The Breakfast Club - Classic Interview with comedian Mo'Nique

Episode Date: December 23, 2020

Today on the show as The Breakfast Club is on vacation we flashed back to our classic interview with comedian Monique, when she spoke on her case with Netflix giving her a low budget deal on a stand up, and her issues she had with Lenard Mckelvey giving her "Donkey of the Day". Speaking of "Donkey of the Day" we flashed back to when Charlamagne gave his hee haw to a rapper with unemployment fraud. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's the Breakfast Club 10 year anniversary. 10 years. 10 years at a Breakfast Club 10-year anniversary. 10 years. 10 years at a breakfast club. Doing your thing. Doing what you're doing. And being honest with it. They had a job for 10 years.

Everything's Gucci over there. Wow. 10 years. Shout out to the best doing it, man. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Damn. Y'all getting old. Y'all been holding it down for 10 years.

DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne Tha God. Man, y'all been together longer than some people have been married. I'm proud of y'all. The voice of the culture. Peace, love, and let's go to 20. Congratulations. I'm telling. I'm telling. Hey, what you doing, man?

I'm telling. I'm calling. I'm calling you. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Jeff from Brooklyn. What's up, bro? Get it off your chest.

Yo, I'm blessed black and highly favored. And I'll tell you right now, for me to get onto this line, it's been about a year already, because I called about the same thing, and I'm about to be 27 tomorrow. Okay. What's up, bro? Get it off your chest. Yeah, man. I'm just saying right now, 10 years in

a radio show, I mean, radio show, you know what I mean? It's just so, it's a blessing, man. And I'll tell you right now, I salute y'all so much because y'all did so much for me these past few months. Even me battling mental health and all. And I've just been in a deep, dark place. And just listening to y'all, Envy, Yee, Charlamagne,

y'all helped so much for me. And I can't thank y'all so much, man. Even if you listen to y'all every single. Y'all help so much for me and I can't thank y'all so much, man. Well, I want... And if you listen to y'all every single day. I appreciate you. I want you to get out that deep, dark place, though.

I'm glad that you're out of it. What helped you get out of it? Would you do some therapy? What'd you do? Yeah, I've seen some therapy and all, and, you know, I also meditate as well.

Same. I see what you do sometimes. You go to, like, your own personal tree and all. That's right. And you just meditate and you just get a lot of things out your way and just be so to yourself and just get these demons out of you.

And I walk on a boardwalk because I'm three buildings up this boardwalk. And I just walk. I clear my mind. And I'm just happy that I'm just in the right place for my son and for my wife. I'm glad to hear that, my brother. I got therapy. I got therapy. I'm going to give one more thing out the way.

One of your best moments on The Breakfast Club, I've been listening to y'all for so long. If I had to choose one of my best moments, it's hard to say. It's with the Floyd Mayweather reading when Charlamagne. We're not going to go there, man. I didn't like that moment. We didn't have to hang Charlamagne. We're not going to go there, man. I didn't like that moment. We didn't have to hang up on him. That's one of those moments that I look back on and I cringe like,

I ain't had to do that to Floyd Mayweather. You know what I mean? Regardless of how people feel about Floyd, because after that happened, it was a lot of people trying to justify to me why it was fine. You know what I mean? But no. Just because you don't like a person doesn't mean that it was the correct thing to do.

That wasn't right. No, I didn't like that. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Shell, man. I called a long time ago. I told Charlamagne he don't like the tootsie slides and all that because the toes and all that. I don't like the tootsie slides.

My adrenaline rushing. But, you know, I'm originally from Harlem, and I moved down to North Carolina like a year and a half ago. I got a little storefront with my girl. We be selling used furniture and appliances. So to do that, from around the way, we had him come help us move things, like move beds or washing machines. Then we called him on camera.

He broke into our spot, broke the glass with a brick, big-ass brick. Damn. A couple days ago, somebody stole the trailer that we use to do deliveries right from in front of the house. That sucks. Yo, this is real out here, man. We called police. We got everything on camera, and police ain't doing nothing.

Mecklenburg County Police is not doing anything. They ain't. The dudes are still walking out outside like this. Police don't care about us, man. We young black, they just trying to clean up the areas. I don't know. I'm sorry, y'all. No, that's all good.

That's what this segment is for. It's called Get It Off Your Chest. You get the vent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And God bless y'all. You know, respect to y'all anniversary and all that. But, man, I'm still working. I'm going to work right now, do the supply sprinklers. I use my money to go buy things so we can sell in the store. I don't even use my money for nothing else.

Like, dude is robbing us. Did you get any PPP? Nah, man. We young. We black. We ain't making no money over there. Damn. I'm sorry for that, brother. But that's the game, man. We young. We black. We ain't making no money over there. Damn. I'm sorry for that, brother.

But that's the game, though. That's the game, though. You know what I'm saying? You're going to have setbacks. It's going to be obstacles. It's going to be hurdles. But you got to keep it moving. Yeah, definitely.

We ain't got no choice, man. I ain't going back to where I came from. I know that. Exactly. And you know damn well that back in the day, if you was in the streets and you took a loss, ain't nothing you could do but take that L and keep it moving. So you got to treat the corporate world the same way.

Absolutely. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's go. This is your time to get it off your chest.

Whether you're man or flesh, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. So if you got something on your mind, let it out. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Nick. Whether you're man or flesh, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Nick. Nick, what up, man? Get it off your chest. Nick on the... You like reindeer in here, elf on the shelf.

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

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

life around, but I came up here. The person that I came up for selling drugs, but I wanted to change my life around, but I stayed up. I came up here. The person that I came up here with family, but me and the person don't talk no more. So it's like I want to go back home, but Aiton, South Carolina ain't the place to be, especially trying to get a good job anywhere. But it's also hard for me up here because i ain't got no financial support

or nobody to help me out in no kind of way well it sounds to me like you know you already know you needed a change of environment so if you know if you know uh you don't need to be an aching you can scratch that off the list that's not that's not a that's that's not a thing right yes sir so you just got to stay where you at and figure it out make it work what is it what is it that you want to do i like i've been I've been working since I've been up here. I'm working for the shrimp service right now. But I'm going to be hired on soon. But it's hard because, like, I had Rothschild back a little while ago

because, like, my windshield done got broke. It's like other things that I've been having to deal with during this pandemic that's going on. But it's, like I said, it's just hard not having nobody there in your corner for you. Well, listen, you're going to be fine, my brother. It just takes patience, all right? Yes, sir.

All right, keep pushing on, brother. Keep pushing. All right, thank y'all. Y'all have a good day. You too. Hello, who's this? What's up, y'all? This is James. Keep pushing. All right, thank y'all. Y'all have a good day. You too. Hello, who's this? What's up, y'all? This is James from Indianapolis.

What up, James? Get it off your chest, brother. First of all, I want to congratulate y'all for 10 years, man. Good content, man. Righteous and wretched. Thank you, King. Thank you, brother. And I want to share my favorite Breast of Club moment.

What's that? Other than the Birdman situation, the Benny Siegel situation was funny too, man. Why y'all like to see people try to traumatize me? I thought that was pretty hilarious myself. It was cool, man. It was cool. Charlamagne didn't buckle, though. He didn't buckle.

He didn't buckle. I never buckle. He sure didn't. You're right. He didn't. He stood his ground. What is buckling? And, um

Yeah, thanks guys, man I appreciate y'all And my birthday is this weekend, too Aw, man, enjoy it, man I mean, you can't Where you from? You can't go anywhere, right? Oh, no, man

Not in Indiana Yeah, I wouldn't want to date you Your birthday too close to Christmas And you got a penis But, you know, that's a whole other story You wouldn't want to date him there Because you're married No, no, no F*** that, too Yeah, that, too Married, you got a penis, but, you know, that's a whole other story. You wouldn't want to date him because you're married. No, no, no.

Don't f*** that, too. Yeah, that, too. Married, you got a penis. You're not my type. You're sorting so early in the morning. Thank you, brother. No f***.

All right. Whoa. God dang. That thing is great. My God. Why do people got to stress that? I don't know.

Right? Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Keisha from Texas. How y'all doing? Hey, Keisha from Texas. What part ofall doing? Hey, Keisha from Texas. What part of Texas? Dallas, Texas. So I have to listen on the app, and I don't mind that at all.

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

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

And I love it when you say, I'm calling HR. I'm calling HR. You guys, you guys, you guys, you guys, you guys won't be back until 2021. I needed to hear, I'm calling HR, and Lord have mercy. Well, the beauty of it is that we run a lot of, we run best of shows until January the 5th. So, you know, it gives people an opportunity to catch up on Breakfast Club content they may have missed.

Yeah, and I love it. I'm still going to listen. But Charlamagne, one more time for me. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Why are you stressing me out early this morning? Got me repeating that over and over and over. You have a good morning.

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It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line right now. His album is out right now. Yes, sir. T.I. Yo. Welcome, son.

What's going on, bro? Tip, I think you done done it again, man. I'm with the Libra album, Heavy Man, and right now my favorite record on the album is Family Connect with you and Demani. I gotta say, man, I was shocked and surprised in the most pleasant ways, man. I think that that's a song.

And you know what? I can honestly say that's a song I don't think hip- hop has ever seen before. I was thinking about that when I was listening to it. I was like, has there ever been a father-son rap duo? Well, that both of them actually don't. Will did it at one time, didn't he? Will and Jaden.

Yeah, Will did it with Jaden. But what we also must take into consideration is my other son actually produced the record. Wow. Masali did the beat. I didn't know that. Oh, so it was a real family affair on that one. Yeah, yeah.

Did you have to pay them, T.I.? Yeah, I paid them. I paid them. I paid them. I wouldn't be mad if you didn't. I wouldn't be mad. I mean, you know, nepotism. You know, so I have a taste of nepotism.

You did? They live in a house. You were together, or did you send your verse over, and then Damani had to send his verse back? How did that work? No, man, you know, the way it actually happened, bro, Damani and I was sitting with Messiah, and Messiah was like, yo, let me let y'all hear something. So he was just going through beats, kind of like, you know, after a while. It probably was a time where I had been going away,

like out of town for a second. And I came back, and then, you know what I'm saying, kind of, we sat down at the studio, and Masai, you know, wanted basically, as Damani and I, kind of like, man, let me let y'all hear this, check this out for me. And we listening to his beats, and kind of like, we like, yeah, that's dope, that's dope, okay.

Demondy, yeah, like, man, I want that one. And I said, man, I want that one. And one of the records that I chose, and then I coincidentally had to dip up at the studio to go do something. And when I, I think by the time I came back, Demondy had already recorded the verse. I was like, oh, trying to take this record from me.

And when I heard him do his verse, when I came back, I figured I better put my verse on here now. So, you know, ain't no confusion about who gonna have this record. And so I got on it and it was dope. Y'all had such a dope back and forth though. And it's like,

I'm sitting there thinking, on the song, he's rapping about how, you know, you are his daddy, but he don't want to, you know, he don't want your help. So I'm like, damn, what was the process of this record then? Because it sounded like y'all was, you was coaching him on the record. Nah, bro.

Like, he did his verse by himself. I did my verse by myself. Every verse, like, we were never in the studio with one another. Wow. While we were recording our verses. Do you ever think you was going to be a professor? I see you're teaching at Clark Atlanta University. Did you ever see that as everything that you went through, that I'm going to be a professor, that I'm going to

be a teacher? Nah, but I was a teacher first in prison. I taught class in prison. Did you? You know what I'm saying? What class did you teach in prison? What was it? Thinking Outside the Box, I taught class in prison. Did you? You know what I'm saying? What class did you teach in prison? What was it? Thinking Outside the Box? I believe it was called. What is that about?

I was showing people how to use the skills that they've already acquired on the streets. How to use those skills and identify those skills and purpose them for legitimate means when they get back out on the streets.

And that's the most f***ed up thing about the whole correctional system, right? They don't take these skill sets that these brothers clearly have and help them to direct their energy to something positive. Right. Well, first of all, I mean, I think because that's the system that's set up for free labor. It ain't really about rehabilitation. Now, what are you teaching in this class at O'Clock Land University? Is it the music industry? Is it business? Is it entrepreneurship?

Yes, yes, yes. Is it fatherhood? If they need to know that, we can talk about it. However, I think, nah, man, it's the business of trap music. That's the course. And basically, we go over the business of trap music, but the first course was about targeting the need for the business of trap music. Any business is supply and demand, profit and loss, right?

But in order to supply a demand, you got to recognize the need for the demand. You know, like, why is this so important in the first place? Do you think people forgot how influential you were to trap music because you diversified your portfolio so much? Yeah, absolutely. I think the same thing for hip-hop. That's why whenever people do these lists, I don't ever put

myself on those lists because there's so many other people who dedicated their lives to only just rap, to just do rap. You know what I mean? And I think that's kind of why they get the consideration first. And I ain't got no problem with that. But just know at any given moment, any given time, I'm going to remind you why I am who I am and remind you that I do what I do. All right, we got more with T.I. when we come back.

It's The Breakfast Club. Come on. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine.

I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of 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?

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Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself, and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. have a conversation with Gucci. Did anything come from that? I didn't say I would love to. I said the people would. I said that, you know, trap music would benefit greatly from it. You know what I'm saying? And once you, and I just as a marketing executive, I would say once you've sold as many tickets as you can to the fight,

the only thing left to sell is tickets to the reunion. You know what I'm saying? You know? So... Did anything come from that? No. Okay.

I mean, like, it was just conversation, though. It was never, like, a plan. It was just conversation, because I know that's what people, a lot of people who follow trap music and who are inspired by the culture, who follow the culture, you know what I mean?

They recognize us as the architects of it. You tapped in with all the youngins for this project, too. You got Lil Baby and Thug and 42 Doug. You got Rhapsody on the interlude, Tokyo Jets. Was that intentional? Lil Baby wrecked it hard, too. Yeah, appreciate that, man. I mean, some of it was and some of it wasn't.

So the part where you're talking about like, you know, Thugger and Lil Baby and 42 Dug, you know, and Myzy, yes, that was intentional. Rhapsody, we just stumbled on that. I reached out to her, just gave a cold call one day like, hey, if you were to do some spoken word about me, what would it sound like? What would you say? So then she asked me a few questions about the title of the

album, and she asked me, you know, to hear some songs. I sent her a couple songs. And overnight, she did what she heard. Wow. You know? And then after I heard her,

that's when I was like, you know what? I'm gonna get our own women to do this. You know what I mean? You got Deja on there, too, doing the conclusion. That was the huge, that was the biggest, that was the biggest shock and surprise of my life.

I never expected Deja to do that. Really? And I was blown away. That's got to be a proud Pappy moment. Ah, man. Just to, I mean, for real, bro, like, for one, okay, so, Deja and I have, you know, for most of her life, how can I say this? And I'm very careful with my words, especially when speaking about Deja. Yeah. When she came into that point in her life where, you know, kind of the transition phase in your life,

when that thing that girls do every month happens. When we get our period. I ain't see, I wasn't going to say that. You dig what I'm saying? I wasn't going to say that. But when you, like, so when Deja made it to that point in her life, from that point forward, we kind of hadn't spoken as much.

I ain't had, we didn't have as much of an ability to, you know, speak freely to one another for whatever reason. And, you know, over the past year, we, we gained, we got close. And this is kind of like a testament of that. You know what I'm saying? And especially with all of the stuff that we've gone through over the past year, you know, with Heinegate and all. Every relationship will be tested. I don't care who is with you, your relationship with your mom,

your relationship with your girl, with your wife, with your whoever. Every relationship, it will be tested. And that test is going to strengthen it or weaken it. And I think the thing that she and I went through last year, that was our test. We did and we took the necessary steps, you know, and we got through it. She and I always remain connected. You know what I mean? She and I always had an understanding. You know, we would speak and we would, you know, share our opinions with each other about what was going on, like, in the media as it pertained to that. And, you know, she always told me, man, it ain't our job

to really talk to nobody and tell them what we feel about anything. That ain't our job. That's what they think. They don't think it, so what? You know, I was like, yeah, all right, man, cool. Well, T.I., we appreciate you for checking in.

The album is out right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Yes, sir. It's Topic Time. Yeah, yeah. Pick up the phone, baby. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Talk about it.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, we are talking about Eva. She was on Wendy Williams' show, and she talked about her child and changing her child's last name. Let's hear it. Sterling, like everybody else.

She changed her name this past year. It was, we went through a lot to do it, but. How much more before the actual process is done? Well, the name change is illegal. So now we have to go through the adoption process. And I mean, he's making it a little bit easier for us, acting crazy in the public. Well, I guess Life Jennings seen that

and he didn't like that too much, huh, Ye? He said, I think this is so whack, changing your daughter's last name from her father's to somebody else's, especially when the father tries to see her. The daughter don't have anything to do with their beef and what kind of man allows that ish piss me off. So we're asking 800-585-1051.

Is it acceptable to change your child's last name? What do you think, Charlamagne? I mean, I gotta know the context of the situation. You know what I'm saying? If you're doing it just out of spite just because you don't like your baby daddy because he don't want to be with you and you got a new man now, that's whack. But I mean, if you got a deadbeat daddy...

What about if it's a deadbeat daddy? The dad's not around. The dad is not taking care of the child. I have no problem with that whatsoever. By the way, the son of the daughter shouldn't want to wear the name of a deadbeat. Yeah, I don't know either situation,

but, you know, with Kevin McCall, I mean, we all know Kevin McCall has problems mentally, but it does seem like he is trying to take care of his daughter.

It seems like he goes to court. I just don't know. I don't know if he's abusive. I don't know. You know what I mean? But in a situation, if there is a deadbeat dad and I'm taking it away

from that situation, if the dad is not in the child's life and he's not even helping no way whatsoever, no. I say change that name immediately. What are you thinking? Well, and I just want to point out that we did have this couple on from family or fiance. And Dre and LaShonda, and they had a similar situation. Listen to this.

Now, another big issue is your children. So, LaShonda, you have kids. Dre, you don't have kids. But these are your daughters now. Right. And you guys are talking adoption, right? But without the biological father's consent, from what I gathered from watching the episode. The show makes it look like it's a concern to do it without consent.

My kid's father haven't been around in four years. He was gone before Dre got here. So that's where the adoption thing comes in. It's not like we're trying to replace somebody. He's not an active father financially. His presence isn't there. So she's changing her daughter's last names too because the father is not in the children's life and the daughters

actually want to change their last name to her husband's last name. He's the one that's taking care of them and doing everything. And legally, if a woman wants to change her children's last names, she either has to get consent from the biological father and if he doesn't give names, she either has to get consent from the biological father, and if he doesn't give consent, he can object to it,

and then she has to get a petition and then go to court, and he can show up to court and say he doesn't want that to happen, and then the judge has to decide. So that's how it goes down legally. But I do feel like whoever is the father, if the mother chooses to do that and the father is causing issues or he's not in the child's life or not holding up his responsibilities, then he's not really a dad. And if the last name is Zimmerman, you definitely want to change that one.

You don't want to walk around with that last name. Goodness gracious. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Karina from Jersey City. Hey, Karina from Jersey City. Is it acceptable to change a child's last name? I don't think it is because at the end of the day, that's that father's child. You get what I'm saying? Like, a stepfather could come in and raise the kid,

and that's all fine. But it doesn't take away the fact that that's the father's child. You get what I'm saying? It's a legacy that kind of goes on. It's a bloodline. You know, you can always acknowledge a stepfather for always doing the good and, you know,

give them praise with the kid. But you can't take away the main dad's last name. Okay. Hello, who's this? Sheila from Jersey. Hey, mama. Jersey's on a check and heavy.

So what do you think? Is it acceptable to change your child's last name? No, I don't agree with that. Explain. Okay, go ahead. No, I don't. I don't agree with that

because no matter how much you don't like your kid's dad or no matter how crazy he might act or no matter what he does, changing the last name is not going to change the DNA. It's not going to change who the father is. So you have to get over that. And on top of that, like, you're falsifying an image of somebody that's not true. Like, that's not her dad.

And if one day it doesn't work out between you two, now he legally is her dad, and that's not really her dad. You know what I mean? Like, it's just stupid. It's petty. It doesn't make the other person your dad. They would have to actually adopt the children so that the kids aren't adopted,

even if you're married, right? No, but I'm talking about, like, the image that you're portraying to your children. Now, what if your kids are like, I want to have the same last name as you and my dad, you know, the stepfather? Well, I mean, that's a choice that they have to make. And the two parents should come to a, you know, to a middle ground with.

That would be their choice. But if they're not old enough to make those type of decisions, just saying that because whatever the situation is, you know, like some kids, they grow up and they're told this is their dad, this is their dad. And that's what they think, you know, like. Okay. What if the biological father is absent from the children's life? I mean, me personally, I don't agree in that. My father was not in my life either, and my mother still maintained our last name as his. I mean, I guess that would be up to the child when they grow up

to decide if they want to do that or not. Okay. Thank you, Mama. I just wouldn't do that. Hello, who's this? This is Boom from Dayton, Ohio. Hey, is it acceptable to change a child's last name? I think it just really depends on the circumstances.

Explain. Okay, and the reason why I say that is, you know you know my daughter her father is not in her life and never been in her life which is fine but she still has his last name and um i don't tell her like bad things about her dad you know she can find out on her own just like my mom told me about my dad. But I don't think a name defines a person. Now, if you have, you know, someone new in your life and they want to spend the rest of their life with you and, you know, you and your kids are a package deal. And if that dad is not, you know, in that child's life, I don't see a problem with it being. But, you know, then you got these little

baby moms, you know, you got these, you know, baby moms that, you know, couldn't change the man's life with a child and, you know, being used as a tactic to attack, you know, so, you know know A baby is not a pawn You know Right So whatever that child's name is Leave that baby alone Okay But you know That child

I think it is also like As we always talk about Women taking the husband's name After marriage I think for kids If you live in a house With the mom And the stepfather

And that's who you know Is your dad And you call him dad You might want to have The same last name Hello who's this Good morning This is Nathan call him dad, you might want to have the same last name. Hello, who's this? Good morning. Good morning.

What up, bro? Is it acceptable to change your child's last name, brother? Nah, nah, brother. I don't think it is, man. I want to share experience. I'm glad you got picked up. I actually had an ex-wife who tried to do that to me. And I would like to use her government if that's okay with y'all.

Just the first name, please. Sandra. Okay. I don't know. South Carolina. I already know you got you a nice country ass guy. Yep tried to do that to your boy and I think that's hateful and disrespectful to a man. I don't think another uh might do anything like that. Were you in your child's life? Are you in your child's life? I am in my child's life. I love my kids very much. I'm a Virgo. You already know how we do. That's right.

Love our kids. Okay. Take care of our own. So what happened? Did she try to do it legally and then you blocked it? She talked about trying to do it. She got a lawyer to try to do it. And then I, you know, kind of paid a little bit of money out there.

And, you know, they dropped the whole thing. Okay. All right. Well, thank you, brother. So what's the moral of the story, guys? The moral of the story is that every case is different, though, and there's no one-size-fits-all when it comes to family. So I think whatever decision you make,

it always has to be in the best interest of your children and not in your own selfish best interest. The moral of the story is y'all better stop picking who y'all mate with like y'all rolling dice in the back of a moving goddamn pickup truck, okay? That's what y'all better stop doing, all right? Take care of your kids, man. Exactly. When you lay down with people, man, think about spending the rest of your life with this person because you never know. This person might give you a disease you can't get rid of. This person might give you a baby. Or better yet, you might grow to love this person and be married to them the rest of your life. Either way, that's all forever. Just pick the right forever when you're

dealing with these people, okay? Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag.

I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel.

I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I trade my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, you guys all know Monique stopped by The Breakfast Club yesterday, and we're getting it on today. So we're going to play that for you. Special guest in the building, Miss Monique.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. My husband's on the guest in the building, Miss Monique. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. When Monique walked in, I gave her a hug. I wanted her to know it's all love. Yes, he did, my love. We're just here to have a conversation. That's all. That's all we're doing. Now, what's going on today, Miss Monique? A while ago, I had to come out and I spoke in reference to Netflix. Mm-hmm. That we had to boycott. You know, I was asking folks to stand with us as we boycott Netflix for gender bias and color bias. Correct. And we were fighting for equality. Mm-hmm.

And then I found out that I had become Donkey of the Day. Yes. By Leonard. And I got to call you by your name, baby, because. Leonard. Leonard. Okay. Okay, baby.

He's getting real special. Leonard. But we're going, okay, Leonard. It is Leonard. And then I was called donkey of the day, and it really caught me off guard because when I met this brother some years ago, and I met a young man that was full of humility and respect.

And when I got on that elevator, he actually held the door. I remember like it was yesterday. Yes, ma'am. And I said, oh, baby, thank you. And he was got on that elevator, he actually held the door. I remember it like it was yesterday. Yes, ma'am. And I said, oh, baby, thank you. And he was just like that. Yes, ma'am. And Miss Monique, it's a pleasure to meet you. And we had a very beautiful exchange.

And I said to that brother, tell your mama that she raised you right. That's the fact. And he said it was my mama and my grandma. Yes, ma'am. So I felt like this was, and still is, a beautiful young brother making his way, but full of humility and respect. Till we fast forward and I become donkey of the day. So I didn't want to have to be hearsay. I didn't want to have anybody exchange words that I may have said to him.

So my husband and I wanted to come on so we could understand how I got titled donkey of the day. So why did you give a donkey today, Charlamagne? Well, I think it was due to the whole Netflix situation. You know, when I heard you say that, you know, you wanted us to boycott because of racial and gender bias. But then you went on to mention two brothers and a woman. So I said maybe she should be more specific and say black woman gender bias. But then also, just from a business aspect, I wanted to know why did you feel like, you know, you should

have gotten whatever Chris Rock got, whatever Dave Chappelle got, or whatever Amy Schumer got. Because I feel like this is a what are you doing for me right now type of industry. Well, she didn't say what they got. She said she should have got more than she was offered. And then, Charlamagne, you brought up an old Netflix special as well. Well, that was later on.

But my point was, like, this is a what are you doing for me right now kind of industry. We all know Monique is a legend, but we also know that those things, those deals that Netflix are giving out are based off recent stand-up shows, recent shows, recent concerts, recent arenas, recent tours like that. So I just wanted to know why you felt like you deserved that much. Daddy, would you like to start or would you like for me? It didn't start with the offer where the color bias and the disrespect transpired. It started from when we had our initial conversation after Monique got her

reviews from the nights in which Benjamin and Caitlin, who were representatives for Netflix, came out to see Monique, in which on two different nights they saw her get a standing ovation, which subsequently gave them reviews of amazing and great show. So when we're in the midst of having the conversation prior to them giving the offer, we're in the midst, and he says, well, I want to make it very clear that, you know, people speak about Dave Chappelle, Amy Schumer and what they got. I want to just make it clear, you know, so we can manage expectations that everybody doesn't get those type of deal. Well, when we're in the midst of that conversation, the phone disconnects.

We never reconvene. He never gets us back on. And our attorney looks, calls me up and we speak and we like, well, that was strange. Are we going to get back on the phone or not? Because anybody who does business knows that this is a key time in which to build the value of your client. Then we came back with an offer that they allegedly had sent over that our attorney and I had never received. And then on that, it was a certain time limit in which we were supposed to respond. Well, we had passed the time limit because we never received it. When our attorney had asked them to please resend the offer that they had allegedly sent, it was clear that it had never been sent in the first place. That's the second red flag. When we get on the phone to discuss the

offer that they had then finally sent over, initially they didn't want to have the conversation until I expressed to them, it is very ironic that the call we had was disconnected. We never reconvened. You became evasive. You can't get on the phone. Now I have to express what it's feeling like, which is gender bias, color bias. And there's also an age issue that we didn't discuss that's in there as well. So those three things are what led to it in conjunction with the fact that the very items that he said did not translate for Monique, which were her resume, which she's done in terms of movies. It didn't translate. But he said those were the things

that translated for Amy Schumer. So why is Amy's resume work and Monique does not? And they could not explain that. Well, if you're just joining us, that's Sidney. That's Monique's managing husband if you're just joining us so you know the voices. Well, I don't think Amy Schumer is funny. That's number one.

But she did sell out 50 arenas around the world, including MSGG and HBO wanted her as well. So she created a bidding war based on those stats. So I assume that's the reason her number was at that place. Well, I want to address something because you said, I assume. And then you also said, Monique is a legend. That's what you said.

Absolutely. Right. And then when Robbie Prohl and Netflix also says, Monique is a legend, correct? Absolutely. And you believe that Chris Rock is a legend, as I do as well. Yes. And you would say Dave Chappelle is a legend, right? Absolutely.

What makes me a different legend from Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock? Well, when it comes to that Netflix special, the fact that Dave Chappelle did 1,500 shows prior to signing his Netflix deal, Chris Rock was on tour with the Total Blackout tour selling our show's arenas around the world before they did that Netflix deal. And they also lured him away from HBO. I understand what y'all are coming to the table with. When I came to the table and I said, guys, and I said it humbly, I'm the most decorated comedian alive. And I said that humbly. And then people, some people said, oh, Monique is crazy,

till it was proven. Till everybody actually saw the numbers and said, well, I guess she's right about that. And when you say this is a what have you done for me lately, the question is how much more do I have to do, brother? Because when you do a film called Almost Christmas, and that film has a 17 million dollar budget but it makes 45 million dollars and then my sister amy schumer does a film called snatched and that film makes 45 million dollars but it has a budget of 42 million dollars now what's the

profit on that i'm asking the question. Yours made a lot more profit than Amy's did. Well, it was actually a $25 million profit. But that movie, Amy did her Netflix deal before Smash. No. He said, Robbie Pross said that was what made him also give it a deal because of the big movie that she had coming out. Right.

And that's where we had the check. Yeah, coming out. But she did the Netflix deal before she had coming out. Right. And that's what we had to check. Yeah, coming out. But she did the Netflix deal before that movie came out. Well, we actually talked to the vice president of Netflix, Lenard. And what happens is when you're basing off of what you're assuming and then you give me a title of

Donkey of the Day, is your mother still alive? Yes, ma'am. And you're from what city in South Carolina? Monk's Corner, South Carolina. Monk's Corner. And if I was to call your mother or your grandmother, could they tell me stories of inequality that they had to deal with? Absolutely. So would your mother be a donkey?

No. Would your grandmother be a donkey? No. I need you to explain how you gave me the title because you're not explaining it. You're going off of what I assume, but because you're on that microphone, and when we open up these microphones, we know just how powerful our voices can be. Don't we, Angela? Yes, we do. And we know that what we say can become law. Correct, Lenore? Absolutely.

So when we do that, we must then explain it to our community because we know how poisonous it can be when we put things out, but we can't back it up. We just say it. All right, we have more with Monique when we come back. We got to talk more Netflix and negotiations, and it gets more awkward with her and Charlamagne. So keep it locked. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Monique is here. Charlamagne? I think everything you're saying about racial bias is absolutely correct. Gender bias is absolutely correct. We know that the black woman is unappreciated and undervalued in a lot of different industries.

But I think that when it comes to this Netflix situation, it's very specific. I think it's more of an individual thing than it is a collective problem. Like, can you honestly... What we ask you is this? Can you say if it's an individual problem, how come that there are no individuals of color who happen to be female comedians that have had the multiple million dollar paydays with Netflix? Because what happens with the black community is what have you done lately? But when you are a white person in this industry it's you're only as good as your last project I thought it was drawing power

I thought it was the amount of people that will watch a special. Do you think this is specific to comedians because I do know they've given out multi-million dollar deals to Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes so you think it's specific to the comedy industry Well I'll let you answer it What black female comedian got the multi-million dollar deal?

Well, don't you think it's coming? I'm sure Tiffany Haddish will be presented with something if she hasn't already. Well, but we got to speak about the sisters that's done it. See, when Wanda Sykes is number 100 on Comedy Central's top comedians ever. Number 70. I'm sorry, Daddy. Number 70 on the top 100. Ever.

But they offer her 250. So what do you say to that, Lenore? Well, you know, I actually asked about that. I spoke to somebody at Netflix, and they offered that deal to Wanda Sykes before this guy that does these stand-up deals even got in the position. They offered this deal to her some years ago. Does it seem strange that you always have an answer when our finish line keeps getting moved? When I say name me one black female comedian that's got the million dollar payday, I'm waiting to hear the answer.

Right, so you think it's specific to comedians because I don't know on Netflix any. But I can't say for sure. In history, name her. Well, I would ask what black female comedian has sold out 50 arenas around the world. Well, what I would tell you is there's four beautiful black female comedians that we just got a Legends Award. Her name is Samore. Her name is Adele. Her name is Miss Laura.

Her name is Monique. And when the Queens of Comedy was on tour, see, we made history. And I don't know if you've done your homework because we were the only female group, black, white, Latin, Asian, to sell out consecutively around this country. But you'll disregard that because you'll say, well, what did you do yesterday? So you can't take it away. But if I'm doing business and I'm basing it off doing a deal with somebody who did this last year as opposed to doing it 15 years ago or 20 years ago, whenever it was, wouldn't it make more sense to do it with the person who did it just a couple years ago? If you're doing business and you say, what's Monique's resume?

Now, you're the businessman, and you're looking at that resume, and everything on that resume says, number one. Everything on that resume says, sell out. Now, all of a sudden, is it going to change, businessman? Yeah. If I had to sign Kobe Bryant today, I'm not going to give Kobe Bryant a $100 million contract. Well, you're right.

But his resume is amazing. The difference between Kobe Bryant today and Monique today is when you're 36 in the game of basketball, you done lost your step. When you are 50 years old in the game of comedy, you're seasoned. And if they had to come if they had to come to netflix to your point because you make a very good point and monique had a stumble like a 40 year old or 38 year old kobe bryant who's got a ruptured achilles heel that you got to bounce back from then it would sense. But if he dropped 50 and still was dropping buckets,

what would you say? Because they watched two standing ovations in two sold-out clubs. You're absolutely right, Brother Sidney. Let me ask you this. Why not put together a theater or arena tour and sell that out and then come back to the table? Our table is special to yourself.

It doesn't have to go there. See, my whole thing is that's something else. We're talking about the money offered. And my whole thing is that's something else. We're talking about the money offered. And my whole thing is as a businessman, being a legend and all that doesn't necessarily matter. It's who the people want to see. You could be a legend and people love you, but if you can't attract the people to come to the place to see you or to come to Netflix to watch you, it doesn't mean anything to me. Y'all talking about selling out clothes versus selling out arenas. I'm saying Netflix as well. It doesn't mean anything. But here would be the question about selling out clothes versus selling out arenas. No, I'm saying Netflix as well.

It doesn't mean anything. But here would be the question. You know what I mean? Almost Christmas. Would you say that was a hit movie? Definitely a hit movie. Would you say Bessie was a hit? Yes.

Would you say... Precious. Precious. Precious was a hit? Absolutely. So the question is, so Monique, you didn't do nothing in 2017 that was on TV that we could see. So that means you're irrelevant?

I don't think anything is irrelevant. What happens is, when someone said to me, Monique, does it become disheartening when it's your folks? It's understandable. I don't take offense. It's understandable, and I'll explain why. When I have to sit here and

not defend, but explain to people that look like me, well, when did I become irrelevant? If there was a movie I'll call Almost Christmas, what, in 2016? This is 2018. So now all of a sudden, oh, we don't know if people are going to show up and show out. Now, when I did a show called The Bernie and Sid Show, I'm sure you know those brothers, two white brothers.

And when I walked in there, Lenard, I walked in with a preconceived notion that I was going to have to defend myself. Correct. Because one is a strong Trump supporter and the other is a Democrat. But I'm thinking I'm going to have to walk in and defend myself with these white brothers. After five minutes of us talking,

they shut their show down. And they said, Monique, we're going to call this what this is. This is nothing but racism. And we can't sit back and allow it and watch it happen. So no, we're going to call this what this is. This is nothing but racism. And we can't sit back and allow it and watch it happen. So, no, we're going to tell our listeners to boycott Netflix until they get it right. Because you are a legend. And we have to honor and respect you. Now, those are my white brothers.

Then I come to my folks. And I have to be donkey of the day, which you still haven't explained, Lenard, and you're going to have to. Because when you make those type of statements about your sister to our community, what you're saying to the community is, as black women, you're devalued. And if you stand up and you make a stand and you say, we need equality and we have to say what's right and what's fair. And then a brother that looks like me from South Carolina says you're the donkey of the day. You have to explain that to our community.

I've explained it. I said that I think that you're using racial and gender bias, which are actual real issues. The struggle that the black woman is going through in many industries is a real issue, but you're using it to focus on something that you're dealing with individually. Did you just see Viola Davis come out and say pay her equally? Did you just hear that?

Absolutely. So when you have us saying the same thing, we're saying pay us equally, you're saying, oh, Monique, this is an isolated situation. Well, then what that says is you don't know the history of this business that you're in. And you sit behind this microphone and you try to be the guru of black culture I'm gonna need you to know the history of us before you begin to label us and once you know the history you know I'm not saying anything unique brother I just don't understand how you can justify making 13 million dollars in 2018 for a stand-up special when you say justify 13 million did you

get a chance to read what the offer was i did read some of it yes well all of it the key is we got to read all of it because what chris rock said a long time ago if you want to hire something from a black person put it in the book this is not about comparing the definitive numbers as to what amy got and what um dave and them got because it's merit to what Amy got and what Dave and them got, because it's merit to what you just communicated. But when you ask a comedian to take a half million dollars for two years, you can't say any jokes. They don't want you to do stand up for two years, and essentially they want you to take a half a million dollars and lose out on $2 million of work that you would have made on the road anyway. That right there, it doesn't make sense.

Hi, we have more with Monique when we come back. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ and V. Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Monique is in the building. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Monique is in the building.

Charlamagne. Did y'all make a counteroffer? He just asked, did we make a counteroffer? And that's a very important question. Yeah, did you make a counteroffer? I did see that they responded to the counteroffer and said they won't, they regretfully won't be able to do this deal. Hopefully, you guys can work together in the future. And that's the point that we have to make to you, Lenore.

But in addition to that, my love, and this is in conjunction with Roland Martin and John Mary putting out a rumor that Monique was offered $3 million and then didn't have the decency as journalists to come back and say, we apologize for the misinformation. Because if you notice, Monique keeps producing receipts. And as crazy as this sounds, this is a bigger picture than just Netflix because what has happened was you've heard about Lee Daniels coming out

speaking in reference to how difficult Monique was and the whole nine. We live in a culture in which the ladies who are going up in a room saying hashtag me too. And people are saying, well, you know, if you're going up in a room at two o'clock in the morning, you know, you're about to get screwed. So why do you go up there and do it? But what happens is they'll say to Monique, why didn't you go promote a movie for Lionsgate for free? Because you know what they'll do to you. So now you're in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Because the women who go up in the room, the reason why they go up in the room,

they know they're going to get screwed when they go up in the room. They just don't know how bad they're going to get screwed if they don't go up in the room. What happens is... Can I ask you a question about that? This is why, again, Lenard, you've got to be careful with your words. Because you called your sister donkey of the day, but you didn't do your research. And you pulled that poison out into our community without fully doing your research. And now as we sit here, you have to almost backtrack your words.

I'm not backtracking anything. Well, when you ask a question, did you count an offer? We put all of it out there. We put the information out there. So you were so ready to do good radio that you didn't do your homework. And when you have a conversation, you know a brother named Gerald Kelly? Absolutely. Would you consider him your friend?

Absolutely. See, I was on the road with Gerald Kelly two weeks ago. Yeah, he called me. And he said, Monique, I was on the road with Gerald Kelly two weeks ago. Yeah, he called me. And he said, Monique, I talked to Charlamagne. And he said, man, you know I love Monique. I wasn't doing

nothing but making radio. I didn't say that. I definitely didn't tell him that. I did say I love Monique, though. With Gerald Kelly. Because again, when you say, did you counter-offer? See, we did. and they said there was no negotiations you take it or leave it but we didn't actually counter offer what they said in the midst of our conversation you've given us something to chew on we're going to come back and reflect on it

and we said and i said to them trying to give them out are you you sure? Because here's the thing. We don't want to waste your time if it's not real. However, if it's real and we can get something done, of course, we would love to do business with you. So y'all really didn't make a counteroffer? No, because of what we're saying. They said it was non-negotiable.

They were going to go back to reflect on what we had discussed and when they came back they said that we, based upon our discussion, we decided not to make a counteroffer in reference to what it is that you're speaking in reference to. Hopefully we can do business in the future and so forth. Because what they were trying to emphasize to us, that a half a million dollars was a strong enough number and other people that they considered equal to Monique which they did not name they said they've

taken that number if you notice you're having a conversation with Monique why is it that Netflix won't have a conversation with people because they can bank on people like Charlemagne. They can bank on our brothers and sisters like Charlemagne that will say, we'll fight them for you. I'm not fighting for you. You don't have to fight. I'm still trying to get you and Brother Sidney to justify why you think you deserve $13 million. Was there a bidding war between platforms?

When you say justify, I'm going to put my resume on the table. That's all I'm going to have to do. Do you do the numbers and ticket sales that Chris Rock does, that Dave Chappelle does, that Amy Schumer does? If given the opportunities, why don't you answer the question? See, if given those opportunities, you're answering the question for yourself. We're not given the same opportunities, brother. But if you do your homework, you already know that.

Why can't you and Sidney go out and book arena tours? Do they go out and book their tours or do promoters book them? See, what we're going to do right now is, and what I'm not going to do with you, now you want to play a tit-for-tat and what you're saying is a black woman's resume don't matter. I'm not saying that. You're saying that. You have to be saying that. You keep trying to weaponize

things like black woman and racism and gender bias. Well, why would they offer Wanda Sykes $250,000 and she's considered one of the best? Well, that was years ago and they said they would never do that now. And I literally heard this like a few weeks ago. Can I interject for a second? So you did talk about the situation with Lee Daniels. Yes.

And you talked about people saying that now we've read some things also because you're here in our presence. I would love for you to speak on this. So there are people that say that you didn't treat people well. Yes. And that they've had issues working with you and that you're difficult. Yes. So let's address some of that because Roland Martin brought it up when you guys spoke on Twitter.

Yes. And he talked about the Ebony Magazine cover shoot that you did with Chris Rock and Steve Harvey. Yes. And he said that it was a nightmare because of you. What happened at that shoot? Well, what happened at that shoot was a check was thrown at one of our assistants. And you don't throw anything at anyone. And I had a problem with that.

See, they won't fill you in on all that happened. So you had to let that person know that's not how you do business and that's unacceptable. So I have no problem speaking on it. When they said I mistreated people on Almost Christmas. Well, we have 20 interviews because we knew that they would say something like that. With the people that worked in the background professionals, the lighting guys, the camera guys, where they all said our experience with Monique was stellar. What happens is you hear the bullies speak out, but then the bullies run.

Because when those videos did come out, did Roland Martin come back? When the videos did come out, just with the three little videos, you heard nothing else, did you? Let's backtrack a little bit because with Will Packer. Yes. Okay, so Will Packer and Roland Martin and, you know, a lot of people have spoken out that have dealt with you personally and said these things.

But I haven't really heard anybody say anything negative about Will Packer, about working with Lee Daniels. And I haven't heard them say anything negative about some of the people that they've worked with. So why is it you? Let me, I can answer that. And that's a great question. You know the guy Harvey Weinstein? Mm-hmm. And he was able to do that for how many years?

Decades. And why do you think that was? Well, they were working with a lot of people who felt like their career would be in jeopardy if they spoke out. So do you think this is a unique situation? Do you think that people are fearful to speak out when they're mistreated?

There's a difference between mistreatment and sexual assault, Monique. We can't put out false equivalencies about people. I understand what you're trying to say. Wait a minute, Charmaine. But there's a difference between mistreatment and. I understand what you're trying to say. Wait a minute, Sean. But is it just between mistreatment and sexual assault? Let me say this to you. It's levels to mistreatment.

You're absolutely right. Mistreatment is mistreatment. I don't like you can't paint Will in the same brush as I do. Let me say this. Because based upon the information that you have, you feel comfortable with it. Because this is the world we live in. If you keep hearing it, you feel comfortable with it because this is the world we live in. If you keep hearing it, it seems as if it's true. And the reason she had some difficulty with one of the individuals who were the first AP or something like that,

she had walked into Monique's trailer while she was undressed without knocking. And I don't know if you know, but there was a letter that Steve Harvey had written a while ago in reference to how people just walk into his room. What happens is she's the type of person that doesn't allow people to get disrespected. And she's not going to have an issue with the people that are the hourly wage folks. It's typically the people who are the powerful ones. She's not having no beef with nobody. There were people that were getting their fingers pointed in their face that happened to be black women by white men on the set of Precious. And she said, I can't allow that to happen, guys. So what happens is you are forgetting that this is a country that had slavery for hundreds of years. And when do we start realizing that we are so conditioned to normalize bad treatment when white men are able to say, hey, guys, she's right.

How does the black community not see it? We have more with Monique 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 have Monique in the building still. Charlamagne. I want to know about this, though. Have you received other offers from other screaming services? Let me say this to you. Because doesn't that help with negotiations when you can create a black ball being put over my head the offers that come in from netflix they can come in low like that because they know you've been blackball you know what the word is about you so we assume that you're suffering

and we can offer you whatever we want to offer you. So the offers have come in even lower than that. You had a Netflix special beforehand, though, right? Well, I didn't have a Netflix special. What happened was... They took the one and put it on there. Exactly. I didn't make any deal with Netflix. So those shows just happened to be on there,

and they've been on there for a long time. So someone would say, if this woman's not bringing in any views, why will we hold on to the content? They've been on there for a minute. Are they getting the views? Well, I'm assuming so. We don't get a report on that.

But as I sit here again, and I sit between my sister, who I know you deal with inequality, Angela, you in the same business I'm in. But you'll look at me and you'll say, well, I need you to explain to me. They said you was a problem here and a problem there. We all know when you don't allow bullies to take place and when you don't allow yourself to get bullied, don't you get labeled? Yes.

But can I just, for full disclosure, there are definitely people that I know that have worked with you on the Ebony shoot. And I've heard things, well, they've told me personally, people that were in the room. Say their names. And if not, like I told Lenard before, keep you on the Ebony shoot. Yes. And I've heard things, well, they've told me personally, people that were in the room. Say their names.

And if not, like I told Lenard before, keep it on the playground. Well, okay, so I saw on Alfred Edmond Jr., who's the editor-in-chief of Black Enterprise magazine, I saw that Amy Dubois-Burnett, who was the editor-in-chief of Ebony at the time of that shoot, who was very excited to have you on the shoot, she left a comment because he posted something about you and the numbers and about your worth

and how you are the most decorated comedian. And she commented, it was a nightmare working with her, and I would never want to go through something like that again. I saw that comment is still on his page now. I would love to sit down and talk with that sister face-to-face so she can tell me about the nightmare, because what they won't do is they won't fill it in see they won't fill in we were being arrogant and we wanted to treat that woman as if we were doing her a favor by putting her on the cover as my husband

told me years ago we don't disrespect anyone but we over respect no one and i want you to look at me i'm a big fat black woman you're not fat me. I'm a big, fat, black woman. You're not fat. Stop it. Real talk. What big, fat black woman stands up and says, this is not fair because what the feeling is with some of our sisters and brothers. Monique, you should be grateful you just got invited to the

party because of the way you look. So for anyone that says they ever had a problem with me, bring them to the table. Bring them to the table and let's have a conversation. But what you'll find is we'll speak about this woman when she can't see us. We'll make comments, but we're the type of people that say, let's have a conversation. And when you find out that they're wrong, will you then speak up loudly for me as you speak up for them? I absolutely would.

But Sister Monique and Brother Sidney, I want to ask you a question. Let's just talk numbers. If you put your numbers up against the Amy Schumers, the Chris Rocks, the Dave Chappelle, and I'm talking about selling out arenas all over the world, how can you justify getting a huge payday like that? When you're saying that you're going to offer her 126 of what Amy Schumer got and you're referring to Monique as a legend. And you're seeing her performance,

and you see the people standing up for her at the end of the show. Have you read the reviews to the Netflix special for Amy Schumer? I don't think Amy's funny. You don't got to. Amy got me blocked on Twitter because I don't think she's funny. You don't got to sell me on that. This is the part, Daddy, and we got to wrap up the show. But Amy did sell out 50 arenas around the world, including MSG a few times.

She had an HBO special that did great, and this was all in 2016. Here's what Brother Leonard is saying. Let this year another show comes and they become number one and not the Breakfast Club. And then let a host come in here that's been doing it for maybe five years less than you. And then they get paid 26 times more than you. Then you come back

and have a conversation with us. That's all. Right. That's all. Because what happens is when you sit here and you say make it make sense. Well, we don't have to. Because again... No, you do have to make it make sense. Especially if you don't have to. Because again... No, you do have to make it make sense, especially if you're calling on people to boycott Netflix and you're using things like racism and gender bias.

Because we're saying, here's the resumes, guys. In conjunction with that, the only thing we're saying is, if hypothetically speaking it wasn't 13 million, Charlemagne, what we're saying is, how come there's not, they're saying to the community that it's not one black woman that is a veteran comedian out there today that is worth a seven figure number.

So what would have been a respectable number for Miss Monique? I want to know. Here's the thing. Let me let me give you a respectable number for Monique. Something that would supersede what she would have made in two years, and at the very least what she would have made two years, to be able to take the two years off that they're contractually asking her to do to not be able to tell jokes.

You would not take a deal, because they're going to give you a lump sum of cash that's going to castrate you out of three-fourths of your income. Do you understand what I'm saying? So if the deal didn't include the two years and didn't have that you couldn't tell jokes... If I would have taken a deal for $500,000,

Angela, what position would that have put the babies that's coming after me? No, the deal is foul. The deal is absolutely positively foul. Nobody says the deal is right, but they know Monique's reputation as far as what people are rumored to say. I don't even know if that matters. It does matter. They know that

other networks are not necessarily giving her the money or giving her less. They know what it is. So why would I give, as a business person, an obscene number when I know she can't get it anywhere else? It's foul, but it's business. But if you're saying, Monique, it is foul, and you are right. So if we know it's right and we know it's foul, then what do we do?

We do it on our own. That's just like talking to Steve Harvey. And Brother Steve Harvey says, Mo, I know you're right and I know you're not lying, but could you have done it another way? No, you don't have to do it another way. What's the suggestion? What's the other way? I don't want you to do it any other way.

We do do it on our own, but we still got to speak up. I think the problem started with you coming out comparing yourself to Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Andy Schumer. Well, here's the thing. Because there's no way that you can justify getting that amount of money that they got.

Now, should you have gotten more than $500,000? Yes, and I've said that from day one. Well, here's what I'll say, brother. That's what we're saying, though. No, that's not what y'all were saying. What y'all were saying was y'all should have got the same amount that Chris Rock, Chappelle, and Amy Schumer got. Let me answer that.

That is not what we said. Let me answer that, Daddy. What I said was, if I'm considered a legend like my brothers, then why wouldn't I get what legends get? That is exactly what I said was, if I'm considered a legend like my brothers, then why wouldn't I get what legends get? That is exactly what I said. Because their resume recently is better. You can just prove it on paper. We're going to listen, Lenard.

We're going to let you hold on to that. Only he gets to go to. But what I will say to you is, and to all the black women and women of color that is listening, when you hear this brother's voice come over the air, and I'm unapologetic about what I'm getting ready to say, he does not have a value on black women and women of color. How can you say that?

Why do you say that? But you said 10 years ago, I hugged you, I held the door for you. I'm going to tell you why. Don't you think that's contradictory? I'm going to tell you why I said it, because what happens is when you leave a place called Monk's Corner, South Carolina, and you come to a called Monk's Corner, South Carolina, and you come to a big city named New York,

and then you change your name to Shalemon the God. I was Shalemon in Monk's Corner, Ms. Monique. Well, when you were there, you become Shalemon the God. Now, I don't know if you took the same principles that your mama and your grandmama gave you in Monk's Corner and you brought it to Manhattan, New York, because the brother I did meet on that elevator, I met a brother that was full of principle. And I met a brother who would not call a sister

a donkey of a day. Donkey of a day is a segment that happens every day. Unless he knew all the information and he could back up his statements. But as we sit here and we did this interview, you begin to ask questions that you should have asked before you made the statement. So what I have is...

I'm asking you the questions, but y'all really don't have any answers. What I have is... Y'all still have not, but y'all really don't have any answers. Y'all still have not justified why you feel like you should have gotten that money. And y'all backtracked and said you don't think she should have got that. We're not backtracking. We're not saying that. And here's the thing, Daddy.

There will be some brothers and sisters that get it the way that they get it and we get it the way that we get it. And it's not an argument. I respect your decision. I respect your opinion. Because you're entitled to it. Okay, well. I respect your decision. I respect your opinion. No, no. Because you're entitled to it. Okay, well, thank you for joining us.

Thank you, Ms. Monique, for coming. We appreciate you, Ms. Monique. When we come back, we have donkey of the day. So don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed?

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They chose you. This is a breakfast club, bitchy. Who's Donkey of the Day today? Yes, Donkey of the Day goes to a young man named Fontrell Antonio Bates. Okay, he's 31 years old and resides in Los Angeles via Memphis, and he's a rapper. A rapper that I never heard of until this weekend. And if the first time you are hearing about a person is because they are receiving donkey of the day, just know that probably is never a good thing.

Now, his rap name is Nuke Bizzle. Ring any bells for you, Envy? No. Anybody out there, his rap name is Nuke Bizzle. Ring any bells for you, Envy? No. Anybody out there bumping that new Nuke Bizzle drum that's hot in your parts? Never heard of him. Okay, okay. Well, Nuke Bizzle, ladies and gentlemen, is just the latest in a long line of people who are going to jail for unemployment fraud this year.

Now, I know we've been keeping track of all the COVID-19 cases in America this year, but we also need to be keeping track of all the unemployment-19 cases in America this year, but we also need to be keeping track of all the unemployment fraud cases that have been happening. Okay, see, this is what I don't understand about the folks that are defrauding people under the CARES Act. Y'all do realize what y'all doing is a crime, right? This is not the blessing you've been praying for, right? You know how we say everything happens for a reason? Very true. But sometimes that reason is simply because you made a poor choice. And Nuke Bizzle absolutely made a poor choice. A couple poor choices.

See, Nuke Bizzle was arrested after applying for more than $1.2 million in jobless benefits and using stolen identities in a scheme to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits. Now, I'm going to be honest with you. I have to applaud this man for aiming high. Give him a little round of applause, just a little bit. I said stop, stop, stop, okay? See, here's the thing. All of you who have participated in unemployment fraud, you're going to jail, okay?

It doesn't matter if you got $1 million or $10,000. They coming for you. I'm telling you. It doesn't matter if you got that money and bought a Bentley or got that money and bought a single wide trailer. You're going to jail. They coming to lock your ass up at some point. So if you're going to take a penitentiary chance,

you might as well shoot for the moon. And that's what Nuke Bizzle did with this $1.2 million that he applied for. Now, Nuke Bizzle couldn't just be content with getting this money. No, not in this era. Okay? In this era, the crime isn't official until you get on social media and alert the feds about it. Okay, FBI stands for Facebook, Instagram. And because of you fools, y'all need for digital validation. Because of you fools' incessant desire for likes and retweets, Y'all make the feds job so easy.

Okay, but it wasn't just social media and the internet that got Newt Bizzle jammed up. See, Newt Bizzle, as I told y'all, is a rapper. I repeat, Newt Bizzle is a rapper. Let's go to CBS LA for the report, please. The Department of Justice says a rapper who bragged in a music video about getting rich from an unemployment scam is now facing federal charges. According to a criminal complaint, 31-year-old Fontrell Antonio Baines exploited the pandemic unemployment assistance provision of the Federal Coronavirus Act. He applied for more than $1.2 million in jobless benefits. Federal officials say right now he lives in Hollywood Hills, and in a video, he bragged he's going to get stacks of these

while holding up envelopes from EDD. A second man in the video raps, quote, you gotta sell cocaine, I just file a claim. If convicted, Baines faces up to 22 years in federal prison. Those are some bars. Yes! What? God and Aaron Magruder have the same sense of humor. This is why we need the boondocks back.

But I often wonder if the boondocks, well, when the boondocks comes back, how would they compete with the most absurd things that usually are reserved for storylines on the boondocks are actually happening in real life. Okay, this guy, Nuke Bizzle, applied for $1.2 million in unemployment benefits, blatant unemployment fraud,

and then turned around and made a song about it. Yes, a song called EDD. Nuke Bizzle featuring Fat Wither. Would you like to hear it? Here you go. C.P.A. You got to say cocaine. I can defile a claim. Rest coming straight to the bank. I'm doing shit you can't. But you know smarter you ain't. EDD scam, that's all that you heard about. I be so happy to certify. Get on that laptop, I'm working out. 25 classes for a while. This chain my life and I got it in me.

I swear I'd have had it in a minute. You didn't tell me. I can just wait on the email and get certified for a 20. Damn, this shit hurt better than dinner. I'm into a scam, I'ma click it. Now I kind of like that song. I like that too. I like that song. Yeah. I kind of like the song. Yeah, that's the problem.

Grown ass adults who know better. Saying that they like songs like this. It's no longer erectile dysfunction. What you say, Uncle Ruckus? There is powerful n***a-dry at work here. One more time, Uncle Ruckus, for the people in the back. There is powerful n***a-dry at work here. Kids, I'm so sorry.

I am so sorry, kids. I'm so sorry that we made y'all believe you really had to be living the things you rapped about. I wish more rappers told y'all that they was just performing and they was just trying to make some money. All right. There was a period in my life where I really wanted and loved when my rappers were doing the things they were talking about. But that was ignorant of me. Okay. If rappers actually did just 30%, just 30% of what they rapped about doing, they would all be in prison today.

Okay. This new generation didn't get the memo that majority of these rappers was all cat. Now they're busy trying to lead two lives, trying to serve two masters. They want to rap and live a life of crime. And when you try to do both, you end up like Nuke Bizzle, okay? Facing three federal charges. And if convicted of all these charges, Baines, Nuke Bizzle, will face a statutory maximum sentence of 22 years in federal prison.

Y'all still like the song? It's a good song. The song is popping. Okay. That don't have nothing to do with it. The song is good or not. Nuke Bizzle. We're not going to play Guess Who Racist?

Please let Remy Ma give Nuke Bizzle the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw. You stupid mother f***er. You dumb. Are they white? I have one question. Hmm? Where is Fat Whizzer?

If Fat Whizzer was featured on this song, did Fat Whizzer get locked up too? Are you trying to get someone else arrested? Inquiring might as well. Oh, I'm trying to get them arrested? Forget the song that's got over a million views on YouTube. And forget the $1.2 million in unemployment fraud that they tried to get. I'm trying to get them arrested. I think I'm rich off of EBB. Hey.

Hey. I'm rich off of EBB. All right, n****s. That is powerful n****ery at work here. Mm-hmm. All right. All right, All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day.

How'd you get this on? Can you say this to me? Where is Fat Wizard? I don't know where Fat Wizard is. He's getting low right now. Fat Wizard, you got anything you want to say? My goodness. All right.

Thank you for that, sir. Fat Wizard on pop-up. Now, talking about they was talking about you on The Breakfast Club. Now, you get low. Stay low. Delete all your social media pages and everything. That's all right we got more coming up next we're the breakfast club need relationship advice need personal advice just need real advice call up now for ask ye keep the real morning everybody it'svy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

It's time for Ask Yee. Hello, who's this? Yo, it's Cookie. Cookie! Cookie from out of Florida, Broward County. I know you talking about us, Charlamagne. I don't know what you talking about. What's up, Cookie?

All right, Cookie, what's good? What's your question for Yeezy? Okay, my question is, me and my husband, we rap. Like, we spit bars. Like, we really got bars, man. But we up there in age. We've been spitting for a long time. We 32.

And we just wondering if we should keep trying. Are you any good? You want to hear me? I got you. Yeah, go ahead. Let's hear it. Let's hear something, Cookie. All right, you can hear C-double-O-P.

Now, you don't know me. Yeah, you may see me, but you can never beat me. And you can never beat me in a hip-hop battle. Soon as you see me, fool, better skedaddle. Survive with a paddle. I'll swim through the river. Meaning I can make it through whatever life is. I'm the Quiver.

Every time I speak rhymes, got your man on my hinds. Cookie Black is a dime. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Yo, I love the comedy rap, yo. You really made me laugh. The comedy rap is dope. This is Ask Yee.

Yee, what do you think? So, Cookie, a couple things here. Have you made any type of progress with your career as a rapper? I performed a couple places. I mean, I performed at the Hard Rock a while ago. It was big. Well, at the time I was working there, but we did like an employee talent show, and I won both times.

I won both times, though. Yeah, I performed at a few places, you know, locally and stuff like that. So it's like. Now, keep it real, Cookie. Have you been going really, really hard to pursue your dream? Been trying, yes. You know, getting knocked down a couple times. You know, we went to an event in Orlando, and it was like, oh, you know,

people not really check for older rappers right now. I'm like, yo, but I've been doing this for so long, and it just so happened that some opportunities are coming out right now, you know, where you can, you know, this artist showcase and this artist showcase. And have you been recording music in the studio anywhere, though? Yes. You can go on Instagram at Gru Entertainment LLC. Man, just tell her she sucks and to get a job.

I just want to say, I don't think that being in your 30s is a reason to not pursue your career as far as being an artist, if you're really great at it and if you go really hard at it you know what I'm saying I think sometimes people want things to happen and they do a showcase here and there but they're not going super hard because people who really want to be in this industry have to really live breathe eat sleep it like do everything they can to make it happen so that's why I was asking you are you doing everything that you can? Have you been going really hard, or is this something that you've been doing

kind of, you know, here and there, but not really pursuing? Yeah, I've been trying to go hard. I really have been trying to. Of course, you know, with my age, you know, I eventually had children and stuff like that. But I think I've still got bars. I'm still ready to put in the work. You don't.

Nah, I don't suck, man. You do. Learn to trade. You know what I'm saying? Do you have a job? Yeah, I got a job. There you go. Get another one.

Work, baby. I just don't want you to use age as an excuse. We know an artist right now that's putting out his first ever album. He's in his 40s. You know what I'm saying? So I don't think that's ever. He's good, exactly. Even the white man in the room said, but he's good, because you're talking about Jay Electronica. He's in his 40s. You know what I'm saying? So I don't think that's ever. He's good. Exactly. Steven, the white man in the room said, but he's good.

Because you're talking about Jay Electronica. He's good. So what I'm saying is. Hold on. So you're saying I'm not good? Oh, my God. That's what you've been saying for the last seven minutes. I'm clocking out of this conversation.

All right. Well, listen. Give everybody your Instagram. Everybody is going to weigh in and go and look at your music that you have posted and let you know what they think. This is a great opportunity for you to get some feedback. That's right. Give them your Instagram so people can go tell you the truth.

Oh, man, I'm hurt, Charlamagne. What is it? Groove Entertainment. G-R-E-W Entertainment, LLC, man. I love you, though. I love y'all. I listen to you every morning. I'm hurt right now, though, Charlamagne, but it's okay.

Well, I don't think you can judge it just based off of that. Yeah, Charlamagne ain't hear no music. He hasn't heard no music. He just heard... So what'd you think of that freestyle you just heard from her, Andy? What'd you think of what you just heard from her? I was listening. I was listening.

Y'all are so full of s***. What? I was listening. Y'all are so full of s***. And that's why she's going to waste her time for the next three, four years trying to rap. She could have just had an off day. Okay, sure.

Cookie the Black Widow. Whoa. All right. Okay. Okay, let's keep it going. Ask Yee. 800-585-1051 if you need relationship advice. Hit us up now.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Get some real advice with Angela Yee. It's Ask Yee. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Ask Yee.

Hello, who's this? Hello, it's Misty. Misty? Yes. Hey, what's your question for Yee? Okay, so my question was, like, what am I supposed to do if, like, my boyfriend keeps sneaking to watch porn? I don't have a problem with him watching it. It's just getting weird that he's sneaking to watch it.

Mm-hmm. Because he doesn't know whether or not you have a problem with it. Did you tell him, like, I know you're watching porn. It's fine. I mean, we've had the discussion about it. Like, I asked him, like, if we have a problem with sex or something. But he's like, no, we don't have a problem with sex or anything. And it's like I'm being open-minded about stuff.

But I don't know. He keeps asking for, like, threesomes and stuff like that or whatever, too. Well, and you don't want to do a threesome, or you do? Or are you open to it? I'm okay with it i guess i've never done it so well obviously that's not going to happen anytime soon because we are all quarantined and you know so that's a whole nother story but first of all maybe part of the fun for him watching porn is him sneaking to do it that's weird is that not strange or like is that normal

how'd you catch him i'm just curious how'd him? Okay, we were supposed to have sex or whatever, but then I fell asleep. But then when I woke up, I'm like, okay, maybe I should go back to sleep because you almost finished. So... Oh, when you woke up and you seen him on the computer. He was sitting there watching porn.

He was on his phone, and it was on mute. That's the weirdest thing to me. Like, he was right beside me. He didn't want to wake you up. I'm okay with him waking me up though Well he didn't know that Did you tell him next time wake me up I'm fine

I don't know I just kind of like got up and went to the bathroom Because I'm like this is weird This is the second time I caught him doing this You know what It sounds like y'all just need to have a conversation Because you're not saying anything to him And then he's not saying anything to you about it.

And then now you do think it's weird. So he probably can sense that you think it's weird. So it's kind of like a lack of communication. It's what's causing you guys to not come together on this when you could just simply wake up and be like, oh, you watch important. What you watching? Let me see. OK, I guess. And you know what can be fun sometimes,

if you don't mind doing this, is watching porn together. I mean, like, I'm not as experienced as he is sexually. And, like, recently he got me, like, this toy thing. And I'm just like, I'm not okay with electronics down there. Because, like, robot or whatever. So it's like, I don't know. Well, maybe he is nervous to bring things up to you because he doesn't want you to think that he's weird.

Okay. I don't know. I'll try to have that conversation, I guess. I don't know. And I see it feels like you want to be more open-minded about things, but right now you're not in that place. Like you're uncertain about a lot of things. Like you said, you're not as experienced as he is.

So you take it slow. And I always tell people, don't do anything that you're uncertain about a lot of things. Like you said, you're not as experienced as he is. So you take it slow. And I always tell people, don't do anything that you're not comfortable with. So if you truly are not comfortable with something, don't do it and let him know that you're not comfortable. And if there are things that you want to try, don't be ashamed to try them. So those are the two things that I would say

when it comes to experimenting in the bedroom. Okay, because like, I really like him. I've tried to have a part of this conversation before, and then it went into this whole spiral conversation about, like, insecurities and all this extra junk, and I'm just like, what the f*** is going on? Yeah, you never do something just to please the other person if you're not comfortable with it,

because that does cause resentment sometimes, and then that does tend to spiral out of control. But if in your mind, you're like, Hmm, I would like to try this, then you should try it. It's just, and remember, it's completely up to you. It's fine for you to not want to do a threesome. It's fine for you to not want to use that toy if you don't feel like it, but it's also fine for you to say, okay, I'm down to experiment. Don't worry about other people's judgments of you. It's your body, your choice to do whatever you want. And even with those things, like, whenever I gave

him the stuff I wanted to try, he just kept calling me like a freak or whatever, and then I'm like, okay, maybe I shouldn't tell him the stuff that I'm into if he thinks it's too outrageous. But then it makes me wonder, like, what's so outrageous? What are you into? Yeah, Envy wants to know. What are you into? I'm just curious. Oh, gosh. Okay, so I kind of like the whole dumb, submissive thing,

like if we can switch roles and stuff. Okay. And he's not okay with a lot of it, and I guess I grew up on the pill side of life. But I was kind of trying to see if he would be okay with, like, you know, pegging probably. Oh, yeah, you go with the fall. Okay, now, pegging is, yeah, pegging might be a little serious.

That's not light. You want to put him on a leash, too? No, we have that covered. I mean, he put me on a leash before. Okay. I'd much rather be on a leash than get a pegging ass. Okay? Of course.

Now, Missy. I'll take the leash for $500, Alex. Okay? What I would recommend, Missy, though, is before you go straight to the pegging, have you ever put a finger in there? Yes, that's the thing. Got it by him. Okay.

So maybe that's something you guys will graduate to eventually? Yeah, but that's my thing, though. If he brings up the butt play but then gets weird when we're talking about it, I'm just like, hmm, what's going on here? You know what? And Misty,

I'm going to be honest with you. A lot of times guys like to do things, but they don't like to discuss the things they like to do because they feel like it's weird. So you have to kind of just do it without discussing it. Don't rape that man butt.

Don't just do it. No, not that, but you can feel it out and start doing something and he might like it, but he doesn't want to discuss that he liked it. So obviously if he doesn't want to do it, he'll let you know he doesn't want to do it. But if you just approach it and bring it and be like, hey, let's go in the heat of the moment and he's with it, then there you go. But sometimes having that discussion makes people feel a little weird.

Okay. I'm going to have the whole like off conversation. I don't want to have it like first time at breakfast or whatever, but I'm trying to see how I can bring it up during the day or whatever. Cause I'm just like, yo, I'm okay with you waking me up for sex. You've done it before. Like, well, he didn't wake me up for sex, but like a or whatever. So it's just like, you know. I feel like you guys will be fine.

This is a great time to have these discussions while y'all are in the house together. He ain't got nowhere else to go. We got to get this quarantine over because y'all bored as hell. Tell him he's shook and ain't no such thing

as half-ass crooks. And by that, tell him stop letting you put half your finger in his a** and tell him you want all or nothing, all right? Tell him grow up. Definitely. Thank you, guys. All. Tell him grow up. Definitely.

Thank you, guys. All right, Misty. Good luck. It's funny what y'all like to weigh in on. If you do stuff like that, you can't even... Please don't give the young man no nicknames, either. You'll be hitting him and talking about your Peg the Stallion. Can't call a grown man Peg the Stallion. What?

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Good morning. It's time for Ask C&E. Now, Angela Yee is on vacation, so Ask C&E, all right? If you got relationship questions or you just have questions about life in general, we can help you. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Anonymous from Detroit, Michigan.

Anonymous from the D. All right, brother. What's your question for C and E? Okay, I've been dating a Spanish woman. I'm actually African American and she's been working with me, but she switched shifts after we dated for two years and knew each other for three and went to morning shift. I'm actually African-American and she's been working with me, but she switched shifts after we dated for two years and knew each other for three and went to morning shift. I'm on night shift.

Now, she found a friend that's actually her race. Probably like three months ago, they went out of town, spent the weekend, had a great time. We still talk every day. She initiates a text. She texts me. She called me one night crying. Her stomach was hurting. She still relies on me, but she don't want to see me outside of work.

So is there any chance I could get her back? Well, I'm just waiting for him to mess up. Well, first of all, you said that she's of another race. So you're black, right? I'm black. She's Spanish. I'm the second guy she's ever been with and the first black guy she's ever been with besides her husband. Okay.

You said husband. I'm all for it. Yeah. She said I wasted her time because of her culture. They date for three or four months and they get married. We dated for two years and nothing happened. Oh, okay. Well, you know, I'm all for black and brown relations,

but my advice to you is get you a black woman. You know what I'm saying? Get you a queen. You know, you did the Spanish thing. It didn't work out, clearly. You know, she's moved on. I think it's time for you to move on, too. Get you a queen. You know, you did the Spanish thing. It didn't work out, clearly. You know, she's moved on. I think it's time for you to move on, too. Get you a sister.

Now, I would say find somebody that you love. Obviously, you have feelings for her. And, you know, why didn't you marry her? Why didn't you just say, you know what, this is something I want to do? I'm not attracted to black women. I'm not attracted to black women as far as, like, marriage. But I do have black women as friends. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Hang. Bye. Hang up. I don't want to talk to him no more. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk to you anymore.

Goodness gracious. So you tell me you're not attracted to black women. You know what I'm saying? Like black women aren't good enough to marry. What color is your mama? You know what I'm saying? Like what kind of household do you come from? I guess I could have asked him those questions, but I don't care.

I don't care to have the conversation. I wanted to know. I wanted to know why. Why was it deeply rooted? Like, what kind of household do you come from? I guess I could have asked him those questions, but I don't care. I don't care to have the conversation. Yeah, I wanted to know. I wanted to know why. Like, why was it deeply rooted? Like, his mother's black? Like, what's the problem? He doesn't have sisters, grandmas, aunts, none of that? I don't care for these self-hating Negroes.

I don't care for black women. I don't care for black women to marry them. Like, get the f*** and beat it. Bye. Hello, who's this? Yo, what up? This is T. What's happening, man? What's up, brother? What's your question for C&E? Man, so check this out, right?

So, um, me and my baby mama, you know what I'm saying, the mother of my child, beautiful woman. As a man, you know what I'm saying, we all make mistakes. Oh, boy. You know, back in 2017, you know, I made a mistake that, you know, cost me, you know, a lot of the mistrust that she's had over the past three years.

But, you know, as a man, you know, when you love somebody, you're going to do what you got to do to make things work out, right? Well, you know, I've been doing that. You know, just kind of, you know, doing the romantic things that a man should do. You know, buy her nice purses, take her out to nice dinners, do things like that. Michael Cole! No Michael Cole, my brother. It's more like Gucci.

Okay, okay. They racist, but go ahead. You know what I'm saying? So, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, I handle my business. You know what I'm saying? But, you know, something kind of happened. You know, when 2020 happened, I guess like for everybody, you know,

kind of things kind of like just turned for the worse. You know, I came home one day from work and the door lock was changed. And I thought that was mad weird. And I was like, yo, you know, the door lock has changed. Like, is something wrong? Like, do we need to talk about something? And she basically was like acting like real, like, nonchalant. Like, she don't know what I'm talking about.

Yo, King, get to the point, King. Life's too short for this phone call so what happened brother is that is that i'm still paying for her rent while we're not together no more right and it's to the point where i feel like it's it's in my best interest to move on but i really love her i bought a ring i wanted to propose to her we have two kids together we're trying to make it work But it seems like everything that I do when it comes to paying her bills, doing all of these nice things, it ain't really adding up. All right, let me tell you. First of all, that's your first mistake.

You can't buy somebody's love. You can't buy somebody's trust. And that's what you seem like you're trying to do. You're throwing money in there. You're buying bags. You're buying shoes. You probably said this in an argument. Well, I'm buying you everything you want.

That doesn't work. To really get back into her good graces, you have to prove that you're not that person anymore. It's not a matter about buying anything. It's not about buying shoes or buying bags or taking her out to dinner. It's redating and reestablishing that trust. Like the little things like, you know, have conversations.

Open up your phone to her. Tell her, hey, look, this is my phone code. I would never jeopardize my relationship anymore. Let her start having that trust in you. Does she have your code up your phone to her. Tell her, hey, look, this is my phone code. I would, you know, I would never jeopardize my relationship anymore. Let her, let her start having that trust in you. Does she have your code for your phone? Yeah, absolutely. All right. Well, those are the things that you need to do. Make sure she has the code to your Instagram. Let her know, let her be comfortable with you going out and feeling like I would never do this. If you go out with your boys, hey, baby, you want to come with me? Like make her feel comfortable that, look, I'm not that person anymore. I made a mistake.

I apologize. I'm sorry. I'll do anything that I have to do to make sure that you can start trusting me again. But it's not going to start with you trying to buy love. Because when you try to buy love, exactly what happens is she realizes that you're doing it. She keeps accepting it and just using you for that. And, you know, she's still not. What if it's to the point where you're doing all of that,

but it's to the point where it's like, you know, there's really no romanticism in the whole situation. Man, she don't trust you because you a cheater, bro. She don't trust you because you a cheater. You put yourself in that position. Okay, so the best apology is change behavior. So she'll grow trust for you when you show her that you ain't cheating no more. And I understand what Envy's talking about, but F all that. Buy her everything, too.

So change your behavior and ball out. All right? You got to do both. It's crazy, though. That happened in 2017. It's 2020, right? And that's the problem, too. What you got to recognize is you can't tell somebody how to how to feel like a lot of

guys they said like i ain't cheating a year that doesn't mean she don't feel that bro he's still cheating you still cheating tell the truth listen tell the truth between us tell the truth my brother tell the truth i bought a ring i bought a ring my brother so you know that so i ain't ask you that have you cheated since you cheated? Absolutely not. Promise to God. Promise to God. All right, good, because God knows if you're lying. And if you're lying, he's not going to bless you with what you want.

That's the problem that I'm having right now is that it's the fact that I'm working my ass off. You know, I give her an inch and she's trying to take a mile. Well, that's going to happen because you cheated. Yes, because you cheated. The same way you took that poom poom from another woman, your man should be able to take that mile. So give her that mile and be willing to go the extra mile for her. Okay? Change your behavior and ball out.

But before you ball out, you have to get to the side where you understand what you did wrong and apologize. You just can't ball out because it'll be for nothing. Then when you get to that point, then you ball out. Where's to the point where enough is enough? If I'm doing all of that and I get nowhere... You cheated, bro. You cheated. Ain't no time limit.

Ain't no time limit when she can get over it. You did what's wrong. You can't say, okay, well, I did this for a month. She's still grieving. Yes. You think you're just going to have unprotected sex with a girl three years ago and then come back to her and think she's just going to get over it? She don a girl three years ago and then come back to her and think she's going to get over it? She don't trust you.

It's your fault. Okay? Like Malik Yoba said, step up. Have a blessed day. Have a blessed day, brother. Good luck. Ask C&E. 800-585-1051.

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