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the planet. Is Thursday, Yes, it's Thursday. It definitely is Thursday. Baby. What's happening? How y'all feeling? Are you calling baby? You know he loves you calling my people baby. I'm talking to the listeners, all the listeners out there. Well, Thursday, Good morning to you. What's happenings? You guys had a great night and a good morning. If you woke up earlier this morning, you know. I'm on. My wife has been doing a lot of work at a couple of

different properties that we're flipping and telling. So my wife has been doing a lot of work at the property. So it's been daddy daycare the whole, you know, last three four days. So when it's daddy daycare, I'm with the newborn and it's really nothing to do but clean and watch TV. So I've just been watching everything you name it. I happened to I just happened to catch the president on yesterday. You heard the president bowing down. Now,

I just happened to catch him. Yester, you saw, you saw how you know the voting rights legislation did not get passed through the Senate as expected? As expected? Why because Manasion in cinema said, hell no, I don't want to hear all of that conversation about I don't want to hear that conversation about Republicans no more. Because at the end of the day, when you have two people on your team who are supposed to be for the people, right, the Democrats, and they won't get in line, it's on them.

Well we'll talk about that during Front Patients. It's been a year though since Biden's been in office, right, yeah, his first year, his first ship. Well, today will be grand open, their grand closing. They're gonna lose the midterms this year when they lose the midterms this year, He's definitely not gonna be able to get nothing done, grand opening, grand closing, one term president, So rap give it that people,

So fu it's not getting no better. So I'm gonna say, I look at I'm a little I'm a little confused with it. Like you know, if we all let's just say, I just put it in simple terms, right, we all bloods, Right, we're all supposed to rock with each other. That's that's it, right, It's really that's it. But that's what they told us. We don't rock with the crips, right, so we all bloods, we ride with each other. And that's what they told us and said, hey, if we get to Senate and

we got the White House, we'll get things done. That's why they went so hard to flip Georgia Philips is what happened. Joe Man and Joe Manson and Christen Cinema are dinos Democrats in name only. Remember when the Trump called the Arizona jail for legislators rhinos. Yes, a couple last week the Republican name only, That's what manoning in Cinema are democrats in name on. They ain't riding for the tay ride with the team at right, All right, well,

not even a little bit, but I don't know. Well, we definitely wouldn't have voting rights to legislation if Republicans were if Donald Trump was the president now either right, we noticed though, right? No, no, no, they would have passed the voting rate legislation. It would just been some bs. They everybody passed vote suppression laws and what eighteen states? Thirty different voter suppression laws in eighteen state, so it would have been hard to vote regardless, it sounds like

we need more Democrats in the Senate. Sure, that's what it is, so that it wouldn't rest on two people. Sure, All right, Well we'll talk about that more in Front Page News and Shakas and God will be joining us this morning. Of our guy. He's the best selling author New York Times, best selling author. He had writing My Wrongs last time when he was up here, and he has a new book. It's called let Us to the Sons of Society and for all this invitation to love,

honesty and freedom. So we're gonna kick it with him next hour, right, all right, so we got Front Page News next, don't move, it's to Breakfast Club, Go Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we are to breakfast clubliskin some front page news. All right, A lot to talk about. What we're starting easy, Well,

let's start with the Senate last night. They did feel the chance to feel ab us the rule that would allow voting rights legislations to pass with a simple majority. It would have required fifty one votes to pass, but did not have the support of all Democrats as we know. And so here is what Kamala Harris has to say about voting legislation. I am here to make a very strong statement that this is whatever proference tonight comes the outcome of this vote, the President and I are not

going to give up on this issue. This is fundamental charge democracy and it is non negotiable. Well, let's see if Democrats challenge the seats of Joe Mansion and Kristen Cinema. All right, if they're not on your team and they've showed you that, then I would expect you to run some other Democrats against them and challenge them. If not, y'all all in it together in Cinema and Mansion are just to fall gods and gal Well, here's what Joe Biden had to say on voting rights legislation. I've had

their back. I've had their back my entire career. I've never not had their back. Life started on the voting righteous She's long, long and good. This would got be involved in politicstion in first place. Now the Senator and mansion has some criticism about people telling him what he needs to do. The rule book means that the rules changes are done on the basis of broad body partisan consensus, not imposed on the minority by raw majority power, no

matter who's in power. Now, my colleagues propose a sidestep this process. They would use the nuclear option to override a rule that we have used ourselves but now seem to find unacceptable. We're going to break the rules to change the rules and make up new rules as we go along. Invite them ourselves to future majority to just regard the rule book of will No rule of the Senate can withstand the act of a willful majority. Let this change happen in this way in the Senate will

be a body without rules. Now, that's in regards to getting rid of the filibuster, because Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats would carve out to the filibuster rules to pass voting rights legislation by replacing that sixty vote the threshold needed to break a filibuster with an old fashioned talking filibusters. They just don't care about black people

voting people. That's all because if you can't get rid of the filibuster, philibuster, car about something in the philibuster to preserve the cornerstone of democracy, voting rights is because your voting rights aren't threatened, you don't care if black people can vote. No, he just said he with us. He said he just got to come out and see us more. That was Joe Biden. Yeah, well, here's what Joe Biden has to say about things that he has and he did a solo news conference ahead of his

one year mark in office. Yet a whole bunch of nothing. Here's what he said. You're spending package voting rights legislation. They're not going anywhere. So that's true. Is there anything that you are confident you can get signed into law before the midterm elections. Yes, I'm confident we can get pieces big chunks of the bill back Better Law signed

to the law. And I'm confident that we can take the case to the American people that the people they should be voting for her going to oversee whether your elections in fact are legit or not, should not be those who are being put up by the Republicans to determine that they're gonna be able to change the outcome the election. I think the best, the most important thing to do is try to inform, not educate, inform the

public of what's at stake and start terms. Yesterday, he said the twenty twenty two midterm elections, if they don't get some voting rights passed, will probably be illegitimate, that's what he said, right, or they'll probably be you know, interference, duh. So that would be all the more reason to try

to get some voting right legislation pass all right. Well, we have more of that in the next hour on front page new And I also want to say man salute to Joe Madison and all the pastors who are on a hunger strike until voter rights for pass Please go eat all right, Please, voting rights legislation died on the Senate floor last night. But you don't have to please go eat all right. I'm begging y'all to God, didn't have a meal this morning. I'll send y'all cash,

have money if you need it. Man, please don't starve yourself. No more waiting on these politicians to do the right thing because they not. Please all right, Joe Madison, please go have a meal, please, sir? All right, get it off your chests. Eight hundred five eight five one five one. If you're upset, you need to vent. Call us up right now. Phone lines a wide open again eight five eight five one o five one is the Breakfast Club?

Good morning the Breakfast Club. It is your time to get it off your chests, whether you're man or blast, so you better have the same and we want to hear from you on the breakfast Club. Hello is this Hey? What's up? Brother? Get it off your chest? Yeah? A couple about to vote it right. The best thing we can do is get our ducks in the road and just go ahead and just start voting. However it is they need us to vote for that way, we want to hold up stuff back. What do you mean so

they're trying to stop us from voting? Right, So the best thing we can do is whatever it is they want us to comply to comply to it, and that's why we can win the election. And what's gonna happen. What's gonna happen? Then, did you tell that's what I'm trying as what I'm trying to tell y'all. This is the same listen. Democrats were in the same play, same play every single time during the presidential election. It was like, Okay, we get the White House, we get to send it.

Change your happen. They got the White House, they got to send it. Nothing's happening. Hello, who's this? Oh? Good morning? Um? This is evlent Um speaking. Good morning to you, Um, dj Envy Solomon God and miss Eve good morning, Um, good morning. Well, I just wanted to get this off my chest concerning the voting Right bill that just um died under Senate floor. Yes, ma'am, n um. This politicians they are just playing games. And we citizens, we need to get educated. We need to know what we need

to do. We need to vote the people out. That's our job, right. We need to do our research and we need to vote them out. And democrats all this political politicians say, so called democrats, they need to have a clear understanding that they need to do what they need to do. Republicans they do whenever, whenever it's their turn, they make things happen. That's rights in fall in line. So Democrats they need to get their house in order. I don't understand why they keep playing games and having

this argument back and forth. Get your out in order. Yeah, there's the problem. Did you see yesterday when they asked Joe Biden did he even reach out to any Republicans about voting rights? And he was like no, I didn't get a chance too because I was too busy trying to get people on my own team to get a board. And see, that's the problem right there. This is a guy that has been in the Senate for over thirty

something years. It knows how to talk to Republicans. But if it's houses not in order, how can he reach out to the other guy in the Republicans they say, hey, guys, come along. He can't do that. It doesn't even make any sense because the first thing that we're telling me, oh, botowing, miss submissive president, we still have two nitors that is olding out, why are you talking? Why are you talking to us? So that's number one and number two, I'll

understand why Democrats can't just get in line. Just get in line, do what you need to do. Yeah, and make things dropping. Yeah, and imagine the cinema don't want to get in line? How come democrats don't challenge for their seats? Hello? Who's this? Good morning? My comedy buddy, angel is this snack man? Happy birthday month? Why are you hating on it? Thank you snack man. I appreciate it. We miss you. I don't know who we is? Who's weird or not? Me? Then he was perfect? Listen, acronyms.

You were going to agree with me on this one? Okay? It was acronyms. Do you don't know what an acronym out? Yeah? Any who, After all these years, Angela, I never told you about my previous comedy buddy. Like me and her, we practiced in Manhattan up to the time I placed third in the Staten Islands Comedies Festival seven. Her initials are A S. So acronyms you and I agree? Um? Okay, I'm funnier than her. Who the hell is acronyms? Me? All right? So um the joke, Angela, your birthday joke?

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five one, call us now it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club eight hundred five eight five one five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Allow. Who's this dude, Jacksonville. What's happening my brother? Morning, y'all go morning morning? Yeah, man, I just want to give a shout out to my black Quai man. We've been together this last year. Man, I come home to the middle they coold ready to be to put on when

I come home. Yeah, man, it is last year. He allowed me to be the man out of the house. She allowed She allows you to be the man of the house. Yeah, man. Not trying to take controller. You know, man, I don't think it got to be gender. Just say she allows you to be the CEO of the house, because you know, if you're all of us men, all of us men know who the CEEO of our houses. A you got a lord? All right? Brother? I ever go with yes, y'all to Hello, who's this whatever? Man?

It is wine busy straight out of Detroit. Man. What I'm telling y'all, I'm calling y'all to give a shout out to my city. Man. We've been planning it up peg baby face Ray, baby money the whole drink. We've been going crazy. Man, Okay, I love it, baby face Ray. I love Detroit rappers. I swear Vessel side of Babyla. Man, you need to let us come up theem man called up to the man slut to my guy, Vessel Man. I was talking to Vessel a couple of weeks ago.

Come up here and do what you want, right, whatever do man, That's not how this works. Now. You can't just come up here and do whatever. That's not how this works. Brother. Hello, who's this? This is que from Atlanta? What's up? Queen? Getting morning? Queter? Hey. I talked to you guys a little a couple of months ago, back in November. Not sure if you guys remember, um, and I had my daughter with me and I kind of gave you guys my cashel and you guys help me out.

You know, there's great sious to that. But I was calling you guys. I want to kind of get something out of the way and also talk to you guys and get some advice on what I could possibly do. But if you don't remember, I'm a single mother five I live here in Atlanta, and my children's father, you know, doesn't help me. Then my keys have the same father. But um, I had kind of got some feedback from some of the people, like someone cashed up me and say, hey, get a job, and I wanted to kind of touch

on that a little bit. Hold on about you can cash you people and leave messages like, yeah, that's how people. If you block somebody, they'll send a cash app like and send you like a dollar with a message in case you block that can't get to see it. Yeah, yeah, they leave you when they told you get a job. They spent a dollar and said get a job. But

this is a thing, Let'll tell you. Not only do I not get help from my kid's father, I'm kind of an entrepreneur, but also with the car problems, I really can't go in to my client's houses and do here because I don't have a car. But the thing is I can't work because I'm waiting on disability. I was diagnosed with a disability back in March, so you know, give my interview, and the lady like, hay, you know you can't work. I don't you know, you won't get

approved so you can't have a job. And I'm like, well, I have kids, will take here. So of course things I'm not supposed to. I'm not supposed to work, but I still do here when I can, if I can get to my clients. But anyway, I'm calling today because

I need some type of advice on my daughter. Um she's going through and it's mainly has something to do with their dad, you know, not really being that involved, but she's having like emotional issues, you know, and it's things that I really don't understand and I can't you know, get through too. So first, Charlotte pay, can you please send me your book? I do need your books that may help. How many? How many you got five kids? Right?

They all they all can read? Of course reading age is what I mean, because you know thirteen as so, yes, they do read. But you don't have to send that many copies. I mean, we do shear things. So I'm gonna send you, solf, I'm gonna send you. I'm sending you the unapologetic guy in the Black Men to help out, doctor to walk in and shallow Water's body need to cole pack. And I'm gonna send you to me comality state of murders. Thank you so much. Okay, one more thing,

one more thing, one more things. So I do I also because people just didn't understand my situation and they feel like, oh, she's just asking for money. But that's not the thing I get. I get help from no one like I struggle, hustle and do what I can do by my soul. And it's not queen. Listen, queen, you don't have to explain yourself. No body, okay, if you if that's just for the people that understand where

I'm coming from, Like blessings, the blessings are needed. And I also want you guys to pray for me and my family. My mother's like literally on her diat bed right now. Um. But like I've just been dealing with so much. But my like I said, my cashing up is huge. You are nineteen eighty four. Were people that truly want to help me, I would appreciate the help. We like, I said, you do not have to explain

yourself to nobody, Queen, We totally understand. Okay, And guess what if a million people all send you a dollar and tell you get a job. It don't matter. You got a million dollars, get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eighty five one o five one. Now we got rooms on the way and we'll be talking Nick Cannon. You know he said he's insecure about being naked when he's having sex. We'll tell you what else he had to say, the breakfast club. Let's talk Nick Cannon. Let's

just stand. Oh gosh, got the rumor reports? It's reports breakfast Club. Well, yesterday on the Nick Cannon Show, Nick Cannon, who was doing a man panel, and he was talking about some of his own insecurities when it comes to having sex. Are there any insecurities when it comes to

the bedroom. I'm gonna tell you off top, I definitely have an insecurity when it comes with being intimate, ripped with just making fun of I'm I'm actually I've been skinny all my life, so therefore I'm never liked to be completely naked when so like it's it's it's usually are like a hide under the cover. As much as I love, I boast about being shape and got some type of some type of stock. So that's my security. Anybody else, that shouldn't matter. If that slong slonging though, right,

if that thing hanging, it shouldn't matter. You're fine with it. Yeah, it just shouldn't matter, you know what I mean, Like I mean me me personally, I hide the shrink it. You know what I mean. I don't want abody to see me when I'm fresh out of the shower. You know, I don't want you know, my wife to see me after you know, I ejaculate and I've been laying there for a while because you know, the hawk turns back to Bruce Manner. I want to I want to see that look. I don't care out the shower, in the

shower after Jack. It don't matter, not not shrink it, just my insecurity. I want no no, I'm I don't care. I'm gonna growing out of show. I need to be my best off at all. It's great because when a guy does, when he's done, and it's small, it's smaller. It's nice to be you'd like, look, I've never seen it so little, and then he really, yeah, I don't want insecure, But that's him talking about his own insecurity, and clearly it stems from him having been skinny his

whole life or whatever. So I'm sure when he's comfortable enough, you know, he ain't that shamed about it. All them kids he got somebody seeing now the day doesn't get naked. He's just a little insecure about it because I guess he's thinking about being used to being skinny and being insecure about that. All right. Now, let's talk about Megan Good. So she's single now and she posted up a picture she's you know, Megan has always been in really good shape.

It scenes like ever since I've first seen her, and Heave's value. Um. So a lot of people were talking about that and they're like, all right, Megan, you know, back back out here. But one thing she did talk about on the Kelly Clarkson Show was the show Harlem. I know you guys watch some of that Harlem on Prime Amazon Prime. And one thing she talked about was

Whoopi Goldberg helping her with her lines. She's so nice and like whenever you meet people, you're like, oh God, please let them, be a wonderful don't fail me, don't ruin it fall. And I remember there was one day I kept saying, uh, Seneca instead of Seneca Village, and she was like, it's it's Seneca. It's it's Seneca Village, Seneca Village. I was like, Okay. So then I come in and I like butcher her coverage saying the line wrong.

And then on my coverage, I come in and she's taped it with the pronunciation across her boobs, and I'm like, senate. She was like, I was like, look at my boobs. I am trying to help you exactly. That's dope, that's yeah, that's Cute's certain words you just always pronounced wrong, and the other people could pronounce it right all the time, but for some reason in your head, you're pronouncing it a certain way. Believe me, I know every word on

Believe me every other word. Now, we told you guys about Cardie b helping out with the funeral cost for all the victims of the Bronx apartment fire. So one of the relatives of a Bronx fire victim has called Cardi be an angel for paying for a funeral costs. This woman's niece was killed in the blaze along with her husband and three children, and she doesn't have to worry about finding the money to bury her five family members. And so he said, it's a huge help to his

family to not have to bear that financial burden. He's sending Cardi blessings for stepping up to help so many people who she's never even met, or dropping a clue. Bronfel body Man said it yesterday. You can say a lot of things about Cardi, but you cannot question her heart in any way, shape or form. And I love to see people do things that somebody can't hate on. And if they do, if they do say something negative about it, then yeah, just know you a hate if

you say something negative about that. All right now, trade the truth prayers to him. He was involved in a car accident and hospitalized as a result of the incident. He shared all of this on Instagram. Yes a couple of days ago. He said, one thing after another. Devil couldn't stop me if he wanted to. And the evil certain people who try to pray evil on me, tell him, I'm gonna look at that ish and walk it down on the hospital back to it out of the hospital, back to it, God sent it, slew to my God.

Trade true. I hit him my body and know that. You know, Trade one of those people you always wonder who does the go to guy go to? Like he's always providing relief for so many people along, you know, with mister Rogers and the whole relief gang. It's like, you know, who's who's there for Trade when he when he needs to shout the trade, shout to mister Rogers and Trade man. All right. And then there's a rumored new Celebrity Big Brother cast, so a lot of people

talking about this. Shout out to Baller and Learn. I saw them post this all. So some of the people that could be on Celebrity Big Brother. What they're saying lamar odom Nini, Neo, Tiffany Pollard, Shicari Richardson. I mean, this sounds like a nice house, a cety. It was a spinoff of the regular show Big Brother where they're constantly under surveillance in the house, and then they did a Celebrity Big Brother. So it's yeah, and there's always

cameras everywhere. Okay, so there's always kind all kinds of drama on there, but it's a social experiment. They take you out of normal society, put you in the house, and it's all different people with different backgrounds, different beliefs, and you have to avoid being eliminated. So you're all fighting to win a grand prize. That grand prize is two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. All right, Well that is your room of reports. All right, we got Front

page news next. What we're talking about, Yes, and let's get more into Joe Biden and the press conference he had today is one year since he's been president. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, to wake up. It's the Breakfast Club Angela year here and my friends at the General Insurance give you quality car insurance for less. Check out their affordable rates and flexible payment options by calling eight hundred General or visiting

the General dot com. The General Auto Insurance Services in an insurance agency Nashville, Tennessee. Some restrictions apply. Morning. Everybody is DJ be Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy we ought to Breakfast Club. Let's get into front page news. When we started, well, yesterday Joe Biden had a solo news conference. We played some of it during the first front page news break. Now, let's talk more about what he had to say, and one thing he discussed was being realistic

and about his planning needs to be out there. American people overwhelmingly agree with me on prescription drugs. They overwhelmingly agree with me on the cost of education, they overwhelmingly agree with me on early education. They're overwhelming go on the list on childcare. And so we just have to make the case what we're for and what the other team's not for. And one of the things that I think is we're going to have to do is just make the case. I don't think there's anything unrealistic about

we're asking. I'm not trying to I'm not asking for castles in the sky. I'm asking for practical things the American people I'm asking for for a long time. What is he talking about? He also says he didn't over promise. He said I had probably outperformed what anybody happened. What I want to know, what is he talking about? Who is he talking to? He's the president. Why do you sound like he's on the campaign trail. You're the president,

You're in charge now. He also went to Twitter and said in our first year in office, we created six point four million jobs. That's the biggest year of job creation in American history. In perspective, though a lot of people were out of work because of COVID and a lot of businesses we're not in so you should have the biggest job creation in American history because there were so many jobs lost. A lot of people were resigned

too because of COVID. And then he also tweeted out, in our first year, we achieved a record number of jobs created, a record dropping the unemployment rate, a record dropping unemployment claims. We're getting America back to work, the record dropping unemployment claim because a lot of people resigned. A lot of people realize that they can make money doing a lot of other things, and so they decided to be entrepreneurs. Resignation absolutely right now. He decided to

be entrepreneurs, and they quit their jobs. Another thing he talked about was his next term, stating, I'm going to do differently. Number One, I'm gonna go out and talk to the public. Number two, I'm also going to be out there seeking the more advice of experts outside from academia to editorial writers, to think tanks, and I'm bringing them in. And the third thing, I'm gonna be doing

a lot more of. I'm going to be deeply involved in the offices off your elections to go out and make the case in plain, simple language as to what it is we've done, what we want to do, and why we think it's important. There is no next term, President Biden, You're gonna move the midtterms this year. When you lose the midterms and the Republics and Republicans get control of the Health and the Senate, you damn ain't

gonna be able to get nothing done. You can't get nothing done now, So you damn shin't' getting that done. In one question on twenty twenty four ambitions, he did say that Vice President Kamala Harris would be his running mates. It was a two hour press conference that he had. And another thing he discussed was giving away four hundred million and ninety five mass that's all going to start

next week two. So they did stockpile all of these masks, and they have more than seven hundred and fifty million of them on hand. You know, it's been hard for people to find those in ninety five masks, they said, those are the ones that offer the most protection. So they are going to make those available for free to

US residents starting next week. What I don't understand is it vote and rights legislation hasn't passed, and they have made it hard for black people to vote all over the country, and Biden hasn't gotten any of his campaign promises done for black people. How and why is he expecting black people to vote for him in the next election. How is he already talking about another term? What he say? You don't think that's arrogant? Yeah, but what do he say to you if you don't vote for me, you

ain't black? That's still his mindset. No, you're right, you're right. He's still he still think y'all nigga gonna go out there. Well, they asked him about his ambitions for twenty twenty four, so that's why he addressed it. He was questioned about it. Listen, I'm gonna vote because you know that's just and I'm gonna tell everybody else to get out there and vote and don't let them suppress your vote. There I am. I'm telling everybody, y'all need to get out there and vote.

I want everyone to exercise their right. I'm going to vote because I'm trying to take away from us because of the power that we have. Yeah, but even when we do vote, they get in and don't do anything. But I'm gonna vote because I'm a taxpaying American citizen. But for anybody out there who feels like they don't

want to, I understand why. But you, I mean, you still have to have top people feel like, you know, I don't like you, don't you know what because a lot of people tell me you vote right, They don't want to vote for about it? They don't feel Biden represents them, but they don't want to vote Republicans. So what do they do? No, they feel like these people don't getting anything. Not voting for that people are feeling

like they're not getting anything done. When you know what I hate is the fact that we're always putting pressure on the voters to get things done. When we're gonna put pressure on them to get things done. They running around here saying, oh, you got to vote like democracy depends on it. When y'all gonna govern like democracy depends on it. Why do we always got to have the sense of urgency? Why not them should be I think

it should be both. I think that if you don't vote, then we got hard on people who who say things like, man, I don't want to vote because I don't feel like nothing's getting done. Then we do the people who are actually in positions of power right now, you know, not doing anything. Not Dowers. He's still on the campaign trailing. He's the president. You also have to look at your local elections though, I agree with that, so you have to get out vote. You're not just voting for the president.

And it's mid terms. I agree with that. You have to get out there and vote. And I would never encourage people not to or tell them you feel discouraged. You have to do your part. You feel discouraged, because that's your part, and your part is awesome. I mean, you can feel discouraged, but don't not discouraged. That's what democracy is about. Democracy is about challenging these elected officials. The marcacy is telling them that we don't feel good

about what's going on. What you mean and get out there and speak, and you have to make sure that your vote. You vote for people that you feel like represent you and then put the pressure on them. And it is important too for us to also strategize come together and make sure that we make demands and make sure our voices are heard. But if you're not voting, they don't care about you. If you're not voting, it's

the same most on. They don't care about this. When we do vote, I have some local officials who I really local. Yes, I'm hyperlocal. I'm hyperlocal. I agree with that. So that's all about voting. So so you mean vote vote on a local talking about mid terms right now? Right? Midterms coming up? I thought we were talking about him saying setting up. I thought he's his next turn in between twenty four. That's what I thought we were talking about.

We're talking about both though, I mean midterms. That what's coming up next? All right, and that is your front page. Like I said, you know, I don't see how he plans, you know, to winning the mid terms. I really don't when when when voter rights legislation hasn't been passed, they're making it hard for black people to vote, and he hasn't gotten any of his campaign promises done to black people. I don't know how they checks a high vote, the

black turnout. They're making it high press to vote because of how important voting is. So don't be discouraged and not vote because that's what they want you to do. That as a form of voter suppression when they tell you know those is a form of vote depression. When you got people in power who promise things and they don't get those things done, that's a form of voter suppression too, because it discourages voters. Did not come out, Ladies, ladies, ladies,

Thank you so much. Later. The problem now when we come back, shock us and Goal will be joining us. So right, New York Times best selling. Of course, he's the author of writing My Wrongs, and he has a new book, let Us to the Sons of Society, a fall, this invitation to love, honesty and freedom. We're gonna talk to him next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club, a breakfast club. Your morning's will never be the same morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne,

the guy we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed he's back, the brother Shaka and Man. Thank y'all so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Welcome back. Brother. First of all, how were you doing with COVID and and everything that's been going on in this crazy world. I'm blessed just you know, taking it one day at a time. You know, I think I got a very unique experience that kind

of prepared me for these isolated moments. So I've been good man, just really taking opportunity to be more creative, more thoughtful about life, more present with the people in my life, and taking it one step at the time. But I'm ready for it to be over, to get back to living freely. I don't think the world as we know it's never gonna be the same. Because Shaka was here before, he was talking about his book Any of My Wrongs, and now he has another, Yes, Letters

to the Sense of Society. And when you reference COVID and isolation, I saw you were talking about how when you were locked up in seven years you spent in solitary confinement and the comparison to COVID. Yeah, I mean, you know, I think it's very different. But I think one of the things, and I actually talk about it in the book, that similar is the kind of disoriented effect of not knowing when something is going to end or normalize. And people was like, well, how would you

compare that those two things. But when I was in solitary, my senses was indeterminate, so they never told me when I was getting out. And I think the same thing as kind of happened early. Always was like, oh, we'll be done with this in a couple of months, we'll be done maybe six months, and you know, we're almost two years later and we still don't know. So it just kind of makes it hard for you to put

your feet onside ground. And I wanted to be sensitive to the reality that people were facing with so that people can get themselves grace and understand that it's a real thing. It's not something then that they're matching and as difficult. It really is difficult. That makes perfect sense to me, Like it sounds like the perfect analogy. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, I mean, but I guess if you've never been in solitary confinements, yeah, I mean, this is not quite solitary.

You know, we still can get real food and all those things. But I think psychologically what happens, and I mean, you know, you talk a lot about mental health, which I really respect, but mentally what goes on is the

most important. Pardon you know, I tell people all the time, like I got free from prison mentally before I ever walked out of prison, and it's one of the reasons I'm able to do some of the things that I do now because that recognition that the worst prison will ever be in as our mind was something I was able to acknowledge early on in my incarceration, and that helped me get through a book. Yeah, Letters to the Sons of Society, A father's invitation of love, honesty, and freedom.

What does that mean? I mean, you know, as as a dad, I've had two very unique experience, which is crazy when you think about it. Yes, it's it's wild. Yeah, when I was arrested, my oldest son's mom was still pregnant with him, so he was born like six months after mind carceration, and so I only experienced fatherhood with him through my dad bringing my son to visit me,

you know. And so basically I kind of made up this narrative about being a good dad and being a prison dad because I was able to write letters and get phone calls, but I wasn't able to really spend the time that's necessary to nurture a child through the world. And you know, now I had this wonderful experience of raising my now ten year old son, say cool, he's a young entrepreneur, he's creative, very intelligent, and it's dramatically different, you know, But I'm also different too as a man,

Like I'm a grown man. When I went to prison, I was a nineteen year old kid, and so you know, this book really is a reflection of those experiences, but it's actually a little bit deeper. You know, I mentor young people all over the country. You know, you go through what I've been through with prison, where I spent nineteen years of my life, and most of the guys I spent time with were kids, and so for me, you know, working with young men across the country, I'm like,

this is the book I want to write. So I start off like letters to my hip hop songs, letter to my young entrepreneurial sons. And then I realized between all the young men that I get a chance to mentor existed my two sons, and I felt that intimacy would come through more if I just wrote directly to them about life and what I've experienced, but also what I whispered them and dealt with some of the issues that were faced with What is your oldest son. How

is your relationship with him? Because you know him being the older now he's looking at you and your younger son right now, and how the fact that you could be there and that you are at his games and you are helping him with his homework and all those things. But I mean, I'm sure he feels like, damn, I wasn't. I didn't have that part of my dad. So how is your relationship? I mean it's very complex. You know,

my oldest son is now thirty years old. And when I came home and I talked about it, one of the one of the most impactful chapters I think that people really going to resonate is to first resonate with is the first chapter, because it really explains the complexity of coming home to a young man and trying to insert my life and myself into his life as his dad. And really I came home as a mentor, Yo, this is how we're gonna do it. We're gonna make these

things happen. And yeah, and it wasn't fair to him, you know, it wasn't fair for me to come home because the story I had was contracted to the reality of being in prison. And so it's been it's been a very difficult. It's probably been the most complex part of my life and the hardest thing I've ever had to confront as a man. And that's where the honesty and then the title comes from, is as dads, oftentimes we're not honest, whether it's honest about the things that

are positive or honest about our shortcomings. And I really wanted to create space for fathers to really have honest discussions, especially when we think about what's happening with black males in our communities. Well as you talk about what you did do when you came home, and your son obviously felt like, well, you can't just come and change my life and tell me what to do now because you

haven't been present as a father. So a lot of people have had to deal with that when they get out of jail because we don't even think about that, right, what is that relationship? Like? Can I just step back in nineteen years later as a dad and tell you how to do things when you've been doing things your own way? So what advice do you have forefathers out there who are trying to get back into their children's life.

My advice is always to take the you know, the guidance of a child, because you know, we owe them. They don't know us anything, and I think it's really important to be patient, to give yourself grace, but also to acknowledge that you know it was your decisions that took you out of their life and not their decision to not be present. And so what I've tried to do is just be patient and be you know, allow him to kind of set the tone for our engagement

with no expected outcomes. And I've really detached my ego from parenting, not just with him, but also with my youngest son. And what about with the mom too, because that's also an issue because now you want to make

sure that you have this time. And if you know at first your son isn't comfortable or certain things are going on, because we've had people call up here with issues like that, Well, you know, the mom is has a new boyfriend, she's moved on, she's done this, and I need this to happen for me with my son and she's not helping with the relationship. How did that dynamic work? I mean, I think that one was a little bit more complex because my dad really stepped in

and kind of filled the gap. So to speak. So he and my oldest son's mom, they kind of had almost like a parent child relationship. You know. He stepped in, you know, as as my dad is just incredible. He's a really incredible human being, and so he kind of raised her. You know. So by the time I came home, my son was grown, so we didn't have to have as much engagement, but there were moments, you know, And again I talked about it in that first chapter where I had to reach out to her like, Hey, this

is what's happening with me and him. And I'm not trying to go back to the old way that I was living, but I will if, you know, if I get pushed to that point. And so just being able to have that understanding what her was really important. Health. Yeah, I was super triggered. We had a we had a very intense moment. Someone wasn't going down the right path

and use it well. Now we got into like a real conflict, and it happens often, you know, especially with guys coming home from the joint, Like i'ven't been in the joint, on the yard, thugging it out, going through all the violent realities of that and that experience and what I didn't account for is I hadn't healed from that PTSD, And so there was a moment when me and my son got into a conflict and he physically threatened me, and I told his mom, like, you know,

you need to holly him because otherwise I'm gonna take him over here and leave him in his field. And something actually happened where we thought. That's what went down with my son, And that's what I talked about in that first chapter. All right, we got more. We shot us and goal when we come back, don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning, every envy angela yee. Charlemagne, the guy we are the Breakfas Club was still kicking

it with Shatkus and Gore. You know, he's a New York Times bestselling author for writing My Wrongs and has a new book called Letters to the Sons of Society, A Father's Invitation to love, honesty, and freedom. Charlemagne, how long did it take you to get out of that survival mode of fighting? Like I got to protect myself at all time. I wanted to take you to get

out of it. Actually, that that experience with my son was the first time I had really really realized that I hadn't fully processed all that out of my system, you know, when I was when I did that last stretch in solitary, I just came out focused on life at the prison, and I didn't First of all, I didn't know if I was ever getting out, but I had wrote down all the things I wanted to manifest in my life, because I believe you attracted your life what you think about the most, and so I started

living my life in that way. But it's still the big yard, and I still was who I am on the yard, so I had to navigate that first. And I was fortunately, you know, like I had reached that status or respect where I didn't have to deal with all the conflicts. But it also set me up for the reality of what happens when you get home and nobody cares about your transformation when you're in the hood. Nobody cares that you're thinking about peaceful resolution as opposed

to taking it back to the block. And so after that experience with my son, I really was like, I actually need therapy to really process like what I've been through because a lot of it was being covered up with achievements. Right I got out I was successful relatively early on. You know, I've achieved, you know, probably an exceptional level of success in pretty much all the endeavors I set out to do, and that covered up what was actually the reality is that I was in prison

for nineteen years. I was in solitary. Nobody leaves that place without scars. And it doesn't matter if you've been in there for one day or ten days or ten years. That place scars you in a way that shows up in different areas of your life later on, and you're retelling those stories over and over again, like you said in interviews, and talking about the book and reliving it

all the time. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, when when writing My Wrongs came out, you know, I was on tour, I was doing all the things I had, you know, the conversation with Oprah and you know, all the things that come with promoting a product. But then I also

was a sought after speaker. I had to did a ted talking like twenty fourteen and from their universities in schools, and so I'm just constantly talking about what I actually went to prison for, which was murdered, and I had never reconciled that, you know, And so I found myself in this in this real dark space, and it kind of culminated with me driving down the wrong side of expressway drunk one night and I was like, yeah, I'm about to throw it all away, and that's when all

the things that started coming back, like, yo, you you've been traumatizing a way that you haven't been honest about because who the hell talks about PTSD, posting cars, rady. We're just happy to get out, celebrate, had the parties, get back to living, or you know, this dream be concocted, But the reality is a lot of us come home deeply scarred. And it's really you know, you think about those stories of somebody coming out and then they can

create or commit a heinous act of violence. We're like, see, we should have left for men. But the reality is we have to ensure that people are getting the therapeutic treatment so that they can't come home healthy and hole. Because you could you tell people how important it is for folks who have done you know, a lot of prison time to get mental health treatment. Cause always say they call these facilities correction facilities, but you're not correcting nothing.

In order for a person to get out and not just operate out of that survival mentality. They need help, you know, And we have to destigmatize what mental health treatment looks like, especially for black males. It's not a weak thing. It's not something that makes you a suck or you solve. It's really healthy to be able to process the things that you're thinking about in a way that isn't harmful to your community, is harmless to your family.

And you know, when you come out of a environment that violent, you've been infected by that, you know your own edge. Like I mean, my first part of my incarceration, I was at the Myxican informatory is called the Gladiator of the school. You know, my first week, my first actual day in prison, a guy gets stabbed in the neck and he keep it moving. I'm like, okay, well, this is what it is. This is where we're at. This is the land of the lions and the lambs.

And you make a choice early on, and like that doesn't leave just because you walk out of prison, Like it doesn't leave just because you get parole. Those realities are still there, and so you know, I think it's it's exceptionally important for anybody who's been through that to get, you know, psychological evaluation first of all of their mental health treatment. You know you said something earlier that you know, when your son was older, you figured that you would

have to fall back for a little bit, right. I have two sons, and what made me really think about that is, you know, as a kid, when your dad tells you to do something like, you're mad, like why is he making me do this? Right? Then when you get older, you understand why, you know. But you know what scares me sometimes is, you know, thank god I went the right way where I didn't have to I didn't have to learn. He was telling me no. So hard does that ever scare you with your kids? You know?

I mean, because, yeah, you have to fall back. You gotta let your son learn on his own, and one day he'll get to the age of black. I understand what my dad was doing, but it's always that fear of what if he goes the wrong way? You know, what if he goes that takes that wrong turn, or does that stupid thing. You know, he might not get

that grace, that empathy. Yeah, I think you know. The way that I've approached parenting is I honestly have egoist parenting because I realized that whatever outcomes my son you know, has in life, those will be based on choices that he made. So my response will be, as his dad is to set up all the resources necessary, the guiding principles,

but ultimately he's gonna have to choose. And I based that on you know, my experience with my dad and knowing that my dad, you know, wanted the best for me, and he wanted the best for all of his kids. But there are things that I transpired in my live life that my dad didn't even understand how to help me process, which led to me running away, led to

me getting caught up in the streets. And you know, one of the one of the things that was really important with me and my dad was for me letting him know that he wasn't responsible for the decisions I made that led to me being in prison, and that was a liberating moment for both of us. And so with my son, I just do egoists parenting, Like, you know, I provide the resource of the opportunities, and ultimately he's going to have to make the decisions. And like I

don't have any ego attest as outcomes. Why why is the relationship with our fathers so complicated, because that's that's the one thing, you know, for me, even when I started going to therapy for anxiety and depression realizing all these father issues I had. Why Why is that so complicated that relationship? You know, I think there's a few

things that has happened, specifically with black Man. For one, our narrative has been shrunken to us only being capable of providers, and if there was any struggle with provision, then that's a direct attack on manhood, and any other male figure is a threat to that, you know. With my dad, my dad, when he met my mom, she had three children. He is just out of the Air Force twenty one years old, so he went straight into

provision mode. And then they had three more children. And I have a deeper appreciation now as I have one son, to just realize how hard it is to be a provider. But I think because that narrative has been so limiting, it hasn't allowed us the opportunities to have real meaningful conversations. And what happened with me and my dad is probably about you know, four or five years into my car's ration, I started really maturing and we were able to just

have deep, meaningful conversation. It was all through letters, which is the inspiration of the book. And these are actually my daddy, my dad. I'm like my daddy, my daddy's letters. These are actually his letters on the book because I really wanted to honor how he showed up in that meaningful way. But you know, I think that the more honest we are with what our emotional needs are, but also with our ability a teacher to provide beyond, you know,

finances and discipline. I think the more we open up those conversations, the better relationships become between our fathers and son. All right, well the movie got more with Shaka to goal. When we come back as the Breakfast Club, God Morning and I don't want to morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Ngul Yee Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast

Club were still kicking it with Shakas and Gore. You know, he's a New York Times bestselling author for writing My Wrongs and has a new book called Let Us to the Sons of Society, A Father's Invitation to love, honesty and freedom. Yee Chaka, can you talk about how instrumental your father's support was for you while you were in prison, because imagine not even having that, you know, I mean, my dad was my primary supporter. We don't we don't hear that story. You know. For nineteen years, my dad

came to see me at prisons all over Michigan. I think the farthest I've ever been away was about twelve hours, and he and my stepmom and they would travel up to see me. You know, he wrote me consistently. I still have all this letters. Um. You know, he took those phone calls. You know, he you know, was present with the real conversations. You know, there was a lot

of hurt that we both shared. You know, there was a lot of areas of life where I felt, you know, he hadn't stood up, you know, the way that I thought he could have to protect us and make sure we were good when it came to things that was difficult in the household. And he was just man enough to listen and to give us a perspective and to give me a perspective, and we were able to talk. And so, you know, I celebrate him and everything that

I do. You know, that's my guy. The proudest part of this book is just having his words like to my son on there, you know, um, And because I think dads deserved their flowers, you know, and they deserve more than the big piece of chicken. What did you learn about your relationship with your father? You know from from the letters he sent you while you in prison? Man, you know, I learned that I had broke his heart, you know, and that was that was crushing to me.

Like I was an honor rolled scholarship student, I was smart, very charismatic, like all the things you know, you were wanted a child, and I really learned that I broke his heart, and that was the hardest thing for me

to navigate, you know. As I've matured into a man, and especially as I've grown into a dad, and you know, I think about moments with my son where I'm watching him, you know, navigate life, and you know, I'm thinking of all the promise that he has, you know, and I think about my dad and what that experience was like for him to watch his first biological son in an environment where he couldn't protect, he couldn't help, he couldn't

do anything other than listen. And I remember this one moment when when I was in solitary, I wrote this letter home, and I told my dad. You know, I was in solitary for a SOLAN officer, and you know, I told my dad, I said, you know, these people said I'm never getting out of prison. And they said I'm never getting out of solitary. And I believed it because my neighbor across me had been a solitary for twenty years. My neighbor next door had been a solitary

for ten years. And I told my dad, I was like, man, you know, I really just want you to go on with your life and take care of Jay and you know, take care of family, and I'll figure this out in here, you know. And my dad wrote me back, he was like,

I'd never leave your side, you know. And so I, you know, as as a man, as a dad, now I understand exactly what that meant, you know, And I understand how heartbreaking it was for him to have to be in a situation where the only thing he had was the letters that he could send me to nurture me and support me. And I read those letters over and over. Man, doing my toughest moments, I would just go back to those letters and read him. So when when you when you went to prison. Did he feel

like he failed? Oh? Absolutely, it was. It was heart broke. He felt like it was his his faut. He felt like there was something that he didn't do or something that he missed. And I think, you know, all of us as parents played Monday Monday Monday Morning quarterback where we kind of go back like, you know, oh, if I would have did this, the outcome would have been

doing um. But you know, we had a moment and I think it was nineteen ninety five, and this probably was the hardest visit I've ever been on with my dad. I was in solitary for something different at that time, and they had me shackled up, like the handcuffs on but also the shackles on my feet, and I'm literally walking up to the windom. I see my dad looking at me, and I see him trying to hold it together,

you know what I'm saying. But it's hardest breaking. Like I'm literally like shackled up, like I just got off you know, a ship, you know what I'm saying, that that held our ancestors in slavery, you know, and you know, just watching him process that and try to figure out how to bring me a sense of piece, you know, the little jokes, the little conversation, you know, so that doing it was doing that visit that we had the conversation where he thought he was responsible and I was like,

I was like, nah, Like you know, there was a series of things that happened, like I was dealing with PTSD, I got shot seventeen months before I ended up shooting and taking somebody's life. What about the art of writing, because you said your dad still writes letters to this day. What would you say to people, because it's not something that people do too often, but it means so much. I think it's one of the greatest forms of communication,

you know. I think the intimacy that's required for you to really sit and be present and think about what you want to share with another human being, it's just so powerful, you know, because it allows you to reflect deeply. And you know when I when I first came up with ideas I mentioned, I was thinking about writing like

all the sons I've encountered. But when I sat down and I started writing, you know, I saw the faces of my boys, you know, I heard their voices, and I thought about little mannerisms and you know, the beauty of who they are, you know, I closed the end of it, you know, the book out with one of the passage I think is one of the most beautiful, and it just talks about how the swagger of their you know, their nature and how they walk to earth,

you know. And I think it's so important for black boys, especially in these times, to really hear that from their dads, you know, and from other men, and that we have to firmed them and lift them up. And so that that intimacy of writing um, you know, it was really refreshing, you know, and it was actually healing for me as well, because what I realized is that we always here we have to change the narrative around black men, and I

don't believe that to be true. I think we just have to expand the narrative to include all of who we are, like not just not just our negative moments. You know. One of my mentors, Trabian Shorters, he always talks about how we have to start asset framing each other and thinking about what is the most positive aspects of us. And in my experience, like all my friends are dope dads, you know, the friends I talked about in the book, my guy Fame, I think i'd tell

y'all he came to your car. So he brought that big red caprice. Uh. My guy Calvin, who I met, my best friend I met in prison. He was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My guy Calvin, who did twenty four years for crime he didn't commit. Uh, you know, he's been out now. So these are these are my guys. They're like dope

as you know, my brothers, my cousins. So I'm used to seeing men who show up, and so I just think we had to expand a narrative and clue all of us because if you think about this, right, what if my story would have stopped at nineteen ninety one, You know, I wouldn't be one of the only C

suite tech execs in Silicone Valley. I wouldn't be one of the only formally incarcerating investors, a best selling author, you know, a dad community builder like I wouldn't have been none of these things of my narrative would have stopped back when people was okay with defining me from that moment. You know, I've lived tons of life in the eleven years i've been out, you know, and so my narrative has expanded and I've been able to contribute

in a real way. And so I think we have to just expand a narrative for black men and especially amongst each other, like seeing each other as more than what we've accomplished, you know, seeing a humanity of who we are and all we're capable of. And so that's what you know, I really wanted to present in the book. Shocker led us to the son of society, invitation to love, honesty, and freedom. We appreciate you for man, appreciate you all. Man,

it's been love. Got some fantastic blurbs too. Oh yeah, yeah, we can embarrass Angela rd, Ben Horrowich Van Jones. Yeah, my guy, Ben. Shout out to Ben. That's my bro. Leo. Put me on to the Silicone Valley Vibe. You know. Yeah, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, all right, morning, everybody is DJ R Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the room as let's talk our Las Vegas residency. This is the rumor report

with angela year now. This is a good one. Silk Sonic has announced that they are going to be doing a Las Vegas residency. They called it the sexiest party of the year and it's impact posted the terms are locked in Vegas might not ever be the same. Jack, You're invited to the hottest show in Sin City. Hit the Lincoln Bio and get your tickets now. So that thirteen date residency starts on February twenty fifth. The last show was April second. I'm going to see that. They

seem like they built for Vegas. It's like I can Stilksgnic is a Vegas group groping include Bob for Silksgnic, you know what you shoot like the album got slept on because it was an incredible album. I did. I really like it. I was definitely vibing to it in the car, like it just came and went. Like people didn't really gravitate towards that project the way they should at I gotta see what those numbers was looking like. All right, And Farrell has announced a new lifestyle and

designed forward project with David Gretman. You know he's Miami based at doing a new resort part of the Atlantis Paradise Island. So that's gonna open in twenty twenty four. It's gonna be about four hundred rooms and suites, multiple restaurants and bars, along with recording studios. Shout to Farrell Man. He's been doing a lot with David Gretman. I know they get that hotel in Miami, so he's he's doing a lot of shout to Farell what up? Seven five to seven m That sounds dope. I haven't been to

the behind. I haven't been. I feel like I haven't been anywhere in a minute, all right now. Antonio Brown was on the I Am Athlete Show with x NBA starting Nick Young and former first round NFL draft pick Jared Odrick, and they talked about his future in the league and whether or not he has any regrets about how he ended things with the Buccaneers. Here's what he had to say about his mental health, because he said a lot of fans and experts have been referring to

him as quote crazy. Everyone in the world got different former reactions or what happened to him, and it's all based upon where are you from, how you feel, and no one only gonna know that regards of who you is. The thing with football players, mental health and CT is this these guys are willing to do whatever it takes to make some obligator game. But they're in the midst of those games, they're being mistreated. It's a lot of facts, stuff that went on that may not been handled right.

And then you and then you started your career on a high. If we all players and we all saying we care about mental health, why every time something happened bad or how song react, Oh he's craziest song. Wrong with his mental health. It's not wrong my mental health. Yeah. I think it's because a lot of folks are still just learning about CT. So whenever they see, you know, any actions that they made, Deem is crazy, they already automatically assuming just because he's a football player, you know,

something's wrong with him and in that regard. And people also don't know what goes on behind the scenes, so all they see is what happened. They don't know what led up to it. Like he said, yeah, and that's how I feel through When I saw him on the sidelines, I'm like, yeah, he looked like he just made a choice. To me, he didn't like he was having no mental breakdown. He just made a choice. I was just waiting to see what he had to say about it later before

you pass judgment. He was out all right now. Fat Joe was also on the Iromathlete podcast and he was talking about basically fake friends and getting rid of them and what his plan was. So we had fifty guys with me, We all had the same Cabillac truck, we all had changed. Everybody go to jail a bellam, I pay for the lawyer. This, this, this, that one time I said, all fifty of them together. We was at the Rich Carlton in Puerto Rico, and I say, you listen, man,

she ain't the same. I ain't got it. And I had it when I was checking out. Of the fifty guys that was dead, only six of them saying, Yo, if your dad broke, I'll be with you man, no matter why. Every day those are six guys that's still with me. Now. So God put that in my head and say, yo, try these dudes, man, See they really

with you. They wasn't really with me all right. In addition to that, he was talking about jay Z and the lyrics from Feeling It, the hardest lyric in hip hop jay Z's first album, when he said something something and we will be each other's crutches. So the point is this, everybody want to be the guy everybody look up to. There's no real strength in that. The strength is everybody eating. So if one of us falls, we

can left him up. Whether your friend is a barber, we want them to be the best barber in the world. We need to be the best so that when we need each other, somebody's dead for right all then, And that's the true power, the people power. Joe is absolutely right. But Joe, you can't something something that scripture. Well here's you can't do that. If everybody in your click is rich, your click is rugged, we have it for you. Ring your click is rug nobody because everyone will be scrut

I hope you boost choose to listen. Bus these are the rules I follow with my life. You gotta love it. Come on, Joe, you can't Joe ain't talking about large money. Joe, you can't something something scripture? What's the point that's scripture? Joe? All right, Well, in the next hour will tell you more about what fat Joe had to say. One of the things that he discussed is who, no matter what, is his favorite rapper? Can we play that jay Z song? Can we pull that out right fast? You do what

you want to do? All right, let's do what what's your name? Give him? Come on? Can you find it? Kind of questions to play no music, So let's tease the donkey. Who you when you don't get to come on? Right? You got President Joe Biden, Joe Mansion, and Kristen Cinema, President Biden, President Mansion and vice President Cinema all getting dunkey to day this morning. There's no feeling it. We ain't got a damn well, come on, permission you look back.

You better to ask for forgiving us informission. Yeah, come on, I guess we're not feeling it. No, I guess their crews not rugged nod well, we fell guys definitely felt this before. Damn it man. Now really I'm trying to know. It's not all right, dunkey. The day is up. Next it's the breakfast Club. Come morning, So breakfast Club, your morning's will never be the same. Our Audible pick of the day is the perfect day to boss up. This

is Rick Ross's guide to building your own empire. Now listen up your first dirty days of Audible or free when you sign up at audible dot com slash Breakfast Club. This is miracles. There is no question that there are problems in this country between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey to the latest on that police killing of a black man. Not a new developments in the deathly spashooting rampage. Yes, it was a really bad day for him and this is what he did, and so

we are in a state of emergency. Okay. White supremacist violence is always have been the number one threat to outside. But I'm also very proud that my wife was white because the practice club bitches slight running. Please tell me why was I the other day? Hey, donkey to day for Thursday, January twenty feth go to the forty sixth President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, as well as Arizona Senator Kursten Cinema and West Virginia Senator

Joe Mansion. These three are collectively responsible for the deaf of the Democratic Party as we know it. Okay, Joe Biden and other Democrats love to run around and say we have to go out there and vote like democracy depends on it. People are asking if we are witnessing the death of democracy in America. Will guess what if it is, which I believe it is. For some of us.

These three are to blame, simple as that. Okay, if you haven't heard, last night, Democrats came up short on a last ditch held Mary type of effort to advance the voting rights bill. Let me tell you something. You all know that your uncle Charlotte is a diehard Dallas

Cowboy fan. Okay, and I shut up. And I really thought that Sunday night, watching my Dallas Cowboys down twenty three seventeen with fourteen seconds left in the game and Dak Prescott running a draw play from the forty one yard line instead of maybe getting one of possibly two shots at the end zone off, I thought that was gonna be the dumbest finish I would see this week. But President Biden said, hold my prove juice. All right now,

I'm gonna keep this as simple as possible. Since the last summer nineteen states have enacted thirty three laws that will make it hard for Americans to vote by Americans, I mean negas, all right, the Blacks, all right. All these geop sponted state laws will suppress turnout by minority voters. This is an old tune, ladies and gentlemen, I write voter suppression by the GOP against black people is the greatest hit, all right, a golden od kids, trust me,

it would break off screaming records. It is the ed sharing shape of view of American politics. All Right. President Biden knew that going in and after the attempted coore of this country on January six, that should have been his first order of business, protecting voting rights. I've told y'all so many different times on this here, radio and on other platforms, on TV and everything else. There's three or four things Joe Biden had to do to protect democracy. Okay,

this morning, I'll give you three. One. Prosecute everyone involved in the attempted cool of this country to the highest extent of the law, not just the members of Vanilla Isis who stormed the Capitol, but the members of Congress who helped him to get rid of the filibusters. So you can properly govern in three protect voting rights. Voting rights. But guess what, none of those things have happened. Okay.

I never understood why anyone thought it would. I mean, if you have the GEOP passing, you know, the thirty three laws in nineteen states and support a voter suppression, why would anyone in their right mind think that you could work with any of those people to pass voter rights legislation. It makes no sense. Republican politicians are the epitome of unity and group operation. They fall in line with each other, and if one doesn't fall in line,

they get the business okay. Last week on NPR, Donald Trump called Mitch McConnell a loser and blamed him for the GOP senators who won't go along with his claims that the election was stolen. Last week, he also caught out Arizona Republican officials for accepting the twenty twenty election results and called them rhinos Republicans in name only. Why did Trump do that because those individuals blocked his agenda kept him from getting done what he wanted to get done.

That's what you should do when people in your own party are blocking your agenda. Now we all know Trump is doing that for self serving reasons. So if you can call out people in your party for self serving reasons and everyone is fine with it, then why can't President Biden call out Joe Mann and Kristen Cinema for blocking his agenda when them blocking his agenda is actually hurting the American people. Okay, if you ask me, it's

because he don't care Black people. Voting is simply not a priority for Biden, matching our cinema, simple as that this should have been a priority. He had to notice day would come, but he didn't care. Why. My man Sean King said it best on Instagram last night, because Joe Biden has never known to day in his life what it means to have his voting rights threatened. All right, does a matter of white privilege for Biden. He failed to give this issue the true energy and priority that

it deserved because he simply can't relate. Same with Cinema in Mansion, they have never experienced their voting rights threatened, and they don't need you negroes to win elections, so why should they care, well, Mansion in Cinema, why should they care? Biden needs to care. By the way, we knew that jig was in when last year GOP legislators praised Mansion and Cinema for not getting Ridy to fill abuster because without that they would be dead meat. Let

me play this for you again. I played it for you a few times last year, but now that y'all might be paying a little bit more attention. This is GOP legislators praising Joe Mansion and Cinema but basically being on their side. This was last year. Listen. Fortunately for us to filibuster still in effect in the Senate. Without that, he would be dead me. But thank goodness for Cinema and Joe Mansion. Yeah, I just really thank you for saying for the country. You know, all of you in

the shroom, people at home on zoom. Let me tell you right now, if you want to do one thing to keep the republic aflow. Called Joe Mansion's office, called Curson Cinemas on Cristin Cinema's office, be polite. He's like, Hi, I'm here to talk to us Senator Joe Mansin and thank him. We're keeping the filibuster attacked. Mmmm. Those are GOP legislators. Didn't even when they were being recorded, all right. Joe Biden gave a statement yesterday after the failed vote

to change the filibuster. He said, let me reach some of it. He said, I am profoundly disappointed that the Senate has failed to stand up for our democracy. I am disappointed, but I am not deterred. We will continue to advance necessary legis slation and push for Senate procedural changes that will protect the fundamental right to vote. End quote. I don't know if it's because he's old or maybe he really doesn't care, but I never hear the sense

of urgency. It's literally always more urgency for us to go out there and vote than it is for elected officials to protect voting rights. All you're about to hear for the next however, many months before the midterms, is how we have to have the largest voter turnout in the history of the midterms in order to protect democracy. How we have to vote like democracy depends on it, but they never ever govern like democracy depends on it.

You are gonna hear you have to go out there and vote, because if votes didn't matter, why are they fighting so hard to take them from you? Yes, that is true, but you know what else matters when you're an elected official getting things done. When you're an elected official who keeps campaign promises, you want me to get up and fight through all these various voter suppression efforts, in some cases literally fight to keep an administration in that had done what they said they were going to do,

not keeping campaign promises as a form of voter suppression. Okay, now let me tell you something. I'm gonna vote in the midterms and the presidential election. I don't know who I'm voting for. I don't even know what I'm voting for yet, but I'm going to vote. Okay, But if you don't want to, I understand. And for all the folks out there who are going to push people to vote, like actively go out there and campaign for folks, what are you going to tell them? That's what I want

to know. What are you gonna tell them? The Biden administration has armed you with nothing. Ten thousand for student loans that didn't happen. George Floyd Policing Act didn't happen, Bill Back Better didn't happen. Okay, voting rights didn't happen. All right, I know it's even a year, but none of those things have happened. But voting rights, the cornerstone of our democracy, didn't happen. And it's because the real leaders of this country, Joe Mansion and Christen Cinema Democrats, allegedly,

it's because they are false flagging. And since they are false flagging, are the Democrats gonna attempt to run them off the set. Are they going to run someone to challenge Joe mansion seat? What about christin cinema? I don't even know how that works, but I know when someone not really in your gang and they fall flagging you, let it be known. In all right, they won't even let it be known. They won't even call them out on how they help blocking progress because Democrats are willing

to try every political strategy except honesty and courage. The moral of the story is, and I really need to take a drink of water before I say this, because it's really been on my mind. The moral of the story is what I really want to say on this radio this morning. This is Nad McKelvey, Charlomagne and God talking. I just want Joe Madison to eat. Joe Madison is a radio personality on Serious XM, and him and some pastors they went on a hunger scrack until voting rights

was passed in Congress. I need you all to go get some shrimp and gritch right now. Okay, Joe Madison hasn't eaten in like sixty plus days, no solid foods until Congress passes voting rights. That's what Joe Madison said, Joe is time to eat. I don't know that brother, don't think I ever met him. But when I saw him on MSNBC over the holidays and I saw him saying he was on a hunger scrike until they passed bolting rights in Congress, first thing I thought was, Man,

those white folks don't care if you starve. Okay. Oh it was around the holidays when I saw him too, I said, damn, this is a hard time to not eat. And he's he's staking he's not eating on whether voting rights get passed. Listen, I applaud y'all faith in these people. But that Democrat diet, that fash is fast. It isn't healthy. So please go eat, brother Joe Madison, and all the pastors who went on a hunger scrick and tell volting

rights pass, please go eat. Get a big meal this morning, some scrimping grits, all right, maybe some corn, beef, hash and eggs. Okay. I've really been thinking about y'all. I promised you last night. That was the first thing on my mind. I was in a few group chats telling folks that know y'all to please tell those brothers to

go eat. I would even cash at them some change for some breakfast or some lunch this morning, because voting rights, legislation and democracy may have died on the Senate floor last night, but we can't let y'all die from starvation. Two all right, so please let remy ma give President Joe Biden, Senator Christen Cinema, and Senator Joe Manchin the biggest he had. He ha he ha, you stupid mother?

Are you dumb? I'm sure this won't be the last movie discussing this, but but for real, Joe Madison, please go eat my brother. Please. It's Kanye running again and shut up? All right? Up next, asking Ye. And that's why these things happen. That's why they make movies like don't look up. Okay, but nigga like you curious of Kanye? You know what? You know what? You know what? Nigga, you don't deserve vote right or no food? Give me all your Chinese food after all, give me everything everything

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for asking. Morning everybody in stej Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. It's time for asking. Hello. Who's this this Joe Detroit? How's it going? And what I've done? Man? What's your question for? Easy? Yeah? Quick questions. So I'm I'm thinking this girl and she pretty much gave me the ultimatum, like, look, and we don't. If I can't move in, we can't be together no more? So what should I do? Should I? Should? I stand

the situation? I mean, I want to be with it, but it's like that you don't want to move in. That's just moving too fast to me, you know. But if she gives you an ultimatum and it's not something you want to do, you have to say no. How long you've been dating it though, about a year and now? Yeah? And that doesn't matter though, because if you don't want to move in with somebody, and she gives you an ultimatum, I saying, I can't be with you unless we move

in together. You can't compromise that. I mean, that's a big deal sharing space, and I think that you know what's the next move after that? If you're not ready, you can't let somebody force you into something. Yeah. See, I'm coming through in the same way. Like it was like one of those things. The first time she's going to my house. I woke up, she's going through all my stuff? Like what she was like, this is what I do. She's like, look, you know date needs. This

is what I'm going through your stuff. We gotta live together otherwise I'll find another dude to replace you. I'm like, wow, well it sounds like she needs a place to stay. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yeah, and imagine somebody even telling you that that sounds awful to tell you, Oh, if you don't let me move in with you, I'll find somebody else who will. That's not the type of

relationship you want to be in. Actually, I thought it was one of those situations where she was just, you know, basically playing hard to get or just I don't even know. Yeah, that sounds like some red flags. And let me tell you something. If you're moving with somebody who you don't want to be with, you can't even find peace at home. Imagine you don't even feel like coming home. She's going through your stuff and she's questioning everything that you do.

That's you know, home is like your peace you're having. You don't even want to have to deal with that. I appreciate that. I appreciate the advice much. Love y'all, much love y'all, y'all have a good morning. All right, half, I'm being single. Ask ye eight hundred five eight five one o five one if you need any type of advice calling now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I'm gonna keep for real some real advice with Angela yet ask ye morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Angela Yee,

Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of ask yee. Hello. Who's this Hey? My name is James, James. What's up? What's your question for? Easy? Hey? Man? First of all, I just want to say, man, I really really love you guys. You guys, do I listen to you? Guys all the time, every day. But UM, basically I just need some advice from going through some relationship troubles with my girl. UM start on the New year, she told me that she's feeling depressed and she doesn't

want to be together. She feels like she needs to be by herself. And it's just really hard for me because I feel the complete opposite. I really love this woman and I devoted my whole life to her, and I really thought she wasn't gonna be I was going to spend the rest of my life with. So I just need help getting through this man, Because well, if you love her and she's expressed to you that she's depressed, then you have to support how she is, if you

really love and care about her. Um, have you seen the signs of depression that she's talking about. I don't. I don't like I see that. Sometimes it feels like she struggles with what she's going on right now in life, Like like she just doesn't know the career that she's doing, if it's going off right, if if everything that we did, I guess we rushed into everything. We're both young. She's twenty six, I'm twenty thirty, Like I don't know it's

that please into a role of everything. But like I understand what you're saying, Like, you know, I have to support her, but it's still hard when I genuinely don't want to be away from her and I love her, you know. Yeah, And you know that's hard. And the best thing that you can do though is be patient. Right if it's meant to be and if you love her and she does truly love you, we have to be able to stand as individuals before we can be

in a successful relationship. And so I think for her, she needs to build herself up and do what she needs to do. All you can do is offer her your support and help. And when I mean help, I mean like maybe directed to some resources that you feel like might be good. Let her know that you care about her, whatever decision that it is that she makes. Let her know that you're there for her. You can be a friend right now, you know, like you said,

and you agree that you feel like you rushed into things. Yeah, okay, I mean under the circumstances that we were in. You know, I agree, like she had just gotten out of a bad relationship, right and her, and yeah, I feel like that could play a role into everything. Yeah, so she's not completely healed from that. Is she getting some type of help? Um, honestly, I don't. I don't know. I don't think so, just because she's always so busy. She's in she's in r ND school, trying to get her

r end. She's currently in open so she works all night overnight, and then in the morning she's at school and then she has to sleep, you know at some point, right well, any nice gestures that you can do for her, whether that's like sending her a breakfast or you know, just little nice things, maybe writing her nice messages, letting her know, but without being too pushy, because she has expressed to you she's going through something. She's told you

that she needs space, so you should respect that. But you can also, at the same time try to be supportive as a friend, because if you care about her, you care about her health and well being as well. No, yeah, I understand, Thank you, I appreciate it. Okay, I want to say it again. I really, I really love you guys. Thank you so much for everything you do. I really appreciate it. And Charlotte Maine man, you're the man and I love looking to you. Guys. Thank you, all right,

thank you. He seems like a sweet guy. Ask ye eight hundred five five one or five one? Now you got rumors on the way. And speaking of love machine Gun, Kelly talks about the ring that he designed for Megan Fox, her engagement ring and she can't take it off without hurting herself. All right, we'll get into that nextus to Breakfast. It's about this angela need the breakfast club. All right. Well, Fat Joe, like we were talking about earlier, was on

the I Am Athlete podcast. He was talking about getting rid of fake friends by pretending to be Brooke. He was also discussing the feeling a lyrics from jay Z and another thing he said is his favorite rapper is Yea, No matter what, Kanye is my favorite rapper in the world. I love him to death. What you mean he's your favorite rapper? He's my favorite rapper? Why you keep he been my favorite rapper? So but what I'm saying to you is and I won't turn my back on him

no matter what he doing? Right Kanye the allway, he's a genius. He's incredible and off. Okay, a lot of people were cool with they they don't vote like us. So they don't. They don't agree with everything, but we got with him. He made Jesus walks Jesus. I never heard fad Juley Kanye is his favorite rapper's and that was on Brandon Marshall's podcast. Right, what's the name of the podcast? I am athlete. I've heard fra Ju Nas

is his favorite rapper. M all right, Well, speaking of Nas, Nas has invested in African mobile games publisher carry First in a financing round, raising twenty million dollars. So he's joining other people in this investment. You know, he's been doing some amazing investments and so that hit. That's with his his venture capital firm, Queen's Bread Venture Partners. He's also invested in Dropbox, Left, rob My Head, coin Base, and things like that. So shout out to bomb for Nazil.

That's amazing, right. I think that does encourage other people too, because it is really your way to get it rich is to invest in these tech companies. And I know you may not be able to get in on that ground floor, but we've been talking so much about stocks and investments, so this is just one example of things that are possible. Now. One thing Evan, you just saw was TI and you said he was doing stand up comedy.

I've seen something the Jasmine Brand posted that. They said t I was doing a stand up comedy last night. I don't know. I didn't hear it or just seen enough thought it was interesting. Oh yeah, So that's not an easy thing to do, though, We've seen a lot of people hit that stage. So what I want to do is do we have the audio because this is something that just got posted on the Jasmine brand a few months ago. Back. No, it's no audio. A few minutes ago you met. Oh yeah, a few minutes ago.

So they said he just added stand up to his resume and he's just getting started, so that should be something interesting to see now. Bobby Schmirder was on million dollars worth of Game and they had a welcome home party for him. I know y'all saw this audio. Seemed like he was having an amazing time dancing with Gillian Willow, he fell off the couch and everything. But he also talked about the first thing that he did when he

came home, how was your welcoming home? Was? It? Was it like we're gonna be hunted like ten bitches that but like t after like six mines the jet, like two bitches smoked. Well, you just came home eating rolla right on the jet. Six years bro, six years from ain't nobody coming, Ain't nobody doing a half a decade and not come home eating? No. I think there's a bitch minimum. I don't know. I think it's like a two bitch minimum. You gotta stop believing. Want to clue

bum and dollars worth? That looked like a fun interview. Yeah, all right now. Taja posted this woman named Taja Riley and she was talking about the super Bowl halftime show. She posted a message that she had received and it says, hello, Taja, my husband told me that the Super Bowl is recruiting volunteers to dance for no pay. I also heard that production of the super Bowl halftime performance reached out asking if they had any dances on their roster who would

be interested in volunteering and performing for no pay. I'm surprised that Black La actually considered an email their roster of the super Bowl situation. They should have said no, especially because black was originally the main agency with an audition invite for Fatima and Adrian is paid dancers we saw the clothes call on their Instagram. This is all

bad now. Riley posted this on her page. Agent said, I'm sure I don't have to explain, but the super Bowl is the most profitable global sporting event on any given year. Why be cheap, especially on such an incredibly important performance honoring and showcasing African American talent? What do you guys think about that? With the super Bowl asking for people to just basically volunteer to dance for the halftime show and not paying the dancers. I mean they

can ask for whatever they want. You ain't got to do it. Yeah, they should pay to people though. You know, it's interesting, right, like because it's an opportunity, and if you're like an up and coming dance troop, you know what I mean, you might take advantage of that opportunity. Alien's eyes on you. It's kind of it's an investment in yourself. I'm not mad at it, you know, listen as I get it. It's business, right, so you always gonna try to get somebody hit too something for free.

But it is an opportunity, right. You can pay them a little something though, because as much money as they make, at least a day raid, But do they make that transportation If doctor Drake face for his own seting, I thought the artists pay for their own sets and everybody I'm thinking about that how much the super Bowl makes, but they're there. I think traditionally the super Bowl pays for your production and all of that, but they don't pay the artists because you get streams and you get

all kinds of promotion from that. I thought we read something he said he's paying for his own But traditionally what they do is they do pay for the poet. Yeah, super Bowl don't care about that. They don't give it that budget, whatever that budget is, and the rest is on that game. Listen. I'm a starting believing and recognize an opportunity when it's not a paycheck attached to it. So, I mean, you know, I wish they were offering some money, but if they're not, I don't know if that would

keep me from doing it. Just depends on, you know, how much visibility I want. I guess y'all do less for clout nowadays. I know, but this requires like rehearsals. I mean, it's real work. The super Bowl at time show It's really about what you want, all right, we do have we do have a clip of TI doing stand up. By the way, well, a friend from the house is six. Don't care ladies. Ladies cheap way better than us, So don't get into the day. Okay, cheap

cheating is a big game anyway. Okay, hold on, that's your okay, Ta ta, that's fine coming on a podcast. But no, not to stand up. If that's expeditiously live, I'm with it. You're doing stand up, you gotta sit down town. I just flow into town and tight. That's my guy. But if that's expediciously live, great. But if that's you're doing stand up, leave it the little dudeha man,

all right, that is mercy. I gotta starts somewhere. No, you don't not when you now, I'm saying, if you want to do stand up comedy, people do it because they all right, people who choice next up? Man, look into a buyin't hurt. It's the breakfast club, the morning wake up. You're checking out the breakfast club? Hey, what up, y'all? Is dj envy here? It's all fun in games. So someone screen shot your message, say goodbye to morning after

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do you want some dances to dance for free? And I'm gonna stern believer that. You know, you should always recognize opportunity when there's not a paycheck attached to it, because one opportunity to use wisely can change your life dramatically. So I guess my positive note is simply this man. It may cost you you know, it may cost you to invest in yourself, but always remember nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity breakfast club finish for y'all dumb