The Breakfast Club - Drop It Low

Episode Date: March 30, 2022

This week we had Alicia Garza stop by who spoke about the Black Census Project, reshaping government, black futures lab and more. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to a Miami man who robbed a woman walking her dog, and lucky for her,the cops were able to find him quick as there was some left over poop on his shirt. Also, Angela since Angela was not in, Charlamagne and Envy stepped in for "Ask C and E" and helped some listeners out with their relationship. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. 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 Zaka Stan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-A-S-T-A-N on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best, and you're going to figure out the rhythm rhythm of this thing alicia keys like you've never heard her before listen to on purpose

with jay shetty on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts It's on your radio right now. There you go. It's the world's most dangerous one to show. Got the cameras and motherf***ers. I'm not Greek. What kind of show is this? My son listens to this show. The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy. The captain of this b***h. With Angela Yee, the only one who can keep these guys in check.

With Charlamagne Tha God. I'm a lovable a**hole. And this is The Breakfast Club, b***hes. Good morning, USA! day it is. Guess what day it is? Hump Day! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Yes, it's Wednesday, Hump Day, middle of the damn week. Man, happy to be here. What's happening? How y'all feeling out there? If you woke up this morning, okay, take a

deep breath for everybody who can no longer do that. Alright? Thank God for another day of life. Let gratitude be your attitude today. Definitely feels like a Wednesday to me. What Wednesday feel like? Tired. Eh, you old. I'm serious. When you get to our age,

you're married, you got all these kids, you got six kids, I got four. Life is a constant state of exhaustion. And it's fine. It just is what it is. You just gotta take care of yourself. Yeah, I played Uber driver yesterday. My wife has some things today. You know you didn't. You're a daddy. Nah, I was an Uber driver yesterday. My wife has some things to do yesterday. No, you didn't. You're a daddy. No, I was Uber driver yesterday.

Okay, what are you talking about? You played Uber driver. I was Uber driver yesterday. You don't babysit. You don't Uber drive your daddy. No, I was Uber driver yesterday. Oh, please. I went from tennis to acting to soccer, and then you had to sit out there.

Then I just become a soccer dad. Like, we just talk about weird things. No, I love it. It's the weirdest thing ever. I love it because my daughter is 13, and it's weird being a father trying to like have conversations with your 13 year old daughter yeah you know what i mean because you know she's really not interested in nothing that you're saying and um you know she definitely likes she definitely has made it clear to me that she likes talking to her mom way more than she likes talking well that has been established

well i told my kids yesterday, no. Really? We were in the car. They was like, can we hear? I don't want to hear. I don't want to talk about Bruno. I said, no. I could not hear that song anymore.

I said, there's no more. I said, I cannot do it anymore. Drop on the clues, Mom, for Encanto. No, I said, no more. I wish I could tell my children no. I told them no yesterday. We were in that car. They said, Dad, can we hear? Can't talk about Bruno no more.

I said, no. My six-year-old and three-year-old are not trying to hear nothing except for Encanto. I've been watching Encanto for a month straight. Okay, and not just Encanto. My three-year-old loves to say, Daddy, can I watch random Encanto videos? I'm like, what are you talking about? But on YouTube, you can literally type in random Encanto videos, and it's these people playing with, like, Encanto dolls

and creating these other stories with Encanto. So, of course, I got to sit there and watch them to make sure they're not doing nothing inappropriate. You know what I mean? We don't talk about Bruno. And I just need, I need, I'm making this style, and I say this with love. You ain't hot in them six-year-old streets.

They don't like what you, they do not like what you did to that Encanto record. They was, they not feeling that. That was just too much for them. They didn't know what was happening. They didn't need it. They not feeling that. That was just too much for them. They didn't know what was happening. They didn't need it. They like, we don't talk about Bruno the way he was.

Oh, my goodness. And why wouldn't you get Bruno Mars for that record? Wouldn't that make sense? That would make sense. Maybe Bruno, maybe he didn't want to do it. I don't know. Yeah, but I just can't with that song anymore. I told my kids, no!

We're not playing that no more! My phone is dead. I can't find it or nothing. It's my kids, no! We're not playing that no more! My phone is dead. I can't find it or nothing. It's no. Encanto is a part of our life. Encanto is little kid Hamilton. Okay? Gracious.

That's what Encanto is. All right? All right. Encanto is fabric of our lives right now. All right. Well, let's get the show cracking. Let's talk COVID-19. You're not excited about it?

Huh? You don't care anymore? Well, we'll give you some updates. COVID ain't as hot as in Canada. No, it's definitely not. Canada way hotter than COVID. Way hotter. COVID was one of the number one trending topics. Not no more.

Oh, my goodness. It's the Breakfast Club. If you're wondering where I'm at. This was another song that my daughters were mad at. Why? Because I tell them hate is a bad word. So when they sing the song and every time they say hate, they say, Dad, this is a bad word in the song, but I like to sing it.

Oh, she's saying I hate you? Yeah. I hate you. I never paid no attention. What were you doing? I was acting like all black people when they don't know the words to a song. I wasn't really saying nothing. My goodness.

All right, well, let's get into front page news. Now, last night was the McDonald's All-American Game. That's where they get their best high school players, both boys and girls. I want to shout out to Dariq Whitehead. That's the little homie. He's from Newark, New Jersey. He played basketball with my son when my son was like five years old, all the way up until my son stopped playing basketball.

So I just want to say salute to him. Oh, he was in the McDonald's game? Oh, he's a beast now. Yeah, he was MVP for last night's game. So congratulations to him. He's going to Duke next year. Oh, wow, wow. Congratulations.

Drop a bomb for him. All right, now NFL owners approve a new rule change. Now, this is the new playoff overtime rules. Now, both teams will have the opportunity to possess the ball in overtime in the postseason. If the score is tied after each team has possessed the ball, the next score wins. How do you feel about that? I think that's great. But, you know, it's like a year too late, right?

We wish we had that for last year's playoffs. Especially for that Buffalo game. Who was Buffalo playing? Was it Josh Allen? Who? Bills and Chiefs. Yeah, yeah. When Mahomes and Allen was going back and forth.

Like, you wish you got an opportunity to see Josh Allen get a chance to, you know, tie the game in overtime. But we didn't. But, yeah, I'm happy for it. It's cool. All right. Now, the 21 states challenged the CDC transit mask rule. 21 states with Republican attorneys, of course. General sued Tuesday to halt the federal government's requirement that people wear masks on planes, trains and ferries and other public transportation amid COVID coronavirus pandemic.

The mandate is in current form, maybe in effect of only a few more weeks. The CDC recently extended until April 18th. Besides Florida, the states filing a new travel mask lawsuit was Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. What's interesting about that is like, you know is we definitely back out here raw dog in the air. But the one place I say I'm going to continue to wear a mask is the airport. I salute the Asian community. We've been watching them do that for years. And I've always said when I see them, I'm like, what do they know that we don't?

And guess what? Now I feel like we know what they don't. And that's that these viruses out here. And I read yesterday that the flu has shot back up because people are wearing less masks. Over the past couple of years, the flu was going down because people were wearing masks. So now this Omar, I was going to say Omarion, Omicron B2 variant is now the dominant in the U.S. They're saying about 55% of the people that actually have COVID have that variant.

They said it's not as deadly, very contagious. But that's the one that's coming up and they're saying that it's actually going up. So cases are shooting up. Now they also say- What's it called though? Amarion B2K? No.

What is it? Now you're messing me up. Omicron BA2. BA2, okay. Now the second booster shots are authorized for adults 50 and older or if you're having some- Why you say that? Now, the second booster shots are authorized for adults 50 and older. Or if you're having some. Why you say that? Because, man, they just need to stop talking about second and third and fourth boosters and just tell everybody, look, man, COVID is going to be here in some form and some type of mutation, you know, for the rest of our lives.

And every year you probably have to get an annual COVID shot. Just like you get an annual flu shot. Well, they say the second booster shot is authorized for adults 50 and older. And why do they keep calling it a booster? You don't call a flu shot that you get every year a booster shot, do you? I don't know. I don't know. Alright, well, that is your front page news.

Oh, they call it a flu booster? They do. Oh, okay. Our cameraman Nick said they do. Alright, well, get it off your chest. Who doesn't get vaccinated in this room? 800-585-1051 If you need to vent, phone it off your chest. Clearly, you can tell who doesn't get vaccinated in this room. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest.

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. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Oh, hey, this is Keita.

Hey, Peter. Peace, Keita. Again. What's up, Keita? What up, Keita? Get it off your chest. So, I haven't been working out for the last past couple of weeks at 5 a.m., so I haven't been checking in with y'all at 6.

But I've been popping in and out. Where is Angela Yee? Because I'm real confused. She off this week. She off. She's been off two days last weekend and this week too. But why are you slacking on your workout though? Let's talk about that.

Oh, my God. My head just wasn't right. And I was just eating whatever I want. But I'm back on track. I started this morning, so. Okay. Don't see it goes well for me. You don't sound too, you're not convincing me.

You don't sound like you're talking yourself into it right now. I am trying so hard to lose this stomach. Made my stomach flatter and my booty fatter. Charlamagne. Hey, it's springtime right now. Summer right around the corner. Okay, so I need to get on it. And thank you so much for all

my black effects. I got my black effects in my two books. And I love them. That's all love, Keita. Yes. Thank you so much. Well, have a good one. I can't wait to see you, Yee. Hello, who's this?

This is Jada. Good morning. Jada, good morning. Get it off your chest. Morning, Jada. Good morning. Can you say good morning, Queen? How you doing? Good morning.

Peace, Queen. Good morning. How are you? I've been waiting my whole life for that. How you feeling? This is why I got it. I feel good. I'm having a good morning already.

Good. This is why I got it. Get it off my chest. Go ahead, Mama. I love you, but you think everybody got money the way you do. No, I don't. I don't got no money. My kids got some money, but I ain't got nothing.

This is what happened. A couple weeks ago, y'all were talking about this lady, and she brought her kids. Her son had three houses or something. And then you were saying houses. It's somewhere only like $5,000 right now. Milwaukee. And I'm like, dang, I don't got $5,000. And Charlemagne said, that's a lot of money.

And I was like, oh, my God, thank you, Charlemagne, because I'm feeling like I'm doing something wrong in life. Charlemagne was like, no, that's a lot of money. That is a lot of money. That's all I want to say. Don't feel bad, man. We just all out here acting our ways. That's all.

There you go. Envy can't help it. That's his language. Thank you. I'm just trying to encourage some people to buy some houses and have some ownership. That's all, mama. Yeah, trust me. I'm on it, but I'm just not there yet.

And it's just, whew. Thank you so much. You have a good one. Envy made you feel pope? He did. I didn't say that. I just said the houses are $5,000, which are great prices. What did you hear after that?

Did you hear Kim Kardashian in your head saying, Get up off your ass and work. I'm just trying to encourage people, my love. Oh, man. Well, you have a good one. Sending you love. Sending you love, queen.

I love y'all. I love you too. Get it off your chest. And be out here making people feel poe in the morning. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Give the best advice for women in business. Stop being poor. Stop being poor. It seems like nobody wants to work for you. This is a new theme song. This is a new theme song.

This is a new theme song, y'all. One time for Z-Way. All right, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. 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 light-hearted pretty pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I planted the flag and just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson the First, 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? No country willingly gives up their territory. Well, why can't I trade my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a 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.icia keys like you've never heard her before listen to on purpose with jay shetty on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts power 105.1 the breakfast club envy angela yee and charlemagne the god 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? Hello, Breakfast Club. It's Adam from London calling again. Envy, please don't hang up. I'll come in peace. You come in peace. Adam, what's up? Peace, Adam. What's this? Hello, Break First Club. It's Adam from London calling again. Envy, please don't hang up. I'll come in peace.

You come in peace. Adam, what's up? Peace, Adam. What's happening? What's going on, man? I just wanted to give one of my close friends a shout out. We've been boys since we were kids. And he's just dropped his debut EP,

available on all streaming services. He's called A1 Rico, Golden Era. A1 Rico, Golden Era. A1 Rico, Golden Era. I mean, he's been nice on the beat since we were kids, and I've been stressing him to release music our whole lives, and he's finally done it. So I'm really proud of him. But honestly, he's incredible.

He's one of the best talents to come out of the UK. So I don't know if you guys are aware of the UK music scene and what's hot and what's popping right now but it's definitely one you want to keep an eye on for sure I'm paying attention

now that you told us well thank you brother yeah check him out on Instagram as well his Instagram is runitupreeks that's runitup

R-E-E-K-S and yeah man show some love if you're listening for all of your listeners if you're in the car right now get it up on Spotify, Apple Music.

Turn the volume up. Get the fire extinguisher ready because it's straight fire. All right, brother. Hello, who's this? Yeah, hello. Good morning, guys. Peace and blessings. How you guys doing this morning?

What's up, Sean? What's up? I'm good, Envy. I'm good. Hey, I was reading an article yesterday. I'm not sure if you guys know about Wale Artis, that black female who was talking about committing suicide. Yes. That's Wale's artist, Chica?

I didn't know it was Wale's artist, but Chica. Yeah. I didn't know that was Wale's artist. Yeah, she is, actually. I wanted to say something about that. Go ahead. You know, maybe to help somebody. In 2020, in 2021, you know, I never had a thought like that before.

But that thought went through my mind. And I was going through a lot. And at that time, when those type of thoughts are going through your mind, it's just you in the middle, there's the devil on one side, and then God on the other side. You're not thinking about anything else. The devil, what he does, he lays everything down on the table that you've done wrong in your life, right? And he says, see, that's why you shouldn't be living no more. But then God asked me one question. God said, Sean,

if you do that to yourself, think about the most important person that will miss you in this world. So I just want to say, if anybody's going through that thought, just think about the most important person that will miss you in this world. So I just want to say, if anybody is going through that thought, just think about the most important person that will miss you in this world. And the most important person that came to my mind was my son, my 7-year-old son. And I just couldn't do something like that. So I know a lot of people going through a lot of different things out here, and suicidal thoughts is real.

Because when you're in that moment, it's just you in the middle, God on one side, and the devil on one side. But them thoughts don't come from God. They come from the devil. Alright. Appreciate you, Sean. Hello, who's this? Hey, what up, though? This is Drew. What up, though? Drew, you must be calling from the D.

Detroit. Oh, yes, sir. Yes, sir. I live in Georgia, but still from Detroit. First and foremost, good morning. Charlemagne, the guy, DJ Envy. I appreciate everything that you guys do. Appreciate you, King. Charlemagne, I go to therapy for anxiety and PTSD. Envy, I love the way you love your wife, your family.

You talk about real estate. I'm looking at buying some rental property. Okay. But, um, tomorrow's my birthday and I'm just happy to celebrate 39 years of life. My dad once said it's better to be seen than viewed. And I think about that every year for my birthday. And I just want to shout out my parents, my circle, my village that raised me. And, uh, I want to shout out my beautiful black queen, Felicia. Now you've been with me for four years. You've been amazing in my life.

You've helped me grow. And I just love you so much. And I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you. That's all. Well, happy early born day, man. I'm glad that you're out here doing the work on yourself. I'm glad that you're investing in yourself. All of that, man. Appreciate you, King. I appreciate you, brother. And do you have any books

for me? Hats or something? Oh, definitely. We definitely can get you a hat. Hold on. Appreciate you, King. I appreciate you, brother. And do you have any books for me, hats or something? Oh, definitely. We definitely can get you a hat. Hold on. Hold on, all right? I'll send you a copy of Anita Copac's Shallow Waters. That's all I got right now. Y'all tapped me out last month, but I'll definitely send you a Black Effect hat, too.

He on line eight. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. When we come back, I know we tired of talking about this, but this is the last one. We'll see who said they would have sued Will for $200 million. Come on now. It's starting to get like Thanksgiving dinner. It's time to throw it out.

But I do think that there's some great conversations that can come from this, but it's not the ones we're having right now. All right. Well, we'll get into it when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Happy Wednesday. Let's get to the rumors. I'm tired of talking about this already, but we must. The Oscars. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee.

On the Breakfast Club. So listen up. is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee. Now let's talk the Oscars now. According to Nielsen Time Slots, the 2022 Oscars saw no significant surge in viewers after King Richard Starr, of course, Will Smith, took a whack at comic Chris Rock. Now they're saying there was a jump around 614,000 viewers in 11pm. That's when Smith took the stage

for his acceptance speech, but they said the show drew 15.36 million viewers and a 3.2 rating with adults 18 to 49. What does that mean? They said it was the second least watched and lowest rated Academy Awards ever. Last year's show had an all-time low of 10 million, so this was the second.

But they killed on social. They did well on social. Especially after that slap. After that slap, it went crazy on social media. But y'all weren't watching it on TV. Well, yesterday, Gayle, she interviewed Jim Carrey, and of course, they spoke about it. And this is what Jim Carrey said. You know, you do not have the right to

walk up on stage and smack somebody in the face because they said words. No, no, I agree. I think we all agree on that. I just thought, Jim, that it escalated to that. You know what I mean? That it escalated to that level. It didn't escalate.

It came out of nowhere because Will has something going on inside him that's frustrating. I wish him the best. I really do. I don't have anything against Will Smith. It was just a selfish moment to cast a pall over the whole thing. Now he also talks about what he would have did in that situation. I was sickened. I was sickened by the standing ovation. I felt like Hollywood is just spineless, en masse.

It really felt like, oh, this is a really clear indication that we're not the cool club anymore. They asked Chris, do you want to file charges? And Chris apparently said, no, he did not. He doesn't want the hassle. I,

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, announced this morning that I was suing Will for $200 million because that video is going to be there forever.

It's going to be ubiquitous. You know, that insult is going to last a very long time. Jim Carrey is not wrong. And I know black people don't want to hear that coming from a white man. But the reality is, if Will Smith wasn't Will Smith, he would have gotten kicked out of the awards and probably arrested. And if Chris Rock wasn't Chris Rock, he would have sued Will Smith for $200 million, probably $500 million. Yeah, a little more.

And guess what? If that was to happen, you may not like it. But what do I always tell you? You can do what you want, say what you want, but you can't pick the consequences. And I realize we upset it all the time. we really are a society that loves deride and dysfunction the bigger conversation that should be happening right now is that we watched a man who's 53 years old and never had any public meltdowns like this we watched him snap we watched a man project all his pain and hurt onto another human and in the process traumatize that

individual and like i said yesterday who's checking on Chris Rock? What childhood traumas were triggered for him in that moment? We should be discussing mental health right now. We should be discussing healing. We should be discussing men having a safe space to express themselves and process their emotions so they don't bleed on people who didn't cut them. Okay? I love Chris Rock and I love Will Smith.

I am a Pinkett Smith, Winfrey Knowles Carter. That's my last name. But we either going to be really serious about breaking generational curses, or we going to keep deriding dysfunction. The choice is yours. Now, Tony Rock, which is Chris Rock's brother, he's a comedian. He's been up here before. Yeah.

He answered a bunch of questions online. So one of them was, so Diddy was lying when he said Chris and Will made up that night? He said, yep. He says, somebody else asked him, are we fighting fire with fire or going with the professional route? Tony Rock replied, it's on, bro. And then he says, who you think hits harder, Will or Jada's boyfriend? And Tony Rock says, Mama Rock, do you approve of the apology?

Tony Rock says, no. Says Tony Rock, more importantly, how is Chris Rock and would he checkmate on his comedy tour? And he replied, Chris Rock is still rich. I just think this is all way bigger than a joke and a slap. It is. The universe is really trying to tell us something. God is really trying to tell us something. And I think that it's divine that Chris Rock's next stand-up special is called Ego Death.

That's what it's going to be called. The tour he's going on this year is called Ego Death. Y'all better pay attention. Now, Jada Pinkett also posted something on Instagram yesterday. She posted, this is a season for healing, and I'm here for it. Drop one of Clues Bomb for that. Yes. That's all we should be discussing.

Mental health, healing, people having a safe space to express themselves and process their emotions so we stop bleeding on people who didn't cut us. I'm with that. That's the energy I'm on forever. Right. We have more Oscar talk. There's so much to talk about, but I want to change gears a little bit.

Toni Braxton, she spoke about her sister who passed away a week ago, and she speaks about her last days. How is this changing gears? You never think that it's going to happen to you and your family. I'm okay.

Today's okay. It's not my best day, but it's an okay day, you know, and I'm happy that I'm here and I'm happy that I get to talk about it. And her birthday's coming up soon on the 2nd and my sisters and I, we're going to celebrate and have a big Tracy day thingy. And they thought she wouldn't make it through Thanksgiving. They thought she would make it through Christmas.

They thought she would make it through the new year and she made it through March. So you have to celebrate. How is that changing gears, Envy? You changed the gear to grief. We need healing from grief to envy but also she talks about the rite of passage I wake up every morning and I go oh did I dream it did I dream it and I have to remind myself no she's gone but she's been here with us for 50 years so I try to relish in that moment and I try to smile about it and just be grateful for the time you have. And you have to always remember to be kind to one another.

We're sisters, so we're always going to fight. That's what sisters do. OK, so it's just our right to passage as a family. That's what you do. But in the end, we were always together. We always loved each other. And we're just very fortunate to have had my sister with us for as long as we had. Definitely rest in peace.

Definitely send a healing energy to the Braxton family. All right. Let me show you how to change gears gears I'm coming to lick your ankle what? exactly now now the gears can change what?

okay actually we're in a whole other car would you like to ride? no passenger? no shotgun? no I won't

you want to sit on my lap I'll teach you how to drive it's stick shift I will walk alright and that is your rumor report what is wrong with you? if you want to change it change it

take the car somewhere else how you just go there change a little bit. Like, you go so far. That's right. Now you want to lick my ankles. That means if you lick my ankles, that means you want to lick from the back, right? Whoa.

Whoa. Whoa. Now we ain't even in the car, though, boy. Now we ain't even in the car. All right, well, we talking about Joe Biden when we come back, all right? It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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Jesus Christ. I'm trying to be up. And by the way, I only hear the music when I put my headphones on. Why do we play so much slow music in the morning? It's the morning time. Don't y'all want to be up. Do the music. I'm just saying. And by the way, I only hear the music when I put my headphones on. Like, why do we play so much slow music in the morning? It's the morning time. Don't y'all want to be up? Want me to do everything.

It's like you're driving in the car and the windshield wipers are going and it's not even raining. Why is everything about cars with you this morning? Why is everything about a car? Why? Why? You know how to drive stick? You know what? Let's get to some front page news.

And I ignored you. Now, your president, Joe Biden, signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act on Tuesday. All right. Now, he talks about it. Now, this bill was they were trying to pass this bill for what? For what? 50, 60, 70 years? A long time.

I don't know. 100 years maybe, but he talks about it here. Lynching was pure terror to enforce the lie that not everyone, not everyone belongs in America, not everyone is created equal. Terror to systematically undermine hard fought civil rights. Innocent men, women, and children hung by nooses from trees. Hate never goes away. It only hides. It hides under the rocks. giving just a little bit of

oxygen it comes roaring back out screaming but what stops it is all of us not a few all of us have to stop it it's 2022 and y'all just getting an anti-lynching bill passed i guess at this pace we'll get voting rights by 3017 by 3017 we will be getting voting rights by the time we'll be long gone by then but whatever show y'all listening to in 3017 we'll be celebrating voting rights well kamala harris spoke on it too lynching is and has always been a hate crime and to make clear that the federal government may now prosecute these crimes as such. And it has been said the victims of lynching were targeted. And let's be clear about this because they were working to build a better America. But unfortunately, the cowards couldn't see those folks who were killed. They were business

owners creating economic opportunity in their community by which all would prosper and benefit let us also be here gathered to recommit ourselves to that unfinished business as well it's really sad that that bill is just getting passed and like do y'all really want me to celebrate that that right there tells me everything i need to know about America. Okay? And Democrats, if that's something y'all going to be using to try to galvanize people to come out for midterms, then y'all out of y'all damn mind. Okay? Look what we did for y'all.

We gave y'all an anti-lynching bill and a black Supreme Court judge. Vote for us. Vote for us. And come on, man. Where's the George Floyd Policing Act? Where's the John Lewis Voting Rights Act? Where's Build Back Better? We ain't forget.

Got 40 more years for that. Okay. Where's the student loan debt that you promised? $10,000 off. That ain't happening. Taylor, you got $10,000 off your student loans? Nope. Nope.

Man, please. All right. Anti-lynching bill. The FTC accuses TurboTax of deceiving its customers. Now, TurboTax is the most widely used tax software in America. Now, they say that in its ads it has a free option, but they're saying that's not true. They said it only makes free filing available for people with simple tax returns, a definition that can be used so many different ways. So FTC, they're in big trouble with the FTC.

I don't even know what that is. What's the FTC? TurboTax. You know, FTC. I don't even know what that is. What's that? TurboTax. You know, FTC is the one that regulates all the things that's going on out there. Gotcha.

And lastly, I thought this story was dope. Now, this pizzeria in Queens, this dad and father stopped this lady from getting beat up and stabbed up.

This was outside of their pizzeria. They seen a lady, I believe she was an Asian woman. She was getting beat up and stabbed. And the son and father went and tried to stop what was going on.

It was three men on one. The father and son held two of the individuals down until the police came. One got away. Now, the son was 38 years old and the father was 68 years old. Now, the father was stabbed nine times. Wow. And did not let the assailant go at all. Now, he suffered punctured lungs in the attack, and he is doing okay now.

He's in the hospital, but they saved that young woman, that 61-year-old woman's life. What happened to the pizzeria? Pizzeria is fine. They have to shut down for a couple of days because— And that was their pizzeria, the son's? Their pizzeria, yeah. Wow. So they came out and helped the the older woman and it was

three assailants and even though the assailants were stabbing them because they both got stabbed they still held them down and waited for the police so drop on the goosebumps for them brothers pizzerias have had a bad name in new york city you know ever since uh you know this tragic incident that happened at sows you know um you know after radio he's deaf okay and you know mookie them had to go do what they do you see me i'm repping this he's talking, he's deaf. Okay. And Mookie and him had to go do what they do. You see me? I'm repping this morning. He's talking about a fake. You see me?

The Boycott Sows campaign worked. Shout out to Spike Lee. Okay. So salute to all the non-problematic pizzerias out there. All right. So they already started to go from me to help with their hospital bills and also because they have to shut down the pizzeria because they're both in the hospital

and they still want to play their employees. So I think they already raised over $100,000. Wow. That's happened yesterday. So shout out to them. Heroes should be rewarded. Heroes should be celebrated. Okay.

Those are real heroes right there. All right. All right. Well, that is your front page news. Now, coming up, we have Alicia Garza joining us. Alicia Garza. You know, Alicia Garza, she's the head of the Black Futures Lab, but she also has this thing called the Black Census Project. That's right.

We're going to talk to her about that. She's an activist. She's the co-creator of the Black Lives Matter movement and hashtag Black Lives Matter. So we're going to talk to her. And she's also the host of the podcast Lady Don't Take No. And we're going to talk to her next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Alicia Garza. Welcome.

Thank you. It's good to be here. Thanks for having me. Happy to have you. How are you, first and foremost? How you feeling? Genuinely, how are you? You know, after COVID, when you asked that question. Happy to have you. How are you, first and foremost? How you feeling? Genuinely, how are you? You know, after COVID, when you asked that question, I want honest answers.

How are you? I'm going to give you the honest answer. I'm in between. Okay. I'm moving. I'm moving across country. Wow. My house isn't done.

You know what I mean? My stuff is there. So I'm a little bit like, I'm not quite here and I'm not quite there. But in the in between, there's a whole bunch of stuff to learn about you and what you can take on what you can endure and also what you're made out of that's a good honest answer my therapist says that's why

when somebody asks you how you're doing you should give them the honest answer because it helps you and I always say when I feel like how you feel I say I'm somewhere between O and K there we go I'm somewhere in between o and k there we go yeah there we go yeah i'm somewhere in between old and new old and new old and new well congratulations you're on times uh 100 most influential people in the world issue it's true thank you how did that achievement make you feel

how what did that mean to you it's an incredible honor that i don't always know how to hold if that makes sense i mean you know i still feel like my life is unfolding and I feel like I do what we're supposed to be doing in this world, which is making it better. And so many people are doing that work and don't get to be on covers of magazines. It's humbling. And it's also it's like a big weight to carry. When someone sticks a label on you, you either got to show up or get out. For those who don't know, what is that work? Making black communities powerful in politics so we can be powerful in the rest of our lives. And so the work that I do to make black folks powerful in politics is really about making sure that our communities are making the rules and changing the rules.

And as long as we have the tools to do that, right, we can access the things that we want and need. As long as we're depending on other people who don't have our best interests in mind to make the rules and change the rules, they're always going to change the rules in favor of themselves and their interests. So we want to change that dynamic with the Black Futures Lab and the Black to the Future Action Fund. And the first step in that is the Black Census Project that we're running this year. What exactly is the Black Census Project?

The Black Census is the largest survey of Black people in America in 157 years. And this year, we're going to break our own record to be the largest survey of Black people in history. Wow. How many? Like 20 million, 30 million? Well, the largest survey of black people in history. Wow. How many, like 20 million, 30 million? Well, the largest survey of black people in America now, right, is under 30,000. So we're shooting for 200,000. Wow. And we're trying to talk to black folks from everywhere, all 50 states. Last time we did this, we did get responses from all 50 states, from every demographic, every political ideology, religion,

language, any background you could think of. We actually went into prisons and jails and had people take the survey. We really did our best to reach as many folks as possible. And the reason we did that is because there are so many people out there who don't ever get to weigh in on the circumstances of their own lives. The number one thing we heard in the survey was that nobody ever has asked me what I think, what I feel, or what I want for my future. And so when you think about a quote-unquote democracy, right, where it's supposed to be, you know, everybody participates, the fact that you can have such a wide swath of people say,

nobody's ever asked me what I want or what I think about tells you that there's deep flaws in the way that this country operates. So what I love about this project is that it is a model for how democracy can work. And as I was saying earlier, we're in this moment of reconstructing who we can be and who we should be. And I feel like the Black Census is really an opportunity for us to reshape how we're governed and how we govern. And so I'm really excited about the project. Folks who want to check it out, go to BlackCensus.org. Take the survey. You can also become one of our partners.

And you can just hit us at HALA at BlackFuturesLab.org. You know, with so much good that you do and you try to help people so much, does it ever bother you when it feels like on social media, they scrutinize things that shouldn't be scrutinized? He's talking about niggas. Well, you know, it used to really bother me. However, in this day and age, we have celebritized people who are doing work to change the world. And that has happened a few times in our lifetime, but not at this scale.

What I realize is that the way people engage in social change, if they're not involved in it is from the perspective of watching somebody as if they're their favorite entertainer or celebrity. And so when you do that and you have no connection to somebody, it's really easy to be like, I don't like what you're doing over here. I don't like what you're doing over here. Everybody has the right to do that. Does it make you not want to do the work though?

Because it's like you do so much work and when they scrutinize you, you're like, can't y'all see I'm trying to do the work? No, it doesn't. Because at the end of the day, what I know is that not everybody's coming. And all I can do is do my work to make sure that everybody has a shot if they want to. I do feel like I pay attention to who I do the work with, especially when I see so much chatter out there in the world. I like to work with people that are ready to go.

You said something earlier and it made me think about something that I've always felt, but I just didn't have the, I guess, data to back it up. But you have it. Like with the Black Sentence Survey, when you said that people feel like they've never been asked what they want. And I think that's why sometimes leaders get that type of scrutiny, because you're on the front line and you have, you know, demands and things that you want. But some people are saying like, well, that's maybe not what I want, you know?

So who are you to speak for all black people? So I think that's where some of that comes from sometimes. Well, that is a challenge, right? It's that two things. One, people really do long and yearn to be heard and to be asked what we want and to be consulted. And the challenge is it's hard to give everybody everything they want when they want it. And sometimes the challenge or burden of, you know, somebody who was in a position of power is that you have to figure out a path to get as many people as possible what they might need.

And, of course, the way that power is set up, right? I think a lot of people also feel helpless because they're so far away from the mechanisms of power. I feel like what is great about the black census is that you can actually see all the complexity of who we are. You can see that black people are not a monolith. We don't all think the same. We don't all think the same. We don't all feel the same. And that's actually a good thing. It's a challenge to figure out, okay,

but how do you govern for the most amount of people as opposed to right now where we're basically governing for corporations and big business, right? How do you govern for the majority of people? So if you haven't taken the survey yet, please do so at blackCensus.org. We have more with Alicia Garza when we come back. 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. We still have civil rights activist and author in the building, Alicia Garza. Charlamagne? And you were one of the founders of Black Lives Matter.

And I often wonder, does that help or hurt now? I don't know. It's a great question. I don't know. I spend so much of my time figuring out how we change, who gets what, when, and why. And that's

politics, right? And so this last decade has been so interesting because i've been doing this work for 20 years i was doing this work before black lives matter i'm doing this work after black lives matter high school literally in middle school right so i struggle to be defined only in that way. It's something that I've been proud to contribute to and proud to be a part of. It's not the totality of who I am. And Black Lives Matter is still in motion. It's still growing.

It's still evolving. It's still changing. And it is still shaping and defining who we are. And that is incredible. And it's a lot And it's a lot. It's a lot. I don't want to be the Black Lives Matter lady, right? I am somebody who is working really hard

for our communities to have the tools we need to be powerful in every aspect of our lives. And so for folks who want to join us, hit us up at blackfutureslab.org and take the census. It takes 10 minutes. I love how she's on message. People don't do that.

They'll shout it out one time at the end. She goes on with it. You know what disturbs me, and I see it all the time, and it's when you have an activist, people always act like an activist is not supposed to live. Like you're not supposed to own a home.

You're not supposed to have a car, not supposed to have a nice jacket on. And that bothers me because it's like, you know, they're people, too, and they work. They have jobs. They have investments. And how do you feel about that being that? Like, it's like you just said, hey, I just bought a new house. I'm sure somebody's going to be like, well, how did she buy a new house? You must use donations that she got.

Like, and I know you must get that all the time well first of all um having just bought a house i want to tell people that the prices of homes in california is out of control absolutely i mean i'm talking about in the hood a house is a million dollars i like need people to understand this but also let's i, just zooming back to the bigger conversation, I think we have to be really careful about who we let tell our stories and why. Money, power, and credit is always something that people turn up about.

That's a fact, and that's not unique to Black Lives Matter. That's just been true in movements for a long time. And I do feel like one of the strategies in this moment is to decredit and delegitimize the strength of this movement. And there have been some particular strategies

being used to do so. And one of them is what I call the preacherfication of our movement. It's the idea that somebody is like selling you snake oil

and trying to profit off of you. Right. I get it. So same thing they do to pastors. Correct. Yeah. They do it to a lot of folks. Right.

And I think they're using particular tropes to try to get people to go, hmm, maybe I'm actually not down with racial equality because maybe you're not even down with that. Right. Y'all are over here riding on boats and taking vacations meanwhile racism still exists so therefore you must be corrupt it's like well wait a minute now follow this logic for a second um at the same time right i run an organization i run two of them i'm responsible for the budget of that organization i'm responsible for raising money in that organization. I know where every dollar goes in that organization. And I can tell you running organizations is really hard.

Sometimes you have people that don't know what they're doing. Sometimes you miss deadlines. Sometimes it's like a regular natural thing. And so for me, just I haven't been in this organization for about seven years, so I don't know all the background and all of that. But as a person who's close to all of that and hearing and reading all of the things that I see, I can be honest and say, I think that there are nefarious things at work here. And how does it make me feel to see all of that and know that people expect activists to be like martyrs

in rags and things like that? I think it's a result of people not actually being connected to what it means to make change and who does it and how they do it. I know a lot of people that do change work and don't get paid for it. And I know a lot of people for whom change work is their work. So I think it's complicated. But I think what's more complicated is that we're not as literate as we should be

around how to understand what it is that we read and why i wish that we could be more understanding of each other because you expect the white power structure to be against you yeah right because that's what you're fighting against you're fighting your systemic racism you expect that you don't expect it from your own people but that's the strategy right if you look at 2020 the thing that was unique about 2020 that was different than 2013 is that white people in mass supported this movement 2013 was uh trayvon okay right and so i think that that was actually really scary to folk and so when you look at the ways in which folk have leveraged strategies to dismantle movements they've learned quickly, like white folks can't just come out and be like, can't do hoses and dogs.

Right. That's done. They have to figure out how to create discord amongst each other. And this movement is wildly popular amongst black people. I think it's like 98 percent of black people support Black Lives Matter. So in order to dislodge support, you have to think about how do we make white folks not trust it, but also how do we make black folks delegitimize a black movement? That's not new. This was happening with Malcolm.

Yeah, right. Of course, of course, this was happening with the Panthers, right? We've seen this over and over again and i i hope that what we would do this time around is say well y'all better come up some new no they did they did this you know because i don't even believe most of these people that be on social media with these gripes i don't know how many of them are actually real they're bots you know what i mean i think i don't me wrong, there are a lot of real ones, but I think it starts

with some bulls**t. It starts with somebody trying to cause problems. But that's why we need vehicles that are about building our power politically because we see all of the ways in which they try to attack us

being powerful in decision making. I mean, that's really what it is. Bots were operating, disinformation and misinformation was operating during the election, right? Telling people the Klan is at the polling place, telling people you've been

disqualified to vote, right? These are all things that are attacking our communities directly, specifically, and on purpose. And so that's why we've built a vehicle to address those things. So again, if people want to check us out, Black Futures Lab dot org and take the Black Census. Tell us how you're experiencing the Rona.

Tell us where you take political action. Tell us if your wages are going up and down at Black Census dot org. We have more with Alicia Garza when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary?

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

I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. 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 tribe 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! Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. 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 gonna 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. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We still have civil rights activist and author in the building, Alicia Garza. Charlamagne? I want to talk to you, too, about political leadership, because I don't feel like there's any truth to power coming from our political leadership whatsoever. Even in moments like, you know, everybody was talking about what Senator Cory Booker said during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

I loved what he said too. But I still feel like it was a little bit disingenuous because you can't speak about racial progress while you're watching this sister be attacked by all these racists. You see the bigotry, so at least call that out first before you love on her. So it's never like

even when I saw him tweet that this is going to make America better it's still a 6-3 conservative majority Corey. Like how about y'all expand the Supreme Court and add four you know Jacksons on the Supreme Court. You know what I mean? So it's just like it's just all a little disingenuous. It's never truthful.

This is why I love you, Sean. What were your thoughts on the questioning and everything, too? I was thinking about you because I was watching the confirmation hearings and I was remembering also at a certain point, I think y'all had the Vice President in conversation.

And we're running her down. Rightfully so. We need to have real conversations about what progress is and isn't. And I think what is hard about our political system is that it is a series of compromises, negotiations and a lot of pomp and circumstance. And people like procedure over progress. Yes, yes. Yes. This is why we have not prosecuted very many people who tried to overthrow the government yet.

And we have people serving more time in jail for weed. That's right. I've been watching these hearings and I think in this country we have a real challenge around symbolism and substance. We really love the symbol of the first. Yes. Right. And you'll remember even under the Obama presidency,

people were so caught up in the symbolism. It was really difficult to hold him accountable to the substance. There was some good stuff that he did. There was also a lot of pushing that was necessary. He was not for BLM, right? And actually took a long tour around the world, talking to people in Europe about how we needed to stop screaming and start doing other things. Like progress actually takes pressure and it takes power. You're absolutely right that on the Supreme Court, we will still have a conservative majority and that we have to figure out what we're going to do about that at a moment where our rights are being whittled away by the hour.

That's right. right that to say that we've made so much progress when we can't get protection or expansion of voting rights, when we can't get any kind of reform, much less transformation of the criminal legal system, when women's rights are being attacked, right? And human rights are being attacked at the state and local level. We now have half of the states in this country who are severely restricted access to abortion, right? We can't be mealy-mouthed and say, putting a person in a seat is progress when we have all those things happening at the same time. And I think we also can acknowledge that all progress has to start somewhere. What was at the front of my mind was was I think it was relieving for her.

You know when you're about to cry but you know you need to just keep it together. I think what he was trying to do was actually be like just focus in. We're going to get through this. They're coming at you. I'm going to give you a little bit of room to breathe and you could actually see her body change.

But when he was saying all of those things to her like you remind me of my ancestors he was calling her sister you know he was saying all of these things to her that i think were important to see and i think were important for her to be able to persevere she needed that yeah she needed that i just be one real truth to power like don't say things like I am shocked by what I'm hearing these people didn't think about it and be like actually I'm not shocked Corey you've been in there a long time that's politics and you know Corey is the one

who will always do that thing about it drives me nuts I'm sorry it's a thing about how he's like friendly and friends with like some of the worst human beings yes we ain't got time for that no more i'm like these people are actually like not good people listen they talk about the death of democracy and they talk about our democracy is at stake

for the first time in my life i'm actually seeing it i'm witnessing it like yo they're really turning turning back the clock but it's like yo I'm actually seeing it. I'm witnessing it. Like, yo, they're really turning back the clock. But it's like, yo, nobody's governing like it. And I see what's happening now. They want us to go out there and vote this shit. Vote like democracy depends on it. When y'all gonna govern like democracy depends on it? Yeah, and it's not enough to say we disagree. We actually also have to

say this won't be tolerated. Yes. I was talking to somebody yesterday and they were saying to me, do I think Democrats are too bold in their legislation and too bold in the things they ask for? And I was like, well, what's bolded in rolling back voting rights legislation? What's bolded in, you know, over 200 GOP senators, you know, voting to get rid of Roe versus Wade? Like those are bold. Like how bold is that? You're actually stripping white rights away from people.

It's like so it's like what is it? what does that mean when we say we're too bold just because we're asking for our civil liberties? They're bold in taking them away. Well, that's one of the things that was so important to us at the lab about doing this Black Census is we actually designed a Black agenda. And the Black agenda was developed to create and design policy that we could agree on that would move our lives forward. When you talk about what's bold, we actually need to be a lot bolder.

We need to actually be able to say everybody deserves to have health care. Everybody deserves to have a roof over their head. And we are going to make that happen. One of the things that's really important to me that we start to understand is that when it comes to figuring out what is our agenda, there's the agenda of the Democratic Party that is a complicated beast in and of itself. But it is largely being advised by white consultants who are looking to white folks in the suburbs to help get their candidates over over the hump. And so what they're doing is they're saying it's too bold for white suburban folk, because when you go into our communities, people aren't like this is bold.

People like this basic. what I want people who are listening to do is to get involved in an organization that can help build the kind of agenda that is basic that are the things that we all deserve. You should get involved with us at Black Futures Lab and take the Black Census so you can tell us what you want, what you deal with every single

day, and what you want to see done about it. Do you think they even care about Black voters anymore? The Democratic Party? Or Do you think they even care about black voters anymore? The Democratic Party? Or do you think they're focused on that blue collar white worker in middle America? I think they're focused on the blue collar white worker in middle America. And I think that has always been true. We are the backbone of that party.

And we should treat it as such, meaning we should take it over over we need to take it over at the city level county level we need to take it over at the state level and we need to take over the national apparatus word my last question are there things about yourself that you learned over the past couple of years that impact how you do your work now yeah what i've continued to learn about myself is how much love i have for black folk i believe in us in a deep way and in spite of and because of i know we're not all on the same page all the time but i actually find a lot of beauty in our difference. And the way that we have chosen to survive has left a stamp on us that is difficult and beautiful. And the second thing I've learned about myself is soft heart, tough boundaries. You asked me earlier if all the haters and the criticisms make me not want to do this work. And no, because I've made a commitment to always keeping my heart open. I love us in such a deep way.

I'm not giving up. However, sometimes you have to stop people in their tracks, right? I can still love you, but what you're not finna do is. I'm not accountable to your opinions. If we're not in relationship, it's like, what do you care? You know what I mean? If I don't get to tell you how I feel about you, you don't get to tell me how you feel about me. My six year old daughter repeats all the time.

I don't even know where she got this from. She literally will say everybody's different and that's OK. I love that. She says that all the time. Everybody's different and that's OK. I love that. She says that all the time. Everybody's different and that's OK. So if you want to be in a place where you can be you, all three dimensions of you, come and join us at theblackfutureslab.org.

Also, please, please, please take the Black Census 2022. We'd love to have you and we'd love to have you as a partner. Join in at blackcensus.org and hit us up holla at blackfutureslab.org All right.

And make sure you subscribe to Alicia Garza's podcast Lady Don't Take No. Hey. And pick up her book The Purpose of Power. How we come together when we fall apart.

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We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Bridgerton. It's about time. What's going on? Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is the Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well, if you don't know, I was supposed to play the main part in Bridgerton.

Boy, I don't care who tell it, right? Shonda Rhimes called me up and said, Envy, what are you doing? I said, I can't right now. I just had a baby, but maybe next time. One of the biggest lies ever told on The Breakfast Club from DJ Envy. Probably second to your beard being real. Bridgerton Season 2 is out right now. Have you seen it, Charlamagne? Are you up on Bridgerton? I ain't never seen Bridgerton Season 1. out right now. Have you seen it, Charlamagne?

Are you up on Bridgerton? I ain't never seen Bridgerton season one. Okay, well the women love it. Your wife don't watch it? I don't think so, no. I ain't never seen no Bridgerton on in the house. You know how it is with your wife. Your wife will be watching the shows and you usually get caught up watching them. I ain't get caught up watching no Bridgerton yet.

Well, Bridgerton landed the number one spot with 193 million hours viewed, making it the most viewed English-language TV title in the season two premiere weekend. So Bridgerton is out. So if your ladies are watching Bridgerton this weekend, find something else to do. Well, drop on a Clues Mom for Shonda Rhimes, then. Boy, Shonda don't miss, do she? That's Shonda, sure.

Yep. Shonda don't miss. I'll just say Shonda Rhimes, yeah. Now, Kodak Black, he says 50 Cent and Tyler Perry. I'm watching. He said, I got movie ideas. I want to pitch to Tyler Perry or 50 Cent. Let's go.

If you know me and can see past the internet antics, you already know that I'm a very intellectual young man. So with that being said, I have some very interesting scripts. I would pay whatever to see Kodak Black talking to my dear in a movie. Okay? Imagine Kodak Black being my dear's bad little grandson in a movie. Okay? Can you imagine? Oh, my goodness.

Can you imagine? I would love it. Super gremlin. I would love it. Now, Lil Baby, he's teased some new music. He flipped a classic Drake and Hov collab. Oh,

hell kick. in a given time. Personal partners pillar talking cause I got interest without them. Only thing they should be saying is baby keep it silent. We ain't even deep as it used to be. This shit slick divided. Bruh ain't got no hustle or nothing. Yeah, you lost me

when you said classic Drake and Hov collab. I was like, Drake and Hov ain't got no classic collab. It's the pound cake. Pound cake is a dope record though. Very dope record.

Because that one record they did when Jay tried to make everybody stop wearing Timberlands. Remember that? No. You remember that record? I can't remember the name of the record. It was Drake and Jay Z though. And Jay told everybody to stop wearing Timberlands. Remember that? No. You remember that record? I can't remember the name of the record.

It was Drake and Jay-Z, though, and Jay told everybody to stop wearing Timberlands. I'm like, what? He told New York to stop wearing Timberlands? He told the world, whoever he was rapping to on that record. Oh, it didn't work. Not at all.

No. It was one of his only mishaps. All right, so we're looking for a 2022 takeover, summer takeover by Lil Baby. Now, Questlove, I mean, Questlove did win an Oscar. He definitely did. The moment got stepped on

because of the slap, but he definitely won an Oscar. So he was on a Tonight Show and he spoke about that moment and the Will Smith, Chris Brown, Chris Rock situation. A minute when the commercial break was happening,

I was just in my... So when I opened my eyes, I didn't realize, I was like, why is so when I opened my eyes I didn't realize like why is everyone so quiet and as I'm walking to the stage I'm kind of putting two and two together and I realized that that was a real moment like maybe three seconds before I spoke words but in my mind they're just doing a sketch or whatever and I'm just like okay mirror remember to thank your mom your dad you know like. So I was not present at all. He was meditating, he said. He had no idea what was going on.

I believe him. He blocked the room out. Yeah, because that's his moment. So he was nominated for an award. So at a moment like that, you're just into what you're going to say if you win. I totally can see that. Totally can see it. All right.

Well, that is your rumor report. Now, Charlamagne, who are you giving that down looking to? Man, four after the hour, we're going to talk doo-doo. Okay? Four after the hour, we're going to talk doo-doo. Who's doo-doo? Don't worry about who's doo-doo it is. You'll just be here to find out.

Okay? All right. Doo-doo, when we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. I teamed up with Zyrtec for this allergy relief message.

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You're rock, rock, rock, rock, rockin' with the best. Make sure you tell them to watch out for Florida, man. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey. A Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida Man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife. Police arrested an Orlando man for attacking a flamingo.

The Breakfast Club, bitches. Donkey of the Day with Charlamagne Tha God. I don't know why y'all keep letting him get y'all like this. Well, Donkey of the Day for Monday, March 30th goes to a Miami man named William Carroll. First of all, what does your Uncle Charla always say about the great state of Florida? The craziest people in America come from

the Bronx and all of Florida. That is a fact. But one thing I don't do enough is salute the great city of Miami. Drop on the clues bombs for Miami. The 305. One of the greatest places on the planet. We don't discuss Miami enough. I know y'all like to go down there for the weather and the beaches and the licking. Okay.

And the nightlife. But Miami has contributed so much to the culture of hip hop. Drop on the clues bombs for Uncle Luke and the 2 two life crew top five rap group of all time uncle luke is a whole legend and should always be respected as such y'all wouldn't have parental advisory stickers on albums if it wasn't for uncle luke uncle luke you know was considered obscene okay and went against congress to fight for the First Amendment. Artist freedom of speech, he really fought for that, okay? America labeled him explicit, which led to the mandatory parental advisory sticker you see on music now with offensive content, okay?

That impacted all musical genres, by the way, not just hip-hop, all right? He fought for the right to tell big booty hoes, you ain't nothing but a hoochie mama. You ain't nothing but a hoochie mama. You ain't nothing but a hoochie mama. Hoot rat, hoot rat, hoochie mama. You ain't nothing but a hoochie mama. Hoot rat, hoot rat. You hear me?

He fought for the right to tell Asian women all around the world, me so horny. Uncle Luke. You hear me? Uncle Luke fought for the right to tell you that Cap D is coming. And at some point after he comes, you're going to have to put your hands up high, your ass down low, and drop that boom-boom to the floor. That's right.

I still got them knees. You hear what I'm saying? That was a good era. Don't play no more. That's all I'm saying. Don't play no more. That was a good era. Have we all grown now?

Yes. Do we all realize that, you know, the music was misogynistic and sexist? Yes. But can we all admit that problematic music slapped? Okay. And it wouldn't be the same without the toxicity. And you are a liar if you say you hear that music now and it doesn't make you feel good. OK, drop on the clues bombs for Uncle Luke. All right.

I still listen to I want to rock right now. I literally mean right now. Like, that's my joint. OK, this man, Uncle Luke,ke had us screaming the color of feces for no damn reason okay proudly screaming out what the color of feces was just because some of y'all doodoo might be green okay sometime might even be a little hint of red depending on if you got hemorrhoids or how much fun you had in the bedroom the night before but it's universally known that doodoo is brown because of the legend named lufhor Campbell. And that's why we are gathered here today, ladies and gentlemen, to discuss Doodoo. OK, see, William Carroll is a robber who is currently facing charges of armed robbery and battery. See, a woman was walking her dog in Miami's Edgewater neighborhood.

She was picking up her dog's poop when William Carroll pulled up with a knife. No need to listen to me because I need to catch my breath anyway. OK, let's go to NBC 6 South Florida for the report, please. What was supposed to be a quick dog walk Monday night turned into a violent attack. Police say a woman was attacked and robbed on her way back home after walking her dog. She stopped on the stairs to her condo to pick up the dog's waist when a man allegedly came from behind with a knife and strangled her, then allegedly stole her backpack and wallet. Police caught Carroll a few blocks away, out of breath,

and they say with the victim's credit cards nearby. He told detectives he didn't do it, but police say he didn't realize he was wearing one of the biggest pieces of evidence, which came from the dog, literally. The police report states a brownish stain was seen on the defendant's shirt matching the dog poop from the scene. William Carroll is in jail because, number one, he's a robber, but number two, because of doo-doo. All right. This woman had to wear with all or maybe, you know, just in her fighting a little. She got enough doo-doo on him for cops to notice he had a dog poop stain on his shirt.

First of all, you're not just about to blend in when you got doo-doo on him for cops to notice he had a dog poop stain on his shirt. First of all, you're not just about to blend in when you got doo-doo on you. Okay, even if the clothes you're wearing are indeed a doo-doo brown color, the smell, my G, okay? The odor. We've all had dog poop on our shoe at some point in life. You can't escape

that funky-ass fragrance. Alright? Think about the time you had to take cleaning doo-doo off your shoes in life. So imagine walking around with it on your shirt. You throw the whole shirt away. Clearly, William, 62 years old, robbing folks at knife point, couldn't afford to throw his shirt away. But the fact you just decided to go to the cultural institution known as Pizza Hut with doo-doo on your shirt. Sir, respect yourself, but also respect the home of the book it program.

You can't just walk up in pizza hut with doodoo on your shirt and get you a personal pan pie and keep it moving. And furthermore, how stink are you on a regular basis that you don't even notice you got doodoo on your shirt? Not only did he have doodoo on his shirt, the officers found the victim's belongings and the knife. So it's an open and shut case.

Now, William Carroll is currently in the Turner-Goefeld Knight Correctional Center. All you brothers in that facility who are listening to The Breakfast Club this morning, you're listening to Charlamagne Tha God deliver this donkey of the day, if you don't see that man, William Carroll, and say, don't stop, pop that bussy, let me see you, Doodoo Brown. If y'all not calling that

man Doodoo Brown for the rest of his life, for the rest of his stay in that facility, then y'all have collectively failed Miami-Dade County. I'm not saying harass the man. I'm just saying his life, your entertainment, okay? Y'all just trying to kill some time behind those walls, and him ending

up there because, one, he made the poor choice to rob and steal, and two, because of doo-doo! It's just too much comedy gold to not let the jokes fly. Please give William Carroll, a.k.a. Doo-Doo Brown, the biggest he-haw. Ah! You tired, man? to not let the jokes fly. Please give William Carroll, a.k.a. Doo-Doo Brown, the biggest he-ha.

You tired, man? A little bit. You sweating? A little bit. Let that goddamn, let that damn, that pop, that scar fly one more time,

though. Go, go, go, go, go. Get low. Oh, get low. Oh, low. Megan got nothing on you. Get low. I'm glad you you. I'm glad you know. I'm glad you know.

Check it out. Take the front. Who's your mama? Why can't y'all just admit? Y'all be out here judging these kids. Listen, y'all be out here trying to act so woke, judging these kids for the content of their music. And this is what we grew up on. Okay? We need oxygen, bro.

Our era was so toxic and so problematic, but so damn fun. Okay? All right. Do you even have those classic tunes without the toxicity? Huh? Drink some water. I'm fine.

Yeah, all right. Okay? Don't think I'm not fine. I am fine. Yeah, all right. Okay? Don't think I'm not fine. I am fine. You hear me? All right. I am 43 with the knees of a 41-year-old. You look like you need a little Bengay.

What? I did say pop that bussy. You know what? So who Bengay? You know what? So who been gay? I who been gay? You know what? Up next is Ask C&E. 800-585-1051. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, call C&E right now.

We'll help you out with your problems. Whatever it may be. You having problems in that relationship? Call us up. We'll help you. 800-585-1051 it's the Breakfast Club good morning what's going on

you can call me it's time to ask C&E ask Charlamagne and DJ Envy anything call up now 800-585-1051 the Breakfast Club it's that time again ask Charlamagne and DJ Envy anything.

Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. It's time to ask C&E. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. It's time for Ask C&E. If you got a question, you can call us up right now. And hello, who's this?

What's up, dog? It's Char. Char, what's up, man? What's your this? What's up, dog? This is Sean. Sean, what's up, man? What's your question for C&E, brother? Oh, man. So listen, I went to the nail salon with my girl. She wanted me to get a pedicure. I mean, I've had pedicures before, but we went to the nail salon,

and there wasn't enough female nail stylists. Uh-huh. So she had a guy doing her pedicure, and I had no choice but to have a guy do my pedicure. What's the problem, sir? What's wrong with that? What's the problem? I kind of feel gay because when he got to the part

where he was twisting my foot and smacking my leg. You enjoyed it. You liked it. It felt better than Ling Ling usually doing. So, I don't know why you're blaming that on the guy. If you feel gay, it's because you're probably gay. I just went with my girl. Yeah, I was like, okay, so you're bi.

You might be fluid. You might like guys and girls. Nah, man. But think about it like this. When athletes get massages after a game, it's usually a man that does it, right? That's right. You don't have to feel a way about that, brother. You was with your girl.

You can get sports massages. I enjoyed it a lot more. That's the only thing. Did you take his number after, though? No. All right, then you could. The other day, my cousin Tony saluted Tony. He's a trainer.

And Tony was doing something on my back to loosen up my muscles. Not once did my penis jump. Okay? Did your penis jump, sir? No, no. But you said you enjoyed it. I enjoyed getting my back loosened because he was loosening my back. It had nothing to do with the fact that I'm attracted to a man.

So I don't know what to tell you, sir. Another man rubbing your foot. I already felt a little weird. It's okay. It's okay. Next time, tell him to rub it with some Bengay. Now, let me ask you a question. Are you going to request him next time you go, sir?

I don't know. Oh, my God. Y'all got to stop this. Y'all got to stop this because we say it all the time on this radio. Envy just said it. These basketball players, these football players, they get rubbed down by trainers and get sports massages by men. Stop it. That's just silly. You liked it. You liked it. You liked it. Hello basketball players, these football players, they get rubbed down by trainers and get sports massages by men. Stop it. That's just silly. You liked it. You liked

it. You liked it. Hello, who's this? Jessica. Hey, Jessica. What's your question for C&E? Okay, so my husband, basically, we've been not dating. We've been on each other since he was in the sixth grade. I'm 31. And we finally got married maybe about four years ago.

Okay. So basically... Why are you judging him? I don't like how you're judging your husband just because he decided to marry you four years ago after being a long night. Okay, no, no, no, no. We went to college. We went to separate colleges

and we finally decided to just make it happen. Well, not four years ago. We've been together for like six years. Okay. We've been messing around since we've been in high school. Okay. So we've been knowing each other, like I said, since We've been together for like six years. Okay. We've been messing around since we've been in high school. Okay.

So we've been knowing each other, like I said, since we've been in sixth grade. True. So what's your question? So, okay. I don't think he's cheating. I'm just trying to figure out why is he doing the things that he's doing. What is he doing? He booked a trip to Vegas, and he said he was going,

but he booked it on the weekend of Mother's Day. Mother's Day weekend. And he booked it. We're on the same credit card. And I asked him, I'm like, so you booked your trip? He said, yeah, I booked it last night. The credit card statement said you booked it two weeks ago. So

why are you just not telling me now? Like, we both work. You gotta watch your kids because we got two kids together. I'm like, you got to pay out some more for your kids to go. Every time I go out of town. How do you know he's not booking you a secret trip and taking you for a birthday? That's right. That's right.

You ruining the surprise. You ruining the dance surprise with your insecurities. I'm not ruining the surprise because I asked him, I asked him, could I go to the trip? He's like, no. First off, I got some Delta credits from him. He decided to book it on Spirit. That's his dumb fault. Whoa.

Two, I got a credit for Airbnb. He decided to book it. So now he's wasting money. Now, I'm like... I ain't got nothing to do with this. I stay out of people's

business, man. Okay, my mama said, if you ain't got nothing nice to say, don't say nothing at all. All I can tell you is black men don't cheat. Is he black?

Okay, I don't think he's cheating. Is he black? Yes, we're black. Okay, I don't think he's cheating. Is he black? Yes, we're black. Okay. I don't know nothing about this. Yeah, but, you know, it is Mother's Day. He might have been trying to surprise you, and you ruined the surprise.

I just see him in awe that, you know, you have children from this man. You've been together with him that long. Mother's Day is coming around, and he's not planning something for you on Mother's Day. That just seems strange. Now, I ain't going to front the whole Spirit Airlines. I'd be a little upset, mama. That's the part that should make you upset. And, and, and, by the way,

by the way, just maybe you should applaud that man because clearly he got a whole other family in Vegas and he going to spend Mother's Day with his new family. Okay? He done spent a bunch of Mother's Days with you. Okay?

So you should applaud that man that he get to go spend at least one with his new family. I don't see the problem. Okay? What kind of advice is that? No, I was just hypothetically speaking. I was minding my business.

I wasn't even talking. I was really just talking out loud to myself. Oh, my goodness. I wasn't even talking to her. Ask CNE, 800-585-1051. Jessica, I mean, since you already ruined the surprise, you should really just confront the man and tell him how you feel. Like it's effed up that you go into Vegas on Mother's Day without me and leave me with the kids on Mother's Day

and I'm sure he'll have a better answer for you. Hopefully. Alright? Ask C&E. Call us now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's that time again! Ask Charlamagne and DJ Envy anything. Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. It's time to ask C&E.

Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Angela Yee is out, so we're holding it down. Ask C&E. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Matt from Jersey. What's up, Matt, man?

What's your question for C&E? Nah, I got a cool question. I don't even want to be on the radio too long, but y'all had a snippet a long time ago. Y'all played Charlamagne saying, nothing can stop me. I'm on this butt. I want to know what happened to that. That never happened. That put me in tears.

Why would you just lie like that? Why would you just lie like that? Why would you just lie like that? And then you said facts. People don't forget, B. That never happened. Goodbye, Batman. What the hell is that, C.E.D.?

That just never happened. It's fake news. Chris, what up, Chris? What's up, buddy? What's your question for C&D, brother? All right, so listen. I run a paint business in Sarasota, Florida, Caliber Concepts and Painting, right?

My goal is to create a black business of elite painters. I love it. So what I do is I reach back to a lot of my brothers in the community. When I was in the street that I dealt with, to try to give them a new direction, a new route. A lot of them want to get out of prison or, you know, get out of whatever, jail or whatever. They want to try to find another route.

A lot of them don't want to return to the street. So I try to create a platform for that. I have a brother that I'm pretty cool with. He's been working with me about maybe a month. It's completely not working. This guy can't put doorknobs on correct.

After I instruct him how to take them off, bro, and tell him to put them back on, he leaves the guts out, put doorknobs on backwards. Everything. So what's the problem, sir? Are you calling us to tell us how you should fire him? You gotta fire him. You gotta let him go, bro. Right. Right. That's what I need to do.

How do I go about doing that without hurting the brother's feelings? You want to call him on three right now? No, we're not going to do that. You're a boss, sir. You hurt the brother's feelings by telling him that you're moving in another direction with your company. And you should also encourage him

to get better at his craft. Call him right now on three. Because once you fire him for not doing a good job, all he's going to do is try to get a job someplace else, and he's not going to do a good job there, and he's going to keep getting fired, and he's going to wonder why he keeps getting fired, and it's because he's not doing a good job.

So somebody has to tell him he's not doing a good job and he can get better. But maybe being a handyman is just not for him. Like, I can't be a handyman. I don't know how to put a doorknob on. I don't know how to put a doorbell on. I don't know none of that. Maybe that's just not for him.

Right. Why don't you call him right now? We'll help you out. Maybe. Maybe. Man, don't you get no damn... Call him right now. That's against some type of laws. I know it is. You can't just fire somebody over the radio like that. Why not? That's his friend. No, you can't.

Don't listen to Envy. What's his name? My whole thing is this, man. Listen. I'm trying to keep him encouraged. I don't want to discourage him from trying to continue to do what he's trying to do and stay out of the street. But working with me is just not working, bro. It's costing me money. I got to go back in a lot of times and fix it after I pay him.

You know what I'm saying? And then he's thinking that he should get like $1,000 a week. Okay, you got to fire him, bro. You got to let him go. Yeah. Let him go today. Give him a two-week notice today. Tell him he's good.

Take his vacation time. Give him two weeks to find a new job, and then he's out. And I got one more piece of advice. Encourage him to get more training. You know what I mean? Like, go back to trade school. Yeah, do something. Like, tell him to go back to trade school or something and get more training.

Good luck, brother. Hello, who's this? Man, this is Pre from Omaha, Nebraska. What's up, DJ? I'm being trouble, man. Peace, King is Dupree from Omaha, Nebraska. What's up, DJ Envy and Charlamagne? Peace, King. You the wildest **** in Nebraska? Man, no, I ain't the wildest **** in Nebraska.

I got smart. I'm the smartest **** in Nebraska. There you go. That's what I like to hear, King. That's what I like to hear. What's your question for C&E? Man, my question for C&E, so me and my baby mama, we've been together for like six, seven years. We broke up.

It's about to be a year. Charli want me to move back in. My lease up in September, but DJ Emi, you know, I be trying to get on that real estate shit. So I ended up, I mean, sorry for the cussing, but I ended up renting out my house and then to make some money and I was going to move back

in with her. But she was like, no. I wake up every morning stashed. She wanted to do her thing. But then, you know, I had to get an apartment. So now it's like, should I give her my apartment and move back in? We got two kids. Or should I just continue to go to therapy and learn myself and understand myself so I'm

trying to become a better man? I probably didn't do it the best. So, you know what I mean? I started getting real on that mental health. And Charmaine, don't lie though, you did like encourage me and kind of motivate me to take that step forward. That's what it is. That's what I like to hear, my brother. I wouldn't move back in unless your relationship was that good. And if you have doubts right now, I wouldn't

do it. I would continue to work on yourself. Make sure you're good first before you clear it. Because when it's time to move in, you're going to be ready to really, really, really move in. Right now, you're like halfway in, halfway out. You almost want to move in because of the money. You're like, if I move in, I can save some money and I can make some money off the crib. But that money

ain't going to help your sanity. And that's why she didn't want me to move in because she was like, you, and I can make some money off the crib. But that money ain't going to help your sanity. And that's why she didn't want me to move in, because she was like, you're just trying to make some money. But then at the same time, she was like, you're only good for providing because I work as a firefighter, I work as a paramedic, and I also own my own electrical company. Shout out to Black Power Redevelopers in the city. You know what I mean?

So it's like, I feel like she only be trying to be with me because I'm doing so well, and I just feel like she ain't really grown yet into, like, maturing and stuff like that, but no cap, though. She don't want the therapy with me and, like, anger management classes and stuff like that, but she still just, you know what I mean? So, you know, you can't

force it, you know what I'm saying? I think one thing that we all try to do, we don't accept things, you know, once we realize it is what it is, you know what I'm saying? I do that for my own sanity. let things be what they are so i think that y'all should just continue to grow continue to evolve y'all might grow together y'all might grow apart but whatever it is you got to accept it i do love the fact that you out there doing the work on yourself my brother yeah you'll know when it's time yes sir yes sir, sir. So until then, it's a hot boy summer. Go add Black Power Electrical IG.

You know what I mean? I'm about to take the page off private. He wasn't ready. You know what I mean? Other than that, I appreciate you talking, man. I'm going to get the fuck out of here. I respect that. See, he wasn't ready. No, he is ready. He out there doing the work on himself. You know what I'm saying? And that's what these women need to realize. How you go for one second about to move in with your baby moms to, nah,

F that. It's hot boy summer. Because he's accepting for his own sanity that things just are what they are. And he's not attempting to force it. That's it. That's it. He should go enjoy himself this summer. And she should go enjoy herself this summer. Like I said, they're either going to grow together or they're going to grow apart.

One of the two. All right. Well, that was C&E 800-585-1051. All right, when we come back, we got the rumor report. We'll tell you about Rod Way, if he's doing something great for his community, and we'll talk about it when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. All right. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Man, too many slow songs, man. Put Doo-Doo Brown back on. You stupid. All right, let's everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Man, too many slow songs, man. Put Doo Doo Brown back on. You stupid.

All right. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Rod Wave. It's time. She's spilling the tea. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Now, Rod Wave notices that gas prices are going through the roof, so he wanted to give some gas relief to his hometown of Florida

So this is what he did Gas house, f*** Hey, St. Petersburg, Florida St. Pete, 727 Giving away free gas April 9th Got a Sunoco on 34th right before you get on the bridge April 9th, giving away $25,000 free gas So April 9th, 12 o'clock, pull up I love that idea. And you know what's so crazy?

I've been trying to figure out a way to do that. I didn't know if we could do it through gas cards or whatever, whatever. But I love that idea, Rod Wave. I love that idea so much. I'm going to do the same damn thing. Well, I wouldn't necessarily do that. I think you would think it out a little better love that idea so much, I'm going to do the same damn thing. Well, I wouldn't necessarily do that. I think you would think it out a little better. Like the gas cards, I think it's better.

Because if not, you're going to have thousands of people out there to get free gas and $25,000 to go fast. So if you do gas cards that way, they can go to whatever gas station they want to go to. It's a certain amount. You do more gift cards that way. I mean, it's kind of like buying out the bar, right, though? Like you just, you know, you put a certain amount

on the bar, and then when it's gone, it's gone. The difference with the bar is you're in a club, so it's the people that's there. Now you're talking about the world coming to that gas station, and people fighting, but if you give them all cards, you ain't got to worry about that. And they can go to any gas station they want. When is it? When is it again? I think he's doing his, uh,

April 19th. I think that's the year. That's the date my book comes out. Yeah, April 19th. I want to see how that works out, but I do want to do something similar. I want to do it. Z93 Jams, I'll be hollering at y'all in South Carolina. I want to do it in Jersey, too, though. I'll be with you with the Jersey one. Do something big.

All right, now, Lamar Odom, he compares his Will Smith drama to his Khloe Kardashian marriage. He says he feels like he should have protected his wife like Will Smith did Jada. He said, had I protected my wife versus mentally, emotionally and spiritually hurting her, I may be still be married. Oh, see, that's this. I like that. I like that language. Because as we discussed yesterday, protecting your wife isn't just about your fist. Protecting your wife is really doing the work on yourself to show up as the man that you need to be. And that starts with mental, emotional, and spiritual work. Yeah. He says, uh, Will loves his wife. He says, I do not condone violence against anyone. He just said, Will loves Jada. And I was told love

covers a multitude of sins. Yeah, but also to that point, what we saw Sunday, and I can't believe we're still talking about this, but it is a larger conversation to be had. What we saw Sunday is somebody who needs

to do more mental, emotional, and spiritual work so they don't project their pain on somebody the way Will Smith did to Chris Rock.

And lastly, Candy. Candy from Real Housewives, of course, escaped. She was on the real and talked about some suicidal Rock. And lastly, Candy. Candy from Real Housewives, of course, escaped. She was on the real and talked about some suicidal thoughts she had as a teenager and how it played out. But when I was in middle school, I thought about taking my own life.

No. Yeah, I don't really like talking about it because it's like very emotional for me. I really wanted to go through the motions. My mother, at the time, she had a gun and you know how you're a kid, you go through that stuff. So I knew where she kept it and I had plans to use it. But whatever reason, God made her put it somewhere else because it wasn't where she normally kept it. I didn't even talk to my mom about this really. But the point of this, of me saying it is,

if I had done that at that time think of all the wonderful things that I would have missed out on definitely send the candy healing energy shout to candy and that is your rumor reports all right all right get your request in the people's choice mix 800-585-1051

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and fill out the Black Census Project. All right. Now, when we come back, we got the positive notice. The Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Just want to remind you, June 19th, Father's Day weekend, my car show out in Texas.

Texas versus New York. Trade the truth versus Envy. So many different people shout to Mr. Rogers. Pull up, man. We're gonna have a lot of fun. Bring the kids out. There's gonna be games. Carnival rides. Can't believe you're about to embarrass New York like this. And I'm bringing a couple

trailer load of cars. Nobody cares. Salute to Houston. Okay? Salute to the South. Nobody tricks out cars like the South. Okay? And y'all about to embarrass New York. This New York model, they're going to come with a bunch of expensive cars, foreigns,

and y'all going to embarrass them. You're going to be sad when you see somebody got a microwave in their windshield. A working microwave in their windshield. They're going to be in there cooking burritos in their car. You're going to be like, damn. Watch. You'll see. Well, get your tickets if you haven't got it. I can't wait to see you guys. I love Houston, but we're going to have a there cooking burritos in their car. You're going to be like, damn. Watch. You'll see. Well, get your tickets if you haven't got it. I can't wait to see you guys.

I can't wait. I love Houston, but we're going to have a lot of fun that weekend. So, Charlamagne, you got a positive note? I do have a positive note, and it's simple, man. I said this to y'all earlier, man, and I just want to repeat it for y'all right now. For your own sanity, just let things be what they are. I truthfully want to say for my own sanity, I let be what it is. Breakfast club, bitches. You all finished or y'all done?

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 for yourself. You're trying your best and you're going to figure and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Have grace for yourself. You're trying your best and you're gonna figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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