And We Back (pt 3) 0330

[00:00:05] Speaker A: Y. [00:00:07] Speaker B: Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for ot. I know I am. Yeah. Nah, get that bread, bro. I gotta stay for OT Holiday, too. Listen up, workers. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Let me work. Please let me work. [00:00:28] Speaker B: Let me work. [00:00:30] Speaker A: Please let me. [00:00:43] Speaker B: What's up? What up? What up? What up? What up? What's going on, everybody? What's going on, people? Good people out there. How y' all doing? Welcome to Mandatory Overtime with your main man, DJ High Star. I am DJ High Star here at Mandatory Overtime. The aim at Mandatory overtime is just to recalibrate how we define manhood. And we'll do that through conversation here. When I say we, I mean we as in a community. It's just a social experiment. Inconsistency in an audio journal of an 80s, baby. So don't confuse this with the manosphere. Just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair, like, subscribe, rate, comment, share, and make some noise because the man is here. You heard? I got a Russian sound engineer in a Czech one, two. A Czech one, two. What's up, y'? All? What's up, everybody? What's going on? Live from Charlotte, America. Y' all know what time it is? 704, man. Let's go to work saying. Always remember that. Y' all can email us here at the show. Mandatory ot704gmail.com. Mandatory ot704gmail.com. How's everybody doing this week, man? How y' all feeling? How's everybody? Mental space and all of that for my good gentlemen out there, all of the gangsters and the gentlemen you heard, shout out to Styles P. But we're gonna go ahead and get this week kicked off with Building Some Wisdom. Yeah, I know. That was my goal. Hold on. I don't know. Look like I'm peeking a little bit. I don't want that to be an issue this week. All right? Y' all know that was my goal last week to start up this new segment called Building Wisdom. So that's what we're gonna do today, like, as far as to get everything started off. Let me see here. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Is that Prince for King? Come here, Prince. What's today's mathematics? Hey, yo, no disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. Build, Destroy the build is to elevate. [00:02:48] Speaker B: The mentalities of self and those around. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Self, to add positive energy to every nation. To build, you must first start from the root, which is the knowledge foundation. [00:02:58] Speaker B: And I don't want to. [00:02:59] Speaker A: The highest peak to Destroy is to. [00:03:01] Speaker B: Eliminate and destroy any and all negativity. [00:03:03] Speaker A: That enters my cipher of supreme harmony. [00:03:07] Speaker B: Peace, God. [00:03:08] Speaker A: Peace, God. [00:03:15] Speaker B: All right, so this is going to be this week's Building Wisdom segment. I'm gonna go ahead and let this play, and then we're gonna go ahead and talk about it. I'll give y' all a little background. Why am I still peeking? Give y' all a little bit of background here, but this is Big Daddy Kane on Club Shay Shay. Club Shay Shay, his podcast or what not. Shannon Sharp. He went in to kind of talk about freestyling, and Big Daddy Kane corrected him. Corrected his wisdom. And, yeah, it's just a great clip. I want all my hip hop heads to pay attention. If you're not a hip hop head, if you're just a visitor, you could pay attention as well. Okay, so let me go ahead and play this real quick. [00:03:54] Speaker A: Drop a beat. That ain't a freestyle. A freestyle mean you got to come up there and give it to him free. No, no, that's. [00:03:59] Speaker B: That's. [00:03:59] Speaker A: That's today's definition, you know. No, no, you're not wrong, okay? You're not wrong, because that is today's definition. Okay? But back in the. In the 80s, we said off the dome. [00:04:13] Speaker B: Yes. [00:04:14] Speaker A: 70S they said off the top. Right. Today they say freestyle with us. If you write a rhyme and it's not about a girl, it's not about poverty, you know, it's not no gangster. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Stuff about, you know, who you shot. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Up, it's just a rhyme. Just bragging about how dope you are. That rhyme that you wrote, that's called a freestyle because it's free of style. [00:04:36] Speaker B: Right. [00:04:36] Speaker A: You're not talking about no specific subject matter. Oh, okay. That's what a freestyle. That's what a freestyle is free is that you're not talking about anything specific. [00:04:44] Speaker B: Right? [00:04:49] Speaker A: To the knowledge. [00:04:51] Speaker B: All right, so he had a little bit of straightening, a little bit of get right there for. For Uncle Shannon, you know, just correct him. Love what Big Daddy Kane said. You know, again, we think about freestyle, we just need to think that it's free of any kind of styles. It's not a direct theme to what you're rhyming about. And it's not a specific topic or anything like that. That's simply what freestyle means. So again, we could talk about off the dome and off the top of the head or whatnot and written raps, but you come to the cipher, you was gonna be somewhat prepared with some rhymes. It's just that you could package together different couplets or different bars and you know what I'm saying? And put them all together and one rhyme for a cipher. And not necessarily be a succinct verse with a theme and everything like that. It's just a couple rhymes that you done had in the back of your mind or in your rhyme book that you could just throw together. And they sound good. Sonically, inaudibly. So. Shout out and brotherly love. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Show love. It don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a. [00:06:04] Speaker B: Show with to my big bro, BDK. Shout out to 50, 50, 52 Savage. My. My dog, my frat brother. I call him 52. Everybody call him 51. But shout out to Tyrone, man. Call him 9 5. That's Big Daddy Kane's cousin. So. But shout out. Thank you again. Do the Knowledge for doing the Knowledge for us, Big Daddy K. I appreciate you with that. So with that being said, I do want to move forward here, and we'll talk about a couple of random thoughts from this week. I keep the random thoughts short this week and so that we can get to the show here today, but random thoughts here. All right? So I am. Okay, I'll start off with this one here. I hate. It ain't gonna work, nigga. [00:07:00] Speaker A: Man. [00:07:00] Speaker B: All right. I hate her. It ain't gonna work, nigga. Like, y' all, the ones that you listen to a whole, you know, people put together any kind of projects or group plans or try to work together and put together plans, and somebody's just on the sidelines saying how it's not gonna work. Okay, you think if I. If I have to give y' all a concrete example is all of the people that's on the sidelines saying, oh, black people ain't gonna get reparations, man. We ain't gonna. Especially the black people that are saying it. Okay, can I be real? Can I be real with y'? All? But not the black people that are saying, oh, we ain't gonna get reparations and stuff like that. You don't get no reparations. How about that? Okay? Wait till when everybody else get it, then you chill on the side. But even. It's just the fact that if you enter anything with a mindset of this is not going to work, then there's a good. There's probably a 95%, 98% chance that it is not going to happen or it's not going to work. If you go into the mindset where this could work, it just opens up mentally. It opens up a Little bit of probability or percentages or whatever you know you want to call it. It's just a pessimistic mindset to look at things from where, if. And I hate that. It's just barbershop talk. I think I might have got it from one of the episodes of my expert opinion where the dude. His name is Uncle Seth, but he's a real. He's opinionated, and he just kind of. This is the thing about it. This is the thing about a. It ain't gonna work as nigga. So there. In. In this world, there are problems and there are solutions. We can choose one. All right? Some people choose to seek out all of the solutions for every problem. Some are programmed to seek out all of the problems for every solution. Some niggas will have everything figured out and then find a new problem for a solution. You done figured out how you can get something done, created a strategy for it. And here come pessimistic Paulie, and he's going to figure out a whole nother problem or issue of why this can't be done. Nigga, get your ass to the sideline, please. Out of here. My bad, y'. All. Out of here. So that. That's my first random thought. I hate a it ain't gonna work ass. I do. And then a lot of them kind of cloak it behind. I'm just being realistic. I'm just being realistic. No, you're not. You're being optimistic. Okay? I mean, I said optimistic. I'm bugging y'. All. Like, I'm more relaxed this week if y' all can't tell. But I'm. You're being pessimistic. I'm just being realistic. Yo, that's what. I'm just telling the truth. No, you're not, bro. Shut the, man. All right, so, yeah, I hate it ain't gonna work ass. I think we need to exile them out of the community. Low key, but hey, whatever. We need the realistic point of view. Secondly, I hate performers that say, y' all make some noise, y' all make some noise. Hey. Oh, it's finished. And they go, oh, nah, y'. All. I know y' all could do better than that. We here in Charlotte. Come on. I know y' all could do better than that. Y' all make some noise, y'. [00:10:42] Speaker A: All. [00:10:44] Speaker B: And it's the same level, if not less level of nature making noise. All right, let's. Let's do this. Let's do this here. First of all, let's actually go through the evening of somebody that found Themselves at your event, right? They didn't probably paid. We didn't. I'm gonna say we. I ain't gonna say they. We didn't paid. I just. Brother, I just paid $60 for parking, okay? 45, $50 for parking. I stood in the line, got to my seats. Cramped in your seats, looking like a busted can of biscuits half the time. Because the seats are meant for preteens. None of the seats in arenas, they're strictly meant for capitalism and for preteens or some smaller human beings, because them seats is not comfortable at all. But anyways, all right, so we in our seats. And let alone you get floor seats. You think that you're doing something luxurious and get floor seats. You're just sitting in some church folding chairs, all right? Or you sitting on them chairs that, if you lucky, you sitting on some bench chairs from, like, a D1 college, okay? Them folding chairs. Nevertheless, okay, you. You done paid for parking. You done got into the venue after you done paid $200, $150 for these tickets. You done paid $35 for a beer and something to eat or something to snack on or some drinks. The last thing I'm trying to do is stand up and make some noise, my boy. All right? Seriously now, Ain't nobody trying to. That's the last thing that I want to do. Let me see here, man, because let me work. [00:12:29] Speaker A: Please, let me work. [00:12:31] Speaker B: No, let you work. See, you're the performer in this situation, okay? It's the same situation in. In all the Walmart's Food Lions. Harris teeters with the Self checkout. I don't want to have to do this work. What are you here for, then? I want to ask. And I just hate that you asking people to cheer. I saw. So I got it, okay? Hold on. [00:12:53] Speaker A: Let me work. Please let me work. [00:12:57] Speaker B: So, Busta Rhymes, I saw you. You, You. You. You have a couple of different occurrences on. On camera where, you know, you are accosting the audience because they're not hyped or they're not amp or they're not giving you the energy or whatnot. And, Buster, shout out to Conglomerate Ent. Shout out to my big cuz BK Gutter. Y' all look out for him. But Buster, you. You just foul for that. I got to call it out, right? You know, don't be cursing out patrons that support you. Come on, man. It's just a level of hubris and stuff like that that we're looking to avoid, brother. All right? So that's you, Buster. Now, logic. I Just saw a recent clip of you, brother. Okay, You. You going into this mediocre rhyme, and you stop halfway through the mediocre bars, and you look at a crowd, a person in the crowd, and put him on blast and ask him, why is he not paying attention to you? And why is he on his phone? Now, the patron, he responds or retorts and says, I'm calling my wife or I'm calling my girlfriend. Something like that. And then logic just may try to make him look foolish. Tried to embarrass him in front of the crowd. You know, is that more important than this show and what I'm doing? It was. It was very cringy. Very cringy. Logic. Very cringy. Yeah, we can't. Yeah. Nah, bruh. That's. That's not it. So back to my original point. I hate when performers MCs. You're the mover of the crowd. True. But listen, yo, if you don't got one applause or whatever out of me, live with that. Live with that. We can't. Oh, come on, y'. All. Y' all could do better than that. Now, y' all make some noise for so and so. Oh, nah, nah. Come on. Charlotte America. Now, now, Charlotte America. I know y' all could do better than that. I said make some noise for so and so. So and so. Come on, man. I'm over there, bro. I'm over that. I'm not trying to hear that, man. I'm not trying to hear that. That being said, though, I did just return back from D.C. shout out to the District. I did go to the D.C. chance show, thanking the good Lord above for safe travels and all of that. And, you know, made it up there, made it back. Let's talk about food real quick. Hitting the Wawas is mandatory for me whenever I go up north. So I did stop at Wawa's on the way back. Picked up sandwich wrap. They call it the Saquon. Okay. I. I customize it so I didn't have the Saquon, so to speak. Instead of pause, I think I might do that gong. But I didn't have the Saquon, so to speak. Anyways, had a wrap and then also had a panini from Wawas. So shout out to them. And then also bus boys and poets. One of my favorite stops in D.C. to go to. I missed the Monday special where they have half off on all of their burgers, But I did get a turkey burger and a Brussels sprouts. Chef's kiss. You heard. Oh, my gosh. If you Ain't heard about busboys and poets in D.C. i'm telling you, you need to stop there if you ever go. So I did get to stop at some of my favorite stops up there. It's my first time. Like, I don't really go out and about when I'm up in D.C. it's normally, like, centered. Centered around family time. Might get a dispensary run or two in there, right. If I get to Maryland, which I did. But yeah, with. This is my kind of one of my first times in D.C. to go to a show or to a concert. So the venue is Echo Stage. Chris Brown was actually performing the same night out at National Stadium, the baseball park. But yeah, the. The venue was Echo Stage. It's actually in the same area that the old infamous stadium strip club or stadium nightclub was. Is that. And so nonetheless, right. Or look like a warehouse meat packing district, you know what I'm saying? So it was. It was calm, you know what I'm saying? I'm used to DC and stuff like that, so ain't nothing to. To be, you know, scared about or anything like that or intimidated or anything. It was. It's calm situation. Got into the venue, did get some footage, so I'll definitely be putting that up on our social media, but it's a lot. A lot more white people than Atlanta than Atlanta had. So the. The DJ set prior to that was pretty smooth. I'm gonna save the whole review for the concert, probably for a video for y'. All. But the DJ and then the opening act. The opening act was a little bit different. He was from Chicago. The name escapes me at the moment. Oh, it's a dam. A damn killer. So a dam is spelled like Adam with the N on the end. So if you get that, it's like a. Damn. Yeah, A D, a M, N, but all together. So it's like Adam, but with an end. In the end. Anyways, he was performing and opened up for Chance, but, you know, Chance got on there, did his thing, right? Set list flawless. This time. He didn't get shot in the face with the. He didn't get shot in the face with the. With the. The Geyser Steam thing. So that was a good thing. But. But, yeah, it was a great show. I got to get some merch. Got in the merch line, made some connections, networked with a photographer out there. There's a young lady that does T shirts. She had a T shir that said my three favorite tracks from the album, and I just had to stop her. Like, oh, okay, these are my three tracks too. And then she gave me a business card. Like, she do T shirts and embroidery and all of that type of stuff. So it's good networking that was going on out there as well. But overall, man, just a great show, great experience. I'm glad that I didn't make that decision to go up there. So shout out to DC for always showing me a good time. Shout out to Bethesda, Silver Spring, Columbia City, all of the surrounding areas. Rockville, of course. Be more. I didn't make it up to be more this time, but salute. Y' all know what time it is. So we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna get into the last part or part three of our chance review. This. The review, I. I listen back to it. I appreciate that I'm able to kind of put this down on record as far as my thoughts. Every time I still listen to the album, they're still. It's just so full, like, as far as with. With substance and stuff like that. There's no tracks taken off or anything like that. So we left off with the track tree on the last episode. And I don't think a lot of people realize the. The, like, the politics behind that song kind of. It's a political song. If you listen to it and listen to some of the. Again, the words and stuff like that, real layered and everything, you get to burn your block. Okay. Burn your block is kind of a rebel song. Rebellious. Has a revolutionary feel to it. After a while, you get tired of. Of talking and using your words, and you. You know, you have to. You have to use more than your word. So Chance is using this fire here, fire motif. We gonna like a riot type of setting or backdrop, if you will. And pretty much, you know, the. The song is what it is. It's called burn your block. A lot of people, when you recreate critiques or reviews of the album, there's a lot of people's least favorite track, or it's a track that threw a lot of people off. But like I mentioned in the last episode, there's a lot of tracks on here where Chance kind of sneaks the medicine inside of the candy or the vibe. So I want y' all to check out a little bit of bring your block here. Let's check this out. [00:22:04] Speaker A: To the point that we had. Right? [00:22:06] Speaker B: Those are all right. [00:22:07] Speaker A: They're doing fin. These suckers are burning down my store Burn your block Burn your block Burn your block Burn your block Burn your block Burn your block Burn red Summer. Heads on a pipe, hands on your head on a curb Bite down fire in your eyes and it burn bright brown sun downtown. You turn around right round fight for your life, take it round by round turn the door right, right now, right now, right now, right now, right now, right now. Left cheek, right cheek, going right down. I smell fire at the precinct. Small bit of heat for the streets it was freezing Sweet song for the yard. Out and sing, sing then shut us out if you thought we was dreaming. Higher, higher as we go. That's how the flames than being high as high as we go that's how the flames can be. Burn your block, bring your blood, Burn your block. Burn your block. Bring your block, Bring your blood. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Burn your block. Burn your blood, Burn your black. Burn your black, Burn your black. Hold on, before we. All right, let me let this second verse play real quick. [00:23:20] Speaker A: Don't Joe walk, baby sachet. Cause when you sashay, girl your ass shake you and Angela bassin on the last place you left the crib. Left eyes, train blocks meet them halfway, get a drum, roll them, wind them down halfway and boom. Burn the skin, air it out, clear the pathway. I smell fire at the streets, it was freezing. [00:23:49] Speaker B: All right, so a lot of people. Again, this is when you read a lot of the reviews and stuff like that, this was kind of one of the tracks that people wanted to pass on or wanted to critique heaviest and stuff. Again, I. I get where its placement is on the album and its purpose on the album. It's again a revolutionary song, but it sounds like, you know, again just a regular, simple, low brow, like, like vibe, if you will. But let's look at some of the lyrics and. And just. And break that down. So of course the. The hook is not too complex, guys, right? Burn your block, burn your block. Burn your block, Burn your block. Burn, burn, it's on fire. Burn your block, Burn your block. Right? All right, so his first verse, red summer's heads on a pike. Pipe down, hands on your head on the curb. Bite down, fire in your eyes and it burned. Bright brown sun downtown. You turn around right round. So the imagery of that whole first part I'm thinking about, what is that movie American History X or something where they like made some. Somebody like bite the curb or whatever. Do y' all remember that movie? If y' all do, email the show, right? Mandatory ot704gmail.com. But I think it was a 90s movie, American history X. Just think about that imagery. Then he says, fire in your eyes, it burned bright brown sun downtown you turn around right round. We all know about Sundown Towns, the history of that as far as with black people and everything like that. So the song, the verse itself, audibly is. You know what I mean? It is. What it is, is pleasing verse. Audibly, or sonically speaking, the syncopation, if you will. And then what he's talking about. But when he gets to that second verse, he starts having a little bit more fun with the verse itself, I think in the word play. But it's still kind of getting across the same messaging. I smell fire. Now again, the pre chorus. I smell fire at the precinct. Small bit of heat for the streets it was freezing Sweet song. Hold on. Small bit of heat for the street it was freezing Shout out to Chicago. You know, I just think about mid-2010s Chicago. Any video that they used to drop. Even if it was in the summertime, it looked like it was just a cold place to be, if y' all know what I mean. But nevertheless, I think. I just think about that whenever I hear that line. Small bit of heat for the streets it was freezing Sweet song for the yard down in Sing Sing. Great wordplay right there. Sing Sing is a penitentiary. If correctional, penitentiary, federal. And so he said a sweet song for the yard down in Sing Sing. Pinch of salt. If you thought that we was dreaming Feels like smelling salt maybe right to wake you up. But anyways, to the second verse, he goes, don't just walk by, Sashay, don't. Don't just walk, baby, sashay. Because when you sashay, girl, your ass shake. You went Angela Bassett on the last place you let the crib. Left eye, it's an ashtray. There's two instances where you have black women in the past that that have been stood on business, if you will. Got Angela Bassett in the movie Waiting to Exhale. She sets her estranged husband's clothes on fire in the bathtub, walks away in the iconic scene with the house on fire in the background. And then you got. You left the crib. Left eye, it's an ashtray, so rest in peace to our queen ancestor. Lisa left out Lopez. She was dating NFL wide receiver at the time on the Atlanta Falcons, Andre Rising. There was rumors about, you know, him cheating and things like that, and that's what led to this. But in the courts, it was said that he just was physical with her and that was kind of her response was to light his sneakers on fire. And then the house ended up being lit on fire. Million dollar home lit on fire down there in Atlanta. And who bailed out. Lisa left that Lopez, but one Andre rising. Listen, man, shout out to our queens, yo. Shout out to our queens. That was a. That was a different time right there. Them queens was different. You got. That was the era. Your Erykah badus, your leaf. Lisa left out Lopez, Aaliyah's. You know what I'm saying? It's just. I guess the. The men that were in love with these women, it was a different type of love, different type of infatuation. I'm gonna keep it real with y'. [00:28:45] Speaker A: All. [00:28:45] Speaker B: All right? [00:28:45] Speaker A: Let me work. Please. Let me work. [00:28:49] Speaker B: So let's see here. We have. Okay, right after the ashtray line. This a half day. We don't spin blocks. We meet him halfway, get a drum roll, a window down halfway, boom. Burn his skin, air it out, clear the pathway, and. And then the hook come back on. So it is a relatively shorter song as well, but like I said, it's kind of. It just goes. It falls to me perfectly in place with the album. And the quote unquote sequencing of the album is right after tree, right? We're talking about burning trees, perhaps, or the government scams at dispensaries and stuff like that. And, well, you know. And also, after gunning your purse, you done told your lady to put the gun in her purse. And now we talking about burn your block. Okay, second second verse on burn your block, we just starting it right off. Don't just walk, baby, sashay. Because when you sashay, girl, your ass shake. You went Angela Bassett on the last place you left the crib. Left eye. It's an ashtray. So I know that my. You know, I know that she's a rider and she's about her business. Maybe I'm interpreting that wrong. I don't know. But burn your block was, man short, so that's cool. Let's go over some of my notes from burn your block. Let's see here. So a lot of them. I said already, though. Let's see. Yeah, it's just a message that was snuck into the vibes and kind of like a. Like, it reminds me of music programming because that the hook is. Or the chorus is so chanty. It's just a chant. Burn your block, Burn your block, Burn your block, Burn your block. You know, and so that's. That's the notes from that. We're going to move forward with the track Letters. This track was one of the more fearless and standout tracks because it takes a lot of guts. It takes a lot of gall and nerve to be able to get this off and to release a track like this, very, very personal track, but then just a very introspective track as well. I wanted to play a clip from Chance's interview with Deontay Kyle and Grits and Eggs, two separate clips where he's talking about the Letters track here. Give me one second here. [00:31:09] Speaker A: And I think I would have been. I would have been terrified. More so as to how my family felt than how. Because the whole first verse of Letters is about my church by name, by naming people, by talking about shit that's happening right, right now. Before I ever get into the mega church or the black church or, you know, the body as a whole, I. I talk about my inner workings of my family, and I feel like I would have been more scared and felt more ostracized if my grandmother hadn't given me this call where she told me about all of her. All of her, you know, organizing work and gave me this book called the Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone. And James cone was this really ill theologist in the 60s, right at the, like, beginning of the black power movement. So, you know, there was a. You know, black people always. We go through these moments of, like, you know, this radical identity change where we, like, don't call us colored no more. We Negroes. Yeah, don't call us Negroes no more. We African Americans. Matter of fact, we Afro Americans. So, you know what I'm saying? We go through these. These different moments, and they. And they do matter. And I don't mean to even just say them as a joke, because self determination and identifying is what makes us human. But there was a real, like. [00:32:35] Speaker B: All right, so I'm gonna cut. Cut Chance's wisdom real quick there. But again, he's just talking about some of the history of that. I really, really recommend that y' all go to Grits and Eggs to check out that Chance interview. Great interview that they did. I wanted to play one more clip about Letters before I play. Before I play Letters. So see here. All right, here we go. [00:33:16] Speaker A: Christ will want to see. And in that last verse, the fourth verse, which I think was really important, and I called my old pastor a bunch of times about it, trying to figure out how to get it across, because I don't want to be preachy. I don't want to be making a song that's just condemning the church, any church, white church, black church, megachurch, my church. I want to make a song that makes people have to think. And so that fourth verse, talking about the body Talking about us being. That's intersectionality right there. Talking about, you know, the kids that have died, talking about the people that were ostracized from the church, talking about bringing everybody back together. To me, that was the one of the last things I did on the whole album that really sews up the song for me. So if anybody has feelings, which I know they will, and not just. Again, not just folks in the megachurch, but, like, folks in the black church, you know, black mega churches. I know there's gonna be some people that are pissed, but, like, fuck it, let's have the conversation, right? [00:34:11] Speaker B: Because it. [00:34:12] Speaker A: You know, maybe I'm really bring it. [00:34:13] Speaker B: To the square, though. Like, instead of dancing around it or talking about it in the background, like, put it out there. I think that was like. [00:34:20] Speaker A: Honestly, bro, it was. [00:34:21] Speaker B: It wasn't even about the bravery of it. It was just like, you going to dig this. Yeah. So again, I had to cut that wisdom real quick. So in the. The spirit of the show. So we keep this short. But nevertheless, though, they did a great job. Shout out to Deontay Kyle again, shout out to Chance the rapper on that interview. But again, he gave some background and a little bit of context to what he was thinking about whenever he wrote the track letters. I want to play a little bit of that for y' all here. So let's see here. [00:35:02] Speaker A: I hope this message reach you well. I wrote this with a broken heart. Dear Emerald Avenue Church of God, I hope this message reach you well. I wrote this with a broken heart. See, recently my auntie Carolyn passed away. And half the way to the funeral, I realized that it's some shit that niggas just gonna have to say. You think you outlasted that wasn't just my auntie in that casket. You just buried K O K in Sunday school and classes the only saint you see on every Sunday season passes Somebody need they ass kicked. Who told you your gossip could be louder than your shout? Who told you to walk inside this house like it's your house? Who lied to you? Told you I wouldn't have nothing to say? You think I want men on the end trip? I'm on the way, I'm on my way. [00:35:46] Speaker B: All right, so I wanted to first say this song got four verses on it, right? Or I look at it as four different letters. That's. The first letter is actually to his home church calls him out by name, as he says on that. That Deontay Kyle interview. But dear Emerald Avenue Church of God, okay, so whenever he's speaking in the interview, he talks about his aunt passing away, that him and Deontay, they kind of related on this level. And a lot. A lot of us can relate on this level where we have our older relatives that continue to go to church all the way until their transition or their passing. So he's saying his aunt was going to church with a oxygen tank. Oxygen tank hooked up and everything like that, Right? And again, he said, halfway to the funeral, I realized that there's some stuff that niggas just gonna have to say. You think you outlasted that? Wasn't just my auntie in that casket. You just buried KOK in Sunday schooling classes. So K. Okay. Is a program that chance refers to a lot called Kings of the Kingdom. And one of my episodes in these future episodes, I'm going to talk about regional talent and regional arts because Chicago has one of the more popping scenes whenever it comes to children that's in the arts and our youth that are in the arts. And that needs to be celebrated. I think the Bay Area, out in Cali, Louisiana. Collective, of course, Atlanta, their creative collectives. I think, you know, these are certain pockets where people do their thing. So he said, you buried KOK in Sunday school and classes. The only saint you see on every Sunday, season passes. Like his grandmother had a season. Excuse me, his aunt has season passes to the church. You know what I'm saying? And then it just comes to some condemning. And again, this is to his home church. So he knows better than anybody else, right? Who told you your gossip could be louder than your shout? Who told you to walk inside this house like it's your house? Who lied to you? Told you I wouldn't have nothing to say. Think I won't, man, if man don't even trip. I'm on my way it's one thing that battle rappers do that I that I rock with. It's this, like, thing where you leave off the end of a bar, like, I ain't gonna finish this bar, you know what I'm saying? So you don't even trip. I'm on my way I'm on my way I'm on my way I'm on my way so that's your first verse, second verse. He's going to be talking to the mega church. I want y' all to hear this or whatnot. [00:38:28] Speaker A: Dear Megachurch, I hope this letter finds you, but I do fund a new building. I hide you, I'll still be behind you Elaborate theatrics to blind you, nickel and dime you But I knew I've watched you worship idols brand of Bibles, sell it for double brandish rifles, cursing, libel, withhold shelter from niggas first survival first ladies walking around with furs and titans. Watch them spit in a man's face and call it God. But when it's really on, your dogma is Silent Bob. You just take them government checks and smile and nod. I rebuke you in the name of the child of God. I boil a pot of living water till it's scalding hot and pour it on the altar of the false fallen gods. That means the church in the state. I'm here to separate. Y' all think I'm finna play with anything. Matter of fact, I'm on my way. I'm on my way I'm on my way. [00:39:19] Speaker B: All right, so that was the third. That was the second verse to the mega Church. A couple high star bars I want to go through in that one because again, it's like a scathing honesty that we all meet the conversation that we all may need to have. One of the things that was stated during that Grits and Eggs episode, they were saying, like sometimes we need to sweep the dirt from out up under the rug. Like we spend too much time putting. Sweeping dirt up under the rug and trying to make it seem like our house is the cleanest. And sometimes we need to get that dirt about from under the rug and have these uncomfortable conversations. So on average, two. Of course, it starts off, dear Mega Church, I hope this letter finds you for I do fund a new building to hide you. I still. So that's a good. That's a good line right there. You know, we always talking about a building fund in the church. I'll still be behind you allowed elaborate theatrics to blind you, nickel and dime you. But I knew. So you think about the mega church nowadays and the churches that are on TV and stuff. You have the. The rock and roll and the music and the lights. You got the fog machines and the smoke. It look like club the club or whatnot. Elaborate theatrics to blind you, nickel and dime you. But I knew said I've watched you see and this is where we get. All right, hold on real quick. Hold. [00:40:46] Speaker A: Up, hold up. [00:40:47] Speaker B: He going to get this work. Here's where chance gets scathingly honest. Hey. So he says, I've watched you worship idols brand the Bible sell it for double brandish rifles curse and libel withhold shelter and from for survival first lady walking around with them furs and titles. So this is Something that we've all seen if you paid attention or paying attention in the past five years to a decade. But we've watched people worship idols and idolatry. Let's come on. Y' all already know what we talking about, how we feel about that brand of Bibles and sell it for double. Like mega churches. They definitely have merchandise and all of that stuff. And they're, you know, looking to capitalize in a non profit space, which, yeah, I have my own feelings about that as well. But again, we. And we're talking about mega churches. Like, I don't know, the attendance that needs to qualify a mega church to be a megachurch. But y' all know what we talking about, the big boy churches. But yeah, so they have their own merchandise and all of that stuff. And they look into half for profit stuff. Brandish rifles curse and libel Withhold shelter from from for survival Callback in Texas when they was having the issues. I think it was Houston, if I'm not mistaken. Fort Worth. Joel Osteen, you could step your ass to the front of the hr. Okay, that was foul, bro. That was foul. You was. They. You were said to have locked the doors on your church and people couldn't get in. Watch. You spit in a man's face and call it God. Okay, so let's talk about Michael Todd. Okay. When you did that, I was thrown off, brother. I don't know what part of the game that was. And people said, okay, that was your brother and stuff like that. For those that don't know, let me see here. For those that don't know, Michael Todd. Mike Todd. Excuse me. He rubbed saliva in his. It was. I think it was his brother. But this might have been work around 2022 or something like that or 2021. He rubbed it in his face and it was disgusting to say the least. But it was just more again, elaborate theatrics and stuff to get virality is what it seemed at the time. Or two. It was. He was. It's illustrating a point. But it didn't need to be done like that. Definitely. You just take them government checks and smile and nod. That's after he said watch. You spit in a man's face and call it God. But when it's really on your dogma, it's Silent Bob. Shout out to that movie, 1999 movie Dogma, where you had the character Silent Bob introduced to the public. Whatever. You just take them government checks and smile and nod. I rebuke you in the name of the child of God. I boil A pot of living water till it's scalding hot. So we gonna get to this water theme here in a minute on one of these tracks. But right here. And he. Chance confirmed this, but that those two lines. I rebuke you in the name of the child of God. I boil a pot of living water till it's scalding hot. Chance was referencing the young lady that Sonya Sonia Massey, that was murdered in 2024. And she was shot by a police officer in a kitchen. She had a boiling pot of hot water. And again, her last words to the officer was, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. So powerful. Callback to that sister on that. And a great way to. To kind of commemorate her and make sure her story lives forever as well. And that we don't forget that. So that was the verse about the mega church, as some would say. He's reading them. But yeah, he's. He's. He's telling them about theyself. Let's just keep it at that. He's telling them about themselves. About themselves. So let's go to. Let's go to verse three. On verse three, he's talking about the black church. So I want y' all to hear verse threes. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Dear black church, this is the real world. Don't you forget about them four little girls killed in the church while they played in the nursery. Four Sundays ago was the anniversary. Jesus was a teacher, King was a preacher, Malcolm was a PK and so was Aretha. I say a little prayer with my hand on my heater. You reaching and I'm slaying off your ear like I'm Peter. Don't lay down now when you know that we at war. Don't lay down now when there's fire at your door. Don't lay down now when you know that they should feel a new knowing it ain't to lynch a Dylan roof. Instead you let the killer loose and kick out folks that you can't handle. Find more money, try to hide more scandals. That light glow from the mob is not more candles. These are torches to burn it. Matter of fact, you gonna see we on our way. [00:46:03] Speaker B: All right. Set fire to the trees be when the empire falls in the kingdom. So that was the third verse letter to the black church. Right. It's the real world. Don't you forget about them four little girls killed in a church while they played in the nursery. Four Sundays ago was their anniversary. Jesus was a teacher, the king was a preacher, Malcolm was a PK and so was Aretha. I say a little prayer with my hand on my heater. You reaching and I'm staying. He said you reaching and I'm slaying off your ear like I'm Peter. Don't lay down now when you know that we at war. Don't lay down now when there's fire at your door. Don't lay down now when you know that they should feel a noose Know that it ain't shit to lynch a Dylann roof. Instead you let the killer loose and kick out folks that you can't handle. Instead you let that killer loose and kick out folks that you can't handle. Find more money, try to hide more scandals. That light glow from the mob is not more candles. These are torches to burn it. Matter of fact, you're going to see we on our way. So that that verse, it hits home for me. First part of the verse, though, we're going to talk about. Don't forget about them four little girls killed in a church while they played in the nursery. Four Sundays ago was their anniversary. Jesus was a teacher. King was a preacher. Malcolm was a pk, a preacher's kid. So was Aretha. So they talking about racism back. When you're talking about those four little girls, you're talking about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, right? And that occurred back in 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. Now let's fast forward right to 2015 and this is fresh off of justice or else. I was in Fort Mill, South Carolina, living there, and I got a text message from my sister that our family's church was. There was a shooting at our family's church. I remember the news reports about the shooting down in Charleston at Mother Emanuel and my cousin. I had a cousin that was there that evening. My cousin and her daughter were there and they left the service, the Bible study that evening to go shopping for a celebration that they were having that Saturday for Denmark vc. And as they left, that's when Dylann Roof did his, you know, what he had to do to live in infamy now and, you know, have his name live in infamy. So rest in peace to the the parishioners at Mother Emanuel. Rest in peace to the four little girls as well from that killing in in Birmingham also. So when he said don't lay down now when you know that they should feel a noose no, it ain't to lynch a Dylan roof. Instead you let the killer loose and kick out folks that you can't handle. Find more money, try to hide more scandals. The light that glow from the Mob is not more candles like it was. It's still been a difficult time. And I mean, personally speaking, ever since that happened in Charleston, it's like Charleston's kind of did a PR or like a facelift where they're just trying to show everyone why they're one of the best. Best cities in the country to visit and one of the best cities in the country to vacation in or to live in and retire to. But that's. That's a whole nother story. But shout out to Chance for highlighting that and. Yeah. And saying what he said, being fearless. So we're going to get to his fourth letter. His fourth letter is actually to the body. So let's go ahead and. And let's go ahead and play that here. [00:50:29] Speaker A: Dear body, bruised and broke, body abused, confused and soaked body the light of his eye, the love in his hands, the one that got his love in advance, the love of his life. The covenant stands the body, the nobody. The ones that want went back in search of mo bodies the ones that placed coins and mourned and washed feet Ones that watched the little bodies that lost all heat. The body his child, his pride, his joy. If I have no words, my sword, my voice I write to you with tattoo tears and heavy shoulders an angel with a hand on his hip the gun holster what is violence if not silence? So sling that rock and slay that giant slow load that. That Glock Kill that tyrant so sing that song we sing that harmony A hum of a hymn Touch the hem of his garment A young drummer boy did a sting in the army Rum Papa Pam till the walls come crumbling Strung up on wood but the sun comes in when it's just everybody line those dots connect Everybody love chance he has Bless everybody. [00:51:38] Speaker B: So that that joint tough? Super tough. And that was the last letter on the track. Letters. So I appreciate y' all staying with me this long because letters is a. Is a healthy track. It's a long track, but yeah. So. Dear body, bruised and broke body abused, confused and soaked body the light of his eye, the love in his hands, the one that got his love in his in advance, the love of his life. The covenant stands the body. That'd be a lot of times I'll read these, and they remind me of some of my Einstein bars. Be real with y'. [00:52:13] Speaker A: All. [00:52:13] Speaker B: I'll be real with y'. All. I got a joint where I say, let me see if I can remember it. Nice turning bright when your heart starts turning you inside is burning cells Reminds instead of I say everything gonna Be all right. I'm not conservative. You turn life's lessons into blessings when you learn from it. So hike this haiku step, taking the firmament and claim the victory like you just won a tournament. Quit your worrying, but be encouraged in the same world that you feel then you could flourish in. Once you see the hungry state that the fan man uses bread and his water for your nourishment, have courage when you walk, just know that God is with you. The same God that everybody trying to get to. He miss you. Plus he want to get you to commit to the fact that you could be saved and be lit, too. So shine. So, like, yeah, when I hear bars like this and they're kind of on the same frequency, it's tough, man. It's tough. So he continues on the nobodies, the ones that went back and searched for more bodies of more bodies. The ones that placed coins and mourned and washed feet. Ones that watched the little ones that watched the little bodies that lost all heat. The body, his child, his pride, his joy. If I have no words, my sword, my voice. So he's talking about. And he mentioned this on Grits and Eggs. He's talking about a scene in Macbeth where Macbeth is being stood over by the person that kills him. And the guy asked him if he has any last words, and he pretty much tells him, not my sword. I speak with my sword, or my sword is my. My voice. So tough track right there. Letters again. Chef's kiss. All of the letters. Four out of four. Come on. Fearless. Fearless, right? And Chance did this thing, the bars, all of that stuff. So very divine. Very divine track right there. We're going to go ahead to the next track and move forward before we do. So let me double check these notes real quick. Like I said, fearless track, stand out again with that last verse. It reminds us that the church. I'm not sure the exact Bible verse in scripture, but the church is. Is not a building. It's not them four walls. It's in the body, right? And it resides in us. So all of us walk around with the church within us and how we. How we live each day. And that's off of my faith, what I interpret again, the body to be in. In the. The temple that it is. So shout out to Chance on that track. On the letters track, yo. Very, very fearless again. Very fearless. This next track is going to be Speed of Light. So I gotta queue up some. I gotta queue up a clip. There's another clip from that Grits and Eggs interview. Yeah. So on this clip from the Grits and Eggs interview, Chance is describing the place that he was in when he. Whenever he started to write the first verse on this. And I just want y' all to hear this. It's a great piece of insight from a great interview and stuff like that, but it gives you a great perspective on where he was at with everything whenever he. Whenever he was recording. Yeah, that Pursuit of happiness, Speed of Light, Specifically on Speed of Light. [00:55:36] Speaker A: Speed of Light is the oldest song on the project. So I made Speed of Light maybe a few months after the big day came out. And it was one of the few songs I made. And I. At the time, I was like, this shit hard, but, like, I don't think people understand it right now. It was. This was also before, like, dance music started making a real big comeback, like, a year or two after I made the song. Like, Drake did his dance album, Beyonce did her dance album. Like, and house and certain things, like, you know what I'm saying? Even just Jersey or Philly or certain, like, you know, club music, I wanted. [00:56:04] Speaker B: Him to say Baltimore right then. [00:56:05] Speaker A: And I was like, damn, I should put it out now. But I was still, you know, kind of scared. But I wrote that song originally, to be honest, I had a lot of songs like this that was just on some escapism. I was, you know, the year right after I got married, it was a global pandemic shutdown. And so this person that I loved and loved forever, you know what I'm saying? That we were always so far apart because I'm traveling, because breakups, because whatever, you know what I'm saying? Now we stuck in a house together and. And just living with the reality of that, like, had me driving around late at night and just saying, like, don't nobody there appreciate you. [00:56:49] Speaker B: They just wanna hate you. [00:56:50] Speaker A: They just wanna hold you down and slow you down to nature and. And. And I'm not saying that about my kids. No, I get it, though. You want to get away. Husband and a father, bro. Like, I get that. [00:57:03] Speaker B: All right, so I didn't. Again, we're cutting brothers wisdom and stuff like that because Deontay brought up a great point, you know, where they're like, just as men, how we feel sometimes underappreciated and stuff. For all of the. For what we're doing, like, some. Our. Our mind could be on a thousand different things. And because it's not on one particular thing, your wife or your kids may look at you and, you know, and be fake, disappointed or something like that. So I. I understand exactly where Chance is coming from with how he felt whenever he was writing this, especially around the pandemic time. A lot of people was cooped up and stuck in indoors together and stuff like that. And you don't know what's going to happen next. But let's go ahead and play Speed of Light. It actually has a common sample as well. Shout out to Chicago, Shout out to the shy but we'll go ahead and play this and go through a couple of the High Star bars from this. Drive. [00:58:07] Speaker A: Drive, Go somewhere, go that shines when it's dark Special for you. [00:58:25] Speaker B: That'S the party he was talking about right here. [00:58:27] Speaker A: Don't nobody appreciate you they just wanna hate you they just wanna hold you down and slow you down so danger. It's just in their nature. They wanna erase you they don't wanna. Hey, everybody Major can't nobody pass you faster than a laser that traffic we keep moving at the speed of light Running on a high Running right by I'm waving by Heads up on your right yeah, I'm on your west Better clear that path Made it out the dog and I ain't never going back home Tell them in the back that we gonna be there shortly Point out to the stars Go and tease their story One day we will start to believe the shorty they'll say, mama, it was moving at the speed. [00:59:30] Speaker B: Okay, so again, he. You heard it from Chance's own words, words that the track came from a. So a place of escapism whenever he was writing it. And also that beat again, you got that BPM on that track where it kind of matches up with some of the dance tracks and house tracks that were dropped around the last five years. So, you know, this part right here, I'm gonna let play as well. It's one of my favorite parts on it. Hold on. All right, here we go. At the speed of. That was super hard. Super hard. Use of the sample. [01:00:29] Speaker A: That shines Run. [01:00:33] Speaker B: The speed of light Running at the speed of light so that. That, you know. Again, the track super hard pause. But using a common sample. Another ode to Chicago. Shout out to the big bro Common. And you know, the. Like I said, the bars kind of take care of themselves there. So I was talking to my man the other day and I think as men, we have to realize provision is much more than monetary. We have to provide our families and our households with patience. You got to provide them with certain decisions and decision making, like being decisive. There's a lot you got to provide them with outside of just paying the bills and bringing money to the, to the house. You got to provide them with vision and purpose and what we're doing as a unit, as a family. So there's a lot of things that men. Responsibilities that men have that are not just black and white or not just monetary, if you will. Okay, so let's see here. We want to go ahead and keep it moving here. My notes from Speed of Light, of course was showing love to that sample once again. And I had to pay that, that gritson egg sample. So we next we're gonna move to this track called pretty. This is a self love track. I love it. If anybody has been through heartbreak, very, very, I don't know, just, just life changing heartbreak and stuff like that. This type of song is the, like the bounce back song. When you start getting your swagger back, you start, you know, walking in stride. You cutting your hair again. Okay, you realize you got a couple dollars and stuff and you know you're looking good. You started to put on some good, good fits, you know, presentable. You're looking good out there, you know, self improving when you're working on self. Right. Self confidence and stuff. This is one of the songs that I imagine probably was playing and gun his head, of course, you know what I mean? Whenever he got out of jail. But there's a type of song in other words. So like let me play a little bit of this because you got some high star bars all through here as well. Showed off his rapping ability. [01:02:50] Speaker A: Here's two Damn final war goes to. [01:02:54] Speaker B: Damn. [01:02:54] Speaker A: This is my award. You did that. You did that. You did that. You did that. You did that. You did that. [01:03:11] Speaker B: You did that. [01:03:12] Speaker A: You did that. [01:03:16] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:03:24] Speaker A: Yo, who that in that hat floating across the stage? Oh, that's just a boat floating across the page. Best of all time. Yes, tomorrow, yesterday, yesterday yester March, yesterday April, yes in May. I look into the mirror like yes. Napoleon dolomite the pen got a complex temporary shoulder height My necklace always dancing My wrist is a socialite I'm pretty. That ultra light flood light beam like my mirror is a ring light. It glows like a screen light it's almost dreamlike, closer than seems if it ever sent me off it still showed me one thing. [01:04:11] Speaker B: So y' all gotta listen. If y' all hear the ad libs on there, it's like on that hook it goes love, self love, God's love, ours. So it's just different again, messaging and stuff like that that chances getting through to us here on the album. But this track in particular, where the track is titled Pretty. So my first inclination, when I heard the song, I thought he was talking about his daughters, and I thought that the track was a song kind of celebrating them and his love for his daughters. I listened to it back a couple of times, and I'm like, okay, well, yeah, the beginning, you know, where he says, initiatives too damn fine. Award goes to. Damn, this is my award, you know? And you did that. And you did that. You boosting yourself up. Sounds like you're boosting yourself up. Yo, who's that in that hat floating across the stage? Oh, that's just the boat floating across the page. So, chance, is that a new term that you're coming up with? Or is. Has boat been rocking for a minute? Far as. Best of all time. Yes, tomorrow. Yes, today, yesterday. Yes, tomorrow. Yes, today, yesterday. Yes in March. Yes in April. Yes in May. That was calm. That was calm. Very calm. Wordplay right there. Just best of all time. Yes, tomorrow, yes, today, yesterday. Yes in March. Yes in April. Yes in May. Yeah. I look in, and it's one of my favorite parts of the song right here. I look into the mirror like, yes. Napoleon, Dolomite, the pen got up complex. My temper is shoulder height. My necklace always dancing. My wrist is a socialite. I'm pretty then a Seminole on St. Joseph night like that. That bar speaks for itself. But the imagery going back to the ice, I see. All right. The necklace always dancing. My wrist is a socialite. So, you know, my wrist is always out and about. Okay. At the hot spots, at the kickback, sort of the vibes. My wrist is the socialite. Okay. My neck is always dancing, though, so, like, you know, great imagery right there. So let me see here. Go through a couple more High Star bars here from. From. I'm pretty, right? And I get a rush when I see my face. Ultimate self love. [01:07:09] Speaker A: Sitting on my shoulders between the world. Vanilla brown eyes and a smile of pearls. I cast my cares like I'm skipping stones. Face shown like I'm dipped in chrome? I walk around Chicago But I go wherever my God go and vice versa. My mom told me I'm a nice person, I got left but maybe I ain't find the right. Maybe I ain't get the right version. I need a shrink come and bring me my meds. Cause there's some things wrong with some things in my head. Sometimes I think she was the love of my life. So when I'm alone Sometimes I think that I'm dead. [01:07:45] Speaker B: All right, so we're Gonna cut the brother's wisdom right there. So on that second verse, where the way that he starts off, this is one of the reasons I thought that he was talking about his children or his daughters. Because I'm like passively listening. When I was first listening to the album, it's like sitting on my shoulders between the world I'm thinking about his little girl Sitting on his shoulders Vanilla brown eyes and a smile of pearls I cast my cares like I'm skipping stones Face shown like I'm dipped in chrome I walk around Chicago but I go wherever my God go and vice versa My mama tell me I'm a nice person I got left but maybe I ain't find the right person Got clean but maybe I ain't get the right version. That whole part right there. Great wordplay. High star bars, of course. [01:08:40] Speaker A: Like that, like that, like that. [01:08:43] Speaker B: Again, after you go through a bunch of stuff, there becomes a point where that self confidence starts beaming and you standing on your own on some. Yo, I'm. I'm all right. You know what I'm saying? God did his thing. God did his thing when he put me together. Whatever. Like you gotta. You gotta stand in some of that confidence or capture some of that self love and have some of that. There is definitely a fine line between self love and arrogance or cockiness or whatnot. I don't even think it's a fine line. I think it's. It's very clear, the line itself. But people choose to. To be line steppers, if you will. So it's. It's an active thing or to be actively aware. In other words, and keep that hubris or that ego in check. But still knowing that you're. If you're God's creation and you made in his image or his. His eyes. Come on now. Who can tell you anything if you are made from God's love? It's mandatory overtime, which I thought. [01:09:47] Speaker A: Like that, like that, like that. Do the knowledge. [01:09:52] Speaker B: So again, after that, he continues some. Some great bars and stuff like that. Flowers lost color Fruit lost flavor My star crossed lover I remember what the mirror told myself that I owe myself to show myself love. Come on. That again. We need some of that self affirmation and stuff. And there's one of the other examples of the self affirmation. Remember you have Joey Badass telling us the greatest things are on the other side of fear, you know, etc. Etc. So he's still uplifting us and stuff through. Through words. So I want to go to this next track. It's called Just a drop. Before we do that there, remember, pretty. Again, it felt like it was post breakup. Anybody that's been through those rough times, you know that there's a period of rebirth and stuff where you got to kill off that old you and then you got to rediscover how fly. God made you, all right? And then when. Once you do that. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, it's a. It's a fine line between being confident and being cocky, but. But sometimes you got to give it up for the man upstairs. Like, you did your thing, brother. I appreciate what you. What you did when you was making me. Thank you. Thank you. So the next track, again, we're gonna go Just to drop. So just to drop it, as the name indicates, is alluding to water. Before we start this, there was a post that I saw. It was on somebody's story or reels or something. I might have caught it on Twitter. But it was saying how water is like. It was explaining, like, how water. The relationship between water and God and how they say, like, you know, the body is 75 water, and how water takes up most of the earth and that water is just necessary for us and how closely those definitions are to everything that we describe as. As God. Now, me personally, of course, I'm believing that God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. You know, I think that God is greater than water. But it's an awesome metaphor when you think about it and stuff like that. It's like you need water for life. You know what I'm saying? You need water. So anyways, let's get into the track right here. It's called Just to Drop. [01:12:13] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:12:16] Speaker B: Want y' all to hear these. These verses really. [01:12:30] Speaker A: Need just enough water to bathe in Just enough water to cook with. They got enough water to play in they got enough water to swim in they got enough water to drown in they got enough water for fountains they. [01:12:43] Speaker B: Got enough water for salmon well, we. [01:12:45] Speaker A: Need enough water for a courtesy cup we need just enough water for emergency stuff they don't care if our water get dirty as we need enough water we can boil this crack or oil. [01:12:57] Speaker B: These chap lips or coil these naps. [01:12:59] Speaker A: They need enough water to destroy the. [01:13:01] Speaker B: Facts or offer you water behind your lawyer's back Bang bang. So let's go through some of those high star bars right there. He said we just everything. Everything in that verse, water related or whatnot. We need just enough water to bathe in Just enough water to cook with. They got enough water to play in. They got enough water to swim in. They got enough water to drown in. They got enough water for fountains. They got enough water for salmon. Well, so he says salmon. He doesn't say salmon. He says salmon. And then, well, so again alluding to water. We need enough water for a courtesy cup. A lot of times we be inside that restaurant, y' all know what time it was with the four for four days or the dollar menu days. It's like, could I get a cup of water with that? And you going over there, you might fill it up with Sprite or whatever like that, right? We need just enough water for emergency stuff. They don't care if our water get dirty as we need enough water, we can boil this crack. Like all the things that the stereotypes that black people is using water for or oil these crack chapped lips or coil these naps. They need enough water to destroy the facts or offer you water behind your lawyer's back. So just a very creative way of looking at the different aspects of water or whatever like that. And then on the hook, I'm gonna do my best chance to rapa because I believe that this him singing on the hook. I don't need a flood, don't need a tub don't need a cup Just a drop of the blood. Oh, I seen the storm come I've seen the warnings I know he's coming. I can't wait till he does. Oh, right. So if we talking about call to revolution and a call for liberation and stuff like that with like gun in your purse or burn your block. This right here just to drop is one of the more scary. I'm gonna call it scary. It's like one of the more heavy songs on the track. It's saying he's waiting and he's ready for the return. The way this stuff is looking right now, that he's ready and he can't wait till he comes. So pause, but. Sorry to pause you, Jesus. But yeah, yeah, that. That's the hook itself. Positive. So now this next verse, he's gonna go into a little whole word play with land. So let's. Let's hear that. [01:15:48] Speaker A: Just enough land to stand on. We live on the blocks with the houses abandoned we, we do hospice at our aunts and our grandma's we be on house arrest smoking weed with the band on. We need enough land for the porches and stoops so we can lean out the fortress and forge us a coup Tell them gather all the pitchforks torches and troops I'm just preaching to the choir what a chorus could do I'm just speaking to the fire what a forest could do. Cause when Goldie in your house Pouring all your food out what that porridge would do this shit could turn smokey these dwarves is not dope they got enough land to test weather control Build Babylon ladders as if heaven was closed We've seen every form of weapon that. [01:16:26] Speaker B: They ever could throw we just needed and we ready to go, go, go Now I want to shout out real. [01:16:34] Speaker A: Quick. [01:16:36] Speaker B: Jay Electronica like that. You got the last verse on here. But when you listen to Jay Electronica's project that he's released, it makes a lot of sense. Some of the stuff that Chance is saying because it. It basically it makes it seem like he's heard Jay Electronica's projects, in other words, J Elect. He's talking about the Wheel of Ezekiel. He's talking about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And if he's still alive and you know, he's just preaching a lot about the return. So I'm just. I'm just saying. Great second verse, though. A couple high Star bars from that that I like. We lived on the blocks with the houses abandoned we do hospice at our aunts and our grandmas we be on house arrest smoking weed with the band on that's hard bars right there. We need enough land for the porches and stoops so we can lean on out the fortress and forge us a coup Tell them gather up all the pitchforks, torches and troops I'm just preaching to the choir what a chorus could do I'm just speaking to the fire what a forest could do. Because when Goldie's in your house pouring all your food out what that porridge will do the shit can turn smoky these dwarves is not dopey. Come on. That is just a whole little fairy tale rhyme scheme wordplay, set up, if you will. And then I like that whole they got enough land to test weather control Build Babylon ladders as if heaven was closed. We've seen every form of weapon that they ever could throw we just need for you to land and we ready to go. Powerful, powerful statement right there. And just so I gotta. I gotta play a little. Well, by this time, y' all know I'm just. I'm supporting Chances album, so I want y' all to all listen to it, stream it and buy it. But here is Jay Electronica a little bit of Jay Electronica's verse. [01:18:36] Speaker A: After the slanderous propaganda and a hostile public Crucifixion just after they cast lots for his robes put thorns to scalp stripped him out of his clothes and whipped him right after the show trial in the kangaroo court as he struggled up Calvary with that janky ass cross My love cried out for water. [01:18:54] Speaker B: Yes he did. [01:18:57] Speaker A: Instead they gave my love vinegar the price you have to pay to go to the Savior for minister she really hit the fan in the temple when he tweaked on the money changers and money lenders and him and the Sadducees Argu who Abraham's descenders was they called him a bastard, they called him a rebel. And John 8:44 he called their father the devil. H that's why they banned him off Facebook. Probably the government probably brand them as a hate group. [01:19:19] Speaker B: Probably. So like J elect of course speaks truth to power. But yeah, you know, he be on that type of time. So he gets into his vibe. He starts speaking very biblically, you know, whenever he raps. So I start bars from him the whole thing. Right. But he said, you know, after he as he struggled up Calvary with that janky ass cross My Lord cried out for water yes he did. Instead they gave my Lord vinegar the price you have to pay to go to Savior from the minister really hit the fan in the temple when he tweaked on the money changes and money lenderers him and the Sadducees argued over who abras Abraham's descendants was. You gotta read his lyrics. You can't even like flow or spit them joints back as far as a rap. But shout out to to my brother Jay electronica high level bars of course always high star bars. And again just a drop to me compare a lot of stuff as far as water goes to look at water's relationship with God. In other words, with that song. I definitely do that. And that's one of the first videos that I saw after Tree that was released from this album. So we're going to get into the last track. The last track I appreciate y' all staying with me this long is called Speed of Love featuring Jasmine Sullivan. The first thing I want to say Jasmine Sullivan was the perfect choice for this feature and to get on this chorus. Angelic voice again. One of the voices of our generation. But the words on the hook. It's a perfect way to end the album. We're going. We're gonna get into it. I don't. I don't. I'm gonna jump around this track really because we all the way at the end. But let me just Start off with this here decided it starts off y'. [01:21:17] Speaker A: All, where the love at? Frozen pizza, Kool Aid, not soda. I still get tweets saying I miss when you was not sober September I cried in October these things come too fast. I miss when it was a life. [01:22:03] Speaker B: Let me karaoke this thing. And we grew up on tour Some of these experiences seem premature but these. [01:22:09] Speaker A: Dreams came from pure hip hop Pillars. [01:22:11] Speaker B: Used to off top dealers but when. [01:22:13] Speaker A: Got faker that's when got real oh my God. Radio to the meet and greet dinner show Gave out hugs like we had tentacles Make a track then try to keep track of where you finna go cross country but it's a sprinter though Badu says friends, fans, artists must meet which one are are you? Which one are me? Go and break a leg Leave it all on the stage if your life. [01:22:36] Speaker B: Fall apart Leave it all on the. [01:22:38] Speaker A: Page I'm recouped looking for a love in return what happened When a star doesn't burn a dream defer Here you take the asses since you concern they talk about it like it's some sort. [01:22:49] Speaker B: Of super serum look, love was the. [01:22:51] Speaker A: Fuel and the pen was the tool. [01:22:53] Speaker B: It'S been that way since the lunch tables at school we made beads with. [01:22:57] Speaker A: With our hands Made peace with our plans the paper going to come when this hit the fans so wish me well as I flow through space time Chasing love I should have found on facetime I'm on the outside on the I can't wait side the love going fast it could run but it can't. [01:23:15] Speaker B: Yeah. So first verse right there speaks for itself, but salute to Mac Miller. Rest in peace, my brother. That's one of the first people that took. Well, the first person that took chance on tour, I want to say. Or he went on tour with Childish Gambino as well, but now he was on tour with Mac Miller earlier in his career though high star bars on there when he's on some radio to the meet and greet Then the show gave out hugs like we had tentacles Make a track and then try to keep track of where you finna go cross country but it's a sprinto high bars all through there. Let's see here. Yeah, let's see. All right. [01:23:59] Speaker A: I'm a good friend Jimmy Fallon knows could have dead friendship at the talent shows I could have been a roadie if I never started rapping if I heard your secret that should never even happen the boat of the game When I sailed around some people People could have drowned way I held them down Stayed down like hubcaps Since a rug rat with my arms outstretched like where my hug at? Used to read messages longer than the drug facts Then the ops ran down on me where my thugs at? Somebody speak up don't sip the teacup the way I gave a you should give two or three Too many nights out, too many flights out 250 cent cakes too many bites out the kingdom ain't the castle it's the knights that ride for it this a blood drive this a highway robbery look me in the eyes like I ain't go broke or an athlete when his ankle broke I double text and you can't go ghost I can't cry to no late show host I can't smile but I thank those jokes so catch me, man Fall like septo still in my bag like I slept over Race for the next cobra can't do it by myself Soldiers. Is there any love left over? No, I love leftovers. [01:25:12] Speaker B: So I'm gonna start off with the end of that, right? Because he does the same thing that he did at the beginning of. Of the album, if y' all remember. He said, I used to love lettuce. What? He said, I used to hate math. Used to love lettuce. They had me in the class with the dumb. This coming to class with an umbrella. So, no, he said, this a love letter. I used to hate math. Used to love letters. So right there, he did that again with leftovers, right? So he said, is there any love left over? No, I love leftovers. That again, that. That little literary device or whatever he's doing with that word plate. It's fine. It's fire. Let's see here. It's something with that Jimmy Fallon line that I got to do some more research on because, you know, again, I'm a good friend. Jimmy Fallon knows. Could have did friendship at the talent show. And then he ends that. He ends that line like, I can't cry to no late show host I can't smile but I thank those jokes so catch me May fall like September still in my bag like I slept over rakes for the next cobra so West, I gotta figure out, what's this Jimmy Fallon connection, how he's genuinely a good friend. Even Jimmy Fallon can vouch the second line. He's saying how he's a model for friendship, how he could have literally portrayed it on the talent show as if it was a character. I mean, perhaps when he was going through his stuff with the big day. Jimmy Fallon was one of the people that. That helped out a lot. And that was always there for him. Or maybe never switched up. He goes back to himself. That moniker. Once again, the boat of the game. The way I sailed around the best of all time Some people drown the way I held them down, stayed down like hubcaps since a rugrat with my arms outstretched like, where my hug at? So, you know, shout out to those brothers that asked for hugs back in. Shout out to all those brothers that was asking for hugs in the high school hallways. I'm just saying, you know what I mean? [01:27:25] Speaker A: Do the knowledge. [01:27:29] Speaker B: So. But I, like this next line. Used to read messages longer than the drug facts. Then the ops ran down on me, like, where my thugs at? Somebody speak up. Don't sip the teacup. The way I gave a. You should give two or three. The way I gave up, you should give two or three. Right? This next line right here, y'. All. Too many nights out, too many flights out. 250 cent cake, too many bites out. So, wow. I don't think. I don't think rap genius has caught this yet, but it says, like, on, like, rap genius, it says chances. Expressing how despite his busy lifestyle of the many flights and quick meals, he still was there for his friends. True. Indeed. But I would make an annotation to that as well. So what's the rapper's name? La Capone. La Capone. If y' all remember that rapper, one of his fame, one of his famous bars is. And both of us got a 50 cent cake. What he said? If he can't break bread, he fake. I had one more buck on my plate. It was me and bro. We went to the stove. What he said? It was me and bro. We. We was in a store and both of us got 50 cent cakes. So, yeah, he's like, if he can't bread, if he can't break bread, he fake. I had one more buck on my plate. It was me and bro. We was in the stove and we both got us 50 cent cakes. So that part right there, that Chance says, too many nights out, too many flights out. Two 50 cent cakes, too many bites out. That was salute to one of our fallen soldiers, one of our fallen young kings in Chicago, Louisiana. Capone. Chance, if you ever, whenever you hear this bruh, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm very confident that he's talking about La Capone on that line. Hard bar, way to commemorate the young brother. The kingdom ain't the castle. It's the knights that ride for it. So we was just talking about the church as well. The church is not the building. It's what's inside. Right? It's the body. This a blood drive, this a highway robbery look, look me in the eyes like I ain't go broke or an athlete when his ankle broke I double text and you can't go ghost I can't cry to no late show host I can't smile But I thank those jokes Come on, y'. All. So I think again I this something to be said. Maybe when I have my interview with Chance, I could ask him about his relationship with Jimmy Fallon and how that, you know, how that relationship influenced this verse. But let's go ahead and continue on on this track because I'm gonna start from the end of that last verse. Because you. It makes you think that it's the end of the song. Shoot my heart and hit it like lightning that's what you want the love to do Bang, bang, bang. [01:30:57] Speaker A: Friends, fans and artists must meet. [01:30:59] Speaker B: Which one are you? Which one are me? [01:31:02] Speaker A: Not a star yet, just a son at the time. Me and my dad burnt them CDs. [01:31:07] Speaker B: One at a time. [01:31:08] Speaker A: The beauty of a sharpie in the moonlight the writing was baroque the speed was cartoon like the love baked and barbecue grill he taught me how to fish how to start a new skill he said scale for from the tail Grab the shark by the gills if God need a boat do your part and you build the art of the deal Put your art in your will so your kids never spend time starving and ill I think about these bars too long I start to get chills These the kind of lectures out of Harvard and Yale. They had us in the class for kids who find it hard to sit still A hard headed kid's confidence is hardest to kill. They called us slow but my heart beat fast My heart heart beat fast when the love comes slow the end of the day, man, the day going to end But I always end up where the love don't go but if you look up that star going to shine I'm always in my glow Run a light no telling where life will be but start and life will go. [01:32:08] Speaker B: All right, so that was literally the last, you know, words and stuff like that that you hear on the album. But start and life will go Run the light no telling what life will be but start and life will go man, you kidding me, man. Salute to Chancellor Bennett. Excuse me, Chance the Rapper. Shout out to my boy. Shout out my boy. Let me just. First and foremost again, he said, Badu said. Friends, fan, friends, fans and artists must meet which One are you? Which one are me? Which one are you? Which one? Army. Army. That's how I hear that line. She said that during a performance on. There was this show that used to be on HBO around the time of Death Comedy Jam. They actually had Deaf Poetry Jam in the early 2000s, and she performed on there. And she said that during one of her performances on there. But yeah, let's go through his verse real quick. Not a start. The imagery on it. Not a star yet, just a sun at the time me and my dad burnt them CDs one at a time. The beauty of a sharpie in the moonlight the writing was baroque, the sp was cartoon, like, like, come on. The. The imagery of that. He taught me how to start a new skill. He taught me how to fish, how to start a new skill. He said, all right, so he said, the beauty of the sharpie and the moonlight. The writing was baroque, the speed was cartoon like the love baked in barbecue grilled he taught me how to fish, how to start a new skill. It just feels like that dad, son, relationship with all of this right here. The love baked in barbecue grilled he taught me how to fish, how to start a new skill he said, scale from the tail Grab the shark by the gills if God need a boat Best of all time do your part and just build the art of the deal Put your art in your will. So after Art of the Deal. Come on, man. Come on, man. [01:34:19] Speaker A: He about to get this work. He about to get this work. [01:34:23] Speaker B: He said, the art of the deal Put your art in your will so your kids never spend time starving or ill. I think about his bars too long. I start to get chills. These the kind of lectures out of Harvard and Yale. They had us in a class for the kids who find it hard to sit still. A hard headed kid's confidence is hardest to kill. They called us slow but my heart beat fast My heart beat fast when the love comes slow and then shout out to glow really said the end of the day, man, that day gonna end But I always end up with a love don't go but if you look up that star gonna shine I'm always in my glow Run the light no telling what life will be but you start and life will go, man. Again, salute to Chance the Rapper. Thank you for that project. Can't thank you enough. I know a lot of stuff in life is divine, so I needed that project whenever it dropped. As I spoke with y' all in part two about this, like, you know, had a bunch of definitely tragedies and stuff like that going on within my family and I just needed this project. Good, good thoughtful music to to Vibe to truly and to enjoy and and consume as well. So I really, really appreciate Chance the rapper for this album. I can't wait till he hears the review, y'. All. I really can't. And yeah, man. So salute Again. We're talking about reactions versus reviews. Reviews would be a lot more thought out and longer to me pause in a reaction of just like throwing it on and having a green screen up in the background and videotaping your quote unquote live reaction. I think the reaction world or the reaction community, you have to be more performative, it seems like to give your reaction in that real time and to get the clicks for it. I think again with this review, I'm gonna give him out of 10. I give him a 8.5 out of 10 again. After even reviewing the track. I have a different appreciation for some of the reviewing the album. I have a different appreciation for the tracks that I that maybe I didn't like in the past or or like off the first listen and stuff like that and off of my first reaction. So I really appreciate the the project itself. It's my album of the year still all the way through. And yeah, yo, salute to Chance. All right, so I want to do some brotherly love real quick before we get up out of here again. While I do have the moment, I want to take time to remind y'. All. Email us mandatory ot704gmail.com mandatory ot ot704gmail.com but let's go ahead. It don't show nothing. [01:37:16] Speaker A: It don't cost nothing to show a. [01:37:22] Speaker B: All right, so we're gonna show some love again. DJ as always, DJ Blaze Radio Show Podcast My boy Yoshi the Relationship Status Podcast Music Jones Podcast Manly D's Podcast Read my soul for on Fridays. Grits and eggs of course. Everything that they do. The company man, my man Omey Shout out to him Curtis King, Screw Face Jean Jalopy Bungus again. Once again, Homeroom University Shout out and brotherly love to you and everything that you do, brother. Tariq Nasheed Everything that you do, brother. As far as getting the words out here wayo with I'll do it myself. Shout out to you brother and brotherly love. Y' all continue to go forward and move forward in this space, man. You know, I just want to salute y' all and show y' all some brotherly love. It don't cost nothing to show a little love all right. This prayer is coming straight from the heart with a strongest, steadfast faith that's in God. May the hubris and the ego never break us apart. From one brother to another. If nobody ever told you before, I love you. All right. Y' all be easy. Peace out, man. I appreciate y' all have a good one. [01:38:40] Speaker A: Hey, everybody, it's closing time. You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. Closing time knowledge.