💅🏾 This week on the ShizzyGetBizzy Top 10, we’re counting down the most iconic, soul-shaking, and downright funny things Black moms say — from “Keep crying and I’ll give you something to cry about” 😭 to “Do I look like one of your little friends?”
These sayings were both life lessons and survival tactics — equal parts love, logic, and a sprinkle of fear. 😂
🎧 Tune in for a hilarious trip down memory lane as we decode the phrases that shaped us… and still haunt us every time we call our own kids’ names!
Episode Transcript
Welcome back to the Morning Experience. It is Wednesday and
it is time for another Top ten. First off, thanks
for everybody for reaching out emails and Instagram, dms and
like trying to let you know, let me know what
you want to hear on the top ten. And this
week we're talking about your mama. We are talking about
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where you know, we get our sense of humor. Everybody
thinks it comes from us staying up late watching def
comedy jam or us do us our parents staying up
listening to records of Richard Pryor and everything like that.
But know our sense of humor comes from our moms.
Because black moms have some of the best one liners.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
They will remix.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Anything to earn anything into a permanent punishment for you.
So this week we are talking about the top ten
things that black mothers say. Number ten, we are going
to get right into it. This is a hodie Bud goodie,
but it always applies. We got McDonald's at home, and
McDonald's at home was only if you were driving by
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McDonald's because they wouldn't want to stop there. Now, you
got McDonald's money was when you was at home and
tried to actual to get something, and they like, you
got McDonald's money because they wasn't trying to go there,
so mcmom's that that was their thing.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It was always we got McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Mcmoms oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Uh. And my mom all of a sudden always has
McDonald's money now for her grandkids.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I hate it. I hate it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And there was never actually any McDonald's at home. They
never had the mc peanut butter and jelly at that
at McDonald's before.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I've never seen that before.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, no, nope, we didn't have the mcfries none of that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Nope, he said to mcfri.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
At number nine, listen this this list may it may
it may bring up some laughter in.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You where they bring up some trauma in your life.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
At number nine, your mom was good for saying and
keep crying and I will give you something to cry about.
That was just one of those things. And she meant
it because she would grip you up, look you right
in your face with her feast, with her teeth clenched,
and say, you keep crying. I got something for you
to cry about. But mom, you are the reason why.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I facts.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I think every mother has said that. Uh, not so
much now, I think we saw we saw now, but
back in the day, for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We definitely we definitely ain't. We ain't our parents.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We tried to do this gentle parent and thing, and
these kids are kicking our ass.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Number eight, what the kid?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
What the parents used to always say to us was
going here in at Like you got some sense. Mom
would always say this, and we would have to no
matter where we were going, if we were going inside
the church or wherever.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
She did not want us to embarrass her at all.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But the thing is, though, is that like the layer
of embarrassed was so thin.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
It was like he.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Keep running around. He's a child, He's supposed to run around.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Right right, Like like like she she, I gotta let
go all of this energy somehow.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I'm not trying to embarrass you. I'm just being a kid.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
My bad.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
And they never really told you what that was like,
And like, don't embarrass me, but what you mean by that?
Like I don't know, Like stuff be bothering you sometimes
and I'm like, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Give me playing next day you just switch it up
and I don't I don't know what's bothering you at
this point, And look that leads right into number seven.
Number seven is when we go in this store, don't
touch nothing, don't break nothing, don't ask for nothing. Mom,
what did you send me to this store for? What
did I come here for? You can't even look at anything?
They tell you, don't look at nothing? Damn mom, Damn.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah, that's crazy, Like, how'm a walk? Like you gonna
carry me?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Like? How I'm a walking here?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I can't look at nothing?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Then they got the audacity to take you to a
store that you haven't been to in a while, and
there's just all this stuff that you're like, oh man,
I want to look at that, but like if I
look at it, I'm gonna get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And I don't want to, you know not, Oh man,
why'd you bring it to the store?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yep? And they see you looking at it and be like,
which you got money? Like I can't even look at it.
I can't, I can't want, I can't desire this jacket? Right.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Black moms are tough. But that was our first half
of our top ten for this week. We are again
we are talking about black moms. And make sure that
if you miss any of this, make sure you check
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Morning Experience. But we will be back after these messages,
after this music. It is the Top ten. It is Wednesday.
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It is the Morning Experience. Welcome back to the Morning Experience.
It is Wednesday. It is Wednesday, and you know what
Wednesday means. It means that we are doing our top ten.
This week's top ten. We are talking about your mama,
and we know your mama.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Had some amazing one liners.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And I know, I just feel, I feel it in
my heart that we just all live the same life.
I just every time I say it, I feel like
because all of our parents did the same exact thing.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I feel like we all lived the same life.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But we are at number six on this list, and
number six this is something that doesn't get said by
black moms anymore because kids don't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You smell like outside.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I used to hate coming in and just my mom
would embarrass me in front of company, her company, my company,
just sisters, sisters, friends, anybody, and just tell me that
I smell like outside.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I don't think kids can smell outside no more. I
mean they don't even go outside, but you know, like
it's still a smell. I've been trying to explain it
to somebody, like what does outside smell like? And I
had that whole conversation like what I just I know
what it smell like, but I can't describe it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Hmmm uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I read like on there's there's this thing now called
like bed bedcramming, where like Jen Alpha I spend spent
a ridiculous amount of time on on their bed and
that was just like, man, that's just weird that that's
a thing like with.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Kids because they're on their phone. They're on their phone,
they're sitting there. It's just like we if they did
a study on us, They're like, we're on a toilet
the whole time because we.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Just read from on the phone the whole time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Until your legs give out. Let me get number five.
Let me move on with this. This number five. My mom,
close my door. You're trying to cool the whole damn neighborhood. Mom,
We got this two thousand btu air conditioners is not
It's barely cool in the living room off. It is
not helping out anything besides just circulating the warm air.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Hey, is it expensive? Man?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Now that I'm I get it now was like in here,
I never yo.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yo, I never. My mom My mom was real quick.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Like she was quick off the trigger to say that,
like you couldn't have the door open, even for your
own body, Like she was going to say something regardless,
the door just shouldn't be opened when it's hot outside.
But that's just what it is her.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You're just not supposed to do nothing. And my mom
my mom was famous for why is my door open?
I am literally standing in the door.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I'm about to walk out, like like now if I
could just jump out the window right.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Or if I answered because I'm standing here nothing now,
that doesn't escalate it to a new problem.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Just always a ramp. Number four on this list. This
this used to always come during the summer. But I
was me and my brother we were growing young man.
All you do is eat? Are you trying to eat
me out of a house and home? Black moms, you
are good for throwing this one out there. And it
is like, mom, I had a peanut butter and jelly earlier,
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like I just came in here for a Swiss rule
and you talking about I'm eating up everything out the
damn house like I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I have to eat at some point the day.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
No, but that's facts. Like, come on now, y'all, the
kids be eating. Now, they be eating, and you like,
wait a minute, it's no, that's big Cosco boxes.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Two days it be gone. I'm like, what are y'all doing?
Y'all can't be at hungry.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I get it, moms, I mean, after after, after experiencing
this past summer, both of my kids, I call them
snack bandits because yo, it seems like in the middle
of the night, there'll be twelve of them, you know,
and then four hours later, I mean, in the middle
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of the day, it'll be twelve of them, and then
four hours later, every one of them is going, and
both of them are like, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And it makes you more mad that you didn't even
get none of them. It's like, damn, I am one
of them.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yep. So so yeah, I'm at least moms.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I understand it now. Well, I don't agree with y'all.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Number three, your mom would always say to you Black
moms were good for this one. Don't make me embarrass
you in front of your little friends. And your little
friends were standing right there and heard her telling you
that in the voice.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You are already embarrassed at this point.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's what I was gonna say. With you already get
it now, you might as well just.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I mean, my thing is, well, you don't have to.
It seemed like a choice, mom, seems like a choice.
You don't have to do this.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You have to just let me slide say something later on,
and then you know, like, wait till my friends are
going you said, don't make you embarrass me.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I'm trying not to. That's why they all here right
right right.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
My mom did that one time by just crashing a
whole New Year's party.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah it was. Yeah, we'll talk about that America.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh yeah, we're gonna definitely have to talk about That.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Was the first eight of our top ten. When we
come back after these messages, in these songs, we have
the rest of our top ten, the final two, and
we are talking about your Mama. It is the Morning
Experience on LIT one six. Hey, y'all's Wednesday. It is Wednesday.
It is the top ten, and guess what it is.
Time for the top two of the top ten. This
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week's top ten. We are talking about your mama, and
we are talking about all those one liners and out
of the way.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
She made sure that she tried to embarrass you.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Number two on this list. That's something that all black
moms say, fix your face before I fix it for you,
and she would grip your face up.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It would just be especially in church.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh man, moms would grab your face up right in
church and everybody else was sitting around wouldn't do anything,
no help or nothing.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I hate this because I say this. I just I
just use it. I use in America guiltiest charge.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Yeah. Unfortunately, you can see how I feel on my face.
So I really good at that. So yeah, mom, Yeah,
so many times, so many times.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I will admit I do say this.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It sounds a little bit more like if DMX word
to say it, because I got some bas and some
extra words, some extra four other words light.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Up in there to make sure that you get the
point right right.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So I might say and you and I might say,
don't make me embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It all go into one, and then when we get
to the sport, don't touch them. It all just rolled
right into each other. We are our parents kids, as
much as we try to get away from it. We are.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Number one on this list with talking about something all
black moms did. And I want to point out the
hypocrisy and all of this. Mom's always told us I
ain't one of your little friends. And when you go
on most everybody's Facebook, their mom is one of their
little friends on Facebook, Mom, you was fraud and you
always wanted to be my friend. You recognized my cool
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at the time, and you really wanted to be a friend.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So you was hating at the time.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, for sure. I think they was just hating. They
just wanted to be out one of our little friends.
But they couldn't because now on Facebook, they be sending
you and they be tagging I don't know, they be
tagging you, and it's like I'm about to black you, mom,
Like I'm really about to blo embrash you in front
of your little friends because I'm blacking.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I used to put up I used to put up
rap lyrics and then my mom would be like, good
morning Shawnee like man, like.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It's funny because I would see it and.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Encourage her to do this stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yes, oh man yo, same saying same my mom.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Uh you hit me up, you know, hey, hey let's
go on to lunch date. I'm like, mom, oh, yes,
you live in a different state. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'll come stay to night and I'd be like, all right, cool,
all those little rules I used to have, don't throw
in my food yet for this a certain time. Don't
do none of that stuff. Mom, I remember all that.
And your brom got to curfew. That is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Like your ass in here. You ain't coming in. I
like to go out eleven.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
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