And We Back (pt 1) 0300

[00:00:03] Speaker A: Yo, what up, bro? [00:00:07] Speaker B: Y' all stand for O.T. yes, sir. N. Get that bread, bro. I gotta stay for ot. You already know bills is due. Listen up, workers overtime employ this weekend. No excuses. She love that. [00:00:23] Speaker A: Let me work. Please let me work. Let me work. Please let me work. [00:00:33] Speaker B: Yo, what's going on, good people? How y' all doing out there? This is your main man, DJ High Star, and you're joining me for another episode of mandatory overtime. I appreciate all of y'. All. Thank y' all for joining me. The aim here at mandatory overtime is to recalibrate how we define manhood, and we'll do that through conversation here. When I say we or we'll, I mean we as a community. This is just simply a social experiment and consistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me, and I appreciate that. Appreciate y' all for that, definitely. Now, don't confuse this with the manosphere. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair, like, subscribe, hype, or share and make some noise because the man is here. Y' all like that. I got a Russian sound engineer and a Czech one, too. I said a check. One, two. Let's go to work, y'. All. Let's go to work. Live from Charlotte, America. Like I said, I definitely encourage y' all to, like, comment, subscribe, rate, share, hype, as YouTube just put it or just added. And also email me here at MandatoryOT7 04. That's gonna be the email. We'll make sure that we read y' all emails and stuff and get y' all some feedback each week. So, you know, let's start this off, though, this episode this week on a nice note. Had a safe trip down to Atlanta, y'. All. Give it up, man. Atlanta, y', all, to care to, boy, man. Appreciate y'. [00:02:20] Speaker A: All. [00:02:23] Speaker B: Let's go to work. So, Atlanta, I was very nervous about going out there first, to be honest. Listen, I don't have the extra money to pay for any kind of broken windows or anything like that right now. So I was definitely praying for either alternative, alternative transportation to the Chance the Rapper show that I went to down there, or a good, good parking space for a decent price. So where the venue was, spot a new baseball field down there. So shout out to Atlanta. Shout out to the Battery. Very nice area. Very nice area. See what y' all are doing. I won't say the word that rhymes with Ben Ventrify, but, you know, we see what's going on out there. But Just don't get it confused, right? Don't get it up. Atlantic Atlanta got bread, too. Okay. They. They got a little bit of chicken. Let's never get it conf. Atlanta, Come on. They've been getting paper for a while, too, so let's never get that confused or whatnot with Atlanta. Y' all just, you know, shout out to the Battery. I'll just say that the show is. It's pretty good. It was very crowded out there, y'. All. Very packed. Chance packed out the crowd. I will say that there was a lot of elbow rubbing with studs as far as, you know, aggressive elbow rubbing, because it was general admission right where I was. So where you was able to get to was determined by when you got there and kind of, you know, how clever you were with your maneuvers. So I was able to. I'm gonna end up getting the footage on our social medias, but I was able to get very, very close right. Right behind the first row of people. In other words, in. In a great standing spot. I parked it for the whole night. Didn't have to go to the bar or anything like that. And just throughout the night, there was just different challengers to come and try to challenge me for the real estate that I had out there. I wasn't. That was. That was kind of the only hiccup out there. If anything, brother Deontay Cal and Big Ice Cup Cat was out there as well. From Grits and Eggs Podcast, brotherly love to those men. But Chance the Rapper, bro, show, love it. Don't show nothing, it don't cost nothing. So, Chance, man, salute to you, brother. Put on a great show out there. Had us all rapping, all of the words to the lyrics, the performance itself. Like, I just got to do a whole review on the performance. I believe once I get the video components and stuff set up, we'll go ahead and do a. A review on the performance out there in Atlanta. I loved it so much that there's a good chance that I'm headed out to echo stage in D.C. to the next show that you have. Well, to the show that you have in D.C. so salute to you again, Chance, for. For just the. The hell of a show that you put on. I. I was. I was geeked the whole time. I was rapping the lyrics the whole time. But that get. Brings me to what this episode will be about. This episode is affectionately named episode number three, but it's going to be reviewing Starline Chances most recent album that dropped in August, and we're gonna go through about five tracks today. I'm gonna break this up into different parts because it's just too much. High Star bars all through the project. Chance, you know, was vulnerable and stuff. I'm gonna get to the review of the project itself in a second, but like I mentioned, the show itself was wonderful. Had a chance to stop by Fuddruckers on the way back, so that was clutch. Hello. And, you know, overall, it was a great trip. Very great, very good, Good road trip real quick. In and out. Po. There goes the first pause. So. But yeah, just in and out of the city very quickly. And we got to it. All right, so speaking of getting to it, that's what we're going to do right now. Punching the time clock, if in case y' all was wondering. I'm gonna go over a couple of random things that I had to jot down this past week that kind of detest me, if you will. Annoy me, if you will. So we're gonna make this concise, but whatever happened to 24 hour America? Let's talk about that real quick, right? Walgreens of the world, Walmart. Hello, Target, Harris Teeters. You know, you'll have your 24 hour. I'll take it back in the day to Piggly Wiggly back in North Charleston. But there's been a absence of, like, the 24 hour America. Some of the. A lot of the gyms. Let's talk about that, right? A whole lot of gyms. Let's think. You know, you got your autozone places and stuff or advanced and definitely used to be 24 hours, but there was a man. There's just something missing about 24 hour America. I was thinking about it the other day when I saw something online when it was discussing how we used to treat Black Friday. And Black Friday definitely used to be an event after Thursday, Thanksgiving evening dinner, you know, everybody take their nap if they need to. You watch your evening football, you know, get your seconds or your desserts. You know, the cousins go out for a walk. Know what I'm talking about? And then everybody gets ready about 11:30 or so to go stand in line into Target, go to the mall, hit Walmart to get some TVs. It was just an event, you know, of course, E Shopping, cyber shopping has killed all of that because you started to get your Cyber Mondays and all of that in juxtaposition to Black Friday. So, you know, there's just a lost. I'm gonna say a lost art, but a lost tradition in America is like, of course, Black Friday shopping overnight or late at night. But just 24 hour America in general used to be such a vibe, man. Such a vibe. Shout out to 24 hour America. Those that couldn't experience it, I feel sorry for you. All right, that's the first little gripe I got. Second, I got it written down here. David Banner sized dancing and getting light. Yeah, we gotta holla at y' all real quick. Listen, if we know that you can dance, okay, you don't have to dance to the point of perspiration is what I'm saying. Everywhere that you're at, okay, you got to let some of that. That Dior or that. That baccarat, the divine number nine, whatever you have, you got to let some of that live on your body so that that fragrance can work for itself, you know, don't sweat it all out. And now your natural pheromones or whatnot and incense. Come on, brother. You know, and I'm talking about the brothers that are not too. They're not big, but they're not small. They're not skinny or lean or anything like that. These is, you know, the big boneded brothers. And, you know, this is Millie rocking heavy, like I said, getting light. The John O clap, all of that stuff. Yeah, leave that to some of the Lena fellas. All right, let's stop getting light. Let's get lightweight. All right, I'm gonna just leave it at that. Let's leave it at that. Now, my third. Third was kind of petty, but it just says passion fruit on there. I don't like passion fruit drinks. Why is that? Even next to the orange juice and the real orange juices, if you pay attention, it fools your eyes. Because that might be a $99, you know what I'm saying? And orange juice is $6.79. You're not getting real. I don't know what passion fruit is. I don't know how they making it. I don't know where they squeezing it from. Pause. The second part is with passion fruit. It was one of the cocktail drinks on a carnival cruise, y'. All. So y' all know it's in a government lab somewhere. That's not an. All right, y'. All, Email me a picture of the fruit. Passion fruit, if y' all can. I'm a. I'll Google it whenever I stop recording today, but that's that. Come on, y'. All. What are we talking about? Passion fruit. You gotta be kidding me, man. You gotta be kidding me. Out. Some passion fruit. Passion fruit, man. I'm sorry. For the little baby Rant. But nevertheless, nevertheless, we'll keep it moving in and continue to work. This, by the way, is literally overtime for me today. Y' all fresh off of the job and yeah, we, we here. You know what I'm saying? Let's see here. All right, so I want to go ahead and move forward, punch the clock and let's talk about Starline, y'. All. Let's talk about Starline a little bit. Okay, so, yeah, let's talk about Starline, y'. All. And I'm gonna probably have to mute myself just being honest with y' all a couple of times throughout this review, because I know the. The album forward and backwards. I believe that the album is album of the year. Chance, you did your thing. A whole lot of hostile bars in there, so I got to show you some brotherly love on that. And listen, I know you gonna dig this. So let's get right to it though. The title Star Line, that's pan ode or homage to the Black Star Line as a shipping company that was founded in 1919 by Marcus Garvey. Many know that the well known civil rights leader. It was built to the shipping company itself to, amongst other things, to promote Pan Africanism and build economic independence for people of African descent. So, you know, people look at it as a failure ultimately, or like, because it's not. Because it's. It's defunct or whatnot, it's not currently active and everything that it's like a failure. But a lot of. Well, the biggest challenge I would say that they faced was FBI interference. They was on J. Edgar Hoover's watch list, if you will, or. Or whatnot. And. And he was, you know, actively seeking the failure of the Black Star Line. Let me see here. Other than outside of that, of course, they tried Marcus Garvey with mail fraud in 1922 stemming from the sale of Black Starline stock. He was convicted and imprisoned. Then he got deported back to Jamaica in 1927. So there was a lot of things going on with that. There was three ships that they acquired, like all my creatives out there, rappers and stuff like that. If you're thinking about any kind of track names or album names, the SS Yarmouth, the SS Shadyside, SS Kanawha were the three ships. Now the SS Kanawa was renamed the SS Antonio Mio. And the first ship, the SS Yarmouth was renamed the SS Frederick Douglass. So also the company was founded in 1919, or incorporated rather in Delaware in 1919. It started off with the fundraising by selling shares to just ordinary black people. So huge economic Opportunity for black people. Wanted to give y' all that background before we get into the album and the music itself, because that's going to play the backdrop for what we're going to be doing now. Also, the. There are a lot of good. They're going to be different motifs that we're going to introduce as they come along as well. But let's go ahead and just get right into it. The intro for it, Starside intro. I'm going go ahead and play this for y', all and we're going to talk about it as well. So let's talk about this. Let's see. I'll be pausing some stuff real quick. So first, first pause. Now, that voice, first voice that you Heard is actually DJ Ferris, historical Chicago DJ on the Chicago music scene through the 90s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. So his drop right there is infam. Infamous, famous, well known, you know, renowned drop right there. It's Chicago, nigga. So chant starts off with that. Let's go ahead and get into it. Y' all my fault for Poison. Let's go. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Surprise. It's the boy who live it's the west set. I'm Santa with some toys to give a 38 special I call Noisy Cricket. I got a chain on now called Roy G Biv it's the new new edition like Poison, Bib Bell devote It's time to make that noise again. Lauryn Hill says she seen me on the Voice again But this the end of the road like boys to make man, you better use your pen, baby, Use your heart, Child, where's your viewpoint? Where's your art style? Sometimes the teardrop can make your heart smile. All right, all right, all right, all right. [00:16:36] Speaker B: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, Chance, hold on, hold on. Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, Chance, slow down, slow down. All right, all right. He was dribbling a little bit. I just wanted to before he. Before he could see. And I'm gonna let y' all listen to it again. But I just had to go. Go through it real quick where he was kind of where we was going because we got to slow down. Didn't take a bar off. Let's just first say that. All right. Surprise. It's the boy who lived. It's the West Chatham Santa with some toys to give. So first of all, that's indicative of y' all thought y' all could kill me or y' all thought I was dead and gone, especially after the big day, right? So remember the big Day. That's his project that he dropped after coloring book and many. It wasn't received well by many. Put it like that. It was. He was showing love to his wife and his marriage, him getting married, his wedding and everything like that. And it wasn't received well. I. I definitely accepted the album and I. I enjoyed it. I still got tracks off of it that I dj, so I. I enjoyed it. That's what I'm gonna say about that. Now. Let's see here. He said it's the West Chatham Santa. West Chatham Santa Shout out to. In 2020, he dropped Christmas album with Jeremiah, you know, so he's always looking at, you know, of course, what he does for Chicago and the youth in Chicago or the youth at at large. I think chance sees itself as. As Santa, of course, shouting out West Chatham with some toys to give double entendre here. Because the next line, he says, I got a 38 special. A 38 special I call Noisy Cricket. I got a chain on now called Roy G. Bibb. So that introduces the first two motifs that y' all will see throughout the review of the album. We're going to talk weapons and we're going to talk jewelry. Plato or ploma. I believe that's when the Spanish is like for like silver or platinum, whatever. A silver or lead. But nevertheless, money. I said money. Excuse me. The guns is one thing that you'll see throughout this album consistently, and for whatever reason or interesting reason, it's always followed by the motif of the jewelry, the ice, the shiny, the bling. So this is the first one that he introduces here. A.38 special I call Noisy Cricket. I got a chain on now called Roy G. Biv. We know Roy G. Biv. The colors of the rainbow or the basic spectrum or whatnot. So I'm giving you boom and shout out to coloring book as well. This is layered, right? But I'm giving you. I'm giving you that. That visual and that. That imagery in my. In my lyrics there. So I got a chain on now called Roy G Biv. It's the new New Edition. Like Poison, Biv, Belle devoe. It's time to make that noise again. Lauryn Hill says she seen me on the Voice again. But this the end of the road. Like Boys to Men. So first of all, tying together the Boys to Men and Bell Biv DeVoe, right? Michael Bivens, then Philly Motown, Philly whatnot. It's the new New Edition. So New New Edition, who that. That was considered Boys to Men. They were the new New Edition, but also the literal New New Edition. After they split up. One of them groups that. That broke off was Bel Biv devoe. Their track, their hit Poison. Of course, all of that, you know. Of course. And I. I give y' all more credit, of course, than that. I'm not like saying this is the. The craziest breakdown in the world, but it's just dissecting these lyrics and how you put all of that stuff together, that's not taking no words, no bars off, no waste of words there. Beautiful. So he said, and this is, I think alluding to Lauryn Hill, because he said Lauryn Hill said she seen me on the Voice again. But this the end of the road. Like boys to men. You better use your pen, baby. Use your heart, child. Where's your viewpoint? Where's your art style? Sometimes a teardrop can make your heart smile Looking for a sign and he sends a star shout. So that's kind of looking introspectively at what he's been through. Again, he's like, side note, this will also form as backdrop or context. But on top of divorce and separation, dealing with custody and stuff of his children, he's also dealing with a lawsuit with his former manager. As far as with. With the music stuff. So Chance has got a lot going on and he shows his vulnerability and stuff throughout the music as well. So we gotta show him love whenever he does that. Fresh off surviving the coot so after send looking for a sign and he sends a starch out. Fresh off surviving the coup that tired of music stopped. You just might lose your spot. Chance put down in social media. He re posted that lyric and or them bars. And he said essentially them bars was about musical chairs and stuff. And it's a beautiful bar there. Again, fresh off surviving the coup d'. Etat. That's again, surprise surprises. The boy who lived right. They coming after me. The music stopped. You just might lose your spot. So we talking musical chairs, but then proverbially speaking, the music stop. His music stop, you just might lose your spot. It's tough to stay in the public's eye and stuff like that. Fantastic layered lyrics there. So I'm gonna just say, all right, I'm gonna play the song after I go through these lyrics real quick so y' all can hear it. But again he's. I'm a fast forward a little bit with the high star bars. But he said, it's a love letter. I used to hate math. Used to love letters. They had me in the class with the dumb. This came to Class with an umbrella. So he ends that bar with something memorable. A little joke, right? Light hearted. However, the beginning of that. It's a interesting literary device that he uses. I got to do research on what literary device that is. But says I used to hate math. Used to love letters is preceded by It's a love letter. So that's love letter. The love is an adjective there. But then in the second line I used to hate math. Used to love letters as using love as a verb there because he loved letters versus hating math, right? So tough. Tough. Just layered. I love those high star bars there. Let me go ahead and and play this back real quick for y'. All. [00:23:37] Speaker A: Man. You better use your pen, baby. Use your heart child. Where's your viewpoint? Where's your art style? Make your heart smile Looking for a sign. And he sends a star shower. Fresh out surviving the cool to tie the music stop. You just might lose your spot. No fear tuners if you lose the plot it's written in the notebook. If you forgot it's a love letter. I used to hate math. Used to love letters. They had me in the class with. With the dumb this come to class with an umbrella. Disco day walker I'm a sun dweller. Until I met a brother Mike. He said young fella, everybody died some right poem. So I raised my right arm and I said right on. America's own you can't trust list. I got a six hour call MC Hammer, I got a chain on now call. You can't touch this. [00:24:24] Speaker B: All right, this is still the first track, but that's already the second mention of that double motif that I was bringing up earlier. So let's go through that and that's on the first. That's still the first verse still though. So he said again he ran it. He said sn come to class with an umbrella. So this way he ended it off with that light hearted joke. But he said, ditch schools day walker I'm a sund dweller Till I met a brother Mike. He said young fella, everybody dies. Some write poems. So in response to that he said so I raised my right arm and I said right on. Put my name on that don't give no list. Excuse me, I'm sorry, my bad. Pardon me. Put my name on. Excuse me. Put my name on that don't give no list. America's own you can't trust list. I think that the bar says America's on you can't trust list. But that that bar is so ambiguous that it could mean that or America's own you can't trust this or you can't trust list. Right. Rather. But the next bar he says, I got a sig sour called MC Hammer. Hard pause, third pause. I got a chain on now called you can't touch this. So second time that that double motif happens, right? The gun. I got a sig sour called MC Hammer. And I got a chain on now called you can't touch this. Because when I MC him, his biggest track, so biggest hits was you can't touch this. Of course. I wanna fast forward here. I wish I had some better time stamps, but this is going to the second verse right here. I want you to hear this as far as when he starts the verse. Here we go. [00:26:30] Speaker A: Celebrity bar. But my stars all lined up the three went platinum, the one went diamond I had a F minus but that's behind us My pen on paperwork still ain't signed us no contract, no fine print, no lease, no co signment I emptied the safe for a case I ain't never been broken but you don't know I broke even I'm the best of these times is good there's only two reasons this could rhyme this good Heavy as the crown I'm ahead my time I left breadcrumbs when I read my rhyme so if I catch a red dot Tell me the dome they'll find me with. [00:27:13] Speaker B: All right, all right. He was starting to black again. Again. He didn't take no. This is still the. The first track. Okay. But I did want to go over some high star bars in there real quick. So he started it off real quick. The last time that my check got common so the last time that stuff was shaking my whip God horses, my chains got blinded Teachers got laptops, my kids got blind Excuse me. The kids got binders the celebrity barber, the stars all lined up the three went platinum, the one went diamond so the coloring book went platinum but his song with Khaled, the one went diamond I had an F minus but that's behind there's still no bars Taking off my pen on paper worth millions of dollars Shout out to the fit to the fact that they still ain't signed us no bars off, no contract, no fine print, no lease, no co signment. I emptied the safe for a case I ain't never been broken but you don't know how broke I've been Very layered, Very layered. High star bar right there. Come on. I emptied the safe for a case that's talking about his. His lawsuit. I ain't never been broken but you don't know how broke I've been. That's. Come on, y'. All. What, like that? [00:28:35] Speaker A: Let me work. Please let me work. Let me work. Please let me work. [00:28:41] Speaker B: It's beautiful, as late as it is, but you don't know how broke I've been. So then he goes into, tell me, how can you now afford to file Divorce, the child support, the back door, take the trial to court. So to me, he's talking about the two separate legal issues he's got. He's got one with his manager, then he's got the family issue going on. And after that, of course, the. Either I'm the best or these times is good. There's only one, two. There's only two reasons that this could rhyme Is good. All of. All of that stuff. So again, that's. That's the intro track, is what I'm trying to tell y'. All. Yo, come on, Yo. Imagine how amped I was when I heard the intro track where this man ain't take no bars off, right? A couple other notes about Starside. Excuse me. A couple other notes about Star Line, or it is. Oh, the intro is called Star side intro. So I'm gonna point that out to y'. All. But again, that musical chairs coup de tie bar just stood out to me. The New Orleans bounce that you catch in the bridge. Looking for Starline Working for Starline, Looking for Starline. Looking for Star Line. Hard, Very calm. Very calm. And then also, Juicy J makes an appearance on here with some ad libs. He's in the background. Yeah, ho, yeah, ho. And he's just got that going. So shout out to Starside Intro. That was the first track. Let's get on to the second track. This one is Ride with Do or Die, Chicago's very own Chicago royalty right there. So let's go ahead and ride I gotta mute myself, y' all. I got you. [00:30:45] Speaker A: Coalition that's a soul intention that's the main goal Cold under pressure Turning Tommies in the Django Tambos and the Rambos Dumping ammo in the Jangos make the gang a Milligan make sure they move militant this for all my gullas I'mma get us off this gill again this for all the times now I'm the captain, you was spilling in Ride Just enjoy the ride Just enjoy the ride Trust you going to be all right we going to be all right but if they want to. [00:31:13] Speaker B: Fight, it's going to be a fight. [00:31:15] Speaker A: Just get your brothers right and they going. [00:31:21] Speaker B: Yo, so this track right here, just to start it off you thinking first of all, the track theme or the. The name of the track? The idea, the track ride. We on the star line. If you came on board, let's ride. Okay. And you going bring on some of Chicago's again royalty, do or die. Just drop the remix of Ride featuring Twisted. So he dropped that. I heard it sounds calm. Sound like Twister could have been on it the whole time. But cool little vibe, right? When you. When, when. When I hear all of the youngins and I hear everybody talking about vibe music or whatnot is what I think of. This is what I'm thinking of. Calm vibe music. Now the flow that chance catches is that. Is that Chicago do or die, crucial conflict, Twister type of flow. So we gonna get to that. But I want y' all to understand and this might. This might lean into that double motif when we talking about gun and jewelry. Pete, he said diamonds on my birthstones. Sometimes it snows in April. If I get the lighting right, I'm shooting out a rainbow coalition. That's a soul extension. That's the Mango colon Depression turning. Tommy's in the Djangos, Sambo's in the Rambos Dumping ammo into tangos make the gang of Milligan make sure they move militant. This for all my gullies. I'm gonna get us out the off this Gilligan, shout out to the Chuck this for all the times now I'm the captain you was filling in. So come on. First of all, shout out to high star DJ Hines. The performance just now. But. [00:33:20] Speaker A: Like that Let me work. [00:33:24] Speaker B: He about to get this work. [00:33:25] Speaker A: He about to get this work. Please let me work. [00:33:31] Speaker B: All right, so. So the diamonds on my birthstone. Of course sometimes it snows in April. Boom. If I get the lighting right, I'm shooting out a rainbow, right? You know, with a prisms of the rainbow. But I'mma go ahead and him. I'm put it like this. Him. Donald Glover, around mid-2010s, if you will. And him and Vic Mentor did it a lot as well. They had these bars where they was like one long dream almost. I like to describe it where they just. There's different scenes. You just jumping from this word is going to take you to this word that's going to take you to this word. Shout out brotherly love to my. To my. To my brother. For real. For real. A butter. He does it all the time. It'll cost nothing to show. Whenever I get the DJ setup. I'm definitely gonna introduce y' all to some a butter music. But he does that all the time. But peep this, y'. All. If I get the lighting right, I'm shooting out a rainbow coalition. That's a soul extension. That's the main goal. So Rainbow coalition. Let's talk about it. Yeah. Pardon self. Pardon self. Yeah. The movement started by. Started by Fred Hampton. And a big. The big thing about that movement is intersectionality. I'm not well versed on that, but the. The movement and stuff was headed by Fred. Frank Hampton. Excuse me, I said Fred Hampton. But it's centered on class solidarity, working on uniting the poor and working class people across racial lines against shared oppression. So that. That's a. That was an ode to that. Then he said, that's a sole extension. That's the Mango Colon Depression. I'm turning Tommies into Djangos. Sambos into Rambos. Dumping ammo into tangos. Here we are into the guns right after the icy. I'm talking about the icy. I'm talking about the guns paired up. It's all together for some reason. And you know, this is for my gullies. I'm gonna get us off this Gilligan. Shout out to the Chuck. Y' all already know this fall at times. Now I'm the captain. You was filling in my. Just enjoy the ride. Just enjoy that. Right? I'm gonna let the rest of like some of his verse play on the second. The second verse, you know what I mean? So, right. So just the flow right there, like I said, very reminiscent of some. Some old school Chicago vibey stuff. And the next two verses, he got both members of. He got AK47 and below zero on from do or Die on the track. And like I said, the remix does have Twister on there. So ride definitely sets the tone, gets everything there as far as, you know, again set in the backdrop. We on this ship, we focus on getting this money. Let's ride like we gonna ride. So shout out to the. Do it. That feature the flow kind of gives a feeling of embarking on a journey again to liberation or to freedom and a unified journey and stuff like that. It always kind of given. Given the energy of unity regardless, right? So let's go ahead to the next track. The next track. This is actually one of the crowd or crowd favorites. This is a lot of people's favorite track. This was one. This was the first track that bought some tears from your boy or from. From your man, DJ High Star. There was a couple tracks that evoke some tears, but this one, after I listened to it a couple times or if after I like, received or consumed that. The music. A couple of times, you know, it. It made me emotional. A couple moments to reflect or moments of reflection. Track is called no More Old Men Fire track. But let's. I mean, I'm gonna get right into it. Beat, drop be drop. Oh, get like. Get like. Ah, get. Let me mute my. [00:38:34] Speaker A: They say shy don't dance no more and the little kids don't got a chance no more they ain't even trying. [00:38:39] Speaker B: To free the old man no more One day they won't be no old man no more so that's the hook. They say shy don't dance no more and the little kids don't got a chance no more they ain't even trying to free the old man no more One day there won't be no old man no more Funny story. We at the show and Chance, he started getting. That's why I said get like. Because he started doing the. The King Combs, like, you know, King Combs hit his shoulders. Tammy shoulders with the. And kind of got the little bop with it. His daddy a little Harlem shake with it. And Chance was doing that at the beginning of the song. Once the beat dropped, it was fire, but it. He got the crowd hype doing that. And like I said, so the hook itself in the little. Excuse me. They say the shot on Dance no more the little kids don't got no chance no more they ain't even trying to free the old man no more One day there won't be no old man no more I feel like, personally, they ain't even trying to free the old man no more I heard somewhere that the nickname for Larry Hoover is the Old man or Old Man. So I believe that he's referring to him in that line there. But let's go ahead and get into the verse. [00:39:51] Speaker A: Mr. Darn used to take the bus over from Halstead Mr. Harper used to be so exhausted the barbershop bustling bootleg lacrosse Fist forget the DVDs they trying to get that golf drip Freckles buying focals and Kango hats Spinning stories about blocks that they can't go back Singing songs about the women that they can't hold back they used to rub them on the hair that they can't grow. [00:40:11] Speaker B: Back no bars off. [00:40:14] Speaker A: First cut. Little man, quit all that fussing God the father may love you, the world doesn't that's how I learned to put my dukes up and play the dozens Lessons in the strategies of love and war Chess boys and king magazines galore It's A lot less love than it was before It's a lot less old man than it was before Come on, y'. [00:40:33] Speaker B: All. Come on. High Star bars? Are you kidding me? Yeah. So like I said, there's no bars off in that. I'm gonna just start off. Clearly, he knows. Or he's. He's. He's pulling from memories of his childhood or, you know, whether these are historic fictional characters or not. I don't think they're fictional. But Mr. Darden used to take the bus over from Halstead. Mr. Harper used to be so exhausted the barbershop busting boost is bustling bootleg lacoste fits forget the DVDs they trying to get that golf trip Freckles, bifocals and kango hats Spinning stories about blocks that they can't go back Singing songs about women that they can't hold back they used to rub them on their hair that they can't grow back Clippers buzzing, crying grandbaby boy, cousin the first cut Little man quit all that fussing God the father may love you, the world doesn't that's how I learned to put my dukes up and play the dozens all of that stuff, again, is evoking nostalgia. It evokes nostalgia from our childhood, my childhood, a lot of people's childhood in the. In the black barbershops. I'm gonna just put it like that. I don't have no experience in the Spanish barbershops or no white barbershops. I know black barbershops. And everything he's rapping about right there is what that is, right? Lessons and the strategies of love and war Chessboards in the king magazines galore It's a lot less love than it was before It's a lot less old men than it was before so, again, that's just kind of introducing people to this track and what is what it's about, but screaming out that we need. There's a need for the wisdom of the elders and the older men specifically. And in the energy of the young, of the youth and the mobilization of the youth. So, you know, again, another sign and a shout out to unity. But that's what I. That's what I pulled from that first verse. Low high star bars to put to pull out of there, of course, is again, we talking about these old men or older guys the they getting lacrosse fits Trying to get that golf trip Freckles, bifocals and kango hats they spinning stories about blocks that they can't go back they singing songs about women that they can't hold back. They used to rub them on their hair that they can't grow back, you know? So High Star bars right there. Of course, let's get to the second verse real quick on this because he ended up walking on this as well. Shout out to Jamila woods on the hook and on the song, anytime him and Jamila woods get together, Liquid gold. It's alchemy. So this is the bridge right here. Just a. Another vibe. Go figure, right? So this is just some, I don't know, people looking for club music all the time. People looking for the turn up music, the kickback music. Sometimes you just need the grooves. Sometimes you just need the grooves. So you're gonna start the second verse off with the. That chorus slash bridge again. Have a chance no more. They ain't even trying to free the whole. Let me mute myself. [00:44:06] Speaker A: With his boy betting on Floyd every fight Cold beers and cigar smoke Pellico's car decks and some harsh jokes Jacks when they cars broke Sleeping separate rooms for years when they hearts broke so at least somebody there if they start stroke I used to play Street Fighter with my play cousin now the streets are. How you playing with your real cousin? [00:44:28] Speaker B: Wasn't real, was it? Come on, man. So real quick, because he. There's a whole nother part of that second verse I want y' all to hear, but come on. Starting it up, it's flawless. Flawless lyricism right here. I danced with my father, Luther Van Der Ross. We played catch so much I turned to Randy Moss. I had uncles up all up and down 79th with his boys Betting on Floyd every fight Cold beers and cigar smoke Pelly coats, car decks and some harsh jokes Jacks when the cars broke Sleep in separate rooms for years when they hearts broke so at least somebody there if they start stroke High Star bars, High star bars. So playing catch with his father and everybody. I mean, people can relate to that. If you. If you play, you know, catch with your father, respect. If you haven't, I apologize. Don't mean to trigger anyone, but saying he did that so much, he turned in his. In his. In his mind. He Randy Moss every time that he catching the ball and we all know that feeling. Again, nostalgic feelings. I had uncles all up and down 79th with his boys Betting on Floyd every fight so in the 90s, they had Mike Tyson, y', all, in like the 70s, you know, you had George Foreman to the world, of course, Ali. But our generation, we have Floyd. So it's not, you know, again, this side generation that that grew up watching all of these Floyd fights. You know, it was a show of black solidarity if you bet on Floyd or if you were going for Floyd in any of his fights because he was typically fighting a Mexican or a Latino. I might fight like a, you know, a white boy or whatnot. And they always were looking for Floyd's lose. So that's how that was looked at. Cold beers and cigar smoke. Pelly coats card decks and some harsh jokes. Jackson cars broke. Sleep in separate rooms for years when the hearts broke. So at least somebody there if they star stroke just the word play, the lyricism. I love that type of like multi syllable type of wordplay or whatnot or syncopation if you will. Message. I don't know where to start, but the imagery. In other words, really cold beers and cigar smoke. Pelly Coates card. I feel like I'm in Chicago whenever I'm listening to this. Then this part right here. Sleep in separate rooms for years when their hearts broke. So at least somebody there if they start stroke. This is a, a peek into the window of, of things that go on in black America. Again, I don't have no idea of what. I don't have no window of what goes on in white America or Latin America. But black America, we have those situations. There's times where the dude done. Excuse me, the dude done so many times, but he's the man of the house, you know, and vice versa. You got, you got other situations of course with a woman then cheated or whatnot, but you got situations where people fall out of love but because of the foundation, because of the home that they built and stuff like that, they gonna have to work it out somehow, some way. Neither of them are going nowhere. You feel what I'm saying? Message, shout out to manly deeds podcast and brotherly love out to those brothers. But they, they talked about it on their most recent episode. So yeah, check, check them out as well. But yeah, that's. That. That's a con. Completely vulnerable lyric right there that he has. And then followed it up. I used to play street fighter with my play cousin. Now the streets I have you playing with your real cousin. The story is so many. Whether it's Bronx, New York, whether it's Chicago, whether it's Dallas, whether it's Florida, Louisiana. You've got these kids that are now growing up. Some or a lot are relatives and because of a gang or because of a side they choose, they cousin is they quote unquote ops and come on, let's get real. So I'm Gonna let y' all hit the end of this real quick because it's, it's pretty powerful. Very affirming, if you will. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Past the future is sick. The culture gave us cut out life size funeral pics. Where's your instincts? Act like you forgot. It's the four black commandments, man. You know, I be rock. It goes, one, watch your health, that's your wealth. Two, watch your brother, that's yourself. Watch your home, that's your door. Poor if they want it, we go to war in the distant future, the twilight of our lives contains all the laughs and highlights of our lives. The knowledge that can help a young man go forth for the day. You don't see these old men no more. [00:49:18] Speaker B: Man. Come on. That is some high star bars right there, y'. All. Listen. All right, so just go over the four black commandments that Chance affirmed there, he said and act like you forgot. One, watch your health, that's your wealth. Two, watch your brother, that's yourself. Three, watch your home, that's your door. Four, if they want it, we go to war. So, you know, again, this, this whole album, Black Star line. A part of independence to me is it's courage, is bravery. So it's not backing down, not cowarding to anyone that wants to define who you are or give you an idea of who you are, in other words. So y' all hit a. How they go out on the track Jamila. On and on and on. I know. Very soothing, very therapeutic. I can see why. That's the third track on Starline. Again, after you telling us to ride and enjoy the ride, go ahead and. And you know what I mean, Give us some game or whatnot. Let us know some of the stuff that we got to build on and stuff. Some of the things we can grow with as a community or, or, you know, the things that we can grow on the next track that we're gonna get to. Before we get to the next track. Let me go over my notes for this track. Let's see here. So again, the first track that evokes some emotion out of me got me the emoting and crying again. I think that the old man is Larry Hoover. Like I mentioned, we need the wisdom from the OGs and the energy of the youth on here. Just powerful, powerful messaging. One of my consistently favorite songs on this album because my top song on my favorite favorite song always changes week to week. But next we're gonna move to track four. It's gonna be the Negro Problem featuring BJ the Chicago Kid. Well, it says Chance the rapper and BJ The Chicago kid. So I'm not sure how those splits work, but we're gonna go ahead and talk about this real quick. Say, man, what you mean, black? [00:51:25] Speaker A: You know it's dirty when the sink dirty. Nowadays, you 13, you gotta think 30. Can't be out here sitting, waiting on the next man. Wake up early, hit your reps, cook the eggs, man. Keep your head on the swivel. Cause the Pistols got switches on them, and even little sticks got extensions on them. They sound a long way from some weapons, don't it? It's all the same road with some distance on. And now it's trained police, and it's school police. It's gonna be police at the balloon release. Being real. That's business as usual here. Look alive. You could die at a funeral here. It's a lot of complaints, but we just can't follow. [00:52:01] Speaker B: All right, Right there. Yeah. Now, hold on, hold on, hold on. Because that was some High Star bars right there. And I wanted to pause it. A good place to pause, really. So first of all, let's take the. The name of the track. It says the Negro Problem. So if I'm just taking it off, face value of the name of the song, it's like, okay, you coming to talk to me or start a discourse or conversation about issues in the black community. So he starts off, you know, it's dirty when the sink dirty. Me personally can relate. Okay. Myself or relatives that have lived in the projects. And I just. There's. There's this rust that kind of drips down on, if y' all know what I'm talking about. The three little holes that be in that back of that porcelain sink. And there's a rust that I just pictured in my head whenever I heard that. You know, it's dirty when the sink dirty. Nowadays, you 13, you got to think 30, right? I think about my sister, 10 months older than me, and my twin sister and cooking for us or whatnot. Chicken patties and stuff like that. We might have been eight and nine years old, or he was going to the laundromat because we had to. And to go and wash clothes and stuff. And. And there was a level of independence in New York that I can imagine that they had in that. In the big city of Chicago as young, young. And so another place that I can relate deeply right there. Nowadays, you 13, you got to think 30. You can't be out here sitting, waiting on the next man. Wake up early, hit your reps, cook the eggs, man. So again, that's shout out to my big sis, Giovanni, and shout out to Katrina as well. Shout out to my twin sister, Joy. What's up, all y'? [00:53:39] Speaker A: All? [00:53:39] Speaker B: But I just think about my sister preparing food and stuff like that for us. My mother trusting her to do so. And again he says, keep your head on the swivel because the pistols got switches on them and even little sticks got extensions on them. It sound a long way from some weapons, don't it? It's all the same row with some distance on it. That's a hard high star bar right there. So first of all, keep your head on the swivel. The pistols got switches on them, and even the little sticks got extensions on them. Switches and extensions sounds a long way from some weapons, don't it? Remember your mommy used to. Your granny used to make you pick that switch out or what else? What was worse than a switch, personally? You getting out that shower or that bath, right? You're still a little bit moist. Pause. Talking about your skin. Talking about your skin. Because you get that, you know what I'm saying? That condensation, that spa feel from the bathroom after you didn't got out the shower, the bath or the bath. And you got that extension cord. You kidding me, man? What? But between the little sticks having extensions on them and the pistols having switches on them, it sounds a long way from some whippings, don't it? It's all the same road with some distance on it. Come on, man. That's all the same life that we got. It just got a little bit distance. It's just a little bit further up. Remember, used to play with your real cousins in the streets. Have you playing with your real cousin? What is that? I used to play street fighter with my play cousins. Now the streets that have you playing with your real cousin. So that, that bar right there, super hard pause again. Then the whole right after that where he goes. Now it's trained police and the school police. It's going to be police at the balloon release. Being real, that's business as usual here. Look alive. You could die at a funeral here. That's giving some Chicago insight right there to some of the. The urban life, I suppose, with some of the street events that have happened and stuff over the years that Chance has witnessed because he's introducing like, yo, it's going to be police at the balloon release. Being real, that's just business as usual here. Look alive, though. You could die at a funeral here. Such an oxymoron. Dying at a funeral. Or is that like Something kind of opposite of an oxymoron, you will, but high star bars nonetheless. That's the first verse. The second verse I don't want to get to, but it's super tough. This is. Let's see. He dribbles on this. [00:56:30] Speaker A: Despicable me. My typical medical journey only takes place when it's critical. I know how you get when it's melanated individuals. More clinical trials, more chemicals for our women and symptoms seem cynical. Give them Tylenol and steal the umbilical scripts. [00:56:50] Speaker B: Man. Listen, listen, listen. Hold on, hold on, hold on, Chance. Hold on, Chance. There you go running away way again with that. Listen. This one of the no bars off, but very slept on verse right here. Because it's layered to me. But ooh, I'm sick of you all of your minions so despicable, right? Oh, to despicable me. But also, if you do the research on despicable me, I think that there's some. Some deep, dark kind of history with despicable Me and how that got made. Should do the research on that. But he said me. My typical medical journey only takes place now. Listen, this is the complex. Some complex lyricism here. So let's. Let's start it again. I want you to hear this. Ooh, I'm sick. I don't even want to perform it. Matter of fact, I just want y' all to hear this. I wish I had the little thing on the screen where you could kind of color the bars in the. In the. Kind of. The word pot, the. The round pockets. But take a listen to this. Let's go. [00:57:49] Speaker A: Give me a minion. So this. This. Oh, I'm sick of you all your despicable me. My typical medical journey only takes place when it's critical. I know how you get when it's melanated individuals. More clinical trials, more chemicals for our women and symptoms seem cynical. Give them Tylenol and steal the umbilical scripts. Refillable. Hey, if I'm billable and gullible enough to go, might as well show up in the tux, you know, make sure my hurt worse than my ducks and rose. Cause that bill's gonna rupture your bucks, you know? [00:58:30] Speaker B: Okay, okay, okay. See? So. All right. I gave y' all that, right? And I'm gonna. There's what. We heard what he said, but again, the pocket he was in with that. So the multiple. Multiple syllable ramen. Ooh, I'm sick of you all your minions so despicable me. My typical medical journey only takes place when it's critical. I know how you get when it's melanated individuals. More clinical trials, more chemicals for our woman. The symptoms seem cynical. Give them Tylenol and steal the umbilical scripts. Refillable. Hey, unbillable and gullible. Come on, man. I'm. Hold on. Oh, sorry, that up. I even messed up the censoring. But after he said, unbelievable. Say, give them Tylenol and steal the unbillable scripts. Refillable. Hey, if I'm billable and gullible enough to go, I might as well show up in the tux, you know, make sure that my hearse and my ducks and rose, because that bill's gonna rupture your bucks, you know? So he's saying, listen, I. First of all, I'm sick of you all your minions. Is so despicable. Everything with the. About going to the hospital, to the doctor. I don't like it. I'm not jacking that. You gotta make an appointment to make an appointment to make an appointment. And they always ask you the same questions while y' all have it recorded. Now it's 2025. I have it recorded in the computer, but y' all ask the same questions over and over again. He said his typical medical journey only takes place when it's critical. So I'm only even going to the doctor when there's something real, real bad going on. He knows how doctors in the medical field is about melanated individuals. More clinical trials, more chemicals for our woman. Think about the hair products. Think about all of these medicines that they try to give our sisters. Shout out to sisters battling cystic fibrosis or any kind of other medical type of vibes. Be with y'. [01:00:35] Speaker A: All. [01:00:35] Speaker B: Okay? The brothers over here. And mandatory overtime. Oh, which I. Sisters. Okay. I don't know if the applause was the right sound effect for that, but yeah, he said if he's billable, if you could listen, first of all, you're gonna give me all of these. Get me drugged up on all this prescription. Prescription meds and everything like that, but that's always refillable. But if I'm billable and gullible enough to go, like, if. If I'm going. Keep falling for it, and I keep making the money that I'mma pay y' all so that y' all can keep riding on these mega yachts and stuff like that, I might as well show up to the hospital in the tux, you know, make sure that my hearse and my ducks is in rose or my affairs is taken care of because that bill is going to rupture your bucks. You know, it's going. It's going to break us. Rupture them bucks, you know, Just great word play there, though. High Star bars. And the first verse is, to me, again, kind of us in the legal system as far as black men and things that you go through as a child, of course, coming up in a black family or black household, a lot of times, if you got to raise again, your siblings and some of those challenges that we faced coming up in. I'll just say it, man. Poor black neighborhoods and. Or situations and stuff like that. It's not every black experience, but it happened to be mine. And I can relate to the Negro problem. The second verse, of course, talking about malpractice, talking about bringing all of these issues up and stuff. When it comes to the medical field in black people. Awesome way that he did that and stuff. Chef's kiss with that one as well. All right, the last track that we're going to go over for today. Today is going to be called Drapedomania. The first thing I wanted to go over with y' all is the term itself, draped, the mania. But let me see here. Let me queue up the song itself, but also let me give y' all some notes. Like I said, within the Negro Problem, there's a part at the end of that song that y' all could check out. I didn't want to play too much of it, but it says, my problem is your problem. He's singing that. My problem is your problem. Your problem is my problem. And he's singing that. So, again, talking about the unspoken issues in our community. And it's just super relatable for me in my experience as a black man in America. Now, speaking of Drapedomania, though, it's a pseudo scientific and a racist concept that was proposed by American physician Samuel Cartwright in 1851. And it's to explain, or was meant to explain, why enslaved people fled captivity. It was claiming that we had mental illnesses as black people, rather than like that being a rational response to being oppressed and going through chattel slavery. But anyways, he believed that the desire, again, to escape was the symptom of a disease, not a natural reaction to the cruelty and then the neglect inherent in chattel slavery. Drapedomania since has been debunked as a product of scientific racism. So, like pseudo scientific science, rather, and is used to justify the institution of slavery, of course, and pathologized black resistance. And it walked us or led us right into the vagrancy laws right after the Civil War. Southern states, they use different black codes, if you will, and vagrancy laws to criminalize unemployment, disproportionately targeting newly freed African Americans and forcing them into labor, slave labor, prison labor. Come on. Same thing. But yeah. So fast forward all the way to resisting arrest and the gaslighting that we get. Whenever a police officer says, you're resisting arrest, stop resisting, Stop resisting. And there's a mob of police officers with, you know, crowding you and. Or whatnot. So all of these, to me are linked. I see connections in all of them. And the track itself, like I said, is called Drapedomania. We're going to get back to the motifs on this one, too, but let's go ahead and. I'm gonna go ahead and play this. Let's get to it. Drake the mania trap beat. Now that you know what draketomania means, let's go ahead and put on your concept hat, conceptual hat, and see where he was going with this one. [01:05:15] Speaker A: Right back in Big eyes straight up told that pig can't make me do nothing but die so much money one pocket that look like a pimp because I limping I lean on one side one more time for the hood Princess with the prettiest smile Sipping henny on live big old booty with some little ass pennies Talking bout some finny Only send me one size I got a 9 with no serial number I call it playing hard to get Got a high point I call hard to find and a MK12 call hard to miss Dress for the club action on me Gotta have it on me like it's statin on me Bottle girls get too drunk in the club get the kissing on me get the grabbing on me Everybody crazy how I play Crazy and don't nobody wanna play no more she said talk to me crazy and she said say no more Said lift me up Lay her back with her back on the bed Let me crush on your hands one more chance Put your face in the cat for hour do the rush hour dance Go crazy, go. [01:05:57] Speaker B: Crazy all right, all right. So that was Chance verse on there. The track is featuring Baby Chief do it. Another rapper out of Chicago, a younger rapper out of Chicago, that Chance show love to and gave a shot too. So he went ahead and wrapped on there. But let's go back to his verse real quick. Back in big. I straight up told that pig he can't make me do nothing but die. Okay, so he's showing resistance off the rip, right? Because you gaslighting me okay, just like I was just now saying, we're resisting and resting. All of that. You gaslighting me. Okay, so when you meet the right one, they might. When they come at you with that energy, then what? Okay. So much money in one pocket it looked like I pimp. Cause I limp and I lean to one side One more time for the hood princess with the prettiest mouse up in Henny on live. Big old booty with some little ass panties Talking about some Fendi only sent me one size. Fendi only sent me one size. I might be Fenty. He said, thinking about it. Said, okay, so first of all, all of that right there, you know, we look to be so divisive and so polarizing in everything that we do. Everything is. I don't know if binary is the word, but you got to pick one side or the other, right? So there's this whole. Since the whole Drake Kendrick thing, there's this whole lyricist and then, you know, the turn up side and stuff like that. And we as fans just want to exist in, in both worlds and stuff like that. You can have a Venn diagram, you can have more on the lyricist side, but then some on the ratchet in the turnip side or vice versa. But we just want to enjoy the music. That's all right. So when he's them first couple bars and stuff like that, he on his, you know, I ain't gonna say ratchet, but he's, he's, he's turning up, he's having fun on this track now after he's talking about shorty One time for the hood princess with the prettiest smile Sipping Henny on live. She got the big old booty with some little ass panties Talking about some fancy. Only sent me one size fancy. We're gonna say Fenty for right now. Shout out to Robin. Fenty. Right? The next lines, he says, I got a nine with a. I got a nine with no serial number. I call it Playing Hard to Get. All right, got a high point. I call Hard to find. And the MK12 called hard to Miss. Literary device. I don't know which one it is, but you know that it is one. Okay? That's something that you can study inside of a classroom. All right, I got a nine with no serial number. Okay, that's one nine. I'm calling that or One piece. One gun. I'm calling that one Hard to Get. I got a high point. I call Hard to Find. All right, so that, that high point, I'll call it Hard to find. And the MK12, I call hard to miss. So the gun motif right there, y'. All. Now dress for the club Got the ratchet on me Gotta have it on me like it's tatted on me Bottle girls get too drunk in the club Gets kissing on me, gets grabbing on me Everybody crazy till I pray Crazy then don't nobody want to play no more she said talk to me crazy I said she said say no more. So big oldest ends of humor again. But, you know, again, the word play there, I didn't see the ice, but I did picture it a little bit. When you said dress for the club, I did picture little earrings or something like that. Little watch. Wrist is socialite. We'll get to that later. But I did picture the ice motif after the gun motif. Shout out to the gun, ice thing. Gun jewelry thing. We're gonna get some confirmation from Chance. I'm speaking that into existence. We're going to manifest that, but we're gonna get some confirmation from Chance on that. So again. And we got to figure out what the rush hour dance is. That's. That's my biggest other takeaway from. From that song. I gotta figure out what's the rush hour dance. But again, after. After Baby Chief's verse, I gotta play y' all Chances last verse. So let's see here. Very vulgar road verse. Mr. Chief do it thing. Young boy, shout out to Chance. All right, here we go. Want y' all to hear this. [01:10:35] Speaker A: Tiffany F in the blue box, 401k in a shoebox. [01:10:42] Speaker B: I got a 9. [01:10:43] Speaker A: Millimeter called thug Life I got a new chain that say diamonds do go crazy My girl say you so crazy the rules don't faze me the. [01:10:55] Speaker B: All right, y'. All. So was I tripping? Was I tripping, or is your boy on to something Right there. Come on, now. Come on, man. Give it up for the kid. So if y', all, in case y' all missed that Chance said Tiffany thing in the blue box, jewelry, first of all, 401k in the shoe box. A lot about a lot of shout out and salute to our brothers out there ancestors and our fellow brothers and sisters that are still with us, that have been getting money in the street or getting money under the table, if you will, and keep that quote, unquote, 401k in the shoebox. Historically, we have not trusted banks. Historically, there have been times where banks have been dissolved out of nowhere. Look up the reason for the FDIC and the reason that we have to insure banks nowadays. The Great Depression. Look that up but mattress money is a real thing and shoebox money is a real thing. So Tiffany thing in the blue box. 401k in the shoebox. My favorite rapper named Tupac. I love Tupac's because he. I love Tupac because he shot two cops. Great. Like wordplay there. But you know the. The lore and the story of Tupac in Atlanta shooting two off duty police officers that was harassing a black man. So boom. I love Tupac because he shot two cops. Boom. Don't that's gonna be there. Because it was like, okay, let that bar live. Let that bar breathe a little bit. Then he says, I got a 9 millimeter called thug Life going back to the Tupac bar. Okay, I got a new chain. And it's. And it say Buck Ice. Ironic. Great play on words right there, right? Could be layered, could be a double entendre if you wanted it to be. Where you saying, I got a new chain, but this don't mean nothing to me and stuff like that. Of course, the obvious, though, of Fox ice, talking about the immigration agency that's been just causing terror and stuff through America. Let's call that what it is. Don't cancel me. Well, I'm supposed to. Yeah, I gotta. You gotta stand in truth power. Let's stand in the truth to power. Ain't gonna cower. We ain't gonna coward. DJ hostile. We're not cowering. So, yeah, talking about the ICE agency that's caused mad terror around the country. So. But again, then right there, my diamonds do go crazy My girl say you so crazy the rules don't faze me the in the hoes gonna love me. The. That's Hoes gonna hate me. That's hard. The. The in the hoes gonna love me. The. That's hoes gonna hate me. But anyways, gun jewelry motif right there. And Drake the Mania. So shout out to Chance on that. Like I said, I just want to know what the Rush Hour dance is. Chance, he kind of gets an opportunity to. To show a different side. Open. Open the album up. People that's not familiar with Chance and they just heard those first three tracks, or the first four tracks, rather. They could take him perhaps, oh, this is going to be like a serious album or whatever. But in the TRA Mania, he starts off as very rebellious, very rebel, very. What's the word that your girl Amanda Seals use? She says that she is a radical, I want to say, but very, very radical. From the jump, talking about, you know, just confrontation again, that is almost this underlying theme or energy that you can't avoid confrontation whenever you want to get what you want, that liberation, that freedom, we on the star line. All right? Many ships have arms and stuff on them because of pirates and stuff. So it's just. It's not beyond the scope of things that you're going to run into conflict and stuff whenever you're looking to, you know, get somewhere. Get somewhere that's worth it. So again, that's the notes on that next episode. I do want to get into a couple things that I ran across on. On the Internet, talking about manhood and things like that. So that'll definitely be good. I definitely want to encourage y' all also. Again, let me know what y' all think about the review, but also the album itself, if you listen to it, if you just listening to it, where do you have it kind of ranked. But do all of that by emailing me mandatory ot704gmail.com Again, mandatory ot704gmail.com all right. And with that, I want to go ahead and lead us out in prayer. This one with faith that's in God. This prayer is coming straight from the heart. May the ego nor the hubris ever break us apart. And from one brother to another, if nobody ever told you I love you. All right. So again, my name is DJ High Star. I appreciate y' all taking this journey, this audible journey with me, audio journey with me. Y' all be easy, man. Catch us on the next episode. [01:16:23] Speaker A: Hey, everybody, it's closing time. [01:16:27] Speaker B: You don't got to go home, but. [01:16:28] Speaker A: You can't stay here.