Episode Transcript
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Y.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for O.T.
yeah. Nah, get that bread, bro. Y' all gotta stay for ot.
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.
[00:00:38] Speaker B: Omega Sci Fi fraternity.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: 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.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: Hey, hey.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: Stop questioning my methods, okay? I was chosen for this task for a very good reason.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: No, chose.
She was like, I choose. I choose you.
[00:01:13] Speaker C: And I was like, oh, I ain't know what to do.
I literally didn't know what to do. That's the whole world.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: I was like. She started putting her head down and
[00:01:26] Speaker C: she wouldn't make eye contact with other people.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: I was like, I'm not ready for this.
[00:01:30] Speaker C: Yeah, you open up a real can of worms.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, we.
[00:01:34] Speaker C: We definitely been in that world, but, you know. You know, pimping, per se, but definitely in that world. Like, we. Space age pimping. Definitely.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: What is space age pimping?
Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's frame of mind, man, because
[00:01:50] Speaker C: most people are rewinding. Space age sound like y' all fast forwarding.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: You're staying ahead. Yeah, definitely.
[00:01:55] Speaker C: That's all it is. And then it's just a saying, man, like, shout out that boy Reggie B, man.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: Reggie Bike check.
We gonna get to it in a second here. Y' all gotta remind. I gotta remind some people, though, that I am a dj. It ain't always about the scratching and the blending and stuff like that. I mean, sometimes it's the song selection. Jones, what up? Crux Media up. Be easy. What up? If y' all know the song, if y' all know the words, I need y' all to sing along. You know what I mean?
You heard, Let's go.
[00:02:40] Speaker C: I dated a steak, a nightcap we make what else? Awakened by smells of perfume that I inhale and then tell how well we raise hell on the Giselle satin sheets Heat from your feet keep me warm
[00:02:53] Speaker B: the mood is perfected let's go, let's go. Let's warm this thing up let's warm this thing up. What's happening? What's happening, everybody?
[00:03:00] Speaker C: Your mouth was fantastic. The that you passed the way you made a nigga laugh I had to get you Then when I saw that ass pass I had to hit you. You're making me fight against my will what must I do?
[00:03:13] Speaker B: Would you kill for me?
[00:03:14] Speaker C: Yeah, if my life in danger too
[00:03:17] Speaker B: yeah, if that shit belongs to you Then steal for me, yeah. If the way you act is true, who knows?
[00:03:24] Speaker C: Fine clothes, Lexus, those you'll be closing when you become one of the chosen hoes in different places.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Change ch, ch, ch, ch.
Shout out to Orange Mike, Orange M.
What's happening, everybody?
Try something a little different today on the.
On the intro. It's your main man, DJ High Start, though. Welcome to another episode of mandatory Overtime. Man, I'm talking about, man. Orange Mound man. But no, welcome to another episode of mandatory overtime. The aim here at mandatory overtime. Of course, it's for us to recalibrate our definition of manhood. That's with each conversation here in the community. The community consists of you all. I appreciate y', all, of course.
Always, always appreciate y'. All.
So don't. It's just a simply an audio journal of an 80s, baby.
A social experiment and consistency. Could have been anywhere in the world. But you're here listening to me. For that, I appreciate you. You heard.
Don't confuse this with the manosphere. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair like comment, subscribe, share, engage as well. But make some noise, y'. All. Cause your main man is here.
All right.
Joined along with the Russian sound engine to check 1, 2, check 1, 2. You heard. Let's go to work, man.
[00:05:01] Speaker C: Like that.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: Like that.
[00:05:04] Speaker B: So what's happening? What's happening, everybody? Real quickly though, the introduction that was interview on Drink Champs with eight Ball and MJG on Drink Champs. And they were explaining simply the.
The origins of the space 8. The term space age pimpin. And that was the. The song that followed up Space age Pimping. So when I tell my story, a lot of times I gotta let people know, you know, Spent a lot of time and was born and raised. Bred in New York. Queens. New York was Hatton and Queens. Queens get the money. But also I grew up down in Charleston, man. Went to high school down in Charleston. So got exposed to a lot of southern hip hop and stuff while I was down there. Got a. A greater respect for southern hip hop. Whenever I got to college in Orangeburg, shout out to everybody pushing them Monte Carlos heavy Chevy Caprices, the, the Bubble Caprice Caprice Classics, your Crown Vicks, you know what I'm saying? The Pontiacs, all of that child. Everybody in Orangeburg around that era say like 2002 to 2009 with the Donks and the, you know, I mean the heavy Chevys and all of that. And it was a.
What a time to Be alive. You just had to be there, fellas. Y' all just had to be there, man.
But, yeah, Orange Mound, man had to. Had to show some love to 8 ball and MJG to start the show off with. But how's everybody doing, man? How's everybody doing? I don't really have too many revisions or anything like that that stand out to me from last week, so we'll get straight to it.
Without building wisdom, you already know.
[00:06:46] Speaker C: Come here.
[00:06:46] Speaker B: Let's get to it.
[00:06:47] Speaker C: What's today's mathematics?
[00:06:49] Speaker D: Yo, no disrespect, but we ain't in
[00:06:50] Speaker B: all of that, son.
[00:06:51] 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 add on to the highest peak. To destroy is to eliminate and destroy any and all negativity that enters my cipher of supreme harmony.
[00:07:11] Speaker C: Peace, God.
[00:07:12] Speaker D: Peace, God.
[00:07:13] Speaker C: Come on, son.
Do the knowledge. I know you gonna dig this.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: All right, so salute, of course, to my big cousin Jerome. Always consistent with the wisdom. I'm gonna go ahead and start off here with his wisdom from Monday, this past Monday. This is from Barbara Walters, but it reads, it would be nice to feel. Excuse me.
Just make sure the mic is right. It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man. That's from Barbara Walters.
I echo those sentiments. Barbara Tuesday's wisdom from cousin Jerome. I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. That's William P. Young.
Salute to you, my brother.
And then lastly, we have here by Maya Angelou, do the best that you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. Simple. Straight to the point. I love that as well. My sister, Maya Angelou, brother Taz, he's actually stepped into the group chat, literally. All right, got a couple from him. First one is starve your distractions, feed your focus.
All right, let's remain focused out here. Continue to feed your focus, y'. All.
Secondly, see here, Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts. For you deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they are the thoughts that make you happy.
Because they're the thoughts that make you happy. Correct. So task for that. And then also get honest with people about who you are, what you want, and how you expect to be treated. Standards only scare off people not meant for you love that one as well, my brother. And lastly, from cousin, from brother Taz.
The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.
Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before. That's from Albert Einstein. That's fire right there as well.
Fire. I got some wisdom that I do want to play for y'. All.
It is. It might be like two minutes or so, but I wanted to go ahead and play this for y' all here. Just give me one second.
[00:09:43] Speaker E: In the plantation now, they used to call the yard, like you say, yard, and gala. That's the yard. Now, hunter chilling, go play in the yard. Hunter chilling. That means more than one chilling.
More than one child. Hunter chilling in gala. More than one go in the yard for play. The ancestors used to talk about the buckra. I bet you don't know who the buckra is.
Lord, the buckra is the plantation owner. But see, when madam been in the field and talking about the buckra, he didn't know that it was talking about him.
Bakra and shum over there. May I say, gal, you ain't shum over there. You ain't shum there. Shum there means to see.
See it over there someday.
And so far, speaking in the color, it doesn't embarrass me, not one bit. Because when we get together, you know, my age group, we sit down and talk to one another and you wouldn't understand a thing we talking about.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: So that excerpt is from a woman named Caroline that's from Charleston, South Carolina.
She again, she's just kind of going in on some Gullah words. Very certain, you know, just gotta keep it. She's just giving y' all a teaspoon. But some Gullah words and their meanings, you know, ultimately her goal is to teach others about the language and the history, preserve its history.
Gullah is an English based Creole language that's spoken by Gullah Geechee people along the southeast coast of the US it developed as English merged with west and Central African languages and. And is also closely related to Jamaican patois and Bahamian Creole English. Now, Bahamian Creole, that's the one that to me is most similar to that.
And I grew up, of course, listening and hear my, my.
My ancestors rest. Rest well and rest in peace to Annabelle. Rest in peace to my grandmother. She was from New York, but she still had a little, you know, we got them Edisto island roots, so she still had a little bit of Geechee in her. But my Aunt Annabelle, my cousin Cynthia, you know, all a lot of my ancestors, but also some of my living family members, of course, now that's down there in Charleston. They speak just like that. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to cousin Jackie. But.
And my cousin Amanda, of course, my beautiful cousin Amanda. But yeah, a lot of my family still speaks that way.
So that clip really hit home. I wanted to definitely share that with y'. All. Now, once again, this week, we actually had some wisdom that was shared in some of our feedback and some of our emails. So we're gonna go ahead and get to the emails and kind of transition to that because I'll be able to read some of our wisdom from the emails. I got this. There's this dude that I follow on YouTube and Instagram and stuff. His name is TL Cross, and he always does these ill dope stories about black music and black history and black culture, and he does them in his IG page or, you know, in social media. So there's normally a minute to three minutes long or so. And he's got this awesome piece that I was going to play for y', all kind of choosing against it, but it's talking about. I may play it a little bit later. It's talking about Michael Jackson kind of. And that the whole Paul McCartney acquisition, as far as the Beatles acquisition with their catalog, it was a lot deeper than rap. You know, Paul McCartney took that on the face as vanity and stuff like that, but it had a lot to do with Chuck Berry. So I'll just say that. Just leave it at that. All right, but we're gonna go ahead and move forward here.
I did receive a couple of emails this week, so I wanted to go ahead and read.
Read through those. The first email that we received was from Fatboy. So I wanted to go ahead and.
And play this here.
Give me one second. All right.
All right, so the email reads lunch break.
Oh, actually. Okay, let me pause this. Anyways.
Yeah, so Fat Boy, he did write in. It has some wisdom toward the end. But this also is going to double as our out for Lunch segment, y'. All. I'm just Fat Boy. He definitely co co starred in the episode this week because he's contributing to the email engagement.
Hold on. He's contributing to the email engagement out for Lunch segment and building wisdom all at one time. So salute to Fat Boy. Certainly appreciate all your support and engagement, my brother.
All right, so now we can get into it, y'. All.
Show love.
[00:14:28] Speaker E: It don't show nothing.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: It don't cost nothing to show. A dabbledy. All right, so the email reads, lunch break. Peace, high star, mandatory OT for breakfast. The other day, I made French toast for the first time, and let's say it came out incredible.
Salute to you, fat boy.
He says, I started off with some loaf of bread.
I toasted it lightly, then dipped it into my quote unquote French toast sauce.
It consists of two eggs, milk, heavy whipping cream, vanilla, and cinnamon. So that's what the French toast sauce consists of. Y' all put it in the pan and let it golden brown up. I must say that.
I must say that that is fire. All right, salute to you. Now, he has the wisdom listed here. The wisdom when you choose joy, you choose alignment.
Your path makes sense when you stop comparing. Those are two pieces of wisdom that he put out there. Peace, fat boy. So salute to you, fat boy. Appreciate that. All right, let's. Let's. Let's unpack this a little bit. All right, so French toast vibes.
Now, he did let me know as far as the little bread, because in the email, it doesn't. It's not specifying, but in the loaf bread, y' all know when you're looking for your loaf bread in the stores for. Specifically for French toast, brioche is always a good option. It's a thicker bread. Or Texas toast. Those are thicker breads. He didn't put in and specify it in here, but he got brioche. He got a brioche loaf, y'. All, but it's a thicker bread. It absorbs more of that quote unquote, French toast sauce a little bit better so that the.
That the toast isn't soggy. But also the technique that he used with toasting the bread lightly prior to dipping it into the French toast sauce, that helps that bread be less soggy as well, because it'll kind of trap that sauce inside of the. Of the bread without it, you know, destroying the.
The bread qualities, you know, making it soggy or whatnot. So salute to him with that. The heavy whipping cream. Two eggs, milk.
Two eggs, milk, vanilla, and cinnamon. Yeah, yeah, that. I think that heavy whipping cream might add to it, you know, kind of the consistency and it being fluffier or whatnot. And firm.
A lot of people will take Texas toast and sit it out, like. Or have the bread opened up and sit that out the night before to kind of give it the similar effect of, like, that breadcrumb effect that that fat boy went for when toasting it lightly prior to dipping it in the sauce. So again, salute to fat boy.
Appreciate that my bad. And if y' all do try out his recipe, y' all write in and let us know. Okay.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: What you thought.
[00:17:19] Speaker B: The wisdom. Of course, when you choose joy, you choose alignment. So that's again, where life is about choice. Happiness is all about choices. I love that. And then also, your path makes sense when you stop comparing. That's fantastic. Because, you know, again, we're inundated with how everybody else is living life, so it's very easy for us to compare without even realizing that we're doing so. So salute to Fatboy. Man, for the email I would have appreciated my brother. Hold on real quick.
Yeah. Because the only thing that it was missing was how you feel about last week's conversation. Are you black before you Christian or Christian before black?
Now, I know that we talked about it already on the side as men and as brothers, but I was looking for your answer on that one a little bit, brother.
[00:18:05] Speaker A: All good.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: All good. I still appreciate the engagement, my brother. Still appreciate the engagement. All right. Can't never forget about that.
All right, so we're gonna move forward
[00:18:17] Speaker A: to our next email.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: The next email comes from my brother, Be easy.
And the email reads what the deal is, Playboy. All right?
I have to specify Playboy is spelled correctly and accurately as pronounced by Birdman. So P, L, E, I, G, H, B, O, Y. That's how he starts off the email. It starts off what the deal is, Playboy. Look, just wanted to say keep up the good work and all that. Now let's get to the nitty gritty.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: Do you think LaRusso deserves a little
[00:18:52] Speaker B: more grace than what he's been receiving?
Also, I think his response was based on the thousands of ads from social media, and it probably got overwhelming.
That's all I have. Excuse me? That's all I have. I'm just trying to beat the clock, my boy. Lol. I'll holla at you, Playboy.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: All right.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Salute. Salute. Salute. I appreciate the email. Be easy.
And I. I do appreciate you bringing that up because I do have to do a slight revision from last week's episode when I was going into my tirades and stuff like that about the Russell.
I did elocute and say, like, yo, bro, everybody that's giving you this criticism and his feedback just wants the best for you, my boy. All right? Everybody wants to see you do good.
And it is true for a portion of us, we do want to see you do well. And we have been LA Russell fans. But I had to swallow that pill of truth this past week in realizing no, a Lot of people's first time even hearing the Russell or his name mentioned was with the Lil Wayne thing.
And then, of course, there was a lot of people introduced to him during this thing, during this viral Adolf, too.
Y' all gotta tune in to DJ Blaze radio show. Yo, y' all have to tune in. I just employ y' all same.
Same app that y' all get this on. Just look for DJ Blaze radio show, please. So a couple episodes ago, they gonna title the episode Adolf, too. So I already knew what they. What type of time they was gonna be on during the show.
And yeah, yeah, ultimately, that. That was like a little running joke or a thing that they brought up on the show. After talking about the Russell, he was like, yeah, man, for him to even play, it's like they wasn't even talking about the Russell thing. And then Be Easy will come in out of nowhere and be like, Adolph, too.
So salute. Salute. I appreciate the feedback, my boy, but let's go through that real quick so I can address your email. I just want to say keep up the good work and all of that. I appreciate that. Appreciate that. Of course, per usual, putting in the work, do you think the Russell deserves a little more grace than what he's been receiving? So that goes along with my revision. Again, I want to correct myself firstly and say I do acknowledge that there are a lot of people that are hating on him, and this is like kind of their first introduction to the Russell. So in that regard, he, again, this kind of.
I appreciate. I want to say I appreciate myself for listening to the word of God whenever it's spoken to me. But when I said this a few weeks ago or a few weeks back, I think I. I believe I can stand on it. Now, I am willing to extend the grace and the empathy for that brother as soon as he accepts the accountability for, you know, I feel like he's fanned the flames a lot, trying to fight with the Internet, and then, of course, listening to y' all show. Be Easy. Those that don't know Be Easy has been a supporter of the Russell prior to all of this press, this. This PR and stuff. So he supported him and been on his email slash, text group La Russell Text the text group last week. Y', all.
Hold on, let me get my sound effects right. My fault. The Russell takes the text group, and he said, yo, I'm gonna be taking a break from social media for a little bit. All right, we're on this. I'm gonna be speaking directly to y', all, my fans, my community, which is cool. He's built up the cachet and he's got the power to do that. But it, you know, I've been playing poker a lot, so that does it is showing his hand that, that the Internet has gotten to him, which we've all been guilty of, you know, the Internet getting to us. But when you initially come out and your, your knee jerk response or reaction is, man, y' all stupid, man, I ain't think y' all could be this stupid and doubling and tripling down. It's evading the accountability kind of that I'm looking for from him. And I, you know, I just want to hold him to that standard that he set for himself. In other words, as far as an artist with integrity, but also an artist with compassion, being a man of God or a Christian like you making the whole song of, you know, people being heaven sent and everything like that, but as soon as somebody doesn't agree with your vision or your perspective on that, they're immediately, you know, castrated and considered dumb or whatever like that. It's stupid.
I don't even think he considered them fans, but he likes y'. All. I don't know. Did he say, like, y' all fans couldn't be that stupid or. I don't think y' all fancy. Whatever he said, though, people that are commenting, everybody's not his supporters. So I can understand why you say that. Be easy. It's just that my grace, my compassion for the brother, my empathy for the brother, it is going to start once his accountability starts. So I, I'll just say that I'll leave it at that. It's a tough thing to navigate social media and answer everybody or to react the way that every single person will want you to react in those situations, it's is very difficult to do. So, hey, I will say in the spirit of us black Christians out there, I'm praying for you, my brother.
[00:24:20] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: I'm praying for you, bro.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: I did want to play something that I saw online real quick talking about the Russell situation. So let me go ahead and bring that up real quick.
Let me see here.
[00:24:37] Speaker A: Adolf, too.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: Be easy.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Even you, my brother said. Adolph, too.
Even you.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Okay. The Russell.
So let's see here.
All right, I'm gonna go ahead and play this real quick for y'. All.
[00:24:58] Speaker F: Sidious, too.
He was heaven sent. I always say that the best way to engage with many of these rappers and celebrities alike is to pretend that outside of their craft, they're people that don't exist because they hardly say something Bright. However, when my first introduction of LA Russell was him talking about the shady dealings of Roc Nation trying to pull one over on him, I thought, oh, he seems aight. So while it didn't surprise me that he said some clown shit like Epstein and Hitler, where heaven's sent the same way you and I are heaven sent, it did rub me the wrong way knowing we're nowhere near close to escaping the loop of people being politically and socially dense in their soft or intense religious psychosis. Excusing the fact heaven sent doesn't mean created by God the way he tried to manipulate the term and meaning of it for the purpose of his message. Even if he worded his bullshit better, it would not have made it better in the slightest. The times in which we are in illustrates just how little these greater powers and duplicitous men do not care about the lives in which they ruin and the generations in which they destroy. They don't believe in redemption, only a version of responsibility. But Russell trying to claim that we all come from the same place only to bitch and moan when the reaction isn't that in which he thought he was going to get indicates a couple of things. The first one is how religious people, people usually Christians, are so quick to pull that love thy neighbor shit. While that wasn't his intent in the song, and at this point I don't even know what the point was or the intent that rhetoric can come across as excusable for those that commit crimes against humanity. The initial interpretation doesn't change from the later understanding because the projection of the message is flawed. It is not then the fault of the viewers for not getting it. It's the fault of the artist for projecting something so culturally and socially void of logic. That's like me rolling up on you and telling you your abuser was heaven sent, just like you.
The second thing is how much of a pseudo woke nutjob LaRussell is. He put Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, which unfortunately I have to say when black people immediately go to those two by default, I I don't know. Their credibility is in question because accent and blackpay are too often used as civil pop icons amongst the black elite class. I love to say that, but never execute anything they believed in. But to put X and King in the same category as the aforementioned under the pretense of we are all one and the same isn't only void of said logic, but it's extremely insensitive and historically incorrect to later crash out and point fingers at everyone for not Getting it is the nail in the coffin for why we, we need to stop taking celebrities, especially rappers, so seriously when they're doing anything other than stringing words together. You sound dumb, you sound goofy, and quite frankly, you're consuming my already rising energy, Bill, spouting off this nonsense. Please shut up.
[00:27:54] Speaker B: Alright, so that's from a brother online. His name is Reduxity.
I enjoy his page here and there. He really spends his time, he lives in that world of packing people up and getting them up out of there. So he spends his time doing that. Now the, let's see here.
So the only thing, the only drawback that I have from what he was saying, Reduxity, was toward the end. There are some artists that you can still value their, their words and, and what they say or whatnot. Like, not just dismiss them as people that know how to string together words. But you do still need that. The discernment. Pray for that discernment to, to be able to tell the difference between the two. So again, this kind of goes into.
I don't know, I'm not going to call it Sour Serendipity, but we'll talk about it a little bit later, where, of course, well, I might have to refer back to Sour Serendipity. We use the former episode titles as segments whenever it's applicable. Just to remind y' all, we on a divine path. You know what I'm saying? I didn't say it. God put it on my heart. But the sour serendipity of that question that I asked last week and this often happens with this, with this podcast, I asked the question last week, do y' all consider yourselves black before Christian?
Oh, sorry. Do y' all said it. Consider yourselves black before Christian or consider yourself to be a Christian before black?
Very layered question and there's no wrong answers. Even if you write some feedback or engagement and it says, I think I'm somewhat both. You just got to explain that and, and flesh that out for me, that's all.
So we're going to talk about that a little bit later and get into the Russell rally. But I did want to play that clip.
But yeah, there's a couple of examples this week of why I said that I'm black before anything last week and why I'm kind of doubling down in it this week or whatnot. So let's go ahead and move forward.
I do want to those. Well, first and foremost, I do want to say thank you and I appreciate you. Be easy.
I'm all over the place, y'. All I appreciate you be easy for the email once again.
Make sure I got everything with it. Yeah. Also, I think his response was based on the thousands of ads from social media, and it probably got overwhelming. That's all I have. I'm just trying to beat the clock. So, again, I appreciate you be easy. And you are absolutely right. You, like I said, I, I, I open my eyes to that possibility. I, I believe listening to y' all podcast maybe, but listening to other feedback and other people like, say, like, yo, my first time hearing of the Russell is when he said this stuff or when he's done this. So I had to kind of take some of my words back or walk some of my words back there or whatnot. So our newest sponsor, Classical High Star Bars, we're gonna go ahead and cut to that segment here.
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna get this. It's probably gonna be two separate Classical High Star bars this week. So this first one, we'll go ahead and get right to it. All right, give me one second, y'.
[00:31:22] Speaker C: All.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: And this week's first selection comes from the very duo out of Orange Mound that introduced the episode this week, Primro Smith, known as eight Ball, and mar Marlon Jermaine Goodwin, as his initials would name him.
Mjg.
The two brothers out of Orange Mound, Texas.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: Excuse me. Orange Mound, Tennessee, also known as Martha Mine.
[00:31:57] Speaker A: The selection will come from the house
[00:31:58] Speaker B: of Suave this week.
[00:32:01] Speaker A: There are four stanzas in this election,
[00:32:06] Speaker B: so bear with me.
[00:32:08] Speaker A: The first stanza reads, eight ball will come out hard with the gangster lean.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Hold on, let me get.
[00:32:15] Speaker A: Let's get our numbers right, okay? Eight ball will come out hard with the gangster lean. Gold smile for the woman that be jocking the green? I'm a pimpster, not a trick on a stroll? You gotta pimp that thing and keep a trick on hold? Stay on top of the world with a gun in your hand? Take control of a woman and fear no man it'd be hard for me to see a day without cash if you got it and I don't I'll blast your with the quickness because a pimp don't play? I got to work on my game and think of ways to get paid? Born in the mound down deep in
[00:32:51] Speaker B: the south with the brothers with the
[00:32:53] Speaker A: curls and gold teeth in their mouth? In the chevron overlaying parlors with the cragers and vogues? Four deep with the yak smoking fat Mac indo fall up in the club with the pimpster tone got a tech in my pants you step to me and it's on Got a family in Memphis, got a gang in Texas T Money in the Jag and JB in the Lexus Flex this pimp tight mind in the studio or I'm coming out.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: Sorry, I gotta get that off Back
[00:33:32] Speaker A: to it Stanza 2 reads MJG A description, a brother in one who tends to always keep his business undercover but still I wind up in the middle of a click Some I heard, he heard, she heard Should I continue to listen to the rumors? The garbage trick I ain't barring this sucker let's start this rumble swing trick, you missed, I hit tumble into the sleeper now you feeling weaker man don't step when you think you got backup Looking for some help but your boys just got slack up, punked out backed out way low heading to the front door Sneak out real slow how you feel now? What's wrong? What's the matter? Mama never told you not to play with those rappers MJG got loose in the nine deuce but for the nine tray the pimps don't play way Imma stay true Some of y' all gon trade Some of y' all I'm gonna to like Some of y' all I'mma hate But see it, I'm in it to win it not in it for a part and it's considered a job
[00:34:46] Speaker B: for me to come out hard.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Stanza 3 then commences I gotta come out hard as Just like the life I lead Cool feed on the next brother's greed J smooth cutting up Lil Hank getting buck killers be shooting up suckers with no gut I'm scoping big bucks looking for the payoff Living like a pimpster taking every day off Riding through the hood with the homies getting smoked out fall up in the mall on a whole stroll loaked out cool, calm and collective coming out hard MJG, count it down Stanza 4 starts with brother MJG 1, 2, 3 points I gotta get across 1, don't 2 make me 3 go off suckers getting stuck up in a phase Trying to amaze somebody else but they find that it don't pay I'm gonna keep dropping tracks Smoking fat Mac hay in the ash tray Three quarts put away gat on the table cause I'm able Imma keep it right up on the shelf where I know that I can reach it My mind is a weapon cause I'm smart from the start mj, mjg pimps don't play for the nine trays coming
[00:36:21] Speaker B: out hard I appreciate y' all bearing with me through that. Had to get through it. Our sponsors pay a lot of money, so I had to make sure that I got that off. I appreciate the brothers from Orange Mound doing what y' all continuously have done for hip hop. All right? So salute to the brothers eight Ball and mjg. If y' all didn't hear in that.
In. In Eight Balls first, or it might have been his second verse. But he said what he said. Brothers with the. Oh, with the brothers with the curls and goatee in their mouth. So when I hear that, brothers with the curls and go. Teeth in their mouth. If y' all see any older pictures and stuff of MJG and eight Ball, y' all know exactly what he's talking about. But it gives that Terrence Howard and Hustle and Flow type of vibe. And I'm talking about.
Or what's your man name in Friday?
Faison loves character, and Friday, that's the type of vibe that I know y' all screaming at the. At the foam right now, but it gives. It gives that kind of big worm. It gives the big worm type of vibes. You know, that's. That's. That's nostalgic. That's. That's timeless right there. That's. Well, it's a time. It's a timepiece that. That puts you in. You know What I'm saying? Mid 90s, early 90s, late 80s Memphis, man.
All right. Orange Mound, man.
I've heard. Yeah, yeah, that gets a little too. Yeah, it gets a little too esoteric, but nevertheless, shout out to Memphis. Shout out to Orange Mound. You know what I'm saying? We're gonna go ahead and move forward with everything here.
So I do want to talk again. What I was alluding to a little bit earlier is the question.
All right, first thing I wanted to say, salute one more time to the brothers that did write into the show, Fat Boy and Be Easy. I appreciate both y' all for writing in, and we.
Yeah, I appreciate. I don't got nothing for y', all, but I appreciate y' all writing in. Y' all make sure y' all follow suit, as those brothers did. Y' all can always email the show at mandatory ot704gmail.com mandatory Tory ot704gmail.com or give us a phone call, 7047-8170-1170-4781-7011. And we'll make sure that you're heard. I will allow this brother out because he doesn't. He doesn't like for me to do this. All right, I've already adjusted your name, brother on the show. All right, We've taken out any kind of age indicators for you. Q.
But Q called me and Q Talk yesterday and he was asking how or what was the best way for him to give or submit feedback to the show. And since that's my close partner, you know, a brother of mine, I told him, bruh, just send me the. You know what I'm saying? Just send that. Send an audio note. You could just send an audio note.
I proceed not to get any audio note yesterday. Y' all so good, though. It's all good. Q. Of course, that's my brother. So I appreciate you regardless, brother. And remember, the lines are open for your feedback. But whenever it comes to that question, though, of course, as it happens, like, it's almost like whenever you get a new car and you see that, that same car on the road all the time after you get that car. So I bought that question up, and then I'm starting to see things in our social media or pop culture and everything like that. That just brings me back somehow to that discussion.
So the first, of course, was the LA Russell rally. There was an announcement for a rally that was being thrown for the Russell. And this, I was going to talk about this with, you know, regardless of Be Easy's email or not, but they threw a rally for the Russell.
[00:40:15] Speaker A: I'm not sure the purpose of the
[00:40:17] Speaker B: ride is just to show support, you know, Tiller Russell, I suppose to say, like, yeah, we are all heaven sent. I don't know. I don't know.
But they did a rally for him out there in California, of course, Mind you, that his mother hosted the rally, was following that backlash, of course, and it did spark or show support for her son during that, during all of his, you know, controversy and stuff like that.
Let's see here.
So, because I don't want to even. It don't make sense for me to even read the article on it. That's essentially what happened. They threw up, they threw a rally after the backlash for the Heaven Sent lyrics. So, like, I'm just trying to kind of make sense of it all in my mind.
You dropped the track that your engineer recommended that you don't. You received a bunch of backlash from said track and the lyrics in that track. You double down in how right you are for being able to create your own art and everything like that.
And then now because of the other side not conceding or being mean, maybe they're throwing a Rally or through a rally out there.
So all of his supporters.
Oh, man, I see a sign up here where a kid is holding up
[00:41:48] Speaker A: a sign that says kids like me need you.
[00:41:51] Speaker B: You gotta be kidding me, man. I don't. This don't got Roc Nation written all over it, but this guy PR written all over it. I mean, I guess shout out to the Russell. Yeah, he, he threw a, he threw a rally. But nevertheless, this goes into what that video that I played right after Be Easy's email was kind of alluding to. There are some people, for lack of better terms, I don't, because I don't like the term religious psychosis, but there's some people that, you know, again, are devout, devoutly religious prior to, I believe, like self identity, if you will. So. And, and to me, this is an example of that where we have to be like almost cultishly blind by faith and by God's word and people that profess their love for God or for Jesus Christ and anything that they say has to be Bible or gospel and anything that goes against what they're saying is, is tainted and just blasphemous and things like that or just treated like hate and everything. So I just hate that world that we're in. And again, those, those things are type of stuff that contributed to me asking the question that I asked last week, again, we black before Christian or Christian before black? Or is there some middle ground where that black spirituality lives at in between that? So we definitely, that definitely contributed to that.
[00:43:19] Speaker A: Also,
[00:43:21] Speaker B: the.
Jaden Ivy is going to get kind of into some, some sports stuff. So I guess we could consider this our Carolina Sports Talk segment perhaps.
But Jaden Ivy, Jaden Ivy, formerly of the Detroit Pistons, he was playing with the Bulls, I believe, or sign with the Chicago Bulls. And mind you, last year when we played Detroit in the Knicks, when we played Detroit in the first round of the playoffs, Jaden Ivy was hurt and I was happy because he would have definitely made a difference in that series had he been playing.
So he playing for the Bulls. He got waived by the Bulls following comments that he made about NBA Pride Month.
Excuse me, kind of essentially called out the NBA for celebrating Pride Month.
As he stood staunchly in his religious beliefs. It was backed by kind of beliefs, just faith back beliefs of kind of that being an atrocity or you know, things like that. You know, the religious, certain religious people feel about LGBTQIA plus community.
So he post on.
I want to find the exact post, but let me see if I could find.
Says.
All right, so the, the tweet that he, that got him into trouble.
Let's see here.
Internal.
Okay, man. Gosh. Can I find the.
They got everything except for the tweet.
So, yeah, it was actually comments. It was comments that he was making on a video tweet. And so it was essentially, they proclaimed Pride Month in the NBA. I would say they say, come join us for Pride Month.
He says, come join us to celebrate unrighteousness. So those are essentially the, the crux of what he was saying.
Now, once the news of him being released from the Bulls broke, he took to Instagram again and then he blasted the Bulls in the NBA. He also took shots at Steph Curry, LeBron and Michael Jordan, alleging that they don't know Jesus Christ.
All right, he said that, he said that the team said. They said your conduct is detrimental to the team. I haven't been with the team. I haven't been with the team because I've been rehabbing. So how's my conduct detrimental to the team? Where have I done detriment? Did I say you suck to the players?
That would all be, that would be detrimental to the team, right? All I'm preaching is about Jesus Christ. And they wave me, they say I'm crazy, I'm psycho. God let these things happen for a reason.
So see here for a reason. When I came into the league, all I wanted to do was win championships, get millions of bucks and get the next contract.
So I did see some of that post that he made. But again, this is another brother that you know, is a devout Christian, clearly God fearing man, and salute to him for being that and standing on his principles.
It's been said that in press conferences, even previous press conferences, that he would ask reporters if they are, if they've had sex before marriage and things like that.
Ivy has also said, no matter what, or how many DMPs I don't get to play, no matter how many points I score.
Those things are a temporary thing. Jesus is eternal. He can free you from all your sins, from all sins.
And so again, when we're talking about religion and stuff, I like still to place it in proper context of. To me, in this world, too much of anything is not good, right? To be gluttonous with anything is. It's not, it's not totally good. And to have an absolute about anything is also a red flag for me with anyone in this world, whenever they're talking about anything, if they have an absolute and a simple solution or a simple fix to certain things. And it's just an absolute thing.
It's like, can we take some time to kind of comb through this? So again with Jaden Ivy, Is he. Is he wrong, y'? All? What do y' all feel?
This to me circles back to. For me just, is, does this need to be said? Does this need to be said now? Does. Does this need to be said now by me?
But I am the same person that just got a physical done, and I was talking to my doctor about how much the current events are stressing me out and more than likely contributing to my high blood pressure, so I could be looked at as. You know what I mean, crazy in certain aspects for me, trying to. What I consider profess the truth and stuff. And I just. I think, you know, calling it out is one thing. I don't know if the.
The arena that he called it out on or the platform was kind of was good for him to do it on, but what's done is done at this point. I just wanted to point out an example again that that brother clearly has.
Is a Christian before he's black.
From. From what I could see from what it appears, the La Russell and the Jaden Ivy situations just kind of screen to me. Let's talk religious or religion issues before we bring up any black issues or. And again, I'm black before anything, so I don't know I'm black.
Can't change that last thing, though. This is a brother that famously proclaimed
[00:49:30] Speaker A: that he wasn't black.
Yeah, he wasn't black.
[00:49:33] Speaker B: He's not black.
All right. He's Polynesian.
I don't know.
[00:49:40] Speaker A: Amarani.
[00:49:41] Speaker B: And what did these places.
[00:49:42] Speaker A: Albany. I don't know.
[00:49:43] Speaker E: What.
[00:49:44] Speaker A: What did he say? That he was Cambodian?
[00:49:47] Speaker B: Polynesian. Who am I talking about? The one and only Tiger Woods. Tiger woods. Bring your ass.
So not only in, like, 2009. I remember back then when whatever happened, his face was messed up, he got into a car accident, whatever.
[00:50:05] Speaker A: But for a brother to be sponsored
[00:50:07] Speaker B: by Buick, A lot of automobile accidents, my brother.
I don't know if I want to buy a Buick right away because Tiger. Tiger's bugging. But if y' all have not heard, Tiger woods flip Tiger Wool. He flipped.
He flipped a Range Rover and he blew on the breathalyzer and he blew 0.00. But it was like, clearly, I guess they say, like inebriate or under the influence of something. So he did catch a dui.
And this is just messy, though. But it's, again, from someone who's run from his blackness. Okay. Salute to Tiger, though.
I didn't have much on that. I just wanted to get the opportunity to play that for Tiger Woods.
Stop doing whatever you're doing, man. Cam made a great point. I don't really listen to Cameron Mace too much nowadays on, you know, it is what it is. But he made a great point that, yo, all of these years that you getting caught up in. In with these driving incidents and you don't have no driver, you're doing something that you shouldn't be doing, that you don't want nobody else to be doing or know about. In other words. So it's for Tiger Wood.
[00:51:21] Speaker C: Y' all use a freaky ass.
[00:51:24] Speaker B: I don't know what you got going on, brother, but you're doing some. Doing some wild. My.
All right, so let's see here. I wanted to move forward here. This week is a little bit different. So toward the end, I got these random notes or random thoughts that I wanted to go ahead and share with y' all before.
Before moving forward to our last High Star Bar segment of the day and getting on out of here. But random thought number one, April Fools is the worst holiday ever.
It's easy money right there. That's easy money on that.
So it promotes you to lie. It promotes deception.
I don't.
I don't get it. Yeah, I.
I've done research on April Fools in the history of April Fool's Day in the past, but again, it's. It's quite simply the worst holiday ever. There's nothing positive that comes from an April Fool's Day. A bunch of deception and lies. So, meh.
What do I have to say about that?
I mean, what can we say about that? Rather Fool's Day. All right.
Also gotta be a big salute.
Salute. Matter of fact, hold on.
Show love.
[00:52:38] Speaker E: It don't show nothing.
[00:52:39] Speaker B: It don't cost nothing to show a.
And I'm gonna bring y' all up.
I'm gonna bring y' all up again during the brotherly love segment.
But brotherly love to Duke men's basketball team, man. Brotherly love to Duke men's basketball team.
We appreciate y', all, the brothers in Chapel Hill, all Tar Heel fans worldwide, rejoice. And we appreciate y' all for providing us with such an exciting March Madness matchup against Connecticut and against UConn against Bobby Hurley's brother, Danny.
If there's anybody that had a vendetta against Duke and wanted to beat y', all, it would have been Danny Hurley. And, yeah, just couldn't put it away. So I appreciate y', all, man. Thank you all of the Duke fans, y', all, right here joining us. Carolina fans on the couch.
All right, Salute those that didn't see Yukon.
They shot a buzz, pretty much a Buzzer Beater 3, but it was like 0.3 seconds left of the game, but they shot that. I just wanted to play this real quick before we go into our high star bars. The last high star bars for the day, but this is the Duke announcers right here. Just give me one second.
[00:54:09] Speaker G: Bobbled it back for star. Needs to get rid of it. Does for Kaden. 7 seconds. Try to throw it ahead. Deflected, stolen by Connecticut. Two seconds. It's Mullins up top for the win. Oh, he hit it with 3/10 of a second to go. Valakai Smith ran off the bench.
That should be a technical.
[00:54:26] Speaker B: Whoever the hell that was on the dude.
Shout out to the Duke announces.
[00:54:32] Speaker A: I just ran off a bench. That should be a technical.
That should be a technical.
[00:54:39] Speaker B: Guess what? It's not. Okay. Yukon wins. Yukon wins. And I would like to say real quick, I did put this. Think about this this past week, because y' all don't know my basketball fandom history, but growing up in Queens, New York.
All right. St. John's Red Storm or St. John's Redmond. They were my first. One of my first favorite teams or whatnot. College basketball right there in Queens. Felipe Lopez played for St. John's I used to rock with St. John's then UConn. When Ray Allen was in UConn, I was rocking with UConn, but at the same time, Connecticut was nice.
Allen Iverson was out there in Georgetown. So I was loving Georgetown. So big. Big east guy, whatever like that.
Shout out to St. John's Yukon. In Georgetown, however, something happened. It was some switch clicked when around 6th, 7th grade.
Jerry Stackhouse at Codas of the World, you know, Vince Carters, Rashid Wallace's. I loved UNC and became a Tar Heels fan. So ever since then, the Tar Heels are my squad, y'. All. So that I say all of that to say St. John's had a shot of knocking them out. Of course, Duke out. North Carolina. We had our little shots at Duke earlier. We gave them a loss, but then of course, they. They prevailed toward the end of the season. But to have you kind of knock them out, I'm pretty happy. I'm pretty pleased. So I appreciate y'. All. Appreciate y', all, Duke.
Appreciate y'. All.
All right, so want to move forward real quick before we do brotherly love. Like I said, I got one more High Star Bars installment here.
It should be very quick, but again, sponsored.
So gotta. Gotta do it right. It's sponsored. Give me one second.
[00:56:32] Speaker A: This next segment of High Star Bars comes from the family of Dungeon. The Dungeon fam.
Two brothers named Andre who deemed themselves outcast.
The song or the work is released in 1998 titled skew it on the barbie.
Okay, rapper Andre 3000 or Andre Benjamin starts the sonnet. Stanza one the common denominator, the numerator Never know who's the hater Hater to your ego I'm sorry. Like Atari who's the cousin to Coleco Vision Corto Rico Back on the streets like Chico da Barge he large and got a lack in the garage Few parts here and there I declare hard my lord One at Clark, one at Spelman Both know each other and it's cool, you can tell when he step off in the party Women jump for joy but all the while scheming they gon jump the boy for spitting all that bourgeois my watch, my car, I'm a star I'd rather be a comet by far now Stanza 2 is from the brother of Shaolin from the land of Shaolin, brother Raekwon however, we're going to go to stanza three where brother Andre Patton, also known as Big Boy Elocutes Boy I bust raps like D boys bus we the type of people that don't bury the ax or the hatchet Every time we see your life we snatch it Riding around our hood Talking that dumb where cabbage is cracked like plumbers in summer's grass I've been in the game for a minute Seem some suckers like y' all passing thinking they light skin alright then lil boy why you frighten the dungeon family Gon
[00:58:41] Speaker B: be here so keep writin' I gotta hit the source I need my other
[00:58:45] Speaker A: half a mic because that southern playlistic Cadillac music was a classic, right? College Park East Point indicator they got my back so we gonna keep on jamming and stabbing off in the track I think it's time to bungee but buddy, we will be back and I'm finn to put some Ds on the lack Know that?
[00:59:07] Speaker B: So salute to those brothers of outcasts
[00:59:13] Speaker A: for that Skew it on the barbie Thank y', all.
[00:59:17] Speaker B: Thank y', all, Thank y' all. Outcast. We appreciate y'. All. We appreciate y'. All.
Okay, I think this is anything I got going on.
Go ahead and move right forward.
Let's see here, let's go ahead and show some love Wanted to start off showing Some love to John's Place, man. Poker night was amazing, man. Had a lot of fun out there at poker night this week.
Salute. Salute to my brother, Dope Digitals. Dope, dope digitals. He 2 for 2, man. He updated or uploaded a video from unwanted perspective this week. Salute. That's a win. And then he came on out there and played poker, man. Had a good time. It seemed like Salute to Big Cliff coming out there to play poker as well. Everybody at John's Place.
Excuse me. I had a blast.
I made it to, like, 2K. 4K blinds this time, y'. All. Last table, final table. Moving closer and closer. All right. Salute to Fat boy, of course. Be easy for sending in those emails and that engagement. Salute to my brother, Q.
We on the lookout for your engagement, my brother. Salute to Sock, of course. Salute to Mixmaster T. Salute to all of my brothers out there. OG kd. What up? What's happening this past week, Lambda Sigma. What's up? All of my brothers out there. Okay, all my fraternal brothers. What's happening with y'? All? I don't want to forget any of y'. All. It's too many to remember, but, you know, salute to my brother, Nick. Salute to.
Salute to everybody that's listening out there. Listening and sharing or taking. He contributed to this mandatory overtime, this thing that we call mandatory overtime. I really appreciate y'. All. It goes without saying. And I just. Every time that I get an opportunity, I do want to tell y' all that I do appreciate. I love, of course, all the engagement. Wants to give some sisterly love as well. Of course. Reb. What's happening? Coco with the culture. What's up, Cheryl? Poison. Amy. Deuce. Deuce. What's up, Patriot Patty? What's happening, sis? Look, love to everybody. I appreciate y' all for joining me this week. This is another episode of Mandatory Overtime. We look forward to seeing y' all next week. All right, peace.
[01:01:30] Speaker C: Hey, everybody, it's closing time.
[01:01:33] Speaker A: You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here.
[01:01:42] Speaker C: Closing time.
Do the knowledge, Nigga, I know you gonna dig this. Let me work.
Please let me work.
[01:02:00] Speaker B: Use a freaky ass, nigga. There you go.
[01:02:02] Speaker C: Far in the left, champ.
[01:02:05] Speaker G: Mama got that bunch of crunch game
[01:02:08] Speaker B: Mama got that bunch of crunch game Ex Blackly.
