I know it seems common place here to bash and defame this wallowed sap of a radio star, but we also have to look closely and carefully at how such a plump-breasted meanderer became the most detested man in the business.

I did some digging and spoke to one of my contacts over at Newsday, the leading paper of the Long Island area where Opie grew up, and found some quite startling news. For those who don’t know, Opie was raised by his father Frederick Hughes and mentally unstable mother in Centerport Long Island, an upscale part of the town with a median family income of $194,908 along with 6 other siblings. This may seem like a prosperous and even quite loving environment for a child of his Ilk to grow up and certainly makes us question his stories of cement bag lunches and menial labour in his backyard. That is until my colleague in the press uncovered an old story from September 15th 1971 detailing the tragic incident that forever scarred the Opester, what follows is the story ran on page 8 of the Wednesday 15th Semptember 1971 edition of Newsday.

*Shock and horror befalls Centerport, LI as thirty one year old father of seven Frederick Wilford Hughes has been arrested for the kidnapping and rape of two African American teens following an investigation from Detective Lawrence Henderson of Centerport PD.

The two teens, whose names are to remain unpublished, were reported as issuing on 2nd September after missing softball practice by their local coach and were last seen outside the local 7/11 with an unidentified white male. An anonymous tip off brought the police to search the address ’25 A’ in Centerport, stating that the teens appeared to be hogtied in the back of a green Chrysler Variant with their mouths covered. Police raided the house at dawn to find the two teens being sodomised whilst being forced to watch popular show ‘The Beverley Hillbillies’. Though this sadistic behaviour is surely enough to evoke disgust and outrage among any reasonable citizen, officers were shocked to find one of Frederick’s young sons, eight year old ‘Gregg Hughes’ watching from the corner of the room. Officers apprehended the suspect without a fight and brought him in for questioning promptly at central booking at Centerport PD.

Frederick Hughes is now awaiting trial and is facing 20 years to life imprisonment of kidnapping and sexual assault in the first degree. His children were released from police custody earlier Tuesday morning and will return to their mothers care. Young Gregg, who was witness to the crime asked investigators when ‘Brotherman’ will return, showing investigators that the biological children had contact with the victims and even shared a possible friendship.

Hughes is expected to be on tried on November 23rd, after an initial hearing, Police sources are confident that this will be an open and shut case with the defendant meeting the full ire of justice and law.*

The whole article made my blood churn and really begin to understand the psychology and angst hidden behind Opie’s personality and radio machismo. I finally understood the origin of ‘Brotherman’ and other African-American slang that he often used in his early career, along with his Jive talking impression of any Black male. It stems from this traumatic incident from his childhood when i pulled my fawkin’ peckah out and said “cum on it ain’t gonna suk itself babe” and then his mom said “oh Chippah its so big in my mouth i’m gonna gush like a broken dam or sumthin” tsss

Fin