The Breakfast Club - 7 years later & Cardi b is finally dropping an album + Young Thug’s record release is delayed

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

After a 7 year gap Cardi B is set to release new material tomorrow! Loren breaks down the happenings in Cardi’s life between then and now. Also, Young Thug’s much anticipated release is pushed and he is having revelations about the emotional impact of this whole ordeal.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians, artists, and activists

to bring you death and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. The moment is a space for the conversations we've been having us, father and daughter, for years. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos. on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer

in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. How does someone prove that they deserve to live? We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story.

Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. America, y'all better wake the hell up.

Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And to binge the entire season, ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm a homeguard that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You don't know if you're going to lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren the Rosa, and this is the latest with Lauren the Rosa.

This is your deli dick on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room. Now, y'all, I am gearing up, heading out this weekend. It is Friday, September 18th. I'm sorry, dang, it's Thursday. It is Thursday, September 18th. But it feels like a Friday. In my mind, I've been treating today like a Friday.

all day. Like, even the way I prepared for my breakfast club segment this morning, the way I left, like, I thought I was, I was supposed to fly out today to Vegas. And I prepared my, like, house. You know, you want to leave your house a certain way when you come back. I, like, cleaned up as much as I could. I put stuff out the way. My cleaning lady is going to come on Friday. So I, you know, I was like putting things away. So she wouldn't misplace things or whatever. I thought that today was the day, baby. I thought it was the Golden Friday, and it is not as Thursday, I'm heading to Las Vegas with the IHart team for the IHart Music Festival. I'm really excited to attend. It is my first IHart Music Festival. I will be doing, I'll be hosting

the live stream for the Breakfast Club's Twitch account and some of our other social media accounts. So please make sure you guys are following Breakfast Club AM on Twitch. Make sure you're following the breakfast club on, you know, of course, hopefully Instagram and all the things, because you will see me there live. I'll also be doing daily recaps while I'm there via my Instagram and my YouTube, as I always do. Y'all know I keep y'all updated, but I'm excited for that

and I'll be bringing you guys news from there Monday. I am bringing my podcast recording equipment because every now and then I do get a chance to do some amazing bonus episodes and all the things and yeah, so if I can do that I will but no promises I do want to enjoy the festival

and just, you know, make sure I put in work. It's my first time. I want people to, you know, be like, oh, Lauren out there doing her thing. So we'll circle back on that. But in the latest today, wow, it is September 18th, as I mentioned, in Cardi B's sophomore album, M.I. the Drama, is set to release tomorrow, September 19th. It's been about seven or eight years since Cardi B. has put out an album.

Let me see when did. So Cardi B released Invasion of Privacy April 6, 2018. Wow, that was some. time ago. And she has been, you know, she's been on features. Cardi B had an amazing feature run with her hopping on, um, F and F, you know, the, you know, the Glorilla situation. Like, she's had a pretty great feature run. She's also dropped some singles, uh, up, Wop, which those two singles, huge singles, have been a topic of conversation and even some pushback for Cardi because, you know, the fans and the haters, it's a little bit of both. The fans and the haters, you know, or the people, people, people,

with valid criticism, right, brought up the fact that Up and Whop were released so long ago. Why has this been put on the album? But this is something that people do. People do it all the time where you have singles that have been out that have done so well and you put it on the album also too, Cardi B expressed at her fans. That's what they want. This will be the last and only time I'm going to address this. Wop and Up are two of my biggest songs. My fans have been asking me to put them on an album and people search for them on IOP all the time they deserve a home I let haters make me not submit Watt for the Grammys and at this point I'm giving my feelings what they want these two songs don't even count for the first week's sales so what are y'all trying to

cry about do y'all say anything when all these artists pull out their little tricks and ponies to sell out question mark exactly now let them eat cake go cry about it so yes am i the drama is finally coming it'll be 22 tracks I will tell you guys that Cardi B is also dropping a music video for a song called Safe that she has with Kalani. She just teased that on her Instagram. So it's giving rollout in Cardi fashion. Like the videos are coming. She's been doing all the things. I just saw a video that patients foster from her team posted where they got the DoorDashers out and about on the bikes delivering things from the Cardi B bodega on DoorDash. It's rollout time. It's about that time. Now, there's a lot of,

conversation right now around this album for Cardi not only because it's been so long since she's put out an album but i think people want to know what she's going to talk about if you think about the last time Cardi put out an album which was invasion of privacy she had hits like be careful with me where she talked about the cheating and she warned offset and you know other music on there as well right and now here we are all these years later she's going through a divorce or offset currently she is pregnant with her fourth child by her boyfriend Stefan Diggs a new relationship

she just had a baby last year her baby blossom off says daughter and added to their family even though they're not together they're still family because they got kids together

but added to you know there's been a lot of change and a lot of new things in Cardi's life you hear Cardi talking a lot now about you know mentally where she's at I know we had patients on the breakfast club and she talks about the time

that Cardi took off of during her album and she was supposed to do like a whole like movie situation with Paramount and you know just needing the mental time to just be okay and even knowing to prioritize that I think at this point of her career is important but it shows you the growth of where she came from and where she is right now

but people want to know what is the subject matter what are we going to get now Cardi has said you know when she sat down and talked to Kelly Rowland she talked a little about not making the album too angry she didn't want to go in to because when she said things, they stick. Now, interestingly enough, young thug, who's also been going through a ton of things

in the last couple weeks, he was supposed to drop an album today as well. And, you know, I don't think that there would have been anything wrong if he had dropped the album, but he's decided not to. So he was supposed to drop his album, U.I. Scotty, I know I'm saying that wrong.

No, I'm saying that wrong, okay? But he was supposed to drop that album. That album has been anticipated, since his release from prison after, you know, fighting one of the longest cases in Georgia State history. And he decided to push the date. Now, the rollout for Young Thug has been a lot different than I'm sure he expected. We went through jail calls. We went through, you know, having to see him publicly apologize to Mariah the scientists for some of them calls, falling out with friends even further.

him sitting down with, you know, Big Bank, you know, out of Atlanta, the sit-down interview that he did that we talked about a lot here on the podcast. It's been a lot different and I'm sure he thought it would go. But to be honest with you, if Thug does what he needs to do with this music and puts a lot of, you know, because you can't, the interview was long. It's about two hours long with Bank. But at the same time, and the show is called Perspectives with Big Bank. That's a show that Young Thuck, he wanted to call him Offset, that Young Thug sat down with.

Um, but yes, there's a lot that he can talk about. There's a lot that he can divulge into. So same thing there. It's going to be pretty interesting to see kind of what he decides to get into and what he decides to stay away from. He dropped one track talking about people snitching and who's a snitch and, you know, all the things. And it wasn't one of my favorite.

Honestly, I love young thug. I love his music. But I feel like, you know, hot take here. I don't know. I feel like he needs his, I mean, he said this. That's not even a hot take. He said it in an interview with bank. he don't got his people around him

you know no baby right now no gonna his creative process seems to be very much so inspired by the people around him and you know what they're experiencing and what they're going through and you know as brothers and friends

what they're overcoming and he doesn't have that anymore but I think there's still a story to tell when I watched his interview I feel like it you know it humanized him but I think one of the things that I realize in real time is that A lot of our men in the black community who grow up a certain way. So you grow up in the streets.

You grow up having to just, like, figure things out, not really having too much options and being everybody's option. You know, you just, you suppress things that you don't even know you're suppressing. You don't know you're suppressing them because you're not used to dealing with them in the first place. So if he has come and evolved from that time, when in real time he realized he was already said it and every, this the first time I ever even thought about that. Let's take a listen. You just played with some hard-ass shit

Why they shit not? What the shit's a d'i-thinking about? God, I just don't got my twin, bro. I don't got my friends, bro. I don't just f*** up, bro. I'm fucking up, bro. Who I be with everything? I don't got them no more, bro.

I'm f***ed up, bro. And I ain't looing no to a tragic. I lost a bitch with betrayal, bro. You signing that one piece of paper, sign a one piece of paper could get me a life sentence, my n- Like, what did you? Come on, bro. I get a life sent out, bro.

Just because you're trying to get home fads. Or you're just trying to get to a hush? Are you just doing a certain thing, bro? And you already done betrayed this before, bro? A piece of paper, a piece of paper in all this shit. Amen, bro, we brought us. Ain't no shit in the world making me go again going to. No shit, bro.

Coming from that, and I don't know how much of the music was already made, but I hope that there are some things that have been recorded within this little small time period since then, because I think we'll get to the real, like, fill it in your chest type of music. You know what I mean? And I want that for thought, Because what I've heard from him so far hasn't been that. It's been throwaways.

And I am a proponent of talent. I'm a proponent. I love, like, I think Young Thug is one of the best out of the self to do it. I know he falls on the shoulders of, you know, a future and the Andre 3000 and, you know, all these people. But I think he's a superstar. I think he has a cult following. I think he is, he's a rock star. He's a rap rock star.

But I do think right now, life is life is. life and his mental is all over the place and the music is just not it's not sticking but i think if he digs deep he could do that so he's come out and said he's not going to drop the same day as carty he's going to move his release date to the following friday he tweeted about it he said y'all know i wasn't dropping friday it's a lady's day with a rare heart do yo do your shit cardy b and he added her of course i love to see that and she responded and said and when you come you better step Love to see it. Love to hear it. I don't know, man.

I just, for artists like Young Thug, I really want him to be able to evolve and grow through all of this. But I also think, if I'm being honest, how much of what he's been able to accomplish has been because of the things that we glorify that we're now telling him we want him to grow from. So what is the content? What is the substance? What is the subject matter? He has to find himself all over again. But we'll be tuned in. It's new music dropping Friday.

you know we'll be tuned in seeing what's going on uh you know cardy b has went from a married woman to a divorced woman to expecting a new baby young thug no longer dropping on friday but you know young thug has been you know fighting for his life literally was going to spend the rest of his life in jail released comes home has to disown a lot of his friends uh you know just starting from nothing all over again two artists who are kind of starting at ground zero at different aspects of their life dropping music I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos.

Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time, as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians. I would be the first immigrant mayor in generations, but 40% of New Yorkers were born outside of this country. Artists and activists, I mean, do you ever feel demoralized? I might personally lose hope. This individual might lose the faith. But there's an institution that doesn't lose faith. And that's what I believe in. To bring you depth and analysis from a unique Latino perspective.

There's not a single day that Paola and I don't call or text each other, sharing news and thoughts about what's happening in the country. This new podcast will be a way to make that ongoing intergenerational conversation public. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos as part of the MyCultura podcast network on the IHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello, Ed.

I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear.

Here. Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a tape-recorded statement. The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike. This is in regards to the death of Colleen Slimmer. She started going off on me, and I hit her. I just hit her and hit her and hit her and hit her. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slimmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee.

Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. The state has asked for an execution date for Krista. We let people languish in prison for decades, raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable. How does someone prove that they deserve to live? We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name.

Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Seasons, Season 2, Proof of Life, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All I know is what I've been told, and that to have truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved, until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy Kilder, we know. A story that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that got the citizen investigator on national TV.

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, producer, And I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her and I did not kill her. Or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that y'all said. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Doug is going to push to next Friday. Cardi will be this weekend.

Tweet me. I want to know what you guys think. Find me. Get in the comments. Get outside in the streets. I'm Lauren La Rosa. L-O-R-E-N-L-R-O-S-A everywhere. I'm headed to Vegas now, y'all.

Fingers crossed for a great I heart music festival. I bring you guys all the updates from there. I promise. I'll see you guys in my next episode. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians, artists, and activists to bring you death and analysis from a unique Latino perspective.

The moment is a space for the conversations we've been having us, father and daughter, for years. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. How does someone prove that they deserve to live?

We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life. on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack,

where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack. now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved for years, until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small. Towns. Listen to Graves County on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And to binge the entire season, ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.