Say her name "Breonna Taylor"

you guys are trending every you know. I dragged my ass out of that. I'm like, uh, what happened on the Breakfast Club to that? Yeah? My bad started over my bad. I just try this again. Mike fell on the floor pretty much. Good morning, USA, A fam, Hey, good morning, It's Thursday. Good morning guys. Who Jolomne. I'm not sure all right? Yeo? Hello? Hello? What's going on over there? I don't know what's going on? Even know what that was? What you do yesterday? Anything fun? Me? Yesterday?

I worked, I had to do my Lift Service podcast, and then I had a coffee Uplifts people meeting, and then I was just depressed yesterday after the Brianna Taylor after the results were in. Yeah, in court. It was very depressing, very depressing. A lot to talk about today and shout out to Toronto, Toronto. Now, why don't want to see anybody else? Will revolt? I don't see. Can you hear me either? Oh? Okay, good morning, good morning? What's going on? Little test going on? I don't know.

I guess we got a show to do. Oh you mean like I don't Yeah, what happened? Man? I don't know. Man, My sister ain't never all the way correct. I'm tired of being here, tired of being Uh. I told you that's what tired is doing. I can't take it no more. Look at I had to wait and see if the Wi fi works. Can't do nothing without your wi fi? Feel like a damn robot. Yeah, well, let's get the

show cracking front page news. What we're talking about. Well, of course we are going to talk about Brianna Taylor this morning and how she still hasn't received justice. Will tell you what's going on in Louisville. Will tell you people's responses uh to the grand jury's indictment of former Louisville police officer A. Brake Hankinson will tell you what that indictment means and what's going on with the other officers. All right, we'll get into that next. Keep a lot

this to this club. Good morning morning. Everybody is dj Envy Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We all to breakfast club. Let's getting some front page news. What we're starting you Well, let's start, of course with Brianna Taylor and a Kentucky grand jury did indict former Louisville police officer Brett Hankinson that was on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree, and neither he nor the other two officers

who were involved in that encounter were charged in her death. So, just to be clear, none of the charges that Brett Hankinson faced have anything to do with killing Brianna Taylor. This all has to do with the bullets that penetrated the wall of the residence and entered a neighboring apartment that was occupied by a child, a man, and a

pregnant woman. So Brianna Taylor, there's no charges regarding her killing. Now, even when you know, even when you know that you know it's not gonna no justice is gonna be served. It doesn't doesn't hurt any less, I'll tell you that. And you could tell just by the way they were setting up Louisville and shutting down the courts and making sure everything was protected, they knew what was coming down yesterday.

Now Here is the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, at a news conference following the Grand Jerry's announcements where he talked about the no knock. Evidence shows that officers both knocked and announced their presence at the apartment. The officers statements about their announcement are corroborated by an independent witness who was near in a proximity to Apartment four. In other words, the warrant was not served as a no knock warrant. What officers were unable to get anyone to

answer or open the door to Apartment four. Decision was made to breach the door. But the boyfriend is not The boyfriends not considered. The witness wasn't the boyfriend was in the Kenneth walking Kenneth Kenneth. If Kenneth says, if Kenneth says nobody knocked, his word doesn't mean anything. Yeah, but you know what bothers me is is who signed off on that warrd? Like, who was the one that sent him to the wrong house. Who's the one that

didn't know that the gentleman was already in custody. Who signed off on that, who allowed him to go into that house? That's that's what That's why I don't like. I don't know how he's not charged. That person's not charged because he made a mistake. It was It's clearly a mistake. It was clearly he was. It was clearly they didn't do the product work. No, they didn't send him to the wrong house. He was. He was signed off on a search one for Rihanna's department. They didn't

do it something to the wrong house. Wasn't the guy? He was already in custody. He was already in custody. So a little communication, all right. Now Here is a Kentucky Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, talking about the investigation. He says it was fair and so the length of the investigation was a reflection of how important it was that we got this right. We didn't want to rush it,

and we did not. These are prosecutors and investigators who don't care about political distinctions, don't care about influence in any particular regard. What they care about is the truth, and we presented that to the grand jury, all right. He also talks about the claims to injustice to the black community. He responds to those claims, what do you say to people who say, this is just another example

of the black community not getting full of justice. I certainly understand the pain that has been brought about by the tragic loss of miss Taylor. I understand that as an attorney general who is responsible for all one hundred and twenty counties in terms of being the chief legal officer, I understand that I understand that as a black man, how painful this is, which is why it was so incredibly important for make sure that we did everything we

possibly could to uncover every fact. Here's the thing for me, man, when officers, you know, I guess, make a mistake, I'm putting mistaken air quotes. When you are a victim of mild practice, like you know, Brianna Taylor was, what's the punishment for the officers if it's not an arrest? What is it if I'm make a mistake here on the radio. There's some type of consequences, Like what are the consequences they like they still get to keep their job. They

don't get suspended without pay, Like what happens? Like nothing? Just a life is gone and it's just whatever. And I want to skip ahead to Donald Trump now because everybody was talking about his quote response, and here's what he had to say. His message to the black community. What is your message to the black community who believed

that perhaps justice was not served? Well, my messages that I love the black community and I've done more for the black community than any other president with a possible exception of Abraham Lincoln. And I mean, man, I don't know enough about it. I heard the decision was just made. We've been together here and so we haven't discussed it. But after I see what the decision is, I will

have a commentary. Okay. Wow. And here he is talking about the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who you just heard, and he thinks he's great, really brilliant. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is doing a fantastic job. I think he's a star. All right. That is your president, and that is your front page news. All right, get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent four lines of wide open.

This up right now is the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling what's doing. 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? It's really I got gonna get it off, man. I just I just want a man coming on this brown a Taylor situation, man, like once an endangerment, it's to basically the same thing

as reckless murder. I mean, just reckless shooting. Right, So if you're shooting recklessly and you kill somebody, how to hell, that's not a reckless murder, man. I mean, I mean, I'm I'm so sticking tired of this, bro. Like, we're not asking for nothing, bro, We're just asking to be treated like regular people. I'm sorry, I apologize like we just asked me. You don't gotta you don't gotta apologize, my brother, you don't gotta folo job, bron man. You

know what I'm saying. I have a little girl, bro, you know and not gonna. I got two balls and a little girl, man, and I'd be sad for them in And I don't know how. I don't know how do you put them in a position, you know, for you to brutalize my kids and you expect me just to spit them. That's not like, man, That's not right, man, bron Man. And it's hard man. I s what a guy.

I understand, man. I know you just say you have good white people out there and not honors the guy, but the But to be so hard, I don't know when you going older bird. My girl was in a sleeper and I did m worried. Don't that's real. It's not right man, And I'm just I'm just hold the blisses of all. I'll be upon feminly man. You know, appreciate you, King, Love you King? Hello? Who's this are you? Guys? Um? I would like to pick it off, um, Angeline Charlomagne,

I would like to pick it off my chest. I have one daughter just graduated from Spellman last year. The hurt that I feel for her mother is just unbearable. And at this point in time, they're asking for us. And I don't promote violence, but I honestly feel like it's just something to my child, you kill her. I think you get to list how am I supposed to

John's Earth without my daughter? So I want a Maratha to know how they're creating the Christ Turners, the new Nat Turners by consistently giving us in justice when it comes to the school system, when it comes to the criminal system, like at this point, they're leaving us no choice but to protect ourselves. And I agree with Charlomagne, um, it is time that we get our own guns because it's going to go down, not the president that's saying he's not going to leave office. As if people stug

when it's confidentially, Um, we have to stand up. We have to be strong. And I again I feel so bad for Starna Taylor's MoMA, considering I have one daughter, and I'm telling you, if he hid anything to my baby, your kid will not be able to live in Your mom's not gonna be able to live it. I'm sorry, but this is what we are they're asking us to. They're now I'm telling us, you have no choice, you

get no justice. So the only justice that I see is if we saw it raising up like Nats in the system turns in this blob because they're not going to give it to us. Top of the day, guys. You that's the best thing I thought about was to make up Palmer Brianna Taylor's There's so much love and prayers out to her because this is such a difficult

time to have to go through this. Yeah. Absolutely, And America, this is the energy that you're creating because you're not you know, you're simply not giving folks no justice and you're leaving folks no choice. All right, And every black person, every black person in America absolutely needs to own a legal firearm. That is a form of self care. Every black person in America needs to own a legal firearm that is a form of self care when you are black in this country. Get it off your chest. Eight

hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up now with the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man here from you on the Breakfast Club. You got something on your mont Hello, who's this? Good morning? Hatred should get it off your chest? Hi, good morning, guys. I'm gonna say stop by thing Bless you guys on the beautiful day. Bless you too, Queen. I just want to talk about

this situation with Brianna Taylor. It's just very disheart and as a black mom, it's just so disappointed to see that her mom is not going to get justice for her daughter. And it's just like, we don't have no trust in our system. We're raising kids and very hard time. It's like you don't know which way to turn. You don't know what to tell your children about what's going on, especially if they're young. It's very hard to sit down and have these hard conversations with them. But us as

the black community needs to have these hard conversations. We need to expand and let our black children know that the way they're being treated and the things that are happening to them are not okay and it's not right. It's because, you know, I feel like none of us were surprised by the verdict, but a lot of us did still feel disappointed, and we also kind of was like, okay, maybe this time, maybe this time. Absolutely, I didn't think

that none of us were surprised. I didn't have anything, but I still I still was praying for the family. And hoping that something good would come out of all this. You know, there were people who were very active in Louisville, occupying Louisville and protesting, and a lot of things were happening. The twelve million dollars sentlement, you feel like, Okay, maybe they do realize something. Maybe this is an indication that there will be some justice following that. And once again nothing.

I didn't think that all week on this radio all week or then't no justice gonna be served in no way, shape or form. And I really don't understand how people can use this to tell us to vote, Like, these types of injustices happen under democrats too, doesn't matter who's in office locally nationally, We've been watching police and damn there everyone else get away with these type of injustice towards black people forever. So how was voting going to

help that? Somebody got to explain that one to me too, Like, I just don't think using in a moment like this to say we'll go vote like it's been happening under every administrat happens locally, happened nationally. How is voting gonna change the way white people perceive black people in America. Please tell me that get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one o five one. Now we got rumors on the way. Yes, and we'll talk more about Brianna Taylor because we just have to do that

this morning. And we'll tell you what some people have been saying. We'll read you some of Lebron's tweets as well. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's tell Brianna Taylor, she's filling the team. This is the rumor report with Angela

Yee on the Breakfast Club. Yes, and because we don't have enough front page news, I want to make sure we address Brianna Taylor all morning. Attorney Ben Crump hosted Jefferson Grand County Jerry and DT's former officer Brett Hankinson with three counts of wanton endangerment and first degree for bullets that went into other apartments, but nothing for the

murder of Brianna Taylor. This is outrageous and offensive. If Bret Hankinson's behavior was wanton endangerment to people in neighboring apartments, then it should have been wanting endangerment in Brianna Taylor's apartment too. In fact, it should have been wanted murder. Joe Biden tweeted out, even amidst the profound grief and anger, today's decision generated. Violence is never and can never be the answer. Those who engage in it must be held accountable.

Jill and I are keeping the officers shot tonight in Louisville and our prayers. We wished them both the swift and full recovery because, as you know, there were two officers who were shot yesterday during the protests. Kamala Harris tweeted out tonight, I'm thinking of Brianna Taylor's family, who was still grieving the loss of a daughter and sister. We must never stop speaking Brianna's name as we work to reform our justice system, including overhauling no knock warrents.

She goes on to say, Joe Biden and I are keeping the police officers who were shot in Louisville in our hearts, wishing them a swift and speedy recovery. Violence is not the answer, and we must find a way to express our grief, anger, and demands in ways that reflect the world we wish to see. Bernie Sanders tweeted out Brianna Taylor's life matter. The result is a disgrace and an abdication of justice. Our criminal justice system is racist.

The time for fundamental change is now. Colin Kaepernick tweeted out the white supremacist institution of policing that stole Brianna Taylor's life from us must be abolished for the safety and well being of our people. And Lebron said, I've been lost for words today. I'm devastated, hurt, sad, mad. We want justice for Brianna, Yet justice was met for her neighbor's apartment walls and not her beautiful life. Was I surprised that the verdict absolutely not, but damn it,

I was and still am hurt and heavy hearted. I said my love to Brianna's mother, family and friends. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The most disrespected person on earth is the black woman. I promise you I'll do my best to change this as much as I can, and even more. Love to you queens all over this country and beyond. So Those are just some of the tweets that was sent out yesterday. All right now, Chance the Rapper is telling people to vote for whoever your mom is voting for.

He said this a couple of days ago, and people went in on him on Twitter, and he said, ask your mom who to vote for? Vote for who she say. Your mom had been through a lot, Ask them and trust them. What do y'all think about that? I'll be honest with ya. I mean, you vote for you woman. My mom got some good choices, you know what I mean. Ain't never is anohing wrong to go with mama's opinion, especially if you don't necessarily know about politics and you

haven't been paying attention. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know who your mom's mama good money. Yeah, it depends on who your mom is. I would say. I think, you know, you encourage people really to vote for whoever you want to vote for. It might be different than which but they were going in on him, and then they went on him for this. He was talking about Justin Bieber's new album and here here's what he had to say. This album is really some of

the best music I've made. Would you agree this is no cap at all. I said, some of the best music I've ever heard period. It reminds me of when Michael Jackson made Off the Wall. Everybody that's listening, I am merging it right now. I promise you it is literally groundbreaking music. So of course the headline was Chance the Rapper says that Justin Bieber's album is like Michael Jackson's Off the Wall. But Chance the Rapper was quick to point out he was saying it reminds me of

don't do that. Don't do that, Chance. You know what I'm saying. Just say the music is fired. Just say the music is dope. Don't compare it to anything. And if you're going to compare it to something, please don't compare it to Michael Jackson Off the Wall, because now I am hoping to hear something as good as Off the Wall. But it's not even about how the record sounds.

It's about how the music makes you feel. Off the Wall gives us a feeling, and it's a feeling that is unmatched because we can all remember what we were doing as kids when we first heard Off the Wall, and we've all got different moments, you know, hearing Off the wall throughout the years that music Justin Bie was putting out doesn't have that kind of cachier behind the chests.

I don't do that to him, okay. And Michelle Obama was on Conan O'Brien and she was talking about the beginning of the pan demic, how things were really cool. They were organized with the girls. They would just have all kinds of a little fun things and watercolor paintings, and they learned how to play spades. But then she said, things went left, and now towards the end of the pandemic, everybody's kind of sick, and the kids are sick of being around them. Listen to this. We've kind of had

phases of COVID. There was sort of the early stages where we were all excited to be together and we were being all organized. That went away, and it started as the first our kids down a little sick of us. I will say, in the beginning of this, I was a lot more gung ho about being productive about things in my home. And since then things have fallen apart. All right, Well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now when

we come back front page news. What we're talking about, you know what we're talking about. We got to talk more about, Brianna Taylor. I want to discuss this verdict that came down and you know, just people being really disappointed and what's happening in Louisville and what's happening all over the United States. They were protests here in Brooklyn yesterday that we're at the Barclays and we'll discuss the aftermath. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club.

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heat beat of the Celtics. They lead the series three one one one twelve, one oh nine. Let's get right into it easy. Yes. Brianna Taylor, Kentucky Grand Jerry and died in former Louisville police officer Brett Higginson, but there were no charges brought up on the other two officers

involved in the encounter that killed Brianna Taylor. So the charges against Hankinson are basically he's facing a maximum of five years in jail, and it specifically states that, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he wantonly shot a gun into the apartment. So this has nothing to do with Brianna Taylor getting killed. This has to do with him shooting and the bullets penetrating a wall of

the residents entering a neighboring apartment that occupied. So not even the person who was killed in her own home while she was sleeping in bed. These charges are for a neighboring apartment where no one was injured. That's crazy, all right. Now, Let's listen to the Kentucky Attorney General Cameron is talking about these charges in talking about homicide being considered. Did the prenury ever consider the charges of

manslaughter reckless homicide? I will get into the specifics again of the proceedings themselves are secret, but what I will say is that our team walked in through every homicide offense, and it also presented all of the information that was available to the grand jury, and then the grand jury was ultimately the one that made the decision about indicting Detective Hankinson. I don't see how you don't at least

get a manslaughter charge, Like like doctors commitmental practice. There's consequences I say something on this radio, you know, even if it's by accident that I didn't mean to, there's consequences to it. Like how is there no consequences killing a young woman in her apartment while she's sleeping. Of course, once this happened, there was a protests across the United States, and in Louisville there were actually two police officers who

were shot during the protests. Shortly before the curfew began, there were reports of gunfire near one of the marches. Two of the responding officers were shot. They have non life threatening wounds, and there is a suspect in custody. The way that a lot of people feel right now, they should be happy that it's not more. And what do you expect, seriously, like, you know, if there's if there's no if there's no order, you know, what I mean,

because people don't feel like there's getting getting justice. That's the justice system fault, the so called justices. Yeah, but we can't. People can't run around to start shooting random people. That's the whole point. People and people. That's what we're trying to tell. The political that's what that's what we're

trying to tell the police officers point. But we just can't start shooting random people back all right, listen, I agree with you, but what do you expect, Like, I mean, seriously, how do you keep putting this kind of energy y'all keep not giving people justice and then expect people not to be upset. I'm not gonna tell somebody how they should express their pain. People are hurt. Hurt, people hurt people, People are upset, people are angry, people are venting, people

are frustrated. People the end of day wrote now. Donald Trump tweeted out praying for the two police officers that were shot tonight in Louisville, Kentucky. The federal government stan behind you and it is ready to help. And then he also said law and order, but he didn't say nothing about prays to the family of or nothing, you know what I mean, Like Come on, man, nobody needs to be hurting anybody at a time like this, all

right now. Donald Trump also was questioned during a press conference yesterday about whether he will leave the White House peacefully if he loses the election, and here's what happened. Will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transfer poll of power after the election? Cool, We're gonna have to see what happens. You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots

or a disaster and that, but people are rioting. Do you commit to making sure that there's a peaceful want to get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very trans We'll have a very peaceful there won't be a transfer. Frankly, there'll be a continuation. I mean, I've been telling y'all. I've been telling y'all on his radio for about a year and a half that the fastest in the White House was not leaving that man. Who's going to retain power through voter suppression. They're going to voters,

especially in inner cities. They're gonna suppress mail in voting. You already see them suppressing registration roles. They're gonna limit physical polling locations, especially in areas with a high black population. The man is telling you he's not leaving peacefully, and he's telling you just throw away the absentee ballots, don't count the ballots, that we won't have to worry about whether or not there'll be a peaceful transition of power.

By the way, he benefits from the chaos, all of this recklessness in the screech right now, everything out of order. Now he can really say, oh, I'm the law nor the president. I'm going to maintain order. Now. You actually caused the chaos by not giving Americans what they deserve, which is justice in a situation like Brianna Taylor. But he's gonna benefit from it because now they're gonna run these images on Fox News over and over and over.

They're gonna be in Donald Trump added Donald Trump commercial saying oh, this is Joe Biden's America. No, this is just America, period, and it's gonna be America. As long as this crooked system is in place. He doesn't need to be reformed, it needs to be overhauled. Since Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, they said there was a surge in

voter register. They said that vote dot org saw more than forty thousand new voter registrations on Saturday and Satnday, which is a sixty eight percent increase from the prior weekend. That's good. Once again, I really don't understand how you how you use this situation to tell people to vote, because these type of injustices happen under Democrats too, doesn't matter who's in office locally. Naturally, we've been watching police and damn there everybody else get away with these type

of injustice towards the black people forever. So you got to explain to me how voting is going to change. In most places, you vote for your attorney general, and you vote for local officials, and then you have to hold them accountable. It's not just voting but also being involved. And so it is important who you vote for, hopefully your governor, who might appoint the attorney general in some states.

Some states you vote for your attorney general. So it is important to make sure you tell people to vote because who you want to represent you and I'm not saying that that person has to be a Democrat or a Republican, but at least know who you're voting for and who has your edge. Absolutely, yeah, we should an register vote and people should be voting, not just for the presidency, like you said, for all places, for mayors, for district attorneys for like, yeah, absolutely, we should be so.

Throughout the history of America, how can we always see this this this type of scenario played out over and over and over and over again. A lot of times, I don't think don't vote. A lot of we do need more people to register to vote and to participate in the process. And we also need more people to be encouraged to run for these offices. A lot of times you don't even know who's our local offices, Like like, I think, be honest, a lot of times we don't

know who's in our local offices, you know. I mean we need to start we need to start doing ours. And I think we need people that are in these local offices that are willing to overhaul the system, not reform it, because this system is not for us. When they do when when they defined justice for all, black people were not included. And that's why encourage people to

run for office. And if you know somebody who you think would being an incredible mayor or chief of a city police Department, encourage them to run for our office. Let them know that you'll support them and strategize. It's not just always the processes. These are our candidates, but maybe you know people who you think that person would be a great candidate. Be involved. All right, a lot of your front page news. Now when we come back, the author of Open Mike, Mike Hill, will be joining us.

All right. You've probably seen him on Fox Sports and the host of other platforms, but he'll be joining us next an. He's engaged to Cynthia Bailey on Real Housewives of Atlanta, so we'll see him, we'll talk to him. Next is to Breakfast Club. Go Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody's dh Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line right now, the author of Open Mike, which is

available right now, Mike Hill. Ladies and gentlemen, all right, what's up, King, how's it go? That's black and Holly Favor. Yes, yes, yes, hey, yeah, I see you. Thank you for representing many appreciate that. What's up, Mike, man, I'm you know, reading this book. I'm like you've really come a long way I have.

I had to. You know, people are gonna look at a lot of transgressions that I had in my life, but hopefully they look at the transformation the things I went through in my life, seeing domestic violence, growing up, finding out that my stepfather was a contracted killer, going through my marriages and all this stuff that I went through when I was at ESPN Fast Sports. That led me to actually where I am right now when it comes to being involved with the lady on with right now.

So it's been a journey, but I'm happy I took that journey in Alabama. Correct. Yeah, I was born in the Bronx. I'm always going to be a New York dude, but Alabama was where my roots are. You know, that's where my former two years of my life. So I called myself a kind of a country boy, kind of like Charlemagne and Monk's Corner down in South Carolina, the same kind of background and whatnot. But you know, it

was it was. It was kind of crazy for me because you know, people think you grew up in the Bronx, that's where you're going to find a lot of trouble whatnot. But I found more trouble when I was in Alabama, because you gotta understand, when I grew up down there, it was the start of the crack era, and so a lot of the country boys down there was doing a lot of crazy stuff, and a lot of my friends got caught up in a lot of the drugs whatnot. One of my best friends got killed in the drive

by shooting. One of my other friends was you know, on roeryp In twenty seven years of his life in prison and all that type of stuff. So a lot of the things that they grew up with I grew up with. I just had some of the better decisions. I had some people in my life to kind of put me on the right track. Or I could have been doing the same thing that they're doing right now or what they were doing. You know, Mike, you did something that I did, and I think all men eventually

have to be intentional about doing. You went and you you started doing the work on yourself to get some healing and some wholeness. When were you able to identify that you had traumas you needed to deal with and and and that you needed to go get help. You know, it's crazy, is it wasn't until I actually started writing this book. This book was my therapy. I didn't even realize that I had so many traumas and pains and anger and depression that was built up inside me until

I started writing this book. Then it became my therapy. I just know that at the age of forty seven, when I started writing this book, that I see him on the outside that I was happy. I was living a great life. My job was wonderful, you know. I was telling everybody I was happy, the happies I had ever been in my life, professionally and personally. But I would find myself at home just crying uncontrollably for no

reason whatsoever. I'd be on the road with the clippers when I was working with them, and I would just have, you know, just tears was coming out of my eyes for whatever reason. And something told me I needed to write this book. So when I started writing this book, it felt like I was regurgitating. It just felt like everything started coming out of me at once, and I realized that I had all this stuff, all this trauma and all this pain that I had suppressed for so

many years. And I think that's what we do as black men, you know, we suppressed those the anger and all that depression and all that pain, and I had to let it go. When I finally was able to let it go, I always called that like my surgery. And when I had the surgery, of course, you know how it is that I got to be real abilitation after the surgery, and that was when my therapy came in.

So I realized that, you know, for forty seven years, I was a boy acting like a man, and it wasn't until I actually wrote this book that I stepped into my manhood. And now I'm still kind of continuing that journey. Yeah, it's interesting when you put everything together all at once because obviously, you know, as long as you've been on this earth, we're reading this book, and then we're going through all these experiences that you went through.

You know, you're joined the military, which that was something about you. I didn't even know, you know, prior to meeting you, and that's quite an experience already. And then you got married at a pretty young age, just and it was kind of for selfish reasons, right, Yeah, everything was for selfish reasons for me growing up, you know, like I didn't know I didn't have any male role models in my life. I didn't know how I lived

my life. I just had to kind of go day by day seeing other people doing what they were doing, and I figured out they could do it, I could do it somebody at my age whatnot. And then getting married at an early age because I saw one of my best friends in the military who was married with a kid and he was making more money. So all the other stuff that I went through, it was because I saw other people doing or whatnot, and I didn't

have the right people in my life. Page basically kind of guide me along the way, giving me that guidance that I need. And that's why I wanted to put this out there, because if you can find yourself a positive male role model or just a positive role model period, somebody that can take you under their wings would not give you the direction to give you some of the

advice that I never received when I was younger. I hope that you can understand and look at my life and say, you know what he made some of the mistakes that I'm still making right now, and I can go and get the health and the therapy of Charlemagne we was talking about that I need, so that you can turn your life around at an earlier age and stop affecting your life, because when you affect your life,

you also affect the others around you too. And that's what people don't realize, is that you're not only hurting yourself, but you're hurting a lot of the other trips that are living. Yep, a contract and your stepdad was a contract to kill them. Yeah, yeah, I found How did you find that out? Yeah? I found that out when I came back from the military. I was just saying it out with him. I knew we had done some

things in the past whatnot. Obviously when I was in the middle of here, there was a story I wrote about when I got a call when I was in the Philippines and he got he had killed somebody and they came and raided at the house. Whatever. I'maware around the world, I can't do anything about it whatnot. He got off on that because of self defense, so they say, but everybody kind of know what the real story was,

to be honest with you. And then when I got home, he was kind of at his lower's point, and my mom had left him, and I'm sitting on the porch and I'm basically trying to save this man, and I'm talking to him and he's telling me all the things that he had done, and he just basically kind of infested and then followed up talking to a lot of his friends whatever. I found out all that type of stuff was true. But you know, even my dad, my stepdad, I don't want to kind of come down on him

or whatever. He was a loving man, cared about me. He took me. I got his last name because he adopted me when I was fifteen years old, and he loved me. He just had issues. So this is the main things I want to get people to understand about this book is that we as black men need help and we can't be afraid to ask for that help. You know, it's okay to the emotion when so kay To cries, It's okay to say, you know what, my life right now ain't it ain't. It ain't going to

where it's supposed to go. So I need somebody to reach out to and understand, and somebody to reach back to me to give me the help that I needed. So I wish that my father would have gotten the help that he needed at an earlier age. Somebody would have pulled him in and basically told him, you know what, the path you're going down right now isn't gonna lead you anywhere. It's gonna lead you to devastation, destruction. You're gonna hurt a lot of people around you, just like

he did. And maybe he would have worked out okay, but unfortunately it didn't because he spent the last nine years of his life in prison for murder for hire. And you'll see why. And it was a terrible story why he did that too as well. All right, we got more with Mike Hill when we come back, don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela yee. Charlomagne, the guy we all to Breakfast Club.

We're kicking him with Mike kill. Charlemagne, did you receive any backlash from anybody when you decided to go to therapy? Because you know, every if you if you go on YouTube right now, you see it's all Charlomagne talks about his mental health and going to therapy. Every thing isn't about therapy. You know, I don't give, I don't care, you know, I mean, it's my life, you know, And y'all understand ch'arallo man I got I got to be

honest with you. Reading your book actually helped me out a lot too, because when I see you use your platform and basically admit that you had some mental health issues or whatnot, and that you aren't afraid to go and get the help that you needed, that was huge to use your platform that way. And I encourage anybody with a platform, don't care if you got ten followers,

you got ten million followers. If you know you need some kind of health in any kind of way, please ask for so the people that do come out and basically say, you know, oh you emotional when you're crying, you you know, calling your little names what I want to call you, whatever, I don't care. I'm at a point in my life where my mind, my life, and the people around me matter more than anything in the world.

So if you don't want to get the help that you need and you want to kind of dog me out for it, I pray for you, and I pray that you get the help, because I think when you do do things like that, when you troll or you trying to throw some kind of hate or disparaging remarks, that somebody that's trying to get mental health. Those are the main ones that actually needed. So are here to help you out. I'm here to make you a better person.

So all I can do is use my platform and use whatever NOTORID y'all have to basically set myself as an example and hopefully somebody can follow suit. Now, Mike, I got to ask you a couple of questions because you were very transparent about some things in this book. Okay, So, and I know that wasn't easy because there's some stories that you told that I'm like, wow, so there's something in here that you said because you said when somebody asked you doing a Q and A, maybe you'll answer

that question. So let's ask you that question right now. There was an incident with your ex wife, Camille, where you stayed out all night. She was trying to call you, and you told her you were in the hospital. You know how men lie, Either they're in the hospital or they got arrested. That's how they excuse things. And she couldn't reach you. You actually because you told her that you actually checked into the hospital and intended to have

an asthma attack. And then you fax there's some proof over but you had to change the time and everything that you checked in. Now you said, I bet you want to know where I really was. Maybe I'll answer this as part of a Q and A after the book comes out, if someone brings it up, but we're bringing it up here. Where were you that night when you told your ex that you were in the hospital. Yeah, he's supposed to be my girl. Man, I've been loving That's okay, I get it. I'm glad you read that part.

You know. And this was before we were actually married, So I was actually still technically single, but you know, um, yeah, but in a relationship. Oh yeah, I was across the street hanging out with somebody I shouldn't have been hanging out with whatnot. And when I got back home, my phone was ringing off the hook. My ex was like a detective. She was one of those women like if you were missing for like five minutes, she was gonna call you or whatever. And when I got back home,

I had like twelve missed calls and thirteen messages. To be quite honest with you, so I was, Yeah, I was doing dirt. I was doing a lot. But because I liked her enough and we had gotten that deep into the relationship. I went to the extent of acting like I was thick, which once again I am not proud of acting like acting like I was in the hospital, like I had just gone to the hospital or whatever, and that I had to go to the emergency room. And she said, prove it, so you had to go.

It's how you know you really care? That is that effective when a woman is on you like that, when you know that you had a tendency you know previously to stray right? Does that work when women are constantly on you? And like, havn't you check in? You think that's an effective way? Nah? It not for me. It because the person i'm were right now and like I've gotten past all that stuff that I used to do them my life. That's Cynthia. Yes, Cynthia and I finally settled down, and I'm I want to do it the

right way. Like I said, I stepped into my manhood. But for me, when I want to do right and when I've told you about my pasts, like obviously everybody knows about my past, and I just want you to give me an opportunity. I don't need you on top of me all the time, you know, basically, telling me, you know, or asking where I am whatnot, checking my DMS, checking my phone and things like that. I think for me, for my personality, I think that pushes me away. I

can understand why somebody would do it. But if you say you trust me, trust me, you know what I mean, give me an opportunity to prove that I'm doing something wrong. Now if you give you a reason for you not to trust me, then I understand being on probation or being checked up on. But you know, I need a wife. I need somebody that's gonna be with me. I don't need a CEO. I don't need I don't need a

correction officer. I don't need that, you know so. And I definitely don't need a parole officer because you know what, I've never gone to your prison, you know what I mean. So I'm coming out. I'm not on probation for you. We're supposed to being in a relationship. Just trust me like you said you are. I'm not gonna lie. I think I kind of need to see you just a little bit, you know what I'm saying. Little, I don't need a little bit of direction, that's all. That's it.

Nothing crazy. Well, if you know that, I mean, but it is. If you know that, that's that's cool. You know, I understanding. You know, if you got a woman that's you know, doesn't mind checking up on you and your mind showing her where you've been, that's fine. But here's the thing. What I've learned also is that it is also our job to make sure that they are secure.

So if I don't want to feel like that, Bob or ten minutes or whatnot, I am the type of person that you know what, let me get on the phone. If I'm hanging out with there's a woman with me, I'm gonna FaceTime my girl and let her know who I'm hanging out with, how many people I'm hanging out with, and I don't leave out details. That's the growth that I've had over the years. Now. Like that said, I was doing my dirt back in the day, the infidelities

or whatever. I admit all that. You know, that's just you know, me drawing up. But at the same time, I'll come a long way and now I want to make my girl secure as possible. Yeah, we don't want to feel we don't want to feel that way. We don't want to feel like I gotta chat, make sure he checks in. Where is he. I don't want to call my man and be like, Okay, he's not answering the phone. He must be doing something. I want to call him. And if he doesn't answer, but hey, hit

me when you get this and feel comfortable. Yeah. But at the same time, if I'm at work, or if I tell you I'm on an interview and I don't answer the phone right away because I'm on the air, I'm doing television, I'm doing a radio show, and you kind of know that, and you're blowing me up, and you blow me up five or six times, and I finally answering the first thing. You say, what f you've been? What? You know? React tota way because you know what, I'm

doing my job. I'm not doing somebody else. So you got to give me a little bit of leeway. That's all, you know. Men, we don't even know our habits. Man. I remember back in the day when I used to be used to have my in the dirt. My wife would always say to me, when I know you're when I know you're messing around with a woman? Is women that I don't know, meaning like like all a lot of my most of my all my female friends, she knows, so she's never met her. I've never introduced her to

introduce her to the person. Yeah yeah, yeah, But see, I think that's important. So I got a lot of female friends, the majority of my friends and females. I just always got along better with females that than me. That I'm out there, you know, being them down or whatnot, just means that we got a ton of friends with her. They look at me like an uncle, they look at me like a big brother. I give them advice a

lot of times. But one thing that's for sure. If I got a female friend, my fiance Cynthia has that female friend as well. If I'm hanging out with her, she knows I'm hanging out with it. So once again that pons were part of just making your g feel secure, especially if you have that pass, because you want to make sure that you build up that trust whatnot. And a lot of times some people do it, and I'll be honest with you, some people do it because they

want to. You know, they might have somebody still doing dirt or whatever. But I'm at a point in my life, like I said, I've done all this stuff. Man, I don't don't judge me for the transgressions, look at me for my transformation. I've grown up and I realized all the mistakes I made in the past on lead those in the past because I want to have a black future with somebody I can grow with. I have a don't move. We got more with Mike Kill when we

come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're kicking it with Mike Kill. Charlomagne, your fiance said, you probably never would have proposed and she wouldn't have said yes if you didn't get the help you needed. So so what traumas do you think we're holding you back from being the man you are now? Yeah?

I was. I didn't trust anybody. I mean, there was something that happened to me, and you read the book. There was something that happened to me. I was fifteen years old with a young lady and a lot of people's like man, you held on to that for thirty years, yes, told me, and you understand we as men sometime hold on to traumas for a long period of time. And because when you told her you loved her and she didn't say it back, that yeah, tell me that that

was it? I mean like she and she well, she did not only did she not say it back, she looked at me like I was freaking crazy, you know what I mean? And that else, the first time I told a woman that I loved her and she tells me, she looks at me and like, let's go. And then two days later she's with somebody else who happened to actually be a friend of mine or whatnot. And I didn't even realize we had broken up. I felt that her pain and and I didn't want to feel that again.

So for a long time, I could not trust women, and after a while, I couldn't trust myself. So until I started loving myself, I could never fall in love with another woman. I could love somebody. I loved the women that I married before, the mother of my children. Don't get me wrong, but there's a difference in loving somebody and falling in love. I could never completely fall in love because I couldn't trust them. But more importantly,

I couldn't trus myself until I actually wrote this book. Mike, I'm sorry giving away some spoilers also, but I just want to there's a lot to this book, so I just I do want to, you know, give away little bits and pieces, but I think that is important. You know, she's fifteen years old, I love you, and she's you know at that age. Was there anybody to tool us? Was there people to talk to him during that time when you said I love you and she didn't say

it back. Was anybody even saying, let you know what, let me because we don't have these conversations. We're just starting to have these conversations now. But was there anybody that you could speak with? You just talked through them? Mike saying, she looked at me like she farted in my mouth. Yeah, she looked at me like, yeah, like I farted, like I farted in her mouth. Like that's old. Charlemaine heard he was. I heard everything. I'm like, how do you mean how you talk over that? Like I

didn't hear that. That was the reaction, you know what I mean? So when you imagine the first time you pure in the way I described it, man, I felt like I was in the moment, like Luke. I don't even know who was playing in the background, but it was just like this was like something out of a love story. I'm like, you know of what looking at her. She's beautiful, she's two years old. She's a saying y'am the sophomore and like, I love you. I did it

just like that real school right there. I mean that's where I said, I read a real school. And she looked at me like, so I remember that now he ain't or whatever. So, like you said, there was nobody for me to talk to. There was nobody I could go to. My biological father wasn't around my stepfather. I couldn't talk to him about loving anybody because I never saw him love my mom. I never saw them. I

never saw love in a household. So I didn't have anybody that was a positive male role model that could actually talk to about that. And if I talk to him, they would say things like emptem holes. Seriously, man, you you ain't supposed to love him anyway. That's exactly what end that I got, Mike. I swear I was about to say that to you. What's interesting about that? And she broke your heart? And when the other options are

bitches ain't beholds in tricks, money over holes. When the option is disrespect you adopt that, Yeah, exactly, that's what

you see growing up as a kid. It man. And so that's why I once again, I wanted people to see my pain and see the things that I've gone through in my life, a lot of things, like Angela just said, some embarrassing moments that you know, it's hard for me to talk about or whatever at the same time, but I wanted to put that out there because if you can heal from my pain, then then that's my journey. Then that's what I'm supposed to be doing on this earth.

That's my purpose in life. One more teas I want to give it. I'm not gonna give this theory because I want to make sure everybody reads this book. You're gonna love this, Charlottagne. There was even an incident that you talk about where you got hit on the face or in the head with a penis why Charlemagne gonna love that? That That that happened to you too, Charlemagne, But

explain mic ahead. So that's the tease. When I was starting my broadcasting career and I was an intern and we was just say, we was in a tight locker room. I was holding the microphone talking to somebody while I was on my knees because the locker room was real tight, and when I turned around, let's just say, I turned around and another microphone hit me on my forehead right there, because you know, because the players were so close to each other. And the guy said, well, I'm sorry, excuse me.

You know me so but you know, yeah, that that that was a really thank you answer. I appreciate you, but that was that wasn't want for me to say too, because that was part of my broadcasting career. That was my introduction. I probably was. I was about to quit. You. Hey, you won't be the first person to start a broadcasting career because they got it on their head. So what do you saff He says, I'm sorry, what do you say? All right? Get up? I mean you know this well

he was. He was a superstar in the NBA. All I can do is like was was damn at least it was his? All right? Who were talking about? We talking about? He wouldn't say that. I'm pretty sure he en. You know, a lot of faith has been slapped by that pigs. I'm been saying, a superstar or scribe man? Is it a hull of things? He's a Hall of Famer, obviously,

I'll leave it at that. Yeah, all of thing. Yeah, But you know, Mike, what you're doing with your book is a great man, because we have to create space for each other to discuss our brokenness and discuss our traumas without being canceled. You know, yes, the person you probably heard people and you know, we got to create these spaces to have these conversations. We have to give

each other the grace you want God to give us. Yeah, And I appreciate you guys giving me the platform to be able to talk about that because, like you said, Charlo Man, I appreciate you using your platform to basically get that word out that we can't be ashamed. We gotta stop manning up. If we continue to man up, soon or later, it's gonna be manned down. Man, I mean six feet down, because I keep telling people, had I not written this book, I would be dead right now.

Think about this as black people, every single person in this country has had to deal with some kind of trauma. We're dealing with trauma right now. Basically, when you're afraid to get in your car get stopped by the police, that's trauma. That's paint. Feel free to talk about that type of stuff and not be ashamed of it, because being a man is admitting that you have problems and you need help with those problems. And that's why I'm here for man, That's what I'm gonna trying to do.

I'm gonna keep on using my platform for that regard. Another takeaway from this book is a lot of people see you as a successful Mike Hill now, but they don't know how long it took for you to get there, and all the trials and tribulations that you had to have, even getting fired, having to dumb yourself down to be on a network and not show your real personality, feeling betrayal, all of those things at work, and how hard it is to just keep going when things aren't working out.

And I think that's a really huge valuable takeaway for people. It's not an overnight thing. Yeah, I appreciate you saying that, because part of the book is about my professional growth and my development and things like you said that I had to go through and having to basically I lost myself, I mean, to get a dream job at ESPN and then basically be told you know at one time that I was being too ghetto, you know, and run of the reasons why I wasn't moving up being too ghetto.

And you know, I was talking about NVY the other day when Ivy came out and he was talking about what somebody at a network basically told him that he wasn't black enough. So I've been that that guy that in a lot of places that I've been. I've been too black for some people. I've been too ghetto so to speak to some people, and I've been too white for other people. I've been corny or whatnot. So I'm

kind of in between, and it's kind of hard. So once you realize who you are and you step into who you are and you don't care what other people think, it's so liberating. But going through what I went through in my life, being fired, like you said, for whatever reasons, I got fired and you'll see it in the book or whatever, the ups and downs at ESPN, and been losing my personality and losing who I was. Can't look myself in a mirror and realize that I lost who

Mike kill was. I mean, that was tough and I finally got that back. So you'll see the transgressions and the transformation that I had with my professional career as well. Absolutely appreciate you brother for checking in. Man, we really do it. Definitely showing the bookie, Michael. We'll be doing Angela Gue's book Club, the Well Read book Club, so I appreciate you for that. We'll be announcing that date shortly.

I got one more question though, because I know you've been doing the work on yourself, so your ego isn't as fragile as it used to be. But when you saw the headline a couple of weeks ago that your fiance says she's been having horrible quarantine sex with you, how did that? How did that? How did that hit for you? You know it didn't. It didn't affect you whatsoever because I know what I'm doing in the bedroom for us, so I know I know I'm putting it down. Dog.

I mean, look, hey, bro, the reviews the okay, to be quite honest with you, so late. You know how clickbait is it if you're read. Yeah, that's not what she was saying. He was talking. She was talking about

more the circumstance, the environment. R Yeah, because our kids were in the house, so man, she couldn't you know she couldn't get a scream on man, my girl, like you know, you know, you come a long way from from the beginning of this book when you were hunting and releasing just from that, so grat's on that great? All right, Well, thank you for joining us. Just Mike killed us the Breakfast Club in the morning. So Breakfast Club,

your morning's will never be the same morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, guy, we all the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Mariah carry listen, oh Gosh reports Breakfast Club. Well, Mariah did a sit down with Oprah and this is all about her new book. She did an interview for the Oprah Conversation and she talked about some of the stories that she is sharing in her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, that is

coming out on September twenty ninth. It's a lot going on September twenty ninth. By the way, that's the first debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. It's awesome my brother's birthday. And she discussed as many things, including growing

up by racial and what that experience was like. It wasn't that I didn't like my hair when it was behaving, but as I grew up a little bit, it went from baby hair to like matted, unruly hair that nobody was combing through or understanding that you can't have a

little girl running around with matt in her head. Feel like I was hated on by certain people in my family for having the lighter hair, and but then if they only realized, like, no, actually, I have like matted hair which is frizzy and curly, and like it could look good if we had some conditioner. So your mother, did you know what to do with it? And many

times she just let it go. She also discusses dating Derk Jeter and how that helped her get over her relationship and get out of her relationship with Tammy Motola. He was a catalyst that helped me get out of that relationship, and I think that it was beautiful and his family was a healthy family, and they changed my viewpoint that, oh, it's because of the biracial situation that my family so screwed up, as opposed to it's them,

you know. And yes, those things did play a huge part in their dysfunction, but it was healthy for me to see a functional family that basically kind of looked like mine but didn't feel like mine. And then she talked about her twins, the kids, and how they help her. They helped to heal me every day, every time we have a moment that feels real and authentic and genuine, and it's them loving me unconditionally. The only other time my fably got it, got it. You know, I am

actually interested in reading Mariah Carry's book. I really am. Yeah, ever since the time Mariah Carry came into the Breakfast Club studios and she was in full diva mode and she had her own lighting team and she made us turn our lights down and set hers up. And when we said to her, well, you're not going to be able to see us, she said, that's the point, darling. I've always liked her. I like people who are unapologetically themselves, even if themselves is a total diva. Now it isn't

DJs one. Mariah is DJ also. Yes, he just such one belongs to Windy Williams. And now you must not know how this works. See, okay, how does this work? Wendy has a leash around sus one, all right, okay, until that leash is off, he belongs to Wendy. That's how this works. Suss Will realized that what he tries, he's getting all the money. All right, Well better he better hope Maria and Wendy have a good relationship. Because Maria don't come to Wendy's show to promote that book.

Wendy will be quick to say, f Mariah and sus you better not go on the road with her. Wow, So is that how it works? Is that how you sat on her lap? She has a leash on you. And that's right. You see that little talk, sit down, come down, sit down, tame puppet all right now. John Legend says that he and Chrissy t can go to therapy, and he also said that therapy and communication are some

of the factors that has helped their marriage. Last he said, it sounds obvious, but being with someone you really care about, respect and enjoy being around. I think that's the crucial foundation than communicating, being concern are listening to your partner and making sure their needs are met. And we go to therapy sometimes. I think every couple who's been together for a long time could use time to talk with the third party to help with whatever concerns they have

and this was with Cosmopolitan UK. I agree with you. I'll go to therapy with your other half. I've been in therapy before. I've been before a long time ago. But we still this people that we speak with when we have conversations or is this a disagreement, but nah, I mean we have a you know, you know what helps us a lot, not be honest, taping the podcast

with each other. Yep. That podcast does everything because every week we talk about what's going on in all relationship or things that happen, and we just sit down and talk to each other. There's no arguments, it's just discussion and communication. So that podcast helps a lot. I love it. I do want to add a couple of therapy to the repertoire. I mean I've been before, and you know I go individually every week, but yeah, I think a

couple of therapy is great. Felicia Rashad has joined social media. She put up a video and told her fans that she's there. I told my sister Debbie, there are so many Twitter, Facebook, Instagram accounts with my name already on it. Why should I do this? She said, yeah, this, but they're not the real you. So this is the real me talking to the real you, and I'm looking forward to posting about things that matter. Was the video upside down? She added together it was good. Why would you try

to play her like that? Let me saying all right, she said, good morning. I want to give a shout out to our young people who are navigating education via the virtual classroom and to the teachers, parents, grandparents, family members and friends who are helping them to do it. Bless you all. So she posted that message also, I'll follow Felicia Rashod is a beautiful woman. By the way, her Throwback Thursday talented fire shut up man. Today, I'm telling you, today is the Felicia rashow to day too.

Shine you hear me? I bet you right now if she throws them about five or six good throwback Thursday pictures her few crack a million followers to hey, telling you see what she's up to, because as soon as she posted that she had like forty thousand right away, she has, oh fifty nine thousand right now. Okay, throw Back Thursday, I'm telling you it's your time to shine, mister shot All right, Well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor report. It's all right, thank you, miss

ye Charlemagne. We're giving that donkey too. I'm gonna give Donkey to Day to the Jefferson County grand Jury an Attorney Daniel Cameron. I'm gonna be honest with y'all. Have no answers for y'all this morning. Um, I just feel like Vinton. All right, we'll get into that next keeping lock this to Breakfast Club. Good morning, Breakfast Club, your

morning's will never be the same. Into four chance to win two hot end cell phones with twelve months of service in twenty five hundred dollars thanks to Simple Mobile. Simple Mobile. Out with the old, in with the simple to enter and get rules. Visit Breakfast Club online dot com. It's time for Donkey of the Day. Being dunky of the day, a little bit of a mc keell, but like a dope other day. Now I've been called a lot of my twenty three years that Donkey of the

day is a new wife. Donkey Today for Thursday, September twenty fourth goes to the Jefferson County Grand Jury and Attorney Daniel Cameron in Kentucky. Whoever else was responsible for making sure for ensuring that justice was not served in the shooting death of Brianna Taylor. Is Donkey is for you too, if you haven't heard a Jefferson County grand jury wednesday and died in One of the officers, Brett Hankinson, on three counts of first degree wanton endangerment because jurist

said several bullets he fired inside Taylor's apartment. In March thirteenth, went into a neighboring apartment where a pregnant woman, a man, and a child were home, but neither him nor Sergeant Jonathan matten Lee our detective Miles cost Growth were charged with killing Brianna Taylor, an unarmed black woman. Look, I wasn't expecting any type of justice. This is America, Okay.

When justice is served, I'm shocked, pleasantly, surprised, joyful even which is why because we should never celebrate people for doing what they're supposed to do. But when justice isn't served, I honestly don't know what I am. Each case is different, each case feels different. I was talking to my dear sister Angela Ry last night and I told her I just feel bad, Okay, I feel humanly helpless because at the end of the day, as a black man in America.

I just want to win, that's all we want, you know. And winning to me isn't being the richest, it's not being the most successful. Winning to me is just being free. What does that mean? I don't know. Winning to me is just simply receiving liberty, equality, and justice. You know, those democratic values they tell us about. Those three words is supposed to represent basic values of democratic political systems. At the bare minimum, a human in this country should

be able to get liberty, equal quality, and justice. But we know that's not the case when you're black. All right. Democratic values are supposed to support the belief that an orderly society can exist in which freedom is preserved. But order and freedom must be balanced. Right, So when you see all this civil unrest in the street right now, after verdicts like Brianna Taylor happened, and people are acting out of order, it's because there's no balance, all right.

Order and freedom must be balanced. There will never be ordered when a people are not free. And it's hard to feel truly free when you don't feel protected, when you know, at any moment in this country your human rights can be violated. So we keep talking about our civil rights being violated. Let me tell y'all something. In order for one to respect our civil rights, they have to respect our human rights, which is my right to simply live. Okay, what does this country say? What does

this country say? I think it's my right to life and liberty that bs. This country says everyone is entitled to these rights without discrimination. Where That's why I don't feel that way. I'm a black man. If it wasn't for my faith in a higher power in my right to bear arms, I would never feel safe in this country. And that's what I mean when I say I want black people to win. A win to me, is us as black people feeling protected. Okay, hard to feel like

that when you live in the United States of anxiety. Okay. I want black people to feel like we matter. I want us to be able to deal with our generational traumas in heal. But we are not ever able to do that because we keep getting retraumatized over and over in this country. This country will always remind us that black lives simply don't matter. I got a beautiful black wife, three beautiful black daughters. I am a black man. I just you know, think about it today we matter about

Brianna Taylor. We're still mad about George Floyd. You got Ahmad Aubrey, but all those names are interchangeable with Sandra Blain, Walter Scott, Treyvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Natasha mckenne, Philando cast still could be you like, it's just too much. And I know, I know, I know, November look I play into but police politicians, don't politicize black pain that scared me in the voting because these injustices happen under Democrats too.

It doesn't matter what party is in power, because once again, this isn't about civil rights, it's about human rights, and white people in this country have always looked at black folks as subhuman. So does it matter who's in office locally nationally when we've been watching police and damn there everyone else get away with these types of injustice towards black people forever. Once again, I'm voting, but don't politicize black pain that scared me to vote. Don't tell me

how the justice system needs to be reformed. No, no, no, because that system was never designed to provide equal justice across the board. Okay, when they say justice for all, they were not talking about black folks. Bernie Sanders hit it on the head yesterday when he said in a tweet, Rihanna Taylor's life mattered. This result is a disgrace and an abdication of justice. Our criminal justice system is racing. Okay, the time for fundamental changes now. Keywords and that our

criminal justice system is racist. There is no reforming or racist system. Okay, you got to overhaul the whole thing from top to bottom. Throw it out. The criminal justice system in America is defective. Product, take it off the assembly line. Let's build something new because this is not working. I don't have the answers, Okay, I'm just telling you how I feel. I hate when I hear politicians get asked about these situations and the first thing they say

is make sure you protest peacefully. We don't need any violence. How about tell that to the cops, tell them the police peacefully, Tell them we don't need any more violence. Help show improve through actions and deeds, and hold them accountable when situations like Brianna Taylor happened, and maybe they will slow down on violence. What are the consequences to their actions. They don't lose their pensions, they don't go

to prison. What will ensure that situations like Brianna Taylor, George Floyd and insert black name here don't happen again? All right? These politicians have it more smoke for protesters than they do the police. You have more smoke for the people in pain than the people causing the pain. These politicians love acknowledging the effect, but not the cause. Is sickness, man, he really is. And I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say. I have faith in God, Okay. I go to therapy to

avoid going crazy. And I think every black person in America should own a legal firearm and you should know how to use it. That's all I got, Black people, That's all I got. If y'all got some great ideas, I'm all ears. But at this moment, today, right now, I got nothing, just like Brianna Taylor's family got nothing in regards to justice. And if there's no justice, there's no peace in the streets. Okay. And that's the way karma works in America, Almighty America. No one and I

mean no one can escape the law karma. Please let remy Ma give the Jefferson County Grand Jury an attorney Daniel Cameron, the biggest he haw he haw, he haw. You stupid mother? Are you dumb? All right? I'm well, thank you for that, donkey, or today I wish I didn't have to do it. Now when we come back, let's open up the phone lines. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. What you want to Usually yeah, he does ask you here, right, yeah, this is normally

where I would do ask you. But today I want the women to call after Brianna Taylor's family still has not gotten justice. They have not gotten justice for Brianna Taylor. I want to hear what your thoughts are as women, as black women here in the United States. Please call up and let's just vent and get it off I guess get it off our chest. Today we want to hear from you. All right, eight hundred five eight five one oh five one, call us now, women, it's the

Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. Now usually we do ask eye here whatever and that's going on. We just want to open up the phone lines and speak to everybody, speak to definitely

you women, you mothers, you sisters, you man. We want to speak to black women in particular because black women's experience has been really different in this country and around the world when it comes to police brutality, when it comes to feminism, when it comes to our rights, when it comes to being respected, and it's a continuing issue and we see this right now with Brianna Taylor and no justice for her family. She was killed by police officers and there were no charges based off of her

getting killed. So we want to talk to black women and talk about how you feel. As you know, the most famous quote, the most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman. And you can see that when it

comes to finance is what women get paid. Women get make eighty two cents for every dollar that a white man makes, but black women may sixty two cents still in the United States for every dollar that a white man makes. So we're always still at the bottom of everything. And I want to get people. I want to get black women to call and talk about how you're feeling this morning. Black women also face police brutality, sexual assault at a higher rate than white women. So I just

want to get your your thoughts this morning. Hello, who's this Hello? My name is Kia from Jersey. I just want to know where is face to be a black female in this country because from a young age where it's hard. You know, you're not safe around your family, You're not safe in your neighborhood. Growing up, you know you gotta be safe, Like it's one way, be safe, safe, safe, But where's that police? Because now we're at a point

where you can't even be too sleep in bed. That is scary, Like I'm feel afraid for black men, like the police and everything I so annoying, But it's us too. Where's that place? Where's that place of safety? It's not happening, it's non existing. And I replied, it's disgusting that the outcome of this piece. It's disgusting. It's disgusting, and I just want to know how long it's gonna lie. And you know, black women show up for everybody else too,

everybody we don't we get talked about. But where is a place of safety for a black female? And I'm not anywhere? Yeah, Um, I agree with everything that that everybody is saying, But I think we're all in the same boat it comes to racism in America. You know, it's a system that's against black people. It was never designed for black people. And we are all in this together, and that's what I think we all need to understand.

You know that there was a black man in that house with her who actually defended her and his residence, and I'm shocked that he's alive. And that's the situation that as a black man, I pray I'm never in NV I know, you pray you're never in it, you know what I'm saying, Like, we never, even though we will defend our families, we don't ever want to be in that situation. You know. Let's go to another We do want to talk about black women in particular. This morning.

They have a whole organization called Say Her Name that started because there's so many black women that were killed by police officers and people don't talk about it as much. Well, let's go to another cola. Hello, who's this. My name is Sonny. Hey, Sonny, what are you calling from. I'm calling from the New Jersey area, but I'm born and raised in the NLC I'm a bronx red girl. All right, let's talk about it. What are your thoughts, mama, Well, my thoughts are you know, I'm a black woman, I

have a black son, I have a black daughter. We have a Taylor could have been could have been my daughter. Um, I'm a professional. I grew up, you know, in hard times. I've overcome a lot. But I just feel like as being a professional, as being a mother, I always have to I always have to have that guard up. I always have to go the extra mouth. It's exhausting. And then just to just to come to be the revelation

that it's just not enough, It's just not enough. My heart goes out to Brianna Taylor's family just, you know, just the thought that your child's life does not matter in a country that you help built. Right, Well, thank you for calling, Mamma. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one phone line to wide open call us. Now it's the Breakfast Club, Goal Morning Morning. Everybody is

DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagnicay. We are the Breakfast Usually this is where we do ask ye, but today we're doing things a little different, right, Yes, today we have black women We want you to call in and just tell us your thoughts. You know, we talk about black women being neglected, being disrespected in this country, even financially.

The Crown Act just recently is about to go to the Senate now, and even our hair being and I know it might be something that some people might think of as small, but being discriminated again because of how your hair is warned so much that we had to pass a Crown Act or work on getting something like that passed. Um. So it's just so many different things. Um. More than eighty percent of black women are heads of their household too in the United States, and I wanted

to point that out as well. So the fact that we make sixty two cents on the dollar in comparison to white men but still have to be the heads of households, Imagine what that does for an entire family. So we want to get your thoughts on what's going on here. All right, Well, let's go to the phone on Hello. Who's this Hey? This is Nicole, Hey, Nicole, what are you calling from? Nicole? Hey, I'm actually falling from Kentucky. How are you all? I'm blessed black and

Holly favorite, how are you? How's it out there? What's the energy? Like right now it's morning time, so it's the energy. You know, it's kind of still I'm definitely like hurt. Like I was playing before Heath and came out and said it because it's kind of like, you know, everybody pretty much knew, you know, once they took the settlement. But um, you know they're still protesting. They you know, of course they want them charged, but you know, it's

just it's very sad. And I just wanted to also say that I do agree with Lebron James tweaked because it is hard for a black woman. It's like we have to go out in the world and fight the world and you know, try to make it and be successful. You gotta so called fake you to you make it, and then you come in at home. You gotta have peace in your home. Makes you got peace at home. So you know, it's just really hard and if we just stick together, you know. But um, right now, like

I said, they're everything's like kind of people. We gotta nine o'clock curfew for the next couple of days. Um, And I mean that's pretty much it at the moment. I can say that. So day Yep, it's pretty fat. Yes, it is all right. Well, thank you mama. How let us go to another line. Hello, who's this Hi? This is India, India, good morning, talk to us now this morning. It's emotionally dreaming. I found myself to my daughter, good morning. Did you just you You never know what a hole

it is going to fool you over that day? Um, our life is let's have in a life. I guess um. I mean granted being for the safety of the family. You know that was behind the will. But at the end of the day, I knew what was going to happen. Um. I have a family member who you know, she kind of sort of works within the um ga here um in North Carolina, and you know, we talk about it

every day. I have a friend who's been the healthcare field, so she deals with ancients with mental health, and you know, we were into trying to talk about it every day. I'm low key in education, so it's like, as a black woman, like what what more can we do? This? This is really drained. It's just really drenking. We just need them. And I have my way to work now, I work with kids. I meant to out here. I'm on my way to work. Now I have to get ready to put the smile on my face for parents.

But I am trying imagine, imagine what Angelie said just now. It's very important. It is about support. And I just don't want black women to feel like they're alone, because that could Brianna Taylor. That could be our wife, our daughter, or still mother. Things like this, Yep, when things like this happened to Brianna Taylor and impacts us all there is no Black women have it worse when it comes to racism. Black men have it worse when it comes

to racism. We have a whole system against us, a whole system oppressing us, a whole system that isn't providing justice for any of us. So I don't want systems to feel like they're alone. Because for every Brianna Taylor, thats a George Floyd, for every Sandra bland As, a Filando cast deal, for every Natasha mckinned as the Tamir Rice. So yes, I want this is defense, get it off their chest. But I need everyone to know black people

we are in this together. The system is against us, and while y'are fighting, we as black men are here to defend y'all, because I'm gonna die by mind. And I don't think America understands the position they are putting us in as black people. I really don't think they get it, all right. And I want to recommend a book that I just started reading. It's called Invisible No

More Please. Violence against Black Women and Women of Color is by Andrew or Richie, So just to get some more insight into the history of what's going on in our country. And yeah, that's just the support that we need for people to pay attention when it's black women. Also, all right, we got rooms on the way. What we're talking about, Yes, and let's talk about Kanye West. You know, he's been calling out these labels and he got called out as well. So here's what he said he's about

to do for good music artists. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is the Ruble Report with Angela, Yes Breast. So Kanye West has promised to return his fifty percent share of all good music Artists masters, and he actually challenged Universal to do the same. He said, I'm giving all good music artists back the fifty percent share. I have of their masters. Now, let's have Universal match me.

If Kanye doesn't fall through with that, then we know he's full of it because he didn't tell people that he owned the masters to his good music artists when he initially went on his rant. So all good music artists need to save that tweet. Not sure, it's not sure it's good in the court of law, but save it anyway. Well, he's been talking so crazy, he has

to stay on staying on his word right now. Big Sear responded, Big Searan responded, thank you, This would help so much, and Designer said thanks, and he put the one hundred emoji. I hate knowing what I know, but I wish Kanye West would tell people the whole truth. Like he's not telling folks that he renegotiated with def Jam Universal four times and chose the money over his masters every time. He's also not telling people that he owns the masters the Jesus and every album after that

he's talking about slavery is a choice. No, signing those record contracts he signed is a choice. That was really it. He also tweeted out, I'm not releasing nothing on Gap till I'm on the board, and he said, I'm wearing Jordan's till I'm on the board of Adidas. I was confused with that. You have your own sneakers. It's not like you have a part now. You have your own sneaker. You're not an in door serve Adidas. You have your own Adidas, and you want to wear Jordan maybe just

like George Better. I don't know, or at least he's wearing another black man sneak. And I just want the record to show that I sit on the board of the Black Effect podcast network and network, and I am a majority owner of with iHeartRadio. But you know, those type of things have to be negotiated beforehand. But what

do I know? All right now, Ed Sharon, As you know, it is being sued and that is for using Marvin Gays Let's get it on for his twenty fourteen song Thinking out Loud using the harmony, melody and rhythmic components. So I want to play both songs and I want to hear if you think that this is official. So honey, nah take man timing off of the F stop sounds very similar. Oh, I can definitely hear some some what do you call it an interpolation? That you could definitely

have some Marvin Gaye is shit in it. So so what are they doing on this norm Well, at Sharon's at Sharon is responding to the lawsuit, and he responded when it first was filed. He said that the core progressions and drum patterns were extremely commonplace in the public domain and unprotectable. All right, Well, the song Let's Get It On was actually co written by Ted Towns, and so it's the Towns in the state that is seeking songwriting credit and they want a portion of the revenue

from the song. Now, Townsend family did file this lawsuit against Sharon back in twenty sixteen, and a couple of days ago, Ed Townsend's daughter, Catherine Townsend just spoke out about this, and she said, theft and bullying has been the only priority of the record label's agenda. It stopped today, Sony Atlantic and all the rest of them. We're coming for our forty acres in the mule plus an interest and know that we're not going to be silent. It don't stop till my casket dropped. Yeah. Ed is a

great guy. He's not a vulture, he's not a thief. So I'm sure Ed would rectify that situation if if there is indeed a problem, all right now, Academics says he had a conversation with Quavo and Offset, and that's after he was saying that the megos fell off. And here's what he had to say about their conversation. I spoke to off Set your suit to my man off Set, and I'm not gonna lie yo. I want to really give him credit for being mad or reasonable and understanding

and saying, hey, yo, listen. I listened to the segment and I felt you were saying something that we needed to hear. He literally said, I want you to expound on those things. And we had like about thirty minute conversation where for the most part he was listening. He was like yeah. He asked me what feels different, what looks different? Why? Why do you think this is happening? And for him, it was about gaining information, all right, y'all nothing to worry about there, y'all putting too much

pressure on artists. Man Mego's been around for damn near a decade. They have changed hip hop, you know, like like you're not gonna be that red hot artist every year. You can only hope to be consistent. And I would think the Megals were consistent. They they put out solo albums last year. Could just have like a clout with Cardi B last year, Like I don't. I don't just say that they fell off. They had. They haven't fell off now, they haven't fell off. And they stayed consistent.

They stay in the clubs, they stay in their lane, they stay on the radio. They all consistent. Plus there's a COVID year. We don't know what artists would have been doing, you know, if they weren't sitting at home. You know, I'm saying, like, I don't, I think y'all putting too much pressure on folks man. All right, And Kodak Black is asking Donald Term for help. He wants him to commute his prison sentence. His attorneys sent a petition to Trump and they're asking to cut Kodak a

little bit of a break. And so they said that Kodak was sentence forty six months behind bars in his federal guncase. They said they average sentence for that is eighteen months. So they're just asking for some help. And actually called that Black's attorney was a contestant on The Apprentice Away back in two thousand and five. Trump probably like black commute blacks all the time. We've commute blacks through the first step back. I'm not commuting anymore blacks.

All right, Well I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor reports. All right, shout to revote. We'll see you tomorrow. Everybody else to People's Choice mixes up. Next, it's the Breakfast Club, Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Then we got a shout to Mike Hill for joining us this morning. Yeah. Michael Hell his book Open Mic, and he is pretty

honest on there. He says some things in that book that I was like, Wow, Mike, I can't believe you would like this. But I love all black people, especially black men, holding themselves accountable for any of our past bs. And I think that we have to create safe spaces for black men to be able to express their brokenness without being a quote unquote canceled whatever that means. All right, Well, when we come back, we got the positive notes, so

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