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He's any charlom and the guy piece did the planet is Tuesday? Yes, it's Tuesday. What's happening? How's everybody feel? This morning? Going on? Much better? I'm blessed Black and Holly Favor much better. What was wrong? I tried a long few days. I had my opening in my coffee shop Friday, Saturday, I had angela Yee day. Then I flew out to for a lot of day. I did an interview with Kodak Black and then now I'm finally Kodak Yes, yes man, and now I'm back. And he

actually didn't you don't got no manners? No, I didn't say that he just didn't use that particular phrase. Yes, he was very polite. Kodak is Kodak is a Kodak is a good, good person. I believe he's just young man. Young people make mistakes, as we all did when we were young. And imagine having access to all of that money and all of those resources and everything else at

that age. You know, since he was seventeen, he hasn't been out of jail for one consecutive year, Like he's been in and out, in and out since he was seventeen and before that, Julie and all kinds of you know, you got to think about all the trauma that people go through, and the guards beating him up in jail and everything that happened. But he's gonna get really in

depth about a lot of those things. And that's why I've committed my life to him helping helping, you know, people in general, hill with especially young black men, because if we don't break them generational curses, who will absolutely. Yeah, it's some parts in there that I thought, like, oh, man, you might want to cry. Man. We've been passing trauma off his culture for so damn long. But this is the first generation I feel that has the luxury of

actually healing, so we'll be okay. But yes, it was a whirlwind of days for me, and then and then the Breakfast Club went viral yesterday, but we'll talk about that later. For Envy and be calling Kanye clown like thirty times yesterday, I send Kanye was healing energy. I'm sending, Yeah, send them healing it. But I'm sure you don't mind

aggesting that, right, Envy later? Sure, Okay, had a zillion one conversations with a zillion one people, you're more than to say after you call somebody at clown, here's the thing, And I said, Kanye was here energy people, the team ID a zillion one conversation, but you can't ever have the real conversation because what what what? That is what your statements were rooted and we would never be able to share because it's not our story to tell, correct,

you know what I mean? So if if people knew, if people knew, they would understand why you said what you said. But I choose to send him healing energy. Okay, Yeah, the people that were involved in me, it was I got so many calls yesterday from older artists, new artists, athletes, actors, people in the industry, Yay's team, a whole bunch of people. We'll talk about a little bit. But like you said, it's it's something that you know. It's not my story to tell. It's not your story to tell. We just

know and I know how it makes me feel. But we'll we'll talk about it a little bit later. I'll tell energy. You can tell. It's gonna come out when it comes out. I'm sure it'll come out. People understanding. Man. Now, we got some special guests joining us today. I got last week. I was out you guys interview with Ingrid Best. Oh man, please tell people Best Okay, So Ingrid Best. It's a very dear friend of mine. But she is

the executive vice president for Come Enterprises. That's Ditty's Enterprises, and she runs the Delian and Stick and they just launched this really incredible campaign celebrating black business owners. It actually just launched yesterday. So she's gonna come up here and talk about how she's gotten into the position that she has and the team that she's created of all black women. I missed it. I was out of town English.

The best. She's very very that's her last names. And these conversations are great because everybody always wants to do things in front of the camera and be you know, all out for people to see. Ingridge one of those people who makes things happen behind the scene for a long time, even before running Comb's Entertainment. So I can wait a few guys to hear that. But let's get

the show cracking front page news. What we're talking about, Well, the last US military planes have left Afghanistan, so that is America's longest war twenty years. And will tell you what that's like and what Joe Biden had to say. He also is going to be speaking today about that. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Da Da van Van. As much as we played his record field on the Worst Men of the Morning, everybody is dj Envy Angel Ye Charlomine the guy. We

are to Breakfast Club. Let's getting some front page news. Where were starting you, Well, the last US military planes have left Afghanistan, and here is General Frank Mackenzie, who is the commander of US Central Command, speaking at the Pentagon about not getting everyone out even though the last planes have left. Look, there's a lot of hard break

associated with this departure. We did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out, But I think if would stayed another ten days, Louis, we wouldn't have gotten everybody out that we wanted to get out, and there still would have been people who would have been disappointed

with that. It's a tough situation, but I want to emphasize again that simply because we have left, that doesn't mean the opportunities for both Americans that are in Afghanistan that want to leave and Afghans who want to leave, they will not be denied that opportunity. I think our Department of State is going to work that very hard. In the days when we said I hope they really

got everybody out, I pretty nobody misdual slice. Well, they said there's a small number of Americans in the two hundred, and they said it's like the number that's closer to one hundred Americans who remain in Afghanistan and went to leave. Now they still I thought they had to be out about the thirty first. I mean, they were trying to get everybody out. I don't know why there's still some people that haven't been able to get there. They said the last five flights didn't even have any US citizens

on there. Let me find out, America Book, Spirit Airlines Flace you shot up all right. In addition to that, he also talked about the threat of terror. Now, how high is that? The terry threat is going to be very high. But I think what we'll do is we will work with the Taliban and work with the next government of Afghanistan, Afghanistan, whatever his characterization is going to be, in order to ensure that our citizens are protected and

that they have an opportunity to leave. As you know, we still hold a variety of significant leverage over whatever future government exists in Cobble, and I have no doubt that the Department of State will fully exercise that leverage if you have any confident in their ability to secure the city. Right now, the Taliban, I think they're going

to be challenged to secure the city. Yeah, I'm on high alert, you know, the next couple of weeks because it's the twenty year anniversary in nine to eleven in America is very vulnerable right now. You just never know if they wanted to do something, this would be a good opportunity for them, right And video from Kabo Airport does show that they were celebrating. The Taliban was celebrating and saying this victory belongs to us all and congratulating

the people of Afghanistan. So they're looking at this as a victory a war that lasted almost twenty years. I mean it is the ops is gone. The ops fled the scene. So yeah, and what did so he said they're going to actually talk to the leader of the Taliban, but they said they have to engage, and so it's no way around engaging to have to deal with them. And you know, isis K is like the Taliban is saying that they're not the way that they used to be,

the draconian measures that they used to take. But a lot of people are on high alert that things are going to revert back to what it used to be like before because they're supposed to be a lot more moderate now. But isis K is not supposedly part of the Taliband. It's a terror group. Oh for the record, that's what Trump is doing. And he got flat for it. All right, Well, that is agotiating with him, trying to make a deal. Front page news, all right, get it

off your chests. Eight on drink five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up right now, phone line to wide open it to Breakfast club the morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chests. Whether you're man or blast, so better have the same in We want to hear from you on the Breakfast club. Hello. Who's this? This is Dante from Atlanta, Dante from Melana. Get it

off your chest nothing man. I just want to, you know, shout out to y'all and appreciate everything that y'all do. I'm on the way to work right now, y'all definitely, you know, help everybody give you their day. And I just wanted to shout out my black queen, my fiance Amber. Hey, yeah, man, you got our YouTube page, Amber beat am b RB owned the Core owned Decoration and Lifestyle. Y'all go check that out. We're getting married in April, and uh, you

just wanted to shout her out. Man. Everybody have a blessed thing. Congratulations to you and your queen. Man, shout out to Ama You're a black queen. Yeah, most definitely appreciate you man. Y'all have a good one. Hello. Who's this? Hey? Good more than Envy Man Good, more than Angela. It was going. I wouldn't apologize. I didn't got to come to Eather, got caught up working on the crib. I want to apologize for not coming, Rick, I would have bust you up on that stage with Mellow with Trava

was there. Oh my god. I know I'm gonna shout to hold him out, but um I agree with mvy man Emby. I don't like Kanye either. Man. I got a lot of flack for not being like a Kaya. It's just music. But I think he's a clown food. I think he's a most overrated person in hip hop. No, no, he's definitely. He's not overrated. And the artist, he's a great, great styles. I just don't like some of the things he does outside of music, and I would explain him

a little bit more later. Button. I think his body of work, as much as people want to compare to other bodies work, it doesn't stand up. Yo. You're yo, Rick, Now you bugging like Kanye does a lot of wild antics. But those first five albums, actually first six albums are classic. No first six, bro, let's break it down. Then late late registration, Yeah, Collins drop out, late registration, graduation and maybe and maybe and maybe maybe My Beautiful Dog, Twisted

Fantasy and everything else. You're out of your mind? Are you? My Beautiful Dog Twisted Fantasy was the best album of from two thousand and ten to two thousand and twenty. Stop. I'm in a decade rap wise, no way to best rap album oct This is my beautiful doc. It's a lot of things we can debate about Kanye was his music is in one of them, guys. And no, he's not a He's definitely not as but he makes great bodies of work. Like Kanye. You can't you can't stop

talk Nikati about Kanye's music. Kanye delivers h No, Jesus was trash. Jesus was definitely trash. First album, even this trash his last two albums. Jesus was one of the six, Wasn't I'm talking about college dropout, late registration, graduation? Yeah, graduation, listen, graduation ain't a way that all breaks My Beautiful Dog, Twister Fantasy, Those five, I'm at the five, those five,

after all? Right? Well, everything else to track not the Life of Pablo, The Life of Pablo banging too bro and to watch the Throne album, Bro, like stop, Man, don't do this, Man, don't do this Kanye, Kanye that whole album? All right, Rick, We're gonna have to Kanye. Let's not be ridiculous. This is an argument of having all It's a ridiculous are there having people on your side?

This is a ridiculous argument. Like we can argue about Kanye's antics, we can argue about how he treats people, we can argue that all that type of stuff, but you can't argue that musically. Come on, bro, he's one of the greatest ever. Do it. I can you know what it is? You tell you Kanye got trusthing Jo, he tells you that's everybody bos it. It's trash. No

I got here, all right, thank you. Kanye's first five albums of classic Guys, The Collins, drop Out, Late Registration, Graduation, Eight Away, and Heartbreaks, My Beautiful Dog, Twister, Fantasy like Stop. Come on eight hundred five eight five, one oh five one. If you want to vent, you can hit us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Baby.

I'm telling, I'm telling what's doing. If this is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello, who's this? This is Nicky call from Florida. Hey, Nicky, come morning, get it off at good morning, Good morning, doctor mccolby. Miss ye Okay, I am good. Um minus my call for that envy. I had to call up here like you owe me chuse support, baby, I don't

even know you. I caused up here like you owe me child before let's talk about yes through that. I understand how you feel about Kanye, all right, But I had a whole discussion on YouTube with a couple of y'all followers letting them know I don't know what y'all were expecting out It is Kanye album. Kanye is the street he doing. I g models him right, excuse me, see to god, I gotta quote you. You said that you are free hid rappers in their age. That rap

about real life stuck. This man was depressed. This man was broken. This man chose to express his read through his musical masterpiece. I love the album and I'm a huge Kanye fan. I'm four eleven, but I'm six eight for Kanye. Oh. I mean, that's why my music is subjective. I'm not late. Music made you fail away because you could relate to it exactly. And I feel like Djay envied, Okay, your job is a dj T how to let the

music speak. I understand that you got be And as a Kanye fan, I do not agree with everything my man does, but that album, I feel like that album, with his vulnerability, we saw him go through all this stuff with Danza dying and just falling out in the media. I think you should give it a chance. Don't call him in a clown. This was him showing his emotions about his mom. Come on, man, you die, give it a chance. I was ready to fund you. Let your car show down to mine. You can come and see me.

We could have a conversation. But I don't. I don't think it is Kanye's music is clownish. I just think him as a person in what he does behind the scenes is clownish. I never I never disrespect that man's music. I mean, I actually love Kanye's music, So it has nothing to do with Kanye as an artist. It has to do with Kanye as a person. But listen, that's like like Black. My daughter loves Kodak. Okay, y'all were just talking about him. I'm not a huge Kodek band.

A lot of stuff you do, I can't agree with. My daughter loves this music. Girl, that's fine. But I understand that code. It does make good music regardless of this antic. You gotta you gotta let the music feat. You gotta give it a chance. Don't don't shelve it just because you don't. I'm listen. I'm listening to the whole album. I think, and I listen just personally, I think the album is kind of lackluster. He got some

joints on there. I really like though, Like I love to join with Kanye and Westside, I love to join with the Locks and Jail Electronica. I love to join it with Roddy Rich. But I mean it just I don't know. It's our Forty some minutes is a long time to me. A good album an album if you like, like six or seven songs on this album, I feel like that makes it a good album. Now in the

hours an hour, forty minutes. Yeah, but I do feel like there's six really really great songs on there, and that's something that I could listen to and then as if you I don't like but yeah, I just think you should have shorten it twelve songs. There's a great album within that hour forty eight minutes. And I've heard that yesterday and I completely agree because I'm not gonna lie. I was like an hour of forty minutes, but do I expect three hunting the shows that was changing up features.

But dj Vy, you had me at worked boiling. I was like, I went home on the boiling. I was like, oh God, but that's what happened. But but but that's what happens when people don't know the whole story and it's not our story to tell. And I'm a listen and I'm listen when it comes out that made you know, I may be able to say, Okay, you know what, Dnvy, I get it. You know. I still think it's a good album, but I don't think you should just shove it because of the I didn't say I was gonna

show them. I didn't sell you definitely definitely said I don't control them music going to radio, So I don't listen to your call you at home with Logan and then at home and Logan, you can't make me listen to. You can't make me listen to what I want play it right now. You can't make me listen to what I want to play. My call, what I want to play,

what I work out. But you know what, we're gonna get a little logan and slamming that make him listen to the album that we're gonna Donna logan, slam your daddy and put them in your par budget there. Okay, Oh my goodness, don't get logan jump, get it off your chest. Eight hundred five five, one oh five one. We got rooms on the way. Yes, and either booty gang is back. Okay, that's sad. Let's talk about it. Look at me, goodness, I did not look at it.

You did. You definitely did kink that. Oh my goodness, nouth opening everything. Have you been married, I've been with your woman for a certain time. How long you know with your woman? Twenty six years? You definitely ate some booty. That's not what gang is about today. Think about the reverse it. I've been told y'all, reverse it. We talked about all right, breakfast club, good morning, the breakfast club. It's about report. This is the rumor report. Angela Ye

on the breakfast club. All right, well, first let's talk about our show, Drink Champs. We love that show, right, And Trick Daddy was recently on and he discussed the topic. And we all know him from the Eat a Booty gang, and I feel like this has been said before, but he's very blatant about the fact that he likes to uh eat the booty. Okay, no, not not, he likes to do that. It gets done to him. All right, listen to this conversation. So it's the eat a booty game.

I'm building a franchise up now. Now I'm getting the women to support the eaton booty game. Wait wait, wait, wait wait who when you say women to support the eat booty game? You say women is eating the booty? Yeah? Wait what, I don't know what You don't have your legs in the air. Though, it depends how many times a trick gonna go viold for this same thing. Every time he says this, y'all act like it's the first time. I don't know why people still shame this where you

don't get it. And I feel like both of y'all have said the same thing up here too. So it's tank So a bunch of other people like y'all got to stop king shaming people for what they like to do in the bedroom. Number one, he's being funny. And number two, it can absolutely be described just getting you say that. You know you cannot say it can be described as that. We say, yeah, we say eat the poom poom, So what else could you call it? I

really have no idea booty? So you get your legs in the hair too, like I've never done that, but I mean, it doesn't matter. That's my business in the bedroom, you know what I mean. But y'all got to stop king shaming people for stuff like that. And why do y'all act like this is the first time. Every time trick Daddy says it, I said times he asked topics about it before I know we have Do you guys shave the hair on your butt or nothing like that?

Like back there as you man escape that human resources. But yes, I do what shaving? I mean you ask me about because I'm thinking about as you guys are getting mean, how that's the question, like this is shaver? He puts his legs out. Yes, all right, you put something, you put a vibrating thing, a vibrating you know, To be clear, Charlemagne didn't start man escaping until the Breakfast Class. Yes it is. You didn't. I started man escaping when we were doing MTV's Guy Code because the first episode

of MTV's Guy Called was about man escaping. I never had heard of such a thing, but wasn't it ding also while you were on the Breakfast Club, because we had a whole conversation about it and you said you never did it. It was all mtvs Guy Cold. But you do remember you said you didn't used to man escape, Yeah, but had nothing to do with Breakfast Club. Right. That was literally the first episode of MTV's Guy Called ten years ago. Okay, well yes, man escape, yeah, as you should.

All right. Now, Drake has went to Instagram to unveil some more certified loverboy merch. Now y'all saw that uh picture that he had of all the little emojis of the pregnant women, and people were confused about what that is. So what that is? And it was explained is, um, basically, well I don't think that's the cover art, but they're saying the pregnant it's not the cover. They said, that's the pregnant emojis are away for saying that the album is nine months late? Who is they who said this?

So that is um According to Obio sound Well, Elliott Wilson confirmed they said it was album and DJ Academics actually spoke to Drake and Drake said, it's the album cover. Do I think it's the actual album cover? Probably not, but it gets to people talking, not to mention who gives a damn bought album covers anymore. I was thinking the same thing. Nobody ever looks at the album covers like that's how you just listen to the album. It's not.

Danda has no cover. Literally, it's nothing. It's it's just a black box. People thought it was clever, but yes, I don't know if this is the cover art or not. But they're saying that this could be, you know, just because the album was nine months late so he's pregnant, or it could be, as Elliott Wilson said, the cover and you know, like you said, DJ academic said, he asked Drake, and Drake said that, yes, this really is a cover. It wouldn't be the last time Drake did

a basic gas cover. I mean, if you're reading this too late was a basic gas cover. But then that became like a hit me. I love the way that little Nozas actually hijacked that cover for his own too, and he put a bunch of emojis of pregnant men all right now. Drake has also shared some new images of Certified lover Boy and Nike. The collap that they have and with together, something other than me has got

to give. That's one of the shirts said. One says, should have said you love me today because tomorrow is a new day. One says, I don't miss let alone miss you the hell some t shirts. It's a lot of writing, a lot of words on there, but yes, they managed to fit it all in. You gotta at least wear a double excel to fit all the words in. All right now. Jr. Smith is sharing his college journey and everybody's really excited for him, and so he posted

on social media. English is my first language, but these papers though. Joined the study group for my African American Studies class on Groupie and my classmates don't think it's me finish my English homework. Dope short story about a little girl with six brothers in Seeking Parents Approval Dope reading first tutoring session in the books I really liked missus Burke extremely helpful. So he said, I hated school growing up, and I knew this would be a challenge.

But that's not going to discourage me one second. You have to be able to buckle down and lock into new journeys and challenges coming in your life, observe, learn and adapt. I'm happy for j. Smith. So he's at North Carolina A and T. And I saw somebody posted a picture like, I can't believe that J. R. Smith is in my class, in my eight am class. So that's good. I mean, I just I wish that I took advantage of a lot of the classes that were in college. When I was in college, I was just

trying to get out. Well, you all wish he did, and I wish I had took advantage of a lot of the stuff that I should have, whether it's accounting classes, in finance classes, things that I had to figure out later on. I wish I took advantage of it. I just respect the fact that he's not afraid to continue to still grow and learn, you know, and try new things, because I mean, he's a multi millionaire. He don't have to go back to school. But the fact that he

wants to make himself better. I respected to drop on a clues BONX to Jall Smith. Demit my favorite Carlage class. I think that I ever took was screenwriting. That was a I did photography in college. So it's fine. You can take classes that you really care about and that interests you and learn more. Yeah. I mean, you know, I as a doctorate, As a person with a doctorate degree, you know, I spent a lot of time. Don't classroom? What class you know what I mean? What classroom did

you spend telling him? Don't don't worry about that. You know this is before doctor and that is your rumor report. He is doctor. I'm still a doctor, you are. Okay, we got front page news. Next. What we're talking about, Yes, and let's talk about about one point one million customers still don't have power in Louisiana. When are they going to get their power back? And we'll give you some updates as rescue efforts are continuing. All right, we'll get

into that next. It's the breakfast slogal morning, So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. Angela. Ye here, and did you know that the General Insurance has been saving people money for nearly sixty years. Take a closer look at the General and see how they can help you save two Call eight hundred General or go to the General dot com. Some restrictions apply. Morning. Everybody is cej Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy we are to

breakfast Club's getting some front page news. Where we starting you, Well, let's start in Louisiana. Hurricane Ida has left catastrophic damage. We already told you guys that one person was confirmed to have been killed. Well, now they said there's a second storm related death that was reported following Hurricane Ida. The first as a tree that fell on someone. That the next one is a man who drowned after attempting to drive his vehicle through floodwater. They said, right now,

his age is unknown. I know a lot of people are trying to locate their loved ones as these rescue efforts are continuing. About one point one million customers still do not have power in Louisiana. They said. Electricity is

practically non existent for most people. They're saying some of these outages could last more than three weeks, by the way, so that's really imagine having to go three weeks they said three hospitals across the state have already been evacuated, with the fourth hospital and the process of being evacuated.

And according to the governor, there's also eighteen water system outages impacting more than over three hundred thousand people and fourteen boil water advisories that impacts more than three hundred and twenty nine thousand people across Louisiana. That's hard. Well, that's got to suck in two thwenty one. I mean, I went through something like that in the eighties with

Hurricane h going Charleston, South Carolina. But they have to experience that in twenty twenty one, like that should not be the case for anybody to be without power for three weeks, right, And Joe Biden has addressed the damage caused by Hurricane Ida, and he is offering federal support to the states who are impacted. Here's what he had to say. And we've deployed more two hundred generators and

we're already moved into the region. They've been moved in ahead of time, and the administrator, Griswell and her team at FEMA is working getting more of those into the area. And we're in close contact with local electric providers to see what they need. They're all private providers. We don't control that, but we're doing all we can to minimize the amount of time it's going to take to get

power back up for everyone in the region. They said they've moved more than two hundred generators into the region and they're working to send in more. I actually talk to some people that are in Louisiana right now, how difficult it is to even try to get gas, to be able to drive anywhere from a gas station. How hot it is and there's no power, so you don't have air conditioning, you don't have lights. So people are trying to figure out. People don't want to leave either.

If you're there right now, I know some people are trying to stay, but you know, it's a difficult situation. I want to own under kid how they can prevent those things for happening, because you look at other neighborhoods, like, of course, I live in Jersey and I just remember ten years ago there was areas they used to flood all the time during the rain. They used to be problems all the time, and they fixed it. They fixed it, you know, the structure to make sure it didn't happen again.

And I wonder why they don't do that in certain areas that flood all the time, like New Orleans, Louisiana or all. I think Jersey flooding a little different than Louisiana flooding. Louisiana flooding is a lot more intense, a lot more. But if they know it's high, can't they figure out how it's not. It's not like it's a surprise. They know what's going to happen. They evacuate people, so when they be able to install something in the infrastructure

to make sure it doesn't happen again. Maybe it's just me. I don't know, I'm you know, I'm just asking. Yeah, this has been an ongoing issue there so and even yeah for you know, they're trying to move these generators there now for people to be able to have power. I saw a man got attacked by an alligator. That's why in the water from the floods after Hurricane Ida. All right now, two people are dead and ten are injured after a Mississippi highway washed away by heavy rain.

The incident occurred on Highway twenty six in George County, and the washout they said was likely related to the rain from Hurricane Ida as well. More than fifty eight thousand people in Mississippi remain without power due to the storm. All Right, and South African researchers are keeping an eye on yet another new coronavirus variant. They're saying this one is called C one two. It's popped up across South Africa and other seven other countries in Africa, Asia and

the Pacific. They're not sure whether it's constellation of mutations will make it more dangerous, but they said it has changes that have given other variants increased transmissibility and also the ability to evade the immune systems response to some degree. So they're saying that more mutations doesn't have to mean more dangerous. Some mutations can weaken a virus, but we'll see what happens. They're keeping an eye on this new variant. Why does all of this sound like the Marvel Universe?

I mean, mutations, invariants and all types of other stuff. Well, are the Avengers when we need them? My God? Is the avengers? The vaccine? I don't know, Senators, just imagine all these things happening at once, right we have, Yeah, it's just a lot like the Book of Revelation. To me, that is your front page about what everybody else doing. But you better find some healing and get right with God, because you know absolutely, I haven't found answers any place else.

It's been crazy. It's between COVID and the storms and all that. It's just it's just been crazy. My family just got back this morning, and they were supposed to be back when Saturday morning because the storms held them and it was sucked. So you better get them. You better get the know God if you don't know. All right now, when we come back, we got a special guests joining us this morning. We have Ingrid Best joining us. Yes, she is the executive vice president and the global head

of marketing for Combs Enterprises. That's right. We're gonna kick it with her when we come back, so don't move. It's to Breakfast Club the Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Ngela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. She is the executive vice president of

Combs's Enterprise. This ladies and gentlemen, Ingry Best, and we've talked about you on this show before when d Nice was here and he was saying, how supportive you've been of him as far as what he's been doing during the pandemic with DJing and everything, and and actually even though you work for a brand, telling him, don't just take a check to take a check, you know, Yeah, you gotta do what you're passionate about. Um. So me and Derek definitely connect on that level. DNA excuse me,

and let me tell you. In the pandemic, I was like, Dee, let me sponsor your club, Quarantine. I got a check for you, when he was like, I'm doing this for my heart. Wow. So yeah, and he did, and look and look, look what's happening for him. The money's coming right because he's doing it from his heart. What do you like to drink? Took? Yeah? Yeah. But let's talk about Ingrid for a second, because not only is she my friend, we first connected really like on business and

to me, she is one of my favorite people. Whenever I need advice on something or how to negotiate a deal, She's the person I go to. So I want to talk about how you got to where you are because I know that there's a lot of younger people who are watching, who are like, one day, I want to be an executive like ingrid Is And how did she

get to that point? And you work in the spirits industry, and you've been there in this industry for so long, and it might seem like just fun going to parties having drinks, but there's so much more that happens behind the scenes. So let's start with you started out at a young age and you had a promotions company. Yeah, I started out actually doing street promotions. I worked for

all the major record labels. I actually was on the Bad Boys Street Team for the Street Team to be an executive big Yeah, those legendary campaigns like the Big Macow And when you think about a lot of like the experiential agencies and activations now that came from a lot of street promotion and guerrilla marketing and they just kind of took our sauce and tried to make it their own. So a lot of what I do today comes from a lot of those early learnings from my

street promotions days. Very lost art by the way, Yeah, very much so, And it's a story that needs to be told. But yeah, I've been in the business for twenty years. I started as an ambassador. I launched a little small brand for a really big company, and uh, that's where I found myself falling in love with this industry.

But the turning point for me in terms of my spirit's career was really around the time that Puff made the deal with Sirok right, because it was the first time that we got to see black and brown people, got to see someone you know, at that that had a seat at the table. He got a seat at the table for us, and that was really what kind of put the fire under me. I'm like, you know, this, this is a real this is a career. You know,

there's something here. And when I started, there was there were no black and brown people that I saw anyway, you know. I mean for me, it was the receptionist and maybe an assistant, but in terms of management level making decisions, they're just weren't people that look like us. So from from my very early start, I was like, you know, I'm I'm gonna mix this up and I'm

anna change. And so that's one of the things I've been committed to doing is making sure that black and brown people have representation in the spirits industry, which is why me and did he connect the way that we do, right, because that's always been his ambition as well. Now before you landed there, let's talk about your path in this spirit's business. Because you worked for a Boccardi, right, Was that your first? No? So, I've been in the game

almost twenty years. I started out launching a brand for Diagio, and then I went on to work for Diago for five or six years. I then was recruited by LVMH now for Diagio for people who don't know what Diagio is. They also are the company that explained how Diagio works, just for people who don't know. Yep, So full circle moment for me. I started at Diago and now I'm managing did He's partnership with Diagio. So Diago is our partner now on siroc and Delon. I worked with them

for five years. They're the biggest supplier in the world. They own most of the brands that people are enjoying at bars and at home. I then went on to work for I got recruited by LVMH for the moet Hennessee division. I started working across the portfolio wine spirits both and Champagne and then worked on the Hennessee team. So when you've seen all that work where Hennessey really revitalized itself, that was a team that I worked on. And then I worked on Belvedere try to help them

get their act together. And then I got recruited actually from Jay's team at Rock Nation to come and oversee the joint venture for Boccarti and Jay on Douce. Boccarti is the parent company for Yes McCarty's a parent company for du Say and partnership with Jay. They co own it, and I basically oversaw all the marketing for du Say. And then I got a call from Diddy and the team at Comb's Enterprise, and you know, again a full

circle moment. You know, when I think back to how I started my career, he was very much so his deal with Sirock was so influential because I was like, finally we got a piece of this thing. And so for me, it really is a full circle moment. And so now I'm the head of marketing for Comb's Enterprise. We oversee Sarak and DeLeon, and we're you know, looking at other brands to increase, you know, and grow our

portfolio and it's just it's a it's incredible opportunity. Here we talk about that for a second because people love to act like Diddy don't really own some of that Shaq and daileon, but he has ownership in it. Yeah for sure for Sarak. Listen, it's a mastermind you know, marketing partnership that he put together, and all over the

world if you say Sarak, what people say is Diddy. Yeah. Um. And so there's there's no denying the connectivity and the fact that he absolutely um is the anchor for that brand. And then with Delion again he predicted the intersection between culture and and tequila. No, no one really understood what was going to happen in that category the way that he did. Um. And he's a black man that owns a tequila and his partner is Diagio. Um. And it's

big business. A lot of people don't realize. But the Spears business, which is why you see so many people jumping in it is top hip hop hip hop artists every year. Yeah. I saw you posted a picture of your team that you have which is all black women, yes, which is unheard of in the spirits industry. Yeah. Yeah, we're we are the only team that looks like us. I have seven black women marketers that are incredible. They're the best and the best. We can go toe to

toe with anybody. So I'm kind of calling out the brand. They are what make me great. And both of the brands are growing double digits. It's no accident because these women just get it right and they're hard working, and we look like the consumer we're talking to the versus battles. Yeah, yeah, we did we you know. And again that was another prediction on on Ditty's behalf where he was like, make

that happen. I'm like done because he knew that that was just going to be such a big moment and culture and it has proven to be and we've been at the center of that. All right. We have more with Ingrid Best. So we come back to don't move this to Breakfast Club morning. I want to everybody to see j Envy Angela Yee Charlomagne, the guy we all to Breakfast Club was still kicking it with ingd Best, the executive vice president and global head of marketing for

Spirits and Combs Enterprises. We have Ingrid bestish yeeism. During this whole a sense to where you are now a lot. Yeah.

Part of why this position was so attractive to me was because I knew that I would be in a situation to go back and grab a lot of those young women that have been through situations like myself, where you know, you're not getting the appropriate titles, you're not being offered their appropriate packages, You're being asked to wait in the same positions much longer than your white counterparts. And it's obvious, like the treatment as obvious, and it's traumatizing, right.

I think obviously the George Floyd moment and the moment with Black Lives Matter made companies realize that they were under the microscope. So you're starting to see them appoint folks, you know, kind of ask figureheads because they have to. They're like, Okay, we need a head of diverse and inclusion. Yeah, and I don't. But it's also continue it. Yeah, right now, while we're under the microscope, we're gonna do this and then we'll move away from it later. It can't be surface.

And so I would say for those companies, I'm probably you know, they keep an eye on me because I'm so vocal about it, Like let's talk about it. There is racism in this industry, like there's racism in all industries, right. I think the difference here is that your consumer is black and brown, and so you gotta do you gotta do the right thing, right, and we all have to demand that they do the right thing. So it's good to see, uh, some of my peers that are finally

getting positioned in the right places. And you know, my thing is like you gotta seat, go get everybody else and get them a seat, right, Like that's our responsibility. And so that's what I've done with the seven women that work for me, and they are incredible, you know. And that person don't know you also have a son, yes, and you had your signing pretty early, and you also had to work though and working in nightlife and working in spirits. It is a very time consuming job. It

also requires travel, it requires you being out late. How was that balance for you? Yeah, you know it. Listen, I'm a teenage mom. I have my son at eighteen years old. The first thing I want to say is to all you teenage moms, there's nothing you cannot do. So for me, it was like the very very early on, I was like Okay, I have this mouth to feed. I have to figure this thing out. And so he

certainly has been my reason. And it wasn't easy. It was it was my community, thank God for you know, his father and his father's family and my mom and my family and like your tribe. And I knew early on without my tribe, I wasn't going to really be able to balance like the love that I had for being an adult professional and a career person, but the responsibility that I had to being a parent. Did I reach away at Sway? Sue was one of your early mentors. Yeah,

Sway is absolutely one of my early mentors. Yeah, I'm from the day. Yeah. Yeah. So I in turn for Way, and you know, my promotions, my street promotions career was because of Sway. So Sway had a street promotions company. I interned for him. I fell in love with it. I was really good with it. He kind of moved on, and that was really how we stepped in. I was like, yo, I'm gonna take all your accounts. If you're okay with that,

I'm going to take on. But yeah, I absolutely owe my connection to entertainment, my passion for it to Sway. And I tell him that as often as I can, I wish more young people now were in doing internships without my internship. There's a lot of things that I just wouldn't have been exposed to. And did he talks about that he was the intern. I was like, I'm willing to do anything to figure it out. And I think there's just so much value and interning and having

people that you can look back. When I think back to Sway, I'm like, man, what would my life have been if I hadn't of met him, if I didn't intern? Remember, I had a kid as an intern to the problem now is that they make it too complicated to be an intern. Yeah, you got to be in school X like I wasn't. I didn't go to college, you know what I mean? So what about those kids from the hood who just got dry or just got talent, Like they just need an opportunity right, Like where they're gonna

get that from? Right? And that was me. Yeah. I don't think nobody sets the tone like like black women. I really truly honest, I feel like that. And I think that when you, especially as a black man, when you see a true black women, the first thing you think is because you're thinking to your mom, you're thinking to your grandma, you know, your sisters, whatever. I just think nobody sets the tone like black black women are incredible. We're super passionate, we are nurturing. So the other thing

is like we take time to be human. We're not just employees, we're not robots. We very much so you know, zooms with my team, it's a moment. You know, sometimes we pray. Sometimes somebody's having a hard time, they may cry. But I'm gonna tell you one thing. They're gonna they're gonna bang out an incredible marketing plan. And I think you know, companies that have us at the helm, they see the difference. You know, we're putting up the numbers.

We're making change. We have a beautiful way of recruiting right and influencing people want to work with us and for us, and it goes a long way and you see it in your business. I'm super proud of the work that I see black women doing, especially the black women in leadership, and we look out for each other. But spekin of which we have this Black Excellence campaign that's going on with entrepreneurship and businesses. So I want to make sure that we talk about that and that's

what SIAK and I'm involved in that as well. You are, and thank you so much. So we launched a campaign in the middle of the pandemic called Sarak Stands, and it's really our opportunity to look, everyone knows that Siak is a brand that's about fun and celebration. Well, we're also a brand that's anchored in doing the right thing and being a voice right and it was important for us to make sure that people understand that you could have fun. You know, you can be a part of culture,

but you can also be anchored in something. So we launched Shark Sands last year. We're kicking it off again um this month, and we purposely kicked it off towards the latter part of August because it's focused around black businesses. And so the assumption is, oh, they're doing this program for Black Business Month, and we're like, no, we we're doing programs for black businesses three hundred and sixty five days a year. We're working with you to interview some

of those businesses and highlight some of those businesses. It was important to work with you because you are pioneering, you know, your entrepreneurial journey as a black business owner and it's inspiring people, right, and so there's a connect connection there. So Siak stands, you know, it is just launching an initiative around black businesses. We're highlighting three businesses in New York, three businesses that happened to be owned

by black women, which were really excited about. We work with some mentors to identify some of those, by the way, and Pantina's a mentor. As a mentor and our bust up here, yeah, but we we we identify folks that we thought could really help us pick some really dope black businesses. So again it's our opportunities. And these business owners get to be on billboards. But they're all so excited about when I spoke to them. That's the one thing that they're like, Sirak is paying for you to

be on a billboard for your business. That's a big deal. Yeah. Yeah, And we are doing obviously above and beyond that investing making sure that these businesses you know, are profiled, right, But then we're also working with companies that can also help you know, other black businesses benefit from some of the things that we're doing. This is none of my business. I'm just asking because you're so dope, and I'm sure you're paid well, but you know, you helped build up

so many of these brands. At some point somebody got to say, well, hey, miss Ingrid, would you like se equity ownership as well? I love that. I'm actually glad you brought that up. My goal and what I will eventually do is on my own brand, and that's something that Diddy and I have taught about. He's super supportive of it. I'm working on some things that have been passionate and near and dear to me um and he's like, look when you when the time comes, we're gonna make

it happen. And so ultimately my thing is like you take all these experiences and then you say I know how to do this, I'm a master at this, and then what is it that I'm passionate about? And so that's what eventually I think my path is going to lead as well. And did he is super supportive of it, and and ultimately, like for him, he's like, that's the pinnacle right here. I came in, I did this marketing partnership,

then I own this tequila. You know, I've had this legacy of having black women in leadership and ah, now I can actually also help someone kick off their dream. All right, well, Ingry, I appreciate you so much for coming. Frost, make sure and tell people where they can find you, because I know after this you're gonna have a ton of questions. You can find me on Instagram, Missunderscore I best. You can find me on LinkedIn under my name Ingrid Best. Listen.

I love mentoring folks. I'm only one person, so my team A lot of times it's like you can't take on another another mentee. But it goes back to your point. It shouldn't be so difficult to get guidance, that's right. If you're somebody that's eager, you want to learn, you want to intern, there should be people that are available to you that you don't have to go through this vigorous project, so you could reach out to me. I try to read every DM, every message on LinkedIn, I

really do. And yeah, that's where you can find it. And you never know who's gonna who's gonna end up being who? Right, So that person that you showed love to back, you know, they're the biggest y'all got a great relationship, right, right, and that's always been something that I hold dear. It's like, you don't know where people are going to land. And listen, the young people, the young women that work for me, I am making sure

that they're going to be better. They are going to be the young women that when I'm a bit older, I'm going to like you going crazy, you know, and so and I'm excited about that. So it's good to be here. I appreciate y'all. Thank you for coming. Yeah, listen Ingrid's not like I'm like, hey, you gotta do some interviews. She's like like, okay, But it's fun to

be on the side. Like I said, you know, you know how many artists I was on the other side, you know, of of the glass looking in and like, yeah, they're doing a great job. So this is fun. I didn't have any nerves either. I thought I would. I was like, well, when you launch your brand, you gotta come back. Oh I will you work with Diddy? How you got nerves and you work with Diddy? Unpredictable? Yeah, now you gotta be You gotta definitely be strong to

work with that brother. He's a good brother. We have a lot of fun. We have a love he's a lot of fun. He's a lot of love parties, a lot of club love, a lot of rock, a lot of dead leon But uh yeah, it's been good to be here with y'all. Thank you, Thank you. This best. It's the Breakfast Club's filling the team. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. But let's talk. Kanye's tenth studio album, Donda over sixty million streams in the US on Apple Music in the first

twenty four hours. It set a twenty twenty one record for the streaming service, and it was the third highest total ever in that spand it also was number one and tapped a record one hundred and fifty two countries on Apple Music's album charts in its first twenty four hours, and it occupied nineteen of the top twenty spots on

its daily Top one hundred global Songs charts. So all I've worked, all anticipation work, all of listening parties and the pushbacks and everything else worked on Spotify got more than ninety four million worldwide streams, the second most all time ever for Spotify. So congratulations to him. Now, there was a lot of drama, as you know, and one of the things that happened was Soldier Boy was upset that he was removed from the album. The verse that

he did was cut from remote control. Here's a Soldier Boy talking about Kanye who didn't even tell him that he didn't put his verse on the album. It was just more of a thing to where it's blaming it to my fans, so where if they're not in the dark about the whole situation. He blamed it on Universal You saw that tweet as cow all the reason he said that, why you ain't said it before the outcome out? You wait time? Expressed myself on social media and then

you made an excuse. I don't give a damn if he man, I don't care hypeel Hey man, you could have called me before everything. You couldn't called me and said, drakeco just the reason why you didn't make the album. TAMZ always catches up a Soldier Boys somehow. Now. He also posted he did the same ish on RoboCop on amber Rose was in the studio years ago. I hate working with this dude. He needs help seriously, and then

he called him vagina. Well that's why you call him, he said, he does he could be the presidents at your goofy asked down somewhere. That's why I hope don't f well. I think he meant to right f with you, but he said f you. You don't have no right. I don't like your behavior, like Danny As had said, don't call my phone. No more weird ass and where That's why Kim left your bipolar ass. That's not cool,

that's right, masson the brother healing energy man. All right, he went, and then he could call me at Kim Kardashian he playing too much. And he also put up his verse from remote control. Now, I don't know how the industry works. Do you have to give people phone calls when you remove them from records? Do you let them know? I mean, I think it's proper etiquette if you record a verse with somebody in an I will say this, A lot of artists don't know if they

made an album or not until it comes out. And that's the truth, right, Like you might do a verse for somebody you don't know. And then we've had artists up here all the time who like I recorded one hundred songs, I only put twelve on the album, you know, And sometimes but if they put out a version of a song that you will own and you're not on it, I think it's only right to have a conversation. I think. I mean, I can't say, but he did share their

text messages back and forth. You know it would be nice, but it doesn't always happen. And that's just the truth. I'm sure that there's a ton of artists who did versus that didn't make it onto the album, right, and you don't know who it comes out. Just send them healing energy, soldier boy, That's all all right now. Twenty one Savage is speaking on owning his masters and he said he makes more money off album sales than touring. I had a platinum album before I signed my idea.

You had to play in them independent, you owned you? Yes, I own my master. Okay, every song you ever heard, hard everything, I own it a lot. My split I got a seventy thirty split with my label. I get seventy, they get thirty. I make more money off my album sales than I do off torn that's him A million dollars worth of Game of Gillian Wallow who to my guys Willie Wallow and Gilly y'all gonna stop backing like um twenty one savage and got good sense he's okay

dropping a clue ball twenty months. Oh yeah, but he's always said that he was independent at first and he made tons of money, that that deal was amazing, So all right now. Offset in the meantime was at NASDAC headquarters in Times Square and he was celebrating Reservoir Media going public. It's an independent music publishing company. It's the first of its kind to do an IPO and the first female led music company to go public as well, thanks to the leadership from its founder and CEO Offsets.

Involving is because the Megos catalog is under Reservoir Media under that umbrella, so he claims his partners with the company. And he actually rang the bell at Nasdak, So congratulations to him, and I saw Cardi B was there supporting her man and Reservoir Media posted this morning Reservoir wearing the Nasdak opening bell and celebration of our recent IPO. It is both exciting and humbling to take this next

step in Reservoir's journey. We look forward to all the opportunities this creates as we deepen our commitment to investing in entertainment, So congratulations to them all right. Now, TI's daughter Deja Harris, was talking about not liking her hair texture and I saw a lot of people commenting and a lot of back and forth about it. This was on Friday. She opened up about her struggles and how she didn't like her texture. She said, I hate to say it, Slash admitted, but I'm so sad that I

have my dad's hair texture. Sad because it's so much to deal with manage, Sad because I feel like it just doesn't fit me nor as this texture one that's appreciated or uplifted as much as the other textures. And then she said, anytime I see someone with type four hair, I always compliment them because I know how it feels to genuinely not like your hair, slash texture. I never

want anyone to feel like that. It looks so bomb on other people but me, Yeah no. So a lot of people did come to her defense and feel like they could relate and understand that, and some people felt like, you know, they criticize her for opening up about her hair. She's saying saying that she's focusing on positive comments rather than the negative ones. But she said, I'm actually focusing on the uplifting positive comments as opposed to the negative.

Their tweet was only about myself, but I was open about how I fail because I know others might possibly be able to relate, and some of them did listen. I feel her though, because you know, my whole life growing up, I used to hate my hair texture. That's why I've been doing this natural hair journey to try to get my curls back straight. And it was just a lot to deal with. It would always be like you wash it, and then your hair when it's curly,

it gets all naughty real fast. They didn't have a lot of hair products to be able to use for you to be able to deal with you here. Now there's a ton of products on the market, which is great. Yeah, people celebrate natural hair, but it is and sometimes certain hair textures are just a lot more difficult to even try to deal with, like to style and maintain. And that's why you know I got I got three daughters. Like I told my daughters all the time, I love

your hair. I love your crown like I love them. My wife takes day braids out and they got the big afros running around the house. Plus, there's a lot of children's books out there that celebrate the beauty of black hair. Nowadays, you got like my big natural Hair. But what's her name? I think it's CJ. CJ. Baker, but didn't have that coming up. I'm saying it's great now, but I can understand and a lot of women can't understand the struggles that we've had to go through with

our hair. That's why even having certain products in these stores now on the shelves and accessible to people is so important. Hello, Hello boy, Matthew Cherry Slut the Matthew Cherry. Because a lot of a lot of books out there that reinforced the beauty of black hair. And if you've got daughters like I do, I would encourage you to buy them all. All right now, Regina Hall is going to be joining Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg and a

new Netflix comedy Me Time. So Night School. The writer John Hamburg who wrote Night School, was going to write in direct the picture with him. Also he's also going to be producing it alongside Kevin Hart and Brian Smiley for Heartbeat Productions. So they announced I'll live this on social media all right. I'm Angela Yee and that is your room of reports. All right, thank you, miss Ye, and let me shout out to everybody that called me yesterday. Oh wait, yeah, we gotta get into that, because we

didn't even do that. When we were talking about you. We talked about Kanye's Donda album and how well it did, and you had some missues with Kanye. You called them clowns sometimes. I called him a clown and I still stand by that, and I still mean that send them healing energy. No, look, I mean I do, but I still think he's a clown. You can send the clown

healing energy. But so funny now, so when it comes to so many people call me artists, athletes, OG's newer artist, younger artists, Kanye's team and ask me why I felt that way, and I explained to him why I felt that way, and you know, they asked me, well, why do you think that the people that I name, which was push your t John Monopoly are free and Boo were like that too, because I felt, like I said, I feel like you enable him to do it, like you don't stop him from doing the wild out stuff

behind the scenes that I think is really disrespectful. And he should be humbled. And they told me that that's a lie. It was like that it's not true. They was like, when you're dealing with somebody with that has imaginal problems and bipolar and things like that, you can't necessarily control them. It's uncontrollable. You do what you can to make sure that things are right, and they try to stay in there as a brother. They said, yeah, they agree some of the things that he does is foul,

but they said they can't control that, man. And I called them clowns as well, And I called push you to yesterday. I called Free yesterday and I spoke to Boo yesterday for a while that I spoke to them, man, we had great conversations and they told me what they're trying to do that help that situation. So to those brothers, yes, I get it, and me calling your clown was foul.

But I still think Kanye, it's a clown for the things that if you ever had to deal with somebody who's bipolar and not taking their medication, it is not an easy thing to do. If you love them, you try to help and be around, but it is hard to control a person. I just want to know how do you explain to your wife that she was on the phone somebody named Boo for hours? Because as soon as she says who you're on the phone. When you say Boo, do you have to explain that this is

his name? Who was always in the middle of time? That remember he broke up your fight, Charlottagne, we'll fight ahead and had no fight. Why don't we lie like this on the radio? A picture of it online? So I did have with dancing when I was dancing with Booth, shout shout the bull and shout to Free. I just speak to Free. Me and Free just yelled at each other. But spot shout all them individuals that you know, we're

able to tell me their side. And you know when I tell them, you know when I make mistakes, I say it, but I still think what Kanye does And you ain't gonna throw your yeez. He's away though, no So like so the clown shoes, which ones? Which one? Some of the MC clowns shoes some of the MC clowns. The Runners is good money. The Runners is good money. The one, Oh y'all tickle me so much. I'm sending everybody healing energy. Man, right, but tell you yet you

said tickle me. Well, it's a guy out there that is fighting to get this girl back. We'll discuss four after that hour. We all been there before too. I like this, not like this. We'll get to. The next is to breakfast club, go morneing, So breakfast club mornings

will never be the same. Don't up jalas dj V. Now you like attention because you'll be getting all the looks with the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold three five G or z Flip three five G. One literally unfolds into a tablet and the other fits into your Palm shop. Now at TIMS will not come five G. Connection and availability may vary. Check with carrier. I was born to donkeys. The donkey last club, Yeah donkey Today for Monday, August thirty, first last day of the month, goes to Rodney William Metster.

Rodney is thirty six years old and he was recently sentenced the twenty five years in prison. Oh. He admitted the fourteen charges, including but not limited to, kidnapping, assault, threatening with a handgun, all types of stuff. Why oh why I did Rodney do this? Who did Rodney do this? Too? Well, before we get into that, let me just say that. I once heard someone say sometimes you have to fake

a suicide to get your girl back. When I heard that, I understood where a person was coming from, because I too have felt like I wanted to make a permanent decision based off temporary feelings back in the day when my now wife broke up with me. I don't know if I really wanted to complete suicide. I just know that I felt like the sky was falling and I wanted my woman back, and I felt like making her feel sorry for me would work. I know, I know toxic is out, all right. Thank God for therapy, growth

and healing. Thank you God, Thank you God. Well, this guy Rodney mentions him he definitely needs me healing, okay, and he's no different all right. Actually, Rodney, in an attempt to gain sympathy from his ex wife, he jumped out the window because first he faked the cancer diagnosis. See, I don't play like that, all right. You turned out to be what you pretend to be. I'm not playing about having no cancer, okay. Well, according to Sheriff's Office

Sheriff's Office investigators, that plan didn't work. AKA, his wife didn't give a damn Okay. Ex wife probably heard the news and said, I'm gonna send him healing energy and kept her day moving. So Rodney divised another plan, this one even more diabolical than the first. See Rodney Metser decided to devise the plan the kidnap and save his ex wife in a bid to win her back. Listen to what I just said. Rodney mets Her divised the plan the kidnap and save his ex wife in a

way to win her back. Now back on January first of this year, I guess Rodney's ex wife was on some New Year and New Me energy and when Rodney tried to get back with her, she denied him. So Rodney came up with this plan, the kidnap and safe his ex wife in a bid to win her back. But not just to kidnapper, all right. He wanted to kidnapper and save her. Okay, just like a man. Right. Ladies want to be both the problem and the solution. When the reality is, when you toxic like Rodney, you

just the problem. But I'm not judging. I'm sending him healing energy. Okay, listen to this story. Rodney broke into his ex wife's house wearing a mask and displaying a gun. When he spoke, he described his voice all right. He hit her with the butt of the gun, tried to scramble her two times. He zip tied her hands, assaulted her, placed the pillowcase over her head, and dragged her to the deck and told her if she moved from the

deck she would be shot. Then Rodney went to change his clothes and came back to his ex wife's house, trying to be hero and called the police. Now, Rodney Metris couldn't have denied this if he tried. Evidence in the case was substantial, okay. Cherokee County Sheriff's found the handgun and Metor's apartment, as well as zip ties that matched the one found on his ex wife. Investigators also saw Rodney on surveillance video carrying a package of zip

ties out of a local lows all right. Rodney's cell phone in laptop search history, revealed to investigators that he searched such topics as how long before you start to death, how to change the sound of your voice, and how long it takes to choke someone unconscious. I couldn't make this up if I tried. Not granted that, how long before you starve. The death is what most men who lose their wives google because they can't cook, and a

man cannot live off Chick fil a alone. All right? Now, Da Rachel ashe who prosecuted the case, said Rodney mets her as a master manipulator. I believe that as an understatement. And it's also very interesting to me that men will figure out all these ways to get all women back when we lose them. But the one thing we need to do when we are together, it's just act right. Okay, It's really not that difficult. Just simply act right when

you together, which said lady, and maybe y'all still be together. Now. I know certain circumstances lead you to do certain things, but that woman's intuition at some point kicked in and she realized I got to get away from this human Rodney before his trauma kills the both of us. And guess what you did, Rodney prove her right. Okay, your ex wife was absolutely correct in leaving your ass because you,

my friend, are sociopath. Now, Rodney Mitsche has been sentenced by Judge Anthony Anthony Baker the seventy years okay, with the first twenty five years to be served in confinement and the remaining forty five to be served on probation. Let me tell ya something, man, when you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's meant to be all right, it's yours. Nope. But

also when you love something, let it go. And if you have to come up with criminal plans to get said thing back, remember the first part, Let it go and let it stay. Go on. Please let mmy may give Rodney Metscher the biggest he are he ha, he ha, You stupid mother? Are you dumb? M wow? I think a lie? I mean no, no, we go all out to get up back, but don't go all out to keep it when we together, right, that's ridiculous. Okay, just do right while you're with her and you won't have

to put yourself in these type of situations. This is extreme though, I mean, come on, you think yeah, I think it's extremely Man. Now you got to live twenty five years in prison, driving yourself crazy over that woman who's gonna be out here living her beslife. Thank God, thank God Lord, have mercy. All right? Well eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. What's the craziest thing you've done to try to get your woman back. M eight hundred five eight five one five one. We'll

talk about it when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Comring your phone, call in right now, call me at your opinion to the Breakfast Club topic break it down eight hundred five eight five one oh five one the Breakfast Club. It's topic. Time called eight hundred five eight five one oh five one to join it to the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Talk about it morning. Everybody is y angela yee? Charlemagne the guy we are the

Breakfast Club. Now if he just joined us, we're talking about Charlomage's don't here the day would you get donkke to Charlemagne? All Rodney meted this guy from Georgia who first he faked cancer, a cancer diagnosis to get his ex wife back. When that didn't work, he divided the

plan the kidnap and save her. So he kidnapped her, then left the house, came back dressed in some other clothes and called the police and untied her and stuff like he was the hero and how much time he got seventy years twenty five in prison, forty five on herbation goodn'tess gracious? All right? So we're asking, what's the craziest thing you've done to get your girl back or to try to get your girl back? Charlemagne, I mean just fake suicide? Regular? Yeah, I mean that wasn't a

fake suicide. I just said I'm gonna kill myself if you're not with me, or something like that, something along those those lines. What about for you, ye, what's what's the craziest thing a guy has done to you? I actually have to get a restraining order. This guy used to my ex boyfriend, used to stop me all the time I would come home. He'd be waiting outside the house as soon as I walked up. He'd be waiting

outside my job. It was like everywhere I went. So I ended up having to get a restraining order and we had to go to court. Then he tried to sit next to me in court. I think one of the craziest thing is I think I called my wife's mother. Yeah, I called my wife's mother, called my wife's brother before try to talk to them. To them, I thought that was wild. That's not really wild. I'll tell you one thing.

Saying you're gonna commit suicide, thing, don't try that with a woman that's healed and whole, because a woman that's healed and whole is gonna tell you I wish you healing energy. I wish you healing energy, and that don't have nothing to do with me. Don't put that on me. Correct and boy, that right there, it'll it'll mean, it'll bring you back to reality. And I've been there. I wrote about it in the book that comes up next year, how I felt, what got me to the lowest point

where I didn't want to be here anymore. And I take it serious. So when people ever say that they want to commit suicide, I take it extremely serious because you don't know what they're dealing with. You just never know.

And that's why I said, when you know I was, I said during Dunkey, the day that my homeboy once said, you know you have sometimes you gotta fake suicide to get your girl back, And you know, I don't know if it's a face, because you really do feel like that when you're in that position, you really do feel like if I can't be with this woman, I would rather not be here. Now. That is a I was much way way younger when this, when this happened, and you know, I had a lot of healing that I

needed to do on my own. But yes, you do get to that point where you feel that way. Yeah, all right, but let's go to the phone. Lies. Hello, who's this? Hey, g money, Good morning, Good morning, y'all doing it doing well? Doing what money thing you did to try to get your girl back? I fled the new boyfriend slashed his tires. Now why are you treating Why are you treating her new boyfriend like one of his side chicks? I scare where I don't, but I wanted my woman bite. Did you get her back? Yeah?

I got him back. We got back together. Oh wow, so the slashing highest thing worked on? Well, I don't recommend that. Yeah alright, brother, alright, No, we can't leave it at dad. I need to know how you got this girl back. I know it wasn't the slashing highest. Yeah, it was like stare them all. I came back and get it. I couldn't got back to get back. I can't believe get her exactly she stuck around? Was Oh hell, no, give me this woman's location? Man, stupid man? Thank you? Brother? Hello,

who's this? Blink twice? If you need help, young lady, Please, what's going on? What's the craziest thing you did to get your girl back? Bro? So still to a table, a glass table. Why would you fall through a glass table? Bro? You just wanted her attention. You want to sympathy. That's what you try to get, sympathy. You already knew how did you fall? Did you just fall scrape back or did you run and jump into it? No? I just kind of feel scrape you know what I mean? Yea?

Were you injured? You know? I'd like I'll die without you? Did it work? Watch you just fall out? Worry man? So damn it man? And you had to buy her a new table, a new table, broke the table? Man looking at I've never feel at the ever again. Please eight hundred five five one o five one. We're asking what's the craziest thing you did to get your girl back? Call us up now. It's the Breakfast Club the morning. Call me and your opinions to the Breakfast Club top

on eight hundred five five one five one morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now. If you just joined us, we're asking what's the craziest thing you've done to get your girl back? Hello? Who's this? How y'all doing? How you doing? Devil? I'm good y'all here, So Debral, what's the craziest thing you did to get your girl back? Um? The crazy thing we did to get my guy back? UM was

I walked from my city to his city. I live in Michigan, and um, I was in Detroit at the time. He was in Novid. Y'all can google that Detroit the what nov That's fine, that's like a forty minute drive. It's not a forty minute drive. But I made it to like the end, like the beginning to Novid. Now, why did you walk? I'm just curious? Why did you walk? Okay? Three, I was twenty one. It was his birthday and he was like ignoring me. He went out with all his um work dates and he was avoiding me like he

won hand for the phone. I had planned everything. So I think inger drive drove me to do that. Now, hold on, it says it's an eight hour, forty two minute walk. That don't say that. Yes, it does. Detroit, Michigan. The Nova Michigan says it's an eight hour, forty two minute walk. It's twenty five miles. She was mad. She was working fast. No, I was only three am the freeway, but like this highway and the police teat me up. I know you was not walking on the highway. So

you finally got to this man all you back? Yeah, he did want you back years later. My god, that's a good workout way. Thank you, mama. Why can I say something? Leave? You said enough? I love y'all. An, I'm a young mother. I'm thirty. I have a sick y'all and I just put up a rope on the account um to get a down payment on the house that I was um. They accepted the offer, but I need help with the down payment, like really bad. So

I want to know if I can just put up there. Yeah, go ahead and maybe we do a walk for you. Oh my god, I thank you. Phe DC So that's key h O E N I h via the victors in Clement. That's my Instagram. My Facebook is Phoenix clemen no s um and it's unbolke fun me. I'm truly and honest, my daughter. I'm gonna be honest with you. I respect you, hustle, but I hate the fact that you went all out to get your man back by walking, but they're getting money for a down payment. You're just

ready to go from me? Okay, well thank you, Okay, we just John Cavs. Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning. This is Kenny. Kenny. What's the craziest thing you did to get your significant other back? So? Um, every time I would pull up out of mall or out of any kind of store. You first noticed it when I was at the mom. Um, my tires were slash and the wits was my spart plugs were missing? Sound like he wanted you back truck every time I went to a mom I don't understand. So that was him trying

to get you back. Yeah, I don't understand. Fix it. He was working for a total truck for a total company now, so I always had to call him or a mechanic with the mechanic was his friends. You had to pay No, you a friend. I take the spart plugs and then put him back hord I to say his plugs? Did yall? Didya get back together? So? Yeah, we've been there four years. Oh my gosh. All right, well so that worked? Girl? Is he a little crazy?

Have you ever admitted to this? Yes? You have. I mean, once they married, you could admit to it, be like, well you know what I did back in the day, because it's funny now I might have called that a red flag. Do y'all have any issues now? You know? Actually, well, listen, has he done anything to try to heal those toxic traits? Has he gone to therapy? You know what I mean? Is he doing anything to heals? Okay, Okay, that's important. Well, thank you, mama. I just want to say we don't

encourage any of these activities now. I mean, the thing is, if you notice a lot of these conversations are from when the people were a lot younger, and when you were a lot younger and you had a fragile ego and you was toxic. Yes, we did a lot of toxic things. All right, now, we got rooms all the way, Yes, R Kelly. We'll give you an update. What's going on in court. The first man who was accused him of abuse is talking at the trial. All right, we'll get

into that next. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club, Tuesday morning, baby, last day to muffles. The first hope you got money for your renting your mortgages and your bills and all that other good stuff. Okay, shout to all the virgos out there, Man, virgos. Drop a ball for all the virgos out there this Friday. Yeah you my brother Wax, my daughter Paige, m that is my daughter. Okay, but she's she's white, that's right,

and you have that's right. I saw all these people are backing little black babies, like when you got me a grown white one. I don't know if you want her calling your daddy after you hear this r Kelly tarling from you gotta make everything weak because we're about to talk about this. Al let's do it. Listen, gott it's report for Breakfast Club. Well, this r Kelly trial is continuing in Brooklyn, and yesterday the first man who

was actually accusing r Kelly took the stand. He's going under the name Lewis, and so what he says happens is that he met r Kelly at a McDonald's and he sexually assaulted him when he was seventeen years old. He said r Kelly invited him over to a music studio, but instead brought him to his house and actually performed earl sex on him. He said, he was working the overnight shift back in two thousand and six at a

suburb in Chicago. R Kelly was thirty nine years old at the time, and according to quote Lewis, he said that, you know, he invited him to come to his home in another suburb of Chicago. When he got there, they met in a detached garage where r Kelly had exercised equipment and a boxing ring, rather than in one of the studios that he had in the house. He asked me what I was willing to do for music now. Louis said he would carry his bags and things like that,

but he said R. Kelly was unreceptive. Then he asked him if he had any fantasies and quoted r. Kelly as in, you never had fantasies about men? I said no, Louis continued, and then he crawled down on his knees and proceeded to give me oral sex. He zipped my pants down and he started doing it. Now. He also said that he didn't have any type of reaction to the oral sex, So I guess R Kelly stopped and he asked him to stop, and then he said he swore Lewis to secrecy he said, don't tell anyone we're

brothers now. He said he continued to see r Kelly after that he wanted to be mentored for his music career, and when they asked him why, he continued, you know, he said he just was really trying to make it in the music business. And he said on subsequent occasions, r Kelly would record some of their encounters while he was sexually abusing him, and he asked that he called him daddy. Other women have also testified that r Kelly

recorded their sexual encounters and demanded that they call him daddy. Previously, he said as his relationship with him got stronger, he said, I was like a brother, that was his little brother. And he tried to bribe another r Kelly accuser so she wouldn't testify against him. So just a lot of different things. And then he also discussed an incident of

non consensual sex that involved another person. He said r Kelly snapped his fingers and a young lady came out from underneath a boxing ring and crawled over to him and started performing oral sex in both him and r Kelly. He said it was uncomfortable, and he also said another time he passed out from drinking at a party and he woke up alone with r Kelly, unsure whether or not they had a sexual encounter. So this trial is continuing on. Will continue to give you updates as they're

in court today as well. But ongoing theme here. He had the women and now this first male sexual accuser who said he was groomed from from the age of seventeen, calling him daddy, recording these sexual encounters wearing people to secrecy. Another woman says that r Kelly assaulted her days after allegedly marrying Aliyah in secret. He said she was seventeen

at the time. And you know, she said. R Kelly had two men approach her and her nineteen year old friend after the show, and as the dressing room cleared out, he asked the girls to play a game of who could kiss it better, and then the girls kissed him before he unzipped her pants and had unprotected sexual intercourse

at her. How was none of this on TV? I would think that, you know, for all the coverage that you know, given R Kelly and you know, these these these things over the years, that the court trial would be on television, right. I'm not sure why they haven't put it on TV. But we told you previously that a lot of people aren't allowed in the courtroom right now because of COVID and for whatever other reasons that they have. So it's just the jurors and the alternate

jurors that are in there as well. All right now, another drama Summer. Walker and London on the track have had a going back and forth on social media that's really messy, and she has called him the ghetto baby daddy from hell. She went on social media and said, London calling and dming everyone around me because he's blocked talking about If you care about Summer, get that away

from her. So if anything happens to me it was him ghetto baby daddy from hell, I'd be minding my business and never call him unless it's about the well being of my child. Here's what else she had to say. Yo was terrorizing me for two years, bro. Because I was with it. I gave him back. I tried as best as I could to keep him involved with his children's lives. Brought you here, didn't even tell you. She didn't even tell you. I was there. He was mad and we talked. I'm like, surely I had no problem

with you. I want to be good. Let's you know our kids, they can grow up together. I can't wait till she paris come over to the playroom. Blah blah blah nah. Because she was my baby, daddy, you still wanted to fight. I don't want to fight any you host. So she's talking about all the baby moms that she's had to deal with, and she also posted I'd be trying so hard to mind my business. And she said, and come get this car. I don't want nothing from you. And this ish ain't even paid for it. I like

my car is paid off now. London on the truck responded on social media. He said, it's goofy. He said, it ain't even funny. I really be trying to spare Shorty because I understand her mental health ain't where it needs to be. But the line got to stop calling DM and who for what? Post the current receipts if it's accurate, don't lie. Plus, my new woman ain't going for no issh like that. And then he said about the truck, it's cute too. I'm gonna have some body

come get it tomorrow. Put the jewelry in the armrests. I don't want you to have nothing you don't want. I ain't going to keep playing with you on this internet. You're still making payments. This is just too messy. I don't know if we should even get into all of this. Send healing energy. I'm sending this whole room will report healing energy. Yeah, it's a lot of drama. Jesus Christ all right, And now here's what else Summer Walker have to say to all of London on the tracks his

children's mothers. I get absolutely nothing for from these. I was supposed to have my child be married like that said you would new and carry on with my career. Sitlent me. I have no problem with y'all. Bro leaves me alone. Bro, I'm saying, I want to leave me alone alone. Lee ah Man. I'm sending them all healing.

I hope so, because really the most important thing is the children, and so right now it's really messy and I know everything is fresh, but hopefully they get to that space where they can co parent peacefully and not have to do with this. Got one more ye to bring the vibe down anything else. I think that's it for now. You know, Times started off telling everybody having birthday and celebrating life, and then I was still where we went. Yeah, I don't know where we went. Salute

the low Key too. Low Key's born days on September three as well, September three. Ye, see September third, Dan, Danny Francis, my brothers and the author. I can't think of his name that always comes up here, his birthday September three. What's his name? I can't remember, don't know what you're talking about. What's his name? Malcolm as nine three? Yeah, nine three as well? All right, well that is your rumor report? Wait wait for you, is it? Uh? Yeah?

September three, Yeah. Shout out to all my virgal brothers out there. All right now, sists us, insists right now. Shout to Revolt. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Everybody else to People's choice mixes up next eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. Shout out to everybody in Detroit. Had an amazing time in Detroit. We're planning out called Cella Detroit. I can't wait for you guys to come on out us. Seen his birthday September third, Yes, August,

I'll seen his birthdays September three as well. Yes, I forgot about August. I sieyes, because we always, but I haven't. I got a check in a minute. I ain't speak dogs in a second even I'm gonna check up on August too. All right, well the mix is up. Next is to Breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. From James Wine, director of the Conjuring, comes a new vision of terror. On September tenth, Malignant hits theaters. You don't want to miss

it and you won't want to see it alone. Malignant rated R in theaters and on HBO Max September tenth, Morning, everybody in Steve j Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. This young black woman owns a trucking business that is making millions. She she talks about where she started from, how she got into the trucking business. Casey Cooper. She's the CEO of the Compass Circle. Welcome.

Thank you so for people that don't know who Casey Cooper is. Who is Casey Cooper and what is your business? I'm Casey Cooper of the Company's Circle. Thank you for that intro I started a trucking company about sixteen years ago and kind of just kept failing forward. Got into heavy hall, wide loads, tall loads, heavy loads, and government contracts. So I've been awarded almost six million dollars worth of

government contracts in the last three years. And we teach women own and minority companies how to get access to the same opportunities through government contracts or certifications so they can, you know, grow their business. Yeah, I'm a fan of mwbs because I feel like a lot of people don't take advantage of them and apply for that certification. So can you talk about what that process is like and how you even knew about it? I just really care. You know, desire is one hell of a drug. Anything

you want bad enough, you will do the research. So I was googling, I was getting with my local procurement office, and kind of once you start getting into that industry and you know, you start getting emails, you start getting invited to like all the happenings. WMB varies in different states, depending on you know what's going on. Of course, everybody's backed up right now, but are gonna want to see

like two years of tax returns? They're gonna want to see that you are a legitimate, viable business, so you can get this certification to move forward. Now, how did you get into truck And you're from Virginia Beach, and what fifteen years ago in Virginia Beach when you started this company Virginia Beach. I'm sure it wasn't about trucking, and drugs were heavy and Virginia Beach at the time, a crime was heaving Virginia Beach and partying was heavy

in Virginia Beach. There was no Miami back then. We went to Virginia Beach this party. So how did you get into trucking? So when I was stifteen, I had vendom machines and so I would be like fifteen, going to get my dollar bills and go hitting them all. So I'm making like four or five start the vendom machines. It's not at a fifteen year old. That's not what a fifteen year old does, you know typically, So how did you get into vending machines? How did you get

this entrepreneur type of mind? I don't know nobody in my family. My parents are working, middle class, retired people. I have no idea. I think it's just from people just telling you no. Like back then, it was no uber, it was no lift, so you had to like get case quarters and use the phone. White Pages picked me up. So I became very resourceful and I just I got

those machines. It was older gentleman in my neighborhood. He was he had like accounts at the airport, and I convinced him to just rent me to Back then, I was fifteen, so it was quite some time ago, but for twenty five dollars a month for two of them. Back then, I was doing music really heavy, so I put them in the studio. I would go get my money and I was like, set on, I'm not going to be the one making this money. That's how I'm gonna do it. So that was like my first face.

I got about twenty five, and I was like, Yo, I'm gonna get me a dump truck. I don't know where it came from. It just popped up in my dump truck. Yeah, and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna be a millionaire. I'm gonna have this fleet. I'm gonna do this, and it just did not happen that way. I mean, I ended up a millionaire. But so what happened with the business. So, so what was the bad part about the business? You got your first dump truck, and then what happened. The first one was a piece of crap.

It was eighty thousand dollars. So the truck that was like twenty two hundred insurance was six hundred at one age, I was like twenty five. So I'm spending six hundred a week on fuel. It was just horrible. It was a piece of crap. It was actually a converted road tractor. Did somebody put a dump body on? So for anybody listening, don't do that. Road tractors are not made to go off road like that. But my mom had co signed for me, so my motivation was like I can't. Yeah,

I can't do it. But I was up against a converted road tractor. So I ended up terminating the lease. I had to pay like twenty grand to get out of it. And then I just kept buying trucks, buying trucks, buying trucks, got my license, got my twit car, got my escort and pilot's license, and I just kept I mean, I was like failing forward, but I kept going to the next steps escort. You gotta break it down like three year olds. I don't know what escort escort to

some people like yes, please, I've come too far. Please. So just like this building, this building is a tall I don't know how many stories, but it was a This was a job to pull together millions of dollars. So I would bring in like the tall beams that actually hold the building up. And so sometimes that stuff is so wide or so tall or so heavy that it's not safe during you know, normal hour. Person that slows down to traffic because that es and you got to take up the Yeah, we have to keep it safe.

And sometimes I mean this stuff would be so big we would have to carry it at night like shutdown tunnels. It was a whole production. So I think the first time I got the first escort bill was like eleven thousand for the week. I was like, oh Na, who I need to talk to to get my license? My dad got his license, My boyfriend's time got his license. So we were just trying to save money. But I ended up getting into so many other things, so it

was pretty cool. Now I want to get back to these government contracts because you said you've gotten six million dollars what the government, yeah worth the government contracts. You know, a lot of women are eligible, and it gets a little chicy how things get done, because I've heard of stories where like, you know, white women are eligible for this right and so their husband or family member will sign up for something and then they'll get the certification

with the woman in the family. But that takes away from all So it's supposed to benefit black people and minorities. So can you talk about that whole process and how you manage to get six million dollars almost six million dollars worth of contracts. Yes, So same thing like I was saying earlier. I mean I was just taking all the classes. Everybody's local municipality or state has some kind of pro We had a small Business Administration, yes, and

I've taken classes there too, and I got my certification. Okay, but if you don't use it, you can't complain, you know what I'm saying. So even though we don't speak to each other in that language, like I'm not sitting here talking to you about an RFP and rf we just we don't communicate that way. I think it's a little off putting because culturally We're just not introduced to that, and project management is not something that we're really reared on.

If our parents did have businesses, they were working in the business, you didn't really see your pops sitting back calling all the shots. So same process. I mean, you just have to get in there, find out what your state has to offer because it's going to vary. I probably have gotten over forty thousand dollars worth of free things business plans. I'm talking about elaborate business plans, employee handbooks, like policies, procedures. Most of us are not walking around

with that stuff. But that's what it takes to get to, you know, this apex level. But you have to just really tap into it. The government contracts are there. My first one was about two months after I got registered in stamps. I had no blue what I was doing, like, no clue. I just knew that I had to get the paperwork together. I just had to get it together and I would get I would get a swing. No, I just registered. So www. Dot sam dot gov is

the federal government's UM like wheelhouse to register. So once you go in there and you register, which is absolutely free UM, then you're eligible to start looking at contracts, bidding on contracts, so on and so forth. Now I don't recommend if you have no idea, you know, no experience whatsoever, just start bidding. But I was already doing my trucking thing. So I was ten years in by that point. You have a program where you teach people do it all the time. Break that down. So, I mean,

there's so many certifications. There's one called the eight A, the letter M, the number eight and the letter A. I'm in that program. This is my fourth year. It's a developmental program for minorities who have disparities. UM that allows you to actually bypass the bidding process. So my five million dollar contract I got because of that certification. I would have never got that opportunity. That easy about that certification. So you know, you have total small business,

which most of us are total small business. You have woman owned, economically disadvantaged woman owned hub zone a day. There's a myriad of them. You just have to pick the ones that apply to you and make them work for you. And all this information. By the way, it's free, it's offering and you can go and do these classes. Those class well, you pay for it with your tax dollars. That's what I always say. So you need to make sure you use these resources. And here's the thing to Angelos.

So I'm from Virginia, That's where I got all of my training from. In this particular time and setting when I was going after all of these classes. You had to be making two hundred and fifty thousand a year to even get the free government classes. Wow. So let's just say you make seven dollars an hour and you gotta side business. You're able to scrape up you know, sixty thousand growth, you're not even eligible to take the class. So systems are put in place for it to be systematic.

It makes no sense. So everybody has, you know, different opportunities. And that's just one. I mean, it's now you have YouTube people on clubhouse talking about government contracts. Fifteen years ago people were not talking about government contracts and body was talking about trucking serio. People get rich off of that. Oh I'm done very well. Yeah, there's companies that can go from being a small company oh yeah, a multimillion

dollar company. Oh yeah. And then at that point you have to decide, because if you're making thirty thousand a year, you don't really know what it's like to be in charge of seven millions. So each way I thank God for now. Even now I'm like, I don't want to grow my company to one hundred million dollars. That's not what I want to do. You know, it's just a different level of responsibility. Okay, So we appreciate you for joining us. Thank you. How can people find you and

also learn about the classes and everything? Absolutely so, you guys can find me at the Compass Circle on Instagram, the Compass Circle on Facebook, and our website is www dot Compass circle dot com. All right, well, thank you Kasey Cooper for joining us. And also we got to shout out to Ingrid Best for stopping do this morning. Yes, that is my girl, Ingrid Best. She is the executive vice president and the global head of marketing for homes Enterprises.

So all of the Sirok and Delhian activations that you see Siak sponsoring, the versus battles, all of that, that's angry salute to Ingrid. All right, well it's time for positive note. You got a positive note. The positive note is simply this man. Well, first of all, I want to salute and need to COPAC shallow waters. Make sure you go grab or need a copack shallow Waters as well as Tamika Mallory State of Emergency How to Win

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