The Breakfast Club - First Class Worthy ( Jack Harlow/Touré Roberts and Ja Rule interview)

Episode Date: May 6, 2022

Today on the show we had Jack Harlow stop by for the first time where he spoke about his new album, family support, Lil Nas X, Drake Friendship and more. Also they had Touré Roberts stop by and speak on balance, the power Of "No", silencing the noise, worthiness and more. Lastly they also had Ja Rule stop to speak on his mothers day festival and Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to a Pizza Delivery Driver who sued friends over $1 million lottery winSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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DJing Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God. The Breakfast Club, bitches. The voice of the culture. People watch The Breakfast Club for light news and really be tuned in. It's one of my favorite shows to do. Just because y'all always keep it 100, y'all keep it real. They might not watch the news, but they're on Twitter. They're on Facebook.

They're, you know, they're listening to The Breakfast Club. Get your ass up. Good morning, USA. Charlamagne? Peace to the planet. It's Friday. Good morning. Yes, it's Friday. The weekend is here. Good morning. Yeah, man.

It's Friday. Wake up. You know, stretch what you need to stretch. Okay, yawn if you need to yawn. Brush what you need to brush. Wash what you need to wash. And let's get to it. Last day of the week.

How y'all feeling out there? Oh, man. Yes. It's Friday. The weekend is here. I'm feeling good. It was? Oh man. Yes. It's Friday the weekend. I'm feeling good. Long day yesterday, but I am feeling good. Let me shout out to, uh, Lincoln tech. Lincoln tech is, uh, I believe they call it a provoquial school. That's what, is that what they call it? Did I say that right? Well, Lincoln tech is a school that it's a, I believe a two year school that they, um, focus on different things. One is health care and the other is cars.

So automobiles. So anything that happens in the cars, whether it's learning cars, getting into the car trade. Yesterday they had their 75th anniversary. So if you're ever into getting into cars, fixing cars, anything that happened to do with cars or health care, it's a perfect school day sponsor all my car shows so it was their

75th anniversary dinner so I stopped by there yesterday at their gala so shout to Lincoln Tech Tina and everybody that works over there

and that's all across the country so we appreciate you guys what you do Charlamagne anything man you know

I'm a big Marvel head I'm a big comic book guy I was eating a hard boiled egg I'm a big comic guy you know what I'm a big Marvel head. What you got in your mouth? I'm a big comic book guy. I was eating a hard-boiled egg. I'm a big comic guy, you know what I'm saying? But I'm a big Marvel head. So last night, I went to go see Doctor Strange 2 and the Multiverse of Madness.

You know, if you're a Marvel head, you've been really looking forward to that. You probably just finished Moon Knight on Wednesday night. And I had to be there, front and center, as soon as Multiverse of Madness opened up. So I went to go see it and center soon as Multiverse of Madness opened up. So I went to go see it last night. Was it good? I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was expecting a little bit more of something, but that was just me and my expectations and watching too much YouTube. That's that's so. This is your time to get it off your chest. That's so I'm telling I'm telling Hey what you doing man I'm telling I'm calling I'm calling yo 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 Yo yo yo This is Kobe

From Jacksonville, Florida How y'all doing this morning Kobe what up Get it off your chest bro I just wanted to Touch on the The high prices in houses. I don't know about anywhere else, but, like, I met a gentleman the other day, too, and he was telling me how, like, a lot of people from up north,

they'll come down to, like, Florida and stuff, and, like, the houses will be, like, $300,000. But they got the up north money, so they don't mind dropping, like, $400,000, $450,000. And, like, it just got, like, it's real bad down here when it comes to renting houses and stuff. Yeah, that's everywhere. That's not just Florida. That's all around the world. Prices are higher than what they should be. Yeah, and another thing.

I just had my first child. It'll be a month on Wednesday. Congrats. It'll be a month on Sunday. And I just want advice on what I should do for my baby mama on her first Mother's Day. It's her first Mother's Day. It's her first Mother's Day as well. Get her some time off if you can.

Yeah, because that would be the main thing. If she likes spas, you get her a little massage in the spa. You take care of everything while she's just relaxing and chilling. I think that would be the main thing. Yeah, she wants some sleep more than anything right now, guaranteed. Yeah, I know. I've been trying. I work so much during the day, and when I close my eyes at night, I ain't worth a damn. I don't care too much.

I'm on my bed soon as I, like, you know what I'm saying, get off work before I go to sleep. So, yeah, I think I might just get everything out. You should get up really early to start celebrating her so you're up before her. And something sentimental. I already beat you to the punch, man. Like, every morning before I wake up, you know what I'm saying? I tip my tits on her side of the bed. I make about four or five bottles before I leave out, you know what I'm saying? I do my best.

I know I ain't worth a **** that night. So, I try to do my best. Good man. Good man. First Mother's Day is something that she'll always remember. Remember for life. So, something sentimental. She's going to remember that sleep.

All right, brother. Hello, who's this? Hi, it's Shanae. Hey, Shanae. Get it off your chest. Hey, Shanae. Hey, I don't have anything to get off my chest. I just wanted to thank you guys.

I listen to you guys every single day on my way to work. And I love the positivity and the message that you guys put out. And I hope to listen to you guys for years and years to come. Well, thank you so much, Shanae. You have a great day. Well, that was nice. Thank you. All right. And I hope to listen to you guys for years and years to come. Well, thank you so much, Shana. You have a great day. Well, that was nice. Thank you. All right.

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's about time. What's going on?

Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is The Rumor Report. Talk to Report. This is the Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. All right. Well, Charlamagne sat down with Lala on his Hollywood Reporter interview. Shout out to Lala.

We saw her last night at Natina's birthday celebration. And one of the things she talked about was her own mental health and staying busy but also it's become a crutch for me to sometimes not have to deal with a lot of things going on in my life staying busy in the trauma response is it is it trauma response that hit me so hard because I feel in a lot of ways that's me as well so there's positive and negatives in it because sometimes I don't know how to slow down because I worry if I slow down, then like the reality of a lot of other things in my life will hit. So I just work, work, work, work, work and take care of Kyanne. That's like what I know how to do and what I know I'm really great at doing.

What you running from, love? A broken heart? No. A broken heart? Now, another thing that she talked about was having a high profile marriage and people watching you to be like, I told you so. It was a lot of pressure. It was a lot of pressure. You know, it's good that comes with it. And it's bad when it's good, it's good.

And when it's bad, it's bad. Because when it's bad, then everybody got something to say about it. Everybody has, well, I knew, she should have known, or this and that. But I didn't know a lot of it. I went into it because this is somebody I loved, but I was leading with love. I wasn't leading with anything else. It happened, and it was a learning experience, and it's just another chapter in my life that I can learn from.

But it's also the chapter that brought me my greatest gift, which was my son. All right. You can take out that full interview. Mm-hmm. Yeah, she talked about a lot of things pertaining to her professional and personal life. And she talked about her divorce for the first time and how, you know, stepping away from her divorce made her, her marriage made her stronger. So go check that interview out on my YouTube channel

and the Hollywood Reporter YouTube channel. I seen La La last night. Shout out to La La, man. Dope interview. Alright, now Kevin Samuels, a controversial YouTuber, has passed away. He was 56 years old and this is all according to Melanie King who says she's

a close friend of his. She revealed on Thursday that she got family confirmation that he has passed away. She said it's 100% true. And the family has yet to publicly announce his death. But according to reports, he suffered from cardiac arrest, a heart attack. But these have not yet been confirmed. But a lot of people did pay tribute to him. Even though he had a lot of controversial things to say you never wish that on anyone so our condolences to his family and friends yeah i'm definitely sending energy energy to that brother's family uh as a person who prays

and wants to live a long life i don't wish dying suddenly at 56 on nobody because he wasn't sick or nothing, right? I don't know what his health status was prior to that. All right. Now, the baby won't be facing any charges for his involvement in the shooting of a trespasser at his home in North Carolina in April. So according to local authorities, officers arrived on the scene. Remember, they found one subject suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. And he had reportedly traded words with the intruder before shooting him in the scene. Remember, they found one subject suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, and he had reportedly traded words with the intruder before shooting him in the leg. He confirmed all of that on Instagram,

and he's not going to face charges for that situation. He shouldn't. You hopped the fence, and I gotta defend myself. I'm scared. All these things that's been happening to me, and then you hopped the fence? No. Nope. Not at all. I agree I agree I mean they still have to investigate so just

just giving you an update alright now Kehlani has said that what nothing good alright now Kehlani has shut down future interviews and she said no more interviews on her Instagram stories support the music or don't.

I'm done. She said all I care about is my fans. Only people I care about serving as the fans. I'm here for y'all and that's it. I respect that. She was supposed to do an interview with us this week and she canceled. So I guess she's standing by it. Well, they said she was sick.

And I know she canceled a couple of other things that she had. I know she had a couple of other interviews that day that she also didn't do. So it wasn't just us. So I'm not sure what's going on there. But, you know. Now, Romeo Miller has said that he lost fans after becoming a dad. He spoke to Tashara Jones at page six. And here's what he had to say about having a baby. I lost a lot of fans was like sending me hate mail when I

had my my daughter because a lot of people did feel it was supposed to be them. And as weird as that sound, I kind of like felt like that pressure up, being a child star, you have a different connection with your fans. It's like your fans are really a part of your life. So I think that's why it even took so long because I'm like, okay, when that day comes, I got to make sure it's with the right person. It's not just a moment that happened by accident, but it has to be with somebody who's truly deserving because it's going to break a lot of hearts out

there. It's a lot of pressure, but yeah, you got to live your own life for you, not for what people might have to say or think or for the fans whose feelings might be hurt because it should be them. If they're really your fans, they should appreciate that and support you and be happy for you.

All right. I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right. Now, when we come back, we got front page news. What are we talking about? Yes. And let's talk about the new White House press secretary after Jen Psaki has stepped away. She left her role.

Well, she's leaving her role next week. And Joe Biden has announced who is going to be holding that new position. All right. And also coming up next hour, Jack Harlow will be joining us. He has an album coming out today. It's called, what's it called? I was going to say hurry up and come home. Come home, the kids miss you.

Yeah, come home, the kids miss you. Yeah, so we'll talk to Jack Harlow when we come back as well. All right, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. I teamed up with Zyrtec for this

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We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Where we starting, Yeezy? Well, let's start with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA has announced yesterday they are limiting the emergency use authorization of that vaccine to people 18 and older from whom other vaccines aren't appropriate or accessible. And those who opt for Johnson & Johnson because they won't otherwise get vaccinated. They said in a statement that change is being made because of the risk of a rare and dangerous clotting condition called thrombosis that people have been getting after receiving the vaccine. They said they've been closely monitoring that vaccine and following the administration and have used updated information from their safety

surveillance systems to revise it. So that also applies to booster doses, by the way. All right. And Karine Jean-Pierre is the new White House press secretary. Jen Psaki is leaving her role next week. President Joe Biden announced in a statement Thursday she's also the first black and out LGBTQ person to hold that position. Here is what Karine Jean-Pierre had to say. This is a historic moment and it's not lost on me. I understand how important it is for so many people out there, so many different communities that I stand on their shoulders, and I have been throughout my career. And so it is an honor and a privilege to be behind this president and this first lady the best that I can, but also the American people. I think if you are passionate about what you want to be or where you want to go and you work very hard to that goal, it will happen.

Why is Jen Psaki leaving? Do we know? She's going to MSNBC. She announced it a while ago. Oh, okay. She's going to be a political pundit on MSNBC. And did we ever figure out who job Joe Biden, which his hand he was trying to shake? Did we ever find that out?

Shut up, man. I just want to know whose hand he was shaking, man. Hey, salute to that sister, too. Salute to that sister um the new press secretary uh and i hope we can get some legislation to go along with all that representation legislation to protect voting rights abortion rights legislation in the form of the george floyd policing act legislation in the form of build back better that's what's going to get people to the polls representation is great but uh representation with legislation is what really energizes voters

all right well last may uh kareem jeanPierre became the second black woman in history to hold the daily press briefing. She served in the White House's senior communications team since Joe Biden took office. And before that, she was an advisor to his campaign and a chief of staff to now Vice President Kamala Harris. Her family includes her partner, CNN national correspondent Suzanne Malveaux and their daughter. So here is what Jen Psaki had to say. And by the way, Jen Psaki's last day will be May 13th. Her family includes her partner, CNN national correspondent Suzanne Malveaux, and their daughter. So here is what Jen Psaki had to say. And by the way, Jen Psaki's last day will be May 13th. And here's what she said. I just want to take the opportunity to celebrate and congratulate my friend, my colleague, my partner in truth, Kareem Jean-Pierre, the next White House press secretary. First, as you all know, she will be the first black woman,

the first out LGBTQ plus person to serve in this role, which is amazing because representation matters. She will give a voice to so many and allow and show so many what is truly possible when you work hard and dream big. And that matters. And we should not we should celebrate that. All right. All right.

Well, that is your front page news. Yeah, a lot of people leave in the White House. You know, Cedric Richmond quietly left the White House a couple weeks ago, too. And it's like he didn't get no press conference. A lot of people are leaving his role man. He's leaving his role as a senior advisor to the president. A lot of people are spooked, man. When the president got off that stage and he started shaking

the hand of nobody, people are spooked about that, bro. The White House got ghosts. The White House got ghosts. We gotta get out of here. The White House is haunted. I need to be somewhere safer. Absolutely. When we come back, Jack Harlow will be joining us. He has an album that's out today, so we're gonna kick it with Jack. Absolutely. When we come back, Jack Harlow will be joining us. He has an album

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understand the white man can't jump cast and i didn't know you was that tall yeah no one seems to how tall are you like six two six three wow okay it makes sense so you can hoop in real life i'm useful. You're like a whole foot taller than Charlamagne. I mean, let's just say I've been spending the last few weeks sharpening. Oh, so they got you like training, I guess. I mean, they want me to be good. It's in everyone's best interest for me to be good, and so I have no doubt I'll look good,

but my whole life my brain's been rebounding in defense. Got you. So how did you have to audition? Did you have to play hoops or was it just more acting? I think the only person they wanted was me. Really? So I don't know if I had any comp, but they wanted me to read. So I read a few lines and I showed them that I was competent.

But this is my first role. And is it Billy Hoyt? Is it the same thing? No, it's a new character. Oh, okay. That makes sense. I thought it was a remake, like y'all playing the character. I mean, it's influenced by, but it's a new movie. It's a new story. Can you makes it I thought it was a remake like y'all playing the character I mean it's influenced by but it's a new movie it's a new story can you I can jump I'll tell you that I'm not allowed

to spoil the movie okay you didn't even see it until you got casted right yeah I saw it recently I think the movies older than you you I'm 98 What'd you think about it when you saw it? I was pleasantly surprised Most movies from that era don't hold up From the 1900s No not the 1900s but the 90s Sometimes you feel like it's I don't know I thought it was going to be more gimmicky

Like the movie poster is like really Colorful and you know the title has like a novelty Feel to it and then i saw it and i was like oh this this is classic it's an actual story the dialogue is classic like it's really well done so so who you practicing with do you got like a because you got money now so you got like nba players training you or well you know the movies uh set me up with some people so you know i haven't had to make any calls myself but i'm open-minded but they've they've been putting me in with some people. Did you get an acting coach? Yeah.

Okay. Well, how are you, sir? Sorry to come in so hot. How are you? I'm cool. I'm busier than I've ever been. Well, come home. The kids miss you, man.

My mom texted me that last night. She said, come home. Your mom misses you. She was texting me last night. She was like, yo, I feel like you're a balloon just floating away. F*** me up a little bit. Yeah, f*** me up a little bit. Oh, s***.

Like, just on some real s***, I had a talk with my mom last night that just kind of, like, reset me, funny enough, coming into this morning because it's just like, I've been on the move. And I think that's what comes with anyone that's busy and away from their family comes with it, but it's like, this is the first time for me where it's been just go, go, go. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to getting this album out and maximizing it, but I moved back to Kentucky, and I want to be around my family.

I don't want to spend my 20s across the world wearing my body out. I want to be around my family. You got to FaceTime your mom more at least, man. Why are you on the road? No, I do, I do. She just wants to be in my presence. She wants to see you. She wants to touch you, hug you. Yeah yeah she don't want to go weeks without seeing you

don't bring her places sometimes sometimes there's there's places but you know i mean she has a job herself she's she's in louisville you know what i'm saying she's she has she has her own aspirations she's actually a successful businesswoman so she she has things that she's chasing chasing but she just wants to see her son. It's exciting to go to work, though, and be like, you know my son, because I know at work, everybody's probably like,

you know that's how it's done. No, in Louisville, it's crazy. That's one of the things we were talking about last night. I mean, you know, people know my mom, but now it's like... They know your mom. Yeah, and they have questions for her, and they want to know her.

That's what she was saying. They want to know her now. Was she always proud that you were rapping? Because I know rap at one time was like, ah, here you go. She introduced me to rap. Really? Yeah. How?

She was a really big rap fan growing up. She was at Public Enemy concerts and all that shit in the 90s. And so I dug into her CD collection in the late 2000s. And one of my earliest memories is her buying Late Registration on physical and playing it in the car and telling me, yo, you can't say a lot of these words. Especially the one that begins with N. Please. Okay, sorry. Learned that early.

And now look at you on Kanye's album. It's insane. It f***s her up. I know that. So, but she had, you know, she had the whole outcast discography. She put me on the tribe. Like, my mom was seasoned.

She's a hip hop head. Not just the hits. She loves hip hop. So, I owe her my introduction. So she loves that I do this. That's dope. So what did she say when you made the Donda 2 album? I mean, she just, I really, I called her after he called me to come out there and be on it.

And she was just like, she cries easily. Do you remember the first time she told you she was proud of you? I mean, I'm sure she's told you that in life, period. But I'm talking about because of who you are now. She tells me a lot. She's told me a lot throughout the process. I mean, I've been chasing this since I was a teen. You know, I was one of those kids burning CDs in middle school.

I've been desperate to get on for years. Like, this has been something that's been a long time coming for me. So in middle school and high school, I was passing out mixtapes and I was hitting small enough milestones for my mom to look at me and say she was proud. My dad too. Dope. That's from the beginning for people that don't know. Hold on real quick. Do you care to share one thing that she said to you last night that

reset you? Honestly, that balloon quote. I mean, just her. My mom's well-spoken. She has strong analogies. She was like, I just feel like you're a balloon floating away from me. So it made you feel like you're not grounded anymore? No, I just think the distance.

I just think it was the distance. She knows I'm still connected, like, you know, but I just think it just reset me, floored me low key. Did you trip a little bit? Yeah, a little bit. That's moms. Where do you get your sense of humor from? Oh, my dad. My mom's funny, too, but my dad is.

Sarcastic has to be. He's witty. He's witty. My dad's really funny he was in construction now my parents work together they own a local sign shop so for people let's start from the beginning when you started recording you started making music how did you get into the industry as far as meeting drama for people that don't know dj drama that's right yeah shout out to drama drama canon lake like this Lake. I'll put it like this.

I was in Louisville in 2016. I just graduated high school, and I was in my basement with my homeboy. I checked Instagram, and DJ Drama had followed me. I remember looking over at him. This is when Uzi was red hot. And so Drama was very known for breaking artists at the moment. Obviously, he'd been doing it for a long time. But right then, for my generation, it was like was like oh DJ drama can change your life the executive

drum exactly yeah exactly so um I saw that and I was like yo wouldn't it be crazy if I signed the drum and we like laughed about it and I was like maybe one day a few months later I moved to Atlanta six hours from Louisville so I was making drives to go down there do open mics like anything I could to get on mm-hmm and I just had heard through the grapevine your drama wants to meet you at the time I'm working at Chick-fil-A at Georgia State. Me and my best friends had moved down. Like, I'm trying to meet anyone I can meet.

Your sarcastic ass working for Chick-fil-A. No, no, no, no. You just proved why you're such a nice guy. Now we understand why you're such a nice guy. Well, no, they didn't put me up front. I wasn't my pleasuring. I was literally buttering buns. I wasn't my pleasuring.

You were buttering buns? Pause. Yeah. Oh, Lord. Resume. And that's how you do it like this so the buns like up in the air no it's like a machine you just keep but like if you're doing it all day you just want to get fast

anyway anyway I get taken up to Mean Street by Randy KY Engineering it's like a crazy story how I met but anyway I know I'm just saying it's extensive Street by Randy, KY Engineering. It's like a crazy story how I met Drama. But anyway. We want to hear it. I know. I'm just saying it's extensive. Anywho,

I go up to Mean Street and I'm like, damn, it's DJ Drama. You know what I said? He's like, what up? Like he just has his voice and I'm like, damn, you really sound like that? I'm just like, I'm f***ed up about it. And so a few months later we ended up doing the deal. But I knew immediately I wanted to be there.

Obviously, their success made sense over the years, but they embraced me and they saw me for what I wanted to be. They didn't see me as a gimmick or like a novelty. They saw me as somebody that could really play ball. Were there other places trying to sign you at the same time? Yeah, but it wasn't like, I wasn't in that red hot space where it was like bidding war. You know what I'm saying?

It wasn't like everyone wanted, they were pretty early, to be honest. How honest how involved the drama canon and lake in the process of like making your music they're they're very involved and i like to go do it and then i bring it back to them and you know they're very honest with their opinions and they push me i think something's incredible and come back and find out it ain't so they'll push me i think this could be better canon is you know the heaviest on the music side but they all you know once we get to the end of the album you know they're helping tracklist they're they're they're part of the whole thing you

know they want to be a part of every step and i want them a part of every step you know i'm feel like i'm constantly seeking their approval all right well don't move we got more with jack harlow when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Jack Harlow. Charlamagne.

Now, whose idea was it to flip Fergie's, that Fergie record? Mine, probably. Did anybody think it was corny? Did they be like, no, I don't know about that, Jack. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't say corny, but when I was in the studio making it, and like, what's the first verse in the chorus? And I was like, this is a hit.

I was charged up. I was telling everyone in the room, yo, this is a hit. And everyone was like, I don't know if it's a hit, bro. Like, you know, this shit. And I was like, damn, am I tripping? Is it not a hit? I was like, I feel so strong about this. So I'm proud of myself on that one. And I've been wanting that type of record.

I idolized Fergie as a kid. So this is so full circle for me. It's crazy. What made you push it, regardless of people saying, ah, we don't know? Well, you know, you live with it. You live with it after days. And after a few days, I'm like, no, I'm not tripping. This is, people are going to be refreshed by this.

Did you play for your mom? Obviously, your mom knows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did. And she play it for your mom? Obviously your mom knows your time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. And she knew it was a hit. Yeah, she was, she always just like, when something, she likes something. What did the guy say?

What did the drum say? Smash. First listen. Okay. First listen, smash. Wow. And when they did that, they did that in front of some of the company that was like, I don't know.

I was like, I still don't see. See. How does a record like that change your life? I'm in the midst of it right now. I know yesterday they said there was a big crowd outside for you here at the station. I mean, it's another good one.

I'm hungry for the next one, but I mean, yeah, I don't know. And what about working with Lil Nas X? That has to be a great experience too Everything that ensued after that Yeah I mean Hilarity You know it was phenomenal

I mean the song changed my life What really made me blown away about that song Is when I added it to my set list And I realized oh he's making arena music Because I was doing theaters last fall Selling out like 2500's And a lot of my music is like very conversational and intimate And when that industry baby would come on I'd see the place light up so you know he pushed me to want to make

bigger music because i'm moving into bigger rooms this year so i want to make it's just the little knives is a legend how do you remain humble though with everything that's going on with the success and the the met galas and the charts and all that how do you remain still down to earth i i think my nature just might be self-conscious enough even in some maybe an insecure way sometimes just like how can i be better like aware of myself like i would be embarrassed to lose touch i would be embarrassed to become arrogant and i keep all my um my friends around everyone that i've came up with you know i'm a part of a collective called private garden that we started when i was in high school in

kentucky it's like eight or nine of us. And the families continue to grow. But the core of us is just stuck together. We tour together. You know, we go everywhere together. And I think when you come from, like, humble beginnings, especially down south, you know what real life looks like. It's hard to get gassed up by this. I mean, and that's like a weapon.

You know, when you go to L.A. or some places and you have, a soul to project and people are just like, oh, there's something different there. So now being from Kentucky is something that we've we've used to our event, our advantage, because, you know, so many people don't come from a place where you had a chip on your shoulder. Like we want to lift this place up. You know, they say you stop drinking. Yeah. Why was that? Did you have have a drinking problem, or is it just you just cleared up? Nah, thanks for asking that, because I want to make that clear. I definitely didn't have a drinking problem, but that was like my vice that I enjoyed. You know what I'm saying? I thought everybody raised off bourbon in Kentucky.

I thought they'd get you a little bourbon early. Not early. Like. At some point. Okay. At some point you fall into it. Yeah, I just, I haven't had a sip in a year and a half because i'm just i'm focused i'm just hungry i don't want to wake up with a dry throat i don't want to wake up tired i really

care about my career a lot and it feels like a fragile thing that you know not everybody gets so while i have it i'd like to just be clear there'll be a time where you know i can sit back and enjoy but right now i'm just like focus it's helpful, too. I mean, the last year and a half has changed my life and the lives of people around me. So we're rocking. So even when first class goes number one, how do you celebrate? Man, everybody was like, come on. Let's at least do champagne and shit.

We went to the studio. Everyone in there took some champagne. I didn't drink, but I felt good. I'm just head down right now. And I need to get better at enjoying, i'm just head down right now and i need to get better at enjoying but i'm i'm head down i'm focused now has dualipa responded to you having a song named after her on the album not publicly oh but privately she has well you know i wanted to get her blessing i saw a facetimed her and played it for her because i didn't want her to

be blindsided about it or feel like you know creeped out or anything i want her to if she said yo i hate it i don't want it to come out it wouldn't have came out but she was like oh i mean it's not my song i suppose it's okay she was just kind of thrown off and she just let it go so is that a woman is that a woman you fancy is that why you made the record i admire her. You admire her? It's about her? Yeah. Oh. So now what? Like, is our conversation more awkward after that?

I'd say they're less awkward. Oh. Yeah. I think we're good. We'll see how the record does. I think when the song comes out, she'll grow to appreciate it even more. Not if it flops. If it flops, you don't stand a chance with her, buddy. Right.

Now, what about album projections? Because I see they're already talking about what the album is gonna do it's bizarre ain't it yeah i'm like they do that with everything though movies music ain't nothing wrong with you know making guesses but it's almost like these like official mathematical projections which like you said it ain't nothing wrong with it but it's just i thought official mathematical projections, which, like you said, ain't nothing wrong with it, but it's just I thought it feels pretty recent that they started doing five days ahead of time after it comes out, like five days before the official. Now they have it before it comes out.

Which is crazy. But me personally, I like to see it. I'm curious. What's it based on? Is it based on pre-sales? Couldn't tell you. Interesting. Maybe the amount of songs, the anticipation.

I have no idea. What are you looking to do? I mean, the goal when we made this album was like, last album I did was 51K. And so the goal for me, this wasn't in the back of our minds the whole time, but I was like, I'd love to do over 100K this time. Well, it's definitely definitely gonna do that from yeah

so you know the projection if you keep pushing it you're just gonna keep desiring you know but so that was the original I said let's be grateful that we got past that what's the projections 180 150 to 180 I got it I got it like 200 225 that would thrill me yeah yeah I think you could 200 easy that would thrill me I think so too. Not seeing the Drake record release. It's coming. Now, you're somebody who they say that is very serious about your project. You don't leave the studio with any records. You don't email any records. So how did that record get leaked?

Wish I could tell you. So you have no clue? No clue. Man. Yeah. I was pretty devastated. Really? Yeah.

Oh, because you wanted people to hear it on the album? It's just like, it's one of my idols. I just wanted to control that moment as best I could, but, you know, the universe has its way. I thought y'all did that on purpose because the first class was out, and you were like, you know what, let me leak something. That's a little more rap. Nah, I wanted to clear it away.

I wanted people to be shocked when that came out. Now, when you heard Drake's verse, did you want to rewrite yours? I wanted to add to it. The moment he did it, I was like he went he bodied he went stupid he went stupid you feel like he bodied you on your own i feel like the link did but i feel i feel like that's one of my best verses it's a great it's a good verse thank you i appreciate it but he went so crazy that i was like yo i'm gonna have to add bars or everyone's gonna say he bodied me on my yes did you add bars yeah okay so on the one that we hear Friday,

it'll be... Yeah, there's new bars. Okay. There's new bars. It's longer. Our verses are the same length now. Do you feel like that's disrespectful when artists do that?

I mean, artists gotta do their thing when they write, but it's like, god damn, bro. I feel split because I actually feel like it comes from a place of respect almost because they had to get into that bag. They felt like, yo, you know what I'm saying you you activated me you you pushed me into this space um and i i don't

know how i could ever feel disrespected because what are you supposed to tell somebody you'll take it easy you know what i'm saying you want somebody to give you a great verse it's probably worse if they give you something that you like i don't even really like that yeah and some of his bars meant so much to me that I could tell that he was tipping his hat to me in a way that made me feel great. I was still holding a grudge against Drom and just wanted to body Drom's artist on there. I doubt it.

Alright, well, no move. We got more with Jack Harlow when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Jack Harlow. Now, how did you hook up with Drake? The first time I met him, it was like 2019.

We were in Atlanta, and I was at a party, one of his parties. And he was walking across the party, and he saw me, and he came over to me. And at the time, I was pretty wide-eyed. I didn't have a big record at all. But he was tapped in on me. He's like, yo, you got some hard shit. He just told me that. It meant the world to me, and at the time, I was pretty wide-eyed. I didn't have a big record at all. But he was tapped in on me. He's like, yo, you got some hard shit. Just told me that. It meant the world to me.

We've seen each other since over the years. When I had a show in Toronto, he came to the show. I went back to the crib. We've gotten to know each other. And then the Turks trip, we've just... Y'all took a vacation with each other? Yeah. Okay.

What was on his phone when he was looking over his shoulder what's the name of the tiki bar uh oh captain oak captain oak i was i didn't see i was looking into his earlobe so i didn't i didn't see his earlobe was it dirty no it was clean oh cleanest i've ever seen any hole is the goal any hole is the goal i saw a process of that one it took like 10 seconds like what do i got for this that's a great one taking that with me now what are the most important things you learned from like working with the little waynes and justin timberlakes and pharrell's and drake's and on this album i mean even like you said drake's verse was so hard. It's just, you walk out of there like,

gotta keep sharpening. You know what I mean? I'm somebody that's desperate to get better. I mean, that's why I've gotten to where I've gotten is I don't look at my music and I'm like, wow, I'm so great. Listen to this work I did. I look at my music that I've dropped and I'm like, hmm, what could be better about this? What's not connecting with people?

So, all those artists make me reach, you know what I'm saying? They make me, they make me want to reach to be better. Have any intimidation factors sometimes? Like, that's Wayne. I think,

I think earlier on, but I'm starting to feel, you know, they show a lot of warmth to me and they make me feel like I might be who I think I am. So, you know,

in this album, I didn't feel any intimidation, but I definitely have before in the studio. I've definitely had moments where I'm like I might be who I think I am. So, you know, in this album I didn't feel any intimidation, but I definitely have before in the studio. I've definitely had moments where I'm like, oh, I gotta come with it. I think people respect you as a rapper. Yeah. You know, which, you know, of course, being white,

people think, oh, you're just here because of your skin, but then it's like, I think they respect you because of your bars. I like to think so. Do you hate that white rapper conversation? Like, he's dope as a this, instead of he's dope as a rapper. I don't hate it. No, it don't bother me.

Do you ever listen to your old mixtapes when you were young, passing them out in school? Yeah, it brings tears to my eyes. Not even on an emotional level, just on some, like, turn this shit off. That bad? I mean, it's like anybody's shit. Like, it's like middle school pictures. Like, everyone, even if you don't make music, like, you have something from your past that makes you cringe. I mean, it's like anybody's shit. It's like middle school pictures.

Everyone, even if you don't make music, you have something from your past that makes you cringe. I know. I see the beauty in it. It's just a young kid that wants it, but I can't hear that shit. You should put some on for Throwback Thursday. Maybe.

We'll think about it. Because that'd be cute just to see the product. You were a kid, you know. Yeah, we'll see. Now, we've seen you at the game, and you was messing with the cameraman's uh camera woman camera woman did they try to kick you out for that because you were just in the light that is people were so mad like he could have made her lose her job yeah people were mad on the internet um you know me and her were laughing together the whole game so

you know i was just fooling around but you know i ended up apologizing to her because i never imagined that's what would happen. Things have cooled out for her, so I've talked to her since. Everything's in a good space now. You got her her chicken tenders? Yeah, I'm working on that. Oh, right. Now, you know you're getting hot when you start to get the industry plant rumors.

I know, right? You know, the conspiracy theories. I had somebody tell me Jack Harlow was the person that they're going to use to replace Drake. I hear I'm destroying masculinity, like a bunch of stuff you know I'm saying you are destroying masculinity how is that how is hearing that no no how would you destroy masculinity that's what I'm wondering oh it's cause you don't come from what what wow you had that bitch ready what do you mean what the fuck I'm a lyric on one of my songs where I say, I don't come from

but you can try though. I didn't know you could pull that out though. That's just game. You just say that to her so she can go down there and be down there forever. He could be serious. Some people don't. Is that true? What? Is that a true lyric or you just say that to her?

All my raps are real. So never? Well, I'll tell you this. Goodness gracious, Yee. I'm not gonna say that ain't a true lyric on this show right now. I'll tell you that. That's facts. Okay. That's my life. So what do you ask after that, Yee? No, I was just thinking about it because Emi's wife had

the same problem. That was a little different. Ten years. A little different. Wow. It's a wild statement she just made. I gotta explain it now. It's just so awkward. So me and my wife have been together since Wow 16 and 15 right you met her yesterday, right? So the first 10 years of our relationship she didn't reach an orgasm I can't believe we're here. Yeah, so She had to learn her body and I had to learn her body. We were young. I was her first.

We didn't know. So we talk about it in the book, and that's what it was. That's it. I love your vulnerability. There you go. But they say you're destroying masculinity? Huh? Might be, bro. Huh?

You got Topanga in the trailer. Yeah. Were you a fan of that show growing up? I missed out on that show growing up. Boy Meets World. How you know Topanga then? I mean, she's still iconic. She's stood the test of time. I'm familiar, but I just didn't grow up with the show.

Wow, so you're trying to double back? I just think she's iconic, and I got a lot of love for her. And she's been supporting me crazy enough since 2017. Really? Yeah, she was super early. She's supposed to be about you and stuff like that? Yeah, like she had a,

she may still have it. She has a podcast with her husband Jensen and they brought me on it really early. So, they just been showing me love for a long time.

You know, some relationships just, they work out. They're organic. You seem like the type that don't forget things like that.

You don't forget people who were like early on you. Correct. And also, I seen you at the Met Gala. Yes. What does Jack Harlow do at the Met Gala? get things like that you don't forget people who were like early correct on you correct and also seeing you at the met gala yes what do you what is jack harlow do at the met gala shakes a lot of hands wanders around is it uncomfortable for you like are you comfortable there's moments there's moments that are uncomfortable just because of how surreal it is but that was my second one i went to

the recent one in september and that one was more wide-eyed jack this one i walked in there like i've been 10 times or something so I felt comfortable the other night you feel like you belong yeah were you in the theme properly I was looking at the outfit I was you know sometimes the theme is throwing me off at the Met Gala yeah you and me both I was like I don't understand what you're supposed to be wearing do you like doing interviews with people like that like I seen you do an interview on the red carpet and lady was like what are you wearing a suit or you just do that with him the second one the latter did you see maybe i'm just like like protecting myself by being silly who knows i don't know sometimes i just if things fall out of my mouth what are you about to say did you see

game one of the stop it man what's wrong with you? Come on. You're holding the goal, man. You're holding the goal. Don't play the game. He's in the mouth. He does this all day long. Don't play that game. You think I don't watch this show? Grew up on this show. Oh, man.

Charlamagne and I have been bro lovers for the longest time. Man, shut up. You going to tell your whole sex life? Yeah, he keeps on bringing it back to him. Just keep talking to Jack about your sex life. Why? You said your bro, like. Bromance.

Oh, y'all f***. What were you about to ask me, dog? I was going to say, game one of the Eastern Conference Finals, semifinals, right? You saw the two referees. How did y'all just gloss over that and go to game one? Breakfast Club, man. It's the Breakfast Club. It is.

You said the two referees were asking who is Jack Harlow. Did you see that? Yeah. Yeah, he caught me. Did you see that? Yeah. I have no idea. Go ask him. That s*** was amazing. What did you think that yeah I have no idea go ask him that was amazing what did you think about when you saw it iconic I mean it just I don't know it's perfect and then I was like oh it's release week like what a start exactly yeah you know what I'm saying I saw a whole article

like was he really in Chronicles of Narnia oh yeah he did a whole article you got that right did you get it yeah because you see what they say about me. You see the meme. Yes, I saw it. I saw them and I saw the article. Somehow I feel like I can't tell if you have seen it for real. No, I saw what you said. Because you look like the guy in the movie.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I get that. I didn't know if there was something I was missing. No, yeah. It's like because there's a community of people that are like, he was really a Narnia, so I don't know if people really, you know. But yeah, they say I look like that half goat guy in Narnia. Oh, shit.

I'm an idiot, bro. So the fucking, when they posted the rest talking like that, I was like, clearly they never seen Narnia. And people were like, ah. I'm a fucking idiot. What? I thought you really dressed up as a goat to go to the Met Gala. Shut the f*** up. Because I saw a picture.

I swear to God. Oh my goodness. I thought that he was. To be fair, the Photoshop on that was phenomenal. I thought it was real. I promise you I thought it was. I just glanced at it. And it's the Met Gala.

How have you not confronted me about that yet? I don't care. I was like, that's the Met Gala. People dress crazy at the Met Gala. You really thought I was. I promise you I thought that was you, bro. That's amazing. That's amazing, fam. I don't care. I was like, that's the Met Gala. People dress crazy at the Met Gala. You really thought I was... I promise you I thought that was you, bro. That's amazing.

That's amazing, fam. I promise you. I scanned by it. I was like, I said, damn, Jack dressed like... I couldn't tell if it was the devil

or a goat. You saw that image? Yeah. What's wrong with you, man? Did you see the picture? Yes, but I seen him in a brown suit at the Met Gala.

I didn't see it. I only saw that one. He was a goat, man. That's amazing. The album will be out Friday, man. The album's out today, man. Which one do you want to hear? Let's do Movie Star featuring Pharrell.

Okay. Let's get into it right now. The album is out right now. Come home. The kids miss you. And we appreciate you for joining us. Jack Harlow. It's been a pleasure.

All right. It's Jack Harlow. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors.

Let's go. It's time. She's spilling the tea. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well, TMZ obtained some audio of Dave Chappelle at the after party from his Hollywood Bowl performance where he was attacked on stage. And here's what Dave Chappelle had to say about that incident. I felt good when my friends broke his arm. How bad does it have to be that Jon Stewart will stomp him. This is very powerful.

And I am sharing it with people I love very much. When it comes to Isaiah Lee, the man who attacked him, he is not going to face felony charges after the DA declined the case, but he will face four misdemeanors instead. So that includes battery and possession of a weapon. And in a press release and video message, the Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Fiora announced that

and said after reviewing the evidence, prosecutors determined that while criminal conduct occurred, the evidence as presented did not constitute felony conduct. Yeah, he should have got a felony. Now that's weird to me. The man had a fake gun. He had a knife and if he would have been able to do what he wanted to do,

which was probably stab Dave Chappelle, then where would we be at this situation? But the fact that they got out of him and now charging him for a felony, I think that's whack. Well, let me ask you a question. What do you have to do to be charged with a felony in Los Angeles? Like, what do you have to do? I guess stab him.

I guess actually stab him. You could possibly die. But you could tackle a man, have a fake gun and a knife, and he could bump his head and die. But you could tackle a man, have a fake gun and a knife, and he could bump his head and die. But you know what? It's just crazy. Yeah, because I saw he got four misdemeanors, right? And I know California is a very progressive state,

but come on, guys. Like, you can't be that lenient on a person. Four misdemeanors for rushing the stage, sneaking in with a fake gun and a knife, and tackling a person? Come on. Come on. That's assault.

Now, as far as the Hollywood bowl, they said they are reviewing their existing procedures, both internally and with the assistance of outside experts to continue to provide a safe and secure environment. They have implemented additional security measures, including an increased number of security personnel on site to assist with bag checks and other security procedures.

That is a comedian on TMZ that they actually seen the guy sneaking a VIP and he said he told security. This was on TMZ. I just ran in. They said security did nothing, but they said they seen the guy sneaking a VIP and he told them and security did nothing.

I talked to people at the show who said that the security was just terrible, period. They said they walked in with a fanny pack and their homegirl had a big purse and they said they didn't get searched at all. That's crazy. Alright, now 42 Doug was arrested by

federal agents after landing at the airport in Detroit. That's unfortunate and that is for failing to surrender and serve, well, for failing to surrender and he has to serve a six month prison sentence. So basically, he was on probation. Last May, he entered plea negotiations for a gun charge, which carried a maximum sentence of 10 years. So after that plea deal, he was able to avoid jail time, but they revoked his probation soon after.

They gave him six months in jail and two years of supervised release. Now he I guess had to go straight to jail now. So that's unfortunate for him. He's got a lot going on. So he's facing up to five years in prison now. And Lil Wayne has named his top

five rappers ever in a conversation on the What's Right with Nick Wright podcast. And here's what he had to say about his top five rappers. It's always going to be first Missy Elliott. Huge influence of everything I've ever done. Jay-Z is the best to ever even speak. And Biggie, obviously.

Biggie, then I have the whole, as a whole, I have Goody Mob. Okay. Yeah, and then I have UGK. UGK? Yeah. Okay, but so you don't have yourself? Oh, no. I can't touch them guys.

I would never put myself in my list. Oh, he's definitely on that list. Wayne gets busy absolutely positively. Yeah, Wayne's always giving Missy her flowers. He's always said Missy is his number one. And drop one of Clues bombs for Goody Mob and UGK. The Hov and Biggie speak for themselves. But Goody Mob and UGK, if you've never done yourself a favor

and listened to Soul Food by Goody Mob, please go do yourself the biggest favor. One of the greatest albums of any musical genre of all time. And I like to hear Wayne doing interviews. I know Wayne hit me one time and said he wanted to come on a breakfast club. I don't know what happened with that, but I love to hear Wayne doing interviews. I know Wayne hit me one time and said he wanted to come on a breakfast club. I don't know what happened with that, but I love to hear Wayne doing interviews. All right. Well, Missy Elliott responded.

She said, whenever Lil Toon Chi says my name in his interviews, Twitter don't have enough space for me to say my gratefulness because he is a legend himself who birthed many emcees after him. And as a man, to acknowledge me as a big influence for him, I send you love, Wayne. Another reason this warms my heart is because I've seen many times that a Wayne has said my name over and over for years, no matter who the interviewers are. And he has never been hesitant to say me as a female.

And for that, I am forever grateful. All right. And since you mentioned Goody Mob, let's talk about CeeLo. He sat down and did an interview with page six with Tashar with Tashar I don't know what's going on but um he was talking about trying to survive in the streets of Atlanta here's what he said he had to go through I used to take people's shoes and take people's jackets and stuff like that, just hang around at the train station and robbing people.

What year was this? 87, 88. So he basically said, you took my shoes at Hightower Station. And I said, sir, I'm so sorry. That was so long ago. I'm so young and ignorant. You know, please forgive me.

Then he said, oh, I've already forgiven you. I've forgiven you a thousand times. Your music let me know that there was an intervention in your life. All right. Well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Charlamagne,

who are you giving that donkey to? Well, if they can get things right, I'm going to give it to this young man named Philip Tostos. I don't even know how you pronounce his name. It looks like all the S's are silent. But Philip Tostos. It can't possibly be his last name, but we'll figure it out. But that's who's getting donkey of the day because he is a friend who is entitled. And I'm sure that, you know, we all have some of those. We'll talk about it for after the hour. All right.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Don't be out here acting like a donkey. Hee-haw, bitch. Hee-haw. It's time for donkey of the day. I'm a big boy. I can take it if you feel I deserve it. Ain't no big deal. I know Charlemagne and God gonna have some funny shit. Say something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I'm mean. Who's getting that donkey? That donkey, that donkey, donkey, donkey, donkey, donkey of the day right there. The breakfast club, bitches. You can call me the donkey of the day, but, like, I mean no harm.

Yes, donkey of the day for Friday, May 6th, goes to a Windsor, Ontario man named Philip Sossos. Okay, his name is pronounced T-S-O-T-S-O-S. And according to the how to pronounce thing, when you Google it, it's pronounced Sossos. I don't really know how to pronounce his name at all. Okay, I just know his last name sounds like it should be a pizza brand, which is ironic because he is a pizza delivery driver.

Sauce sauce pizza. Okay, sounds like it's in the frozen food section right next to Totino's, right by the DiGiorno. Okay, grab me a sauce sauce pizza. Well, that dream may could have been a reality. Okay, this man could have had his own frozen pizza line. But old Phillip missed out on some bread. Or should I say dough?

Wait, maybe cheese. Yeah, Phillip missed out on some cheese. Raise your hands if you're listening and you are an active member of a lottery pool. Okay, okay. I see you in Columbia, South Carolina, listening to us on Hot 1039. You in a lottery pool that plays Powerball every week. Okay, keep going. You never know, all right?

I see you in Savannah, Georgia, listening to us on 94.1 The Beat. You part of a lottery pool that likes to play that Jumbo Bucks lotto, huh? Monday's jackpot is $3 million, by the way. Oh, what about the lottery pool in Houston, Texas? Salute to y'all. You listen to The Breakfast Club on 93.7 The Beat.

Y'all like playing that Texas two-step, don't you? Ha! The winning numbers for that last night were 15, 26, 33, 35, and 14, by the way. Next drawing is on Monday. And you got a chance to win $225,000. Now, I'm assuming folks do the lottery pool because the more tickets you can buy, the more you increase your chances of winning i love it because i'm all for collaboration okay unity and group operation is a must but the

thing about collaborations there has to be something in place that makes that legal collaboration binding because one person could take all the credit and taking all the credit could lead to that person getting all the money and how can you trust this person to break bread fairly when they get all the money? Or in the case of this pizza driver, Philip, how can he expect an equal slice of the pie? Well, that's the dilemma Philip has gotten himself into. See, Philip is suing his friends. Maybe I should say so-called friends, but he calls them his friends. Okay, Philip was a part of a lottery pool.

A group of 16. Let me tell you the story because there is no news report. Phillip, who is a pizza delivery driver, said he recently left his job at an auto parts delivery company, but he remained in the lottery pool with his colleagues. He said the pool was put on hold in 2020 during COVID, but picked back up again in March of 2021. Now, Phillip said he didn't always pay for the tickets right away, okay, but the pool operated on a credit system. And at times in the past, he had owed up to $100, okay,

but he always paid it off. Phillips said in the six years he's taken part in the pool, he's never been cut off, and the pool operated on an opt-out basis. If a member chose to exit, they would have to tell the group. Now, Phillip in June said he had a tab of $30. The organizer of the group told Phillip he would need to repay the $30 and put another 10 into the pool to remain in the group. They had this conversation via text message. Phillip told the organizer of the group, this Friday, I will put that money in. Then Phillip said, he replied, actually I won't have to pay you anything,

just take it out of our winnings when we win. Well, the group's organizer, Stephen Tedesco, boy, y'all got some names on y'all. Webby voice. Tedesco also sounds like a frozen pizza, by the way. He told Phillip, ha! Okay, but I charge interest, a high interest rate. I have kids to feed.

LOL. Another member of the group replied to Phillip with a reminder, hey, pay your $10 to stay in, which Phillip replied, I'm in. And then the person reportedly replied, okay, just wanted it in writing before the draw, LOL. It's almost like these people in this group just knew they would do for a win. And when they did, because this group of 16 won $1 million. A $1 million max million prize on a lotto max ticket. And guess what they gave Philip?

If you guessed not a damn thing for 500, Alex, you are correct. And now Philip is suing for $70,000 and other costs, including interest. Let me tell you something, Philip, I don't think you have a case here. Okay. See, there is a difference between, uh, legality and friendship. Okay. Business and friendship on a first on a friendship level. If dude been down for the last six, the last six years, and you know, he missed a week, he missed a week of payment, I might still break him off because that's just the type of person I am. But I'm not entitled to do that.

Okay. And the key word here is entitled. Defense lawyer for the group, David Robbins, said Mr. Sosaus, or whatever the hell his name is, did not pay to play. Okay. So we deny that he is entitled to any of the relief that he is seeking and will be vigorously defending the claim. And in this instance, he did not play and he was not included.

I agree. He's not entitled to any of the money, but he feels entitled because that's just how friends are sometimes. Some friends that have been around you for a long time always feel entitled. And guess what? They are not, especially if they jump off the train before we get to our destination.

That's what happens sometimes. You and your folks been doing something for so long and everybody doesn't stay down. People get exhausted, want to do other things. Maybe they stop believing like they once did. And it's that one moment, that one moment that a person decides not to be down, that the breakthrough comes. And that's what it seems like happened in this situation okay i don't believe the friend group owes him anything i don't know what he's entitled to legally but the group owes him nothing and philip you're definitely

not gonna get your money now because what would have been your portion of the money is going to a lawyer now okay to defend the group against what I think is a frivolous lawsuit. Please give Philip Sarsauce. Damn, is it Sarsauce? Give Philip Sarsauce the sweet sounds and the hammer tones. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yee-haw.

Yee-haw. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day, sir. What do you do in a situation like this? What do you do in a situation like this? I don't know. Think about it. If you invest in something that hits, right, and your friend could have,

like let's just say your friend invested with you a couple of times before, you know, and the investment didn't pay off. But this one time that you invested something, you're telling him, like, yo, get down on this, and he didn't or she didn't, and then, you know, it pops off. Do you owe that person anything just because y'all invested in some times before? No.

You don't owe anybody anything, but if you choose to do it, nice. But you don't have to. That's what I say. I feel that way, too. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now, up next, Tore Roberts will be joining us. He's an author.

Tore Roberts, man. Pastor. Okay? Spiritual leader. Entrepreneur. All right? he's an author Torrey Roberts man pastor okay spiritual leader entrepreneur alright he comes from a a great family

of spiritual leaders that's Bishop T.D. Jakes son-in-law and he's married to Queen Sarah Jake Roberts man I love hearing these

individuals speak okay they really got us through especially during the pandemic so can't wait to talk to Tori Roberts. She's got a new book out called Balance. That's right. And we're going to kick it with them next. So, don't move. It's The Breakfast

Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Author Tori Roberts. How are you, sir? Man, I'm excellent. Excellent. Great to be here with you. Absolutely. The new book, Balance, positioning yourself to do excellent. Excellent. Great to be here with you. Absolutely.

The new book, Balance, Positioning Yourself to Do All Things Well. Tell us about that title, man. Well, when you think about balance, it's something that everybody's after. You never hear somebody saying, I feel like my life is so balanced. It's always something that they're operating from a deficit from. So I've discovered through my own journey with balance, balance and family life, church, ministry, business, that you can achieve it because most people think it's a myth. You said balance is a place. So tell us about that place. Yeah. So most people think that balance is a discipline. If I figure out how to divide myself up to, you know, between my family, my work, et cetera, then that's how I achieve balance.

But I've discovered that balance is really about becoming all of yourself. It's a place where peace flows. It's a place where your highest self lives. And so it's not about discipline. It's about what you bring to becoming whole. So in other words, let me put it this way. It's not about giving pieces of yourself to something. That's what most people think.

I got a family. I got a wife. I got all these particular things. How do I divvy myself up? And I can't give my wife 10% of me. That's right. I can't give work 10% of me. So I have to find out how to become all of myself and then give my highest self to everything in sequence.

Let's talk about how you got to that point. Because in the foreword of the book, the great Sarah J. Roberts, your wife, she says, I can remember the first time I witnessed him break the rhythm of our life so that we could address what the soul of our family needed. What did that look like? Oh, it was amazing. So a lot of times we get caught up in the rat race of things. And we do have responsibilities. Those responsibilities are real. But the reality of it is there's something missing.

There's something that we need. So I had to stop and recognize that, you know i had a congregation you know that day i pretty much i didn't cancel service but i excused myself from the pool but i asked somebody else speak because i realized that what my soul needed and the soul of my family needed was not for me to get and go down on that stage but for us to take a minute pause breathe and get what our family needs and so in the book i talk about the difference between self-awareness and soul awareness. Self-awareness, a lot of people are self-aware. They're trying to understand why they do things.

And I think it's wonderful. We use that phrase all the time. Self-aware. Yeah, and it's a wonderful thing. People are trying to get in touch with self. But there's a deeper level to that. Soul awareness. You were created not just a self but a soul and so it's a deeper level so i so me taking

the time to be still i saw what my soul needed and and the soul of my family needed and that's it's just critical self-aware but soul aware are you really tapped into your soul you know and in order to do that you got to stop you got a life is noisy most people see if you don't know the difference between self and soul your soul will be craving something your soul will need something it will long for something and you'll be trying to satisfy it with what self wants and so you'll be trying to satisfy with what you know physical things all that kind of stuff because you're trying to, you, you sense the longing, but you aren't in touch with your soul deep enough to know that it's the soul that's hungry. And what, um, what you do to satisfy the soul is different from what you do to satisfy the soul. No, I think that's so interesting. And I, I agree with you a hundred percent. Um,

but I feel like there has to be a level of self-awareness to even know you're lacking that for sure. You know, self-awareness is where it starts. I mean, it's a beautiful thing. I'm not down in self-awareness. That's where it starts, sure you know self-awareness is where it starts i mean it's a beautiful thing i'm not down in self-awareness that's where it starts but there's another level now another thing you talk about is noise and everything and and i thought about that when after i read that and i was paying attention to like all the noisiness around me and trying to just find that stillness so can you discuss that that for people who may be having that same issue? Yeah. I mean, the reason why most people aren't so aware is because they don't know how to be still enough. Man, life is life is noisy. Like every single day, there's so many things coming at you that you don't know whether it's your thought, whether it's somebody else's thought.

You get on social media and you scroll and you go through like 40 different emotions in 30 seconds. You're mad, you're happy, you're sad, you're envious, you're jealous, all these sort of things. And so it is the discipline of silence and the noise. And here's why that's hard. Noise has become normal. Stillness should be normal, but it's so noisy and so you got to be extremely intentional about shutting it down silencing the noise so that you can hear your own thoughts and prayerfully connect with your soul because your soul knows what it needs and if you listen to your soul it will lead

you to balance that that's an imbalance that's a heavy imbalance because you'll have people and i think about this you'll be at this person will be at home minding a business and you'll post something that you know is going to infuriate people. You post something that you know is going to be noisy. And I'm like, why would you disturb your peace by disturbing the peace of others? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think that if when you're a noisy person, in essence, you're a chaotic person chaotic people create chaos it just it just kind of is what it is and it isn't until you can come to a place of stillness and quiet the noise in your life where you don't have chaos inside that you can manifest produce project chaos outside and that's why i wrote this book i want to get rid of the inner chaos so that we can come back to this place of flow and harmony how what are some

ways you do that for me like people always ask me like what what's the first step to balance i say the first step to balance isn't a step at all it's to stop and the crazy thing is and here's the hard people think that it takes faith to step out and that's true but it takes more faith to stop to believe that that you can actually stop and your world will not come crashing down. You need to stop. I need to stop. We're not machines. We can't even machines can't run and run and run and run without service, without coming down. So for me, you know, I stop, I get still. I try to become aware of what's going on. Like, what do I need? You know, this day it might be a drive. You know, I might just need a drive. Another day it might be a walk. Another day it might be, you know, just to get still, lay out, meditate. And so it changes. It varies in the moment. But if you're still enough

and sensitive enough, you'll know exactly what discipline you need to get where you're trying to go. Can you expand on the five signs of imbalance that you talk about in chapter five? The first one is stagnation. When you feel stuck, just know that you're out of balance because everything is supposed to move. We're moving right now. If I look close enough at you right now, I'm going to see your chest going up and going back. The whole earth is spinning. If you don't have bowel movements, that's probably a little nasty, but if you don't have bowel movements, you're in trouble. You need some fiber. Yes, you need some fiber. So stagnation is unnatural. So stagnation is a sign of imbalance. Declining thought life, right? All of a sudden,

no matter what somebody says to you, all you hear is a negative. They said hello when you said, why are you talking to me? I'm trying to, you know what I mean? So a declining, when you go to the lowest possible outcome of a conversation, that's another sign. Weariness is another sign of balance. And there's a difference between tiredness and weariness. I define weariness as this, the gradual gravitational pull down to the tarback of disaster. When you are weary, you are on your way down.

You're not producing right. You're not acting right. Listen, your integrity can start slipping. Why? Because because you're weary. And the way that you deal with weariness is different than the way you deal with tiredness. Tiredness. You can take a nap and be OK. But you're going to have to do something to restore your spirit, your soul and your mind, get you back aligned so that you can get busy and be your highest self. Envy and jealousy is another one. Right. When you're not balanced, when you're out of balance, you hate to see success on somebody else because you haven't tapped into the environment that affirms you and who you are. Right. So so when I'm balanced, man, I'm good with you doing well because I feel connected to that. And so those are just some of the signs. I think that that affirms you and who you are, right? So when I'm balanced, man, I'm good with you doing well because I feel connected to that.

And so those are just some of the signs. I think that was for the fifth one. I can't remember, but yeah, just read the book. I'm not going to give it all to you. Yeah. All right, we got more with Toray Roberts. When we come back, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Torrey Roberts. Charlamagne? Let's talk about the power of no. And I like what you said earlier about, you know, being a servant but taking time for yourself. Oh, yeah. You know, even if you are of service, it is okay to say no.

You got to set your boundary. Why is the power of no so important? Oh, no is everything. No is important because yes is expensive. When you say yes to something, you are committing your energy, you're committing your time, you're committing your availability. And what happens is if you give out these yeses and it's easy to give out a yes, there's instant gratification. People love you. All your people please. Oh, you know, there's no conflict or whatever. But what happens when you've given out so many yeses? And remember, you're a limited resource. You have limited amount of energy, limited amount of time. You're limited.

So if you're giving out all your yeses all day, every day, when something that you prayed for, when something that you worked hard for, when an opportunity shows up, you're out of yeses. Because you spent, yeses is currency. You spend all your currency on things that matter. So I think no is important the only way that you're going to have enough yeses to win in life is if you give a healthy

amount of no's the reason why i love no is because no will qualify a relationship because there's some relationships that only work because you always say yes and if you can't handle my no then we ain't friends question do you think because i know some people will say well well god never says no which i disagree i completely disagree with that could you break that down let me tell you something so in in 2019 i was blessed to produce a television show based on my life that we sold to abc studios it was serendipitous every step along the way everything came together we sold the show in the room we got the right writer attached to it we got you know it was it was everything was flowing it was blessed we we shot

this thing on on on the same uh set that seinfeld was i mean all these signs it was on it was all the trades were talking about a variety highly reported deadline this is going to happen it was the pilot the studio put millions of dollars into producing this. Yes, yes, yes. I'm in L.A. I'm from L.A. I got my bags packed, ready to come to New York for the upfronts because this show is going to series. I'm like, oh, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. And then we got the call at the last minute. Network said we're not taking the show to series. Wow. And I'll be honest with you. I tried to play it off, but I was devastated. But then something came to me and something was like, God was in all the yeses. When you had all the yeses along the way, you were praising God. Do you mean to tell me that you can handle God's yes,

but you can't handle his no? What I learned is I knew how to win Charlemagne, but I didn't know how to lose. Who you are when you lose says more about you than who you are when you win. I had to learn that there's a difference between losing and being a loser. There's a difference between failing and being a failure. I have this saying, never waste a perfectly good failure. Because if you do an autopsy on your failure, you will find tips and tools and insights to set you up for the next win that will come if you keep your head up.

Wow. How do we get over the guilt of saying no to people we love? Listen, they'll get over it. I mean, at the end of the day, like, see, because here's the thing. What we're talking about is loyalty. I grew up on loyalty.

My parents were Black Panthers, so the Panthers were loyal to each other. I grew up in Watts. I knew all about loyalty there. I'm extremely loyal. But loyalty is tricky. I have a limit to my loyalty. And my limit to my loyalty is if me being loyal to you makes me disloyal to me, we're done. That's the limit of loyalty. So it is this fault. People

say, you know, I'm loyal to a fault. Loyalty is not supposed to make you, it's not supposed to bring you to a fault. Loyalty is supposed to be a good thing. So, so you just get over, you say, listen, you can be nice. Hey, you know, look, I love you. I wish I could do this, you know, but I can't because if I do this, that's going to violate something that I'm trying to accomplish. How does someone know that they're balanced? Some of the signs, I think, of being balanced is you feel abundant. You have an abundance of patience. You have an abundance of creativity. You have an abundance of innovation. You feel abundant. And so so when you're not balanced, it's the opposite of that.

You have a deficit mentality. You have a deficit mentality. You have a lack mentality. I know successful people, successful people that we would, you know, some people would just love to be them. But the only reason why they are successful on the level that they're successful is because they have a lack mentality. They're not running towards their abundance. They're running from lack and that's fear and the problem with that you might say well what's if they're successful why does it matter it does matter because one if you are successful being driven by an abundant mentality you're unlimited fear is limited when you're when you're running from something and it look and that used to be me i was running from watts you know and and i thrived in corporate America for many years, but I was running. I

was running. I couldn't even enjoy it. It was never enough. Now, you've mentioned Watts a couple of times. What set you clean? I appreciate you asking me that. I was more around than that, but I knew all the guys, but the closest gang was Grape Street. You never wanted to be either? You know, I think that I admired as a young man man i admired who didn't have his father in the house i think i admired the loyalty i admired the respect i admired i admired all that stuff but honestly the older guys kept me away from it they were like i remember them like look man you're too smart for this like you almost to a certain certain degree, you're not really like us. So I had people like that watching out for me and the street that I lived on,

it was amazing because crazy things happened across the street. Crazy things happened on the street behind mine, but my one street, I think it was my grandmother's prayers or something, my one street was covered. And so I think God shielded me because there was a purpose on my life.

Now, I did get shot when I was 16 years old and I almost died. Wow. That did happen to me. Drive by? Yeah, yeah. What's the difference between finding balance and finding worthiness? I think that worthiness is very much a part of it.

Because I think when you're balanced, you experience your value. When you're balanced, you don't really need much. I think that when you're not balanced, man, you're needy. You know what I mean? Like, like in the book I talk about, you know, alone and how a lot of people think that being alone is a negative thing. No, it's not. In fact, like alone, if you break down the origin of that word is from a Latin phrase, a Latin phrase, our honor. And that means all one. So alone was never this thing that meant that you were deprived of something or you're missing out of something it actually means that you because you're alone you

have the opportunity to be all one all of yourself and so a lot of people you know some or many people i should say want to be in relationships they don't want to be alone they feel like it's a setback to be alone no no no no no get your wholeness together get become our honor become all one when i met my wife man i wasn't half me you know me i was all me right i didn't need her and she didn't need me and so it was our wholeness because we were all one that we said hey wait we can rock together because because we match and what match was our wholeness. Tore Roberts, balance, positioning yourself to do all things. Well, go get that.

When does it come out today? Today. Okay. Okay. Oh, absolutely. All right. Today.

You know, I got the advanced copy. Tore, thank you for joining us, brother. It's always a pleasure, man. You know,

y'all, y'all whole family really gets me through in a real way from your father-in-law to your wife, to yourself. Like I am really tuned in to the Potter house in a real way. So thank y'all for your service. Wow. Thank you. Much love to each of you. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club.

Everybody is DJ. 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. 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, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of

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Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love

hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 for yourself. You're trying your best And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Marie. And I'm Sydney. And we're mess.

Well, not a mess, but on our podcast called Mess, we celebrate all things messy. But the gag is, not everything is a mess. Sometimes it's just living. Yeah, things like J-Lo on her third divorce. Living. Girls' trip to Miami. Mess. Ozempic.

Messy, skinny living. Restaurant stealing a birthday cake. Mess. Wait, what flavor was the cake though? Okay, that's a good question. Hooking up with someone in accounting and then getting a promotion. Living. Breaking up with your girlfriend while on Instagram Live.

Living. It's kind of mess. Yeah. Well, you get it. Got it? Live, love, mess. Listen to Mess with Sydney Washington and Marie Faustin on iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean.

He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian.

Elian. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him.. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzales wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died

trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network,

available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. JNV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors, let's talk new music. Listen up, it's just in. All the gossip, gossip. The Rumor Report. Gossip, gossip. With Angela Yee. It's just in. All the gossip. Gossip. The Rumor Report. Gossip.

Gossip. With Angela Yee. It's the Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club. All right. Well, Method Man has a new album out, Meth Lab Season 3, and it's 12 songs live from the Meth Lab featuring Redman, KRS-One, Jojo Pellegrino. So, yeah, get ready for that, Jadakiss Capadonna.

Jack Harlowlow as you know because he was on the show this morning has a new album out today Come Home The Kids Miss You on that album is a lot of heavy hitters like Drake

Lil Wayne Pharrell Justin Timberlake all kinds of people also Bad Bunny has a new album out Un Verano Senti and you can

listen to that it's a follow up to his 2020 El Utomo Tour Del Mundo what does that. It's the follow up to his 2020 El Útermo Tour del Mundo What does that mean? Of the world. Un Verano Sentí. He's also

starring in the upcoming Marvel film El Muerto which we discussed previously. Here's some new Bad Bunny. And Ella May, her new album, Heart on My Sleeve. And you can listen to her interview on The Breakfast Club's YouTube channel or on the podcast. It's been nearly four years since she put out her debut album. And now, Heart on My Sleeve is out. Okay, shout out to Ella Mai. Here's Ella Mai's Leave You Alone. Now Future has added six more tracks to I Never Liked You.

It's a deluxe edition, including the previously released Worst Day. The new tracks include features from Little Baby, Babyface Ray, 4toDoug, Little Dirk, and Young Scooter. Here's Future with Like Me featuring 4toDoug and Little Baby. And by the way, I Never Liked You is on pace to be the best-selling album of the week. A lot of those streams that he got, because he reportedly got 60 million streams in the U.S. on the first day of release came from Apple Music and it broke some Apple Music global streaming records for 2022. Congratulations to him. And IDK has a new EP out called... Biggest release of the year too, right? One of the biggest releases of the year. I think it's the biggest rap release of the year. Yes, indeed. And IDK has a new EP out is called Simple.

Also, A$AP Rocky, quote, proposed to Rihanna, and that was through his girls in their video DMB, That's My Bitch. Okay, that single and accompanying visual arrived yesterday. Here's the song. Rihanna does star as his love interest in that video. You can see his grills where it says, marry me spelled out. And then she smiles and her grills say, I do. Sorry, y'all, but they are too cute. All right. I'm Angela Yee. And that is your new music. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Now, don don't Forget today I'm going to be on the Wendy Williams Show me and the wife are going to be discussing Real life real love with

Michael Rappaport so Definitely check your local listings to see when That is coming on and of course My car show that's right June 19th If you're looking for a perfect Father's Day gift You're in the area you want to head over to Houston for Father's Day weekend come On out it's a family fun event, rides, carnival games and a whole lot more.

Shout out to Trader Truth. We're doing Houston versus New York. And then July 9th, we're going to be heading over to Atlanta. We've got a lot of cool things for you guys. So if you haven't picked up your tickets, pick up your tickets now. Up next is the People's Choice Mix. We throw it back on a Friday. So let's go. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Angela Yee here from my friends at the General Insurance. Switch to the General and you could save over $500 on your

car insurance. Call 800-GENERAL or visit thegeneral.com to find out more. The General Auto Insurance Services, Inc. An insurance agency in Nashville, Tennessee. Some restrictions apply. WWPR FMHD1 New York. An iHeart Radio Station. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy Angelou. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. Rune. Ja Rune's here. Yo, what's good, my family?

What's happening? You can't call it. What you got going on this weekend, Ja? Man, we got the mother's day. Usually, that's how the brothers do it. Oh, hold on. You're right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

What happened to that? You're right, you're right, you're right. Ja walked in. Ja was like, yo, light a candle for me, man. Set the vibes. We lit the candle. Can we get his mic closer to him? Can you get his mic closer to him?

We had a family, had your kids. Now, Ja, you know. You know I'm good. Apologies. Now I'm going to make you spit the gum out. Come on, man. Oh, s***, my gum. You hear me?

Goodness gracious. What are you doing this weekend? You know I'm good. Apologies. You know I'm going to make you spit the gum out. Come on, man. Oh, my gum. Yeah, man. Goodness. We can put it down there. What you doing this weekend? Oh, oh. So let's get it together, guys. So, John, how are you doing? How are you, sir? I'm good, man.

Couldn't be better, man. How's the family going, brother? Family's good. Kids are good. OK. Life is good. How you come in here looking like your son? He's like, you done lost weight.

Why don't his son look like him? Everybody look like their son. Envy looks like his son. No, no like your son? He's like, you done lost weight. Why don't his son look like him? Everybody look like their son. Envy looks like his son. No, no, your son looks like you. No, he looks like your son. But you look like your son. You look like you aging backwards is what I'm saying. Oh, I mean, I don't know, man.

He might be aging forwards. He might look a little older. That's what I would agree. Nah, but, you know, I just try to take good care of myself. I'm looking to get your skin regimen, man. Dr. Sandy. I'm getting some pimples and sples in my old age, man. Pimples.

Dr. Natasha Sandy. She in Baltimore, but she come to New York. That's easy. What do you use to wash your face? I got to ask you that, because a lot of guys don't use real face washes. Yo, my bad. Yeah, I got, like, I use face cleansers and stuff like that. That means you don't know.

That means you use his wife's. No, no, no, no, no. Do you smell the no. I got Kiehl's I use. They got a nice, like, it's like a rub, and it, like, gives you, like, that nice tingling sensation on your face. Can we get him some butter skincare or something?

You know what I'm saying? He that good, you know. But, yeah, you know, I've been using, like, masks and stuff like that. Maybe it's too harsh. It might be a reaction to that. I don't know. I don been using masks and stuff like that. Maybe it's too harsh. It might be a reaction to that. I don't know.

I don't know. It might be. It might be. Or, you know, sometimes when you do it, your face gets used to it, I think. And now you got to keep doing it or your face reacts to it. I think that happens, too. I'm not sure. Okay, he knows about his skincare regimen.

I try to keep it fresh. Yeah, that hat and jacket is very fresh. Only built for Cuban links. Yeah, yeah, yeah jacket is very fresh. The only bill for Cuban links? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Snap back? That's hard. I made these, man. Really?

Yeah, this is from my Vibes concert that I did with Ray and Ghost. Yeah, so let's talk, can we talk about this Vibes concert series? Okay, now it's making sense.

So explain this Icon Vibes concert series. Tell us all about that. So Icon is my live streaming app that I created. It's kind of the first of its kind um not a in streaming app form but it's his first was kind of a web 3 streaming platform where i let artists monetize their content you know uh web 2 is kind of about you know the the

big dogs owning everybody's content and everybody's information. Web3 is more about, you know, us owning our content as creators and monetizing it. So, you know, I created this platform for content creators to be able to do that. But then I branched out a little bit and I wanted to, you know, get into original content creating. So I created this dope series called Vibes. And it's all about the classic material. All it's doing, you know, classic material artists doing they give you know us giving each other our flowers man and that's doing those classic bodies of work so um i did the first one pain is love i did my painter's love album but the the the key to it is you got to do it with a

live band we dress up it's kind of like it feels like the ray ray kwan said it he said it's like this new cotton club you know what i'm saying it's just like it feels like Ray Kwan said it he said it's like this new Cotton Club you know what I'm saying it's just like it feels like a jam session for hip hop and you know the band is rocking

and dudes you know we going off into old R&B records and rapping it's a vibe it's a real vibe I was highly upset

I missed the Ray Kwan and Ghostface one because I saw all the video afterwards and I was like that's some that I would go to. Yo, it was so,

it's a date night too because, you know, you're getting dinner at the venue, you know, drinks. I do it at Sony Hall. Oh, Sony Hall, yeah.

Yeah, big shout out to Cian and my people over there at Sony Hall, man, for letting me abuse the building like that. You know what I mean? But it's a beautiful thing, man. It's not just a show.

It's not just a concert it's a moment in hip hop we creating it's an experience yeah it's an experience now is this streamed in the metaverse as well? or is that something you're thinking about? not yet but you know

I own land in the metaverse and stuff I'm actually creating like my own version of Madison Square Garden if you will in the metaverse I think I'm gonna call it the iconic garden arena and it's for us you know artists to do concert what's the mothers the Mother's Day good music that's what we started That's like a versus reunion and shit. Okay. Yeah, it's me and my sister, Shanti, my brother Fat Joe, and my other sister, Lil Mo. So we're going to go tear that up.

Remy Ma too, right? Remy Ma, excuse me, my other sister, Remy. That's all of us. And so we're going to go tear that thing down. Where's it happening? It's at Hulu. Hulu Theater. At Madison Square Garden.

MSG, okay. So if y'all ain't got your ticket, I think it's almost sold out, but get your tickets if there's something left. Come out, bring your mama. You know, I got them love songs, man. I'm going to put it on you. Not on your mama, though.

Not on your mama. Well, it's John Rue. We appreciate you for joining us, brother. Yeah, for sure. Thanks for having me, gang, gang. Make sure you get your tickets. Mother's Day Good Music Festival, Madison Square Garden. Get your tickets.

And we got a shout-out to Jack Harlow for stopping through today and Toray Roberts for coming through as well. That's right. Make sure you go grab balance. And I also want to shout-out Mary J. Blige. You know she has her Strength of a Woman Summit happening this weekend in Atlanta. So I'm heading out to Atlanta now to moderate a couple of panels and do some things with Pepsi.

So shout out to everybody in Atlanta and anybody who's coming. I think all the summits and all of that stuff is for free. And the gathering spot is going to be at the gathering spot. And, you know, I love that place when I go to Atlanta. Black owned. Shout out to Ryan, who owns the gathering spot. We're going to have a good time. All right.

And also don't forget, I'm going to be on the Wendy Williams show with Michael Rappaport today. Check your local listing so you can check out me and the wife on the Wendy Williams show. That's right. And I just want to salute to Torre, man. Make sure you go buy Torre Roberts' book Balance. It's out right now. And that's my positive note.

Balance is not something you find. It's something you create. Breakfast club, bitches! We all finished or y'all done? Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine.

I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that?

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

journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is gonna come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself.

It's okay. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Gracias Come Again,

a podcast by Honey German, where we get real and dive straight into todo lo actual y viral. We're talking musica, los premios, el chisme, and all things trending in my cultura. I'm bringing you all the latest happening in our entertainment world and some fun and impactful interviews with your favorite Latin artists, comedians, actors, and influencers. Each week, we get deep and raw life stories, combos on the issues that matter to us, and it's all packed with gems, fun, straight-up comedia, and that's a song that only nuestra gente can sprinkle. Listen to Gracias Come Again on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8th, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, and every single wig removal together. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.