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come on respected. Good morning usc yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo. Good morning Angela ye tad Mona's Charlomagne the God peace to up playing in this Thursday? Yes, it's Thursday, and weekend is here? Yes, the well, the weekend is not here? Say that, man, Why we can start on Thursday? I don't you know, I don't do that two day you know weekend thing. I know people like to start

day were getting on Friday. I started mine on Thursday. Okay, Well, first let's let's drop a ball for Leonard McKelvey. Sharlomagne. Why what happened. I think it's Leonard. I think it's Lenard. Definitely Leonard Leonard, Leonard McKelvey. He dropped a bomb, dropping another ball. Why whatever season two your show has been renewed about don't no, man, congratulations, it's such a big tale. Congratulations, thank you. I appreciate that. But we can talk about that. No,

we're gonna talk about a lady. Talk about how you walking in when he was walking in the building, he was running for me. Then you pulled your hoodie down over your over your butt like I was looking at something. And just because he did it in such a blatant way, look, I said, don't cover it up. Why are you still sacking your pants? But not sacking my pants are too old for this. And I know how women feel now, you know when a guy just looks at you like a piece of meat. I jumped out the call and

I'm looking at him, he's looking at me. I had to cover my ass. Well, you deserve to be objectified, Okay, all right, that's karma, all right, Sometimes you men deserve to be objectified sometimes if you're gonna walk around sacking your pants with your ass all out, Okay, what do you expect stop. All right, all right, well, we have a special guest joining us this morning, Oh Jopp, Come on, man, Special guests ain't the right word. She's an icon, a

living legend. Keep every time I'm around her, my palm starts sweating. Every time I'm around her, my mouth gets dried. I have never ever gotten out of groupie mold when I'm around this individual. Okay, the queen and hip hop soul cultural icon Mary Jane Blige. That's right, jus to be joining us straight off the super Bowl? Come on, man, straight off an album? Coming down something Hello, gorgeous, A good morning, gorgeous, crazy man? Just yes, it throw you

this morning, and man, let's get the show crack. If we're gonna start off with be happy. This is the classic record. This is the record that I played whenever I'm feeling down from page news and next. How can I love somebody else? Life is too short? I have to be trying to play some game, all right, taking time and think about is it really worth flows in me? Why must it be this way? Why do you have to play with my mind all the time? Help me saying yeah all I really wanted? Then think it's being

all beat when you're happy and clues moms would be happy. Man, that is an instant pickture. You you hit me. I don't care what depression you're dealing with, what anxiety you're dealing with, what lack of worthness you're dealing with. You thought that'd be happy on for them? Three four minutes, you're gonna feel happy. There you go, but you'll be right backside again. Well, let's get in some front page news.

And by the way, Mary J. Bligs, if you're just joining us, we'll be joining us this morning, next hour. All right, But what we got easy? All right? Well, let's talk about President Joe Biden. Now, yesterday he was making an appeal for diplomacy to continue. Right now, everybody is watching to see if Russian President of Vladimir Putin or does an invasion of Ukraine, which is their neighbor. And also Joe Biden warned that a Russian attack on

Ukraine will be met with overwhelming international condemnation. Here is what Joe Biden has to say about a possible war. World War two was a war of necessity. Well, if Russia attacks Ukraine, it would be a war of choice or a war without cause. Or a reason. I say these things not to provoke, but to speak the truth. If Russian does invade in the days and weeks ahead, the human cost for Ukraine will be immense and the strategic cross for Russia will also be immense. If Russia

attacks Ukraine, it'll be met with overwhelming international condemnation. The world will not forget that Russia chose needless death and destruction. The United States and our allies and partners or respond decisively. I hope people will finally paying attention to what's going on. I mean has been going on for a while now.

I mean then it's even scarier when you see, you know, Russia and China's alliance, and you see America given Ukraine a billion dollars to support their economy amid their attentions with Russia, like it's we might be on the break of World War they Have you ever read George Orwell's book in nineteen eighty four, which was a cautionary tale. It was the science fiction novel, but man if it

feels a lot like it all right? Well, according to reports, they are saying that Russia does have one hundred and fifty thousand troops along the border of Ukraine and they are denying. By the way, Russia is a nine. They have plans to attack Ukraine. So here is what Joe Biden has to say about the US and sending troops. Well, I will latch send American servicemen to fight in Ukraine. We have supplied to Ukrainian military's equipment to help them

defend themselves. And make no mistake, the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory with a full forceful American power already respond to Russia's build up of troops. I've sent it inditional US forces to bolster NATO's eastern flank, and if Russia in vains, We'll take further steps to reinforce our presence in NATO, reassures for our our eys, and deter further aggression. I'm gonna just assume that biden putin call didn't go as planning. Uh, clearly they didn't.

Uh it wasn't the diploma. See on that phone call, sound like they're ready to know if somebody must. Well, Biden is saying that the US is not seeking direct confrontation with Russia, but he says that if Russia does target Americans in Ukraine. We will respond forcefully. But they have been saying that American people should come back if they're in Ukraine. I mean, they got every right to

jump on Russia if they want to. It's not like Russia, you know, didn't interfere with our elections and other things. But I don't know. We'll see, all right, all right, well that is your I don't want to see, but I hope it doesn't happen. They've been pumking a forehead for a while. I don't want to see world War three in my lifetime. No, no, but they've been poking out forehead though. All right, we'll get it off your chests.

Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, phone lines to wide open again. Eight hundred five eight five one o five one hit us right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It is your time to get it off your chests, whether you're man or blast, so we better have the same in We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this hey? Good morning and good morning Charlot Man, good morning Angel, and what's

going on? Its break Rick? What out morning? Rank? And we're going on. Hey, anybody catch up Kanye West documentary that permitted on a Netflix? Yes, sir, I saw the first I saw the first part that came out. Yeah, it was pretty funny to see all that has come up with his journey and uh, you know that footage that he had for all these gives showing you know, his journey to where he's at right now. It really shows that Kanye's in a narcissistic car for for a

long time. Man. You know. But you know what, though, you know what I got from it. I got from especially the part when he was walking through the office and everybody was fronting on him, when he was playing all falls now, Yeah, which is that that was very interesting to me because I think a lot of that he still he's still projecting a lot of that that that pain like you oh, y'all, y'all fronted on me. So f all of y'all is what I got from it is how important it is. Boy. He was a

parent to reinforce the job. A lot of his confidence came from when his mom told him you know I mean, and he was bearing in his hand telling me he's the best. And that's why he believes that, but no, his mom. His mom also told him he was very self absolved. And his mom also told him that a giant should look in the mirror and see nothing. And he couldn't understand that. Yeah, but at the same time, she didn't, you know, downplay and you told him not

stay humble. But stilkey, I kind of stilkey the same energy that you believe it design yourself. Though. It was really important for her. You can see why when he lost her, how you know it was it was so traumatic and he was the first thing that he ran you for a little, for confidence and for building the muff Mavie. And she was really into his stuff, you know, seeing his line bro for word and stuff like that. And I'm intricted to the rest, but I'm still thinking

he's a cornboy. He's always gonna be a homeboy. He's definitely a nasticist. He's definitely a nati egomaniac. But you can check out Genius on Netflix right now. It is it is. The first part is very interesting. I gotta check it out. Hello. Who's this? Good morning to da Amy to court you from Atlanta, Bro Courtney from the Hey, what's up? Brother? What's up? Hey? Uncle Charlotte. Hey, Andrew, Ye, how y'all doing? How you doing? Brother? Pretty good? Pretty good,

Uncle Charlote. I just wanted to shout you out. Man. I'm proud that you got picked up for season two. You know episode I think it was four when you did the social media episode Bro. After that I got off social Bro. I realized how how much I was addicted to social media and everything, and I got off man, and I wanted to just shout you how to congratulate you king doing It's opened the eyes for a lot of people. Man, Thank you, Man. Can't wait for season two.

The guy's line is truth back in the summer, all right, get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. I tell of year. If this is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed, eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's this Hi? Good morning, breakfast Club.

How are you? How are you? I'm okay, cassigdra doctor from New Jersey. Piece Cassandra Hi, and I want to talk about the young black kid, Zaki Nors who was in the bob in the confrontation at the bridge or the mare with the young white kid, Zaka nors As. If you guys for the video I see where we volked.

TV also posted it. If you watch the video, you will see how the also so when they got to the scene, they immediately take the kid to the floor off we had cuffs on him and let the young white kid walk and now he's dance from the mall for three years. I saw that. Yeah, that is crazy. I mean, I seen that. I was. I was highly upset with that. I mean, and there was no reason to tackle him on the floor. They were fighting. They

should have broke both of those up. But yeah, you could tell that they attackled him to the floor because he was black. There was no other reason why the tackle one to the floor, not the other one, No other reason. Yeah. Governor Murphy released his statement, and you know he said that the appearance of what is racially disparate treatment is deeply, deeply disturbing. But it's like, Okay, after you released that statement, now what what we're gonna do.

What's completely disciplinary action against the police. What's gonna happen because they sat one kid down. They didn't. They didn't, they didn't send him down aggressively. He sat down on his own. He got back up when the other kid was getting arrested like that. It was I couldn't imagine that being my son. And and and if you look at how the fight started, you see that the white kid was the one that actually started the fight. He

started the fight. And then what happen is the white kid got the best of the black kid at first, and then the black kid turned it around and started whopping his ass. And the cops kid, it's crazy. It's crazy. Even the cops sitting the white dude down on the couch like get comfortable, then goes over to the white the black guy to help arrest the crazy. That's why that is ridiculous. And they were bullying him. So I'm

gonna talk further with the family. We're probably gonna go out there this weekend, you know, my partner, Donna Jackson I and do a live because want to see what the thing of hobby. Want to move on it, but we have to we have to further bring this, bring awareness to this and and see what Governor Murphy gonna do. And we're gonna call him out and see what you're gonna do, Governor Murphy, what you're gonna do? And also

why we don't know the name of the officers? Like I always wonder about these stories, and you know, we know that we know the young black man's name, but why we don't know the name of office. They didn't post him. I didn't see him nowhere. I thought they did. I'm not saying they didn't, but I didn't see out the city. I thought they did. But I wasn't looking

for their names though anyway. But yeah, no, it's so it was so just disgusting and and definitely praying for that family man because you know what type of trauma that young man's gonna have for the rest of his life. Exactly exactly. My goodness, Well, thank you for calling. Okay, thank god you'd be safe out there. Ben Crump is already on the case too, by the way, Yes he is. He's representing the family. Oh good Hello, who's this Mike?

Mike what I'm getting off her chests? Yeah? Man, I want to put my contract on the blast who's been doing work on my house. He hasn't done any work this year. Now what what? What? Whek are you getting done? Well? I called y'all for the Christmas for the change for change, and I told y'all I had a fire and I remember they didn't win to rise the crib, so my water pipes popped. Like everything that could go wrong, it's been going wrong. Did insurance company pay you or they're

paying the contractor directly, they're paying you. They paid the bank, They paid the bank, so you got the money. No, no, no, I've given them payments as they have asked for it, and they just haven't done the work. Okay, Because what I what I tell everybody doing. I know a lot of people that call me and they have a problem

of contractors. What I tell people to do is this when when you when you speak to the contract you find out what supplies you need right, because you know you're gonna need supplies, whether it's wood, whether it's lumber, whether it's sheet rock, whether it's nails, bolts, wood, floors, lights, lighting, fiction. You find out what you need right, give him a list, you purchase the stuff that you need right, and then

you pay the contractor when he gets the work. Done so that that way, there's no you don't have to give nobody up. But like, what do you need up front money for? I'm paying for the supplies. I have the supplies, I own the supplies. Now I'm paying you for your work. I pay you hourly for what you work. That saves a lot of money, That saves a lot

of problems, and that saves situations like that. And I tell everybody it takes a little extra time, but it will save you money and you don't have that problem of contractors. I do that for every project that I do. I buy the supplies myself, which I knew that before. Now I saw good. I mean, it was a learning lesson I had to, believe me. Angelie knows. I had

to learn the hardware as well. But you know, you start doing it that way and you start taking control of your own narrative and you can figure out your own ish. Get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one five one. We got rooms all the way. Yeah, And the Wendy Williams is sharing a personal video and she does look like she's fine. So we'll tell you what she had to say. All right, we'll get into that next don't move. It's the breakfast clubs in the morning.

The breakfast club we could have been superstars riding around in fancy cars, are jacking cars. But now it's not safe for you morning everybody, because you switch like a lope. Breakfast club, Ya can attains me in ways that y'all don't even know who the quack black. All right, well, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Windy Williams. Oh got breakfast club. But it looks like Wendy Williams has a new Instagram page. It's the real Wendy Williams online. And the first thing she did is post a video

letting people know that she is coming back stronger. Now apparently she has been trying to get herself together. She's in Florida, where she said it's very peaceful. She's been going to the gym, going to the ocean, and she said, right now she's well, she's fifty six years old. Even though she's fifty seven. She missed, she misspoke on her age. It happens, but here's what she had to say. All and then get back to New York and get all down. It might be Williams shot. So wait, Wendy Show, not

her page, no more. This is a personal page. So maybe she's using that for business her show. But this is a personal page, only two posts on it, so she just made it. Yeah. So she said that things usually start about forty and they go up from there. So you have to eat the right food, make sure you take care of yourself and all of that. But it looks like she is talking about coming back to

New York and getting back to the Wendy Williams Show. Well, I'm sending to Wendy Williams healing energy always, and I hope she does get back, and I hope she's able to come back, do the show for a while and go out the way she wants to go out. And I hope, you know, we see a different version of Wendy Williams when she comes back. I hope we see a version of Wendy who isn't projecting her pain on to other people. That's what I hope for Wendy Williams.

All right, now, let's talk about new Edition. As you know, they are going on a nationwide tour and they sat down with Tamin Hall to discuss what they have going on and share a few stories they've never previously spoken about, and also how they're prepping for their first tour in a decade. Here's what happened when I look back at those videos, especially Candy Girl, that very first moment we saw this magic. When did you know or were you

too young to understand it? I think I knew from the beginning, as much rehearsal as we used to do, with as many shows as we used to do, talent show to talent show to talent show. It was just something that I knew that it could happen for us. Watching Soul Train just you know further and being on Soul Train just further instilled a meaning for um confirmation, confirmation, Yes that we were we were gonna, you know, make it. That's my favorite R and B group. I love New Edition.

Anytime they come in town, I take the kids, I take the family. I really love them. They are some really good brothers. I'm going shout out to Ralph's schedule. Uncle Bid. I know we're in Atlanta on Sunday, and I'm in Atlanta right now, but unfortunately I'm coming back because that was the plan. But you know, we got to figure it out. It's a nice trip to take to some yes, and my kid My kids love new Edition like they love them. I'll go someplace warm when

it becomes the Charlotte somewhere in South Carolina. But I think it's warm in Atlanta now right. I think it's like seventy threes this weekend. Yeah, I think it's gonna get a little bit warmer here. It's been a little chilly, but it's not too bad. It's not like New York cold. All right. Now Here is what they had to say. Hibby Brown had to say about getting back to dancing and doing all his moves because you know he is

known for that. Every eye has to be dotted and every team has to be crossed in order to perform with these guys. Um, I'm just getting back into it. Um, really trying hard. It's difficult to do the dance steps after you haven't been doing them for a while. Um. It's about muscle memory and I'm trying to get that back. Bobby, I promise you will. You understand we will not hold it against you if you have lost a step or two. Okay,

you're still Bobby Browns. And no jokes, by the way, nobody that's right And when you try and when you add a new audition show, you're trying to do the dances, you know what I mean. So you're really not paying that much attention to the fact that they might be a little off. Be we all understand we old now, Bobby were all old. Now. I would love to see them at Essence again. I see them in Essence and they performed amazing, irobably not doing All Star this shit,

but Cleveland. But they are going to be at the Garden next Saturday, just I mean on the twenty six. Is that next Saturday? Yeah? All right? Now, really there we go. Now you're talking m all right now, and I've been telling Yell about m Day the musical to Play, and tamon Hart also referenced the Michael Jackson Musical to Play.

And here's what she said, Jolls went to see the Michael Jackson musical on Broadway, and Ralph to know that y'all beat Michael Jackson and the billboard you topped Michael Jackson. At the time, we didn't know either. We didn't know what we did. We didn't know what type of accomplishment that billboard charts were and all that. We just heard that we were this you know, we knew that that was a countdown of the music and the best music that's out right now. So when we heard that we

beat Michael, that was just all that meant to us. Well, we beat Michael Jackson, we must be doing good. M Well, there you have it, So guys, get ready for that tour to kick off. All right, The Tender Swindler has signed with a Hollywood agent. I know you haven't seen the Netflix documentary yet, The Tender Swindler, but you guys should definitely watch that. Yeah, he was he actually went to jail, like he only went for like fourteen months, but he can one woman out of half a million dollars.

I mean, these women were thinking that he was pretending his dad was like a diamond He sold diamonds and had a huge diamond corporation, and he had all this money and he was doing stuff like putting women on these private jets to come see him places. But then he was like, oh I got in trouble, I got beat up, my security got beat up. I need money to get out of here. They froze my accounts. So

he was definitely swindling these women out of money. So you can imagine the long lasting trauma and not to mention the financial trauma that they've had from dealing with him. Well, now it looks like he wants to cash in on everybody talking about him, and he is talking about doing a podcast where he's gonna share his dating dues and don't He also has been banned from all dating apps and deleted his Instagram account after that documentary came out.

But now he's talking about, you know, doing different things and trying to get into acting and finding love. He wants to do a dating show and all of that. My question, one thing like that happen is why you know what I mean, Like when I talk about d ride and dysfunction, this is what I'm talking about. You mean, like, why would an agent sign him knowing that he's a known con man? Because the Tender Swindler documentary is like it's a documentary, right, yes, so it's a doc that

people watching they're interested in, you know, the world. That doesn't mean necessarily interested in him as an individual enough to want to follow him. He's got a start to be interested in him and how he swindled these women and they did. It's in the doc That's why you watched the dock. But if he does a podcast, he'll so you know, the signs and things from his point

of view. The same reason why people when like somebody breaks into the government building on you know, on the internet, and then the government highest You don't feel like we're rewarding bad behavior by doing that. Well, people are looking for a check. That's why they're looking for money. I think it's very wet and it says a lot and you can't complain, you know about things like that, but then sign it and empower it, you know what I mean.

That's the same thing when people do when they catch these drug dealers or these people that sold a lot of drugs, and then when they come home, they give him a book, they give them a movie. You know, it's almost like rewarding those stories are interesting some people. He's an interesting story, you know what I mean. He will find it's interesting too. I don't mind the story being told, but signing him as an individual and you know, putting him out to the public and acting like he's

some celebrity like nah, that's why people do it. You're just rewarding all right. Now Front page news is coming up. That is your rumor report. We'll be talking about the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams. He met with some drill rap artists. He also met with Mayno as well, and he was with five year Foreign. And we'll tell you what happened. Five Year got a dope record out right now too. City of Guys is dope, all right,

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one New York and I Heart Radio station. Hey, that was that five yo Foreign? Alicia Keys Kanye one of who wrote that verse for Kanye. It was phenomenal. It was dope. That a great verse. Some of that dope, some of that white auss Honeygoon's rolling up the SNL line. But that record, that record is though shout the five yo four Alicia Keys killed the hook, tough tune right there, dropping the clues bumps five Yo four and tough Tune, Tough Tune, City of Guards, dope bibe. Well, let's get

into some front page news. Let's talk five yo foreign in the Mary. Yes. Mayor Eric Adams revealed yesterday he'll be rolling out something about drill music. Remember, he called out social media companies. He wants them to remove the violence glorifying genre from those platforms. He compared it to Donald Trump making the remarks that he made and being banned from social media platforms and being banned from Twitter

because of that. And he said, if it would be irresponsible to continue to give violent rap music videos a platform. Here were his initial remarks. And I had no idea what drill rapping was. I called my son and he sent me some videos and it is alarming. And we are going to pull together the social media companies and sit down with them and state that you have a civic in corporate responsibility, you know, I mean, we pulled a Trump off Twitter because of what he would speaking with.

All right, so now he has sat down with people like he was with five year four in he was with Mayno so he was with slow Bucks, both of them slowing Bucks. And here is what Mano had to say as he posted a very much needed conversation and a lot of talk about drial rap, drial music, New York City connecting violence. We did with the coaching and just wanted the created conversations. Man, you were five year

a head. We gotta be love here. We got slow Bucks here, we gotta cleasy and to talk about, you know, what's really happening. So mad to get a real respective and a real understanding of what real rap is and so that you know, we do have some real guy though and really start to really make things happen. Yeah, I'm not for censorship, but I am for sense search ship, meaning folks should have the sense to not commit violent crimes.

But if they do, you know, please have the sense to not wrap about it, and please have the sense to not post, you know, videos about it, incriminating yourself and taunting people and traumatizing you know, families of the people that you've killed. And if you don't have the sense to do that, then yes, those platforms do need to have the sense to not give those kind of videos.

A platform can't he can't sense to the music. But if if you're putting violence on these platforms, these platforms have the right to pull down if you're showing guns, if you're showing drugs or whatever. They want to do that. They do it for any other thing. But you can't sense to the music. But no, here's the thing, it's not about sense of the music. How about them brothers should sense to theirself. Number one, they shouldn't be committing

the crimes, that's number one. And number two, why go incriminate yourself one records and talk about it, buy incriminate yourself in videos? They definitely should. How about they should be censoring theirselves. And if we know we are inciting violence, why would we continue to do that by giving it a platform. But I also think we need more of these conversations like like they had, And I think we need more of the homies that people respect to sit down.

I remember a while ago when Pop Smoke and Casting Over were having problems. Somebody sat them down and they sat in the same restaurant and they squashed out, they talked out their beef and then they were good. And I think we need more of that because some of this is very stupid. It could be over uh, something very small and minute that they could have squashed and we don't have to go through this. But they need somebody that you know, they mutually respect to sit down

and have a conversation. And we need more of that. Yeah, And the root cause of the violence is not the drill music. You know, art reflects life, So what's creating that life? You know for these people to wrap about? Society? Society has felt a lot of these individuals over social media.

Could be over a girl, it could be over money, yes, but how about society has failed these individuals because they haven't provided provided these communities with the resources and the opportunities, you know, to have a different life to wrap about. That's true. You also, it's not the root causough, it isn't the music. It's definitely an ongoing conversation that's going to require multiple ways of trying to fix things. And

so and I will say this. I saw how you know Mayor Eric Adams, he's our new mayor, but when he was the brooklyn Borough president, we did a whole piece march that was pulled together by Bishop Lamar Whitehead. And he's been having these conversations with five year foreign they did this whole day of Peace thing during Jube, which is the day before the West Indian Americans Day Parade. And so they've been talking about this stopping the violence, and it isn't going to stop that. We have to

keep it going and keep the conversation open. Yeah, all right, well that is your front page news, all right. Now, when we come back, come on, pull up some merry music, man cultural icon to get in a move for that legend, a person that I've met several several times. Every single time, I feel like a complete group you. When I'm around her, My palms get tweated, my mouth gets dry, I get starstruck every single time. It just is what it is. You know, we're talking about Mary J. Blige, ladies, and

get them. That's right, Mary J. Blige. We'll be joining us when we come back. She got a new album out called on Good Morning Gorgeous, play some merry music right fast. Come on boy, I'm doing okay, Mary, we'll be joining us when we come back. So um, keep a lock this The breakfast Club, good Morning, the Breakfast Club. I don't want to five point one The Breakfast Club ANGELA year and Charlomagne the guy wanting everybody's DJ envy Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

We got a special guest in the building. Come on, man the legend, Come on Man, one to one ride super Bowl this weekend. Mary J. Blige, welcome, Thank you the morning you want to kild it? Thank you killed it? Howays been alive in person to see the reaction and how you killed No More Drama? First out, I need to know, how did you decide what songs you were going to do because you have so many? Well, um Dre decided on a family affair for us, and um

Dre decided on no more drama as well. And I thought it was important when he said no more drama because of the climate of the world right now, just because of how everybody just tied at everything. So I was like, oh, yeah, this is perfect because I'm feeling like this too. You know, did you have any songs in mind? I mean I had a lot of songs.

I had real love and all that, you know, But when he said no my drama, I was like, it's perfect because people need the world need to know that we all feel the same way here about COVID and the mask and all this stuff that's going on in the world. My stuff. What was the call like when when they asked you to do the Super Bowl? Who called jew and who reached out doctor Dre and Jimmy called me and I was just resting. It was a rest day. Jimmy jumps gets on the phone and says, Marry, um,

I hype a surprise for you. And the surprise was Dre asking me to do Super Bowl. And that was my day. It made my day. I was laying down, like resting and just having a normal day, and that day just turned into celebration day. Telling everybody what was going to happen. Did you have to think about it? Was it like maybe? Or I got to see all you right away? He was like, I'm not. I did not have to think about it at all. Everything is just lined up. I was like, no, this is it.

This is too good. I'm absolutely break down the performance to set, what you wore everything? How did you come about all that? Was it a group effort? Like a lot of designers had their bids and and so a

lot of people sent the sketches. Whoever sent them the best sketch is the one that got picked and Peter Dundas got picked, and um, of course, you know my style is Jason and I. You know, we we were in on all of them, fatiguing of it and you know, making sure it's right and making sure the colors right and the last decision is mine and a lot and um, that's what we had on. You know, I kept thinking, I said, if Andre could have saw you Sunday, like that was the person I really wanted to hear from

because he saw it. You know from the beginning, did you did you think about him a lot? He saw me, Yeah, definitely, he saw me. He was so I'm sure he was proud I got you know, puff was just um elated, like he just losing his mind. You know, my family was there, Um, and my friends. If it wasn't from my friends Jimmy, Andre, you know, it wouldn't have happened. So I do have beautiful friends in the industry. Because I said you were nervous, of course I was. I

was nervous at rehearsals. I was nervous period, But when I hit that stage, I was like whatever, you know, so when you fell out, that was really just you getting a little rest like because he was like, no, that's that's just that's a sign of like how I felt, you know, like you know, just get tired of you know, so he's like, just pass out. That's what normal drama means. Like, uh, you know, I know the world, want to just pass out right now, you know if from all of this,

foolish man. You know, when I think back about you know when when Andy said he went to your apartment back in the day, and you're saying for him, when you think about that, young lady, did you see this? Did you see moments like this happening? Did you think it would go this far? Absolutely not. Wow, I did not think it would. I didn't think I would live past my life. Hmm. But I'm here and now I'm here here, and now I want to be here. Now

that's it. You know, nobody can stop that. Absolutely. We also talk about Doctor Dres saying that he wants to produce that the next album. Did you have a conversation. Was that planning or that something he just slipped up and said the other day, No, that was something we

we didn't We didn't plan it. We was talking about it because um, that was something I always wanted to do, like do a produced album by Doctor Dre because all everything he does, you know you're gonna get smashes and you know it's going to be excellent because Drey's you know, amazing. And I was like, Yo, this was a dream. This is a dream come true for me. I would I want you to produce an album for me? And he was like, oh my god, it's a dream come true

for me. And then boom, like here we are. It's really happening. Really, like will he really do it? Though? I mean, do you know the rock Him album? Like I don't think so. We look forward to it and it doesn't happen, Na, not with me because I'm on it all over it Like I've been on a sense I've said something like I've been like, yo, let's listen. Yo, we had the listening session. I've been and he's been sending you know, stuff back to me. So it's really

gonna happen. Absolutely, let's talk Hello, gorgeous, good morning, gorgeous, Good morning, gorgeous, gorgeous. But you said, um, the name of the album. Tell people if they haven't heard the album, how'd you come up with the name of the album. It was dope. What the name of the album came from it. It's not it's not good morning gorgeous. It's not anything. There's nothing vain about that. It's a positive affirmation.

It's something I had to say to myself when I was in him very very dark situ because I was never enough. I couldn't please this person. Nothing was never enough. So I was like, Okay, maybe this person hates me more than I hate me. So I had to find a way to love myself out of that situation. And so I would get up in the morning and first

thing in the morning. And the reason why I chose first thing in the morning because nobody looks beautiful or anything or thinks anything about themselves in the morning except I'm away, and I said, um, I would say go to Marry and say good morning, gorgeous, good morning, beautiful, good morning Mary, good morning, something that I wanted to feel good about. And that's where the title came from, me loving my way out of some hell. And that's

why title was an album, Good Morning Gorgeous. In the studio yeah, okay, yeah, I wasn't in the studio with her. I always I always wanted to work with her, and Lucky Days, a really good friend of mine, And when we got to the session, her was like, well, what do you want to talk about? And everybody just started talking about what they think it should be about. And I was holding back on the title. I didn't want to give it up because I felt so vulnerable. I

didn't so much away. I was like, excuse me. I was like, um, okay, I have this title. It's called good Morning Gorgeous. And everybody said, oh, you know, everybody's like, oh, good morning gorgeous. And I started telling everybody you heard the loud about where it came from, and um, it's here now, the whole thing, you know. And it's not because of like I'm sitting around thinking I'm Appolloni and halle Berry because they you know, you think of them,

it's like, oh they're gorgeous, you know. But it's it's something I had to say to myself so I can manifest something positive and if in me about me and love my and and now I love me really really, you know. And and hey, i think I've looked pretty damn good, you know what I'm saying. But I'm oh, yeah, you thought that's just the real love video what are you talking about? But I haven't But but I didn't even think that. Then you see what I'm saying. So

this has been a lot. And then when you get with somebody and then they just take you way down further than what you already were, you start to realize, Nah, you know, my life is more important than someone taking it away from me, like you know. So all right, when we come back, we got more with Mary jay blin. Let's get into a married mini mix. Man. Mary said, it's the breakfast Club. Good Morning, I'm marrying Jickly, I'm marrying him live. They was, I'm Mary, y'all tucking Mary,

don't know of you, I'm day Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we are the breakfast Club. That was a married mini mix. Mary j Blige is here straight off the Super Bowl. I've seen your interview with with Andre. You were talking about you were so low that you had to go on tour to get back up. Yes, he wiped you dry, so all that was true. Yeah, So so you know, everybody wanted to

know what the Rent Money song was about. That's what I wrote that song with Um the writers during that time, because when I had to pay us alum on and I didn't have no money to pay it, I had to go on tour to pay it. I had to go on to it to pay to Alumoni, had to go and pay on to it to pay the rent because he had spent all the money by the time I got to um the deposition and saw everything that he did, like I didn't have a dollar left, like he had spent everything, and he knew he spent everything,

but still asking me for more money. So that was about a vacancy, you know. You know, if you can't you know, rent, money's about a vacancy. That was about that, you know. No, when you say no money, like zero dollars like Mary J. Blige broke it probably different than everybody else. Bro Yeah, I mean I guess that's that's

what you want to call it. But it wasn't enough to pay alimony, you know, the alimony that he was asking for, and it was I had to pay my rent, you know, so you know what I'm saying, Like it was it was a lot that came with that, and I had to go to work, you know, And I think I've been in the industry broke before, like not broke like you know, like live, you know, like nothing,

but not enough to pay the overhead. We all have an overhead, you know, And I couldn't get the overhead paid, so I had to go work for it, you know. And not that I don't mind. I don't mind working, but it's just it's just for that I got to work to pay you money. So how hard is it like to not reach out to your people? Like you said, you got a great circle, you know, like from the holes to the days, Like how hard not to reach out to them? I don't like that. I don't like

asking people for anything. I have never asked any of my friends for any money, any of the guys. I know. I'm a worker. I could my own I got it. Okay, cool, Oh I gotta do this, no problem. I just don't want to go to people. I just don't like asking, you know. That's not my mother raised me, like, don't you know, if you can do it yourself, don't ask, you know, And I don't. And I know they don't mind. No, I know they would all just do it, but I just don't. I don't like to feel like I old

people stuff. But you showed up for so many people. I mean, one of my favorite stories is Andrew Martinez book. When you know she was couldn't pay her rent and you had a check and you had to ride around looking for a check cash in place. It's like you've always showed up for people, but you don't expect that every turn. I just don't like asking people for stuff. I really don't especially money. Can I borrow it? It's just still nuts coming out of my mouth. Can I borrow?

Even though I know you got it? Can I borrow a million dollars? I don't like it, don't feel it, doesn't feel right. Wow, and you're such it In New York. I'm listening to the album I Heard Davis. I hear five ye Olds. I was working with always the new up and coming talent amazing. Um Dave is dope talented artists who always thought provoking in his lyrics and and a beautiful person. Five always wanted to do a drill beat song with me. I said, there you go, five

you got it? And Um Anderson Pack always wanted to always wanted to work with Anderson Pack always and it was just a lot of fun, Like just just to hear these guys on the records in the seat and perform Love without the Heartbreaker is a great record. I love that record. What was that motivation? You know? Yeah? What it's saying we all want love, but we don't want the heartbreak. The heartbreak sucks, like you know then you know that feeling like damn, like it's over or

I gotta wait or you know whatever. And it reminds me of how people never they don't a lot of people say I don't want Mary's music without the heartbreak? Do you think about that when you approached the studio? Now I don't think about it no more. I think about it from where I am, Like, what am I doing? How am I feeling? I'm not gonna never not have heartbreak because that's just that's just life. Life is gonna People are gonna disappoint you. During the Super Bowl ad,

I see you doing an ad for health screening. Did you have a scare or was it something that you just like, No, this is want women to start making sure they test themselves. No. My um I had. My grandmother died from cervical cancer, two of my aunts died from breast cancer and lung cancer. My godmother passed away when I was a little girl from from breast cancer. And what happened is the reason why I wanted to do is beca because we don't discuss it in black women.

I've never heard its about a mamogram in my home before in my life. So when it came to me, I was like, wow, this is this is perfect because now I didn't started getting the mamograham till I was forty, you know, and I and that was because a doctor said you need to go get a mamograham and I was like, what's that? And then I went and you know, they did the whole thing and it's early, early detection, it can save your life. So um, it was important for me to share the story about me losing losing

these women. And the reason why it was important is because they just one day, they just die and everybody said, oh, someone so die from cancer. You're like, why you know? And I believe if they had access to this information or the proper healthcare back in those days, maybe they I hope that they would have done it. But that's what causes a lot of you know, African American women

to pass away from breast cancer like that. I'm also gonna ask, did you ever get a break, Mary, because even during the pandemic and COVID you were filming, you were working. Did you ever just rest to say, you know what, I can just relax now because you're always working. Sometimes I'm home and I take my rest Seriously. I sleep hard and play hard. Yeah, I mean I can't. That's why she took that nap during a halftime, so she needed a little nap. I was tired. You see

me laying. People talk to you in the street like you are really money. Now. Hey, they called me moment that they always called me your mode. I'm like, oh god, no, please can marry live? Just let mone mode and marry people. We know how therapeutic music can be. What about what about acting? Does it feel like an escape when you playing? It feels like I'm killing everybody I wanted to kill one. I feel like I'm cursing out everybody I wanted to curse out when I curse at him. She's definitely my

therapy right now. So you enjoyed your and you clearly are to join it clearly. Thank you fifty Scent and Courtney Kemp for this opportunity to just get it all out for people that don't know. How did that? How did that come about? Did he reach out to you or did you reach out to him? How did that happen? It was a conversation at me. Courtney and fifty had been having all along about how much I love power, and they was like, we gotta get you one there.

I said, absolutely, one hundred percent. Just let me know, you know, hollow when y'a all ready, And they did, and then we had the meeting and we started discussing. You know, I started telling my stories about, you know, this woman that I've grown up where I have all my friends, damn Neil money and my mother with you know, without selling the drugs. You just don't play around, so you know, and pretty much every woman that's that's a single parent mother, you know, with their husband in jail

or dead or whatever, or or money. So um, when I went started telling them about the story, you know, and who I grew up with, they were just fascinated and adding things and you know, just this character just was born, like beutiful were you acting before? But is it hard to get into character every time you take

on one of these jobs? Um? Morne is not hard to get in you just find something and go, um, but you envision people when you pull the trigger, like yeah, yeah, when I did my bound it was it was easy too. I think I find things that I can really just get into right away, you know, and and and really be real with well, I could draw something from out of me or out of my life into it. And do you like acting more than music or do you like music more than acting? Or is it phases? I

love them both the same. I think the acting is new and it's a challenge, and I love a challenge though, um that's what's taking a lot of my time right now. But I love singing too. All right, we got more with m J B Mary J. Blige. When we come back, let's get into another Mary mix. I mean, Mary said Derek. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club.

We're still kicking with Mary J. Blige. Charlomagne, you've always been so personally vulnerable. Do you think you'll, you know, start opening up more about childhood? Because I listen to a song like no idea. You're telling us like you have no idea? What I was going down in Yon, because like, do you think you show people more that soon? Yeah, I have a memoir coming soon that we work that I'm working on, and I let me know a lot of stuff that they didn't know. Yeah, that coming out,

um soon, it's real soon. It's supposed to come soon. But I'm supposed to come this month. Wow. But I had to pull it back because I want to make sure it's right and I'm doing so much I want to have the time to get it right. How empty did you feel after you completed that? I felt great. I'm I felt really light, and then sometimes I felt like just crying because it all surfaced again, Like look, I don't want to talk about it. You just gotta read this. Oh man. I was gonna also ask, you know,

what are you doing the Roots picnic? And there was rumors that y'a that y'all possibly going on tour you dreknew Kendrick eminem Is that a word? It was that a conversation and not at all. I don't know. I didn't hear that that'd be too expensive. I didn't hear that that's a rumor. I would love to absolutely like that was two songs like, imagine I have a two hours set. I'm performing two hours every night of all the Mary J. Blige songs on a tour like that.

Come on with with me, Kendrick, Dre, Eminem fifty. That's ridiculous. Yeah, I want to see a Mary J. Blige halftime show the super Bowl. Just marry yourself. Absolutely. I've seen some chicks up there that really you know, it's like, okay, they cool, But Mary J. Blige is a culture like hunt like, yeah, thank you man, I would love too too. But you know, Dre and Jimmy called me. You know, when the super Bowl calls, then we're going there, we going.

How would you define this moment in your career? Amazing um, something I never even dreamed, more than I could hope for,

more than I can dream for. Just amazing um. A lot of work, a lot of consistent hard work on self and how I treat myself and how I treat everyone else, and a lot of work just period on on just on the business and building uh, building the business and and and keeping the legacy, you know, and just making everything you know, where one day when I retire, you know what should probably be soon, I'll be straight you know, I'll be straight. I mean, I feel good

about myself. I didn't borrow anything and didn't pay it back. I got my own everything. I'm good. I mean what you mean soon? You got a long way to go, man, You still I'm not thinking about listen. I got a lot going on. Um I have production, you know, Blue Butterfly, my my film and TV production. I have a lot of work to do there. We have a lot of them things place. We got a lot of things coming like for real and um my acting and singing and wine. You know. So there's a lot working for me while

I'll be sleeping. But I have to, you know, I have to keep planting the seeds. Seed time, harvest time. Seed time is long, seed time, harvest times like boof? So how important is your circle? Because I thought that was so dope to see like your sister and you know, Angie holding down the sun Guide's boof at the Super Bowl, Like how important was it to have your circle with you in that moment? Extremely important to see how much

they love me. And sometimes you just need to lean on them and hug them and laying their lap and let them hold you. And Angie definitely holds me you know, my sister definitely holds me and and um and Mesa, all my friends love. We love each other for real, and we stay each other out of each other's space. We give each other space, We respect each other and or we need each other. Were just like big babies, and it's just it's just beautiful to have them. Absolutely.

I look forward to this next project. I look forward to this book. All right, I'm not gonna I want to hear. Is it called my life? What's it called? Do we have a time? I don't have a title yet. Okay, Okay, that's what I want. What joint you want to hear? Now? Mary? What you want to get into off the album? Um? I would say it on top, on top yea featuring five year Okay, let's get into it right now. It's Mary J. Blige featuring five year four and it's on

top and it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Thank you for join us, thank you for having me. Hey classic three six Mafia sample right there from Mary J. Bliging foreign five year five ye o four old, don't worry about it. I'm old. I see things the way they are. I'm looking at it. It looks like five year shout to five year four to five yeo, al right, it does look like five though it does yeah, but it's five yeo. All right. But let's get to the room.

Let's let's talk. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Well. Twenty years later Genius a Kanye trilogy. The first part has hit Netflix and a lot of people are getting some insight into Kanye and how things first kicked off for him. So they're showing him previewing the song. All falls down in the offices of Rockefeller and basically he was seen as a producer, but he really wanted to get signed, and he wanted to get to get signed

on Rockefeller Records. He decides he wants to bum rush the office play his music and didn't seem like people were paying too much attention to this hit song. Listen to this, So she made a daughter, Alexa. She had his zone that it looked like she cut it all off, that she liked and she be dealer with some issues that you can't believe. The single black female addicted to retail a Well. That was such a very interesting part of the documentary because it really shows that it does

not matter what other people think of you. It's about what you think of yourself, and that's why your dreams and your dreams and nobody else is supposed to believe in them. But I wonder how other execs, the exects in that video feel after seeing how they fronted on Kanye, And I wondered, do you have a vendetta against the industry if you're Kanye forever because of how they fronted. But I think it should make you want to go harder. I mean, I think all of us have been in

a situation where somebody doubted us. No, they didn't doubt him, They just scraate up was ignoring him. And by the way, that becomes a hit. That became a hit record. And this is after Kanye had produced The Blueprint, but a rapper, he was a producer at the time. Yeah, you know what I mean? Just think about how many doors close in your face and you tell us all the time, you tell me all the time about people said you would never make it, you will never be and guess

and guess what, I just let that hurt go. I hated them, niggas you still do, No, I don't, I really did. Why I refused to brought him on Instagram. They and you know, I saw I saw a lot of people saying that they knew this was a hit song right away and how could anybody not know that because it do sound dope, But you know, they were

at work in the middle of the work day. He did try to be composes and I'm sure they and I'm sure they also knew him well enough that they're like, you know, sometimes you know people too well, so maybe you don't take it as seriously because you know them. True, but it's a record label. Those well we say they had work. Yeah, I agree, Yeah, it's a record label.

And you know why you see when Kanye you can walk up to Kanye and the screen and start rapping and Hill listen, Yeah, it's because of that, because he knows how it feels to be be front of him. Well, that's how Big Sean got his deal. He you know, he walked up to Kanye when he was leaving a radio station rapping and he signed him all right. Now. In addition to that, they also talk about the making of uh Izzo. It's to the Izzo and here is what that sounded like when he was working with jay

Z on that song. So he's playing that he's fun to go in the other room. I was like, yo, whole, I gotta played one more be I gotta played one and he looked though he tapped me insteads So we had to figure out the stuff. He had the same between so it's for the one you used to drimple down and be a. Then he said he sto is old B to THEA and he looked at me and said that's the anthem. Get your damn hands up. I was like, Mom, we're about to blow up, you blow

I love how he invested. His mom was in his crowd. Absolutely. Mom knew the lyrics everything. M hm yes. And as the more famous he got, the more he wanted his mom around him. I'm sure she kept him grounded and she was his biggest cheerleader, as we can see in this scene with Donda. Got a lot of confidence to come up with a little Eric and even though you're humbling everything, but it being portant to remember that the giant looked in the mirror and she's nothing. Told you,

did you think alcohol too arrogant? No? Come on, just because it's once inside. Because you can't be a star and not be a star. I think the way you are hand on yourself. It's really just perfect. But at the same time, if you remember like to stay on the ground and you can be in the air all at the same time. That's what I think it means when it says the giants in the mirror and sees nothing, everybody else sees the giant, you know what I mean.

I love that all right, So for everybody who's been watching, that was just part one of that time. It's really good. Yes, Paul one was a really good documentary. It makes you think that even like, you know, when when somebody comes off as arrogant, right, and when they have nothing, I get it. That's where the humility comes from having nothing.

But when you get everything right, that money and that power just multiplies whatever it is you already were, right, So if you're arrogant, you'd be a hundred times more arrogant with the money than the But I think it's also when you are creative and you're doing things and people are, you know, disrespecting your your talent and disrespecting you are what you create, and then when it finally pops, it's almost like you want to give a middle finger

to the world, but you gotta let that hurt go though, right, it's like a chip, It's like a chip on your shoulder. And then seeing how much his mother impacted him, and I think we all knew that, and to have her not here with him, we don't. I mean, we can't even imagine how that affects him every day. But I just feel like, you know, you do have to let that hurt go, because if not, you end up just

projecting that pain. It's supposed to You're definitely supposed to, but it's to the point where you know he's not. He hasn't got his answers to why. I'm sure, like why you issued on me? Why didn't you listen? It just didn't get it, and it doesn't matter for him and Mike. Now you gotta let that hurt go. I get it, though, but you have to let the hurt go. I think it's easier said than done. Well, all right, well that it's easy to say let that hurt go, but it's not so easy to do it all the time.

All right, Well, that is your rumor reports you should though for your own well being, you say that, but there's been there's times, and you know me myself, I don't let I don't let that go, and it'll eventually cannibally. No, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure eventually cannibal I'm sure, But I don't. I don't want to. You gotta let it go. It's like holding your poop. Man. Know, when I let it out, it'll all come all right, guys, diarrhea, everything out.

But let all of that go, envy, empty your uyb repeat after me, empty, empty, but that is your positive affirmation for the day. Let that go. Okay, you're but here you go, here you go. Don't you feel it? You feel like moving through your stuffing? Man, you're you're gonna have to poop in about twenty Get out of it. Man, Who are you giving your dog? Your butt? Your donkey too? Man? Scammer named Robbing? Okay, Robbing folds something. She needs to

come to the front of the congregation. That might be a good siminar uyb, empty your but but yes, speaking of scamps, robin, folks, and she needs to come to the front of the congregation. We're like to have a world with her. Guess where she's from and shut up Brooklyn and Florida which one uh neither actually really all right, we'll get into that. Next is The Breakfast Club. Go Morning, So Breakfast Club, your morning's will never be the same.

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some funny sleep. You gotta say something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I'm needing. What's getting that donkey? That donkey that don't don't don't, don't don't donkey other day right there the Breakfast Club, bitches, you can come the Donkey of the day, but like I mean, no harm. Donkey to Day for Thursday, February seventeenth goes to forty three year old Robin Folsom. Do you know who Robin Folsom is. She's a former Georgia official. She was a

director of External Affairs for the Vocational Rehabilitation Agency. In between her, Tender Swindler and Zachary Horrowitch, who was sentenced to twenty years in federal prison for scamming investors out of an estimated six hundred and fifty million dollars. Scammers are having the worst week ever. Okay, maybe not tender Swindler because he just signed to an agency and it seems like his bad behavior, you know, his scamming ass ways being rewarded. But people like Robin Folsom are getting

caught up after living their best lies. I'm living my best lie. All you scammers living your best lies? Intrigued me? Okay, I can totally understand why you would do a documentary on the tender Swindler I am fascinated by Zachary Horowitz story because he raised six hundred and fifty million dollars from investors, had investors thinking they would be acquiring licensing rights to films that HBO and Netflix had agreed to

distribute abroad. How was that not interesting to someone? If you have ever launched a startup or try to get funding for a project, and you know how hard it is Okay. So to see this man raised six hundred and fifty million dollars, I'm impressed. Okay, I just sit back and I think to myself, though, like you are Hollywood acted, do you know what kind of independent films

you could be producing with that kind of money? If you know those kind of investors, then they clearly believe in you, which is why they gave you that kind of bread to begin with. So why I come up with a scam instead of a legit plan to do the right thing with that money you raised, I don't know. Whatever. It's not about Zachary though, it's about Robbin. Okay, Robin scam is pretty impressive too. Now, she didn't raise nowhere near the money Island did, but her from next game

got her what she wanted. Shee. She clearly wanted some time off and wanted to get paid for it, so she decided that maternity leave would be the best option. Well, you need to be pregnant, you know, and have a baby from maternity leave. Right, somebody got to shoot that club up wrong. Not in the scam of verse. In the scam of verse, you can be whatever you need to be to get to the bag. Let go the

WSBTV two for the report. Police Robin Folsom earned about one hundred thousand dollars a year as the senior communications official with the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency. Now she's facing a four count indictment that accuses her of faking a couple of pregnancies in order to collect family medical leave pay to which she was not entitled. A co worker saw something very strange and blew the list. We thought

there had to be a misunderstanding. We couldn't believe it, State Inspector General Scott McAfee about the tip that led to the indictment of forty three year old Robin Folsom. According to McAfee, one of Folsom's colleagues witnessed what appeared to be a portion of Folsom's stomach come away from her body last March. The co workers suspected Folsom was wearing one of these so called fake pregnancy devices or costumes,

which are widely available online. State investigators or the Attorney General's office built this indictment largely around Folsom's alleged lies that included the creation of a fake person to be the fake father. We ultimately didn't find any evidence that he existed, and that's why she's also been charged with identity fraud. She faked a pregnancy. She had a fake baby daddy forty three years old out here, fake in high risk pregnancies. All right, she made up a fake

baby daddy. You know what. The dude's name was, Brian Ottomi Bibwe. It spelled ot m e m b e bwe. Sounds Nigerian coincidence for a scamra to choose that name, I think not alright. He was a made up person, and when investigators pressed there on him in October twenty twenty one, she doubled out and said the man really existed, all right. She lied and told the agency that she gave birth once before and July twenty twenty and got

pregnant again in August twenty twenty one. But the investigation found there was no official records of Robin Folsom having given birth, and her insurance records didn't indicate any pregnancy our delivery. My problem with people like this, if they are actually smart. She already had a job that was paying one hundred thousand dollars a year in Georgia. That's good money. Okay, these are ingenious ideas these scammers come

up with to make money. All they have to do is direct their energy to something legit, and they could actually probably have the same results, the same type of successful. For some reason, they choose a life for crime instead of going into whatever their real passion is. All right, Robin got paid maternity leaves. She had her fake Nigerian baby daddy send an email to her bosses that said she was under doctor's orders for several weeks of bed rest after giving fake birth to a baby in May

twenty twenty one. You come up with a plan like that, you can come up with a plan for anything, all right. Do you who know the level of commitment it takes to hold up that kind of lie. There are people who can't even commit to the truth in the way that Robin committed to that lie. So this just shows me that, Robin, whatever you chose to commit to in life, you would have accomplished, But you chose crime. Now you're charged with three counts of making false statements and one

kind of identity fraud. A local grand jury indicted her ass Look, man, they say, the money is the same whether you earn it, a scam. It probably true, but the consequences of what comes with that money are not all right. Earn your money, good consequences, Scam your money, jail, prison, Please get Robin Folsom the sweet signs of the Hamiltones. Oh no, you are the dogee the day, the dog gee, oh the day. Ye. All right, nope, it's a white collar crime. So you already know what RACI is. Okay,

let me see all right? Wow to me? Wow, you knew that swhite woman? Come on, stop. She used a Nigerian last name. That threw me off. That's what you do. She was sending an email. I'm gonna eat scammers, scamming emails? Have you gotten from Nigerians? Come on, she know what she was doing. You suck man. I don't wanted to play a game. Pause pause, p' gonna get you. I'm gonna get you this. Wow, I'm gonna get you the fake baby, a pregnancy kit. I'm gonna buy that for you. Okay,

that's We're gonna have to make a bet. You have to walk around and tell people you dope in ok me, No, right, you don't, I'm aware it and say I'm pregnant from you. So either way this game will be played. You ain't gonna play it my way, my way. Ask ye is next eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If you need relationship advice to any type of advice, Cale ye. Now it's the breakfast club, Good morning, the breakfast club advice. Need personal advice, just the real advice?

Call up now for ask ye good morning. It's asking Ye. What's up? Trish? Hey? How are you? I'm good? How are you? I'm great? I had a question because me and my boyfriend have been together for about a year and we recently just met his kids back in December, and then his kids mother they end up getting into it about something and now he can't see his kids.

I mean, we end up having words, but now you know, like he's like really his filings about his kids of course he can't see them, And I'm just like, should I I don't know if I should like be the bigger person and try to reach out to her or just get some advice on the whole situation on like what what do you think I should do? Well? Do you have a relationship with her at all? Have y'all ever spoken? Are you guys? Cordial? It was. It was

not a good interaction. It was not. But then I don't think it's a good idea for you to and yeah, I don't think it's a good idea for you to involve yourself. This is something that you can do with support him and whatever his efforts are, and help give him some solutions and some ideas of what it is that he can do, whether it's something that's legal, whether it's I would first, if I was here, try to approach this thing from a diplomatic situation, maybe talk to

her family or another way to go about it. I think it would only make it worse if you try to put yourself in the middle, because that's going to really make her angry. And I'm sure right now she's in her feelings and so you involving yourself and his business with his children is not a good idea. It might actually cause more harm than good. But all you can do is be there for him and let him know. Okay, here's what you know, here's some options of things you

can do. Let me know if you need me to do anything, you know, And that's it, because putting yourself in the middle, no or right? Okay, Well, thank you, so much, no problem. I hope you all work it out. Well. I hope he works it out because all she's doing is hurting the children by trying to punish him, right exactly, all right, good luck? Right, all right, we got more ask you when we come back. Don't hope it's the breakfast Club. Good morning, some real advice with Angela gets

ask ye. Good morning, it's asking ye Jayla. What is your question? Hi? Um, this is really a question. It's a question for um you atuli, So okay, trying to we're trying to um, you know, get into real estate. We want to do flipping and um get some rental properties, just you know, for some extra cash. And I reached out to this real estate investor, right he has a apprenticeship and um a mentorship program. So we had a meeting with him and everything was good, like the services

that he was offering and everything. But when we got to the end of the meeting and he told us the price, it kind of right, So yes, girl, because you could be using that money to actually put into the real estate exactly. And that's what a lot of people were saying. And it's really extensive. It was like over fifteen thousand dollars for a year of mentorship apprenticeship, and you know we don't have the money to do get into somebody, Taylor, can I can? I give you

some advice? And this is something that I learned, and I have no people personally who have done this. Why don't you get your real estate license? A lot of people have been saying that, And the only reason I'm just hesitant like that, I don't want to do that. It's because I have no interest to being a realtor. Yeah, but you have interest in doing real estate and flipping properties, right, And I must explain to you why I think it's

a good idea. Because if you're going to spend fifteen thousand dollars and do a year apprenticeship, you might as well go on ahead and take those real estate classes online, take the test, get your license, and then you'll have access to properties that people won't get a chance to see before it hits the market. You'll be able to network in that way, and then you also won't have to pay a fee to a realtor if you want

to get a property. It just gives you a lot more access and you'll learn a lot and you'll learn a lot more taking these real estate courses than you wouldn't in apprenticeship apprenticeship because you'll learn how all the rules and regulations work. You'll learn how to do everything that you need to do so you won't have to rely on anybody else. That is solid advice, and I have done that advice before too, But I never looked at it like, you know that way from that angle.

I just looked at it like I don't want to be a realtor, so yeah, no, and listen, having your real estate license doesn't mean you have to become a realtor, but it's just something that if this is a way you want to make money, you have to be invested in doing that. I actually got my real I took the real estate classes. I just have to take the test. But when I tell you, I learned so much about real estate, about mortgages, about different laws, about how you can,

you know, financially protect yourself, all of those things. And for you, if you want to be somebody who's really great at doing this, then I feel like instead of doing a year apprenticeship and paying fifteen thousand dollars to somebody else, the courses were like five hundred dollars online, you know, And that's a real investment. And I think a lot of times we save me want to do things. If you want to do it, take it seriously and

do what you need to do for yourself. And this is something that you'll have, you know that I think could be beneficial. Even having your real estate license. If you find a property and you don't buy it and you refer to somebody else, you can get paid off of that too, without even having to buy anything. That is solid advice. Thank you so much, all right, Jayla, good look, get it going, all right? Thank you? All right? That was asking eight hundred five eight five one five

one that we got rumors on the way. Yes, And Nick Cannon, is he really trying to get Mariah carry back with that song he put out alone? Well, here's what he had to say when we come back, all right, we'll go to that next. It's the breakfast clubs angela Ye, the breakfast club all right. Well, Nick Cannon is explaining that song alone that he put out. People were saying that he was singing about his ex wife Mariah Carey. And here's what he had to say on his show

about that song. Because he also sampled Mariah Carey on that song. You know you realize, man, I really messed up I had. I had a probably the greatest situation I have my dream girl, and I messed it up. So don't don't clamp for that. No, but to be honest and vulnerable, I understand why you're clipping. So the song wasn't really about trying to get her back. It's really said. It was taking ownership of what I did as a man and owning my flaws on it and

expressing it through song. Oh so the song was about her. Yeah, so the song is about her, but it wasn't about getting back together. He knows that it's impossible, but he said it was just therapy for him, and I guess he's just being accountable. Now. That's that's impressive too. I wonder when a person realizes that it's over and getting back with that person is not a possibility. I wonder when do you When do you allow yourself to get to that point? And when do you get to that point?

When do you realize that? Is what I'm trying to say. Well, yeah, I mean she has a whole new boyfriend now, and he's had several children since then and there and our ten I think that's part of it. So it does take time. I think that's part of it because they both moved on at a particular time and Nick Cannon got about four or five kids after that, so you know, true. Yeah,

and he's expecting his eighth child now. So all right. Now, the baby is being sued by Danielay's brother, Brandon Bills, because of their recent fight at that bowling alley that happened in California. So according to the lawsuit, Brandon Bills is saying he walked by the baby and the bowling alley and the baby suddenly attacked him, leaving him with severe injury and pain. He said he didn't fight back, and the baby's saut resulted in physical and psychological damage,

plus of medical bills and sustained disability. No, no, no, no, no, he can't do that. That's not how any of this works. Okay. This one of the main issues I have with this error. Nobody wants to deal with the consequences of their actions. You threaten that man, that man, you had an issue with him. You told him when he came to LA it was on site on site, all right, And even after the fact you said you wish you had somebody else with you. You know what I'm saying, because it

would have went down a whole different way. So no, you gotta take that hell o King like you just gotta take that hell yeah, I don't understand that. You can't threaten me saying when I see you, it's on site, and then when we see each other we get into it because now I'm on defense. You told me you're gonna you're gonna put hands over you see me? Right, you said on site, that's what on site means. And then when I see you, I'm scared. I'm defending saying.

Any of you people talking about, oh he got jumped, Yes he did get jumped. But guess what, you can't pick the consequences of your actions, you know what I mean? Like I can say anything, I can do anything, but I can't tell somebody else how to respond. That's how they chose to respond. You just gotta take the l my brother, So ell, it is what it is. You'll be okay, all right? And the Guys on His Truth with Charlottvagne is renewed for season two a Comedy Central.

Do you want to give us some details. Hey man, you know you can watch the first season, the whole first season on Paramount Plus right now, screaming, all twelve episodes, and you know we'll be back this summer. You know, salute my man, Stephen Colbet, sleut to Aaron McGruder, Sluta my showrunner extraor in there Rachel Edwards and you know, just the whole team of the Gods on this Truth. We're happy, We're happy to be back. We thank God

for it all. Congratulation, Thank you man, thank you so follow us at at Sea the show, ctch A show for more updates because you know we're always constantly dropping you know, content until until we come back. And I and I'll be doing a series of one on one, one on one interviews in conjunction with the Gods on this Truth, you know, leading up to the premier this summer. So yes, we thank God for it all man, Okay.

And in the other television news, hill Song, a megachurch exposed docuseries, has gotten a release date that's going to be on Discovery Plus. All three episodes are dropping on March twenty fourth. So you know that Hillsong Mega Church has made famous by people like Justin Bieber, the Kardashians and other stars as well. But there was all kinds of drama that happened, and music was really a part of that. Worship Carl Lenz, pastor Carl Lentz became a star in his own right, but then he had an

affair and that contributed to his downfall. So now they're doing a whole documaries on that. Well, salute to my man called Lynch. That's my man, you know, having a I haven't spoken to him in a minute. I'm actually probably hit him up to day, but you know, salute to call Lynch. He's a he's he's a good person. He's a good person. And we all make mistakes, all right. And the Larry David's story is happening. That is a documentary. You know, he created Seinfeld. He has Curb Your Enthusiasm.

That's two part documentary about him. That's gonna happen on Tuesday, March first at nine pm and it will also be available for streaming on HBO Max. So it's going to be on HBO and then also on HBO Max. So I'm excited to see that because you know, I love Curb Your Enthusiasm. I love Curby Enthusiasm, But I hope that they don't play it safe, you know what I mean, Because Curby Enthusiasm is a show that's been around long

before Cancel Culture, you know what I mean. And they've explored a lot of different topics on that show, you know, including you know, the N word and how it's used. So I hope that they don't play it safe. And I hope that they actually have those real conversations about comedy and what comedy was and some of the choices they made on that show, because I feel like they've always made smart choices that something would deem problematic now.

But I hope they don't run from it. Yeah, and that show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, had a whole other season. They definitely did not straight away from the controversy. And it's funny, it's smart. So excited to see this. All right. Well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor reports. All right, let me shout out to my Hamptonian sister, Wanda Sykes. She's gonna be one of the hosts on the oscars. I also Amy Schuma and Regina Hall, So I just wanted to shout her out and Shout out to all

of Hampton University alumni out there. Yeah, shout out to Bill Packer, who's producing that as we discussed the other day too. So that's exciting that he put all three of them as the host. Shout the wood Packer, good brother too. All right, now up next to the People's Choice Mix, get your requested eight hundred and five eighty five one O five one it is to Breakfast Club. Good morning. So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be

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day during Black History Month to Black Effect. iHeartRadio Podcast Network, we dropped a daily podcast called I Didn't Know. Maybe you didn't either, Okay. In today's episode, my man b dot is gonna tell you the story of Claude deebt Covid. How art thou I didn't know? Maybe you didn't. That's really good. Be dout here. I am a hot point North Carolina, at the hot point music history everywhere. Let's check this jay Z. Yeah. Well, on today's episode, if

I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. We're gonna talk about Claudette Covid because at the age of fifteen, marked second, nineteen fifty five, they told her to get up our hussey. They told claud that, hey girl, get to the back of the buck. You know the rules around him. Claude that said, na felt like the journal truth was on one side and Harriet Tubman was on the other side holding her down. She said she couldn't get up, so they locked her ass up. At the age of fifteen.

Nine months later, Rosa Parks does the exact same thing, but Rosa Parks was an adult and she was the secretary of the NAACP. So the NAACP and other organizations was like, we're not gonna rock with Claude that Covid. She fifteen and her background is a little You can do your own homework to find out what the background was. They felt that middle age Americans would be able to accept Rosa Parks a lot better, and they were right.

But let us not forget Claude at COVID. She did it first, and just recently all of her criminal record was expunged. Ain't got good. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. Oh it's interesting. Listen all right, well, happy black Kiss three month. That's right, and make sure you download. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. It comes out deadly on the Black Effect. iHeartRadio podcast network available everywhere you listen to podcast hosted by my guy b Dot

Salute to be Dot. All right, now, keep a lock. We got the positive note. When we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is stee, j Enry Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. Yes, And can I give a quick shout out to Deborah Cox. You know I'm in Atlanta. I've been filming for that show First Wives Club, and I actually had a scene with her yesterday and she's super amazing. I just love Deborah Cox. It was really exciting to be able to

work with her. So I just want to shout her out and everybody from the team over here at First Wives Club on BT to Deborah Cox, sou did Jillie from Philly two. Yes, I had a scene with Joe. Yeah. I had a scene with Jill Scott also, So I'm really excited for that. But I'm just happy that they included me. I actually played myself on their Angela, so, uh, you know, it was just dope to work with the

two of them. It was it was fun. I was excited, I was nervous, but I just want to think Jill Scott and Deborah Cocks for making me feel so comfortable. All right now, Charlemagne, you've got a positive note. I do the positive note simply this. Sometimes it is best just to be quiet and let God show people Breakfast Club. You don't finish your y'all dumb