The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Charlamagne & Anderson Cooper Spat Over CNN’s Coverage Of Donald Trump And Kamala Harris, Lil Durk Arrested Over Alleged Murder-For-Hire Conspiracy + More

Episode Date: October 25, 2024

The Breakfast Club Dives Into Charlamagne & Anderson Cooper Spat Over CNN’s Coverage Of Donald Trump And Kamala Harris, Plus Lil Durk Arrested Over Alleged Murder-For-Hire Conspiracy. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good morning, USA! DJ Envy called in sick today So it's just me and LL Cool Bay this morning On this fine Friday I feel blessed, black, and highly favored Happy to be here to serve our listeners For another day How you feel, LL Cool Bay? I feel blessed as well Happy to be here, glad it's Friday finally Because every day feels like Friday

You know you on video right now I just want to make sure Don't do that to me This morning was a Because I'm what? You're putting it together I'm getting my life together Are you seeing me? That's right, that's right It's like the Mr. Potato Head ain was eight because i'm what you're putting it together no i'm getting my life together that's right that's right that's right it's like okay it's like the mr potato heading i know accessories yet but you're putting them on first don't do that

don't don't because if we want to talk about who in here look like mr potato head it's three of us in here two of us eliminated looks like you okay okay you're right all right yes so late morning late start this morning but i'm here on time and. Wow, what'd you do last night? I didn't do anything last night. I packed. I'm flying to Virginia today. I'm going to North Carolina. I'm sorry, North Carolina. I'm going to Norfolk State University's homecoming.

It's Alumni Fest. It's their homecoming weekend, and I'm hosting Alumni Fest. I packed. I fell asleep. I forgot to set my alarm. When is homecoming season over? For me, this is the last one. Okay.

This is the final tour stop on the Brown Girl Grinding Alumni Homecoming Tour for the HBCU. So shout out to Norfolk State University. Wrapping it up for me. Do you have enough in you to get through the day? I do. And the night? I do. I'm not tired. I just woke up late. But I got

my lashes done last night. So thank God for that. You did? I know you see the lashes on my face. What happened? I know you. Yeah, you better squint, potato head. Listen, we got a great show for you today. The Good Brothers Earth Gang will be here this morning. They got a new album, Perfect Fantasy.

It comes out on October 29th, so they'll be here to discuss that. And John Hope Bryant, who is the host of the Money and Wealth podcast, author, you know, just a great businessman. He will be here along with Alex Rodriguez. So Alex Rodriguez, yes, you know, Hall of Fame baseball player Alex Rodriguez and John Hope Bryant, they'll be here this morning as well to build with us

here on The Breakfast Club. Okay? Okay, what are we starting off with, Red? I came out... Oh, that's Glorilla? Drop on a kooz bomb. I'm here. Okay? That's the energy I'm on this morning.

Such a glow stand. This is Glorilla, let her cook. Salute to the young lady. Dang, what's the young lady that was dressed up like Wednesday at Comic-Con? That made the reel? I'm going to remember her name when I come back. Yes, that made the reel. It's the Breakfast Club. I don't care what y'all say.

I don't care what y'all say. Glorilla, glorious. I'm just flawless. Salute Lorena Parker. That's her name. Lorena Parker. She was dressed like Wednesday Addams at Comic Con and she was killing it

to that record. Let Her Cook. That's the theme you letting me cook today? You going to mind your business? It depends. Oh, okay. Every now and then

I'm going to put my fingers in it. Always trying to be in the kitchen and tasting it. I got to taste it. I got to see it. The recipe, if it's going where it's supposed to go,

I'll let you cook. That boiling pot of fabulosa I bet you still have in my kitchen. Damn. Let her cook. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne Tha God, Lauren LaRosa, That boiling pot of fabulosa that you set in my kitchen. Damn. Let her cook. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club.

Charlamagne Tha God, Lauren LaRosa, DJ Envy is out sick. Jess Hilarious is on maternity leave, but it's time for front page news. Morgan. Oh my gosh, what I walk into.

Let me cook. Let me in the kitchen too. Okay. Nope. Come in here. You ain't even bring no groceries. See, here we go again. It's Friday.

And my mom, she don't need them. Oh, okay. Thank you, Lauren. I'm't even bring no groceries. See, here we go again. It's Friday. She don't need them. Oh, OK. Thank you, Lauren. I'm going to wait. So the countdown is on with Election Day, Tuesday, November 5th. Now, 11 days away. And on top of the front page news is you making sure you exercise your right to vote. With that said, the race is close.

Vice President Kamala Harris held a star-studded rally in Georgia on Thursday evening before the event. She spoke with reporters about restoring women's reproductive rights and signing a bipartisan border bill into law. Let's hear those comments from VP Harris. I intend to be a president for all Americans, and that includes paying attention, yes, to a fundamental freedom that has been taken away because of Donald Trump, the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body. I will tell you that my highest priority is to put the resources into ensuring that our border is secure, which is why I've been very clear. I'm gonna bring back up as president that bipartisan border security bill and make sure that it is brought to my desk so I can sign it into law. So during the rally, Harris reiterated to voters that she intends to get things done for

the American people while she believes former President Trump will be focused on other matters. Let's hear those comments during the rally from VP Harris. his enemies list or me working for you checking off my to-do list i said that i said that so long ago donald trump will be in there looking for revenge not only that he's gonna be in there you know pardoning himself trying to get out all his legal trouble but once he does that he's definitely i'm sure oh my god there's nothing that he can't do. The law is some magical stuff when you ain't black, ain't it? No. I'm telling you, Donald Trump's different.

Donald Trump has even defied the laws of white privilege. I've never seen anything like ever. Donald Trump, he out white man's the biggest white man. I'm not even joking. He's the greatest white man that ever lived. He is the Frankenstein monster of white supremacy. I've never seen anything like that.

Great follow-up, because you know, you'd be down to grab that, and another ad would be running. There's nothing I can do about it at this point. Look, you said another ad would be running. And speaking of, what did you just say? A pardon. And he was actually saying that he would consider pardoning Hunter Biden if he's reelected, which is like, what? That is so petty. Right.

Okay. So, anyways, during that rally vice president um harris she was preceded by barack obama bruce springsteen tyler perry and samuel l jackson who all took the stage to endorse her let's hear from samuel l jackson mother mother we got 12 days to choose which way our country is going to go from here which way our future is going to go from here and that's why i'm so proud to support our next president of the united states kamala harris i don't even look at samuel jackson as a celebrity i look at him as an elder that's an elder that's a grown-ass man you know talking to us about what we should be doing. I will listen to an elder.

Especially when he put a mother on the back of it. OK, let's get it to the other side of the aisle. Former President Donald Trump, he was on the campaign trail in Arizona, which is a battleground state. And he talked about firing VP Harris by voting. And he also addressed concerns about the border. Let's hear those comments from Trump's rally in Arizona. With your vote this November, we are going to fire Kamala Harris. We're going to fire Kamala. We're going to get her out of here. We will stop all illegal immigration once and for all. And at once, we will stop it immediately. We will be a free and proud nation once again.

It's just amazing to me how we just go back to business as usual with Donald Trump every single time. Like all of the stuff we heard him say this week. You know, you had the former Joint Chief of Staff say that Trump said, I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. And we just back acting like he's a normal candidate it's unbelievable it's unreal well trump told the crowds america could face world war three if harris is elected president he told the crowd he would end immigration and electrical vehicle mandates on day one he also emphasized the need for america to be energy independent and said his administration will increase fracking.

He ended by encouraging the crowd to get out and vote, saying he needs this election to be too big to rig. So yeah, there you have it. On both sides of the aisle, what's going on with your presidential candidates. That's your front page news for

6 a.m. Stick around. There's more happening at 7 a.m. We'll get into what's going on with the Menendez brothers. Oh, my gosh. That's right. Thank you, Morgan. Now it's time for Get It Off Your Chest. That's the part of the show where if you've got something on your chest

that you want to vent about, you can call up and do that. If you want to call up here and tell us why you are blessed, black, and highly favored like myself, or blessed, white, and highly favored, or blessed in whatever you are in favor, you can do that too. People say blessed, white, and highly favored. If they feel like it. I don bless white and highly favored. I'll bless them whatever you are in favor. You can do that too. People say bless white and highly favored? If they feel like it.

I don't think that's against the church. 1-800-585-1051 is the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Ray, Ray, Ray.

Yo, Charlamagne. Nancy, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now.

He'll tell you what it is. Are we live? Get it off your chest. Who's this? Good morning. This is Ashley. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you, Ashley.

Good morning. Good morning, y'all. So I wanted to get off my chest. I live in upstate New York, and my sister moved to Florida like nine years ago. And she's getting married on Saturday. And I wasn't able to make the wedding, but I wanted to see if y'all could give her a shout out. You said your sister is getting married? Yes.

Your actual blood biological sister? My blood sister. And you wasn't able To make the wedding I need to know the reason There must be a reason Of course So my

My kids are I didn't have somebody To bring with me So my kids wouldn't I couldn't bring them To the reception Her nieces and nephews Yes

Wow I never heard that before I Is it like a What Did she say like No kids allowed Or is it like a head count thing

Or something No no My youngest or is it like a head count thing or something? No, no. My youngest son is... He's special needs and I needed another person to bring him to. Got you. Got you.

Did she have you in the wedding at all? No, I wasn't going to be a part of the wedding. Oh, she don't really like you. Yes, she do. Don't answer him, sis. Like, it's your sister.

You know. Ma'am. Charlamagne, don't do me like that because I've loved you for a long time your sister. You know. Ma'am. Charlamagne, don't do me like that because I've loved you for a long time. I love you too, ma'am. I'm just asking a question. How are you? What do you want to do? Do you want to shout her out?

What do you want to send her? An edible arrangement? What are we going to do? I actually wanted y'all to shout her out. Okay. What's her name? Her name is Natasha. Peace, Natasha.

Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials. I wish you a long Long prosperous marriage And if you want to DM me And tell me why you really Didn't want your sister At the wedding Feel free to do that too There's always two sides

To a story Girl congratulations Don't let the devil Bring you down That's crazy I know I was thinking the same thing As soon as you told the story

That's crazy But thank you ma'am I hope she I hope that Yeah Michelle May Thank you I love you guys too We love you too

Have a great day Get it off your chest Who's this? Good morning This is Michelle From Boston, South Carolina 843

What's happening? Home Hey Charlamagne I was just Wanting to say that I was so upset by The recent comment That my son made about you.

What did he say? He said, I don't care for Charlamagne because he's voting for Trump. I am not voting for no damn Trump. Who said that? Where did he get that from? Well, let me explain now. He said he heard something, I guess, that was put out there. I was like, no, that's misinformation.

I am not voting for Donald Trump. I am voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. I have been supporting Kamala Harris. Why did I explain that to him? I had, God bless, I had me and the Vice President, we've been in Somerville, South Carolina together when she unveiled her mental health plan. Me and the Vice President have been

at South Carolina State's home coming together. That was back in 2020. Like, I rock with the Vice President. Why they be throwing that red hat on you like that i have no idea that head shiny they trying to thin your life but tell him he ain't gotta worry about that tell him i'm voting for the vice president sure you have a good day you too where do people get this kind of information from like where do they come to these conclusions at how many times have i given donald trump donkey today how many times have i called donald trump a fascist before it was even a thing to call him a fascist what are we talking about here uh 1-800-585-1051 uh if you want to get something off your chest if you want to vent

if you want to tell us why you're blessed call us right now it's the world's most dangerous morning show the breakfast club the breakfast club this is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed. Call up now. 800-585-1051.

Not just me. I'm with the coach of Philly. Get it off your chest. Who's this? Good morning! Lord have mercy. Girl, you are a morning person. You done had your Starbucks this morning.

No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. First of all, I call all the time. This is the first time in 15 years that I ever got through. So I'm just excited. Oh, wow. The first time in 15? All right.

In 15 years that I've been listening to Breckenstown, I actually got on to talk to y'all. Okay? We've been around that long. Y'all be having everybody else come through the back. But y'all be in the back door letting all these other people get the back door number and us small people

can't get on. I don't appreciate that. Nobody has the back door number. I don't even know that. You know what's so crazy? I've been working here 15 years. I don't even know the back line number.

I got the back line number. You do? All right. All right. All right. That's what y'all say. What's your name? My name is Crystal

from the Bronx. Hey, Crystal from the Bronx. So, a couple of things could get off my chest. My birthday is next week, Wednesday. So, this is an early birthday gift to me from y'all. Okay, happy birthday. Happy early born day. Thank you.

Charlamagne, I met you at the Mental Wealth Expo. I told you that. I didn't realize you were this short in person. Yes, I'm five foot six. Hella thick. I thought that's what you were about to say. Didn't it sound like that? It's what you were about to say didn't it sound like that it sounded like you was about to go there

anything else ma'am yes but I'm so glad I got to meet you and it was a really great event thank you for coming I really want people to stop

thank you no thank you for having it thank you for having it and I wanted to say that I need for the black man to step up and stop complaining about what come out

we're not gonna do i don't know why they hate their mother so much get out and vote for the right person okay this is not a game i agree it's not a game i agree that there's only one person to vote for but we have to stop uh putting that false narrative on black men and the reason i say that is because black men are always the second largest voting block for democrats always there's never been a time that hasn't been the case even in 2016 when hillary clinton ran 85 of black men voted for her so i don't know why we are letting people put this narrative out there that black men not gonna show up meanwhile 52 of white women you know voted for trump in 2016 55 of white women in you know, voted for Trump in 2016, 55% of white women in 2020,

and ain't nobody calling them white women out. Why you ain't calling Karen and Becky out? Well, I will vote. I called Karen and Becky out. I went to the rally in D.C., and I called them all out on the CBS. But the problem is that we also have a lot of black rappers that are out here talking about they support Trump and not Kamala. So that's a problem for me. I get it.

Because they influence the generations that we have. So it's not just a black man thing, but I just feel like there's a lot of misogyny in our community, and we need to work that out. They need to deal with their trauma and deal with their mamas, and then come back and vote the right way. There is a lot of black conservatives out there,

but I think that the number is very overstated. I just can't see it. I could be proven wrong in a couple of weeks, but I just don't see it. You know, I just don't see it. But thank you for calling. Get it off your chest. Who's this? Yo, what's good, Charlamagne?

What's up, my brother? What's up, Lauren? Hey, good morning. I got up. I want to say, can we drop a cool song for Red for not playing Friday for the first song this morning? Friday? But we could have played Glorilla Friday. It's the perfect day for Friday. No, listen. We're tired

of that song. We do not want to hear that song no more. We don't want to hear Kendrick Lamar no more. That's it. I'm going to start a new cycle. Have you heard Glorilla's album, Glorious? Not yet, but... You got to listen. I think it's a classic. I'm going to be honest with you. Alright, and I got one more thing to get off my chest.

Yes, sir. I want to know how much Kamala Harris' team is paying you to talk about her every single day. Nothing. But, you know, if you've been paying attention, I've been supporting her since 2018. She first came on The Breakfast Club in 2018 when she was a senator. When she ran for president. Yeah, but the problem is, every time somebody call up and say something, you kind of bash them. I'm going to tell you this.

I'm a Democrat, but I wrote in for Trump this year, not because I know he's going to basically get this country back in shape. And the good thing is, we're only going to deal with him for four years. Kamala Harris, we're going to have to deal with him for eight years. And we're not trying to do that. I'm not even here to argue with you because you'll find it. How is it? I didn't hang up on him, by the way. That wasn't me.

That was Red, okay? After he done shouted you out. I had nothing to do with that, okay? Get it off your chest. 1-800-585-1051. Thank you for calling during during get it off your chest lauren yes sir we got justice to mess coming up yes we do actually uh yesterday little dirk was arrested yesterday little dirk was arrested in florida on murder for higher charges

in connection with a whole bigger plot um involving quando rondo's family member it's a lot we're gonna get into it damn all right we'll talk about when we family member it's a lot we're going to get into it damn alright we'll talk about it when we come back it's The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club yes

it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club Charlamagne Tha God Lauren La Rosa DJ Envy is out sick today Jess Hilarious is on

maternity leave so it's just us now we're about to talk about Lil Durk is on maternity leave so it's just us now we're about to talk about a little dirt on the breakfast club Lauren, Lauren LaRosa. I'm back. And I got the message. Talk to me. Man, so this is breaking news. This started breaking late yesterday. So first, Little Dirk has been arrested and charged with murder for hire. Now, I want to back it up a bit.

So previous to Little Dirk being arrested, there were five other men that were arrested late uh friday thursday evening um and these five men were five men that are reportedly connected to otf which is little dirks like i don't know what we call it that's his label that's his group that's his that's his entourage that's his crew um so these are otf members and they were indicted by the feds in california now these five men that were indicted are facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder for hire committing murder for hire resulting in death as well as the use of carry and discharge of firearms and a machine gun in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death now the death that is being referred to here by this these five men is the

cousin of rapper cuando rondo now if you guys remember uh some years back king von who was also like a brother very close uh to little dirt was killed in an incident in atlanta he was shot and killed after there was like a fight that broke out uh the the person and the people involved in that were um uh connected to quando rondo and there's been just this huge back and forth between the two directly indirectly since that happened so what the feds are alleging is that following all of that this retaliation there was a retaliation that was planned allegedly by the otf members uh to get back at cuando rondo to kill him and they were hired to do so allegedly but that went wrong and instead they killed cuando rondo's cousin in L.A. on accident.

Now, forwarding it to Lil Durk. So, when this news broke, of course, everybody is like, wait. So, what's going to happen with Durk, right? So, then a few hours later, it was confirmed via the Broadwood County Jail website. And as of 6.55 a.m. this is friday uh october 25th little dirk is still in custody in the broadway county jail um per their jail online system we have the online system records here so what's the charge the charge he is listed as uh he's being charged with murder for hire he is being held the description says he's being held for u.s marshals and whenever you are

listed as being held for u.s marshals as an inmate that means that yes you are being extradited you are a federal prisoner but you're just being locked up by a local agency who is working with the feds to ensure that you get to where you need to go so they're going to i'm sure going to take them to california where the other uh five men are being indicted at um that this time there's no bond amount of course because it's being extradited and there is a mugshot that was released as well too so and that's not the it's not the feds right so broadwood county jail is not the feds but when you are in custody of or being held for u.s marshals that means that you are a federal prisoner so this is a federal situation that he will be involved in um now there is no no more details on the actual murder for hire charges.

A lot of us reporters and just people are kind of piecing things together because his crew members get the murder for hire indictment. And then he gets locked up in Florida local agency murder for hire. So we put into it together. But I'm pretty sure by the time I would say latest 9 a.m., we'll hear more. I have reached out to two attorneys that were listed for Dirk. I reached out to reps for him yesterday who immediately told me no comments. I knew something was going down. This was before he even popped up in the jail system.

So I was just kind of looking out to see what would happen. Was he part of one of the five initially? No, the five are separate from Dirk altogether. But this is just like you never want to see something like this happening. Right. But I think unfortunate, very unfortunate. But,

you know, also I think the timing is insane because Dirk just tweeted, uh, not too long ago, maybe a month ago about everybody getting a second chance at life because his background was completely wiped. He said, everybody should get second chances at life.

It's about what you do with it. My background wiped clean of all cases. I'm not a felon anymore. Who would have thought thought i want to thank everyone who helped push my vision forward thank you from the bottom of my heart and since then he's actually been doing a lot of community stuff he recently for his birthday his birthday uh is october i believe it's october 19th for the 18th he held a huge prayer visual a day of unity in chicago uh right before his big concert that he normally does i think it's called like dirk and friends in chicago uh right before his big concert that he normally does i think it's called like dirk and friends in chicago which was like there were tons of people there it was all

over the place so the timing of all is just this is just like whoa yeah it's unfortunate i pray it's not true i don't have an opinion until like you know get more information but if it's true that would be uh incredibly sad yeah for sure i mean i don't think anybody can really have an opinion until this is you know what i mean you see what happens. But as we've seen in like the indictment of Young Thug, these things take time. So it's like now he's going to be there away from his family, his kids, all of that until all of this is sorted out. So we will keep you guys updated again. I mentioned that I did reach out to some some people on Dirk's side just trying to figure out. I also reached out to because I was confused about where he was also at.

I thought it was going to be in Chicago, california and i was reaching out there and he's in florida so we'll keep you guys updated and let you know um you know what what else is going to be happening because man you never want to see it but this is what's yeah no i have a question for you though if if all of this because i'm thinking about this too when they do these big indictments they try and connect you any way possible. The smallest to the largest. And they're alleging that they use OTF money to arrange flights and all these different things to acquire weapons to do all of this. If they cannot directly connect Dirk and he is let go free, even if Thug is let go free and all the stuff he's looking at in Georgia right now.

How does this impact them career wise? Because normally when people throw charges at you and things like this, it sticks, even if you're not proven guilty. Right. How does this impact them career-wise like because we normally when people throw charges at you and things like this it sticks even if you're not proven guilty right how does this impact them or does it is it what you mean i have no idea i'm not i don't i don't do those type of things i have no idea what you mean i mean just so what i'm asking is it's like okay for instance and not had nothing to do with murder but just looking at like a and i'm asking specifically black men right just looking at like a jonathan majors okay right jon black men, right? Just looking at like a Jonathan Majors. Okay. Right.

Jonathan Majors. For Dirk, it won't, I mean, for somebody like Dirk, I don't think this will have any effect on him because he's a rapper. And,

and you know what I was thinking about? How crazy that is, right? He's a rapper. I mean, he's like, I mean, rappers make their money off shows

and record sales and consumers still support. But also a big thing And they have no reason not to support him. He's innocent until proven guilty. I know, but I'm saying, right, even though he's innocent until proven guilty, if he walks away from this clean hay they brought him in, but they can't link him to anything. Yeah, that's what I would hope.

Because this could be a situation where those guys got picked up and decided to implicate Lil Durk for whatever reason. Right. I don't know if that's the case, but that could be the case. But remember the other day we were talking about the ex-CEO of Amber Comby and Fitch. We actually mentioned that earlier this morning. Morgan did.

Who's out on a $10 million bond and the story has gone away just like I told y'all it would 48 hours ago. And what I think is so crazy is when you look at, again, the charges are different, but like a Jonathan Majors, I don't think his career will ever, the trajectory will always be different because of you know his case that he went through right but when you look at like a little dirk if little dirk walks away from this clean and even if not and he hopefully he does but even if not and then he returns he's going to be like almost like glorified in a different way because he's a rapper and the different like just the different uh imagery and brand stuff that people throw on these rappers and artists. It's just crazy

how all of that works and goes. And I don't know. You talking about the double standard that exists within the media? A hundred percent. How they can demonize and villainize people

when they choose to? A hundred. I swear on the writing, I'm like, man, that's crazy. It's like, he'll be glorified by some, victimized by others.

But once again, we don't know anything. We shouldn't even have an opinion others. Once again, we don't know anything. We shouldn't even have an opinion because we don't have that much information. We don't. But just some thoughts I had this morning when I was looking into all this writing and like, man. I get it. Again, we'll keep you guys locked.

Stay right here for all of the news and updates because we will have them. That's right. Front page news is up next and we got Alex Rodriguez and John Hope Bryant joining us next hour. This hour. So don't go anywhere. It's the world's most dangerous morning show,

The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne Tha God, Lauren LaRosa,

Jess Hilarious is out on maternity leave and DJ Envy called in sick today. So it's just us two. But we got Morgan Woods on the line for Front Page page news morgan what's happening what's happening uh what's happening is election day is 11 days away and at the top of the front page news is you making sure you exercise your right to vote with that said let's get into some other news nothing too political the menendez brothers eric and lyle may be resentenced for their murder case. Of

course, these brothers are accused or have been convicted of killing their parents at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. The request was made by the Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascon. Let's hear more from him in regards to the case. The reason why I'm here today and why I came in front of all of you about 10 days ago is because there was a more recent documentary about the case that again brought a tremendous

amount of public attention. I have to tell you that after a very careful review of all the arguments that were made for people on both sides of this equation. I came to a place where I believe that under the law, resentencing is appropriate. We're gonna recommend to the court that the life without the possibility of parole

be removed and that they will be sentenced for murder. So the brothers claim sexual and physical abuse from their father as the reason they killed their parents at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. A resentencing could pave the way for the release of brothers Eric and Lyle. But first, it has to be approved by a judge. They would be immediately eligible for parole because they were sentenced when they were under 26. Now, George Gascon, again, the L.A.D.A. says he came to the decision after examining new evidence that backs their abuse claim. He says they do meet the criteria to be released from prison, having been rehabilitated and they can safely be released into the community. They are not a threat to the community or at least not deemed a threat to the community. What do you guys think about this? All because of a recent, I want to say,

the Netflix documentary. Oh, so that's what it was? Like, I mean, yeah, I didn't know what was going on. It was a spiral and things. I think it was like law changing, right? I think it was the Netflix doc and like true crime stuff on them has been out for some time.

I know Kim Kardashian has been speaking out a lot about it. Like people have been like involved a lot, but I think the law changing stuff has a lot to do with it too. So it was Kim Kardashian in the documentary? but so but the the bill that was passed that was in 2015 so it's been some time like it's been some time time i don't really know everything that kind of like led to the big turnaround this time but it's been a like a spiral of things supposedly the the sexual and physical abuse claims which which may look at them in a light as a victim

as opposed to them actually being, you know. That's true, though. I mean, yeah, that's true. I mean, I haven't really been paying that much attention to the story, but I mean, if that is the case, yeah, eventually somebody going to snap if they've been constantly getting sexually abused their whole life, right? Right.

I would think. Yes, absolutely. Well, let's switch gears a little bit. The three men convicted of killing, let's say his name, Ahmaud Arbery, the audacity of these guys, are asking for a new trial. Father and son Travis and Gregory McMichael and their

neighbor, William Roddy Bryan, are back in the Georgia courthouse for a hearing on their request. The McMichaels chased Arbery, a 25-year-old black man man in their pickup truck on february of 2020 before shooting and killing him now brian recorded cell phone video of the shooting now the convicted murderers attorneys are making arguments about a tainted jury and ineffective counsel in an effort to get a new trial thoughts on that i know like the law

is supposed to be fair to everybody and all that stuff or whatever but i feel like certain people shouldn't even be able to do stuff like this it's like a slap in the face like some stuff is just like laid out very plain and like when you said his name i remember watching the video of of him and i'm just a person in the media so imagine his mom having to just rethink this because somebody thinks that they should be allowed to walk free after doing that to somebody i don't think that that's fair at all. And I hope that whatever they're claiming is it gets overlooked. It's not true. Something and bringing things home to New York in a more positive fashion. Of course, the New York Liberty now holds the keys to the city

following their historic WNBA championship win. Thousands of ecstatic fans, many decked out in Liberty Seafoam Green, gallied for a rally yesterday at City Hall where the championship trophy was on display and New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke. Let's hear from him. Congratulations to Liberty. I'm going to be so proud giving out the key to the city to go with this amazing trophy. Keep doing the great thing you're doing. Let's win it again next year. Thank you very much. I like that kind of energy. New York Governor Kathy Hochul also spoke at the celebration about the power of the woman. Let's hear from Governor Hochul. And not just the thousands of little girls

who now can see themselves as possibly rising up to this great position or knowing that there's nothing they can't do because the women have won. Now, let's not sit here and act like any woman can do what they do now. Okay, you got to be a certain height, first of all. Okay? Let's be clear. Are important guards able to be a little bit shorter? Not that short.

I don't think so. You still got to have those handles, though. You need the kids listening this morning. That's Uncle Charlotte with all the inspiration and hope. I'm just letting you know, like, you know, the average height of a WNBA player is six feet. So let's start there. Okay. Why don't we, I was going to say, you want to start there.

Why don't we go ahead and wrap things up with MVP, Jonquil Jones. She's also spoke about the moment. Let's hear more from Jonquil before we wrap. Everybody has sacrificed. Everybody has really poured into the team to make sure that we would end up being successful and now we have the ultimate prize we have something that can never be taken away from us um and that's what it's all about John Quayle Jones is 6'6 just want to throw that out there okay you know sometimes we just say things you know and I understand why we say them because they sound inspirational but we still have

to be realistic okay yeah I Yeah, I hear that. I just want to throw that out there. And shout out to Ellie, who definitely held it down all season for the New York Liberty. The mascot, the elephant, she is just absolutely too adorable. And at that ceremony yesterday, she did actually have the mayor hold her purse. I said that yesterday. I was like, she'd definitely be going off. Now, all girls can aspire to be Ellie now.

Okay? Right? Hold up. Not all girls can aspire to be Ellie now. Okay? Hold up. Not all girls. I'm just saying. All guys, too. Everybody can be Ellie. You can be Ellie.

Go ahead, Ellie. All right. So that's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood. Happy Friday, y'all. Follow me on social at Morgan Media. M-O-R-G-Y-N-M-E-D-I-A. And for more news coverage, make sure you're following at Black Information Network.

Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com. Happy Friday. Thank you, Morgan. And, you know, I forgot to do the sports scores at the top of front page news. But the Los Angeles Rams beat the Minnesota Vikings last night 30-20. And tonight is game one of the World Series with the New York Yankees taking on the Los Angeles Dodgers at 8.08 p.m. Eastern. And we have a New York Yankee legend pulling up to the Breakfast Club right now. His name is Alex Rodriguez.

He'll be here with my man, John Hope Bryant, who is the host of the Money & Wealth podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. We'll talk to them both when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. Jess is on maternity leave, so Lorne LaRosa is filling in. And we got some special guests joining us back in the building.

Yes indeed. We got the brother John Hope Bryan, he's back, welcome Brock. My honor to be here. And also A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, welcome. Great to be here. A lot of money, a lot of intelligence between y'all two. How did this happen, this connection? Well, whenever you try to make smart sexy, you know, it attracts, you know, like attracts like, you know, on mindset.

You know, this is, all of us are up from nothing, by the way. All of this story is the same thing. You can go from the bottom to the top. Legally, ethically, honestly, pay your taxes, do your stuff, go from cashing a check to writing a check. So Alex's story and mine are very similar like we had very strong mothers who are great influences our lives we're both extremely nosy quincy jones how'd you get so smart i'm just nosy as hell i want to know everything about everything and when he got his first check in baseball he went to ask magic like okay how do i turn this from a check to some wealth?

And so he started talking to the folks on the front row at the games who were business people, and he would trade his influence for lunch. I'll go to lunch with you. I just need to ask you a bunch of questions. That's what Magic used to do. And it was just brilliant because he gained a business acumen from that, got a base in the NBA while he was playing baseball. Use that to then buy some real estate and then buy some more. I think you worked the first piece of real estate yourself, didn't you?

Yeah, a duplex. Duplex for $250,000. So we did a financial literacy episode on money and wealth, which you know something about. It's on the Black Effect Network. That's right. Make sure you subscribe to that. Yeah, it's actually the episode that's out this week.

We did this episode together on financial literacy because we both believe it's a civil rights issue of this generation. When you know better, you do better. And we're talking about black and brown wealth. How does black and brown create some green? At scale, it's a conversation that many folks don't have. Most athletes go broke. 70% of all NBA

and NFL players bankrupt within five years of retirement and divorced. So this brother is just defying all the odds. He's cool. He's a, he's a humble dude. He wanted to meet you guys. He's been up here before. He's been up here before. Yeah. Yeah. But he, he wanted to get into it. He wanted to, he wanted to show. Yeah. He wanted to get into it, go to another level. And so it's a, it's a, it's a beautiful family re re reunion. Well, let's, let's jump right into it.

So, you know, what gave you the mindset to say, I want to learn more about investing and making sure that I have wealth after retirement? Was it the fact that you've seen so many athletes go broke? Was it the fact that you said, I'm never going back to where I was? Or what was it that said, I want to be different from 70% of those other athletes? I would say I saw my mother worked at General Motors for about 12 years. She would have the early shift at 3 o'clock in the morning to 2, come home, nap for 2 hours, and then go serve tables at night to midnight. And I saw this for years and years and years.

And I think my life changed when they were at Publix, which is a supermarket down in Miami. I was about 12 years old. And the bill is about $75. And I see her grab some of her tip money. And she's got like $56 or whatever. And I see that she's missing like $20, $25. And she goes into another pocket in her purse and grabs what i call funny money and i said mom what is that funny money it's like

red i've never seen money like that only monopoly and she kind of with shame in her face looked down and she goes son the government's helping us out a little bit this month and it changed my life i mean i can feel it today and i know so many families out there have felt this. And that's kind of where my ambitions grew. Is that what we used to call food stamps? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, food stamps. I used to love food stamps. Remember they were paper.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I never seen it because it was green, right? And I think she would hide it from me. We were probably in food stamps for years. She just never disclosed that with me. And then, like John said, I met with one of my heroes and mentors and great friend now, Magic Johnson, about 30 years ago. And he was going out to dinner with cookie and it was near uh la rodale drive i think master over something and it was supposed to be a 30-minute meeting we met for three hours he called cookie and said i'm not

coming home and years later i said magic why'd you give me like three hours and i left with nine notes of paper that i still have today he said because you're one of the few athletes that came in all business on time that's right no phone No phone. And you were taking notes. That's right. So you were engaged. So I engage with you. So that's my message to the next generation. It's just like the reason why I played baseball for so long is the fundamentals, whether it's Jordan or Tiger or LeBron or Magic or Bird, whoever is fundamental in sports that makes you great. The same thing as in business, you've got to know the rules of engagement. And our young folks, while they're getting better, there's a lot of room for growth to understand the way that money works and the relationship with money and financial literacy. So from day one, did you blow any money?

Like when you first got your first big check, did you blow any of it? I was fortunate that I played for almost 25 years. So I would say from age 20 to 30, I made a bunch of mistakes. And then what I realized, like sports, when we won the championship with the Yankees in 09 we had a squad and we were as solid as anyone and in business

it's the same thing you gotta create an incredible team that are way smarter than you that have complimentary set of skills but at the end of the day you're the quarterback

of that team so then I put my lessons behind me and it's been pretty good ever since what was the dumbest thing you bought when you first became

and made all that money in Major League Baseball? Well, I'm from Miami, so... Boat? A Benz and a Rolex. If you're from Miami, you need a Rolex. That's the gold standard. Rolex is not dumb. No, no, no.

You can resell that. So, by the way, me, him, and Don Peebles who's been on the show a few weeks ago, the three black men I know, black and brown, same thing, we're all same family who have a couple hundred million dollars in a loan facility for real estate on, as you know,

this non-recourse basis, which means there's no personal guarantees. That's credibility. And that's where we need to go. Like you make money during the day, you build wealth in your sleep. And too many of us have hooked on that. I want to make that dollar. I want to get that cash. I want to get that book. I want to get that bag. It's useless. It's called literally cash flow. And if you're outflow, exceed your inflow, then your overhead will be your downfall. And if you don't understand financial literacy, somebody's going to separate you from your wallet. There's just more zeros attached to it.

The first year, every athlete spends everything they got. It's natural. You know, growing growing up in queens there was nobody around me making money right we were all the same we didn't know anything about financial literacy right my son goes to university of miami calls me yesterday him and his friends about to buy a restaurant which is crazy to me because at 20 years old i wasn't thinking about that at all but it's the mindset and the people that he's around so for people listening and they might not have somebody around him that is knowledgeable in business they might not have somebody around him that is knowledgeable in business they might not have somebody around him that knows where to put money or what to invest in or how to do it what do you tell those and people to say okay i don't have a magic to speak to you know i mean i don't have a

rod to say let me sit down with you i don't have a john to say this is what i have and what i do so what do you tell those and let me take that first i know this one includes john the power of proximity to greatness or proximity to intelligence is so powerful. In baseball, I wanted to be around Cal Ripken, Keith Hernandez, Doc Good, and Strawberry because they had sets of skills that I needed and I wanted, and great athletes can copy and paste better than anyone. In baseball skills? In baseball.

Now, you go over now to business, and it's the same exact drill. I want to be around John Hope because every time I'm around him, I get better. He inspires me. He gives me more hope. He gives me, no pun intended, he gives me, my self-esteem rises. Our community, black and brown, the number one issue is self-esteem issue. And they don't want to engage. They don't want to engage in a business conversation because they don't want to be embarrassed.

We're some of the most prideful people in the world, but we pay our rent on time. We're hardworking people. We have tremendous heart and grit, but we don't want to be embarrassed that's why shark tank works so well you get an education while getting entertainment and and america gets an mba from shark tank that's why people say when i walk around oh there's the shark tank guy i love shark tank that's when i'm getting all the shark tank is amazing right they learn so early so so your job as an american citizen as a youngster right man boy whatever are, is to be around proximity of greatness. So if you find a great mentor from age 20 to 30, forget about the money.

20 to 30, go work for John. Go do an internship at A-Rod Corp. Go work for Magic. Pay nothing. Pay whatever you got. Get a roommate. But 20 to 30 is your extended education. And then once you get into the 30s, you open up that black book, how we say,

your relationships, right? Because when you're 85, right, you look back, your net worth is going to resemble your net worth.

Amen. Right? So start, I had a mentor say, if you don't have a breakfast, lunch, and dinner every single day to talk about money,

you're falling behind because your competition is doing it. That's right. All right, don't go anywhere. When we come back, we got more conversation

with Alex Rodriguez and John Hope Bryant. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. We got Alex Rodriguez and John Hope Bryant here this morning with us. Now, Alex, who got you into the franchise game? Which one? Well, the rumor now is that, you know, y'all got the cash ready to buy the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Oh, yeah. Full ownership. So, by the way, there's some things that he can't talk about today. Yeah, they can't. It's a legal way, there's some things that he can't talk about today. Yeah, exactly. It's a legal situation. He'll answer the question he can answer. By the way, I love, by the way, there was, like, which franchise? He owns so much stuff.

That was a flex. I heard that. I caught that. I should have said sports. He's like, which one? But there's some things he won't be able to talk about today. Just high level. I mean, just kind of my passion for sports.

I think if you talk to most athletes and you do a secret poll, probably 90% or more will tell you, I would love to own part of a team someday. Who doesn't want to convert from player to owner, right? That's the American way. We took a long run at the Mets, and we came in second to Steve Cohen. Thank God, because he's doing a phenomenal job, and we're having a great time with the Timberwolves and the Lynx. Lynx almost won a championship a couple days ago, came up a little short, but very proud of our young women. Look, this is the ultimate dream, to be in a room with Adam Silver and 30 other owners.

It's pretty spectacular. And I look at that and talk about imposter syndrome. You're seeing Mark Cuban, you're seeing Jim Dolan, you're seeing Tony Wessler, you're seeing guys like Mark Lajary, people that I've looked up and admired and studied my whole adult life. And now you're in the room with them as colleagues. It's really an incredible feat. Yeah, I've been dreaming about it probably for a long time and finally made the move.

I just got to ask a sport question since we on sports. How about them damn Yankees? Oh, man. How does it feel to see what is taking so long to get back to? And what do you think about the Yankees now? It seems like baseball is more exciting now. I'm watching the games more. The games are a lot faster.

It's fast pacing. So what is your thoughts on baseball now? Yeah, I'm so excited. Baseball has needed this moment for at least a decade. I'm so tired of people saying baseball is boring and old. And look, we went through a little bit of slow time. It was boring, but they got boring. But give Commissioner Rob Manford and Tony Clark, the head of the union, of the players,

and they came up with the clock and made it a lot better pace, made the bigger bases. Now they look like Domino's Pizza. Right, right, right. It's a game that's driven by markets and superstars and tradition and history. And this World Series here has it all. This is two franchises that have the two richest franchises in revenue and star power, global. Yankee may be the number one franchise in the world. Dodgers may be top five.

And I'm talking about all of sports, football, soccer, you name it. The Cowboys are number one, baby. Yeah, yeah, number one. Yeah, Cowboy fan. But the Yankees are in that top five, right? And when you look at the Yankees conglomerate, it's well worth over $10 billion. When you look at the Dodgers, well worth over $10 billion. I would say there's Otani and Judge are two biggest Dodgers you can have.

You're going to have probably 15 million people watching japan another 15 or 20 watching here the fan bases is interesting when you go to dodger stadium there's three type of fan bases you have the corporate financial institutions in hollywood you have the mexicans that you know in their lives fernando valenzuela who died he was a big pioneer in that movement and then the other third is now japanese they're printing money like it's no one's business. Because of Otani and obviously the success they've had with Mark Walters, Todd Boley, they have an incredible ownership. He's traded his ball for $4.5 million. That's right.

But they've had one championship in 37 years. The Yankees have had one championship in 24 years. So both franchises are going to be starving. Tickets, I told Sean today, are going for $40,000 behind home plate. One ticket. So if you want two, that's 80 grand. 80 grand. A beer going for $40,000 behind home plate. One ticket. So if you want two, that's 80 grand, 80 grand,

a beer is probably 4,000. So it's, it's going to be the most watched world series since the Cubs. And you want, you want, you want that. Well, the last one was oh nine.

So we haven't been there 15 years. So bring the glory days back to the Bronx. My question. I don't, I don't know much about the players. It's not about the players. My question is about, it's back to the family stuff you were talking about. My question, I don't know much about the players. It's not about the players. My question is about,

it's back to the family stuff you were talking about. My first thought was, so that moment with your mom changed your thoughts on money and building money and family. How do you keep now, you got all these franchises and all this stuff. How do you keep, like you take care of a lot of people, but how do you set your boundaries where it's like,

no, because you got to keep the money to make the money. But you also grew up watching so many people not have like what's that battle like for you how do you be like no i can't do that that makes no sense for my discipline so first of all i'm almost 50 now so i've had a lot of learning experience i would say when i was in my 20s and 30s that was a lot more challenging right but now when you're running businesses you can give people opportunities where they can win. So as an example, my sister does all my personal real estate. So if I'm buying a house for a dollar, she's making 3% on that or 6% on that.

And my brother does- But they got to be competent now. That's not a giveaway for her. They know my, I don't play that game. You got to be by the book. There's no nepotism. I'm a very tough boss. I would say that.

But here are the rules. Rules of engagement. If you play by them, you're going to get first bid. And if you perform, I'm going to come back to you over and over again. If you don't perform, I have no problem quickly pivoting. And it's not personal. It's business. That's right.

Now, when my mom calls, I surrender. I surrender. Mom can hear whatever. Now, for parents listening right now, when is a good time to start getting their kids involved in financial literacy? When you start breathing. So, when you start spending money. I mean, you're spending money 24 hours a day. When you sleep, you're spending money.

The government didn't buy the alarm clock. You did that. The government's not paying for your light bill, right? So, check this out. We have a kid's account in Atlanta Public Schools, Operation Hope. By the way, everybody can go get financial coaching scholarship

from the breakfast club. Call Operation Hope. We'll give you a $1,000 free scholarship just because you mentioned Breakfast Club to get coaching accounts and get your credit score right.

So we have it with Mayor Andre Dickens in Atlanta. We have a kid's account in kindergarten. 50 bucks in the kid's account. Now, you may say, what's the big deal of that?

If you have a bank account at kindergarten, you're 50% more likely to go to college. If you have $50 in that account in kindergarten, you're 75% more likely to graduate from college because now you're connecting education with aspiration. The kid, the lights on the kid's head. Now you're talking about stocks and bonds and investment. And I mean, it don't, and don't. And don't create an investment account. Don't get A-Rod or me or you, DJ Envy, go in and talk about cars. Because really, it's technology

these days. But through that, it's investment. Now you hooked them, right? So it's about role modeling. It's about the language of money at the earliest age because it's the aspiration generation. We can it's the aspiration generation we can literally build the next generation of america we have to by the way because we're going to be a

majority of minorities literally if we don't do that this country is done but but we can do that at kindergarten you know the biggest thing that my son he was nine the thing that i love is my son watches shark tank so he's nine so he doesn't know you for baseball he knows you from shark tank and then like i was talking on the phone we was talking business to somebody and he started asking me questions that i know that he got from someplace else i said this the other day he was asking me so dad how much equity do you get in that deal i'm like where the you getting that from whoa and then he was like well what about he was like well i said well where did you hear about equity he's telling me shark tank and he was like yeah i want to know what royalty fees are and this and the other and and

now i was like i just want to play baseball but you know it was just it was great that they have these type of shows on and i know you gotta go i know you had a question yeah i do have a question so y'all are talking about your families and your kids and these two always talk about how when they locked into their marriages everything like flourished for them you talk about your baby girls a lot last time you were here you were talking engagement with J-Lo. I know you're right now dating Jacqueline. Is engagement marriage, is that a conversation for you right now? Like how does that, where does that fit in all this business and the portfolios?

Well, I'm very lucky to have an incredible person in my life. Jack's Canadian. She's right outside of Detroit, which is very beneficial because my daughter goes to school in Michigan. So I get two for the price of one. So we're already cutting a good deal. So she's 20 minutes from Detroit. She's a former nurse. She's transitioned her nursing to an incredible business called Jack Fit, where she helps out thousands of women online get a better life. I personally lost 30 pounds because of her. I haven't really thought about that.

This is really the best place I've been in my life. I'm very fortunate. Grateful to be where I am. I'm helping out tons of people. Involved, like you said, with the Timberwolves and the Lynx. And doing my Fox deal with the Yankees and the Dodgers. I'm open to anything. But right now, I'll let you know if there's some big announcement coming.

Maybe I'll come back. I would think it would be difficult for you to trust anybody in a really you know what i mean like romantically just because you are a rod so the celebrity but then the money like it's hard it's hard for sure but you know you take your time you try to surround yourself with people that are better than you and but it's no question it's it's difficult all right we come back we got more with alex rodriguez and john holt bryant it's the world's most dangerous morning show the breakfast club yes it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club.

We're here with Alex Rodriguez and John Hope Bryant. Now, Envy, you got a question? I was going to ask, for somebody listening, maybe possibly thinking about buying their first property, their first investment property, or even their first house, or even refinancing their home. The average person listening to this, please listen to me, as fast as you can can buy a home. The number one way you build wealth in America is home ownership. The average African American, we have 41, 42, 43% of us own a home compared to 75% of our white counterparts. That 30% Delta, that difference is massive home ownership. And prices are not going down. When I started buying those 700 homes from the Promise Homes Company, I ran it up to $150 million

of assets under management of that particular portfolio. I bought for $88,000. I sold them at $350,000. No one moved the house. There was no genius to it. It's the magic of compounding. They're not growing any more land. Most of the places where we live are inner cities.

What's an inner city in France? It's called Paris. What's an inner city in Britain? It's called Paris. What's an inner city in Britain? It's called the UK. We have centrally located real estate, and we're walking away from it to rent from somebody we don't know, to spend money we don't have, to impress people we don't know, to talk about stuff that don't matter. Knock it off. Buy the worst house on the best block in the hood. D-A-H-O-D.

The hood adjacent. Buy it. Near transportation, economy, economic activity, and a vibrant environment. Buy it, rehab it, live in it. Use equity a couple years later and buy, I know you know what I'm talking about here at DJ Envy, buy the second home three years later. You do that three times over five to six years. This is my mother's story, worked in an hourly job.

You're a millionaire, and you can get the down payment through the earned income tax credit. You can go to Operation Hope. We can help you get qualified for EITC. If you're making $38,000 and have three children, the government owes you about $7,000 cash. So you just gave everybody listening to this who makes $38,000 a check and is retroactive for three years if you've

never filed. That's almost $20,000. There's your down payment right there. So we can get your credit score up, get your debt down, get your savings up, get into that house because it costs just as much to rent as it does to pay a mortgage payment. You're right. Interest rates at 2% are not coming back. That's fine. 4%, 5% is just fine.

That's still very, very low. But prices are not coming down. People, oh, I'm going to wait. No, no, no. Don't wait. It's going to get worse. It's going to get more expensive. Buy right now yeah i want to ask a

question because i think sometimes we have these conversations and we have these conversations from our perspectives right well y'all in a different tax bracket but i'm just saying everybody here for the most part has money what about people who have no money people from our communities who have zero dollars how do the poor even get to the middle class i got you there i mean he's the master but i'm just gonna give you like really simple, right? Money's the easiest part to get. And I know this sounds crazy to the folks listening, right? Money, there's over a trillion dollars sitting on the sidelines looking for great deals. So if you don't have money, can you find deal flow? Can you hustle? If you find me an asset that costs $10 million and you bring it to me for eight, you basically

own $2 million of that. A hundred percent. So if you bring me a $10 million deal, right, and I can buy it for eight, you say, hey, give me a million dollars on that. I'll give you, because I'm still getting a million dollar discount. I'm paying nine for a $10 million asset, so I'm getting a discount. So looking for opportunities,

understanding where the train is going, and you as an entrepreneur say, how do I get in the way so when that train goes by, I can jump on and jump on that bandwagon, right? It's creating opportunities opportunities if you find deals You got money is that possible for everyday people to? Yes, yes, you know you can buy a you can open a fractional stock account and put in

$25 to buy some stock now you've spent that on Starbucks You can do frat you can do 10 ducks you do 5 bucks a fractional stock on any stock that you want So there's no excuse if you want to get in this game, Operation Hope will help you. Again, if you're listening to Breakfast Club, we'll give you a scholarship for coaching and counseling. We're going to get your credit score up. The average credit score for black people, by the way, is 620. Latinos are

a little above that, not more. That means half of us are locked out of the free enterprise system. You can't get a decent home loan at anything below 700. You can't get a decent auto loan below 650. You can't get a decent home loan at anything below $700. You can't get a decent auto loan below $650. You can't get a business loan at all unless you're $700 or better because it's risky credit.

So we think the issue is racism or discrimination. It might be, but it also might be that you don't understand there's a game, there's a credit box, and you're not in it. But you have to have discipline. You have to live below your means. You have to understand this game. You've got to be financially literate and everybody can be a winner at this game i'd love to come back at some point we need to talk about a whole not this whole thing about relationship

capital which you talked about a little bit like behind all of us is a backer that's right a partner that we're not talking about magic has it i know who they are i love talking about tony wrestler and michael rea getty right they backed me 80 million dollars and I paid him back plus 7% right it's important cuz our community feel like capital as she said talk about making smart sexy they feel like that's a bad thing a lot of people not everybody but a lot of people in our community feel like capitalism is a horrible thing having people back you as a horrible thing as well too yeah so people say let's go for a step further. Oh, I hate rich people. No, you don't.

You hate rich people until you become rich. What you hate is a game system to your point. What you hate is a system that's rigged so that you don't think you can succeed. The money's not evil. It's the love of money that's evil. It's the greed.

Ambassador Andrew Young says that men and women fail for three reasons. Arrog arrogance, pride, and greed. What did Malcolm X say? We've been bamboozled. We've been tricked. We've been fooled. We've been hoodwinked. We've been hoodwinked on this topic.

Black people, we have never had an economic infrastructure in the history of us being here. That's our problem. Government's not going to save you. Even if you want to distribute money like a socialist, you've got to collect it like a capitalist. What's the entertainment business? The business of entertainment. The sports business. It's the business of sports.

What we don't understand is the business. I'm going to give everybody here free game. There are about $100 trillion about to hit the market in the next 10 years. All these baby boomers are retiring at the same time. They're going to give their cash and their stock to their kids. They're going to give their house to their family. Kids don't want the business. Those businesses have cash flow, client list, real estate, a brand.

Alex, I said to you a minute ago, bring me an asset for $10 million that I can get for $8 million, and you have the upside between $8 and $10. So if you come to me and say, I have a startup idea, give me a million dollars. I'm like, get out of here, right? You come to me and say, I've a startup idea, give me a million dollars. I'm like, get out of here, right? You come to me and say, I've got a business that's got a million dollars of cash flow that's got a valuation of $10 million. Will you finance the acquisition? In this example, it says $10 million of revenue.

Will you finance a $9 million acquisition? The answer to that is absolutely yes. Non-recourse, meaning no personal guarantee. Wall Street does that all day. It's called private equity. So you got literally trillions of dollars with businesses that are about to hit the market. And people listening to this can go become capitalists right now with an existing cash flow business, existing assets, existing employees, and not no risk, but low risk because it's already successful. So we need to stop being self-employment projects because 96% of all black businesses don't have an employee.

I don't know what the Latino numbers are. But again, you build wealth in your sleep. It's compounding. This is a huge opportunity. So all of us here walk into opportunities every single day. But it's taking your eyeballs and your brain and your ears to think about opportunities when you hear them. So you hear opportunities all the time. You know, poor guy and a rich guy go through a bad neighborhood.

The poor guy goes, God, what a terrible neighborhood. I would never want to live here. The rich guy goes, let's try to see if we can buy all this up on a cheap because in 10 years you're going to be different. You go to a barbershop and you hear through a terrible divorce and you hear this gossip all the time. And you guys are here, man, what a terrible situation. I have to sell their house. I have to sell their car. If you're an entrepreneur in the ear, you hear, oh, that might be an opportunity.

Well, maybe I can, not to take advantage of anyone, but if you have to sell your house quickly, maybe I can provide a quick buy and sell for you off market. And there goes that $7 million deal for 10. Right? So it's about rewiring of the brain and looking at opportunities and not looking at problems because problems is really opportunities. Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us so much.

John Hope Bryant, Alex Rodriguez, and the Hope Global Forum is happening December 9th to the 11th in Atlanta, Georgia, man. That's right. I'll be there.

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The Coacheship. With Lauren LaRosa. I'm back. And I Breakfast Club. The Coacheship. With Lauren, Lauren LaRosa. I'm back. And I got the match. Talk to me. You know one thing, Charlotte, I've learned about you?

What? You are an equal opportunist person of all, like everything. What do you mean? You give the H-E double hockey sticks equally across the yard. Everybody, white people, black people. I give the hell across the yard?

Okay. Yeah, I didn't want to say the word, but yes. You didn't say hell, you're going there. What did you say now? Excuse me? That's why you can't compliment these. I try to compliment you. I try to big you up.

Well, thank you. I appreciate that. No, no, no, no, no, no. Because when you meet me in hell, I'm going to make sure they know. He told me I was coming here. It's his fault that I'm here. We don't have to go there. We can do things now.

Let's go where you were yesterday. Let's go to CNN real quick. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, last night you were on 360 with Anderson Cooper. Yes, me and my good sister Angela Rye. You and Miss Angela Rye. And you guys were having a conversation about just speaking the truth

and what's happening right now with the election and VP Kamala Harris. Anderson Cooper has actually been under fire in the last like what, like 24 hours for the way that he handled the town hall with VP Kamala Harris. A lot of people feeling like just his energy, his tone to her was very different in comparison to how he's been in interviews with Donald Trump and other people. I thought he did his job. I didn't have a problem with how you did this worth noting though um so i want to listen to first angela rye because angela rye uh opens in the early in the conversation angela rye discusses uh being able to have truthful conversations and lay facts out there and kind of how she was received when she was at cnn and she was doing that early on take a listen There's been more heat from the media on her answer and less attention

paid to what his former White House chief of staff said, John Kelly, that he is in fact a fascist. When you look at one party rule, religious nationalism, ethnic nationalism, that is what Donald Trump is striving for. And if we're honest, that is what the Republican Party writ large has been building toward for a long time. Donald Trump, as Harry Reid once said, is merely the Republican Party's Frankenstein. In 2016, I remember being on air with you and saying that Donald Trump was racist. And there was immediate blowback. How could you say he's racist? What facts do you have?

There is a laundry list of facts to support the fact that this man traffics in racism and he is a fascist and i think the most important thing that we all can do as american citizens that the media can do is ensure that we are calling a thing a thing very true yeah now when that happened because a big part of the conversation was the double standard and that was the conversation that was sparked from the town hall it's been happening with kamala uh but that was a big highlight of the conversation that people were having around Anderson Cooper and how some people felt he ended the town hall, which is what you and Angela Rye were getting at when you guys are having that conversation. So, well, for the record, I wasn't personal to Anderson Cooper. Anderson is a good guy. I just talk about cable news in general.

Yes. And we have those clips. So let's take a listen to you when you begin to talk about fascism. Apparently Trump's going on is going to tape a thing with Joe Rogan. Do you think she should should do that? I think that she should keep calling Donald Trump a fascist. And I think that Americans need to keep looking at the rhetoric of Donald Trump, because I don't know why we're even thinking about electing somebody who's talking about putting people in camps. I don't know why we're talking or why we want to elect somebody who's talking about mass deportation. I don't know why we're having this conversation about somebody who wants to terminate the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election. Aren't we supposed to be a patriotic country?

Whenever somebody like Colin Kaepernick takes a knee in this country, everybody talks about, oh, that's so unpatriotic. But a guy can say he wants to terminate the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election and nobody cares. And even even me bringing it up now, you brought it back to kamala and joe rogan anderson yeah who gives a damn now i think that like first of all let me just say that the moment i got on twitter i'm like whoa i didn't know you were going to see it yesterday it was just everywhere um so yesterday at first it hit trending across the u.s on x at 10 it jumped up to six this morning uh you were trending and then now it's back at nine i think the to six this morning uh you were trending and then now it's back at nine i think the reason why this is cutting through so much is because it was straight

talk like you calling it out and saying that it was bs is how i think a lot of people felt and even if you don't agree like i saw fox news pick it up this morning as well even if you don't agree i think people do appreciate straight talk and and straight to the point conversations and getting to what people think is happening without dancing around it yeah it's not a new conversation for me i've been having this convo you know but nobody listens to me because i got a list you know all of those news networks no baby we be listening it's just like what are you saying say cease and desist well i'm spitting on this mic right now pause but all of those news networks make choices on what they are going to discuss and what they are going to center as topics of discussion. It's a choice to not center

Donald Trump leading an attempt to cool this country. It's a choice to not center his 88 criminal charges, 34 of them he's been convicted of. It's a choice to not center his rhetoric about jailing political opponents, jailing journalists, terminating the Constitution, overthrowing the results of an election,

talking about putting people in detention camps, talking about putting the military on American citizens. His own Joint Chief of Staff said this week Trump once said he needed the kind of generals hitler's had hitler had so if kamala harris or any democratic candidates said or did those things they would be at the least uh not qualified to run but more than that they'd probably be in prison so i'm just saying that's just that's just it's just a choice and it's not just trump uh and kamala it was trump and hill. It was Trump and Biden. They're the double standard for Trump and everybody else.

Period. Nobody treats Trump like a threat. Not the DOJ. Not the media. Nobody. And it's just, it's strange. Now, let's take a listen to the rest of the conversation. I don't think y'all have enough conversations about it. I feel like I heard more on this network about, is Kamala Harris black than I do about, you know, Donald Trump being a fascist.

Am I wrong, Angela? Honestly, that's bulls**t. I'm sorry. Don't hate Anderson. No, I'm not. Look, I'm a huge fan of yours. But to say that we're sitting around discussing is Kamala Harris black, like... Oh, I've seen that. I've seen it around table discussions a lot.

Now that's bulls**t, Anderson. For you to say that y'all don't have those conversations. I've never asked somebody is Kamala Harris black. I'm not saying you. Not you. I don't think any anchor on this network has been going around saying, is she Black? Look, I'm sure we have had, you know, nutty people or people who have strongly held beliefs who I may disagree with who somewhere on some panel have said something.

But I do believe it's important to get people different viewpoints as long as they're willing to have a legitimate conversation. Now, I want to make a point before you go in. Right. So I told you guys how well this was trending on X. And normally what happens is things trend on X and they hit, you know, the Instagram blogs and then the dot coms pick them up simultaneously. I right now am seeing two articles on this that happened last night, one from Fox news and fox news headline actually includes the word fascist fascist i'm sorry and then the independent the independence headline does not at all include that it just says that anderson cooper has a blunt response after being criticized for seeing his trump coverage um and i i was like wow i was surprised that more people didn't pick it up

and use the actual word fascist and you know like all that stuff is so like it everything else is size that right there will up it i don't i don't see it i don't see it not even from uh cnn well only thing i would say is that you know we just all have to stop asking answers and start making statements like when i say ask answers it's like you know when you make when you ask answers like you know is donald trump a fascist or is kamala harris a dei hire stop asking answers like you know the answers to these questions yes he is a fascist and no she's not a dei hire so stop asking answers and start making statements on these networks that was a lot for you asking answers and making statements nobody takes me serious because i got a list that's exactly what i'm talking about that's exactly what i'm talking

about you see what i'm saying could you could you ask me who i'm giving don't get a day too could you ask me who i'm giving that was just what to mess with lauren la rosa can you ask me who i'm giving donkey of the day to who are you giving donkey of the day to we need mel gibson to come to the front of the congregation we would like to have a word with him okay okay it's the breakfast club the breakfast club your mornings will never be the same your execution on the donkey of the day is something to behold. Who's it to read? He gave me donkey of the day and I deserve it.

You need to know. Well, you need to tell them. I am. You have the voice. Tell them. It's time for donkey of the day. It's a read, but you're so good at it. You're trying to be a fake ass Charlemagne.

There's only one Charlemagne to go. Damn, Charlemagne. Who you the only one Charlemagne to go. Damn, Charlemagne. Who you give the Ducky of the Day to, man? Ducky of the Day for Friday, October 25th goes to Mel Gibson. Okay, listen. It's presidential election season. We got 11 days left, I believe, until election day. According to the internet and others, I am getting paid by Kamala Harris' campaign to talk about her every day so let me earn my check okay i'm gonna have it as soon as i get this

invisible money i'll give you some look i think most people have their mind made up by now uh some voting democrats some voting republicans some voting third party some not voting at all i don't care who you vote for i don't care what you choose to do as long as you are making an informed decision. Okay, a caller called up here earlier and said that I sometimes get mad when people tell me they're voting for Trump. I don't get mad when folks say they're voting for Trump. I get mad when people tell me dumbass reasons they are voting for Trump. And Mel Gibson was caught on TMZ cameras giving his reasons for why he's choosing to vote for Trump. And let's listen to what he said.

I don't think it's going gonna surprise anyone who I vote for. I'm gonna guess Trump. Is that a bad guess? I think it's a pretty good guess. What do you think the world will be like in the second term with the president's second term? I know what it'll be like if we let her in. Yeah.

Oh, really? That ain't good. Yeah. Well, this miserable track ain't good. Yeah. Well, listen. Miserable track record. Appalling track record. No policies to speak of. And the border, right? And she's got the IQ of a fence post.

See, it makes me laugh when I hear people say things like the vice president has a miserable, appalling track record. No policies. Okay. Especially if the person you're supporting is Donald J. Trump. i don't even have time to really run down his resume uh you know i don't really have time to break down his concepts of a plan i would break down his plan but he don't really have any but i'll give you a few uh i'll give you a few things on his resume in no particular order he's been impeached twice he led an attempt to cool this country he said he wanted to terminate the constitution to overthrow the results of an election he downplayed the severity of covid 19 not to mention in 2018

he dismantled the national security council's global health security office those are the people who respond to things like pandemics he's talking about jailing his political opponents he's talking about jailing journalists the guy appointed three far-right judges who overturned roe v roe v wade i was born in 1978 so that means women currently have less reproductive rights now than they did when i was born okay less constitutional rights now than they did when i was born in 1978. So that means women currently have less reproductive rights now than they did when I was born. OK, less constitutional rights now than they did when I was born. And I haven't even bought up the 88 criminal charges, 34, which which he's been convicted of. Now, I'm just scratching the surface of things that are on this man's resume. It is long. OK, so if you're going to say Kamala Harris has an appalling, miserable track record, but you're choosing to support Trump.

That just doesn't make sense to me, my personal opinion. And for all you folks who keep talking about the economy will be better, that is just another false narrative that we the American people have bought into. Because it's not true. The economy does better under Democrat presidents. I just found this out maybe two months ago. Why? Because I looked it up. You know why I looked it up up because i wanted to see how much better the economy does under republicans since this is what i've always been told only to find out it's not true google it okay look it up the economy does better under democrats if you don't feel it right now i understand but we still recovering from a global pandemic remember that but this inflation y'all keep saying is high. It's not. It's currently at 2.4 percent. The problem is inflation is low, but the cost of everything else is high.

But that's a whole nother conversation. OK, tune in to John Hope Bryant's Money and Wealth podcast for more of that kind of talk. But back to Mel Gibson. The other part of what Mel Gibson said that irritates me is when he said Vice President Kamala Harris has fence post-level IQ. So you're saying you think she's dumb. Okay. But then you're voting for Donald Trump. I'm going to just sit back and let you hear a bunch of dumb things that have come out of Donald Trump's mouth. Listen.

Ready? You have the cameras rolling? The kidney has a very special place in the heart. It's an incredible thing. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that

by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets on the lungs and it Does a tremendous number of the lungs so it'd be interesting to check that so that you're gonna have to use Medical doctors with but it sounds it sounds interesting to me. If you have a windmill anywhere near your house Congratulations, your house just went down 75% in value and they say the noise causes cancer. You tell me that one, okay? China has total respect for Donald Trump and for Donald Trump's very, very large brain. It's tremendously big and tremendously wet. I'm very highly educated.

I know words. I have the best words. But there's no better words than stupid. In Springfield, they're eating the dogs better words than stupid in springfield they're eating the dogs the people that came in they're eating the cats they're eating the pets that's just a little bit that's literally i told my producer to find a bunch of dumb things donald trump said he found that in about five minutes you can just literally google dumb things i'm about to say they probably got tiktok messages so so if kamala has the the IQ of a fence post, then what level does Donald Trump have?

I'm seriously asking. A rock. Listen, rocks might be smarter. Okay? Vote for whoever you want to vote for. Just be informed about it. And if you dislike a candidate and you have your reasons, I'm fine with that, too. As long as they make sense.

Nothing Mel Gibson said makes sense. Okay? Most of your arguments in regards to supporting trump make no sense you have to ignore so much to justify your reasoning i used to believe the economy argument but it's just not true he ruined the economy when he was in office even before covert and his economic plans the tariffs that he's talking about now that would hurt u.s workers and businesses tremendously but whatever All I'm simply saying is vote for who you want to vote for. Just make sure it's an informed vote.

Because this man's reasoning for who he wants to vote for was not. Please give Mel Gibson the biggest e-ha. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Jess is on maternity leave, so Lauren LaRosa is filling in. We also got our niece, Nyla, with us today. Big Nyla.

And we got some special guests in the building. We got Earthgang, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome. Yo, yo, what up, man? What's up? I listen to y'all every morning, bro. I can't hold it, bro. I become one of y'all.

I become one of y'all. Of course. P1 listening. We need them. Oh, my God. They back with their fifth studio album, Perfect Fantasy. Yes. Yeah, Perfect Fantasy.

Yeah. What is the Perfect Fantasy, man? It's whatever you make it. It's whatever you make it, bro. Life is a video game, and how you play it is the fantasy. That's what we're doing with this project, though. You know, we decided to put it together how we wanted to and kind of, like, make it our own world.

You know, throw all the rules out and just do what we like, do what our fan base and our core fan base like. I never felt like Earthgang had rules, though. So that's interesting to hear y'all say. I felt like y'all always moved to the beat of your own.

We kind of did, but I can't lie. You know what I'm saying? We had a period of time where we was trying to figure out what was working for others, I guess. You know what I'm saying?

It's like, well, you got to do this, you got to do that. Chasing the wave. Not necessarily chasing the sound wave or even necessarily the trend. It's just you get signed to a label and you're like okay cool i want to be as successful as the rest of you on this label when we was already kind of headed that direction serving

our core so it's like nah let's just do we love we started earth gang basically as like a music fan club when we was kids you know i'm saying we was literally just from the piracy generation stealing music swap music and this album is kind of a tribute to that era. It's a tribute to all the came up being fans of. We got Gorillaz on it. We got Neptunes on it. We got Lil Dragon. You know what I'm saying? These are all people that we was fans of that like built our friendship and we wanted to pay tribute to that.

Was that pressures of the label telling you guys to look around? It's kind of like... You can't even blame nobody else, bro. As a business owner, you always gonna like go over your yearly reports and see what's working what's not working and sometimes you put that Before what you want to create as a human being sometimes you gonna look left and right and compare But I mean on dreamville is like cold clearly the most successful right then it's yeah Has some really really real success you know so i mean but y'all's all so different i'm like why other than the success part what

would y'all compare well it's not it wasn't even comparing with dreamville i'm talking about in the scope bro i'm talking about when we signed the in the scope because dreamville is kind of like hey everybody do what you want it's a big fun party but like we was on in the scope and i was you know there's other rappers on there you see Show up different places Y'all get the same parties This showed up in this And you showed up in that And it's like Well why I ain't show up in that

It's a feeling That you gotta process Let go And then realize What brought you here In the first place I like that honesty It was your own core

Before we get into the new project I definitely wanna touch on Ghetto Gods The record power Cause I feel like It was a little prophetic In like a weird way The way the year panned out But the Gain the lose your soul skull and bones puffy combs so tell me why he

called us about that line no wait this is prior this is like 2022 right after that song drop i don't know diddy from adam didn't think look i say that right i ain't i've never been to his house i didn't know I don't know Diddy from Adam. Didn't think, look, gotta say that right. I ain't, I never been to his house. I didn't know, I didn't know, we get a call one day from a mysterious number. I'm at the crib.

I'm on the Xbox. You get a call from a mysterious number. Then I guess they called management. He called us and was like, yo, the next time that number call, let's just pick up

and see what's going on. FaceTime. Open the FaceTime, it's Diddy. He want to talk about how clean and pure his soul is. And I'm like, hey bro,

I don't know you. I don't care. I have nothing to gain from soul is. And I'm like, hey, bro, I don't know you. I don't care. I have nothing to gain from this conversation. And he was like, hey, man, I heard what y'all said on that song.

I just want to let you know I'm on a love wave right now, man. I'm clean. Everything's good. Everything's pure. I'm like, bro, that line came to me from a lightning bolt

from heaven, bro. I didn't know. I didn't think of that. I wasn't trying to insult you. I didn't even know he was going to hear it. Gain the world, lose your soul,

skull and bones, puffy combs. Damn. From an artist's interpretation, what did that line mean when you wrote it? I was just saying like, you know what I'm saying,

just kind of playing with people's fear of like the Illuminati and shit like that. Like I like throwing little hints of like, ooh, spooky shit. And it's like,

I don't know what Diddy actually been through. I had no idea that this was going to happen and I definitely didn't know he was going to come. You look like, stop lying. We heard stuff. I had no, did that this was gonna happen and i definitely i don't know i love uh cee-lo's verse but it is like what he's talking about too

why nobody looking at me like a bad like i think that line is mad weird but no it no i mean i think silo was kind of talking about like just how air like if you're not useful you're useless in the industry in some type of way you know what i'm saying he was just like but you got to be able to find the right spaces for you to be valuable rather than like trying to like sell yourself to everybody walking in in the rooms and being like yo y'all don't want to use me for this y'all use me for that because that's when you get in positions

where taking advantage of. Let's talk Pharrell. How was working with Pharrell? Pretty amazing. It was like something I would have. He's another one that's like, he goes outside the box. Yeah.

That was also during the pandemic. So he had us get, you know, COVID tested before pulling up to the crib. We went down to Miami. Down to Miami. We walk in. It's the boat out there, the water out there and stuff. We got a health station. We taking in. It's the boat out there, the water out there.

We got a health station. We taking big B12 shots and stuff. While we recording, we got IVs in. We just getting healthy. But also, we drinking tequila

at the same time. Wow. It's for girls. Tequila. You don't gotta go with tequila? He had a drink that he was claiming

his during that time. I don't know if it was tequila. You gotta be careful with that guy. As soon as you said it, I said, oh, he just said his stuff. that time. I don't know if it was tequila. You gotta be careful with that guy. I knew it. As soon as you said it, I said, oh, he just said his stuff.

I did, I did. But you know, I heard you say earlier that you wanted that vintage sound because when I listened to that song, I'm like,

it sounded like old Neptune. Yeah, I mean, the initial process was with, you know what I'm saying, we grew up listening to the Neptunes, you know what I'm saying? We grew up burning their CDs

and stealing them and trading them with the other homies you know saying like grinding beat is a classic like I'm sleeping nightmares grinding you know so we wanted we wanted to be in that kind of bag with him you know saying do the folk count do the stuff they like like I said even we working with the gorillas like it was always like and it's outside in Atlanta or from the southwest side of London dreamed of being around it was it was dream come true I willa that's outside of Atlanta or from the southwest side of Atlanta dreamed of being around it was a dream come true

I will say Pharrell started a bunch of songs with us and then he did some like cat in the hat just like put a hat on and walked out onto the ocean

he got on the boat and left and just left mid-session what? bro did he be like I'll be right back? no

he was like love you guys come out enjoy this he just like walked away is that what y'all was doing? We finished the records.

We got back to work. We got boat style moments. I'm like, get back to work. And he had a boat pull up to his back door and left. And that was like, yeah, this is me. Did he come back? No. Never saw him again.

How many records did y'all do? We did about five or six. When he's on, you got it, though. Yeah, he on, you got it. He just left y'all hooks and all that? Well, they did the beat and the hook for You Gotta. And then he did a couple. He bounced around on a couple of them for a little while.

And then he left a bunch of beats. And then he just left. All right, don't go anywhere. We got more with Earthgang coming up next. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. And right now in the building, we have Earthgang. Not Envy.

I was J. Cole as a label owner, right? And the reason I ask is he owns a label, but he's also an artist, right? And I think maybe a couple years ago, maybe four or five years ago, Cole would call me and he would ask me about the mixtape era, right? Because he was like, I got these artists

and I want to break back into that mixtape era. How did that happen? Like, he's somebody that dives into everything. Like, he reminds me of somebody that always wants to research because he wants to know everything that goes around so how was he as a label owner when it comes to his artist i mean i think the the coolest thing is like he's not like a label owner he don't he don't ever act like a label owner or a boss or nothing that's why we wanted to do business with

him because it was equal you know i'm saying like shout out to Twitter. Cause love saying, Hey, yo, call y'all boss. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, we, we got into it cause it was, it was an equal partnership. And then secondly, he approaches it from an artist standpoint. He made this,

it's always make the most honest music to you and then put it out. And then, you know what I'm saying? It'll connect. I mean, that's, that's who he is. That's what he's done.

That says, sets him apart from a lot of people and it's like that's still the blueprint for everybody that he works with you know i'm saying so it's never like you ain't got no hit yet you know i'm saying it's never like that it's it's just are you doing for the honest the most honest music for you and it's like all right well then put that out see what they do do it again do it again what's it like at dreamville nowadays i've always felt like y'all don't really move like a unit. I mean, yeah, everybody kind of do their own thing, bro. I ain't gonna hold you, bro. Is that like a group chat? There are times where I would like...

She said, is that a group chat? It's like a group chat, but I ain't gonna hold you. There's times where I wish that, like, I would see Yo Gotti come up here and be like, damn, why Cole ain't doing the Yo Gotti shit and come up here with anybody he saw. He just come up here with him. That does a lot, though. Yeah, it does.

It does. It does. He comes up here with all his artists. You don't see him. He be outside. I believe you. I believe him. And I respect that. But at the same time, you know what I'm saying?

How they move. And I think the honesty and the truth, like you said, behind Dreamville is kind of what keeps us all united. Like, you know, like smiling in your face. We were just with boss and he last week in the strip club you know what I'm saying

for his birthday checking on Ari Lennox at all yeah Ari my dog Ari my dog I love Ari to death that's why she said

she was leaving social media she should a lot of people should most of y'all should we all should if we all did it would hurt them so bad the people that own that

we don't have that type of unity. But yeah, I fuck with Ari, bro. When we first signed to Ari, I mean signed to Ari, signed to Dreamville, Cole had us, Ari G, all in the house

on some like making the band shit. So we built like a real like... Who went for cheesecake? You said like. Oh, like. Yeah, we didn't have to make the band. We didn't look at Ari's magic. We just built like a sibling type relationship

with Ari and them during that time. You know what I'm saying? I'm always checking Ari. And and them during that time you know what I'm saying I'm always checking Ari and I hope she do you know what I'm saying I hope she actually get off social media Ari is fine

I don't know why people try to be like how Ari doing Ari been sober for two years Ari is fine but I think it's because for me as a fan watching her

first of all I feel like she doesn't get a lot of her just due that's number one secondly I feel like when she anything she does people always like attach to it sometimes it's not the most positive and it's so not

warranted because she minds her business exactly so but sometimes that gets to people yeah and she seems very strong-minded but it can get to people so that's compassionate so i will appreciate them questions i do want to go back to something y'all talk about with dreamville what's the point of doing revenge of the dreamer compilation then Because I feel like that's the moment where Cole should be like, all right, we're going to make these radio runs. We're going to do these shows together. Like, that's the time. You're putting everybody on this compilation album.

Now let's go push the whole label. The fans will listen either way if that does happen. Yeah, I was about to say. Because we be wanting it. I would love to talk to Cole about that. Yeah, I would too, sh**. Now, Cole wasn't on the album. Did y'all want Cole on the album

or did y'all do that specifically? I ain't even think about it, bro. I ain't even think about it, bro. We just be making music, bro. I ain't got time to be doing shit. That's my man's, you know what I'm saying? So it's not like we trying to do this. Is anybody from Dreamville?

Don't be trying to hit him up for a play. Yeah, I don't think so. But let's get into it. Join up the album. What y'all want to hear? Let's play that Love You More. What you got to do? a joint off the album what y'all want to hear all right let's let's play that love you more let's do it you gotta no that was you want to hear that you want to help we're going to hear it i want to see you right now to chat off you got it i heard it was a neptune's record he did it was it was it wasn't that just right when we first got

there chad was in the house the reason the song They was together when y'all was in. This was before they was beefing. 2022, we was all there together. Wait a minute. So when Pharrell got on the boat, did Chad get on it with him? He did not. He stayed with us. Right off the boat. That's how the beat started. Chad stayed and played.

Chad played like a hell of instruments. Pharrell is like a great idea guy. He puts a lot of drums down, a lot of soundscapes. But Chad gonna play the intricacies so chad stayed to do the interesting we thought that's what their dynamic was pharrell gets on boats chad you know saying stay and play the guitar and you think that separate it was cooking up the whole time y'all does it now probably so he took chad off the record yeah just took and y'all like and just walked off and went on the boat well he didn't not't. Not in that order. The song, we had the song for years with both of them on it.

And then really within the last couple months of clearing everything, it became featuring Pharrell. And that took a couple steps to get to that process, too. Because it was produced by Pharrell. But his voice on it, so I guess he changed it to featuring Pharrell. Then he dropped the Lego movie. And then he stood on that. It was like, okay, well. Yeah,

because y'all messing with each other right now. I think Chad is actually suing Pharrell. He probably didn't want it to be featuring Neptune or Nerd or whatever. Do y'all ask questions

when stuff like that change or you just be like, well, okay. That's not my business. Yeah, I'm not saying you can ask no questions. If I can ask

directly, I'm going to ask, but I'm not going to ask your people right now. Nah, if I sit down in front of you and talk about it,

we chilling and talking, we drinking Pharrell's tequila with B12 shots. Yeah, I'm like, actually, that's pretty, that's pretty vulnerable. So did they take the instruments off too, that, that? I'm pretty sure they interpolated them differently. I'm pretty sure they wasn't the same. It wasn't the same. Yeah, because the version of the song that I play on my phone, I love. I'm gonna leave that there. This version was, was changed up a little bit for the clearances. Yeah. And then whole time them was like working together but not really talking even in the same room so i was like all right well there you have it it's earth gang it's the breakfast club good morning yep it's the world's most dangerous morning show the breakfast club charlemagne the god lauren larosa jess

is on maternity leave dj envy called sick. But it's time for Pastor Ox. Go, go, go. DJ, DJ, cause that's my DJ. Say go, DJ, cause that's my DJ. Naila, Naila. Yeah, DJ, come spin, now come spin. Big Naila. What's up, what's up? Happy Friday.

What's happening? Good morning. How you feeling? I feel... Tell the truth. I hate how you do that. I could never have real convos with you before we go live. No, but just tell the truth. You say you feel something. You say you feel it in the air. I just feel something in the air. I don't know what it is. Your spidey senses is tingling. It's just weird. I don't know. Okay. I'm feeling things. Okay. That's good. Feel your feels. It is what it is. But all right, let's get into the music. Summer Walker is back, okay?

Now, she's been previewing this record for a minute, and it gives like that 90s R&B vibe, so I'm excited that it's finally out. Heart of a woman. Isn't this project called Finally Over It? Mm-hmm. Summer Walker's a really great artist. Her music connects.

But it still feels like there's some type of disconnect. I don't know what it is. Disconnect in what? You felt disconnected from that?? No just some type of disconnect. You think that she talks enough? Oh you mean like just her brand wise? Her as a person. No I don't. I think people love her music. People and it's so crazy because when she does talk and even when she does the crazy shenanigans people love Summer Walker. People like her that's what I'm saying. Remember she was back outside when she was heartbroken she was on top of the car with Santana and Sukiyama sexy red. We were that yeah she sat down with carisha i think she has like heavy anxiety so she doesn't like doing interviews i think if she talked more i could understand what you were saying yeah just show

just show herself more but i get sent that goddamn meme every uh every other day what meme she you know what i mean i'm talking about which one i don't want to do it because it'll be on camera no all right we're gonna edit? If it was any one of us and we had showed you the meme, you would have outed us. We should be doing the basket weave, acting like she... You know what I'm saying?

You know what I mean? I thought you were talking about the pilgrim dress. No, we sitting that all the time when we like... Why? We should be sitting that all the time. Because if we clowning somebody

that we know D-Rod, you know what I mean? Like me and Wayno and Rob, we sitting there... Oh, I already know who y'all talking about. All right. Yes. That person definitely gets it often.

Lord have mercy. All right. I'm going to keep things moving. Tyler, the creator, dropped Noid. Now, he didn't drop it today on Friday. He actually did it on a Tuesday, I believe, which is like against industry standards. Same with Earthgang.

They dropped their project on Tuesday as well. By the way, that used to be the old industry standard as the Unc in the room born in 1978 that was the day albums used to come out. Some of us be knowing because when we interviewed them I said that too. You did say that. Thank you because our generation be knowing right now. We do be knowing so make sure you have to have it to our interview with Earthgang it just dropped to but go ahead oh i think the review rather double back than regret hearing true true tough hard hard i gotta get i gotta give i gotta i gotta sit down and like really uh absorb tyler the creator's album yeah tyler don't miss i was getting my lashes done yesterday yes i did um and the girl who was on my lashes her daughter was 11 and she was talking

about like just music she listens to. And I was like, oh, well, who are your favorite artists? You know, you'd be wanting to know. And she was like, I love Tyler, the Creator. And then Northwest was just talking about Tyler, the Creator as well. So many generations of people. Because I thought we loved him. I didn't know it was.

So why Tyler not in that top discussion? He should be. Tyler's top three of this generation. It's that close. I think because he. A wood generation, though. Not like blog era class. He's kind of like a hill.

He's been around since he had the roach crawling on him. How long ago was that? I feel like Tyler is the new Pharrell. Pharrell ain't never been as dope as Tyler Larris.

Yo, I didn't... Pharrell ain't never been nowhere near as dope as Tyler Larris. I'm glad you said that. I don't really think he tried, Pharrell. He couldn't if he tried.

He's a great songwriter, but he can't spit like Tyler. I think the fashion... Artie, they're both artsy, but he can't spit like Tyler. I think the fashion. Artie, they're both artsy. But even with that, I think Tyler is just in his own vibe of stuff. I'm just talking music. I'm just talking bars. Tyler be barring up.

Yeah. He be barring people up, bro. I mean, I feel like Tyler was able to watch people like Pharrell, people like Kanye, and then pick things that you want. So I think that's why he does three different beat changes on a record. That's why he's into fashion. But, like, you had to see it be done before. So that's why I'm like, I see him as a Pharrell.

Or I see the influences there. Because then even outside of that, he's had successful groups like the Internet. When I first moved to L.A., they were the biggest thing ever. Yeah, so he's just able to do everything and does it well. He wanted them ones. Yeah, agreed. No Tyler Slender here. Definitely looking forward to the project.

And then last but not least, this is new artist named Black Sam. He had a cool record called Gilla Leather. What is Gilla Leather? What does that mean? I have no idea. Let me look. I'm looking it up now. A body warmer, a sleeveless jacket. that's like a sleeveless leather jacket when i look it up the record

is the only thing that came up what's his name again black sam okay salute to you black sam yes yes okay so that's that's all i got for today make sure you guys follow me on the gram at nightless simone n-y-l-a-s-y-m-o-n-e-e-e go on my. You can find the playlist. You can find all the podcast episodes on We Need to Talk, all the artists we've had on there. You can also find the events for Certified Vibe. You know, tap in. Okay. We got the People's Choice Mix coming up next,

which I think is so stupid because Envy's not here. Like, I think Nylah should actually DJ at 9 o'clock. I think I should, too. It's just stupid. He ain't been here all show, and then 9 o'clock you're going to start hearing him talk. What's that make any sense? It's the world's most dangerous morning show,

The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne Tha God, Lauren LaRosa, Jess Hilarious is on maternity leave. DJ Envy called in sick today.

We almost up out of here. What you got this weekend, Lauren? Where you at? You already drinking, right? I want y'all to know right now, alcoholic La Rosa is already sipping something. I hate how you throw things on black women. Sipping La Rosa.

The way that this tea cup is set up, you need to mind your business. Honestly. Tequila cup. Say that again? Tequila. I know that one hurt you. Tell God right now that again? Tequila. I know that one hurt you. Tell God right now that I need tequila.

Is that tequila in that cup? What? Is that tequila in that cup? Why are you saying it so hard? God, no. My heart. No, he doesn't. That's what he knows.

I'm in Norfolk, Virginia this weekend. It is Norfolk State University's homecoming. This is the final stop on a Brown Girl Grinding HBCU Alumni Homecoming Tour. She'll be asleep by 5 o'clock, y'all. First of all, I get to the venue around that time. It's Alumni Fest. We're having a great time. Norfolk State University, I'm excited to come and end the tour with you guys

and have a great time. And happy birthday to my best friend, Carmen. It is his birthday today. Enjoy your birthday. I will see you this weekend. And congratulations on everything. New baby it is his birthday today enjoy your birthday i will see you this weekend and congratulations on everything new baby new fiance it's your birthday we celebrate salute to carmen uh you just want an excuse to drink uh tomorrow i will be at the ivory on park at 2 p.m having a conversation called money talks uh wealth building panel an exclusive

conversation with me i'll be talking about my new book get honest with line. Cause I damn sure ain't got no money to talk about, but, uh, I will be there at 2 PM tomorrow at the ivory on the park. Okay. In Brooklyn. All right. Uh,

when we come back, we got the positive note. 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. Charlemagne,

the God, Lauren LaRosa, Jess Hilarious is on maternity leave. Envy is out sick today. Uh, we are out of here. Uh, but I'm gonna leave you on this positive note.

It comes from Gandhi. Okay, Mahatma Gandhi. He once said, as human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able

to remake ourselves. Have a blessed day. Breakfast Club, bitches! Y'all finished or y'all done?