FULL SHOW: Dawn Richard Resumes Testimony in Diddy Trial; Details Cassie Beatings, Megan Thee Stallion Blasts Tory Lanez, Skai Jackson Files Restraining Order Against Her Baby Daddy + Chuck D, Kurtis Blow & Ras Baraka Interview

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I feel blessed black and holly favor, but happy to be here another day to start about, beautiful listeners?

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Today is May twentieth, which means it is the release date for Don Staley's new book.

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Drop a bomb for the sash right salute to the Icon Living Don Stealey, Her new book Uncommon Favor is out right now.

Make sure you go get that wherever you buy books. God damn it. That's right.

And today on the show, we got a lot of people joining us to have mercy. We have Chuck d from the legendary group Public Enemy.

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That's on you from the lecondary Public Enemy, Icon Living will be here, and he will be here with the first rapper to ever go gold.

So let me tell you something.

If rappers didn't sell no records, they wouldn't have built things like hip hop radio stations, and your ass.

Wouldn't be Because God is the reason why I'm here, don't play with me.

Curtis Blow will be us for Curtis Blow. I know, Curtis Curtis, come on, come on, come on, come on, my memory is not drug right now.

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The beauty of life is what you don't know you can learn. That's and that's why Chuck being Curtis Blower here this morning.

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Yes, And and Chucky also has a new project out, and we'll talk to him all about It's called Radio Alma getting we'll talk to about that, and then Rass Baraka will be joining us. The mayor of Newark was Ross. I thought so too that I heard him on the news yesterday and he said, Rass.

Was it a white person that said it? No, it was himself. Okay, that was himself. I've been calling him Ross, call them all this time.

He's never corrected me. Yesterday heard him on the news. He said he was talking about himself.

He said, Rass, I said, and he correcting white people him correct us, but he correct the white.

My bad brother, Ross, Rass? All right, brother, how about may of Morocco, Mayor of Rocca will be he joined us this morning.

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Of course, he's running for governor of New Jersey. He recently got arrested, so he'll break all that down. What happened because they recently dropped those charges. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Margan were joining us. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning, everybody is dj NV Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news.

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The Western Conference Finals starts today Minnesota Timberwolves taking on Oklahoma City at eight thirty two nights. And congratulations in the NFL to sh she do usay and this he signed a four year, four point six million dollar contract with the Browns.

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Hey, So good morning, How y'all feeling good? Lack of holly favorite, love to hear it?

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First up on the front page, President Trump is speaking publicly for the first time after former President Biden's cancer diagnosis was announced. Yesterday, he told reporters he was surprised at the delay in the pub like finding out, referring to Biden's stage four cancer as stage nine, and then he went on to say that he took part in a complete physical and cognitive test recently, saying he aced them.

Let's hear from President Trump.

I'm surprised that it wasn't. You know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago, because they get to stage nine.

This a long time.

I did a very complete physical including cognitive tests. I'm trying to announce. I aced it, got them all. I got them all right. I think, frankly, anybody running for president should act, you know, take.

A cognitive test.

Yeah.

So just so people know that cancer only reaches about stage four before it is.

A stage four. There is no stage nine.

I was listening to a doctor who was on Morning Joe yesterday and he said, either they didn't test President Biden.

Are they covering it up?

Yeah?

I mean, for you're you're not wrong about that.

No, that ain't mean.

Now I'm quoting with the doctor and they said they was talking about his gleasing score was a level nine, wasn't, which means it's very aggressive his.

Gleasing score, but there is no stage nine cancer.

No, yes, yes, okay, so Biden.

He addressed his cancer diagnosis in a post on X yesterday, saying cancer touches all of us. Of course, it's been ten years since Biden lost his son Bo to brain cancer. He went on to say in the post that his first, it's his first, his first since the news broke on Sunday, that like many of you, Jill and him, he learned that they were the strongest in the broken places. So the former president ended by thanking everyone for their well wishes and for lifting his family up with love and support.

Now.

The two leaders spoke for almost two hours on Monday, and Trump suggested the ceasefire talks take place at the Vatican. Meanwhile, Vice President j D Vance is questioning whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has an exit strategy strategy for the war in Ukraine. Let's take a listen to jd Vance's comments.

Look, I think one open question is is Vladimir Putin serious about negotiating peace right? He has made some concessions, he has taken some serious steps in these conversations, but we feel like, you know, we're at a point where we're hittingn in pass and that's why the President is talking to him on the phone. I think honestly that President Putin he doesn't quite know how to get out of the war.

So the Trump administration has recently expressed frustrations with both parties after they fail to reach a consensus on a thirty day ceasefire proposal. So to be clear, it's only talks about a ceasefire that's happening immediately, not so much this ceasefire itself.

So I'll keep you guys posted on those talks.

And today President Trump will attend a House Republican conference meeting as lawmaker's work to pass what he calls his Big Beautiful Bill. As previously reported, the bill cleared the gop led Budget Committee in the House on Sunday. Trump is expected to make a proposal pitch to the legend at the meeting today. It includes a major spending increase for immigration enforcement and the military, and of course extensions to Trump's twenty seventeen tax cuts and cuts to Medicaid,

You gotta wait and see if it gets passed.

Yeah, this is true, all right, y'all, you're like, all right.

I was thinking I'm interested in, you know, the the Biden stuff because you know, Jake Tapple's book Original Sin comes out today, which I'm looking forward to reading. And you know that this book talks about his inner circle and how his inner circle kept his mental decline and health diagnosis from others. So I think they announced, you know, his President Biden's prostate diagnosis to get in front of.

That book some of the other stuff that's coming out and whatever may be in that book.

And I'm looking forward to reading it because I want to see people like Jake Tapple, you know, hold themselves in their networks, like seeing an accountable for how much they didn't report on, because they're all complicit in not calling a thing a thing in regards the President Biden.

Regarding his health, me regarding his health.

Yes, all right, well stage four, you're not wrong about that.

To find out about stage four at this point, yeah, somebody, somebody didn't say something before.

So there's that. That's your front page news for six am.

At seven am, we're gonna tap tap into what's going on in New Jersey and of course Louisiana with the escape e inmates, so we'll get into that later.

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I'm calling talking about this is discourse going on right now about dr rappers, right. And I saw this tweet that said, I just want to let y'all know all y'all feeing rappers this day, and I'm calling the faith not cold bitch.

First of all, you don't know what goes on in people bedroom. Leave people alone, Okay, it ain't no business the rapper, right, one of them.

He's one of my one of my all time.

Might be a bottom, but not cold baby.

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I just what something like I got on the day I got on the sweat suit. You know that's not man's clothing.

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I know you just reminded me and depressed me real quick again.

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No, what you know, Chris Brown is like that and girl, go be in there for over a month, girl.

So I think you got to miss like some shows and.

Crazy part is my husbands. He has security, so he thinks that he's doing That's what he paid security for. So why did he knock him?

And why didn't nobody tell him?

Because I don't think he would have went over there if he knew he had an open warrant and that they was going to catch his ass. They should have. His team wasn't doing their job, his lawyers, his team, whoever.

I think y'all should go get them.

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What I'm saying.

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Eight hundred five eight five, one oh five one. We got the latest with Lauren coming up.

We do Don Rochard got took the stand yesterday and it was it was it was a fumble.

She was in and out.

That was quick, yeah, because they got her in and out. They they got the defense got her out of there. And I don't think that it played well for the prosecution. This is just my opinion. I'm gonna tell you all what happened that y'all can let me know how y'all feel. But also to remember I told you about the freak off room. Yes, there's some PHOTOSM gonna be Jack You are you jontk you want to go.

To participate.

Yeah, So they've been releasing on some of the evidence and that they use in court. So since this was entered in as evidence, they have photos of the freak off room, some of the escorts, and also some of the communications that I've been telling you guys about, like the text messages and stuff that I'm gonna let y'all see.

Okay, we'll get to that when we come back. Now, there was no style, no shape, no reason. They was all over the place.

It was like it was very diverse.

You seen the photos you.

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We'll get into when we come back. As the breakfast logan morning, the breakfast Club Morning Everybody. It's j n V, Jess Hilary Charlamagney, God, we are the Breakfast Club.

Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fast. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody detail.

I'm the long girl that knows a little bit about everything.

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Sometimes you have fact, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. It's the latest on the breakfast club.

So yesterday in court with Diddy, darn Rochard took the stand and was actually able to be on the stand for a bit longer than she was the Friday prior.

Even though it wasn't super long.

So when she took the stand, they begin the prosecution just let her, you know, run down the list of you know, different incidences that she witnessed when it came to Diddy wanted. The things that she talked about was an alleged incident in a LA home where Diddy attempted or hit, allegedly Cassie with a frying pin because Cassie

She says that there were she alleges there was.

A ton of employees of Diddy's and different celebrities including Usher and a bunch of other people, and she alleges that in that event, Diddy and Cassie got to arguing and he hit her.

And then they left after that.

So now these three incidents, she's going down like, you know, here's everything that happened. She also kind of went back into the hole at the frying pin incident when the next day he came in and said, basically, you can't

Like they were just poking, poke and poke and poking.

Man, it is their job, but I think some of this stuff was so blatant that it's like, again, this is the same issue I had when it came to the prosecutors with Cassie. I didn't understand why they allowed these these star witnesses to be so like open out here with all these changes in this information presented only one way. But the prosecution did come back in and they you know, they they tried to redirect it. They filled in, they tried to fill in a lot of

So it just made it look like shaky, like okay, what happened.

You're saying things are changing, and like do we know tomorrow this isn't going to change, like that type of thing, But she kept saying, I'm doing the best that I

He paid her.

Allegedly well, she said she received thirty K.

Right, Cassie is saying that the thirty thousand dollars Cassie has said, and so now has Carrie Morgan has said that thirty dollars dollars allegedly came from Diddy because after that hanger incident where he, you know, allegedly hit her with the hanger.

He just they didn't want her to go nowhere and talk about it. They just wanted to be over.

So Cassie showed up, pulled up with the NDA and offered the thirty thousand dollars. She took the money, signed the NDA, and moved on with a life allegedly, and they never spoke against this that there.

It's been like seventeen years.

Never supposed to Cassie again.

No, I'm starting to realize that people have not read Diddy's indictment, because if you read Diddy's indictment, you understand why they are putting those witnesses on the stand Because in the indictment, Diddy is being accused of abusing, threatening, and coercing women and others, and he led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery,

And especially because Dawn talked a lot about Cassie, you know, wanting to have this amazing, bright, beautiful career and being excited, but you know, puff allegedly controlling everything. The only reason why I said that about the testimony is like, I'm like, man, why they do this with these two girls, because both of them consistently kept saying I don't know because it was so long ago. I just yeah, I feel like

The defense is the same people that will look at that tape that we all saw with blatant abuse and they'll pull holes in that.

Yeah.

So if you put it with the other woman named Kerry Morgan, Kerry Morgan she got to understand and said she was abused by Diddy and that he gave her thirty thousand dollars.

That's bribery to keep her quiet allegedly.

I would just encourage people to go read the indictment because when you see what the indictment is all about, those testimonies make perfect.

And also they're slowly but surely building that case for sure.

I know people know day by day, Like one day they'll be like, oh the prosecution you got a next day, Diddy, But like you said, we have about what five six weeks left.

You'll go back and forth every time you hear it.

Yeah, it may be mad at me because I will. I'll go back and forth.

I tell y'all, like today, but yesterday I was like, I don't really know because to your point, they did that, and I was like, Okay, the prosecution is getting busy. People just don't know because it's not as salacious as what the defense is thrown out.

I do.

I have to say allegedly with that, they're getting the headlines that the defense is getting a lot of the headlines right now. So people don't feel the prosecution, but they lining up their case.

Slower.

Book was fine.

Let me tell you something, okay, So look there are these escorts that they laid out throughout this whole thing. Cassy Bookie, well allegedly Cassie, I mean Diddy was doing this so that him and Cassie could do these freak offs. So they laid out the men, not laid them out, but they showed us Yo, They showed us a lot of the men that they were dating, and these are men of all colors.

You have white, you haven't got.

No, here's them one together.

This man right here, this beautiful black king right here is the man who was.

Served us a penal.

SEC revealed photos of the sex work because involved in the diddy and cast. I'm not playing with y'all this morning.

Let me let me show you, I was saying, now, hold up, Miguel, Miguel, where played too much?

If you're just joining us.

There's a bunch of pictures the chess scord and they put me in this picture.

He did.

Maybe I was in the court and I ain't see you white, Yes, hold on, My Tripp paid to take you out of it.

MV.

Not from what's going on.

This This is not This is like basking Robbins.

This is why they've been being so nice to me in court because I'm close to something.

This is thirty one flavors of that bootylicious bubble. Why do that to me? MVY that's Miguel. No, I'm just kidding that he looks like Miguel.

No, this is my friend, is my favorite. Why is it?

Who's this that's Cassie crazy.

Oh she just has brown hair.

But wait, Envy, where did it happen to you, l ay I in this picture?

Yeah, he's an older gentleman. He's just an older gentleman that they like.

But you can see from these pictures, they they're all like, there's white, there's black, there's short, there's old, there's young, there's white, there's.

They all looked like they tried off a Tyler Perry shoulder.

Look at him.

I forget his name, but this one was my favorite. This guy is my favorite.

Here one of the sisters. Look tell you here one of them.

As we wrap up, I would like to take you guys into the hotel room that Puff was in when he got arrested for this federaldictment. And the photos that they released from the hotel room include pictures of ketamine M D M M D M A. You'll notice that the prescription bottles have the name John Black on them, because that is the name that Puff was being I'm sorry, Frank Black, that is the name that Puff was being

They were doing.

There's cash, there's baby oil, there's a lot of things.

Maybe I just wanted to say that, right, we gotta wrap.

Up, but no stop.

But you know people put jolly ranchers like right in the what crack like?

You know.

You gotta wrap up?

Wrap up?

Is that a honey packney?

They buy the gas?

I didn't. I don't know that is that is?

You never heard of nobody like jolly out of a whole ool?

Yuy?

We got all right, and he's gonna come and get me. All right, this is a bag of nine k. How much did you get?

Envy up?

Next we got fun page news and then the legendary Chuck By and Curtis Blow will be joining us. What was so hard?

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We are the breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. Now, quick sports. The Western Conference Finals starts today. The timber Wolfsboro OKAC starts to eight thirty and salute to Shador saying this he signed a four year contract worth four point six million.

Dollars with the Browns on Wednesday.

Okoka Morgan, Hey, y'all, hey, saying let's get back into it. Louisiana leaders are pointing finger at each other as police as the police hunt for seven at the ten inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail continues now. Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry claimed leaders and policies in New Orleans are progressive. Leaders and policies in New Orleans aided the escapes, but he is confident that all the

We have got hundreds of law enforcement agents that are working twenty four and seven around the clock hunting these folks down.

This is what happens when those people promise that to keep criminals.

Out of jail.

Sadly, you get ken of the most dangerous inmates that are in jail in Louisiana.

They get to escape.

Yeah, they said to believe it was an inside job.

If you've seen the pictures, the fact that the toilet was connected to the wall, that was connected to the outside, and you can just dig right through it.

That just seems dumb as hell.

Leaders are saying that obviously somebody dropped the ball on this. Now, the Democratic Orleans Parish DA Strict Attorney Jason Williams, he disputes what Governor Landry is saying, and he details what he was doing while Governor Landry was basically saying, this guy is being soft on crime. Let's take a listen to Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams.

I was working going through jail calls in an affort to trying to figure out who might have been involved and knew of this planned jail break, and it is frustrating that the governor would not have just simply called all over the weekend.

My phone was on.

So Landry said, the video of those prisoners escaping epitomizes a progressive criminal justice system. William says that's not the case, and he was actively working on their capture. Now, the inmates face various charges, including murder, domestic abuse, and felony firearm possession. Landry has ordered the Louisiana Attorney General to investigate how the inmates escaped and who would be considered responsible as a result of their escape.

Now mean all of them were.

I heard all of them had murder charges too, that's true, not all of them, but not all of them.

Know they range on from murder to domestic abuse, felony, firearm possessions. So there are a few different charges, but there is there. Yeah, there's a murder amongst them.

I just wonder where you were escaping, Like where you going, Like, you don't have no plan, you ain't got no money, you ain't got no resources.

Like what you're doing just laying out in the woods.

And by the way, if you if you face them like a life charge or something, I mean I could see you probably trying to escape just to go get like you know, some gumbolls, a pole boy, you know, some.

Pools, some food to keep moving. But they like they found I think one in the French.

Quarter, he was he was sleeping under a park. Call not nothing to do. You left for jail set with no money.

Now the car, did y'all see?

Like the hole that they were supposedly like sneaking through it don't even look like they could fit through that.

And that big poles going down the middle. How they get through that.

That's what prison is all about. Big poles going in the holes that you can barely fit out. Jesus all about.

It's the one that fell in the video. For me, I'm like, how you go fall just as soon as you get out?

Thanks you. They were so excited to go.

Hey't know what to do?

Yeah, to your point, ENV one was also captured in an abandoned warehouse, So yeah, we'll see what happens this.

Yeah.

Meanwhile, Interim US Attorney General for the District of New Jersey, Alena Habba is announcing charges against New Jersey Democrat Lamonica mcgiver over an incident at an ice attention center this month. Now, mcgiver is being charged with assaulting law enforcement while at the detention center in Newark, making the first time President Trump's DOJ has criminally charged a sitting lawmaker during his

Is his name, joh, We've been calling I've been calling the mayor Rod Baraka for a year.

V said this morning is rad.

I heard it on the news and I heard him. He called himself Rad. So we're looking it up to get his proper pronunciation.

But you know, yeah, you mentioned earlier that his charges has been dropped. Well in tandem with that, she has now been charged in that situation. So I'm going to continue to keep you guys posted as to what happens as a result of these charges being brought against this elected official, Lamonica McIver in New Jersey. That's what that's your front face news. I'll continue to keep you guys updated.

Thank y'all, have a great Tuesday.

All right, Morgan.

Now, when we come back, the legendary Chuck d and legendary Curtis Blow will be joining us.

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Is this is a great surprise.

Yeah, man, I had to roll up here with the Godfather.

That's right, we have the god for a Curtis Blow. Welcome brother. How you feeling I'm feeling mighty fine. Thank you for having me. Great to see both of you, brothers. What does Curtis Blow mean to you?

Chuck?

But also the culture of hip hop?

He's number one.

He is the pioneer because he is the first solo artist to record with a major record label of rap music and hip hop, and at the same time was the first to be on a major record label. So he left that indelible mark nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty just you know, and that was the jump. And you're talking about a city that has had a million

Since that's right.

This is the city that may just like I had to represent just for a quick second, Nixon, that's right, Nix, that's right because after my man Cpter franchise over there.

Thank you, Kurt, You're welcome.

Man.

I just want to shout out all the legends who have iron near this thing before myself.

Name of Kurt fired me, name Kurty.

People like beat DJ Jones and Cool Herk, Africa, Van bad A, grand Master Flash, Mellie mel DJ Hollywood, Love, Buck Starsky Eddie Chiba, The Furious Five, the Funky Four, the Fantasts to Five, The Treacherous Free, Their Phyllis.

Four, so many groups.

Man, I love you'all, man, thank you, thank you, thank you for inspiring me. And we will move forward to the future and inspire the future genderations to come.

I want to ask you, mister Blow, like, what do you think about both of y'all? What do you think the coach have lost when hip hop went corporate? And what do you think it gained?

Well?

Number one, yo, it grows big on the top heavy side, but all the bottom in the middle started getting gutted out. Don't you all get a little envious when you see every single NBA player, well ninety percent of them. They carried themselves on interviews. We learned in the beginning when Curtis Blow did an interview for US on TV, whether it's Don He's the first to get interviewed by Don Cornelis he's the first to get interviewed by Dick Clark. So we coming from the rap circles doing our DJs,

But it's hard to have that now because it's social media.

Because you got human emotion and then and an ability to be able to go directly.

To the consumer. Screen ages have never been taught. Necticuttees wo. You don't have citizens today you have nedicins. They're not citizens anymore. They're nedicens. They're screen agents. They're engaged by everything in and out of the screen. That life goes to a screen. But what has taught them, you know, how to engage on their devices?

True?

What has taught them how to engage on the gadgets? At the end of the day, there's only two phone companies because Android and Apple. At the end of the day, they're the keepler ls looking at everybody. It's like, yeah, you know, saying do whatever you want, still going to roll down our river. So when we start to understand, you know what's behind what you know, we could Okay, this is the way everybody lives. Okay, how do we manage that same thing with life? And you know Curtis

It's got to be an art and the craft somewhere.

I want to say, I love the song New Generation, and you say on that song, I've been your age, you haven't been mine yet. But I wonder, even though we've been these kids' age, we didn't grow up in their generation, didn't have access to the.

Things that they have now.

So how how much can we truly relate even though we have been their age, we just haven't been their age and this time frame.

Gotta work on it.

I mean, I don't know what it's like to pull it, you know, egg our chickens ass either.

You know what I'm saying.

I mean, to me, milk means go to the store and get a cut. And so that generation before me, you know, looked at me like, yo, you don't know what that is. So we have to do our this. We got to do our best on logic and practical sense. We have to work on these things at all times. And we can't probably rely on systems and school system Before we had an area of culture that snuck it in covert hip hop was it was a covert operation, remember, because at the time they totally gave up on school systems.

Very easy.

It's all years the culture, you know, no, but there's there's some lapses that you know planted the seed.

So anyway to bring it full circle.

The hip hop Alliance that I'm involved with, Kurt reached out some years ago yeah, but you could speak for itself reach out.

Well, you know, the Hip Hop Alliance is just that. The Alliance is an organization that is a labor force organization then needs to be a system to monitor, to actually communicate and educate to the youth through our community, you know, without on a mission fighting for fair wages and fair royalties and strong health and retirement benefits for all of our people. You know, we specialize in IPS and publishing and trademarks and uh. You can code to hip Hopolions dot org and check us out is free

We're still kicking with Chuck d and Curtis Blow. I want to ask with Deaf Jam, of course, define this project is under Deaf Jam. Were you always signed the Deaf Jam or was it a re sign? Have you been with Jim that long breakdown?

At first?

I was the first rapper. They had a big they have a bit more, No such thing. I turned Rick Rubin down for two years. Why I didn't want to do records? My things radio? We felt my guys one of the first and Kirk Wild tell you, I mean, we broke so many records in Long Island w B A U. We did records right, We did hip hop right. We were signedists. We were the espn of hip hop and rapping. We just ain't from the city, so we had the outside end. We promoted gigs, got concerts, We

Yes, yes, we had a club in Hollis Queen Hollis Queenys called the Night Fever Disco back in nineteen seventy seven seventy eight.

I was a DJ plan every weekend.

And I used to stay at Russell's house over in Hollis to Fifth Street. And when I was there, I met his younger brother and he used to beat him up all the time. I used to protect why big brother used to beat me up all the time, So I was.

Like, YO, leave him alone. He's a good kid, you know.

I took him under my wing and made him the son of Curtis Blow and that was DJ Run.

Of course.

I told him how to DJ, and he became incredible on the mic. He was my DJ when I released Christmas Rap in nineteen seventy nine.

And Nasty Too, where we had eight.

Million stories about that whole situation. Run was incredible. I loved the family, Danny, Joey Russell, his dad, resting piece, his mom, resting peace and peace.

That was the Night Fever Disco.

I mean, I remember we brought Flash out to the Night Fever Disco, the first time Flash ever played in Queen's and that was incredible. Just to be that liaison to the Bronx and represent early hip hop in Queen's.

With that whole crew, the Hollys Crew. I loved you guys.

I want to ask you, mister Blowers that ever a time in the eighties where you knew hip hop was about to explode, but you didn't feel ready for what came next.

Oh yeah, I was definitely a visionary. I hate to talk and brag about that, I'll do it. It was incredible and just the feeling. I remember Chuck d saying that whole energy, that.

Spirit before records.

Between nineteen seventy five and nineteen seventy nine was the most incredible spirit. I mean it had spread throughout the whole five Burroughs, from Harlem to the Bronx to Queen's to Brooklyn, and it was just an energy that everyone knew that this was something special and we capitalize on it, you know.

And yeah, you couldn't you couldn't even describe it. It's hard to describe Alreadio that that era before records, because before that it was conceivable to put rap on records. You know, it's a three hour thing, and like got dancing, it got all. Now how you put rap on records? Yeah, you get on the mic, But I mean how long the record got beat? Three hours?

You know?

Like, but then in seventy nine, King Tim the Third sugar Hill Gang.

Which took two records.

Not just people who like, oh it's a good time, No, it's two records that made a sugar Hill Gang Love Deluxe.

And then yeah, Curtis Blow with Christmas wrap, which.

Just took it and took it into the stratosphere. And like I said, back to your Nugens thing, It's like, youth is an excuse that I don't let young people do because it's easy to.

You got it. You can't. I mean, I'm trip og.

It's no way I'm going to convince a person a teenager. It's like that communication got to come from the next step up that they want to get to. So all I do is just I weigh them against themselves. Somebody think, oh, I'm too young for that, may be sixteen. I'm like, okay, twelve year old brother is going to actually get all your props and everything that.

Well I earned that you are. So everybody in their life wants to use tenure.

You know, the drug game changed all that flipped that up because they say, oh your overnight boom boom, and we saw what happened to that.

And when that was introduced, a lot of.

Things came during the era R and B, that's regging and bush and and when that came in, we're still recovering off of those that scar tissues.

So did you did you approach radio agettin like a broadcast a profit or a rebel.

All three Man, All three So dipped an acid with Wu tang axes in the back, running.

Hammer's shoes and all that. You know what I'm saying, it's like in my head. I mean my first record, Public Gating Me number one, which is a tone which is blow your head by by you know the JBS, you know, a very familiar break feet, but nobody could figure it out. I'm from skater culture and not the skater culture today, roller skating coach. I believe that skating rinks can be a possibility for enjoyment of future music and future cardio because one thing being the screen ager.

You sedentary. You see that screen all day jay long, and you'll trust me.

I mean a song that's on the album, I wanted to attack agism and the sedentary life and all that is Black Dome.

Dead because you hear the talk we take for granted.

You so from South Carolina, so you know a lot of talk of yeah your black don't crack, yeah.

But they could die.

Yeah for real.

I'm glad you brought that record because I listened to records like Black domet Dead and it makes me wonder that making radio Armageddon feel like a spiritual purge or final warning.

No, none of that. I say that for Public Enemy record.

This is taking a radio and throwing it down the flight the stands and seeing them still work.

It's not meant for people to like me.

I made Public Enemy Records man, not for nobody, Like I told Rick Roven.

Though he's the greatest.

Rick Rover is the greatest, one of the greatest producers of all time.

Yes, whoever told him, no you, I was wanted this certain qualities back in the day that Kurt also knows too. If you didn't have a voice that rocked the mic, I mean, sounded good, you wasn't getting the mic. I don't care how many versus you got bars you got to If you sounded like you was fifteen years old, you had to take up something else.

You had to dance, maybe DJs and stuff like that.

You had to command the crowd like Hollywood Curtis blow Starsky, they command Melly Mel when they grabbed the mic. People just sat down because I don't. I can't sound like that. Studios balanced that stuff out and this and all that. But I never ever ever made a song since somebody else to like. That's like asking somebody else how do I look? After you went you went to the mirror, brush just off them and asking somebody else how do you look? But being screen ages people listening with their

It's like, believe none of what you see, in half of what you hear. Man because people ain't.

Listening, believe at least half of what you hear and dissect that. But as far as seeing, especially with Ai, and I've been dancing and boxing with Ai for like the last five years, I'm trying to tell you it don't go backwards.

It ain't gonna get dumber.

Yes, there is an issue there in real life and regular life and in culture and music and art and all that. You're not gonna stop it, but you can dance with it, and you can manipulate it, you can flip it, but you better know how to dance, you better know what it is.

We're still kicking it with Chuck d and Curtis Blow, Charlamagne. Is hip hop still the best weapon for revolution?

No, everybody got a gadget from your grandmother to the child being born. Something better come through that. We don't know what that is. Remember I said hip hop was covert?

Was that?

Yeah?

That was done before Fight the Power, bro Fight the power became listen, Fight the power became.

What he was because the Spike Lee. Okay, so I mean.

Who does that play?

You know, plays a song in a movie five hundred times and nobody did that.

Fike made that record happen.

Now your relationship with Fike for him to do that.

At that time in the eighties, man, And like I said, this comes from the seed of Curtis Blow. It was a renaissance period of filmmakers, artists, hip hop that were all being independently created and using those tools out of the ashes that you know was bestowed upon us.

Look at the kid.

People talk about fight the Power because it's because it's the headline buzzword decades like oh yeah, yeah, cool, cool. You know we buy that They failed to realize or they wasn't taught. I had to always tell people there was a first fight the Power by the Isisley Brothers in nineteen seventy five that me and Kirk was influenced by and Yeah Fight nineteen seventy five. And remember I

On pop radio where a black radio where a curse word in it. Wow? Really yeah?

I said, whoa be on w w WRL Super sixteen and then I'm gonna play some fight up ower of people, like in the hotel Gary Bird.

It is another thing about old g's this city right here.

When you have a tenured lens of any place you go to, whether it's where you're from, whatever queens, you still see the old buildings that was there. I still see the old buildings, although they've been replaced by new buildings.

That's third our vision.

Man.

You're able to see the past, present, and the future that they're building. New heads come along in their generation probably only can see what they see. That's why it's you know, deeper than your ear can hear, all your eye can see. I go around, walk down this street, I'm saying, oh, that place used to be there.

Boom boom boom.

The whole key is that is just keep your recognition or what they call you.

Your cognitive cognitive distance.

Right, Thank you sir, keep that because that will help you. Kurt says. You know, like you know, like I said, I'm not in the business of wellness. You have people like you know, Gridful taught wellness for years. You know, look at Flave Flavors going through his ninth life.

You know what I'm saying.

Like I went down the Penn station the other day and ran into the what's the canes? I didn't even know what the canes. Chicken wasn't say you're all over the place. But it's so the whole key is about work on your thing. Here's another thing. It's not talking about anybody but wrap battles and beefs.

It's like, you don't want to.

Get into an area where you you rhyming in circles. Man, Rhyming in circles means like the dog chasing his tail. It is rhymes that go nowhere.

You know.

It's cool, it's cool to get into like lyrical acrobatics and all that, but at the end, you got to process something or something and if the best processes. Is somebody just like seriously disrespecting you. How does that not leave us staying over decades? When the last time you said, I came from a hip hop song and this joint was refreshing, P Rock cl Smooth, you thought P Rock cyl Smooth record on They're like, yo, man, this is like nutrition, Troy Ki rock Kim has never done a

Happening now and all that cool.

But I feel like that with a lot of people though. I feel like that with Kendrick. I feel like that with like Rhapsody like this. This week, I was watching Joey Badass and Absol and Big Sean do a cifle and I thought that was I got to you use the right word.

I was like that, that was refreshing. That was like l Russell.

Promoters look back in the day and Curtis tell you. Promoters will tell you exactly how it rolls. They'll give you your top Let's say you got six rappers, six groups, what a promoters say.

Kurt, the one that's closing.

That is the one, the one that closes out the building, not just because people came to see because there's a difference between spectacle and spectacular. I tell people this all the time. His big difference. Hopefully you could get people coming through there and stay in the seat level. Yeah, you got somebody in the middle that can hold it. They off the tour out of there. Forget how many records they sold if they can't be better than they record out of there.

So he would like a Kendrick show. I've been.

To see him perform in front of in that arena, in that football stadium, just rapping, no gimmicks, no nothing.

This is the first man.

That came out as one man, and I thought being one man could never beat a group. And he came out as one man because back in the day it was like what cruise cruise and then this man begot the next m solo MC who was a superstar as ll COOJ superstar hunt rapped first superstar you make make Prince and Michael Jackson turn their head. Curtis made all the funk bands and all people recognize that, Yo, this thing is real. I mean, look, why am I talking

Class and all that. He ducked Tomatos from rock group.

I wanted to ask mister Blow, because you know, you spoke about Ronald Osley fight the Power, and my daddy used to always tell me James Brown was the first rapper. Right, So I think about a song like say loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud. That was revolutionary for his time. Stuff like that.

Influenced nineteen sixty eight.

Oh yes, yes, yes, And that's straight out of the civil rights movement. You know, that inspired all of us and in many ways, multiple number of ways. Not only the lyrics, right, but the beat. That beat was what we call boom back today, and dancing became a nationalal craze.

Right.

So then here comes a DJ Curtis Blow. I'm hearing all this stuff, and I got an opportunity to make a couple of records Christmas Rap in nineteen seventy nine.

Right.

So when I did that song, I was signed to a major label over in Chicago. So I went to Chicago the first flight out of Harlem, and I was there. I was hanging out with the record company, and I did a show, a couple of shows, and Jesse Jackson came to one of my shows and he sat me down backstage.

She said, Man, I want to talk to you.

I want you to when I'm going to say to you, I want you to go back and tell the rest of your whole crew and everybody. Now, this thing called rap, You guys are the new icons of our people, the new heroes of the civil rights movement. Wow, and you need to keep it clean if you ever want to see it be successful on the pop market and be accepted by everyone. So I was like, oh, wow, okay, and we would keep it clean. And that was my sacrifice. That was the sacrifice I made. I made two hundred

You're in a disinformation blizzard of data coming at the human mind that might not be and had probably never been able to handle it. Now new people will be born and maybe they'll decipher and handle information that's coming like a blizzard. But for people from the last century, last centurions, probably not so. The information and data and all that, it's a NonStop blizzard and how to navigate that. I think people have to be taught how to be nedicins.

Curtis Blood Chuck d Man. I love you guys, and thank you. Thank you for the movement, thank you for the support.

I love you all.

Let's continue this movement. Hip hop is the number one stream music around the globe right now. We are the voice of the people, and let's take it further. Let's leave them with these words of Martin Luther King that any time is the right time to do the right thing.

That's right. Breakfast love, good morning. Let's get to the latest with Laurena Lauren you coming a straight fast. She gets the from somebody that knows somebody detail.

I'm a long gard that knows a little bit about everything.

She'd be having the Latest on the Latest with Laurence la Rosa. Sometimes you have fact, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of every time on the.

Breakfast club, talk to me, y'all, Meg, thea Stallion is stressed out behind this Tory lanes and this whole new I guess it's not even new, but it has a new light, this free Tory movement. She posted the TikTok yesterday following everything right, all of these people doing these change dot org petitions and saying Tory should be free and he didn't shoot her, And she said, at what point are y'all going to stop making me have to

A lot of conversation that's been having.

Well.

I think his attorneys, I mean they're his attorneys. They were smart to use you know, him being stabbed as a Hey, his life is in danger. And not only is his life is in danger, but we have new evidence down to the shows. He shouldn't even be there. So we need for you guys to listen to us because of what just happened to him.

Well, everybody in prison, their life is in danger pretty much.

Well you know what I mean, you get stabbed fourteen times. Of course you people want to say.

You need to get about it.

He shouldn't be yes, so if he dies, his blood is on the hands of the Yeah, I wouldn't let him retrack.

I can understand Meg's frustration because, as I said, I think it's strange that the court case happened due process. All the evidence that I was presented in court, weeks and weeks of testimony and evidence, all that goes out the window because the driver allegedly overheard Kelsey.

Say something only that only makes sense on the internet. By the way, I want you to.

Well, yeah, she's asking to be left alone.

So that's what that is about, is that it don't really got nothing to do with him being stabbed. It's about the new piece of evidence that came forward. I guess it's both things. Yeah, I mean heavily.

That heavily the new evidence that they're saying that they have, and that's what they're moving forward with in court. But they're also mentioning his attorneys are also mentioning the stabbing just happened, and you know it shows that there is you know, he's very dangerous.

He could die.

And they're also trying to pin it on like they're trying to you know, they're alleging that megs you know, once they reached out to mixteen, certain things happened. Like it's a whole play that you put together as an attorney. It's strategy, but it's driving her insane word into.

What she's supposed to.

She has to relive everything that she went through, you know, the last what two three years old?

Right?

And I just after a simple question, why would Tori protect Kelsey? And if everybody says, oh, because you don't want to snitch, all that, okay, cool, But why would Meg protect Kelsey? What reason would Meg have to say? You know what it was she didn't shoot me if she actually shot.

Her, yes, but it's like yeah, and were saying that they were they were too intoxicated to remember.

Yeah, absolutely, okay, got you?

And why Meg is pissed off?

Sure, I get it well and other news and other court related news sky Jackson from Disney Channel. After from the Disney Channel. Remember she had a baby and I'm like, oh my gosh, she's having a baby. Well now she's in court saying that the father of her child is terrorizing her and has been for more than a year now. And she says that she decided to come to a court after there was a mother day Mother's Day assault

She says that he grabbed the baby. I'm he grabbed what what's funny?

What you text? That's crazy?

No?

It was wild.

What he say?

Nothing because the couple.

A couple stuff speaking of a couple. Her baby daddy is terroring Jess.

You always said, because it's you.

He came up and what do you do?

Yeah?

No, he grabs her by her hair, slamms her head against the car window, and punched her in the face.

A legend Jesus, But Scott is claiming.

That this new type of violence, I mean, this violence is nothing new, and she says that there she described a six month month period in twenty twenty four where he would have used her on a weekly basis, choking and scratching her, slamming her head into walls, and she also alleges that he damaged a bunch of her personal property, included her iPhone on a television and she also says that while she was pregnant, he demanded that she drink bleach to kill the unborn child, allegedly and held her

There's a lot of different occasions that she alleged here.

But if y'all look at this boy, he looks like he does all that Like this is what I'm saying. Yes, he looks like he eats like bath salt, like he looked like that, he looked like that.

Oven. Yes, that's pancake battle.

It's crazy. Yes, he just like he looks crazy.

He just put the pancake and it's starting to bubble.

This is not the first.

Time that we've heard that he's been this violent person toward her.

That's crazy.

You gotta be capable. You procreate with.

M H middle to text, Charloe mane, what you saying?

This has nothing to do.

Exactly yours for her?

Yes, that's unfortunately.

You're all right though. You got to watch what you pro create with. Concept people treating breathing like they in the back of doing that in the back of a moving truck, rolling dice.

You did that for roll that dice? Okay, gotcha every birthday.

The rhymes yes, like that is really funny.

We got any music from bus, We got some pull it up a little bit donkey today we're giving that donkey.

Two man four after the hour man. Let's talk about accountability. People don't have none anymore. But there's a mortuary in California, Harrison Ross Mortuary. They need to come to the front of the congregation. We would like to have a word with them, all right, we'll get to that. NeXT's the breakfast club.

Good morning, wake up. If you're like into the breakfast club, we.

Wanted to know how you came up with them.

Don't be a day because you mean there's a bunch of donkeys.

That is Charlamagne. We live a life where we might are tongue based off cool may, a thing we never was saying.

On the breakfast club.

I'm the words of Charlemagne, the God.

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Ah Man, Charlamagne, you've given donkey the day to who now happy born day bus to bus Donkey of today for Tuesday, May twentieth goes to the Harrison and Ross Mortuary in California.

Now, first of all, I want to send condolences.

To Amantha Hunt and the family of eighty year old Oldest Atkinson. Okay, you know I'm not a funeral guy. Okay, I'm not going to my own funeral if I can help it. But I understand the process of the service. It is very important to lay your people to rest with class in dignity. But in order to do that, you need a mortuary that moves with class in dignity.

It's the same thing with the mortuary. Okay, I know the spirit has left the body, but the body is still precious that she'll love doing. You want to make sure they are being treated correctly.

Well.

The family of oldest Atkinson they weren't treated correctly at all. They weren't treated with any respect by the Harrison Mortuary. Let's go to CBS three for the report.

Police.

I didn't look the arrangement there to see the wrong body.

When to meet the Hunts eighty year old uncle passed away. She chose Harrison Ross Mortuary to prepare him for burial, but when she went in to view his body, she says, it wasn't him.

It was a guy laying there and my uncle's suit, but it wasn't my uncle.

What did you think?

I just kept looking at him. I didn't know.

I was just kept looking at him and kept looking him like what a mean? He couldn't have got that dark.

Hunt says she knew something was wrong and asked a worker at the mortuary for help.

She was like, oh, yes, that's your uncle.

I said, that's not my uncle. My uncle wouldn't have got that dark.

And I said, here's a picture of him.

And I showed her the picture and she was like, you're right, Give us one minute one minute.

Hunt says she and her family waited three hours while the mortuary fixed the mix up so they could finally bury her uncle. She still doesn't know whose body was dressed in his suit has filed a lawsuit against the mortuary over the whole or deal. Her attorney calls the mortuary's actions outrageous for.

Them to come in and see the wrong corpse, and then for the mortuary to deny that it's the wrong corpse, and they need proof that it's in fact the right person. So we think it's really just the basic standard of care that they messed up on.

Ain't nobody came to see you otis? First of all, that's not even notice, okay. And we did come to see him, but once again, that's not him. I don't know the race of the people who run this funeral home, but clearly they believe all black people look alike. And what really grinds my gibs about this story is the fact that when I'm telling you it's not my uncle, you trying to tell me it is.

Okay. I asked the simple I ask.

A simple question often, Okay, this is my question that I ask, what do people hate more? In this era reading our accountability. I want you all to think about that for a second. What do people hate more reading our accountability? When the family asks the mortuary worker for help, the employee insisted that the stranger in the casket was indeed their uncle. And this is why sometimes you have to keep a lawyer on retainer, because every now and

Your own eyes.

Imagine being in a funeral home and they say to you, we can't find your relative, but we do have someone about the same vibe. I guarantee you. They tried to blame this on death swelling. Death swelling will have you looking a little different. But we all know our people.

Okay, how you gonna tell me that's not my uncle? The man was eighty, We know them our whole life.

Sunday Dinners, fish Fries Day and CALLI So they was playing Domino's.

I know home team when I see it.

This man in the casket looks like he plays for a rival team in a different sport. You can't just put a whole stranger in my uncle Steve Harvey suit and think we won't notice what in the Freaky Friday. Listen, the morrow of the story is in life, personal and business. You should be humble enough to see your mistakes, courageous enough to admit your mistakes and wise enough to correct them. Harrison Ross Mortuary in California was none of those things.

Oh no, you are the dog of the day, the dog all the day. He and does the stranger that they had and Uncle Odis's suit? What about his family? Does his family know that they just had him in a whole of the suit? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Who's looking for him?

That's what I mean.

Come on, man, it's the Yes, this is your uncle, this is him, that's him. And then she pulled the bitchalities on a one minute, one minute.

Hold on, you figure this out, Jesus. All right, well, thank you for that donkey.

Today.

Now, when we come back, the mayor of Newark, Ross Baraka, will be joining us and we're gonna talk to him next.

And don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club, Good morning.

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We are the Breakfast Club.

You got a special guest in the building, Yes, indeed, got may and Ross Baraka.

Welcome.

I'm good, I'm good, a little tired, but I'm good.

You can't get tired now that long way ago.

How are you, man, I'm good man. Yeah, yeah, I had a rough couple of weeks, but I'm all right.

You can't elaborate on that's like the specific circumstances that led to the arrest that the lady hilk.

Yeah, you know, we've been going down there every day. In fact, my folks are down there now to do the inspections uniform cold construction. Uh, you know, you have to get a certificate of occupancy all these other things. But they came in and just was like, you know, we're gonna do what we want to do. Our folks went down there. They wuldn't let them in. I was surprised, so I have them go with y'all, want see what's going on. So they basically they wouldn't let y'all in it to do the inspections.

Yeah.

So they basically was like, no, go, this is a private company. Uh, this is not the government. I it's nobody, just these guys. And so we took them to courtA and we're in the process of being in court and they just start putting detainees in the building while we were in court.

Like just total disrespect.

So we go down every morning to serve him, like give him a citation, because we just wanted to show a pattern that they have been disregarding the local law.

When we get in court.

The Congress people went down there to do a walk through and they called me and was like, yo, were having a press conference. We want you to be at the press conference. I said cool, So I came down to the press conference. It was protesters outside. They out there every day by the way, saying let the mayor r in, I said. They were saying when I was at the gate. So the guy lets me in the guard. He was like, come on this side of the gate,

So I left.

I left and went on the other side of the fence. He got a phone call. They made it decision to leave the inside and come on the outside and arrest me on the city side, you know.

And that's basically what happened.

They took me to a real lock up somewhere in some place I don't even know existed in North by the way wow, in a cell, took pictures, fingerprints, charged me with federal trespass. Went to hearing all the whole thing, you know, finish printed me again.

I heard that. I heard you was subjected to like the second round of fingerprinting.

It's crazy.

Why how do you interpret that?

I have no idea. Man, there was like one agency has it not the other agency. I was like, can't y'all get it from them? Like it's technology. I mean, they did this in the middle of the court, like we were leaving. The marshals came into the courtroom to escort me out, and my lawyers started, you know, going back and forth with them. I just said, you know what, forget it, just take me wherever y'all got to, wherever y'all going, I'm going, let's go.

They took you to a place you didn't even know exist the first time?

Yeah, absolutely, wow, like some it's non descript factory looking place. Took me down in the basement. Is a Britain's like real cells in there. Yeah, that's great.

You didn't know it was there, No, not at all.

You know, it's a homeland security spot that they have there.

Did you see.

I didn't see anybody. They had me, you know, off somewhere, you know, so I didn't know what was going on.

Down criticism of Trump. Do you think any of your criticism of Trump called them to act like that?

Well, I just believe that they wanted to get the mayor of the city to you know, theyre on this, I'm gonna arrest judges, mayors, whoever's like they're in charge. You just want to show that we have power and authority and you're not going to defy us, and we're gonna get whoever it is you can get it to type of thing, right. So, I think that's what it was. And when they realized I was there, somebody sent them there to get me, you know. So that's basically what happened.

So what's inside this building? Has anybody seen what they're doing in this building? Nobody knows.

I mean, CBS was a granted entry and they gave him like a limited tour. And they keep saying it's like these criminals in their murderers, you know, the Republican talking point. But everybody knows who's in there. You don't know what's going on, who they are, where they come from.

We don't know anything.

And the building was used as a halfway house and a drug rehab twenty years ago. To change the use of the building, now you're going to change it to a place with detainees. You have to get that, you checked right, it has to be. You have to get a certificate arguments, you have to apply for that. You have to get inspections you may have to go to the planning board, zoning board, it depends, but you have to start that process. That's anybody has to do that.

That's how you say that you feel like these measures were an attempt to humiliate and degrade you.

Absolutely once you know they they cuffed me with me in the car. You know, the security that well, the police there was pretty decent, but you know, taking me through that process, they put me in a cell, you know, the whole fingerprinting, the interrogation piece, the you know, then doing it again. I just don't think it's necessary. I mean, the US attorney came to my hearing. It's a Class C misdemeanor. Four hundred dollars fine, wow, maximum thirty days

You know?

Is have you gotten any like like messages like behind the scenes on some like all right, you don't step out of line and get it can get worse or something.

You know what I mean pretty much?

But who I mean you know, we were in the process and in the process of trying to figure out the charges and that, you know, and these people are you know, they serious how they committed today foolishness, you know what I mean. They threatening to arrest the congresswoman who was there, and multiple congresswomen. You know, they're threatened to take us through this all the way to the end. But you know, at the end of the day, like,

And I think more than anybody.

Black people should be concerned about that because we are the number one victims of being searched without probable cause, or people coming to our property, our persons disregarding our constitutional rights for our first the the Bill of Rights, the disregard for that. We should be the first ones concerned about it, and so we should stand up for people who's getting getting there is violated because.

We next and I see that you also run for governor as well, do you feel like this is a part of the plan to mess that up too?

Well?

I mean I think it's the part of the plan to mess everything up, you know. So I think they what they meant for evil though always turns to good. I mean, these people are they're not thinking about what they're doing. They're just reacting, right. The person in charge of homeland security, well, the second in charge gets on TV starts saying, we stormed the place. It was a bust of migrants going in there. You know, we slammed

Do you think that this will impact your bid for governor in any way?

I don't think so. I mean, people who don't like what happened, don't like what happened anyway, they don't like they wouldn't vote for me anyway. So I don't think I'm gonna lose any votes based on what we did. I think what it does do, though, is it tells people that we're willing to go all the way, that you know, we're not just talking about defending people's rights, that we we're going to challenge these people at every turn.

We're still kicking with the mayor of Newark, Baraka Charlamagne Newark Airport man, What the hell is going on?

Baraka?

Like, what is the problem with Newing Airport? How did they get here to way? People are saying it's unsafe to fly out of Newark Airport.

They don't flatter.

I don't think it's unsafe. I don't think it's unsafe because they keep delaying in canceling flights. If they weren't doing that, then it would be unsafe. The reality is there's too many planes in the airspace air traffic controllers is not enough. Our air traffic controllers walked off because of stress. They don't want to when they lose in contact with the airplanes. They don't want to be the one responsible for ninety people one hundred and fifty people

So you said people they were walking off, whye because they just were stretched out?

Yeah?

They what were stretched out about?

Like I mean, to not have contact with an airplane for thirty seconds, for sixty seconds, for ninety seconds is a lot. I mean, if you're an air traffic controller and you can't control what's going on and somebody crashes and dies on your watch, I mean, obviously that's going to cause a bit of stress. Folks walked off and Newark is unfortunately at insult the entry there, you know, fixing one of the runways at the same time. So that should be done prayerfully by the end of June.

But we need more air.

Traffic controllers and we need the infrastructure fixed immediately. We need emergency spending, emergency funding to get that stuff done like yesterday.

But nobody knew that about the infrastructure beforehand.

Of course they did. They knew, They knew that the infrastructure was old. They also knew that we didn't have enough air traffic controllers, not just newerk but period. That's

Now, I wanted to ask about the congresswoman that is also going against you in this race. They said that she has supported a lot of the things that Donald Trump has has put to the table, and you've been very vocal about that. What are your thoughts to some of the things that she's trying to follow up with and that she's campaigning for.

Well, you know, everybody in the primary now is progressive right, but all of the progressive leaninganizations endorse my candidacy, all of the progressive unions, all of the progressive organizations for people's organization Progress thirty two be jay working families because I'm a real progressive, I'm not just playing one on TV.

The reality is, here's a woman.

Who supported the border wall, right, who supported four billion dollars to go towards Trump's border wall, right, a person that voted against immigrants, and while she was the congress person right who is opposed to Immigrant Trust Act in New Jersey, who that says that we have to not ask people their status, that our police can't cooperate with ice, that we have to make sure immigrants get the same services as any other people or residents of the state

So she's actually supposed to be coming up here. I think this week.

What's one question that you would think is the most important question that she should answer.

That what's her plan for black and brown people, more importantly black women.

Right.

Black women are the most committed and dedicated constituent that the Democratic Party has, and they're treated the worst in New Jersey or in this country. I mean, she's endorsed by the mainstream Democratic Party, but they have no plan for black people. They never did. They have no plan for Latinos, they never did, and they have no plan for working people. I mean, the Democratic Party is in charge of the state, and working people are struggling the most.

Right.

Your rent is too high, your mortgage is too high. And we still given tax breaks the billionaires in New Jersey and can't take care of working people. And you're supposed to be the party of working families, right, she should have an answer for those things.

Is running for governor hard when you still got to govern as mayor. And the reason I brought that up is because everybody were not everybody, but they were people saying that this was a publicity stunt when you got arrested, like you're just trying to drum up, you know, attention for your campaign for government.

I got a lot of ways to drum up attention. Corner jail ain't one of them, you know. But but ultimately, like, look, I just came from the gym that day, you know, I was going to get a shape to go back to the office. My policy advisor reminded me that they were having a press conference. I went down there for that press conference to support my congress people, right. I didn't expect that they would do that. And honestly, you know,

This can't happen.

When a congressman told me they come and to rest you, I said, why, what did I do? I didn't do anything. That's exactly what my response was.

What did I do?

I was like, oh, come arrest me. I was like, I didn't do anything, but how would you How you're going to arrest me? I'm not even on your property anymore? And they came out and did it anyway.

At any point where were you like afraid for your life the fact that you were taken to an off site factory, Like yeah.

Absolutely absolutely, I mean, I mean I guess when you I'm a grown man now with families, when you get arrested, all kinds of things going through your head.

Who picked my children up from school?

Like I got to pick all kind of.

Stuff, get touched?

Did I leave my house going room and all kind of stuff is going through your head, like you know, really fast and uh and.

They taking you somewhere you don't know.

Fear gets in your in your heart and you just pray that you know, fear don't turn you into a coward.

You know, well, we appreciate you for joining us, and I'm sure you know you'll be back up here before the race actually happens.

When what date is that is?

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, May and Ross Baraka. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, DJ env just Hilariy Charlamagne the guy.

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Okay, guys, guess what why Sesame Street is coming to Netflix.

That's what's up.

That's dope because they got all their fund and cut right and people get their friends Netflix.

That was smart yep.

So Trump signing and something else, go ahead? What's your thoughts what I said, I don't know, just something other than Netflix.

Go ahead.

People are excited and it is a big deal because of what Sesame Street represents and how you know, the origin of Sesame Street have been for underpurpoleged children for them to learn and explore things and Trump doing signing that executive order where he cut the funding for like the PBSS and things of that nature, where Netflix is

That's actually better for Sesame Street for them to be on Netflix. Yeah, because you know it's mad people that watch Netflix nowadays. I mean, don't get me wrong, PBS is still PBS, but I don't think got the power Netflix.

My kids don't be on Deep guys. My kids have there on Netflix, cant but they can watch on Netflix kids. So having dope guests on it that people don't even be paying attention to.

Chris Brown was on there, Chris Yeah, and Chris Brown will be back on but yeah, no time.

But there were some people that brought up the fact that you know, you do have to pay for Netflix, and some of the homes that Sesame Streets targets may not be able to pay for that. They are still going to be releasing some things on a YouTube channel as well to Sesame Street. But if you are watching the the episodes on Netflix, you get to get an eleven minute story which now allows for even more character driven humor and heart, so it makes it a big longer.

So he good. Now, Elma was good for anybody that was wondering what.

He was.

He was an that's right.

In other news, Uh, the can Festival went down and a lot of people, a lot of people pulled up. I saw Denzel Washington, I saw Rihanna, except Rocky, I saw to gp Henton. A lot of people are there celebrating, you know, the new move movies and films that are coming. But there was an incident on the carpet where uh, and there's no audio to it, so I just have to talk to you guys, do it. But Denzel Washington

Yeah, they go to grab him and he like snatches his.

Hand back and yeah, and it just you could tell that he was like he wasn't he wasn't going at all.

Yeah, he was yelling stop, stop stop.

It was a lot.

It was a lot, but This happens all the time at the con festival or is it connor Can at the Cans festival, That festival that I will be invited to.

That happens a lot there. That's right manifestation period. That happens. Why you look at me like that. You don't have to be invited No, I want to be invited to you know, premiere and celebrate.

My film, your own film.

That's difference. You got to say the whole man. If it's this, you only gave us a little bit.

Because I didn't want you to crush my dream.

Never crush your dream.

But you look only talking down about when it comes to you with your wigs, because I want you to be better.

But you know what, the bob has been bobbing, bob ye has been that little subtle thing.

That's that's the little You don't even know how to compliments the best, aware the best had been wearing.

This is not a way not.

Understand because you over there, you sit over there, built like a pencil sharpener.

So you need to relax.

Okay, leave me around and short exactly leave me alone.

I'll be letting you rock in here. You'll be thinking you working out for the summer. I don't say nothing about your body gold and going.

Look like when interviews on that damn remember interviews on that video like that, you know, going the line crack had ms and be honest with you rehab on rehab you just mad because.

Said don't matter at me because your arms were along anyway, continue on anyway.

Yes, I never heard rehab arms in my life.

Never.

No, let's go what else.

Yeah.

So he had a little incident on the on the carpet. But yeah, that's where Kelly Rowland had her incident too, So it seems like.

That that's the.

Problem with that.

That out for yesterday and they were trying to take a picture and the security was moving them out the way.

I hate that.

I can't remember who that was, what was I'm mad about that. We don't know here.

But you see the guy grab him and he's like like, get your hands off.

Yeah, like you able to grab nobody.

Yeah.

He was on the red carpet for the May nineteenth premiere of his film Highest the Lowest.

Uh, So that's what's up.

All them brothers looked good on that carpet yesterday. Was tailored a Stuart was tailored like they look very fly.

I love to see it. Yes, I didn't want to say that.

I'm in court today and today they're gonna they're gonna go back into a testimony by one of Diddy's previous previous personal assistants. It's a white guy, Nim and David, and he took the minute, he took the sting and he was very emotional, and I'm like, this is going to be a very compelling testimony because it seems like he didn't he feels like he got to get some things off of his chest.

So I'm actually prosecution's witness.

Yeah, he's a prosecution's witness. And they've already established a part of the rico.

You keep mentioning with him where he talks about just how hard he was working.

He said that he was working almost seven days a week, sometimes six days a week, twenty plus hours a day, was making seventy K a year, and I am yeah, And he said everybody in the courtroom said that too when they asked the how much he was making, and he said that, like he went through what his day was like, what he was like, the first part of his day was he has to wake up before Diddy and he would have to like set the mood that did he wakes up to so like what the food

Crazy is just week two? Yeah, did he talk about he had to set up there.

He hasn't, so he did say that. He did say that he has exciting the mood sounds very well everything about.

Did he is very like energy driven, so he but he did say that he had to go in advanced locations, so like he would go to you know, different shows and things of that nature to make sure that things were set the way that did. He like this, so he had a different a lot of different riders for different places. They did briefly mention hotel rooms, but they didn't get into that yet. But one of the things he also talked about to us he had had some conversations.

He wasn't making it, yeah, completely unattached. So yeah, listen, all right. I just want to say, but you know, before you go, and I know you got to get the court. It is a video that I saw yesterday. It was very disturbing. I know some people may have seen it, but it was a birthday video. Looked like, you know, from a couple of years ago, and Diddy is like happy, He's laying in the bed and he's like happy birthday to me, and a guy is in the.

Back like.

And it's like four different times and it's his birthday. No, it is the video. I'm trying to tell you.

It was.

The guy was like.

Like four times and then Diddy look up like, oh, that's just you know, whatever's happening, Like that's normal.

He these sounds are normal to him, and he was just like.

Went on ahead with the video like happy birthday to me and the guys in the back, oh my gosh, being torn apart and you hear it, and he's like, ah, I don't know if that guy will be testified.

Can we find out who that is?

He?

Crazy part?

Man?

We only on week two.

Wait till about week four five, that's when all the booty gonna hit the goddamn staying.

That's why did I start thinking about.

I'm telling you, that's what all the booty gonna start hitting, hitting the stand.

If you were subpoena, you would tell me, don't don't embarrass me like that, like you didn't know before you pull up.

It was.

Something like you never got to worry about that one of them that man.

I'm concerned, man.

And that is the latest for Lauren. I just gonna let you know that the picture that Charlomagne posted is a lie. It's a fake. Just so you know, it's a fake. It's not a real picture.

They said you were for free envy, just like the video was bobbing up.

All right, we'll be right back into this. Held all right, let's go to the People's Choice mixes, The Breakfast.

Lug, the Morning warning everybody is d j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the God we are the Breakfast Club now. Salute to Ross Baraka for joining us this morning.

Luther May and Ros Baraka running for governor of New Jersey. Man, glad you charges got.

Dropped, brother, And also the icons Curtis Blow and Chuck d ayay some.

I learned a lot from that conversation, the full conversations like an hour and a half maybe yeah, yeah, hour happen. I mean, I feel like that's appropriate when you got you know, two icons like Chuck d and Curtis Blow. You know, like we would not be here. Hip hop would not be what it is today if it wasn't for guys like Curtis Blowing. That's rights.

And also salute to the icon living Don Staley Man her new book, Her book Uncommon Favor, is out today. Okay, Basketball, North Philly, my mother and the life lessons I learned from all three. Man, This has been a process, but I'm glad it got done. Everything happens when God wants it to happen. And Uncommon Favor is in bookstores today everywhere you buy books today, so go get your copy.

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Make sure y'all get y'all tickets for the two shows I got this weekend. I'll be in mashing Talking, Connecticut at Foxwoods Casino this Friday. The show starts at eight pm, the doors open at seven pm. And then the next day I'm skipping over to Boston, Massachusetts. I'll be at the Wilber Theater. Get your tickets at just solarious official dot com for both of those shows. Can't wait to get there. Connecticut and Massachusetts.

That's right, there's no work on Monday, so make sure you get on now. That's a three day week and so get out there on Connecticut and Boston and golf support.

What's that.

I'm happy it's a three day weekend. Yes, right, Yeah, I'm going to Saint Martin.

Actually, I'll be in Saint Martin, UH for the Soul Beach Festival that doing Roobo with simbadis Simbath's brother.

They're doing each and every year.

I go out there with them, and I think they have Coco Jones performing a bunch of performers.

Last year they had Mariah Carey. The year before that, they had Mary, so we're gonna have a lot of fun.

What did Mary sing?

Yeah?

Amazing good, amazing microphone. Let us everybody else say, all right, cool, but tell us in bad. I love him, bro, I ain't see him since I've been on the set with him A.

Real definitely, Yes, I let him know.

I do.

Man.

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