Do Old Heads Still Teach The Youth?

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The question lands heavy and real: do OGs still pass down game to the youth, or did the village go quiet? Big Slick takes a hard look at how neighborhoods used to run on a living code—streetlights meant go home, elders checked bad moves, and civilians stayed protected—even when the block was rough. The memories aren’t just nostalgia; they’re a blueprint for how safety, respect, and guidance shaped kids into adults with options. Big Slick breaks down what that code looked like in practice: older men and women calling you in, steering you off the corner, telling your mom when you crossed a line, and drawing a clear line between the life and everyone else. Those small moments of correction and care created a net that caught a lot of potential before it fell through. From keeping school kids off hot blocks to shielding student athletes and college-bound teens, the community knew who to protect and how to do it without a committee or a policy. Then we step into the present and ask hard questions. Is there a gap between older voices and younger ears? Do OGs still have the credibility and courage to teach? Do young people feel seen or just judged? We talk social media, shifting status symbols, and why clout can drown out wisdom if mentors stop showing up. Most of all, we explore what it would take to rebuild the blueprint: intergenerational spaces, consistent check-ins, visible role models, and simple, repeatable habits that make safety feel normal again. If you grew up with window warnings and stoop talks—or if you wish you had—you’ll feel this. And if you’re ready to be that voice for someone younger, you’ll leave with concrete ideas for how to start. Tap play, then tell us: does your block still look out, and what would it take to make the village louder than the noise? Subscribe, share with a friend who mentors, and drop a review to keep this conversation moving.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:15):
What up, what up, what up, what up?
It's your boy Big Slick, andwelcome to Talk Your Shit.
We got a great show for the day.
But first, I want to give ashout out to all the listeners,
whether you at work, at home, inyour car, or all the truck
drivers on the road, Iappreciate you tuning in.

(00:35):
Listen, I'm gonna jump rightinto it.
We got a great show today.
First, we're gonna be talkingabout is there any OGs that's
still passing down knowledge tothe young dudes in the hood,
man?
Let's talk about it because Idon't know.
Let's jump into it.
So when I was growing up, it wasalways a OG in the neighborhood,

(00:58):
or a couple of them that havepassed down that game, man.
So you don't got to go throughthe same thing they went through
or made the same mistakes thatthey did.
Now, mind you, these dudes isthey street dudes, but it still
was a cold to where you know theyoung kids, the younger guys was
protected by all means.

(01:19):
I don't know if that's still goon nowadays, but when I was
growing up, if you were ayounger guy running around in
the streets, people saw youdoing something wrong, they're
gonna say something.
They're gonna tell your moms,they're gonna tell your bops,
they telling somebody.
You'll have you know, olderladies screaming out the window,
telling you to stop doing whatyou're doing.

(01:40):
Another thing is nobody wasn'trunning around all night long.
When them street lights came on,the younger kids was in the
house.
I don't know if that's stillgoing on, and and who's even
watching that now, you know.
I don't even know if, like Isaid, the OGs or the, you know,
I'm saying the older people isreally able to communicate with

(02:03):
the kids now and tell them to goin the crib.
And if the kids are even gonnalisten to it, you know, at this
point.
But before, when them lights goout and it's still kids running
around, you will have everyadult, every older person
telling you to take your butt inthe house.
I don't know how how is thateven happening nowadays, you

(02:26):
know.
I'm saying the way it is, butthen you know, it was a cold,
you know, kids in an area in aneighborhood in the hood was
protected, right?
The neighborhood was protected,even by the guys that was shady
and wasn't doing, you know, theystreak guys, but they protected
the kids and the ladies in theneighborhood.

(02:47):
You were safe when you was inthe neighborhood.
Now, if you walked out theneighborhood, that may it's
something different going on,but within that neighborhood,
you was protected.
I don't even know if that'sgoing on now, you know.
I'm saying, with the kidsrunning around.
I don't know if they showing thesame respect to the adults like
how they did when I was younger.
You know, when I when I wasyounger, you you show respect,

(03:10):
you know what I'm saying.
Now, don't don't get me wrong,we wasn't perfect, you know.
Everybody was running arounddoing whatever, but when it came
to somebody older, we listenedto them, you know, at least when
they was around watching us.
We we we didn't dis justblatantly disrespect, you know,
I'm saying the old gees or theolder women in the community, in

(03:32):
the projects, in the hood.
You just didn't do that, youknow.
But everybody looked out foreach other and you communicated,
even the guys that tell you,hey, yo, stay off the block.
This would have happened.
I know I'm out here, but youdon't need to be out here,
right?
Civilians was protected.
So if you wasn't about, youknow, just the street life and

(03:53):
being out there like that, youwas protected.
You weren't involved in you knowwhat was going on out there, you
know what I'm saying?
You weren't involved now.
You know, sometimes certainstuff happened to you know to
innocent people, but the wholefocus of everything it didn't it
didn't happen like that.

(04:14):
It was if you was involved inthe streets, certain things
happened.
When you wasn't, you was you wasprotected to the best of you
know the the the guys aroundtheir ability.
They they didn't try to letnothing come at you.
So like I said, kids wasprotected.
If you, you know, you you goingto school, you a school kid, a
lot of the guys made sure youstayed out of trouble, you

(04:36):
stayed off the block.
When it was late, go in thehouse.
You know, if you was a you know,they knew you was a protege
playing ball, you was protected.
You know, you going to college,you was protected, you know.
I'm saying by these guys in inthe neighborhood.
And I I was just trying to justpose this question is this still
going on?

(04:57):
Is the youth still beingprotected by the older guys in
the neighborhood, by the OGs?
And is the OGs still passingdown knowledge, or or are the
old Gs don't have no knowledgeno more?
I I don't know, I don't reallyknow what's going on right now.
You know, I'm saying that's whyI'm just asking this question.

(05:18):
Help me out because before, youknow, they're they'll tell you a
little something and theycommunicate with the younger
guys.
So I don't know if the youngerguys paying attention to the
older guys now, or are the olderguys even talking to the younger
generation?
I don't know if is it a gapright there that you know we

(05:40):
can't bridge the gap where welost communication some kind of
way down the line because theblueprint was that you was
passing it down, but now I don'tknow if it's being passed down.
Now I don't know if the theyounger just generation looking
at the the older guys like yo,you lame.
I'm not listening to you.
You ain't you ain't getting nomoney, you ain't you ain't doing

(06:00):
this.
I don't know.
I really I really don't know,but I hope that it's still the
same way to where the kids, youknow, coming up in a
neighborhood is protected by theolder adults and people are
looking out for each otherbecause before it was like it
was it was a village.
So even if your mother waswasn't around or she working two

(06:24):
jobs or double shifts, that nextdoor neighbor made sure you got
in the house from school, madesure you weren't running in and
out, they watched each other'skids.
You know, I don't know if that'sgoing on no more, but that's how
it was.
They saw you doing somethingwrong, or the older dude to

(06:45):
snatch you up and check you.
Yo, stop doing that.
You you shouldn't be out heredoing that.
So I hope, again, I hope that'sstill going on.
That that knowledge is stillbeing passed down.
Because if it if it's not,that's not a good look.
You know, and if the older dudesnow, I don't know, they are they
dumbed down?

(07:05):
I I don't know.
Do they got any knowledge topass down?
I have no idea, but hopefullythey do.
They hopefully they do, and andit'll help out these young guys
that's running around out hereright now.
If they do got somebody thatjust can, you know, give them a
little bit of advice and makesure they're doing the right
thing, especially at a youngage, man.

(07:27):
You 12, 11, you know, 13, 14.
You know, you got an older guysin the neighborhood, you know,
trying to tell you, hey man,don't do this.
I done did this, and that don'twork.
It helps them out a lot.
But you know, you never know.
Hopefully, it's happening.
It's happening out there towhere that knowledge is still

(07:48):
being spreading.
Hope so.
But again, it's been anotherepisode of Talk Your Shit.
I'm big slick.
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(08:13):
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Again, this is big slick and I'mout.
Pace.