I had to explain to him. He know that.

Charlamagne Tha God (34:32)

Do you talk to him about your music?

Caresha (Young Miami) (34:35)

I did play my album for him. Cause they said when you have you heard Caresha Tales, I skipped that song. I ain't gonna lie. I skipped that song. Okay. But I did play it for him because as a kid, I just wanted to know what he think. And he really told me he liked the news flash. He Loved Take me to Chanel. He like still eat. He was like, I like it. He said, I love it. They made me feel good.

Charlamagne Tha God (34:57)

So I want to. I mean, does him and JT still talk?

Caresha (Young Miami) (35:01)

Yeah, she. They be. I go through it. So, like I randomly get his phone. Me see your phone and they be, I love you. Like, they. I don't. They got their own relationship. I actually love that.

Charlamagne Tha God (35:11)

I like and I mean, I'm sure that makes you feel good too. Cause that lets you know, like, okay, there's still a bond here.

Caresha (Young Miami) (35:17)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (35:17)

Okay.

Caresha (Young Miami) (35:18)

Yeah, he love her. She loved him.

Charlamagne Tha God (35:20)

Why don't you do. And we was talking about this before the interview started. Why don't you do more records like F them Kids and what's up and Dade County. Cause to me that's your lane. Cause I love that old Miami based sound. I was born in 1978, so I grew up on that's my era. The Uncle Luke all like, why don't you do more of that? Like that sound need to come back.

Caresha (Young Miami) (35:38)

I am. I think that I just had to get back in my groove, you know, and I had to get back in my sound. I think as artists, the fans will stare you away from what's your sound. Because then they go to tell you, like, if I put out them kids, someone say, you ain't growing, you still talk about them kids. You did it. So it put artists in a place where you get in your head and you feel like you need to make better records. And then you start making that don't even resonate with your fans. That ain't even you. And now you just sound like you to trying. So I think that that was a phase I went through too. And now I'm back in my bag. I'm back in my pop. And I know that those songs feel good to me. Like those records that I love. And I feel like that's my best self. So I am gonna make more records like that.

Charlamagne Tha God (36:18)

So are these records you like? When you hear records like Take Me to Chanel and you know, Caresha Tales, is that really where you at right now?

Caresha (Young Miami) (36:25)

Oh, it's always Take Me to Chanel for sure.

Charlamagne Tha God (36:27)

Lord have mercy.

Caresha (Young Miami) (36:27)

You see what I got on right now?

Charlamagne Tha God (36:29)

Yes, I do. Lord have mercy. I want to ask you something about grief again. Do you feel like grief has hardened you or softened you or made you more intentional about who and what you pour into?

Caresha (Young Miami) (36:43)

I think all of the above grief is so. It's. I think grief come in like different stages. And I think that when it comes to grief, I think it made me stronger. Cause I always be feeling like I gotta be so strong. Like whenever I'm crying, like, why you. I be, I don't feel bad, but I be like, come on, like, let's get out of this. Like, you gotta keep growing. So I felt like grief made me stronger. It made me feel like I gotta keep going. Like, I can't, I can't live in this.

Charlamagne Tha God (37:17)

I feel like because you had to like, you know, raise, I guess, your brothers and sisters when your mom was in prison and just, you know, growing up in the environment you grew up in, like, I almost feel like, you know, you didn't maybe get the childhood you wanted.

Caresha (Young Miami) (37:32)

Yeah, no, I was grown. I just had to be a woman. I was cooking, going to the grocery store down at section 8.

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Caresha (Young Miami) (42:05)

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Charlamagne Tha God (42:37)

That's why you want that man with $100 million. Cause you wanna feel. You wanna be taken care of. You wanna just kick your feet up for a second?

Caresha (Young Miami) (42:43)

Yeah, I do.

Charlamagne Tha God (42:44)

You want somebody to treat you the way you've always treated people?

Caresha (Young Miami) (42:46)

Yes.

Charlamagne Tha God (42:47)

Got you.

Caresha (Young Miami) (42:48)

Yes.

Charlamagne Tha God (42:49)

Got you. With so much happening around you, right? What boundaries have you had to create to protect your peace that you didn't have before?

Caresha (Young Miami) (42:59)

If I. I don't feel bad about my feelings no more. Like, I can feel away. And then I be like, I won't say that to that person because I want them to take it. It's like, if this how I feel, this is how I feel. You got to respect how I feel. Like, it's literally saying how I feel. Like, no, it's. No. If I don't want to do this, I don't want to do this. I don't have to explain myself. I don't care how it makes you feel. Because I'm the type of person, I always put myself on the other side. How does this make this person feel? How I'm gonna look? I don't do that no more. I don't care.

Charlamagne Tha God (43:32)

I love to go back to the album. I love the Dade county record. What did that record mean to you? Cause you got your girl Trina on there. You always said the inspiration to you Trick is on there. Rick Ross, like, why did you select those three individuals to do that record?

Caresha (Young Miami) (43:47)

Pest, Dade County, Trick, Trina and Ross. When you think of Daniel county, they did so much. And, you know, it's not a lot of artists that come from Miami and they did so much. And it's like when I listen to the radio station, because I do That a lot. I love hearing, like, DJ Nasty, they play a lot of Miami mixes, and they all mix me. And I was like, I want to have that same feeling now. In my generation, like, when you go listen to the radio, you still hear Trick training, but me and it sound new, you know, like, it's in Miami, the high schools, the bands is real big, and I just can hear them doing it, like, when they doing the games and things like that. That's what inspired that song.

Charlamagne Tha God (44:26)

Well, what does Trina mean to you, and what has she taught you?

Caresha (Young Miami) (44:30)

Trina, she always just dropping knowledge in me. Like, when I first got into this game, she called me, listen, keep your face clean. Know what you doing. Know the business. Say what you want like it's what you want. Like, don't let. Don't let nobody take advantage of you. And these men gonna come, but pick the right one. And if you. And if you get in a relationship with them, make sure you come out of that relationship with something.

Charlamagne Tha God (44:59)

Damn.

Caresha (Young Miami) (45:00)

You say that on Karisha, please.

Charlamagne Tha God (45:02)

Yeah, what about. What about professionally, though? Just as a. Just as an artist?

Caresha (Young Miami) (45:07)

I mean, she always just tell me, like, look, you a star. You doing it. Don't let nobody tell you. You. You know, like, you show what you can do. It's gonna always be a lot that come with this. And she was like, you got it. Like, just believe in yourself, and ain't nothing gonna stop you.

Charlamagne Tha God (45:21)

Do you feel like you've been judged fairly?

Caresha (Young Miami) (45:24)

No, I feel like I've been judged. I feel like I get judged for every single thing that I do. And it's just like, I don't. I be trying to go down the timeline and figure out, when did all this happen and when did this shift or, like, what's the problem?

Charlamagne Tha God (45:41)

I think it was Caresha. Please. Only because it was such a good podcast. But you would get so comfortable on there that you would talk and you would say things and you would give them ammo. Like when you talked about getting peed

Caresha (Young Miami) (45:53)

on, I made that up.

Charlamagne Tha God (45:55)

Don't say you made that up now. Okay? I made eating booty up.

Caresha (Young Miami) (45:59)

Okay. No, let's talk about it. So I didn't even make that card. I didn't even know what a golden shower was. So I came up with the cards with someone, and when I got to the car, I'm like, what the is to go to the shower? And then she's like, you ain't never. I'm like, no. So when we was doing a podcast, I just did it because I was promoting My game. So I'm thinking that this gonna be something that just like go viral. But I ain't know. It was like a whole thing of like, me actually being peed on. And that's something. I'm just like, damn. Like, I should have really thought about that one. I didn't think it was like a. Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (46:34)

And you was dating somebody named P. Diddy.

Caresha (Young Miami) (46:37)

I said that.

Charlamagne Tha God (46:39)

That's what I'm saying. You did that to yourself.

Caresha (Young Miami) (46:42)

I know. It was. That was one thing that was like. It was good and bad because y'.

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Caresha (Young Miami) (46:49)

That was like the most talked about thing ever. And that was one month that my sales would went skyrocket. But all good money. All money and good money. And that's one thing I was just like, damn, I should have thought about that. And I always go back to it because I remember calling Britney was like, you know, Brittany. She was like. And even when it came out, she was like, we didn't even know where to go to show us. I'm like, it's out there. These people ain't gonna believe me. That's just something that I gotta bite. That bullet got it down the hill.

Charlamagne Tha God (47:14)

So you never been peed on?

Caresha (Young Miami) (47:16)

Damn, no. If I would have been peed on, I literally. I mean, I told y', all, you

Charlamagne Tha God (47:21)

gotta tell us everything. I've learned that in life too. You think you gotta share so much. Cause we be in front of these cameras and in front of these microphones, we be over.

Caresha (Young Miami) (47:28)

But I mean, if I talk about my sexual life, I talk about it. I say,

Charlamagne Tha God (47:33)

is that one you ever had to explain to your. To your son?

Caresha (Young Miami) (47:37)

Nah, we never talked about it. That's one thing that's uncomfortable for me because I always be like, damn, I do want. Because I'll be thinking about it. And I'm like, damn. I wonder if he. I know he, like, he gotta get into arguments and shoots that shit in school is gonna come eventually. Hopefully not. But I'm like, damn, why I did that to myself and my kids.

Charlamagne Tha God (47:54)

How do you plan to explain, like, those complicated adult situations to your child while still trying to, like, preserve his sense of innocence?

Caresha (Young Miami) (48:03)

I gotta just tell him what it is. Talk to him like a man. Just literally say, look, I made some mistakes, and I think that you gonna make some, you know, and you gotta be mindful of things like this. You gotta learn from me. This is something that I learned, something I'm not a person I'm not proud of and I regret, but don't make the same mistake.

Charlamagne Tha God (48:21)

What do you think you've done wrong?

Caresha (Young Miami) (48:23)

Like that.

Charlamagne Tha God (48:23)

That's just one.

Caresha (Young Miami) (48:24)

Yeah. Like, I hate that. Like, I literally be like, why the I did that? Like, you know, marketing. It's marketing. You say shit. I'm like, but that was like a wrong card. But again, I never been peed on, so I didn't think that it was just like a. A thing.

Charlamagne Tha God (48:38)

So what does accountability look like for you, Caresha? Not. Not even just publicly, but when you sitting at home in your house, just privately, like, what does accountability look like for you when you're looking at me like, what did I do wrong? What did I do that caused this to happen?

Caresha (Young Miami) (48:52)

Yeah, I say, like, the way that I present myself, the way that I carry myself, the things that I think is fun, you know, like, the way I have fun is probably not the way that you have fun. So I think that just polishing up a little bit, toning some things down or not sharing everything. Like, everything. Like, if I'm outside, I'm having a good time, shaking my ass, maybe I ain't gotta post it. You know, just things like that. I think it's kind of like what I put out there.

Charlamagne Tha God (49:18)

But what do you. Why you figure me and you don't have the same type of fun? What do you like to do that I probably wouldn't like to do?

Caresha (Young Miami) (49:23)

Probably like hang out at like five o' clock in the morning.

Charlamagne Tha God (49:25)

Oh, no, no, no.

Caresha (Young Miami) (49:26)

Yeah. Leave Miami, the club. But we tried. Then get on the boat.

Charlamagne Tha God (49:30)

No, no, no, no.

Caresha (Young Miami) (49:30)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (49:31)

I used to like G5, though. Yeah, G5 was a fire spot. Do you feel like you're finally in control of your narrative?

Caresha (Young Miami) (49:37)

Yeah, I think that now I get a chance to really tell my story, you know, and nobody control your narrative but you. You the one that's putting out whatever. Whatever it is. You the one that's feeding whatever it is that you're feeding. So, yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (49:52)

What scares you more? Starting over solo or being misunderstood forever?

Caresha (Young Miami) (49:56)

Being misunderstood forever. Because I think that people that really, really know me, that really, like, know who I am as a person, I'm nothing. Like what's out there. Nothing. Like, absolutely not. And I hate that. I hate that it's out there. It's like a stain. I just be like, what? Like, why the. What the. But I mean, it's. I could fix it.

Charlamagne Tha God (50:17)

Well, you know, time, they say time can, can, can fix. All right.

Caresha (Young Miami) (50:21)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (50:22)

I remember when you said you. Your music was getting shelved. Was it getting shoved by qc?

Caresha (Young Miami) (50:27)

I think at one period of time, I think they Were just turned off with us as a group. Like, they just felt like we was letting the group go. This they investment, you know how that shit. They was just over it. So when we started branching off in our solo era, I think that when it came to me, I feel like I always get. I feel like I just. When it comes to music, I get it hard. And I think that I was presenting the music. Some of, like, the songs that I got now, it was just like, no, there's no growth there. No, we talking about the same shit. And I'm just like, well, we all saying the same shit. I mean, I just feel like this is the music that I make.

Charlamagne Tha God (51:04)

When you say we all saying the same shit, like, you mean like the guys were making the same kind of music.

Caresha (Young Miami) (51:10)

All female. All female rappers now. That's like the music, the topic, the subject. It's all the same. We just saying it in different ways.

Charlamagne Tha God (51:18)

I like, you know, what QC did for a lot of their artists, But I do feel like, man, they dropped the ball on a couple of y' all projects in a way.

Caresha (Young Miami) (51:25)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (51:26)

I don't know if it was y' all or. I know that one album came out during the pandemic that. What was that? I can't remember what album that was. That was where broke niggas don't deserve no punishment.

Caresha (Young Miami) (51:35)

That was the one that was. I don't know if it was Girl co or city Unlock. It was CD Unlock. Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (51:42)

Cause the one with doja cat was on there. Yeah. I feel like that one should have really, really went. But it was the pandemic. Like, I was like, why even put out an album during that time? Like, did they make you?

Caresha (Young Miami) (51:52)

But people couldn't do nothing but be at home and listen to music. Like, everybody was in the house. Remember, they had the quarantine lives and stuff like that. So I think that it was just a time where people was just in the house listening to music. But I think that we wanted, like, for instance, we wanted to have turculator as a single. They didn't. And then the song end up. Once it got leaked, then they end up wanting like, this is the song. We was like, we was spinning because we wanted twerkulated. They went with pinata pussy. Make them do the that song. We was like, we want twerkulator. They want a pinata. So they went pinata twerk later. Ended up going after the fact. But then you know how the fans, they was like, oh, God, y' all did a video after the fact. We ain't on it no more we, da, da, da, da. And then it was more of like, point your fingers and then, you know, it's one of those things.

Charlamagne Tha God (52:39)

So what's the difference between that situation and your new situation with.

Caresha (Young Miami) (52:44)

I think I'm in control now. I think that, you know, I made my own decisions, and I think they just support me.

Charlamagne Tha God (52:54)

What's the lesson in all this for you and the people watching?

Caresha (Young Miami) (53:03)

The lesson in all what?

Charlamagne Tha God (53:05)

Just this existence that Caresha has gone through, all of these things that we've seen publicly and privately, when you sit here in this very moment, right here looking at me, what do you think the lesson has been?

Caresha (Young Miami) (53:17)

Life is a journey, and it's going to be different phases of life. And I feel like I am perfectly flawed. I have flaws to me. Like, I'm going. I'm going. I'm a human, so I'm going to make mistakes, I'm going to grow, I'm going to cry, I'm going to go through things. But, you know, y' all have watched me from when I first started to now, and it's a journey, and it's an open journey, and I want y' all to come on this journey with me, and we'll look back and say, I'm so proud of you. Like, you really went through all that shit. You. You sat back, you took accountability, you. You cleaned up, you realized what was wrong, and you came far. Like, that's what I want to put out there.

Charlamagne Tha God (53:54)

What does success look like for you in regards to this album?

Caresha (Young Miami) (53:58)

Success at, like, Billboard, Grammy touring, and just really showing people, like, okay, we underestimated her. Being an underdog, coming out on top.

Charlamagne Tha God (54:16)

Well, Caresha, nice to meet you again with a million.

Caresha (Young Miami) (54:19)

Yes. Yes. You meeting a whole new. Like, this is.

Charlamagne Tha God (54:22)

I feel that way.

Caresha (Young Miami) (54:23)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (54:23)

I don't know why I've been around you a bunch of times, but I feel like I'm meeting a whole new individual.

Caresha (Young Miami) (54:28)

Cause you know why I think that? Like, I was always. Whenever we come and we do these. These runs, it's promoting something, it's selling something. So I was always trying to sell something. Like, I gotta. You know, I'm more of, like, I don't gotta do all that now. It's like, less is more. Just go in there. Just. Just, you know, just to have a conversation. You don't gotta go and be extra and do this and do that. Like, the people gonna.

Charlamagne Tha God (54:53)

With you, it's gonna. It's gonna. I just want you to know it's gonna be a little uncomfortable, though. And the reason it's gonna be a little uncomfortable because you really are standing alone. Like, there's no jt, there's no Diddy. It's really just you right now.

Caresha (Young Miami) (55:06)

And that's why I love it. Cause y' all saw me with jt, Y' all saw me with Diddy, and now y' all see me by myself. And I'm gonna show y' all what I can do.

Charlamagne Tha God (55:16)

Thank you, Karisha.

Caresha (Young Miami) (55:17)

Thank you.

Charlamagne Tha God (55:17)

I appreciate you.

Caresha (Young Miami) (55:21)

I really enjoy you, Charlemagne.

Charlamagne Tha God (55:23)

I enjoy you.

Caresha (Young Miami) (55:24)

No, Karisha, I love listening. I'm still rolling. I love your take some stuff because you are a very honest person. Like, it's. You don't let fly. And I think that that's like, that's like earning your respect. Like, you have to respect an honorable person. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's why when I wanted to do this conversation, I was like, I gotta do it with Charlemagne.

Charlamagne Tha God (55:46)

They gonna respect you the same way. I mean, I think they already do. They just with you. They fuck with me online like they are. They fuck with you because you're such a transparent person and you give them energy. If you ignore them, they still fuck with you, but not as much.

Caresha (Young Miami) (56:00)

Yeah, but it's good.

Charlamagne Tha God (56:01)

It's good to fuck with them back sometime.

Caresha (Young Miami) (56:04)

Yeah, but I learned now, like, now I just be like, man, I'm a log out.

Charlamagne Tha God (56:08)

Does it really? Until that music drop, when you drop that album, you're going to be there all night. Going through your Twitter, I'm not going to lie.

Caresha (Young Miami) (56:15)

I know I'm be searching my name all day.

Charlamagne Tha God (56:18)

I am looking to see what people's reactions are.

Caresha (Young Miami) (56:20)

I am that.

Charlamagne Tha God (56:21)

I, I. That would drive me crazy. I don't know how y' all do it.

Caresha (Young Miami) (56:24)

Do it, do it drive people crazy. It does.

Charlamagne Tha God (56:27)

But I tell all of them, that's our digital guy. But I'll be telling Jess, Lauren, all of them stop looking at the comments.

Caresha (Young Miami) (56:34)

It's hard because you want to see what people online saying about, like, if you drop something, you're really going to look to see if they with it. But then you go down that rabbit hole of the negativity, and then it be one thing that trigger you, that make you feel like, I need to defend myself or I need to prove myself. And it's like, no, that shit just opened up a door for it to keep going. And that's what I learned.

Charlamagne Tha God (56:52)

I don't think it's real. I really, truly don't believe that majority of that shit online is real. It's a na like, even when, you know, we laughing about the Jack Harlow album, but I think people are just doing it because it's funny. Yeah, it's there. That's it. That's it. It's the humor for the week. Like, let's make all these memes and stuff. You know, I don't personally care for the album, but it ain't, you know, it ain't worthy of all of that, but it's just funny.

Caresha (Young Miami) (57:20)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (57:21)

And nobody's even talking about the music. It's just a joke. It's just the meme. It's just the memes. The memes of the joke.

Caresha (Young Miami) (57:27)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (57:27)

So you. They gonna. I don't know. They gonna always give them that. They gonna always do that to artists.

Caresha (Young Miami) (57:33)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (57:33)

Like, I don't know any artist that that doesn't happen to now.

Caresha (Young Miami) (57:36)

Yeah. Dan, I forgot to ask you a question. I wanted to ask you on camera.

Charlamagne Tha God (57:39)

Come on, let's do it. We can do it now. Oh, the cameras were still.

Caresha (Young Miami) (57:42)

Okay. Okay. So a question that I wanted to throw back at you was, you know,

Charlamagne Tha God (57:48)

has this turned into an episode of Caresha, Please?

Caresha (Young Miami) (57:50)

Yeah, possibly.

Charlamagne Tha God (57:51)

Okay.

Caresha (Young Miami) (57:51)

I wanted to. I really want to just, you know, spoke about growing up and some things that you had to do, and you are who you are now. Do you believe that people change?

Charlamagne Tha God (58:02)

Absolutely. I believe people change, people grow, people evolve. Like, the first book my father ever gave me was the Autobiography of Malcolm X. And the reason I love that book so much is because it literally shows you the evolution and transformation of a man. Like Malcolm X was Malcolm Little. He was a pimp. He was, you know, selling drugs, number running all types of stuff. But then he went to prison, you know, got introduced to the teachings of, you know, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and became a whole different individual. He became the Malcolm X that we know now. That's another reason why I love the NOI so much, because they show you that transformation and growth is possible, but you gotta be intentional about that growth. Like, you know, it can't be performative. Like, you really, really gotta do the work. So, yes, I absolutely believe in growth and evolution.

Caresha (Young Miami) (58:53)

Yeah. And that's another thing, too. When you say he went to prison. I think that when people go to prison, it's about what they do with their time in prison. Because you can go to prison and you can go to school. They got so many programs. You can go to school, you can learn. And that's when people come out and they do a book and they talk about their experiences in prison and I think that it's kind of like what you do with your time in prison. And I think, like, my mom, she felt so bad because she was like, I left my kids out there that she didn't really go in there and grow. Like, she came home with resentment, like, oh, my God. I'm like, girl, it's fine. It's okay. We're good. You got good kids. Like, look at me. I ain't out here killing nobody, doing it wrong. Like, it's okay. And that's something that I learned to pat myself on the back. It's like, it's hard out here. And long as you show up and you sacrifice for your kids, it's okay.

Charlamagne Tha God (59:47)

You know the thing about growth, right? It's so funny in this era because especially with social media, they won't allow you to grow. You could be a whole different person, evolved on a whole different level. But they'll be talking to you about something you did five years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, and you like, damn, I ain't even on that no more. But they'll constantly remind you of who you were. So we gotta do such a great job. We gotta do a great job of protecting our piece. Right. And not letting them tell us who we are.

Caresha (Young Miami) (60:21)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (60:21)

You know?

Caresha (Young Miami) (60:22)

Yeah. And I think that's a problem with social media. Like, what you were saying. We read so much online about ourselves that that's what we feed in our mind. And it just become a thing of, like, you start like, well, I'm seeing this. Come here 15 times, 20 times. Like, you start that shit, start, like, digesting in your mind. It's like. It's.

Charlamagne Tha God (60:41)

That's why you can't be on it. I was telling you, like, when your album come out, just give yourself at least. I know it's gonna be hard, but give yourself at least the weekend. Like, the album drop on a Friday. Don't. Don't check the comments till Monday.

Caresha (Young Miami) (60:55)

Okay.

Charlamagne Tha God (60:56)

Like, just give yourself 48 hours just to experience the joy of putting out a solo album. Like, just. Just be. Let's let it ride for a minute.

Caresha (Young Miami) (61:06)

Yeah, I'm gonna do that.

Charlamagne Tha God (61:06)

I don't think you gonna do it. I don't believe you. I don't believe you.

Caresha (Young Miami) (61:09)

I'm growing Charlemagne. I'm growing you.

Charlamagne Tha God (61:12)

You said something earlier when you was talking about, you know, Diddy that I, you know, I thought about, but I never, like, heard anybody speak about. It's like, when you know somebody later in life, he probably is a whole different person. He probably has, you know, grown and evolved and learned from, you know, those mistakes, but we wouldn't know that.

Caresha (Young Miami) (61:34)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (61:34)

You know.

Caresha (Young Miami) (61:35)

Yeah. And I honestly. And I think that people think they're like, oh, you trying to protect some. It's like, no, literally, like when we talked about, like, uncle Risha, please. Like, church. She says, I like, yo, let's do church. And he was just so, like, trying to instill so much that I think that he probably experienced before. And that's why I'm like, okay, this a. A man that have changed because of all the shit that he probably previously went through.

Charlamagne Tha God (61:58)

Oh, man. I saw him. We was at Bishop T.D. jake's. He was at the Potter's house one Sunday, and he was there, and I saw him balling, like. Like, balling, like, throwing himself on the altar. Right? This was. This was like, maybe two years ago, I think. No, it couldn't have been maybe two. Maybe three years ago. I don't remember. Maybe two, three years ago. And I just remember thinking to myself, like, boy, he done been through it. Like, he going through something right now.

Caresha (Young Miami) (62:22)

Yeah. Cause he always like, you and them kids need to go to church on Sunday. You need to turn some teeny Jakes, do this, do that. I'm like, okay, yeah. Then I got more into. Cause I always had a relationship with God, but, like, more into church.

Charlamagne Tha God (62:35)

Did he help you grow spiritually?

Caresha (Young Miami) (62:38)

Yeah, he always send me sermons and stuff like that. Like, do this before you go, pray before you this, and do this. And you always gotta talk it to God.

Charlamagne Tha God (62:45)

What is a day like for Caresha? Cause I know I've seen you wake up, taking your kid to school, and you'll be listening to the radio. Like, what is a regular day like for you in Miami?

Caresha (Young Miami) (62:55)

Wake up, take my kids to school, go home, check my emails, call my management. Whatever it is that I'm feeling, I gotta express myself. And I started working on new things, I think. And I'm, like, constantly trying to create and, like, come up with new ideas and, you know, explore new things. Because I'm like, what's life for me outside of music? And that's being an entrepreneur. So it's always, like, trying to come up with new products or, like, what can I create that's different? Or, like, what people doing is that I can really grab their attention and make this another moment

Charlamagne Tha God (63:28)

cool. Unless you want to do more. Caresha, please. I'm here for Caresha, Please. We bringing Caresha Please back, God damn it. We gonna bring Karisha, please.

Caresha (Young Miami) (63:38)

Karisha, please. But I'm glad that, like, I had a break from season one and two, because now I got so many ideas of how I want to do season three, season three differently. Like, now, like, I want this to be different. I want to approach it like this. I want to do it this way. I don't want to do it this way. So it just gave me a moment to really see, sit and, like, look at it and see, like, what was different about season one? What was different about season three? How can I. I mean, two, how can I grow season three? Like, what can I do to make the fans want it the first. The first time they saw it? Because season one, like, I don't know if y' all was one of the ones that was hating on me. Yep. Y' all said Diddy brought my he did, though award.

Charlamagne Tha God (64:21)

What was it? BET Hip Hop Award.

Caresha (Young Miami) (64:23)

I earned that Charlemagne.

Charlamagne Tha God (64:24)

You had two F.4. Four episodes.

Caresha (Young Miami) (64:26)

But you want to know. Okay, you. I have four episodes. And what. What was it?

Charlamagne Tha God (64:30)

Four episodes?

Caresha (Young Miami) (64:31)

Yes, the four.

Charlamagne Tha God (64:32)

And I love Kevin Gates.

Caresha (Young Miami) (64:34)

It was Kevin Gates. Diddy was the second. No, Diddy was the Kevin Gates and Diddy. I don't know how it went, but the first episodes was powerful episodes, and

Charlamagne Tha God (64:45)

then it was tied between Drink Champs and Karisha.

Caresha (Young Miami) (64:48)

Drink Champs is already.

Charlamagne Tha God (64:49)

Both of them was on Revolt.

Caresha (Young Miami) (64:50)

Kisha, please was new. It was a new vibe, a new experience. I had hookah on there. I had people getting wide open. We had a salmon. We getting to the smoke. The trailer was different.

Charlamagne Tha God (64:58)

You ain't no cocaine. You ain't had no cocaine.

Caresha (Young Miami) (65:01)

No, but we had hookah and drinks and vibes, so I felt like it was something different, something that's always different and new people gonna be on it. You know, people own stuff that's trendy or that's new. I think it was new. And it was also me, like, caresha interviewing somebody.

Charlamagne Tha God (65:16)

So how would you make a difference in season three?

Caresha (Young Miami) (65:21)

I wanted to be. I want to have, like. I feel like I do have real conversations, but I want to interview on a different level. Like, a real deep level. Like, I want to go deeper.

Charlamagne Tha God (65:31)

Like, who? Talking to people. Like, with Sarah, Jake Roberts. Yeah, I would love to see that.

Caresha (Young Miami) (65:37)

Like, I love to talk to Obama.

Charlamagne Tha God (65:38)

I would love to see that.

Caresha (Young Miami) (65:40)

Like, I really want to talk to Obama. He cool. He. The president.

Charlamagne Tha God (65:42)

Michelle Oberock. Oh, the president.

Caresha (Young Miami) (65:44)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (65:44)

You would be good on Michelle. They should. They should try to get you on Michelle's podcast for your album.

Caresha (Young Miami) (65:49)

They should.

Charlamagne Tha God (65:49)

She gonna make you cry, though. She gonna bring something out of You?

Caresha (Young Miami) (65:52)

Yeah. I mean, I love to sit down with the, you know, the first lady.

Charlamagne Tha God (65:58)

That's the thing I do be hating about. Just when they look at certain people, especially us from the south, they think we slow for some reason.

Caresha (Young Miami) (66:06)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (66:06)

We're not realizing. Like, do you understand where we come from and the things that we learn early? Like, we get instilled with, like, common sense and sovereign values that, you know, put us in a position to where we can prosper anywhere in the world.

Caresha (Young Miami) (66:22)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (66:23)

Because we don't. We keep things simple for the most part.

Caresha (Young Miami) (66:26)

Yeah. And I also. And I like, as a mother, I be looking at my kids, I'd be like, dang, what can I do differently? Or how am I raising my kids differently on how I was raised? Because we still in Miami. So even though we not in the hood, the environment is still the same, you know, like the kids that they going to school with and things like that. So I think about that a lot too.

Charlamagne Tha God (66:48)

I just want you to give yourself grace, man.

Caresha (Young Miami) (66:50)

I need to.

Charlamagne Tha God (66:51)

You're doing good. Like, you're number one. You alive, right? And you know, your child is doing well. You not in jail. Like, you've beaten the odds already. Like, think about where you come from. Like when you say you shot the video for News Flash back in your hood, look at that environment and be like, yo, I came up out of this. I'm the rose that grew from this concrete. So, yo, continue to give yourself grace because you don't know what God got planned for you. That's why people will laugh and they'd be like, oh, she said she gonna be the next black Oprah. Like, you know, you laugh because Oprah already black. But I don't know, you really might end up being that. Who am I to say you're not gonna end up being that?

Caresha (Young Miami) (67:33)

Yeah, anything is possible. You gotta believe in yourself.

Charlamagne Tha God (67:36)

That's right.

Caresha (Young Miami) (67:37)

A lot of people don't believe in theyself.

Charlamagne Tha God (67:38)

That's a fact.

Caresha (Young Miami) (67:39)

Self doubt. I don't got self doubt ever.

Charlamagne Tha God (67:41)

You never felt that?

Caresha (Young Miami) (67:42)

I mean, I do at times, but I gotta kick out of the past. I'd be like, girl, yes, you can. Cause you gotta be like delusional a little bit to get where you wanna go.

Charlamagne Tha God (67:49)

When the last time you said you can't do something and then you snapped out of it?

Caresha (Young Miami) (67:55)

Hmm. Probably like today I was like, it's so hard for me to stay consistent workout, I can't do it. Cause I work out for a month. It's hard for me to eat clean. I Said, you could do that, you could do that. You gotta train your mind. Shit.

Charlamagne Tha God (68:07)

It is hard to eat clean when you from Miami. You got the licking right there.

Caresha (Young Miami) (68:10)

I know, dude. I'm doing these shows every night. It's the hookahs, the drinks.

Charlamagne Tha God (68:13)

You see what I'm saying?

Caresha (Young Miami) (68:14)

But I could do it.

Charlamagne Tha God (68:16)

You got Trick's restaurant.

Caresha (Young Miami) (68:17)

Ooh, I love sundaes. Little fried ribs.

Charlamagne Tha God (68:21)

You know Trick Eat Booty. Trick is the head of the eat a Booty game. How does he feel about you shaming? I should ask Trick. How does Trick feel about Trick?

Caresha (Young Miami) (68:28)

Don't care what nobody got to say about he. He is the face of Eaty Booty Gang. He got the shirts, the merch, all that. He don't care what's my thoughts, how I feel. He's standing on it. And salute the Trick.

Charlamagne Tha God (68:41)

Good. Yes. Yes, indeed.

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