The Breakfast Club REWIND: 2019

Charlomagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Now we're talking about first and foremost resting piece to PNB Rock. He was killed yesterday out in LA. They tried to robbing for US jewelry or robbing for US jewelry and wound up shooting him and killing them. And we were talking about how things have to change, right eight hundred five A five one oh five one. By the way, it feels like we have this conversation every few months somebody that we know has, you know, gotten gunned down

for nothing. You know, we have these conversations every time there's a senseless act of violence, which is every day. Yeah, and you know, and this is my problem. A lot of times when we hear things like that, people make excuse, right, they talk about everything everything under the sun, right, whether you know the environment that's out there right now, the fact that you know we're in a recession, the fact that you know, they say his girlfriend posted that they

were there to talk about all those different things. And it always bothers me because I always feel like we don't talk about the fact that, no matter what, they took that man's life over a piece of jewelry. Yeah, I mean, further foremost, you got to send positive energy to the family at that brother piano, you know what

I'm saying. That's number one. And you know, yeah, like I said earlier, I wish at times like this we did discuss the actual issue of what we were doing to each other in our communities and why, you know, because the issues to me are gun violence. The issues to me are lack of opportunity and income, lack of employment, lack of love for your fellow man. Some people got

mental health issues, you got drug use. And you're right discussing his girl posting his location, that's a topic, not the actual issue, because the people who did that to him would do that regardless of who posted what. All right, not to mention you know, you think people in Rosco's

couldn't have had that brother, you know, lined up. And that's why when we have these conversations situations like this, we got to discuss how things are and not how things should be, right, you know what I'm saying, Because if you operating from the perspective of how things should be, then these things will continue to happen and you're setting yourself up for failure. Because we got to start moving and responding to these situations based on what we know

to be true, not what we want to be true. Yeah, we all you would love to wear your jury and drive your cars anywhere you want to and pull up where you want to, but that's not the reality of life. You know, you can't do that, and if you do, there's going to be consequence of the repercussions. Right, But that shouldn't be the case, right, And you know, people talk about it. It's a matter of people want fast money a majority at the time, right, you talk about

there's not jobs. Just a couple of months ago, Angeley reported that, you know, there were so many jobs and people didn't want to work because a lot of times people want fast money. They don't want the grind of starting from working at fast food, or the grind at working at Target, or the grind at working at Walmart when they see somebody walking around with a hundred thousand dollars chaining to them, Like, oh, I could just take the shame right here that that's my year's salary. Yeah,

but that's not the mentality that we need sometimes. Also, these people that are doing these things aren't even necessarily people who are starving. You know, think about the people who you know who rob people or set people up or do these scams, and they don't come from a bad family, they don't have, you know, those issues that we can assume that somebody who's like seeing that that person has more than me, you know, I'm starving out here. Sometimes that's not even the case. But I will say that,

Like I look at myself. I live in Brooklyn still and I walk around. I do what I have to do. But I also I'm like, I don't have expensive jewelry. I've never really because I don't feel safe that way, you know, personally. So if somebody tries to do something to me, they're not I don't really have anything, yeah for you to take. I just want I just I just really want us to start dealing with these situations based on what we know to be true and not what we want to be true. Because what's true is

there is no cold. That's there. There's never been a cold. Folks are ruthless and cutthroat and will kill you if you have something they want. It's just that simple. We got inflation through the roof right now, poverty through the roof to gap between the halves and have not just

greater than it's ever been. So you factor in that with lack of income, like I said, and lack of education, lack of community support, and then people just being plain evil, and you have a generation of people who don't know how to balance what they are seeing every day on social media versus what they are dealing with in real life. All of that is a recipe for disaster. And you talk about people are not wanting to take the long route.

Why would I want to take the long ride? If I get on social media and I've seen people just holding up stacks to cash and everybody looking like they got rich overnight, why why do I gotta take the laws It's the right thing to do, Like it is like like it's easy to rob. Well, I gonna say it's easy to rob somebody. But yeah, that's the easy route to go. Rob somebody gets something. But that's the

right thing to do. Work for what you got. Like you know, I tell the story in my book where you know, I think it was like ten years ago, eleven years ago, twelve years ago, thirteen years I think it was like thirteen years ago. Somebody robbed me, all right, rob me in the city. And now this is another thing. The first thing when you get robbed is to fight back. That's what I did, right, fought back, and I chased the kid, and I caught the kid that robbed me.

The kid that robbed me actually won the lotto a week before. I think it was like he won eighty thousand dollars the week before. But it was an opportunity that he felt. He seen me, he thought I was slipping, and he robbed me. I chased him and I called him. But the thing is he had he just had eighty thousand dollars. There was no reason too. He didn't need the money. He wasn't he was driving an X five. Well, listen,

you know it's so funny, but that's the problem. He did not want to work for it, but you know, like this was the easy way and he was gonna try to do it that way. You know what's interesting what you said is absolutely true, right, but you're saying yourself, why would he rob me if he just won eighty thousand dollars a week before. That's what people would say about brothers who be in the hood with all the jury on and those big cause, why are you in the hood with all his jury on and all of

these big cars. You have no reason to be here, the same reason that guy had no reason to rob you. You had no reason to be that. I just want to know, why do we continue to put ourselves in harm's way? If you do want to be in the hood, why aren't you with security? I get it, but you know the hood is not illegal. I ain't say driving to rob somebody at gun pointing, absolutely, but you didn't

answer the question why aren't you with security? Sometimes artists look at that as also being like inspirational, Like I remember when we opened the Juice Star in bed Stye and fifty cent came and you know, obviously all of the locks were there, Jez was there, and how much it meant to the kids in the neighborhood to be able to see them like you would never think you would see that. That's that's a false equivalency though, because you opened a business like somebody opened a business in

the hood. That's that's a big difference between just sitting in the hood with all your jury on and a big call for no reason, twenty people with them. Just I am saying that that Sometimes artists look at it like, I don't want to never go back places. I want people to be able to see me and you know, be inspirational because some people look at it as inspiration you should go back. But if you go back, don't just go back for no reason. Don't go back just because you want to just sit up in the hood

and have a meal. And if you are going to do that, where is your to security. But we're also the generation, not the generation but were we also have a culture where we like to, oh, I'm in the hood with all my jewelry on and no security. That's nothing to crack about. People want to feel like they're comfortable where they're from. But the problem is, you know,

most people can't afford security twenty four hours. If you can't afford to protect it, then you can't afford to wear And you know that, Like you know people they'll get a check and they'll go get a piece of jewlry because they feel like they need that for their rapper. Right, if you can't afford to protect it, you can't afford to word needed for their rap career. But you can't.

Most people can't afford twenty four hour security. Mostly your favorite rappers can't afford twenty You don't have to be twenty four hours, but those couple of hours you sitting in that place, you should have your security. This is if you can't afford to protect it, then you can't afford to wear it. And if you're going to be out like that in areas like that, hire the proper security. And I'm not talking about the homies. I'm talking about

it rarely trained former police officers, former military style security. Okay, once again, if you can't afford to protect it, then you can't afford to wear it. Yeah, I get that, but also you shouldn't feel like you have to rob your brother to take something many jealous. Once again, you gotta we have to start moving and responding to these situations. Based on what we know to be true, not what

we want to be true. But these feelings the most hours, and these these boys, these guys feeling like boys because somebody has something better than me. I have to take it as a whack trait. And being and being in these environments with all your jury on and all of these big cars for no reason, there's a whack trade too. You should be able to drive wherever you want to drive, right, You should be able to take where your jury and do whatever you want to do the way you want

to do, as long as you're a card for right. No, once again, you talk, you're discussing how things are. You're discussing how things should be, not how they are. It's a difference. But when we come back, No, but we we Unless we discuss how things actually are and not how they should be, we're not gonna ever get anywhere with this. And we're gonna keep repeating the cycle over and eight hundred five eight five, one oh five one. Let's talk about it. The free i Heeart radio app

has over two hundred and fifty thousand podcasts to explode. Yes, this is the Breakfast Club thirty part of Sunday Night podcasts on our Heart Radio. Now if you just joined us, we're talking about PND Rocky was killed yesterday for his jewelry and we're just talking about everything, every everything that goes into that, the mentality, the mind frame, just everything. And we got a lot of people on the phone lines. Hello, who's this ain't good morning? This way from Milwaukee, yep.

I wanted to talk about the pm B rock situation. Like, like Charlotte Magne said, we have to address the reality of how it is and not how it wishes to be. And the reality is at that young lady not cheff in Ocation, he might still be we don't even know what. We don't know, but people assume it could have been he was in the hood. It could have been somebody

who worked there. I'm sorry. The reason why I'm saying that is every time we Charlotte ocation, we're putting ourselves in major You know, people can go to your house because they know you're not there, and unfortunately for this situation, people can go where you are. And that's just the reality. Other things nowadays, people are the reality. It's not that she shared the location. The reality is he was in that location. That's the reality. The reality is he should

he probably shouldn't have been in that location. No, it's no, probably he shouldn't have been in that location. It's not about her sharing it, like, we gotta stop that. That's what. I don't know why y'all keep blaming that girl. Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. Hello, who's this Hello? They are lead? Hey, come on, what's your opinion? Brother? My opinion is it's just stupid that people don't want to work, and like, I don't know, people are just stupid and

I don't know, Like I'm from California. Some people are just crazy out there. I know why. I think you everybody, you know, like when you've been around them like all your life, you know you're actually wide to do it. And it's just like Paul and all that crap. I wouldn't just say it's California. It's happened. It's happening everywhere. It's happening in New York, is happening in Florida's happening in Chicago, what's happening in It's happening in everywhere. It's nasty.

It's just it's nasty out there, And you know, I said, it's it's we got to move to a bustion when we when you know, we could protect ourselves and make sure that you know we're safe. Hello, who's this? Hello? Yo? My bad? Yo, y'all I got that jay Z player. Y'all love how y'all just like yo, just to just play the whole jay Z verse. I love that. I just noticed that yesterday. We don't even play Little Way ro versus. It's still four years had a good versus too.

They had they had good versus too, but you know it's whole baby. So anyway, I wanted to talk with Charlotage Charlotte baby, Yes, sir, all right, So Charlomage, you want to talk about why you know, you know if he feels like we should be able to walk around, you know, with our chains all, but you know you feel like, oh, we can't because you know, in certain

environments we have to protect it. But you know the reason why we have to do that, why because of Okay, that's why that That is why I feel like you be making excuses a lot up here, I know, blaming on the government, blaming on white people, old formal black four people don't have this, so they got to do this that and the third bro. These people want to do that, whether killed P and b Rocky probably fel they got badge on or something. Yeah, but but but

why but operate? But let me ask you a question, my brother. Are we talking about how things you know should be? Are we talking about how things actually are? Oh? No, we're talking about exactly how things are. I gotta protect myself when I'm walking around in the street at night. Is because of the streets now black people, it's the it's the in woods. But if we but so, we're not. We're not. We're not debating nothing. And you agree with me.

I'm telling you, I'm I'm sitting here telling you that about I'm telling you that situations like this we got to discuss how things are, not how things should be. And as long as you all right, so let's address that problem we already identified that I'm saying, let's address that problem. Listen, regardless of what you call it, you know what I mean. If I tell you that there's a lack of opportunity and income, a lack of employment opportunity, there's no such bro, Bro, I live in New York

City's plenty of opportunities. That's not New York, New York batter for the New York City Library. You could tell you all the resources just in the library right now. If you're trying to find way to help yourself out there, and you know you can't help nobody that don't want to help themself. That is very true. But my brother, don't act like these. These people in certain communities suffer from a lack of education and suffer from a lack

of knowledge. They don't have that information. Not saying that they can't go get it, but they don't have it. All right, brok you like, I don't know why we so quick to blame ourselves for positions that we were systemically put in. Like we're acting like black people were not systemically put in these positions like the lack of opportunity and income, the lack of education, the lack of employment wasn't systemically designed that way. But that doesn't give

anybody the right to kill somebody over a change. It doesn't give them the right, but it doesn't give them the right. But you can understand those are the ingredients for a recipe for disaster. I can never understand somebody killing somebody over a piece of jewelry. I can never understand a brother in the hood with all that jury on that don't need to be there. I can never understand a person that's not against the Lloyd. It's not against the lad But why the same way y'all saying

I'm making excuses, y'all be making excuses too. I'm not making excuses. I mean, if a man works hard, he should be able to do what he wants to do, and that we should be able to and not somebody want to take his life over a piece of We're the only people who think like that. Anybody else that got something to lose knows that they can't be in certain environments, they can't be around certain things. And if they are gonna be there, they're gonna have the proper

things in place to protect them. If you can't afford to protect what you have, then you can't afford to have it. Eight hundred five, eight five one or five one. Let's discuss. We're talking P and b Rock I Heeart Radio for Podcast Discovery. This is the Breakfast Club. Third week, your chance to hear the biggest trending podcast each week from the free I Heeart Radio app. Now, if he's just joining us, we're talking pnb Rock. He was killed in La yesterday robbery for his chain, and we're just

discussing it and talking about it. First, let's just say again healing energy and condolences his home. His girlfriend is his child, and stop blaming his girlfriend. But sharing a location okay, because the truth of the matter is from everybody that I've spoken to in La, he shouldn't have been in that location to begin with. I know ruthless hood dude who don't go over there from what I was told just today. So it's like it's not about her sharing the location, it's about the location period, and

he could have got lined up by anybody in that Roscoals. Hello, who's this? You know? This is Monica Monica from Jersey. I totally agree with you, Charlotte Maine. It's like these artists gotta held some type accountability, like California is to make a robbery. These artists go out to California all the time, flashing the jury and stuff. We lost pop smoke out there, Sauce Walkers just tried to get robbed

a few days ago. It's like this is a normal a currency that goes on in college, So why would you want to go to a spot where artist is over and over and over again, rob the jury and walking around public like this Disney World or something. But I also I also feel like a lot of times people get comfortable, right, you moved to certain areas like LA, it's sunny, it's nice, you see nice things, and people

get comfortable. But people, people get comfortable. I mean, you should never get that comfortable to the way you sitting in Englewood and a Roscoe. You know, when I was there last time, I was staying at the One Hotel and I was going across the street to just go get something from Pink Dot, and they told me at their front ask don't go across the street by yourself. That's real. And I was like, all right, I mean, I'm not from here, so I'm gonna listen to what

y'all have to tell me. But also, I think people get comfortable when nothing ever happens to them, right because they don't have anything. Well, he just had somebody tried him the week before. Yeah, but he never he didn't get robbed. It's a difference when you have a conversation because he didn't. If he wanted to get robed, they would have robb his ass. But when you don't get robbed and a gun is not in your face, when that happens, you move differently. No matter who it is.

You talk to any artists that ever got into that situation, they moved militant because they never wanted to happen again. Like Fifth shout the fifty set fifty We all know if they got shot with nine times nine time time times, Fifth moves differently. Even if you think fifty by himself, he is never by himself because of that situation. It's just it's just what it isn't And I guess you know,

people do get comfortable. And that's why I said, if you're gonna be out there like that in areas like that, high the proper security. And I'm not talking about the homies. I'm talking about Israeli trained former police officers who really know how to handle their business. Hello, who's this I hate? Lamar, Lamar, come on and talk to us. Good morning. Yeah. Honestly, I was sitting here thinking, because I have one train of thought, but then I changed my mind. You know,

hearing y'all. You know, I think you just need to accept as part of the culture. Like that's just part of life. And I'm thinking, like rap and the rap culture, it's just part of it, bro. You know, we talk about we talk about all the you know, drugs. Of course, it's haters. We talk about haters, and everybody's raps talk about they talk about haters, you know what I mean. So it's part of the rap culture. So we just need to accept the fact that death is just part

of rap. You know what I'm saying that I'm gonna tell you this, my brother, I I think it's part of trauma. You know what I'm saying that my man read Momenticum says all the time trauma and the people decontextualize over time starts to look like culture. This is not our coaching, sadly, it's not. This is our trauma and this is and we're projecting our trauma on the

each other. That's what this is. And you know, according to documentaries, hip hop started from negative you know, negative things, you know, so obviously it's going to trickle down into worse, you know. And then we had hip hop, which wasn't really rap. We had hip hop, which was fun rap, you know, fun you know music you know, from discord whatever, but then rap came along, and then that's where kind of like through all the whole trauma things, it's trauma,

you know, poetry with our trauma. But then it's just you know, end up being glorified into like negative glorification and then now we just got to just take what we got. Now, Richard, I can't accept it, brother, Yeah, I don't think hip hop started from something negative. I thought, I can't the park and they would know they can break beats off of own records, and that's how was created. And then you know, throughout the years, people started talking about their lives and a lot of our lives was

coming from areas which from struggle. That's what came from. But it didn't start from negativity in deefen in fault. You know. Yeah, I can't. I can't accept it because I in my in my heart of hearts, I know that we can and should do better, yeah, as people, but that as people, but that has nothing to do with rap or hip hop. As people. Yes, we need to do better, but the hip hop culture is I'm not gonna separate it from us, but it's not it's

his own culture, you know what I'm saying. There's there's there's our people. There's other types of people in hip hop, but hip hop is his own culture. And in hip hop it's just so happens that you know, there's death that comes with it. I think we all look at things differently, right, Like, you know, somebody called earlier during getting off your chests and he was like, when I see somebody with a nice call or a nice crib, I feel like they flossing on me. Right. We talked

about a story a couple of weeks ago. I think Asian Dall was in the club and the girl was like, yo, I just boor to chain and hut chain was bigger than mine. So I wanted hus you know, we have to change our mind frame, Like when I see somebody doing better than me, first of all, I applauded, and the second of all, I look at them because I like to see people doing better. Like the reason I follow Swidz shout out the Swiss today is his birthday.

Every birthday, Squizz and I follow Timberland and Hove and Ditty and some of those people because I like to see the moves that they make. Tla Perry because it encourages me to work harder. Encourages me to do the right thing. It's that's a talent Perry's birthday. Have to look at how we look at other people. We shouldn't look at them as our competition. We really should be looking at our people as brothers and hope, hoping that

they can help us get to that next level. And once again you're discussing how things should be, and everything you're saying is absolutely true. But you can't have it both ways because the reality is success breeds envy and jealousy too. Same way that y'all think that y'all inspiring people, yes y'all do, but there are some people who are jealous and envious a view as well, and you cannot have one without the other. Period. They go hand in hand.

Same way you're inspiring somebody, it's the same way you're making another person jealous and envious. They both go hand in hand. And if that's what you're gonna do, you just got to deal with the consequences of the actions. That's it. When I as the consequences of your success, well I pray to God I inspire more people to work hard. That's all you can do. Bro real estate

and to you know, getting to their mental health. And I hope that we inspire people to do the correct thing more than the other side, because at the end of the day, you can't pick and choose. Though you're right, it's you can't. You can't tell somebody whether to be inspired, to be jealous and enviows and you got people that to walk up to you and shake your hand and tell you that they're inspired, but the whole time they're

plotting on you. That's true. So the moral of the story for me is man once again, situations like this, we have to discuss how things are, not how things should be. If you're operating from the perspective of how things should be, then these things will continue to happen and you're setting yourself up for failure because we have to start moving and responding to these situations based on what we know to be true, not what we want

to be true. All right, Well again, rest in peace to PM b Rock and condolences again to his family, his friends, his girlfriend, man child and it's loved ones all right. The free I Heart radio app has over two hundred and fifty thousand podcasts to explore. Yes, this is the Breakfast Club thirty part of Sunday Night podcast on iHeartRadio. He literally told them watchall for Florida, Looridaida. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and

all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey. The Florida man a tap and atm for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested if to definitely say he rigged the door to his home and an attempt to electric ate his puget life. Police arrested in Orlando man for talking a Flaminia the breakfast club Bitchy Donkey other day with Sharlam Hana guy. I don't know why y'all keeping him get you'all elected. Well donkey today goes to Amy Harrington of Madera Beach, Florida.

What did your uncle Sharla always tell you about the great state of Florida. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all the Florida And today's once again no exception. I think you that I have zero tolerance for drunk drivers. I believe drunk drivers should be pointed to the fullest extent of the law because as I've told you several times on this radio. Every day of our life, we are simply trying to avoid crazy.

And if you are a human who gets in that car and does all the right things, puts your seatbelt on, drives the speed limit, really looks out for other folks on the road. I appreciate you and people like that, Okay, should not have to deal with the dangerous of a crazy ass drunk driver. Now. It's bad enough that people are still, you know, driving drunk in twenty twenty two. I mean, because it's absolutely positively no reason to be

getting behind the wheel all right when you're drunk. Nowadays, it's way too many rideshared services to be doing that. So once again, I have zero remords for drunk drivers. Okay, there's not one logical reason someone can give me for driving drunk other than you are drunk. Right, That's the only reason people get behind the wheel, and they're not supposed to because the liquor makes them think they can. And Amy is the latest human to say, effort, all right,

throw caution to the wind. Didn't get behind the wheel when she's drunk. Now, I encourage you when scrolling through social media to day or if you're online at any point the day, go watch this video of Amy Harrington's traffic stops. See Amy got pulled over and had to do some field sobriety tests. I'm a person that feels that feels like field sobriety tests a bias. Okay, because you can fail a sobriety test by simply being out of shape. I mean, come on the one leg staying test.

I'm forty four and constantly mentally and physically exhausted. Now you want to be to stand on one leg on man, even if I'm not drunk, I might fail that one. Okay. To walk in turn test where you gotta take nine steps heel to toe, I can't do that either because I lack co ordination the rhythm, and I don't follow dance instruction as well, so I would fail that test. Also, when I say I don't have rhythm, my lack rhythm, but I'm totally on beat when it comes to the

instrumental playing in my head. Okay, but what's playing in my head usually and then what's playing out loud? So so to everyone else, I look off people to me. The mother's story is those tests aren't easy to do sober, so they must be impossible to do drunk, and I guess that's why Amy Harrington decided to do her own thing when asked to do one. Let's go to Inside Edition for the report. Police. If this driver thought her graceful moves were going to get her out of a

traffic stop, she was sorely mistaken. The Penellis County Sheriff's Office in Florida recently released this video of a field sobriety test conducted back in April. According to a criminal complaint, deputies say thirty eight year old Amy Harrington rear rended another vehicle and when they approached her, she had visual signs of impairment, including glassy eyes. It also stated deputies

smelled alcohol on her breath. She allegedly refused a breathalyzer, and when trying to administer a field sobriety test, deputy's report she was unsteady on her feet and started to perform ballet and Irish folk dances. Harrington's moves weren't impressive to deputies who arrested her. She's pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence, refusal to submit to testing, and

possessing an open container of alcohol. No, I don't know what Irish folk dancing is, but it looks ridiculous, okay, and when you combine that with ballet and being drunk, it looks extra ridiculous. In her defense, she said the police officers sounded like her ballet dancer. Didn't I tell y'all that walk in turn test sounds like dance instruction. As soon as you tell a drunk person hill to toe,

they're gonna say, did he say he'll toe? You start giving a drunk person all those steps and they start dancing. That's your fault for sounding like DJ Casper. Well, in this case, Amy said, the officer did sound like her ballet coach, so that's why she started doing a little jig. The officer even had the nerve to tell her she wasn't good, which made her go harder because she had to prove that I indeed can dance now. Ultimately, she did refuse the breathalizer, but the officer didn't need it,

by the right. The moral of the story is don't drink and drive. In this case, please don't drink driving dance. Please give Amy Harrington the sweet sounds of the Hamiltons oh no, do gee the da do gee? Oh the day Now she gave it the good old college cry. But that's the problem. She's thirty eight years old. You can't be acting like you're in college. No, man, all right, I wouldn't say let's play a game, but I know what it is already, Bro, I said, Irish folk dancing.

All right, Black people don't know how the Irish folk. I have a little bit of Irish in me, but no, I don't think we know the folk dance. I don't even know what the hell that is. You know what Irish folk dancing is? Yeah? What is it? That's when you show me? Show me? No, you started to stand up, show me. That's salesome, bro, how you know him? A ring game? That's no damn Irish. H your ass and you kick it out. Huh. That's called a butt kick

when you working out. So it's not man. I don't know what you just did, but you need to start. This is cultural appropriation. Well no, you're Dominican. That soulds okay, do the Irish folks. I ain't never seen a yellow leprechn bro eving my life okay, Well, mcallbe and Rashawn Casey, you guys should know how to do this. I Heart Radio Sunday Night podcast Listen every week as we play a different podcast, one of the most shared and most

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