The Breakfast Club - Classic Interview: Vic Mensa/ Chris Rock/ 50 Cent

Episode Date: December 22, 2017

Friday 12/22- Today on the show we flashed back to when Vic Mensa stopped by and spoke about Jay-Z, street violence and more. We also played back the time legendary comedian Chris Rock stopped by and spoke about his stand up and resolved the beef between him and Dj Envy. Moreover, we also flashed back to the time the king of petty, 50 Cent stopped by, and spoke about his show "Power" and more.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen, two weeks ago, I was shooting some videos on a Friday night. I came back out to Yonkers. It was like 3 in the morning. I ended up falling asleep at the light. I woke up to somebody banging on my window. I was like, yo, yo, you drunk, you drunk. I'm like, yo, bro, I'm not drunk. I'm literally tired. Hom bro, I'm not drunk.

I'm literally tired. Homie called the cops on me. Wow. Waiting for the cops to get there. Cops pulled up. Homie stole on me and was holding the door so I couldn't get out until the cops came out. What? Listen, I need y'all to put it out there.

Whoever the dude is, I don't know, he from Yonkers. Tell him to meet me by Getty Square at 3 o'clock today. We can s***. He's not going to meet you there. He's probably drunk right now, so he's definitely not going to meet you there. Damn, man. That's crazy. I told him. Anytime I see him, I'm going can s***. He's not going to meet you there. He's probably drunk right now, so he's definitely not going to meet you there. Damn, man. I'm a father. I told him. Anytime I see him,

I'm going to s*** with him, man. You don't know what he looks like. Is it a crime to be drunk and sleep in your car? Thank you, bro. I think it is a crime to be drunk in your car. I don't know.

I'm just asking. I think so. Hello, who's this? This is Taylor from Georgia. Hey, Taylor. Get it off your chest, mama. I just wanted to tell anybody who's going through something right now

because I'm going through a lot, just hang in there. Everything's going to be okay. When you wake up every morning, thank God for another day. Time gets tough, but just hang in there because shit's going to be right. Nah, you're right, though. I tell people that all the time. Trouble don't last always. I love your positive attitude.

Absolutely. You know what? I've been depressed, but finally I love your positive attitude. Absolutely. You know what? I've been depressed, but finally I woke up and I'm like, you know what? I just keep doing the right thing and the right things are going to come to me. And that is a fact. And the best thing to think is that the world's going to keep turning whether you're angry or depressed or not. Exactly. And you guys, I listen to you guys every morning on my way to work.

You guys pump me up every morning. I love you guys. I'm shaking because I I listen to you guys every morning on my way to work. You guys pump me up every morning. I love you guys. I'm shaking because I'm talking to you. Well, thank you for having no taste, baby. Well, we love you, too. We love those great inspirational words you gave us this morning. Have a great morning. Get it off your chest.

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Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Marcus. Man, how everybody doing? Marcus. Did I do it right? Marcus. I get it. Anyway. What was that? That's from Boomerang. Oh.

What's up, bro? What was going on? Why you mad? I'm mad at myself because I was planning on, you know what I'm saying, possibly buying a new car this weekend. And I was like, you know what? I know my credit ain't the best, but let me check it out so that way I could possibly have a Strat for this weekend.

So I go and check it out and my credit is shot. What's your credit? What's your credit? Shot, shot. Just tell us what it is. I'm talking about like a 440. So basically, you're two points higher than Jay-Z's 444 album, which is ironic because he told y'all to get your credit up on 444.

Exactly. So what's on your report that's so bad? It's the student loans. I'm pretty frugal with my money in terms of not having outstanding bills and stuff like that. No, not even that. It's just more so I'm just trying to, like, I grew up poor. So I don't want to spend my money if I don't necessarily have to. Well, you've got to pay your school loans.

Well, exactly. But I'm at the age now, I'm 25. So I'm at the age now where things are becoming more important, like buying a car, buying a house, and set myself up that way. You ain't going to be able to buy no house with that type of credit score? No, no. I got to get it together. So that's what this is all about.

I'm blessed as well because I'm in the position now to where I have a good job to where I can get myself an order. You got to look at it like your credit score right now has a curable STD. All right? It's not herpes. It's not HIV, meaning that, you know, there's no cure for it. You can cure this, sir. This is ziploc or chlamydia right here. This is doable.

There you go. You can get this done. You can get it done. You can clean this one up, sir. It's a bright side to everything, brother. That's what I'm talking about right now. All right. Let's get it fixed.

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Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Angelay.e, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. He's signed to Roc Nation. Jay-Z is the EP of this album.

He's from Chicago. Ladies and gentlemen, Vic Mensa. Vic Mensa. What's going on? Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Congratulations on the album. Thank you.

I cannot lie, Vic. You have not let me down yet, man. I listed the autobiography this morning. Very dope album. Thank you. I cannot lie, Vic. You have not let me down yet, man. I listed the autobiography this morning. Very dope album. Thank you, man. Like, really, really, really good. Thank you, man. Jay-Z called you a once-in-a-lifetime artist.

That's a lot of pressure. So how did you take that? Well, you know, I've been studying Hov the same way I've been studying Nas and studying Kanye far before I ever met these people. So to have that support and that validation from Hov is really inspiring to me. But it doesn't feel so much like pressure because that's the cloth of music that I was always intending to be a part of.

You can tell. So how did you get so close to Jay-Z? Why did he EP this project? Hov has just been somebody that has helped me to grow as a man. And that's one of those relationships where I feel like I knew him before I met him, just because I've been so in-depth with the music. And that's what rap is, I feel, at its best. It's like you may really know a person,

even though Pac and Biggie passed, I feel as if, in a certain way, in a certain sense, I know those men. And that's the same way that I knew Ho before meeting him. He's really that person that he is on record. And I know I learned a lot from him growing up just about the world, you know. I didn't know that you were six years old in first grade

until he said he got most sixes in first grade. You know, that never occurred to me. So then, you know, working with him, he's imparting this wisdom on me, just man to man and not just through lyrics. It's the same way as learning things from him musically. He told you to pull a bar, right? Because it said you dissed some rapper on OMG, which is a very tough tune,

very Wu-Tang instrumental. Thank you, man. And he told you to pull the bar? Yeah. He just told me that what you're doing won't work out in your favor if you know that, if you know in your heart it's not right. The universe only works one way. And I didn't want to change my lyric, you know.

I don't think that I've ever changed a lyric that anybody told me to change. I'm pretty stubborn in that way just because I think about the things I say and I don't say them unless I mean them. And once he put that game in my ear, though, it kind of made me start thinking and gave me perspective to anything that I was doing that could bring down another young black man, regardless of music, whether I like the music or I agree with it culturally. At the end of the day, there's so many people that want to keep people like us out of the room and they don't they don't want us to have a platform. They don't want us to have a road to success. They don't want us to have a platform. They don't want us to have a road to success. They don't want us to be getting money.

And I don't want to be one of those people holding back or, you know, restricting another young black man's access to his dreams because why would I, you know? So it's just that you didn't like his music but you had no personal issue. Yeah, I had no personal issue and I had to come to a place where I could really just be putting

strictly positive energy into the world regardless of what I think about the music because I could be a hater about music 100%. I always wondered why Yachty though and I'm like why is Vicky even throwing a shot at Yachty? It just rhymes with Illuminati. I'm like, that don't even

add up. That made me think about it. I was like, this is not right. It just rhymes with Illuminati. That's the only reason I wrote the line. When Jay told you to take the line about Yachty, did you say, hey, you wrote Takeover? You wrote Super Ugly, Jay. But those were personal problems. No, I just didn't. you to take the line about yada yada yada did you say hey you wrote takeover you wrote super ugly

jay but those are personal problems no i i i just didn't i just didn't do it you know i tried and i thought about it and i was like i tried to think of something that i could replace it with and i wasn't into it so i hit him up and i'm like uh you know thank you man but um but I'm going to stick with this line. And then he gave me just that piece of information that made me think. And Coach K is my man. I go back with Coach K. Coach K is somebody that showed me love early. It didn't really occur to me.

I think that it's easy to get maybe disillusioned in your own bubble and like bouncing your ideas off of people that are in your circle and kind of agree with you and forget the way that other people may be impacted by your actions. And so when I

spoke to Coach K and I'm like, man, you know, I don't want to be holding Coach K back or trying to take food off his plate. That's my man. And I also don't want to be the guy trying to take food off another young brother's plate, you know? One story that you told that was very vivid,

and it kind of reminds me of a story to tell by Biggie. You had your own story to tell, and that was Homewrecker. Oh, that was interesting. I was definitely inspired by own story to tell, and that was Homewrecker. Oh, that was interesting. I was definitely inspired by A Story to Tell. It was that vibe, even though it was a whole different story, but basically, you know I was going to bring this up. You were cheating, I guess, on your girl, and then your girl came to the door,

and you opened the door and let her in, and then all hell broke loose. Yeah, it was a situation that went down in a major way. And honestly, I was coming from like a, oftentimes coming from a pretty hurt place myself. And I was hurting people around me. Hurt people, hurt people. Yeah, hurt people, hurt people.

And that's something that created a lot of a lot of static a lot of drama in my life and a lot of guilt also i really depict the situation on the album cover which you see me like in the middle of a trashed apartment with she was pulling the stove out the wall stove came out the wall i thought she was just writing raps and throwing the papers to the side. I thought that was. I was. I was. But, you know, if you kind of look a little bit closer, like the, you know, the kitchen table is flipped in there. And there's like broken glass on the ground.

And I wanted to make it clear that all these papers on the side and everything that I was crumpling up and writing, it was kind of like I was sitting in the middle of this chaos and writing about it. Because even when the situation happened with Homewrecker, she saw the moment at which I realized that I didn't have to get on this flight that I had scheduled because I was supposed to go to New York and do some TV show with A$AP Rocky or something.

And I didn't really want to do it. And I didn't have to get on this flight. And I was so excited kind of like to write a song about what was going on. So it's a moment in time when she just pulled the stove out the wall.

And then I'm like, I'm like, yo, yo. And then I'm like, I'm like catching a breathe. And I'm like, man, this is going to be a good ass song. That's crazy.

All right, we got more with Vic Mensa when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

We have Vic Mensa in the building. Now, Vic Mensa signed to Roc Nation. He's from Chicago. He has a new project out that's dope. Now, Charlamagne. You really use your music for activism And that's dope because that's not a popular thing to do But why do you

Choose to do that? I guess I kind of know now Because you said you felt like you weren't doing What you were supposed to do with the music I feel like We're down a path Of self-destruction As a culture very often Because we're not as people Having knowledge of self-destruction like as a culture very often because we're not

as people having knowledge of self. I remember when I read something that Mos Def said that hip-hop is going to reflect

where we are as a people and when you look at some of the trends in hip-hop and it just being kind of empty

and you know there's a lot of self-medication going on and we're not getting to the bottom of it. It's just reflecting where we are as a people because we've kind of, in certain ways, lost, like, sense of purpose and a knowledge of self.

Like, knowing who you are is so important to knowing where you want to go and where you can go. That's what my whole book is about, knowledge itself. Word up. So you don't want to drag DJ academics around Chicago anymore? I don't want to drag DJ academics around Chicago.

I think that what he's kind of come to prominence for is phony, and I think he's a phony. And he's not even a DJ. But it's not really, you know, it's not my mission. It's not my mission to like, you know, to destroy DJ academics. I don't really

think he has a place in the culture past being a parasite. But I'm not like waking up thinking about him. I don't really give a fuck about him. I wanted to salute you too, man, because a lot of things you do in the community you don't promote. When everything was going on with the Dakota Access Pipeline, you was out there.

I never saw you post about it. I never saw you say anything about it, but I had people on the ground that was like, yo, Vic Mintz is out here. I'm like, really? I often feel as if I have like a responsibility to, in whatever ways I can, lend a hand to the struggle of oppressed people. And the Native American people are the most oppressed group in America

and frankly one of the most oppressed groups in the world. And when I got down there to stand and rock, I'm seeing so many parallels between the black American experience and the Native American experience. And I'm seeing also so many unified movements between our cultures and a lot of the people that I met down there were mixed black and native. And it never really occurred to me kind of before that time how alike we were and how alike our fight was.

But I didn't go down there or go to Flint, Michigan or go to Baton Rouge because I wanted people to know about it. You know, because I was, I mean, know about me. I wanted people to know about it, you know, because I was I mean, know about me. I wanted people to know about the situations and to to give visibility. And like I said, lend a hand in any way that I can. But it would be disingenuine if I was doing those things for like a photo op and like a press release. You know, I mean? Right. How do the cops treat you now in Chicago?

I'm sure everybody knows you, and I know you've had some situations. You're on probation now, right? Mm-hmm. But how do you feel about the cops now? How do they treat you now that you're a celebrity in Chicago? Well, you know, cops don't treat me that great. They never did But

Like, are they angry because you're speaking out? Yeah, you know, I was doing Lollapalooza last summer And I had a song called 16 Shots And it was like, you know, real, very vocal about police brutality And kind of like punching back and fighting back against it And there were cops that were at Lollapalooza that were telling people like, don't go to Vic Mensa's set, boycott Vic Mensa's set.

I've had issues trying to film videos in the city and get permits in the city. But at the end of the day, I'm more so focused on the system than I am focused on every individual police officer. Because I hate the system that allows these crooked cops to kill us and nobody gets convicted. You can't tell me not one of these police officers has committed a crime. You can't tell me not one of these situations has been a homicide, a first-degree homicide, first-degree murder.

When you shoot a kid 16 times and we watch you unload the clip and come over and kick him once it's all finished, that's not manslaughter. That's a homicide, man. That's a murder, man. And they're not being held accountable for what they're doing. So that's what I don't respect. It's like it's a system of validation and the code of blue

and the wall of blue, whatever they call it, where they got to protect their own, you know, before viewing us as people. That's what I have a problem with. This is my final question, man. You and Chance got to get cool again. We've been talking, man. Y'all have to. 100%.

And if you have a brother, if you've ever had a brother, you know brothers fight, man. Like, that happens. And, you know, especially growing up and everybody is there to watch it. You know, we came up together from being 14 years old and, you know,

recording some of our first records and raps ever and past rap just, you know, navigating the city of Chicago and coming into our own as men in a major way.

Brothers like you not supposed to be. Next to each other. We ain't supposed to be. Nah, the city need it. The city need us to be unified and that's the place that I'm at. Black people need y'all to be unified.

Y'all two can create change together. 100%. And I feel like socially conscious, like conscious rap or whatever, has grown to be something that's like a label that's not always positive. But I think that's something that we've both kind of owned. Both of us separately and specifically have just been like, yeah, we're conscious.

We're awake. We're not asleep. This is sleeping. Y'all made it cool. This is sleeping, man. It's like you either woke or you asleep. I'm woke. He woke. So we gotta be unified.

There you have it. We appreciate you joining us. Vic Mensa, man. Whenever you mad at any of these young rappers and you like rappers so whack and hip hop is so whack and these kids don't know something, turn on some Vic Mensa.

There you go. The autobiography out now. That's right. It's the Breakfast Club. Autobiography in the streets now. Thank you for joining us. Thank you guys for having me. Breakfast Club, good morning.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Oh, I love when legends stop by. Chris Rock. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you. Now, Mr. Rock, should I be interviewing you?

Because you're the hot one right now. I'm doing okay. No, you're doing real good. God is good. God is good? Yeah. Good. Publishing's good. God is good. God is good? Yeah. Good. Publishing's good. Words are good. Sentences. Paragraphs. The book is out.

New York Times bestseller. Yeah, man. We're keeping track of stuff like that. Hey, we're all keeping track of stuff like that. But Chris Rock is on the total blackout tour right now, which is a huge deal. Before we get to that now, Envy wasn't here last time. Oh, yes, he was. Envy was not here last time.

He left town. I'm actually shocked that he stuck around today. He went to Africa when you came last time. Y'all had a slight rich people problem with each other. Envy, our kids play basketball. They played against each other. Envy was the coach of his daughter's basketball team, so I

commend him for that, right? So he had one of these Elijah Juan Shaq kids that was, you know, like this kid had like 60 points. They're killing us. They're killing us. And there's like three minutes left in the game. And normally

compassionate individuals take the good kid out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, he keeps the good kid in. For no reason. For no reason. That is very rude and that's not nice to the other. Why did you do that, Envy? So we played him the day before, right? And the kids went up to Chris Rock and asked for an autograph. No, no, no.

No, no, no. This was the day of. Yeah, you told us before it was the day of. There was no day before. You said it was after the game. You said it was after the day before. No. You sound like Donald Trump right now.

After the game, no. I did not give anybody no autographs. Alternative facts. Alternative facts. And I was like, are we going to get them the. After the game, no, I did not give anybody no autographs. Alternative facts. Alternative facts. And I was like, are we going to get them the next one? No, no, no. And then, you know, we blew them out.

But that has nothing to do with the young ladies on the team. That's poor sportsmanship. I know. So you admit you were wrong. You're being beige. I was wrong. It was like literally, they beat us by like 40 points. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, Chris Rock, on your behalf, you could have gave the little girls an autograph. You know what? They deserve to feel bad that day about something. Hey! It's a life lesson. The sins of the father are passed down to the sons of the daughter. Did you know I still play? I'm like, no. He says, mine either.

They don't even play basketball. All of that for no reason. You came in here being petty for no damn reason. It was a learning lesson. It was fun. Oh, my God. I haven't seen you getting pulled over in that neighborhood that much anymore. Not lately.

I just stopped taking pictures, honestly. I get pulled over all the time. I ran out of film. They don't even have film anymore. But I ran out of film. Are they hiring new cops? Why they don't know who you are yet? I don't know, man. And it's not like I change cars of film. They don't even have film anymore. But I ran out of film. Are they hiring new cops? Why they don't know who you are yet? I don't know, man.

And it's not like I change cars or anything. They just like getting me. I mean, one cop pulled me over one time. He goes, do you live around here? And I'm like, do you live around here? Because I don't know no cop can afford this. I get pulled over over there all the time getting a haircut. Like all the time.

They find the weirdest reasons. If there's an air freshener hanging from your mirror. Whatever it is, they pull you over. But in all fairness, you said you call the cops on people all the time. Well, I do if they go to sell Coke. Charlamagne had an incident where there was a white guy in his neighborhood that asked him if he sold Coke. That was Sunday.

Really? Where the hell do you live? In a nice neighborhood. This guy looks like Woody Allen. Really? But equal. I was like, what is nice neighborhood. This guy looks like Woody Allen. Really? But equal. I was like, what is that? I didn't know what that was.

I didn't know what it was. I told him you should have called the cops. Then he said cocaine. It's a setup. They're trying to get you. You wrote a good book. That's why. This is when they get you.

You've been infiltrated. One of these people right here is with the FBI. One of them. I bet I know who it is. TJ En here is with the FBI. One of them. I bet I know who it is. TJ Enby's with the FBI. He's been infiltrated. They flipped him. He's going to give them notes tonight about you.

Is he working on another book? Is it going to be black in the title this time too? Oh, my goodness. Now, it's been nine years since your last tour. A lot of material, like a crazy amount of material. Sometimes when things happen, do you say, this is unfortunate, but this would be great for my stand-up? Yes, sometimes it happens.

I mean, you know, you don't want the world to explode. I don't want Donald Trump to be president just to help out my act. Yeah. You know, but stuff happens. Lots of crazy stuff happens. I got divorced. You know, a lot of nonsense. How do you know when it's time to go back out?

I needed some money, man. It's alimony. Yeah, we don't believe that. You know what you just want to... I don't know. When people talk to you like you ain't funny, that's when it's time to go back out. Somebody give you that look.

You're like, okay, let me get out of here. Is there anything off limit That you will not touch There's nothing off limit That I will not touch There's not I mean If it's funny

Let's do it Let's do it You know I was just getting A lot of encouragement Chappelle Right And Kev Hart

Everybody's like Come on man Come on man Come on man You know so What do you mean When you say people talk to you Like you're not funny though

Put it this way You got this book right now, right? And it's good. I kind of just started it. Don't you see the difference of the respect you're getting? Absolutely. It's weird. So you want your respect.

No, it is weird. Put some spect on my face. All of a sudden, it's like Charlemagne's smart. And I'm like, yes. So what was I before? Right. And now you're like, wait a minute. They were lying the whole time.

Yeah. That's interesting because you do tweet out a lot. Well, not a lot, but I see you put, I hope they laugh. And I was thinking that's sarcasm. But now I'm thinking, is there something really to that? Hope they laugh for real because sometimes people could fake it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, sometimes you could have a comedy show,

it ain't even a comedy show, it's like a pep rally. Yeah. You know what I mean? You think you had a comedy show. So have you ever bombed at all? Oh, yeah, man. Recently? No, no, not recently.

But, I mean, on the come up, of course, man. Please. Guys I had to work with, Martin Lawrence and Robin Harris and Senda Entertainer. You know what I mean? Like, you try to follow Senda Entertainer in Oakland. You know, he got an orange suit on and everybody else got on purple suits. And you coming out in all your New York black. Get out of here.

With no big hat. Yeah, with no Easter Sunday hat. I don't think people will fake laugh nowadays, though. I mean, look, Chappelle just got booed. Not just but, but recently. Dave will test you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dave will definitely test you.

I thought he wasn't telling jokes, though. Isn't that what happened? He just came out there. He was hiding on his new special. He said he was high. Oh, yeah, he was really high. He got high. Took eight minutes to light a cigarette.

You know, Dave gets into that sometimes. People were offended by his. I thought, now I was laughing, but sometimes at jokes I laugh, but then I feel like, man, should I have laughed at that? Is that inappropriate? Greatest rape joke of all time. You know, I think that to myself. Dan Chappelle's the best comedian in the world.

To me. You say that, but it's like y'all neck and neck. That's kind of like Jay-Z and Nas saying who's the better rapper. Y'all right there with each other. Okay, okay. if you say so I mean for me I don't I've never been to a Chris Rock show You know what I mean

You've seen the specials Yeah I've seen the specials I like y'all for different reasons Chappelle is like a He's an observer but you're like a cultural observer It's not even like you're telling jokes To me When's your show coming up What We gotta do a show You're like a cultural observer. It's not even like you're telling jokes to me. Okay. Okay.

When's your show? When's your show coming up? What? We got to do a show. No, never. No. No, absolutely not. Stand-up comedy? Absolutely not.

Because then that's the expectation. Well, maybe not a stand-up comedy show, but like a, you know. Like a Mike Tyson one-man special. Like a one-man special. Like a Rachel Maddow or something. I don't know. If you're the executive producer, I'll do it. I'm in.

I'm in. We're talking. If you're the producer, I'll do it. I'm in. I'm in. We're talking. If you're the producer, I'll do it. All right, we got more with Chris Rock. When we come back, we'll talk about his tour

and his favorite movie roles. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We have Chris Rock in the building. Charlamagne? Who is Chris Rock competing against nowadays? I mean, we're all competing against Richard Pryor. We're all trying to get to that. That's my number one. But, you know,

Dave a little bit, Hannibal here, you know, there's some cats out there. I saw Ali. You ever see Ali Wong, little Asian girl? No. There's some cats out there, you know? Put it this way. I don't want to be like some old boxer that's just saying hi from ringside.

I want to still be. I'm still in the ring. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, I want to, you know, be out there with the big Kev. Kev Hart's killing it. I love all those guys, but none of them have a classic stand-up special. You have a classic. Thank you, sir.

Bring the Pain is classic. I watched it twice this year. We actually still use it all the time on the show when we talk about different things. I'm like, let's get that clip from Bring the Pain. We use Crack Ass Cracker. Right. We use Crack Ass Cracker right now as a drug. When we talk about alimony, we use that special.

I wonder why you came out to Touch Me, Tease Me, though, instead of Bring the Pain by Method Man. I mean, at the time, touch me, tease me. That was hot. That was your joint. It's hot. And you got to get the girls. You got to get them. Got to get them.

You know, right? Yeah, 20 years later, you're like, who's this? Case? Who's Case? Who's Case? I wasn't married with Case then. Wasn't Foxy on that too? Foxy's on that?

Who's Case? Who's Foxy even? I randomly just saw Case perform in Brooklyn. Now why the name Total Blackout? Kind of building on what y'all are doing here. You know, the Black Lives Matter movement. Just, I don't know, just felt right. You know what I mean? Just felt right. Yeah, yeah.

You know what I mean? Just felt right. Big and blacker, you know what I mean? Everything's black. It's a black time. Gotcha. Now you said his kids,

he's a real dad. What do you mean he's a real dad? No, because a lot of times people say they're fathers and they don't take their kids to the games, they don't take their kids to practice.

They don't argue with the coach on the other team. I see Chris Rock at every game with his daughters, like he's traveling around. He's an Uber driver on the weekends. I would see him every game. You're really stereotyping right now.

You don't see that too much. Especially with people in the entertainment industry. People are really busy and not around. People are busy. I always say, you know what? If I die, when I die at my funeral, if you're talking about my jokes, I have failed as a father.

That's the way I look at it. They should be talking about your life. They should be talking about my jokes, I have failed as a father. That's the way I look at it. They should be talking about your life. They should be talking about my life and what kind of person I am. When I went to Bernie Mac's funeral, comedy was a very small part. It was just talking like, this guy's a husband, this guy's a father,

this guy's a friend. I hope, I'm not planning on dying anytime soon. By the way, I've talked to three three comedians in the past couple weeks, and all of them have said the exact same thing. They're talking to me like, if I die, I want you to know. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, why are so many comedians talking about death? Please, we're all, you know, who have you been talking to?

I talked to Donnell Rollins yesterday. Donnell called me to go, yo, I just want to tell you, man, if I die, man, you really don't have to. Yeah, man, what? Let's also go to Charlie Murphy just passed. Charlie Murphy just passed. Too many people know he was sick, I just want to tell you, man, if I die, man, you really don't have to. Yeah, man, what? Let's also go, Charlie Murphy just passed. Charlie Murphy just passed. Too many people know he was sick. I didn't know he was sick.

I see him at the barbershop all the time. Charlie Murphy just passed with black men. Patrice O'Neal passed away. Yeah, Patrice O'Neal. How'd you ever go? We got all our fathers die

in their 50s, early 60s. So you got to be thinking about it a little bit. You know what I mean? Things change. Medicine's better. You know, greens don't kill you like they used to. The worst thing about a black funeral

is like, at the end of the funeral, they serve the food that killed the person. It's like, you realize he's, he realized he's dead because of this. Why did you stop

Everybody Hates Chris? You know what? The kid kind of outgrew it. You know what I mean? You know, Tyler was, you know, it was like, it was like he's in

high school with a beard at some point. So, you know, it was just time, man. It was one of those weird shows, too. We were, like, on a weird network, so

people didn't know about the show while it was on. They didn't do the reruns. Yeah, when we got in syndication, it was like, yo, this is amazing. I was like, where were y'all when the show was on? You know? But, hey, it's great. It's a lot of pain I went through just being bused to school and, you know, bullying and

all that crap. You know, we know you from the comedy specials, from all the TV shows, but a lot of the kids know you from that show. Oh, yeah. Straight up. They know me from, a lot of kids know me from Everybody Hates Chris and Marty the Zebra from Madagascar. Yeah, absolutely.

It's like like you're the crack-a-lackin'. Do you get mad when they call you that? Or if they see the street corner, Pookie! Did that bother you? Pookie's a legend. You know how lucky I was to be Pookie?

I'm Pookie, man. How many rap records I hear cats talking about the Carter? Right. I was in the Carter. I smoked crack in the Carter. You were actually the essential part of the movie. Yeah, man.

Like, it was the movie. You played an essential part in that film. Yeah, man. I look back at all that. I'm like, I'm just... I'm the luckiest guy. I was in New Jack City. I was in Boomerang.

Like, classics, man. Did you ever think about that part? Like, I don't want to play a crackhead. CB4. It was like, I want to do it. I lucked up, man. I lucked up. We didn't even know what was going to be what it was.

You know what I mean? I remember we did like two weeks of rehearsal without Wesley. And we had our first table read, Wesley shows up. And when my man started reading his lines, we're like, oh, this movie's going to be around forever. You know what I mean? Like, you knew you were in the presence of greatness, right? As soon as you heard Nino Brown's voice, you're like, okay, it's on. This is it, forever.

Even the term CB4, that's lived forever. It's almost like you predicted where the rap game was going. Like everybody was pretending to be gangster for about 15, 20 years. Yeah, man. You know, it's weird. I get offers for CB4 to tour as a group. Really? Yes.

You had Charlie in that movie. Is it true? Charlie's first, yeah, that's Charlie's first movie. Wow. We had auditions for Gusto. It was like a Gusto day, right? So Charlie gets out his car. He got two henchmen with him.

He's dressed like Gusto. He got the shades he has on in the movies he had on at the audition. And he does his audition, and there's a part where you're supposed to pull out a gun. Everybody else just pulls out their fingers and, you know, makes a fake gun. Charlie Murphy pulls out, like, a Glock 9. A real gun. I heard that before. Yeah, like a real gun.

And we're like, whoa! Okay, you got the part. Yeah, you can't tell him, though. You can't tell him, though, at all. Plus, he was hysterical. Did you know that was Eddie's brother when he walked up? I knew, but, you know, stuff like that don't always work in your favor. You know what I mean?

It's not, you know, you end up with a weird expectation. But he wiped it out. You're like, oh, okay. Because you don't want, like, a junior version of Eddie Murphy in the movie. He's like, you know, he was just Charlie Murphy. You know, he had his own distinct thing that nobody

sounded like Charlie Murphy. Absolutely. You know? Alright, we got more with Chris Rock coming up. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ N.V. Angelou. Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We have Chris Rock in the building. Charlamagne?

How has Netflix changed the game as far as movies and stand-up? I mean, honestly, Netflix probably got me doing this more than anybody. And it's not just like that they're paying me or anything. $50 million. I'm doing all right. I'm, you know, Max Player. Nah, because you can sit there and watch. If you want to really be a student of comedy,

you can just sit there. I sit down sometimes and watch like 20 specials. You know, like the first 20 minutes of 10 specials in the afternoon, it's like, oh, this cat's doing something. Ooh, this Jim Jefferies cat. Stuff I would never watch. That I would never watch. Like country guys.

This woman. Oh, I found out about Amy Schumer. People I got hip to that I would never get hip to. She got me blocked on Twitter. Yeah, she does. Because I actually tweeted that I don't understand this Amy Schumer thing. Hey, man. I'm not blocking.

I got no time for blocks. When does the total blackout tour come to New York? Doesn't come until December in New York. It's all over the country, though. And they can get tickets right now, Ticketmaster.com? Ticketmaster.com, Barclays for a night, Garden for a few, yeah, it's going down. Then I'm going to probably

film the special in Brooklyn. Yes. You said anything goes in comedy. Now, what's the easiest group to offend in 2017?

Oh, man, you got to be careful with your transgenders. You got to, you better word that one right. You better take that one to spell check,

my friend. Dave Chappelle did a good job with that on his stuff. I thought he did a really good job. I thought he made... I thought what he did was like made... What am I trying to say? You don't want to say it wrong. Better get this right.

I love them. I thought he humanized, not that anybody's not human, but I thought, here's the thing. Just because he didn't like the person in the joke doesn't mean he didn't like the person because of their sexual preference. That's what I'm trying to say. And a lot of times, white people do this too. It's like you deal with a minority and you put them on a pedestal.

And that's, I mean, that's almost racist too. It's like it's nice that you can put somebody just in a normal situation. And that's what Dave did in this special. But I don't feel like Louis E.K. tiptoes around that kind of stuff. I feel like he goes right for it. He does not care, no. He doesn't care. He goes right at it, yeah.

So why do y'all care? Why do we care? I don't know. I don't know. I does not care. No. He doesn't care. He goes right at it. Yeah. So why do y'all care? Why do we care? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It seems like we get in more trouble. Is it still that I'm still black thing? Maybe it's, yeah. It seems like we get in more trouble. That's what I think. Yeah. You don't want to get boycotted and lose opportunities. I don't need that.

Right. I'm trying to pay alimony. I'm trying to lose opportunities. Yeah, X-Life is like, yes, we got a special coming today. Yes. We got a week. We're doing great. Does that make comedy more fun or does it make it feel like more work? Yeah, it is.

It's fun. It's fun. I'm not mad. I got no anger or nothing. Yeah. You know, we all got bills. We all got something. Like you said in Bring the Pain, if you're making $50 million and she wins half, no big deal.

You still got $25 million. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. You want to go to dinner? I will pick up the check. I'm not going to sit around.

Check comes. I go to the bathroom. Hey, I got to go to the bathroom. Pray for Charlamagne. Hope his bonus came today. You've always had that hip-hop element to your shows, too. Do you even keep track of what's going on out here now? Like the little yachties?

He was on Ross' album. Oh, yeah, you and Ross. I'm on Ross' album. Ross is OG, though. You can't count. Ross don't care. Still, still, though. How did y'all hook up?

You know what really happened? You insulted him at the... I insulted him at the B though. You can't count. Rasta don't care. Still, still, though. How did y'all hook up? You know what really happened? You insulted him? I insulted him at the BG Awards. You know, it was like one of those things. I was doing an awards show, and I thought I had one Rick Ross joke, and I didn't realize until watching it later that I had four. And then, like, Rick Ross, I think, is the first guy I ever, like, apologized to. I felt like Ross took it too serious, though, man.

Come on, man. You know, here's the weird thing i love ross yeah you know i mean i love ross so it was a couple of times i was like i want to go to this show or that show i was like i better not go i got beef with ross i mean who knows the whole interview after the bt awards he was going in on chris i'm like yeah you know how beef works it ain't even the guy. It's the eight guys around the guy. It's Gunblade.

Gunblade. It's the eight guys around the guy that want to impress the guy. Right. You know what I mean? So I don't need that. As you said,

I'm a real father. I'm with my kids most of the time. So I text Ross. I was like, hey, man, whatever, man. You know what? I actually apologize.

I'm going to say it. I'm going to be, I'm going to be be I'm man enough to apologize for a joke and if you need anything let me know cause everybody

needs jokes and he said yes as a matter of fact I do yeah and like couple he was like cool and like couple months later

he hit me and I went in the studio and I was scared cause like remember in Goodfellas could have been a setup where they told Joe Pesci he was a

made man. Yeah, they shot him in the back of the head. So I was in the studio doing stuff. I was like, is it going down? But no, no. We hung out a couple of times since then. It's called cool. Rick Ross is kind of phenomenal. You said he's the best rapper

alive. I mean that day. Yeah. kind of phenomenal. You said he's the best rapper alive. I mean, that day. I just want to get out of here. You know me. I don't roll posse deep, but yeah, I keep up with everything. The Migos album is much better than it has a right to be. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean

I'm just from a New York cat That listens to rap You think When you first hear the Migos You go okay Bad and Bougie is good I'm sure the rest of this is blah blah blah Then you listen to the album It's got bangers on it

3, 4, 5 It's for real The kendrick album is on some equipment like level yeah no listen i like kendrick a lot but you're busy right now you're doing book tours okay when everything calms down i want you to really listen to this record i listen to his album get the liner notes and just like really like follow what he's saying. You go like, okay, I see what's going on here.

Top five today, yeah. Top five all time? I'm not sure. But tell us your top five. Tell us your top five. Oh God, it changes all the time.

You gotta say Rick Ross. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. First of all, we should all do top fives without Jay. Okay. It's almost a waste of time. I agree. And Big and Pac, but top five?

But today of the new artists, not of all time. Oh, new artists. I love Kendrick. I love A$AP Rocky. I think A$AP Rocky is the most underrated, taken for granted guy out there. Okay. I love Today, Today, Today. I mean, Today?

I like that kid. Wait, wait, wait a minute. Freshers. You like Freshers, too. He's from Brooklyn, too. Freshers from Brooklyn. I'm like, okay, where's the follow-up to this? He just put one out, too.

I can't remember the name of it. What about Big Sean or something in your top five today? I like Big Sean a lot. That's actually my favorite rapper at the moment. Really? Big Sean. J. Cole. I would put J. Cole probably at the top of the current rappers.

Are you a Drake fan? I like zero to 100 Drake. Okay, not the singing. Me too. 0 to 100 Drake is hot. Like, really, don't mess with him. Don't challenge him at all. You know, the other Drake, that round-the-way girl,

kind of LL Cool J knockoff Drake, you know, that's for my daughter. Chris got to go, guys. You feel like you got to be back into the new music, though, because you're, like, single now, so you're out in the clubs a little bit? I'm single. I've never seen Chris rock in a club. I'm single.

I just bought a bunch of red sneakers. Give me all the red sneakers you got. Just red. That's what the kids are wearing, red sneakers. No matter what. Don't match nothing. LiveNation.com. Get your tickets, get your tickets, get your tickets.

And we appreciate you for joining us today. I survived Charlemagne. Yes. Come on, man. You're a legend, man. We pay respect to the you for joining us today. I survived Charlemagne. Yes. Come on, man. You're a legend, man. We pay respect to the legends. You never know. You never know.

Yeah. Baby's a legend? Depends who you ask. He is. He is. He is. Baby's a legend. But Baby didn't give me no time.

Baby was too under defensive. He didn't give me no time. No, no, no. All right. It's the Breakfast Club. It's no time. The Breakfast Club is Chris Rock. The Breakfast Club. Alright, listen, man. Charlemagne Tha God here. I'm on vacation until

2018. I don't give a damn what y'all think about that because I deserve it. The Breakfast Club is in 80 plus markets in 150 countries, so we have a lot of new listeners who probably don't even know who Charlemagne Tha God is. Use my time off to catch up on some of my past work, okay? Okay. If you're new here, I do a segment every day called Donkey of the Day, donkey as in jackass,

and that's when I give someone the credit they deserve for being stupid. So if you never heard of it, this is new to you, but if you are a regular listener, then this is an oldie but goodie because it's the best of the donkey of the day. Donkey of the Day goes to nikki minaj look as i've been i've been telling y'all all morning what we're not going to do is let anything distract us from the fact that nikki minaj got bodied over the ether instrumental got hit with another one and has yet to respond now do i like another one remi ma's second disc not really it's okay it's really regular in comparison to sheetha. But if I don't compare it to Sheetha, it's cool.

But as a second distant Nikki, nah. I actually said the exact same thing Mariah said at the beginning of the Another One record after I heard it. Did y'all catch Mariah at the beginning saying this? Remy, not another one. Why? Yes, why? See, in the 48 Laws of Power, it says do not go past the mark you aim for in victory. Sheetha was a headshot.

Another one is just putting a bullet in a dead body. Another one wasn't necessary, and it wasn't anywhere close to Sheetha level. So it wasn't any real point in dropping it. And I understand all the criticism another one is receiving online. That was trash. Remy was trending. But F all that. Okay?

I will not let another one distract me from the fact that Remy Ma bodied Nicki Minaj over the Sheetha instrumental, got hit with another one and has yet to respond. See, the thing is, rappers rap. OK, and Nicki Minaj, you are a rapper. You can post all the pictures you want on Boats With Future, at video shoots with Monica. But let's not forget what got you in those positions in the first place. Rap music. Okay, you can post all the pics you want front row at fashion shows in Paris, at parties with Jordan Dunn, fine ass. But please never forget that you are in that position because you are a rapper. And being that we know you are a rapper, we will not let any of those pictures you post and distract us from the fact

that Remy Ma bodied you over the sheet, the instrumental, hit you with another one, and you have yet to respond. This is the first time we've seen Nicki Minaj in this position. Okay, I mean, Lil' Kim hit her with some balls, and she replied to Kim with a few balls, but this is the first time we've seen someone really challenge Nicki, actually say, nah, you can't sit on that throne anymore. No, you can't have that crown.

Remy Ma said she's the queen of rap. Okay, not the queen of record sales, not the queen of Instagram, not the queen of Twitter. She said, I'm the queen of rap. So, Nicki, if sales not the queen of instagram not the queen of twitter she said i'm the queen of rap so nikki if you really the rapper you claim to be it's just a rite of passage in this game you gotta show us you can get busy and this asinine reasoning that nikki doesn't have to reply because another one isn't as dope as sheath the where's the logic in that okay remi hit nikki with sheha and has hit her again with another one, and Nicki still has yet to reply.

If you think she shouldn't reply because another one isn't as dope as Sheetha, then you're just looking for an out for Nicki, period. And that's not the way this rap thing works, okay? Nicki Minaj is running the risk of being the first rapper from Queens that I can remember. And if you correct me if I'm wrong, because you're from Queens. She's running the risk to be the first rapper from Queens that backs down from a rap battle? Rappers from Queens, win or lose,

have been involved in some of the most epic rap battles in hip-hop history. Nicki Minaj, if you don't reply, you let MC Shan down, okay? You let Nas down. You let Prodigy from Mob Deep down. You let 50 Cent down. You let LL Cool J down. You let Ja Rule from mob deep down you let 50 cent down you let ll cool j down you let jaru

down say what you want about job even though 50 and g unit were all over them murder inc never stopped fighting okay ever nikki got hit twice and has yet to clap back period that's not the queen's way okay you don't want to go down in history as the lone rapper from queens who got challenged in rap and did nothing, right? Please don't think that you are above replying to Remy Ma, Miss Nicki Minaj. I know that you like to compare yourself to Jay-Z. You put out an album called The Pinkprint, which was a play on Jay-Z's The Blueprint. Do you know what song was featured on The Blueprint?

The Takeover. A Jay-Z diss to Nas and Mobb Deep. Hov never thought he was too big to clap at people who was getting at him. So why do you? I know you like to use Beyonce as a model as well. And you're thinking to yourself, nobody ever comes at Beyonce. You're probably saying to yourself, only person came at Beyonce was Carrie Hilson. And look how that turned out for her.

Well, Nicki, two things. Remy Ma not Carrie Hilson. And you not Beyonce. Or maybe this is your way of saying, you know what? I don't want to rap anymore. I like this pop world. I'm going to do songs with Ariana Grande for the rest of my life and call it a day.

Oh, that's what you're going to do. You're going to say F hip-hop and go to pop rocks quickly. You want to be Beyonce, so your next album is going to be called Pink Lemonade. Okay, talking about how Meek did you wrong. Is that the plan, Nikki? Huh? Is that the plan? Stop texting the DJs and radio personalities complaining, okay?

We don't have to pick sides. Stop getting upset if we say Remy bodied you on Sheetha because she did. That's a fact. Nikki, get out your feelings and get in the studio. You are a rapper, a really dope rapper from Queens, New York. And dope rappers from Queens, New York, don't ignore rap challenges. LL Cool J gave it to Cannabis when LL was a superstar already and Cannabis didn't even have an album out.

Ja Rule was multi-platinum when 50 Cent was on the mixtape circuit and he had no problem engaging with 50, so you can't stand on the I'm a huge star, darling. I'm going to ignore Remy Ma. That's not what our culture is about. Artists get in the party and forget what got them in the party in the first place, okay? Everything you are is because of rap

music. Without rap music, you don't get the opportunity to even make pop music. Without rap music, you don't get casted for movies and TV shows. And one of the purest essences of rap music is the battle. You was acting like you was ready for war on the Jason Derulo record. Remember this? Okay, this bitch is two years, now your time's up. Okay. You was acting like you wanted in on the Gucci Man Make Love record.

Remember this? I don't see ya, bitch, I'm the greatest. No Kendrick and no Sia. Okay. You was acting like I got it in the can So Your career gonna be with Anna Nicole See, silly rabbit To be the queen of rap You gotta sell records You gotta get plaques

Nikki, all I'm saying is If all these bitches is your sons Prove it All these bitches is your sons, prove it. All these bitches is my sons. Until you do, I'm not gonna let nothing distract me from the fact that Remy Ma bodied you over the Ether Instrumental, hit you

with another one, and you have yet to respond. Please give Nicki Minaj the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw! Hee-haw! The Breakfast Club. morning. Thank you. On the way I get up, I'm on my way to the gym, this is what's playing. It's the only time I listen to the radio, because the rest of the day I'm on my phone. That's flattering. That's a good thing.

Well, 50 had a release the other day. It's not a single release, but I guess a show release the other night, and this is the first time I've ever been to a white strip club in New York that they turned black. I've never been to a... Now, mind you, they usually don't let

us in okay they probably will never let us back in there security came up to me 20 times can you please tell people stop smoking weed how did you get that white strip club well you know i was trying we was looking for a non-traditional space to create the the party environment and i'm like they had shown me like some uh like like lounge loungy spots, and I was like, nah, this is the better spot for us to go. And then, you know, because of Aces closing in New York, it was providing all of these talent. All the women dancers. Talent was available. All the women dancers were available.

And then you had BET execs in there. Yeah, yeah. They knew that, like it's a comedy, the whole concept is to change the perception of the network. The takeover. You know what I mean? So they're going to start to do things that allow us to say things content-wise

that it wasn't acceptable. But on late night, they'll let those things slide on. So you get a chance to have some fun. It'd be more the kind of comedic energy that you would see online when people have the freedom

to actually be as funny as they can be versus the censored stuff this is something you've wanted to do for a while though because you've been

doing your own comedy sketches since Pippa and Curly I play and I make fun of competition in our culture with that. Like, I go, they're a little more advanced in it because they've been,

they honed in on that and been doing that the whole time, the cast. Like, I've done it at spots at points and the interest is there because of it. And comedy is like a hidden space. And then when somebody, like, I think Tiffany's, I don't know, Tiffany Haddish. What up, Tiff? Yeah, when she, like, it snaps, she'll be seasoned because they didn't see her for a long time while she was that good. Right. And then she'll be able to do a lot. She'll put all her hours in, that 10,000 hours.

And you're doing it, you're working, and you'll be sharp, the timing and everything will be great. And she could do, she went from uh was it insecure oh no i said the call michael show yeah and then she went to do um a special on showtime special on showtime number one movie yeah i think fifth's trying to smash tiff man you've been showing tiff a lot of love on the gram and everything i think it's coming next. Look, don't, don't. Listen. Why do you have to put that out there? Yeah, watch Solomon. He'll set you up. Watch, I know. Because I know what,

I heard about what he did to Kev. I heard about it. I heard about this. It's not true. That's not true. Yeah, man, I'm like, what happened? Don't let Solomon introduce you

to anybody. It'll go on for 10 years. It will go on for 10 years. It's notorious. It's notorious. You will love her. You will love her and, you know, whatever else you have going on in your life, you just have to compromise. You have to work

this out. Fifth, why TV now at this stage in your career? I think, well, in creating the visibility, initially I was looking going, it's just opening. Things are opening up So broad As far as content Is concerned

I was able to do I got two shows On Crackle So they just Finishing the production Now on Oath And it's currently Filming in Puerto Rico

Because you know It got crazy out there For the weather And they got back Doing that And then The Stars Network I put three over there After you thugged The white man out over there After you thugged The stars out weather and they're like back doing what they're doing there and then um the stars network i put three on over there you know after you thug the white man out over there after you thug stars out

they kind of yo i had to do that though because it was like you know you can see the priorities like the networks you see those things like for your consideration campaigns like inside the different publications or on for your consideration like they Like they'll put this because it's a priority for the network. And you haven't seen that, but you've seen huge success in numbers. So the network is growing at a pace that they're absolutely happy with, as far as stars is concerned. But Maury Hardwick is not recognized as somebody who can actually be a leading man for the series

then I failed the project in my eyes because I I told him I was going to do that in the beginning you know what I'm saying and then it's like

it's that successful now but he's going so what happens like I make I make them put us in front of foreign press so we get like

it's like niche Hollywood people you sit and talk to like i'm like i gotta do this i gotta do these things like i've been there before on other projects but not specifically for power we gotta keep going back in front of them until they actually recognize the project it doesn't make any sense it's already the the number two highest rated show on all premium cable only behind game of Thrones. And they're spending three times the budget to do it. All the effects and stuff.

You want dragons and s*** like that. You gotta pay for that. You know what I mean? You gotta pay for that. But doing that with their budget, and they know and understand. So now everything is like, they totally allowing me to do what I want to do.

Is the reason, when Starz doesn't get behind a show like that, is that the reason we don't see you at the Emmys and the Golden Globes? That's why I don't even appear. Because it's weird watching, like, all these shows that everybody talks about in the culture, Atlanta, Insecure, all this stuff. We talk about power just as much. And you go, where is it?

And you go, where is it at in the actual show? I'm not going to make the appearance as rapper 50 Cent. When I'm executive producer to show this the second largest in all the premium cable like you go i'll go no i'll come when you're ready i'll show up and then or we just keep putting hits on the board you know what i mean because i'm looking going when i told him turn it turn it off then they identify with the actual content that they haven't produced more of it for a reason for people to stay on the actual network.

If I say turn it off and people agree, yeah, I only want it because of that. Right. Then they go, turn it off. You're right. He said, well, I'm paying that. I'm going to hear when it's coming back on. The promotions will start. Right.

And then they shift because I've given those properties. The MF series is there tomorrow, today there's the things that they and they fast track all of it so everything is like

it's moving way faster when does BMF start? we're getting to a point where we they're delivering the pilot and the season arc

at the same time so we'll be able to go in series now do we do we like Kanan now? well they start to treat me better the older peopleable is he likable now on likeable i don't know i don't know what's going on i still don't trust him i would tell you not to this guy i would tell you not to trust him but the way the way the the series you know what's interesting is because television is brought a broader, older

audience interest. Because hip-hop culture is youth culture. So we know when you're out, it's almost the demo between the guy who just got in and the person who just casually partied. But we know who that is. But I'm talking about

the mother, auntie, this really old, won't be in the actual environment with us partying. He's watching the show, and it's, like, I'm getting different responses from them. You know, it's really interesting. Oh, it's an older, definitely, and they're looking at it going, so you don't tell me now. I know he's doing the be-bop-a-dee-bop thing with the friends.

The be-bop-a-dee-bop. This is some, this is cool. Like, you know what I mean? I know he was doing the Bebopity Bop thing with the franchise. The Bebopity Bop. This is cool. You know what I mean? They was already watching Dynasty and all this other. Dynasty. Yeah, my grandmother had me watching that. But the power's also bopping now.

I want to talk about Amari for a second because Amari is such a great actor. But then I think it's stuff like this that keeps him from, like, being taken serious, man. What's that? What's that? Show the picture. You know, it's the brother got contacts with the little... Oh, yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, I've seen that. I've seen that.

You know what I'm saying? And then it's, like, the videos of him breakdancing all crazy. I don't know if he's drunk or high. Like, what's up with him? No, you know what it is? He be doing character stuff. So he'll go and create a new version of himself, take the pictures and stuff like that,

and then post it and put it out. But I don't even know what project that's for. Like, you know? Yo, you got to tell me. All right, we got more with 50 Cent. 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. 50 Cent still in the building. Yee. Now, can we talk about 50 Centro? 50 Centro is exciting because it's more like we do different things, sketch comedy, but then there's real, like, prank type of stuff going on.

But it feels like it's natural fun. Like, you didn't have to be someone else while we were doing it. He was able to do it. It was really funny. When people see it, they're going to bug out off of it. It was fun. And it's no script. Yeah, it was no fun.

There's no script. That's why it made it fun to have. When a person has that strong of a personality, too. Because you'll listen. Charlamagne got to say stuff to go over people's heads a little bit like i'm like oh he slapped him and he didn't notice you know what i'm saying like you heard what he said like real slick like bobbing you like casually looking at you like you know i slapped you just now did you so why bet of all places well bt is the right place for the show because they were open to it and they were like whatever you want to do.

So I even changed the premiering the music videos under every episode. So like after it premieres it goes into it gets all BET jams. So you wanted to premiere this because that many eyeballs is watching. But to go into BET jams and then it's just giving us more influence in ways that we can actually. That is the music business portion of me saying this would be the best place for you to launch. And to put it there because it'll get this. Amount of spins. Right.

And the first one is tonight. Uncle Murda. Uncle Murda's tonight. This is the first time you and her have been under the same umbrella with something, too, right? You know, they'll be gone. They won't be there long. I have full-on intentions of removing that. There's some adjustments to be made.

You don't like Tails? Tails is a good show, man. Tails is crazy. Cool idea. Not well executed. So you've watched it? Yeah, of course I've watched it. I've watched everything with someone involved I don't like. So you watched it? Yeah, of course I watched it. Everything was

someone's fault I don't like. So look, I'm going to be real with you because I know you're going to know if I'm frightened. Y'all know me enough. So look, I'm looking that's going to go. It's going to be gone. It's going to go. I thought I was petty.

He's the pettyest. If he don't like it, he don't like it. If it was good, if you thought it was good, would you say it? Even with the fact you don't like it? Well, you know, if there was,

I thought conceptually that there's been music written that could actually be good films or montages. Like, Nas as a Gun

would be a dope montage. So, the way I could run the parallel and show you how that could have been good is because the overall idea was good. It just wasn't done right. Are you going to be in the BMF series too? If I did, I would play something small. Something small in it because I want you to look at that

and feel like you're watching the experience. You know what I'm saying? It's the point where the facts are stranger than fiction in that story. You don't have to add the creative stuff. You just have to really put it together well. The Tupac movie,

I was disappointed in it because of who Tupac is to our culture. You can't redo it now. That was organically what should have been a success following straight out of Compton. And I feel like they just let anybody build the project instead of the people. But me, they gave me the things that I needed

to make it to where I try and work for that time period anyway. Like, I had Jim Sheridan from Dublin. I had Terry Winters, who went on to write The Sopranos and Wolf on Wall Street. Quincy Jones did the score. It was usual suspects for hit, real quality people involved in the project. And then

they did Tupac's and I was like who did that? Yeah, they say Pac had a budget of $40-$50 million. I'm like where? I thought they spent a lot of it on music licensing though. They didn't spend that much. Come on. I could have gave them new records for that money.

What did they do? They had hookah in the joint. They didn't have the hookah in there. I said Puffy did this. What? Puffy had something to do with this. I think Pac's character is too big to do a film on.

Yeah, well, he had events that happened that people know about, but there's so much stuff that you didn't know that you could have put in between it to make it interesting. Look, for the youth now, when they ask Yachty to say the Biggie verse and stuff like that, they're like, you can't see it because over that time, like, I'm near Biggie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because of the age bracket, like, I'm that guy for them. So they're looking going, what is that other stuff? Like, Biggie's that to me. You know what I mean? In that time period ahead of that. So you look and you go, when they don't understand it, you're going, yo, I'm like, nah, he don't know that. They young.

Like, Chief Keef, when he first came, they thought Chief Keef was retarded. He was like, because, no, he knows Chicago. He knows what he needs. It's a survival kit. He know that. So he looking at you like, and if you make him for a minute think that you think he's slow, he going to do something to you. Because they didn't, they just know better.

I was looking at him, I was like, oh, I just just loved it because it was just rough around the edges for real like you look at this look at this one i got a chance to test these early i touched she early hung out with him i got um yg his first song the two the record we worked on um um was uh saw that Um, it was, uh, saw the, uh, top girl, the sizzle, but we were, we had the, I did a song on four years ago. Like,

you know what I mean? Like I heard it right now, the stuff that she's doing now, I was like, I told, I told Tyler, I was like, I told you,

I hear what you're saying about the street dudes, but y'all was street dudes too. And you, you can hold the conversation. You know, you had a level of intellect that these guys just don't possess.

You know, in the beginning, like now, like I ran into him, I went, I did something with Gucci. We went to,

I go to Coachella with Gucci, Chief keeps it there. And he called me and go, yo, he said, yo,

my bad. Like, you know, I didn't know. You know what I'm saying? He's saying I was, I was a baby. I was so young, I didn't know. You know what I'm saying? He's saying I was a baby. I was so young that I didn't know what was going on. Because he didn't show up to his own video.

Right, I remember. We was in the desert with, like, buggies and all this other shit. He was like, I'm like, where you at? Me with Khalifa? No. No cheeky. And I'm like, wait. He don't know that at the time they wasn't going to spend the money again to reshoot the you

know to shoot the video and i'm like like i called him ahead of time told him get on the plane get on the plane get on the plane and it was like could this in a jet i was like no no it's not the jet thing you have to get on the plane like this it's like you put out wings that this is in the club record and you're not showing up to the video you see what I'm saying and it was

an ill experience but I never held it against him because I knew he didn't understand what was going on at the time so when he said it

to me on his own time I know he's in a different place he hasn't been that hot again though that impression is tough to have

a second but we don't have a second chance at the first impression. And his first one, that was a slap. You're going to see a lot of people in our culture come with one joint and then not be able to deliver the next. The follow-up pieces.

What was that? We were just talking about really good records that came out of New York. You can't, you can't hear what he's saying? What sound like Future? Oh, Designer. Designer.

That huge record, number one record. Then, Young M.A. Young M.A. Huge record and then we like, we're waiting

for the next piece from them. You know what I'm saying? Like, and then because they're already a star in Perception so you're going to get

different music out of them because, like, if they wrote the music in the early time frame, their thought process, everything would be different. More for real.

They have everything in place already, but they're going to be a different person. Like, that's like getting a record out of Cardi B right now versus what she would write

to you prior to that. Well, I told Cardi, don't be a slave to the hit because, you know, she keeps thinking, in her mind, like, I got to do another more that yellow. Yeah, she got to beat that. Well, I told Cardi, don't be a slave to the hit. She keeps thinking, in her mind,

I gotta do another one. Look at the difference in her socially. It's like you popping. The girls that are in the strip club right now want to be Cardi. Absolutely. You just went from being one of the people in the population to being the one they want to be like.

Alright, we got more with 50 Cent when we come back. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. 50 Cent's in the building.

Yee. I love advice from 50 Cent, so let's get some advice from you about other people that are having some issues. Okay. All right, Usher. Uh-huh. Now, what advice would you give usher? what advice would you give usher? change the topic change the topic

this is a good one this is gonna be a good one I would tell usher to be active do not go in the house because it's uncomfortable the things that the public is saying right and and be visible like if I would be popping up everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like herpes. Like genital. Like Alvarez. Just pop up. The reason why I would do that is because it would remind people who he is. Right.

You know what I mean? And why? Because what happens is when we just hear stuff, if you go away, if you tuck away, it becomes real to us. It's always true. Because we don't know. We don't know. We go and look and go, all you see is the picture and the big girl. And you go, why that?

Like, why was you doing that? Like, now it makes anything else that you do possible because of that. You go, I didn't think you would be doing that. And then you say, damn, so all of this must mean what? And that was a guy saying, a guy that came out and said he gave him her bia. He said they had sex twice in Koreatown. But. He said what?

But we don't know if any of this is true. They said there was a Koreatown and they had sex. And now the guy has herpes. Do you adjust to actual allegations? Do you come out and say... Yeah, do you make a statement if you are? Do you write a song? I think he needs to be out.

He needs to be out in public. I don't think you run away from that. He's been out. That's's intense they've said some things about me they have never said that y'all I don't know if I'm prepared for this look you gotta wait till I grow up you can't put me I can't face things like this

you know you can't give me this this is intense what about Kevin Hart what advice would you give Kevin this This is intense What about Kevin Hart What advice would you give Kevin Hart right now A fellow cancer Kevin Hart Oh you know

Kevin's a lover He's a cancer You know what I'm saying And I don't know What happened In this particular situation But it feels scandalous It lined him up

It feels scandalous You know For some reason It feels like Even after all of this time We should be good Enough to not Have this happen over this time. Right?

Mm-hmm. So when I go, what? Why did that happen? And then Charlamagne ended up in the middle of it. I go. No, we're talking about Kevin Hart. We're talking about Kevin Hart. Oh, I'm kidding.

We're going to get to that, Kevin. Not Wendy's Kevin. Not the one. Not the one. Oh, Lord. Good Lord. What is one. I don't know. Oh, it's all good. Wendy's Kevin. I'm like this. Jesus.

It's a whole lot going on out here. It is. A lot of things happening. That's crazy. Look, look. Man, it depends on who the what's-his-name was. Because he come from, like, Wendy's, that's a strong background to come out of come from over there

you know what I mean and this is just not you're not responsible for that if people met each other around it it's not really like that's like if your girl talks to a guy that you knew and you're like yo but I no she did that

because her loyalty is within your bond between the two of y'all. It's not that, I would never, like, if the guy comes around, I expect him to see what I saw, to be attracted to what I was attracted to. Like, he's going to notice that she's an attractive woman. So it's on her to not do those things or, you know, for the relationship, to sustain the relationship. Other than that, I look and or, you know, for the relationship, to sustain the relationship. Other than that, I look and go,

I mean, it wouldn't be comfortable to have someone like, so you're introduced to him and you'd be like, so what did you say? So did you,

wait, did you hook this up or did you, did you say hi? Now listen, Charmaine, 50's been honest with us, right,

50's been honest with us. Did you hook that situation up? I really don't remember to be honest with you. It was 10 years ago. This is valid. This is valid. To not remember

10 years ago. I know the girl. That's my homegirl. She was my homegirl. I haven't talked to her in years. She was always around. So I don't know. Maybe.

I don't know. Yeah, I mean, but then how much of her personal business would she be discussing with? Exactly. A man friend that is not, you know,

intimacy like that. You know, you that you know like you think you know angela you don't know you have no idea you have no idea she's like yeah but that's what you think now what about you musically what are you doing musically i work on new new stuff what i did was i had wrote what i felt like was the right content for the record and i said i want my music to play in the nightclub next to trap music i want my music to play in the nightclub next to trap music I want my music to play some cuts on the album to play like it you feel like traditional 50 Cent but this is hot right I just knew music did

really you feel good about what it is when when you deliver the Fetty Wap record to me that I just seen him it was just a lust together like that record was far from the other fetty rock records right i heard and i was like that's dope because it felt like almost fist pumping music to the point that is i've been in situations like where you're in vegas and it's 18 000 people in the party and that song is gonna be playing right but that's why I did it. It plays in the set. Right. It belongs there. So music is still number one to you as far as passion?

It feels like magic. Because when you condition for it, it's not like a long process. Like, go shorty, it's your birthday. It's not rocket science. It's real quick. It's just what you felt when the music came on. I bet you if you asked Cardi if it feels like magic now she'd say yeah.

Because you're going if you've done it several times like recorded several records when she's saying I made three mixtapes it sounds like a lot.

You know how many songs that you had to make before you could even get a deal? Well I think her new I think the debut I'm sure like worked to her right now

because they on her. Yeah, like, making a certain type of record. Yeah, now once you got it, she already, it's interesting, I want the lyrics to the next song. It's gonna be interesting what is being said. Because she's transitioned from Cardi to join this

in the club, just doing what she's doing, and forget the love and hip-hop piece, because it's still, joint that's in the club because the only money that's coming is the club visit. You see what I'm saying? From that piece to even the presence

the appearance. When you see her you go oh look. She glowed up. Because me it's called old Nicki kind of stuff. Like Nicki Minaj. That was the outfit that Nicki didn't wear yet. I feel great. Very similar.

You know what I'm saying? Stuff, I'm going, whoa, what is this? Is this okay? Wait, somebody find out how Nicki feels about this. You know what I'm saying? Like, this is, like, wow, okay. You know what I mean? And it's cool.

But everything that, because our coaches do not care about what you was doing prior to it working in the present moment. Right. So that is, it means nothing. As long as you can come with the next one. That's it. She's in. Well, tonight, 50 Central, BET, 1030.

Make sure you watch it again, 50 Central on BET. What episode is Charlamagne on? You on this one or you not on this one? I don't know. I'm going to be watching those 24 of them. I'll be tuning in to all of them. All right. 24 episodes.

That's right. That's a commitment. We appreciate you for joining us. Thanks for having me. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own?

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