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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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What up, what up, what up, what up? It's your boy Big Slick, and welcome to Talk Your Shit. We got a great show for the day. But first, I want to give a shout out to all the listeners, whether you at work, at home, in your car, or all the truck drivers on the road, I appreciate you tuning in. Listen, I'm gonna jump right into it. We got a great show today. First, we're gonna be talking about is there any OGs that's still passing down knowledge to the young dudes in the hood, man? Let's talk about it because I don't know. Let's jump into it. So when I was growing up, it was always a OG in the neighborhood, or a couple of them that have passed down that game, man. So you don't got to go through the same thing they went through or made the same mistakes that they did. Now, mind you, these dudes is they street dudes, but it still was a cold to where you know the young kids, the younger guys was protected by all means. I don't know if that's still go on nowadays, but when I was growing up, if you were a younger guy running around in the streets, people saw you doing 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, older ladies screaming out the window, telling you to stop doing what you're doing. Another thing is nobody wasn't running around all night long. When them street lights came on, the younger kids was in the house. I don't know if that's still going on, and and who's even watching that now, you know. I don't even know if, like I said, the OGs or the, you know, I'm saying the older people is really able to communicate with the kids now and tell them to go in the crib. And if the kids are even gonna listen to it, you know, at this point. But before, when them lights go out and it's still kids running around, you will have every adult, every older person telling you to take your butt in the house. I don't know how how is that even happening nowadays, you know. I'm saying the way it is, but then you know, it was a cold, you know, kids in an area in a neighborhood in the hood was protected, right? The neighborhood was protected, even by the guys that was shady and wasn't doing, you know, they streak guys, but they protected the kids and the ladies in the neighborhood. You were safe when you was in the neighborhood. Now, if you walked out the neighborhood, that may it's something different going on, but within that neighborhood, you was protected. I don't even know if that's going on now, you know. I'm saying, with the kids running around. I don't know if they showing the same respect to the adults like how they did when I was younger. You know, when I when I was younger, you you show respect, you know what I'm saying. Now, don't don't get me wrong, we wasn't perfect, you know. Everybody was running around doing whatever, but when it came to somebody older, we listened to them, you know, at least when they was around watching us. We we we didn't dis just blatantly disrespect, you know, I'm saying the old gees or the older women in the community, in the projects, in the hood. You just didn't do that, you know. But everybody looked out for each 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 you don't need to be out here, right? Civilians was protected. So if you wasn't about, you know, just the street life and being out there like that, you was protected. You weren't involved in you know what was going on out there, you know what I'm saying? You weren't involved now. You know, sometimes certain stuff happened to you know to innocent people, but the whole focus of everything it didn't it didn't happen like that. It was if you was involved in the streets, certain things happened. When you wasn't, you was you was protected to the best of you know the the the guys around their ability. They they didn't try to let nothing come at you. So like I said, kids was protected. If you, you know, you you going to school, you a school kid, a lot of the guys made sure you stayed out of trouble, you stayed off the block. When it was late, go in the house. 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 in the neighborhood. And I I was just trying to just pose this question is this still going on? Is the youth still being protected by the older guys in the neighborhood, by the OGs? And is the OGs still passing down knowledge, or or are the old Gs don't have no knowledge no more? I I don't know, I don't really know what's going on right now. You know, I'm saying that's why I'm just asking this question. Help me out because before, you know, they're they'll tell you a little something and they communicate with the younger guys. So I don't know if the younger guys paying attention to the older guys now, or are the older guys even talking to the younger generation? I don't know if is it a gap right there that you know we can't bridge the gap where we lost communication some kind of way down the line because the blueprint was that you was passing it down, but now I don't know if it's being passed down. Now I don't know if the the younger 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 no money, you ain't you ain't doing 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, you know, coming up in a neighborhood is protected by the older adults and people are looking out for each other because before it was like it was it was a village. So even if your mother was wasn't around or she working two jobs or double shifts, that next door neighbor made sure you got in the house from school, made sure you weren't running in and out, they watched each other's kids. You know, I don't know if that's going on no more, but that's how it was. They saw you doing something wrong, or the older dude to snatch you up and check you. Yo, stop doing that. You you shouldn't be out here doing that. So I hope, again, I hope that's still going on. That that knowledge is still being passed down. Because if it if it's not, that's not a good look. You know, and if the older dudes now, I don't know, they are they dumbed down? I I don't know. Do they got any knowledge to pass down? I have no idea, but hopefully they do. They hopefully they do, and and it'll help out these young guys that's running around out here right now. If they do got somebody that just can, you know, give them a little bit of advice and make sure they're doing the right thing, especially at a young age, man. You 12, 11, you know, 13, 14. You know, you got an older guys in the neighborhood, you know, trying to tell you, hey man, don't do this. I done did this, and that don't work. It helps them out a lot. But you know, you never know. Hopefully, it's happening. It's happening out there to where that knowledge is still being spreading. Hope so. But again, it's been another episode of Talk Your Shit. I'm big slick. And look, if you want to be a part of the show, email me at talkyour shit daily at gmail.com. That's talk your shit daily at gmail.com. I'll pull your email, read it on the show, give you my honest, uncut, raw opinion, whether you like it or not, because that's what I do. Again, this is big slick and I'm out. Pace.