The Breakfast Club - Flau'jae and Angel Reese Speak On LSU Team Dynamic, Drama On The Court, Drake In The DMs + More
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Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
We got some special guests in the building.
Yes, indeed.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
The champ is here.
I just want to do that.
Well, it's two of them.
I said champs.
Didn't I say champs?
You said champs.
Well, the champs are here, ladies and gentlemen.
Floor J. Johnson and Angel Reese.
Welcome.
Good morning.
Thank y'all for having us.
How y'all feeling?
Great.
Like a champ.
Like a champ?
Like a champ.
Like a champ.
Well, first of all, congratulations on the win.
Thank you. How's it feel? I look so shy. Y' champ. Well, first of all, congratulations on the win. Thank you.
How's it feel?
I look so shy.
Y'all was just taking boomerangs and taking pictures.
I'm not shy.
How y'all feeling?
I feel good.
It feels great.
I mean, some time has passed now, so, you know, things have sunk in.
Has it really sunk in that, oh, shit, we the champs?
Yeah, it's sunk in.
Yeah.
It's not sunk in.
We've been on tour for the last three weeks, so it's been lit.
Okay.
I'm happy y'all won, even though I'm a Gamecocks fan,
because I'm from South Carolina.
You know what I mean?
That's my wife's alma mater.
But I'm happy y'all won because, you know,
y'all beat the team that beat us.
So I'm happy.
Yeah, I'm most definitely.
We did it for the SEC.
I saw you say that, though, Angel.
No, it was for the SEC, for sure.
Yeah.
They sisters, for sure.
All right.
Now let's talk about the first.
Let's talk about the game.
How did it feel to win and all this press that's coming on after it, right?
Because people are talking about less about the game per se
and more about the this and more about the chipping and the chirping and all that.
So how does that feel?
Because they're taking the outside of sports,
and I don't know if that's what you guys necessarily want.
Yeah, no.
I feel like we didn't get a lot of the praise that we should have got for the game
because we did work hard for the game to win that game, and it took a lot to get to the championship for sure and a lot of
people didn't think we were going to be there i mean everybody talked about our non-conference
schedule was weak they didn't like our coach every all this and that but then we got there and we won
and then it was just feel like it was taken away from us kind of from everything but i mean
to be a part of history like that where 9.9 million people watch that game i mean i guess
the good comes to the bad. That's gotta be the most
watched women's college game
ever.
In history.
Yeah, in history.
It was crazy.
More people watched
the girls than the boys.
And they played your song
after y'all won, right?
Yeah, because I was
holding the trophy
and they started playing
my song,
Big Fo Freestyle.
It was crazy.
So that wasn't playing?
Nah, DJ Shauna,
shout out to her,
but we met her
when we first landed in Dallas
and I was telling her,
like, I rap, so you need to be playing my song
the whole time while we're here at the Final Four.
She was like, for real?
Yeah.
So, come happen, like, we go in the lineup.
She playing the instrumental while we going, like, calling our name.
I'm like, that's crazy.
And then we won.
She played it.
And, man, it was crazy.
American Airlines Arena was turned.
What do you love more, rap or basketball, for God's sake?
I love both of them, for real.
I feel like I got, like, a strong passion for basketball
because, like,
it's like a continual, like,
way, like, to reach growth
and you can never reach perfection,
even in music.
But I feel like I got more time
with music.
Like, with basketball,
the ball gonna stop bouncing one day.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
But, like, music,
I feel like that's forever.
So, like, I'm just trying to hone in
on basketball as much as I can.
I met your pops back in the day.
Really?
Yeah, because, like I said,
I'm from South Carolina,
so the DJ for Pure Pain was DJ B-Lord,
and he was from South Carolina,
so he would always be playing the Pure Pain drops,
be playing all the music.
They would always come to the market,
Charlton, South Carolina.
Yeah, Fuck Friends was a big, big record.
Yeah, that was the one, man.
In 2000, man, that's why it's just so important
for what I'm doing,
just trying to make sure I keep that legacy alive,
because a lot of people don't know. Like, you know because you're from the south but like a lot of people around the world and they starting to know and understand my story so
that's why it's so important for me to finish it out and tell it and go the biggest route
yeah I was saying earlier I said should she redo fuck friends but I'm like
nah I probably wouldn't be good for her image I want to I want to take some time with that you
know I'm saying I feel like in Savannah you know I'm saying like you know in the south that's a
classic record like you know what I'm saying so when i come on there
i want to make sure i come correct and with everything i got going on right now not right
now but it's no you know it's no telling absolutely now wayne reached out to you said he wanted to do
a record with you how was that conversation y'all pulled up at me on the car show too y'all came to
the car show right no no oh yes yeah her yeah yeah mama yeah but not like um wayne like he was on
espn shout out sue bird but like he was on ESPN Shout out Sue Bird
But like she was like
You know Flau'Jay
He like yeah
Shout out Kim Moki though
Cause she really threw the alley-oop
She like telling him
Like I got a rapper on my team
And you need to get with her
He on ESPN
They plug me
He's like yeah
We finna do something musically
So I hit up his manager
He like send me the open
I'm like
I'll do you one better
I'm pulling up on you
You know he got a show
In Atlanta this weekend
So I'm gonna pull up on him
We gonna cut that
And yeah it's going up You scared? Scared of what? You get on the record with Wayne.
Nah, I ain't scared. Nah, because when y'all hear what I'm gonna put him on, y'all gonna be like, oh.
You know what I'm saying? Like, this the moment I've been waiting for, Charlamagne. Like, for real.
So, I'm really like, I'm really excited that I finally get to like show the world on that stage.
Because that's a legendary feature. Absolutely. That's one of the top three greatest rappers of all time.
Top three for sure.
How did this relationship happen
outside of basketball?
In the summertime,
it was rough.
Child was rough.
You didn't like her like that?
I didn't.
I didn't like her.
It was like,
I didn't know
she was going to make it.
She showed up late.
She used to come in there
and talk trash.
The team didn't like her.
I know the team didn't like her
because they didn't want
to play with her.
And I was like, I want to play with her.
But I was telling her, like, you can't talk to me how you talk to somebody else.
Like, we cut from different places.
So she got to understand that.
Coming as a freshman, it was hard.
But then, I don't know, going through the season, we just got locked in.
I didn't like you, Flau'jae.
Why you was so obsessed with me?
She was late showing up.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Let me tell you.
Let me really tell you why.
I was in pickup, and I was killing them for real, for real,
but I was talking trash, like talking wet.
Crazy.
As a freshman.
Talking crazy.
I'm like, usually freshmen don't come in like that.
You know what I'm saying?
They come in quiet, trying to feel it.
I'm like, nah, this my, like, what's going on?
You know what I'm saying?
Like, and I just had that energy.
Especially if you busting ass.
Yeah, fact.
You busting they ass.
Fact.
And Angel's like, you know, she's got a tone, you know what I'm saying? Like, just tone it a little if you busting ass yeah and Angel's like you know she's got a tone you know what I'm saying like just tone it a little
down and I forgot like I used to play with dudes you know what I'm saying but I'm like these females
so it's different like you talk trash with a dude y'all really could fight and y'all get off the
court y'all cool but with girls it's like different so she told me he's like fly you got to tone it
down and then I was on my rapper time like in the summer I'm rapping and I'm hooping at the same
time so I'm coming in I'm late I don't got time. So I'm coming in, I'm late. I don't got on the right clothes. Like I had, man, I had to run.
I had to run the stadium for like 30 minutes.
They got her.
The stadium steps that turned her.
Oh, that's the discipline?
Oh yeah.
Do they like you now?
Huh?
We love her.
Oh, they love me.
They love me.
I can't imagine Angel Reese telling anybody to tone it down.
I was thinking the same thing.
I was the Bayou Bobby telling people to tone it down.
How you telling somebody to turn it down?
What you mean?
I just know when it comes to my teammates, I know how to talk.
When it's anybody else, it's free smoke.
It's free smoke.
Now, we got to ask, the hand gesture in the face, where did you get it from?
What was the influence of that?
Was it Tony Ayo?
Was it John Cena? No, it's Tony Ayo for sure, but people don't realize that.
They think it's John Cena, but I really know Tony Ayo was the one.
But she did it first in another game.
And I was like, oh, yeah, bet.
Say no more.
I got something.
I got something for every single person that try to play.
Now, did you feel like they, of course, when they attacked you,
we felt like, of course, because you were black and she was white.
Yeah, for sure.
How was your mental with that?
Because you seen her do it in the game.
Yeah, no, I already knew what it was going to be.
They always got to find something to say. So I what it was going to be. They always got to find
something to say.
So I knew it was going to be
something about that.
They were going to say it.
So, I mean, I was happy
that we won,
and I got the publicity.
We all got the publicity.
The team was lit.
So we was up.
I ain't care.
You know what?
I think people don't realize
about y'all.
Y'all know how to play the game
outside of the court.
Like, you know, y'all know
how to be performative
to get everybody talking, but I see a lot of discipline on the actual basketball court. And'all know how to be performative to get everybody talking,
but I see a lot of discipline on the actual basketball court.
And even hearing that you told her to tone it down,
I was like, oh, get it, get it.
Coach Mokey, first of all, she don't play that.
She don't play.
We basketball players first.
This is the thing about Coach Mokey.
Everybody think they got her opinions about her.
I love her, love her to death.
But she want to see us grow as students
and then basketball players like and then what else
she said whatever you do you're gonna be an astronaut as long as you're in my practice on
time you know I'm saying so she just let us be us but it's still that discipline and structure
there and I feel like that's what I needed more discipline more structure you know I'm saying
because like I've come from doing what I want to do like you know I'm saying so in a sense but like
like she gave us that structure on the court like we do things the right way but we still gonna put
our foot on it.
And she love that because we are who we are.
How long did it take for you to buy into that?
I'm telling you, after the stadiums, I was lit.
That summer time.
I don't mean my kids run some stadiums now.
Go run them stadiums.
Did you see yourself in her, Angel, when you came in?
As a freshman?
Yeah.
No, I was scared.
I mean, as a freshman, you come in.
I wasn't as confident as Flaje.
Nah, I definitely wasn't.
So I kind of got humbled my freshman year because I came in,
I was doing well, and then I broke my foot.
So it was a setback for me.
And luckily she had an amazing freshman year,
and that's a blessing to come in and start freshman of the year,
everything that she wanted to accomplish on the court and off the court.
I mean, that's just a blessing right there.
What made you transfer to LSU? I need a new start. I mean, that's what's the blessing right there. What made you transfer to LSU?
I need a new start.
I mean, I know what I wanted for myself,
and I wanted growth and a coach like Kim Mulkey to push me every day.
I want her to cuss me out every day.
Like, tell me I'm not good enough,
and I feel like I'm still not good enough.
Like, all the accolades that I got this year,
they're still not good enough because just being able to have a coach like that,
and she keeps me humble.
So I needed her, and I mean,
I don't think I would be in a leadership role anywhere else other than LSU,
and being able to grow my platform on and off the court
was just something I needed.
Well, I came over Dawn.
I know you made a visit to Columbia.
I wanted to be South Carolina.
I mean, they the powerhouse, so I wanted to,
I told Coach when I came to LSU,
I wanted to go back to what Simone and Sylvia did.
So just being able to grow the program
was something I wanted to do.
Now you're gonna have a target on your back next year.
Yeah, for sure.
Big target.
So now how do y'all
make sure y'all stay focused
and y'all make sure
you repeat what you guys do?
Stay humble.
Yeah, we keep ball first.
You know what I'm saying?
We keep it first.
And we work though.
Like we work.
For sure.
For our practices.
For our practices.
You feel me?
So like we know
we the huntin' though.
You know what I'm saying?
And we understand that
because of what we do.
But I told Angel
the other day like,
you know what I'm saying? You dish it, you got to take it. You know what I'm saying? So that's why we got what we do. But I told Angel the other day, you know what I'm saying, you dish it, you gotta take it.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's why we gotta be ready
because I know they coming, know they coming.
Is there pressure to repeat?
Nah, because we ain't even expected to win this year.
Yo, God, we wasn't supposed to win.
We wasn't supposed to win this year, no.
We wasn't supposed to win.
Nah, we wasn't supposed to win this year,
but we did, we put in the work and all the,
you don't even see all the work that we put in
and for it to come together at the right time,
it was crazy. People don't remember, like this the work that we put in and then for it to come together at the right time it was crazy people don't remember like this year too like you know i'm
saying like in her tenure this year too it's our first year together so like i got a chip year one
you know what i mean so like we wasn't supposed to be here but we got the number one recruiting
class coming in you know we got transfers coming in so you know we we're trying to build to that
to be in the final four every year but, we wasn't even supposed to be there.
They counted us out.
Is Hailey transferring from Louisville?
Where?
Hailey Van Liff.
Is she coming to LSU?
We don't know.
Oh, I thought I heard that somewhere.
You know, we hear a lot of things out here.
How would y'all feel if that happened, though?
No, we'd be late.
She's a good player.
I'd love to play with her, for sure.
Now, the First Lady invited both teams to the White House. But how did y'all feel when she invited the Ops to the White House? First time in history, man. Right, to play with her. For sure. Now the first lady invited both teams to the White House.
How did y'all feel when she invited the Ops to the White House?
First time in history, man.
I mean, it was frustrating just to take away from
what we had already done, but I mean,
it is what it is. We still gonna go.
I mean, as a team,
I'm from Maryland, so I mean, I've been to the White House before,
but I've never been where I can sit down
at the table and tap the buzzer. So it's
a one-time opportunity in life.
So being able to have her, she came back and took back what she said,
and we're going to go.
How hard was it to not say what y'all really wanted to say?
Like, y'all feel so sorry for them white girls that we beat them,
that y'all inviting them to the White House.
No, I think on Twitter we really got to, you know, express how we felt.
We said how we felt.
Like, I made a tweet, and I was like, you know,
if we lost, would we be invited type thing?
You know what I'm saying?
So I think that question alone just, like,
leaves some silence right there to just think about it.
You know what I'm saying?
Was there backlash to you, Angel, from the school?
Like, what do you mean we not going?
Yeah, because I kind of spoke out of emotion,
like, just being able to not speak for the team.
I mean, I didn't speak for the team.
I was speaking out of emotion because I still stand up.
Like, I'm upset, like, that she still said that. But I'm going to do what's best for the team for sure. And I know't speak for the team. I was speaking out of emotion because I still stand up. I'm upset that she still said that.
But I'm going to do what's best for the team, for sure.
And I know a lot of them have never been to the White House,
so I'm not going to take that away from them.
I mean, we still won.
We still won, and we want to get that experience.
That just shows her as a leader for the team,
you know what I'm saying?
To go back and be like,
okay, I was speaking out of emotion.
I took that, you know what I'm saying?
And be able to give us that opportunity,
you know what I'm saying?
Open your eyes to what white America looks at y'all like
when they started saying, y'all aggressive, y'all this,
and then you go back and you see the white girl do the same exact thing?
Did that open your eyes at all?
I think that's why it was so big, you know what I'm saying?
Because it was like they did the same thing, you know what I'm saying?
And it was blown out of proportion.
But I think, like, it's time's time for this like take this situation and grow
the women's game for sure it ain't black and white it's ball players on the court you know i'm saying
i feel like we're so far from that so i think this right here just it just grew the women's game like
we got superstars in women's basketball now it's been unheard of you have an angel reese you got a
caitlyn clark you know i'm saying like that's never been heard of before like so i think like
that moment was pivotal
and it was what it was,
but it like grew the game in a crazy way.
For sure.
I can't believe we were debating trash talk like that.
Even when people said,
well, no, what Angel did was different
cause she followed her around.
Yeah, nah.
Who cares?
You saw Dylan Brooks and LeBron?
They were going at it.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
They get to it.
Like when I'm from Baltimore,
like that's what we do.
Like we talk trash.
Oh, I just heard it.
Dude.
That's what we do. Dude. That's what we do. Like that that's what we do. We talk trash music. Oh, I just heard it. That's what we do.
That's what we do. That's what we do.
That's just what we do.
So I ain't never going to stop doing that.
Anytime, I'm going to do that.
Pop it.
Pop it.
Do you feel like the conversation should have been more about the double standards of gender
as opposed to race?
Exactly.
That's what I'm saying.
How can we go to game when y'all putting black and white in the picture?
It's women's basketball.
We're both being successful women in the game when y'all putting black black and white in the picture it's women's basketball like we're both being successful women in the game i mean people are watching women's basketball
because of me and caitlin now they're literally and we're kind of being the face of the face of
women's basketball i understand that we're gonna go down to history for this like when i look back
at it and i come back and come to lsu when i'm about 50 60 years old i'm like damn we just we
just did something like we were a part of history and And even with the NIL stuff, like, me and Flau'jae,
we're leading in NIL as black women.
Like, you got to realize that.
So just being able to be in this moment, I mean, I embrace it for real.
You still have those lashes at 60, you think?
Yeah.
If you see my mama, my mama fine, and she 50.
So, yeah.
I was going to say, do you guys want to play WNBA?
I mean, I want to play in the WNBA, but I know I have a career outside of it.
I mean, it's not.
You're making more money than WNBA players.
I mean, I'm not in a rush.
Trust me.
We're not in a rush.
We're chilling right now.
I want to win as many championships as I can at LSU and do as much as I can at LSU.
So, I'm chilling.
But I think that should put, like, the WNBA on notice for real.
For sure.
Y'all got to start getting right.
You know what I'm saying?
Because, like,
we in college right now.
We getting charter flights,
free food,
all of this, right?
Charter flights.
We getting paid.
We got NIL now.
It's like,
give me something to want to,
you know what I'm saying?
Want to go.
I think y'all going to be the generation to change the WNBA.
For sure.
I think so too.
We watching y'all now
and paying attention to y'all now.
We got time, yeah.
When y'all get to the WNBA,
that rivalry not going to stop.
Facts, facts.
We still going to be wanting
to see Angel and Caitlyn go at it. Caitlyn, for sure. For sure. It's going to be lit. Y'all stay that time when y'all get to the wmba that rivalry not gonna stop we still gonna be wanting to see angeline caitlin for sure it's gonna be lit y'all stay focused and disciplined
though being that y'all are making money now man you i just like live the same way like i'm a
college student i feel like this is the best year i'm gonna play i don't have to pay no rent i'm
gonna do nothing you know what i'm saying like i'm trying to stack what car are you fighting about no
i need an iel deal for the car.
My mama still pay my car note, so I'm cool.
I'm saving as much as I can.
Whatever she need, I make sure she have.
What kind of car you got?
A Nissan Altima.
Okay.
I'm chilling.
Nice and practical.
Keep it cute.
Now, how tall are you guys?
I'm 6'3". I'm 5'11".
5'11".
So we have this conversation, right?
I'll post both y'all up.
Play with me.
Okay.
And wait, let me say, how tall are y'all? Because I know men be lying about their height. You 6'4"? Or 5'11 so we have this conversation I'll post both y'all up play with me and wait let me say how tall are y'all
because I know men be lying
about their height
y'all be 6'4
or 5'10
I'm 6'4
how tall are you
don't be asking questions
I ain't in your business
how tall are y'all
he 5'1
I'm 5'7
would y'all ever date
a guy
no
no
wow
the size of short
y'all
short kings
I'm sorry
that is so disrespectful the short kings. I'm sorry
But I feel like the the short guys from my experience they treat they treat tall women a little better than so if you know that And this is a system. I'm sorry, but I'm
Gonna put on six inch heels. That's what I'm saying. And now it's you really a little boy.
Now you're over the timer.
What y'all worried about?
Money or actual love?
You talking about you want to be with a tall person just to breed?
You know what I'm saying?
What I'm saying?
Like, I'm not.
I didn't say.
I'm not going to be looking down on you.
No, it's not.
I can't.
My brother's 6'9".
Like, my man need to be up there.
You ain't going to never find happiness.
You got to get all the money.
I'm happy right now.
Boy, boy, boy.
I'm laughing at 5'6",
and y'all don't even know it yet.
Okay.
And you with Roc Nation now, right, Flagey?
Yeah, I got a distribution deal with EQ.
Oh, so it's a label deal.
Yeah.
Oh, I thought Roc Nation was a management deal.
All my masters and stuff like that,
and they just give me the resources.
I got creative control.
I love it over there.
You know what I'm saying?
What I want to do when I'm getting my degree
is I want to own my own record label.
So this is really setting me up and showing me the business.
It's literally like an internship, but it's my job.
Have you met Hov?
No, I haven't met Hov yet.
When you meet Hov, do you ask him for a verse?
Because you're getting a little Wayne verse.
You'd be like, big homie.
That's what I'm...
Come on, you got to bless me. You know what I'm saying? But I want it to be at the right time. You, you be like, big homie. That's what I'm, come on, you got to bless me.
You know what I'm saying?
But I want it to be at the right time.
You can't play with a whole verse.
You know what I'm saying?
Don't pull him to the side at the brunch.
Don't do it at the brunch.
Not at the brunch.
I missed the brunch because I had practice.
I was so mad.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the plus one.
It seems like you tried to miss that practice for that brunch.
She probably did.
But I'm going to, too.
I'm going to.
Shoot.
I've never heard this.
It's going to be interesting to watch you over the next few years.
Because you got three more years, right?
Yeah, for sure.
And you got one more, Angel?
It's going to be interesting because you got four.
I'm going to.
Oh, you got another year of eligibility?
I got two if I really want to.
If she really wants to.
We want Angel to stay.
We love Angel.
You know, I thought about that, too.
Because, you know, with Aaliyah Boston and a few others at South Carolina,
they could have stayed another year.
But they say Aaliyah was getting beat up on at South Carolina they could have stayed another year but they said
Aaliyah was getting
beat up on so bad
out there
you know getting
double teamed
that it was better
for her to win
I ain't worried
I mean I guess
I mean she done
see every defense
that they could possibly
I've seen it
I mean just to see
how my body
gonna be after this year
I mean and
where I can go
potentially
because I want to
go to a team
where it's like
really marketable
like coming to New York
or going to Atlanta Dallas, LA something like that is just going to help
me.
Not Seattle?
I mean, I wouldn't mind going to Seattle, but I know where it's, I'm going to be able
to be marketable because I want to do fashion and I want to be broadcasting and stuff, too.
So who's been in your DMs that y'all been surprised about?
What's your Kings?
Y'all about to miss out.
It ain't got to be the holler just to congratulate you.
Oh, congratulations.
Let's just say congratulations.
I'm going to say all congratulations to Claire because I know how I get.
Yeah.
We're going to say it anyway, but go ahead.
Start with the short guys.
All of them shorter than me.
Drake, Future.
That's the one you got to be careful of you said to
that you need to stay congratulations these are all congratulations Oh! Come do a run at the OVO facility. Oh my God.
Oh my God.
And if you're finna move my man, I'll do it.
That is terrible.
My teammates are like, you got too much power.
Nah, she too powerful.
Nah.
Who else?
A lot of people been showing love.
Like for me, like people in the music industry, like a lot of execs trying to work.
Like I just got hit up by like Wyclef, because I did the Ready or Not, Lauryn Hill remix.
London on the Track,
Shaq, it's like Uncle Shaq.
Yeah, that's my uncle.
A lot of people been showing mad love.
Shaq got a lot of flack, because Shaq said Angel
is the greatest athlete to ever come out of LSU.
I called him after that, I was like,
you know what you did, how much pressure
you just put on me?
You know how much?
He was like, I don't give a, I was like, all right.
All right, Unc.
Do you feel like you're the best athlete out of LSU?
I feel like I haven't done nothing yet.
So I told him, don't even say that yet.
But you won a championship, that's what his thing was.
His thing was that you bought a chip to LSU.
I won a championship,
but I just don't feel like I've done enough.
Like, I don't think I've done enough.
Like, I won a championship.
I don't even realize how much, like how important that is.
How much weight it hold.
How much weight it hold.
I don't really understand that.
So when I can actually like do a little bit more,
if I go to year two and I dominate we dominate yeah okay another one yeah we go back you think
you need a player of the year maybe i might i don't know i guess yeah i could have yeah yeah
i could have been played yeah for sure so i'm saying what do you think you need to do more
what do you think probably i mean that's probably gonna hold some weight some play a player of the
year uh another championship is gonna hold,
is gonna,
what's gonna hold weight.
Cause I feel like I'm getting the treatment,
like the Joe Burrow treatment up there.
Like,
I feel like I'm getting that type of treatment,
but like another championship,
maybe a player of the year would,
would hold some more weight.
But I ain't think I,
I ain't holding no weight yet.
Flosia,
you think you can handle the next few years of trying,
recording the album,
basketball and school?
Yeah.
Um,
I got like, I got a team now now before it was just me and my mom and she was doing an amazing job but like i have a team now and they
really see the vision it's hard to execute stuff when people don't see your vision and understand
what you want to do but now that they see like oh i see it creeping like you can do it you can do
both you know i mean so i think that all I need is a studio and some content.
It don't take too much.
Be at appearances on the weekend.
I'm back at practice on Monday.
Like, I've been doing it for a long time.
But now, like, having a set schedule and just being disciplined in that schedule,
the sky's the limit.
If you see one starting to slack, whether it's school or basketball,
would you put the rapping to the side?
Oh, yeah, for sure.
I'm tightening it up, for sure.
But, like, rapping, it don't feel like a business to me. It's? Oh yeah, for sure. I'm tightening it up, for sure. But like,
rapping,
it don't feel like a business to me.
It's more like a therapy for me.
This is how I let out my emotions.
Like basketball,
I go to the gym,
I can shoot it out.
This is how I talk it out.
Just like therapy.
How you talk to a therapist.
That's how I feel like that music is for me.
So it's more of a thing like that.
It didn't just turn into a business
because I'm just good at it.
You feel me?
So I think it all
just go hand in hand.
What are y'all doing mentally and emotionally just to keep this together?
Writing stuff down.
I feel like, and I pray a lot.
Like, I got closer to God this year.
I feel like I do a lot of devotion.
I read a devotion every day.
Just being able to pray every day and then just write down a lot of thoughts
and talking to my mom a lot.
Yeah.
I think God take away a lot of that, the extra.
You know what I'm saying?
Because we start realizing we worry about something we're not even supposed to be worried about.
You know what I'm saying?
So just praying.
I got a lot of resources at LSU that they give us.
They give us a lot of resources, a lot of people on staff, like Coach Shante.
She really be helping us spiritually.
And just being able to keep us on track, just make it easier with everything that we got going on.
Because what we're doing is new.
NIL is new
this superstardom is new
so like
just having resources
and people to be around us
what about the haters
I know it's a lot of them
they gonna be there
they might be right next to you
they gotta do their job
I mean
you know what I'm saying
they gotta do their job
whenever you're doing
something great
it's gonna be something
for sure
you gotta expect it
nah like they just troll
that's what the internet
for for clicks
but I don't let that
too much faze me
y'all never see me in person to say it don't let them little people
bother you yeah yeah they be like social media they it's like it make you feel like the world
is so small like yeah people thinking like that what you say on social media i really don't get
that don't get to me like nah what about teammates like how do the teammates feel because you know
y'all are our teammates are so supportive like they are supportive we buy each other's merch
like yeah wear each other's merch like Yeah. Wear each other's merch.
Our team is really supportive.
And you don't see a lot of NIL deals that we do.
We make sure we get back to our teammates.
Every time.
I got my whole team coach bags.
Got my coaches, Bo's headphones.
So just being able to do stuff like that for the team.
I think they love us because they're getting free stuff from us.
Oh, God.
We come and get it every week.
Yeah, we come and get it every week.
Let's go.
Did it scare you when that number came out
of how much you was making?
They don't know how much I'm making.
That's just an estimate.
Okay, okay, okay.
Well, you got family members in your pocket now.
I know y'all about that.
You got family members calling like crazy.
Man, my light is off.
I'm like, how long your light's been on?
That's crazy.
Light's on for two years.
It's dark warm.
I'm like, yeah. It's crazy. Light, bro. It's dark mom act two.
That's crazy.
So, we appreciate you guys joining us.
So, we got to ask, you know, you're a rapper.
Yeah.
It's probably one of the biggest platforms out there.
Yeah.
You got something for us?
Yeah, let me see.
I like that.
Yeah, let me see.
You sure you don't want to blow your nose for us?
I heard you sniffing.
No, I'm good.
She was.
There was a dog in here or something.
There was a dog. There was a dog in here or something. It was a dog.
I'm allergic, yeah.
That's how y'all beat us.
Remember that team's next year.
Let the dog run around the court.
Literally.
Look, I feel like I give you my all because you don't care what I got.
I be so scared to keep it real because I know where everybody not.
And you supposed to be supporting.
You too scared.
I'm a pop.
I know they waiting for me.
Scared to the top.
But look, everybody got to go through something. So I never judge. I could have pop I know they waiting for me, scared at the top But look, everybody gotta go through something so I never judge
I could've been broken and hated, but nah, I never was
Never felt betrayed in all that pain until I fell in love
You ain't got a dollar to your name, why you still in the club?
I'm rich, now my people broke, I feel like I could never grin
I was sick and alone, this music was my medicine
You beautiful, you strong, your power in your melanin
When I spit, they feel it in they bones, it's in they skeleton
I'm keeping it real, it's in my blood, that's how I'm telling it
It ain't about my family or my money, it's irrelevant
Why you let them play it like a dummy, you intelligent
If you keep your clothes on your body you can leverage it
Hard work'll do it man, I'ma walk in testimony
I swear you don't get it if you don't grind, I learned my lesson homie
I get on my knees, I'm thanking God for putting blessings on me
Really I'ma go get every dime that I'm been destined for me
I'm about to tell you they all fake, even your main man
You know they don't like me, Why you hanging with them same friends?
Supposed to be 4L, I guess you changed plans.
Man, I showed you all my cards.
Man, you played me with the same hand.
I've been by myself for a while.
I know how the loners feel.
On his second strike, I told him walk, but he's still on the field.
Now I'm in the skybox watching games while all the owners chill.
And they still sleeping on me.
Keep them in that coma still.
For the M's, I got the call.
Play for Kim, I got a ball.
I just went and focused on myself and passed a lot of y'all.
I want my team to eat. I could have scored, passed a lot of balls. Thank you to to focus on myself and pass the lot of y'all I want my team to eat
I could have scored past a lot of balls. Thank you to the fans for supporting. We love
Doing the same thing
Shout out your team and all your friends and family.
Shout out to everybody.
You know what I'm saying?
Shout out to, man, first of all, shout out to God for making this happen.
Shout out to Kim.
Shout out to the team, man.
Shout out LSU.
We love you.
Baton Rouge.
The Bayou.
Barbie.
All right.
You know.
Shout out to Angel.
Most definitely.
Oh, no.
You got to give them.
Oh, man.
This is my little bar she got for me.
Go ahead.
No, I can't.
I can't.
You can't give it to them just yet?
That's the Wayne one.
So they're going to hear it.
They're going to hear it. I got to be here, though. You got a little one. I can't. You can't give it to him just yet? That's the Wayne one. So I'm going to dig on him. Dig on him.
I got a picture.
You got a little one in there?
You going to name drop her in the song?
What?
She already dropped me.
Oh, you all got it.
Oh, you all got it.
Come on.
You know it.
Oh, you all know what y'all doing.
You know it.
This is my dog.
Appreciate y'all for joining us.
And shout out to LSU because I know you had to get clearance to come up here.
So appreciate that as well.
Thank you, Ms. Walker.
Thank you, Ms. Walker.
Thank you, LSU.
Thank you, Ms. Walker.
Thank you, Ms. Walker.
We love you.
We love you.
Oh, dang. Well, I'm online today. He never went to college Walker. Thank you, Ms. Walker. We love you. We love you. Oh, dang.
Well, I'm online today.
He never went to college.
He don't know anybody.
He never went to college.
School of hard knocks.
Yeah.
Well, you made it.
That's right.
Appreciate y'all.
Angel Reese, Flau'jae Johnson.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Thank you.
Good morning.