There's Always Another Way (Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon/DJ Diamond Kuts and Conceited /Latham Thomas)

world's most dangerous morning show. And this is your time to get it off your chests, whether you're mad or blessed, so you better have the same We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's this? Hey man? Good morning, this is Ross Russ. What's happening? King? Get off your chests? Run not hey man. Let me first say I've been listening to yars hope it's a ninth

three right. How old are you now? I'm twenty three years old, Lord, have mercy, boy, we've been around too long, man, Listen. I called y'all back when I was in tenth grade in high school and am hung up on me. Ain't right us? Rust rush right? He kept saying, rough. Vis communication has improved a lot over the year. This is too difficult hang about at But anyway, I remember what I was mad about back then. I was mad because you know, I'm from Baltimore, man, y'all not on Q

So I was mad. But you know what I'm doing today, mastivating? What? No, something, don't change what, sir. I'm I'm gonna read your book, uh anxiety planting tricks on me chick one, Yes, sir exactly, because you know I took the mental health day to day so called out of work. Oh man, listen, we gotta do that from time to time. But you have an anxiety about today, brother, Man, Monday morning, I was on my way to a job interview and I had crashed my car. Man, that just ruined my week. Damn

well man, shake it off, my brother. I'm glad you're taking the mental health day to day. Yesterday was the day that you should have liked, you know, did some energy clinics in man, maybe take a salt bath right down your your long term goals, manifest some things in your life. But you can still do that today. Yeah, man, I'm gonna I'm gonna turn with to day. I'm gonna get my my my feelings off my chest and like write it down. We know what back on this day, and I know it's not gonna be a big day.

It was like, you know, I'm trump push. I love this my brother, I love how you live in king Man. Y'all, y'all have a good morning. Thanks for that's Hey, Russ, I'm gonna put you on hold. I'm gonna send you some more things to read. I'm gonna send your doctor to Walker, the unapologetic guy, the black mental Health. That's a. That's a. That's when I recommend to everybody. Man, I'm gonna sit. You can autograph for me. It's not mine the autograph, but I'll send it to you. Damn man,

I got you kids. I'm gonna send it to the Lord. Don't hang out, hold on hanging yo. Line of seven? Hello, who's this? DJ Ambition? Scuber and Mike Uber? Mike what I bro get off your chest? How are you doing? Two things? First thing, I think you can sending us a shout out yesterday. But I only got one problem. I don't like wait on people when I pull up. I don't like wait you there confirm that means ready

to go? Nah it don't it don't because I'm not type of person because sometimes Uber said they'll be there in ten minutes and to take fifteen minutes. And I don't be waiting outside. So if I'm staying at a hotel, i'm doing something. I usually wait to you outside that I start walking to you, okay, and then antelaye when this ye day, I want to come to your y days twenty, I'm already studying. Yes, I've already been planning it. It's gonna be amazing this year. I can't wait. Okay,

I'll be there. Last thing, I promise you. This is Charlemagne. Yes, sir, okay, you know that that fear we have when somebody pull up on side of you on the car, Yes, sir, yeah, I got. That's why I don't like waiting a car to be pulling up aside along beside you. That fair we got. Hey, it's called you're talking about the anxiety.

But I'm gonna tall you something. I couldn't be an Uber driver, bro dealing with all them strangers every day and random people jumping in and out, exchanging that different energy with different people all day. Lord, have mercy. Oh man, it's a blessing. And I love talking to people. Man, I have ten thousand pickups. Man, it's it's amazing. I read that story the other day. It gave me anxiety for all the uber and live drivers about the the young lady who got killed. Yeah, and she was begging

for her life. She had four kids, like damn yeah, y'all have them. Blessed morning man, Yes, sir, all right, get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent hit us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. I'm telling you, if this is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed, eight hundred five eight five one five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello.

Who's this? Yes, good morning. I just want to get to the attention of your gas station attendance. Why why wouldn't you call from the foot one amount in your car to another amount tending the foot tween out of my car keep for forty what months ago? For the bastakes, intendance put queen eyes my car, he steals it off, he put almost and you know what will because it's the language, its language, that's what you say. All I got is twenty dollars. This is all I have. This

is what I asked you for your card? Oh so they already have your carn Right, something has to be done. And I don't know if it's a new thing. A lot of them don't speak the language. You're doing other things when that happened, you're not paying to a panic? Would you expect them to do what they would you ask them to do? Correct? Well, I think since this has been happening to you a lot, just make sure that you actually pay attention now when you're getting gas.

You don't never want to act like Trump to people who don't speak the language. Yeah, if it happened a bunch of times, you gotta you know, you gotta start watching. Yeah, but if you don't speak the language, that's never happened to me. Stop, bro, they get stopped. Stop. Everybody knows stop clearly not hello. Who's this hello? All right? Then? Oh my god, I can't believe I got through. Good morning, stop and queen you all for everything that you do. Oh my god. I just want to start out all

the US Army veterans out there. I am a US Army veteran part of mental health. I got out of the Army and after two years of fair and doubt, I launched my boutique, Fashion's House. The house is spells h a us in German because that was my first duty station and I launched it on Veterans Day last year. It hasn't been easy, but from finding joy through the process. And you know, basically, my sister and I we just made the choice to live consciously and to face our

goals and live intentionally. And so she also has a podcast. It's called Incommensable. Podcast is pushing the idea that we all are unique and we have to think for ourselves always, and I just want to share with you. I'm so nervous, guys, you have no reason to be it. I love your mission statement. And by the way, that's not an idea that we all are unique. We definitely all are unique. Are none of our DNAs are the same? Absolutely? Absolutely?

I want to shift your phone. Hold on a second, Mama, Hello, who's this morning? Jerome? Jerome was something? Good morning, man, Get off your chests. Good morning. I don't know. I just remember a couple of months back to the Dnnbif you don't know, no brothers with no cats, man, we know what cats? Cat? Cat? Oh, animal cat cats. But yeah, I just ordered to let y'all know I have blessed cats and the dog and the name of Tina and Turner. You can follow them on in gril right now. I

love cats. I'd rather have a cat and have a dog. They are a lot more little maintenance. Nah, dog protects the crib. Yeah, and cats to make sure you don't have bugs or rodents. Yeah, we grew up with cats in our house that we had three cats and a dog. No, we never had no cats. We always had dogs. My wife had a cat growing up. There's nothing wrong with people who like cats. I just said I don't know anybody. If I said I don't know, I just don't know

any men with cats, That's all I said. Yeah, I don't know men with cats being a man who has because you can leave a cat in the house for like three days and they'll be okay. Mike Tyson had a white tiger. That's the closest person I know they had a cat. I don't know. Let's not tell other guys with cats. Tell you get it off your chests. Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If you need to vent hit this up. Now it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody is

DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, and have doctor Lakeisha home and welcome. Thank you, thank you so much for having me. I've been so excited to get here. And before we start, I really want to tell you our congratulations on everything that you're doing. Oh, thank you very much, thank you so much. So you have the founder and CEO of the Village Market. I

am headquartered in the amazing city of Atlanta. I founded the Village Market to accelerate black entrepreneurs in twenty sixteen. What is it exactly? The Village Market is a company that focuses on creating marketplaces, creating campaigns, and I also have a retail store at punt City Market in Atlanta. But the purpose is upward mobility. I believe that cooperative economics in a real way should be tangible, like that of like that of Tulsa, and that's what I've created

with the Village Market. How did you get into that? Which started you with that? You know? As an interesting career, I was a teacher for years. Um, I taught in the Mississippi Delta something from Mississippi. Enough not enough, clear, not enough. But let me tell you. My first salary in two thousand and four was twenty seven thousand dollars. Y'all. I thought I was rich though I was only twenty two years old. But when you understand that, now, that's

not even a livable wage. But I was teaching in Missisippi, Mississippi Dela twenty seven thousand dollars a year. Now, of course you can cross state lines. Texas does pretty well. Of course New York does well. In California does extremely well for teachers, but well compared to what thought. If we if we're compared and it to Mississippi, then it looks like teachers are being paid. But I don't think teachers are paid enough. I love what you said about

group economics being tangible. Isn't that up to us though? To make it tangible? Oh? Absolutely, absolutely, it's up to us. Everything is up to us. Right, So we have an urgency at this time. Either we're going to be the answer, we're going to be the problem. And tangible means that we can open businesses that's cooperative that. When I opened the Village Market, it wasn't just me. I'm the founder of that, but now I represent thousands of businesses in Atlanta.

Outside of Atlanta. My retail store that I told you all about, the Village Retail, I gave over forty businesses the first opportunity in mainstream real estate in Atlanta. So that's a cooperative retail store. That's an incubator. So being on the shelves that people can actually shot from you. And so that's what it means for it to be tangible. I love accelerators. I have my own. I love incubators. I have my own, but there should be something at

the end of that. Again, I'm a former teacher. Experience is the best teacher. I want to put entrepreneurs in a place, but you can be in front of your customer where you can make some real money. Now, how can black businesses receive more funding for their businesses. I know it's very difficult a lot of times to get money and to raise money. So how can they do that? I'm gonna name some people that's doing it again. Yes, tangible again. Collab Capital is based in Atlanta. New Voice

is fun. I think they're based here in New York. Fearless Fun Airing is doing a great job. But these are three funds, and no, there's more funds out there, but these funds are being led by black folks. Is it easy to get the money though? No, absolutely, it's not easy to get the money. Absolutely not. I mean again, it's not easy to get the money. But what has

been easy for black folk? You know either if we know, the odds are there, but it takes some fearless people who are persistent enough and who wants to agitate the system to make sure that we get the money that

we need. I saw this stat and it kind of blew me away because when you think of Atlanta, you think that's like the black business mecca, right, But according to Prosperity Now, Atlanta's black businesses of value that fifty eight thousand, eighty five dollars compared to the Latin next businesses that over four hundred and fifty thousand, and white businesses that over six hundred and fifty thous. I don't

even want to call that a gap. That's just no, that no, that is disrespectful to why Yeah, I mean, because this country is built on capitalism, so anytime that there is probably anytime that there is well, there is a desperation of poverty. And that's be it Atlanta, be it Mississippi, be it in La. You're gonna always see this gap. Now, what I do know that's true about Atlanta. If there's a city where black people can have up mobility,

Atlanta as a city for it. But when you see a pervasive wealth gap like that, we can't stay in our bubble of saying that it is the Black Melca. It's the city that can't be the Black Mecca because we also lead the entry one of the leading cities in a country that has the most black millionaires. And also the generating of black businesses are now growing from that fifty thousand to getting closer that seven seventy five

one hundred thousand. But what that means when you get to a place where you're making some real cash, it means you can hire folks. Now you also talk about you know, I'm reading the same studies that said approximately twenty eight days money stays in the Asian communities, nineteen days in Jewish community, seventeen days in white communities, and just six hours in Black communities. Why is that can we start with anything? Is that the reason why for

commercial real estate? Yes? Right, So when when these developers are coming into cities, we're not controlling what's being open. We don't own the land. Again, it's anytime there as well there's poverty, but anytime there is where we're in a place of constant the leasing and not owning, we have no truth say so what's going to be open

in those communities? But the circulation of the dollar is I mean overt racism Again, you think about Tulsa, Oklahoma, when it was true that our dollars circulated in our communities. But what happened up with mobility when we produced so many, so many black millionaires, when so many black businesses were being funded from insurance to teachers, to the dude that cut your lawn, to the guy that shaped up your beer were all black folks. We were winning during that time.

And then bombs were dropped on us and this black city was burned down and there was no way even though there was insurance there, they wouldn't even grant at their insurance claims. So what happens in this country when black people began to accelerate? Then literally the airess knocked out of us, and we were pushed down further than where we were before we started. So that is why that number is persistent. It was created to be that way. But we have to know that that number is there.

But we can't wait on other people to shop from us. There's enough black people in this country to shop from black people. But I do know that it's also amazing that other people are shopping from black folks too. All Right, we got more with doctor Lakeisha Holman when we come back as the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning everybody is DJ Envy and Jela Yee. Charlomagne, the guy we all the Breakfast Club was still kicking it

with Doctor Lakeisha Harmon Charlomagne. You feel that black people supporting black businesses as you're growing, Oh, absolutely, I think it's growing. What is really shifting, rather than growing, it is that our consciousness is shifting. I think we're in a very special time. I wrote a couple of weeks ago that I believe that we're in our renaissance because when it's things are desperately bad, there's also something that's

pervasively really good. And you hear more people now not just talking about buying black, but you see entrepreneurs on the cover of magazines. When did that happen? Right? Yeah, when did that happen? And we're talking about people getting their evaluations, we're talking about companies being acquired. I look at what happened with the gathering spy in Greenwood. Shout out to my friends Ryan and TK and what they

did that is black collaboration. But I think, though, we have to make sure that in our consciousness that buying black, hiring black, referring black is a part of our lifestyle and having grace And the reason I say having graces, it's so funny. We talked about it all the time. How many times you go to McDonald's and they mess up your order or you go in order that the

ice cream machine ain't working. But if you go to a black business and they mess up one time, you ready to go on Instagram and say I'm never coming back. Like people have to understand there has to be a learning curve as well, because this is new to a lot of us, especially when when these businesses come. Yeah, I mean you think and grace is my words on halfy set that you see how big got smiled that's

my word for the year. I think that's the that's the word for our generation that we must have with black businesses, but we should have overall, even if you're a business or not, but just ask the humanity of black people together. Now is what is Our Village United? That's my nonprofit. Again, when you start a business, then

you think of like five more. I started a lunch our Village United actually in twenty seventeen, but I didn't get it going until the pandemic when so many sole proprietors were applying for pppee loans and didn't get it. It kept me up at night and I said, I need to create an incubator that's just for senior operators, but that person that is just them. And so Our Village United focuses on a twelve week incubator. We graduated our hundred businesses since the pandemic about two to three

weeks ago. But we provide full services for twelve weeks to entrepreneurs and then they graduate into our incubator program, which means you're a part of the village now, but from CPA services and we all know the tax season just ended. We make sure that they're in front and center. We also make sure one of the things that I experienced, especially as my company began to boom, my anxiety spiked. I found myself being more anxious than I ever experienced.

And I made sure that our village unit it was paired with mental health services. So every entrepreneur that's a part of the village is then paired with doctor Jeor Beckford. Shout out for her, who is our licensed therapist on our staff who works with these entrepreneurs and focus groups and also one on one, because I don't want us to have the wealth without the health. Yeah, Sarah jas

Roberts said, because I asked her about that. You know when how come whenever you achieve something new or go to a new level, your anxiety starts to go crazy. And she said, because you're experiencing something new, absolutely, And that's that's just how I embraced, Like, oh, like, it's not because I feel like that's when this anxiety is expected. You know, it's when the anxiety is not expected that

calls you to have the panic attacks. But when you're trying something new, doing something new, yeah, you should feel that way slightly. Yeah, And if you're the first one in your family. There's a lot of guilt around that you're the person that got out. I'm from Mississippi. I'm one of the few people in my family, if not the only person at least on my mother's side who's deceased,

who is doing the things that I'm doing. And there's a level of pressure to make sure that I'm looking out for my little cousins, that everywhere I go that I'm talking about Mississippi, I'm talking about Marx in Basville and crowd of Mississippi and in very affirming ways, because I know right now I have the mic in the responsibility that when you have the mic, how you talk

about your people, how you talk about your experiences. We see that you looked up with Michael Jordan brand, oh yeah, and invested in the ovuya and tell us how you partnered with him. You know that blew my mind. I am I personally think that Michael Jordan is the best basketball player to have ever played. You'd be right. I think I'll write to y'all agree. Okay, So, when the Jordan Brand announced that they would be funding I think thirteen organizations, we put our name in a hat. I

didn't know what was going to happen. But I knew that my team and my team is incredible. I know that we're sharp, and so Michael Jordan. We found out last year that we were one of the thirteen organizations in the country that is funded by Michael Jordan. And what they're doing is they get us money to do what we do well. They didn't ask us to change our programming. Is what you asked me earlier, Like you need the money to be able to scale in the

Jordan Foundation, say here's the money. Y'all go ahead and do what you're doing and make sure you stay true to your your core values with some of the next business moves you got planned our partner. When you visit Atlanta, make sure you stop by the Village Retail. But when you all come right behind Plunt City Market is the belt Line and that is that is currently two million people frequent this place. Now because of that, the search and commercial rents have gone up. It is almost unaffordable

to open a business there, especially if you black. I partner with Atlanta belt Line and the Candida Fund to open six more black businesses on the belt Line, So that is putting six businesses in front of two million annual customers. That that's average is about three hundred and fifty thousand people per month that they're going to be in front of. So we've got the funding the open these businesses, to build them out fully, to get the

new technical assistance support. And when you all visit Atlanta hopefully in July, you'll be able to walk on the belt Line with your family, but also shot from black businesses down to you and shout to Mississippi my roommate in college with the Mississippi laval tumps and shout the LaVar. Lavard is a good man. You know you want to do it, am I thank you for joining us, doctor Lakeisha home. And how can people get in touch with

you if they want to get in touch with you? Absolutely, especially for entrepreneurs, if you want to get in contact with us, it's the Village market dot com. If you want to open a business and you or you have a business product facing you want to be in a retail store, that's beautiful retail store. That's the Village Retail dot Com. And those who are going to be an Essence Festival, I'm very happy they would working to curate the marketplace stage. So we partner with Essence, So I

hope to see y'all there this summer. But Village Market dot com on all platforms. If you want to keep up with me, I do a tweet every now and then and then post it on Instagram. It's doctor Keith Homan. All right, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. Angela ye. Here, And if you want quality auto coverage for less, make the right call and go with the General Insurance Call eight hundred General or visit the General dot com to

find out how much you can save. The General Auto Insurance Services, Inc. And Insurance Agency, Nashville, Tennessee some instructions up by it's topic time. The phone called eight hundred five eight five one oh five wanted to join it to the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Talk about it morning. Everybody is stage envy. Angela yee, Charlomne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. If you just joined us this Friday, so you know what that means, it's freaky freaky freaky Friday.

And on this fine Friday, we're asking a simple question. It comes from a Nick Cannon's daytime talk show salutar good brother. Nick Cannon um Nick Cannon calls himself a pickologist. All right. He has several different lays that he likes, several different ways that he likes his pickles. Let's listen. So next we got the pickles, and the pickles are having a big moment for call me Nicole Pickle. I'm a pickologist like pickles. Yeah, I like that. I'm about

the pickles. I'm with this, You're with this. So the first thing we got here is the snickle. Do you know what this snickle? I'm all about a snicker and put it in the middle of a pickle. Yeah. I might be the snickle eating champion. I get this on my radio show. So we're asking eight hundred five eight five, one to five, one simple question. How do you like your pickle? How do you like your pickles? How do you like your pickles? Let's start with you. I honestly

don't like pickles. You don't like pickles. I don't like pickles. I don't like it Like it's something about that pickle that that's between the meat and the buns. I just don't like. So you don't like your pickles? Sweet? Nope? Do you like your pickles sour? Nope. Do you like kosher pickles, nope? Do you like jerking pickles? Nope? See, some people are scared of jerking pickles because they're because they're small and bumpy and bumps on a pickle are scary.

Like what is that? Okay? I personally like my pickles on hamburgers and sandwiches. I enjoy my pickles in between the bun. Okay I do I do. I like them with some meat and then I like the pickles on top of the meat and then the bun. You like thick pickles a thin pickle, I like them thin. I like the squirt to catch up on it and squirt demandaise on it worked. The mustard on it, oh so tasty. But about long or short? Um? I prefer mine sliced,

you know. But if I have to eat a pickle, if I have to like put one in my mouth, I prefer the big refrigerator joints, you know, like when you walk into the store and you could buy one for a quarter, the big joint, big, big yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah man, I love it. Okay. Hello, who's this? Good morning? This is DJ King Cannon out of DC it's freaky freaky Friday. Good morning shot man, Good morning piece, King Cannon. How do you like your pickles? King? Simple questions?

Oh man, people talk spicy deal pickle in my mouth? Drop one of the clues bobs for its spicy deal pickle and King Cannon's mouth spicy be in the mouth. You got a bite it hard too? Yeah? How many bites does it take you? About? Six? Right? Sister, it's riding? Hello? Who's this? Hey? Hey, good morning portion? How are you? How do you like your pickle? Portion? So I like my pickle ranch or with hot talks? Yo? That's that sounds like an ill combination. I never thought about it.

It is, but I've also had a pickle with peanut butter. And now I see and I'm talking to me, I'm not talking to your portion. Now to pickle with the ranch on the end of it. I can see you can see the ranch, the white stuff on there with the pickle with the peanut butter on the end. That sounds like jail. That sounds like jail food. That's that's I ain't messed with back. That sounds like jail food. I ain't mess with jail. Hello, who's this? This is

Cash calling from field. Hey, Cash, good morning Cash. How does Jersey like that? Pickles? Firm and wet, firm and wet? Okay, okay, okay, and my pickles name is? I mean, huh? You name all your pickles? Yeah? Yeah, I mean that's a good question. Do you normally name your pickles? I don't know, but I have one particular pickle that I love. Now, I know that my Bologni has a first name. A lot of people name that belog. I've never heard somebody named

the pickles as a first day. Oh that's right after right, Yeah, I did not. I never. I didn't know pickles have name, pickles have names. Let me google this, okay, pickles, my pickles. My pickle has a first name, wowow and his name's a man A mean or mean? Did your pickles have batteries as well? Now I'm gonna tell you something. I google names of pickles. I google names of pickles. All I got was play Kosher sour bread and butter, Hungarian Polish, a German lion, a kool aid. I don't see no,

I mean on him. Yeah that's pickle. Okay, all right, will you enjoy your pickle on this freaky Friday mother. Yeah, don't any and feel free to share. Send up some of mean pickles. I haven't had that plant to pickles. No, no, no, you don't want to that's right, that's you don't want that. No, okay, setting up, thank you, I don't want it. That sounds like you got peanut butter on it? End up? Hello? Who's this? Traves? Trav Trap? Good morning? Trap? Trap? How

you doing my brother, y'all? I want to tell you how it like this? How it like my pickles? How do you like your pickles? Trap? Let's go trap? How do you like your pickles? Roll up around it? Right? And then you wrap the fruit roll up around it? And I like to eat it off like that. Well that's what Nick said. Nick said he likes to put fruit roll up around his pickle too. How does that taste? What is it? What's the sensation in your mouth? Like?

It's like it's like it's really really sweet. It's sweet with a little bit of bitterness to it. How hard do you have to bite into it? Though? Because I would think that the fruit roll up cause it's a little bit more resistance with the teeth. Okay, chalk that to biting you know we're talking about peenis right? No pickle trap? What is wrong with What is wrong with you? Where did you go? You need to get your mind out of the gutter? I just can't. I don't know

what's going on? This is a family show. What how dare y'all? Who wouldever? What is wrong with people? I do know? My god? All right? What's the little story? Brother? The story is? I mean, however you choose to eat your pickles this weekend? Man? You know it's on you. Whatever flows your boat. You know. The only thing I like my my my pickles on is on hamburgers and sandwiches. That's it. And plane. I'll take a I'll take a plane pickle. I hold it in my hand. Yeah, one hand,

one hand, right to your mouth. Okay, then't think you said again you don't like bumps? Okay? What what? What color? Because it's like a dark one or a light one? Okay? All right? The breakfast club? Who bought it? The breakfast club? And be the same with tech for this case. Season reminder springs back like it never left. Vaca season is

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Morning everybody is DJ Envy, Angel Charlomagne, the guy. We all to breakfast club. We got some special guests joining us this morning. We have Rathshida and Kirk good Martin. Good morning. How y'all feeling this morning? Last complain whatever we knew we was coming here with y'all, So I was like, boy, you gotta be on point before we get into Rashida. Now, before you walk to here. Kirk Envy has some things that he wanted to ask you about because it's something he's been struggling with. And we

see your hair flowing. Oh he said, they said your hair flourishing. Oh they got you trying to get to already. Body say that you know what? Everybody like, yo, what Kurk did you is here? I keep my hair cut low and when we fasted for this year last year, right, yeah, I didn't cut my hair. We didn't like, we don't eat sweets, we don't eat drunk. And I just then I started doing all my green screens with hair, and

I I'm like lace, look at my hair. That's all you come fully our new business helping guys like envy, but when they're trying to tell you what's going on. But yes, so congratulations on the new show, Rashida. Everybody knows you for being an entrepreneur already, but I think it's great to see the behind the scenes things and some of them, some of the advice that you can

give people, like the restaurant business. Yes, that's a tough business to be in, you know, right, So let's talk about that because you do have an episode and I saw Andy and and DC were on there with you guys because they open their restaurants. So if you were going to tell somebody that wanted to get into business, a lot of times people would discourage you from that one in particulars, what would you tell somebody that's like, I have an idea, I really want to start this restaurant.

What are some things you would say you need to do well. First off, I would tell them try to learn every single aspect about the business, because that business is extremely difficult. It's you know, a lot of micromanaging. You know, the profit margins can be narrow, and you know, I just feel like with the restaurant industry, it's so competitive, it's so many restaurants. I would say, you know, have a concept, have something that we need, Have something that

you know that you can put out there. That's a little bit different because it's every corner. Every time you turn around, it's somebody doing it. Every week I look up and somebody's you know, got a new spot and

doing something new. So at the end of the day, I'll be honest with people because I'm super transparent, and I'm like, listen, if you ain't gonna be whole, wholeheartedly into this, don't waste your time at all, not one minute, because you will lose a lot of money and a lot of time doing this because it's not an easy game. What made you jump into the restaurant business. It was on our vision. Yeah, it's like one of the things

we had to cross out. I really wanted like a twin peaks type of thing and thing kind of sports barried slash, loungey type of vibe, and I thought that it was like more lucrative. I was thinking liquor license a lot of money. I was just thinking of the income, not knowing the responsibility behind it. So at this point when we got into it, we had already brought the building, purchased the building behind it, build it out, and once we got into it, we had so much invested it

was like no turning back at this point. One other thing I would tell people about the restaurant industry is when you do get into it and you hire staff, you got to understand the importance of customer service because those people are what people look at your business as and that right there, if they plan, then people gonna envy. Restaurant is bull is whack? You know what I'm saying.

And it's like that's super important. So when you have a business that depends on other people to be on point, you need to make sure that you're training your team properly. And the first year I would say it was a little rough, it's gotten a lot better. People, you know, give you praises, and you know you can't please everybody. But at the end of the day, it's something to happen, it's something good. But for us too, it was the

real estate. Like they're building one of the largest developments in the United States is happening right on the corner. So it's a It was a real estate play for us as well. It just wasn't the business. But we always try to put something in the real estate that we buy, so we're not spending our own money. How do you decide whether it's a lease or to buy. Honestly, we pretty much buy. We lease in the malls because I have the Pressed in the gallery in Houston, and

then PRESSED in Atlanta and Phipps. So that's a lease obviously for you have those reasons, you know what I mean. But we normally like to purchase. We I have another Press location and that is our own standalone building and it's on fourteen Street in midtown Atlanta. Everybody pull up, But um, that building we purchased. And we try to do this thing now to where you know, when holidays and birthdays and all that stuff come around, we'll do less of the well, I won't say cars. That's a

whole other conversation for y'all. But but we try to purchase like real estate, you know, we normally try to do that for each other for you know, anniversary's, birthdays and a little fun stuff like that. The cars are winning now nowadays, nothing about you really can I'm gonna give you that. I'm gonna give you that. I'm gonna give It's a lot that's up right now. But it's

a big difference. I agree and see the differences. You could talk about the bags, but you're not going to get rid of them, so it's not in the views now. That's now you're you're very very You're right about that because I normally get kind of like classics, so I'd be like, I ain't selling my bag. I still this is, this is, this is for a long and we have this discussion all the time. We talk about the cars. I mean, like you that he got this is the thing.

I literally just said the other somebody like coach k he wanted to grab one. He grabbed my M three and I got rid of another car and I took that money and this brought the years. But I got rid of two of my cards, right and like when we was buying the property, I was like, I'm not going in my savings. I got rid of another two of my cars. That's just like I give him that. I give him that. I ain't tripping. So the cars

get you up right now. But when that thing ain't go the other direction, and they started never going, and some of them never either break even or depreciate, I'm gonna be in that ass. I think that doesn't let you know that. What about firing people? How do you handle that? Thirty yeah one to coach man six figures? Okay, yeah, it's clearly yeah, it makes sense. Okay, so you can't be mad at that car. I'm not I'm not mad eighty five. I brought it late thousand. I paid fifteen

thousand from you got early early. They've been trying to buy it. I'm gonna let it go soon. But I love that car, drive it still. I promised coach if I got rid of it, I would let them get it. Now. How do you fire people? Fire as? Really? Because? What? Okay? Go ahead? Okay? Most people eliminate theirself. It's usually a holiday coming up, or it's hot outside, and they got I g and they got an excuse, and they say they was not feeling good. But then they on I partying.

You know, they come with this excuse and we'd be like, come on now, yeah, but but you know what the bad thing about being a celebrity or owning the business, right you fired somebody, what's the first thing they're gonna say. They're gonna search the social media? They do she to fired me because Kirk was looking at me. Oh well, we haven't had that one. But what I will say is like he is very true. A lot of people eliminate themselves, like we are strictly by the but we

write you up, three strikes, you out. You know, no call, no show, it's over with for you. Like it's just the real deal. And a lot of times, you know, nobody's really dedicated to the job industry. Right now, you know, we're in the Great Resignation. There's eleven point five million jobs that people walked away from. So it's a it's a different ball game now. I would say this Rashida is the one that's like them. Then they say she's the mean one. I'm the nice he's the nice guy,

and I'm bad cop. He good cars. So what I always do when when somebody's mess it up, I always tell a look they don't did this, this, and this. I like to try to keep a good face. Car, So I'd be like, just wait until they do the next thing, and then you got all three what I tell you. I'd be like, and that's gonna be give a two weeks, and then it happens and then and then you don't have no problems because they know they

messed up. They really set themselves up. And everybody who's great workers, they're not going nowhere because we take care of them like any problems, any even you know, things happen if they come to us with an issue. We try to make sure we can help people and you know, just try to let them know where, appreciate them because it's hard incentives, you know, make sure you know people could.

This is what always happens, right with our business. Then somebody does get fired and then they try to tell you everything that everybody else did. Everybody else is doing. Yes, everybody's covering for each other because they're hanging out and they're friends with each other. Yeah, all right, we still got more with Rashida and Kirks don't move. It's the breakfast club the morning morning, everybody is DJ Envy and Jul yee. Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club

was still kicking it with Kirk and Rashida. Now loving hip hop. You guys were a loving hip hop and your relationship was so open on there. Yeah, you don't really see that too much with people actually making it through. If you look at some of these shows, how would you say that you guys just TV. Like any TV couple that been going through anything, you don't see them make it. How long you've been married twenty one years? Okay, together twenty seven? You and your wife have been through

a lot of stuff. As correct what you're saying, because to you, Um, I've definitely had my share of messing up. But you know what, I won't just blame myself. It was a point in time where we kind of we tie to each other, you know, we were thinking where we're gonna go separate. So I mean, I feel like I've contribute the most that people seeing you know. But true because the reason I said that, it's on television. So some things you're able to deal with privately. Yeah,

and it's hardly everybody. Everybody grant Page, somebody got to listen here, a friend, I think they know you family member, they think they know you. Yeah, so how do you

deal with it? You know, it comes to point in time where you know, you just got to like tune a lot of stuff out, and it can be really really difficult, Like when him and I went through our situations and stuff like that, Like I really just had to like shut down, you know, because it's like you know, with family, with friends, everybody has an opinion, and at the end of the day, it was between me and what God has for me in my life and our relationship.

And I had to realize that. That was one of my biggest learning lessons during that time, was just really understanding who I am and maneuvering and doing what I felt like was right because a lot of people try to steer you in the direction that they want you to go in. First of all, a lot of people haven't even been in a twenty one year marriage or ours will be twenty three, twenty yeah in December, Um, so you know, they don't understand the levels of the relationship,

you know what I mean. But you know, it's it's difficult just living your life out everybody seeing it. You know, people they talk about this thing still like it just happened yesterday. It's been last six years because something that happened six seven years ago that you dealt with and then let's say you post a picture on your on your whatever social media never stops, and then you'll be right right exactly still talk about it. Yeah, he seem like I ain't messing with it today. You know what

I was gonna say, Actually, yeah, you said first. The first thing I was gonna say was we can laugh about a lot of stuff because there's certain comments that we will never forget. Like like maybe about three or four years ago, we were at this restaurant, Houston's eating and Kirk had did a video of his brownie um that he had for dessert, and the girls was on

there like I hope you choking die that brownie. I hope that ice cream get you get a brain freeze and can't thank you no more like the going hey, y'all, Like, but we can laugh at it, you know now, But you know back you like them, you want them to die. When they do that, you end up being more defensive. Yeah, instead of you being like, yeah, I hope you do choke and die, You're like, okay, now, I don't want to kill. Those days are like they'll never go away. But I will say this, and I hate to just

be honest about it. Me being and putting my relationship on broadway, it changed the whole aspect of this relationships period. Like I had a lot of guys coming to me and be like, yo, you helped me save my marriage. I went back home, we got back together, and you know,

we would even be doing Rashida was still performing. We would be at shows and it'd be like guys in Florida with the dreads coming at me and I'm like, oh, I'm looking like what they're like, Yo, they come up and dap you up, like yo, I love you man. You put it out there and it really made me really understand, like, dang, our relationship really like help a

lot of people. Like it was like other people too, you know what I mean being positive business now because now yelling business with each other, I'm sure you think one way, he thinks another way. So who wins in that? Okay? So we have always been in business together since the very beginning of time. That's actually I think we were in business before we was even in a relationship. You know,

Mat you managed the group that actually signed them. Yeah, I was actually looking to sign my first group, so I had signed them as a group first, and time came around and somebody had said something about Rashida and something me and then we went up like each other yea years later and there, yeah here, But I think

we do a pretty good job. Like we have our days where you know, we're back and forth and we tussle because everything that we have is a partnership, all of the clothing stores, the restaurants, the music, everything that we do. So you know, we have our days, but we learned over the years that it's like, okay, shut it down and let's have us time. You mad about that, we'll get over that and let's keep it moving. So as a couple, how do y'all keep your money? Is

it everything together? Is it one pot? Okay? You go. Wait, first of all, how y'all do y'all money? I don't got that? But you know the reason it is, like I said, I've been with gifts since she was fifteen. I was sixteen. She was making more money to me when we started off, and which has always been one right, So can she spend whatever she wants. I can't spend

whatever I want. We have to. Okay, y'all have limitations, right, hey, babe, this morning, right, we talked about if she wants to buy a bag to get Babs bag, Like we have conversations. Everything in the house still to this. Okay, let's just latest thing out now. No, let me say, Okay, I'm gonna confess, ladies. Do y'all sneak stuff in the house? Okay, yes we do. Let me tell you why I sometimes sneak because I have to hear a lecture about bro I do fashion for a living, so I'm going to

go get FINDI Sachi. You think the new release gonna come out and I'm not gonna have It's like I said, look a certain way because I don't want to hear it because I look at what she is. She's stylish, and I'm gonna go to her store because she knows how to dress and tell mix up fashion. You gotta have the hotness a part of her branding. Thank you. Five thousand dollars six thousand dollars. Shoes could be a couple of thousand dollars. You only wear it books. It's aspirational.

But why let's say he boughs a car that cars twenty thous he could drive that car for years down to love. So you spend money on stuff that you wear once one shot and then it's going. It goes to the back end closet. You never wear it to get you want to get into friends, or you resell it. I do Rashida's closet at my stores business, and I'd sell it all for a load, but hell type, y'all gotta keep it a thoulout. Them cars come with the

insurance that's a rear current bill every month. So that's a headache because we have fifteen or twenty insurance policies on cars and you you're one person. You don't drive half of those cars anyway, So I'm not tripping on that. But yes, I have to have my fashion, and that's the reason why sometimes I might sneak it in the house because I don't want to hear your mouth. So all our businesses have their own account. They aren't checking in savings, and all the money that comes in we

equally split down the middle. So when I buy my car, it's my money. When she buy her clothes, it is her money. But when we know we're about to buy a property, whatever I dislike us to be up on each other's level. So I ain't got to put more or she ain't got to put more on. But if my savings is higher than his, he gets anxiety. And yes, we have our own personal savings, personal check. I just can't let her beat me. I don't know why still literally gonna sell a car if my savings. No, It's

what I've always thought. People used to say, how does it feel if the lady because sometimes people think Rashida is you know, they look at Kirk and think Rashida. No. No, I invested my money into Rashida. I don't never talk about it because it's all listen, we're a team. It's I understand she is the brand. Like you can hate me and love her. It doesn't matter the money comes into the house. I hate to say it, but you know, but at the end of the day, if she's ahead

of me, I don't like the feeling. So I really feel like the guys that used to talk about the woman that had more money. I guess that would have probably been mening you feel a way. Yeah, I've never had that happening before. Like, so I don't like it. So I'll just make sure, I just keep my joint up. Movie got more with Rashida and Kirk. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ

Envy and Ngulu Yee Charlomagne the god we are. The Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Kirk and Rashida. Appreciate that. Now. We also saw that you were in the hospital and it was a dehydration. So what was going on? Girl? Look, I was having a regular day like this, busy, going on about my business, running around. So that evening specifically, we had called all of our kids and was like, hey, let's just meet up and

have like some dinner together. And all of a sudden, all I know is I woke up on the floor. We laid out. We were standing and talking to she like froze like we were talking and she was like hey. We were looking like are you joking? Are you gonna answer? And then she just was like bite her teeth and we was like, oh it got real real quick, and then yeah, we laid you down. So anyway, long story short,

they called the ambulance and all that. First of all, let me just throw this in the corner real quick. Everybody's family need to take some type of chorus, because when I tell you, any even know what to do. Yo. We was looking back at the footage when I tell you, folks was going in different directions. My daughters on the phone talking to nine one one. She didn't hung up on them. You know, they come in if you hang up on them. He's saying one thing. My son he tripping.

He's like, where's the keys, We're gonna take it to the hospital. He didn't have the keys. Keys. Kay had the keys in his pocket because I'm like, We're about to go to the hospital, so I'm looking for my car keys. My son picked them up, so we all going crazy. Then my oldest son he like, give us some head, blowing them mouth. I'm like up drinking water about blowing my mouth. It was. It was a mess, yo, And I'm gonna be honest. I hate to say this, but they were like blowing some trees. So I think

everybody was like just a different world. Yes, So it was like okay, But on a serious note, it really was a big eye opener for me for real, because nothing like that has ever really happened to me before. And by the time I got to the hospital, and they gave me fluids and he was like, what do you do? You know, what do you do? Are you stressed? I was like, yeah, I got like a hell of businesses and I'm trying to you know, run an empire and be a mom and a wife and you know,

it's a lot. And I was actually getting ready to start the Boss Move show and we you know, film and love and hip hop and it was just a lot going on, you know, and he's like, you know, you're you're you're really dehydrated, You're stressed out, you know, And it made me realize how real that is. And it changed my mindset as far as like making sure because we're so hands on with everything, it comes a point in time where you have to delegate and you

just have to like sit down. And that's what you know, took us to making sure we take more time, you know, to like do stuff and to chill and to take out that time and just unplug social media, unplug, you know, work, unplug and just you know, yeah, part of Boss Mools is taking care of yourself too. It is because you can't be a good boss if you, you know, are dehydrated, if you're exhausted, we're stressed out and all of those things. That's so true. And I learned she takes a pressure phill. Okay,

so I got high blood presure and it does. And but I all we drink is water, we you know, because we pretty much don't drink juice and sodas and stuff like that. So I'm a lot of times we're thinking we're drinking enough in a lot and we're not. So that's another thing that we talk about on Boss Moves too, as far as even just like the sea moss, the elderberry and exercising and trying to take care of ourselves because as African Americans, we got high blood pressure.

You know, we got a lot of things that we deal with, you know that we kind of pushed to the side and don't really take serious. But believe me, it can really really affect you. Yeah. Sometimes I forget to eat because you're working all day, yes, and by the time it's like seven o'clock and now you're like, damn, I didn't even eat anything today because I've been so busy trying to hit and you have like a stupid migraine or you're starving yourself, and that's not a good

way to lose nor weight either. Eating at seven o'clock in the evening. Yeah, I mean sounds, but it's so busy, like you'd be like, oh, I had I'm doing that and you didn't mean to not eat yeah, and then you realize, dam I didn't even eat anything. Yeah. Sometimes I have to choose between if I want to go to sleep or if I want to eat. Okay, well, what does the show come on? When can they see the show? Okay? So the show is out now, it's available, Okay.

So you can watch short episodes on YouTube and that's Rashida Boss Moves, and then the extended versions are on Filo and filos a streaming app. It has like sixty channels of like you can get that instead of cable. You can get that. Subscribe to file Ye, subscribe to Filo. It's twenty five dollars a month, so it's the cheapest one.

And not only do you get like regular channels like bt MTV and all that, VAH one and all that, but you also can watch movies and it's like unlimited DVR, but you can get the whole the whole episodes and it's twelve episodes total, and you can subscribe for twenty five dollars. We get a seven day free try and you get the real and we get to see your real estate moves too. Yes, he wasn't place in the Bahamas. Yes, we're actually going out there next week. We've got to

go next week. My birthdays May twenty five. Shout out all the geminize. Currently I'm really not. I'm like, I think that guy. I think the males. Yeah, but envy yes. Property. So we are in the process of getting survey and topo on some land. It took us like seventeen years to get this damn twenty acres that we got. I'm leaning more towards trying to figure out to do a JV, which I don't want to build the subdivision ourself. I want to get with a developer and he come with

the joints. We got the land and let's make this bad. So that's one of our newer ventures. It's just trying to figure out, you know, exactly what we were just the right. But I was looking at the big check. The big check is the developing. Absolutely, if you're on the building and they got to pay you tenants, if you do tendant to, if you sell the divisions either either or because we got a spot in Jersey that's nine, it's ninety units, and we got a seventy unit one

and they do well. Really yeah, that's good money. See yeah, really well. But it's just, you know, it's a lot of headaches. You gotta have a property manager somebody. Yeah. I have three properties in Brooklyn. I just don't want to Detroit. I still have another one there. I just am closing next week on one of State New York. And then I have one in Miami that it's not all the way built yet, but I already reserved it and put my payment. We were just talking about Miami possibility.

It's high I got it before that though, before I made the way to the That's what about Detroit. I've heard y'all talk about Detroit a lot. I have a hair start Detroit, Okay, private label extence also yes, yes, And so I have one of Detroit. And then and I had three properties in Detroit. I sold two of them and I kept one. But it did really well well. We got in early. I picking it up for I was able. I got one for a thousand dollars. Bang. But I will say if I do something somewhere. I

like to be involved in the community. That's why I like to do things and Detroit and be involved and make sure I know like the local politicians and business owners, because I never want to go somewhere and just buy something and flip it. Like I like to go places that I care about. Milwaukee is another good area. Milwaukee is good. Milwaukee confront homes homes you ain't going ahead,

I'm not Chicago. Chicago's good to write. Where they're building the Barack Obama or library right around that, that's good too. That's what we've been picking up a lot of stuff. Well, I love to see it, and I love to see you guys. Then weathered all kinds of storms and to see how successful you are as a couple. See my girl making her boss. You know, that's important for people

to be able to see what you're doing. I know your mom was an entrepreneur also, Yes, and so that's important for like other people who look up to you to see that, for you kids to see that. Yes, I appreciate it. And one thing I did want us to really be able to connect with with the show. It's just being real about like business and talking about

because some people. They showed a glitzy, glam sometimes cap of what's going on, but yeah, don't show the nasty side or just be real or like, we made so many mistakes which have built us, but now we're in a situation to where we can help other people and prevent them from making those mistakes or following on their face. You know, it's good for you to follow in your face because you do learn, but if you can, you know, maybe not bust your dome so hard because you know

you've been informed by somebody who's been through it. Then you know, that's what we really wanted to accomplish with UM with Boss Mos, just something new, change the narrative and just kind of educate as much as we can. Appreciate you for joining using so Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. Audible Pick of the Day is Finding Jamika from Kevin Hart, Myself, Charlomagne the God

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very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested after definitely say he driggs the door to his home and an attempt to electric hit his curtent wife. Police arrested in Orlando man for talking a Flaminia the Breakfast Club bitchy Donkey of the Day with Charlom HAINEA god. I don't know why y'all keeping him get you elected. Yes, Donkey of the Day goes to a Miami man named William Carroll. First of all, what did Yankashalla always say about the great state of Florida.

The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. That is a fact. But one thing I don't do enough is salute the great city of my Ami dropped on the clues bombs for Miami three oh five, one of the greatest places on the planet. We don't discuss Miami enough. I know y'all like to go down there for the weather and the beaches, in the liking, okay, in the nightlife, But Miami has contributed

so much to the culture of hip hop. Drop on the Clues bombs for Uncle Luke and the two Life pro top five rap group of all time. Uncle lucas a whole legend and should always be respected as such. Y'all wouldn't have parental advisory stickers on albums if it wasn't for Uncle Luke. Uncle Luke, you know, was considered obscene, okay, and went against Congress to fight for the First Amendment artists freedom of speech. He really fought for that, okay.

America labeled him explicit, which led to the mandatory parental advisory sticker you see on music now with offensive content. Okay. That impact at all musical genres, by the way, not just hip hop, all right. He fought for the right the town big booty holes, you ain't nothing but a hoochie mama, you hear me. He fought for the right to tell Asian women all around the world me so hardy,

Uncle Lukeuke, you hear me. Uncle Luke fought for the right to tell you that Cap D is coming and at some point after he comes, you're gonna have to put your hands up high, your ass down low, and drop that pom pomp to the full. Whoa, that's right, I still got tim knees. You hear what I'm saying. That was a good arrow. Don't play no more? Okay, say who play no more? That was a good error. Have we all grown now? Yes? Do we all realize that you know the music was misogynistic and sexist? Yes?

But can we all admit that problematic music slapped him? Okay? And it wouldn't be the same without the toxics. And you are a liar if you say you hear that music now and it doesn't make you feel good. Okay, drop on the clues bombs for Uncle Luke. All right, I still listen to I want a rock right now?

I literally mean right now, Like that's my joint. Okay, This man, Uncle Luke, had us screaming the color of thesis for no damn reason, Okay, proudly screaming out what the color of thesis was, just because some of y'all dudho might be green, okay, sometimes might even be a little hint of red, depending on if you got hemorrhoids. How much fun you had in the bedroom the night before. But it's universally known that doodoo is brown because of the legend named Luther Campbell. And that's why we are

gathered here to day, ladies and gentlemen, to discuss doodoo. Okay. See, William Carroll is a robber who is currently facing charges of armed robbery and battery. See a woman was walking her dog in Miami's Edgewater neighborhood. She was picking up her dog's poop when William Carroll pulled up with a knife. No need to listen to me because I need to catch my breath anyway. Okay, let's go to NBC six

South order for the report. Please. What's supposed to be a quick dog walk Monday night turned into a violent attack. Police say a woman was attacked and robbed on her way back home after walking her dog. She stopped on the stairs to her condo to pick up the dog's waist when a man allegedly came from behind with a knife and strangled her, then allegedly stole her backpack and wallet. Police caught Carol a few blocks away, out of breath,

and they say with the victim's credit cards nearby. He told detectives he didn't do it, but police say he didn't realize he was wearing one of the biggest pieces of evidence, which came from the dog. Literally, the police report states a brownish stain was seen on the defended shirt, matching the dog poop from the scene. William Carroll is in jail because number one, he's a robber, with number

two because of doodoo. All right, this woman had to wear with dollar maybe you know, just in her fighting a little, she got enough doodoo on him for cops to notice he had a dog poop stain on his shirt. First of all, you're not just about to blend in when you got dudo one, Okay, even if the clothes you're wearing are indeed a doodoo brown color, the smell, my gee. Okay, the older we've all had dog poop on our shoe at some point in life. You can't

escape that funky ass fragrance. All right. Think about the time you had to take a cleaning doodoo off your shoes in life. So imagine walking around with it on your shirt. You throw the whole shirt away. Clearly, William sixty two years old robbing folks at knife point couldn't afford to throw his shirt away, but the fact you just decided to go to the Cultural Institution knowing his pizza Hut with Doodoo on your shirt. Sir, respect yourself,

but also respect the home of the Bucket program. You can't just walk up in pizza hut with Doodoo on your shirt and get you a personal pampie and keep it moving. And furthermore, how stink are you on a regular basis that you don't even notice you got doodoo on your shirt. Not only did he have doodoo on his shirt, the officers found the victim's belongings and the knife, so it's an opening shut case. Now, William Carroll is

currently in the Turner Goldfield Night Correctional Center. All your brothers in that facility who are listening to the Breakfast Club this morning, you're listening to Charlomagne and God delivered this donkey of the day. If you don't see that man William Carroll and say, don't stop pop that bussy, let me see you do do Brown. If y'are not calling that man Dudu Brown for the rest of his life, for the rest of his stay in that facility, then

y'all have collectively failed Miami Dade County. I'm not saying harassed, man, I'm just saying his life, y'all. Entertainment, okay, y'all, just trying to kill some time behind those walls, and him ended up there because one he made the poor choice to robbin still and two because of Doo Doo. It's just too much comedy goal to not let the jokes fly. Please give William Carle aka dood Brown the biggest he hull. I'm tied man a little bit, and you're sweating a

little bit. Let that goddamn Let that damn uh, that's that. That's God fly one more time, though, Go go go get low. I don't get low Lo. Megan not bad, you know. I'm glad. You know, y'all. Just admit, y'all. Y'all here judging these kids, y'all, but y'all here trying to act. So look, judging these kids for the content of their music. And we grew up on okay, in the Oxygen bro our error was so toxic and so problematic, but so damn fun. Okay, all right, do you even

have those classic tunes without the toxicity? Huh, drink some water. I'm fine, Yeah, all right, Okay, don't take coming out. I am fine. You hear me, all right, I am forty three with the knees of a forty one year old. Look like you need a little book, Look like you need a little bang. Gag? What did pop that bussy? You know? So who've been gay? The Breakfast Club? Hey? What the breakfast Club? Your morning's will never be the same morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. We got some special guests joining us today to the new host of your MTV raps. We have conceded in DJ Diamond Cuts plus May twenty four. How y'all feeling, man? Good? Good you blessed Black and Holly favor nice. I feel good. Thank you for actually no problem. How y'all feel about bringing this iconic showback man your MTV raps. It's exciting, got a lot of weight on our shoulders. But you know it's gonna be

a's gonna be a good look for sure thing. I mean, it's always scared to like tap into something that's like that sacred, but I mean I think you know what I mean for the new for like the new lane and the generation, It's fire. What was the process like for you guys to even become the host? Um? We actually, you know, it's crazy because I was actually advocating for the joint to come back forever. I can't mentioned yo, yo, yo, gotta come back and gotta come back. They're like yeah, yeah,

yeah yeah. And then when he finally hit me, yo, we're bringing it back and we want us the host. That's just how they hit me. And then to get her I had to do like a zoom meeting with like a whole bunch of DJs. But in the chemistry that me and me and her head were just crazy and they said, Yo, we want to see nobody else. This is it. Did y'all know each other before? No, the first time was meeting on Zoom. Yeah, that was it and we just click you see it conceded on

a meeting with two though. Yeah, no, you know it's crazy. I didn't remember when we was in the car and I was like, yo, that's Yosteno will even the set, and she was just like, yo, you the mean ball. I was like, I was yo, crazy. Yeah. I didn't know they incorporate that for any of the promost they help to no no, come on, I mean, well, at least we don't know yet because there's still a lot of episodes that wet even see. Yeah, and doctor J F. Freddie,

any of them consult to reach out to you guys. No, I'm not sure if they did to like you know what I mean, the like the higher ups, but to us, no, at least not yet. But hopefully we do them some some justice, I mean, and hopefully. Yeah, what are some

things from the original that y'all are bringing back? Yeah, so we have the we have the love of performances, so we have that, and we have ciphers and of course you know, we have you know, just like to sit down talking just like we're doing now, so you know, it's still gonna be that same vibe, but just you know, just like a new wage twist on it. And were shown a lot of love to up and coming artists

as well. What is coaching nowadays? Because when I think about you MTV Rapps, I think about like that was a show that you used to go to to see the culture. But it's like, what is the culture now? That's a good question. So the culture that is, I would say it's mixed. I mean, because you have the interview that you have Instagram rappers, right, and that's or like SoundCloud rappers, but then you have you know, the

main artist. So I think it's just like a melting pop. But you have real gangsters now, I mean you have real gangster, you have real you have snitches, you have you have everything. I mean. So I think the culture just I mean basically just became to whatever you like, whatever you wanted to be. Yeah. Wow, I feel I feel like rappers just the culture is evolving and we're

just evolving with it, you know what I mean. And I think with the show, it's cool because we're adding a new twist to a legendary, you know, a legendary show with new artists and a new look. And like I said, when I watched it, some of the performances, I felt like I was watching an award show. Honestly, this is the way the production was. So it's just like a new twist on something that was definitely legendary

and still is legendary to the day. So it feels like the music is five percent of the culture now. It's like every day we wake up, we're talking about things that don't have nothing to do with going to going to jail and yeah, fighting and now, mon't get me wrong, it's artists that are doing it. Yeah, we're not talking about their music. Yeah, we're just talking about

their lifestyle. Yeah. Things you straight away from talking about sometimes like you're like, Okay, this person's beeping with this person or this happened, and you're like, you know, way, I don't want to feed into that. Or do you feel like I'm a report on it because people are talking about it. Well, me personally, I would stay away from it. I mean, because that's something we really do not need. I mean, and that's just like stirring the pot.

We're not we're done, but they're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about it. I mean if if if if if the artists won't want to say it, I mean, if you feel free. But I don't want to be the one to like, I mean, poking the bed and I mean somebody to get get hurt. And we're already losing way. Weigh up too many people, so you need none of that. Yeah, it was on the first episode. The first episode is Freddie Gibs shout out to Gary, Indiana.

Freddie Gibs, he just got he's always in some gonna be honest, I mean so, but I really liked Freddie Gibbs as a person. I don't know what how this happens. I'm like, man, he's so cool. Why does this keep not his thing? When you watch it, you can see what happens. He talks anything, anything, He does not care. You mentioned it was like yo and just go crazy. So wait a minute, And who did he talk about it in the first episode? I say it, they got

all right, so they gotta watch it. He definitely definitely talks crazy about some people a lot. He just he just god, Freddy, Yeah, listen in hindsight, did he talk crazy about the Butchers? No? Okay, no, no, no, no, he did not know. Everybody's like h and that sometimes. So how many episodes are y'all bank in advance? Well we did eight this one, so we did eight. We knocked him out and like, yeah, week a week. Yeah, yeah, it was a week. So I think we was there

like in a total probably or like four days. I think we did like two days. So yeah, we did long days, long days. That's amazing. I saw your India gram page, like it looks really dope. I told you. It look like an award showing. It looks like the production, the layout of the set is. I walked in there, I'm like, oh, I didn't expect this. It was crazy. I didn't new segments that you guys introduced besides using um,

some from the past. No, no, we really kept it, you know what I mean, really traditional, really I mean um and we do take a lot of trips. Like a matter of fact, I'm bugging, I'm lying. There is a segment on their call Yo on the Block and where I basically visit all the iconic spots mentioned like in like hip hop songs, I mean solo like West West Streets. All right, I'll say one of them. I'll say one, but it's a lot. The one that I'm saying is not on the first episode, so it's by

sixties stay three yah exactly. Yeah. So I'm we pulled up on Jagger spot, so I mean that was dope. So that that was I was one, but we got like five. So it's ill. Do you feel like you're finally getting your just dude diamond cuts because people don't know, like even when it comes to feeling you like you discovered a little oozy bro a little Yeah. Yeah, yeah, um didn't know that, did No, I don't really talk. The only time I spoke about it was up here and that was the last time I spoke about it.

And I'm saying it again. Yeah yeah, no, yeah, I feel like I feel like, yeah, I felt like this is um. I feel like people are starting to really take notes. I've been doing my thing for a minute and I felt like I was always kind of pushed to the bag, you know, people overlooked me. So it finally feels good to have you know, these type of amazing opportunities um to happen and you know, just kind of continue to push it out. You know that. I'm

you know, I'm bored for real, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I got my song out. Yeah, I got a new song out. Um. I love making club music so um So people that knew me, they knew that. But yeah, like I'm just I'm working. I never stopped working, you know what I mean. I wake up early, you know what I mean, and just get to work every single day, like go to sleep late. Yeah. Yeah. We spoke shout

to my friend um Sean Tay. She was with him and she faced time me wow, And I say, girl, what if I had my scar for you know, I got my best friends? She faced on me and Oozy was like right there on on a on the phone, and what could we do? We still started talking and everything kind of just it was like nothing had ever happened and everything is pretty cool. And I've been speaking to him. We spoke a few times, we text and

we faced on each other from time to time. So yeah, not to like navigate that any of you nothing, but yo, I just want to know how did it happened? Like how did how did you like find him? Oh? Oh my god, you gotta watch the you gotta go. That's where everybody. So I spend a whole bunch of time talking about that again. But yeah, we um, we're cool, you know what I mean. I spoke to this drama and every everything's all good. We got more with DJ Diamond Cuts and Conceited. When we come back, it's the

Breakfast Club. Good morning, Pording everybody in cdj Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlemagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're kicking in with the new host of your on TV RAPS, Conceited and DJ Diamond Cuts Charlemagne. Who's the next person out of Philly. Who That's a good question. I got a lot of people that I like. Um Defum Sloan Um. I like is another artist name of Late Banks uh, little mook young k. It's a lot of artists in

the city right now. It's all just depends on who's gonna get their first record to kind of take them out of there. But it's a lot of artists popping in the city right now. It's an artist I like that. I think the name is a little muck, little mook K. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, a little movie. Yeah, shouts a little movie him and his man. I forgot his name, yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Shouts to all him Philly doing

anything like you know what I mean. He killing it right now on TikTok with the club music and stuff like that. For everybody's doing the challenges and everything. So it's lit. The city is lit right now. I'm just waiting for like their first artist to kind of like really take off. And shouts to Mecca too. Shot got a big shout out to mcmunroe. So it's a lot of artists. I was gonna say, you're from Brooklyn, right yeah, yeah, yeah, yea from Brooklyn, you like from Brooklyn right now? And

five of course he's kind of on already. Yeah, but I mean, but still he's on. But he just he's really like my favorite Brooklyn artists right now, Um twenty two g's I like Dusty Locane, I like, um, We're be Love from He's from the Bronx, from the Bronx. Um. I mean that's really who I really listen listen to the most. Really have you ever written songs? Because no, not Realtyle, I'm not like a rapper rapper. I was just a battle rapper. We're gonna see you do some freestyle.

I was some battling on your MTV raps that we're gonna see. No, no, but no, but I am. I do hop in one of the ciphers. Okay, so say so what I mean you all gonna see see you all, y'all gonna see see some balls. Of course. See that makes sense though, because I mean Ticker used to do that on Rap City since for a host to jump in, and so you only did it once, Yeah you're scared. No, No, I mean we only did a site. We only did a site for like three times. So we don't have

the one who was who was the artist? We had Simba t Baby Tait. Uh what is that dude's name? Man? I feel bad and even saying David, I know it's David something. I don't know his last name, but he was fighting. It was actually because it was like fifty of them. And and honestly, I know a lot of people think that we see we didn't really see the episode yet, so it's not like, I mean, we don't

really really really know it edited together. No, so we canna be watching for the first time, y'all exactly together. I had to just impact your day jobs, you know, conceded. You know, one of yours is wilding out down the cuts of course Power ninety nine and Philly. How did that affect the day job? It really didn't because like we taped everything like a week um and then we had like little promos. Everything really took like two weeks. Honestly,

maybe like a week and alf Um radio. You know, we do that everywhere, you know what I mean, I mean in my hotel room, mixing it up seriously, like you know what I mean, you know how you know how it is, So it didn't really take up you know much time at all for me? Yeah, at all. I mean the same because that's MTV, so what I mean they made sure that the schedules were just right for me. Yeah, it was all m Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting right because it feels like when you do radio nowadays,

you can't just do radio anymore. No, like you have to be multi media yep, or you're gonna be broke. I'm saying right, yeah, right now. And I got a radio, was like, oh that I had enough to live in section eight because you have a daughter, right, so your son DJ's he does. He likes to play around. He likes the press buttons and play around with the turntables. He ramps a lot, He raps a lot. He likes to make a lot of songs. He records on his on his iPad, his phone. Um, so yeah, he definitely

got the cheat code at home too. Yeah he did. He Yeah. I want him to like really pay attention, but he don't. It's all right, it is. He a celebrity at school, he got Yeah, he always took about with something he's done. We went to the DJ at the White House, but the Easter egg roll and he whole school news. Yeah, the East egg roll what they do, like the Easter egg roll for the kids. Yeah, that's something that Yo. Gotti was there right, No really, yeah,

what's different? They rolled the egg and you gotta pick it up with the game. But it was it was cool this year. It was about education, that's what they called so clever. Y'all should have recorded that for the show for real facts. That was fun. What other guests we got on the show this season, Mulatto, Mulatto just now big, Big Lotto, the biggest. We got Trina, legendary Trina. We got t Grizzly. We got Ji d um Oh, which was one of my one of my favorites. We

got those. We got the hip hop directors. We had Chris Robinson and his son and Cole and Cole Bennett. So that was that was fire to me for all of everybody out there that loves collectibles. We had Hebrew Bradley here Chicago. Yeah, Hebrew Bradley was uh steth free, you know what I mean. He pulled up Hebrew. Yeah. So it's it's a listen. It's more than just music, like you said, it's culture, lifestyle, you know, Vegan. We dig into everything hip hop pretty much everything. Is it

gonna be timely? Like what do you mean, like like say Kindergarbum came out? Will y'all beyond that week that Kinder Gotbum dropped? Though? So the plan is to change it to weekly now now, I mean so hopefully? Yeah? Yeah, So, I mean that's definitely the angle that we're really trying to try to go because you know, something new was happening in hip hop daily, so I mean we're trying to at least, you know, make it weekly so we

can have like the latest and greatest for you. So, right, so everybody got to start watching May twenty fourth, yep, May twenty fourth on Paramount Plus. I mean it once a week that they put it out or do you can you stream them all at once? Once a week? You can once a week yet and right now, like they're playing like the most fifty iconic original episode, So I mean, get that and you're good just bingeing that. Yeah, to just watch the movement's gonna be lit. Did y'all

grow up watching your MTV raps like I did? I did? I mean not tremendously, but that was like episodes of definitely because I had like I'm I'm the youngest. I have older brothers, sisters, so it was definitely on on my crib for sure. I had to do a lot of my on a YouTube, like you know, recapping and watching a lot of us so long ago. Yeah, but I I just YouTube was like where I went to kind of like watch the you know, the older episodes

they had been. But definitely, for sure, we definitely watched it. Yeah, well, I love it. I loved the nostalgia or bringing something that was so important to culture back and giving it this two thousand and twenty two fields. Thank you, Thank you, And make sure everybody watches it because it's going to be important because we want this to be a weekly show. Yeah, I want to make sure that it could want to make it a yearly show. Yes, yea. And I mean

y'all y'all on a long, great list of hosts. Yeah, five five Freddy. Now, I mean what I'm really hoping, I mean, so shout out to and now I mean Dre in fact, that we could do an episode all together. That's what I'm open. I mean, that's what I would hope to set that out there. Why not? Why not? It's conceded in DJ Diamond Cuts your MTV raps from is on Paramount Plus on May twenty four. Thank y'all

for joining us. I thank you. Angela ye ye. It's the Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club, won't everybody's DJ Envy Angela yee. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, Mama glow I Slatham Thomas, welcome back. I've seen you last time you were here. I couldn't remember. I had to go do something for TV. Yeah, and you had your book coming out. It's doing really well. Yes, it's doing great. Good to see you. How's everything? Everything is so good.

I'm so glad to see y'all. Two. Thank you so much for having me always just let me come up here. Yeah, you know tomorrow is the big DULA Expo. Yes, but it's so excited to people with the DULA expoys. Soldula Expo is the first and only event of its kind that centers Duela's caregivers, families and lifting up up policy changes and ships that we can make to have like better maternal health outcomes. But it's also a festival, so

there's live music. There's a lot of brands activating in this place where you can just kick it, chill, rest there, there's food. It's just a place for a community to come together. And we're really excited because we have a

lot of support from local officials. We have the Brooklyn Borough President, Antonio Ray Knows, So who's going to come and do some opening remarks, and he's leading up the maternal health task for us, and so he's really also committed to improve maternal health and making Brooklyn the safest place to give birth in New York. So we're happy to have him. And we have the public Advocate Money Williams will be there to making some remarks. You'll be there,

I will be there. I'm in conversation, Well, what's the brother out, Charles John, Paul John. Yeah, which we're excited about because you know, I think it's so important to center fathers in this conversation. You know, a lot of us, you know, including myself, are in a position to sort of speak from the lens of being a woman and being impacted, you know, and having family members impacted and

obviously friends by the maternal health crisis. But you know, we never really get to hear fathers in a certain light, and so I'm really interested for this conversation that y'all have that can not only shed light on the lens of fatherhood, but also sort of you know, what fathers are doing, and specifically what Charles has done in terms of impacting on legislation to improve maternal health. Yeah. I

first heard of Charles story. I think I was watching I think it was on CN if I'm not mistaken, they did a story on him because sadly he lost his wife during during childbirth. Yeah, and it was unfortunate because they were inside the hospital and she was let to bleed for ten hours internally after routine C section. And so he's now in a civil rights lawsuit with Cedar Sinai, which is a huge deal because the lawsuit

is actually directed towards medical racism. So it'll be it'll set a precedence, you know, if he's able to win this case. Wow, I want to ask you, I know your piano you pay promoting this, But when you've seen all of the mass hysteria about the shortage of formula, Yeah, so it's really interesting. I saw something that said that people were gauging folks on um on like eBay selling formula for like three hundred dollars. Serious, yeah, and so

it's interesting at the um Doula EXFO. We actually have a company called Bobby, which is a formula company that does a European style formula UM which is important because American formula is actually like not regulating in the way that your regulates theirs, and so they have better safety. It's called Bobby b O b B I. E Yes, I heard you know what we you know, we have a five month old and somebody was telling us about it, and they were saying that over there, the formulas are

a lot better. Yeah, like they're regulated, they're richer and

ingredients there. Yes, and so to happen, lots of people ship them, right, and so Bobby being American made made by moms, you know people and also scientists, obviously we got to get you some you know, if you guys were needing formula, because um, they're just committed and their whole thing is, you know, creating a product, but understanding that you know, breast milk is obviously the gold standard for infant nutrition, right, we know that, but not everybody

gets to breastfeed, and about three quarters of women end up using formula at some point. So it's important to have an option that makes sense for people. So I'm all four people having access um. Bobby's amazing. They donated a thousand cans of formula to the Mamola Foundation for us to make sure that people have access to formula,

so we're really happy to be partner with them. We'll have a conversation actually about this crisis what it means for people at the DULA Expo two and if people can't come, they can they can live stream it also, we have it on the Mamola Facebook will be live streaming Saturday's events as well. But I'm glad y'all having that conversation because I saw the argument this week and I was like, why does everything have to turn into

an argument online? But it's like because I think somebody said, I don't know, I don't forget who it was, Bett Miller, and she just basically was like, y'all should be breastfeeding. Breastfeeding in anyway. Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's interesting because we all know that that's the that's the best way to feed our babies. We understand that, right, like you have to create this birth village around yourself, but not everybody has access to that. So yes, it's

it's it's cheap, it's free, it's the right temperature. When you do the breast and milk right, it comes out the temperature it needs to be. It has all the nutrients of baby needs, and we advocate for that, but we have to also understand there are social factors and also a health factors some people have. You know. One of the things that I love about Bobby for instances, they actually donate formula to women who have had mastectomies

who haven't been able to breastfeed because of cancer. Right, and so you know there's reasons for why people can't do it. And instead of judging, because it's really not the time to judge, babies need to be fed. So the goal is to make sure babies are fed. Absolutely. That's why you got to go to the Dulex photomon information again and how they could if they can't make it out, they could live stream. Yeah. So UM you should come to join us in Brooklyn twenty five kent Um.

It's in Williams or Brooklyn. Really easy to get to. UM. It is from ten to six on Saturday and on live stream. It's on Facebook at Mama glow on you know, mama, go Facebook platform for UM the DULA Expo. You'll see it there. You can just join the live stream or it's set a little alert and m and the live stream will start from like eleven am onward. And then we're excited. I mean, the conversations are gonna be amazing. We have a live performance from Lion Babe, who will

be talking, you know, about her birth experience. She also used DULAS but then she's also gonna do give us a nice special performance. So it's gonna be really exciting. So just come through. And if somebody's coming from the Breakfast Club. You know, I know a lot of folks in our community would like to come, and I know folks have been impacted by COVID and you know, money

is type for folks. So if you guys want to come, if you're listening, if you're a local in the Tristate area, you can use the code the Breakfast Club and then that'll get you free entry into the expo and we'd love to have you come. Oh wow, what's the website again? Today? Don't know that DULA xpo dot com and the code to register would be the Breakfast Club at checkout and if somebody out there is considering a duela and you know they have a lot of questions, why would you

encourage them to come to the expo. Yeah, so this is a space where you'll be able to meet dulas and care providers. You'll be able to meet organizations that are actually impacting on policy, like the March of Dimes. They're having a listening lounge and they'll be doing a policy driven conversation in the beginning of the day. But they have a lounge where you can come and share your the experience that you had in your birth or what you're hoping for. You can talk to duelas and

other care providers. You can talk to people if you're on your fertility journey. There's a company, Ovia Health, which we're excited about. We'll do a whole kind of like fertility like myths and truths so you can understand like how to optimize fertility. There's all kinds of things along the pre and postnatal continuum in terms of conversations that we're excited about. But it's just going to be amazing.

And also Karen Parsons, who y'all know from Fresh Prince she's she's our MC, so you know she also is a big supporter of Hillary. Okay, Hillary Banks is also one of our mcs. So it's just gonna be a fun day. So just come through. If you have children. We have a play area. I'm most excited about this because I wish I could go play the whole day. But there's an incredible um company founded by two fathers called Lalo and they make all this amazing like play

furniture for kids. So we have an incredible play space. It'll be like school, but the kids can play. We have playto we have activities to give them. The location again, twenty five kent Um, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, doula Expo dot com to get tickets. We can't wait to see y'all. And giftbags are gonna be crazy, so don't miss it. All right, Well, thank you for joining us again and get out there. This weekend is supposed to beautiful this weekend, so see

ye out there. That's a Saturday from ten to six pm, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And we appreciate you, could you. I appreciate y'all, Thank you so much. It's Latham Thomas. It's the Breakfast Club good morning. Now, um, Charlomagne, you got a positive note? Hey, I do have a positive note. Man. I know this is just gonna fall on deaf ears in this social media era that we live in, but I just want to tell y'all, if you didn't see it with your

own eyes, are here with your own ears. Don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big ass mouth. Okay, okay, breakfast club, y'all. Finish it, y'all, dumb