The Breakfast Club - Breakfast Club Flashbacks Featuring Interviews From Samuel L Jackson, Kash Doll & More

Episode Date: January 2, 2020

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

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

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

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

Danger. Danger. Danger. Everybody come to the breakfast club. I call this the hot seat. Y'all are wild. Y'all are wild. You are out of control. I can't even Hot Seat. Y'all are wild. Y'all are wild. Can I live? You are out of control. I can't even deal with you. Y'all are so petty.

Why are y'all so petty? The world's most dangerous morning show. DJ Envy. Captain of this bitch. Angela Yee. I stay in everybody's business, but in a good way. Charlamagne Tha God. The ruler rubbing you the wrong way.

The Breakfast Club. Made for everybody. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? It's Cognac Jack calling from Detroit. What's up, bro?

What up, dog? What up, dog? I want to tell my chest, I'm mad as f***. Uh-oh. I messed my day up. My daughter can't even go on YouTube. Oh, I'm mad at people. They messed my day up. My daughter can't even go on YouTube. Oh, they cut the internet off. The internet worked a little bit.

I was trying to, you know, black men don't cheat. What's up, Charlie May? Black men don't cheat. Hey, question, do you love the D? Yeah, I love the D, but I don't know about the D. What are you talking about? What do you mean? Why you got to add something to it?

Why I'm talking about Detroit? Yeah, no, I'm saying, hey, I be trying to go on Pornhub. It don't work either. So, you know, I mean, that's kind of hard for a brother. You know what I'm saying? Are you more concerned about Pornhub or your daughter using the YouTube to watch her cartoons, bro? I like both. I like both.

Yeah, both of y'all got to be entertained. I understand. Goodbye, man. Hello, who's this? It's John calling from Dave. What's popping? John, what's up?all got to be entertained. I understand. Goodbye, man. Hello, who's this? It's John calling from Dave. What's poppin'? John, what's up? Get it off your chest.

Morning. Morning. Morning, man. There's a lot going on. I'm feeling real depressed this morning. I've been feeling, you know, depression is real, you know. Yes, it is. You know, I listen to your radio stations.

I don't never really touch base on depression. You out your goddamn mind. I got a T. Look at my shirt, Steve. What my shirt say? Anybody even ask you to say something yet. Look at my shirt, Steve. What my shirt say? What did my shirt say, Steve? Depression. Okay?

And it says depression, but also it has press on highlighted. So even though you're depressed, you got to press on, my brother. We talk about depression all the time. We talk about it all the time, man. What do you think the mental health conversations are about? Anxiety, depression, PTSD? What do you think you can cope with it? Huh?

What ways do they cope with it? I mean, I go to therapy. I do meditation. I use CBD. Okay, thank you, man. That's what I want to know about. Like, it's hard. You know, life is hard, and depression is one of the big things killing people.

Yeah, see, I would tell you to start with therapy, though. Yeah, you should go see somebody, brother. Yeah, a lot of times when you're depressed, you just need somebody to talk to. I would go see a therapist, my brother. Okay, I appreciate y'all. All right, man. All right.

Hello, who's this? Hello? There's somebody who's doing breathing. It's Tim Ryan. It's my guy, Tim Ryan. It's Congressman Tim Ryan. Hello? It is Marato.

Oh, shoot. Marato. Damn delayed response. That. It is Marato. Oh, shoot. Marato. Damn delayed response. That's a very original name. I've never heard that before. Where are you calling from? I'm calling from Angola, Africa. Africa.

All right. Africa. Wow. All right. The motherland. What's happening? Get it off your chest. Good morning.

All right. Good morning, DJ Andy. Good morning, gentlemen. The gods. What's up, King? How are you? Good morning, Angela. Good morning. Nice DJ Ainsley Good morning Charlamagne Tha God What's up King? Good morning It's a very long distance call I might spend here $100

Just to make this call I just want to say that This show is amazing You guys are doing an incredible job And I listen to you everyday On my Apple podcast And I don't even know if the program was live. I just called. Okay.

Yeah, we're working on doing and it's inspiring us all. What time is it in Africa right now in Angola? What time is it? It's 11. 11.16. Okay. PM or AM? AM. Okay. Alright. Good to talk to you,

brother. Hello, who's this? Yes, this is Tory calling out of Pittsburgh. Hey, Tory. What's up, man? Get it off your chest. What's up, Tory? I wanted to get off my chest. Originally wanted to talk about DJ Envy and Charlamagne.

Always talking about butt. Two 40-year-old men talking about butt. But more importantly... You don't have a butt, sir? What's more important than that? Yeah, what's more important than butt? You don't have a butt, sir? What's more important than that? What's more important than butt? You don't have a butt, sir? What's more important is Goose Creek, South Carolina.

843, what's happening? No, I'm not from there, but my daughter lives there. Relax. He what? He said relax. My daughter's right next door in Alwyn, South Carolina, right down the street from Mount Pleasant. They're doing the same thing in Alwyn,'re doing is we're doing here in Pittsburgh. They're taking all of our real estate from us.

You know, we grew up in the neighborhood. The city real estate is hot right now, and not enough blocks are buying. They're buying it up from us and moving us out to the far end of the city. Me, myself, I'm in real estate. My brother's in real estate. Airbnb Dave is his Instagram. Built for Bills is his YouTube. But DJ Envy, we need

to help, bro. Why you not buying land? Yeah, that's the thing. Buy land, buy property. DJ Envy, we need you, bro. We're definitely going. We need you, man. I don't know how you can help us. If you can help us, we'll drive. We'll come to a seminar.

You tell us what to do, we'll be there. Oh, he don't know how to buy it is what he's saying. Oh, okay. All right. We're buying. We're just not buying it fast enough. Okay. I mean, it's just a matter of educating the people around you and teaching them how.

Making sure their credit is good. Making sure they can get the conventional lending and all that other stuff. We haven't looked at Indiana yet. Maybe we'll put Indiana on the map, bro. We're all for Pittsburgh, PA, man, home of the Steelers. You want to talk about booty now? Man, I want y'all to stop talking about it so much. Listen, I want you to Google Fleece Johnson when you get a chance, okay?

F-L-E-E-C-E Johnson, a.k.a. the Booty Warrior. Okay? What is that? What is that? Some type of trailer showing? Nah, just Google. Just Google Fleets Johnson and make sure you watch the Boondocks episode, A Date with the Booty Warrior, Season 3, Episode 9. Now you got another 40-year-old man talking about butts.

You the one that called up here talking about butts. I just want to point you in the right direction of the booty, bro. All right, have a good one. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Wake up, wake up. Wake your ass up. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hello? It's Carlos.

Hey, Carlos. Get it off your chest, bro. Man, what I want to say is that I'm a landscaper for a company, and I was letting this girl cross the street with her baby, and one of the UPS drama verbally assaulted me, man, called me a n***a, called me all out my name. I reported it to a lady named Jen, which is the supervisor. Four weeks later, they did nothing about it.

What did you say to him when he called you a n***a? What's wrong with your lips? What's wrong with my lips? They ain't big as yours, Charlemagne the Frog. Why you ain't call? Why you ain't look? When he call you a n***a, why you ain't say, shut your crack ass, crack ass up? I can't be stupid like that, man. We got to live better than that.

I try to talk to him like a man. Why? He don't look at you as a man. He actually looks at you as three-fifths of a human being. Well, that's the way maybe you look at it like that. I went through a supervisor to try to get him fired. Boy, that was good, too. Because one person acts stupid.

Everybody in the world can't act stupid. That's why people get shot for no reason. You right. What if he had a pistol in his car? And act stupid. That's why people get shot for no reason. You right. What if he had a pistol in his car? And I get his shot because I'm running up the car because I'm like, oh, he called me a nigger. No. I ain't tell you to run up to his car, but when he scream, call you a nigger, you say, shut your crack ass, crack ass up. I ain't tell you to run up to his car.

I ain't say all that. You feeling Mr. Salome in the vlog? You being silly. So stop that. All right. All right, man. I don't know what's going on this call. I didn't say all that. You feeling Mr. Charlemagne the Frog? You being silly. So stop that. All right. All right, man. I don't know what's going on. I'm being silly, I guess.

Dan, hello? Hey, what's going on, Charlemagne? Good morning. How are you, sir? What's happening, King? Good morning, man. I was at USP Edgefield when you were on Wendy Williams' show, man. Come on, man.

I remember you, man. Is that, man. I remember you, man. Is that a jail? Okay. Yes, yes. Well, I did 188 months in the feds. First time. Damn. Well, welcome home.

I did from, yes, sir. I did from 99 to 2014. Damn. And then from 2014 to two weeks ago, a supervised release. I had to do 60 months of supervised release. Wow. Lord have mercy. What did you do?

Yeah, I couldn't even call a person like you. If I called you, I would have got violated on my supervised release. But what did you do? What did you do, bro? Man, I'm going to be honest with you. I stole some guns to somebody. They robbed the bank. And guess what?

They introduced me to an undercover, and I sold him 900 pounds of marijuana. And guess what? That's what they got me on, and they banned me. Guns and marijuana. And why you don't write a rap album? I mean, it is what it is, you know? I mean, I had to wear it. I had to do my time.

And I remember when you were just listening to, I mean, you were on Wendy Williams' show for like four hours. I was in Edgewood, South Carolina. Yes, sir. And it was crazy. And honestly, I could not call a radio station while I was on paper.

Well, you still... I had to do six months. Well, something he said back then is still on your mind because you know we've been in Breakfast Club for 10 years. So what did he say 15 years ago that you're still with right now?

Man, I'm going to be honest with you. You went off on, was it Crazy Bones? I can't believe it. Hold up, man. Hey, it was one of the bones. That's all I'm going to say. One of the bones?

Bro, you know that's 17 years ago, bro. You got to let it go. That was 17 years ago. I don't think I ever went off on one of the bones, but I will say this. I appreciate your enthusiasm because I can tell that you missed doing regular things like just picking up the phone to call the radio station. So you're really appreciative to be able to do that

now. Man, and I'm going to be honest with you, you know, on this Twitter thing and all these other things, man, I've just been clout chasing, doing everything what everybody else does, right? Oh,, man, I've just been clout chasing, doing everything what everybody else does, right? Oh, boy. But I'm just seeing how the... I'm going to be honest with you, man.

Why do you keep saying you're going to be honest? What are you lying about? That's what he said before he was locked up. Let him go, Solomon. Okay, when it comes to this judicial reform that Meek Mill and a lot of these guys are putting their platform on, a lot of that stuff is not practical like the things that they're making out to be.

I mean, there's a lot of people right now in there that they could make a bigger impact if they were more practical and took their self out the picture a little bit more and just pick random people in there. I mean, there's a lot of random people in there right now that if you took yourself out the platform, I mean, it's hard for people to see how did you get 10 years papers and you're complaining about it,

but there's certain people that are doing 30 years behind that same thing you got 10 years papers for. Well, you know what, brother? It sounds like this is a conversation you want to have with Charlamagne. You know what, I'll give you Charlamagne. I ain't done, no. He got to catch up. There's a lot of things he got to catch up on.

Hold on, man. There's a lot of things he got to catch up on. He's been listening to you 20 years ago. And I appreciate that. You know what I'm saying? I appreciate that I've been doing radio that long, and there's been people that's been listening to me that long. I appreciate it. You got to fill them in, Charlamagne.

It's been 20 years ago. I'm sure you got baggy jeans and a beeper still. You just got to help them out. That Twitter thing. That Twitter thing. Tell them hit me up on that Twitter thing. My goodness. Get it off your chest.

800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed?

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

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

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

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

the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real inspiring stories from the people, you know, follow and admire join me every week for post run high. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to post run high on the I heart radio app Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know

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

Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee. Telling me the guy we are, The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Word. Cash Doll. What's good? What up, doll? What up, doll? I'm in this.

Hey, y'all know I love me some Cash Doll. I say it all the time. And this is timing because we've been trying to get Cash Doll to come up here for the longest. But the album stacked. It's on its way. Why you been ducking us, Cash Doll? I ain't been ducking y'all. Oh, okay. I've been ready.

They're right. I've been ready. I stay ready. We did have a conversation and she did want to make sure when she came up here. That I was promoting something. Because before, you know, I really wasn't promoting nothing because I couldn't even release music. So it was like. Why couldn't you release music? Because it was like, why couldn't you

release music? Because I was stuck in a contract. So talk about that. You were stuck in a contract, signed a bad deal, couldn't get out.

You waited to get out. Yeah, I did. It was two years. And how did you finally get out of that deal? I had to pay a bank. Yeah, you got to pay.

What happened? Who was the label? Some local. Oh, got you. Yeah. You can't even really say there. Yeah, you can't even really say their yeah I can't even

say their name legally I don't even want to I'm over it yeah I found peace in this situation it was f***ed up though

because no it was really f***ed up because it was like I was releasing music and it was seem like okay it's about to happen for cash y'all

and then it's gone they pulled it off to YouTube I'm talking about they even took it off Facebook like it was nowhere.

I couldn't put music nowhere. I wonder why though especially if they was making money off it. That's the thing. It had to be more than just the money. It was spiteful to me.

But it's cool because I learned a lot that I didn't know because I didn't know the business of this is a fucking business. Yes, it is. You know what I mean?

So now I know the business going through court and going through all that I'm like, oh, alright. How much did you have to pay back? I said it in KD's diary. Damn near half a ticket

I had to come out total. From a local laborer putting that kind of money out? They didn't. It was all just a finesse. How much did they give you to sign? Nothing. They owe me. Well, you learned a lesson about God too. Nothing can stop what God has planned for a person. How much did they give you to sign? Nothing. They owe me. Well, you learned the lesson about God, too. Nothing can stop

what God has planned for a person. Exactly, exactly. And that's what I, you know what, like, because if I didn't have, and it taught me how to surround myself

with the right people because I could have went crazy. Right. But I needed those people around me to keep my spirits up and keep me going

because you know how, like, when you get your heart broken, that feeling? It's like I felt like that every day for two years. Waking up like, I can't do nothing. I can't put out nothing I love. This is my passion. Yeah. It was the worst feeling ever.

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It's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's nothing you can do about it. It's nothing you can do about it. You put out something, it's going to get taken down. You know, it's just f***ed up. Are you signing a new deal? Local, independent, don't matter. Yeah, I signed a new deal. I'm a Republic. Now, you didn't stay, why didn't you stay independent

after dealing with the label process and all that stuff before and say, you know what, I'll just do this myself? No, because they have my back and I wanted to, like, because I'm doing it myself. I had that time when I first came out, like, in 2014. I had that me time. You know, and I need a little structure.

I need a structure. I need stability. I need a team. And I was just ready to go to the next level. Even though it was like so many other labels reaching out to sign me, it's like they stuck by my side. You know what I'm saying? They even helped me out the situation.

So I was like, all right. All right, we got more with Cash Doll when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Cash Doll, let's flash back to when we sat down and had that conversation on lip service about confidence and how being an exotic dancer actually gave you the confidence

you needed to get on stage and actually be a rapper. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because I was like, I wasn't too sure of myself. I wasn't too sure. I used to, even growing up and stuff like that, like. That takes a lot of confidence. I wanted that cheese.

That cheddar. You know what I'm saying? I had to get out. I had to end up, had to move back with my mom. I had to help my mom and my sister and brothers. I'm the oldest of six, so I'm like, I gotta get this cheese. Like, you know what I'm saying? I had to get out. I had to move back with my mom. I had to help my mom and my sister and brothers. I'm the oldest of six, so I'm like, I got to get this cheese. Like, you know, I always been that one because I was like, I had three jobs at one time. Like, I worked at Better Made, Chip Factory, Little Caesars, and Best Buy. One time. Damn.

I like money. You was hustling. And I like nice things. It's something that is in me. I can't help it. That's a a Detroit thing I feel like, too. You know, Detroit, we love all that stuff. The furs and the skaters and the Cartier glasses, all the jewelry. That's what I genuinely liked.

So I worked for it. You know what I mean? Did people take you seriously at first when you transitioned into music? No. Detroit gave me the hardest time ever. Well, you know what? I'm not going to say the whole Detroit. It the hardest time ever. Well, you know what? I'm not going to say the whole Detroit. It was 50-50.

It was like the kids and all. They loved me. But the older people around my age, they just was like, no, she's just a stripper. Nothing else. She would never be more this and that. I'm talking about I used to go. Like schools used to have me come perform. And they used to be like, why is she up there with kids?

And she used to be a stripper and she ain't gonna never be shitting. Oh, they used to clown the fuck out of me. I'm talking, I used to hurt my father.

I used to be crying. I used to be crying on Detroit game. Me, hell. Plus you were first. I can't think of what female rappers came out of Detroit.

Oh, Dave. I remember Boss back in the day. Boss was in Detroit? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh I remember Boss back in the day. Boss was from Detroit? Yeah. Yeah, she's from Detroit. That's the road. You're in the studio.

So what was the first time where you knew you could rap? When I went to the studio, the first time I was in the studio, you know Dex Osama? Yeah. That was my ex-boyfriend, right? So I used to dance

and this used to pay me like $1,500 to stay home. He used to hate that. He's like, no, you stay at home. And I used to stay home sometimes. And then this one time we was in the car, I was like,

man, you know what? What I really want to do? He's like, well, I home and i just stay home sometimes and then just one time we was in the car i was like man you know what what i really want to do he's like well i'm like i want to be a rapper he like we in the car right he stopped like hey you can do that you are you fine as you got a chain already you got a car you got a chain already everybody already love you you'll be singing in the shower. Hey, you can do that shit. We going to the studio tonight. I'm like, hell yeah, we going to the studio. I can't do that shit, right? So I'm like, right, I can do.

We go to the fucking studio, and we argue the whole time. Why? Because that's when I knew that that's really what I love. Because when you're passionate about something, you can't cut off and cut me off. Tell me what to do. Tell me what not to do. You can't do that to me.

He was trying to write you. Let me do. Yeah, he was just. No, you should say this. And you got to get louder. Even though he was right. It's like I felt like, you know, like when you passionate about something, you're doing it. Let me do me first and then critique it.

Don't critique it as I go, because now I don't know how I like it. You got to let your creativity just come out. Yeah. But he just cared so much, I'm sure. He cared a lot and he was so happy because after we were done, we was happy after that. After we were done, we got along. And we got in the car and he played it.

He like, you hear you? He like, you sweet as... You hear you? I hear me. I'm sweet as... I'm like, you heard that part? He like, put that on your Instagram. I'm like, I'm doing it.

So what was Dex? Dex was your boyfriend at the time? Yeah, he was my boyfriend at the time. Y'all not together no more? No, he passed away. Oh, man. How did that affect you when that happened? It hurt me a lot because, you know, we didn't like each other when it happened.

You know, I left him alone when he passed away because he got a little possessive, you know, and I couldn't take that. I ain't having none of that. So I moved. I gave his mom money for him while he was in there to make sure he was straight. And I just cut off. Right. So when he got out, it was like he was kind of mad. And, you know, he had like this resentment. Yeah. And I just had to do what was best for me though because it was only gonna get worse and um shoot he hated me we're online he's he was one of the people that was talking about me really yeah he was just hurt though yeah he was hurt he was no because he really had mad love for me like we really loved each other i'm sure if he wouldn't if he wouldn't have gotten killed that would have came full circle. Full circle for sure. For sure. Yeah. So that happened.

He passed. I was hurt because I never got a chance to even just say thank you for giving me that confidence to go in a studio. To even make me believe that I can do it myself because I didn't. I just wanted to do it ever since I was a little girl. I never thought that

I would be cashed out here with The Breakfast Club. Here with The Breakfast Club. Hi, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Let's talk about it. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Now, if you just joined us, we were talking about changing a flat tire. I flew into JFK the other day, and I got a flat tire. As soon as I landed, it was flat. I don't necessarily know how to fix a flat. I never fixed a flat. I know the concept of it. Envy don't know how to change a goddamn tire.

That's all it boils down to. Well, let me look it up on YouTube for you. And then I'm in Queens. So in Queens, there's a fix-a-flat place in every corner damn near. Poppy fixed it, charged me $7. It took him five minutes. I kept it moving. I even sent y'all a picture of me fixing my flat.

But nobody in this room will change a tire. I have to say that. It depends. You know what I'm saying? If I don't have no choice, like you might call AAA, and AAA might not get there for another 30, 45 minutes. If it takes me 15 minutes to change a tire, we got to span it back. We out, okay?

Now, I'm going to tell you something. My father, you know, didn't teach me a lot when it came to, like, handiwork stuff. You know, he was a construction guy. He had his own construction company, you know, when he wasn't battling his drugs and alcohol and all that other stuff. Oh, right.

But, you know, he had a construction company, but he didn't teach me how to do too much handy stuff, but he definitely taught me how to change a goddamn tire. I mean, even yesterday. Yesterday, I had one of the old school cars out. It started overheating. I didn't even me how to do too much handy stuff, but he definitely taught me how to change a goddamn tire. I mean, even yesterday. Yesterday, I had one of the old school cars out. It started overheating. I didn't even know what to do. I didn't even know where to put the water.

I had to call my friends out to No Limit, out in No Limit Auto Body. They had to tell me where to put the water in. I had no clue. I just don't know. I'm not mad at that. I don't know. But changing a tire,

every man should be able to change a tire. Every woman should be able to change a tire Every woman should be able To change a tire Every man should have AAA And know where Poppy is That can fix your tire I didn't have AAA growing up AAA cost money AAA cost how much a month?

You know you could use Somebody else's AAA Which I used to do You use somebody else's AAA You're acting like Y'all grew up with cell phones So if you had a flat tire You could call somebody

You could go right to the pay phone Yeah you have to walk To the pay phone No problem In New York there's a pay phone In every corner And that's my point. The world ain't New York. When will y'all realize

that? Okay? I grew up in a place that is more of a reflection of America than New York City, and it's called Monk's Corner, South Carolina, alright? Majority of the world is those rural areas. Alright? You get a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, you gotta change that tire right then and there. You should've moved to New York then.

No, for what? He did. To be delusional like y'all? And not know how to change tires? Let's go to the phone line. We have Emily on the line. Emily, good morning. Hi. Hey, Emily. You know how to change a flat tire? Yeah, I've known since I was 15 years old. I mean, it's sad that you don't know. Where you from, Emily?

I'm from the Bronx. Oh, you're from the Bronx and know how to change a flat tire. There's a fix-a-flat place on every corner in the Bronx. Nah, nah, nah. I grew up the Bronx. Oh, you're from the Bronx and how to change a flat tire. There's a fix-a-flat place on every corner in the Bronx. No, no, no. I grew up with boys. I've known since I was 15 years old because my brothers taught me. It's essential, especially in the Bronx. You grew up in boys.

With boys. With boys. Oh, with boys. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, with boys. So I was raised by men. So I was taught how to drive a car and how to change a tire, how to do my oil change, how to change my plate.

You know how to change the oil? Yeah. What you doing Friday? Shut up. Yeah, I definitely know how to change the oil. I hire you. Who you doing Friday? That's a skill.

I don't. My wife does, though. Really? My wife knows how to change the oil. My dad taught me how to do that also. My dad's a mechanic, too. That's the crazy part. Hello, who's this?

Was a mechanic, I should say. What's going on? It's Marvin. Marvin, what's up, man? You know how to change the tire, bro? Yes, sir. Thank you. Come on, man. It's Marvin Marvin, what's up, man? You know how to change a tire, bro? Yes, sir. Thank you. Envy, come on, man It's 2019 You got all these cars

You a car guy. All it takes is a couple of clicks on YouTube, man You can change a tire yourself. You could have saved yourself seven bucks. Where you from, bro? I'm from Brooklyn, but I live in South Florida This is crazy. All of these New Yorkers know how to change tires. I don't know why you think we wouldn't know how to change a tire because we're from New York.

Because of Envy saying that there's a fix-a-flat. That's one person. I said I know how. No, you didn't. You did not say you know how yesterday. I just said it. I said my dad taught me. You said your dad had a thing in the car.

No, I said he taught me how. Marvin, by the time you look it up on YouTube, you could have found Poppy in Brooklyn. Now, don't lie. In Brooklyn, there was a fix-a-flat place down there five blocks away. That may be so, but at the same time, if you're on the spot and you're not anywhere where there is a fix-a-flat

place, you know, all you got is yourself. You want to waste a triple A for yourself? That's right. You want to get down to 30 and do it yourself? That's right, my brother. As I told y'all yesterday, most people know how to change a flat tire. Well, 70% of people, according to this poll. That's right, my brother. As I told y'all yesterday, most people know how to change a flat tire. Well, 70% of people, according to this poll. That's most.

You know, 30% don't. And I ain't going to front. I usually got some nice J's on, and I ain't going to mess up my J's for no tire, bro. Shut up, man. You grew up rich or something? Nope, but still. Knock it off. If I paid for them J's, I ain't messing up them J's.

How many sneakers you messed up fixing flats? I have no idea, because when you're in the middle of nowhere and your tire is flat, you want to fix your tire. You ain't worried about your goddamn sneakers. And if you know my dad, you know he does not want to pay $7 to change a tire. He'll do it himself. My dad will take the hose out and wash the car himself. He will do everything himself unless it's an absolute emergency. I can't believe you're surprised by this.

The minority does not know how to change a flat tire. Keanu. Yes. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Hey. Hey. So I feel like, I don't mind. I don't think it's a deal breaker if my guy knows how to change

a tire or anything like that. I definitely know how. But I'm going to be really upset if I'm in the car and we get a flat and my guy doesn't know how to change it and I'm outside changing the tire. Y'all wouldn't call AAA? That would be kind of crazy. I mean,

that's a whole entire week. Like, I can get it done. That's just, how do you feel? Like, I can just take care of it. You can get it done in 15 minutes. Where you calling from? I'm calling from Jersey. Jersey? You should know how to change a flat tire in Jersey, because you'd be on them highways. Keanu, what you doing Friday? I might need you to do some service

on my cars. I'm going to charge you a whole lot. All right, Biden. All right. Poppy charged me $7. Diana, good morning. Good morning, Andy. I'm with you.

Good morning. Do you know how to change a tire? No, I'm from Queens, and the flat places are like on every corner. See? No, I never changed a tire. It never. See? No. I'm happy. Never get retired. Never will.

Now I'm married, and that's what I got a husband for. Well, see, I got kids now. That's what I got kids for. But there's a Fix-It Flat place in every damn near every corner in Queens. You got one person to agree with you, bro. And I'm riding with this one person. What's your name? This is ridiculous.

Diana. Hey, Diana. What you doing next week, Saturday? What? What, y'all going to go learn how to fix a flat together? What, you going to come to my car show? You going to fix flats together at my car show, Kim? We can do it together.

We can do it together. All right, there you go. I got you. See, I don't know what y'all talking about. See, she didn't know how to fix a flat. Bro, that's one person out of 15 phone calls, okay? The poll Angelique posted up said 71% of all people. As I told y'all yesterday, most people in America know how to change a flat tire.

But who put up that poll? Bobby Brown's sister? How do we know that poll is accurate? Angelique posted it up. Yeah, I posted it. What's the moral of the story, guys? 1,700 people. The moral of the story is tires should be made out of whatever vagina walls are made out of. If tires were made out of the same material as vagina walls, you would never need

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Now you say we got a special guest in the building every day. That's right. Today we really do got a special guest. That's right. Samuel L. Jackson is here. Hey. Legend, icon. Welcome.

Good morning. Good morning, my brother. Good morning. Do you like getting up this early, first and foremost? I'm up this early every day, actually. If I'm working, I'm definitely up because I'm headed to set by 536. But if I'm at home, I'm headed to the golf course at 6 o'clock. That's just part of your routine. Get up, go golf.

Man, that's a good life. You never get tired of it. It's not a good life. I just try to make sure I'm staying in a routine that's going to work for me. So I'm not shocked when it's time to go to work and they want me to get up and pay me to go to work at that time. What's the longest break you've ever taken in between working? I guess when I was on Broadway. But I was still working.

Yeah, that's work still. But I wasn't getting up in the morning. I was just going to do the show. Because even like this year, you have a lot of movies coming out. But in between filming, have you ever said, you know what, I'm going to take a six. Because even like this year, you have a lot of movies coming out, but in between filming, like, have you ever said, you know what, I'm going to take a... Well, I usually take a month off every year, though. I take a month off and really go on vacation purposely.

That's not that long, though. A purposeful vacation. Yeah, you got to tell us your routine, man, because I look at you and I say to myself, I got something to look forward to at 70, because you look motherfucking good, man. Thank you. What do you do to stay so youthful?

I have no idea. I try to stay stress free. What about vegan? You eat meat? Yeah. I was a vegan for a minute. I was a vegan for about seven months. And you started getting sick? No, I didn't.

I lost so much weight I almost lost a job. And they said, well, if you don't gain 15, 20 pounds, we're going to have to recast. So I went straight to Shake Shack and got my life back together. You got your life back together. So what else do you do? It's got to be more than just... I do Pilates and I play golf. That's it. How do you stay stress-free though?

I make enough money that I don't have to worry about what's going on. I mean, folks say money won't solve all the problems, but it solves enough of them that I don't have to think about them. But you didn't come from money, though. No, I didn't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was looking at you was born 20 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

48. Yeah. So how different did the world look then as opposed to now? I grew up during American apartheid. I lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They had signs. I knew where I could go, where I couldn't go, what I should do, what I shouldn't do. All those things.

You kind of look at life and go, okay. And then when I hear them say it now, make America great again, I go, what are they talking about? Because I remember what they thought making America great again means. How did that not harden your heart though? Like growing up in that era and seeing how white people used to treat us? Well, a loving community and people who make you understand that

you are a great people and there's a reason that they do this to you. That they try to keep you back because you are the richness of what the world is. That you offer something that they try to keep you back because you are the richness of what the world is. You know, that you offer something that they don't have and they know they can't have it, but they want to control it. So, you know, you listen to those people. You have the right teachers.

My whole school life was black. I didn't have white teachers until I got to Morehouse. Wow. So I had teachers that taught my mom and her brothers and sisters. So they knew what the expectation was in my house. They knew that people expected me to go to college. So they pushed me. What kept you focused?

Because your career really got started when you got a lot older. What kept you focused during all that time to be like, I know this is for me? I loved the theater and I loved acting. And when you're in a rich environment of creative people that share the same goals, everybody was trying to get somewhere, or everybody had a different idea about how it was going to happen, and there was enough going on or enough people moving. It's like we're doing a play, and all of a sudden Denzel is like,

he plucked out, and he's gone. He's like, okay, so Denzel's got their TV show, and now he's doing movies. Okay, boom, then we're doing another play, and Morgan gets plucked out. Boom, he's gone. He's doing Street Smart, and he's doing movies. Okay, boom. Then he's doing another play. Morgan gets plucked out. Boom, he's gone. He's doing Street Smart, and he starts doing all this other stuff. Alfre's gone. Wesley's gone. Fish is gone.

So you know you're in the right place. Right. It's just a matter of when your time is coming and not being envious or jealous about it. And sometimes, like me, finding out that I was in my own way. So once I got clean, everything kind of changed. So there's a very distinct correlation of me changing my life and being focused and clear about what I needed to do and my success. So when people say, well, you go to rehab and you do this, you do that,

I was a week out of rehab when I started doing Jungle Fever. So I didn't really need makeup. I was still detoxing. That's how you were typecast. No, no. So by the time I got there, I mean, I walked on set and I went to the craft service table and the fruit of Islam was the security. They were like, man, get away from the table.

Because they thought I was just some crackhead. Yeah, yeah. Spike the Madge. No, no, no, no, man. He's in the security. They were like, man, get away from the table. Because they thought I was just some crackhead. Yeah, Spike the Madge going, no, no, no, no, man. He's in the movie. Sam, he's in the movie. But the correlation between my career changing and me getting straight is very clear. So when people talk about relapse and this, that, and the others, that it's part of your recovery, it's not.

You know, it's understanding that I never did one or nothing. So as long as I understand that and I get up every day and I realize today is another day I got to stay clean, I can still deal with it. What was your drug of choice? Was it crack? Yeah. Yeah, that was my drug of choice.

Alcohol was my drug of choice. The drug of choice was the drug that was in front of me. So how hard was it to kick all those habits? It was just what it was. Alcohol was my drug of choice. The drug of choice was the drug that was in front of me. So how hard was it to kick all those habits? It was just what it was. It was a bad time. I was tired. And they said your wife was so, like, strong with, like, nah, you got to go get fit.

You got to go get help right now. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, the day they found me passed out on the kitchen floor, next day I was in rehab. Did you have that level of self-awareness to know, man, I got to change my lifestyle in order to change my life?

Or was this just something that they made you do? Well, she called my best friend from high school who was a drug counselor and he found a bed for me in upstate New York. So I went straight in there. I didn't go in kicking and screaming. I went in. I was tired. And I listened to what they were saying around me, you know, and you go through it all

and you do it and then the job came up, jungle fever. And, you know, the drug counselors were like, well, you shouldn't do that job. Shouldn't be playing a crack addict. All your triggers are going to be there. Pipes and lighters. I'm like, if for no other reason, if I never see you, mother******. You know, so that was that was motivation enough.

But, you know, I had to stand up in front of my, I mean, then, like, eight, nine-year-old daughter and say, you know, hi, my name's Sam. I'm an addict. That's hard. Did she even know what that was? Not really, but she knew that when I left, I went off to do something better. When they found me laying on the floor, I wasn't well. So that was that. So by the time I came back and I started hanging around with her and looking at her clear eyes

and listening to her voice and her vision of what she wanted to do and daddy do this with me, do that with me. It makes you look at things a lot different. Damn right. Were you a crackhead, crackhead, or a functioning crackhead?

I was functioning. I was going to work every night. I was still doing plays. I was working. Most of my friends work every night. I was still doing plays. I was working. Most of my friends wondered, why'd she lock you up? Wasn't nothing wrong with you. You were still working. Yeah, I was still going to work.

I wasn't stealing from the house. I didn't sell the TV or nothing else. I was making money. That's fine. All right, we got more with Samuel L. Jackson. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Now, you say we got a special guest in the building every day. That's right. Today, we really do got a special guest. That's right.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Samuel L. Jackson. You know, you talked earlier about, you know, having money and being successful. You still do five to six movies a year. Yeah.

What energizes you and give you that motivation to still want to do it so much? I guess it's like ballplayers. It always bothers me to hear that, you know, well, you know, they are tired because they played three games this week. It's like, I used to play basketball every day outdoors on the concrete. Yeah, I can't stand it.

When it's hot. And theater and working in movies is like that to me. It's like theater was hard. I had to get up, go to rehearsal, go do something every night from beginning to end. Three hours of a play from beginning to end. Live in front of people. Movies, I get up, I go to work. A long day is three pages.

And, yeah, it's a 12-hour day, but if I boiled it down to how much work did I do that day, I might have worked an hour and a half of those 12 hours. Most of the rest of the time, I'm in my trailer asleep, watching Judge Judy eating sandwiches, doing nothing. So, yeah, I go to that job. You go to that one. Yeah, and it pays way better than the job I used to have. Gotcha. So, yeah, I go to that job. You go to that one. Yeah, and it pays way

better than the job I used to have. So yeah, I go to it. Plus, I love it. I love the idea of being able to go somewhere, do something else, be somebody else, generally in a place that I normally wouldn't have gone like I just finished doing a movie in Croatia. So you get to explore that when you're not working.

And being a storyteller and an artist is one of those things. It's a blessing. There are only so many acting opportunities in a lifetime. And I want to take all the ones that come before me that I want to do as often as I get a chance to do them. How serious do you take being the highest grossing actor of all time? Because they say $7.4 billion ain't your money. As I want to know, do you give a shit like you get a dubious honor is it great well i mean it it means that

i've been on a bunch of movies that people like that were popular and i like doing popcorn movies and i like doing movies that i want to go see i like movies full of gun violence i like violent movies that's what i like i like scary movies i like violence. I like violent movies. That's what I like. I like scary movies. I like horror movies. I like action movies. So I'll make them. I'll make a serious movie from time to time because I want to help the writer, director,

or there's somebody in it that I want to work with. But I'm not necessarily looking for, you know, an award-winning da-da-da. I'm just looking to go to work and have some fun. How much has Hollywood changed from when you first started to where we are now? Because we always hear about the different ebbs and flows and difficulty for people getting work and just inclusivity in all of those conversations

that we're very focused on. Well, it's changed drastically just because of the number of platforms you have to work, first of all. You know, when I got there, everything I read had Denzel's, Fish's, or Forrest Whitaker's fingerprints on it. You know, they either turned it down or they were thinking about it and didn't think about it fast enough. And I was like, yeah, I'll do it. So I did it.

So you was always the fourth person on the call sheet? I could have been at that time, you know, and that's how it worked. I didn't care. I was going to work. But over the years, because of, like I said, the number of platforms, there's so many jobs now. Consequently, it still comes down to a lot of times that same thing that, you know, I used to bitch about it because I spent my time going to acting school. There are a lot of people who still do go to Juilliard and Yale and all these other people. But a lot of YouTube who still do go to Juilliard and Yale and all these other people, but a lot of YouTube stars

getting jobs now. Still people from the music industry just decide the next day and say, f*** it, I'm an actor. And somebody give them a chance to do it. Sometimes they turn out to be okay, sometimes not so much, but there's room now for everyone to work. Who surprised you by being really great on set that

might have come from the world of Instagram or YouTube and you were like, oh, they were actually really good. I watched Meth Develop over the years. How was Busta when you worked with Busta? Busta was fine. You know, and Busta was great as what Busta was there to be. But

Busta was still, you know, a person from the music industry who you go, we had 630 call. Busta be there by 8. I know that gotta drive you crazy. It don't drive me crazy. We just do something else. What role did you pass up

and be like, damn, I shouldn't have passed up that role? If there's any. None. None. No, I mean, I read films that I didn't do that people did.

And, you know, I feel like, you know, I feel like I was in the Matrix because I dodged a bullet. Oh, that was a bad one. You know, did and you know I feel like you know I feel like I was in the Matrix because I dodged a bullet. Oh that wasn't bad. And then there are films that I passed up that were successful that I'm glad they were successful because

I would have done it differently but I wouldn't uh I don't think I would have had fun doing it. I always firmly believe that you only do the things that are for you. Right. I read that you almost lost your role in Pulp Fiction to another actor. Yeah. How do you think that would have changed the trajectory of your career

if that would have happened? None. Because I'd already won this award at the Cannes Film Festival for Jungle Fever. And I was getting the call at that time. So I did a couple of jobs after that. That were between that and Pulp Fiction and what happened in there. Who was the other actor

in that movie? He's in the movie. So he's in the movie. Yeah, he's actually in it. Was it a brother? He could be called a brother. He's brown. He's brown. So both of y'all ended up with the roles. It was still good. Both of us ended up in the movie. He had a smaller part in the movie.

Now, you got kicked out of Morehouse? For a minute. Now, how'd you get thrown out of Morehouse, and then how did they get you back in? How did they allow you to come back in? They said he got kicked out of Morehouse? For a minute. Now, why'd you get thrown out of Morehouse? And then how did they get you back in? How did they allow you to come back in? They said thrown out. God damn. They said he got thrown out. Well, basically, we locked the Board of Trustees in a building.

Oh, I heard about that. You kidnapped somebody. You kidnapped the people. Well, we didn't kidnap them. They were right there. They just didn't want to talk to us. The Board of Trustees, we asked to talk to them, and they said we don't have time. So we took the chains off the walkway and went down the street to the hardware store,

bought a padlock, and went inside and chained the door shut and said, talk to us now. What were y'all trying to talk about that was so important? No black studies, no student involvement on the trustee board, no community involvement. And we were sitting right in the middle of some projects. So that was lots of different things. Really? The actual black members of the board didn't even have a real vote.

Wow. So we were trying to get things changed and they said fine. We did it and then they did the whole bulls**t. Oh, I'll worry.

Well, we get it and you guys will give you amnesty bonds. So when everybody left and the school was out, they called a specific group of us back and summarily kicked us

out of school while that was happening. And in the middle of the next year or so, my mom threatened to sue him. She was like, okay, you can come back. Yeah, let's get back in. Now, you worked with John Singleton on the first Shaft film, right?

How did him passing, you know, change? How did it change the significance of the film? His first shot at all. The film was done. It was done? Yeah, the film was finished, wrapped in the can. Tim was off doing something else. He and Tim were good friends.

Actually, John and I were about to do a film this fall. Wow. So I was kind of bummed. Is that film still going to happen? I was in Croatia. Yeah, it's going to happen. I guess I'll find the right director now. You didn't want John on Shaft?

I didn't have anything to do with that. Do you love Shaft? The movie, the character, the Richard character, my character. That was just crazy how you asked that question like that. What are we talking about? How does Shaft make you feel? Because whoever wrote those lines. I was trying to get a sound bite.

Would it be painful to have three Shafts instead of one? It's always good. More Shaft than you can handle. That was a good tagline. All right, we got more with Samuel L. Jackson. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Samuel L. Jackson. Yee. So let me ask you about Harlem Today, right? Because this is Shaft 2019. So what kind of role does Harlem Today play? Because it is different than what Harlem was like

even 20 years ago. Well, if you look at hours, you can't really tell that. It's funny though, because the first day we pulled up to work in Harlem, the first eight people we saw were white. Different Harlem. With Starbucks cup in their hands. Where we at?

What street is this? So it was pretty out there to see that, you know, and the change of the, I guess, culture. What about social media and modern technology in this shaft? He's the kid that understands that in another kind of way that my analog ass doesn't necessarily understand. That's part of the generational difference that we use in the film to

create humor and how he can show me things that I didn't know. And there are some slightly un-PC jokes in here that he helps fix also. You know, there's a whole joke about this organization called Brothers Watching Brothers. And we keep questioning him about it. That's not like the sequel to Shaft right now.

Yeah, right. It's funny how that plays out. Because we shot a lot of the movie in Atlanta, so when you say, brothers watching brothers, they go, oh, that's a lot. It's immediately dropped on there. Oh, yeah.

Leonard's mall. It's like, oh, man. That casting coffee shaft in Atlanta got to be funny as hell. I didn't say that. But I gotta reflect, I gotta translate the real life for you too

though as far as social media, right? For sure. Like, that gotta be a culture shock to you in a lot of ways. Sam Jackson or John Sher? You in real life.

Samuel L. Jackson. I got a gang of followers. Yeah, he's pretty good on there. I know, but I'm saying when people... I'm not bad with my social media. I manage it myself. Which is always amazing people, they always go, well, somebody else is doing this. No, that's me. I there. I know, but I'm saying when people... I'm not bad with my social media. I manage it myself. Okay, okay.

I always amaze the people. They always go, well, somebody else is doing this. No, that's me. I feel like it has to be you. Because I disappear sometimes and, you know, I back up. What about when you go to your mentions and they're talking crazy to you about something? I don't care about that. My daughter told me a long time ago, don't interact.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I read that s***. Yeah, yeah. Anything ever hurt your feelings? I read s***. I block s***. I block motherf***ing. There you go. That's dope. You got blocked by Samuel L. Jackson. Was there anything Anything ever hurt you feelings? I read shit. I block shit. I block motherfucking shit. There you go.

That stuff you got blocked by Samuel L. Jackson. Was there anything that ever hurt your feelings? No, my shit don't know me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. How are you as a dad and a husband? Because you are the curse king. Yeah, I'm that guy. I never baby talked to my daughter.

I just talked to her. I heard her, you know, say fuck you to her friends when she was little. What did you say? Good girl? I go, look, you can talk like that to your friends, but you can't talk like that to grown people. Okay. You ask, what did they do? And you're like, yeah, f*** them.

No, I could hear them talking. I could hear them talking or whatever. My wife tells this story. We actually went to a friend of ours' wedding in Detroit, and this lady was carrying Zoe, and she said, baby, you want some of this food? And Zoe looked, and she was like, what is that? And the lady was like, what?

And then she's like, who, baby? And she's like, mm-mm. No, that looks f***ed up. And the ladies just put her down. It's like, who's baby is this? But we never shielded her or talked to her. Plus, she went to the theater with us all the time. When she was small, we had to go to work.

So we'd take her to the theater. She'd hang out with the stage manager. She'd go backstage, collect valuables, talk to all the actors, hang out with them. She's a cool kid growing up. She's a very cool kid growing up. Now she's still a cool kid. She's got great jobs. She's got good work ethic.

She produces shows like Top Chef and Top Chef Masters. She just did last season's Project Runway. Nice. You've been married, man, 38 years, right? How long? 40 this year. 40. Oh, congratulations, man, 38 years, right? 40 this year. 40, y'all. Congratulations, man.

Give us a round of applause. Give us young men some tips on how to have that kind of longevity in a marriage. I guess like my wife says, you gotta have some amnesia. I heard her say that. I was like, yeah. Both of you. Gotta have a little amnesia from time

to time. Understand that when you're in a bad place, there's a way to work it out. It's easy to walk away. But to create a strong relationship, you gotta work through things sometimes. And sometimes you just gotta say you're sorry when you ain't. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you gotta own it. Today is National Black Men Don't Cheat Day. National Black Men Don't Cheat Day. What? National Black Men Don't Cheat Day. We just came up with that, man. Black Men Don't Cheat. Oh, you made that shit up.

There ain't no makeup. We're changing the narrative. That's right. Black Men Don't Cheat. Just today? No, man. Thank you. That's what I said.

We're celebrating. For one day, y'all not cheating? We're celebrating monogamy. That's right. For one day. And men that are faithful to their women. We're celebrating. I've been married 18 years.

He's been married. Me, him, you. Yeah, you. Yeah. Okay. Has it been hard to be faithful all these years, especially being in Hollywood? You can't undo it. Hollywood.

People keep saying that. Everybody cheats. It don't matter if you work. Divorce rate is the same everywhere. It ain't just Hollywood. Like Chris Rock said, a man is only faithful to his options. Stars get way more options. So do doctors.

That's true. Doctors are the number one on the list of children, actually. So do pro tennis players, golfers, race car drivers. So has it been easy

or hard for you to remain faithful? I guess it's easy. I'm an only child, so I'm very comfortable with myself. I like being alone, so I know how to entertain myself. That sounds crazy.

That sounds like you've got a lot of lotion on deck, which is good. That's fine, too. Once I got sober, it was easier for me to be comfortable with me. I didn't need to validate my existence with other people or other things or substances or or praise from people understand that if i do this it's going to be more trouble than it's worth that's right you know so a moment of instant gratification is not you know as valid as the relationships that i have or that i have you know the history that i've created with somebody that i'm really and that's exactly why black men

Don't say you guys got you, but there's probably no I'm just saying reality here have you ever hated a character you had to play because there's characters that you've had to play him We're like that person is Like in Django You know, but people definitely... Steven has his fans. Yeah, Uncle Ruckus. And a lot of people like Steven

just because Steven is unapologetically evil. Yeah, they always use that as a meme on social media now. Whenever they want to call somebody a sellout, that meme pops up. Anybody ever tried you like that? I don't mind that. That character made so many people so mad. It's acting though.

I know, and that's the point of it. I did stuff in that movie that's not in the movie that really would have made you mad. Really that bad? Hopefully one of these days Quentin will put it out there. Oh my God. I can't imagine. He was like, I don't want people to kill you.

Because that's another case where I saw the movie. It's like, man, what happened to my scene? It's a little too much. I can't even imagine what he might have done that was worse than what we saw. Really? I mean, I can in my head, but. Would you do that role in this political climate? You know, you got all these woke people.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a role. People ask about it. I mean, actors should be able to portray whatever they need to portray. You played it very well. Too well. Thank you.

I was like, damn it. I really like him, but I really don't like him today. That's what a good actor supposed to do. But you still enjoyed it. I did enjoy it. He definitely made that movie. You enjoyed it. Who that **** on that nag?

You just go, come on now. Come on now. As soon as you saw him, he's like, oh my God, what is he talking about? In the big house? He gonna sleep in the big house? What? Well, we appreciate you joining us. I know you gotta go.

Coming to America. Are you gonna rob Prince Hakeem in this one? Are you in this one? I asked them that. Because somebody was asking me about, you know, coming to America. And I was like, what? Y'all want me back? And I was like, do I own McDonald's now?

I don't know. Maybe you just got out of jail and you go rob them again. Damn, what time you get for a robbery? Maybe he could be reformed. He was a super president. That's about right. Super president. No, I would like it if he was reformed and he actually had a business now

and he, you know, had changed his life around. That's your choice? Yeah. Okay, fine. I'm a positive, optimistic person. All right. All right. Well, it's Samuel L. Jackson.

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Donkey of the Day does not discriminate. I might not have the song of the day, but I time for Donkey of the Day. Donkey of the Day does not discriminate. I might not have the song of the day, but I got the donkey of the day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey, man, hit it with the heat. It's the Breakfast Club, bitches. Who's donkey of the day today? Well, Ed Sheeran, donkey of the day goes to my Carolina brethren, Cam Coldheart. I was highly entertained by Cam Coldheart this weekend. Not because he did anything

particularly entertaining, but because watching him try to convince the internet that he wasn't bothered by the beatdown that he received at the hands of the baby when he was clearly bothered by the beatdown he received at the hands of the baby was highly entertaining. Now, if you haven't heard, a quick recap. Cam Coldheart is a rapper

from Charlotte who is clearly highly upset that the baby who's also from Charlotte is on and not him. Trust me, I went down to Cam Coldheart is a rapper from Charlotte who is clearly highly upset that DaBaby, who's also from Charlotte, is on and not him. Trust me, I went down to Cam Coldheart rabbit hole this Memorial Weekend. And for the past couple of years, you, Cam Coldheart, have done nothing but taunt DaBaby. You have had nothing good to say about DaBaby. Let's listen to this hate. How the hell do you carry guns with no license? And you a convicted felon

and you popped a **** in Walmart and you ain't least catch the convicted felon charge or carry a concealed weapon? Either you the police or you lying. Then somebody else put that **** up and you motherf***er getting the fame off of it. It don't sound like you popped a ****, bro. And it's just me

speaking for the people come on man anybody that know me or this little you know this little you're not really trying to fight me this little peewee ass little i'll throw you all cap trying to promote his album now y'all don't eat clap chase why they responding to me because i got clout i got clout trying to get clout off me around here, talking like he tough like that. Making sure he good at home. Because he know I really can make it the way he won't be. You feel me?

You won't even be safe to come home or do a show nowhere if I said so. And check this out. Drop the address. Y'all tell that bitch to drop the address wherever right now. I'm on the way. That's on my kids. That's on Charlotte. That's on the Carolina's. I'm on the way. That's on my kids. That's on Charlotte. That's on the Carolina's.

I'm on the way right now. Wow. Listen, that's just a snippet. You really were into this. Yeah, too. Really into this. That's just a snippet of what he's been doing the past couple years. I don't even want to picture you at home just looking up all these clips.

Hey, man. I'm an old man. I like to see the young boys just act up from afar. All right? My brother, Cam Coldheart, if nobody else is going to tell you, I'm going to tell you. You look like a grade A hater. Okay. You look like a man who is highly upset the baby is on and not you.

Okay. Which I think is wild because the Carolinas need to be sticking together. You should be rooting for the baby to win because when he wins, he opens the floodgates for a bunch of new Carolina artists. As you can see, the baby is prospering. Stunner for Vegas is right behind him. I see the young man Rich Dunk moving, Black Zach moving, Tia Kareem, Rennie Rucci. All I'm saying is the baby got people talking,

so why not celebrate him instead of hate on him? Because the next person who could benefit from him shining a light on the Carolinas, in particular North Carolina, may be you. Well, Cam Coldheart and the baby ended up in the same Louis Vuitton store this weekend. Louis Vuitton store this weekend. Louis Vuitton store in South Park Mall, I believe.

And Cam Coldheart decided to taunt the baby, decided to talk reckless to the baby. And, well, it didn't end the way I think he wanted it to because Cam Coldheart got caught with his pants down. Literally. You a bitch. Y'all look at this s*** baby. That s*** baby in here talking some s***. He walking up on me and s*** like he about to do something. What you don't do? What you talking some s***. He walking up on me and s*** like he about to do something. What you don't do?

What you taking your s*** off for? Get away, you scared ass s***. Get away. Get away. You so scared, boy. Cold hearted. Get away, please. All I heard was, excuse me.

I think that was a white lady. Can we hear the aftermath of the altercation? Huh, Kel Coldheart? I'm the truth, not the mouth. Me. Go low. Quit playing with me, boy. Pick your pants up.

Pick your pants up. All right. First of all, kids, this video shows the importance of belts. All right. The fact Cam Coldheart was attempting to buy a belt and then Cam ended up on the ground with his pants around his ankles shows why belts are so important. You really shouldn't leave home without one.

Even though Cam got caught with his pants down, he shouldn't have got caught with his pants down because he was aware of the baby's body. Alright, you can't act war ready with no belt and your pants hanging around your ankles. Alright, I watched Cam try to fight the baby with his phone in one hand and trying to keep his pants up with the other hand.

You wasn't even ready for what you was asking for, Cam. Come on now. Well, Cam Coldheart the next day was acting like he was unbothered. But when a person keeps telling you over and over how unbothered they are, they are clearly bothered. I'm going to keep it real, though. I ain't letting this shit on the track. Okay.

Come on, man. I just let it in because you can't follow it. Oh, though. I ain't letting this s*** on the track. Okay. I did, though. Come on, my s***. I just let it in. People can't follow. Oh, God. This s*** don't make or break me, my s***. I'm so much more than some s*** jumping me. You feel me?

I'm about to use this spot on some old other s***. This won't matter, s***. Lambo truck on the way this year. That's what I'm talking about. Lambo truck on the way. It's an envy all day. This year. No, listen.

Don't encourage this. All right? Turn your goddamn phone off when I'm trying to talk. What are you doing? Lambo truck on the way. This is Envy all day. This year. No, listen. Don't encourage this. Turn your goddamn phone off when I'm trying to talk. Envy, what are you doing? Lambo dealer. Listen, I want you to listen to your Uncle Charlotte, my brother, Cam. What's happening? People are laughing at you, not with you. All right? Don't let this be your legacy, my guy.

I don't care how many new IG followers you got. I don't care how many blogs post you. None of that matters when it comes to who you are as a man. Who cares if you get a new Lambo truck? You're just going to be the guy in the Lambo truck that the baby beat up. And with your luck, the only Lambo truck colors that will be available

are black and blue. Which will be yet another reminder of how the baby beat you. Look, I have no remorse for anyone who trolls someone online the way Cam Cole Hart was trolling the baby. If you're taunting somebody online like that, talking crazy to someone online like that, you get what you earned, okay, not what you deserved, what you earned, all right? Cam, you caused this whole situation on yourself because you've been hating on the baby. You clout chasing, and now you got the clout, but not the clout you was looking for.

See, words matter, and clout has a couple of definitions. One is influence or power, especially in politics and business. That's the clout everyone is chasing nowadays. They want power. All right? They want influence. But the other definition for clout, and you can look it up if you think I'm lying. A song by Cardi B and Offset.

No. I know that song. It's a heavy blow with the hand or a hard object. All right? And synonyms for clout include smack, slap, punch, bang. So, yes, you was chasing clout and you got it. You got those heavy blows from the baby's hand. And I don't care if you got jumped.

No such thing as a fair one, my brother, because life is not fair. You said you was ready for whatever. That's part of the whatever, Cam. Listen, treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given. Trust me, I've been punched on camera before because you can't tell people how to react to what you say about

them. And I ran when I got punched on camera. The video is on YouTube right now. It was like six, seven years ago. The reason I ran is because I didn't want to end up like Cam Coldheart, laid out on the ground bloody with my pants around my ankles. But I'm saying all that to say when you put disrespect out there, the disrespect will return to you.

So I just want everyone to know that all recklessness that's displayed online, all this talking crazy to people, all this running up on people with cameras because you want clout, let Cam Coldheart be a lesson to us all. You don't deserve what you haven't earned. You get what you give. And Cam, you earned that beatdown and the viral embarrassment that comes with it. Please let Remy Ma give Cam Coldheart the biggest hee-haw.

Hee-haw, hee-haw. You stupid mother f***er. You dumb. And don't feel sorry for him. We can tell. And once again, he is not on. All right? This is not going to translate to any money.

It's not going to translate to any deals. It's just going to be a bunch of viral embarrassment and digital depression. That's it. All right. We got more coming up next. We're The Breakfast Club. You're checking out the world's most dangerous morning show. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, sir. His album is out right now, Father of Four. Yes, sir. Offset. Offset.

What's happening? Welcome, welcome. So first and foremost, why did you change the name of the album? What was the name before? I thought it was another name of the album before. I ain't never put no name out. Ah. I just wanted, I did that for my kids, you know what I mean?

A lot of people only know about culture. But, yeah, I just wanted to focus on my kids. I got four kids, and I've been having kids. Like, my oldest son, nine, you know what I'm saying? It's just growing up, maturing. I mean, the music, maturing, 27. I'm maturing, seeing how I'm going through something. I had a rough year this year, too, so I just wanted to focus on my kids

and give out some good content music. That's interesting to hear you say you had a rough year this year too, so I just wanted to focus on my kids and give out some good content music. That's interesting to hear you say you had a rough year because we saw you be in jail before and all of that. What made the year rough? You know. What made the year rough? Breakups, car accidents. People talking, car accidents.

I almost lost my life on that one. Trying to save somebody else's life. So it was just a time to grow up. I just wanted to show another side of me that people don't really see. It was very personal, a lot of things that you told on this album. Like you talk about your relationship or not having a relationship with your dad. How does that affect you as far as how you treat your kids?

Well, growing up affected me a lot. That's why I think I was running around doing so much. I didn't really have no father guidance. So without that, and then you got the streets. You just let the streets guide you. Your mama, you now, your mama become the person you hiring from. Growing up, your mama was your dad. Yeah. Yeah. But it still be a different connection, you know what I mean?

I don't really know how the connection would be because I ain't got no father. You know what I'm saying? I make sure I reflect that on my kids, but it be hard sometimes with scheduling too because time is everything. How was it doing the it doing with all four of them at once i actually had three photo shoots i just posted the the first rough drive but we had three photos that boy because i got five and that's the toughest thing ever making all of them smile all of them look straight and then you be working so hard i'm trying to get it done i'm not

even really noticing it's like 11 Now it's 12 o'clock So then I'm getting frustrated But I gotta keep it in I'm like just calm down We couldn't get it done It's too late And Coach is the toughest one Cause she's the youngest

So she hungry She crying She hungry She crying She don't wanna sit somewhere For a little minute She's not trying to sit down Period

It was tough But we got out though Did you change your diapers Offset? Yeah I'm big on that Okay You said I'm big on that I said I've been doing that You said you've been doing that I've been doing that You, I'm big on that. Okay. You said, I'm big on that.

I said, I've been doing that. You've been doing that. I've been doing that, yeah. I'm big on that. I enjoy it. So even with the money and everything, if they say the grandma's there, the mama there, you're like, nah, I got it. I feel like the moments be special, too.

Even changing your child's pamper, that's a special moment between you and your child. I was going to ask, with the nine-year-old, with so much talking about culture, of course, because with Cardi, did he feel a certain way like damn they always talk about coaching don't talk about me or talk about my siblings nah he ain't never no no no no he he's still a kid i try to keep my kids kids so that instagram i don't really let them rock out on there like that you know what i mean he plays sports but no it ain't never been no comparison they be they be pressing me about

seeing her and you know we got to put her on private planes because people we we just i try to keep my kids kids I don't know about it. That's why I never I never moved to LA because I ain't I don't want cameras all in a face Cuz one time my oldest son was like, um, somebody said something to him in school He like my daddy got more money than you your daddy Beat him though. I beat him though. I Mean he he thought he thinking and he was I was seeing how when he told me, and the teacher told me how he feeling like it's okay,

so I had to whoop him about that. And I'm like, because I wanted him to be regular. Daddy, you're telling the truth, though. Right. Who was the daddy? Who was the other daddy? I don't know. I keep him in public school, though, so, you know what I mean?

Keep him a kid. Is it hard having more than one baby mama? At times. But now at this point in time, you got to keep it about the kids. It's about the kids, yeah. This is what you need. Provide this. I'm going to provide schooling.

I'm going to provide housing. I'm going to provide transportation, but you provide your lifestyle. But I make sure that everybody, you know what I mean, everything good for the kids. Because I want my kids in good housing. I don't want to be, I can't be, no, this one can't. Everybody has to have a nice place, a nice school district. I like that because if the moms

are happy and comfortable, it makes the kids happy and comfortable because they're the ones that have to help make sure that the kids are good. So all the big moms got to have a Bentley truck. No. We all got to just be having good transportation, good area to stay in with a good school district. You know, you were very honest about where you were at in your life

when you had your kids. You know, you talk about on Lick, about what you had to do in order to provide for your firstborn son, which was very difficult. And then you even talk about your daughter and not even knowing for sure if that was your daughter at first. That was like one of the hardest moments of my life, to be honest. Because I was here and I have a kid, but she got to my mom on Facebook.

And then when I see the kid, I know it's me. You know what I mean? But she's five months. I don't even know this. I know I seen her one time. I didn't even know what state. I know this is my daughter. This is my first daughter.

But she's so beautiful. I couldn't do it like that. I just tried to be invisible. I couldn't do that. I just had to stand up. What was the decision to finally open the world up to culture? Because people were trying to see the pictures for as soon as y'all had it. What was the decision?

The first time we saw it was on the cover of your album. People got so much to say. It's our daughter. You know, first you got to protect her. Take the time to see what's going on first. She's still like, we still will probably not be just posting her all the time. Because it's our kid. You got to keep something private, man.

How do you figure out how much is too much to give her your personal life? I don't feel like it's never too much when you're starting to grow. And you being a grown man, you know what I mean? Because grown men talk about their issues. They face it. And it's okay to say you messed up. You know what I mean? That's what's good.

I think the human part of it, of you admitting the situation with your firstborn daughter and just saying how at first you didn't really want to believe this and how you had to come to accept it. But so many people have been in that position. And maybe it will encourage people to be better about stepping up and handling their responsibilities, no matter what the circumstances were.

Just face it like a man. And so when I made that song, I matter what the circumstances were. trying to put mood music on there. That's why I was taking my time, pushing back, taking my time. Because I wanted to be able to control the content because I feel like content music coming back around. Now we see you talk about the lean in that album too that you used to use lean a lot. Are you done with all the drug use at all? Right now, I'm cleaning that up right now. You can't really work for real.

It's like you're a whole other person no matter what you're doing. And then you think you're not. And I'm just starting to learn, like, what is it doing for me? What I'm doing for somebody else's kid when they look at me, you know what I mean? What I'm doing for my kids when they're looking at me. Because they see everything. If you got it in a cup, your cup. I know how my kids see it.

My son will ask me, like, Dad, what you drinking? I want some juice. I'm just maturing, bro. I'm going through a little thing. I'm married now. And Cardi had issues with that too, right? Did she tell you, like, you got to chill out on that or you can't come back in the house?

Nah, she ain't do it like that. You know what I mean? She just, you know, they jab at you. Stop doing that. I like you what you. And then you notice. Because certain things you do, if you don't change it, you'll lose people around you.

And you make poor decisions. Poor decisions come from that instant decisions. Because you're not you. And I ain't trying to do that no more. And I did that. All right, we got more with Offset. When we come back,

don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

Offset is here. His album, Father of Four, is out right now. Charlamagne? One of the reoccurring themes on your album, you talk about

not wanting to have money just for yourself because that's selfish. You need to leave it for your kids you talk about not wanting to have money just for yourself. Because that's selfish. You need to leave it for your kids. Exactly. So all these lifestyle changes is for that. I'm kicking and dog breaking the house because there wasn't no leftover money from the family, ever.

There was never no money. I don't never want to take my kids through that. How my kids going to be doing anything? Like, they're struggling. And I'm like this. And I got all these cars. And I got all this here. And I got, and I'm a star.

I be seeing, like, I seen Juice J, Nas. no I be see I be reading and watching like I put this money up put this money right here put this money right here then me and Cardi got to buy a house in Atlanta off your video like we was just talking like we need to start doing this Cardi hit me one time about investing in Jersey University in Atlanta and that's what I like to see and the fact when I was talking out there he was like yeah I'm on that you know I mean and that's that that wealth that you could say, here, my kid's here. This is for y'all.

Exactly. You paid off that every month until y'all give it to y'all kids and y'all kids' kids. And that's what it should be about. Yeah, man. I'm owning a business. I'm having houses. Trying to get these apartment complexes

in Atlanta right now. Because I ain't know. Like, condos. It's a little, it ain't nothing but little bins. And where I'm from, in Atlanta, where I'm from,

they're 200, listen, 230,000, 250,000. All these condos, you paying 3,500 a month, the lease, man, you can own them. As long as it's under market value, you'll always be good. But if you buy, let's say, a complex in Atlanta, let's say it might be a million dollars, that rent roll, you just use that to play. I got a complex that just pays my fund. That handles my cars, my jewelry, my wife. I ain't got to touch that. That use that to play. I got a complex that just pays my fund. That handles my cars, my jewelry, my wife. I ain't got to touch that.

That's that condo. Everything else is something different, you know what I mean? And you just do that, and as long as you keep that mind frame, you'll be good. Do anything for clout. Your generation likes to focus on everything but talent, so is it hard for you not to get caught up in that? Sometimes, because sometimes I ain't got no beat in talking. But you know,

I be coming at you. Social media come at you like some punches. But that might not be for clout. That's just you Responding or reacting but then people look at his cloud to go You know me you felt social media was trying to come at you and ruin your relationship at one time for sure They were going that we were Charlamagne and I you and I we had your back for so you know that yeah I know that I know that You just hope that Things make your relationship I just want people

To be realistic Yeah no we had your back We just want things To make your relationship Stronger I'm wrong like I did something that's wrong But bro don't kill me

Me and your guy Been there a lot So we know A lot of my folks A lot of me and my people To work this out Cause now it's serious It's not no game

It's not no You know what I'm saying It's an issue It's a family But it's's not no, you know what I'm saying? It's an issue that needs to be, right. But it's also a private situation and I like for the fact

that for women, you know, I think that it is important to acknowledge a woman's real feelings and hurt that a woman might have. Sometimes people are like,

oh, just take them back but it is a process. It is you proving that you've messed up, that you've changed. No, they weren't saying

take them back. But that's how I know she loved me. They weren't trying to... They wanted it to be over. Yeah. I'm new to being married. I was 26, man.

I'm 27 in the prime. After having the number one, after having the best year of my 2017, it was the best year for my career, for my group, everything. You know what I mean?

You got to learn, like, it's not no game. It ain't no game. You did what was right, in my opinion. You fought and you fought and you did what you had to do yeah I was down with nobody saying yeah that was the weird thing everybody was giving you flack when you came out

on stage with the cake and I'm done I don't give a damn I love my girl yeah I call my wife on air live Charlamagne gas me up for that one but I love you I'm That's a real boy That's a real boy Right Live Live Hey baby I love you I'm sorry You know what I mean For real I'm back It got me back to this It worked for Emmy

For Charlamagne it was for clout What you mean for clout Great ratings for us Nah I wanted He was coming in He was coming in I didn't think Emmy was going to make it I didn't know what was wrong

He was about to quit the job And then I was like Yo whatever you got going on You you need to let everybody know. And then he said that. And I'm like, oh, that got real. I didn't know he was going to do that. You know that feeling when your wife sometimes letting everybody know? Like, bro, you letting yourself know?

Because you got to be a man, like I said, with the album. Like, you got to step forward and face what it is you got to face. Love is a beautiful thing, bro. And then try to be cool and act like, bro, we get hurt too, bro. And we can say it, bro. It's okay, dog. Was there ever a time when you felt like, bro. We get hurt too, bro. And we can say it, bro. It's okay, dog. Was there ever a time when you felt like,

you know, let me fall back and give her her space? I ain't gonna say nothing on the gram. I ain't gonna come out of her shoulders. I'm just gonna let her

go through it. I'm here to say something on the gram, bro. I was pressing up. I wasn't giving her space. People say you gotta give space to go. Bro, you ain't giving

no, what? What? Give your girl some space. Who? Space to go where? Who? I'm with you. Where you done?

Bro, I lose it all. I lose her. i'm with you where you know i lose it all i lose her i'm telling you early like who as you should i'm pulling up man if you love something let it go if it come back to you it's yours so you did that it came out you don't let it go i don't let it go might don't come back you keep fighting yeah i might don't come back Might don't come back man For real man You was scared that You was gonna lose a fella For sure I ain't heard this girl

Like this y'all Yeah Never again You good now Everything You gotta keep it You learn the lesson You gotta go through steps

And different things So we can grow So y'all did the marriage Counseling and all that Worked through it Gotta work Gotta keep it Don't stop

Let's talk about you Just how you've grown, right? Because you talk about your grandmother on the album and missing her. You talk about your old life for robbing. Did you do some type of therapy or something? Like to deal with the trauma you may have? Yeah, you know what therapy I went through? What?

Jail. For real. For real. That saved my life. A lot of these cats, bro, especially in music, bro, they be like trying to be locked up. Bro, I done had a judge in my face like, hey, I see you again, I'm going to give you 10 years. Key R.A. Cephas, ain't no offset. And I've been, last time I had that, last arrest when I was in the States, bro, I did nothing. I was with my security and caught a charge related to a firearm game with my security. I sat in jail eight months and was not getting no bond for no reason.

So that just made me focus all the way down. Like, hold on. When I get out, bro, I'm never doing this no more. I'm going to do this, this, this. I'm going to turn myself into a monster with music. Right. And I did that. Even with your temper, because back in the day,

it seemed like you would always get in the fights. Like, how did you calm that down? It ain't worth it. I'm going to lose. Too much to lose i just start seeing like the odds people want to try to piss you off so they can get a payout people want to try you bro this type of game it ain't no point of being tough what you being tough and you rapping for you making millions bro so when you get into little beefs with people right like like say chris brown or whoever do you ever think you would really throw it away for social media? I don't even want to talk about that because it's like, bro, I stepped out of my I apologize to my fans. It's my fault.

You know what I'm talking about? Who I am, I ain't even supposed to be replying. I ain't supposed to be replying. It's my fault. Going on shout-out s***. You know what I mean? But at the end of the day, I've been through the real. I've been shot at for real, dog. My partner been killed in the hotel and I was on the news i said for real

rp paris brown killed murder i'm holding me telling me don't let me die bro and he died lost i swear i've been through real life so i ain't gonna let nobody the disrespect is hard tonight like to tolerate it from where my background i was taught to adjust disrespect and handle disrespect but it could go so left here. And when it go left field, ain't nobody going to do nothing but point. Yeah. And do this. He did this. He did this.

Ain't nobody really. These folks ain't been through the real. I get the picture because I really done bumped my head a thousand times. I got cuts in my head. This ain't no cap. I got 16 more shots. I know what the streets can do for me. Nothing.

I've been trying to do stuff so much to change the Google search. When you used to Google search me, it'll pop up with the bad. It's your time for the good, nothing. I've been trying to do stuff so much to change the Google search. When you use the Google search me, it'll pop up with the bad. It's your time for the good, Jeremy. Holler at me. I've got some people that can clean that up for you. Clean up your Google search. It's clean now. I did some righteous things.

I didn't clean it up. You got to clean yourself up. All right, we got more with Offset and the Builder. As a matter of fact, let's get into a joint right now off his album. This one features Cardi B. It's called Clout. The Breakfast Club. You're checking out the world's most dangerous morning show. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Offset is here. His album, Father of Four, is out right now. Charlamagne? Would you ever want to reconcile with your father? Yeah, well, yeah. Come pull up. I ain't got no beef with you.

When's the last time you seen him? Four. Four. Damn. I talked to him when I turned 12. He called me on my birthday like, I'm going to see you. I stayed up until like 6 in the morning. You know how that go.

Never heard back. Then I hear from him about when I turned like 22. Now we on a little bit. And then last time I talked to him was 2016. I always been a kid like why he don't like me why he ain't rocking with me he trippin I'm rich I'm trying to give him the money every time I talk to him I'm like you want to pay for man listen man I'm about to send you 20,000 where you at I want to be I fly jet to you

right now I come get you like son I ain't ain't he might say something like um I'm on the pay phone so when I get to the house I'm gonna call you and then I never get a call and I call his mama and phone, so when I get to the house, I'm going to call you. And then I never get a call. And then I call his mama, and she'll tell me she ain't seen him. So I think he got something else going on. Is he on drugs? I love him. Or you don't really know?

He on drugs for sure. He been shot. He still in the streets. Like, this is recently. Like, shot in the stomach. He got in a car crash in the 18. Broke his hip. Got his hip replaced.

It's just a lot of, and I don't know what happened, but I love him though. To keep it real, I took some shots of him on my album so he can reach.

What are you doing, bro? How are you struggling? How's your mama struggling? I don't even know these people, but these are my family. I know you know I'm everywhere.

Pull up. Come talk to me. I ain't mad at you. I got something for you, really. That's interesting you ain't mad at him, though. Like, you don't resent him for not being there.

I know how I be. You can either let the streets take you away, or you can kick in with your family. A lot of folks, the streets take them away from their mama. Their grandmama, they're there every time. So I've just been on the other side, too. I've been a father that was locked up, tripping, not really focused on life goals, not really focusing on taking care of the kids. I'm buying little

things, but I'm really being selfish because I don't have nothing myself. I know how mamas could be too. It's a dirty gang too now. Mama could have been playing it dirty and then it got to a point where he just gave up. Say something like,

why would my son be with you and you doing all this? It's just, I've been on the other side, so I ain't mad at you, pops. How your mom feel about that, though? Your mom like, man, don't do nothing for him. He wasn't around. My mama know how the type of person I am, so she just be respecting it like,

keep trying to find him, son. Don't give up on trying to find him. Sometimes I done last out. She don't know what it's from. It be that. Because it's embarrassing not to have you there. You can act tough if you want to. I need to meet my sister that I don't know.

I need to meet my... I need to make sure my family good. I got to provide, bro. It's real life. Who life did you save in the car crash? You say he was trying to save somebody else's life. He had to swerve to meet somebody. Okay.

He probably was like a... A fiend. A fiend. Because how you just in the middle of the street. When I'm looking, it's raining. I'm still going to look what I should be going. I'm going about 50 on a one-way street. And I see you.

You look. And then I'm super close to you now. So I'm like, where are you going? And then I go around. And how that hair cat is, it's fishtail. And I didn't have my traction on. So at first, it's black. I couldn't even see what I was seeing. And there was a treehtail. And I didn't have my attraction on. So, at first, it was black.

I couldn't even see what I was seeing. And there was a tree. BAM! And I remember when I hit everything, I felt my teeth because my bottom tooth came out. I felt my tooth come out. I couldn't blink this eye.

But, the dude came to the window and like, had to see if I was dead and how the door was jammed. So,

I couldn't get out of my door. So, I just yelled like, I'm panicking. I'm like, what you doing? I'm trying to tell him to open the door. jammed, so I couldn't get out of my door, so I just yelled, like, I'm panicking. I'm like, what you doing? I'm trying to tell him to open the door. He just go, he run off. I could climb out from the other side because the car was squished, so it had jammed the doors.

But the other door was good, though, because I had hit it kind of on the left side, on the driver's side, instead of this side. So when I crawl out, my jury started falling off my neck. Now, I don't know where to do that. I start grabbing my arm. You worried about that damn jewelry. I'm like, I ain't trying to get robbed.

I ain't trying to get robbed. You got to live. I'm like, I ain't trying to get robbed. I grabbed that. I just remember I grabbed it. And then I remember, like, a dude was running, like, yo. He ran down to me, and I couldn't really see. I got so much blood, and it was just covered.

I'm walking, because I was probably a quarter mile from my house. So I'm walking to the house, and then he just helped me walk up. And he just dipped. Dude helped you in your death? Like an angel. Come to find out he was walking from work. He walks from work, and he was a single father, too, with two kids. So I had bought him a car.

And what blew me, right? I bought him a little Nissan, right? They telling me on the internet, why did you buy him a Nissan? You should have bought him. He's aged a lot. You should have bought him a maybach oh my god you gonna do the me back it ain't good enough i ain't had no pr i ain't had nobody telling me that i was looking for him at first but i'm like man it's just walking man walking down the street bro at four o'clock in the morning and when i went to i went to hospital i was just thinking about that like man who was

that who was that that just did that's getting right i needed that jewelry he was like oh my god bro you all set bro and he's still when i got in the house i was bleeding him out y'all take him to the hospital by the time i looked he was walking when we were driving we was pulling off he was walking back wherever he walked to work wow and now he driving the nissan that was a crazy experience i've never been in a car accident before that. I crashed and the door couldn't open. Windshield right here on my face. It got bent in. And then when I get to the hospital, they tell me 90% of people die.

Every time they hit a tree. They coming through the window. And I didn't have no seatbelt on. So those brushes with death between that and your partner dying in your arms, that's changed your whole perspective. Whole perspective. What my kids gonna do without me, man? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it hard being married?

Because I'm sure women are throwing themselves at you. Nah, it ain't hard to be married when you just really focus and do what you gotta do, dog. That's right. You know you're a grown man, so whatever you're doing, I mean, you know what you're doing. No, it ain't right.

Black men don't cheat, man. Black men don't cheat. Play it out. Cheating, play it out. Burnt out. We need to check each other, though, too. Black men men we need to start checking each other we see some like your mom like come on you risking it all you gotta start treating it like it's a penitentiary chance for sure because it is it is bro you lose your feeling you'd be right man listen your girl walking around with another man lord have mercy i'm looking around everybody in the room texting a girl right now

i just texted her before. That's what's going to happen. And then it be your fault. You punished for life. And it's going to show in your career. And people are going to start like, damn, why you hurt?

Why don't, why? Don't people know you hurt? And you hurt for real? Trying to look fake happy on the ground. Fake happy, fake happy like you want to. Why?

Why you crush? Why? Because I don't crush Fake happy, fake acting like you want to. Why? Why you crush? Why? Because I don't crush. I don't crush like this. Crush. Never felt like that. I was on the floor with it laying down. Crush.

Yeah. I don't want to be in the show. Askin', I was on the floor over there laying down in between breaks. Now, it seemed like it was hard for you to do that video. The audio you used on the album before Don't Lose Me. It seemed like it was hard to do that. And I apologize. You know what I'm saying?

Breaking your heart. breaking our promise, breaking God's promise, and being a selfish, messed up husband, you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to be a better person. I want to get this off. Well, what? Yeah.

Because I'm not an outspoken person like that anyway like that. But I know I got to step up. I make that anyway like that, but I know I gotta step up I make my wife look crazy So I take the punishment. I take them not liking me I'm not liking me no more doing whatever they would be doing I take that I deserve that even in the midst of all that she'll sell her tell her fans Y'all do not be mad at my offset for anything. I don't need y'all attacking him There you go Y'all do not be mad at Offset for anything. I don't need y'all attacking him. Still wifey.

There you go. We love y'all together, man. We love y'all together. We love you separately. We love you together. Them three words going to be striking fear in the ass for the rest of the year. You know, the first time I pressed about it was in here. It was when Clue was in here. Me and you were talking right here.

I brought it up. I don't know if you're paying attention. I'm like, hey, Clue, you know Cardi? Just before everything, all that, I'm like, hey, like her, man. Then he had to come to my little, I had a little thing in New York, a little show, and she just pulled up. Clue always said Clue can fix it. Connect the dot, Clue, man.

Clue the plug. Connect the dot, Clue. Yes, Clue fixed the Fab and Ray J situation. Only Clue can fix this. Only Clue can fix this. Only Clue can fix this. People don't even know I was working to get her to. We had a little all-girl dinner called a Bad and Bougie dinner. And we just invited women.

And I invited her on purpose. When I get in front of her, it's over with. So you knew. You knew from the first time you seen her. Like, that's going to be. I like her when she had crickety. So you paid for them? No, she paid for all this.

Well, congrats on the new album, Father of Four. Father of Four out right now. And thank you for stopping. And he's going to have girls scaring the s*** out of us for the rest of the year with that Don't Lose Me. You be out too late and get that Don't Lose Me text. Damn. Three words, Don't Lose Me.

All right. Well, it's the Breakfast Club. It's Offset. The world's most dangerous morning show. Well, it's the Breakfast Club. It's Offset. The world's most dangerous morning show. It's dangerous. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

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