The Breakfast Club - Best of 2024- BEST MOMENTS - Wiz Khalifa, Dontay Banks & Kevin Freeman, The Cast of Harlem, Dj Envy & Gia Casey, Recorded 2025.

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

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Man, totally disconnected. Yes, but. We're not even really here. You think you're listening to us, but we're not. Well, we are not. We're here in spirit. Yeah? Yeah- We're not even really here. You think you're listening to us, but we're not. Well, we are not. We're here in spirit. Yeah? Yeah.

Uh, we're on vacation, so we're playing- The best donkeys, the best interviews, you guys, which are the best callers, and some of the best moments the Breakfast Club has had in the last couple of months. So sit back, relax, enjoy, and have fun. Keep it locked. Red is gonna be running the boards. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

I'm talent. I'm talent. Hey, what you doing, man? I'm talent. I'm a call-a-caller, yo. Red is gonna be running the boards. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on This is your time to get it off your chest whether you're mad or blessed 800 585 One oh five one we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club What's up, Jeff? What's up star you please what up star, how are you? Peace, what up sis, how you? Now I'm doing good, just checking on my bro and checking on my girl. See how y'all doing?

We are blessed black and holly favored, my brother. Who you getting into this weekend? Listen, let me tell you all right. I just, Jess, you see how I just, I just tried to escape by that and I just keep talking. You gotta just go. I'm sorry, go ahead. So when y'all use the public restroom, right? Do y'all put y'all bare butt cheeks on the public toilet?

Hell no! No sir. No Trev. I don't think anybody does. No, okay, I had to stop talking to this guy because he be out here bare butt in public toilet seats and he was trying to tell me that it is actually sanitary to not put the liners down on toilet seats. You know what's so crazy?

I just called and I was just talking to B and he just answered the phone. He said he heard the same thing that it's sanitary. Why? You know about the bottom. Yeah. Why? You're gonna get a bump on your butt.

Don't sit on public toilet seats, please, with your bare butt. That's nasty. Yeah, the only way it would be unsanitary is if you're using the same liner as somebody. Now that's nasty. Imagine seeing the liner already on the toilet and you sit on the liner. And you like thank you god and then you just sit down like what? But all right y'all y'all have a good uh weekend good friday it's freaky freaky friday make sure y'all do something freaky today. I asked you who you

was getting into. My business y'all. Goodbye. Hello who's this? Good morning DJ Enzy, Solomon the guy. Give him a chance to learn. Peace King. Good morning. Get it off your chest. I gotta get off my chest. Donald Rollins is clearly one of the funniest people on the planet because he's doing it for this long at the highest level. For you to come at the breakfast club and complain that people aren't taking you seriously cover them. It's a little wet It's ingenious you on one interview. You said you had a book and brought out a pamphlet But I get it but you hear Dave's repel Kevin Hart when he's speaking interviews, they're funny But you also have a like real conversations with him I get it, but you hear David Chappelle, Kevin Hart, when they speak in interviews, they're funny, but you also have real conversations with them.

Darnell is always a joke, you know what I'm saying? But hey, they swooped it down on Rollins, you're one of the greatest to ever do it, stop crying. Love to the Breakfast Club, y'all have a good morning. Peace, King. And that's really what it boils down to. You are great at what you do, Darnell. Me is. Stop crying.

Get it off your chest, 800-585-1051 if you need to vent phone lines are wide open. It's the breakfast club. Good morning the breakfast club 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? Good morning, this is James calling from North Carolina. Hey James, what's up brother? Good morning everybody. Good morning, what's wrong?

Just love all your kids. Oh, oh God. We can't hear you brother. He said just love all your kids. James, James recently found a text message from his son and the text message his son was saying that he wanted to off himself. Well, his mom said something about he doesn't want to be a birdie, but he's not. And?

How old is your son, brother? He's 17. Have you taken him to talk to anybody yet, brother? No, I'm gonna go there today. I'm gonna go certainly cut his hair and go see that in Captain America week. I think I'm gonna go today next. You definitely should do that. Yeah, absolutely.

Y'all should go to some family counseling, man. Just have him sit down and talk to somebody. Sooner than later, brother. Absolutely. Oh, God, man. I got out of the only at either board because I wanted to be around, man. No, absolutely. Where you calling from, brother? Carolina, as he said. What part? No, for South? I'm the only FD LaBourne who wanted to be around me. No, absolutely not.

Where you calling from? Carolina as he said. What part? North or South? North. North. North Carolina. I'm going to put you on hold man.

I'm going to get you in touch with somebody man that you probably can talk to. Hold on bro. I'm going to give you an email to a good psychiatrist I know. Okay. Hold on one sec. Hold on. You know the sad thing is, you know me and my wife we do a podcast Casey group podcast where we take emails and

In the last two weeks we got four emails from parents saying the same exact thing You know like you know that they've been talking to their kids recently and they've been seeing a change in their kids and their kids Have been talking about you know suicide and these are the ages from eight to 12. And we tell everybody as a parent, like my father went through my stuff just to make sure. If you see any change, it's not prying. You're the mom, you're the dad. Go through the text messages, go through emails,

go through your kid's stuff. You wanna make sure that you're on top of it. And like Charlamagne always say get the necessary help yeah yeah therapist get help like don't try to do it on your own because you know you're not professionally trained for this get help and I actually be happy that your kid is expressing that they have an issue you know because some kids don't express that they have an issue they just keep it to themselves and then they actually end up completing suicide that's right so be happy that actually telling you because now, you know, that's a cry for

help so go get them some help. Absolutely. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building Yes, indeed. We have the cast of Harlem Jerry Johnson and Tyler left How y'all feeling this morning phenomenal amazing Morning phenomenal amazing How many of y'all live in LA I want to make sure everybody houses good Okay, let's get right into it Harlem is back January 23rd on Amazon Prime, but sadly they say this is the last season So many people are into it, how do they just do it like that? Ask Emma Klein Primavera Universal. We're so sad. We're really, really sad. And I think like

everybody's super sad because we had so much story to tell. And so like if we did have more seasons, this would have the stories would have been so good. But they did such an amazing job truncating it, bringing it down into this final season. I think everybody's gonna be happy. Hopefully we get a movie. Okay. We're in a movie. Did y'all know it was gonna be the final season when y'all started taping?

Did you know that already or? Did y'all find out halfway through? No, not halfway through. I think I found out a little late, but sometimes I'm in my own world, but I found out the day of the reading, as we were reading it, now going into knowing that it was the last season. Are you saying when we were reading it? going into knowing that it was the last season

No before The last two I thought they were saving the last two episodes So I didn't know you know and then as we were reading it. I was like oh no. This is it But did y'all been doing a lot on the side as well. Y'all been engaged. I know. Y'all been having babies. Y'all been putting out music. Yeah. My children's books. They've been like, good job. Y'all been doing a lot. Yeah.

It's true. It's true. Yeah. So how were y'all doing all of that on the side as well as taping this show? You know what's interesting is that as we've been taping this show, because we started what year did we start?

2020. OK, 2020. And then we got like maybe three episodes in. Then COVID happened. then we took a break, then we came back, then we had a year off, then we went through this strike and all these different things. But during the duration of all these things, we were experiencing life. We were having all kinds of life changes and having conversations in between because not only are we, you know, friends on the show, we're like sisters in real life, but also with Tracy and

then same with Tyler, like that's our brother, that's our family. But each one of us were experiencing things that, you know, as Tracy spoke to us, she was like, what do you think about this? What do you think about that? And I know you're on this journey and you know, do you mind if I implement this and all of that? So, so much of it is actually mirrored in the show of what we were experiencing. So it kind of made it seamless in that way. And you know, you have a specific story about that. But yeah, just everything it just it feels like it was a part of our actual lives. So what's your story with that?

No, so we were talking about this, but you know how Quinn goes through her depression journey in season two. I did a lot of research on depression because it wasn't something I was personally dealing with at the time, but I wanted to reflect it in a very honest way. So went through that, did that research, and then I had the baby, and then I was diagnosed with severe postpartum depression. So even when I came on the show the last time, I was in the depths of that. Didn't really realize the impact and how that affected me

until I started to kind of climb out of that, right? Going through that journey with Quinn, it gave me a space and a reflect, I call it my help journal, like a reflective journal to look back on and say, Oh, like this was, this was the way in which it was showing up for Quinn. I didn't realize that postpartum depression can show up as fatigue, as overwhelmed. We know about the sadness.

We know about all that stuff, but these are some of the ways the mood swings didn't know that that was a part of those things. And so being able to play that and reflect that in Quinn gave me almost like a map that I could go, okay, Grace, like this is how you can navigate this. Did work help or hurt? Did it help? Did it make it worse?

No, it helped because it actually gave me an enlightenment, right? Like, oh, this is what it could look like. This is what, and so even though I was doing it for Quinn, you know, I felt it on a different nuance level when I was actually going through it myself. Gotcha. How are y'all juggling the schedules though, like now?

Cause it's still, it's like y'all personally flourishing, in business y'all flourishing, how can y'all, cause I know that the schedules, I mean, I know y'all said, it's been like two years since y'all did this, but now y'all all got individually a lot going on too How can y'all still like how y'all juggling schedules? We all star with Shaniqua now one because she just got a single You know I thrive when I'm busy yeah, I really do I like the structure of figuring out my schedule I've become more detail oriented when I have a lot of things to focus on.

And I was very intentional about dropping Feel My Love, my new single, after ending season two with a engagement or proposal. And so I wanted to like balance that and have that come out at the same time as the show. Cause I knew a lot of Harlem fans would be paying attention. But also just to like, you know,

maybe troll a little bit or make them question whether Angie would actually end up in this relationship because we don't get a yes or no at the end of the season too. Okay strategy. You know we try to have a roll out. Megan you refer to them as your sisters and your brothers does that happen naturally? Because a lot of times you know people want to keep things business so does that just happen naturally to this bond? It happened completely organically. Like from the beginning, from day one, if I start with Shanique, we were on FaceTime a few years prior and I had never met her before. And

we just spoke and we talked about like, you know what, one day we're going to do a show together and we touched and agreed on the camera of the FaceTime. And then literally years later, here we are both walking in, we're both testing and we're in the bathroom and she's like Do you remember me? I was like from where and she told me I was like wait what and then we ended up praying and crying In the bathroom and you know, there's that and then literally with Tyler It was just immediate like just family and just easy or an organic same thing with Jerry It was like, okay, I've known her forever like, you know, and then what grace I called her I was like girl I'm good. She was like don't tell me you get ready to come in for Camille

We were friends. Yeah, like four years before that so that was exciting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, is that the norm on sex? No, it isn't always like that. Okay, and then you also you know when it when it's gonna be For women you just never know what you're gonna get you hope that that is the experience But you know and we had talked about this a few years prior saying how it would be great if we got an opportunity to work on a show together. So when I called her and she was like, I can't believe I'm so excited! It was like you just knew that God was in it. And I have to say for me, this has been the best professional experience that I've had in my entire career. You know, in a way it's the end of a chapter, but it's exciting because the way that we end the chapter we're really, really proud of.

And I think the audience is going to get everything that they want to get. But also I think that we got what we want to get, aside of having a movie additionally. But it's better, I think, to move this way where it's, you know, you didn't stay for too long, but you gave everyone exactly what they wanted and needed. And I want to give Megan her props too, because she was a great leader in setting the culture of our set and everybody who has come and guest star, they've had a really great time. But we learned from Megan, from Grace,

like it truly is a fun time, but also we have decided, we decided early on that we were going to stick together throughout this situation So nobody could say well You know this person was a difficult one or this person was a this one or this because if there was a problem We all have the problem There was it we all have it and we're on the zoom calls or whatever and you won't know where the source is Because we didn't want it to be like somebody was pinpointed or somebody this one's person

to be like somebody was pinpointed or somebody is- This one's personal. Right. And we promised each other that if somebody says something to one of us about the other one, we're not just gonna take it at face value. We come into the source and saying, hey, did this really happen? That's my elbow.

People do like to like separate women and pin women against each other. So I think it was really important for us to, and this is my second show. I mean, I was like six months out of grad school and I booked this show and first time being the lead in something and then to get to do it like this which is for me my manifestation and to be like oh wait no actually for me this can be the the norm of the experience and y'all set the tone for that so I thank you for being a great leader.

Alright we have more with the cast of Harlem here Megan Good, Tyler Lepley, Grace Byers, Shaniqua Shandai and Jerry Johnson when we come back it's the Breakfast Club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne N'Guy we are the Breakfast Club we're still kicking in with the cast of Harlem Megan Good, Tyler Lepley, Grace Byers, Shaniqua Shandai and Jerry Johnson. Shalomane? Does acting allow y'all to just escape when you're dealing with all of these personal things

and now you can just go be somebody else for a few hours? It allows you to work through things. Past traumas, certain experiences, whether it's childhood, I mean, whatever it may be, it allows you to have a place to put it to good use and for it to be something that someone else can watch or see and take from it and go, okay, that made me feel not alone. That made me feel seen or understood. So I think in a way it's therapeutic. I don't know if it really allows us

to escape to each his own. I think escape gets a little dangerous. So do y'all allow yourselves to lose yourself in a row or you don't? You can't can't go to it you can't because that's I think that if we think about like some of our greats that have lost themselves and then we lost them I was gonna say that yeah it's like when you go there if you don't know how to unzip that character and step out in order to go home and not have that energy in your home it gets crazy but also the body doesn't know the difference sometimes. So when you go when you're going deep into a character and you're not doing those things where you are separating when you get home, your body don't know the difference.

So if my character is going crazy, if I'm playing the Joker and I'm really in there and I'm taking the Joker home with me, my body don't know that I'm not the Joker if I believe it enough. And so sometimes, you know, it's good to be like, all right, I'm gonna give a cap on this. Like if I really got to go there, I'm gonna go there for the six months I got to go there. But I'm already planning all the things I need to plan. So that day I'm done, it's already set up for me to release this. Whether I'm going to the ocean, whether I'm wherever I am, whether

all of my friends come to my house to remind me of who I am, I have to have something that reality sets me back to who I am or it's not going to be, it's going to be on my spirit and it's not going to be good for me. Well then, speaking of then, Jerry, where's Ty's head at after she found out She smashed the mother and a door That's crazy, that's crazy, you know to find out something like that is like, how do you even deal with that? And I think Ty decides. Because what does Ty really want?

You know, she's Polly, she's single, open. I think even though Jerry is Polly, she agrees. But she's allowed to be. Listen, right. Even though Jerry is Polly, I wouldn't describe Ty as Polly. I think Ty was really wanting something, but also probably in that moment being greedy because she was wanting something but having something else. And I think sometimes if my intention is commitment, then I have to go towards what that intention

is. And if it's commitment towards one person and I'm letting my energy fly, of course I might end up with a daughter and a mother. I watched that episode, I knew what was going on and I was like, oh! Grace, how has motherhood changed you? I think what I did not expect was that I was fully prepared to be like, I'm ready to learn everything I can about motherhood and my child. I did not anticipate that I was going to also go on a journey

to learn about myself. And so I had to face things about myself in order to ensure his wellbeing, right? So I had to go back to my own childhood, go back to the things that I didn't realize that I was like holding onto or dealing with, or like simple things like being a recovering people pleaser. I can't do that with my child. I will be so depleted. I will not show up as the mother that I need to be. So how do I

then organize in my mind? Like how do I prioritize myself for real for real? You know, so like things like that, that I didn't expect that are really changing my life. Are these moments bittersweet? Knowing that, you that this is going to be the last time y'all probably do interviews together and things of that nature? They said they talk about movies. They manifest a movie. So it's going to be the last time. We need a petition.

And if it's not this, y'all could do something else. Because y'all are so grounded even as just outside the cast just hearing y'all speak like you know like even from the last interview we had with you like so much growth like not saying that you you know. Oh yeah so I was I was f***ed last time right? No. I don't know it's just it's Zenful, it's tranquility. It's just a whole bunch, y'all are very grounded as a cast. So I look forward to seeing anything else.

Not that you don't have to be Harlem or just, y'all can write your own movie. I can directly, we can just get it. Well listen, we love you guys. Thank you for creating the forum for us to be able to come on here, like we really appreciate it. Oh no, thank you for coming. And even just like to all of us before, as we sang goodbye,

I feel like one of the biggest reasons it's not a sad goodbye is for a multitude of things. A, we have a great beginning, middle, and now we knew where we were landing at. So that's a beautiful thing. But then on the flip side, off of the script, because of the way we was able to come together as family, I feel like this is a, a lot of times when we say goodbye to people, it's like a sad goodbye, you know, because of the way we was able to come together as family. Like I feel like this is a, you know, a lot of times when we say goodbye

to people it's like a sad goodbye, you know what I'm saying? But it's like, I really feel like this is a, you know, this is the opposite, it's almost like a happy goodbye, you know what I'm saying? When we say goodbye it's almost like we raising the trophy up, you know what I'm saying? So it's like when I do, yeah, it's on a good note. So when I think back about these times it's not really gonna be a sad thing, you know, we're able to experience together, share it with the the world and close the book at the right time. Well Shaniqua you tell them we not leaving like that we leaving with your singles. We gonna play your record.

We gonna play your record. But before we play your record, Miss Grace I felt a God in you this morning. We gonna say a prayer before we get up out of here. Do you want me to say the prayer? No I'm not saying it. I'm God. I'm God is good. God is great. Thank you for the food we eat.

So I'm gonna let you do this prayer. There ain't no dinner on the table he do that. All right, let's do it. Join hands. Thank you. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this time together. Lord, we ask that you bless the Breakfast Club, Lord. We ask that you bless their minds, their hearts, their words.

Your Father, thank you for a form like this, Lord, that we're able to galvanize as one, that we're able to come together in truth and honesty and love and just celebrate amazing black work, Lord. We are so grateful for this moment, grateful for this time, dear Father. We ask that you go before us, that you make the crooked path straight. We ask that you continue to uplift us

in your spirit, dear Lord. Let us always stay in your purpose and your will, Lord. We thank you for your love Lord we thank you for your love We thank you for your blessing in Jesus name we pray amen Everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlemagne the guy we are the breakfast club Laura Roses here as. We got a special guest in the building. Where's Khalifa? What's happening, my brother? Just chilling. I ain't seen you in a minute.

Not in person. I know. It's been a while. Yeah. Yeah, you've been working. COVID happened. I've been taking care of my kids. Yeah.

How are you? I'm amazing. Thank you. How are you? You still doing the MMA and all that good stuff? Absolutely. Every day. Yeah. You wake up and do it early in the morning?

I have a routine. So I go to the gym five days a week. I do martial arts as well. So I'm lifting, martial arts, and I do hot yoga three times a week. So I'll get up at 6 with my kids, take care of my dogs and my kids. Then I eat breakfast. Then I go to the gym probably around 9-ishish, you know, from nine till about one or two in the afternoon, that's my program time.

And then after that, I got the rest of my day. Program time mean what, the smoke? No, no, no, program is like workout. Gotcha. Yeah, whatever the program is for the day, that's what I do. So you work out high? Stone, yeah.

I was about to say, he probably smoke in between all of that. Or during that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I smoke on the way to the gym and then on my way to the next event. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I stay stoned. OK. How long have you been smoking now?

Like, how many years? I've been high for longer than I've been not high. OK. Yeah, consecutively. Yeah, yeah. You be doing the shrooms now too though, right? Nah, I quit doing shrooms. I did it for a minute.

So I don't really need. I feel like I need to keep doing them over and over. I'm glad you said need right because I was gonna ask what is your intention when you smoke weed nowadays? I just love being stoned. Yeah, I like the way it makes me feel. I like the decisions that I make when I'm stoned. I like the way movies look when I'm stoned. I like playing with my kids when I'm stoned. I just love being high. Yeah. Off marijuana though. Just marijuana. Not anything crazy. The Cushion Orange Juice 2. Great project. I love the first half. The second half is dope too, but I really love the first half. But it got like a 1990 now G-Funk sound.

Uh huh, for sure. Was that intentional? Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think that was like the original sound of Kush & Orange Juice. For a lot of people it was like nostalgic for the 90s or G-Funk or you know just riding around in the car, going to house parties, getting fresh. It just got that whole you know player vibe to it and a little bit of funk to it as well just like the way the beat slapped and the way that the bass is there. So a lot of the productions, Cardo, Sledren, and Eden,

and just the original people who put that sound together. So it was really easy to just bring it back. I'm glad you like it. No, it slaps. Thank you. You had announced in 2024 that this project was done. And now it's here. Yeah.

The release of it, so is it traditional release to streaming or how you gonna do it? Cause Clash of Orange used one, it was like you did your own thing, you dropped, you kind of changed the way people were listening to music and mixtapes at the time. Right. No, this one's going to streaming. We releasing it through BMG and they've been really, really cool at letting me kind of just curate the vibe and what the feeling of it is and they understand what the project

is and we've had meetings, you know, weekly just how we weekly, just how we're gonna attack it and make it last and make it something real. So I've just been really excited about updating the format. I think that's what's most important, especially for being an OG in the game, is releasing things with the times, how they are now, but also still being innovative as well. And that's why you see in between,

I've been dropping freestyles and doing a lot of stuff like just entertaining my fans because I still have that freedom. I'm able to do that as we get ready for the album too. So just to put it all together and make it current, I think that was the idea for all of us. You know, April 14th was the 15th anniversary of Christian Arzoo's part one?

Yeah, yeah, I did hear that. You mean you did hear that? Yeah. You should know the album. That's your baby one? Yeah, yeah, I did hear that. You even did hear that? Yeah. It's your album. It's your baby. I drop so many albums and stuff like that. Every month is an anniversary of another project, but 15 years, yeah, that's tight. And I think we're really lucky to be able, well, I'm grateful to be able to drop the

sequel as close as I did with the original one. I feel like that's a sign. It just feels really in the chat. Oh, so it wasn't planned? No original one. I feel like that's like a sign. It just, you know, feels really in the chat. Oh, so it wasn't planned? No, it just worked out like that. So this is Divine Alignment. Mm-hmm, yep. It all worked out like that.

Do you remember your mind state, April 14th, 2010? I do, yeah. I was just getting off tour. I was in Miami. I was working on Rolling Papers, the album, but I already had Cushion Orange Juice done. And I had been hyping it up for a lot of months before, so my fans knew it was about to come out.

And I remember just going to the hotel room. I was in a nice ass hotel on the beach. I was like, yo, I'm about to drop it. And I just released it from my computer that day. I still am super confident, but I was really, really super duper confident about the music and just my connection with my fans. So, that was the time to do it. Did it piss the label off when you dropped in?

I really wasn't signed at that point. They were kind of thinking about signing me, working on signing me, but it didn't piss them off at all. They knew how important it was for me to still curate that organic thing because at that time I was doing a lot more for myself than any label could do. And it's still like that. Like I promote myself, I do my social media, I do my merch, I do my marketing, I do all that.

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I love that. It was really such a movement. Yeah, yeah. That's what it was for. So it's good that that happened. It was all intentional. And it was, like you said that's like mine You know or my doggy style or my ill-matter like I knew I had to make something that was like that

You know, that was a good one to be attached to and yeah It was just I always tell people is bigger than the music it's stuff like what you're saying Like that's what make it what it is. Like even this album now, it's amazing music wise But you can't just sit there and listen to it. You got to experience that you got to go to a Beach you got to go on vacation. You got to kick it with the homies You got to hang out super duper late You got to hook up with somebody who you've been you know, or you got to meet somebody who you never even understood Understood that with you. That's what makes it what it is

And that's what I'm excited for people to experience as well as the music being good People don't realize that though. When you put out music, music just provides the soundtrack to whatever you're experiencing in life. That's why you can never argue with certain people about certain albums because the time of life they were experiencing for that album. When somebody says, oh, this is going to remind you of Wiz Khalifa, Kushnars, nah, I'm on something totally different than I was in 2010.

Exactly, it's personal. Yeah, I think people do have those personal moments or those life decisions, and what you're listening to at the time definitely dictates what your memories of that are. So it gets deep. Do you think that, because I saw that you have like,

it's 22 or 23 songs on the project? Yeah. It's 22? I songs on the project? Yeah. It's 22? I think so. Four bonus records, four or five bonus records. So normally with people who put that many songs on in one place, it's like, you think people are gonna listen and start to finish,

but like, me listening to it, I don't have any doubt that people will. Do you think that the conversation that you're having at the beginning and then the conversation you're having at the end, is it cohesive or do you just throw songs on there? Like, how do you kind of flow in out of? Well with this project, the last maybe four songs we put out before the album came out,

we use this method called the waterfall method where you put songs out and then add them to the album later. That was a conscious decision because I didn't know what people were going to want to hear. So those songs helped me dictate what I was gonna do with the album. And I still like those songs, but they weren't exactly what you were gonna get from the full album. So I used that as an opportunity to, you know,

do some promo and get the idea of the album out there. But by the time you get the actual real album, those 18 songs are brand new. Those are an experience that nobody has yet and that everybody's going to get together and that's where to me the more of the conversation is is from the intro so to the 18 song yeah it's pretty simple is the whole album is just about keeping it players motivational it's get stoned and there's songs for the ladies

and there's songs to ride around to. So as long as I'm in that pocket, the conversation is good, in my opinion. I know what my fans want and what they expect, so I didn't go outside of that at all. All right, we got more with Wiz Khalifa when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ, A.D., Jess Hilarious,

Charlamagne McGow, we are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Wiz Khalifa. Charlamagne? Why a sequel after all of these years? That could be hit or miss too. That's a, put cushion orange juice on something? Yeah, I just, again, listening to the fans, man. Everybody was telling me like how much they missed that sound

or that pocket of what I was doing at that time or how much they enjoyed it. So it was nothing for me as an artist to like, you know, dig in my bag and get with the producers that I trust and really not recreate that, but do what that sounds like now. But it's the same feeling though, like, you know what I mean? And I'm not scared to do that. And it's all about the fans. It's all for them. And it's what they want, you know, like a lot of nostalgic stuff is coming back. And my era, like you said, it's 15 years ago years ago so it's way, yeah it's way further

removed than it is close so why not just go ahead and just revisit something that was you know big to us and that people appreciate. The problem with fans though is they fickle and they don't want you to grow so you so you so even though you've grown like you're a father now like your life might be totally different than it was 15 years ago they're like no I want 2010 with it yeah that's impossible. The songs feel like that. I don't think it's impossible. Really? Yeah, because I think they just want the best. Like, I can experiment and I can sing and I can do country songs or pop records, but they're like, yo, we like when you rap. Or I could wear, you know, high fashion and you know, runway stuff, but they're like, we like when you wear streetwear. And

it's not hard for me to just get right back into that. It's like okay I'm trying what I like and I'm still gonna do that in my off time or if I get an opportunity to do it I'm gonna throw a suit on and I'm gonna do a pop record but it's not gonna be my song it'll be somebody else's and I can still chart and perform it all over the world but for my fans I'm gonna give them what they want. But you are dad now, dad of two. Yeah. And making this music and putting this project together. Like it does still sound like Whiskalifa. It's new and it's innovative, but it's still the same feeling. How do you, because you are different.

Your dad is so different now. Yeah, yeah. I just keep it 100. Like that's what I always did. I always just talked about my life. I talked about my day. I talk about my week. So like I've never run out of bars.

What's it like doing this whole run? I see you got your Coachella band on you. You're doing this whole run, Coach see you got your Coachella been on you Don't go nowhere man, I need some scissors I got some scissors I saw you were um, you and Amy were dancing on the side of sage. Yeah That's your girlfriend. Why are you mad that you did something people were mad? I think people just need clickbait like that's what the world we live in these days But I don't live my were mad. I think people just need clickbait. Like that's what the world we live in these days, but I don't live my life based off of that. I'm still gonna, if I'm hearing some music, like I'ma dance.

But you never have like kind of leaned into all of that stuff though. Like you always kind of like just even if it was happening you did your own thing. But... Leaned into what? Like people, the clickbait stuff. So like even when you were dating Amber Rose now with Amy, just people are really invested in your life because you're such a big star. And now your kids are growing up

and they're on social media as well too. People just wanna know things and they throw things on. Yeah, I know I'm in control of all of that though. I give them enough to, you know what I'm saying? Like I said, I don't live my life based off of it, but I know that people are nosy. Like you haven't even seen my daughter and she's almost a year old.

So I can keep some stuff quiet but this is the entertainment industry so at the end of the day people are going to have their perception of whatever whatever but as long as my intentions are good I know I'm out here doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing and nobody who really knows me and loves me is ever going to be embarrassed by my actions when I'm outside so. Yeah you don't be doing nothing you literally don't. How don't talk to like a Sebastian's older getting older now, which is crazy because it's just crazy to get older. No, but it's literally like when you think about when he was first born to now and just being a fan and watching him grow. There's probably so much things that you guys decide when to talk to him about

or not talk to him about but your celebrity. So it's different. How do you kind of like what is your discretion on like here's what I allow him to know or see or whatever because you can't guard kids from everything. Yeah we just keep him 100 with him too. He's a smart boy and these kids are we were you know grew up fast but they're growing up way faster on the internet and everything. So it's just about keeping it real and you know just allowing him to make his own decisions as well. It's like I can tell you what to do

But you know what's right and wrong and just instilling that in him and also his friend group, too That's a real big thing now is his friend group, but um, I feel like just him being a kid He's a normal kid. He goes through the same things that normal kids go through. He gets in trouble at school We have to get on Zoom calls with his teachers, like all of that. Yeah, Wizz on a Zoom call with a teacher. How is it, like how do the teachers react? I mean, they're probably used to celebrity parents.

They'd be cool, they'd be chill. I think it helps him a little bit more too. They're like, oh, we get to see Wizz. Here, you can pass this class. How is it being a father of a daughter now? I got four daughters, all I got is daughters. So I know daughters bring out a different energy. Yeah. Man, it's super duper sweet. She's real young still. She's only eight months. She'll

be nine months. So her personality hasn't come out yet. But it is a little bit different having a little girl. And I'm older now too as a parent. I was 25 when I had Bash. I'm older now too as a parent like I was 25 when I had bash. I'm 37 now So it's just like a whole different mind state having a new child and it's a girl It was crazy to watch y'all all get older. Yes, I remember that Because you know what it is and I don't know if it's because of the internet I don't think we've had another movement like that. Mmm, like when I think about the you and the Kendricks and Yeah, I feel like 2016 like Uzi and Cardi and them But I will say is because I know you took my with Uzi especially because I'm from Delaware he from Philly

But it was it still just different like I can't really describe it Like the way that the whole Taylor gang and like how we were dressing it was really different. How often do you revisit the first Christian RRG? Now I listen to it a lot because we perform it a lot. Okay. Yeah there's a lot of like festivals and places where they're like can you come through and perform the whole catalog or give us three songs off of there or something like that so I listen to it and I listen to it for inspiration too sometimes I like I sampled a couple songs on on this new one from the old one. I like threw it in there you wouldn't even know but just to like keep the DNA

there. Can you get can you tell me so I can go back? Nah you figure it out. Now I gotta do it again. Yeah exactly and again and again. Because it feels literally I said that early it feels like the original cushion orange juice even though it's new music but and a lot of artists can't do that not this far apart Hmm. Yeah. I love how you keep max B's name alive. Yeah. Yeah, he's on the new project. Yeah He's also one of my favorite artists as well. Yeah. Yeah, how often do you speak them here and there? Yeah, especially now that the album's coming out and he's coming home to yeah, we talk here and there It's nothing too crazy. Just be like I see Big Bo.

How'd y'all get him on the project? Over the phone? Yeah. That s*** is not good as hell to be able to put a phone record. Well the voice notes, it's easy to do it on voice notes now and then just line it up. Like I told you we manipulating music these days. Yeah so you take the vocal then put the beat behind it. He's not rapping or beating. I mean I guess. I don't want people to start getting their friends in jail on their records and getting them in trouble.

Because you can get out of it man. Tory Lanez just did a whole album. I don't know how much, I don't know but don't do it. Stay out of trouble. The other thing I was gonna say too man, do you see the moments in your life when like your career just went up like for example like when you put out Weedin' Boys that's another level. You put out um what was the other Black and, that's another level. You put out, what was the other,

Black and Yellow, that's another level. And then See You Again, come on, that's every white person in America's favorite funeral anthem. Favorite funeral anthem. It is though. Yeah, nah, I look at my career like a basketball player or something like that.

Like me being signed to Atlantic, I did really well. Like being a major artist, so I look at it like that. How do you feel about your children being open to public scrutiny? Like mother-***** on social media commenting and- Yeah, nah, it is what it is. They're gonna go through that anyway at school. They got Snapchat and they be doing all that stuff at school.

So that's just the world that we live in now. And like back in the day, we used to rip on each other too. So we just didn't have the computer to do it. But it builds tough skin and it is what it is. Like I've always been able to still be confident in myself and function and not crash out, you know, due to what anybody says about me. So I feel like they'll be all right.

Is it the weed? Like whenever you feel yourself about to crash out, like do you roll? No, no, no, no, it's not the weed. It's the confidence man. I breathe I do yoga. I believe in myself I got a higher calling and sometimes they might be right. I do look funny sometimes my feet my feet are ugly Here's a little not ugly but messed up But like you can't get mad at like, you know people pointing out your flaws cuz we're not perfect So if you point out a flaw, you might be right be right. Alright we got more with Wiz Khalifa when

we come back it's the Breakfast Club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Shalime and the guy we are the Breakfast Club we're still kicking it with Wiz Khalifa. Lauren? Since you like there are people that are younger than you just in music that I'm sure call you about different things because creatively your music does inspire people like you mentioned but like like just as a dad and in a relationship, a lot of your stuff is public. Like I saw a conversation interview where I think it was Amber, she was talking about you guys had to sit down Sebastian have a conversation. He found her only fans or something like that. How do you guide first of all yourself and have that conversation with your son?

But when your friends, your peers are calling you like you like yo my girl's doing this online or like whatever what's your conversation with people because you handle things so well and so gracefully. Yeah I think I don't expect everybody to handle things the way that I do so my advice is sometimes it's like man be f**ked up dog like that's just how it is. But you have to accept it you have to understand that that's a part of it as well. And it be like that sometimes, but we make these decisions based off of what we think we can handle and what we can't handle. So, or you're given a lot of responsibility based off of what you can handle and you don't even know you're ready for it like that. So if you really want this, you're going to deal with the good and the bad.

I'm built for it. I know how to smile. I know how to put on a face in front of people who I know might have talked on me or tried to cut my throat or one up on, you know what I mean? But it is what it is. I don't get no further by exposing all of that. I get further just by being me. But a lot of people ain't built for it like that.

So, you know, you really gotta be like that. As a parent, though, are you ever really ready to have those like really public conversations with, like that's such a public thing to have to talk about in your child to see. And then in private, you have to deal with it. But then also in public, you have to deal with it because then y'all talk about the fact that it happened.

I think like me, I just keep it pushing. Like as long as I'm good like in the household, you're gonna have to deal with that or things like that regardless if it's not even directly involved with you, you're still gonna have to have some type of conversation like that with your kid and it's not easy for anybody. So soon as they start finding that stuff or looking at that stuff or hearing things about you know, it might be their parent, it might be stuff or hearing things about, you know, it might be their parent, it might be their sibling, it might be, you know what I mean,

it could be whatever. There's no age limit to that either. It happens through their teens, it's gonna happen in their 20s. Oh, I heard your son is out here, da da da da da. I don't even know what that's like yet, but we go through the stages, every parent's gonna go through the stage. But as far as publicly, I don't live my life for the public, so I don't even like, I don't even consider that when I'm making my moves. I don't care, like I don't hear it, I don't digest it, it's not, it ain't real to me,

and if it pops up, then it's something that I could, you know what I mean, I'll deal with it in the moment, but it's like, I ain't tripping on none of that. Are you gonna keep secrets from your kids? What kind of secrets? Just in general, like you know, always tell people that you should always have conversations with your parents because you'll find out that they had a life before they were your parents. Yeah, I think having, how old are your kids?

16, nine, six and three. Yeah, having a 12 year old, it's like I'm finding out that they know way more than you actually think that they know. So it's hard to keep secrets when they're telling you that they know that you thought that they didn't know. So it's like damn you there ain't no secrets. Like for real for real you I'm I didn't even know I was gonna have to explain that to you.

But it's just part of it like because I think the benefit of that is them not having to hear from somebody else. I was raised by my cousins and you know I I mean, a bunch of 18 year olds and 20 year olds when I was his age. So I was learning things a little bit differently. Like the filter was totally different. So I would rather be able to give my kids that knowledge than like the streets. Yeah, yeah, hell yeah. Because it's going to happen.

What is a Drake move? What's a Drake move? What's a Drake move a very smart business decision You've been a mentor to a lot of great people You know, I recently saw this thing called the Mount Rushmore of white rappers. And the good brother Mac Miller was on it. You know, I don't know if you saw it, but how did that make you feel

knowing that you was a mentor to him? Cause he's the greatest rapper of all time. It was Eminem, it was Mac Miller. They shouldn't be separating white rappers and black rappers. They're all rappers. And Mac Miller is an amazing artist, bro. I watched him come from just being a kid in the studio

to really changing how people digest and listen to music on his own. And of course, he started kind of after I was doing what I was doing. So it was, people associated me and him together, like I was doing that for him or something like that. But he was just inspired by what he was around. And as soon as he like branched off

and started doing his thing, he gained his own identity, his own fan base, his own expectations of what his music is and his own, you know, love and legacy for what his music is. So I love that kid. It's been seven years since Mac passed. Do you have those moments where you like, love and legacy for what his music is. So I love that kid. It's been seven years since Mac passed. Do you have those moments where you like, Mac not here? It kind of still bothers me just because it's like,

he's not here, you know what I mean? And that's the part that sucks. Cause it happened like close to my birthday. So every time it's around my birthday, they celebrating the world, you know, celebrating his life too. So I'm always reminded, I'm like, damn bro. That was just like, well, you know, celebrating his life too. So I'm always reminding them like, damn, bro. That was just like, it's like sometimes when people pass,

it's like, yo, that's f***ed up, bro. Yeah, it never really sits well, you know what I mean? So that's one of them. Did he shift anything in your life? No, not really, because I knew him personally. So we would have conversations and, you know, he was like, I think out of respect Everybody don't speak on like how what he was dealing with, you know what I'm saying?

So we just like talk about his legacy, but it was it was a lot to see him go through that just to see you smile Mm-hmm. Was that a difficult record? No I like to make real songs. Mm-hmm It was an it was like it was in the moment. And I talk about my mom on there. I talk about like the original, like what was going on when I first started making music and I brought it till now. And then I talk about my sibling who passed away on there as well. So, no, it's not difficult for me. Is it therapeutic in a way? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would say that. I think it's just like for me, I have to talk about everything. Like I can't just give you like one side of like what's going on. And a lot of people, they may or may not want to hear that.

But for the people who do, I make sure that that stuff is there and I make sure that it's current and that it's real for them to go through too. Hey Wiz, man, keep doing what you do, man. You are a blueprint. Thank you. Whether people realize it or not. Appreciate it. You know what I'm saying from the music aspect even to the entrepreneurial aspect you got strains of weed, you got mushrooms, you got liquid death. Liquid death? You involved in that? That is so on brand for you. Oh my god. I know liquid death was yours. Yes sir. Explain. How did you get involved? Early before they even took off like it was like hey boom-ba-bam and the whole business thing and

the whole you be a part of this we do that and Liquid Death. I knew about the gin. Yeah yeah. Yeah with Siren Brim. This was yeah I've been I've been a part of this company almost 10 years now. Liquid Death? Yeah yeah. Wow. You see that sh** everywhere. Yes, that is so everywhere. The first time I saw it, I was like, what? Why are you drinking that? And then they explained that it was water. Yeah, and I was like, oh, OK.

But even the can and the way that it's branded, it just fits your whole aesthetic. Yeah. What else do you do business-wise on the back end that, like, I mean, if you want to talk about it? I feel like there's a whole portfolio back there that the people might not know. Like you said, McQueen. But we're part of that whole company though. The whole

Doucet and Bel Air and all of that. Oh, PFL as well. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of Professional Fighters League, but I'm involved with them too. We just bought Bellatorce and UFC and then there's PFL. I heard PFL. Yeah, yeah. I'm down with them too. Wiz Khalifa, man. Yes. Cushion Orange Juice 2. I made it through. Huh? Say yes, like I made it through. Come on now. It's easy for Wiz.

Y'all cool, I came to see y'all. Cushion Orange Juice 2, and y'all about to go on tour, the Taylor Gang World Tour, Taylor Gang World, yep, Taylor Gang World, Cushion Orange Juice 2, follow me on all socials, TikTok, Wiz Khalifa, Instagram, Wiz Khalifa, X, Wiz Khalifa, yeah. It's Wiz Khalifa, Instagram, Wizz Khalifa, ex-Wizz Khalifa. Yeah.

It's Wizz Khalifa, The Breakfast Club. You're checking out The Breakfast Club. I was born a donkey. It's the donkey of the devil. This is the donkey. This donkey. What the fuck is that? That's how I'm gonna be the donkey of the day.

That's pretty funny. Which child I'm being the devil? Possibly. The Breakfast Club. Damn Charlie man, who needs to give the Dusty of the Day a T and M? Well, sexy red, Donkey of the Day goes to five Memphis men. Mikael Sanders, 18, Rashawn Bryant, 22, Jordan Smith, 19, Mondrej Comaze, 18, and Desmond Subbery 18.

All of them have been arrested and your Uncle Charlotte needs to let all you YNs know something. Please, please, please stop with the organized crime. Seriously, man, if you can create a criminal enterprise, then you also have the brains to start some type of small business. I'm just sick of hearing about young people coming together to form drug rings and fraud schemes, even organized theft. If you can put so much time and energy into doing the wrong thing, then you can put that same time and energy into doing the right thing. You youngins are not applying yourself properly, and you could be.

That's what frustrates me the most. Unity and group operation is a must, but why do we only seem to see unity and group operation when folks is coming together to commit crimes? And this country not playing with you. They are ready at all times to introduce you to their good friend Rico. And these five Memphis men sadly are the latest example of that. Would you like to know what the criminal behavior was? Would you? Everybody take a deep breath. Come on. The deep breath because this type of organized crime is triggering. Let's go to the Miami Herald for the report, please.

Tennessee cops say traffic came to a halt at a downtown Memphis intersection when five men leapt from their car and began twerking before baffled motorists in Tennessee. It happened Monday, March 10th about three blocks east of the Mississippi River and the dancing was still in progress when a police lieutenant drove up. What the officer saw was a 2016 Chevy Malibu blocking traffic at a green light, and four men twerking around the car outside. A fifth man was spotted dancing on the car's hood. The five men were taken into custody so the offense would not happen again, and they were

charged with obstructing traffic. The men ranged in age from 18 to 22. A motive behind the stunt was not released. Five Memphis men got together to disrupt the lives of law abiding citizens just trying to go about their day. A vehicular blockade caused by booty. That's what this was. Hey, Mikel, Rashaun, Jordan, Mondrej, Desmond,

when you were scrubbing the ground, cheeks to concrete, did you think about the ambulance you may be keeping from getting to the hospital? The person who just got a job, first day of work and they about to be late because of your traffic tampering through Twerk Terrorism? This should be an episode of Law and Order Twerk Victims Unit. Not only is this a criminal enterprise, it's a whole production. You all probably had Glorilla Blastin, Cameras out, just a synchronized routine of reckless rump shaking. Why?

First degree, felonious, fraggle maggotry. That's what this is. Okay? The unlawful act of throwing it back in a way that disturbs the peace, blocks traffic and disrupts people's everyday lives. Why? We cannot let the ass cartel get away with this. Are we really gonna sit back and allow

an underground network of professional rump shakers to disrupt society? People like this don't think of anybody but themselves. The only real luxury any of us have is time, people. Okay, because it doesn't come back. So imagine you running late for something important, rushing to pick your kids up, trying to make your Brazilian wax appointment

I have one today by the way and you're stuck in traffic because five grown-ass loose booty bandits decided to turn the highway in the Magic City Monday They are all charged with obstructing a highway our passageway, but I feel like this should be a free co-case This is a free co-case Okay There has to be a stiffer punishment for this organized booty movement because this was a coordinated effort to weaponize the wobbling public. Where is President Trump to sign an executive order to stop discrete scripting syndicate?

Huh? If he doesn't intervene, this could get out of control. Okay? Men will mimic this behavior all over America. This could get out of hand. Do you really want criminal organizations dedicated to twerk related infractions popping up all over the country? Do we really want criminal organizations dedicated to twerk related infractions popping up all over the country? Do we really want booty trafficking?

Didi, don't you answer that? Okay, the illegal transportation and distribution of reckless twerking across state lines. Do we need that? Let's do better. Please give Mikel Sanders, Rashawn Bryant, Jordan Smith, Mondrej Comaze and Desmond Subbery. The biggest he-huh. I have a question. Now, if this was back in your day and five women... Back in my day, like you wasn't born in 1977. If five women were twerking in front of you, would you mind? Would you call the police back? Yeah, I don't have time for your hypotheticals. Let's deal with the reality of situations. So that's what's wrong with people nowadays They don't never want to deal with the reality of things. Let's deal with the shared reality Somebody's gonna show you this mugshot. Look at that. Don't get bricked up over there. Can you see this Jess?

Can you see it? Somebody's sitting this picture to jazz. I don't want you to get bricked up over there. I'm not bricked up. I'm nowhere near bricked up. Even if it was women, if you try to get somewhere, move bitch. What are we doing? This ain't got nothing to do with the gender of nothing. Why are you disrupting traffic, stopping people's day? We got things to do. You just hopping out of a 2016 Chevy Malibu to twerk in the middle of the street for what? In 2025? Come on. Stop. You ain't got nothing to do with gender. I ain't keep looking at the picture.

Because I'm trying to figure out what they all identify. There's one with red hair, right? You know what? Hey, hey, hey, don't matter. There was an executive order signed about it. You're right. You're absolutely right. All right. All right. Okay. Well, thank you. They say this pride every day. All right. Well, thank you for that dog for the day. The Breakfast Club. Yeah, good morning. It's morning show The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne the God. Lauren LaRosa is here. Jess Hilarious is here. Who's filling in for Envy? Lauren LaRosa filling in for Envy. Is Envy filling in? He's here. I'm here.

When she's filling in? Yeah. Yeah. He's a guest today though because his new book, Real Life, Real Family with the Queen of the House, Gia Casey is out right now. How you feeling Gia? Humbled. By being given the opportunity to write a book about something that is the most important thing to me. The thing I'm the most passionate about. The thing that brings me the most joy.

Family, parenting, my household, our home. So yes, I'm very humbled. This is the second book. Yes, it's amazing. You know what? Let's just rewind it back. For those who don't know, who is the KC Crew?

Where did that name come from? How did y'all get started? Do you remember? The KC Crew? Where did that name come from? How did y'all get started? Do you remember? The KC Crew? Yeah, it's our last name. What do you mean? No, no, no. But do you remember how we came up with the name? No, how do we come up with the name? We were doing our first podcast and it was before we were doing like the audio version, the video version. It was just the audio version and we started the podcast without a name and we sat there and we kind of was coming up with like different names. And one of us said, well, how about the Casey crew?

You know, our last name is Casey. We have a whole crew of kids, a whole gaggle. What about the Casey crew? And then people, you know, DM us and emailed and whatnot. And they said, yeah, we love that name. We love that name. So we decided to call ourselves the Casey crew. Amazing. That's what I came about. And Gia, whenever you post on social, you always hashtag the KC Crew. Yes. Envy does as well. But one of the things that you guys do really good from the podcast to bringing it online is you pay attention to the comments and the responses.

Gia does. Gia, yeah. And you guys bring them into the podcast, but you also reflect on them on social media. So I want to read one of the posts that we pulled, and I thought that this was great. You inspire me. This is someone commenting to you guys. You inspire me. I wish all parents had this level of intention, planning, and vibe.

Truth is most parents, moms, are stressed, overworked, by trying to make ends meet and harboring trauma. Therefore it's passed down to the children. You've passed down light and love because of that and because of what you are. High five to all of the parents doing their best. And you use that as a moment to talk about like, no, it'd be, it'd get a little crazy over here. But, but it's important because when you, if you've ever been around your family, it is a lot of love and a lot of light, but I'm sure on the inside things get crazy. Well, you know, that's a big misconception. People assume that because you live a certain

lifestyle or because you've earned a certain financial status, that you don't have the same problems that they have. You know, so that comment really, really stood out to me because she spoke on the troubles and the trauma and the word trauma that she used. And Rashaun will speak on the word trauma Sometimes he feels as though it's a word that's overused, but it's a word that represents something that so many people endure. The difference now is that we have words to identify how we feel and what we go through and it's articulated because when our feelings and our experiences are articulated, then you're able to communicate.

People are able to understand you. You're able to understand other people. You're able to have empathy and compassion for other people. Because now we're all speaking a universal language. Like the word triggered, like the word trauma, like the word- Gaslight. Gaslight. You know, these are things that some may think are overused now.

But- It's exact words. Yes, but there is value there. There is value there because now we can see each other. We understand each other. When you're trying to create a safe space, how is it to venture into an unsafe space like the comments, especially with somebody that's on the air every day? I mean, people have an opinion about it every day. So I read every single comment.

Every last comment. Every last comment. Every YouTube comment. Why are you doing that? She's been interacting a lot. You interact a lot. I interact. It started when I had a lower follower count. It started because I always felt that if someone follows me, that's an investment, a small

investment maybe, but it's an investment that they put into me and they're looking at my content, they're looking at my pictures and you left a comment, I want to respond back to you. I used to respond to almost every comment, you know, but then when my followers went up, I wasn't really able to do that. And that was something that, you know, I had to take that on the chin. I wasn't able to, but it's a sign of respect. And you said, why do I do that to myself? Because I'm strong enough to do that. I'm strong enough to do that. The comments don't, if they are negative, and I have to

say I don't receive a lot of negative comments, thankfully, thank God. But if they are negative, I look at it as insight. I might ask myself why might someone have that perspective. To me it feeds my mental because I'm a thinker, I'm a deep thinker, I mull over things, I love to understand people. So for me the comments are food and they also bring me happiness when they're good. It lets you know that you're reaching someone, whatever it is that you're putting out, because it's in the sense of sharing. There's a lot of things that I don't share. So if I choose to share and it's well received, then that's a good feeling.

I think that's why a lot of people are on or part of the reason why a lot of people are on social media. You know what I mean? And I'm strong enough to do so. And that's because of the way that I was raised. I was raised to be a very strong and resilient woman. It comes directly from my parents. I'm fortunate in the sense that I can look back and identify things about the way that I was raised that created the individual,

the woman, the mother, the wife that I am. And it's for me, it's a very beautiful thing. Both of my parents are no longer here. So to be able to say, wow, when my mother did this every single day, or when she took me here once a week, or when she said this to me and those compliments and that the way that she fed me and she fed my soul and the joy that I experienced and the amount of fun that I had as a kid, like I loved my life. And it's not because we were wealthy. We were not. We were a middle middle-class family. I'm from Brooklyn, from East Flatbush. We weren't raised, you know, like I'm from an urban area and it's not, it had nothing to

do with money. It had nothing to do with wealth. It had everything to do with what my parents poured into my home and the love that I felt. And that is what we put into writing this book. There's a lot of books that we could have written. So many ideas came out because Real Life, Real Love was a huge success. It was a national bestseller. So it's like, oh, you can write a book about this. We said we want to write a book about family. It's what we know best. It's what we know best. We've had so many ups, so many downs, so many wins, so many losses, so many things that we thought we were doing right, that we weren't, that we had to regroup and make sure that

we were balanced as a married couple because when we didn't agree, it's like, my way is better, my way is better. And we had to come to a meeting of the minds. You know what I mean? So our relationship, you know, the relationship grew, you know, because we had to learn how to see eye to eye as parents. So there was just, there was many, many ups and downs and we wanted to pour that all into a book. You know, we wanted to let everyone know, like it's really that village mentality. It's really that like we are a community, especially our black community,

because I'm black. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. For the record, for the record. He is 100% black. But I know that you're well aware because you speak to things of this nature often, but our history is being erased in schools and it's being stripped away silently in society. So the foundation starts in our homes. We have to teach children how to identify themselves. We have to teach children that sense of belonging and they have to understand that they come from something meaningful. And if you leave it up to society to teach them that, you're going to wind up with children that are lost, that are overlooked, that don't know how to identify themselves, that get taken

advantage of, and that are susceptible to what society wants for them. So for us, our core, our nucleus, our foundation, our home, supersedes anything else in this world. We put our family first. Alright, when we come back we have more with Gia Casey, our book Real life real family is in stores right now A guide to raising empowered children. We'll be back in minutes as the breakfast club Jess Hilarion Shalom the guy we are the breakfast club long The Rosa is here as well as we're kicking it with Gia Casey our new book real life real family is out today

You can pick it up at Amazon Barnes and Nobles or audible Jess would you say that you and and we have two different parenting styles absolutely more lenient parent who's the more lenient parent um it depends what it is okay like you know everybody knows my dad is retired police officer and ex-mil military so I'm disciplined I was the yell of the screamer because I said so yeah I guess a lot different seven hours like she wants to know why yeah yeah you feel that way she likes to break down yeah don't get it you gonna get it by the end of right yeah so you gotta think really think before you speak to her cuz she's like all right well explain that like I just said it just because. No, no, no, explain this. But so

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didn't ask why it was what it was. You just figured out later. It's a little different. I prefer the explanation. Yeah. So that's how my parents were with me. I knew that my parents were invested in me living a happy, fulfilled and fun life. And we didn't go lightly on the fun. And because I knew that, and my parents never said no just for the sake of saying no, because parents are overworked and they are stressed. And the last thing they want to hear

when they walk through the door is, Mommy, can I, can you take me here? Can you buy me this? Can we watch this together? Can we go, like, slow down? No. And sometimes you say no, you don't even know why you're saying no.

That's not a good parenting technique. You really have to take a moment, you have to take a beat, we all have to take a beat to listen to our children and be patient. And because I knew that my parents were invested in me that way, I knew that when they said no, there was a good reason. How do you make sure you're raising the kids out of love and not fear though? That's such a good question. It comes with the explanations. Do you know what I mean? I don't tell them you can't do this and you can't do that. Why? Because I said so. Let me explain to you why. You know, sometimes we'll watch the news together,

you know, when they're at an appropriate age at about nine years old, you know, I think that they're mature enough to ingest certain things. So what I do is I would record it on my DVR and then cherry pick different stories that I think that are appropriate that speak to the protective measures that we take on them. You know what I mean? So it's like if I see a child abduction that's not too traumatic, I might save that and then show it to a child that's old enough. You know, I did it with Madison, I did it with Logan, and I find that they take that into their adult lives and they're very, very like Madison walks around like a police officer. She has a boyfriend, his name is Andrew.

And when they go into a restaurant, she's the one that sits facing the door. She feels like the protective force in that relationship, because her head is always on swivel. You know what I mean? She could tell you a car that was driving six cars a head, you know, and she's always paying attention to licensed plates. When she was young, I used to go through like,

in case you get kidnapped scenarios, because it's the type of information that can save a life. Girls are being taken. So if you have a young girl, it is very proactive to educate them about the realities and the tricks and the cons that people, you know, because even me as proactive as I try to be, that whole technique with a baby crying outside your house, I would, I would be inclined to open the door. If I hear a baby crying and someone that sounds like a mother yelling and screaming outside the house, I am that type of person.

But now I am. I am. I would, my heart, I would be inclined to open that door. But now with all the knowledge and some of the good things about social media is that so much knowledge is being spread. So now we're consuming good information as well. So I heard that I'm like, wow, that's absolutely right. It jogs your thinking. It makes you say, oh, wait a minute, I do have to put myself first. Even if someone else, a stranger seems to be in need, I have to prioritize myself, my home, my family.

So, you know, it's important to spread information and to teach your kids, even though it may be a little scary. But you do have to do it in a way where it doesn't incite fear. Yeah. How y'all pick and choose what y'all decide to be transparent about? Like, it's just so much. Your kids are getting older and they're like, you know, like they're wanting to walk by themselves with their friends.

You know what? If it was up to me, I'm transparent with everything right gear has to hold back a lot Like for instance like with Logan right Logan when he was in high school used to get picked on all the time But he used to get picked on guess for what reason Oh me like him. No cuz cuz Charlamagne Yes. Yes You gave me the ass that's why He gave me the buck cake that's not much better I'm not about to hate Barbara, this is shit. Don't do that. So, it used to be made fun of because of that. But the reason I'm so transparent is there's so many families

and people dealing with the same things but never wanna talk about it, scared to. So that's why I talked about the orgasm thing in the first book. That's why in the second book we talk about the time. What was the orgasm thing from the first book? Shut up, man. No, no, no, no, no, we're not doing that.

Every interview you do that, it goes in. Every interview. Lauren, do you wanna do Shut up. No, no, no, no, no, we're not doing that. Every interview you do that, Google's it. Every interview. Lauren, do you want to do some research? No, no, no. All right, no. You should tell and listen to the old. So even like in this book, we talk about the time that Logan found a bloody condom at one of his friends' house.

So he can't, but he's comfortable. Why are you looking at that? It wasn't mine. I'm intrigued. Wait, he's like, oh, he found a bloody condom. Right, right. It wasn't at one house, all right? No, it was at his friend's house.

And he was like maybe nine years old. Nine years old. He was about nine years old. But he was comfortable enough to come home and ask mom about it. They were in the basement and the little boy had an older brother. Okay. So what did you say? That's when Charlamagne gave daddy the ass. That's how you do it.

That's how you do it. That's how you do it. Oh my gosh. So she had, that's when we had the sex talk and Gia had to have the sex talk with Logan and Madison. What kind of sex talk though? No, I'm serious. It wasn't a backdoor sex talk.

It's a different era that we in. So it ain't just birds and bees. It's birds and wasps and birds and... No, I'm serious wasps and birds and... No, I'm serious. They got a full-blown sex talk. They had to understand. Because if you leave it...

Not backdoor sex talk. I'm really trying to figure out why was it coming from bloody. It might have been somebody ran a red light. Or she was a virgin. Somebody just f***ed up somebody's butt open. And just straightened his skin. That was 25. like, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or,

or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, amongst their peers. And I knew that if I didn't set them straight, that they were going to be absorbing all of this wrong information and wrong ideas. So I told them sex feels good. It's a pleasureful experience. God made us that way because God wants us to reproduce. He wants us to create offspring. So he made it something that we would enjoy, but it's meant for someone that you love. And that's the reason why. So they're like, Oh, okay. So what is it like? And what did you say? Okay, if I'm being honest, I told them that there is a penis and there is a vagina. And my son Logan was like, so like this. I was like, yeah, something like that. I said, you know, some people look at it as a negative thing.

No, no, no, he really didn't. No, he really didn't. He really didn't. Even even like my 11 year old son right now, he does not know. So when they ask me questions that I don't want them to know about, and he's older than Logan was, but now with, I have a better grip on his friends and a grip on what he's exposed to on his phone and whatnot and parameters, boundaries. So I'm really abreast of what he knows and what he doesn't. And our lines of communication are way better. Yeah. All right. We have more with Gia Casey. When

we come back, our new book, Real Life, Real Family is out today. It's a guide to raising empowered children and it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guide. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well as we're kicking it with Gia Casey, our new book, Real Life Real Family is out today. You can pick it up at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Audible. Jess? You have six kids. So is there anything that you felt like in the beginning, y'all didn't know until y'all

got to that six kid? Of course. Yeah. Like what were some of the things that you didn't know? know you just was like me and Rashaun winging this. I'll give you I'll give you an example. So one of one of the fails and this was something that we disagreed on. So it was the explaining everything to the kids. I have the patience to do it and he really is a because I said so type of guy and it worked beautifully with Madison. But with Logan from a young age, I would explain everything to him. And he's a mama's boy. Times 30. You

know what I mean? Like we're very, very close, but it kind of went wrong with him because what we found was that we created an environment where he felt that he was entitled to an explanation. And he felt as though because we gave him too safe of a space that he could challenge me and he can challenge a decision that I made. So we had to dial that back. And then we had to teach boundaries and let him know his place.

So that was a fail in a sense. And Rashaal would always look at me like, see, I told you. Like see, I told you. I'm always the bad guy because now I got to go discipline that. So now me and Logan get into it. And now you can't beat Logan because Logan beat him. So now I got to discipline Logan and then me and Logan get into it. But one thing about Logan and all of our kids, which is the craziest thing is they're very

forgiven. Like with Logan, I have to get sometimes so disrespectful for him to understand. And the next day he's like, Hey dad, what's up? And I'm like, Hey dad, what's up? But that's how he is. And he just has conversations, but we have those conversations and we understand and we talk. But he's the one that just like his mom.

I love that y'all have a family mission statement. What is the mission statement? Tell people the importance of that. Well just so we know, we don't have it on our wall and they make the kids read it when they walk in the house. It's not that type of mission statement. It's not like that. I feel like it is.

So our mission statement is just something that we, you know, as a family we all live by, right? And I'll read some of them. And the reason is, is we are a close unit, right? So if you see us together, we're all always out together. You see me the other day with Jackson, you see me before and Charlamagne has seen me before. So the mission statement is we are a unit, right? We all ride together. Like we are really a unit. A unit. I'm an only child. So I'm heavy into taking care of each other. We respect each other. Of course, it's simple. We like, we make sure that, you

know, we respect each other's feeling. We always have each other's backs. That's one thing that we always do. And it's, you know, sometimes when we have conversations up here I always talk about my kids So when they see stuff on social media at times I have to stop them because they will go in especially Logan Logan Yeah, we always love to uplift each other and point out the good in one another right we see that more especially with our girls And dance because they compete against each other a lot Yeah So when they do we have to make sure that regardless

of what happens, like a couple of weeks ago, London lost and we thought London got jerked. So I told, you know, I had a conversation with Brooklyn and Brooklyn was like, dad, don't worry, I'm gonna get first and second for her. And she went out there and bust ass, she got first and second. She got first place and second place.

Gave the first place to her sister because that's what it was. We represent each other at all times, that's how it always is. So we always tell our kids if we're not there, you make sure that those parents come back and say, oh my gosh, he was such a pleasure. He was polite. He was this even with Jackson at the game, you know, Jackson said thank you a million

and one times. He said hello million one times because that's what he's taught to do that you show respect. With that, my goal for my kids is that when they leave our house, I want everyone that they come in contact with to know that they're well loved. What we teach you inside this house, you exemplify outside of this house. And these are things that a lot of parents don't put into perspective when raising children because what do we usually do? We take like, you know, an idea and we throw it up against the wall and we see if it sticks or not you know what I mean? Oh

that worked, oh that didn't. Okay but a lot of people don't have something tangible that they can go back to and be like this is a way to create a foundation. This is a way to create a structure and because we had so many ups and downs we were able to do that and put it in one place. And I think the biggest story I know you hate when I tell the story was Jackson, right? So we had a parent-teacher's night a couple of weeks ago. And a teacher came up to me, a teacher that I had no idea, didn't know who he was. He was a STEM Knight.

A STEM Knight, right. So he walks up to me, he was like, are you Jackson's dad? And I'm like, yeah. A teacher usually asks that, he's usually some BS, right? So I'm like, oh, here we go, what did Jackson do? And he was like, I just want to tell you, Jackson did something that no child or adult has done in my life. The other day I'm walking down the hall and Jackson comes running up to me and he goes, you know, are you okay? And the teacher was like, what do you mean? He was like, you just don't look as happy as you usually do.

Are you alright? Is anything bothering you? Would you like to have a conversation with me and just talk it through? Yeah, he's a child. He's a child. The teacher was like, what? He was like, nah, you just don't seem as happy as you do, but don't let things stress you out. Just pray on it and tomorrow will be better, right? And if you need to talk to me, come talk to me.

And he said, Jackson ran off and he was like, I've never had an adult or a child ever do that to me. So he was like, whatever you're doing at home, continue that. And you know what I mean? That just shows what the kids are learning at home is worth everything. So you need to report that to your teacher too. He don't need to be in the school system. It ain't even that. The next day he probably was like you got some time at the school. I ain't good at this s***.

You all are such a beautiful family. Thank you. Thank you. You know. Real life, real family. Exactly. Thank you for pulling up. And for everybody else, we just want to add this last part. We actually wrote it with somebody that helped us out with terms and helped us with different phrases and helped us with making sure that we were actually doing the right thing when it came to raising our kids.

Yeah. So we wrote it alongside a psychologist because we wanted to make sure that our outlooks were on the level that I would want to put it out to the public. I wanted the psychological research and quarterbacking behind the way that we parent to pretty much put a stamp on it. To know that what we're doing, not just from our personal experience-driven point of of view is sound, but from a psychological point of view is also sound. I wanted to make sure that alongside the truth and the transparency and the experience that we had that backing to the book as well. I wanted that level of value in the book as well. So, and also, you know, if you have a child with anxiety, ADD, ADHD, other setbacks, other disabilities, you know, we speak to you in this book as well because those people are

very like they don't have that many resources. This book is for anyone who is a parent, a single parent, a parent that is married, a single woman, but maybe about to have kids in the next someone that wants to have a child. I didn't look at you Lauren. Wow. Nobody looked at you. First of all, you did look over Wow. Nobody looked at you. First of all, you did look over here. I looked at you. Thank you. It's forever. It's a very relatable

book and there's a lot of exercises in the book. We kind of also created it in like a workbook style. So there's a lot of reflections. There's a lot of places in there for you to answer questions so you can kind of analyze yourself and understand your own point of view in a way of like articulation where if you haven't really thought about certain things, it'll jog you to think about things and even if you don't do don't take our take, it encourages you and helps you to come up with your own takes on parenting. So yeah, yeah, yeah, real family. That's right.

Casey crew, the Breakfast Club. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are the Breakfast Club, Lorna Rosa is here and we got some special guests joining us this morning. We have Dante Banks and we have Kevin Freeman. Welcome fellas. Good morning. How you guys doing this morning?

Good. Tell the people who y'all are first of all so they get some context. I'm Dante Banks, I'm Little Dirk's father. And I'm Kevin Freeman. I'm the executive director for Little Dirk's nonprofit neighborhood heroes. Okay. Well how is Dirk doing first and foremost?

Oh he's doing great and wonderful. I just seen him this past Sunday. His spirit is up and he's looking forward you know to his day in court freedom as you know as this gonna turn out to be you know releasing him but he's doing great now you have a story as well for people that don't know your story you want to put them on to a little of your story and who quote unquote Big Dirk is. Well Big Dirk is known in Chicago and the streets of Chicago not for good, but back in 1993, I got caught in the Feds

myself, caught up in the Feds and I received a life sentence. And it took me almost 24 years or 26 years to get up out of there. So I spent most of my life, more life in jail than I did on the street. What was it like, you know, when you were locked up and Dirk is here or was out and he's climbing and he's rising as a star and you're seeing it but you're not seeing it but you're calling home and you're feeling it, what was that like? That was amazing. At first I'm on the phone as any father would, you know, go to school, get a trade, go to

college. That's some old school, get a trade, that's something your parents said, get a trade, that's right. I don't want to hear about this, everybody said he was going to be a trade, go to college. That's so old school, get a trade. That's something your parents said, get a trade. That's right. I don't wanna hear about this, right? Everybody said he was gonna be a rapper. Everybody said he was gonna play ball and different things like this. That's every kid's dream.

So I didn't really take it seriously. I'm focused on what I know to be a true career. Get something up under your belt. And every time, I wanna rap, I wanna rap. And then I asked his brother, his older brother, which was the thing at the time, Dante Banks Jr. I said, is he good? You know?

Is he good, is he gonna go anywhere with this? He said, yeah, he's good. And then it was on, what was that? Back then? 106 and Park. I'm in prison, I look up there, he said, I'm gonna be on 106 and Park. And I said, okay, everybody in prison, he gonna be on 106 and Park, so. I'm being 106 and part and I said, okay everybody present

He gonna be a one-off signal part. So every TV is on 106 and part we waiting on him and then that's when we found out Yeah, he um, he got a little buzz Got a big bus and I see you I'm like even just in talking about it You're smiling and it's just I can't imagine like, you know, just as a parent It's like I want my child to be successful and it's happening and then you're in a predicament that you're in And seeing it it feels good to know that like he's carrying the family and things are working out and then everything that we are You know seeing now happens. How did that feel when you heard the indictment come down and things of that nature? You know from being in there and knowing what he up against now you run

Right there so I can be one of them to help him through this. Because then in the feds, ain't no small task. This is a big thing. They don't give no room, they just snatch you up with almost and put you in a hopeless situation. Everybody goes in, kinda got to fight their way out to show and prove that this is what it is.

But it hurts to know that he have to go through what I just went through. I had to deal with this system. It hurts real bad, first losing the oldest son to the streets and now losing him to the government. So that's why I'm there hands on, lawyers, hands on with him, telling him every step of what to do now and how to fight this. Being a person of faith you know Allah is the best knower and planner but when you lose

the son to murder then you lose the son to the jail system. How does that make you feel? Like just your faith, how does that test your faith? Oh it does, it tests your faith. It tests your faith in a way that you have to be a parent to understand what I'm saying here. It really tests you, you know. But just like you said, that faith, you know, everything belongs to Allah. It don't actually belong to me, he just used me as a vessel, but it belongs to him. So I just got to be patient for what's going

on here and trusting him and continue to make do with your supplication that he brings about the victory that we are looking for in this situation, the relief that we're looking for. I also wanted to ask about his case so much because the dirt that we knew, that I knew personally, he was such into giving back, right? He would call all the time about the things that he wanted to do for Chicago and the area that he grew up in and the things that he wanted to change and how he wanted to give kids an opportunity that they would think more than the street and have things to do.

So with his organization, is his organization still out there being able to help or has a lot of those funds and things been pulled from that? Absolutely, absolutely, Envy. So this didn't just happen yesterday. Sitting down with Dirk Banks, I remember the day when he was like, Kev,

this is my vision, this is what I wanna do. Because he was already doing the work. He's like, okay, but let's do it for real for real. And we say for real for real, let's get a registered 501C3 and let's really truly look at the impact that we can make. And one thing that we landed on is still to this day is like, Dirk, this is your vision. This is your vision and it's gonna be our jobs.

And I say our jobs, my job, the board of directors and those that support, we're gonna help bring it to life. And to be able to look back and see from 2020 and all the amazing work that he's done. And as you know, in media, you know, a lot of folks don't wanna talk about the great things and the positive things that individuals are out here doing it.

He didn't do it for that. He did it for the fact that he know that he said, Kev, these are things that I wasn't able to experience when I was a kid. So now that I'm in position to do it, I'm all in. Let's go. I'm the voice. So I'm like, all right. So sitting with him, I mean, all around the clock, when I say around the clock, I mean, as you know, he's coming from the studio at three, four in the morning. He's calling like, listen, this is what I want to do. And I'm, I'm digested. And I'm saying, okay, from all the things that I'm

hearing, all the things that I feel your passion, we created four foundation pillars based off the things that Dirk Banks was truly invested in wanting to do. And it started off with neighborhoods, prosperity, emerging leaders, health and wellness. So with all those four different pillars, there's a bucket of work that lives within everyone. So everyone can't be the next Lil Durk, but everyone can be that guy behind the production. And this is exposing these young black boys and girls that Durk has been doing for a long time. I was going to ask y'all the last thing that he did before he was taken into custody

it was the big prayer event that he had and then he received the keys to the city but the mayor, I believe was the mayor, got a lot of backlash after he was arrested and I think you know there were certain people and things that like stepped back so how hard has it been because the organization is tied to Dirk? Like are y'all facing opposition or people still like, no we know he's a good person. You're gonna face opposition just being a young black artist, a young black man, a young black woman. There's always gonna be trials and tribulations and if we allow one situation like that to

stop us what we're doing then we're losing the focus of what his true mission was. Yeah. All right. We have more with Dante Banks and Kevin Freeman when we come back. Of course Dante Banks is Little Dirk's father. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lorna Roses here as well. We're still kicking it with Little Dirk's dad, Dante Banks and Kevin Freeman who is the executive director executive director for Lil Durk's non-profit, Neighborhood Heroes, they're in the building. Now can you give us an update on Durk's case? Yeah.

Now one thing I can say, with the question y'all ask Kevin, I have people looking at him now. It ain't a place I go. It's not a place that I go a phone call and I don't get where he get 100% support. Ain't nobody like turning their back on him or saying nothing negative about other than You know a little blob here and there or podcast who trying to get some type of recognition about saying something negative about him But overall 90% everybody's there in a prayer they support you get many many letters You know keep your head keep going on you want to get up out of this

You know things of that nature there. So the support is 100%. And I love that about him because that tells you what kind of person he is. When no one is trying to, you know, look at his downfall to something that we can now, that hey, look at him. We told you about him, not this type of thing here.

What do y'all, when y'all come out here and y'all do these press hits, what do y'all hopes? What are y'all trying to do? We're trying to bring a real look. What's really, what is Junior, I call him Junior. What is him? What he's supposed to be looking, how you're supposed to view him.

Don't take allegations and make them a fact. Don't take allegations and make it a conviction. Allegations are just that, these are allegations. Give us a chance in court to prove ourself. Give us a chance, and this one thing again, we shout out the man of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, when they try to attack him. He said, don't, give the brother his chance in court.

That's right, due process. Due process, give him his chance in court, and this is what we ask everybody, give our chance in court, and we approve that all of this is nothing but falsehood and lies. When you talk about going places and wanting the conversation to be just fair for him, even if people are going to have their opinions, how hard is it for you, and you can answer this if you want to, I know it's a legal situation. So for instance, I know I've seen reports

of there were text messages that allegedly were between Dirk and the guys who are, who they threw the murder charges at for D-Thing. And then they have the verse from his song, Aha, and they're trying to pin that, like yo, this is you saying what you did. How hard is it to go up against stuff like that, just because legally, they're talking about that every single

time he goes in the court it's not hard if you get all the information but I will refer I have to refer all these things to the legal team you know this is some of the things that they would have to answer and give a deeper understanding he got three great lawyers on the face you know so they're working around the clock they constantly keep us, you know. So they're working around the clock. They constantly keep us updated. I talk to them regularly about the case. So it's going good.

You know, all these text messages, these things here, they on top of all this. And like I said, give them a day in court and they'll prove, you know, what's the real truth about these text messages. How confident are you? As a Muslim, I'm confident in Allah. As a Muslim.

And I just continue to make dua that this, that we victorious in this case. That Allah grants us the relief that we are seeking out of this. So looking at everything, it's weak. But we make sure to continue to trust them a lot. What about with the government? Because you know the government, as we've seen with many cases before, they play a nasty game where they try to make

somebody look crazy so that the jury looks at them as crazy from the start. You know what I mean? We see that a lot. A whole lot. And who don't know that in a person that's been in the belly of the beast. I know the tricks in the game they play. That's why, like I said, I stay on this case, looking

at it from every angle because I know their games, I know what they play, I know their lives, their deception. I know they'll create some things and create some witness. Somewhere out of the blue, if somebody come along, don't nobody know. Like, who is this dude? And they'll put him up there to say some things. So, yeah, I definitely know about them. And I know y'all brought up India earlier, and we found out that they were married

through like the new music and the photo on the album. What conversations did you and Dirk have before he decided to get married? And like, what are you talking to him as dad? You know what I mean? Like, what advice are you giving him? Or, you know, how know how was that like? Okay, now as a Muslim, as a Muslim.

Because it's different for you, right? Right. Uh huh. You got to get married. You cannot lay sleep with a woman that you're not married to. So these are my conversations to him. You have to be married. It's a great sin in Islam if you're not married. We don't believe in fornication. We don't believe in adultery, you know, sleeping outside, the marriage and different things like that.

If you are interested in your sister, then let her know through marriage that you're ready to take on the responsibility of a husband. So, yeah. As a Muslim, are you on him about the content of his music? Like if he beats his situation and comes home, are you gonna tell him that musically he should go in another direction?

He told me. He told me. I'm just keep saying it happens a lot. Every time I talk to him, he learning more about Islam and what he's supposed to be doing as a Muslim. What do you say? He's saying that, hey, I can't talk about these things no more.

I can't walk this way of life no more. So he already on point with all this. And that's one of the things about prison, give you time to really reflect, think. Give you time, isolation, to read, study. Now you're able to, you ain't distracted about these weird things. This is a star. This is an artist.

He on the planes all the time, he moving all the time. From the moment he wake up to the moment he go to sleep, he always doing something. So saying, you know, he took his sh** hard, and he became a Muslim in prison. I mean, at the prison when he came to see me. But then his life took off from there. So now he got a chance now to study.

So everything that he need to know, he learning it right now. So he knowing, he telling me like that, I can't talk about that no I can't do this no I'm glad that I got married I'm glad that I went this direction right here because he's trying to see now Wow well definitely send them send them our love man and tell them that you know we continue to pray for a man and support him and no doubt because when I told him about this, he said, that's beautiful. Them, they right there, they gonna keep it real.

Oh yeah, we've been watching Dirk since the beginning. Literally, absolutely, literally. Dirk been up here with Vaughn and everybody, so it's like we literally watched him grow up. And also, we can't forget about our main guy, Swizz. Oh, salute to Swizz, absolutely. Definitely shout out to that brother, man.

Swizz is beautiful. And that is, Swizz is one of his biggest mentors. That's one who talks to him, keep him on point, different things. Like he always calls Swizz, they always talking, what direction, what should I do? You know, and it's good to have somebody like Swizz in this corner, you know?

Absolutely. Well, thank y'all for joining us Dante Banks, Kevin Freeman thank you so much and please keep us updated when you can. Yes sir we'll do and I appreciate y'all from having us. Absolutely appreciate you Simone. It's the Breakfast Club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, The Guy, we are the Breakfast Club now you got a positive note? I do but I want to tell people first of all, man, make sure you go get your tickets for the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival happening Saturday, April 26th

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