Damson Idris Interview and more

good morning. How are you guys feeling? One more day to the weekend, one more day to the weekend? Crazy? I am tired. How are you feeling? Um? I feel okay, I'm feeling a little better. Yes, you was beat? Yeah? I think I just was exhausted. I've been doing too much. So yesterday, so um, you know, shout out to my wife. You know, we have a book coming out April nineteenth. So we're planning and we're setting up a book tour. So, like I said yesterday, we're traveling to city to city.

We're going to the mom and pop bookstores, we're going to the major bookstores. We just want to meet and see the people. It's a relationship book. We break down everything that we've been through, hopefully to help people out there that's you know, maybe going through similar problems, similar situations, don't know how to figure it out, and we just try to, you know, tell our story and we're just

honest and truthful. So it's it's gonna be some some crime moments in that book, but it's uh, it was therapy to me and my wife because we were able to talk a lot of things out from the beginning of our relationships and I was pretty cool. So we were setting that up. So yesterday, you know, I'm into real estate, so I have a property that's about an hour away and I went to go check and I left my laptop there. Now, yes, no, so my laptop is my everything. So that's where I take no matter what.

When I get out the car and take my laptop, that's my life. Like, that's how I make my money. That's how I DJ. No no nudes, but just how I DJ. So I left the I left yesterday and I remembered that I left laptop there. So last night I drove back to the property to go get my laptop. But they did work on the house. So I was so impressed with the work that they did in the house on FaceTime and my wife saying, look, I go back home. I left the laptop again. What is wrong

with you? Envy? So I had to get up at three o'clock this morning to drive back to the property this morning to go get the damn laptop. You are really did see? I am. I am a blonde. I am very did see this morning. All right, don't blonde shame, don't blonde shame. All right, Well, we got a great show for you today. We have damnson Dress joining us this morning. And yes, that's from the amazing show Snowfall. That show is so great. I love man And it's

crazy because you know, the new season started. They did like two episodes back to back, and I had to really like go back because I was trying to remember. It feels like it's so long in between all these shows. Yeah, that you gotta like recall what happened. I've heard so many good things about Snowfall. I just haven't dove into it. I haven't seen yet. I just haven't had time rest season five. You had time to watch The Bachelor, I do, but I fall asleep on a bachelor. That's well, that's

my wife's show. So you can fall asleep on it's like you know, you know, can watch a little bit, like I haven't seen Euphoria. What, No, I haven't seen that, the Tindless swind Little what's that thing? I haven't seen. I've only seen like three episodes of that, Like I've been behind behind So but yeah, he stop it, but damnson, it just would be joining us and also Erica Alexander

and Rebecca Howard. They have a new podcast called Finding to Mika that focuses on a disappearance and the disappearance and murder of Tamika Hudson Houston, Houston. Yeah, so we'll be kicking in with them in a little bit as well. So a pact show. And let's get the show cracking front page news. What we're talking about. Yes, uh, let's start it off with I mean, you know what we're talking about Ukraine and Russia and now there is a bounty on the head of Ladimir Putin. Will tell you

who plays that bounty? Oh my goodness, all right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, good morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy we are to breakfast clublet's getting some front page news, some new news. What we're starting, all right, Well, let's start with the Russian businessman. He has put a one million dollar bounty on Vladimir Putin's head. Now, what does that mean? Not that he went from killed, but he

went him arrested as a war criminal. So this investor is um saying that he promises to pay one million dollars to the officer or officers who, complying with their constitutional duty, arrest Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international laws. Now, the man who says this is a crypto investor. His name is Alex Konaikin. I can't even pronounce his last name, kona Anikin, and he posted it on Facebook. He said Putin had violated the Russian

constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponent. He said, as an ethnic Russian and a Russian citizen, I see it as my moral duty to facilitate the denazification of Russia. I will continue my assistance to Ukraine and its heroic efforts to withstand the onslaught of Putin's order, so so he doesn't want him killed, he just wants to He went to arrest as a war criminal. Okay, now let's

give you guys some updates. There's another round of talks that would be taking place today between both delegations for Ukraine and for Russia. They said the first round on Monday lasted five hours. Now the mayor of the southern city of Kashan indicated that they had fallen on Wednesday. They said, Ukrainian forces has left, so Russian forces have taken over. And this follows several days of heavy fighting.

A Western intelligence report indicated that Chinese officials in the meantime in early February requested that senior Russian officials wait until after the Beijian Winter Olympics had finished before they started that invasion of Ukraine. So apparently they knew, but they were like, let's just wait till after the Olympics for you got before you guys do this. Yeah, My only thing is my question is this. You know they have those conversations. What are they having conversations about? Right,

if I'm Ukraine, what is they to talk about? Why are you invading my country? Well, you're still wanting to see if there is any way to get a ceasefire, and no matter what, you still would like that. Yeah, absolutely, you have to come to the table to try to see if you can make that happen. In the United States and every country you're still hoping that it happens. What do you give up if you're Ukraine, Like what

conversation do you have? And it's not like you'd be like, oh, I'll give you this if you just stopped shooting at me, Like what do you have, Like, stop shooting at me, stop stop dropping bombs at me. You're killing innocent people, Like well, I don't I don't understand what these conversations. I don't know how they're helping. Now one million people have left Ukraine in just a week, according to the UN. I did see on the news some people that were

protesting when the Russian military were coming in. They were standing there and they were chanting and yelling and they didn't have any weapons or anything on them. So eventually the Russians did go past them, but they were standing outside protesting saying that they didn't have any weapons, but you know, asking them to please leave, and obviously that didn't work. Now, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved

a bipartisan resolution Wednesday. That resolution expresses support for the people of Ukraine. There were only three people who voted against the resolution. They were all Republicans. One of them said on Twitter that they said, talk to me when our border is secure. Another person says that he thought the resolution was overly broad and that targeting Russia's economy could backfire and cause further economic stress for low income Americans. And the third person argued that the US has no

moral obligation to help either side in the conflict. So those are the three people who voted. The vote was almost unanimous, four hundred and twenty six to three in order to support Ukraine. Now, seven Russian banks have been removed from the Swift network. We told you guys about that earlier. Those are the banks that are now not going to be able to send money, and you know, economically, that's where everybody's hitting them right now with all these

different sanctions. So we'll keep you updated again on what's going on in Ukraine and Russia as things keep on happening, and that is your front page news. They are saying these latest sanctions will in the law term really affect Russia as people are figuring out ways to get around the oil and gas issue that we're having now with

the shortage around the world from all these sanctions against Russia. Yeah, they're saying gas prices are going to be one hundred and nineteen dollars a barrel, So people like, what does that mean? Just think about it. Last year it was around eighty eight dollars a barrel, ninety dollars a barrel. So the fact that it's going to one nineteen, meaning gas prices will probably shoot over five dollars, which is going to be very, very very very difficult. Very people

will be scrambling to try to find alternative supplies. But in the long term, do you really want to have to rely on Russia for gas and oil? So now everybody has to figure out something alternative. Yeah, they're pushing electric and I know for some people looking at electric cars, because I've been looking at electric cars the last couple

of days. I know right now, for myself, Tesla looks good because Tesla has so many charging stations where you can actually charge, and they have the fast charges, a lot of them are free, and I know a lot of these other manufacturers they have electric cars, but you gotta pay to charge your car, so it's kind of like getting gas. So just do your homework. I'd rather has an electric car. He's so happy. What kind of car? Yes, at BMW, I gotta figure it out. I just got

to ask some more questions about it. But anyway, get it off your chest. Eight undred five eight five one on five one. If you need to vent phone lines a wide open again eight hundred five eight five one on five one. It's the breakfast Club, Go morning, the breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling what call of you if this is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five one five one. We want to hear from you on

the breakfast Club. Hello, who's this about? Every yo? Travel? If I tell you? How many people are really upset that you always get through Like they're like, how does travel always? We get tagged in posts like how does this happen? Oh? Trust you want to tell me? They'd be all of my DM's like, oh, you need to get a job. And at the mind that didn't used to bother me because I used to have a job, like for nine years now you're like, I don't think a little bit. You know I lost my job. Now

I'll be thinking a little bit. Yeah you I have a while ago. I love my job in December. Ye, not a while ago. I ain't been jobbing for a while. Okay, you need to get a job. Track, go get a job. Feel like a long time okay. But God's gods still been blessed with me because I got food stamp. I'm on unappointment. God is still blessing. Well he do it. But now if you got an opportunity, Hey, I'm all here.

I'm all here. I know that's right. I'm calling because listen. Actually, ye I normal way to ask you for something, and I would ask you like to have your help and and envy if I'm actually just finished the project that I'm doing. I've been working on for the last year, and I have six sentences three am peace. If you guys could help me with my project? What's your project? Um, it's a little ep and as well as one of

you guys like to narrate something for me. And I literally had the six sentences written out and it's only six sentences. Oh my god, I like that you always have an easy ask now it's blind Beauty on the project. Yes, yeah, okay, then yes I'll do it. I don't. I don't know. We'll help me. I don't know because I'm charging a little more. After I did the Queen Naja project. You know, my my course went up a little bit. I didn't

see you in there. I was definitely in there. Mine is non profitt and I'm not trying to no money. I'm just joking. We got you, man, we got you. Let me see n I didn't see you in there. I started open, Sure, I start, I started, I start the video off for no short on. Hello, who's this? This is Jasmine from the Bronx. But I now live in Maryland. Jasmine from the Bronx and lives in Maryland. What I get it off your chest? Okay? I got to get off my chest. So I was gonna um.

I had talked with a friend. I was gonna go to New York to watch my god's son, to watch her son. But I um so that she could go on a trip on Mother's Day. But I decided to change my mind and I told her, like, look, I'm going through stuff mentally. I can't I can't go to New York, I can't watch him. So long story short, we basically got into a disagreement about it, and she said,

well I won't. I don't want you watching my son and you have mental health problems, and that really likes it just made me realize, like what is it, Like I've watched him before and I have, you know, a mental health condition, Like why is it that if I changed my mind like all of a sudden, I can't watch him because I have mental health problems. So I just I don't know, Like I had to get off my chest because I'm like, it did stigma like do people?

So like if you're going through stuff and you're trying to like you know, you know, manage your mental health, like you can't baby fit, Like what is that about? Well, I'm sure she was probably upset because it was Mother's Day, so she probably made plans in the arrange. Yeah, she planned the traps. She probably planned the trip or a date or whatever it was, and then you canceled on her last minute. So she's probably upset and you know, hurt people, hurt people. She probably tried to throw a

stab at you to you know, to dig at you back. Yeah, and I can understand that and I and I do understand that concept. But I also feel like this, like I'm a person that she knows my heart, like I always look out for my gods and when I can, you know what I'm saying, Like I always put I put a lot of people first. And now that I'm not putting people first and I'm finally putting myself first,

it's a problem. Well that's gonna happen. And she I mean it's you know, she had a problem that you know that you you you still then you did her dirty and you feel a way. So but aside from all of that, take care of yourself, you know, take care take care of yourself. I mean, that's your child, and she cann make whatever decisions that she wants to make. But as far as you really take care of yourself, yeah, that's what I'm working on. I'm just trying to take

care of myself. And you know, I appreciate y'all things for y'all a rights and hopefully, like I said, like we got to end this stigma with mental health and you know, just children in general, because it's okay to go to stuff and be able to pull back and say ya, I got to focus on me, you know, and and hopefully I will be able to watch him again. Like you know, I love my GUIDs, like I want to be able to baby sin and stuff. But I'm going to do a lot light now. So I just

hope my friend is understanding and we'll see what happened. Yeah, focus on you, like you said, continue to do that. Put yourself first. You've identified you know that you have some things you gotta deal with, and so worry about that right now and deal with that. Get it off your chests eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man,

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I'm glad that you answered. What's up? What's that? Getting off your chests? Getting love my chairs? I think I'm my love and my best friend that I had, You know, I had talked about like us pursuing three years ago, and then I jumped into a relationship. But I love the guy too, but I'm just sim in love with him. I'm loving the best friend. I might have to make this choice, and I am going through like like I guess the spiritually in a hard time. You know, I'm

getting hard. But did you just say you're in love with somebody else and with your best friend? You have a boyfriend? Turn your radio down. I do have. I do have a boyfriend end of three years, a great guard and right before I started eating him, you know, my boy my best friend, had been a feelings and uh you know, it's always been in back of my mind and like right now since I've been focusing on myself, like stepping back, and I'm just still guilty, you know,

like you should well you shouldn't feel guilty. But if you're not happy in your relationship, I mean, oh your love with both, I mean I feel you can be like you just did. And I don't know, and I don't know what to do in this situation, but I know that focusing on myself, I guess we wos like you focusing on other people too. I am and maybe taking a step back or hell said, wow, but are

you in love? Are you? And lust? I needs because they like the lost just like there's so much more to a connection, you know, like there's so much more to intimacy. And that's what like I've they've been there to the hardest times, you know, like twenty twenty harder and everyone you know, like God bless everybody, like everyone that's gotten some hardships like since. But you know, now

I'm focusing on myself. And it's like I totally flashed on this guy, like started dating some one the next day and then let me ask you this, does he love you back? Your best friend? He does? And it's just scary though he's a player, he's my best friend, I know. Have I seen him you know? But have you been sleeping with him already? No? If I hold off on And that's okay, And that's what I respect to. You know, I've been I've been asking it from post Oh yeah, man had sex, So I mean, why don't

you just date him both? Just start dating to tell your boyfriend that you just want to date other people at him date other people and didn't feel it out that it might not be your best friend anymore. If you know he's a player and you guys start dating and you start cheating on your man with him. I didn't say cheat, I said open relation, ship, don't cheat. Have the conversation, to have the conversation, have a real conversation and see where it goes. Okay, you might end

up alone, you might have That's what I need. Yeah, maybe, yeah, but just be honest so that way you ain't gonna be hiding and running around and doing stuff that's foul. So just be honest and you Lets have a blessed morning, good luck, Thank you. I don't think it's gonna work out too good for her. Get it off your chests. Eight hundred five five, one oh five one. We got rooms on the way. Yeah, since we're talking relationships, Kim Kardashian is illegally single. We'll tell you all about it,

all right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. Listen, Oh my gosh, report guys, it's breakfast Club. Well this morning on CBS Mornings, you'll get to hear Melinda open Melinda Gates opening up about what led to her divorce from Bill Gates. Now. She sat down with Gil King and she talked about her whole healing journey. Did you have moments where you were just so angry? Did you have moments that you were

just in such pain? Well, I think it's really important to say. Look, I had a lot of tears for many days. I mean days where I'm literally laying on the floor in the carpet, you know, this close to me, thinking how can this be? How can I get up? That's part of the grieving process. You're grieving a loss of something you thought you had and thought you had for your lifetime. And at the end of the day, though, I started on this journey of healing and I feel

like I'm starting to get to the other side. I'm actually really excited about what's to come and life I had for me. They were married for twenty seven years, and they announced their split in May. They released a joint statement that said, we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives. If you guys recall he had an affair with a staffer twenty years ago, which was confirmed by a spokesperson for him last May as well. Here's what

Lilinda Gates said about trust. After the news came out, it was revealed that Bill Gates admitted that he had had an affair in the marriage. And at that time, did you think we're going to work through this? How did you handle something like that? Well? I certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that. It wasn't one moment or one specific thing that happened. There just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized just wasn't healthy

and I couldn't trust what we had. So she forgave that. But it was other things that got it to that point. Yeah, And I'm sure we'll hear some of those things in that interview this morning. She still worked. She's worth two point full a billion, by the way, But I mean,

I'm sure that's difficult. You start with somebody twenty years and twenty seven years, and gaining that trust back is one of the most difficult things trying to, you know, because it's everything, and you disrespect or you cheat, or you you're not honest with You're everything, and then it's hard to get that back. All right. Well, Kim Kardashian is legally single, So congratulations to her. We know that's

what she wanted. The judge was like, whoa, Yes, she has been granted her motion seeking the legal status, and they said the case had stalled for several months but there was a lot of progress and he also finalized. The judge also finalized dropping West from her name, so she is back to Kim Kardashian no longer Kim Kardashian West. Yeah. I mean, well, I definitely pray for them. I mean, this is what she wanted. Hopefully they both get the healing that they need. But on another note, a Kanye

West documentaries are amazing. Yeah, we'll talk about that more too. I see. Kanye was also hanging out with Tristan Thompson. The two of them were dining at the Satay in Miami Beach with a few other dinner guests as well, and that's an interesting hook up. Wouldn't be surprised if he was trying to hit Yeah what amber Rose again too, So we shall see. But he also released a music video that was targeting Pete Davidson after his marriage was dissolved, and that is for that song Easy of Course that

he has. Uh if you guys, recall this is the song my life was never easy it is. It was just because no love showed the shrug. This is by the way. Well. He ended the video with two slides that said everyone lived happily ever after except skeet you know who, and then he said, just kidding, He's fine. And so I don't understand why Kanye is so mad at that. I was about to say, skeet at Pete Davidson. They're not friends. They didn't grow up with each other.

Also in the video, there's a depiction of him bearing a cartoon man that resembles Pete Davidson alive. I don't know why he's so mad with Pete. Like Pete, he's a man. He doesn't know you. He doesn't owe you anything. You're having problems with your wife's ex wife now ex wife. Him and your ex wife got together, and what he doesn't owe you anything. He doesn't owe you loyalty. He's not your friend to grow with you. Yeah, you know.

A source told Entertainment Tonight that Pete Davidson isn't bothered by Kanye's attacks on him. He said, Pete finds Kanye's lyrics and interviews about him funny and entertaining. He's super chill about the situation and doesn't take it too personally, but he hates that Kim has to deal with the drama. All right, well, that is your front page news, I mean your rumor reports. All right, you're right, we got

front page news. Next, what we're talking about. We are going to talk about the guy who was on the subway smearing feces on that woman. He was arrested and he's back on the streets already. We'll tell you what happened. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the breakfast club. Good morning, so breakfast Your morning's will never be the same. Have you ever wanted to own a piece of breakfast

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feces on a woman's face. Was freed without bail yesterday and he was actually before a judge for the second time in two days, this time on charges that he spat on a Jewish man and chased him down to Brooklyn Street screaming come here, you f and ju I'm going to kill you. According to a criminal complaint, they said that happened September ninth in Crown Heights. So again last week in the Bronx, he was accused of rubbing

his excrement in a woman's face. He's now t to the second degree aggravated harassment as a hate crime, disorderly conduct in two counts of menacing, including one as a hate crime, but they could not set bail on any of those charges because of the state's new bail reform laws that nix the cash option for many charges. So for that reason, Frank A broke up a broke while was released. Yeah, and as they have to fix that,

and I get it. There's you know, people get arrested and they can't afford bailing, and you know, and that's what they did it for. But then there's a loophole like this gentleman has been arrested forty four times, right, he has a felony. He had a felony charge. He continues to do this, but because of this new bail, he can get arrested and come right back out. So when does it stop? And at first he spit on somebody,

then he smared pooping somebody's face. What's next? Do you have to wait till somebody gets cut, somebody gets hurt dies before they say, okay, well maybe we should keep him because they that's not right. Yeah, forty four times for forty sometimes that's not right. And I'm sure he feels like he can do whatever he wants with no repercussions. Came, yeah he can. He spanned pooping somebody's face and got released the next day. Then he's spitting somebody's face and

chasing down the block and got released next day. Like that's not even the next day, the same day, all right? Now, a series of unseen sketches by Doctor SEUs will be edited by an inclusive group of writers and artists from quote diverse racial backgrounds before they are published for the first time. And some people are upset there, accusing this of being wokewashing, and so Doctor Seus's enterprises, which is a company founded by the family of Doctor SEUs well

as putting this together. So this sketches will serve as the basis for a new line of books that will be written and illustrated by that group, and it also follows his recent cancelation after six of his books his kid's books were yank from publication because of alleged racist imagery. Did you read Doctor Seuss books growing up? Of course I think every kid did. M I think every kid did. Yeah. I remember the cat in the hat and green eggs

in here. That's only too. I always remember the cat in hand and green eggs in him, and that's crazy. That's that's what I read to my kids. You know. That's what I read to my kids. Same difference, all right, So um, you know they actually President Joe Biden did remove mentions of Doctor SEUs from the read across America day and he is one of the world's most popular children's authors, but his books have come under fire and

reaching years for how they portray several minority groups. For instance, If I Ran the Zoo has depicted Africans as pot bellied and thick lift, as one biography of SEUs puts it, and so That book was first published in nineteen fifty and it also described Asian characters as helpers who all wear their eyes at a slant from countries no one can spell. Yeah, I mean, it's it's so crazy. These are what we've been teaching our kids, reading to our

kids with this underlying racism in ite. But we just need to create more and we need to push our own I mean, there's a lot of minority books that's written for kids, and we just gotta push them all. We just got to get them more out there. Uh. And I know sometimes they sent at up here to our kids and I read them to my kids all the time. But we just have to make those popular, make those as big as Doctor Seus's books were, you know, man,

I was. You know, I was at the New York Public Library UM two days ago and there is when I tell you, the books they hadn't there. And there was also a Black History months, so I know they were highlighting a lot of those. I was in the I was in the teen center and then also for the younger kids, and there are some incredible books that I wish I would have had. You know, growing up, they had Miles Davis book. They actually have a book about Michael B. Jordan as well. Really, but there's so

many books. And for one of my friends who just had a kid, I just sent her a whole bunch of books. One of them is about Michelle Obama. It's just amazing, like the diversity, and we have to support that too. Yeah, and we just gotta those role models encouraging. And what I'm seeing on television and whether it's Nickelodeon, whether it's the Disney Channel, what my kids watch, it

is working. The other day. A couple of days ago, I should say, my five year old Brooklyn, I hear her talking to our brother who's seven, and they were talking about Black History Month, and you know, they were talking. He was trying to explain to her what Black History Month was, and I'm listening because I'm like, this is so cute to me. So she comes in the room

and she was like, mine, what's Black History Month? So my wife explains, and you know, and all of a sudden, she goes, yeah, I'm black, and then she just runs out and then she starts telling everybody what Black History Month is. So they are seeing it on Nickelodeon, they're seeing it on Disney World, Disney Channel, and it's it's encouraging to learn more about their history, which is great because if we just explain it, they'd be like, yeah,

mom and dad. But the fact that it's on their favorite cartoons and they're breaking it down and they're explaining it and they are giving moments that is wonderful. So shout to whoever's doing that in Nickelodeon and Disney Channel. I love what you guys are doing. Yeah, I'm looking some of these books a fist for Joe Lewis and me, Memphis Martin and The Mountaintop and these are kids books out to be wells, you know, above the rim. Just all these different books that you can see that highlight

a lot of us. It's really dope. All right, Well that is your front page news, all right. When we come back, Damnson it will be joining us. You know, he's an actor. You might know him from Snowfall. Recently he was on the Red Carpet and not him, but Denzel Washington was on the Red Carpet and the interview Ebbony. She asked, you know, you know, what do you know about Damnson? And he didn't had no clue, and it went viral. But he will talk about that, addressed all that,

and we'll talk about Snowfall. I just the breakfast club, Go Morning, the breakfast clubs DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building. You know him from Snowfall and a host of other things. His birthday is one day before mine. He's a fellow Virgo Damnson. Its welcome something welcome, Sir damn Son. I didn't know. I didn't know your birthday was the first September, your day before.

Oh thud, okay, okay. Buddy of mine is the third two actually, the show runner of Snowfall, Dave and Buzz is the best. You know. Absolutely they had as on New Yes, there you go. Now. The first thing you said was I love New York because I love Jamaican culture. Yeah. What do you love so much about Jamaican culture? What what do you love? Obviously the food? Dirt, chicken. Yeah, I'm an out guy. You both, Yeah, oxtail. Actually, I

like to dabble one both. I like to steal food from whoever I'm eating with um plantains, do you guys say plantain? Or planting. I say planting. I feel like that's the right way to say it. Was saying it wrong. You had to switch through all different types of ways. It's different kinds of ways to say things. So oh yeah, yeah, that's that's part of my life, impersonating people. You don't have amazing Jamaican restaurants in London or in LA where your shoot? No, nah, that's no, man, not at all

out here. I like missus lilies, missies. Um actually wrote, actually wrote on a gramyasells like, oh where could I go? People said, um, footprints? Yes, Like, first of all, the best Caribbean food is in Berklen. We got foot prans, we got Wade, we got Caribbean social we have this is New York. We have girl. Yes, number one one called. But I'm going to try all of it today. That's impossible. I saw you talking about how John Singleton told you

to stay humble though amongst everything different people. I don't know the first time we actually met you. You were up here with John Singleton. Yeah he don't remember you though, And remember it's like this is the first time. No, no, no. There's a couple of asking guys in a dss. Yes. How has that been for you though, because obviously Snowfall is such a huge show. You guys are in the fifth season. We've watched Franklin grow up and he has

got a lot of big things happening. But in real life you've grown up to and your star has grown up as well. Yeah. Yeah. It's a testament to John Singleton. You know. He really believed in me. And although I a thought for the role, like crazy audition like nine times, you know, he took me to South Central, opened up the car door and said, if you survive, you got the role. And I was like walking around, had to

be in character central, bring that experience, man. So I get to John Singleton's office and I think I'm gonna read the I'm gonna audition, right, It's like like audition number eight or something like that. And then he's like, yeah, no, we're not gonna read anything. We're just gonna take a walk someone walking around and he's like, don't break character. And he's introducing me to people, and you know, Singleton

was like god in his community. Like people will be like yo, John, you know, and then they'd come up to me talking to me. They're like Yo, what's up, little homie. I'm like, yeah, what's up? So I'm just pretending like that I'm from there. Um. And then his mom came and you know, I'm British. So I'm saying a bunch of British stuff in an American accent. But he didn't know you were British, right, Oh no, he knew, like he wanted to make What kind of British stuff

were you saying? Like you guys say like elevator? I say lyft? You know you guys say Ben. You guys say trash or say Ben exactly. So I'm talking in an American accident. And his mom comes like, oh, how lovely your hair looks today. I'm just gonna go over there and throw something in the bend. And she looks over John and she's like, John, he ain't from here, huh. I was like, man, Mom just took this und central. I was scared. Man. I was with John. You know

it was my big brother. You know, that was my big brother. Now I'm miss him greatly. But as far as I get in this, in this industry and on this journey, I'm always gonna on a singleton for being my foundation. Well, let's talk about the new season. So you're also producing. Yeah, on the new season. How did that come about? I forced them to take give me in for de secret no. Um. You know, when you when you've been doing this show for so long, you you pick up different traits at the same time, you

want to be challenged. And my circles um are so bossy today that they inspire me to want to be more of a leader. That's the truth. It's like if you hang around with certain types of people having certain types of conversations and they're like, yo, bro, you should go in, and then you ask, and they're like, okay, you know, I've been watching the a doc you know, and Hove is like, you know, clothes mouths don't get fit,

you know, Like it's true. You know, asking you shall receive and and I asked and they gave it to me. And you know, above all things, I'm not I'm not saying my level of producing is at the level of my acting ability. My acting ability is quite horrible. I'm just saying. I'm saying I'm being a sponge and I'm being given an opportunity to learn so that I could use my platform and my brand to create more opportunities. Now you play a crack cocaine dealer, right, Um, how

difficult was that learning that? Because you're young so crack it really affected me and ye our age were growing up a kids. We would see crack pipes everywhere. We would see crack crack pipes and crack viles all over the place in Brooklyn. Not all over the place, no, queen, It was all over the place. It was very very big, very very affective. I got family members affected by it and all that. So how did you prepare for learning that role? Wow? Well, I'm from Peckham in London, which

is the South Central equivalent in my opinion. Um, single you know, single parents, you know, broken homes, that's in jail. Um, police brutality, racism and drugs. You know, drugs was a major factor of my upbringing. On my community. Everyone around me was involved, So drugs at all. Um, so everybody so they went, have you ever know? You haven't but no drugs retired police officer, So there was no drugs ever coming in my crib. Okay, okay, he would have been on you. Yeah. So so so basically I just

just preparing for the role was interesting. There's so much history, you know, on this drug. And the thing I love about the show, particularly season five, is I'm not sure if you guys are aware about the lem Bias case. I was just reading about that because I didn't know

it was a real person. Oh yeah, yeah. So he was a basketballer in Maryland University in nine eighty six and essentially his unfortunate overdose created a snowball effect in America with the Clinton administration is basically how Clinton even became president in the first place. And they introduced mandatory minimums, right, so all these mandatory laws of you know them getting caught with it like a gram of a graham of crack was this same as one hundred grams of cocaine.

And what that essentially did was it broke up the African American household and that's why so many fathers were gone and that's why we see what we see today. And the show season five starts with that correlating to Franklin having there in one hundred million dollars. Now I'm living the high life. Beautiful place to live, the penthouse. Jerome and Louis are on horses. Leon's like a Franklin

and his own right and my girlfriend exactly loyal. So you're seeing him enjoying this lifestyle like so many people in the eighties did. But then you're seeing the demise of a community. You're seeing people like one the Bell trying to find a sense of redemption after everything that she's been through from being addicted to this drug. Singleton would say, you know that black people will have been affected in many ways, but crack cocaine was the only

thing that made black mothers leave their children. Wow, So that it's a deep thing, man. All Right. We got more with Dampson in dress from Snowfall. When we come back. It's the Breakfast Club the morning putting. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we all to Breakfast Club, but still kicking it with Damson Idriss, you know him

from Snowfall. Ye. Now, Franklin's trying to go legit, and we know how hard that is to do, especially when you have so many things in your past that are always going to be catching up to you and having a baby on the way too. That's a big deal because you have to do anything you can at all means possible to make sure that you take care of this child that's on the way. You've made a commitment to do that with your girlfriend. I was thinking about this for some reason. I don't really trust her, and

I know we're only a few episodes in. He has bad experiences. Yeah yeah, and so for that reason, I'm like, what is about to happen? Wow? So my backstory with very Nice's character is essentially this. You remember in season three, Franklin kind of took the most of these out of that house. Um. He basically kind of corned this old

couple out of their Bookstoreum. So he was taken to court and the person that was their representative was very unique, and they won that case, and he kind of fell for her and kind of hired her on his team and wanted to build with her. Something led to another and then boomed. Now they're together. You know, the show is this drug trade is a tricky thing. Um, loyalty could could go so quickly when your life is on the line, and your life really is on the line.

Twenty four seven, So um yeah, stick with the show man, That's all I can say. Don't trust it. I don't know what it is like. Yeah, she's yeah, Keith watching Okay, so I might be onto something, you might be onto something you might not, but you're a producer, so you should be able to know what's about to happen. I've seen all. All I can say is I've seen all episodes. And then you killed your friend. Yeah. I felt like, okay,

White rab right, I feel like that wasn't necessary. But why do you think it wasn't necessary because people don't agree with you? I mean, okay, he was a little sloppy and he was telling your business. He told that about the CIA. Yeah, yeah, but he could have. I don't know. That's your friend from like when you were young. Franklin is in a different place now. You know, he knows what's important. What's important, it's his family and the

baby has on the way. And I think a lot of people could relate to that making horrible decisions, killing your best friend. Maybe he's gonna bring down the horse down the empire. Yeah, he would have, he would he would have brought down. And I was gonna ask. You know a lot of times, in real life and not in just movies, you see these drug dealers they make enough where they can get out, but they can never get out. Yeah, yeah, is that what's gonna happen to

this character? Like, just never get out because you always want to see you want to see the you know, what they do to the community. You see the money that they make, but you kind of want to see them ride off from that white horse. But yeah, it's never that white horse. That's the game, man, that's the game. And that's what we're trying to preach to these kids. It's not preach, but just let them know, man, it's not worth it. It really isn't worth it. That's that's

what this show's teaching me. You know, as if you really look at this season, as much money as Franklin makes, he's not happy. But what's the point doing something if you know, I act because it makes me happy. Correct If it didn't make me happy, I wouldn't do it. So I think that's hopefully what I hope happens with Franklin, as there's a redemptive quality to him. You know, he's done some horrible things. I'm hoping by the end of it, he realizes that it wasn't worth it, and hopefully he

can redeem himself in some way. I was gonna ask when it comes to American movies, and you know sometimes people feel that, you know, actors that don't live in America and they take these parts that it's a problem. I know when it just elbow comes up in some past it was like, well, he's not America or yourself. Do you have a what are your thoughts on those things? Man?

I think it's a beautiful conversation because I think it's going to push us full and you can't help but acknowledge when a group of people feel the type of way. So it's just about listening. Really. I will say, I'm an actor and I make believe for a living. So the very concept of my job is to pretend to be something else. Um well, I do want to see though, I want to see more people working in America in the UK. You know, I saw Tessa Thompson playing a

Britain in the past and that was fire. Denzel just did Tragedy of My Beth and there's examples of people working in the past. So viol is about to do a woman king for us where it could play the idiot. I mean the Denzel played a Britain for Queen and Country. You know, acting is about transformation. I feel like acting, who does the best job doesn't matter who you are.

Like people get caught up in you know, let's say you have to pay a handicap person and somebody might say, well, there's handicap actors out there that could take that position. But in my thing is who does the best job at the part. If they're from Britain, if they're from Africa, it doesn't matter whoever does the best jot because you're acting. It's a part. Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, and you know it's a story. At the end of the day, the most important thing is that the story is being told.

Representation is very key. I'm not saying representation isn't key, it's very key. But we must realize that so much goes into making movies. This is the movie business. It's not the movie play. You have to make money, you know. And and what's happening now is we're giving people opportunities

so that they can raise their platform. So say you are a handicap actor or transject the actor or whatever, you're able to raise your platform so that you can be in a position to green light movies in the future.

That's what we're working at today in the industry, which I think is brilliant, but right now, if a movie's ready and a movie's ready to go now and you want to cast someone and John and for Majors isn't available, and the Keith Stanfield isn't available, and those guys have green light power, but this brit actor or this an actor has green light power too, and they could get bombs on the seat you're gonna cost that person. That's

how That's how it works. At the top. I like to say, we're playing at the NBA level of acting. You know, no shade too, you know, smaller projects, but when it gets up there, the field and the net is a lot wider and people are from different places. It's the same in sports. You know, that's like saying Jannas shouldn't be playing right because he's He's not. Like it's you know, at that level, and you need to

work to get to that level. You know, you need to put in the ten thousand hours, and so many actors have. And what I'm realizing is, you know, it's the arrow is being thrown at actors who have found success, But the reason they found success because they've been working for so long absolutely behind it, and you know that they're finally at a place where they're able to benefit

from it. But with me personally, UM, I'm just here to to to do what makes me happy and to me my mom, I'm proud man and I've done those things. Everything else a bonus. UM. I always tell people, you know, if you if you don't want to watch the Suckers, you know, buy tickets for another show. You know, it's no shade. There's millions of people who love what I do. Um, there's millions of people who this is a small thing. But you know, this guy's in jail who hit me.

I'm like, yo, bro, you got me through my sentence. I'm supposed to stop what I'm doing, which is why you do it. It's exactly why I do it. All right. We got more with Damson Dress when we come back, you know from Snowfall. And don't forget, Charlomagne's out today. So if you want to give donkey to day to somebody eight hundred five eight five one oh five one, call us up right now. It's a breakfast club. Good

morning e j Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast club, still kicking it with Damson address you know him from Snowfall? Ye, I used still take a piano lestands who So let's let's break this down. Where were you taking pan? Where do we see him playing piano? I don't know, Juliard, No, no playing piano. You. I'm just asking. I said you would take a piano lessons or something like that. Oh damn, I did see a video of it. Looked like you were good with

your hands. Oh my lord, wow, I don't know. No, no, no no, um me and me and that I'm not no no me and that that that queen. Um are just friends. Um. She's a great don't you guys? Were I was asking about the piano lessons? Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's a great piano player. And and I didn't know she could play piano. I didn't even think the world knew. So I was like, oh, this is cool moment I just posted. But like people ask question, like, you know, I don't know if angel you could play the piano,

because I'm not her actually to learn. I don't know if Taylor, who's over here, I producer knows, you know, I don't know if she could play a piano. So, you know, how did you get to Sweetie's house to see that she can actually play the piano. So she's a huge Snowfall fan, right, And that day we were were at lunch, I think, talking about how we could collaborate because we actually wanted to get before. No, it wasn't a days and talking about collaborator. Guys and girls

could be friends. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I agree with you. That's exactly what me and and DR we were friends. Okay, all right, so go ahead. So y'all you're on a day eating oh my god, eating lunch. Yeah. But so we're having lunch, um, and then uh, she wanted to show me her new place because I love CB two and I was going to give us some ideas about furniture and all. And then boom we went and then she was playing piano. That's it. I was in it for like five minutes, and I dipped out, like she's

a friend, she's a friend of mine. That I mean. Of course, you guys knew that was going to make the Internet go crazy though, yeah, like also like they would be such a cute couple, those people cute couple. But she she yeah she's but you were in a long term relationship prior to that, right, Yeah, yeah, what happened with that? Oh boy, this is whoa, Oh my god, this is what um. Um, we're still really close, really good friends. Um. I was with her for for a

very long time. I met her when I was eighteen years old. Um. Who knows, man, who knows what could happen in the future. You know, she's very much still in my life. We talked like every single day. It's so funny. You know, people struggle to um keep relationships

with their exes. But I am at a place in my life now where I everyone I meet, I want them to be in my life forever because I realized so many people are coming into my life, taking my energy, hearing my dreams, hearing my stories, and then they're gone and now they're telling that to the wall. Um. So I want people to stay in my life so I can keep that loyalty. And I made that decision with her, you know, and I know that's a woman that I'm

gonna know I'm forever. So regardless of what happens in my love life, every relationship just has to deal with that. Did she call you and say, hey, oh word, sweeties, piano dot dot dot did you get that text? Yeah? But like like, we know that's she's she's cool. She's an amazing woman. She's cool, she understands. You also talked about that Denzel is your idol as far as acting. Oh yeah, so when you see I don't I don't,

I don't mess up the young lady's name. But when you see a young lady interview in Denzel and she mentioned your name and he didn't know who you were, break that down when you've seen it and how you felt like you watch the TV be like, oh, Denzel and he was like, who that is? And then he asked the white guy guy, Oh, I don't. I don't know who that is. No, it was it was insane. I saw I was at home. Um on my phone, she's at your house. Wow, at my house? Okay yea,

so my house by myself, by myself. Yeah, by myself, and my phone's like blowing up and it's like a bunch of articles and stuff like that, and people are calling me and I was like yo. Then I was like talking about you. I'm like, oh my god, this is crazy. Like so then, um, yeah, that he didn't know who I was, he couldn't address. But that was funny though. That was funny. But hey, man, like it's a new day. You know, Um, it's a new day, and you know you could bash uh, you know, get

a notoriety through social media. I'm not gonna lie, like, there's a lot of my kind of existence has been on that through my work and just through just being me. Um. And some people from the past still don't respect that. Um, But look what social media has done for so many people today. We have to start moving in the direction of the future. But above all things and all of that, noise, Denzel Washington is my idol. He's like a god to me, UM, and I will never have anything bad to ever say

about him. Did you ever get up with him after that? Did you ever speak? Because I'm sure people tried. I'm sure people try to put your again. I'm sure there's people like he knows that you know there was Like, no, I'm not I haven't seen him, but I like to fantasize that he's at home watching snowfall. Let me find oh that boy good. Yeah, because of how much people talked about it, I'm sure it made him feel like, damn, I should know who he is, hopefully because it was

it was crazy. I will say though. You know, to journalists, when you present a new actor or a new musician or someone you like, like to some of these these giants, please present them in the right way. She presented me like I will all day. I'm in my living room topless like so he's like, social media is cute, but do the work I'm like been doing, but for just just to you know, so he knows. I remember when a little way we're never asking a little Wayne about

new artists. A little with Wayne was like, I don't know who that is, and people are getting on him like he's one of the biggest artsts. Little Wyne was like, yo, I'm in my own bubble. Yeah, in my own world yea. And people got on him and it could be the same thing. He could be in his own world. And like you said, he doesn't know, but I'm sure he knows that. I'm sure after this he did his homework. He had to. Yeah, man, I would hope so. And like I said, man, he he is just fantastic. You know.

He's a great example of class, good taste, prestige. Uh. And that's the that's the essence before never met him. Know what's next for you? What is it? What is some roles that you want to do. Wow, it's something that you like, I would love to do that role. Like, that's my dream role? Is it an action figure? Something music? I love playing real people, so I'd love to play Eddie Murphy, h Sidney Poitier fellow cut Um. I'm actually I don't know. I don't know. I allowed to say,

do you know who rich Pool is? Yeah? Yeah, I'm about to play Richpool, really really rich Paul the Agent. Yeah, I know who. He has a show something about him coming out or it's in something where Rich Paul is a character. No, does he No? I'm asking you it's something where he's does he No, don't. I don't think he has a show coming out. But he's a really good friend of mine. And there's people behind this window like why did you say that? But he called me.

He was like, tell the world, and I think we should. It's time we start cherishing black moguls and rich is someone that people need to know. This guy has completely changed the game. I'm happy and fortunate to call him a big brother and I can't wait to honor his story. That's great. He actually right here approached Lebron in the

airport selling Jersey history and that's how they met each other. Yeah. Yeah, and he's like and then he's as a black sports agent, he gets looked at in a completely different way of the white sports agents were so angry that he was able to come in and get like the biggest NBA player. Yeah. Story, it's gonna be amazing, man, And you should start telling the stories now while they were alive. And I just hate sometimes when we wait till somebody passes away to

tell that story. Yeah, like you want to give him their flowers now, and what he's done for how he's changed, like you said, the NBA and the sports agencies is just really amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Remember they had to make it so that you had to be um like a certain amount of classes. Yeah yeah, yeah, you need because and it was really based on him. Yeah. And with him to have the power, he had completely transformed the game. And it's funny. I was at the Super Bowl. I

was jumping from sweet to sweet um oh yeah. And I was with him Kevin and Brawn too, And you know, I'm just completely inspired by those people. Like I say, I'm fortunate to be in some really good circles. Man, I'm learning, but Damns has to leave me. Oh man, all right. I would try to get a couple of spoilers out of you, but I know you're really good though. But I think I did well. But we appreciate you for joining us. Brother. Now we really do yes with everything. Man.

I love the fact that you're producing. I can't wait to see what else you have coming up, just because we met you so like a few years ago, and I think it's just amazing to see where you are and where the show is now and a large part of that is because of you. Oh man. That means so much. Man, thank you, thank you so much for having me. Well, it's Damson in dress, It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Whoa. This is the Rule of Report with

Angela ye Well. Laverne Cox co hosted the e Red Carpet ahead of the SAG Awards that happened on Sunday, and people were upset about this question that she asked Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith on the Red carpet, Thank you for all the years of joy you've brought ass. Thank you. We can't wait for our red table talk and more more entanglements. No, my entanglements, No, my entanglements. Now, people were saying that it was tacky that you would ask that on the red carpet and say that to

them and tell that type of joke. And here's how she responded on her Instagram Live. So I've been thinking about it, and I've been you know, I'm like, Okay, let's if no one is above, no one is above critique. I like to hold myself accountable. So the thing is for me. I love red table talk. I love red table talking. I love what the Smiths have done with red table talk. And I think my error is that I had so many things I wanted to say to

the Smiths and we didn't have time. There was some probably someone in my ear, saying we needed to wrap you know. My intent was not to mock or make fun of but obviously I understand there's a difference between intent and impact. There's nothing but love, though, So she said, it's not an apology. She said, if the Smiths need an apology for me, I'll do it privately. I mean, I love I love this. I love when celebrities interview

celebrities and they get into this. But what Laverne, why do you love that hey, because what she did wasn't wrong. Like she is an interviewing and something popped up and she can talk about it, she can make about it, a joke about it. But Laverne Cox also has to understand when people do the same to her. She has to understand where it comes from as well. But I don't see a problem with it she did. I mean it was funny, it got viral. Is nothing wrong with it.

But we don't know if they were offended by it or not. But I would say Red Carpet is different from other interviews because it is supposed to be all like fun and upbeat as people are going to celebrate. They always tell you they don't be negative or don't do anything you know on the Red carpet that could kind of mess up the move. Correct. Yeah, the questions I asked we asked here at the breakfast love is not the same questions you do sit down interview. It's

definitely different than being on the Red Carpet. But as a celebrity, when you go to do these interviews, sometimes you never know what somebody's gonna say. And you got accepted. You you know, this is your life. You put your life out there, so people the right to ask the joke, to make a funny it doesn't matter. Yeah, but red carpet etiquette is just different than other things. It's quick

and it's fun, are all right? Mary J. Blige is executive producing Real Love and to Real Love inspired Lifetime movie, So I am so excited for that. So as we all know, Real Love was a song from nineteen ninety two, Can you believe it was that long ago? From the

What's the four? One one album? One of my favorite songs and according to the Lifetime, the project is a coming of age romantic drama where Kendrick sets off on her own for the first time to a college and upstate New York, determined to focus on her studies, but when she meets her film class partner Ben, she tries her hardest despite disapproving parents' financial hardship and competition for the top spot in class. Can Dre and Ben find

themselves falling hard for each other? All right? Ultimately learned the meaning of real Love. I can't wait to see it and shout out to our girl, A Shanna. She's one of the producers for it too. Shout to a Shanna. Shanna gets busy. He Shanna hit me the other day. Up, Shana, did you hit your heart? No deserve it? Now she needed all my kids to do something for Nickelodeon, and she was reaching out to make sure that they were straight. So shout to Shanna and Natina. All right, well that

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out and funny sleep. You gotta say something you may not agree with doesn't mean I need we're getting that donkey, that donkey that don't don't don't don't donkey other day right there, the breakfast club bitches, you can call me the donkey of the day, but like I mean, no harm. Hello, who's this this? Leturally? How are yo? Hey? Leslie? Good morning? Who's yes, ma'am? Well, I'm sorry, but I want to give the Breakfast Club the donkey of the day. Well,

yea gave us a donkey of the day. What we do because y'all try to sift that family up that five thousand dollars for that change for change. Oh see, this is the thing I've seen that yesterday. I had no idea what they'll talk about. So I guess they don't change for change. Let me explain how change for change. I'll take the donkey. I mean, I'll work for the station, so we'll do the change for change. So change for change. People call up and they ask, you know, they submit

why they want, you know, why they need help. And then the people not the Recklace Club, people that work here at my heart, they go through each one and they find out the different people that they want to give money to it. I believe that guy was picking was chose to give five thousand dollars correct, yes, right, And I guess he was chosen and he never got his five thousand dollars. You was mitche to edge, I know, but I don't know what happened. I'm hearing this, yeah,

so yeah, no, I don't know. I'll take a deep dive and find out where that man's five thousand dollars is. He got it? Oh so I don't because he had to get the news station on, y'all. That's why that's crazy. But you know, well, that's embarrassing. Had nothing to do with it. It's very embarrassing. But I'm glad he did get that. We don't even touch that money. We don't even touch it's not like we get the money that we break it down. No, that goals corporate. But I

love y'all anywhere. I listened to y'all every morning that somebody hit me yester. I had no idea what they were talking about. Listen. All I know is and he probably bought a house with that somewhere. You know, we didn't get that money. Google it, so look up. Everybody was like, yo, I flip that money. Hello? Who's this? Hello? Hey? Good morning? Who's this? Good morning? Yes, I'm calling me. Give donkey to day? Yes man, who you wanna give

donkey today too? Unfortunately, Envy, I gotta give donkey to to day to you? And give Louie? Why why is it louiyee biggie? Who's lou yee? Little? Okay, okay, why do you wanna give us donkey? Mama? Okay, I'm sorry, Angela, I'm gonna go for you. I love you guys. First off, let me get that out there. I would listen to you every day. But Angela white boy rob had to go one um now for you are heartless, so you would kill your friend from childhood childhood friend, the boy

turned into a cracking but he's selling crack. Do whatever he was doing. He was ahead, he was a fiend, but black. Imagine Franklin out here heading up the largest crack cocaine distribution, and you're gonna kill your friend for getting hooked on the same stuff you're selling because he's gonna bring us down. He's gonna bring us down. He's got to go because he's gonna choose that over me. Let me tell you something. You are hurtless and ruthless. I'm giving you Donkey of the day. No, no, noake

my donkey the next donkey DJ. I'm sorry I have to run with Charlomagne on it. That was some bag Boogie is talking about all. My dad's a police officer. I'm not around any of that drugs. No, I said, my dad's a police officer. I never sold drugs. I never sold little drugs. That's even better reason to sell drugs, you said, Go back to the take. You said, I was never really around on your back. That wasn't the point?

Is my dad in the area I live in. My dad was one of the first black police offices in our neighborhood. We have a lot of credibility, yes, I know what. However, in our family, my dad didn't allow it. Thing went down, probably because he was a pretty police officer to make it right. But I probably a being the youngest, I probably saw more stuff than I was supposed to because my dad was I just wanted to put that out here. But I do love you guys, I love you too. Now I'm just saying my dad's

a police officers. So my dad used to check my drawers, He used to check my under the bed, my cars. Well, you should have had a stash back to put it in. You would have got up your dad police. That's even a better reason you and your dad could You and your dad could have been just because nobody's coming to look over here, right, You could have been running it's with your dad and Queen's. My dad wasn't playing that. My dad would have locked me up if I was

selling drugs. You could have been the kingpin, of course, of course, thank you so much. All right, all right, don't here today five one. I'm watching this seven or you bess you're calling I'm watching this seven on your side. WHOA. I'm glad he got his money, though they had nothing to do with me. They said they tried to contact him three times. M don't do to day both things. Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. When we come back, Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard will be

joining us. They have a new podcast, Finding Tamika to tell us all about it. It's The Breakfast Club. Good Morning, The Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Usually we do ask ye here, but today we got some special guests joining us. We have Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard. Now they have a new podcast called Finding to Mika out.

Good morning ladies, Good morning, morning morning. What I love about Erica is that you're doing big things, but you came in and congratulate us and what we have going on. Absolutely, I'm trying to keep up with y'all setting the world on fire all the things that you've accomplished. But also you know, being in the Hall of Fame the radio, that's a big deal. And to have done it so young and keep doing things, especially for the community and all that you represent. I say thank you because it's

really a phenomenal thing to watch. Thank you and us being young as subjective. You know, Hey, it's all good and you guys are healthy, so that's good. Well, y'all are here to talk finding Tamika. Yeah, what what is? What is Finding Tamika? When we have the great Rebecca Howard here and she'll tell you why Finding Tamika matters. But Finding Tamika is an audible original series produced by

SBH Productions. That's you and Kevin Hart and Color Farm Media, that's me and Rebecca and David Persons, Ben Arnon and Molten Hearts, James T. Green. It's about Tamika Houston. Tamika Houston went missing in Spartanburg, South Carolina in two thousand and four. She was nearly twenty five years old. What's unique about her story is she became the poster child

for what Gweneifel calls missing White Women's syndrome. Why because at the time, Rebecca Howard, who is her aunt and also has a background and skill set in publicity, could not get the national publicity that she deserved for her her niece, and she made stink about it. And she basically also the two women who started the Black and Missing Foundation, one of them came from Spartanburgh, and so she became not only the poster child, but I think the reason why things started to change on what the

black community could do about it. Yeah, I readiness that and it was nuts to meet Rebecca and you can speak to it is that thirty percent of people missing are of color, and only seven percent received media coverage. Yeah, it's it's incredible. It's like if you were to just watch the coverage that we've seen over the years, you would think there was like an epidemic of missing, young,

missing white women in this country. And I think a number of years, they, particularly the cable networks, they found a formula that worked and they saw when they covered these cases like a Natalie Holloway or Alaci Peterson, and we saw it really recently with Gabby Petito, when they covered these cases like they were soap operas with constant updates and little twists and turns, they saw, you know, people were engaging online, people were tuning into these stories.

So that worked for them and they kept doing it, which is you know, I always say those women, their families miss them and love them just as much as I love Tamica. They certainly deserved their stories to be told, but not to the exclusion of my niece and other women and girls who looked like Tamica. And that's the roadblock that I, you know, ran into. And I think there was a naivete on my part where my beautiful

niece went missing. And I knew that my background is in PR, I had the media contacts, I had the skill set, I knew what to do, but I was met with silence and I wasn't getting any phone calls back, Like I was shocked again. I think I was naive and thinking like, hey, I see these stories out here. Surely my nieces, you know, to mek a story is just as engaging and people will care. But they did not.

And it really wasn't until you know, several months of me, you know, doing this and doing this, and I think the only responses that I was getting was from black media. You know, the time rustpar Mourning Show, and these are people because I had relationships without that Time Joiner, Black America Webb, you know, like they they were they were covering it. But beyond that, outside of our community, I

couldn't get anything. But would the policing, because I always hear stories about had They're like, oh, well maybe she ran away or maybe this, Yeah right, I know that's that's very common that I think that happens a lot, particularly more so in the black community. I think that there is unfortunately with police oftentimes there is some sort of preconceived notion that they've you know, they may be involved in criminal activity or you know, certainly is like

runaway problem. I would say, I think I was fortunate with the police in Spartanburg. After initially I would say maybe the first couple of phone calls, there was kind of that hesitancy. But I got on a plane. I live in Miami. I got in a plane, flew to South Carolina, and I went and sat in their office. I was like, I'm not leaving until I get a media release put out by you all. Because the media, even local media, didn't want to hear it from me. They wanted to make sure that it was an act

of police investigation. So I was fortunate in that my persistence I think paid off. But also just I think I was blessed with investigators who were sympathetic to this case and did do right by us in Tamika, in our family. And that's not, I know, always the case. I know you said black media played a big role. I was reading that MSNBC's Tiffany Cross played a big

role as well. It's wild because again, America's Most Wanted was one of my first targets, and I was writing, I wasn't even faxing this is about you know, this is two thousand and four, We're still using fax machines. I'm faxing not getting anywhere with the executive producer of the show. And somehow or another, I didn't know Tiffany, but it came across you know, her desk, and it resonated with her. Again. Tiffany will say, you know, Tamka, I look at her picture. She looks like me. She

looks you know, she could be me. She could be one of my cousins. And that's another thing why representation and media is so important. And she told, you know, her producer, senior producer, Hey, this story matters. Let me do this story. Let me go to Spartanburg, let me, you know, tell tomka story. And she did. And you know, she was a young field producer at the time, and I really was thankful for her because actually getting Tamka's case on America's Most One it led to one of

the biggest breaks that we had in the case. We got a phone call in from a young woman who happened to see it and she could describe the room in which to make it was was killed. Yeah, she was like put two and two together. She had you know, been in that space and she called to tell them that they had dressed it roll. Yeah, it wasn't like that at all. Really, yes, yeah, she's basically like, yeah, the way you looked out, yeah in the that series.

She's also fifteen years old, so yeah yeah, why would she know? Yeah, So it matters. It's not just the face, it's not as loved ones of the missing. We just I don't want a tension on myself. I don't. You know. This is not anything that you'd wish on your worst enemy. But it matters because these not only do you get, you may get tips that we got. Um. It also

puts pressure on the police who are investigating. If you have CNN, MSNBC calling, if you have national reporters calling you to ask where the where the status is on that case. Not only in the investigators. The investigators feel the pressure, but their bosses, you know, the chief of the police department. There is pressure put you know, brought to bear, and we've seen that recently in many cases.

You know, when some media gets involved and there's you know, now with social media, if if if people care and they feel as though they have something greater to answer to, it matters. That's one of the reasons why social media has been a benefit. I would say it's level of the playing field. Somewhere. I do think so I didn't have that, you know, in two thousand and four, we weren't. We had none of that. But I absolutely agree. It's so much easier, I think, to kind of get traction,

you know nowadays. Yeah, that stuff is kind of a narcotic you think about it. There are people who dig, you know, the blood and guts of this type of thing. But if you put a white, blonde face on it, especially young, like they did with John Bana Ramsey. Twenty years we've been dealing with that addiction to that little

girl's death. But that's just a sympt of a larger problem, you know, the damns on distress and people who are vulnerable, the most vulnerable are not often portrayed as black or people of color, and you're seeing that with the indigenous people. That's a that's a huge issue. All Right. We got more with Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard when we come back. Is the Breakfast Club, Good Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

We're still kicking it with Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard. They have a new podcast called Finding Tamika. It focuses on the disappearance and murder of Tamika Houston. What are the positive emotions that a project like this does get to be on the Breakfast club and talk to a whole mess of people who this has probably happened to. And I know there's been a lot of talking projects lately about it, and I'm glad for it. There can't

be enough of them. The truth is there are a lot of people out there suffering that don't know what to do, and they need to know that they're not only not alone. If there are ore foundations now and resources in place, and they're getting better at it, but we all need to support it. That's one thing to talk about. The other thing is it tells on us.

It's a warning for us all. If we don't do anything about this, all of us, everyone that's not a white and black thing, that's not a gender thing, we're doomed. Because I believe great civilizations are. I think how you're judge is your ability to protect the most vulnerable, and that's often women and children, but that's also trans it's anybody that's vulnerable, and if you don't doesn't mean that you're just under distress. I think your demise and your

destruction is near. If you cannot do that, then you cannot be a so called empire. How the project, which a positive emotion just brings out of you. One of the things we talk about in the series is to make us presence is still around, it's still felt, and it's very much that, you know the case. And I think through doing this it made me feel her again in a way that I don't think that I felt that presence probably from you know, around the time she

was you know, when she was still missing. It was a fifteen month long period, and then she was very present shortly thereafter, like I became pregnant with twins, and she was very much like present then. So, but it had been very several years kind of since I felt that, and I felt it again and that felt good, you know, because I think over time, you know, memories start to fade a little bit, or it just becomes, you know, more and more distant when you lose someone like that.

But it just felt good to have her kind of like around again. That's how Tamika is. She's very present and she kind of I feel like she straddles between these worlds and with messages with but she very much had her hand. I think on this project almost definitely that Unfortunately, that scared the living daylights out of me. Well, I'm listen, my father was a preacher. I'm not particularly

religious myself, and very spiritual. I believe that there are many things you cannot explain, and after we did the interviews, I was frightened to death, not only with the overwhelming issue. Well, I wanted to be responsible toward the family, and when you really have empathy for somebody, you want to make sure you do it right. You don't you say all the whatever's happened, and you realize that you're stepping into something that's not just a bunch of interviews, and you're

gathering things. You're now part of it, and you're accepting that burden. And to accept it means to also acknowledge that. I could feel the presence of Tamika still in this space. But I asked her. I said, look, you're probably here and that's fine. Please don't reveal any more of yourself to me, because I've got a job to do and I can't be overwhelmed with that. Because I'm a person who that will distract. And I was just telling her that I had a limit, and I think that we

had a cool thing. I mean, yeah, I went and got some crystals. I called Reverend Barber. I said, Reverend Barber, I'm feeling a certain kind of way. He counseled me. He told me what he thought about this and how to handle it. And then James T. Green, who was the sound and executive producer on this and the co writer, he said sometimes he would feel Tamika's hands on his shoulder,

just on his shoulder. He happened to have a cousin, Genisia, who passed away I wouldn't say passed away, disappeared, And so he was doing it for to say her name. But he said, Erica, I sometimes feel Tamika on my shoulder. But he was all right with that. I said, I know she could be there, but please don't put don't massage me. And I'm good, you know, And truly she was a ghost that was talking to these people and telling them things. Well, I would have to assume, Rebecca,

she's done that for you as well. Like a lot of times, when you know you decided to pick up the phone to call certain people, you might have about the guiding forces. It's interesting because Tamika actually sometimes I don't know if some people are more receptive to receiving those types of messages because I feel things, but I think I'm very a rational like thinker, and I doubt it a lot. So i may hear something in my head,

but I'm like, maybe that's me willing. You know, I'm trying to make a conversation happen, so I'm less inclined to believe that it's actually her. Tamika actually took and we talked about this in the series, took to getting messages through to a complete stranger, an older, retired woman in you know, South Carolina, never met her in her life.

She started giving this woman messages not only for the police to help with the investigation, but eventually after we found Tamika, and you know, I think like the case was getting her murderer was getting ready to go to trial, she started giving me personal messages about my solve about you know, my pregnancy was a difficult pregnancy, and so forth. It messages that no one would have the you know, no,

this woman was a stranger, had no reasons. Now, so I think she she'll get through to you the way that she can get through to you, so because it wasn't coming through directly, so you know if that makes sense. So it's interesting, Yeah, she did, and she had something more to say. It wasn't about the murder and the death. It was about her life, which is really what this is. And we don't see it as a celebration of just her life. We see it also as telling her story,

the truth of who she was. She was a complicated individual, three dimensional with flaws and everything, as we all are. The thing is the problem is if you make a person three dimensional, they may not look for them because they'll say, well look if they deserve it, that type of thing. So you try to put them in the best like it's possible. You see, as black people and brown were always trying to find the best picture because

they'll find the worst pictures of them. You have all that look she was, so we're always trying to navigate how we see and how we're portrayed. The thing is that she very clearly I felt, was like tell them everything, tell them as well as you can everything so on three dimensional, but I also can I think she wanted to speak to her responsibility and accountability and having gotten herself in that position, and I thought that was brave.

Finding Tamika is available right now on Audible. It's narrated by the beautiful voice you've been hearing in here for the past forty minutes of Miss Erica Alexander Rebecca. Thank you for coming and just thank you for thank you so much, thank you for for not stopping the fight, thank you for continuing the fight. Thank you, thank you very much, thank you. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club feel I hate you, I hate you, damn and me relaxed the song I Hate you heay, it just sounds,

you know, aggressive. All right, morning, everybody is j mvy, Angela Ye Charlomagne the God. We all to Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Candy. It's about Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well, let's get ready for Candy Burrus's new show, Candy and the Gang, that's

coming on this Sunday at nine pm Eastern. But in the meantime, she's been doing press around her new show, and she's been talking about the Real Housewives of Atlanta, of course, and she had hinted before that, she had issues with somebody in class with someone on the show. She didn't say who it was, but on Daily Blast Live, here's what she had to say. Marlow and I we had some real serious beef that happened this year. It

was crazy. I wasn't expecting it because I was really one of the main people who were, you know, reading rooting for her to get her peach and I did not think that we would have that type of both falling out. But we weren't able to fix this. You know. I don't want to say, you know, it's not like we're still in a bad place, but at that time, I wasn't sure if we were going to come back from it, you know. All Right, something to look forward

to on Real Housewives of Atlanta. Now, Jennifer Hudson is going to be hosting a daytime talk show on Fox stations, and that is going to start and fall of twenty twenty two. She said, I've experienced so much in my life. I've seen the highest of the highs, the lowest of the lows, and just about everything in between. But as my mother always told me, once you think you've seen it all, just keep on living. People from around the world.

Have been a part of my journey from the beginning twenty years ago, and I'm so ready to join their journey as if we sit down and talk about the things and inspire and move us. All Okay, congratulations to huh. It first went into development last November, so it will debut not long after the Ellen Degenerous Show signs off in the spring. All right. BT has announced a Murder Inc.

Documentary series. It's a five part television event called Murder Inc. And it will explore the untold tale of the rise, fall, and redemption of one of hip hop's most iconic labels and its founder and CEO, IRV Gotties. So that will premiere this summer. That's gonna be interesting. I mean, they got stories. I mean, if they get into it, you know, the court case, all the artists, how they broke their artists, all the stuff that ERVs produce. I mean, it's gonna

be interesting. All right. Now, speaking of documentaries, they are going to be doing Gifted and Black and that is going to follow the journey of Verses, So get ready for that. Amazon Studios and Helm and Grab Productions and Good Trouble Studios are partnering for this feature left documentary, and as you know, Lena Waite is Helm and Grab Productions, so she'll be producing under that alongside Swizz and Timberland.

Deserved they well deserved, all right. And Dame Dash is doing a paid in full sequel and that will be a franchise with multiple series. Also a documentary, also a car show. Here's what he had to say. Yeah, I'm casting the cars right now, you know, so I link you know, the BBS boys. They're actually running around the

world selecting the best Ellis Paving full mobiles. And then I'm interviewing everybody from different perspectives, and mine is one of them because I was there, right, I mean, but you know there's Loose Simmons perspective from the lunch mob. We grew up together, we were close, paused, and then there's Jay Black's perspective, who was in my immediacool the best stout. But he was you know, Richard Lieutenant, so you know he was right there. Why do you have

to pause when you say we were close? That's just day. That's just some hard thing, all right. But shout out to the Jasmine brand. Um, Jasmine actually did that interview exclusively on her site. She also has a baby now, So congrats on that, Jasmine. Congrats to huh. They shout to the BBS boys. BBS boys. They come to all my car shows. They're pretty big in that in that era, that eighty eight, that eighty to ninety era. Cause whether it's the BMW, Suzuki, Samurai's, the old Benzes, they're pretty

big in an. I got a couple of calls that as well. So they always come to my show. Shout to them, Go ahead out, I'm a support all right. Now. The Wendy Williams Show has announced new guest hosts for the final season. It's coming to an end, as you know, after fourteen seasons on the air, so they're gonna air live shows with rotating guest hosts That will include Remy Ma Fat, Joe, Kim Whitley, Finesse, Mitchell, Carson Cresley, and

Vivica A. Fox. All of them will trade off their hosting duties from Mark seventh through April first, and then Sherry Shephard is going to be replacing that time slot with her own talk show called Sherry Okay, and she'll also continue on as a guest host as well. Up next to the People's Choice makes get your requesting, it's the breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club, your mornings

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want to see you in this later on. That is not what it says is going on? Yee? This is spicy up here. Who what's going on? Yee? I'm a bride'smaid. In notories, somebody saying you a bride? What is going Oh? You know what's funny? So she had her bridal shower the other day, and you know, I was reposting some of the stories and then one of my exits hit

me like, you're getting married now? My junitory is wearing all white and she's gone on like it's clearly she's the bride to be And I was like, yeah, I am, and he was like, I hope I'm invited to the wedding. Imagine me inviting my ex that was my wedding. No, that would be foul. So so the dresses for your brides made. So why they sending the dress a pair?

Because I don't like sending stuff to my home because people still Okay, I don't know if you get packages stolen, but you know they steal from me all the time. And my package would be sitting outside and I think, you know, I just come and take it. It makes sense. It would be cute to see a bunch of Brooklyn and I watch it Red Dress, and I watched it on camera. Goodness gracious? All right. Well, also shout out to damns It for joining us this morning from Snowfall.

Of course. Yes, are you gonna watch the show? Finally? Yes? I am all right, Yes, I am. Do they have it on a plane. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are the breakfast club? Now, um, you got a positive note? Yes, And for everybody out there who is cynical, who is negative? I want to quote the late great Biggie Smalls, damn writer, like the life I live because I went from negative to positive and it's all good. And if you don't know, now you know.

So the power of positive thinking. Let's implement that right away. Change your thoughts, because your thoughts become things, breakfast club bits. You'll finish what y'all dune