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[00:00:11] Speaker A: DJ High Star, are you okay? Yeah, I'm all right, man. Gangster. Gangsters cry all the time. Let me put on some music real quick. Yeah. [00:00:27] Speaker B: Who are you? [00:00:29] Speaker A: Santana. Oh, I know that thing. The algorithms or some. I love my life. I love my wife. All right, that's enough of that. Yeah. Go back to work. Yeah. It's about time I clock back into work doing this. Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for ot Yeah, N that bread, bro. Y' all gotta stay for ot. Listen up, workers. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. Let me work. Please let me work. Let me work. Please. [00:01:59] Speaker C: Let me work. [00:02:09] Speaker A: Like that. Like that. Like that. You're what's happening, y'. All. What's happening, everybody? Welcome to another episode of Mandatory Overtime. I'm your main man, DJ High Star, here in the place to be. I appreciate y' all joining me here on this journey. The aim here in mandatory overtime is for us to recalibrate and redefine manhood in our community. And that's where every conversation that we have. So welcome on the journey. Again, this is just simply an audio journal of an eighties baby. A 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. I appreciate y' all for that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Don't confuse this with the man is fair. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair, like, comment, subscribe, Share. Pull up another chair and make some noise, because your man is here. And I'm gonna fumble that every week until we get it right. You heard. Reporting live from Charlotte, America. You know what I'm talking about? They say, I got a Russian sound engineer, y'. All. And a check, one, two. A check, one, two. Like that. Like that, like, yeah. What's happening, everybody? What's going on? What's going on? Shout out to y', all, first and foremost, everyone that tuned into the most recent episode. I appreciate all of the listeners, but everybody else that participated as well, though, got to give y' all another round of applause for the. The voice notes and the gratitude voicemails and stuff like that. That really made my week, and I'm sure that it made a whole bunch of other people's weeks that was able to hear that. So salute to y' all for all of that this week. We want to go ahead and get started. I want to start off with some. Let's see here, I guess, just wanted to revisit, recap some Things from last week. Again, Thanksgiving episode. A week late from Thanksgiving, but it got a little tough at the end there. A little emotional. But again, salute to all the families and show love definitely to all those during this holiday season. That's not. That's not experiencing the holidays with somebody else or whatnot. But with that being said, I want to us. I wanted us to go ahead and get started this week, y'. All. And y' all know where we normally start at. It's starting to become a thing. But is that prince for king? Let's go ahead. [00:04:56] Speaker D: 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. [00:05:16] Speaker A: Peace, God. [00:05:17] Speaker D: Peace, God. [00:05:18] Speaker A: Come on, son. All right, so I wanted to go ahead and get started this week. I have a couple of building wisdom quotes from the homie Taz. You know, he's sent some wisdom and stuff to our group chat. So the first one that I wanted to read is if you truly want to change your life, you must first change your mind. Of course, I already know what time it is with that very deep. But also, everyone needs a friend who they probably shouldn't be allowed to sit next to at a serious function. Facts, facts. All right. And then this last one from Booker T. Washington. A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority. That's tough. That's tough right there. Appreciate you, Taz, for that. And then of course, cousin Jerome came through and showed us some love there. Let's see, the Monday motivation is from Mark Twain. It says, you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Stuff. Let's see here. Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. It's by Susan L. Taylor. So shout out to them for that. Let's see here. Also wanted to play this quick audio clip that I saw for social media for our building wisdom segment. [00:07:04] Speaker E: Craziest thing about this, I ain't want no muscles. I was just trying to find a way out. The muscles came next. Then I started loving the muscle. So I'm still trying to find a way out. And I like getting muscles. And the muscles ain't nothing but a product of how I really feel inside. The bigger I get, the better I look. The more time I'm in here, the more weight I push. I'm showing you I'm fucked up, but I ain't going to fuck off because I'm fucked up. [00:07:29] Speaker A: I understand. [00:07:29] Speaker E: Life can change. The snapping, the vibe. That's why I always just push. Cause tomorrow might be that day. But if I go do some crazy shit because I don't feel good right now, my life could be over. And my prize could have been here tomorrow. So just think about that. When you thinking about quitting, when you think about jumping off the cliff, calling it quits, whatever it is, don't do it. Because tomorrow might be that day. If you tell yourself every day that tomorrow, that day, you'll never quit. [00:08:07] Speaker A: All right? Yeah. So I wish I had that creator's name, but it was, again, one of them random clips that was on the Internet. It's on social media, and it didn't have homie's name, but he was in a gym, and he was just finished with a set during a workout and was just expressing that. And you know, again, how many of my brothers are going through similar things and stuff whenever they're working out or they find their escape? And it's just really to go ahead and channel energy, you know, into something positive. So salute to that brother, though, for that wisdom. He don't even know that he contributed to the show, but shout out to him. So moving right along, we going to go. All right. And go into the break room. All right? So first thing I want to go ahead and go over with y' all are some real things heard at work. Real things heard at work this week, y'. All. Okay? This came from a young lady. All right? Shout out to my newbie in Queens. But shorty said, all I heard was, and if you got a 50 drum, you just gonna have to shoot that bit. Hold on, ma'. Am, Ma'. Am. But are you talking about it on the work premises or off? Because who are you talking to, first of all? And if you got a 50 drum, you just gonna have to start shooting that bit. That's what she said, y'. All. So the second one, I'm holding the door open for a younger cat that works there and holding the door open. Thought nothing of it. As I'm walking in, he was like, yeah, good looking unk. Hold on, hold on, hold on, young boy. Hold on now, youngin. Wait, wait, wait. Now run that by me one more time. What'd you say good looking unk. All right, all right. Watch it now. Watch it now. All right, all right. I understand. My brother's 39 and all of that. I understand. It's just a reality check, y'. All. Y' all feel me? Yeah. Good looking unc. He ain't even think nothing of it. Yeah. Good looking out on. Horrible. Horrible. So those were two real things that I actually heard at work this week. All right, I want to move right along here to our random thoughts. So with random thoughts, I actually wanted to start off with a random word that I've been hearing a lot recently in the lexicon, so I wanted to introduce it to the community just in case y' all start hearing intellectuals try to throw this word around and try to, you know, talk over people's heads and stuff. But the word that I've been hearing a lot lately is pejorative. For whatever reason, I've heard that word a lot, lady, lately. Pejorative. All right, Pejorative. Expressing content or. Or disapproval. Expressing contempt. Excuse me? Or disapproval. Not content. It's two different things. But expressing contempt or disapproval. Okay, let's see. That used in a sentence. But that's the adjective. So permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term. Permissive. See, all of those words, like, I know that we champion intellectualism, y'. [00:11:54] Speaker D: All. [00:11:54] Speaker A: I'm just saying. Just for me to get y' all quick definition, I can't, so I'm gonna have to. Dispermissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term. So that's it used as an adjective. Let's define the noun. The noun is for pejorative. The noun for it is a word expressing contempt or disapproval. Oh, wow. Anyways, this used in a sentence would be. Most of what he said was inflammatory and filled with pejoratives. So I can see that. I can wrap my head around that, you know, in live time on air. But shout out to pejorative again if y' all hear that sometime soon in your algorithms or whatnot. Y' all know why? It's because they're recording us. All right, we talked about it last week, but nevertheless, that was one of my random thoughts for the week. Pejorative. Let's see here. I'm gonna go through some other random thoughts. Because of the Grammy nominations and, you know, how passionate and how hard body pause. I went for Chance the rapper whenever it came to his album. I wanted to and everything that came out with the Grammy noms and stuff. He didn't get nominated. Starline did not get nominated. What a travesty. But it didn't get nominated for any awards or any Grammys. That did write this down, though, and put Chance leveraged his music and his reputation for a higher message. And I think that he should be applauded for that and championed for that. So salute to you, my boy. You got the album of the year over here at mandatory overtime. Y' all already know what time it is. That's the album of the year. All right. I also wanted to. So again with the recap and revision. I wanted to mention this earlier, but I'll go ahead and say it now. So, you know, last week it got a little emotional, and that's not the. It's not the first time, if y' all are aware. It's not the first time that I've kind of gotten vulnerable in front of the audience and everything. So I've come up with a solution because there's a lot of dead air whenever I mute that. And I try to get myself together and gather my thoughts so that I can come back and start recording again. So I've come up with a solution. If I film feel things getting overwhelming or I start to get emotional, we won't go with dead air any longer. But I'll go with this. All right. All right. That's what I'm going with. Shout out salute to Rocky, lock Rich. But that. That's what we'll be going with from now on. If I start to feel, you know, emotional or anything else. You could try it out again, y'. All. Let's see. All right, but let's get back into these random thoughts. All right, I had this written down as a random thought. Again, this is one of my, like, journal entry type joints. But there's no counterculture in weed, and that is what has killed its potency. So the statement, again, there's no counterculture anymore in weed, and that's actually killed the potency. So the numbers are all there. Whenever it comes to the za, if you will, or the bud, right. They're still high in THC and everything like that. But I have an argument to be made that when it was counterculture, right? When it was a little bit more daredevilish to be smoking that you euphoric vibes, you know what I'm saying? That that high was a little bit higher. I don't know, put it. But that's. That's how I feel. I feel like whenever, you know, you had to really, you were risking certain things. You're risking your Freedom or fines or getting cursed out by your family members and stuff like that, and ostracized. That's when the bud got you higher. Whenever you had to hide it a little bit more. You don't gotta hide it as much nowadays. You don't gotta hide it. It's plentiful, it's all around and stuff. So it just feels like meh, you know, it's there. But man, you see here, while we're here in random thoughts, I wanted to go ahead and shout out to my fantasy team who are 11 and two going into the playoffs, this number one, my number one in the league. You know what I'm saying? So shout out to my team, Bishop Sicko mode, to play off of Bishop Sycamore. But if you know, you know. But let's move right along with our random thoughts. So let's see here. And pejorative. Okay, sports, random thoughts. Kevin Stefanski doesn't like black quarterbacks. It's not a hot take, it's obvious, but this is a platform that we could go ahead and say that stuff. Kevin Stefanski is the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. The Cleveland Browns have infamously. Or I don't, I don't know even how to describe it, but they, they drafted Shador Sanders. They drafted him in the fifth round. He should have went higher in the draft. We all know that injuries and different circumstances have presented itself to where he has been the starting quarterback. He has not been messing up at all. They're reluctant to give him praise. And this past week he bought them back. Bought the Browns back, all right. Played the Browns and played the Titans, bought the Browns back. And when he gave them the chance to tie with the two point conversion, after scoring a touchdown to bring them within two, the coach pulls him and runs some kind of wildcat offense. I don't know. I don't know. It was nonsense. It was bull. I don't know. But Stefanski, every time that he gets an opportunity, he does not show Shador any kind of praise or anything like that. It's kind of the, the antithesis of it, almost like a, a brutal humbling of the young man. But it's sick. It's putting the team, the team's clearly, you know, been at risk or whatnot and they didn't care about winning the game. Speaking of, just as a quick side note, last night's game, Monday night game, that was the Eagles versus who the Eagles play last night they lost. Let's see who they play last night. My 40, y'. All. Oh, yeah, the Chargers, the Eagles, and the Charges. It didn't seem like nobody wanted to win that game either. But back to the Titans vs. The Browns in the game that was right there in Shador's hands for him to win. And Kevin Stefanski robbed him of that opportunity. The starting quarterback on the opposing side was one Cam Ward. Shout out to Cam Ward, the number one, number one draft pick out of Miami last year out of the University of Miami. And he and Shador, they work out with each other in the summertime and they're very competitive and everything. So this was a grand opportunity that the NFL missed and they dropped the ball on the market inside of this. Just the fact of the storylines of this game, it. And it's ridiculous. It's. It's right there in our face. What's going on with this? I won't go as far to say it's like a civil rights issue because we already know that the NFL is racist, y'. All. That's no surprise or nothing like that. So I won't go as far to say like, you know, Shador is the sacrificial lamb or, you know, in there, whatever. They're sacrificing. No, not all of that, but it's just Stefanski. I don't know. Like, it's clear that Stefanski don't. Black people or black quarterback. Excuse me. DeSean Watson, I believe he. I don't. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. He don't. With Shador, let's put it like that. Also, random thought, just in on the wire, though. Philip Rivers looks like he's signed with the Colts. So he's back. He's like 44. He's been out of the league, out of the NFL, since 2020. So this shall be interesting, y'. All. Definitely interesting to see what's gonna. He's signed to the practice squad, though. Signed to the practice squad. So keep everything in perspective with. With that. So that'll end my random thoughts for this week. I had it. Get it off your chest. I'm just tired. I guess this is kind of an ongoing theme that we'll have, but I'm just tired of the grown men fussing and going back and forth online and on the Internet. It seems like the Internet is a bed full of or a house full of people that are just responding to each other. There's no true crux of the matter that we can get to because everything is a response off a response which is off of a response. Some Recent ones that we've seen. And people call these things like these pseudo beefs and these, these fake beefs that are for our entertainment to see these people crash out or go online and try to defend themselves, to out talk one another. Ultimately, there's never any kind of meeting up. There's never going to be any kind of meeting up. And we don't condone violence or anything like that. But my point is that everybody's just talking. It's just words on the Internet. Ultimately there's no purpose behind anything but defending your name or, you know, responding to somebody that's disrespected you. And it's, it's childish. But see, Nick Young and Steven Jackson are going at it. Draymond Green and Kenya Martin. It's people defending there. And this is the thing. Everybody's their own lawyer. So if you're going to be defending your legacy, you're going to be defending, you're going to your career or whatever who you are or your status with society, you can always build a case and make points because everybody's their own lawyer in this world. But nevertheless. And then the last one is Maino and DJ academics. I don't even really give academics that much attention or anything like that. But again, these are the war of words that we've seen this past week. And it's exhausting, y'. All. It limits the things that we have to watch as far as content because everybody ends up commenting on these things. And I think it limits creativity. It adds ultimate distractions also as well. So that's just something I had to get off my chest this week. Appreciate y' all for that. So moving forward with everything, shout out to me for moving services. I wanted to go ahead and. And we were going to. Or listen to a voicemail real quickly. Hello, Please leave a message after the tone. [00:24:22] Speaker B: Yo, hot star. Yo, check it out. So you talking about Ray J on the last part between getting in the car with. Getting in the shower with a 20 year old homosexuality. Could this be. If this makes the show, it makes it. If it doesn't, you can share this live between us or we can share with the world. Could this be a little bit of our Diddy, You feel me? Because, you know, granted, my son R was on his tight timing, you know, it's underage. So Ray J said, okay, I'm gonna go ahead and up the age, you know what I'm saying? And then, you know, your man's Mr. Combs, you know what I'm saying? He is out here Spreading boy goat cheese on itself. You know what I'm saying? So maybe Ray J said he gonna find that real thin line between our Diddy. That's just my take on that. Shout out to the. Shout out to the pod. Everybody listening. It's mandatory. I get this. Ot. [00:25:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Shout out to Sock. I appreciate the voicemail. And listen, man, you got some valid points, brother. Okay, we all know again, what I. I wrote one of my favorite podcasts, DJ Blaze Radio Show Podcast, when all that Diddy stuff was going on with the trial and he was releasing a lot of things, and I was like, yeah, boy likes mayonnaise. You know what I'm saying? Pause. But mayonnaise, you know, but again with Ray J. Praying for the brother. But I heard him saying some things with regards to his relationship with Brandy after the last episode and listening to the last. Back to the last episode, and me questioning kind of what Brandy thinks about this stuff. I heard him speaking about their relationship, and I know that he wishes that their relationship was better as well. But I pray that that brother gets well, man. I pray that he gets well. And I think the first thing, though, is you have to get out of the. Out of that. The. The. Out of the limelight, out of the camera's way. You gotta get low for a second. You gotta. Gotta make life boring for a minute, man. Get low. Just live a boring life. I ain't got to be on 10 every day and exciting and doing the most every day. It's not required, but salute to you, Sock. I appreciate that our out for lunch segment this week would be pretty quick, but I did. You know, Charlotte has added this second. Second in the area, Whataburger Burger. It's over here in East Charlotte, But I went to the Whataburger, got patty melt, added some tomatoes, tomato pickles. It was. It was. It was all right, though. It was. I salute to Whataburger. I guess I don't. This is not an ad, because I don't. I don't endorse them all the time, but they. They came through when I needed them to. I like Whataburger. Spicy ketchup that they have. They have a condiment called spicy ketchup. It's like a mix of hot sauce and ketchup. That's busing. That's. That's pretty good. So shout out to Whataburger and the spicy ketchup and also their prickly pear refresher. If y' all notice, there's a lot of drinks that's being called Refreshers lately. Okay, Refreshers, things like that. That's not no juice. That's not no juice. I tried to tell you before with the passion fruit. That's not juice. You heard? Anywho, gonna move forward, yo, with this week's episode? I know recently we've been talking a lot about AI and AI's impact on society as a whole. It had me thinking. As soon as we ended the last show, it had me to start thinking, wait a minute. There was a time a little while back where, post Pandemic, all these artists was rushing to sell their music, sell their music catalog. I don't know if y' all all remember that, but it was a. Was a real time. It was a. It was a thing like. So I started to dig. Started to do some research on that because I began to think after thinking about the AI versus IP conversation that we were having up here. Hold on. Wait a minute now. Where are they getting this data from? You know? Where are they getting all of the. The information to be able to feed these AI machines so that they can create these artists and then superficial songs, artificial songs, and everything like that? And I'm like, duh. All of these people have been selling their catalogs, all these artists. So I want to give y'. All. Before I play this clip, I wanted to give y' all a list. The list is too long for me to read through the whole list, but I'm going to skim through it. It's a list of over 200 artists that recently, in the last, you know, 10 years, let's say, have sold their catalog, their music catalog. But people amongst Patti LaBelle, of course, the group Slipknot, Frank Sinatra's estate. Let's see. Jason Aldean, the country music singer. Oh, I got the price for him. 250. 250 million. Miles Davis, his estate for 60 to 80 million. So it's acquired by Reservoir Media. Jack White, Kiss songwriter Vinnie Poncia, Kelly Clarkson. She sold her stake in her catalog to Harbor View. Let's see here. Undisclosed price. Jonas Brothers, undisclosed price. Let's see here. This is DJ Khaled sold a stake in his catalog to a group called Influence Media Partners. Undisclosed price. Tyga sold his music. Notorious Biggs estate sold his music for 200 million. T pain sold his music to Harbor View. Equity price undisclosed. See here. So as y' all can see, a lot of the Daddy Yankee sold his music catalog for reported 217 million. See here. Eve sold her catalog for a reported 50 million. Queen sold their catalog. Everything to do with them to Sony for $1.27 billion. Chuck Mangione, his estate rest in peace. So their estate's a primary wave. The price is undisclosed, as y' all can see. So Tony Bennett, Cindy Lauper, look, all these people are selling. Enrique Iglesias, Katy Perry, all these artists Cher was selling. Logic sold his catalog, and a lot of them are thinking, it's the payday. This is my labor. This the fruits of my labor for working hard and doing what I have to do. But if. If somebody's giving you that much money, what do they plan on making off of that? And also what do they plan on doing with that? So I think the biggest thing for us to worry about is the use of the music. I think that there's a bigger play here with AI with that information and with that data, so you definitely have to be careful. But I wanted to go ahead and play these videos real quick or this video with regards to this topic. Let me see here. [00:32:58] Speaker C: Here are some of the most expensive rap catalogs ever sold. Metro Booman sold his catalog, which includes Migos, Bad and Bougie. The Weeknd's Heartless 21, Savage's bank account, Father Stretched My Hands by Kanye west, and Drake's Jumpman. Metro sold all of these classics for a reported $70 million. Future recently sold every single song he worked on between 2004 and 2020 for $75 million, which breaks down to roughly $122,000 per song. He sold. Lil Wayne not only sold his music catalog, but all the catalogs under his label. This included Nicki Minaj's Pink Print, Tyga's Careless World, and ridiculously, all of Drake's music. From the beginning of his career up until God's Plan. Wayne sold all of these projects for only $100 million. Kanye west had all of his catalog listed for $175 million by his label, which he had no say in and no desire to sell. But it was too late by the time they had already sold it. Dr. Dre sold all of his royalties from NWA, both of his classic albums the Chronic and 2001, as well as Kendrick Lamar's albums to Pimp A Butterfly and his smash hit Damn. Dre sold all of these rap monuments for well over $200 million. And finally, Juice Wrld's family sold every Release Juice Wrld song, as well as nearly a thousand unreleased tracks they sold for an undisclosed fee. But it was confirmed to be at least $250 million due to it being the largest rap catalog sale ever. Here are some of the most expensive rap catalogs ever sold. [00:34:08] Speaker A: So, yeah, just wanted to play that again. These numbers that I'm hearing as far as these M's that's being thrown around is not light. And these is a lot of tech companies. And from, again, the information and the data is where the value is being held at. It's not for the music and for them to put sync on the music and to put it in different movies and commercials and stuff like that, although it could be used for that. I don't see that being the. The long game here. I see that. That we're going to be given these AI machines or software companies and things like that, this information, and you just say, hey, make me a song that sounds like Eve or whatnot. And it's just going to produce it and be able to produce it. And you know, how much. Again, just goes back to the AI versus IP conversation that we've been having. I love to hear y' all thoughts on the conversation as a whole and what y' all thoughts are on that. I mean, are y'. All. Is it the payday? Like, which I'll take the, you know, take the money, or is your catalog, your music, and something that you've worked on for all of your life more valuable than those M's that they're throwing around? Y'? [00:35:23] Speaker C: All. [00:35:23] Speaker A: Let us know here at mandatoryot704gmail.com. Mandatory ot704gmail.com that's the email address. Or also you can call up the hotline 704-781-7011 and leave us a voicemail, 704-781-7011. And leave us a voicemail. Greatly appreciate all the engagement from the community. So definitely let us know what you think about that, y'. All. Secondly, though, I did want to get to the documentary, I think it's called the Reckoning that came out about Diddy. I just wanted to give some raw pause thoughts on the situation. So, Sean Combs, we gonna need you to come on out, you rapist. Allegedly. Everything that I'm thinking about, you have to pause. Right? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Nah, I just wanted to go off the head and. Oh, I just wanted to go off the top. Hold on. Just want to give y' all my raw thoughts about the. So, Sean Combs, we gonna need you to come on out, you rapist. Allegedly. But that generation, there's black men in that generation that have let us down and I think put in, first of all, Idolatry. These are some of the reasons that we can't. Can't engage in idolatry, y'. All. We can't be believing in none of these people at all. None of them. That's everyone included. Excluding nobody. Excluding nobody. Look what I embody. Nah. But for real, excluding no one. We can't engage in idolatry, y'. All. We can't. Because this is what happens, yo. Your heroes is gonna let you down every time that you're giving them. Give them an opportunity to. He's never no hero of mine. But I'm just saying, the facade that he put on and. And I'm talking about Diddy, y'. All. But the facade that he put on you, rapist. And the lies that he told and continue to tell the pejoratives that he used against women. Y. See what I did there? That's right. But it was all. Come on, yo. It was all a show. And ultimately, outside of producer, a musician or anything like that, I just took Diddy. Took away from this. I took Diddy for a shrewd salesman. Just a nasty, aggressive salesman. Got his way a couple times and, you know, and continued down that. Down that path of destruction. The CCNY celebrity basketball game situation, which kind of kick started everything off. Nine people died out there. And the way that he moved forward with it is that he put the company in his mother's name and gave the other 25 to the Kirk Burroughs fella and kept everything out of his name because he was being sued at the wazoo for that situation. Shout out to Cousin Jerome, who's giving me. You know, he was. Oh, he was in New York at that time. Okay, In Brooklyn, as it may be. But Cousin Jerome, who went to Howard before Puff, I want to say, but went to Howard. He was in New York at that time. He knew about that whole situation in depth. So with that CCNY situation happening, then fast forward, of course, to the East Coast, west coast stuff in the middle of the 90s, and then all the way to the end of the 90s, beginning of the 2000s, with the JLo Shine club situation. Trouble has always found. Trouble has always followed Puffy, and it may be something of us again, the power of words. From naming his company Bad Boy, you know, and these things come into fruition. He's just been. Everything that the documentary has shown or exhibited, it looked like he's been entitled, spoiled throughout his life. Of course, he's worked hard, I guess, and he's been passionate about pushing products and everything throughout his life. But again, true talent of his I, you know, is perhaps identifying people that work well together and building a team or being able to sell a team a dream of lavishness and. And lifestyle because it's not doing good business and it's not paying people on time or things like that. So I don't know where his true talent lies at. At the same time, again, just want to hold black men accountable. Like, you let us down, big bruh. But again, this is why I don't engage in idolatry. Be frank. And I hate that he got to catch this straight. But it's the same way that I feel about Puffy is the same way I feel about Kevin Hart. There are folks out there now, not in a way like, because of the crimes that Puffy has committed. Look at Kevin Hardy, anything similar. It's in the sense of both of them being salesmen. There's a lot of people like Rick Ross, he's a salesman when he talks. DJ Khaled, he's a salesman when he talks. And half of the. Half of the things that they say are like talking points from a publicist or things that they've kind of rehearsed in their head. It sounds like Charlemagne. He sounds like a salesman whenever he talks. And whenever I get salesman vibes, I just don't get authenticity. I don't believe you. I don't believe that you're telling the truth and that you're being honest. So you know that that's the key thing about it, and that's. That's the main thing that I pulled away from everything that Puffy has done since, whether it's Vote or die back in 2004. Looking back at that now, looking at him running a marathon and thinking in my head, like, how much drugs was that nigga on back then? But also with the making a band back then, when he was doing making the band, I always looked at it as, that's not any real work that you're doing. You just bringing people, inviting people to get famous. I've always thought the same thing about American Idol and America's Got Talent. All of these talent shows that's nationally televised, where the promise is fame, and then there's no substance, you know, attached to the fame that you're promised, essentially. And you end up in a situation that's worse than you were before you auditioned, if that makes sense. Like, you know, and that's not true for everyone, but for some, certainly so. Some certainly so, like with Making the Band, Lou Pearl, man, Puffy, all of them they just got essentially a pool of free talent. They were able to do a national talent show, bring free talent, have people make a full fools of themselves, sell that on reality as reality tv, and exploit the people. Ultimately, that's all that it came down to. So I don't have too much else to say about that, but Buffy and. Yeah, rest in peace. Big rest in peace to Pop. Yes. I don't know. I don't know. I did write this down about the Puffy situation, though. Diddy is the perfect example in case study of hubris, arrested development and pride. Too much pride. Yeah. That's simply put. You know, it was. It was shameful and embarrassing to watch everybody's accounts of him and then like his disregard the one thing that I do hate with certain people and just something, I guess, get it off my chest type vibe. But I don't like. I dislike very much when people dismiss or how should I put this? Compartmentalize, like, live new lives. Start new lives, if you will, and then forget about everyone that they've done dirty in the past lives, if that makes sense. I. I can't stand that. Like, you have to acknowledge your wrongs and stuff. But people that can move forward, wipe their hands and just start all over. While that scene is a strength or that scene is valuable in certain situations, it still leaves. Has the opportunity to leave trauma still on, you know, unhealed and. And just mess and. Right. So I. I just hate people that do that. And this comes off as inconsiderate as. Sorry, y'. All. It comes off as inconsiderate as. But, yeah, so that's my thoughts on that. That's my thoughts on Diddy reckoning. I feel like he and a lot of other black men that were given power, that were blessed with capital, blessed with resources and stuff behind the guise of building up the black community that did nothing but exploit it, take advantage of it and abuse us like, so. Yeah, that's my thoughts on that. Yeah. Let's see here. We can go ahead and move forward. And go through some high star bars. For us, it'll be coming from the brother, Yasin Bay. So it's my brother Yasin Bay. Y' all may know him as most deaf, but you go to high star bars this week, y' all. [00:45:28] Speaker F: Style synergy, recognize symmetry broke them down chemically ain't the number 10 MC talking about how be styled it like Kennedy late like a 10 to 3 when I say when I be girl safe and I keep cuz this way out like Tennessee take me to A place called the BK without pause, the delay get run like Pen Belay don't deal what he say, she say ain't working for no cheat Pay the most deaf deep Play this what the streets say hey, Mr. DJ, play that devil Morgan, that jam got me open Decided to break it Broken from front, front, side to side, middle to back Never the whack I come from. Best Style Black from Lewis Ave. To be exact. [00:46:07] Speaker A: Brookly. Like that. Like that, like that. Yeah. So shout out to Most Def Yasin Bay for that. You know what I'm saying? Shout out. Definitely brotherly love to most death with that. But also, speaking of brotherly love, show love. It'll cost nothing to show a. I was doing this, getting money, showing some love. All right, so shout out. And brotherly love, like I said to Most Def, salute to him. Also salute to my brother. My frat brother Busby. Salute to you, brother, and your company as well. Champions Fate down there in Charleston. I appreciate y' all coming through. He always able to come through on the pieces for any of your embroidery needs or anything like that down in Charleston area. Champions Fate. I'm telling y', all, I'm telling y'. All, tap in, tap in. So also salute brotherly love to my brother, Ortega, Missouri, and Mr. Show me art. Mr. Show me art. So it's two black businesses I wanted to highlight this week, though. Champions Fate, Embroidery and Greek Apparel. And then my brother, Ortega, Missouri, with Mr. Show Me Art. You know, again, both brothers, I appreciate y'. All. For the holiday season, I gotta. You know, you gotta stay creative. You gotta get different things that can't always buy in the store. So I appreciate you brothers, if you're listening out there. Also, though, definitely brotherly love to my squad, to my brothers, all of my brothers. Brother Patty, my brother Joel, my. Excuse me, my brother Scoot. Shout out with anything is possible or anything goes. Rather, podcast salute to my brother Pip. Soulful touch. Also, gumbo fest. Shout out to all of the bros back in Orangeburg. Of course, salute to my brother, Big Cliff. This is a public service announcement, y'. All. I believe that Carolina Sports Talk will be coming back pretty soon. I don't know. I don't know. We're gonna see, y'. All. We're gonna see. But be on the lookout for that. I don't want to make any broken promises to my audience, but, Big Cliff, if you're listening, you already know what time it is, bruh. Give me a time of the day to have me date, because this past week of football it was a great week of football, weekend of football, but, you know, again, getting there, getting antsy, man. Gotta get my. My sports commentary out there and stuff like that, you know, Salute to everybody else around. This time last week is when I started to get emotional. It won't happen this week. All right? But. I just wanted to say I appreciate y'. All. All right, make sure that you email us. Mandatory ot704gmail.com Mandatoryot704gmail.com and give us a call if you want us to leave a voicemail. 7047-8170-1787-0478-17011 all right. But again, my name is DJ Highstar. This is mandatory overtime. And I appreciate y' all for showing love. We do. Everything that we do is with supreme faith, is in God. So I'm going to end this with a prayer that's 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. And I appreciate y'. All. Hey, everybody, it's closing time. You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. Closing time. Do the knowledge. I know you gonna dig this. Mama got that bunch of crunch game. Mama got that bunch of crunch cake.