The Breakfast Club Talks With Joey Badass, Ask Yee and More

This is the second day in the row that I said Angela and I didn't hitting up the back. Well, it's feeling like fall a little bit, okay, but you know way up with Angela. Ye starts this fall or whenever Angela wanted to maybe it started already because we just said no, nobody gave us to respond to two days in the row. Yeah, you right right, you are absolutely right. Now your night though mine was was pretty good. You know. Of course, my car show is this Saturday.

So now it's the preparation where all these celebrity cars that I have I actually have to go get their vehicles and drive their cars because I don't want nobody taking their cars. I mean, they're allow me to have their you know, expensive cars, and I don't want nobody to crash. I don't want nobody to do anything bad. So I'm driving around picking up Meek Mills cars, Meek Mills motorcycles, picking up Fabulous's cause, picking up Fat Joe's cause,

Little Kim's cause, and everybody's cars. So I had to actually, you know, pick them up, take them to the trailer, load them up, get them down to Atlantic City and all that. It's gonna be a great, a great event. I see Lynn and Trade of Truth already on the road that they got about thirty cars that bring them from Houston. So if you see them brothers on the road, you passed by them on ninety five, blow blowing my horn, say what's up to them? And you just say blow

the bow the horn. That's a long ride and you probably want them to come here, relax, But damn vy, I said, blow the horn, blow the horn, and definitely, you know, pray from it's a long drive. It's about a nineteen hour drive. So they're both of those brothers in the cars with their their vehicles. So just you know, pray for and make sure that they get here safe. You know, it's competition, but we love those brothers and want to make sure those brothers get here safely. So

shout out that kind of responsibility. Well, I gotta watch you wall in people's cars. Oh man, that's what you gotta do. I mean we haven't showed if you're doing a car. So yeah, I mean you have insurance and all that, and you you want to put on a great show for the people because it is a family fund day. We you know, we want people to bring

their kids and their mothers, their fathers, their grandparents. It's you know, it's a big family fund day where you know, people can just you know, enjoy life and in a safe environment. So you know, we encourage everybody to bring the family. Like the guy called yesterday said his father was ninety two when they were coming, and that's what we want. Like I said, my dad would be there. He's he's eighty this year. My small kids will be there. It's it's a family fund day. I'm super duper excited

for it. What about you preparing for the show tomorrow? Well today, I should say, man, uh yeah, tonight you can watch my late night talk show Hell of a Week eleven thirty, right after Come right after the Daily show on Comedy Centrals, even preparing for that. But I'm just tired, Brom. I can't do things that I used to do. Okay, If I do certain things at a certain time, it throws me all the way off. We'd been doing them, yes, I did, actually, but we've been

doing these intention workouts. So we do these, we do these, uh you know, we do hit training during the weeks. Slept to my cousin tone, I'm a perm perm gets you straight. So we do hit training during the week. But think about hit training we did it was today, Thursday. We did something on Tuesday, and you be sare the next day. But boy, that next day is when it

really hits you. And then you try to do, you know, a simple activity like walk up the stairs, walk up to stairs, you know, and then do what married couples do, little sexy pooh and then you know, next thing, you know, you don't know what's slepping out. Yeah, it happens to be like that's what happens. Let me ask you one question before joke, bro, before you uh you shout out your show yet no. I'm not gonna say no, no no, no. I just want to know what, like, what do you

listen to? What get you hype? Do you listen to guys for music? You listen to wolves? Like? But right before you do your your talk show? What what get you in the mood? Nothing? I'm meditated? And then we pray, and then you know, Nila Nila is suit to DJ n Salmon, She's our DJ. But I mean not, I'll be playing stuff, but I don't. I'll be I'll be in my zone. I'll be meditate, i'd be in my head. I'll be ready to go. I don't be thinking about the music. You don't be thinking about me. All right, Well,

let's get the show cracketing. Joey Badass will be joining us this morning. We're gonna Joey Badass. Joey Badass new album two thousand is really good, like phenomenal. I like it a lot. It's in my Rap Album of the Year of consideration. It's that good. And some good rap came I mean, that's a good rap came out this year. I know some artists. I saw Tory Lane saying that you know, he don't like a lot of the music that came out this year, But some good albums came

out this year. Put Your t came out this year. Uh, Kendrick Lamar came out this year. Somebody else I really liked this year. Oh that new Black Thought and Danger Mouse just came out. But Joey Badass The Future came out this year. But Badass Joey Badass album is really dope, really dope. So I can't wait to talk to him. All right, Yeah you're around? Oh lord, she already told you. Could you stop? All right? So Lebron James, he breaks

NBA record, We'll tell you all about it. To Dope moves to breakfast clubs the morning be Angela yee, Charlemagne the guy we are to breakfast club Let's get some front page news. Yeah there, all right, Well, w NBA scores is playoff time New York beat Chicago ninety eight ninety one, In Vegas beat Phoenix seventy nine to sixty three. All right now, as salute to the Las Vegas aces

man dropping a clues box for Big Asia Wilson. Okay, you know I got me in Las Vegas Aces Asia Wilson Jersey, by the way, and also congratulations to Lebron James. He just signed a two year, ninety seven million dollar extension which includes a fifteen percent trade kicker makes Lebron James the highest earning player in NBA history, with five in thirty two million in guaranteed money. I mean, he's

been around for what nineteen years, twenty years. He's been playing at a high level for those nineteen twenty years. So you know, he's not one of those people that you're gonna see signing for the veterans minimum as he as he is a veteran. Nope, he getting that squat clutch clutch sports Rich Paul and that whole team over there for getting that done. Now a German Man, goodness, gracious, you talk about bad luck. Now he has tested positive

for monkey pox, syphilis, and HIV. That's that's that's got to be like some type of historical award. Is what would you call that? If he was gambling? If he was a gambling man, that's everything, right, that's affect. What do you call that? I'm not I'm not a mocal player. That's got to be something. What do you call three of a conn? I don't know, I honestly don't know. Now it's so bad that his nose is actually rotting off.

How I don't know, but there there's a picture form, I believe on Shade Room, and you could actually see his nose just kind of like disintegrating. At first they say doctor's story with sunburned and the man was sent home and he said a few more days, he said, his nose began to begin to turn black and like just almost just rot off. So he got syphilist, monkey pops, COVID and whatever HIV. No, you ain't say they. I didn't hear you say that before you. I said monkey

pops for listen to HIV. That's a screat flush, bro, So listen did he get Did he get diagnosed with all of them at one time? I didn't ask him. I don't know. That's that's what I would like to know, Like did he get diagnosed with all of this stuff at one time? Like he's just go to the doctor for a random check up and they're like, hey, man, I got some news for you, bro, and hit him with all four three three bunky pops I for listen

to HIV. I didn't add another one. I didn't say you said monkey pox, Syphilist COVID and hif I didn't say COVID, you just threw COVID in there. No, no, I didn't need to say COVID early on. Now cod H my bad. I didn't even mean it had diseases. He probably don't got nothing. No, I didn't got a cold here. I didn't mean it though, COVID on him. But that is blessed that man. Man, where are you from Germany? Yeah? Keep him over there, building a wall around him, Put him in masks, put him in a

half match suit. Don't let him leave what he is. Keep it right there, keep it right with here. Geez, all right, well that is your friend. You got hit with that. I don't believe that. I got to see that to believe it. That's a picture on shade picture. But that don't mean the story real. That story is sound too wild to be real. You got hit with all four COVID, three, monkey pox and HIV. Will you

say h four things first? Now there's only three. He doesn't have COVID, right, she said, Hollywood A, it's coming from the New York past. Jesus Christ. All right, well, get it off your chest. Eight hundred five A five one on five one maybe you're having a bad day, but your day can't be mad as bad as that German Man. So off. If you're that German Man, we ain't got no good news for you, nothing more prayers sitting this gracious a hundred five eight five one five one.

Get it off your chest. It's the breakfast club morning, the breakfast club. Get it off your chest. Whether you're man from you on the breakfast club. You got something on your mind? Hello, who's this here? What's y? What's up? Traffraff? Oh she's not there? Oh God, what's the up? Story? Pete says, what's happening? Listen? I heard a story yesterday I was want to talk about. I heard Orlando Brown out here saying that did he gave him the uwah

guwash right? You didn't hear that? No, you mean that mouth? Uh? But why do y'all? But that doesn't land up? Brown say that about everybody? Well, he definitely said, Listen, I believe a lot of things about Diddy. I definitely believe here first bottom, but I don't believe that he out here doing that to Orlando Brown. So Orlando Brown need to stop lying on did he like he really need to start lying on did he I mean, I think end Up Brown says a lot of things for entertainment purposes,

and you know why not entertainment man did that to you? Yeah, I agree with you, but you're calling the radio station to talk about the traf so you you know, you watch kind of worked because we didn't talk about I didn't hear it. I mean, hey, I saw it this like everybody else saw it. I didn't see it. And there's one more thing, right, christ are trying to bag They girls him the same out of nowhere we're talking about Prince trying to bag team shut up. That's what

the games do. The gays don't do too much talking. They didn't get to give you a little bit of a look and then it just sets you the bags on first, like we don't do too much talking. I don't think there was nothing gay about Prince. I think Prince was French used to be with some of the most beautiful women. Bro Listen, Sorry, most of the men I talked to in my life's been with the most

beautiful woman. I can't I don't believe you trap look them a little dirty delaware dude, you'd be messing with Dave been with no beautiful women Delaware first, dirty Delaware dudes. You'd be mesting with be all through Delaware. I heard about you traffic Delaware and Delaware. I heard all about you traff this gracious Hello, who is this? Hey? What's so? What's this? Jody to South Carolina? Joe suked up? What's happening in John Moran Country? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, what's up

with y'all? How y'all? Daughter? Good? Good, get favor broad to be totally. I was so scared even come on here just to say son, But I gotta say this, and I'm so blessed. I know things don't be going like high post be going for a lot of people. This then the third or Yo, God don't give you too much that you can't handle on he don't do the bare minimal, so yo, you just keep going. Everything would be good. I'm seeing here work in the parking

lot right now. Okay, damn, okay, thank you brother, good brother. I'm glad you appreciating your situation. Man, And listen, I always have want to call and talk to y'all. Y'all. Appreciate everything that y'all doing. Y'all keep it up, all right, brother, thank you, Thank you, brother. I appreciate you. Get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If you need to vent hit us up right now is the Breakfast Club? Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

Let's get to the rum as Le's talk O'Kelly listen, Oh gosh, got angel angela club Well. Opening statements were yesterday and R Kelly's federal child and charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice. They are a legend that he had sex with miners on numerous occasions, recorded a lot of these assaults to VHS tape, and then also pay people who knew about the recordings to keep quiet when he did face criminal charges of child pornography in

two thousand and eight. This was all said, is Jared's started the federal trial yesterday. So prosecutors said during opening statements that R. Kelly had a dark side and kept a hidden the world behind his fame and status. And the victims were as young as fourteen, and they said they were multiple girls hundreds of times. And so jurors are going to be shown video of R. Kelly allegedly having sex with a miner. There's one woman that they

expect abill testified. They said in this footage he repeatedly referred to his god daughter's fourteen year old anatomy, and they're expected to see parts of three videotapes with R. Kelly having sexual contact with his then fourteen year old god daughter Jane over the course of the trial. So they said he was a Grammy winning superstar who was also a serial predator who had sex hundreds of times with miners and went to extraordinary lengths to cover it up.

So another videotape allegedly showing child porn won't be played because they said R. Kelly and his co defendants Daryl McDavid and Milton Brown and allegedly covered it up, but

witnesses will still testify about it. That's another thing too, Like you know, when they were saying All Kelly's team didn't want people to watch Surviving R Kelly Dockwood, what about the all Kelly sex tape that's been circulating for a couple of decades now, right, Well, the girl allegedly seen in multiple child pornography tapes from the late nineties having sex with R. Kelly, is they're saying going to be the star witness and testify and say that he

had sex with her when she was fourteen, recorded some of their hundreds of sexual encounters, and those alleged encounters, and those tapes were part of a two thousand and eight Illinois child pornography child in which Kelly was acquitted. If you guys recall when that happened after the witness declined to take the stand. Now she's nearly forty years

old and she's finally expected to testify. You know this is gonna be I mean, look, according to his attorney, she wants to know why Jane is coming forward now to testify that the tapes were of her. She said, for the last twenty two years, she has adamantly denied that it was her in that video. Before there was any criminal investigation, she denied it. She denied it repeatedly to prosecutors. She denied it to social workers, to police officers. She denied it under oath to a grand jury. I mean,

zue know, all, Kelly about to get sinners crazy? What do you got thirty years already right m and the other trial right yep, he's already been sentenced right all right now. Jonah Hill says that he will not promote any upcoming film so he can prioritize his mental health. He said he has met nearly twenty years experiencing anxiety attacks, which are exacerbated by media appearances and public facing events.

So he released that in an open letter. And so he has a movie that he just finished directing, his second film. It's called Stuts, and it's about him, his therapist and mental health. It's a documentary. So he said, the whole purpose of making this film is to give therapy and the tools I've learned in therapy tore a wide audience for private use through an entertaining film. Through

this journey of self discovery. Within the film, I have come to the understanding that I've spent nearly twenty years experiencing anxiety attacks, travel a clus bonds for Jonah hill Man whenever about his stories, like Jonah hill or even Adrian Brona the other day, I don't care what people got to say about it, because if you don't understand anxiety and panic attacks, and you just simply don't understand, so to see them be like you know what, I

ain't going. Yeah, y'all been working with me for a long time, y'all see charts. Charlomagne just don't show up and knows be the reasons and to be able to express that now in twenty twenty two and not feel no shame for it. I love it all right. And Mike Miller is issuing a ten million dollar challenge and this is to music executives who said that his career

was over. He tweeted out and he said, if you're a corporate person that work in the music business and ever predicted Mieke is over, I want to place a ten million dollars bet with you contract label owners, A and R CEO CEOs artists. I'm just finding out y'all was talking like that. Y'all said I was over at least five times, and I'm gonna do it from an independent side, no major vibes to make effortless. This is not a joke. That's for people that fake call the

shots in this music industry. They really be washed and try to place their limits on you and want you to believe it's never well. I would need more information before I take a bet like that, though, because I want to know what was considered over consider success. Yeah, it's the album sales, it's the number of tickets you can sell on the road and get your merth sales. Like what is considered success nowadays in the music industry,

you can't. You can't really tell. Like if you look at Meek's Dreaming Nightmares, right, that wasn't a single, but it was a record that everybody love took off and it's probably in a last real hit. Yeah, fifteen years is the biggest record in the club to this day, so you know, yeah, it's a hit that's not a hit on the charts, but it's a it's bigger than any record on the chart in my opinion, you know. And I mean the industry is like sports, right, Like

folks talk about artists like sports team. If you had seasons that were better than the seasons you are having now, folks might say, well, he doesn't sound like he used to, So that's where that he fell off talk probably comes from. But I would just simply want to know what considered success to meet before before somebody takes that bet. You know,

all right, well that is your room of reports. I do have a question, right when you talk about anxiety, like we were talking about Adrian Brona, right, and I get it, he wasn't we don't know why. He said his mental health wasn't right, so he canceled a fight. But now what happens to everybody else involved in that? It's just like if everybody else because you got people that paid for flights and we're flying to come and

see him. You got promoters that put millions of dollars into this, You got you know, I'm sure they gave him a bag to start training. Like, so how does that work when when you have it? I mean, because I get it. If you if you don't feel comfortable or your mentalists not right, you can say I don't want to do it. But how does that all play into everything else? Because you got people that you know, spent their last to come see him fighting, all they

find somebody else to fight? Yeah, you know, yes, they already did. They have somebody fighting this weekend. Figure I was fighting, So I forgot who stepped in the fight for fight for Brona this weekend. Because if you're a Brona fan goes on you want to see Brona though you know, I mean no disrespect to the other box. You want to see Brona. You paid your money to see Brona or Jonah Hill if he had something you're paying to see Jonah Hill, you know somebody else. It's

just how does that work? And I get it, but well, he's just talking about interviews Jonah Hill, He's not you know, hey, man, I get all of that. But yeah, Sergy Lippernets is replacing Adrian Bona. But I don't think it matters, you know, I really don't. I think in moments like that, you have to be selfish because you know, you pushed when when you push through when when when you're dealing with like panic attacks and anxiety, it just makes it worse and nobody has to deal with that except for the

person that's dealing with it. So I would rather be selfish and moments like that, But do you show up for that person? Do you believe? You know? Yeah, and I do believe that you gotta communicate that you're not doing something instead of just not showing up. Now you do. I mean, it's easier to have those conversations it was. Yeah, it's easier to have those conversations now than it was five years ago. Definitely ten years ago, you know what I mean? You couldn't say that, man, I'm having a

panic attack I'm having an anxiety attack. People don't even understand what the hell are you talking about? Right? But now I think people understand a little bit more. Where do you show up for him next time? You know what I mean? Like, it's all right, well, front page news is next. It's the breakfast Local morning, So breakfast Club, your morning's will never be the same. Leaving a child in a hot vehicle can lead to their death very quickly.

If you see a child left unattended, called nine one one. If the child looks unresponsive, do what it takes to get him or her out safely. Pay for it by nitza morning. Everybody is dj Envy Angela, Ye, Charlemagne and guy. We are to breakfast club. Let's get some front page news will be starting easy. Yeah all right, Well, when you want to find something online, how do you look for it? Google? Google? Yes? But do you know what

jen Z he does? This had nearly forty percent of gen z members those are people born from ninety seven to twenty twelve preferred to use TikTok for online searches. They don't have a long attention span. They've said that several times they want to get information really quickly and get to the meat of it really quickly and not have to sort it out. So now instead of Google, they are going on TikTok to look for information. How do we feel about this? I'm confused, like you to

feel about this, old heads. So if you want to search, let's say I don't know the White House, you could search the White House and TikTok and then you see a TikTok video of the White House come up. Yep. I feel like that ruins how your brain processes information, you know what I mean? I feel like that message with your ability to have a message, with your critical

thinking skills, that's what I think. I don't think anybody's doing anythinking actually, because you're literally just letting people do all the thinking for you. They're doing all the research for you, and you're just taking their word for it. How do you even know what they say is true? They also said the TikTok's use of video is very appealing to gen z users. They get a more comprehensive search result. What if what if what's in those videos

is misinformation? Though? Like I just feel like it should be something else, Like even when I Google, you know, when the Google cites me different sources. I'll go look at those sources, whether it's you know, books, any type of documentation. Like I just feel like just taking somebody's word for it in a video that's not critical thinking at all. That's why I always say, people wake up every day and they wait for social media to tell

them what to feel about something. Now, according to the support though, gen Z does look for lighter topics on TikTok so things like recipes, fashion tips, bar recommendations, but when it comes to heavier topics like COVID or election information, they'll go to Google for that. Okay, all right, I respect that. Okay, I respect that you're going in for the lighter topics. Cool, I get it, you know, But for the heaviest stuff, you got to do some research. You got to do a little research, a lot of

research actually, all right. Now, Florida court is saying a sixteen year old may be forced to have a baby even though she doesn't have parents and has told the court that she is not ready. So Florida maybe forcing her to give birth after an appeals court rule that she was not sufficiently mature enough to decide whether to determinate her pregnancy. So at the time, you know, she was ten weeks pregnant, and she was blocked from having an abortion without the consent of a parent or guardian.

But they said had not established by clear and convincing evidence that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy. Having reviewed the record, they did affirm the child Court's decision under that law, Man, what is going on in the world? Bro Like that don't even sound real, Like I understand the law, but there's no

compassion or empathy whatsoever for this young girl. I mean, I said, Yeah, how can you say somebody's they're not mature enough to have an abortion, but you think they're mature enough to have a baby at sixteen? That makes no sense. Yeah, And so on her end, you know, she lives with a relative. She also has an appointed guardian. She also did enough research to gain an understanding about

her medical options and their consequences. She's also pursuing a ged with involvement in a program designed to assist young women who have experienced trauma in their lives by providing educational support and counseling. She actually experienced renewed trauma the death of a friend shortly before she decided to seek termination of her pregnancy, and so now she has in her petition, which she completed by hand. The teenager is sufficiently saying that she is mature enough to make that decision,

and she's not ready to have a baby. She doesn't have a job, she's still in school, and the father is unable to assist her. How do you tell somebody, a teenager, that they're not mature enough to have an abortion, but they are mature enough to have a baby. This don't make no damn sense, man, exactly, this real life makes no sense. What oh all right? And her guardian, by the way, we said she has an appointed guardian, is fine with what she wants to do, and her

case worker was with her in court as well. So I would think make this decision. I would think her wanting an abortion is because she realizes that, you know, she might not be mature enough to take care of this child right now, you know what I mean, Like, she's not in a financial position, she's not in no position to take care of a baby. I think that's

the reason for wanting to have the abortion. So to tell her she's not mature enough to have an abortion, but force her to have the baby is even though she may not be mature enough to have the child is wild to me. All right, well that is your front page news, very wild. All right. Now, when we come back, Joey Badass will be joining us. We're gonna kick it with Joey bad So don't move. It's to Breakfast Club, Go Morning the bread for Sclub Rap Album

of the Year category. They should be mentioned in that kind of conversation. I mentioned a lot coming from me, you know what I'm saying. I appreciate that. Definitely worked really hard on that. I'm super satisfied with the project. I feel like all of the feedback has been really good. Every time I see I feel like you should have grew up in the woven naz Era here. That's what. Even when I see you acting, I'm like you are from that error, Like your whole embodiment fits that error.

That's why I told me this morning, I was like, yo, I said, it's very New York but still fresh when I came out at the time, and it was like nobody has seen what I was doing, you know, But for me, it was kind of like a natural reaction to what was going on. You know what I'm saying, Circle twenty ten, twenty eleven. You know a lot of stuff on the radio was like young money dominant. Then they started going west coast with it, you know what I'm saying. And I just felt the need that New

York needed something that like represented it again. And yeah, now it was just a part of my DNA radio that time. I know that. Well. You know, I was a kid. I hated everything. I hated literally everything. I didn't would have talked to nobody. I ain't wold have seen nobody. I had no type of gauge on really what was going on into the magnitude of how it was going. Why did it take so long? Why why

ten years between projects? Oh no, I wasn't five years ago American, right, but five years is a long time too in this business. Why five years? Man? It wasn't no specific reason, Like it wasn't like I finished my last time. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna take five years or nine. It just it just happened that way, man. You know, I was experimenting, trying to find a new direction, trying to figure out which way I wanted to go.

In addition, I had my first kid, you know, my daughter, she's four years old now, started doing a lot of TV and film stuff started taking off. So it was just really getting used to a new balance. And then the pandemic set me back. Like I had a project, but then when the pandemic started, I got connected with myself in a different way, you know, and it became a whole different thing, you know. So it's just it's

kind of the way it lined up. But I'll tell you this, like I ain't never planning on going away for that long again, how did you get into acting? For people that don't know, I was a theater student in high school. I went to Edward Armro. I had like audition for a bunch of different drama theater programs because when I was coming up, when when it was time for me to go to high school, like I always was into music, but at the time there was no program to go to like work on my rap

scales on the Rapper Show. My next best thing to me was film. They kicked me out after myself more year though for what my attendance was just poor. I was like one out of three black kids. And the great thing about that is I was one out of three Black Kids. It was me and the homie Sadiq who played ghost face on Who Tang Wow, So it was dope. You know what I'm saying that, Yeah, you know what I mean, connecting back with him the whole full circle joint. Did you ever think you would lose

your rap identity as Joey Badass playing inspected that? Um No, I didn't think I was gonna lose my rap identity. But that is a good question because I was always reluctant about playing roles that were too close to who I am in real life. But when I got off of that, you know, it's Wu Tang Like that's a big honor. And then Rizzi has been one of my mentors in this game for a long time, so I definitely wanted to come through for him, like I felt he's come through for me a lot of the times.

But you know, then I got power and then I got on viv for woul Tang. Tell me about the jay Z connection, because you referenced that a couple of times on the album will make you feel and I might be papraz but you say peepe game like Jay That's that's why he didn't sign me. That's why I didn't he didn't sign us keep the game at Bay,

like the forty nine is Jay's like an idol. I read his book The Coda, and that line was inspired by piecing theda coda when he said he met with Russell Simmons for the first time, and he details this sperience as him like remembering sitting at that table and looking at them and thinking to himself like, damn, like I don't want to be signing these. I want to beat these. Remember the first conversation with Jay, you first sit down on him. Yeah, Yeah, I was seventeen years old.

I was in Denvil where he feeled me back out to New York to meet with him. And you know, I was a funny little to so I walked in and I'm like, yes, like get whatever it is. It was a dope experience, man, because at seventeen years old, I felt so limitless. It was probably like when I was fifteen and sixteen, like I visualized in my mind like I want to be signed at jay Z. So when I was going up in that rock Nation building, like a year or two later, I'm like, damn, I

could do anything. I'm already in alignment with my idol, anything is possible. Did he tell you why he didn't sign y'all? It's funny like I always see him now and I'll be wanting to have that conversation, but the time, I feel like the time never permits, Like well we act, but I'd be wanting to ask them that I was so young at the time, and to me, there was no reason to not sign at jay Z. But you know,

there was other factors involved and like that. So I'm not really sure what exactly happened, because based off the album, it seems like y'all used to be up there a lot, like skateboarding in front of the building. Well, yeah, they showed us a lot of love, you know what I'm saying. To this day, you know, he looks out for me, shows me a lot of love. So it's just always been more like three degrees of separation, you know what

you're saying. And I like what you said about this being a reintroduction to Joy Badass, because you do tell so much about yourself. You talk about your cousin Richie rich writing, your writing your first rap. Yeah, but what kind of battery did that put in your back? He just like really gave me structure, you know what I'm saying, Like, he taught me how to count balls and all like. And then you know, I had other older cousins who's

a rapping like that. For a long time, it was a running joke because when I was a kid, I used to always tell them, yo, yeah, y'all need to bring me to the studio. And then it blew up and I was like, oh, yeah, you remember writing your first rap nah nah. But it must have been in like first grade because that's when I was introduced the poetry and I identified it as like I was like, oh, this is that biggie doing. That's like what my brain said,

you know what I mean. And from then I got into poetry, but I would always do like rap style poems. But I remember the first time I spent that verse that my cousin wrote for me for my mom's I was like nine years old when something like my name is little Jay and I got the nain you mentioned with me, and I blow off your mind. They hating cousins. I'll be on my ground and I always shine while you acting like your shelf clocks. But I put a pipe bomb in your mail box like that right, I'm

not nave Sta. She was like, do you know what a nine? I was like, I'm to me, I'm like, I'm nine, so it just sounds I mean, I'm like, nah, she was like, it's a gun. First of all, it was like word, and then she gave me the realist advice. She was like, YO, look, if you want to do this, you could do that, but you just gotta be true to yourself. And from there I just kind of took

that in rand with about the pipe mall nah. I think she kind of figured out that it wasn't my words, you know what I'm saying, somebody who else was involved in that? All Right? We got more with Joey Badass when we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club, Good Morning Wanting Everybody's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we are to Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Joey Badass, Charlemagne. No, I love written in the

Stars too. You mentioned your daughter earlier. You said your daughter was your wake up call. That what did that wake up call look like? You? Yeah, you know, I felt so obligated in earlier years in my career to take kid people to the point where a lot of the times it burned me out, feeling like guilt survives

guilt and things that nature. But you know, when my baby girl came, I was like, oh, okay, this is really the only person I'm responsible for, you know what I'm saying, and that that she's his different Like if you can't respect that, then you know we can't even be cool no more. How's your life change? How do

you move differently now that you have a girl? Well, yeah, you know, definitely more focused, definitely more intention and everything that I do, especially when it comes to you know, spending, and I mean I say it made me more patient, It made me more gentle, It made me more willing to learn and listen. How did you change your overall

perspective of women? Definitely, Like you know, from time to time I would have the thought like I wouldn't with my daughter to you know what I'm saying, being in a situation like that, So it definitely kind of gives you a heightened state of awareness when it comes to

that interaction. But I mean, I've always been a super respectful man anyway, but like you know, with my baby girl in my life, it definitely kind of shapes my mind in a way like, let me t to be more like the version of the man that I would want my baby girl to grow up. Man, you know, be with deal with Do you ever look at it like I was this way as a man and now I got to change because I don't want my daughter to like that as a man. Yes and no, because

you know life is about growth. You know, nobody's gonna come straight off with a tree like boomp like nah, you got experience, and you know I want I don't want none of that to be hitting from my child, Like I don't want her to ever view life as a thing where you could skip steps and still get by. You know, we all got we all got all types of childhood traumas that we couldn't even run from if

we tried to. These are the things that affect us saying, you know what I'm saying, ultimately shape who we are, you know what I mean. But as long as you know you got that growth mindset, or as long as whoever she's with got that growth mindset, then I got some patience. You know, I got some sympathy now in the baddest first of all, you and you and did he seem like y'all have a strong relationship? Absolutely? How

did he get so cool and so cool? Man? I met Diddy twenty sixteen coming out to Rihanna met Gala after the party and one no, he was walking out. I was walking in and you was just like, yo, King, I've been trying to connect with you for years, Like I was trying to sign you back in the day, and I'm like, this is all news to me, you know what i mean, It's the first time. I mean,

you know, I'm like, wow, I work boom. And in that same week, I had rolled a lout in Miami and then I ran into him again and if from there it was just like we were just roll dogs, you know what I'm saying, Like he would be going soon, yo Joe, I'm being New York b won't pull up. And we just kind of developed that relationship like that, and it's like I'm yeah, exactly because of me, you know what I mean. I got him on that project,

I got him involved, I made a phone call. I'm super grateful for that relationship because me, I'm a sponge, so it's like you bring me around to the right rounds and tables like, I ain't taking that for granted. I'm connecting, I'm networking, I'm you know what I'm saying, I'm using the opportunity fruitfully, you know what I mean, as it should be. So the fact that he could

identify that in me, I'm very appreciative for that. You know, he did the intro and the oultro and the oultro he said something to the effect of, we gotta bring that New York feeling back. Are those conversations that y'all have? And do you think that you can actually bring New York back if you live in someplace like Miami or LA don't you gotta be here? Yeah? I think you gotta be here for show because you got to connect with the post of the city. You know. Um, what

was the question? The question was, do y'all have those conversations about bringing the feeling back? Oh? Yeah, you know yeah, yeah, me and Puff we've spoken about that over the years, Like, you know, I'll play him some songs. He's like, yeah, like this is the vib this ain't the vibe, or you should do this, you should go more here, you know, But that's usually the focus of the conversation. You know what I'm saying, we always trying to stay in that essence,

he still got to end. Fifty said, did he don't got no? End? No more? Fifty said, did he ain't got no? That's a lot, That's a lot, puff. I feel like he always gonna have it. Yeah, now you can tell that you've really been doing the work on yourself mentally too, you know what I mean, Like you go to therapy. I do go to therapy. I started going to therapy back at twenty twenty, you know. As unfortunate as that pandemic was for a lot of people,

you know what I'm saying. Like I definitely don't want to be insensitive when I say this, but for me, I needed that. I didn't know stillness in my adult life. Like I hit the ground running that seventeen years old, I was still a kid. I didn't realize for about five six years, I didn't stop, you know what I mean. So when I finally got that space in that time, it's like I just went real deep inside, you know what I mean, and I realized things that I needed.

I was like, Okay, I need that be you know what I mean, Like I need to be held accountable for my shortcomings. I need those to be pointed out to me because I'm what you call a self improvement junk. Like I'm committed and devoted to being a better version of myself every time I show up. You could see the evolution in all the breakfast club interviews. I think this is our third one. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

So I pride myself on that. You know, So therapy was definitely an outlet that I saw to bring me closer to a higher self awareness and just state of being. How did you decide to do it? But with that decision, well, you know, I've always been open minded, and I started to resonate with that idea that black people therapy being so tabooed to us. What it was is I was introduced to the concept of emotional intelligence and that kind

of blew my mind. That opened so many doors for me because I'm like, wow, like, we really wasn't taught this how important it is to identify your own emotions in relation to the people around you, you know what I'm saying. Like, we might just wake up in a bad mood and you wearing that moved and now your household is feeling that moved. And you don't even realize

you just passed that mood on to your son. Now your son is in school with that moved and he passing that on to you know what I'm saying, energies. Energy is so contagious, and once I kind of like realized that, it started to open little pathways in my brain, like them even identifying with frustration as an emotion. If you tell a black man, yo, you're being an emotional that's like offensive. But people don't realize that. Yo. If you're angry, if we're having a conversation, you're just screaming

because you're mad. You're in your emotion. You know what I'm saying. People get emotionally hijacked every day, be every day like blinded by emotion, blinded by rage. So I just kind of started on that path for understanding myself more. Because I grew up I had like anger issues and stuff like that. It was hard to me to identify a lot of things that I was feeling. Did you

figure out where that anger came from? None that I think about it, looking at the highsight, I think a lot of it came from when my parents split, me not knowing how to process that and then manifesting something else like me trying to find a reason for it elsewhere, you know what I mean, I can't the same realization in therapy, Like I didn't realize how much my parents divorcing had impacted me and how angry I was at

my pops for that word up to do something. And you, especially as a black man, you know what I mean, because now you got that separation from your father and it's like you need your father, or as a black man, especially in this world, you had that conversation with your pops.

Because you know, one of the best things that helped me was having a conversation with my pops and realizing that he was going to therapy two or three times a week back in the day he tried to kill himself, back in the day he was gonna tend to twelve different medications. It made me give him more grace because I realized, damn, he was somebody before he was my parents, right, and you know, he was just doing the best he could,

but what he had. Yeah, you know, I have to I have great conversations from my dad all of the time, and it's like I have my own interpretations of it because my understanding and his understanding is definitely different, and it's like a generational difference. And I came to kind of growing accept that because what fulfills me, what I appreciate, what I'm grateful for is that I could hear my old man's wisdom, you know what I mean. And it's like, it's up to me to interpret that however see fit.

But just being able to hear that, Like, you know, I might feel a little bit more spiritually advanced than my dad, but I could never be more experienced, And you know what I'm saying, And that alone just makes me so grateful for any time we connect, you know what I'm saying, because I feel like it's a meeting of the minds and you can learn from anybody. All Right, we got more with Joey Badass when we come back, Dope Move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee Scharlamagne the guy we are to Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Joey Badass, Charlomagne. Do you really meditate every day? You say that on the abum you say you meditate every day. Nah, it's hard to meditate every day, like you know, that's more of like a manifestation. I would like to meditate every day. At a point, I was, you know, in the pandemic

for show. But one thing I try to do is pray every day because I feel like it's a form of you know, meditation or just a form of being able to like program you're thinking in the right way. How would you during the pandemic with everything going on? Because you were in New York during the pandemic in Jersey years in Jersey, So how were you during that time? Man? I was just to myself, bro, Like I called it a time of internal retreat, you know, like I was.

I was doing a lot of things. I was practicing celibacy. I was reading a lot of books, watching a lot of videos. I started cooking. I was making salads, you know, cooking and making salads. Well yeah, facts, I was making salads, but I learned how to make salmon all of that, you know, And I was slapping too. What did you see about it? Because I always say, you know, the pandemic, like you said earlier, made all of us be still

for the first time. A lot of us had to like really be still for the first time and deal with ourselves, couldn't run from our traumas or nothing. What did you see that made you be like, oh Na, I gotta go do some work on myself. I saw how much I was settling for the short end of the stick. Like you know, I spent a lot of the like the first half of my career really focused and obliged to taking care of other people. And in

that I put a lot of people before myself. So when the pandemic, it kind of put things in perspective to me. It's like, damn, I got I did this one for that one, that one for this one, But what the do I have to show for myself? And then that was a whole reset because then I came out the pandemic selfish, but in the best way possible, because I've never been that person. It is evident too, like I'm glad you noticed that. You said, Yo, you look healthy, Like this is what I look like when

I'm focused on myself. Did the pandemic finally give you the opportunity to grieve? Steve's the right way. It definitely gave me opportunities. But I don't I don't know this, this this grieving. Is it a complete process? Does it get I don't know if it's a complete process, but I was gonna say when I listened to Survivors Guild, I feel like you have finally started processing yes, you know, yes his death. This is the first year where I definitely feel a little bit of peace, you know what

I mean. It's ten years later, but just with Steves Is, I'm still majorly grieving my cousin junior. Though, Julie, how are you processing it? Like? You know, did it make you look at Because I had a friend committed suicide in twenty twenty, and when she did that, it made me look at suicide differently. It definitely brought me to a very dark place. And you know me, I'm very intuitive.

So something inside me told me because I remember coming from the funeral for me and CJ was on the way back to the crib and I remember telling him, like, yo, bro, we gotta be strong for everybody else because it's easy to fall right now. And I got pulled into that. Even after saying it, even after having that a witness and that understanding that I couldn't go there, I still got sucked into that. You know what, I mean, it brought me at a very low place. I was depressed,

like I felt so many ways. I'm like, damn, like seventeen years old, Like I know so many people were so much older than me, and they've never lost somebody this close to them, you know what I mean. It was just it was a lot of unsettling emotions and feelings and at the same time, dealing with fame for the first time, dealing with you know what I'm saying, Like the ills of that it was bubbed. That's a

natural though. I'm sure your therapist told you that you gotta light up to feel your feels like yeah, and that's what I realized too. Like, first of all, I'm grateful for the fact that I was able to put a lot of my trauma off because I was so busy, Because I don't know what I would have did with that idle time, you know what I mean. Like I was highly depressed, Like I felt suicidal all of that, you know what I mean. Like I was very convinced that I wasn't gonna live past twenty five, Like at

seventeen eighteen, I was very convinced to that. I'm like, there's no way, like I didn't see life after twenty five. Even when I turned twenty five, I was a mind for me because I'm like, damn, I did not visualize life this far. Wow. And then right there I drew up a twenty year plan. Did you look at suicide differently because a lot of people, especially in New York. It's probably all over the world, but especially in New York.

When growing up as a kid, when you think of suicide, the first thing that people think is your soul for your week. But then when you start having those emotions in that feeling, you realize far from that. First of all, it's weird to say this, but like I think suicide is a incredibly brave thing. You have to have a lot of audacity to do that to yourself, you know

what I'm saying. And then it's like to withstand that pain or whichever way, like you know, like it's heavy, but it's like there's nothing soft about that, nothing at all, you know what I'm saying. Like I remember when I was at that point, I'm feeling low, and like as low as I was feeling, as convinced I was that like I didn't really want to live. I couldn't find that courage to actually do it. My home girl, Jazz rest in peace. She did it in twenty twenties, completed suicide.

That's what they say to say shanty dusk. But Jazz said she was so intentional and so calculated and so strategic that when she did it, in my mind, I processed it like she just knew it was her time to go, Like, you know, I've never had that feeling like it's time for me to exit, you know. But even if you go look at her Twitter, she was saying things like I wonder what my next life is gonna be like and thinks like that. So something came over her wh she knew today is my day. You know. Steve.

It was the same way with Steve's you know what I'm saying, Like he definitely was vocal about it leading up to it happening, you know what I'm saying, And like when it was just it was weird man where the deported buying that new portion nine eleven? Did it really help your mental health? As you say, yeah, a little bit, you know what I'm saying, Because sometimes you gotta show yourself like what you can like achieved like it with it being a superficial item and a material thing.

To me, it more represented me having a goal, you know, and me proving myself once again, like anything that's possible, Like that was my dream car and I could have got it for a long time, but then one day I just decided, y'all a do it, And yeah, it really did something for my state of being, my state of mind, you know what I'm saying, Like I had to prove to myself, like I know, all I gotta

do is be connected to the source. But the poor Now, what I love about you, Joey Man, is like when when you see a black man doing the work it does reflecting his life, It reflecting the way he looks and reflecting his career professionally. Just probably your best body of work album way you see what you're doing in Hollywood. So that's why, man, when I see you, when I see that and I hear you telling these stories about going to therapy and everything, I'm like, that's gonna convince

so many more black men to go go do the work. Absolutely. Man. It's like, you know, I always probabe myself on being some type of role model because it's like with this

position I got with this stature with this platform. It's like, I got so many people listening, and I feel like the least I could do is implant seeds that will sprout, like, you know, more opportunity for these people, or just you know, wisdom that will transmute into the right directions for these people and stuff like that, and also just making them

not feel alone. Like I realized that, like my most relatable work is my most vulnerable work, and usually when I go there like a survivors guilt or show me, people relate to that more. Let's get into a joint off the album what you want to hear bro on this head, where I belong, Where I belong. We appreciate you for Joey Badass Man, keep growing, my brother, Joey Badass. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is the Rumor Report with Angela. Years well. Chris Brown went on social

media yesterday. He went on his Instagram story and he asked people, do you think I've done enough to get a Hollywood star? So a lot of people responded thinking that he already had one, wondering why he would not have one. And the criteria for a star includes professional achievement, longevity, and the category of five years or more contributions to the community, and the guarantee that the celebrity will attend the dedication ceremony if selected. Yeah. Absolutely, Chris Brown did

so much for this culture. Absolutely deserved one. I'm surprised, you know, I didn't know. I didn't know Biggie didn't have one. I didn't know Notorious, you know, I don't. Yeah, I don't know what the criteria is, but it just seems to me like it's something that I guess you get over time because I look at people that are getting them, like you know, Mary J. Blide is just recently, Shanty Callide just got one, Nipsey Hustle just got Yeah. Okay, it's a process to it. You have to you have

to submit for it. They just don't give it to You have to submit for it. Somebody on your team or a celebrity or somebody has to put your name I guess not not in the hat, but they have to, you know, submit and then you're nominated for that. Yeah. Absolutely. But I didn't get all this real estate to keep putting all these stars down because I would walk down that boulevard before. It don't seem like it's that many

that much block. Well just have different blocks, different areas, Like some might be in front of this area, some might be in front of that area. But it's you know what it's like. So that's huge. They should do one in New York. I thought they should always do one in New York too. I thought that would be dope too. Be gum all over it all right now,

pigeon Pool, It's all good. Rat Who Trailer has responded to Swizz and Timberland's twenty eight million dollar lawsuits and so the statement was obtained by TMZ and according to the statement, Trailer saying that both Swizz and Timberland have already collected over fifty million dollars in cash and stock after selling them their idea. But they're saying that they have to fulfill a versus quota and that's what is

resulting in the dispute. They said, this is not a feud over versus, but simply about earnout payments to Swizz and Tim. Swizz and Tim have personally been paid by Trailer over fifty million in cash and stock to date, and they stand to benefit even more over time. And addition, they have annual obligations which have met and no breach has occurred, entitles them to additional payments. Only one payment

of ten million dollars is in question. We do not believe they have met the thresholds for that payment yet, which include, but are not limited to, delivery of a set number of Versus events for twenty twenty two. We have been trying to resolve this amicably and this does not affect Versus operations or Trailer's ownership of Versus. If this does, preceding court, we look to a judgment that weighs all the facts. You know. I saw people yesterday saying, um,

this is why you know. Swits and Tim, you know should have kept it to themselves and they should have never went corporate blas they blash. No, Swits and Tim built something during COVID and they sold it. I'm not mad at them forgetting that money, and I'm not mad at the artists that they put money in their pockets as well too, So I think they succeed if you ask me now. Ti is responding to Drew from the chain Smoker saying that he was punched in the face

because he kissed Ti on the cheek. If you'll recall, here's what happened. We're on a vibe and I was like, A gave my kissing the cheek, told me my fault, and he was like, don't do that. I was like, okay. He crushed me off and I was like, all right, my bad. His friend goes, you need to get your boy, and I go, what, I don't even know what happened. Punch me in the face and I was like, okay, I'm sorry, and he was like, all right, cool, We're good.

It was the weirdest and action ever because like I'm sure like he did the coolest thing ever. And then you kiss. First of all, TI is fully in the right here. I was like, I was like feeling I was feeling the vibes weighs too hard, and I kissed TI on the cheese one for it. All right. Well, here's what t I had to say in a response to Drew. But I love to change Smoker man made

great music. He made great music. You know. I think I think the most important thing to to to take away is afterwards we had a drink, we took a shot, and now I mean and we moved on. You know, everybody you know left, Like I said, love to change, not to get no sugar though you know what I'm saying that no, you know, no sugar. No buddy, still a fan a matter of fact. But little the head

you guys is perdiciously, you know what I'm saying. If you can find you can find the time for to sit at and chop it up man that little to kick it with you. If y'all got some time on your hand. Man, you know, listen, you know, let's catch back. Not to get no sugar. Though I'd love to change smoke, It's just not enough to get no sugar. That's why I'd be trying to be to you. If some guy kissed you on the cheek, You said, what would it be weird to you? Like? Would you react if a

guy kissed you on the cheek somebody? I haven't when it happened to know, like a week ago, somebody kissed me and Charlemagne on the cheek, Kevin Gates. Kevin Gates always kiss on kisses on the cheek. You know, I gotta tali you in homies that have kissed me on the cheek. I never thought anything of it, to be honest with me, neither. But if it's just kicking it at a club and whatever, and then just out of nowhere, not like a greeting. What are you talking about? Like

just hey like that. Yeah, that won't be kissing me if you don't know me. Now, Like the people I'm talking about actually knew they know me, so it's different. Yeah he knew them, right, they was all hanging out. Oh yeah, you're right. I don't know. I guess, it just depends how you try to do it. It's just different, like when somebody gives you, like when Kevin Gates gives you a dapt he leans in. I'm I've been knowing him for why I expected, I guess, and he does it.

I don't think nothing of it. Yeah, one of the Italian home he to do it. I don't think nothing of it. But so, how how would you want somebody to kiss you in the cheek then telling them I ain't given you no ideas and nobody'll ever kiss you on the cheek because they'll get black stuff all over their lips because of that Beijing you got in your beard. I don't know have Beijing. My answer, well, just for men, whatever the hell kind of diet is all right? Get

it right? That is you're a report. You know you're you know, next time I say, I'm gonna kss you on your forhead just because of that. You know that It isn't you just wanted an excuse to kive me one for ahead. It isn't amazing. It is amazing to me that people want to swist and tim to uh, you know, keep doing versus for free. Like keep it in the culture, that's what they were saying. But but keep it in the coach you to do what like y'all just want to be entertained for free? Now that

makes no sense. But not only that, you know, they actually they pay the artists. Now, like the artist we get paid. They put on a show. It's a productions, so people have to get paid, those lights that do that venue, the artist performing for over an hour, Like that's not free. They pay that, And I think that's dope. Yea. They built something on Instagram during COVID and sold it and you know, according to Triller, have walked away with fifty million dollars for something that they were doing on

Instagram for fun. Yeah, now artists are getting getting paid, Like I don't you know, people are strange. I don't know. What people want from people. No more who you're giving your donkey you that's next four after the hour, Laurel Cinematic Arts and Creative Technologies needs to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with them, all right, and then after that ask a yee. So if you need relationship advice to any type of advice,

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is no question. And there are problems in this country between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey to the latest on that police killing of a black man. Now the new developments in the deathly spawshooting Rampa. Yes, it was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, White supremacist violence is it always has been the number one threat to outside. But I'm also very proud that my wife was white. The breakfast

club bitches. All right, fren, please tell me why was I your Donkey of the Day? Wow? Donkey to Day for Thursday, August eighteen goes the Laurel Cinematic Arts and Creative Technologies. That is a school that goes from kindergarten to eighth grade in West Hollywood, California, that, according to the description, provides children with rigorous and engaging learning experiences that promote individual expression through the Cinematic Arts and Creative technologies.

Sounds funny and entertaining, right, but hold up, wait a minute. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that they are getting sued by a black mother named rashawnd De Pitch Drop on a Clue's bomb for rashawnd De pitch Okayshawanda has fired a lawsuit on behalf of her daughter after she discovered her elementary school created a cotton field to get students to identify with the real life experience of African

American slaves. Black people. Let's all collectively sigh, I know, I know, we tied the people playing with us the way they would never think to play with any other community. In her suit, rashaand depicts alleged she dropped off her now fourteen year old daughter when she called a glimpse at what appeared to be a cotton field in the front of the school. You know what. Her next three words were, Oh hell no, Okay, word demya from girlfriends.

All right, Golden Brooks, that's a girlfriend's friends still out here looking for closure. Okay, we hate how that amazing show ended, but let me stick to what we're here for. Rashonda uttered those three words, oh hell no, and then she did what any black mother would do. She requested to speak to whoever's in charge. In this case, it

was the principal Amy d As. The principal Amy was unable to speak to Rashonda, but Rashonda they did get to speak to the assistant principle, Brian when nets Nowski, I know, I'm pronouncing that name all wrong. And this fool tried to explain the ration now behind the project, he said, and this is all according to the La Times I quote. The class was reading the autobiography of Frederick Douglas in picking cotton was one of the experiences

that he wrote about. The whold Lord man, let me take a sip of my water, because I too have read the autobiography of Frederick Douglas. In fact, the Homie Evande K. Williams bought me that as a gift one strop on the cous moms for Ebdek Willims. And there was a lot of other things Frederick Douglas wrote about it, okay, and the main takeaway to meet from the book was having a belief in yourself, self determination, encourage, and above

all else, educating yourself. Frederick Douglass spoke about how white slave holders perpetuated slavery by keeping their slaves ignorant. Okay, because you gotta think. At the time Frederick Douglas wrote this book, many people believe that slavery was a natural state of being, you know. They just thought black people would naturally Paul Broke, busted and disgusted. But Frederick Douglas knew better, and that's why he went so hard to

become literate. He believed education was the key to freedom and all of this helped Frederick Douglass to escape bondage and transcend his circumstances to become one of the nation's most powerful voices. Okay, especially against human bondage. Why you ain't teach them kids, Dad? Huh? Why you didn't teach teach them kids? You know that being an intellectual is not only their right, but an act of rebellion against

the wicked system. No, you want these kids to think that all they're good for is to be a bunch of cat and picking niggas. You would never remind them of their greatness and their ability to overcome any white supremacist obstacle. Okay, rashon to pitch, you have every right to be completely pissed off about the idea that the Laurel School would have your daughter and other children pick cotton as a school exercise that identified with the real

life experiences of African American slaves. When I tell you, they would never ever play with Jewish people like this. They would never set up a Nazi concentration camp to give people the real life experience of Jewish people during the Holocaust. It would never happen. So why do they feel so comfortable playing with us? Rashaan did suing the Los Angeles Unified School District and Board of Education, claiming her daughter suffered emotional distress. And I believe her because

this situation has caused me emotional distress too. I got gash right now. I've been farting ever since I heard this story, and you know I don't fart in my clothes. You know how difficult it is to do a radio show and in between bricks have to go in the bathroom just to pull my pants down and fart. Ha. Now, the suit claims the la USD seemingly acknowledged the OJEC was discriminatory and harmful to the students. Wow, you think you think people say all the time, Charlomagne, you make

everything about race. No, Charlomagne just acknowledges racism. I would love to not have to talk about race. But how how am I supposed to stop talking about race in a racist country? Okay? Anybody who can hear this story and not say to themselves, yeah, that's left up simply either does not have a soul or guess what you're probably are racist too. Please let Chelsea Handler give the Laurel Cinematic Arts and Creative Technology School the biggest he haw he haw, he haw. That is way too much.

Dan Mann is well, my girl, Kathy griffinet giant jar male, the biggest he ha. What about Christopher Rock? Does Christopher Rock want to chime in? I know you think it's so racist to call someone a crack ass cracker. It is not in this case, it is descriptive. Anybody else got something to say? Right, y'all have a blessed day. My name is Leonard Kelby, Charlotmagne and Garden, Uncle Charlotte.

All right, I'm gonna thank you Leonardo. Up next, ask ye if you need relationship advice to any type of advice? Hit ye right now. It is the breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. Need relationship advice, need personal advice? Just the real advice? Haul up now for ask ye? All right, Dre, what's good? He was going on, Yeah, how are you doing?

I'm good? How are you? I'm good? I'm good, I'm blessed. Um, I want to ask you, would you find like if you had a boyfriend you don't your man ended up having a child. Would you be offended if he asked for a DNA church before he signed? Um? Would I be offended? Honestly? Yes? But would I understand. Yes, So I would say I get it, but I would be offended and it probably would make me feel like, damn, that's how you look at me. But I understand it

not necessarily. But would you like look at it as like a way to protecting himself because there's people out there they don't have kids, you know what I think, because you know that they thought it was real between the two and blah blah, try to build a family. Then they go this separate way but still being a life, but end up not being the child, you know what I'm saying, being the father of the child. So it's

like not necessarily a security blanket. I can completely understand that, and in a way I kind of feel like that should be something that gets done automatically. But I can also understand as a human being emotionally, how that would make me feel. You know. So I'm not saying that you're wrong to do that, but I do think that somebody would take offense to that, Like then you start thinking, is he doing something? Why does he think I'm doing something?

Have I done something? Is something wrong with that relationship? And it may not be those things, but you definitely would think it and maybe act a little funny. All right, well, thank you, no problem. Do what you gotta do though, Oh yeah, most definitely. All right, all right, we got more ask you when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still in

the middle of asking he Hello, who's this? This is Peter? Hey, Peter, what's your question for asking? How are you doing today? I'm doing well? How are you? Oh? Well, what's up? Charlotta Magne? What's up? Yo? Bro? Like, be real with y'all. Man, y'all have uplifted my life you because you guys told me like about like generational wealth and all of that. I bought a house with my ex now and now I'm in this house by myself. I guess I lost my job, my ex things like he's moving on and

right now. To be honest with you, the question I as is with me moving towards greatness? How can I stay infirming it? Because I have to look for a job. I'm single again. I don't know what to do. I'm like really lost, like, but I know I have a goal as far as my music and my writing and my producing skills. I just need to know, like what do I do? What do I do in a moment where I just don't know what to do? Right? I think that sometimes we can think so much about things

that it causes us to not act. As we're so busy thinking about all the problems that we have and things that we need to make happen instead of actually going out and making them happen. And let me ask you this, are you going to be able to keep this house that you guys bought? And is it only in your name? It's only in my name because of the But that's a plus. Yeah, And I'm I mean, even though I lost my job last week, unemployment is like I'm a I'm going to be able to handle

my bills for some months at least. Maybe that is a blessing because of y'all, because of you and DJ Envy, no offense, Charlemagne, but because of y'all. Like talking about real estate, I worked my way into it and now I'm just like I'm stuck. I shouldn't. I feel like I should have never I should have never liked gone into buying a house with somebody that I wasn't married to all right, well, look it's in't your name, so

y'all did not really buy a house together. It's yours number one, So it's not anything that has to be split up. Now this is your responsibility, and like you said, you'll be able to take care of it. You just lost your job last week, so you can give yourself a moment and cut yourself some slack. I remember when I was on unemployment. I had been working forever, you know, since I was a teenager, and so I was like, okay, now take a month or two to figure out what it is that I want to do next in my

life and get myself back together. Fortunately, you can afford to do that, like you said, because you do have unemployment taking care of your bills for you. So give yourself a moment. Like, you just lost your job last week. You know you're out of a relationship. I had a

really similar situation. That's the best time to take a risk and be really selfish too, right when you don't have to worry about somebody else, it's just you, and so now you can say, okay, now I can just go for whatever it is that I wanted to go for whatever whatever I was scared of, whatever was holding me back. Now it's the time to go for it.

The slate is clear, yo. You know what, I appreciate that because I just bought an iMac book, you know, install logic to it or whatever, and like, I'm doing everything that I can right now in order to, you know, make sure I have a successful life. But it's hard, and I'm hearing what you're saying, but it's really hard. And give yourself some grace in a moment. You're a human being. You went through a lot of different things simultaneously, so I do feel like, yes, figure it out. Every day,

give yourself some actionable things that you can do. Whether it's getting back in contact with people that can be beneficial, whether it's you finding some job openings, whether it's you updating your resume. Just every day, make sure you do something, but also give yourself a break. It's okay for you to have a moment where you got to take care of yourself mentally and not have to feel like, oh my god, I lost my job. I have to be doing this. I'm single now now I have this house

by myself. No, you have a house in your name and not the other person's name, that you don't have to worry about getting someone off the house, paying them out, nothing like that. You have your bills that you know you can handle for now, and now you have a little bit of time to get it together and find out what it is that you need to do. And I also feel like it is hard to go through a breakup and also not be as busy right because when you spend so much time thinking about it, maybe

you're stalking his social media pages, this person doing. Give yourself some things to do, even if it's not a paid job. Give yourself some things to do that are important to you so that you're not just say you know, maybe I want I'm sorry, I wanted to get and I'm gonna be I'm gonna leave you alone. I'm gonna let you finish off because I know how you guys are. But I know how you are. You a patient. That's

why I can't wait for your radio show. But I love Charlemagne and Dja every they might they might do, so that'd be great, amazing. Yeah, Like my thing is I yo, like Charlemagne, I don't mean no harm Angela. I gotta just shoot over and I appreciate your life, and I'm gonna take that advice. Charlemagne man, right, well, check back in. Is there is there any way I can check back in? Yeah, jes hit us um hit us up on the email. I wasn't. I wasn't trying

to get you off. I just wanted to let Charlemagne know that at the end of the day, like Bro, I started listening to are in twenty fifteen and I didn't like you. But I will say this, you mainly love you. And I'm a black gay man who is not the average black gay man. And you, I know you appreciate the gay community and I appreciate you for that. Right, I love you too. And I and I'm in and I'm in um and I'm in. I'm in therapy again because it is that's amazing. I'm happy for you. Keep

doing the work on yourself. King. Well, yeah, Peter, please check back in. I would love to hear an update in a couple of weeks. All that was ask ye eight hundred five eight five one on five one. Now we got rumors on the way, all right, and when we come back. Rick Ross responds to Wingstop labor violation to but tell you what he said. I will get into that next. You don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning, the breakfast club. It's about the rumor report.

Angela ye on the breakfast club. All right, Well, we talked about Rick Ross and some of the violations that he had labor law violations at five wingstop locations in Mississippi, and he has address taking accountability. Here's what he said. I'm gonna take time to address something. When you run in the business, there will be mistakes, but it's the biggest foss. You never made the same mistake twice. You see,

taking accountability when you get biggest. And remember this, most successful people don't take stumbling as a setback, but actually a stepping stone, a graded thing. Germany, so the Department of Labor Wage in our division revealed they collected over a hundred thousand dollars in back wages, liquidated damages, and civil penalties. According to these reports, they were saying that employees had to illegally pay for training, uniform safety training,

background techs, and even cash register shortages. I mean, that's what we said. Yesterday's business like he got franchises, Things like this gonna happen, you know, it's just magnified because it's Rick Ross. Like all these franchises were freaking all the time, frequent all the time. You have no idea who owned them, but I guarantee you they'd be having these same kind of problems. But if it was a celebrity, every business problem they had would be would be magnified

like they did with Ross. The situation all right. Now, Mary J. Blige who was discussing the state of R and B with Diddy, and now Didd he had posted on social media who killed R and B? And then he was alive with Mary J. Blige And here's what Mary had to say that Now that's in the call that they want to call a popular music with Adele and Justin Timberlay get a hold to it. So that was popular music, you know what I'm saying. But it's been popular music. We've been had it, you know, yeah,

no without a debt. So now, what's happening I think is people are afraid to feel things. You know, it's so much desensitizing going on, you know, That's that's what I think is happening. Like people are just afraid to feel because they think they think it's gonna kill. I'm not. It's just fun. It's just fun to heal you m that's a fact, right, Mary Yell Sam Smith. They do R and B and it doesn't get called that. They

call it pop music. You know, So you're not acknowledging the genre of R and B when the reality is hip hop and R and B is pop music because pop is just short for popular. We've been too most popular genres. H all right now, Ninny Leaks has gotten a Brazilian but left the BBL, and so she did that plus Lyposection. She put out a video announcing the news, and apparently she was not a fan of the traditional BBL. She said they came up with a professional mini BBL.

She said, I'm only looking to fix my problem areas, so we called in a professional mini BBL and I love it. So I'm gonna take you on this journey with me and doctor A Caro to fix some of my problem areas and become perfectly you come follow me on this journey of Lyposection three sixty and professional mini bed out which Chomagne see did you get a mini Charlomagne on full? I don't need one bro just all natural overhead baby I'm organic, you know what I'm saying it.

Ever since I put my measurements out there, you and that that little producer of alls named Taylor been very jealous. Okay, I am a natural forty one, thirty six, forty three. No disrespect anybody who gets to bbls and stuff. But your uncle Charlotte don't need one. Okay. Why don't you talk about your cheek in plants though I paid for in mine? You know, you know he got cheek in plants, right, ye? Yeah, I heard about it, yep. And then Ken Kevin Kevin

Hard didn't point that out. Your cheeks was never that full. You got a little fill in those cheeks. It's okay though, he shut up all right now. Friday actress Angela Means was upset. She did an interview with Comedy Hype and she played Felicia and Friday. So you know by Felicia, you know that part, well, she doesn't understand, Yeah, her character in the movie house. She was treated so badly. Here's what she had to say. Why was there so

much hate for such an obviously beautiful woman? Kind didn't you didn't hear her using any fanity? Why would they be so unkind to you know, a family member. No one defend to her. And I've asked this question for thirty years. Why is it so easy for us to dismiss each other like that? Even even to this day, I'll see people saying, you know, um buy you dirty bitch, You umb bitch, you dumb bitch. No, not one time, not even the mother said Hey, it's Felicia. I wonder,

I wonder, I wonder what's going on with her? That is a damn lie. That is a damn lie. Her sister came to her defense at the end of the movie because Debo was putting hands on her, and she ran down on Debo and told Deebo, all these other people may be scared of you, but I'm not scared of you. That's how Debo and Craig got into the fight to begin with. Why it's up with people? Man? Well, she said she was publicly harassed after playing that role.

As well, it's a movie. And by the way, I wouldn't know if I saw her in the street like she don't. I'm sure she doesn't look like a crackhead in everyday life. She was playing a crackhead in the movie. Correct, that's the whole point. She was an annoying crackhead. She was an annoying crackhead who was always begging thing, begging for things. That's why Craig would dismiss her like that and be like, bye, Felicia, because she was always begging

for stuff. Come on, man, like, oh my god, whatever we're supposed to be fake out, y'all gonna beaut Actually, she actually was crying and everything during It's a movie. She's an actress a movie. She was acting and once again Nia Long's character, her sister did come to her defense at the end of the movie, and nobody treated Felicia bad in the movie. She was a crack issue. The role was that of an annoying crackhead. The whole point was for her to be dismissed throughout the movie.

Man O, my business people look crazy, all right, Well, the people's choice mixes up. Next, get your requested. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club, Your mornings will never be the same. Certain people make my life easier by helping me out, and Zipp Recruiter makes hiring easier because they do the work for you. How Zipp Recruiters technology finds great candidates and then you can invite them to apply. Go to zipp recruiter dot com slash

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forty cars up. So if you see them on the highway, you know, move out their way, blow the home from them and giving some support and you know, just pray for them, so make sure they get up here safely. That's this Saturday, Atlantic City. The weather's going to be beautiful, he calls from Traded True for Lend's garage, fifty meek Oozy, Fat Joe, a Little Kim just to name a few fabulous rides and games for the kids, kids fibbing under a free So up, get your tickets and I can't

wait to see you guys this Saturday. Yes, and then the following Saturday, get ready for Angela Yee Day. That's gonna be at the Barclays and the Square out in front of the Barclays. We're gonna have amazing performances getting ready for the West Indian American Day Parade the following week, so make sure y'all come out. We have school supplies we're giving away, including book bags and totes for the kids.

We got some free food from Tick fil A. We have a live art project from Solidarity, moving games, activities, prizes, a whole lot of things going on, so make sure y'all come through. It's absolutely free for everybody, So you can go to power one dot com to get more information, and you do gotta get those tickets in advance, but it is free. All right. Well, Charloman, you got a

positive note. I do have a positive note, man, But I also want to tell everybody to make sure to tune into my late night talk show, Hell of a Week. It comes on tonight at eleven thirty right after the Daily Show. East Ray is our special guest tonight, man, so make sure you join us right after the Daily Show on Comedy Central eleven thirty pm. Hell of a Week, hosted by me and the Positive Notice. Simply this, man, the inner conversation you have with yourself is the most

important one. Make sure it's healthy and positive. Breakfast Club, y'all finish with y'all dumb