One of my favorite old school videos is watching Otis Redding singing Try a Little Tenderness. Dude comes off very aggressive in his advisement to be tender with that woman. I take it he and some of his boys are having a pow wow in the barbershop, ’cause world problems are solved there.

So, Otis is sitting in the chair with the barber’s bib on and they’re rapping about the fella in the other chair having problems with his woman. He can’t buy a clue to please this woman ’cause he’s a run-on sentence. Everybody’s side-eyeing him. Even the kid sweeping hair off the floor is shaking his head.

Finally, Otis pops outta his chair and raise the volume on him ’cause he’s had it with this man talking over him. Everybody falls quiet as Otis gets up ’cause they don’t know what’s about to happen. He starts off with a slow warning but elevates ’cause dude is still trying to get a word in.

Otis gets to moving this way and that to make his point more clear and once again, it goes quiet as he gets back in the chair to get wiped down. Clippers are buzzing, and the straws of the broom brushing against the floor is all the sound left. Otis was still breathing hard but he’s content he’s had his say.

Dude rises from his chair and peels back 10 ones from his wallet, then hands it over to his barber. Everybody’s watching to see who’ll say what first. Otis simply reaches out from the chair but Dude’s not feeling anything but Otis’ words reverberating in the air, still knocking his hard head about. The bell rings against the class door and another gentleman strides in, loud and ready to chat it up.