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[00:00:03] Speaker A: Y. [00:00:06] Speaker B: 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. [00:00:23] Speaker C: Let me work. Please let me work. Let me work. Please let me. [00:00:37] Speaker D: I'm a member of Omega Sci Fi fraternity. [00:00:41] Speaker B: 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. [00:01:00] Speaker D: J. And the list goes. Salt Pepper, $0.50, Tribe Called Quest, Nas, LL Cool J. And the list goes on. Is there some secret sauce when it comes to how and why all of these performers came out of Queens? [00:01:18] Speaker E: You know, I don't know if there's a secret sauce, but what I will say is something I kind of hinted on earlier is Queens is probably the only borough where you can have an urban and suburban experience within two blocks of each other. You know, I mean, you in the projects, but then Mr. Stanley across the street owns a whole business and has a lawn and a, you know, a garage and stuff like that. So I think it gave a very unique, you know, experience to some of the artists. And then. Plus the history that came before us, the jazz, the funk, the doo wop, the R and B, those are our OGs. And it really can kind of show when you listen to the music. [00:01:57] Speaker F: Yeah. So we. [00:01:58] Speaker D: It was kind of almost soaking up in the soil and the atmosphere. The first female. [00:02:10] Speaker C: Let me work. Please let me work. [00:02:29] Speaker B: I know heartbreaks, the zip backs Just get back the door. We get back. Hey, what's happening, y'? All hold on. Y' all know if y' all hear my voice early, we gonna karaoke some stuff, right? See a lot of y', all. Y' all had to stay inside the room while your parents was playing cards or something, while this was playing. You hear? You feel what I'm saying? Come on, man. Niggas playing spades, picchino, all that. I know we're doing what he say? Everything that we want to. Come on. Y' all know what time it is, What we're doing, Nothing. Change your mind. We gonna get started in a second. What up, Queens? Ha ha. Give it all you got. Wake up your body. Wake up your body. Hold on, [00:04:00] Speaker C: let me work. Please let me work. [00:04:06] Speaker A: Bang, bang, bang. [00:04:08] Speaker C: Like that, like that. Let me work. Please let me work. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Karaoke? Sure, why not? Scorpion bricks way before Aubrey's double disc. 40 on my lap clap sound like 40 did the mix like a Michelin I go dummy with the left all right. Wrest on my dick, try to ordered all my checks too late. You know they hate when you come [00:04:51] Speaker C: on. [00:04:58] Speaker B: My little bread. Pray for me, y' all One day I'm have to pay for these thoughts is extinct it ain't safe for me my dog come on, we stay. Hold up just to clarify further, My legs crossed. [00:05:26] Speaker C: Huh? [00:05:26] Speaker B: Black stones on my neck, y' all can't kill Christ Black Messiah ain't going to stop till you spill blood. Shout out to the Crash out, boys, Yo, shout out. Shout out to Jay Z, right? Nipsey Hustle. But I'm your main man, DJ High. Starting the place to be as well, though. What up, y'? [00:05:57] Speaker A: All? [00:05:58] Speaker B: Cause I gotta holler at Jay about some things, yo, you know what I'm saying? But first and foremost, welcome to another episode of Mandatory Overtime. I'm your main man, DJ Heist and the place to be. Appreciate you joining me, man. Simply an audio journal of an 80s baby. Social experiment, inconsistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you here listening to me. For that, I appreciate you. Give you a round of applause for that as well. Thank you. All right. 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, write an email, engage, share. But most importantly, make some noise, y'. All. Cause your main man is here. You heard. Reporting live from the 704, 980, Charlotte, America. Make some noise. What's happening, Charlotte, America. Joined by my Russian sound engineer. And a check, one, two. What's happening, y'? All? Let's go to work. [00:07:00] Speaker C: Like that. [00:07:00] Speaker D: Like that. [00:07:02] Speaker B: Okay, spirited intro there. Salute. Salute to TL Cross. That was the voice that y' all heard talking about Queens and the essence of Queens and all of that stuff. And I must concur, I must agree with the brother. Yeah. No lies told. No lies told. I ran across that clip and I figured, hey, I'll pop. Pop my a little bit, you know what I'm saying? Being from Queens and all. So, yeah, Salute, Salute against TL Cross. Shout out to you all that are tuned in currently, you know what I'm saying? Let's go to work. Listen, we gotta revise a couple of things from last week I want to say. And a couple of notes from last week I do want to revise. Let's see here. The first one, though, is my man that was speaking on a subway joint. I did a little Bit more research. His name, his performing name is Nico White. N E K O Nico White. That was the voice that y' all heard last week during the intro with the subway takes. So, yeah, Nico White. Let's see here. Wanted to get to a couple of other things as far as revisions. Because you see, the show ended last week. And y' all know, man, hold on. Because the show ended last week and I'm listening back. [00:08:39] Speaker D: Hip hop, real hip hop. [00:08:41] Speaker B: Been a brother I couldn't let certain slide. You know what I'm saying? And it's my fault. It's my fault. You know what I mean? But yeah, I. As they deep, started doing my writing exercises again and all of that. And you know, because it. I feel like I freestyle and rhyme when I want. Not to be taken for week, period. I guess that time of the month. Hold on, hold on, hold on, son. Got outside feeling like more fried than a blunt Rewind this once. Just know it started when I tried Ramen month. I know you gonna dig this. These bar. I don't know. I don't know. It was a little revision, right? Little revision with these bars. I'm a killer. Taking shots of that Murder She Wrote. You know, tequila is bad. Tequila. Don Julio Blanco or Silva. Come on. I wasn't to be defeated by the rhyme schemes, y'. All. So you know, and trust me, trust me. The rap nerd in me, I got. It's like 32, 16. 32. Whatever it is. But it's. It's some bars and they ready. All right. I came for all of those words this week. Okay. In the foreign. It's nothing boring. Okay. My dunks. The Miami Hurricane. Orange. Come on, come on, y'. [00:10:28] Speaker F: All. [00:10:28] Speaker B: I'm just. All right. Okay. Who was the last one? Oh, the last one. Forgive me. I know it's the beginning of the show, y'. All. Silver pilsner, right? Door hinge. Foreign. Orange. I know they said single English word, but all of that. Okay. Because, you know, insults, they could be hurtful, right? The babies. I might have to burp you. Okay. A thief is going to take a purse, too, just to bring it full circle. We're talking about the color. Come on. Y' all know where I'm going with this. Purple. That's right. I. I just wanted to show people it could be done. But, yeah. Nevertheless, we're gonna move forward because, yeah, if I would have came out and performed the freestyle like I would have wanted to. Yeah. But it got ugly. Got ugly and awkward. But anywho, also wanted to bring up this from last week, yo, so let's make sure we punch in, but salute. Salute to you all. Salute to the family, the community. I appreciate every single one of you. Why? And here's why. 40 hours of mandatory overtime that we got through last week, y'. [00:12:07] Speaker F: All. [00:12:07] Speaker B: 40 hours of mandatory overtime. And that's really what is listed as. Of course, we Got the Chance episodes from the beginning of Starline. And so those episodes, they're like part one, part two, part three. So it's really, really at, like, 43 episodes. It couldn't have been done without you all. So I certainly appreciate, sincerely and humbly appreciate every single listener and all the engagement that we get, just tuning in and staying a part of the. Listening to all of my book. You know what I'm saying? I appreciate y'. All. Keep the applause going for. Cause y' all are who make this thing keep going. You know what I mean? Social experiment and consistency. Let's get it, y'. [00:12:53] Speaker C: All. [00:12:53] Speaker B: You heard? So, again, salute to the 40 hours that we got through. We got there with consistency, so we're gonna stay consistent. [00:13:03] Speaker F: And. [00:13:06] Speaker B: And yeah, y' all know what time it is around this time. Let's go ahead and build some wisdom, y'. [00:13:10] Speaker C: All. What's today's mathematics? [00:13:12] Speaker D: Yo, no disrespect, but we ain't in [00:13:13] Speaker B: all of that, son. [00:13:14] Speaker C: 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 add on to the highest peak. To destroy is to eliminate and destroy any and all negativity that enters my cipher of supreme harmony. [00:13:34] Speaker B: Peace, God. [00:13:35] Speaker D: Peace, God, Knowledge. [00:13:38] Speaker B: I know you gonna dig this. All right, so we're gonna start off this week, of course, per usual. Let me see. I'm gonna start off with. With cousin Jerome, see a couple of things that he sent to the group chat this week. All right, so we're gonna start off here on Tuesday because I think I read this from Monday. Maybe not one's past. There's a couple. Hold on. I don't know if I read. Okay. One faces the future with one's past. I remember reading that one, y'. All. But we also have one. A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. All right? Respect for ourselves guides our morals. Respect for others guides our manners. It's tough. Very tough. See here? Your voice is a melody. Let it sing against the silence of doubt. I love that. All right, and then this last One is from Deepak Chopra via cousin Jerome. Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not. I love that one. I love that one. That one's tough. That one's super tough. All right, and then we got a couple from the bros. See here? Your time as a caterpillar has expired. Your wings are ready. It's from brother Taz. Don't work eight hours for a company, then go home and not work on your own goals. You're not tired. You're uninspired. Salute. Salute to brother Taz. And a positive attitude. Gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstance having power over you. I think I read that one before. Salute to brother Taz with that. Let me see here. Also had an audio clip that I do want to play. Well, a couple that I do want to play for building wisdom here. So let's see here. Essentially a couple. So let's start with this one. [00:15:44] Speaker D: All right, let's dance the whoa. [00:15:47] Speaker B: While reporting. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Yeah. [00:15:50] Speaker D: White man does the popular dance. The woe. While reporting the weather comment section reads, tom definitely invited to the cookout. Another video shows a white man dancing on stage. And the caption reads, it's obvious, obvious why Mark is invited to the cookout. The cookout where we slide like black lightning across the backyard and turn it into a dance floor. The cookout be sacred. But ain't that just like us? Inviting everyone into our holy place is crazy how all you gotta do is know how to dougie to dodge accountability. Wash white privilege out with a whip and a nae nae. And they call it muscle memory. Cause they've been whipping nae nae for centuries. [00:16:43] Speaker C: Crazy. [00:16:44] Speaker D: Crazy how when we dance we get called coons. But Brad dances and gets an honorary piece plate full of ribs. We keep feeding them like they didn't force chitlins down our throats. Dancing, they shuck and jive their way to acceptance. And it's appalling how easily we forget just because Becky can footwork and Ally makes fu fu. Invitations to the cookout flying off the shelf in the comment section. Sis, do you remember when we invited one of them to our Bible study and nine of us were told well done that night? So excuse my Caucasian, by the way. Walking for convenience and looking like a fool to cook out. They used to cook us out over open fires. White man does the pop. [00:17:38] Speaker B: Come on, man. Shout out to that brother. Yo. I don't know. My fault. I ain't. I hope I ain't getting anybody Emotional yet I just ran across that. That poem, that spoken word. And forgive my language. I apologize. Apologize, y'. [00:17:48] Speaker D: All. [00:17:49] Speaker B: But hell with that devil. I don't like that. That white boy. I don't know. I'm sorry, y'. All. But yeah, y'. [00:17:56] Speaker F: All. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Y' all feel me? Y' all feel me? Yeah. And yeah, Dylan. All right, I'm chill. I'm chill. But anywho. So that was one. We just building wisdom. We just building a little bit of wisdom. Yeah. [00:18:08] Speaker C: We can't talk about addressing the corruption people in the world if we ain't addressing the corruption in ourselves. You see what I'm saying? Don't pay attention to these stupid MCs. Talking about their players. The real players got smart bombs, you see? And when they want to play, there's no more game. This is the real deal. So if we gonna do this, and we gonna be doing this, it ain't worth it if we gonna be up here talking about how good we are. Cause none of us is important unless we doing something that's vital. Everybody got the same amount of energy in this room, but you gonna give it to. You gonna give it to bet, MTV or Nike or whoever the hell else is vying for it. And I say this because nobody says it, because we think that we doing something. We revolutionary. We suckers. We suckers for real. Let me work. We gotta get off of that, man. We come here, these places, and it's good to feel good. But we gotta know that we gotta do more. We got ain't doing nothing. It's young people like you all over the world dying. Catch a bullet. T Square. Dudes. How many one of us could say that we would have stood in front of that tank if it was us? For real. Think about that. [00:19:24] Speaker B: I hope I ain't bless the brother Yasin Bay. Brotherly love to the brother Yasin Bay. You know what I'm saying? Listen. Speaking truth to power. That look like the video footage looked like it was the early. The late 90s or early 2000s. But it sounded like people was uncomfortable in the room if y' all heard or whatnot. So there's the last one that I want to play for building wisdom this week. And we'll get into the show. Hold on. [00:19:50] Speaker F: Stand up. The entire world stands up on a stage and says, put your hands together. And when they think and if they don't think about it structurally, and the way English is laid out, that is not a structural sentence that you should see in the English language, but it comes from 1920s jazz slang and 40 years, people will not know when they're talking about jewelry and they're calling it bling that it comes from a 16 year old lil Wayne. Come on. We have changed the etymology of this language, but while we're doing it, they're calling it remedial. And that is one of the things that they dinged me about the most, is the way that she spoke. But she's supposed to be a Southeast Zone 6 Atlanta black girl. Like how else would you expect her to speak? And she's not remedial. She's the most genius person on the page in that book. And the way she's speaking is cultural, not remedial. And we've had the most effect on language. Meanwhile, when we're creating it, it's demonized and then it's monetized outside of us. And then we have people outside of the US saying black Americans don't have culture. Well, you don't think we have culture because our culture is bought and sold to the highest bidder and it's so ingrained in the world that you don't even identify it as our culture anymore. And we are actually the culture leaders. [00:21:03] Speaker B: Salute to that sister. I'm trying to see, let's see, her name is Kimberly Latrice Jones and I just saw that clip and thought it was very poignant. So salute to that sister as well. Hey, listen, she said it. She said it. And again, I can remember back, recall back to a conference that I was at maybe in 2007 or 2008 for like student government presidents or whatever like that. And I just remember speaking or getting up to speak. I didn't know what I wanted to say to the audience. And it was a group of fellow leaders, school leaders and stuff from different HBCUs. I didn't know what I wanted to say, but I said something along the lines of we have the power to like we control cool, essentially. I'm proud for paraphrasing what I said, but I said we control cool. So if we go on the corner and we start snapping off beat and start rhyming off pattern, then that will become the new. The new cool, essentially is what I was telling the audience. And I remember coming back to South Carolina, going back, you know, about regular life and a couple years pass and then future comes out racks on racks, on racks. And I said to myself, I know that this isn't going to be like go anywhere. This isn't serious and true. Indeed, it went somewhere, you know what I'm saying? Now, that's no knock on future, but I mean, just to. Seems like the brother was rewarded for simplifying some music. That's all I'm saying. Salute to the brother Lupe Fiasco. Brotherly love. Before I forget, to the brother Lupe Fiasco. We saw him on Culture United TV show or that show that I watch on YouTube weekly, and he's been in the headlines a lot this week, period. But listening to some of his interviews and stuff this past week, I've got a different perspective with Lupe and a different level of empathy, I guess, for his. For his journey. But it doesn't excuse some of the stuff that he says. But I still got some empathy for his journey. So salute to him. Salute to him. Let's go ahead and move forward. Actually got a little bit of mail here. Mail time. And so I wanted to go ahead into that and read that. That's gonna get us actually moving forward into some of the stuff that I wanted us to talk about today. So perfect opportunity. Let's go ahead and get into the letter that we got here. The letter reads, hey, mandatory OT Fam. I hope everyone is staying cool, cool in this summer heat. I've been enjoying all of the grill work from DJ High Star. He's truly a. Okay, hold on, hold on. Okay, I'll start reading this again. I hope everyone is enjoying. I hope everyone is staying cool in this summer heat. I've been enjoying all of the grill work from DJ High Star. He's truly. He's truly a fool with the meat, champ. [00:24:19] Speaker C: Use a freaky ass. [00:24:21] Speaker B: All right, all right. We could get back to the letter, y'. [00:24:26] Speaker D: All. [00:24:29] Speaker C: All right, [00:24:31] Speaker B: so I'm not gonna reread that first part. [00:24:33] Speaker D: Y'. [00:24:34] Speaker B: All. Y' all heard it. I recently watched the BET Awards and there are a few things that I want to highlight. One, I did not like Drew Ski as the host. I think a lot of his comedy is only good for social media. They need to bring back real stand up comics if that's the route they want to go for hosts. Number two, I loved Ms. Lauryn Hill's tribute from her children and other artists. She raised great point, Reb. Legacy, legacy, legacy. At times, she gets a lot of criticism from the community for being late, maybe. But she's giving us so much with one studio album for being something it says for being from the community, for being. But she's given us so much with one studio album. Okay, number three, Young Miami. Standing ovation for Spin. Dad, to me, this is a slippery slope. She's actually facing a lot of backlash for this song because of the morality message. And it's like, I get it's a funny, anthemy song, but what message are we sending? Art imitates life. And currently in real life, there are young green ladies going down to Miami hoping to get tricked on. In real life, there are young women and men who don't know how to date or communicate because of the outside influences with the literacy crisis. Young people don't know how to separate the two. And that's where entertainment becomes not fun. I agree. I hope there could be some conversation around that because like it, because like it or not, this is our culture. Anywho, be something that you would be proud of with love. Anyways, Reb, salute. Salute. Shout out to Reb for sending in that email. We appreciate your Reb. [00:26:23] Speaker F: Appreciate you. [00:26:26] Speaker B: Awesome email. Go back over a little bit here. I hope everyone's staying cool in this summer heat. I've been enjoying all of the grill work from your boy, yours truly. It's true, it's true. Spatch Cocking chicken. Hey, yo, beer can chicken. You know, little turkey burgers been doing it up, Been doing it up. No need for a whole Alpha lunch segment this week, but if we did [00:26:52] Speaker C: do one, [00:26:57] Speaker B: Fine, fine. But yeah, no, you know, put together a little spread. It's a hosted poker night this past week, so put together another spread with some chicken and stuff like that. Let's see here. I recently watched the BET Awards, so I, I still haven't caught the whole thing in its entirety, but I did catch the introduction and then some of the other portions specifically with Reb, but she knows what I felt about the Drew Ski thing. I, I agree. It's not even that I don't like him as a host. I just, again, I don't like that they recycled some of his things that were successful with his, you know, personal skits. Of course, you know, I know that's, that's the formula. It works. And, and by the way, y', all, the email is titled Black Entertainment B. But so I, I definitely get that. I think a lot of his comedy is only good for social media. They need to bring back real stand up comics if that's the route that they want to go for host. I agree. And there needs to be, you know, we're here to say the bold statements, but there needs to be a sub genre of physical comedy that we credit Martin Lawrence for. I'm gonna just say it needs to be said, but there's a bunch of Martin's kids Including myself. But kids that come up on Martin or Jamie Foxx and you just have that, I don't know, Genesis qua or whatever, you know what I'm saying? That influence from them where it's a certain level of physical comedy and I just, I don't know how else to describe it. It involves like, you know, laughing and then stopping real suddenly after you laugh or you know, getting real loud suddenly. It's just a bunch of different, you know, intangibles I guess. And if y' all know what I'm saying, you know, you can tell somebody that's influenced by like Martin or Jamie Foxx and everything. So he's, he's got that to where he, you know, in today or nowadays that seems to be the standard for funny to people is like that physical. Just the, the funny that takes a lot of energy. You know, the witty funny or the stand up being smart and clever with, with certain lines and being very quick on your feet. I don't know where that's gone. But again, you got these mascots for, for companies and, and that's, you know, the face of the face of the young people now whatnot. And then every other commercial is a prize picks commercial. So go figure. But nevertheless, nevertheless brotherly love to Drew Ski for getting that gig. I don't know again, you know, you had the Kevin Hart thing on stream last year with Drew Ski and Kai Senat and you know, ascension from there. So salute brotherly love. I suppose. I don't know. I don't know. But I do agree with Reb. I wasn't a fan of the Drew Ski hosting thing. My biggest thing was playing around with the church from the jump. [00:30:06] Speaker D: Like, [00:30:08] Speaker B: like when you did the skit, it was in an isolated situation and type of vibe or whatever like that. But then bringing that back and then saying stuff like impregnate with the word of God and all of that. It just wasn't funny to me. Yeah, it just simply wasn't funny. The I don't like, I don't like nowadays or it's been for a while, but co opt in the choirs. I hate that like even if it's for a serious inspirational song, you know, you know how to. Sometimes you have white rappers and, and, and they'll have the, the choir behind them or whatever. I just hate, I hate how we co op the choir and we bring a choir into anything where. Yeah, it's corny. I just hate it. And then now people do it with, with comedy and let's get the whole Quiet is saying something in unison. But it's, it's a, a statement that's, you know, whatever, like a bizarre statement or something like that. Real shocking statement. And let's get them to sing it in unison. So it's gonna be funny. Like, I hate people that people are co opting choirs nowadays. Yep. I love Ms. Lauryn Hill's tribute. I did as well. From her children and other artists. She raised. Legacy, legacy, legacy. At times she gets a lot of criticism from the community for being. But she's giving us so much with one studio album, one solo studio. I'll met. Indeed. And then of course, we got to count her work with the Fujis. But still, I definitely understand what you're saying. As far as missing miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the purpose for it. I definitely. I was. Look, I'll be real with y'. All. I was getting emotional when I was watching that joint. Yo. Had to keep it together. Let me see here. Yeah, but I was. I was getting emotional watching it. Let's see. I wanted to go to my notes real quick with regards to that. So similar to what Ari B. Is saying, I felt like her children were represented up there, literal and figuratively. You had everyone from Lizzo, Scissor, Dochi Doja, Cat Thames. Okay. Queen Latifah though her contemporary Rhapsody, Tierra Whack. You know, all of these performers. Common was even out there performing. So to see that and see them give her love, I love to see that. Truly a queen. I wrote down BET Awards confirms what I was saying last week as far as music being our superpower. See here. Yeah, it just confirmed it when I was watching it in real time. The. The joy that music can bring to people, the emotion that it can evoke out of people, the memories that it can bring up for people and bring back memories. It's a whole time machine. If you perform certain songs for people, they could close their eyes and they could smell the years that, that these certain songs came out and stuff. So people can miss me with that because I, I. And we'll get to it in a second. But got into a little back and forth, y', all, on YouTube with regards to this. But yeah, so it confirmed for me that music is our superpower. Also, during her speech. Speech. Her humility during her speech. It's been a consistent theme for her throughout her career. So she's truly. I wrote down a world builder and a change agent. There is an interview out with Mark Lamont Hill on Grits and Eggs and he speaks It's a lot of good jewels and a lot of good information that he's sharing in there. I might play a clip here in a second from the interview, but one thing he says is to be is to be like, and to be like is to be like the oppressor. So essentially saying that everybody is striving to some semblance of freedom, but that freedom is designed essentially by your oppressor. We don't have a true vision of what freedom is unless you can reimagine your world. And that's essentially, again, Lauren has lived in a world of humility, compassion, grace, and empathy for others for this time, regardless of what the outside noise is and outside narratives. So I had that written down. I did want to share that much, much sisterly love and love, outpouring of love, overly love for Lauryn Hill, her family, and salute to her. I. I don't even know the. The award issue when it was like a lifetime icon or nighttime achievement. [00:35:06] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:35:07] Speaker B: Let's salute. Salute to Lauren. Let's see here. I want to young my young. Miami. Standing ovation for Spin. That definitely a slippery slope. Facing a lot of backlash for the song because of the morality of the message. And then, yeah, whatever she said, Reb said. And I get it, it's a fun, anthemy song, but what message are we sending? And yeah, again, it started off to me as a. Like, this song is so horrible, there's no way that it could go anywhere. But he continued on. In real life, there are young women and men who don't know how to date or communicate because of the outside influences. True. Indeed. And because, again, of dumbing down a society. Right. The dependence of smartphones and technology and stuff. They don't even know how to talk to a woman without calling her his little fine. So, yeah, excuse me, he's a little fine. So I definitely agree with Reb there. And then she also said real life. Oh, I thought she said something about girls being green. Actually facing a lot of backlash. Art imitates life. And currently in real life, there are young green ladies going down to Miami hoping to get tricked on. Ain't that the truth, Roof. So, yeah, again, it's just. It is feeding into a toxic environment. A culture from us, of course. But I don't like the. The song period. The message of the song, like, what is the purpose of us making music? And if somebody tells me to entertain, and I'm gonna ask them, what does entertain mean? What does entertain mean to you? What does it mean to Entertain someone to distract them, to evoke, like, emotion out of them, to get them to smile or laugh because you can be entertained and cry at a movie. So what is entertain? We use that as that word, and that that word carries so much weight and stuff whenever we talk, just so that we can excuse and justify nonsense or trash. Like. So my question is, is. Is, like, what. What's the purpose of our music moving forward? What. What are we making this music for? We telling a story about how we used to live? Are we giving inspiration to what we're inspiring to do in life? Are we motivating others by our story and where we are currently? Or are we just saying the wildest, most outlandish stuff on the microphone so that we can get a couple dollars like it, make it make sense. But nevertheless, I took it to the YouTube streets this week because, of course, how divinity and sour serendipity works. As soon as we recorded last week, this became a topic of conversation in the Zeitgeist, if you will. I love what you said, though, about that. Reb Art imitates life. And currently in real life, there are young green ladies going down to Miami. Yep. And then also the literacy crisis. Young people don't even know how to separate, you know, what's entertainment and what's not or whatever like that. So I. All right. I wanted to read to y' all or go to the YouTube video of my brother, Wayne O. Wayno's been getting, you know, heat or from me for the past couple weeks, primarily when I brought up that he's a. And here's why. [00:39:08] Speaker A: Ass. [00:39:09] Speaker B: So he has been receiving backlash from me from weeks. But he put out a video, [00:39:17] Speaker C: you [00:39:17] Speaker B: know, put a video up. It's titled Young Money, Young Miami Spin that Hit Record or Hurting Hip Hop Culture. So I was going into the video listening, and I was listening expecting Wayno to just be responsible with his platform and. And kind of just give his piece with regards to it. He did give his opinion on everything with it, but it wasn't what I expected from Wayno. It was kind of siding with Young Miami to give some context. Wayno has worked with qc, the label, I believe, as an A R in the past. So he does have connections there. But let's go ahead. And I wanted to go to the comment section. I'm gonna read some of my comments and the responses that I got from that. But also I wanted to read some of the other comments that stand out to me and that I had highlighted here. Let's see here. One says Stop taking things literal, says wayno. Bro, we're 40 plus. We know the difference. What about the younger generations behind us? True. Indeed. Let's see here. And then I commented under that. Well, here. Here's a comment that was put under that where are the parents to parents? At what point do parents become responsible for raising their children? All right, so I understand. I understand that point. But my retort to that is, we can't keep leaving to parents and stay quiet and think things will change on its own. All right, let's see here. And somebody, of course, giving push back to this argument. Contrarians. Lol. When we were younger, we listened to the same stuff and knew better. That's probably a bad parenting thing with the new generation if they don't know the difference between entertainment and real life. So salute to Reb and what she said. But that goes along with that. All right, and then I want to go back to. Let's see here. Swatch. So way. No, these are some of my comments to him. Wayne. Oh, disappointed, bruh. You deflected to all the other songs the whole time. Smh. Why are you bringing up the older songs? Because throughout his video, he was talking about Young Miami Spin that. But then he was bringing up older songs. Like, I mean, shoot, we used to listen to Luke all the time. And I mean, you know, Akanelli putting. Yes, bro, we know. We know. But we're here now. 2026. It's like somebody telling me about the Celtics winning some championships. Who's the championship? [00:41:53] Speaker E: Excuse me. [00:41:53] Speaker B: Who's the champions in 2026, man? Huh? [00:41:58] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:41:58] Speaker B: Whenever I get a chance, I'm gonna bring up the Knicks, but y' all know what time it is. But nevertheless, Wayne, no, back to you. Let's see here. So then another thing that I replied, because again, Wayo was not excusing the song itself, but saying, y', all, let's take it easy. Everybody has selective outrage and this and that. So then I wrote, it's all good until somebody drops FDO and then tries to rob Gucci, man. And we're calling them stupid. Right? All right, all right. Okay. Just saying. It's just pointing it out. All right, let's see here. Somebody put. Let's push that new Rhapsody. God's got an Afro. Sisterly love to Rhapsody. I do gotta get into that album. Anti Eyes album. Let's see here. Hip hop been cooked. The millisecond gangster rap took off in the 90s. Please. And then there's Laughing Emojis. I don't know what's so funny about that. But again, this has. This does have credence to it. And again, we'll circle back to that and revisit one. Said one comment says, I'd be so confused on how Wayne O would like the culture to conduct itself. How could he dispute anything these ladies were saying? Like, it's not straight facts. You want the dumb to stop, but you also applaud it because it was done in the past. This isn't the only song that has that content, like, so to speak. Well, when do we as a culture start to do better? Like he said, like Nikki said, we're just showing people how they treat us and look at us. True. Indeed. So Nikki Taylor of Brownstone and India Ari both commented on the song and this is what kind of sparked all of this stuff. Let's see here. Beautiful comment here. One moment. It's a shame. Julio Fulio was unalived and we have to do better the next moment. Getting over and scamming folks is defended. Make it make sense. That's all I'm saying. Here goes the counter arguments. Annie up is played in every sports arena these days and even commercials. So the. What, man? What are we talking about? Like, lost. Oh, okay. I wanna. Somebody said, I can't agree with you on this one, bro. Yeah, then there's been another argument on that on the whole topic. People become moral hip hop purists when it's. When it comes to women's rap. And then it says, project Pat Run a train. Okay, again, we're deflecting, y'. [00:44:42] Speaker E: All. [00:44:43] Speaker B: We were deflecting. Okay, so then there's another comment that says it is literal. They're talking about this song, by the way, y'. All. Right. Spend that while young. Miami, y'. [00:44:55] Speaker C: All. [00:44:55] Speaker B: Forgive me, man. Staying on this soapbox, but it's important. All right, so another comment under the video says it is literal. JT got locked up for scamming. Okay, Exactly. King Von made drill songs about actual murder. Fans like these songs because they believe the artist. Exactly. All right, so, yeah, another comment. Now, I can't get with you on this one. Now, the one that I want to read is. Is one of my last comments that got most of the replies and engagement on here, but wanted to read some of these other ones still. Wayne, no, stop it. There's got to be your worst take. The kids aren't like we was. They don't know the difference between social media in real life. I don't even like blaming it on. These are different times and stuff. Like that just right is right and wrong is wrong. Like if we couldn't recognize it when we were younger, why. Why is it a problem for us to recognize it now? Let's see here. I'm sick of all this low vibrational mind numbing as music. Yes, true, indeed. Word to they clone Tyrone comparing Annie up to a song that says scamming is cool. It's crazy work, you know, Come on. The barbershop, beauty shop and nail salon. We were young in. Times have changed. We didn't take it literally. So yeah. All right, so back. So here's my comment which currently sitting at 15 replies y'. All. And it says Wayne, oh, take your cape off. Music is black people's superpower and we squander it with songs like that. Right? So let me read some of the lost. Well, I'm a. Yeah, let me read some of the lost but. And also some people. That was on my, you know, agreeing with what I was saying as well. But nevertheless, let's read some of these comments under that way. No, take your cape off. Music is black people's superpower and we squander it with songs like that. Talking about spin that. That's my comment under that wayno was the A R equality control when the city girls were there. So his take. Excuse me. So take this video with a grain of salt. It's a fact and it says facts. I don't even listen to rap no more and glad my kids don't. The excusing of the degenerate violence and stupidity is too much for me. Me accountable, successful, serious cultures don't promote their low lives. Come on, man. All right, so here goes. Detroit Bad Boy 313 superpower. [00:47:18] Speaker D: Wow. [00:47:19] Speaker B: No wonder they think we're dumb. If y' all praised the doctors and lawyers like y' all did rappers and athletes, we'd be respected. The plumber does more than your favorite rapper. Okay. Salute to you, Detroit Bad Boy 313. Whatever. But that's not what I was saying. My. But again I, I replied to him. It says I never negated that being a part of other arts or sciences. You know that we're not a part of other arts or sciences. It's like multiple things can't be true. We are exceptional in many things. But when some people hear things, you think that it negates others. So like if I say we excel in music or sports. If I mentioned that you think that it's negating the fact that we are excel in in school and academia. And I said read for comprehension, not Just to argue and sound smart, homie. All right, so here we go. We're going to continue with these. These replies to my comment. So what are you going to do about it other than complain? Go out there and make some art if you feel so inclined. Well, this is art that I'm making now. Electric or whatever the. What are we talking about? All right. Shout out to Biggers 252. He put 100 emojis. All right then, here we go. Vesper cognac. You say this whole comment is nonsense. If we have superpowers via music, one song not gonna stop nothing. [00:48:50] Speaker D: Man. [00:48:53] Speaker B: You lost. All right? Lost ass. So I put no, no. Somebody else came to my defense and said this is naive. This is a naive read of what's being stated. Black people have amplified shout out to Artemis Prime 3285. Black people have amplified musical abilities. Amplified abilities can be directed towards good or evil. Addictive behavior can lead you to be a drug junkie or a mathematical genius. It all comes down to how you channel what makes you different. Constructive and destructive outcomes are two faces of the same spirit. The only difference is what road it chose. [00:49:31] Speaker E: Thank you. [00:49:32] Speaker B: But nevertheless vesper replies. Which affirms my statement that one song isn't going to change the tide. Art imitates life. Karisha is or was a hustler making songs for hustlers. If we have this diving power. What if we have this divine. I think you meant to say power through music, then young Miami is the least of the concern. That's what I'm talking about. [00:49:58] Speaker C: Y' all [00:50:00] Speaker B: want to be lazy. You lost, nigga. Fuck out of here. All right. And then let's see here again. The electric dude comes back and says, you sound a little far out with the we have amplified musical abilities things. Lol. We are talented people, but we don't got magical powers like a minstrel show. This is truly in the YouTube. That's why I had to disconnect said lost. But then Artemis prime replies back and says, I think rap is creatively exhausted like disco circa 1979. It won't matter in a few years because the creative engine is gone. It's just low vibe 8th grade energy at this point. But new things always spring from ashes. Hopefully a new creative audio art will be born in this era. All right. And the hate in oh yeah. No, no. Then again, Artemis also says human language is what it is. Black Americans have created the foundation of every modern musical genre. Blues, jazz, funk, rock and roll, hip hop. I take that as credit for above average artistic output over the last 100 years. Of course, it's a subjective metric and you're free to see things your way. Cheers. So salute to that brother or sister. But yeah, that's what I've been up to in the YouTube street, y' all fighting for hip hop or for real hip hop. But yeah, I. Again, to sum it up, yeah, it reaffirms what I'm stating about one of our superpowers being music. Okay. If it wasn't a superpower of ours, I don't know why people would try to so hard to commodify it, control it, homogenize it, control what the message is in it and push certain messages, but. But suppress other messages with it. Okay. I'm just saying, so let's not be obtuse. So let's bring up. I'm gonna play a little bit of this here for y'. [00:52:17] Speaker E: All. [00:52:21] Speaker B: You play a little bit of this. Hold up, hold tight. Let's see. This is doggy diamonds, a YouTube creator, content creator, but this is a video that he has. [00:52:37] Speaker A: There's a conspiracy theory that in 1991, a secret meeting took place. And the claim is that a persistent conspiracy theory alleges that in 1991, 25 to 30 top music industry executives met at a private residence near Los Angeles with private, private prisons investors the alleged plan. The letter claims executives were pressured to promote gangster rap and lyrics focused on drugs, violence and sex, specifically to create a killing rap genre that would lead to increased incarceration rates. What's the source of this? The story originated from a 2012 blog post, an anonymous email signed by John Smith, often attributed to industry. Confessionsmail.com the validity of the letter. The letter is widely considered a hoax or conspiracy theory against hip hop. However, some artists, including Crazy Bone, have discussed the rumor, which reflects real concerns about the intersection of hip hop, mass incarceration and corporate private. And this content was done on. [00:54:11] Speaker B: All right, so salute to Doggy Diamonds. Y' all hear what he's discussing on it. I'm sorry to be comment surfing and all of that, but I just want to read some of these comments from this says I believe it. Being a teenager in the early 90s, you could see a change because by 1993, going into 1994, it was hardcore rap here on the east coast when only a few years earlier, rap barely had any cursing or violent lyrics. It was more dance oriented to smoking blunts and drinking 40s. You hit a home run with this one, the people are waking up and you're doing your part. Thank you. Somebody else commented self destruction. You're headed for self destruction. See here. I watched a lecture with brother Panic and he spoke in the on this. It was some deep stuff. Rip Brother Panic. Let's see here. I saw a video from a producer from France who said he was there. He said he didn't even know what rap was at the time. But he confirmed that the ones in the the ones in the charge of the meeting were definitely trying to get a return on investment on their prison investments by using rap. Makes sense because in 93 who was the biggest rapper in the game? Snoop. Death Row was the biggest hip hop label and Snoop was fighting a life sentence at the time for a body. So yeah isn't a coincidence somebody commented under that. That was also a Clinton era. The Clinton era. Okay. Then it says and the Clintons was knee deep. And yeah, so they started going back and forth. But again two things could be true at the same time. Why it would it be out the you know, out the scope that the Clintons would profit from private prisons. I don't know why that would be beyond the scale of of things. Man. If the average person had access to all the things this government has done over the years to people of color, it will literally break your heart. It's so much we don't know and don't have access to that has been swept under the rug. Absolutely. That's why there was one particular meeting on just that those LLC jail contracts took up with the government. It's been out there forever now because one let the it wasn't with it. Okay. I'm sure this happened because we have witnessed the rise and fall of hip hop and its transition to pop culture or what I call pop pop. This was strategically put in place once so called gangsta rap took over the airwaves. Black and brown were the target to fill these prisons up and we are still falling for the bs. This lines up. I remember the great purge of the Afrocentric artist. I lived through this and remember this was super young at the time but was already very astute in rap music. This was my favorite era late 89 to like 92 and some 93. Rap was evolving. The beats were getting better. The lyrics had more of a consciousness to them. The dance styles were peaking. It was my in my opinion the greatest time in rap. Then all of a sudden here comes the 40s and the blunt talk. Advertising Phillies glamorizing, everything Wicked. I remember all this clearly. It's sad that as fans let it be Snatched from us. Come on, y'. All. I'm gonna just leave it at that because I can't keep reading that, y'. [00:57:46] Speaker D: All. [00:57:47] Speaker B: But just, again, this is. This is another installment in the series. Music is black people's superpower. Okay? So I just wanted to give y' all spoon feed y' all a little bit of evidence at a time. Conspiracy or not, why would that be targeted? Why would our music be targeted? Why would the messaging that is being promoted change? Why is De La Soul native Tongues, Tribe Called Quest, Kwame, you know, all these different fun artists, Daz Effects, all of these fooshnicking, all these different fun artists that just. Just had fun with their lyrics. Why are they being replaced and supplemented with these gangsters? Hardened gangsters, right? And then we look 30 years later, 40 years later, somebody like Pooh Shiesty is in a video holding up a gun to the CEO to. To Gucci. So, again, this is. Listen, I. I ain't going sugarcoat nothing. Yeah. We got to keep it real, and we got to speak truth to power. So we have to be responsible with our music, with our art, with everything that we put out. It has to be with a purpose. That's just all that I implore. That's what I implore for, for everyone, is that we put out art with a purpose. So, yeah, I. I want to stay on that too long. But, yeah, that's what I had to say with regards to that this week. I actually had. While I'm getting that off my chest, had some other. A couple things to also get off my chest. Let's see here. So let me see here. Appreciate y' all patience and staying with me. First thing I need to get off my chest. Carowinds is overrated. Yeah, Carowinds is really. Listen, I got a lot of people that. You know what I mean? Got some attachments to Carowinds and all of that stuff. Salute to y'. [00:59:54] Speaker C: All. [00:59:55] Speaker B: But I'm just saying it's. It's cool. It's cool for where it's at. It's just not super duper fly. It's not 150, $200 admission fly just yet. All right? I don't even like theme parks and all of that stuff, but Cowan's is cool, y'. All. Don't get me wrong. Are we right here in North South Carolina? All right, let's see here. Also wanted to say. Oh, I hate our innate need to throw up hand signs whenever taking pictures. Like, not even just the peace signal or anything like that. And I'm a Q dog, right? Omega. So I could throw up. I could throw that up. But when people like doing the Cam Newton, one pinky, one thumb, one ring or whatever. Come on, bro. Come on, man. I'm cool off of that. I'm cool off of that. So those are two things I needed to get off my chest. Also wanted to mention, because I said the thing with the Cam Newton with the. The thumb and the point, the finger and the pinky or whatever, because he tried to get the brother, Jason Wilson, I want to say, Reverend, Actually, the author that I was looking for the other week, tried to get him to do it on one of his. He tried to get him to do it on one of his interviews on his show, and the brother wasn't going. He was not going. So let's see here. Jason Wilson, I want to say. And that was the book that we were actually looking for. It's called the man at the Moment Demands. So salute to Jason Wilson. But nevertheless, yeah, I'm gonna do some brotherly love. We'll get out of here in a moment. Y' all give me one second here. I actually, yeah, we'll do some brotherly love and get out of here. We're right here at an hour. [01:02:03] Speaker D: It don't show nothing. It don't cost nothing to show a some love. [01:02:12] Speaker B: All right, so wanted to do brotherly love a little bit differently this week because we're gonna merge it in with some sports stuff. But so first we wanted to get our regular brotherly loves out the way. Of course, Poker crew. Shout out to the poker crew, the dope digitals or Trey, whichever one you call yourself nowadays. Salute to Ashton, of course. Salute to Fat Boy Q. What up, Mixmaster T? Sock, what's happening? Hey, Butter, what's up? My boy Carlos, of course, you know I got my boy Joel. What's happening, Tavi? What up? Talk to Scoot. This past week, Dr. J.B. buford, High Star Media, of course, was Henning on my Florence Crux family out there. Be easy. L. What's up, Jones? Wally. You know what I'm saying? Sisterly love out to everybody. Of course, Reb. Thank you again for the email this week. Reb Patriot, Patty Coco and the culture. Amy Deuce Deuce, Cheryl Poison. Of course, not mention Cheryl Poison. Salute. Salute to Mixmaster T. I said it earlier. Yeah, I know. Where y'. [01:03:31] Speaker C: All. [01:03:31] Speaker B: Lambda Sigma as a whole. Salute to my whole chapter, of course. Salute to all my brothers. Salute to my brother Nick out there in G. Vegas in Greenville. Salute to my brother Dez. 38. Salute to 51. All right, shout out, shout out, shout out. But wanted to give some special brotherly love this week to my organization and Knicks because we continue the rest of the league. You heard all of these moves being made. Let's not get it twisted. The Knicks have dismantled some teams, okay? Time for a rebuild. So special brotherly love goes out to Jaylen Brown, okay? The newest member of the Philadelphia 76ers, Jalen Brown, got traded. So, man, you did all you could this past year, right, to lead the Celtics, try to get them. You got into the playoffs early, exit as it may be. But you. You gave it your all this past year, and what did they give you? What did the Celtics give you? They asked to kiss, man. You know, so, yeah, brotherly love. Because you said it feels like death when losing to the Knicks, right? Well, you've never. You never came back alive since y' all lost to us, so it's pretty accurate. Words are powerful. Moving on, brotherly love to Mitchell Robinson and Ariel Huckporty. Ariel Huckport, he's going to the Philadelphia set. Me Sixers. Think Mitchell Robinson, I believe, is at Boston. In Boston. Boston Celtics. So there's a lot of little weird moves going around in the divisions, but again, salute to our haters. And all of our ops talking about the Knicks, all of our ops wanted to do a special brotherly love to Malik Beasley. Okay. Yo, I knew it was. Was something about. Because I was. I'm be honest with you, Malik. When we played y', all, when we played Detroit in that playoff series, you was going off in the first half. I was nervous. I was scared. There was no stopping you. You was the threes. You were shimmying. Coach Bickerstaff said, you can keep shimmying as long as you keep hitting threes. Then the second half came, and you went quiet. You just. You went cold, right? And then there was this iconic play when you was playing us and pass you the ball, and you fumbled it out of bounds, like, oh, man. Oh, I just messed up, yo. Brotherly love to believe. Beasley. Forgetting the Knicks past that series. Terry Rosier, all of these gambling addicts. Brotherly love to y' all for making me look right and like a Nostradamus or like a prophet on here. But, yeah, you know, so, yeah, to bring that up. [01:06:31] Speaker F: Pooh. [01:06:33] Speaker B: Malik Beasley. Oh. Like, as far as Dumbest Criminal Awards, you know, you're definitely in the running. Okay, okay. This episode today, it may have been filled with a lot of Tough love. Okay. It's not. You know, I wasn't sugarcoating a lot of stuff today, but nevertheless. Nevertheless, we are going to continue forward. Before I close this out, just a couple of NBA notes. LeBron's opted out dream or LeBron's not coming back to LA. Draymond opted out of his deal so he could try to allow for more pieces to fall into place. He's trying to do his best. Jalen Brunson, of course. Let's see here again. Jalen Brown off of the Celtics. Giannis down to Miami. John Moran out in Portland. All right. Okay, Ja. All right. Part two of your career, brother. Let's see if you could resurrect it or something. Like a Phoenix, my brother. Outside of that, though, you know. Yeah, just little minor NBA news. We'll come back next week, follow up with some revisions. If I did miss anything with that, though. Okay? So without further ado, this next part comes straight from the heart. Supreme faith that's in God made an ego and the hubris never break us apart. From one brother to another. Nobody ever told you before I love you. Oh, yeah. And one last message for my haters. Being liked, it's completely overrated. Y' all have a good one. I'll see y' all next week, man. Peace. [01:08:02] Speaker C: Hey, everybody, it's closing time. [01:08:05] Speaker D: You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. [01:08:13] Speaker C: Closing time. Do the knowledge. [01:08:20] Speaker B: I know you gonna dig this. Use a freaky ass. [01:08:30] Speaker F: Hey, you go Caught in the left, champ. [01:08:33] Speaker D: Mama got that bunch of crunch game. [01:08:35] Speaker B: Exactly. [01:08:36] Speaker D: Mama got that bunch of crunch. [01:08:44] Speaker F: You're down to mix with dj high star. [01:08:48] Speaker D: Hip hop. Hip hop, hip hop.