The Breakfast Club - Donkey Of The Day: Lil Pump Disses Russ For Canceling Tour Due To Mental Health

Episode Date: August 30, 2022

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It's the donkey of the day. It's the donkey of the day. What the f*** is that? It's time for the Donkey of the Day. That's pretty funny. Charlamagne the devil? Possibly. The Breakfast Club.

Yeah, it's Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, August 30th. Here goes the Lil Pump. Lil Pump is a rapper, and I'm not here to slander Lil Pump. I'm here to talk to the young man this morning because this donkey of the day isn't just an indictment, a little pump. He's just the latest in a long line of folks who, for some reason, like to downplay what other people are going through mentally. All right. If you haven't heard the good brother, Russ, drop on the clues bombs for us. I respect that young man. To me, he represents everything that's right. I love what that man stands for. And he's announced that he's canceling his European tour to take a mental health break.

Salute to Russ. OK, because there was a time when the conversation around mental health was so stigmatized that people couldn't be open about their mental health issues. Like we would have to make up all types of silly stuff, lying to get out of things because we couldn't just say, hey, man, you know, mentally, I'm not going to be able to do it. All right. Whether it's anxiety, depression, grief, whatever it is, that's, you know, keeping you from showing up to be yourself. We were afraid to just say that. But now we've gotten to a beautiful point in our society where when folks feel mentally exhausted, they can just say they're mentally exhausted. And I, for one, respect it and appreciate it. So when folks like Russ announced they are pulling out of something for mental health reasons as someone who deals with their own you know anxiety and bouts of

depression and grief i overstand you know why he's pulling out of his european tour so it really bothers me when folks like little pump make statements like this you think you got mental health issues i'm from date county bitch i was born mental health issues how about you deal with this Stop being a f***ing b**** And you know damn well who I'm talking to, boy Your ass has cancelled a whole Europe tour, bitch Stop f***ing cancelling s***

Hop on that f***ing plane and go do your shows, you f***ing b**** Little Pump, that's corny as hell Okay, number one, I'm sick of people using the P word as an insult Alright, how do you insult someone By calling them something that so many people enjoy? All right. Not to mention there's nothing weak about a vagina, sir. In fact, they should make tires out of the same material as vagina walls. You would never need a new tire. OK, they would be the most durable wheels on the planet.

But I digress. What I'm really sick of is people trying to downplay what other humans are going through mentally. How do you know what Russ is feeling on the inside? Not to mention, Pump, I heard you say that you're from Florida and you've been dealing with mental health issues your whole life. You know your Uncle Sharla agrees with that because the craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. But I would love to know, Pump, how exactly are you dealing with those mental health issues that you say you are dealing with? Because you're probably dealing with them the same way a lot of us used to by suppressing them. OK, by staying busy. Oh, you didn't know staying busy is a trauma response. Huh? I know. I know you find relief in your work. You find relief in that studio.

Well, guess what? Most symptoms of PTSD reflect someone who is capable of functioning in the world as long as they remain stimulated because you are afraid of what will happen when you stop moving for pumping anyone else who wants to downplay what people are going through in regards to their mental health when you stop suppressing your emotions and numbing yourself with uh drugs and alcohol or you know staying busy watch what happens to you okay when you have a complete mental and emotional breakdown because you've just been running, running, running, pushing, pushing, pushing, not stopping to deal with anything, watch what happens. I guarantee you it's just going to be a wham.

You're going to hit that wall, and guess what? When you hit that wall, the only thing you're going to be able to do is lean on that wall and rest. Sometimes walls are there so we can lean on them and rest that's why we hit them okay i just want all of us to be more compassionate when it comes to people who deal with mental health issues because it's hard enough trying to explain something that you don't fully understand and if you are a person that doesn't fully understand it just be quiet okay because i guarantee little pump at some point you are going to be dealing with something

in your head that you don't quite understand and it's not until we are lost that we begin to understand ourselves and pump uh when you get lost we will be here to help you find your way okay when you need it but in the meantime please understand the best way to keep your peace of mind is to not disturb the peace of mind of others. Please give Lil Pump the biggest, you know, please. All right. I just don't understand it. Like I'm just why when somebody says they have to pull out of something because of mental health issues, somebody has to come out and say that has to come out and call BS on it.

Well, why? Let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. When people say mental health, do you agree? Do you believe them? We do understand that, you know, the conversation around mental health has been stigmatized, you know, for so long. And I hear people say things like oh you know people are just you know talking about this stuff so much now because it's trendy or maybe because people have

the confidence to speak about it now because so many people are talking about it no i get it but but it is a it is a line right and the reason i say it's a line because you know when somebody commits a crime or somebody does something, and they get caught, the first thing they say is it's mental health related. And sometimes I don't necessarily believe this. Well, it probably is, but that don't mean that they don't have to deal

with the consequences of their actions. Right. But sometimes, and it's just me thinking, sometimes I think it's bull crap. How do you got to go to the extreme? I ain't talking about that. I'm talking about stuff like rust. I'm just talking about...

You're pulling out of things. It's an excuse that I feel that people use and I feel like when people are really going through it, people don't believe it because I feel sometimes people use it as an excuse. Well, when people are really going through it and they talk about it, people don't believe them either. So what the hell are you supposed to do when you're talking about

a line? You know what I mean? I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't. If I talk about it, then oh, you're just using it as an excuse to pull out of your if i do damned if i don't if i talk about it then oh you're just using as an excuse to pull out of your tour oh you just don't want to fight you know what i mean but if i don't say anything and i just push through and i don't and i show up and i'm not my best self and i project all this negativity on the people whose fault is it then see i'm this is gonna sound foul it's gonna sound foul but This is going to sound foul. Well, shut up then. No, I'm not. But if I don't want to go to work, what's the easiest excuse that nobody really can check? What's the reason you're not going to work, though?

I have mental health issues. But what if it's really that? I don't have to explain what it is. I just got mental health issues. Exactly. And you shouldn't. At my point, you shouldn't have to. Because some things are out of our realm of understanding.

Like, it's hard enough to try to explain something that you don't even fully understand yourself. You just wake up some days and you're like, I's hard enough to try to explain something that you don't even fully understand yourself. You just wake up some days and you're like, I don't want to show up. When you was in that damn, when they had to check your ass into the hospital and you was in there with the little robe on with your ass out and you escaped to go DJ in the club, wasn't you going through something mentally and emotionally? What did you just say?

My ass out. See? See? That's the first thing you said. You could have just said I was stuck in the thing with a robe on, but you said my ass out. That's what you said, my ass out. But time out, time said my ass out. That's what you said, my ass out. You escaped the hospital, bro. You had the hospital gown on. Was you not in the club with your ass out? I was not in the club with my ass out.

Did you not escape the hospital with your ass out? No, my ass wasn't out. How do we get the ass? We're talking about brains here. Shut up. The moral of the story is I'm sick of y'all acting like people who are dealing with mental health issues are lying. I'm tired of it. Why do y'all do this? Let's talk about it. 800-585-1051.

I'm just saying, before the excuse, you can always say your kid. My kid is sick. You ain't got to go somewhere. Nobody's going to check on your kid. Why would you lie on your kid? Most people do that. A lot of people do that. Now, as you say mental health, there's no question.

You can't ask, well, what's mentally wrong with you? What are you thinking about? What are you going through? You just got to give me space. That's none of your business. That's right. Give me my goddamn space. Back, back. Give me 60

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need to suck it up or, you know, they're just scared. They need to push through. Do you realize pushing through is what has caused that person to hit the wall? They've probably been pushing through their whole life, you know, staying busy, which is which is a response to trauma. That's what staying busy is a response to trauma, because when you stop for that moment, you've got to deal with all the things you've been running from. I know I get it. That's why COVID was such a eye opener for so many people. And it made so many people start sitting down to go talk to therapists and whatnot,

because COVID made us be still for the first time, and a lot of us didn't like what we saw. Yeah, no, I get it, and I do believe people do have mental issues, but I also feel like people use it as an excuse. I feel like it's an easy excuse to use because it's something that can't be checked. It can't be verified. It's just something within yourself. And I feel like people tend to use it like that. Let me ask a simple question. Who are we to say, A, this person's lying about what they're going through mentally,

what they're going through emotionally? How the hell do we know? And I know that if somebody like Russ is walking away from millions of dollars, that's the thing. Like, Russ isn't hurting anybody. Nobody. Correct. The only person that's going to suffer in this situation

is Russ. He's walking away from millions of dollars for whatever reason. Already got a sold-out European tour. That lets me know clearly there's something wrong. And I salute Russ that, you know, he's able to articulate what it is that he's going through

mentally. Because for so long, man, so many of us couldn't. Like, yo, you be dealing with mental issues, you be dealing with emotional issues, and you couldn't say, hey, man, I'm suffering from mental health issues. You got to make up some other excuse. Like you said earlier, something about lying on your dog or something like that.

I didn't say nothing about that. You said something about the dog eating kids. What did you say? What are you talking about? What did you say? It was something about the kids or something. I don't remember what it was. All I'm simply saying,

but whatever it was, it's stupid excuses like that we used to have to make up. Oh, I would say that people would always say that their kids were sick, but it would be an excuse. That's right. Something like that. That's right. Well, let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? Good morning. This is Alicia from Florida. Hey, Alicia.

Talk to us, Alicia. What's your thoughts? So, I actually am a mental health counselor down in South Florida. Sorry, my kids are excited to hear you guys. Tell them we said peace. They hear you. What's up, guys?

I am a mental health counselor down in Florida. And I mean, every single day I work in residential treatment down here. And we have people that, you know CEOs of companies our professional athletes you know our stay-at-home moms or teachers we have special education teacher in my center right now who had a mental health breakdown and I cannot imagine this woman she's in a psychotic break at this moment she should be teaching second graders you know that's her job that she's on leave from and I cannot even imagine this woman showing up to work for five minutes without a catastrophe occurring. Wow. So people really need to understand mental health is not a joke. It's not an excuse. People

can use it as an excuse, just like during the pandemic, people called off because they said they had a fever or whatever. And you just let it slide because you'd rather them not come around and bring their potential, you know, negative exposures to the workplace if they need to do something to focus on themselves or to get themselves in their best health state. So, you know, when these performers, especially these artists, celebrities, a lot of them do have anxiety that's crippling. A lot of them do have, you know, identity issues that they struggle with, just showing up and putting out this image that they're somebody that we all expect them to be. And if they fall short of that, like Charlamagne said, we criticize them for that. We criticize them if they snap.

We criticize them if they have, like, a bad night. So when these people say they just need a day off or a night off or they've got to cancel a tour, I feel like we all as a people need to learn how to respect those boundaries that people are trying to put up. Man, that's real. Why you hang up on the lady? I was going to tell her to give out her information. See, you're part of the problem, yo. You are part

of the problem. You. You with the fake bid. Looking suspicious over there. I don't look suspicious, man. See, that's your problem. I'm hurt by every time you talk bad about me. What? I'm hurt. Hurt by what?

By you talking bad about me. Ain't nobody talking bad about you. You just said. I'm talking bad about your beard. I ain't saying nothing about you. But that's me. That ain't you. That's me.

That's not you. It's not even yours. That's me. If you didn't spray it on, I wouldn't say nothing about it. If you left that in the can at home I would have nothing to say about it 888-510-51 We're talking about mental health You know, Lil Pump made fun of Russ

And said it was some bull crap And we're asking, when people say they're going through mental problems Do you believe them? You should And by the way, who are you to even act like they lying? You don't know what's going on in that person's head Let's talk about it, it's The Breakfast Club, good morning 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. 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.

That's Escape from Z-A-Q-E-S-T-A-N on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing.

Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, this is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, and every single wig removal together. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your past itself was a secret, and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child.

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