Go Off Then ( Craig Melvin)

know this? Breakfast club? 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 yo yo Good morning in jul Ye good money. She's hamby Cholomne. The guy piece to the planet is Thursday. Yes, it's Thursday, Good morning. What's happening? If the weekend here? We can say the weekends here? Right? Not yet? We get starts on Thursday, I'll be it's a holiday weekend too. It is yo June team? Yeah, yeah, yeah, June Team. What

day is June Team the nineteen? Right? Did that? Saturday? Saturday? Saturday? Okay? Yeah. My sister deVie Brown's born day is tomorrow the eighteen I know that? Yeah, right? And of course this Sunday as Father's Day. How quickly we forget I didn't even nobody cares about fathers. I mean, I'm happy to be a father though. I mean, that's the that's the joy of fatherhood, right, The joy of fatherhood is that we're father's That's right. You got beautiful wives, beautiful kids. What

more could you want? Yeah? Yeah, whatever they do for me on Sunday, I'm happy with. You know, we already got my father his Father's Day presents. Should I say it? It's a good gift too. He listens it, say it if you listen. All right, all right, I'll wait till Monday. By the way, I love a good sweatshood. I'm old. You know what I'm saying. I got only see what I got on the Puma sweatshoot right now. It's my It's what I wear. I like sweitchhoo. But it's a

good gift. I guarantee everybody here, with all the fathers here, would like it. Okay, did you guys up a skateboard as a kid? No? I tried to know what about You had a pink skateboard? Really? You skaping? You were good? What you're doing is coming by help with my son learned how to skateboard, because yesterday he asked me, No, I'm not teach that good. You got your son a pink skateboard. No, I definitely didn't get a pink skateboard. He wanted to pick one out. I got him a

pink one. But I got him. He has a skateboard. He wanted it for his birthday last week. Jackson is seven sixteen. I'm sure they got skateboarding classes, right, Yeah, but you know you learned as a kid, we gotta go to the class for riding a bike or skateboard. And I just got on there and did it. Well, your daddy, your daddy had the money. You have to pay for the god daddy probably couldn't pay with that

extra curricular activity. Know I tried yesterday didn't work out too what I mean, you know it's I tried to show him how to you know, push the backup to make it jump and all that. But it was everything I met you envy, googled a little Wayne skateboarding and learn how to skateboard to teach your son, I guaranteed I thought about then. You know, I was playing catch with Logan yesterday football. So I just had a good

day with the kids yesterday. I just I love what it's nice out so we can go outside and enjoy the weather. Basically, he's saying he tired. I'm tired, and they never want to stop. Last started to going tim on minutes, Dad, all right, let's tim on minute, hey man. That's why sometimes I envy people who had kids in their twenties, you know what I mean, because when they forty, their kids grown. You know what I mean, it was young and vibrant. They had the energy to do all

that kind of stuff. Now showed the hurt for no reason. Me hurt for no reason. It's like, damn, all I do was racing. All I say was get on the air track and do a car. Well, it happened. They get on the trampoline. Let's do it. Oh lord, Daddy, don't flip. Daddy takes naps on the trampoline. I'm not even lie I take naps on the trampoline. When my two youngest asked me to get on the trampoline and my five year and two year olds, I get on there, I do one jump and then I just lay and

I say, popcorn me, popcorn me? They jump up all around me and pop me up. That's it. Goodness. But let's get the show crack. Who's joining us today? Man, Today we have one of my South Carolina bredren, my guy, Craig Melvin, who is a co host up to the Day Show. He put out a book this week called Pops Learning to Be a Son and a Father. It is an amazing Father's Day gift. If you are looking to get your you know, father, something for Father's Day, this is the book to get. Craig Melvine Pops Learning

to Be a Son and a Father. He's the co host of the Today Show. Me and him go way back, Man to the eight oh three Columbia, South Carolina. So we'll be talking to him today, all right in the front page news. What we're talking about you, let's talk about the NBA playoffs and Kawhi Leonard and Chris Paul some issues. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Come one morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Guee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club.

Let's getting some front page news. The last night, the Atlanta Hawks beat Philadelphia one o nine, one oh six. Great Game Series three two. The Sixes blew that one. The Sixes blew the last two games. By the way, that's got to be tough when you meek mill and you fly you and Quabo fly out on the PJA and you know Quabo's in Philly and you're probably clowning them the whole first half, the third quarter, in the four quarter they come back and win. Whoa yeah, because

that turned it off. In the third quarter they were down by like I turned Loki on. I turned Loki on because I was like, man, this game is lope. Wow. All right, well, and congratulations to LaMelo Ball he won Rookie of the Year, deserving to Congratulations to him. Now what else we got you, Well, let's talk about Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul. He's been sidelined and that's because he's on the league's COVID nineteen Health and Safety Protocols

the list, and they did announce that yesterday. They said there's a natural concern, and that's basically where it ends. The league is trying to do everything they can to keep individuals and teams safe, and it's such a natural concern for an individual. Now, Jalen Rose has said that Chris Paul is vaccinated, and he doesn't anticipate him missing more than one game. Unlike Kawa, this one isn't dooming

gloom for me because they're off this week. He's already been vaccinated and I know the word and definitely makes you feel like he may not be in the next series. I don't anticipate him missing more than one game at the most, just based on the dynamics of time and how the polar call has worked. I don't see why he gotta miss any I mean, they said he's back,

they said he's vaccinated. Give it to other people of the Yeah, but the series don't start to like the twentieth might not have to, but doesn't anticipate him missing more than one at the most. Yeah, and how many days you have to sit down? Usually they say quarantine for five days, right, I thought it was Yeah, it's three five, it's five. It's five days. They don't play till the twentieth, so he should be able to play and the twenty third if it goes seven games. But yeah,

he should be able to play now. When he referenced Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard did miss a game and they said he could be out the remainder of the series and that's because of a right knee injury. Oh no, they say, they say Kawhi has done done because they said he got um he gotta have surgery. But you know what Lebron said, yes today that you know this, that this is the reason why he said he didn't want to play. He says, the bodies are the players didn't get a chance to heal and didn't get a

chance to recuperate. So now this that's why a lot of these people are being so injured. He's like, this is the most injuries from a superstars in the league in a long time, because he was like, the bodies just happening healed. I wonder how Lebron would feel if his team was still in the playoffs though remember Lebron

was the one that didn't want to come back. Yeah, but I wonder how he would feel if his team was still in the playoffs, because he would hate if somebody used that excuse and somebody said, well, the only reason the Lakers are winning because all the other stars are injured. No, he didn't say that. He just said that a lot of the celebrities and the stars are injured. That's the game though, I mean, and I agree with him, like,

you know, they did. They did come back from a shortened season, so I'm sure that is, you know, one of the main factors for people having a lot of injuries. But sometimes that's just a game. That's just the way things. Though they also played a shortened season though we just said that, That's what I'm saying, So I don't understand the argument. What do you mean they had like a how long were they out for? Like a month at least? Right with the COVID protocol, Right, it was a short season,

and they sayed more games more times. Remember they were in the so they were playing every other No Lebron saying they didn't have the same amount of rest hime R that they would have between seasons, but they didn't play as long, all right. And Congress has passed legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday for the first time in nearly forty years. Congress has moved to establish a

new national holiday just in time for the anniversary. That's the one hundred and fifty sixth anniversary of that day, which marks the last African American slaves being freed. In Texas after the Civil War. All right, So which is waiting for Joe Biden to sign that he's supposed to sign it today? I mean, you know what, man, I mean,

that's that's cool. I know people was pushing for that, but man, it is so much other legislation that black people need, Like they always do, these these symbolic gestures as opposed to making real tangible change, like what's up with the George Floyd Policing Act? You know what I'm saying, What's up with voter rights bills? Okay, they're trying to take y'all. They're literally taking away black people's right to vote, like literally, they're making it like super difficult for to

even go out there in Captain vote. Where is the voting right? The John Lewis voting rights? That like something some things that can actually impact us in a real way. Well, clearly it doesn't start with just I mean doesn't stop with Juneteenth. But this is something celebrate, all right, Maybe it does stop with June. Team with these people, shout to all the black promoters. They are definitely making Juneteenth a weekend really immediately, Hell yeah, Juneteenth parties like crazy.

Now listen, I was at a recording yesterday for a juneteent celebration that's going to be happening, which is black historical figure. Y'all gonna disrespect about putting on flies. Okay, well the thing I was at Modern day out pfarming and she gets performing in the red. I told you a man the Seals is hosting, and I don't think Jabe Smooth. I think Seals on vacation. I think she's on the flyer. So that's the black historical figure they put on the right. Get it off your chests eight

on five eight five, one on five one. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club, Good morning, the Breakfast Club, the Club Power one on five one. You're checking out the world's most dangerous morning show. All right, and less than three minutes. Get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If you need to vent, or if you want to spread some positivity, call us now. It's the Breakfast Club, Good morning. This is your time to get it off

your chest. Whether you're mane from you on the Breakfast Club, you got something on your mind? Let hello, who's this year? What's up? Trap? Very start please travel. What I'm says doing good Listen, I want to talk about that amazing version of last night. Don't want to clude bonds for e Trena Man, Now that was big. That was big. I told y'all, man, Treina got joints. You know. I can't. Hey, I ain't gonna lie. I was telling the same man

that I have. I mean, I do, I do. I am more a biased because you're from Philly a lot more, but I do love Treeta Austin. I'm not gonna lie. I kind of forgot some of the songs that go well. And you didn't grow up down south like I used to. I've been to so many different training shows growing up because Trina was like always an artist that would come down to perform in South Carolina. Like, I know women that worship Trina. They loved Trainer's music. So I knew

Trina had joints. I just didn't think that they were. They were resonating nationally. So I'm from Virginia. You're telling you I'm from the southern origin, ye, Like I didn't know that. I thought you was from the top, trave I didn't know you from down bottom. But let me ask a question I tuned into the battle. Lad Why weren't they in the same room because he was in London. Oh, he was in London. Trainer was in Miami. But they had like during the fift thousand people watching them. Yeah,

and they were looking amazing too. On top of all that. But all right, hello, who's this? Hey? This is Emmanual, Emmanuel, what's up? You know if you're chess. Yeah, I'm just calling to let you guys go. Hey, man, financial literacy and we need it. Man. You know, our people don't want to learn, so we just want to go. But I don't know that that's true anymore. We definitely want to learn. Yeah, that's not true. I mean that's not true. When you see when I wouldn't say that. I don't

like to make those broad statements. Yeah, when I when you see how popping Wall Street trapp is and earn your Lesia and everything envying and season them doing. No, people definitely want to learn about financial literacy. Black people definitely are all has a strong fan basic they go around the country speaking to people. I know every time we do it. I had my team Wealth went, I had my team Wealth Wednesdays dot Com all the things that I do for financial literacy that so many people

are involved in. I don't have semin all, so we got one this Sunday on Father's Day. They always set out. So I think people want the knowledge and the knowledge all the artists talking about it, from Diddy to Rick Row like, No, people are definitely tuned into financial literacy right now. Say we don't have the money to invest as we should, then that's a different situation, but we definitely want the knowledge and the getting the knowledge absolutely

absolutely right. I think you guys are doing I think you guys are doing a great job, and you know, putting that out there websites and all that stuff. But I'm just saying, yo, you know, we really need it, man. I just see it's probably in my neighborhood, in my community that I'm seeing it over in here that I'm trying to do things as far as like, hey, guys, you know we from we need to Oh I'm actually

I'm actually live in Tampa right now. Okay, we're live from New York right and Tampa's a booming market now too. I love Tampa. Shout the Seventh and Grove. There's a lot of black businesses in Tampa. I'm gonna be doing a lot of stuff out in Tampa too, So yeah, I mean they're definitely learning. And even the owners of Seventh and Grown, they own a pharmacy. There's people out there spending some money and learning, really learning the game

and teaching. So there are people out there, brother, that's true. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of I wanted to say, like all the people out here, but all right, you guys have a good day. Man, I appreciate this. All right, hit it off your chests eight hundred five, ain't five one on five one if you need to vet hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up, wake y'all, as you're time to get it off your chest of blast. We

want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's this? Yeah? This is a shell Andy, what's up? She'll get it off your chest? He Charlot Mane and the leg j good one to y'all. King. Hey, question, Charlot Manne, what do you think about Loki? I love Loki thus far. I think it's very good and I think, um, you know, it's really introducing us to Marvel phase four and in a real way, we're getting a real glimpse

into a Marvel phase for it's gonna look like. Okay, now, I totally agree with you, but my only problem is I can't be waiting on everything to get one episode of Man, I want to them to just drop the whole year. I'm gonna be honest with you. I would agree with you, but I kind of like it. I like appointment television. I think appointment teller vision of the Lost art binge watching is cool. But man, there's nothing like you know, every Wednesday looking at having something to

look forward to. I'm not gonna lie true. Nd Now, now one more thing right before I leave, Uh, Charlotte May I totally agree with you with this June two thing. I think it's the only thing we don't get. Everybody going to celebrate hand me and nothing's gonna get a coming. Yeah. Man, we got too many We got too many real real issues that need to be handled. Man. But I mean,

June teenth is cool. I'm happy for you know, people that were pushing for that and got it, But now it's too many other real issues out there bro that we that we need to get pushed appreciate love y'all, Yes, sir, all right for you too. All right, Hello, who's this David Man? I'm on him, man, trying to get it on the chin the morning, man, I want to know where your child support pails. Gonna get the tent for the kids. They shouldn't be concerned as a little tact,

Brad intended. We've been charge yelling what happened? Now I'm not I'm not well versed on child support. What happened right? Oh? You know to you when we found we get count for all the money that we make. So where we're gonna get a tech break the dependent? Why dan child supporting not taxes up? The money you paying taxes? I mean child supporting, man, I don't pay that time for him. I ain't getting no chet. Brazy the mom she's getting the money, but she had That's crazy, man, that's crazy.

That's what's going on. Well, you you know, I feel like they should consider that like it's it's an end call. You know, we should be getting trying to tech. I agree that's coming out. So then what I want to get off and change that morning man, Charlot main't ivy man, y'all have a thank you King, have a going up, get it off your chest. Ain't happy five? Ain't five five one? You got rumors on the way, Yes, Nick Cannon, Abby day Le Rosa, they have welcomed their twins. But

tell you what their names are? All right, we'll get it to the next It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. This is the rum of report with Angela years well. Congratulations and Nick Cannon and Abbe de la Rosa. They have welcomed their twin boys. Now. The mom wrote on Instagram June fourteenth, twenty twenty one, Welcome to the world Zion Mixo Loodean Cannon and Zillion Air Cannon,

My world, my twin boys. Dropping a cloth box for Nick Cannon's the young lady Mabel Rosa Abide la Rossa. Congrats on the two new babies. They named it Zillion now, yeah, Zillion is the first name in I guess Air is the middle name. Hb Ir. It's actually kind of hard. It's creator Zillion Zion, Zill young Zill. That's hard. H. So that's the second set of twins he has obviously Monroe and Moroccan with Mariah, and then he also has two other kids, Golden who's four, and Powerful Queen who

was six months with his ex Brittany Bell. Altogether that's six. Nick is very literal with the name, very literal. Powerful or Powerful Queen was Golden h very literal. But you know names matter, so why not be literal literal with it? All? Right? Now, let's talk about Eve versus Trina. Last night, the two of them went head to head for over twenty rounds. They were playing hits from the last twenty years. They're actually the I think they're the first hip hop women

to battle right, definitely rappers. Yeah, and uh, Missy Elliott was weighing in because obviously she posted, I want to say this. I am humbly grateful because I've been on a lot of artists versus and I want to think those amazing artists who believed in me as a writer, producer or justin artist. I love y'all for all the love y'all show me And it was a super friendly face off. They showed each other so much respect. Listen to this. I wouldn't want to do this to nobody else.

Did my sister and you've been on each other for only twenty years. We always showed love. We always supported one another, We always told each other down. I got the ultimate respect for you, so always love you. I know we excited. This is a this is for all the females and pop. It's all queens and the blue. When you you hold your proud, you don't never know delas,

all right, that's what I'm talking about now. Eva's in London, and uh Trina when she had lived yep, I don't know what club she was, don't she was at a club Minami. I don't know if it was lived there, all right, So that was pretty dope. And and Trina also played some new music. I don't need no receipt. I don't need no repeat, I don't need no receipt. I don't need no I don't need to change. Heye, tell them people change. Hey, I don't need to change.

Tell the kicker, I'm gonna tright to get some money. Hit them all to spend it up all these against the window shopping boy, you looking like the froup when I stop up in the building, I'm the baddest in the club. And I know I got that fire. He tried to hit it without a Hey, bring the rose in, bring the bros in. When they come through the bills to bring the holes in black white, Spanish Asian. You ain't welcome to Miami. Let up with the Haitian. Hey, listen,

you gotta love Versus man nothing in the coach. He gives folks that flowers like Verses because we live in this prison of the moment era. Folks tend to only remember what's happening right now, and Versus showcases catalogs in a way that no other platform does. It takes you down memory lane and reminds you why these people are who they are. So salute to Trina and Eve Legends

dropping a post bond for both of them. Okay, well, the Bills that Trina was in was the same place she recorded Nan and so she said it had a special significance for her because that's her. They recorded that video her and she did bring out Trick Daddison and they had over you said to over three hundred fifty

thousd people on Instagram hype. Congrats to them. Yeah, very enjoyable to see these women on that stage showing each other love, looking amazing, and a lot of people forgot about all the hits that they had and that they were on all right. Now, Michael Jordan caught a dolphin earlier and he's doing some three point four million dollar

fishing tournament in North Carolina. They're competing for that top event prize, and they said so far he caught a twenty five pound fish to land on the dolphin category leaderboard early in the contest. This isn't the first time he's done this event. Apparently it's a very well known event. Last year they got a four hundred and forty two pound blue marlin, the fourth the biggest catch of the day.

Have y'all ever went fishing? Yeah, yeah, I'm going fishing, not like like them, though, they're doing some serious fishing. He caught a dolphin, what you say, Yeah, he did um And actually, according to a representative, they had to um. They had to throw the dolphin back in because the wrong speechies and they released it back into the water. Dolphins are so cute and so intelligent. That's like kidnapping a kid. I don't think he tried to do it on purpose. They just put the bait out there, you

know what I mean. Like, as soon as you see as a dolphin, you got to make sure that hook gets out of that Dolph got to bring that on the boat. Absolutely, and it's big money in fishing. I didn't know that. Even in Mexico they do huge fishing events and people walk away with like millions of dollars. Just crazy. You're a real psychopath. You out here hunting dolphins, bro,

you can't do it all. But listen. I was in texting Cake Goos and we went on a fishing boat and I don't I don't think I enjoyed it so much. I felt bad while they were catching the fish and there's a lot of blood everywhere. I was like, I don't know if I went right back upstairs. I was like, I don't know. You don't eat sea food? Right? No? All right, well that is your reports. I mean, ANGELI just has never lived a life. I mean, no Disney World, no seafood. What else did she say this week that

I couldn't believe she never had done. I might be going to Disney World for the first time soon. Well, I have some fish when you go shrump or something. You never seen Lion King. I saw the play on Broadway. My goodness. You shouldn't get your dad nothing for Father's Day. He didn't do much. I don't know. He was just there. No fish, no Disney World Christ All right, front page news, that's what we're talking about. I'm glad y'all didn't blame

my mom for that. All right, let's talk about the Biden put in stammen and some key takeaways from this meeting in Geneva, US and Russia. We'll get to it. Next is to Breakfast Club. God Morning, So Breakfast Club, your morning's will never be the same. Bought to you by the all new season of the FX original comedy Dave, based on the life of Dave Bird aka Little Dickey. Dave drops Wednesday, June sixteenth, at ten nine Central on FXX, screaming next day on FX on Hulu Morning, everybody is

tj Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. Now, A Hawk speaks to Philadelphia. Seventy six is one or nine one oh six. I turned the game off when I swear Philadelphia was up like twenty points. Yeah, that's why I turned on Loki on is Me Plus. But the Hawks did come back to way. They took Joel and beat out in the third quarter. I think there was like two minutes left. The crown was going crazy. I

was like, oh, this is over. I wondered didn't meet h you know, in quable ride back together. I know they rolled to the game together, but I'm sure Miko was talking so crazy. I'm sure stree quarters and then the Hawks come back and win the fourth quarter. I don't want to hear that on the way back. That's your own jack h. What else we got you? Well, Congress is designating post massacre site as a national memorial. As you guys recall, this was in Orlando, Florida, five

years ago. A gum and killed forty nine people and wounded fifty three people there. The Senate voted final congressional approval of the bill last week and Joe Biden is expected to sign it soon. And that was the deadliest deadliest attack on the LGBTQ community in American history. So they're making that a national memorial. So it's not open anymore. You can just I know, you can go outside and they have things that you can sign, but it's not

you can't go inside and nothing like that anymore. Right closed, Yeah, that site right there is just a memorial site. Gotcha? They said, it's really important for survivors to know we

are not going away until the job is done. According to Nancy Pelosi, all right, now, let's talk about Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, And they actually had a little less than four hour meeting, and Joe Biden said in a news conference after the meeting the tone was good, and he acknowledged that it will take time to know whether there will be any significant progress.

He wasn't confident that he had done anything to change Putin's behavior, but he did discuss some of the issues with cyber capabilities and the violations from Russia. Whether I stopped it from happening it again, he knows, I will take action like we did when this last time out. What happened was we in fact made it clear that we were not going to continue to allow us to

go on. The end result was we ended up with drawing and they went drawing ambassadors, We closed down some of their facilities in the United State, Age, etc. He knows their consequences. The hypocrisy of the media is hilarious. When Biden met with Putin, is it's all good in the media. When Trump met with Putin. He got dragged. What's the difference. I think this was a this was a summit, and so you do still have to meet with leaders, but you can't be trying to like cut

deals and secretly have meetings and set things up. Who you know, you got to do. Everything you do is Trump, Putin Trump, and Putin was out in the open. He got dragged. They said that people were upset that Trump didn't confront Putin about Russ's an interference in the election. It's just interesting. It's just interesting how one, you know, causes an uproar, but the other is just like, oh,

it's okay. They had a meeting, like well. I think there were also a lot of issues with Trump's relationship with hut behind the scenes that people didn't know about, in certain financial deals that had been made that were that they were discussing, and other people that were having conversations on the side that weren't out in the open. I don't I don't see the difference. Okay. And then here is what Putin had to say about their meeting.

I think there were facilities quite the contrary, Army meeting took place. Principally speaking, we don't share the same positions in many areas. But I think that both of these sides showed a willingness to understand one another. It feels like nothing really happened, all right, And a heat wave has been gripping the West in the United States, and people are saying that they're scared this is going to be a new hotter normal. In Phoenix, they've had a record for the second day in a row when it

reached one hundred and fifteen degrees yesterday. It's expected to hit one hundred and seventeen degrees for the next two days. And scientists who studied drought and climate change see that people living in the American and West can expect to see more of the same in the coming years. Heat waves are getting worse because the soil is so dry from the region's mega drought, and we could have two, three, four, or five of these heat waves before the end of

the summer. All right. Well, they are asking in California to voluntarily conserve pour. They're asking their residence to do that for a few hours Thursday evening because they are anticipating record breaking heat blankets during the West during this week. You can't ask me to conserve power. When it's hot as hell, I gotta have the AC. What are we talking about? Yeah, I guess they want to make sure everyone's power doesn't go out and then no one has a c Well, better, get you a good church fan,

bring back the church fan. I told y'all. Last year I ordered me with the last year, maybe it was the earlier. This year, I ordered me a bunch of church fans. Get you a good church fan, man, get old school and get the fan and put it in the window. Yeah, okay, let that natural ass circulate through your house with that fan. All right, Well, that is your front page news and dramas. What's going on in Puerto Rico? I heard they have a rolland power out

of you dramas. Shut up. He's Puerto Rican Roland Roland. Blackouts happening over there. And he just said that you have no details. They use a private company. There's a lot of controversy over the company that they're using. That said, they said, I think over three hundred thousand people without power. So you got how are you gonna let the Dominican in the room no more about what's going on? You to give you inside a tradeing information? Yes, we do that's why he went to you for Puerto Rican. He

just gave it. He literally just gave me that. I don't know the reason. I don't know when to about Puerto Rican issues. They've had shaky The power grid has been shaky ever since Hurricane Maria, has never been properly repaired. The money has the funds weren't given down there under the trumpet, he go dramas. That's what we needed right there. All right, you're letting the Dominican in the room have

more say so on Puerto Rican. Even give me a damn chance to answer it, thinking jumping down my throat, What do you mean, y'all? Kinky already? All right? Wow, okay, all right, Well, who's joining us next? Man? My guy, Craig Melvin. Craig Melvin is the co host of the Today Show and he's from Columbia, South Carolina the eight oh three We go way back. He put out a book yesterday on Tuesday, Tuesday called up Pops, Learning to Be a Son and a Father, which is a perfect

Father's Day gift. So let's have some good uh discussions about father hooding in this room this morning. Why not fathers did this weekend all right, we'll get into that. Next is the breakfast Club come oning the Breakfast Club? That was Jack Malvin? Come on it man, too good to see. I've been a fan fan of the show for a long time, but I've been a fan of this guy even longer. You know what. I'm for a

long time away. So tell us well, first of all, Craig, if you don't know, of course, he's a news anchor for NBC News Today. Now tell him where you started, though, Craig, the South, Hey eight O three? What's happening? Wyst? And you were at that point? You were at Hot Hot one on three point nine the jam? Yeah, I was at at the Big Dam. Didn't Hot one with three point nine. It wasn't the jam, Craig. It was Hot one of three point nine, that's all. What was the

jam is ninety three jams. And Charleston's right, that's why I started tell us some stories about Charlemagne that we might not know. Since you guys go down. You don't want to do that. No, I don't want to do it. That short destruction. Not doing that, I will say. I will say, um, if you told either one of us fifteen twenty years ago, that this is where we would be. I would have laughed. I can't speak for I don't know.

I think people kind of knew it because I remember we got We were in the South Carolina state newspaper in two thousand three or four and they named me and you two of the top ten. I think it was media Personalities under the age of thirty in Columbia Cycline, and they did these profiles and I was actually still have my frame and I did I did the Ten Commandments of Hip Hop and Craig told a story, but I just remember him laying on the grass with a puppy look in his face. Story comes out just saying

it was a story. Had a dog back then in trouble. They wanted to take a picture of me and my dog, and a picture that they happened to snap at the time was But the dog didn't usually lick my face, didn't sleep in the band kiss. I'm not a dog kisser. I've never kissed. That dog was definitely kissing you. The dog may have he may have licked me once and again. The photographer just timed it perfectly. But I haven't heard the end of it. I have that framed. I should

have bought it. I'm glad you didn't. I'm glad this before social media. Right, Yeah, So we were get out. He would get off the air, I would get off the eleven o'clock news, and we would hit the club. And when you go with him to the strip clubs, I've never been we've been to this, I've never. I have never. Never. We would go to regular clubs, regular night clubs. Thing like that life he led back then, that would serve him well now like he gives him street crack. That life I led back then. I don't

need that. I don't need that life. I would this. I was with my girl, done that since high school. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a fact. That's we used to go to V twelve. V twelve used to be off spoties to be V twelve in the Vista. Goodness be twelve in the Vista. But Craig. One thing I can say about Craig. Craig was always focused, you know what I mean? He was always mature. Why did you hang out with him? Then? I need a street crack. But he had a lot

more fun than I was. Happing, Like, wherever he was, that's where the party was. Yes, I do remember one time we was in the VP. Craig is sitting there. Craig goes, Oh my god, that man wanna I gotta get out of here. Probably that's probably right now, Probably true, that is true. We used to have a good time. Well, let's sen you know Craig is here, um, because he has a new book out that came out Tuesday. It's called Pops Pops Learning to Be a Son and Father.

And the reason I loved this book for a number of reasons. I mean, number one, because I know you and I just love to hear, you know, backstories of people from South Carolina, because you know, we don't we don't have a lot of representation, right. But you address a relationship that will always be complicated, probably the most complicated relationship a man can have, and that's the relationship we have with our father. Yes, what made you address that topic? Well, a couple of things you know and

I write about in the book. But two years ago, my dad, after you know, forty plus years of heavy drinking and gambling addiction and um, he finally decided he was going to get some help. He was sixty seven years old at the time. And of the things of which I'm proud in my life, and there are a lot. It's it's top of the list, like my dad deciding late in life that he wanted to live better. It's

it is. It was the most cathartic thing I've ever done. Wow. Um, I wanted to give my father his roses while he's still alive. So it's a love letter to my dad. It's a love letter to fatherhood. It's a story of resilience and overcoming addiction. Uh, it's a story of forgiveness as well. You know, my dad, even after he got clean, we would talk like this and you know, rarely a conversation would pass where he didn't talk about the guilt that he felt, and he would cry and just talk

about how how bad he felt about being absent. And even when he was present, he was you know, drunk, hungover or sleeping. Um. But I wanted him to know that we've all forgiven him and and so it's that was that was part of it. Did you forgive him easier when you had kids? Because we talk about this all time, like you're mad at your dad for things you don't understand until you start having your own kids. Right leaving to my kids, now like, you know, me

and my kids go to him. I'm sure my kids say they hate me at times because you're overprotective, right, And my dad, being a retired police office, was over protective. But now I'm on like that with my kids, and I understand completely why my dad wouldn't let me go to certain things and take certain you know, trains, or go to this party. So did you feel that when you started to have kids and be like, I need to patch this up now precisely precisely, you know, here's

we're hard in our parents. Yeah, but we're hard because you know, when you're ten, fifteen, twenty, you don't you don't know you had you haven't experienced the world. You don't really have perspective. You just know you want to go out to this party or you want to go see this girl, and you know you want to you want to be what teenagers want to be. And it's it's not until you get older and you have children and you realize that your primary responsibilities to protect them

from the world. And I but I was hard on my dad for for a different reason because back then, know the way we view lots of things now, whether it's mental health, but with regards to addiction, back then, we didn't view addiction as a sickness. You thought he was being selfish. Yeah, he can't about than us, right, if you really wanted to get the monkey off your back,

you could. But now knowing what we know, having covered so many stories related to addiction, you know, five teen years ago, I started to look at it like like we look at it now, like a disease and illness. So I was hard on my dad for that reason.

So I was angry and resentful, and you know, it just got to a point where I was, you know, my firm believer in therapy as well, and my therapist a couple of years ago finally after well, I mean had been suggesting it for a number of years, but suggested that I made peace with it and forgive my father,

not for my father, but but for me um. And so all of that led to this, I too, learned to forgive my father in therapy because I realized that my father was just doing the best he could, and he was working with the tools that he had at the time. Yes, you know, when you're dealing with substance abusing his own mental health issues, he really did a lot for somebody with a lot of those problems, you know.

And to that point, Charlomagne, my dad and I didn't know this until I was writing the book, And the first line of the book is my dad was born in a federal prison in West Virginia. He didn't even know who his dad was until he was almost a teenager. So imagine, imagine growing up not knowing who your your your dad is, having other kids pick at you. They would call him a jail baby and all this stuff,

and having other kids pick at you. It shapes and molds you in ways that you don't fully appreciate until you're you know, you're much older. So he so he grew up that way. And when he found out who his dad was, it's not like his dad took an active interest. I asked him, and it's in the book. I asked him. During the interview with Montenna, said, what's the what's the most money you ever wasted without missing

and beating? My dad said twenty five dollars dollars on what he's like, that's how much it cost to put my daddy in the ground nineteen eighty six. Yeah, that was my reaction. And he proceeded to explain how his father was a dead beat, like a come back me. And so my dad did exponentially better than his fathers. And I would say, we're probably doing a little bit better than I dad. That's what it is about the right well back then, especially like black fathers in the South.

And man, my dad worked third shift at the post office because you make a little little extra money, weekends, holidays, no vacations to provide to get us to the middle class, right, And I didn't appreciate it and respect it until all of a sudden, we're forced to provide for children. All Right, we have more with Craig Melvin. You probably heard him with MSNBC, so don't move. It's to breakfast Club, Good

morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and ye Charlemagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Craig Melvin. Charlemagne. You know, you know in the book you talk about how you know your father had a gambling addiction as well as well as liquor. I mean that it's really like mirrors my father, you know. But it took a lot of oldgs. Those two things took a lot of oldgs in South Carolina down down

a bad path. Do you think they got caught up because it was nothing else to do, right, and especially video poker. People don't a lot of folks outside of South Carolina don't realize the scourge the video poker was back in the eighties and nineties in South Carolina. I mean it was a two billion dollars industry and you go in and you press some buttons and you're playing like poker with a computer. And my dad would go in on a Friday and he like, not an exaggeration,

he blows whole paycheck. I'm playing like video poker for six hours. You know, tall boy in one hand, video poker, but tall boy, you know the tall boy. And it's like what a how many ounces of two? Yeah? Ye still nix selling the pup brown pap paper back man. Yeah, well anyway possible. He would have a couple of tall boys and so but no, he and his friends, to your point, like that was it wasn't typically just one addiction.

It was it was booze and gambling, or booze and women, or booze and and and my dad you know, but to his credit, gave up gambling, gave up drinking. In November, he was in the hospital for five days. We thought it was COVID. Thankfully it wasn't. He had um bacterial pneumonia. Doctor comes and miss melting Um. How much do you smoke? That's what he means in a given day? So I'm probably down to a packet day. He'd been packet day smoker for forty years. Doc says, well, smell here, gonna

have to have to stop smoking. He said, okay, all right, hadn't had a cigarette sense, Wow, will power? Will power? I don't I don't necessarily possess. But yeah, no, he's giving up all of his vices. You know, it just sounds like, you know because when I when I read your book, you know, and it's something I knew, but just the shrine forces it. The thing about our fatherhood is really on the job training, Like do you think it's something you can ever truly learn to do? No, No,

it's it's a it's a journey, not a destination. And because the kids are different, Like you know, you've got three, your three girls, they're all different. My southern daughters are very different, and as they get older, they present new challenges. I understand. Um, so it's no. I think I have found though. Um, and this is something I knew our

fathers didn't do. You start talking to other fathers, you start talking to other dad You realize no one's doing it right like, no one, no one, no one's mastered us right. Um, But it's I'm a Carson Dally. Uh. You know, he's part of the Today's Show, and he gave me some advice a couple of years ago. It's always stayed with me, he said. At some point, you realize that everyone's sacrificing something. You know, either you're sacrificing time,

you're sacrificing money, You're you're sacrificing something. You make peace with that and you decide you're gonna focus over You're gonna focus on quality over quality. Right. So I'm gonna miss some stuff. I'm not gonna be some literal league games, some soccer games. Maybe I'm missed a recital here there because I've got to work. But when we are together, I'm present. I'm there, not on not on the cell phone. Uh. And we're gonna take great trips, great vacations. We're gonna

make memories. Uh did last And that's that's always something to stay with me. What did your father learn about you that he didn't know when when when y'all were writing this book doing these interviews, I don't think he knew, Scratch said, I know he didn't know how angry and resentful I was when I was younger, But he also didn't know how proud I was of what he has overcome and the man he's become. UM. And he didn't know that because I didn't tell him that, UM. And

that's one of the reasons I wanted. I wanted him to read this, read this book, and it's it's a you know, it's a love letter to him. And when I went to visit in rehab down in Statesburg, Georgian, it gives me this letter. Forty years my father had never written me a letter. It gives me, gives me a letter, and it's it's it's his story. And he had at the beginning of therapy, I guess, decided that

he needed to explain himself. And he explained all of it, how he came to be the man that he was, how he came to be the man that he was not Um. His father talked, wrote about all of it and wanted me to have it, and I keep it in the safe. It's one of the one of my most treasured possessions. Um. But it's it's it's just it's wild to think. And again, you know, part of it

is on me. But it's wild to think that someone in their late sixties, who struggled mightily with the addictions that he struggled with, can decide late in life that he wants to to to do better and be better for his kids and for his grandkids primarily. Like I see my dad now with his grandchildren, I'm like, who is that man? Like it's riding bikes and out shooting hoops with my son, Like it's a it's it's the human in spirit. It's something. You know what I love

about it. I love the fact that he's doing it because of what's happening here on earth. A lot of people get right at the end of their life because of what they think's gonna happen in the after life. But he's like, no, I want to get right because of what's happening here on earth in this moment. Yes, that's that is that's a good point. I didn't even hadn't really thought about that. But you're right. He talks about his faith a little bit in the boat. You know,

we used to go to church. I mean I grew up in the church, and Dad would never go And and I asked him. We talked a fair amount about that, and he finally had and it made perfect sense when he when he explained it. He's never had a great deal of patience for hypocrites. And he found in the church a lot of the folks who were there on Sunday were the same folks that he was drinking with or shooting crafts with on Saturday. And a lot of the folks who were in the choir or the same

folks who are, you know, cheating on their wives. Um. And he didn't have patience for that, he just and so it's I get it. Yeah, I got it. I got it. Have you explained it? I didn't get it. You know. When I was fifteen, I said, why didn't Dad have to go to church three times a week like we do? Um? But it's it's uh, I learned a lot. You describe your father as a ghost. Oh yeah, that was a nickname one of my friends gave him. I won't, I won't, I won't get I won't say

her name because we're still friends. But no, because you know, when you're growing up kids, you know, parents are showing up for events, and my mom was always there. Sometimes they're a little too much, but my dad was never there. When you started playing video poker, there was a place called Tom's Party Shop where he would usually play with about a mile away from the house. If you were coming to Columbia High School on the school bus, you you could always see what was happening in Tom's Party

Shop direct. My dad drove a nineteen seventy three penty A Clamans. He was the only person in America probably driving a bright green nineteen seventy three Lamons in nineteen ninety two, and so anytime someone saw the car, they knew it was my dad. So people kids would be coming on the school bus or driving to school and they see, you know, at six thirty or seven in the morning, there's my dad playing video poker, drinking his

tall boys the Timas party shop. And so one of my friends one morning it was like, hey, I saw you pops up Tom's Party Shop. He's like a ghost, like you know, sometimes you're see him real fast and he's gone blah, blah, man, it's like, I've never seen your dad's face. And she was right, she's telling the truth.

But she nicknamed the ghost, and it was a nickname that stayed and it came to represent later in life kind of who he was to me, kind of there physically, but not really there emotionally or mentally or any other way for that matter. All Right, we don't move from NBC. We have Craig Melvin joining us today as the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning, everybody is cj Envy Angela yee. Charlomagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking

it with Craig Melvin and Charlomagne. One thing, even reading your book, and I realized with father's it's like, that's what you want from your father, right, Like you want that emotion Like I feel like, for for my life, all I got was disciplined, yes from my dad, not real motion, not real love. Yes. Did you do you feel like you're getting that now from him? Now? Okay? But to your earlier point, Charlemagne, I mean, that's we

got that because that's what they knew. They didn't They weren't capable, they were not capable of being the kind of dads that we wanted him to be, that we that we needed them to be. They just didn't have They didn't have the tools in the toolbox. Um. But I didn't realize that until later in life. Yeah, Um, so it's I Yes, I get that now from my dad. Now. You know, he'll FaceTime at two in the afternoon. He's retired.

He'll FaceTime between the afternoon. It's like, oh, what's going on with either I'm I'm I'm at work, pops, I can't you know. But I always answer the call. And he and one thing I love about my dad unlike my mother, who I love. Uh that's a separate book. But um, he never keeps you on the phone too long. Like it's always it's three, three minutes, maybe four minutes. If it's something serious, that's it. So that's why I can talk to him every day. Mom calls, you know,

it's forty minutes. You there's no you can't wrap. So but he calls. It just checks in, uh and always ends with I love you. I love you, man, I love you. I was twenty maybe college graduation before I heard my dad say I love you. I never heard of the kid no evil no, really, then it's you know hugs. Oh man, there was no no hugs like it was. You start hugging like you're going, what's going on with you? Really? No? No, no, no, no, no, no,

no demonstrations of affection. No, that's not that was not Again. I think a lot of it goes back to cultural and generational. But no, my dad, now you know, every time you see him, he's hugging and I mean it's sister, it's lu and anyone's capable of it. That's one of the reasons I wanted to write the book like it's and it's also about you know, a lot of times in our families you have people who struggle with things.

You write them off. Sometimes you do it consciously, sometimes you do it, you know, subconsciously, but you you you you write them off. You kind of put them in a corner. That's just who they are, that's who they're gonna be. You never so deal with them. Uh. And we did that with my dad for twenty years off and on. Uh. And that's that was time that we probably could have could have had back. But you know, by the way I watched the show and listen to it,

I didn't realize how therapeutic it was. And this is this is U conversation. I probably have a good long phone conversations. You could charge people to come in here and against the law, but yeah, this is just what was it like to like really interview your father? And reason I asked that because having real vulnerable conversations with your dad, no matter how old you are, it's so difficult, Like it's conversations I don't want to have with my pops right now that I still haven't even you know,

got the courage to have yet. So how how was it having that real, vulnerable, honest conversation one of one of the highlights of my life. And that's what's gonna be a great gift for my kids and grandchildren and great kids one day. Because we've got like hours of these recordings of me doing what you're doing right now, just asking questions. And I had a couple of times I had to remember I was a journalist and take off my son hat I had to work up to

the serious stuff. It became apparent after about the first hour he wanted to talk like he had been waiting for years on some of these questions about his relationship with his wife with my mother, how that came to be. Like there's, for instance, I wrote about in the book, there's this picture of me at their wedding reception. I was born in seventy nine, they got married in eighty two, and I'm at the wedding reception. I mean a little blue suit. I've always seen this picture. While I was like,

oh wow, it's part of the big day. I asked my dad about the wedding reception. Of course, the interviews like wedding reception. We didn't have a wedding reception. I was like, no, no, I've seen these pictures. I was there. It's like, no, no, no, that was an a wedding reception, and proceeds to explain how on their wedding day, my

mom wanted a traditional wedding. He didn't want to have anything to do with that, and his cousin had to convince him to go to the party that she threw after like a week or two after they got married at the courthouse. I know any of that. Four to two years old. I never knew my parents origin story and saying, you know it in my mind. You know, in our minds we create these stories and then you start talking to Dad, and it's like, oh, I wanted you to dig a little deep on how your your

relationship with your father affected your relationship with women. And the reason I say that because my father, you know, infidelity all throughout the match. I remember even approaching my pops one time about cheating on my mom and him saying to me, you only got one woman one day, you go understand. So it's just like that's a real mindful. So you go from either saying yourself, Okay, I gotta

have multiple women because that's what Pop saying. I gotta be the exact opposite of my pops because I don't want to, you know, ruin my family the way my pop's ruined his. So I just wanted, you know, did

it he didn't have any impact? It did. And that was actually one of the reasons I started therapy with my twenties was because I was I found myself incapable of having meaningful, substantive relationships, and I started to start talking to a therapist and she quickly helped me realize that one of the major reasons was because, you know, my father. For a variety of reasons, a lot of which related to the to the addiction. He didn't treat

my mother very well. But again it goes back to what we were talking about, like he didn't know, he didn't know how to be a good husband. He didn't see, you know, he had three siblings. My grandma was you know, at one point in her life, was running liquor, running numbers, you know, did a couple stints in prison for it. And so that's that's what he saw growing up. And so he didn't see his mother treated well. He consequently

didn't treat you know, my mother very well. I saw that growing up, and I just came to understand that that's you know, that was the dynamic between husband and wife. So that should be the dynamic between you know, boyfriend and girlfriend. Um so I probably owe a number of women from my my twenties, maybe early thirties an apology. Uh, what did you what did you fall to say about your relationship when you decided to settle down and get married.

I remember vividly on my wedding day when you look to your dad for some from some siege wisdom, you know, doing your time. I remember being in the bathroom and and I said, I think I maybe even tea him up for it. And I remember him saying vividly, listen, you know, we don't do divorce. That was it. That

was that was I was. That was um No, but that's one thing about dad, Like, even before I got married, there were a couple of young ladies that I dated seriously and he always remember one you please don't okay, okay, h thank you, don't do that vy, don't look over there, thank you, thank you. But he always took to him like he was always far nicer uh to my girlfriends than me, and far nicer than my mother was. Um so no, but it's but you again, when you when

you know better, you do better. Um and and we know better and thank God for it. Think about how well adjusted our children are going to be. It'll be Father's Day this weekend. So how would you define yourself as a father, mister Melvine? Oh, ain't y'all are good at this question asking thing? I sometimes forget it's and it's also not always fun to be on the other side either, tell you that much conversation. Yeah, but still questions, Um,

how would I That's a good question, Charlot. Let me let me think, let me let me actually stop and think about my answer before, I just how would I describe myself as a father? Permissive? Perhaps too much so sometimes um fun I get my kids young, so I can you know, we we've a lot of a lot of rolling around the floor, a lot of a lot of wrestling with my son. I'd also like to think Charlemagne has a dad. I listen a lot. I engage them in substantive conversations every day, like to to force

them to think. And I don't want to be my kid's best friend. I have no interest in that. Nothing good comes from that. Um. But I do want them to think that I should be the first call or text um when something's wrong or if if if if someone has hurt them or they're scared, or if they're word I want I want to have that kind of relationship with my children, um that we didn't have where they can come to me first and not go out

into the world first. UM. So that's I think that's the that's the at least that's the kind of dad I'm trying to be. Some days I'm better out than others, you know, I answer you yeah, And I actually think you know the definition will change. You know, It's true, it's gonna change. You got young kids, it's gonna change. And they're getting the team. It's gonna you know what I mean, it's gonna constantly change, it's gonna constantly evolve. So and my dad always say fun, firm and fair.

That's good. That's that's that. That's what you said. He says, I'm fun dad, I'm firm, but I'm fair. But I'm fair, and that's what I try to be on my kids. I think it's a great book. So go get my man Craig Melbourne's book, Pops Learning to Be a Son and a Father. It is the perfect Father's Day gift. This should be. And everybody's about to say Father's Day stockings. It's no father days. There should be though, there should be Father's Day stock so we should start that. That's right.

It's a great Father's Day gift for the weekend. Man, go get that. And what was the dog's name that kissed you in your trouble? God dressed it. So it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your morning's will never be the same. All right, Well, let's get to the room. It's it's the Breakfast Club, Good morning. Let's talk big soldier it's about report. This is the report Angela on the Breakfast Club. Well, Soldier Boy tell

them had issues with Charlotmagne. And this is all from the Meghos interview when they were talking about the Mount Rushmore of Atlanta and NBA suggested that Soldier Boys should be on there. And here's what happened. What us, I don't care, hold on what else? What we got? You gotta put a little John on it. Crunk snapped. That's all John, and he's still getting money right, yeah? And d Soldier Boy on, no, start it, don't start, don't you start it. I'm gonna be honest. I had no ideas.

I had no idea soldiers from Atlanta. When I think of Soldier Boy, I think in the anody dude, I think of the Internet. I'm serious and my mind Soldier Boy was born online. Well, dun't get him started again because he definitely went off playing with me, Charlotta Magne the God Breakfast Club. Could you talk about him? Not from Nigga my phone? No? What the do you think I shot crank that at? What do you think I went to school that? What do you think I grew up at? What the do you think I was jumping

to martail that West play? You don't made me call my mother, MoMA, bro be glad, I can't find my phone moment. If you watch it on your phone and listen to me, bro don't never play with my motherfucking ain't God, God damn for the West Side zone went so swrong. That's a problem. We can see that my mama, dracole. God damn it. Don't let him call his mind wizard phone.

You want your phone, soldier, God damn right, soldier point he even played enough what had a lot of things go down in Atlanta said we want to make sure we get to that because he has a lot of memories. You can't do that, not on public gas platform with millions of folks seeing it. We're gonna dress this. Y'all want me to come up to the breakfast club? Cool? I beat up? You know it's our little this little I losharler man. Don't get it twisted. They ain't no smoke.

It ain't nothing like that. I losh aller man. I love as y'all love these if ivery, I salute you. And because you're the one who said soldier doesn't need to be on the Mount Rushmore. Y'all know what I did for your pop. I don't know why they played on my name. I don't give I got my money in the don't I told them Soldier, they don't be listening to me. Soldier told them the blogs are hell too.

They literally played the clip of Soldier boys w w E promo curssing me out and whatever, but didn't play the part of him saying he loves me and love the Breakfast Club. I love Big Draco too. Okay, when Soldier come to New York, I'm gonna take him to go do some meditation, teach him some breathing exercises so he can calm down. Even though I love when he's turned up. Now play some more pay. I do love

when Big Draco is turned up. Well. He also had some messes with hit Maker because Okaymaker was in the comments section and he was putting the laughing emojis, and you know you can't do that at a BA serious topic. Young bird, you is a bitch boy. Go get your chain back then I'll take your chain. A long time ago. That transform a chain. You won't ever get it back when you always getting robbed and punched and beat up, and you don't never be on the nope comments on

the academics post leaven Nope, laughing emotives. You lame, stick the stealing beats. You don't make beats for real, stick and get to make the beats for you, and you sell them to other artists and act like you made it. Big Drake, it was so dip. You want the clues Bob's Big Drake. You know what I love about Big Drake over. I like when he starts off just regularly, and then it just goes up and up and up and uhing nothing nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing nothing. Where's my phone?

Sold you on your phone? He might have another. I can't do it right right, nobody, nobody can do it like Big d Okay, and by the way, Soldier Boddy know exactly what he's doing. There's nobody better at that internet thing. Then sold your boy. Tell him okay, so he got he got two songs out right now and make him clap. You got the Rick Mordy record, both buzzing crazy and he's doing he's he's he's pushing those records.

I'm not mad at it. Scared who you well, I wouldn't not be scared of Big Draco as long as you know, Holy y'all should be afraid of Big Drake. Come on, I said, put him on the Mount Russell. Big Draco should put fear in all y'all goddamn hearts. Okay, right, that's right. Soon as you speak, you see, soon as you speak, Soldier bore name, everybody like yo, Calm down, now, let's not do that. Let's not do that. Let's not go there. Okay with Big Draco. Big Draco be up

here soon. He'll be up here soon. I'm sure now he'll be up here soon. All right, Well that was your U report. That was funny. What do you go after that? Who are giving your dog into? Uh? Four after the hour? We need a young lady named Alexis Tally from Florida to come to the front of the congregation. We would like to have a world with her. All right, we'll get it to that next. You can't do it like so, no, I tried, man. It's the breakfast cleble

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him get you elected? Well, don't you? To day for Thursday, June seventeenth, goes to a twenty three year old Florida woman named Alexis Tally. Now, what did your uncle Sharla always say about the great state of Florida? Say it with me. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. It is what it is. Okay, I love Florida. But one of my favorite things to do when I'm in Florida's turn on the local news. High levels of entertainment people. Okay, I can't believe it's free.

I was in Miami last weekend just watching the local news and laughing and shaking my head. Very hard to avoid the crazy that exist in Florida. You know, every day of our lives, we wake up and we attempt to avoid crazy. It's hard to avoid crazy in Florida. It's like a full time job to avoid crazy in Florida. Because in Florida, you don't have to find crazy. Crazy will find you. And that's exactly what happened in this situation involving the sister Alexus Tally now Alexis Tally was

arrested for domestic battery after putting hands on her girlfriend. Now, the other day, I told y'all on this radio, how I had a dream. No, let me rephrase. I had a nightmare that I was cheating on my wife, and in the nightmare, I felt the guilt, so I stopped. And then when I woke up the next morning, my wife said to me that she had a dream that I cheated on her and she woke up wanting to ff me up. When you got a soul tied with a person, y'all are really connected SYNCD up like your

smartphone with a bluetooth. That's me and my wife. Well, my wife said she felt like she wanted to ff me up because of her dream. Alexis Tally actually fed her girlfriend up because of the dream. Okay, because of the dream her girlfriend was having. Oh how I wish there was a news report for this one, but allow me to read you the details off the smoking gun. Police responded the calls from a neighbor who said they

could hear a fight taking place. When authorities arrived at the scene, the twenty one year old victim said she was awoken after Alexis Tally claimed to hear her sleep talking about an X. I'm not making this up. Okay.

If you're thinking, what the f please think what the Florida Alexis Tally started beating on her girlfriend and her sleep because she thought she heard her girlfriend sleep talking about an X. A call to the arrest report, Alexis started punching the victim in the face after waking her, and cops noted that she had a visible swelling to the right side of her face. Now, when they say Alexis woke her up, was it what the punch are before? Now I'm gonna shoot Alexis a little bell that slang.

By the way, I'm not giving her no money towards the bell. I'm just talking about a hypothetical about the situation. I'm almost positive that if I mentioned another woman that I was involved with while I was in a deep slumber, I too would get punched in the face. What about you, envy, I concur not justifying what alex did, just saying that as Florida as this sounds, this might garner the same reaction in any state. I mean, my wife woke up wanting to f me up because of a dream she

had that I was doing something. Imagine, and she would have woke up to me calling out the name of some other woman I dealt with, my god, jee. This is why hot gritz used to get thrown on brothers in the sixties and seventies. Okay, yeah, Granddaddy got a scar right now on his back from that hot grits because he too was saying somebody else's name in his sleep. Okay. Muhammad Ali once said, if you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize. Same rules apply with

your significant other. Okay, just change beating the cheating. If you even dream of cheating on your girl, you better wake up and apologize now. Alexis was arrested for domestic battery and has maintained that their argument was only verbal, verbal rather than physical. She told the officers. She told the officers that the mark on her girlfriend's face was from a previous fight. That's not funny. It's not funny. But it's Florida. It's Florida, Okay, she told the police.

Not the fight that was reported to the police. That was last week. It was from another fight. Its basically been the officer of That mark on her face wasn't from when I beat her this time. That was from the last time we fought. Boy, don't have anything else here, okay, Please give Alexis Tally the sweet sound of the hamiltones. Oh no, you are dokee o the day, oh the day. Ye. How would you react if you heard your manum saying the name of an X in his sleep? Um, I

don't know. That's a tough one. I don't know what I would do. We'd have a conversation. Okay, we'd have a conversation. It might not go well, we might not talk for a couple of weeks. You don't think we will resort to violence, though, you're not. I'm not a violent person. Yeah, you know. I don't believe in putting my hands on people. Kay, I think we should play a game. You think we should play a game? I'm curious? Really really? Yes? Okay, what was the name? What was

the name of the X? I need to know? Say the name of the X? They say the name of the right? Well, okay, since anydy wants to play, I guess it's time for a game of guess why what race? Alright, what's the clues now? Alexis Tally. Alexis from Florida, Florida. She was sleep they both will sleep with her girlfriend and her girlfriend was sleep talking and said the name of her exo. Alexis swung on her Guess what race? She isnt? Go Latina? Damn it? Man? Okay, okay, ANGELI

said Latina? Why are you say Latina? Angelie? I don't know. I just felt like it. Okay, Okay, dj Enva. Alexis Tally from Florida. Okay. She was with her girlfriend. Her girlfriend was talking in her sleep, and her girlfriend said a ex's name, alleged Lisa Alexis got up and swung on her. Joss, what race she is? All right? The name Alexis makes me feel black. But I'm going Puerto Rican, dare you. I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't know what Alexis Sally is. I'm looking play game. Don't

know what she looked like. And he asked to play. I don't know. Let me see, let me see. I'm just always down for the game. It's just a good guessing game. She might be Portoici might be, but then she might be black. She might be she makes she might be happy. It looks like you, Daniel, Well, it's Alexis Sally black. She looked Puerto Rican. What she looked like, definitely Puerto Rican. Sometimes you can't look at a person Intel. You can't look at a person Intel, you definitely can't.

All right, pointless game wanted to play? Thought you knew the answer. We'll find out on social media later. I'm sure I'm sure somebody all right, thank you for that dog to day up next ask ye eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need relationship advice, any type of advice, call ye now. It's the breakfast logan what what what what? What? What you gonna know? Baby mama issues sne some words of wisdom? All up now for ask eight hundred five eight five one five one.

The Breakfast Club the relationship advice. Need personal advice, just need real advice? Call up nown for asking morning. Everybody is dj Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for asking Ye. Hello, who's this helloing from Miami? Hey, what's your question for you? Okay, Angela? I need because Okay, so my home girl and I have been investing for like ten years, right, her and her boyfriends have been together for around that same time,

like ten years. Now, tell me why her boyfriend started messaging me like what person? At first, like innocent, like I'm gonna count him. So he asked me like all kind of like money investing, all kind of things like that, which is fine, But then I started getting instead of soul, what are you doing tonight? So? How are you like getting more personal and I shut it down like I'm like, nah, you ain't talk to me like that. Did you ever tell your friend too? Okay? So I told her right,

but I used to held the whole story. I was just like, hey, you know, he's a messaging me. But it's the fact that it's like, dang, I should go her everything like him trying to link up himself. You should tell her? Ain't that your friend? Wait? But now it's getting even worse because out of nowhere, his best friend started messaging me like, oh, you should pull up

on us, like we never see you no more? Your written and I just feel like his best friend is trying to get me and my best friends boyfriend together. His best friend is trying to get oh okay, so they're trying to hook it up because he likes you. Listen, this is your best friend. That's how I feel like. That comes before everything. I don't even know why this is a question for you. Do you like him or something?

I think I do like you. Oh girl, I'm really calling because I'm in a position where I'm like, listen, let me just lay it all out on the table. Hey, no, you're my friend, I say, But I know right from all, Yes, it's off limits. If that's your best friends man, and he's messaging you and saying inappropriate things and trying to link up, and other people are now involved, that's all gonna come out. Number one. Number two, you should not be attracted to your best friends man. Would you be

willing to sacrifice your relationship with your best friend? Not at all? Like, that's why I told her half the story. But I feel horrible because now I'm like, I should have told her everything from the zoom. Yeah, I imagine she'd go through. Imagine she'd go through his phone and

see those messages that you didn't tell her about. Lord, I go, but I don't know why I like him now, Like I feel like he and I have so much of a collection, and I'm just like, I should not be telling let me tell you something he ain't and neither are you right now? Don't pull me that for you. I'm just keeping it real. How would you feel if it was the other way around? Yeah, I feel like you know this, like there's no kind of loyalty. You

don't come and trust Listen. I would hate to have to question my best friend like this, and you Okay, Well, I just I feel like I needed to get cursed out and yeah, you're moving real questionable. So you gotta look at yourself and be like, is this the person who I am? Right? Is this the best friend who I am? Oh? But some guy who ain't that's probably trying to kick it to mad the chicks too. Don't think, don't think. Don't think you the only one. That's all

I'm saying. Okay, you I got it now. It's like in my head, I got it, all right, do the right thing, all right? Ask ye eight, don't drink five eight five one on five one. If you need relationship advice, here now it's the breakfast club. I'm gonna keep there's some real advice with angels. Ask ye. I want to get everybody you stj Envy and Jela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are the breakfast club with in the middle of ask yee. Hello, who's this? Maya's Bossbury. I'm from

Houston Takes. Hey, what's your question for you? Okay, So I'm twenty three years old. I'm very successful. I'm a teacher, but I'm having a hard time, you know, finding a significant other. I don't know if they're intimidated by me because I'm successful, but I'm having a hard time. All right, So what are you what are you doing to try

to actually find somebody that you want to be with? Well, I'm like on dating apps, but they're not really accurate all the time because some man, these guys don't really have jobs there with their moms. So what dating apps are you want? There's this one on Facebook, and there's one like called bumble, and then there's pins. I don't want a lot, all right, Yeah, I enjoy Bumbo and I enjoy Facebook. I actually use bumbo is And I want to say a couple of things. Do you go

out in person to ever meet people? As well? Um, not lately because it doesn't really like nobody wants to go on a date. But you don't have to go on a date. But do you go out, like, do you have friends who you go out with sometimes in a casual environment and group settings? Do your friends know you're looking? Are they trying to hook you up with some of their friends? Yeah? They know. I have had

a friend trying to feel with someone before. Because sometimes you have to be open to things, like you have to be out there. You have to start conversations with people. You have to be in places where it's a social atmosphere. Sometimes even just going out and taking a class and something that interests you. In moving out of your comfort zone. I think it's really important when it comes to dating. A lot of times we get comfortable with just swiping

and we're not out there living our life. And sometimes when you take some classes, or you go certain places, or you do certain things, you meet people who have similar interest too. So like what would you say, a good meet a good guy. I think if you go to like certain like mixers, if there's any events that you can go to, or some type of after work social activities, things like that are really good. I try to make sure that I speak to people wherever I go, like if I'm at home depot, if I'm in the

Apple store. You know, just be friendly. And sometimes just even having that type of persona brings more energy to you. Okay, well, I always trying to like to be like to let them come to me. But it's not even about being thirsty, you know what I'm saying. That's the issue, Like you don't have to look at everybody as your potential mate. Sometimes you just have to go out and enjoy meeting people and knowing people. They could be a friend, you

could never see them again. But you don't have to put so much pressure on yourself to find your significant other. What you're trying to do is meet people who could play some type of part in your life or maybe just you know, have a nice social interaction. But it doesn't have to be is that person going to be the one? Right? Well, I'll try to thank you who. I love ya, you guys, So it's amazing every morning.

You guys are awesome. All right. I feel good about it done, and I'm happy for you that you are such a self sufficient person. But I do feel like, you know, sometimes we have to get out of our own way. Sometimes it's also the energy that we're putting out there. So just go out there, don't put so much pressure on yourself. You're still really young and you have time and things can change in one day. You never know what can happen. So yeah, shout out to

all the young bosses. I just bought a house and I'm getting my man. Yeah, all right, and don't let nobody use your credit okay, right, okay, all right, thank you mama? All right, ask ye eight hundred five eighty five, one oh five one. Now you got rumors on the way, Yes, and I can't I wait to see this documentary. There's a new documentary out and this is about an artist who actually threw cocaine on the desk, snorted it, jumped on top of the desk, took out his penis and

shoved it in the presidents of the label's face. We'll tell you who it is what, all right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning, the Breakfast Club's team. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. All right. Well, this new documentary that's coming looks like it's going to be amazing and it is about Rick James, is revealed by his

former manager Kerry Gordy. It's a new documentary called Bitching, The Sound and Fury of Rick James and premiere Tuesday night at the Tribeca Film Festival. It is available to stream on Trybeck at home starting now. You gotta pay for it, but it'll be on showtime later on in September just at FYI if you want to wait for that. But it sounds too amazing, I might have to pay for this one and watch it and not wait till

September third on Showtime. But some of the things that is revealed in the documentary, they said that actually Rick James really helped Lionel Richie's career and the reason why this happened is because Rick James was frustrated by disappointing sales for his album Throwing Down that came out in nineteen eighty two and the tour, so he went into the office of then Motown president Jay Lasker. He was delivering his next album, and he started to pour coke

onto the desk. He snorted it, jumped on top of the desk, took out his penis and shoved it in Lasker's face while yelling, sell my goddamn record. You know what's crazy? That story sounds nuts until you say it's Rick James. And when you tease it earlier, I was like what. But when you say it's Rick James, I'm like, okay,

de ventures are Rick James. That's Rick James. Now. Just so you know this, Kerry Gordy is the eldest son of Barry Gordy who founded Motown, so he's the person who's announcing all of this and kind of making sure that we get all of these amazing stories. There's one surprise that comes early in the movie. It's revealed that in the beginning of his music career, he fled to Toronto to a escape the navy, and he went by

the name of Ricky Matthews. So he was an abandon with Neil Young back then in the sixties band until their manager actually dimed him out for deserting it and he ended up in trouble for that. Now here's the trailer for that documentary. He found Parliament, Bootsie, all these people. They were kind of looking at Rick sideways because he had learned how to craft pop with funk, and so he hit the big time faster than they did. Rick was the smartest one out of all of us. He

sold a lot of records. People came to the concerts, and you know, he used to talk about, Yeah, I'm sello more records, and y'all, I think George took offense a little bit, but all was fair and funk and war man. He sounds like a character. And if you hear some of these stories, and you know, that's what made Lionel Richie as big as he did because the label decided to push Lionel Richie after Rick James did that stump with the cocaine and taking out his penis.

They said the president was just like O Richie. That's all he said when he left the office. In other words, that's who we're going to be concerned about now. They also said that even though he was a very freaky guy, he had his own limits. His sexual exploit to him. More you do that to that person, let me watch, I want to orchestrate. According to his ex wife, he wasn't personally involved. He was not that kind of super freak. He didn't let people touch him. He wasn't like in

the Orgy. He would watch the Origin. He's a director. Yeah, more like that. Yeah. By the way, Showtime be getting all the great docs from all of the black legends. You know, they got as Teddy pendagrass. They got a degregory documentary coming as well too. So flew to Showtime. All right. Now, Wendy Williams is talking about the Foxy Brown book, and she's spilling some tea that we don't know is really true. Now, my girl kime out. Sorry, I was writing Foxy Brown's memoir and can't wait to

read it. Yes, that memoir is coming out in December. Here is what Wendy Williams said. I remember when Foxy and jay Z had um I'll be okay. Foxy was the star of that. Jay Z was standing in the corner ringing his hands, talking about okay, all right, what do I do next? And then you know this was allegedly a romantical thing. It's it's all right, I'll say alleged, but we know, we know, yeah she hit it before. Beyonce aged you can't yeah, oh she added the allegedly.

I was like, you cannot just say that, Yeah, you can't not alleged you was dead and you saw off for yourself. If not, you got to say allegedly, because you know, that's that's definitely not all of its defamation. But it's definitely how liable for that because it's not true about Foxy Brown's hair loss, because she started talking hearing loss, because she started talking about how she wants her to um, how how she's going to figure out how to do an audio version of the memoir. That's

not cool. Oh my god, I can't wait to read the book. Though, because I'm sure Foxy got a great story and she got the legendary Kimmel Sorry right and if with her two for her oh Man. Randomly, when I was at Carolines that night where Wendy and Miss Jones are there, Chemosario was with me also that night, coy ran into her. All right now. Paris Jackson was on Red Table Talk and she did sit down an interview with just Willow Smith and she was talking about

a lot of different things. She was talking about her past attempts to end her own life and what helped her break out of that mentality, and the two of them just really had a really great, in depth conversation. She talked about her PTSD from paparazzi, experienced audio hallucinations sometimes with Chemera clicks and severe paranoia, and have been going to therapy for a lot of things, but that included and I've started I'll hear like a trash bag

rustling and I like flinch and panic. Is that from the paparazzi? Yeah, I think it's just like just standard PTSD. That's awful. She also talked about her field suicide attempts. Here's what she said, Well, do you feel regret when they try and attempt suicide, like a last minute regret. There have been times where I did and times when I didn't, where I was upset that it didn't work. Yeah, but I can't say, like several years later that like

I'm really grateful that it didn't. Lord definitely sending healing Paris jack Absolutely. She said every day people told her to kill herself. What do you mean? And social media? Yeah, all right. In addition to that, she talked about how she feels like her dad, Michael Jackson, would be proud. I just feel like you've done such a beautiful and graceful job of doing your own thing. Because kids like us do we feel like we have to live up to this certain standard. I feel like it's still probably

there somewhere in the back of my head. But the louder thing that competes is that I feel like my dad would be proud. Yeah, I'm sure you wouldn't be. Thank God for therapy. I hope that she's, you know, doing the work to get a handle on all of that type of all that trauma she's dealing with. Well, at the end of this Paris Jackson and Billis Smith actually went to the studio and did some music together. You saw they talked about they said, let's go do

some music. Should we just go to the studio, And then they were pictures of them together in the studio. But she did say the music does help her, all right, And that is your rumor report, all right. Shout out to revolt everybody else to mixes up next. Today is Kendrick Lamar's birthday, so let's get on legend, the leader of the New School last decade. So we'll get on some Kendrick. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club,

your mornings will never be the same. Brought to you by the all new season of the FX original comedy Dave, based on the life of Dave Bird aka Little Dickie. Dave drops Wednesday, June sixteenth at ten nine Central on FXX, Screaming Next Day on FX on Hulu Morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line this morning, a couple of brothers. We have Thomas George Junior. He's the chairman of the board for one hundred Black

men of America Incorporated. And also we have oldest threat joining us this morning. Good morning, guys, Good morning. How's everything. That's mamas, it's a wonderful sunny day here in Atlanta, Georgia. No complaints now for people that don't know what is the organization? One hundred Black Men of America, and y'all got way more than a hundred Black men. So let's bread around and let's break down the name of what your brothers do for the community. Well, we have thousands

of members. We actually got our start our first chapter in New York nineteen sixty three, founded by the late Jackie Robinson, the late mayor David Dinkins Edison Wingate. But the key is they came together in sixty three dealing with some of the same missus we're dealing with today, and it was dealing with public safety. And at that time sixty three, black police officers could not arrest white citizens unless they had a white police officer with them.

And on this particular day at sixty three, one of our brothers was at the scene of the crime arrested the white citizen. And there was the level or the department, and so all of these men came together. They changed the paradigm in the Public Safety Department in New York. And at the end of the year, the question was what we stayed together? They said yes. So the next courtion was what shall we call ourselves? And David Dinkins said, we'll call ourselves who we are? One hundred black men.

That gave rise to one hundred Black men incorporated in New York. And in nineteen eighty six, with nine chapters, we came together and created one hundred Black Men of America. Today we have one hundred and three chapters. We're in Africa, England, the Caribbean Islands, over one hundred and twenty five thousand young people that are mentoring program at about eight thousand members who make a difference. And so what we do is our whole motto is what they see is what

they'll be. And we're real men given real time, and of course we have what is for for the future. Everything we do must fit in those four categories education, mentoring, health and wellness, and economic empowerment with an overlay of leadership development. And the organization is moving and we are really real men who are investing the time all over. We got everybody from professional athletes, retired to athletes, corporate execs, you know, Kim Chernald, all of these people have been

a part of this great organization making a difference. So what's the overall theme this year's conference. Well, the thing for this year's conference, oldis why don't you just lay that on this year's time to act. We didn't come to see you here. It's time to act, adapt again, challenge and triumph. And that basically is that we can't be sitting on the sidelines. Those who have not been to sit on the sideline and just watch what's going on. They've got to be engaged, got to be inbobed. We

got to fight to win. And then of course we've got to challenge those issues, even as we did when the previous president wanted to divide this name and the issue of racism, we were right there dealing with it then. And the last thing that is that whole issue on COVID nineteen and with this challenge, is that we cannot continue to spread the myths. I got my second vaccine

shot four months ago, fights and no side effects. But if you've had almost six hundred thousand people to die from this virus, why would you be afraid of maybe two days of discomfort if you have two days understanding because you're black. And that's the other myth black people don't get. Don't get COVID nineteen. Look at how many of our people have died. We've been leading the number of deaths in this nation a lot because of precondition. But the key for us is that we've got to

step up. We got to stand up and we got to act. Just as we also have to deal with the whole political arena while we are in the impartisan. If you look at the efforts that took place and right here in Georgia, the one hundred was engaged with the Divine Nine, engaged with NACP and everybody, and we delivered like never before on the elections for the first African American US Senator. And of course we made the cat the decisive of votes that helped us to get

this country back on track. I was gonna ask, you know, the conference is virtual, why is it still virtual? Now? The world's over? Back up now? And then you are in Atlanta, and Atlanta has been open for a long time. Now people are still dying, and so dj MB to say it's over, you know, for example, here in Georgia, we've only had forty of our population to get the vaccine. And I hear black folks talking about why I prayed

to God, God's gonna protect me. I said, God sent you the vaccine, why don't you go ahead and take it. People are still being infected, people are still dying. Black folks still having the big parties with three and four and five hundred people in them with no mask on and not taking the vaccine. And all of my children have had the vaccine. Three of my grandchildren have had it, and my others are about to get it now that they've lured the age. So the reality is not over yet.

And so we're gonna error on the car being cautious. Were expect to be back next year, but until we do, we're gonna go virtual. This last time. We decided in March we would not do it in person because you know, some of our members are older, and so we're working to get people to get the vaccine. But next year we'll be ready, but we're not gonna rush to kill

anybody infect anybody with us happening. You laying down that great entertainment On Friday last year, we had over eleven thousand on line with us for the conference and we're going to try and meet or exceed that this year. But the bottom line is we'd rather be safe and we'll get back together when we get this totally under control. How did they sign up? My brother? You can go one hundred black Man dot org. Designer for the conference one hundred blackman dot org and there's a landing page

to the conference. As chairman Deutsch, Mitchell will be partying with DJ Eavy on Friday night, so forward to that. And it's free. And you know, freedom isn't free, but this conference is free. But we appreciate you brothers for joining in and keep doing the work. And anytime you need us, just give us a ring. We're here for you, brothers, and look we're looking far to having you in as part of the one hundred family and that's coming very soon. But thank you for all that you do. Thank go

for of you for the Breakfast Club. And tell Angela you know, thank you. There we go all right, well, appreciate you brothers, and we'll see you this weekend. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, brothers. Thank you so much, guys, thank you, thank you now Charlemagne ain't positive, no, brother. Well, first of all, man, you know, um, I want to

salute my man Craig Melviourne for coming today. Craig Melvine has a book out right now called Pops Learning to Be a Son and a Father that came out on Tuesday, so you know, go grab it. That the co host of the Today Show, Craig Melvine. It's a great father as they give and I got a salute. You know. The Megos once again. You know, we had them on yesterday and if you saw you know the video on YouTube or heard it on the radio, you saw that we celebrated them. You know what I mean. They've been

the most impactful rap group for the past decade. You know, a lot of people ate off the Megos flow. So we just wanted to celebrate Quevo takeoff and offset. So we had a whole set up here for them. You know. We had the balloons and the balloons with courtesy of Blond Saloon in New York City. We had food. Food came from Melbourne's restaurant in Harlem. We had flowers from the Flower Puff and Elizabeth, New Jersey. We had a

cake from Doc's Cake shop in Brooklyn. We had marijuana courtesy of my man Whax with with with whose Whax, And we had tequila from Casca Dragona. Salute to my my, my partner Teal at Casca Dragona's Tequila. Thank you all for providing providing us with the necessary tools the properly celebrate the me goals. Yes, and y'all know I'm in Nashville, Tennessee. This is my first time in Nashville. But we are

doing the National Museum of African American Music gala. You know, it's the grand opening, and so tonight they're gonna be actually celebrating Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers. It's the museum seventh Annual Celebration of Legends benefit concert that is happening tonight and I'm hosting. So I'm really excited to be here. Everybody keeps telling me I gotta get out here and eat in Nashville and how amazing it is. So I'm gonna explore a

little bit today before the gala. All right, now, Scheloman, you got a positive note, Yes, I do. And it's simple. It goes back to what I was saying about celebrating the me goals. Man, celebrate the success of buzzes as you would want others to celebrate yours. Because what goes around absolutely positively comes around. Breakfast Club, y'all finish for y'alld up.