The Breakfast Club - Clense Your Mental First (Taraji P Henson, Jay Barnett and Tracie Jade Jenkins Interview; T.I Interview)

Episode Date: October 19, 2020

Today on the show we had Taraji P Henson, neJay Barnett and Tracie Jade Jenkins call in where they spoke about healing through therapy, having trust and understanding in a relationship, new talk show and more. Also, we had T.I call in and speak on fatherhood, business, Hip Hop in new album and more. Speaking of Hip Hop Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to a man that calls himself Nuke Bizzle for benefits fraud and made a song out of it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

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

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all. Niminy here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone.

The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did

the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records because in order to make history you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne Tha God.

Wake that ass up, the Breffa Club is on right here. I am Phillip Blass. I'm talking to the Breakfast Club this morning. Okay, okay, okay. I love coming here. I'm never not going to come here. You guys are good to me.

I'm a tiny mom. I'm going to be good to y'all. For a lot of people in the hip-hop generation, the Breakfast Club is where people get their information on the topics, on the artists, and everything like that. In that aspect, radio is still important. The Breakfast Club. When my name come up, respect it.

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They really enjoyed it. My daughter was like, you know, Dad, you know one thing? I'm like, what? She was like, you know what made me so happy? I said, what? She goes, when we go to school every Monday, they always ask, what did you do this weekend? And all the kids would be like, nothing because you can't go outside. Now I got something special to say. So that made me happy as a dad. That's beautiful.

Yeah. So that was my weekend. What about you guys? I was filming for Damon John. He has this Black Entrepreneurs Day that is going to be airing on Saturday on Facebook and at blackentrepreneursday.com. So actually, I got to finish today. But it was great. They're giving away $225,000 to nine black entrepreneurs. That's dope.

That's really, really dope. That is really, really dope. What about you, Charlamagne? I don't remember. I was on Edibles. Let me see. I enjoyed the weekend. I was just listening to a lot of new music, you know,

catching up on T.I.'s new album, Libra, which is phenomenal. But I'm a T.I. fan. Benny the Butcher, Bird and the Proof. Another great project that's out there produced solely by hit boys. So, yeah, I was just zoning out and I'm reading a new, well not a new book, but it's a Maya Angelou's book. What's the name of this book?

I didn't read it this weekend. It's called Gather Together in My Name. Okay. What's called what? What are you talking about? Nothing. You're looking at something that's I thought it was another book. That's Nikki Giovanni. I thought that was Nikki Giovanni's book you were talking about. I thought that was Maya Angelou's book. You should be ashamed of yourself. I didn't see the book.

That's what I thought it was. That's why I grabbed it and I looked. No, I ordered Maya Angelou off Amazon. Oh, all right. Yes. Well, let's get the show cracking. We got some special guests joining us this morning. T.I. will be joining us.

Speaking of T.I., we're going to talk about that new album, Libra. Mm-hmm. And we got Taraji P. Henson and Tracy Jade will be here this morning. Yes, and Jay Barnett. Yes, and Jay Barnett. Yes, and Jay Barnett. They have the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, which is helping to eradicate the stigma around mental health in the black community. And those are my folks.

So it's always a good time to have a conversation about being mentally healthy. All right. Well, we'll get into that next. And we got front page news. What are we talking about, Yee? Coronavirus. The cases are surging. There's only two states that have seen an improvement in the average number of reported cases.

All right. We'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news.

Start off with sports. Now, in Major League Baseball, if you're watching baseball, Tampa Bay Rays versus the Dodgers in World Series. Game 1 is Tuesday at 8. Now NFL. Denver beat the Patriots 18-12. Steelers beat the Browns 38-7. The Colts beat the Bengals 31-27. The Lions beat the Jaguars 34-16.

The Titans beat the Texans 42-36 in overtime. The Giants beat the Washington football team. I don't know why the Giants would win. Just lose. Just lose the season. And Washington is so disrespectful. They could have just kicked it and tied the game. They were just like, you know what? We're going to go for two because we're going to beat the Giants. But luckily they didn't. So the

Giants did win. Ravens beat the Eagles 30-28. The Falcons beat the Vikings 40-23. The Bears beat the Panthers 23-16. The Dolphins beat the Jets 24-0. Buccaneers watched the Packers 38-10. San Francisco beat the Rams 24-16. The Dolphins beat the Jets 24-0. Buccaneers washed the Packers 38-10. San Francisco beat the Rams 24-16. And tonight, the Chiefs

take on the Bills and the Cowboys take on the Cardinals. Now, what else we talking about, Yeezy? Alright, well there's a total of more than 48,000 new coronavirus cases that were diagnosed in the U.S. on Sunday. And there's only two states that are trending downward, Missouri and Vermont.

Right now, Wisconsin says they are not giving any numbers Saturday and Sunday because they are doing maintenance and updating their data reporting system. But that's not good news. OK, that means there are 20, there are 47 states that are doing, 27 states that saw a spike, by the way, also. So Dr. Fauci was on 60 Minutes and he was talking about mask wearing and all the issues with that. And he also said he's not surprised that Donald Trump did get coronavirus. Were you surprised that President Trump got sick? Absolutely not. I was worried that he was going to get sick when I saw him in a completely precarious situation of crowded, no separation between people and almost nobody wearing a mask. When I saw that on TV, I said, oh, my goodness, nothing good can come out of that. That's got to

be a problem. And then sure enough, it turned out to be a super spreader event. Dr. Fauci also says the White House is restricting his media appearances. During this pandemic, has the White House been controlling when you can speak with the media? You know, I think you'd have to be honest to say yes. I certainly have not been allowed to go on many, many, many shows that have asked for me. Can you understand the frustration that maybe there's been a restriction on the flow of information on transparency? You know, I think there has been a restriction, John, but it doesn't, it isn't consistent. You know, the surgeons shouldn't surprise anybody, though. I mean, people are out, people are at work, people are traveling, people in the clubs, restaurants,

kids back in school. No matter how much precautions you take, no matter how much you social distance, wear your mask. I mean, it probably can still spread. It's no vaccine. It's no treatment. So it's bound to happen. It's the case of surge and a bound to happen. But what do we do from here? Like, do we shut the country back down, which people lose jobs, businesses continue to close, or do we try to deal with it?

I think as long as the hospitals don't get overcrowded, they won't shut things down. I mean, it might have, you know, certain precautions in certain places. Like, you know, you've got to be in the house at a certain time. But if the hospitals don't get overcrowded, I doubt they shut down again. Right. And with Donald Trump and his rallies, there have been surges in cases that are linked directly back to people who are getting them at his rallies. He said that everybody's wearing masks at his rallies, but you can see in pictures that not everybody is. A lot of people actually are not. So it does also start with leadership. Now, Dr. Fauci talked about Donald Trump and America being against wearing masks. He sometimes equates wearing a mask with weakness. Does that make sense to you?

No, it doesn't. Of course not. Do you have a feeling that there is sometimes an all-out war against science? Oh, yeah. Particularly over the last few years. There's an anti-authority feeling in the world. And science has an air of authority to it. So people who want to push back on authority tend to, as a sidebar, push back on science. Yeah, you look really stupid if you won't wear a mask for corona, but you can't wait to wear a mask for Halloween. That's just stupid. You know what I mean? You can't wait to put on a mask for recreational purposes,

but you don't want to put on a mask to save your goddamn life. I guarantee you there's somebody out there right now complaining about not wanting to wear a mask because of Corona, but can't wait to show out for Halloween with some type of damn costume and Halloween on a Saturday this year? Please. All right. Like Dr. Fauci said, it seems like an on a Saturday this year, please. All right. Like Dr. Fauci said, it seems like an anti-authority thing, too.

All right. Well, that is your front page news. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. Maybe you had a horrible weekend, bad weekend, or maybe you feel blessed. Hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Is morning. The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country.

I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 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. Why can't I trade my country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead.

Oh, my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast.

That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all.

It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So y'all, this is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out.

Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know?

I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Colvin. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.

Hello, who's this? Yo, what's up, Envy? What's up, Trav? What's going on? Yeah, chillin', chillin'. Hi, Trav. Hey, boo. What's up, babe? How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm doing good. Charlamagne. Peace, sis. What's happening?

What's up with you? I am blessed black and highly favored, sir. Don't be trying to talk to me now, Charlemagne, because I called you handsome last week, and you just ignored me. You just read my little post. You read my little message. Didn't say thank you or nothing, because you think you're cute now. That's the problem.

First of all, first of all, first of all, I know I've been handsome for a long time. Okay, since 1978. All right. Well, you're welcome, Charlamagne. I called you handsome. You just ignored it. Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate you. That's the problem. Ugly a** start getting money on their ass.

That's exactly it. Yeezy, how you been, boo? You been killing? I'm pretty good. Yes, sir. Yourself? How's everything going in Philly? Everything going good. Everything going good. Everything going good. You know, I got to talk about something real quick, super quick. I'm going to let you go.

These weed men have got to stop robbing people, yo. They are charging way too much for apes nowadays. And it's just not the same weed. And they need to do something better. My weed man is, like, really acting up lately. I'm going to call the cops. Well, you know what you need to do, Trav? You need to go down to Maryland,

get you a medical marijuana card, and start copping your weed from the dispensaries in Maryland. And stop buying off the street. Well, you can actually get one in Pennsylvania, but the only reason I don't want to get one in Pennsylvania is because if you get a medical marijuana card in Pennsylvania, you can't get a gun license. Yeah, that's what they said in Jersey,

too. If you have a license, that you can't have a gun license. That's why I haven't got my marijuana card. Interesting. Yeah, so it's really between either, you know, you want to get a medical marijuana license or a gun license. So I think I'd rather go with the gun license. Well, holla at Taylor, gang, then. I'm about to give Taylor something right now.

I got some nice medical marijuana. I'm about to give a fun-sized tea. Oh, I definitely... Give her some for me. Charlamagne passing drugs around the office now? I don't know. I'm going to use this. This is legal. Goodbye. What are you talking about? This is medical marijuana. Hello, who's this? Good morning, Angela.

Hey, Snack Man. We missed you last week. You don't hear nobody else in there? Your mama ain't teaching no manners? Morning, Angela. What's up, Snack Man? You got a joke for us? Listen, I missed you last week. It's not like you're about to die. You don't hear nobody else in there? Morning, Angela. Nobody else? Your mom ain't teaching no manners? Morning, Angela. What's up, Snack Man? You got a joke for us? Listen, I got you a new joke, Angela.

Here we go. Okay. Guess who Joe Biden is going to be for Halloween. Who? Recount Dracula. Thank you. Ooh. God damn. I can't even get any thought. Thank you. Ooh. Ooh.

God damn. I can't believe you gave that any thought. My God. I can't believe you actually wrote that down. Trash. And you came with a punchline and everything. I can't believe he calls himself a comedian. Like your mind literally said, this is going to kill. Get it off your chest.

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

Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy.

There's 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen 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 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. I was making a racket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets.

We need help! We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan-Stan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series,

The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. workout well that's when the real magic happens so if you love hearing real inspiring stories from the people you know follow and admire join me every week for post run high it's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all it's light-hearted pretty crazy and very fun listen to post run high on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So y'all, this is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a

family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing.

Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is your time to get it off your Tyler. I'm calling all of 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? Hey, what's going on? This is Ben, man. What's up, man? What can you do for your chest? Hey, first of all, I want to say good morning and salute to the brother Ice Cube. I see what he's doing. I appreciate what he's doing. I appreciate what he's doing.

He's trying to get things for black people. And I also want to say a big shut up to Alicia Garza after talking about Ice Cube needs to win the line. No, no, no, no, no. Listen, we're not going to tell Alicia Garza to shut up. The reason we're not going to do that is because Alicia Garza has been out here with a black agenda for years through Black Futures Lab. And if you saw the interview with her and Roland Martin, her and Cuba are actually going to be working together on some things as they should. You actually believe that after seeing that interview, after what she said?

A hundred percent. I've been following Alicia Garza for years. In fact, Alicia Garza is going to be on The Breakfast Club this week because she's got a book coming out. Alicia Garza has—I've talked about Alicia Garza's black agenda throughout the whole primary. Alicia Garza is a beast who's out here really doing the work. How are you going to tell somebody to shut up that's been doing this work for as long as she has, even before this pandemic, like forever?

You're going to tell her to shut up? I think what we need to take into consideration with Alicia is she gets death threats all the time because of the way they paint the Black Lives Matter movement. She doesn't like anybody working with this administration because this administration is one of the reasons that her life is always being threatened. So I can understand

that. But her and Cube are going to be working together in the future on the black agenda. And that's what we need. If it's about us, if it's about black people, everybody that's about black people need to be coming together. Period. We're not going to tell Alicia to shut up. We're definitely not doing that.

Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning. It's Jermaine out of Atlanta with Barmaid Vodka. What's going on, y'all? Jermaine, what's popping? Get it off your chest. Hey, nothing much, man. Just want to give positive vibes, positive energy out there.

We just landed our new state. Proud to say we're available in the state of Texas right now. Congrats. Congratulations, King. Appreciate it. We grinded. We grinded. Need to send y'all some more product as well, man.

Love the show. I'm out. Alright, man. Hello, who's this? Hi, good morning, Breakfast Club. Sis T, I hope you guys are well rested and had a great weekend. Hey, I like that positivity. Good morning, mom.

How are you, Sis T? I am doing very well. And this morning, you guys always do a rewind before the show starts. And I just want to, you know, really touch my heart again about Breonna Taylor's family. And there is no statute of limitations on murder. Even if someone was brought to trial and found out guilty, if new evidence is brought in, they can be convicted on wrongful death, and the people responsible, they can be responsible for lawsuits or restitution.

And my suggestion is that we are always vigilant and stay on it. We should develop a war chest where we're constantly funding money into these types of causes where no one's even paying attention. We still constantly have a flow of money while we're investigating and that we always have people, black lawyers and anybody else who loves justice, constantly funding these causes and constantly seeing what can be done to bring people to justice. I remember before you used to be able to see a bunch of people who did this, and they're living a nice life in the private sector. They're moving into places where there are a lot of people of color. Like, nothing happened, you know? They should be flagged just like a sex offender.

That's my belief. And not for revenge, just the fact that justice has to be brought to justice. That's all I'm saying on that. True, true. Well, thank you, SIS team. Thank you so much. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need to vent, you can hit us up. Now, we got rumors on the way? Yes, and we are going to be talking about Cardi B. Now she has quit Twitter. We'll tell you what her issue is with people harassing her and her husband on there. All right. We'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Cardi B. It's about time. What's going on?

Rumor report. Rumor report. This is The Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Cardi B has deleted her Twitter account. She's tired of her followers who are criticizing her and who were harassing Offset. Here's what she said. I'm so tired that because of y'all, I got to continuously explain myself. I didn't put my divorce out there. A f***ing court clerk put it out there.

And because people were making rumors up, oh, this guy has a girl pregnant, this and that, I had to address it. I'm tired of y'all clocking every f***ing thing. Bro, if I work things out, why are y'all going to this f***ing Twitter to harass him? That f***ing don't make no f***ing sense. Like, I love my fans and I'm thankful

and I'm grateful for everything you do, but some of y'all really be acting like I sleep with y'all. Hey, Cardi, she needs to understand explaining yourself is a choice. Like, you don't have to explain anything to anyone. She chooses to. And if you live for the cheers of social media, you'll die from the booze of social media.

Like, social media is just a miserable place. And you know they say misery loves company. Well, social media is where all that miserable company comes together. You just have to take people on social media's opinions with a grain of salt. Like I watch smart people buckle to the pressure of social media all the time. Stop letting these folks on there dictate what you think, say, and do. Just live. Yeah, but I think with her, she just wanted to clear up some of the rumors

that she's been hearing. I guess it just bothers her. You know, it could just bother certain people. It's not going to make her stop. All right, now she also talked about her being seen smoking a cigarette recently. And she said that she's not just stressed about her relationship. Listen to this. An offset is not the only f***ing problem that I deal with.

To be honest with you, my marriage is one of the least worries that I have right now. You want to know something? worries that I have right now. You want to know something? I don't have a manager. So I literally have to negotiate my own deals. Now that is a problem. Cardi definitely needs somebody helping her handle the business.

She definitely don't need to be negotiating her own deals. But she doesn't want to settle and I'm sure she wants somebody that she can trust and make sure that can manage her career and manage us. I'm sure she's looking and hopefully she'll find somebody. Hey, Roc Nation on line one. Okay? Roc Nation can always come to the rescue. Jesus.

All right, now Little Yachty reveals on Hollywood Unlocked that he bought the house next door to his new house and here's what he said. And on the 28th, I actually bought a house next door. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't want no neighbors. I'm going to show you. I already got the contract.

That's dope. I mean, that's the way to do it. If you really don't want no neighbors, you buy the house next to you. I mean, people do it all the time in other communities. They buy the whole block so they have no neighbors and they know who's living next to them. I'm not mad at that. Oh, that is just funny. There's more property.

So what happens if he expands and then there's neighbors to that house? Then he tries to buy that house too. I mean, I do that in real estate sometimes. Like I try to buy different blocks and instead of having a two-family house or three-family house, I try to put up a 20 building. You know what I mean? It's the same thing. If you can afford it, you buy the neighbors, you don't want neighbors, you can do it.

There's nothing wrong, like you said, buying property. And it's property, yeah. It's not like it's going to depreciate with value. You can never it. You buy the name, but you can do it. There's nothing wrong, like you said, buying property. And it's property, yeah. It's not like it's going to depreciate with value. You can never lose getting property. Sometimes property does depreciate in value.

We've seen it happen. You can always do it very often. Fetty Wap is remembering his brother, tragically, his brother, Tyshawn Depew,

was shot and killed on October 15th. He posted on Instagram, the two of them together. He said, I failed you, bro. I'm sorry. I keep calling your phone and you won't pick the F up. And that ish never ring three times. Now it's straight to voicemail.

I love you, little bro. I really thought I could get you out before I ever had to make a post like this. And he also shared some more thoughts. He said, stop asking me, am I okay? No, the F, I'm not okay. I done lost so many N-words that it was almost starting to feel normal. But little brother, man,

it felt like 2017 all over again, the same feeling. I know your slogan, don't cry for me, slide for me. I just don't know what I'm gonna tell my nephew when he ask me why I make sure he was okay. So according to reports, he was shot and killed

in their hometown of Patterson, New Jersey. He was only 26 years old. They found him with a gun wound to his chest. He was transported to the hospital and was pronounced dead. Damn. Sorry to hear that. Rest in peace. Fendi Wap and his family.

Prayers up for that young man's soul. Damn. Damn it, damn it, damn it. Yeah, so again, our condolences. That is one of the worst things that could possibly have happened, and we're sorry that you're going through that. All right, and I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, Miss Yee.

We're going to play Top of the Hour, and I have a huge announcement I'm excited about. We'll get into it now. It's The Breakfast Club, and Front Page News is next. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. October 24th is Black Entrepreneurs Day, hosted by me, Angela Yee. Tune in for the game changer conversations presented by the General Insurance for inspiring conversations between Daymond John and black business leaders like Shaq, LL Cool J, Gabrielle Union, Jamie Foxx, and more. Visit

blackentrepreneursday.com for more info. All right. I've been working on this all summer long. Now, you know, I usually do the car shows this year. I had car shows in Houston. I had car shows in Detroit. We had a car show in Atlanta and we had one in New York, New Jersey. We had over 30,000 tickets. So, and we had to give all the tickets back because of COVID didn't want to do anything that would hurt somebody. So I came up with this idea. If you ever go to realestate.com or if you go to anything, they have the virtual and interactive tours where you can actually go from

room to room. So this is what I put together. Yo, slow down, bro. Your mouth moving too fast. Slow down. Easy with it. Go ahead. So what I'm doing November 28th, I'm doing the DJ Envy Drive Your Dreams Car Show, virtual and interactive. Let me explain.

Now, play boss. Put a lot into this. So this is what it is. You can imagine over 100 cars, celebrity cars, exclusive cars, old school cars, cars from the paid and full era, muscle cars, cars that are dunks. You can actually see the cars go all the way around the cars, old school cars, cars from the paid and full era, muscle cars, cars that are dunks. You can actually see the cars go all the way around the cars, go inside the cars and check out the cars all through your phone. It's so easy. Your little child can do it. That's how simple it is. It took a long time to do. We had to get the platform together.

We had to get the cameras together, but it came out amazing. I can't wait for y'all to see it. November 28th, a full-on car show. In and out. We have the celebrities talking about their cars, explaining the cars. You can go into, let's say you've never been in a Bugatti before. Now you can get in that Bugatti. You can move the Bugatti. It's different things that you can do. Totally, totally, totally dope. Hold on. So when you say virtual, you mean like I can treat this like the Avatar ride at Disney? Almost like that, absolutely. Really? Yes. So I can get in the cars? You can get in the

cars. You can spin around the cars. You can see the steering wheel. You can see the stitching. You can get back out. You can get into any car you want. Or you can click a video and you can see the celebrity driving the car, talking about their car, why they bought the car, how much they paid on it, the value of the car and all that. Do I need VR glasses?

You don't need VR glasses. Last time when I came to the car show, you had a lot of celebrities' cars there. So whose cars are in this one? I'm not going to tell you whose cars are there this time, but you can definitely, you'll know whose cars are there. But there's a bunch of celebrity cars there that you can actually, now it's not like when the thing where it's the velvet rope, you can't get inside. No, you can get in the car. You can see everything in the car. If they left a little dime pack in the car, you get inside. No, you can get in the car. You can see everything in the car. If they left a little dime pack in the car, you can see that as well.

Whatever's in the car, you can see. Virtually from your phone, your cell phone, your computer, and all that. It's simply amazing. It took a long time to figure out, but we figured it out, and it is so dope. I can't wait for you guys to see it. November 28th. Tickets are on sale right now. The early bird special tickets are $9.99.

That's it. $9. So you can go in there. You can view all the cars all day long. It's just not exotic cars. If you're into the paid in full era, like the E30, the 8 Series BMWs, the old Saab convertibles, the Toyotas. Also, we have student cars. So just cars that, let's say you have a Honda, and you put money into your Honda.

It's pretty dope. We're going to have cars like that where people get to show off their vehicles as well. This has to be the first of its kind, right? A virtual car show? I think I've never seen anything like this. We put this together. I've never heard of a virtual car show. And I tried to do it so I could own the rights, but I couldn't.

They denied me. But this is the first virtual interactive car, so you can do it on your cell phone. You can do it on your iPad. You can do it on your laptop. It is dope. So, again, click the link in my bio. If you go to my Instagram page right now,

I have a little tutorial to show you how it's going to work, and I can't wait for you guys to see it. I've been working on it all summer long, and I'm excited. Well, congratulations. Shout-out to Lincoln Tech. Shout-out to Top Gear Porsche. Shout-out to the credit. Well, congratulations. Shout out to Lincoln Tech. Shout out to Top Gear, Porsche. Shout out to the credit dude. And also shout out to the floor expert.

All those were sponsors. We have so many different sponsors coming in. I just want to say thank you guys. All right. I can't wait until we get out of this virtual everything era. You and me both. Lord have mercy. You and me both.

But congratulations. Thank you so much. So that's November 28th. All right. Now, let's get into some front page news. All right. NFL. I don't know why my Giants won.

The team sucks. We should just go out as losers and just try to get the number one pick. But the Giants beat the Washington football team 2019. Ravens beat the Eagles 30-28. The Falcons beat the Vikings 40-23. The Bears beat the Panthers 23-16. The Dolphins beat the Jets 24-0. The Buccaneers beat the Packers 38-10.

San Francisco beat the Rams 24-16. Broncos beat the Patriots. Steelers beat the Browns. Colts beat the Bengals. Lions beat the Jaguars. Tonight, the Cardinals will beat the Cowboys. I'm putting it in the air. Why are you wishing that on my team?

Let my team be 3-3 after tonight. Nope. What else are we talking about, Yee? Well, Donald Trump was at a rally in Michigan Saturday night, and he said that he really does enjoy seeing the National Guard respond to protesters in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd. Here's what he said. Wasn't that beautiful?

In Minneapolis, they came in, these soldiers, were the most expensive helmets in the history of mankind. You approved them. But they came in and they had their tear gas and they had their pepper spray, which the other side doesn't want to use because it's not nice. So they just marched forward and the whole thing was over. It was like it was over. I don't know. There's something about that when you watch everybody getting pushed around.

There's something very beautiful about it. I don't care what it is. Well, you know who Cy Trump is on. I mean, you know, for him, he paints the narrative of them not being peaceful protesters. They are they're looters who are burning down your buildings and threatening your neighborhood. So, you know, that's why that's why he can, you know, salute the people that are opposing them. Man, that hurts that you think that that is he thinks that that's a beautiful thing to see protesters getting pushed around in the National Guard and the tear gas. You don't have to worry. His people eat it up.

His people love it. He also went after Governor Gretchen Whitmer. As you know, she was the target of a right wing kidnapping plot and a lot of people. And she feels that Donald Trump also inspires people with the way that he discusses things. And he says that she they said she was threatened and they started chanting, lock her up. And he enjoyed that as well. And Whitmer actually responded on Twitter. This is that this is exactly the rhetoric that has put me, my family and other government officials lives in danger while we try to save the lives of our fellow Americans. Now, Donald Trump told the crowd in Macon, Georgia

on Friday, what would happen if he does lose the election? Running against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics puts pressure on me. Could you imagine if I lose my whole life? What am I going to do? I'm going to say I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics. I'm not going to feel so good. Maybe I'll have to leave the country. I don't know. That's exactly why I keep telling y'all, though, that owning a legal firearm as a black person in America is a form of self-care. White supremacists, a white supremacist group had a plan to kidnap the governor of Michigan. Kidnap her and kill her. What the hell you think they'll do to your black ass? You better protect yourself.

I'm with you. I'm with you 150%. Well, make sure you guys know everything about voting. You know, more than 27 million ballots have already been cast. And so there's different, wherever you live, whatever state you're in, make sure you know when early voting opens for you. A lot of places early voting opens this week, so pay attention. If you can vote early, just make sure you vote.

Yes, and voting is great. But just remember, whichever way it goes, whether Biden wins or Trump wins, it's going to be trouble. It's going to be trouble. So you need to protect yourself. Okay? Owning a legal firearm in America is a right. Okay?

Not just own it, but know how to use it. Because I'm telling you it's going down. Yeah, protect your house, protect your family. Absolutely. Alright, and that is Front Page News. Now, when we come back, we got some special guests joining us. Who we got? We got Jay Barnett. Okay. Tracy J. Jenkins. Okay.

And Taraji P. Henson joining us. That's right. They're doing God's work with the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation to help eradicate the stigma around mental health in the black community. And they're just, you know, Tracy and Taraji are just two individuals that I love to communicate with. Okay. All right, so we're going to talk to them when we come back. So don't move.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. You're checking out the world's most dangerous morning show. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building.

Taraji P. Henson, Tracy J. Jenkins, and Jay Barnett. Congratulations to both of y'all on the new talk show on Facebook. Is that something y'all envisioned when you first started this journey to get folks mentally healthy, that y'all would have that kind of platform? Well, I never saw a show. It was first things first was just to get the help to the people, you know, eradicating the stigma, going to Congress, getting legislature. That was first.

Yeah. And then I guess, I don't know how to, I forget how the show came about. Well, you know, Taraji and I are prime friends. First we talked about doing a digital content piece, and then it grew into, well, we can reach a larger audience and really sit down and talk to real people about real issues and really get it out to millions. So, you know, that's how it came about, a series of conversations,

late-night conversations, morning conversations. So we're happy we got here. What got you into the mental health space so much, Siraji? Because you are such an advocate for it. Like, what got you into that space and said, I need to help more? Well, I mean, it was personal for me. It was my personal journey searching

for therapy for my son and for myself, for our own past traumas and watching him try to maneuver through life becoming a young black man without male figures around because his father was murdered tragically when he was young. And then two years later,

my father died. So those are all his males that he look up to gone, vanished, just done, dead. And so that's trauma for a young man. So, you know, we looking for therapy and it became an issue so i remember calling tracy my best friend she's dealt with anxiety and i've dealt with that with her my entire life so we started having conversations and i was like you know why

it doesn't happen we can't find any culturally competent therapists because we don't talk about it at home so we don't even go to school to study it and so we don't have and it at home, so we don't even go to school to study it. And so we don't have, and it's hard to find this out here because it's such a stigma. So we started talking about that, and then I brought up my dad, and what he went through. And I was like, you know what? My sister, who worked for years at a rehab, a drug rehabilitation center, and we just pow-wowed, the three of us and my assistant. We came up with the foundation, and then we just, it just. The three of us and my assistant, we came up with the foundation and then we just it just took off like wildfire.

The Boys Lawrence Henson Foundation y'all just gave out a free round of therapy too, right? Exclusively for men? Yes. Exclusively for men because what we found in the first two rounds for the COVID relief that we did is that 93% of

the people signing up were women and only 7% men. And that, you know, being a mother to a young black male, that touched me and traced me in a way. And so we wanted to single out the men this time. And overwhelmingly, we had to

shut it down because all the slots are full. Everything is... It still is an amazing outcome because they get five sessions, so it's not just a one-hit wonder. And we reached out to Jay, who's on the line here now. I love Jay's hoodie, by the way.

Thank you, brother. Now, Jay is a former professional football player. He's an author. He's a speaker, marriage counselor, family therapy associate. Now, how did you get connected with Jay? And tell the people what you do, Jay. So right now, thank you, DJ, Envy, and Charlemagne, and Taraji. So this is really a great opportunity.

It's a personal thing for me. After football came to an end for me, I'm a two-time survivor of suicide attempts. And so I dealt a lot with depression. I'm the son of a pastor. So my family was, you know, let's pray about it. Let's pray about it. And so for me, I had to really find my own space and really find my own journey because while prayer works, but I do think that there is a capacity where we need to visit the mental

capacity of it because the spirituality is so close to the mental health department because you can't get your spirit right until you get your mind right and so for me um therapy helped me to find out the underlying issues to my depression was the trauma that i went through through my parents divorce and so right now i'm blessed to be a black male therapist associate to really provide therapy, not only to so many people that look like me, but to also be an advocate for the young black men. It has to be more brothers like us that are talking about it. Because for men, we got to see it.

And once we see it, I think there's a level of comfortability that we have to say that, wow, if he's talking about it. Because what I want brothers to understand is that, bro, listen, as much as we all think we're invincible and we're Superman, listen, the reality of it is that we're all Clark Kent. So the reality of it is that we're trying to find our way through it. You know what I realized, Jay? You know, a lot of times that toughness and that acting hard is like a defense mechanism, right? Absolutely. And I think that once we let that veil down

and we collect with each other, that gives us the strength that we're acting like we have, that unity and that group operation, and that makes it easy to be vulnerable. Absolutely. And so through this program, hopefully that these guys can walk away with some understanding that their healing is

their responsibility. Because we can't change what happened to us, who did it, where it happened, but we do have a great responsibility to heal ourselves. I want to talk about the suicide thing that you said earlier. A lot of times, especially young adults, they feel like they can't take it anymore. And suicide is something that they often think about. Even for myself, I've been in a position and I had to think why. And for myself, it was I wanted to be perfect so bad that when I realized something in my life wasn't perfect, I didn't know how to take it. And I felt like me not being here would be better off for my family. So when you came to the suicide suicide how did you overcome that man

that's a great question and also uh king i commend you because again we don't really talk about these low moments as men because when you look at suicide right and a lot of us black men struggle with this we're we're constantly in this performing phase where everything is based on performance and we're trying to prove ourselves yes and perfectionism is literally attached to a place where either we didn't receive grace or we wasn't really embraced when we did fail so we felt we have to be perfect so for me i only knew football because for me football was just a coping mechanism every time i was on the field every guy i visual i saw them as my father and so for me when i no longer had this coping mechanism and as we do as men when we can no longer identify ourselves through what we do we feel like failure

and so now i have to deal with this pain in a real way. And the suicide is oftentimes is that most people are not trying to end their lives. They're trying to end the pain. Yeah. And so my second attempt was a drug overdose and I actually survived. And when I pulled through this thing, I realized, okay, I've done this twice. So there must be a real purpose for me because I want it so bad to be like my father. That's all I wanted. What pulled me through is that one day the therapist asked me, if you would have succeeded in your suicide, what would have changed working through that and so she allowed me or he allowed me at the time to really have an understanding that once i addressed the pain it gave me a new perspective out on life

because really when you get in therapy all we do as clinicians is we join with you is that my my objective is not to give you the answers but it's to allow you to discover the answers and discover the power that you already have. That's right. All right, we got more with Taraji P. Henson, Tracy J. Jenkins, and Jay Barnett. When we come back, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Taraji P. Henson, Tracy J. Jenkins, and Jay Barnett. Charlamagne? You know, Jay, you and him be touched on something. Imperfect people should not be held to a perfect standard, right? And you being a pastor's son, do you think that caused added pressure to you? Oh, man, absolutely.

He was the pastor of a large church. So pastor's kids, man, you're scrutinized. You're on a microscope. I'll never forget, man, And this was traumatizing. I was in elementary and I used to beatbox. And I was beatboxing and one of the teachers said, I'm going to tell your dad

that you're beatboxing. This is a sin. I said, what are you talking about? This is a sin. So here I am. I'm traumatized because now I grew up in an era where we you know, we couldn't watch BET. You know, I didn't watch BET until I was like ninth grade. You know what I mean?

Until my parents were divorced. So all of these different expectations, man, you know, that was attached. And that right there really drove me, you know, to a place where I'm like, dude, I can't live this life, man. Right. Taraji and Tracy, I want to ask y'all both a question. How in the hell do y'all deal with us trauma-filled men? And how do sisters create a safe space for us to be vulnerable? Who want to go first on that?

I'm going to let you talk first. Well, what I have learned, because before I was like, get yourself together. Whatever it is, go fix it. Come back when you got it all together. We can build together, et cetera, et cetera. And then once I started to look at what love really is, like the definition of love for me, and love is the desire to understand, right? And if you are going in, into your conversations, into your questioning with the desire to understand,

then I think you are creating a space for that black man to be able to really open up to you. But if you're going in with your own predetermined notions, what you're trying to get out of the conversation, what you want him to say or do or fix. You know, I find that that was harder to be able to make that connection with him. So my driving point is go in with the desire to understand. If you say you love him.

What about you, Taraji? It's about an understanding. So if you go into it knowing that no one is perfect with an understanding of trying to build a foundation of trust where we can both be our vulnerable selves, where we don't have to send a representative because I trust if I fall, you're going to catch me. Those are things you build, but you can only build them if you know, if you are actively dealing with your trauma. And a lot of times it's difficult. And I'm dedicated to the black man, y'all. I just turned 50 and I haven't said it yet, but it didn't work out. You know what I mean?

And I tried. I was like, therapy, let's do the therapy thing. But if you're both not on the same page with that, then you feel like you're taking it on yourself. And that's not a fair position for anybody to play in a relationship. My happiness is not his responsibility, and his happiness is not mine. We have to first learn how

to make ourselves happy, to make each other happy. And yes, you want to be understanding, but you can't lose yourself in that understanding. First of all, I want to say happy birthday. It's so difficult. Happy belated. We've seen you on that and you did not look...

When you said you were 50, we couldn't believe it. I didn't even think about it. I saw you put that on Instagram. I was like, 50? I was like, no way. I can't believe it. I have to say it out loud because I still can't believe it. Now, let's go back to the topic about love.

The bad thing about when you talk about love, I think most people don't know what love is when you start out, right? Because when I started out early, and me and my wife have been together since we were 16, 17, you say I love you, but at 16, 17, I didn't know what that meant. At that age, you ain't doing nothing but sharing trauma. That's it. You just say I love you because you think it's the thing to say, but you don't necessarily understand what that is, and until you

understand it, then you could be a better man, you know? Because when we started this show, Charlamagne and I were the worst. Lord have mercy. We were horrible, but we grew, I think, you know, because when we started this show, Charlamagne and I were the worst. Lord have mercy. We were horrible. But we grew, I think, just together. Not together, together, but we grew together.

We healed together. We healed together. But, you know, I laugh. You know, we joke with each other all the time, but I'm glad it was him because he was healing the same time I was healing and we were able to talk about it. Because a lot of times, you know, we go to the barbershop and we could talk about LeBron. We could talk about the Knicks.

We could talk about sports. We could talk about this girl and that. But we never talk about our clients. We ain't talking about them heart issues. That's right. That's right, which we need to do more of. That's why I love what you guys are doing. Yeah, absolutely.

Because that's the only way we're going to heal our relationships. That's the only way. And all of my relationships started looking the same like two broken people trying to pick up the pieces and you know without that that middle beat that connector that therapy the one that's gonna ask you the tough questions the one that's gonna make you hear yourself in that room. And that's why therapy is important because you need an objective opinion. Your friends ain't it, baby. Unless your friend is a therapist. You know, when you say things didn't work out,

did y'all try to make it work? I'm not going into that. Okay. What you're not going to do is have my day filled with damn bloggers. True, true, true, true. That's trauma. It's going on in my personal life.

All I'm saying is relationships take work. And it takes both sides to really be there. It's selfless. Sometimes you got to sit on it. Sometimes you can't take it to him. Sometimes you got to take it to the therapist and work it out first. That's why it is so important. Man, you know, my therapist told me that healed people hear differently.

And, like, I've been with my wife for 23 years, so I can think of times she said things to me, and it was just my ego responding. And now that I'm older, the things she says to me, I'm responding from a different place. You know what I mean? I don't have a wounded ego anymore. I have a healed ego. I'm getting to a place of healing. So I hear things differently.

And I think that's a struggle in relationships sometimes. Because we think people are against us when they're not. Yeah. And then not only that, you hear things differently. You don't even have the same arguments. Yeah. And then not only that, you hear things differently. You don't even have the same arguments. Some things you're just not even going to argue about anymore because it's like, I've done the worst. That's not going to trip me up no more. I'm praying that black men and women can sit down just like this and have some real conversations that may be relevant to your own situation.

You might learn something when you hear about other people's challenges and how they address them. So that's my prayer. And I think we're heading in that direction. All right. We got more with Taraji P. Henson, Tracy J. Jenkins, and Jay Barnett. When we come back, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Taraji P. Henson, Tracy J. Jenkins, and Jay Barnett. Charlamagne? Well, Jay, I want to ask you a question. How important is it to have culturally competent people in the mental health space as mental health care workers? Well, it's important, man, because when you have competent people,

they understand the level of care that people need, and also you understand how to provide that level of care to them. And I think it's important, especially right now, because even as a man, I know for myself, my therapist was white. And it was a bit uncomfortable because I knew he did not understand the plight that I had as a black man. And for me, when a young black boy comes into my office they're like oh my god man i can't wait to sit and talk to you and there's a level of comfortability that they have

to just open up but then there's this safe space because many times men even when it comes to women we're a bit apprehensive because if i become vulnerable in this space, I'm not sure what you want to do with this information if I share it. If I divulge this, because even for me, personally, I don't want to be emotionally blackmailed. Meaning that I'm going to share this information with you, and it can possibly come up in another conversation where you use it against me. Especially in this time, it is emotionally exhausting for black people all together. Every day you turn on the news, it's something. You know, whether it's

losing George Floyd or Breonna Taylor, and then now we got to deal with the election, and you got to deal with your emotions about who do I vote for. I mean, it's just so much that we've had to deal with this year. Hey, Tantoraj, I'm telling y'all right now, I'm getting J-number before we get off this Zoom

because he's speaking to my spirit this morning because it's something he said just now because I'm sitting here thinking about, and I just thought if I talked to my therapist about like, everything that I was taught when I was young, like especially from my fathers and my uncles, like only the strong survive. So if I wasn't

strong, I wasn't going to survive. And that's why we wear that for so long. And then you get to a certain age and you realize, man, none of that serve me no more. I have to not be strong in order to survive. But this is what I want to get to my people. The strength is in the vulnerability. Not this. It's in the vulnerability. Yeah. Not this. It's in the vulnerability.

That's where your strength lies. Because when I see a man amped up like this all the time, I see fear. Yeah. I see fear. I see a facade. I see a broken human. And I just want to hug him because you don't scare me. You look like a big old broken baby.

And you need to go get healed. And that's just how I'm looking at them. Therapy works. That's all I'm going to say and you need it. You got to have it. And there are other things you can do as well. Like I'm a meditation teacher. I got certified recently.

And that for me has been the thing that I can do to self-regulate until I get to my therapist, you know. Charlamagne, when you started talking about walking out on the grass, on the ground, right? To get some of your healing, which is called grounding. Yes. And it's an actual thing. And I was just kind of reading the comments to see how folk would respond.

I was just kind of reading the comments to see how folk would respond. I am so proud of you, brother, for just sharing what you know is going to be some pushback to. You know our people might be like, ah, what's all that hoodoo foodoo you got going on, boy? But I think that's because of his nasty ass feet too because his feet need to be... I had just got a pedicure. I had just got a on, boy. But I think I saw some of his nasty-ass feet, too, because his feet need to be... I had just got a pedicure.

I had just got a pedicure. You crazy. I love it. I love it. And, Jay, what you just shared, man, about safe spaces, and we also have to pull the family up in here because when a family member is going through something, right, and what we do as family members is, you know, we either shut him out.

You know, he could have been on drugs or, you know, or whatever his situation was. We shut that man out so fast and don't even look beyond what our influence is because we don't get that we're influencing his next move. That's right. Man, Tracy, there's so many men that love their wives, but they're not vulnerable with their wives because they don't trust their wives.

And for trust, trust looks different for men. So most women trust, you know, as you're not going to cheat on me or, you know, hurt me. But men, that level of trust is always with our emotions because that's our most prized possession. When a man open up to you emotionally, he is laying it on the table. That's right. And if you take that and you use it against him, you will never get that man to speak again.

That's right. And that's why you're right, Tracy. When men are shut out, and even when I've heard women, you know, verbalize that if a guy shows too much emotion, oh, girl, he too weak, he too, you know what I mean? It's like, now you're telling this man to be emotionless. So don't be surprised when you have this promiscuous behavior, when you have this misogynistic behavior or personality, and you have this destructive male,

because he has nothing to do with his emotions but to exercise it through his behavior. So for DJ Envy and for Starling Man, bro, I commend both of you just for being open. Even DJ, for you saying that you both went on a journey to heal at the end of the day. Yeah. I don't think I've ever heard that.

I don't think I've ever heard a man say that. Yeah, we didn't do it on purpose. Like, it wasn't something that we planned out. But it was good because what I was going through, it's good to have somebody on your side that's not going to laugh at you and make fun of you. But when sometimes he does, but it's not to disgrace you, but it's to make light of it and to help you out.

And I do the same thing with him. Like, I can sit there and say his feet look crazy, and he doesn't take it as, oh, my God, Embi's making fun of me. It's like, all right. But I know my feet didn't look crazy. I just got a pedicure, so I don't know. I'll be holding on to that. So let's deal with it.

Let it go, bro. That's not even a trigger for me. I know my feet have looked amazing. Now, do y'all think the overwhelming impact of coronavirus and this whole pandemic and like all the civil unrest we see in the street, you think that's been pushing more black people to embrace healing and therapy? Absolutely. I'm hearing the young rappers switch up what they're rapping about. So they are becoming conscious, which means something's happening. A shift is happening. We're not staying asleep. Something's happening consciously. Cosmic consciousness.

Yes. And the fact that we opened up the therapy to men and it's going really, really well, something is happening. And this is what I always wanted to do through this foundation is to reach men because the mental health journey started with my father you know vietnam vet coming back from war traumatized and all messed up on the insides from being experimented on asian orange all of that and i love black men so much i just want us to be i it hurts when relationships don't last i'd love love to see black love, and I want to see more of it. I want to see our relationships last and make it. You know why? Because our kids need it.

That's right. Our kids need both of the parents in the household. I wouldn't wish being a single parent on my worst enemy. It's the worst way to raise a child. It's not normal. And you hit on something really important, Taraji, because as the black man is healing himself, he's healing the family. It's not normal. You hit on something really important, Taraji, because as the black man is healing himself, he's healing the family.

That's right. And we're breaking that cycle. How can we get more information if people want more information about what you guys are doing? How can they get involved? And how can they see your show? Give them all the information. Well, they can go to borislhensonfoundation.org. That's our website.

And if anybody is looking for a therapist or or interested in yoga or any other um sort of form of healing we have a resource guide um and if you go to our website website you'll be able to to click on there and if you are out there and you're a supporter and you want to help us continue this cause, which we think is dire, you can always text to our website, I'm sorry, to our No Stigma campaign. So you just text No Stigma to 707070 to support. Absolutely. Thank you, Tracy.

Thank you, Taraji. We really appreciate it, Tracy J. Thank you. Taraji, thank you guys so much. And we should do this more often, just have these conversations. So whenever you guys need to call in, call us in. Yes. Let's do it.

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She's spilling the tea. This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, last week we played you some audio from Ryan Henry from Black and Crew Chicago's best friend, Anthony Lindsey. Anthony Lindsey says that Ryan Henry was sleeping with his ex, who's the mother of his child, for over a year and a half. Here is a recap of Anthony Lindsey. If it happened once, so y'all was drunk, you don't know what happened. Even twice, and y'all, after that second time, we knew we were wrong and we hated it happened. I would have been willing to, like, work through that. But you guys had sex probably, like, over 20 times, a year and a half.

All right, now Ryan Henry has since confirmed that this did indeed happen. That was true. There were situations where that happened almost about two years ago and then more recently, it's going to last like two months. But one big part about that is that, you know, myself and all the parties involved, you know, we had talked. Yeah, so just to be clear, I'm not the victim in this. Everybody else who surrounds me was. This

particular moment is definitely not about me. It's about me apologizing publicly. Like, I've apologized to Anthony. We talked a lot after this happened. Yeah, I mean, it's foul. It's absolutely positively foul. Ryan had also said that his depression played a role in how he handled the situation. And it kept him from reciprocating within his friendship with his best friend and influenced him keeping that a secret. But he does take responsibility. Now, the other person involved, the third party, Nina Marie, she has now spoken out. She is Anthony Lindsay's child's mother.

And she posted pictures of herself with marks on her body looking like she was injured. And she said, I decided in the beginning of this year that I was going to touch on some experiences I've gone through in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. But with everything else that has transpired, it has overshadowed my true intentions and shedding light on the things that have happened in the past six years involving Anthony and I. She also posted a video and said this. Shutting light on my relationship with Anthony. Just so you guys can see who you're lifting up,

because this person is not exactly the best person in the world. He's not so innocent out there. And so I wanted to also make that very clear. But to begin, I just wanted to take accountability for what I've done. In no way, shape, or form was it right. I don't feel as though it is something that I should have done. You know, I was selfish. I wasn't thinking.

I didn't really care. I wish I could curse on the radio. I mean, I don't understand why all of this is public. It's not like they can un-F each other. Like, why did all of this come to this? I mean, I guess the best friend put it out. Because come to this? I guess the best friend put it out. I guess the best friend put it out, because I'm sure Ryan wouldn't, and she wouldn't.

Right, she also posted, she said, March would mark the last and final time I would experience his abuse. That time I was completely incoherent and woke up out of that incoherence to being choked to the point where I'd fall in and out of consciousness for two weeks. It would hurt to swallow. What I came on here to say is that no matter what kind

of hold or power a man or woman has over you, this is not acceptable. The person that I trusted to protect me and love me ended up intentionally hurting me. And she goes on to say this. Anthony and I were never married. I was never engaged even to him. We held a relationship. It lasted for maybe three years for the first, I guess, maybe six to eight months of us dating. It was perfect. And then, you know, I began to see who he was as a person, um, abusive. Let's just put it there. What I did was wrong and I take full responsibility for it, but this person is dragging it to be something that it's, you know, way bigger than the pile of things that he's done to me. Hey, I'm gonna be honest with you. At first I was like, okay,

who cares? But now I'm all in. What the hell is going on here? So let me explain this to me. So let me get you one last thing. Now, Anthony responded to her accusations of domestic violence and said this. Yeah, I'm good. I'm real good. She didn't have bruises on her face. If you read the police report, I'm driving a car. She takes a bag, hit me in the face with the bag. I'm driving.

We in traffic. She going crazy. I'm holding her like this by her chest with my hand like that. They asked me if I wanted to press charges. I refused to press charges. Okay. So, all right. And I'm just catching wanted to press charges. I refused to press charges. Okay, so, alright, and I'm just catching up to this tea. So Ryan

slept with his man's girl. Yes, he's also the godfather of their son. And then his man's girl flips it and says no, but he, the other brother used to beat me. The brother? No, that was his best friend.

The brother's like, damn, come on. This is confusing. The brother? No. That was his best friend. He had a brother like black. Damn. Wow. Come on, ye. This is confusing. Wow, this is confusing. So she said, yes, the baby father beat me. Yes.

Okay. So what that got to do with her sleeping with Ryan? She basically said he's not a good guy because everybody's trying to lift him up. Oh, that's so effed up what you did. You beat cancer. And he's saying he's not that good of a person. Like, he beat me. That's what she's saying. And then he posted some text messages between himself and Nina Marie,

his child's mother, where she is, you know, I guess, still speaking to Ryan. And he says, the fact that you talk to him, I can't talk to you. And she's explaining herself. And he said, this is her guilt. And all of these people are on Black Ink Crew, right? Ryan's on Black Ink Crew Chicago. this is just his best friend in real life

so it made story because it was his best friend I'm sitting there wondering why the cameras ain't rolling this is great content maybe it will be who knows but anyway that is your rumor report I'm Angela Yee you just gonna leave us with that where they at now that's the story I don't know

tune in next week. Tune in next week. Tune in next week. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Now, Solomon, who are you giving that down with you?

I need a young man named Nuke Bizzle to come to the front of the congregation. His real name is actually Frontrell Antonio Baines, but his rap name is Nuke Bizzle. And he is just the latest in a long line of people who will be going to jail for unemployment fraud. We'll talk about it. All right, we'll get to that next. Another cautionary tale. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

You get donkey of the day. Yeah, you got ass. You get donkey of the day. Yeah, you got ass. You are a donkey. It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkey of the Day, huh? I'm going to fatten all that shit around your eyes.

They want this man to throw them blows, man. They wait for Charlamagne to tap them gloves. Let's go. They had to make a judgment of who was going to be on the Donkey of the Day. They chose you. The Breakfast Club, bitchy. Who's Donkey of the Day today? Yes, Donkey of the Day for Monday, October 19th

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 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're 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 nuke bizzle jammed up see nuke bizzle as i told y'all

is a rapper i repeat nuke bizzle is a rapper let's go to cbsla 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 will 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.

Yes. You got a set of cocaine. I can defile a claim. Rats coming straight to the bank. I'm doing shit you can't. Bugging, no 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. I be 25, cleansing for a while. This chain my life and I gotta admit it.

I swear I'd have had it in a minute. You didn't tell me I could just wait on the email and get certified for a 20. Damn, this shit hurt better than getting it. Turn me to a scam or quickly. I was just stuck in the sale. 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 at work here. One more time, Uncle Ruckus for the people in the back. There is powerful

n***a 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 or dead. 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. 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, niggers. There's powerful niggardry at work here. All right. All right, well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Mm-hmm. There's powerful N***a at work here Alright Alright well thank you for that donkey of the day How'd you get this on Can you say this to me I don't know where Fat Wizard is He's getting low right now

You got anything you want to say My goodness alright Thank you for that Fat Wizard on pop up Now you get low Delete all your social media pages And everything Thank you for that, sir. That was an old pop-up. Now, 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 right. All right. Now, when we come back, T.I. will be joining us. We're going to kick it with T.I. When we come back, it's an old move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. You're checking out the world's most dangerous morning show.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy and Jalee, 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 Damani. I gotta say, man, I was shocked and surprised. I mean, 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 are actually dope. 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. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Oh, so it was a real family affair on that one Yeah Did you have to pay them T.I.?

Yeah I paid them I wouldn't be mad if I didn't I wouldn't be mad I mean you know nepotism You know He did They live in a house 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, as 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, Kelly, we sat down at the studio and Messiah, you know, wanted basically, as Damani and I kind of like, man, let me check this out. And we listening to his beats

and kind of like, we like, yeah, that's dope, that's dope, okay. Damani, yeah, like, man, I want that one. And I said, 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 out in the studio to go do something. And I think by the time I came back, Demonday had already recorded a verse. I was like, oh, he's 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 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 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 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 wow we were recording nine verses do you ever think you were gonna 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? No, but I was a teacher first in prison. I taught class in prison. Did you? You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

What class did you teach in prison? What was it? Thinking Outside the Box, I believe it was called. What is that about? Man, it? Thinking Outside the Box, I believe it was called. What is that about? Man, it was about how to use. 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 got 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 the Clark Land

University? Is it the music industry? Is it business? Is it entrepreneurship? Yes, yes, yes. Is it fatherhood? If they need to know, we can talk about it. 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 gotta recognize the need for the demand. 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. Yeah, because every rapper's not out there with a rifle shooting at monsters at Monster Hunter. Now, you got to talk about Monster Hunter. I seen Monster Hunter. You scared the s*** out of me just then. You're like, what video is out there of me shooting?

Man, what are you talking about? What have you seen? Wow. I've seen the trailer for a new movie that you're doing, Monster Hunter. Now, talk about this movie, because this, you know, when the movie starts, it's like you guys in the military. And then all of a sudden monsters start popping out of all types of places.

You shooting monsters, you running from monsters. Talk about this movie a little bit. Well, first of all, it's an adaptation from a video game. The film is about, you know, a platoon of military team that's responding to another team disappearing right so they're going back to the last place that this team was seen right and when they do that it's kind of like they follow a track some tire tracks to a point where the tire tracks just disappear and so you know we right there we're looking for you know i'm saying we're looking for the team and then all of a sudden we see a storm coming and we think it's a storm but it's really

a portal to another dimension. Wow. I want to go back to the people who were disrespecting you a little bit. Tip, when you challenged 52 of Versus, some people were saying Tip tripping and then when you said you had five classic albums, people said you were tripping. Did that response put a fire

into you for this album? Yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. For me to talk about myself and how it affected me, you know, that's... I just feel like that's self-return. I don't think it is as important as us telling young people.

Don't never let nobody tell you what level you're supposed to play on. If you lose, let it be because you showed up and got beat. Don never let nobody tell you what level you're supposed to play on if you lose, let it be because you showed up and got beat, don't let nobody else beat you with their opinion and most of the people who have these opinions the opinion is only as strong

as the person that it's coming from and I think it's a lot of people who weren't even from the culture of trap music, or weren't even from the culture of this generation, of my generation, I mean. Speaking on it as though they, you know what I'm saying, as though they had so much intel.

And speaking on me, like, they knew, you know what I mean? If you ain't never even heard of T.I., you know, I heard people say something like, who's ever heard, who's ever said, put on that T.I.? F*** it. F*** it. F*** it. Do it, baby. ever heard, who's ever said, put on that T.I.? Oh, my. Oh, my. Do it, baby.

Stick it, baby. The bitch that had you. The bitch that thought enough of you to have you. That is great. Is the one. And the bitch that thought enough of her to n*** in her. That is who said, let's play some T.I. And I think they only feel that way because, you know what I'm saying, in their young lives, like, what have I done aside from, you know,

film and television and social activism? What have I done? What have I given them, you know what I'm saying, to actually bring them up to speed of who I am and what I do? So I think that's kind of what nudged me to say, anytime make another contribution. Gotcha. Yeah, I don't think paper trail was that long ago, though,

for people to act like people. It was definitely that long ago. It was definitely that long ago. Just think about it. What was paper trail? 15 years ago. No, man. Paper trail?

It was 10, 12, something like that. Yeah. It was 2008. It was 12 years ago. God damn time be flying. So think about it. If you're 20 years old right now, hey, Betrayal, you were eight years old.

You wouldn't even decide what music you could listen to on your own. Right. Yeah. You know what I mean? All right, we got more with T.I. When we come back, let's get into his joint. It's called Ring featuring Young Thug. It's the Breakfast Club.

All right. That was Ring T.I. featuring Young Thug. Now we're kicking it with T.I. Charlamagne? 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 Jet. Was that intentional?

Lil Baby record hard, too. Yeah, appreciate that, man. Yeah, I mean, some of it was and some of it wasn't. So the part where you're talking about Thugger and Lil Baby and 42 Doug, you know, and Mizey, yes, that was intentional. Rhapsody, we just stumbled on that. I reached out to her, just gave her 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 to hear some songs and I sent her a couple songs and overnight she did what she heard. Wow. And then after I heard her,

that's when I was like, you know what? I'm going to get all women to do this. You got you on there too, doing the conclusion. That was the huge, that was the biggest surprise. That was the biggest shock and surprise of my life. I never expected Deja to do this. Really?

And I was blown away. That's got to be a proud Pappy moment. Ah, man. Just, 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. Okay, so, 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 i see i wasn't gonna say that you did what i'm saying i wasn't gonna say that but when you like so when deja made it to

that point i like 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 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 it, and we took the necessary steps, you know,

and we got through it. She and I always remained 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. And this,

and getting to this point where she actually chose to speak and make reference to the things that we were going through or that we have gone through, as a moment of reflection, it kind of like, damn, we made it. You know what I'm saying? Is that a hard episode

for you to watch because i ain't gonna lie i teared up a little bit when i was watching that episode on tv when y'all was kind of going through it because then you think about my relationship with my own father so was that hard for you to watch yeah yeah uh i think that it was hard to go through and i think that the time that lapsed between when we went through it and when it aired, it was like a six, eight-month time period. So it was all but over with for us. And here comes Family Hustle, stirring the pot. You know what I'm saying?

And brought it back up. But, I mean, you know what I'm saying? I think at the end of the day, man, the value of it, the value of the episode is it documents a moment that helps others who may find themselves in similar positions to help them make it through. You know, the best part about y'all's situation, man, you know, even me having three daughters, is just when you see your kids get older and they so grounded, man. Like, you know what I mean?

They just got good old-fashioned common sense. Even when Damani said on Family Connect, he said, tell them to stop asking all them questions. The answer's in my songs. Place the pen in my left hand and watch me write my right. They just got good old-fashioned common sense. I got lucky, bro.

I can't even. I got lucky, my man. I don't know how all of my kids became so good, except King, became so humble. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? King, man. What's King doing? King got the tip.

He got the little badass tip, Gene. You know what I'm saying? He got that part of me that doesn't adequately equate danger. So Messiah and Demone, they look a lot like me. You know what I'm saying? Whereas King

acts a lot like me. So if I were to do a movie or a film or actually I'm writing a series about young tip, teenage tip, how it led up to me becoming T.I.

And King kind of, you know, he captures the essence of who I was at that moment in my life. And that scares me. T.I., we appreciate you for checking in. The album is out right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Yes, sir.

The Breakfast Club. Hey, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Hold on before we do. Let me shout out to The General Insurance. They want to pay your bills. Run $1,000 towards your expenses.

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Gossip. The Rumor Report. Gossip. Gossip. With Angela Yee. It's the Rumor Report. It's The Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club. Well, there's been some controversy because of a song on T.I.'s album, The Libra, the song We Did It Big featuring John Legend.

Now, in that song, T.I. is reminiscing about friends that have passed away. One of them is Terrence Capp Beasley. Terrence Capp Beasley was killed in an altercation in jail. And I guess, you know, this has been a long standing rumor that he urinated on Drake in a movie theater. This was during a screening for the movie Takers back in 2010. Well, here is a part of that song. We did it big. is a part of that song, We Did It Big. All we had was each other, no fathers, no mothers, just f***s and hustle. Runaway team, chasing our dream. In poverty, serving these junkies and fiends. Looking back, no, it wasn't as bad as it seemed. We was a team.

Drop on the Clues bombs for We Did It Big. Great record. Great record. That's a memorial for Lon Johnson and Cap. And the context is very important. He was super drunk, Cap, when he did that to Drake. It's not like he just walked up to Drake and whipped out and started urinating. But that's what it sounds like.

No, T.I. said it the line before. You so drunk, you ended up peeing on Drake. Yeah, but the way you sounded makes it sound like, oh, okay, but you know, you could be drunk and just pee, you know. That's how it sounds. Not how he was drunk.

He's so drunk. That's common sense. He's so drunk, he ended up peeing on Drake. You don't know what you're doing. Like, I've seen people pissy drunk peeing anyway. Well, allegedly, they're saying that Drake unfollowed T.I. after this I don't know if he was following him

And then unfollowed him But you know how they always look And see who's following who So that's the allegation I don't know if that's true or not How do we know Drake and T.I. Were never even following each other And I doubt

Well T.I. follows him You can look in somebody's friends To see who they're following You can But I'm saying how do we know Drake ever followed him Is what I'm saying That's what I'm saying

We don't know. That's true. That's what the rumor is. I refuse to believe Drake's beige skin is that thin. I refuse to believe that. Oh, stop it.

All right. Now J-Lo is facing some criticism and that's for calling herself Negrita in a song. Listen to this.

Okay, explain to me. I to this. Okay. Explain to me. I don't speak Spanish. Now, Negrita means like a black girl. So I had to defer to Dramos, who's Puerto Rican. Now, Dramos, because I saw a lot of people discussing this. And, you know, when you translate it, Negrita means black girl. But I know sometimes in, you know, different languages, it could have different meanings.

And I saw some people who are Hispanic saying, well, it could mean that or it could mean something else. It could just be like kind of slang. And she didn't mean anything from it. So, Dramos, I'm deferring to you as the Puerto Rican in the room. Yeah, I mean, if you take it literally, it means like black girl. But it's slang. Like it could be used as a term of endearment, like sweetheart or darling. Like my dad will call my mom negrita sometimes.

It's just like a slang terminology. Why don't you ask me? Why you ask him? Are you now admitting he's a Latino for the first time? So listen, Drom, I always hear Drom refer to himself as hombre blanco or something like that. I've never said that. First of all, the word would be hombre, not hombre, because they don't pronounce

the H in Spanish. What does hombre mean? That means white man, but I've never called myself that before. What? Shut up. Drom has a lie. I hear you say that all the time. What does that mean? That means white man, but I've never called myself that before. What? Shut up. Trump has a lie. I hear you say that all the time. I don't know what it means. You guys heard him call himself a Blanquito. I've heard him say that all the time.

What the hell is wrong with you guys? I'm a Blanco. You guys just get up in the morning thinking like, what kind of crazy thing are you trying to put on me? I don't even speak Spanish. How would I know that? I only know it because I hear you say it. You be like, I'm hombre Blanco.

I never said that ever a day in my entire life. All right. But anyway, I just wanted to clear. I never said that ever a day in my entire life. All right. But anyway, I just wanted to clear that up with that song because we were trying to figure out what is it.

People were very angry about it, but it is a slang word. It could just mean darling and she could have meant that that way. Right? I don't know anymore. I hear Drom call himself

hombre blanco all the time. I've never said that a day in my life. I don't know where you get this from. This is crazy. And just to close out the rumors, we got to talk about Kanye.

Issa Rae said F Kanye during a skit on SNL. Listen to this. Why don't we take a break? When we come back, we'll talk about the presidential race between Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Kanye West. Kanye, F him. Well, Kanye did not like that, and he posted on Twitter,

I've always said SNL uses black people to hold other black people back. My heart goes out to Issa Rae. I'm praying for her and her family. I know that the 20 years of service that I've paid in the entertainment field has furthered our ability to be more successful. And then he posted a Google search of Issa Rae as well. And in the meantime, he also says he wants to be a guest on the Joe Rogan experience. Looks like it might be happening.

He posted a photo of him doing a video chat with Joe Rogan. And he said, Joe Rogan said, it's cool for me to design the set for our podcast this Friday. And he also put out a snippet of a song he has with the baby. Don't you hate when somebody says they always say something you've never heard? He was on SNL. And why did he go on it?

He said, I've always said SNL uses black people to hold other black people back. Never heard that before. He's been on this. He's been on there at least seven times. The last time he was on there. How come he did not do it? Exactly. I remember the last time he was on there was like 2018 when he did that whole pro-Trump rant.

And if I'm not mistaken, he was supposed to be on with Chris Rock a couple weeks ago. But because he's running for president, that put a wrench in it. I guess they got to give equal time to other presidential candidates or something like that. I don't freaking know. But it's like, yeah, I've never heard him say they always use black people to hold other black people back. I don't know. You've done that show like six, seven times. Jesus. All right. Well show like six, seven times. Jesus.

All right, well, that is your rumor report. And just to put it out there, Adele Perra will also be on SNL next week. All right. All right, now, when we come back, shout to Revolts. We'll see you tomorrow. People's Choice Mix is up next. And shout to iHeart. What iHeart is doing, of course, homecoming season is

ruined because of COVID-19. So iHeart is teaming up with some of the best HBCUs, and we're doing homecoming celebrations dedicated to black excellence in HBCUs. Now that includes alumni and students. So there's going to be a bunch of things, performances, panels, entertainment, and a lot more. So just keep it locked and shout out to the partners, ULTA Beauty and McDonald's. All right.

It's Ulta. It's Ulta Beauty? Mm-hmm. Oh, well, I wouldn't know. All right. You're beautiful. All right. Thank you so much.

All right. The People's Choice Mix is up next. Let's go. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. What's up? It's Angela Yee, and I'm proud to be hosting Black Entrepreneurs Day. Join me for a celebration of black businesses, including musical performances by Chance the Rapper and Questlove

and game changer conversations presented by the General Insurance. It's all going down October 24th at 7 p.m. Eastern on Facebook Watch. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, earlier today, I made an announcement for my car show. Now, this year, we were supposed to do a car show in Houston, in Detroit, in Atlanta, and New York, New Jersey area. But, of course, because of COVID, we had to cancel all of them. It sucked because we had about over 30,000 people attending all those car shows,

and we had to send everybody back their money and everything with the venues. It was crazy. So what we decided to do, I've been working on it all summer, is to do a virtual interactive car show where it's going to be like a car show where you can actually, instead of walking in a building, you go through with your phone. So you can go in the building with your phone. You can go to each car. You can go inside the car.

You can spin around. You can actually click videos and see people talking about the cars, whether celebrities, me or people that actually own the cars. It's pretty dope. It's about 80 to 100 cars to click. There's old school cars, new cars, exotic cars, celebrity cars, just regular cars. It's a lot, and it's going to be very, very dope.

So that happens November 28th. So we're doing Thanksgiving Thursday, Black Friday, and then my car show. Now, tickets are on sale right now. We do an early bird special. It's $9.99, $9.99, I think the first 1,000 tickets or something like that. So get your tickets in. I can't wait for you guys to check it out. We've been working on it all summer long.

All right. Now, when we come back, we got the positive notes. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

And listen, we got a shout-out to... Yeah, we got to salute some of our favorite people who pulled up today on the Zoom. My man, T.I.P. T.I.? You know, he's got the new album Libra out right now. Fantastic album. You know what I mean? If you're a T.I. fan, T.I. has finally found the way to balance everything.

You know what I'm saying? Like all the different elements that make up T.I., he's found a way to bring it all together on this album. Fatherhood, ex-D-boy, businessman, you know, activist, everything. So I think it's a great album. And salute it to Roger P. Henson and Tracy J. Jenkins and Jay Barnett for Zooming in today to have a great conversation about why we all should be mentally healthy, why we should be investing in our mental wealth. So salute to all of those fine folks for pulling up today.

All right. Well, it's time to get up out of here. You got a positive note? I do, man. And it comes from the late, great Steve Jobs. And this is something that we all should, you know, implement in our lives, especially because of social media. Social media be dictating the way people think. But your time is limited.

So don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Breakfast club, bitches! You all finished or you all done? Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine.

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