The Breakfast Club - 2017 Kick Off

Episode Date: January 2, 2017

Monday 1/1- 2017 is officially here and The Breakfast Club kicked it off with their daily tell em why you mad calls followed by Amber Rose, Usher and the return of The Lox! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is becoming the most prominent forum for here Wake your ass up Early in the morning but they tell me it was y'all I say oh hell yeah I'm getting up The world's most dangerous morning show DJ Envy Your people's choice Angela Yee

I'm a sweetheart but I'll cut you Charlamagne Tha God Principals of people I can't believe you guys are the best Collectively known as Breakfast Club, bitches. Hey, hey, hey, yo, hey, yo. Good morning, yo. This is the Mad Rapper, son, for real.

I'm mad and I stay mad. I stay angry. I stay heated. I stay pissed off. Tell them why you mad. Breakfast Club, let's go. Hey, what's up, y'all? What's going on? Hey, tell them why you mad.

Man, let me tell you why I'm mad. Dude, Envy, I know you can vouch for this, dude. Why do the AAU teams be tripping when you whoop our but you get these parents on the other side, you know, these kids

and they be straight clowning. Clowning. What you mean? What happened to you, bro? AAU is a basketball league that a lot of kids play from, I think, like third grade to damn near college. What happened to you, bro?

Nothing. I mean, we went in, we went to another city, we went down there, and I guess clearly they thought, you know, because we was like the underdogs, that we was going to come in there and they was just going to whoop us like that. You know what I'm saying? So you know how the parents get. You know, you get was like the underdogs. We was going to come in there and they was just going to whip us like that. You know what I'm saying? So you know how the parents get. You know, you get in there, you win.

The parents want to run up on you. Clearly, when you look down the bench and look at me, you better run up on the lion than running up on me. All right, man. Have a good one. Now, if you don't know what he's talking about, AAU, he's talking about his son plays basketball. And sometimes you got to travel to different areas,

whether it's Newark, Cleveland, San Francisco, LA, and sometimes, you know, you gotta deal with the parents. It ain't no, this ain't no your kids play. It's the kids play, the parents play, and you might have to knuckle up or curse a parent out or two. It happens. Sheesh. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is your character.

How are you? Hi. You are too happy this early. That's why I'm pissed off, right? Don't talk about the b**** in general. If you talk about a real b****, talk about me. I'm a real a** b****. Hi. You are too happy this early. Calm down, calm down, calm down. You can't talk about you being a real bitch and then talk about your son is two years old going to kindergarten. Hey, let her live her truth. Hey, don't be talking about dinner, dog. Don't be talking about the dinner, dog. My son Don't be talking about the Jenner's, dog.

My son be in the car and my son too and he know how to do monster show so you don't know what the f*** that is. Your son is a fan of the Jenner's?

No, man, f*** you, dog. You's a fan of the Jenner's. What the f*** is going on? You don't want me. I'm straight. When I got arrested, you was arresting me and my parents.

Yo, yo, listen, you gotta stop doing drugs so early in the morning, boo. I ain't want no drugs. You to stop popping pills, smoking weed. Where are you from? I'm sending diapers over there right now. My daddy's a plug in Haiti, though. I'm Haitian, though.

Oh, your daddy's the plug in Haiti. Got you. He's a voodoo master, though. All right. Can't do the voodoo. I can't do the voodoo. God bless you, boo. We wish you nothing but the best, even if you wish us the opposite.

What happened? I'm going to send diapers over there. What just happened? I don't know what happened. Tell them why you, Bill. We wish you nothing but the best, even if you wish us the opposite. What happened? I'm going to send diapers over there. What just happened? I don't know what happened. Tell them why you're mad. 800-585-1051. If you're upset, you need to vent, call us right now. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey, hey, hey, yo. Hey, yo, good morning, yo. This is the Mad Rapper, son, for real. I'm mad and I stay mad. I stay angry, I stay heated, I stay pissed off. Tell them why you mad.

Breakfast Club, let's go. I'm mad because I'm taking care of my daughter's kids and she gives me no appreciation. Granddad, you don't get no appreciation, Granddad? I don't get no appreciation, Shalimar. Well, first of all, my name's Shalimar. I'm Shalimar. That old group you used to listen to when you was younger.

But you're a grandfather. You're not supposed to get no appreciation. I feel you. I feel you. I'm just supposed to do the job, take care of these babies, and hold them down. There you go. All right, but we appreciate you. Hey, I appreciate watching y'all and listening to y'all.

And y'all keep doing y'all thing. Big ups. All right, Granddad. Chalisa, tell them where you're at. My boss lets this guy get away with everything at my job. Probably having sex with him, that's why. He does everything and anything

he wants to do. He calls us names, called somebody a stupid effer, and he didn't get in trouble. Yeah, I got sent home because I didn't clean one pan when I got to work. Oh, you work at a dry cleaner or something? Yeah. Well, I can see why you would get sent home for not cleaning clothes when you get paid to clean clothes.

That makes perfect sense to me. Tell him why you're mad. He's making you drive? Well, why are you doing it? Because he went out last night partying, then he got messed up. Damn it, man.

Oh, well, I'm sorry to hear that. Hold your brother down. You're such a good big brother. Hello, who's this? Man, this is Slim, man. Slim out of Florida, man. I'm pissed to hell off because these crackers got me

over here on this house arrest since December, man. I've been sitting on house arrests since December. First of all, they're not crackers. If you want to call them the man, you can call them the man. Second of all, what did you do to get on house arrest?

Man, they got a charge on me from 2014. Got me fired from a job. Got me on house arrest. What did you do? I can't even talk about it, man. It's too much. See? It ain't their fault.

It's your fault. You're the criminal. It ain't my fault. It's their fault. You the criminal. It ain't my fault, it's their fault because they came and got me from two years ago. So what,

you think if you did a crime two years ago it don't count now? They erase it. They erase it? They're supposed to. No, they're not. What are you talking about?

I thought it was a grace period. There ain't no grace period. Listen, at least you getting it over with now. You done, you ain't got to wash your back no more.

They don't even have, I'm not even like, they don't even have a charge. They don't even have, I'm not even like, they don't even have a charge. They not even telling me nothing. My lawyer like, they not, they, they,

You sound like you lying. Number one. And number two, at least you're on house arrest and not in jail. Absolutely. Hey, man. I feel y'all.

But y'all keep it up. Hey, man. What's up, man? Let me know when you, let me know when you can come out the house, all right? Hey, I can leave out the house for you. I'll leave out the house right now. You get your ass

locked back. Have a good morning, sir. Alright, that's Tell Them Why You're Mad. 800-585-1051. If you're upset or you need to vent, you can call us. Now, when we come back, Amber Rose, when she stopped through and she had a lot to talk about. So keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

DJ out. So keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God, we are The Breakfast Club. We have a special guest with us this morning. Yes, the woman that men love to mess with on their Instagram. Sounds personal, Charlamagne. Amber Rose! Are you making something this morning, Charlamagne? I know I haven't done it yet, but I mean,

I can see why a lot of guys would do that. I appreciate that. Thank you. That term, break the internet, I thought it was kind of whack when they did it with Kim. But when you did it on the balcony, it seemed like it was organic and spontaneous. It was very spontaneous, for sure. It was a fun day. What was going on in your head that you were like, okay, I'm just posting.

That whole weekend. Drive everybody crazy. You must have just had a good that you were like, okay, let me just post these. That whole weekend. Drive everybody crazy. You must have just had a good workout or something. I mean, it's Miami. You know, usually when I go to Miami, I'm in thongs or topless or just in a bikini. Me too, but I never did that, though. Shut your dumb ass up. You're not in Miami?

Sometimes. Okay. No, but my dear assistant, Benji, was just like, yo, let's just take some pictures. And I was like, cool. I didn't think it was going to be that much of a big deal. You get a lot of flack for being a MILF and then showcasing your body. Does that bother you? No.

It shouldn't. It doesn't. It doesn't at all. It never crosses your mind like, you know what? Okay, I am somebody's mother. But sometimes you do clap back at people. Because a lot of people go at you because they say you're a mom and you got your tatas and booty out. I'm a self-proclaimed MILF, for sure.

Just because you're a mom doesn't mean that you can't be sexy anymore. You know, you're not a granny. Like, I'm 31. I'm still young. I'm still in my prime. Bash loves his mommy. You know, it's not a big deal to him. He's not even two yet.

Let's talk about your DMs. Okay. They got to be crazy now. You're divorced now. They know you're back on the market. Are you divorced now? I'm not divorced yet. No.

Not legally, but technically yes. Technically yes. No, you're separated. Yes, we're separated. And at a point in time, it seemed like you wanted to work it out and get back together. Of course. He was the love of my life. It wasn't over for me for a long time, but you know.

Is it over now? I cried it out. I cried a lot, a lot, like all day, every day. I cried and cried and wanted him to come home. But, you know, he's young. He has a lot of life to live. And now that I'm done crying and all the girls, it doesn't bother me anymore. Now it's my time to live and date and meet new people. You don't want him back? Are you past that? I mean, I'll never say never because like I said, he's the father of my

child. Do you feel like you guys go tit for tat because you might do things that bother him as well, I'm sure, that make him upset. I mean, after a long period of him doing a lot of things to me, yes, I did some petty because my feelings were hurt right because i'm a woman i mean it's just like petty like what like dancing on chris brown at the club if i was yeah i just thought you was having a good time i mean i was

but this is the thing like chris brown's family he's like you know he's like my brother so it was like your brother that night no but it was like i being petty, but it ain't with someone that I'm actually, like, potential to be with. You know what I mean? So it was kind of like just a little pettiness. I was having a good time. It literally was like a 20-second dance. Would you take it back if you could? No, it wasn't.

I was jealous by smoking a blunt with smoke. Smoke with shotgun. Would you take that back if you could, though, and not have done that? I didn't do it on purpose. It was more so like when me and Wiz were together, I would never do it at all. But it was like, I'm single. Like, I'm just going to have fun. You know what I mean?

That's what I did. Did you really catch Wiz having a threesome? Like, did you walk in and catch him literally being thrust? That's with two twins, right? Well, with twins, there's always two of them. That's what I mean. Shut up. With twins.

You're an idiot. You're not far from it. I'm just serious, guys. Come on. That's the way you're saying yes by not responding. I just... No.

When something irrational happens to you, you then act irrationally. And that's why I filed for divorce. He's allowed at least three hall passes. He can get caught cheating at least three times.

What if he... Use him up? Oh. Alright, we got more with Amber Rose. Don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club.

Amber Rose is in the building, Yee. Let's talk about you, though. Do you think that maybe you changed and there's some things that you take responsibility for doing during the course of your marriage? For sure. I became a mother. I'm not at the club every night, you know, down the shots. And my priorities definitely did change for sure. Now, you got a lot of male best friends.

Was that ever a problem for Wiz? Because Quincy, you know. My baby. That's my baby. That's what I'm talking about. He's a good looking guy. That's my baby. You say things like that.

How can Wiz not be a little insecure? Quincy's been my friend before I even met Wiz. So that comes with it. I mean, that's my baby. Did you ever have to cut off people that you were friends with even before that? Like, okay, if I'm going to make this work, I got to stop being friends with certain people. Well, anybody that I ever, like, kissed or had sex with, I definitely didn't talk to them anymore when I got with my husband. You have to send that one out of respect.

Just so y'all know, I'm dating now. For sure. I think everyone does that when they get into a relationship. Just out of respectall know, I'm dating now. For sure. I think everyone does that when they get into a relationship. People just fade out. Yeah, that too. But I mean, I'm the type of person where when I really care about someone, like I'm like a serial

monogamous. I can only focus on one person when I really just care about them. You keep it in good though. Even when Wiz was tweeting the other day and he tweeted the dude was like, You should get your wife back And he was like No thanks or whatever Did you text him like

Oh really? No thanks? Is that what you said A couple weeks ago? No I didn't because He was mad that I cut Sebastian's hair

I got Sebastian's hair cut Are you serious? No you should have did that though That's a dad's job A dad's supposed to take His son to get a cut Okay this Okay so this is my

That's the argument Clearly everyone knows More about haircuts than what she knows. Thank you. All right, maybe you're right. In this particular case. But that's why he was mad because my son has a lot of hair. And he's a strong little boy. So I always try to deep condition his hair in the back when he lays on it.

And he's not having it. And by him sleeping on it, it starting to get like matted in one spot cam obviously wanted his hair to be long i wanted his hair to be long but the boy needed a haircut i'm not gonna walk around my son having a dread in the back of his head i'm gonna tell you what's the relationship you gotta talk to me before we take our son i did and he said no but my son was in pain though though. It was hurting him. That's my baby. I'm not going to see my son in pain.

That explains the tweet when he said a woman who would do something to a kid despite that kid's father is a foul creature. Everybody thinks, oh, Amber must have cheated or something. It was a haircut. Come on. Who would think that would get you a big deal? That's kind of petty. That's very petty. That didn't sound like petty.

But, you know, you get petty when you still love somebody, you still care about them. All right, shout out to Amber Rose. Don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, MV, Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Ursa. Ursa. What they do, man? And this time he really is a special guest, man. Congratulations on the new album. Yes, I appreciate it, man.

Really enjoyed it. I know you put it out early on title. I don't have title, so I had to listen to it. Why you don't have title? Because it's too many different things. She don't support black business. No, no, I'm going to tell you why. Because it's a band, man.

Because I already have Apple. I already have Pandora. If you have Pandora, you should have Apple. You should have title. Because I have too many already. You just call it Jay-Z. I don't like black people. You just say it.

That's not. I mean, I had these first. You don't support black people, just say it. All right, fine. Now, we was having a conversation earlier. Is Usher appreciated like he needs to be? For like all you've done in music, been around since 94. Yeah.

Are you appreciated? That's a question I can't answer. You know what I'm saying? I mean, it obviously says a lot that I've been around as long as I have. But, I mean, I'm, you know, I don't know if I do it for that reason. I do it to celebrate music. I do it to kind of celebrate the culture that I come from. I mean, and I've been a lot of places in picking up that culture.

I started here in New York. You know what I'm saying? And from that, I made my reconnection with the South and Atlanta. And, you know, as it relates to R&B music and rhythmic music in the way that I do. You know what I'm saying? And from that, I made my reconnection with the South and Atlanta. And, you know, as it relates to R&B music and rhythmic music in the way that I do, you know what I'm saying?

I try to bring everybody back together. Even when I kind of went off the beaten path and just started, you know, trying other genres of music in other spaces. Pop.

Yeah, I mean. Maybe skimmish. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, but everybody does, you know? And the one cool thing about it is that I was fearless in doing it. But then that became, you know, a relevant thing for artists to do.

It's a departure. But this album ain't about that. This album is kind of bringing it back to the center. You know what I'm saying? I made a conscious decision to go towards my own culture. I mean, if I listen to radio right now, everybody sounds like Atlanta. You know what I'm saying? Even if you're from New Jersey, Brooklyn, wherever you're from, it sounds like Atlanta.

That is a fact. Now, let's talk about No Limit, the single. You released that. Did it catch on immediately? Yeah. You know, it took a minute. And everybody wanted Master P on the record. Or somebody from No Limit.

Yeah, somebody from No Limit. Silk, Mystical. Yeah. Now, how was it looking up with P? It was cool. I mean, it was cool to be a part of what P's working on. Because now he's kind of doing a documentary around No Limit Records and just kind of what it is to be an entrepreneur in the South.

And, you know, I just felt like I just kind of, I mean, this is just kind of like a tribute to you too in an odd way. The record wasn't about Master P. It just happened to use him as a metaphor. But why not put P on it? And all our friends like Ghetto D, so it all worked out. You like what? She said she likes Ghetto D. She like you like Ghetto D?

Yeah, we all do. No, we don't all like Ghetto D. We don't all like Ghetto D. The ladies, we all like that Ghetto D. You see some of the boyfriends she had, you be like, yeah, she like that Ghetto D. Now, why No Limit though? Because you all from Atlanta, so you had some historic labels there. It was more south than it was Atlanta.

You know what I'm saying? But No Limit, to me, felt like where we were at. You know what I'm saying? Like, this is, it's all about getting reconnected with the people, the energy. You know what I'm saying? And then I brought the dance to the table. Because the record was what it was. But then to be able to just start moving again and dancing and celebrating the movement.

You know what I'm saying? That's what it was more for me than anything. You think it's too early in your career for people to be like, oh, she still got it. When you watch the video and you're watching you dance, you're like, oh, she still got it. I mean, hey, you know, God rest her dead. They went through the same thing with Michael. They went through the same thing with Prince. You know what I'm saying?

And I don't know. I mean, I feel like I'm 28. You know what I'm saying? It never hurts a little I mean, I feel like I'm 28, you know what I'm saying? It never hurts a little bit, a little pop lock. Just a little. What is that that you're doing? Is that what you call a pop lock? That's like a seizure. That's terrible.

And you do have some songs on here that are very nostalgic too, which I see is really popular now with some of the newer artists kind of throwing it back. In some way, I think that all of late 80s and 90s, you know, kind of gave me a little inspiration. But I had a departure, you know, just from music. I was just trying different spaces, kind of working on different things

and allowing myself to just be, you know, just explore as much as I possibly can. And then, you know, I started looking at some of the things that I was going through and then I started using some of that as well. You know, that transition in life, you know, where you kind of look at yourself in the mirror and you're like, man, I'm a bit hard to love. I ain't been the best. Your ex-wife put the new album, Hard to Love Is Out. That title is perfect. She put that on Instagram. I swear to God, I literally just saw it. I'm telling you.

But it seems like you guys are in a good space now. Yeah, no, we good, man. Right. You really think you're hard to love, though? If you have ever loved me. And you have. You know, I mean, no. I mean, not to everybody.

You know what I mean? Like, we love your music, but if somebody's close to you. You know what I'm saying? It seems like you're very transparent in your music, but I guess guarded in your music, but I guess guarded in real life, so to speak? Not really. You know, for the most part, I just, you know,

I kind of live with my book open. You know what I'm saying? It's like, I'm there. It is what it is. Congratulations, by the way, on your star on the Walk of Fame. That was big. Was that a surprise? It seemed like it came out of nowhere. I think they give you advance notice. It Was that a surprise? Because it seemed like it came out of nowhere. Just one day we seen a pick-em like that.

I think they give you advance notice. No, it wasn't a surprise. Like, they have to petition, you know what I'm saying? So the fans have to begin to, you know, start to go through the process of raising the funding. My fans are the reason that that happened. And it could have happened, you know, years before. But I think that this was the perfect timing.

You know what I'm saying? It's been really an amazing year, man. Like, starting with going out to Golden State and winning with the perfect timing. You know what I'm saying? It's been really an amazing year, man. Like, starting with going out to Golden State and winning with the Cavs. Right. After an 11-year investment with them. That's a nice little sneaky investment you got. Yeah.

Is it sneaky? Yeah, 11 years of sneaking, right? You never thought that was going to happen, did you? Even in the finals, did you think the Cavs were going to win? I think people only remember the success, right? So we kind of have now kind of abandoned the idea of what happened before because Cleveland has now, you know, kind of made the full circuit that they all were hopeful for, you know, and when LeBron decided to leave and go to Miami,

I was still there in Cleveland. Did you burn his jersey? No, of course not. You know, once again, that perspective of being hard to love. You know what I'm saying? But, you know, hey, listen. Now, 11 years later, we got an incredible team. Got a ring to go with it. And looking forward to an incredible... You get a ring too?

Yeah. Nice. Did you ever think about selling your stake in the team when LeBron left? Nah. Not at all. Not at all. Why? Just because it was important to be a black owner?

I mean, as it relates to being a part of an incredible group, you know, don't jump ship. You know what I mean? And then when Kyrie came, I actually built a great rapport with him, but it served to be a good business. You know what I mean? There wasn't a decline in that way. You know what I'm saying?

He was still just as popular and just as successful, and the efforts of the team were to rebuild. And then when LeBron came back, it just became a continual conversation about what we're going to do to continue to build the team. And Knicks are going to win this year. Hey, thank you. Thank you for having that hopeful. Now, you're playing sugar-red-lidded.

How did you prepare for that? You know, just being a boxer. You know what I'm saying? So instead of looking at it like an acting role, I just decided that I was going to put the gloves on and train like an actual boxer. I spent about a year. Eventually

Sugar Ray Litton came and put the finishing touches on making sure that I understood exactly what happened in the two fights between he and Roberto Duran. Now, did you spar? Yeah. You sparred and everything. You know, you can play basketball.

You can play football. You can play baseball. You can't play boxing. No. You know what I'm saying? This is what you put in the ring. And you put them gloves on. You put the pads on.

And you go for it. And I wanted to make sure I could handle myself. So I boxed with amateurs. I didn't just... So they knocked you on your ass a couple times. They had to. A couple times, yeah. You've always worked out and been in good shape, though.

I remember when August was up here, he was saying how when he was on tour with you, how you kind of had to tell him, listen, you got to work out, get in the gym, be healthy. Yeah. I mean, I end up being like a mentor to all my little brothers. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it is. I mean, if you're going to travel on that road, and I did tell him. I showed him, too, like, yo, this is what we do in order to, you know, keep it up, keep the regimen going.

All right, we got more with Usher when we come back. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. I'm ready to stop when you are. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. Usher is in the building. Why have we never seen Usher go crazy? Because you've been around since you was 14. I don't let you see it. Why have you never gone crazy? Because it wasn't the social media era or what? I think that we all go crazy in our mind.

It's a matter of what you choose to show. Social media, all of them kind of give you an opportunity to wild out a little bit. Yeah, y'all seen me in the steam shower. We seen your penis. Why didn't you see your penis? I saw a smiley face. You were looking at my penis? I just was showing them the picture too. She was.

You keep it in your phone? Yeah, I was like, listen, I'm glad that emoji couldn't hide it, man. If you have an emoji over your penis and you can't see the penis, then I don't know if it was like a shadow. I think I felt like I saw like pieces. Nah, you can't really. You ain't looking that hard. You ain't damn it. You can't really see it, right?

It's a piece. There's some girth coming out the sides of the emoji. How did that happen? Are you having a young OG moment? You know, sometimes us young OGs get on this routine. He was doing a tour of the house. And then he stripped down in the steam shower in the sauna. He was keeping it real. I was blown off steam, man.

You know. Listen, if I get a link, Usher's penis is exposed. I'm going to look at it. Why wouldn't I? Goodness gracious, ye. Why wouldn't I look? Nah, you know, this right here proves that, you know, cough syrup and, you know what I'm saying, steam showers don't work.

You know what I'm saying? That ain't a good blend. That's going to be the headline. That's just that he was high when he leaked his penis pic. He was on the screen. Did you think it was funny or were you like, oh my God?

I just, you know what, sometimes I use Snapchat or one of them to kind of like allow you to look at my life, my day. You said look at my... My day. Damn, man. She's like, look at my... My day. Damn, man. She's like,

we started with Ghetto D. Now, the theme of the new album, Regret. I think I read a New York Times article and it said that. Regret? Is there any regret

with the album? Yeah, like you said, you talk about being regretful a lot. I feel like he's more like, I be messing up, but you gonna be with me anyway. Nah, not really.

I mean, it's been a process. Like, the album ain't about just where we are, you know what I'm saying, where men are. I mean, if you listen to music and you hear the contrast, you hear the other side, you hear women talking about some of the things that men are doing, right? So men have to kind of go through this transformation where they finally get it, you know? And if you look at my life and, you know, a lot of this that I've been through and things I've done, it ain't been the greatest. So, you know, I kind of own up to it.

I don't want no more rivals. I just want to kind of straighten it out, you know what I mean? A man's favorite phrase is, I'm a work in progress. That's real. That's what men always say. When they mess up, they be like, listen, I'm just a work in progress, man. But don't you love a dude who would just say that as opposed to lying and just like, nah, you reading it wrong.

You ain't, that wasn't me. You ain't see it. Nah, uh-uh. You got on it. You know what I'm saying? And I think that that was part of the give back, you know what I'm saying? To make sure that men have that kind of record to make it a little bit easier to get over that hump of just having the conversation, man. Right.

You've always had a thing for older women, don't you? Yep. Why is that? There's no reason. There's no logic behind who I've chosen to spend my time with. I like younger women too. I've had a variety. When it comes to age,

there's no limit. I love that. There is a limit. I don't go too low. I don't go too low. You started in the game early. So a lot of people your age probably couldn't relate to what you was going through, maybe? I mean, my first single was Can You Get With It?

You know what I'm saying? At 14 years old, what the hell did I know about any of it? You know what I'm saying? But nah, that ain't it. I just choose based off of who I know I resonate with and I connect with. It ain't got nothing to do with age or anything specific. It's like if you connect with somebody, then you gel with them.

That's it. I love older women, too. Patti LaBelle is my woman crush. You like them pies? Patti's pies. You want them pies? Yes, I do. He go hard for them pies.

He go hard for Patti. To the point where Patti's son has had to check him a couple times. Patti's son checked me once. He was just like, please stop talking about my mom and this man. I'm like, bruh, it's not my fault your mom was hot, bruh. What do you want me to do?

It's not like I'm being disrespectful. She's just hot. How personal would you say this album is? Hard to love. I mean, the process was personal. You know what I'm saying? And kind of that transformation and me being open about being hard to love. And hard to trust.

Yep. So if you tell a girl that you cheat it's kind of on her no no no it hard to love ain't just necessarily cheating it's just kind of getting through the layers of put all these blocks up when you go through you know life's changes i went through a divorce it ain't like i kind of have had you know 100 like great relationships all the way across the board. So with all of that, I made it very difficult for a lot of women. I was hard on them.

You kind of take the blame for everything. Yeah, I took the blame for a lot of the things that I kind of went through. I don't take all of it, but I can own my part. But how do women trust you now? Because you're still Usher. You talked about your life on these records. And you're saying you're hard to trust on the title track of the new record. But you're still touring. You're still in the strip clubs. How do they still trust Usher?

He's giving himself a window. He got a little door open. If I mess up, I told you what I'm about. No. I mean, I'm just being honest for all men. Not just myself. Don't speak for me. I'm faithful. But you are definitely hard to love.

Yes, 100%. That is true. Do you think women don't take responsibility enough for our part? I think y'all do. I think that you probably do more than you need to. And I think that maybe men don't necessarily understand how to say it. I think that we both speak different languages. You know what I'm saying?

And we could be saying it very clearly and you don't get it. So like when you break it down to the simplest common denominator, it makes it easy. It makes the conversation easy to kind of move through. What conversation do you have with your sons? You have a couple of black boys. Yep. Why are you saying it like that? What?

You sound like a racist. You sound so oppressive. I got a couple of black boys too. A couple of young black men. You. A couple of young black men. You have a couple of young black men. Jesus Christ. They're not men yet. They're young boys.

Those are young boys. They're impressionable. How about just, you have two sons. That's from the South. That boy thing, right? That hurt, man. It sounded crazy. You got a couple of black boys.

It does. You have two young black sons, right? Yeah. What conversations do you have with them about everything that's going on? Because everything is so social now. He wrote this book and he wrote a book to his son and it then made me, you know what I'm talking about? Between the world and me.

Right. So, great book. After reading that book, I then began to understand the reality of how important fathers are for kids right now. We have to be able to communicate with our sons and make them aware and prepare them for the world that is judging them they're living in a different space and time and while

the reality that there is somebody out there who has the right to take your life you should be aware that a situation can escalate you know and you should be responsible in that moment and stay alive that That's the whole point. Stay alive in that process. Don't get me wrong. There's a lot of anger. If you look at what's going on and the fact that nobody's able to stay the course, there's major conversations about what happens.

We'll look on the news. We'll see what's going on with Trayvon Martin. We'll see what's going on with these court cases. And then it kind of dwindles. Babe, back to the next news thing. You know what i'm saying so it's really up to us as men as fathers of our children to have that conversation have those difficult conversations with them to let them know this is what has happened here this is the reality of where

you live this is how certain people feel you know and my kids man they they have many cultures of people that they not only hang out with they know know, they've been around the world, they've seen people, they've heard other people speak other dialects. So they're respectful of themselves and respectful of others. I was going to say that because, I mean, me growing up in Queens, I'm sure you growing up in the South, we had, it was nothing but black kids in our class. But for my kids, it's a little different. Yeah.

But telling them about racism, they're looking at it kind of different. Like, nah, I'm... My daughter's the only black girl in her class. Yeah, like, Mikey is my friend. In the whole school? In the whole school. It's a little different to relate. Even if they go to your shows, your shows are so diverse. Yeah. So talking to them, do they really

get it? I mean, they're young boys, and they're growing to be conscious young men. You know what I'm saying? I'm not certain, you know. And what I can say is while I have them in my care, I'm preparing them to be mindful men of the world that they live in and the reality of what their life looks like

to make sure that they understand their history, make sure they understand what's not written in textbooks, make sure they understand who they are, where they come from, what responsibility comes with what they have. And it may not necessarily be theirs. They may be judged. It may hurt. But off, somebody may say something. I might call them a nigga.

And they're white. They're like, where did that come from? What if you say my nigga? What's up, my nigga? Yeah, but that's where we're headed. We're in a really, really odd balance right now. You know what I mean? I love them while I got them. As long as

I have them, protect them as much as I can. Absolutely. I always wanted to ask you, when you did Same Girl with R. Kelly, were you concerned that people... Are you concerned that people... Let's just go somewhere else. Let's just go somewhere else real quick. We getting too deep.

Good segue. What a segue. Were you concerned that people may think that Same Girl was 13? We getting too deep. Good segue. What a segue. All right, go ahead. Were you concerned that people may think that same girl was 13? Oh, man. Stupid. Good question. Is it?

Get out of there, man. All right, well, let's get into an Usher mini mix. Let me know your favorite Usher joint right now at DJ Envy. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Usher is in the building.

Charlamagne? Now, can we talk about how you ruined Chili? Ruined? Because remember when she did the TV show? How did I ruin a grown-ass person? And she had that long checklist. I said, this is Usher's fault. I said, this is all Usher's fault that she got that long checklist. I said, this is Usher fault. I said, this is all Usher fault. She got this long checklist.

She happy now though. Yeah. So you're saying she is dating Nick Cannon. I don't know that she is. Nick Cannon said in a freestyle that he first tried to holler when Usher was with Chili. Oh well. That was then. You think I ruined

Chili for real did you see her checklist on what Chili wants yeah that checklist was crazy Chili checklist was long but they did it

a long time ago I'm sure there's been other things definitely that's happened since so it didn't have to be Usher and when was the last

time you interviewed her that ruined her maybe about a year and a half two and a half years ago maybe did you ask her about it yeah she said you ask her about it yeah

she said you ruined her she said I ruined her she didn't say that she didn't say that I think she just said something like you had some growing up to do or something like that

that's part of the reason that I wrote this song Rivals you know what I'm saying I did have some growing up to do you know that relationship served

you know you kind of you kind of have these categories you know what I'm saying you got a reason season or a lifetime. That one didn't prove to be a lifetime. You got an album out of it, though.

Ten million records sold. Mary J. Usher. Mary J. Usher. This guy's an idiot. So your advice to men, when you make your mistakes, own up to them, take responsibility, and learn from them. Yes. How about just not get caught? How about just don't do it?

Charlamagne has said it, just don't get caught. I mean, if you want to deal with fantasy, cool. But it took him time to get to that point, I'm sure. Right, right. To be honest, all men have their own timing, you know what I mean? And have their own things that we have to deal with. And women will never understand it. You know?

You don't have a penis, so you don't understand it. We don't know that. We don't know that about you guys. And you guys don't. We might not necessarily understand everything about you. My vagina, right. So we're trying to figure out this connection between man and woman. You got a Snapchat naked from the steam room, so you make sure you don't got no.

Shut up. I'm going to put an emoji. Shut up. You can always tuck put an emoji. Shut up. I'm playing, you can always tuck it. Tuck it? You can always tuck it. But I mean, it's something about that insecurity that men have that at times makes it a bit... He has to begin to balance it. That if you cheat and you don't get caught, that you shouldn't tell.

You damn right. But some people feel like, man, I feel so guilty about this. I feel like I need to go to my significant other and be like, I made a huge mistake. This is what happened. So what's your advice on if you cheat and don't get caught, should you confess or should you just deny? You're speaking to the guy who puts it in his music.

Right. I'm like a tattletale. I tell on myself. No, you confess because you got caught. If there's a baby involved or something, yeah. I mean, you can't really get around that. Eventually, she's going to see the baby. You know what I'm saying?

But people have said it's very selfish if you get caught to tell because it relieves your guilt, but then it makes the other person feel terrible. I disagree. I think that if you're trying to move forward in a relationship, let it come from your mouth to the person that you want to figure this out. Because there's a reason why you went through that. There's a reason why you had that moment.

Why she or you. It ain't just guys either, by the way. Women on that too. You know what I'm saying? More now than ever. You know what I'm saying? I knew that was going to come up. Could you be with the woman

who cheated on you if Grace was like look I made a huge mistake it was just one time cross that bridge when I get there yeah don't put that in there I'm just saying

I don't put that out there like that Usher you got money to hire the baby you got money to hire the whole family I don't want you don't sit here

and hand me that what's the biggest adjustment you've had to make in your 20 plus year career as an art and man that comes with the territory you're always making an adjustment you always listening to what music is you're always kind of collaborating i think that that's probably one of the um hardest places for writers producers to get when they you know because something about having a hit record makes you feel like you don't need anybody but collaboration is what gives you perspective so when you begin to work with other people then you get you go further you know what i'm saying and that

that probably is the hardest thing is when you when you finally get that wait a minute it's not just all me it is collaboration it is the people that are helping me understand and see things that maybe i didn't catch put in the work and if And if you don't, you ain't going to have the longevity. And that's why your longevity is your live show. Because there's people you can go see perform live. And you're like, I've read, listened to the album at home. But then there's people you see perform live. And it's like, wow, that was a great experience.

Yeah, I mean, especially if you're going to spend that $40 or $59, whatever it costs to go see your favorite celebrity. You want them to show up for you. What do you think about people live show now? Because seeing you perform, sometimes I'm like... They don't work as hard as they do. I'm like, man, you perform, you dance, you sing, dance. First time I ever seen Usher was about two years ago at the IHOP Festival,

and he walked in the room, and it's like a path cleared, and he danced all the way to the podium. Like, you walked in the room to do press and danced to go do your interview. I was like, well, you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready. Nah, but I'm a bit disappointed. With live shows, though. I'm very disappointed with live shows. I'm not as disappointed for

the creative directors, because they getting paid a lot of money to put the lights in it. Now, you discovered Justin Bieber. Is it hard for you to, like, pick another artist now because of the success Bieber had? Success has a million fathers. There's a ton of people who were part of Justin Bieber's discovery. Scooter brought it to me. Ton of people. That's not necessarily the business that I have been in. You know, I've been more focused on continuing to keep music.

And if I do hear anything, an artist, I'll pull them to the front. I might collaborate with them. I might help them and mentor them. I mentor more people than you would ever know. Any R&B artist, if you name them right now,

I probably know them, mentor them, talk to them. I'm the youngest OG that they got. You know what I'm saying? Three lanes. Well, no.

With Trey Songz. With Trey. August. What about Bryson Tiller? Bryson Tiller, yeah. With Trey Songz. With Trey. August. What about Bryson Tiller? Bryson Tiller, yeah. Miguel. Definitely Miguel. I mean, Diddy did that for you, right?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's about the gift of the trade. You know, if you have some perspective, why not offer it? You know what I'm saying? Chris, all of them. You know what I mean? All right. All right, make sure y'all follow us.

You're on Snap. Something else might slip out. You never know. Well, we appreciate you joining us. The album, the eighth studio album, Hard to Love, out right now. We appreciate you. Yeah, man. Thank y'all, man. All right, it's The Breakfast Club. It's Ursa. Yeah, man.

I'm falling. I was born a donkey. It's the donkey of the day. Donkey, donkey, donkey. Bunch of dead, dead, dead. Forunch of f***ing dead guys. It's time for the Donkey of the Day. That's pretty funny.

Charlamagne the devil? Possibly. The Breakfast Club. Donkey of the Day goes to Terry Brown, Kenneth White, and the 20 other goons who were arrested in Huntsville, Alabama, recently after their trap house got raided. Now, I know you're thinking, Charlamagne Bando's get raided every day, B. In fact, you're probably sitting in one right now listening to The Breakfast Club,

smoking a blunt, paranoid as hell. Salute to all the drug dealers who listen to The Breakfast Club. We appreciate your support. Now, the reason these brothers' house got raided warms my heart. It warms my heart because I can't stand to see gigabyte goons. What I mean when I say gigabyte goons is I can't stand to see, you know, you real street N-words on social media. OK, I know trap boys got smartphones, too. But I grew up in an era where you absolutely positively under no circumstances talk about any street stuff on the phone.

In fact, D-boys now won't talk on the phone. But for some reason, they think it's safe to text tweet ig snapchat uh put their crimes on facebook why people think law enforcement don't have social media i will never know but at this point the fbi and dea might as well just you know well fbi might as well just stand for facebook and instagram okay in fact these law enforcement divisions should add you as a friend as soon as you post something something incating online, okay, just so you know they're coming. Can you imagine getting that FBI just followed you notification? Or that DEA just added you as a friend?

Lord have mercy, cancel Christmas. But you dudes committing crimes on these platforms is making it so easy for law enforcement to do their jobs. And now Kenneth White, Terry Brown, and the other 20 members of the crew, they were all sitting around the dope house. They had all their guns with them. They didn't decide to do a rap video, no rap video with a bunch of guns in the dope house. That's that's so early 2000s. These goons had another bright idea to make that illegal distribution go digital.

They decided to do a mannequin challenge. That's right. A mannequin challenge, but not just any mannequin challenge. OK, they decided to pick a drive by shooting in the video, which was posted on Facebook in early November. It shows a bunch of dudes pointing guns at each other, all in frozen positions. Madison County Sheriff's Office Captain Mike Salmonoski, I think you pronounce his name. He said the video prompted investigators to begin gathering evidence. And by evidence, they mean to share the YouTube link around the office.

And then they secured a warrant after watching the video. They went to kick the doors off the hinges and they found two handguns, a rifle and a shotgun, along with marijuana and ammunition. Now, they arrested Kenneth White, 49, and Terry Brown, 23. Kenneth, you almost 50 and you still in the street committing crimes and doing mannequin challenges and posting them on social media, that's why the young boys don't know no better because the OGs don't know no better. The most hilarious thing to me in this video is that it was 22 people, right? All of them had guns, but only two people got arrested and they only found four guns. So if you do the thug math, it's 20 more people out there that didn't get arrested and 18 guns that still need to be

confiscated, which means somebody had to call all these goons over to do a mannequin challenge. Now, usually when you round up 20 goons, you're probably going to the club. When you round up 20 goons and tell them bring their guns, you're going to war. Well, at least the way it used to be. Now when you call 20 goons over,

it's to do the mannequin challenge. Imagine that phone call. Hey, bruh, come through. Bring your gun, bruh. It's going down. Cause, look, man, I'm telling you, we about to take these niggas out, dog. I'm telling you who they think they playing with. Bring your gun, bruh. Our mannequin challenge gonna stop everything. Life

as we know it has turned into a dramedy, ladies and gentlemen. What happened in Huntsville, Alabama seems like something that would happen on Donald Glover's TV show, Atlanta. All you thugs, goons, d-boys out there, don't go chasing Instagram likes and YouTube views. Just stick to the cocaine selling

and drive-by shootings that you're used to. Please give Terry Brown, Kenneth White and the other 20 goons who got arrested for doing the mannequin challenge in Huntsville, Alabama the biggest hee-haw, please. And investigators say they're still investigating, which means they're still

looking at the YouTube link, looking at the YouTube video, trying to identify who's who on there so they can come lock your ass up. Okay. All right.

Jesus Christ. I saw all of that all over Instagram yesterday, the mannequin challenge that they were doing. I thought it was creative. What? What's creative about it? I've just seen about a hundred mannequin challenge that they were doing. I thought it was creative. What? What's creative about it?

I've just seen about 100 mannequin challenges with people pointing guns at each other. Did you? Yes. I haven't seen them. Like they either robbed somebody. Has the mannequin challenge jumped the shark yet? Morning, everybody. It's DJ M.D.

Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building. LOX. Z-Block. Yeah. She's on the yak early. Yo. She can stay special guests in the building. LOX. Here you are. Yeah, pop.

She's on the yak early. Yo. Is he cold out there? Yeah, no more time. I've been downstairs waiting. No, he was actually the last one. No, no, no. He was actually the last one.

Most people drink Starbucks in the morning on some green tea. She's on the yak straight. Warmed up real quick. Well, congratulations, fellas. Thank you, brother. About damn time. 16 years. This is exciting, by the way. Filthy America is beautiful, fellas. Thank you, brother. About damn time. 16 years. This is exciting, by the way.

The America is beautiful, baby. And from what we heard so far, we are really, really excited. Great reception. We all like the songs that we've heard. We tried to get like a little advance of the album, but the link wasn't working. I got five records, though. You got five? I got five. Why has it been 16 years since the last Locks Out?

Because we couldn't own the Masters, Charlamagne. We didn't have a situation where we could own the Masters. And shout out to all the, you know, a lot of artists, a lot of producers, a lot of CEOs. Off of those deals. Off of those deals. We're interested in the Locks Project throughout the years. You know, bringing things to the table. It just didn't make sense for us, to be honest with you.

You know what I mean? We know we're all going to be on each other's projects, solos. We know we're going to do D-block work. We're always going to support each other, but you don't want to keep doing something that you worked hard to get out of a situation to put yourself back in the same sort of situation. You know what I mean? That's what the industry basically kind of does,

so we kind of wanted to own it. What you notice for age, though, Because y'all get to a point it's been 16 years, so you got to recreate the locks. You know, they know Jadakiss, they know Sheik, they know Southpeak, but the locks you got to reinvent yourself. They don't really know the locks like that. That's fun. Yeah, that is fun. Plus, we've been

out there. We've been doing, like you said, wool block projects and all kind of stuff. People be hitting us like, yo, how's the reunion feel and all that. It ain't no reunion to us. It ain't no like, yo, I'm glad y'all getting back together. I never felt that way. How was the Roc Nation deal structured that you guys felt like that was a great situation?

Partners with him. With the situation. Like he said, owning your masters and all that. You know what I mean? Getting your proper money off your streams and all that. All that good stuff. Title exclusives. Yeah, yeah.

What's the difference between like, I guess D-Block, The Lox, or even when y'all just individuals working on each other's projects? There's a lot of people with D-Block, like artists that, you know, we're trying to put out and all kind of stuff like that. The Lox, you know what it is. Yeah, that's with D-Block. D-Block is like a cult following with a lot of group homes and jails. Our fans are like

yeah that's our outlet for dudes like Needleman, Fortez Chris Rivers, Snipe Life, Mox all them guys, Moxburg like you know what I mean it's like extended family and it was like when we was coming in the game we understood as the locks like you know from going through our situation

that you don't just want to always be the artist either like you want to have something where you can say this is mine I'm going to ownership of the label or you know however from going through our situation, that you don't just want to always be the artist either. Like, you want to have something where you can say, this is mine, I'm going to ownership of the label, or, you know, however it goes. But you want to put yourself in a position to be all right somehow, somewhere down the line. I feel like with the What Else You Need To Know record, you guys answered any age-old question that a blog or interview

could possibly ask in that record. All that, because we get it. Did you hear the skip before on the album, or no? No, I just heard the song. Yeah, same. You know, you're here. It's a reporter asking kind of these questions, and we going in on them. But, yeah, we get the same questions. I mean, y'all opened up a lot on that show.

Yeah, and some things y'all said that I never knew. Like, I'm not poking people. We knew they stabbed people. Stop it. But I didn't know that you thought the Benjamins was whack. When I first heard it, yeah. I told the story, like, coming into the studio, and him and Puff and Missy was in there listening to it.

And all three of us walked in. It was like, and that was when Missy was doing the hee-hee-hee-ha. You know, with all that, I didn't really know who she was. Right. She had this song with Gina. Gina Thompson. Exactly. And, you know, she dancing in there.

And I'm like, who is this girl? She was like, yo, you spit right here. Let me hear this verse. I just strictly trying to, it wasn't even for that, for that joint. She heard all of us

and she was like, yo, you gonna write his verse? You gonna say that and you gonna do this and that? That's how the song came about. We thought it was for us, for our record. We was like,

all right, we'll put it to the side. We'll see what happens. Man, that joint blew up. She just took control of everything. She, yeah, she might not even remember all that. So she was the co-producer

on The Benjamins? Yeah, you know. Well, she was, she was in that room. She, yeah, she might not even remember all that. So she was the co-producer on The Benjamins? Yeah, you know. Well, she was in that room. She was in that room, but she probably didn't get no credit. So all y'all thought it was wack or just chic? I didn't really like that beat. One of our it's not the biggest record.

Would you say? Of our career. One of the biggest records in the history of our history. Now you did Secure the Bag. I like that song. Y'all got one? That's one of your five? Yeah. Well, that was out already anyway, too,

so we could've got that. I didn't really like it. But Charlamagne didn't like it. Secure the Bag is dope. I like that gritty, you know, breathe easy, you know, the joint I was just talking about. What you know?

I like those The secure the back sound Like New current Yeah Young boy But I like when people Can keep it

True to life How they came in But also just evolve And do other things too And show that they know What's going You know We introducing ourselves

As the lock So we can't come in Saying you know Strictly off the vibe Like yo we from the 90s Respect that Like you gotta respect the young boy. This day, Tom,

if they got a certain kind of music, we're going to remain us on it, but you got to do a joint or two. You know, respecting the times. Did you guys let your kids hear it? Other joints. You guys let your kids hear the album and be like,

what y'all think about this? Because I know everybody's like, in school. I swear my son just said, Dad, when I'm going to hear the album, I got to get it. The whole album. I bring it home from the world. Everything's hear the album, I got to get it.

Everything's so digital, I don't even have it. That kid's just in school down south, so what do you think about the record? He's doing a whole bunch of other stuff down there, spending money. But he probably call me tonight or tomorrow and try to do his. His review? Yeah. Clark Atlanta TMZ review. That's style.

The Statue of Limitations is up. You said on the joint you bought kilos with the bad boy events. Yeah, we did. We did. Yeah, we did. That's part of the story, the book and all of that. You got a book? I mean, eventually you're going to do a book and a movie, but that's definitely, that's 100% fact.

You know, most people, they get in the rag and they're like, oh, we rappers now, we good. Y'all took it right back. We was going to be good, but we just had to flip it a little. You know, you're already doing something, and then you got friends doing it and it was a business like a business we did for years like we i mean we worked jobs and had stock jobs so it was always just i was fresh so that was early early early early guys

i swear to god i remember when we couldn't do whatever no more. It was getting to that. That's when you'll see and all that came out. We couldn't. It was popping off. Like, we might got. We got. We popped on.

We was getting real popping. It was like, you know, this would be stupid to be. I kept it up a little. What album? What album did y'all be like? All right, we good. We don't got to do that no more. Kiss might have stopped like two years ago.

Yeah. What is that? That album, um... Nah, I don't even think it was an album. It was like a mat of songs and cameos and, um, and videos. No, the momentum

just picked up so much. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't no, it wasn't no... When we got shot for that, when we was doing mixtapes, I went and got packs again. Let me keep it at 1,000.

Wow! Did y'all ever have a mixtape thing? Like during the whole Let the Locks Go campaign? Yeah, there was no contracts. You got to eat. You know what I'm saying? You already started a lifestyle. Good morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building, the locks. Now, Yee? Who came up with the title Filthy America? It's beautiful. Collectively, we was beautiful. No, I remember walking in, and y'all, who came up with the title Filthy America? It's beautiful. Collectively, we was... No, I remember walking in

and y'all, you and Styles was talking about it and I was like, yo, that's beautiful. It's beautiful. Was y'all having a discussion about like the election

and all that? Definitely. It's life in general. The election definitely plays part of it. It's not a political project as you say though. It's not political.

It's not a conscious album. It just really plays onto how we live day by day and the things we go through and see. It's not political. It's not a conscious album. It just really plays onto how we live day by day and the things we go through and see. Like, you know, it's definitely

a beautiful place. Like, we in the room right now, it's black people, white people, all kind of people. The studio's filthy. Like, you know what I'm saying?

It's a beautiful vibe. If we were smoking, we could smoke together, drink together, have good conversation. That's a beautiful thing. But if we leave and certain things happen

and we all get pulled over, it's going to be a different story for each one of us. Black people are going to get treated different than the white people. Now, that's a filthy thing, but it's beautiful the fact that we could get along and we could talk, you know what I'm saying, about certain issues.

Socialize. And then sometimes you come to work and you don't say nothing about the things that happened. You're looking at a co-worker, you know there's tension in the air. You know you got different political views, different life views, but you just keep going on and don't

even talk about it. That's a big problem. On that note, if Jada did why right now, I'd be like, I would want you to ask Kanye why'd he talk to Trump. How'd y'all feel about that? A lot of people's going in on Kanye. You seen John Legend? Mm-hmm.

You seen, um... Kanye. I don't know. I mean, I pray for Kanye, whatever he's going through. If he's even going through something, if he's faking or whatever it is, you know, I pray he just get back to making that music that we love him to make and put all the other stuff aside. Now, who was the toughest to work in the studio?

Hold on. I want to know a thousand thing for the Kanye Trump thing. I had a lot to say. Not much. I think we give people too much power. Why do we really, you know, Kanye, he's a musician. He's a hip-hop dude.

He's not political. Why do we care about it? No disrespect to Kanye. Ray Lewis and Jim Brown was with Trump and they didn't get that much attention. He really shown important. And then on top of that, if y'all was the world, we, y'all, everybody was saying he was insane last week. And his mind slipped and all of that.

Why is his people letting him go speak with Trump? Why do we care about what he's saying with Trump? Everybody, why does Trump even want to meet with him? You got to look, it's like a big circus. So you got to pay attention to what's real. That might have been just the whitewash, so you ain't paying attention to what's going on in Syria. Other things happen. Other places.

So we gotta be real careful about what's going on and just pay attention all around. But stop... Your head up, eyes and ears open. Kanye ain't our president. You know what I'm saying? No disrespect, but he ain't the president of hip-hop. He ain't the president of black people. He's a great entertainer.

He makes great sneakers and stuff. He loves his music. Why does him... Why does him, me, and Trump call for so much? Either way. Hillary is a piece of crap to me, too. No disrespect. Respect. I watched the 13th.

I was part of the super predator. You know what I mean? I know how many black people y'all locked up. We'd be asleep watched the 13th. I was part of the super predator. Like, you know what I mean? I know how many black people y'all locked up. So it's like we'd be asleep all the way around the board. Like, we better start fighting to make sure the right people's in there, period. Like, why we got to keep picking from bad choices? You believe in voting? No.

Don't give me the argument. I ain't getting into this with him, man. Please, no. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I can see both sides. Yeah, man. There's no way I I know, I know. I believe in voting for you, though. Yeah. I can see both sides. Yeah, man. There's no way I'm not going to tell my kids or whoever. I don't care if it's in school or something. I used to be with you. I know, I know, I know. I used to be with him.

So at least if you ain't voted for Obama twice. I'm going to come up with some reason why I shouldn't. I'm going to be here no matter who or what or where or why. Yeah, I'm going to come up with something. So vote for your local politician then. You're telling me you're giving me two bad candidates. Like, you got to understand, like, we acting like Trump's the worst in the world. He is a horrible dude.

He's a piece of crap. Not voting is voting for Trump, man. Not voting is voting for Trump. This ain't a myth. We ain't making stuff up. This is not numbers in the book of locking black people up. Like, why don't we make sure somebody good? I just say, like, in a common thing, I just say

government shouldn't run to people. People should run to government. Like, it shouldn't us be like, yo. Like, that's like saying, like, with anything in life, with anything else in life, say you're a bachelor, you got two women. They're both pieces of crap. You ain't gonna

take even one of them. Ladies vice versa. You got two people, you go to a place. But it's not like that with not voting. You ain't going to take even one of them. Ladies vice versa. You got two people. You go to a place. But it's not like that with not voting. It ain't like either way. You ain't getting one of them. You got to. That's because you got to.

You got to get one of them. They telling you you got to. He's saying that she, whoever won this votes, this and that votes. You just said you got to. Why you got to? Who told you you got to? Everybody that said the protests, I guarantee they ain't, they stayed in bed. You know, tell me, what the popular vote?

Now you protesting. Hillary won. I feel like stayed in bed. Now you're protesting. Hillary won. How much numbers did Hillary win the popular vote by? 2.5 million. That shows us that all of this conversation we have, the people voted for Hillary.

The electoral vote, which is how many votes? 250 or something? 270? All you need is 270 to win or something like that. 270 to win, I believe. I believe something like that. How does 270 overpower Matt Miller? It's like, come on, man.

That's not even common sense, man. If you're going to complain, do something about it. If you're going to complain, do something about it. I hate when people complain. People complain all day long and don't do nothing. Kiss, what do you say? Truth in America. Yeah, yeah do you say? Yeah, I know. Truth in America.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe we need a new voting system. Like you telling me millions of people who voted, citizens, who live all across the land, vote didn't matter more than 200 or 370 people. Who the hell are them 370 people? That say overpower millions of people? Like, come on, dog. Yo, even...

Alright. Even when you come up with something dope, you gonna come up with a dope plan on why voting should work in your system? You gonna find something in that... You gonna find something in there why you shouldn't. So, Kiss. I was doing a town during this political...

We always, when we used to see Kiss and Styles doing the back and forth. Yeah. We always wondered why Sheik wasn't on that. That was a random time. He was in Whitney Young Project. You just missed him. You said you missed him. Yeah, I missed him doing other things.

And, you know. You said the J-Lo record. You said the J-Lo record. Yeah. Sheik was a wild fella back then. Yeah, yeah. What was he doing? You know.

It was awesome, man. And then, yeah. I missed them joints. And I ain't feeling a wild fella back then. Yeah, yeah. What were you doing? You know, other stuff. It was awesome, man. And then, yeah, I missed them joints. And I ain't feeling away, even, for some reason. For some reason. So they call you, like, I'm in the studio with J-Lo. Where you at? Nah, they didn't call me. Oh, OK.

They definitely been there with that joint. You ain't gonna do that. Yo, belly light. I don't remember getting to call him. No, call him for everything. He's not. But that was a different time. He's a sociable person, but he's anti- everything. He's not. But that was a different time. He's a sociable person, but he's anti-social.

He's sociable, but anti-social. Tony Dorsett could come right here. Lucha dappled him up all that. And Sunji, guess who was that? That's definitely me. But you're the same way, though. You're anti-social. You got a little better, but you used to be 100% worse.

I mean, I talk to the people that talk to me. I ain't going to just come out and give you my sweater if you ain't cold. Give you my sweater. You ain't cold. So would y'all say that Sheik wasn't taking it as serious as y'all back then? No, no, no. I'm going to answer that. I wasn't taking it as serious.

Immediately, they had solo plans to do this and that. I don't understand how to do this and that. Nah, I'm telling you straight up with me. I don't understand how much money this guy got. They was always talking about solo stuff, and they had them other plans with that kind of stuff. I was like, nah, I'm good with just the locks. Until my homeboy hit. It was like, yo, go big.

I'm telling you, they want to hear something from you. So I did it, and it just popped off, man. Word. So I thought Jadakiss was always the late one and one that didn't want to do anything, but it was actually you. Nah, man, he was the first rapper. That's how you look at Jadakiss was always the late one and one that didn't want to do anything, but it was actually you. Nah, man, he was the first one. That's how you look at Jadakiss?

Damn. That was harsh. The late one, the one who doesn't want to do anything. His kiss was awful. Nah, they say it is your fault that Freddie versus Jason not out. Fab said that himself. Fab said his part's all done. Fab was like, yo, getting Jada in his one finger at somebody, three pointing back.

You know when we did the freestyle Friday? Kiss used to send the record 30 seconds before the record was supposed to come on in. You know why? I got wild stuff to do, dude. It was his idea to do the freestyle Friday. It did. I needed to be right. Right.

It's good, though. It's beautiful. All right, we got more with the locks when we come back. Keep it locked. It's good, though. It's beautiful. We got more with the locks when we come back. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We got the locks in the building. Charlamagne. What are those conversations like at Rock National? Because y'all have had classic hip-hop beats. Y'all even talk about them on the new record. Long conversations, especially with Hov. He could go for a while just chopping it up

and reminiscing and telling us why we should move in a certain way and this and that. Small guy, but it'd be hours up there chopping it up. It's interesting. Because they might respect each other, too. It ain't like we coming in as little guns. All that old stuff is old.

But it was really real with y'all, though. Even when y'all talk about it on the record, y'all wasn't just rapping. Y'all was really fighting. y'all. Like you know when y'all talk about on the record Y'all wasn't just rapping like y'all was really fighting Y'all had guns exactly That's why I swear I was listening to you one day, one day listening to all y'all He was like yo that ain't no real beef track or that ain't no real diss record Like people calling these, I hate when they make them like the um

What's the one, what's the recent one, Wale Oh the Wale and King Cudi It's different than when we was going Is Wale and King Cudi now? Oh no W when we was going. Is Wale and King Cudi now? Oh, no. Wale and Cole. Cole. I thought it was about King Cudi and Drake.

Not to dwell on that, but it felt like they was just voicing opinions. That wasn't a fence. I said that wasn't even a diss record. It wasn't. That's what it was. They make it into that name, Danny. It was fencing. It wasn't the words that we used to hear in them records.

It was respectable. I mean, that's their background. I think it made sense for who they are. It was very respectable. It seems like now there's limitations, though. Like certain things you say and people get very upset if you take it too far.

Social media took away from your originality in the studio. Because all I thought you would have put into that song, some of it's going to memes and videos and this and that and things of that nature. I never remember hearing about you having a beef with Trick Trick either, Stiles.

So you said it on the new joint. We had a little brawl out there. I never heard that. Yeah, absolutely. A long time ago. We ain't win that one either. What? A lot of absinthe, a lot of alcohol.

It was almost for me to sleep. I was like knocked out of my feet for a few seconds. Now that's the story of what happened. They booked you out to a club and then... Wood stayed out.

Nah, nah. We had a show then we was at an after party and then we chilling all that then on the leave out I get in the van

I get... I hear all type of alarms and cold tens and yo! They fighting with Trick Trick, man. I got to go back in the club.

And then it was crazy. It was all his man's security. Verse 504. It was a crazy outnumber. It was like four of them on each one of us. But it was a spec because they could have killed us. Yeah. They went another way in that program.

They was strong. We could have not made it to the plane. We could have not made it. They could have surrounded the telly. We could have not made it to the plane. We could have not made it. They could have sat around at the telly. We could have never left Detroit. It was a nice rumble. It was love. Shout out to the D-Dolls.

Shout out to the all these joints. Of course, guess who missed out? I wasn't there. You wasn't there? You wasn't there? Nah, it was a good thing I wasn't there. I needed to be there. I would have did a little better.

Because y'all don't ever roll heavy anyway. Did y'all roll heavier back then? Nah, we just rolled the same way. A couple times. You know, his man almost put me to sleep. What was it over, though? My man, Bob, I'm holding him. He's wired.

I'm trying to be with the artist. He's never with the artist. He's always entourage. Always, always, always. He bumped into somebody. He's never really the artist or nothing. I tried to apologize for him while I'm holding him. Like, y'all, now my man, Saucy Bomb, he cocked back. I thought he was going to snuff him while I'm holding him. Like, y'all, now my man Saucy,

he cocked back. I thought he was going to snuff him. He snuffed me. Wow. Way of the gun. Yeah. I was like this, out on my feet,

but with my hands up, just looking. Then Wood came and held me. Wood, my man, stayed in. We just started scrapping. And it was all big bodies and hard hitters.

It was all big. It was all big. It was allters. My ribs was hurt, my back and neck. I was crazy. It was wild grunting. They threw me down a flight of steps. I landed on my feet. I don't even know how I did that.

It was crazy. How did the problem get solved? I threw me down a flight of steps. I landed on my feet. Oh, my God. I don't even know how I did that. Like a cat. I'm sure y'all squashed it out. Yeah, how the problem gets solved. Like, is this coming? I seen him in Puerto Rico one day. Have you been in Puerto Rico too? I have the trick. I seen him in Puerto Rico one day.

Trick? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We went over there. We chopped it up. And that was it. You know what I mean?

Because it wasn't no real beef or nothing. Nah, because I respected it. It was just a nice communication. I respected being able to lead a city. Hell yeah. You know what I'm? Because it wasn't no real beef or nothing. Nah, because I respected it. I respected being able to leave the city. You know what I'm saying? Right. But they followed, you know, people would follow you then and, you know, whatever. I didn't like the stories that was leaving.

Because I left on my feet. Like, you know what I'm saying? I definitely lost. I definitely lost. I definitely didn't have the upper hand at no point. Not one point did I have the upper hand. But I left out conscious, oh, my feet swinging. No lumps or none of that.

No none of that. And they thought I could scrap the people who see me like, yeah, yo. You know, so I was feeling good. I wasn't feeling good. We had a lot of them situations. God is good. We made it up of them situations. God is good. We made it up. I mean, I missed that one.

We had a lot of hands-ons. Yo, you believe it or not, my first time meeting 50 was at the free concert that he threw for the Peaceful Joint that he threw. Other than that, you know how much we went at each other and we never, ever, never, ever. You said on that record, y'all would have went at it if you didn't. Yeah, back then, all of them, Beans and them, you name it. But, you know, praise'all would have went at it if you didn't. Yeah, back then it was all of them. Beans and them, you name it. But, you know,

praise to God we didn't cross no path ever, ever. I don't know if it was meant to be. There would have been no guns involved in that. Y'all always used to fight. Not with the beans on the record.

You said you had y'all. Yeah, they had guns involved. That was really somebody that went down. It's good to be able to tell a tale. Yeah, right, right, right. You hear to talk about it. That's right. Love to play another day. And that got to be able to tell a tale. Yeah, right, right, right. You're here to talk about it.

That's right. Love to play another day. And that got to do with, if we just backtracking about how y'all's calling stuff beef right now. It really ain't. Just stay peaceful. It's peaceful.

It's pretty cool now. The battles that you hear, right? Don't waste your time, man. Get your money, man. Pay your taxes. Don't waste your time, my brothers. Grease your feet, young fellas. I'm 56 years old, girl.

I ain't going to jail right now. You're supposed to be ready to do that. I ain't going to jail right now. You're supposed to be ready to do that. I ain't going to jail right now. Come on, man. Imagine starting right now doing your bids. By the way, you know everybody going to say, she's 56. Yeah, 56. Yo, I ain't going to jail right now.

People starting their bids now? Yeah, it seems like y'all are in the perfect position. Y'all get utmost respect for the lyricists. Y'all got money. Y'all good. Like, what else is there? We're beautiful. Family is good.

Kids is good. We good. And y'all still look Y'all good Like what else is there We're beautiful Family is good Kids is good We good And y'all still look the same As you did And we look better Than some of these youngsters That's that juice bar flow That's that juice bar flow

Segway baby Yeah You know what I'm saying That's it Let's talk about the juice bar Since you brought it up We didn't bring it up Since you brought it up

Now let's talk about the juice How did y'all How did you get into juices For people that don't know? Coming off the road. Coming off the road, you know, eating wrong, drinking, smoking. One, two, fifth, me and Nye. Shout out to Nye.

Shout out to Lee. Shout out to my partner, Nye. Zeb. Gangsta. He had fruits of life in Harlem, and we just get off. That just be my hangout. Start learning about it. Start learning about it. Start incorporating healthy things in my life. Like Luce said That'd just be my hangout. Start learning about it.

Start incorporating healthy things in my life. Like Lou said, nobody want to go to jail. I experienced jail for doing a bullet as an entertainer. And I was like, something got to just be smart and get smarter. And I just wanted to take care of myself better. It's bigger than the money, the jewelry, and making it rain

and the look and the vibe. And it's lit every day. It can't be none of that if you ain't got help. So we got to keep each other on point. It's bigger than the money, the jewelry, and making it rain and the look and the vibe. And it's lit every day. It can't be none of that if you ain't got health. So we got to keep each other on point. Get health. We're going to get high, drunk, party. And it's entrepreneurship.

I like seeing you and me have y'all drunk. Can we sit down? I got four partners. Can we sit down? Yeah, can we sit down? Can we sit down so we can extend the South Carolina branch. Me and Kis have been talking about this for two years, by the way. And I'm like, okay, Kis. We started talking about it.

Now Envy and Yee and Styles got it. What are we doing? We making our mark this year on Charlamagne. You already announced it. You announced it 10 months ago. So I'm just prepping the people. You got to prep the people. You got to prep the fruits. You got to prep the fruits.

There's a lot of prepping. You know what I mean? It's about prepping the fruits. It's a lot of work in this. It is. It's a lot of work in this. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work in this.

And a lot of people, like, every day, like, I'm not, let me tell you something. I love money. I love nice things. I'm not nowhere near financially where I want to be in life. Every day somebody calls me, got the bag for a juice bar. Got the bag for a juice. I got to, you know how simple it'll be for me?

Boom, just take the bags. Take the bags and open up things. It's really not about that. Like, I don't really want to be sitting here and being preachy, real preachy. But some, like, we in the thing,

we in a line of working in a business where we dying and we don't even say nothing about dying. We care about Ye being with Trump. Whoever did this on social media. Nobody's saying like, yo, we dying from cancer. We dying and we don't even say nothing about dying. We care about Ye being with Trump. Whoever did this on social media. Nobody's saying like, yo, we dying from cancer. Childhood obesity.

Obesity. We dying from high blood pressure. We ain't got to talk about it all day. But some point of the day, we got to care about this health. We got to care about these babies in our communities. Like this and our parents and our elders. Because we don't got health insurance like that. And we don't go to the doctor like that.

So and we, you know, we buy nice things and we like nice things. So we got to incorporate this. Like we have to. It's like mandatory. All of us. And it ain't just about juicing. It's about being healthy and smart, period. Like Luke said, it's about telling the youth, yo, you don't want to go to jail now.

It's about telling somebody, yo, eat right. Telling somebody, be aware of cancer. Telling somebody, you don't want to go to jail now. It's about telling somebody, yo, eat right. Telling somebody, be aware of cancer. Telling somebody, you don't want to go to jail. Learn your publishing. Pray, meditate, eat good. Whatever you got to do, just do something good without your day and try to push it forward. It's hard talking to these young men. And it's not all about money.

It ain't. And answer the phone with the money. No health insurance. It's hard talking to them, man. You say that money is collectible. Yeah, man, that ain't your money. That, the money, no health insurance. It's hard talking to the man. You say that money is collectible. Yeah, man, that ain't your money. That's a collect call you make. Put that money to your head, man.

Come on, now. They ain't got no health insurance for doing that. Yeah, that's crazy. No dental. Enough said. It's the locks. It's the Breakfast Club. Yes, sir.

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