December 29, 2022 • 23 mins
Karlous Miller and Chico Bean sit down with Ebony Austin and Rob Grover from Nouveau Bar & Grill in Atlanta!
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
All right, black market is over black You know what,
what's the black market without a food court? I mean
you just put that one all the way in perspective.
And what's the food quote without soul? Come on now,
I mean we got to talk about it, man. We
(00:33):
got some special people here. What do you see this billboard?
The same Yeah, it looked like the cover of a
black novel from the nineties. Was this closet. That's like
something Sister Soldier wrote right there? Come on, man, that's
that's how you look at this. When you got this
many accomplishments, do you have to print it on the
long paper? Yeah? Come on, Chico all the way, Chico, man.
(00:59):
We got very special guests in the black Market with
us today without further ado. You know, you see the
grits and I want to just start right there with
the grids. Pick up from the grits and introduce your
self to the world right now, Well, we don't introduce
ourselves like this. We knew vote first and formost you vote.
That's who y'all. Yeah, we appreciate everybody for recognizing us,
(01:21):
but we knew vote. Right here is the owner the
CEO of New Vote, Evany Austin, which is my sister. Okay,
got the labe, y'all see right there on that that
she magazine coming. You know what I'm saying. Um, I'm
a brother, Rob Grover m the director of operations Falling
New Vote Brand. Um, we're just trying to do something
(01:42):
great out here. Man. This is your sister, indeed your
little sister. Yeah, a little younger, but but but she's
been on her she's been on her ground for a
long time. Was it like telling your big brother what
to do? I don't. He pretty much runs it like.
We think a lot alike. So I think when both
people think a lot of like, it just makes it
that much easier. Right, And you you were from the
(02:04):
south side of Chicago, from the west side of Chicago?
Who who printed this ship? You got the south side
of She's from our west to know about that? We
(02:27):
go we don't our way to the shop in Chicago.
But it's up transitioning from Chicago, it says. And I
hope this part is right. Did you always dream of
moving to Atlanta? Or is that a typo too? Absolutely?
I love Atlanta? Do you love Atlanta? So? Where did
that love come from? I think I used to come
down a lot for a little weekend and just to
(02:48):
see the support that Atlanta would give when we would
just come down for his charity event. Um, it just
gave me a different love for Atlanta. I would go
to the different restaurants and see that it was black
on We had different clubs, and you see all of
these black entrepreneurs, these promoters, and just to see what
black excellence look like. Light. When you think of that,
you think of Atlanta. And so for me, it was, hey,
(03:09):
I need to get to Atlanta. Let me get my
business set all the way together in Chicago, and then
the next move would be Atlanta. And that's just what happened.
A Luda be saving people because I'm damn sure did
some community service over there at the Little Chris Foundation.
Ain't got extra hours and credit shout out to the
ludicrous foundation that he had to do it for us.
(03:30):
You think I'm playing, but I don't think he planned.
I had Christmas and that's why I'm glad. That's why
you write about the ladder. Ain't no places to do,
no ship like that. While I was living there, I
had to go to the good Will with the white
people and they made you do every hour, I'm out
there sweeping up dust in front of the good Will.
(03:50):
It's like, man, it's supposed to have dust on it.
It's the good Will. This is crazy. So you say
your business in Chicago so that you start to go
in cargo. No, So I started my own real estate
investment company in Chicago. I wanted to kind of change
the community of where I grew up in Chicago. So
I started with one property at a time, UM, rehabbing properties,
(04:11):
buying different properties, flipping properties. And then I kind of
moved on to another state and started building houses from
the ground up. And now I'm in Atlanta building as well.
I still have my real estate company. Okay, well, what
made you want to go into the food? Did you
have a love for cooking? All? Um, I love people
most importantly UM and knowing that I love people in cooking, Um,
I just talked the two together and did two things
(04:33):
that I absolutely enjoyed. And that's where the restaurant came from.
Ye here, especially keeping it in the family though absolutely,
I love you. I love your perils on your necklace
and on it just it just gives a seriousness to
it that just makes everything believable. I just don't feel
like you're playing. I'm not. And it says you started
(04:57):
doing the pandemic, so you know you went through I'm
sure that was a very unique process starting your business
and then everything shut down. But it said you paid
your rent a year in advance, which I is amazing
because any black person that pay rent a year in
advance is a special type of the word man. So
you get through those for that. So talk about the
(05:19):
process of of making it through that point to get
to where you are now. Oh, it was hard as hell. Um,
just looking down Main Street. Um, you think of all
of these black owned businesses right that's on Main Street.
And at one point we had just kind of got
a flow, um, and then all of a sudden everything
shut down. So you go from seeing hundreds of people
outside and to seeing literally yourself outside. Um. So there
(05:41):
was times where it would just be me, my chef,
and my bartender, Like literally on the Tuesday, we would
make twelve dollars and that would be because of the
bartender buying food. UM. So of course it was hard,
but I mean those type of situations are only father
strong light. If it don't scare you, then why even
do it? Um, and so in my mind, I trusted
God's plan and side of that, I knew that my
(06:01):
staff was taken care of. Not only that we have
the rent paid up, but we had what that salary
would look like for my staff for a year paid up.
So my staff never really caught the pandemic because they
were always in a good situation. That ain't mean I
look at it. One of the one of the things
that her and I talked about a lot was how
(06:22):
the pandemic was a blessed curse. Ye um, you know,
everybody shut down, but this one here. As soon as
they said open it back up, she opened it up.
And that's where we found a lot of people that
were looking for that escape to get out of the house.
They had been in the house for a while, and
it was like they just started coming to New Vote
and then they start telling another person, Hey, y'all heard
(06:44):
about that spot on New Vote, that that spot on
in College Park on Main Street. Man, they got a
roof top, they got a patio, they got this, they
got that the food is busting like. And then we
started with, um, the relationship with Mimosa Jams absolutely explain
what that is. So Mimosa jams started out between her
creation and our DJ name of Enda and Condo, and
(07:06):
it became something where they said, hey, we need to
get something to get the people together. We want to
do a celebration of life. It's so much death going on.
Let's get a celebration of life going on. So are
we have We sell bottom of mimosas on the weekend.
On Sunday we do the celebration of life, and then
we have a host with the DJ and the energy
inside of that place, well, if you walk in with
(07:28):
a bad, bad and feeling bad, you will walk out
of there on cloud nine. He touches the host, touches
each person in a certain way, whether it's a kid,
whether it's an eighty year old woman. We've had eighty
year old women and they're dancing off the mimoses, off
the momosis and off that moss. That the whole the
(07:57):
pandemic really was a blessed seen for us, because that's
how people started to truly know about us. Like getting
that escape. Come on, man, how many of us were
in the house, Like, man, I want to get out, man,
but nothing was open. I went back to Chicago. She
hit me and said, no, get your ass back down
Hire and I came back down and the next thing,
you know, we were right there, and you said, she
(08:19):
don't tell you what to do. Now, you know, speaking
of what you just spoke to about, you know, just
the celebration of life and and having a division to
be able to get people a different experience, Like does
that come from A lot of that come from what
you guys background is coming out of Chicago and the
stigma that Chicago has and you don't know what to
(08:40):
tell you go to. Chicago is one of the most
beautiful cities in the world. The people that I mean everything,
like that stigma that they get about it being so violent.
It's like that everywhere and I don't know why they
project that. But coming from the city and then move
into somewhere like Atlanta where the environment is totally different,
do you feel like that's something motivated you'll to want
(09:01):
to give people here that experience. You go out way
more than I do. All Right, So I love Chicago.
Anybody that's from Chicago will tell you, Hey, they live
Chicago more than anything else. Like I don't care what
you say. Like, don't get me wrong, Atlanta's flopped I've
been coming to Atlanta since two thousand and six every year.
I can't for lou Today weekend with Louta and all
(09:22):
of them, we were together all the time. But Chicago,
it's just something about it, from the food to the
environment and energy to the win. No Atlantic women, let me,
let me stop, Let me stop, Chicago when you funk
around and give you some grits that you gotta do it.
(09:45):
But look like truly when you talk about when you
said it best. They try to put this image about Chicago, like, hey,
it's all this man. Everywhere you go, you got violence.
You know, poverty brings about violence to you know, the
critical decision making skills. You don't learn that in the hood.
Like you respond to a problem and I'm gonna get
(10:06):
out this dude, you know what I'm saying. So when
you take that and you put that in these urban areas,
of course it's gonna be crazy. But then you got suburbs,
you got downtown, you got all these places where the
ain't happening like that, and it's great to live there.
I'll tell people all the time, don't go to Chicago
and the winter, go to summertimes. Shot go summertime. Shot
(10:26):
experienced the lakefront experience in the distance and you about you,
I didn't been. I just was a Chicago this past
summer and I forget what. I went to a Jamaican restaurant. Um,
I can't remember the name of it, but I just
went out and then walked and just walked around. It
(10:48):
was like people on the corner playing music and you know,
just black people everywhere. And it was And I'm from
d C. And I grew up in the city that
had that type of culture and anywhere that I go
that still has that type of field. I love. So
Chicago is one of the most beautiful cities. But when
you come from Chicago and come to Atlanta and see
the difference, like you said, very different in the difference,
Like what parts of Chicago do you guys bring to Atlanta?
(11:12):
Like what what what makes you guys unique? And y'all
experience being the food for one, we're gonna We're gonna
say that right after that, Like the level of taste
that we bring as a brand is outstanding. We cook
a lot different, We cook a lot different, seasons, hit
a little different. Um, Atlanta got some. So we cook
(11:39):
a lot different experience kind of put you in that
downtown vibe when you go to a riptop party, a
day party. Right, that's kind of the experience that we
want people to feel. But I also want people to
come in with their families, their kids and still have
a great time. I mean literally, we cater to people
from nine years old up until yes seventy year olds.
They want to work inside a new goo and I
(12:00):
mean it's just really the difference. I want to come
host one of them Sunday devotions bottom this emotion you
ain't know will come signing up for the Tory competition.
Baby is going down, but you're gonna stay up. That's
what it is. I want to jam Nana jam. But
(12:27):
but one thing about Atlanta that I love, right, and
this is a straight fact. In Chicago, we ain't helping
each other. It's just not like that. It's just in Atlanta.
You might be doing something you're gonna pull pull her
on here and get to expose her and say, hey,
tell us a little bit about yourself. It's a lot
of hatred in Chicago, especially when you have somebody that's successful,
(12:49):
and then the politicians and the bureaucracy as far as
getting a liquor license. If you ain't white, you're not
getting a liquor license. I'm telling you that, like you
have to have a white partner, and if you don't,
if you happen to get lucky, if anything happens, they
shut you down immediately. Absolutely, it's just it's it's a
it's a weird rember. We as as black people, we
(13:14):
can change that because just like you said, we got
this platform. We want you to come on and tell
everybody about it. So when we do an event, we
can do it at your spot, and then other people
in the city can say, oh, I want to use
that spot. So we create We're gonna create our own network.
That's what this whole thing is. That it's falling about
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the network and the exchange of information because we're still
a hundred years behind in communication because it used to
be against the law for us to congregate and speak
and exchange the information, and that was not for a reason.
So all of this is new. We're still a young culture,
is black people. We're still a young people because we're
still got five, six, seven hundred years of discommunication because
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you were, so we're still learning how to do business
with each other. To treat each other, how to respect
each other. But as long as we have platforms like
this where we can come on and we can exchange
this information, and you can drop your location and you
can tell these people where to support you and where
to hit your website. Because people watching this all over
the world, somebody want to make them reservations. And I
(14:19):
want you to feel the impact of the people that
supporting us, because they support the people that we support.
That's why we appreciate y'all bringing your business to the
black market. And the black market is over tell us.
So yeah, the grids, you can go on our website
(14:39):
UM and order them as well. You can go to
shopify UM and as new vote bar a t L
as well, and then all of the proceeds go to HBCUs.
I went to HBCU, so so I went to Layston
University and absolutely and I just remember the struggle, right,
I remember writing to Johns. I was barely keeping my scholarship,
(15:02):
keeping my grades up. I remember my mom telling me like, Yo,
you're gonna have to figure this out. I'm not gonna
pay your tuition. I'm not helping with financial aid. You're
gonna have to figure this out. Yeah, but in that right,
it gives another beauty of strength, right that we don't
even know that we're getting right until we are actually
at another age and now it's time to perform. And
(15:23):
now little things you just look at it and you
keep going right, because now you feel like you're unstoppable
at this point. Right. And so for me, it was like, Okay,
how do I finish school with no support? Right? What
does that look like? And so I never want people
to go through what I went through. So when we
did a new vote and my grits would do so well,
I said, hey, you know what, I want to give
back to the HBC's but not once a year, right,
(15:45):
I want to give back every single day that new
vote is open. And and and what that does is it
looks like my gridline. Every single purchase goes new vote.
Don't see none of those dollars. It literally goes to
other African American students. They had the same struggle that
I head growing up and going into college. So for us,
this gridline, that's my baby, because this is my way
(16:06):
of giving that to people that looked like me. I'm
not gonna say how many years ago, but look, you
should ship that's a blessing. Look at how feel you're
looking on the guy. Then look at this, look at
you put everybody on the front of magazine exactly should be.
And that's the thing. That's another thing I want to
speak to that just the be proud of the progression
(16:28):
and the transition that you made, no matter how many
how long it's taken, how many years it's been, it's
a blessing because look at you. You know what I mean,
you look like it's bigger than just what you're putting
on paper or what you're selling to somebody when they
see you, they see that you out of you know,
personification of what success looks like. And that level of
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progression that you've made is the motivation that not just
the money. The money is great, don't get me wrong,
you need that, but you need also the motivation to
know that there's somebody that I look at and see
that has walked this journey and made it to a
certain point. So I can be motivated no matter what
it is I go through because I see you a winner.
I see a success story. So that if we can't
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let y'all get out of here without you giving some
advice to the young black girls who are watching this,
and you drop some game on the young black man
who might be watching. That's for me. I say this
all the time when I think about myself. I told
people all the time, just do it. Whether you're scared,
whether the finances are there not like figure it out,
just do it. Whatever it is that you go to
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sleep thinking about, you wake up in the morning thinking
about whatever it is that you're extremely passionate about. Just
do it, be consistent in it, and trust God. The
rest is history. Though. Once you do that, the rest
is history. Once you do something every single day, you
learn to perfect it right, you learn the mistakes that
you've made, you learn the things that you've done right,
and most importantly, you're at some point it'll reach where
(17:57):
you need to reach right because you're trying it every
single but the kid is being consistent in doing it.
Get it up for that um. For me, it's more
so of man. Listen, everything that glitters ain't gold. For
all our young brothers who are out here trying to
(18:19):
live a certain way because of what you're seeing on
Instagram and all that man that ain't real, That ain't real.
What's real is getting up every day making a goal
for yourself and focusing on it, like, man, what's somebody
got today? Don't mean they're gonna have it tomorrow. What
you work for every day to get to, man, you
can achieve. And I don't care what when when people
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really know somebody's story, You got a story like you
just talked about earlier, Like, man, I had to go
through this, I had to go through that, and you're
here now saying with you, saying with me, I got
a story that man's it's probably gonna come out one
day that they able to tell people like everybody go
through trials and tribulations. Man, don't give up. Just keep
on striving, keep going, keep ship, keep pushing all the way. Man,
(19:02):
this is beautiful things. So so Main Street location and
now the Jones, Jones, Burrow and y'all just did a
fire house. Was it a fire house subs or was
it a fire like a fire? It was an actually
firehouse museum. So and let me let's let's let's let's
give her her flowers because everybody down I was telling her,
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don't put nothing out there, don't put not out ain't
not not there. And she said, that's exactly why I'm
going to put something out there, and when I tell you,
the blessings have flowed from that space like we I
don't know if y'all even heard about like you do
the R and B Thursdays out there where acts everybody
from Tank veto Tamar Crisette, Michelle came Michelle. We've had
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so many talented acts come out there and perform about
just coming. I'm worn, don't like for real. We gotta
sneak a ball coming up next on take us performing.
We have some other special guests performing. I'll see the
kicks for They don't want us to come to be
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shirt off like my dad. God Man, we more than
appreciate y'all stopping through the black market. Y'all drop the
website one more time. Let them know where they can
reach you. Don't forget social media. Everybody to do something
for the community for Thanksgiving and then for Christmas. We're
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gonna put some people in houses. For Christmas. We're gonna
do laptops, xboxes, PlayStations. Um, this is our third year
doing it, so our Christmas even it is definitely gonna
be amazing. Coming down there to get me one of
them have come, man, come on our website is uh
www dot new votebar dot com. Um, what's the Instagram
(20:55):
new vote by a t L. Yeah, New v by
a t L And we we definitely want you can
make your reservations there, you can purchase things there on
on our social media platforms. Everything. Well, let's wait before
you read that bill. That bill, I see the ring
and ring and ream. Um. I want people to know
(21:18):
a lot like they know about the brand. We're getting
our brand up. I need people to know about her.
She won't promote herself like so we have. You see
her on that magazine cover for one um, but follow
her at evany Akira on instagramy acua about We're about
to look. People know what this woman is doing? What
what what type of effort she's putting this communities. She's
(21:39):
not gonna tell you that she bought all these books
from black authors and gave him to school. She gonna
tell you all that. She don't tell you all the things.
That's why I'm doing that. You see it, so evany Akira.
So it's e b O n y A K I
r A go start back with the old pictures. Chico.
I'm going the way bank. I know about the city
(22:13):
man all the way. Yeah he know for real stop,
Yeah for sure, But yeah, that's that's that's that's what
I want people to really get a get an idea
of who she is. Like, she's not gonna brag on
how much real estate she did. Don't want to give
us a break. I'll just say God is amazing, and
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I think I'm an example of what young people can do.
I came from the West Side of Chicago, off of Independence,
off of the two ninety where everybody that you've seen,
majority of them was on drugs and then the other
half was trying to figure it out. We were taught
that hey, you're gonna go to school, you're gonna work
at nine and five, and that's life. And for me
that just wasn't enough. So when people look at me,
I do want people to see that anything is possible.
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My faith in God is extreme, the high course, but
I mean to have the real estate and where I've
come from, uh, and to have properties that's in my hood.
I didn't want to go to the suburbs, so all
the properties that I've purchased are in my hood and
that's the beauty of it. So for other young people,
I just want people to know that it's possible you're
a step away from your dreams, that the classies, my
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properties are in my hood, my hood. Yeah, we love it.
All right, black market is over black You know what,
what's the black market without a food court? I mean
you just put that one all the way in perspective.
And what's the food quote without soul? Come on now,
I mean we got to talk about it, man. We
(00:33):
got some special people here. What do you see this billboard?
The same Yeah, it looked like the cover of a
black novel from the nineties. Was this closet. That's like
something Sister Soldier wrote right there? Come on, man, that's
that's how you look at this. When you got this
many accomplishments, do you have to print it on the
long paper? Yeah? Come on, Chico all the way, Chico, man.
(00:59):
We got very special guests in the black Market with
us today without further ado. You know, you see the
grits and I want to just start right there with
the grids. Pick up from the grits and introduce your
self to the world right now, Well, we don't introduce
ourselves like this. We knew vote first and formost you vote.
That's who y'all. Yeah, we appreciate everybody for recognizing us,
(01:21):
but we knew vote. Right here is the owner the
CEO of New Vote, Evany Austin, which is my sister. Okay,
got the labe, y'all see right there on that that
she magazine coming. You know what I'm saying. Um, I'm
a brother, Rob Grover m the director of operations Falling
New Vote Brand. Um, we're just trying to do something
(01:42):
great out here. Man. This is your sister, indeed your
little sister. Yeah, a little younger, but but but she's
been on her she's been on her ground for a
long time. Was it like telling your big brother what
to do? I don't. He pretty much runs it like.
We think a lot alike. So I think when both
people think a lot of like, it just makes it
that much easier. Right, And you you were from the
(02:04):
south side of Chicago, from the west side of Chicago?
Who who printed this ship? You got the south side
of She's from our west to know about that? We
(02:27):
go we don't our way to the shop in Chicago.
But it's up transitioning from Chicago, it says. And I
hope this part is right. Did you always dream of
moving to Atlanta? Or is that a typo too? Absolutely?
I love Atlanta? Do you love Atlanta? So? Where did
that love come from? I think I used to come
down a lot for a little weekend and just to
(02:48):
see the support that Atlanta would give when we would
just come down for his charity event. Um, it just
gave me a different love for Atlanta. I would go
to the different restaurants and see that it was black
on We had different clubs, and you see all of
these black entrepreneurs, these promoters, and just to see what
black excellence look like. Light. When you think of that,
you think of Atlanta. And so for me, it was, hey,
(03:09):
I need to get to Atlanta. Let me get my
business set all the way together in Chicago, and then
the next move would be Atlanta. And that's just what happened.
A Luda be saving people because I'm damn sure did
some community service over there at the Little Chris Foundation.
Ain't got extra hours and credit shout out to the
ludicrous foundation that he had to do it for us.
(03:30):
You think I'm playing, but I don't think he planned.
I had Christmas and that's why I'm glad. That's why
you write about the ladder. Ain't no places to do,
no ship like that. While I was living there, I
had to go to the good Will with the white
people and they made you do every hour, I'm out
there sweeping up dust in front of the good Will.
(03:50):
It's like, man, it's supposed to have dust on it.
It's the good Will. This is crazy. So you say
your business in Chicago so that you start to go
in cargo. No, So I started my own real estate
investment company in Chicago. I wanted to kind of change
the community of where I grew up in Chicago. So
I started with one property at a time, UM, rehabbing properties,
(04:11):
buying different properties, flipping properties. And then I kind of
moved on to another state and started building houses from
the ground up. And now I'm in Atlanta building as well.
I still have my real estate company. Okay, well, what
made you want to go into the food? Did you
have a love for cooking? All? Um, I love people
most importantly UM and knowing that I love people in cooking, Um,
I just talked the two together and did two things
(04:33):
that I absolutely enjoyed. And that's where the restaurant came from.
Ye here, especially keeping it in the family though absolutely,
I love you. I love your perils on your necklace
and on it just it just gives a seriousness to
it that just makes everything believable. I just don't feel
like you're playing. I'm not. And it says you started
(04:57):
doing the pandemic, so you know you went through I'm
sure that was a very unique process starting your business
and then everything shut down. But it said you paid
your rent a year in advance, which I is amazing
because any black person that pay rent a year in
advance is a special type of the word man. So
you get through those for that. So talk about the
(05:19):
process of of making it through that point to get
to where you are now. Oh, it was hard as hell. Um,
just looking down Main Street. Um, you think of all
of these black owned businesses right that's on Main Street.
And at one point we had just kind of got
a flow, um, and then all of a sudden everything
shut down. So you go from seeing hundreds of people
outside and to seeing literally yourself outside. Um. So there
(05:41):
was times where it would just be me, my chef,
and my bartender, Like literally on the Tuesday, we would
make twelve dollars and that would be because of the
bartender buying food. UM. So of course it was hard,
but I mean those type of situations are only father
strong light. If it don't scare you, then why even
do it? Um, and so in my mind, I trusted
God's plan and side of that, I knew that my
(06:01):
staff was taken care of. Not only that we have
the rent paid up, but we had what that salary
would look like for my staff for a year paid up.
So my staff never really caught the pandemic because they
were always in a good situation. That ain't mean I
look at it. One of the one of the things
that her and I talked about a lot was how
(06:22):
the pandemic was a blessed curse. Ye um, you know,
everybody shut down, but this one here. As soon as
they said open it back up, she opened it up.
And that's where we found a lot of people that
were looking for that escape to get out of the house.
They had been in the house for a while, and
it was like they just started coming to New Vote
and then they start telling another person, Hey, y'all heard
(06:44):
about that spot on New Vote, that that spot on
in College Park on Main Street. Man, they got a
roof top, they got a patio, they got this, they
got that the food is busting like. And then we
started with, um, the relationship with Mimosa Jams absolutely explain
what that is. So Mimosa jams started out between her
creation and our DJ name of Enda and Condo, and
(07:06):
it became something where they said, hey, we need to
get something to get the people together. We want to
do a celebration of life. It's so much death going on.
Let's get a celebration of life going on. So are
we have We sell bottom of mimosas on the weekend.
On Sunday we do the celebration of life, and then
we have a host with the DJ and the energy
inside of that place, well, if you walk in with
(07:28):
a bad, bad and feeling bad, you will walk out
of there on cloud nine. He touches the host, touches
each person in a certain way, whether it's a kid,
whether it's an eighty year old woman. We've had eighty
year old women and they're dancing off the mimoses, off
the momosis and off that moss. That the whole the
(07:57):
pandemic really was a blessed seen for us, because that's
how people started to truly know about us. Like getting
that escape. Come on, man, how many of us were
in the house, Like, man, I want to get out, man,
but nothing was open. I went back to Chicago. She
hit me and said, no, get your ass back down
Hire and I came back down and the next thing,
you know, we were right there, and you said, she
(08:19):
don't tell you what to do. Now, you know, speaking
of what you just spoke to about, you know, just
the celebration of life and and having a division to
be able to get people a different experience, Like does
that come from A lot of that come from what
you guys background is coming out of Chicago and the
stigma that Chicago has and you don't know what to
(08:40):
tell you go to. Chicago is one of the most
beautiful cities in the world. The people that I mean everything,
like that stigma that they get about it being so violent.
It's like that everywhere and I don't know why they
project that. But coming from the city and then move
into somewhere like Atlanta where the environment is totally different,
do you feel like that's something motivated you'll to want
(09:01):
to give people here that experience. You go out way
more than I do. All Right, So I love Chicago.
Anybody that's from Chicago will tell you, Hey, they live
Chicago more than anything else. Like I don't care what
you say. Like, don't get me wrong, Atlanta's flopped I've
been coming to Atlanta since two thousand and six every year.
I can't for lou Today weekend with Louta and all
(09:22):
of them, we were together all the time. But Chicago,
it's just something about it, from the food to the
environment and energy to the win. No Atlantic women, let me,
let me stop, Let me stop, Chicago when you funk
around and give you some grits that you gotta do it.
(09:45):
But look like truly when you talk about when you
said it best. They try to put this image about Chicago, like, hey,
it's all this man. Everywhere you go, you got violence.
You know, poverty brings about violence to you know, the
critical decision making skills. You don't learn that in the hood.
Like you respond to a problem and I'm gonna get
(10:06):
out this dude, you know what I'm saying. So when
you take that and you put that in these urban areas,
of course it's gonna be crazy. But then you got suburbs,
you got downtown, you got all these places where the
ain't happening like that, and it's great to live there.
I'll tell people all the time, don't go to Chicago
and the winter, go to summertimes. Shot go summertime. Shot
(10:26):
experienced the lakefront experience in the distance and you about you,
I didn't been. I just was a Chicago this past
summer and I forget what. I went to a Jamaican restaurant. Um,
I can't remember the name of it, but I just
went out and then walked and just walked around. It
(10:48):
was like people on the corner playing music and you know,
just black people everywhere. And it was And I'm from
d C. And I grew up in the city that
had that type of culture and anywhere that I go
that still has that type of field. I love. So
Chicago is one of the most beautiful cities. But when
you come from Chicago and come to Atlanta and see
the difference, like you said, very different in the difference,
Like what parts of Chicago do you guys bring to Atlanta?
(11:12):
Like what what what makes you guys unique? And y'all
experience being the food for one, we're gonna We're gonna
say that right after that, Like the level of taste
that we bring as a brand is outstanding. We cook
a lot different, We cook a lot different, seasons, hit
a little different. Um, Atlanta got some. So we cook
(11:39):
a lot different experience kind of put you in that
downtown vibe when you go to a riptop party, a
day party. Right, that's kind of the experience that we
want people to feel. But I also want people to
come in with their families, their kids and still have
a great time. I mean literally, we cater to people
from nine years old up until yes seventy year olds.
They want to work inside a new goo and I
(12:00):
mean it's just really the difference. I want to come
host one of them Sunday devotions bottom this emotion you
ain't know will come signing up for the Tory competition.
Baby is going down, but you're gonna stay up. That's
what it is. I want to jam Nana jam. But
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but one thing about Atlanta that I love, right, and
this is a straight fact. In Chicago, we ain't helping
each other. It's just not like that. It's just in Atlanta.
You might be doing something you're gonna pull pull her
on here and get to expose her and say, hey,
tell us a little bit about yourself. It's a lot
of hatred in Chicago, especially when you have somebody that's successful,
(12:49):
and then the politicians and the bureaucracy as far as
getting a liquor license. If you ain't white, you're not
getting a liquor license. I'm telling you that, like you
have to have a white partner, and if you don't,
if you happen to get lucky, if anything happens, they
shut you down immediately. Absolutely, it's just it's it's a
it's a weird rember. We as as black people, we
(13:14):
can change that because just like you said, we got
this platform. We want you to come on and tell
everybody about it. So when we do an event, we
can do it at your spot, and then other people
in the city can say, oh, I want to use
that spot. So we create We're gonna create our own network.
That's what this whole thing is. That it's falling about
(13:34):
the network and the exchange of information because we're still
a hundred years behind in communication because it used to
be against the law for us to congregate and speak
and exchange the information, and that was not for a reason.
So all of this is new. We're still a young culture,
is black people. We're still a young people because we're
still got five, six, seven hundred years of discommunication because
(13:56):
you were, so we're still learning how to do business
with each other. To treat each other, how to respect
each other. But as long as we have platforms like
this where we can come on and we can exchange
this information, and you can drop your location and you
can tell these people where to support you and where
to hit your website. Because people watching this all over
the world, somebody want to make them reservations. And I
(14:19):
want you to feel the impact of the people that
supporting us, because they support the people that we support.
That's why we appreciate y'all bringing your business to the
black market. And the black market is over tell us.
So yeah, the grids, you can go on our website
(14:39):
UM and order them as well. You can go to
shopify UM and as new vote bar a t L
as well, and then all of the proceeds go to HBCUs.
I went to HBCU, so so I went to Layston
University and absolutely and I just remember the struggle, right,
I remember writing to Johns. I was barely keeping my scholarship,
(15:02):
keeping my grades up. I remember my mom telling me like, Yo,
you're gonna have to figure this out. I'm not gonna
pay your tuition. I'm not helping with financial aid. You're
gonna have to figure this out. Yeah, but in that right,
it gives another beauty of strength, right that we don't
even know that we're getting right until we are actually
at another age and now it's time to perform. And
(15:23):
now little things you just look at it and you
keep going right, because now you feel like you're unstoppable
at this point. Right. And so for me, it was like, Okay,
how do I finish school with no support? Right? What
does that look like? And so I never want people
to go through what I went through. So when we
did a new vote and my grits would do so well,
I said, hey, you know what, I want to give
back to the HBC's but not once a year, right,
(15:45):
I want to give back every single day that new
vote is open. And and and what that does is it
looks like my gridline. Every single purchase goes new vote.
Don't see none of those dollars. It literally goes to
other African American students. They had the same struggle that
I head growing up and going into college. So for us,
this gridline, that's my baby, because this is my way
(16:06):
of giving that to people that looked like me. I'm
not gonna say how many years ago, but look, you
should ship that's a blessing. Look at how feel you're
looking on the guy. Then look at this, look at
you put everybody on the front of magazine exactly should be.
And that's the thing. That's another thing I want to
speak to that just the be proud of the progression
(16:28):
and the transition that you made, no matter how many
how long it's taken, how many years it's been, it's
a blessing because look at you. You know what I mean,
you look like it's bigger than just what you're putting
on paper or what you're selling to somebody when they
see you, they see that you out of you know,
personification of what success looks like. And that level of
(16:50):
progression that you've made is the motivation that not just
the money. The money is great, don't get me wrong,
you need that, but you need also the motivation to
know that there's somebody that I look at and see
that has walked this journey and made it to a
certain point. So I can be motivated no matter what
it is I go through because I see you a winner.
I see a success story. So that if we can't
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let y'all get out of here without you giving some
advice to the young black girls who are watching this,
and you drop some game on the young black man
who might be watching. That's for me. I say this
all the time when I think about myself. I told
people all the time, just do it. Whether you're scared,
whether the finances are there not like figure it out,
just do it. Whatever it is that you go to
(17:33):
sleep thinking about, you wake up in the morning thinking
about whatever it is that you're extremely passionate about. Just
do it, be consistent in it, and trust God. The
rest is history. Though. Once you do that, the rest
is history. Once you do something every single day, you
learn to perfect it right, you learn the mistakes that
you've made, you learn the things that you've done right,
and most importantly, you're at some point it'll reach where
(17:57):
you need to reach right because you're trying it every
single but the kid is being consistent in doing it.
Get it up for that um. For me, it's more
so of man. Listen, everything that glitters ain't gold. For
all our young brothers who are out here trying to
(18:19):
live a certain way because of what you're seeing on
Instagram and all that man that ain't real, That ain't real.
What's real is getting up every day making a goal
for yourself and focusing on it, like, man, what's somebody
got today? Don't mean they're gonna have it tomorrow. What
you work for every day to get to, man, you
can achieve. And I don't care what when when people
(18:39):
really know somebody's story, You got a story like you
just talked about earlier, Like, man, I had to go
through this, I had to go through that, and you're
here now saying with you, saying with me, I got
a story that man's it's probably gonna come out one
day that they able to tell people like everybody go
through trials and tribulations. Man, don't give up. Just keep
on striving, keep going, keep ship, keep pushing all the way. Man,
(19:02):
this is beautiful things. So so Main Street location and
now the Jones, Jones, Burrow and y'all just did a
fire house. Was it a fire house subs or was
it a fire like a fire? It was an actually
firehouse museum. So and let me let's let's let's let's
give her her flowers because everybody down I was telling her,
(19:23):
don't put nothing out there, don't put not out ain't
not not there. And she said, that's exactly why I'm
going to put something out there, and when I tell you,
the blessings have flowed from that space like we I
don't know if y'all even heard about like you do
the R and B Thursdays out there where acts everybody
from Tank veto Tamar Crisette, Michelle came Michelle. We've had
(19:45):
so many talented acts come out there and perform about
just coming. I'm worn, don't like for real. We gotta
sneak a ball coming up next on take us performing.
We have some other special guests performing. I'll see the
kicks for They don't want us to come to be
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shirt off like my dad. God Man, we more than
appreciate y'all stopping through the black market. Y'all drop the
website one more time. Let them know where they can
reach you. Don't forget social media. Everybody to do something
for the community for Thanksgiving and then for Christmas. We're
(20:33):
gonna put some people in houses. For Christmas. We're gonna
do laptops, xboxes, PlayStations. Um, this is our third year
doing it, so our Christmas even it is definitely gonna
be amazing. Coming down there to get me one of
them have come, man, come on our website is uh
www dot new votebar dot com. Um, what's the Instagram
(20:55):
new vote by a t L. Yeah, New v by
a t L And we we definitely want you can
make your reservations there, you can purchase things there on
on our social media platforms. Everything. Well, let's wait before
you read that bill. That bill, I see the ring
and ring and ream. Um. I want people to know
(21:18):
a lot like they know about the brand. We're getting
our brand up. I need people to know about her.
She won't promote herself like so we have. You see
her on that magazine cover for one um, but follow
her at evany Akira on instagramy acua about We're about
to look. People know what this woman is doing? What
what what type of effort she's putting this communities. She's
(21:39):
not gonna tell you that she bought all these books
from black authors and gave him to school. She gonna
tell you all that. She don't tell you all the things.
That's why I'm doing that. You see it, so evany Akira.
So it's e b O n y A K I
r A go start back with the old pictures. Chico.
I'm going the way bank. I know about the city
(22:13):
man all the way. Yeah he know for real stop,
Yeah for sure, But yeah, that's that's that's that's what
I want people to really get a get an idea
of who she is. Like, she's not gonna brag on
how much real estate she did. Don't want to give
us a break. I'll just say God is amazing, and
(22:36):
I think I'm an example of what young people can do.
I came from the West Side of Chicago, off of Independence,
off of the two ninety where everybody that you've seen,
majority of them was on drugs and then the other
half was trying to figure it out. We were taught
that hey, you're gonna go to school, you're gonna work
at nine and five, and that's life. And for me
that just wasn't enough. So when people look at me,
I do want people to see that anything is possible.
(22:58):
My faith in God is extreme, the high course, but
I mean to have the real estate and where I've
come from, uh, and to have properties that's in my hood.
I didn't want to go to the suburbs, so all
the properties that I've purchased are in my hood and
that's the beauty of it. So for other young people,
I just want people to know that it's possible you're
a step away from your dreams, that the classies, my
(23:25):
properties are in my hood, my hood. Yeah, we love it.
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