Van Lathan and Chloe Bailey Interview

up Charlemagne. Piece of the Planet is Monday, Yes, it's Monday. Good money. We backstarted another work week. How y'all feeling out there? How is your weekend? What's happening? Oh man, I'm out in Florida right now as soon as the show's over. On my way back. Of course, one a book tour, so I had to make some stops on

the book tour. And Killer Touch, who was a friend to the room he U threw his first party in like three four years, so h he's you know, everything is getting back open, and you know Florida's been open. So he had a successful party over the weekend. So I stopped through to support him, and now I'm on my way back. Last night I was at this place called the office in Florida's shout everybody that joined me at the office, and I'll be on my way back.

So what about you, char oh man. I had a nice, great weekend doing exactly what I love to do, which is absolutely nothing. Okay. I was at home on club couch al right, watching basketball games and catching up on my TV. So life is good. Playing with your kids, you know, not really playing with the kids, but getting played with. You know, when you got kids at a certain age and they're like six years old, three years old,

you as the father, You're the toy. Yes you are, okay, maybe bending your fingers all kind of way and pulling on you like you're not even a human, but flips on you about the world, oh man. And you know when you do do things like put them on top of your head like you picked him up and swing them around like daddy, do that again, He's like, baby, daddy, old.

You gotta do it for for all of them, oh lord, Well I only got to do it for the two because I got a seven month old, So yeah, I got eight, seven and five, So you gotta do it. You gotta do it three times. Have you do once? You gotta do three times and that's the workout. Will finishlf Yes, it is okay. And then and even if you just finished working out, they don't understand that. All right, I'm exhausted already. No, but that's what I get. No. No,

but it's a good thing, man. It makes you feel good. Shout to all of our parents out there. We salute you this morning. Absolutely, we got great guests here this morning too. H An author used to be on TMZ. He has his own podcast, Van Lathon will be joining us this morning. Yes, he's got a new book out called Fat, Crazy and Tired. Also, he'll be here to talk about his books, Fat Crazy and Tired. Charlemagne's cousin will be joining us. My cousin will be back here.

That's right. Chloe Bailey be joining us. We'll chop it up with huh. Yeah, they're having that big Halloween function and me, what's that? Yes, she's in time for the met Galla. Okay, are you going and shut up? Just ask me day invite my black after the metape? Nope, not at all. And guess who don't care you exactly like b but them tickets are expensive. They see them. Tables are like thirty thousand dollars a seat or something like that. For a table, it is like a hundred grains,

God bless us. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news coming up. We'll tell you about your NBA scores and hopefully we'll get you connected. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are to Breakfast Club is getting some front page news that over the weekend NBA Milwaukee Bucks beat the Celtics one on one eighty nine. The Warriors beat the at least one seventeen

one sixteen. Yeah, the Celtics a Buck series. I don't think that's gonna be as entertaining as I thought it would be. I was thinking it was gonna be a seven game series. But Celtics have no answer for you honest. They can't stop be honest. And if they can't find an answer for your honest, I don't think it'll be a long series. Not even Yannas brook Lopez too. It just seemed like he just grabbed everything that come up

the room. Everything yeah, but you honest, he's just unstoppable, damn the on off Yes he is now and Grizzlies and Warriors. That was a great game, too, great game came out to the last blasket. Yeah. I don't think Grizzlies have enough offense for the Golden State Warriors, honestly. And you know you can't kick Draymond Green out of every game, so I don't know how close those games are gonna be once Draymond is on the floor for a whole game. So we'll see, all right. Well, over

the weekend, was the White House corresponded dinner? Did you see anything about it? Charlemagne? I had people over the house, so I was watching it, but like not really watching it. Plus I just was, you know, sitting there thinking what the hell we got to celebrate right now? Why everybody's laughing over thousand dollars dinner? Pleas at a time like this. I did see fat Jody. I thought that was fat Joe. Went to the correspond Dentna, yes, that's not fat Jodia.

Now we have audio. He's supposed to do front page dudes, So we don't know what this audio is. I believe it's Biden at the dinner. Is that what it is? Right? Yes? Red said, yes, all right, well let's listen to it. The industry is changing significantly, but it matters. The truth matters. American democracy is not a reality show. It's not a reality show. It's reality itself. The reality is that we are a great country. Our future is bright. It's not guaranteed,

because democracy is never guaranteed. That's to be earned, it has to be defended, that's to be protected. You've heard me say many times there's not a damn thing this country can do when we stand united and do it together. And I know we can do anything we want to do. Yeah, So I'm still trying to figure out who's handing? Was can though? Did he ever talk about who's hand wishing? I don't know me. I enjoyed some of what I saw at the White House Correspondent dinner, But once again,

what the hell we got to celebrate? Like, what's funny? Inflation through the roof, folks trying to figure out how to keep gasing their tank, food on their plate. You know, so many campaign promises haven't been kept. Like what we got to celebrate? Well, he does joke on Fox News. I told my grandkids and Pete Bo just they could stay up late and watch this show tonight. Tonight we come here and answer a very important question in everybody's mind.

Why in hill are we still doing this? I know the other questions about whether we should gather here tonight because of COVID. Well, we're here to show the country that we're getting through this pandemic. Plus everyone had to prove it. They're fully vaccinated and boosted. So if you're at home watching this and you're wondering how to do that, just contact your favorite Fox News reporter. They're all here, vaccinated and boosted. Oh them, Okay, all right. Well. He

also talks about his approval rating. Thank you Steve for that introduction, and a special thanks to the forty two percent of you actually applauded. I'm really excited to be here tonight. Were the only group of Americans with a lower approval ready than I have. That's the first time president attended this dinner in six years. It's understandable we had a horrible plague followed by two years of COVID chest. Imagine if my predecessor came to this dinner this year now,

that would really have been a real coup if that occurred. Laughing. Now, I'll cry after the mid terms when they lose the House in the centate. You hit me, Democrats laugh now, cry after the mid terms when y'all lose the House in the Centate. Now, I know a lot of people spoke that the person who's hand he was trying to shake the shut up man. That's front page twos. Get it off your chests eight hundred five five one oh

five one. If you need to vent phone lines and wide open eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. Year you there, Yes, can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you now, all right, get it off your chest. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. The breakfast Club is your time to get it off your chests, whether you're man or blast. So we better have the fame in. We want to hear from you on the breakfast Club. Hello, who's this here? I'm angry? What's up? Traf? Hey traf?

Hey boo? Please trave what up? Says get So I'm starting today at eight o'clock. What's that way my new job? You were you got your job? Yeah, yeah, I got it. I'll ask THEE. But I was telling you the yes, that's not ruin it today. How'd you do that? Five work on Pico the electric company? No, I said, how'd you pass the test? Uh? You know? God? All right, that's crazy that you still got to take a P test in Pennsylvania when it's legal, when it's legal right

next door in Jersey. So actually in Pennsylvania. So they have stopped the P test in the Pennsylvana. But since I worked for the electric company, they deal with jazz. Um. If you do a natural resource gas and you have to see, okay, wow, you you did it the right way. You did it the legal way, or he's not gonna tell you the yes, he did it the right way. Well, I'm glad you got a job, traff, because that last time you called up here talking about you had your

EBT card over your bed, your metro card. Boy, that was a different level of struggle. You hit me. They'll be bringing out my old days. That's the old day. That was like a week ago, traf. But okay, it's the old traf. Al Right, Hello, who's this come on in this Jamaine? Out of the landing yards from Bob and Vodka? What's going on? Pe? Every everythy you had a quick question for you man. I know you got the car show coming to Atlanta. Yes, you're doing your

book out here as well. Yeah, we're actually doing a book signing at every car show that we're doing. So we got like a little uh we made it look like a bookstore in the actual call show, me and the wife of being there signing autographs and we have books at the show. Okay. Um, I just wanted to ask, when you come there Atlanta, be a part of your VIRP suite for your can show whatever, giving beverages of our delicious vodka if we don't mind, sir. Yeah, you

know what we don't. We don't really sell outside liquor and the reason being as a family event sometimes. But if we could do something with it with the venue, yeah, we can set it up. We'll see what we can do.

All right, cool, cool, all right, appreciate it. Just had to shoot my shot, bro, all right enough saying all right, let's make it happen, all brother, get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one and yes we're gonna be in Houston June nineteenth for just far this day weekend in July ninth, in Atlanta for the car show. So if you haven't got your gets us to drive your dream tickets, but get it off your chest. Phone lines wide open. It's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning, the Breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling, what's you doing? Call you? This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five one five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's this Hey? Good morning. This is Ray from Detroit. How you doing this morning? Everybody to a peace? Peace? First of all, DJ, and you one of my major DJ inspirations from back into mid Chase. I just want to say Keith to you, God,

bless you, your family, your book. I gotta go get damn joint it is. I heard it's amazing, brother, Thank you brother. Appreciate that. Man, appreciate the support. Yeah, absolutely, Man. Bless up to you also, Charlotte Man. I gotta say thank you man for just you and your platform. The things that you have done has been just truly just unbelievable. You actually have one of my college friends that from hometown. I'm Richard from Gary, Indiana. You have one of my

college friends Ian done. Last the matter investment, Yeah man, that's my guy. Love man, that is my dude. Man. This cat used to come me up back in the dorm. We blew up. We started uh at iu at Indian University. So that's one of my presidents. For you to have him on your platform, the things that has he has created for him, it's just it's just unbelievable. He is non stopped for him now now and end and brilliant and his stop tips are brilliant. Oh man. He's a

sharp cat, always been, always been. So I gotta thank you for that. Just to have him on that platform just really did amazing things even more for him. So thank you for that. And the last was not least

ye Uh you know you're you're so dope. It is awesome the things I'm here, what you're doing here in Detroit, uh, which is uh, let me because I gotta thank God for it, and my family, my friends, my my two sons, and awesome my lady who is here from Detroit and she's on the best insurance agents that I have to make sure I'll shout her out and I want to make sure I'll let you know because I know how you are serious about the black girl magic And oh yeah,

absolutely in Detroit right now. So I heard, yeah, I heard on the radio. Absolutely yeah. She is one of the best insurance agents I've ever known to actually have her business right here in Detroit. And I want to make sure I'll let her know that I'm gonna let you know that she is just amazing. I want to shout her information out, if that's all right. Man. Look, she is Crystal robertson uh Stay farm agent, So she's definitely a good neighbor right there on seven miles right

near the living Nois the shopping district area. Please check her out, everybody. She is on Crystal serves motown dot com. That's Crystal serves Motown dot com and she is absolutely amazing. You can follow her on Instagram as well. And I really appreciate you all just accepting my call and thank you all for you your platform at things you have done over the year. And God's going to Kana bless you all. Thank you brother you are every morning that

about listening to you. Appreciate you. Shout out to christ I'll just google her. She has five stars and forty one Google reviews. There you go. Shout the state for him too, man, do do terrific work, and also the general too, general assurance as well. All right, get it off your chest. Eight five eight five, one oh five one. Now we got rumors on the way. Yes, and Joe Button,

why was he trending over the weekend. We'll tell you what he had to say on social media that had both to Harry and Evelyn Lazada responding, all right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It's about time the rumor report. Angela ye on the Breakfast Club. All right, well, Joe Button on his podcast spoke about the Megan the Stallion versus Tory Lane's issues and Make the Stallion sitting down with Gail King. Here's what he had to say. It is

such thing as victim bullying. Exactly what I'm saying. Chad Johnson Ocho Sinkle's ex wife, he's in a whole new relationship. He's married, he's whatever he is. He's happy, sty happy. She's happy for years. Any chance, anytime his name came up, she popped up. It had nothing to do with her, but she popped up and said, hey, he did this. It didn't matter the rehabilitation he'd done. It didn't matter the changes that he's made, the apologies both public and private.

Yo dog for the next seven, eight, nine, ten years. Every time I do something positive, you're gonna pop up with this victim story and you are the victim. So I don't take that away. But that's bullying, all right. Take But He also criticized make the Stallion for speaking with Gail King instead of a hip hop outlet. He said, there are too many hip hop outlets. Go to somebody who understands all of this, is keeping up with all of this and comprovised and type of pushback if you're

trying to come off organic. Well, Evelyn Lazada, I was gonna ask what did you think about what did you think about the victim bullying? And what he said, Well, she is a victim and she's allowed to express whatever she wants to fail. If she feels triggered every time he says something and wants to respond to that, she has every right to do that. What happened happened, and

if that's what she needs to do, I'm okay with it. Yeah, you're not a bully if you were a victim if somebody did you wrong, you can speak on it as much as possible. Yeah, I don't think that's a term. You can't be a victim and a bully. If every time you know something triggers you, you mentioned it or you're talking about it. I don't. I mean, hey, I could be wrong. All right. Well, Evelyn Lazada did respond to what Joe Button had to say, and here's what

she had to say. If you're going to use your platform to discuss domestic violence or bring up somebody's domestic violence incident, I think that you need to be compassionate about all of the people that this has affected. I think you also need to know and understand and that this could be very triggering. If we're going to have these conversations, we need to have real conversations, like how

do we heal from this? Use your platform for good, not to make light of something that is very, very serious. You know, I just had to say something because I'm not going to allow someone to control my story and my narrative. Now in the shade Room, Evelyn also posted with that clip, you should have used yourself an example and kept us the f out of it. Foh and Joe Button responded, he said, we were discussing reactive abuse,

not seemingly comparing situations. Prayers to everyone involved, and then she said, my life matters, so I spoke up domestic violence survivor. I'm going to keep screaming to the heavens no matter what another abuser has to say about my past abusive relationship. And then to hear He also chimed in and said, let's not forget at Joe Button should the rail to Harry post Hers and to Harry said the biggest effing nerves on earth. This is so wrong, so unfair, but yet he still continues having a mic.

And then she also addressed Evan Lozada on her Instagram as well. She said, I am so sorry nobody should ever have to go through this. Over a repost of Evan Lozada's photos, she said, I'm shaking. He fractured my rib and punched me in my face. I don't have pictures, but I'm sure his other exes do. So that definitely started a lot of people having conversations and feeling triggered by those comments. All Right, and Playboy Cardi his concert was shut down after fans rushed the stage and broke

the barricade while he was only two songs in. This was at West Hollywood Smokers Club Festival and they had to just shut it down. Kid Cutty two Chains while Joey badass A sat Rocky we Go Nasty with Khalifa chief Keef all on the bill. But not everybody made it through their set time without disturbances. As we told you, Playboy Carti they had to cut his mic phone and a team member was sent out to address the audience and asked him to calm down so that Playboy Carti

could resume his work. They asked them to step back. They said there were no injuries, sustain nobody was arrested, but they said everybody just had to make sure everything was good. And yes, so everybody got to calm down. It did look dangerous. Did they finish the show? Some people got to perform, some people didn't. But again, you know, seeing what could potentially happen, making sure there's no injuries,

that's the most important thing. They did say. Rihanna was back there hanging out in dancing backstage as well too, during the Smoker's Club Festival. All right, well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor reports. All right, thank you, missy. Now we got front page news what we're talking about. Yes, they are trying to find an accused murder suspect as well as the corrections officer who was last seen with him when they left the local jail. Will tell you

what happened in Alabama. All we'll get into that. Next. It's the Breakfast Club co Morning. So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. I teamed up with zyrt Tech for this allergy relief message. Springtime brings the vibrancy to the air and pollen, so I take zyrt Tech when allergy symptoms start, save the tissues and live vibrantly with rt Tech starts working at our one and stay strong day after day w w P r F M HD one, New York and our heart radio station.

A little bit of Breakfast Club your lifestyle. DJ nvy Angela Ye Charlomagne, the Gay Morning. Everybody is DJ envy Angela Yee Charlomagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. At a Bucks beat the Celtics one O one to eighty nine. The Warriors beat the Grizzlies one seventeen one sixteen. Hey you know what two salute Core Stevenson two man um he had a great win Saturday night against Oscar valdimous decision. Okay,

Dad has never had a chance for Stevenson. He he wanted in once, even though people we knew he was one of the ones. He really showed Saturday he wanted in once. So dropping a clues bob for Stevenson. Absolutely, It's back to seventy six to take on the heated seven thirty and the Mavericks take on the Sons at ten. Oh Paul Philly Man, Oh my god, no Joel and bid Joel and beat out indefinitely. Yoh, I guess this will be the last round for the sixties if Joel

NBA can't play easy. Yes, so yesterday us marshals off at the ten thousand dollars reward, and that is for information to help catchure the Alabama inmate who vanished. He vanished with the corrections officers. He was transporting him to court for an appointment that never even existed. Casey White is thirty eight years old. He was arrested in twenty twenty. He was tried to two counts of capital murder. A thirty said he was a murder for hire in a

case they went cold for nearly five years now. Indications are that White, who was the corrections officer and she worked there by the Way for twenty five years, assisted in the escape, but they don't know whether she did so willingly or if he forced her to do so. There has been a man hunt launch for the two of them, and they both have the same last name, Vicky White and Casey Cole White, but they are not related.

The escaped inmates believed to be a serious threat to the corrections officer and to the public, so they are asking for any help in that situation. That's a scary thing now to also trying to investigate whether the two of them had a prior relationship. The Sheriff's office realized that he was missing and that the corrections officer was missing when she wasn't answering her phone and calls went straight to voicemail. So they said, every employee in the

office is shocked right now. And a woman in Maryland returned home from vacation to find a couple laying in her bed and property worth tens of thousands of dollars missing. We saw this on social media. Here's what happen. Not only were they in my home, everything in my home was gone, stuff with my bed because he details how he loved my bed so much. I mean, I'm like, who are you? When he says my name, he like, you didn't pay your rent? I'm like, what are you

talking about? I paid my rent? All right. So she came home from vacation. This was in green Bout, Maryland. Her front door was damaged, her possessions were cleared out of the apartment, and she found a couple laying on her bed together, a blackmail adult and a white female. That was the only piece of furniture left in the home. Yes, v So she paid the rent and he just took everything out. He said that she didn't pay the rent, and she's like, what are you talking about? I did

pay my rent. So the suspects are still on the run. So basically, they broke in, made up some story, and she caught them in the house and they stole belongings worth almost fifty thousand dollars. Wow. Can you imagine you come home and they laying in your bed. If they still in the cryp, they should be on the loose. I know where they had they lay in my bad Now they left. Oh yeah, she called the police, but they were gone and they're still on the run there still.

Oh so they wasn't supposed to be there. I thought the way the story was described, I thought they got kicked out of the house and they moved a new couple in. So these were just squatters. Squatters up. Yes, she came on a vacation. They cleared everything out all right. Now. A woman in Alabama, Jacqueline summer Bear, she was an employee at the state Public Health Department, was attacked as she was following up on a report of an attack by those same dogs. She was killed by the dogs

too in the northwestern part of Alabama. She was responding to that call, and she was pronounced dead on Friday. She was They said they believed she was trying to contact the dog's owner. They identified the dog's owner as Brandy Dowdy. When the dogs killed her. They reported that she was a fifty eight year old environmental supervisor, a longtime employee of the Public Health Department. She was following up on an incident earlier in the week when where

the dogs attacked a woman who was walking. That woman remains hospitalized in Mississippi. When officers arrived on the scene, they said several dogs started attacking the residence. One of them sustained minor injuries and some of the dogs had to be euthanized immediately. Daddy has been charged with manslaughter and is being held without bail, according to public records. Really sad situation. You're doing your job, going to investigate, and then she ended up getting killed by those dogs.

I rest in peace to Jacqueline summer Beard and our condolences to her family. All right, I'm Angela Yee and that is your front page news. All right. Now, when we come back, Van Lathan will be joining us. He has a new book out. What's the naming the book, Fat, Crazy and Tired Tales from the Trenches of Transformation. All right, and we'll talk to him when we come back, So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club,

The Breakfast Club, and Charlemagne the Guard Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the Guy. We all the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, my guy Man late then Junior, he has a new book out, Fat Crazy and Tired. What what out Tails from the Trenches of Transformation? What's up, my brother? I'm good man. How y'all doing this morning? Well, since you've been here last, you're not with tim z right, you signed to deal with the Ringer, Yes one to Oscar. Yes,

now you have a new book, fat crazy man. Yeah. I mean I know this because you're my guy. But just for the people, what made you feel like it was time for you to exit from tim z um? Well two things. Number One, they exited me. We should be you was gonna leave anyway. So this is the situation with that I get fired from TIMS. Just put it out there in October. But as you know, I was already gone basically because I didn't renew my deal.

They didn't renew my contract, So why would they fire you if they knew you weren't coming back and not just let you leave. That's why they would fire me. So after the Kanye thing happens, right, like, we have a couple of meetings with a couple of people, and I remember I had a conversation one time with Harvey. I remember telling them I was like I don't see myself having my own television show and then coming back and working at TMZ and still being at TMZ in

the days, right, And he was like, huh whatever. And then the next time I just straight up, straight up told him, I was like, I'm not resigning with Tmzay like when that, like, when this is up, think about it. After this, I'm coming off to my profile is up. I have all of these other opportunities, and you just want to grow and be able to do more things. And so I said, I'm not I'm not resigning. So they knew that, and coming down to the end of it, it was things was just so tense between him and

set you up. They set you up. They set you up. They put you in a position to where you had to defend yourself kids the white man at TMZ, and then they find you for it. Well whatever, but what I love That's what I saw. But Okay, what ended up happening is the way it went to me. Me and my who's still a friend of mine, men Mike have a situation where we're going back and forth on

the show. So I go over to Mike. Probably something I shouldn't have done come up behind him and say, look, I don't appreciate it being to talk to you like that. Blah blah blah. You know who I am. Whatever, say something, I leave right. Charles is laughing at first. Then Charles says, van go home. That's the last time I was ever in TMZ. So I leave it. I go home, and they hit me up like yo, well you put your hands on his shoulders, so you gotta go. You're out.

I'm like, all right, cool. We both know that it was coming to the end of the line anyway, and it's on camera, not like people didn't see it. Yeah people, Yeah, people saw it. And people can make up their own minds about whether or not you think I'm a violent, crazy ignorant, but it's right there for you. So then that Saturday, my co workers throw me a going away party because they didn't get a chance to say goodbye. The guy who I was in the altercation with Mike

is at the going away party. It wasn't an altercation. It wasn't an altercation at all they're calling it was not an altercase. Wasn't an altar maybe the white people. So anyway, they told me he's going away party Monday. I get a call from the people that Pay six and they say, hey, we're running this in Pay six. We want to talk about the fact that you would dismissed right the whole nine. The article comes out and it looks good for me. I think that embarrassed them.

I had nothing to do with to pay six. All Right, you know what, I want you to talk about triggers, right, because we're talking about triggers and being traumatized. Talk about what led to you telling him. Don't talk about that, Okay. So this is what happened that morning. There's a story, and the story has to do with Ellen DeGeneres being friends with George Bush and why it's cool that Michelle

Obama was friendly with George Bush. Listen, if you have fuzzy, fuzzy feelings about George Bush, and if you have fuzzy feelings about him, and you want to be cool when him he's a painter, now whatever, that's fine. I'll never feel that way ever about George Bush. Ever. I'm from South Louisiana and I watched a hurricane come through and devastate my community and devastate my relatives and family members, and the President just didn't care. And I told people

that TMZ. I'm like, when y'all do this topic, I do not want to be on it, and they continue to ask me over and over and over again. Harvey wasn't there, so they needed Van to make TV, so I'm like, I'll do it. So I'm already emotional about it, and I'm on this and it feels like I'm being played with and so feeling the way that I felt after I went over and iledge just like Yo, I

didn't appreciate that. Now, I what I was trying to do was, rather than scream across the office, I didn't want to let the moment pass without saying anything, because I never want to do that. If I feel uncomfortable in the moment, I always want to meet that moment right then. What I was trying to do was walk over and whisper in his ear like YO didn't appreciate it, blah blah blah blah blah, and then leave and that

guy turned into Van attacked to Mike. The day after the pay six article comes another article from page six comes with us still like from one image of the thing and them talking about the fact that I got feel it was the office striking back at me, and this is the part where the uncomfortability sets in it, or the resentment for me sets in. Never in my life while I ever ever distanced myself from how important

my time at teams he was for me. People have all kinds of opinions about the platform, and they're not wrong, But all I can say is that for me, it was a place where I was giving an opportunity to grow, given an opportunity to learn. That's why where people first got to know me, they know that I am not who they painted me as when they came back. I've been there nine years. There's no one in the office that would have ever thought that I would have done

anything or attacked anyone or anything like that. And for me, when the game got that dirty, I was like, but that was important. I tell you why, God, Divinity, the universe, whatever, did not want me to leave that situation without the feeling of having been on the other side of the head line like that. Like for nine years, I had been right there, complicit and apart of all types of

headlines that affected people's lives. I did my best. I swear to God, I did my best to report things that were unsaid by members of the community and things that were misunderstood the best that I could while I was there with what I was given in the freedom,

I was giving him the voice that I had. But the reality is the situation was there's a slant there, and there's always a slant, and the slant is towards the sensational, and the slant is oftentimes towards the negative because the reality is that that's what people consume and like to consume the most of So for me, in order to leave there and be a better version of myself and be a happier version of myself and more, I had to be a headline. I talked about it

in the book. By the end, Harvey and I were having like we were really going back and forth a lot because of his Trump support and because of the years and years and years of me having to be the due that people come to whenever the organization with something up. So I don't think that TMZ or organizations like it. I don't think that they hate black culture. I just don't think that they care about the sensitivities.

So I give an example of something so little Dickie, y'all know little Dickie, right, Yeah, so the K word song, right, And this whole narrative in the office was if people say the N word and the music, then we should be able to say the N word when we're singing the songs. Harvey would always argue, I don't see how you can stop people from saying it when it's in the music music music, and other people in the office would say that, and I would go back and forth,

and I was a big thing. I said, Okay, have somebody asked Little Dickie and I would never in my life want to use a racial slur. I don't care what Little Dickie calls himself in the song. I'm never gonna use that because I know how those words can

hurt and kill them. But I had them ask the question, what since Little Dickie is saying that the Little Dickie's Jewish, Since a Jewish guy saying this k the K word and his music, then does he think that other people that be that wrap his music should be able to say it too. Because this is the logic that I'm

getting from the top. Right, They asked that question, and I'm pitching it the video and Harvey gets super pissed off at the question and I'm like, oh, so you do understand, you just don't give a when it's my culture. And I remember all around the office is like, Van, are you arguing to say the K word? I'm like, no, that's not what I'm saying here. I do y'all be arguing to say? Are you going to say the K word? I don't want to say it at all, But so you mean to tell me that y'all be arguing to

say the N word. I thought we were doing this logical thought experiment. But it does. And by the way, and by the way, I understand the contradiction. I understand, like I'm not stupid. Got more with Van Leathan. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Van Leathan, Charlemagne. You want to talk about it? Oh yeah, shout out

Joey Badass. I love Joey Badass and I thought he did such a great job. What a good actor. Yeah, Joey Badass. Andrew Howard, Zaria, Martin Desmond Roe co directed, written by treyvon Free, Nick May younger brother of Abra du Verney. Everybody needs someone like this, somebody that can help you take a vision and take an idea and take a plan and put it into action. Great brother. So Trayvon like has an idea, he throws an idea out to us and I look at him and this

is what I actually learned. Pop culture is actually art plus timing. So what Trayvon says the idea, which is, uh, you know a young man that's reliving the same interaction with police over and over again, groundhawks they style. He's like, this was the first thing we should make out the pandemic. I go gotta go now. Number one, the moment demanded the art with what happened with Joe and I'm on Aurbury. Number two. Our goal was to win the Oscar from

the jump. I understood that it was going to be a sparse year because there weren't going to be as many productions because people couldn't get up. So oscars do matter to you? Because some people would say the accolades, the awards shouldn't matter. Now didn't matter to me. The question is isn't important? If it matters to you, that just means it's something that can put your career forward, right. I wouldn't hang my hat on the fact that the

movie won an Oscar. What I would hang my hat on is the fact that we had an idea, and we had a vision and a goal and we hit our mark. And now you got the book Fat Crazy entire Tales from the Trenches of Transformation. What motivated you to write this book? Well? And why was it necessary now? Speaking of timing, Yeah, well, the book is necessary now for me because I'm in a space to where I'm

still trying to feel comfortable with me. One of the biggest accomplishments in my life was losing one hundred and seventy pounds, right, tell people, I big you where once I was about three seventy and so I've been a lot. So a lot of people are looking at me right now and they're like, you know, well, then you've gained some weight, and I have, right, I gained some weight

during the pandemic. I think the book was important for me because so much of my life was focused around the fact that I have been able to lose this way and like change my life. And during the pandemic, I took my body and I took what I was going through as a personal failure, that my anxiety crept back in, my depression crept back in. I was really down. And the book is about coming to terms with the reasons why I am the way that I am, so that I can live inside of myself no matter what casing.

I'man did get a chance to read the except we didn't get the book ahead of time. Yeah, when you talk about your father and him dying and how you felt like you wanted to be like Brett five, Yeah, in that moment when Brett Fire played but his father had just died the day before and he still had like an amazing game, And then you had to realize that you don't have to cope and face things that way. And so once you come to that realization, how did

things change for you? I think my thing was I learned to love my father more when I stopped trying to be him. He just would have picked up the pieces and moved on. And I'm not picked up the pieces and move on type of guy. I'm a I need some space type of guy. And I had to recognize that, you know what I mean. Yeah, Like I'm driving across the river from bat rouge to Maryland, Louisiana. I'm going to put my dad in a box and put him in the ground forever. So peculiar feeling when

when the parent dies, it's like, it's weird. It's someone that's known you for every second of your life, that you feel like has every answer to every question, and then they're just gone. And now for the next portion of your life, you have to speak to the wind. And I'm coming to terms with this while I'm driving my boy and I'm thinking, brat far, I've got up and he through for all of them yards, Go do this, go do this, And people are saying, yo, what was

his favorite this? And I'm calling it out, like did he have a favorite hat? I'm like yeah, and I keep going. I'm thinking to myself, just go just answer the questions because now I'm the man, right, I'm the only one that has enough money to pay for this. I'm the only one that knew enough about him to do all this. So now I have to be here. And I look around and I look at my uncle Craig and he looks exactly like my dad. My uncle

Craig comes in and I look at him. My uncle Craig is saying there, I'm like, I need a minute. I walk out. It's a hot, human Louisiana day. The wind is blowing. I'm looking at the field and I just sit there and I say, God, please help me, God like help me, like help me. And the next thing I felt was my homeboy in his like his hand was on my shoulder and I'm staying I'm I don't think I can go back in, and they're like, let's just finish it. And I never saw him. I

never looked at him. I never They're like, do you want to see him? I couldn't see him. Last time I saw my father alive in the flesh was twenty nineteen. And if I had known that that was the last time I would have saw him, I think it would have been a lot of different a lot of things I'd have said to him. And then you talk about with Brett fall, you know a lot of times, man, that's just a staying busy as a response to trauma. Yeah, my way of grieving was to leave everybody and just

go drive down the levee. It was just tough and I'm really not out of it, and it's still something that I'm that I'm kind of learning to deal with right now. Talk to him every day. I got yesterday again in New York, and I remember my dad used to always talk about the Empire State Building. He'd be like, taller than the Empire State Building. I'm like, yo, you want to go and see the Empire State Building and He'll be like, no, I see it as something TV.

I'm driving around yesterday doing stuff and I passed by the Empire State Building and I'm like, there it is that. Yeah, you know, I wonder you know, because you were speaking in past tense when you was fat back in the day, but you said you gained some weight. Sure. Do you think that dad helped you while he was writing the book this time, because you really were back into that space and being fat. Yeah, I think it did. I

think that the pandemic for me stopped. It took my distractions away like everyone else and what it took my distractions away, It made me sit in who I really am, and who I really am doesn't really have anything to do with like how I come off in that way, Like right now I'm heavier, but like I'm super active. I box every morning. That's why, you know, one of these days, I'm gonna get waxing. The ring beat the out of him. I run, I do all of these things.

I just look different. So the question is, while I'm in this space, by the way, I'm losing this way. I can't do this, Like I can't sit on the plane and do this whole thing. But I have to become okay with myself again. And I never did that when I was three hundred and seventy pounds. I never took the time to be like, okay, Van, you're okay, Like you're you're an okay person. It means you're you're fine, but you just don't like the fact that you can't

perform in the way that you look. So just change that. I said, no, this version of me is bad, And because this version of me is bad, I'm only going to be good when I change it. I'm good either way. It's not about how I look, It's about how I feel. And so like getting to the point in your life where you feel good about yourself, there should not be a number on the scale around that. There shouldn't be a body five percentage around that. There shouldn't be a

dollar amount around that. Like the pandemic taught me to prioritize peace over everything else. Peace is the thing that's the most important, all right. We got more with Van Lathing. When we come back, it's the breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Van Lathan Charlomagne. That's where you got the trances of transformation. From the trenches of transformation. It's like, how, yeah, how

will we change? I tell a story in the book about what I really realized. I had a food addiction. I had worked a shift that best Buy, and whenever I would leave the shift that best Buy, I would go to Bennigans because like I was love. Yeah, Bennigans had these big ass chicken fingers, and so I would go there and get the chicken tenders and I would get loaded mashed potatoes and fries, and I would have this little trick I would do when I would go there. I would act like I got a call from you

or from you while I was waiting for it. Oh, you want a chocolate cake with the alamode icing and all of that stuff, Like, oh, that's what you want cool because the guy, well, I can bring it. You want to chocolate shake? Two? Damn? What are you going in? And then I would add that to the order. But it was really for me, right, and the people knew I did this all the time, so they knew that every time I come there. But like, this was how much I was addicted to food and I had to

have it or else I didn't feel good. So I'm had best Buy working one time and I look across the parking lot and I'm like Jesus Christ, Bennings closed, like what happens now? And I feel this overwhelming sense of disappointment, and I cry, you're sick. I knew he was gonna laugh. Wait wait wait, wait wait, I knew for sure that he that is HI, Like, you're sick, o man, sick. I'm sick. Yeah, thank you, thank you. I want to know what you would eat because I

know you would again something. Need you ain't cry to long? I did, ugh McDonalds. So I'm sitting there, So I'm sitting so I'm sitting in there. I'm sitting there. This is a good order. Like I'll tell you what the McDonalds like the power meal. I'm sitting there and I'm looking and it's one of those moments like in the movies where you look at yourself and she's like, you

need help, and I'll dry to tea. I'm like, God, damn im, I'm crying over some vine because I laugh all of those moments in my life where I'm like, Yo, this is really happening. Like I laughed. So I drive, I go to McDonald's number four, super size, twenty piece McNuggets, two apple pies with the drink We're good for, the double quarter pounder, the double quarter pounder. And that went on for a little while until one day, literally one day,

I was just like it and I started it. And then that year I lost one hundred and forty pounds. You just say I got a diet now, I just I was in California and I'm just walking around. I ordered these pants from the Gap. One of the producers at my job got him a set of me and I saw him hold the pants up. The pants were like a fifty two fifty four in ways or something

like that, Michael Jordan's size. Yeah, And so I just like I walked around to the gym, started going to the gym at first, I can only do thirty minutes now even at this size. Right now, I boxed seven eight nine rounds. I'm good. What was something you gained personally from writing the book. I think I gained an understanding of just how complicated everything is. Writing the book was hard because, like you have to put everything together. I think we are really cleaning down the path of

trying to simplify society. Myself, it's over, we've been. We're there already. Like it is not black and white, yeah, he never has been. There are no absolutes. Yeah, And really, to be honest with you, more than anything, if I'm not trying to like protect myself, writing the book helped me. It's helping me process my father's death. Actually doing the book and then doing then audio book, it helped me

revisit some of those things and deal with them. So that's been very and you know, just get my feelings out and being able to contextualize this moment in my life, put a pin in it and just kind of move on. Well, Well, healing is not linear, and they you know, grief is something that's gonna always come and go about the rest of your life, right, you know that, Yeah, of course, I'm just what I'm ready for is to say this

is where I'm at now. We got more movies, we got more stuff, We got higher learning with Rachel Lindsay Van later, we got The Ring Reverse, we got all of these things that we're doing so many different things and I'm into right now, and I just wanted to get my thoughts on my life up to this point and really the lives of the people in my community. You know my last question you um, you know for years he was a black guy from TIMZ, So how

would you define Van Leathon right now? Oh? Good, certainly, well, I still get the black guy from TMZ all the time despite it. But um, I don't know. I don't think I have an answer. I would love to have something, but I don't think I'm really into defining myself as much as I am into enjoying the peaceful time so that I can get it and doing better. What I would like to be right now is has nothing to

do with who I am professionally. When I was still playing ball a lot, I always wanted to dunk off two feet, You jump off two feet, you can jump up and do crazy in the air. You can take kids or most really athletic guys jump off two feet. I'll never forget this guy name Graham Mitchell, who's a fitness guy in LA. We're in the gym. I see these guys doing these crazy thumps off two feet and I'm doing it off one and I can't say in the air as long as they might get up, I

come down like I can't do all that stuff. I remember asking them and I was like, if I start training with you, can you make me as good of a two footage him? Can you make me a great two for the jumper. I'll never forget to answer they gave me. He said, now I can't, he said, I can make you a better two for the jumper. Though. It's not about good or great because those are subject It's about better and that's and that's me trying to

do better. And Lathan's junior fat, crazy entire transformation. Yep, my guy, Van Lady to make sure y'all go out and get the book man. Follow Van on Instagram, Twitter at Van Lathan. Check out the Higher Learning podcast with Rachel Lindsay and UH Hip Hop Homicides coming in September. Homicide. What I said, pop homicide, It's the Breakfast Club piece. She's fill This is the rumor report with Angela Yee

on the Breakfast Club. All right, Well, the baby is facing criminal charges and that is from a man who says that he suffered for trying to stop his entourage from shooting a music video on his property. So, according to Gary Pagar, he said he had serious injuries. And here's the story. They said the Baby and his team rented mansion in La that Paguar manages. Pagar said he was there. He was told it was going to be

a vacation place for the baby and his friends. He told them it was a guest limit no more than twelve, and the Baby's management team allegedly agreed to that rental agreement. Well, he said that he paid a visit and realized they were shooting a music video with an entire film crew, a ton of other people around, upwards to forty people. He says he tried to shut the whole thing down by talking to the baby, and that's when he claims he was attacked by somebody and the crew. Part of

that was called on video. He said the baby ordered the guy off of him, but then allegedly sucker punched him in the face, knocking out his tooth. It looks like he went to the authorities after this, and now they have a guest decided to charge him with felony battery. The baby has defended himself, and he said, y'all keep believing these type of people and helping him assassinate my character. Y'all might as well get a rope and help him

hang my black ass on a treat. And he had a TikTok video showing somebody who appears to be a payguard outside of a home who was irate, And it's unclear what the timeline of the clip is, but allegedly he did call him the N word, using a racial slur. And I guess he's saying that it was some type of altercation. So we'll just have to stay tuned to see what happens with the baby. All right, in Shaquille O'Neill,

is he going vegan? It doesn't look like it, but it looks like he does enjoy some healthier food nowadays. He was talking to comedian Rip Michaels at Slutty Vegan in Atlanta on Urban Eats and Treats. He's switching over the vegan the diet thing that you're doing now, I'm switching. Our friend introduced me to this place, and it's healthy the way she cooks it. You know. For example, I like cheeseburgers, right, got it, like the way she could like I can eat healthy but still feel like I'm

eating black again. Whatever I want to cheat, I come over here and you just like you. For me guy, it's chicken style of skating fish. But I'm a burger guy. So when I gotta get a burger taste, I got to look at the burgers. Grabber Burger always come to sluggy vegan. Yeah, I think people just love slutty vegans food. I don't think they even care that it's vegetarian. I'm sure.

Of course, of course there's some people that, of course they go there because it's vegan, but a lot of people just like to taste the food and shout the rip. Michaels too, that's Rit Michaels show. He has a show on the LL network where he talks to he takes people to some of their favorite restaurants. I know I was on there, Nick Cannon, a Shock and a host of others. So shout the rip michaels Manban, Carl cam Our, Brackson, Bell, Bellamy, Yeah, a lot of people, but yeah, shout out to him,

and shout out to Slutty Vegan. You know, they opened one in Brooklyn as well, and then she has an amazing bar also in Atlanta too, So she's doing great work and her food is absolutely delicious. All right now. Jalen Rose did an interview with GQ magazine and spoke for the first time about his divorce from Molly Carum. Now. They both announced they were divorcing in December, and he initially filed for a divorce in April of that year.

He said, in my personal relationship, it was laughable to me to see Molly and I mutually part ways be in accord about why we're parting ways and still see people speculating on why, he said, not only speculating in particular, saying it was because Herr and Stephen A. Smith had a relationship, and like, unequivocally, I'm not here to speak for what he does in his personal life or what she does in her personal life. I got loved for

both of them. We still one hundred. I would just say that for people who thought we parted ways because they have a relationship. Then I got some Swampland and Detroit to sell you for top dollar. That is not why we split, right, So things just didn't work. He said, they're on the same accord of why it didn't work, and it's not that he said it was a reach people saying that the three of them were in the middle of some type of situation. He said, that's why

none of us have spoken on it. He said, um people would say, Jalen to Sucker Stephen a Snash's wife and he up there working with him. Or look at Molly. She was talking to Jalen yesterday. Now she's kicking it with Da Da Da. That ain't happen. Yeah, they're broken up. It's over right. M's over divorced, all right. Megan the Stallion and Netflix are developing a comedy series that's going

to be loosely based on her life. She signed a first look deal with Netflix to create an executive produce her own shows, and in a new interview with Deadline, the head of comedy for Netflix, Chasey Pacosta, revealed that they are developing that they said it's a very early stages. She came in she picked something loosely based on her life growing up and we got very excited about it. We think she's special, interesting, so something to stay tuned for.

She also got the Key to the City and a Megan the Stallion day by the way in Houston, so shout out to her for that. I be getting the Key to the City at Houston. And another big news, Push Your Teeth got his first career number one album, Come on Now Almost Dry, score one for the Dinosaurs, drop on a clues box will Push your Teeth. Damn it very well deserved. Yes, fifty five thousand is what they're saying between streams and pure sales, So congratulations to

him for his first ever number one album. Also, they had projections for next week for futures album I Never Well this week I Never Liked You, And according to those reports, they're saying it's gonna sell between one hundred and seventy five to two hundred thousand units, so they said it will be the biggest debut of the year, over sixty million streams day one. And that's why longevity

is the key. When you look at somebody like Push your Teeth puts your Teeth been around since nineteen ninety six, just getting his first number one as an album. Now, but he's been making a great living. He's known as one of the best to ever do it, and he's been doing it for twenty plus years. You look at somebody like Future, he's been doing well over a decade. It's like it's I don't know how what number album is this for Future? But you're about to have another

number one album. Okay. And if I'm not mistaken, if you just like tied for fifth most number one albums by any rapper ever. The moral of the story is longevity is the key. It's cool to be hot for the moment, but you know, no, you're hot for a decade or better, two decades or better. That's what you want kids, Okay, Yeah, and you gotta start somewhere obviously, right, Get hot now and keep it going. So that's how

you get longevity now, Pee Valley Start. Tyler Laplay and his girlfriend Miracle Watts are expecting their first child together. They met on the set of the show So Congratulation. According to sources that the Jazmine brand, they're saying that she is allegedly pregnant and the couple are gonna have their first child. He already has two kids aged four and one from a previous relationship, and this would be her first child. All right, I'm angela yee and that

is your rumor reports. All right, thank Commissie Charlemagne. Who you given that? Don't get man four after the hour? I need this high school in Texas. East Bernard High would have come to the front of the congregation. I can't believe it's twenty twenty two and we're still having conversations about hair. Hair. We'll discuss four after the hour. All right, we'll get to that nextus to breakfast club. Good morning the breakfast club. Your mornings will never be

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in this country between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey to the latest on that police killing of a black man now a new developments in the deathly spashooting rampage. If it was a really bad day for him and this is what he did, and so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, White supremacives violence is it always has been the number one threat to oxraciety. But I'm also very proud that my wife was white because the practice club bitches, Please tell me, why was

I your donkey? How we starting off Monday donkey? Today? For Monday, May second goes to East Bernard High School in East Bernard, Texas and the whole East Bernard Independent School District. Now, I understand rules or rules, okay, And every single corporation in school has different policies. And if you want to work in these corporations, if you want to attend these schools, you have to follow their rules

and addhair to their policies. I get it. But that doesn't mean we can't also challenge those rules and policies. And that's what we are doing this morning to East Bernard High School because they have a dress code policy, and that dress code policy states that braided hair our corn rolls will not be allowed. Okay, there's a term for that rule, and that term is natural hair discrimination. Okay, race based hair discrimination. Everybody knows haird discrimination is rooted

in systemic racism. Okay. Policies that prohibit natural hairstyles like afros, braids, dreadlocks, they've been us to justify removing black grown folks from their employment and removing black kids from classrooms. Okay, I mean it is literally the criminalization of black hair, and it makes black people feel like they have to conform the perms Okay, straighten in their hand, doing whatever they have to do to not face consequences for rocking their

natural hair. So basically, it's like a cast system for your hair, all right. You know, instead of leaning into your natural God giving black natural look, you know that can lead to firings and removals from school, so you end up conforming and leaning into eurocentric beauty standards. Okay, all right, And that's what East Bernard, Texas is currently doing, are making a young seventeen year old diary Williams have to decide about, Okay, dropping a clues bombs for Diarry Williams.

He's just a young black man taking life one ghetto day at the time. He's doing his best out here to figure this life thing out, and he moved from Cincinnati, Ohio to East Bernard, Texas and now because of the school's discriminatory hair policy. Because it is discriminatory. It's preventing him from doing things he loves to do, like running track. And if he's not running track, he won't be noticed

by scouts for college scholarships. They won't even let him go to coactice until he gets rid of his hair. Let's go to NBC two for the report. Police Derry william says his hair gives him pride. Without my hair, I wouldn't be the person that I am today. The seventeen year old wants to be a veterinarian, runs track two and hopes for a scholarship, but he fears that won't happen. He's homeschooled, has been since his family moved

to East Bernard from Ohio in February. Mom does Aray Bullocks says she tried to enroll him in East Bernard High School, but when she was given the dress code, she learned the boys cannot have hair past their ears. And I explained to her that my son had locks in his hair, and she was like, oh, well, he's going to have to cut those. East Bernard ISD. Student handbook outlines it's dress code and hair policy, which also

forbids quote, braided hair or twisted rose strands. Bullocks says she eventually reached the superintendent and hopes of getting a religious exemption. She got back with me and she said dre it exam form will not be granted. It could not be granted at this time. And a statement to KPRC two East Bernard's superintendent of school said, in part quote, East Bernard ISD has not denied enrollment to the individual involved in this situation, as no enrollment or registration documents

have been filed. But Bullock says she didn't enrolland because of the policy, my veterinarian can't wear dreadlocks. Dreadlocks. What does Whoopie Goldberg think about this? What about Eva Duveney? This is why the Crown Act needed to be passed in all fifty states. Okay, if you don't know what the Crown Act is, it stands for creating a respectful and open world for natural hair. And it's a bill

that will ban race based hair discrimination and employment. Okay, and for those participating in federally assisted programs, housing programs, and public accommodations. I'm assuming it would impact schools too. It passed the House last month, but of course has to be approved by the Senate. Okay, before it sent to the President's desk. But it's twenty twenty two and we're talking about hair there. Uh no, we're not talking

about here. We're talking about systemic racism, and this is just another example of how this system keeps their footing on black people's Next, let's not get it aft up. Okay. I don't care how many Kardashians you see with corn rolls. When you hear a company you say you can't have braids, corn rolls locks, those rules are for black people. Okay. And I know what you're thinking, Well, why doesn't he just cut his hair? My rebuttal to that would be why does he have to? Okay? What does hair have

to do with your level of brilliance? What does hair have to do with your level of athletic ability? What does hair have to do with your behavior? Okay? East Bernard a High school? Why do you care about an individual's hair at all? Okay? Not. The only way this is a fair policy is if it's hair and beauty standards for white people in that school handbook. Okay, If

it's not, then this is nonsense. All right with this school if told Albert Einstein his hair was violating some type of hair policy, all right, Albert Einstein, one of the most brilliant minds ever who gave us the theory of relativity, where they have kicked him out of school because his hair violated some type of hair policy. And if you don't think these rules are rooted and any

type of discrimination, and simply google the case of Beverly Jenkins. Okay, she was an employee for Blue Cross, all right, worked for Blue Cross for three years, and then she started wearing her hair naturally in an afro. When it came time for her to get a promotion, Beverly Jenkins was denied and told she could never represent Blue Cross with an afro. Beverly Jenkins sued for discrimination using the Civil Rightsack in nineteen sixty four and Beverly Jenkins one trop

include boss for Beverly Jenkins. Gandhi once said, our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. Well, I don't know when Gandhi said that, but I know he's been dead for about seventy five years, so clearly he said that a long, long, long time ago, and we still are a long way from having any unity in diversity. So whatever tests Gandhi

was talking about, we have failed that with flying colors. Okay, please let Remy may give East Bernard High School the biggest he haw heh heh, you stupid mother? Are you dumb? Like? Come on, man, all right, let the man walk in his graduation. Okay, let him run track, but come on, all right, well, thank you for that donkey. Today. Up next, Chloe Bailey will be joining us now, Charlomagne says and swears that's his cousin. I don't say and swear anything. Okay,

this is a known fact, all right. She brought it to my attention a long time ago. And her mom Sleut her mom and Haley and her father. What's their names? Her their father, Doug? What's her mom's name. I don't know her mother's name. That's your aunt. That is not my aunt. What are you talking about. That's not your be my aunt? No, it's not. You can have second and third cousins and fourth cousins say that your first cousins are the ones that who have that you got

aunt and uncle's boy. So she your third or fourth cousin we are, that's I don't I don't know what number it is, but yes, somewhere along the line we're cousins, all right. Well St. Stephen, South Carolina, the Mount's corner, South Carolina. Somewhere along the way we're cousins. Well, Chloe Bailey joining us when we come back, so don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Come morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Ngula yee, Charlomagne the guy.

We are to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, young superstar and an alleged cousin, my cousin's cousin, Chloe. Yeah. Well this is to you guys. Who are you feeling. How are you doing. I'm feeling really good. I'm happy to be here. I'm so happy to see you again and you guys. So I'm good. I'm here in New York City, so just working and grinding and everything. Yeah, so that'll be really nice. Now

we were talking off here. I was asking you how long did it take you to get dressed for that. For that, it takes me like three or four hours, Like you know, I'm always really late to getting dressed. So for that, I have to like be on the structure diamond clock because I just when do you lay outfit out? You know, the day before school? We used to lay out out before I'm sure like to pick. Yeah. So I have my first fitting tonight actually, and that'll be really fun. Like I've seen a picture of it.

I can't wait to try it on. I hope it like fits me right, I think it will, So I have two fittings for it. You go to the met with because the met is when you look at it, sometimes a little boogie foo fooshi. Yeah, So who do you kick it with in the met? Oh? Okay, So the last time I went to met, my sister and I went and I was really really nervous. I didn't know what to expect. But when we got in the room,

it was like really chill. And I think it's because none of us can like bring a plus one, so we all just have to like mingle and like talk and everything. So it was really fun. I had the best time because usually when I go out places, I kind of get a little nervous. But the met I had the best time. You had your sister last time. Yeah, so so now you got to go by yourself? Oh yeah, I don't have there's no date for the met No, just me, just me, So I gotta stuff out my

comfort zone. But it'll be fun. So what was table do they put you on? Did they just did they tell you what? Yeah? I have a designated table. I'll be there with some of my friends, So I'm happy. Okay, when you're navigating your way through this industry, it's clearly easier to do it with your sister. Yes, absolutely So do you like doing this solod thing? And I wanted to sheet like doing this old thing? I it's definitely interesting.

Like it's a whole other level of like fighting for yourself and believing in yourself, because it's like when you kind of go through like because not everything's gonna be a high moment. So when you have those times when you're struggling, usually like we lean on each other and be like, oh girl, like we got this, We'll pick each other up. Now, it's like I have to really solely believe in myself. So that's a little more scarier and it's like it's harder to do, but I'm learning

every day now. They say the solo album is done, true, it is true. I'm like, I'm creating every day still to see if it's like missing that little thing. But yet it's getting mixed right now and everything, so so it's been turned into the label. It hasn't been turned in. It's like getting like the final mixes and you know, features and all that good stuff. So it's left when you're dropping another single, are you just gonna yeah? Yeah,

that's you know. I can't wait for people to hear the whole body of work because it's like so many different sounds and layers to me, and I feel like when you hear the full project, you'll understand me as an artist. Um, but yeah, I'm probably gonna drop a couple more songs before I dropped the album. How does it feel look to go out? And I don't know if you go out to the clubs much, but how does it feel if you do to hear your club work in the club work in the club? It's insane.

It's a really great feeling. After treat Me came out, Um, I went to this club and shout out to Sasha. She performed it and I went out with her and I was like, wow, it sounds really good in here. And even when Have Mercy first hit and I was in the clubs listening to yeah yeah, and it's still going. So that makes me really happy. I'm excited to keep doing that and do it more, you know, and treat me, you say, treat me, treat me, treat me like I treat me. Yeah, that's something you demand just in a

relationship or just with people period, you know. I think just with people period. I'm learning every day that I

have to command respect and boss up. It's something like my god, Mom's always telling me, and it's really hard for me right now if I'm being on because I'm twenty three and I'm just like learning to command respect and attention where I when I walk into a room, and to just have people respect me for who I am as a woman, not what I look like, but my mental and how I speak and everything like that.

So I've been wondering about the whole respect thing just in life, right because we always say we want, we need people to respect us, but a personally can't respect you if they don't respect themselves. You know, I don't think it has anything to do with us. No, you know, it doesn't. It doesn't. And I think what people give you is how they're feeling internally. So a lot of times too, if I'm not feeling the best, I have to like check myself inside, like okay, what's going on?

So I don't give that out to people. You know what I mean? And how was your mental because I know people comment on everything that you do. It doesn't matter what you do, So how do you do that? Do you read social media comments? Do you feed into that or yeah? So I have an issue because sometimes I'll read it and then like I'll see that one thing and it just kind of drives me mad. So I have to like stay away from it. But of course, because it's socials, you're like, okay, I want to check in.

I want to see people like the song. I want to see of this. So it's like a push and pull kind of thing where I have to I know I shouldn't keep looking at it, but you know, we're human. So do you limit yourself? Do you say, Okay, I'm I'm only going to spend a this amount of time

or do you just like I try. I have the whole social media limit thing on my phone and then I keep denying it and it's like there's no point where I have the time or on I always wonder what y'all generation is social media to only gauge to see if something's successful. Honestly, Yeah, like everything everything's so reliant on numbers and analytics, and like it's cool because without social media I wouldn't be here, but sometimes it

also sucks the fun out of the art. Yeah, if you got haters, you got people that see you live in your best life, so you doing your thing and just want to say something negative. It sucks. It sucks, and it's like a lot of times when it sucks is when you see people spewing lies and making up things about something that has nothing to do with you or who you are as a person. That's when it's like, oh, you're just making that up just to say it. Are

you still having problems speaking up for yourself? No? Okay, Well, I mean I have like times where I have to like give myself a little pep talk and then I do it. So it's like taking me a while, but I'm learning it now. Like, what's what instance where you gotta give yourself a pep talk just if something doesn't really sit right with me or if I wish it was another way or like going this way, and I

know how I want it to be. I just kind of have to like speak out for it, or like if I don't fight for myself, then no one else will, you know. So that's what I'm learning. Is it easy to do it with you with your parents? Like with your dad and the last time your dad was Is it easy to say, no, Dad, this is what I want because that's still your dad. That's your dad, baby, Like how do you do it with that? Yeah? So you know I love them and I am so grateful for them, and how I am as a young woman.

And it's like now I'm twenty three, I want to command on my own and do things on my own and like that's where it'll feel really good, where I'm not relying on family or parents and I'm doing it as a grown young woman, grown wrong woman. Is your career is still fun? Are it starting to feel like work? It's still fun. If it wasn't fun, I think I

stop it. Like the creative part and the forming that's where I get my joy and my happiness, and like where I also get my joy and happiness is when I proved people wrong every time and it's like, yes, I did it, and it's like that's the best feeling. There's a lot of times where it's like damn, I didn't know it would be this difficult. I didn't know it would be this hard. But it's like the good always always the bad. Every time you want to play a record this morning, I do. I would love to

change treat me, Yeah, I would. We got more with Chloe Bailey where we come back, don't move. It's to Breakfast Club the Morning, DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the Guy. We all the Breakfast Club were still kicking it with Chloe Bailey, Shallowy and I. Recently you was talking about musicians not making a lot of money. Yeah, and what changes do you think it to be made in the music industry. I definitely think the cuts and the percentages we get and just how the whole thing kind of works.

But because all of us musicians love what we do, we kind of just go with it. But you know, it's a great branding tool and then that's when you make money with the tours and all of the things like that. So it has its highs and lows. So that's with anything in any industry breaking down about it. You're a producer as well, so produce supposed to get half, yeah, but then with your sister, so you're supposed to get half, and then you're supposed to get twenty five and then

she gets twenty five. But since it's your system. Yeah, in terms of publishing, we always just split everything because you know, we're equally contributing when it comes to like me and my solo music, just as a producer if I'm producing it, because producers will get a fee upfront for producing the track, but if I'm producing it, I don't get that because I'm the artist. So that's what that's all I was really explaining on The Terrell Show

with how that works. But like if you go to another big producer someone else, like they get a fee upfront, but if I'm producing it myself, I don't get that production fee per se. And yeah, I didn't understand that. They said if you're if you're in a group and you produce, you don't get paid as a producer. Yeah, but even as me as a solo artist. If I produce my own stuff, I don't get a production Really, that makes zero sense. Yeah, it's just how I'm trying. Yeah,

I'm going right. She could be a cut back and then you know, right, and then I'll just start producing for other artists and easy and then I'll fix it. When did you realize that the money was funny? Like? When when did it first hit you? Like, wait a minute, something.

So I have a love hate relationship with money. I love the things and the doors that it'll open, and like how it makes you look on the outside and like people respect you based on how you look, and so that's cool and everything, but I hate like what it does and the problems it causes and the greed and all of that. Like I hate it. But when did you realize that the money was funny? With the

music industry? With what I mean? Well, I mean we always kind of knew that growing up, Like you'd hear stories about like the people who inspired us and like what to look out for and everything. But I'm grateful that I'm in a good situation when it comes to that side and everything. I just think it's really important to be educated in that kind of way. And you know, I'm really grateful for be in Parkwood because she's constantly motivating me to kind of be educated in the business.

So you know, I kind of give all kudos to her and my god mom for that, and like just kind of being smart and witty with when it comes to my stuff and like looking at budgets and everything. No, not really like all like the fancy clothes and stuff like. No, I love giving gifts. Sometimes it's harder for me to do it for myself, so I'm not like a crazy big spender. I am with food like every day on

Uber eats and Postmates. I'm kind of going crazy. But we have no problem running up in the label for you if they're not doing your Oh no no, not not not up in the parent company. Not Now everything is good, Everything is good, Okay, yeah, okay. Now it's Chloe making the kind of music she wants to make. I am okay, I am absolutely And I can't wait

for people to hear the album. Um. You know, with anything, when you're kind of making music against the grain, you always have pushback sometimes, but it's really exciting and you know, I can't wait for people to catch up to the music and enjoy it, and there's been a lot of times where I'm like doubting, like is it okay? Maybe I should make this kind of music. So it's like, you know, but I'm like, let me just do what makes me happy. Was Beyonce during this project? And did

she do her version? I love her because because she like lets me fly and like do what I want when it comes to music, and she'll give her notes and like certain things, which I think is really dope and cool. So be honest, you hate beyond No, no, no, Honestly, that's what happens. I don't mind. I love her. I can talk about her all damn. Though you didn't answer that yet. That song been in? You heard it? No, cousin, I haven't heard it. I we know it exists, though

we know what exists? Does it exist? I don't know, it doesn't exist. I don't know. I don't know. We think that budget for what would a budget just hypothetically, hypothetically, what would a budget for a Beyonce Chloe video look like? Right now? That's priceless. That's only have you ever thought about the treatment what it would look like? I think about treatments for a lot of things. Okay, okay, you shoot. I think you know. I love the water, so you know,

I would shoot any video anywhere? Or would it be like a dance battle like a versus like you versus her? Like how would you think about No, I'm not qualified for that. I still got to get there, but yeah, I would love that one day. That would be really cool. I am glad that you said that. You're still having fun though, because the one thing I see I see people on social media be like, oh my god, like she she's always so happy like that can't be real.

Listen that. You know, she always comes off so media trade. I'm like, but that's that's her. Yeah, yeah, yeah? That did that bother you When you see people say that like sometimes, but not anymore. I'm like, I don't really care anymore. I just gotta be myself because it's like if I change myself, then I'm doing exactly what they're

claiming I'm doing. That's right. You know, before we go, last time you're saying you were having a problem dating, it was like it's difficult for them to highlight you and talk. How has it been now dating? Well, I'm single, so dating it's been interesting. It's been interesting to say the least. But it's cool because I'm like twenty three. Like when I was in high school, I was homeschool so I didn't really like dat a round or anything like that. So now I'm like figuring out what I like,

what I don't like, what's acceptable was not acceptable. So that's like where I am. Do guys talk to you? Because I see everybody's through snapchat, like they want to send messages Snapchat or dams, like, oh, guys actually pick up the phone and trying to call or yeah, so I'll get a lot of dms or like it'll happen a lot in person because I don't really respond to DM so it'll be like, why aren't you answering me? And I'm like, I'm not. I'm focused for myself right now.

But it's flattering. It's flattering. They had you linked the gun and you saw a gun up here blushing when he was up here. Yeah, I saw. I told him though, I said, you can't play with that one. Yeah. Yeah. No, he's a good friend and I'm happy with the music we did together, and that's what that was. Yeah, we have a release date? Can we round about time? I don't have a release date, but I do want to put it out before Grammy deadline in September, so hopefully soon. Okay, yeah,

that'll be great. Whenever God wanted to come out between that period, it will be out. So between now and September, we'll be getting the new Chloe y Yes, okay, okay, Well, Chloe Bailey, we appreciate you for joining us. Thank you. It's always a pleasure. Thank you, thank you. What'll do giving? Yeah,

what we're doing. You're gonna make me some vegan. I saw you, I saw the beautiful house on um that I thought you showed you crib in La Yeah, yeah, that look that's like a perfect place to happen dinner. You're gonna No, I don't cook, but I'll order in That's what I do. You can't eat on things giving, I know, but we can like get catering services. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no stress easy, Okay, done that because you know that one, because you know invite right there. It's Chloe Bailey. It's

the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Oh gosh, reports breakfast Club. Yes, but that's a Brian. She narrated a touching chip to her daughter Gianna for her sixteenth birthday in partnership with Nike. Now Nike posted it was never about what she got from basketball. It was always about what she gave back. Gig gave inspiration to her teammates, her mentors, and the next generation. Hashtag played Gigi's way hashtag Mamba Mambasita Sports. And here is what Vanessa Brian

had to say in this tribute. Dear Gianna, from the first time you imagined winning a WNBA championship, I knew one thing was real. You were special. You came from greatness, but it was never about what you inherited. It was about what you gave to others. When someone stands up for gender equality, I see you fighting alongside them, and every time someone plays her hardest, I know that's you on the court. I love you always, basketball man. That's beautiful.

The sniggers are sold out too, By the way, and lamar Odom got Kobe Bryant's face tattooed in his neck after he said he had vivid dreams about Kobe while he was in the Celebrity Big Brother House. He said, it's just his face. It's on my neck. When I was in the Celebrity Big Brother house. I dreamed of him four or five times. They were really vivid and easy to remember because he was talking to me in

the dreams. He just looked back to me and said low that afterlife ain't what people make it up to be. And I just kind of woke up. So he said he was stunned and shocked from those dreams, but that it could mean a lot of things. It could have meant that he misses his people, misses his daughters. Could have meant maybe his job wasn't finished. It. I woke up really emotional after that. Let's talk about Black China.

Black China's jury is still deliberating whether the Kardashians are on the hook for actually making sure that her season didn't get a season two with Black China and Rob Kardashian. But Kim Kardashian did go ahead, and when they tossed out Black China's defamation claim against Kim Kardashian, so that's a win for them. They said that Kim made no defamatory statements against Black China, so they just dropped a part of or her cases right her suits. Yeah, she

was asking for forty million dollars for that claim. But they're still deliberating about why the season two didn't happen, if it was because the Kardashian Jenners were responsible, or if it wasn't going to happen in the first place. You know what's scary that that story you told about lamar In in Kobe. I don't know. I don't want to have any memories of life in the afterlife. Wouldn't that make being dead like like cruel and unusual punishment?

Can you imagine still having a conscious of the life you lived after you passed? Um? I mean, I just don't know what it's like. I don't know if it's a positive things like, yeah, So I can't say that it's I can't say that it's a bad thing because it sounds like a bad thing to have a consciousness of your previous life while you have passed away. Oh

my god, can you imagine? Because that could in in the afterlife if you're doing other thing too, you just have memories and you're you know, meeting with other people that are there as well. Who knows. All right, now, they're saying that Pete Davidson may have gotten another tattoo, and what they're saying this tattoo on his neck is of Kim Kardashian's kids initials. So fans spotted that. They said at the White House, corresponding Stanner, where Kim and

Pete Davidson were there together. And some people are saying that the tattoo appears to show the letters, and we've seen pictures of it K and SCP, so they're saying that's for North Saint Chicago and PSALM. He's gonna get on one knee, sting. I gotta talk to my bro, bro, Pete. Let me talk. I talk to Pete, get on one kneed and he'd ready now. Pete also addressed the Kanye West harassment at the Netflix is a joke fest, and so at his stop on the festival, he spoke publicly

about the situation. He actually made jokes about Kanye's behavior toward him, including an incident where Kanye attempted to spread rumors that Davidson had contracted AIDS. He said, I had an AID scare this year, and he said that he went to his doctor for a checkup. That is true though, yeah, well, he went on to say, am I the only one who secretly helps Kanye? Will go full missus? Doubtfire as far as trying to spend more time with his children by posing as a housekeeper and his ex wife home.

So there's a few other things that he said, so you can see he's going to be taking this on the road and making jokes about his real life as he should. Like listen, when you're a comedian or anybody like that, like your life is your content. Why wouldn't you do that? M All right, well that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now up next, we got the People's Choice mixed Get your requests and also June nineteenth fall this day week, and of course

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Shout out to Van Laketon for joining us. Salute the Van Layton, make sure you gonna grab my guys book Man, Fat, crazy and tired. Tails from the Trenches of Transformation, the what tails from the trenches Transformation? I don't know what word you just said, Man, your words all over the place. That is not true goodness gracious all right, And also shout out to Chloe Bailey for joining us as well, So Luther cousin Chloe, Uh, make sure you support her

new single treat Me all right? And she said her album will be September. She said anytime between that. Yeah, I say she's doing a summer a summer album right. Um, she don't know yet. She just said she wasn't to go out before the Grammys so it could be uh nominated for a Grammy. That's right, because her goal is to win it. Egott, correct, Yeah, but Salut Chloeon, sut To Halley and sut the Doug and her mom Courtney. You gotta okay, now you got her mom's name. Okay,

go ahead. I had to think about it. But her mom name is Courtney. But yes, Luthor Courtney, all right, all right, And I just want to shout out to everybody in Detroit the NAACP. I was here for the Fight for Freedom fund dinner. You know, there's usually about ten thousand people at this dinner every year, but they scaled it back this year so it was five thousand people. But it's a huge thing. They said. It's the biggest

chapter for the NAACP here in Detroit. Oh nice, all right, when we come back, we got the positive note and more so, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Come morning. Body is cj Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Now let me shout out to the ladies of Fox Soul Cocktails with Queens get and I will be on this show later on tonight, so definitely that ain't no play play show there now you gotta be on your p's and q's envy. I

ain't worried about Gail. I'm worried about you in a situation like that, Sir. My wife has been Vivica Fox and Celena Johnson, Lisa Ray. Who else is on that show? Claudia, Claudio Murder, my bad Sea Murder. I ain't know Claudia was Ondi's just been on that show for a long time. No, Claudia is on that show. Yes she is, Yes she is. Yes, I know. I know Claudia has the show on Fox Soul, but I didn't know it was with Vivica. And yes she she actually started that show too with them. Oh okay,

well yeah, yeah. All I know is pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, envy. No pressure, sir, and the kid, just not your head and agree. That's it. Absolutely, That's what my wife stre for my wife. See there you go. Yeah, absolutely. And when they start putting that pressure on you about not making uh you know, your wife all gasm for ten years, you stand in your truth. It is my truth. I got to lie about it ain't nothing. I ain't gotta

lie about nothing. That we remember that too. If they bring me up about you not making me twelve years. That's not true, boy, what's not true? What you just said? What's not true? So I can't I can't speak on that. He said, what have you made me or gathering in twelve years? Sir? We don't have that type of relationship. What are you talking about? It's either simple yes or no, sir. It's a simple yes or no. I pleaded the fifth, sir. Wow, okay,

that'll that'll be. That'll get you a headline, get your headline. Asked that question. When they asked you that question and you say I plead the fifth, that's a headline. That's a headline. Yeah, goodness, you got a positive text, Claudia right now? Boy? Great? The positive note is simply this man, it's an old people goodie comes from doma guel Ruis. You know. I love doma guel or wease of four agreements, I swear by it. But one of the four agreements

is don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering, breakfast club, y'all finish or y'all dumb