The Breakfast Club - Front Page , Rumors and Kirk Franklin Interview

Episode Date: June 16, 2022

Today on the show, we Angela spoke on the high gas prices and heat waves across the world during "Front Page News". Next we had the icon himself Kirk Franklin stop by where he spoke about his love for Maverick City Music Group, his relationship status with his son, R.Kelly and more. Also, Angela teases a snip of Eminem and Ceelo new song “The King and I” From ‘Elvis’ Biopic Soundtrack. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Who you say was playing On my chair Kirk Franklin Sat in my chair today And dropped it low just now Like god damn No he actually switched chairs He switched chairs

He said the other chair Was too low And yours was a little higher That's a fact I sat in that chair And I felt like damn Back that ass up Dropped on

I was like what the hell Damn I thought he did that on purpose Okay I was like, what the hell? Damn. I thought he did that on purpose. Okay, I'm about to say, you don't get in heaven doing stuff like that, Kirk. No, no, no. He didn't do that on purpose. His chair was too low, so he wanted a higher chair. But Kirk Franklin will be joining us this morning.

I missed Kirk yesterday, man. My guy. Legendary Kirk Franklin. Yeah, legendary Kirk Franklin. He's on tour right now. I think he said the tour is like 95% sold out, sold out in every market. Yeah, every city they've been going to so far has been sold out. Yeah, so he stopped through and, you know, talked about everything.

His incident with his son. He called it his mixtape. He talked about that. He talked about things he said he's never talked about before. Absolutely. You know what's so crazy? I saw Saturday Night Entertainment over the weekend because he was, he did, I guess you say performed at Bishop T.D. Jake's birthday party.

He had some jokes for Kirk Franklin. Did he? He did. Kirk wasn't there, but he had some jokes for Kirk Franklin. I don't know if that's in Cedric's set or he was just riffing because there was a bunch of gospel people there. But it was pretty funny. It was based around that whole thing with his son. Kirk is the last person I saw in an airport where it's like people were going crazy.

Yeah. Like going crazy. Yeah. Going crazy for Kirk. I was like, damn. Well, you know, they have a project coming out tomorrow. And so they actually recorded the whole album in a prison in Florida. Yeah. Damn. And they said some of the inmates were doing-

It's focused on mass incarceration. Some of the inmates were doing some of the singing as well, you're saying, right? Yeah, there were 1,300 inmates that are actually singing the chorus and singing. And you can see the video. Actually, there's a video for one of the songs, Kingdom, right now online. If you watch the video, you can see inside of the prison and you can see some of the incarcerated individuals

singing. I'm mad at that. It sounds like it's raising awareness for a great cause. And there's a lot of family members that have been incarcerated. So we're going to kick it with Kirk next hour. All right. Well, let's get the show cracking. Front page news.

What are we talking about? Well, monthly car payments have hit a record high. And we'll talk about also a gas station manager who was fired. He was selling gas for 69 cents a gallon. Yeah, he messed up. Boy, did he mess up. Boy, that was a bull. He messed up for doing the right thing? No, he did it by accident. I don't know if that's the right thing. Oh. We'll talk about it when we come back. 69 is a gallon. Yeah, he messed up. Boy, did he mess up. Boy, that was a bull. He messed up for doing the right thing? No, he did

it by accident. Well, I don't know if that's the right thing. Oh. We'll talk about it when we come back. 69's a great number. Look at that man. He's starting already. What? He's kicking me already. That's a great number. You find something out of something. Wouldn't you love to pay 69 cents for gas? You find... I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know where your mind is, sir. I'm just

saying I would love to pay 69 cents for gas. I'm sure you would love that. I'm sure you would love that. And how would you pump that gas? Which way would you pump it? From the front? Slow. Slow. From the back?

Slow. I would enjoy every single moment. Can you imagine paying 69 cents a gallon? How joyous you would feel? You would relish that. Okay? We don't even pump our own gas in Jersey. You get out and pump it yourself.

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Now, tonight. The Warriors close out this NBA Finals. Warriors in six. Warriors, Boston Celtics in Boston tonight. So, we'll see what happens. I expect Steph Curry and Klay Thompson to go off. I expect to see Game 6 Klay show up tonight. I think they're going to go to Game 7.

I mean, we haven't really seen Tatum. I think Tatum's going to go. What do you mean? Tatum been balling all series. I don't know why y'all keep backing like Tatum hasn't showed up. Tatum has been balling all series. Not points-wise. Yes, he has.

Have you been watching the games? I sure have. Tatum literally had his highest shooting percentage last game of the series. Let's get some front page news. Tate was averaging at least 24 this series. All right, a California gas station manager is out of a job. He accidentally was charging customers 69 cents a gallon for premium gasoline instead of the 699 that it was supposed to be.

He put the decimal point in the wrong place. God bless that man. So the ex-manager is Don Chakasina. And it's an independently owned Shell station. So people were going crazy. They said they stormed that Shell gas station in Rancho Cordova, California. Afterwards, spread on social media. And it ended up costing the gas station about $20,000, by the way.

You'll get into heaven. They're doing a GoFundMe vote, right? They do have a GoFundMe. They do have a GoFundMe and so they're trying to raise $20,000 because they want to repay his old employer. So they want to raise

the money that was lost. So far, it's not. And you were right with Tatum. He had 27, 23, 26, 28, and 12. You were correct. Warriors in six. I see. The Splash Brothers

are going to show up big tonight. Steph Curry is going to score 50. I see Warriors in seven. Curry is going to score up big tonight. Steph Curry's going to score 50. I see where he is. Clay's going to score 30 plus. I didn't know that you could just do that. You could just set the gas prices yourself? Well, he's the manager, so he has to, you know, when the gas prices change, somebody has to change them, and it's

an independently owned station. Damn it, man. He made a mistake, right? But he did help a lot of people. It was a $20,000 mistake. I'm sure a lot of people felt like that was a blessing. Except for the people that independently own that gas station. That's true. It a $20,000 mistake. I'm sure a lot of people felt like that was a blessing. You know what I mean? Except for the people that independently own that gas station. That's true. They lost $20,000.

I agree. But, you know, you got to look at this. There's two sides to everything. Yes, they lost $20,000, but then a lot of people got to fill up their gas tank today or that day. All right. Now, monthly car payments have hit a record high of $712 last month. That is the average monthly car payment.

They said that new vehicle prices aver average about $47,000. That's the second highest on record ever. Let me tell you guys, I got a Ford Explorer, right? Fully loaded. It was $178 three years ago. That was the lease on that car. I had to turn that car in and I wanted the same car again. And for the same car again, that car is $598.

From $170 to $590, that is ridiculous. For the same car, nothing different. That's ridiculous. Yeah, I ended up getting a new car and I don't even want to talk about it. It's ridiculous. Don't y'all wish the car dealer had made a mistake and sold it to y'all for a lower price? Yes, definitely. And I can guarantee you they'll be like, actually, this is what you owe.

All right, now the Federal Reserve has hiked interest rates by 0.75%. And that's significant. They raised those rates yesterday, escalating a strategy. They're trying to increase borrowing costs to dial back inflation. How does that help? We just talked about payments are high. They're going to raise interest rates some more. Well, they want to.

So what that does is, in theory, it should slash inflation by slowing the economy and eating away at demand. So that's the strategy. So if you remember during the pandemic, when people weren't spending money like that, that's why they lowered it so much in order to increase people's purchasing. But now they want to slow it down. And so that's going to increase everything from credit card fees to mortgage rates. Oh, my goodness. It's up, baby. Yeah, they're saying this does show confidence in the health of the job market because there's a lot of jobs available now, but the speed with which interest rates are expected to go up

underscores the concern about the soaring cost of living also. So let me ask you a question. Yesterday I was driving by and I passed Burger King. Burger King said we're hiring. We're paying $15 an hour, right? You want to pick up an extra job? Yes. $15 an hour, right? You want to pick up an extra job? Yes. $15 an hour, right? But if interest rates go over 6% to purchase a

home, even a small home or whatever it may be, how could you possibly afford it with interest rates at 6%, 7% and you're making $15 an hour? How does that work? That's exactly why inflation is a problem, sir. Even if you do have that job and you're bringing home money, everything's going up.

So you're kind of in the same position. Yes, credit card rates going up, interest rates going up. You're talking about car going up. So if I make $50 now...

I mean, the rates will end up going back down. You know, just right now they're trying to slow down the economy. It's not going to stay there. So... I mean, the only thing

we can do at this point is thug it out. Like, that's just the truth of the matter. There's really nothing you can do. Like, you know, you have to buy gas. You have

to pay your car payments. You have to pay your rent. You have no choice. If you can pick up another job or do some extra things to make some money, you got to. What happened to all those crypto people? Remember the crypto people? The same thing that happened to the stock market people. Everything's down. But some people look

at it like, hey, it's on sale right now. If you have the money to buy it. If you got extra money. Yeah. If you have the money. Which a lot of people don't. Let's be clear. Stock market and crypto and all that is for extra money.

It's not like you're supposed to be doing that with money that you can't spare. If you can't spare it, don't do it. In a capitalist society, the rich keep getting richer. That's all it is. And when situations like this happen and people are down, people that actually have money, they take advantage. Sadly, that's just the way the system is designed. I'm going to Burger King after this job.

Alright. I saw a commercial yesterday for a quarter pounder. That thing looks so good. Did it? It did, man. But that quarter pounder commercial, they made that quarter pounder look so damn tasty on TV yesterday, boy. They got chicken fries over there now. I was like, I can tell. I don't like how them chicken fries look. I don't like how them chicken fries look.

I don't like my chicken in fry form. I know the Burger King commercial you got. Drop on to Clues Mom's McDonald's and Burger King. Y'all got some tasty ass looking commercials. Absolutely.

Commercials, yes. And the way food costs right now, $4 for everything. $4 for a whole menu sounds like a good bargain. Yeah, what is that? You can get everything

for $4? Guys, we got a... I'm sorry. I know we trading good health, but still, Jesus Christ, man. Goodness gracious, my fat ass seen that. I said, for $4? That's it? $4, you can get is that? You can get everything for $4? Guys, we got to... I'm sorry. I know we're trading good health, but still. Jesus Christ, man. Goodness gracious. My fat ass, you know, I said for $4? What, I can get all that?

Feed it? All right, well... Let me do an edible. Let me do a 20 milligram real quick. I can pull up to McDonald's. I'll be good. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. I'm darling. I'm darling. Hey, what. The Breakfast Club. I'm telling. I'm telling. Hey, what you doing, man? I'm telling.

I'm calling you. 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? Man, this is D-Bell from Houston. What's going on, DJ Envy?

D-Bell, what's up, man? Get it off your chest, brother. Well, first of all, good morning. You know, Sean LeMann, the guard, Angela Yee. D-Bell. Peace, King. I got two things I want to get off my chest. First of all, DJ Envy, I don't understand why you still want to come down to Houston

and embarrass yourself with this car show. Man, did you not see those cars that Lynn had at Rick Ross' car show, man? And you still want to come down here and embarrass yourself? I seen them old-ass cars. Yeah, we come back. Actually, my cars just landed in Houston. Those cars are called classics, sir. They're 20 cars loaded.

And, yeah, we're going to have some fun, man. Are you coming to the show? Man, I'm not going to lie. I got to work this day, but I'm still coming. Okay. That's what it is. Get there early, man. We're going to have a lot of fun.

I'm actually, when I land here tomorrow, I'm going to pull up. I think we're going to drive all 20 cars to Turkey Leg Hut tomorrow. So we're going to pull up in front of it, and we're going to eat some turkey legs, and then we're going to head over to the car show. But, yeah, come on out. Bring the kids. It's a family fun day. Rides, amusement, amusement games.

We're going to have, what do they call the aerobics? What's the aerobics? Aerobics? Double Dutch. Double Dutch aerobics. Oh. Double Dutch aerobics. We're going to teach kids how to jump double Dutch.

There's going to be face painting. There's so many different things. It's a family fun day. Bring the kids, man. I'm going to certainly double dutch. There's going to be face painting. There's so many different things. It's a family fun day. It's going to bring the kids, man. I'm going to certainly go do that. Second thing is, so as far as occupation, I'm a truck driver.

I deliver gas around Houston, right? I can't stand when I'm out there dropping gas. I be having like, it be random people walking up to me like, hey, hey, can you fill up my gas tank?

Hey, can you meet me around the corner and put gas in my tank? Do you want me to go? Do you want me to do federal time in prison? Like, I'm not understanding. Like, make it make sense. Damn, you get federal time for that? What? You're stealing gas?

What? I didn't know that. You get 10 plus years. Oh, damn. I did not know that. They don't care about your livelihood. They just want some free gas. They just want some free gas. You can't blame them, damn. I did not know that. They don't care about your livelihood. They just want some free gas. They just want some free gas.

You can't blame them, though. Yeah, I mean. For wanting to put, not caring about if you go to jail. No, for wanting free gas. I mean, why y'all are so rich that y'all do not see what's going on with other people? Imagine going up to somebody who has a job to do and asking them to steal something and give it to you. Imagine not being able to take your kids to school or being able to get to work because you can't fill up your gas tank.

That's where people are at right now. Ask somebody to risk their livelihood. D-Bell, you see what argument you started up in? I'm just saying. People are going through

that act like you can't understand why people are asking for free gas. It's crazy. Yes, I can understand why they would ask. I'm not saying he should do it.

I mean, I get your point. I get your point. Let me go to the bank. Give me some money. Yes. Give me some money. Yes. As if I'm a little kid. Give me some free money. Yeah, pull your car up.

I got you. Like, come on, man. Let's be serious. Well, D-Bell. Hey, I greatly appreciate y'all time. Hey, follow me on Instagram. Oh, by the way, I'm having my first child. I got a daughter on the way.

She's going to support us. Congrats, bro. Congratulations, brother. Yay. I appreciate it. I appreciate it, y'all. I'm going daughter on the way. Congrats, bro. Congratulations, brother. Yay. I appreciate it. I appreciate it, y'all. I'm going to be the best father ever. But, hey, follow me on Instagram, D-Bell400.

Again, D-Bell400. Follow me. D-Bell, can I ask you one last question? Yes, sir. Can you pull that gas truck in the back of the car? Hey, man, I don't speak no English, man. Me speak no English. I'm going to try that at the bank.

Can y'all just give me some money? I'll make a deal with you. I'll make a deal with you, DJ Iggy. If you outshine Lynn at the car show, I will be sure to fill all y'all gas tanks up for free on me. And then if he loses, then what? Hey, man, I need all y'all books. I need a book from DJ Envy.

I need a book from all the books from Charlamagne Tha God. And I need a bag of your coffee, Angela Yee. I think you should have asked Envy to give you all his cars if he loses. Get out of here. That sounds like more of a fair trade. D-Bell, I'll see you at the car show. And pull up on me, D-Bell. I got you with a book, brother.

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. Let's go. This is your time to get it off your chest.

Whether you're mad or blessed. Say it with your chest. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. So if you got something on your mind, let it out. Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning. Peace and blessing. This is Sean Stone with Sean Stone TV.

Good morning, Breakfast Club. Sean Stone, peace, King. Get it off your chest. Hey, Charlamagne, good morning. DJ Henry, good morning. Angela Yee, good morning. Good morning. Oh, man, gas prices are crazy high out here.

I'm trying to tell people. Hey, man. I went to the gas station recently for $8, man. Gas prices are crazy high out here. I'm trying to tell people. Hey, man. I went to the gas station recently for $8, man. And I remember when $8 to, you know, get your tank up to halfway. Yeah, nah, not anymore. That's a gallon and a half. Not even a half nowadays. Man, it's crazy.

So I just want to shout out the guy that charged 69 cents for gas. And Charlamagne, don't try to twist it, too. I didn't try to switch nothing. I am happy that that guy gave y'all 69. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Nicole. What's up, Nicole? Get it off your chest.

Yeah, I just wanted to do a birthday shout out to my husband, Jimmy Ray Parker Jr. He turned 33 today. So I want to say happy birthday, baby, and I love you. Happy birthday to him, all right? What y'all doing for his birthday? So turned 33 today. So I want to say happy birthday, baby, and I love you. Happy birthday to him, all right? What y'all doing for his birthday? So he works today. He works for the bus for Via down here in San Antonio. So he works today.

Y'all got the weekend. I'm going to take him out to go eat. Y'all got the weekend. He works the weekend, too. Damn. So when's his next off day? He be going in at like 3 in the morning. So his next off day is probably Monday.

Okay. Well, plan something nice for him. I got him a whole bunch of stuff. I got him like a tool set and everything and some shoes and some cologne. So whenever we go out, he's going to be fresh. Okay. You know what's crazy? I saw somebody yesterday.

They were talking about they asked the young lady. I think I saw it on Ball Alert. And I guess they were trying to shame him because he asked the young lady, is there any way we can find something to do and hang out where we don't have to have to spend any money you know what i'm saying and i'm like why y'all shaming him for this that's a legitimate question right now people don't have it well not for nothing you know when when i was dating my wife we didn't have any money exactly to drive around well i don't know if this is a good idea anymore but we should drive around rich neighborhoods and look at the big houses because that was what we would do.

And like we would, you know, like one day we would have that and we would drive in, you know, rich neighborhoods. Yeah, don't do that now. People are going to call the police on you. You definitely go for a nice walk outside and go to the park. I don't know. It's kind of violent out here right now. Some people staking our neighborhood right now. You can't be driving around neighborhoods looking at houses in this climate.

You right. Okay. Hello, who's this? Hello. Hello, good morning. Yes, how are you? We're doing well. Hello, who's this? Hello. Hello, good morning. Yes, how are you? We're doing well. Get it off your chest, brother.

Yes, sir. I have a question for Charlemagne. Yes, sir. Charlemagne, I was wondering if there's any possibility that you can help him with mental therapy or receiving it. I know you're a big advocate for it. That's easy. Yeah, right now,

I don't really have the health insurance to really afford, you know, affordable mental, you know, therapy. So I'm wondering if you can help me out with that. That's easy. I mean, that's what my organization does, the Mental Wealth Alliance. So I'm going to get your email and we're going to set something up for you, brother.

Hold on, okay? Where you at? Baltimore, man. Okay, we'll figure it out. I'm going to put you on hold. Hold on, don't Where you at? Baltimore, man. Okay. We'll figure it out. I'm going to put you on hold. Hold on. Don't hang up, okay? All right.

Hello, who's this? This is John from Houston, the South Homicide. Good morning, DJ Henry. John from Houston. What's up, brother? Get it off your chest. Hey, I want to say thank you guys for last month for donating the money to get the pillows. At the Homesteading, it was a blast.

We got almost 260 pillows we bought. We fed over 400 homeless, and we thank you guys so much. We got almost 260 pillows we bought. We fed over 400 homeless. And we thank you guys so much. We love you guys for your support. And one more thing. Yes, sir? How do I redeem the tickets for Sunday for the car show? What do you mean?

I didn't get any. How do I get the tickets for the car show? You bought tickets or did I say I was going to give you tickets? Oh, you said you were going to give us tickets? Okay, yeah. Mercedes put it here. I sent it to Mercedes. The name is on the list.

So I have your full information when you gave it to give us tickets? Okay, yeah, Mercedes, put it here. I sent it to Mercedes. The name is on the list, so I have your full information when you gave it to me before. She'll be right at the door. We have a list of people that are coming in. And I hope I get to meet you on Sunday.

I'll be there the whole time. I ain't going nowhere. I'll be there the whole time. Give him a hug, bro. Hey, Charlemagne, thank you so much, and we love you, brothers. Thank you guys.

Have a blessed day. And be safe when you travel to here this weekend. And I'll see you then, brothers. All right, brother. Love you, King. Be safe. you, brothers. Thank you guys. Have a blessed day. And be safe when you travel to here this weekend. And I'll see you then, brothers. All right, brother. Love you, King. Be safe. Bring the family out too, bro.

Yes, sir. Thank you. All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up. Now we got rumors on the way, Yee? Yes.

Imagine making up a story because you want to back out of something, out of going to work. Well, we'll tell you who lied and said that he actually had to back out of a tour because he was watching the solar eclipse without wearing eye protection. My goodness. All right, we'll get into that next. That's a good one. 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 them.

With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. All right. Well, Joey Badass does admit that the solar eclipse stunt that he did, he said those things because he was quitting the logic tour. If you guys recall, this happened back in 2017. He said, am I crazy for watching the eclipse today with no glasses? I've sungazed before and afterwards saw colors for a whole day. I didn't die, though.

This ain't the first solar eclipse, and I'm pretty sure our ancestors ain't have no fancy eyewear. Also pretty sure they all ain't go blind. Then the next day, he tweeted out, due to unforeseen circumstances, my Cleveland, Chicago, and Toronto shows on the Everybody Tour are canceled. All right, so now he's on social media, and he said, speaking of solar eclipses, you know I never got any type of eye damage from that solar eclipse-ish that happened. I just really wanted an excuse to be off the Logic Tour. Blogs literally created a story, and I went with it because it was convenient for me at the time, but it was also funny to see how gullible people are. It taught me a valuable lesson. Whatever the media puts out

in unison, people will simply believe, even if the source is invalidated, scary world. Oh, we know that. That was five years ago. It's only gotten worse since then. I wonder if he could get sued for that, though. And he said, and logic is my N-word, by the way. I ain't with no logic slander. The tour just wasn't serving me well at the time.

He's half your N-word, Joey Badass. He's stupid. But I wonder if he could get sued for that because, you know, you're running a tour and you're saying, I can't do the tour anymore because of eye damage. Well, he probably told Logic the real reason and then that was just something public. Okay.

So I don't know that you could get sued for that. And he never said that, right? They ran with it. Well, I guess he put that... Yeah, and blogs ran with that story. And then the next day... He never said that though he never said i'm quitting the tour because i looked at the sign all right now monique and

netflix have reached a settlement in the lawsuit the discrimination lawsuit that was citing racial and gender biases according to the hollywood reporter they're saying that the uh two sides of the legal disagreement have moved to dismiss the suit and specifics regarding the agreement have not been made public. So what does that mean? So they came to some sort of agreement behind the scenes and dismissed it. Was it monetary?

We don't know. We don't know. We just said it's not public. So I don't know what, if there was any monetary compensation or whatever, but they have moved on past that. Okay, Shaquille O'Neal has paid a tab of over $25,000,

and that was for the entire restaurant. He was on a date at Ju-Lon Club in New York City, and not only did he give a generous tip to the waitstaff, he also covered the tab for everybody that was there. It was 40 tables that night. Shout to Shaq. He does that a lot, though, but shout to Shaq, man. Mm-hmm. So it must have been a nice surprise for everybody who was there was 40 tables that night. Shout to Shaq. He does that a lot, though, but shout to Shaq, man.

Mm-hmm. So, must have been a nice surprise for everybody who was there. Like, what? No, Bill. Well, thank you so much. I'm telling you,

especially in this era, even though people that were probably there probably had money, but when you can give somebody a little bit of relief, do it. No, Shaq does that a lot. Shout to Shaq.

He'll be in Best Buy and buy people stuff. He'll be in restaurants. He does that a lot. Sneaker stores. And congratulations to Snoop Dogg and his wife. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Nice.

They went on vacation to Bora Bora, so shout out to them. Congrats, Snoop. Now, his wife, Shante Broad, has tweeted out, We go together real bad. After all these years, we still look at each other the same. Alexa play anniversary from Tony, Tony, Tony. We go together real bad. Salute to Scooby.

You said that was his first vacation in 30 years. 30 years, yeah. I guess because he's always traveling. So it's like, you know, does it really work if you're having fun doing it?

Yeah. The best work is when you can have fun doing it. All right. Eminem and CeeLo are prepping their Elvis soundtrack single The King and I.

It's actually coming out today. And The King and I will hit all services at noon, by the way. So some people have already previewed some of this. And here's the song. for the Tater Tots for if you ate a lot. I just want to feel like a king. All right, so get ready for that new song today from Elvis. And that is your rumor report. From Elvis? It's a movie. Oh, from this.

Oh, okay. I was like, oh. They got old Elvis vocals? I was like, oh, wow. Now we got front page news. Next, what are we talking about? Yes, and this weather. Man, listen, we've been telling you guys about this heat wave that's going on.

It's a record heat wave. 100 million people affected. We'll give you some updates. All right. Now, today is Tupac's birthday. And you know he cares if don't nobody else care. Tupac cares. Do we have any Pac joints?

Can we play? Did he put one in? No? Eddie, you put one in? No? Eddie, you put it in? Eddie. Wow, times have changed when you have to put a Tupac record

into a hip-hop and R&B station. All right, well, we'll be playing some Pac joints this morning. Times have really changed. Front page news is next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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Morning everybody. It's DJ En Oh, yeah. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Tonight, the Warriors take on the Boston Celtics for game six. They wrap it up tonight. Warriors in six. I expect Steph Curry to have a fantastic game.

I said 50 points or better. I'm just talking, though. But game six, Clay is definitely going to show up. But I feel like they close it out tonight. I think Boston takes this one at home. I don't see it. We'll see. You know what else we got, Yeezy?

All right. Well, the record heat wave is continuing with 100 million people affected. More than 20 states are seeing dangerously hot temperatures this week. And they're saying in Chicago, they actually hit 98 degrees, and that's their warmest weather since 2012. And in Detroit, 97 degrees yesterday. It's the hottest recorded June temperature in the city since 2012.

Now, this heat is causing death in Kansas cattle. So they're saying an estimated 10,000 head of fat cattle have died because of this. So final death numbers continue to come in, but that was just an early number. Now listen, you know I'm from South Carolina, the low country, 843 Moncks Corner all day, so I'm used to hell-like conditions, but when I was in Dallas this weekend,

I've never felt no heat like that. Like we was in the car and it said it was 108 degrees, and when you stepped outside, it felt every bit of it. To the point where I was like, look, while we're outside, we're not going to walk around too much. So everybody be as still as possible. Okay. Drink a lot of water. And it was one of those things like we was at Bishop T.D. Jakes birthday party.

So while people was walking in, you just get in a wave until I can get inside. Okay. Ain't nobody walking over to greet nobody right now. It's too hot. Yeah. And it's really dangerous in Nevada. They're saying with the dry conditions and extreme heat, it's opportunity for wildfires. Wow. So that's another danger. All right, now

today's January 6th hearings are continuing. And the focus today is going to be about former Vice President Mike Pence. And so committee aides are saying that Trump's pressure campaign against Pence directly contributed to the violence on January 6th.

They said Mike Pence's life was in danger as rioters were chanting, Hang Mike Pence. There's also going to be new materials and documents about Mike Pence's movements on January 6th and what he was doing when the Senate chamber was forced to evacuate after rioters breached the U.S. Capitol. The hearing is also going to focus on Trump's attorney, John Eastman's theory.

The theory was that Pence had the authority to overturn the election results when Congress certified Joe Biden's victory. It was a theory that Trump's own White House attorneys said was not true. They rejected that, but his allies embraced what John Eastman had to say. And so that's going to also basically they have a bunch of emails that they sent related to the efforts to overturn the election that could shed new light on Donald Trump's attorney's thinking in the days leading up to January 6th. And they are reiterating Pence did not have the authority to subvert the election. So, yeah, I mean, I always thought that was so strange that the fact that all those people was chanting hang Mike Pence and they didn't get charged with threatening a government official. Like that's a felony. Like that's a felony. That's punishable by up to five years of prison. That should have been a layer. Right. So, you know, we've been encouraging people to make sure that you pay attention to what's going on. And, you know, Donald Trump is right now weighing whether to announce his 2024 bid before the midterms. And so his advisers are divided on the timing of what should happen.

He's been talking to people and trying to figure out what he should do. He could announce now. This case will impact nothing unless they're going to actually press charges on Donald Trump. And they already said that they have enough to indict him. Unless they're going to do that, it's not going to impact nothing. By the way, they could indict him and it still wouldn't impact nothing. His supporters are diehard. All right. Well, that is your front page news.

All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Now, when we come back, Kirk Franklin will be joining us. He has a new project dropping. He's on tour. And we're going to kick it with him, alright? So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

The Breakfast Club. Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne Tha God. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. We have Kirk Franklin.

Welcome back. Man, listen. Y'all are making this home for me, man. I'm totally grateful for that. Now, you are running around like you are a brand new artist, like you're starving. You was in Toronto, and they said you had plane trouble, so you drove all the way from Toronto.

Bro, bro. And that's not brand new artist business, by the way, because it was a private jet problem. No, but it still broke down. That's not not brand new artist business, by the way, because it was a private jet problem. No, but it still broke down. That's not no brand new artist business. But he could have said, I'm not coming. But he said, you know what? He got in the car and they drove all the way down there.

It's the breakfast club. How long was that drive? I think it was like eight or nine hours. Goodness gracious. Do you prefer driving over flying anyway, though? You know, it just kind of depends on where you're driving. You know, it kind of depends where you're driving. I would have preferred flying. Absolutely. Because the

tour bus was driving so fast, all the eggs were falling out of the fridge, and yeah, man, it's like, it was horrible. It was horrible. Last night, people were falling out of bunks because we were speeding trying to get here. You know? Again, it's the breakfast club. Well, no, we appreciate you.

You're Kirk Franklin, so let's not forget that. Absolutely. This is a big deal, and you know we need your energy at times, too. Oh, you're very kind. All the time, because there's so much going on in the world. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is, man.

And that's why I'm glad to be here to talk about, man, this new collab with these kids. And I got their hat on because their bus is like about 30, 40 minutes behind. And so, you know, and yeah, trust me, because the studio was supposed to be full of them. So really today, man, I want to just really celebrate, man, these kids that I want America to know. There's a community of young people that know about them, but there's a whole nother community that I really want to introduce them to.

Well, tell us about them. They're in Mavis City. Yeah, yeah, sure. Where are they from? Tell us about them. Are they signed to you? No, no, no. Yeah, yeah, sure. Where are they from? Tell us about them. Are they signed to you? No, no, no, no, no, no. What's the situation?

They were founded by these two incredible guys, Tony and JJ. And Tony and JJ were very prolific in the contemporary Christian space, writing some really huge Christian songs. And they put together this collective of like these little young juggernauts. Like I call them the Avengers.

And it's like a collective of these young worship kids. And so over the last few years, it has exploded. Like, we're on tour right now, and the average attendance is 10,000. Wow. Yeah, it's a sold-out tour. So, Maverick City, all right, so correct me, or I just want you to explain the inception of it. So was it more like a writing camp when it first started?

Okay, so tell me how this all happened. Okay okay and I'm giving it to you second and it's because remember this happened outside of me you know I'm just here really because I was uh really really blessed to be part of this collab album you know kind of like you know how you saw uh Linkin Park and Jay I'm not calling myself Jay I'm not calling myself Jay you know I'm Kirk, you know But they were songwriters that came from like these worksheet I mean they were just would they were like worship leaders at the church and they came together as like young writers up under Tony And JJ who you know shout out to them because everything started with the vision from them And then they they just put these kids together and they just started writing in like houses and cribs and the songs start to take off and what really blew them up uh um was youtube

they were posting all of their worship stuff on youtube and man they would get like 50 60 million views and yeah yeah so you know it's just it's beautiful to see what they've done in the space a lot of it has been in the contemporary christian space and now they are also kind, you know, it's just it's beautiful to see what they've done in the space A lot of it has been in the contemporary Christian space and now they're also kind of you know Just just really gaining momentum in gospel and for people that don't know historically Contemporary Christian has mainly been non african-american and gospel has been mainly African. It's unfortunate I've always hated that did not know that yeah Contemporary Christian

has always been more about other brothers and sisters. And then gospel has been mainly black and brown folk. What made you go on a roll with them

and do a project with them? You know, because you've done numerous projects, I'm sure they have done. So what made you say, you know what, I'm going to extend my arm

and introduce them to the people that are already my fans, people that follow me, the people that have already been following me. What made you do that? Wow. Well, great question. Well, I was invited. They reached out to me, and they didn't have to.

I'm telling you, man, their machine is growing. Like, it's a phenomenon. Right. Angela, it's a phenomenon. It has to give you like a fresh type of energy too I'm humbled by it mad humble but they didn't have to like I'm telling you these kids are on fire by themselves you know like they've always shown me love they've always called me you know they was calling me Uncle Kirk and you know you know we're following in your

footsteps but really they're killing my footsteps and so uh monday morning after super bowl i got a call about yo man what do you think about you and uh math city doing this uh tour together like a co-headliner and we're on stage together the whole night wow yeah yeah yeah like it's a co-headlining tour and it's like we were at prudential center last week it wasn't a seat available and you've been a prudential. Yeah, absolutely. No, it looks lit just from the videos that you guys have been posting. So the album Kingdom Book One that you guys, the collaboration album,

can you talk about the process of recording that together? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. You know, Tony and JJ's vision, Tony's mom was incarcerated. And so he, as a young boy, he would have to go visit her in prison. And what's crazy about it is that my sister has been in and out of prison all her life for drug addiction.

So she was incarcerated the longest, like 15 years. My grandfather was in prison for murder. And then my sister's dad was in prison. And unfortunately, they were all in prison at the same time in the state of Texas. So as I come from that type of background, as far as my subpersonality, I can identify. So what we did is we recorded the album in a prison in Miami, Florida, in the Everglades. So we recorded this album live in a prison, bro.

And you've got the men of this prison standing behind singers and standing next to singers. And we went in earlier, and they were teaching the prisoners the songs. So you got the prisoners singing along with sopranos and altos and tenors and just like this big hodgepodge of just people needing hope. It's because, you know, you can be still on the outside but still be in prison. You know what I'm saying?

And so you've got people that are all looking for freedom. And the first single, one of the lines is, we're singing freedom, you know, and our testimony is we'll be singing forever and ever always. And so, you know, man, we just want to show people what the kingdom looks like. Because, you know, you know, we also know that some people are victims of mass incarceration. And we also know that there are some men that have made mistakes. We just want to show people that if you've made mistakes or if you were looked over or if you were done wrong, that your story doesn't end behind bars. I saw you guys did a video to that song where it's actually in a prison. Yes, ma'am. And I think you said 1,300 inmates were providing the chorus and the vocals.

You know how amazing that is? When you watch the video, it is really, because it is such an issue in our community, mass incarceration. And seeing something like that is really like, these are human beings. And a lot of times there's so much inhumane treatment when you're incarcerated that it's hard for people. People don't have a lot of sympathy, too. They think you're in jail, you did something wrong, you're a bad person. And that is not really how it goes most of the time. As soon as my sister got out of prison, you're a bad person. And that is not really how it goes most of the time. Yes. As soon as my sister got out of prison, just the

lack of support. If her brother was not Kirk, you know, some of these things would have just gotten overlooked. And can you imagine how many people get out and don't have the resources? I remember when my sister got out the very first time, it was over 20 years ago.

And I got her a place to stay i got her put in situations but if i if she didn't have those resources she would have gotten lost and so i think it's beautiful what tony and jj are doing i think that this album is going to speak to people that are either behind bars in their minds or souls or physically that everybody makes up the king all right we got more with kirk franklin we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Kirk Franklin. Now, recently you said at a show that you felt like our generation let down the younger generation. Why do you feel that way? Oh, man, I do. It's because I really do feel feel especially when it comes to faith it's i believe that when it comes to faith that we we let religiosity lead the narrative of people's relationship with god meaning that we set principles that were more cultural than they

were biblicentric you know whether it's like you know makeup or you know how you dress or what you say or you can't do this you can't do that like we led with the narrative of what you can't do well that's a horrible way to start a conversation that's a horrible way to build a relationship is that if i meet you the first thing i do is i give you a list of what you can't do but the narrative of the faith especially the christian faith and and that's why we say that western christianity and the teachings of jesus christ are not synonymous right they are not the same and so uh if I give you a list of your freedoms and everything that is written with love ink, then we have a better opportunity to kind of get a great start. But what we did is that we passed on to the next generation a list of what they can't

do. This is wrong. This is wrong. And that's a hell of a way to start a relationship. And so that is a great mistake that we've done with passing to the next generation, the message and the love of Jesus. Yeah, no, you're right. I've heard stories of young girls who get pregnant, getting kicked out of their church because of that. Set down. Yeah. And Saucy Santana, he was up here talking about his mom is a pastor. And, you know, when he came out, it was like, we got to pray this gay out of you type of situation. Yeah, it's very unfortunate that we have not done life with people. But to do life with people is very intrusive.

It's very invasive. You know, it's because the real church is supposed to let you in and we're supposed to let you into our junk. It's like the problem, the reason why we keep people on length away is that because if we let you in too close, you get to see that we don't have it together as much as we try to make sure that you got it together. Now, you also had Kingdom Business. So it's so interesting that you talked about this. Did you like Kingdom Business? Did you see the other? Yes, and I saw the first two episodes on BET+. And so what I like about that is everything you just kind of touched on here is kind of what Kingdom Business is about.

And it's your first time also in that role where you produced it, right? I'm an executive producer along with Devon Frankel and Holla Davis Carter. Shout out to them. Shout out to BET. And if you could tell, they really put a bag behind it.

Yeah, it looks good. I mean, just by who's in it and then bringing y'all on board, you gotta put a bag behind it. Man, and it is a story of the church and the juxtaposition of who can come in, who's allowed in, and who has to say so, or who can and can't come in. Gotcha.

Right, so can you see a stripper as a gospel singer? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And being accepted as a gospel singer? Because really, like, you can find God anywhere. You can find God in the strip club, and that's a great way to reach that audience. Yeah. I'm not saying I'm going to the strip club. But you're not going to say if you want to be a gospel singer, you

can't because... Well, I would say that if you want to be a gospel singer, see, first of all, she has really great questions. See, this one knows what she's doing. That's right. She's been practicing. I am saying that all of our faiths, it is a journey, right? It's almost like it's a married man. Can a married man go to a strip club and still have a healthy marriage?

I would think that at some point, the love relationship of the wife should pull the man in another trajectory that she should not have to be on his back about it. But see, love should pull us. What if there's good seafood in there? Because you know, a lot of the strip clubs have amazing chefs. It depends why you go to the strip club.

I know your wife loves seafood. I saw her eating on your page and you love her. This is hilarious. Because it's real. What I'm trying to say, this is, you know, let me tell you something

about the breakfast club. They know what they're doing. If you come up in here, you got to be prepared. I would say the Red Lobster got good biscuits, too. They do. Yeah, yeah. But the wings. If you want to look at biscuits, you can go to Red Lobster and look at them biscuits.

But, you know, your record's playing at your club. Yeah, but I'm not going to go. But I'm not. This is hilarious. You got to throw some money when your record comes up. Oh, man. Throw some money when your record comes up. Oh, man. Money when your record comes out. Oh.

I was going to ask you, like, the record with you and Lil Baby, right? The record with me and Lil Baby, yeah. Record did great. Record did well. Wow. How many rappers after that reached out to you to do a record with you, if any? Well, no, I've had many just throughout the years. Just, you know, even after Ultralight being with Kanye, you know.

And I think that for me, I try to be very careful. Like I just did a record with DJ Mustard. He reached out to me for me to do something. And I just did LMA's record. I try to be very, very methodical and what i do is because i don't ever want to be the gospel go-to guy for rap albums is because i don't want is i don't want my posture to be that my intent is to not be anything but to spread this message and i don't want the the gospel to ever look like it's a novelty and that it's a hook that I really would love to be able to do relationship with people so I really try to do music with people that there's some type of history of either they know of my music they've

had an experience with my music versus somebody who really may not know me but may have heard me on something oh you know let's let's get my guy on this right it's because i'm all about relationship and so i would much rather build relationship with somebody than just to write a hook or an intro for their album so how do you feel when uh let's say a rapper does a quote-unquote gospel album right and they do a gospel album and you take it serious because this is this is your life this is how you live this is what you preach it's what i believe yeah yeah yeah so when you see a rapper do a gospel album right and then from the gospel album they go back and then do a regular album does it seem like a novelty does it seem like it's done just to get accolades because they

don't necessarily believe it because if they believed it they would stay in it but they go left to right so do you still how do you feel about that you see great question is I think that it must be done with a great sense of soberness is because you know it's sometimes we think that the trajectory of growth is always linear but it's not always linear right sometimes growth is like this right you, sometimes you do this and you fall back and you do this, you falter. It's, you know, one of the greatest examples that I can have is that, you know, I had a very close relationship with R. Kelly. Very close relationship and was not aware of the trauma that he was creating in its linear form. You know, this was creating in its linear form.

This was back in 94. This was right before I Believe I Can Fly. And I had a great relationship with Robert and led Robert to faith. I mean, I was 24 years old and Robert was in love with this song I did called Why We Sing. And Robert would show up at my concerts. And you know, he was still R. Kelly at the time.

I mean, it was you know huge and so right after our relationship is when he did i believe i could fly and then i did a a song on one of his albums i put a choir on it and so we were building we're really building relationships and robert got really exposed to some churches and some church people that kind of started being about this in his life it kind of really pissed him off and did him wrong, you know. And so I just remember those moments. And so I remember, you know, his life like this. I had no idea that there were these other things going on.

I had no idea which, you know, still prayers every day for all of the victims. It's because I do believe that there were victims. Yes, you know, as I believe. When you pray for the victims, do you pray for R. It's because I do believe that there were victims. Yes, you know, as I believe. When you pray for the victims, you pray for R. Kelly also? I do. I pray for both. It's because that is the difficult job of making sure that I'm not trying to put myself in God's position.

I'm not God. And so I have to humble myself. And even the things I don't understand, I've got to be able to pray for everyone. All right, we got more with Kirk Franklin when we come back. Let's get into a classic. This is Kirk Franklin with Stomp. It's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. That was Stomp, Kirk Franklin. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Kirk Franklin. Now, you mentioned your mixtape. Oh, my God.

Why did I say so? You mentioned your mixtape. Now, when your mixtape. Oh my god. Why did I say you mentioned you mixed it now when your mixtape came out? Some people were no no some some people you know were shocked and some people weren't I dare you. I dare you. I dare you. I dare you. Shut the f*** up. I'm home.

What's up? I did it. He just hung up the phone. Me, myself, I wasn't shocked. We know. And the reason I wasn't shocked is because your kids will get you to that point. Especially your grown kids. Your grown kids.

If I had a mixtape with my son, my son is 18 years old, I got a mixtape too, right? But my son knows I love him. And he knows the reason that I do it is because I want to, right? But my son knows I love him and he knows the reason that I do it is because I want to protect him and I care him and I love him. It didn't come from a place of malice. It came from a place of love, in my opinion. You apologize for it. Why? The reason why I apologize is because I did not want to normalize things that may be things that we expect as far as our culture. The things that we may say, well, that's what my mama did to me, that's what my daddy did to me.

It's I don't want to normalize it. It's that I want to be able to acknowledge that there was a standard and I didn't meet the standard. That that's the part of also being a man. It's also being a man of faith. It's acknowledging that or to me just trying to be a good man is that there is a standard and I didn't meet it and because I didn't meet it I wanted people to know that I'm sorry for doing that now a lot of people will say we should apologize to your son you don't know the history there you don't know what all is happening my son is 34 years old my son uh recently

was in some trouble and uh um I was. One thing that bothered me is sometimes it was like, I felt like your son did something to try to hurt you. Yeah. Right. He tried to record that. He tried to embarrass you. He tried to hurt you. Yeah. How did that make you feel? And what was the conversation like that? Because it's almost like if even if I get in an argument with my son, right, we might say some things to that, to each that you know after we laugh about dad i love you but i would never think my son would try to do something to bring my empire down or to hurt me or to embarrass me on a huge stage that's that's what an enemy does so how did that affect you and how did y'all heal from that if y'all did um and reason i'm asking

because there's a lot of parents out there that have the same similar situation yeah yeah we historically have tried to keep our journey with our son and his state a private family we we um is i love my son and we've been here for many, many, many years. And I've done everything that I could to try to help him for many, many, many, many years. My son is a very talented, beautiful soul. And the way that he was wired is not necessarily his fault. Some of us are born with very unique wiring.

And a lot of times in our community, it is hard for us to acknowledge certain wiring. You know, we want to think it's something else. We see people outside of our communities. They're very quick to lean towards science and medicine and information, right? Not our community, right? You know, we historically, when it comes to systems, are very distrusting of systems. And so we have had to walk through many, many, many layers historically with

our son. My son recently was incarcerated, right? And so we knew, we've been watching it for years. I mean, this is my boy. I know my son and I've known everything. And so right now, I am proud of him. It's because I think that he is, we are privately trying to address some of those things. And I have to realize, Envy, that he may never be able to understand the gravity of what he did. Does that make sense what I'm saying in context? Yeah. He may never be able to understand it.

And for me, I may have to live with that and put his well-being before what he did. In a way, do you think this kind of broke down the doors for you to be able to address something like this publicly and then work on fixing things with your relationship and your approach?

As a 34 year old man, his willingness to accept the uniqueness of how God has wired him and to embrace it and to embrace the the tools that are available will be a very beautiful thing it's because sometimes that will give you a greater opening of understanding what life is around you and it gives you context more than anything i'm grateful that he felt like that when in in his darkest hour that we pulled up and i was going to say that was there any hesitation because you know a lot of people would be like i'll write my son off if they did that i'd write my daughter off when he did that when your son got into trouble was there any hesitation be like should i go help or should i he wants me to stand back. He wants to embarrass me. I'll let him figure it out on his own. Was there any hesitation? Great, great.

Or your wife? Great question. At the end of the day, he's still my son. And when something like that happened, I'll bet 12. And we, me and his incredible mother, shout out to his mother. Shout out to his mother. Boy, if I tell you, Angela, that woman, that woman camped out in Los Angeles for weeks to make sure.

Because, you know, that's her only son. She camped out. Shout out to his mother. His mother is a hero. And I do want people to know that even though what happened with my son and I and and once again I acknowledge the mistake that I made is because I know what I was the reason why I was so disappointed in myself it's because I know what I'm dealing with he just that day that well those two days because their recording is two separate recordings and so he recorded me and I hadn't talked to him

in five years I hadn't talked to my son in five years when he called me but I do want people to know I love him I want the world to hear it loud I love my son thank y'all for asking that

this is the first time I've talked about this thank y'all for being really really kind and gracious I really really appreciate it first time I've talked about this. Yeah, no, I know. It's a... Yeah, yeah. Thank y'all for being really, really, really, like, kind and gracious. Well, you know, I really, really, I really, really appreciate it. Well, thank you for being open. You always are down to answer

and talk about anything. I know it's difficult. I can see. So we appreciate you for even sharing, like, what you did today. We definitely appreciate you. Thank you. A shout-out to my son,

because I love him, and I believe he's going to be even greater than what he realizes. He's an incredible, incredible, incredible mind, and sometimes God gives us these unique, special minds, and when we embrace it, we can become better. Absolutely. Well, Kirk Franklin, we appreciate you for joining us. The new album, Maverick City Kingdom Book One, is out right now. Shout out to Maverick City.

The bus, they had a hard time getting here. Maverick City, they're on fire. Youngins, we're on tour right now. Come see us. Let's go. And shout out to you and your wife, too, when I called you out, because I wanted to meet you for my book.

Yo, man, I'm honored, man. In a minute, so thank you. Thank you. Shout out to your wife, too. Thank you so much. Do I need to be looking for, you know, hey, you know, you want a good godly man that'll cook for you and make sure that your bath water's rubbed,

ready for you to get home. What you want me to do? Oh, no, I'm good. Actually, my man does all of that. Come on. He definitely cooks more than I do. Come on. Come on.

You good, man. You're good. Now you know we got to leave with a prayer. Oh, man. Super dope, man. Well, man, Father, thank you for the opportunity to just come be around beautiful souls. I pray that you continue to open up more doors for them to be light and so much darkness in the world. Thank you for the opportunity to just come be around beautiful souls. I pray that you continue to open up more doors for them to be lights and so much darkness in the world.

Thank you for the three of them. And Father, I pray for people that are listening to me right now that have made mistakes. I want them to know that there's no condemnation, that the guilt that they live in is not from God. The guilt they live in is not from God because that guilt does not allow you to rise above the mistake and learn from it and be better. I want you to know that there's no mistake that you can ever make that God's heart and his arms are not open to you because he's the God of grace, love, and mercy, and it never runs out. And Father, help us to continue to know that the same grace that you give us, we need to give

to each other. That it's so easy for us to write people off, but you never wrote us off. As a matter of fact, before we've even born, you sent your son to die for us to write people off, but you never wrote us off. As a matter of fact, before we've even born, you sent your son to die for us before we even made one mistake. So there's not one mistake that we could ever do that you won't forgive. That's how dope and incredible your love is. I pray for families. I'll continue to pray for my family and father lift up my son right now. Let him know that he's loved by you. Let him know that he's loved and that there's nothing impossible with you. And that your love for him is only, only, only the touch of what he can and shall be. And Father, help me to be in every way the best father that I can be.

So that we may honor you because none of this stuff matters if I can't win at home. And we give you all the glory in your name, Christ. Amen. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Kirk Franklin. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions,

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