Feel Your Feels (Kierra Sheard interview)

Good morning, usc yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo. Good morning angela ye, damn money, Charlomagne, the guy peace to the planet is Tuesday, Yes, it's Tuesday. That's right. What's up? What's happening? Good morning? How y'all feel out there? I feel great, man. I'll be back in tomorrow. My my test came back negative, so I'll be back in tomorrow. You missed me, um, and I really I heard that antal Swab was echoing too. This morning.

I was talking to dramas. If you missed me, but you answered you applied. Okay, okay, yes, I will be back to my Today's a good day, man. I'm feel blessed, black and holly favored, you know, minus to b s. Life's creat I thought, that's how you feel everything that is that is, I mean, that's how I scribe to feel. And if I don't feel that way, I wake up and set my attention to try to shift my energy

to make myself feel that way. You know, nothing a little prayer and a little meditation and some daily affirmations can't solve that's now. Let me ask you. Guys in the room or any of y'all handy like around the house can do things. Nah, not me neither. I figured that out yesterday. So my toilet was running right. And as a kid, I used to see my dad fixed the toilet. Oh no, I can do that now. Nah. But I bought the piece. I went to home depot, I bought the little piece. I was like, I'm gonna

fix this toilet, take everything off for him. And I realized I ain't even got the tools to to to take the thing out the toilet. Bro. I mean, listen, that's why I always encourage your kids like you know, trade school is something that we should put an emphasis on because you know, people aren't as good with their hands as as the generation before us was. Plus, that's the way to always make money. Plumbers always make money. Absolutely,

Electricians always make money. People don't start laking. This is always make money. You're right, you know what I mean. But I think my dad called me stupid yesterday because I was I put him on facetown. I was like, her, dad, show me how to do it, and he was like, well, you need this pool, this tool. I was like, I ain't got that tool. He was like, you a man and you don't have no tools. I was like, yeah, see and see. My dad will do stuff like that to me. But my problem with that is like, don't

chastise me for what you didn't teach me. You know what I mean. Don't scold me for what you did not teach me. So right, I see it between say, let me sat exactly, somebody had to teach you. You ain't teach me. To teach me that, well, I just look everything up on YouTube. But I definitely have about five different tool boxes because my dad every year gives me like a toolbox. Oh well, I need to come over and get one. Ye, so I'm borrowing once a least.

My dad treats me. He just I think growing up my parents, my dad especially, would always trying to make us, like fix things around the house and learn how to do things. I'm pretty good at, like hooking up electronics and stuff like that. But I got to fix my toilet. Her company here. I'm coming to the crib to get some of those tools because I didn't have nothing to fix that. Damn. Told. Have you ever gone and used somebody else's toilet and it broke while you were in there?

It was it was kind of broken, and then you're like, damn, what am I supposed to do it? I try to fix this Number one. I would never do too much in somebody else's. Didn't do too much. But like you could just go to pan it's running or it doesn't flush or something happens. Oh, they're on their own it, they only own. You gotta fix that toilet, bro right, you knew that toilet was running before I went all right,

you ain't trying to fix it yourself first. No, if you're toilets a running track, start and that's on you. You knew that before I walked in there. That reminds me of a story Angelie's manager one time. Y'all were all in the hotel room and she blew the bathroom up. But were not all in a hotel room. We'll explain the story. Everybody was in different rooms. But she actually used the toilet and stopped it up. Well, that was Crispy Kreme. They had nothing to do with the toilet

being stopped up, all right, that was Krispy Kreme. From the front desk. Was so disgusting. I've never seen this type of load come out of such a beautiful woman. Guy was disgusting. Murder beat South Carolina that's where it happened. That goodness gracious, all right, Well, good morning everybody. Let's get the show cracking now this morning. We have a special guest joining us. She's a gospel singer and she just wrote a book. Kiara shared we'll be joining us

this morning. Yeah, she played her mama in that Clark Sisters movie on Lifetime. Right. The name of her book is Big, Bold and Beautiful. That's right, And we'll be talking to her this morning. And we got front page news. What's going on? What were you talking about? You? Well, Let's first off, give you some updates on what happened with Dante. Right. His death has been ruled a homicide. Okay, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good

morning morning. Everybody is tj Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we all the Breakfast Club. Now, let's get in some front page news where we started. Well, the Brooklyn Center police officer who shot and killed Dante right following a traffic stop on Sunday has been identified. That officer is cam Patter. According to a press release, she has been with the Brooklyn Center Police Department for twenty six years.

They've also released the footage where you can hear the police officer thought that she was pulling out her taser but instead pulled out her gun when she shot and killed Dante right. Listen to this footage. Yeah, now, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said that he believed the officer, like, we just said to your handgun instead of the tasers. You can hear she's screaming taser, Taser, Taser. Here's what he had to say. The officer while struggling with mister

taser taser. That is part of the officers training prior to the po A taser. During this encounter, however, the officer drew their handgun instead of their taser. We train with our handguns on our dominant side and our taser on our weak side. This is done purposefully in its trained As I watched the video and listened to the officers commands, it is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their taser, but instead shot mister

Wright with a single bullet. This appears to me, from what I viewed and the officer's reaction and distress immediately after, that this was an accidental discharge. Hey man, I mean listen, at this point, there's nothing to discuss here. You know, everything we could possibly say has been said before. This is just a new rerun. Okay, it's the same thing that happened in the Oscar Grand case. Am I mistaken when I say that this isn't the first time this

has happened. They said, normally police officers put their handgun on their dominant side and then they put the taser on the non dominant side. That way that mix ups like these don't happen. And the lighter they have some right yellow somewhere. Yeah, which which I don't understand and is is you know, they make all these rules and regulations to try to stop this from happening again, and then it does. So what happens. But I think that's

the consequence. No, I think they did. I think they made that like they made protocols, They didn't extra training. That's why she yelled taste the taser and all this stuff. That's why they put the you know, the the taison on your your less dominant side, and then they made it a bright color so you can see the difference. But so what's what's what's the consequence? Now you go through all this, but you know, the lady clearly it was a mistake, So what is the consequence that man?

Because it wasn't what was it a mistake or strategic homicide? You know what I'm saying? Like it's because because I think if you've been on the fourth for like twenty some years, and she she should know the difference between a gun and at this point, so I can't just

say it was a mistake, you know. But but it will be rule to accident, and it will be rule to justify justifiable homicide, and it will be no charges and she probably will be fired, but she'll be you know, um sent to another jurisdiction before the years old, so she'd be in another department making the same mistakes. Yeah, no, I'm sure she probably she will be fired. But what happens now, Like this man lost his life, This family

lost their child, son, just child lost his father. So what are the consequences now, Yeah, you could say it was a mistake, but mistakes like this can't happen. Once again, we out here talking about new reruns. Yeah, that's the welcome. Welcome to the sitcom Black in America, the only sitcom that has new reruns all the time. And you know, she was on the force for twenty six years. They didn't say she had any other problems, but man lost his Yeah, they haven't said much about anything in her

background yet. But police Chief Tim gain And said there will be an independent investigation. Here's what else he said. I've asked the BCA to conducting independent investigation and in the shooting and death. Once they are completed, I expect they will submit their findings independent of me, to the appropriate authorities, the appropriate attorneys that were look and review

this case. The officer is currently on administrative lead. She will not be returning to duty until this investigations runs course, and she for all terms of purposes. I think we can look at the video and king whether or not she'll be returning. She'll get fired, but then you'll get moved to another department. She'll be in another jurisdiction, jurisdiction making the same mistakes later on in life. Listen, there is consequences and repercussions the mild practice in every field

except for law enforcement. Okay, all right, well that is your front page news. All right, that's that's a tough one. Man, young man lost his life. Every one they say, but this one is they'll say it's a mistake and keep it moving. They've done it a million times already. Like we've seen this one once again. This is like I said, this is a new rerun. We've seen it many million

times already. Certain mistakes. That's just too irresponsible. All right, but what happened if there was a protocol, what do you mean what happened? I don't know what happens next? Like, yeah, I agree, she can't not something that something has to happen. But then you know, people will say you know it's all good to you get punched in their face, right, like like everything's all good to you get punched in

the face. Yeah, she's trained and trained and trained, but now when it happens, you just lose everything and don't know what you're doing. He's gonna get fired and move to another jurisdiction. They're gonna rule with an accident, justify, justified, buhamicide. It will probably be no charges. I don't see him happening. Well, get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five, one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. Phone lines to wide open. It's

to breakfast club. Go morning, the breakfast club. Wake up, wake up, wake If you're trying to get it off your chest, your man of blas, we want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello, who's this David? David good on to get it off your chest? Yeah, man, I just want to talk about the shooting up in Minnesota that the young man that was killed by police. Yes, it's very tragic, very unfortunate. It sucks that you know, with twenty six years training on the floors that they

can they can simply call that a mistake. And say that it was an accident, you know what I mean. Yeah, don't don't know that this when your gun and the taser, you don't need to have no goddamn you know what I'm saying. And if you don't know how to if you don't know how to draw your weapon properly, you don't know whether or not you're drawing your teams or you're gun you shouldn't be caring either. I agree. And at the same time, you know, the young man was

complying at first, and man, it just sucks that. You know, maybe he got scared. I don't know, something caused him to decide to try to run, and unfortunately will never know whether or not he would have just gotten off with a ticket. You know what I'm saying, Because because the officer didn't remember her training after twenty six years, she forgot what she was doing. And it sucks that that we lost another young, innocent life behind some some

bs like that. Yeah, and I think that we do have to factor in how scared you know, black people are in these situations, and he's a kid man. We don't know if that brother had a panic attack, you know what I'm saying, Like anything could have happened. And that's that you were like, like you said, she's been on the force for twenty five, twenty six years, like she shouldn't know. He wasn't a rookie. Put myself in that situation, and you know, I asked myself what I

have remained called I'm seeing all these cops showing up. Yeah, I have been over me. I don't know. It's been a long time since I've been in that situation. Listen, we have such short term memories. Remember I was scared, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, and we have such short term memories. We just watched a lieutenant, a man who served in the military, are growing and don't tell y'all he would shook the death he was scared. So imagine that little kid felt twenty years old. Yeah, man,

it sucks. It's terrible. This before kid, my language. It just keeps happening a way too often, man, too often. Then you think about you think about how a barber somebody that cuts your hair has to go through more hours of training then a police officer done. That's right, ridiculous, that's right. I just wanted to get that off my chairs. Man. I listened to you guys every morning. You guys have a plus Tuesday. 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 chests. Whether you're man or blessed, but you better have the same in We want to hear from you on the breakfast class. Hello, who's this? Hey did the NBA's chests from Long Island? Hey, Jess

could get it off at chess? You know what? I was just listening to Charlotagne say how that cops should have had a malpractice you know how every other profession that you know, if you're pretty serious like a cop, I'm an r n um. If I make a mistake at work, if I don't break a medication in half the right way, if I do something long, I face a lawsuit, I lose my license, I lose my job, I end up in jail if it's bad enough, Because I take that in life. So something about that really

got me going. When Charlomagne and said that they should have some sort of malpractice issue, you know, some sort of a Yeah, absolutely right, absolutely right. It gets me going, it really does. Yeah, every industry damned, every industry guid an except for law enforcement. But let me ask you a question. If a doctor does some some type of malpractice, a mistake or accident, can you sue that doctor personally or does he have insurance and you sue the insurance company.

I'm not sure she can go to jail if it's bad enough, So I assume that that's what they need to do. Your license, you'll never work again. That's why getting rid of qualified immunity it's so important, like I said during dunky to Day yesterday, because now you can

sue those police officers directly. When you start affecting people's pockets, man and threatening them with real prison time, they'll change the way they move if they know that they can get sued directly, and then no civil suits that people get rewarded. It's gonna come from their money as well as their future pensions. Oh, they'll switch up, all right? Hello? Who's this? All right? What's up? How you doing? Man? This was the pocket USA? Man? What's going on? Man?

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on this mission to push this product. Man, I just hope everybody tapped into it. Man, we need this product. It's very necessary. Got your pocket, that's your thing where you hang your license and stuff out of the window. Yeah. Maybe he's said he sent me. He sent me on too for my son. Yeah. So if you don't know, he has a what's the name of the company? Side

the pocket. Pocket you would say, where you can put your license, to your registration, your proof of insurance, and you hanging out on the outside of your car so you don't have to worry about the cops coming in. But if they ask you to open the door, like they ask them to open the door, I mean you're still in the same situations. Fine, that's fine, that's still hoping the door, but your hands were staying buildable. Now you're not getting tougher spark. Now you're not getting shot.

Now you're not getting a fuse of reason for anything. That's doing the hard member, And that's the perfect I listen, I liked your idea a lot, but nae, you know what I mean is necessary? Man, I'm with you. But cop cops will see that hanging out the window and say they felt threatened who they don't know what, they didn't know what it was. That's knowing too. There's no excute to say they starts praying by this product hanging out to your door when they've seen y'll head. You're

not moving. There's no reason for you to move, so there's no no acute for them to tabor you. I've seen it. We we've seen it. We've seen it a million times. How quickly y'all forget the chant hands up, don't shoot? Because brother Michael Brown had his hands up in the air when he was shot, sir, Like, there's no way you can look at any of these police killings, police brutality. We've seen it a million different ways, and it's and it never ends the way we always think

it's gonna end. So I don't understand how we keep lying on ourselves and giving ourselves these bs excuses. All right, we'll get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five, one oh five. We got rumors on the way, Yes, and we are going to talk about money. What hip hop artists could make a hundred million dollars when coin base goes public. Also, guess who just bought The Weekend's house for nineteen point three million dollars. All right, we'll

get into that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. I'm wanting everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Cheryl Underwood's This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. All right, well, the Talk is back on the air. This is after all of the controversy with Sharon Osborne and Sharon Osborne is clearly no longer with the show. Filling in. Also

on the show was Donald E. Green. He's an expert on diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. Also, Anita Phillips was on this episode a trauma therapist and life coach to help guide the conversation. Now some of the things that were discussed on the show. Cheryl Underwood did the opening statements. We haven't been together at the studio since the week of March tenth, and as you may know, during our break,

Sharon decided to leave the talk. We need to process the events of that day and what happened since so we can get to the healing. Over the next hour, we will honestly discuss what occurred and explore some of our feelings, and will also show you how anyone can become more comfortable with discussing important issues and having difficult conversations. And by the end of the hour, we want everyone to feel empowered and ready to move forward. All right.

Shary Underwood also talked about the whole thing with the angry black woman. She didn't want to be that and says she decided not to come back or what she fired. It's hard to say. Some people are saying that she chose not to come back. Some people are saying that they told her, they allowed her to say that, you know, to save face. I don't know personally, but there's two

different stories going around now. According to Shary Underwood, she didn't want to be the angry black woman, but she also can't even watch that episode, I saw a composed, clear, confident woman. But what we didn't see what was going on inside. Well. I didn't want to escalate things with Sharon because I thought I was having a conversation of the friend. But also I knew I had to be an example for others to follow because I didn't want to be perceived as the angry black woman. And that

really scared me. And it's difficult to go back to that day because I just feel the trauma. I feel fearful, you know, a little apprehensive. I love this discussion Charlemagne and God talking. I would like to know where has not being the angry black woman, an angry black person got us. Why are we always compromising ourselves for our presses? Why why can Sharon Osborne catch an attitude, come off as angry and it's all good, But a black person who has the right to be angry has to temper herself.

My therapist that has feel your feels okay? In black people, women and men, we have every right to be angry and every right to express that anger, because if you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. Zora Neil Hurston, by the way, Yeah, you know, there's always this whole thing about being the angry black woman as energy sp up for yourself. You're angry. As soon as you show some type of emotion or passionate about something, you're the angry black woman. And then

there's that people don't take it seriously. And I'll say it, and so I think, and so I think for Sharyl Underwood, and it's something that black women have had to deal with forever now, and that's not wanting to be out of control of your emotions. And I asked the question once again, where has not being the angry black woman, an angry black person got us? Not coming off angry has gotten us nowhere? Yes we're angry, Yes we pissed off,

Yes we're flipping over tables. Enough is enough. The time for playing small has been over, and it's gotten us nowhere. Raise hell, get angry. And you know, if you're not angry, and you're clearly not paying attention to what's going on in this country. And I think she also felt like Sharon was her friend, and that was one of the things too between the two of them. I'm sure that also affected her as well. And they're on TV, so you know. And they also have said, by the way,

that Sharon is going to talk when she's ready. According to an insider, she wants to give herself out of the story. Still, I thought she had already done that. Word what was the whole thing with Kevin Frakes. You gotta laugh at the absurdity of all of this to be, you really do how many? How many sides did she get?

Sharon Osborne never issu de private apology, but Sharon Osborne then showed some screenshots that showed text to Sharon Underwood that went on answer to and Shary Underwood did confirm that Sharon Osborne did text her, but she didn't answer because she didn't know if she was allowed to give in the internal investigation taking place. I saw Sharon Osborne tweet out yesterday a video of a bear rubbing his back against the pole while Genuine Pony was playing. She's

so unbothered, so unbothered. That's why I just saw the post started on shade room or something. That's why you gotta be like eton people. There's nothing wrong with being angry. You have every single right to be angry, and don't let nobody tell you different with you God damn right, all right? Now, The Weekend sold his house for nineteen point three million dollars. It was his Hidden Hills home.

He had originally listed the house last June for twenty five million, but then he did a price cut nineteen point three million dollars. The person who bought the house is Madonna. So Madonna has bought The Weekend's old house. Now, initially he bought this house in twenty seventeen for eighteen point two million. He made one point one million on it unless he did some renovations. Did you just say a little one point one a little one point one? He made one point one million, not much, one point

one million dollars. Do you know fifty percent of America doesn't have two hundred and fifty dollars to spare, And you said a little one point one million dollars, Well, here's another little bit of money for you. They're saying NAS couldn't at one hundred million dollars when coin based lists on NASDAC, when that cryptocurrency exchange, they said that's expected to reach over a one hundred billion dollars in valuation when they start list their stock on Wednesday dropping

a Colos bomb from Nazi Jones shot. But you can't even spell nasdac without NAS at this point in life. Okay, how many times HASNA has been a part of you deal? It's like it's third or fourth deal. But you can't even spell nash back without Nas at this point, I think how you spellings? Yes? Right? Yeah, yeah, okay, alright, So yes, it looks like they've been making some really

smart investments. His investment firms Queen's Bridge Venture Partners, and they got into coin base back in twenty thirteen when it raised twenty five million dollars. Around that time, it was valued at about one hundred and forty three million dollars. So Queen's Bridge, like I said, is the name of his firm. They also wear a backer of Robin Hood in twenty thirteen and then later on Lift and Drop drop Box too. Nay Nas took it to heart when jay Z said, smartened up Nash. Okay, he sure did

show y'all something. All right, Well that is your rumor reports, all right, thank you, missy, and joining all that money with the great hairline. NA still has at forty four years old. That's a great feat. I think NA is older than forty four, but yeah, it's amazing either. Heyline's incredible heater. All right, now, we got from page news coming up. Yes, and let's talk about this Johnson and Johnson COVID nineteen vaccine. Apparently there are some serious concerns

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or visit the General dot com. Some restrictions apply. I got what you need, freaking baby, I'm gonna rebody is DJ Envy Angela yee Charlomagne the guy we are to Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news when we starting you. Well, there's some issues with this Johnson and Johnson vaccine. They says there's been four serious cases of unusual blood clots reported after people got that vaccine.

According to European health authorities said. They said they are still investigating these cases and that is currently not clear whether there's a casual association between the vaccine and the clots, but the CDC and the FDA are taking reports of these blood clots very seriously. I thought they recalled the Johnson and Johnson vaccine a couple of weeks ago. Apparently not, they're still using them. I think they did recall them in some places, but there was a bad batch I think.

But I'll tell you one thing my parents. My dad called me the other day, was like, if the kids could take the vaccine, do not do Johnson and Johnson and just hung a boar. They said, all right, Dad, Yeah, but people are just taking whatever's available too. And some people really want to take the Johnson and Johnson because it's only one shot. Like I know my dad was saying that's the one he wanted to take because it's just one. But you know, again, different information every day, right,

all right, Another unfortunate shooting, another tragedy. One student is dead and a police officer was wounded after a shooting at a high school in Knoxville, tennis See. Officers responded to reports of a potentially armed individual. This was at Austin East Magnet Heights School and this happened yesterday around three fifteen. They did find the individual in the school's restroom. They ordered him out, he refused, and after he fired shots,

at least one officer returned fire. The gunman, who was identified as a student at that school, did die at the team. They have not released his name at this time. I'm telling you, America, am r I KKKA the only show in the world that has new reruns. It's a new rerun. You can't even keep up. You could just pick your anxiety at this point, like you just spend a wheel what you want today. You want a school shooting because you got kids that go to school. Pick that.

You want another traumatic police brutality incident, picked that, Like you could just pick your trauma at this point in America, it's so damn saman all right. And in the case of Dante, right right now, Joe Biden is calling for peace and calm in the wake of Dante writes fatal encounter with police in Minnesota. According to Joe Biden, he is seeing his death does not justify violence or looting. Was it an accident intentional that remained to be determined

by a full lawn investigation. But in the meantime, I want to make it clear again there's absolutely no justification for looting, no justification for violence. Peaceful protests understand them, but we do know that the anger, pain and trauma the resisting the black community in that environment is real. It's serious, and it's consequential. Why is it always strong the language and rhetoric towards people, you know, so called looting and damaging buildings than it is the actual state

sanctioned violence against black people. Shouldn't it be? You know, the unjust murders of black people are not justifiable. That violence is not justifiable. As opposed to him damn buildings. Yeah yeah, that seems like they can't about them, damn buildings and black people all the time. Joe Biden tweeted out today, I'm thinking about Dante Right and his family and the pain, anger, and trauma that Black America experiences

every day. But we're away the full investigation. We know what we need to do to move forward, rebuild trust and ensuring accountability so no one is above the law. Okay, we'll pass to George Floyd Policing Act. How do we make that happen? Okay, that's what you campaign You campaigned on that. Vice President Harris campaigned on that. Where is the George Floyd Policing Act? Huh passing on the federal level.

I know a lot of these things have to happen through the state, really, but your beliefs passed that on a federal level. All right, well that is your front page news. All right, all right, now when we come back, gospel singer actress Kiah joining us, and now author Kiera Shared will be joining us. She played her mama, one of the Clark's sisters in the Lifetime movie She Sure did. We'll talk to in a minute. A book out, Big, bold and Beautiful, owning the woman God made you to be.

We'll talk to a next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we all to Breakfast Club. We had a special guest joining us this morning. Here Shared Kelly Morning, good morning, good morning. The author of the new book A big, bold and beautiful, Yes beautiful, that's yes, yes, yes, first book. What made you want to write? A book. Well, actually it was unintentional. So I had been writing and

just kind of journaling as a form of therapy. And this is how I came about. I was looking at the email account that I hadn't been checking. You know how you just kind of say, oh, this email account gonna be for like spam or whatever. And I looked in there something told me. I'm a church girl, so you know how the old things be, like the Holy

Ghost told you, wasn't something that tells you. I went and checked and they were offering me a book opportunity, and I was just like, well, let me just gather my journaling. And that's how the book came about. Wow, you do all this during the pandemic when it was nothing to do, when you could sit at home, take your time go through your journal and right, so no, I have been journaling from like eighteen till now. So literally it's like me putting my life story and everything

that I've gone through in the book. Um. And then I just had like some little studies from like Bible study, and I just threw it in there. Um. So it's unintentional. It's really a divine moment. And like I said, it was therapeutic for me, and I didn't know I had a book in me, if you know what I mean. So what is what you said? Eighteen? And now I was like, two, thank you, I'm still young. I'm thirty three. Yeah,

it was a journey. Well, I started reading the book and I have to tell you, I really appreciated how honest and frank you were about a lot of things in your life and decisions that you made, and how rebellious you were. So I did um want it discussed some of the things that you talked about. One thing you said, make better decisions with the people you allow

into your life. If we trained our bodies to consume expired milk or foods, it will respond negatively the first time, but if we continue, we'll become immune to the poisons. And then you talk about just basically tolerating expired relationships, and I feel like sometimes we want to feel so loyal to people and just keep it going when sometimes things just aren't meant to be and we're only poisoning ourselves. Right, So can you talk about yourself and those experiences? Yeah, totally.

I just kind of had to step aside, even from just me wanting to connect with people who I felt like I could relate to, but I was relating with them when it came to my weaknesses and not my streamside was building relationships off of the challenges that I had, and it wasn't relationships that will cause like healthy development.

And in addition to that, I'm a creator, and I'm sure a lot of creators can attest to the fact that we kind of move off of vibes like what I feel, and I didn't always have people around me who were like wanting to see me when if that makes sense. But I'm not planning the victim either, because there were some issues that I had to deal with in myself, but I just had to make better decisions and I understood that self care way isn't just you know,

the bath with the candles. It's like, definitely about the village you have. So I've been say the village is not just for the child, is for the adult too, And I felt most liberated when I had people that weren't just telling me yes, but telling me no, you got you gotta put that down, you know. So it definitely has contributed to my mental stability with me being a big girl, having someone to tell me, Hey, you can embrace your big but still be healthy, you know.

And I'm like I said, I'm a woman of faith. So the word teaches me that a food despises correction, and I don't want to be a fool through rife. So it just challenged me to be a student at hard. For sure, I feel like we didn't do you know, justice when it comes to introducing you know, your mom is a Karen Clark right from the legendary gospel group the Clark Sisters. Yes, how was that growing up in that household? It was good pressure, good challenge, good accountability.

At this point, it's exciting to see that I have the opportunity to say that we're inspiring each other, which inspires me more to be a student, like I was saying at heart, not thinking that, oh, you've a ride and you just But also it challenged me to work hard because you know a lot of people are like, oh, she probably think she's gonna come into game and think that everything's gonna be handed to her. But no, I work. I work, and I'm thankful too, so I come in

with a grateful heart as well. I did the movie and trying to sing like my mom I was like, oh, no, this lady is an alien. She's a monster, because I literally was getting like lightheaded trying to hit her notes. So it definitely was like her sonning me, but not her being there saying no, you're still a kid, so sit back and chill out. But it's really special, and I counted a blessing. For sure. You have to audition for that role or that like one of those non

negotiable this is nepotism, we're gonna make it happen. No, I had to audition. I had to put the work in, and honestly, at first I wasn't sure that I wanted it because of so many other reasons, but yeah, for sure I did had to audition. Well, good job because that movie broke all kinds of records and it did great numbers, so clearly people really loved your portrayal of

your mother. Thank you. Any pressure to get into music because your mom was a music so heavy was one of those things like no, girl, you're getting into music, you can say, or was it like nah, I think what I was able to do. I can definitely say I was able to do what I wanted. Of course, my parents, which I respect because there are moments when I was young and I didn't really have the idea of what the future could be. So I was just

saying no from an immature place. But thank god, my parents were like, hey, go to school, get your education, but also have this musical side of you and see what it will do for you. So it wasn't like an unhealthy pressure because they did allow me to be the nail tech once upon the time that I wanted to be, or install wigs. I'm really good at wigs, so at one point I thought I was going to be in the cosmetology field, and now here I am because I've listened to my parents in their grooming. So

it wasn't an unhealthy pressure. You you know, in chapter three, chapter that you was talking about, you talk about having to leave people behind, right, Like, how important is finding your tribe because, like you said, we talk about a village raising a child, but when you becoming an adult, you're still grown, you're still evolving. If people on on that level with you, you know you gotta leave them behind.

But how important it define your truck. It's so important because again, as a woman of faith, you got scriptures that say iron sharpens iron and I was just having a conversation with a friend, and it's possible that a friend can sharpen what's bad in you, you know, And I think too, if you're not careful, it has everything with your sanity, you can make choices. If you don't have people around you, I say, that's not good for you.

I think we all have seen, even some of our favorite inspirations, it's like, I just wish they had somebody else around them to kind of save them from going down that path. So it means a lot to me. It speaks to my spirituality. It speaks too, and I can say that even my business relationships are not just business. It's like it goes deeper, you know what I'm saying. So I even talk about in the book the difference

between draining relationships versus fountain like relationships. And I came up with that because you can be sitting in a relationship where even just having a conversation leaving it not having felt safe, you'll feel drained. You'll feel exasperated, and it's like, where, all of a sudden did this tire come from? And it's like, because you're sitting at the table with the wrong people. So I just had to

kind of overcome that. And then just even in the book, I talked about some relationships that I delve into that just weren't good for me, and I would you know, you have your mom your dad tell you that ain't that ain't the situation you need to be in, and you'll pick up habits and then you'll take that baggage to the promised place that you're supposed to be in, and you'll then feel like, you know what, I'm inadequate to be here because you were once upon a time

in this dysfunctional place that you were never supposed to be in, and so then it just becomes a blame game. It then weighs you down and then you start speaking to yourself when it was just it was a poor choice previously, so now we got to go through a whole personal rehabilitation space, you know. So that's why it's so important to me. I'm really big on that. And then I believe in prayer. I believe in people praying for you when you can't get a prayer through, you know.

It's it's moments when I was just broken and I just didn't know what to say to God. But I have friends. That was like, no, we about I'm about to hold you were about the whole hands and we're about to go before the Lord. So that's why finding my tribe, that tribe is so important for me. That's what it called the soul tribe. You gotta have your soul tribe. Yeah, absolutely, we have more with Kiera ship when we come back, don't move. It's to breakfast club,

Good morning morning. Everybody is stj Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we are the breakfast Club was still kicking it with Kiera, shared gospel singing and author yee. What Another thing I thought was important as a message for women is that you don't have to put your life on hold waiting for a boyfriend or a husband to do things and to do those things when that person

comes along. Can you expand on that as well, because clearly now you're married, but you went through a lot of frogs before you got to your prince for sure, frauds um. But I kept waiting, like I have been blessed to work and go out of the country, and I'm like, oh, I gotta wait, you know, to go to pay with this significant other or I gotta wait

to go to Dubai with this significant other. And after a while I was like, you know what, if I'm going that way, we're about to make some stops, especially because the trip it's cheaper. While I'm already over there, you know, so I'm about to wait for nobody else. And then in that space that I was in, I would have probably had to cover the expenses myself or whatever. So I think that it's so important because one thing that I did wrong was I made a boyfriend or

I gave a boyfriend wife like tendencies, if that makes sense. Yeah, my father told me before Kiera, you have to understand that it's okay to date. And I think Steve Harvey wrote a book Think like a act like a lady, Think like a man. My Nanna gave me that book because they were all looking like, it's okay for you to play the game. You don't gotta be a whore, but you can play the game. And so he said, the rue word of dating is that I get the

information you need and just play the game. So that's what I had to learn, rather than I thought I was entering into covenant with people that weren't giving me some thing promising for a lifetime, you know, it was just temporary. So those are the things that I had to adjust to say, you know what, I'm gonna do my thing. I'm gonna live my life. I'm not waiting

on nobody. If I get a trip to South Africa, I'm extending the trips, not trying to get home to a boyfriend as if he's my husband, you know, or worried about what he's gonna do. So those were the things that I had to learn. When it comes to that chapter successfully single, I wonder if all that stuff happens is naturally though, right, because it's like, you don't want to practice bad habits. So if you're in a relationship with somebody, I'm probably gonna do some husband like things,

and you might do some wifelike things. That's how you determine whether or not you want to be a husband and wife with this person. For sure. Yeah, but I think for me, I'll be honest, being in a relationship and doing wifelike things, it clouds your judgment because you're wanting marriage with that person and you're not seeing the red flags. I'll speak for myself. So it was a lot of red flags that I was ignoring because I

wanted a certain thing. But if a man doesn't want it with you, or if even if somebody else doesn't want a long lasting relationship, and that could just be with friendships, it can't just be you. We know what it feels like to be one sided, you know. Um So, I think it's okay to dive in compromise, make sacrifices, but make sure you're making sacrifices for somebody that's gonna give it back in return. It could be sex in

that clouded my judgment, you know. And I think too it speaks to I talked about in the book doing things God's way. I saw why I needed to do it his way because I was making decisions off of how he made me feel versus what it could have been in the future. So I was making a decision off of a temporary experience or just you know, how he laid me out. But it wasn't You ain't gonna be able to get me through when it comes to

establishing life or establishing legacy. Um. And And another thing that I noticed is that I wasn't looking at the person that I was dating saying do I want my children to be like this person. It was more so this this feels good, you know, if it was great, So my emotions were wrapped up into a different place rather than actually making life decisions. What about living together? A lot of people will say, well, I don't want

to get married until we live together. How do I know I even want to spend life with this person? You know, talk about why you think that's not a good idea. Yeah, so I will say that I was guilty of that for some time, you know, and even while saying, you know that I'm living this way, and I think there's a such thing like my husband has shown me that there's a way to spend time with each other and do it with boundaries. I think it's just knowing your boundaries. If you're saying you're gonna live

like one thing like my husband really helped me. I thought I was living saved and living for the lord and to my husband came with a different standard. But he showed me that there is a such way to dive into a relationship, to go deeper and to get the depth of that person. But to respect your boundaries. Don't act like they're not there. You know, after a certain hours you get hot in your drawers. So step back and say, you know what, Okay, I'm gonna be

honest with myself. You know, I think I will say I've gotten into spaces where I just wasn't honest with myself, and then I would go and consult with everybody else about my life. So then I was living with the opinions of everyone else but my truth. And so I think that that is you can get to know somebody and you can spend time with them. Um. So I'll stop there because I don't want to say too much, but it's a way to do it. For sure. What did your parents your daddy say about you shocking up

in particular? He disapproves of it. Um, disapproves of one hundred percent. Not his thing. Yeah, that's what they about. Now. How you let Nick Cannon ill? Seen you? How do you say it again? Seen you? How did I let Nick Cannon? I'll sing? Um, Nick Cannon is incredible. So I just had to let him his thing. I was completely blown away at the fact that he could actually play in sing. First of all, I'm joking, I know, okay, I'm just making sure she said I know, Yeah, I know, clearly.

But it was special. It was fun. Um. You know, I thought only to Nick was acting um and to see that we kind of come from similar backgrounds, it was really inspirational. I heard he asked the rapper on the record, and you told him, no, no, that is none of that ain't true. Told him that his raps ain't nothing but the devil. Is that true? It's true. I support Nick Cannon, that's my man. How did the collaboration coming about? Like? What was that about? Um? Nick

reached out and that was it. It was simple, and I came running like for sure, I want to do it, um, and that it was that easy. All right, Well, don't movie. We have more with Kiera shit when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Kiera shared gospel sing it in the author Charlomag, You know, I meant that as Bishop Jake's this and Sarah Robbins this last week.

But do you think that people realizing that the Bible wasn't was written by like people that were oppressing us? Do you think that's one of the reasons people are getting turned off from the from the Bible. Ask that question on my time please, people. You think people are getting turned off from the Bible because they know that the oppressors actually wrote those scriptures, because it's a lot of stuff in the Bible that's oppressor right, like you know, homosexuality,

things in regard to raise the portrayal of women. So you think that's one of the reasons people are getting turned off from the Bible. I think it could be. I'm all into information and being knowledgeable. I wonder if our generation are too grown for their own good, if that makes sense. So that's all I can say there, But if it's inspired by God, I'm a believer and I've seen God's word really liberate me and bring me answer,

so I can only speak from that space. But I do think that there are some peers of mind who just dive into stuff that they don't even understand, but try to use it to their advantage, if that makes sense. Got And and to add to that being too grown for your own good. The Word even says, and I found it to be true, that in order to enter into the Kingdom, you have to take on the heart of a child, innocence pure, you know, seeking the opportunity

to see the light. And I think that because we consume so much dark, whether it's through our music, through what we see in our timeline, it can kind of give you a blur when you actually have the truth right there at hand. You know, the truth can come from a liar, but that doesn't because it's coming from a liar, that doesn't mean that it's not the truth that's right. So I would say that's my answer. No, that makes perfect sense. That's I can look at that

in so many different ways. That's what I always said about you know, somebody like DMX like that brother was annoying it. Yes, but you would not recognize God in him if you're busy looking, uh, looking for God in places you believe God should be and people you think God should be. Absolutely, I think it was a prayer. I think I saw like ditty and I think it was like a read something. It was a concept, yes, And they were in the back praying, and I actually

felt the spirit of God while TMX was praying. So I agree with you one, and I think that there's a possibility that so many of us may have an anointing and we just may be completely oblivious of it, if that makes sense. And because like we were talking about the squad go or the tribe, if you don't have people to tell you you're anointed, and it's just certain things you can't do, you know, are as certain places you can't sit in. Um, because the anointing is

something we can't see. So it has everything to do with spirituality. So we got to be with our a game on understanding that the adversary is out there to get you to destroy you. UM. So I think I agree with you. Now, let's talk about the metamorphosis of relationships for you. How does celibacy contribute to you being able to find the right person? Can you talk about that? Because a lot of times our vision is getting clouded by other things when we're trying to be in a relationship. UM,

it means everything to me. So I'll speak to my husband and I. UM. Of course, we made some mistakes, but once we got for real and we said, okay, we're gonna stick to this. Talking about the boundary that I was telling you about earlier, my husband was I wanted to jump his bones. I wanted to I'm gonna be honest and I'm sure some people were like you, but it's my truth. But I can say that I saw God change my life through him loving my soul and my spirit more than just my body. So I

saw my husband say I care about your soul. I care about you know when you're out there saying that this is your truth, but you come back and you live another way. He wanted to contribute to me in a totally different way than just making me feel good. And then it also allowed me to be stable mentally.

So celibacy definitely contributed to a pure relationship. It allows us to develop our communication skills, our way of understanding, understanding too, a different perspective and knowing that when you come together, it's not just some two individuals come together, but you're bringing their life, like everything that they've gone through. You're bringing all of that together, and so how are you going to build a home. So for me, celibacy

contributed to that. It even contributed to our prayer life. So now I mean I can say I'm seeing things in the future because of the prayer life that I've been able to have with my husband, and now I'm able to respect him differently when he gives me. You know a note, I can listen better because I can

trust your judgment. And then I'm not calling Chase and trying to figure out, you know, what's going on because I felt like, because you're honest with me, and because you show that you can keep yourself together with me, because I I'll stop there. I gotta be careful what I gotta because you showed me that you can keep it together. I trust that you can keep it together when my eyes aren't on you. So celibacy has contributed

to in so many ways. And I really can say that I've done it the complete opposite of what God said to do. And then with my husband, I've done it his way and I've seen it just changed my life. I'm sorry to start crying, but yeah, that's what you mean. Together. I'm gonna I gotta tell my boyfriend we're gonna switch back to celibacy. How he reacts? What do you mean when you said you had to keep it keep or he showed you that he could keep it together, but

you try to set him up. You had like a girl try to hollow him or no no no no for her? Yes with me, like my husband is very attractive. I love him, and I love um. I think for me the faith piece and his integrity, so it makes me want to jump on him more. Um and to see that he's so unimpressionable. So that's what I mean, Like he could give it together, he could control the room, he could tell me no and and and he just

had it got it. What is marriage though, like when we're talking about because this is like back in the day, there was no such thing as marriage. So if you had that attraction towards that man and he had it towards you, when y'all had a bond, yeah, y'all could jump each other's bones, Like what is matter? Like? What is it just a ceremony? Like you really think you're going to hell because you had a little premarital sex. So I don't think it's just you're going to hell

because you had a little premarital sex. But I do believe it's a part of the principles of living out the blessing or the blessed life. And even again, I think you know how our parents used to tell us, don't do that or else this is gonna happen. I feel like the relationship with God is it's um. How can I say this, I'll just say it's important to live the way he's saying and trust what he's saying because it contributes to the future that you don't see.

It contributes to the days that you don't see. So for me, it's get what you're saying, and I get the concern that maybe others have, but I would. I don't know if that answers the question Charlotte Magne, But well, how can we beat ourselves up over like the whole sex pre marital sex thing in the Bible, but not over something like pork because you tell us not deep pork, our shellfish. Yeah, and tell us not dat shellfish. We can just pray over that and everything's cool. Why why

do we do that ourselves? I think it's because we accept the tradition in not diving into the relationship. So for me, this once upon a time was just religion and just a learned behavior until I began to read and learn. You know, like I can go into a classroom and take everything that the students and the teachers are talking about, but I can come out with a completely different, different understanding until I actually read the textbook. So for me, it's almost like being in a relationship.

You don't know me if you only took me out or treated me as a one night stand. You know me when you date me and you take time with me. So I think that that is it's a lack of time, you know, with learning about the faith, rather than just listening to people saying don't touch the stove because it's hot. No, if you go close enough to the stove, you feel that there's a heat that your skin can't take, rather

than just saying oh. And I think that it even speaks to the generations that we've come from, where it's like one generation did things just because somebody told them not to. But I think we are becoming a generation where we're diving into it. So I think it's just a matter of learning and understanding. I would say, do you eat pork. I don't eat pork as much as

I do now that I understand it. Oh, So at the time, you didn't understand the scripture when it says, think with Deuteronomy fourteen eight, don't do not eat pork, don't even touch the flesh of a dead pain. You didn't understand this. I didn't. I thought that it was just an old practice like before I was just reading the Bible, like, okay, that was just days story. I didn't want it. I didn't want to body tell me put down no baking. Yeah. Absolutely, So even to that though,

I am working on my temple. So I'll go back and forth. I'll do like a vegan diet. I'll be a vegetarian one week and then next year I'm a pscytarian, and then one week I'm just saying, oh, I don't eat meat, but I eat fish and bacon, you know. So yes, it's like which one is it? So, um, I think it's a matter of learning, evolving understanding, because um, there's a scripture where Jesus said I didn't come to do away with the lab but I came to fulfill it.

So I think for me, I'm still trying to understand that part, like, well, did you give me the opportunity to still be able to eat baking or is that just you know what I'm saying. So it's all just figuring it out. I'm just using that because those are the things in the Bible that did tell us not to do. Those are the things that we do on the on the regular, you know what I mean. But scramps man, it's special. But the other thing is UM. You asked about why do we um focus on the

sex out of wedlock versus the pork? I think too, it has everything to do with um condemnation versus conviction. People who have a relation and ship with God. They're not just pointing at the problem and not giving you a solution. And I feel like condemnation causes you to beat up on yourself, whereas conviction from the Holy Spirit has you to just deal with it differently. If that makes that makes perfect? Well, can we get into a song before we get up out of here? You want

to introduce a song. Let's let the world hearing a song if they haven't heard any of your music. Yes, of course we can play this song we just talked about. Grace. Yes, yes, all right, Well let's get into Grace and we appreciate you for joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning, everybody is kJ envy? That was well, that was Kara shared. Yeah, that was a thank you called Grace. Right, Yes, it's

called Grace. She has a book out called Big, Bold and Beautiful, Owning the woman God made you to be. Thank you care for joining us? This morning, pleasant conversation. It was absolutely let's get to the rumas. Let's talk d MX. Listen, oh got breakfast club? All right. DMX's family is warning people they are not strapped for cash and they are not asking for the public to chip in for a funeral expenses. If you see anything online

saying otherwise, it is not true. There's been a lot of rumors going around, a lot of people trying to benefit, but just so you know, nobody is raising money to help pay for everything. So if you see any of those campaigns, do not donate money. They are completely bogus. They're not connected to the family at all. There's also been rumors that Jay Z and Beyonce bought DMX's masters for ten million dollars. That's not true either. Listen, first of all, if you think rough riders and Swiss beats

and deaf jam, not at all of them here. If you think they're not about to send DMX off like the King to God, he was y'all out of y'all damn mind. You think DMX need money for a funeral, knock it off. Yeah, no, it's it's it's what their plan is gonna be amazing It's just gonna be huge come moment for the disgusting people that are starting these fake accounts and trying to benefit off of that. Disgusting.

But I know people might be looking and see things and think they're doing something positive by giving money for it, but no, it's not real. Right all right now, I told you guys, I did this sit down interview with Quando Rondo. We were actually in New Orleans when we did this, and some of the things that he talked about, and this is just part, a small part. We actually

talked for like a couple of hours. But one of the things that he talked about was, of course the night of November sixth, that's the night that King Von was shot and killed, the tragic night that that happened, and Kwando Rondo was giving his side of the story, which he has not done previously. He says that he believed that he had a good relationship with Dirk. You know, they had songs together. He thought they were cool. He didn't even know there were any issues with Little Dirk

and King Vaughan. Here's what he said. People be saying, like people chase a clown and stof how man like rich I got three follow was like, for my understanding, ma'am. It was a love really it was. I had a relationship with Big brou not I want to say his name, not you feel me on my album. Dude never charged me for a feature, no one. He could have liked, Big bro legend all right. He was talking about Little Dirk there because Little Dirk was on his album and

he didn't know that there was any any problems with him. Now, Krnda Ronda also talks about the night and all the incidents that led up to him even being in the parking lot that night. You know, he had filmed the video that day. There's a lot more behind the story of what he was doing before he got to that parking lot. But he was not trying to go out. His friends actually went in the club and he stayed

outside in the car. He wanted to just go to sleep in the car, and Little Tim, his boy, was staying outside with him because he didn't want him to stay by himself. Now here's what he said happened. I tell my brother, I say I'm not going in the club. That's a little break going ate fre you a little female or whatever, because I'm like, you got fifteen minutes because and I'm depping. We were we were about to go to the house. My brother said, I'm not about

to let you sit in. No, come and go to sleep. Now, I'm about to walk off and go stand by the other individuals that I came with. I see a group of people coming. I'm about to let these people walk past me. I'm not about to try to go through these people and nothing like that. Next thing, you know, and he hit me. It's like I had an out of body experience. I hused to believe he spoke to him for two hours. I just don't see it. Dad. I mean, we talked about a lot of different things too.

Though I don't know if you know anything about Kandarana. He's from Savannah and he's had a really oh he has a he's had a very challenging upbringing. Let's just say that if you hear about how he was raised, and you know him growing up and foster care and end and out of Julie from when he was young, and a lot of things that he's gone through. And we were talking about he's not even supposed to be here right now. Just the success that he's had, that's far.

It's been a challenging time for him. Man, even with all of this. You know, clearly he didn't go out to the club, but the intentions of anything like this happening, He wasn't even trying to be out, and so it was just a really tragic night. But he did want to be able to tell his side of the story. It's just a very serious game. So just be careful. I got a bunch of text yesterday, be like, you can't like what's going on? You're good in Chicago. I'm like,

what are you talking about? And then I guess you released your interview. But just be careful something I guess because she did the interview when she was interviewing Kondo, and you know it's it's there from Chicago. I don't know, but just be very careful everybody out there. Hopefully they spat that, you know, I mean, you don't want to play with them, them young boys. Yeah, but you can't get mad at the reporter or the journalists personality because

they did an envy in an interview. I haven't seen the whole interview with no nobody did an envy, but got what you just said. I said an interview crazy? Think about doing you. I just don't like the back and forth that's been going on. So it was my hope that he would be able to tell side of the story because I don't believe, you know, from what he's told me, and we spoke before the interview, and I'm good friends with his manager, Fee, that's my guy.

I don't believe that he had any ill intentions at all, and I don't think that's what happened. I think it was a tragic night. It was awful what happened, and he wanted to be able to explain it from his point of view because he was there. A lot of people are speculating, but they weren't there. You know, Yeah, I don't know nothing about this situation. But also will say, you know, in regards to they're back and forth, there isn't nothing you can do about that. Somebody died, you

know what I'm saying. There's gonna always be a back and forth between them. And even in this interview, he spoke very respectfully when he spoke of Van and Dirk, so you know, and a lot of things that he talked about later on. He talks about obviously he's the first artist that signed to NB A young boy. He talks about their relationship and you know, you'll see it's very interesting though what he had to say. So and he's only twenty one years old. All right, that is

your rumor report. All right, thank you, missie Charlomage. Who giving that donkey too? Man? I need Officer Kim Potter to come to the front of the congry gate. We'd like to have a word with her this morning. And I think President Biden needs to come to the front of the congregation too. We need to have a world with him as well. All right, we'll get to that. Next is the Breakfast Club come morning. So Breakfast Club,

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serves as police union president. Also sharing in this, Heahart this morning is the forty six president of the United States of America, the best and only option available to the worst president of all time, hence why he won. Joe Biden, Oh, we have a lot to unpack here this morning, but not really because we've been here before. America and I spell America a m R I KKKA And I'm not talking about Kim Cortney and Chloe Are Kim Colly and Kendall? I'm talking about ku klux crackers. Oh,

this is a white supremacist country. Black people have been historically the lowest cast. The dominant white cast knows this, and they always remind us of sucks he there's a reality show that we all live in called Being Black in America. So I may call it a dramedy, definitely, a thriller, absolutely a horror movie. Never a lighthearted affair, because the things that happened to us in this country have us walking around with heavy hearts constantly. What did

the late great James Ball wouldn't say? To be a negro in this country is to be a negro in this country, and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. Yeah, I feel your great ancestor Ball. And that's why I'm intentional about not taking too many things seriously, because I have to laugh to keep from crying. I've been getting told all my life. I turned everything into a joke. Yes I do.

It's a form of self care, Okay, a defense mechanism of starts to protect us from the inevitable, the inevitable trauma that we will witness, which keeps this show Being Black in America perpetually, perpetually in a series of new reruns. Okay, Oh, it's no laughing matter. You're not how hard it is to chuckle when nothing is funny, but you have to laugh at the absurdity of it all. Case in point this situation, would Officer Kim Potter, your uncle, Charlotte, brother Lenard.

I get on this radio and I tell y'all things, and you may or may not take me serious because of my list. But one thing I've been telling y'all is, nobody plays dumb like a white person trying to deny injustice. I repeat, nobody plays dumb like a white person trying to deny injustice. Your latest example, Officer Kim Potter, not a rookie, has worked for the department for twenty six years, twenty six and she's headed a police union. It's playing dumb.

She protests in Minnesota were doing what they were supposed to be doing, and that's being angry. Okay, raising hell in a region, as the New York Times stated, in a region already at the center of a national reckoning over police officers use of force against black people. New York Times, we need stronger language than us to force. Okay, let's say, in a region already at the center of a national reckoning over police officers killing black people for

no damn reason. Yeah, I like that, because where Dante Right was killed by Kim Potter ten miles away. Prosecutors in the courtroom completed the questioning of their witness of another killer, Cop Derek Chavin. Okay, very important to keep reminding y'all that he's the man we saw kill George Floyd. Now, Kim Potter has killed Dante, right and is playing dumb

to deny injustice. How is she playing dumb? Well, let's go to CNBC with Shepherd Smithfolter report police just miles from where George Floyd died, a police officer shot and killed a young, unarmed black man, reigniting outrage and inflaming tensions. Minneapolis, of course, was already on edge as the nation watches the murder trial of Derek Chauvin. The police chief in Brooklyn Center says cops pulled over twenty year old Dante Wright for expired tags and tried to arrest him for

an outstanding warrant. There was a struggle, The police chief says one of the officers pulled out her gun by mistake, thinking it was her taser, and fired. Well, the protesters are back out on the streets tonight after a night of unrest in Brooklyn Center last evening. People are angry. The explanations that the police gave didn't sit. Well. We are outside of the police headquarters and you can see it's become a fortress last a lot of violence, a

big confrontation. The police chief said they were being attacked by bottles and ricks and all kinds of objects, and that's why they retaliated. That's why they fired back with tear gas, flash bangs and also rubbert bullet. Bottles and bricks still better than bullets. Okay, Kim Potter, twenty six years on the force and she doesn't know the difference between a gun and a taser. Let me tell y'all something because you all be prisoners at the moment. This excuse,

this lie, it's used quite often. Okay, it's been used before twenty nineteen. The police officer in Pennsylvania who never got identified because charges weren't filed because he shot a man named Brian Rilling. That officer said he must stoo kiss gun for a taser. Hell, it's happened in Minnesota before two thousand and two. A Rochester police officer who wasn't identified, thought he was reaching for a stun gun and pulled his forty glock and severely injured a man

named Christopher Attack, Okay refugee from Sudan. No criminal charges were filed against that cop. Tolsa, Oklahoma, Robert Bates, white volunteer sheriff's deputy, shot and killed ano on black man named Eric Harris, who was being held down down by other officers. Bates apologized for killing Harrison, was sent us to four years in prison, and Tosa County had to pay six million to Harris's estate to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit should have came about his pension, you know,

if he eventually got one. But all of those people, you know, mistook their guns. No, I'm stick there guns for tases and tastes for guns. I don't know. They mistook there tasers for guns. Whatever it was, Okay, they claimed it was a mistake. And oh, let's not forget the most famous case, at least of my lifetime. Y'all.

Remember a young brother named Oscar Grant, right, A killer cop named John Hannes Mercelli testified that trial that he feared Oscar Grant had a weapon, so he reached for his stun gun, but mistakenly pulled his forty child as well, and he shot Oscar Grant. Well, Oscar Grant was laying face down in this situation. Johannes Marcelli was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sent us to two years in prison, and the Department paid two point eight million to Oscar

Grant's daughter and her mother Pennies for your life. Now, Robert Bates, who killed Eric Harris, when it happened to him, he said, this has happened a number of times around the country. You must believe me. It can happen to anyone. Sure, maybe I don't know, but it shouldn't. Okay. How is their mild practice in every professional industry except law enforcement? What's the definition of mild practice? Improper? Illegal? Are negligent

professional activity or treatment? Police officers are rendering professional services which are resulting in injury, loss okay, loss of life that is, and damage? Yet they rarely, if ever get held accountable. If I can kill someone and just say my back, okay, how do I or anyone else watching this situation learn their lesson once again? Yeah, have to get rid of qualified immunity because these officers need to

be sued directly, Okay. It needed to be their money and their pensions that contribute to these large payoffs from the state and civil suits and the threat of jail time. When police officers are interacting with civilians, the two words that need to be on their minds is pensions in prison. If I know as a cop, I could lose my pension are go to prison, I'd act rate. But the reason they will never act rate is because leadership in our country plays dumb okay. Leadership in our country downplays

and minimizes these state sanctioned killings of black people. Exhibit a President Joe Biden, leader of the Free World, vice president to the first black president, picked a black woman, woman of color to be his vice president. Friend of black people, cornpop, okay, mouse and all of them. Was asked about Kim Potter shooting Dante right, and this is what he said. Wasn't an accident? Was it intentional? That

remains to be determined by a full bawn investigation. But in the meantime, I want to make it clear again there is absolutely no justification for looting, no justification for violence. Oh God peaceful protests understand them, but we do know that the anger, pain and trauma the resist the black community in that environment is real it's serious and it's consequential,

President Biden, it should be. There's absolutely no justification for police brutality, no justification for police violence against unarmed black people in this country. Why do we always call for the people to remain peaceful? Why do we all it's called for the people to remain calm, President Biden, cops of the ones not being peaceful, Cops of the ones not remaining calm. If the protests aren't peaceful, whose fault

is that? Okay, violence be guests, violence, and police officers were held responsible for these actions, and maybe the protests would be peaceful. But we know in this episode of America with Three Ks that we've seen a million times that regardless of who's in the White House, nothing's going to change. Okay, what happened to the George Floyd policing?

All the Democrats? Okay, who are championing this? Vice President Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, y'all should be front instent of pushing this right now in colonies, calling these cops in their behavior out. I don't want to hear President Biden saying the question is was it an accident? Was it intentional? That remarriage to be determined by a full blown investigation.

Blah blah blah. President Biden stopped white man in me. Okay, I'm telling you, white people are having innate ability, especially white men and positions of power, having innate ability to play dumb when it comes to racial injustice. And boy, they give each other the benefit of the doubt and grace every single time. Look, I know, policing, it's still local.

DA's got to do the work, and I know Kim Potter is a local issue, but the George Floyd Policing Act is necessary, and at least it's something that's all I want at this point, something, somebody somewhere, I gotta show me something, because the only thing gonna happen to Keim Potter is this will be labeled an accident, No charges will be filed, She'll be fired and moved to a nearby jurisdiction and will not have to face any

consequences for her malpractice. And people like President Biden will continue to show more concern for buildings than we the people, or should I say we the property, because as I told y'all yesterday during Donkey Today, this is what black people are in this country. Property and in these cities like Minnesota, they make more money off those buildings that are property than they do black people there. Four black

folks are disposable. And that's why President Biden will say it's no justification for looting, rather than saying it's no justification for killing us and Joe. You can't say you understand the trauma the black community is facing. When you minimize that trauma to looting, you know that's not what's happening. Black people are fed up, angry and have every right to be. My therapist says, feel your fails, okay, And black people, women and men, you have every right to

be angry and every right to express that anger. Not coming off as angry has gotten us nowhere. Okay, Yes we angry, Yes we pissed off. And if you are a human who cares about other humans in this country, you would be angry with us, okay. As Queen Tamika Mallory says, we don't need allies, we need accomplices. Everybody needs to be angry. Everybody needs to get angry if you truly care about other humans in this on this planet, because if you are silent about your pain, they'll kill

you and say you enjoyed it. That's Zora Neil Hurston. By the way, please give Kim Potter and President Joe Biden the biggest he hall. All right, please please. I know President Joe Biden as a sitting president. Don't audit me. Okay, I don't even extra artists calling out a sitting president. Okay, thank you? Yeah, all right, well just remember that was Lenard, not Rashawn. All right now, let's open up the phone lines. We ain't got much time. How do you feel? Let's

still wellness check? How do you feel? Let's talk about what's five eight five one on five one will take your course when we come back. What are your thoughts, what are your opinions? Let's go the breakfast club or anything that you do. I don't give a punt about you or anything that you do. I don't give a I don't give an I don't give a I don't give a about you or anything that you don't give

about you or anything that you do. It's topic time called eight hundred and five eight five one oh five one to join it to the discussion with the breakfast club. Talk about it morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the God. We are the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You just joined us. We're just doing a wellness check man. We're opening up the phone lines and having a conversation. Just how you feeling out there with everything that's going

on in the last couple of days. Yeah, I mean it's heavy, right. You see all the trauma. You see the trauma from you know, watching m the lieutenant, you know, get get get get assaulted by those police officers. I forgot what state that was in. What was that at Virginia? Right?

You know what I mean? Um? And you know watching officer Kim Potter killed Dante, right, Like, it's a lot of trauma being passed through the mid watching that happen, still in the middle of the Derek chov And trial, so you know he's gonna do it well in his check man. See, how are people feeling out there? All? Right? Well? Hello, who's this? Hello? Good morning? My name is Megan. Hey Megan,

good morning. How are you feeling today? Megan? Honestly, after last summer, I thought I'd get over this trauma that I'm having about being black in America, But at this point it's just getting worse. Some worried. I'm getting tired of everything that's been going on. And I live in the South, so I see it a lot more than often, a lot more that's not publicized, and I'm over it. I tried to put myself in therapy. That's not helping.

I'm a social worker. It's not helping me tell people like it's okay one day, all the discussions are going to change. I'm just gone. You know why. You know why because we're in a perpetual time loop. We're in a perpetual time loop of trauma. Like I call all of this new reruns. It shows that we've seen before,

but it's new episodes of reruns. It's weird, like being traumatizing. Yeah, being black in America is such a uniquely traumatic experience that only I think black people could could truly understand. I think part of mine is too. It's like I'm black and then I've had also the trauma of beings in the Caribbean on Haitian, and like seeing anything that's happened over and over again, even the something's going on

with Haiti right now, I don't feel like we've saved anywhere. Yeah, white supremacy is a disease man, and James Baldwin said, it's the best to be a Negro in this country, and to be, you know, somewhat conscious is to be in a constant state of age. That's very true. So what she's feeling is absolutely accurate. It's okay to feel like that. By the way, all right, thank you for calling mamma. Hello, who's this? My name is anotherment? Hey, anamous, how are you feeling. We can't see you. This is

the radio. You don't have to say anonymous. You can just give a fake name. My name is Angie. How are you doing, Hi, Angie, what's happening? My name is Michel. How are you feeling? Angie? A little distraught today because I'm on my way to court a civil commitment, which means say, I'm going support to be told whether they're not going to put me in a hospital or if I'm going to continue out patients, because if some things

can happen pertaining to my job. So, uh, you know, COVID with a rough year for everybody where I saw at first not enough people cared about what was going on within the people, and I got a little loud and things kind of went upside down. I don't think it's anything wrong with you getting a little loud. I

think that we need to get louder. I think that the greatest, the great this trick that they've pulled on us is telling us that they do things to trigger us, do things to make us angry, and tell us that we can't come off as angry. No get angry. Yeah, I was told to be quiet and can you know, not say certain things within the obseration that I had, which was never a local county that I live in.

So you know, that caught a lot of problems for me because telling someone that they needed to come back to work after things happened in their life with it with COVID going on, that was not good for me. Right, Well, I'm sending you healing energy. I'm sending you healing energy. Can I guess I'm sending it to your fake name since you gave us a fake name, Angie, Angie, but I'm sending you healing energy, Angie Fash your middle name. Okay, don't give too much information, no, but I'm glad that

you're be able to call and express yourself. Sometimes people need to just verbalize how they fail too that helps a little. That's right, Well, thank you mama. All right, Well eight hundred five eight five one o five one call us let me know how you're feeling out there, so wellness check this morning. It's the breakfast club. Go morning, call me your opinions to the breakfast club topic. I did five five one five one morning. Everybody is DJ

Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're just doing a wellness check this morning, calling speaking to everybody out there, seeing how you're feeling. Hello. Who's this? Hello? This is y'all. Hey, how are you feeling today? Bro? I just want to just a topic of officers getting their guns from views with their tasers, Yes, sir, like they need to do like an intelligent investigation. Do they wait? Do the guns wait the thing? Are they on the

same side? Are the grip of sting? Do they release from the hosts of things? There's a lot of puntions that need to be asked on. How can an officer who've been in the force for over twenty years confuse their gun with their hazard? Is it bidding to be possible to do that? Yes, situations. Haven't you been in these situations before like thin like Beau can't happen, No, you can't. It's malpractice. And like I said, you know, law enforcement is the only place where you know there

is no consequences and repercussions to malpractice. It's like, really the grip the same on the gun and the pa they have to way different they do it. They do it different. When you put the point you don't need that, it looks different, like what are you looking at? Of course they do pray for America. A M E R I K k k A. I'm not praying for America. I'm praying America get exactly what it deserves, okay, because

that's the only way things are gonna change. Things are gonna change when everybody gets exactly what they deserve and don't get it twisted the America guy that coming. Okay, Rome has fallen, Ladies and gentlemen. Let's go to another caller. Hello, who's this? This is Paige. Hey, good morning. How are you feeling this morning? Good? How are you are you really good? Are you really good? I'm okay, that's what

I want to hear. Feel your feels go. I mean, she knew what she was doing it's modernate flavor basically. I mean, they're just legally killing the whole Black comedians. The community feels that way, feels that way, and don't feel bad a percussion away with it, like I just made a mistake. It was an accellent it was not an accident, right, That's what I'm saying. Their excuses though, is it was an accident, or they'll say like it's your fault because you did this, and they try to

justify it. You could have video footage and everything in audio and still somehow they're able to get away with it. No repercussions, right, question, are you black or white? Man? No end to this? Unless there's no end to this, Like I feel like if George Floyd's killer does not get any type punishment, then the whole world is going to blow up. Like I'm so beyond there's no like words like I'm shaking right now, like this this poor man who just got shot for no reason, and there's

gonna be no justice for him. There is gonna be no justice, there's no hope, there's no justice. You're you're white, right, I'm make I'm Hispanic and white. Okay, Well, I mean listen, I don't. I don't care the way because I'm happy, because you know, we need all hands on deck. If you're a human that cares about other humans, you know we need each other right now. We need to like we need accomplishes, not allies. And everybody has the right to be angry, and everybody has a right to express

that anger. Because I keep quoting zor Neil Hurston because it's true. If we're silent about our pain, they'll kill us and say we enjoyed it. I mean, I had just shown my ten year old children a little five year old boy getting berated by cops to show them you cannot trust these cops. I have to cry and show them that you cannot trust God, like I have to know that they're not in the world. I mean,

it's sad and it's scary. I mean, and like you said, with anxiety, like with Charlemagne and you said earlier, I mean, you don't know when it's coming from. You don't know if if if you're nervous to let your kids go to school because of mass shootings, you don't know if if if you let your son drive because they're killing on black men. You don't know if you can if it's safe to take them to the mall. You know,

I mean, you just it's everything is so scary. Just you just want to create your own fort and just living and never leave like it's that scary. Pick your own trauma. And why do I envision you building a fort in your bedroom? And yeah, asking you what the hell is your problem? Why why you do it in my bedroom? Doesn't everything back when you build a fort? Do you do it with pillows? What do you using about me? And do you use the cushions, the cushions on the couch. I used the cushions on the couch,

but those are the best. They stirty, They definitely stirty it in pillows. What's the moral of the story, man? Why else? I hate you? Man? Just letting people calling and express themselves as a lot going on. Sometimes people aren't able to verbalize that. Sometimes people don't even ask you how are you doing? Yeah, I'll tell you them all of the story, man, James Baldwin, Because everybody out there needs to feel their fields. And if you feel angry,

that's perfectly fine. If you've got a lot of anxiety, that's perfectly fine. Because James Baldwin said to be a negro in this country, and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. All right, well, we got rumors on the way, yes, and let's talk about Drake. It looks like he'll be on the next drink Chimps. I'm gonna tell you some things we do know that we'll be addressed. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the breakfast club, Go morning, the breakfast Club.

I've never met. This guy knows nothing about latinos. Bro. You talk about traumas. Oh yeah, I'll be asking him questions and he don't have no answers. He's fake. It's all right, dad, We all to breakfast club. Let's get to rumors. Let's talk to YOUMX. This is the rumor report with angela way where looks like Nori might have that sit down with Drake coming soon now. He said he posted a picture with Drake. He said Champagne. Oh, he said, you see my face and you know why

I'm here, Champagne Poppy. But who's who? Obio drink Champs loading and then he puts certified love for boy loading. A lot of people don't know. But I squashed the beat between DMX and Drake through my boy forty. But we will say that for drink Champs got a big up Obio forty are mine and fancy. That's the fact. Nori definitely uh smooth that over all. Right, So let's revisit what exactly happened now. When DMX was on the Breakfast Club in two thy twelve, I asked what he

thought about Drake. We were talking about a lot of different artists naming people, and here's what happened. What about Drake? Drake? No, I don't like anything about Drake. Mom. I don't like his voice he talks about I don't see trying to I don't he walks like nothing. I might just let me shut out. I'm gonna stop right there. Have you been converted to a Drake fan yet? No? What do

you think about the new Elia album now? Disrespectful like like like like they don't even make sense, That's what I'm saying, Like like you can't, you can't do it like that. That's like wrong, man, Like I wish it was like maybe seven years ago. Well, you know, catch to beat him up. That was the first time we interviewed DMX. In the second time we interviewed all right well, and in twenty sixteen he changed his tune. That on he had some more positive things to say. Listen to

what he said about Drake. You were a fan of Drake at first. I did always say that he was to tell delricous, but I was not a fan. I was not, And another homely experience. Of course, we were like, yo, you didn't like this dude for all the wrong reasons, but you know there was other reasons. You know, we were getting all that. But for him to take the effort first to want to use the song I'm saying, and then to be man enough to reach out and make the calls soft man, that was a real move.

That's gonna make for a great Drink Champ story. And I'm a person who feels like you have to have at least a ten year career to be on Drink Champs. Drake has that. So I would love to see Drake drinking Virginia Black, which is his bourbon, and popping bottles of Loyalty, which is Jay Prince's wine. I would love to see him doing that on Drink Champs. And if Drake does drink Champs, boy, I'm gonna have The Black Effect and iHeartRadio promote that podcast like Oprah promoted her

sitting down with Megan Marcole and Harry Potter. What's his name? His name is definitely Harry Potter, but we know he mean yes And can I also say too that Nori And I'm not saying this because he's my friend in

business partner. I'm saying this because it's true. Drink Champs is the best platform for hip hop right now because Nori and DJ Effin created a lane five years ago to give OG hip hop artists a platform and it's grown into something special and over the past I would probably say a year, nobody's doing OG hip hop conversations

better than Drink Champs. Man not even close dropping the clothesb Entreneuria in DJ every every morning to Morningay give it up for Nori, Right, make sure you check out Drink Champs on The Black Effect Guy Heart Radio podcast network. All right now, ll cool J is not feeling the fact that people are calling him the forefather of pop rap. It was a whole discussion that was happening and LL cool J said, me being called the forefather a pop

rap is very confusing. What the f are y'all talking about So people were talking about I Need Love, and they were saying that was like one of the beginning songs of pop rap. Listen to it. I Need lab in case you I don't know, but mainstream ago. Sometimes I stay with the back of my mind and my conscious call telling me I need a girl. First time, I was like I need love, giggling about the games. You're gonna take him up? And then you start sing,

wasn't I was on beat? You wasn't. First of all, hip hop is pop culture, and it's been pop culture for a long time. Pop culture is just short for popular. So I Need Love was a very very popular record. It's not a pop It's definitely not a pop sounding record by any means. But I understand what people mean when they say hip hop is pop culture. They didn't know pop record. That wasn't a pop er. He was rapping. It wasn't like all, I'm gonna do this record for

pop rad listen to anything that I said. Just no, no, I didn't short for popular. Yeah, but hip hop has been the most popular genre and culture for a long time. Yes, it's not a pop They didn't mean it like that. They meant pop sounding. You know they didn't. There's no way they couldn't meant it like that. It just means it crushed over to mainstream basically to be on the pop charts as well. That's all by definition, but that's not saying that hip hop and rap is not. That

is what is popular. Yes, it is. Hip hoop is pop culture. Sorry, guys and gals, it is what it is, all right. DJ Mustard is saying that his personal shoppers stole over fifty thousand dollars from him and spent it on bags, and he even posted a screenshot of a conversation where she actually apologized to him and he added her He said, Actionelle de Johan. We let her use the stylist word so she could get business, but the

truth is she did nothing but shop. Today I found out that she ran my credit cards up over fifty k buying stuff for herself, persons, shoes, shades, and other stuff. I'm hot and I'm only writing that so nobody else deals with her. She's bad for business. I have all the receipts to prove everything. I paid her more than she was worth because I don't play with taking care

of people that do their jobs. He was paying her six thousand per month, he said, and after calculating she could have good and well wrapped up over one hundred thousand and expenses, she ran up fifteen thousand and Louis Vatan alone on herself except for some effing Instagram likes? Can I play White Devil's advocate for just a second. Technically, it's not like the personal shopper didn't do what you paid her to do. Is it defined that personal shoppers

only buy stuff for you? Yes? It is, you dumbass, Yeah, six tho yourself? Are you kidding me? Personal shopper meant for herself personally, That's what I'm saying. Is it defined that I'm only personally shopping for you? Yes? In writing that part of the job description, you just said personal shopping. I did some personal shopping that bought me a few things. No, he can't do that, not if I pay you know? All right, Well that that is your rumor report, all right.

Six thousand dolls is a lot of month to go a lot of money a month to go personal shopping for somebody, because you probably had money to do other stuff. And you know, on the scamming lines, I saw that this stripper had posted that she was upset that Usher didn't pay the strippers with real money. He used some usherbucks, some Usher bucks, and she said the money does not have a trade in value whatsoever. Don't y'all think he should be blasted on social media for this? She said

she danced all night and Usher through that. But it looks like the story is a little different. I seen multiple other people saying that what really happened was he did pay money, and he was throwing money all night. But somebody left the Usher Bucks as like kind of a joke and it's something that he's doing to promote his Vegas residency. And he just threw out some usher bucks. They threw out some usher bucks, that something Charlomagne would do.

First of all, God bless that savage name Usher Raymond. The fourth drop on the clue bombs him, and the fourth I don't see anything wrong with what he did. You have to know your worth. What what's what's knowing your worth more than having your own currency? Okay, may not mean anything to any mercy, it's not worth nothing. Who says who? It's all about what you put value on Okay, stay shut up. It's savings treat these ushbucks the way you would treat a two dollar bill. Hold

on to it. Maybe it could be see come on then you then you go. Thank you. NFT go ahead and make one hundred and sixty thousand off of these ushbucks. You play around. If you want, you take the mushbucks to a store Louis Vauton, Gucci or any of the other stores. You get arrested. Don't even take it to McDonald's. Wherever you go, dollar store, You're gonna get arrested with the mush want I really, I'm gonna be honest with you.

I really need Usher to do a versus. I need somebody to stay up up and get that smoke, get that slang that Usher Raymond is gonna give them because I am so tired of y'all disrespecting Usher Raymond the Fourth when it gets a million asher box. That's right, y'all, keep backing like Usher ram In the fourth, not a whole legend, a whole gold out here with a with a with a damn near unbeatable catalog. But who said he's not you? I did not, Yes, you did. You

told me Chris Brown could get out your anniverses. When did you hear that? All right? Said? It depends on who the song is up against whose I don't share what song you play. Ushers got great weapons, and I need him to get his flowers because y'all be disrespecting Usher the fourth way too much. I like he not the US H R R A Y M O N d R Yeah exactly, all right, all right, well that's your rumor report to mix this up. Next, it's the Breakfast Club on to revote. We'll see him out Breakfast Club.

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I always talk about the car show. I'm just so excited about all you guys supporting me and I just want to say thank you. Also, what we're doing now is you know people ask how I'm gonna get all the cars down to Atlanta. We do have a lot of cars in Atlanta, and people are submitting their cars and you can submit your car if you want to put your car in the car show. But we're actually doing a rally to the car show. So we're driving from New York. We're starting off at the radio station,

and we're driving to Atlanta two days. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. If you want to drive from you know, hang with us rally to the car show. It's gonna be a lot of fun. There's gonna be a pace car, so nobody's gonna be speeding. We're gonna do it at a nice pace. So ye, well you speed so you can't go, but anybody else you can definitely come rally to the car show. It's gonna be an amazing time. It's the first week in July, so just look out for that. Why the hell is it

going to stop Sharlot first? Stop in Charlotte first, because it'll be like an eleven hour ride, twelve hour ride, so that's a lot for people. So we rides, you know, eight hours to Charlotte and then three four hours the next day, make an experience out of it. Got you all right? You got a positive note? What was you saying? I said, I did get pulled over for speeding over the weekend since and he said, I speed a lot, you see, but that's the first time that I gotten

pulled over for that in like year. It's probably about I would say, maybe a decade. Did you get the ticket? Actually he gave me a warning. Thank you so much, officer. My goodness, what's your well? I want to tell y'all too, man, make sure well. Thank you to everybody who's downloaded. UM, We've got Answers on audible. It's an audiobook that I

dropped a couple of weeks ago. UM for you know, any white people who are looking for answers to questions that they may have what I'm saying, and Black people that are tied to answering questions that white people have, just point them to this project. We've got answers on Audible. It's free with an Audible membership. And my positive note is simply this, stop shrinking yourself the fit places. You've

clearly y'll grown breakfast club. What up y'all is DJ Envy and we're back and we're kicking it with Mountain Dewing. We're talking about their Real Change Opportunity Fund. Now, the Real Change Opportunity Fund is uplifting black entrepreneurs. And right now we have a special person on the line right now, And I hate the factor of the zoom because I would love to actually see these people in the person.

Now we have Nicole Portwood. Now. She joined PepsiCo in September twenty eighteen as Vice president of Marketing for Mountain dew Energy and Flavors, leading three hundred and sixty degree brand marketing strategy across the portfolio. Nicole joined Pepsi Co. From Tito's Homemade Vacca, where she led branding for nine years in Austin, Texas. Now, Nicole was instrumental in developing this program for black entrepreneurs. So, ladies and gentlemen, the old Portwood, Hey and v it's great to be here

with you. Thanks for joining me. So let's talk about this program. How did this program get created and why did it start? So we announced the Real Change Opportunity Fund on the heels of PepsiCo, our parent company, announcing our four hundred million dollar commitment to uplift black communities

and Black representation and Mountain Dew. We recognize that there was this immediate need for us to take action as a brand and to do what we could to really drive tangible change in the specific fight against systemic racism and inequality faced by Black people in America. We really felt like entrepreneurs are the key to closing the wealth gap that has been in place for far too long and is really based on systemic racism throughout our history.

Entrepreneurs really exemplify what Mountain Dew's all about. They're the doers, right, They're the ones who are getting out there changing their lives, changing the world, and changing things for the Black community. So the Real Change Opportunity Fund is our way to build hope, to inspire lasting impact and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs. Now why HBCUs. You know HBCUs play as such a crucial role in personal and professional development.

I went to a HBCU university. What's up? But why you know HBCUs? Why that route? Um? You know? As a brand, this is the first time that we've developed something official in partnering with HBCUs. But PepsiCo overall has fostered and developed relationships across HBCUs by launching programs like She Got Now and twenty twenty Virtual Marching Band Performance.

So this is our opportunity to put a stake in the ground and really solidify our own relationship with HBCUs because that's how you invest in talent from these legacy schools. That's how you make sure you're investing at the route and identifying those brilliant minds that are going to change

the future. Now, one million dollar prize group, Now what is that going to do to for the community, Like, that is a lot of money, it is, and we're so excited to be able to give this to the winning entrepreneurs and these incredible, incredibly talented, brilliant people who brought their ideas to us. This was driven by the recognition that black entrepreneurs tend to receive less funding than

non black entrepreneurs. Like, that's a real insight in what's happening in the world, and we have an opportunity to shift that dynamic. So this one million dollars is meant to really inspire and empower some of the best and brightest black entrepreneurs out there. So do and our panel of expert doers, including you, are going to be providing not only the opportunity for this prize pool, but insight

and feedback and mentorship to these finalists. And we're going to give them this platform to tell their story so that not only, like I said, they have this opportunity to win the money, but it's going to shine a light on the incredible ideas that they have, the momentum that they've built, and the future that they had so money to be had a platform to tell the story, and we're hoping that that inspires the community to get

out there and reach for their dreams and drives additional entrepreneurialism. So yeah, not only are the contestants is going to receive a portion of that million dollar prize pool, but each HBCU that they come from is also going to receive an award fund that's dedicated to creating real change

at those universities. Yeah. I was going to ask money is great, Like everybody wants money, but guided, So how are they going to definitely get that guides beside the panelists because you just can't give somebody a bunch of money, but like go do it on your own because they might not know. So how important is the guidance. I think that's a critical part of what we're doing and

how we're engaging with these entrepreneurs. You know, they had an opportunity to meet with some of our judges prior to the actual competition, go through mentorship sessions here from business leaders who can give them insight into the kind of challenges they're going to face, really begin to prod at their ideas and start to ask the difficult questions that they're going to need to answer as they grow

their businesses and look for incremental funding. You're right that sometimes too much money with a seed of an idea, it can be difficult because they don't necessarily know where to invest it or what's the next best problem to solve. But where we're really leaning in on a mentorship and guidance platform to make sure we stay engaged with these folks. Now, tomorrow's the competition, right, So now what are you looking forward to see during this competition? I mean, because I

don't know what to expect. I don't know what they're going to be pitching. Is it going to be apps, Is it going to be you know, bricking mortar? Like I don't know what we should be expected. What are you expect? What are you looking forward to tomorrow? But I want to get too much away, but I can tell you that based on the applications that we've received, we know that all of these entrepreneurs are going to be bringing their a game for the final round. There's

going to be really stiff competition. These are some of the best and brightest out there, and the ideas range from tangible things to technology, all of them, all of them geared toward having a massive impact, not just for the entrepreneur themselves, but for their community. And that's what I'm really looking forward to, seeing how the dynamic of the idea is going to make real change. Well, I'm looking forward to seeing this tomorrow and I will see

you tomorrow. And thank you for joining us so much. All right, thank you, n V. I really appreciate time. All right, ladies and gentlemen, the cold part with thank you,