The Breakfast Club - A little bit of old mixed with new ( Lil Scrappy and Dr. Jess interview)

Episode Date: May 31, 2021

Today on the show we mixed the old with the new. We flashed back to the last time Lil Duval joined us and spoke to us about his new stand up, dealing with the pandemic and more. Next we had Lil Scrappy join us where he spoke about his new music, fatherhood, evolution of Atlanta music, Love & Hip Hop and more. Also, we had Dr. Jess call in where she spoke about mental health, new projects and more. Also, Charlamagne flashed back to the time he gave "Donkey of the Day" to another Floridian. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing thing alicia keys like you've never heard her before listen to on purpose with jay shetty on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts 50 righteousness yeah i love you 50 ratcheted. Just sit down. I feel like 95% ratcheted. This is becoming the most prominent forum for here. Wake your ass up. It's early in the morning, but they told me it was y'all. I said, 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 and people of the world. I can't believe you guys are the best, kid.

Collectively known as Breakfast Club, bitches. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? It's Erica. Hey, good morning.

Give me a little bit of a chance, mama. Yeah, I listen to y'all every morning, and I'll be damn, I'll be tripping out on you and Charlamagne. I mean, I'll be laughing like crazy every morning at y'all. Well, thank you. I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing. If you're laughing with us or at us. I don't know.

But thank you. I love y'all so much, man. I listen to y'all every single morning. Like, every morning. Every morning. Thank you very much. We appreciate your support. Well, thank you so much.

We have a great and blessed day, mama. That's all. Where you from? blessed day, mama. That's all. Where you from? Okay, you too. That's all? That's all I want to say, sweetie. I love y'all. We love you back.

I love your twang, too. That's Southern twang. Hello, who's this? Yo, it's Patrick Pierce. How you doing today? Patrick Pierce. What are you calling from, brother? No, no, not Patrick.

Zatrick. It's like Patrick, but with a Z. Zatrick. Oh, Zatrick. Your parents thought they was fancy. Yeah, definitely. What are you calling it from? My parents are from Africa. They're from Sierra Leone. They combined their names

together and gave me Zatrick. Okay, that's dope. It's my birthday, by the way, so that's really why I called up here. Happy birthday, King. It is a real brother holiday. It's a real King holiday, I should say. There you go. Yo, salute to Sierra Leone. You know,

all my African ancestry goes back to Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, and what's the other country over there? I don't remember. But Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau,

definitely. Yo, that's what's up. I read it in your book and I was actually going to ask could you send me another copy

so I could get it for my brother if possible. Which one? I got you. I got a bunch of them up here. I was also going to say, can I put my Cash app out there? So, you know, just in case somebody in America want to bless a brother with some little change,

change for his birthday, that would be cool. It is B-1-U-E-E. Once again, B-1-U-E-E. And please just do something positive now this brother don't have a story he just wants some change for his birthday that's all he wants and stay on hold man

and give our producer Dan your address I'm going to send you a copy of my second book Shook One I put him on hold hello who's this? hello hey what's your name? Kayla

hey Kayla good morning get it off your chest mama well I really didn't have much to say. I just wanted to congratulate y'all. Y'all doing good. And I thought it was so sweet how y'all gave away money because there's really some broke bitches out there. Stop calling people the N-word.

How do you guys stop calling them broke? It's some unfortunate people when it comes to their pockets in America. There you go. That's right. There's a financial struggle out here for some folks. You got it. You want to lend? You want to give some money to some people?

Heck no. I just lent somebody $10 yesterday. No. I'm with you, boo. Budget. That's right. Budget that money. Thank you, mama.

There's something about them two words together. Just do something to me. Broke Nick? Broke. God damn. Budget that money. Thank you, mama. Ah, there's something about them two words together. Just do something to me. Broke Nick? Broke. God damn. Lord have mercy. It felt like back in the day when you heard Scrubs for the first time. Like, I gotta get on my mama. Hello, who's this?

Hey, it's Keisha from Texas. How y'all doing? Hey, Keisha from Texas. What part of Texas? Dallas, Texas. So I have to listen on the apps, and I don't mind that at all. Oh, where them bum-ass cowboys are from. You know I love Dallas.

You know I love my cowboys. Don't listen to Envy. Okay, so now since, congratulations on 10 years. Thank you. Now since you are an executive of iHeart, I've got to hear you say, Lord have mercy. There's something about the way you say that, darling, that drives

me insane. I love it and I laugh every time. Oh boy. Lord have mercy. I can't believe you like to hear me say, Lord have mercy. You flirting with that man. That man married, mama. No, no, no. Oh, no, I'm not flirting with him. And I love it when you say, I'm calling HR. I'm calling

HR. You'm calling HR. You guys, you guys dropped me a page. I needed to hear, I'm calling HR, and Lord have mercy. Michelle, one more time for me. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Why are you stressing me out early this morning? Got me repeating that over and over and over. Yeah, good morning.

Love y'all. Bye. Love you, too. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Love y'all. Bye. Love you, too. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

I'm darling. I'm darling. Hey, what you doing, man? I'm darling. I'm calling you. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.

Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Nick. Nick, what up, man? Get it off your chest. Nick on the... You like reindeer in here, elf on the shelf. Shalaman the God, what's up, man? Peace, King.

I'm from South Carolina, too, man. Okay, what part? Aiken. Aiken, what's happening, Aiken? Not much, man. I'm staying up here in Columbia. I'm sorry. I'm staying up here in Columbia. I'm sorry.

I'm staying up here in Lexington, Kentucky right now. Okay. Yeah, I was trying to get some advice, man, because, like, I've been staying up here since I came home from prison. I was locked up for selling drugs, but I wanted to change my life around, but I stayed up. I came up here.

The person that I came up here with family, but me and the person don't talk no more so it's like i want to go back home but aiken south carolina ain't the place to be like especially trying to get a good job like anywhere but it's also hard for me up here because i ain't got no financial support or nobody to help me out in no kind of way. Well, it sounds to me like, you know, you already know you needed a change of environment. So if you know you don't need to be in Aiken, you can scratch that off the list. That's not a thing, right? Yes, sir.

So you just got to stay where you at and figure it out, make it work. What is it that you want to do? Like, I've been working since I've been up here. I'm working for the Stimp Service right now I'm going to be hired on soon but it's hard because I had Rochelle

back a little while ago because my windshield got broke it's like other things that I've been having to deal with during this pandemic that's going on but like I said it's like other things that I've been having to deal with during this pandemic that's going on. But it's, like I said, it's just hard not having nobody there in your corner for you. Well, listen, you're going to be fine, my brother.

It just takes patience. All right? Yes, sir. All right, keep pushing on, brother. Keep pushing. All right, thank y'all. Y'all have a good day. You too.

Hello, who's this? What's up, y'all? This is James from Indianapolis. What up, James? Get it off your chest, brother. First of all, I want to congratulate y'all for 10 years, man. Good content, man. Righteous and ratchet.

Thank you, Ken. Thank you, brother. And I want to share my favorite Breast of Club moment. What's that? Other than the Birdman situation, the Benny Siegel situation was funny too, man. Why y'all like to see people try to traumatize me? I thought that was pretty hilarious myself. It was cool, man.

It was cool. Charlamagne didn't buckle, though. He didn't buckle. He didn't buckle. I never buckle. He sure didn't. You're right. He didn't.

He stood his ground. What is buckling? Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning. This is Chili Chill. Good morning, Envy, Charlemagne. Chili Chill. Good morning to y'all, man.

What's your nickname? Hey, Yank. What's up? Listen, man, it's a beautiful day for me. I ain't called y'all in a while because I knew next time I called, I wanted to have something to really call about. I closed on my house Friday. Congrats, bro.

Yeah, man, it's been a hard hard year already with the coronavirus and and i just been diligent doing my due diligence uh just disciplining myself buckling down for my fiance and my son man uh shout out to erica sibley i love you baby shout out to my son royal 19 months batting 89% on the potty. You know what I'm saying? I love it, man. Yo, that's real. Yeah, man. Like, I'm a young black man just trying to make it in this crazy world, man.

And it's been hard. But I don't let the struggles try to defeat me, man, because the struggle is to survive, but the survival is to find some meaning in the struggling. That's right, my brother. And I live by that. Another thing, my little sister, Angela Woods, Angela Adams now because she's married. She moved out to Cali about eight, nine years ago. And she's been thriving out there, too.

She lives in Sacramento now. And I just wanted to shout out her organization. It's Christian Modeling Association. You can follow her at at 6-S-T-I-K-K-S, modeling. She runs a modeling business to help Christians enter the modeling industry without compromising their Christianity. You know what I'm saying? And Charlamagne, I know you into self-help books and stuff like that.

Yes, sir. She has a published book called This Can Help Someone. It's endorsed by Shaquille O'Neal. It got the BMW Pay It Forward Award. That's thriving also. People can go check that out. But, man, it's a beautiful day for me and my world, man. And I just want to put that positivity out there, man. it's a beautiful day for me and my world, man, and I just want to just put that positivity

out there, man. We will do, King. Have a great day. Have a good one, man. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart?

Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete.

Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tribe owned country. My forefathers did that themselves.

What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a racket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. Bullets. We need help!

We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes,

entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High.

It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you.

Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself, and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments.

Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like, grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing.

Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You're checking out the world's most dangerous morning show. Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Charlemagne Tha God, Angela Yee. We got a special guest. He only come up here when he got something to promote. Even though he could come up here anytime he wants to. I use my friends at the right time.

His name is Little Duval. What's up? I see you cutting off your grades nowadays. Nah, I hadn't let You got the little baby face. I had let it grow out for a little bit to be a granddaddy for a little bit. But now I'm a zaddy now. You're a little zaddy? I'm a zaddy now.

I cut it off. I made to get another haircut because now the white's growing back. You see the white What's wrong with that? You used to give people a hair for shaving their face off. I don't care. I still got the gray right here now. Don't get it twisted. I still got the gray. Not in my hair.

Now, Envy should be here because Envy died while he was here. That's why he's not here. Envy grayed all the way. He died in his house. I think both of them avoided you today, to be honest with you. I wanted to see because I could see in person. Like, on camera, all that look real. But in person, I wanted to see, like, is you got paint in your face, boy? No, Envy

don't look real on camera. Envy got the worst paint job in New York City. Can Envy grow his hair out? I don't know, you know. I want to bet Envy $5,000. Envy, if you listen to this, I got $5,000 for you if you let your hair grow out till December. Who you think got a better paint job? Envy,

Cali, or Kevin Hart? Cali ain't no joke. Khaled's a boy. He's super black. He's Negro spiritual black. Well, let's talk about your special. This is your first special, right? Yeah, this is my first special, man.

He cheating, too. He ain't telling no jokes. Yeah, I told half jokes, half music, and I put a lot of people on. That's just what my comedy is. That's why I see what comedy is evolving into. It's like a Vegas show. That's what I do my show. My show is comedy, music, entertainment, and fun.

And you had who on there? Pretty V on there. Pretty V on there. You know Jay Ski on there. Jay Ski on there. Jay Ski doing his thing. Brisha. Brisha Webb.

She Show Love. Navi Green. Nod Host. Andki on there. Jay Ski on there. Brisha. Brisha Webb. She Show Love. Navi Green. Nard Hostin. He on there. So I got to, not only I did my thing, I put a lot of people on there too to show love. And even though comedians have always been doing records, you got every comedian trying to make a song now. Even the white ones.

I've been inspiring the wrong people, I've noticed, with making music. But, I mean, it is what it is. If it's making you feel good and you're having a good time with it, do it. That's what I did. I didn't do it to blow up. I did it because I loved doing it. It just so happened that song stuck. But you've always been making music, though.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I've been doing it. That's how I got in the comedy game. I was a musical comedian. When I first started, they told me that wasn't comedy. Now, look, everybody knows. Yeah. There's somebody in the room that won't argue with you, man, because

that tweet you put out where you said men over 30 shouldn't have other men over 30, his roommates really stung his soul. Who? Dramos? You a roommate? Nah, I did it until recently. Hit dogs be hollering, man. Let me tell you, man.

Honestly, I was just tweeting. I did not know it was going to affect people like this. Especially men, because usually when you talk about men, we just laugh and move on. But this resonated so hard in y'all's soul. I didn't know it was that many 30-year-old roommates. Because times is hard out here, man. It ain't hard

out here in the South, because they getting that PPP low. Y'all didn't get a PPP low. Y'all bulls***. They out here shacking up man for financial reasons, man. See what made me see that? I knew my homeboy they was down in Miami stunting. Yeah. But they roommates. So you was shitting on one person. Yeah, I was shitting on one person.

That's usually how all my tweets be. They be one person and everybody else take them personal. Stop taking my tweets personal in your own personal life. Can Dramos defend himself? I want to hear his explanation. Go ahead and defend yourself. I don't care, but go ahead. I think y'all are old, so you don't

understand what it's like. How old are you? You ain't, you old too. Anything after 30 is old to young people. But Bob's from a different generation, bro. Jobs don't pay what they used to. Cities are expensive as hell to live in. And first of all, y'all making signs of some sort of gay shacking up.

Jonna, Jonna, Jonna. We did not say nothing like that. We did not say nothing like that. We did not say nothing like that. It is shacking up, though. It is shacking up. Y'all is a relationship. That's a full-fledged relationship, for real.

No, it is not. Yes, it is. It is. In the South, if you live with somebody for more than three years, it's common law marriage. Yeah, it's common law marriage. Then y'all be chatting up on the phone. Your roommate can't kick you out. You know that, right?

Your roommate can't really kick you out, literally. I mean, legally, they can't kick you out. Y'all together, man. I'll just give you some advice just in case you shack up again. Bro, if me and my former roommate were dating, y'all two would definitely date. What you mean?

We've never lived together? You spent New Year's together on vacation together? Yeah, okay. With family and friends? Let me tell you the difference, though. Hold up, hold up. Let me tell you the difference. Go ahead.. Hold up. Let me tell you the difference. Go ahead.

We ain't mad at what you said though. You got offended. I didn't get offended. You got offended. Let me tell you how you offended because we're talking about it now. I was over. I didn't even realize y'all was offended until the next day. And I went back on Twitter.

I was like, oh, they mad. I did not know. Like, it ain't that serious. Don't take nothing I say that serious. Yeah, Dramos. What? Dramos, you should have just led with, you know, I just purchased a home recently. I did not know Like it ain't that serious Don't take nothing I say that serious Dramas What? Dramas you should have just led with You know I just purchased a home recently

I did So I did So why is it bothering you? Why are you yelling at me? Alright if it make you feel better I had a roommate in my 20s Okay For a couple years

And you know I lived with my mom at 32 Like if it make you feel better Like it's not that serious I'm not upset I'm not hurt about what This is why it's so hard to tell a joke because they want to tell you every

f***ing joke you do. And the only thing I say is there's nothing wrong with two men living together but they got to have two bathrooms. You can't share one bathroom. Y'all sharing a bathroom?

Bro, you know, have you ever lived in New York City? Well, move! Like everybody else. Move like everybody else that got sex. Atlanta is booming right now.

You can't find a house in Atlanta because everybody with sex is moving down south. Like, certain stuff, if you can't afford it, move.

I saved my money and I bought a house so I was smart about it. What I'm saying is you got a lot of people that, and listen, it's a joke,

it's a joke. I'm not really offended by it, but a lot of people, a lot of people do feel upset about You see how he moved on from sharing that toilet with that n***a though, right?

He moved on. Did you share a toilet? What that got to do with anything? Did you share a toilet? What does that have to do with anything? You got a house now, so it don't matter. This is your come up story.

And he told me behind the scenes how uncomfortable it was. Everybody got a come up story. He told me he sat on the toilet seat after his homeboy one time and it was warm. He was like, that was the only time

it was real uncomfortable. I sit on the same toilet. Have you never used a public restroom? I've never used. In the last 20 years, I've used my own toilet. Another man has never sat on my toilet. Bro, as much as you travel, you've never sat on my toilet. Another man has never sat on my toilet.

Not even in my hotel. Ask Jay Ski. They got to go to a whole nother room if they got to pee. Even if they got to pee? Even if they got to pee. They just be peeing everywhere. That is true. I know what I do, so I know what they're going to do.

I don't let no man take a shower in my shower. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. Why do guys pee on the toilet seat and not put it up and not pee in the toilet? Because if it ain't your toilet, you don't care. I try. Even when I'm aiming, my wife will complain about his pee on the floor. Sometimes, like, sometimes after you n***a, sometimes the pee go everywhere.

So, you know. All right, we got more with Little Duval when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary?

Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a

great colonial tradition. Why can't I trade my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my god. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go.

Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories,

their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real inspiring stories from the people you know follow and admire join me every week for post run high it's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all it's light-hearted pretty crazy and very fun listen to post run high on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know

what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Lil Duval. Charlamagne? Now, I want to ask you some stuff you be asking people on Twitter, man. Oh, Lord. What's the dumbest shit you ever did for a woman you loved and now you regret it? Balled everything.

I balled them everything and let them keep it after we break up. Like what? They leave with a great severance package. You can't take stuff. You can't take gifts back. That's, you know. But after a while, you be like, damn, I shouldn't have gave her that shit. What's the most expensive thing you bought?

Tiffany ring, a house, a car. A house? You bought somebody a house? You left a car. A house? You bought somebody a house? You left that woman with that house? You ain't never tell me that one now. We'll talk later. Sheesh. A house?

We'll talk later, man. Drama. She still living it? We'll talk later, man. We'll talk later, man. Y'all won't get that juice. God damn. We'll talk later,

but I ain't mad at nothing. Was it like a nice house? You ain't finna get nothing. A modular home? I got a show coming out, Living My Best Life. I'm talking about it on the show. Y'all watching. It's on pay-per-view right now. It's an all-black

network, too. I went all-black. Y'all can't say I'm not supporting all-black. I went all- black on my first special so support it what about um somebody kidnapped your old lady and held her for a hundred thousand dollar ransom what you doing she held yeah you talking about you're not gonna pay for your whole lady i'm gonna give her a post i'm gonna give her a deep post with a caption i'm gonna give her a deep post with a caption act like i just man, I was just about to send the money

and everything. How you going to ask people the question but that's your answer for real? Yeah, I asked them. They could have gave you that answer too but that's my answer. Me and my old lady talked about it. We go to one of these countries and they kidnap you.

You're kidnapped. What if they had Charlamagne for ransom for $100,000? I give them $5,000. We got to negotiate $5,000. I got $5,000 for you, man. Ain't nobody getting past $10,000. My daughter, that's it. Okay, what about when you said a lot of these

got a sugar daddy too? Who are you talking about? I got a new show called Live My Best Life. Special, first special ever. Ah! Baby. Shalem, you gotta put your thumb down. Uh-uh, uh-uh, won't happen, won't happen.

It feels like he knows the answer already. I talk about it on my special. Listen, I don't think there's nothing wrong with having a sponsor, man. You call him a sugar daddy. I call him a sponsor, man. You know who I'm talking about. Who I'm talking about, Sean, man. What made you put stars in your Prius?

Now you want to switch this. Listen, but for real, you did put stars in the Prius. Yeah, man, to let these f****** know it's going to be a hot boy summer. Say the boy what's up. And this is why I don't like getting in here with my friends, man. They don't never do right. No, I just asked a question, man. Why are you sweating?

Because it's hot in here. I'm trying to figure out why you're not sweating and you got leather pants on. Hey, because it's my special pants. My stand-up special pants. My stand-up special pants. Nick, you see him? You know, every comedian wear leather. I didn't wear it on my special because I wanted to be like the Rat Pack.

Man, them hot as hell. No, they feel good. It's still cold up here in New York. I don't know why y'all still up here, but y'all are the only two left up here. You might be right. Everybody else down in Atlanta. You ain't here. I'm in Turks and Caicos.

Turks and Caicos. NBA ain't here. I don't know where the hell NBA at. I done told y'all the man that's 1,000. Why don't y'all buy something in the islands like me? I done told y'all this 1,000 times. I plan to. Think about how much you've been spun vacationing i'm already i'm not gonna tell that 10 is just going to the caribbeans and all the caribbeans is the same on each island so just

pick an island you like the most and buy something my thing is trying to figure out if i want to if i want to buy land and build something or if I want to buy something that's already made. Either way, do one or the other. It depends on how much time you got. If you got a lot of time, because we deal with islanders. They slow as hell. So if you got a lot of time, then build something. But if you don't, just buy something.

Damn, you going to be doing seminars soon, man. No, I ain't. No, I'm not that. I'm not Envy. You need to. It's going to be. DJ Envy, Lil Duval, and Flippin' MJ. Flippin' MJ. And Flippin' MJ.

MJ my size now. I lost 62 pounds with Flippin' MJ. I feel it. Look like a new man. He renovated his body. Before I sold houses, I was napping.

Now look at me. Renovated his body. Before I sold houses, I was nothing. Nothing. Here's another one. Here's another one you tweeted. Have you ever taken your advice and said, mid-argument, I see why your ex broke up with you? Yeah, I do that all the time. Because you never know. Like, you try to hit a point of view, and then you be like, you know what? After, like, two weeks of hearing that, you be like, you know what?

I can definitely see where they're coming from. Damn. And then you stop answering their call. I got a friend like that right now. I see where you're going, Charlamagne. Don't work on me, Charlamagne. What are you talking about? I see where you're going.

It's not going to work. I just want to ask, what would a woman say? I know all your tactics, because we practice them the day before with other people. It's not going to work. I just want to ask, what would a woman say? I know all your tactics because we practice them the day before with other people. It's not going to work. Move on to the next tweet. I'm really just trying to get you to tell one story, man. That's so funny, man. It ain't going to happen.

Nope. Be direct. What's the story? What's the story? Be direct. As far as living my best life, special out right now. Hopefully he put it in a special or something. It won't be in this special.

It'll be in a special like 10 years from now. I'll tell you this. It's the funniest little Duval story of all time. And that says a lot. Man, whatever you was smoking got me coughing. You high already? Hell yeah. I wish I could smoke on this show.

What the hell was you smoking? Nope. Good. Don't do it. Good. What made you decide to? Did y'all have anybody smoked on here yet? Snoop.

Yes. Okay. And Ray Sherman. Ray Sherman lit up in there. Yeah. I want that Ray Sherman to get over me. I can see Snoop. But. Okay. And Ray Sherman. Ray Sherman lit up in there. I want that Ray Sherman to get on with me. I can see Snoop. But Ray, bro? Ray?

That's f***ed up, bro. I think they just did it, though. Charlamagne told them it was okay for them to smoke, even though it wasn't. That's what happened. Ain't nobody ever asked. Can I smoke? I don't care. I mean, I'm saying I don't know the rules, though. I don't care. I don't got nothing to do. I mean, listen, I'm saying I don't know the rules, though.

I don't care. It turned into a, you know the rules, and it turned into a whole big thing. It did? Yes, it did. Y'all popping now. You can do what the fuck you want to do. Now, let me ask you this. What made you decide to do a special after all this time, right?

Because I'm sure you had other opportunities to do some. But what made you decide now is the right time? Because I thought other things were more important at the time You know I'm saying like and I mean specials are always gonna be there But at the same time specials are like albums now mm-hmm and do people really care about albums like that anymore Depends what it is Exactly so and so I wanted to get to a point where I was wondering that it depend on who it was What is your favorite stand-up though? That you've seen?

I don't watch none of them. I really don't. You watch Bill Burr? I did, but I didn't even watch all that. But the part I did watch, I like watching people that just don't give a like me. But see the difference is they on a whole nother level too. He had a point, that's what every comedian

will be at a point where no matter what you say, they don't care. Yeah. And I feel like I'm at that in my world, but I wouldn't be at a point where no matter what you say they don't care yeah and i feel like i'm at that in my in my world but i want to be that in all worlds i think that's impossible nowadays i think even if they know you to be that they're gonna still find ways to be offended that's the thing right to be able if you can say whatever it is you want to say you just got to be able to deal with whatever the backlash and i feel like i'm like that because i'm so immune and scorned to

it just just from being on social media. Me and you all, ain't nobody been through more stuff than me and you. I get canceled every month. I'm so immune to the bull. It's almost like I'm scorned from it. I don't even notice when I'm being. I don't even be over there. People be hitting me like, you know, they're going in on you.

I'm like, for real? We got more with Little Duval when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Angela Yee here. And did you know that the general insurance has been saving people money for nearly 60 years? That's a long time. So if you want the quality coverage you deserve at prices you can afford, check out The General. 800-GENERAL or visit thegeneral.com. Some restrictions apply. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Lil Duval. Yee. You see, they're upset about Prince Charming now. Nah, what happened? Bring me up on game. You know how he kisses?

She did not give consent for Prince Charming to kiss her and wake her up, Sleeping Beauty. Bring me up on game. You know how he kisses... Snow White. She did not give consent for Prince Charming to kiss her and wake her up, Sleeping Beauty. So now they're trying to say that's wrong. It's not okay to kiss a woman. Oh, you talking about Sleeping Beauty or Snow White? You talking about the real... The real... Yes, man.

Oh, wait, is it Snow White? Who is it? I'm going to show it to you. Yes, man. So that's a charge now. Yes, man. And y' a charge now. Yes, man. And y'all wonder why I won't tell no more stories about back in the day in Daytona.

Yeah, alright. Disneyland's new Snow White ride criticized for including Prince Charming's non-consensual kiss. Snow White was dead. The kiss brought her back to life. She didn't ask for it, though.

They saying that about CPR. You sent me something early so you can't do cpr people that get mad like that i be want to sit there and talk to them like person not what they post i want to sit there and ask them questions and if you talk to them they'll realize it really ain't that big of a deal yeah they just they just need something to talk to like but what they don't realize okay enough to society to care about it more you care about something that's not really a big deal and it makes the society feel like it's a bigger deal and now we make it a big deal because now people emotions get evolved in and then it's not that like in my in my mind i'd be thinking how privileged are you that the only thing you

got to complain about in your life is whether or not Prince Charming's kiss was consensual with Snow White. By the way, it's way worse things than Snow White, by the way. I don't want to talk about it. Don't talk about it on this show because somehow it's going to correlate to what we're doing. Snow White mama died during the childbirth. Nobody want to talk about the maternal death rate? Nobody want to talk about Revenge of the Nerds movie. No, we definitely want to talk about that.

No. You see what I'm't talk about that. No. No. You see what I'm saying? Let's move on. Now, would you fight Floyd Mayweather for $250,000? You tweeted that too. Man, I let him knock my jaw off. For $250,000?

That's all? Nah, a mil. I need a mil. Ocho Cinco getting a mil to fight. Yeah? Yeah, he fighting under the undercut. Who he fighting? I don't know.

We don't know yet. I'll fight him for a mil. I'll fight Ocho Cinco for a meal. Ocho, you want to fight? That's going to be a short-ass fight. I don't care. Hey, y'all keep playing with boxing, though. One punch can kill you. A short-ass fight.

Thank you. I'll do you all. She'll be living my best life, too. One punch can kill you if you get hit the wrong way, bro. Not if you know how to fall. Man, I get people to watch. You gonna let them hit you? Man, I know how to fall. What

happens is it be the second hit and the third hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that first hit, boy, ain't nobody gonna spin like I spin. Trust me. Put a couple M's in there. Put a couple M's and throw some of them coins that everybody buying. Bitcoin.

Throw some of them crypto and everybody buying? Bitcoin. Throw some of those cryptos and Doge and what is it? Dogecoin. Throw some of them in there and I'm ready to fight. I'm going to go run a couple laps and do a couple swimming. Get my body right. How much time I got? When the fight?

It's in Miami in June. Oh, nah. It's deep. You don't have time. You got to get more preparation It's in Miami in June. Oh, nah. It's deep. Oh, yeah. We're going to be. You don't have time. You got to get more preparation. I think you already got an opponent, though. Who? Ocho Cinco?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you said. But nobody want to see you and Ocho. I think he didn't announce it yet. Nobody don't want to see Mayweather and what is it? No, I'm not watching it. Logan Paul. Logan Paul.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is how bored entertainment is got. Damn, ain't it? I'm really watching Mayweather and Logan Paul. Is it Logan Paul? Logan Paul. That let the audience know we really slow as an audience because this is all that we see as entertainment.

That's why Charlamagne always tell me I work too hard. Yes. Because it's too easy to make money entertaining now. You ain't even got to have that much sense. And I be overthinking this s*** and then you see somebody do nothing and they make millions. And you on your living my best life special, sweating. I'm over here sweating,

working during the pandemic, trying to make people happy. Still on the road. Dancing, singing, tap dancing. Got a s***, got a band. I had pyro and everything coming out. By the 8th show, I was like, man, cut that shit out, man. You had pyro, too?

Man, all that shit. When I first started that tour, I was like, man, boy, I'm finna go. That's expensive. Yeah, I realized that by the 6th, 7th show. Did you make any money? Hell no. That's the thing. What?

Man, I made less money on that tour than I made just before it. Hold on. So, wasn't the tour sponsored? No, we went half. No. That's what happens when you do independent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was cool with it.

I really enjoyed the tour. The fact that I did my own tour, and we did all those cities, and they was all sold out. I was just happy to do that. I could say I did my own tour. And you said, f***. I mean mean I didn't go broke off of it but the fact that I took everybody on tour that was down with me

from day one that was gratifying in itself did they make any money? yeah they made probably more than me damn and you still ain't gonna do no album

yeah I'm gonna do an album matter of fact I'm going out to what's name and we gonna work on some new music now I'm going out to the Bay Area

after I leave here who's what's name? me and Clay we going out to um the bay area now after i leave here who's what's the name with me and clay we're going out there special live my best life where can they watch it man pay-per-view and it's on all deaf i mean all black black a l l b l k and you can watch it on pay-per-view. The video on demand. Yeah, on demand. It's available right now. It's available right now. All right, it's Lil Duval.

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morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. Lil Scrappy. Yeah. I ain't calling you little no more. I ain't calling you little in years. It's Scrappy. Scrappy.

It's Scrappy, man. You dig? Now, Scrappy, I didn't know you were from Jersey. You not from Jersey at all? No. What is you talking about? No. It's ATL all day.

I was born at Grady Memorial Hospital downtown. I don't know what's going on. Have you never heard of Feline? What's wrong with you? Lil Scrappy was born when? 1984. Where? Trenton, New Jersey.

Stop listening to the internet. When are y'all going to learn? I was just saying, y'all just going to put my age up. Everybody in here way older than you, okay? Way older. What you been up to, my Jersey guy? I never knew that.

Because it's not true. And it's from a reputable place. And not Wikipedia. Man, shut up. I've been making music and babies, man. That's what it feel like. How many babies you got now? I'm going to have a fourth one. Oh, babies, man. Making music. That's what it feel like. How many babies you got now? I'm finna have a fourth one.

Oh, congratulations, King. Thank you. What you got, all girls? One boy and the rest girls, yeah. Damn, damn. So what's fatherhood like for you? How has it changed you as a man? Oh, man, I mean, that's the best thing that ever happened to me.

You know what I'm saying? I feel like that's like half of my purpose. Because just being with my 16-year- you know she just turned 16 in march and just to get her from a baby to there was just like wow like it was a learning lesson you know i'm saying so now i'm like i'm good but it's all the time you know i'm saying it's all the time it's not like because i'm hands-on and um it just make me stay in the house more, you know what I'm saying? Like, when everybody else robbing and getting killed,

I be hearing about it. Right, right, right. No, it's everything for me, though. How it change your perception of just women in general? My wife did that, because I, you know, my first baby, I wasn't really at home to go through the whole, you know, pregnant thing. And when, you know, after first baby, I wasn't really at home to go through the whole pregnant thing. After the baby, I stayed up every day.

But I seen it with this. It's like, man, women, they some strong jokers, man. They really can have a baby in you running around trying to catch another one and trying to feed this one. Yeah, man. Hey, man, y'all some tough people could i don't woke up like she was like yeah they were waking up all through the night i was like when when did that happen like you could have told me or something like what it's crazy though now loving hip-hop what made you do love and hip-hop and did you ever regret it at all

no i don't regret doing love and hip-hop uh did you ever regret it at all? No, I don't regret doing love and hip-hop. I feel like it tapped me back into the entertaining life, you know what I'm saying? Because I was lost for a minute. I was, you know, that one little situation happened to me while I was going down. You know what I'm saying? The old ex-ex of all exes, you know what I'm saying? Like, every time I came here, we talked about it. You feel me?

I don't even remember now. Exactly. I really don't remember, bro exactly and that's how i wanted to be keep it like that but it was like i had like just painful years of just being stressed out and you know why like what am i doing i'm saying so when i got with love and hip-hop i ain't even i slicked and didn't want to rap no more i was like it was a tv money but come come good come way better than that you know i'm saying when I got with Love & Hip Hop, I ain't even, I slicked and didn't want to rap no more. I was like, that little TV money, boy, it come good. It come way better than that. You know what I'm saying? Sitting in the Dangerous Ad Club,

you know what I'm saying? So, I was like, yeah, I'm cool with that, but you know, it was just like, you know,

God told me just be myself. Everything else gonna work out. You know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't gotta be, I feel like I was clowning, you know, the first four, you know what I'm saying, seasons, just clowning, because I ain't know what to do. I ain't got to be I feel like I was clowning, you know first For you know I'm saying seasons just clowning cuz I ain't know what to do. I know how to use it

I know how to be on TV like that. You know I'm saying and or take the criticism that the world giving me like that so when I when I was going through that I was like hey man like It's famous man, but you know I'm saying it ain't the same famous rap neither like it's like it rapping I you know people scared to say had they stand over here, you know them, but they you know I'm looking at this like damn bro like it did catapult my situation It made people aware of who scrappy was again because at first people was like cool with it I know I know him for some little brother seem somewhere before and I'm like somewhere before when I'm you know I'm rocking these concert these days everybody's talking about they love me and all that before I thought y'all

loving it you know but it really put me back to where I could I could look you know some of my my homies back in the face again like it was up was having you have a plan though like you look at candy she had a restaurant for me he needs to the restaurant one of the girls from the house where i've got a skinny wine right when did you say you know i need to come up with a plan because i need to make this work for me i just started doing that like two years ago no not two two two seasons ago i started doing that like you know that's why i said i didn't know how to use it to my for myself i was just doing what they needed me to do making them the money because to me I feel like It's WWF WWE like it's really like

Entertainment add it on to your real life. You know I'm saying a real love life I just looked at I was like hey man the women my mama my wife everybody they good i'm good you know what i'm saying my daughter she good that's all i was caring about it for but then i was like hey man listen man i need to have like leave them something so when i started looking at that and i was aware of that because i ain't always been aware i always i said i like to tell people i was always chasing little scrappy you know i'm saying the little guy so when I stopped chasing him and I came aware of what was really going on, it was like two years ago. So what's the plan, though? So what are you doing?

I'm opening up a clothing spot, you know what I'm saying? And I'm going to do a... You're opening up a thrift store called Scraps. Hell nah. That'd be a hell nah. It's already one like that, though. Called Scraps? I mean, every city state I go to Is some scrap metal place that's called scrap

No I don't mean scrap metal I'm talking about like a thrift store So like all old clothes Think about all old jeans you don't wear no more And sneakers And you get mad people to bring different stuff And it's like a goodwill But it would be called scraps

You don't like that? He's looking at the money part He's like how am I going to make money off of that? Yeah It's still a staple I just give my clothes away I just dry clean them. You know what I'm saying?

Dry clean them and have a, yeah, I come up with a, what was it, like a giving back play. Yeah, like something like that. And then y'all come pick old scrappy clothes up. You know what I'm saying? Or whoever clothes up. I do that, but they ain't, you know, I just give them away. Scrappy's not looking for a store to sell. Yeah, that ain't what you think. So, yeah, so I'm going to have an independent clothing store

to where I open it up for independent people that are really trying to get and plant their fin in the game and really have their stuff structured. You know what I'm saying? Like, you don't have one just like a T-shirt or something. You got a whole line of clothing. You know what I'm saying? And also, I'm going to have a cereal bar in there.

You know what I'm saying? A cereal bar? A cereal bar, you know? And the reason I'm going to have a cereal bar in there. You know what I'm saying? A cereal bar? A cereal bar. And the reason I say that is because anybody can eat cereal. Old person, kids, I don't care what you're into. You can eat cereal. You know what I'm saying? And as soon as they legalize marijuana, I'm going to flip it out.

All right, we got more with Lil Scrappy. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Lil Scrappy.

Charlamagne? Did you ever think that, you know, you being on reality TV would, like, eclipse people taking you serious as anything else? Yeah. For a minute, they stopped taking me serious. I swear they stopped taking me serious like a joke. Like, people see me and they just laugh. Like that. You know what I'm saying? Soon as they see me, they be like, boy, you funny.

You stupid as f***. And I be sitting there looking. I'm like, what's so funny? What the f*** is you laughing at? You know what I'm saying? What's so funny? But what it was, was I get it, you know what I'm saying? I'm a little jokester, you know what I'm saying? And you know, when them cameras ain't on, I take my life real serious, you know what I'm saying? Because I'm a little jokester, you know what I'm saying? But, and, you know, when them cameras ain't on, you know, I take my life real serious, you know what I'm saying?

But I try not to take it so serious that I can't laugh, you know what I'm saying? I hate them type of s***, you know what I'm saying? I ain't that type of s***. I like to laugh. I like to joke and all that. But it's like when you got rap involved, and I know I left it alone, it's that that kept me that kept people like I don't know I don't know if I should walk up on cuz and that like I don't know because that part of me was gone you know I'm gonna drive on you know we might have to box out here but on this side you know

you're looking right out the tv I'm with my woman I'm with my mama like you see me in vulnerable positions you know I'm saying I can't really who I'm finna box out right now you know who I'm with my mama. Like, you see me in vulnerable positions. You know what I'm saying? I can't really, who I'm finna box out right now. You know what I'm saying? Who I'm finna fight and for what. You know what I'm saying? So, it's like they get that misconstrued and mixed up thinking that, you know, oh, homie just, he just a comedian. You know what I'm saying?

Well, no, I'm not Jock. You know what I'm saying? That's my cousin. Like, cousin, dude, he actually, like, benched it off in the comedy world. Your radio personality. Yeah, all that. I'm not not that you know what i'm saying like to show you it is people would assume that it's so but but that's what i tell people it's only one part of me you know i'm saying a human being got so many mechanisms of their life you know i'm saying like it break down in all kind of ways like this is how

i act with my my woman this is how I act with the street. This is how I act, like, in the street. They see me, you know, I'm on the alert mode because I'm in the street. You know what I'm saying? You can't just walk up on me and be like, hey, nah, ain't none of that because, like, I don't know you.

We complex individuals. Bishop T.D. Jakes did a sermon about that yesterday. This is how humans are complex people. Yeah, but we all got to understand that. We all got to understand that the the human that's sitting across from me is actually human that's right yeah we forget that no no no we you know like yeah no i was just discussing that this morning because you know it's like sometimes even we get on the radio and we don't realize we we're talking we're casually talking about other people's traumas yeah but casually real realizing we triggering the out of people you know what i mean yeah and you got We're casually talking about other people's traumas. Yeah. We're casually. Real.

Realizing we triggering the out of people. You know what I mean? Yeah. And you got like, as black people, we think our trauma is okay. Like we really do. It's freaky, but like we think everything is okay. Like you, you, uh, somebody get killed, uh, somebody go in the hospital. Everybody be like, oh, that's cool. They be out.

Everything be all right. You know what I'm saying? Cool. Dang, bro, for real. Like, he supposed to forget about that. But if he forget about it, then that's one more thing added to his pain. Because you damn near dying with pent-up stress, bro. Like, you dying with stress.

You dying with pain that could be gone and you could be moving on with life you know I'm saying but it I talked to a shrink only in care like I mean all the shrink I call the just some a mind releaser cuz cuz she was just released the mind untangle it you know I'm so long you've been going through the therapist grabbing oh I was once ever since I was married cuz how long ago was that? 2018. I started 2016.

Yeah. Yeah. My wife put me on it and she was like, you need to talk to somebody because you got a lot of stories. What was it that finally made you say, man, I'm going to go

sit down with somebody? I know your wife was saying that, but what was the moment? What was the breaking point? Like, man, I got to go talk to somebody. Because I just seen,

like, you get into them little dark places man and it like if you stay there and you don't get help or you don't you know pray and have faith or something like that you're gonna go all the way down and i done been down i said oh let me just before i get all the way down now let me get catch up for real quick let me go see if this will work i prayed went and did that and it just started and it seemed like even from the first time it was just stuff releasing I'm gonna release every time just a relief of I don't got that on me no more. You know I'm saying so after that it felt like crap for real

Like I'm addicted to it. Mm-hmm, you know just like working out. I'm addicted to working out I've never even been on it before I just going there to just go in there for two weeks, got my little pump in, I'm good. Now it's like an everyday thing. It helped my mental, my physical, my spirit. It's all health. Yeah, it's all health. We talk about health like it's just a physical thing. No, it's mental, it's emotional, it's all health.

Yeah, like I had somebody, I got into the gym, because first I got my mind right, you know what I'm saying? Then I said, okay, I got to get my body right, because I already had my spirit right. When I got into the accident a little minute ago And I almost died I was like some we got to switch it up You know I'm saying so I already had my spirit right had my mind, right? So I like my I gotta get in there get my body right You know I'm saying it just walking I can move around and it moves stuff out the way You know all the problems that I think are real big is real light.

You know what I'm saying? The weed, too, but, you know. You gave up weed at one time. Plant-based medicine. That's what I call it. Plant-based medicine. Yeah, I gave it up. I mean, because I didn't want to go to jail.

You know what I'm saying? Like, I was playing with them folks. Oh, you were on probation? Yeah, I was on felony probation. I was just like, man, I'm playing with these folk because I had a friend that was on regular probation and I was seeing

how they were handling it there, put the little, put somebody else's pee in the rubber, put it up under their s**t and then come. Too much work. Too much work,

because I got caught one time. You got caught doing that? I got caught. I'm in there, he like, now you got to do that again because something's wrong because I came in there with like now you gotta do that again because something wrong because i came in there with i ain't have a carnal mist i had a pill jar and the pill jar don't

consume the the warmth it just let it go so i mean i'm like bro i ain't doing that again i'm good he was like oh well you ain't leaving today i said oh you're gonna have to lock me up bro i'm gone i'm out this big next day i'm i'm going out of town i'm on cnn they looking for another oh my god what just for a little peek like you know what i'm saying so i like when the judge looked at me he said hey this is my last time talking to you old white man to look like and i he just sent somebody To 18 years I was like Oh he finna get to me He gonna send me My whole thing He was like

Look I see you doing You know You doing your little TV rap thing You know All that That's what he said

Your little TV rap thing Yeah your little TV rap thing And he say You come back in here again I see you again Before your Probation is up You gonna do the whole thing

And he said You look young enough Where you can You do the whole thing and he said you you you look young enough where you can you know you'll still be okay when you come back i was like wow that's two more years you know so i did i just stopped playing with her you also i remember i saw you say a reality tv ruined a lot of your relationships yeah yeah all of them all of them like friends family friends family not Not family, so what? Because me and my mama, we'd always be at it. You know, we'd be at it without the TV.

I love her, but... Did she change once she got famous? No, mama always stayed the same. Okay, okay. She just got, like, people are aware of her craziness. You know what I'm saying? And they think, you know, people think, like, Mama D be acting, but that's how she always been.

So what relationships got ruined? Like, all the, you know, like, friends, like, homegirls, you know what I'm saying? I almost ruined my relationship with my wife, you know what I'm saying? Homies, you know what I'm saying? Because I was in that mode, like I say, I just wanted to do reality TV

because that was giving me that little scrappy feel. You know what I'm saying? You know, when I was a little scrappy and I was, you know, everybody was like, ah, man, you know, they was giving me that adulation, that love, and I was like, ah, because I always wanted that back, you know what I'm saying?

I was like, man, if I can just get that one time, one more time, because I ain't get it like how it's supposed to be gotten. You know what I'm saying? I was like, man, if I can just get that one time, one more time, because I didn't get it like how it's supposed to be gotten. You know what I'm saying? I was always, oh, that's John Artis. Oh, he signed with 50 of them. Or, oh, he with Luda. I'm like, no, bro, I want this shit for myself, bro. Like, I need this.

I need this for me. I need to just be that guy. And I don't know, man. I just, rap just, it brought me out to the forefront because I was sitting there looking at the reality TV, and I'm like, if this shit going to end all my little friendships and relationships because I'm looking at TV like, this is what I want to do.

And then the homies like, man, what are you acting like that for, bro? Come on, I ain't fucking with y'all. Like, for real, because y'all in that other world,, you acting like that for a bro. Come on. I ain't f***ing with y'all. Like, for real, because y'all in that other world, I ain't in that world no more. F*** that s***. All right, we got more with Lil Scrappy. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Lil Scrappy. Charlamagne? You know, it's interesting because you mentioned all the labels you was with. And I've heard people say, oh, man, Scrappy is a click hopper. But to me, it's like it's business.

It's all business with me. I came from the mud, bro. Like straight mud. Like ain't nobody helping me. Ain't nobody give me no money. I had to get all my shit by myself. I didn't have no educated manager. Everybody that knew.

I got it straight head forward, just like I got probably a run DMC, LL Cool J deal. We were like the guinea pigs for the South. Like, we were the first kids that was really from Atlanta that had a whole era that they was up under. And, you know, you just trying to get out the hood. When they say click hopper, man, it It's like my shit is business all the way around because Everybody got to go through the up and down how you handle your shit down because I always tell people

It's gonna be a lot of hurt young dudes in a minute bro from this era Mm-hmm from the big money era. Mm-hmm because they don't even know what they doing with all of any financial literacy Exactly don't even know what they don't even know what they're doing with all of it. Yeah, they need financial literacy. Exactly. They don't even know it's a curve that's going to happen. And some of them are so lit on drugs, bro, they don't even know their time is almost up. You know what I'm saying? And now they got to find out what they're going to do to sustain what they've created. You know what I'm saying?

Because once everything's shut down, once a new person come, everybody focus on that new person. You can see it when it comes to the different groups. Like, man, OutKast was everything. That's right. That's right. You know what I'm saying? Goody Mob was everything. Lil Jon Eastside boy come in, they like, hey, man, y'all cool, man, but they turn the club up over here. That's right.

Over here. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, you just got to understand the curve. You got to know how to deal with that s***. You know what I'm saying? And everybody's like you just gotta understand the curve. You gotta know how to deal with that s***. You know what I'm saying? And everybody ain't gonna know how to deal with that s***. Everybody not gonna be able to deal with them losses because they've been winning for so long. You know what's crazy? If you were signing the white people, they would never say that.

If you had did a deal with a white label, they went to another white label, they went to another white label, they would never say that. They all white labels. All of them. I don't give a f*** what black man is at the head of it. It's somebody white that run that s***. They don't look at it as business. They all white labels. All of them. I don't give a f*** what black man is at the head of it. It's somebody white

that run that s***. They don't look at it as business. They look at it as crews. Like, oh, he was with John. Now he with G-Unit. Now he with DDP. But no, it's business.

These are labels. Yeah, and you can ask and one of them people, like the only crew that really took me in like a crew crew, that was John. I mean, that was

the first name. That was our, it wasn't even a crew. That was our that was everybody where i'm from john trillville yeah that's everybody over there bohagan yeah that's everybody in my in my pot you know i'm saying we all came from the same pot you know i'm saying so we're like you know i wasn't jumping i'm gonna tell you what i did do though i seen the the situation with John them it wasn't I had had a little situation in Palatka Florida while you know I got hit with the ball so I seen that I seen the game changing on me like when nobody with me because I had my little situation I was like dang where

this gonna go but at the end of the day rest in peace Chris Lighter was my manager you know I'm saying so Chris knew I was cool with 50 and buck so he was like I'm gonna make something happen if they not gonna put you then we got to still keep moving mm-hmm and so he just said we're gonna bridge the gap Atlanta New York we're gonna make it make it make sense then I think a 50 call me out the blue hey we're gonna make it make sense bro we're gonna I'm a highlight John we're gonna see what we can do. I'm sitting in Tom Wiley's house, bro. It's like a little food house. They do dinner and stuff at me, 50 Cent, John.

Like, we all, Chris Lighty, we all sitting back there having a big meeting, big-ass meeting about me and my life. And 50 said it straight up. He said, Scrappy Town is his f***. And I believe with me and John, and Warner Brothers, he can be the biggest rap dude ever. Bigger than us. What happened from there? Because, I mean,

they thought you were gonna be the biggest artist, bigger than Fifth. And then what happened? What do you think? The whole Warner Brothers label just shut down, like, pre-album week. Like, the same week. Like, same week like I've come out on Tuesday Monday when you supposed to go make your little run through the offices

and shake hand kiss babies nobody is there I was like damn on my own like when my gonna come out I ain't know I know what to do but to just do this myself it didn't and then you know 50 do that shit myself. And then, you know, 50, he was like, I did my part, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know what John's going to do? He's been around you the whole time, but he didn't want to work. Everybody was doing their own thing.

I just chunked it up, though. I just was like, shit, it's part of the game. I ain't finna cry about it, you know what I'm saying? Just got to do it again. What's your relationship with John now? Minimum, you know what I'm saying? I holla at him every now and then, you know what I'm saying? Just, you gotta do it again. What's your relationship with John now? Minimum. You know what I'm saying? I holla at him every now and then.

You know what I'm saying? No love lost. You know? Do you think you get your proper respect as an ATL artist? Oh, nah,

definitely not. Definitely not. They don't do that because if they did that, then it would move some of the people that are popping out the way. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I ain't gonna lie. They, when certain people came in the game, and I don't know which ones it was, bro, but it had to be a few that didn't like me. You know what I'm saying?

And I'm like, damn, I always looked out for f***ers, bro. I always jumped on f***ers. Didn't care, bro. But it's that thing that I'm bigger than you now. It bothered me at first, but then I looked at it, I'm like, f***ing, I'm me. F like i'm me like i am me are you gonna do more music yes i got a song out right now called joy to the florida featuring tom g

but we're gonna play but i i got a couple more questions like you know did you know if you buck was the negro spiritual it was when when y'all recorded it because people don't you talking on the intro i don't know people realize that no they think it's my song uh i knew it was something amazing bro i never heard anything like it when i first heard i know right the way little j did the beat and the way they was rapping it was like how we rapped at the lunch table you know i'm saying i was like damn how we rap at the lunch table y'all really doing it and it was a whole style. I ain't even like it at first But you like nothing if you buck ain't like the style the rap Oh, I got you guys cuz I felt it was like kind of triple sixes Memphis

I'm like, you know, I'm Atlanta all the way I'm saying so I like I don't know But then one day my ear woke up cuz John was like nah like that's that new, you know, that's the new flow You know I'm saying some listen. I'm like, oh Might be right. You know I'm saying so once we heard it after he got mixed and mastered cuz you know them two different sounds you know once he got mixed and mastered I was like wow this crazy. Go back to love and hip-hop yeah how did you ever amend your wife and your baby mother together where they have a good speaking relationship and things are good how did you get to that point? It's them you know

they they had to come to that because I'm really not involved. I don't hate nobody. I don't dislike nobody. They don't dislike each other, I don't think. You know what I'm saying? It just took some growth. People had to grow up. You know what I'm saying?

People had to understand that, okay, this is, we're too old. We've been doing this for a long time. And it plays out on TV. That's the main thing. It played out everything on TV. And see, me and my wife, like, we literally, and people might, you know, they thought I didn't want to talk to my wife. Well, that's what they said, that you're not speaking to your dad. I wasn't speaking to her, but I just don't, I didn't want to cause no trouble for my daughter.

You know what I'm saying? She's 16 now. She see all that. She got to go through all that so i'm like i just really not even talk to her you know discuss anything because there's nothing anyway it's like you don't move on with your life i don't move on with my life everybody's moved on like it ain't even a conversation no more it's like i'm happy everybody happy been waiting on this forever i'm out of here you know what i'm saying and it and also come like i say it always also come with me you know i'm saying being aware of the the maneuvering

you got to do you know i'm saying as a man you know like like my wife told me she was like hey man just keep that thing one way bro like first i was like what the is one way you know i'm saying it can't nobody just be one way you know like I say you all kind of people anybody you know so I Got caught hold on to and I'm like man listen We just we good man. We got kid Everybody grown happy god bless you god gonna bless me. Just keep it moving Well scratch before when I'm coming. Scrappy. When the album coming? I don't know when the album coming.

Okay. But, you know, I'm finna hit. I'm finna be hitting y'all with music. Introduce the record now. Huh? You say music like you from Memphis. Music. Oh, no.

This is how I talk. Yes, what's the song? Georgia to Florida, man. In my new heat, man. You know what I'm talking about? Featuring Tom G from Tampa. You know what I'm saying? Georgia to Florida. Since we the only ones always open. You know what I'm talking about? Featuring Tom G from Tampa. You know what I'm saying? Georgia to Florida

since we the only ones always open. You know what I'm saying? Always lit. You know what I'm saying? Ain't never gonna stop, Jack. And we always hot, man. Listen to the thing right now, man.

Produced by Looney G. All right. It's a little scrappy. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Hey, it's Angela Yee.

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Florida man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife. Police arrested an Orlando man for talking a flamingo. The Breakfast Club, bitches. Donkey of the day. With Charlemagne the guy. I don't know why y'all keep letting him get y'all like this. Well, little Duval. Okay, not only am I getting him like this, I gotta get Jacksonville today, okay?

Donkey of the day goes to a Jacksonville woman named Kenita Gordon. Salute to everyone who listens to The Breakfast Club on 93.3 The Beat in Jacksonville. Salute to the young man Quail P. Okay. That record he got out titled Charlemagne. When the world officially opens back up, you know, not like Florida open. I mean, you know, like open, open. I don't give an F open back up, but opens back up so the rest of us who don't take risks

like you Floridians can move around. Like, open, open. I don't give an F, open, back up. But open is back up so the rest of us who don't take risks, like you Floridians, can move around. When I come to the 904, I want everybody to sing my name like Quail P or I'm not responding. Let's practice. Envy, say my name. Charlemagne. Charlemagne. Hey, yo, Quail P, what's happening, my brother?

How are you, young king? What's happening, nephew? See how I ignored Envy because he didn't sing my name the way I wanted him to? Okay. But Quail P did it right. Now, what does your Uncle Sharla always say about Florida? The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today, once again, proves all of us

who know this to be true, correct. See, Kenita Gordon was arrested and charged with strong-arm robbery and use possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia. I personally don't think anyone who gets arrested on an intent-to-use charge should be sent to jail. They should be sent to a rehab facility, but that's just my opinion. It has nothing to do with this story, really.

But what did Kenita do to get arrested for strong-arm robbery? Well, according to police, she robbed a bank. Look, man, times is hard in the slums we from i tell y'all all the time people are starving folks don't have time your stomach don't stop growling because the check is on the way your stomach stops growling when you get that check cash it and now you got some bread to buy some bread to feed yourself okay not making excuses for this woman at all because we all make choices in life and have to be held accountable for the consequences of our actions and when you rob a bank nine times out of ten you go into jail i'm

just simply trying to get you all in the mindset of this woman okay now whenever i think about bank robberies first thing i think about is how much did they get all right second thing i think about is how did they get away what was the getaway vehicle there's literally nothing you can't find online because i googled top 10 getaway cars? There's literally nothing you can't find online because I googled top 10 getaway cars for Robin Banks. Let's run them down real quick. Number 10 is a 1932 Ford V8. That's the old black cars you see in all the old black and white movies.

Number 9 is a Toyota Corolla. Number 8 is an ambulance. See, it's all about something that is fast and something that blends in. Nothing blends in like an ambulance. Number 7 is a Cadillac CTS-V wagon. Number 6 is a taxi. Yet again, another vehicle that blends blends in. Nothing blends in like an ambulance. Number seven is a Cadillac CTSV wagon. Number six is a taxi. Yet again, another vehicle that blends right in. Number five is the General Lee. You know the bright orange

Dodge Charger, the Duke boys. You driving Dukes of Hazzard. You know that one. Number four is the Alpine armored Cadillac Escalade. Don't know where you just find one of those. Number three is the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S. Number two is the Dodge Charger SRT 392. That's for speed.

And the number one getaway car for bank robberies is the Incas Huron APC. That's the big armored truck that the SWAT team drives. No regular civilian is going to have that, so I don't even know why that's on there. But the point of all these vehicles is either for speed or to blend in. Well, Kenyatta must have been going for the blend in part because she damn sure wasn't going for the speed would you like to know what her getaway vehicle of choice was would you what is it let's go to wjax cbs 47 for the report please the jacksonville sheriff's office is releasing the identity of a woman accused of robbing a bank

from her wheelchair this is a new mugshot of Kenyetta Gordon. Action News Jax broke the news yesterday when police say that a woman became angry while discussing her account at the Regents Bank in downtown Jacksonville. She's accused of telling a worker that she was going to kill everyone inside and that this was a robbery. She left, they say, in a motorized wheelchair after getting the cash. She was arrested just a few blocks away. They see me rolling. They hate it.

Hey, Trump, stop it. I don't like when you go rogue, Trump. All right, Jesus. What the floor is going on here? All right, there's only three people who could have truly gotten away with this crime. One, Roland Ray, okay? Two, Snoop Dogg's character in Training Day.

Three, Professor Charles Xavier. Those are the only three individuals who could have gotten away with robbing a bank in a wheelchair. Now, let me tell you something. This is why Florida is full of brilliant idiots, because robbing a bank in a wheelchair truly is the best way to blend in. Even if you don't really need a wheelchair, if you roll in the bank, rob the bank, then roll out. Okay? Roll a block or two. All right? Once you get up and walk, ditch the wheelchair, now you don't even fit the description of what the bank teller saw. That's smart.

It's genius. Yes. All right? The sad part is this woman didn't have a plan. I'm not encouraging people to rob banks. No, I'm just saying, Kenyetta, picture a plan before you picture yourself rolling into a bank, asking for a big bank roll. And listen, just because I have understanding of this woman's situation, meaning I understand why she would be in the mind frame to rob a bank, simply because I understand

the current economic condition a lot of people are facing. It's easy to say Kenyatta should have just rolled with the punches life was throwing at her. But no, folks is broke. And you can't tell people to just roll with it. Okay? In life, we all have a role to play. But sometimes what you're casted as is out of your control. Remember when Kodak Black said he can't even roll in peace. Remember that?

I can't even roll in peace. Well, neither can Kenyatta. Because she's starving. Waiting on this damn government to roll out these damn stimulus checks. By the way, she's only 39. Only 39. I'm inspired by people who keep rolling no matter their age. But she's just 39.

And she's at the point where even though she's disabled in a wheelchair, she has to rob a bank at 39. Think about that. Kenyetta, I feel your pain, but even though I feel your pain, I still have to give this story the credit it deserves for being stupid. But Kenita, I'm praying for you. I want you to get the help you need for your drug problem because they found a crack pipe on you. Yes, she was riding dirty for real, but I'm telling you, Kenita, I want you to get clean, put the BS behind you, and one day, I promise you, the good times will roll.

Please give Kenyatta Gordon the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yee-haw. Oh, we're not going to play a game? Oh, y'all don't want to play a game today? We're not going to do that. We're not going to play a game? I don't want to play. Well, I have

no problem rolling out a game of Guess What Race It Is! Alright. Alright, here are the context clues. I don't even know if these are context clues. I don't even know if I used that correctly. But Kenyatta Gordon.

Okay. Jacksonville, Florida. Uh-huh. Robbed a bank in a motorized wheelchair. Oh, you want a description? I need that. Give me a description. No.

I don't need a description. All right. You sure you don't need a description? Yeah, give me a description. You want a little quick description? Let me give you a description that the police were using. Hold on. This is the description.

Hold on. Let me see if I can find it. Hold on. Okay. This is the description Hold on if I could find it Hold on officers are looking for an adult blank female 39 years of age with short blonde hair. Oh, I got you now Oh, so you thought it was easy. I thought it was easy. You thought Short blonde hair Kenyatta. I said Kenyatta Kenyatta. I don't know. That's how you pronounce it. Can you eat a Gordon Ramirez? All right, who said Ramirez? I'm down for the profile. I'm going to go.

Okay. Puerto Rican. Angelia, you sure you don't want to play? I think it is a white man. A white man? A white man. Okay. Okay.

All right. All right. I see where we're taking it. I ain't telling y'all whether y'all right or wrong. We're just we're taking it. Envy. I ain't telling y'all whether y'all right or wrong. We're just going to leave it like this. Why didn't you ask me to sing your name? Why you only ask Envy?

When I asked Envy to say my name. I thought you wanted him to sing it. No, he said say it. You want to say his name? Say his name. Go ahead. Charlamagne. Go ahead, Quail P.

I'm not telling y'all. It's Black Historyail P I'm not telling y'all It's Black History Month I'm not telling y'all Alright What can you either go or do? Thank you for that I'm leaving it up for interpretation Okay

Charlemagne Y'all guess Figure it out on your own Go do your own research I'm not telling y'all White man I agree with you That's what I saw

Alright That's the description That I think it fits okay alright keep it locked we have more coming up next it's The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club

morning everybody it's DJ Envy Angela Yee Charlamagne Tha Guy we are The Breakfast Club we got a special guest joining us this morning that's right

Dr. Jess Dr. Jessica Clemons good morning good morning thank y'all so much for having me. I really appreciate y'all. I want to ask you a question I ask everybody and I really want an honest answer. How are you? In this moment, I'm pretty good because I'm here with y'all. But I think like everybody else, I'm really getting sick and tired of all these Zoom meetings and I'm getting tired of not being able to touch and hold folks. So I'm doing good in this moment. But overall, a lot of anxiety, a lot of like sadness around not really being able to do the things that we were doing before the pandemic.

How's the baby? How's the baby? Brilliant. Oh, he's doing so well. He's great. He's 13 months. So he's just so active and cruising and he's getting to live his best life because he's with us every moment, every single day. So it's still been, it's still

been great. Have you been out at all? Have you took him out at all or no? We did. We actually went to the beach recently. And so that was nice. It was a nice little moment for him to get to try something new, but generally no, we're, we're still pretty safe around keeping him safe, especially, you know, children can't get vaccinated. And so we just want to think about his safety first and foremost, for sure. Have you thought about how psychologically it might impact little brilliant being a baby that was born during COVID and in the house for 13 months damn near? I think about all the children.

You know, I think about this is a tough time for kids to grow up in this way. I know my baby's going to be good, so I'm not, you know, as worried about him. But I think there are definitely families out there who may not have the same resources or have the same support. You know, my husband-in-law is incredible. And so together, we're able to really provide him with a lot of support. We have families who see them. So I think a lot about the psychological impact

that other children may especially have if they don't have good support systems. They have parents who are stressed out and maybe not able to tolerate, you know, the normal stuff that happens when kids are growing. So they might be lashing out. And then also not having access to like family and really being able to provide them that nurturing space. I definitely think about the kids for sure.

You know, we just had to ask you this morning and I was saying that, and there was some issues that their baby was also like about a year old and the couple wasn't getting along at all. Right. And I was thinking about postpartum depression and how sometimes that can play a role and people don't know about that. Did you have any issues that you had to overcome after having a baby and for couples out there and women out there who might be suffering from that? What are the signs? Absolutely. I mean, me personally, I think I didn't experience those symptoms. You know, I had a home birth. I had like an incredible team. I had, you know, people who were checking in on me and again, like a very supportive husband.

But I, you know, I think for a lot of people, they don't have access to that. They may have had a very difficult birth. So they're coping with, you know, C-section and trying to like adjust to all that. So postpartum depression really looks like more than just like the normal blues that most women get after they give birth. Like 80% of women have like that blue, sad feeling that gets better with breath. But postpartum depression is persistently low, depressed mood. You're having trouble functioning. You're not connecting as well with your baby.

Your baby really needs to see that expression. They need to see mom smile in response to, you know, something cute that the kid is doing. And so when people, moms are depressed, experiencing postpartum depression, their facial expressions aren't really as engaging. And so the child is not getting that human kind of interaction that they need to also develop. It also can look like having some really dark thoughts, you know, suicidal thoughts can occur, but it's treatable. And to your point, Angela, I think it's something that's very common.

But also a lot of pediatricians are checking in on moms when they're bringing their kid in for visits. Your OBGYN should be asking about that. And again, it's treatable usually with an antidepressant. And people go sort of right back to where they were before. You know, Dr. Jess, it is Mental Health Awareness Month. We did something, I think, earlier this week for MTV. Now, I was just wondering, is there actually any benefit for these Awareness Months? I think so. Absolutely. Right. We're talking about it. We're getting people who maybe don't really engage with this type of conversation to be engaging. Right. To your point, Charlamagne, I've been doing so many talks this month. I have another one today, actually. I've been doing so many talks with organizations. So what that's telling me is that people are trying to raise the awareness.

But then one of the things I did talk about during our panel together was that it's also time to talk about resources, where to get help, how to get help. It's time for therapists also to do a better job at working with underrepresented groups. I know I always talk about this when I'm here with y'all, that we've got to get white therapists to do a better job at taking care of black and brown patients. Like they don't need to be in the, you know, in the rooms with their therapists feeling like they got to justify everything that they've experienced. So I think it does help. I think we're talking about it, but I think we have to keep moving the needle forward to maybe make mental health awareness month about like a day of action or a month of action people showing selfies going into their therapist's office or people taking selfies

of themselves taking their psychiatric medication i think we have to really normalize it too and so next next year let's maybe make that a part of mental health awareness month for sure all right we got more with dr jess when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club Jess, when we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Dr. Jess. I have two questions. The first question is kind of a

light question. Do you respect Dr. Leonard McKelvey as a doctor? No. I'm done asking you. Her and I had this conversation, by the way. Dr. Jess is a real doctor. She actually put in the work. I'm talking to Dr. Jess, please. I'm just asking her. I'm asking the doctor. Her and I had this conversation, by the way. Dr. Jess is a real doctor. She actually put in the work. I'm talking to Dr. Jess, please.

I'm just an honorary doctor, and I don't even know of what. Doctor, how do you feel about Dr. Leonard McKelvey? His name is Leonard. Oh, Leonard McKelvey. You a hater. I love it. You know, I respect Charlamagne's work in really contributing to like breaking the stigma. I think that was one of the first things we talked about when we were, you know, teaming up to do the first live televised therapy session.

Like you said to me, like, let's eradicate the stigma. And so I respect that. I think that I appreciate also that you do recognize it takes so much work to get this and a lot of money. I'm like, oh, it takes a lot of money to, you know, get all these letters. But I think it's important. i i do respect you for that i was i was just joking and my real question is uh social media do you think we should just throw social media away i think social media does so much damage to adults kids teenagers i think it's part of the reason why people go uh i don't want to say the word crazy but they go crazy i think it's why a lot of people even like even some of the mass shootings are due to the social media and bullying so do you think we should just eradicate social media

as far as twitter instagram facebook and all that other stuff i mean i think i think that would be really interesting if we did like i agree with you there's so many issues with social media you know i'm thinking about young black boys their suicide suicide rates are increasing, even though we say boys in general, the rate is lowering, but it is not within our black boys. So, you know, I think that social media causes a lot of issues, right? There's data that supports, it causes increased depression, suicidal thinking and young girls. So, you know, if, if it happens, I definitely would support it. I mean, but that also would mean people may not have access to resources and community, but we've got to do something. I think we should kill the algorithm. That's what I think we really should get rid of a sudden, all of your feed is going to feed you more of that. So I think this algorithm really is the bigger issue.

If we could have timelines that are curated specifically on based on like what we want or how we're feeling, I don't want to give, you know, these social media platforms ideas, but if they could maybe focus on how you're feeling that day and target material that helps you or targets material that keeps you in that mood state, I think that would be so much better. But there are so many issues. Parents, you got to monitor your children. Do not let them just be on social media all day because it is causing problems. The cafeteria is going from like the little space that we knew to everywhere all the time. Like I dreaded walking into the cafeteria some days because i knew like oh this is where things get wild but imagine having your phone as the cafeteria day and night like it's

that's a great analogy what about just kill the comments like just kill the comments i mean you know there are positive and negative and you know you just you know it's because i think a lot of people are you know a lot of people are hurt from the comments. Absolutely. I mean, you know, Haley Bieber actually shared that she's cut down the comments. I interviewed her for a YouTube channel. And one of the things that she said was that she specifically only lets people that she follows or that she chooses to engage with her in the comments. And I think that you've got to curate your world. You've got to treat social media as an extension of your immediate world immediate world you got to think about it as curating exactly what you want kill the comments certainly anybody can do that um absolutely i saw you say that people have to

be very intentional about their use of social media so so what talk about like i guess more the positive effects of social media especially especially in the mental health space. Absolutely. I mean, there's so many accounts. You know, I feel like back in 2018 when I was going hard in social media to talk about mental health. Since then, so many accounts are doing the same. I mean, they've got they've got words to kind of educate you about the signs of illness. They've got resources. They can tell you where to find help like there's a lot of accounts that actually have directories that you can you know find the right therapist for you based on your specific interests and needs you know you can also find people that are like-minded so that you can you know have in real life connections especially as things have begun to open up across the country

so I think there are a lot of opportunities if you go into it, focusing on what it is that you're looking for. Like for me, I don't follow a lot of celebrity accounts. I don't follow a lot of the like accounts that are kind of talking junk about people because I find that that's just going to feed an algorithm that I'm not interested in seeing. I'll check them out here and there. So just think about that. Be cognizant of the accounts you're following. Pay attention to how you feel like if you're on it and you feel drained after you, you know, take a moment off of it, maybe take a break, delete the app, it'll be there when you get back, you know, don't delete your account, you don't want somebody to take your special name, but you know, delete the app, come back to it when you're feeling better. Give yourself only a period of time that you're using it. Don't start your

morning off looking at social media, start your morning off with some mindfulness, meditation, reflect on your day. Think about all the goals that you want to achieve. But, you know, again, don't go straight for the phone and open the app because it's designed to keep you in it and it's going to do whatever it can to keep you in it, to get those ads, to make sure that you're spending dollars. I mean, it's really all about the companies using these platforms as a way to kind of, again, generate money. So these are just a few things to think about. If you feel bad when you're on social media, just take a break from it. You think about Brilliant and what you're going to do with him when he's of age to be on social media.

I see they're trying to start like an Instagram for younger kids. Absolutely. absolutely you know instagram recently reached out to me to be a part of like learning about some of the the work that they're doing to try to you know kind of work around the issues that are coming up with mental health and that is one of the things that you know i mentioned um to someone as we were starting starting to kind of this conversation that you know i don't think it's a good a good idea i think that children should really just get to be kids they don't need to be already groomed to like be on social media. They have plenty of time for that. You know, and actually another thing too,

Angela, that came up is, you know, I think about parents that are like posting their kids all the time on social media. Like I definitely don't do it often and I always feel like really anxious when I do it. Not so much that I'm worried about like what people think about how he looks

or what, you know, what I have him dressed in, but more so that, you know, there's definitely going to be opportunities for people to do identity theft. I actually read about, you know, that perhaps in like 20, 30 years, the social media and what parents are posting is going to provide the most data for people to steal their kids' identities. So there's just so much to think about. You know, it's fun and it's cute to be on social media, but it's collecting our data. It's also not giving kids a chance to consent and to teach them about what it means to decide what you want to put on social media. So I think about it. I don't think my child will be able to, at least in my awareness, have access to it.

But, you know, kids do what they do. We got more with Dr. Jess when we come back. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Dr. Jess. Now, how do you tell somebody to heal?

How do you help somebody to heal when they lost somebody close to them? My wife recently lost her mother. And, you know, I don't know what to say. You know, I mean, like what? Like there is nothing that you can say. Of course, I'm hurt as well because she was a mom to me as well. So how do you help people heal? How does that healing process work? I think it's also important, especially with loss, to understand that grief is going to be like there's no way around it. You know, grief is it's something that catches people completely

off guard. They're going to be dealing with big emotions, sadness, denial, anger, and the emotions that they'll feel will come up in waves. So I think one of the things to tell people is really that you understand what they're going through. Speak from the heart. You know, I think it's important to share what you are feeling as well. You know, to invite them to also share how they're going through. Speak from the heart. I think it's important to share what you are feeling as well, to invite them to also share how they're feeling, what they're going through, share also in the memory of people. I think sometimes when we lose folks,

we put them on a t-shirt and that's it. We don't really create and honor memories around this person because when people pass away, the relationship just changes. We're still thinking about them. We still may have memories that come up. So try to be intentional when it feels right. It may not be, you know, right away, but in time, develop traditions. Maybe it's, you know, around the holiday season, putting up something on the tree if you celebrate Christmas to remember

them. Maybe it's making sure they have a photo up on your wall if you have, you know, photos up. It's just thinking about adjusting that relationship to think about them, even without their physical presence. And then giving people time to grieve. It's a long process for some people. You know, again, it's going to come in waves. Sometimes they may be present. Sometimes they may be sort of checked out or crying. And you just want to be reflective and think about that as they go through it. Because, you know, losing a parent, losing a mother is something I don't think anyone really ever gets over. But I also think that when you have the right people around you, you have people who are holding space for you to naturally heal in time. You will develop some peace around around that life.

How do you think the mental health community has grown since the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Jess? Oh, I mean, I think it's grown because, look, I am booked and really, really busy with visits that I have virtually. I think so many people are going in to see therapists primarily because this is a really hard time. People are stressed out. People have lost jobs.

People have lost the ability to connect in real life. So I think the community itself has grown in terms of people coming in for help. I know we still need therapists, we still need Black therapists, we still need Brown therapists, we need people to be able to connect with communities, again, to help with that barrier that comes up when people are seeing folks who don't look like them and they feel stressed. But the community, I think, has grown. People are using telepsychiatry or telemedicine, telehealth to engage. We'll probably keep seeing that. I plan to continue doing that even when the pandemic comes to an end. I plan to continue to still offer virtual visits because people can show up exactly where they are.

People who show up in all sorts of places. And it feels good for them to be able to do that. And I think it's something that I hope other people will continue to offer to you in the future. Is it OK for people who started therapy during the pandemic to stop going just because the world is opening back up outside is opening back up? You know, I think if you're, if you're particularly going into therapy because you've been feeling overwhelmed and, and stressed and isolated by the pandemic, and you start to feel much better now that you have access to your friends and you can go to brunch and all that good stuff. Sure. You can stop it. But I think some people might find that they're really starting to do that deep inner work. They're learning how to heal from past traumas. And so sometimes staying in, even when things feel like they're better, can really be helpful. So I

think it's important to talk to your therapist if you're in a place like you think you want to stop, because you might learn that it might make sense to stay. But certainly there are going to be people who will take a break and that's okay. Can you break down some ways people can support the mental health of the loved ones of people who are dealing with mental health issues? Because that's been a conversation that I've been having with a lot of people. A lot of people I know have family members who are dealing with schizophrenia, bipolar, and that's taking a toll on them. So how do we support the loved ones of people dealing with mental health issues? Yeah, I think it's important to also just think about these people when you are engaging with them.

Check on them. How are they feeling? How are they doing? Do they need help with anything? Do they need their house cleaned? Do they need a meal cooked? You know, you really want to think about them as being caregivers, especially for severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, these can really be taxing on people who are supporting them. So really check in on them. Also you know take some time to think about what is it that they might need. Do they need to have a support group? I would encourage people to really engage in those. You know I think people go to support groups for being caregivers of people who have like cancer or other severe physical illnesses. But people who are also caregivers for people with severe mental illness should also engage in support groups. So, you know, look up lists. NAMI.org is a great resource to find about groups.

Look up lists in your community and maybe offer that. But again, check in on them. Try to stand in the gap. Give them support if they have, you know, needs that could be met, help them take a break, offer to drive, you know, their their loved ones to to an appointment if you're able to do that. But I think just keeping them in your mind and checking in regularly is going to be a really great a great start for people. Now, for people who are, you know, that are new to this and just hearing it now and say, hey, I want this is something I want to try. Let me try a therapist. Is there something online? What advice would you give them? And do you have any information for those people? Where do you get started? Yes. Oh yeah. So I think the great, the great thing right now is that there's so many resources out

there. There's so many directories. So I tell people start with looking at psychology today. It's a little bit of an older directory but there are definitely most therapists do put their information up on there you can search if you want like a male therapist a woman a black doctor whatever it is that you're looking for you can find it there also they're really cool directories like therapy for black girls therapy for black men there's also something called inclusive therapist which gives people access again to different types of resources. And then you can also, you know, get really, you know, creative, if you want to do like a Google search specifically in your area, you'll find that a lot of therapists have started to create websites,

and you'll get a match and you might find someone in your in your area that has the exact niche that you want. And then I think thinking about some of these talk space apps, you know, the only challenge I have with some of those apps is sometimes you're texting and that is not really a form of therapy. So you just want to think about that. If you are choosing to use that, you really want to at least have a video where you're seeing a person or obviously in person is even better. So just be cognizant where you're choosing some of these newer platforms, because also your information isn't always protected. And so that's something to know, too. Thank you, Dr. Jess.

Can I give you I want to ask one more question for you. Go, Dr. Jess. Oh, you got to go. I'm sorry. You got to go. I have one thing, too. I want to share. Go ahead. My audio book is finally finished. Yay. Congrats, dot, dot, dot. Thank you. Congrats, dot, dot, dot, dot. It's Be Well. Y'all know I established that in like 2018 with my conversation series. People are definitely trying to use that now, but whatever. Be Well is an audio book. It's going to be exclusively on Audible September 9th.

It is a educational and inspiring audio book that's going to teach listeners how to navigate the health care system, learn about depression, anxiety, learn some mindful tips. And I started and wrote this book really audio book to really just help people navigate the health care system and really know like it's a guide to mental health for everyone. So I'm really thrilled about it. And it's finally finished so september 9th they can follow me on instagram or go to ask dr just.com and join my newsletter so that you'll be the first to know when it's officially out so yes yeah you got to come back and talk about that dr just on audible only on audible be well september 9th all right well thank you for joining us dr just we appreciate you it's the break thank you so much i appreciate you guys the Peace. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Hey, it's Angela Yee.

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