Is it Big Enough ( Dawn Dickson)

keep it real. They might not watch the New but they're on Twitter, they're on Facebook, they're you know, they're listening to the Breakfast Brother hit your ass a good mood in Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo Good morning angela Ye, good morning jamby Charlomagne the Guy Peece to the Up Planet is Friday, Yes, it's Friday. The weekend is hell, Yes it is. It's hell. What's happening, y'all? I was just riding into mister DJ

Kalick's new album Kyli Kali. Yeah. I heard it last night. Well, I would say most of it last night. I heard it. I heard all of it except for the last song. I ain't into the last song. Yeah, but what song by Calid are we playing every hour on hour? This morning. I know we got one or you know kalidas doing every at different song every hour, a different song every hour.

That's what they said, a different song every hour, dropping on a clues bonds with DJ Kalid also dropped on a clues bond for I heart for being so predictable. But nobody has that heart stimulus package like DJ Kalid does. That's right, okay, nobody, nobody that is, I do like that Justin Bieber featuring Twit I mean, I like, I like a lot of songs on the album, but I really like that Justin Bieber featuring twenty one Savage let it go. That record is hard. That's a tough two.

Tough tough two. Yeah, So shout to DJ Kali. Stream this album, pick it up. You got a bunch of dope joints on man, you know what I mean. I love the NAS and jay Z joined at the Sorry sorry not sorry, That's what I mean. That's that's that's a given though. I mean paying this morning. I mean I'd rather do sorry now sorry because you forty five, but you know I'm not forty five. But it's a great record. Jay Z is my favorite artist. Nas is from Queen so Yeah, that's that's I like that Justin

if from for radio purposes. I like that Justin Bieber featuring twenty one Savage. Uh let it go though, but it would feel it's you know, coming in here saying the nas Jayz record is dope as a given. If we don't really do records together. That two of hip hop's elite. So the fact that they do records. Anytime that they do record, they probably did about three or

four of them. It's always a movie. They did success, they did Black Republicans, they did um what else success, Black Republicans, the old joint from back in the day, Lord Toree, what they was on the Lord three Cracord. I don't know they did that together, but that was that was it. So they don't really do record together. And you know what, you know what, somebody hit me and I'm so upset. We have Big Daddy Kane on yesterday.

That is a freestyle. Let's out there. If you're an old school hip hop head of Tupac and Biggie and There Live and Maddison Square guarded. I don't know how true that is, but people say that was Big Daddy Kane set. He was performing and he brought all of them out. But I love to ask him about Biggie said, I got seven macat about eight thirty eight nine ten. Yeah, absolutely, I would love to ask him about that. How that came about? How was that backstage? But we I totally forgot,

totally totally forgotten. Damn it. Man, all right, you'll get another time. Yeah, all right, Well, Dawn Dixon will be joining us this morning, Big Don, big entrepreneurgro Don. Yes, she's an entrepreneur and she gets money and she helps other people get money. And we're gonna talk to her later on today. Uh in some sad news. Why don't we need sad news? Why all you right, let's not do that. We'll do it later. I'm sure you do it in the room. Is not nothing, we'll do it later.

All right. Well, let's get into a joint off Kalid's album, of course, Every Hour on hour? What record is this? Let's do let's do a little baby, a little Dirk. Oh, that's tough. It's called every chance. I get this by snapping on this. They snapping on this, Dirk snapping on this. Yeah, So let's get into it right now. Get your ass up. It's a Friday. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning to tune that beat has that's very hard morning everybody, stej

Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are to breakfast Club. Let's getting some front page news. Now, last night was the NFL draft. I didn't watch the Charlomagne, did you No, I did not watch the NFL Draft last night. Now I wasn't into it. All right, Well, what else we got? Easy? He Lukedalla brothers that got drafted them absolutely. Well, let's

start in North Carolina with Andrew Brown Junior. He was shot and killed while he was in his car, and four of the officers who were on the scene had been reinstated. They were at the scene of the shooting, but according to the sheriff, they said they had not used their weapons, so they are being reinstated. To reinstated to active duty. They said they looked at body camera footage and other evidence. Sheriff Tommy Routon said it is obvious for the deputies never fired their weapons and deserved

to be reinstated to active duty. More investigation, it's necessary into the three deputies who did fire their weapons, and they will remain on administrative leave. Now. They are also asking people not to rush to judge and pushing back with their own check the facts narrative. This is North Carolina Andrew Brown Junior who was shy and killed while

he was in his car. He backed up, went forward, and remember the family was allowed to see just a few seconds of that footage and they haven't released that footage yet. So the family, though, is pushing back against what the sheriff is saying, and they're saying that there was no contact made because what the police are trying to say is that he backed up, moved forward and make contact with them with the police, and that's when they started shooting. But a relative of Andrew Brown Junior

has offered a different account of what happens. He does not want to be identified, but he told CNN that Andrew Brown Junior started backing up his car and they started shooting. The front wind showed up his car, he said, and then he took off to go across the yard and they started shooting the back window of his car.

And there's also a photo that was shared by the relative that appears to show the sheriff Department's truck and Brown's driveway They also took pictures of Brown's car after the shooting that shows at least one bullet hole in the front windshield. So we are waiting for them to release that body camera footage, but a judge did rule the family was able to watch it, but it would

not be made public for thirty days. Yeah, it's insane for anybody to think that if you shoot in my car, I'm not My first reaction is not going to be the drive off like I'm supposed to just sit there like the bullets hit the car because you're the police, Like, no, I'm getting the hell out of here. See now. What the police are trying to say, right, is that he was in his car moving backward and then forward each time making contact with deputies and that's when they opened fire.

That's what the police are saying. The family member is saying that it is not true. Put out the full video. Then, yeah, put out put out the full video. You're telling the truth. Put out the full video. There's no way I'll tell you, even in towns would he steal your car. So for instance, you know my car got stole it a couple of months ago, and the police seen him. But they couldn't give chase because they would it would drive us so reckless. So they say they gotta let it go. They can't chase,

They can't just shoot that cars like that. You're not supposed to be able to do that. And if that's probably the reason why they don't want to at least to be exactly, and if they didn't do that, then just put out the video on shows that y'all didn't do that. All right, now we telled you go ahead. Sh I was moving on to talk about the FDA. Now, we were talking about this band on menthol cigarettes that the FDA was contemplating, and they have decided yesterday to

move forward with that band. Eighty five percent of black smokers use menthol cigarettes. It's flavors and those cigarettes, and some people were concerned that band could empower local law enforcement to target black people. But they do have a

new directive that attempts to address that concern. So what they are saying, if implemented, the FDA's enforcement of any band on menthol cigarettes and all flavored ciguards will only address manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, importers in a retail It's not individuals. I don't know what menthol doesn't. I don't know what menthol is. I know it's flavoring, so they just won't. They rather have a regular flavored cigarette. But if you put flavor on a cigarette, it makes it bad. That's

what they're saying. Season a little boy on it. Because I want all cigarettes to be banded. How about that? Get rid of all cancer sticks. Sorry smokers, And we've probably got a lot of smokers that are listening. But y'all don't need that. Y'all been trying to quit father anyway, but you can't. That's nothing. Sometimes you got to save people from themselves. I want all cancer sticks to be bad.

Menthol be doled red flavor, grape flavor, rang flavor. Yeah. So, and mentho, like I said, it cools down your throat someone you're smoking it does. It makes it less irritating, and so that's why people like it too. All right, But that is your front page news. Sounds like hooka, that's what it sounds like. Okay. Our producer Dan says, menthol is what makes the cigarette minty. I believe that ingredient is highly more unhealthy. If you want something that

tastes like mint, buy some gum. All right, I just suck on a mint, all right. Most cigarettes are just the ORL fixation anyway. You just like something in your mouth. Okay, So just had a little mint flavor the things that you like in your mouth and it'll give you the same sensation. All right, stroll with you, man, It's Friday, bro, like you gotta stop that. I'm talking about another cac No on the hour, not every minute on the minute. Yeah, I know it feels like that, but no, eight hundred

five eighty five, one on five one. Get it off your chest. Call us up right now. It's the breakfast club the morning, the breakfast club. Wake up, wake up, wake y'all your time to get it off your chest, your man or blast. We want to hear from you on the breakfast block. Hello, who's this? Yeah? This struck some jersey and hell a dingy y'all hunk up on me, bro, Well you are now. Can't make the most of it. I was trying to get the real estate and from

in full from energy. Oh well, hold on, they never sent your information over, bro. I'm sorry. I don't ask question. Yeah, bro, what i's like hard drugs or something? Do you do hard drugs. He said, it's wax on hard drugs, like hard drugs or something. Wax. Uh No, just weak. He showed as much. Just weak because he shared a lot of him and like when you look at him, it really makes sense to him, but it don't make sense to nobody else. Well, some people the whole silverlware thing,

well that's his trauma. That's because he used to work in a restaurant where he didn't want to work that so he would take the silverware and rub it on his genital So he's afraid of his own karma in that situation. Yeah, yeah, but you yeah, but you saw how when you tried to get fired, you did stuff for them to see you so you could get fired. Well, I never tried to get fired, sir. You said you didn't show up to work. He started coming like you wanted to get fired. I never said that. No, not,

he doesn't want to like Taco Bell. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was different. Yes, that's true, the silverware on his genitals. But that's the thing, right, But that's the thing about your your karma, right, we know what we do when nobody's looking. So you can't lie to yourself, you know, what I mean, that's all. He scared his own karma. That's it. And now hell you don't civil with because you think it's gounk. I kind of get it, But hold on, hold on, brother, because I'll get you that

information you need. All Right, Hello, who's this? Hello? What's going on? Man? Good morning? Get it off your chest. Well, you know, I'm gonna tell you this whole pandemic thing has really got me upset about as far as this shot is concerned. You know, they're forcing people to get this shots in order to get certain jobs or order to hurt so to get certain activities mean that you can't even go to us a supporting event if you don't have the shot. You can't apply for this certain job.

If you don't have the shot, you can't go into this certain restaurant if you don't have this shot. I don't understand why they're forcing people to get this shot. Was the shoe is not being tested? Was percent face? You know they actually have people that actually gotten sick after getting the shot. So I take it you're not getting the shot, not until you know, I find out the one percent that you side face got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

But because people are getting sick over the shot. I mean, I'm not you know, I'm not going to be a dupe. Oh yeah, I didn't get sick for a day. Um, you didn't get her second shot, so she won't experience that for a while if she does get sick. But it's one of those things you don't know what it happened if if you get the shot, and how it affects your body, And we don't know if you get COVID how it affects your body. So it's kind of one of those things you did if you do your

damn if you don't. But for myself, I'd rather just be, you know, safe. I know most most people who I know who are saying they got the shot are saying they'd rather do that than potentially get really sick from COVID and die. And that's why I know a lot of people are telling me I decided to get it, and you're right, though they're making it more difficult to move around and do things without it. Get it off your chests. Eight hundred five eight five one O five one.

If you need to vent, hit this up now. It's the Breakfast Club coming. The Breakfast Club is your time to get it off your chests, whether you're man or blessed, so you better have the same in we want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello. Who's this Hey, good morning. It's Jade in Virginia. Ja, get it off your chess. I'm just calling to wish everybody happy Friday. Um. I got a new job a couple of months ago,

and I'm gonna tell this to you. It's not an hour, but I plenty time to listen to you guys in the morning, laughing along with you guys, and then catching an after show every now and then on Instagram with dramas um part of the Quarantine crew from last year. So drama showy hold on Dramas does an after show that we don't know about. You're on it, you've been doing it. Oh okay, well that's what happens live. Yeah, that's not an after show. That's Dramas's Instagram. Uh I

see live talk show. Yes, but threw those pictures up there for you guys. I spent one for Charlomagne last last week. Oh thank you with the anxiety shirt on. Yes, we are glad you shark. That's me. Oh okay, thank you. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate. I mean, you got me looking like an extraterrestrial. But hey, maybe you see me in that way. I'm not upset. That's how it looks regardless. Thank you, Mama. Yes, you're welcome. Thank you you too. Hello.

Who's this? Hey? This is that a good Hey? I'm calling right here from at L. Thank you time, like I tried calling it. Thank you, Edgar, love you back. So I just wanted to do, like, what do you guys think about all the street vendors getting attacked and stuff like that, all the street vendors. I mean, nobody should just be getting randomly attacked. I mean, like, what do you why? Why why do people ask that question? Like somebody's gonna say, I think it's a great thing,

that street vendors and getting attacked like it's horrible. No, well, I just mentioned I haven't really heard you guys talk about it. You know what I'm saying. And I'm from here, I stand myself. So I just I haven't seen like a lot of light. A lot of people talk about that. You know, you guys are very influential. Yeah, I've only seen one though I saw one one last year. I saw it, but but I you know, I followed Letty Martinez,

so I saw a Letty post about it. I saw her post about was an older woman getting she got attack last year. Right, there's been a bunch of a lot of Mexican streetvendors being attacked around. It's been a very consistent thing. What's this? What's this that? When they getting attacked that? La? Yeah, la, mostly you know Orange County are well, yeah, that's horrible, and you know, somebody needs to hold that down. I hope. I want them

screet vendors to be able to protect themselves. All they need is a hammer, y'all can't carry in California, right, No, no, they can't. I mean I've been seeing some like there's some couple of pages or make sure pages that supposedly, you know, you got guys walking around with the street venders and stuff like that, But I mean that'sn't really doing. You know, I would just like people have power to talk about it or something, you know. Yeah, and what

did they get out of that? It's not like street vendors got a whole bunch of money on them, man, That's what I'm thinking. You know, the violence, well, craism, I hope the next person that runs up on a screet vendor, especially an older person, old lady, old man, get shot man. I just wanted to play it. Really appreciate you guys. You guys done, but I'm sure that work right now he does motivate men all that man crazy, well, thank you so much. Now we're gonna be on that

lally soon too. So have a good week and probably get it off your chess eight on drink five eight five one oh five one if you need to vent and you can hit this up now you we got rumors on the way, yes, and let's talk about Big Sean and his mom. They're launching a video series. Will tell you what that's about, all right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is the rumor report, Angela needs fund the Breakfast Club. Well.

Big Sean and his mother Myra Anderson have announced that they are doing a weekly video series dedicated to wellness and that's from Mental Health Awareness Month. According to page six, the episodes will be between ten to fifteen minutes each and it will feature both of them discussing for your low cost techniques that will help you attain and maintain emotional balance. So you can see that every Saturday throughout Mental Health Awareness Month on the Sean Anderson Foundation website

and on his Instagram and on their Instagram page. I love it. The only way we're going to eradicate the stigma around mental health is to continue to tell our stories. So saloot to my guy, Big Sean and his mother trumping a clue bump for Big Sean Demi. So that first episode is tomorrow again if you want to tune

in and check that out all right now. T Payne was on TikTok and he explained that he just found out that he had all these dms on Instagram when when the request folder actually first happened, I went there before I actually knew about it. I went there before and it was just all thousands and thousands of messages, just like you know, a dream. So immediately I was like, okay,

never going back there again. And then I hired my I hired my social media manager, and then a couple of days ago he was like, yo, you ever check your request folder? And I was like, I mean, I've been there before, but it's just like all cornered by your drinking Barton Jomps, I'm not going back in that, and he was like, dude, no, it's not what am I laughing? I just didn't. I have never. I just didn't not seen all the people that are hitting me too.

I just I just don't. I don't ever check on purpose. But it's mad people in there. But I just like I'm looking down. I'm like, damn, I should have hit them back. Oh day, and they hit me, but I just don't go. My assistant goes in there get business, but I don't. Yeah, there could be some good things in there. And his folder we saw that was Fergy Viola, Davis Diplo, Carrie Helston By being my mare. So he

is hitting people back. Now my request my requests on Instagram say ninety nine plus because I don't ever check them. But I mean that's what you have a business email email for in your bio, right, People want to do businesses. You didn't hit the business here. Yeah, but sometimes it's easier to go on DM. Like let's say artists don't have your number, but like you know, let me just hit Charloman. You Charloman, I need you for something. But

that's it's a lot of that oh yo, Charlotte heard this. Yeah, but don't assume. Don't assume that I check my DMS. I don't for my own mental health. I don't be all of my dms. Plus this is most people do. Well. Yeah, I mean a lot of collapse have come about because of DM. You know people oh, such as hit me up in a DM. I couldn't believe it was them. So I think that's good and it's a good way to verify too. If the person is you know, obviously that coming from their account, you can see the check

and you're like, okay, that's a real one. You'd be there all day going through thousands and thousands dms. Anybody got time for it? Yeah, I mean I don't think you get thousands every day, but if you keep up on it, you can just go through it every day. All right. Now, Doctor Dre has been ordered to pay five hundred thousand dollars to his estranged wife for her legal fees. It's only ten percent of the five million that she is demanding from him. And they also right

now are officially single. So what that means is while they are trying to work through this divorce, they can actually if they have the option to remarry in the future while this divorce process goes on. So legally they are now single. Why do I got to pay your legal fees in a divorce? If you file for divorce against me, Why do I gotta pay for your legal fees? You don't one wanting to divorce me. Pay for your own your own weight? What is it? Pay your own way?

You gotta be pay your own way. She wasn't working, and she was holding down the kids while he was working. So she had a job, and her job was maintaining the house and maintaining the kids. So it feels like you're paying somebody to shoot you. It feels like it's both. It's both your money. Honestly, No, I feel like I feel like they both money. You said, all right, now, I said, I feel like they both want to divorce. Right that she just wanted pay for yours. I'll pay

for mine anyway. Joe Rogan is walking back some of his COVID nineteen comments that he made. If y'all recall, he said this about getting vaccinated. Hmm, we don't have that, all right, We don't have it. We don't have it, all right. Well, forget that, Uh now, every hour, we are going to be doing some DJ Khaled stories and so yes we are every hour on the hour stories. You're doing songs and stories. Yes, that's a new one to the iHeart Studilas package. I never heard the stories part.

Go well, I made this one up today this morning to go along with us playing the songs every hour. And since we are about to get into this song, DJ Khalid announced to via Twitter and Instagram that Cardi B did send her vocals for the new album, So of course everybody was excited about that Cardi b vocals is in one hundred one percent. And then he said, Jamie, update the track list now, Kali Khalid, tonight midnight, I'm gonna give you a light show. And here's what happened.

I've didn't thought I was gonna make the record, to be honest with you, Like I got the beat before yesterday. Hey, yes, I wrote the record, and I was just like brainstorm and brainstorm and brainstorm, and like what the because one thing I've been really insecure ball is my accent. So I was making sure that everything is mixed right, literally, like I think Kali got the song today at seventy and my time, so it's a little something something to hold you out and soil I release my next projects

and my next anything that I'm doing. I'm doing a whole bunch of things. Why is Cardi ME insecure about her accent? People love her accent. Millions and millions of people are gravitated towards Cardi B because of who Cardi B is. Why is she insecure about her accent? Now, Cardi, you have no reason being skilled about your accent. Do not let these digital d heads on social media get to you, Okay Jesus, all right, well let's get into sound.

DJ Khaleed, Yeah, this is my joint. This is you're not gonna tell you it's not part of the package. I don't believe you'all just did this paper featuring Cardi B. Right now, because y'all just did this, because y'all want to do this, which one y'are doing, I'm doing that. We're doing it. We'll play top of the Hours into big paper Cardi B. All right, let's get into it. It's a breakfast Lugal morning, so breakfast club. Your mornings

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conduct this raid and what happened. Here's what he said happened during the raid about six o'clock in the morning, there was a big bang bang bang on the door, and outside were seven FBI agents. What they warn't and I said, you know, this is extraordinary because I've offered to give these to the government and talk it over with the other for two years. The agent seemed somewhat apologetic. I might say they were very, very professional and very gentlemanly.

The only time they got perturbed is at the end of the surge, when they had taken about i'd say seven or eight electronic items of mind, which is what they took. They weren't taking the three hard drives. I said, well, don't you want these? And they said, what are they? I said, those are Hunter Biden's hard drives, and they said, no, no, no, no, we don't even know what they are looking for. With

Rudy Giuliani. If Rudy was any other race other than white, we would know exactly why he was there, like we would. He's gonna don't worry. We're gonna get to that. And he also said that the warrant was illegal. That warrant is completely illegal. The only way you can get a search warrant is if you can show that there's some evidence that the person is going to destroy the evidence or is going to run away with the evidence. Well, I've had it for two years and I haven't destroyed it.

And they also got it from the YE cloud. So there is no justification for that warrant. It is an illegal, unconstitutional warrant. And why does Rudy have run a Biden's hard drive? He was joking, he was joking. Oh, he keeps saying, stopped looking at my hard drive, go to Hunter Biden. And in addition to that, this is what

the basis of the warrant is. According to Rudy Giuliani, the search warrant is purportably based on one single failure to file for representing a Ukrainian national or official that I never represented. So he's saying he didn't file as a foreign age agent prior to dealing with Ukraine, and

he said that is false. So why hasn't the FBI made made it public while they raided rooted Giuliani's house though I really feel like if he was any other race, we wouldn't know exactly why they were in there, I'm sure. All right. Well, in addition to that, by the way, since you know this was in Manhattan, you know New York is back open on July first. They're gonna fully reopen, just giving y'all that it was. But what does that mean? Like fully open? Does that mean a one hundred percent

capacity at restaurants? One hundred percent capacity at venues, bars and clubs open? Like what does fully open mean? Like? What does it mean? But the stars, businesses, um, you know, offices, theaters, they're gonna be able to operate at full strength. So full capacity we open, we we we lit, we back open and popping. Everything's open a hundred percent. I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm anna cancer, So I'm on first. Though it's not telled your life first, So it's not

right now, I won't even notice. I won't even notice if the city's open or not, because i'd be home. Well, formerly it was the COVID nineteen episenter. So right now they're on track to reopening. But there's still time because think about it, it's only isn't May yet, it's made tomorrow. Yeah, so we still have a Yeah, we still got a couple of months. So if anything crazy happens, I'm sure they'll shut it back down again. But now if we keep on going on track like we are, we'll be

back open July first. Now you can go back to Broadway, go to the theaters, tourism, So that's a big deal. I mean, I love the fact that people are going to be able to get back to work, especially Broadway and entertainment in New York City, because they've been shut in. New York is kind of built off of entertainment, you know, So the fact that they can get back to work, I'm happy for that. Yeah. But just because you open, no mean that people gonna you know, start frequenting your

functions and your venues. People still gonna be a little leary, you know. I think they're gonna come out. Like you look at some of those towns like Atlanta, like your Texas, like those towns, people are coming out. They never closed, they did close, so they were they were in the beginning closed. I don't think Florida ever close. But that is your front page news. All right, thank you, miss Ye. Now when we come back, Don Dixon will be joining us.

She's an entrepreneur she h. She works in tech, but she also helps other women and other minorities in tech get the money that they need. So we're gonna talk to her. And if you're in tech or you're curious about tech, this is a conversation for you, so don't move during Dixon. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

We have a special guest in the building. That's right, Don Dixon, welcome back, Good morning, Good morning. Done. You know how hot you got us among all our entrepreneurs. I know, it's like, how many people who hit me up with that had startups after you was on the first time. I wasn't. I don't know what happened. I wasn't paying no attention. What happened? Man? The viral effect

your audience is amazing. And after I came on and talked about my crowdfunding campaign, what two years ago, it went viral and I became the first female founder to raise over a million dollars. That's really just your whole audience. That is so amazing, because I want to say, when I first met doing, she was no joke. She was listening. I was on and I said this before I was at a restaurant. You popped up because I said I

was there. You would like, here's some of my flat out hills and look at you, like, that's just amazing because I love when I see people who are so passionate about a product that they have and it might take a while to get to where you got to, Like, how long ago did you start that flat out? It's ten years old this month, so that was probably eight years ago when I first met you. So how long did it take for you to turn a profit from that? Well, let's see, it took about two years to break even.

You know, I had to put a lot into research and development. Of course, getting a product made. I was making them China. So it took about two years, but we've been profitable for eight years now and now I was just really trying to scale it and grow it with the vending machines. Now, that was the original idea. It took me forever. I started a popcom because it flat out. And now our second flat out machines went live last night in Dallas and the big day for

entrepreneurs today. Yeah, you're good luck to me too. So I just want to thank you for coming up here. But let's talk about the vending machines and if you can explain to people the idea that you had and how it's been flourishing since. Yeah. So the original idea was, you know, ten years ago, I'm in the club, my feet hurt from wearing hills. I said, we need, you know, a way to rescue our feet, and so I said,

I'm gonna put some flats in vending machines. But after I did that in Club Live in Atlanta Airport and MGM Casino, I realized that in order to really grow

this business, I needed software. I needed technology, and so I started Popcom, which was the business that I came on and talked about before as well to really build the software and the technology to drive the machines, make them smarter, make them more intelligent, use facial recognition, blockchain, and really now anybody can sell anything in these machines. So it's flat out, flat out has two machines live now,

but we have an alcohol customer, a cannabis customer. We have twenty customers selling everything from you know, food to jewelry to T shirts to alcohol. Pandemic affected you, it's been good or bad because a lot of the venues have been closed. Yeah, you know what. The pandemic really we had to pivot, but that gave us an opportunity to go back and re engineer the product to make

it better. So we didn't launch last year like we were supposed to as far as having them out in twenty venues, but we did some important things like bring our supply chain from China to the United States, which was a big deal. We re engineered the machines and the materials so now you can use them with gloves or a pin or a stylish You don't have to touch the machines, you know, So that's like a COVID protection.

But we really added a new business model too. We had we added a leasing model, so now retailers are signing up so fast because they don't have to buy the machine anymore. So Covid did set us back, but it really set us back for the for the you know, it gave us time to not have to rush and to really meet the demand of the public better. Do you think that's where it's always going to stay in the vending machines or do you think it ever be like its own product? So flatouts they're sold online and

in stores and invending machines. But for Popcom, we're a software company, so we're really here for all retail I was just telling that informations. It's so valuable right too, for any company to have to be able to get all of that. That's what's really valuable too, not just having the machines, but having your customer profiles that's available.

And yes, I have my press juices during fest Juice, and the first thing I thought when we relaunched the juices was I gotta talk to Don when I get to that point about getting these machines them, because I think that would be great for like sporting venues and places like that in malls to be able to put that in those machines, and your machines look different too.

They do, so they count traffic, they tell how many people walk by, they tell your conversion rates, if the person is male or female, how long they spin there, and then that goes all into the dashboard. It's kind of like Google Analytics does. But for the consumer, it's the same experience. I go up to it, it's very fast, they shop, the product comes out and delivers ads and

really a customized, targeted experience. Now what do you do if you get something from a vendor machine and you would need to bring it back because you can't put it back in the vindo machine the same thing as e commerce you send it back. But we are building and they do have some coming to market return machine, so you literally can just put the product and deposit it back in there. So that's coming. But automation is growing. People are gonna be just be turning it empty. Stuff

don't say. But that's the thing. When you do things like that, you have to calibrate it for weight, So like when you return, you have to know the weight. And of course people are always coming up with some type of but the thing about having the machine is, we know who you are. You have to put your card in, so if you try it and try to scale us from somebody swipe your cards. Now, it was still a big year for you last year because you got married. I'm a newly way. I got married on

March sixteenth, the day the world shut down. We were like, hey, we're just gonna ride this out. We don't know it's about to happen, but we're getting married. And congrats on your daughter too. I see she's graduating at sixty daughter. Yeah, she finished high school at sixteen. She's homeschooled. So I'm really an outlier. I took my kid out of schools in second grade and homeschooler, and wow, she graduated early and now she's headed to art schools. What made you

do that? Because I think I think about that all the time. I always think about do I want white folks teaching my kids? You know, honestly, it's the system. What triggered me was I said, I don't want my daughter going to any school that celebrates Columbus Day because they're lying to her. And you know, a lot of our kids, their identity is taken away in these schools. I mean, I really feel like schools and even though I'm a public school graduate and all that, I feel

like schools are just factories for workers. They don't really encourage entrepreneurship, independent thinking. They don't share history. And I just said, you don't let me try something different and take her out and unschooled her. And so I'm also writing an ebook about this too, because when I posted that post, it just went viral also, and everybody's asking me how can they go about homeschool And now you see everyone's home anyway because of COVID, and so parents

are realizing like, okay, I can do this. But again, I'm a busy entrepreneur. She was not home every day all day. She went to co ops, you know, private teachers and tutors and programs. But she's so well rounded and I'm very grateful that I stuck with it. She's very social. Again, she went to co ops, so every day she would go with other homeschool kids. It'd be like fifty or more kids, girl scouts and camps and

after school programs at YMCA. I just made sure that she, you know, wasn't that awkward at home kid that the stereotype tells us. But she learns everything. She was balancing a checkbook at six years old. She knows how to you know, the things that we don't learn in school, the things that we need to know how to function in this world. She can do those things. And I feel really um. It was a chance, you know, I was taking a risk. It could have went either way,

and it worked out. We got more with doing Dixon. When we come back, Dope move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne, the guy we are to Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Dawn Dixon. Charlomagne. I want to ask you something about entrepreneurship. How do you how do you figure out if an idea is worth pursuing and launching. I do market research. I say, you know, can this make money? Because the point of being in Business week if you

just want to do a hobby that's a hobby. Is this gonna make money? Is it scalable? How much do I have to put into it as far as money and time. I've loved being independent and being remote and traveling, So if I got to be there in person, I don't think that's for me. So it has to just really make sense. It has to be a market for the demand, and I have to be able to differentiate my product or service from everybody else's. And once I

find that mix, I run with it. When it comes to investing, there's a lot of people who are like, Okay, I want to invest in something. How do you determine whether there's something's a good investment. So I am an angel investor myself. I've invested in fifteen companies over the past couple of years, and it goes back to just what I think about when I'm starting a business is scalable, How's it going to make money? How are they going

to return my money? You know? So people sometimes think, oh, investors, that they're helping me and this is not a favor. They want it back. So if I can be sure how I'm going to get this money back. Do they have a solid founder or solid plane go to market strategy, do they have a customer base? And then then I'll invest Because it's a numbers game. You know, I put

out a lot of money. It's not going to all come back, but a couple of things are gonna hit really big, and then it'll balance it out, and that's we can't be scared to let that money go. We gotta put it to work. The banks aren't going to make money for us right sitting it in the bank, So I just take my money and spread it out

and see work. I always say that too, if there's too much money in the bank, I'm not doing something right because you have to have your money out working or after just sitting there making three dollars a month. What are your thoughts on like crowdfunding, Like when I think your crowdfund it always think it's a one time thing, but you said you constantly do it. Yeah. So after I came here and we broke the record and oversubscribe,

so I did another round. So I raised a million again in twenty twenty, and that oversubscribe, so now I'm raising again. It just keeps carrying over. So we're we have active rounds open for Popcom now and then Flat Out of Hills has a round open on start Engine. So crowdfunding is a way to continue to capitalize your business. You don't have to go to banks, you don't have to go to venture capital if you don't want to.

I mean, I do have a mix I have venture capital dollars and I have now three point five million from crowdfunding. When I came here that day, I had like two hundred thousand. So I mean, again, thank you for your using your platform. But as you see, since I did that, so many other people have been able to raise money. And I think it's because this platform here, the Breakfast Club, increase awareness to people that you can invest in things outside of New York Stock Exchange, outside

of the Nazadeck that are early stage companies. And you know, my friend Isaac was on here and they're killing it. You know, how do you determine if you have a company, if you want to take money from a venture capitalists? Are there times when you're willing to give up a percentage of your company? Because I know ownership is really important to us. But when do you say, Okay, I don't mind giving up twenty percent for this investment. It

has to be what they're bringing to the table. If they're gonna if you give up twenty percent and they're going to get you business, they're going to help you grow your team, they're gonna give you money, it makes sense. I would never give up twenty percent of my business in one in one take. It just doesn't make sense for me. But I think you have to always weigh what are you going to get for that and what

are the terms? Terms are very important. You know, people often confuse equity with control, and you always have to make sure you keep control. Even if you sell equity and you get people have shares in it, you can't give up the control where you make the ultimate decisions. So that comes in the kind of shares that you issue. So a lot of black people are scared, like I

don't want anybody to take off my company. You can still have people on fifty percent of your business, but if you have majority control, like a Mark Zuckerberg, he'll never get voted out of Facebook. He has all of the control. They can't kick him out. If you build your operating agreement to where you maintain control when your shares, then you can still take money. So that's the important part,

equity versus control. What if Cardi B was like, Okay, I love Flat Hill and you know I'm always wearing my heels and I love these and I want you know, I want to invest, but and I'll also be an ambassador, but I want twenty percent. Would that be something you would entertain party. Yes, you can understand that. Blow it up, yeah, blow it up. So it's like if it'll turn the business. I mean, you know, like she said, they got something

to sell, they say my name, say my name. Yes, I got something to sell, so people will buy it and it will increase the brand value. So if someone can come in your brand and increase the value of your business quickly, again having ten percent or you know, one hundred percent of one thing versus ten percent of a big value. So if you're increasing the overall value of my business, I still don't lose. Do you ever start a company with the intent to sell it. I'm

selling all of my business, okay, you know. I feel like my greater impact is creating generational wealth, being able to exit and be able to read invest in the communities into people, and I need liquid to do that, so I'm selling all of it. That's the part people don't talk about because they always want to have conversations about equity. But then when somebody sell the portion of their business, sell it. But you need the capital. You need the capital to do more things. The matter who

you sell it to. It does matter who I sell it to. I definitely will sell it to someone that will continue the vision and definitely be able to represent what I've built, But at the same time, you can't control it once you give it up. What's more important to me is my now five thousand investors seeing liquidity

for them. And my dream is to have the largest black wealth creation event in history, because when I exit my company, all of these people that invest it will exit along with me, and that'll be an influx of capital into the community. And that's more important to me than having a business that I'm holding onto that's worth a billion dollars but no one else is making money.

How the business is qualified if you feature in pop Shop vending machine, it's a program called pop Shop Local on our website popcom dot shop and they can apply, and we're looking for retailers in twelve markets right now, and they lease it. It's five hundred dollars a month. It's we place it, We do all the work for them.

And our goal is really to help the retailers that we're hurting last year to get back out there and get into new places, to get more exposure and really be a pipeline to help smaller brands expand and grow nationally internationally using our vending machines. You say you got five thousand investors, so do you get people equity in Yes, and see that's why Isaac does. And I think that's so smart, and I think that's why people support y'all

so much. I think that's the difference between what y'all do as opposed to some people who just say, hey, you give me some money so I can get my business gone. Yeah, that's the key. People want something for it. Everybody is always looking out for their best interests first, so why not make it an offer they can't refuse. So, yes, we definitely give equity. But I have the control I have.

I have one hundred percent of the voting shares. I have a board, so we you know, I don't abuse my power, but I have the control, and um, you know, I do monthly updates. My investors are very happy. But yeah, we're out about five thousand right now and three point five million raids and we're still raising. We're raising another two million right now. Do you put a cap on it at some point? Yes, I'm stopping at that four million, So it's at one point three million today. Last time

I checked. So I'm stopping at that four million. And you know, it's important for me to open up my business for the community because, like I said, it's early stage investment. When I came here the first time, my company was worth eight million dollars. Now it's worth thirty two million. So all those people that invested then, they already are growing, they're gaining and we are only have two machines in the market. We have twenty more coming out.

So if anyone understands business valuation, as your revenue grows, the value of the company increases, the value of your shares increases. The shareholders, you know, they they walk away happy. So that's my goal. Let me buy some shares before we editing. I told you that last time. You know, you would have double triple your investment by now. For how can people donate if they wounded up, not donate

but invest, How can they invest? What site can they go? Definitely, so they can go to start engine dot com, Forward slash popcom to invest in the technology side, the vending machine side, and if they're interested in fashion and flat out. Flatout has a campaign to start Engine dot Com, Forward Slash flat Out. Their minimum lenimum investment for popcom is two hundred and fifty in the minimum for flat out

as one hundred and sixty. So easy, you know, pair of nikes, you can have some equity dollars, sixty dollars dollars. And next time you come, we're gonna have our drink fast juice and we have the coveting machine. I'm already thinking about where we're gonna put. It's gonna be amazing and we'll help you. We could put. I think hotels will love it too. Um. Hotels are letting us have free placement because they see it as an amenity. As of course, the hotel gift shops are closed, the restaurants

are closed. So if anyone has like a really good juice or a good snack that you can put in a machine, hotel else need these things. Absolutely. Thank you for joining us this morning. Always a pleasure and I'm going good. Yes, please invest All right, Well, it's Dawn Dixon is the breakfast club for morning carry everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to breakfast club. Good morning that morning, Happy Friday, Happy Friday. Man.

What y'all got planned for the weekend. Anything good. I'm gonna be in Detroit because I have my wholesale day at my store, Private Label Extensions on eight milin de Quinder. So you are in Detroit and you want to come out and buy some bundle, some wigs, some extensions, some lashes, whatever we got you. Okay, you'll be in the D. I'm sure envy will beyond one what you got playing this weekend and no, no D this weekend. Actually, I'm gonna be in Tampa. Shout to everybody out in Tampa.

Bucks Seventh in Groves. It's a club, a restaurant that I'm gonna be at. This one of the only black owned restaurant and bars out there, So I'll be out there supporting them Seventh to grow this weekend. Then, of course Sunday in New Jersey is my real estate seminar where we try to teach our community how to get into the real estate game, whether it's purchasing their first

crib or purchasing an investment property. And we bring everybody there, so we bring credit repair lenders, real estate agents, hard money lenders. Everything that you need to purchase the first crib, we bring it to you. So that way you have to look for it. You don't have to pay ridiculous costs. They're there to talk to you. So that's what we do in a weekend. What about you. I don't have

anything that exciting, man. I'm just excited that we're about twelve days away from Tamika Mallory State of Emergency, how to Win in the Country We Built. It is her first book. It's the first book released on my book imprint, Black Privilege Publishing on Atriassignment and shust So I'm just excited about that. Man. I'm excited for everybody that's been pre ordering her book and I just can't wait for

it to hitch stares. I can't wait for you know, y'all to get this information that Amica Mallory has put in these pages of a State of Emergency, how to Win in the Country We Built. So make sure y'all go pre order that. She's gonna I know she's gonna come on the Breakfast Club, right, she will be on the Breakfast Club the date, Oh yes she is. That's all right. Well, we got rumors on the way. What we're talking about, Well, let's talk about the city girls.

They were unrespectfully justin and let's talk about how much of a man spend on the first date. All right, we'll get into high after this interview. The bar is high after this interview. Guys, it's the Breakfast Clogal model. She's filling the team. This is the rumor report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well, the City girls were on, respectfully Justin and one of the things that they talked about Young Miami was discussing how when she

first started south Side, he took her furniture shopping. Listen to this, I ain't gonna I want a home now yards the first day, like me shopping, Give me some ones and we're not me forever. Crest me. That's the first day. And on the first date. What you cause? Well, when I first down my baby Dady, he took me to the furniture Stowe and my appurniture and this time cament like sixty thou because I had like a little townhouse.

What's the problem south Side, south Side of the thousand on the first day, let's go south Side acting his wage. You can't say, let's go because everybody got to act in a wage. South Side got that kind of money. If you're a person that don't have fifty thousand dollars. You know, you act your wage. You spend what you can spend. South Side was acting his wage. That's not. That's not a generalization for all men. Now okay, that's

south Side high Now you know it's not. That's for south Side's rich, for people who got money, not not not the regular joke. So what do you think is an average amount of money you should spend on the first day? Whatever you can afford, a way you can afford. Absolutely all right? And now JT is dating little USI ver as you know. And here's what you had to say about her boot. I have a good man, like

I didn't even know he was a good man. I was hi for like almost two years before you thought he wasn't before you and I have a good with me and like he bringing down he remember one? What's it son here? Leo? Don't look at my men. Don I don't know much about Leo's but I'm saying you might want to get you a leal, might want to get you a leout. They might test you at first. What does the test with a leal look like? Um? Hey, my patience, why are you smiling while are you about

you really love that? Man? Yeah, I'm ka city girls. You know what I was thinking about too, Man, I was thinking about like when I lived in Columbia, South Carolina, and I had to h I bought a furniture set from this furniture store and it was a thousand dollars and I had to make and I had to make payments on it on hundred. So I'm just simply saying, everybody act their wage because a thousand dollar furntitures says

I am. I feel like I feel like you shame people with regular pockets just a little bit, just to tad you know, fifty thousand, that's what it should be. No, it's not. What are you talking about. Some people make that a year. I'm just saying this to get you upset. Just calm down, Okay, my first he's really upset. Its head is shining. You know, we don't want a regular pocket ching all right now. Tianna Taylor is talking about

why she retired. She was on Cam newton Sip and Smoke interview series and she was saying, and of course it was shocking to us when she said she wanted to retire because she's a really dope artist and when it comes to everything, when it comes to acting, dancing, performing, saying all of that. So here's what you had to say about why she felt like she needed to retire. I put in a lot of work. So if you feel on her and unseen, I take that serious everything

that I do. So if you're my husband or I'm signed to do that. Everybody that I'm aligned which should see me, they should hear me, they should feel me. And if you don't see me, hear me or feel me's a dope for you. And I felt like, you know, the label wasn't really hearing me and seeing me. I felt underappreciated. It's not that I retired permanently. Is more like, you know, I just don't feel like I want to move another inch for a company that ain't pulling in

your same direction. That's what I'm saying now. It's that good music or deaf damn are both probably both. Look I think you know at some point you have to appreciate what what what God has given you do. I feel like labels have dropped the ball on Tiana Taylor. Absolutely, it's Tiana Taylor is still a star. Tiana Taylor has a great career, she makes a great living. We know she's super talented. You know, it just it just hasn't happened yet for whatever reason. But even that sounds crazy

to say it hasn't happened yet. She's achieved, she has achieved a lot more success than the average person exactly in the music business. So I want to say that at least she said she's not retired permanently. Yeah, I wonder who she's comparing herself to, you know what I mean, Because if you're if she's comparing herself to other people, you're comparing yourself to the Rihanna's and the Beyonce. He's like, there's only two of them. But Tiana has a great career.

She does. But you know what it is that she puts out these songs and these videos that should be bigger than what they do become right like they get the buzz, but it feels like it should be and then you're like, where's the disconnect? All right? Now, now let's talk about fifty cent and Jah Rule. Of course, fifty cent has something to say about this. There was a story saying that jar Rule and his wife are

being sued by the irs. Reportedly for three million dollars and that is for a tax debt that's spanning twelve years of cost. Fifty cent posted and said, you gotta pay your taxes full. He just can't. I was, and you know what's crazy, and it's sad. Every time you see something like that, you know, fifties gonna have something to say. Like you see the jar Rule story and you're like, what's fifty about to say? I'll be feeling fifty because fifties a cancer like me and something had

fifty triggers yesterday. I don't know what fifty saw yesterday that had him thinking of f murder ink, but he posted about Ja Rule and EARV Gotti yesterday. Something triggered him. I'm not the same way. You know, you just be cooling out and then all of a sudden you just see something from one of your enemy and you're like, oh, then you know, you just feel like jabbing a little bit. Who you jab at? Bubble? I don't have no enemies. Well I have enemies. They don't like me. Okay, all right,

now let's talk about every single hour. DJ Khalid, you know, his album Khalid Khalid is out today and in a tribute to the collaboration with jay Z and Nas. Sorry not Sorry. Jay Z went on title and did a playlist filled with his favorite NAS songs as a salute to NAS. So that's pretty dope, and we're about to play that now. This this is a new a component of the heart stimulus package for chal never heard the angel stories into the song. This is new. I like

it because it sounds organic. I like it. It is a it actually is organic. I decided to do it this morning. Come on it stop it is. We're playing them every hour, and there are stories that go with some of the songs we're playing. So I figured it just makes sense. Let's get it on. It's Khalid's featuring Nas and jay Z off that album. You could stream

it right now. We're gonna play top of the album and then and then Charlotage, who are giving that donkey you we need South Carolina said that Tim Scott and Madam Vice President Kamala Harris to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a world war Harris. Really yes, indeed, all right, anybody could get it up here.

It's the Breakfast slogal morning, So Breakfast Club, your morning's will never be the same Angela here and the General Insurance understands that stuff happens, including lapses in auto coverage. At the General, they make it easy to get reinstated and we'll work with you to keep you covered. Called eight hundred General or go to the General dot com to find out more. Some restrictions apply. Don't be out here actel like a donkey. It's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm a big boy. I could take it

if you feel I'll deserve it. Ain't no big deal. I know Charlotmagny got grow out funny. You gotta say something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I'm needing. He's getting that donkey don't that, don't don't don't, don't don't donkey other day right there the breakfast club bitches, you can call me the donkey of the day, but like well, donkey today for Friday, April thirty, off goes the South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and Miam Madam Vice

President Kamala Harris. Let the record show I know both these individuals. I actually enjoy both these individuals. I've done a couple of events with Tim Scott, sat up in his office on Capitol Hill, chopping it up with him. We've done lunch in at eight for three, Charleston dropping a Clues, bond Ford aight for three. Okay, I've done. I did several events with Vice President Harris when she

was running for president. I've been with Vice President Harris and Goose Creek, South Carolina, assisted her and unveiling her mental health plan. I've been with her at South Calina State quite a few places. Okay. I've had on air, off air conversations with both of them. I actually would call both of them homies. Okay. I enjoy both of them.

Don't agree with all their politics, but as humans, the exchanges of energy I've had with them, I liked them, and that's why I'm so disappointed there, I say, disgusted with both of them on this fine Friday morning. Now to other night, President Joe Biden delivered his first address before a joint session of Congress. After that was over sended attempt, Scott, the only black person in the Senate, gave a rebuttal on behalf of the GOP and he got put on the social media skewer. I mean they

grilled and sauteed his ass rightfully. So for these comments he made about racing America. Listening, I get called uncle Tom and the inn word by progressives, by liberals. Believe me, I know firsthand our healing is not finished. A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic, and if they

looked a certain way, they were inferior. Today, shoes are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again, and if they look a certain way, they're an oppressor. From colleges, to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all. Hear me. Clearly, America is not a racist country. I disagree. Okay, but here's the interesting thing

about Tim Scott's rebuttle. Clearly Tim didn't get ahold of Joe Biden's speech beforehand, because Biden didn't really focus on a race. He didn't say America was a racist country. I mean, Biden is the same person that whenever there is blatant racism, he says, this is not America. I mean,

but he didn't really focus on racing his speech. About an hour and some change into his speech, he spoke briefly about the death of George Floyd and how he wanted to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people they served. And Biden did say he wants to root out systemic racism and our criminal justice system. But that's about it. So for Tim Scott to take his ass on TV and tell all these white people that America is not a racist country is a slap in the

face to all of us in the lower cast system. Tim, your West African ancestants who came through gapsins Wolf and Chawton, South Carolina are rolling over in their shallow graves. Tim Scott said, kids are being taught that the color of their skin defines them. Again, Tim, when did it stop? Okay, when has there been a time in America when people have not been defined by the color of their skin? Tim, you said, progressives call you the N word. You know how they call you the N word for no other

reason than the color of your skin. I mean, it almost feels like discussing slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, mass incarceration, the War on drugs, all the data and research that have extensively documented the ways in which black people are underrepresented, and everything that matters and overrepresented, and everything that's wrong are the extensive data that documents the different treatment blacks experience,

you know, than white's. You know, it feels like even saying that it's silly because you know that, Okay, it's racial disparities in America and wealth, education, employment, homeownership, healthcare, incarceration, and it's all because of America's original racist sin, slavery. But Tim, you know that you're just on TV trying

to appease Republican white voters. And that is exactly what our Madam Vice President Kamala Harris did yesterday too when she said virtually the same thing when she was asked about Tim Scott's comments on Good Morning America. Listen, first of all, no, I don't think America is a racist country, but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today.

And I applaud the President for always having the ability and the courage, frankly, to speak the truth about it. He spoke what we know from the intelligence community, one of the greatest threats to our national security is domestic terrorism manifested by white supremacist and so these are issues that we must confront and it does not help to heal our country, to unify us as a people, to ignore the realities of that. And the idea is that we want to unify the country, but not without speaking

truth and requiring accountability as appropriate. Well, if you speak in truth, if you can't start off by seeing America is not a racist country, Vice President Harris. In my mind, I'm like, who on Vice President Harris is comms team is asleep at the will. I mean, you saw Tim Scott get barbecued for those same comments on social media. So if the VP, who is a woman of color, is doing interviews the next day, you know she's probably

gonna be asked about this. The one thing a comms team should have prepped her on is VP Harris, whatever you do, don't say America is not a racist country. But I can't even really blame the comms team for this, because no black person, no person of color, who is not a tool for white supremacy, should fail this question. When you black, the answer too, is America a racist country? Should be one win, be one answer, and you should channel your inner little John when you say it. That's it.

And this is what discussed me about this I've had conversations with Vice President Harris. Oh not Vice President Harris, Senator Harris and Tim Scott. They both know systemic racism exists. Okay, they both know America is a racist country, and they are choosing not to speak truth to power because they are playing politics. Vice President of Harris, I know you're thinking about the future, but you're trying to appease a bunch of white voters who would never vote for you anyway.

I will never understand why Democrats continue to seek to support a group of people who would rather vote to keep their hierarchy in the cast system than to vote for what's right. Okay, trust me, Democrats, there are enough good white people in this country who are not racist, who are not biggest, who are not white nationalists, who will support y'all in every election. And if you do right by the oppressed and marginalized and stop voting suppression,

you will always have a big enough take to win elections. Okay. Did we not prove that with President Barack Obama? Did we not prove that with President Joe Biden. These comments that America is not a racist country make zero sense because both you and Tim, out of one side of your mouth say America is not a racist country. But then, Tim, you say this in twenty fifteen, after the shooting of Walter Scott, I wrote a bill to fund body cameras.

Last year, after the deaths of Brianna Taylor and George Floyd, I built an even bigger police reform proposal, but my Democratic colleagues blocked it. Okay, Tim, why is your police reform named after a black person, Walter Scott? Why did name to other black people? You know in your speech it's because black people are three times more likely than white people to be killed by police in some places

in this country. Five times, Kamala, you said America is not a racist country, but then you're going to say, we have to explain the history of racism in this country. Listen, because I know both of y'all stop the bs. Okay, now is not the time for politics. People are dying. Tell the truth. Shame the white devil. I repeat the Zora Neil Hurston quote all the time because it's true. If you're silent about your pain, they will kill you

and say you enjoyed it. Okay, Kamala, After Tim's rebuttal, you had an opportunity to be load load about the pain black people are currently feeling and have felt in this country. But you chose to be silent. Okay, you could have said everything you said after saying America is not a racist country, and that would have been supersilid. But when you say America is not a racist country, you make everything else null and void after that. Here's the moral of the story. The rhetoric y'all spewed this

week has been getting us killed for years. This is why white folks think we'll be making stuff up in regards the racism. This is why some white folks don't think systemic racism is real because our leaders in the highest seats in the land are telling them things like America is not a racist country. Nobody has to fix anything. If our leaders are telling them it's not broken. If America is not a racist country, then what are we

complaining about? What are we fighting to change? If America is not a racist country, And if America is not a racist country, then why are all these negative things disproportionately happening to black people? Find out next time on Dragon Harvey. Please give standard to Tim Scott and Vice President Kamala Harris. The biggest he hall and the liberal hypocrisy. It is deafening because you have to keep the same energy from Stintar to Tim Scott that you keep a

vice president Kamala Harris. You have to they said the same thing. All right, well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Now when we come back the city, girls, they had some interesting to some things to say about guys with small packages. Let's hear and you finally, really he isn't packing the way you thought he was. He loved you here, good, He really just got the shrimp rowing them back. Good lawyer, just not man need to be sexually it's the first day. No, I mean, I'm

been environing. He treating like a spoiling might have put you on them jets you're talking about. And you find out the other shrimp of the end what you're gonna lock in with him, but still just cheat on him because he ain't doing time. All right, Well, let's open the phone up. Eight hundred five eight five, one oh five one. What's the question? Ye you're gonna get me to ask this one, you know you ask it? All right, ladies, what do you do if your man's or your boyfriend's

package is too small? Do you cheat? Fellas? Let's say you you know, what do you do if you're man's package is too small? We'll talk to Charlemagne as well when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning. It's freaky Friday. Goddamn, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's Friday, so you know what that means. It's freaky, freaky, freaky Friday. Today's freaky, freaky freaky Friday

question comes from the City Girls. They were with Justin Leboy on his show with Justin as well. It's called what's it called? Respectfully? Respectfully Justin with Justin and Justin Colmes, and this is what they said. And you finally realize he isn't packing the way you thought he was. He loved you here, good night, he really he just got the shrimp growing them back, good lawyer, just not need to be sexually. It's the first day. No, I mean,

I'm been environing. He treating like a spoiling might have put you on them jets. You talk about and you find out the other shrimp of the end. What you're gonna lock in with him, but still just cheat on him because he ain't doing time. So we're asking eight hundred five eight five one on five one, what do you do if you're the person that you're talking to their package is too small? Let's start with you. Ye um, Well, first of all, I wouldn't be with somebody if I

didn't want to write. So if if they were small, that means I made a decision to make that person my man. And if we're together, I guess I gotta deal with it. He's got to be able to do other things, you know, And there's certain positions you can get into where you can actually make it more pleasurable for yourself. Because I have, at one point in my life dated somebody who was really small and it didn't last,

but I didn't cheat. M what about you, Drama? And so you would kind of be really mad if somebody cheats on you and they're small. You're like, how dare you right? What about you? Charlemagne or Drama? You agree? You agree emby He said, right, that's right, right, you know that's right. It's up and it's stuck. I know that's right, and I do I do find them ben smaller. I do find that men with mother penises like they

kind of wait to have sex with you. They want to really befriend you first and like be real cool, and then that way you feel like a little bit more empathetic. Well, let the record show this is your uncle Charlotte talking. I think this is so unfair. See, men can't do anything about having a small penis. You know, you can get Magna r X pills or whatever whatever penis enhancement pills you can get. You can do scratching exercises, but you can't do anything about the size of your penis. Okay.

Women can go out and get enhancements to make themselves bigger. Guys cannot. Also simply, don't marry me if you don't like the size of my penis. If if the size of my penis is that much of a deal breaker where you're going to go out and do something that's gonna cause me to divorce you anyway, don't marry me. Oh my goodness, you ain't talking about trigger Okay, sorry, because you don't. Don't you gotta crush on trade songs? No,

you're a lot. Let just say that he has a crush on Maxwell, Oh, Maxwell, Okay, just make stuff up. You have a crush on trade songs. But let's go to the phone lines. You don't want to answer, Amy. They used to call you shrimp back in the day. Yeah, you nicknamed DJ shrimp Envy because I was shorter than you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you change your wording any other time. I asked you why they call you shrimp. You say it's because I was small. I say it, You say it you I

was short. They called me shrimp because I was smaller than shot cut it and then called shrimp small. He said it. No, I did not. All right, let's get let's get your phone line for loving you in spite of shut up. Hello, who's this hey, Jeffrey. Yeah, I want to say I have a brick, but your boyfriend has a small package. No, no, no, Charlomann said, what's your ig? Let them talk? I just I just I just messed with women. But what I'm saying is what if I and and my leg gets cut off in

the cars? Does she say? Then? You mean you mean if your penis gets cut off in a car accident? Leg, what's your leg got to do with your penis? So she's saying she's smashing me by the by the length of my penis, but my legs get cut off in the cars. Is she gonna cheat off? I think I probably not, because then we can really maneuver you to get in a different positions with you. You probably got a big package because God didn't give you much brains.

Because you sound you sound crazy. Thank you for calling, sir, Yeah, funding a wheelchair? Goodness, gracious. Hello, who's this? Yeah, this is Terrence Festal from Miami. All these guys you're talking about your penis size. Hey, hey, yo, but it's not

about my penis size, about communicating, man. So if you're not happy with the penis side, then I hearing in your voice you got a small penis, bro, It's okay if you agree the penis whisper If you want to you know, you know what I'm saying, So you just tell them. I like you. I think you're a great person. But this not don't work. You don't have to cheat. It time to communicate. It's a polyamous world, right now.

I agree with you, King, because the truth is, if I got a small penis and we get married and then you cheat on me, I'm a divorce you so you're gonna lose you know the rest of the good man that I am. So we don't even put me in that position. Okay, all right? Eight undread five eight five one oh five one. Uh. We got this topic from the City Girls. They were saying if they dated a man with a small penis, they would probably cheat. So we're asking what would you do? It is the

breakfast club, Good morning morning. Everybody is cej Envy, Angela Schelomin the guy. We are to breakfast club now if you just join us. We're talking about an interview that City Girls did with respectfully Justin and they talked about if their man had a small pack. Well, let's listen, and you finally realize he isn't packing the way you thought he was. He loved you here, good he really he just got the shrimp growing them back. Good lawyer,

just not man need to be sexually it's the first day. No, I mean, I'm been environment. He treated like a spoiling might have put you on them jets you talk about and you find out the other shrimp of the what you're gonna lock in with him? But still just cheat on him because he ain't doing eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If the person you would dating had a small package, what would you do? Now?

This trigger Charlemagne. He was stumbling. My penis is seven inches three fourth eight when it's warm out, So that mean when it gets I'm about to be packing that eight inches and about another month when it is consistently hot. I'm so solid out here. Oh my godness. Let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? Hey? This is your Hey, Hey tree morning, Hey, how are you guys doing? Good morning? Good morning? Good morning? What that so? What's

your what's your thoughts on this? Have you ever been with somebody with a small penis? Okay, listen, guys, I'm actually from pa Um, but I live right now in Dealing, South Carolina, Dealing and the penis trot want to close bombs four four three? That's right, um, period, the penis down here huge, um to the point where it's to day thing. That's right baby here. Let's tell you that's why Scharlomie was to go back so bad. No, that's why I know, because I got a night Bowl game

at home grown penis. Let's talk about continue continue home. Listen, I believe Honestly, I kind of believe it's where where you're at in your age, where you're at in your life. Um, I'm in my mid thirties right now, and I probably would cheat. I probably would cheat Mike Random, my best friends, she's from PA. If she tries to get me out of the situation, like you need to find love, you're

gonna be forty soon, you know, things like that. But this South Carolina, the South Carolina cucumber, it's like the best South of Arden. You hear you, you heard it, You hear her. You'll see y'all south here, you'll see it. Okay, Well, thank you Mama, thank you Trees. I just want everybody to know that Charlemagne the guy will be in South Carolina looking for you guys, Friday, May seventh. First of all, I'm South Carolina University campus. He's gonna be South Carolina State.

But yes, I will be finished doing his commencement. He's looking for you. No, first of all, I don't have to look for nobody. I am South Carolina. It would sound like me. Okay, you heard her. Don't get jealous. You ain't never heard nobody call up and say, dudes and queen's got the biggest packages. All right, South Carolina, we're out here. You think for three is an area? Calle? No, that's our inches. What take that clip? Dudes and queens

have the biggest package. That's right. This guy, this guy's going to South Carolina looking for all you guys. All right, let's go to another caller. Hello, who's this? Hi? This is full Hey CHRISTI what are you calling from? From Houston? Texas? All right? Everything big in Texas? Hell? Yeah? All right? All right? So what would you do if you started eating a guy and he had a small package. Mama, I wouldn't immediately cheat on him because me being a fun size woman, I used to be that girl. It

gotta be figged. It ain't gonna work. Guy that actually had a really small package, But this stroke was real. Okay, you can have a package. Yeah, you just can't put back to me to believe it or not, Charlemagne. You can. You can actually have a decent stroke with a small package where if they try to like move to far back and slides out a look at you. I'm not gonna lie if I if I had a small penis, I would like probably like rub like a shirt on it, so like when I stick it in and be like

some static energy. So at least she jumped once. These are things you thought of before, and these are things you did before, like nobody would think about that good and that mouth all point out. I didn't know you could have a scroll with a small Penis you learned something new every day? All right? Well, thank you. What's the more of the story, guys. The more of the story is brothers in South Carolina is packing. You heard trees dropping the clues bombs from treats out here in

these streets. All right, I'm just trying to be humbled on the radio all these years. But whatever, now, whatever cat out the back, Okay, Samos, just know that Charlemagne told me he's building a house of South Carolina. He's building businesses, He's moving back, and he's doing a commencement next week. Why do y'all keep saying I'm moving back? I never left. No, we obviously you know because now we know why you never left. And yes, I am

doing the commencement. I'm doing the commencement speech at South Carolina State University next Friday, May seventh, which is big because that's my mother's alma mater. And you know it's also Mother's Day weekend, so you know, God, God is the best divine planners. The southing, the state University, the Bulldogs. Baby, no, that's stalking. That's when my wife graduated from Gold Cox. Okay, so whenever you think about Gold, think about the big

penisman in South Carolina tries put you on drama. Okay, weird? All right? All right? Ye well you got roomors on the way. Um, yeah, let's talk about shock on the all the smoker, I'm not a big one. What what what you want? I am so sorry, Shack. I know she had this conversation. I don't know why he just screened that out while we were talking about penises. Gracious, but we'll be back with that on the room of a play good. It's gracious. The breakfast club going on it?

The breakfast club. Oh god, it's a romp all right now. Sierra and Russell Wilson have surprised some students in Seattle. They donated more than thirty five thousand dollars so that each student can start with forty dollars and their own personal savings account. And that's from middle school students. I think that's really dope because they've done all these studies right the show that when kids have bank accounts at an early age, it means that they'll be end up

being better with money as they get older. Russell Wilson love at its dope. It's Financial Literacy Month, and Russell Wilson said, financial literacy and building wealth is so important. Sierra and I really wanted to talk to you all because we didn't come from much, and we had big visions and we had big goals and big dreams. So amazing. All right, now, let's talk about the twenty twenty one Billboard Music Award nominees and guests. Who is leading all

the finalists in these awards? That would be The Weekend. So he's a finalist in sixteen different categories, followed by the Base Baby. He has eleven nominations. And yeah, that's why, that's that's why artists should never care about any awards shows validation, salute to the Weekend. Remember the Grammy snub the Weekend, which I was gonna say, yeah, but we all thought that was crazy because we know that the Weekend should have gotten a bunch of bunch of awards.

But look at Billboard. They got it right. So you shouldn't put stock in any of that stuff. Just create. Man, that's it all right. So what's the top rap album? Okay, if you have to choose the Baby, blame it on Baby Juice, World Legends, Never Die, Little Baby My Turn, Little Usie verd Eternal or Take and pop Smoke, Shoot for the Stars, Aimed for the Moon, Little Baby My Turn. I think Pop Smoke, you're you're a New York bias and you're just being ridiculous. Little Baby in My Turn?

How many records pop Smoke on the charts? This ship, with all the records that he did, he had about at least five or six number one records, four or five, No, five or six number one? I said, four or five number one records? Have four or five? Yeah, the one with the one with the baby, A little Baby, I believe little babying that that was the number one, Yes, that was. It was a number one record. I know the number one. And there was another one, the girl record,

I think with TJ. I don't know, but I'm still going on a Little Baby My Turn A little it was incredible. I think the little Baby, Little Babies My Turn was twenty twenty. Listen, you know My Turn was twenty twenties most popular album of any musical genre period. Movid, Taylor Swift and Everybody sold more Everybody, but forget that. The record was just better. I'm going a Little Baby, my Turn. We'll see. Yes, of course, I listen to popible album. You think pole album is better a little Baby.

This is all subjective for you all. You guys have different opinions, so it's fine. Okay, they all got nominated, so they're all worthy of winning. It's all a matter of opinion too. By the way, all right, now, let's talk about Shack. He was on the All the Smoke podcast, and amongst the things that he spoke about was joining in Miami Heat with Dwayne Wade. Here's what he said. When I got to d Wade, I was like, I

know you heard all the stories. Sure the team. Well, I shouldn't have did in LA now that I'm thinking about it, so we ain't have any problem. You're the man, You're the CEO. I'll be the consultant. I didn't even know who he was, so while we're in the playoffs, I'm watching him go at Baron Davis I'm like, who is this? So then when the Lakers talking about playing with me, I was like, I know where I want to go. Yeah, I want to go play with him.

So as soon as we got to the first day, I said, look, man, you heard this, You heard that me and you ain't gonna have no problem. You're the man now. He also talked about learning about Kobe passing, and here's what I had to say about that. One damn down stairs working out with my youngest son, Shaquiera, and one of my other son comes in in the gyman. He's crying, so I'm like, my mom, okay, your mom, okay, my kids okay, And then I see the Kobe thing. So now I'm like, it got to be a hoax.

And then the coach just kept coming in and then you go watch TV and just hit it put me in. I should have mowed. I should have spent more time with my sister. I should have reached out the young fellow. I should have just called to just check on, and you know, things like that you can never get back. Listen. I love the All the Smoke podcast. I'm not being biased because they're on the Black Effect. I heart radio podcast network. I loved them before. They get some great

conversations out of people. And it's interesting that he said he wished he would have said that to Kobe as far as like, this is your team, this is your CEO. Like I wonder what made him. I wonder what made him get to Miami and realize he had to check his ego, Like, I wonder why he felt to do that to Dwayne Wade but not not Kobe at the time. That's what I would want to know, all right. Well, if you listen to the fold episode, you can also hear him talk about his top five rappers, top five

basketball players, and top five at dinner guests. I'm ana like yee and that is your rumor report, all right, thank you, miss Yea. Also, I want to say pop Smoke has the longest running number one on top R and B and Hip Hop albums charts nineteen ninety Bro Little Baby, Little Baby had the most popular album of twenty twenty of any musical genre. You know how big that is in a year when Taylor Swift came out. He has the longest running number one since nineteen ninety.

Nineteen ninety, the long number one R and B and you guys, one last thing before we get out of this. Shout out to DJ khalid As promises new album is Alice, and I make sure you check out that new video for his single Sorry Not Sorry, featuring Nuys James and jay Z. And I don't know who's right or wrong, but Billboard says Pop Smoke has zero number one hits

and one top ten hit. Billboard dot Com says, see, I don't know, but I love both their albums and I'll be happy for either one of those who, guys win. So shout to Pop Well, rest in peace, Pop Smoker, shout the little Baby. All right, well let's get into the mix. It's the breakfast Club, Go Morning Now. In case you missed it, last night, Mountain Dew announced the winners of the Real Change Opportunity Fun Pitch Competition Now.

It's a competition designed to give a platform to up and coming black entrepreneurs in an effort to discover, challenge, and uplift this next generation of black innovators that Mountain Dew believes entrepreneurs are the keys to building up black owned businesses and shrinking the historic wealth gap. Mountain Dew partner with HBCUs across the country to create the Real Change Opportunity Fund pitch competition focused on providing resources, programming,

and funding for black entrepreneurs. Now I had the pleasure of serving on the panel and hearing these pitches. So I'm excited to introduce Jeff, Josh, and Fammy, who were announced as the grand prize winners last night with their business Event No Air. So congratulations fellas, thank you, thank you. I'm happy for you, guys. I was. I really loved your pitch and I believe in your product. Jeff, why why event No Air? Man? You know, we've been doing

events over fifteen years. Josh was doing Howard's home coming. I was in Chicago bis a law school at DC, and we saw it was over fifty billion dollars market event ticketing industry. Now, with us doing events, we also realized we didn't own anything in that value chain from the clubs, the brands that we were helping make millions

of dollars. And so one year we hosted over seventy five events and we paid a popular event taking platform over fifty thousand dollars they collected in ticket fees, and we didn't where that money went. We didn't get any support from them, and so we just knew it was a better way and that we had to launch a ticketing platform that gave back to our community and couple

of dollars within our community. So we're very big on in attention, on point business with black vendors, black brands, and we started to hire an engineer and build a ven war from scratch. So since then, we've parted over eight hundred of partners and organizations such Black Alumni, ball Jack and Jail by Bright, Lifestyle Brand and all all individuals who were able to recycle ticket fees back to and keep that money within the community. So that was

really important to us. No, Josh, how did you experience at Howard shape you went to the men that you are today and what does HBCU mean to to entrepreneurs and people like yourself? Well, Ivy, I mean, for one, it just reconfirmed that, you know, black people, we're not

a monolith. For me, you know, my time at Howard it was probably the most diverse experience that I've ever been in coming from Chicago, especially the South Side, we don't really see all the positive images that we would like to, especially in the media and even in the street. So just being at Howard. It was it was just black excellence at every level. I mean I was at Howard when Chadwick was there, I got to interact with Diddy. I mean, Thirdgood Marshall went to Howard. I mean, I'm

sure you know from from your time at Hampton. But ultimately it was just a huge, huge confidence boost for me. And it also proved that we do how the talent despite what Wall Street may think. You know, we read the headlines and we see that CEOs are saying, well, we want to hire black folks, but where's the black talent. So ultimately it taught me to give back, but also tonother settle and uh, you know that excellence, the leadership, the service, you know, those are the core values that

I learned at Howard. All Right, the FEMI, what do you think about a vetting the war that made it stand out from hundreds of submissions? I mean, you guys went against some of the some some great companies, but your companies, you know, tested the time. So what do

you think the reason was? I think the unique advantage that Van Noir has that we're able to generate revenue via ticket fees and repurpose a portion of those ticket fees and invest directly into the Black community, whether it's supporting black organizations, black nonprofits, black entrepreneurs, and black causes. So vnor is not just a ticketing platform or a tech platform, and two means for us to build up

our communities and support our communities and organizations. Then let me ask you what did this competition mean for you guys? And how was the process? Man? So it was over two hundred startups that Black startups that were a part of this competition. So we got a chance to hear from some amazing startups and just confirmed for us just

a power and talent and influence within our community. So we had multiple pitch rounds, We had a chance to pitch in front of yourself, a lot of of anthony, more of it from blavity and others who really challenge us, you know, ask us hard hitting questions, but also kind of let us know that we had a sustainable idea. You know, we had traction and we have an idea and company that can really have an impact on a

Black community. So you may or may not know, but you know, the Black dollars states within the Black community for about six hours compared to twenty eight days with some communities. So we know that if we're able to just help contribute by keeping that dollar within the community for a couple more hours, a couple more days, we have a solution is going to have some great impact. So we want to thank Mountain do Real Change the

Opportunity Fund for the opportunity we know. But thus us being around for five years, if this is a marathon. We've talked to a lot of investors and black founders tend to be over advised and underfunded, and for us to have opportunity to be able to get resources to build our hard technology is amazing and so it's confirms for us our mission which is to recycle a million dollars back in to organizations annually within our community. Now now that you guys have won, guys got some money,

some bread, some some some green. Now now what's next? Where does Eventnall go from here? Um? I think one of our next steps will be to scale nationally. The plan forward immediately is to build partnerships and go on a city to city tour with hosting a different couple different event organizers and building brand partnerships and also scaling

and internationally. We have plans to expand to Africa and other black communities in diaspora, and in addition to that, we are building on our third iteration of the platform to kind of accommodate the influx of new event organizers that we're going to be having on our platform. Definitely depty so we're seeing is as the vaccines are wrong, gay cities are opening up, there's going to be an influx of events, and we just want to be prepared

to be the premier central marketplace for black events. So a lot of the certain things going on. We're speaking to a number of investors launching our seed round. We're excited about putting new partnerships, so we'll be going to city of city celebrating and engaging with curators, creators and organizations. So please get in tune follow ups at a vent Moore HQ on Instagram and for partnerships please email infore dot com. But super excited and super thankful, Well Jeff,

Josh and form me. I want to say congratulations and thank you. I love your product. I love Event in the War. I think it's going to go pretty far. I love the fact that not only you know, will it put some money in your pockets and allow you to employ some people. But it also is giving back to the community and that's what we need. So I just want to say thank you in congratulations and I look forward to seeing y'all in the future. Thank you well.

Shout out to Mountain Do, and we appreciate what you've done, Mountain Do, and I can't wait to do this next year with some more black entrepreneurs. Now shout everybody again, world to learn more about Melton Dew's commitment to real

change for the black community. Now you out in Detroit, right, Yes, I'm actually headed to Detroit today and I have my private labeled Extensions wholesale day, so you can come by and get some really amazing deals and some great quality here to make sure y'all come and check us out. And that's an eight mile and de quinder and I'll be there on Sunday. Yes, and listen, man, I just want to tell y'all to make sure y'all check out. We've got answers on Audible this weekend. It's an audiobook

I put out a couple of weeks ago. It's free if you have an Audible membership, and I think that you will absolutely learn something if you check that out. So make sure you do that. And the positive notice coming from Salute the Mo mo posted. Once you realize the power of your tongue, you won't say just anything. When you realize the power of your thoughts, you won't entertain just anything. And once you realize the power of

your presence, you won't be just anywhere. What up, Y'allice, dj MV And we're back and we're kicking it with Mountain Dewing. We're talking about their Real Change Opportunity Fund. Now, the real Change Opportunity Fund is uplifting Black entrepreneurs. And here we have our second place winner, Candice black Nole. Did I say your name right? Yes? Well, congratulations you created a business called Gabba. Yes. Now you're from Morehouse School of Medicine, so explain to us what Gabba is. Yeah,

absolutely so. Gabba is a career development platform and community that helps match students that are aspiring to health careers to study tools and mentors, tutors and coaches. The idea is to combat the physician shortage by increasing the pool of diverse candidates that are ready to matriculate successfully. Now, what was your inspiration for GABBA. You must have been studying them and like, I need to help somebody, Please help me. What was your inspiration point? That's actually exactly it.

So I'm a first generation medical student and I had to navigate that whole process myself. And I know this through my own experience and figuring out solutions to my

own problem that I wasn't the only one. I looked around and there were mostly minorities, women, non traditional students that were having the same challenge, and I thought that was unfortunate that we're missing out on all of this talent that could potentially be going into our health systems and having an impact, and all we need is a

better support mechanism, and so we decided to create GAPA. Now, how difficult is it to get into the health care I guess business or yeah, how difficult it is with testing because you don't necessarily think about it unless you're actually in that field. So how difficult is it? Extremely? So the statistic now is that anywhere between fifty two and sixty seven percent of students that start off coming from high school ready to go into these pipeline programs

actually don't make it. Somewhere in the neighborhood of one percent of students making into medical school. But that's not accounting for the difference of students that don't make it into nursing programs, PA programs and all of that. So it's extremely competitive, and if you have maybe a diverse background where you're already at a disadvantage, it's even harder to make those connections and get access to those tools

that will help you be successful. Now with your business, your business stood out, I mean compared to hundreds of submissions. Why do you think your business stood out between I mean so many different people, and yeah, Wells was one of the ones that people said, No, I like this, I think this can work. I think this can change our community, which is what we wanted to do. Yeah. I think it's very easy to relate to wanting and

meeting connections to get to that next level. Everyone has that experience, whether you're in medical school or aspiring to a medical career or not. So the story of a company is very relatable. And I think that we already are talking about how the educational system is not really well equipped to support our diverse candidates, and there's a

lot of movements to really change that. And Gabba fits in very perfectly with that change in the sense that we're really creating an ecosystem of support and empowerment for our learners which is going to help them be successful over the long term. So I think the story is something people resonate with, and certainly the impact that we could have its definitely something everyone looks forward to. Now, what made you jump into this competition? What said? You

know what? This is something for me? Yeah? One, it's the real Change Opportunity Fund, and so who's what better way to change anything than through education, through empowering our young learners. So the messaging and the mission of the competition really resonated with me. And then, of course, as an underrepresented founder, a female founder, it is tough to

find capital for your business. So having an opportunity to compete, to share Gabba with a larger audience and potentially would win capital that will help us get to those next milestones, that was an amazing opportunity that I just couldn't pass up. So now that you wanted to win us and you're getting this money, what's next? What are you thinking about? What are you gonna do with the money? What are you thinking? We are already doing the planning. So we

just hired a new developer and a new designer. We are doing quite a bit of new design improvements based on what our customers and our users have told us. We're working to build those recruitment dashboards that our institutional partners are really excited about getting. So we're already in the works and doing those development hours and doing that marketing that will take us to the next level. Bro,

can this congratulations? I will success with Gabba and I can't wait to tell the world about it because the world needs to know about this because if I had anything like this when I was in business management school, the marketing when I was in college, it would have helped me out a lot. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, thank you,

thank you, thank you. Glad to be here now. If you have more information about anybody that we speak to, you can hit up the website www dot Mountain dew dot com slash world to learn more about Mountain Dew's commitment to real change for the black community and Candis. Thank you again, Thank you,