Episode Transcript
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Y.
Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for O.T.
yeah. Nah, get that bread, bro. Y' all gotta stay for O.T.
listen up, workers. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses.
Let me work.
Please let me work. Let me work.
Please let me.
Omega sci fi fraternity Greta the tittle tattle prattled on about the little metal bottle. She spat a bit of spittle on the modern brittle cattle in a bitter battle. Hey, hey. Stop questioning my methods, okay? I was chosen for this task for a very good reason. No chose.
What the hell happened to all the white men talk like this? Where the hell are they? They used to be everywhere.
At least two out of five white guys in the northeast had this voice. And now it's gone, and I can't find it anywhere. And I'm pissed about it. And we're gonna bring it back.
Really grinding my gears, you know. What the hell happened to all the white.
I know you gonna dig this.
Yes, you know do the knowledge my.
Your name Beauty in the dark I'm staying through the fog Trying to find where you are.
You got to take my hand. You got to at least give me this one chance.
I've been waiting all night? Don't be cool, girl it's only right I've been watching all night long.
And now they playing this song.
And you know, With one step ahead of M1.
So nice, so nice and nice.
And she came.
What else?
That's live.
You can see it from the year.
What's going on? What up, what up, what up? What up, everybody? How y' all doing? How y' all doing? Welcome to another episode of mandatory overtime. I'm your main man, DJ High Star, here for another episode. I appreciate y' all joining me.
Right. The aim here, mandatory overtime. As far as to recalibrate our definition of manhood. That's with each conversation in the community. In the community that consists of y', all, there's simply an audio journal of an 80s baby. Social experiment, inconsistency. You could have been anywhere in the world. But you're here listening to me. And for that, I appreciate y', all, man. I appreciate y'. All. All right. Now don't confuse this with the manosphere. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair like comment, subscribe, Hype, Share.
But make some noise, y'. All. Cause your man is here. All right.
Reporting live from Charlotte America in the what's happening Charlotte704 Bang bang. Like that. Like that. New home to Source Walker. I guess we'll talk talk. We can Talk about that later, too. So I spoke. I got a couple shops out here. Y' all like that? I might be looking to, you know, record live from one of his stores or something like that, but Charlotte, America. What up, what up, what up? You know, I got my Russian sound engineer and a check, one, two, a check, one, two.
Let's go to work. Let's go to work. Look, man, appreciate y' all with me on the intro there. That was a brother, Yasin Bay, known as Mos, definitely. And, yeah, I just had to play a couple of cuts from there, a couple classics from him. I do have a revision from last week. Something that I missed right at the end of last week was a prayer that we normally end on. So I will be saying it at the end of this episode, but just to start off this episode, because we got to finish off where I left off, right?
So with supreme faith that's in God. It's a prayer that's straight from the heart. Made it. Ego and the hubris never break us apart from one brother to another.
Okay. If nobody ever told you before, I love you. All right, so that was from last episode. I had to get that out there.
All right.
Kind of packed episode today as far as engagement and stuff like that goes. So a lot to talk about, a lot to get to, rather, so we could get right into it. Y' all already know what time it is. No need to wait or belabor.
King. Come here, Prince. Let's go ahead and get into.
No disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. Build. Destroy. The build is to elevate the mentalities of self and those around self, to add positive energy to every nation. To build, you must first start from the root, which is the knowledge foundation, and add on to the highest peak. To destroy is to eliminate and destroy any and all negativity that enters my cipher of supreme harmony.
Peace, God. Peace, God.
Do the knowledge. I know you gonna dig this. All right, so we're gonna start off this week's Building Wisdom with a word from our brother, Fat Boy. Because for whatever reason, he didn't write into the show, which is fine. Just fine.
But he texted me this wisdom or whatever entitled the text wisdom, but it says if you are stressfully avoiding your fear, you cannot relax into the fearless by David Daeda or Data.
But that's. That's very profound. If you're stressfully avoiding your fear, you cannot relax into the fearless.
It's tough.
All right, we're gonna go with Cousin Jerome. Had a Couple good ones in there.
It says, good, better, best. Never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.
And it's titled that. It's from St. Jerome.
Shout out to cousin Jerome. All right. On Good Friday. Yeah, Happy Good Friday. Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new day find you a better person. It's by Benjamin Franklin. It's tough right there.
Thank you, Cousin Jerome.
This is the Maya Angelou. Do the best you can until you know better than when you know better, do better. I think I read that one from last week.
Shout out to Maya Angelou. All right, so that's from them Big Taz, Big Bro Taz.
The people who trigger us are some of our best teachers.
Profound.
Straight to the point, profound.
And then yesterday, brother Taz sent over, whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life by Tony Robbins.
All right.
Okay, Brother Taz, appreciate you appreciate you have some other wisdom that I do want to play as well. Before we get into the emails from this week, I want to go ahead and cut to this. This is a poem from the brother, Gil Scott Heron, who is. Who is known for his poem, the revolution will not be televised. But I want to go ahead and play this by Gil Scott Heron. And it's called Whitey on the Moon, all right? And it's just going to be a part of our. A part of this week's building wisdom for this week, all right? So let's go ahead and cut to that.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: I can't pay no doctor bills, but Whitey's on the moon. Ten years from now I'll be paying still while Whitey's on the moon. You know, the man just up my rent last night because Whitey's on the moon. No hot water, no toilets and no lights, but Whitey's on the moon. I wonder why he's upping me. Cause Whitey's on the moon. I was already giving him 50 a week and now Whitey's on the moon.
Taxi's taking my whole damn check. The junkies make me a nervous wreck. The price of food is going up. And as if all that crap wasn't enough, a rat done bit my sister Nell. With Whitey on the moon her face and arms began to swell And Whitey's on the moon Was all that money I made last year for Whitey on the moon. How come I ain't got no money here? Hmm? Whitey's on the moon. You know, I Just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon. I think I'll send these doctor bills air mail special to Whitey on the moon.
I can't pay no doctor bill.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: So salute. Salute. Salute to ancestor and the good brother, Gil Scott Haran or Gil Scott Heron.
That piece, Whitey on the Moon, that was released in 1970 by the brother. So again, his more notable piece is the Revolution will Not be Televised.
But yeah, salute to the ancestors, definitely.
Shout out and shout out to our building wisdom segment for the week. Now we're gonna go ahead and move forward.
Got a lot of engagement this week. I know. Listen, man, y' all took heed to what I was saying. Some people may have just felt bad for me, like, yo, let me write this, brother, because.
But regardless, I got a lot of feedback last week. So it's a lot of emails and a voicemail that we do got to get to.
So we're gonna get right into that here.
Let's start off with our emails and then we'll finish up with the voicemail. All right, so let's go ahead and get to it.
Let's turn this down just a little tt.
Just a little tt.
So the first email is from our brother Ashton.
Shout out to Ashton.
Let me make sure that this is the first one, though. See red be easies. Okay, yeah. So this first one is from Ashton.
Salute to Ashton down in Columbia says, tying it all together. First, I want to say that the show is great. Avid listener here and I am definitely black before Christian. All right? So I'm definitely black.
Definitely black before Christian, as we all should be. Yes, I am faithful and hope to be accepted at the pearly gates, but also logical enough to understand that while here on this earth, the this melanin will be what is judged and criticized by my fellow humans, not what is in my heart. That's real.
Real. Hold on, hold on.
All right.
I am somewhat a fan of the Russell. Know a couple of songs here and there throughout the years that I've liked, but not a fan fan by any stretch. The Lil Wayne comments I looked at sideways, but it is what it is. The problem with his Adolf 2 comments is the reason black people can't get out of our own way.
They want us to think like this, turn the other cheek, show grace while our people are still marginalized and persecuted. And he said, all right. Our faith being used against us goes back to slaves being taught that the Bible by being taught the Bible by slave owners. And that being part of the reason we obeyed and were Afraid to rebel.
Sorry for you, for me mucking that up. Pretty much said our faith being used against us goes back to slaves being taught the Bible by slave owners. And that being part of the reason that we obeyed and were afraid to rebel. The Russell put in his faith before his blackness caused him to lump us in with some earth walking devils. God created people like Trump Epstein Adolf to show us what not to be, what not to use or what not to use or free will for, or our free will for not because they are us. The Russell doesn't have the backing yet to try and speak for the people.
No, he does not deserve grace. Slow down, young fella. Oh, all right.
Okay. Ashen Jaden Ivy, while I commend him for standing on his faith, is now out of a job because he wanted to tell the world that he don't like gays.
Let me see here. I gotta find a stand. Okay.
Yeah, you don't like gays. Time in a place. My brother not saying that he should cow toe for a job, but what LGBTQ? What LG? What LBG? QT?
Let me fix this for you. Action. What LGBTQIA+ eats don't make him.
And then to publicly persecute the staff and LeBrons of the world without really knowing what they are about makes his argument look weak. I agree with him that the NBA does pander a lot, but they not asking him to wear a gay pride flag on his jersey. Or at least I hope they're not. That's what he put. Y', all, both of these guys need to listen to your words. Are you the right person? Is now the time? Etc? I know I'm paraphrasing the Russell's words won't be heard over the police brutality, inhumane laws being passed, sex trafficking, etc. Ivy's words won't be heard over the engine that is the NBA and the push for inclusion. Inclusion over the past number of years. Hopefully both of these brothers have backup plans. Ashton, my brother, thank you, man.
I appreciate you for that awesome email, awesome feedback. My brother. Thank you for the words of encouragement. We're going to go right back through yours real quick while we got it pulled up. So of course, first things first. My brother said that he's black before Christian.
All right. I already knew what time it was with that fast. You know, black before Christian made a great point there though.
This melanin will be what is judged and criticized by fellow humans, not what is in my heart.
And unfortunately a lot of us feel that way because of what's happened. Evidence of what's happened already to us. It's not because of what we hope to happen or the America that we hope to see. The world that we hope to see is because the evidence that's already of the evidence of experience. Right? So that's an awesome point right there, Ashton. I'm somewhat a fan of the Russell. Know a couple songs here and there, not a fan by Stretch. Lil Wayne stuff. Boom. But then they ate off two comments. Boom. All right, another great point you made. They want us to think like this. Turn the other cheek, show grace while our people are still marginalized and persecuted. Like, it gets not even swept under the rug. But there's so many flagrant and nefarious things that go on every day with our country and our corrupt nation.
We're not even realizing that our former president was. You know what I mean? Again, a lot of us realize it, but it's not being highlighted or still held up. It's kind of swept in the. In the news cycle that Obama was disrespected with the monkey stuff. And so something like that, we're supposed to just turn the other cheek. But somebody make fun or put a post up of Charlie Kirk saying that they don't.
They don't care that he passed away or that he was killed and then that person is persecuted. So I do see what Ashton is saying with those scales not being even. They're not even.
I love the point that he makes here. God created people like Trump, Epstein, Adolf to show us not to show us what not to be, what not to use our free will for. That's hard.
That's tough. Let's see here.
Our faith being used against this goes back to the slaves being taught the Bible by slave owners.
And that being part of the reason that we obeyed and were too afraid to rebel.
I like that too, bro. I like that. So he said, no, he doesn't deserve grace. Just right now, Jaden Ivy said do commend him from standing on principle or on his faith again. But you now, now you're out of a job again. Time to place. And again he. He put out a tweet and he was like, he wasn't on the team's facilities or whatever he was saying, but whenever he tweeted that out, it was in reference to something, NBA initiative. And then, you know, you.
You're an extension or a representation of that roster that you're a part of at the time. So you did represent that NBA organization with, excuse me, what you said, even it being on a public platform or the platform that it was. So I agree. He shouldn't.
Steph lebron. A lot of them take unnecessary shots and unnecessary strays from people out here. That's just trying to make a point. So I agree with that. I didn't like him grouping them in.
Yeah, NBA does pander a lot. All right, and then last thing, both of these guys need to listen to your words. So, yeah, does this need to be said? Does this need to be said now? And does this need to be said now by me? Or however you flip that around, does this need to be said? Does this need to be said by me? Does this need to be said by me right now? So I. I definitely agree, Ashton. I appreciate that, though. I appreciate your email. My brother.
It's my brother from another mother right there. Teaneck, New Jersey. Stand up bx. Stand up Mets fan. But he's from the Bronx, y'. All.
Eagles fan, though. Eagles fan. That's my boy, though, man. Shout out to my brother. All right, so the next one right here is from Mixmaster T. All right, let's go ahead and get into it. It says, what's up, Rome? A couple of episodes back, you touched on something in reference to the older generation and younger generations.
It wasn't one of the episode's topics, but it stuck with me and really got me thinking. I just wanted to share my thoughts on getting older. I've always said this. The goal is to get old.
As you know, I'm 63 years old and you pretty much know my story. And I'll be the first to admit I've made some bad decisions in my life. I went down roads I shouldn't have, but I caught it early enough to turn things around. And that gave me a chance to. To still be here, to still grow, to still get old. And when I say get old, I don't mean adding years. I mean getting old gracefully. Living a life that's peace, that's as peaceful and stress free as possible, where you can actually enjoy the time you've been given. The reality is, a lot of people don't even make it to that point. Too many young folks are getting caught up in situations that cut their lives short.
Whether it's bad decisions, crime, or chasing the wrong things. They don't even get the opportunity to grow into who they were meant to be.
Getting old is a blessing. It's something not everybody gets. So for me, it's about moving with intention, making better choices, and valuing life enough to want to see it through.
Not just rush through it.
Aging isn't something to fear, it's something to earn. Mixmaster T.
I really appreciate that, man. Appreciate that. Mix Master.
Mix Master T, shout out to you, bro.
Dropping a lot of wisdom in there. A lot of bars.
All right, so let's see here. Let's go back through this real quick. All right, A couple episodes back, you touched on something in reference to the older generation and the younger generation. It wasn't one of the episode topics, but it stuck with me and really got me thinking. So I believe the episode is whatever episode was about Lil Yachty. It may have been higher education, but the episode whenever he was talking about Lil Yachty. And then also I. I want to say the conversation that I was having or the thing I was alluding to may have been, in my teens, I thought I knew everything. In my 20s, I knew I knew everything for a fact. And then now in my 30s, I've realized everything that I thought I knew, I didn't know at all, or I don't know nothing at all. You know, that I can learn something new every day. So I definitely agree.
The goal is to get old. Let's see here.
It gave you a chance to still be all right, so you made some bad decisions in your life, went down roads that you shouldn't have. And I like this piece, but I caught it early enough to turn things around, and that gave me a chance to still be here, to still grow, to still get old. And when I say get old, I don't mean adding years, but I mean getting old gracefully, leaving a life, living a life that's as peaceful and stress free as possible, where you can actually enjoy the time that you've been given.
And then this next part is very important as well.
The reality is a lot of young people don't even make it to that point. Too many young folks are getting caught up in situations that cut their lives short.
Whether it's bad decisions, crime, or chasing the wrong things.
They don't even get the opportunity to grow into who they were meant to be. Ain't that the truth, Baby Ruth, man.
And because I'm still wrestling back and forth if I'm going to go over the Pooh Shiesty or the offsetting little TJ stuff. But, you know, I. I feel like I will somewhat. But even before we get to that, just from what he's saying right there, how that ties in with those two situations and stuff, yeah, too much of our young people just take life for granted as a video game. So I Definitely agree with that. Let's see here and then.
So for me, it's about moving with intention, making better choices and value in life enough to want to see it through, not just rush through it. Aging isn't something to fear, it's something to earn.
I'll also add on something to welcome and be excited about as well. But thank you so much for that, for that wisdom and for that email. Mixed message. Appreciate you, my brother.
Sir, the one and only.
All right, so this last email that we've received is from Be easy and then we'll go into a voice note here in a second.
The email reads what the deal is played by.
Hold on, Sorry. The email reads, it's titled this might be a long one.
What the Deal is Playboy. I got a lot to get into, so imma just get right into it. On last week's episode, you played a video of a lady teaching how certain phrases were said in Geechee. Although I initially thought it was dope to hear the education on the history of the dialect, I kind of felt some kind of way about it being on the Internet time and time again we see white people take I and it got white people spelled W Y P I, P O. Take hours and use it all out of context. Sort of like Kumbaya.
Which led me to the thought of all of the different SC accents and I wondered if you had an estimate on how many we have here in the different regions. Nice. Beautiful question. I love that question. We gonna get to that. Be easy. I believe me.
All right. I wanted to shout out your homie fat boy on the toasting before you dip it in the sauce. I'm gonna pardon the left chant. Hold on. My fault, my fool, y'. All.
I wanted.
I wanted to shout out your homie fat boy on the toasting before you dip it in the sauce.
All right, I'm gonna try that one. He also talked about how comparison is the thief.
He also talked about how comparison is the thief of joy. Personally, I have some growing to do in that area because that's all I do. It kind of motivates me to get to where I need to be in life. Like that point be easy. We're gonna get to that too. All right.
Thanks for the Russell feedback. Also, that reduxity guy that you played says some eye raising, anti blackish stuff. I wanted to know, was he black?
In all my hip hop years, I never knew what MJG stood for and didn't really care.
Come on, bro. All right. And then the last thing Tiger woods never said he wasn't black. What he said was when he was around 15, he called himself Comma, Kablasian or whatever because he was so mixed up racially. But he said, of course I'm black.
There's even a clip with him and Oprah talking about it.
This was far. This was by far my longest email ever. And feel like one wrong long. Excuse me. And feel like a run on sentence. I'm out. My guy, yo, be easy. Appreciate you, my body.
Appreciate you, playboy. Thank you. Thank you so much for that email, bruh.
So let's go ahead and go through that real quick, y'. All.
All right, so what did they play, boy?
Last week's episode? Okay, the lady of Miss Caroline talking about the Geechee accent, I have to say, I agree with you. Be easy. I gotta say, I agree with you, my brother.
You know, when I read that Kumbaya story, it. It resonated with me on different levels because of it being commercialized and stuff like that. And so I do agree. I Even on the fraternal side of stuff, bro, to be honest with you, I've seen a lot of Q, dog, you know, a lot of cuto on the Internet. You hear secret, sacred things that we supposed to have on the Internet just floating around. So I definitely agree with you there, my brother. No argument from me there. I want. So I want to Parking lot that. The end of that first paragraph, because I want to. I want to come back to that, honestly, as far as the different SC accents. So let's. Let's quickly go through the. The rest of it real quick, though. I wanted to shout out your homie fat boy on the whole. Yeah, the toasting the bread before you dip it in the sauce.
All right, he said you go try that one. So, yeah, again with that.
Definitely a nice hack with the French toast. But that second half of that paragraph, what you said, it's very vulnerable, brother. I appreciate you for that and being transparent. But it says, talked about how comparison is the thief of joy. It steals your joy. Personally, I have some growing to do in that area because that's all I do do. It kind of motivates me to get to where I need to be in life. It motivates me to get to where I need to be in life. Okay, so with that, there's some of that that I absolutely agree with. In the back of my mind, I constantly think legacy. I think, you know, about what I'm building and. And the things that'll live long past me and the things that will be attached to my name that'll live long past me. And in doing so, I gotta. I look around at the excellence that's around me. There's a lot of excellence around me. And I do feel use that as fuel at times to motivate me and to drive me to keep going hard and keep working hard. Excuse me, but you know, we use that, we use that as motivation. But I. Shoot, it couldn't be right or when you said it, fat boy. Comparison definitely is the thief of joy because, you know, you're just worried about stuff that you can't control. So many things that that's uncontrollable to you that you worry about whenever you're comparing your life to others or comparing anything to others. So I definitely agree with that. But I appreciate your vulnerability on that, my brother. Be easy. And then also, thanks for the little Russell feedback. No problem. I was trying to be as transparent as I could in the moment the redux he got to him. So you noticed in the moment I had to, I had to kind of separate myself from reduxity as well. Because at the end of that it's almost some. Yeah, y' all should just shut up and keep rhyming words together or whatever he was saying. But he comes off, I'll be honest with you, I have to listen to a couple of his videos. He comes off as like racially ambiguous. Sounds like he may be mixed or something like that. No, I'm talking about. And then like, you know them contrarian light skinned niggas that you know a light.
And I'm sorry, yo, my light skinned brothers out there, I'm sorry because this is not meant to be as straight to all of y'. All. But there's some of y' all that fit this description. So forgive me if it don't, if y' all don't fit this description. But be easy, you know, some like light skinned brothers or racially ambiguous brothers and they just, I ain't gonna say they super pro black, but some people go so far pro black that they end up becoming contrarians to people that are just genuinely like, I mean, love black people or whatever like that and they just gonna find every little thing to pick apart and all of this. So he was one of the first.
I'll put it like this to you and maybe it'll kind of give some context to the guy reduction.
One of the first videos where I was put on to him, he was on my side of the fence with the Kai Sanat mafia thon thing where he kind of Saw. He kind of saw the, like, the commodification of Kai and how the companies was using Kai and trying to see what they. The end goal was. Or he was, again, one of the voices that was just like, all right, we. We doing this million sub thing, but who we really making the money for and. And thinking on those type of. You know what I mean, at that level.
So even with that, starting off with that, I knew that. Okay. Yeah. Me and this brother kind of align on. On these views about Kai and how Kai is going about, you know, this whole subathon and what that puts out about, you know, the images that it puts out about us and stuff. Whatever. Whatever it was.
But then continuously, it's like, I see our views kind of diverging a little bit because, like you said, he got that tone a little bit. He got that undertone.
All right, the last.
Oh, yeah. For those that don't know, be easy. This is a perfect example of this brother's sense of humor, because you really. You don't know if he's joking or not. And that's the beauty of it all. I'm gonna read this sentence to y', all, all right? For any regular person that's writing this or texting this to you, just imagine how you receive this. But I just want y' all to read this for my brother. Be easy.
In all my. In all my hip hop years, I never knew what MJG stood for and didn't really care.
Now, does this need to be said? Does this need to be said now? And does this need to be said now by me? I don't know. Be easy. Because it's like, what were you shooting at me, bro, with that?
Nah, I didn't know either. I didn't know either. That's what. Yeah, I was trying to come up with some kind of intro for the classical high star bars. And then, yeah, looking at his name, I was like, oh, wow.
Interesting. Yeah, I always tried. Yeah, I always wondered or was guessing what that meant. Anyways, last thing. Tiger wool. Tiger wool. All right, so he embraces blackness. Salute to Tiger. All right. Salute to Tiger.
Okay.
Of course I'm black.
Of course I'm black.
Y' all know what that sounds like?
Of course I date white woman.
Nah. Then shout out to you. Don't be easy, man. I appreciate that. So for the record, y', all, Tiger did say that there's a lot of little. So look, this for my old. This is for my old school and. And some of the new school. If you was born after 2000, I think that you might be eliminated from doing this, but this. Let's play the Mandela effect game with some of this engagement, y'. All. Whenever y' all send in.
Whenever y' all send in some work, some emails or whatnot. Let's play the Mandela effect game a little bit.
But there's certain things that we have to revisit and stop having such revisionist history on. So I'm glad. Be easy correcting me on the Tiger Woo thing. Tiger Woo, Right. Because all I couldn't think about is the Chappelle show and the race draft and add that on to. You know, back then you didn't have social media, so it worked in both favors for you. It wasn't there to over saturate you with slop and with nonsense, but it wasn't there to verify where you could verify. Yo, pull up the video. This is from right then and there. We could see. You know what I mean? It was just once. Something, quote, word of mouth back then, it became true until it wasn't, especially if it was in the tabloids or whatever. So it was always a thing or a running thing. Like, yo, Tiger woods doesn't embrace his blackness. He don't, like.
He doesn't, you know, call himself black or whatever like that. So I appreciate that. The other one was Tommy Hilfiger, right?
It was like, yeah, Tommy Hilfiger don't like black people or whatever. And I don't know, you know, he like. I don't know if Ralph. Like, let's think about it back then, y'. All. Let's think about it in the 90s in the climate, all right? Calvin Klein, Ralph Lipshitz, Lauren, any of these guys, they could have planted that story or that narrative for Tommy to get him up out of the way.
I'm just saying, Perry Ellis, any of these people back then, they Nordica, okay? They could have planted the story because Tommy was a major player. All right? Tommy. Tommy had the urban. Tommy had the urban. Y' all gotta be real. All right, you got some nauticas out there. Yeah, of course, your Banana Republics and your Polos of the world and stuff like that. But Tommy. Tommy had the cities on. On lock for a little minute with some of his pieces and his capsules in the 90s, some of the overalls and all, like, toward the mid-90s, he was. He was holding the urban down. And then that bad press got to him. So let's add that into our engagement, y'. All. If we do write in, if y' all got any Kind of Mandela effects. Y' all want to revisit that? People are kind of getting twisted nowadays. All right, Tiger Wood said he black, y'. All.
All right, hold on.
I fault. Tiger Wood said he black. Ex. Blackly. All right, we're gonna give him credit. Salute again to my brother. Be easy for sending in that email that long run on sentence, brother. All right, quick edit from my brother. Be easy because I got a little bit excited reading the email.
Didn't. Then listen back over to it. Didn't really address the accents and the different dialects from different regions in South Carolina specifically. So we're definitely going to revisit that next week and spend. Dedicate some time to that. All right, I was listening back over to it. Just had to step in here and say this real quick before we put the episode out, because be easy. That was a great question, but we're going to address it next week, definitely. All right. In the meantime, appreciate you again. Be easy.
Like that. Like that, like that. I appreciate you. All right, so this next is gonna be from my brother Q.
And let's see here. It's actually invoicemail form, so we're gonna go ahead and. And play that voicemail. This is my first time hearing this. I haven't. I haven't proofed it or you know what I mean? So y' all bear with me if you say anything out of line, but I don't think that he will. All right, Q. Q is a high quality, man. I don't think they're gonna say anything out of line. We're gonna go ahead and play this voicemail. All right.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: Hello. Please leave a message after the tone.
[00:38:44] Speaker A: Good Easter morning. DJ High Star, this is Q.
Just wanted to definitely go ahead and try to leave a voicemail. Animal wanted to let you know I love the show, love the energy, love everything that you. You're doing on here.
Definitely appreciate the Larico poultry segment.
Those are beautifully broken down. So I always appreciate hearing those. Please keep those going.
And as always, brother, therefore, I love you, appreciate you, and let's keep it going, man.
All that.
Salute. Salute to my brother Q.
Appreciate that, Q.
Thank you, my brother.
All right, don't you worry. We got a segment of Classical High Star bars coming up today, brother.
Nah, but sincerely, man, I appreciate the feedback and I appreciate you're writing in or. Or. Or, you know, sending in that audio note.
You. I know it may have gotten wordy if you would have gave us kind of your opinion on if you're black before Christian or Christian before Black. That's fine. That's fine. You didn't have to do it. This. This audio note. That's cool. Next one. That's fine, brother. You know, great, great plan yesterday, too. We told you we're not going to really talk poker, but good job playing yesterday.
Keeping it that.
All right, so before we move forward, I do want to remind all of y', all if you do want to write the show or email the show, make sure that you email us mandatory ot704gmail.com mandatory ot704gmail.com or feel free to hit us up on the hotline 7047-8170-1170-4781-7011. And make sure that you follow us on IG Instagram Mandatory OT.
All right. Make sure that you follow our IG page at Mandatory OT. Okay, so again, I appreciate all of the feedback this week. Some great letters.
Awesome feedback, awesome engagement. Thank you again. Thank you again. Oh, yeah, I appreciate that. Appreciate that. So, gonna go ahead and move forward. I saw something going, and. Because I don't want to. I don't want to go straight into Pooh, Shiesty, Ort, Little TJ and Offset. Trust me, I don't. Okay, Fredericksburg. I don't know who that is.
So what we're gonna do, let's go ahead and move forward. Oh, okay. I'll talk about this real quick.
Went ahead and got my lambs chopped, you heard? Got the chopped cheese. I had to get a haircut. In other words, y' all. Get my ears lowered. And so we were. I was. I was out there, shout out to my brother Rob. Salute to Rob out there at the shop, you heard?
Went ahead and took care of your boy.
So while I'm in the seat, though, I guess some. This dude walks into the shop and he's dapping up everybody. He dabs Rob up, and Rob's like, hey, man, what's up, man? I just. I just shaved your brother up earlier today, man, shaping him up for his birthday and stuff, whatever. And the guy goes, oh, it's my brother birthday today, huh?
So everybody in the shop like, cat bruh. Like, damn, bro don't even know his brother's birthday.
He's like, I don't even fuck with my brothers like that.
Whoa, sir, we didn't mean for this to turn dark and sad like that.
You need family therapy, brother.
Damn.
So anyways, I get outside of the barber shop.
Went to the beauty supply store next to the barbershop. When I'm walking outside. A little young man.
Little young outside man. Like, yo, you see me start again? Money from my track team. Excuse me, sir, what did you just say? Young man, can I get a little money from trendy.
Are you saying track? Track team. But say that again. Young man, can I get some money for my track team? You're selling candy or whatever. All right, cool. Look, man, how much is your candy, bro? $2. I just wanted. I didn't even want the candy. I was just going to donate the money. But all right, cool. Look, y' all take cash app? I asked him that. He's like his brother, right? So his brother, which is over a couple doors down in that commercial park at another store, he's selling candy. So he signal for his brother to come over. Yo, so his brother comes over there. I asked him for his cash app so I could pay them for the. For the candy. And he gives me the QR code or whatever to scan. And so when I scan it, it pulls up La dreek having it.
Okay, all right. So I asked the youngest one, yo, bro, what event you running? Track, bruh. What? What event you run?
He like 4x4.
All right, all right, cool. Ladrique having it. What events you run, bruh? You like? I don't do track.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I play basketball, man. I'm looking to get on JV and all of that. All right, all right, cool, cool. That's what's up. What grade you in, bruh? Yeah, I'm going to 11th. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do the math. Hold on.
Can't play JV and. Okay, all right, well, that's fine.
All right. He's like, yeah. Cause last year he started talking and explaining himself. But, you know, you see some young people out there, when they get into that energy and then they get into that flow state where they just explaining stuff to you and stuff like that. Sometimes, y', all, we gotta listen. Let's give them that time. Like, if they are, like, spilling their guts or they starting to give it up, were they talking and you talking to a young person? They don't get that opportunity often, y', all, to express theyself to get off they chest or whatever. So I'm letting him rock. And he explaining to me everything from last year with his homeroom. Yeah, I wasn't going to homeroom a lot last year, so I got to take it over this year and this and that, you know? So long story. Less long, Ladri.
He was having it, and then he. He got the other $4 for me. So I guess. I guess, Ladrik, you do have it.
Whatever. But, yeah, they got my candy. I mean, I got candy. Excuse me. Pause.
Hold on, y', all, because now we can't.
Yeah. Ain't mean to say like that. Yeah. I purchased candy from the. From the brothers, right? It's clear that they scamming out here stay spring break. It's clear that they scammed. They don't got no official team, no jerseys, nothing that this is attached to. But still, y' all get y' all money, man. All right? You got candy out here. I just hope this ain't gonna make me sick. You know what I'm saying?
I had to get the youngest one. I had to give him some advice. Yo, bruh, next time you get somebody attention, right? You already got their attention, bro. If they standing right there. Take the time.
Speak clearly, bro.
Speak clearly. Enunciate.
All right. Look at them. I. Eye to eye and they face or whatever like that. It reminded me of that Dave Chappelle bit that he was doing about TI and being with TI In Atlanta or whatever. I get a game for free, young or whatever TI Said to the water boys or whatnot. That's what it reminded me of. But salute to the Charlotte hustlers out here, man, with your candy and all of that outside of the barbershops. Salute to y'. All. So that was the barbershop visit for this week. All right.
Okay.
All right, so let's.
We talked about Tommy Hilfiger a little bit earlier in some of these designer brands and everything like that.
There is, for some reason, argument or a back and forth with the Youngins about who quite possibly has popularized or repopularized polo.
Are we serious, y'? All?
Just saying.
All right, so there is a tweet out there that says.
All right. The. The. Okay. The original tweet from January 18, 2026, says, Swag is art, and art is swag.
Right?
Swag is art, and art is swag.
The response or on that tweet on April 4, 2026, says Chief Keef changed the game by turning polos from country club attire into streetwear essentials.
Okay, hold on.
What the talking about, y'? All. You what?
All right, so anywho, before I. Before I make my response, y'. All. All right, it says there's a couple comments on here, but Sosa made it more swaggy, and it became a trend. I know were wearing polos back then, but they weren't styling it right. They just wore it casually, like white Folks, shut up, man. Who is this guy? And his name is. I won't even give him that credit. I ain't even gonna give him that credit.
Account based in Nigeria.
Okay? So now I'm seeing where a lot of this is happening at, y'. All. You see. You see why we gotta protect. Come on, y'. All.
Come on. All right, so there was research done on this guy's page, and he's Nigerian, verified since 2025.
Okay? Connected in the Nigeria App Store. Look, no disrespect, no disrespect, but a couple of y' all Nigerians, y' all Haitians out there feel like Chief Keef is a distant brother is what I'm saying. Okay? So you may feel some kind of connection now. Now. Okay, so there's a tweet under that that says, meanwhile, Dro, young Dro in 06, boom. And got him in a bunch of polo.
Boom, you know, Polo dro.
So the dude responds. He looks so lame. Whatever, whatever. Like, so, like, yeah, so glory boys era.
It was a real dirty, dirty era for.
There was the big polo horses, a lot of fake polo going around. True religions. That wasn't the. All right, all right, y' all got it. Y' all got it. But I just want to give y' all some knowledge. All right? Now, of course, outside of Southern Midwest, and it says up north street, guys rocking the low forever.
Let's see here. People these days that.
People these days that don't know they be fronting on Ralph. Yeah, they call it unkwear, call it cheap. Ask who still wears polo.
All right.
Timeless.
Okay. All right, so outside of yachty rocking low, whatever, like that stuff before Young dro, of course, we had.
Before Young dro, we had Kanye kind of putting a lot on the map. But before Kanye and shout out to Rome streets, of course, but before Kanye, okay? Before Young dro, before the one and only Polo G.
All right?
A lot of people don't know Fabulous. His name is Fabulous because it's Fabulous Sport, right? Or people call him. Yeah, Fabulous Sport or Polo Sport, in other words. So they call him.
Call him Spiz, in other words, right?
So Fabulous original name was again, Fabulous Sport. And he was. He was a avid lowlife, if you will, or rocking the.
Rocking the polo. But I just want to let y' all know.
So let me say this because the history is being very distorted, if you will. Right?
My first time seeing Low, growing up in Queens, New York, very close proximity. Queens and Brooklyn are like brothers and sisters. So when it comes To New York boroughs. They right next to each other. So I just knew about the lowlifes and the Decepticons. Decepticons and the low lives being super to factions out of Brooklyn or started in Brooklyn gangs, if you will. Right? So the Decepticons, they was in the, you know, the street stuff as far as like playing knockout and different games like that. But the low lives, they was more in the boosting and shoplifting. Real, real, real. Polo, Ralph Lauren, all right, Based out of Brooklyn now, boom. They boosted, they sold risk their lives, a lot of it. And they. They also gave Ralph Lauren a street marketing campaign like none other.
Okay. What they did for the streets and for Polo in the streets, rather, there's no amount of marketing budget or no advertising budget that could have did that.
Overnight. Polo became a must have in your wardrobe along with like we of aforementioned Tommy, your nauticas of the world, of course, all of that.
Perry Ellis, right? Calvin Klein, all of that. But yeah, Polo, Ralph Lauren, that started to become a status symbol around the hood. All right, so y' all hear this song in the background.
My first time seeing this, this brother. All right, all right, so I was first of all, brotherly love to grand poo boss.
Brotherly love.
But the role of Ralph Lauren in contemporary hip hop fashion, largely in 1994, I would attribute it in 1994, Raekwon, he wore Ralph Lauren windbreaker with the word snow beach on the front in this video right here that's playing the song that's playing. So the windbreaker became a part, an iconic part of hip hop culture.
All right? And yeah, I've been trying to get a snow beach polo jacket or windbreaker since then.
So anybody out there that can help a brother out yard, I'm just trying to get me a snow beach. But nevertheless, I just say all of that to let y' all know this thing started way before Chief Keef as far as being swaggy in it. And y' all could. If we need to reference anything, let's reference Thurston Howell the third. Okay.
We got a couple books though, that's out in articles. The Gang that Bought fashion. Excuse me, the Gang that Bought High Fashion to hip Hop. Article in the New York Times from October 2020. Low Lives Then and Now, a Vice article. October 2020.
The Real and the Raucous story of the lowlife crew. October 2020. All right, so let me see here.
The Art of Boosting. That's a movie. January 2022 series based on Brooklyn's lowlifes in the works by Kevin Garnett.
Well, deadline, like. Yeah. So again, this is. This is. Come on, man. Come on, man. Just had to school the. School the young black youth, you heard?
Give them the truth. School the young black youth or what not. I. I heard that and saw that a little bit earlier, and that had a. That kind of threw me off. So this. This turned into a little bit longer episode. We do have a couple of bills to pay, so wanted to first go by paying this random bill.
Go to this commercial real quick, y'. All, and then we're gonna get to some High Star bars in a second. But let's go ahead and go to this commercial here.
Give me one second.
Man, it was hard as a growing up black.
I'm talking about. I weaved a punch one time. My mama gonna tell the whole family I'm fighting back now.
Soon this company come over. She told me. Yeah, you did. You tell your granny you fighting back now. And I can't say I ain't. Cause then that means she lying. You know, you don't tell them they lying. That's a whole nother ass whoop. So now time out. Yeah, yeah, Granny. I'm fighting back now.
I gotta tell granny. Yeah, yeah, Granny. I've been fighting back the.
I weave one punch that she cocked back two, four off of my liking. That's all. I just dodged one of them. Granny, I've been eating the. My whole life. I weave one now. Fighting back, she act like we had a whole bout in that. I just weave one, and she cocked a little bit too far one time.
It was hard as growing up black, man. It was hard as a growing up black.
All right? Salute to that, brother. Man.
Yeah, that. That message was brought to y' all by ass whoopings. So, you know, if you. If you got him, you know, you know exactly what he's talking about, though. All right? It's a lose, lose situation.
Sometimes you just gotta stay there and just. You know what I'm saying? It's a lose, lose situation, but salute to that, brother.
All right. Yo, I don't want to get to this, because let me. Let me say. All right, well, look, words of word, shout out to my brother, dope Digitals. But let me give my unwanted perspective on some of this. Gang. Gang. Shoot them up. Bang bang. Man, y' all kind of heard my energy after Jay Z.
After Jay Z's. You know, when he had us, he went ahead and he did his interview the other weekend.
So y' all heard my. Y' all heard what I was showing, but I wasn't jacking that I wasn't. I didn't. Okay, cool. Whatever. Right? These entertainers and stuff like that. And listen, right now, in this time of calamity and stuff like that, I don't got no time to be worried about the ticket sales for Jay Z or anything like that.
No more than I have any time to be worried about little TJ and Offset in a casino. First of all, y' all making it hot in the casino, man. What's wrong with y'? All?
Damn, man. Act like some civilized adults, man. But nevertheless, Lil tj, Offset, they've been George acting online for over a year or so.
The word out there is that Offset doesn't pay back his debts and that he is in a hole with Lil TJ for a couple grand or whatnot. And they allegedly got to fighting fisticuffs, and then, boom, they got shot. You know what it sound like? What kind of activities?
Y' all know what it sound like?
Activities. That's what it sound like. All right. In the.
In the casino, man. Come on, man.
What's wrong with y', all, B?
Damn.
But whatever. So I don't got no sympathy for either party.
I don't know. Yeah. I don't even know how to even put a bow in that. Let's. Let's. We got to be better. We got to be better as black men. I gotta. I'm gonna start getting some of these uncomfortable audio clips. Like Dr. Umar, when he's saying, you know, whatever he was saying all of them can't go or get rid of these or whatever. I'm gonna start getting some of them uncomfortable clips.
Who else? Oh, Aries Spears. He said a lot.
You know, I mean, he got a couple clips out there, but.
All right, so the next one real quick, though. Pooh Shiesty, bruh.
Bro, there's. I don't. I don't.
I don't really got nothing to say about the Pooh Shazi, situation, bruh.
Whatever. We heard about it a couple months ago. Oh, push. I see. Possibly he could have robbed Gucci Mane or is there a chance that he held Gucci man hostage and this and that. And I see some fools out there still arguing back and forth about if Gucci snitched or whatever like that. We are real, yo. We are caught up in a simulation. If we thinking about snitching at this point, these is out here thinking life is grand theft auto. What are we talking about?
Like, what are we talking about? Lock his ass up, man.
What's wrong with, man?
Damn. I'm sorry, yo. That's some. There's certain things you cannot. That you can't get me to say. Free, whoever for. That's one of them. Damn.
Ah, man. But then also on the other side of this, I got to give credit where credit is due because I do give the a lot of slack and all of that stuff. But Joe Budden was the unpopular thing to say at the time, but he called Gucci Mane out for the artist that he was signing, and the results of those artists that like where those artists had ended up or was ending up at. So I. I do give Joe credit for that. Gotta give credit where credit is due, man. He called that out, called this out. I mean, how good is Gucci as an executive? He's great. As an A R, a talent, like discovering talent and stuff like that, but running his own situation and having people up under him, that's another thing. And another thing and another thing.
I'm glad when brothers be surviving through jail and making it through jail and like that. But we gotta stop celebrating these, man.
The be coming home to 20 grand, 30 grand, 40 grand.
You're not talented.
You ain't nothing but a menace, a bully.
Come from a family of bullies, snakes and shiesty and all of this and that. And we just be celebrating these, thinking that. What. Where are they gonna take us to, y'? All? They about to lead us somewhere to, like, freedom or something.
No, these is lost, all right? They out buying track hawks.
They drilling in the track hawks, renting. Come on, man. Come on, man. I don't even. Come on. All right, so. So salute. Salute. I'm about to get into these high star bars. We're gonna do some brotherly love, Then we're gonna do this prayer. All right? So let's go ahead and gonna reel it back in.
We're gonna get centered, y', all, so we could do our high star bars for the week. All right, give me one moment.
This week's classical bars is a track that came from the B side. The B side wins once again. This classic cut from 1992 Originally appeared on the flip of Take it personal, the 12 inch, and became an instant hit in the clubs. So much so that it reappeared on 1994's Hard to Earn and eventually its own 12 inch. The track is by the group Gangstar, who has got to be the Shore Shock and featuring Nice and Smooth. The track is called Dwick and the Brother Greg. Nice starts off Greg Nice, Greg. N I C E Dame unbeso we, we rock for a fee, not for free.
Maybe I'll do it for charity.
Now my employer or my employee is making Greg N I C E very mad. Don't ever, ever think of jerking me. I work too hard for my royalties.
Put lead in your ass and drink a cup of tea. Peace to red alert and kid Capri Ooh la la ah oui oui. I say Muhammad Ali, you say Cassius Clay, I say butter, you say parquet it's alright if you want to make a sway.
I'm away uptown took the deuce to the tray. I originate, they duplicate, I praise the Lord and keep the faith. It's alright, keep biting at the bait. 92 one year later Peace out Premier take me out with the fader.
Stanza 2 by the Bostonian guru followed I chant eenie meanie, miny, moe I wreck the mic like a pimp, pimp's hose. Here's how it goes. I'm a genius, I mean this. I shape this, you'll tape this. I am kind of fiendish. You wish that you could come into my neighborhood meaning my mental state still I'm 5 foot 8, crazy as I want to be cause I make it orderly. You could say I'm sort of the boss go get. So get lost the brother who will make you change your opinions dominions I'm in them when it's time to kick shit straight from the heart Plus I get a piece of the action Feeling satisfaction from the street crowd reaction. Chumps pull guns when they feel afraid too late when they dip in the kick they get sprayed. Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is.
I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis, A poet like Langston Hughes and can't lose when I cruise out on the expressway leaving the bodega I say suave Premier's got more beets than the barns got hay clips are inserted into the gun into my gun so I could take the money never have to run.
Stanza three by the brother Smooth B says yo, Keith E I left my Philly at home. Do you have another?
I want to get blunted, my brother now may I have a mark and then make a spark over this fat track? Or should I say dope beat subtract delete all of the words Wick, whack that want to be abstract but they lack the new knack that's coming from way, way back. Ayo premiere, please pass that Buddha sack. You heard, we quit. No way, Bull. I told you before we come back with more hits I provide bright flavor so you can sketch me do me a favor don't try to catch me slightly ahead of the game I'm not a lame Ask him, he'll tell you the same he knows my name Smooth. I drop jewels like paraphernalia I'm infallible, not into failure like a rhinoceros My speed is preposterous and pure knowledge expands from my esophagus I write in the night to bring truth to the light My dialogue is own cuz Smooth B will never bite and after the tour quits, we come back with more hits.
Salute.
After the tour hits, we come back with more hits.
Salute. Salute. Salute to gang Star and what? Nice and smooth.
Okay. And salute to the 90s as well. Okay, look, man, we made it through a whole another episode, y'. All.
Again, I appreciate everybody that gave feedback today.
First off, let's do this the right way.
It don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show A. I was doing this game.
All right? So we was first going to show up. Start off rather by showing love to everybody. All of the brothers that did right into the show, everybody. And Q, for sending in your order. Audio note. I really appreciate y'. All. You know what I'm saying? I really appreciate it more than y' all realize. Thank you. Thank you again.
Wanted to salute everybody that's listening to the show once again. Oh, shout out to Ashton. Man, that was a dope email Again, everybody. They sent it. But Ashton, be Easy.
Mixmaster T. Q, I appreciate that especially oh Fat Boy as well, for the wisdom that you submitted. Ari B, behind the scenes executive producing and epn, making sure that I was on point with a couple things. Appreciate y'. All. Of course, I appreciate all of our listeners. Be easy. DJ Blaze, Crux Media. My whole family out there in Florence, South Carolina.
Got Amy, Deuce Deuce out there as well.
L, my brother L. Once upon a time in music podcast. Okay. Our brother Argyle. Argyle. I want to say Keith Argyle, but brother Argyle. Cheryl Poison. Steady holding down. I gotta go ahead and write their show.
But salute to y' all as well. Salute to all my frat brothers. I gotta put that blanketed statement over y'. All. Cause I love all of y'. All. All right? Even the ones that don't with me. It's all good. You are. But there's nevertheless. Shout out to y'. All. Shout out to y'. All.
Right. Audio journal. My of an 80s, baby. Audio journal. I'm just documenting this salute to my family, though. My cousin, my cousin, my. My brother. You know what I mean? My brother. My cousin eric just turned 40 up there in New York. So salute.
Yeah, I saw my sister. And everybody on FaceTime says salute to them. Salute to my cousin Chris.
He just. My cousins Chris and Bianca, they just welcomed in a new baby into the world.
So you. Joy, joy, joy. All that. All that energy to them up there in Baltimore as well. All my family out there, and of course, all my family out here in Charlotte, America, of course.
You know what I'm saying?
This last statement, of course, be the second time y' all hear this episode, but it's coming straight from the heart with supreme faith that's in. God made it. Ego and the hubris never break us apart. And from one brother to another, if nobody ever told you you before, I love you. All right, appreciate y', all, man. We'll catch you on the next mandatory overtime. Peace.
Hey, everybody, it's closing time.
[01:10:00] Speaker B: You don't got to go home, but
[01:10:01] Speaker A: you can't stay here.
Closing time.
Do the knowledge, Nigga, I know you gonna dig this.
Use a freaky ass. Hey, you go far in the left, champ.
Mama got that bunch of crunch K Exactly. Mama got that bunch of crunch K Damn, son, Where'd you find this?
Hip hop, hip hop, hip hop.
