The Breakfast Club - Don't Play My Role

Episode Date: July 7, 2020

It was an Envy and Charlamagne take over day as Angela Yee is on vacation, which means it was their duty to go over the front page news and rumor report. Moreover, they reported on Halle Berry getting backlash for wanting to play the role of a transgender, so we opened up the phone lines to see what our listeners thought about it, and even had National Black Justice Coalition Executive Director David Johns speak on the topic. Also, we opened up the phone lines to see if people would still want to defund or abolish the police after the shootings that happend this weekend. 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. 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.

You are out of control. I can't even deal hot seat. Y'all are wild. Y'all are wild. Can I live? You are out of control. I can't even deal with you. Y'all are so petty. Why are y'all so petty? The world's most dangerous morning show. DJ Envy.

Captain of this bitch. Angela Yee. I stay in everybody's business, but in a good way. Charlamagne Tha God. The ruler rubbing you the wrong way. The Breakfast Club. Made for everybody. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,, what's going on with you, man? How was your little birthday vacation? I mean, it was good.

You know, I'm actually still in South Carolina. I've been in South Carolina since, man, what, the 26th or something like that? Because my daughter's birthday is on the 27th. So we came down here on the 26th. Little did I know that South Carolina was going to become a coronavirus hotspot. Right. OK. Within that short period of time. But it's OK. Did you did you drive or did you fly? No, I actually flew and I hadn't been on a plane in a long time. And I'm going to tell you something, man. Drop on the cruise bonds with JetBlue.

JetBlue's always clean. But boy, if they weren't super clean on the day I flew out. They got the socially distanced flights. So, you know, nobody can be in the middle seats. So, I mean, it was cool. Yeah, I haven't flown yet. I'm still a little nervous about flying. So, I've been staying in my ass home. I haven't left anywhere this last couple of days.

You know what I did? I bought a bike. I've been riding. I've been bike riding. I've been doing about 10 to 15 miles a day just riding. I saw you with your little tights on. You know what I'm saying? I was like, Envy couldn't wait to put those little biker shorts on.

Yeah, shut up. The little biker shorts with the tights and the little dry fit shirt. Yeah, let me tell you. So when I bought the bike, I started riding like, hey, okay, I'm going to ride a bike. Not a problem. And I didn't realize that when you ride a bike, pause, pause, pause, that your ass hurts.

The seat really hurts your ass. Like hurt, hurt. Like hurt. Took you back to your old days when you first was struggling to get on? Shut up. So I had to, I used to make fun of people when I would see where these biker shorts

or these biker pants, but now I understand that there's gel actually in the pants that gives you an extra cushion so when you ride it. Oh, man. Okay. I see we picking up right where we left off.

Okay, gelling your ass. Ass hurting. Tell me more. Now I'm intrigued. Now you're intrigued. We haven't even had breakfast yet. We haven't even had breakfast yet and I'm already intrigued. Tell me more. So I had intrigued. Now you're intrigued. We haven't even had breakfast yet. We haven't even had breakfast yet, and I'm already intrigued. Tell me more.

So I had to make sure I had these gel pants to make sure my ass would be all right when I ride for long periods of time. So that's what I was saying. That's usually how it works. You know, shout out to everybody, all the bottoms of the world that have to use gel, because when they ride for long periods of time, it hurts without it. Drop on the Clues bombs for all the bottoms this morning. Okay? We represent all people here on this show.

Everybody has a voice. Bottoms can be heard too. Alright, well let's get the show cracking. Front page news, what are we talking about, Charlemagne? I don't know. I just got here. I literally just walked in. I have no idea. I have no idea what we're doing.

We'll figure it out. We'll tell you about Blackout Day 2020. We'll tell you about that. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

Let's get in some front page news. Let's start with some sports. Now, the Chiefs quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, signs the most lucrative deal in sports history. A 10-year extension worth $450 million. What's the guarantee, though? Because, you know, the thing about those NFL contracts, they be having those big-ass numbers, but, you know, a lot of it don't be guaranteed. Most of the time, those guys don't even see all of that money.

Now, I'm sure Patrick Mahomes got paid, but what's the guaranteed number? I mean, we don't know. I mean, he's so important to that, the Chiefs team. I'm sure he got a lot of that guaranteed. I'm almost positive now. I would hope so. I know I saw like an injury clause where if he gets injured, he gets like a guaranteed $140 million or something like that,

if I read it correctly. But, yeah, I would love to know what the guarantee is on all of that money. But drop one of Clues Bonds for that beige young man. He deserves it. Absolutely deserves it. Now, also, we've been talking about this for a long time, talking about some of these great basketball players or athletes or football players going to an HBCU.

I believe the young man's name is McCormaker. He announced that he would be attending Howard University, which is a huge shock. He's the number 16 recruit in the country, according to ESPN Class 100. So this would be huge what he's doing for HBCU. So we'll see how that plays out. Congratulations to him and congratulations to Howard University. Yeah, I love that.

I've been seeing a lot of the young athletes say that they want to go to HBCUs. And look, man, whether you even go just for a year, you know, two years, whatever it is, the shot in the arm that you will give the economy of an HBCU will be everything. So if you're trying to figure out ways that you can, you know, help your people and help your community, that is definitely one of them if you're a young athlete who goes to an HBCU for a year or two. Absolutely. Yeah, I played against a young man named Dariq Whitehead. He actually played

on my son's team a couple of years ago and was visiting my son and I played him a one-on-one. He's 15. He's about 6'7". And I say he dunked on me about four times.

Dunked on me four times at age 15. And there was nothing I can do. I tried to back him down and bully him. There was nothing I could do. He bullied the hell out of me. You said he dunked on you

at age 15 as if you're not 49. I'm not 49. He's supposed to dunk on you four times at the age of 15 when you're 49. I'm not 49. That's one. And two, 15 years old? Six, seven? Yeah.

Jeez. Listen to what you're explaining. He's 16 years old. He's six, seven. Okay? And you're 49 years old and you're five, seven. I'm not 49. How do you think that's going to turn out?

I'm going to dunk on you. I'm nowhere near 49. And 15 to 6'7 is ridiculous. But anyway, good luck to him as well. And lastly, it says Donald Trump isn't thrilled that the Redskins and the Indians may change the name. He put this tweet out. They named teams out of strength, not weakness.

But now the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians, two hurting sports franchises, look like they're going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct. Indians like Elizabeth Warren must be very angry right now. He's concerned about all of the wrong things, okay? You need to look around at your country and realize that your country is still in a pandemic

and ignoring coronavirus is not going to make it go away. And that's why cases are spiking up everywhere. Okay? He's always worried about the wrong things. He should not be concerned what any NFL team's name is. He's got to stop acting like a regular Twitter N-word, bro. Yeah. He just has to.

He's the president of the United States of America. To say that he needed to be focusing on more important things is an understatement. Right. And also, July 7th, they're saying we're calling it Blackout Day 2020. Now, the objectives of Blackout Day 2020 is to force politicians and the business world to end their racist policies and practices that have led to deaths of black Americans. So they're saying black Americans spent more than a trillion dollars on consumer goods in 2018 alone. So don't spend any money with any store. And if you have to, make

sure it's a black business. That's July 7th today. Blackout day 2020. That's how I move every day of my life. If I can spend my money with a black owned company, that's what I'm always looking for first. But is this the same thing as when everybody was putting the black squares on Instagram?

That's not the same thing, is it? No, I don't know. It's not the same thing. And I don't know how this was created, but everybody's following along and make sure that they're not spending any money unless it's with a black-owned business. All right. Well, that's your front page news. Very hard task, too, by the way. It's not as hard as you think, but it just depends on what you're looking for.

Depends what you're looking for. Yeah, Killer Mike has an episode of his show, Trigger Warning, on Netflix. Today is actually a great day to watch that episode to see how difficult it is to spend money at just black-owned businesses. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Now, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you're upset, you need to vent. Call us right now. Phone lines are wide open. The number again is 800-585-1051. Call us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. So you better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What's going on, DJ? This is Front Page. How you doing?

Front Page, what up, brother? Get it off your chest. Yeah, man. How you doing, my brother? Peace, King. How you? Great. Fantastic.

Hey, real quick, I just want to get it off my chest. I'm tired of these fake-ass clouds that I'm looking at over New York City. Like I said, I'm riding up and down the East Coast, and they keep spraying the damn hood, man. I mean, listen, you guys are over in the cloud, and it's disgusting. I'm tired of looking at it, and I don't know who really notices it, but we stay in the cloud, and PA is not like that. Once we pass those mountains, we got open skies,

but you guys are sitting in a nasty cloud and sitting quite low as well, too. What do you mean a cloud? I have no idea what you're talking about. A cloud of, like, toxic waste? Waste? Are they spraying something on us, you're saying? Those precious metals that they're spraying in the air.

Oh, boy. It's ridiculous. It's disgusting. I don't know if you notice what the clouds are looking like, and they hang way too low. Like, cumulus clouds do not hang that low. They're all serious clouds.

How do we fight it, bro? How do we fight that spray? How do we fight the spray? Well, we could do it like this. 44trillion.com for black folks. This is what we do. We got to come together

and build our own, period. We have to come together and build our own. So 44 trillion for black folks. We got to go there. So build our own clouds? Nah We have to come together and build our own. So 44 trillion for black folks. We have to go there. So build our own clouds? Nah, they're in the clouds. We're not going to fight that.

They're beating us up. Period. They're going down to the rural area. Damn. I can't hear him. I feel like the spray took his phone. Those clouds. Yeah, he must have gotten to an area

where there was a bunch of fake clouds and they cut his signal off. My goodness. Poor guy. Hello, who's this gotten to an area where there was a bunch of fake clouds and they cut his signal off. Poor guy. Hello, who's this? Oh my gosh, am I live? Good morning, you live? Oh my gosh, is this your live? Who's this?

Oh my gosh. Hey, my name is Mimi. Hey Mimi, get it off your chest. Hey Mimi, don't do that. I love you. I just wanted to get off my chest. Thank you. I just wanted to get off my chest that people need to stay inside. I saw a very

wild video from Atlanta with a pool in the middle of the club and people was in there. That is disgusting. That was compound in Atlanta. Yeah, but I'm kind of hypocritical because I'm going to Atlanta next week, but I wouldn't get in the pool. Goodness gracious.

Oh my gosh. I can't believe I've been calling y'all since y'all was on air and I never got through. This is so exciting. Angela, I love you. Love you too. She's not here. He's not here today. Y'all not cool. Anyway,

I would like to plug my podcast real quick because I have my own podcast. It's called The Juicy Hour with Meanie. Y'all should tune in. It's on all podcasting platforms. The Juicy Eye? The Juicy Hour with Mimi. Oh, The Juicy Hour. Okay, gotcha.

How do you have a juicy eye? Okay, I'm going to check that out. Well, thank you for calling, Mimi. Thank you, but it's Mimi. I said Mimi. All right, Mimi. Oh, Mimi. All right.

Like leaks. Mimi leaks. Get it off your chest. It's 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. All right. Like leaks. NeNe leaks. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max.

You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together.

You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout. Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real inspiring stories from the people, you know, follow and admire, join me every week for post run high. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart

of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this.

Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia.

I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I create my own 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.

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

Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. 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? Palm Beach. All right, what up, brother? Get it off your chest. Is this Solomon? Yes, it's me and Envy.

Yes, it's Solomon and Envy. Represent to you and Angela Lee. I love you guys. You've got the best voice in the game. You know, I'm trying to say that, like, I actually, like, came to, after my dad died, like, living in the mob, and I went to, like, the hood, like, down here in West Palm, you know what I'm saying, when I was 19.

And I started listening to Jay Pharoah. And, like, now I have a track, you know what I'm saying, on a movie on Amazon Prime Blame it on Trey I'm a rapper comedian impersonationist but he's an inspiration to me

yeah but here's the real thing I'm trying to say is that like you know nobody can really put their their life into skin color you know what I'm saying, until they're really there. So there's a lot of people that use it for cult, like Instagram models and shit, you know what I'm saying? Like, sometimes I feel like that, like,

the movement should be, like, you should have something in your life with that, you know what I'm saying? Like, old school, saying, not, like, people that, like, Abercrombie and Fisher whole life, like, don't even go out their house and shit, you know what I'm saying? But it's cool. All right, bro, we can't curse. Thank you, man. Listen, listen, Icrombie and Fisher their whole life, like, don't even go out their house and s***, you know what I'm saying? But it's cool.

All right, bro, we can't curse. Thank you, man. Listen, listen, I'm going to tell you something. I don't know what you're saying. Nobody knows what he's saying. You tell me, you know, do you know what I'm saying? I don't know what you're saying. But good morning to you.

Hello, who's this? Hey, my name's Bella. Hey, get it off your chest. Hey, I was talking about a story out in Bloomington, Indiana. It was over 4th of July where a guy was attempted to be lynched, and they caught it on video, but they didn't make any arrests there, and now they're looking into it and investigating it and stuff. But I got a little bit of that here.

Was that all of the white people saying they were trying to lynch a black person? They were calling for the noose? Yeah, yeah, that's the one. Yeah, I live out here, man. And it is such, it's near Indianapolis, Indiana. And it is such, like, just a white place to live. And it's hard sometimes because nobody, you know, relates at all. And this is a place where I can't tell you how many times people have been like,

come out and hang out with me, come camping with me. And I always tell them no. And I tell them I don't want to because it's dangerous and they don't see it. And then it's like, here it is for everybody to see. But still people up here don't pay attention to it. I'm going to give you the same advice. I would love to give that young man. I feel like you have to own a legal firearm in America, especially when you're a black person.

I think having a legal firearm is a form of self-care. And I wish that young man in that moment had a legal firearm on him to protect himself from at least what I saw in the video, which was a bunch of white people attacking him, telling him, go get the noose. That's what I kept in the video, which was a bunch of white people attacking him, telling him, go get the noose. That's what I kept hearing him call for. Absolutely. I feel like had he done that, though,

and had he shot somebody, the police who showed up, it's the park police, it's not the city police, they would have been pointing their guns at him instead. He would have been dead, too. Yes, but that's no reason for me not to practice my Second Amendment rights. Absolutely. I still live in America and the Constitution is supposed to protect me. So I have no problem fighting that one in court.

Yeah, I feel it's just one of those things, man, being out here, being in a place where, you know, you do what you can to be active and you do what you can to do the right thing and, you know, promote social change and all that, but it's just such a whitewashed community that it's just hard living out here sometimes. Well, thank you. We appreciate you and what you attempt to do. Absolutely. What's your privilege? Using your privilege to combat

prejudice, so thank you. Alright, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up at any time. Now, when we come back, we got to talk Kanye West. All right. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams.

I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this.

It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition.

Why can't I create my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? Be part of a great colonial tradition. What could go wrong? I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help!

We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories,

their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is the Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Now, Kanye West says he's running for president, right?

Now, he released this tweet the other day. He says, we must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States. Then he put hashtag 2020 vision. I can't even president of the United States. Then he put hashtag 2020 vision. I can't even believe this is a story. Kanye has taken absolutely no steps to be president. He hasn't registered with the Federal Election Commission. Nope, not yet. He hasn't presented a campaign platform. He hasn't elected enough signatures to even get on the November ballot. He's already missed the deadline to file as an independent candidate in many states.

Like, I don't even understand why this is a story. And this is why I get so mad at the media, because if you're telling me that this is the most dangerous election ever coming up in November, then guess what? Why are we so easily distracted by things? You know what would be a story? If Kanye actually registered with the Federal Election Commission, if Kanye actually had a campaign platform, if he was actually running for president, this would be a story. This is just a tweet. It's just Kanye talking. He said this a million times before. Why is this even a story? There's no reason that this should be dominating the headlines. No reason. Yeah, I agree with you. He's not even he's not even doing the necessary steps to even run. But that that's a huge headline. Now, also, Kanye West, people are mad at Kanye

West because his company Yeezy got millions in federal small business loans. They say that they believe that his business received two to five million dollars. And that was the federal government's pandemic rescue fund. And that's to help save one hundred and six jobs. So people are saying, hey, you're a billionaire. Why would you need that money? And there's a lot of small businesses that weren't able to get that money. So people are upset with Yeezy and his company. Those people are absolutely correct, because I was wondering the same thing. If you just announced that you are a billionaire and I just know you did your gap deal. I think that was like a billion dollar deal.

Why do you need two to five million dollars? It sounds like Yeezy is doing good. It sounds like Yeezy would have the money to pay their employees. And didn't I just hear something about Yeezy? Kanye's building this big ass estate in Wyoming? Yeah, 52,000 square foot home in Wyoming. It will have a ranch.

It'll have a facility to build and to make his sneakers. It'll have all types of things. That's going to run a few million, too. So I just I'm like, I don't seem like they hurting for no money over there. So I don't understand why they would need the two to five million dollars in PPP loans. But hey, man, who am I to be in somebody's pockets? I'm just observing like everybody else. Yeah. Well, NASCAR, it looks like Bubba Wallace, Trump, kind of

threw a tweet at Bubba Wallace. It seems like Trump has nothing better to do but to throw tweets at everybody. So, Donald Trump says, has Bubba Wallace apologized to all those great NASCAR drivers and officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, and were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out

the whole thing was just another hoax that and flag decision has caused the lowest ratings ever now if you don't remember there was a noose on the garage where he would uh bring his car in for service the fbi did uh i guess they did an investigation and the fbi concluded that the noose had been in the garage stall since october 2019 and thus could not have been targeted at Wallace. As a result, they determined no hate crime had been committed. I need you, Donald Trump, to have that same energy in regards to coronavirus. Why are you ignoring coronavirus?

Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. I think we need one of those football teams to name themselves Corona. And that's the only way that Donald Trump will pay Corona any attention because he seems to really care about what's going on in the sports world. From NASCAR to goddamn football. Yep. I don't even give a damn what's going on in NASCAR. Never have, never will.

Yeah, me neither. It's just not my thing. But Beats by Dre said, hmm? I know you respect the Bubba Wallace, but I just don't care about NASCAR. Yeah, I'm not into it either. Beats by Dre announced, he said, we're going to announce this until later this week, but hate cannot win the day.

No one should ever be asked to apologize for standing up for what's right. We are proud to welcome Bubba Wallace to the Beats by Dre family. So he just signed an endorsement deal. They didn't say how much it was worth, but he signed an endorsement deal with Beats by Dre. So congratulations to him. Great diversity hire. Drop on the Clues bombs for Bubba Wallace and Beats by Dre.

I like that synergy. Not mad at it. And also over the weekend, Gaylene Maxwell. Do you know who that is? Yes, she's down with Larry Epstein. I found that out this weekend. I don't think his name is Larry. I think his name is Jeffrey Epstein.

Whatever. Yeah, but that out this weekend. I don't think his name is Larry. I think his name is Jeffrey Epstein. Whatever. Yeah, but that was his girlfriend. So she was arrested over the weekend, and now they have 24-hour surveillance on her to make sure that she doesn't commit suicide like Jeffrey Epstein did. So she was the one they said that was involved with bringing these young girls to Jeffrey Epstein, and hopefully she's convicted,

and she serves life in prison for what she was doing. If you've seen the documentary you'll see exactly what she was doing. It's just disgusting and horrible. So they have a 24 hour surveillance over her to make sure she kills herself. Is that what I heard just now? No, to make sure she doesn't kill herself. They want to watch her to make sure she doesn't kill herself like Jeffrey Epstein did and they believe

that she's going to be telling it all. That she's not going to hold back and she's going to be letting everything go. Allegedly, Donald Trump spent time at their island and allegedly Bill Clinton did too. So we'll find out all the information if she does actually speak. Once again, they

got 24-hour surveillance over her to make sure that she absolutely, positively does kill herself. We'll see. And they have cameras there as well, so we'll be able to see everything. So they want to make sure that she doesn't commit suicide. Let's place this bet. What's the over-under on her committing suicide?

And I put suicide in air quotes, people. What's the over-under on her committing suicide? I don't think that's going to happen. They got too many people watching us. Not like the last one. They have too many people watching her. They had a lot of people watching Larry Epstein, too. Jeffrey Epstein, man.

Whatever the hell his name is. That didn't turn out too well. I don't think they would run the same play twice. Right. But I don't see her making it. I don't see her making it to trial. My goodness. Alright. Well, that is your rumor report. When we come back, we got front page news.

There's been a lot of shootings across the country. Shootings in Atlanta. Shootings in New York. We'll give you all the details. So don't move. There's been a lot of shootings across the country. Shootings in Atlanta, shootings in New York. We'll give you all the details. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. All right, coronavirus. You remember that? Do we? Come on, man. Just making sure. Well, the Atlanta mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, has said COVID-19 has literally hit home.

I have had no symptoms and I have tested positive. So she's tested positive for COVID-19. Now, in Atlanta, cases are up 2,200 new cases in Atlanta. Where you want to go now? Miami. Miami. Where else? I would go now? Miami. Miami cases are shooting up as well. They're saying that they're going to start closing businesses starting this

Wednesday. So restaurants, ballrooms, banquet facilities, party venues, gyms and fitness centers and short-term rentals looks like will be shutting down because cases are rising. And Texas cases are rising. They're saying that they reported 5,000 new cases are rising. And Texas cases are rising. They're saying that they reported 5,000 new cases on Monday. And in Arizona, they're saying the cases passed over

100,000 coronavirus cases. So as you can see, coronavirus is starting to spike. So they're starting to shut things right back down. Yeah. In my home state of South Carolina, cases are rising too. That's why I'm doing more COVID-19 no-cost testing events. I'm actually doing one this Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Trident Technical College Thornley Campus in Charleston, South Carolina. So, yes, if you're in Charleston, South Carolina, our surrounding areas this weekend and you want to get a no cost COVID-19 test, then pull up to the Trident Technical College Thornley campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Friday and Saturday. OK, tell them Charlemagne, the God sent you. All right. And also, it seems like shootings have been going up across the country like so crazy in In New York City, 65 people were shot in New York City over the Fourth of July weekend. 87 people were shot in Chicago. 20 people were shot and four people killed in Atlanta. So the shootings have been going up like crazy.

Yeah, and here's the thing. You can't have all this conversation and discussion about defunding the police, wanting to police our own communities, but then have things like this happen. I saw last night T.I. posted a video from the brother, Paul A. And if you watch the video, I agree with, you know, damn near everything he said. When you have people committing these kinds of crimes, you know, when children are the prominent victims of gun violence,

then policing the community means holding the perpetrators of these crimes accountable. That means all that no snitching BS y'all be on, that's got to be out the window. And Paul A. even said we need, you know, street justice. I'm not mad at that neither, but the moral of the story is accountability. Okay, accountability. However you see fit to hold people accountable for these crimes, whether it's calling the same police you're trying to defund or handling it yourself, either way, nothing gets handled unless there's some form of accountability.

All of these kids cannot be getting killed in these streets, and nothing happens. That is not, you're absolutely sending the wrong message by doing that and screaming defund the police, defund the police, we want to police our own communities. There has to be accountability if that's what you want. Yeah, they were saying at least five children were killed by gun violence across the nation this holiday weekend.

And when I say it's getting out of hand, it just seems like people don't care. I mean, I've seen people get shot in broad daylight, and a lot of this is on camera. Like, people just don't care. They're just running around like it's nothing. Like, life is just okay. Like, they get another life.

Like, you know, no. Once you die, you die. Like, it's crazy. I think that we're all forgetting that all of these different things are conflated. You know what I'm saying? You still have coronavirus pandemic. You have the economy in the toilet. So many people still unemployed.

You know what I mean? You have people still out protesting social justice. Like, America has been at a tipping point. So those people in certain communities, you know what I mean, they've been past their tipping point. So those people in certain communities, you know what I mean, are, they've been past their tipping point and they're at their breaking point right now and hurt people hurt people. And that's what you're going to see a lot of this summer.

Y'all, it's just not enough opportunity out there for folks. It's just not. Alright, well that is your front page news. Now when we come back let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Now, Halle Berry, she was supposed to play transgender in a new movie,

but after receiving a backlash from the LGBTQ plus community, she apologized and decided not to do it. So let's open up the phone lines. What are your thoughts? 800-585-1051. Some people are saying, well, she's an actress. She should be able to play any

character at all all whether it's a superhero, a man, a woman, a transgender or whatever character may be and some people are feeling like no she should leave that part for transgender so let's open up the phone lines let's have a conversation 800-585-1051 what are your thoughts

call us up right now and we'll get your opinion when we come back Charlemagne it's the Breakfast thoughts? Call us up right now and we'll get your opinion when we come back. Charlemagne, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Pull out your phone. Call in right now. Call me. Add your opinion to The Breakfast Club topic. Break it down. 800-585-1051. The Breakfast Club.

It's topic time. Pick up the phone, baby. Call it's topic time call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the breakfast club talk about it morning everybody it's dj nv angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club all right so uh let's open up the phone lines 800-5585-1051. Now, Halle Berry was supposed to play a transgender in a new movie, but after receiving backlash from the LGBTQ plus community, she apologized and decided not to do it. She said over the weekend, I had the opportunity to discuss my consideration for an upcoming role as a

transgender man. And I'd like to apologize for those remarks as a cisgender woman. I now understand that I should not have considered this role and that the transgender community should undeniably have the opportunity to tell their own stories. I am grateful for the guidance and critical conversation over the past few days, and I will continue to listen, educate, and learn from this mistake. I vow to be an ally in using my voice to promote better representation on screen, both in front and off the camera and behind the camera. All right. So what do you think, Charlamagne? I think that

there's absolutely no upside in having this conversation. The transgender mafia, the T's don't like us cisgenders and their family business. Okay. But since you asked the question, I can see both sides. I can see how if you're a member of the T's, the transgender community, you want to be represented. You know, it's not a lot of transgender representation in the TV and film world. So when that role does pop up, they want someone from their community getting that part. I totally get it, totally understand, because if it's the role of a cisgendered man or woman, I highly doubt Hollywood is reaching out to transgenders to audition for those roles so i get it but if holly berry wanted to act in a movie and she played a woman who was transitioning

into a man why would that be a problem would you have her play a cisgendered woman in the first half of the movie and then as she transitions you bring in in someone who has already transitioned. I don't understand any of this, but I also will ask, can transgender women play the role of cisgendered women in a movie? If a transgender woman gets a role that a cisgendered woman would usually get, would cisgendered women push back on that? Would that be a problem? Like, it's acting. Like, what about all the crackheads and homeless people who actually need work should they be upset no shut up aren't crackheads and homeless people played him in movies should fat people be upset that eddie murphy played a whole fat family and no shut up

didn't leave no rules no roles for the obese among us i'm just saying where where does this go that's i'm just saying like how far does this go is what I want to know. And I see both sides as well. I mean, I understand that transgenders would love to tell their story, but in Hollywood, if Holly Berry wants to play a part and is an actress, she is going to bring people to that movie, regardless if the movie is good, regardless if the movie is bad. She is that type of actress, kind of like Denzel Washington. Like, there's movies that Denzel does that people don't care if they're good or bad

about the reviews. They just like Denzel as an actor. So what you're saying, you're saying that it should be about the star power as opposed to representation is what you're saying. In Hollywood movies, yeah, sometimes it is about the star power. Absolutely it is sometimes.

But I also do understand the transgenders who feel like they want to tell their own story. The transgender community wants to be able to say, hey is my story but like you said i see both sides but i don't know let's go to the phone logs by the way if i was a transgendered person and you know i would love for holly berry to play me in a movie i'm just saying oh okay well let's go to the phone lines hello who's this hey this phil is Phil from Detroit. Phil from Detroit. What's up, brother? I'm doing all right.

What's up? What you seeing? What's your thoughts, bro? Man, I think people are too sensitive with all that, you know, the gay and lesbian rights stuff, you know what I'm saying? Halle Berry, she an actress. She should be able to accept any rule that's offered to her without offending a whole group of people, you know what I'm saying?

And then, when did black and civil rights, when did black civil rights and gay rights become one movement? You know what I'm saying? How did we get Pennsylvania into that? You know what I'm saying? It shouldn't have nothing to do with the other. You know what I mean? What we're

fighting for on the street shouldn't have nothing to do with gay and lesbian rights. How did that all become one civil rights movement? You know, that's crazy. You know, and another thing— Wait a minute. Wait a minute. How did this conversation become about civil rights?

We're talking about representation in Hollywood. No, I'm saying— I'm a little on that, brother. What I'm saying is, how did that become one movement? You know what I'm saying? Like, every time somebody do something, you know what I'm saying, it's like gay people offended. You i'm saying it's like gay people offended you know her taking a role how is that offending lesbians or or transgenders you know what i'm saying like and why is it why is that topic so sensitive like if people don't like gay people they should be able to say that you shouldn't be

like a homophobe just because you say you don't like gay people you know what i'm saying like it's crazy and if's like that now. Now, I have to push back on you, right? And I'm pushing back on you just because I just want you to think about this. Can a white person say, if I don't like black people, I should be able to say that? I'm not racist. And is he not racist if he says that? If he says, I don't like black people, would you say that white person is not racist?

No, he would be racist. No, I would not say he's not racist, but that's his prerogative. He can be who he want to be. You know what I'm saying? What he eat is not going to make me, you know what I'm saying, crap. But if he doesn't like a black person because of the color of his skin, he's racist, sir.

And if you don't like a gay person just because they're gay, you are indeed a homophobe. Yes, you are. But thank you for calling, brother. Hello, who's this? This is Mimi from Detroit. Good morning. Good morning.

We're talking about Halle Berry this morning. She was supposed to play a transgender in a new movie, but after receiving backlash, she decided not to do it. What are your thoughts? Right.

I feel like Halle Berry should go do another Catwoman 2 and leave the transgender role for a transgender. That's just like Julia Roberts playing Harriet Tubman. No, leave the black role for a black person. You leave that transgender role for a transgender. So, good for her for making the right decision.

Okay. All right, well, thank you. That is very interesting because I was thinking about that. I was like, is that the same as a white person playing a black person or vice versa? I don't know. The reason I say I don't know is because Halle Berry is a cisgendered woman. So if she was playing a transgender in a movie, what if the role was her starting off as a cisgendered woman and then transitioning into a transgendered woman. Wouldn't it make sense to have the cisgendered woman

playing the cisgendered woman? And then I guess when they, I don't know what happens when they transition, but I'm just saying, I don't know if that's necessarily the same as a white person playing a black person, a black person playing a white person. I don't know.

All right, 800-585-1051. If you just joined us, Holly Berry was supposed to play a transgender in a new movie. But after receiving backlash from the LGBTQ plus community, she decided not to do it and she apologized.

What are your thoughts? Look at you, LGBTQ plus. I see you, Envy. What? You've been studying. I've been studying. You've been talking to David Johns.

I've been listening. I've been listening. But what are your thoughts? Call us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Gal. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Now, if you just joined us, we're talking about Halle Berry. She was supposed to play a transgender in a new movie. But after receiving backlash from the LGBTQ plus community, she decided to apologize and said she's not going to do it. We're taking your calls, 800-585-1051.

Now, the thing with that is I see both sides. But, you know, as if you go to acting class or if you study acting, they teach you how to embody different people and different things. So when you become an actor, because, you know, I was a thespian. I don't know if you know that, but I was in two movies. But that's neither here nor there. But, yeah, when they teach you how to be an actor, they actually teach you how to become different

characters. So I'm just curious to what you guys think. Now, Charlamagne, you said you see it on both sides, right? Yeah, I definitely see both sides, and I totally can understand the transgender community wanting to be represented, you know, because it's not a lot of transgender representation in the TV and film world. So when that role,

when those roles do pop up, they want someone from their community getting those parts. Totally get it. Totally understand. Because I don't think that if the role of a cisgendered woman or man is out there, I highly doubt Hollywood is reaching out to transgenders to audition for those roles. So I get it. Alright, well let's go

to the phone line. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's up bro? We're asking about Holly Berry. What are your thoughts? I think she should better play the role. Just like Martin Lewis was able to play Big Mama, and Sinead Calipers was able to play Majest, and then you have Miguel Nunez, who played Juana, man. I mean, to better play the role,

she should get help from a transgender person in order to play the role better. Okay. So what are your thoughts on that, Charlamagne? Because there's been a bunch of men that played women in movies, and did people have a problem with that? I can't. I would be a total hypocrite

because I would not want to see a white person playing a black role, especially if it's somebody, you know, that's prominent from the black community. Like, you know, the young lady called early and said, Julia Roberts playing Harriet Tubman. Correct. That would be a no-go. We could not have that.

And on the flip side, if it was somebody from, you know, the white community that was prominent, I wouldn't want to see a black person play them. So I totally get it. But, you know, remember Idris Elba was supposed to play 007, and everybody was fine with that, a black person playing James Bond. No, no, because James Bond is just a character. Like, there's nothing.

Like, James Bond's character is not rooted in his race. You know what I mean? Harriet Tubman's whole being is black. You know what I'm saying? Like, she's a black icon. It's not the same with James Bond. I just don't know where it stops. You know what I'm saying?

Because I'm sitting here thinking about all the crackheads and the homeless people who need the money, who don't get to play themselves in movies. You know what I mean? I think fat people should be very upset that Eddie Murphy played a whole fat family in Nutty Professor. We might need to revisit that, okay? I'm serious. Hello, who's this?

Hey, this is Lala from Fort Lauderdale. Hey, good morning. We're talking Halle Berry this morning. You know, she was supposed to play a transgender in a new movie, but after receiving backlash, she decided not to do it, and she apologized. What are your thoughts? I think she was right to back down. And like I was saying earlier,

I do not agree with the transgender lifestyle. However, if the transgender community is upset and they want representation of somebody from their community, then I understand that even in disagreeing with the lifestyle. When you're when you're speaking from Holly Berry's perspective as somebody who did some theater growing up, I do understand the politics of theater. Like I wouldn't want nobody white playing Martin Luther King. You know, stuff like that.

You want, you know, accurate representation. And again, I don't agree with the lifestyle. However, I do,

I will say that they do have a right to be upset, long or short. Okay. All right. Well, thank you,

mama. Did you get David John, man? Did he answer? No, David, David John didn't hit me. I know some people will say too, you know, if transgenders can emulate women or men, then a woman or man should be able to emulate transgenders. But I think just from a aspect of representation, I totally understand why the transgender community

would want to be represented. You know what I'm saying? Like I said before, it's not a lot of transgender representation in the TV and film world. So when that role does pop up, they want someone from their community getting that role. But I don't think Halle Berry is necessarily wrong for wanting to play a transgender

because actors and actresses, they like to play complex characters. You know what I mean? And that would be a very complex role, I'm sure, for a cisgender woman to play. So, yeah, I'm not mad at her for wanting to play the role, but I'm also not mad at the transgenders for pushing back and saying, no, we want those roles for us.

Let me ask you a question. Didn't Will Smith play a gay man in a movie? Was that wrong then? That's a good question. I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know. That's a great question. You know, because all day long,

people play gay men, they play gay women. You know, is that wrong when they play these characters in movies as well? Well, there's some would say Will may not have been

playing a character even though I love Will Smith. You know what? Forget you, man. Based off Summit. And I love Will. I'm just talking. You know what?

When we come back, we got the rumors. 50's been all over the news. So we gonna talk 50 Cent and happy birthday to my bro 50. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. She's spilling the tea. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Now, congratulations

to Pop Smoke. Rest in peace, of course, his family, Stephen Victor and 50 Cent, who executive produced this album. Pop Smoke's album, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, looks like will debut number one. Now, projected sales say anywhere from $175,000 to $200,000 in sales. Of course, the album features appearances

from 50 Cent, Lil Baby, Rowdy Rebel, Rowdy Rich, and more. So congratulations, and it's a dope project, dope album. So shout out to everybody involved. Salute to Pop Smoke. Rest in peace to Pop Smoke. I never met Pop Smoke. Never met the young man, Pop Smoke. Never?

Ever. Good dude. How did I remember? Yeah, salute to him. It sucks to see him sell 20,000 records, you know, after he's gone. But salute to that brother. Yeah. Now, 50 Cent and T.I., it looks like they could be possibly doing a versus challenge.

It looks like T.I. called him out. Let's hear it. For your birthday, I offer you a challenge, sir. Pull your ass up, man, with 20 of your records, man. Sit cross for me, man, and get this work, man. You know what I'm saying? But I understand if you don't want to answer to that challenge, because last time you got challenged, Kanye West dusted your ass off.

So you might not want to do that. So, well, bring your ass on that. Bring your records. Bring your hit records with you. You and Dr. Dre and Eminem and all y'all. God damn the G-Unit. All y'all bring y'all ass on that. Come on, see the king. So what are your thoughts?

Would you like to see that? T.I. verse 50 cent? First of all, not only would I like to see it, I would like to see it for a couple of reasons. Number one, the s*** talking. The disrespect to each other. They both want the same level. Would be grade A.

You talking about two intellectual, articulate s*** talkers, it would be highly entertaining. I mean,'re talking about two intellectual, articulate talkers. It would be highly entertaining. I mean, you're talking about two of the best mouthpieces in the game, period. And though I love 50 Cent, 50 Cent is a cancer like I am. I love everything that 50 Cent stands for. But you know T.I. is one of my top five, top seven favorite rappers of all time. And I say this with all due respect. T.I. will wash 50 Cent in a versus battle.

Now, Charlamagne Tha God hasn't been on the air since, you know, I accurately predicted that Jadakiss would wash Fabulous. I know Envy is about to disagree with me on this one, but I'm telling you right now, T.I.P. in a versus battle versus 50 Cent musically, 20 songs for 20 songs will wash 50 Cent. And I love 50, but he will wash 50. I would have to expeditiously disagree with you, brother. I don't think that T.I. will wash 50 Cent.

I actually think 50 Cent will actually beat T.I. Tell me how. You have nothing to stand on with that. Why? Tell me how. What do you mean? How did that happen? Tell me.

You want to know how? How did that happen? All right. You ready? What up, gangsta? Patiently waiting. Many men in the club. High all the time.

Heat if I can't. Back down. P.I.N.P. Like my style. Poor Rich. 21 questions, Wengster, Life's On The Line. And that's all the records that he did. That's his records. So 50 is going to play the whole Get Rich or Die Trying album. That's one album you named.

You named all songs off one album. So you're going to play the whole Get Rich or Die Trying. Meanwhile, you're talking about a man who gave us trap music, urban legend, king, and paper trail. T.I. can go. Dope boys in the trap. Be easy. Let's get away. Doing my job.

24s. Rubber band man. Look what I got. Motivation. ASAP. You don't know me. Bring them out. What you know about that.

Top back. Live your life. Whatever you like. What's up? What's happening? Swagger like us. You want to go to features? T.I. can give you ain't I.

He can give you shoulder lean. He can give you goddamn never scared with bone crusher. What are you talking about? He can give you soldier with Destiny's Child. He can give you blurred lines. He can give you blurred lines with Robin Thicke. He can give you my love with Justin Timberlake. Stop it, man.

But you can't do hate it or love it. You can't do candy shop. You can't do Candy Shop. You can't do just a little bit. You can't do all the joints that he did with Tony Yeo, whether it's So Seductive, whether it's Pimpin'. We can go on and on and on and on.

Like I said, if you want to do his other artists, T.I. can do A&I, like I said. And I didn't even get to I Get Money. I didn't even get to all those other joints that I didn't name. I didn't get to none of those yet. I just did his first album. We could still go get to a lot of these other joints. So, yeah, I don't think T.I. will wash anybody.

I think it'll be a very entertaining versus, but I think it'll be a wash. I really do. I don't think so. I think the first be a wash. I really do. I don't think so. I think the first seven to ten rounds will be competitive. After that, when they start going the distance, no. I got to give it to Clifford Harris. I don't necessarily think so.

I think that the guy at 50 Cent, Curtis Jackson, actually got that one. But anyway, so I hope that we get to see that battle. I don't know if it's actually going to happen, but I would definitely love to see that. I think it should happen. I think 50 should do it. I think T.I. should do it. I think that is a very, very entertaining versus.

I really do. Yeah, I think so too. And also we got to congratulate Remy Ma and Papoose. It looks like they are expecting another baby. Now, Papoose was doing an interview with Claudia Jordan on Fox Soul, and this is what he said. I love being with my family. You know what I'm saying?

I get to spend so much time with my amazing wife and my amazing daughter, and I'm just making the best out of it. You know what I'm saying? And we're moving forward. And some good things are actually coming out of this. You know, we're going to have a new child real soon. Drop on the Clues Bounce with Pat Pouss and Remy

Ma. That's beautiful. I love to see the king and the queen bringing in more royalty to the world. So, salute Mackie's. Absolutely. So, congratulations to them. Now, when we come back, Donkey of the Day, what are we talking about? Donkey of the Day, we need to have a conversation with the hood, man.

We need to have a conversation with all these people that was out here this weekend just letting the hammers fly. We'll talk about it. All right. We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's time for Donkey of the Day.

Donkeys of the Day, ask Charlamagne. I'm a Democrat, so being Donkey of the Day is a little bit of a mixed up. So like a donkey. Keyhole. Donkey of the day at Shogunate. I'm a Democrat, so being donkey of the day is a little bit of a mixed up. So like a donkey, he on. Donkey of the day. The Breakfast Club, bitches. Now, I've been called a lot in my 23 years that donkey of the day is a new one. Donkey of the day for Tuesday, July 7th

goes to all you people everywhere who decided that on 4th of July weekend, fireworks were not enough. 65 people shot over the weekend in New York. Eighty-seven people shot in Chicago. An eight-year-old named Sequoia Turner shot and killed in Atlanta while riding with her mother. An 11-year-old, Devon McNeil, was at an anti-violence cookout in D.C. He was shot and killed.

In Chicago, a seven-year-old, Natalia Wallace, was outside her family's house during a holiday gathering. She was shot and killed. Rest in peace to all of those kids. Condolences to their family. Now, here's the thing. Natalia Wallace was outside her family's house during a holiday gathering. She was shot and killed. Rest in peace to all of those kids. Condolences to their family. Now, here's the thing. You can't have this conversation and discussion about defunding the police, abolishing the police, wanting to police our own communities, but then have things like this happen with no consequences or repercussions.

In fact, this makes the whole defund the police, abolish the police argument. Yeah, let me say that instead of defund the police. This makes the whole abolish the police argument null and void unless the perpetrators of these crimes are held accountable by the same communities that they are terrorizing. That means that what y'all call snitching

has to be repositioned as crime prevention because what happens in situations like this, those same lawless ass folks who out here just busting their guns and don't care who they hit they stay on the street and when they stay on the street it continues this cycle of ignorance that we saw in cities all across the country on fourth of july weekend and the next person that may get hit is you or somebody that you love therefore the perpetrators of these crimes have to be held accountable that That is the word of today. Accountability.

Okay. Also, I don't think for one second that the powers that be wouldn't attempt to prove a point by letting the hood get even more out of control this summer to show y'all why we need the police, to show y'all why we need law and order. There has to be law. There has to be order. But what does that look like? Well, I saw T.I. last night post this from parlay and i agree with a lot of what parlay had to say let's listen to it a lot of y'all be doing some whole ass

but a lot of y'all call y'all real if you're a real hold your partner on camera for the whole ass he do then at the end of the day if you do some whole ass you get caught for it stand on it because they're real do So with that being said, whoever shot that little girl down in that parking lot, it wasn't just, man, turn her home ass in. And I ain't talking about to the police. I'm talking about to the streets. We're gonna get street justice this time.

And if you can't teach those how to be real, not how to do whole, it's your mother's fault. So whoever wanna ride, wanna stand behind them, hey man, it's whatever, it's up. If you're a real like me, let's link up, link with me, man.

All the big homies, all the gang bangangers, all the OGs, link with me, and let's find out who this n***a is and where he at, and let's handle this n***a the street way, the way we do. We don't want the police in our business. Well, guess what? It's time for us to start policing our own n***a. It's time for us to start protecting our own communities. Now, the only reason I don't believe in street justice totally

is because street justice just leads to someone else committing a good intention crime. Then they lose their freedom or a person loses their life for what? Okay. For, for something they may see as a great cause. And it probably is a great cause, but the reality is, is just creating more bad energy. Now I am, uh, am I mad at street justice? No, but America doesn't respect street justice and they can't wait to lock our black asses up. OK, citizens arrest doesn't work for people who this country barely considers citizens. But what Pauli is saying is true because it's all rooted in accountability. It has to be accountability. We have to hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable. However you see fit to hold people accountable for these crimes, whether it's calling the same police you're trying to defund or handling it yourself, either way, nothing gets handled

unless it's some form of accountability. By the way, America, this is exactly why police need to be defunded, but not abolished. Okay, it's two different things, because if you defund the police and take some of that money out of these police budgets and invest into these poor and disenfranchised communities, then you'll be providing something these kids don't have right now, and that's hope, okay? You're not providing these kids with no opportunities, and you wonder why they feel hopeless, hopeless enough to just shoot at whoever, wherever. We acting like we're not seeing what's going on in the world. Coronavirus got the economy all messed up. Unemployment rate is high. People's money is all left up.

So imagine how the folks in the hood who've been going through hell, who are now catching it even worse than they were before, imagine how they feel. Hurt people hurt people, and the hood is hurting. So, yes, defund the police and take some of those billions, those hundreds of millions you've given police budgets, and give it to the hood. We don't need to abolish police, but we do need to have police in our communities who

understand our communities. And right now, we need people who understand that the hood needs hope, period, point blank. Let me tell you something, man. This is going to be happening all summer, okay? If you have a young person in the hood you can talk to, provide an opportunity for, do it, because this government will not. And if this government doesn't do it and we don't do it, guess what they're going to be doing? Exactly what they were doing this past 4th of July weekend, busting their gun at whoever, wherever. Okay, police officers, now is not the

time to prove a point and say, oh, y'all want to defund us, y'all want to abolish us. Well, go on and police your own communities. Now is not the time for that. But I fear that's exactly what's about to happen, so I have to do what i usually do at a time like this and that's turn to black women uh for the answers salute to erica ford she has a great idea that she's been implementing all weekend and it's a ceasefire in hoods across america and you know erica said between coronavirus and police brutality we can't be out here warring with each other and killing our own. I totally agree. Why? Because gun violence would just lead to more police in our communities. You saw they just called in the National Guard in Atlanta. They're saying it's to protect the statues. I don't think so. In Georgia, rather. Okay, not just Atlanta. And if we are really going to police and protect

our hoods, then now is the summer to start. And the only way it will happen is if we hold ourselves and others accountable. However that looks to you, do it. If you know who committed these crimes, and you want to call those same police you're trying to defund, those same police you're trying to abolish to tell on them, then do that. If you want street justice, I don't agree with that, only because I don't want y'all getting jammed up when things like that happen. But if you want street justice, I don't agree with that, only because I don't want y'all getting jammed up, you know, when things like that happen.

But if you want street justice, hey, man, do it. The key word here, though, is accountability. We have to hold our people accountable for these crimes that they are committing in our communities. Please give all these folks who was busting their guns, like it was the 4th of July because it was the biggest, y'all. Alright.

Well, let's open the phone lines up. Let's talk about it. 800-585-1051. Now, you just talked about 65 people shot in New York, 87 people shot in Chicago, 22 people shot in Atlanta. Shootings have been going up all across the country. People have been talking about defunding the police.

Yes. So what are your thoughts now on defunding the police? 800-585-1051. Well, let's separate the two, right? Because I think defunding the police is not the same as abolishing the police. And there's people who have been talking about abolishing the police and putting systems in place to police our own communities. I think there's a difference between, because I think defunding would actually work in a situation like this, because you're taking that money from the police budgets and putting them in the hood and providing these kids something they don't have, which is hope and opportunity.

See, this is the thing about defunding the police, and this is what I've been saying for a while. You can't necessarily defund the police until we know where the money's actually going. Like, they have to open up the books, and we have to see where, like in New York, where that $6 billion is going a year. We have to open up these books and say, hey, you know, if the police department has this budget,

where is this money going? And then you can figure out, okay, well, we need to take money out of here, money out of there. You just can't defund the police department has this budget, where is this money going? And then you can figure out, okay, well, we need to take money out of here, money out of there. You just can't defund the police without knowing where that money is actually going. And what I actually say is, you know, you've been watching, I'm sure you've been seeing it, and I've been seeing all the videos of people throwing rocks and bottles and, you know, cursing police officers out and this, that, and the other. It's going to make it tough. We have to get a place where we have to see the good police officers and X out the bad police officers. Because what's happening, if you're a good police officer

and you're pulling up to something where, you know, there was a shooting or there was a domestic violence call or any type of call, and when you pull up, they're throwing bottles, rocks, and all these type of things at your vehicle, would that make you want to go to the areas where these calls are being called? No. No? But that's what's going to happen is you're going to start having these governors calling in the National Guard.

And that's what you don't want. Right. Right. So let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. What's the question? What are we talking about now? You know, after seeing what happened this weekend, do you feel like abolishing the police is still a good idea? 800-585-1051. What's the question? What are we talking about now?

You know, after seeing what happened this weekend, do you feel like abolishing the police is still a good idea? Okay. Let's talk about it. Call us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Pull out your phone.

Call in right now. Call me. Add your opinion to The Breakfast Club topic. Break it down. 800-585-1051. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. the breakfast club topic break it down 800-585-1051 the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now if you just join us charlamagne gave donkey of the day to who charlamagne um everybody that was shooting this weekend you know popping shooting letting off guns like it was the

fourth of july even though it was but you know 65 people shot over the weekend in new york 87 people shot in chicago um predominantly a lot of kids 22 in chicago in atlanta kind of makes the conversation about abolishing the police you know null and void i know people like to mix up the whole defund the police and abolish the police even though the even though those are two different, like, it's kind of hard to say you want to abolish the police when these type of crimes are happening, you know, unless we're going to start holding ourselves accountable in a real way, meaning that when we know the perpetrators of these crimes, we handle it. You know, we either handle it in street justice, which I don't agree with

because that just leads to more people going to jail, or you got to call those same police that you're talking about defunding and abolishing and tell them to come do their job. Yeah, I don't believe in abolishing the police. Reason is, is you need police officers out there, as you can see what's going on in the world right now. Now, defunding the police, you know, I want to see where that money's going first. I can't say, okay, let's take the money when we don't know where the money's going for. Let's open up these these budgets and see where this money's going. And if we can move money around and we move money around. But I don't think abolishing the police is a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think you need to abolish the police either. But I do think you need to defund the police.

We don't need to abolish the police. We need to change the whole system of policing that I know. I think the only way you do that is by, you know, one of the ways you do that is by encouraging people from the hood to become police officers and giving them some kind of financial incentive to stay in those same communities they grew up in. I think that's the start. But I do think that we should defund the police because I do think we should take some of those police budgets and put them in these porn disenfranchised communities. I think that when you provide these people with more opportunity, you provide them with more hope. And when you have more hope, you won't be

so hopeless as to just start shooting wherever, whenever, and hitting whoever. Right. Well, let's go to the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Hello, who's this? Morning, morning. What's up, NB? What's up, brother?

South Carolina, baby. We out here, NB? What's up, brother? South Carolina, baby. We out here, 843. She not here. No, you know it, 803. 803 was happening. So we're talking about abolishing the police. What are your thoughts, brother? I mean, all cops is not bad cops,

but, I mean, they just need to come to agreement with things and just do a background check and get all the bad cops out of there you know I don't believe in reform for police officers because I think that you know it's like trying to reform a pitbull you know with all of these videos that we see these police officers beating people up and shooting people and all like no there's some of these guys can't be reformed. You got to get rid of them all together. All right.

Hello, who's this? Hi, it's Onyx. Hey, Onyx, good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. That is an amazing name. Thank you, like a precious stone, of course. I was thinking like a rap group, but go ahead.

My answer to the question, truthfully, I feel that it's not more so defunding the police, but I feel that people within the community should actually become the police officers. I live in a community. I've lived there my entire life. And I see police officers who I've never seen before. You know, I don't recognize them. I live close to a military town.

And we have a lot of people who retire from the military and then they become police officers. And then, you know what I mean, being in that environment, from the military environment to, you know, not knowing the environment, not knowing the people of the community, I feel like that contributes to a lot of the issues that we come across, truthfully. I just feel like us as a community, we should involve ourselves more. I do agree with you, Charlamagne, as far as not really street justice being the answer, because that causes more issues for us. You know what I mean? That causes more provocation for people to be able to do things to us because we want to react in certain ways. So I feel that the people in the community should step up more by becoming the police officers for their communities. I don't feel that they should let people who don't know, you know, anyone that comes around.

Like, there are a lot of people, my aunt, you know, I live in a country, country town. So my aunt, she was a candy lady. You know what I mean? So it's like, if you don't know the candy lady or if you don't know the young boy down the street to know, you know, that he's going through to understand his thought process then you're going to potentially see him as a threat and but if you know him then there's going to be a little more leeway you know what i mean there's going to be more resistance in a way to to treat them in a different way because you know these people and i just feel that as a community we really should become the police officers. That's how I feel. Onyx, I couldn't agree with you more.

I believe that wholeheartedly. I think that one of the ways you make the relationship between the police and the civilians better is by encouraging people from the hood to become police officers. But you've got to give them some type of financial incentive. I don't know if it's free housing or you pay them more, but you got to pay these people to become police officers and stay in those same communities they grew up in. That has to happen. All right. Well, thank you,

Mama. 800-585-1051. Are you calling me Mama? You calling me Mama? Are you talking to Onyx? I was talking to Onyx. I just was the last person talking. You said, well, no, but you said, well, thank you, Mama. I don't know who you're talking maybe i was talking i ain't seen you in a while i ain't seen you in a while you finally got a haircut that much now you finally got a haircut you miss me that much maybe i'll talk about you i don't mind being called mama

800-585-1051 now charlamagne gave uh people out there donkey today for all these shootings we've been seeing and the the conversation came up about abolishing the police. Do you still think we should abolish the police? Is that still a thought? Is that something you've been thinking about? Call us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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Come on. 800-585-1051. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, Charlamagne gave Donkey the day to who, Charlamagne? Everybody that was busting their guns this weekend, you know, hitting all of these random children, killing all of these random children.

65 shot in New York, 87 shot in Chicago, 8-year-old girl shot in Atlanta, 11-year-old shot in D.C., a 7-year-old shot in Chicago. Come on, man. So we're asking 800-585-1051 with all these conversations. People are saying abolish the police. Do you guys still think we should abolish the police? Hello, who's this? This is Donald from Beaufort, South Carolina. Hey, Donald.

Good morning. Hey, morning. We're talking about people are still saying abolish the police. What are your thoughts? I kind of agree with what you say, DJ Andrew. We can't abolish the police. I think we need to, like you say, open up the books, see where the money is going and use that money

that's not properly going to training the police. Because I think a lot of the problems is when you get some of these police officers, particularly white police officers going to black neighborhoods, I think off the jump they're scared because they're not properly trained. They don't know how to interact in certain neighborhoods. They don't know how to deal with a certain situation, and they're going into that situation not properly trained.

I'm the child of police officers. My mom and dad were police officers for over 30 years. You know, so I have a better insight of, you know, how to properly police, how the police should be. And I know you guys in New York, you know, a lot of times you see, probably growing up, is the police were walking their feet. You don't see that anymore. Absolutely. You don't see that anymore. Absolutely.

You don't see the police in that neighborhood relating to the people, you know, being part of the neighborhood. So I think that's what some of that money, when you open up these books in these neighborhoods, need to go to. Like, make any police officers get back out there and walk, you know. You know, do what you're paid to do. You know, interact with the neighborhoods, you know, white or black, you know, be part of the neighborhood. Have the black police officers in the white neighborhoods. Interact with them.

Maybe they can start to, you know, understand you know, the perspective of a black person in America. Just a lot of things, but I don't think abolishing the police is going to solve the problem. I think it's going to make it worse. You know what I mean? Okay. Alright. Well, thank you, brother. Listen, I think that you have to

defund the police, though, especially in cities like New York City, where the budget is six billion dollars. You take some of that money out of these police budgets, you invest into these poor and disenfranchised communities, then you'll be providing something these kids don't have right now. And that's hope. Like you're not providing these kids with no opportunities. And then you wonder why they feel hopeless enough to just shoot, you know, at whoever, wherever, whenever. Like we acting like we don't see what the hell is happening out here in these streets okay so the fund the police take some of that money put it back into the communities and as far as like you know reforming the police i don't think you can reform the police i think it's like reforming a pit bull so what we should be doing is encouraging uh people from our communities to become police officers and providing them some

type of financial incentive to actually police their own communities, to be going to law enforcement, going to the academy, then come back home and police their own communities. Yeah, I agree with you. I think, you know, we have to police our own community. You have to be in the community. You have to know who these kids are, who, you know, who the community is. And I also feel like you just can't defund the police without necessarily knowing where that money's going. We have to open up the books and see where that money's going first. Of course, police officers don't get paid a lot of money. So, you know, it's not going to police salaries, but where's that money going to? And, and how can we stop that? I don't think it's right if, and I'm not, and I'm not saying this is true, but I don't think this is right. If the police

department gets sued and that budget that they get from the government goes to the, to pay it off those people. I don't think that's right. i don't think that's right i don't think that's right that's taxpayer money that's part of um that's that's part of disqualifying qualified immunity if i'm not mistaking yes because qualify if you get if you get rid of qualified immunity then that means police officers will be held financially accountable, responsible. Yeah. And I think that they should like that happen. I think that they should, for instance, the officer that killed George Floyd. Like, I don't think that when the family sues and the family gets money from that, I don't think it should come from taxpayers money.

I think it should come from him. Absolutely. I think he should be able to take his house, take his pension. I agree. These police officers should be facing the threat of prison or their pensions taken. Pensions or prisons? Which one? I guarantee you when you're out there in those streets, you will think twice about whatever it is that you do when you know you have the possibility of losing either one of those things. Alright. When we come back,

we got room to report. We got to talk about 50 Cent and T.I. again. Charlamagne and I have been arguing behind the scenes. Let's talk about 50 Cent and T.I. again. Charlamagne and I have been arguing behind the scenes. Let's talk about the challenge that T.I. put out there, and we'll talk about it when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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It's The Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club. Now, T.I. wished 50 Cent a happy birthday, but also he put out a challenge. Let's listen. For your birthday, I offer you a challenge, sir. Pull your ass up, man, with 20 of your records, man. Sit cross for me, man, and get this work, man. You know what I'm saying?

But I understand if you don't want to answer to that challenge, because last time you got challenged, Kanye West dusted your ass off. So you might not want to do that. So, well, bring your ass on that. Bring your records. Bring your hit records with you. You and Dr. Dre and Eminem and all y'all. Goddamn the G-Unit.

All y'all. Bring y'all ass on that. Come on, see the king. Listen, man, I already told y'all 50 Cent. I love 50 Cent. I love everything 50 Cent is about when it comes to his business. But in that versus, versus T.I., y'all know I'm on record as saying T.I. is one of my top five to seven favorite rappers of all time.

I think T.I. washes 50 Cent in a versus battle. No way. It'll be a great battle. No way. A great battle. And how do you say that? We're picking 20 songs, right? 20 songs.

You're the same guy that said Fabulous was going to watch Jada. You said it was going to be close. It wasn't even close, Envy. I didn't say Fab was going to watch Jada. You said it was Jada. It was closer than, yes. But Fab also missed a lot of records. It was 17-3.

He didn't play a little more. He didn't play a lot of that. It was 17-3. He didn't play a little more. He didn't play a lot of that. But that's not that. This is this. Poor Little Rich. What up, Gangsta? Patiently waiting. Many men in the club.

Whip your head if I can't. P-I-M-P. 21 questions. Wangsta. I get money. Hated to love it. So seductive. Window shopping.

We can go back down. We can go have a baby by me. We can go magic stick. We can go crack a bottle by me. We can go magic stick. We can go crack a bottle. We can do still will. There's so many joints. We can go candy shop. Now I'm at 13. I'm the man, 14. Ghetto Quran, 15. Life on the Line, 16. The Joints with

Joe, 17. He got joints. Dale for me, Jeremiah, 18. You know what, I'm sorry, that's 28 right there. I just named. 28 joints. 28. If you take out eight of them because you said eight of them was a little too poppy-ish. 20 hard joints right there. I'm sorry, it's no watch.

Where do you want to go with T.I.? You can go with Swagger Like Us, What's Up, What's Happening, Whatever You Like, Live Your Life, Top Back. Top Back, I'm talking to you. What you know about that? Bring them out. You don't know me ASAP Motivation

Look what I got Rubber band man 24s Be easy Let's get away Doing my job Dead and gone What do you want to do?

You want to do features? You want to go into features? Let's do some features That's 20-20 I'm saying that's 20 But don't say my man ain't got 20 joints It ain't going to be no wash I think 50 actually will win this one

I didn't say 50 don't got 20 I didn't say 50 don't got 20 I'm just saying 50 got 20 It's not going to be no wash. I think 50 actually will win this one. I didn't say 50 don't got 20. I didn't say 50 don't got 20. I'm just saying. 50 got 20. It's not going to be a wash. And I think 50 gets this one. When you put together T.I.'s whole catalog, features, and his own catalog, come on, man.

It's not even close. It's really not. I agree. I think 50 easily gets this one. And by the way People People will remember And that's the beauty About the verses They will remember

When those songs Are playing like Oh shoot That was my joint Yeah Cause really we're talking About five albums Versus one

No That's not true That's not true I named a bunch Of other stuff Off a bunch of albums Yeah you got You got about seven joints

Of one album But then you got A whole other, like, I Get Money, Candy Shop, Window Shopping, Hated to Love, It's So Seductive, How to Rob, We Could Go Mixtape, How to Rob, Ghetto Quran, Life's on the Line, Baby By Me, Magic Stick. All those wasn't on the same album.

But, I mean, my man's album is just so good. You got to put, he had 12 hits off that one album. Ho, ho. You just said, that's your queen's's bias because I love Ghetto Quran, but Ghetto Quran is not ringing off in no verses. Okay? And you know that. That's over the 20.

That's just bonus joints. Ghetto Quran and Life on the Line, that's bonus joint. I just do that as a bonus. I'm the man. That's bonus. That's bonus. So if you want to do bonus with T.I., you could do Ain't I. You could do Shoulder Lean.

You could do Bang Off Jeezy album, you could do My Love off Justin Timberlake, you could do Blurred Lines off Robin Thicke. Like, bro, T.I. got joints. And so does 50. And so does 5th. It'd be a good battle. I hope it does happen. It ain't about

the money and big bopping. I ain't even get to none of that stuff like that. I ain't even touch none of those. It would be a good battle. And hopefully that does happen. Now, Terry Crews. Now, Terry Crews was on Don Lemon and he had some things to say. He doubled down on some of the comments that he made.

Can we play those comments? What I was issuing was a warning. When you have the leaders of the Black Lives Movement who are now talking about, you know, if we don't get our demands, we're going to burn it down. Other black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races, they're being viewed as sellouts. And I viewed it as a very, very dangerous self-righteousness that was developing that really viewed themselves as better. It was almost a supremacist move. Their black lives mattered a lot more than mine.

I have no idea what the hell Terry Crews is talking about. He has the right to his opinion and people have the right to tell him shut the F up forever. But I really don't know what the hell he be talking about. Me neither. I haven't figured it out and I don't even know why he continues to talk. Just leave it alone. Yeah. All right.

Well, I don't even, to be honest with you, I don't care. I don't care know why he continues to talk. Just leave it alone. Yeah, I don't even, to be honest with you, I don't care what he's talking about, but I do know I saw him trying to take Cat Williams' booty on Friday after next on VH1 this weekend. I don't know why I forgot about that movie, but I was watching VH1 this weekend because VH1 was rerunning a lot of the old black stuff. And yeah, when Terry Crews just straight up tried to take William,

had to put the pliers to his b****** and told him, you was just going to take it. Terry Crews was like, tried to take him, had to put the pliers in his balls, and told him, you was just going to take it? Terry Crews was like, there's a fish on the line. Goodness gracious. All right. It's called Friday After Next. Cultural context matters, people. Yes.

Yes, it does. Because at one point, that was a perfectly fine thing to write in a script and get greenlit to put in a movie. Goodness gracious. But rape is rape. I don't care if it's man on man, man on woman, woman on woman. Cruz is trying to take Cat Williams' booty on Friday after next. Okay, and Cat Williams had to defend himself.

My goodness. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. They still took the pliers off him, and the movie ends with Terry Crews still chasing after Cat Williams trying to take his booty. Goodness gracious. It seems like you watched it a, trying to take his booty. Goodness gracious. It seems like you watched it a couple of times. All right. All right.

Up next is the People's Choice Mix. Get your request and let me know what you want to hear. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club.

We got a special guest on the line. We reached out to the brother this morning, but he's reaching back right now. David John, good morning brother. Good morning brother. How's it going? Still treading water. Still got a lot of work to do. So we had a conversation this morning

we were talking about Halle Berry. Halle Berry, you know, she was supposed to play a transgender in a movie, but after receiving backlash, she decided that she wasn't going to do it and apologized. So we had the conversation this morning about Halle Berry not doing it and, you know, asking people's opinions. So, you know, since you're from the community, we wanted somebody from the community to answer, see what were your thoughts on it? I think in the same way that we have applauded actors who have done Boyz II Blackings of gender because we have not moved past this very surface level point in the conversation. And so I celebrate Halle Berry and I hope that we also not only talk about this role and this opportunity, but the fact that five black trans women have died in the last week alone. That is a problem. And it's one that we still aren't talking enough about,

let alone not doing enough about. So that's all the more reason that representation matters. Yeah, and for anybody who is unclear about this, I would really encourage you to take the time and watch the documentary Disclosure. It is a powerful documentary. It's out on Netflix now. It's got a number of diverse, actually, presentation on people with trans experience, and it helps us to understand that the way that we all have been trained to respond to transness, often to either laugh at a trans body or to be repulsed by a trans body. I don't know if you all thought about this, but

remember the film Ace Ventura, Pet Detective? Nobody might think about it now in the way that it talks about, in a repulsing way, transness. Not transness being repulsing, but the way that they talk about it in the film. But the entire last scene in the film

is about him being disgusted, Ace Ventura, the pet detective, that he had a romantic encounter with someone who's trans. And it's incredibly vexing because after that presentation, there might not be trans representation on TV. But when you think about the fact that we have been taught by watching that film, it's a favorite film for a lot of people, that the way we respond to transness, we repulse.

That's something that we've been trained over time. And I'm hoping that people in this moment, when it feels like every day, every week, another black trans woman is dying, while people are literally risking their lives to protest, to demand that we acknowledge that all black lives matter, that this stuff is constructed. These are messages that we've been fed, and we have the opportunity to appreciate that and to think about different messages, to rethink gender, to rethink how we hold space for each other,

and in particular, that, like, gender is not just your genitalia. I've said it a couple of times, including on this platform, gender is assigned at birth, and I need for grown-ass boys in particular who are acting like they're men because they have toxic masculinity and issues that they need to work through in therapy to spend some time with this and to hold space for people for whose humanity is valuable and should be valued.

All right. You know, David, I just got a question. That's why we needed your expert opinion. Now, you know, but what about, you know, when some actors like Will Smith played a gay person in a movie? What about when actors play those positions? Do you feel like actors shouldn't play those positions as well? Equally as problematic. So the two things for me are like, at some point, this becomes challenging because the question is, how do you know that a person is gay unless you slept with them? Right. Which, which, again, at some point we need to evolve past the way that we either talk about this and we're restricted based on language.

And again, I watched Will Smith's Six Degrees of Separation. It was a powerful portrayal. And it is also the case that there are exceptionally talented actors who are also queer and people of color who could also play that role. My friends and I were having this debate last night. I like Insecure. As a black man from England, California, I appreciate it. There's nothing else the way that they're memorializing South Central

LA. I don't understand why they decided to write a gay character and then not have a gay man play him. And so it's complicated. It's not that easy. At some point, we should be talking about people being exceptionally talented who are allowed to demonstrate that talent. And it is also the case that representation

matters. But you know, even with the case with Will Smith, at the time, Will Smith, the reason I asked Will Smith at the time, Will Smith was the biggest actor in the world. So like you said, to play a character like that was powerful. No, he wasn't. He wasn't at that time? No, he wasn't.

He wasn't? No, that was his first role. That was his first movie role. That was his first role, yeah. It was his first commercial. It was his first commercial role in that regard, right? But that notwithstanding, some of this is about us not allowing people to flourish, to to go back to where we were there's a glad media uh statistic

that says that more than 80 percent of people say that they do not know somebody who is trained and so most people are introduced to transness via tv and most storylines around trans identity are about trans folks either doing sex work or being murdered without the context to help people appreciate why it is that like black trans folks are often forced into sex work. That's not to say that everybody's forced into it. Some people choose to do it, but there are socially constructed conditions like y'all's president changing laws to deny trans folks access to health care. That is intentional.

Just two weeks ago, the Supreme Court said based on a title seven decision, something in civil rights law that you cannot fire people based on actual or perceived sexual identity, gender orientation, or expression. That's a law that says that today you can't fire somebody. There are a whole lot of people in this country who don't know shit about that law or the fact that you shouldn't fire somebody. And it is still legal in so many states in this country to fire somebody, or not to fire somebody, but to deny somebody housing. Or to deny them access to public services like gas stations or hospitals or restaurants these are real life challenges that make people's lived experiences complicated and and the minimum we can do is allow for diverse representations of people's experiences to exist on screen such that

when people encounter people who are different, that difference is celebrated and not seen as something that needs to be killed or controlled or otherwise met with violence. That is absolutely true. My man, David Johns, we appreciate you. Thank you for checking in there. We tried to get you in earlier, but we figured you were sleeping. But thank you for checking in and calling us back every time we call.

Yeah, no, doing the work again. And I would encourage folks to look at our website, mbjc.org. We are trying to chronicle and document as much as we can. But again, in the last week, five days, we are not, we're just five days out since, quote, Pride Month. We've lost five of our sisters, one of them, a 17-year-old girl in Arkansas, a black girl, who was murdered. And there's no f***ing excuse for it. Again, not while black trans women, black queer folks, all black folks are talking about how our lives matter. All of our lives have to matter, and I hope that we get this right. All right. Well, thank you, David John. Appreciate you for checking in. Get a website again, David, because it was like a static.

I appreciate it. mbjc.org, the National Black Justice Coalition. You can also find most of what I'm talking about on our digital platforms, MBJC, on the move. All right. All right. Well, thank you so much for checking in. 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. Now, Charlamagne, you got a positive note? Listen, before we get to the positive note, I just want to salute everybody in Charleston, South Carolina. This Friday and Saturday, I will be doing COVID-19 no-cost testing event,

same one like I did in Columbia a couple of weeks ago, but we will be providing free COVID-19 testing this Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Trident Technical College Thornley Campus. Okay? Everyone will be tested, and everybody will receive a free COVID-19 supply kit, which comes with a mask and gloves and hand sanitizer and all the stuff you just need to stay safe out here, man. So this Friday and Saturday from 10 to 3 p.m., Tridenton Technical College, Thornley Campus in Charleston, South Carolina.

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