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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Subject hip hopping Granny. Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm a forty
six year old married woman with two teenagers. My husband
and I love all types of music, but hip hop
and rap will forever be my favorite type of music.
I was an only child and I spent a lot
of time with my grandmother when I was a little girl.
My grandmother loved rap music, so I grew up knowing

(00:49):
the lyrics to songs and writing around with music blasting
out of her car. My mother was a wild woman,
and rightfully so, since she had me when she was
eighteen years old. My grandmother was all for my mother dating,
going out to clubs, traveling, and having a life despite
being a young mom. I'm nothing like that now with
my teenagers. That wild type of lifestyle work for my

(01:12):
mother back in the day because it was a safer
time and there was no social media to track everything
you did. My daughter is sixteen and she is always
at my grandmother's house, which is her great grandma. She
loves it over there because her great grandma is still
young at heart and still loves rap music. She knows
the words to all the latest rap songs, and she's

(01:33):
got her micro braids done and lots of makeup on.
Usually everyone loves her, but my mother and I think
her lifestyle is a bit excessive. I found out that
she's letting my daughter meet up with boys at her house,
and my husband has talked with her about respecting our
rules for our children. I love that my teenagers call

(01:53):
her the hip hopping granny, and it's a blessing to
have their great grandma in their lives. But she just
does too much all of the time. How do I
convince an eighty two year old woman to stop negatively
influencing my children? Please help eighty well, hip hop and granny.
Yeah that's the subject. Well, this one is not easy

(02:15):
because you know your grand is eighty two years old,
and you know it is hard to tell an eighty
two year old what to do period on any level.
I mean, they feel like they've lived their lives and
you can't tell them anything. They've earned the right. I
don't care if it's your child, you're talking about her,
whatever it is, that's just how they feel at that age.
You can't run granny's house. And I'm sure you've even

(02:37):
heard this before. You know, this is my house, my house,
my rules. Okay, you've talked to your grandmother, I'm sure,
and you said your husband has talked to her about
it about you know, respecting the rules that you have
for your children. And I know you're most concerned about
the boys, and you should be concerned, but you gotta

(03:00):
I just say, you got to trust it. Just because
your grandmother is young at heart and she listens to
rap and she wears micro braides that you know, you
got to think that she's not irresponsible when it comes
to your kids and her great grandkids. I think she's
paying attention to what's going on in her house and
that's probably why she lets the boys come over there

(03:21):
to the house. So she can see what they're going
to do, so she can see what's going on. I mean,
you spent a lot of time with your grandmother, and yes,
times were different then, but you turned out fine. You
spend a lot of time at your granny's house. Times
are different, and your grandmother hasn't changed. Times may have changed,
but your grandmother hasn't changed. I think you need to

(03:42):
stay involved like you've been doing, keep the lines of
communication open, or you know, your other alternative is to
ban the kids from going over there, and I don't
think you want to do that. I mean, you know
those are the choices. But I think if you keep
the communication open, let the grandmother know what you will
and won't do. You know, as far as your children go,
I think it'll be okay, But do it nicely. She

(04:04):
is eighty two years old, Steve.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Your grandmama too damn old for this. Make this announcement clear.
Your grandmama is too damn old for this.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Now, let me explain something to you.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
I first got introduced to hip hop in nineteen seventy seven.
I'm not saying that's when it was born. I'm saying
that's when I was introduced to it. Hip hop, hotel, hippity,
hip hop, to hop, to hop. I said, when I

(04:49):
heard it played at a party, why are they playing this?

Speaker 5 (04:53):
But it's okay.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
This won't last long because ain't nobody singing. That's what
my dumb ass said when I first heard hip hop
quill dot, this ain't gonna last They not even saying,
ain'tybody fit to do this here?

Speaker 5 (05:15):
That was my prediction for hip hop.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Hip Hop has turned out to be the single largest
music generre ever created.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
It's that big Jesus.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
They have created more millionaires. I gotta take my hat
off to hip hop. They've done some great things. They've
gone in the wrong direction over the years, gangster rap
and stuff like that, but overall, hip hop has created
a bunch of millionaires. They've created some creative minds. That

(05:52):
was in nineteen seventy seven. I was exactly twenty years
old when I first heard it, and I'm not saying
that's when hip hop was born. Is probably born before that.
When we hit the radio waves and it came down
to Ohio, I was twenty. I predicted the demise of it.
Showed what I know about hip hop, the culture that
is becoming. But your grandmama is too damn old, but

(06:13):
to help your grandmother out. When I come back, Sister O'Dell.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
Will be here, Oh Lord, to deal with.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
This letter and any questions anybody might have to the
great grandmother whose sister O'Dell knows because Sister Odell was
her Sunday school teacher. Come on, wow, we were here
from Sister O'Dell when we come back concerning this letter.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Okay, we'll have part two of today's Strawberry Letter coming
up at twenty three minutes after the hour. The subject
is hip hop and Granny. We'll get back into it
with Sister Odell right after this. You're listening hardy morning show.

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Speaker 1 (07:31):
All right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.
The subject hip Hopping Granny Day. And I was just
gonna ready to understand sister Odell is.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Here but your sales state, Yeah yeah, I see, Shelley.
You heard him say that when we came back Sweedy,
that I was going.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
To be here.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
But he did us right on and just said Steve, well,
Steve is gondy. Steve was not eighty two.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
What did you know? You need somebody with some expertise
on this here, all right, so you're gonna rec let
me just say, good morning's every ward's good morning.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Carley, Shirley, Mississippi went the mouth and you're a pretty
little big forehead girl.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Hey, jun you.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Deal Thomas, Hi boy, Yes, ma'am, good morning, Good morning,
says Sodel.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Good good good.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
Now let's just get on into this and explain to
me this letter. What pieces is y'all not clear on,
Shirley Carlin.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well anybody, sister Otel. But the title is hip Hop
and Granny and.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's that's stupid right there. Title subject you know she
hated too.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
Now you can be a hip hop grandfather like my age,
because hip hop day was round that inn, you know,
brain master flash all them peoples. Uh, what if you
hated too? You was theay mommy and daddy trying to
stay up with them. Now they ain't make no sin.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yes, this woman wrote the letter. It's about her grandmother.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
She her grandmother raised her pretty much because she said
her own mother was kind of wild. She was a
young woman and she had her at eighteen.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
So she said, what we're gonna stop the wildness.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well it's it's kind of stopped. It's kind of stopped
as far as the mother and the grandmother are concerned.
It's the great grandmother that's the issue. The oh Harold,
the eighty two year old name eighty.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
Two hip hop grand and the set up and put
some micro baths in her head.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
I don't know what the braids was hanging on to, sister.
I'm going to have some brute down.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
I'm gonna tell you right now.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
If you eighty two trying to put some braids in
your hair, you finna put one little bit you got,
You're finna put it right out your hand. Just the
roots don't stay long. And eighty two, there ain't no
strong roots day up there. You can't go yanking on them.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, She just said micro braide. She didn't say anything
about a lace front. Sister of death.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
What I'm saying you got to attach to Michael Bage,
to something something. No, you've been wearing a Hallie baby
haircut for a long time. You don't know the ruse.
I had to say. Oh, oh, so you don't have
a lot of hair, so you just need to stay
off of this.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I don't, I don't. I have a short haircut.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
That's right, You've always had that. You've never tried braids.
You will.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Tried to attract Steve when you first got on the
radio and you wore them afro.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
To work, and you didn't know it was a bit
turn off to him.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
He didn't know.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
He didn't care for their afro puffs at all that
you WoT with your little tight dress on that day.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Okay, this letter is not about me, and you told
me already that Steve is gone, all right, So let's
get back to the letter. Eighty two year old great grandmother.
The mother is or the granddaughter is concerned that the
grandmother is negatively influencing her sixteen year.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Old, Well she is.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
If she's letting the baby bring boys over to the house.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
You don't do that with no little girl that's.

Speaker 6 (11:02):
Sixteen bringing boys to the house, right, That ain't right now.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
The great grandmama need to get herself together.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
You can listen to the music, but you can't. You
can't raise kids to the music.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, the parents have spoken to the great grandmother
about this.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well you can you speaking to her. You can do
more than that. Cut she hated too, shul.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
Let the baby go over there, or that organ play
in the background. Noise that boy's whipping that. You know,
that's a hamm in organ. Turn it up, Turn it up.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
Davis a little bit, a lot of.

Speaker 7 (11:49):
Davis when you get to shock. Ye, I know, he

(12:21):
feeling like, yeah, ain't you Davis David?

Speaker 3 (12:34):
I want that boy right there.

Speaker 6 (12:35):
You know, for a white boy, he sure knows how
to jump in at the right time. He must have
been raised in the Negro chase, he said. Yess ma'am said,
I know, I know it when I see it to somebody.
There's some Negroes in his family somewhere.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
But you can't say black.

Speaker 6 (12:53):
You got somebody was pulling him off to the side,
working with him.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
He's got way too.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
Much soul that I seen him.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
My Steeves off saying, this soul event one time, table
full of black girls was over there here. One of
the toenails were trainy black. I said, this is a
tricky little white boy right here, just one of his toenails,
one of them was black, and he had a ring on.
He would buy a drinks for them sisters. I started
to slide over there myself. I said, well, all right

(13:21):
now anyway anyway, yeah, just want to clear it up.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
If you're eighty two years old, you need to act
your age, not your shoe size. Here, yes, can't carry
your to time people wrapped up.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
If you get out there and the want to put
some vinegar on a brown paper bag and wrap it
up in your throat, Listen, we gotta go.

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