I Am Somebody 2300

[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. [00:00:17] Speaker B: Overtime is mandatory this weekend. [00:00:19] Speaker A: No excuses. [00:00:23] Speaker C: Let me work. Please let me work. Let me work. Please let me. [00:00:37] Speaker A: I'm a member of OSA Greta the tittle tattle prattled on about the little metal bottle she spat a bit of spittle on the modern brittle tattle in a bitter battle. Hey, hey. Stop questioning my methods, okay? I was chosen for this task for a very good reason. No, you chose yourself. Tricky spat bit. [00:01:08] Speaker C: Sit your ass down. Sit your ass down. Now, don't ask me no more. Don't ask me no more. Nigga be scared to ask for simple shit. Granny, you had your humble shit. Can I have some water? Hell, no. Hell, no. Now you take your ass out on that porch. Take your ass out on that porch. My grandson, she'll cuss you out and say it twice. Sit your ass down. Sit your ass. Grandma was making us some hamburgers, and my brother ain't want no mustard on his shit. That nigga was scared to say something. And he allergic to this shit, too. Ain't that a bitch? This nigga gonna let Granny kill him. So the nigga said something, though. He got his courage up, you know what I'm saying? He was like, granny, I don't want no mustard on mine. She said, don't you see I'm cooking? Don't you see I'm cooking? So when he got his shit, it [00:02:00] Speaker B: was mustard on it. [00:02:00] Speaker C: She didn't give a fuck. Everybody eating, having we looking at his shit, about to cry. So he said something. He said, granny, you made a mistake, right? That's what we said. Dang. He said, you put some mustard on my hamburger. She said, damn it, give it here. My grandmama took the dish rag out the sink, wrung it out and wiped this nigga's shit off with a dish rag and put the shit back together and said, now, you eat this. You eat this. And then carry your ass to bed. Grandma was making this. [00:02:38] Speaker B: You're. [00:02:39] Speaker A: You're. Is this thing on? Is this thing on? Testing, testing. What up, what up, what up, y'? All? What's going on? It's your main man, DJ High Star, here for another episode of Mandatory Overtime. How y' all doing? DJ High start in the place to be the aim here. Mandatory Overtime is for us to recalibrate and redefine manhood in our community. That's with one conversation as a time at a time. Excuse me. So appreciate y'. All. All being here. Of course, it's just the audio journal. 1180s, baby. A social experiment and consistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me. So I appreciate that as well. Thank you. 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, Share. Most importantly, make some noise though, y', all, because your man is here. You hear clocking in live from the 704, 980 Charlotte, America. What's poppin? What up, Charlotte? Kind of tripped up on the area codes in North Carolina last weekend. I missed. Missed 336. I know that. See, I'm gonna get myself in trouble some more trouble. 9, 1 0. I think I shot a job out. I'm not sure. 9, 1 0. But I definitely missed 336 in the midst of all of it. But yeah, I gotta keep it at that. Again, Again. Right. So shout out to Greenville, Raleigh, Fayetteville, all of the parts. But we here in Charlotte, man. I just always want to make that be known. Also want to make me known. We're going to talk about it in a little bit here. Y'. [00:04:24] Speaker B: All. [00:04:24] Speaker A: Forget my nasally congestion the last couple weeks, but I got a Russian sound engineer over here in a check 1, 2. A check 1, 2. Let's go to work, y'. All. So the introduction, it'll make all. It'll make sense, a lot of sense in a little bit whenever I read through our email for the week. But that was my frat brother, Howie Bell, and one of his. In one of his famous sets about his grandmother. His first time performing, I believe. I saw him on Comic View. So. But that was one of the funniest things. And it was probably. I just remember it being probably late 90s, early 2000s, when I saw him performing and I actually met him. I would say late 2000s. So, like close 09, maybe 2010, perhaps. It had to be maybe around like 2008, 2009. I met him at some random Q Dog event in Columbia. Come to find out, he, you know, went to school out there in Columbia. And all I remember because Bruh's from Detroit, but I just remember that. That he smoked up all my weed. That's all I can remember. I can remember he, like, finding out I was a young brother, smoked, and he like, okay, dog, let's go. You know what I'm saying? This before, it was just commonplace. You still had to be somewhat discreet. Duck off, go to the car. And then if you hot box in a car, you still. You got a big target on your back because, you know, the boys could run down at any time if you in the city and stuff like that. So it was. It was. It was very risky, but long story, less long. Howie, you smoked up all my butt that night, all right? And I probably left you with a couple of Ls or something like that, but nevertheless, I'm your host, DJ High Star here in the Place to Be. I had to give that little anecdote about my dog, my frat brother Howie, Howie Bell. You know what I'm saying? But, yeah, timeless, timeless. Set right there about the granny repeating herself, you know, and also the mustard. The mustard on the sandwich, man, that's just. That's classic. Classic comedy right there. But what's going on, y'? All? I don't have a lot of revisions from last week. I have this song stuck in my head from listening to Once Upon a Time in music. So I'd like to say thank you to L and Cheryl Poison for putting nothing going on but the rent. You got to have a J, O, B if you want to be with me. I don't know how many of y' all know that song, but shout out to me. But shout out to Once Upon a Time of Music podcast. I was just listening to that podcast this morning, and they did a list of songs that you. That we grew up to, that you listen to and stuff like that. That's a good. That's a good temperature check on your blackness. If you ask somebody the songs that they grew up on, I mean, Tom, it's a temperature check on the time, era that you grew up in or, you know, your relatives, how old your relatives are, but also a little temperature check on your blackness as well. Let's never forget, okay? Certain songs you got to know, just like certain movies you got to know. But I digress. I digress. So let's get to building some wisdom for the week, see where we at with everything. Let's go ahead and get into it. Come here, Prince. [00:08:15] Speaker C: What's today's mathematics, yo? No disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. [00:08:19] Speaker A: Build, Destroy. The builders. 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 I don't want 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. [00:08:41] Speaker C: Of course, do the knowledge. [00:08:44] Speaker A: I know you gonna dig this. All right, so let's go ahead and get into it. We're gonna go ahead and start off with a couple of text. Of course. Let's go to some group chats. Want to first give some love to my big cousin because. Jerome, what's up up there in D.C. all right, so this from Shirley Chisholm. Of course, laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws, to perpetuate injustice through inaction. Come on. Come on. It's for a queen right there. Shirley Chisholm that said that. So salute to her. And this will be one of many things we do to pay respects to this brother today. But the quote reads, at the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. It's Jesse Jackson. Reverend Jesse Jackson, my brother. My fraternal brother as well. So rest in peace and salute to him. Also, we have here by a quote by Ida B. Wells. The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. Excuse me. Ever made to his conscience. So that's by Ida B. Wells. I'll read that one more time. The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. So I probably mucked that up on that first go around, but y' all get the. I'll get the gist there. All right, let's see here. I want to read one more from them before I get into some videos, but this one is by four star Tuskegee Airmen General Benjamin Davis. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. We were determined to make our mark not by complaining about what we couldn't do, but by excelling at what we could. Come on, man. Come on. I love that. I love that, man. Salute. Salute. I'm gonna keep those short this week, just reading those. And then I wanted to go ahead and get into a couple of videos because. Let's keep it real, y'. All, we in Black History Month still. So it's my duty to at least inform some that are not informed, remind some that have known, and they may have slipped their mind and just reiterate to those that. That do know these nuggets of black history. But, you know, in an effort to not be trivial, you know, we're going to go ahead and play this clip here. The. Yeah, the first one I'm gonna play. The first one I'm gonna play is gonna be talking about Cadillac and its relationship with black people. So let's see here. And this is pretty much a short. It's a guy that's summarizing it, but, you know, there's plenty of different variation. Well, similar stories told in different ways, but all of them have the same nuggets of information. I'll let y' all listen. Black people that helps a company like Cadillac stay out of bankruptcy. During the Great Depression, everybody who had their money in the banks lost their money. Black people didn't trust the banks, so they had cash. So they. So in the last ditch effort, Cadillac started promoting and advertising to the black communities because they had all this cash. [00:12:49] Speaker C: That's insane. [00:12:50] Speaker A: 100. That's why Cadillacs. Oh, that. [00:12:54] Speaker C: Exactly, yes. Yeah. [00:12:58] Speaker A: It was black people that helped. All right, so that was the shortened, annotated version of it. Again, a lot of y' all may have heard about that out there and black people's connection to Cadillac. You remember? Yeah. First we had butter pecan ice cream. This week, we're going to Cadillacs. But some of y' all may have known that. And like I said, there's different levels or layers to the story. He was on a podcast, and he kind of gave the annotated version, if you will. Wanted to play one more on here. Black people saved Cadillac a video about it. In the early 1930s, like many luxury brands, was struggling to survive due to the economic collapse in America. By 1934, Nicholas Drystadt, a GM executive, noticed that affluent black Americans were purchasing Cadillacs despite facing racial discrimination. At dealerships, which often refused to service their vehicles, they would pay $300 over sticker price. And these customers relied on independent garages instead of. Drystadt proposed a bold idea to GM actively market to this untapped demographic and provide equal service to black customers. Cadillac implemented this Strategy, and by 1936, it started paying off. Popular models like the Cadillac V16, known for its power and luxury, became status symbols in the black community. This approach made Cadillac's sales rebound, and the brand survived the Great Depression. They were the first American brand to sell to black people. [00:14:32] Speaker C: Do the knowledge. [00:14:36] Speaker A: I know you gonna dig this. Now, I don't know how hyperbolic the. You know, they were the first brand to sell a black people were and stuff, but, you know, everything tracks. If you think about the 30s, the 1930s, the country, the United States of America is going through the Great Depression at the time, and then what is black people doing in Uptown now, if it wasn't for them, what were black people doing in Harlem? Rather, though y' all know what time it was in the 30s in Harlem? The Harlem Renaissance, baby. The Harlem Renaissance. And then. Again, the point was made. Black people didn't trust banks. Black people didn't trust what people were doing with their money in banks and everything like that. So they kept cash on hand, which then led to the zoot suit, if you will, and a lot of, you know, again, extravagant spending at the time, because we had the bread and we had the leverage. And, you know, guess, you know, white people needed the money. I mean, or everyone else, if you will, needed the money. So zoot suits, that's. That's going into the textile industry and using up mad. Excuse me, mad material while the rest of the country is at a shortage of or trying to, you know, produce their goods and, you know, their clothing and stuff like that. Black people are purchasing zoot suits and, you know, Latin. Latin Americans are purchasing, like, these big zoot suits with a bunch of fabric and stuff like that. It was seen as gaudy. It was seen as arrogant back then. But then also again, to the Cadillac point, out there buying them Cadillacs because they were sitting. It's just a car. It was going to be a lost car brand at the time. And, you know, shout out to black. Shout out. Shout out. Happy Black History Month, Yo. Shout out to Cadillac. I don't even know if I should be shouting out Cadillac because we. Again, we made them hot. They just. They just fell in line. You know, you got to get down, lay down. They got down. So that's essentially what happened. And start. And began marketing to us. But yeah. Salute. Salute. Happy Black History Month, y'. All. Happy Black History Month. All right, now the second video that I do want to play is going to talk about. Could you tell me how to get. How to get to. Hold on, y'. All. Here we go. Let's play this. This is regarding Sesame Street. [00:17:40] Speaker B: Talking about Sesame Street, a hidden curriculum to empower black youth that became the backbone of sesame street in 1968, a group of producers gathered with researchers, child psychologists and psychiatrists to discuss their idea for an educational children's television program marketed specifically for black children from inner cities. They did a series of seminars, basically talking about the different ways that television could be used to educate children. And one of the most prolific of that group was Dr. Chester Pierce. He talked a lot about not only the educational purposes of the show and getting children of color ready for school on the Same level as their white counterparts. But he also talked about something which was called a hidden curriculum for Sesame street that they wanted to infuse within the actual curriculum. He thought that Sesame street could be a really good example to counteract a lot of the microaggressions that black building were experiencing via television. Whether that was negative stereotypes, flat out aggressions. And he was actually the person who coined the term microaggression. So he and other black collaborators got together and made this hidden curriculum, basically wanting to pump out positive black images for the black children who are watching it. And black children were the target market. More specifically, four year old black children were the target audience. The team of black researchers essentially opened the door for the idea of combining curriculum and production within children's educational programming. In the 1960s, television was still relatively new, like it was probably in its second or third decade at this point. And child vision programming for kids was essentially in the group of like, only marketing and selling to kids. So the idea of educating them was still relatively new. This team of people really came together and showed that, hey, you can educate kids and have it for an intended audience and show all of these positive representations of various minority groups. It's not just white children who can be educated via television, but all children can be educated via television. Pierce would go on to become a national advisor for the Children's Television Workshop, which later became Sesame Street Workshop. He worked closely with the show's creators to make inclusive, impactful television for kids. [00:19:46] Speaker C: Okay, here we go. I am, I am somebody, Somebody I am I am somebody, somebody I may be poor, I may be poor But I am somebody, somebody I may be young I may be young But I am, But I am somebody. I may be on welfare But I am But I am somebody. I may be small I may be small But I am somebody, Somebody. I may make a mistake I may make a mistake But I am somebody, Somebody. My clothes are different. My clothes are different My face is different My face is different My hair is different My hair is different But I am, But I am somebody. I am black. I am black, brown, brown, white. I speak a different language. [00:20:33] Speaker A: I speak a different language. [00:20:35] Speaker C: But I must be respected. [00:20:36] Speaker A: I must be respected. [00:20:38] Speaker C: Protected, Protected. Never rejected, Never rejected. I am, I am God's child. I am, I am somebody. Give yourself a big hand. [00:20:54] Speaker A: Happy Black History Month, y'. All. So again, that video was the video preceding the. Jesse Jackson was talking about the history of Sesame street and their goals when putting the curriculum into the Sesame street programming. And of course, you guys just heard Reverend Jesse Jackson. The late Reverend Jesse Jackson again. Rest rest in peace my brother. Fraternally Rest well. Rest well now that you met entered Omega chapter, my brother. Rest well. I may keep it like at that also welcome you alls feedback of course, anything and any thoughts that you have with regards to Jesse Jackson. Right. There are a lot of polarizing thoughts with regards to them and I welcome it all. Of course this is an open forum and stuff. We gotta meet it with respect, of course. And he's one of our ancestors, so with regards to that, we're gonna show respect off top as a as a prerequisite. But all of your opinions, all of your feedback with regards to him or anything else related to anything going on, y' all is welcome. Feel free to follow us on IG at Mandatory OT. Okay. But also email us hey mandatory ot704gmail.com mandatory ot704gmail.com or feel free to give us a call. 7047-8170-1170-4781-7011 I don't want to be all over the place, but I do want to give some show some quick brotherly love. [00:22:42] Speaker C: It don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a [00:22:46] Speaker A: who love. Shout out to the Philly brethren out there, Dr. Umar Johnson. It appears that he's he's opening up the school, y'. All. He's got the school. It's ready for inspection or whatnot. So salute to that. But I'm gonna keep the brotherly love at that. All right, donations. But we're move moving forward though. Again, I wanted to actually go through. We have an email that I want to read. So we're going to go through this email here. Let's see if I could pull that up without killing too much dead air. All right. Shout out to my ghost ep, one of my ghost episodes. These executive producers be easy out there. I'm gonna go ahead and read this. Let me see. All right, so the letter reads letters titled I just want to hear your. Excuse me. I just want to know your thoughts. All right, it starts off what's good, my brother. I wanted to start this email with a little bit of embarrassment for myself. It took me about seven episodes to finally get the check 1, 2 line. Check one, two. Okay. All right, fair enough. I also wanted to let you know I enjoyed the opening comedy short at the beginning. I definitely want to get your thoughts on the latest Cat Williams one. Oh, and I wanted to suggest the mean granny joke from Howie Bell. See how bodied that be easy. My epito. It's one of the funniest jokes to me because it reminds me of my mother and grandmother saying, being the NBA fan that you are, I wanted to get your thoughts on this year's All Star weekend in the new format I intended to watch but didn't realize it came on at 5:30. I hear you talk about you and Big Cliff going to poker nights and I wanted to know the most that you've won and lost at the on the poker table. The last thing La Russell is one of my favorite younger artists. Just from the way that he built his brand up from his backyard to performing at the Super Bowl. I wanted to know your thoughts about his recent Lil Wayne comments. At any rate, keep on rocking how you rocking beloved and I can't wait to hear your thoughts on these topics. All right, no sign off or no signature, but be easy, be easy. Thank you, brother. I appreciate that, man. I appreciate the email, definitely. So let's go back through this a little bit. First of all, check 1, 2, check 1, 2. Glad y' all catching up with that. All right. I also wanted to let you know I enjoyed the opening comedy short. Yeah. Salute. On that last comedy short. That was Cat Williams. So I have not been able to see the most recent Cat Williams or Mike Epps comedy specials. I'm going to check those out again. I had to tie in that anecdote with regards to Howie Bell whenever you asked about me playing it because I'm starting to realize each and every day, y', all that I got a little Forrest Gump to my life as far as my, my travels. I've been a little bit everywhere. I got this picture. Well, I'm just in the corner with Jesse Jackson. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is there, South Carolina State. And I'm there in the corner in a little suit, SGA president up and all of the brothers is around and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. So different things. I had to give that story about Howie Bell because. Yeah, anyways, yeah, I get it. So, yeah, shout out to that. And the joke itself again, I kind of said it to at the beginning of the episode. But that's, that's a classic joke for obvious reasons. It's just so relatable, the repeat in yourself. You know, get your ass here or you know, take your ass to bed. Take your ass, whatever it is. That was so accurate. And then the, the audacity of like the brother to ask about the sandwich with the mustard on it. I've had, you know, Peanut butter and jelly that I didn't want. And hold on, hold on y'. [00:27:29] Speaker B: All. [00:27:29] Speaker A: I've had peanut butter and jelly that I haven't that I didn't want. Baloney thick bologna sandwiches with mayonnaise that I didn't want in the past. And it was like if I wasn't eating it then I wasn't eating. So I had to make a choice. So I definitely felt, felt those jokes to my core. Always will. Those jokes will always remain funny to me. Being an NBA fan that you are, I wanted to get your thoughts on this year's all star all star weekend. Was indifferent about it. I was confused a little bit with the format and the time of the events. And I later found out that the Olympics events clashed with, you know, what we would have wanted to see prime time wise. So the Olympics, the winter game superseded the NBA's All Star weekend. So something is in itself. But the three point contest I got a chance to see back on NBA TV and salute brotherly love. Hold on, show love it don't show [00:28:37] Speaker C: nothing, it'll cost nothing to show a [00:28:40] Speaker A: so brotherly love to dame time Also brotherly love to con canipple and, and Devin Booker, they, they definitely did their thing as well. Devin Booker, boy, Devin booker froze up like the light skinned cat he is. I don't want to start any colorism wars out there y', all, but Devin Booker froze up like a light skin. He was, he had all right Dame Lillard had like 29 that he scored on the final round. Devin booker scored up to 27. He needed two more baskets on a rack full of five and he missed four of them. Tough. Talk about, Talk about fanduel gambling but nah, he missed the last four. It looked like he did want to make them all seriousness so I ain't gonna put the gambling on his jacket but damn, in dame time he was coming off an injury so he, you know, he's moving gingerly but he was moving like, you know, it didn't require too much, you know, herky jerky lateral movement starting and stopping. So he, he was able to jog to each shooting racking and, and do his thing. I'm grateful that the usa, the stars and the stripes team got, you know, beat the world. A caveat. Luca wasn't playing. I don't think the joker was playing either. So those is two asterisks. But I'm glad that you know the u. S team, the ogs, they got kind of their dubs early and then the young guys got theirs in Late. I don't know, bro. I don't know. Personally, I hate it. I don't like it. That was. It was cool to see this year. But you're either one, gonna dilute the number of people that can consider themselves at All Star on one hand, or you're gonna run into the problem of. Of people always being snubbed, if you will, All Star snubs. But still, I don't think that it's something that we should kind of continue to figure out how we get everybody to participate to make this a bigger draw. And you got the stars already in the league. They have been crying and pretty much like they've been wanting to not be in the spotlight and not be stars, I. E. Your Anthony Edwards of the world, J. Morant of the world. And these are guys that they'll jump out of the gym, they'll shoot threes all day. Not J. But. And will shoot threes all day, whatever. These are the drawers, the people. That's box office. As Stephen A. Says, those are the draws that you gotta have at All Star Weekend to make it watchable, to make me want to watch it. It says a lot that the Winter Games, you know, superseded everything. Granted, that is world Olympics, but NBA was more powerful than this at one point where their All Star Game or the All Star Weekend, it carries some star power. And, you know, people were tuning it. So I think it could be done better. But with what they planned and executed this year, I'm not mad at. I hate what I'm not mad at, if that makes sense. Like, I ain't mad. They. They did. They did their thing. They executed so cool. Whatever. I hear you talk about you and Big Cliff going to poker nights, Fort Mill, South Carolina. And I wanted to know the most that you've won and lost on the poker table. All right, so I'll try to make this quick and concise. So money wise, I've only played poker in the casinos. And no, no, I play with. With the homies or whatever like that. So in the casino, I probably won at the most like a hundred dollars playing poker. And in the grand scheme, and this is with. With the dealer and it's kind of at the table, like how blackjack is so not at the tournament tables because it's a little bit different in the casinos. They got two different. They got a poker room, but then they got like the table games where you could play poker at. So probably won a couple dollars off of that, off the table games or whatever like that. Never played in, like, A poker tournament at the casinos. But playing with the homies, I won about $30 and. And lost probably $10. Two weeks or whatever like that two weeks that we played. So that the. I don't know if this is legal or not, what I'm saying. So allegedly this is what you would do in. In those situations, right, with the homies, everybody bringing what whatever the buy in is $10 or $20. So it's five of us and it's $20. There you go. [00:33:54] Speaker B: The. [00:33:54] Speaker A: That the pot is now at 100, whatever. And then, you know, you actually take them poker chips and distribute them out and it's essentially, you know what I mean, you're playing with chips, but then they don't equate to money. I hope that makes sense what I'm saying. So yeah, the chips are still there, but they don't equate to actual money. The money is in the jackpot. So now you just fight into when the end of the. The game or whatnot or. Or win all of the chips, in other words, from everybody. There's not any point that you would necessarily get up and cash in, quote, unquote, your chips, if that makes sense. So to ultimately answer your question, not more than like 200 in. In total that I've won. And it's because of what I select and the games that I'm alluding to with Big Cliff. And they're free poker nights. So they give out a gift card at the end of the night to the like. I think there's actually three winners. There's a top three. So there's probably three tiered gift cards that they give out. And yeah, it's free. So just throughout the night. They operate like a regular casino. How a casino would do the tournaments and stuff. So you. We get very, very good practice. I just can't stress that enough. Like you get real good practice. It's like to me it's like golf and stuff like that. Like when. When grown men fall in love with a new hobby like golf or biking or something, where they're all in and they got to know all aspects of it. That's kind of how the. That poker thing is. And then don't make it no better that it's a car game. So you're dealing with numbers and math and all of that probability and. And then really reading people. So all of those things kind of encompass the. The poker night itself, not just the. The money part. I only say that because you're not. Be easy is not the first to ask Me. And it normally is the first question that people ask me after I tell them that I'll be playing poker. It's like, yo, what's the most that you won or, you know, how much you want? And you, you be winning. You've been winning, you've been winning some bread. And, and like, again, yes, if I'm playing with the homies and we play a little cash game and we put a pot together, then, yeah, we can, we can, you know, boogie and do all of that. But the last couple weeks that I've been playing has been tournament style. John's place. But no buy in. No, because again, the gambling part of it, I believe, is restricted in South Carolina and illegal. So they don't do that at all. There's no, there's no kind of buy in or anything like that. They give out gift cards, but yeah, no buy in. So. Salute. And we actually went this past week. I did very, very well for myself. Did very well for myself. Like I was saying, we quantify. I quantify it in blinds. So it starts off at a 25.50 blind. And it goes up throughout the night. 25 small blind, 50 big blind. I'm sorry for those who don't understand the lingo that I'm talking about. I just kind of wanted to speak it fast, so I'm not going on and on about it. But yeah, and they go up in blinds. That's how I mentioned that I would quantify it last week whenever I mentioned it. So this week I normally only get up to, like, I think I've got up to 3k, 6k, 4k. I think I got up to 400, 800 blinds last week. So 400 small blind, 800 big blind. This week I made it up to 3,000, 6,000, 6,000 big blind, 3,000 small blind. So. And I know those that don't understand what that mean, but it just meant that I stayed in the game longer, had a. I was closer to getting in the top three and, and making, you know, making the final table, if you will, and, and winning. So that, you know, it's progress. It's progress. It's better than I did last week and better than the week before. That's what I'm satisfied and happy with. Of course. Shout out to Q. Big, Big, Cliff and Fat Boy all made it out there to John's place. Got to see what I've been talking about, you know. So, yeah, poker night went very, very well. Very well. And then last thing, La Russell is one of my favorite Young artists. Mine as well. Just the way that he built his brand up from his backyard to performing at the super bowl. You have been one of the. One of the people that's championed Russell in the earlier days and stuff like that or shouting him out. So I wanted to know your thoughts about his recent Lil Wayne comments. It's probably a part of the show and that's what I was going to be speaking about today. Again, appreciate your email once more and we're gonna get into that here in a second, but be easy. I appreciate you, bro. Thank you once again, my brother. Y' all make sure that y' all listen. DJ Blaze Radio show podcast and all the other podcasts under Crux Media umbrella. I can't name them all, but. And I won't start. I won't start. But yeah, let's. I guess I could get right into it. So first I want to give credit to my brother, Dope Digitals and Unwanted Perspective. He get. He has two very good videos on the Russell situation and what went down. So check out on YouTube if you want kind of a detailed description on what went down with the Lebrosle situation on Unwanted Perspective with dope digitals on YouTube. But essentially the Russell was taken. Had clips of an interview that he was speaking about Lil Wayne and. And it went viral. The Internet went crazy defending Lil Wayne and some people went crazy defending Lil Wayne. Some people were on the other side of that. And yeah, the Russell, he. He caved. He ended up apologizing. Someone would say waving the white flag. But essentially the. The exact statement was something to the effect of when I got older, I realized that Lil Wayne, damn. This wasn't talking about. Now that was preceded with a whole conversation about, yeah, Lil Wayne is my goat. One of my favorite rappers taught me how to rap. I came up off Wayne. So it was preceded with a lot of that adoration. And he was big and Wayne up. And again you end with that. That part gets clipped up where he's saying, yo, but you know Lil Wayne, he ain't talking about. And excuse me, y', all, I'm sorry. Lil Wayne ain't talking about. And his art didn't do anything for my friends or anything like that that I grew up around. It actually turned them and encouraged them to gang bang. So the Russell's comments became inflammatory. Now that's before I get to the truth of his comments. I just real quickly wanted to go through something here. Let me see if I can pull this up for us. So there is a three question rule that I've alluded to in the past here. And this is appropriate here for the Russell. Number one is, does this need to be said? Hold on. Number one is, does this need to be said? Number two, does this need to be said by me? And number three, does this need to be said by me now? So if you go through those real quickly in your head, the Russell, there was one or two of those questions that you would have if you were being honest with yourself that you would have stumbled upon and said, nah, probably not. That's the biggest issue with this whole situation I feel like is it's a situation with that three question rule would come into effect. Does this need to be said? Does it even. Does it need to be said? Does it need to be said now? Does it need to be said right now? And then does it need to be said now by me? By who? Who I am? Does it need to be said now by me? All that being said, I agree. I agree with everything that LaRussa said. Yeah, I agree with everything that he said. Again, just. It just probably poor timing said by the wrong person. It's a lot of things that you can dissect about that. But what he said, I'm not mad at. At all. I'm not mad at. I think there was a lot of hit dogs that holler as far as fans that that kind of came out the woodwork to defend Wayne's legacy extra and super hard. And I don't believe that little Russell was desecrating Wayne's legacy. Believe that the Russell was speaking his truth about a moment in his life and an epiphany that he had growing up or in having a moment of maturity. And in a moment of maturity, he tried to quantify the substant substantive raps of Lil Wayne. Substantive raps of Lil Wayne. The ones that contain substance and then versus the ones that he felt, you know, was nonsense. And again, first of all, he's free to feel that way. That's the first thing. I just feel like he's free to feel that way. Secondly, Wayne don't give a fuck about us. Like not know at his concerts is I am not me without you. I am not me without you. And thank you and thank you and thank you. But he said himself, you know, the black line is the only black line that matter to me. We black and we rich. He wanted capitalism got to wane. But also thirdly, again, I feel like Birdman groomed. I feel like Birdman groomed Wayne. Right? [00:44:51] Speaker C: You so freaky ass. [00:44:52] Speaker A: Nah, he. I believe he groomed them into how I take that. How you will. Yeah, I got them all DJ Hostar. But I believe that he groomed him into being a rapper. Rapper, of course, a rapper's rapper. So from the time that he like 12, 13 or whatever, he's just rapping. Just rapping. So yeah, the, he's forgotten more raps than a lot of us have written down and tried to do and say or our full discography. So I, I, you know, you don't expect any substance out of Wayne. And I don't think LaRuss was saying that he was expecting any substance out of Wayne. He was just simply observing what had happened or the, again, the, the art that he has consumed up to that point and he was just being critical of it. I don't see anywhere in there where the Russell is like man, Wayne need to really step it up and make some conscious records and really be talking to the kids. He just identified that he does not and, or, or that it's, it's far and few between. So he identified that. But again, and if that's up for debate, that's fine. But it's. He, he was not, it's not even if it's true in the event that it's true. Whatever the Russell said, he's not bringing Wayne to task in my opinion. It's not like he's telling Wayne, yo, I need you to be better. My. I need you to step it up. Yo, I need you to talk about more things that matter out here. I need you to do that. No, he's stating his truth in that moment. He said, yo, Lil Wayne was one of my favorite artists growing up. This is somebody I looked up to, XYZ and then stated I grew up one day and matured and realized look back, looking back at it and Lil Wayne wasn't talking man, this wasn't talking about. So again, I don't have a problem. I will stand firmly on. I feel like Russell was right in everything that he said. You know, I don't, I don't have no problem with it. I don't have no problem now. It's funny, the, you know, the feedback from the Internet is crazy and it gets to everybody. Nobody can escape it. So regardless of how charismatic or self deprecating or anything, loving, fun loving that you want to come off, everybody could get these, you know, get the smoke or whatnot. So you know, brotherly love, man, Y' all let me know what y' all feel about that also, you know, be easy as be easy. Did Y' all come follow the leader man right into the show. Email us here at MandatoryOT704gmail.com MandatoryOT704gmail.com or give us a call, 7047-8170-1170-4781-7012. And remember, follow us on IG at Mandatory OT. Mandatory OT. All right, so let's go ahead and move forward. That Wayne topic was a little bit shorter, I guess, than. I mean, I guess I hope I. I hope I was. Yeah, I hope I was elocuting myself the way that proper. Proper, like ting, Right, Papa like ting. But if I wasn't, then whatever. So I wanted to go through a one or two. Get it off your chest for the week slash random thoughts. So it's really random thought. Yeah, we could put in. Get you. Get it off your chest. I mentioned it earlier when I was saying certain shows, certain music that you gotta. Had known you better. Had known if you was black. Well, that's a pet peeve of mine, y'. All. I'm gonna be real. I'm sorry I. I said it earlier, but that's a pet peeve of mine. When somebody. When you're with, you know, whatever family. Let's just call what it is. When you're with black people. When you're around us. Okay. When you're around us, somebody randomly, they gonna blurt out a line from a movie or just a conversation. Somebody brings up a movie title. Oh, no, you didn't. You know, looking like was a man named Lucky from Poetic justice or, you know, whatever. And then somehow it comes out that you never seen the movie. And one person finds out and got allowed it out to everybody, y'. All. Oh, man, let me work. I hate. [00:49:57] Speaker C: Please let me work. [00:50:00] Speaker A: Oh, nah, y', all. He said. Y' all hear DJ Hotstar. He said he ain't see Poetic Justice, y'. All. Nah, he ain't. [00:50:10] Speaker B: Wait. [00:50:11] Speaker A: Or somebody tried to do it in a passive aggressive way. They talking straight to you. Wait, what? You said you ain't see Poetic Justice. How you. Wait, I know. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, y'. All. No, no, you. You shut up over there now. You be quiet now. I gotta quiet the room. Wait, y', all, listen. This guy said he ain't seen Poetic justice yet. For the record, y', all, I have seen Poetic Justice. Just using it as an example. But that was to get it off your chest for this week. For my. Get it off your chest for this week. All right. Okay. We good on that. So Anyways, I wanted to go ahead and move forward and let y' all know, really, this is another. It's a episode full of showing love, man. But [00:51:09] Speaker C: it'll cost nothing to show a. [00:51:12] Speaker A: All right, so let's show some love to Baby Keem. He's actually signed to PG Lang, of course, and they are rolling out his new album, getting ready for his new album to drop Casino. The album is going to be called Casino, and they're dropping documentaries. The documentaries are titled Boom Man. Boom man, and they are straight fire, all of them. So I recommend that y' all go watch them if y' all haven't seen them yet. Baby King, Boo man documentaries. It gives a great back story of, you know, how Keem grew up, where he's come from, his family life, very adjacent, of course, to Kendrick's good kid, Mad City, because they are cousins. So a lot of that feels the same. It's the same energy. King moved to Las Vegas from California at a young age, at an early age. So a lot of his Vegas ties are in this Boo man documentary. It's just an awesome Job. Awesome Job by PG Lang, putting that together. Awesome, awesome job. A lot of nostalgia in those home videos. They have a lot of Original footage from 19. Excuse me, 2002. About, say, 1992. 2002. And it's just. It's fire. It's fire. So I just had to show some love, Give some love to Baby Keem on that. But moving forward, I did want to go ahead and gonna get into some High Star bars here for the week. Give me one moment here while I pull up our High Star bars. Okay. All right, so this week, we're gonna go with the Russell for the High Star bars, ironically enough. Yeah. And giving them patience. It's a have fun type of Bay Area type of joint. It's on the radar freestyle. That he did. But let's get right to it, though, y'. All. This little wrestle on the radar freestyle, [00:53:19] Speaker C: that's the only that could talk like he made me shout out to the Lord I'm grateful for what he gave me I'm my granny's baby. I'm a mama's baby. I'm my daddy's baby. No, Vallejo made me. You see the Crocs? A lot of chips. That's not a leak. A lot of drips I hit the brake, hit the gas Used to yolking the mag Mama pulled her from the stove had to go get a bag why would I stop? Don't ask what I spend it costs A lot. Record mix master, film, edit, Then drop ask me where I'm headed. You can't tell the top always out of merch. Cause it sells a lot. It be hard to keep up with the man when you didn't fully plan. So that's where your plane land. Put your niggas in the game. Split that paper with your man. He a hater. Cause he hurting. I can see it. He a fan. Wanna sit where I sit, Stand where I stand. Wanna fuck who I fuck, Middle name probably stand. Why you playing? Nah, I'm saying. What are those? These are bands. Six figures, new advance pass, go. I advance. [00:54:13] Speaker A: Who else? [00:54:13] Speaker C: Rapping like I'm rapping every time they get a chance. [00:54:22] Speaker A: All right, all right. So Salute to the Wrestling is, you know, an exhibition of him rapping there, y'. [00:54:27] Speaker B: All. [00:54:27] Speaker A: Yeah. But now salute to the rest of brotherly love for even being bold enough to stand on, you know, your own and say that. Did it have to be said at that point? Did it have to be said at that point by you? Did it have to be said? Oh, is yet to be seen. But salute to you, you know, again, standing in your truth firmly. I heard everything that you said, and I just. I don't disagree at all with any of that. So let's move forward real quick. But brotherly love. We're gonna go ahead and get this. We've been showing brotherly love. [00:55:07] Speaker C: It'll cost nothing. [00:55:11] Speaker A: So, yeah, we wanted to go ahead again. Dr. Umar, salute, my brother. Salute. Matter of fact, let's start again. Some applause and brother salute. Dr. Umar getting the school up and all of that. Baby Keem, brotherly love out there to you, brother Howie. Brotherly love, bro. How you bell? Shout out to be easy for the email. Appreciate you, my brother Big Cliff, Fat boy Q. Appreciate y' all coming out to poker. Brotherly love to y'. All. Brotherly love to my brother Sock. Brotherly love to sko out there, my boy Pre. Shout out to my brother, my brother Chris. My brother Bruce. Shout out, shout out, salute to my brother Joe. Salute to my brother ej. That's my brother from another. If he ain't getting no bigger. But definitely my brother EJ out of this week, where I've been reaching out to a lot of my frat brothers and things like that, just to check on them randomly. EJ definitely reached out to me randomly, man, and it meant more to me than anything. Salute again to my brother Dale as well. Yeah. And we'll wrap it up with that. Really him, you know, but mainly with supreme faith that's in God. This prayer is coming straight from the heart. May the ego and the hubris never break us apart. And from one brother to another. If nobody ever told you before, I love you. All right. Peace out, y'. All. We'll catch y' all next time. Peace. [00:57:03] Speaker C: I am somebody. I may be poor, but I am somebody. I may be on welfare, but I am somebody. I may be unskilled, but I am somebody. I am nice, beautiful, proud. I must be respected. I must be protected. What time is it? When we stand together what time is it? Hey, everybody, it's closing time. [00:57:59] Speaker A: You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. [00:58:07] Speaker C: Closing time. To the knowledge I know you gonna dig this. [00:58:15] Speaker A: Damn, son. Where'd you find this member of Omega Sci Fi fraternity? [00:58:20] Speaker C: When it's cold outside [00:58:24] Speaker A: will be hip hop, hip hop.