The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Ari Lennox Criticizes Martin & Bernie Mac, Sha’Carri Richardson Speaks After DV Arrest + Katrina Brownlee & D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Interview

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Katrina Brownlee shares her powerful story of survival, overcoming domestic abuse, and resilience. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser joins us to address Trump’s proposed takeover to 'clean up D.C.' Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a man wearing a diaper who was arrested for making lewd comments to a minor. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Jellarious. Good, God. Peace of the planet, it is Tuesday. How y' y'all feel out there? I feel blessed black and highly favored. Happy to be here, another day to serve our beautiful listeners. What's happening? Envy, don't be a clown.

I see you looking at me. It's too early in the morning. All right, I have on iPads. These are called topicals. Okay, I see. For discoloration and tightening the skin of the eyes. Don't play with me. You look like Nelly.

Remember when Nellie used to wear the band-aids? That should look like a little bit. Well, good, everybody. What up, guys? How are you feeling? How are you feeling? I feel good. I feel good.

I got to be home this weekend, although it was a lot of work because I'm getting my house prepared for my daughter's first birthday party, August 23rd. That's beautiful. Big Lio season. It's a big Marley, not the little one.

There you go. But, yeah, I had fun. I didn't get to relax much, but it felt good being home. I swam in my pool and stuff, so it was really good. Nice. And then tonight and tomorrow, you're going to be in the Bronx performing. Yes, tonight and tomorrow will be at salsa con fuego. People say I say it wrong, got to say it like I'm Spanish.

Salsa con fuego. That's why you're getting your face right? Yeah. Okay. I am. And just because in life, period, I got to look good. But I got a show tonight at 7.15 there. and then tomorrow at 715 as well

I will not be doing meet and greet but get your tickets if you have not yet Jess Solaris Official.com or salsaconthwaigo.com. All right. Now, Charlotte, man, what's going on with you? How are you feeling? I am blessed black and highly favored, man. I want you all to know right now

that this morning on Breakfast Club we have a young lady named Katrina Brownlee. I'm so mad I missed this yesterday. I'm telling y'all right now, this story is heavy. I'm telling you right now that you probably will be triggered by this story in some way, shape, or form.

But she has a book out called Ending. came the blues, my story of survival on both sides of the badge. I'll give you a quick summary. She was, her ex-fiance was a CEO who used to abuse her and used to basically just use his power

as a police officer to get away with abusing her and then he ultimately shot her 10 times while she was five months pregnant and she survived. And she never told the story. She never told the story until recently and then she decided to become NYPD police officer. And she was NYPD

police officer for the last 20 years. Oh, here in New York. Yeah, New York, yes. I'm just letting y'all know her story is happy. I heard about her story. I wasn't here yesterday, of course, because I was in Houston, but I've heard so much about her story, and I would have loved to meet her.

So, salute to Katrina Brownlee. Yes, we'll be talking to her next hour. Okay, all right. All right, and I also got a call last name. My phone rang last night at 12 o'clock, midnight, and it was the mayor of D.C. She wanted to check in with everything that's going on with Trump and Trump's, you know, taking over

and using his force to, quote-unquote, clean up D.C. Okay. So she's going to be checking in a little bit, so we're going to chop it up with her and talk to her with everything that's going on. What's that? All right. And we got front-page news.

Next morning to be joining us so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV, J.S. Alaria. Shalameen, the guy, we are the Breakfast Club.

Let's getting some front-page news. Now, just some quick sports, and I'm tired of talking about it. But the NYPD is looking for a man. They say, They threw a sex toy at a WNBA game and hit a preteen girl with it. Damn, that's a sex crime. I don't know if it is now, but it sounds like one.

Goddammit. You said you throw a dildo and hit a preteen. That's a sex crime, damn it. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. What do you throw it at at the game? Yeah, I guess he threw that at the game. That's the only information that they give him. It says additional stories of NYPD is looking for a man.

They say through a sex toy hit a preteen. Stupid. Couldn't even reach the court. Terrible ass seats. He's stupid. What's up, Morgan? Hey, y'all. How are we feeling on this Tuesday?

What's going on? All right. Let's get into it. So first on front page, of course, if you missed it, President Trump is cracking down on crime in the nation's capital of Washington, D.C. He activated the National Guard to so-called help local law enforcement as part of his plan and went on to say that they will be allowed to do their job properly. The president went on to claim crime numbers in D.C.

are worse than places like Baghdad and Colombia, Bogota, or Bogota, Columbia, excuse me. And he made those comments while speaking from the White House press briefing room. Let's take a listen. Under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is? And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.

Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people. You know, I'm not really a stat guy because I feel like, Sometimes numbers lie, but how could you make claims about a city being worse than those other countries if the numbers don't add up? Well, the thing is, it's not true. They're saying violent crime is down 26% from the same time last year, down 51% from this time in 2023, and down 35% from 2019. They say carjackins are down 37% compared to last year and down 69% compared to 2023. Well, I'm not disagreeing with any of that.

I'm just saying, you know, we had those. same discussions here in New York. They was trying to tell us the numbers that we're down. It just didn't feel like it. That's what I'm saying. So I'm wondering just how can you make those claims, you know, about other countries with when people just dismiss the numbers, I guess. That's what I'm saying.

Absolutely. So meanwhile, D.C.'s mayor, who, you know, you mentioned N.V. has called you. She's reacting to the news of President Trump's crimes numbers. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke out after Trump placed the D.C. under federal control and activated the National Guard as part of his major crackdown on crime. Now, Bowser thinks Trump's current view on crime in D.C. is shaped by rising crime rates during his first term, but she says crime has dropped since then, since his first

term. She also took the opportunity to advocate for D.C. statehood. Let's take a listen to her comments. And while this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can't say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we're totally surprised. That is one. you have heard me and many, many Washingtonians before me advocate for full statehood for the District of Columbia. Chief Pamela Smith is the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department. Oh, yes, she went on to reiterate also that police chief, police chief, Pamela Smith is in charge. But she also said that she is cooperating with the Trump administration, so hopefully we'll get a chance to speak to her and see how she actually feels about all of this.

things are starting to settle in. And just switching gears, actually it's still related to the president, but it's not so much along D.C., but the Trump administration also said that they are looking at reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. President Trump said this during his news conference yesterday as well, that he estimates his administration will make the determination over the next few weeks. Marijuana has been a Schedule 1 drug since 1971, you know, along the lines with other drugs like fence and heroin

but the Trump Trump's potential reclassification would continue efforts started by the Biden administration to make marijuana a Schedule 3 drug which basically means there are some health benefits to it a Schedule 3 designation

wouldn't legalize marijuana but it would lessen the criminal penalties surrounding it if it's not legal for recreational use in your state. That's better. That's a step towards legalization but just legalize it It's legalizing on the federal level It's so confusing what states are legal

What states is not legal And it's so many states that you can do it And you can do it medicinal in all states So like you said Just legalizing it on the federal level Because you know what it happens You call people to practice bad habits Because if you're from like a New York

A New Jersey or California and you used to it being legal You'll be in one of these states down south Where it's not legal Not even thinking about it Get your ass locked up And next thing you know you lock the hell up That's me That's you

Sorry Jeff All right all right y'all that's your front page news and y'all can follow me on socials at morgan media make sure you check out the black information network at black information network download the free iHeart radio app and visit us at biann news dot com all right thank you morgan everybody else

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It's time to get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-105-1. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hey, Kelly, good morning. Good morning, everybody. Happy birthday, Kelly. Thank you, thank you, Jess.

I love you. I love you. Happy birthday. Yeah, I need you to come to New Brunswick, though. Like, I need you to do your comedy show in New Brunswick. I know, New Jersey, right? You was just there last year. I was just there last year.

They want me to do. offer for New Brunswick, so I should be coming there before this year ends as well. I can't wait. I'm going to be there. Okay. Charlamagne, could you stop talk about people that climbed up Mount Manjaro's because I did and I lost

over 100 pounds and I look good. Period. So, congratulations to you. How was the diarrhea that came with it? Oh, wow. It was a diarrhea. What was it? Don't lie. It was gas, but, you know, my husband's don't mind. So guess what?

Guess what? I'm happy for you. You don't got sexy on these holes. Congratulations. Yes, I sure did. Okay. But DJ Envy. Yes, ma'am.

I just want you to play Love on Top, the remix. I forgot who the DJ was, but I need you to play that song for me for my birthday. True face. Do you remember. Yeah, that was. Test Moved. He did the remix of Love on top. I got you to the morning.

He was. He lied. I got you this morning. He was lying his ass off. But I can do to play it before 830 because I got to go in the office today on my birthday. He's lying. But God watching him, though. I got you.

What's that restaurant in New Brunswick's Soul Food Spot? They got the live music, Black. Delta. Yes, salute to Deltas. Every time I go out to New Brunswick, I go there. When my daughters have dance, I go get some food from there. So, salute to deltas. Yes, they got some good food.

Thank you, Mama. Thank you, thank you guys. Love you. I'll stop calling everybody, Mama, man. That's just my thing. It's a New York thing. It's a Dominican student. Yeah, you know what else is a New York thing?

Calling Men Daddy, but he don't do that, do it. He knows how not to do that. No, it's Poppy. Who? Who called? Did he? Drake. Drake is not from New York.

He got it from Diddy. No, he did not get it from Ditty. Scambling and scrabbing like that, Daddy. We like him. He did it like that, Daddy. He was in L.A. too long. Yeah, right. That's New York.

All right. Hello, who's this? This is Josh. Josh, what's up? Get it off your chest. Hi, Josh. Yeah, I just want to know how come we can't, like, we don't have to be pro-Trump,

but we also want to be anti-Trump everything. How come we can't support some W's and then, you know, call out the L's because, I mean, I mean, maybe mom and I ran might not have been great. You said getting rid of more crime in D.C. Sounds like a W to me. No, you said support the what? You said support the W's.

Oh, I thought you talked about the LGBT. I mean, we don't have to. I feel like every time we talk about Trump, it's always a negative. I feel like we can support some of the things. It doesn't have to be all those. Listen, I give credit when credit is doing. It's just been a lot of L's lately, bro. The economy is an L.

Not releasing the Fstein files is an L. L. Releasing, you know, deploying the feds on D.C. when it don't even, it's not necessary as an L. But you don't think, you don't think reducing, like, it doesn't matter how it's something, but you don't think reducing the crime in D.C. One way or the other, it's not a W.

The crime was already being reduced. Yeah, most definitely. The percentage is, the number is showing the crime is reduced at all. It's not a zero. I just don't think that the fans and the National Guard need to be deployed on D.C. I could be wrong. I don't live there.

And it'll never be zero crime anywhere because then what, I live in Virginia. I live through our way. So, yeah, man, we freak up it does it. But I'm just saying that. said that's what the National Guard's forward to protect our nation. You're not even from D.C. He live in Virginia

and talk about D.C. It's never going to be zero. He's two hours away. He said he's two hours away. Yeah, it's two hours away. Like, he's not in D.C. though. You're in Virginia. You got to understand. D.C. is where our country's, like, represented. So all the foreign people, they all want to go visit D.C. because

that's where the president lives. Well, listen, we got to... Even when Trump's out of office, you have the next president. And you want to make a safe for all, you know, everyone who's important to visit. We got the mayor of D.C. checking in 8 o'clock this morning, so we're going to talk to her all about this, because I don't live in D.C., so I don't know what the hell's going on. Neither does he. He lives in Virginia.

That is true. He might work, no, he does he because he would have said I worked there. Two hours away. He's looking at what he'd see on TV. You're right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-105-1. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest. 8005-85-105-1. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This Tay calling from out of New Jersey. What's up, Tay? What's up, Tay? Tay is pissed because y'all never answers the phone

when I'm trying to win them Chris Brown tickets. Chris Brown performing? Yeah, he's going to be in MetLife. You know some of days. He know it. Yeah, he knows it. He performed tonight. Man, you call up here to scratch me out this morning.

What's up, man? What else's going on? that's what's going on I've been trying to win them ticket for y'all never answered the phone but now you have the audacity answer the phone now do you have any tickets for her

for Chris Brown anybody in there no damn everybody's shaking the head boy this is the poor ass boy ass radio station I'm sorry

but you know what don't even worry you ain't got go see Chris Barry you can come to sauce to come foo and see Jess hilarious tonight

or tomorrow I see you I see you just in Florida you was late to damn I see she said I seen you I see Chris Brown before too

but she want to go see him with it I want to be I was going to come to my car show but she seems like she's up to the Chris Brown Mom. It's close to MetLife if you come to the car show

was close like you might be able to smell Chris maybe and I can dance and what's crazy I see you can do the challenge too Yes But yeah What is the car show at?

It's at the Meadowlands Expo Senate this Saturday from 12 to 5 You got kids bring your kids How yeah I got kids How many kids? I got some tickets for me to go there to I got two Yes, I'll give you tickets to go.

Okay, well, we're in there. You can bring your kids a salsa confuego to you next door. They got a little kid parking lot next door. Hold on. We go put your hold on, all right? See you all. All right, thank you. What did this happen to her voice?

No, that was another person. You are? You all right. Y'all better leave people alone and what they identify with. That was another person. It's always another person. their transition. That's why they changed their name.

I'll bring the whole fifth. Yo, I'm done. Get it off your chest. 800585-105-1. Now, we have the latest with Lauren coming up. What's up, Lauren? Good morning. Hey, y'all.

Yes, we do. Y'all, we got to get into some numbers because Cristiano Ronaldo proposed to his girlfriend. Who's that? He is a soccer player. Huge soccer player. One of the most followed people on Instagram.

One of the best. Let me tell you something. When you see this ring, the ring is given at least $2 to $3 million. baby bigger than my head why do I care about that when I barely can pay rent this month better stay because it's something to look forward to

it's something to look forward to for everybody your auntie y'all love this fake inspiration you got to be bifed did you see the ring no that's exactly why you're talking like that we'll talk about it no I'm talking like that because of the listeners that's riding in they call that can't even afford chick for late this morning but we'll discuss they came before Chris Brown ticket's either and y'all ain't answering the farm

she called for free away and we didn't we didn't answer we just slow and all give you guys we got to Chris frack I think we try to give us something. All right. Legger's with Lauren's up next is the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalamey and the guy. We are at a breakfast club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fact. Tell us, man. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

She gets to detail. I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren La Rosa. Sometimes you have facts. she has details, sometimes you have a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest. On the breakfast club. Talk to me.

All righty guys, so Cristiana Renato and his long-time girlfriend, they've been together for a little over eight years, are now engaged. Now, congratulations to them, but the real story here is the ring. So, the photo of the ring has been going viral.

People comment on the ring, I saw the game post, and say this could be us, but your home girls have a birthday trip every weekend. The ring is huge. It's being valued, or people are estimating that it's anywhere from $2 million to $5 million. Cristiana Ronaldo is a huge soccer player. This is not worth it's a billion dollars.

Yes. So you're lying when you say this could be us. No. It cannot be easy. You've got a billion dollars. Yeah, I mean, just the rock on her hand alone, though, I think the picture of it is what's making people feel aspirational like maybe one day.

He's worth a billion dollars. You never know who you run into in a trade of jobs. You never know. Yeah, sure. Seriously, what makes people care about stories like that. I like mine in other people's business too, but what about that story excites you? Like, you really think you're going to meet a billionaire one day

and they're going to give you a $5 million ring? Seriously? People believe that. It's a love story. Yeah, I think it's that, but I also think they've been together for some time. They have kids together. They've got five kids together. Yes, okay. That's the real story. The real story is he finally proposed to her after five kids. Wow. What took so long? If they were black, they'd be calling them ghetto and saying

about times. About times. Eight, nine years, too. Five kids, eight, nine years. But yeah, I think people just into his business because he's one of the most famous people in the soccer world. Like him, what is it, messy after him? Yeah, probably messy after him. Yeah, I think people just interested because it's him, but also I think it is the kids, the time,

and the crazy, huge ring. I think that's what we got the people going. We don't know that what else we got. Y'all hate him. No, we don't. I don't even know him. I don't know him. I don't know. I'm sorry. I love to ring out. I do know. I do know messy. When you mentioned, Massey, I do know him, but okay, congratulations. No, we know, no. I just don't care.

No, yeah, I don't. Congratulations. He's worth a billion dollars. So you're saying it's inspiration. No, it's not. What's the last time you met a billionaire? You act like that you actually... In here.

You act like it's a bunch of those just walking around. I don't think it's that. I think people just... It's the same reason why people care about celebrities in general. We do know billionaires. We do know that. Yeah, Rashad and Troy. Yeah, right.

I love Y, L, but no. All right. Not yet, anyway. Switching gears is something that you guys will probably care a lot more about. R. Linux. So I wanted to get into the story yesterday, but we ran out of time in the latest. So R.A.Lenix, remember we talked about her and her

feelings on Martin? Baby girl came back out to stand on business to tell people she doesn't care what y'all think. Let's take a listen to R.Lenix responding to all of the Martin hate. If I had ill intent, I would have came on here with a PowerPoint presentation that backs my claims

on the types of jokes. Martin used on Pam being wildly offensive. That will never be my intent or motive, but I will stand on business forever knowing them jokes was wild, and I don't say any of this with any desire to rewrite history. Those actors and actresses are legends, and I met no harm to them. I don't need any army of people defending me or agreeing with me. That has always been a rare occurrence for me, but I feel amazing and knowing that I will validate myself and my feelings before I look to you for yours. I never was a fan of roasting period as I am a very sensitive

and I will for sure drag somebody to hell every time that's a contradiction yeah basically well I think what she's trying to say is is that well I watch she went like if you say you're a fan of roasting but no if you say you're not a fan of roasting but then say you will drag somebody to hell

that's a contradiction yeah but what she was trying to say was because in the beginning she talked about like just people coming for her because she has an opinion She said everybody follows what the masses are saying online. So she's always going to defend herself because she feels like she's a sheep. She has her own opinion. People are always mad at her opinion. She feels like she's a sheep.

Like, she's outside of, like a unicorn. She's outside of. But when you say, I mean, she's not a sheep, sorry. She said that everybody else is online were sheep. And she said that basically, like, it's getting to the point where she's getting used to having to do this, like, defend herself and go back at people because she's not going to stop saying how she feels because other people don't believe. But that's the thing. Right. But when you say it online, you have to.

be prepared for different people to agree and disagree and drag you to hell for it. And then you got to prepare to drag them back. You know what I mean? So you are ultimately doing the same thing that you hate. Simple of that. When you express your opinion publicly, we the public have the right to disagree. We the public have the right to say you're tripping. It's okay.

That's what I never understand. You can give your opinion. So what happened at Chappaquittic? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. There's a famous headline, I think, in the New York Daily News,

it's Teddy escapes, blonde drowns. And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you. The story really became about Ted's political future. Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president? Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal.

The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, So is there a curse? Every week, we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. The summer of 1993 was one of the best of my life. I'm journalist Jeff Perlman, and this is Rick Jervis. We were interns at the Nashville, Tennessee. But the most unforgettable part, our roommate, Reggie Payne.

from Oakland, sports editor and aspiring rapper. And his stage name, sexy sweat. In 2020, I had a simple idea. Let's find Reggie. We searched everywhere, but Reggie was gone. In February 2020, Reggie was having a diabetic episode. His mom called 911. Police cuffed him face down.

He slipped into a coma and died. I'm like thanking you. But then I see, my son's not. moving. No headlines, no outrage, just silence. So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own. Listen to finding sexy sweat on the I-heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. American history is full of wise people. What women said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is gory. Those founding fathers, were gossipy A.F.

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in a backlog will be identified in our lifetime. A small lab in Texas is cracking the code on DNA. Using new scientific tools, they're finding clues in evidence so tiny you might just miss it. He never thought he was going to get caught. And I just looked at my computer screen. I was just like, ah, gotcha. On America's crime lab, we'll learn about victims and survive. And you'll meet the team behind the scenes at Othrum, the Houston Lab that takes on the most hopeless cases to finally solve the unsolvable. Listen to America's Crime Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Traumatize you, Martin Kim, but we have our opinion on what you say. Like, you know what I mean, if as long as nobody's being disrespectful, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people were.

But if nobody's being disrespectful, who cares? Opinions like, ehos, everybody got them. Yeah, I just didn't think the Martin Pam thing was that deep until she started having conversations about it. But she also... It's not that deep. Yeah, she also mentioned in there, too. I don't... Do we have this yet?

No, I don't think so, right? No. She also mentioned in there, too, it was a part of this. It was like a line that she had been watching the Bernie Max show as well, and she didn't appreciate that either. What? I think it's just she's not a fan of people being made fun of. It's her point. Who is making fun of who?

So how you drag somebody to hell if you're not making fun of them then? I think she would say she'd drag them to hell if they come at her. but obviously she doesn't like people being made fun of because she's been made fun of for a long time in the industry and that's probably the way that she feels. Yeah, I get it. But calling out the greatest black shows that we have, right? Like, that's wild to me.

But what was happening in the Bernie Mac show? Who was roasting people in the Bernie Mac show? Martin was a show like that for all about that. But Bernie Mac Show was more of a family setting. He was taking care of his nieces and nephew. Well, he was to roast little kids. but in a fun uncle way. It wasn't even like Martin, though.

You know what I mean? That bad either. Yeah, I think it's just her thing. Like, this is just how she feels about some of the jokes from that era and that time. Let's take a listen. I want to make sure we get her words in. Okay. Hell, I just watched the Bernie Mac stand up a few years back.

Martin was the show like. Oh, my goodness. All I know is this. Y'all lives must be really great if this is what the hell you're all sitting around arguing about it. If y'all sitting around complaining about the Bernie Back show and Martin and you all got time to get online, and express to people how y'all can have your all opinions about these shows, life must really not be that bad. Oh, she said hers isn't

because people said that she always does this when she ain't got nothing to do because she on the music out. And she said, no, my life is good. She loves her pickup truck. She loves her new music. She got vacancy coming out in the fall and she's good. She'd be outside too. I've seen a couple times outside. She'd be enjoying life. And she should. She also said the next time she gets back

on this live and have to clear something up, she wants to address everything that happened with Dreamville. So that'll be the next episode of AriLenix on Instagram Live. She ain't do that. Yeah, give us that. She had to take it the road of Martin and Bernie Mac to give us a Dreamville-ish. Like, we want to hear that.

I like Ari. I love her music. But I'd rather your opinion on Dreamville than Bernie Mac show and Martin. She said she's going to gather herself and her thoughts and she'll come back. So we'll be back with that when she comes back. Salute to Ari Lenox.

She's from D.C. I know she lives, like, in that Maryland area that I know of. I don't know where she's from. That's why Trump sent the National Guard. I was ready to these opinions. He liked Martin. Martin was like, Donald Trump's like,

hell no, I like Martin. send it to the National Guard of D.C. All right. Shut Ari Lennox up. She is from D.C. Right, right, right. Well, that is the latest with Lauren, and the mayor of D.C. will be checking in

out in about an hour or so. Muriel Bouser. Oh, my goodness. That's something going on. You got to have I'm not even, I don't know what it is. They got to be strong in the liquor. That's strong in a living. This is got progressively worse.

I'm not lying. That's like fignol or something like that. Oh, my guy, it's too many words. About Trump. Something is off. Something is off. Something is off. When we come back,

we got front page, News and Yeah, pray for Lauren It's the breakfast slow for morning Morning Morning everybody It's DJ NV

Just hilarious Charlemaine the guy We are the breakfast club now On my notes It just says Additional Stories in Sports It says

The NYPD is looking For a man That they said Through a sex toy At a WNBA game It didn't make it To the court But it hit a pre-team girl

With it That's a sex crime And he threw like a girl Either that He had to whack his seats In the building He must have been In the noseblee

How your Dildo can't reach The Court That's crazy. Everybody else Dildo reached the court. His Dildo ain't even reached the court. They end up hitting a little preteen girl. Now you get charged with a sex crime. That's crazy.

Imagine you a dad at the game and then a Dildo smack your door. No, no. You got a child. Oh, my goodness. By the way, that should be a free fade. If I'm sitting there with my child at the game and she's a preteen and she gets hit with a Dildo, I should be able to be able to go up there and get a free fade with whoever through it.

Absolutely. Dildo sticking out on my door. Like, come on, man. You've seen that video with that old man that was in the diner and somebody. The little boy was throwing food to his wife. He wasn't a little boy. He probably was a preteen, too. Or maybe a teenager.

He was throwing off with some girls throwing food to the old man's wife. Old man. That old man got up and beat the hell out that boy. And then somebody came and broke it up. And then when somebody else came over and found out what the little boy did, he smacked. He smacked. You don't see that video? No, I got to see that video.

What's up, Morgan? Hey, yeah. Hey, all right. Let's get into it. So President Trump is signing an executive order to extend a tariff truce with China for another 90 days. The truce struck in June during talks between U.S. and Chinese officials keep U.S. tariffs on most Chinese goods at 55%. The U.S. is in asking Beijing for a commitment to boost exports of rare earths to the U.S. So we'll continue to follow that and see what happens as a result over the next 90 days.

Elsewhere, Texas State House has once again failed to reach a quorum after Democrats left the State House to stop a Republican-led redistricting. effort. The House has been trying to reach that quorum since last week. Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott says DPS officers are searching in-state for Democrats and working with out-of-state authorities to see if they can help bring back those Democrats to the state. Let's take a listen to Texas Governor Greg Abbott's comments. So we're looking for 12 Democrats to make sure we're going to be able to vote on these maps as well as to address very important things such as helping the flood victims. And we are working with law enforcement and taking other actions and other parts of the country to see if we can uncover any Democrat who can be brought back to the state.

So Texas House Speaker Dustin Burroughs, he also addressed the missing Democrats yesterday afternoon, adding that disaster bills will be brought to the floor today with or without Democrats present. Let's take a listen to Texas House Speaker Dustin Burroughs. You can go to another city, another state, even another time zone, but you cannot escape your responsibility to the people of Texas. Eventually, you will be here. When tomorrow, when the gavel drops, the question is simple. Will you be in that chair to vote for these critical disaster recovery bills,

or will you be remembered as one who did not show up? The choice is yours. Yes, as previously mentioned, the House has been trying to reach a quorum since last week. The new maps pushed by President Trump could give the GOP as many as five more U.S. House seats. Greviner Abbott has asked the Supreme Court, the state Supreme Court, to declare the seat of the House Democratic Caucus chairman, as vacant as Gene Wu also left the state to Chicago with a number of other Democrats. So speaking of Chicago, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, excuse me, is praising Texas Democrats

who have fled the state in protest of redistricting efforts. In an interview over the weekend with NBC's Meet the Press, the Democratic governor said their action, the action that they're taking is actually protecting Americans. Let's take a listen to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Standing up not just for their own constituents and for the people of Texas and their rights, but also for the rights of people all across the country because what Greg Abbott is doing and what Donald Trump is attempting to do is to cheat. The map that they put together is it violates the Voting Rights Act and it violates the Constitution.

So the FBI has reportedly agreed to help track down those Democrats as a governor, Texas governor, Greg Abbott has requested and he's also called for their arrest. Now also, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, he also spoke about a 2020. 28 presidential run or the possibility of one. And here's what he had to say when asked about it. No matter what decisions I make, and I mean in particular about what I do here in the state of Illinois, is about the people of Illinois. Indeed, any future decisions of mine will always be guided by that.

So the governor also responded to a question about whether he was being hypocritical for criticizing Texas' redistricting plan when the vast majority of Illinois's congressional districts are Democratic. what Pritzker said that they held public in legislative hearings before a map was passed at the end of the census, which is what happens every 10 years, while Texas Republicans are changing the rules mid-decade at the request of President Trump, basically at the request of President Trump. So, again, the census changes these maps every 10 years because, you know, once you guys do the census, conduct the census, some of these congressional. districts and maps will change over every 10 years, but they're saying that, you know, the fact that they're doing it

mid-decade, Texas Republicans is that's, you know, so that they can have that advantage in that 20-26 mid-term. So anyways, that's front-page news. Morgan Wood. Y'all can follow me on social at Morgan Media. That's M-O-R-G-Y-N-M-E-D-I-A. And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network.

Download the free I-HartRadio app and visit us at B-I-N-N-N-N-N-U-com. Thank y'all. Thank you. Thank you. Now, when we come back, Katrina Brownlee will be joining us. She's a retired NYPD detective. Let me tell you something. I'm letting y'all know right now. This story is heavy.

And this story may trigger you, especially if you have been a victim of domestic violence. But Katrina Brownlee has a book out called In and then came the Blues. My story of survival on both sides of the badge. She was being abused by a former correctional officer who used to use his badge and his power to basically get away with it. The police would never believe her. She got shot 10 times by this guy. while she was five months pregnant, but she lived to tell the story.

Then she became an NYPD cop and retired recently after serving 20 years. So I'm just letting y'all know now. This story is heavy and triggering for anybody who's been a victim of domestic violence. All right, and we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess Hilarious. Salomey and the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lorne the Rose is here as well. And we got a special guest. in the building. She's a retired NYPD detective, domestic violence

survivor, and a motivational speaker. She has a new book and then came the Blues. My story of survival on both sides of the badge. Ladies and gentlemen, we have Katrina Brownlee. How are you? I am blessed black and highly favorite. You have a hell of a

story. Where do you want to begin? Wherever you want to go. The memoir tells the story of you being shot 10 times. and overcoming the domestic violence. What helped you find the courage to not only write this book, but just to keep fighting for your life,

and I guess for your future as well? Oh, gosh. The first thing I'd say it was God, faith, God, therapy, and my children. That's what kept me fighting. That's all I had. It was nothing else to even look at to say, you know what, I want to fight.

Like when you're in survival mode, it's survival. You're out there in the wilderness all by yourself. And you're just trying to figure it out as you go along. The tagline of the book is My Story of Survival on both sides of the badge. Talk about just the choice to make that the tagline because there was one point where you were keeping what you were going through personally, the violence you were experiencing in your work as a police officer separate. Badge on both sides meaning my life.

of me being abused I wasn't just abused in terms of a domestic violence relationship in the book it also speaks about how I was a child abuse sexual abuse so I speak about that and then I speak about the fact of me being

a detective being a police officer so it's badges on both sides and your ex-fiance was a seal correct and so he basically used to abuse his power correct put his hands on you right flash his badge right and threaten you you know on speaking up right I was the inmate and he was the correction officer hmm at home that's how I was damn yeah that's

pretty tough what was it like for you day to day at work um you know just with everything that you were experiencing being able to then deal with other people's issues and showing up for other people like what was that like mentally for you it was so heavy for so many years because every day that you go to work you never know that if somebody is going to recognize you or remember your story, because a few people did, you know, know, know my story. It did make the news because at the time he was a correction officer. Right.

So my name was Katrina Cook at that time. And so it's Brownlee. So a lot of people didn't put two and two together. And then when my story came out, a lot of people began to, like, reach out to me. so it was just like a real difficult time just to work and especially work in the police department and for with how can I say it not for but you know work for an organization that had failed me right so I went in with the mindset of that I was going to change this department and I was going to be this good cop but then when you go in you realize that this is

bigger than you. You ain't changing this. You're going to follow the rules or deal with the consequences. I guess that was my question like just in everything that you had dealt with then deciding to go and be a part of a force. It's like it's so much that you can't change

but you get there to change it like but you're also still dealing with your own stuff mentally. I just, maybe my question is why? Like why did you think that you could break that system down? Because of all the pain that I had went through, everything that I had endured. Like, who was going to save me?

They couldn't save me, so I just tried to save myself. Got you. When you would call the police and, you know, he would flash his badge and then the officers would leave, did that just make you feel hopeless? Like, how did you think he was going to get out that situation? To be honest with you, it was going to either be me or him. That's how bad it was getting. And the only reason would kept me from either killing me,

myself killing him was my children because I was like my kids gonna be motherless and I guess you know Lauren was was getting at this but I guess what I want to ask how did that betrayal from the police? Yeah

shape your decision to enter law enforcement yourself. Because I'd be mad on yeah I wouldn't want to be no cop because you call it the blue wall of silence we all call it a blue wall of silence but now you another brick on that wall to try to answer your question like I said like for me I needed to be able to be protected so in order for me to be protected I had to that was one of the ways to be protected like I'm

going to go in and I'm going to because if I'm a cop he they didn't get him a long sentence so he's coming out so is he going to come out and finish the job but if I'm a cop what is he he not going to do that he's not going to behave that way right And then my thing was I want to go in and I want to be able to shape. I want to clean this place up. Like I had this mindset because I just believe that I can go in there. I can change because I want it changed because I could not believe that you would see me with a black eye. You would see me with a busted lid and you would just say, work it out or you wouldn't even, you wouldn't even address me.

And I'm standing there. You don't say anything to me. But because he showed his shield. He had the right to do what he did. What's it like? Because we hear a lot about like when women are in these situations, there's this pattern of almost feeling like sorry for the person that is abusing you or like just some sort of like save your, like you want to save them from like whatever the consequence may be

because you're trying to figure out like why it's happening or whatever the case may be. I know he had tried to call and reach out to you to have you say he didn't do certain things. Was there ever a moment where you thought like it would be best for me to just be quiet about this? Oh, absolutely, because he was a sole provider for a household. So I thought about it. I was like, now he in jail, like, I'm going to take care of myself. So I became homeless. So I thought about it.

But then I just said to myself, no, I'm not doing that. Like, I'm not going to do that. Like, it's going to be, it's whatever at this point. And so, you know, and I speak about it in the book, you know, how his mom had written a letter and signed my name and said that I had shot myself 10 times. What? How difficult is it to have these conversations? I mean, because, you know, when I see your story and, you know,

there's certain things I want to ask, I don't want to trigger you. So how difficult is it to have these conversations? You can ask me whatever. Okay. Yeah. If this is a safe space, you can ask me whatever. Absolutely. Oh, yeah.

I mean, just talking about it. I know, you got to relive it because you had to rewrite, you know, you had to write the book and then, you know, now you ask me and ask questions, but you were shot 10 times and you were left for dead while you was five months pregnant and they said it went on for an hour and a half

I don't know how long it went on honestly because I was in and out of consciences I don't know I just you know that part was told to me by the ADA who now is one of my good friends we're still kicking it with Katrina

Brownlee her new book and then came the blues my story of survival on both sides of the badge Sholomey? How did you rebuild your identity after all of this happened after being homeless after you know having to break down after you know being shot and left for dead like how did you just rebuild your identity they even become the detective that you became and you were part of the mayor's security detail as well I was yeah a lot a lot a lot a lot of therapy a lot of therapy and a lot of God that that that

is what helped me and just the will that God had given me to just want to to live and when you get the will to live then it's it's that light on the wall right there up in the ceiling and you follow that light and you allow that light to continue to go and that's your strength and that's your power and then you get your power back and so that's what it was for me because that's that's all I had do you truly forgive somebody when they do something that heinous to you I had to because I was angry I was so better I was bitter And when you bitter

At that level You'll get some tissue brand When you bitter at that level Thank you If you do not Forgive You become a product of that And I just did not want to be that

I was broken long enough And in order to you for you to get into a situation like that it had to be a story that happened we don't we don't wake up and get into these relationships

so I came from transgenerational trauma and that's how I wind up in a situation where a man shoots me 10 times and abuse me talk a bit about the chapter until we meet again

we talk about your mom And you talk about just, you know, how everything that you went through made you treat just being able to wake up and live every single day. Why was it important for you to include that chapter in the book? I did not have a relationship with my mother. So when she died, it was like I got wrong, like totally wrong. And I will never know what it feels like to have a mother. So I just felt that it was important to just speak about that. Because I know that I'm not the only one that's out there.

And this book is not just for me. It's for all people that can be able to relate to my story. And I just hope that it inspired people. I hope it can change people life. And I just hope that even for people that are abusers, that they can, go get help because abuses they're broken and mental health is real

what was the emotional turning point in the writing process of this book that that just made you feel like a little lighter because I wasn't able to really tell the story I wasn't it so it was like I'm finally getting everything out now like it was like

I'm to be honest like being constipated like for for so many years there you go right there there you go right there that part and so that's what I'm telling you that's exactly how I felt and it felt so good

and it feels good to be able to now be able to speak my truth and be able to tell the story even I had friends that I had been friends with for so many years that didn't even know my story and so you sit out with your girlfriend you hang out with them, you travel with them,

and they don't even know who you really are. And you're living in this bubble, this world, because you can't really tell. Because if I would have told, and somebody told the police department, they would have fired me. Because they wouldn't have that stigma. When you became an officer,

did you have more empathy for law enforcement? Like, did you realize why they were the way they were? Oh, absolutely. Okay. Let me tell you something that people don't know. The cops, they get abused by the higher upstairs. They get, I'm telling you, they get abused. So if you, that's just like, if you abuse your child, right?

A lot of times your child becomes an abuser. So that's what, that's all it is. They don't get treated well. So now if I'm not getting treated well, I'm going to go out here and protect and serve, how I'm going to go out there and protect and be kind to people when I'm not even being kind at home? The police, that's your home, right? You're there to protect and serve. You're there to go out there and do your job.

But if you're being beat down and you're being told you are losing, you're being told that you ain't right enough summits or you ain't lock enough people up. And then you get in trouble. And if you tell and if you snitch. The consequences. So how can you go out there and really be effective? What about the stuff that you were seeing inside? You talked about like the chocolate team and the vanilla team.

Yeah. In a different neighborhoods they would go to. That's right. And it's, well, I guess you should explain it for people, the difference between the teams. And then I wanted to ask you about you going to your boss and saying, hey, they're doing illegal searches. You need to figure that out. And the boss was like, I'm cool. Yeah, the chocolate team with the black team and the vanilla team was the, the

Caucasian team. And they went to, so like, y'all are in different neighborhoods or whatever, you decide to, you see something that you know it's not right. You decide to go to your higher up. Your higher up says, I'm not disturbing my pension to correct a bad cop. Right. Because a lot of times if you would tell, it's consequences. It's real.

It is really real. And this is your life you're talking about. Cops kill their self all the time. What do you think they're killing their self for? He ain't killing their self. because they ain't getting enough money or enough love. They're killing their self because it's real in there. A lot of guilt.

And they can't be who they want to be. They can't be their authentic self there. So they got to be somebody else. And sometimes people can't handle that. Everybody mental health level is different. Yeah, I've been having that conversation a lot lately. Like, you know, I feel like police officers should have to deal with mental health professionals like literally every every year every week like they should be sitting down with mental

health professionals yeah absolutely yeah they they have some hotline called papa but i don't even think that those are those are um people that are actually um equipped to be able to deal with the trauma that police officers face every day that should you you make sure that it's mandatory training for all these other different things that don't really matter but why you don't have mandatory mental health training for your police officers so they can be suited and booted and in a good mental state to be out there to go out there to fight and be able to really protect and serve right right so if you want to have a great police department you got to have a great police department and they got to be able to have integrity you got to be able to have police officers

be able to just really show up for someone that's why they want to be a domestic violence officer I was like, I'm not going there and go to a call and it's a domestic violence officer and what I'm going to really do for her or what I'm going to really do for him. Come on. It ain't, it ain't, the system ain't good to help us like that.

Especially people that look like us. Do you, even now in sharing your story in the book, you talked about switching units because of like just fear of the things that were happening or whatever? What part are you talking about? When you talked about the, American history.

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you said y'all arrested i think it was like 145-147 people there was like buses of people and you were saying that like being in narcotics was getting a little like you were fearing for your safety oh yeah do you feel for your safety now because you're talking about all this stuff no absolutely not i i trust god you know i believe that he has me on an assignment and whatever it's going to be it's going to be i'm telling the truth i'm telling the truth and i am here on whatever platform to be able to speak the truth and so we got to stop lying to people you know we got to stop lying like we're not we're not we're not being real with people let's stop lying let's start telling the truth and let's start really showing up and if we're not

showing up then shut up we're still kicking in with katrina brownlee her new book and then came the blues, my story of survival on both sides of the badge. Charlemagne? You spoke about how you know you forgave your ex-fiance because you didn't want to have that bitterness in you. Did you also have some, maybe some empathy for him

because you know how he became that way? I have empathy for him because he a broken man in pieces. He was never made of anything, no substance to him as a man. Any man that can put his hands on a woman

and you shoot her and you beat her and you murder your child what what does he made of absolutely nothing you have to have empathy for him

do you think abuses need rehabilitation or jail time I think both I think both why you in there you should be able to get your help your healing whatever it is that you need

because if you put them in prison and you don't do nothing with them or they come out and be a worse savage than they already was I was going to ask how do you deal with your day-to-day now because like where is he? Like what is he? I have no idea.

I have no idea. Do you still live in fear of him? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. I fear no one but God. You know the title of your book alludes to the blues, right? And you think of blues, you think of like the music the music, right?

What does blues mean to you? And how does it reflect, you know, your journey from trauma to him? And then came the blues is my life, and then the NYPD life, those are the blues. And then the blues of my life. My life was blues, on top of blues. What color is it now? White. That's right.

You feel like you definitely came out on the other side. Oh, let me tell you something. I've never been in a better place. I have finally found peace. And when you get peace, you will never allow anybody else to disrupt that peace. I'm walking peace. I live peace.

Do you remember the exact moment? Like, you felt it like, oh, man, I feel free. I feel peace. When I left City Hall that day, and I retired Wow I'm telling you it was like a light

just came off on me Wow and my the ADA that was on my case at the time she was there at my walkout and we were leaving and she said

I've been waiting to send this post do I have your approval to now tell the world what happened to you and I said absolutely and when she pressed thing it was it

was there ever a moment of um like when you had to testify in court right or decided to um was there ever a moment for you where you thought you felt that piece that you're talking about but then later on I guess you realized like you're finally here like because I would

think maybe that would bring you some sort of closure or peace as well too or no you mean testify with my case with your ex-fiance I never got a chance to testify. Oh, so when you showed up the court, they didn't put you on the thing? When I showed up in the courtroom, when I showed up

in the courtroom, he turned around and saw me because he thought that he had, like, intimidated me enough that I would not come. He was threatening you from jail. Right. To come the court. And when I walked in, and he saw me, he whispered

to his attorney, and the next thing I know, they took me back out of the courtroom, and the next thing I knew. like guilty because you came to the first you told the DA you was going to disappear right yeah I told her I was disappearing

and then you came later in the trial yeah because she told me that she was going to hunt me down or something like a dog I can't remember what she told me she had told me she was like that is you're going to show and I'm like for what nothing's going to happen to him and everything that I said was going to happen

it happened Wow. And that's, and people read the book, you will see every single thing. How does a man shoot someone 10 times? Kill their child and all you give them is 5 to 15. Tell me how that works. Oh, because you're a black woman.

Right. Number one. Number two, because he was part of the law enforcement. Yeah, so they was protecting their own. That's right. That part. Have any of the officers that showed up those times when you did reach out to police come back and been like, we should have done more? I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Anything? Let me tell you. When the story first dropped, anonymous caller caught me. A lot of anonymous police officers were calling me and saying you're a hero. I wish that I had the strength to do what you're doing. Thank you for being a voice. But I had one called me and he said, I'm not. I'm not sure if I'm the officer that responded to you because I worked at the 8-1 at that time.

He said, but I want to say to you that I apologize if I am. He said, I'm not going to tell you my name. I believe he told me he was either a captain or an inspector at the time that he retired. And he retired and he had moved to Florida. And he said, I just want to tell you that I apologize to you and hung up the phone. Did that do anything for you? I just broke down in tears because I said

maybe had you did something maybe this wouldn't happen to my life but he never gave me a chance to say anything you know they say everybody got to have a testimony right because if you didn't have that testimony you wouldn't be where you are now but damn you have to go through all of that you have the you have the organization our young ladies of our future which is a non-profit organization that serves at risk young women and you have can't be silenced an organization working on solutions to the urgent domestic violence crisis what made you want to start both those organizations well young ladies of our future I wanted to start that because I never wanted any young girl young lady to ever have to endure what I have endured so

If I could just be able to pour into them and be able to change their lives and make a difference in their life, I just wanted to be able to do that. So that was the purpose of that. And I teach workshops just about self-esteem, self-awareness, a whole leap of things.

And the Can't Be Silence piece was because I had to be silenced for so long and now I have a voice and I am the voice for the voiceless. and the hope for the hopeless so that is why ending your story in the book I turned to the last page

in your book yeah I want that to be a surprise okay because I thought only Lauren would give away the ending of the book because it's so come on now because it's so sweet you're doing the whole ending well okay you're right

but I think for most people because they hear all of this and then they're wondering like what is your personal life I want people to know that dreams do come true and that don't ever give up on your dream don't ever give up on yourself because look what happened for me

and if God can do it for me he can do it for you if people want to sign up for your seminars or be a part of the young ladies of our future or can't be silenced where do they reach miss that Katrina 456 and Katrina Brownlee on Facebook or my social media platform

Well, I'm glad that you survived and I'm glad that you're here to tell you a story because this is going to help somebody. So, and then came the blues. My story of survival on both sides of the badge of memoir from Katrina Brownlee is available everywhere now. My last question, one word that describes your journey. God, I made it. I made it. It's Katrina Brownlee.

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Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fan. Tell her, man. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets to detail. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren La Rosa.

Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest. On the breakfast club. Talk to me. So Shakari Richardson. has come out and she spoke on the domestic violence arrest that we saw go down last week

and took some accountability for different things. Let's take a listen to Shikari. Hey, y'all, it's Shakari. And more than anything, definitely a lot of self-reflection, a lot of understanding of not only putting myself in a compromise situation, but somebody that I have a deep care and appreciation for as well is something that holding myself accountable. I'm taking this time to not only see myself, but get myself a certain level of help that. Overall, it's going to reflect who I truly am in my heart and my spirit.

I want to be more, not even just for myself, for my family, for my fans, and I overly appreciate y'all supporting me and showing up and even holding me accountable to being my best self. I refuse to run away, but face everything that comes. me head on because everything on the other side is greater, but you gotta go through in order to get there. I appreciate y'all, and y'all be blessed. My bad girl, she cares.

I know she hates when people get her name wrong. She corrected you in the real time. I love that. But yes, so she spoke out. I thought that this was very admirable of her because when the story broke, of course, she's at the top. Everybody knows her. She's a huge, world famous athlete.

People, you know, when a story like this breaks, it spreads so fast. And a lot of times, you know, teams and the organizations, they don't comment and they tell the athletes to say nothing and just let it go away. So when she posted this video last night, I was like, oh, wow, she's so human. I felt like we've been growing with her

throughout her career, and this is one of those moments where we're growing with her through something that we saw happening in real time. I respect the fact that she acknowledged her behavior, but I just want the record this show. It is a double standard because if a man did something like that in the airport and then turned around

and just did a little video like that, y'all would be dragging him to hell right now. You would be on this radio sounding so understanding about the situation. Oh, gone. We don't know what she might have lost behind the scenes. You have no idea. There was a video that came out.

You saw it on video. We don't know. If Lauren don't know, then somebody lying. Okay? You got to point there. Every sponsorship would have jumped out the window and said we had no longer worked with them. But can we acknowledge that there is a double standard? Yeah, there is a double standard because I will say when I saw the headline last weekend,

for those of you guys who don't know what happened just really quickly. And it was a video. Yes. So Shikari and her boyfriend, Christian Coleman, who's a sprinter, they were in an airport. Um, and the authorities in the airport were called because there was a, they said, oh, there's a disturbance between these two people. And the video that was released after the story came out, you see, uh, shikeri, he's trying to, like, get around her and almost like walk away from her. But she's like, she shoves them into a wall. Then like, she throws something.

They said that it was headphones that she threw. Um, so of course, the police report was taken and, you know, she was arrested and all the things. Um, but yeah, I thought we were going to hear, you know, sponsorship conversations and all that stuff as well. And then the next thing I saw was this video I do acknowledge the double standard There is definitely a double standard Because I'm telling you So Guy would have did that

It would have been World War III on social media And then the data put out an apology like that Y'all wouldn't even be accepted And then to be honest with you listen I'll tell you something That used to be me Mm-hmm Not in the airport but

Fighting them niggins, what's up And you've grown up Like what's just the moral of the story Oh, do you want you to say you've grown I've definitely grown. I'm reformed, but I used to be boxing them up too. Yo, Chris, blink twice if you need help, man. No, I'm not sure.

And Chris, Chris is her piece. I've been there, I've been there. I've been there, yep. She's very feminine with Chris. Like, oh my gosh, okay, Chris, get over the day. Talk about Jess is, contrary to pipe and believe Jess is a feminine person. Okay, so it's not, I'm just saying. Yo, you're in.

I'm just saying he makes it seem like it's just with Chris. She's a woman at the end of the day. She has feelings and emotions. I'll let the tough exterior fool you. Absolutely. So I throw in that scarf and go live. Period. Well, I do admire her for that apology.

He didn't even want her to get in trouble either. Her boyfriend stepped up. Like, look, no, yo, it's not that, you know. Yes. It says, okay. I'm okay. I'm not hurt. She's all right, you know.

Yeah, he said that, you know, they're learning through this. Basically, give her some grace. A young couple. Yes, young couple. Now, in other news, I am really excited about this one. I think you guys will be too. Okay. So last night, I was up until 1 a.m.

Can y'all guess why? Fixing your weight. Watching documentaries. No. Taylor Swift has new, no, I don't do cocaine. Taylor Swift has new music coming out. Yes. I'm a social angle line.

I love me some Taylor, so. Did you see all of the madness last night? I went up at 1 o'clock. You know she's the queen of Easter eggs. So last night, Taylor Swift posted this like countdown. And the countdown was like, oh, two hours until, and it didn't even tell you until it just said it expires at August 12, 12.12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Okay. And then at 12, 12.m., you know what happened? They let us know she is dropping a new album. Surprise to her fans. The album is called The Life of a Showgirl. Now, she is going to do a podcast today with her boot, Travis Kelsey, that airs the night at 7 p.m. Mr. Standard Time. I am going to tune in because I'm very curious to see just how they interact. And this is his podcast or it. Does she have a podcast? No, it's his podcast. Okay, so she's going on his podcast.

Yes, the new height show. She's going to be on his podcast, you know. And, yeah, just all the things. Aren't you guys excited? You know what she already did to me? I thought she did it last night. Well, they posted clips from it, but it airs today at 7. Yeah, so they get this excited for J.I.D.'s album this weekend.

She sure didn't. Oh, my God. I don't know my life. Our Gunner last week. First of all, I've been bumping. I've been trying to get Gunner to come here. She just rushed by Ari Lennox when she was talking about Ari Lennox. I already got new music out.

But she hates Martin. I can't stand it because she hates Martin and she hates the money back show She gets so excited over that white girl I mean when she hit that mayonnaise That mayonnaise just I mean just wait I mean she just couldn't wait to put it on a sandwich Stop

A yo no I do love I appreciate the Taylor Smith movie in you though Can you name three? That's the TMZ and you No Don't Google it No no I was looking at my text make sure I missed nothing Shake it off

It's sad It's sad how fake excited you got You can only say But you got so fake excited. Why? What's the point of that? I'm a fan of the way that she rolls out things. I love her Easter eggs.

I follow the Easter eggs. I'm fake, Swifty. All right. You are too low, Pete. You'll be wearing a friendship bracelets. Yes, you do.

Can we get a Gid? I wear my friendship bracelets because Don Staley wears friendship bracelets. She actually made me this one that's hanging up right here. That says Charlemagne, that's a damn shame that you gave all the credit for friendship bracelets. The Don Staley, I mean, the Taylor Swift? You don't know about the bracelets at the concert?

I do, but damn. And what you think about? What you think about? She's not because she can't name three songs. It's not about the music. Girls, girls, girls, girls. This is sad. I know, no, but you know how white people music, you have to hear and you be like, oh, I know that one.

No, not for white people. Charlotte, man, who even your donkey to, sir? Four after the hour, man, we need a wedding. First of all, bad blood. You just Google! No, now we got bad. You're not going to go on video. This is sad.

This is sad. I don't care, by the way. And it was the one about that. X. They're all about the X. Anthony Smith. Okay, he's a party wedding DJ. He needs to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him. You're going to get bricked up when you hear this story. No, I'm not.

Probably already did some events with him. Can we get a J.I.D. join on? Yes, let's play skate, man. Play skate, man. Which Sierra? Okay. And Earth Gang. Drop on the Clothes Bombs of Earth Day. It's getting on. It's the breakfast. I like all of those people.

I like all of those people. Make sure you tell him to watch out for Florida, man. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of the floor. Yes, you are a donkey. A Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested after deputy said he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife.

Police arrested an Orlando man for attacking a flamingo. The breakfast club, bitchy. Donkey of the day with Sholomey the guy. I don't know why y'all got you going to get you all like this. Donkey today for Tuesday, August. 12 goes to a 32-year-old man named Anthony Smith. Now, Anthony Smith is a party wedding DJ from Florida. Have you heard of more envy?

I have not. Okay. Well, what does your uncle Shala always say about the great state of Florida? They're craziest people in America. Come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception. Now, let me give you some background story on Anthony. Anthony, ladies and Gettleman, according to him, suffers from some sort of sexual addiction. And engaging in lewd behavior arouses him.

He was convicted in 2017 of indecent exposure and resisting arrest after he was spotted naked in pleasuring himself in public. Anthony says he does this because pornographic materials do not suffice his sexual desires. And this is important for all you religious folks. Okay, Christians, I need to listen. Need you to listen up. He says he does not want to violate his morals by having sexual relations before marriage or by using a female solely for sexual purposes. I think it's pretty a moral to be butt-necked in public, shaking hands. with the milkman, but we listen.

Okay, we don't judge. Anthony Smith was sentenced to six months in jail, okay, in 2017, and he's been arrested twice in the past for debugging his hard drive in public. Well, Anthony just got arrested again for indecent exposure. Okay, the actual charge was exposure of sexual organs and resisting arrest in Florida, both from misdemeanors. Would you like to know what Anthony Smith did now? I can't wait to tell you.

Well, on last Thursday, Florida police found Anthony Smith walking around a Florida park wearing women's lingerie, the bottoms of which were of the thonged variety. And Anthony's genitals, his manaconda, his trouser snake, his de-weighing to Rock Johnson was fully exposed. He also was wearing fake breasts. He also had on a wig of long black hair. He had a black mask around his face. And he had a penis ring that is used for arousal purposes as well as to maintain erections. He had on a black fox tail.

he thought he was the fantastic Mr. Fox. Well, the black fox tail, according to the police report, was protruding from his posterior, meaning it was hanging out of his ass. Okay, but upon further examination, and I would love to have a discussion with

whoever did that examination, but upon further examination, the bushy tail turned out to be attached to a rectal plug that was inserted in his anus. He had a butt plug. Now, we all know foxes. We all know foxes are very challenging to catch so Anthony did try to get away but he got caught okay they

discovered him in inside indian riverside park and he was eventually caught near a children's museum now thankfully no children were present to witness this freaky fox but that doesn't make what he did any less egregious okay now clearly this man is dealing with some type of mental issues but the reason my empathy doesn't get activated for this guy is because of how he described his situation to the police i told you earlier he told police he suffers from some sort of sexual addiction. He acknowledges all of his previous run-ins with the law because of the sexual addiction.

He knows that regular porn doesn't satisfy his sexual desires, and he said he doesn't want to violate his morals by having sex before marriage or by using a female solely for sexual purposes. Well, Anthony, if you are aware of all that, then you are also aware of your behavior. Okay, your moral compass is clearly broke. If you think sex before marriage and not wanting to use a woman just for sex are morally incorrect,

but putting a fox tail between your cheeks and buffing your vampire slayer in public is morally correct, okay? If you are aware of what your problems are and you do nothing to even attempt to correct them, I don't have empathy for you. Okay, if you can afford anal plugs and penis rings and fox tails and thongs, then you can afford some type of therapy for your sex addiction. to mention it's so many kinky-ass sex clubs you can join where you can dress like that and just parade all around the club like that i would have googled some for you myself this morning but i don't want that in my search history okay all i'm saying is a man who has listened uh me being a man who has listened to years of horrible decisions with mandy and weasy now decisions decisions uh as well as reading their new york times best selling book no holds barred i know that there is a lot

of ways to express your freaky safely and legally in America. You wasn't looking for a safe space to let your freak flag fly because you enjoy letting your freak flag fly in public. You know exactly what you're doing and why you're doing it because if you simply wanted to be outside wearing a fox tail like scissor at the opening of the Grand National Tour, I guarantee you there's a resort for that. Once again, I'm not Googling it because I don't want it in my search history. Anthony, you've been arrested more than three.

times and I bet you tell that story about having a sex addiction all the time well let me tell you something sir if you have to talk to more than three people about the same same problem and you don't want help you want attention and what you need to get is help please give anthony smith the biggest he ha ha ha ha ha ha stand up no no stand up he wants to see if i'm bricked up i know you're bricked up i'm not bricked up i bet you stand up right now you're here when he was going through the details you did say this is good you did say it because it's interesting show me your phone just turn your phone around like this just do it show your phone Anthony Smith no is that no Anthony Smith

he googled but I did I did think the reason I said it was good could you imagine the cops having to chase him yes hilarious take him down and then arrest him I'd love to see it a butt Plugging up. Your genitals hang out your thong. Could you imagine? Then you got to put them in the back of your squad car? Right.

I would love to see it. I don't want to... I'd pay for it on somebody's Patreon right now. I would pay for it to watch on somebody's Patreon. That would be hilarious. What somebody's Patreon? Yes, right now.

Tell Ray J. Put it on Tronix. You have a whole show. Niggas get chased with butt plugs. Yes, Ray. Make it happen. You call it crazy like a fox. You got the gaiency like a fox.

Freaky like a fox. Freaky like a fox. Freaky, Freaky, Freaky, Frankie, Frankie, Frankie, The agency would love that. Freaky it like a fox. But y'all want to play a game? Nope. Yeah.

I want to know what he is. All right. Well, let's play a game of Yes, what, Racist! Pim-Bum-Pra-Burm-Burm-Burn. Give me my music. You got to find it.

Hell no. That's God. He don't want us to do it. Oh, my God. What's his name again? Anthony Smith. Anthony Smith. Yes.

Okay. Anthony Smith. Anthony Smith, he was walking around a Florida park fully exposed. He was wearing fake breast. He had a wig of long black hair, a black mask around his face, a penis ring that is used for arousal purposes to maintain erections. He had a black fox tail. And he hang on.

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Uh, white. Shake it out I shake it out Okay, why do you think that? I mean, because I don't want to put that on all people I really don't Although I can imagine it But no, I don't want to put that on our people

Envy, what about you? Anthony Smith was walking around a Florida park Genital fully exposed Okay, black fox tail hanging out his anus All right, long black hair, a black mask around his face and fake breasts With a penis ring Guess what race he is

Oh, I don't know Anthony Anthony Anthony could be white or black I know but Anthony Smith A long black

bus down He had a bus down What was he What was he? I want to tell Both of you racist Sweebags One of y'all is correct

And one of y'all is right So that movie You can't be Just hilarious is absolutely Positively wrong Yes And DJ NB is absolutely Rep.

Anthony Smith is Caucasian. He's black. Actually, he's not black, though. He's not black. What is he? He's a fricky-ass n-necker. See, I didn't want it to be black, so I didn't want him to be black so bad. He's the N-word.

No, he's black. Okay. But he's black, but I see bust down. Come on, hit my N-word drop. Damn, damn, damn. No, that ain't it. Best show in the world. It's the best show in the world.

I'm sure. It says powerful nigger tree It's not hard to find it There's some powerful niggatory going on there There we go, just waiting on N-words They always leak All right, never move on Low IQ individuals

All right I'm over it All right, now when we come back We have the mayor of D.C. joining us Nereo Bowser Great segue Segway Uh

Horrible Brother Nogh is listening like Bray Segway Crazy Oh, my goodness. Well, yes, we're talking to the mayor of D.C. You know what Trump is doing in D.C.? Trying to take all the power away from her

and trying to put the feds out there to, quote, quote, clean up D.C. And we're going to talk to her next, all right? So don't go anywhere. It's the breakfast club. Come on it. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's D.E.J.N.J. J.S. Alarie.

Sholomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building. We have the mayor of D.C. Muriel Bowser. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for. having me on a breakfast club. Thank you for calling in. I want to set the stage real

quick so people know why you're calling in, Mayor Bouser. You know, on Monday, President Trump announced he'd be invoking Section 740 at the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973, which is basically giving him temporary control over the nation's capital. And he's also activated the National Guard because he said the crime rate is just through the roof in D.C. Why do you think this is happening, Mad Bouser? Well, I mean, Trump had the president. has had a long fascination with D.C. He left D.C. during the height of COVID, and I think he had a picture of homelessness that has struck with him. You heard him on the campaign trail talking about D.C. And in a lot of ways, D.C. is a proxy for American cities. And his administration

has taken a very aggressive stance against American cities. cities. He thinks that people in cities don't support him. He's very aware of the number of people that voted for him in D.C. And so he has taken an aggressive stance. I heard some of what you've said. The numbers just don't justify the action. We have seen a precipitous lessening of crime in the city, violent crime especially. After a post-COVID spike, that we acknowledge and we got after and we drove down the numbers in 2023, we reported last year the lowest level of violent crime in 30 years. So we're not taking our foot off the gas. We're continuing to work. But we think that this action kind of plays into his narrative about cities, about using force, about being tough on crime.

And I can say a little bit more about why DC is different. But it's times like this. when America needs to know why your nation's capital, a place where 700,000 taxpaying Americans live, should be the 51st state. Now, Mayor, you know, a lot of, we're talking to Mayor Muriel Bowser from the mayor of D.C. Now, a lot of people say, well, you know, well, maybe it's needed. You know, when they look at different cities,

it does look beat up sometimes. It does look dirty. And I see Trump made an analogy or something about it. He was like, when I go to a restaurant with my dad, and when my dad says, sees that the door of the restaurant is dirty, we know not to go there. And that's how people look.

look at DC. So what do you say to those people that say, well, maybe it is needed. Maybe we do need to clean it up a little bit. What do you say to that's not crime though? And it's also not how people look at DC. When people come to DC, elected officials, leaders of nations that he likes to point to, they meet with me as well. And they tell me how beautiful the city is, how green the city is, how they were surprised at how many parks and wide avenues that the city. Keep in mind, And this is the nation's capital built on Longfant's plan that is a magnificent and beautiful city. So this idea that D.C. is dirty. Obviously, there are places where people litter and we clean up. We have some of the best city services of any city in America.

Our Department of Public Works is on top of cleanliness. and our partnership with the federal government is always welcome on issues that we share. Keep in mind that the feds own more property in D.C. than they own in most places, including the national parks, the pocket parks, the circle parks, where we have seen some of the homeless problem, and where they're responsible for cleaning up, dumping the trash, and cutting the grass. some things that they haven't been on top of in recent months. So the feds have a really outsized role in D.C. When it comes to keeping federal parks clean.

Now, we want to work with them on that. We have the teams to do that. But it's just not right to say that D.C. is dirty. And you also don't deploy the FBI and the National Guard just because something is not clean. I don't understand that logic. That sounds crazy. But I do want to ask you something, Mayor Bowser, do you believe President Trump had the legal authority

to deploy the FBI and National Guard into D.C. Without the city's consent? Well, this is the primer on D.C. that I like to give in times like this when we're in the national news. We are unique. We are not a state. And so when you hear D.C. residents talk about,

we got to become a state. We got to become a state. It's not, you know, it's not just an easy topic because what it says is that we don't have full autonomy. We have limited home rule. And our home rule charter gives the president the ability to declare an emergency, a public safety emergency, for almost any reason. And that doesn't really give him the right to take over the police department. And if you read his executive order closely, what it says is what the charter allows him to do,

is direct me, the mayor, to make MPD services available. And that's what it says. Our organization chart, our chief of police, our reporting structure for our police officers has not changed. We're still kicking in with Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C. Salomey? I was going to ask, so what is required for this takeover to end to make sure that you remain in controlling that he does?

It's a good question because we're in unprecedented territory. The law says he has 30 days unless the Congress passes a joint resolution to extend it. Because there is no real predicate in our view for a crime surge that caused the emergency, having the reasons to end the emergency are also unclear. So that's the conversation that I will have with the person that he has designated as his proxy to request. these services and that's the Attorney General Bonding. Now you mentioned this in 2020 so you've seen this

coming. He's been talking about it for a while. He tried in 2020 to when you will remember when there were protests around the killing of George Floyd and that's when he first intimated that he wanted

to take over the police. We pushed back real hard and just explain to him that that at that time, especially at that time where the city was a tender box would be a bad move. Do you think this is a trial run for a police state from President Trump? Listen, I think that what we have to see, nobody should be a lot of the coverage I've heard, just like one of the callers I heard, is making the argument that D.C.'s crime issues are out of control.

That's not true. Our police department, best in the business, partners with the federal. government, supports the president, supports diplomatic visits to the city, are driving down crime and partnership with the community, and tougher policies, quite frankly, that I have supported over the last several years to help us hold people who use guns in our city accountable. And we have to have that honest conversation, too. We can't have a system where a juvenile or an adult can use guns, hurt people, and not face any accountability. So the city has really stepped aggressively in that direction, and it was

warranted. But we cannot, you cannot suggest that the MPD is not getting the job done. We have a young lady, Morgan Wood. She's from D.C. She's from the Black Information Network. She wants to ask you a question to Mayor Bowser. Yes, thank you, Mayor Bowser. I appreciate you taking the question. As a DMV resident, someone who frequents D.C. a lot, how do you what do you think the presence of this federal law enforcement? How do you think it stands to impact residents, those of us that are coming from Maryland and Virginia to hang out, support local businesses,

even businesses that may be struggling from the pandemic? What is your take on how this presence of federal law enforcement stands to impact not only the residents, but also, you know, you economically end the district? Well, Morgan, what I'm really concerned about is the rhetoric coming from the president. already the federal government's decisions are having a completely negative impact on our economy by firing federal workers, closing federal buildings, continuing this telework policy that

they said they wouldn't continue is having a negative impact on our economy. The Congress limited our own local spending by almost a billion dollars this year that cost us to cut services in the district already having an impact on our economy and spreading lies about how safe the city is will impact our ability to replace that economic activity with private activity like like you're mentioning just wanting to come to restaurants or clubs so i feel very confident that our city is safe and you should go about your daily activities in that we are going to work very, very hard to make sure that the federal presence doesn't impact

anybody's ability to come to the city, whether there are residents, people from the region, or people who are coming to visit us. Now, having said that, yesterday, last week and a week before that, everybody who comes here should follow the law. And that remains true. Everybody who comes here should follow the law and that includes

the police. I have one more question about it because I know you got to go like the caller called up here this morning and said he does think it's a good thing that President Trump wants to reduce the crime rate in D.C. But in your opinion as mayor, why is this the wrong way to do it? The wrong is it's the wrong way

to do it because federal law enforcement does a different job. We work with the FBI, ATF, and DEA all the time. But we work with them on high level criminal organizations bringing drugs and guns to the city. FBI agents don't go out

on patrol. That's not what they're trained to do. And that's not what they're, they are good at. It's also not a good idea for our own metropolitan police department, who's worked so hard to gain the trust of communities, for communities to now be scared of the police. Because when they are, they don't call when they need help. When they are, they don't cooperate when there's been a crime committed and we need the public support. And so that, that in itself makes cities less safe. So that's not the way to do it. And more than that, it's not right to trample on democratic processes. And while our kind of autonomy is limited and our grip on democracy is tenuous in a city that doesn't that is not a state and does not have two senators we do have

local elected government uh and we our own residents know how to make their voices heard mayor we appreciate you for checking in and you can check in anytime you need to thank you thank you it's the mayor of dc muriel bowser and thank you again and please let us know what what's going on and keep us updated we'll do all right now when we come back we have the latest with lauren it's the breakfast club good morning thank you so much mayor the breakfast club Everybody is D.J. N.V. Just hilarious. Shalameen, the guy, we are the breakfast club. Yo, what's up with C-World?

Yo. Why C-Ril don't want to book me? They're booking everybody. Yo, if you get booked that C-World, we're outside. What? Yes. Waka, flaka, bow, out of the Dolphins like this. C-World has not gotten the memo that people need to cancel their D-E-I initiatives.

That's clearly what's going on. They had Trita doing how the dolphins go, move over that. They just asked me to do it. They just asked me to do a rest of them. the residency there. Katrina? No, with me. The Sea World?

Yeah. You better do it. I am going to do it. For real. Tell the jokes. I haven't seen nobody rocked the crowd like Trina. I didn't seen Fat Joe before. Fat Joe.

I know. They went crazy for Trina. I didn't see Flokka. Yeah, they, he was there. All right. Well, let's get to the latest with Laura. Lauren becoming a straight fat. Tell us.

Man. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets to detail. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes she has a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest.

On the Breakfast Club. Talk to me. All right, y'all. So Cardi B. Y'all know she has her album coming in by the drama on September 19. Period. So she just posted last night a photo cover art of a song that she's going to be dropping this Friday called Imaginary Players. Now there's no audio, but the fans were quick.

to be like, this has to be a sample of Jay-Z's imaginary players. And Cardi went live to talk about what the song would be given, what the vibes would be. Let's take a listen to Cardi. This single is really how I talk all day, every day, but in a song. Like, it's like real flex shit, real complex type shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, if only, yeah, I knew the story for what I had to go through with this single and to do something else.

But when the song come out, I'm going to tell you I'm more about the story. Yeah. So the people are, the fans are really excited. for this to be that sample. And I haven't confirmed that it is a sample. I've tried, but no one wants to give me anything on the rollout. But... It does sound like it. And that's... And for people that know

Barty and her click, her girl, click, they all are like that. Like, driving Ferraris and fan-hams and some rich... Bags and some rich-ish and it'shing on chicks. Like, that is Barty her team. And they do it 24-7 days a week. Yeah, but I mean, just because the song is called Imaginary Players don't mean she's going to sample

J-T. It just means that she's probably playing off the title because an imaginary player is a person who pretends like they got it. You're a player in your own mind. That's probably the concept of the song. Well, the fans are really sticking to this narrative that it may be a sample of the song. They even went over to Jay-Z's YouTube channel,

found the song Imaginary Players, and for a lot of Cardi's fans, their first time hearing it was yesterday when she announced her song. So, they're in the comments of Jay-Z... Get all these punk-ass kids out the pool. I told you he was going to be angry about this. I knew it. They don't know how. I want to be an adult

business. Somebody said, in the comments, I'm here after Cardi B announced her new single called Imaginary Players this Friday then another person said, the Cardi B announcement took me here. Another person said, if you've been missing out, do yourself the favor and lock into the goat's catalog. Greatest hip-hop storyline of all time. We need to get ready for Cardi B's release.

Then someone else said, never heard this before, but I know Cardi B will be sliding. I highly, highly doubt Cardi B is going to be rapping over an imaginary player. You highly doubt that? Maybe some type of sample of it. You can't hear it? Because they said, she said it took a minute to sample that, and that's also a sample from Ozzy brothers?

No, it's not the Ozzy brothers. It's Renee and Angela, imaginary playmates. Yeah. Hmm. So maybe it's some type of sample based off of that, maybe. I can't wait to hear it. Well, the best thing I like to have, and it's for people to, not that this is what any of y'all are doing,

but the best thing I like is for when people doubt Cardi and she come out, like, swinging and sliding and scratching daddy, like on a track. Scratching, I love when she, like, when she make the naysay is, eat their words. Yeah, I just don't think, because I don't hear, when I listen to the sample,

it's not that I can't hear Cardi rapping on that. I just I don't hear why that would be a single. It wasn't even a single for Jay. But that's what I'm saying, maybe they cut it up and chopped it in the way that it is a single.

Can we play a little bit of it for a piece of a movie? Let's see how to do it. Yo, I spit that other. That's a nice mother. Every time. Deep cover. You bid money.

I'm all year money. I'm popping. You ain't got to count. It's all their money. I never changed money. Got strange money Knocked up, mocked up in the game money No

You can't hear her on that? Not as a single I think because you're used to like Like record's like outside being her singles She's tempo She's more swinging That's laid back But maybe Barty got it

She could I can't wait to know We'll have to see I think she's playing off the concept Of imaginary players Because we all know imaginary players Have imaginary haters They just they're in their own delusional world

Which actually For this era makes a lot of sense And the envy just played the music video for me I ain't never see the imaginary players music video. He just played it from me. But where Cardi from? From the Bronx.

The Bronx? Damn, so y'all know what y'all should do, right? Y'all should pull up to the salsa come foiego tonight. Yo, I got a show tonight and the show tomorrow there. Cardi said, come. She might come through. You never know. Coming through my show.

That's right. They got a section over there. There we go. And then imaginary players ain't got no bottles. Exactly. What's the difference between the 4.0 and the 4.6? 30 to 4. I like this.

players have bottles, they just didn't pay for them. They didn't pay for them. That's going to be me tonight because Envi buying all the bottles. Yep. I'm coming. So get the tickets at Jetslaris Official.com. See you to Bronx. See you in the Bronx. Go ahead.

Well, yeah, so we'll wait for that. That is releasing this Friday, Cardi B song. And as we wrap up real quick, there is, right now, remember we talked about the T app? Yes. So there is a app in the app store right now called the T on her app.

So y'all were talking about if the guys did this and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, well, the guys are attempting to. I don't know how successful it will be. We saw what happened with the T app and the data breach and all the things. Wait, so the guys got a T for the girls. Like, they're trying to find out the T on the girls. Yeah. This has been floating around for some time, like a couple.

People have been talking about this being in the app store, but it just raised. I think it's like number three or number four, and downloads-wise in the app store. It's like dating and advice. But I have, you know, people I know that have tried to download it. And the guys are trying to get in there. I think, honestly, we should just all leave these apps alone.

Oh, no, oh, no, no, no. You was all for the T-O-O-N-M app. And just, just please send your two onks up here. No. You don't want to see your call fax. You don't want to buy see your car fax, huh? Hello. Oh, no, I didn't mean it like that.

Oh. Whoa. Yeah, I didn't mean it. I'm happy. Please post Lauren's picture on that T-E app. You're not going to get nothing. I don't be doing it. anything. The reason I was saying

that is because after that data breach, there was a story that the Washington posted of this woman that sued the T app for the data breach or whatever, and like, I don't know, it just seems a little messy now. I was down in the beginning. I think we should let the guys have it because I want to see some things. I want to see what they're finding out. Because the beyond

the show, a real conversation is women are way sneaky of the men. We're not sneaky, we're smarter, slicker. Not you. Women are cats, men are dogs. Women are cats, men are dogs, because, you know, you always see, like, you can drive by and see dogs, you know, having sex with each other. They'd be stuck looking dumb, but you ain't never seeing two cats having sex, but you see the kittens. Never. Yeah, that's all you say is the result of your, you ain't never see it.

And I got two videos that you stuck, Lord. So don't even talk about you anymore. Also, I just got a text, Cardi's imaginary players does sample the Jay-Z Classic. Hey, you confirmed the news. Period. Thank you. Confirm. I just got a text. I mean, nobody knew that for sure.

So you just confirmed the news. Thank you. I didn't come. This person might be lying to me. I don't know. I can't say it's confirmed. I just, I'll say, well, I got a text. Who sent you to text? No matter who sent it to me. It doesn't matter. I can't even say this is a reliable source.

I'm just telling you, the person who texts me said that she does sample the Jay-Z classic. And I asked me, and they hear it. And they said, yes, I have. Oh, period. I have. They had it. They could just be lying. I don't just, I'm just putting it out there.

I don't know if that's true. So he confirmed it. All right, so I can't see that, everybody. You said the person heard it. If they heard it, they heard it. Charlie, they always doing it. You got the teeth on her. You're not going to say it as somebody's lying.

We know you. All right. That is the latest with Lauren. Jesus. Mixes up next. Let's go. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV.

Just hilarious. Shalomaine McGarley. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a salute to Katrina Brownlee for joining us this morning. Man, Katrina Brownlee. She has a new book out called The Blues. My story of survival on both sides of the badge. I told y'all,

we played the interview and I'm telling y'all again now it is a very triggering interview especially for anybody who's had to deal with domestic violence but um we're glad that katrina brown lee chose you know I mean not only did she survive but she chose to you know make I guess the best out of that situation or the best she could by becoming a police officer so which is crazy because that traumatizer too just read the book okay read the book it's called the blues my story of survival on both sides of the badge sending healing energy to Katrina Brownlee, always, man. And also salute to the mayor of D.C. for checking in today,

Muriel Bowser. So, yes, Mayor Bowser. She called in to talk about, you know, Trump, because, you know, President Trump announced that he's invoking the Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973, and it gives him temporary control over the nation's capital. And he's also activated the National Guard. So she called in to talk about why that is not a good idea.

None of it. Salute to everybody coming out to see Jess tonight and tomorrow night. She's going to be at Salsa Can Fuego. What is that? I'm sorry. I don't know. I'm actually coming tomorrow. I'm going to go see Jess tomorrow. Yes, yo.

All right. First of all, you know you lying because this is your car show week and you got a lot to do, buddy. So don't even just promise me. Sorry, if you pop up, you're going to be there. But if not, I will be in the building with Desi Alexander. We got a show tonight and a show tomorrow at SalsaConfuego.

Get the tickets at my website. Jesseloriasofficial.com or sosaconfuego.com. They're almost sold out for tonight. And they're almost sold out. out for tomorrow, so get your tickets, y'all. Can't wait to see you in the Bronx. Yeah. All right.

And listen, I want to salute to Cheryl McKissick Daniel, man. Her book, The Black Family Who Built America, is available everywhere you buy books today. Okay, the book is about the family-run construction business, McKissack and McKissac. I mean, they have contributed to the creation of some of the nation's most significant landmarks, like the National Civil Rights Museum in Tennessee, Atlantic Yards, Pacific Park, the Long Island Railroad, Yard Relocation, the Barclay Center. the new Terminal 1 at JFK Airport Lincoln Field

in Philadelphia they have contributed to all of those places man so if you're interested in that story if you're interested in the history of the McKissacks please go get Cheryl McKissack Daniel's new book the Black family who built America the McKissacks

two centuries of daring pioneers available everywhere you buy books today courtesy of my book in print Black Privile Publishing Simon & Shoes That's right and you got a positive Nope. I do. I just want to tell people that success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. It's the little things that add up to that one big thing that you're trying to acquire. Have a great day.

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