Ro Khanna and Isaac Hayes the third Interview

Good morn, Charlomne. The god piece of the planet is Monday. Yes, it's Monday. Back to the work we good morning, Good morning. What's happening? I woke up this morning and I saw it was I don't know how the weather is in everybody else's area, but in New York City it was a tornado. It was nasty last name, yeah, actual tornados. I didn't know it was an actual tornado. I was

actually out. I went to go get something to eat, and I was driving back home, and all of a sudden, the weather just went crazy and tornado pull up out of nowhere. Every the whole sky get dark, everything getting black. It sound like a train coming. I was like, what's happening? This is awful now they said yesterday on the news, they said expect bad weather. They said anything that has to be tied down, tight down, unbrullers. There was like

anything they about to get disgusting. Yeah, who lost their wig last night unsuspectingly and didn't know who? I'd like to hear from you, my goodness. Okay, right man, what's going on? Yeah? But that was that was discussed. The last name I see, our friend, Danielle Rawlings is in the hospital. I'm not sure. I gotta find that out, all right, Well yeah, all right, Well Rokonna will be

joining us this morning. Oh yes, Rokanna. Man, he's he's a he's a congressman, I believe, right, But he also is really really really big into the tech world, and he wants to get black people and into the tech world. Right. And also we have somebody that has a great app that is allowing anybody to get involved. You don't have to be a celebrity, you don't have to be a millionaire billionaire. You can invest if you want, very very very very small. So Isaac Hayes the third will be

joining us this morning. That's right. So you see how they go hand in hand. Or O'Connor wants you to get into the tech world, and then Isaac hay has an opportunity for you to get into the tech world. That's right. Hey, when we're talking about investments this morning, it's not gonna be something too crazy. It's gonna be it's it's well, we'll talk to him in a little bit and you can hear it all for yourself. But

let's get the show cracking front page news. What we're talking about, Well, let's talk about Barack Obama and his new book. He's been doing some interviews. He did sixteen minutes. I'm gonna tell you some of the takeaways from that. All right, we'll get into that next. Keeping lock this to Breakfast Club go morn morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the breakfast club less getting some front page news now. In NFL, the

Browns beat the Texans ten to seven. The Lions beat the Washington Football team thirty twenty seven. The Packers beat the Jaguars twenty four, twenty Buccaneers beat the Panthers forty six twenty three. Raiders beat the Broncos thirty seven twelves. The Dolphins beat the the Charges twenty nine twenty one, Cardinals beat the Bills thirty two thirty. Rams beat the Seahawks twenty three sixteen. The Steelers beat the Bengals thirty six ten. The Saints beat San Francisco forty nine twenty

seven thirteen. The Patriots beat the Baltimore Ravens. It looks like the Cowboys yea had a night all? Is it just me? Are the NFL just sought this ship the Eagles twenty seven seventeen. I don't know about your pointless game. Pointless pointless game. Pointless game should have been a game that they an for social distancing purposes. No need for any NFC East teams to be playing at all, especially each other. I record is better than the Cowboys right now.

And it looks like the Brooklyn Nets might be getting James harden Um. Yeah, what happens? That's getting James harden Yep, that's the first on his list of the teams he wants to join. Houston's getting rid of James harden When did this happen. I'm talk abou getting rid of Rust Westrook over the weekend. When did they talk about getting rid of James Harden. Well, James Harden says he possibly would like a trade in the first team you would like to go to it is the Brooklyn Nets. Let's

go Brooklyn, all right? And you know you saw the Miami Marlins have hired their first ever woman general manager in Major League Baseball and that's a huge thing. She's the highest ranking woman in baseball operations among the thirty MLB teams, so that is really dope. So congratulations to her, Kim, And all right, now let's talk about Barack Obama. He was on the Gail King on CBS Sunday morning, and

here's what he had to say. He had a pretty interesting interview about why he won't be joining Biden's staff. He doesn't need my advice, and I will help him in any ways that I can now. I'm not planning to suddenly work on the White House staff or something. There are probably some things I would not be doing because Michelle would leave me. She'd be like, what you're doing? What I would you thinking? I was going to say when he was on sixty minutes just to expand on that.

He was on sixty Minutes as wells in the evening with Scott Pelle, and he talked about how Michelle Obama did not even want him to run for president. Just two years earlier, I'd run for the US Senate. Two years before that, I had run for Congress. A couple of years before that, I'd run for the State Senate. We've got two young kids. Michelle's still working, And I asked myself in the book, how much of this is just megalomania? How much of this is me trying to

prove something to myself? And over time she made a conclusion that I shouldn't stand in the way, And the fact that I ended up winning didn't necessarily alleviate her frustration, because the TOLLA takes on families is real. Well, I can't wait to read Barack Obama's book. It's three hundred pages longer than Michelle's book. By the way, Michelle's book was for sixteate. Obama's book is seven hundred plus. But why would you be president of the United States and

didn't come back to work in somebody's cabinet? That's that's hustling backwards and it were friends. I can consult you, call my phone. I'm not about to come work in the cabinet. Has that ever happened? If the president ever been president and went to work in somebody's cabinet. I don't think so. Sense like you said, well, I think at first she was just asking him about what, you know, is he giving him any advice? And then it was just a follow up because he was saying he doesn't

think Joe Biden needs any advice from him. So yeah, it's just weird, like why would like, why I was president, why would I come work in the cabinet for you? Like I don't know. All right, well that is your front page news, all right, get it off few chess eight ondred five eight five five one. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. I'm I'm t what's you

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how you doing bad chart pieces? What's happening? Listen? I'm irritated, man, I'm so irt I just want to say that the Philadelphia Parking Authority has made my life a living hell this weekend because they out here just booting and towing people cards that they think old them money, and they booted through my car this weekend. You should load the people money, Traf. Why holding people money? No, I don't want to hear that. Man. They can't be trying to

tell people where to park and where they can't park. Yes, they can do, because they had all das to come to my block. They actually came to my block and booted my car on my block. And I've been hiding them in front of them for eight months lading people. What you old, traff? That's right, Stop giving Stop giving people a sixth day talking about you. I owe you one painting people, but it's far because Breakfast Club Change for Change is coming up and I gotta go five

thousand dollars leaking on me. I don't even think that. How'd your Eagles do? Though? All right, how'd your Eagles do? I'm a Cowboys fan. Don't disrespect me. Exactly. Man, call ahead all these years and been a diehard Dallas Cowboy fan. You're gonna tell him here an Eagles fan. They both trash, Hello,

who's this? Salthy? They get it off your chest? Okay, you guys made a statement about prisident Obama coming back to work in someone's campaign, and I just really feel like my hat goes off to him because he knows that there's work me to be done in this country. That's the way that I feel about him coming back to work in somebody else's campaign. No, no, no, no campaign. They said, they said, they said, Joe Biden, they said, it's cabinet. No, it don't make sense and don't work

in somebody's cabinet. But Rock Obama is an entity all to himself. He can invoke change so many other ways. He does not have to work in Joe Biden's cabin That don't even sound right. It does to me, Charlemagne, you always disagree with people rights her opinion, Thank you, Mama. You can't show me any other time in history that's ever happened where president has come worked in another president's cabinet. Yeah, I don't think it makes sense. Hello, who's this Hi,

my name is Carl du jaeby. How are you doing okay? Call mister quiet Stone voice, get it off he chest? Call and Hi Charlemagne and the guard her Carl, how are you car? I just wanted to say hello, y'all and say let you know that I'm blessed this morning. I really do appreciate your taking my call. I'm a black businessman. I started my own kink company and we're growing exponentially. Right now, we're about to rebrand and show off our new logo a new website. But I've done

my life savings into to help grow this company. But it's turning out to be worth it, and I'm very grateful, and I just wanted to share that with you guys. I'm a big fan. I listened to you every morning on the way to work um and with COVID, we haven't been to work in a while, so I listened to you every morning on our heart radio instead. Well, thank you man. You sound like you should be doing voiceover work for somebody, like you should be selling cheese

or something. I would love to take that job, Charlie Man, if you want to hire me, I'll be there first thing in the morning. Oh, I don't sell cheese. Wow, all right, but if I did, I how you to do a cheese commercial? There you go, get it off your chest? Eight five eight five, one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up. Now it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man, I get from you on the Breakfast Club. If you

got something on your mind, let hello, who's this? Mellow it up? Bro get it off your chest? Yo, So listening man on Friday. I'm not sure if I heard that correctly, but I believe Angela you might have told me to start the only fans. So I spent the weekend no number because I made Charlomagne scream pors cool. Okay, yeah you should do it only fan. But so now I need help picking a name. Let me I got I got a few options. I want to run by y'all. Let me know which one, y'all so wonderful. I saw

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coming soon, y'a. You gotta do what you gotta do. Christmas around the corner, Brod, I got man, I got mad gets everybody on my Christmas Blues video. What y'all want for Christmas? By the way, So y'all, y'all brother, I wanted to fast, all right, I got you. I got you? Oh boy, all right, thank you? Hello, thirty thou dollars? Hello? Who's this? This is time? Yeah? Any time you get it off your chess, Well, we have to get off my chest that I am engaged to a man and that I am not happy with, that

I am not love with. And every day it just gets worse me looking at him. I frustrated and uh and I'm just like oval, it sounds like you need to call up the engagement. I mean, I don't win my room anymore. But you know we still live together, so it's conna. I don't know what to become awkward and I want to how we don't full what happen? Are you wasting your time though? I mean because I'm comfortable with him. He takes care of you. Got that bad came on? But you know who makes He makes

life better a little better. But I just can't deal what fun of his way? I just can't. So you just don't like him? I mean I told him, I told him I wasn't happy. I told him things needed to change, what he needed to do to make it happy, and he still doesn't. So I'm planning on leaving. You know that I just told him happy. So why are you calling us? If you know what you want to do? You just need some confirmation that you might need out. She's just getting it off her chest. I'm asking her. Okay.

I don't want to people, you know, I just just always pray about things. I just so I needed to get up to my chest. All right, Mama? When you when you when you're planning to leave before the holidays, because don't take none of his gifts. See what I'm saying, I asked you was gonna tell him saying, uh not to send me, uh I buy me any Christmas ups. He actually just testing told him you loved me. How he about to hear you all over the radio out all right, mama, you know, get it off your chest.

Eight d five one oh five one. Now we got rumors on the way. Man. So much happened over the weekend, and we're going to talk about Benny the Butcher getting shot. We'll also talk about coronavirus and a few different people who have come forward and said that they have it. One person is an intensive care all right, we'll get into that next. Keeping lock this the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It's about Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well,

Benny the Butcher, he suffered a gunshot wound. They said it was in his leg and according to the Houston Police Department, they told TMZ that he was in town Saturday visiting a local walmart. While he was with his friends in the car and the lot, they said, a car with five guys pulled up next to them, took out some guns and demanded their chains. Apparently they were

moving too slowly and caught. And the cops say that one the guys fired around into Bennie the Butcher's leg and that's what caused them to flee after that, So eventually they did pull over and call the police. He was taken to the hospital for a treatment. Wow, look to the good brother, Bennie the Butcher. Sending positive energy, love and light to that brother. Everybody needs to keep their head on a swivel. It's been a rough year.

People are hungry, it's the holiday season. People are starving, and a lot of brothers out here looking like meal tickets. If you got it and they don't, they will come take it from you, simple as that. So pay attention and most importantly stay out the way, all right. And Boozy Badass got shot also over the weekend in the leg in Dallas, and Yes, so according to law enforcement sources, they said that he was shot after he was in a sprinter van near a strip mall and then he

stopped by another venue. He was paying his respects to Mo three, the rapper that was signed to him that was recently killed, and they said at some point somebody opened fire on the vehicles and one of the bullets struck him in the leg. And the shooters are also at large today. So Boosey did end up going to the hospital and he was treated for a gunshot wound below the knee, and that he is doing okay, you know, Like I said, man, salute to Boosey, Salute to that brother.

Keep your head on the swivel, pay attention and stay out the way. And you also got to remember too who you are sometimes like you can't do what everybody else does. That's why you don't have what everybody else has, you know what I'm saying. You have different access for

different reasons, which in both cases there was. It was a bunch of people with them though, So it seems like they might have had security with them, because I mean they're going and traveling different states, they're doing shows. I'm sure they probably had security. I mean, yeah, the security can get people can get to drop on security too. I don't know if they have security, but people can get to drop on security for show. All right, So

again our prayers to them. Now, Jeremiah has been hospitalized. He's an ICU and he has coronavirus. So according to now I've heard sources saying that he was on a ventilator, that things aren't going well. But fifty cent posted pray for my boy Jeremia. He's not doing good. This COVID is just real. He's an ICU in Chicago. I saw a hitmaker also asking for prayers and he said that Jeremiah's mother actually asked him to post that chance. The rapper said, please, if you can take a second to

pray for my friend Jeremiah. He's like a brother to me and he's ill right now. I believe in the healing power of Jesus, So if you can for me, please please say a prayer over him. So prayers for Jeremiah as well, yes, absolute now. Gospel artist Fred Hammond has also shared that he tested positive for COVID nineteen and he did share this update Monday, and I went went to go get tested and it was the same day test. I just wanted to come on and say that this is a day five of my quarantine because

the test came back Monday positive. I think the rough weekend was last weekend. But my doctor's like, she doesn't know what side of it I'm on, so she's keeping keeping me very monitored. And have a doctor that's with me pretty much well uncor day and I have three doctor's own speed. He also posted a mask is not a political statement, blessings family. So hopefully he's going to be okay and pull through now. Larsa Pippin has also revealed that she tested positive for coronavirus and she said,

I've never felt pain like this. She posted a picture that showed her legs. She said, I've been battling COVID for a week and she said, pray then let it go. Don't try and manipulate or force the outcome. Just trust God to open the right doors at the right time. Amen. Oh my goodness. Right, it's like everybody, it's so scary because you don't know how it affects your body. You know, some people get it and there's no problem. They don't even know they have it. They keep him moving in

and some people get it in. It's the worst. You just it's just scary because you don't know how it affects your body. You don't know how to run through your system. You know it has tested positive and the left nostril and not a negative in the right. Now, that didn't make no damn sense. I'm trying to figure this one out, Like, how do you test positive in one nostril and negative and the other nostril. And if that happens, what do you do? Do you quarantine for

seven days instead of fourteen? Shut up, man, shout out three feet away from people instead of sixth What do you do? Like what happens with his half and half? Yeah, that's a weird thing. I mean, I guess they're not one hundred percent effective, so I would assume you got to take it again. But that's weird. All right, Well that is your room report. Is there anything that happened good in the world this weekend? I mean, Jesus Christ making the Stallion, got an album coming out? Cahol, good news?

Is there any you mean to tell me? Nothing good happen to somebody this weekend? Maybe the next room here'll be some good news. Yeah, Jesus Christ. Two shootings, three positive COVID tests, Oh my god. All right, Well we got rumors we got from Page News coming up. What we're talking about Front page News. Yes, Donald Trump, he did say that he lost the election, but he also said it was rigged, and he also said he's not conceding.

So we'll tell you some more news about that. All right, we'll get into that next Keeping locked this to Breakfast Club. Good morning, So breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. What up y'allus? Dj Envy And if you're looking for older insurance customized just for you, you need the General Insurance. They have excellent customer service and they have been in business for over fifty five years. Called eight hundred General or visit the General dot com today.

Some restrictions apply. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Now, let's start with some NFL football. The Browns beat the Texans ten seven. The Lines beat the Washington Football team, Packers beat the Jaguars. My Giants beat the Eagles. Buccaneers beat the Panthers, Raiders beat the Broncos, Dolphins beat the Charges, The Cardinals beat the Bills. The Rams beat the Seahawks New Orleans. They

beat San Francisco forty nine is. The Steelers beat the Bengals, and the Patriots beat the Ravens. Now Monday night football, the Vikings take on the Chicago Bears. Now what else we got ye? All right, well, let's talk us some more about Obama's sixty minutes interview. Now he talks about how Michelle Obama was so supportive to him and how

grateful he is. Listen to this. It's only after you emerge from an all consuming job that you realize that everything you hold dear is thanks to the one you love. I think I actually realized that even while I was in the job. The fact that she put up with it and forgave me was an act of grace that I am grateful for, and I'm not sure I deserved it. Man, driving to clubs with Barack Obama get you a black woomandemic change your whole life to the best foundation to

stand on. His assistant. Now, his memoir, Promised Land, actually comes out tomorrow, So that's why he's been doing all these interviews and talking about his relationship and Michelle Obama being so supportive. And then he also in this interview talked about not attacking Trump. At the end of the day, I consistently tried to treat my political opposition in the ways I'd want to be treated. Every president brings a

certain temperament to office. I think part of the reason I got elected was because I sent a message that fundamentally I believe the American people are good and decent and that politics doesn't have to be some cage match in which everybody is going at each other's throats, and that we can agree without being disagreeable. Yeah, I mean, listen. I didn't like that though, because the problem with Trump is they acted like what he was doing was so

normal for four years. Therefore a lot of people didn't understand the severity of what he was doing in the White House. And if it wasn't for COVID, you know, treating him like he was just a normal president, it would have gotten him reelected. And it's not an attack if it's the truth, telling the truth about somebody is not attacking them. What a difference for who's our president

right now? Donald Trump. They had the million megamarts over the weekend with these Trump supporters and there was a lot going down. In addition to that, Trump said we won't let a rigged election still our country, and he's been on social media talking about he still feels like he didn't lose. He said he only won in the eyes of the fake news media. I concede nothing. We have a long way to go. This was a rigged election.

He won because the election was rigged. No vote watches or observers allowed, vote tabulated by a radical left, privately owned company Dominion with a bad reputation in bumm equipment that couldn't even qualify for Texas, which I won by a lot. The fake and silent media, and more so, he's still claiming without evidence that he won and even though these are all debunked theories and baseless conspiracy theories and false statements that he's putting out on social media.

And Giuliani actually did an interview and said that Donald Trump is not going to conceive as the president right now in this treet conceding this election. No, no, no, far from it. What he's saying is more I guess you'd call it sarcastic. Obviously he's contesting it vigorously in the court. Let's be honest. We don't want him to concede. Okay, we all know we want to see the military going then drag Trump out by his two pay kicking and screaming,

a peaceful transition to power, to be normal. We don't want it to end normally. Come on, and we know it's not gonna end normal. It's Trump. We don't want him to concede. Come on, we want to action. Come on, be honest, guys, Now, we want them to concede. We want him to get the hell out. Don't you want this show? You want this show? No, you don't you want this show so you can have content for your

rule reporting, front page news, for your headlines. We want the show stop, not throw him out on his ass. So if they threw him out on his ass, to be different. If we don't know how it's gonna happen, but I know it'll be entertaining. I know that much. All right, Well that is your front page news. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now when we come back, Roll Kinna will be joining us roll kinda. He is in the US House of Representatives. They actually talk about him

possibly replacing um Senator Harrison the Senate. But he's real big in the tech and he wants to get black people into the tech world. So we'll discuss with him, all right, we'll get into that next. Keep a lockets at Breakfast Club. Com Morning Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the God. We all the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line. Yes, indeed, Roekana, welcome, Thank you big fan of the show. Thanks for having me.

Thank you, Roe. You know I'm glad that you're here Man, because you know you've you've spoken to me about this proposal for wealth generation and tech jobs for young Black Americans and you sent it to I believe you sent it. The VP Biden and Kamala has been explained to people what that is, but very simple. Right now, the black community is being left out of the main wealth generation. I mean, I represent Silicon Mallley. Less than three percent

of venture capital goes to black or Latino entrepreneurs. They're less than ten percent at Apple, Google, Facebook of the employees or executives. If you think about it, the black community was not fully part of the industrial revolution, and now you have a digital revolution where it's just driving most of the stock market, ninety percent of the games. And you don't see black folks getting the IPOs, you don't see them at the executive tables, you don't see

them generating wealth. So my view is you want to deal with the racial wealthcap, We've got to have more funding for black entrepreneurs. We've got to actually create boot camps. We've actually got to get at least a million Black young men and women in the digital economy. How do we do that. Let's create actual boot camps at HBCUs in partnership with the private sector to get folks the skills and jobs. It's not enough for an Apple or Google or something to write a check to the United

Negro Scholarship Fund and think their job is done. You know there are only a third of computer science graduates or people with skills are actually getting jobs. They have to actually commit to hiring these volks people, not just giving some skills. And what often happens is the HPCUS or other schools they don't have the access to get interviews, so they may be doing computer science stuff, but then they're not doing the whiteboard interviews and they're getting blocked out.

So we had a partnership at Claflind with Zoom where Zoom committed to not just funding the training practical skills, but actually hiring folks afterwards. And I think we have to create these kind of boot camps that Opportunity Hub and others doing across across the country. Of changing the curriculum, changing the curriculum, you have to change the curriculum Claflind in South Carolina. Claflind, South Carolina. Yeah, you know, yeah,

now Clafland and Zoom. So you know what was happening is these hpcus they give all the academic stuff and then people would go to interview and they're all these whiteboard interviews and all these things and they've never been exposed to it, so they wouldn't get the job. Well, and that's you know that that's not going to create actual opportunities. So first, get people the actual practical skills

and certification that's going to lead to a job. So the HBC, you should partner with the private institutions, and these private companies have to commit to hiring. Second, I would say, at least any any big company that wants to have a big federal contract, Amazon others, have them have a ten percent Black and Latino workforce. That's right, you know, you see that happen. Look at how quickly they'll actually hi hi hire people right now. They're not.

You know, there's no incentive for them to do it. It's just lip service. It should be it should reflect the population of black people in this country. So thirteen to fourteen percent of what I say, great, Yeah, let's do something at thirteen fourteen percent makes makes a lot

of sense. And you know Jesse Jackson, who I admired, but he's been going to Silicon Valleys for the past fifteen years and they give us the same speech about diversity and they put out some statistics, but it's not improving. I mean that we've got to have some real policy and it can't just be left to the the the

intentions of of people in the valley. And what about raising funds, because you did talk about that to capitalists and how black people are getting left out when it comes to that, So what can be done about that? I think two things. First, let's look at the statistics. Less than three percent one hundred and thirty billion dollars venture capital industry, less than three percent is going to black or Latino entrepreneurs, probably less than one percent to

black entrepreneurs. And when it comes to women, it's you know, it's less than point three percent. I think we need to do two things. When we need actual targeted federal government matching funds where we're putting funds into black owned vcs, they're about twenty prominent black owned vcs. You know, if you give money to people with black owned funds. They're more likely to fund black entrepreneurs. That's just the reality of it. But the black funds VC funds are you know,

a very small fraction of one hundred thirty billions. I have federal funds to match that and secondly, incentivize the Harvards the public pension funds to say, look, you get a different capital gains tax rate if you're going to invest that money with black own fund so that you're incentivizing these huge people who control a lot of the capital to put the money in black funds. I fundamentally believe if you give money to black run funds, you're

going to get more black entrepreneurs funded. I don't think you can rely on non you know, other funds finding the entrepreneurs or opportunities. Yeah, you got to be intentional about it, you know. I mean, so you got to give the money to people who are going to be intentional about empowering other black people. But I got a question, role, what's what's keeping black people out of the digital revolution. We're the consumers of all this tech, all these social

media apps, but not the creators. Why that's brilliantly put. I mean simply look, you know black Twitter. I mean, the black people get a lot of the cultural stuff started on these tech companies. They wouldn't have grown. Twitter wouldn't have grown if it wasn't right and right now Clubhouse, Clubhouse and on Amazon, obviously huge purchases on Facebook, and so the black community is exactly you put it through the consumers, but more than the consumers, they're the cultural movers.

They're getting this stuff popular. I mean, you look at the videos on entertainment and things on Instagram or TikTok. It's often black entertainers, black influencers, and yet they're not getting the wealth that the actual wealth creation, and they're not being able to shape these platforms. People keep talking

about the racial wealth gap ten to one. It has increased in the last twenty years, not decreased, increase And one of the big parts of the reasons for that, in my view, is that all the wealth creation is largely being driven in the digital economy. So why are they excluded? Have they been excluded? I think partly it's that there's network effects, you know, if you're it's not that they don't they don't want to go into computer science. Actually,

young black kids have a greater desire. There's a study showing them a greater desire to study computer science than white kids. Actual they they're more interested in it. So and a third of black graduates in computer science aren't getting jobs in tech, even though there's seven hundred thousand open tech jobs. So part of it is the network effect. I mean, how many of these tech companies are actually

recruiting where the talent is. Partly is that they're not getting the skilled boot camp training, which treaches folks not just about the algorithms and out of code, but actually the way that interviews are conducted to get jobs. And then partly is the exclusion of capital. But if this continues, the racial wealth kept twenty years from now, it will

be worse. And what I say is, look, the biggest issue obviously, and you know, I know, Charlie, you've been very eloquent on it, is with criminal justice farm at police violence. And that's obviously people can't be getting shot.

But in Silicon Valley it's easy to sit there and say, you know, the problem is the cop in Minnesota or the cop in Wisconsin, and and support Black Lives Matter sort of theoretically and say Okay, we're going to go out and march for r racial justice against police violence. But what are you doing? But Black Lives Matter is not just about making sure black kids don't get shot in the streets. It's about making sure they have a shot at the American dream, at wealth creation. That's a

far harder structural reform. And I think that we can't let off companies and area I represent saying okay, support Black lives marches without telling about equity and wealth generation. All right, we got more with Rocanna. When we come back the morning, everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee. Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Kana. He's the member of the US House

Representatives from California seventeenth district. It always seems crazy when we talk about minorities and generational wealth and then you look at big companies and all the breaks that they get, whether it's the Amazons or the Netflix or you know, all these other companies, and it just seems weird to me that you give all these companies huge breaks, and then when you talk about generational wealth, you don't allow

minorities chance to catch up. I'd say right. I think one of the other reforms tribute that there should be people on the boards of these companies, there should have some sense of diversity requirements for the boards and in these companies. And people say, well, why, how does that help someone who's middle class or working class to get representation on the boards. I think that's a very privileged perspective.

I mean, it's not just that black people should be having working class jobs and focused on the minimum wage. They're important. We've got to give them access to the wealth generation and they're going to reinvest that in their own community. So partly it's diversifying the boards, it's having incentives. As you point out, these companies are getting a lot of breaks from the government. They have an obligation to be part of the solution in dealing with the racial

wealth gap and the exclusion of black talent. You know, why do you think there's never been an attempt role to address the racial wealth gap in America in a meaningful way? I should I say, fixth the racial wealth gap in American a meaningful with I think that we're not focused enough of the on the ambitions of young African Americans. Af Amrian families. I think we're so focused

on their the immediate social problems, which are acute. Let's make sure everyone gets healthcare, Let's make sure everyone you know doesn't get shot in the streets. Let's make sure that people at minimum wage. But that's not America, that's not a buff When I go to Claffland, when I talk to these young folks, they have the same dreams as kids in my district. They want to be entrepreneurs, they want to be business leaders, they want to create wealth they have and when do we have when do

we speak to that to that aspiration. You're not going to solve the racial wealth gap by just giving everyone healthcare and minimum wage and social securiture, as important as that is. You've got to give people access to wealth generation. And I just don't think we've been asking that question properly. Is where is the wealth being generated? And how are

we going to give it entire community access? You know, John lewis one of the honors I had to serving with him, and he used to say to me, rug technology rights and the new civil rights, make sure you get talk about people having access to technology talk. You got to talk me about this Clafland connection. Because I'm from South Carolina. My father in law is a Claffland alumni, Like, well, why why Claughlin so sob Jim Cleblin represents that area. I had gone down to Claughlin and we met with

some of the students. He had said, look where I'll come. You knew I was keen on getting technology companies to expand, and so he said, come down. We went down to Claflind and these entrepreneurs, these twenty twenty two year old kids, I mean, unbelievable hunger, ambition, vision, but they didn't have access to the networks. They don't have access to the venture capital, they don't have access to people taking a shot on them. And I was so impressed with Cloughlin.

So I went back and I talked to Zoom and they were looking to do something, and I said, why don't you partner with Claughlin. Now it's a start. I mean they're they're putting a couple million bucks, they're actually creating the training programs, they're hiring folks. But what we have to do is ask that off all of the companies, and to do it broadly with the HBCUs and don't

let them get off just writing a check. I mean that's the you know, what happens is these companies will say, okay, we'll write a check to the United Negro Scholar Fund. And what happens with the money. Maybe some kids get a scholarship. That's great, but they're not getting hired back into tech. They're not becoming entrepreneurs, they're not becoming vcs, they're not getting funded. And you know, I know it's initially I thought, okay, maybe this is just my perspective

from Silicon valuement. When I go and talk to young kids, this a lot of this is what they want. They want to make well, they want to get successful, they want to they have pride, They they have as big dreams as anyone. And I think we sell the dream short where we just talk about the problems that we're not talking about how we're going to give them access to opportunity. Now, Donald Trump, I think came up with a total you know, sham in my view was superficial thing,

Platinum plan and you know, the five hundred billion. He wasn't even to fund it, it it was it was claiming it was going to come from We're going to circulate. Yeah, somehow people were gonna make money. But it was strictly appealing because he was talking about people get making money and people having access to it. Now, what we've got to do is say, Okay, we're actually going to have the real solutions to how that's going to work. But I think we've got to acknowledge that we've got a

real problem in this country. And you know, look, I'm on the reparations bill, and I'm for understanding the historical injustices. But unless we solve the access to future wealth generation, nothing government can do is going to reduce the racial wealth gap. If we can't give people the opportunity to create wealth, by the way, they can figure it out. The same way they figured out how to systemically keep us from getting wealth, they can figure out how to

get systemically create avenues for us to make wealth. You got the marijuana industry, industry, We've got so much. It's not like the talent is extraordinary. And how do we know this? Because any cultural trend in this country, a lot of it that takes off as partly starts with the Black community. That the creativity is extraordinary, the ambition is extraordinary, the desire is there more Black kids want to go into tech than the white kids, according to

some of the studies. So it's in the interest of these companies to do it. This report show more diverse companies are more profitable there, they better understand consumer needs. So what is stopping it? It is ums. It may not be blatant bigotry, but it's the soft bigotry. If your own networks people don't you know, they don't know where all the talent is. They don't they don't want to go beyond the people they met at school. They're not willing to make that intentional effort to be inclusive.

And I think that that's that's really the problem. It's going to kill us. With China, They've got a billion people. I mean, how are we going to compete if we're writing off whole parts of her population from AI, from quantum computing, from all of the new new fields. And then, you know, think about if all the digital platforms are being created by some people in the black community is not part of that, how are they going to make sure that their voices are heard and in the design

of these platforms. All Right, we got more with Rocanna. When we come back, don't move. It's to breakfast club. Good morning. I thing everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Chalomie the guy we are the breakfast club was still kicking him with rocana. Chalomi. Now you know, I saw what you said. One hundred and thirty one billion dollars in annual venture capital UM, I guess comes into tech the tech world, but less than one percent goes to black firms. Yeah, less than one percent goes to black

entrepreneurs and even less to black firms. I mean the so the it's a small I mean, it should be a national scandal that the exclusion of that. Think I mean, think about where all the money is being made. And you know in the SNP five hundred ninety percent of the game has been the tech over the last five years. Where are the billionaires millionaires coming from? Most of them a lot of them Dropbox, Airbnb, Facebook, Google, Apple. How

many folks do you know who are black? Who said okay, I had stock options or my company was funded in weipo. How need you know who were acquired? It is? It is a appalling the level of funding and the talent is there, There's just no intentionality. Has anyone been able to raise the kind of money Rodney Sampson raised in two thousands for their black tech company. I was he the last one. He's one of twenty. I think black.

I think Rodney's for Ronney is great. I mean there was an opportunity, but I think his fund right now is about five to ten million. I mean, there need to be a couple more zeros at the end end of that. And you know what Rodney is doing with Opportunity Hub is amazing work and Morehouse College. He's set up a boot camp basically where you will get the credentials to have a tech job afterwards. But we've got

to give him the money to scale it. I mean, fifteen billion dollars properly spent scaled with boot camps and at HBCUs could get a million young Black men and women into these digital opportunities. And then we've got to give them the funding to go out and build build. Well. You know, there's a great initiative that Tyrants is doing in uh In in uh Oklahoma. Of course, people know about the Tulsa and the the well Walled Street effort and how that was destroyed by white people who were

jealous of basically black success. They destroyed it twice. I mean, they first had the riots and then they built the highway through uh Tulsa to destroy it the second time, and so they're trying to build a tech presence UH there to try to replicate replicate that. But these kind of efforts are going on all over the country. The problem is that there's no funding, there's there's no effort

and people. You have such a big platform obviously in the Breakfast club, but I just think saying that this has to be as much of a priority as the other issues facing the community long term, because otherwise they'll never be. I don't think you can have equality without equality of wealth generation. I don't think you can have quality. Yeah, the civil no disrespect, but civil rights no that that that's not that's that's not going to get us where

we need to be. And I think that's you know, that's when Martin Luiver King Jr. Was pivoting to like economic empowerment, you know what I mean, us being financially financially stable. The civil rights part, they can they can colde racism and hide racism and all types of things. But as long as we got that that economic part downpack, I think will be I and the economic guess like, I mean, I agree. I mean, obviously you know this better.

But I think the economic empowerment, it can't just be okay, healthcare in a fifteen buck minimum wage and in a good union job. Yes, all of those are important, but is that the country want to live in that silicon valley gets all the millionaires and billionaires and black folks are on working class and middle class jobs and no wealth creation like that? That is not a true equality, especially with the talent, and a lot of the consumerism

is being driven by the bid community. Their money is going to these companies, their money, their talent is driving these companies success. Uh. And so I and I think that the fixes are easy. I mean, I'm hopeful by s Preasi, Biden and Kamierson if they're serious about a Divine nine endorse the approach. So you've got a lot

of the fraternity's historical frattorneys and sororities behind it. And if you get someone like Rodney, who's really spent a lot of time in this and a few others to spearhead, and you give him the resources and you can be in the HBCU presidents and you look beyond that, I think you could fix this issue. I mean, and we need to fix it. Why are you so passionate about it? Row Like, why are you so passionate about black people acquiring wealth? To take two reasons. One my own story.

So you know, my grandfather has spent four years in jail with Gandhi in the nineteen forties. And I don't know if you know James Lawson, but he's a he's a great leader. He's actually in la Lawson actually had gone to India and uh went was influenced by H. Gandhi's movement, and he went and influenced doctor King and John Lewis on some of the non violence struggles. And if it weren't for the Black Civil rights movement, my parents wouldn't have been allowed in this country in nineteen

sixty five immigration reformat. Before that, you didn't have Indians or Chinese basically allowed to come to America. And we forget this, and now you got a lot of Indian Americans who have succeeded in technology they wouldn't have had they wouldn't have been allowed in America, let alone had those chances. Look at why there's so many Indians at HBCUs because the other universities didn't hire them, so not

only they come in. So I just think I have an obligation or some response ability given this historical circle to to do something to make greater access to well generation. It's it's what I know, it's where I represent. So I mean, there are a lot of other issues, but this is an issue that where I can make a difference and give back to a community that made my story possible. Dope, we appreciate you for checking in and

joining us this morning. Thank you so much. Yeah, so give us some give us more information role like tell us how to reach you or how to for people to get in to find out some of the information that you're talking about like this, how do we get people involved? That'd be great And I'd love people's ideas also if they have ideas of how to partner with tech companies and what we should be doing, so they can email me at row at Rocana dot com. I

check that row at roca dot com. Obviously they can direct message me if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, but or you can reach out to our office. But if you email me with ideas on this, uh, you know, this is a passion of mine and something I want to really work on next ten years. All Right, thank you so much. Brother, We appreciate you for checking. Thank you, thank you. She's filling the team. This is the Ruble

Report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. All Right, so heap Maker was on Drink Champs and he was very chatty. Some things he said I thought was kind of wacked to do. But other things he talked about was he feels like the same people that set up Pop Smoked, the same woman for that home invasion as the same people that set him up. If you remember his house got broken into. Here's what he said. She

was sharing. Okay, it was three guys with guns and ain't that trying to come and kick in my crib? And the crazy thing is like when it was happening, instead of her being like a girl in the midst of a home invasion, like I was like, she was fighting me. Yeah, bro, it was a bro. I'm still like, I'm still dealing with PTSD from Higgo Higgo the craziest casually like I'm cool with Pop Smoke girlfriend or whatever. She had hit me like yeo, like the same dude

dog Yeah, bro, that's crazy. Yeah. Another reason to settle down with one woman in mind your damn business out here with all these randoms that you don't speak to the screen. Just don't sleep with him either, all right. Another thing that he talked about was Shaquille O'Neill building him out of jail. At the video and we're shooting the first shot of the day, me and ray J and a Lamborghini. We're smoking a blunt. I threw the

broach out the car. The police that were keeping us Sabe picked up the roach out the Lamborghini locked my ass up immediately before the first shot of the day. I'm young bird, so now just want me to rap from him? That next thing I thought, Shaquille O'Neill bailed me out of prison. I gotta list of that four Drink Champs episode. Why did Shaq bail him out? What's the relationship between Shock and um bird hit maker? He's a sheriff in LA he said, or something like that.

So did they just get the call they call Shock? How like? How did Shock even know? I gotta listen to the whole Drink Champs episode. I haven't listened that one yet, all right now, M yeah, So, I mean some of those things he said. I was like, he's talking about a bunch of different women. I thought it wasn't cool to do that. When you can go check out Drink Champs on you can go check out Drink Champs on the Black Effect. iHeartRadio app right now and

available everywhere you buy a podcast Shout the North. Listen to podcast all right now. When Jeez was on the Breakfast Club, he was talking about this versus battle that he was supposed to do against TI and things have such changed. Let me give you guys a refresher. Well. I even got the call about verse. I got a call from from Swiss. I let yo, Swiss, I really you know, if I do it, there's only one person I do it with. And he was like who. I was like, Guchi, reach out to him, let me know

what's up. Swiss hit back, see he respectfully to climb cool done that would have broke the goddamn in And then j this, Yeah, I mean we could have done it for the coaching all right, what looks like that is happening now, So that's going to be happening on Thursday that say, can they be in the same moment everything be I I mean, clearly they've had some type of communication, right, clearly they've had some kind of communication before.

And if you read Gucci Man's book, it's not the first time that you know him and geezf chopped it up. You know, soa but I don't know, I don't know, but you know I've seen Gucci's post. He said, uh, what do he says, uhtree Man versus snow Cone. Yeah, but Geez actually called Gucci a snow cone first. If you know your Gucci Geezy beef history on stay scrapped up and then said he calls him a little gout wap and call and said, don't send your clone. Yeah, so can we get I know who you got? You?

Who you got? Charlomanne Um, I got Geez. But it's a sneaky matchup because he the difference between Geez and Gucci. GEEZI has complete albums, bodies of work that are better than Gucci's. Jeez has two classics, TM one on one and The Recession, two really great albums, the inspiration in TIM one on three. But Gucci collectively has dropped one hundred and eight mixtapes and albums combine, so he's got twenty. He's got twenty. Of course, they both got twenty. Who

wins in that battle? I think Geez, I think Jeez wins. But I mean, listen, you got a hell of a fan base, bro, a hell of a fan base and giggles, Yeah, who you got? Geez? Okay for sure? All right? And Whack one hundred is plotting for a fifty cent in the game versus battle, So we'll see what happens with that. You know, they did shake hands and they were in the same club together a couple of times, so maybe that could happen. And we're playing a classic Gucci instrumental

in the background right now. This this is this freaky girl, That's what I'm saying. Gucci's not it's it's it'll be a very competitive versus. It could be Mulatto's record too. Oh yeah, I've forgotten Alotto's records sampled it. Yeah, it's big a lot of Can we get Gucci and Jeezy to sit down on the Recessions podcast hosted by Gez on the Black Effect Podcast Network though, that's when inquiring minds wanted to know, and that happened, all right, t I already put his bid in for that podcast. Why

would Why would you do that? Why would why would jes do that on t podcast when he has his own Because I guess t I was nice enough to step to the tide and let him do the battle even though he was supposed to be doing it the coach and made him step to the side. They were gonna push it to the side for this one. Actually I heard Pete. I heard Pete from QC negotiated that.

But no, yeah, you're right through the coach it too, because GZ was on Breakfast Club last week and Gez put it out there like at that for from the clip that we just played. So I'm sure that that changed the tide a little bit, absolutely all right, And that is your room of report. I can't wait to see it all right now, who you're giving that, don't keep too Charlemagne. You know, we need a little pump

to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a world with him, but it's more of a teachable moment for everybody when it comes to uh, your your your words. That little pump, a little pip, which one one of them? All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. The Freshest Family Reunion is coming to HBO Max, celebrating thirty years since the Fresh Prince of bel Air's debut. Joanna will Smith

and the whole cast for our Walkdown Memory Lane. The Bank's Family is back. The First Prince of bel Air Reunion streaming Thursday only on HBO Max. Can make sure you're telling them to watch out for Florida Morda. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx in all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey. The Florida man at tapped and atm for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested after

definitely staved. He rigged the door to his home and an attempt to electric kate his party at White Police arrested in Orlando man for talking a Fomana the Breakfast Club Bitchy Donkey other day with Charlom Haine, a guy. I don't know why y'all keep letting him get y'all. Yes, it's donkey today for Monday, November sixteenth, goes to a name Little Pump or as the current lame Duck, Celebrity in chief calls him a little pimp. Now, little pump is from Florida. I didn't even know you from Florida.

But what did your uncle Shaula always say about Florida? Come on, say it with me. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Now, folks are a little pimp out there campaigning for the guy who lost the election, Donald J. Trump. Can we hear from that Ratley? We hear that clip? One of the big superstars of the world, Little pimp? How's it? God? Do you want to come up and say something? Come on, little pomp. Does everyone know who he is? Do you

know how big he is? Come on up here. I'll come here to say, mister President, I appreciate anything done for our country. You brought the troops home, and you're doing the right thing. MAGA twenty twenty twenty, don't forget that. Don't forget that, and do not vote for sleepy Joe at all. Twenty sounds like too long of a year. Personally, I didn't care that he did that. You know the reason I didn't care because I have no problem with people thinking freely about their politics, even if I don't

agree with their politics. The guy wanted to vote for Trump, who cares. Maybe the red Maga hat matches his car. I'm sure he has a bright red pair sneakers that matches that had Hey, maybe he's blood in the red Maga hat with the redder the Republicans makes him feel comfortable enough to bang that set. I don't know. I didn't care, but what I do acknowledge his cap. And

that's what happens a lot on social media. Just cap so much cap on the app, and it's people who literally get on there with the sole intention of making you care about something that you should not be caring about. But the only reason you would care is it's impossible to not get swept away by the tide of group think. So it can be a person that you have never thought of in your life, like a little pimple. Okay, you can't name a song, don't know anything about him.

You probably never even heard of him until you saw a bunch of people angry at him on social media for support Trump and then clowning him because Trump didn't even know his name when he introduced him at the rally during the campaign. But since you saw everybody else attacking him, you wasted time and energy attacking him too. Do you even care today that he supported Trump? Of course you don't. Why would you? Okay, Trump a loss,

therefore Pump's endorsement didn't matter. And you know why Pump's endorsement didn't matter even more, because none of this matters if you don't vote. And ladies and gettlemen, Little Pump did not vote. Oh I loved reading this article on Complex over the weekend. Let me read a little bit of it. Despite going all in on his support for Donald Trump, SoundCloud rapper A Little Pump didn't bother to

vote in the twenty twenty presidential election. In fact, according to the Smoking Gun, Pump didn't even register the vote end quote. Little Pump's real name is Gazy Garcia, he's twenty years old, and he doesn't show up as a registered voter on Florida state voter rolls. Okay. These findings were also confirmed by a supervisor for the Miami Dade County Elections Department. Let me explain something to y'all, because this is bigger than Pump voting for Trump. Okay, It's

about Pump not practicing what he's preaching. See, I can't even call Pump a Trump supporter because you are what you do, not what you'll say you will do. And this, my friends, is words are getting cheaper and cheaper. This is exactly why words are getting cheaper and cheaper. Okay, we live in a word economy. All we do is to see words all day, non stop, all right, NonStop commentary on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, NonStop commentary on podcast, NonStop

commentary on radio, NonStop commentary on TV. We put so much value into the words of people, and never in the history of life has talk been cheaper. I'm telling you, every single solitary saying you ever heard about words being meaningless? This is why. Okay, words are nothing, actions of everything. Don't tell me, show me, and I don't want to hear it. All right, doesn't matter if little Pump didn't

vote for Trump. He told people he was voting for him, so he may have been plumed people to vote for him. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, so it's just as dangerous. I hear what y'all saying. But if every vote counts and he didn't vote, and he's part of the problem, all right, Trump lost because he didn't get enough votes, even though he had the second biggest vote to turnout in election history. His opponent, Senator Kamala Harris and Joe

Biden had the biggest turnout in election history. But tomorrow of the story is why do we as people continue to put so much stock in what people say they are going to do when the reality is they aren't really doing a damn thing. Okay, your words mean nothing when your actions are a complete opposite. This is just a teachable moment for all of us. See, I'm the type of person I can't say what I'm going to do and not do it. I can't tell you what

I've done if I've never did it. I'm not going to tell you to do it if I never did it, only because to me, words matter because I'm expecting me from other people, and my therapist keeps telling me to stop doing that. Okay, look, I get it. When I was Pump's age, I was doing a lot of performing too. I was saying and doing a lot of things that didn't and I didn't really mean it. I just wanted to get a reaction out of people, and nat ladies

and gentlemen. Was when I was at my facus. Okay, you can't claim to be real when the words that are coming out of your mouth don't match your actions. Little pump did all of this for absolutely nothing, going hard in the paint and don't even have a real dog in the fight. What is the point? Okay? What was it for? For clicks, for likes, for retweets. Now, why should we believe anything that comes out of his mouth? Ever? Again?

When your words don't line up with your actions, people lose trust in you and everything that you stand for. So please, kids, listen to your uncle Charlot when I tell you, make sure, make sure, without a shadow of a doubt, that your actions and behaviors live up to and reflect the words ideas, promises, and commitments that come out of your mouth. Please give a little pump to

sweet shots of the Hamiltones. You are the doggy the day, you the donkey, the he that's a nice teacher one moment, make sure that your actions and behaviors live up to and reflect the words ideas, promises, and commitments that come out of your mouth. All right, well, thank you for that donkey today. Now when we come back. Isaac Hayes, the third will be joining us. You're looking to invest

in something, keep a lock. This might be something that you want to invest in, and it's going to cost your almond leg all right, you haven't thought about getting into the tech world. Pay attention, all right, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club is back where I want to be morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, I should say on the line right now, Isaac Hayes.

Isaac is an unofficial elected official in Atlanta, Georgia. I don't know. He does a little bit of everything, but he's here this morning to talk about what's on his shirt. Man. Fan Base's fan base. Well, first of all, I made it to the Breakfast Club. This is an honor, Like, I'm really excited to be here. You guys are legends. Thanks for having me. Fan Base is a startup that I've founded that allows anyone to monetize their content. Any and every person can monetize their content and make money

off their content. What you mean? What you mean? Off their content so you can have followers and subscribers so you know, there's a lot of networks social networks out here that allow people to monetize their content. Everybody knows about only fans Patreon, but fan Base is a social network that allows anybody to monetize their content by having subscribers. You could also have followers, so you could have a ten thousand followers and thousand subscribers and it's on the

same platform, so you're not isolated from content. And I'm providing content monetization to everybody. Like everybody, we all make content. All you guys are content creators, and you guys have an opportunity to monetize your content and make money. I think walking me through this the other day and I thought it was dope because the concept, you have the vision, you have to create black wealth from this for multiple beer. Absolutely. So what I'm doing is shout out to don Dixon,

who've been on the Breakfast Club. She's like my mentor in this process. But they recommended me for a platform called start Engine and Startedge as a platform that allows you to crowdfund money and the seed stage. And I'm gonna tell you why that's important because I'm taking advantage of a statue some new legislation called the Jobs Act that allows the general public to raise funds for a startup. Now, you couldn't do this before Obama Biden passed the Jobs

Act twenty twelve. So from nineteen thirty three to two thousand and twelve, you had to be a credited investor to invest in the seed stage company. That means you had to have a net worth of allion dollars minus your primary residents or make two hundred thousand dollars a year for two years in a row. Now think about that, from nineteen thirty three two now, that's like ninety nine percent of Americans didn't have that money. So all this time,

the rich have been getting mature. So if you wonder why you never got a call to invest in Uber or Instagram or TikTok or any of these platforms because you were not rich enough. So now because of the Jobs Act, I'm able to raise funds from my startup, and I'm raising a million dollars on start Engine and right now we're about one hundred and seventy six thousand dollars in about eleven days. So the raisers moving very well. We have a lot of great people on the platform,

that have invested. I think every investor that has contributed. I want everybody to invest because this is an opportunity to create black wealth off the culture that we create. Right, we give our we give our dances to TikTok, we give our clapbacks and our humor to Twitter. We give our content and our energy to Instagram. But we don't own any of those platforms. So fan Base. Fan Base is not a black platform, right, It's a platform for everybody. But I know, as you know, that black culture we

drive these social networks. We make everything popping. So to be able to invest in the seed stage and own part of a platform that you also give your culture too is incredible and I want everybody to take advantage of that. Yeah, what is fan Base available? Can I download it now? Can I get it now? You can? You can get it on the Apple app Store. We're only on the Apple App Store right now. We're working on Android. Android is coming in first supporter. Yeah, absolutely free.

You can set it up, make a page. Matter of fact, I'll verify you both like that. You know, I know a guy that works there. So yeah, and you can start. You can start posting content and U and monetizing your content, and I think that's very important because you can actually do long form too, so you can blow up to an hour's worth of content h long form style. So now you're your own Netflix. So the quality of content you put on your fan based page, you monetize that,

and so it's avail now. Um, the rev share is fifty fifty for anybody that wants to know, you make fifty percent of the revenue. And you can also like and love content. So you love a piece of content, you get the content, create a half a penny, you can like for free. But you can also tip content creators half a penny or unlocked posts. So it's an enormous amount of freedom there to monetize your content. And there's a lot of wealth that's going to be generated

from this platform. Now is it better? Do you make more money than you could on only Fans? Because I see everybody running the only fans I mean only fans is really a great opportunity for sex workers and people that want to use the platform that no listen, no, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not knocking. Only fans is

no listen. The sex worker community is really aggravated because it was really their place, right, I gotta I gotta, I gotta deem this money, like I gotta deem this morning from a girl that was like, Yo, I'm a sex work on only fans and we're frustrated because ever since Bella Thorne came over there and messed it up for everybody, charging all that money, and everybody charged back there their money, they messed it up for this X workers.

So that's a real niche market for them. And because of that, only fans is not allowed on the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store because they consider the point site. So it's a web bap so it's not a social network, you know what I'm saying. So it's not a place that are everybody's gonna get on there. And you know, I don't know if any of you are an only fans, but you're not gonna get on the neighbor like hey guy, let me sing you this girl or look at this and talk, you know, communication.

I thought about using the platform because see I like the platform already because it's set up, so let's think about it like this, right. You know, I do real estate, so every week I have somebody on there talking about real estate. Where people could subscribe and go to it, you know what I mean. So, but I just felt like only fans, like you said, felt like a little sex workers. I don't I don't want people to come to my site and subscribe and think and he was

gonna be in a man throne. Let's see the show. Absolutely, you see, but absolutely, and and it kind of and it drives away like two things that it does keep away from the platform, which are brands which are definitely gonna be a part of fan base, because every brand has a has a fan base. You know, Nike has a fan base the time. All these brands and fan bases, and then a large group of women that don't really want to be associated with that site because of the

sex works. And so you can go to you can go to fan base and make a page. You can monetize your photos, your videos, your long form content, and your live so everything. You can make money off all of that. And we're not thralling down engagement. So everybody's been complaining about the algorithms on these other apps. We're

not throttling your engagement down. How many followers you got envy on all social media platforms or just Instagram, give me Instagram, Instagram, and I think it's like two million, and I think on all platforms about over three million. So if you go live on Instagram, they don't send out two million notifications. I mean you only get a fresh And Instagram is funny. Now they change the way they do it. They change the like even on the way people the people view your videos and view your

live they changed it now, which is crazy. They throttle it down. And this is this is what my experience, my engagement to throttle down. And I've heard people complain because they really want to have access. They really want you to pay to that audience because they're an ad based platform. Well on fan base, if you go live, I want to send out two million notifications because the more eyeballs you have on me, the more people convert to subscribers. Therefore, the more money you make, the more

profitable we are. And if people are making money, people are happy and they're using the platform, that's right, all right. We got more with Isaac Hays the third keep a lock This the Breakfast Club, Good morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we are. The Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Isaac Hayes, the third Charlomagne. You know one thing you showed me that I was like, wow, it's not large amounts of money these people invest into

these social media sites. I mean not in you know, one hundred millionaires, sometimes billionaires, But they didn't invest a lot of money into these social media sites. So let me let me give you an idea about seed stage investment, right, So I'll use Urn Michaels as an example. He invested five thousand dollars into uber and the seed stage in two and ten, and in twenty nineteen it was worth twenty four million dollars. Think about then, it's an a

credited investor. You never got that phone call. So the fact that I'm having a seed stage round in my startup to allow the black community predominantly, you know, because this is exactly like I mean, understanding that black culture drives these networks. I want black people to invest. I want every influencer out there, every artist to say, you know what, I'm gonna take a little bit of money investing in fan base and then I'm gonna bring my audience over there. So I'm gonna make money on the

front end. And the back end. It's a win win because if you use the app, you're actually you're actually pumping up your evaluation. You're actually making the company go higher right in valuation by you simply using the app, and you're making money. So you know that's that's a real, real important aspect to this raise. And the minimum investment is two hundred and fifty six dollars. Wow, So I mean in Atlanta we blown who couldect that? Every day?

So we doing Georgians were doing, who can we do it? Heney for three hundred a bottle? So you know, how about you throw a little bit of money into a startup and turn around one day and say, now I can buy a lot of So I'm saying knocking by all the hendy I want? Which one is that's it? Right there? No? Absolutely, the one with the lightning bolt

after the top. Yes, yes, indeed. So anybody that invests right your your investment will convert at a liquidity event, which means either we exit the company right with with an acquisition, or we go public with an IPO or a merger. So what I've been noticing, the trend that I've been noticing on these startups is The valuation of these platforms has been skyrocking even in the last eight years.

Like Instagram sold for a billion in two twelve, and everybody thought that was amazing, and then What's upsold for nineteen billion I think in twenty fourteen, and I think LinkedIn sold for like twenty four billion in like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, and now you've got TikTok at a fifty billion dollars valuation, right, So imagine exiting, imagining a company like fan Base exiting potentially at an evaluation like that.

It's not guaranteed. I'm making no guarantees, but the trend in which these platforms are going, the valuations are skyrocking because the youth are getting on these platforms. There's five G that's available and everybody understands gamification and in that purchases and payment. So it's very, very important. Like I think there's a great enormous amount of opportunity to invest in the platform like this. I don't want people to miss out and be like, man, that shouldn't invested in

fan base, you know, and then they miss out. Do you have a cap for the seed money? Like you said, you know what I got so many people. So the raise closes at one million dollars, right, and so it's open now. We're going to continue to raise capital. It's moving pretty fast, like given in the last day. I think we've raised maybe twenty five or thirty thousand dollars since yesterday, so it's moving pretty fast. You can go to start engine dot com slash fan base and invest

right now. It's extremely important and it's a great opportunity for you to get on part of a seed stage company. That's just the most important thing. And I want to see everybody went. I would love nothing more than four to five years from now, I'll be standing in a room with everybody that invested, with a bunch of African American millionaires that really put their capital into a company, and we turned it into something special based off of what we do. Base so verify me. So I'm um,

I'm bad. I could verify you right now on my phone in front of you. All right, we're going to We're gonna we're going to invest too before you go either, because you know, we kind of backed up a little bit. Can you tell us what's the importance of supporting those Senate seats in Georgia. Uh, come January. So I mean, for all the for all the energy that we put on Joe Biden and what we want him to promise, fulfilling his promises, he still needs permission. That's how government works.

So the House and the Senate give the president permission to pass what he wants. So these two Senate seats, right, Johnsoff and Raphael Warner are key in Joe Biden passing his agenda. So we want to be able to say, not say that Joe Biden didn't do anything for the African American community if it will only be well if part of the reason will be because we did not have these two sentence seats to allow his legislation to smoothly pass through. So that is exactly why we need

to get out here in Georgia. And what I hear is a lot of people are coming to Georgia. I hear people areheaded to hear the post up and stay down here for a little while until this election is one. You got should come down maybe if you have a chance, you're to come down for a couple of weeks and kick it. We're going down the absolutely absolutely, So we havevide everybody to come down. You know the world is going to come here and help win this selection. Donald

Trump is pouting. Let him pout. He's no longer the president. We're all happy, but we have to really keep our eye on the prize and continue to vote like this doesn't stop. This is only the beginning. This is not the finish line. This is the starting line, and the race never ends. Did you did you see that potential for Georgia, the potential for Georgia turn blue. Okay, absolutely, I mean they you know, they've been doing voter suppression down here, those tactics for a long long while. Stacy

Abrams should have been governor. I hope she runs again.

The power, you know, the power in this very um you know, emerging progressive city, especially places in Atlanta, in the South, Savannah Making Columbus where a lot of black arm claves are because the black vote is really what won Georgia at the end of the day, um, you know, for for Biden in the country, all these democratic cities with African American turnout see And the best thing about that is is it gives us hope now because more people most people say, oh man, we never went in

Georgia like why I get out and vote every year and nothing ever happens. But now you see with the effect of our vote, what it's done, and we flipped Georgia blue. And so now it gives us the energy and motivation and also our neighbors, our neighbors in South Carolina, our neighbors, our neighbors in Alabama, Alabama and Mississippi and in Florida to really say, you know what, if Georgia can do it, we can do it. That's really happened. Yeah. Absolutely.

As soon as I saw that as the fourth thing I said, I hit Jamie Harrison and I hit Boocar. I'm like, I don't know what we gotta do. Well, we gotta turn South Carolina blue. We gotta like, we gotta follows then in Georgia. And what that does is it creates like a mentality and energy and confidence like okay, can we start. We get on our we get on our own vibe. And what that does is it helps us to actually pass the legislation on the local and

federal level. Like what I would love nothing more in Georgia is to get we decriminalize statewide and actually legalize the sale and then somehow find some legislation that matches the amount of effect of negative effect that the weed weed charges have had on the African American community, to provide opportunity for us to have those grow licenses and profit off that business. The people affected by that legislation and those laws should be the ones to benefit the most.

Right now, that's not happening. But we need a governor in place and a state legislature in place to make sure that that happens. So Georgia can really do that. And there's and the great thing about that is there's a lot of African American people that own land in Georgia, a lot of black landowners in Georgia. But it's a great opportunity. A well, give us that fan base in for one more time. Man Man start engine dot com slash fan base. We're on the way to a million.

We want you to be part of it. The minimum investment is two hundred and fifty six dollars. Make a page, Start monetizing your content. Tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend that this is what black tech, in investing in black businesses and in blessing in black culture is about. That. We love to have you we're gonna have you back guards, but I just wanted you to come on and talk about fan base this morning. Your ser man, appreciate it. Thanks for having the Breakfast

Club listen. Oh gosh, it's rum Report. God, it's the Ruma Report. The Breakfast Club Man. Happy Monday, everybody, and the People's Choice Awards were on, and we'll tell you some of the winners. And of course we've been talking about who was going to get the People's Champion Award. You know that was Tyler Perry, but let's start with Jennifer Lopez. She was the People's Icon of twenty nineteen.

You're right, stand so very grateful knowing that the true measure of my success is not in box office numbers or records sold, or from the love that I feel from all of you. That the true measure is in inspiring girls of all ages and of all colors, from all around the world to know that you can be anything you want and to be proud of who you are, no matter where you come from. I want them to know their dreams are limited only by their imagination and

determination and their willingness to never give up. A low Man Fashion Icon Award I wear my insides on the outside. And if featuring black designers that the American Music Awards helped someone see the power of black artistry, or if joining the call to wear black at the Golden Globes led to solidarity with women saying times up on sexual harassment,

then you heard me loud and clear. If fashion is the thing that draws you in, then use it as a tool for transformation, all right, and went to Tyler Perry. In this world, we're all digging wells. But if you just keep digging, you may be four inches away from every gift and every blessing that you've ever wanted in

your life. Had I given up when I was homeless, when I was sleeping in my car, when I was hungry, had I given up, these people that you see on this screen right now would not be a part of my dream. There are people who are tied into your dream and your destiny, and you are worthy of getting to your goal. Keep digging, and let me tell you

something like I tell everyone here. When you get there, when you get to that water and you see it it's coming and you know you have what you need, make sure that everybody you run into meet you at your worth all right, all right, they were over one billion of votes cast this year, just fyi, So this is where people actually choose who wins these awards. So some of these the winners were bad Boys for Life that when the Movie of twenty twenty and Will Smith

was the Male movie Star of twenty twenty. Tiffany Haddish was the Female movie Star of twenty twenty for Like a Boss Justin Bieber. Male Artist of twenty twenty, Female artist was Ariana Grande. New artist was Doja Cat, collaboration was What Party, bm Megan the Stallion, and the Comedy Act of twenty twenty was Leslie Jones Time Machine. The game changer was Lebron James. Okay, I'm not mad at any os. All sounds about right to me, all right. Former bad boy artist Shine he has been elected to

the House of Representatives in Belize. So congratulations to him. He closed to thank you, He said, it was the greatest humility that I accept this victory for us we won today. This victory is for all those who are just like me and Mesopotamia, Belize and the world over all those who have taken a fall, all those who have stumbled on their life's journey. We all fall, but to get up and walk, run and rise again is the purpose of life. Oh yes, congratulate you gotta love it.

And now let's talk about Claudia Jordan. She's been talking about how Donald Trump had tried to come on to her before when she was doing Celebrity Apprentice. Well, now she's telling even more about that because some people were saying, oh, well, then, how can Donald Trump be racist if he actually was trying to kiss you and take you out? And here's what she had to say, how can he treat you on Celebrity Apprentice? Nice to me? Because he wanted to.

Let me tell you, there's more than a few slave masters that by having sex with black women can still be racist and have sex with the black women. I'll want to like, I need people to stop with that, all right, So there you have it. I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, miss Ye. Now Revolt is off for this week, and everybody else to People's Choice Mixes up next. Get your request in eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I think everybody is DJ Envy. Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the God. We are the Breakfast Club. Now. Shout out to Rocanna for joining us this morning. Also, Isaac hay is the third slu to both of them. Rocanna wants to get black people into the tech world because you know, that's the new goal rush, and Isaac Hay's has a way for black people to get into the tech world by investing in the fan base. Man, and people are already hitting me up about fan base, saying,

do I think it's a good investment? Do I think it'll work. I don't know if it's gonna work. That's why it's called an investment. But I can tell you that I'm investing some money in it. Why not, Yep, that's what happens with investments. Its risk, You're rolling the dice. I don't know if it's gonna work, and now it sounds good, so I'm gonna invest in it. All right. Well, when we come back, we got the positive noting. Everybody is j Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are

the Breakfast Club. Now, I'm Charlomagne. You've got a positive note, yes, man, the positive note simply, this is Monday morning. I want you all to remember this and think about it all day long, think about it all week. Stop asking people who have never been where you're going for a direction you finish for y'all.