What Does "Urban" Mean to You

this again, try to get my bad. My bad started from what's going on? Stop? Good morning USA in Toronto yo your yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo. Good morning Angelo, Ye, Good morning d danby Charlomagne. The god peace to the planet is Monday, Yo. Get my Monix drop with a six drop at drop No. Six six six six six six. No, don't put that in doing it. Yeah, he's our Christmas

maybe maybe Chris Thanksgiving? Possibly, Welcome morning everybody. It's Monday. Back to the work week. Yes, I'm sick of it. I need to be back in the studio. I'm tired of being quarantined at home doing it, doing it from the zoom. I want to I want to be back in the studio. I'm not gonna lie to you. Well, today's Phase one in New York City for people returning to businesses, construction businesses. I think you can do pick up at non essential businesses. You can pick things up.

But they said we probably want to move into phase two until next month. Yeah, they're saying four hundred thousand employees returning to work today in New York. So that's exciting, beautiful, that's good. So I wanted that adds on to the two point five that they said, uh went back to work. I guess sometime in May, yet that adds on to it. That's good. I'm happy drop dropping on the clues BOMs for everybody going back to work. Glad you got a job.

God is good. Yeah, they allowed when the graduations too, one hundred and fifty people allowed in New York State beginning on June twenty six, So they moved it up a little bit so only for outdoor graduations, one hundred and fifty people allowed, so the class of twenty twenty will get to graduate, hopefully sooner than later. So shout out to the class twenty twenty. Me too. That really hurt my really hurt my heart because those kids, like you know, I didn't I didn't march because I graduated

in night school. But I know those kids work hard and that's something that they always gonna remember, right And by the way, a lot of them probably ain't gonnaver graduate from college, so that might have been the only time they do that a little you know, dance to that pomp and circumstance, do I to They figured out

a way to do socially distance outdoor graduations. Back to those kids, I'm glad too, and not just college, you know high school and you know kids graduating kindergart and go in the first grade, like all those big moments, you know what I mean. Parents are always taping. You have that for life. So I'm glad that students would start to be able to graduate. Because my daughter definitely didn't think she was going to be able to walk, but now looks like she's gonna too, So that is

that is great. Captain And then Captain gowns are not cheat people. Okay, and you bought those early in the year, don't you. No, you actually buy it, uh No. But I had to purchase him about about two about a month ago, two months ago. But I already had a backup plan, and I went to my house and got my Captain gown for my mama, and I was just gonna, you know, alter it a little. So my daughter, ken walking act, you still have yours. My mother has everything

that I've ever did. Every when I graduated. Everything when I graduated was pouring raining, and so everybody had like nice outfits they had planned to wear some instead everybody just put on sneakers. It was like pouring that day. I remember that I couldn't wait to get it over with no outside in the pouring rain. I was the first person in my family to graduate and go to college, so it was big for my family. So my mom,

I mean she framed the diploma. I think she might even frame the captain gown and had to take it down and give it to me. Like that was really really a big moment for my family. So they were very excited that. I don't care if it was raining, if it was snowing, they were gonna keep that. So anyway, let's get the show cracking front page news. What we're talking about, Well, let's talk about defunding the police. Protesters are calling for that to happen in some situations, it

looks like it will. What does that even mean? All right, we'll get into that next. Keeping lock this to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlemagne the guy? We all to Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news where were starting. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has now said the league was wrong for not listening to players who were fighting for racial equality and encourage people to peacefully protest. Here's the video that was released.

Read the National Football League condemn racism in the systematic oppression of black people. We the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier, and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protests. Read the National Football League believe black lives matter. I personally protest with you and want to be part of the much needed change in this country. So it's okay to

nail now. Donald Trump responded on Twitter. Could it be even remotely possible that in Roger Goodell's rather interesting statement of peace and reconciliation. He was intimating that it would now be okay for the players to kneel or not to stand for the national anthem, there by disrespecting our country and our flag. Here's more about Roger Goodell had

to say. Without black players, there would be no National Football League, and the protests around the country are emblematic of the centuries of silence, inequality, an oppression of black players, coaches, fans, and staff. We are listening. I am listening, and I will be reaching out to players who have raised their voices and others on how we can improve and go

forward for a better and more united NFL family. People were wondering if he was going to in particular, mentioned Colin Kaepernick's name, which he did not, but they are saying the NFL will reportedly not running work out like last year, but there are increased hopes around the league that he could get signed. For the first player he has to reach out to his Colin Kaepernick. If he said he's reaching out to players, you know, if he doesn't do that, that's a half ass apology. You gotta

personally apologize to Colin Kaepernick. You also have to admit that you know Kapp was black balled, and if it wasn't a strategic intentional black ball when they notice no owner was attempting to sign him, nobody hits the top intervene to say that's wrong, to make sure he plays. But all these corporations are full of it. You know, don't scream black lives matter if you don't have any black people on your board. You know what I mean.

NFL got three black coaches, zero black owners. All you corporations are full loving, releasing all these I Love black People promos and I love Black people tweets and memes, but that isn't reflected in your business every day. This is about black lives marketing at this point. If you really care about black lives showing proof through actions indeeds, let me see what your board look like. You know what I'm saying. Let me see what your black HighRes

look like and seeing your positions. Let me see if the black people in that company are making just as much as the white people in that company, if if they're performing, you know, at the same rate, all better let me see that. Other than that, it's garbage. Yeah, I see a lot of companies calling out their companies as well where they work. Now, Minneapolis City Council has announced plans to disband their police department. The nine councilmembers

they form a veto proof majority. They committed to defunding the department and moving toward a community base public safety model. During a rally, according to local reports, they said, it is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe. Our efforts at incremental reform have failed. Period. It's our commitment and policing as we know it and recreate systems of public safety that actually help keep us safe. So they plan to begin voting on legislation targeting the

department as well. A lot of protests are calling to defund the police. So what does that actually mean. Well, what that means is instead of funding a police department, a lot of that budget will be invested in the community,

especially marginalized ones where much of the policing occurs. They want to reallocate some but not all, funds away from police departments to social services, and they also want to implement reforms like police trainings and body cameras and change that people really want so that communities can actually feel safer. So they said, it's a spectrum of different things that can happen, and those funds can go towards mental health,

domestic violence, homelessness, among other things. Yeah, I think it's great. You know, instead of funding the police department, yes, put most of the city budgets back into the communities, especially the marginalized black ones. You know what I'm saying. You know, we don't never get that kind of funding. Invest in the schools, the hospitals, housing, food in the hood, invest in those social services for mental health. If if you provide folks in the hood with a better quality of life,

providing with the quality opportunities, guess what will happen. Crime will go down. And when crime goes down, policing goes down, which means interactions, when police go down, which means police killings go down. It's a really simple concept. People, put some money in the hood. It's not hard. You've been telling you this for years. All right, Well, lad is front page news. Get it off your chest. Eight undred five eight five one oh five one. If you need

to vent, hit us up right now. Maybe had a bad week in a horrible weekend, or maybe your weekend was great and you feel blessed. Call us up right now. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one is the Breakfast Club. Good morning the Breakfast Club. I'm telling of yo. If this is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eighty five one oh five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's this yo?

This is J Dre What I mean brow y'all doing this morning? Another day? Blessed black and holly favor sir? What's brothers? Wonderful? I just want to call it and get off my chest. I want to say all his love to the black community into the world. Everybody, have a great day. Just morning starts, you know, all his love. Thank you guys as nice and positive? Alrighty baba? Hello? Who's this? Okay? This build? No father, get it off her chess bro. I had an instant throughout this weekend

with my family. UM my son who I lived in Robby, my seller's in Green bro He've been up there protests and everything, and wife was my sister in law, decided to send my son a video of the can this Owen's rant? And she thought that she needed to send him as but she never gave us an explanation, and my son tried to explain to them, I'm black. My

wife's time. So for whatever reason, she sent him that video thinking that that was gonna have him look at things differently and kind of divided her family because of that. So he kind of agreed with candids I went or who hell to help to to know? Okay, I'm just they just didn't know why she was sending that with no context. The whole thing. Yeah, that's the whole thing is we don't know why she sent it, you know,

and then they just send that video. Heard my son, let's tell me if you agree with it or disagree with it. That's that's what you do when you and be like, hey man, look at it, look at this foolishness. O hey, what do you think about this? Something? No? No, nothing. She just sent this to him, and then my son

had to kind of explain things to her. But between her and a boyfriend, they try to they try to kind of shed light on the issue, and he was trying to let them know that you can't tell me how things are going, how things should be when you're not in my shoes. You're not black, you have to worry about getting pulled over by the police and having monetary things taken from you by the police for no

reasons for being black. And it was a back and forth and they got my wife so upset that my wife was on her way to Connecticut to fight her sister and her board room and her mother had to talk her mother had to talk her off the ledge because we do believe that these conversations for people right now, because especially when you don't agree with each other. Yeah, but the thing, the thing is age is um my

wife and I've been together for thirty years. So you know what I'm saying, it's like for her for this, for this to happen. We don't have a problem talking about her because we understand because I'm black. My kids are black if my racial but in in society's eyes the black, So they who have white children don't understand, right, the things that our children have to go through on a daily basis. Well, my kids leave the house. The one thing I do tell them do I say be

safe and I love you absolutely, God forbid. And something s happened to my kids. What are out and there about at least I know. That's the last thing that I say, Tom, is that to be safe and I'll love you. And like you said, it is, it is. It is a tough time, and it is it is

a tough thing to talk about. But for some people, I don't have a tough I don't have to talk about it, all right, I tell you it could feel really repet I too, because it's like we're having these conversations right now with so many people who don't understand that could easily do some research themselves and find out and it gets a little frustrating, exactly. And that's what mother in law did because my mom law was an educator. So what she did was once she found out about it,

she was she was pissed off. And her thing, her question, the same as mine, was what was the reason for sending it? So she did some research on Kandis Owens and she sent myself, my wife, my son, my sister in law. She sent us an email that she found a right up about Candis Owens and what she's about, and a lot of it, a lot of it I

didn't know. And she she, like I said, she's an educator, an English educator, and she built deep and she found it and she sent it to us, and she's very upset with her daughter for doing that right and she feels I had a conversation with her about why she did it. Well. I hope y'all get it together and I hope that she understands how you know, irresponsible? That was Yeah, thanks for checking in, brother, Get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.

If you need to vent, hit this up now. It was the breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man. Thank you from you on the Breakfast Club. But you got something on your mind. Hello, who's this? This is the d I'm calling from Jacksonville. They d get it off your Jacksonville, Florida. What's happening, d Well?

I was just listening to what you were saying earlier about them disbanding Minneapolis Police Department and allocating funds into the hood. They're not gonna do that nationwide because it's poverty and crime is a million billion dollar business. They don't want it to stop, they want it to keep going. It's a this is cycle that's been going on for years and to stop it to solve the problem. They don't want the problem to be solved because it's gonna

take money out of their pockets. Well, that's my love to Elections are important and who represents you is important too, because the reason this is happening in many the list it's because of the local council members. This whole moment that we're in is to get America to change this business model. We all know what America's business model is. That's white supremacy. So we have to dismantle this mechanism or white supremacy. So I'm not mad at the idea

defunding the police at all. I'm not mad at it either, But there's so many people who are sleep There's so many people like I'm not gonna join in on the keeping the money and with black business. I'm still gonna go eating made thenalds. I'm still gonna go eating tiphil a like I've listened to like some of my I won't even say friends, I say associated say that like they don't. They don't care. They're not trying to help

the change. They're gonna keep adding on to the problem because they don't think it really affects them, and even if it does affect them, it's like they really don't care, don't affect them enough for them to try to help to change. You know. You know Harry, those types of people shot him. Ain't got time for that. You're trying were leaving. We're trying to get the hell up out the head. Okay we out. You either come in with us,

are you not? You want to stay here and be a slave, Stay here and be a slave, But you're not gonna hold us up. Okay, you're not gonna slow us down. Thank you, mama. Hello, who's this yo? This shark called Charlotte? What's up? Broke? Get it off your chests? Seven old four Queen City. Yeah, I got two things. First, let's talk about that Chick fil a thing. They're not

back in this this movement. But also last week just got called about the accountability of the police officers having to register like we have to do with our license. I think we need to talk about that subject because we need to push it, and y'all have that platform to kind of put that out there. But we need to really put these policies a turnable, because they don't need seven times to finally kill somebody, or two many times to finally kill somebody. They need to be held accountable,

and that's the only thing that change its accountability. Absolutely, that's it. You get with you, the man, you're encourage, with you, tolerate. That's right, that's right, we'll get it off your chest. Don't drink five eight five, one oh five one. If you need the event, you can hit this up. Now, we got rumors on the way. Well, yes, let's talk about some companies who are being called out right now for their policies and things that they're saying

online and what's actually going on within their businesses. Will give you a couple of examples. All right, we'll get into that next. Keeping locked this to breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club, borning everybody in cdj Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Michael B. Jordan. Listen, it's just report,

it's report breakfast club. Yes, so, Michael B. Jordan, he had showed up to protest with the people in Los Angeles and he talked about something his very memorable movie roles Just think about it. Just Mercy Black Panther Fruit Bill Station, and he discusses his role in Just Mercy. He said, I learned his tactics, I learned his mentality, and then he goes on to talk about the ways in which his own production team prioritizees inclusion. Here's what he had to say. The World's were the world's more

powerful industry. I'm an active member of that. I'm dedicated our production coming to an inclusion writer. But it has to go beyond that, so to the brands that support me, to all the productions, to the studios, to the all the business businesses and partnerships that I have. If you have any financial ties the police, we have to relook at our business. We have to stop hiring police. We

have to cut off their supporting. That's why I'm committing to hire hiring private security at a whole body event. Michael Bee is right. You know what I'm saying. If you have a voice at your company, you got some some type of je at your company, If you got you know, some leverage with these companies you working with, you got to make sure that they are all about inclusion. I don't know, I have to be honest with you should have been doing this before this moment, but better

late than level right. And here's something else that people are getting called out about now. Adidas actually posted the word racism crossed out on their Instagram page and then they said take action. Things won't change unless we create that change. Well, unfortunately, there was a lot of backlash

from their very own employees. Now. One person, Julia Bond, who's black and works as an assistant designer at Adidas, sent out a letter to Adidas's leadership that she shared and she said that Adidas's response is shameful, and she said they have consistent complacency and taking active steps against a racist work environment. Apparently there's a lot of conversations from employees about things that are going on in their workplace, a lot of complaints that are often disregarded, and a

lot of frustration. She said, crossing out the word racism does not negate its reality. Rather, it makes you feel comfortable knowing that it's gone. Unless you are actively working and instilling practices against it, you uphold the very thing you claim to admonish. So she called on Adidas to issue a public apology for the racism and discrimination they have openly enabled and perpetuated across the brand. So that's right. Apparently a lot of people have been talking about it there,

so all these corporations are full of it. Don't scream black lives matter if you don't have a lot of black hires. All you corporations are full of it if you're releasing these I love Black people tweets and let's dismantle White supremacy memes and videos. But well, your business doesn't reflect that. It's a fat. It seems like a fat. It looks good to people. So the people are doing it, but they have to really do it. Yeah, that's how you make it not a fad by actually putting people

in those positions in your company. Black people. Don't let black lives matter turn to black lives marketing for some of these corporations. Well, in Adida, spokesperson is now saying they're going to have an all employee meeting this week to discuss the topic and sharing an action plan. They said, we recognize that we have not done enough, and we are dedicated to doing more. We are close to finalizing our commitments to ensure our people, most importantly, our black

employees are heard, supported and involved in solutions. The action plan is simple, high more black people. How many black people work at your place of business? How many black people have seen your roles in your company? How many black people on your board? What did your black representation look like? Is Kanye West on the board at Adidas? He should be. He's got a billion dollar company that he built over there were easy. He gave him a lot of cultural relevance over the last few years. Is

Kanye West on the board at Adidas? I don't know. I feel like if black people make up thirteen percent of the population, we should have thirteen percent representation in all industries. We have equity ownership, our involvement. Do you have black people company who are outperforming the white people with the white people still make more money to the black people? Why is that? Uh, let's talk about it.

If we're gonna talk about it now. Rebake has also ended their partnership with CrossFit after their CEO made some insensitive from marks. Greg Glassman is the CEO of cross Fit. On Twitter now, they said, our partnership with Crussfit HQ comes to an end later this year. Recently, we have been in discussions regarding a new agreement However, in light of recent events, we have made the decision to end our partnership with CrossFit. We will fulfill our remaining contractual

obligations in twenty twenty. We owe this to the CrossFit Games, competitors, fans, and the community, but doesn't changes our commitment and dedication to cross fitters. Now, Apparently what happened was there was a post from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. There was a tweet said, racism and discrimination our critical public health issues that demand an urgent response wherever they occur, and Glassman responded, it's Floyd nineteen, so a lot of

people call them out on it. And after that happened. Reebok has now cut ties with cross needs to get Rebo, needs to get back in business with Rose. Perfect time to bring back ross Fit but he never had a ross Fit, but perfect time to launch ross Fit Okay with Rose, bring back Rose to Rebok member Reboke had the s Doc carters and the g Unit sneakers. Also early early on all Right moon walking in a pair of Rebok pumps too Ye Swiss had a deal as

a head over their designer. All Right, Snoop Dogg is going to vote for the first time in twenty twenty now he called into Big Boys neighborhood to discuss the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, and he said that it'll be his first time voting. Listen to this. I ain't never voted a damn my life, but this year, I think I'm gonna get out and vote because I can't stand to see this punking office

one more year. You gotta vocal voice for the voters, like you can give people that will go out and vote because Snoop Dogg said so. But for many years they had me brainwash, thinking that you couldn't vote because you had a criminal record. I didn't know that my record has been a sponged so I can vote better late than nevil. I felt the same way in two thousand and eight when I voted for the first time

ever for President Barack Obama. I didn't know I could vote because of my felonies, but I was mistaken and I went out there and voted for the first time for President Obama. The sad part about that whole situation is Paul Snoop is losing his voter of virginity to Joe Biden, h I lost my vote of virginity to President Barack Obama. You got vote virginity to Joe Biden. Hey, anything that will helped get down a Trump Attle office and said, that's exactly what he said. Yea, hey, yeah,

please don't let Trump pop your virgin voted cherry. Okay please? All right, I'm Angela yee And that is your rumor report. All right, when we come back, we got front page news. What are we talking about? Yes, we are going to be giving you guys updates on what's happening with openings and also George Floyd's services in Houston. Today there is a public viewing and tomorrow a funeral service. So we'll give you some details. All right, we'll get into that next.

Keep a lot. This to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela ye, Charlomagne the God. We all to Breakfast Club. Let's getting some front page news where we're starting. Ye, Well, today is Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer in charge with second degree murder of George Floyd. Is He's going to be having his first court appearance today. So I just want to point that out. So we keep an eye out for what's

going to happen there. Now today George Floyd will be remembered in Houston before being taken to his final resting place in Pearland. So today's a memorial in Houston and only five hundred people will be allowed in the church any given time during the visitation. So it's a public viewing from noon to six pm and it will be at the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston. Then tomorrow

he'll be taken to his final resting place. Just to give you an update, now, five hundred people will be socially distant at a time and mourners will be asked to wear face coverings and gloves. So the public will have to enter from two sides of the church and separate socially distanced lines, and after viewing exit the church and then you will not be allowed to return to

the lobby to leave. No bags will be allowed either, so you have to go through a metal detector and your temperature will be checked before you can even get in rest in Pezza. George Floyd, he's getting the hero send off. This is second memorial because the third is the Marl Right, I think the third is in Houston tomorrow, so this is second one today, Yes, and they'll be

streaming that by the way on khou dot com. So if you're at home and you want to watch the viewing and the funeral service, you can also stream that and watch it all right now, the mayor in Washington, Muriel Bowser, has four Emily endorsed Black Lives Matter Plaza downtown and it just steps away from the White House in Washington, DC. So here's what she had to say.

What we commissioned was the Black Lives Matter Mural uh, and it's become a centering point, a place for healing, um strategizing, but also redress, which is a right in America where citizens from all over the country come to their nature's capital to deliver grievances at the footstep of the people's house. Drop in includes bonds from mad Bowser. So that was dope right there. Now he lives at Black Lives Matter Plaza. Yeah, kind of petty, right like that?

All right? And Republican Senator mit Romney marched in DC at a protest after the death of George Floyd. Now here is what mit Romney had to say about participating in that demonstration to make sure people know what's really good. We need a voice against racism. We need many voices against racism and against retality. Lives matter. I like how Mit Romney set that up too. He posted a picture of his father actually protesting during the Civil Rights there.

I guess he's trying to say like father, like sons. I like the way he put that in context. Yeah. He posted a picture of his dad and said, this is my father, George Romney, participating in the Civil rights march in Detroit and the suburbs during the late nineteen sixties. Course alone will not eliminate riots. We must eliminate the problems from which they stem. I love it. I enjoy seeing that. I want to give y'all some good news too. Along with this. There's a teenager and I liked this story.

This was in Buffalo, New York, Antonio Gwen Junior. He saw the damage from protests in his hometown, and he went and got a broom, got some trash bags, and he started cleaning the streets all by himself. He started at two am on Monday. He did not stop cleaning for ten hours. Then a group of neighbors arrived later that morning, they wanted to start clearing out the damage, and they found that he had basically done most of the work. He's an eighteen year old high school senior.

He told TN, and he saw on the local news that the Billy Avenue in Buffalo was covered in glass and garbage. People needed to use that street to get to work in the morning, and he single handedly pretty much did everything. Now, Matt Black is a person who saw Antonio gwen junior story on the news and he decided that he was going to give him his prize

two thousand and four Red Mustin convertible. So he gave him that car because I guess they looked at his page and saw he was asking for advice on buying a car and things like that. And then local businessman actually gave him a year of free auto insurance as well through his insurance agency. So this high schooler went out and did a good deed, and then a lot of people chipped in to do something positive for him.

Well that's why you when you do things for people, or just do things in general, you do them and not expect anything in return. You just go out there and do it. You never know how the universe is gonna bless you. He just got his Camma back instantly, clearly all right, and Colin Powell. Donald Trump is upset

that Colin Powell will be voting for Biden. Now, he went ahead and said, Colin Powell, a real stiff who was very responsible for getting us into the disastrous Middle East wars, just announced he will be voting for another stiff, sleepy Joe Biden. Didn't Powell say that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? They didn't, but off we went to war. That's what he said on Twitter after Colin Powell appeared on CNN and said that he was going to be

voting for Biden. According to Colin Powell, he said, be up a constitution and we have to follow that constitution, and the president has drifted away from it. On State of the Union. Yeah, I was watching that yesterday. That's not a shock. Colin Powell voted for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. So I mean it's not a shot. And the problem with Trump Man and why you can't count Trump out as simple. We don't know how he won

in twenty sixteen. Twenty sixteen, it was the same thing, low prooper rating amongst people, lowdprooper rating amongst other GOP officials, every poll saying Trump didn't stand a chance, and then on election Day he became the guy damn president allowed me to reintroduce myself. Okay, that's why I keep saying Joe Biden has to go out there and beat him, because Trump isn't just gonna lose. And how does Joe Biden beat Trump by doing what all of the world

is doing right now? Leaning in the blackness? Okay, if Biden would have listened to us much ago, he would have been ahead of the curve, ahead of a black curve, all right, a long time ago. Still got talking to catch up, though, And that's why I say, like with representatives, I don't it's not really about whether you're a Democrat or a Republican. If I support somebody and I like their policies, I support them. So that's how you know some people on my sake phone and power as a Republican.

But he's supporting Joe Biden, and that's great. Interest. You vote what you think is best for the country, simple as that. It's not about personality. It's about policy, simple, it's not about individuals, it's about interest. Simple. All right, Well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your front page news. All right. When we come back Republic Records, they banned the term urban within the label and they are encouraging

the music industry to follow suits. So you know a Republic Records is home of Drake, Ariana Grande and a host of others. We eight five eight five one o five. They might need to ban the word urban. I ain't hear one black number play the term urban. What do you guys feel about the term the term urban? That that is the question. Let's talk about it. Do you think the term urban should be banned? We'll talk, But

why do you hate it? I hate the term urban because it makes me feel like, um, they're just afraid to say black. I've I've always said that. By the way, I've never liked that word. I'm on record saying that. And the reason I never liked the word urban is because what I just said, I always felt like it was their way of avoiding the word black. Like I like to hear the word black. I would like to hear black. Adult contemporary music card. You know, Mike Kais

is the head of Black Music Atlantic Records. The Breakfast Club is a black radio show, well one one, one, one and a half in a Dominican and I like when people refer to me as a black radio personality, not an urban radio personality. Even why it's interesting say they't make black music. They'll give somebody like Ed Sharon. They'll say he's one of the most important urban artists, but he's not black. But does he make urban music, malack music? Or what do you call the black music?

So when you have an artist like, let's say a Post Malone or Eminem, do you say they make black music? Polst Malone, post Malone? Watch you said post I know what I Malone? I said post Malone. I said to artists like post Malone or Eminem, do they make black music? Yes, they make black music. Duh. I'm just asking do you mean? But then when we do we do country music or do we do pop music? Do we do you know,

do we do white music? We're making country music. Lodex made a country music yes, Little made a white music category. I'm just as different. It's different with um. I guess hip hop right because hip hop has an actual term. So when somebody is rapping, you know what to call that. When somebody doing country music. Correct, you know what to call that. But when something is labeled urban, like, why is that our urban radio show? No, it's called me

a black radio show. Why am I urban radio personality? Call me a black radio personality. It just always feels like urban is just their way of avoiding saying that beautiful magical word black. Okay, black black black, bigitty black black black. Let's let's talk about it. Open up the four lines eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. What do you think? What's your opinion? Call us now?

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you just joined us, we're talking about the term urban. Now. What happened with a republic KA. So basically they put out a statement and they said that they are not going to be using the word urban. They're actually burning banning it from the company verbiage, and they said, we encourage the rest of the music industry to follow suit, as it is important to shape the future of what we wanted to look like and not adhere to the outdated structures of the past. And just so you guys know,

that term urban dated back to DJ Frankie Cracker. He's a black New York radio DJ from back in the mid seventies, and he coined the phrase urban contemporary and they later shortened it to urban. And so they said the term didn't carry negative connotations at that time, but a lot of people argue it has evolved to symbolize lumping music by black artists into one category and to one category, and marginalizing black musicians. The only black man

with a sun tan Frankie Crocker. I encourage all radio personalities to go google some old Frankie croc on YouTube, drop on the clues bombs with Frankie Crocker rescue pieces to the legend Frankie Crocker legend. I've I don't like the word urban. Urban to me is their way of not saying black. It feels like erasier. It feels like marginalization. When I hear the word in meetings or just you know, conversation, I always tell the person to just say black, Like

why are you afraid to say black? It rolls off your tongue so well. Black black black black black, Okay. I like when i'm when they say the Breakfast Club is a black radio show. Charlomine God's a black radio personality. I like when here somebody's the president of black something at a company. I like that word. I hate the word urban. What do you think it's see? It's difficult

because I never really thought so much about it. Like I feel like, from the point of view of some artists who I know right who, just because you're black, they term you and put you in black music. So even if you're say alternative rock music, they'll still say your black music, and then they won't play you on certain stations that might be a format because I feel like they do that to fit a certain format so

that they can play you on certain stations. And I think the whole thing is confusing because I also feel like nowadays streaming services and people having so many different tastes and wanting to listen to different genres. I don't know. It's hard to say. It doesn't matter if you know what I'm saying, Like, if you're a black artist, is that mean automatically that Chared lumped into black music? So okay, you know what I'm saying, He's absolutely right, But what

you just explained is systemic racism. Because if I'm a black artist and I make a country song, that actually happened with Little nos X, they didn't want to put Little nose X on the charts for right every reason. Why not he made a country record. You know what I'm saying. If I'm a black rock group and I make a rock song, then put me on the rock charts,

you know what I mean. The fact that you're keeping me off of that and want to lump me into you know, put me into urban is just because I'm black. That if, within itself a systemic racism and sharing. I never had a problem with the term urban and I never really thought about it. And I've been going to the label since I've been sixteen, picking up records, but I do know when the artist is signed that they

kind of put you into what category your music. I guess to finds like if you're a rapper, they put you usually in the urban department. If you're a pop artist, they put you in rhythmic the section or a pop section. Or if you're a country artists, they put you in the country section. And it's not the country section is what they work. So the country section works this the country charts and the country radio stations, and the urban department works the urban radio and they work the clubs,

and they worked the urban DJs. That's how I thought it was category at Kaze. I wouldn't. I never had a problem with well, urban means this. I just never did. I guess me being from New York and New York considered so urban, I grew up on the words. Would never never that kind of it wasn't offensive way now it wasn't offensive to me. It's never been offensive to me.

Right because the post Malone is he definitely alone. Then if they get rid of urban music, is he categorizes black music now Justin b as he makes hip hop?

You know what I'm saying, Like they made Justin admitted this weekend that you know he makes black music, he's appropriated black culture now and just to play white devil's advocate, they do do that at the black artists as well, because there was times when Rihanna didn't get played on uh quote unquote urban radio because they said she was making pop records, you know, and I remember it was a time where she had to transition and she started um making pop records. But then she would also do

something for she did both ways. Yeah, and Beyonce. I feel like it's the same. You know, she's also a pop artist because pop just means popular exactly which black music kid is, by the way, which hipop is the most popular art form. We didn't get rid of all how about we get rid of all the later urban but let's just make music. But you gotta call it because you know it's different. People work different parts. So it's like, you know, some people work needies, different things,

you know, different stations. Yeah, you do need categories because that's how you define where you're working, you know what I mean. Some people think some people will work at the at the hip hop stations and they'll never work pop, or they'll never work country, they'll never cross over. It's kind of you have people that's designed to do certain areas, so you don't have everybody doing everything well. Envy you're talking from a very old school perspective, because don't nobody

goddamn work No more records work themselves. Now they still they work. They show up after the fact. Now they still liar. They show up after the fact. Now they show up after a record has already popped off on the internet, Like, Hi, why is that's not true? In some cases they do. But a lot of cases they do work our records, and they do play with the last time record got worked. Seriously, record got worked. They

went after they popping online. What normally happens is they see a little buzz and then the label does get behind it once you created some bus and then they're the ones that make it go top ten. Absolutely, they work records, They play record They have music meetings every week where they play new artists and new records that they're trying to push. Is that right a wrong right?

They do. They do respond to what people are saying online and then try to take it over the top, Like they say, Okay, we can see this has the potential to be a top ten record. Okay, record labels just need two people. Now, that's all two people people? What two people working from zoom working home from zoom. We just say with a lot of money. Okay, everybody in the label about to lose their job. Thanks Charlo. Hello, who's this? Good morning? This is Ken Hey, good morning.

What do you think about the term urban? I think it's just the politically correct way to say black whit Charlomagne said, I don't see you appointment. It's not a big deal to me. But also, before you gotta let me go, I would like to submit an entry for Donkey of the day. Came to me, who you got? I want to volunteer Terry Cruise distribute. Oh my god, Yes, saying that defeating white is somehow encouraging black supremacy, and I just feel like he's the mill Candice Owen, what's wrong?

He's just be saying and then be mad that people get offended and don't like he don't get it. Thank you, mama, We're crazy. Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. We're talking the term urban. Will take your calls when we come back and we'll find out if Charlemagne is gonna give Terry cruise don't get a day later on, I just a breakfastlum, good morning, call me and your opinions to the Breakfast Club top on eight 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 talking about the term urban now Republic Records, which is home to Drake, Ariana Grande the Weekend host to others. Uh, they're banning the term urban, so we're just asking what are your thoughts? Hello? Who's this? Hello? It was this morning see some power man shout out to Alie. I love what y'all do. Um, I love y'all keeping people conscious, you know, making the attempt to anywhere.

I know not everybody you know catches on, but what the work out I do. I appreciate you. Thank you so much. Brother. We're talking to the term urban. What are your thoughts? Um? It's a word, and I feel like, you know, words throughout time as evolved as as I will understand evolved. Words, you know, take on different meanings. Gay used to be used to me happy, and it kind of still does. But you're saying, hey, man, are

you gay? You know? Just definition to that that question now days, I feel like it still means happy though city it does. But if I say, he said, if you said what I said, Charlomagne, are you gay? You know, if I said, if I ask you, are you gay, You're not gonna say, you know, say a good point, Charlomagne, are you I would reply, I would reply on marriage, sir, gay urban music? Are you gay? Harry? You know what

I'm saying? Oh my god, But I think so the definition of the ter urban is school urban men, city rural rule men out in the country, and and sub urban men you know, from there in between. But now, you know, I feel like it depends on the context. You know what I'm saying. If I'm if I'm writing a script or a play, you know, and I gotta say the setting, I'm gonna say, Okay, it's in the urban setting, so you are automatically know it's in the city.

But if you know, you got you know, white folks you know, standing you know, or you know, I want to say, white foot prejudice, folks standing around, you know, having a conversation. Oh this is the urban style. You know what I'm saying. Didn't didn't that made the you know a loaded words? You know. It depends. I think it depends on the content. You know, what I'm saying. I mean, so, I mean, that's that's that's that's my cue. Man, just like the word, just like the word Christian. You

know what I'm saying. It's like the world black, you know, I mean, you know it takes on different meanings throughout time. You just talk about intent. What is your intent when you use it? Exactly? Okay, Well, thank you brother? Hello? Who's this? This is Matt? Matt. What's up? Bro? I'm good. I'm good about stuff. Man, go on them to everybody. You know, I think a lot of black people, a lot of black people don't want to be black. So we don't want everything urban to be renamed black because

it wouldn't represent I like that. Take you got right there, sir, Thank you. They yeah, they wouldn't appreciate that. So they want to keep it mainly political and they think it'll be something that'll be worse more than good. So yeah, yeah, so urban urban is a politically correct word that so they don't have to say black, and it's a word that makes everybody who who isn't comfortable with their blackness

feel comfortable. Well, not just the blackness, but everything that urban fast for isn't something that all black people don't stay Like, oh you mean you Okay, I get what you're saying. Like, do you think urban comes with ghetto? Is what you're saying. Yeah, it's been good. Apply too closely for that, and a lot of people don't even want to the hood to exist. We want all black people to live outside of the hood most people do. Are we gonna rename urban outfitters? Black outfitters will be fine?

I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. I guess growing up in New Yorker, I mean we we always considered New York City urban, so it was never a thing of anything else. Like if you it's certain styles that you just just looked at this urban you know when I don't know, as a matter of fact, if you lived in the suburbs growing up, we felt like you was corny. You know what I'm saying, Like, oh, that's suburban. Oh the suburban kids. Urban was actually cool. Yeah,

I don't know, it's I don't know. I guess mean being from New York City just now, I never had a problem with the term. Yeah, I agree with that. I think here it was always like urban was cool, hip, suburban was like follow you know what I'm saying, Like the way you looked at it, like, oh, he's suburban anyway, he don't know. You know, there are certain things that was urban culture, like you know, do rags was like

the urban was urban culture. Not the way we wore our pants, the way we we tied out sneakers, that was all urban. That was our urban culture. You know the fact that we laced it a certain way and run dmc wore there kicks a certain way, and the way we wore our jerseys. Culture. Why we say urban? Nobody nobody grew up in the hood saying urban. We didn't grow up in the hood saying yo, that's urban's We never said urban culture. We never said black culture. E look, we never just say I never. I never

said we. I never that. I never said the dance is the black way I just wore. Because that's why I definitely no, no, no no time about envy. You're a liar. I'm gonna tell you why. You know, goodall, at some point in your life you heard people in the hood say, oh, he's talking like a white boy. Oh he's dressing like a white boy. So if you're if you're saying that what are you dressing like? Clearly you're making the distinction, but nobody ever said you're dressing like a that's like

black culture. Nobody ever said that we were from. That's what we say. We did it because that's what we say black power, we say black pride, you know what I mean? Like we were we were very We always were when we had the Malcolm X hats and the African medallions, like we were very intune with I'll black remember black Bart Simpson T shirts. Absolutely, come on, no call you a liar. Yeah, that's what I said, because because I did say I went my clothes the black way.

I just it was just it was just New York was considered urban, and that's what that's what it was. It was. We didn't take it for We didn't take it for anything. We didn't take it this disrespect. It wasn't offensive. That's just that's just where where we were from. Envy is definitely urban. That's our new name. Me and Envy are Burton Urban from now on, Kurt Urban, I'm Burton r Burton Irban. All right, jamos how you say urban in Spanish? Man? All right? Urbano nabano dj ebano, Yes,

that is his new name, dj Ebano. That's your new name. I'm never calling you nbave me saying it right. It's Urbano, right, Urbano. This is one of those ones you could just add an o to V. I love this one. Urban Urbano, dj urban No, Oh my goodness. We got rumors on the way. Yes, and you know, let's talk about little Wayne. And he talks about his relationship with police officers. After some comments that he made, he doubles down and he gives his views on the police. All right, we'll get

out there, keep it locked. It's the breakfast club corner that we all the breakfast Club. I want to shout out to all the protesters out there, man that's been on those front lines that's been marching, that's been putting up with everything from more police brutality, to tear gas, to getting shot with rubber bullets, to the anti protesters people screaming at them, spitting on them, and just a lot of them stuff, a lot of stuff that's been happening to them while they're just trying to get out

there and just peacefully protests. I just want to salute to shout out to them over the over the weekends, ye Now I want to salute untell freedom. You know they had they had a couple of marches this weekend in New York, and we have to say big happy bond Days. Salute to one of our fearless leaders out here in these streets. Queen to Mika Mallory dropped on the clue. Absolutely Mallory. Jamica Mallory turned forty today, still

looking for twenty three. Yep. I don't know how she looks so stress free with all the bs that she got to deal with on a daily basis. But saluted to Mika Mallory man absolutely, happy birthday, love and light.

Happy birthday to Tamika Mallory. Actually yesterday there was a zoom call that she put together her and Linda Sarsar alongside Alicia Keys and Rhapsody, And this was for a birthday celebration for Brianna Taylor, and Brianna Taylor's mother was on and her cousins and her sister and best friends

and everything. So it was organizing to get some action because those police officers that killed her have not been charged still, so it was just a way to give out more information than we're going to be spreading that information starting today. But there were a lot of great people on the call, a lot of great suggestions. Cardi b was on it, Tracy Ellis Ross was on there,

Yandy Mona Scott, Young Ellen degenerous was on there. So look forward to carry more of that because I feel like for Brianna Taylor, her family has still not gotten answers, they haven't gotten justice, and we don't want this to be something that just gets swept under the rug. And today, for her birthday, she's asking everybody to donate to go until until freedom dot com. She's saying, please donate four dollars,

forty dollars, four hundred dollars. He turns forty today, so she's saying for her birthday, donate what you can to the cause. And she that's her cash app. The cash app is untell Freedom and the Venmo is at untel Freedom. That's Venmo, right. I don't do venmore, I do cash app. Yes, Yes, don donate to all people. Man. Love Tamica, love her. She is one of our great black fearless leaders out here in the Screech. And we talk about protecting people

at all costs. No, Tamica Mallory absolutely must be protected at all costs, hurt, fooling around with Timica Mallory, Okay, dropping the flute bombs for Jamica Mallory. All right, well we got rumors all the way. What we're talking about, Yes, we are going to be talking about little Wayne and some comments that he has tried to clear up. So let's see if you have more understanding. All right, we'll get into that. Next. It's the Breakfast Club comoting. This

is the rumor report with Angela Breakfast Clubs. Will Terry Crews tweeted out, defeating white supremacy without white people creates black supremacy. Equality is the truth, like it or not. We are all in this together, so naturally, I know I happen to see that as soon as he posted it and everybody went in. I knew that was going to happen immediately because it just doesn't seem to make much sense. It doesn't. I still don't even understand what he was trying to say. And once, I mean twice,

and don't get it. I keep it moving. God, Now I don't even understand what he was trying to say. Yeah, I don't understand. God. For you, the comedian said, I love you as a as a friend, brother, Terry, but I disagree with you one hundred percent. No such thing as black supremacy. That is a tactic that racist whites used to counteract our rebellion to the horrific treatment of us. It's called gaslighting. Black pride isn't anti white. Terry Crews responded,

I agree. I'm not discussing white people here. There are gatekeepers of blackness within our own community who decide, but who's black and who's not. I have often been called out for not being black enough? How can that be? And then Tyler James Williams said, I'm not trying to call you out, Terry Crews. You know what's all love always, But we're rightfully angry right now and fed up with anyone not with our cause wholeheartedly. I don't want to see that energy point in your way or diverted from

the cause. And Terry Crews responded, I understand, Tyler. I was not saying black supremacy exists, because it doesn't. I am saying, if both black and whites don't continue to work together, bad attitudes and resentments can create a dangerous self righteousness, that's all. Then he goes on to say, any black person who calls me a coon or and Uncle Tom for promoting equality is a black supremacist because they have determined who's black and who is not. And

that's why his problem lies. His problem lies with the black people who are calling him koon and Uncle Tom. So therefore he's mad at them. So it sounds like he's going against the whole movement of blackness that's happening right now in America. And guess what, you know why it's happening because we are God's chosen people. This is divine. God is given America a chance to do right by

black people. Get out the way Terry sometimes when people do things like that, even to pay him any attention, like he's he's had history of going against the grain and going against our own grain. It is grain. He goes against our own people all the time. And it's like it's not surprising to me, like when he went against Gabriel Union, like he does this, so it's not

like it's kind of like a whatever Terry crews. I don't know, but I can't appreciate the people who are friends with him who actually called him out on it, to try to explain it to him, because if you are a clue with somebody in real life and he posts something like that publicly, then you try to explain to your friend what the problem is with his statements.

All right. Now, another person who has received backlashes little Wayne, and he was explaining his issues and his relationship with the police because he has made controversial comments in the past and not blaming our police for being bad. So here's what he had to say. I think when we see these situations, I think we also have to understand that we have to we have to get very specific.

We have to stop placing the blame on the whole force and the whole everybody of such a certain certain race, everybody with a bad and we have to actually get into who that person is. And if we want to place to blame on anybody, it should be ourselves. But not doing more than where we think we're doing, all right. So he had this experienced personally with a police officer. And here's more of what Little Wayne had to say to explain his take in and what he was trying

to say. When he was saying that we want to place to blame on anybody, it should be ourselves for not doing more than what we think we're doing. My life was saved when I was young, shot myself. I was saved by a white cop, Uncle Bob. So you have to understand from death, for you have to understand the way our view police period. There was a bunch of black cops jumped over me when they saw me at that door, laying on the floor with that hole in my chest. He refused to No, wheezy, I highly disagree.

You gotta put it on the whole system. Why because one bad apple spoils a bunch and one good apple doesn't make make a bunch of rotten apples better. Those police officers are a part of system of white supremacy. And to tell that system is dismantled, nothing is going to change. And little Wayne is also a freestyler. And when he's talking, he starts off and it sounds like it's about to be a good point, and then it just goes somewhere else. And that's what would see these

long rants. When he said we need to blame ourselves, that's that's when I was. That's it didn't make any sense to me blame myself for what for being abused? But I will say what he did say was and probably what he meant was all officers aren't bad. And I've been hearing people say, well, you know they work for this, this, this, Yeah, exactly. But we encourage more and more African American and more and more brothers to be police officers to help and right, is that what

we do? No, No, we encourage people to become an officer and stay in our community and do the right thing for our community. Is that feel encouraged to be officers because people also look at you if you become a police officer like you know, that's hard because we're taught not to trust the police officers. And we do need to encourage more of our people to become great

police officers. And that's what I thought. We were trying to encourage our people to become great officers and come back to our community where we know people and know how to talk to our community and know how to be in our community. That's what I thought we were encouraging. Yeah, but you know what, that's good, But you got to get in there and actually try to dismanter that system of white supremacy, which a lot of them don't do because they go in and they automatically adopt that that

blue wall of silence. You know what I'm saying, When things happen like you know, Big George Floyd, if you think that's wrong, as a police officer, you should be able to speak out on that without fear of any repercussions from the unit that you're a part of. You know what I mean? Absolutely, and tell the Tell and tell.

They're not afraid to do that to me. They just all part of a bad system because, like I said, one bad apple spoils a bunch, but I've never seen one good apple make a bunch of rotten apples better. All right now, Serena Williams husband, Alexis Ohanian, and you also know him as the co founder and executive chairman of Reddit, is stepping down from the board. He wants to make the world better for his daughter Olympia. Here's what he had to say and who he wants to

replace him. Fifteen years ago, I cofounded Reddit as a place for people to find community and a sense of belonging. I'm doing this for me, for my family, and for my country. I'm saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks what did you do? So I have resigned as a member of the Reddit board. I've urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate, and I will use future gains on my reddit stock to serve the

black community, chiefly to curb racial hate. And I'm starting with a pledge of one million dollars to Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp. That's very honorable, right. His donation has stepping down is making sure that as a black person is going to come in and be on that board in his place. All of these things are important steps, and other companies should be making sure that their diversity

is a front and center. Yep, donkey today, and that is your room report who you're giving that donkey too? I need Roger Goodell to come to the front of the congregation because this is an opportunity to teach about what's just what's going on out here in corporate America and what we expect from corporate America moving forward. All Right, we'll get into that next. Keep a lot of this to breakfast club. Good Morning's time for donkey of the Day, Democrat. So being dunky of the day, a little bit of

a mix like a dope the other day. Now, I've been called a lot of my twenty three years, but donkey other day is a new wife. Donkey today for Monday, June eighth goes to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Now, if you look around the world, you have a bunch of white people who are going out of their way to prove that they love black people and not just black coaching. All right, everybody wants to have conversations about ridding the

world of systemic racism. Everyone wants to discuss creating a new system because we all noticed of white supremacy does not work for everybody. Look, I'm on record saying, you know, ain't no good gonna come to America until they do right by black people. Period. Pooh. God has given America the opportunity. The right is wrongs. God has given America

the opportunity to reverse his bad karma. So I'm not upset at the white folks and white companies I see tweeting and posting memes, doing videos like Roger Goodell did, because Roger Goodell has the right idea. Because one of the first ways to reverse bad karma is to write a letter or call those who you have wronged in

the past. So that's a good first step for Roger. Okay, I'm gonna let you hear what Roger had to say, and then I'm gonna use Roger Goodell as a moment to teach because these white folks at these corporations need teaching. Let's hear it. We the National Football League, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people. We the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and

peacefully protests. Read the National Football League believe black lives matter. I personally protest with you and want to be part of the much needed change in this country. Without black players, there would be no National Football League, and the protests around the country are emblematic of the centuries of silence, inequality, and oppression of black players, coaches, fans, and staff. We

are listening. I am listening, and I will be reaching out to players who have raised their voices and others on how we can improve and go forward for a better and more united NFL family. Well, the first player he has to reach out to is Kylin Kaepernick. If he doesn't do that, it's a half ass apology. You have to personally apologize to Kylin Kaepernick. You also have

to admit that he was blackballed. And if it wasn't a strategic intentional black ball when they noticed no owners were attempting to sign him, nobody at the top intervene to say that's wrong. Make sure he plays. Okay, I got a question for the NFL. How many black people on the Board of directors of the NFL. There's only one black GM in the NFL. The NFL got three black coaches, zero black owners, but players make up over seven deep percent of the league. Seven percent of the league,

but zero percent of the ownership. If you want to dismant to white supremacy, you want to change systemic racism, how about this mantle that good old boy mentality in the NFL. Roger Goodell not to mention, I don't like people getting no lightbulb moments in the NFL because Colin Kaepernick rarely talks. But he talked at the beginning of this peaceful protests a few years ago, and he told you exactly why he was protesting. So no way Roger Goodell or anyone else in the NFL could have missed that.

Let's hear what Colin had to say for a million time, because I finally think y'all are listening. I mean, ultimately is to bring awareness and make people, you know, realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot of things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for and that's something that

needs to change. That's something that you know, this country stands for freedom, liberty, justice for all, and it's not happening for all right now when they're significant change and I feel like that flag represents who are supposed to represent, and this country is representing people the way that's supposed to I'll stand. There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically, it's police brutality. There's people being

murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. You know, I have great respect for men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country, and they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, They fight for liberty and justice for everyone, and that's not happening. Simple, simple, And for the record, if you wonder why black people have a problem with patriotism, it's because we know the

creeds in America don't fully relate to us. Freedom, justice, equality. That's not fully for black people, liberty and justice for all. Nope, it's liberty and justice for white folks. We know that. So how can you expect us to feel patriotic when this country has shown us time and time again that the rules for white America don't apply to Black America. But I'm not here to talk about that right now. I want to talk about the NFL and all other

corporations in this country. If you are a corporation screaming Black lives matter, screaming that you want to disman a white supremacy, that you want tobol a systemic racism, or then pop the hood. Let's see what's in this engine, because if there's no black parts underneath that engine making that car go, then you are a liar. Okay. If you love, if your love for blackness isn't reflected in your place of business, then all these corporations are full

of it. Okay, your corporation is full of it. If your love of so called blackness isn't reflected in your place of business, all right, don't scream black lives matter if you don't have a lot of black hires, okay, using the hashtag black Lives matter is great? Or what type of black economic opportunities are you providing for black people? We don't need. I love black people. Tweets and memes and videos. Those are great. They make us feel good.

But what about things that make us actually good? Okay? I love seeing massive donations. I want to see more massive donation from these corporations with no scrings attached. All right, I'm about all that from these corporations. But if you have a corporation and you know Dan Well, your business doesn't reflect the Black Lives Matter stuff you're preaching, then shut the f up forever. Okay. Don't let Black Lives Matter turn to Black lives marketing for some of these corporations,

because that's all it is. This is marketing and promo for so many of these companies. But we're not gonna let you'all tweet and just walk away. We got questions. How many black people work at your place of business? How many black people have seen your roles in your company? How many black people on your board? What did your

black representation look like? I personally feel like if black people make up thirteen percent of the population, we should have thirteen percent representation in all industries via equity ownership involvement. Do you have black people at your company who are outperforming the white people, but the white people still make more money than the black people? Why is that? Until that changes in these corporations, then guess what corporations you

are still practicing systemic racism? Period. Please give these corporations and Roger Goodell the biggest he Hall. You can't even use the term unconscious bias no more. You can't use that term anymore because you are awake. You are conscious. You are very aware of what's happening out here in these creeks, and you want to change things simply look at your highest simplest that white America. All right, well, thank you for that donkey today. Oh, yes, ma'am, thank you, brother, Yes, ma'am,

thank you brother. What is that? What is that? I was trying to confuse you. That's all doing a good job. All right. When we come back, we have three brothers that are calling in there from the Black Man Survival Guy. We have Phil Agnew, Steve Pargett, and Teff All right, we'll talk to him when we come back to Don't Move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club, DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club on the phone, LUNs Right now, we got some

brothers from the Black Men Survival guid. We have Phil Agnew, Steve Pargett and to God damn it, we need that right now. Tell us what that is. The initiative is called black Men Build, and Black Men Build is a place for Black men and engage in the world as an organized force this year and moving forward, and so under the realization that black men face we say a million ways to die in this country, from natural disease

to unnatural disease. Right, the Survival Guide is what we're gonna be hitting the streets with beginning next week and moving on. And we're officially launching on Monday. So can you tell us how the Survival Guy was put together? I'm interested to hear just the whole process of it. Over the past couple of months, there's been over a

dozen black men you know. Black Men Bill represents a wide group of us that our community, organizers, artists, creatives and people that are coming together to grapple with issues that are challenging black men today. And you know, we started this project in the midst of COVID, So we began by putting together a guide for community safety while we're facing a global health pandemic um well at the same time, we know that we're dealing with a number

of different issues, including police violence. So the Black Men Survival Guide is, uh, you know, a lot of painstaking work by brothers that are coming together to put together something that could be really useful in this time where we're not only facing a pandemic of you know, health

and economic but also police violence. So you know what you're going to see when we put out the Survival Guide is a guide that talks about how we can be safe during COVID, but it also talks about our mental and spiritual wellness and community defense and safety because in times like right now, all that we have is us in our communities and we're trying to get on one accord right now, what do you think the building blocks are for the perfect plant to achieve unity and

equality and frost verity for black people in America. I think in our case, what we're trying to achieve is just a little bit of alignment. Um. I think a lot of times why a lot of projects like this fail is because people let the brothers that put it together that the people Martin Luther Kingdom or Malcolm X them, and you start to try to play a performative role, a theatrical role that that doesn't service the people. Know yourself.

So I think, with us, what we're trying to do, we're not trying to come at it and say that we did all the alchemy and the political science worthy of solving the equation. We're just saying it with some black men who came together that are at least trying, and we're inviting other black men across the plethora of identities, from the Moors to the Hebrews, from the flat Earthers to the the universe doesn't exist. I went all of us.

We understand man, that there's like so many different universes which your brothers coexist and all all too often when we try to come together, our identity filibuses to plant. So we're just saying, hey, we want some aligns. Now. It's not it shouldn't just be about survival though, right It's a shame that we have to think about just surviving, because it should be about thriving also, And I think it sucks that you have to teach kids now how to go out and even be able to come back home.

You know, that's a day and age that we live in, and some people don't understand that. I was telling the story about a comedian, a stand up comic who was talking about Dave Chappelle and how Dave Chappelle had to explain to a white woman in the audience about police brutality because some people just don't understand it. You know. We interviewed Russia Limbaugh the other day and he doesn't think that white supremacism exists. So what do you say

about not just surviving but also thriving. Do you think that we first have to start with just even being able to make it home? You know, I mean first and foremost. I don't think anything that Russia Limball says occupies any space in our mind right because Russia Limball

has a particular purpose in the world. He occupies a space in world that is about convincing the world that we gaslighting all of us, right, that what we experience historically, what we experience every day when we leave the house is not real. So it is sad and to look

that we got to start with survival. But we are of the belief that when we start with an alignment right, with an understanding of the current context and conditions that we're all living under right, that no matter what you believe in the world, whether it's flatter, whether you believe that we are the original man, which we are, but whatever your belief is, we all live in the country that says, no matter what you believe in your head, what I see it in my eyes on your skin

is deadly. And so we wanted to start at a place where we say, yeah, it is survival, but we are getting on the same page so we can engage in the world as an organized force. And right now, the Russia umballs the white supremacists of the world. They benefit from us being scattered on the sidelines watching while the world is moving right, we're being used as pawns. The black men are being used as pawns right against ourselves,

against our lovers, against our wives, against our communities. And so this is an insertion in the world that says, look, let's get on the same page about where we stand right about where we are, and then let's plot on how we move forward from here. How do we get on that same page? Well, real quick, the first thing we're sending out on we've been sending it out for

the whole week, is our value statement. Right. We believe that a core of any organization, whether it be n Y, whether it be a street organization, whether it be a church, as we start to agree on what our values are right, And so we've been sending around that link it right now, we got over a thousand people black men who have

signed onto the values. And once you built that core of values, then you can move forward because at least there's a trust built that says, at least I know that this brother next to me, it sees the world and values the world and the way that I do. And so we've been sending that out and we want and encourage brothers to go to that link to be able to sign onto the value statement. That's the first step.

It's interesting what you say, because like Donald Trump is trying to make a play to black men, like you know, you know, he knows he doesn't have a shot with it with the queens, but he's trying to make a play for black men in November. Why why do you think that? Why you think he's talking in black men specifically, Donald Trump has been had a plan for black men for twenty thirty years. He's ingratiated himself in the hip

hop culture. He puts forward a level of masculinity and gangsterism that a lot of black men who grow up in America they love that. They love the fact that he runs and he moves the way that he does. And not least of which, the Democratic Party has never offered a viable option for black for the black community.

And so for me, what Donald Trump represents that somebody who has done a focus group on black men for twenty thirty years, through TV, through music, through his public persona, and he believes that black men aren't critical thinkers enough. That's what it is. It's not that he respects black men. He believes that black men are foolhardy enough to believe that his personal persona, it's actually going to get them to vote against their self, enterest vote against black women,

vote against the black community, vote against their kids. And so I think that's the central thing. It's based on the fundamental belief that black men are fools and that all we care about is all we care about is money, right, and that's and those are the things. All we care about is braggadocio and that's what he tries to represent. And so it's important for us to make sure that we are not used as pawns against ourselves and against our people like we have been. And now all of

us is bad. That's you know, we wouldn't be doing this if we thought that. But the fact is, we have to engage in the world as an organized force. We've got to unite in a way that we have not in a generation. All Right, we got more with Phil Agnew Steve Pargett in tenth when we come back, So don't move. It's to Breakfast Club comornis morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomne the God. We all

the Breakfast Club. Now. We got some brothers from the Black Men Survival Guy joining us this morning, Phil Agnew, Steve Pargett inteff. What kind of conversations are you guys having behind the scenes when it comes to voting in the upcoming election. We gotta do what we gotta do. I'm gonna steal something from our sister Dereka Purnell, who's an incredible writer, a lawyer, comes out of Ferguson. This is the last dance. We gotta do what we gotta

do this year. Our strategy as a black people for the next generation cannot afford to have four more years of Donald Trump running amuck in our country. Right on the other side, you have somebody who doesn't offer that much greater, but it's a different terrain. And we cannot continue to not think critically and say that these two

people are the same. And you all, I think to a degree at least Charlemagne, you know where I stand on the Democrats as well, right, But we also cannot fool ourselves, Angela into believing that these two people present the same terrain for us to operate on. And the candidate over on the other side, who I'm not gonna say, neither one of their names, but the candidate on the other side of Donald of the Republican candidate, provides a different terrain for us to operate and for us to

organize on. And it's the last dance. It's the last time that we're going to engage in an election nationally locally, statewide, if we're organized that we're going to have to choose between that and that. Yeah, I think that we can't afford four more years of white supremacy. And I think that one of the candidates, one of the candidates, if pushed and if black people make demands, would be willing to go in there and dismantle the mechanism of white supremacy.

I think the voting is just one part of these are the conversations that we're having. The voting is just one part of the political process. We know that it's not everything, but it's also not nothing. It's something that we have to use to prevent the worst of what's been seen by our people. And I think that what we see in the streets all around the country, with protests happening in fifty states and eighteen countries around the world right now, is a representation of another piece of

the fight that we have to do. You know, with all these people in the streets are creating a moment that not only with people that are risking and putting their bodies on the line and calling for police to be defunded and stopping jails from being built and being expanded.

Right now that it's creating a moment that organizers, regular people are being able to represent Black people's identities and beliefs and demands in boardrooms, in the entertainment industry, in the creative world, in athletics, and all these different organizations are being forced to make statements that support black people.

And I think that this is just a really impressive and important I'm so inspired by this moment that's happening because Black people are fighting in a lot of different ways right now, and we know that voting is one of those ways that we're going to fight. I feel like that's just what this moment represents, especially us coming together from different factions and different back walks of life.

We're coming to a point where we're saying, look, man like, we understand that it takes some sophistication in order to move forward. And all too often when people do talk about voting, the conversation isn't sophisticated. So you have to think about voting as if it's just one peg of the wheel of what we need to do. But just because you vote doesn't mean that you're ultimately politicized. It

just means that you went to vote. There's the entire process that you need to carry out after that in terms of even like managing your political identity and your thoughts about how you can moving through the United States of America. And a lot of people like to say that they stay out of politics, especially like in the music industry and you know, entertainment at large. And where I differ from my brother Steve when he said about

the statements is that I enjoy seeing the statements. But we've been getting a lot of statements from a lot of these people for years and nothing has happened. So for me, it's really about the action. It's really about I see black millionaires on television using the language of the movement, will tap in with the movement for real. Then you know what I'm saying. Last night, my little cousin was shot in Saint Louis. Athlete by the name of Darius Houston was shot at a funeral in front

of his mama. So when y'all talking like so we really from the soil, you know what I'm saying, Like that pain is real. I had to wake up and get on camera to talk to y'all, going that I really couldn't even pull myself together this point, so to me voting whatever, man, you know, we're gonna do what we gotta do. It's a tool that we're gonna use to march up the field. But once we get to a certain point in the field, we're gonna pull out

other tools. We got a lot of different things in the bag, and this is just the moment where we're at right now. We just want to engage in the process as an organized sport, and then we can engage with some negotiations with them, right. And I do agree with with Charlomagne and Brother Test said. I think we do have a particular opportunity if Joe Biden is smart.

He knows that he is one of the weakest Democratic candidates in recent memory, and he knows that he cannot continue to move in a way that continues to oxtracize black people and black men. Right absolutely not black women. They already showed him that. And so we gotta organize and we gotta be there as an organized sports I like that. It's my type of conversation. Thank you. Where can people find all this information online so they know how they can get in touch with you guys, So

go to www. Dot Blackman, dot Bill do you grab the Survival Guide on Monday, but today signed a pledge or you can go to Twitter or Instagram at black Man Build and you'll find the website and the profile. Alright, well, thank you brothers for Georgia. Thank you, thank you for every appreciate you for having us, Thank you, and thank you tep. I know it was a tough day for you to get up this morning, so we do appreciate you for that. Appreciate your real life. Thank you very much.

The Breakfast Club, it's about report Report with Angela y on the Breakfast Club. Yeah, so YouTube. They had a virtual commencement ceremony and Beyonce spoke the Obama's folk. It actually was supposed to be on June sixth, but they moved that date in honor of George Floyd's memorial service, and then they moved it to June seventh, so that happened their class of twenty twenty. And here is what Beyonce had to say about the music industry and all

the biases there. The entertainment business is still very sexist, and as a woman, I did not see enough female role models. Given the opportunity to do what I knew, I had to do to run my label and management company, to direct my films and produce my tours. That meant ownership. Not enough black women had a seat at the table, so I had to go and chop down that wood and build my own table. Then I had to invite

the best there was to have a seat. That meant hiring women, men, outsiders, underdogs, people that were overlooked and waiting to be seen. In addition, yes, she also talked about the LGBTQ community. To all those who feel different, if you're part of a group that's called other, a group that does not get the chance to be center stage, build your own stage and make them see you. Your

queerness is beautiful, Your blackness is beautiful. Your compassion, your understanding, your fight for people who may be different from you is beautiful. I hope you continue to go into the world and show them that you will never stop being yourself, that it's your time now make them see you. I have a pinket Smith went free nose. Carter just thought I would say that, Okay, and congratulations to Raymond Santana

and Delicious. They actually got married over the weekend. You know, Raymond Santana Junior as one of the Central Park five men who was exonerated, and the two of them have been dating for a while now, and it looks like they finally got married. They said he had to put down a whole bunch of money because they had to shut down the whole place in Georgia. And you know, they were engaged for six months and they had to

make sure that no one else could come in there. Whatever, whatever, But you know, happy for them that they made it happens. Theous man salute the y'all. Wow, I didn't know what they're getting married? Dope, Yes, Lauren order SVU. They said the upcoming episodes will cover coronavirus and George Floyd's murder. Now, they said, there are ways we will find our way

into tell the story. Presumably our cops will still be trying to do the right thing, but it's going to be harder for them, and they're going to understand why it's hard for them. They said that how coronavirus impacted New York City would be a topic of conversation in the upcoming season. And they said, we can't make every episode about a bad cop. Olivia makes mistakes, but she's empathetic which is what I think separates the Cops and our television show from a lot of what we're seeing

these days on our live streams. They've also bought on new writers to bring in new voices, fresh voices, different voices as well. Yeah, I did read that what film production is going to start TV and film production will start back in California on June twelfth. I think I read yeah, So do they open the opening things up immediately? People need? I just read that. I mean, I know you can still shoot in Atlanta and other places, so I don't mean I don't know where they're shooting that,

but who knows? All right now, Carl Crawford has been ordered to stay away from his ex girlfriend and also stay away from drinking. A Texas judge has ordered that after a woman who said he choked her and pointed his gun at her. That has happened allegedly, and so now he has in order to submit to drug tests, he has to stay in the Houston area, he can't access weapons, and he can't be anywhere around his alleged victim.

So they're saying there's probable cause that suggested alcohol was a factor in this offense and cops are saying after they arrested him, that she's accusing him of assaulting her back in May. So they had been in a two and a half year relationship that recently ended. He told her he wanted to talk and come to her house, and she said once he arrived, he brandised his gun and began walking toward her menacingly. All right, And I don't know if you guys had a chance to watch this.

There was a lot of great things on television last night, and one of them was on ESPN B like water. Did y'all watch the ESPN thirty for thirty about Bruce Lee? I didn't see it. No Bruce Lee. Yeah, it wasn't her last night. Wow, I didn't see no promo for that. Watch ESPN every day. I don't remember seeing it. Was very screening for it, like last month too. Wow. I

gotta check that up. Yeah. So it was pretty amazing and Rizza actually did a song for it, a new song and a visual for that as well, So make sure you guys check that out. Speaking of and speaking of new songs, Takashi six nine has linked up with Akon for a Locked Up Part two. You guys remember that Akon had says that he planned to work with Takashi once he came home. Well, he definitely has, and now there's pictures of the two of them in the

studio together, and so it's gonna be revised. You can hear a little bit of that right here and listen to this. But who daughter come? A lot of people mad at Acon for that one, in particular Tory Lanes. He said, so, what y'all telling me is a core the locked Up remix sample to someone else and not me. I'm going back to bed man. Yeah, he tried to play the record for his mixtape and it seemed like it didn't happen. And then you saw a Spectacular said you should have just stole it, like grind on me

and your body? Why stop now? Well, he couldn't stole it was released. If it was released, he couldn't have stole it. They had to get the clearances and everything if they released it on streaming services on that, so it couldn't have been stolen. Tory Lanes responded to Spectacular and said, stole what? Actually, I bought the rights from whoever signed you and publishes your music. But I guess

you weren't a part of that conversation. Go staring someone's eyes and rub on someone's thighs and leave me out of this one. Good night, and Spectacular responded. Ever since you got that new hairline, you've been acting different. Last time I checked, I owned my own masters. What type of bootleg business you running? You acting like Virgil? Not

keeping it two Virgils. You know what really bothers me about that whole ACN situation is the fact that they were sitting so close to each other with no mask on. What happened to social distancing? Why aren't people caring about if you realize that nobody's really talking about Corona? Or I don't even think a lot of people care anymore? Like, yeah, I don't know what I honestly don't know. The clubs have been open in certain areas, the restaurant has been open,

people have been together. Stage four. Are we checking for fevers? Nobody cares anymore about transmissions? Is Corona still airborne? Does it still live on surfaces? What the hell happened to Corona that you can just be sitting in the studio with somebody with no mask on, staring into each other's eyes and rubbing each other's thighs. That's the only part you here. You just wanted to say that part again. That's all you wanted to do is say that part again.

They did not rub each other's thighs. That's what Charlomagne wants. All right. Well, let me angela yea, And that is your rumor report. Coronavirus might be the only thing that really got canceled. Ship's refused to accept coronavirus. They are fed up with it's over. Well, Happy birthday to Kanye West. Today is Kanye West's birthday. So we're gonna get on a game. We're gonna start the mix off with Louie Yay. So let me know what you you were screaming out yay.

I was like, you're really excited for his birthday? No, I mean ya ya ya ye with your kids too much? Bro, he been with your kids too much. No, I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you what gets me going. God damn Bluie. When Bluie comes on and they start screaming mom, dad, bano, you've been home, Bluiet. Just now go outside. You would think you would think back that ass up and nuck if you buck came on when

goddamn Bluie dropped for them kids. That Bluie intro get them kids going, you hit me absolutely, Oh my goodness. All right, shout to revote, We'll see you tomorrow. Everybody else and People's Choice mixes up next to sut Off with some yay. It's the breakfast slogal Morning Morning. Everybody is dj Envy Angela Yee, Charlomne the god we all the breakfast club. Now we got to shout out to Phil Agnew Steve Park getting tough for calling in this

morning the black Man survival God. Shout to those brothers for checking in. Who's zooming in? And listen, I want to say too, man Kentucky, what the hell is wrong with y'all? Sendator Randpaul Like Congress is trying to make lynch in the federal crime and Ran Paul is holding it up. Like the villa is called the mmettil Anti Lynching Act, but Senator Rampaul and his objections have kept

it from becoming law. Like why is rand Paul on the wrong side of history when it comes to lynching in two thy twenty without a pastime for his family or something that his grandparents tell them stories about how Lynchings used to be sober. Yes, that's our Senator common House and Corey Booker are going in about that. That's ridiculous. Let's get this going. That shouldn't can't even believe this isn't even Yeah, I can't believe this is even something

we have to discuss right now. I don't know people. People are showing their true colors all across the board man. So Senator Rampaul, we need you to shut the f up. Okay, when we come back, will do the positive note. So don't move this to breakfast club. Good Morning Party is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the gay We all the Breakfast Club Now, I'm Charlomagne. You've got a positive note. Oh wait, before we do that, I just want to give one quick shout out to MICHAELA. Cole. She has

a new show on HBO that premiered last night. It's called I May Destroy You. It came on right after Insecure. You know. Next week is the last episode of Insecure for the season, which was very disappointing to me. But fortunately we do have I May Destroy You that will be coming on Sunday. Nights as well. It's amazing. It's based on her own story. If you saw a chewing gum, then you know who MICHAELA. Cole is. She's a great creative,

so let's make sure we support her on that. The show is amazing, So if you haven't seen it, make sure you check it out. So I just wanted to make Yeah, the first episode came on last night. Okay, came on last night like twice right after Insecure, And you know what, I'm still mad at Evan Orgie's character Molly on Insecure. She was even extra whacker last night

and how she heaved it was disgusting. I didn't watch, you know, not the day though, And I want to say Happy Born Day, Happy Born Day to my family. Ashley James man representing that eight four three always okay even though she don't live in the A four three no more, but happy Born Day to holiday Ashley James now a positive notice this um. Destiny is not for comfort seekers. Destiny is for the daring and determined who are willing to endorse some discomfort, delay gratification, and go

with destiny. Leeds. That's a quote from the Great Bishop TD Jakes Breakfast Club you'll finish for y'all, dun.