The Breakfast Club - "Don't Use It Against Me" Part 2 + Tezlyn Figaro and Brandon Dixon Interview

Episode Date: June 13, 2022

Tezlyn Figaro stop by to speak about the January 6th Hearings, Joe Biden's Lies, The Importance Of Voting, and more. They also had Brandon Dixon and Director Thomas Eromose Ikimi stop by to speak on their new film 88. We opened the phone lines to allow our listeners to nominate someone for "Donkey of the Day". See 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.

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Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, happy Monday. We are back for the work week. Y'all excited on a Monday? Now, once again, Envy has disappeared.

I don't know why he keeps doing that. Charlamagne is off from work today. I feel like all three of us have not been in the same place at once. So there you have it. And a lot of activity over the weekend. I know there were a lot of events going down. The Puerto Rican Day Parade happened. Shout out to Angie Martinez and Fat Joe.

I saw them on the float out here. I think, when's the last time they had a Puerto Rican Day Parade? It's been a minute, right? Oh, they had it last year? I thought they didn't have it last year. I thought, for some reason in my head with COVID and everything, it wasn't a lot of things going on, but alright.

Well, everybody's talking about COVID and how it might just be like the common cold and all the different variants. Easy. Oh, hey, Envy. Welcome back to work. You're just strolling in here. Why would you wait until right when we're going Hey, Yeezy. Oh, hey, Envy. Welcome back to work. You're just strolling in here. My morning, my cliff ball. Why would you wait until right when we're going back up? I asked him.

When you were the main one that said you were gone way longer than two minutes. I wasn't gone no longer than two minutes. Right. Was he gone longer than two minutes? Yeah. Oh, my bad. I went to get my water and my cliff ball. This guy just came strolling.

Hey, what's up? Hey, what's up, guys? It's not a regular job where you could just stroll in. We're on the actual air. I went to the bathroom to get something to eat. There's no interns. So you went to the bathroom and you went to get something to eat, but that took you two minutes. It was fast. It was a quick pee. It doesn't add up.

Goodness gracious. Well. You know you don't have to. Well, Charlemagne is out, so if you want to give donkey the day to somebody, you can. 800-585-1051. Yes. Whoever you want to give donkey to, your mama, your daddy, your baby daddy, somebody you work with, a friend. It doesn't matter. Whoever you want to give donkey to, your mama, your daddy, your baby daddy, somebody you work with, a friend, it doesn't matter. Whoever you want to give donkey of the day to, 800-585-1051.

It's so funny. You said that it's gay pride month. You said Charlemagne is out. You said that. We were talking about that. All right. Well, we got rumors on the way. What are we talking about?

Yes, and we are going to be talking about Roddy Ricch. You know, he was arrested for gun possession. We'll tell you what happened. All right. We'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's about time.

What's going on? Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is The Rumor Report. Talk to him. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Justin Bieber posted a video to let people know why he's not able to perform. He's had to postpone his tour.

And it's because he has a rare neurological disorder that can cause facial paralysis called Ramsey-Hunt syndrome. Here's what he said. As you can probably see from my face, I have this syndrome called Ramsey-Hunt syndrome. And it is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis. So for those who are frustrated by my cancellations of the next shows, I'm just physically obviously not capable of doing them. But obviously my body's telling me I got to slow down. I'm doing all these facial exercises to get my face back to normal. It's just time, and we don't know how much time that's going to be. It's a complication from the same virus that causes shingles and chicken pox,

and you can get rashes around your face, hearing loss, one-sided facial paralysis. They said it typically takes about three weeks to fully recover, and it's mostly in adults over 60, and rarely is it experienced by children, they said. Oddly, I know two people that this has actually happened to. It took longer than three weeks. One person, it took three weeks for it to heal,

and the other person took months. And then after they finally started to heal from it, they actually got COVID. So I know two people that it's actually happened to. And like you said, the side of your face is pretty much paralyzed like we can't with your eye looks crazy you can't move it's hard to chew it's crazy yeah he said it's been hard for him to eat I know people who have Bell's palsy but I've never heard of Ramsey what's Bell's palsy that's

that's been like when it's another kind of like I guess a muscle disorder with one side of your face okay you know maybe that's what they had maybe they didn't have your face. Okay. You know. Maybe that's what they had. Maybe they didn't have one. I think that's a lot more common. That's what they had, Bell's Palsy. You just mixed stuff up. What's wrong with you? I definitely did. But I heard the paralyzed on half of your face.

So I thought that was. Yeah, that's Bell's Palsy also. Sorry. Sorry for the people that I know. I just gave you a disease. Diagnosed it or something else. Sorry. All right.

Now, Saucy Santana. There were some tweets that resurfaced about Beyonce and Blue Ivy. So somebody had, and these are old tweets from 2014. Somebody wrote, I just want to be Blue Ivy. And he responded, nappy-headed or. And then somebody else said, I'm sorry, but Northwest Clear is Blue Ivy. Has several car seats blue. And he responded, just said this yesterday.

Then people were coming for him on social media and saucy santana was very clear to it'd be the people in the comments trying to force you to apologize or say sorry to who to y'all if i did something to offend someone i should apologize to them not you bitches told y'all y'all think got power over people but go ahead and then he said stop all that cap trying to ruin people's careers because you at home miserable and broke. I was miserable and broke too, making childish, hateful tweets in 2014. I'm 28 years old, a grown-ass adult,

a completely different mindset on life from when I was 20, but y'all knew that celebrities are human, not robots, and they for damn sure ain't perfect. I still talk about it a bit like a dog to this day, not publicly because my opinion matters to a lot of people now. I be chilling. I don't even insert myself

in ish that don't involve me. Y'all gonna leave Saucy alone. And then he said, fake woke ass bitches. People don't care about old tweets. The internet had this weird thing with power thinking they had the power to cancel someone.

News flash, you don't. Y'all be thinking y'all have someone by the balls about situations you don't give a damn about. And Saucy Santana, by the way, was also performing in Houston over the weekend. And here's how it went.

What a stanko! What a stanko! Houston, hold up! Tell them, Saucy! Walk, walk, walk! He was doing the uh-oh dance in Houston. They was going crazy. We didn't hear nobody booing.

That's right. Show them how to walk, too, Saucy. Show them how to walk too, Saucy. Show them how to walk. Walk. Alright, Envy, sit down. Sit down, Envy. Walk. Show them how to walk. Walk. Alright, sorry. I'm appalled. Alright. Well, that is your rumor

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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. Bullets.

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It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember now, that's how they choose. Call in now, 800-585-1051. Hello, who's this? This is Vic Marlin from Hampton, Virginia, 757. Hey, Chu, what up, man? Hey, dog, girl, 757. Hey, Chew, what up, man? Hey, doggo. What's up, Henry?

What's up, G? What up? Who you giving your donkey to? I want to give my donkey today to all the daddies out there that's not taking care of their kids. Okay. There you go. Tell him. Hey, hey, hey. I hate to do this, but I got to get one more donkey, man.

Can I get one more? Go ahead, brother. We got to give a donkey to my man Pharrell for taking something in the water from a DC, man. Nah. Nah, you can't. Nah, you can't. That hurt, man. That hurt. Let's talk about the reason why. You know the reason why he did it.

It's a lot more water in the state of Virginia if he's gay. Nah. It's a lot more water. I mean, his family member got killed, and he's having problems with the police out there. So it didn't feel right for him. So he moved it. And it's not that far.

It's only two hours away, brother. Three hours away. Three hours away. You should give donkey of the day to the police officers that's, you know, making things difficult for him. And you know, Pharrell, there's so much for the community. What's up, brother? Hey, Evie, when you've been going to school here, there's water.

We could have did it on a peninsula. We could have did it in Richmond. We could have did it anywhere else in the state that has nothing to do with it. Nah, just Pharrell ain't messing with VA right now. So he said we're going to move it down a little bit, and then when they get things right, he'll move it right back. It's only two and a half hours away, bro. So punish the state for what Virginia Beach did is what you're saying.

He's punishing Virginia. So punish the state for what Virginia Beach did, is what you're saying. He's punishing Virginia. Yeah, the state. The legal system. He doesn't want the state to make any money off of him until they figure out what they should do and do it the right way. I'm not mad at that. That's like artists when something happens to something in the state and the artist is like, I'm not going back to the state. Yeah, it affects the people too, but hopefully change will happen

because of that. Alright, well, D.C. police ain't the best in the world, so okay, good luck with that. You're right. Have a good one, brother. Thank y'all. Love you. All right, brother.

Hello, who's this? Yo, what's up? What up, what up? What's up, Ahmad? Who you want to give your donkey to, brother? Man, I kind of want to give it to you on the cool.

Why you want to give it to me? Man, because I kind of been waiting on my car show tickets since like April, bro. You said what? I said kind of been waiting on my car show tickets since like April, bro. You said what? I said I've been waiting on my car show tickets since like April. Wow, and it's June now. What's going on?

You won tickets on there? It's Sunday. Yeah, you gave them to me back in April. Right. And what's the problem? And I told you when you won the tickets. Well, the car show is this Sunday in Houston at the NRG Stadium. Of course, Houston versus New York. And I told you your name won the tickets. Well, the car show was this Sunday in Houston at the NRG Stadium. Of course, Houston versus New York.

And I told you your name is on a list. We don't have physical tickets anymore. He wants physical tickets. We don't do physical tickets anymore. He wants physical tickets, Envy. He won physical tickets and he wants them. Even when you buy tickets on a ticket master event price, they email you to scan the barcode.

I told you your name is there. I don't know. This sounds shitey to me. I wouldn't want to just show up without tickets hoping that my name is there. I don't know. This sounds shitey to me. I wouldn't want to just show up without tickets hoping that my name is there. The dude took all my information. I was thinking I was waiting on something. He said, I'm going to send it over shortly. No.

Your name is on. We have a list of people that won tickets, and your name will be on that list. He can't get no e-ticket confirmation? There is no e-ticket. Y'all got to step it up. Come on, man. Mercedes and my manager, June, will be at the door. You pull right up.

We want you to be able to print something out, at least. No, we ain't printing nothing up. Paper's expensive. Okay. Hey, I'll pull up, man. But, hey, I don't want to be looking crazy. I'm going to have to find you if they tell me they turn me around or something. You're going to be at the door like, I'm on the list.

Hello, who's this? Yes, sir. Who you want to give Donkey to? I'm on the list. Hello, who's this? Yes, sir. Who you want to give donkey to? I want to give it to Angela Yee. Why? Well, last week she gave this young lady some very, very bad advice about her baby daddy taking his kid over somewhere to the other lady's house while she was out of town. Okay, yeah, he didn't even check with her. He just did it without even checking in with her.

She had no idea. Well, she had an idea because she said her other lady already got a bad relationship. For them to have a bad relationship, they had to meet at some point.

No, she said that she did not even know until he told her after she came back after he already took her child over there. Well, stop giving bad advice, she. I don't know if that was bad advice.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if it's okay for somebody to just randomly take my child to some woman's house who don't like me. Yeah, I wasn't paying attention. All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can vent at any time.

Now, when we come back, Teslin Figueroa will be joining us. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

We got a special guest in the building. The host of the Straight Shot No Chaser podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. Teslin Figueroa. Welcome. Teslin Figueroa. Thank you. You forgot to say Hood Whisperer. I didn't say it?

No. I thought I said The Hood Whisperer. Okay, I'm sorry. hood whisperer okay i'm sorry the hood whisperer tesla you name me this what teslan is here man and you know there's nobody that breaks down politics in a digestible way that the regular everyday average hood can understand like teslan so tell us about this january 6th hearing committee why all of a sudden is it all this pomp and circumstance? It's all over TV. It's all over the news. What are they trying to get out of this situation? That's a great question.

Probably a better question for our elected officials. We do know that everything is strategic when we look at midterms and things coming up and bumping that back up. I actually believe, though, they have been investigating and looking at the data and looking at the facts and going through the information that is a long process i'm not making excuses because you know i don't make excuses politicians at all um but a lot of uh the evidence gathering i do believe you know took longer even though we can see with our eyes what happened just like when we talk about police reform police brutality we see what happens but there's still evidence that has to come into that but to be honest with you and you know me personally, the January 16 to me was just white folks, white folk.

I mean, just to be honest, you and I, we talk a lot about that. That has not been one of the things that I've just been following. Just to be honest with you, I'm more concerned with the issues of black America. And I just believe that most black folks, even though I know that is a, you know, what they did can, can lead to other things. Most black folks are not really talking about January 6th,

probably the way that some people think that they should, because it's just not affecting their everyday life. So I, it's just not something that I just. Why are you investigating? And that's what I'm, I'm confused by because you got a lot of them that was been convicted already. So why are they investing? What are they trying to do?

We have members of Congress that they said could possibly have been involved. True. Well, somebody always is involved. It's a system. That's why we call it systematic racism. It's never just one person. Our damn show now when it's time for black folks to go to jail. 94 crime bill to be exact. It's always a conspiracy. It's always somebody that is behind somebody and behind somebody. The key is the question is really getting down, you know, getting that information, getting down to it, having the facts to actually prosecute and win. I don't really have a lot of faith in that process, to be honest with you. I don't have a lot of faith in the system itself.

So as far as I'm concerned, white folks, white folk, and that's about my only comment I have on that. Well, you don't have any faith in the system, but the midterms is right around the corner. Yeah. Should Democrats have any faith that they can keep the House and the Senate? No, they're going to get slaughtered. Wow. That's just the bottom line. Very similar to my hand.

They're going to get slaughtered, period, end of discussion. But I've been talking about... Republicans in 7 or 6? I talk about it like it's an NBA series. Oh, yeah, no. I say Republicans in seven or six. No, no, no. It's a complete wipeout. Sweet.

Wow. But again, this was the sweep that happened in 2010 when I left the Democrat Party. And a lot of folks just weren't paying attention. I say all the time, Trump was the best and worst thing to me that happened to black people because people started paying attention. I've been talking about this for years. A lot of people have. But I'm just saying my own personal story.

I got the tapes to prove it. When I left the Democrat Party in 2010 is because they up after 2008. You had the motivation. You had the movement. You had all of this energy and you did nothing with it. So what Trump did, because he made it entertaining, he made it a reality show. Folks started paying attention. And so after you saw Trump doing all of the stuff that, yes, was fascist, yes, an abuse of the Constitution. did because he made it entertaining he made it a reality show folks started paying attention and so

after you saw trump doing all the stuff that yes was fascist yes and abuse of the constitution now people saying well joe biden why you why can't you do it why don't you get gangster like that he even said i believe earlier this week or last week you know jimmy camo yeah i don't want to abuse the constitution that way well we want you to abuse the constitution in that way at the end of the day you have to or you, you owe your voters something for their vote. And the problem I tell people with this, and people say, oh, give him time, and he can't do this

and do that. Then why did you lie about it while you're running? That's my main thing. Nobody asks you to volunteer a lie. Nobody. You know, I talk about it often, being in the family, being in the room when he called George Floyd's family. Nobody in the family said, hey, can you pass legislation? You know, what are you going to do?

He volunteered that lie. So when you run for office, like I always talk about pimps, politicians, and pastors have a very similar speech, the way they give me, you, us. When you volunteer that lie, and then you do not deliver, and then you say, well, I can't do it. Well, you knew that when you volunteered the lie. Joe Biden's been in office for 40-plus years. He knows he needs Congress. You know that. So if you knew that, why didn't you say that? But the pimp game is all about tapping into folks

emotions, making them believe in this hope that doesn't exist instead of being realistic. They still have not figured out that if you deal with somebody straight shot, no chase, if you give it to them real and say, you know what? I can't really do this, but I'm going to do that. And you just and you set the expectations realistic. People say, OK, that makes sense. It's the blatant, flat out lie. And Joe Biden, again, I'll give it down. Who don't like it? Joe Biden used that year where emotions were very high because of 2020, you know, with all of the protests going on everywhere because of COVID.

And he used that as an opportunity to win because he's ran two times before that. And so my issue with that is just, it's really just the honesty, Charlamagne. It's the volunteer life. I mean, nothing's worse than a volunteer. How do you tell people at this day and age to go out and vote, right? Yeah. What do you tell them? What do you tell them?

Because you see what's happened and you see every time people go out there and vote, it seems like when you tell them? What do you tell them? Because you see what's happening. You see every time people go out there and vote, it seems like when they get in office, they change sides immediately. Well, my thing is, and Glaze brought that up, one of the things I'm here to talk about, text 66866. Okay.

Text, push the line. What I have decided to do, what I've done for years, training hundreds of folks every year. This time we're going to do it in Atlanta, Georgia, September 10th. The beautiful Cobb Center. Nobody has to it in Atlanta, Georgia, September 10th. The beautiful Cobb Center. Nobody has to pay a dime, not even for your lunch. I want to train about 300 people, candidates, operatives, and organizers in order to run your city. So to answer a question, I don't tell people who to vote for. I don't tell them what party to align themselves with. I am independent. What I do is say, get in the game and do something. And so to

me, that is on the local and the state level, the federal level. It is what it is. At the end of the day, the local and state really does matter. Your city commissioner, you know, your state rep, your state senator, not U.S., your mayor. You're talking about five or six people, typically in small cities that make decisions. And so when you have influence there and you can show that, hey, I can organize a thousand people, I can get 500 people, you know, to align with my message, that's where, you know, you're able to get more of a result. So to me, it's not about necessarily just voting.

It's who you're voting for. And so I tell the homies all the time, if you don't like how they move it, then let's stop chasing them and replace them. Get in the game. Run for precinct chair. Run for dog catch. I don't give a damn what it is. Do something.

And so as long as you're doing that, even if you're doing it to be a disruptor, everybody's not going to win. The first session that I'm doing is teaching you how do you define your win. It can't just be about the win. It could be to disrupt. It could be to have a movement. It could be to get a message out. Whatever it is, I've worked with countless candidates who have won with nothing

in their pocket, felons, arrested multiple candidates who have won with nothing in their pocket. Felons arrested multiple times because they got out there and hustled. Your hustle will beat an incumbent if you out there doing what you should be doing. So that's what I'm about. I'm trying to get people organized. I'm tired of talking people about, oh, we got to do this and do that. Tired of talking about the federal level. Let's talk about the state and the local. We have more with Teslin Figueroa when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max.

You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. 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. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel.

I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tried my country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory.

I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? 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. all people to hopefully create better allies. Think of it as a black show for non-black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly.

Whether you're black, Asian, white, Latinx, indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable, and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters, and we're inviting you to join us for Civic Cipher each and every Saturday with myself, Ramses Jha, Q Ward, and some of the greatest minds in America. Listen to Civic Cipher every Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, because we've got a ghoulishly good lineup ready for you. Let's just say things get a bit extra. We're talking spirits, demons, and the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make your spooky season complete. You know how much I love this time of year. It's the one time I'm actually on trend.

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Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Teslin Figaro. Charlamagne? So why should, you know, black people, young voters, like, why should we be encouraged to vote in the midterms? Or even in 2024, like why should we be encouraged to vote in the midterms or even in 2024? Like, yeah, I talk about so we have voter suppression and then we have voter depression. And some people are just simply not encouraged to vote. I mean, period.

They don't see the difference in their life. But I encourage people, though, to talk to your city council person. Why are they not making the difference in your life? They're the ones that have access to be able to fund a lot of your nonprofits. They are the ones that have access to be able to keep the city clean, the potholes, keep regulations

reasonable so that people can afford to live in their city. So when these city council people get off with not having to be accountable because they're busy talking about Trump. When your state rep, not your U.S. rep, when your state rep is able to talk about these large issues like abortion or January 6th or all of these things that they know damn well

they don't have any impact on and you're not asking them, how come you didn't fund our football program? How come you didn't fund our basketball program? When you're not getting down to your actual local representative? You're not seeing a difference. And they're getting by with basically scamming you, in my opinion. Not everybody. I work with a lot of great candidates, but we have to really start teaching people that it's not about the federal level. It really is about the local and the state. And the federal should be pointing to the local and the state to say, hey,

they ended qualified immunity in New York City. How come we can't end it in Oklahoma? Hey, they ended qualified immunity in Colorado. How come we can't end it in Missouri? So when you hear people saying, oh, we can't end qualified immunity. Oh, the police union. Do New York City not have a police union? Does Colorado

not have a police union? If Mayor Turner have a police union? If Sylvester Mayor Turner in Houston was able to end chokeholds, why can't, you know, another city end chokeholds? So there's a lot going on, you know, on the local level that I tell people to get involved. So I don't talk about voting. I talk about

getting the game. So voters should just be focused on hype of the local, basically. That's what I believe. So if not, so we look at Biden and Kamala Harris, so what would you give their grading? If you had to grade them, what would their grade be at this day and age? I'm going to follow my brother, Killer Mike. I think you said F-

and I don't even think F- exists yet. And why? Well, again, it's the volunteer lie. It's not that I don't understand how this process works. You know, a lot of folks come in the comment. You don't understand how I work thinking they've given me some new information. I understand how the process works. The problem is manipulating our people. Joe Biden is the only one that said, I owe you black people, literally the only one.

Barack Obama didn't even say that. So to turn around and in January or February, I believe, when he went with our leaders who they call our leaders and told him on tape, I'm not signing. I'm not doing an executive order. I'm not. I mean, just put the pimp game down. I'm said I'm not doing. Where was that same energy that you had when you were running? Stop. Again, I hope people go back and listen to me on the Ghetto Boys podcast because I broke down pimps, politicians, and pastors. Me, you, us. It's the same speech, the same format. You can break it down here too.

Okay, great. Pimps, politicians, pastors. Not everybody, but I want you to follow the speech pattern. It's always me, you, us. So the politician, if you listen to the speech, they start out with me and they literally train folks how to do this. Hey, my name is Tessin Figaro. I'm from such and such, you know, my age, I grew up in this city. Then they go with the you. Hey, DJ Envy, you know,

I know what you've been going through. I know your pain. I know that last night, using my example, last night you went to the hospital and were you able to afford the health care? I know that really hurt. You and I have something in common. I had to go to the hospital and were you able to afford the health care? I know that really hurt. You and I have something in common. I had to go to the hospital before too. You and I together, that's the us, you and I together can make a difference. All I need you to do is give me $5. And then let's move on and let's make a difference.

All I need you to do is elect me and give me $5. That's the politician. Then you get to the pimp. Me, you, us. What does the pimp do when he start out with me how he dresses how he looks i'm looking good i'm such and such i'm pimp whoever i got this i look good look at my car look at what i have then he goes and talks to the woman you look at you you ain't doing so good baby how you treating you not treating you right you giving that up you ain't getting none for it how

you you know how you moving how you living me and you together can make a difference. All I need you to do is go out on that track and give me your twenty five dollars. Me and you together can change the world. Is that not what the pimp do? That's right. Then I would the politician do. Now let's get to the pastor. Now, again, there's some good pastors out there. But this is the speech. Me, you, us. I'm a man of God. I'm a woman of God. The Lord sent me. You know how they talk about, oh, in the church, the blessings come down from me. To me, it flows right on to you.

And then in the church, they'll say, I know I'm talking to somebody. Am I talking to somebody in here? I know somebody in here understands. You ever been to church where you sit and say, damn, somebody's talking to me. That's the you. The me, you, us. And some of it is definitely anointing. Some because I'm a bootleg preacher myself.

But it's still the same speech format. Me, you, us. Have you feeling guilty? Have you feeling some type of way? All I need you to do is come down and pay this offering. Pay your tithes and pay your offering. Because me and you together, too, will touch and agree. Me and you together, we're going to get blessings.

Is that not me, you, us? It's the same speech format. Literally. And so that has been used to manipulate even in the black church. What gets more money than anything else? The strongest PAC out there right now is a Jewish PAC.

We have no PAC, Political Action Committee for those who don't know. For black people that is as strong as the current packs that are out there now for other communities all the money goes to the black church those are just facts so when we're not using when those uh when that speech is used to manipulate in the church politicians you remember when cory booker ran and he was talking about oh yeah i know what it's like remember we're doing a debate i know what it's like. People shoot up and

I've got plenty of friends. Remember he was homie this and homie that. No disrespect to you, Cory, but he was homie this. I'm from Jersey. Was that the same Cory Booker that was giving a speech about defund the police? How's saying we don't need to defund the police? So you flipped the game. You did the pimp game, the politician game, to identify with me. But then when it came time to deliver, you pimp slapped me, like a pimp literally.

That's right. So it's the same format. And so we have to understand it and recognize it. And don't get mad at the game. Just understand it and know how to play in it. And so people get upset. So they get depressed and they say, I don't want to do it.

No, no, no. I'm trying to teach you how to play the game. Play the game exactly like they're playing the game and, you know, start using that for life. So how do we stop being hoes? How do we stop being hoes? I don't know. I think a hoe is always a hoe. She's always going to have sex one way or the other. The question is, is she going to

get something out of it? That's right. Be the best hoe you can be. Where's the camera looking at? Be the best hoe you can be. You're going to hoe, hoe. Hoe that thing out. Yesterday's price like today's price. Is Biden a one-term president then? Yes, I believe so. I believe he knows that.

I mean, even if he had said, you know, originally that he probably wouldn't run the second time, that his whole thing was about healing America. You can't heal the hearts of man. Only God can do that. We want actual results. So, yeah. And make sure y'all subscribe to the Scrape Shot No Chaser

podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. That's Tezlin's podcast if you want to hear more of this real s*** on a weekly basis. Well it's The Breakfast Club. It's Tez! Hey guys! I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular The Breakfast Club. 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.

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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. Hey, what's up? or wherever you get your podcasts. Think of it as a black show for non-black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're black, Asian, white, Latinx, indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable, and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters and we're inviting you to join us for Civic Cipher each and every Saturday with myself,

Ramses Jha, Q Ward, and some of the greatest minds in America. Listen to Civic Cipher every Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, my little creeps. It's your favorite ghost host, Teresa. And guess what?

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Let's just say things get a bit extra. We're talking spirits, demons, and the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make your spooky season complete. You know how much I love this time of year. It's the one time I'm actually on trend. So grab your pumpkin spice, dust off that Ouija board. Just don't call me unless it's urgent. And tune in for new episodes every week. Remember, the veils are thin, the stories are spooky, and your favorite ghost host is back and badder than ever. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. And shout out to all the cyclists out there. Anybody out there on their bikes that's working out. I'm going to get back on my bike this week. Oh, you back? And I'm going to start doing, I think I'm going to start doing weekly rides from our juice bar in Brooklyn.

So I'll give you guys some updates if you want to ride with us. We're going to ride. It's nothing crazy. We ain't going to be doing 15, 16 miles an hour. It's going to be a nice ride to get our cardio back to get us in shape. So we'll start at the juice bar get some juices, which is our juices for life. And then we'll ride. We'll do about 20, 30 miles and then we'll come right back

and, you know, keep it healthy. I told myself I'm going to start that this month. You didn't want to put a real date on it. No, I didn't want to put a real date on it. I was going to put it this month. All right. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Roddy Ricch.

This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. All right. Roddy Ricch was arrested on gun charges. He was on his way to the Governor's Ball where he was supposed to perform on Saturday. That's in New York City. And so he had to cancel his performance. Now, an official Sunday confirmed that the charges were dropped against him, by the way. And so a law enforcement insider said that

officers at the festival security checkpoint claims they discovered a loaded firearm in his vehicle. And so because these were all dropped, clearly it wasn't his, right? Yeah, which makes sense. I mean, he's from L.A. He's in town to perform. It was him, his driver

that he hired, and security that he hired. The security is from Brooklyn, so if there's a gun in the car, whose gun do you think it would be? Yeah, he and two other people in the automobile were placed under arrest. They said initially he was facing four charges. Possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device,

unlawful possession thereof, as well as criminal possession of a weapon, but those charges have been dropped. Yes, I will be pissed to F off too. I'm coming to show. He probably making $150,000, $200,000 performing and now I can't do my show because y'all arrest me and say it's my gun where I hired security to make

sure I'm safe in New York when New York is crazy right now and you arrest me and I miss my show. Yeah, that's fair. I'll be pissed off too. Right. And then imagine all the fans who were looking forward to seeing him. Absolutely. All right. Now, Monique's sister has gone on Facebook and done a post about Monique.

And her name is Millicent Imes. She said, enough is enough. My sister, stop the madness. It's not a good look. God has shut you down before. And believe me, he will do it again. Let's start by staying on topic. You are and have been displacing your anger on the wrong people.

Why don't you start, sister, with you? And that begins with one digging deep and praying. And she also told Monique, take heed and clean your house up because it's dirty. Sis, you're coming with the same story over and over again. If nothing changes, nothing changes. Your career has been dead in the past, and now it's about to come to life, and now you are killing it again. And now the plug is about to be pulled on you, you are about to be canceled again this time it's flatline i just can't take no more text messages or phone calls at one time the stage and the world was your

oyster what you're doing now is offensive to this family our parents and your siblings but all of a sudden it's about you having to be right good bad or indifferent and now you are wrong as two left shoes and then she also said although you did not show up to your father's or your mother's funeral service, I'm sure they forgive you because they know who their child used to be. So she also ended it by saying, this is all coming from a place of love. Sister, stop. Your

biological sister, Millicent, love you to life and will be here for you always. That's messy. I wonder why, you know, as family members you just don't pick up the phone and say, you know what, I'm going to say this to you, to your face. Yeah, I don't know what type of and say, you know what, I'm going to say this to you to your face. Yeah, I don't know what type of things. Maybe don't speak to each other no more. Maybe don't have each other's numbers. But, damn, this is messy. All right. Now, Queen Latifah recently sat down on Hot Ones and they showed a throwback photo of her and Tupac.

And she talked about some of her fondest moments of their friendship. Here's what she had to say about Tupac hanging out with her in a gay club. We toured together. So we went all across the country, San Francisco, doing a show. My first show, over $10,000, which was a New Year's Eve show at this cool gay club in San Francisco. I was like, yo, I'm here. He's like, yo, I'm going to hook up with you. So Tupac came to the club with me.

And I was like, yo, come on. Tupac is in the building. They went crazy in there. I was like, they're going to hook up with you. So Tupac came to the club with me, and I was like, yo, come on. Tupac is in the building. They went crazy in there. I was like, they're going to tear you out your clothes. Come here. He's like, man, he took your shirt off anyway. We had so much fun. But that was like my brother, and he's the type of person I would like.

If he loved you, if he was cool with you, he'd lay his life down for you. So I miss him, and I love him. That's dope. All right. Now, Mike Tyson also I love him. That's dope. All right. Now, Mike Tyson also had some good Tupac stories and he was talking about basically, you know, meeting Tupac. Here's what he had to say. Mike Tyson on meeting Tupac.

Tupac was one of those guys that we went to lift him in the back and some kind of way they even got on the stage took the mic they started rapping and i met tupac six months later i'm in prison and i get a call from somebody's tupac's mother and he explains um she know me from her son explained i let him in a club one night and he wants to come and visit me i said great okay and then i he came in they visited me and um they let him in and he came to the visiting room as soon as he came up everybody started so they already knew who he was

they already knew who he was they respected him that's dope yeah that I mean Tupac sound like the realest person for real absolutely so that was on Drink Champs with Mike Tyson and by the way there's a teaser out now for the new Hulu biographical series on Mike Tyson.

Trevante Rhodes is starring as Mike Tyson. So that upcoming limited series, Mike, is based on his life and it launches on Hulu on August 25th. Just a FYI. I would love to. I mean, that's one of the interviews that I would love to do. I would love to interview Mike Tyson. I bumped into him a couple of times, like literally like in a club. Not literally bumped.

No, like bumped into him by accident. And then I turn in a club. Not literally bumped. No like bumped into him by accident and then I turn around like you're like who the hell is this bumping into me and then you turn around and you realize it's Mike Tyson

and then you run because you just don't want that problem. Come on. It's an accident. You just say sorry. It was Mike Tyson a long time ago.

Yes I ran. You know how weird that is? You know how many times Mike Tyson has knocked people out in a club in New York City club? This is before you sued. You just got knocked out

and you woke up in the hospital. And I didn't want to wake up in the hospital. It's a good story, though, for the radio. It is. All right. Now, J. Cole has stepped away from the Scarborough Shooting Stars to fulfill touring obligations. There's no word on whether he'll return or not. But he did play four games.

So, you know, there you have it. I saw a lot of people going out to the game to support J. Cole. Yeah, shout out to J. Cole. Hold on, before you end, I got one last story. All right, Del Curry. That's Steph Curry's dad. His new girlfriend. You see this story?

No. Okay, so his new girlfriend used to be married to Steph Curry's mother, Sonia Curry's new man. You get it? Yes. So his mom is dating a guy and now his dad is dating that guy's ex-wife. Is that crazy?

That's weird. All right, keep it in the family. And that is your rumor report. That is very weird. All right, the People's Choice Mix is up next. We've been teasing this all last week when Envy was not here. Get your request in.

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And we have, I'm going to mess your name up, brother. Irumose Akimi. Irumose Akimi. Okay. Well, good morning. Good morning. What's going on, y'all? Man, this is a beautiful time, man, because, you know, you have the political thriller

88, you know, which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend. Yes. So tell people what that's about. Well, first and foremost, executive produced by yourself. you yes indeed yes indeed uh but uh i mean you uh i'm grateful you you brought me on here not too long ago to kind of talk about the fact that we were trying to get the film made and now it is made and it's premiering at tribeca and and i i got to come back now with the writer director eramosay so why don't you break the film down for everybody? 88 is about a Nigerian-American super PAC director. He's the financial director of a super PAC.

And he comes on upon anomalies in the donations that are coming into the super PAC. And the movie is basically a conspiracy thriller where he starts investigating the source of the money, which uncovers a mass conspiracy going back hundreds and thousands of years. Always follow the money. Yeah, always of the money, which uncovers a mass conspiracy going back hundreds and thousands of years. Always follow the money? Yeah, always follow the money.

It has a spook-by-the-door element to it to me. Was that any inspiration you ever seen, spook-by-the-door? I did, you know. I did, I did. Yeah, I mean, to be honest, so what I always tell people with me is like, so I'm Nigerian, but grew up in Lagos and London,

and my father was a movie collector. So we had thousands of movies on videotape. So if you remember Beta Max and VHS and all that stuff. So I used to watch movies every day. And a lot of the older movies that we saw, like the classics, a lot of them were conspiracy thrillers. So, you know, you're talking Manchurian Candidate, the original, Marathon Man, Parallax View and all those sorts of films. All the President's Men is another one so

those were the films you know inspiration wise that really sort of formed the foundation for the movie for me but another crazy thing

is like I always thought as black people it's crazy we never had like a heightened political like conspiracy thriller

even though we've had the most conspiracies perpetrated on we don't have a conspiracy thriller so that was like a real thing for me i was like you know we know what will happen we know yeah yeah yeah yeah so yeah that was a thing i was like you know what let me go out and make something that is really sort of cerebral and really talking about a lot of things under the surface in terms of race economics power and so forth but put black faces and people of color at the helm you know of the story yeah the reason i you know i even wanted to be involved and i heard brandon talking about it is because the reason i think the timing is right for this movie is because i feel like black people

have gotten more sophisticated in regards to politics i think uh black people are starting to to expand the the the views in which we're looking at race and how it affects us uh culturally and politically so i i definitely i think i agree with you right there i think our perspective is is expanding and we're starting to recognize that it's impacting us in a lot of different ways on a lot of different levels and arenas. And so a film like this particular, I think in the way that, that,

you know, Thomas put it, uh, put it together, uh, really begins to unpack those different layers, I think in a really effective way. And I think since president,

and I think since president Obama, politics has become pop culture. It's pop culture. Yeah. Yeah. With social media. And as, as well as it's crazy the premise

like super packs i didn't know anything about super packs okay a super pack is a political action committee the idea being there are laws and rules as far as campaigning funds so how much money you can actually put into a campaign officially so if you have a candidate like obama or biden or whatever there's a limit on how much they can raise from campaigns. So what they've done is a super PAC is essentially an entity that raises money to campaign for a candidate separate from the candidate. And their limit is unlimited. So they can raise $2 billion to campaign for a candidate as long as they're not officially connected. As an individual, I'm capped at $2,500.

Exactly. So you can have a super PAC who's raising tens of billions of, tens of millions of dollars to put into a campaign, and they're running. So basically, a lot of the ads that you see come from a super PAC, and they're not actually officially connected to the campaign of the candidate involved. And this is the way that... And they're not allowed to coordinate with the candidate director. Right. But they almost always have some level of coordination. Right. And I think the main some level of coordination. Right. And I think the main thing,

and when you're talking about the movie, is where's all that money coming from? And I think the thing is, as communities, if we're talking about the black community, is once you really understand how to utilize that. So, for example, if somebody wants to get somebody elected but doesn't want to put their name down as in, I gave $20 million to this candidate,

you can do that through a super PAC. So if you want to actually affect policy change, get involved in understanding how super PACs work, how nonprofits work, how they're connected, and you can actually get real support and get people elected that way, you know? And then I said, really, that's the only way to really get elected when you run it for president is to have a bunch of super PACs of people that are really pushing for you. That is not quote unquote you now. Yeah.

Now, now that is the game. I mean, now it's, it's, it's crazy. I mean, you know,

we're talking, I think it was like 900 million. I can't remember what it was as of a few years ago that that had been raised since citizens United in 2010 got passed. And that was the, the legislation that really changed everything. I mean, at that point,

you could actually put money in a nonprofit. They can just repackage the money, send it onto a super PAC. And because they don't have to report to the FEC, you never know who put the money in. So it's crazy when we're talking about Russia and we're talking about the whole Russia scandal. That is this big in comparison to this, because this is real money laundering. So Russia could have gave $100 million to somebody to help. Without you knowing. Correct. Which is wild.

And there's no regulations, laws, or anything against it. It's funny that the law made it possible. There are regulations and laws against it, but there are also regulations and laws that create loopholes in order to make it possible. So on the surface, you can say there are structures in in place but everybody who knows how to manipulate them can't and i think that issue of you know you don't know where this money's coming from really matters and it's really significant in the film both in terms of a lot of times we think about that just in terms of uh self-interest personal self-interest of of you wealthy individuals the 1% but it's not just about personal self-interest I think you have to expand the purview of

what that means it's what are the what are the ideals by which this person or this group of people or this corporation lives and how do they want that money to how do they want that money to affect the the politicians that they are investing in which is scary because you know you look at it and you think America's Democratic, right? Where we vote for the president, but we really don't, right? Because if you have something, let's say Russia,

let's say Russia wants Donald Trump in. Right. Russia can put as much money on the floor to make sure Donald Trump is because they might have something else that they want from Donald Trump on the back end. Say Saudi Arabia wants Bush in. Mm-hmm. Say, you know, but that's the whole point.

Then just like, OK, well, who what's coming from where? And I think the thing really becomes the thing that I think is great about the movie is that it attacks it from both ends. But you start to look at what's happening in our in our society. What are the challenges that we as a collective feel we want to face? And why are we unable to overcome these challenges over and over again? Even when certain politicians will pay lip service to the things that we support.

Even when the majority of their constituents seem to want a thing, why can't we get over that hump? And this film tries to tackle those ideas. June 14th and June 18th you can buy tickets to go see 88 at the Tribeca Film Festival. And it's also online. If you can't make it to the festival,

you can get the online screenings from the 13th, so you can watch it at home. Yep. Well, thank you, guys, for joining us. I want to ask one more question. What does the Tribeca Film Festival mean for a film? Oh, wow. I mean, look, it's been great for me personally.

You know, this is the third time I've been there. I've been there with two features now and one short film. Film festivals are essentially just a way for getting a movie out and launching your film. So for me, without Tribeca, we wouldn't even be talking about 88 right now. People wouldn't really know about the movie. And I think that's the most important thing that this is doing for stories like this and filmmakers like us

who do not have millions of dollars to spend on advertising who do not have the outreach that you know a studio film would have is these guys do that work for you and just give you a platform and then if your movie resonates with an audience you know from there you know you can sort of launch a launch a film so that's what it means for for me and movie. Build a profile for the film and also connect with other artists who are working in the same capacity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, thank you, brothers. Definitely go out and support.

And we appreciate you guys. I'm going to check it out this weekend. Thank you. Appreciate y'all having us. Thank you so much. All right. Now, don't forget my car show, Less Than Six Days Away, Houston, Texas. If you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets.

Family fun. Your favorite celebrity cars, old school cars, slabs, new cars, and all that. And then Atlanta, July 9th. So if you can't make it to Houston, Atlanta is going to be just as crazy. So can't wait to see you guys. Now, you got a positive note? Yes, and this positive note

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