The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Cardi B Opens Up on Pregnancy, Separation & Am I The Drama? Album + Hit-Boy Talks Music, Ye & Alchemist Collab

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Cardi B opens up about her pregnancy, dating after separation, life on tour, and her new album Am I The Drama?. Plus, Hit-Boy joins us to talk about his music career, the industry, working with Ye, his Software Update project, and a new movie collab with The Alchemist. And of course, Charlamagne Tha God delivers Donkey of the Day. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Breakfast Club Without the breakfast club You're like this Rare air. You've got platforms and partners all over the place because your demand is so high. People want to be in business with the record. But I don't think white people know how popular you guys are. DJ Envy, Jess hilarious, Charlemagne de Gauss.

You know, you guys really are like the hip-hop early morning and late night talk show. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Good morning. Good morning. Uh, I feel blessed black and highly favorite. I am happy to be here, another day to serve our beautiful listeners.

You didn't even ask me how I'm doing, Lauren, or nothing? First of all, you didn't give me, like, I said good morning. I barely had a chance to breathe and get another word out before you just hopped into it. I thought the spirit of God just got it up into you. Okay, well, good morning, Laura Rosa. Good morning. How are you? She still ain't say good morning, Shawley.

Give me a chance. Good morning, Lauren Larosa. Hi, good morning. How are you? She's being difficult. That's why she got two dudes because both of them cannot. Why would you? It's Friday and things are going to deal with all of this.

One man can't do that. Ain't no man going to deal with it. You keep talking about two men on the radio. Well, don't be too niggil loaded. You got two four or that you got two guys. It's 6 a.m. And this is what you're doing? Anyway, it's Friday.

Didn't want to forget to say that. And also, man, we have a very special show for you today. Super producer, Hit Boy will be joining us. Hit Boy got so many different projects coming out, man. You know, he produced for everybody. He produced for everybody from, like, Beyonce, the Jay-Z, to Kanye West. He won Nas' first Grammy. Like, he is a legend of legends, a young legend, too.

So we'll be talking to him. And also, you know, the craziest people in America come from the Bronx in all of Florida. And we got one of the craziest ever to do it. But one of the best to ever do it, Miss Cardi B. Barty, Big Barty, we'll be joining us today. her new album, sophomore album, after eight years. Finally. Am I the drama is in?

Was everywhere you buy music? Do you even buy music anymore? It's everywhere you're screaming music. I don't know. You don't know. I'm the old one. You're supposed to tell me. Figure it out.

You can door dash it too now. You can actually dooredash her album. Shout out to Cardi B. They got DoorDash movie. I've been seeing it all on Instagram all over the city. Yes. So Bardi will be joining us today, man. So don't go anywhere.

It's the world's most dangerous morning show to Breakfast Club. I'm telling Hey, what's you doing, man? I'm calling you. This is your time to get it off your chest whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-105-1. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club.

Hello, who's this? Hello, this is James. I'm calling from North Carolina. James, how are you, sir? I'm doing all right. I had a question for you and envy, as a matter of fact. Yes, sir. When y'all had that cold ice be done,

that liquid that you have to drink before the procedure, Is that nasty or does it taste like Kool-Aid or what? I did the pills and water. I didn't, I don't remember drinking the liquid. No, I did the liquid. It wasn't bad. The liquid wasn't bad. I'm sure I did.

But don't go far off in the toilet, though. Oh, yeah, they told me that. You got to stay home the day before. You got to be home all night long. Like, ain't no, let me go out with the, real quick, no. No, nowhere. Like, you're going to be pooping every few seconds. The liquid wasn't bad at all, but like you said, you, yeah, you want to

say close to that bathroom. Because you're going to get to the point where you just poop the water. Yep. Yeah, they told me that, man. They said it had to come out clear or something. Yeah, it's going to come out in there, too. When you got the colonoscopy schedule?

Oh, for the 8th of August. Oh, that's amazing, man. I'm going to tell you something. You're going to love them drugs they put you on, boy. I'm serious, man. When I first did them drugs, and they told me Michael Jackson, just the drugs Michael Jackson was doing.

I say, man, I get it. I get it. I get it. Oh, Lord. I'm telling you. You're going to lose a bunch of weight, too. You're going to lose some weight, too. Man.

Oh, that's what's up. And also, can you play A You Will Know by Black Man United? I want to dedicate that to the younger generation. That's one of my favorite songs ever. Oh, James, you don't want to ask for Sounds of Blackness? That's not Sound Black. Yeah, I'm saying that.

You know, he asked for South of Blackness before. That's another one of my favorite songs. Sounds of Blackness, be optimistic, and you will know by Black Men United. I listen to them songs every. other day like no exaggeration yeah that's uplifting man who you tell him like that's my record's like when i get in one of my moods that's that's my joint envy ain't gonna play that that in sarado no we definitely got it i'm trying to get it on before before uh before we get up out

no you not you're lying somebody get you will no that's a classic james that's a classic did that did i don't play sounds of blackness for you yeah you did you came through on that all right i got you don't worry about i don't listen to the show of man when i was in all right appreciate it I love that song. That is a bop. You hear me? You see the music video? So you will know.

Ain't that the one where, uh... Everybody. Kevin Campbell, Elton Marge, Gerald Lever. Got man, well, I should start to sing it. Y'all got to watch the music video, there's so much shade on that stage, but the song is great.

Because they're all trying to outdo each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Raphiel's the D. Brian McNay. That's one of the greatest records ever made in life. It's lit. Hello, who's this? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

What up? Get it off your chest. I want to get off my chest. My encounter is that I dealt with sensitive men in 2025. Say it again. She's been dealing with sensitive men, she said. Oh, sensitive men. So I grew up with dudes my whole life, right?

I work in a male-dominated field. I was a mechanic now in the truck driver. I grew up with masculine men. My uncles used to beat me up when I was a kid. You used to crack jokes on me. And the men I encountered, you know, we butt because of . crack jokes on one another, we go back and forth and push-ups, you know, we challenge one another.

I have recently been coming to call a sensitive-ass dude doing masculine-ass job, taking what I say to the bone and getting sensitive, getting mad, and getting aggressive. And I'm a girl. You sound like a stud. I don't know what's going on with men. She does not sound like a stud. Her background gives stuff.

I think he was supposed to be a stud, to be honest with you. She does not sound like a step. Battling pushups and fighting? Yeah, when she was a mechanic now. I am. I am a stud. Well, I mean, I'm masculine presenting. Oh, yeah. Okay.

But you like men? She's not. But you like men, though? No, she don't. No, she don't. No, I don't like men. I got a wife and a kid. Oh, you just talking about sensitive men just in general.

Yes. Oh, okay. Why are they so sensitive to her? Got you, got you, got you, got you. Not that you're dealing with them. Like, it's something about me. I don't know what it is, but it's like, it's something about me that they feel. I don't even know how to.

Because I'm not a man, so I can't keep for me. So what's the problem? They're trying to crack you. Nah, that's not what it is. They is. You know what it is when you're going back and forth with a person and you really want to swing on them, but then you realize they're a girl,

but the whole time they're giving off of like men, menly energy. Right, right. So they start thinking, all right, if I crack a little ass, you know what I mean? So that's what I mean? Because men do this with one another.

Men are used to seeing me in the field. I've been in the field for years. I've been working with. dudes for years. I give off a certain type of persona. Where you live at? I wouldn't mess with you, y'all, y'all. Where you live in Staten Island? Oh. Oh, okay, okay. How many push-ups could you do

a clip? I can do about 25. Okay. And some of these guys can't. So you probably embarrassing them. You're probably a better truck driver. You probably was a better mechanic. I'll be at work. I'll be at work at the dump. Jumping my low, right? And I'll find some of the guys and we'll do push-ups back-to-back. Some of these dudes

can't even do 10. Yeah, man. They're probably not sensitive. They don't. They don't want to play with you for a minute. Like, man, go on out here, man, dog. He's like, God damn. Go find some women to play with. Man, but I'm fun, man. I like to hang out with the guys.

I don't know. She would have to hang out with the family. Mr. Sister. You were at that game last night. You were at that WMBA game last night. You threw that dildo on the floor, didn't you? Did you? Somebody did that yesterday.

Hello. That was you. Goodbye, y, y'all. No. Somebody definitely threw a dildo dirty game. Lime green. Wow. Unappropriate, inappropriate.

But funny itself. What funny is out. Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-1. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yo, it's Todd from Brooklyn. Tad from Brooklyn. What's up? Yo, what's up? Good morning, Josh. Good morning.

Good morning. Pee and King. Yo, yo, Envy. I just wanted to tell you. It was one day I was up here joking, posing every little thing with things. Like, y'all know how you do. And then you say, get it off your chest.

I'm like, nah, that's a big board. How y'all going to make all of them, towards everything? And they're not for, get it off your chest. You need to change that to get it off your mind. I literally said that, yo. I'm with you. you. I said that.

As soon as I started working, you, I said, stay up there telling you. Yo, that's a big phone, every year. Why are y'all thinking about men? When I think of getting up your chest, I'm thinking women, what's on your mind, tell you? I just can't stop thinking about it now

because y'all, y'all was doing all them jokes. I was doing all of them poor jokes. And then right after, you're going to say, all right, get it off your chest. I'm like, hey, yo, bulls. And, and, and who are you getting giving that donkey to? I got to give it to him.

You know what you're doing? No, no, no, I'm saying. Doggie here the day goes to everything. Pause, pause, pause, pause too. You said I'm giving it to envy. I'm saying it's gay. Hello, who's this? Belinda.

That was your dogs in the back? No, that was... I heard barking. That was you coughing? You need to go to the doctor. Damn. You need to go to the office chest. Oh, wait and baby.

Okay, all right. Well, good morning, Mama, get it off your chest. But let me tell you something. First and foremost. First of all, I am not your baby. Daddy's. Don't be calling up and let me tell you something. I don't owe you no money. All right.

Well, my baby daddy is in heaven. So, second of all, thank you. That's what you get. That's what you get. Right. Condolousness. Right now, it's like the battle of the females in my family.

That's why you up smoking a weed early in the morning up. Who's the females? Is your sister or your kids? You just said our kids. Oh, I didn't hear her say that. Oh, what's your kids do? What's your kids doing? What's happening?

Let me tell you. It's like my oldest daughter is trying to bring my youngest daughter to go against me. For what reason? How old are they? You're holding grudges for bull-h-h-h-h-h-old. How old are they? 31 and 21. Hmm.

Is their father the one that passed away? Yes. I mean, do you think, and I know that they're both 31 and 21, and that's older, but, you know, grief doesn't ever really go away. Did they ever really get any, do any grieving behind that situation? No. That could be it? Could have something to do with it And what are they upset about

And that's what I was saying Saying to who? You know, I'd be asking myself Like maybe if their father Or if they would have got counseling Or something during the time period Maybe it would have helped out Mm-hmm

Mm-hmm I think so I think that could be part of the issue I'm not nobody psychiatrist Or therapist And then you could have checked out too You know And it's hard

It's hard to be a parent When you lose a co-parent You lose a significant other You know what I'm saying And so you could have subconsciously neglected, you know, one of them or both of them, you know what I'm saying, and all of y'all hurting from it. You got a point. How long has you been gone? November of 16 years.

Wow. Yeah. So that's more than half their life that they didn't have a father. I mean, that could be part of the issue. I don't know. Did you ask them? Did they tell you what the issue was? No.

Y'all need to have more communication. Yeah, they had a communication. No communication. It's like a. It's like a chain bond that won't break Well, you're smoking with the wrong person You need to roll up some Zion Go smoke with your daughters

And have a conversation I know that's right, but they don't smoke Oh, okay The thing about that is How can I put it? Like, I had moved out a town And my oldest daughter And my middle daughter

Who 28 was up here only by themselves That's part of it My youngest daughter, my son moves out of town. Oh, so they feel like you left him. So father, so daddy gone, he passed away, and they feel like you left him. That's all. Yeah, you need to talk to them. You maybe need to go get some therapy.

Maybe you know, family therapy. Because they were young when that happened, you know. So they just grow up. And they happen in the house. Oh, man. They what? It happened in the house. Well, I'm sorry, Mama.

Yeah, open up the lines of communication, man. Have a conversation with your baby. And apologize. Don't be afraid to apologize if you feel like you did something wrong. Yeah, yeah. And I have no problem doing that. I've apologized with no problem. I'm a wrong with that.

I don't care. Yeah, that's right. All right. Well, thank you, Mama. Good luck. Have a good one. Good luck. Get it off your chest.

You talk to the kids, and the kid's like, she was on crack. She's smoking weed. She didn't smoke a crack, you know. She ain't tell you all the whole story. Damn. Man. Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-1.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The breakfast club. On your opinion to the breakfast club top. 800, 585105. Morning, everybody. J. Envy. Rabin.

The way Jeff just swallowed that piece of fruit and a piece of french toad at the same time. It was unbelievable. First of all, she's hungry. I'm eating fruit and not supposed to be eating fruit anyway I'm not in here drinking

Well morning everybody We are the breakfast club Now if you're just joining us We're asking 800 585151 Can you work with somebody You don't like is the question Well let's start right with you just No you can't work with somebody you don't like

No yo because you got to think about it If you go to work every day You're with this person every day Right like you're You gotta think about it The people that you work with You see more than you see your family Just like your kids see their teachers

More than they see you you know what I mean like so I have to have all right we ain't got to be the best of friends we ain't even got to be friends but I can't not like you and see you every day I'm gonna try my best to make your life miserable now you know a lot of people say it's all about business and making sure you can feed your family right yeah but I'm with you Jess if I don't like you I can't work with you because at the end of the day I need to be in a peaceful place I need to be happy now if I'm not happy and I'm working with somebody I don't like I will try to make you know arrangements or do things where we can move or possibly go to another job or maybe hopefully

they can go to another job. But if I don't like you or I don't trust you, I can't work with you because it's like it's going to ruin my happiness. And now you can't even perform at the highest level of the job because you don't like somebody and they're sitting in your face looking at you. That's right. Sholomey. Do I want to work with someone I don't like?

No. Can I? Yes. And it depends on what the job is. But for the most part, yes. Majority of us are in professional settings and we have to deal. with people who they who personally we may not get along with uh but i'm not here to be your friend i'm here to do a job and do it well and if you care about doing your job well then we we will be

able to work together professionally but do i do i want to work with somebody i don't like no can't i yes it all depends on how close you work with that person too like if you're work in another department and i see you every day that's different but if we work hands-on every day yeah because i don't trust you because i'm gonna feel like you're gonna be doing things to try to make sure that I'm not there anymore. You're going to be sabotaged me. But even that's a different conversation. Like you said not liking, not trusting is different. Can I work with somebody I don't trust? Oh, that's probably not. Yeah. But can I work with somebody I don't like? Yeah. Well, I totally expect that from you

because you don't like any of us. So, yeah. That's fine. That's true. That's true. Let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this. Hey, this's Ashley. Ashley from where? Savannah. Hey, what's up, Ashley? Can you work with somebody? you don't like? I do it every day. What you work at? I know, that's right.

I don't, oh. I work in the school board, but yeah. Okay, so tell us how you handled it. Ignore her like she to win. Dang. I know, that's right. You don't ignore no wins, especially when you be having that wig on. You stupid.

No, baby. We lock nation over here, no wig. Oh, okay. I know that's right. Yes, locked. But what if you have to work with the person? Hey, Jess, I love you, girl. I love you.

I love you too. But what if you have to work with the person? Do you have to work with the person? Do you have to work with the person? ignore people who don't have a life, they just come in and think, I mean, they just, they're annoying. So, you know what? Either I'm going to get on your level, but I don't want to waste that much energy.

I'm just going to ignore you. Yeah, and I mean, you know, what I eat don't make you, you know. That's right. Well, suit to everybody who listens us on 94-1 to be in Savannah. All right. Hello, who's this? Is Zach out of Houston? Hey, Zach.

What's up? Can you work with somebody you don't like? Man, the whole warehouse, man. Damn. Man, for real, man. I don't know what it is. And it's majority guys, yo. Well, not majority.

It's like 90% guys. You would think, like, it wouldn't be all that messiness and stuff. But, yeah, bro. Straight up there. So what do you do with you? How do you deal with it? Oh, I just be quiet. The thing about the warehouse, you ain't really got to say.

Now long as you're doing your job, you're straight. Yeah. Go in with your head down and do your job and leave. And that's it. But hold up, because I want to get into some of my stuff. Like, what are some of the issues that you hear swarming around the warehouse? It's just messy. Like, just mess.

It's always something. They'll be talking about each other behind their backs and stuff. Like, why are you coming to me? Like, I don't even trying to talk about this. I'm trying to talk about the game last night. You know? What they'd be saying, like, such and such is really gay. You know that?

Yeah, because it's all, man. That's what they be saying. Nah, man, it's like, I don't really want to be throwing people with people's out there because that's just not me. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, I'm with you. I got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I'm just not with all that best things, bro. Like, keep that at home or not even. even that at home, but like, if that's y'all got a problem, y'all handle that. Like, y'all ain't got to be trying to get people on your sides and stuff like that. Very high schoolish. I get it. That's right. Are you listening to us on 93.7 to beat? Yes, sir.

Salute to everybody that listens to us on 93.7 to beat in Houston. All right. Thank you, brother. 800-585-105.1. We're asking this morning, can you work with somebody you don't like? And if you do, well, how do you do it? Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Once again, going back in right now. Back to the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club.

Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Shalameen, the guy, Jesselagher, Jess, and NB on here today. But Lauren LaRosa is, and we got a very special guest. Her sophomore album is finally out today. Amidea drama, Big Body, Cardi B. What's happening? What is going on, y'all? How you feel?

I'm tall. Morning, sick. No, no. Okay. I really ain't got that this time around I don't know if it's my age or I don't know because it's like I was like girl please you know we got a whole baby shower

up here for Cardi we got Golden Corral from the Bronx a real one though not just not just like just catering they got me cakes and slushies and a whole big food I can't oh I can't wait till this interview for I was smelling it I was like I could smell some chicken And my security guard talking about

like, it was some noodles. That ain't no noodles. They thought you was tripping. Yeah, I could smell it. You ever ate that golden crowd before in the Bronx? I never ate at that golden corral. Okay. I went, I forgot what state I went to that I didn't eat golden corral.

And you got the baby shower chair? Yeah, I got the baby shower. Hey, I got the baby shower. Bring the very, very shirt down. Let me ask you a question. When you look back, why did it take eight years to drop a second album? And you can't blame being pregnant

because you're pregnant now. No, and that's why we wanted to tell people, like, it was never because... Hey, everybody, this is Matt Rogers. And Bowen Yang. And you're never going to guess who's our guest on Lost Cultureistas. It is Bradley Jackson, Elle Woods, Tracy Flick, herself. Reese Witherspoon. It must go in a girls' trip.

I have to have a tequila. We must. Oh! The Q rating. Curing. When they run diagnostic on you guys. I'd be scared. Run the Q rating.

No, on the Q rating on us. My resiliency score is down to adequate because we were on a red eye. My resiliency score. My grit. I got to get my grit score up. Now, don't think that you're going to come out Lost Culture East. That's the podcast. And we're not going to at least bring up Big Little Lies season three.

Whoever said orange is the new pink. We seriously disturbs. Listen to Las Culturistas on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time, as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians. I would be the first immigrant mayor in generations, but 40% of New Yorkers were born outside of this country.

Artists and activists, I mean, do you ever feel demoralized? I might personally lose hope. this individual might lose the faith. But there's an institution that doesn't lose faith. And that's what I believe in. To bring you depth and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. There's not a single day that Paola and I don't call or text each other, sharing news and thoughts about what's happening in the country.

This new podcast will be a way to make that ongoing intergenerational conversation public. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos as part of the My Culture a podcast network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed. Hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago.

I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a tape recorder statement. The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike. This is in regards to the death of a Colleen slimmer. She just started going off on me and I hit her. I just hit her and hit her and hit her. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row.

The state has asked for an execution date for Krista. We let people languish in prison for decades, raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable. How does someone prove that they deserve to live? We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike Listen to Unrestorable Season 2 Proof of Life

On the IHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts Or wherever you get your podcasts I was pregnant Because my mouth is not pregnant You know what I'm saying? I'm just very like picky Everybody always said that I dropped the ball

When I didn't release the album After whopping up But to be honest with you I only had like six songs And I was trying But I didn't like nothing And it's like, it shouldn't be my second album. And then, like, just a whole bunch of things

that was just happening in my life. And I just felt like I wasn't ready. How many songs you thought you needed, you had joints, you had press out at that time. Press was hard. Because Invasion of Privacy was only 13. Yeah, but I, I just felt like invasion of privacy. I just didn't put a lot of, like, thought in it.

Like, I was just, like, I have to put an album out. I'm about to have a baby. But then, like, the second one, I think I overthinked it See, that's what I'm saying That's a good thing When you were putting out the gangster bitch mix tapes Yeah

And invasion of privacy You wasn't thinking about it There was no pressure Like just going there and have fun Yeah I don't know why I just overthink it Even I just feel like As you get older too, you just

Overthink too much And it's just like you just gotta do it Do you feel like you're still proving yourself As an artist or you passed there Oh absolutely Mm-hmm Especially like now with this whole second album thing It's just been like a whole

nasty debate for the past two months and it's like kind of have to prove it to them but it's like kind of don't have to prove nothing to nobody but

I'm motivated I feel really good okay what you, the debate you talk about you which debate because there's always debates about you

yeah is it that people feel like the album is too late or they don't think that the music is going to be good like what is the debate exactly it's just so

it's just so many different things that that that I hear like for example like my my numbers prediction or like if I don't hit a certain number like the label is going to drop me or like if I'm a priority in the label and all of these talks and it's just like what are you talking about like that is that's that's not true like a lot of people think that I'm not going to go on tour and it's like honey Life Nation gave me a check I'm going there's a there's a there was a check that it was giving and there was a check that I got to go get I'm going to get that check so what's I saw you post the video we covered it this morning of your body preparation for the tour and you talk about

the stretching and all that but what's going to be your mental preparation because I heard you say you're going to be leaving the baby's home yeah but like it's just this is like my fourth this is my fourth rodeo this ain't my first like this is my fourth baby like you know I just had a baby last year and I do have a lot of videos I wasn't working out while I was pregnant like on my last weeks and when I gave birth like in four days I just felt like so like like nothing so it's like I not only am I going to prepare myself for the tour like I just have to prepare myself like physically so I could just feel good my second baby he too big he broke me my first one I had to stitch my last one down there

The cat. Oh, she ain't had no kids yet. Oh, God. Yeah, I ripped. I ripped. You didn't know that happens? No. Yeah.

How did you pee? Huh? Oh, my God. Cardi, hold my hand. It was hard. Yes. I'm so sorry. But that's what I'm saying.

Like, it's like, now things are just a little different and I'm more experienced. Like, the third one was so easy. Mm-hmm. So I'm expecting this one to be as easy as well, in the name of the Lord. Like, that's why I'm like. Like, I just did last year. I could do it in this year. I know a lot of women who look at you

and they say Cardi knows how to balance it all. She got the kids. She got the career. Have there ever been a moment where you questioned if you could have it all? I'm going to make it. I'm going to make it. If I want something, I'm going to make it happen.

It's just really like the how bad you want it. If you really wanted that bad, if you want it bad, you get up and you go get it. Ain't no complaining. Ain't no crying about it. I'm tired. I'm just. I'm tired every day.

My feet hurt every single day, but it's like, okay, if you want this to be successful, you got to get out there. Like, it's like, you know, cring, you know this. If I want it, like, it's like, it's like, this is what you chose. Like, it is what it is. What about people around you, though? Because you know, it's still a business. So they was like, oh, my gosh, she's pregnant again with this.

So my label and Live Nation, like, they asked me, like, it's like, hey, you know, we can move the album to the beginning of the year. and you could like tour in the summertime I was like no I'm going to put out my album in September and we're going to go on tour on February I got things to do in the summertime this is going to be the schedule

and I'm promising you guys that I'm not going to let you out and it's like okay we trust you and I've been showing them that it's like I'm down and I'm doing it and they're very motivated and we've been like a team like it's like yeah yeah yeah

Yeah, we're doing it. The day starts off rocky and cranky, but then when things are turning good and we see the numbers and we see the vision, it's like, wow, I'm motivated. I can't wait to push, so they always been supported of me, though. They never been like, it's like, ugh. They know when I want something, my work ethic, if I really want it, they know that I'm going to do it. The only time that I just be not giving in my all is when I'm going to, like, mental distress. And people, like, don't understand that. So people will think that it's because of the kids

or because I'm just whatever. No, when I'm in mental distress, I don't want to do nothing. But I feel very, like, ain't nothing really bothering me right now. Like, I'm good. That's good. I'm good. Have you always been that in tune with, like,

your mental of, like, I need to take a break from work? Because it's easier now because Cardi B is established. She's a superstar. But when, in the beginning, how did you deal with, like, because we watched you go through things from all of your career. How did you, what's the different? now I didn't even you know what I didn't even notice that I was taking so many long breaks like I would tell myself like it's like you know what I need to go on a hiatus for like two months

next thing you know it's like damn I haven't put out a song in eight months and nine months and I wasn't even realizing it that it was so long and I was because I was overthinking I was overstressing or sometimes I was really so sad that I couldn't even like open my mouth or think to, like, record. Like, I just was so unmotivated that you're, like, telling yourself, like, it's like, I need a break. And then it's, like, the break turns into so long.

And you just be like, damn, what did I did that whole time? I'm going to get to the next step. Yeah. And I didn't even notice or realize that it was taking that long. I was just overthinking. I was just too tired. I was just too tired of stress. So that was what was messing me up.

What's stressing you all? Or like, is there like the industry? Like, you find yourself comparing yourself to other people? It's not really comparing. It's the industry, relationships, just so many things. Like, and then, like, it will affect me for, like, it won't just affect me for, like, a day. Because some people will, it's real easy for people to be like, oh, just give yourself 72 hours. Sometimes it will mess you up for, like, a week or so or longer.

Especially if it's, if it's heartache. Like, it's like, you, boy, you can. You can't fight that. You really can't fight that. It's like grief. It's like grief. So I don't even know. But I just know that I got somebody there always telling me like, you go, girl.

And I'm here. I feel really good. I'm in a good space right now. I don't feel like I'm sad. I don't feel like I'm nothing. I feel like it's like I need to get this right now, right now. All right. We'll be back with more Cardi B.

Her album, Am I, The Drama, is in stores right now today. so I know you already been checking that out so we'll be back with more conversation with Cardi B when we come back It's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club Peace to the planet It's the world's most dangerous morning

show the breakfast club I go by the name of Charlemagne the God and we have a very special guest in the building today She goes by the name of Mrs. Cardi B her album, my that drama is in stores right now today Did this album feel therapeutic to you

Because you know when I hear songs like Dead right out the gate killing these holes You started with dead and you ended with killing these holes. So did that feel good to just get in there and express that? Some songs in the album, it was not good songs to do. And then, like, some songs, like, that it is me talking about, like, on some cocky-ish.

Like, I was really angry because I feel like a lot of these girls were trying me. And it's like, I don't like feeling try because it's like, I feel like I have beef with so many girls growing up that is really like that. And it's like, I know you, bitches, are not really like that. But you feel like you like that because right now I'm going through this hate thing on social media. So you think you could take advantage and everybody's going to take your side. But I'm going to let you know. Like, it's like, me and you, you, you, you, you're not nowhere near me when it comes to artistry, where it comes to nothing. When it comes to the street, like, girl, I'll, I'll, I'll crush you.

Like, you're a little pussing me. It's not even about, but, but no, it's not even about being because a lot of these girls, they don't care if you're fucking out. They know they're never going to see you and they're not really fighters, but they're like antagonizers. Like, and it's like, they get off that. And it's just like, you got to, you got to know when to come at somebody. I'm going to let you keep trying me thinking when you try me

when you, when you are a certain position. and then that's when I'm playing my position and I'm going to remind you right there because there's sometimes a girl will come out and everybody love her and everybody's cheering for her and everybody's ruling for her

and then they will try you at that moment but if you say something back you will look like you're hating and I'm not hating I just peep that you're trying me but I'm going to stay silent because one thing about it

all the all artists me every artist you're going to experience a different time. It happened to all of us. No matter what genre you in, like, it's going to happen. And when that happened, I'm going to remind you how you tried me. For real. And I'm going to remind you like, it's like,

you see why I have lasted so long? Because you think you're so bright. You think you're bright, but you're not that smart. I might talk away. I might do this and that, but it's like, I'm very, I'm smart. I'm very bright. I know how to play. and now it's time for me to get you

because you was trying me at a bad time who was trying how I was going through you heard the album we know he and pretty pretty and petty we know exactly what you're talking about I said on the song

pretty and petty you come out the gate out the gate straight at beer yeah all right so you said in the song you waited

you told her you were going to do it on your terms when you were ready you do the song you drop it at this point though like I mean

so that reignites everything because I remember y'all were going back and forth your whole thing was you felt like you're just doing this because you want my platform, you want attention, I'm going to give it to you, and then I'm done with it.

This reignites it all. Like, why even address her again on the album? Because, because you mentioned my kids trying to be cute. There's going to be times that, like, people throw shots at you or, like, there's going to be times, like, you know, like when she did her little this and it was trash. Like, it's like, it could have been trash. People dragged you, and I couldn't leave it at that.

But it's like everything on social media is going to be seen. So when my kids grow up one day and they see, that you mentioned them. And they're going to ask me, like, so what you said, what you did? I'm not going to tell my kids, like, you know, I just felt like she took the high road because she lost because people wasn't on her side. Now, I'm not saying that to my kids.

I'm like, you see how I violated. You know what it is? I feel like last year, every artist was, like, beefing. Girl. Like, every artist was beefing. And I thought, and I think she was going to get a moment out of that because she thought that I was copying her. And I had a conversation with her.

First, we was cursing each other out. Then I had a real conversation with her, and I was like, listen, I'm not copying you. I don't even look at you. Like, you're not a person that I look at or I'm inspired by. And the conversation ended. Then she kept going because of a music video, and it's like, oh, girl, you definitely not on the moonboard. I, whatever, more or less. Then this bitch, right?

It'd be a lot of funny shit behind the scenes. This producer that was working with, like, my ex, he was going around saying that I was messing with a guy. And there was allegedly a sex tape or something, right? Yes. And I was like, what me? Hell no. Hell no. But it was a lie and it was ridiculous.

And a bitch can say, you know, deems the farm because I got messages when I first started talking to him. And I was like, I have to get to the bottom of who's saying that. She was trying to plant a seed that I was cheating on this guy with a blood. But you think that I'm, I'm, you're not from the hood. So to you, because I'm. You think that I'm like, oh, I'm pressed to mess with it. That's nothing to me. That's like being around Dominicans or something.

Like, it's like that don't mean nothing to me. Everybody's Macball. Everybody this, everybody. And then this is New York. One thing about a New York person or anybody, they're going to talk. You was really trying to even mess things up in my home. And it's like, damn, you hate it on me so much. You hate it on me so much.

And I kept saying like, it's like, prove it. Prove it. Show me a text. Show me when I flirt. Because when I'm loyal, I'm very loyal. Like, I don't text, I don't flirt. I don't even look at people in the eye. Because I don't even want you to think that I even like you.

And you was doing all that shit. And it's like, I got you. And it's like, and I know it was confirmed that it was her that was going around with that rumor. Because when she did her this, she kept saying like, oh, why, say how you, how you like, a cheater. Some shit. I forgot what she was saying. But it's like, so say, say who I was.

Say who I was in it with. Say it. Oh, you just made that up. You just made that up. You just made that up. You was being messy. And there's an eye, bitch. Now I got a wet belt for you.

And you ain't even going to know when it's coming. Have you ever got hit with a wet belt? Not a wet one. My daddy beat me with an incision cord and made me take a bath. So it's kind of the same thing. No, it's when you, it's when you're in the shower and your mom find out something. And then she just whipped your ass and your body's, I'm gonna hit you with a wet belt

And I told, and then it's like you And then you thought it was cute To put my kid's name I'm gonna get you You did it the right way though You put it out Put it on your album You know

She should be thinking blossom Because I did that song last year But I was so nasally Because I was so congested You need to thank her You know when you get sick When you're pregnant You can't recover for like three weeks

Throw be messed up Nose be stuffy Fee be fat When the internet be coming for you, Cardi, whether it's the fans or haters or blogs, does it make you like second guest sharing your truth? Or does it make you feel like, you know what, I'm going to be more unfiltered?

I'm going to talk more. Sometimes, yes, and sometimes, no. Like, sometimes I just can help myself. I'm like, I'm going to say what I want to say. But sometimes I be like, aye, I just got to reserve myself because I don't want people to be like, damn, you just always, always, always on that. You just always, always on there. So sometimes

I be like, aye, whatever. And then sometimes I'd be like, you know what? Like, bitch, you why are you on my like stop stop like you you you you take an advantage now are you playing with me and sometimes people will be like oh don't give them cloutiness and now i'm gonna give you the clout today i need to get this my fucking chest i got a dick on my chest damn that's what did he said listen let's your question like you say what's the biggest thing motherhood has taught you about yourself that that like the fame and money couldn't

motherhood is hard no matter how much money you have no matter how much how much you plan motherhood is hard it also makes me it almost makes me like not want to like lose anything i don't like i don't want to lose like i don't want to be a quitter like i don't ever want my kids to be like oh so why you and did this i was like because people's being so harsh on me and it's like it's giving them an example to be to like be like all right so if people are being mean to you you automatically quit. Like, you automatically finish. I don't want to do this no more.

Like, no. And I don't know. Something about it, about motherhood, that it's just like, it's just so beautiful. I love them kids so bad. All right, we'll be back with more Cardi B. It's the world's most dangerous morning

show The Breakfast Club. Peace to the planet, it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. I go by the name of Charlemagne the God, and we have a very special guest in the building today. She goes by the name of Mrs. Cardi B. Her album, My, The Drama, is in store.

as right now today, Lauren LaRosa. But you were making this album, which one of these songs, like, were, what was the hardest emotionally for you to make and rehear and be in the studio doing? Man, you were.

Mm-hmm. And because I was going through it at that time. Mm-hmm. Like, I was going, it was not like, it was like, oh, I was talking about something that happened in 2018 or whatever.

It was happening at that time, and I was doing it at that time. And the hook was just so beautiful that it was supposed to be, like a female singing the hook but nobody was singing it with that emotion that Dougie did it. I'm like, I don't care

if it doesn't make sense. I'm keeping Dougie. And getting into those emotions and the things that you were experiencing while making an album did that put you in a place where because from what I've been seeing anyway, you tell me if I'm wrong, the way that you started talking about, the divorce and offset and all the things and the way he started, now you guys, it seems like it's a lot more peaceful

on both ends. No, it's not. No? No, it's not peaceful at all. I was not going to ask that the album help, but no, it's not peaceful, respectful. What is it now? It's not peaceful at all.

I can't even talk about it because it's like, it's like court thing, but it's like, it is not peaceful at all. It is not, it is. When you heard his song move on, offsets move on, what do you think? I laughed. Whatever, you let the world think what they want to think.

People see it. People see what's up. I don't buy nobody. They can't prove that out about them. Did it hurt your feelings when he said you couldn't cook? No, because you know that. But now you got all these bitches that cook for you, why are you still bothering me?

And you used to be on TikTok. You never said that you could like you were a chef boy or did you be on TikTok making your, you know, cooking what you cook and doing your things sometimes? If somebody asked me or if somebody told me, Like, it's like, I want you to cook for me. This is what I require and stuff like that. I'll do it. I will do it.

But that was never, like, a requirement. So it's like, now you act, now you're acting like that was an issue. Now you got these bitches that they cook. Why can you sign the papers and these bitches cooking? Absolutely. After everything, do you think love and marriage is still worth it? I think it's worth it. Where are you getting married again?

Mm-hmm. Really? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I will get married again But not as quick As I got married the last time But

It's a lot It's really a lot It's actually disgusting Do you find any peace In independence Like when you just alone Like you're not in a relationship But nothing

Or do you have to have Be in a relationship with a mother Um When I was When I was like completely single Like when I just was completely single as I could see

I was outside with my friends I just had my baby and I just had to get out of that funk and it's like sometimes it feel good and then sometimes like you'll be in the club like I just told that to somebody

like you'll be in the club and it's 3.30 and you're drunk and you're realizing that it's like damn I'm going home I'm lit and I literally not even having somebody

to fuck or something because sex is just sex you don't have nobody to talk to and you really feel alone and that is a feeling that just comes out of nowhere like if you hear Adele my little love like at the end she's really saying

and like it's like I'm cool with being alone I like to be alone I like to watch movies and be alone but today I just feel so I feel so lonely and I feel like am I going to be like lonely forever you get those feelings when you're like

alone but don't let that get too desperate neither you know what I'm saying? Don't let start dating somebody and give them the box and then it's like you gave a box somebody that is going to ghost you and stuff like that like or just like it was like oh

I gave I gave I gave you the wrong nigga you can't even do that no more because you Cardi B all these things want to tell on you I definitely can't do that and it's not even that I definitely can do that like it's that I don't really like people I'm really a person

that is that I don't really like guys like that like not guys like I'm some gay bitch or some but it's like you say on the album you'd be gay for the right girl though I'll do something with a girl but I can never be I'm not a relationship with a girl type of girl got you it's just not my thing I'm sorry girl like I need somebody to protect me what was you could do that baby girl was dating she's not like damn dashed I'm sorry girl I'm sorry girl I'm sorry girl I'm sorry girl he is a oh what was dating

like when you were dating because we didn't really I mean yeah we didn't really get to see it much it was literally like we just heard about Stefan Diggs and now it's like you were locked in

what was Cardi B like in dating like were you going out places where you like answering DMs how were you even getting hooked up with people like were you ghosting people what was that like? I really wasn't I was talking to somebody for like a little bit

I never kissed them make out with them I didn't even link up them. I just, I was talking to Stefan. Sometimes I, I stopped. Sometimes I didn't. Because I was just so scared. I was just, I just needed my time. I needed some time. I, I need a time. And then it's like, you know what, I'm going to give it a chance. But I'm not going to put too much in it. Like, it's like, men are weird. Not men are weird. It's just like, man, it's scary. Dating is scary. Being vulnerable with a person again after what you went through Is what you were scared of?

Or what were you scared of? Of everything. Just, I don't know. I was just scared. It's scary. I'm scared out there. And then in your 30s and stuff like that and letting people in your world and the things that people will put in your head.

But I gave it a chance. No, I'm here. They're going to be picking apart this album because some of these songs sound like you're talking about your new relationship. I am. Shit. Oh, okay. I am.

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We have like. Was it the castle? No. Oh. We've been talking before that. Okay. You've been talking before that It was just really like a talking thing

Talking Sometimes we didn't Sometimes we did It just really was getting to know each other Before you really come Before we really come in our world Like I don't belong to you

You don't belong to me But now you belong to me I wonder if he's ready for this new world though Because I saw him get questioned In the locker room another day He's a little different from He's a little different And they press and the world is way different for mine

and stuff like that. So, but you know what's up? You see what it is over here? All right, we'll be back with more Cardi B. It's the world's most dangerous morning and show the breakfast club. Peace to the planet. It's the world's most dangerous morning to show the breakfast club. I go by the name of Charlemagne the God.

And we have a very special guest in the building today. She goes by the name of Mrs. Cardi B. Her album, my de drama, is in stores right now today. I'm going to get you out of it because I know you want to eat. but I haven't seen you spazzing online a lot lately. What made you slow that down? You ain't spathed in a minute. I don't know.

I kind of did, like, I kind of did like two weeks ago because I feel like I'm getting picked on again. What was it? Two weeks ago. I don't remember that. It was kind of mild. Okay. Probably like two weeks, probably like a week.

But I don't know. I just been so busy. You were talking about You were talking about the Um Like the, you was going at like the podcasters And the blogs and people reviewing And talking about you musically, right?

Was that it? It's not even talk about me It's talk about everything Like everything Like you know like you guys You guys talk about You guys talk about people But it's like imagine if you like come

Every single day And talk about one person every single day Every single time And then it's like All right You don't do it for this person why you do it to meet and it's constant

and it's constant and it's every week like I like like what's up now you got my attention for real is that why you did this rollout because a lot

from that the conversation has been Cardi did the upper brow outlets like you sat with Gil King you sat with Kelly Rowling you're here with the breakfast club but you didn't do a lot of

upper brow I mean but we are we're the intersection between the righteous and the ratchet but these are like these are my people but people feel like

because of that rent that like we've seen people have been going to a lot of like podcasts and they're sitting with you, I know you're going to do a stream, right? I have, I did podcast though. They just haven't come up. Oh, okay. I did do some podcasts, but I'm going to do podcasts with people

that like me. Like, why do I got to sit with podcasters that I don't like? I'm going, I'm like, like, like, like, for what? Like, if you don't like me, like, why am I going to go to your shit? Like, so I could like, what, prove what to you? Like, you don't like me and that is what it is. then they're pregnant so you can't swing on nobody if you want to

no it's just I can't not hit people then like I see a lot of people going like to streamer stuff I really like I like um fandom so I'm planning to do a stream with him like when I real soon though not like right now

because I have so much on my schedule like when I feel like general in love like I'm going to go to him I'm not really like a stream a person like I'm not up to date to that because I'm just old like I'm 33 but I know the younger kids like it but it's like it's not really like my thing like even on TikTok and stuff like you don't see me doing TikTok dances not because it's something wrong with it I'm just I'm just a little older and I just don't know how to do that do this video 10 goddamn

time I'm tired already like what I like and what I see on my on my timeline that's up that's who I'm going to go to like you I'm going to go to you. you're pregnant. Like, you ain't got time to be sitting down with nobody you don't I can't, I can't even say pregnant because I've been doing everything. I have literally done everything and anything. Like, even after those days in court, I was still doing, like, I have 6 a.m. mornings all the way, like, today. Like, I woke up today at 6 a.m. My night is going to finish at 3 a.m. because that's when my party finished. Then tomorrow I have to wake up and I have to do those meet and greets, and I have to meet about 4,000 people.

Like it's like it just don't stop for me But it's like I'm not gonna go to Podcasters that I don't like Why am I gonna go sit down with you You don't like me You talk mad shit about me You contribute to my pain

You contribute like to my pressure So why am I gonna sit down with your ass I'm gonna sit down with people Not like oh because people like Oh you sit down with people To kiss your eyes No I like positive people I like people that make me feel good

I like people that I be like you You know what I like them I can hang out with them But I don't like you Why am I sitting down with you To prove what point You know people think you actually pay me They think you pay me to talk good about you.

No, I don't. I just really, and I really just be talking to Charlemagne, not all the time. Like, sometimes you would even believe, you would even believe the things that we were talking about. What we talk about the most? Politics. That's right.

That's true. That's what really we be talking to. Most of the time, that's what we really be talking about. Even the other day, I was so busy, but I was going to hit you out. Like, it's like,

oh, I would have some jokes for you. I would have some jokes for you. Not even to be messy, but, like, to be messy, but it's like, I know you could have came harder, Sharleman.

Come on now. Are you talking about he was being called a girl? Yeah, like, it's like, well, I'm going to call a girl. Like, it's like, you're telling me that I'm not secure to my woman. My woman is financially secure, though. That's a fact. There ain't nothing wrong being around. Finanational.

Daughter birthday, fucking like a f***er like a bar mitzbo. Like, you can't talk to you. You can't talk to me. You're asking NBA or you got a view. Have you seen that house? I had. See his wife closet? I'll never leave.

Thank you for coming to my daughter's Sweet 16, though. That was amazing. That is like a black barmanchevra, right? Like, it's fly to see black and brown people doing shit like that. Yeah. And everybody, it just made me realize, like, it's like, wow. So this is how my daughter's birthday is going to be 16. You're all white folks, huh?

Oh, culture is going to, baby. I want to buy 16. Yes, especially when you live back. Especially when you live back. She's going to be them been famous for a long time at that point. Pulling up to the fashion shows, yeah, it's going to be very upper brow, very white. No, it's not even, it's just like, it's just. Her cousin's going to be there.

You had to be at that party, so you could be like, wow. You would just have, like, an understanding of, like, what the schools are like over there. Yes. So sometimes I be thinking like, it's like, damn, my kid don't got flavor like that. But that's why they don't have no flavor like that. But she got you. Yeah. We saw coach you the other day.

Alexander Wang. Yeah, we talked about it up here. But they're so innocent. They're so innocent over there. They're innocent in Jersey. But. That is interesting, right? Because you're raising your kids in a mansion, right, in Jersey, but you grew up in the Bronx.

How do you make sure they don't grow up spoiled? Because that's what I'd be trying to focus on. They spoil. They're spoiled. And it's not even that they're not. They don't know nothing else. They don't know nothing else. But they do, as, you know what I noticed?

As long as they were their cousin, they don't care where they at. Because when they be in my grandma's house, or when they was in the yard, in the country, country, they, they, I kept calling, like, are you guys okay? So long as they were their cousin kids are okay. They just got to be with their cousins. That's the trick. They got to be with their cousins. They're going to have a good time anywhere as long as their cousins is around, their friends around. Why did you ask you, this is my last cousin?

Why did you ask yourself, am I the drama? And I like that you holding yourself accountable, you know, for what you might be on. But why did you ask yourself that question? Because I just always feel like people that just don't like me or they will, like, pick on me or something. Because you're on top. But it always been like that even when I was like in high school. Because you've always been on top. Regardless of the money, your personality, the fact that people naturally gravitate towards you,

the fact that people naturally like you. You know something I hate you just because of how everybody else love you? Yes. And that's why it's like, damn, am I the drama? Am I the ones? Is it me, Jesus? Like, it's like, why I'm always, like, it's like,

things could go a certain type of way for me, but it's just not going to go. It's like, I don't know if I chase the bad things. I don't know if the bad things is me. But I'm also very blessed, too. Like, it's like, maybe I be thinking it's because my, it is my personality. It is because, like,

my voice just stand out and it always been like that which is a it's a it's God it's a blessing it's a curse sometimes it occurs

but it's really like a blessing because sometimes I feel like I get it harder than than most and I don't care if people say that they don't see it they know it they know it

I really get it hard harder than most but then I then again I am very blessed and some people might think that it's like well she don't get that much because she's still here and she stays in certain things.

And it's like, maybe I am blessed or maybe I just, I don't know. Well, don't spend all day looking at the comments. No, no, no. Let the album come out. Yeah. Let people have their opinion and you keep it moving, okay? Yeah. I'm telling you today, it really feels like, I don't, I don't know if it's my birthday.

I don't know if it's like, it really feels like, I don't know, like I'm. Just enjoy the moment. I'm enjoying it. Well, I can't really enjoy it because I'm tired as hell, and I got a lot of work to do. Damn. I gotta go to all these meeting, greets and stuff. That's what I'm like, oh, God.

Am I gonna be able to do all that? I'm gonna do it. But I woke up this morning and I wanted to cry. I'm like, what I want to cry for? Tears of joy. Yeah. Absolutely. It's Cardi B. It's the Breakfast Club.

Who's getting that donkey? That donkey, that donkey, that don't, don't, donkey of the day right here. The breakfast club, bitch. You can call me the donkey of the day, but like, I mean no harm. Donkey of the day goes to a Baltimore man by the name of Kevin Gross. Kevin is 46 years old, just like I am. But I clearly make better choices than Kevin.

You know how sometimes people say, oh, you think you better than me? The answer is, yes. Yes, I do, because I make better choices. Not judging you for anything you got going on, but you ask me a question. Oh, you think you better than me? Yes. Hell yes, because I understand the strongest principle of growth

lies in human choice and I make better choices than you and if you are currently enjoying this thing called freedom well you make better choices than Kevin as well because he's in jail currently facing charges for allegedly shooting a 28 year old co-worker on the side of I-95 this past Monday morning now I know some of y'all right now

are either at or on the way to jobs where you think you can't stand your co-worker you believe you hate this co-worker with all your heart. And you just might. Okay, just be better than Kevin. Okay. And the way you continue to be better than Kevin is simply by making the choice not to shoot your coworker. Let's go to WBAL TV for the report, please. Bond denied for 46-year-old Kevin Gross. He's facing charges for allegedly shooting a 28-year-old co-worker on the side of I-95 early Monday morning. According to charging documents, the victim called 911. When state police arrived, they found him walking along the

shoulder of 95 with seven gunshot wounds to the arm and torso. Court documents show he told police he was on his way into work and got a flat tire, so he pulled over on the shoulder of 95 just north of the Howard County line. When he got out to inspect the tire, his co-worker Kevin Gross pulled up behind him and got out wearing a mask covering his mouth. Quote, Gross told him he must have hit a pothole or something, but upon inspecting the tire, the victim could see the tire had been slashed. Gross then produced a firearm and began firing numerous shots, end quote. Charging documents reveal the two were assistant managers that planned aid in Elkridge. Gross had recently been demoted and the victim told police Gross thought he had something to do

with that demotion. Kevin, you got the right last name because this was gross. What a diabolical plan. The victim was on his way to work and got a flat tire. He thought he hit a pothole, but his tires had been slashed. Ooh, I wonder who slashed him. And then when he got out to Inspector Tide, Kevin pulled up behind him with a mask and shot him several times, all because he thought his coworker got him demoted. Both of them were assistant managers at Planet Aid. Now, y'all know what Planet Aid is, right? No, no.

Yeah, they are organizations that collect the clothing donations. They got the yellow bins all over the place where you can put the clothes and shoes in. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they accept clothing donations in 1,700 locations. Oh, nice. Okay, and the Elkridge Warehouse, you know where Elkridge is, right? Yep. They collect 15.5 million pounds of used clothes and shoes annually.

Well, clearly, Kevin wasn't there for the cause. So I needed to know, what are the perks of being an assistant manager at Planet Aid? So I asked ChatGPT. How much does an assistant manager at Planet Aid make? I don't know if this is 100% correct. But it says the average salary for a manager at Planet Aid might earn between $50,000 and $60,000 annually. Now, I need y'all to always keep in mind that my education is limited to a high school degree from night school. Okay, drop on a clues bomb from Berkeley High School in South Carolina.

But if it's one thing I understand is prison math. And by prison math, I mean when you have to calculate in your mind whether or not the choice you make is going to be worth you going to prison. Okay, now let's do the prison math. All right. I'm making 50, 60 grand a year in Baltimore as a 46 year old man. I don't know about y'all. But if I can afford to put some food on my table and have a roof over my head, I'm going to be happy. Okay, success is subjective.

And if you're a free man, 46 years old, you can come and go as you please. You got a job. You're maintaining. That's a good life. If you don't think it's a good life, go to a person. prison right now and talk to these brothers doing 15, doing 20, doing 25, some of them doing forever, and ask them, would they trade lives with the free man making 50 to 60 grand as an assistant manager at Planet Aid? Hell, even if he got demoted, okay? Even if he got demoted,

the warehouse lead role at Planet Aid earns about 2739 per hour, according to Chat GPT. That's almost 57 grand a year if you work in 40 hours a week. All I'm saying is, no matter how much I calculate this prison math. Okay, I've done addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. I tried to figure this out multiple ways. And guess what? It just don't compute, okay? It just doesn't add up. The victim is in critical condition. He got shot seven times. Kevin Gross is charged with attempted first degree murder in Maryland. That's life in prison. First and second degree assault, Kevin Gross is also charged with first degree assault is 25 years in Maryland. Second degree of assault is 10 years in Maryland and he got other related charges.

Moral of the story is Kevin is spending the rest of his natural born life in prison. Therefore, the prison math ain't adding up. It's just not worth it. You have to calculate it in your head. You got demoted. You don't even know if this person you shot had anything to do with it. But even if they did, as soon as you started formulating this plan in your head, just think about it. I'm going to cut his tires.

I'm going to shoot him a bunch of times. At some point, your brain has to say, no. No, no, no, no. This prison math ain't maffing. This is not a situation that's worth having to eat jail food for the rest of your life. Or having an inmate treat your boonkey like a bowl of cereal. So please let Remmy Ma give Kevin Gross the biggest he-ha. He-ha, he-ha!

You stupid, motherfucker, are you dumb? You got demoted. Take the L. How do you get demoted from, like, a Salvation Army place? A goodwill place. And what are you? I don't know but he didn't even ask no questions

he just assumed it was this other person and shot him seven times now he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison for that don't add up they don't need to play a game and you also I mean we can if you want to

you want to play a game he's from Baltimore he's from Baltimore there's no white people in Baltimore yeah it's white people in Baltimore come on now no Latinos in Baltimore no but something that petty like that Like, like...

She got a point. Yeah, right. A clothing store. Then it's not even like a regular clothing store. It's planned date. Yeah, like, nah. And he black. Always do prison math, though.

Whenever you're about to make a choice that you think you're going to get you in some type of trouble, especially if it's involving any type of crime, just calculated in your head. Is this worth the time you're going to get for that situation? That's it. All right.

Well, thank you for that donkey today. Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning to show The Breakfast Club. Shalameen the God, Jets Hilarious, DJ Envy. Envy had to run with Lauren LaRose is in, and right now we got a, man, I want to say a young legend, but you're just a legend at this point, right? You know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? Listen, anybody that delivered Dodd's his first Grammy?

Word. I got a salute. Hit boy is here. Respect. I appreciate y'all having me. I've been waiting to get on here for some years, man. I'm happy to have you, man. How you feeling this morning?

I'm solid, man. I feel better than ever, for real. Yeah, just running around New York. You know what I mean? We was out late last night, so I'm dragging a little bit, but I'm good, though, man. I'm blessed. One time for fashion meet?

I'm just here, man, moving around. Okay. Yeah. When did Hit Boy feel like he arrived? I mean, you produced for everybody from Jay Z to Beyonce to Nas. When you look back, was it a beat? Was it a moment that made you feel like, yeah, I'm here to stay in this game? Yeah, it's crazy, man, because I, you know, I was in a situation.

I was in a deal for, like, 18 years with, you know, you and pg universal music publishing group and i was just talking about how i kind of never felt like i all the way made it because you know it's funny bro you don't even know this you tweeted something a long time ago that triggered something in my brain bro somebody said something and you tweeted like uh this is probably 2011 something you was like hit boy got that otherworldly money because i guess i did in pairs i did that the joints and i was like hold up i'm supposed to have otherworldly money this is j z first diamond record you know what i'm like yo so that's what i didn't even know i was in a bad deal till I made

it's in Paris. You know what I mean? I did drop the world with my boy chasing cash for Louis Wayne and M&M. I did other joints, but that was the first hit that was like, okay, where the real money at now? You know what I mean? I was able to get some bread. I went and did a record, a deal, and the label deal

with Jimmy I.V. That Interscope, but my publishing money wasn't what it should have been. I couldn't go get that crazy at Vance, so you trigger something in me. I'm like, man, I'm supposed to be touching. Who do you have that conversation with, though? Because a lot of times, man, especially when you're black, You don't like to tell people you don't know something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it's crazy, though, because that's, bro, Jimmy Avine, I went to his crib when I was about to sign my deal, just chopping it, we're eating food, you know, just connecting. And I'm just telling him, like, bro, I don't know nothing about none of this. And he was like, you know, that's actually the smartest thing you ever said, because everything I do, you can learn. But what you do, I can't learn that.

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that you're just not. Don't be fooled. By what? All the bright and shiny. Listen to IVF disrupted, the kind body story starting September 19 on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That was just like a little moment where I mean, But, I mean, bro, it's just been a journey. It's been a hell of a journey. And I got out my deal just this past July two months ago. So I felt like I made it when I got out of my deal. So it was Jimmy Avine who got you on the right track with.

Well, that's just handed you a piece of paper and said, oh, just sign this. Well, I mean, well, that's kind of what happened. He handed me the papers. He gave me a couple M's. I'm like 24 years old. I went and did the most n-knit shit like a dude, got a crib and moved all my homies in and just, like, turned up. You know, I was able to make some hits.

Yeah, I mean, but basically. Jay Z was the one who got me out my deal Jay Z and Desiree Perez they stepped in I was being managed by them like 2021 and at that point I was in my deal for 14 years and I was like yo I need to get out this deal and they was like well the best we could do

is you know you can go from here to 2025 and when you know July 2025 hit you'll be out your deal and I just did them last four years so I was in my deal for 18 years July 1st 2025 what did you wake up feeling like a new man a new man I was just like man man

the pressure that dark cloud is just gone now like it was like i didn't realize i was depressed like i've been doing therapy you know what i mean i realized a lot like uh shout out melissa dumas my therapist like she made me realize i never had boundaries and that's that made me go back to like oh that's why i was like just basically handed people around me the same life lifestyle you know i'm taking 20 30 people out to dinner i'm doing all this all the young period so just you know basically just to be in this place now i'm just feeling refreshed man How are you now with that, though, right? Like, like, like, it's a circle smaller.

It's like a dot. It's not a circle, though, but it's like, it's small now, you know? So it's more condensed than, you know, I got the right people around me that I know really care about me versus just letting anybody hang. What did Jay-Z and Dads do exactly to get you out of your situation? You know, everybody like to blame Rock Nation for the bad shit. Right, right. Nah, I mean, bruh, they did what they did. I don't know.

They bossed up and went in there and figured it out, you know. They got me a nice little advance, 2021. It was like, well, you know, you can get it. get this advanced but you still got to do four more years and i just took it on the chin and just thugged it out you know what i mean so now you can do a new publisher deal if you know i could do whatever i want to do i'm free man for the first time i signed my deal one year out of high school i was 19 years old you know what i mean and i was in that deal i'm 38 now you know what's been some time so i'm just bro i feel refreshed i feel like i just started though yeah you know what's

you're like yeah like what's the offers like on the table because everybody heard about you getting out the kids i know they're talking you down the offers is nice got to be a more to be a better I mean, I ain't going to say all that, you know what I'm going to do. But we are, we are working our way up to that because I'm, you know, I'm expanding. But I just bought a horse. Shout my boy, a DJ from Blue Bucks Clan, crazy group from the West Coast. But my boy just started messing with the horses. And he, like, he put me on, like, you know, gaming me up about how to get money with that.

And it's like, it's a whole different world. A race horse or agriculture? Yeah, a race horse. Yeah, race horses. Yeah, it's like, it's like you buy DNA. You know what I mean? We basically, like, trying to find Michael Jordan mom. Like, you know what I mean?

Like, they can't. You know what I mean? All their kids didn't want races. If, like, you know, if they kids or their dad won races, it's just, you know, the value goes up. So learning that type of stuff and, you know, expanding into film. I'm doing some stuff with Alchemist, the homie Alchemist producer. You know, we're going back and forth, just rapping on each other beats and got a couple other people in the mix. And we did a movie to go with the album, too.

So I'm hype on that. Because you went out rapping? Mm-hmm. Okay. Yes, sir. How do you balance being seen as one of the greatest producers with still being hungry and, I guess chasing the next sound, maybe? I mean, it's not that I'm chasing.

It's just, that's just, that's how I keep myself entertained, man. Like, producing is always just been fun for me. It's just been like a replacement for video games because I started when I was like 15, 16, and I stopped playing video games to start making beats, and I'm glad I did, you know what I mean? All right, we'll be back with more hit boy. It's the world's most dangerous morning show to Breakfast Club.

Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning show the breakfast club. I go by the name of Shalermaine the God, and right now we are talking to my man, hit boy. Yo, you still look so young. You're talking like, that's right. You're still young. I'm 38. Yeah.

But I fell 25, for sure. Right. And then if the hearing you say, right, you feel like you're about to just start all over. Yeah. So. With more knowledge, just way smarter, way flyer, way richer, you know. So, but the way you make it sound is like you haven't enjoyed any of it at all. No, I have.

I have. I have, I have, I've been, you know, I've had some good times. But, you know, I just, I just been chasing, like, something within myself, like, just trying to push myself to be, like, great. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I look up to the greats, you know what I mean? I look up to the Jay Zs, to the Ys, to the Ys, to Nazes, like, you know, and it's like, I know it's more to get, you know. When you talk about going to see a therapist, was it just a bad publishing deal that had you? No, no, no, I've been dealing with, you know, it made me realize a lot just about my childhood.

You know, my pops had got out of prison a couple years ago. People kind of saw the splash, but I've been dealing with that, you know, since I was three years old. That's something that, you know, my mom and my grandma, they did a great job, like raising me, you know, making me a respectable young man and all that. But, you know, I just still felt some type of void with my dad.

And, you know, every time he'd get out, we start to make some stride, we start to move. And then it's like, boom, he's back in there. He's doing another three years right now. Hey. Yeah. Crazy, man. Did you feel like you wanted to be in hip hop

because he always had that dream? I wanted to be a rubber? Nah, no, no, uh, I just love music, period. You know, because my uncle was in a group called Troop. Back in the day, my grandma... I was just talking about Troop last. Yeah, just talking about True. So my grandma is the one who started then when my uncle was, like, 13.

Like, he found some kids from his high school, and then she was the one to whip them in the shape to where they got a record there. I started out a couple number ones and all that. But, you know, I got to see... Early in my life, I got to see a lot, because I live with him when he was at his height. Me and my mom, I'm like two, three, four years old. I'm hearing all this, like, R&B. I'm hearing soulful.

I'm hearing... NWA, Gangsta, West Coast music, and living pretty nice up until I was like five. And then, you know, my dad was dealing with my dad being in prison. But living with my uncle, I got to see a high-level lifestyle. But then I also seen how it started to be new R&B groups and the sound switched. And the troupe wasn't what it once was. And it was like we went from living in nice condos to now we living in a one-bedroom all together. You know what I mean?

In Pasadena, yeah. So I got to see highs and lows, man. That's why I keep it just humble. I keep it cool. Right. I was going to ask, how has that shaped you? Because you lived that pretty early. Yeah, no, for sure.

Yeah, man. Just visiting prisons and then going back to my uncle condo where you got an elevator in a spot and a pool. Like, it was just like I'm being tugged in a bunch of different, you know, ways. But it just kind of kept me balanced at all times. Like, I come from a super humble, cool family too. So, you know, I'm always just pushing, man. I was just talking about troop last week because I forgot somebody sampled all I do

was thing to you. A couple people were out. And then Nile had played it last Friday. And they was like, that's B-5. I'm like, B-5. But then it's really Jackson-Five, right. But the truth just, they, they... His name is Swahead.

They went crazy on their version. All right, we'll be back with more hit boy. It's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning show the Breakfast Club. I go by the name of Charlemagne the God. And right now, we are talking to my man, hit boy.

What's the... I guess most trash beat you've ever made. It ended up being a smash. Damn. It ended up being a smash. I wouldn't say trash, but I would say, bro, I didn't know Paris was about to be what it was about to be. I literally didn't, I really didn't, man. I had a, my home boy, Chili Chill.

I used to be rapping with and, you know, just working with. He was about to put that song out, that beat out on a mixtape of his, like literally a few days before I got the email from Don C. Don C was like, y'all, I need you to send me the files to this beat. And I was like, damn, oh, the homie was just about to drop something on this. Let me see. Then I got an email from yay. He was like, bro, me and Jay was in Paris. We made this song.

He was like, when this song dropped your life about to change. So I, but I didn't even, bro, I still didn't know until I really heard the song and got around. I went to the planetarium where they did the listening party and Cali was there and a bunch of people was there. And the way they reacted when Paris came on now was when I first understood what it really was, you know. So, but I didn't know that I didn't know that's about to be that big. I know a program director who went to a Washington listening party. And I was like, how was that album? And they was like, ah, it's dope, but ain't no radio hits on there.

Oh, shit. And I remember, listen, I remember when the past, I'm like, did you go to the bathroom in the past? I mean, how you didn't hear this? Yeah, yeah, that's funny. Man, also, this ain't even a question. Click as well. Click is one of my favorite songs. That's what's up.

How was that experience? Shout up Big Sean, man. Yeah. Um, yeah, man, just, again, just getting back into, I was, you know, signing good music at the time. So I was just working on everything I could for yay and with yay. his artist and i think he was in london we started working on that song and um the original beat was actually a beat i gave dom kennedy and uh he actually put it out it was a song called cdc and they they did the original demo to that beat and i ended up having to tell yay like man

my boy dom kennedy just dropped the song on his beat so we just flipped it took some of the sounds out adding more sounds and uh just turned it up made it what it was look the vocals in the beginning right when they what uh who is that that's james fondleroy legend man james i love jane's i did not know that was him yeah okay so you know james you know james join on the anti uh riana album that's about that's named after james yeah okay so he made those vocals specifically for click or yeah no he did yeah yep he uh he yeah took that joint like yay just gave him a bunch of stuff and that was something he did over that yeah and you say you were sign of good music yeah i was signed a good music yeah and that was the time too i had to sacrifice

because I was already signed to Paul O'Don and his managers was managing me. So I was giving them 20%. Then when I got around, yay, him and his team was like, well, we want to manage you. And I was like this, you know, young, humble, loyal guy. So I'm like, I stuck it out with my other team. But I also did a thing where I was giving 20% to good music. So I made a sacrifice to get that brand energy just to be around and just like, you know, I got n** pairs out of it, click.

I got a bunch of stuff out of it. But I sacrificed. I was giving up like 40% of my money. at that time. I see why you wasn't making no money. Yeah. I mean, man, you know, shout out to No ID.

Like, he always called it brand energy. It's like me being associated with yeah, a lot of good came from that too. I sacrificed, but, you know, it also landed me in this place where, you know, if I want to go sell my catalog or if I want to, you know,

move my music around, I can do that and I can make some real money now. I didn't know the Polo de Dawn situation either. Yeah, I was signed a polo and Universal since I was 19 years old and I just got out in July, yeah. So what did you produce with Polo to do? Like, what came out of that?

I was, I mean, I was, uh, I produced, like, certain little stuff with him during those days when he was, you know, in his heyday, but I was more so just signed to him as a producer and, uh, his managers was managing me. So they was, they had a whole situation going, but, um, they couldn't just release you, like, once you realize it was a bad deal, did you go to them? I mean, I'm sure they could have, but they didn't want to, you know what I mean? They like got them early and we're about to extract as much as we can and, you know? How did that make you feel? Like, does that something you take personal? You just like, you know what? That's business.

That's what I sign. I mean, at this point, yeah. But I, man, bro, I've been depressed for years, man. They've been depressed going to lawyers and they're like, yo, this is the worst deal I ever seen. You know what I mean? Stuff like that. And they like, well, they don't want to let you out the deal or they don't want to give you an amendment or whatever the case is. And it's like that was, you know, I was like chasing like maybe if I make a bigger song in Paris that I can get out this deal, you know?

And it's like, I probably fucked up certain relationships. like that like just trying to put the pressure on different artists and um trying to like just just do too much i guess you know i mean but it never was about that i was just in that contract that's just what it was and that's why i'm just happy as hell to be out now man so paulo ate off in paris and all of that thing yeah he did damn yeah he did for sure great business for polo no no no for sure i mean i did too though you know it is what it is i just talked to paolo last like man solid dude got love for him he gave me opportunity i've made a lot happen with that opportunity and I'm just taking that knowledge down to the to the next phase and

that's why I'm starting this foundation I just started a foundation called the next hits so it's like the next hit boys or the next hit songs however you want to look at it just you know helping underserved communities and kids that's like got dads that's locked up like my dad was locked up and teaching them about the business the business side the engineering recording producing whatever they want to do we got to get polo up here because his name is always coming up and I I didn't know he was, he signed, like, Kane Brown. No, I know, man. He's got it here, man.

He'd be out here, for show. But you and Alchemist got an album coming out October 24th? Yeah, yeah. We got an album in a movie that's, I feel like it's going to make people look at us in a whole different light. Yeah. And then a solo album called Software Update. Software update. I know.

Look, you couldn't wait to get out. You got to hear it. Yeah, I mean, I'm excited, bro. It's like, it's genuine. It's coming from a place of, like, this is coming from our soul, man. So, like, I'm just, like, looking forward to, you know, letting people see me in a different light and just, like, pushing, you know, what I've done forward. Yeah. And you're free now.

Man, free. It's amazing. Walk him home. Hit free. I just threw, like, a million-dollar party in LA last week and shot a video with Azee Chike, baby trying to spank. And that was the illness. We had Marathon Burger up there. We had this whole eat couch activation because we got this song called Eat Couch.

And, yeah, it was crazy. Like, it was like, it's like smashing a girl on the couch for. from the back and her face is in the couch so she eating the couch essentially she's eating couch yeah yeah got you what you make you man it's so old you know there a pillow for that no there is a pillow for that no no no no no i know i know but spake is just funny when he said eat couch man that's just had me laughing so hard i'm like we got to put this joint out why the hell is the party a million dollars because it was a celebration 18 years man i'm like i got to go all out i just went crazy i just had all type of activations i had you know

Her Taco Spots, Marathon, Burger. I had, you know, just a lot of floghing on. All right. Yeah. That's what so. Oh, it's a hit boy, man. Thank you for coming, my brother. No, for sure.

Appreciate y'all, man. It's the breakfast club. It's an honor. Yes, sir. Yeah. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show to breakfast club. Shalameen to God, Lauren La Rosa. In case you haven't noticed, DJ NB isn't here.

Just Alaris isn't here. This is IHard Radio Festival weekend. Yes. So, to be honest, which we're not even here. You know what I'm saying? At all. You know, it's an amazing thing that our voices are. whatever, we are bodies or not.

That is the beauty of radio. But we do want to thank Hip Boy for pulling up today as well as Big Body, Cardi B. That's the first New York baby shower ever been to that didn't have Burberry shirts or tequila. We should have had Burberry shirts.

Man, we should have burberry shirts. We should have. But Salute the Body. Her album, Am I the Drama, is out right now and we want to just thank her and Hip Boy for pulling up today. And, um... You had Golden Corral brought the phone.

Oh, Salute the Golden Corral, man. Salute the Golden Corral, 2375, East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx, okay? I love Golden Crowell. They actually do have an all-you-can-eat buffet for breakfast and lunch, $13.99 per person. Dinner is $20.99 per person. They actually serve alcohol. They got frozen drinks sangria.

You said you wanted tequila, but they had the frozen drinks out there. Yeah, I didn't want to indulge you, though. I was waiting to break my fast and said, I got out. Mind me in. Carry on. You hate this eat happy. peace over here. You should say my man's. My man's

with a Z. A Z. See, that's that list. I don't like ugly. Open you, pick your tongue up. Say it with the ass. But you can follow Golden Crowell. Instagram at Bronx, Golden & Corral, and they got parking available. Thank you all for providing food for Cardi B's baby shower that we had here this morning at the Breakfast

Club. When we come back, we got the positive note. It's the world's most dangerous morning show the breakfast. Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning show the Breakfast Club. Shalamey and the God. Lauren La Rosa. Jess O'L. Cool Bay. You got something going on for Delaware State Homecoming, right? I do. The kickoff party we do every year.

Come and party with me. Delaware State University alumni and all of our friends in Wilmington, Delaware on October 10th at the Queen Theater. Tickets are now on sale at IFL Events.com. I'll be hosting it. Again, it's October 10th. Friday, October 10th. It's Delaware State University Alumni Homecoming Party. Alumni is for the grown folk, y'all, okay?

All right? Not like old grown like Charlemagne, not like, you know. I'm grown. I'm happy to be grown. Still. Wait till my 50th birthday in two years. Done. Watch what I do.

Layed out. Relax. Rest. Your age is rest. I rest right now. The positive note is simply this. Seek to know the truth, okay? When you hear an opinion and believe it, you make an agreement and it becomes part of your belief system.

The only thing that can break this agreement is to make a new one based on truth. Only the truth has the power to set you. you free. Y'all have a great weekend. It's the world's most dangerous morning show the Breakfast Club. See you on Monday. Breakfast Club, bitches!

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