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Ain't the guy to breakfast club? Bitches? Did your time to get it off your chests? Whether you're man or blast so so you better have the same industry we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this Elijah from Raley Alija? Get it off your chest? Yo? Why is it kids don't want to go to HBC schools. I think because of publicity they get no shot on esp agin. First of all, what's the HBC school HBCU? You mean, bro? I know what you meant, see Hugh Charlemagne,

the gods smartest you forgot to you. I didn't know what you talking about whatever, But like, look, you don't see some colord of state on they don't get games. Espnuld play game. I agree, I agree with you, I definitely agree. Agree. It's up to you know what, though, it's up to those those those superstar athletes from those states. Somebody's gonna have to make the sacrifice to say, you know what, White Ice is not colder, and I'm gonna go to an HBCU. I'm gonna take my talents to

an HBCU. That's the only way they're gonna start getting A couple of them are doing. The young lady that went to baseball and another brother went to Howard he plays basketball. So there's a couple of them doing it though. Yeah, but still put the most kids want to shine. They want to they want school so they can get the complicity to see a household thing. But they don't get that. So I feel like ESPN should take the additiative to

have a game. They just ad TUUM schools so they could get some kind of shot, because it's not that's the reason one of them want to go. You're right, well, I agree with you, BT or revote, Maybe BT or revote you start d them games. I don't know how that works. I don't know how that works with TV contracts, but I do think it's I do agree with you, sir, Thank you brother. Hello, who's this? I said? What I'm getting off your chest? I just want to get off my test off on Pattison? And it's not for none

of the good looking people to do here. There's nothing to do in Patterson. No, not for the looking people. Not for the good looking people. Jerseys open. What are you talking about about Patterson? I want something about it? You mean, like you said, the good looking people, looking people. I can think of a million things for good looking people to do in Patterson. Number one is get robbed. Oh nod tonight. There's a lot of restaurants open in Patterson.

I go to Oili, Poole and spots already. Okay, So what else you want to do is coronavirus? Like if we're in the pandemic, read a book, you work. I'm saying after, I'm are you boring to raid in Patterson? Sir? H how old are you? I'm through? Man? See what you should have done is you should have got you some good education and you should have done good in high school, so you could have went off to college. I did, Oh you went to college. Yeah, you went

to school at college. Oh, okay, leave Patterson. It's okay to leave Patterson. Hello, who's this? You know? What's king in radway? South Carolina staff crew to that? What's get it off your chest? I I just can't round to take what's up with dollar? Man? I want to bless. I wanted to put in my freestyle report that time with y'all. Oh, I swear you wasther from South Carolina. Always shut this down. But go ahead, the head brother,

go ahead. I life did the same way. Sometimes I feel like I way go up to the same day trying to make a living man. I'm trying to make it out. I'm trying to make sure that my family dow. So we spitching that. So every day I hustled. Y'all pay to guard day watching me in the streets, and somebody would try to play man wady, so I keep my breaking low. Y'all give me your bag. You got down. You gotta slow that down, my South Carolina bredren. You're

going too fast, like what you're gonna? What's up? You're wrapping like your life depends on it. Drum. That's disrespectful drum. I was drum, drum, that's disrespectful. Don't hang up on my soft Carolina breaks back. It's all him now. Now you guys know, Envy's back and it's all him. Wow. He was like, Envy's back and it's all him. Wow. Goodness, damn Jesus Christ. Get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vet, hit us up now with the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. I'm I'm telling you if this is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eighty five one oh five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Okay? Good morning? Three lest Tita, how dj v hay what I'm good morning? How are you? I'm fine? Thank you. Last time I called Charlomagne, you wasn't there, but I'm glad to hear your voice. I had a

question for you, Charlomagne. Yes, man, why are you always why are you all always yawning in the microphone like that? Like why do you do that? Why do you do that? Y'all? Simple? Ye don't tell me because I'm tired because I wake up early in the morning. Don't tell me that, uh duh, it's sick something in the morning. No, you're not. You're not still yawning white. You're not still yawning wiping coal

out your eye and six something in the morning. So you went mute, don't know, abody want to hear all that. That's just to me. That's like somebody yawning right next to me in my ear. I was like, damn, sorry, what are you doing right now? You're like, oh, yeah, because if you're oh, I don't really know. Well, you're gonna hate to know that. I passed gas too sometime. Not in my clothes though, oh not. Yeah, yeah, you go to the bathroom, you pull your hands down right

well anyway, thank you. Oh one more thing, one more thing. Elijah McClean, Sandra Bland, Brianna Sailor. Let's do that right out like that. Hello, who's that? Just about to yawn before she said that, By the way, Hello, who's this? Hello? Hey? What's your name? Bro? Hello? Money making Mitch? How you're doing with money making? Mitch? You ain't making no money right now? You ain't making no money in a recession. You crazy cut it out, Charlomagne guard, how you making money?

Tell me how you making money by giving proper advice on how people should should be really cleaning the house. That's enough money for me to educate these people you're finessing. Of course, Um, if you really, really really want to kill as coronavirus or to all hospitals and everybody's home, just start from sterilization room. Start from the bathroom, then work your way out. Everything you use in the bathroom you should use around the whole apartment. Every hospital that's scared,

they have training. Wee. Sterility is important. So if you just expand your sterilization apartment and make the whole hospital strel then everything, every item, every equipment, every instrument can actually be used properly. All these money making Mitch, Let me ask you a question, will actually paying for this

advice of cleaning the bathroom clean your bathroom? Actually? I agree, I agree that you have to do sterilization, but you do know that it's transmitted from person to person right exactly, But it depends on how many people are in your house, and do you have a team that's doing sterilization. This is a family, this isn't people from next door to my house. How are you making many of this? Yeah? Many? Or you're talking about financial money. I don't need financial money.

I don't need know financers. I'm fine. Financial money is but yeah, my money is there. But financially I'm fine. But the other money is the other important money. That's is information. Knowledge is poss knowledge is currency. You mean you know so that so that right there alone, I'm saving lives by telling people. I saw it in the military. Seventeen years as a medical officer, I've done I've done the all forms of surgery. I've been in so many

different situations and we treat every patient. Now this is the coronavirus. We treat every patient as if they were HIZ. Now we have to treat every patients. I just they have HIV, corona um and all these other symptoms. That's that's that's that's pretty dope because now you have to stay on top of sterility to arrest of your life. You understand this is no waking call. What thank you brother for calling man? We really don't understand. But you know,

to each you're talking about that type of money. You're talking about financial money. What other money is there? I'm he he made, he made currency, that's all. What was this, Mike Man, Mike Man, what I'm getting about? Mike Man? I was man all this stuff? Man, Uh, you don't really man, years this man, you waited five years to tell us that. No. I waited five years, y'all. Man, I've been calling for five years straight. Man, So what are you going to say? No, Man, just shout out

the boys of our bust In Corporated. Man, we on our wead work very better. Man. Ain't matter. I'm happy to be alive. There you go, Okay, happy to be here. I appreciate it. Man, get it off your chess eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line this morning. Yes, the

new senior advisor to the President elect. That's right, Cedric Richmond. Welcome back, brother, Good morning everybody. How y'all doing, blessed Black and Holly Favor. Congratulations on being named Senior Advisor to the President. Man to tell people what that position means, because they didn't they didn't even know what coach hair was. Wait, what does that mean? This is the first time. It's not a free position on the Biden campaign. I can

tell you that. Let me just it will be Director of Public Engagement, which means I'll engage in interact with everybody from the civil rights community, to the LGBTQ community, to Black Lives Matter, to the Latino community. And I'll be in the White House as a senior advisor to the President for him to bounce stuff off, to have him put in decisions. And sometimes you know, it's that question is who's at the table? It's my expectation to

be at the table. Do you get a chance to breathe and say, yes, we finally made it, We finally did it because it was a long fight, and the fight continue for a minute, or do it now you look at it and say, Okay, now we got a whole lot more to do. Well, we have a lot of work to do. This president has left chaos and confusion all across the country, especially a raging pandemic. But we you know, I don't have to tell you all. You know, we have a lot of work to do.

When you start talking about systematic racism, when you start talking about addressing poverty, when you start talking about addressing climate change, and you start talking about addressing police reform, criminal justice reform, all of those things we've talked about. Now it becomes the time to put up a shut up and so we have work to do. And that's the part that is the awesome task. I saw you said that this was the hardest decision you've had to

make in your life. So what were your reservation? Well, first of all, I haven't had a boss in twenty one years except the people who put me in office. And the other part was making sure that you know

it's meaningful. And Charlomagne, I will tell you that between you and DL, because both of you all on interviews asked me the same question at some point, which was who do we hold accountable if things go around or we don't live up to expectations, And the real question was, well, if I don't go in, then I'm cheating people of that voice, of all of the people I'm convinced to be a part of this movement. And then you know,

it was just to uproot your family and moved to DC. Look, I like DC, but New Orleans is the best city in the country, and so all of those factors went in. But at the end of the day, it's something I had to do. Was it hard to leave your congressional seat. Absolutely? I mean, first of all, I just got reelected. It's been six elections going into my eleventh Assistant to the Whip, which is a leadership position in the House, and the more seniority you get, the more you can help your district.

But in this broken government that we have now, with the Senate controlled by Republicans or could be controlled by Republicans, Mitch McConnell's just going to continue to block everything that's important us, like the George Floyd Policing Act, which he's blocking, and are the Voting Rights Extension which he's blocking. So part of it is, you know, there's more than one way to skin a cat, and so if we can't get it done legislatively, let's go into executive branch and

see what we can get done there. Who you think should get that seat? Your old seat? Oh, look, there's a number of qualified people who are running, and I will look at him, I'll talk to each and every one of them, and I'll probably make a recommendation to the voters. But it's important to keep someone who will put the constituents over ambition or anything like that. So and look, everybody that's running has a track record, so

voters will be able to judge them. How are you navigating through Donald Trump not trying to help with this transition phase? What are you guys able to do to get around that? Well, the good news is Joe Biden has been in the White House before and so there's some institutional knowledge there. But it's a hindrance. And the sad part about it is it puts Americans at jeopardy.

So if we're talking about having a cohesive rollout of the vaccines, if they're ready, it would be nice to know where they are, what's their plan, so that we could come in or adjust their plan and have our own plan ready. But you need to know those type of things, especially on national defense and security briefings. One of the glaring items in the nine to eleven report was that because it wasn't a smooth transition, there were gaps and the terrorists were able to exploit those gaps.

So those are the things you don't want to happen. But there are a number of people who used to be in the Trump administration that is volunteering information. And so we're doing the best we can with what we got. But I don't think that's adequate, and we know it's not adequate for the American people. So we just, you know, hopefully expect to temper tance from the stop and we can get to transition and get ready for one of

peaceful transition, but to a moving presidency coming up. And I was gonna ask, is there any way to forcefully do that by law? You know the fact that these laws or all these states to come in and say you know now that you did leave, that you did lose. Is any way to forcefully say no, we need this information. You have to or you go to jail. Is that possible? Or know that doesn't happen like that? But there's some

legal routes you can take. But I'll just tell you from my time in Congress, when Donald Trump tells its cabinet secretaries and not to cooperate with committee investigations, to ignore our subpoenas, we hold them in contempt, and then nothing still happens. This is a lawless punch that is in the White House right now, and you know, without Donald Trump freeing them up, I expect them to continue to be a problem. However, I do think at some point Donald Trump is going to realize that it's bigger

than him for the first time. I think he will understand that this is not all about him, or he'll just take his ball and go home and say, you know, if y'all want Sleepy Joe, take Sleepy Joe. Y'all all want me back in four years. So I'm taking my ball and going home. Whatever it looks like, it just needs to happen so that we can get on with the business of transition and preparing to run the greatest country on Earth. We got more with Cedric Richmond. When

we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Chalomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Cedric Richmond. Charlomagne, Cedric, are you ready for

all the smoke that's gonna come you away? Though? Because I posted you on my Instagram yesterday a couple of days ago, congratulating you, and immediately people started coming with all types of you know, rhetoric whose climate advocates and leaders who fight against toxicare pollution sin that he's terrible for the environment because he got tied to the oil and gas industry. But what do you say to that. Look,

I understand their concern. They also have to understand that in my congressional district we have hundreds of thousands of jobs tied to people showing up working every day anywhere from hotels to all in gas to refineries. And that's just the district that I represent. But what I would just tell them is that they all applaud Don mckeachen

as being one of the leaders on environmental justice. Well, when we were deciding to put our climate plan together, it was me that called Don mckeachen, who's a difference in mine, and said, Hey, we want the best environmental justice plan that we can find, and we want you at the table when I want you involved. So I know the damage that's going on out there, and I think we have assembled the team to put it together.

And we had a robust climate change plan. And by the way, Joe Biden and its climate plan won the presidency. Nobody else did. Yeah, but then that's why they were kind of upset too, because they said that you raked in big money from the fossil fuel industry and voted to help oil and gas companies. Is that true? No, that's not true. Now, I did receive contributions from the

oil and gas company. They're businesses in my district, and just because you write a check doesn't mean you only And at some point the activists are gonna have to understand that. Man, you're the third politician I heard say that, and it makes perfect sense to me, Like you can, you know, have somebody donate to your campaign, But as long as you're still serving the interest of the people

and not, then what's the problem. Environmentalists have also donated to my campaign, So look, I just think that it's it's a distraction. And when you know people are out there just trying to get it done, we should come together, especially when you win an election, and the fact that Democrats are fighting after we win makes absolutely no sense. We should be at the table figuring out where we go from here. And I think that's what Joe Biden

wants to do. So look, Sunrise and all the environmental groups. I'm going to reach out to them and make sure that they understand that this is the Biden Climate plan, this is the agenda we're going to embark on them. So let's take people out of it, focus on the plan. And so I forgot who said it. It It might have been King, but I heard Obama repeated before it's not about the man, it's about the plan. And I believe in Joe Biden's climate plan and his environmental justice plan.

I was going to ask, how do you undo the damage done by the president now and his constituents who are saying that there's voter fraud and this whole election was rigged, and there's a lot of people who don't believe in the system. So how do you undo that damage? Well?

One first five, making sure we get to January twentieth and watch him leave the White House and watch Joe Biden go into the White House, because I think what we've seen over the campaign is that Joe Biden people believe him, and he can restore trust in government, the election system. The Trumpsters out there that believe that somebody stole the election, they're going to believe that no matter what I mean. They created the term alternative facts, and

people believe it. Unfortunately, he has a percentage of the population that will believe whatever he says. He says the news media's line, and they believe it. So it's upon us once we take office, to make sure we restore people's faith in governments, restore the faith in the election system. You have republican governor's, Republican Secretary of States like in Georgia saying we had a recount, Joe Biden's the winner.

The election was fair, there was no fraud, and those people who are going to choose to believe the alternative facts are just going to believe that. Now, how can we help you and Senator Harris and everybody in the White House keep those promises for black people? How can we help on the ground. Well, I think you have to keep raising issues. We don't get a pass because one and I think that that's important, and I think

I said it on this show before, Charlotte Mane. But I try to give you the thirty second of it. When Jesse Jackson, John Lewis and Martin Luther King and all those people, not Martin, but when the civil rights leaders went into visit London, Johnson after the passage of the Civil Rights Act that told him they needed a voting Rights Act. He said, I can't do it. They said, no, you have to do it. He said, I want to do it, but I don't have the political capital are

the will of the people to do it. So help me by when you leave this room, make me do it. Go create the environment out there, create the demand for that change that will help me usher it in. So to the extent that people are still talking about Black Lives Matter movement, whether it helped or hurt, Black Lives Matter movement is a partner in the struggle for progress in this country, and we recognize that. We applaud them, and the more that they push, the more that we're

able to do. And so that's what we need from you too. I mean, we have to make sure that our people are engaged. And if that means our people are engaged enough to the point where they are criticizing our action or in action, well that's just a consequence of it. But it moves the needle forward. So just keep doing what you're doing, being an honest voice, plane spoken, keeping it real, however, you know, being woke, however we describe it or have what the young people say it.

That's what we need from you, and so young people need the truth and the real truth. And the more it incentivises them to be a part of the process, I think that is very very important. You know, you know, and I know you're part of the administration, But on a scale of one to let's say, the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four, do you have faith in the Biden Harris administration to really make transformative change for

the black community. Absolutely, you know. The hindrance is the fact that we did not pick up the Senate yet, and hopefully we can pick up those two seats in Georgia. We need the people in order to just really show up. But the will is there, and you know, my grandmother used to say, whether there's the will, there's a way, And so I believe that both of them want to be very transformative and leave a legacy bigger and better than the sixty four Civil Rights Act, sixty five Voting

Rights Act. And part of what we want to do is to extend that Voting Rights Act, which has lapsed since the Supreme Court decision that gutted it. But by the way, I just want to also throw in there that you know, Vice President Biden did break a barrier or and show some courage and the ability to think out of the box and take chances by picking not only the first woman, but the first black woman to

be a vice president candidate on a major ticket. And by the way, at the end of the day, as I look at this, I don't think there's another ticket that would have beat Donald Trump as close as this election was. I think Senator Harris was a part of the ticket. And I think Joe's authenticity and people knowing him is what earned him the title of president elected soon to be forty six president of the United States. I agree with you. I just you know, I just

want more than the symbolism at this point. That's all, you know what I mean. Oh look, I agree with you. I would just say, if you want to see what somebody's going to do in the future, just look at their past actions. And I think that that should at least earn, you know, a sense of you know, good will. Not saying that that good will should last in perpetuity, but I think it's it sets the tone for what

type of administration this wants to be. And I would just tell you, as talking to President elect Joe Biden. It is very clear that he wants to empower and do more for the African American community and any president before him. And you know there are other issues he wants to have that legacy on, but he is very set on making sure that you know, uh lift every voice agenda, it's actually implemented. Well, we're gonna be on his ass, so don't change your number. Okay, alright, Cedric,

we appreciate you for checking in. Man and call and call. You can call Life to you back now, Patty, Cedric Richmond, It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Thank you brother. It's topic time on the phone. Call eight hundred five eight five one oh five one to join it to the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Talk about it morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are

the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Now. If you're just joining us, we're asking eight hundred five eight five one o five one, would you date yourself? That is the question. Yes, it came from a tweet that you put up, not a tweet from what I came up. I would talk about It's not true. I was talking about it on my podcast. Did you. Oh gosh V posted this morning flashback Friday. They shout to this beautiful woman at dj envy. I woke up for the first time and she wasn't laying

next to me. I don't know what Envy's going through, but um now, I never forget Envy did have sex with himself previously. Oh yeah, the nine and a half inch deal though. True, true, true, but that's just I don't know. I don't know if he's that big, but it was. You know, that's just sex though. Would you date yourself though? I'm going to as well. What happened was I texted, I put it on Instagram a picture of my wife, and I said she wasn't laying next

to me. My wife doesn't have a Twitter, so it goes on Twitter automatically, and because she doesn't have a Twitter, they just put my name at dj envy. That's what it is. You can go to Instagram and see the post, but anyway, it doesn't automatically. It does well mind when I hit Instagram and automatically does Twitter as well. Um, but like I was saying on my podcast, we were talking about would you date yourself? You know, looking at yourself? Now,

would you date yourself. Let me ask you, Charlotta Magne. I know that you're small. You're tiny, you have a lot of cute insecurities, different colors on your face. Would you date yourself? Bro? First of all, I don't talk about the old version of me, a little messy bottom yourself. Listen, the old version of me that led with ego. No, this version of me that leads with soul. Yes, that's because I have done the work on myself, you know, through therapy and having a Sacred Purpose coach. I practice

mindfulness in a real way. And the greatest compliment that I received nowadays is people tell me how much I evolved. So when I look back at the old me and listen to things I used to say, things I used to do, I didn't love myself. I didn't love myself like I thought I did. I was a hurt individual and hurt people, hurt people, and I led with my trauma in a lot of situations. But I went on a journey of healing and I'm still healing in a

lot of ways. But I know that I'm connected to this great universe that God built, and God built me to be a part of it. So I feel whole. So this whole version of me. Yes, I would date this whole version of me. That's that's I'm not a broken human with a wounded go anymore. So yes I would. I would date this version of me. I am a catch. All right, you're not a catch. But I said the same thing. You know, before I had an ego, I was insecure. No, I wouldn't have dated me, and I

thank god get stayed with me. Now, yeah, I'm a different individual. I have changed, I have evolved, and I continue to evolve. Now what about you? Ye oh absolutely, I think I've been an amazing myself. I think I'm an amazing girlfriend. All my ex boyfriends love me. I don't have any of those issues. I think I've made poor decisions when it comes to the men that I did it. But no, I'm a very like, nice, accommodating person. Are you feeling yourself? What about the boy you got,

the boyfriend you got beat up? What about the boyfriend who left at the game when he was y'all were sitting in row three hundred and then you moved to the to the court with jay Z. Yeah, what about that boy person? That's the same guy. I believe well number one. Okay, he still wanted to date me after that, and I still was very nice to him, but he was not my boyfriend. Went out a few times. It wasn't that serious, but you know, I mean, I don't think he was a good guy. I like that. Get

what you're saying. You're saying, she want him? No, that's what it sounds like. He is the woman that all her exits still want to be with, but him. Yeah, I think that I do. I do believe that I'm a good girlfriend because I'm the type of person that I do like everything for you that I can. I always do like special surprises. You know, I'm really amazing in bed. So yeah, I think, Oh, are you feeling yourself?

Feeling myself? Feeling myself? All right, let's go to the phone line eight hundred five five one five one, Hello, who's this d sha A d shu? The morning we're asking would you date yourself? Mama? Um? I would have to say I would agree with or agree with you

DJ like old me, No, I wouldn't. Like I was like super like aggressive and it was like hard for me to kind of let people in and I didn't really care about people feelings but it really took me to kind of like grow up and realize that not everything is about you, and so like now I would date myself. I would actually marry myself. But you know, old me most definitely naw, no, it's very important what

you just said. You said that, um you said, uh that you would you say you you wouldn't date yourself because of what It's something you said that made me think about you were leading with ego. Oh I was very like self centered, and I wouldn't go in. Yes, you were leading with ego and not your soul. That's what that is about. That's what that's about. And I wouldn't even give a person like a chance to even like I was just very fanned office when it comes.

Like I always kind of was scared of love, like just seeing it. How how what I seen what love was growing up, So I was always scared to even deal with that. But as I got older, I realized that you know, it's it's you know, love and relationship and stuff. It's how you make it and it's typically if you put like a good foot forwarding, you'll get something back in return. So like I look at things like that now, so I feel like, yeah, I'm most definitely good date myself. Now, continue to do the work

on yourself. Thank you, mama. Hello, who's this? This is try Hey Troy, good morning, Good morning. How you doing man? Thank you for taking my call, y'all. I got a serious question and no one has been able to answer for I'm ex I'm ex military, retired military, and you know I don't like to talk about a president, so I'm gonna use that term that man always here, that man says I've done more for African Americans than any other president and you didn't like me on what he

did us? No, I can't, but that's not what we're discussing right now. Could you were just asking what I would you date? Would you date yourself? Brother? Looking at yourself now, would you date yourself? Man? Oh? So so I'm too. He can't even stay on topic. Yeah, hello, Hey, God damn y'all made him look in the mirror and he hung up on himself like this crisis Christ. He answered that he wouldn't date himself, so matter of factty I wanted He's like, oh no, no, no way, Hello,

who's this is this Denise Booth? Hey, we're asking would you date yourself, Mamma one thousand percent. I was married to Antonio Tarber the fourth time, like head weight up in the world, not still with the guys you were. You were married to Antonio Tarbar and you stuck up for me, mister Charlottamagne. I did have to tell me what happened. You were um on the Wendy Williams Show at the time, and UM Superhead was feeling an interview

and I had got so mad at her. You were just like, why is you putting her name in the book? Why are you putting her in a book? And I never even read the book, and I thought my own book it is called Everything That Glitters. It's on Denise S. Booth author dot com and it just came out. And I really think women need to know that we give men so much more power and women have the strength beyond we could ever reimagine. Like I do agree black

women of the strong species. I was just watching Antonio Tarba on Rocky bow Bowler like yesterday, it was on MTV two or something, and my book that I was just about Rocky bat Bowl as well. I was his wife at that time. He was rocking about bowls wife while he was filming the movie right, No, I was when he was superstar, Charlaine, isn't too early for him? Why you did it? And investor stallone and to say, NBA, I actually I helped at rehab. You know, rehab? That

kind of crazy. She's talking about the club. Many connections. We stop right now. Why was it being rehab? I always thought he was on drugs? Tell me, man, you know him, You should ask him. I was there, he was having Are you in rehab? He might have liked getting you know, situated you How do you have fun in rehab? Stop talking about rehab? Somebody rehab the club by DJ. I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm hoping you're talking about rehab the club. I've never

been to any other rehab. Is this in the book as well? It was? It was at a nightclub. It was on me at the day party? And what year was this? What ye got my birthday? And no date? It was like the Royal Day weekend. They hired you to DJ? Yeah year, I want to say maybe three years ago it was they definitely, they definitely were trying to make it a thing. All right, Well, thank you for calling Mama, what's the moral of the story, guys. The moral of the story is be someone you would date.

That's all. Be somebody that leads with soul and not ego. The person that leads with soul is the person you want to date. The person that leads with ego. Run all right, keep a lot. This to Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club ordering everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomine the guy we are the Breakfast Club. He got special guests in the building. Indeed, we have Tamika Mallory

and my soul reading untell Freedom. Yes, Yes, And today is a big day because y'all launching the Street Politician podcast on Black Effect I Heeart Radio. That's right, that's right, that is true. Thank you so much, Lenar for the opportunity to be a part of your new endeavor with the Black Effect Network. UM, it feels really good to be in a place where you can be as black as you want to. Because that's right. Why do y'all

call yourself screet politicians? UM? I think with me, we we decided that that there was a disconnect from the streets in politics, you know, coming from communities modualized communities,

black culture, hip hop culture. A lot of us in our community don't feel connected to politics, and you know, and me and Tamika being on the forefront the civil rights and advocacy work that we do, we understand that disconnect and we feel like we know how to translate from the streets to the suits, as we say, you know, So we wanted to create a show, you know, a platform where we talked about hip hop culture, when we talked about how it integrates and intertwines with politics and

how everybody definitely has a role and can play a role. You know. I remember going to a club and DJ self see me, and then when I started doing advocacy, were in the strip club and he was like, what you're doing here? I say, the same thing you're doing here watching the strip but he's like, naw, you ain't

supposed to be a here, you know you do. I'm like, nah, that's and then that's the disconnect, y'all think, because we actually on the front lines and we do work for civil rights and we fight for the rights of our people that were not for the culture, and we're not actually the same people like you. So that makes people feel like they don't have an intersection into this work. So you know, our platform is showing that intersection, showing

how you can of hip hop culture. You can like the Strip Club, you can like Cardi B. And you can still go and do a meeting with Jesse Jackson's and sit down, you know what, Revernard shopping and be

in at the table doing civil rights work. So when you only interview people on that have your same views, or let's say, for the podcast, when you talk with somebody like a little Wayne or even like a little Pip, I mean a little Pump or you know, like when you have conversations with people that don't necessarily a view or have the same views as you, I mean I will to me and we always we agree with each other, we don't age with each other. So that's that's what

our podcast was pretty much, Beach. We got a lot of different views. We share the same you know, the same passion for the movement, but we definitely have different views. And sometimes on the show, you know, we get into debates. So I definitely want to bring somebody up that has a different point of view than me and try to get to understand them. Now you can't I can bring you up when you have a different point of view, right,

But I can't morally conflict. I don't even want to give a platform to somebody that I'm morally conflict and understand that you getting on my platform is elevating your voice to a more standard that doesn't coincide with minds. Now that's something different. So like at Takasi sixty nine, if we want to talk about this documentary that's out that's never gonna happen, what about what are your thought to people that don't necessarily agree with your views? You know? Well,

like I said, Mike Sonna, not have conflict. And you know, we've been doing street politicians for a while, but now we have a bigger platform with this podcast. And I think this election cycle has sort of helped us see where we align more than we used to think we did because we used to argue about everything. But as the election played out and we really got to understand the trauma of our communities, I think we've begin to have conversations where we're kind just trying to see out

of eyes. So that's one part of it. I have no problem with talking to people that I don't necessarily

agree with. However, I think my songs sentiments are so true that I'm not trying to elevate people and provide, you know, false narratives to our community, because it's just too serious right now, Like we just have so much that's at stake and we cannot be sitting up playing around or had, you know, joking around with people's lives, because when young people, particularly hear points of views, sometimes they can take the wrong things from certain people just

because of the packaging, and they begin to apply those things to their real lives. And we can't afford to do that at this moment. And I think the other reason why I wanted it to be called street Politicians is because people think you're similar to what my song was saying, that we live in a bubble that we don't understand, like what's going on in the world. How do we deal with the relational issues in our community

as well? Because it's politics in a marriage and you know, trying to get married, trying to fall in love, it's politics and everything that we do in our lives, and I think we have a way of being able to show people the connection. What do you think about people having views like supporting or Donald Trump, right, and We saw some hip hop artists come forward and show their support for him, but other people will say, okay, well,

everybody's allowed to have a different opinion. We shouldn't discredit people just because of who they're voting for. What are your thoughts on that they should have that opinion somewhere else? Because I'm just you know, like I said, I can't I can't even really be in conversation with individuals who are trying to help me understand why Donald Trump is good for our people, knowing that this man has literally been a disaster that killed two hundred and forty thousand individuals.

But certainly I'm not trying to have you know, Charlotmagne's

friend and Killer Mike's friend Campus Owens on my show. Well, I would have conversations with Waka Flock or fifty or you know, or a little pumba one them who said that they support, break down what they're saying and give them an understanding of what they're doing, because a lot of them don't have they don't even have knowledge of what they're talking about, and they're going along with you know, forced narratives that being put on the internet, and that

they're hearing and they don't have Like little Wayne doesn't know what the platinum plan is. He just looked at somebody told him it made sense. He probably has no idea what he's saying. So when you sit down and you really have a conversation with them and you break it down from beginning to end, I believe that we can come to some level of understanding and really educating people.

You're posted about Angel left and tweeted out about the Millionmagamarks, where she was supporting it and saying it was good until some end, whereas came and ruined everything. Yeah, yeah, you know. Well. And then the week before that, I was on TMC and she wrote underneath someone posted the video of me being on the show, and she wrote on in the comments that black women know how to do everything except keep their babies in their roomb or

something like that. And so I wrote, because you know, sometimes the petty it comes over me and I can't help it. I try to fight it, but in this particular situation, I just couldn't help it. And I sent it to Charlemagne and said, and don't tell me to delete it, because I'm not. She lost her election by seventy plus percent in Atlanta, she just bring oh see,

well exactly exactly. So she ran for Congressman Congressman John Lewis to c and people think that black folks are stupid, Like those people weren't just voting for Congressman Lewis because you know, they just were like robots. They were voting for him because they believed in something. They had a connection to his work. So when you come in as a person who's talking about carrying Donald Trump's message, there is no way, shape or form that folks are going

to support that. And so they slapped her down and I had to write on my page, I thought somebody who lost the election by seventy not, like, how are you talking about me? And you need to go figure out where you went wrong this thing. So, no, we're not gonna get it because I you know, I probably get into arguments and be looking crazy and then y'all will be texting me, this is not you, miss Nalary. You know, I don't want to hear that. They don't

realize that it really is that really is you? All Right? We got more with Tamika Mallory and Mason don't move. It's the breakfast cloak of Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Sharlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. We have Tamika, Mallory and Mason in the building. Ye Now, when we do look at everything that's going on in hip hop right now, and there's been you know a lot of unfortunate incidents that have happened in the past

a few weeks. What it can be done? Because I you know, you have to come from a place where you're not preaching and trying to tell people what to do, but what can be done. I think for me, I think that's where you know, I played a role in just the movement in general. It's coming from hip hop being incarcerated, being in the streets, understanding the dynamics of the streets, and being able to speak to them, not like you said, don't preach to them, but let them

understand the realities of what come with that life. You know, every day I'm dealing with young kids and mentor young kids. I have an organization and quote raising kings and which that's what we do. We sit down and talk to at risk youth and have conversations with them and explain to them what a real right to passage is and

what manhood really looks like. I think what happened with this hip hop culture is we start identifying the wrong things with manhood and what quote unquote real was, you know, and we would misled. So there has to be a real conversation. People have to be honest and say, Yo, that's just not real. It's nothing real about you killing your brother's nothing real about you beefing with somebody that you don't even know when you willing to take his life.

That's not real. I don't know who told you that. Anybody who's telling you that is live. We got to be able to call that out and make some make being unified and make loving each other. What's in again? What's trending? You know? We create what cool is? We create the trends. I think we also have to understand that this pandemic has made people hungry for real, Like it's a different situation. We're going back to the eighties and the nineties. When people are hungry, people start and

how to figure it out. Because the stimulus money has ran out, they busy, you know, debated and by the way, even if you give people another twelve hundred dollars or whatever. It's not enough money for folks to really survive and thrive. So you're gonna see more and more violence. And that's why, you know, everybody goes crazy about this whole defund the

police topic. But it's important that we understand what defund and the police will give us the opportunity to do, and that is to be able to refund our communities, as Mason said, and to put some moneys into the things that we need in terms of housing, in terms of food, and Louisville can Kentucky. There is only one supermarket in the entire town, and when there were protests happening, that Kroger closed down and so people were unable to

get real food. These are like real, live issues that's happening in cities across this country and urban communities, which creates violent situations. So we're going to see more of it until we come to a place where we stop putting. Because, by the way, the police officers who we came up against many times in Louisville at the protests, oh, they got the best equipment. They liked the apple of police department.

They have all of this militarized equipment and yet there are no mental health services and many of the people who are protesting for Brianna Taylor every single day are folks that don't have real housing. So we have to be able to find balance so that we can take guns out of people's hands and give them the opportunities. Tim Goa, why do you think Democrats get the messaging of funding the police all wrong? I think Democrats are scared of everybody except the people who are the base

of their party. I think that's the problem. I think that they that they are. And it depends on which Democrats you're talking about, because if you think about some of the older, more established and some of the younger but people who lean towards the older, more establishment politics of the Democratic Party, and then you think about the il han Omars and others Alexandria Cassio, they have no

problem saying defund the police. And that tells you that there are two different mindsets that is happening within the party. And by the way, many of the individuals who are afraid to use language like defund have been losing their elections. But that's a that's a whole different story. Now what about You know a lot of people feel like Joe Biden, as far as the presidency was just as were especially

black people, was just as worse as Donald Trump. What do you say to those people because some peop but they're no different the drop but they no different. Listen, those people right there, those people right there right are ignoring immediate imminent danger as we see. Does Joe Biden have racism, Yes he does. He's a racist. I don't believe that any seventy year old white man doesn't have a level of racism and uneducated in racial sensitivity and

understanding certain things. And that's something that Joe Biden is definitely guilty, guilty of. But there's an intentional white supremacist racist mentality that Donald Trump exudes, he activates every time he speaks and is purposely done. So when we look at those two things, we we compare to ninety four crack bill, I mean the ninety four crime bill and a mandatory minimum citizen, and we talk about those things, we have to realize that those were twenty plus years.

But in two thousand and twenty, there is a president right now who is out here doing the exact same thing that somebody was doing twenty plush years ago and planning to further that activity. There's one who might want to make amends for that activity that he did twenty years ago. Yeah, what I tell people is Joe Biden has implemented legislation that has ruined way more Black people

than anything Trump is implemented. Yet, if Trump would have stayed in that White House, he was already rolling back the war on drugs, mass and causation, all of that. That first step back was an illusion. But you know, but I think that when you you know, the whole idea of the two men being a light yep, I think that it is probably true that they have some similarities. I'm not going to argue with that, but I do know that one of them decided to bring a black

woman along and the other one. Every black woman that's been around has been disrespected and treated like trash. Damn Well, we are our own responsibility too, because once you left the president, it's not just okay, let's wait and hope he does what we need them to do for us. That just means that we have to make sure we keep our foots on their next to make sure what we need to get done for our community. And that's

our responsibility as well. And that's why that's why I got hoped right now, because because of the people like to me getting my son being on the ground. But that's what we did with Obama. We had a party. We went to the Christmas parties because I was there and I was siland I was taking I was in the White House several times. The party was a big, big, big deal. When you got that invitation to the Christmas party, you was, You was in the You was in the

cool crowd. You know what I'm saying. And I was saying, we cannot allow uh the line dancing to go on Memorial Weekend in May and forget about the work that has to happen. So what demand do you think need to be placed on the Biden Harris administration. I think we need to I'm sorry, I think we absolutely need to go back to UH said task force and begin to look into these departments. I think also they need to instruct their FBI and you know, and and the

Department of Justice. Rather forget the FBI, they need to instruct the Department of Justice to look into some of these real serious cases like Brianna Taylor. All Right, we got more with Tamika, Mallory and Mason don't move. It's the breakfast cloakal Morning Morning. Everybody's Angela, Charlemagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. We have Tamika, Mallory and Myson in the building. Charlemagne. Now, you know what I wanted to ask, y'all? When when when do you turn

people off? Like? Because going back to Angela and Kansas, right, because in their mind they feel like they are liberating black people. What what would you tell them about liberating black people? What do you think they're doing wrong? Who are you talking about? Like your cousins, Tamika, those are her cousins. I listen. I love you know, I actually like Candice as as a person. I've had conversations with her. Um we sat on the panel together. I wasn't feeling well.

She was really you know, concerned about that. We had a good conversation. But you know, people work for folks. People be trying to get them checks like that's really it's nothing more you can say. You know, I think an Angela's standing situation. You're thinking, you know, she was pardon and we get that, and it was a good thing that her story is strong. We know that her story is solid. I love her story. That's why I

was attracted to her. But then as you begin to dig deeper into these people who follow Trump, many of it it's like cult like behavior, you know. And and I've been saying over and over again, Yes, on one hand, we could see some benefit to any administration. There's nobody that's going to come into office and you just say, oh, they did nothing. They just totally did nothing at all.

Everybody just because of the way the government works. There's going to be some pushing pull, there'll be some benefits, but overall, it's like looking at Trump and it's my same argument. But ice cube, it's my same argument with fifty cent it's the same argument I have, where all all of them on one side. You might be able to get you a nice house, a nice car, you can get you a diamond ring, but when you get home, the man is going to beat you and bloody your

eyes and choke you and damn near killing you. So these things can't be dealt with separately. They have to be looked at as an entire pie. If you're going into the administration and you're working with them to get some economic relief, but then on the streets, they're allowing police departments across the nation to beat up on those of us who are fighting for our rights. Those conversations can't can't happen in isolation. They have to happen at

the same time. And I know I'm probably talking too much, but I have to say this. It was my same thing, you know, I was. I was real careful, an ice cute thing because I have learned to try my best not to fight with black people in public as much as possible. I've been working on that, especially with black men, because there have been moments when I've had some real knockdown draft house with black men in public, and it has hurt other black men that I loved. Especially as

a black woman. I know that our power is so strong that we have to be careful when and how we use our words. And my son doesn't enough for both of us, So I just let him be one to go out and argue with people all day. And the situation where Ice Cuba took me a while, I watched and as I grow it, rather than me speaking on it publicly. At first, I sat back and I watched,

and he tweeted something the other day. That helped me realize that I wasn't wrong for feeling that the way in which they approached the situation with what he was trying to do, which I think was a good thing, but the way in which they approached it, I already

knew that it wasn't I didn't agree with it. He tweeted a list of names of individuals that he talked to, and he was saying, don't try to tell me that I didn't speak to real people before putting together my plan, and it was not one black woman listed, not one.

And I knew right then that if you had the right black woman like Alicia Garza at the table to be a part of the conversation, she would have said, here's the direction that I think we need to take with our people so that we can mitigate any potential harm in this particular election process. She also would have been able to bring forth other things aside from it. I know that maternity death is a major problem that seems to be the only real substantive thing in his

plan that has to do with black women. If you don't have a strong black woman at the table, and it doesn't have to be Tomka Mallory but whoever it is that is able to help advise what you're doing, your plan is already going in the wrong direction. Yeah, that's crazy coming from Q too, because I saw when Roland tried to connect Cube and Alicia, so it's not

like he doesn't know Alicia exists. Right before I sit down and I'm gonna have a conversation with somebody who's been a sworn enemy to me, you have to show me some level of change. You have to make receipt, show me olive branch. Before I'm able to endorse you to sit down with you and have a conversation, I have to see that you're willing to do something to change. Absolutely right. Well, thank y'all so much o this this morning. Congratulations on everything that you guys have gone on and

definitely loving appreciate y'all so much. So listen Screet Politicians podcast out right now on Black Effect. iHeartRadio every Wednesday, y'all safe, Le's gonna be a donkey because right now you want some real It's time for Donkey of the Day. So if we ever feel I need to be a donkey man, did she getting the name? Please tell me I had become donkey of the Day to Practice club Bitch You Donkey to day goes to the editor at large and co anchor of Yahoo Finances The First Trade

Live Morning Show, Brian Brian Brian Brian Brian Brian. I will never call someone ignorant, okay for what they don't know, but I will call you ignorant if you're not willing to learn. Now. I read aheadline from you yesterday that I had to put on my Instagram page because it

was so completely culturally clueless that it was disgusting. You can go look at it for yourself my Instagram and see to God cetch g o D. It's one of those moments where you realize why diversity matters so much, because when you have the large reach out of Yahoo Finance does and you put out this type of misinformation, it's just straight up erasure, straight up not acknowledging what

culturally someone has done. I wouldn't go so far as to say this is a colonizer's way of seeing the world, because when you are a white privileged male, you have cultural blind spots because you don't have to pay attention to everybody else and everything you do see that's a first for you. Since you are an almighty all knowing white man, must be a first for everyone else. Right, In this case, it's not about a first. It's about something that has been a staple in black hip hop

New York culture for years. Okay, what am I talking about, ladies and gentlemen. I'm talking about Timberland. No, not the legendary producer and one of the architects of the Versus Battle. I'm talking about tims classic weak colored double souls only six inch premium waterproof, waterproof hiking boots that most of us have never hiked in in our lives. Have you ever hiked in a pair of boots? Envy paar talans? Have you ever hiked in a pair of Timberlance. I've

never hiked a period. Okay, Now, I don't know if y'all saw what Senator Kamala Harris, Senator and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, she visited firefighters and towards the scene of the California Wildflowers in Fresno wildfires in Fresno yesterday, and when she stepped off the private jet, she made culturally clueless people of all racist golden nuts. Okay, let me read you some of these tweets about Kamala Harris

and her TIMS and I put Tims in air quotes. BT, the network that told Envy that he wasn't black enough, posted the video of Senator Harris getting off the private jet with the caption stepping off the jet with the wheat Tims, hurry up and register the vote. Hashtag Kamala Harris, hashtag vote. I'm disappointed and whoever wrote that tweet from BT, because y'all should know better, and I'll tell you why in a second. A young lady name at Lady Nina said how you roll up to save the country? Hashtag

Kamala Harris hashtag Tims. Aj del Gatto tweeted out, is she wearing Tims on the campaign trail? And that swagger? The ultimate cool girl? Sarah Pearl on Twitter said she wears TIMS two and Karen John Pierre from the Biden campaign posted the video of Kamala getting off the jet and she simply put the TAMS now. Brian Shazi, I need you to be paying attention right now, because, like I said, it's not what you don't know that makes you ignorant, it's what you are not willing to learn.

See after all that excitement people had over Senator Kamala Harris wearing tims and I still have tims and air quotes. Brian wrote an article for Yahoo Finance. The headline of that article said, Kamala Harris may have made Timberland boots cool again. I repeat, Brian. Sazi Edita, a large for Yahoo Finance, wrote an article that said, sendaor Kamala Harris, who I love, by the way, may have made Timberland

cool again. Wow. I've been reading all these articles about New York being dead, but this headline is really taking the Big Apple disrespect to another level. Since when have Tim's not been cool? Okay, Brian, I know you're the editor at large at Yahoo Finance, but it has to be at least one person of the culture who works at Yahoo Finance who is looking at this headline to didn't discuss and it's complaining about the fact that y'all don't know what the hell y'all talking about in regards

the culture up there at Yahoo Finance. Brian, we live in a world now where you can really treat our culture like a safari based on who you follow on social media. If you follow people from you know, a various okay, cultures. If you follow people various coaches, you will see how disgusted people who know culture were over Kamala Harris's tims. Don't listen to the political liberal crowd, white all black because they had coach really coolers too.

That's why they don't know how to communicate their messaging to the American people. That is why there is a disconnect now, okay in Senator Kamala Harris's tim's proven. Okay, let's go look at the other side of Twitter, shall we? My man master Age master asans from Brooklyn, right. Master As said, and I quote, those are not tims, even if Timberland made those shoes, I as a native New York and much repeat, those are not tims. No need for master Ash to explain if you know, you know.

Randy C. Millett posted a meme of Djus and Merrill saying f out of here with the caption Kamala Harris had on the wrong tims A brother name at NFL. Molik on Twitter said, I'm really dying laughing still at them. Kamala Harris tims. He too put tims in air quotes and the fact that so many people from outside the culture are celebrating them joints as a relating point. Not knowing all Tims ain't good Tims. That right there sums

up today's donkey of the day. In a tweet, Brian Sazzi of Yahoo Finance wrote a whole article saying Kamala Harris may have made Tims cool again, as if Tims have ever been anything less than cool. Brian wrote in his article, what better validation of Timberland's ruggedness mixed with comfort than Senator Harris's entire day in them. Don't talk to me about comfort and ruggedness of Timberlands if you have not found a way to wear them year round

like my brother wax on my man is biscuit. Until you've worn Tims on the beach like wax and it's biscuit and Jesus from Jesus and Marrow, don't tell me about ruggedness mixed with comfort? Okay? Brian Sazo said, what better signal to shoppers that Tims could be cool again? Maybe not early nineties cool, but cool now that Harris is wearing a sneaker like version of the iconic footwear. That right there is the problem Brian sneaker like version

of Tim's. We don't do that. Okay, just go read under my comments on the Graham all right, sim Ur sim here at iHeart says it looks like she has on the single soul Tim's blasphemy. Rocky Thunder said those the Burlington coat factory butters. Willie d from Nick Ghetto Boys said, in reference to you, Brian, his mama should be embarrassed and his daddy should have pulled out no

mo talk, my man. Eugene, who works at the NAACP said, and I quote, if we weren't fighting forty five, she would have lost my vote on the lace up alone. Poor Senator Kamala Harris was cutting off all circulation to her ankles. The way she had those boots tied, like she really had them tied, like she was going to work on somebody's construction site. The moral of the story

is Tim's have always been cool, Brian. In fact, Jimmy Choue released the Collaborate Tims this week, real tims, the six inch week premium joints, not whatever Senator Harris had on. And that's not her fault. But clearly she don't have anyone around her to tell her what Tim's the rock and how to rock him. If you're watching us on Revote TV, please please Revote put up this picture of aoc. Okay, do you see that picture of Aoc up on the screen. That's her with Jesus and Merrill. That's the kind of

Tims you rock, and that is how you rock them. Okay, that was last year. I believe right. I think that was last year. You know why she had those on last year, Brian, because Tims have always been cool. Please let Chelsea Handler give Brian Shazzy of Yahoo Finance the biggest he hare hee haw hee haw. That is way too much, Dan maynne is. So let's send the Senator

Harris the right pair of Tims and Jimmy Chou. If y'all want to send us a pair for Senator Harris, hit us up because I'll get Sena to Kamala Harris sizes and we're gonna get her the right pair of Tims. Mina, we gotta keep your aunt right, Maya. We gotta keep your sister right. Okay, Yeah, he's all right. Tims are kind of dope. Keep it lock. We have more coming up next. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. You're

checking out the world's most dangerous morning show. Morning Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomne the guy We all the Breakfast Club. You got a special guest on the line. Introduced her right, Debbie Brown, Chief Impact Officer at Chopra Global, Passionate advocate for Women of Color and Wellness master, well being educator Mariah Harry and the faith asked person it was good, but it took a left. Debbie Brown going,

Oh good morny family. You guys are congratulations first and foremost on being legends and making history with the Radio Hall of Fame. Oh, thank you, thank you, and congratulations see you for all of the important work that you've been doing. Thank you, thank you. How you holding up during the pandemic. How was that for you? You know what I gotta say, wildly challenging off top, but it's been probably one of the best years of my life.

Really well, you know, I really deepened my spiritual journey. I was already on this path and I was, you know, kind of diligently doing the work, and then this gave me opportunity to kind of deepen some of that healing, to understand ways in which to help other people heal. And you know, this time it I feel like it's been challenging for quite a lot of people because so many are meeting themselves for the first time, you know, spending that much time with themselves and being in their thoughts.

But if you let it, it can be so beautiful. You get to the root of anything that was holding you back. You have the chance to cultivate a really deep, beautiful internal relationship with self. There's just a there's a lot of opportunity to it. Well, let's talk about your

journey and how this became your calling. Yes, well, y'all know, I started a radio born and raised in La You know, the thing that led me to radio was I was so deeply curious about storytelling, curious about myself, curious about the world. Like radio is one of the most sacred, in my opinion, art forms, like you get to share space in someone's mind, and I loved for so long.

But then when I started my journey, I just found that I was really called to study metaphysics, I was really called to study trauma, and I kind of just found myself not easily being able to stay up on current events or you know, really wanting to just talk about some other things. And so I pivoted and I went into the self care, wellness mindfulness world, which I did it kind of before the big bang hit on social media of wellness, and so it was very uncharted territory.

I didn't know if I made the right choice for a long time, but I stuck with it and I felt, you know, I just feel like my calling is to help people heal. You know, we throw these terms around that. We say, you know, mental health, we say mindfulness, we say wellness, we say healing. What is all of that to you? And in particular mindfulness, what is that to you?

So mindfulness is it's really rooted in a slowing down kind of you know, the very simplified term would be to be mindful, to have things kind of top of mind, to have a set of intention that's and planted, and that's the way you're navigating your spiritual values in the world. But what I think it is more clearly, and I think a lot of the conversation around healing, it's like mental health here, mindfulness wellness here, and it's like you have to have both, and they have to be integrated.

For you to really live the fullest life possible, you have to do some of that deeper trauma healing, which mental health is so great for. Talk therapy, somatic therapy is so beautiful for but you also need that peace that makes it real for you and not just stuck in your brain, not just intellectualizing it. It has to come down to your heart so that you can actually embody and live it. Why do mental health and mindfulness

go hand in hand? You think, well, you have to have integration, so you have to have the mind, body soul connection to have the full experience of being a whole human being. And a lot of times when we just focus on the mental health point, which is just incredibly important, but when we just focus on that, you're missing so many other opportunities to love yourself, to get

to know yourself. You know, part of the reason we're so disconnected from ourselves is because we feel foreign in our own bodies, especially if you're a person of color.

You know, you were trained through systemic racism, through years of ancestral trauma to not really feel safe in your own body, and so self care is really such a radical form of revolution for us as people of color, to really be able to sit inside yourself and enjoy where you're spending that time, to be able to even touch yourself, to love your body, you know, to feel yourself.

It's so so important, and I think so many people don't realize how rare that is, especially depending on your circumstance. You know, even to hold eye contact with another person and so sacred and intimate, and so many people have a real challenge being able to do that because of how they experience themselves. What was the turning point for you that that got you, that got you really into it? Was it something that you've seen, Was it some trauma that happened to you. Was it a fringe trauma? Like

what got you so into it? When I started really investigating myself, looking back at my history, looking back at my experiences, and seeing what I thought they meant about me, So much of the things that happened to us when we're children, even if they're not major, you perceived major traumas, they plant these seeds of how we grow to feel about ourselves and how we grow to see the world. And so when I started really investigating, like why do I think this way? Why do I feel that way.

Why do I experience like a charge in my chest or an anxiety when this happens and you slowly start peeling back the layers, and before you know it, it's like this memory as a three year old of misinterpreting something that happened, that planted a seed that you built upon and built upon and built upon, and before you knew it, you know, you were in a space where maybe you didn't really care about yourself, or you didn't think you were worth it or worthy. Really all the

human experiences is remembering your wholeness. But people when of guests didded on a spiritual journey but don't know where to begin, what would you tell them would be one of the first steps. Oh man, You know, one of the first steps is just really setting the intention to

become more and to be better. There's so much power in planning the seat of intention, and you can do that with affirmations, you know, depending especially on your cultural belief system, there is so much so many family systems that really restrict your ability to connect to yourself, and so many belief systems that tell you you have to have a middleman to get to the divine, to get to God. But God resides in all of us, like our ability to grow and transcend is always there, you know.

And I think in the mindfulness world, whatever you like to call your higher power, if you believe in one, it's really just saying I'm ready to become more. Show me how, or something I love saying to myself is God, please show me the deeper truth of who I am. And then I disconnect from whatever that answer is, and I let the answers just slowly show up, and the right teachers or the right readings or the right conversations just begin to populate your life in a really delicious way.

Cannegative energy attract prosit of energy death? No? Impossible? Yeah, it's impossible, you know. It's the energetic exchange is such a deeply powerful and sacred experience. And when you're rooted in negativity, we're each we're each the co creators of our life. So we're in co creation with divine power or whatever you like to call that higher power to

really manifest the life of your highest vision. When we hold onto those seeds of negativity, or we consider ourselves to be stuck or unworthy of more, which typically if you're negative it's because you've given up a belief that you can have more or that you deserve more, and when you give into that mindframe, it doesn't allow any cracks in your wounds for the light to get through.

So it's really hard from that space to be able to attract positivity, which is not to say you won't encounter some, but you just may not be able to recognize it when it shows up. Keep it lock. We have more coming up next. It's the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela, Ye, Chage guy. We all the Breakfast Club. Now, let's talk about this podcast. How do you give out gems in this podcast? Droppings a lot? Yeah,

you know, I'm really connected to Jessey mystifying the journey. Um. I talk about thinking like my own musings, observations I'm having about the world, observations I'm having about myself as I do the work. I have guests on. You know, I had Charlemagne on the show talking about really unpacking his journey. I would love to have you, Envy. I would love to have you Angela. So note to self, stunt on them real quick. Well, we were just on

a little vacation in Mexico. But that's neither at your house right, at your all Right, you're trying to get me robbed at this, I don't know what you're talking about. Um No. But so in this season, so it's really talking to people about their journeys because so many people think they can't approach this work because they don't have this ideal thing happening, or they they haven't reached this level of success. So oh, of course it's easy for you.

And it's really about getting into like the cellular level of like how did that switch start happening and how did you start allowing yourself to see the world differently and to shift? And in this season, I'm really excited because we're deep diving into a lot of metaphysics. I have incredible guests coming on the show, people doing deep work and decolonizing the mental health field, joy and pleasure work, really bringing pleasure to the forefront as a way to

help women heal using orgasms to manifest. We talk about that on the show that what yeah, yeah, we're getting there. You know, there's a lot of facets to this wellness. It's not just meditation. There's so many healing modalities and so many tools to be on this journey, and so this season I'm really trying to unpack it. So for people that are like, oh, I can't meditate, there's no way,

or oh that looks weird. This looks weird. I'm really looking to present so many different entry points for this path. How did you break through with Shamagne? I mean, because you know we talk, I mean, I mean with being honest. You know, Shallemagne in a long time, and you know how he was, you know, hurt people, hurt people, to make fun of people all the time. You know, how

did you get him out of that way? He's changed a little bit where you know, I'm seeing him, you know, walking outside with his bad toes, you know, hugging days and things like that, Like how did you get him to that part? Well, Charlemagne has divine light on him, so I think that has always been in his card since he was born to live this really beautifully big life. I think, you know, it's like Charlemagne gets all the

credit for that. He's done the work. You know, he's deep dived into himself, and I think that it's so hard to look at yourself for real. You know, we get so caught in this idea of shame, or this idea of what we don't deserve, or this idea that past decisions that we've made have to define what the rest of our life is going to look like, especially

with council culture. And I think it's so important that, you know, we allow people the room to stretch and to grow, like as a society, we can only expand as the highest level of consciousness that we possess. He's super woke now. Now when I see Charlemagne hugging a tree and holding a tree and walking a around in the grass, was ugly told you did not have a pedicule number two that was called grounding, sir, Okay, I was centering myself be hug insures too, So why is

that important to tell them why grounding is important? We have to get anchored, you know. So when we're on earth and we're experiencing this human experience as spiritual beings, we have to ground We have to remember to get centered. And a great mechanism to do that is connecting with nature and really being able to behold the functions of the world and behold God's beauty and God's grace, and

it's so important to do breathwork. It's so important to plant your feet in soil, to plant your feet in the ground, to get restored, to experience sunshine on your skin and really hold space, to be mindful in those moments, and to experience all the little joys that come with it. You know, Devi is so important. You know, she's one

of the most important people in my life. But the reason I feel you're so important to the coach it is because you are hip hop you know, I'm saying, watching you grow from Tupac the DPOC has been one of the greatest joys in my life. And I want to ask you, like, what what did Tupac do to open up your third eye? Uh? You know, the thing that I thought that I always connected to so deeply with Tupac was how multifaceted he was and how awake he was at such a young age. You know, we

forget and obviously are there problematic lyrics. Was there some problematic behavior, one hundred percent, But most of what we saw of Pak was him twenty four and under and the fact that he was able to showcase the array of human emotions and human experiences I always connected to. You know, I've always, always, since I was a little girl, been fascinated by transformation. You know, Pac said it so well, he he and figures, these really archetypal figures like him,

like Oprah. You know, they sparked the They spark that thing in your brain that lets you know you can have more, you can think more, you can be more. Yeah, and you know, for for us all I think, because we all know dev on our you know, on a different type of level for different purposes. But I've always trusted you, So I trust in this. Oh, Angela, thank you. Me and Angela used to be in the streets. I want to bring it up, you know. But yeah, Earl

trips to Miami and the streets in LA and New York. Yeah, I want to talk about your book real quick. I want to talk about Crystal Bliss, because you know Crystal Bliss. I wanted what did it benefits of gyms and crystals? Dev sends me, Jim, she sends me crystals. I buried something that tree you saw me hugging. I buried something at the root of that What did it benefits of gyms and crystals? Yeah, crystals are such a beautiful accompaniment.

And you know, I think there's so much education around mindfulness that has to happen for the bipop community because it's so much of it is misunderstood or people were giving given false narratives through different systems of belief of what to stay away from. But people don't really even know, you know, what these things are or what they do. And I think crystals are such a beautiful accompaniment to whatever work that you're doing. They harness so much beautiful

energetic power. And it's believed that you know, crystals, different crystals. There's hundreds, you know, sometimes into the thousands, even though those aren't readily available, but there's so many to choose from, and they all emanate energy. You get upset when you see people who seem to be like, you know, using it's like performative wellness. You know, they're selling crystals there, they're practicing, they're teaching mindfulness and like, but they really

haven't done the work. Yeah, I think, you know, I wanted to say, I get upset about it. I think it's dangerous for the people that are perhaps spending money or buying into things with someone who just isn't ready to teach yet. I think we all possess the ability to be teachers and guides for other people based on

the work that we do. But this is the era of the expert, right, Like, this is the era where everybody is marketing themselves and selling themselves, and so I just think it's important that if you do feel called to be in this field, you do the work. When you do this trauma work, it's so sacred. You don't want to open people up to this raw space and then not have the tools to help them navigate through it. Debi Dad Dropping Gym's podcast will be out today everywhere

that you listen to podcast via the Black Effect. iHeartRadio podcast network. Dev you know I love you with all my heart. I love you so much and everybody, if you want to meditate with me every day, download the choper app. I lead daily meditation seven days a week. There. I love you, guys, Love you too. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, um, it's time to end on a

positive note. You have a positive no positive note. It simply don't let the behaviors of others destroy your inner piece. Breakfast Club, you don't finish it, y'all dumb.