The Breakfast Club - Battle of the Doctors ( Dr. Steve Perry)

Episode Date: March 4, 2021

Today on the show we had Dr. Steve Perry call in where he challenged the comments Dr. Carl Hart said about Heroin use on The Breakfast Club last week. He also mentioned the definition of a addict and gives his thoughts on America building rehabilitation centers. Moreover, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to Creighton basketball coach who now apologizes after plantation analogy in post game conference. Also, Angela helped some listeners during "Ask Yee" and she nominated boxer Claressa Shields for her woman history segment. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The world's most dangerous morning show. We in the mother... We in the... The world's most dangerous morning show. Peanut, peanut, peanut. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo man. Feels like a Monday, but it's Thursday. This is how you figure that you're getting old, right? And I hate having these conversations. You're painting your beard. You're putting Gorilla Glue on it. You're putting shoe polish.

What else? Shout to Khaled. Shout to Calvin Hart. Shout to Rick Ross. Shout to Diddy. But anyway, so, you know, this is one of the, if you're in a relationship, right, and you get a text like this, your heart starts, it almost drops. So I wake up this morning and you get a text like this your heart starts it almost drops so i wake up this morning i get this text it is 12 32 a.m and i just felt the need to text you i'm like oh boy you you laying next to me in bed so when you get this text you're like oh boy right not me i'm clean i mean i'm clean too but you just never know ptsd yes right so she says uh i feel the need i need to text you because I don't want to wake you up.

I wanted to let you know that you are absolutely lighting the room up with your butt and the odor that I'm suffering through. It's almost impossible to bear. My daughter cooked last night and she cooked vegetables and quinoa and everything healthy. And, you know, when you eat that, sometimes you're a little gassy. A lot of fiber. Yeah. So I guess last night I tore the bedroom up and my wife couldn't sleep. and you know when you eat that sometimes you're a little gassy a lot of fiber yeah so i guess last night i tore the bedroom up and my wife couldn't sleep anything else you'd like to share

this morning any any any other oversharing you want to do i'm just i'm just letting you know i'm just fine thursday morning and no i'm not flirting with you i'm just telling you that of course you're not flirting with me because you didn't fart around me. I always say that. When a man farts around another man, you know what I mean? It's flirting because why would you want me to know how your butt smells? You know? But, you know, clearly you was letting those pheromones off for your wife last night. Trying to make another one, huh?

Yeah, she didn't. Shut up, man. She's got hip, man. Jesus Christ. She didn't appreciate it. She didn't appreciate it. Oh, come on, guys. I didn't appreciate getting farted on either because you under the covers.

That's that Dutch oven. Farting got nowhere to go. You act like I know. I was sleeping. Your wife got fart all over her skin this morning because of you. She sure does. She's going to wake up one of the kids and going to smell something funny and not want to be around mom and it's all daddy's fault.

Yeah, pretty much. Jesus Christ, man. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Good morning, everybody. How are y'all? How are y'all feeling? I'm going to start the show. Oh, yeah. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Good morning, everybody. How are y'all? How are y'all feeling? How are y'all starting the show?

Oh, yeah. You a little gassy? Huh? I'm good to go today. Okay. I don't have any issues. Dramos, you a little gassy? Anything?

I'm feeling all right. All right. Okay. Cool. You know, you guys are not the only ones that are a little gassy when you go to sleep. I am, too. Who are you talking to? Who are you talking to?

Who's the consoler right now? Exactly. Who are you talking to? Who are you talking to? Who are you just who's you guys? You guys. Jesus Christ. You guys. Sounds like you need a more steady diet of fiber. Who's on the show today?

That is a good question. Eddie, who's on the show? I think the doctor's talking through. Doctor, yeah. Dr. Steve Perry? Dr. Steve Perry. Dr. Steve Perry? Dr. Steve Perry. Dr. Steve Perry.

Dr. Steve Perry. No Lunell? Monday. Oh, Monday. What's going on? We're done. We're done. Usually we get a rundown.

I didn't get a rundown this morning. I don't know if you guys did. But yeah, Dr. Steve Perry will be joining us. A couple days ago, Dr. Carl Hart was on the program. And Dr. Carl Hart is a... He is... I don't want to... He's not an addict. But he talks about drug program and Dr. Carl Hart is he is he's not an addict but he talks about drug use and how he uses drugs you said he was an addict

when I spoke to you but anyway he talks about how he uses drug use he's a professor at Columbia University he's an American neuroscientist yes professor at Columbia University who researches drugs professor of neuroscience and psychology by the way so he researches drug abuse and drug addiction. Right, so he actually uses

the drugs to proclaim heroin use. To be able to write about it and talk about it and speak about it. So he uses... It helps his work life balance. It makes him happy, he says. Okay. Yes. Yeah, so we had a conversation with him earlier in the week and a couple of doctors wanted to talk about it. And Dr. Steve Perry is one of the

doctors that called up. He's been on The Breakfast Club before and wanted to talk about it. And Dr. Steve Perry is one of the doctors that called up. He's been on The Breakfast Club before and wanted to talk about some of the things he heard during that interview. A lot of people had mixed emotions. Some people were very upset that we had the doctor on. And some people said that Charlemagne and I were very close-minded when it came to that interview. Well, I mean, I don't think there's one right answer. But we talked to Dr. Steve Perry this morning. Correct. And let's get the show cracking. Front page news, what are we talking about?

Well, everybody wants to know where their stimulus checks are. We'll give you an update on when that next round of $1,400 stimulus checks are coming and who is eligible because now there's a new proposal. And some people are getting cut out. About 7 million fewer families will get that partial payment. All right. We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?

Here. What's up, Eric? What's up, Trav? Hey, Yee. What happened to Yee? She don't like you. She don't like you, bro. Her lips are moving, but you can't hear her. She don't like you like that, Yee. What happened to Yee? She don't like you. She don't like you, bro. She don't like that. Her lips are moving, but you can't hear her. She don't like you like that, Trav. What's up, Sha?

What's up, sis? How are you? I'm doing good. Okay. Hey, Trav. Hey. There you go. She fixed it.

What's up, Yee? Okay. Yes, I want to, um, one, Sha, listen, your book is $14. Stop having everybody call up there begging for your book and you just be giving it to them. They can go buy it. Yeah, but I sell a lot of books, so why can't I give some away as well? No, because everybody be calling up there begging for a book.

Not everybody. You got to give everybody one. Hey, man, it's all good, man. I just want people to get the information. I'm a New York Times bestselling author, national bestseller. I've been blessed. Hey, man. Yee.

Also, that caller that called in yesterday, the woman who was messing with the man that likes trans women and likes to, you know, mess with other men and get an oral. Mm-hmm. I told you, like, start telling these women, leave them type of men, yo. Don't nobody want no man who want a man.

Like, nobody wants a man that's cheating, period. Nobody wants no man who out here messing with other men and other trans women. Like, ladies, leave them alone. You don't have to settle, okay? You do not have to settle. Yes, yes, sir. But that's all I wanted.

All right, Trav. Call up here messing up people weekend. Don't nobody call up here and tell you who you can sleep with It's so funny cause somebody said I'm breaking up happy homes yesterday Hello who's this? Yo this is Nick from Michigan Nick from Michigan

Get it off your chest bro Man I just wanted to get on here and Shout out to all my artists from my city Man Ajax Stacks A-J-A-X Stacks on all social media platforms. He just

dropped a new video. And then I got a shout out Dosey, D-O-U-G-A- S-K-I. Both of them are making major moves. And, uh, can I spit for y'all real quick? Can you what? Can I rap for y'all real quick?

I mean, sure. Okay, go ahead. Alright, so I'm asking you with the first. Alright. Sharla, you know my name, but do you know my pain? Envy. You feel the vibe, but does it feel the same? No. Yeah. I only ask because these

niggas lame, and they keep talking about their neck like they run the game. And well, I've been a man. This ain't nothing changed. I got that crack these n****s lame. And they keep talking about their neck like they run the game. And, well, I've been a man. This ain't nothing changed. I got that crack. I bring it back. It's like a boomerang. Look, I'm hot, boy.

I feel like Lil Wayne. And people claiming that they made me, that's a little strange. Because the fact is, this is God's blueprint. I've been dope. There's no argument. I don't see no competition. Why are you crying? I stack my money to the ceiling.

That's common sense. You gotta feel that, right? The real is back. These niggas is whack. Slow nuts. Get off my s***. I excel where you often lack. I'm not talking apps when I tell you that I often snap. Yeah, listen, Envy, you got any more of them

that gas from last night? Yeah, I got a little bit. I got a little bit. I don't think you're bad. Let me take that. I don't think you're bad. You got like one of them workroom flows, like when you're on break and, you know, you kind of bored and you kind of pass the day after 8 o'clock. You're like, yo, spit something. You know what I mean?

But not like let's go to the studio and, you know. He'll stop it. Keep working. Keep working, bro. It ain't even about me, man. Look up them other two artists and just enjoy y'all day. I sent y'all some videos to your inbox. My Instagram is Mary with Children with two L's.

And just look it up, man. Gee, check your inbox. I sent you a few things, too. All right, King. Okay. I like your energy, though. I like the fact that you're supporting other people. All right, bro.

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club i'm telling i'm telling hey what you doing man i'm telling 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? Oh, good morning, Evan. Good morning, Chuck and man.

Good morning. Peace, King. Yeah, man. I'm going through it. I call you guys. I put you guys on my little avenue to vent sometimes. Yo, I was parked. I parked my car.

I went out with wifey on Saturday night. And early Sunday morning, somebody crashed into my car and told me, bro, why it was parked. That's horrible. Yeah, bro. And now, it's a car. I'm a person. I've tried a little different endeavors here and there. It was a car.

It was renting out for Uber or whatever. So now my little source of income is gone, and I got to go back to my nine-to-five grind. But the crazy thing about it is I asked my neighbor to let me see the cameras and he told me no. And his cameras are pointing like right towards my car. And he said his cameras are not for everybody.

He took my hand. So you think he hit you? I don't know how to feel about that. I don't think he hit me. He's a cop, actually. And his house is set up like a fortress. He's got like seven cameras

outside of his house. And I asked him, I said, yo, I know your cameras are pointing towards my car. He said, no. He said your cameras are pointing towards my college park. Can I see your cameras? He said no. Wow. Cameras is not for the community.

Cameras is just for him. Damn. Yeah, damn. It's exactly right. I don't know how to feel about that. I'm pretty defeated. That's selfish. Yeah, that's very selfish.

That is very selfish. Oh, he's protecting himself and protecting a friend that hits your car? Yeah, that's probably what he does. He's probably protecting a friend. I don't think so. You know what happens? Where I look at, they drag race a lot. A lot of the kids be going crazy stuff at night.

I don't think that's what's going on. Yeah, but he would have gave that up, too. You know what I mean? If you want to help a neighbor, you'd be like, oh, yeah, I'll help you, bro. But if it has something to do with him, he ain't helping. What if the cameras aren't real? That's true, too. The cameras are real, bro.

Just saying, it's a shot. His cameras are real. He's got like seven cameras outside his house. He's just derailed, bro. Just saying, it's a shot. He's camera derailed. He's got like seven cameras outside his house. He's just being selfish. When I ring the bell, he's like, what do you want? Like an old, grumpy old man. He's like, what do you want? Oh, yeah.

He one of those. He going to need you for something one day. I ain't go front. That's how old people do. How old is he? He's pretty old. Yeah, so that's how old people do too. Like, that's something my dad would do.

I can see my dad. Somebody ringing the door, but what do you want? Y'all want to use your camera. Go get your own. I could see my dad doing that at this age. He didn't even come to the door. He talked to me through the ring camera. He's like, what do you want? I'm like, oh man. Is he white or black?

I need some help. Yeah, he's black. I live on the floors. I don't know what that is. He's Canarsie, bro. Oh, Canarsie Queens. Okay. Queens and Canarsie Brooklyn. I was like, that that is. You're in Canarsie, bro. Oh, Canarsie, Queens. Okay. Queens in Canarsie, Brooklyn. I was like, that's in Brooklyn, sir. Canarsie, Brooklyn. Yeah, that is in Canarsie.

It's in Brooklyn. Come on, Angela. You know what the floor is. All right, good man. All right. Have a good one, bro. Good luck. All right.

All right, bye. Hello, who's this? Yo, it's Danny, man. Danny, man. What up, man? Get it off your chest. So I found out that my homeboy, which is my roommate, man? Get it off your chest. What's that got to do with you?

Yeah, why does that affect you? Unless y'all dating? He don't want your ass, man. Clearly, he don't, nah, nah. We're just at home. Like, what he thought to, like, pull a move on me? He don't want your ass, man. Clearly, he don't want you, sir. You're not a transgender woman. So why would he want you? Why would he be attracted to you, sir? I mean, ain't that kind of, don't that mean he gay?

No, first of all, does every woman, right, who is heterosexual want you? Right. So just somebody's gay doesn't mean they don't want you. Why are you worried about that, bro? He doesn't have to do with anything. It just makes me feel kind of awkward. Like, I don't know. Let me ask you a question.

He might not even be, yeah, he's probably not even attracted to you. Has he ever made you feel like he was hitting on you or something? No, but like the crazy part, he don't know that I know this. I found out. Well, mind your goddamn business. Sound like he don't know that I know this. I found out. Well, mind your goddamn business. Sound like you want him to holler at you. That's what it sound like. Would you be upset if he didn't holler at you?

That's what it sound like. A little jealous maybe? Yep. Hey, not really, but hey, like, it's still real. Mind your damn business, man. He's jealous. Okay? Let that man live.

All right, all right. I appreciate y'all, man. I love you. Love you too, King. But damn, that man live. All right. I appreciate that, man. I love you. Love you too, King. But damn, that man don't be walking up on you. Yeah, all of a sudden, because he dates trans women, he think he wants you. What does that have to do with anything? It was just kind of weird.

I just wanted to get that out. He probably find it weird when you bring chicks back. He probably find that weird. He ain't never ask you about none of the chicks you bring to the room because you ain't got none. You trying to play me, though? No. No, we just talking the truth. Man, all right.

You know it. You know it. You know that phone dry. You know them DMs empty. Come on now. Man, be quiet, man. Ah! Been a rough few months.

Hey, you need to call Kevin Samuel. Figure out why you ain't got no ladies, man. I love y'all. Love you too, brother. All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got rumors on the way?

Yes. And I'm excited about this Janet Jackson documentary in the works. Alright, we'll get into that next. 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's 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 Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I create 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. 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 iheart radio 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. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Janet Jackson is getting a two-night documentary event, and that is going to be on Lifetime and A&E. That should be really, really dope. I can't wait to see that.

They said this filming on Janet has been underway for three years. It's going to follow Janet as her family is going through the loss of her father, who was the patriarch of the Jackson dynasty. He passed in 2018. She gave the producers exclusive access to archival footage and never before seen home videos. I know Lifetime and A&E are under the same umbrella, but I just feel like Janet Jackson doc

seemed like it should be bigger than that. Yeah, I think so too. Well, it's a two night, four hour documentary event, so I'm excited to see it. Two night four hour documentary, yeah. I mean, listen, I'm all I'm here for that. I just, I don't know. I feel like it should be bigger, but whatever. I'm gonna watch watch all right in addition to that janet let's talk about janet that was on the fresh prince of bel-air now she recently did an interview with

chris witherspoon's pop viewers and she shared that she considered taking her life after exiting from the fresh prince of bel-air here's what she had to say. So I not only had a house, a mortgage, a husband who wasn't working at the time, but I also had a business and a baby, an infant who needed me desperately. He saved me, my son, because I knew I had to take care of that little boy. And Fresh Prince had not gone into syndication yet. It was hard. There were moments where i felt so broken there were moments where i wanted to die suicide absolutely you know i saw that yesterday and i saw folks uh in the comments telling her to move on telling her to get over it that's not how trauma works people all right healing is not at all healing is not a linear process you could be fine in some cases and then something triggers you you know years down the line it months down

the line and you have to let it go all over again so let that woman vent man plus i feel like for so long nobody was even bothering to listen that's very true and just recently even will smith had to sit down with her so i'm sure that brought her some type of, okay. For the moment. Yeah, for the moment. But I'm sure that also renewed people being like, okay, maybe this is something we should pay attention to now because they really weren't before. Yeah. All right. Now, Tiger Woods, the search warrant of his car is based on possible evidence of reckless driving. They did get a search warrant to get the black box that's in the vehicle. A judge believed there is probable cause that a crime may have been committed and they said the possible offense is misdemeanor reckless driving there's a black box in cars too i guess the newer cars my dad i

asked my dad that yesterday i didn't know that but he was like in certain cars they tell you how aggressive you drive if you aggressively you know accelerate aggressively brake or how fast that you're going you know if you yeah i break or how fast that you're going. You know, if you... Yeah, I do remember hearing something like that because they can tell, like, if you get into an accident and you was texting, they can tell if you was texting beforehand. I thought they were just looking at your phone to see that you let a tweet fire off.

No, I don't think they could see if you're texting, but I'm sure they got to look on your phone to see if the accident happened the same time you were texting. Your car can't tell you, hey, he's texting right now unless you're, you know, connected to Bluetooth or something. I don't know, bro. Them new cars are different. Remember how Knight Rider used to seem so advanced? Now Kit seems like a goddamn

go-kart. Turbo boost can't happen right now. Sheesh. Yes, you can turbo boost right now. You can jump over things? No, you can't jump over things. They got cars with all types of turbo. I'm trying to tell you. I don't know, bro.

They do have cars that drive themselves like Kit used to do. That's right. Yes, they do. And talk. All right. Now, Mariah Carey's brother is now suing her for defamation. That's over claims that were made in her memoir. He says that his reputation was damaged when Mariah wrote of an alleged fight that he had with his father and that

she hinted that he was violent towards their mother. And he also highlighted a passage in the book that says it took 12 cops to pull my brother and father apart the big bodies of men all entangled like a swirling hurricane crashed loudly into the living room i was a little girl with very few memories of a big brother who protected me more often i felt i had to protect myself from him and sometimes i would find myself protecting my mother from him too yeah i don't know if your reputation was damaged sir but if it makes you feel any better I didn't even know Mariah Carey had a brother until just now

yeah me neither didn't even hear about this I'm hearing so many of brothers and sisters suing their brother suing their parents I can never imagine maybe because I'm an only child but I couldn't sue my brother well you guys got brothers and sisters you think your brother would sue you or sister would sue you?

Yeah, especially if you ain't never gayed him nothing. If you ain't never kicked no money out to them or if you did kick out some money and they don't feel like it was enough, but they see you out here balling, of course they would. Well, according to Mariah's estranged brother, Morgan, he says that that made him sound like a violent

person. He said he never fought with his dad when Mariah was a kid. And there's no way a dozen cops would be handling a domestic violence situation anyway. In addition for damages for defamation, he's also suing for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Now, you know, her sister's also suing her. She got a sister too? Yeah, Allison. Mariah seems like an only child.

I got to read this book. So now her sister, and this happened, you know, a couple months ago, but she's seeking $1.25 million in damages for the infliction of immense emotional distress caused by defendants' heartless, vicious, vindictive, despicable, and totally unnecessary public humiliation of a defendant's already profoundly damaged older sister. You can sue for that? Defamation.

I'm suing Charlemagne because he does all that that you said in that whole little sentence he does to me. It's crazy. Well, according to Mariah Carey, in her book, she said that her sister drugged her, put her in vulnerable situations with older men, and threw boiling hot tea on her when she was only 12 years old. Jesus Christ. Jesus. Lord have mercy.

And she did accuse her of attempted sex trafficking as well. And her sister, Allison, is eight years older than her. I said all that in her book? I'm going to go read this book. Yeah, I think I'm going to read the book. Alright, well, that is your rumor report. I did not know she had siblings, though. You can't tell me Mariah don't act like a holy child.

Yeah, I mean, she does. Well, she's estranged from them, so I don't think she's very close with them, clearly. How's a Debbie Downer? Damn. All right. I get it. Well, you're going to get the book.

Yeah, just because you're family don't mean that you're family. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's not always about blood. Like, sometimes it's about principles and energy and spirit. You know, if your principles and energy and spirit don't align with a person,

even if that's your blood, hey, man, it is what it is. You can't choose your family. You can choose what it is. You can't choose your family. You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. That's a fact. We got front pages. When we come back, we'll be talking about. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he is not planning to resign

even though some people are calling for him to resign and he has answered these allegations from women who are accusing him of sexual harassment. Alright, we'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Where are we starting, Yeezy? Well, Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York has said that he did not know that he was making women uncomfortable. And he's explaining himself after at least three women so far have come forward with allegations of sexual harassment. I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable.

It was unintentional, and I truly and deeply apologize for it. I never touched anyone inappropriately. I never knew at the time that I was making anyone feel uncomfortable. And I certainly never, ever meant to offend anyone or cause anyone any pain. Now, as far as whether or not he plans to step down, as some people are calling for, here's what he had to say. I'm not going to resign. I work for the people of the state of New York. They elected me, and I'm going to serve the people of the state of New York. And by the way, we have a full plate. We have COVID. We have rebuilding. We have to do vaccines. So, no, I'm going to do the job the people of the state elected

me to do. Yeah, I really want to know how they decide who they want to resign and not like it is very hard to call for Andrew Cuomo to resign if you voted and supported Joe Biden. Like I voted for Joe Biden, you know, but President Biden had more serious accusations leveled against him than Cuomo. When it was people telling Joe Biden to drop out of the race, he didn't. That was true. He apologized and he pledged to respect women's personal space.

He denied the rape allegations and he kept it moving. So I just want to know what's the difference with Cuomo? Like, why is Cuomo being after his eyes? And it's interesting that right now there's a mayoral race going on in New York City. And so some mayors have aligned themselves with the governor and now they're having to kind of step back and not do that

at this time. So we'll see how that plays out. And what about the nursing home story with Cuomo? That just went away. It's like the media forgot about those old people the way Cuomo did. Oh yeah, and that's something that's still under investigation too. They're doing an independent investigation on that as well.

It's just not being talked about as much right now. Now, as far as the woman that there was the picture of him grabbing her face and she says that he kissed her on the cheek and he made an unwanted advance toward her and a wretch that was in 2019 at a wedding, Cuomo

did say that it's a customary way of greeting for him, you know, where you kiss people on the cheek. And he did apologize for that as well. But he said he's not ashamed of anything he's done in public life. He said, you can find hundreds of pictures of me making the same gesture with hundreds of people, women, men, children, et cetera. So we'll see how this all plays out. That is, yeah. I mean, you know

some people do do that. Like, they kiss you on both cheeks, and I feel like, you know, Italians. That's another Italian thing. Yeah, so I don't know. But it could be awkward. So now I'm sure moving forward, people got to think twice about doing things like that. Alright, now let's talk about the Toronto Raptors.

They had to face the detroit pistons last night and unfortunately for them they had a skeleton roster apparently there was a covid 19 outbreak and they said that was caused by the coaches bad mask etiquette so apparently some of the um some of the positive tests over the last week they said it was an internal spread of the virus and that's from inconsistent mask wearing from the coaching staff members. And they couldn't find anybody to fill those Raptors spots. Drake didn't want to suit up. Drake could have

went out there and ran a couple minutes for the Raptors. Bieber plays a little basketball. I don't think Bieber stays in Toronto, though. All right. Well, a lot of those people who were sidelined yesterday will not be expected back for the next game against the Boston Celtics.

And that is your front page news. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Now, earlier this week, we had Dr. Carl Hart on. Last week. It was last week we had Dr. Carl Hart on. And Dr. Carl Hart, what is his profession? I know he's a doctor. He's a professor at Columbia University, but he is a neuroscientist. He is a neuroscientist and psychologist, and he studies the behavior and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs in humans. That's correct. So he's a professor at Columbia University. Yes. Now, he just doesn't talk about it. He actually uses the drugs, I guess, to be thorough with his investigation and be thorough with his reports. He's a research scientist. So. But he also said he does it for his work life balance.

He said there's nothing he enjoys more than sitting by the fireplace and doing a line of heroin. That's right. Well, Dr. Steve Perry will be joining us this morning. He heard that interview and had some things to say about it. All right. So we're going to talk to him when we come back. So don't move. 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's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete.

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line this morning. Yes, indeed. The brother, Dr. Steve Perry. Welcome. Hey, blood. How y'all been? We're doing pretty good, man.

How you been, bro? Having the time of my life. Hey, Dr. Steve, for anybody who, you know, may not know who you are, tell them who you are real quick. Well, I think what's most important is that I'm the cat who runs schools, starts schools in the hood. Been doing that for 20 years. Many of them know me, quite frankly, because of the interview I did on Breakfast Club

with Puff, who we start schools together now in New York and more specifically in Harlem and the Bronx. We just opened up a new school in Co-op City in the Bronx. Super excited about that. Absolutely. I wanted to talk to you Steve, because we spoke last week after Dr. Carhartt was up here, the good brother, Dr. Carhart, and you had a perspective you wanted to share. Another side, so to speak.

For those of you who don't know who Carhart is, he's a doctor who wants to decriminalize drugs, as we all do, because people shouldn't go to jail for addiction. And he's also a person who chooses to do heroin recreationally and says that we all can do that too if done safely what do you think about that dr perry so so context is everything

right first of all the the interview that you guys did was breathtaking like much respect to you that was just so compelling i was that's really why charlamagne and i even spoke i just just dropped him lines that that was amazing um he's clearly deeply credentialed and and much respected in his field he talks about how he grew up in miami and and the like and that's cool too and growing up poor and being black seems like they go together like ham and eggs so that all is there. But the context that he operates in is a overwhelmingly wealthy, white, highly educated environment. For me, I work and live in the hood. I run schools. I start schools. You don't go to the career. We have a school in Bridgeport, an elementary school in Bridgeport. A hundred yards away from our school is a meth clinic. A hundred yards. A hundred yards. So every single morning, like right now, I can say I'm in Bridgeport today.

I can see the line forming in freezing cold outside for people trying to deal with their addiction. When he speaks of moralistic impressions of drugs, I get where he's trying to go. And again, much respect to him for having a different perspective. But he's speaking to a different audience. He's speaking to a wealthy, upper middle class, white, and other group of people who have access to health care, mental health care supports, as well as a family structure, unlike many of the children and families that I work with who don't get to try heroin, who don't get to do it in a controlled environment. It's not just a moralistic difference that he and I see. It's a functional difference. There are parts of the conversation that are left

out when he's talking about the difference between the way we look at drugs and the way we look at uh illegal uh uh drugs for instance in order for a child to be put on any sort of ritalin or the like there's an entire evaluation process that begins at the school level with observing the child's behavior having meetings with the parents having meeting with social work i mean psychiatr psychologists, and then the physician. And then after that, it's monitored. And then that drug that he uses has been created in a laboratory under the most controlled conditions that we know under the greatest umbrella of science that we're aware of. It's not created in a crack house by a high school dropout who didn't do well in chemistry, who's put anything that she or he can into this drug to make more money, to make it more addictive. So to compare the two is to me

contextually off and therefore doesn't make sense in its real application. So I want to say this because I was trying to have an open mind and I have seen him on the documentary on Netflix crack. And then I also read a lot of his book. I don't think he's saying, yes, use drugs. It's good for you. I think what he's saying is that people are using drugs. There's 30 million people in this world that use drugs. As much as we've done this, drugs are bad. We know that we've heard that so much, right? People are still doing it. So how do you make sure that they're not embarrassed to come out and say yes this is what i'm doing and i need to seek help if they need to seek help for that

that's how some of the message that i was getting from him was and i don't hear him saying use drugs and quite frankly i don't think he or anybody has that kind of juice that they can get on a radio and tell people to do something they just all start changing their life to do it. That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is drugs are bad. And one of the reasons why we work so hard to control these substances is because we understand the implications of them when they are uncontrolled.

We understand how they run, they ravage not just the body of a person, but a body of a community. And when you do what I do, which is work among some of the poorest children ravage not just the body of a person, but a body of a community. And when you do what I do, which is work among some of the poorest children in the country, you don't have the time to talk about the intricacies of the nuances of if you just use shrooms versus using some other form of psych. I mean, this is all we have. When I'm talking to my kids, when I'm in the Bronx, if I were to stand in front of my parents and say,

okay, I want to talk to y'all about how you can use drugs effectively, they could actually, they look at me like I lost my time. And they should. They also compare it to like prohibition, right? When liquor was illegal and how harmful that was because then it was toxic. People were bootleggers were making anything and people were actually dying from drinking liquor. So they ended up having to regulate it because people were drinking and

liquor is not good for you either. You know, that's a joke. I think what he's talking about is regulating things so that less people are dying from toxic substances because most people that overdose is because they've taken something that they don't know what it is. The majority of people or it's also a combination, right? They've taken these drugs and mix them with other sedatives. Now, doctor, all true. Let me ask you a question, doctor. You heard the interview. I believe you heard the interview in full.

He didn't say do drugs. He didn't say, I want you to go out there and do drugs. My problem was, is he was comparing it and making it seem like the drug use was OK. You know, he compared it to having an orgasm right which which is wild then he compared it to uh how do you put it oh yeah no i know a lot of people that that use heroin as recreation or you know every once in a while but my whole purpose is yeah you even though you're not saying go use drugs but in my opinion you making it seem like it's okay again this is not a nuanced conversation it's a context conversation he can have a conversation at columbia university with

wealthy white and asian kids from all over the world about how they should or think could think about drug use and he can have that conversation there i spent the last year of my career, with the exception of 10 months that I did at Yees College, working in the poorest communities. And so most specifically running a homeless shelter. And I see firsthand what happens when we do allow drugs to be used. And one of the things that's super important is there's a certain laziness, if we're going to be really frank, about going to drugs instead of going to counseling, instead of going to create an opportunity for yourself. And I say laziness not as an indictment, but as an honest expression of there are other ways for us to address some of the issues, the underpinnings that we're having. I'm not going to give him that much credit or power to say that he can make people get on or off drugs. But what I can say, and I can also say that the argument, for instance, around prohibition, that because it was prohibited, more people use it. I don't know if that's true, but I do know

this. Not that more people use it. More people died. And one could argue that. Again, I don't know. I don't know that. But what I do know is this. There are more people who die of alcoholism than opioid addiction. I do know that. And alcohol is legal. And I can go one step further that during COVID, when everything was shut down, the package stores were open because it was seen as an essential service. So I am not going to sit here and suggest that there is not something to be

said about the way in which we treat substances. All right, well, don't move. We got more with Dr. Steve Perry. When we come back, 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 steve perry yee suggestion wise right because people are still using drugs that are illegal how do you prevent that from happening and how do you prevent people from dying from that and how do you prevent people from buying drugs off the street very big question i think you know one of the many reasons why I'm a huge fan of the work that you guys do, there's no simple answers to that. No one person knows that, including me.

What I do, so can I just answer what I do? What I do is create academic experiences that respect Black and Latin people in our communities and show them that they're beautiful and powerful and that they don't need to go that route. I show them that there's a future for them beyond these circumstances and they don't have to allow the unearned disadvantages that they have to be compounded by adding additional disadvantages of drugs to their life. I show them that there's something more powerful in their brain that they can develop than putting something in their body to take them to an altered state. That's my contribution to the conversation. In addition to that, we create schools within which we understand that mental health is not something that is separate and apart, but embedded in the academic experience, that we understand that growing up Black and poor is the most traumatic social

experience that we have in the United States of America, that is only worsened by other traumas, but at its base is itself a trauma. So what we do is that other people, when I was running the homeless shelter, what I might've said is that I want mental health support in a context where people can gain access to it earlier and cheaper. If I were working in another setting, if I were working in a hospital setting, I might want to put in place some sort of detox opportunity. So depending upon what someone does in my lane, in my context, what I do, it means putting myself out there in our community with our team of mainly black and Latin people to start our own schools, to start the revolution that needs to happen, the power that needs to happen, because at the root of every revolution is education for me. What do you think, Dr. Perry? What do you think about Dr. Carhart's comments

that we have exaggerated the impact of hard drugs in America? I think he's wrong. I just fundamentally think he's wrong. You don't need 100% of your hood to be slinging in order for your entire community to be jacked up. You just need like five or six dudes on one block terrorizing the entirety of the community as they try to run the block. You don't need everybody to be in that space.

The threat that they offer in their attempt to address whatever it is that they're dealing with is actual, is real. And so, again, at Columbia University, maybe it's not that big a deal. Maybe it's not. But in Harlem, where I work, he works at Columbia. I work in Harlem. They're in the same place, but they might as well be on different planets. But I work. Drugs are really a big deal. And they're the reason why in so many cases, some of my teachers can't walk to their cars without somebody following them.

It's the reason why so many of my kids are afraid. I can't tell you how many kids we're supposed to have as a New York, as a public school in New York, charter schools and public schools. As a public school in New York, we're supposed to have a zero tolerance. So if a kid brings a knife into the school, brings some other weapon into the school, I'm supposed to expel them. Like just straight up. It's just the whole story. I can't tell you how many times I have to work through that in my own conscious. When I when I have a child who I know has a weapon on them. They're not bringing it to the school to cause harm to the school. They're just trying to get to school. And I have to ask myself, when I carried a weapon, was I carrying it to hurt somebody in school? Was I just carrying it to get from my house

to my school? So what stood in between me and my school were not poppy seeds. It was crack. When he's talking about that the crack epidemic was overblown. Come on, bro. Over my who? Like what's over? Over then what? Like, what does that mean? I don't know how what he saw. And again, I can't speak to what he saw in his context. I can only talk about what I saw when I was in Philadelphia, when I was working out in Philadelphia and North Philly. And when I was in the bottoms in Philly called the bottoms and what it looked like. And I can tell him what it was this morning when I went to visit our elementary school. And it looks like zombies walking by. I don't know what he sees when he

goes to his job. I just know what I see when I go to my job and I don't want people using drugs. Call me a square. I'll be a square all day. I'm cool with that. I'll be your square. Just to talk about how he explained it though. I think what Dr. Carhart was saying was that the issue is deeper than drugs, right? It is the communities, the people that are underemployed or unemployed, people dealing with anxiety and with depression, and then they're buying drugs off the street to try to treat that, not knowing what's in these drugs also.

And then also I think a difference in how people look at white people who use drugs and how they look at black people who use drugs, because white people use drugs too, right? And people who are middle class and wealthy use drugs and how they look at black people who use drugs because white people use drugs too right and people who are middle class and wealthy use drugs also but they're not looked at the same way as criminals and as addicts the way that black people are all true there is nothing that black people do other than make music and play and play games where when we do it people think we're cooler at it like let's just call that it. Like, let's just call that

what it is, right? Let's just name that for what it is. But that's okay with me. I don't, I'm cool with the fact that I don't want African-Americans and Latin people to be elevated in our drug use. I'm okay with that. Like, I'm okay that that's not a thing. Every issue that we face is compounded by drug use. Every issue. If racism is an issue, add drugs to it. It is possible to say both are true, meaning that there is racism and we should not be doing anything to in any way justify drug use. I mean, I'm not a fan of Nancy Reagan either or her husband. Let's just call it what it is. When I was growing up, he said that ketchup was a vegetable. So I'm not okay with that. And that actually impacted me because I was one of those poor kids whose lunches got that. I'm all there for that. But what I also want to make it clear is that I'm not going to draw false equivalents.

And Charlamagne made this point. You can't keep drawing these false equivalents. Like, it's not the same. It is different. Here's one of the many places that he and I can completely, violently agree.

It's different to be black. Even light-skinned with curly hair black. It's different. All right, well, don't move. We got more with Dr. Steve Perry when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. agree it's different to be black even light skin with curly hair black it's different all right well don't move we got more with dr steve perry when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with dr steve perry for somebody who's seen close up close and personal somebody who has od'd and

died you know two people in my family when i When I go to these homes and I purchase these effed up cribs and I see heroin addicts in the house and strung out and I have these conversations because you got to ask them to leave, you know, and I ask them, you know, how? And like you said, a lot of them come from wealthy families and they can't kick it. And they tried it one time and they're stuck. And it's not like, okay, I can give up.

No, it's they need that hit. And when he was and it's not like okay i can give up no it's they need that hit and when he was talking about orgasm is the same i'm like i ain't never seen nobody pulling a tv to for some sex you know i mean no i never seen nobody you know rob their grandmama's purse for for some sex or hurt somebody for for some some some vagina i never but i mean i've seen it all the time for heroin and crack and coke and all a lot of other these things that people are strung off of. So I want to say that it's OK and that you can do it recreational like that is just crazy to me. I just think that conversation is interesting because a lot of things we've tried haven't worked. And so I'm open minded to because he's done like 25 years of research on this right and has changed

his own viewpoint based on the research that he's done and not saying yes it's okay to do drugs but like for instance and this is for adults not for kids by the way and he always stresses that he's not saying that kids can make these determinations but he's saying that responsible adults who are you know take care of all their responsibilities. No. Like, for instance, if I do shrooms, I'm not going to do a huge bag of shrooms. I know just take a little bit. Or if you do edibles, you know, I'm not going to eat 20 edibles. That's not heroin, though. You're going to have a little bit. So what he's saying is people can make that because he did the micro dosing or whatever.

And listen, I'm never trying heroin. I can tell you that. That's not going on. But he is though. That's right. And he has. And he has tried it. But what he's saying is there's more people that don't get addicted than do. Which is not true.

But I'm just telling you what his argument is because I don't know. I haven't studied it to have my own firsthand information. And just because I was reading it, so I try to look at it from both sides, right? It hasn't worked to say, just say no to drugs. It hasn't worked to say, well, you need to go to rehab and you need to get treatment. So he wants to make sure that people will still be alive. If that's the choice that they're making to do it, how do you do it in a more responsible way so you don't die? Just like people have the needle exchange program

where they trade in their dirty needles to get clean ones i don't know i don't know what the real answer is but i'm just looking at it like a lot of things haven't worked i agree with all that but you know i would i would push back and say we haven't tried hard enough you know what i mean because we still send people with addiction to prison instead of getting them rehabilitation so so i would ask you dr perry do you think we'll ever get to that point in this country where we'll move to complete rehabilitation instead of prison when it comes to nonviolent drug offenses? As long as the offenders are black and Latin and poor, no. The short answer to that is the people who generationally have enslaved us are likely not going to change their wicked ways,

if we're just going to be frank about that. But that doesn't mean that we can't do something. I go back to what Envy was just saying. If you've never visited a house that is a cracked den, that is a place where people are living as squatters, if you've never walked in to experience that stench, and it is a stench. It's a vomit inducing stench. If you've never seen that, then I can completely understand why you might be able to have an esoteric conversation about it. Like you might be able to talk about changing things around the edges. I get that. I completely get that. But once you have done that and you've gone in there and seen not just stray dogs in there, but children who are being treated no differently than the stray dog. Then you start to see, you know what, this thing that we thought

was a victimless crime is actually not a victimless crime. Actually, people really are dying from this in a real way. So what that means to me, Charlemagne, and I go back to when you asked me the question, which I think is a fantastic question, what do I think? I think from my place, we have to create avenues where we are. So you, through your meetings, through your means and me through mine, we have to create our own. I'm not asking anybody to come in and solve the problems in my community. I just want everybody to be really crystal clear on that. Lest you hear anything other coming out of my mouth. I'm saying as a black man in my community, I'm not asking anybody to come in and solve this problem for me. I'm not doing that.

What I want to do is I want to put as many brothers and sisters together and allies who believe in what we believe to come in and get the work done. Even though we didn't get here by ourselves, we don't get out by by asking somebody to come in and undig this ditch that they put us in. That's not going to happen. I agree with you. And I agree with Dr. Carl Hart when he says we should decriminalize drugs, because I refuse to accept the fact that people should go to prison for addiction. But I just I just can't encourage people to do crack and heroin recreationally. I don't think the black black people are in any position to allow that type of rhetoric to go. And I don't think we should attempt to create safe spaces for folks to do hard drugs.

To your point, let's get them help help let's provide them with jobs and opportunities let's get let's provide them with better mental health resources you know let's teach them a trade so they can be more productive citizens because a lot of people man they turn to drugs because they're trying to escape their trauma yeah literally i mean they'll tell you i mean just just ask i'm sure envy when you're in those houses and you say man how did you get here i'll tell you a Just ask. I'm sure, Envy, when you're in those houses and you say, man, how did you get here? I'll tell you a really quick story. There was a cat at the shelter that I was at, that I was working at. And, you know, regular-looking white guy, right?

Like, you know, like you just see, like, regular-looking white guy. Like, whatever. Not losing, hadn't lost any teeth. He lost everything because of drugs and so i asked him how did you lose everything like he said well you know it just became a thing over time i worked to get high like i worked to get high and i had a small business what have you and so i said to him if i took you to alaska and dropped you off away from everybody, would that be what you need? He said no.

He said, I'd find a way to cop. He lost his kids. He lost his business. He lost his spouse. He lost his house. That doesn't happen, to your point earlier, Charlemagne, because you're trying to chase some tail. Ain't nobody losing everything because they're trying to get with some yeah

you ain't you ain't getting just because you're trying to get some behind you ain't losing everything behind that mess i don't care how cute i don't i don't think we can deny that drugs are really harmful and for a lot of people but do you think there are people who use drugs that can still function in society and work and be responsible 100 100 absolutely there are people who use drugs that can still function in society and work and be responsible 100 100 absolutely there are people who do things i mean look willie nelson has been high since we were kids right weed right so let's just stay there but he's functioning on a drug to the question of just a basic question can you be yeah absolutely the question becomes, what is the quality of life when that substance is controlling your movement? Right. It is. It's fantastically different when you do something and it is recreational.

Right. And you do it and you leave it and you go on back to it. That's fine. But for me, I watched the Tiger King and I watched them playing with those big cats. And then I watched the one person lose her arm. That's one arm for one person too many for me. That's good enough for me. Can you do drugs recreationally without being addicted? I can't because I've had substance abuse in my family. I think so. Is there a can you do something? Can you do drugs recreationally without being addicted? I can't because I've had I've had substance abuse in my family. I'm not that guy. I'm not testing fate.

I don't agree with him when he suggests that substance abuse doesn't run in the family. There's too much research that actually counters his point. And again, he is highly credentialed, highly respected. I'm not questioning his credentials or his opinion, but I also have an opinion as someone who works in this space on the other side. And on the other side, it is often the case, whether it's nature or nurture, I can't make the distinction. And honestly, I don't care. I don't care if the reason why this child is trying drugs is because drugs are in his house or if he's trying drugs because that's somehow his predisposition to do so. For me, it doesn't it doesn't matter at all. The thing that's crazy, like you mentioned, like he said, I'm a functioning addict. Right. But then he said he's not addicted. So what is the definition of an addict? According to what I know in working in the field, an addict is someone who needs this thing.

That doesn't mean that they miss activities. They may be very much at these activities. Correct. She may be dropping her children off in the Volvo at school every day. She may do that every day. And then as soon as she gets home, she goes and she uses a pill or she uses this drug or she sips the alcohol. Once it's part of your life and it's part of your coping, then it's an addiction. Not every person has to lose their teeth. Not every person has to lose their job. Not every person has to lose their family.

But you do lose your freedom. And that's an addict. An addict loses their freedom to determine whether or not they're going to use that substance or going to engage in that behavior. That's when you're addicted. Dr. Steve Perry, where can they find you? They go at Dr. Steve Perry on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. But the most important thing is sounds like a strange segue. Right now, our schools are open and we're super excited about that. We are accepting applications. They can go to wearecapitalprep.org. That's in Connecticut and New York. We love your listeners and your listeners are our parents. And we want your listeners and our parents to know

that we love your children. And we very badly want to be a part of their academic experience. And we want to teach them how to communicate through the trauma. We want to teach them to dream big because we send 100% of our graduates on the four-year colleges every single year since we opened in 2005. That's a school founded by black people for black and Latin people that's not going to stop just because

the system keeps pushing it and making it harder for us to do. Thank you so much. I love y'all. All right, man. This is Steve Perry. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Listen up. It's just in. All the gossip. Gossip.

The Rumor Report. Gossip. Gossip. With Angela. Angela Yee. It's the Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club. So Pharrell was on Naomi Campbell's web series, No Filter With Naomi.

And he shared with her that she was kind of the inspiration of this song by Gwen Stefani, Hollaback Girl. All right, that song was produced by the Neptunes, and it was a number one song. And here's what he said happened gwen and i have a song called holla back and that chorus came from a conversation you were telling you were telling somebody you ain't no holla back girl because of the song that we had with fabulous at a time called holla back you told somebody somebody was like trying to speak to you or whatever he was like i'm sorry i have a name like i'm notllaback girl. And I thought that was so amazing. Wow. Okay, so he took Naomi's

response to somebody and combined it with Fabulous's hollaback young. Yeah, because Naomi got that from the fast song. Yeah. That's dope. No, you're not.

So what if you do hollaback though? At some point you do holler back right no you might not come on now it made it seem like that dude was a peasant cause I ain't no holler back girl you little peasant but I'm saying at some point some man hollered and she did holler back so when you do holler back

does that make you a holler back girl are you just not a holler back girl in the moment are you just not a holler back girl period I feel like holler back is like when you're on the street and somebody hollats you. It's not necessarily the most respectful way. Oh, well, that's different. All right. Now, Kim Kardashian, they're saying, will reportedly get that Hidden Hills mansion when her and Kanye West are divorced.

And she has that house. She's been living there with their four children. You know, he's been in Wyoming. So I'm sure even though Kanye designed the mansion, other than that, he's not really that super connected to it. And most of her family members live less than a block away in the same neighborhood. So it makes sense, right? As they try to figure out these things, they have a lot of things to split up, but they both have a lot of money. So I'm sure financially it'll be okay. All right. Megan Thee Stallion.

She's in a new Calvin Klein ad campaign. She looks amazing, by the way. And she posted a hottie in my Calvins, the hot girl for Calvin Klein, spring 2021, Mario Sorrenti. She captioned the post like that. Did y'all see it? Yeah, I did. It's amazing.

That is it. Partisan. Yeah, she looks good. I'm proud of you. Partisan wrote luckiest man alive under the picture. I'm dropping a clue for Partisan Fontaine, I'm proud of you. Yeah, she looks good. I'm proud of you, Partisan. Partisan wrote, Partisan wrote, luckiest man alive under the picture. I'm dropping a clue for Partisan Fontaine. I'm proud of you.

Both of them. I'm glad they happy, man. Well, I'm okay. They're a very good looking couple. I'm proud of you, Partisan. In addition to that, Magda Stallion also just was featured on a Maroon 5 song.

They just put that out and the song is called Beautiful Mistakes. Who's Maroon 5? You know who Maroon 5 five is you stop it they're a big deal right yes they are a big deal who oh wait no it wasn't was it cardi this song chris martin chris martin is the lead singer of maroon five right i rock with you yeah i will say yeah yeah chris martin yeah i heard yeah i heard of them chris martin he's the guy. He runs Maroon 5. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Chris Martin.

All right. Now let's talk about Paige Kennedy. He's been on The Breakfast Club before. He has a new album out called Paige. And he's also on the Netflix series The Meg and an upcoming series called The Upshaws with Mike Epps. And he was on lip service recently. And I didn't know that you can get an STD without even having sex.

Here's what he said happened to him. But the first time I got burnt, I didn't even have sex. I literally was just basically dry humping this girl. She had her panties on. She wouldn't let me f***. I had my drawers on. And I guess her secretion through her panties and through my drawers is what caused it.

And that's the thing about it. That's not even the only time that that happened. I don't want to call everybody be safe out there. I'm not going to call him a liar. I'm not going to call him a liar, but you are a liar. And you've always been a liar. I'm not going to call him a liar. I'm just going to. And you've always been a liar. Why don't you believe that? I'm not going to call him a liar. I'm just going to say I'm not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary. I'm not the strongest Avenger. If any Dr. Strangers are out there, I would like to comment on my page and let me know if this guy is telling the truth.

Can you actually catch an STD without having sex? Bro, please inform me. He said it twice. He said he caught it twice. No, he just said it's not the only time. I don't know how many. I thought sexually transmitted diseases had to be transmitted through sex. But I guess if there's some secretions, if there's some secretions, right?

I'm not listening to y'all. Y'all not doctors. You can still, if her secretions. I don't sound right. You sound like a lie. He told his girlfriend. You guys have. I sound like he's just making content for the podcast.

I'm not listening to y'all. I need to talk to the doctor. Doctor, doctor, paging doctors. I need to talk to you. Let me know. I sound like he's just making content for the podcast. I'm not listening to y'all. I need to talk to the doctor. Doctor, doctor, paging doctors. I need to talk to you. Let me know. Sounds crazy. That's true. I just want to know for personal reasons.

But be careful. Everybody out there dry humping thinking they doing something. Nothing really. It could maybe happen. I don't know. All right. Well, that is your rumor report.

All right. I will almost bet money nobody's ever gotten an STD from dry humping. He did? All right, D. No way. I'm going to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn soon, bro. Just give me a minute.

Give me a minute. I'm going to sell a bridge in Brooklyn soon. Who you giving the doggy to, man? Four after the hour, we need Greg McDermott, the head coach for the Creighton University. I don't know what their mascot is. We need him to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him.

It's a teachable moment for white people. All right, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. 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, 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. Well, why can't I trade my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong?

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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 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. This don't be a donkey, because right now you want some real donkeys. It's time for donkey of the day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey, man, hit me with the heat. Did she get donkey in the name, please, Deli?

Absolutely. I have become donkey of the day it's a breakfast club bitches you're a donkey yes donkey today for thursday march 4th god damn it it's march already it's march 4th lord have mercy donkey today for thursday march 4th goes to greg mcdermott now who is greg mcdermott uh he is the head basketball coach at creighton university he's coached there for 11 years, and if I'm not mistaken, he's the reigning Big East coach of the year. Now, for the past few years, we've been in a reckoning in this country.

Okay, the old ways of this world don't serve us anymore. I mean, they never did, but the power structure was such that none of this stuff was truly challenged. Therefore, it was never changed. Okay, women are holding men accountable for, you know, their sexism and misogyny and LGBT community is holding men accountable for, you know, their sexism and misogyny and LGBT community is holding people accountable for, you know, their homophobia and transphobia. And black

people are holding America accountable for white supremacy. Beautiful things. OK, listen, things have been one way for so long that a lot of our behaviors come from our unconscious mind. Unconscious mind, as far as I know, stem from sigmund freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality and the unconscious mind is defined as a reservoir of feelings okay thoughts urges and memories that are outside of conscious awareness okay sigmund freud believed that the unconscious uh continues to influence behavior even though people are unaware of you know their underlying influences so america has been one way for so long and we've been influenced by this, whether we know it or not.

So our language, our behavior, it's usually a reflection of the systems that we have been a part of. And if you're honest with yourself, man, oh man, have we been taught wrong? Okay. So we have all had to unlearn certain things and that's great. It's great. We all make mistakes. It's how you respond to the correction that shows the level of your character.

There is a reason why you do what you do. And it's an important day in your life experience when you discover that reason. I'm bringing all this up because Greg McDermott made a mistake, a mistake made because of years of conditioning. He's 56 years old, 56 year old white man coaching an NCAA Division one basketball team with about seven black basketball players, okay? One black assistant head coach. Might even be more black players on the team. A lot of them look real miscellaneous in the face, so I don't know. I'm not throwing him any bail at all because he should absolutely know better,

but I believe his unconscious mind told him to say this. Let's go to Keyshawn J. Will and Zubin's show on ESPN for the report, please. Creighton's head coach Greg McDermott's fielding some questions about some comments that he made following a loss to Xavier last Saturday. This is McDermott telling the team, quote, guys, we got to stick together. We need both feet in. I need everybody to stay on the plantation. I can't have anybody leave the plantation. McDermott did say he, quote, immediately after saying those words, immediately recognized my egregious mistake and quickly addressed my use of such insensitive words with my team. The university put out a statement saying that their basketball coach used a term that was, quote, deplorable. And if you're wondering, for one member of the team, Terrence Rencher, who is a black assistant coach, said he was, quote, deeply hurt by McDermott's words.

Do we have Homer Simpson? Where's Homer Simpson? Oh, we don't have Homer? Where's Homer when you need him? Now, if there's the top three things not to say to black people, one being the N-word. OK, three, anything negative about Beyonce, then two, got to be any reference to slavery. OK, the plantation, you being our master, I shouldn't even have to explain to you the generational trauma attached to slave plantation references. But what I like even more about this situation or what I like about this situation is that it is a teachable moment. OK, it's a teachable moment for all white people. Of course, you know not to say this now. Or maybe you don't. But remember what i said earlier about how we all make mistakes and how you respond to correction that shows the level of your character listen to greg mcdermott apologize i made an awful mistake and when you make a mistake sometimes you you're

not only disappointed in yourself but the pain that i caused our players who look to me as a mentor and as a leader the pain that I saw in their eyes was immense. That's where my disappointment is in myself, is that what I've done to some young people that I love very much. So that's a cross that I'm going to have to bear. I'm going to come out of this a better person because of it, but it's going to be a process have some more conversations which we need to have so that i can help them and and they can help me now you know

how you know that's real because he isn't being threatened he didn't lose anything there's no threat of losing anything okay he apologized all right now i'm sure they asked him to apologize but that seemed very sincere and self-correction is important. OK, see, self-correction. Some of y'all white people fighting the changes. OK, y'all still trying to hold on to the old way of doing things. Greg didn't make any excuses. He didn't start that silly white victimhood nonsense.

He didn't say white people are being targeted. He acknowledged he did something wrong and he corrected himself. That is how you make the world a better place. Michael Joseph Jackson said, if you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that change. So when someone calls you on your behavior, tells you that something you are doing isn't right. Don't fight it. Just make that damn change. OK, self-correction is the biggest social service. Also, this man, Greg McDermott, offered to resign.

OK, he offered to resign and his players said, no, we don't want him to resign. We made a mistake. I don't I don't think he should resign either. He just made a mistake. He should be held accountable and he should change and he should use his privilege moving forward. The correct other Caucasians. I want someone of his character being the master of other white folks. And he has a great lesson to teach his players now. See, everybody thinks mistakes are the first steps to success, but the real fact is the correction of mistakes is the first steps to success. Learn that, you will manifest a better life for yourself and others. Please give Greg McDermott 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. All right. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Yes, ma'am. Up next, ask Yee. 800-585-1051 if you

need relationship advice or any type of advice call ye now it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club need relationship advice need personal advice just need real advice call up now for ask ye hey it's two of y'all on the line right now this is for ask ye you guys have similar problems so ye's gonna try to bust it both down for both of y'all all right okay okay so who's going first i guess i'll go first let's have a conversation okay so this is where where i'm at me and my boyfriend we've been together i'm 28 um and we've been together since I was 13 years old. We have three children together.

But he has a drinking problem, and this drinking problem has developed, you know, maybe about seven years ago. And at that time, you know, our son, you know, he was injured in a car accident, and he had a traumatic brain injury. And, of course, those type of wounds take a long time to heal. I'm still dealing with it myself. And, you know, for the most part, you know, he's been, it was bad, then it got good, then it got bad again. And now it's like really bad again. So my question is, you know, at this point, you know, and it got so bad to the point, well, let me back up and say, it got so bad to the point that he drove me in to become an alcoholic as well. But last year I took it upon myself to change my life.

I don't drink anymore. You know, I don't, I used to smoke cigarettes, nasty habit, you know, but I don't smoke. It's been a year since I've smoked cigarettes, a year since I've drank liquor or whatever. And I realized, you know, that we were going down a dark path. So now I've been trying to lead by example, you know? So basically what,

now that I've changed and he doesn't want to change i'm at this place where i'm like do i leave him you know to um so you don't be so he's not so he's not taking me back or you know because i've always been you know a hustler you know i am the breadwinner of the family you know and i never let him know that or anything like that but you know i feel like with him you know having this problem never let him know that or anything like that. But, you know, I feel like with him, you know, having this problem, he's dragging me down. Yeah, that's scary. Well, my situation is pretty much the same either. I'm just not a drinker myself, but my husband, he's been drinking in and out of the hospital

for pancreatitis for like three or four times. Different doctors over like maybe five different doctors told him to stop drinking, he'll stop drinking when he leaves the hospital but he'll eventually start back drinking and I'm like you know you don't supposed to be drinking or having that and he's like I'm gonna be okay but it scares me and when he drinks he's like a whole different aggressive person so when he's not drinking he's like super sweet so charming so you know just a great person overall but I'm just in the process of now it's like kind of wearing me down because I'm kind of getting overwhelmed with it. And I'm like really ready to leave me and my kids, you know, ready to go because it's like I'm just every day come home for a drink, beer in his hand, drink and drink and drink and done, stop. So, it's like.

Man, ladies, first of all, I want to say I'm so sorry to hear that both of y'all have to go through this. And I commend our first caller for actually getting the help that she needed and being clean for a year. That's a huge accomplishment. You know, alcoholism is a disease, too. So that is an addiction that somebody has to want to get help. And like you guys have both stated, it doesn't seem like these men are trying to seek the help that they so desperately need. Have either one of you ever tried to do an intervention? Yes.

I actually go to my counseling. My counselor referred me to someone who I can actually have him to go see. I scheduled the appointment. But the day of the appointment, it's like, oh, I don't need counseling. I don't need to go to rehab. I'm good. I can do it on my own. I can stop.

He just seems like he's not an alcoholic, basically. But all alcoholics think they're not alcoholics. Right. The first step is admitting it. Exactly. That's exactly how I feel. You know, I've come to him and I've told him, you know, that, you know, you're an alcoholic, you know, and you need help.

You know, look what you're doing to me and the kids, you know. And I'm the same thing, you know, where he's like, you know, very nice. He's himself when he's sober. But when the alcoholic is so different. And I would highly recommend getting an expert that can actually help you set up a real intervention. Right. Where you have family members, close people that can actually sit down in the room and help be supportive, but also talk to this person, talk to your husband about how this is tearing the family apart. Because again, they have to know that they have a problem and they have to want to seek help. And again, it is a disease. So while you

do have to be supportive, you also can't cover up his problems for him. Do you guys still have liquor in the house? No, I don't drink it all. I don't carry any of that in my home, but he'll go back and forth to the store all day to buy the way he wants. Yeah, and it's to the point that he'll get on the bike because he don't even have a car no more because he got a DUI, and he'll get on the bike. And I tell him, you're not driving my car,

and if he asks me to stop at the liquor store, I hit the game. All right, well, listen, I want to direct you guys to AmericanAddictionCenters.org, and they'll want to direct you guys to American Addiction Center, Centers dot org. And they'll actually have a lot of resources on that. You can even chat online with somebody that is confidential so that they can help you figure out what type of help you guys specifically need. But I do think, you know, maybe set up an intervention, not just with the pastor, but with family members. Maybe the pastor also can come in, a therapist, somebody that can actually lead this conversation. An expert, like I said, it's not easy. And this is

a disease and it's something that they have to want to say, okay, I'm going to take, and you know, it could happen at any time. That's why you have to be optimistic and have to keep on ingraining this message into someone's head until they finally hear it because it could end someone's life, you know? And again, for yourself, I don't want you guys, this is a heavy burden on you as well. Very. And I don't want to tell you, I can't tell you to leave somebody or what not to do

because I think the guilt that you might feel if you did, but again, you cannot make excuses for him. But I do feel like you need to get that professional help. You can call 888-998-2605. You can go online to AmericanAddictionCenters.org. Again, get that treatment that you need and figure out what it is that you can do, some actionable steps that you can take because it is a disease. So help is available. You can speak to somebody for free and then find out what you need to do. And it's all confidential. And they have public health agencies that deal with this. Also, you can also call 1-800-662-4357. And you can get some

substance abuse treatment. But this is a serious issue. So that's why I want you to talk to somebody that's an expert in dealing with this. Yes, ma'am. Well, I appreciate your advice there. To the other ladies, just hang in there. I'm here with you in spirit. Definitely. Thank you. Thank you, to the other ladies, just hang in there. You know, I'm here with you. It's spirit. Thank you. Thank you, Angela Yee. I appreciate it. Thank you, ladies.

I'm praying for them. Ask Yee. 800-585-1051. If you need relationship advice, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Get some real advice with Angela Yee. It's Ask Yee. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Ask Yee. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Ask Yee. Hello, who's this? Ashley. Ashley, what's your question for Yee? I've been with someone for years, and my children have known him also for years, since they were like three and they're older now. And they're to the point where they're calling him dad and their father who just got in their life because of court

purposes, feel as though they shouldn't be calling him dad now that they should stop. How old are your children now? Nine. How old are you? I'm sure that's yours. That's the bigger problem. Um, nine. How old are you? Damn. This is terrible. You sure that's yours?

That's the bigger problem. You sure that's yours? Yes. Lord have mercy. I'd be doing the same thing, though. But I'm a dad. Dads can do that. I don't think mothers should be allowed to do that.

One of us got to know how old the goddamn kids are. Well, we know social security numbers, birthdays, all this stuff. The numbers are flying all over the place. So it's like six years. You've been with this man for six years. Yeah. Okay. And so the children are comfortable calling him dad and they've done that on their own.

Yes, on their own. We sat down and talked with them, see how they feel. But me and him both talked by ourselves when my daughter first started um calling him dad and then he said well we're going to wait and see if she's going to continue to do it and then we just want to see how it's going to go from there and then we just you know sat her down and started talking with her and then she thought it was okay and we kind of started setting some boundaries in our house because he also has children and we bring our children together so that no one feel like a black sheep because that's a big generational thing that seems to be in families so we don't want none of our children feeling uncomfortable

but they don't right thank god because we're bringing them together and i will say just based on other families i know that our blended families, you kind of have to let the kids lead the way and they feel most comfortable in these situations, if that's what they're comfortable doing and you guys are okay with it. But I do think it's important that they know what the relationship is, right? They do know they have a father, a biological dad, but he's been raising them as he should. If he's with you, like they're his children, too, because when you're with somebody that has kids, that's like those are your kids, too. And you never want them to feel different than his biological children. Right. And this is the thing that just really bother me is that their biological dad,

when I go to him for things for the children, he's still as though that my fiance ought to be doing it because he's the one that's there, but he doesn't want them now to be calling him dad. And I'm just like, well, how you don't want them to call him dad, but you don't want to do nothing for him? Yeah, unfortunately, it's not even up to him at this point. You know, this man has been doing a great job, and the kids feel comfortable calling him dad and he's

planning, I assume, to be in their life, right? You guys are planning to be together for the long haul? Yes. And so that's what they're comfortable with and unfortunately for him, he hasn't been there and he still can be their father also. He is their father and he should still act accordingly.

I don't credit him for anything. I'm still an adult. We don't discredit him for anything. I feel as though we're adults and everybody done been married before and dealt with this kind of thing and as parents

and co-parents and everybody should respect each other's wishes and boundaries and everything and don't discredit the other parents. It's just a lot with him

and we try to make sure everything is mature but it's always a problem with him. It's just a lot with him and we try to make sure everything is mature but it's always a problem with him. It sounds like you guys might need to do some, he might need some individual counseling and then maybe there's some type of parenting counseling that you guys can do together so that y'all can function.

Actually we have. When we went to court, the judge seen what was going on and seen how he was reacting and he sent us to co-parenting classes. Right. Did that help? No, not on his end. No. Right. Well, listen, I will say this. It would probably be hurtful to the children if you try to go to them and say, oh, you can't call the person who you look at as a father figure dad anymore, especially if he's okay with it, you're okay with it. And at some point, you know,

their biological father is going to have to step up and there's nothing he could really do about it. And he should be grateful that somebody has done a great job and that you're with somebody that treats these children so well. Absolutely. And I feel the same way. And I just, I always try to let him know

that no one discredits him or no one takes who he is from our our children and it is nothing more than I can say I just wanted to make sure as a woman that I was doing the right thing and I just sometimes as a female we don't we don't see a man's side or understand his feelings so it's okay I feel as though it's okay for a female to ask another female or a guy. Just make sure that you're not out of line. No, you've done everything that you can do. And you're respectful to him as a dad. You're not denying him any of the privileges that he has as their biological father.

But whatever is best for the kids is what should be best in this situation. It's not about how he feels. And we take that into consideration, but it's bigger than him. It's about the kids. Absolutely. I appreciate y'all. I just want to let y'all know, me and my kids listen to y'all every morning

on our way to school and work. Do you call your man daddy also? No, I do not. Okay, just wondering. The only reason you're letting these kids listen to this adult programming is because you don't know how old they is. Stupid. Well, and my kids are very mature for their age, and it's so weird.

But they know that my daughter, she loves to guess what race it is. That's funny. She tells me stuff that goes on at school and she goes, Mom, guess what happened at school today? And the kid's like, guess what race it is. I love it.

I love it. Thank you very much. All right. Ask E-800-585-1051. We got rumors on the way? Vanessa Bryant, she is talking about finding strength after Kobe and Gianna's tragic deaths. We'll tell you what she had to say in this exclusive People interview. All right.

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Well, Drake has confirmed some new music coming, and that music will be coming out, what's today, the 4th? The 5th. Tomorrow. So tomorrow. Yes, he put Friday, midnight, and he shared some artwork for Scary Hours 2. Certified Loverboy is

coming soon. I do like when Aubrey says Scary Hours. Why? I just do. That's when he puts out his best work. That's when somebody's pissed him off. Alright. I can't wait to hear some new Drake music.

Alright. Well, Vanessa Bryan is on the cover of People magazine. She's featured on the magazine's Women Changing the World cover. And she talks about how her daughters have helped her cope with the family tragedy. They've gone through a lot together. And she said the pain is unimaginable. You have to get up and push forward. Lying in bed crying isn't going to change the fact that my family will never be the same again. But getting out of bed and pushing forward is going to make the day better for my girls and for me.

So that's what I do. Okay. Always sending prayers and love to Vanessa. That has to be one of them. I couldn't even imagine that type of pain. Her daughter, her husband. But she does have her girls that give her the strength that she needs. So make sure you pick up that People magazine.

All right. Now, Square has acquired a majority stake in Jay-Z's title for $297 million. Jay-Z will retain his stake in the music streaming business, but he'll also join Square's board of directors as part of the deal. So through this deal, Jay-Z and Tidal's other shareholders, which include Beyonce, Madonna, Rihanna, a lot of different artists, will continue to own their piece of the business, but that business will operate as an independent division within Square.

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of different things that are impressive about this deal, but the fact that the artists who were now entitled from the beginning are the second largest shareholders of this deal. Man, dropping the clues bombs. Big boss things, you know? Hov had a good couple of weeks. Great couple of weeks. And. Man, dropping the clues bombs. Big boss teams, you know? Hov had a good couple of weeks.

Great couple of weeks. By the way, they have Cash App, you know, so for that type of money services. And it seems like this has been some years in the making. Of course it has. Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey have been talking for quite some time. It actually started

a few months ago, and those talks progressed after they discovered the shared purpose between them that was to build things and empowered others to be more successful in their own work. I wonder what's next for Hov though. He always thinks five steps ahead.

See, that's what's wrong with Jon Neve. I'm just curious. I love the way his mind thinks. I'm just curious how he thinks. Can we stay here for a second? Can we stay with the title and the square space? That's great. The champagne. That's great, but I'm just curious to what's next.

What's on his agenda? What's next? I just love the way he thinks. That's all. He always told us, stay low and keep firing. And he hasn't looked back since. That's his motto, stay low and keep firing. There's really only two ways to do business, right?

Good and bad. Historically does good business. And he's sitting on the board of Square now, so he's like over Cash App. What else Square got? I know they got Cash App and something else. Well, Ove, since you're on the board, there's a lot of people that's been DMing me. They send people, wrong people, a Cash App, and they're trying to get their money back, and they say there's no number for Cash App.

Can you get a number or phone number for Cash App? Yeah, once you send that money out on Cash App, you can't get it back. Yeah, can you fix that hole? If you send it to the wrong person. Yeah. You know what I was thinking about this morning, too, and this is so random. I was thinking about Jay's, the last deal with LVMH, and I was thinking about how George Clooney gave all his close friends a million dollars.

I'm like, I wonder if Jay does stuff like that. Probably does that all the time. Here's a million for you, Emery. Here's a million for you, Tata. Yeah, of course. Here's a million for you, Emery. Here's a million for you, Tata. Yeah, of course. Here's a million for you, B.I. But those are not just his friends. They work with him also.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they also work with him. George Clooney was just like his boys from school, you know. But those are his boys from school. He gave his boys from school jobs and opportunities. They didn't go to school. But I'm just saying they also work with him. So they're constantly.

They went to the school of hard knocks. Yeah, they didn't go to school. Come on. All right. Now, the Real Housewives of Atlanta, according to the Jasmine brand, is looking to cast a female comedian in Atlanta. So they've been putting out some fillers to see who might potentially be a good fit. They haven't made a decision yet about Bailey's bachelorette party. We saw the video footage now.

And here's what she said. Do you think you broke girl code? No, I don't think I broke girl code because that implies that I am somehow snitching on my friends. And we already know who the people are involved and Portia clearly said I'm not her friend so there's no girl code if I'm not your girl. No she

broke girl code Envy was so into this that's why I was like let me talk about this. She broke girl code so if you don't know what happened it was a stripper party they turned the cameras off they made production leave. They covered the cameras. Whatever happens after that is whatever happens after that. You're not supposed to tell that.

It's the same thing as God Code. If we all go to a strip club, right, and everybody and the cameras leave and everything, and your man does something crazy. You tell him, girl. Go. Come on. That sounds like dumb code, and I'll break dumb code. You're stupid enough to go to a bachelor party knowing you're getting married and you do something.

And somebody tells. And you do something in front of all these people. But the person getting married didn't do anything. Cynthia didn't do anything. It was just somebody else. Well, no. Yeah, not Cynthia. I thought you were talking about your boys going out.

No, but if your boys go to the club. I mean, Charlamagne, you've been to the strip club with one of your people. There's something stupid. You just laugh about it. You keep it in your group chat. And that's it. You don't go tell the world. I don't know nothing.

I don't know what you're talking about. Strip club. But FYI, the cameras's it. You don't go tell the world. I don't know nothing. I don't know what you're talking about. F.I.I. The cameras were rolling. They turn the cameras off. I saw some video footage. They turn the cameras off and it was supposed to be just girls, girls, girls, relax. It's not that serious. I'm sorry.

There's definitely some footage out there. They turn the cameras off. Don't let that bitch talk to you like that. What you just call me? Okay, now listen. You might know more about The Bachelor, sir. But if you look on the Jazzmobiles,

you can see video footage of, and you know you're in a place with this. You have mics on. Come on. They cut the cameras off. The camera's supposed to be cut off. You a chatty whore. It's supposed to be.

They covered all the cameras. You a chatty whore. Ralph Lauren has launched a new clothing rental service and that's for lauren ralph lauren so it's kind of like rent the runway where you pay a monthly membership and then you can get unlimited swaps and complimentary shipping so if you want to just rent some clothes you get this monthly membership fee and then you can just pick whatever you want from these 600 different pieces and then send it back get something new and then once you use something like a few times, they retire it and they actually donate them to Delivering Good, which is a nonprofit benefiting at-risk families and children. I mean, it's smart because, you know, he knows the streets about to open back up this summer.

You know, people money a little low. They might need to rent a little outfit to be out here in these streets for the summer. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. All right. Well, let's get to the mix. Revolt, we'll see you tomorrow. Everybody else, let's go.

I saw some video footage. No, they turned the cameras off, and it was supposed to be... Everybody, it's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. It's Women's History Month, and what we doing, Yee? Well, today we are celebrating Clarissa Shields. You know, she has an MMA fight coming up this summer, but tomorrow she will be fighting. She'd been trying to get a fight for a while. Like I said, she's 10 and 0 and she is the fastest boxer in history

to win titles in three weight divisions. But for some reason, people weren't trying to show her fight. Well, now she's headlining an all women's pay-per-view on fight TV. And that's going to be tomorrow. It's called super woman because she was tired of waiting for people who are the powers that be in boxing to come around to her way of thinking. Here is Clarissa Shields. It's Women's History Month. And we're celebrating the most influential women in history. Check out this phenomenal woman. When we talk about the men rounds, women boxing didn't

put those rules down for us to fight two minutes. The men did that. And I feel like they did that to keep us at our pay wages to where we don't make as much of them because we don't fight the same time. So what I'm saying is not that we're not worth the same thing now, but we are willing to fight three minute rounds

for 12 rounds to even the playing field to where, when we say we want equal pay, we're also putting in an equal work. I just don't think that two minutes is enough. And that's where they look at the lack of women's boxing and say, Oh yeah, like yeah,

they're boxing, but they're not as great as the men. We are as great as the men. I know for a fact that I am women's boxing is on the forefront, you know, like we're not in the shadows anymore. We need to have our face out there to where people can like like the young girls can see like we have things coming

up and that was another phenomenal woman in history all right well let's make sure we all purchase that pay-per-view tomorrow night and show some love and support for Clarissa Shields at just 25 years old. She is already legendary. All right. Shout out to Clarissa Shields. Now, when we come back, we got the positive notes. 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. Now, shout out to everybody that's heading out to Atlanta this weekend. I'm going to be out there for All Star. I'm going to be all over the place. Shout to my family at BQE,

which is probably one of my favorite restaurants out there. Also, shout to Monticello, shout to Sweet and Slush Lounge. I'm going to be all over the city in Rose Bar, so hopefully I get to see some of you guys socially distancing, of course. That's right. I saw your boy opened a restaurant, Toast on Lennox. Oh, Chef Harper. Yeah, shout to Chef Harper. He's probably one of the most amazing chefs that I've

ever, you know, any restaurant that I've ever ate at. He started BQE, then he started Rock Cuisines, and now he's doing his own restaurant. He's just a dope chef. He puts together amazing menus. So shout to Chef Harper. And salute to my guy, Kobe, man. Kobe going to be hosting like every single party in Atlanta this weekend. Yeah, Kobe, Kobe, young Kobe. He going to be at every single event. You know what I'm saying? He's only 19, so he can't drink. But, you know, he going to be up in there with you. Well, you know, they said that the Super Bowl wasn't a super spreader like everybody said it was going to be. It wasn't a super spreader at all. it was going to be. It wasn't a super spreader at all.

So hopefully this will be the same in Atlanta. Kobe was there though. Kobe was at the Super Bowl too. Kobe be all over the place. Don't get it twisted. He only 19. But his mind is older. Well, I just have to, along those lines, also let you guys know the Black Coalition Against COVID-19 is hosting another Making It Plain Town Hall tonight. That's at 7

Eastern. So they're going to have expert panel discussions on protecting the lives of our Black community elders from COVID. Because as you know, our elders are the pillars of our communities and protecting them is our priority. So there'll be panelists like Dr. LaShawn McIver from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Dr. Amanda Cohn from the CDC. So tonight's event is dedicated to people working in aging services. You can tune in at 7 p.m. Eastern on Facebook.com forward slash Black Doctor dot org. Or you can go to YouTube.com

forward slash Black Doctor org. All right. Now you got a positive note, Shalami? I do, man. The positive note during Donkey today, I was talking about self-correction. Just know that self-correction makes you check the rules of your life against the yardstick of your inner voice. OK, when you acknowledge when you don't measure up, self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, it can stop yourself from scurrying off your path. Breakfast Club, bitches! Y'all finished or y'all done? Had enough of this country?

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