Uh, okay, I can't stop now.
Won't stop.
Last time I checked, I'm 10 toes down.
Run it up, it didn't vest.
I'm looking in the mirror.
Really, him beating on my chest.
Then look at my agenda like what's next.
Getting off, I'm doing my thing.
What's next?
Put on for my family and my team.
What's next?
Cash out, I'm pulling up clean.
What's next?
After that, I'm
pressing
repeat.
What's next?
Uh, when I was a kid, even did knew I was
clean.
What's up?
What's up?
What's up?
We are back.
You're listening to the lunch break.
Man, we live at the American Family Insurance Studio, Third Street Market Hall.
We just had an amazing interview, y'all.
I hope y'all caught it.
If not, it's on YouTube.
Y'all could play it back.
We were talking about Paul takes T-A-C-K-E-S.
I can't, he said, I said how you want.
I let people, he goes by Mr. Paul.
He's the dean of students at greater.
Let me read this right before I tell y'all to go somewhere else now because greater holy temple He's the dean of students and he has a amazing story man like listening to him tell his story and talk about where he where he come very powerful Where he came from where where he may have stumbled, right?
Like most people do and how he got back on his feet.
And now he's given back to the youth and pouring into the youth in ways that he wished somebody would have poured into him.
He had an amazing family, but he was like, you know, I was still lost.
And, you know, sometimes you just need mentorship, even when you have a two family, two parent household, even when you have parents that care, not always they can give you what you need, you know?
That's why people say school and work sometimes can feel like a home away from home.
Those are the people that's like the family that you, you know, you got to go to every day.
Because sometimes you end up spending more time with the people that you work with than your actual
family.
So, so knowing that these students have him there, somebody that genuinely cares, somebody that loves what they do, somebody that is pouring into those students, that's important.
In so many ways, you know what I mean?
Like, and even at school, he said how he didn't really have a favorite teacher.
I bet he everybody's favorite teacher.
He said everybody getting hugs and high fives and he pulling up on people.
I'm like, man, I never had a teacher like that.
I remember one of my teachers taught me how to skip school.
Real story.
So, you know, having, having teachers actually talk to you.
or point you in the right direction, right?
Or see where you going and knowing how to redirect you, right?
In the right, in the right, you know what I'm saying, the right path.
That's something a lot of us need out here and it's just good to hear that we got people in our community that actually care about these students that actually are putting their time and their effort and their love into these kids and they're pouring into them the way they need to be poured into.
Cause a lot of times we forget that some
Some of these people care about these kids.
They care about our kids.
I was talking to my cousin the other day and she was a teacher.
Now she does substitute teaching and she says she will cry all the time because she cared too much.
You know, so, man, it's just good to speak to people in our community that actually cares about the kids because too often we see how little people care about our kids, right?
But, moving on.
Cousins.
Cousins, cousins, cousins.
We gotta talk about something that happened right here in Milwaukee.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
So, the garage on Brady Street has officially found itself in the middle of some serious
backlash.
I don't know if y'all seen it because when I saw this story, I was like, hold on now.
I ain't no way.
I thought it was AI.
I thought it was a joke at first, and I went about my day.
And after doing a little digging yesterday, I realized, no, this happened.
They went viral.
This post that went viral made its way on the Shade Room, one of the biggest platforms
on Instagram.
Like the main
page?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
That's crazy.
Yeah, it's everywhere.
I'm walking everywhere,
but where they
both
made.
Always for the wrong reason, man.
Always for the wrong reason.
Man, we everywhere.
I saw Complex posted us the other day, too.
Everywhere, man.
Just because of the two rap, like R.I.P., but like, we do other stuff, too.
But we made our way over the internet, and it's because...
The garage, which is on Brady.
It's very popular bar.
Me and my niece is frequent that bar.
We liked it over there.
We love the garage, but I don't know if they love us after seeing this.
So it showed a picture of a no-play list for the DJs at the bar.
So the businesses have every right to decide what kind of atmosphere they want.
If they want a top 40 type of vibe, or R&B lounge, or they want to be a country bar, they can do whatever they want to do.
That ain't the issue.
Alright, so...
It's the way you go about it.
It's the way you go about it.
They had a list, y'all.
Alright, it was a very long list.
But it was specific artists on that list, and it starts circulating online.
The list was also laminated, and it was in the DJ booth.
So it was there.
It was texted in a group chat of all of the DJs and a manager, and on top of that, it was laminated and put in the DJ
booth.
Once you put some lemonade on something, I feel like that's official.
That sounds pretty official to me.
It's not like we can't lemonade or print nothing up in this true studio.
If it ain't go through through management, all types of stuff.
So y'all tell us we don't get into this, but let's talk about first.
Let's talk about the names that were on this list.
All right.
So if it featured names like Travis Scott, Little Wayne, Pusha T, Playboy, Cardi, Future, Little Baby, Miko's, Dawn, Tolla for two days, even had door phone there.
What do I do?
Rest in peace, Flippa.
Man, Zach, can we play the video?
Yep.
I think it's a good time to play the video.
We gonna play the news report, because the news got ahold of it too.
It was everywhere.
accusations that they banned rap artists.
Overnight, the owners of the hi-hat lounge and the garage on Brady Street posted a statement on their social media pages reading in part quote, we are very upset to learn of this situation.
The statement goes on to say the intention was to eliminate music with lyrics that referenced violence or guns and create a more relaxed vibe at the establishment, but a list of artists was certainly the wrong approach end quote.
Last night before the statement was posted, we talked with the local DJ about how something like this could happen.
I don't think the garage is unique in this position.
Unfortunately, this is kind of a common occurrence, right?
People.
It's a fight that's always we want popular music because that brings in the cool kids.
The cool kids want the popular.
What's new?
I think the problem that a lot of owners have is recognizing that what they view as cool isn't what is cool nowadays.
The post says the list was made without the owner's approval.
It also says the bar has spoken to the employee who issued the list and stressed why it was not acceptable.
Well The older express said it was not acceptable Like he ain't no was up there like I said it was laminated well like that told us it was laminated it was behind the booth It was texted out you telling me No, but they ain't notice what's happening.
Sounds like they throwing a rock and hiding a hand if you ask me That's what it sound like So again
The list of rappers that was on that list, they had Travis Scott, Lil Wayne, Pusha T, Playboy Cardi, Future, Lil Baby, Migos, Don Toliver, and Two Chains.
Two Chains folk bracelets.
Hear me?
And then at the very bottom of that list, am I right, Zach?
They said, no Milwaukee
rap.
From the screenshot that I have, let's go.
That is wild.
And you know, I didn't notice they put city girls, but what if I want to play JT?
Or what if I want to spell a spin that?
Nope, that
counts.
That'll
count.
It's gonna count.
City
girls
is two of
the girls.
It's going to count.
And then in the text message that was in the group chat, it says, hi, everyone.
Effective immediately, we can no longer play these artists that includes remixes.
I will also have this posted in the booth as well.
This is coming from ownership.
Look.
Crazy.
Failure to comply will result in a loss of gigs if you have any questions, please reach out direct to me directly That's crazy cuz didn't that news article just say management didn't approve it ownership didn't approve it, but this is this is coming from ownership Interesting interesting
make it make sense and it was laminated like I said it's rules and regulations that go into running a business I'm telling y'all I can't print nothing here
If management don't get their eyes on what I'm over here printing.
He told me it was laminated and and and pinned behind the DJ booth and it was texted out.
You telling me there was a group chat and management did not know the ownership did not know this was happening.
They know what's going on.
These people ain't crazy.
So I saw this list for the first time like two weeks ago, maybe on my friend's story and I replied to it.
I was like, is this real?
Because he posted the laminated version because he
was
there.
And he was like, he just posted it.
He's like, well, this is kind of crazy.
And I'm like, is this real?
This can't be real.
And he was like, yep, it is real.
It's in the booth.
And sure enough, I haven't stepped foot in that place since.
And it's like, bro, what
are we doing?
What are we doing?
That's a good question.
A good question.
Because no Milwaukee rap, not one Milwaukee rapper, not certain songs, not explicit Milwaukee rap, just no Milwaukee rap.
Crazy cuz I kind of just played Milwaukee rap coming
back
Listen,
when we come back from the break, we're going to get deeper into this.
We're going to talk about it, y'all.
And I want to hear from y'all.
I want to know what y'all think about the garage stand.
They don't want to hear no Milwaukee rap.
And they have that long list of rappers that they don't want to hear up in there.
That's the garage on Brady.
I want to hear it.
I want to hear it from y'all.
I want to know if y'all think that they can do something like that.
I mean, they can, because they did.
But do y'all think?
Y'all understand why they would do something like that?
Do y'all think it was racism?
Do you think they just sick of hearing that?
They turn that ruckus off.
I don't know, but we gonna be back.
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We asked the question, is it racist that basically they had a list hanging up in the garage DJ booth and they sent it out to the DJs and said, we
don't
want to hear this type of music basically, a long list, including some of the most popular rappers right now.
And at the bottom of that list is said, no Milwaukee rap, bold.
They wouldn't plan.
So we want to know what y'all think.
Do we think that it is racist?
Or is it is it driven, I guess, by racism?
I guess that's the question that we ask him.
Right.
Because inherently.
I feel like when people start doing stuff like that, they are hinting at other things.
But we don't keep going.
I'm going to keep breaking this down.
All right.
Because you already know that this hits differently because if you're a bit.
If you're Milwaukee, right, and you are operating a business, you are benefiting from Milwaukee customers, Milwaukee culture, Milwaukee nightlife, and Milwaukee's Dallas.
So that screenshot that circulated, that was reportedly sent to the DJs working in the garage.
It also listed those artists and it said no remixes.
Like Zach said, it warned if they didn't follow this rule, they can lose gigs.
So basically you're threatening to fire DJs if they try to play it.
Hmm.
You telling me, you know what?
Like I said, the most important part of this message is that it said this is coming from ownership.
Right, so remember that sentence like I say in the news report.
It sounds like we ain't know nothing about it What who did that?
They're trying to play in our faces.
They didn't know it would get out They didn't know it will get this big and they thought they can get away with something like that That's that's why now they're they're trying to walk it back, but you can't walk it back Too late We know what y'all won't and it ain't us.
That's all right.
We'll find somewhere else to go but
After the backlash exploded online, the garage released a statement that ownership was upset after learning about this list and that an employee issued it and the list was not approved by ownership, even though it said this is coming from ownership.
And then, didn't they, like I said, they also mentioned, well, we didn't approve the list, but we kinda don't wanna hear it.
So you know, dang well, you approved that list.
You pretty much confirmed you approved it.
Because didn't the original message allegedly tell DJs this is coming from ownership?
But now they're saying we didn't approve the list.
So either the employee falsely told some DJ, told the DJs ownership ordered it, somebody in ownership knew something about this policy, or there was just the massive breakdown in communication either way.
Whatever happened, somebody got some explaining to do.
Then I saw a post from Max.
I think he's a bar owner in Green Bay, right?
Zach Zach told me he was a buy owner.
Right?
I got it confused.
I thought it was day owner.
Didn't ask him like, oh yeah.
If damn.
But that's neither here nor there.
He's a bar owner in Wisconsin somewhere.
Ain't nobody going to that buy.
And he said, there's nothing wrong with some rap.
And he complained that the DJ pool was playing too much post COVID dog water hip hop rap.
And passing up other, exactly passing up other good music.
He said that venues will pay top dollar for DJs with broader genre knowledge.
And then said, he wants some heart and soul, not people rolling around on my floor twerking.
Who doing that in Green Bay?
I ain't never parted in Green Bay, I don't think.
I don't know.
Zach, is Green Bay even one of those places where people rolling around on the floor twerking?
Depends if the Packers one or not.
Exactly.
Y'all nightlife depend on what the Packers got going on.
Hush.
Goodness.
Saying stuff like that.
And then dog water.
What does that even mean?
Sounds almost like watermelon felons.
Sounds like a creative slur.
Gotta look
it up.
I
gotta brush up on my creative slurs.
They be getting too creative for me.
I can't keep up.
He also said, like I said, people will pay top dollar with broader genre knowledge.
But I also agree with a guy in the clip that said what they think is cool, like some of these owners think is cool, just ain't cool no more.
Tom Austin, you want some heart and soul.
What you trying to hear?
You wanna play?
So that made me side-eye and it just makes me, makes me think about that time, right?
It's just, I mean, I don't mean to cut you off either.
No, go ahead.
But like, a lot of these people on this list are still headline performers.
Exactly.
Like, they are, they are headlining these festivals year in and year out.
There was, there was a, more on that list that I forgot.
There's
Don Toliver, Lil TJ, A Boogie with a Hoodie, Roddy Rich, Metro Boomin.
But like Don Toliver was literally just the headliner at Summerfest of this year.
We can't play his music Three blocks away from where I mean it's more than three blocks, but we can't play his music where like where he just like what?
Do they do these people not realize that half of the requests that we get as DJs at these bars where college students go to
Half of them are requesting these artists like Don Toliver.
Exactly.
Exactly.
They want to hear
the new stuff.
Like City Girls.
Like what do they want?
I'm really confused.
And like these bars aren't in places where it's like a older crowd either.
So of course you're gonna get people in there that wants the new stuff.
That's what they want.
These are college age kids.
You know early 30s most of the time?
Like you're gonna get people that want.
to vibe out to the new stuff.
Right?
And I'm not, I guess I'm not trying to reduce this to, oh, the owner just hates rap.
You know, that ain't exactly what he said.
You know, he trying to, I guess, create a different, different vibe?
I don't know.
I don't know.
But when your establishment is already catching heat over a no rap list and then you you denying your your knowledge about this It just seems weird to me and I think the explanation was was weird too and Like I said, it also reminds me of a time Zach.
I know you a young buck
If
you remember back in the day, I
sure
don't
Like I
don't
remember Listen back like back when 720 didn't even have like They would have like these crazy rules like no Jordans no visible tattoos No hats like anything like no dreads no cord like stuff like that love 720 down, but I remember there was a time
Downtown bars used to do stuff like this, and that's what it feels like they are trying to get back to.
They're going to start with the music, then they're going to be like, no YTs, no saggy jeans, no Jord, whatever shoe they think is popular to us, no Nike's.
They get real, they get real technical over there.
So that that's what it's giving.
It's giving.
We are going backwards, you know, and even when I heard about like the only thing I could think is like maybe they feel like.
Oh well, this is the music that makes people want to fight.
This is the music that's causing the issues.
Even if that was the explanation, I don't know.
But I can tell you, I didn't see people throw heads to a lot of different musics.
I saw somebody post on Facebook yesterday, they were like, I remember, I was, I think they said they were DJing at 720.
They were like, I was DJing at 720 playing Halo by Beyonce.
And
there was a fight.
It's clearly
not
music
and Tony Tony texted us at 833 212 1017 He said no, it's not racist not every black person listens to rap music We need to stop acting like these businesses depending on the black dollar And then he also said it's a reason why they have rules in a place too much ignorant people Have been coming in disrupting the peace while everybody is trying to have a good time
Nobody is really saying anything about rap music.
It's about The people that they had on the list all of those people had something in common on that list and More than one thing in common.
Yeah, they were all black or all rappers But they were all black as well So and to go and say no remixes you clearly don't understand how DJs work
We can make remixes.
We can do edits.
We can have a different beat under the instrumental or the vocals.
So now you're hindering our creativity.
It's
like,
what do you expect us to
do?
And I do know the pressure they put on DJs to bring out a crowd these days.
They want more than just a DJ these days, too.
They're looking
at you like... Expect you
to be the promoter.
Yes!
They want you to be the promoter.
They looking at you when the crowd ain't rocking to the music.
What do you want me to play when you put on this ban list?
All of the black artists that most young people are listening to right now, right?
And then they said they didn't they say they just didn't want to hear music about violence, you know, I listen that they
brought that up.
They don't want music to promote guns and violence.
And if the if the concern really is lyrical content, why were the artists banned instead of certain songs?
Because we've got
We've got artists on that list that has hundreds and hundreds of songs.
That don't promote that
stuff.
Exactly.
So why isn't it specific songs?
Why was it just these artists?
But we're gonna get deeper into this conversation.
We're gonna get deeper into it right when we come back from break.
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You are listening to the award-winning 101.7 The Truth.
This is the lunch break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.
We got some callers on the line right now.
We are talking about the list that popped up in the garage.
That's a bar downtown that had a long, long list of hip-hop artists, African-American ones.
A lot of them, super popular.
We want to hear from y'all eight three three two one two ten seventeen We try to get to the bottom of why it made so many people uncomfortable Wondering if it might be a little bit of racing races in that You know, but we don't go to our first caller miss Charlotte.
You are on the line.
What you thinking?
First of all, you need to teach your constituents that private is private and you have a choice
not to spend your discretionary income there.
And number two, who wants to go to a place where there's always chaos?
And we have to admit, young black people have been creating chaos in areas on Brady Street.
And so if business decides I don't want chaos, I think the message could be to tell people to behave.
Because they're insurance, you know what happens?
When there's many fights at different bars and stuff, the city will take their license.
If they think that the chaos started from their establishment, it's not a racial thing.
It's a behavior thing.
Why aren't we torturing our people to behave?
Nobody wants chaos.
That's understandable.
And you have a good voice.
And you have a good voice so people listen to you.
And before we go go jump through, raise your step, let's think about how we behave.
We want somebody in front of their establishment fighting a scared way of the patrons.
We got behavioral problems in the black community.
We really do.
We acknowledge
that.
That's understandable.
Thank you.
Thank you for your call, Ms.
Charlotte.
We have another caller on the line as well.
We're going to get to the next caller.
Edward, you live on the lunch break.
How are we doing, Edward?
I'm doing okay.
Yeah, I wanted to call in.
I'm piggybacking off of what the previous caller said.
frequent Brady Street and Water Street.
I frequent them.
And I have noticed I am African-American male, young.
I have noticed that when they do play that type of music, it do attract a younger crowd.
they come in and she said destroy, fight, tear up.
We just had a backpack giveaway on Fondalac just recently.
And you see people don't even know how to act there.
They brought the fighting.
They had a gun there, had kids running.
It was all over Facebook and everything.
I believe, in my opinion, for me, because I frequent all around Milwaukee, that it is
based upon what you play, people will, it will bring out the wrong crowd.
And these businesses, I agree with them.
You know, that's their livelihood.
That's how they make their income.
They were making money before black people were coming down there or before they were playing this rap music.
The garage was playing all kind of music.
It wasn't just black, but when they start playing it, you start seeing it.
It's incidents occurring all along Brady Street incidents occurring all around all along water street and These businesses are trying to figure out ways to keep the Ignite people for lack of a better word from coming down there So no in my opinion, I don't think it's racist because if you had a business a bar or a club and You playing this type of music and you know what crowd is gonna bring in
You bring that crowd in and that three in the morning when the bar closed and not a fight or when the club closed and now they fighting and shooting all outside.
I mean, you're going to rethink your strategy like, OK, well, you know what?
I'm not going to cut this out.
I'd rather have this.
They'll take a loss.
I'd rather have this type of crowd come in than that type of crowd to save my business.
So that's my opinion on the matter.
And I actually frequent all up and down there.
And I see.
I see when you have a younger crowd playing that type of music, especially Big Point, those people, Lil Wayne, they're going to bring out the younger crowd.
The younger crowd want to hear up-to-date, like you said, current music.
But in certain instances, at some point, a business has to draw the line and protect their revenue, protect them.
But
that's my
opinion.
OK.
Well, thank you for calling.
Thank you for calling.
Make sure you continue listening.
We're going to respond.
So it sounds to me like a lot of a lot of people think it's a behavioral issue and they are trying to get ahead of it But a lot of the issues that are happening on Brady from what I've seen are happening outside the bars It's from kids that aren't even bar age if I'm not mistaken a lot of them are just hanging out down there creating chaos and then you I Do understand that it is a DJ's job, right?
to kind of set the moods at the time.
So I think there was a better way to word it.
There was a better way to go about this situation.
I know Zach even shared with me something as simple as, Zach, do you want to tell me what you would have did?
Because I remember off air you told me, do you want to share with the people?
Yeah, like y'all got the wrong people managing these situations.
If you're a manager and you have to pass down a message from the owners about
Like, music that's being played, or just anything about the venue, that's your time to be like, alright, I gotta go in my professional bag, I gotta go in my PR bag, and you say, hey, hey DJs, we wanna make sure we're keeping all of our patrons happy, so going forward, we wanna refrain from music promoting guns and violence.
We understand this may include music by popular or local artists, however, we ask that our DJs create a safe, high energy atmosphere for everyone.
If we feel that any DJ has not adhered to this, you will not be scheduled.
Simple as that.
You don't print a list, laminate it, and put it in the damn DJ booth where the public can see it.
Exactly.
And then get mad when a Milwaukee artist posted on TikTok and it goes viral.
Come on now.
Like, how do you think, what taste do you think that would put in...
A person's mouth.
You know what I'm saying?
And a lot of people will say, oh, well, not all black people listen to hip hop, which is true.
Which is true.
I listen to a wide array of things.
I love me a little country.
I love me a little fallout boy.
I know their album starts to finish.
Most of them.
I love to mix it up a little bit, but I don't want to hear elevator music all day while I'm out.
And then if I saw something like that I would feel like naturally like you were trying to target me because I'm black and I see every name on that list is a hip-hop artist that is also black.
I feel the way.
I'm not saying that's all I want to hear and that's all I listen to.
But there's a way you go about things.
I'm just saying.
It sounds like we got a Robert on the line, a caller.
Robert, what you feeling
like?
has gone love listening to you guys.
I feel like this.
I'm a old here, but I know how we used to party back in the day.
But the responsibility of the owners in private, just like you would have a corporate meeting in private amongst your staff, they could have went to the DJ and say, Hey, you know what?
When you got a little out of hand, change the mode.
It's simple and easy as that.
But to put out a list like that,
That's something that was in the back of their mind anyway.
And they were loving the money.
Yep.
It's about the money too.
They were loving the money.
But then there were probably a couple of constituents, not of our shade.
That's all you guys are playing.
And now we got all these black people down here.
Well, the color of money is green.
They didn't see that until they had probably a couple of a couple of conversations where they were like, Oh, just like with the food trucks, the food truck didn't bring the fight.
It's the same situation, but we have to stop being privy to let people blame us for everything.
Yeah, we got some bad apples in the bunch.
But you know what you do?
The ones that are bad, then you find a reasonable way to get rid of them.
That's all you have to do.
But don't collectively say, oh, well, all in black music, and it's going to bring the black crowd.
Well, then that is stereotyping.
Because my mother and father taught me how to act, so you can't say, put that on a whole culture because of a couple of bad apples.
You know what?
You changed the mood.
And it's the DJ responsibility.
I used to DJ in Chicago.
When I see things starting to get a little out of hand, I switch over and like, hey, grab your girl.
Play some hide and see brothers have changed the mood, but you don't put up a list and say,
We're gonna, we're gonna ban all black music.
Well, they turned it to a damn country bar.
Anyway, thank you guys.
Man.
Let us listen to you.
And I love your perspective girl.
Keep on doing what you're doing.
Thank you so much, Robert.
Thank you, cousin.
That was cousin Robert, y'all.
You know everybody at call in.
They are cousins.
You know, not all of us see the same thing or see eye to eye or have the same perspectives, but.
Oh, we still family.
But we still family.
And Robert, specifically, I feel like his perspective was much like mine.
All I'm saying was when you start making a list that feels very targeted, it will be insane for you to not think that they are talking about you and your blackness.
That's what they talking about.
They just know they can't specifically say, no blacks.
They can't say that.
So they're going to do things like that.
Like I said, not long ago, a lot of those bars on Brady Street, a lot of those bars on water, it was
Very specific to what black people were doing, what black people were wearing.
I probably wasn't dressing like that.
But I knew what they were saying.
I could read between the lines.
No Timberlands.
No Timberlands.
No chains.
Come on now.
No tinted glasses.
Let's do it.
No hats.
Come
on.
No bandanas.
Next thing you're gonna be like, no lace front wigs.
Like what's that gotta do with it?
No, come on man.
Then I ain't taking my stuff down there at all.
But like Robert was saying, it is the DJ's job to curate the ambience.
You know what I'm saying?
And if you wanted music to not escalate situations, there is a way to go about it.
Like Brother Z said, there's a way that you can say, hey, if the crowd's starting to seem a little rowdy, a little agitated, if arguments are happening, if people are doing a little too much, let's change the vibe.
You're a DJ, you know how to do that.
Like he said,
We ain't gonna play no Ozzy Brothers, Robert.
But, what we gonna play?
It start getting too rowdy, brother Z, what we gonna play?
Play some Kalani folding.
Some.
You can slow it down.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, they know how to do that.
We gonna continue this right after the break.
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And we are talking about the list that management from the garage posted.
in their DJ booth.
We're talking about the names that were on the list of Do Not Play, which included No Milwaukee Rap.
I guess if you, well, what is it called?
What's that genre of music?
Something grass?
Bluegrass.
Bluegrass.
If you're a bluegrass music maker, they gonna play you in there.
And I'm a walkie-wrapped though, not the scene that actually is putting Milwaukee on the map that is being acknowledged across the states.
Not that though.
Bluegrass, y'all got a chance.
So, we had a few callers call in and they explained how people be down there acting a fool and maybe they just figured, let's start here.
But like I said, my complaint is how they went about it and how it feels very targeted.
We also talked about how, no, not every black person listens to hip hop, you're right.
But when they start doing stuff like that, you know what they trying to hint at.
We talked about the history of downtown and all those places doing stuff like this.
And a lot of times that's where it starts.
And then how they talked about, well, we don't want.
You know, we don't want the music with this type of content in it.
Which okay, cool.
But hip hop ain't the only music that got that type of stuff in it.
That part.
Come on now.
I listen to the other stuff and I think that's where, I think that's where us as a community, we do need to be in other people business.
Because we love to highlight what we doing wrong.
We love to talk stuff or, well they just don't want this, but then it's like, hold on now.
That's not how you get to the bottom of a problem.
We discussed other ways to kind of, is it called negate?
Navigate?
Or is it negate?
I guess you had negate.
Negate these things.
We talked about other ways to do it.
Cousin Robert called and I loved his perspective.
He said he used to be a DJ in Chicago.
And if people start doing too much, you slow it down.
You change the vibe.
The DJs really are the curator of the atmosphere.
So I understand asking them,
Maybe slow it down or maybe limit yourselves to this much because better wording would have been we aren't a hip hop club or bar.
You know what I'm saying?
We like to do the top 40.
But if you feel like the crowd is getting a little too amped up, it's okay to shred away.
A meeting would have been okay in a situation like that.
Not a list behind the bar saying no Milwaukee music.
Rap music.
to be specific.
Come on now.
There's other ways to go about these situations.
And like I said, there's songs about violence and rock.
There's violence in country.
There's songs about drugs, killing, fighting guns across many genres.
It ain't just us.
And I ain't gonna let nobody tell us it's just us.
I understand sometimes we get the youngins down there and they get to act in a fool and doing the most, but anybody that knows us knows it's not just us.
Maybe you don't know enough black people from Milwaukee if you feel like it's just us.
And I do understand trying to figure out a solution, but that ain't the way to go about it either.
So is it blatant racism?
Probably not.
But.
Having the public that being in public view, I feel like it definitely sends a signal Sounds like we got a caller on the line.
Am I right, brother Z?
Eastside Corey on the line.
How you feeling Eastside Corey?
I was feeling pretty beautiful.
It's a gorgeous day, but we lost Dolly Parton today.
Yeah, it's all
over my TV.
Oh
my
goodness.
I just looked
over
country music
I just heard a story yesterday.
A story that she was giving a thousand families yesterday.
Some of her fortune, some of her money.
She helped them, whatever they needed, just giving them thousands of dollars.
She had two different kinds of cancers, but she looked good and she was in her right mind.
But another icon is gone, yo.
I will always love you by Whitney Houston.
She wrote that.
She wrote some beautiful music, man, and it crossed over.
You see what I'm saying?
You're talking about music.
It's our saving grace.
Okay.
It brings us together.
Let's all mourn together.
Come together.
Okay.
I love your topic today.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so
much.
Yeah.
I love your voice and, um, you make a lot of sense girl.
I really like your show.
Thank you so much and thank you for listening.
Thank you for giving me that news.
I just looked over at the TV in here and I see it live
on CNN.
God bless her.
God bless her family.
I'm going to get emotional.
Don't get emotional.
I'm sorry to hear that.
She was a special lady.
She
always had a great smile, great sense of humor.
She didn't mind joking about her body and her looks.
She'd like to be a drag queen, you know?
That's
what I loved
most about her.
She didn't let nobody punch her down.
She said, listen, I am
who I
am and I like what I like.
Man, rest in peace, Dolly Parton.
Thank you for calling us East Side Court.
Thank you so much.
But Mr. Producer, right away.
Man, that was that was that was crazy.
I can't believe we lost Dolly Parton.
And like he said, music is meant to bring us together.
We can all find a common ground in music.
Makes us move a little bit.
Dolly Parton had a song with Beyonce, didn't she?
Yep, she sure did.
Come
on now.
And like I said, I listen to a lot of different genres.
I love me some Dolly Parton.
That's my girl right there.
Jolene had her messed up.
All right.
Damn, Jolene.
I'm gonna go find Jolene.
I got some words to say.
Now I gotta get it back for Dolly.
But man, to wrap up this episode, all we're saying is there's certain ways you gotta go about things.
There's certain ways to go about things.
And like, East Side Corey said, music brings us together.
It shouldn't be a way to, to, to me, that looked like a dog whistle.
That list, you know, the dog whistles they use to say something when I'm really saying it.
Man.
Once again, Rest in Peace Dolly Pardon.
Hearing that news had me shook.
My girl is gone, man.
Rest in Peace Dolly Pardon.
Thank you guys for rocking with me on 101.7 The Truth.
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Don't miss out on that Any day Monday through Friday you can find us here live on YouTube all of your hosts will be live on YouTube 101 7 the truth Man, I'm telling you when Dolly Parton said Listen, she didn't mind talking about her body.
She didn't mind talking about what inspired her look She was so ahead of her time
and the cold is white
women man
I like to imagine that was my grandma that had to give my dad up.
That's what I like to imagine, y'all.
I like to build my own white side of the family, because my dad was adopted just to let y'all know.
I build my imagination up.
The dope ones get to stay, they're my cousins.
But y'all my cousins too, don't go anywhere, y'all.
We got the grapevine next.
Homer Blow gonna be in the building, am I right?
No, it's gonna be the best of the grapevine.
Homer will be back tomorrow.
Man, Homer gonna be back tomorrow.
Don't miss that, but...
Right after me, y'all got the best of the grape, I mean, y'all gonna have some good stuff, man.
Again, rest in peace, Dolly Parton.
Thank you so much to Paul for stopping by the studio and giving us some game.
This was a great episode.
Thank you again.
This is your girl, maybe Shannon.
Don't go anywhere.
Let her go.