The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: 50 Cent Responds To Omari Hardwick’s Complaints On ‘Power', Dwyane Wade Teases Nail Polish Line, Cam'ron Walks Off Set + More

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

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Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show, Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle.

We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can't say regular school without being regular school. You're like this rare air. You got platforms and partners all over the place because your demand is so high. People want to be in business with the breakfast club. I don't think white people know how popular you guys are. DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. You guys really are like the hip-hop early morning, late night talk show.

Yeah, I know what y'all talking about. Good morning, USA! Peace to the planet. It's Monday. What are you doing here, Jess? She ain't got no business here. This is where I work at. It is, but you're also pregnant. You are nine. No, how many? You're eight months.

You said nine months. Eight months and two weeks pregnant. Wait. Eight months and three weeks. See what I'm saying? You're supposed to be on that screen right now. You're supposed to be at home relaxing, chilling. I know, but I be looking pixelated.

It don't matter. You say you want to have that little baby in Maryland. Yeah. And you need to be in Maryland. Yeah, I know, but I be looking pixelated. It don't matter. You say you want to have that little baby in Maryland, and you need to be in Maryland. Yeah, I know. Because if that water breaking here right now, guess what? We got to deliver. That's right. Damn. So, yeah, what's up?

All right. How you feeling? I feel good. Yo, you know it's crazy. All right, look, I know I'm like almost there. I can't drive. Yo, I hit so much stuff this morning. What you mean?

Good thing I ain't driving my truck so nobody know. Okay. But yo, I hit a lot of... No, I didn't hit any people. Thank God. But like swiping and everything. Like I'm hit. I'm like yo, what the hell?

No, not people. Actually like vehicles. Yeah, cars, curbs. You know. I don't think you should admit that on the radio. The back of somebody's bike. I don't think you should admit any of that on the radio. They're not going to notice me because it wasn't my truck.

It's too late. But, yeah. Oh, my gosh. It was so crazy. You pregnant? You can't see? Like, yo, no. I'm just clumsy.

I be burning myself cooking. Like, I don't understand what's going on, yo. Let me ask you this question that I'm going to ask you again. What the hell are you doing here? I love you all so much. I wanted to do my farewell today. This is my last day in the studio. So I wanted to come and say

hey y'all and then bye y'all. We didn't need that. Love you though. That is crazy. Now Friday, you did say you was coming Monday. I thought you was capital. You said I'm coming Monday. I know.

But you really came. Yeah, because I had to get some stuff from my place up here to go back home. And we had to come and do our nursery here. And you by yourself? Who with you? I'm not by myself. Oh, Nya?

No. You can't by yourself? Who's with you? Oh, I came to work by myself. Yeah, she came by herself. But I got Ash and Chris up here with me, too. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, no, no.

And I didn't drive up here. Chris drove, of course. Oh. But I drove to work. But that's that big Mack truck in front of the building? No, that's a big Mack truck in front of the building? No, that's a big Mack truck in front of the building. No, it's not.

Damn, y'all been tearing people cars up. That's what that is. That's why you been side-scribing people because they know Mack truck's supposed to be on this shit.

I don't have that. That's not when we drove up here. Goodness gracious. All right. Well, let's get the show cracking. Common and Pete Rock

will be joining us this morning. They got a new album, The Auditorium Volume 1. We're going to kick it with them in a little bit. And what a weekend it be joining us this morning. They got a new album, The Auditorium Volume 1. We're going to kick it with them in a little bit. And what a weekend it was in America this weekend. An assassination attempt of the former president of the United States of America, Donald Trump. I'm sure Morgan will give us some updates and front page news.

We will be discussing this morning. Yes, right. All right. Well, front page news is next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good news is next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy,

Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's almost disrespectful to cut off Kendrick's verse at this point. You know what I'm saying? That verse gave us so many,

that verse was the catalyst for so many great moments in hip hop. The greatest rap beef of all time is Blasphemous. Blasphemous to cut that verse off. Yeah. We just did.

We ain't got no time. Let's get into front page news. verse off. Yeah. We just did. We ain't got no time. Let's get into some front page news. Good morning, Morgan. Good morning. Is it a good morning? Let's recap the craziness that happened over the weekend and then I'll talk about what's coming up this week. A lot to cover, guys. So, former President Donald Trump is

gearing up for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after there was an assassination attempt on his life on Saturday. Just after 6pm, shots rang out at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, after there was an assassination attempt on his life on Saturday. Just after 6 p.m., shots rang out at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. And one of those shots reportedly grazed the former president's right ear as he was addressing the crowd. We do have two audio clips from the rally, and I will issue a disclaimer that the audio could be difficult to listen to. So if you have children in the car or are shell-shocked, please be advised.

Let's hear what happened at the rally. Take a look at what happened. Wow. So once given the all clear Secret Service agents rushed bloodyeared Trump off the stage, but not before he pumped his fist and mouthed the words, fight, to the crowd as they chanted USA. He was taken to a medical facility where he was later reported that he is doing well. Now, the shooter is identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. He was located on a roof outside of the venue shortly after he started shooting. Secret Service agents took him from a nearby roof, spotted him and took him out. Meanwhile, Corey Comperator, a 50-year-old firefighter, former firefighter, died in the incident protecting his family from the gunfire. fire and two other attendees 74 year old james copenhaver of moonship moon township pennsylvania and 57 year old david dutch of new kingston pennsylvania were shot they are expected to

survive they are in serious um condition uh the fbi continues to investigate a motive which they have not figured out and the agency is calling on the public for help. Guys, see what happened there. Yeah, RIP to those individuals that lost their life at the rally. So many national and global leaders called on people to unite and denounce political violence and sent Trump's thoughts and prayers and well wishes, including former President Obama, former President Clinton, Vice President Kamala Harris, former Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker Mike Johnson, Nancy Pelosi. The list goes on. Ukrainian President Avon Vladimir Zelensky. And of course, President Biden, to name a few. In a primetime address from the Oval Office, President Biden said there needs to be a lower temperature in politics following the assassination attempt.

Let's hear more from Biden. Yesterday's shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania calls on all of us to take a step back, take stock of where we are, how we go forward from here. Or we may disagree. We are not enemies. We're neighbors. We're friends, co-workers, citizens. And most importantly, we are fellow Americans. We do not know the motive of the shooter yet. We don't know his opinions or affiliations. We don't know whether he had help or support or if he communicated with anyone else. Thankfully, former Trump is not seriously injured. I spoke to him last night. I'm grateful he's doing well. And Jill and I keep him and his family in our prayers. So Biden, of course, said violence has not been the answer when it comes to American politics, citing examples including January 6th Capitol riots and the assault against Paul Pelosi's Nancy Pelosi's husband.

He spoke about resolving differences at the ballot box and not with bullets, saying that the power to change America should rest in the hands of the people and not in the hands of a deadly assassin. He went on to say that he did speak with Trump on Saturday night and he is grateful he's doing well. He also extended condolences to the family of the retired firefighter attending the rally who lost his life shielding his family from gunfire. Now, an important thing to note that there has not been an assassination attempt in the united states on a president since ronald reagan was in office and that was march 30th of 1981 as he was leaving the washington hilton hotel what do you guys make of all of this i mean do you think it was uh the media do you think it was divisive politics what do you think um i think uh i think we have get it off your chest coming up next so feel free to call up and get whatever you want off your chest 1-800-585-1051

I'm reserving all my thoughts about this until 8am 8am we're really going to open up the phone lines and have a discussion with the people but I just want to hear what everybody else got to say for the first couple hours that's right and what are we talking about next hour Morgan? Yeah so we'll talk about

what's happening this week the rnc gets underway today so and trump is in milwaukee he's ready and geared up for it yeah he said he's changing his speech he rewrote his speech that he's speaking on thursday so i will get more information next hour everybody else is gonna walk out to 50 cent mini-man though i just want to throw that out he's not walking i'm telling you either 50s i don't think 50 will be want to throw that out there. He's not walking out. I'm telling you, he's not walking out. I was going to say, when did the joke finish? Here we go. Either 50's. I don't think 50 will be there to perform it,

but he's definitely going to walk out to 50 Cent Mini Men. I'm telling you. And a bulletproof vest. With Amber Rose twerking, right? I don't know if Amber Rose is going to be twerking, but he's definitely going to walk out

to 50 Cent Mini Men. He's supposed to be there, so we'll talk about it. That would be... Many men. I'm telling you. They go from Queens to Which Death Upon Me. I'm telling you queen switched death upon me

right get it off your chest 800-585-1051 it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club wake up wake up wake your ass this is your time to get it off your chest. Jail, jail, jail. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's up? This is Rich. What's up, Richie? Get it off your chest.

I just feel like, bro, we... Good morning, everybody in my bed. Good morning. This is Henry Charlemagne, just to tell you. Good morning, King. But we get to, like, sad times right about now. I need everybody to be blessed up, stay out there, because

these people are going to use this as a pretext to start a war. It's sad to say, but they're going to use this as a pretext to do what they always wanted to do. Well, the reality of the situation, and I did say I'm reserving my thoughts until 8am, so I will. Never mind. Hello, who's this?

What's your name? Hey, what's your name? Hello. Hey, what's your name, bro? Jazzy. Hey, Jazzy. Take us off speaker or take us off Bluetooth, please. I'm on regular phone. Okay, all right.

We'll get it off your chest, brother. That's all. Hey, did an interview with Dr. Uma a couple days ago. He liked that, man. Some things he said, I didn't feel like, you know, black and white as a whole oh you got a white girl you got a white wife well but i have a white girlfriend the thing is i don't get this on no i'm cool with you i'm cool with you if you did a white girl i'm not

gonna disown you because you did a white girl that's like my brother because you get the white girl you know that's your choice it is incredible to me that of all the things dr umar says that's the thing that hurts people's feelings the most. I can always tell. Listen, love who you want to love, my brother. Dr. Umar. Exactly. The way Dr. Umar feels about who you should love, you know, shouldn't be an issue. I believe in black love, too, though.

I like to see black men with black women, but I ain't knocking it. I believe in black love, too. You know, he should be that way. Like, I'm just owning this person because, you know, he said he's going to vote for some dude named Donald West because he liked him. His phone is all over the place. What he was saying was that he said,

Dr. Umar said he likes Cornel West. You know, Cornel West is running as a third-party presidential candidate, but he said he can't vote for him because he's a bunny hopper. Because he's a bunny hopper. Yeah. Hey, yo. Hello, who's this hopper. Yes. Hey, yo. Hello, who's this? Yo, hello.

Hey, what's up? Hey, what's up, bro? How you doing, brother? What's going on? Give me a few chats. Yeah, no, I just have some comments about, you know, what's went down. I think it's definitely a reflection of the state of our country and where we're at with everything. And it's just very interesting.

You know, the left is basically showing, like, their true colors because, like, they're supposedly the liberal progressives, but, like, they're suddenly, like, believing in, like, false flags and, like, oh, is it true? Is it not? You know, kind of vibe. And a lot of people I talk to also, they're like, they wish he was hurt.

You know what I'm saying? These are, like, the progressives and everything like that, you know? And aside from that, I think it's showing like the radicalization of, you know, young men in this country, too, because, you know. Young white men, young white men, say it what it is. I mean, yes, it is young white men, but I think quietly it's becoming all men in general. I mean. Nope. I'm, um... Nope.

I'm not giving you that one. As culture becomes more gynocentric, I mean, you guys don't speak the most highly of young men, you know? And if you just, if we look at the violence that occurs, you know, in a lot of these incidences, it's

the pariahs of society that are kind of, you know, often spoken down upon. Well, you shouldn't call them pariahs. How about start there? How about, you know, the pariahs of society that are kind of, you know, often spoken down upon. Well, you shouldn't call them pariahs. How about start there? How about, you know, practice what you preach, my brother. No, well, no, they are pariahs. They said that he was alone and he was humiliated in school and things of that nature. So not and not justifying what he did or anything like that.

I'm just saying it's basically a reflection. We don't even know if that's the reason he was a loner in school. He was at a gun club, a local gun club in PA. We don't know the reason he had no real digital imprint or nothing on social media. I honestly don't know. You can't just say anybody that's a loner

is a, you know. Yeah, I don't like the term pariah even though I understand what the term pariah means. It means an outcast, but it also means an outcast or someone who's despised and avoided. It's the difference, I think, between being considered means an outcast or someone who's despised and avoided. The difference, I think, between being being considered an outcast and being somebody who's despised and avoided. That's why I don't like to call people pariahs. Get it off your chest.

Eight hundred five, eight, five, one, oh, five, one. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's your time to get it off your chest Whether you're mad or blessed We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club Hello, who's this?

This is Jimmy Hey, good morning, get it off your chest Yeah, I think that whole Trump thing was a hoax Oh, you think it was fake? Yeah, I think it was fake, I think it was set up I think it was for? Yeah, I think it was fake. I think it was set up. I think it was for publicity. But I also think that the firefighter that passed away was an accident. So that needs to be looked into.

So you think it was a hoax and you think the firefighter wasn't supposed to be killed. It was an accident. Right. I think he was just a casualty. You think the 20-year-old that shot at Trump, you think that was supposed to happen? Yeah, I really think he about to go to jail for no reason. He's dead. He's dead.

He's dead, man. He died. Oh, man. He got killed. The Secret Service killed him right then and there. Oh, you don't think he's dead either? No, I think he's dead. If he's dead, he's dead.

I just don't think that. I think it was set up. I think Trump had everything to do with that. I'm reserving all my thoughts until 8 a.m. I'm not serious. I'm reserving all my. I'm just listening to everybody. That's what I've been doing all weekend, just observing and listening.

And I'm reserving my thoughts until 8 a.m. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Autumn. Autumn, good morning. Get it off your chest. The season we never see. Oh, absolutely. Okay okay so i'm on my way back home um i'm coming from florida i got a 10 hour drive back to pennsylvania i'm my hometown

is in slippery rock that is 10 minutes outside of butler so what i'm trying to get off my chest this morning is to just send some love out to the community um i unfortunately wasn't around um you know my my local family and friends when this happened over the weekend. But I wanted to send some love out. This is something that is not new to us here in America. We are constantly being forced and divided. And through social media, I've been trying to stay offline. But it has just been bombarded with arguments and, you know, putting yourself out there.

But I think we need to come back to ourselves, come back to the heart space, and be there for each other because ultimately this is all we have. So that's what I'm putting out there this morning. I like that message. You are Caucasian, right? I'm actually Native American. Oh, okay, okay. How old are you?

I'm 28. I've been listening to y'all for a long time and I really appreciate all that you put out there. I love Charlamagne, DJ Envy, and Jess. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Have a good morning, alright? Appreciate that message. Absolutely. Thank you. Good morning. Alrighty. Get it off your

chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up. Now we got Jess with the mess coming up. What are we talking about, Jess? Yes, Cameron decided to get up and walk off his podcast show because of Dwayne Wade's nail line. Oh boy. Alright, we'll get into that next. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Happy Monday morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the Mess. News is real, brother. Jess Hilarious, Jess Hilarious, Jess Hilarious, Jess donagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess. News is real. Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. She don't stare at nobody. Worldwide Jess. Worldwide mess.

On The Breakfast Club. She's a culture shift. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it off. Big pregnant. And you already know this. Okay, so Cameron

reacts to Dwayne Dwayne Wade's potential plans. So remember before the break, I was telling y'all that he got mad, but Dwayne sat down on CBS mornings and he revealed what his newest venture might be. He talks about it.

Your nails look better than mine. Don't do that. Don't do that. They do. Don't do that. So when are we getting the new manicure? You know, I'm working on it. I'm thinking about it.

I'm actually thinking about jumping into the nail line. Oh, really? I've been thinking about it. Yeah. I've been thinking about it. I've been in it so long and I'm like, you know what? It could be a good time. But I got some cool ideas.

Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We're going to discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people to hopefully create better allies. Think of it as a black show for non-black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're black, Asian, white,

Latinx, indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters, and we're inviting you to join us for Civic Cipher each and every Saturday with myself, Ramses Jha, Q Ward and some of the greatest minds in America. Listen to Civic Cipher every Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Exploring. So this is breaking news. Actually, I need to tell you guys. I've been having some conversations on my own about exploring. I got a couple ideas and one of my ideas is

one of my favorite things to do when it comes to this is actually sitting down with my daughter and getting my nails painted and painting hers. Which daughter? Because he is too old to be painting Ziya Wade's nails. That's a good question. Yeah. Because you know... Because he got a... One, right? They got a... No, no, no. Yeah. because he is too old to be painting zia wade's nails that's a good question yeah because you know because he got um one right they got a bait no no no yeah the baby girl with with gabby okay all right i had to think because i'm like uh-uh come on because zia can go to the shop that's not

a bad idea though because it is so many men out here getting their nails painted nowadays it is it is but regardless of how you feel about it how do you make it different like how do you make painting nails like a new line is it new colors is it he might have like his own gel polish or like his own little stones like that they you know the decals and stuff that you can all you gotta do is put his name on some paint right you know i'm saying pretty much d wade polish or whatever people will buy it way away polish with the glitter and the confetti gotcha um but in a recent episode of it is what it is. They attempted to discuss this, the potential plan,

but they couldn't really get far. Cause Cameron, he wasn't going for it. He go to audio Dwayne way. So he reveals he's considering creating a nail care line. He's saying one of his favorite pastimes is getting manicures with his daughter. So you get here, like, D-Wade, like, I mean, not D-Wade, Cameron taking his mic off.

He, like, immediately started taking the mic off. And D-Wade commented and he saw that and he was like, it's the oh goodness for me because Cam said, oh my goodness, oh goodness before he got up. But this is the thing.

Cam got up and put a purse on and left out. Did he? Yes. Yes. He whipped it on his shoulder like, oh goodness.

I ain't doing this. Take his mic off. I'm sure it wasn't a purse. And got out of here what's a little damn purse a man bag i didn't even see it but he had a statue right it was uh yeah one of them things that we wear a lot a statue oh i said you okay but either way you can't get mad at a man with a nail line and then you get up put your purse on like i'm out of here yo that was hilarious i respect cam for just getting up and walking away because if you don't

have anything nice to say, you don't say anything at all. We don't say anything. Even though I don't necessarily believe in that. But I would say Cam used to get smoked for wearing pink. All the time. Yeah, so I would think he would have a little bit more understanding. He got smoked for that?

Oh, yeah. They used to joke Cam at first for wearing pink. Absolutely. Then everybody started wearing pink. Then everybody started wearing pink. Then everybody started wearing pink. I always thought he looked nice in it. I didn't know nobody had a problem with it.

And that's what I'm saying. Now, you got so many dudes already wearing, you know, already getting their fingernails painted. Mm-hmm. The way you come out with a fingernail paint line, there'll probably be a lot of dudes that buy it. I'm telling you it is. Lil Yachty gonna be the first one in the line.

Oh, let me get it. That's why I laugh when stats say, what happened to young, get paid young, get paid. That was funny. Don't knock not the hustle that is funny anyway i love it is what it is by the way dropping the clues yeah that's a good show fantastic show wiz khalifa breaks silence after being arrested in romania so he performed at the uh beach please festival in romania on saturday and he's being charged with illegal drug possession after using marijuana while performing.

You can see in the video where he's in, you know, after one of his performances, he takes the blunt out on stage. We can say blunt, right? Yes. He takes the blunt. I'd be so scared what to say up here. So he takes the blunt out when he starts smoking.

He lights it up on stage. Later on that night, he was searched by authorities and he was caught with 18 grams of cannabis. is considered a risk drug under romanian law and if wiz is convicted he could face up to 10 years in prison in romania um wiz was taken for questioning by local authorities after his performance early on sunday along with several other people he was charged but he was released soon after and this would he jumped on uh twitter to say last night show was amazing i didn't mean any disrespect to the country of romania by lighting up on stage they were very respectful and let me go i'll be back soon but without a big ass joint next time absolutely if

you go to prison you're gonna have to i don't know why we think yeah these artists are crazy yeah like the country who do we think we are like i just mean americans period like but like yeah artists but why and then they haven't learned from britney yet nobody has learned from britney you gotta study laws when you go into another country learn the laws of the land you're going to you have to because for cannabis to be a risk drug under romanian law you didn't know that your team didn't do research that's right you you know what i'm saying that was just asinine for somebody to think they can go and then you lit up on stage like you know what i'm feeling good and people was in the comments like why book uh wiz if they knew that he's that now you're right not but not even not even international

you just got to know what stage you're in you know what venue you're in yeah i remember uh a couple of weeks ago little duval was performing and they were so scared duval was gonna light up on stage that they begged him like nine times please don't they're gonna shut the show down and he didn't but well at least they did somebody told him you know i'm saying they did tell him but and by the way if you uh if you if you never mind i forgot i was gonna say oh you're not booking somebody you thought you said about the fans saying oh i book with khal. You're booking him to perform, not to smoke weed. Exactly. Not to smoke.

That's crazy. Come on. Yeah, that's what I was saying. But that is just what the mess of the first hour. And salute to Duval on another successful Duval day in Jacksonville, man. Dropping a cool ball for little Duval. Okay, he had a very successful Duval day this past Saturday. Whole bunch of people.

No problems. No issues. No assassination attempts. no fights, nothing. Not at all. Shout to Duval. All right. Now, when we come back, Morgan Wood will be joining us from the Black Information Network. She'll be giving us some front page news.

So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get back to some front page news. What's up, Morgan?

Good morning. Good morning. breakfast club let's get back to some front page news what's up morgan good morning good morning so yeah um what's happening this week republicans are across from across the country are gathering in milwaukee this week to officially nominate donald trump for the presidency uh security has been dramatically heightened and the secret service is confident in their plan following the assassination attempt on trump's life during a campaign rally on Saturday in Pennsylvania. Now, Secret Service R&C Security Coordinator Audrey Gibson-Ticino joined Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman and spoke more about security measures. Let's hear more from them. We've been working on the R&C security plan for more than a year and have been in constant coordination with our partners and the Republican National Committee.

During our extensive planning efforts, we have accounted for various security scenarios that may arise, and we are confident in the plan we have implemented for the Republican National Convention this week. We will continue to assess the security environment and adapt our security measures as appropriate. The Secret Service is working diligently with the Milwaukee Police Department as well as all of our federal, state and local partners to ensure a safe and secure convention for attendees, volunteers and the city

of Milwaukee. Yeah, that's crazy. I wouldn't have confidence in my team if I was Donald Trump. I definitely wouldn't. I mean, the fact that a 20-year-old pretty much kid came there, people was telling people that there's a guy on the roof with a gun and the fact that he was still able to let those shots go and i'm supposed to have the best security team in the country in the world no i wouldn't have confidence in my team yeah well uh milwaukee

police chief jeffrey norman also spoke uh during that uh audio where he basically said you can't prepare for everything but milwaukee is prepared he's a black man just saying go ahead brother about 50 000 people are expected to descend on the city and protests are expected outside of the secure area area police who live or excuse me people who live downtown will have to deal with major delays and crowds all week so convention goers and residents are asked to pack their patients with some understanding this week now meanwhile back to the shooting the FBI is leading the probe into the assassination attempt. They, of course, identify the gunman as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.

The FBI said he acted alone, although the motive of the shooting remains unclear. They, of course, swarmed his home after the event overnight and found explosive materials. A former classmate described Crooks as a loner who was frequently bullied in high school. Now, multiple reports say the suspect used a semi-automatic rifle when he opened fire during the rally. Speaker Mike Johnson, who says the House will conduct a full investigation, he wrote the American people deserve to know the truth and said they'll have Secret Service and FBI officials appear for a hearing as soon as possible.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is also canceling traveling plans for the week to focus on the probe into the assassination attempt. That's according to the Justice Department. Garland was supposed to travel to Nevada, Idaho, Utah, and Kansas to speak at the National Bar Association and speak with local law enforcement in those states. But he has since changed his plans. And, of course, Trump was spotted golfing yesterday as if nothing happened. He flew into Milwaukee last night.

And it's being reported that he will deliver a different speech than originally intended for the RNC. Now, speaking to the Washington Examiner, he said his original speech was going to be a humdinger, but that a new one is a chance to bring the country together. He went on to say that he has received calls from both parties in the past day. Now, this incident has not slowed the Trump campaign down. In fact, he's already using the fist pump imagery to fundraise. Many people are calling the incident a little distasteful or at least that a little bit distasteful. Meanwhile, President Biden's reelection campaign, they will resume on Monday night or excuse me, tonight after a short break.

You know, they're just trying to take a moment. I guess it's like a moment of silence, a moment ofness um you know because of the loss of lives what are they calling this tasteful the the money shot where he got his uh fist in his fist in the air and the blood coming out his face in the american flag that he's already using it as um you know fundraising imagery it's already on his fundraising page i mean there's so many different things that are being said you know people are calling the incident staged others are calling for it you know to to denounce these type of narratives and call for unity that's why i'm curious to see you know we have i'm not even going to hold you guys got a big platform see what we you know what we do here i told you i'm reserving all my thoughts until 8 a.m only i will say this

about in front page news uh just just the tone that Republicans set at the RNC over the next 72 hours is very important. Like, you know, they have the power to escalate and deescalate a lot. And if I was them, I would try to deescalate because there is a climate that exists in this country right now. We're clearly regardless of what party you are in. You're not safe. Well, yeah. So, again,iden's re-election campaign they will resume tonight following a short break um after this uh shooting officials tell the hill that the dnc will also start back up um biden's primetime interview goes on tonight nbc on monday yes it

will mark the beginning of his campaign kicking back into gear and shout out to the black information networks vanessa tyler who is on site at RNC. And I hope to get some coverage from her today regarding what's going on. See what, as you mentioned, how that tone is actually set. I didn't send you, Morgan. You could have dusted off your MAGA hat. You know what I'm saying? Went out there undercover.

Okay. So that's your front page news from Morgan Wood. Thank you, Morgan. okay so that's your one page news by Morgan Wood thank you Morgan you can follow me on social at Morgan Media and for more news coverage follow the

Black Information Network at Black Information Network and BINews.com alright now when we come back Pete Rock and Common will be joining us their new album

The Auditorium Value 1 is in stores now fantastic album but keep in mind I was born in 1978, so I appreciate adult contemporary hip-hop. That's right. We're going to talk to them next. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special legends in the building today. Yes, indeed. We've got the brother Common and the brother pete rock welcome yes yes peace peace peace how y'all feeling man man this is this breakfast here no no no no no no no no no no no no no no some mornings this is a beautiful day man for us to like have a new album and um just be together

creating music man i ain't gonna front i was last night i was just like taking creating music, man. I ain't going to front. Last night, I was just taking things in. Man, it's been some years of making music, ups and downs, and to be here just releasing new music. And the fact that some people see me on the street like, yo, when that new P-Rock joint coming out or that, I ain't had that in a long time, so I ain't going to front. I'm feeling just blessed and on a high, man, just a spiritual high. You be on the street,

and this is how hip-hop common is. If you try to battle common in anything on the street, it don't matter if it's dancing, if it's rapping, if it's graffiti, he is to the full. He participates.

He participates, and A's don't matter. He be spinning on his back. I be like, I know his back hurt after that. I know his back got hurt. Hey, Evie, yo, my team be tripping because we was in a prison, man. We was, you know, doing some prison work.

And this girl wanted to battle me in break dancing. And her girl was like, yo, if she can break dance, she gonna get you. I was like, okay. So she started doing her little pop lock. Man, I went down and did some women the new album is the auditorium Vaughn one produced entirely by Pete Robb's why is King Steeda the cover for this project once I we got the title the auditorium we wanted a dope theater, a dope auditorium.

We heard about different ones, and I looked at King's Theater. Somebody from my team sent it to me, Nicole, and I was like, yo, that's it. And I was like, man, are they going to fit it within the budget? And for a second, I called my agent, Mary, who books

my shows, and I was like, yo, can you help us to get King's Theater? She was like, I'm going there tomorrow. I'm going to get it. I'm going to get it. I talked to them. And then I went up there, yo. I went up there on my own. Just went and knocked on the door like, hey, y'all, you know, we want to shoot a cover.

Me and Pete Rock and the dude, the security let me in and was like talking to the person like, yo, right here asking me could i get so it ended up yo charlamagne ended up being like man this was divine order because you know when we was taking those pictures and it said king's theater i was like this is dope and this you know they've had like a lot of historic um it's in brooklyn they had a lot of historic performances and dinah ross reopened that spot and actually your fair your wife was lived around that area so it was a lot of historic performances and Dinah Ross reopened that spot and actually your family your wife lived around that area so it was a lot of tie-ins and even just shooting a cover Pete and I was like man we ain't shot an album cover in a minute where you going through that experience of taking shots and just you know it was it was dope man so salute to the King's Theatre yeah. Your production is so

stellar and still so stellar and I was, did you have these beats in the stash, or did you make these purposely for Common in this project? I had some in the stash and maybe made some recently, but they were all done. And then I just took a whole bunch and started sending it to him. Well, he came to the crib first. Yeah. And then, you know, he sat down, and I started playing beats.

He was like, yep, yep, yep. That one, that one. Yeah. He fast, too. But he also was sending me records, too. And that's a process that I haven't been a part of in a minute where I'm sitting down and the producer's got the record and he's finding what he's about to sample. For me, Pete was sending these records and and i was like yo yo that's it right there you know like loop that and and to be a part of that process it's like a creative thing i feel

like that's how you can come with a sound and it was even bigger than just us like just making music to be honest soon as i got the piece career we started talking about life you know and that and that and that's something that's like in like in the process of being artists and creating together It's like you need to be able to like be be connect as human beings like and like man We've talked about therapy life, you know, you sometimes you just know when you're in the right place, you know It's energy energy energy is like and that it got into wishing is one of the most like underrated things And I was like as soon as I was at his crib I was like okay we're gonna do an album like and and I felt like we both would put our heart and souls into

it and I was noticing that his sound was fresh it wasn't like didn't sound old didn't sound dated no no I just took what we did from back in the day and just kind of mixed it in with what's going on today you know and we wanted we want to rock with the young'uns. I was going to ask, the celebration last year, the 50th celebration, it seemed like it made people respect hip-hop again. And not just the newer artists, the older artists. I'm seeing a lot of the OGs back on tour.

And I'm seeing their shows sold out. Have you guys witnessed that? Yes. Bro, I was on that LL Force tour with the Roots for a second. And I did different cities, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit. I'm like, yo, it's people here like coming in their outfits, like like celebrating this music. And LL is doing songs that ain't even hit like hits from his album, like one nine hundred LL and people into it. And that that like all that was I agree that we celebrated the culture.

What made me feel good was, like, we celebrated ourselves. We didn't have to, like, wait for somebody else to determine what this was. It was like, man, we celebrating ourselves. Like, when I first started rhyming, I didn't know, like, I'm 52 years old, you know, I'm rhyming. And I still feel the love that I have for this culture. And I didn't know when I was 19 rapping,

I was thinking by the time I'm 30, man, I might not be able to do this. But we just didn't have any blueprints of people who had evolved and grown in the industry to be able to find out how to exist. And in so many genres of music they do it all right like i mean i'm a i'm a big jazz head and it's a it's a jazz drummer named roy haynes that plays in his 90s you know and i want to i feel like we now feel believe that hip-hop can you can

be however old and just creating if the music is good young old I mean just create great music now when you heard the Drake and Kendrick beef right that fuel you to be like I want to get back into it because you were the type that they used to throw shots at you all the time you would throw shots back that's what I do so did you feel like did it give you that that that feeling of I mean I want to jump back into this I didn't think about I didn't want to get in a battle. Not that battle. That battle. But I was more like, man, enthused.

It was, to me, one of the greatest battles that ever existed. I think the greatest. I might have to agree. I do feel like because I've been through some experiences and heard certain songs that mean so much to me that I probably ain't been able to give it up. It's like when people be like LeBron or Jordan you know it's like because I've grown up through Jordan is still but I recognize that LeBron is right there Chicagoans get mad at me for saying that LeBron is right there but that being said I would say if I'm just being purely true I do think it was the best battle because of the back and forth

and the way they were delivering records and how great the records were. And I want to say, as an emcee, that was a real battle. It wasn't like, as soon as it started, somebody had won. Drake was delivering. And then Kendrick just came and said, yo, I got this and delivered something. Just two of the greatest, not only diss songs, songs in hip-hop to me, like Meet the Grams and Kendrick just came and said yo I got this and did deliver something just to

her the greatest not only this song songs and hip-hop to me like meet the grams and and not like us just classic songs but Drake was not like just sitting down he was fighting it was a heavyweight fight just in this battle Kendrick just prevails and brought the people together so he just won that's the part all right we got more hey what's up this is ramses job and i go by the name q ward and we'd like you to join us each week for our show civic cipher that's right we're going to discuss social issues especially those that affect black and brown people but in a way that informs and empowers all people to hopefully

create better allies think of it as a black show for non-black people we discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're black, Asian, white, Latinx, indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable, and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters, and we're inviting you to join us for Civic Cipher each and every Saturday with myself, Ramses Jha, Q Ward, and some of the greatest minds in America. Listen to Civic Cipher every Saturday

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The comment and P-, when we come back, so don't move, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Common and Pete Rock.

Charlamagne? This might be a dumb question, but did you really have the daydream or dreams that you described on Dreamin' on the new album? Because they sound so vivid yeah well i actually some of those dreams definitely happen and that's one of the things that for me like people come to me in my dreams especially like people that have transitioned have left and passed on like that's why i talk about my cousin adelaide who died died in a motorcycle accident in Brooklyn in 2009.

Yeah, Pete actually used to ride motorcycles with him, but God bless his soul. And all these people, Dr. Maya Angelou, they have come to me in my dreams. But this, I was like, let me just be, because I've been in the MC space, I was like, let me be clever with it and talk about Prince and talk about these things and just play with the words of it But also keep the spirit of like what dreaming is and when people come to visit you in your dreams Did y'all have a discussion about that that one inspired you? Okay, cuz I told him have comes to me in my dreams Troy comes to me in my dream

You know when I lost from family members to friends, you know saying they come to me Wow, I take that as a sign and that they're watching me and they got eyes on me yeah i feel like you know the ancestors speak to us in different ways and and i definitely believe and even though i don't even always remember all those dreams i still like remember the visits and and then you know for me to talk about nelson mandela when prison couldn't break them and you know when malcolm to talk about Nelson Mandela when prison couldn't break him. And, you know, Malcolm's talking about As-salamu alaykum here in the window saying As-salamu alaykum. I'm thinking about that by any means necessary picture where he was in the window.

Like all those things, man, I was just I wanted to give it up for people who've inspired me. It's almost like a tribute to the ancestors, but in a good way. When you produced troy right what was the mindset back then because usually people didn't do records like that it was either hard records it was club records it was party records it was street records but you did a record as a as a reminisce as a dedication record what was the mind frame and what was the labels feeling of putting that record out of all because that's one of the most classic records out there well i'm gonna start off saying i was depressed you know i i was really depressed because you know we lost

one a a block general too he's like he taught me how to fight taught me this i mean that so when we lost them you know the whole community was was was crazy so i went somehow found the strength to go dig through records and i found this record and listened to the whole thing. And when I listened to the whole thing, I got emotional. I started crying. And I said, that was a sign to say, yo, try to do something with this. You know what I'm saying? And so that's what I did.

And I heard these elements in the song. And that drove me to make the beat, man. You know what I'm saying? And when I heard that sax. You knew it was it? That was it. I was like, no hook, hook no nothing just rock that home this CL have that that lyrics already done really he added all he did was like change a few things but yeah I can't when I gave him the BDR he had the lyrics but he just

changed some few things to come into the con words Troy why did how did you feel when you first heard that acronym? That's like the reminiscing of you. Reminisce over you, that was real clever of CL for him to come up with that title, you know what I'm saying? That was crazy to spell out my man's name and how that title, this magic was happening for us, bro. You know what I'm saying?

Everything was coming together, we did that. You know we don't give you credit for it too, for us, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, everything was coming together. We did that. You know what we don't give you credit for, too, P-Rock, man? Always putting Dark Skin Brothers in a positive light. Come on, sir. Chocolate Boy Wonder. Just that title is wild. Come on, come on, bro.

Dark Skin, you called yourself a Chocolate Boy Wonder at some point. Yes, yes. Common, you know what? I don't give you enough respect. No, I don't. Light Skin, Dark Skin, here we go. You know what I'm saying? Who instilled Common, you know what? I don't give you enough respect. No. Light skin, dark skin. Here we go. You know what I'm saying? Who instilled that in you, though?

Heavy D was very talented in coming up with names. He gave C.L. Smooth his name. Gave Pete, gave me, well, his brother, my cousin Floyd, gave me Pete Rock. And he would have taught me a lot about, like, bridges and songs. You know, like, just how to structure a song, a hit song. And then it stuck with me. You know what I'm saying? Because he was the first one to notice my talents.

He was like, yo, you got something. You need to bring that out. AP, he's saying who instilled that black pride like as a chocolate brother. The confidence in you. Oh, for me? Yeah. Oh, I mean, you know what i'm saying like i had the talent you know i you know i thought i was decent looking as a as a black man yes

i just rolled man you already had it we come from that era we come from the black and proud you know like even when i listen to um you know uh on a god you know you got a line on that song you say my testimony came from all the testing. Yes, sir. Can you expand on that a little bit? Man, I feel like anything that I really can talk about from a pure and like a place that resonates is because I've experienced some things in life. And, you know, I experienced things like we all do. But that human testing, that thing of going through things is what allows us to

really connect and i and i'm just saying like man we got to go through things to have a testimony that really means something and resonates i ain't saying you go out there to try to suffer but but you know life gives you things and it's the way we deal with it and overcome it and move through it and what builds character that will allow us to be like, yo, when I'm sitting down with people, they listen because they know I've been through something. You know, so that's the testimony. You know, you got Jennifer Hudson on the record. How was it asking your lady for a feature

and does she charge you? Well, let me say this. It was definitely, it kind of just came pure because I was playing the record and I had the rhyme and Peter sent me the beat. And I loved this beat. And I thought it was Aretha Franklin, a sample from Aretha Franklin. And I asked Peter, and he's like, no, that ain't Aretha Franklin.

And Jennifer heard it and was like, man, that is incredible. Like, out of all the beats I was playing, she's like, that's my favorite right there. And it just, man, I was like, damn. This kind of give you that soul for Aretha jennifer played aretha in a movie and i could tell she was inspired by it i was like yo i'm gonna get her to sing on it but i first i thought you know we i had the verses in the subject matter i wanted pj who was a incredible artist and writer uh pj super dope she you know yeah um she from north carolina it's just super dope but uh i had her write the hook and and then also i was like i want jennifer to sing kind of what the sample is doing and i was like what's up you want to do this she's like yes yes

because she was she was excited to do it and uh you know ain't no charge it'll be a fair exchange i'll do do something all right we got more with common and pete rock when we come back so don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's e.g. nv just hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with common and pete rock that album the auditorium volume one is out right now. Now, Common, how do you deal with the criticism? Like, you dated women in the industry that were famous. And sometimes people go at them. How do you deal with that, being their man, but you also know that this is the entertainment world?

Yeah. Man, I try to do my best. Do my best to, when I'm, like, in a relationship relationship a partnership that is with somebody public which has happened i just try to make sure we stay as sacred as possible with us and like i try to make sure we build together and have our own like foundation because once people start talking it can it can distract you it can get you off it can discourage you but if you got the foundation and know what y'all purpose to do you know and that's i guess any relationship but for me that's what's been like dealing with the the publicity of the stuff and you know you feel something if somebody attacking somebody you care about you love you want to you're going to defend

them you want to defend them but um you know i try not to get caught up too much into what people talking about the relationship especially if it ain't true and if it is true that it wasn't supposed to be out there like that so we got to resolve that within the house. Like if somebody criticizes her show, for instance, right? Yeah. And then you got to do an interview. It's like... Who is her?

Carmen got a great roster. You talking about Jennifer? You talking about Jennifer? I would never talk about her. Oh! I'm going to have to go home and have an argument. Like, you know, so how do you deal with that? Because you might just want to say, you know what?

I ain't like what he said. I'm going to talk to him later on. So how do you deal with that? But then you also know, like, this is the entertainment industry, and I got to let it go. But, you know, people, sometimes people think common is sweet, right? And I know common ain't sweet. I've seen common smack somebody. I've seen common smack somebody tell the story and then walked in the crowd smack somebody and did not stop

wow hey that was back there like we said light skin they just go back down so how do you deal with that part of it? Nah, but for me, man, like, when people criticize your work, man, you can't really take that too personal. Like, I get criticized all the time. You know, I done got called out for wearing crochets. You know, like, you got to know who you are. And, like, if you put out, like, I put out music,

people are like, man, what is this? Like, I can't take that personal. So I apply that with her. Like, if somebody's talking about her show, they don't like the show. I understand. You know, that's what they feel. But if somebody disrespects her space, that's a different thing. Like, it's different than criticizing on, you know, the work we do than it is, like, disrespecting the space of a person.

So that's how i feel but a show is doing excellent bro so i'm happy for her and i'm grateful she on the house how do you feel when you look back at the electric circus time com because i think about like you know we people ask the locks about the shiny suit time yeah yeah what do you look back when you look at circus time what do you think was it the queen erica bought dude we got her on the wall yes was it her that had you dressing like that? Because I love when the internet, this new era finds old stuff, and that's what they say.

Well, see, this is the thing. Erykah is very influential, but not influential enough to say, dress like this, and I would do it. I'm a man, like, I'm going to be like, I'm going to put on what I like. Everybody might ask, when your lady be like, oh, you look good. You feel good about that. But I am not going to my lady like, is this one right or that one? I mean, I might ask that, but nobody's going to say, yo, wear this.

Wear this. And she, you know, that's a powerful woman. She's amazing. Incredible human being, too. And just, man, just one of the greatest. But as far as dressing me, no do you tap into that Chicago energy all these years later you know you've been all over the world yeah how do you tap into that energy to be I'm gonna be real real with you like having a lady that's from Chicago allow

me to go home and just be home. Like, and I hadn't did that in a while where I was just like going home and just being around my loved ones and didn't have no work to do. Man, Angle Front, that helped me with this album. That sound like you might get married, come. For real, like that sound like

you building a real foundation. I mean, listen, I mean, this is definitely with all due respect to all the women I've dated, you know, because it's all love. But this is a really healthy and beautiful relationship, bro. And, like, I'm just doing my best to keep God first and communicating, taking all the stuff I've learned as a human being, the failures i've had in relationships on my responsibility i'm taking that learning from that growing from it using all the therapy all the all the you know understanding that man let me enjoy moments and and also this life is about creating happiness and creating joy and creating love and embracing the grace that exists so when you with somebody who's from where you from it's a different kind of connection to um that's something else but i mean she's from where i'm

from spiritually she's from where i'm from from like from where we geographically come from the shot and you know just from where i'm from as a person like one of the things that i felt was before we even started was together we were doing this movie this security guard said to me he was i came to the set he was like man you and jennifer hudson two of the coolest celebrities i ever met man i was like what for real he's like nah y'all real cool and he was like she just bought this ice cream for all these people here on the set and i was like man i just like people to treat people good that's part of home too for me so yeah i mean she is she there bro you seem the happiest you're saying

you want to get married i mean it sounds like to me i mean if i'm going to get married it's to her wow well that's simple as that and i see p-rock smiling every time you talk about it he's smiling like he might know something we don't know i don't know nothing i just like it i like to see them you know i'm saying together It makes me feel good For sure I got a hip hop Head record CL Smooth and P-Rock Whatever happened

To the group Um Just growing pains man We're two different people Y'all cool with each other now Or I can't say that But you know

I wish them the best With the anniversary I've never seen y'all Perform together And I always said Damn that would be For a 50 year anniversary Everybody coming back I was like It would be for a 50 year anniversary everybody coming back

I was like it would be amazing to see Troy on stage or the record street I feel the same way but you know some things just can't happen

you know and it is what it is it's not it's just life bro you know what I'm saying my last question you know we saw Meph recently he said that he realized

that there's a generation gap is just too wide for him. He don't want to perform at certain concerts, younger concerts. Do y'all feel that way? And do you feel like there's not a home for OGs in hip hop as far as not even just performing with radio as well?

I don't feel that way. I feel that like, man, music can prevail over any age. Like the one good thing is that I feel like a lot of that music is coming around again to the youngest. If we deliver music that has that soul and that timelessness, young people

will respond, old people will respond, people will respond. Well, if you're looking for that, the Auditorium Volume 1 is out right now. Common and Pete Rock. Let's play a joint off of that. What y'all want here? I was gonna say Let the Sunshine again. Okay. Well, thank y'all for joining us. Pick up the album right now. The Auditorium Volume 1

is out right now. Common P Rock. Yes, sir. It's the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God,

We Are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess. Your news is real, brother. Jess Hilarious, Jess Carabamore, Jess don't do no lie.

Don't do no lie. She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide master. On The Breakfast Club. She's a coachess. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it off. Okay, so Alec Baldwin case dismissed. If you don't remember, back in October 2021, Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a scene on the set of the Western movie Rust,

which I don't think ever came out, when the prop revolver he was holding went off and killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins. He was originally charged with involuntary manslaughter and a firearm enhancement charge. The charges were dismissed altogether in April 2023 as prosecutors cited new facts in the case. Then in January, a grand jury indicted him on an involuntary manslaughter charge once again. He could have been

sentenced up to 18 months in prison if the jurors agreed he committed the felony. But in a shocking turn of events, the judge on the trial dismissed the case on friday alec ball when breaking news he's breaking down in tears the judge dismissed this case and the decision came after the judge determined that prosecutors they withheld evidence the pivotal moment in alec ball wins criminal trial seen here when the actor's legal team claimed New Mexico prosecutors did not disclose new evidence

pertaining to the live rounds found on the Russ film set in 2021. The judge sending the jury home on Friday as she decided whether to dismiss the case against Baldwin. The state's willful withholding of this information was intentional and deliberate. Your motion to dismiss with prejudice is granted. His lawyers say that the santa fe county sheriff's office took possession of live rounds and of ammunition as evidence but did not record them in the official case file of reveal that their existence uh to the actor's defense team so as a result of that the judge was asked to dismiss the case um arguing that they should have known about the collection of live rounds and given the ability to determine for themselves whether it was crucial to the case or not

so it's been dismissed i totally agree with that i never thought he should have went to trial right in the first place yeah i never i never understood either i never understood how that became his responsibility he was an actor on set he doesn't do props he did not know that was not a prop gun like i never thought he should be on trial for that. Yeah. It was an accident. Sadly. And he was very, very remorseful for Helena Hutchins. Like he said, he knew her and her family and he just didn't understand how that happened like that.

Complete negligence, you know, on whoever put that real gun there. But I never thought Alex Baldwin should be. Or real rounds. Yeah. And that's the person who should be tried. Like, that's the person who should be in his place. Or should have been in his place and in court and stuff um 50 cent in trump's assassination attempt as we know a young man named thomas matthew crooks took a shot at trump on saturday uh the bullet grazed his ear and trump survived the assassination's attempt after assassination attempt 50 tweeted a picture of the get rich or Die trying cover with Trump's face on his body with the caption, Trump gets shot and now I'm trending.

That's what he said. So apparently he wasn't the one that made it, made the cover. But he was the only one that I seen posted, yo, 50 is funny. He be trolling. Maybe he made it. Maybe he didn't. But later on, he had a show in Boston and he had the same picture up on display while he performed many men.

I think that is hilarious. That is funny. I have. I really believe that Donald Trump is going to come out to many men. I think so. Republican National Convention. I wouldn't be surprised. I can see it.

I would not be surprised. And more 50 News. He responds to Omari Hardwick during a recent appearance on a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival, Omari Hardwick addressed fans' disappointment about his character Ghost being killed in the Power series. That's what he said. Man, I have so much empathy for the fans, bro. Because you were sold and told a story that did not continue, guys, in the way that it was sold and told to me that it would continue. So y'all have every right to be like, it didn't end right.

And because we don't honor our fans enough. But had it ended the way that we started the show, then I think you guys would be extremely satisfied with the art. You should be able to forever have conversations about the show then i think you guys would be extremely satisfied with the art you should be able to forever have conversations about the show but i just want y'all as fans to always remember i played the guy so i'm a little bit bigger than him so it's better to follow me than a character um 50 saw the clip of the conversation and shared it along with this caption this nigga is a strange bird the f is he talking about i never done nothing but look out for him if he needed something i gave it to him i understand now that it did not matter um so of course 50 felt some type of way

um and then i also seen it a few weeks ago omari harwood was um he sat down with ryan clark and them at the pivot and he was actually saying that he don't feel like he got paid enough to play the character ghost in the original power. 50 didn't respond to that, but I saw that and that didn't hit as many blogs as I thought it would. But he was saying that he. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha and I go by the name Q Ward, and we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We're going to discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people. We'll see you next week. and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're Black, Asian, White, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us,

then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable, and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters,

and we're inviting you to join us for Civic Cipher each and every Saturday with myself, Ramses Jha, Q Ward and some of the greatest minds in America. Listen to Civic Cypher every Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. He you know, he thanks Curtis. He thanks Courtney Kemp, but he didn't get what he thought he was worth to play the series main character. How I feel about that is very like. Conflicted because I'm like things change in TV all the time. Like they rewrite stuff you never know as an actor.

I don't know what was sold to him. I'm not discrediting his feelings, but things change with series all the time. Like I'm not I can't speak for like for movies too much because the movie is just one, you know, but this was a series. You know what I mean? And the series lived on. We got spinoffs and all that. And you could have got bought back. That's the thing.

I don't even know what he was trying to say on stage with Matt Barnes. What was he trying to say? I guess he's like he got killed. He was promised that it was maybe a little longer, and then they decided to kill him off. He didn't see that coming or something, but he did six seasons. I think he averaged, I think, 150,000 an episode

or something like that. 150,000, yep, that's what he told Ryan Clark. So he got paid, I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure, but either way, he is a strange bird to 50, so... Stay out of them rich Negroes business Man Rich cock diesel Negroes business

Stay out of it I'm going to stay out of it They have that discussion Amongst themselves I have to report it So let's just see If it unfolds Because I'll be talking

About it again And it's weird Whenever they do Inside baseball like that Because we truly do not know What the hell is going on You know Even the fans was quiet

Like oh my god What does this mean i really did not understand what he was trying to say yeah it sounded like he was promised something and they changed the character they just changed the character was changed the fans are upset about an ending that don't got nothing to do with you with you they're upset because they love you as a character but you're no longer on the show and then when he was like follow me not the character. Huh? That's what I said. What if I love Ghost more than Amari?

That's what I said. Because on another movie, you're doing Abandon. So it's like, what if I'm, what if I want to like Ghost? I'm sorry. I get what you're saying.

I totally understand what you're saying. I get it. I get it. Yeah. I just, I don't want to say it, but. You ain't following the movie

because you be like, damn, Ghost getting bent over? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like, no, don't. One of the, but. You ain't following the movie because you be like, damn, ghost getting bent over? Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, no, don't. One of the greatest scenes in movie history, by the way. The fact that we don't have that on the board right now just to play bobs. I love when Janet Jackson turns to him and says, so you doing the bending?

Oh, so you doing the bending? Yo, that was so funny. I loved it. I said, Tyler probably got one here. He got one here. But anyway, that is Jess with the mess for the second hour. Thank you, Jess. Charlamagne, who you giving your donkey to?

You know, four after the hour, I said I wasn't going to talk about, you know, the Donald Trump assassination attempt until 8 a.m. So here we are. Four after the hour. I need House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senator J.D. Vance to come to the front of the congregation we would like to have a word with them okay all right and then we're gonna open up the phone lines right absolutely to discuss with the people 800-585-1051 i know you guys seen what happened all weekend long with trump or the attempted assassination let's discuss what are your thoughts it's the breakfast club good morning this is a miracle there is no question that there are problems in this country between police and community yes

you are a donkey the latest on that police killing of a black man now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he and so we are in a state of emergency okay white supremacist violence is it always has been the number one threat to our society but i'm also very proud that my wife is white the breakfast club bitches all right please tell me why was i your donkey of the day well tommy lauren uh donkey of the day for monday july 15th goes to the speaker of the united states house of representatives mike john, as well as United States Senator from Ohio, J.D. Vance. First and foremost, before we continue, let me state the obvious and say, regardless of what you feel about a person's politics, violence is never the answer.

It's that simple. If you don't like a candidate or an elected official, you should attempt to take them out with your votes not violence if you think otherwise if you think violence is indeed the answer just do a simple exercise and ask yourself if this was a candidate or elected official that you actually voted for and supported and they got shot at someone attempted to take their life what would your reaction to that be when we discuss what happened to donald trump i believe that discussion like most discussions in america is multi-layered but first and foremost we should talk about the issue of political violence and we should denounce it and state quite plainly that we have no place for it in america period and i'm not saying that to be politically correct i'm saying that because that's how i truly feel now

back to the donkeys at hand mike johnson and Senator J.D. Vance from Ohio. First, let me read this tweet that J.D. Vance posted on Saturday at 820 p.m., just a couple of hours after the assassination attempt with Trump occurred. He posted today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination. is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination, end quote. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was on NBC's Today Show on Sunday morning and he said this in regards to the Trump shooting, everyone needs to turn the rhetoric down.

Let's listen. America awakens to a rather surreal morning. This is a horrific act of political violence. It ought to be roundly condemned. Obviously, we can't go on like this as a society. We've got to turn the rhetoric down. We've got to turn the temperature down in this country. We need leaders of all parties on both sides to call that out and make sure that happens so that we can go forward and maintain our free society that we all are blessed to have. Now, I've been observing and just listening all weekend. You know, I'm not a person who rushes to spill the first thing that comes to mind on social media. I've just been taking it all in. And I want to say to Mike Johnson and J.D. Vance that you can't honestly have a conversation about dangerous rhetoric that leads to political violence without discussing the dangerous rhetoric

that has come out of President Donald Trump's mouth and his social media. Mike Johnson said everyone needs to turn the rhetoric down. The question I would ask Mike Johnson is who is everyone? For him and JD Vance to make comments like that and not acknowledge the countless times Donald Trump has said things that have led to violence or could lead to violence is disingenuous. And it's them playing campaign games, it's them politicizing this situation because of course it is a presidential election year. They, like many politicians, Republicans and Democrats, are using this as an opportunity to score points on the opposition.

Real leaders would be using this as an opportunity to actually bring people together. Instead, you both are causing more division. You are causing more people, in this case, uh democrats to be targets once again you cannot make any statements about dangerous rhetoric that leads the political violence and division without acknowledging the words that have come from donald trump's mouth and his social media there has been a real unserious attitude in regards to political violence in this country when a nut-ass follower of donald trump came to nancy pel Pelosi's house and attacked her with a hammer. Trump made fun of it. And we'll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi who ruined San Francisco.

How's her husband doing, by the way? Anybody know? And she's against building a wall in our border, even though she has a wall around her house, which obviously didn't do a very good job. Remember when Trump posted pictures of Biden looking like he's bound and hogtied on his social media? Donald Trump, in an attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, told his followers to fight. And that led to an attempted coup of this country.

And some of his followers did bring guns and ammunition to D.C. for that purpose. They did storm the Capitol. They were chanting to hang Mike Pence because he wouldn't alter the election results. That happened. And it happened because of Donald Trump. I'm not even going to go down the rabbit hole of how many times Donald Trump has incited political violence or co-signed political violence or suggested political violence. I'll give you a couple that come to mind.

You remember when the now governor of Montana, i believe it was montana he was running for congress and he body slammed the reporter and got charged with assault and donald trump said he is my type is that not encouraging violence remember when donald trump suggested that you know uh second amendment advocates assassinate hillary clinton hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know. Come on. So Mike Johnson and J.D. Vance, please don't act like Donald Trump is not solely responsible for creating this environment of political violence that he's not even safe from. About 12 days ago, Kevin Roberts, the president of the pro-Trump think tank, the Heritage Foundation said this. In spite of all this nonsense from the left,

we are going to win. We're in the process of taking this country back. We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be. It will be bloodless if the left allows it to be. Mike Johnson and J.D. Vance, could that kind of rhetoric lead to political violence? If somebody was at home, right, reading Project 2025, which is put together by the Heritage Foundation and heard Mike Johnson say that, don't you think that could lead to some type of political violence? Why aren't you denouncing all that type of rhetoric okay then and now how could you in this moment immediately point the finger to democrats and how come more of the

media haven't been saying this all weekend i understand sadly there was an assassination attempt on the former president but in a moment like this we can't worry about you know striking the right tone we have to worry about telling the truth now mike johnson and jd vance both say that donald trump has been vilified and you know calling him a threat to democracy was one of the things that led to this i saw mike johnson uh again on anderson cooper and anderson rightfully pointed out that trump has said that about joe biden as well let's listen it's an objective truth that donald trump is probably the most persecuted and attacked political figure in history certainly among presidents presidents, maybe at least since Abraham Lincoln, Civil War era.

And that takes a toll. I mean, when my colleagues go out, Democrat colleagues, and say democracy will end, the republic will be in an emergency stage if Donald Trump wins for president, it's just not true. It's another election. And when they say that kind of rhetoric and they heat it up like that, there are people out there that take these things to heart, and they act upon them. Politicians are not responsible for that. But we do have a responsibility to be responsible. I do want to point out the former president himself

has also used that kind of rhetoric. He said on June 27th, Joe Biden is a threat to democracy, a threat to the survival and existence of our country itself. That's certainly the same kind of language you're talking about. Listen, everybody is prone to overstatement, okay? I mean, a few days ago, earlier this week, I mean, Joe Biden actually said we need to put Donald Trump in the bullseye. I mean, right? I don't think either of those men meant to imply anything beyond just rhetoric, but the point is the rhetoric has consequences. Once again, you cannot talk about rhetoric

without talking about the things that Donald Trump has spewed out of his mouth and on social media. People like myself and others call Donald Trump a threat to democracy because he has done things that have threatened democracy. I could argue that in regards to the three judges he put on the Supreme Court, democracy is done. But you all won't realize that until November when the presidential election comes. But I'll get back to that. For all you people who may think saying Donald Trump is a threat to democracy is just noise.

Well, when someone says we should terminate the Constitution, overthrow the results of an election, that's a threat to democracy. When someone tells people to fight and they storm the Capitol to overthrow the results of an election that's a threat to democracy when someone tells people to fight and they storm the capitol to overthrow the results of an election that's a threat to democracy trump put three judges on the now illegitimate corrupt institution that is the supreme court and they are absolutely threatening our democracy they granted him presidential immunity for crimes because he asked that has nothing to do with the constitution look up the chevron ruling the Supreme Court did. It's basically saying they can make up stuff based on their own interpretations.

That's one of the biggest FUs to the Constitution I've ever witnessed. They are abolishing constitutional rights like Roe v. Wade. They made it to where elected officials can take bribes. Donald Trump and Republicans have put together a corrupt Supreme Court that literally doesn't have to care what voters want. They have set up a system where either Republicans win elections or our elections do not matter is that not a threat to democracy wait

until november now personally i don't believe biden can beat trump especially after saturday but if he does when donald trump uh contests the results of the election because he will if he loses in light of all the supreme court's recent rulings do we really believe they aren't going to side with him is that when some will finally believe they aren't going to side with him? Is that when some will finally believe he is a threat to democracy? Are we going to just believe him when he says the election was rigged? Only difference is this time when he says the election is rigged, the Supreme Court is going to side with him and it will be a coup by court. And of course, it will be people in this country who will believe him if he loses and says the election is rigged because people believe what they want that's why some folks want to believe his attempted assassination was staged nobody believes the truth in this country anymore and that is another

problem in america depending on what side you stand on that's what you believe nobody thinks anything is real unless it confirms what they already thought that's why folks immediately rushed to say donald trump's assassination attempt was staged why what's the reason to spread that narrative what happened on saturday was very real and it should be a teachable moment for us all because this is what happens when you have people in positions of power spreading the kind of dangerous rhetoric that donald trump has been spreading since 2016 no one should shade no one should say this is staged saying it is staged is exactly why we can't fix the problem because we not acknowledging the truth what happened that Donald Trump is very real political violence is very very real and it's only

gonna get worse especially when you have people like JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson blaming Democrats when we don't even know the shooters motives yet. Okay the truth is President Donald Trump has created an environment of political violence that not even he is safe from. So it's damn sure not safe for anyone else. It is my hope that at the Republican National Convention Republicans use this opportunity to de-escalate and not escalate because if they go out there and escalate, they have to know they are continuing to make things unsafe for everyone, including them. Trump stood up after getting shot, fist in the air, blood on his face. And just like on January 6th, he told his supporters to fight.

Fight who? We don't even know why this happened to you. Everyone just speculating. Everyone got their own conspiracy theories, their own ideas. You can't just tell folks to fight. What we all need to learn from what we all need to learn from this is that history now shows us that

folks are willing to fight and kill for whatever they believe in. Whether it's storming the Capitol or shooting at the president, it seems like violence is inevitable. The stage has already been set. How far it goes depends on us, the American people. We have to decide what kind of republic we want to live in and we need to decide that now. Sadly, though, when I see and hear statements from Senator J.D. Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, statements that continue to divide us and make people unnecessary targets, I fear it may be too late.

But let's not forget the moral of the story we are all adults in this country okay big boys big girls we can condemn political violence and what happened to trump on saturday night and also talk about the dangerous rhetoric that donald trump has spewed that got us here please let remy ma give senator jd vance and house speaker mike johnson the biggest hee-haw hee-haw hee-haw you stupid mother are you dumb open up the phones let's discuss yeah we got to get to it fast 800-585-1051 what are your thoughts so you know uh of course they tried to assassinate donald trump what were your thoughts on it everything that's going on we're just going to open up the phone lines and take your thoughts 800-585-1051 call us up right now it's the

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now if you're just joining us we'll open up the phone lines 800-585-1051 we're talking about everything that went on this weekend the assassination, the rhetoric some people believe that it was staged

it definitely wasn't staged and there's no need for us to keep saying that, like I said during Donkia today, we shouldn't be saying that this is staged we need to be talking about how this is very real and you know, political violence is very real, and what happened to Donald Trump is very real, and we to donald trump is very

real and we can't fix the problem if we don't acknowledge the truth and the truth is you know the type of dangerous rhetoric that has been spewed you know um by by by president donald trump you know and and and maga is what leads to these kind of this type of political violence and it's actually very disingenuous you know that's why i gave uh you know house speaker mike johnson and jd vance donkey of the day it's disingenuous to say things like you know it's the rhetoric of democrats and people calling uh you know donald trump a threat to democracy that led to something like this and everyone needs to tone down their rhetoric no the only person that needs to tone down their rhetoric is president donald trump which is probably why he's changing his speech you know at the republican the Republican National Convention, you know, this Tuesday.

You cannot honestly have a conversation about dangerous rhetoric that leads to political violence without discussing the dangerous rhetoric that has come out of President Donald Trump's mouth in his social media. Yeah, there's so much to discuss. And we're going to open up the phone lines 800-585-1051. I just think it's crazy that, you know, violence can erupt over who you want to vote for. Growing up as a kid, we never talked about politics as far as who we voted for. We talked about politics and we listened to both sides.

But it was one of those things where you went into that box and you voted and you kept it to yourself. But now it seems like it's at a point right now, regardless of what side you are, people feel a way about it. If you decide to vote Biden, people are mad. If you decide to vote Trump, people are mad and not just mad because we should be able to vote for who we want to vote for right we should we should be voting for our best interest but people are they want to kill you depending on who you're voting for which seems crazy to me they want to cancel you for who you're voting for which seems crazy to me uh we need to get back to a point where we can have conversations and it ain't a violent conversation you know what i mean uh one one thing that i seen online that that i kind of

was like hmm that makes sense we look at the secret service with all the secret service security guards that they had out there yesterday this young man 20 years old who was pretty much a novice right he was he wasn't militarily trained he he was in a gun club he was 20 years old got up on that roof people were pointing him out still was able to take shots at the president. Now, would y'all feel comfortable? The fact that Secret Service, who's a trained organization, they should be knowing what they're looking for and doing all of that to protect the president. Would you feel comfortable with teachers carrying guns that don't have the same training to be looking for the same thing? Would y'all feel comfortable with that?

The reason I don't like that, I've heard people say that the reality of the situation is secret service got that dude out of here within seconds but he shouldn't even been able to do that yeah but that but my point is if a kid if somebody comes in the classroom with a gun and i don't even know why we're having this conversation but if somebody comes in the classroom with a gun and they shoot right and somebody takes them out immediately that's what you would want yeah but Secret Service is supposed to avoid the problem. That's what the scan was. The scan is supposed to be when they come out with the snipers and everything, they're supposed to be scanning.

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Right. And you would understand if it's a militia, somebody trained, but this was a 20 year old kid that climbed on the roof that people see. Like people point them out. So with that said, the teachers shouldn't be the first line of defense. They should have something at the school.

I'm security stops people from coming into the school. I'm with you. That's what, that's what their, their job is to like if you scan a whole area right make sure nobody gets in here with nothing correct and if you do get in here with something and you try to do something now the second line of defense is the secret service i mean that's what i don't know i didn't understand the comparison between the secret services teachers in the classroom that sounded strange to me i didn't get that and not from you i just saw people saying that and i was like i don't understand. I didn't understand the comparison between the Secret Service and the teachers in the classroom. That sounded strange to me. I didn't get that. Not from you. I just saw people saying that, and I was like, I don't understand the correlation you're trying to make here. Well, let's go to the phone lines.

A lot of people on the line. Hello, what's your name? E in D.C. All right, brother. What's your thoughts? You know, Brother Charlemagne, King Charlemagne, just spoke it so eloquently, I can't even follow that. He was going to say exactly, he said exactly what I was going to say. All I'm going to say is Brother Malcolm said it back to the stage chickens come home the roof

and life is real simple live by the golden rule if you put out is energy return it's really that simple you speak into existence the power of the tongue we take it back to hip hop turn you got a label called bad boy record what happened to the bad boy you got a label called bad boy record look what happened to the bad boy you got a label called death row record look what happened on death row you got a label called cash money record you got little wayne and drake speaking for existence that's it okay thank you brother hello who's this hey how's it going what's your name louis i'm from florida hey what's your thoughts louis um i just i'll end up the question in general over the entire environment and wherever we are,

right? Yeah, so I personally think that I blame a lot of this on the media, right? Because I think

rather than informing us and helping us make decisions and telling us the fact they're riling everybody up to each other's eyes and it seems like that's where

they're making their money right so then you have people that watch either fox or cnn or msncp and when they turn off the tv they're in a reach than they were so rather than just being informed about something and and and getting into the facts they're actually more emotional when they started watching whatever it was right right? Because we have people that either... I guess we're each in our own teams, right? And the people that are in the middle

that are just trying to be informed really have nowhere to go, right? Other than shows like you guys, right? That have to talk about how it is or you may add your opinion to it. And at the end of the day, you also get the facts, right?

And then the director will let you make your choice. So I think that once you also get the facts, right? And the executive will let you make your choice. So I think that once you turn off the TV you actually start talking to people. Most people agree at the table, but a lot of what's going on I think is on the media's hands because they actually rally you up to one side

or the other, right? And a lot of friends that I've actually seen them come and reach by just submitting to whatever output the media to submitting. So you want to hear more about, you think we need more balanced discussions. More sides need to be talking with each other and not at each other is what you're saying.

Yeah, 100%. In terms of the media itself, I turn to the media to be informed, right? I don't want to really hear too much of your opinions. Just tell me what the facts are and I'll make up my mind. But I don't think that we have too much of that except for a few places where you have a balanced conversation where if you have a panel yeah you have someone that leans back then you also have someone that leans right right and then i can get both sides of the story versus just getting your

side and it being completely anti-left or anti-right okay got. Got you. Well, thank you. 800-585-1051. We're just opening up the phone lines. Hearing from you guys, I mean, this weekend was a crazy weekend. Let's discuss. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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If you're just joining us, we're talking about everything that happened this weekend. Now, Jess, what were your thoughts when you seen everything that and how it unfolded this weekend um to be honest with you i really i this goes back to what charlamagne said i i thought it was staged myself you thought it was staged at first i honestly did i mean nobody moved um it's a couple reasons nobody moved for real he he didn't react like he had just got shot at it was like he wasn't even trying to get off the stage like they had to get him out of there um uh the people behind them just wasn't phased you know wow it's funny that you said that that's the i call my you know my dad is a retired police officer so when i called him and i'm like isn't it strange that gunshots went off and they didn't scatter like they didn't run right you know

people people did though like like i guess not behind them they didn't talk about the stage view of it yeah i think y'all was you looking at a certain group of people there was mad people running and covering each other like that's how the the the guy got shot and killed the guy got shot and killed because he covered his family yeah but on the stage nobody scattered like it just seemed like when you first seen him like nobody moved yeah and i just and then like you said we live in the times where you don't believe anything because every time we do believe something is comes out as natural most of the time it's not true it's ai right yeah and then also this is also like nothing surprises me that happens to donald trump or donald trump does because of how he moves, who he is.

Like he can use this. He's already using it, but he's using it like he I don't know. He'll do anything to win the election. Yeah. Another reason I thought it was I never thought it was staged because immediately I saw everybody pull their phones up. That's what I knew. I was like, you know, but but also I just don't think that we should run around. And I get why you felt that way but this was very real you know and this is what happens when you have people in positions of power spreading the kind of dangerous rhetoric that donald trump has been spreading political violence is is really real and this is this is this is it can get worse and that's what i'm saying i didn't find out about the person that actually died until late late last night yeah like you didn't hear that you know what i'm saying i i didn't hear that and i i didn't that's why i'm

quiet right now until you just asked me how i felt because i don't want to start parading that saying that because this is a huge platform you don't want to say oh it's stage to stage because that is crazy but look at the times that we live in. Most things are not real anymore. Most things are staged, but when I'm asked, yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, the only reason I mean, I do think Donald Trump will go that far to win an election, but that's pretty, like, a

bullet to your head. He don't gotta go that far to beat Joe Biden, yo. Damn, man. He's probably gonna beat Joe Biden before Saturday. I think he beat Joe Biden definitely Saturday. And he got the Supreme Court in his back pocket. You know, so I don't, yeah, I don't think he would go this far.

Jamisha. This is me. Hey, Jamisha, good morning. What's your thoughts? Good morning. I just want to say, you know, there's no place for violence in this country. And, you know, God rest the soul that we've lost. But I will have to say that I feel like it is a distraction.

I feel like Project 2025 was really picking up steam within the black community. And this is just something to distract us. And at the end of the day, God forbid, I just want all black people to make sure that they're registered to vote. Go vote and then go learn how to shoot a gun and protect yourself. Get your kids out there because it's real. It is a real situation. And although we can go on black Twitter and laugh and joke on different things, this is serious. That's right.

Somebody tried to kill this man. And at the end of the day, black people, we really have to open our eyes and stop laughing at everything. Don't be on social media, on a platform if you have thousands of followers being black talking about, oh, he's gay, so I'm about to vote for him now. That's ignorant. Stop being ignorant because people's lives is on the line on this ballot. Our rights is on the line on these ballots. Women's rights is on the lines. Like, it's serious, and we have to take it serious. And I just want black people, vote.

Please vote. Thank you, Jamisha. I'm not telling you who to vote for, but vote. And, you know, she brings up a good point. You know, they keep calling this an assassination attempt. Yeah, it was an assassination attempt, but it also was a declaration of war. You know what I mean? Like whenever you decide to take a shot at a former president, you know, somebody who is, you know, a leader of a whole other side, 70 plus million people on this planet.

Don't you think that his soldiers, don't you think that his minions you think they just gonna take that lightly that's why it's so irresponsible for people like mike johnson and jd vance and whoever else to just run out there immediately and say this is the democrats fault yo we had russia said this is biden and them's fault like why are they interfering with u.s business just trying to cause division can't we see what's going on here people no come on man people can't come on and that's the sad part about it all right well what's the moral of the story if there is a moral the moral of the story for me is what i said during uh you know donkey today we are all big boys and big girls we can condemn political violence we can condemn what happened to donald trump on saturday we we need to condemn it we but we also have to talk about the dangerous rhetoric that donald trump has spewed that got

us here you should be able to do both it is disingenuous for house speaker mike johnson to go out there and say everyone should tone down the rhetoric no there's only one person who should because there's only been one person that's been doing it it is irresponsible for jd vance to go out there and say it's rhetoric from the democrats that led this to happen to trump it's very disingenuous to say that and not acknowledge the rhetoric that Donald Trump has spewed on his social media and out of his own mouth. No, what's really scary is what you said and what people have been saying all weekend long that they believe that Biden has no chance of beating Donald Trump.

That's what's really scary. Because when people start talking like that and people start believing it, that means people feel like they don't have to go out and vote. They feel like they can sit out on the couch and just sit this one out because they feel like they lost already no i think everybody should go out there and we can't do that one of the reasons i don't one of the main reasons i think it's going to be very tough for president biden is because of how donald trump has the supreme court in his back pocket because donald trump put three supreme court judges on and the whole supreme court is doing his bidding everything from he asked for immunity

from crimes and he got it there's nothing constitutional about that so that lets me know that if he contests the results of the election in november what reason would i have to believe that the supreme court would decide with him yeah but you know i was reading something too that you know they said he'll never go to jail and one of the the other main reasons is not the fact that not only because he's a former president, but also because they said the amount of money they would have to pay for secret service to actually be in jail to protect him would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. And they weren't definitely going to do that. I don't know. I just want everybody to go out there and read the article from Ellie Mistel that he wrote in The Nation talking about the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court is the only branch of government that claims the power to rule unchecked by the other branches of government. If Congress passes a law, the court claims authority to overrule it. If the president issues an order or regulation, the court claims the power to overrule it.

If a state legislator or governor passes a rule or ordinance, the court claims the power to overrule it. And if voters attempt to elect leaders, the court claims the authority to overrule them by literally picking whose votes should be counted or recounted to say nothing of who gets to vote in the first place. Does it not sound like

this fight gonna be fixed come November? Yeah. So y'all, we in for a long six months, baby. I'm just telling y'all to get prepared for what you about to see.

Okay? Okay. All right. Jess? Blasphemy. I'm talking about the rumors oh we got just with the mess coming up yes little wayne sings not like us right before he performs his verse of the motto on um in vegas yeah but people i think it's some trolling but we're gonna get into it i don't know i don't think he would do that to his nephew like that all right we'll

get to that next it's the breakfast club good morning on the breakfast club she's a coach of shit she was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it on. Former NFL star receiver Jacoby Jones, who won Super Bowl XLVII with the Baltimore Ravens, has sadly passed away. He was only 40. Details surrounding his death have not been released. He retired from the nfl in

2017 he returned to his alma mater lane college and became a wide receiver coach um he's from new orleans though right i know i believe that he's actually a new orleans native but he went to um morgan state and joined alabama state staff in 2022 um his family released a statement saying he died peacefully at his new orleans louisiana home yeah okay so that rest in peace to him rest in peace to that brother man to his family 40 years old that's way too young to go yeah it was a lot of dust this weekend yeah it was it was my son actually told me about jacoby jones because i really wasn't online yesterday i was like what, what? He passed away. Dr. Ruth passed away. Richard Simmons passed away.

Shannon Doherty passed away. Yeah. A lot of people passed away. And then Richard Simmons, he passed away as well. He was 76 though. Yeah. So,

and then another Diddy allegation. So, allegation against Diddy came up. The former editor-in-chief of Vibe magazine, Danielle Smith,

claims Diddy threatened her saying she'd be found dead in the trunk of a car after she refused to show him his Vibe magazine cover page in advance. He was set to be on the cover for the magazine's December 1997, January 98 issue. A few days before the issue went to press press Diddy demanded to see the cover image saying he'd need it changed if he didn't like it Danielle Smith refused to show it to him stating that magazine policy was against showing pre-publication Diddy allegedly showed up at Vibe's office demanding to meet with her her colleagues quickly escorted her out of the office the next day Diddy reportedly called her threatened her and taunted that he

knew her location when she demanded an apology for the threat did he allegedly laughed um and said f you that interaction led to her contacting her attorney which made did he fax an apology to her hours later days later the magazine servers which had all the pages for the upcoming issue were stolen from the office she immediately suspected diddy and his crew she claimed she blocked the story from her memory until two people reminded her of it why she saw the magazines yeah he stole like the whole whole pack of them that they're stupid man y'all stupid, man. Y'all stupid. Yeah, all the boxes that was delivered. They took all of them. So, as you said, she blocked the memory out of her mind.

So, two people were reminding her, like, remember that time? And then that's when she remembered. But she reflected on this incident in a write-up for New York Times Magazine. She said the nauseating image of myself running and hiding from combs with colleagues protecting me made me confront other things I'd possibly Repressed about that furrow and fantastic time in my life Danielle is the wife of Elliott Smith She served as editor-in-chief From 97 to 99 Elliot Wilson, right?

I mean, yeah, Elliot Wilson my bad. I'm sorry that happened to her Yeah, that is a crazy image though. Did he telling his goons go up to vibe? right I mean yeah Ellie Wilson my bad I'm sorry that happened to her yeah that is a crazy image though did he telling his goons go up the vibe it's a call man take that get those magazines like all the magic cannot be put out that's crazy if I was in this crowd that works though I don't mean distribute the magazines all the stores and everything else I think they were taking they're trying to get the computers and the hard drive so it couldn't be taken. Okay.

Well, Jacquees proposes to girlfriend D'Andrea Sanders at the baby shower. The couple hosted a baby shower over their baby boy. I mean, for their baby boy when Jacquees popped the question. He presented her with a princess cut diamond ring along with a speech about his love for her. I can remember when I first met you when pat man called me on facetime to say i usually hate singing on the phone with girls when my partners call me because i usually turn them up but not this time it was the same for you staying with me and we just watched power and went to sleep that night

i really knew you were special because we didn't do nothing. I knew then you were locked in with God. That's when we started kind ofphenate the baby's name. And so he answered her prayers. That was one of our prayers to be a wife and also a child's mom. And the engagement comes just weeks before she expected to give birth. Her due date is early August. Okay. Right after me. Right before me.

So, yes. Good job. Good job. Dropping a clue. Yeah. Congratulations. Now he'll get his child named after him i think that's dope that's dope dang yo i could not even do the little way not like us thing that was crazy because i definitely see all right so in vegas he performed yo and this was funny he was singing not like us over the model beat before he rapped his verse

so many also suspected that lil wayne was actually saying they don't like us rather than they not like us but i they not like us. But I swear, I heard it loud and clear because he was off beat when he was saying it. So I heard him saying it. Play it one more time. At first it sounded like he said they don't like us. And then he said they not. And he was holding up his OVO chain Yeah he was

He did have the OVO aisle chain in the video That's why I was like I do think that it was some sort of trolling No I don't think that he would It's just back Drake like that And be singing a Kendrick song But ain't it the worst when a song is a bop And you know you like the record

But it's missing your man Yes That's gotta be an awkward position to be in. Absolutely. You know what I'm saying? Like, hey, bro. Yeah, he went too far. But man, this song jamming.

This is a bop, though. Drake himself said the song was jamming on the hard part of six, though. He did? Yes. At the end when he's talking, he was like, this could be something I could bop to

if he wasn't lying or something like that. I'm paraphrasing, but it's something like that. He been dancing to it. All right. Well, that is Jess with the mess. For the day, yes it is. Let's get to the mix.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let me salute to Laura from the UBS Center out in Long Island. And also, let me shout to Buju Bontons, one of his managers, Butterfuco. He was in town this weekend performed

saturday and sunday this was his first time being in new york and i think like 15 years or something like that oh yeah so the show was it was crazy it was such an amazing show i didn't catch the whole show because i had a party that night but my wife stayed for the whole thing and just say salute to buju what an amazing show what an amazing time thank you for all the uh all the love that they showed, man. It was crazy. I think he's doing Miami next, but he did two shows. The first one sold out Saturday, and then he did

Sunday, but it was just dope. So salute to Buju. And he's from here, right? He's from Jamaica. Oh, he's from Jamaica. He's from Jamaica. You know it's a lot of Jamaicans here, so my last check is Jamaican. She came and did my lashes last night, and she was talking about it the whole time. She absolutely loved it. She said it was amazing. It was no violence. Everybody

was just happy to see him after him being gone for so long. It was a big event for New York. That was actually good. They said a lot of people flew in because they didn't know when he was actually going to perform again in the States. My wife is Jamaican, so she's a huge

Boojoo's her favorite Jamaican artist. When he she you know when they when he was performing i think i don't know if it was trinidad or barbados her and the girls went out there went to the concert so they went out there last night so that's what's up it was pretty dope so salute to you guys all right when we come back we got the positive notice the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy just hilarious shalameen the guy we are the breakfast club we got a salute to common and pete rock for joining us today the album the auditorium volume one is out right now that's right if you are born in the 1900s like me and you enjoy adult contemporary hip-hop you are going to love love love love love love this album man that's right

go get that so go listen to it and i I want to salute everybody in Tampa, man. I was in Tampa Friday with the Urban League of Hillsboro. I had an amazing discussion with the good brother D-Strong and Queen B. Those are people. They on 95.7 The Beat in Tampa. You can listen to The Breakfast Club on 95.7 The Beat in Tampa every morning. We were talking about my new book, Get Honest or Die Lying, Why Small Talk Stucks, which is available everywhere you buy books now.

Salute to Kalia, who owns 7th and Grove. That's what the event was. Envy, they said you family. They love you out there. 7th and Grove. Yep, 7th and Grove. 7th and Grove.

Yep, dope event. Salute to Kia from the Urban League for helping to bring me out. And salute to all the people I met there, man. You just meet people that come to these events like Lanisha from Speak to Me Incorporated. Salute to Pecan. Can't forget

Pecan. Salute to Mimi. I remember names. I remember faces. I do. I remember names. I remember faces, man. So salute to everybody who came out to the Urban League of Hillsboro. I mean, came out to 7th and Grove, courtesy of the Urban League of Hillsborough. I mean, came out to Seventh and Grove, courtesy of the Urban League of Hillsborough, to hear me speak with 95.7 The Beat.

Food is amazing at Seventh and Grove. That's what's up. Before you get to your positive note, July 26th and 27th, Friday and Saturday, I will be in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the Raleigh Improv. Get your tickets, y'all, at justhilariousofficial.com or raleighimprov.com. I will be

there. We got four shows. Two on Friday and two on Saturday. And if you're there, you might have to deliver a baby. So just keep that in mind. Make sure. We got a doctor, a midwife, and a doula that's coming. So, you know, just in case. But get your tickets y'all. You got a positive note? I do have a positive note, man.

I just want to tell everybody, please remember on this beautiful Monday that we're all on borrow time. So choose people that choose you and let everyone else be. All right. I like that. OK. Breakfast Club, bitches. Y'all finished or y'all done?

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