Taking Accountability ( 42 Dugg and Dr Rheeda Walker interview)

come up, respecting. Good morn in usc yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo. Good morning, angela ye dam Manning's Amy and Charlotmagne the guy. Peace to the planet. Is Monday, Yes, it's Monday. Back to the work week. Start of another work week. Andy got some fresh fresh Beiji ain't on this morning. I'm gonna looks it looks very more, it looks more natural.

I don't know what you're talking about. You went out the country and you got the right person to get it done this time. I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, all right, I just came back from working from Uh. I don't want to say I wasn't on vacation because I didn't take vacation days because I still came to work, right, So I just came back to rob Yeah, in a robe. So I just came back from working remotely. That's what I'll call. You told everybody where you were last week.

I don't know why you're not saying it now. I mean, I'm not. I wasn't. It wasn't actually vacation because I worked. So I was just working remotely in Copples me and my wife's anniversary. But I had a great trip, Glad to be back, mister kids, had a wonderful vacation, well whatever you want to call it, just you call it a vacation now, just me and the wife. It was just a good time to reset and just kind of just reconnect. And it was a great, great weeklu Dollar

hairline artists out there, they did a great job. Goodness great. Just such a hater. I'm just giving them props, right, I'm giving you cople my nice ten And now now you don't know it's all that even staring at me all morning, excuse me, well, excuse me. Y's how to start, I want to say I want to say happy birthday to NATORI was her birthday and over the weekend she bought a house in Brooklyn, nice, so she had a little gathering at her house. So I just want to

shout out the Tori was a really amazing time. We played Taboo. I haven't played that in so long. I feel like Tom Tore notting right, Tasha from Power Yes, okay, huh and um yeah. So we were celebrating her birthday, her new house. She's engaged all of those things. So she's having a great twenty twenty one already. And she has a new show that we that got picked up, which we discussed on the Breakfast Club. Well, congratulations to NATORI, Good morning the Tori. Well today on the show, we

got a bunch of special guests joining us. We have four two Doug joining us for two, Doug for two, Dug from Detroit. Right, yes, yes he is. I'm glad y'all staying four too, because I'll be saying forty two. It looks like telling you it's forty it's four two. We keep telling you, all right, well forty two Doug. Yeah, when I met him, I no Wady call him four two. He's really like that? Right? No, he's yes, not for it too. Did we even ask him why were calling

for Yeah? Okay, I'll find out. I like the guy though, you know, short for two wis, but I've never paid not not that short to me, not too far from you. Okay, I get it now, all right? And also doctor Rita Walker, right, oh man. Doctor to Walker is the author of one of my favorite reads, The Unapologetic Guy, The Black Mental Health. You know, I give it out on this radio every morning, and it's mental health away in this month. So why not talk to doctor Rita Walker? All right? A lot

to talk about, and we got front page news. What we're starting off for you? Yes, and let's talk about boxing. Everybody's excited for this next match, all right, we'll get into it next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Hey morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlemagne the guy we are to Breakfast clublet's getting some front page news. NBA

playoffs all right. The Bucks beat the Heat one on nine, one on seven, The Mavericks beat the Clippers thirteen, one on three, The Nets beat the Celtics one on four, ninety three. The Trailblazers beat the Nuggets one twenty three, one on nine now to seventy six. Is beat the Wizards one twenty five on eighteen. The Sons beat the Lakers ninety nine ninety last night. Oh my gosh, what a great game. You talking about our Brooklyn Nets. I already said him. Hawks beat the Knicks one oh seven

to one oh five. That was a great game. The Knicks played very hard. You know what I'm saying. Trey Young is just he was an unstoppable force in the in the fourth. Corranda was off last night, and he was off the whole game. Well, yeah, he was off. I don't remember. Yeah, he was. I think he only had thirteen points. He was off. He wasn't himself. And the Grizzlies beat the Jazz one twelve, one oh nine. The energy in the garden was very pure. It was great,

okay until they lost and then it was dead silence. Yeah, you shut them up? Did it? Did what we got out of the games? Now what else we got? You? Well? Manny Pakia has announced that he's gonna be fighting Earls in Vegas and August. So this is the first time he's fighting sinc. Heb Keith Thurman back in July twenty nineteen, and he went on Twitter to reveal his plans. So he also said, I love to challenge the top guy, and that's the top guy according to him, pound for pound. Yeah,

that's gonna be a great fight. Earl Spence is gonna watch Manny Pacial. But it's gonna be a great fight in the sense that you'll get to see Earl Spence, you know what I mean. I don't know how many people actually pay attention to Earl Spence and how great he is with Manny Pacio's a star, So he'll bring a lot of eyes to that fight. Yeah, set up. Earl Spence is going to watch Mandy Pack, of course he is. I just you know, Pakial is way from from his prime in my opinion. So is it a

fight that you guys really are looking that forward? I'm not looking forward. Mean, listen. It's a good match, it's a good it's a good it's a good set of names. But Earl Spence is gonna wastch Manny pac I agree, all right, and let's talk in more sports. Simone Biles, twenty four year old USA Gymnastics superstar. This went viral when she did the near impossible your Chinko double pike. She did it not once, but twice during a practice

session and then over the weekend she nailed it. So people are saying she is one of the greatest gymnasts the world has ever seen. Did y'all see this video? I did, I haven't seen killed it amazing everywhere and they're saying that no woman has ever attempted this in previous competitions, and it was a historic event. She wore a leotard that had goat on it, so people were she killed that and the five hundred and fifteen million

dollars Mega Millions jackpot. That winning ticket was sold in Pennsylvania. It's the ninth largest jackpot awarded in the history of the game. So yes, lottery officials did announce Friday, somebody in Pennsylvania has it. It's the third time someone in Pennsylvania has won a Mega Millions jackpot since the lottery

game began in two thousand and two. Yeah. No, more of a defeating feeling than you know, driving down the highway and you see the big sign for the powerball in the Mega Millions and I saw it this morning and saw that had dropped down to twenty million, and so you almost kill yourself reaching for your wallet, you know what I mean, just to see and then when you see him, like damn the hea. They didn't get it. I don't even do that number igle Google. I just

google and see what the winning ticket was. But you get win something, No, you gotta still got a check. I've won four dollars quite a few times. Definitely. Yes, it's about to be at heat wave. I appreciate it. The first heat wave of the season started yesterday and they're saying it's going to continue into the work week for much of the eastern US and so over thirty percent of the US population will experience temperatures of at least ninety degrees are higher this week. So I'm just

giving y'all little heads out. I love it. And that is your front page news, all right, Get it off your chest eight drink five eight five one oh five one. If you need to hit us up right now, phone lines or wide open again. The numbers eight on drink five eight five one oh five one is the breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you man from you on the breakfast club, you got something on your mind? Hello?

Who's this jay? What up? Men? Getting off your chest? Man? I'm just mad. I do and I hide this contract that I gave him the positive to my fence. Man, this man I took my money. I've never heard from him. Damn it. Man. Well, I tell everybody. I mean, have you been to one of my seminars or though? And what did I tell you? I tell you never pay the contractors half. You buy the supplies yourself and you pay him hourly. That way you don't get got You

didn't listen to nothing we said. You know what I'm saying. I bought the house. I have bought the house already. I lost the money. Oh you lost the money already. Okay, But I tell I tell everybody out there, if you do buy a house that needs some repairs and you have to deal with a contractors, be careful because a lot of contractors all comes. The best way to protect yourself is to buy the supplies. If you got to put up a fence, you buy defense yourself, and then

you paid them hourly to do the work. So that way it saves you a lot of money, and it also saves you a lot of a time and getting got like yourself, sir, Yeah, I appreciate. It's just something man. I'm an operator. Yeah, way, y'all never love to the water. To the water operators. Man, we shout to all the water operators out there. What is the water operator? By the way, the water operators, we take care of them. We pulled water from the ground deepos to your house

drinking water. We're so essential fire department, hospitals. We even pay the police department bills. Man. Wow, yeah, we're still not We're still not deemed to be essential. I'm gonna be honest with you. I've never even heard of a water operator, sir. I never even thought about it. But I mean, yes, y'all are incential one fifty man like I'm talking about. Wow. Wow, congratulations, King Swooth, all the water operators out there, you have a good one. Man.

I'm sorry about you. Yea, then getting you for five k brothers, No, No, it's all good. I appreciate y'all listening every day. All right, brother you too, Now get it off your chest. 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. Wake up, wake up, wake your time to get it off your chest, your man blass. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello. Who's this name?

Oh my god, good morning, good morning to day, good morning your name, good morning. I love you. I love you more right now, Oh my god, I love you. I'm so much okay for my name esterday. I'm from Michigan. I want to spend about your ash. I just don't work. I gotta weight on right now under this past. We gotta work safety glasses. My mask is bocket up my glasses. I'm just already fast. You got a lot of cessuries going on. You got wigs, you got glasses, you got mask.

I got filled my head and stuff like. It's just fooling right now. I can't up get hot outside. I work in a plan. I'm just over it. Well, I don't know what to tell you. That's the area, that's the that's the area that we're living right now, right. I just wanted to get off my chest while I'm here. Can I sign out my podcast? It's called Single until Mary Podcast on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. I would love it y'all check it out. Gave me y'all canon. Y'all really

really inspired me to turn my podcast. Okay, I have a good one. All right, Hello, who's this? What's going on? Front page? Front page? What I brother? Get off your chests? Man? Oh man. First of all, I just wouldn't say, y'all breath god son, absolutely absolutely and this family. Now, I told you guys before we had the question how this virus got here? And I'm talking about the coronavirus because we see you the news down. It wasn't temperate me

at the last just telling you this now. So this is what I wanted to get on my chest now because like pos about the Camps rail and how this thing got there and said, like this camp tells you with Keim's rail, I got to have the too, how it got here? Yeah, I haven't seen. What are you talking about? On the news they said COVID was tampered within labs. What are you talking about? I'm talking about

who and who has labs. I'm talking about the financial institutions that paid for this enhancement of the virble to get it to transfer trans form from the backs to the UNI. Oh yeah, I don't have that. I don't have that news. What YouTube channel is that that you was watching? I know you too. Come up. We got it all on Fix, you got it on CNA. This is at were they They weren't saying anything but the bat.

They were saying that they were looking for creating a vaccine and somehow it got out, was what they were What they were saying, just like any other virus that's in the lab somewhere right now. They're making vaccines for any other virus. But with this type of level of content of contamination they have Level four type of security is the type of all facilities they use to like regular talking, and they're dealing with dealing with high you

have to get changes. What the point is you're saying it is faked, But how did it get to New York City and explode for him to like this? This is what we got to start questions and we can't say we don't know, but we do know. They to us what I was saying all the time, let's just thinking these clouds are that bill g running over your head, which is calcium box state stuff. It's just terrible. We got to stop saying we don't look. Can we talk about this on Thursday. It's Monday. I can't. It's too

much for me right now. It's too much for me. Do YouTube. University classes are a bit much. I don't like. Let's wait till a third exist in China though, too. I don't know. It's Monday. I wasn't even be honest with you. I wasn't even listening to him. And I hate listen more than just New York too. I believe I don't think it was just New York. Can we confirm that, the confirm that more than yeah, I don't know if COVID was anywhere. I think COVID was just

in New York. I'm not sure, y'all. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If you need to vet hit us something that we got rumors on the way, Yes, and let's talk about the Billboard Music Awards that were on last night. Did you see Drake with his son and Donna's super cute? Sure did, and we'll talk about it next. To keep a lock This to Breakfast Club, Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It's about report Angela Yee

on the Breakfast Club all right well. The Billboard Music Awards were yesterday, and some of the top winners were the weekend. He took home ten awards that night, including Top Artists and Top Mail Artists. Pop Smoke got five, including Top New Artists, Top Rap Artists, Top Mail Rap Artists, and Top Billboard two hundred Album and Top Rap Album. That's huge, tropp Smoke and everybody else. They well deserved that one. That album was great, all right now and

other news. Michelle Obama saluted Alicia Keys at the Billboard Music Awards. She was celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Songs in a Minor, which came out on June fifth, two thousand and one, when she was only nineteen years old. Here is Michella. That was I'm Falling. Yeah, I think you don't know my name? Jesus Alicia, Yeah way. An artist. Alicia is not just an artist. She's also an advocate for women and families around the world, a leader on

social justice, a wife, a mentor, a mother. But most of all, she is herself, and in bearing her true self, she calls us all to do the same in our own lives and for each other. Alicia, you are such a shining light. You inspire me and my daughters and millions of fans all around the world. No, you don't know my name? Was the second that was on the Diary of Alicia Keys. You're thinking of, how come you don't call me? Maybe? Yeah? And girlfriend, that's the one

with ODBC. What what? What all got you? But even still twenty years ago? My god? All right? Now, other people who were on the stage, now you don't know my name? No, you don't on the diary last got you? All right? Trade the Truth also got the Changemaker Award, And here he is giving his speech. It's important to change people lives. It's important to change the thoughts of those who give up at times, and it's important to change things that wasn't designed for our best interest. For me,

you know, I come from the streets. We gotta protect our women, we gotta protect our children, we gotta protect our elders. It's time for us to change the middle and control our own story right about now. It's about stepping up, not taking no for answer. And if you know me, you know I never back down and most of all, never give up. But one last thing, too, dang, your camera were still gonna need justice for Brianna Taylor to trade the truth. I'm glad trade the truth is

who he is and what he is. But man, I would love to hear him doing a quiet storm. He got a great quiet storm voice. Yeah, trade the tooth is amazing. Just to see everything that he's been doing in the community, even though he's um you know, had to go through a lot of obstacles. Yeah, never let up all right. In addition to that, Drake was honored as the Artist of the Decade and he had his son at Dinas, which was really cute, on the stage with him. And here is he did like a whole

opening video. I'm supposed to believe in his light skin, R and B face crying on every song. Does he even write his own song? I promise you this is never gonna work. Even if he had a co sign. Okay, best I ever had was a cute one. But he needs another one, now, another one, you know what. Okay, he did it, but can he do it again? No again? No again? You know what? It was just a lucky guy, Drake shure to let me write that critique. Sounds like

they did not. I would have been okay, if it's one if it's one thing I'm good at, its building the case. It died against the Drake, and you could have just pulled audio from the breakfast club. Drake, all right right here. The Brown was also in the video too, and he gave part of this intro. Are we sure?

It's luck? Nine number one albums, six number one songs, a record, two hundred and thirty two songs on the Billboard charts, forty five top ten chart positions, the most of any artist ever, the first artist of debut at number one, two and three simultaneous more weeks on the Hot one hundred than Elvis Preston, Elton John Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, most stream artists of all time. It's not Lucky, my good friends, it's Sotain death sine. I think that.

I think that's obvious, dropping the clues, bonds for drinkers, It's obvious. Drake, It's undeniable. Yeah, Drake is who God wants him to be. That's it, simple as that, all right, well, DNAs, Like we said, Drake's three year old son was on stage with him to accept the award, and at one point he did burst into tears. But it was really cute. He was holding on to his dad's leg, like, who are all these people in front of us listen to this speech? I'm really self conscious about my music. I

rarely celebrate anything. And just for anyone watching this that's wondering how this happened, it's being so unsure how you're getting it done that you just kind of keep going in the hopes of figuring out the formula. The fear of losing it keeps you up at night. I didn't really write a grandiose speech about how to make it work or what it took because I don't quite understand it myself. I know that I've spent an incalculable amount of hours trying to analyze all the things I did wrong.

But tonight, for once, I'm sure as hell we did something right. So hey, sound like he's using that anxiety just to fuel the man. So drop on a clues, Monster, Drake. Hey, So tap Latin artist was Bad Bunny. Top Latin male artists Bad Bunny. Top Latin female artist was Carol g Award on TV I think, so yeah, that's a huge category. Top R and B female artist was Doja Cat and top R and B Mail artist was the weekend. So there's just some of the winners, Best rop album, pop smoke. Yeah, okay,

all right, well that is your rumor reports. All right, thank you, miss yet Now we got front page. Who's next? What we're talking about? Man, this story is going to break your heart. This was one of the hardest things to watch. And of course it has to do with the police. All right, we'll get into that. Next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, So Breakfast Club, your morning's

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NBA playoffs quickly. The Bucks beat the Heat, Mavericks beat the Clippers, the Nets beat the Celtics, Trailblazers beat the Nuggets. Seventy six is beat the Wizards, the Sons beat the Lakers, the Hawks beat the Knicks, and the Grizzlies beat the Jazz. Now let's get right into it what we're talking about. Man, Now, this is really really hard to watch. M D'artavias Barnes. He got stopped for our traffic stop and police officers. And this was back in April twenty twenty that this happened.

They actually took his daughter's ashes, his two year old daughters ashes out and said that it tested positive for math. Listen to what happened was something awesome. The far too. It's like molly or ecstasy crushed up. Now y'all tested positive for math slash mdia Man, No, no, no, Bro, that's my daughter when y'are doing Bro, there's my daughter, bro doing that? Bro? You know you know me. Let me talk to please give me my daughter, but pull

out her in my hand. Bro. Bro. So the test kit like it did, look like it feels tested for like that my daughter. Bro, I got you. I believe you. Man, I'm gonna give it to your dad. Oh imagine that he's handcuffed, He's trying to get to the URM with his daughter's ashes and and His daughter was two years old to Naja Barnes, and she died of neglecting starvation

inside the mom's home. So the mom was actually sentenced to twenty years in prison after pleading guilty the first degree murder, and her boyfriend also was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to thirty years. So imagine you dealt with that tragedy and then you get pulled over in the traffic stop and they take your two year old daughter's ashes and lying say it tested positive. Just trauma on top of trauma. Yep, that's what it is,

and that you got to be a real sociopath. As a police officer did not even have any empathy for him and watched the weather like why would he, like, it's still give him a ticket? Like and you know him right because they know the story, they know who he is. And so they also spilled out the ashes by the way, which you mean like they spilled out some of the ashes. So now he's suing the Springfield

Police Department in federal court. He says the officers unselled the arn opened the urn without his consent and without a lawful basis, including a search warrant and then desecrated and spilled out the ashes he should get and look how nice he would still be into the officer after that. You know what I'm saying, He told the officers, thank you, just like Lord have mercy boy all right now, President Joe Biden is planning to meet with George Floyd's family

one year after his death. That's going to be tomorrow, and they're gonna miss that deadline for passing police reform legislation.

But they don't want to just pass anything. They want to make sure it's a very comprehensive bill in the family, as Tamika Mallory, which he came on the show, said, that's what the family would want also because they did have this deadline to pass to George Floyd to some policing Act which was originally introduced in June of twenty twenty and passed by and passed by the House of Representatives in March. But it's unlikely that they're going to

sign that legislation tomorrow. We don't need no symbolism, you know what I'm saying. If you like, if you're not gonna you know, get rid of qualified immunity and really have something in there. Some some real teeth in there that'll keep police officers from you know, brutalizing us. And it's pointless. So I don't just don't just pass something to say you did it just because it's the anniversary of job or get right, that's just optics. No, you

don't want optics, you want actual substance. Well, yeah, so they're not doing that, So that's the good news. They're gonna actually work on making sure that it is something that is much needed and not just pass anything with very important things taken out of it. You can't do that, all right. And there were a lot of shootings over the weekend. I'm sure you guys saw that as a man of fact. In Brooklyn. It was a helicopter flying around because somebody I guess shot someone with a gun.

It was right down the block for me, so I kept hearing that all night. And then two people were killed and twelve injured in a shooting at a birthday party New Jersey. So these two victims were aged thirty and twenty five. They died at the scene. This was in Fairfell Township. They both suffered fatal gunshot wounds and were found at at the scene. Police have not identified these victims by name. Also in South Carolina, there was a teen girl killed and fourteen people injured in a

shooting at an illegal South Carolina concert. At a fourteen year old girl was killed and at least fourteen other people injured. Multiple gunmen opened fire into the crowded concert. It was in a residential area of North Charleston at about ten thirty pm and the Naughty Bay in North Charleston.

That's horrible. But if summertime though, so you know when you talk about these heat waves and you talk about things getting the eighties something degrees and ninety something degrees, yes, we're fifty cent said in the hood summertimes, the killing season. It's hot out this that's a good enough reason. Yeah, all right, well that is your front page news, all right. Now, when we come back, four two Doug will be joining us. We'll kick it with him. If you don't know, he's

Sun to Yo Gotti and Little Baby. He has a song with Little Baby that I'm sure you guys know. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, we paid yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, we paid. So four two Doug when we come back as the Breakfast Club, come on in the Breakfast Club. Hey, wanting everybody a DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. His albums out right now four two doug Ladies and gentlemen for two? Is that?

What's that? Peace? Can you? Would you wouldn't call us an album? Would you? Freedom by freedom boys wouldn't call it Abut like okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Everybody say projects, So I don't mean knowing now yes, but so classifying that. I feel like it's as far as somebody worked out. I wonder what's the what's the science behind it? Like why did they say, you know, it's forty nine minutes long, it's a bunch of songs. Why they said it's a project and not album? I wonder what the trying to

keep people? And I'm deal straight up, how did you get your name? For two dug people? I don't know? Uh, well, my name really dugga. And follow to that, just you know, me and my home boys putt together on the positives that far as making music go, it's really dugged. So we I shorten it from dougga dog and follow to go, oh they go to Ceo though, God he was happening together. Is hap to belate you had to let birthday Bernie.

But I want to say, this is an unusual situation because you're signed to both your guidy and little Baby so and itself and partners. Okay, you know what I'm saying, So talk about that because I know, um, that's unusual. It's not like you already had a situation together. I mean it was what you mean about unusual, I mean, because y'all it's not like you guys already have other artists signed together. Yeah, I was just hustle, you know what I'm saying, Like, baby hustle. I'm a hustle, Doug

a hustle. It's no different than you know, three three dudes getting money together. But how did it happen? Like, how did come about? How did you meet up? I'm gonna dog to y'all, Well, I met I'm a baby gambling in la uh me and T pushed up on one time man right during the bat TiO wards. You know, we were just kicking how we're kicking. I never told him I rap though, so he really ain't know a rat. You know what I'm saying, You just thought you was

good with the day. Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. So I met him again after that gabble again, So was you busting his ass? Yeah? How much you want? I probably want like hundred dollars damn okay, yeah, second time, we probably want like but you know, me and him just kicking and just kicking it regularly. And then I caught him one time. He was in Miami with his brother and shot caught him and when they picked up, they was rapping my song. It's right one of my song.

You know what I'm saying. And he didn't know what you Yeah, he his brother had told him this, dug, so he was happened going crazy. So I was recording I'm talking and he like, come out to Atlanta with me. But then gott he came to Detroit. You know what I'm saying. Gott He came to Detroit to do a performance and hit me like my my daddy boy called me with Gotty on the phone. You know what I'm saying something, I'm like, you know what I'm thinking. They're

playing it. So when you're like, yeah, I got a concert that you're finking with it, I'm like, hell yeah, so I pulled it up on he he bringing me out and the hesis then you know what I'm saying, It's just been the whole groupe thing. Was How is it growing up in Detroit as as a screet artist? Was it hard? Like? Did the radio embrace you or go with me? Okay, okay, let me off the get go like the Detroit as I used to do high school tourists. You know, That's how I really got doing

a high school tourists. So the radio was behind me. Can we talk about this song to your mom too? Because you said you got out of jail right, So that song you were apologizing to your mother yea for getting locked up and then you violated your parole. What happened? It wasn't I want to apologize. I want to apologize to her from getting locked up. I was apologizer to her for getting kicked out of boot camp. You know what I'm saying. So I did. I was supposed to

do fall four months. So I had like four years in and one month and they was gonna send me the last ninety days. They sent me to boot camp to dude ninety days. So I did like thirty seven days and then I ended up getting kicked out. I ended up catching a serious so I ended up getting kicked out, And like they gave me your phone call before I went back to prison, like car your emergency content.

I called my mom. Man, I just can feel it, like in her voice, like she was up, like she complete, like I blew you know what I'm saying, I blew coming. So they sent me straight to the hole and and I like made the song like as as the muscling. You started rapping in prison, right? Yeah? And how old were you? I said, probably like nineteen? Okay? What made

you start with med? You start rhyming like you just I was in the whole, like stressed out of that bit, like the whole like you, well, you can come out one hour after day. I was in there for like sixty days straight. So that's very inhumane to play somebody in the hole for sixty days. Shop they posted gave me some money for that, like all the all the youth offenders they sued the state. Everybody got money. But I was already wrap you rapping before that? Or you

started rapping in prison? Like how did you learn? You know? The sixteen bars? It was just straight rapping, Like how did you learn nauset. I didn't know sixt I didn't know none of us. You're trying to stay seen, Yeah, rapping about being hungry like turn visible. I'm never stretched out. So rapping was like, I'm just putting together. The ship so weak. When I first heard it was so weak, I threw the what was you rapping about? Like give us an example? Like you know what I'm saying. So

they gave they give you penny pad in the whole. Okay, okay, I don't think they give you a pad. They give you. I was writing their on like my legal work, so I write rapped on the back of my league work. But it was so weak. I ripped this ship up. But I ended up going back to the whole again for for another little some bullshit, and then I fig I figured out, like, yeah, when did you realize that

you had it? That it wasn't wasn't trash. When he was like, oh no, I could do this my second time in all my second time in the whole, I'm like this stern stun. Okay, you remember the rap um dude. Yeah, So it's a song called free Minds that I made, and the rap I had was like if I had it out of scene. You know it's out. Though I ended up doing the song. I had up actually recording one of my first songs. Yeah, I know the rap though it was hard. I feel like you used to

get into a lot of fights in jail. Like people probably used to try you because he because he inside. I want to say, try me. But you know what I'm saying. I was one of them uffs that always talking. So you gotta put you gotta think. Put me in that muffle, surrounded by people who got life thirty years. You know what I'm saying, I got four years. Damn. You know what I'm coming from me down or like me saying no, Like you know what I said about putting in there, sat your head and that beach doing

all day. So you know what I'm saying. I got a lot of that. But everybody, I knew a lot of people, and I knew a lot of people in jail. All right, we got more with four two Dug. When we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, goodbody wanting. Everybody is DJ Envy and lu Yee Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with four two Dug. I wasn't like just growing growing up in Detroit, like you know, was just always was you always in

the street? Was it dice? Did you ever focus on school or just what? So? I probably call my first case at Twilve. You know what I'm saying, trying to get your money back from the dude, Nah my fadder, stolen car and man I saw the God I had like bad look or something. I'm gonna I can't even drag you feel. But all I knew it was the keys was right there and a curse. So I'm like, you know, I was cleaning up, so I'm like where you don't even go to the back. He goes to

the back. I dass in his car, my dads and his curse, and my mother looked so bad. Soon as I bag about the car, police frowned at my You know what I'm saying, why man was stolen too? As you, oh, he stole it. I don't know who stolen. I thought you were saying you stole his card. The cars already stolen. No, I'm like, I mean his got you know what I'm saying. So when they pull up, she was looking crazy. As soon as they pull up and shout I like third

them on verse he hit the police car. When I hit that bitch, I like rolled out of that bitch like James Vonne, I was far instantly soon as I fall, police hit me and my mother boom, taking you chilling. So then I had a little cases car, stolen car, pistel cake, you know what I'm saying like that, So but it's still far growing up with me because we did the city embrace you now Okay, yeah, yeah, what is it like when you go back? Because the trade has been the more like you know what I'm saying,

I put them though. If it was up to me, I want to left. You know, but who who told you to leave? Who told you that the move would be to go to etail guy? He told me, My lawyers told me, everybody, everybody like man, you need to forget about this ship. But you know, work rise. It's probably easier to be because if you're in Atlanta, there's a lot of artists that recorded and work out there. Yeah, for show, you show a bump it to a lot of not a bumped it to a few different muff

So that's a good thing. But on the negative, satisfy you don't know nobody match. Moving somewhere where you don't know nobody. You can't really go outside and none of that because you out of bomb, you can't go there just be going on places you don't know who, area, you don't know what's going on. So that's the only minus. I don't cat about Atlantic because I don't know nobody. I really can't hang you know, I ain't know inside the house, muff. I'm gonna let's go have fun. Go.

Didn't have everything. That's for the best, right studio, Yeah, it's got he is moving. It's moving a mandatory adjustment when you're making you know that, that that transition from the streets to the rap game. I once say it's a mandatory thing. I still got cribs in Memphis, you know what I'm saying. But it's just a situation who who you are, what you're doing, and what you was doing before you were successful, you know what I'm saying.

So I relate to it going through because I had the same issues in Memphis with the police, you know what I'm saying. When they know you from a certain life before you was successful in music, they don't never forget that. Like even though you may start doing this, they still look at you as this. So you know, your your name just gonna be everything even happened really

around your way, you know what I mean. So anything that happened around your way, they don't connect you to or try to connect you to it, or feel like you had something saying it or you know what I mean. So I think for me that what I've seen happening with a little bro, you know what I mean, like a lot of you know, you know, we don't get into it too much, but you know a lot of things they were trying to legal. They were trying to put them in like they did to the wrong Like

he wasn't even in Detroit. Like dam I'm saying, like he wasn't even Detroit. And know what I mean, we know he he was. That was show. So when we started saying that happening and we like, bro, they on they own you too. They own you too much like they after you. I mean, like when they lie on so when they get that's you know what I mean. Police and like told told the judge, they sent me

like good. Police told the judge. They said, like y'all didn't get no license or nothing, like no I identified I'm as fortune dude, I know how how you look. I know who he is. It was I'm not even in Detroit, Damn, you know what I'm saying. So they like took me like you know what I'm saying? Like crazy? Does that make you have to think about your lyrics too, because you know they'd be paying attention to what you're

saying songs? Yeah, ball really be one to say you know what I'm saying because you know what I'm saying. It shouldn't be like that. I don't know what I did. You know what I'm saying, what I'm doing, You know what I'm saying. How y'all not focused on what I'm doing? Yeah, that's what I ain't get. You know what I'm I'm like, should be crazy to me? Like I just had a court day about I can't lad on me and you

know what I'm saying. My lawyer like, I want to go past the preliminary hearing, but I'm telling lawyer like, bro, I need to hear him tell you. I want to see him tell the judge he saw me. I need to see that. I don't believe it, Like I don't believe he said. I don't tell him. I don't believe he said this. He like, Man, you know what I'm saying, this is what's the best You beat the case story, don't know and I was still fighting it. That says that you even got to do with that if you

can't show that you wasn't even there. It's just because it costs money, right to have to show that I wasn't there. The head say show show for this day. You know what I'm again, that gets the plan. Yeah,

they won't even tell you what data happened. They throw three days out there like all right, and I proven you was at four three d You know what I'm saying, like that you fucked up their money, Doug, because you know you're the guy that's gonna come out of the city and empower so many other kids and keep them from going to prison. That's what they gotta be about something. I'm sewing that as you go to the please what

got to just la at them? Yeah? You know what I'm saying, You gotta get sued straight up when y'all gonna stop. Like I'm a husterrage right now. I ain't even put in to get off this Mouther just so they know where I'm at damn that I intended. I wouldn't. I don't even want to get off this mother. Ye damn. You know what I'm saying. That makes sense crazy when you when you sgar to get off, I don't know. I ain't put it in for it. I'm like, I need to be on this mother so they can keep

playing with me. You know what I'm saying, y'all can't say I'm here because this Motherfu's gonna tell y'all ramen. You know what I'm saying. Where you decided before you went to Prisondent and started rapping, what did you think you were gonna do your money? What I was gonna do. I ain't care what it was. If you win in one hundred thousand thousand days games, I think you're doing it right. Man? That was cool. They know what I'm saying. I was gonna figure some shot out. What's the most

you ever lost? Though? So over a period of time, I probably lost like eight hundred thous You know what I'm saying. This like right after I get SIGND like, you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm at my best. I got all the money in the world, but the motherfuckers They know I'm good on my hands, so they made me start shooting out a cup, you know what I'm saying. So I lost like three months straight like without a win. Let me tell you the bus got it yet? Win that yet? All right? We got more

with four two dug when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela yee. Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with four two dug Dy. What's what's your playing? Got it? You got all these artists, I'm sure towards opening up as soon as the world opens back up.

Now with so much success, is it one of those things you'd be like, you know what, I might sell my company or you're gonna sit back and continue all because you got so many different artists selling so many records. That's the point where what's next? For been number one two weeks? Yeah, yeah, shout the baby number one two weeks back to back. Oh no, I mean, you know this is our thing, you know well, I see it, man,

This whole thing is our thing. You ain't just me, so you know I'm always gonna do what's best for everybody at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying. But we're gonna we're gonna do some a lot of things to get up. You know, just been the pandemic, so everybody wants they opened everything back up. We're gonna try to put together this tool. We all can go out together. You know a project, well we all can do. There was one project together. So we're

just letting anybody help. They biness, you know what I'm saying. They didn't when everybody to finished horn, they've been to Donna. Come together and do something now. I like the way got it like Usually you fund one artists mad at the CEO or two artists the ain't knowe ortists mad at You got anybody? We don't play no money again Gotti too cool man, you don't get mad at Gotti. So for too dug that means you have some artists sign to you also, right, So who are tell me

who your artists are? I got big money, Key, I got Dre. I gotta tell you, I got Miles, I got baby money. You know what I'm saying. I got back freebag boy Mayl. I got all this squy and got such a distinctive sound too. I think Memphis. Memphis got the best rappers right now, and I think Detroit is number two. Far city. How are you gonna switch watches in the middle of the interview that Patty Man give me, give me the diamond test, he got a diamond turn this on. I gotta I gotta let it

warm up first. Let me let me ask you a question. Ain't gotta be warm have you? Have you made the transition from the the streets to the rap game all the way? I don't. What's what's the what's more dangerous the rap game of the screets the street? But rap? I don't know go hand hand you know what I'm saying, because you gotta protect you know what I'm saying. Gonna try you rap, you know, but when my fry that take you back to the streets. You know what I'm saying.

So it's like you gotta know how to watch itself. You can't move the same as not now everybody know you, world's looking at you. You gotta lemonade, you know what I'm saying. God, what's the end game for Dog? You think not the end game? But like, you know, what's what's the next three years of Dog looked like to you, man, Doug just getting started. You know what I'm saying, Like Doug got a long way to go, He just getting started, you know what I mean. So um, and it's a

good start. You know, they have records like he has, you know what I mean, to even be a part of records that like look the Little Baby record and the record he just put out a Rady Rich the Going Crazy that's gonna be a platinum record. You know what I mean. It's the beginning of his career, you know what I'm saying. So I can't even see the end at this point because I think it's just starting. And this he got so so long to be in

the game. And you know, a year from that, two years from they ain't telling what he gonna be thinking of feeling which way he gonna want to go. You know what I mean. I'm just righting with him whichever way he want to go. I'm just in the car with him. Well you want to do duck? Uh? What do you see for yourself? What's your vision? Unemon? If I'm done rapping now, I'll talk. I'm just you know what I say, I'm just taking it as it real. I'm just trying to get better song. You know what

I said, build more relationships, take care of my family. Well, listen man forty two Doug, it was a pleasure to sit here and build with you for for a little while. Freedom Boys is out right now. Yes, what you're gonna You're gonna come back out in two weeks with another album? Hey, no, not too week. But you know what I'm saying. Right three? You did? What's next for the for the squad? Gotti? Who Who's on? Who's next on the lineup? Man? Everybody? You know what I'm saying. You know, you know we

rock over here. Like I don't pick dates. I don't pick dates. On't pick who up nicks? You know what I mean? Who were We're ready to call when they're ready to come. That's who go. You know what I mean? Like I said, everybody, everybody control their own they destination shining together. Yeah, everybody shining to get over everybody bosses. Youngster working on some I know that. I was just talking to him about that. Okay, okay, so I know Youngster coming or EStG he just turned his home in

already bag already beg in the studio. I just love him in La, don't stop. He already in the studio. So man, everybody, you know, everybody's just working. Bro, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I thought Doug and Est was a group at one point. Is they got so much I had so much music together. I was like, damn, that's what's happening with forty two Doug. Freedom Boys is out right? Now? What I say? Oh four too Doug.

My fault for too Dug. It's the Breakfast Club. This is the rumor report with Angela years on the Breakfast Club. Whoa well Tiny and Ti Son King Harris. They tried to press him and he held his ground. He actually during this alter well it was an altercation, but while they were trying to press and he went to the car, got his backpack and came back. And here's what it sounded like. All right, what's bro, that's her hand around me talking about her as you want to do something?

What's up? What's up? What hey? Man? That's Tip Boy right there? Now, leave Tip Boy alone. Now that blood line different. Okay, Tip told you I never ran back down from note man. What he did? My man? Walking out out the museum, somebody put their arm around me talking great, hey, hey, back up off me. I gotta protect myself, protection, defend myself. Can you imagine just being like, you know, a famous kid and then people is always trying to come at you crazy. Can't let that happen.

I'm gonna be a kid to feel that about. You didn't see me almost get jumped in front of this radio station. My nerves bad? Okay, all right now. Evan Orgy is reflecting on the last Insecure table read ahead of the final season in instacram. I'm so sad that this is coming to an end. But she was on Jimmy Kim Alive and here's what she said about how emotional it got the final season of Insecure? Is it getting sentimental on chet today? It did because we actually

had our final table read. Oh today was the last table read. Yeah, there might have been some stuck to your shed. There were this a little my element. But prior to the day, Ethan and I would like being on each other's like sets, our apartment sets, and we'd be like, I'm taking that when we were at no, no, no, I want that from your apartment, and so we're like calling duds at the end of the Yeah, man, that's one of my favorite shows. Did you know there's only sixteen?

I thought he was older than that. For some reason, I don't know why he's got a few of them. Maybe you might have been thinking of another, maybe another one. Maybe that's a very random Uh, you just ignore vonn Or. I'm thinking about he with to the cartograph his backpacking, but I'm thinking he's of age with I'm like, damn, he's only sixteen years old. That's which is crazy. Hold you got to be the owner gun in Jordan twenty one. Oh, bros. We don't know what it was that back then. That's

all I said. You said, you know, I didn't know it was gonna I shouldn't even assume that. Why did not even assume that? I don't know. I shouldn't have assumed that they know you're absolutely read. I should not have assumed that. All right, now, let's since we were talking about Insecure Sex in the City, that reboot is going to feature Mister Big, Aidan Shaw and Steve Brady. When it was reported that the show was coming back that reboot, they hadn't signed on mister Big and Steve

Brady yet to be part of that reboot. But now they are going to be on there, so you know that should be exciting. We also let you guys know that Kim catral Ak Samantha will not be returning for her role, so it was the fallout that she had with her other co stars on there. I could give a damn. We're gonna get us a girl Friends reboot? Okay, when we're gonna get our girl Friends mini series? How many sex in the City closures we don't get We ain't had no closure for girl Friends yet, but we

don't have seven different closures for sex in the city. Bob, mister big I wouldn't come back either. I'm like, what else y'all need me to do? He is coming back? Oh, never mind, I ain't even hear no, no, no, I'm not. As soon as you started talking about sex in the City again, don't we're here because I thought I thinking

about why we don't get more girlfriends? But whatever? All right now, Lady Gaga was discussing on The Me You Can't See, which is a new documentaries that's co created by Prince Harry and Oprah and that is to tackle the stigma of mental health. And here's what you had to say about an incident that happened to her when she was nineteen years old. As she said, she was raped and left pregnant. First I felt full on pain.

Then I went numb, and then I was sick for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks after, and I realized that it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner my parents' health. Because I was vomiting, because I'd been being abused, I was locked away in a studio for once. He send an healing energy to Lady Gaga, and she also won that name the person who did this to her. Here's what she had to say.

A producer said to me, take your clothes off, and I said no, and I left and they told me they were going to burn all my music. They didn't stop asking me, and then I just frozen. I just I don't I don't even remember. I understand this mean too movement. I understand that some people feel really comfortable with this, and I do not. I do not ever want to face that person again. M Lady Gaga. All right,

well that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, miss ye Charlemagne, who were giving that donkey two oh man four after the hour. I gotta give a donkey the day to me, Lenard McKelvey. I need to come to the front of the congregation. I like to I like to have a world myself this morning. Okay, yes, first, not the first time, guys, Relax, I know you've done it before, but we'll get into it next. It's the breakfast Club God morning, So breakfast Club. Your mornings will

never be the same. Hiring is challenging, but there's one place you can go where hiring is simple and smart. That place is zip recruiter, where growing businesses connect to qualify candidates for free at zip recruiter dot com slash breakfast zip recruiter the smartest way to hire. Time for Donkey of the Day. I'm a Democrat, so being Dunky of the day a little bit of a mic like I'm don't now I've been called a lot of my twenty three donkey wife. Donkey to day from Monday, May

twenty fourth goes to me. Leonard McKelvey. Contrary to popular belief, this is not the first time I've given myself dunkey today. Because Dunkey to day does not discriminate. I mean, I may be kind of biased towards certain people, but I don't have any bias when it comes to myself. If I'm wrong, if something I do I say doesn't sit right with my spirit, I have to apologize and do better moving forward. And that's what I'm about to do right now. I want to apologize the Kwame Brown and

Kwame Brown's family. I want to apologize to his father, Bill Brown, and the family of his father. To see last week on this radio and my attempt to defend a Charleston, South Carolina born brother like myself, I revealed too much information about that man's family. And even though all that stuff is public record, some things just don't need to be said on the radio, and they definitely don't need to be said by me when I look back.

You know, on the way I communicated that, I communicated it all wrong, and I unintentionally triggered drama and a lot of folks I grew up with, who I genuinely love. I'm sure I caused a lot of pain for not only Kwame Brown, but for his family, especially his family and my hometown amongst Corner, South Carolina. You know how I know because I spoke to a few of them. I've been on the phone this weekend with with with mothers of children and their children. Salute to Shaliba and

her daughter Brianda. I was on the phone with sisters like Wai let salute to wilet. Oh. She cursed me out good. And you know, I was apologizing for triggering them, causing them pain because I was casually discussing their family's trauma. Man, And that's something that I have to stop doing. That's something that we all have to stop doing. I was talking to my sacred purpose Coachyadi yall. But this weekend,

she's like a spiritual therapist. I have her in my clinical therapist, and that's what we were talking about, how we casually discussed each other's traumas. I didn't even think about when I spoke on you know, Kwame and his family, how many people were impacted by those things I was speaking on. I mean, that's that's generational. Okay. I caused pain and unintentionally, unintentionally poked it. People was wounds, okay, wounds that will probably never heal. And I can't take

back those words, but I can't apologize. You know, I think oftentimes we meaning black people. We fight each other with our demons, whether true or false, whatever is the worst thing we know about a person or think we think we know about the person. We defaulted that and that was not my intention. I was not in any way, shape or for him trying to paint Kwame in a negative light. Okay, that black man is not my op.

He wasn't my op when I said it. In my mind, I'm defending that man, but I should have been defending him as Leonard Charlemagne, the god McKelvey, the professional, and not Leonard Larry whatever you want to call me from Monks Corner, South Carolina, talking like I'm home in the town on why I believe they need to leave Kwame Brown alone. That was whack because the conversation didn't even

have to go there. The conversation should have been about basketball. Yes, leave Kwame Brown alone because he achieved the goal in a dream that one point three percent of NCUBAA seniors will achieve an o point oz three percent of high school seniors. You know what a smaller number that is. And you know just that's just simply being drafted in the NBA. If you played thirteen seasons and make sixty

five million dollars your success. Okay, if you work thirteen years anywhere and make that kind of money, you a success or salute to that man. The only expectations we have to live up to is our own. That's why I always say success is subjective. Okay, my views of success may be different than yours. As long as you're happy, that's all that matters. But we didn't even get into that conversation because my mind automatically went to something that didn't that it didn't even have to go to, and

doing that, I unintentionally caused trauma. And since I unintentionally caused trauma, I have to be intentional about causing healing. I'm not about to sit around and have beef with another black man for nothing. And trust me, as y'all know, I have a lot of real enemies who are gunning for me every day. Kwame Brown is not going to be one of them. Okay, I totally understand why Kalme

Brown was upset at me. I went low. That wasn't my intention, but in hindsight, it was low and Kwame took it to the floor with me, and y'all be online so excited ready to see black people go back and forth and tear each other down. I'm not doing that. I'm not going back and forth. If I feel like I wronged somebody, I'm going to apologize. That's what I think a good man does. A good man apologizes for the mistakes you know that he made, but a great

man corrects him. Hopefully I get the opportunity to do that one day, but for now, I just apologize. And I'm not beefing with a black man who's born while I was born and has family where I'm from. There's nothing on this planet that I love more than God, my family in Monk's Corner, South Carolina, the whole Low Country to eight four three, drop on a clues bonn

for to day forty three. Okay. So when I say I sincerely apologize the Kame Brown and his family and the family of Bill Brown and Monk's Corner, I mean that the only thing I'm responsible for is my energy in recognizing my own insanity. And Eckartt once said, to recognize one's own insanity is, of course the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. I truly believe if trauma can be passed down through generations. Then so can

healing me. Leonard McKelvey. I have never claimed to be perfect. In fact, I'm far from it. I'm not gonna always get it right. The same things people listen to me for is the same things they hate me for because I too much. I overshare. I overshare about myself, I overshare about others, and that has historically got me in trouble. Who we are all works in progress, and one of the most healing things you can do is recognize where

in your life you are your own poison. And last week I was poisoned the Kame Brown, Bill Brown and their families. For that, I sincerely apologize. Please let remy ma give me Leonard McKelvey, Charlemagne, the God, the biggest he hare heeha heh, you stupid mother? Are you dumb? Yes? Indeed, meeting I am dumb at times I didn't ask you drama all right? Well up next, Doctor Rita walk Away

kicking with doctor Rita Walker when we come back. This is actually a great segue because you know I always give out the book The Unapologetic Guy, The Black Mental Health by doctor Rita Walker. It's one of my favorite books of the last couple of years, and I can't wait to discuss with her. All right, we'll get into that. Next is to Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest joining us this morning, doctor Rita Walker. She is the author of The Unapologetic Guy, The Black Mental Health and it is Mental Health Awareness Month, so we couldn't ask for a better guest. Good morning, doctor Walker, Charlomagne, how you doing it? I am blessed, black and highly favored, and I'm about to ask you the same question, but I need an honest answer. Okay, how are you? I'm good. I would put my PF my psychological fortitude rating it

about a seven and a half. Okay, wow, why is it like that this morning? Just because it's in the semester grades are done. My dog is behaving and I can't complain. I really just can't complain. Absolutely, I'm glad to hear that. Well, you know it is. It is mental Health Awareness Month, and I have a lot of different questions I want to ask, you know, number one in the pandemic. I don't think none of us are

the same as we were before the pandemic. How do you think the pandemic moving forward will affect our social skills? Because I feel a little bit awkward when I'm out and around a lot of people, more so than usual. How do you think it will impact our social skills? First and foremost, everybody has to be aware of how they're feeling about it, you know, and how they're feeling about being out in public and interacting with folks. We had our first birthday party this weekend and folks ask,

and I appreciate it, like are you hugging? You know, what are you doing? And I had to be comfortable saying like, yeah, I'm not really ready to hug right now, and we have to be honest about that. And I get it, you know, there's a lot of pressure, and also you want to hug people, right like, we haven't seen a lot of folks in a long time, and we want to connect, but we have to be aware and just honor, you know, our own feelings and our own anxieties about what it means to connect with other

people right now. You know, I think the pandemic made people see themselves for the first time, and a lot of folks have feelings they may not have had before. So the depression and the anxiety, they got it, but they don't really know what it is. How can people

identify those illnesses in themselves and maybe in others? Well, you know, I try to talk about that in the book because in a lot of ways, we normalize mental health issues, so we somehow figure out how to navigate overwhelming anxiety and depression in a way that we couldn't

hide from it when we were in the pandemic. Basically, and any individual, I will always say, if there is something about your level of worry or your level of not being interested in being bothered with people impacts your day to day life and your happiness, then there's probably time to at least get an assessment. So whenever people talk to a mental health professional they think, well, that means I'm crazy, and so I need somebody to help

me with my crazy. Well, it starts with an assessment and that individual being able to say, Okay, tell me how you're doing with this or is this problem showing up in different situations in your life with different relationships,

and is it out of proportion to what? And so maybe other people have said like, yeah, that thing that you do right there, like it's problematic, and they help you evaluate how much of the issue is actually a problem for you or is it just something that's if you syncratic to you, like just part of who you are. Because you know, we can't all be the same. How do you deal with someone who you know is like Okay, they clearly need to get some professional help, but they

don't see it. I smile, Angela. You know, that's the number one question that I get. And the short answer, unfortunately, is that is that you can't. I'll give you the reverse scenario. Imagine that there's something that you're doing and somebody's saying to you like you need to get help for that, You need to stop that, like are you trying to hear them? Oftentimes no, and you feel like, well,

they don't know me, they don't know my life. Like we come up with reasons, and so I think the bridge in there is to say to that person, I'm concerned about filling a blank and then say, you know,

I am here for you to support you. If it's something that you want to talk about, you know, maybe it's something that you want to get some help with I am here for you, so that they don't feel put upon and that they really do get that you you're coming to them from a loving and caring place rather than being judgmental, which we can do oftentimes, you know, but we're not judging or people hear it is judgment And what you want them to hear is that you

care and your concern and you want to support them wherever they are, Doctor Walker, What if it's something that's like serious though, like you feel like they need medical I mean, and I hate to even say someone quote needs medication, but like a real serious thing where you feel like you know they're upside to two downs and they're coming up with speos in their head. It could

even be as serious. We're not I'm not a doctor, but it could be schizophrenia, it could be bipolar disorder and that person really needs help and you're scared that they might harm themselves, like in this country, what can you do for somebody that if they're not trying to seek that help and they don't see it, but you

know it's a real medical concern. Well, you said something that was important in there, and that is that person is a harm or danger to themselves, or maybe they're a danger to someone, and that's a different level of intervention that is calling for, And especially when they're in the place of crisis, like you feel like they're in crisis, or at any moment, they could be in crisis and

they might not be here tomorrow. If you don't intervene at that point, you actually have to call emergency services. And I pause it that I got to tell you because I know that emergency folks don't always know how to deal with mental health issues and crises, especially in our community. But at the same time, that's about the only thing that you can do because you can't intervene, like you don't have the physical willpower or you don't have what it takes to be able to maybe restrain them.

But if you have concerns about them being in crisis, then you have to call it nine one one, let them know the circumstances, make sure you're there, make sure someone else is present to protect that individual. But short of that, short of them being in crisis, you have to be diligent. Go check on them every day, tell them what your concerns are, tell them that you think that if they keep doing X, Y, and z your fear.

You have to share your fears because we have to make ourselves well right when we're trying to help other people. Sometimes we have to say, my fear is that you might not be here tomorrow if we don't do something different. And until that person gets to that place where they say, you know what I hear you, then you're not going to be able to convince them to do anything differently.

And I know it's I know it's hard to hear because there's so many people struggling, but they need to know that you care about them first and foremost before they can make any change for themselves. I lost two friends to suicide last year. And even when you you know, you make those calls to the nine one one and say you need a well fed check, like you know, I had a nine one one operator tell me that they can't do a well fed check because the person

hasn't harmed anyone and they haven't harmed themselves. And then you know, a month or so later, you know, you find out that you know your friend completed suicide. So what are you doing situations like that? I mean, I'm sorry to hear about that, to be honest, And because what it says to me, is that the person that

you spoke to was not well trained. Because when you call for help for a welfare check, the person who's on the other end of that call needs to be able to respond and not say, well, they haven't harmed themselves yet. The purpose of a welfare check is to make sure that that person does not absolutely themselves. And as you know, that's one of the reasons why we have to get the word out even more so that

there is better training around suicide prevention. A lot of mental health professionals, I think you know that Charlomagne aren't well trained around managing suicide risk and suicide vulnerability, and so we have a lot of work to do around mental health crisis among mental health professionals and in the public putting everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast club was still kicking to a doctor Rita Walker, Charlomagne, how do we protect the

mental health of people who've lost loved ones to suicide, especially if you found the body like I hear a lot of those conversations. I've got friends who found the body of their sibling. You know, things like that, that's traumatic full style, and those individuals have to get help, they have to process with someone else, and even if they didn't find the person themselves, you know, the level of guilt that goes on top of the grief, it's overwhelming.

And I know, you know, people are strong, you know, we're resilient, but sometimes we don't heal in ways that are most helpful. So if someone breaks their leg, eventually that might heal on its own, but there's going to be consequences of them not getting you know, using crutches

or maybe not getting a cast. And it's the same for our psychological health and well being that sometimes we need someone to help us adjust and refrain things so that we can come out of that traumatizing experience, you know, in the best psychological health that we can, recognizing that those individuals may continue for years to struggle and deal with the trauma, the grief, the guilt, And that's the part that is the most challenging, is the guilt that

is overlaying on top of the grief. You know, you know, I got friends who lost parents you know recently. Is I wonder, is grief counseling something everyone should get and how do you know if you if you absolutely need grief counseling because you know, of course you're going to be sad if your parent dies, But how do you know if you need to go talk to somebody about it? You know, as someone who lost my dad at a relatively young age, my dad died on a day before

my twenty ninth birthday. Wow, I recommend that everyone either go to a support group or get some grief counseling so that we can help navigate our way through the grief. In our society, we kind of rushed through grief and that's why, you know, we rushed through it. Like you know, after the funeral, we think, were you good? Right? You know, I'm all right? But there's so much more to grief

than that. In West African countries, folks grief for a year, Like there is a structured grief process for a full year. Because I think that what oftentimes will happen is folks will have this moment like six months later and they're crying and they're like that came out of nowhere, what just happened? And they think something's wrong them. It's like, no, that's grief. Now, there is a thing that is complicated grief.

That if someone is still overwhelmed and struggling with grief, say, you know, several years after the loss, then they definitely want to get help if they didn't get any at the time of the loss or shortly thereafter. What do you think some of the mental illnesses are that are often found in the black community that we rarely discuss all of them. No, So the most common or the two most common types of psychological disorders are anxiety related

problems and depression. And interestingly, anxiety is more common than depression. And the thing is, we can't ignore the impact of racism because it has made us more hyper vigilant. And hyper vigilance is connected to anxiety, the notion that we're always trying to figure out like, Okay, what do I need to do to stay safe? What do I need to do to get this promotion? You know, what do I need to do to another like I'm stealing something

in a store? Like all of that stuff raises our hyper vigilance, and so we're always trying to figure out, like, Okay, what's going on, what are they thinking? What do I need to do? How do I adjust? And that raises our anxiety. But the anxiety that we carry with us can be problematic because it's also related to our health. You know, we have this unchecked hypertension, high blood pressure, and all these kinds of issues. It's related a lot of times to our anxiety. It's not all anxiety, but

some of it is. And then just the depression. You know, we like to talk about black boy joy. You know, we can need a lot more joy, but we don't get to have, you know, the kind of care free lives that the folks live because we're managing so much, and it makes us have a low level of depression that we oftentimes just aren't aware of. I agree with you on all of those. Another one I think is schizophrenia. I think paranoid schizophrenia is something that I've lost people

because of. And I know that even in that person's family, it's people in their family who had a history of paranoid schizophrenia. That's the one that I have no on how to deal with. So schizophrenia is challenging. We think about schizophrenia, it is a disconnection from reality, you know, and people have you know, they hear things that aren't there, they see things that aren't there. And they're just disconnected from the world around them. They live in their own world.

But some of those symptoms actually show up in bipolar disorder. So people who have untreated and unmanaged bipolar disorder can also look schizophrenic. And unfortunately, black people actually overdiagnosed with schizophrenia when it's bipolar disorder. And so that's why I pause with that, because you know, schizophrenia, it's one of those things we associate with being crazy, right, and so that's why we don't get mental healthcare because we're like, well,

I'm not crazy. I don't have schizophrenia, you know, I don't hear voices. Mental health is so much more than that, as you know. So with that being said, we do have schizophrenia. It is a legitimate diagnosis. And when the symptoms start to show up, so for black men it can be late teens, early twenties. For black women, the symptoms and science start to show up a little bit later,

like mid twenties. You know, we have to get help as soon as we can so that the prognosis in the person's ability to manage their schizophrenia is better somebody who's in their forties and fifties, you know, right now trying to manage schizophrenia. It's better than waiting until they're seventy, but we still want to treat them as soon as

possible because they can learn skills. There really are skills that people can learn to manage that, you know, and being able to identify stressors because stress can trigger a schizophrenic or disconnection from reality and we have to be aware of those. How do we show up for the families of the people, are friends of the people diagnosed with mental illness, the people who have to deal with the person who schizophrenic or bipolar, has anxiety or depression.

How do we show up for those people? We need a lot of support. And one of the places will I always direct folks too is NAMI, so National Association for Mental Illness, because they have support groups where Emily's learn, you know, skills, learn how to manage their own mental health. Because someone who's having to provide support or family member who's providing support for someone else who's dealing with mental

health challenges, those individuals can struggle too. I think that's why you ask the question, and so you know, whenever we can give them breaks and say, hey, you know, what do you need to run an errand because they're providing NonStop care. Can I be there for you when you're running an errand? Maybe I can go sit with your family member, you know, maybe I can run the errand for you, like providing practical support. Man. And I know you got to go to this My last question,

and I always like to ask this. Do we ever get to a place of true healing and the wholeness? I think that we will get there when we start to connect with who we are and our cultural identity, because once we do that, then we connect with one another, and then we start to build what we need. That as long as we're waiting, you know, to get permission to be who we are, or to get permission to infiltrate some of these systems that have never wanted us to be a part of them. If we keep waiting

for that, we're not going to get there. But when we can start, you know, we'll stop being suspicious of one another, you know, start to trust one another, build community, connect with who we are. Then we will be able to prosper and be successful. I don't think it can happen before then. Her name is doctor Rita Walker. Doctor Walker. Give them your Instagrams and Twitters and all that good stuff. Please absolutely so, doctor Rita Walker, and let me spell read them. It's our h E E D as in

diamond a. So, doctor REDA Walker. I'm on Instagram, I'm on YouTube. I try to post videos to help folks, you know, manage stress and to understand racism and assess psychological and fortitude so that we can, in fact get to a place where we're live in our best lives. That's right. And the book is called The Unapologetic Guide

to Black Mental Health. You know, I bought a bunch of these and I just give them out to you know, young brothers and young sisters, you know, just just because I think this is the most culturally competent book about black mental health that I personally ever read. So thank you, doctor Ya Walker for not only existing but creating this masterpiece.

And I have to thank you, Charlomagne, because I you know, I get messages from folks even now who say they picked up the book because you talked about it and it has changed their lives and they tell their whole families about it, and it just it really warms my heart how well the book has done and it's in no small part due to you letting folks to know about the book even months before it came out. So thank you so much, No, thank you, thank you anytime.

It's doctor Ya, Walker's the Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club. Listen, Oh gosh, report got it's a rule report Breakfast Club. Well, Soldier Boy in bow Wow are going to be facing off in an upcoming versus battle now. Soldier Boy tweeted out Soldier Boy versus babble our hashtag versus it's official and a Swiss did share sold just tweet on his ig story, So I guess it's not official official, but looks like they did have that conversation. Like I was

confused they do that? Do they want that to happen or did they an the day? They play the audio to answer this question, yeah, please stop playing. It's gonna be bigger than life, bro, Like, I'm happy to celebrate with you. They were stowing owen there. I saw a lot of Maria and I'm like, but that's my bro too. But O R and B singer. I actually like to see Obo against Mario me personally, Me and you make so much sense. Brother. We've toured, we've been on tour together.

Me and you got a whole mixtape together, were on tour right now. But we're on tour right now. And on top of that, you got a hot new record out the day before we do versus. Could my movie come out? Let me tell you something that's an amazing versus. I don't care what y'all think about Soldier Boy and bah Whah. You can't front on them, dudes. They are pioneers, superstars. I don't even know who I think will win. I lean Soldier Boy, but Baha got some joints. It's gonna

be fun watch. Yeah, I'm sure it'll be very entertaining. And Jacole got his six number one Billboard two hundred album with the Off Season two hundred and eighty two thousand roughly Great Album. It's the highest first week sales for a hip hop album in twenty twenty one so far, and the most stream hip hop release of twenty twenty one, with three hundred and twenty five million on demand streams now. Jacole did go on Twitter and said, sending a thank

you from Rwanda number one album. I appreciate the love. I heard the noise from out here the off season means keep pushing yourself. I will do the same. Jacole has also joined Timberland's Beat Club, which is a new online marketplace for beats, and Timberland posted this video with Jacole discussing the getting a track from Timberland and how

difficult it was and Twitch and all of that. Sometimes I hit somebody for a beating in ground and not doing nothing, So I'm like, I can't do that at Timan, you know, I mean, let me at least like so I looped up the YouTube Little Rip made a whole song on I spent the next two days like writing and recording the song, and like, right when I was like ninety to sent through writing it, I'm like, I should probably call him now get the real files. And I hit him. I'm like, broken, you sent me to

be he played on Twitch. He was like, yeah, I sent it to you? Which one? And I played in the being He was like, I can't sing now. I was like, what the you know what I mean? Like, so he had to remake it. Wow, Timbo's legenius, So I'm sure that was nothing to him. Once he heard it,

he could play it back. I know that's dope though, And that song was amory for if you guys didn't know already, all right, And Kodak Black is not excited about his first week numbers, and apparently he sold twenty two thousand first week, and he went on social media to respond to that. He said, me dropping the same day as Nikki and j Cole is not an excuse for me, because I'm as big an artist as them. I used to sell one hundred thousand first week, et cetera.

But along the way the game turned gay, even though I get to singing the bees. I signed up for gangster rap, not the speakaboo ass ish where good hearted real individuals. Of course, to hide this support for you in public, oh, drop on a clues ball for Kodak Black Man yak is yak man Loo. I was not expecting that. I didn't know what. I didn't know what turned you was about to say. I thought he was just holding himself accountable. But no Jesus Christ. But he

said he still feels great. He's still a multi millionaire, but lots of records sold, and that's without support from Spotify and major platforms. He said, Elia not even shade room, all right, And Uncle Luke is calling out the rock and Roll Hall of Fame because he still has not been inducted. He went on social media. He went on Instagram and said, it's another year of not getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He deserves it, like like, Luke is the reason that we can speak

the way that we speak. Like the whole parental advisory stickers on albums, you know, are just fighting back against censorship. That was Luke. Luke was fighting back against cancel outrage culture before it was the thing. So yes, he still be playing his music today. Okay, I just hate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I wish he was just a music Hall of Fame, Like I hate the fact that they have a genre of music on it.

I love the fact that we got the well hopefully open and soon the Hip Hop Museum out in the Bronx, so some of us ground. But I'm sure it's gonna take a little while. Yeah, but I'm excited for that because I want to see a lot about artists in some of their accomplishments in there. All right, And little Baby and Little Dirk our appearent haven't appeared to announced the Voice of Heroes released date their long away to collab album. June fourth is the date, so that should

be exciting. And Little Baby posted album finished June fourth. Voice of Heroes, y'all excited for that one? Right question too? Why the Soldier boy? And why why? Why are they so young? And they not our generation but they feel like they are generation came out so long ago. Think they were young when they came out, we were, we were young, and their records were still transcendent, like yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean we weren't young when yeah, we weren't young.

There was no great heads and you had a real beard, you know what I mean? Yead here you had your eyebrows done. Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa Slow down, sir, what I did not have my eyebrows done? Your eyebrows the nineties. You just got your hair cut today too. Because I can see all the lights in the studios shining off your head. Reflected that the first ball I got this last week. Thank you, I appreciate it. I can see every light, people's reflections and everything. Are you going all right?

And speaking of with Charlottagne for you Alex Rod as a Rod has launched his own makeup for men, so he wanted to create a product. No, I don't win makeup and you get to eyebrows done? Are you? And you were me? And YouTube blur you may want to get the Blur stick. It's a concealer specific tically designed from men that can be used for skin in perfections. That is, that is not true. I wouldn't makeup. I wear a little bit of foundation when I'm on TV. Don't say a little bit maakeup. No, And if I

did wear it, I would wear Fenty. I would not wear Alex Rodriguez Blur brand. I just like Fanty. They got better shakes. They just do. I like if foundation is just better. I don't wear makeup. How do you know it's better if you never tried it? He wears makeup. Look y'all see any makeup on it? That's just flawless, Doctor Sandy Dermatology. Okay, all right, you wear makeup? All right? Well that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, miss Yee. Now shout out to revote. We'll see you tomorrow.

Everybody else to People's choice mixes up. Next, let's go so Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Hey, it's Angela Yee by using brands like Dove and Helmets, you're supporting Unilever and the everyday good they do, like donating more than twenty five million dollars worth of everyday products and services to groups like Feeding America this year. Visit Unilever does Good dot com to support communities impacted by the pandemic. A j Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. Hopefully you guys had a great week and back to the work week. I'm back. I'm back in the sea. Continue. I got my second shows, I got my second vaccination shot. I'm like exhausted. No, how was that? It just made me? It just made me tired. But I feel okay, Like I don't feel sick or nothing. I'm just really tired. Would you get it? What day you got it? I just got it yesterday?

Oh okay. A lot of people say after about they keeps you oft for like forty eight seventy two hours the second show? Uh no, a day usually. I mean it depends. It depends how your body reacts to it. Mine was the day after in the evening, So I guess you can see later on tonight how you feel but it was just like you said, I had a temperature and then I had the chills. But we'll see.

Hopefully everything is good and listen, I hope. So I want to salute everybody who's been grabbing to Mika Mallory, State of them Emergency, how to win in the country. We built man like drop on the Clues bonds for Tamika Mallory like I love to see people responding to her the way that the way that they do. So it's available everywhere you buy books now, audio version, hardcover, e book, whatever you want. You can get it wherever you buy books. All right, when we come back, positive

notice to Breakfast Club, good morning warning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, Charlomagne, you got a positive note? I do. Man. I said this quote earlier, I was paraphrasing during Donkey today, but I want to repeat it again just because I think it's that powerful. A good person apologizes for the mistakes of the past, but a great person corrects them. Breakfast Club, You're finishedly, y'alld up.