The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Chris Brown Lawsuit Dismissed, Mary J. Blige Announces Vegas Residency + Interviews Deon Cole, Derrick Johnson, Louis Carr, Max B & French Montana Interview

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

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Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, so, you. Good morning, Joe, Joe, how are you. Peace to the planet, it is Tuesday. Hey, how y'all feel out there? I feel blessed black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning. Good morning.

How you feeling? Man, I feel great. You know why I feel great? Yesterday I went to go see Dr. Puma, drop on the clues monster, Dr. Puma. You know, we tell y'all about Dr. Puma all the time. Dr. Puma is the cardiovascular doctor. You can go there and get, you know, your soaring heart scan and, you know, look to see if all your arteries and, you know, everything going on with your heart is good. But guess what?

What? now he does it from head to toe, baby. Oh, for real? So you can look at the brain and everything else. Full body. Full body. See if you've got any potential aneurisms, any of that type of stuff. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Damn. So when do you get your results for the full body scan? I mean, I mean. Oh, really? Same. Okay. In minutes, you know, it takes a few minutes to do, and then you get the results back like right there.

That's what's up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to go see him again then. So asking me how I feel, I feel. I feel great. I'm amazing. Where's the cocaine? Is you?

I'm just playing. Yo, you just got a full body scan. I'm just joking. Can I not have a little joking joke? How were you? How was your night? It was good. It was cool.

It was cool. I watched Fallin with Denzel Washington. Do you know what that movie is? Girl, yes. I'm 47. All right. Oh, then you saw everything. Yes, I did.

I did not even. No, that movie came out in 1998. I was six. I watched it. It was so good. Yes. Fallen is a classic. Yes.

I did not realize that. Okay. Young Denzy. You seen boys in the hood yet? I did. Thank you. I saw that when I was a young boy in a hood, so I already know. No, Fallon was great.

You should watch Devil's Advocate too when you get an opportunity. I saw that. You seen Devil's amazing. Yes. Okay. It was amazing. Don't touch me, man. His envy high.

She's just talking about Fallon and you come here and touching my nipples. Don't do that, bro. Cut it out. The Dism out watched the movie Fallin. It was good? Yeah, it was good. You never seen Fallin? I don't remember Fallin.

I don't remember Fallin. See? That's what I'm saying. We had the nerve yesterday to talk about something he'd do for Black History Month knowing damn well Dominican Harris month. Is it the end of the month too. Which one was falling?

It's the movie about the demons. When he would walk past people and the demons were jumping anybody you just touch a, he could touch a person and jump right at all. I don't remember that one. He was like a private divest. Yeah, he was like a detective. The guy, he witnessed the executioner. Yes.

The serial killer and then he was a police detective. And they were investigating other murders. Like, it's really good. It was really good. I didn't expect to see. I was sure I'm seeing. Yeah, yeah, probably so. I'm sure.

Did y'all talk about who's going to be on the show? Not yet. All right. Well, French Montana and Max B will be joining us this morning. Amazing. They have a new project called Coke Wave 3.5, 3.5, Narcoe, so we'll talk to him about that. I'm happy to be talking to both of them, but I'm too old for all that. Which is what?

Nicole 3.5 for all of that, man. Okay, I'm too old for all of that. And also, Dionnecoe, comedian Dionneco, Derek Johnson, was the president of NCAO of NACP, and Lewis Carr, President of the president of the NACP, and Lewis Carr, President of of BET will be joining us this morning as well. Lewis is the new president of BET. Salute to Scott Mills. He's no longer there, but Lewis Carr's a new president of BET, and they got the 57th N.

NAACP Imager Wars happening on BET on February 28th, so they'll be here to talk all about that. That's right. All right. Let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Mimi will be joining us, what you got for us, right? I thought you had something else for us, right? I think we need something else, too. It was going to be residuals, but y'all be crying and complaining, so. Nothing else? That's it?

That's cool. Yeah, hi. Well, good morning. It's the breakfast club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess Hilaria. Sholomey and the guy.

We are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news. Last night, NFL. I don't know if you guys stayed up for the game, but the Texans beat the Steelers 30 to 6 last night. So, Steelers up out of here. Sorry, Pittsburgh. That was your team before.

It was, and I ain't going to lie. I feel a little way. Damn, if the Ravens then, when I'm like, all right, the next team, the root for, for me, would be their robbery. Steelers, but damn. 30 to 6 is crazy. 30 to 60 up out of here.

What's up, Mimi? Good morning, NB, Jess. Charlemagne, how y'all doing this morning? Bees, Mimi Brown. Hey, babe. Good morning. You look cute, Jess. Thank you, girl.

Like, wait. All right, good morning. So we start this morning. We are still in Minnesota where a large federal immigration raid now weeks in and still ongoing has sparked protests, outrage, and now a new lawsuit

against the Trump administration. Now, the state of Minnesota and leaders in Minneapolis and St. Paul they are suing the federal government saying this immigration surge is going too far and it crosses the line. They're asking a judge to stop it. Now, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says the size and the tactics of the operation are not normal law enforcement and they are frightening communities across the state. Let's listen to what he had to say. Announce a lawsuit we're filing against the United States Department of Homeland Security

to end the unlawful, unprecedented surge of the federal law. enforcement agents into Minnesota because this has to stop. It just has to stop. We allege that the obvious targeting of Minnesota for our diversity, for our democracy, and our differences of opinion with the federal government is a violation of the Constitution and of federal law. We allege that the surge reckless impact on our schools, on our local law enforcement is a violation of the 10th Amendment and the sovereign laws and powers of the Constitution grants to states. Yeah, so a lot wrapped up in that lawsuit there.

And it follows last week's fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Good during an ICE operation, a case that has intensified scrutiny of federal enforcement tactics. And it comes as federal authorities. They continue to flood the Twin Cities with agents. There are around 1,000 more custom and border patrol or border protection officers that are expected to arrive in the area, and that's already on top of the 2,000 federal agents that are already in the area. Now, officials say this is one of the largest immigration enforcement actions that Minnesota

has ever seen. The Department of Homeland Security, they argue, though, that Minnesota leaders, they created this problem by refusing to fully cooperate with federal enforcement. And Minnesota, they are not alone, Illinois, and the city of Chicago. They also filed lawsuits yesterday, accusing the Trump administration of unlawful immigration enforcement tactics, including warrantless arrests and the use of chemical agents against people who are not resisting. A question.

I want to know how ICE was operating before. Like, how were they operating during the Obama administration? Because President Obama deported more than 3 million non-citizens. How was it happening back then? Because I don't remember it looking like this. Okay? This looks like complete chaos. It looks unlawful.

It looks like these ICE agents have zero regard to anyone's life. Like, what did it look like before? Yeah, I don't remember anybody ever pulling up on. people are saying, are you from here and take it? I've never seen that before. And you have to remember in that big, beautiful bill, right? There was a lot of money given to ICE to do this enforcement. They're the largest funded police organization that, you know, we've ever seen at this point right now. They have more money than the FBI. So they have all the tools and tactics right now to go and do this. So they're deploying an additional 1,000 troops or

1,000 federal agents in the area. That's a lot. 3,000, you know, agents in Minnesota. Minnesota. Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot. They don't even have a real mask. Where the money going? Like, I said, where the money going? And let's talk about those $2,000 tariff checks that we've been hearing about. So President Trump, he's been floating the idea of that $2,000 rebate checks funded by tariff revenue for months now. But when Americans might actually see that money keeps changing, let's listen to what he had to say about the timeline now. You promised $2,000 checks to Americans based off of your tariff revenues?

I did do that. When did I do that? Yeah, I'm thinking, well, I did 1776 for the military. What would those Americans get those checks? Well, I am going to, the tariff money is so substantial that's coming in that I'll be able to do 2000. Sometime, I would say toward the end of the year. Daddy not coming home, y'all. Listen, Maga, Daddy is not coming home.

I know he promised you that he was going to come. come home and I know you believed him this time. He is not coming home this time. I said what? It's not happening. I don't remember about saying that. I know he said he was. I know daddy said he was coming over, Maga, but he's not coming.

I said what? Okay. He's not. I didn't say that. Yeah. So there's still no, you know, firm date on that. Now it's, you know, it's mid, mid year. Now it's the end of the year.

So Trump is arguing that those terrorists, they are bringing in massive revenue. He says that those checks would not need approval from Congress, but members of his own administration say that is not true. Congress would ultimately have to sign off on any payouts. But here's the bigger issue. The Supreme Court could rule as early as tomorrow on whether President Trump even had the authority to impose some of those tariffs in the first place. Now, if the court rules against Trump, companies that paid those tariffs, including Costco, which is suing the federal government, could be entitled to refunds. Trump, he has been watching this closely.

He wrote on social this week that if the Supreme Court rules against the United States on this national, security bonanza, as he calls it, we are, quote, screwed. Now, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessick, he says, even if the court does rule against Trump, the government has enough money to cover those refunds, but he doubts that consumers, us, the American people, that we would ever see any of that money. He says that companies will most likely keep those refunds and, you know, distributed how they feel free or see fit to do. But us, the man at the bottom, we will probably not see any. of those tariffs. Typical.

Yeah. So we will see what happens with that. And coming up at 7, before you mail anything important, there is a quiet change that you need to know about. Especially if a deadline is involved. We'll explain the details that's coming up in the next hour. All right. Everybody else,

get it off your chest. 800-58515. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I'm telling. I'm telling. Hey, what you doing, ma'am. I'm calling. Call it yo.

This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-105-1. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello, who's this? Tatiana. Tatiana, good morning. Get it off your chest.

Poutow, where do I thought? Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Nice. Hey, girl. Hi. Good night. Peace.

How are you? I'm blessed black and highly favorite, but how are you? I am going through it. I'm going to. So why I had my stuff in storage And I ain't paid for a little bit I'm going to pay the shit Oh God, I curse my dad

Yes, you did And then I'm a day late They told me they sold my stuff Oh man It's my junk, nobody else Damn, you know they got a show on TV about that It's called Storage Wars man It's so interesting

Yeah, oh, I'm sorry I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't care. Yo is crazy. What was it? It's like, you know, my books from school and like my aunt used to put like $10 and certain pages and stuff.

And I never actually went to it. I mean, a couple times I found a few dollars, but it's a lot of my, just family freaking chunk. And I told them I was willing to pay them the money. them the money that they wanted for the damn unit and so pay the person. Who else this person is? It's too late. I just put my dump.

It's too late. What they do is they auction it off and they got, you know, people that actually buy the unit and then they go through your stuff and they sell it all. They throw it out, which is messed up. But here's the thing. But you didn't pay. Here's the thing. And I went up there, I talked to the lady and Becky was being mad rude.

But today I talked to the manager. Everything was cool, whatever, but you're still telling me I can't get my stuff. Look, I don't even care. I'll pay all your money. I just want my dump. I just want my stuff. You might have to go to the auction, and since it's not auctioned off it yet, you might have to auction off your own stuff.

You might have to bid for your own property. No, Andy, I'm saying. I got the money on Saturday for my stuff. I want to pay it, and they told me they spent it for Friday. Well, I'm sorry, Mama. That's all I got. I'm sorry. You want to help me get it back?

Well, this is get it off your chest. You were able to be able to step up. I was able to say it, but now I'm just saying, you heard me on the back test club. I'm not playing with you. I just want my shit. And you sure it still there? I understand.

Yes, it's in there. But, you know, I'm not a horrible person. I'm just angry right now. Yeah, you should really see when the auction is. They probably set a date to auction that stuff off, and you should probably go to the auction. But I never got to notice. You should go ahead.

And yesterday they sent me a new bill for February. Yeah, that's crazy. You might want to get an attorney. But thank you, Mama. But what they do is when people don't pay their bill, they auction it off. So it's like six, let's say, containers in that storage unit, and they auction it off. She might be able to go to the auction and actually pay less than what she owes. She knows what it's in there.

She knows the value. But she can't keep up with them payments, so it just end up going to auction or whatever. And I watch storage wars. Like, that's my show. I watch it every night. Like, the only shit comes on midnight in the house and sleeping. But I would say that a lot of people leave stuff in storage units that they don't care about anymore. Like they'll leave an old mattress.

They'll leave old, you know, clothes and things like that. So it could be a blessing because she probably was a hoarder. And the three Baltimore case probably made up put that stuff in the storage. So that's good. I know people living in storage units now just because it's too, uh, rent is too high. Damn. I did see that too. Yeah.

That's crazy. I did see that. I don't know them personally, but I've been hurting stories. Yeah. Because if you knew them personally, that would be horrible that she would let someone live in a storage unit. No, because I don't get in the way of what God. trying to teach people. There you go. Get it off your test.

Let me just go to one more line. Her name is Lala. She said it's Founders Day. Lila, good morning. Good morning, guys. How are you? Good morning. He said it's Founders Day? It is. I called last year, y'all. So I'm going to call every year I can. Founders Day or what?

Serority. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Nice. Nice. The Delta is out there. Yep. Yeah, my mother-in-law is. I want to give a special shout out to the Greenville

South Carolina alumni chapter of Delta Sitma Beta and all the deathals that are celebrating their first founding day and those that are still walking with us. 113 years later, my soul. I didn't know the Delta just had a call. I thought y'all just threw up the dynasty sign. Yeah.

I know the A.K.A. has a sign. I didn't know the Delta's had a sign. I don't know the Delta's had a sign. What's your song, Mama? What's the song that we play to make y'all's step? What song is it? It's white me now, white me down to the campus? We can do To Be Real by Sherylane or you can do Nuck if you buck if you buck. Let's do Nuck if you buck for a little bit. Oh, yes.

Man, I've seen a Delta step to Nuck if you buck that was so hard back in the day. I wish I still had that video. Well, enjoy your day. We'll be found this day, Mama. Thank you. We're going to get Nuck if you buck on this morning. Can Deltas fight though? Oh, give me fight?

Man. I know the Sigmus and Zetas can fight. I don't know if Delta's an A. Listen, I know they're trying. Nuck if you buck your song, but can y'all fight? Man, they probably can't. They try and fight me. One day.

I cannot confirm. I can't confirm on the night because we can't do that on. That's right. We keep a class. You tell them. They talk like they came. One time, look, I ain't even know I was in a party, right, with a bunch of them. And I put up the sign.

I didn't even know you can't do that unless you're a delta. And they chase me out of there so fast. Yeah. Why you tell you was Rock Nation? I don't know. I was acting gay. I was trying to eat myself out of there. I ain't going to lie.

I was so scared. I ain't know you couldn't do it. They didn't tell me. Thank you, Lala. You said, you're trying to eat yourself. You're damn right. All the women was not playing. Get it off your chest.

800, 585-105-1. Now, when we come back, we got the latest with Lauren. What are we talking about? I'm just trying to figure out why I was just in a party throwing up that sign. For what reason? Because if you don't know it was doing it. If you don't know, you just join in. Yeah, it was doing it.

The average of first karaoke. It was happy. Where were you at? You was at a college. I was at Morgan State. Okay. She didn't know. I didn't know.

It had enough to do. No. I am drunk on the day. It's dumb. You see the other girls doing it, and you just do it? And they look like, what? Wipe me down.

Yeah. Well, we be, good morning, y'all. Good morning. Good morning. Well, we'd be talking about these documentaries all the time. And whether they get it right,

get it wrong, is it legal, is it not? So there's one that there's a documentary about Chris Brown that may have just set, it's an old documentary. Oh. That may have just set the standard of how you get it right when you talk about these celebrities' businesses.

We're going to talk about it. I thought that never came out. I was literally talking about that to somebody. I thought that doc never came up. It's out. It's on Discovery. And the judge is not promoted then. If it's out, it's not right.

Well, the judge is saying otherwise. The judge is saying that they didn't balance. Tees, baby. Tees. What the same? Okay. We'll get it to that next. It's the breakfast club.

Good morning. Chase Jess out the club on this song. I know the day is found this day for the deltas. My mother-in-law's the Delta. I don't know if y'all can fight. Okay. If Nuck if you buck is your song, you gotta know how to fight.

I think the Zetas are women. Doctors are not women that out here trying to do to fight. Why do you say? They're very much classy, but they're getting a shot. I don't know. I think there's a generation of deltas

that don't know how to fight. Y'all can't be dancing enough if you want. Not the Delta's I would have to school. Not the deltas I would the school. They're big a fight. But that's a different era, though. They were born in the 70s, okay? I feel like they got both.

They're classy, but they're getting the paint with your ass. Yeah, I got to see it. I gotta see it. Well, salute to all the Delta. Today is our founder's day for the Delta, so salute to the deltas out there. All right. Well, let's get to the latest with Lauren. Hey, let's talk, LL, Kube.

Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. That source is my friend. I'm the home guy that knows a little bit about everything and everything. Lauren. Little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you. Take me through that. Take me through that.

Where is she gone. The latest with Lauren. Let me do that. We'll be shootout. L.L. Coolbe. Talk to me. Please put your hoodie on. Why would I put my hoodie on, Shard?

I'm not talking to you. Uh-oh. You know what my grandmother asked me yesterday? Tell her, blessings to her. She's going to with a hoodie on in here, by the way. But go ahead. Shut up. She asked me, why does he always wear that hat talking about Charlemagne?

And I said... I got a bald either there. Oh, because I told her, I said, sometimes your hair line be trying to fight back, and you don't be wanting us to see the battle. Yeah, if I don't have a haircut. I'll cover it up. I know.

Oh, I know. I'll be seeing when that hair line be trying, baby. That headline's still behind the finish line, though. I want you to convert to being Jewish. Let's get to the news. So you can put the yarmico over that ball. That's got on. Hey, yo, a heck for the spot is crazy.

Yo. That was a good one, little man. It was. Go ahead. You got another? He had that one in the cut. He did. It's cool.

All right, y'all. So there was a lawsuit that was filed almost a year ago today by Chris Brown. And the lawsuit was a defamation lawsuit for $500 million that claimed that a documentary that, ID did investigation discovery did was defame in his character. Chris Brown is basically alleged then that the doc was full of lies and deception.

Now a judge, as of yesterday, has dismissed this lawsuit against Warner Brothers' discovery in Ample Entertainment, who was the production company. And what the judge is saying is that the documentary did its fair job in compiling, using journalistic standards to compile information to fairly present both sides. one of the things that Chris Brown's team had an issue with was the fact that that featured a story about this lady who alleged that Chris Brown had raped her on a yacht owned by Diddy back in 2020.

And Chris Brown's team at the time was saying, well, she didn't provide certain text messages when she went to Miami police. But the judge is saying that the documentary presented both sides in that balanced manner. The court has personally viewed the entire documentary. The documentary recites most of the inconsistencies plaintiff notes, including the existence of text. So basically the fact that they address things that Chris Brown's team is saying is inconsistent and they don't try to hide it and they show things what they should this documentary. I mean the judge is saying, you know, they don't see defamation. Defamation is very hard to prove by the way. But the judge is not agreeing with Chris Brown in this way. I never even saw that doc. That doctor absolutely nothing. Okay, they hurt at all. The hurt sea breezy because Chris Brown was out here flying through the air. Okay, doing backflips. Hello. Driving music, no, stop. Folks was focused on. And he focused on the art. So that means. made people focus on the art. I think so. He also, I saw, he posted,

you saw the post where he said he's working on the music. He's been sitting back, chilling, working on music. He didn't tell me. I'm sorry, damn. We were working the news. Right, I'm sorry. Girl, my bed. Yes.

Now, in other news, speaking of news, yesterday there was a story that circulated that music artist Poo Shiasty was back in police custody. Now, the story that circulated was disproven. I reached out yesterday to the residential reentry center RRC which is online

it was listed that he was in this place RR Dallas until April of 2026 which confused people because you know there's been the conversation Pousai she's home and he did the first day out song and all that stuff this was started because of a stream and then the news just circulated and went he's had to

come out in common and say I am not back in police custody what it seems like and what I was told is that the individual is either in home confinement or residential or the residential reentry center and he's clarified that he is on home confinement, which was a part of his original release conditions in the beginning.

When stories like that happened, it just proves to me that nobody ever does any real research, right? Because if I saw something pop across my timeline and it said, Push Icey was back in jail, wouldn't you make a few calls to try to confirm that as opposed to just running with the story? Yeah, but nobody cares. And yesterday when I seen the story,

my dumb ass believed it, I ain't going front. I mean, they were doing videos on the video like, yeah, they rated this and it was so detailed. I was like, there's no way they disc lie. That's the problem with the internet. But you know it was hard, too, when I was trying to. I checked everything. When I was reaching out yesterday, they wouldn't tell you specific details.

Even in the email I got it says, we can't go any further than this. So it made you wonder like, okay, so what is it then? So maybe somebody tried. But Bushaithi told us. No, but before that. Yeah, he came out later. And I think it's because also, too, he don't want you to mess his money up. Like, he's still able to, you know, eventually get back to what he got going on.

So, yeah. And I'll tease this one because I want to make sure. We give her her just due on this one. Mary J. Blige, coming up in the next latest, we're going to talk about the fact that she has announced her first ever Vegas residency. Come on, now. Now she got to sing. I know that's right.

I love it. She got to say. Yes. I know that she is excited. That is so dope. Yes. She has to travel. She got to move.

She ain't got to do nothing. She already don't be dancing. But she doesn't got to do nothing. She just wake up, go downstead. Sing. Go back upstairs. Yeah. The last couple of years.

have been so great for those of us born in the 1900s. I mean, the GZ, I'm not talking to you. The old people residency is at Vegas. Okay, new addition and boys and men going on. 12 cakes in total. Now Mary J. Blige is gonna be in Vegas. I'm going with my boots. Oh, my God.

Now all of us gotta come see her. She's gotta do the tour. And it's what's up. It's great for the aunties. I can't wait to take home on my aunts. A bunch of energy. I love it. You know what that means.

You're not an auntie. First of all. Then I tell you with an auntie. I know I am. It's a shine of respect. They told you he was haunting in Africa? All right. That's right.

You're 33 with a bald spot and you're not an uncle. Daniel. Daniel. My face is a bald spot. You're not trying to stay. Why would you? All right. I'm sorry, ladies, gentlemen.

When we come back to you know what is happening, I'm going to get your little friend. I was trying to get out of here. Over there looking like a. When we come back. We've been so bad. First of all. First of all. First of all bad.

This is so crazy to me. It's like a question mark. You better get out of here. All right. When we come back, we got front page news. And then we're going to talk to the president and CEO of the NWACP, Derrick Johnson. The new president of BT Lewis Carr and comedian Dion Cole. French Montana Maxby will also be joining us this morning.

So don't go anywhere. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalameenigai. We are the Breakfast Club.

Let's get back in some front page news. Last night, NFL. The game last night wasn't a great game. The Steelers lost. Houston, Texas, beat them 326. All right. Now, what's up, Mimi? Good morning, NBee.

Jelleman. Morning. Hey, girl. Peace, Mimi Brown. All right, so we start this morning in New York City. Mb, you touched on this yesterday. So nearly 15,000 nurses. They are on strike.

It's the largest nurse walkout in the city's history. And the strike, it began yesterday. After contract talks, they broke down. Nurses, they walked off the job at three major hospitals. And at the center of this fight, pay, staffing, safety, and benefits. Now, the nurses union, they say hospitals, they are under staff, they're leaving nurses stretched thin, and patients at risk. Now, they're asking for higher pay, more nurses on the floor, fully funded benefits, and better protection from workplace violence. Now, hospitals,

though, they disagree. They say the union's demands are too costly, and that they've gone out and they've hired 1,400 temporary nurses to keep services running. Now, Mayor Zeran Mondami, he joins the nurses yesterday saying the system rewards executives while frontline workers, they are struggling to make ends meet. Let's listen to some of what he had to say. This strike is not just a question of how much nurses earn per hour. It is also a question of who deserves to benefit from this system. These executives are not having difficulty making ends meet. The CEO and president of Montefiore made more than $16 million last year. The CEO of New York Presby, where we are today, made $26 million last year.

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Listen to Sacred Lessons with Mike Dolorotcha on America's number one podcast network, IHeart. Follow Sacred Lessons with Mike Delocha and start listening on the free IHeart Radio app today. Your salary, what they are asking for is for their pensions to be safeguarded, to be protected in their own workplace, to receive the pay and the health benefits that they deserve. How are nurses demands too costly? Like they work alongside doctors. They are essential parts of health care teams. They care for patients.

They coordinate treatment plans. They administer medication. How are their demands too costly? They're essential. We need nurses. Absolutely. And so that is, you know, exactly what the heart of this strike is about. Governor Kathy Hochel, she has declared a state of emergency.

Warning the strike could put patients at risk. And she's urging both sides to get back to the bargaining table. Yes. a nurse that hit me yesterday. I don't know what her position is and all of this. I cannot find your DM. I've been looking for your DM since you hit me. You hit me and ask me if I could possibly go out there

and DJ to keep morale up and keep the nurses hyped as they're out there on the picking-in-line. Please DM me back because I would love to go out there and DJ as much time as I can. Whatever I can do to help, you mean, you nurses, you really save my baby, so whatever I can do

to get out there and help, I will be there. Please DM me again. I've been looking for your den for the last two days. Nurses are just as important as doctors. Absolutely. Because they literally, like I said, are an essential part of the health care team. They work alongside with the doctor. Like the doctor can't do all of the minute details that nurses do to make sure patients are cared for.

Well, the nurses are the one that come in every 30 minutes, every hour. Check the vital. They monitor your vital signs. They're the ones that hold it down and the doctors come once every couple hours. But the nurses are the ones that hold it down. When I was sleeping at that hospital, they were the one that got me pillows. that snuck me extra blankets that to make sure my kids were eating. Like, yes, like, nah, you got to take care of nurses.

Absolutely positively. And not to mention during COVID, right? They were on the front lines coming in, you know, just putting themselves at harms risk before they would take care of us, before they would take care of their family. I mean, you know what I mean? And they're even doing that now with the protests, man. It's cold out there.

Like the flu grummer. It's just, it's unfortunate. And then when they said they just called in hundreds of backup nurses, that's backup nurses? That's crazy. Crazy. They did. They definitely did that.

All right, well, you guys may remember this next story because NFL great Brett Farr, he was linked to it. So now nearly six years later, that first trial and that massive Mississippi welfare fund scandal is now underway. So authorities say, do you guys remember this back from the day? Yeah. So authorities say at least $77 million in federal welfare money meant for low-income families was misused. and one of the poorest states in the country. Now, those funds came from TANF, which is temporary assistance for needy family. The program was designed to help parents and children pay for basics like food, housing, and child care.

Instead, investigators say the money was funneled through nonprofits. It was spent on luxury, expenses, cars, real estate, and even a college volleyball stadium. Now, Farf, he became tied to the case after officials say he received about $1.1 million from a nonprofit funded with that money. they say that he was paid for speeches he never gave he has not been charged with a crime and says that he did not know that the money came from welfare funds and he has paid the money back but there is still about $228,000 in interest that's still going through the court right now now the first defendant to go to trial his name is Ted Diabasi Jr he's a former professional wrestler prosecutor say he used fake contracts to steal nearly $4 million in welfare funds, spending that money on a boat, a vehicle, and personal expenses. Now, he denies charges

and says he did legitimate work. He is the only federal defendant to go to trial. Seven others have already pled guilty, including John Davis. He is the former head of Mississippi's Department of Human Services. He admitted to knowing where the money was coming from

and failed to stop it. He's now serving 32 years in prison on state. Damn. Excuse me on state charges. said the last brother that called and said we need to report on, you know, things happening on both sides. And he said ICE is doing what they're doing in Minnesota because of the fraud. Ask yourself, how come they're not doing that in Mississippi then.

Yeah. And as that plays out in court, there's a change that you should know about involving the U.S. Postal Service. So on Christmas Eve, the U.S. Postal Service, they quietly changed how postmarks work. Did you guys hear about this? No. Yeah.

So your mail is. is no longer guaranteed to be postmarked the day you drop it off in that blue mailbox. So instead, the date on the envelope, it may reflect when it was processed at a mail facility, which could be the next day or even the day after that. So this matters because postmarks are often used to prove things that, you know, things were sent on time, mail-in ballots, court filings, legal documents, even your bill payments, right? So that means that something that was dropped off on time could be marked late and even rejected. So the Postal Service says this is happening as it restructures mail processing and transportation schedules.

But here's what experts are suggesting. If something has a deadline, do not just drop it off in the mailbox, go inside to the post office, hand it to the clerk and ask for a physical manual postmark. It's free and it will lock in the date. They also suggest that if it's really important that you want to mail that at least a week early. Yeah, that's how I came across this because I read it. an article on PBS about how this will impact mailing mail-in ballots. Yes, it definitely will, right?

Because a lot of states do mail-in ballots, and it has to be postmarked by the date in order to be counted. But if they're not processing it to a couple days later or whatever that may look like, you know, that could, that's going to affect not only melin ballots, Chalomain, but attorneys who have to file legal documents, right? I mean, your bills, it's going to be a growing problem as people find out. This just happened on Christmas Eve. So it's fairly new, but we'll see what happens as people start to really experience what this could look like.

Lord and Murphy, never adult day in this country, huh, Mimi? Never ever adult day, y'all. So that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown TV for more stories. Follow the Black Information Network. Download the free IHeartRadio app or visit VINNews.com. Thank you, Mimi.

Thank you. Now, also something I found out yesterday, if you're out of town and you have tents on your window, and you're in New York and you drive through New York and you have tents on your window, now it's one point on your license. Yeah, starting 2026, so now if you get pulled over and you have tints on your car, it is one point on your license, illegal tense.

Okay, I was going to say, before it was just a ticket, just a whatever ticket, but now that putting points on your license so if you get a certain amount of points, you know, your insurance goes up, your license gets suspended. Yeah. That is crazy. Damn. That is crazy. Damn. All right, well, when we come back,

French Montana and Max B will be joining us. They've got a new project out right now. We're going to talk to them when we come back so don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's D.J. NV. Jess hilarious.

Charlemaine Nagar. We are the breakfast club. Loralosa is here with us as well. We got some special guests in the building. Yes, indeed. We got the good brother Dionne Coe. Welcome back. Yes, sir.

Thank you. We have Derek Johnson, president of the NWACP. Welcome back, brother. Good morning. And we have the president of BET. The new president of BET. Lewis Carl. Welcome, brother.

Thank you. How y'all feeling this morning, man. Great. Great. Great. Good, good. Good. Y'all running around for the 57th N.A.C. Image Awards.

Or BET. Mm-hmm. Yeah. How does that feel? It's going to be great, man. It's going to be good. We're going to be doing our thing, you know. Another year. Another blessing, right? Dion, like, I'm just here so I don't get fine. Y'all decided to use Dion again.

What was so good about Dion? You said, we got bringing up back. I mean, he's funny. He's good. It was a lively show. and it's important to have some continuity. I mean, we had Anthony Anderson, what, six, seven years. We had the queen. Unfortunately, we didn't get her the next year, and Deion just stepped in, and it's been a great show. And congratulations to you, Lewis Carman.

You know, he can't ignore the elephant in the room. So we're our guy, Scott Mills, but, you know, he's no longer the president of BET. You are now. Yes, sir. How does that feel? It's amazing. It's been a hell of a journey, and it's a privilege. It's a big job, and we're just trying to take BET

to the next era, we call it the new era. And it's exciting, but it's a privilege. What does modernizing BET actually mean to you? Is it about platform? Is it about programming? Is it about mindset? It's about all of that, and it's about community and culture. I don't think any brand that is serving black people right now,

they have to lean into the community, especially what's going on in our country right now, whether it's political, whether it's economic. So we're really going to lean into community, and we were built on culture at the end of the day. So we're going to be one of the drivers of culture and holding it up and continue. And that's why we are in partnership with NWACP.

And my homeboy, Dionne Cole, this is my homeboy, so it's a real privilege to me. What's your first initiative besides this, of course, what's the first initiative that BET wants to do with you being the new president? My first initiative is reestablishing BET is the brand that people are proud of. So the first thing I've done is

We have an internal slogan that may go public Since I'm going to say it right now BET is something you can believe in We really want people to sort of gravitate And understand that they do have some ownership in this They do have some responsibility in this Because we serve the culture We serve our community

What do you think that was lost if you do You know I remember as a kid You know I think everybody would come on from school You're turning on BET And not just for 106 in Park and O shows But there's so many shows around the realm that people would love about BET. I think we lost that a little bit.

It didn't become hours anymore. So what do you think the reason is that we got away from that? I think technology. I think there was a disruption in technology. You know, we were primarily a cable brand at that particular time. And, you know, whether it is the internet or whether it's streaming, it sort of interrupted everything that we were doing. So now we've got to sort of change our ways and really become more focused on the consumer

and where the consumer is, not just a cable brand. How are y'all still paying for the NWACP Awards? I'm asking. Because they're coming of the award shows is what I'm asking, but the NWACP Awards are still here. I think NWACCP, 57 years, we do have a formula.

We have been on air. We will continue to be on air. In fact, we've expanded to an NWACP Image Awards week. We start off for the golf tournament. We have a fashion show. We do all the things that really highlight Black Excellence.

We can no longer sit back and react to what other platforms do against us and not include us. We've got to invest in our own and as an organization we have invested and we continue to have the show year after year. This year's theme is we see you. Break that down a little bit.

This current political climate is one in which they're trying to erase who we are as a culture, as a people and so we have to see ourselves. What frustrates me more than anything else is we're caring about what the Oscars say about us and who the Grammy included that did include. We got to invest in our own. We have

to see ourselves and speak from a surplus mindset and get away from caring about what white folks who don't care about us anywhere, but they're saying what they're doing when we have our own. Does it bother you any when you see a lot of these celebrities go to those other award shows but don't come to the home shows? Does that bother you any? Well, you know,

it bothers me, but they don't because then they get in trouble then they come back and say, hey, we want to be back to the part of the same thing, right? So I'm an HPCU graduate. There's nothing better than our black cottages. What's cool? Tugulu College. It's only with five-olds. We all know each other, right? We're not like Hampton. We all know each other, right? In Mississippi.

But if we invest in our own, our schools become better. I'm in the middle of a book now by Nekrumer. He went to Lincoln. And his experience at Lincoln allowed him to become the first president of Ghana. Why? Because Thurgood Marshall was there. He ran across Ralph Ellison. He had all of the integration of black intelligence, not only in the United States, but globally.

We have to do the same thing for our platforms. The Trump administration has been open about attacking DEI, black history, civil rights languages. The NAACP fighting to. preserve those games from the past, or is this moment forcing the NWACP to completely rethink? Well, absolutely, fight. We are in, I can't name the number of court cases,

many of which we've already won, whether it's a redistricting case in Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, whether or not we put boost on the ground in California for the referendum, whether or not we're strategizing in Maryland and Virginia around that redistricting. Absolutely, we're fighting, but the election have consequences and platforms like this. We cannot send mismessages. We've got to be clear

that this November, we've got to turn out and the vote. We know who the enemy are. We know how they look. It is not black men is doing this or not doing that. It's about all black folks need to get out and vote because if we don't. Our citizenship, our human essence in this country is at risk.

Is there any way to rethink the playbook? Always. I mean, you know, add into the conversation in a way in which we can reconsider things. The medium age of our community is 32 years old. Things have already been rethought and rethought again. We are

constantly evolving. That's why next month we're a 117 year old organization. We're solvent, we're strong, and we continue to fight. We have to get out of. Black folks saying, what this group isn't doing this one, or this group should do that one. Hell, pick up a shovel and get a scoop and help all of us

get to where we need to be, because if we're stronger as an organization, we're stronger as a community. Now, you posted something on your social media page that was very powerful, right? It was a half face of KKK plan member and half face of an ICE member. Break that down with that picture.

If you understand the history of this country, the Klan reemerge in the 20s. They were able to reemerge through law enforcement, starting in Indiana, and they spread across the country. What we're seeing with the ICE operation now is they're recruiting white supremacists to come into the agency and go in and terrorize communities. Now, let's not be fooled and think it's all about the Latino community. No, it's us too. when they're in Minneapolis and they're pulling over brothers and sisters from Sudanis from Sudan

they look like us they look like all of us around this table so it's one group today it's another one tomorrow it is us after that we have to stand up so what we're looking at is clan activity masquerading as ice agents Dion what makes you want to host

NAWGP a war as a black comic the community as a sin I don't know what I'm in a lot. Jim surface to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I shouldn't be here.

Yeah. I don't have no turtleneck. I don't have no jacket. I don't know why I'm here. I don't know. I'm just going to have a good time at the show. I don't know what I'm doing. It's going to be off-cuff.

We just, whatever, man. Hey, you know what I love about you, Diyon, man. Some comedian. They just get louder As they get older You got sharper Well, I thank you

Was that intentional Or they just like Life Srip away All the noise Yeah, I just I just don't have the energy To be hollering And doing a whole bunch of stuff

I think less is more You know Being more in the pocket When it comes to comedy Is, you know My forte And how I get down You know

I want to be heard And not seen You could be heard Softly You could be heard You know loudly or whatever But I like to just

You know stay in the pocket with what I do, you know, and it keeps me distance from what the norm. We had a conversation a couple of months ago about you, Dion, when you were talking about Kai, and we were talking about the younger generation and the older generation,

and you were saying, you said something to the fact of, I don't want to misquote you, that you feel like the young generation should do their homework on some of the legends. And we were saying that sometimes it's very difficult because if they don't know the individuals, it's very difficult, but you felt the way that he doesn't necessarily know who you are.

Yeah, well, it wasn't, and I think everybody twisted and made it seem like I was trying to say he didn't know who I was. And I said over and over again, I was like, it wasn't even about me. It was just about him having that platform to showcase these icons and let his generation know who these people are. And I was like, you don't have to know everybody because I don't know everybody. And my whole thing was at least know the winners. You know what I mean? Right, right. If you can know who won, that's good enough.

You know what I mean? So do your homework and not just walk around like that. And I love that little brother. I think he dope. I think he is innovative and all of that. I just feel as though that with this generation nowadays, corrective criticism is considered hate. And it's not hate.

It's like, what am I going to do? Just let you keep doing what you're going to do and then let it keep getting worse and worse and worse. Like the situations that have happened now and certain things, whatever. So my job was to go, hey, little brother. brother, check this out, do that, and everybody spent it or whatever. But hopefully he heard it, you know, but then a little bit after that, I think he was actually going through stuff, you know what I mean?

So what I was saying was maybe it was something on his mind or hard or whatever, but I felt like I did my job by saying what it is and he went to go get help and all of that. You get what I mean? Because you never know what nobody's going through. So I have to say what I have to say and then go from there, you know what I mean? So, you know, much love to that brother. I love that little brother. I think a part of the conversation with the Kai stuff, though, for people who are in, like, a learning space is, like, do y'all ever have a chance to have those conversations with him privately?

Like, you said, you hope he heard what you said, so you guys haven't been able to talk in private. No, I haven't been able to talk to him in private. I would have loved to, but I didn't reach out because it was just going so bananas. I just was like, yo, if you want to talk, he'll reach out, but I ain't want to go, hey, this is what I meant, you know. But I would love to talk to that brother. I remember I did something with Marlon, or Wains, and Marlon said that he had talked to him, and he said, he was like, man, man,

called the little brother and tell him, and tell him, like, you know, you're cool or whatever, and I never got his number, whatever. But Marlon did talk to him. And, you know, I don't really know what the outcome was, but Marlon was like, you know, just call him, and I never did. So I don't have information even reaching out on IG or whatever. I just didn't, but I will. I reach out to him.

me like, hey, hit me up. Let's talk about it. I love, like, how you always, Deion, just, like, for me knowing you always, like, rap yams around people or just always speak about people in a positive light. Even when those people are, you know, under public scrutiny or whatever, like, you had, I just seen, like, a few weeks ago, you had Kanye at your show. Yeah. And how you bought him up on stage and just, like, the room just love seeing them there.

And you look at me y'all from the same city. So it's like, you know, I loved that. Yeah. Did you know he was going to be there? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, shout out to my man, John Monop. John was like, man, we had me and John and no ID. We had dinner the night before with some friends.

And, yeah, he hit up John. John was telling him, man, we had a good conversation. He was talking about some stuff. And Yay was like, man, when the next time you all are meeting, I want to go out? It was like, I think I got a show tomorrow you want to go. And he was like, all my family in time for the holidays. And he was like, if I can bring him, they hit me.

I was like, yeah, tell them to come through, you know, how many you got. He was like 25. Jesus Christ He said family He's got it He got? He's got in a lot Yeah

Mind you My room There's only 40 seats You know Yeah So I did a show But I did a friend So we had to bring in

Couches and crates And all the kind of stuff But yeah He came in And he brought in All 25 His people

His wife And everybody came in He had a great time Because he needed that You know what I mean It was a lot of weight on him You know

And when it comes to these situations, I feel like when we're dealing with one of our own or whatever, I feel like personally, we shouldn't let everybody get on them. Like we can get on them, but when everybody else starts getting on them, we go, all right, well, y'all relax. Yeah. We'll take care of him, you know. And so it was for me to be like, come on out.

Come on have a good time. Relax your mind, you know, and I go from that, whatever. I wasn't he supposed to bring him on, you know. bring him on the stage, but I was like, forget that. Do you have pressure? I agree with that to a certain extent. But what you mean? What are you saying?

Take care of our own. But Yead, Yee, Yee pokes his own community, too. I get it. You know? I get it. I get he does. But, I mean, what are you going to do? I just, I don't want to see nobody get kicked while they down.

You know what I mean? And so once they keep kicking while he down, it's like, all right, that's what I mean. When they keep kicking him while he down, it's like, He got the message. Quit kicking him. I have been interested to see what his mindset is because we haven't heard from him. He's been quiet for about a year.

He's been quiet. I'll tell you where he had. He's just like, man, I'm going to put some music out. I'm going to do what I do. I'm going to go back to the essence. I'm about to make it soul for. I'm about to make it fun. I'm about to get it in.

And that's where he's at with it. He's like, man, I'm just going to keep doing me. And, you know, whatever, whatever. But he's just chilling right now. I was going to ask you, Do you have any pressure when you have like a Kanye at your show based than a regular show with no celebrities in it? Any pressure with you or no?

No, not really, not at all. Like, I know why they're there, you know. Everybody come to just ease their mind and, you know, the pressure, you know, the pressure of this business or whatever. They just come down to get away. Like we had Paul McCartney at the show, you know. He just wanted to come, just come hang out and kick it. You know, most people walk around there, Sir Paul, Sir Paul, you know.

I'm in there, like, calling them Pete. he loved and all kinds of stuff, just anything, just to make him feel normal. You started to say Diddy. A little bit. I said, yeah. I have a question. You don't have to raise your hand,

you know, you can just go. Excuse me. I have a question. I want to ask you. I want to put nobody on first street, but I do have a question. So I remember when Kanye got in trouble and Nick Cannon got in trouble

and they went and they talked to leaders, of other racist Jewish communities rabbis rabbis Yeah So when people

talk bad about us Mm-hmm Why isn't And there's nobody To answer to Why is that? Well, it all depends On the situation

In the scenario So when Nick Cannon Got into his score For Marvars Who was at Peremont? Love Marble Right

We admitted Start talking Put together That strategy He's back on air Now When Kyrie Irvin got into the issues with the Brooklyn team here, Isaiah Thomas and I, we got on the phone, we came over the strategy, we got his agent, we got Kyrie on, and we began to talk about what is the pivot to save his career. So it all depends on the scenario and whether or not the individual is open enough to reach out.

But that wasn't the question Dion asked. What Dion said was when other races do stuff to offend black people, who do they answer to? Who do they have to? Who do other races answer? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because when we do something wrong, we have to go talk to the leaders of that race. But why do you have to do that? You don't have to do that.

I'm just, I'm only asking to learn. It goes to the individual scenario. We shouldn't be answering to anybody. I understand that. So I'm going to the Kyrie Irvin piece, right? So the blowback came, said we want you to go to this museum and that museum. It was like, but have you been to the African-American museum? How are we going to look at our own stuff?

How do we begin to react based on our narrative response and not somebody else's? Far too often, we're reacting because the team around us don't look like us. That's been the problem. There are far too many of these same individuals. The agent ain't one of us. The manager is not us. The lawyer is not us. So what happens?

Their advice are coming from their professionals who are moving them to communities. That's not us. But if you have people surrounding you that look like us, understand who we are, then the advice you're getting becomes even more crucial. So then you ask yourself, when you look at individual by individual, who's representing them? Who's in their ear? Because far too many of our high, A-caliber celebrities, they leave us. So would you not have it?

I do like that question Dionne asked, though, because I think people for so long have looked to the NAACP, I guess to be black people's version of like the ADL. But by the way, the ADL is supposed to be black people's version of the ADL. It's supposed to be anti-deformation for, you know, black people, Jewish people, and all. But I guess that's what people want the NAACP to be. We can only be what people, when it get to a certain status,

allow it be. Like when you talk about all these folks, who's their lawyer? Is it black a wife? Who's the agent? Who's representing them? That becomes the key, because you all know this game much better than I.

I do in the ice. of the controversy, only those who have the ear are able to inform on how the move. I'm not going to mention one particular former professional football player. We reached out. His team knew, didn't even know who we were. And so we're trying to help, but the team don't even know who we are. So he can't come to us because he's all of 23 years old. Colin Kaepernick.

And then his whole team, it doesn't look like us, don't understand the nature of what we do. and we still, I have yet to see this brother at a black event. But I think that it should be publicized. And I just say that you did. No, I think it should be publicized because it gives people, it makes people think like

there is a consequence with what you say. And because it's never publicized that. People, it's not like somebody can go in blackface or say something bad and then they come over and they go, and they see them sitting down with you talking and you talking to them and going, you know, this is what you need to do. This is forgiving them and all the rest of that.

We never see that. Didn't happen with Jimmy Fallon? But we see our races. That has happened a couple times. I remember Jimmy Fallon had to come sit down to see or. That's been several. Yeah, he had the blackface situation. I never said that.

I said that. I met with Jimmy Fallon after that. We had a lot of times. I remember that. It was comments he made on the air, if I'm not mistaken. It was a black face situation. That's what it was. Yeah, there was like an old photo there surfaced.

Yeah. So that was happening. There's a whole list of people that have had to come to you guys and apologize and have conversations, but... But it goes to the Kayet example. Are we informing our young entertainers, hey, our peers about their representation? We're giving our money away.

I just heard a narrative about print. Someone wanted to do his cover his son. He says, I'm not going to let you do that because you don't own the rights of your son. I refuse to pay for these folks' grandkids to go to college off of my material. The real question for the celebrity community are we allowing ourselves to be pimped

as we masquerade in blackface? Because oftentimes that's what's happening. BET is a much stronger entity if more of our folks invest in it. NACP is a stronger advocate if more of our folks invest in it. My membership roster, those who support me are everyday working people.

That's a beautiful thing. That's who we represent. But we have to be honest about this, conversation at 360 degrees, are we investing in our young people who've gone to law school, who are at-ed-ad agencies, who can actually do the thing and making sure we're rep by them? Let's look at some of these nominees, Lauren. Pull them up. I know we all over the place in this interview. It's all good. Outstanding motion picture. Outstanding podcast, news and information, outstanding podcast life and self-help, lifestyle self-help. Outstanding podcast, society and culture,

I think I was supposed to be in that one. Podcast Arts, sports and entertainment, Outstanding Podcasts, Scripted, Limited Series, short form. You have the Outstanding Gospel Christian album, Outstanding Album, Outstanding Song, solo R&B, hip-hop and rap song, Outstanding Variety Series are special.

Outstanding Children's Program. Outstanding new artists. Outstanding male artists, female artists, entertainer of the year. Tiana Teller is also in that category, too. Cynthia Arrivo and Dochi, Kendrick Lamar, and Michael B. Jordan. Outstanding comedy series,

outstanding drama series, outstanding news information series are special outstanding talk series outstanding reality program reality competition series services and game shows so how do people decide who's winning these categories so there is a first of all you have to submit your content there is a committee uh people in the industry uh and lay purses over 300 plus people to nominate and then once you are nominated uh you voted on depending on a category could be a committee that votes on you of experts so the literary committee, you have individuals who read a lot of books, right?

Some of the categories is, you know, anyone can vote, no, the mask vote. In other categories, there is another voting committee. And so it's broken up, so no one has the thumb on the scale for any particular product. You know, I was going to produce

a daytime soap called Beyond the Gates. I couldn't have my thumb on the scale, but they got nominated, and I'm glad it is nominated. It is an opportunity for us to really appreciate our content, and then vote on what we think is best represent our image and who we are as a people. Let me tell what we need.

We need Uncommon Favor by Don Staley to win outstanding literary work. That's Black Privilege Publishing. We need a state of blame pod to win outstanding podcast. That's our media reason choice. We need money and wealth for John Holbein. The Win Outstanding Podcast. That's Black Effect.

That's Black Effect. Our Hot Podcasts. Oh, just here with Dr. Jay. That's Black Effect. We need that to win as well. What else we need to win? Oh, and we need Kingsland to win An Outstanding Podcasts, Scripted Limited

Series, that's SBH Productions and Audible. Anything else, sir? No, that's covered. So the show is February 28th on BET, NCBS, February 28th, Dionne Cole, Derry Johnson, Lewis Carr, thank you guys for joining us. Thank you.

And they can vote online for the... Some of the categories you can vote online. That's correct. All right. It's the breakfast club, good morning. Let's get right to the latest with long. You're talking LL Kubei? Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down.

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this Friday, the 16th of January, period. I'm there too. I'm there too. Out of the date weekend, you hear me. What? Yeah, okay, so here's what I think is like so fire about it because I've been trying to figure out, and she's talked about this.

We'll get into that. What the show will be like because Mary has all the hits, right? So the May dates, Mother's Day, that's when you take your mom, your aunt, the grandma. If you're a mom yourself, you get treated. So we put together a little mashup

of what we think she may do one of these different dates. So she did like a for the aunties, for the moms, for the ladies, those first couple dates, here's what we think it'll sound like. Let's take a listen. Hey. Where we two-step with it, right? You are right now.

I was like to be old. How y'all ain't played a goddamn song? I'm on my hands. Go off, go off. Since you've been a way boy. Look, Auntie Hunt. I heard. I ain't got no way.

No, no, no, no. Switch it up, switch it up. Yeah. Y'all going too slow, though, man. Well, she got to break the aunties in the minds and everybody in first. You bring it in? Yeah. You're busy loving yourself.

Switch it up. Oh. Now she got over the pain. So to celebrate. Oh, you know about your DJ. She said that's the answer. Y'all playing good records, but y'all playing them in just the weirdest of orders. No, because we're trying to figure out.

Okay, so listen, Mary J. Blige was on the Today, so we're going to get to the second of the second half of the days. Because the second half of the days, I think are going to be like more of the party because it's right after July 4th or whatever. But Mary J. Blige was on a day. And every single episode is going to be a party. It's Vegas. It's going to be family affair. I can love you all night long. Mary J. Blage was on the Today Show and she said she's going to actually be doing this more narrated.

There's going to be actors showing her life story. Let's take a listen to Mary. So this is your first Vegas residency. Let's listen to Mary J. Blige on the Today Show. What to expect? For folks who come out, what can they expect from the Mary J. Blase residency? It's called My Life Story because it's going to be done more like theatrical, you know. Okay.

But you're still going to have the music. It's still going to be fun. But it's going to be told. It's a story. So there's going to be actors and actresses and people, you know, living. And so the story, the music. tells the story. And I have so many songs that I haven't performed yet for my fans,

like B size and things like that. The actors are going to narrate the music. Oh, this is going to be an experience. Yeah, but it's going to still be, you're still going to have a good time. You know, it's not going to be some old God is born. No, it's Mary J. Blige show or concert is never boring. I was going to see Mary Jane. I didn't need ever boring because my fans are lit.

That makes sense, though, because she's doing all the movies on Lifetime based around her, um, her music. That's right. So like a Broadway musical. Sort of kind of. Yeah, you gotta start out from like all the slow, the pain, the music would inspire it. But then you get to the party. So the second half of the days I mentioned are in July is right after July 1st.

So I think that'll be the party. I didn't, I didn't know. Love is all we need. Real love, family affair, just fine. You're all I need. Where we're doing, yo? Yeah. This is gonna be fire.

Like, it is. I'm excited for the, you don't want to talk about because we need. Yes, exactly. Not instant. Exactly. Exactly. I got a rule. I don't talk this part in people.

if they don't know certain songs by Barry J. Blige's verbatim. We're just not on the same energetic spiritual level. You can't even say spiritual level that even felt like, wow. Yeah, it knows. We didn't even get into the I Can Love You with little Kim. We didn't have enough time. Yeah.

We didn't have enough time. And that's one of the things too. I'm like, she has so many songs. I know. It's a set amount of dates. But she did also talk about too, and you mentioned this, Jess. She said this is different for her because she'll be able to like kind of chill in between

all the work. It's going to be a lot of work. Yeah. And then come down. Be with a lot of work. fans and Goberg. It's different because that's not normally how her are tours and her shows are. She's not just work, work, work. She's not doing a lot

of traveling. She's in one place. So now we got to come to her. She ain't got to do all the traveling, be tied and all that. I can't wait to get drunk and just cry when she sings, I love you. And just cry. She ain't ever heard that either, huh? You won't cry? You ever heard I love you? I don't know if I've ever heard maybe. Give me like two bars

for something. No, I won't. Why are you so ex-aductive by us this morning? And I might even know it. You just got I know. We might not know it by the name of that song. Okay. I was born in 92. Ninety-two. Ain't even know yet called 90 to you. Go ahead, Lord. What else?

I was, so I was just going to say as well. So I mentioned to you guys that Mary Jade Blige announced this on her birthday. She turned 55. She had like a little turn-up that she's been talking a lot about. But I thought it was so cute too. I don't know if you guys saw the photos that her and Angie Martinez were posting back and forth

because of their birthdays. Like their birthdays are days apart. I thought that was just so cute to see. I wanted to mention that as well. Can you pull up, I love you, Eddie? I want to play I love you after the break. Please, because I don't know if I know it by the name. But in the next hour. There's certain songs, first of all.

I probably know it, Charlemagne. You should know it because my life is a Bible. And if you don't know I love you off my life, you don't even need to spend your money to go see Mary J Blah. Or I spend my money because Mary J. Blas needs to educate me on what I missed. Well, we just learn them before we go, yo. We might know. We may know the song.

We may know the song. We just have to hear me. We might not know about the name. Don't turn your back to me, girl, that big back. Turn that big back around. You don't know. Turn that big back around. All right, well, make sure everybody goes out and gets their tickets.

Oh, that's a limit. Oh, yeah, yeah. I know the song, right? I know you can hear me now for the record. I love you. I love you. Like, stop playing. Stop playing.

Okay. Been me I couldn't sleep Thinking about All the things that we've been through Stay home We don't want you in Vegas We don't want your kinds in Vegas

Stay home Tickets's going to sell this Friday January 16th Please make sure you go grab your tickets For the Mayor J. Bly's experience in Vegas because as you see it would be very entertaining Are you not entertained

We're going to gather Not by you I don't want to be in the building I'm not going with y'all I don't know anything There's nobody that when certain songs Come on neat looking around What's that? What's that?

No, I won't when a certain song when everybody's like, oh! That's my joy! That's what we just did. We just did. We played it. I took my mom and my aunt to see Marriage a blanche and it was very much like that. That never happens. As we wrap up.

They took you to see Marry J. Blige. You ain't take them. They took you. As we wrap. And the next latest, we are going to get into speaking of, you know, some things. Ooh. Maybe. Don't look for you.

And the next. And the next. Deadlock guys with me when you play stuff like that. He definitely like that. And you bitch on the bottom lip. Boy. Man, go to donkey. Bring it back.

Bring it back. Bring it back. Man, Joe, for you, you get donkey. Hold on, y'allel me. My life, my life, my life. For you giving your donkey, too. I'm giving my donkey today to all of the sports journalists who had something negative to say about the good sister.

What's the good sister name? Why are you talking like that? I'm not talking like that. No, this is like, yeah, the midnight. And me, ask him again, why you're talking like that? Len Jones Turpin, okay? Oh, yes. Oh.

Y'all are crazy. Don't get the days up next. You know the song is about God, right? But not what y'all are doing. But you're not going to have that this is... This don't happen in the church. It's the breakfast club. Get your ass out. Come on it. My life, my life, my life, my life in the sunshine.

This don't be a donkey. Because right now you want some real donkey. Tell us, tell us. It's time for donkey of the day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey man, hit it with the hero. Did she get donkey in a day, please, tell me? I had become donkey of the day.

At the breakfast club, bitchy. Me, motherfucking home. I just don't, I don't, can't none of y'all touch Mary on a cultural, spiritual level, okay? No way. Talk here today for Tuesday, January 13th, because all you sports journalists who criticized Jacksonville free press associate editor, Lynn Jones Turpin. Okay, salute to Lynn Jones Turpin. Drop on the clues bombs for that sister, okay? Also drop on the clues bombs for everyone who listens us on 93.3 to beating Jacksonville.

I'm not going to lie, I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan. Y'all know that, but I was hoping Jacksonville pulled it off this weekend because y'all no little Duval, my dog, and I love all my folks in Jacksonville, and the reality is I'm not no hater. Unless your team is in the NFC East. I realized that about myself a long time ago. If it can't be my Dallas Cowboys,

I wish happiness and much success for every team in the NFL except for the Redskins or commanders, whatever you want to call them, the Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, okay? So I'm watching the Jaguars game, hoping they could pull it out, but alas, they didn't. They lost to the Buffalo bills, 27, 24. And a local Jacksonville news reporter named Lynn

Jones Turpin had a chance to make a comment during Jaguars head coaches Liam Cohen's yeah Liam Cohen's press conference and she said this I want to tell you congratulations on your success young man. You hold your head up all right you guys have had a most magnificent season

and he did a great job out there today so you just hold your head up okay and ladies and gentlemen Duval you the one all right you keep it going we got another season okay I appreciate take care and much continued success to you in the entire team. Thank you, ma'am. Now, does anybody find a problem with what she said? No. No. That didn't bother me at all. Why? Because she's a local Jacksonville news reporter,

so clearly she's a fan of the Jaguars. If that's how she wants to spend her time with the coach, I don't care. So when I saw the headline, NFL journalist remarks the the Jaguars coach after playoff loss sparks debate on social media, I said to myself, y'all really don't have anything better to do. Okay, but then I saw Matt Barnes from the All of Smoke podcast, Luke to Matt Barnes, and I saw Pat McAfee from the Pat McAfee Show given those journalists who had something negative to say about Lynn Jones Turp and some smoke, and I said, oh, this is a real thing. Y'all really was upset.

You had some reporters arguing that if you're covering the game, you only have limited time with these coaches and players, so I guess they want them to ask questions of substance. You had other reporters saying journalists shouldn't showcase their fandom too much, saying the reporter fan line had been crossed too many times before. Let me read some of these tweets. Chick Hernandez, Mr. Chick Sports on Twitter said, not sure how that credential was given out. Tashon Reid on Twitter said,

I promised the last thing we need is more reporters acting like fans. Brooke Pryor said, look, it's a kind sentiment, but it's not the job of a reporter to console a coach in a post-game press conference. Pressors are to ask questions to gain a better understanding of what happened they lost. We know what happened.

Or figure out what's next and do it in a limited amount of time. Michael Eve said, one, this is inappropriate for this particular working environment. agree. Two, there's nothing quite as comforting as encouraging words from an older black woman. Three, both things can be true at the same time. Okay. I've read enough.

Listen, everybody shut the F up forever. Okay, like go touch grass. All right, go to the Jaguar Stadium and touch grass. I don't even know if they got artificial turf for real grass or not. I'm not, you know, one of these type reporters. I'm not one of these type journalist, so I don't know what written and unwritten rules are. I don't know what the

etiquette is, but Lynn Jones Terpen works for the Jacksonville Free Press. She's a fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars. If she wants to big up the coach for the season they had, salute to her, okay? Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jaguars were four and 13 last year, right? They had the number three pick in the draft and they grabbed Travis Hunter.

This year, they flipped it and reversed it and finished 13 and four and won the AFC South. Yeah, big up to them. And only a local Jacksonville news reporter could have done that. That shouldn't have bothered anyone, okay? Not one solitary soul. The fact that people criticize this, it says more about them than it does Lynn Jones Turpin. I don't even understand the logic of journalists turning into fans being frowned upon by the media industry.

There is no person more honest than a sports fan. Okay, sports fans give praise to their teams when they earn it and give criticism to their teams when they deserve it. All right? It's really that simple. In fact, I want more journalists that are actual fans of the game covering the sport. A lot of these journalists in sports, they are trying to be the star. it's about them. No, it's about the game, okay? So to see a local news reporter from Jacksonville give some words of encouragement to a coach to see her have a human moment with a coach who gave

them a winning season after a losing one, good for her. Now, Lynn Jones-Turpin explained why she chose to do what she did. Let's go to news for Jacksonville to listen. So coach came out and he was his emotions. He was totally immersed. His feelings. He had tears. He bit his lip. And the issue is the question, not necessarily a question in the fourth quarter and the fourth down and the punt came through. But my question was keep your head up, young man. So, Lynn, I do want to bring out because this also has a lot of mixed emotions and how people are responding to this. So Adam Schaeffner wrote, this is an awesome post game exchange between a reporter and Jags head coach. But then Mark Long, who's an AP reporter, kind of went in on this.

And he said nothing awesome about this, called you fake media, said that, you. You shouldn't even have been up there asking those kind of questions. So when you heard that, how did that make you feel? I really, I don't take no offense to it. Listen, I've been in this business more than 25 years. I've been a view from Barack Obama to Terry Bradshaw to what's my guy named Tiger Woods. So he can say whatever you want about fake news. I have a member of the Black Press, NNPA, the National Newspaper Association,

that's been around more than 100 years. I'm the associate editor of the Jacksonville Free Press, one of the more than 230 African-American newspapers still printing in this country today. In Jacksonville, you had the Florida Star since 1955. We've been around since 1986. In Philadelphia, the Tribune, the Philly Tribune has been printing since 1884. In my hometown, the Michigan Chronicle has been printing since 1935, so support the Black Press. So he can call me fake all you want to, honey. I've been doing this a long time.

I'll tell you something to do. People know me. Preach, preacher. I love when people use their opportunity to teach, man. Drop on the clues bonds for Lynn Jones Turpin. You know how you know she made the right decision because look at all the attention she's getting. All right, God has lifted her name on high

and she chose her moment to lift up to Black Free Press. So drop on a clue bond for her again. She decided to have a human moment in a field where humanity clearly doesn't exist anymore. And I hope this leads to a lot more opportunities for her and a lot more access for Lynn Jones Turpin. Jacksonville Jaguars. Y'all should give her seeds and tickets,

some type of all-lac access, press credentials for life. I don't know. Y'all figure it out. In the meantime, please give all these so-called journalists and reporters who had something negative to say about Lynn Jones Turpin to sweet sounds in the hamletones. Oh, now you are the donkey.

Of the... All right. Damn. I love that. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir. The two fingers together.

The whole time. The two people she was even talking to should have been going on like, period, talk your talk. What? What is it? Portfolio resume saying what? Don't play with me. All right. Now, when we come back, French Montana and Max B will be joining us. They've got a new project out, and we're going to talk to them next.

You don't go anywhere. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalameen, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Long LaRose is here as well. We got some special guests in the building. Yes, indeed. French Montana and Max B. Welcome. Good morning.

The first thing Mac V said is why is my picture not on the wall. He was in prison. These are all moments that happened here, Max. Yes, on the breakfast club. From Elena. Max, he was in prison. Then he said, you got

Cardi B up here three times. No, that's Cardi B, J-Lo, and Angie Martinez. They're not the same person. Back, you wasn't here, man. I want my picture up. How are you? How are you, sir?

How are you, sir? How are you, French? I'm good. I love to see this, man. Man, I love to see this, man. You know what I mean? You know, Max did a bid. Everybody knows that French.

You always held him down. How did this bond stay the same through all that time? Communication. I'm saying? Happiness from my bro. Y'all did doing this day. Kept me tapped in on all levels. Through the whole joint.

Seen everything. Videos, the TV, the music. That was it. We just was just riding out waiting. You just doing brotherly shit? It's like, French, you always believed Max was coming home. Yeah, for some reason. Why did you always say?

You always said a date that didn't exist though. He'd be on January. Nah, he'd be home February. It'd be him telling me that. I was getting in trouble. I was getting in trouble. The last one he did was like, what, like two years ago? I was supposed to go to halfway house and all that.

I didn't screw my little joint up inside, messed anything up. It kind of worked for him, though. I would like, yo, he coming home next month. Everybody starts calling me. How much you need for this? How much you need for this? How much you need for this? He'll rack up all the money.

He'd be like, all right, tell him I'm not coming home this year. Damn. Right, and then, too, yeah, that's up. I'm coming home this year again. So what were you doing so you couldn't get home? We were like, what was going on? Were you on the phone or? That too.

But I beat the phone joints. I got caught with, like, drugs, weed, back old dirty young men. In there? Yeah, in there. Jesus Christ, man. Like a convict. you ain't say that maybe maybe i don't do this like you're like now i got to i'm like i'm like two years left i'm like man i'm just gonna do this how i do it i go home in two

years anyway so and i've been there this long they can't wait a little longer for me me jesus right it'll work out because i came home on my on my dude birthday so that was a special moment that's fine a beatie my he'll hit me with presents all every year gold plaques all the type said, yo, you got a max B on your birthday. You got a pickup valve. How many people didn't do the bid with you? For instance, somebody who did, how many people who didn't?

Listen, I ain't going to say no names. I think that's inappropriate. All right, I'm going to tell you this. Those who didn't do it, they didn't do it. It's all right. The people that surround me, God got them right where he wanted them to be. So how we're going to do that.

Now, yeah, sentence was cut by a lot, drastically cut. Why was it cut? so much because at one time we was like damn max being never coming home but then we seen hopes it was it was similar in glistence of hope number one i wasn't supposed to be in there first place i was in the whole other state when the crime happened and i got out because my lawyer was a grease ball and it had nothing to do with my crime i was found i copped out 20 years to my crime i got back on pcr which is post-conviction relief so my lawyer was ineffective i got back on that to my good defense team I had on the pill that's another stuff I have no idea what you're

talking about right now by the defense team on the pill defense team on appeal when he appealed I don't I'm cool smart not to know how do you know too many books I don't know how does it feel creatively to revisit the coke wave series after so many years if it was rejuvenating to be able to be able to to work with him again. That was like the, hey, I wanted to go through my own thing, but just getting in the lab with French, it was like, it brought back a lot of old energy.

It just felt good. You know what I'm saying? My boy on point. He had to get me on point and get my voice used to the, back to the, back to the, mic, and shit back me in the studio. Felt good, working my brother, bro. Why didn't you wait to make just the first musical offering? And I, French, I noticed you probably wanted that.

You were like, yo, you know what? Let this be the first thing you put out. No, he put out his own project. I know that. Why didn't he, why didn't you wait to make this deferral? I was making both of them at the same time. Gotcha. So whenever I wasn't in the studio with him, I was doing my own thing.

I'm always in the studio. You know that. Well, the fed, my, my committed fans, my cult, they needed something. They needed the domain. So that was just like, yo, look, this is what I was going through. This was on my mind. Here you go. You know what I'm saying?

When I come out with me and bro, it's like the Beatles. They could go solo. But when they link up, they're the Beatles. When we link up, we Coke Wade. But at the end of the day, we both go and do our own thing. Were you surprised by the warm welcoming you got? Because a lot of people came out in the last couple of years. And everybody always says, I feel like this person should have got the Max B welcoming.

I feel like that person should have got the Max B. I feel like everybody's arms opened up for Max B. It's love. I'm humble. It's love. because yo man look he wasn't supposed to take me away anyway but y'all got me back

it's good I wanted to just get y'all I didn't want to wait around I didn't want to complain I just wanted to go on the stool get after it show y'all what when a real New York G-posts look like coming up out of the slums you definitely showed us we was at the Brandy

and Monica concert and you came out man you was like you on these stages yep and you was ready Have you taken a second Like for yourself? Because you've been on go

Since we've seen You've seen you at the game You're at the concerts Like have you taken a peaceful moment For Max B Away from everybody Not yet Me and white

He's about to go on the cruise Though we're about to get that right Love that But he's been standing down For 18 years He took that He took him longer than a minute He took 18 years

If I was him I'd be moving just like that too Yeah I would think, though, it's a little bit different out here, though, being able to, like, be with family or just, I guess just not work. Not with him. Listen, man, I can create. I love to create. I love to make money.

I love to have a good time. And, you know, that's what I like to do. So I'm always working and just stay consistent. I was surprised with the influence, right? Not New York, because we've seen you in New York and we've seen the Coke Boy. But when I've seen a lot of the artists out of time, showing so much love, posting, I think some of them. even sent you something and I'm like damn I would have never thought

did you ever think that when you were locked up that all those artists rod wave thug and all those artists have so much love for you I don't know I would never I would never guess in the million years I was on the road last like my last few road trips

like you have like people would draw me portraits all type of stuff like so it was just it's beautiful man I ain't gonna lie I'm still it was rapist or drew your portraits Somebody stole one of my portraits.

Really? A big one, too. Yeah. Some teetheed and blood clout. Where was it at? Where they stealing from? We were in Rhode Island, Massachusetts. A nice portrait.

I'm looking for it. I got a reward for it even. $500 for that. $1,000 for that portrait. Where was y'all at last night, man? Both of you guys were playing. All that was a lot of that. Prince is barely over there with his eyes open.

You know, first don't drink no more. Nah, I want you. Nothing? Like no alcohol? I'm still high and drunk from when I stop. I'm still trying to sew up for when I stop. I was taking accountability change both of your trajectory. Because, you know, like, French, you stopped drinking, you know. Max, you just coming home, you're trying to make what you went through a teachable moment.

So how was taking accountability, like, change the trajectory of, not even just your career, but just as you as you as men? I always told I'm still drunk. I'm still high and drunk, for real. I still feel all. With me, it was different because the doctor told me if I drink again, I'm a doc. So it was like, I had no choice. Those were some times, though. I ain't a lot.

Those are some times, bro. Hold on, what was that, though? Like, what do you mean you drink? Okay, new year, fresh start. And honestly, I'm starting with dinner. This year, I'm being smarter about where my energy goes. And dinner was taking way too much of it. I just signed up for Hello Fresh, and they take fresh start to a whole new

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Can you die? What was it? Your liver or something? Yeah, like my liver and like had holes in my liver and like, yeah, it was crazy. I was mixing liquor with pills and, and, yeah, and oxies and all types of. He, like, passed out. Yeah, I was in ICU. I was in ICU for, like, a couple weeks. Were you running away from something, or were you, like, no, I was just, I was just, I was like,

if you don't end up in the hospital, you ain't have a good birthday. French was the life of the party. No, French was the life of the party. Everybody birthdays will turn into my birthday. Yes. He didn't, I didn't been to many a birthday party. It's my birthday.

He performed, and he called it on stage. We're drinking. I don't know how I made home. He'd be like, my birthday is all. I'd be like, no, it's not. Yes. So how do you? even remember the night but how would you remember the night before being on all that

stuff um i'd be around i'd be i'd be around great company yeah okay i'd be around great company and just just having fun i was i was always productive yeah i remember i was when you do it for so long you might you might act the wrong way if you're sober you know what i'm saying i was because i literally never even knew you had well i wasn't able to tell i just knew yeah yeah yeah yeah because i was productive yeah never knew you even had an issue that deep yeah yeah yeah it wasn't it wasn't even even the issue i just old I remember it was just like, it was like a week stretch. I had this, like my first show in Saudi.

I got paid all this money. I flew to Egypt to perform for like one of the kings over there. Then I went to Morocco, my mother, brought her there for the first time. Like 25 years, we were shooting a documentary. Then I remember just when I got back to LA, I just collapsed. What year was that? Yeah, all this drinking from the, huh? I said, what year was it?

2019. That happened to me. I passed out of here. Crazy. Dehydrated from just being out of time drinking. He had to be in his mouth. He was under the time. He was laughing.

And the fias up. We had to go to the f*** of the e-R. We definitely laughed. We definitely laughed. Wow. I had to go to the ear. I had to get that shit in me dehydrated all. I was supposed to shoot, I was working at TMZ at the time.

We was doing a show with World Star. And we were supposed to shoot a pilot. You were the guest for the pilot for my show. And we found out you were in the hospital. It was that year. Yeah. Yeah. What's last eight

I spoke to Diddy? Have y'all spoke at all? That was a nasty sideway. Not, I'm just asking. Literally. Literally. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no. Let's talk about people why they're down.

No, no, I'm not joking. I spoke to Diddy, but I ain't going to tell y'all about it. Man, Lord. You talk, we spoke on the cell phone. That's the f***es y'all in here. Nope. You're a BS. Coldwave, Narcos 3.5 is out right now.

Well, I have a quite another question. Because we're in an awkward question moment. Told them use that. Don't get the honey, not the lotion. Yo, shoo. Coke wave, narcos. The mix tape is out right now. Fighting for our life.

You got to stay with you. Let's see this music video. Oh, man. Sheld them my. Go ahead. All right. I know you Farquatch removed this, but

Jim Jones and you, are we going to see a conversation with y'all, reconciliation with y'all? Listen, if it happened, it happened, man. I'm over here doing my thing. We both doing this thing. We both got algorithms going on. If it happened, if it makes sense, it makes sense.

If not, everybody's going to be fine anyway. That's how I see it. What we reckon on this project challenge you the most? What I said yesterday? Mawa. Yeah, I think the first record we recorded. That shit seemed like it would be easy for y'all.

It wasn't. Why? I don't know. Mawa was weird. The bars felt weird. Everything was just, that's that first one. Make America a wave again. Yeah, it was until we had to come back, play with it.

I'm saying? That was like, after we did that, the rest of that shit, we ran a cover. What was weird about it? Did you have to rewrite anything? Did you just feel like? It was just, I like picking all my shit. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? But I, bro, so, I'm so comfortable with him. He, like, the only I ever let. He's like, you're like, write on that. If he's not doing that, nobody's doing that. I'm like, well, ego-tist to go in the kind of writing music. But it just was, it was a funny record just for me. It just, out of all the records, like, that was the one that was probably a little more difficult to write.

You think people gave you enough time just to come, home and be a person first before they wanted you to be Max be the artist? Hell no, nobody care about that. I think it was him. I think it was the other way around. I think people were telling him you should do this with the family. He was like, no. No.

Take me to the studio now. Everybody was telling them. Why did you want to wait? Because, man, we in New York, man. It's expensive. I got kids. I got a wife. She's my hot wife over there.

She's like nice things. Yeah. I like to work. I like to buy her stuff. I like to buy the kids. And I'm sure you had years. I'm sure you had years of stuff written down ready to go too. Man, I'm just prepared.

I work all the time when I ain't working, when I'm on the toilet, taking the shit. I'm writing music, listening to music, crafted music, thinking about music, just all the time. You don't seem institutionalized as a person. Right. Like, that's what's interesting. Like, you did 18, but you don't see. Institute of You haven't missed the beat.

Listen, let me tell you some I got some institutionalized ways about me. I still wear my slippers in the shower. Hey, now and then I walk. Go shut up, do you? X my wife. Hey, now and then I walk,

ain't with my drawers on in the shower. Damn. I got some jailhouse. I feel like, I ain't. I ain't ready. I'm in that washing my jaw. My wife's like, babe, what the fuck you're doing? You're an institution alive.

It's a washing machine. I'm down standing. There's a washing machine right to closet. Wash and dry. I'm in that shit like this. Shock. I'm in. Crazy.

You don't know. Jesus Christ. Who ain't in jail no more? That is f***ed up, though, how they don't give brothers that did them long bids. Like, they should give y'all some, like, six months of therapy. Just to adjust to the world again. To hell give a fuck about us. You gotta figure this on your own.

We're glad you home, brother. It's good to see you in this spirit. Hold on, why'd y'all car this project 3.5 in the narcos thing? Like, why not just... Because we were so lit back in the days that we skipped the whole volume. We went straight from three. We went straight from two to four. Damn.

We didn't realize... Like, we didn't realize we skipped it. Like, we were just drunk. We were just living there. Rockstar. Lick, just being lit. Rockstar might not make it. Just three to, two to four.

And I just remember the fans like, where's three? Where's three? So he just hit me one day, like, I got an idea. We're gonna call it 3.5. Three for the one we missed and five for the number that come after four. I was like, genius. A fucking genius.

I love it. Yeah. I love it. Jesus Christ. Great minds thing alike. Well, we appreciate you, brother. for joining us today. The album is out right now. Max B., French Montana. We appreciate you brothers for joining us.

Let's go. I'm sure Max, French and Max be calling me all the time to play the record. I'm just hearing your voices, man. It's the breakfast club. We're still going to call you to play the record, man. Yeah. Let's get to the latest with Laurie. Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself.

I'm the source is my sister. I'm the homeguard that knows a little bit about everything and everything. Little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you. Take me through that, take me through that. Where she going? The latest with Vanity Fair Me Too That. On the breakfast club. LL. Coolback.

Talk to me. So Tiana Taylor, this was actually just released by Vanity Fair as I was heading in here. Tiana Taylor is Vanity Fair's winter issue cover star. Now this cover is, it says Tiana Taylor lights the way. has arrived, the veteran star on her breakout year. So they talked to her all about her, of course, her career, things she has coming up. They're in Harlem, sitting, eating,

and one of the conversations, there's two conversations that I thought were, like, pretty interesting from this. So she talks about, or doesn't really talk about the Oscar buzz combo. So if you guys don't know, there's been conversation for the last, like, six months that not only, you know,

the Golden Globes things would happen for Tiana Taylor, but that she is on track to potentially win an Oscar, because one battle after another is favored in the Oscars. And they think what will happen is she'll get a nod for a supporting actress, right? So they bring that up and she gets, she's like, I'm nervous. I don't even like talking about stuff like that because I don't want to jinx it. But also she says that she has so many people who have been giving her great advice, other actors and actresses, that she doesn't want to get in her own way.

She's supposed to focus on doing the work. They also asked her about her relationship currently with Kanye West because they bring up the fade moment and how major of a creative moment that was for her. And she says, you know, her brothers do things all the time. Doesn't mean she has to support them, but she won't talk bad about them as well. But it's a great article. Make sure you guys go check it out. I wanted to mention that because

Tiana's having an amazing year, but also an amazing career. And it's a career that literally is just getting started. I know we've been watching Tiana Tell us and She's been 16. That young lady has so many gifts that the world has yet to see what they're starting to see. So salute to Titi. Yes. I was reading this article

that called Tiana Taylor's award season currently, especially if she does this Oscar thing, right? One of the most compelling storylines of the year, fire. Now, in other news, speaking of New York talent, Jay-Z, Jay-Z and Tom Brady sat down with an amazing, you know, rookie class. So they were with Drake May, Jaden Daniels, Brock Browers, Caleb Williams, Bo Nix, Malik Nabbers,

I believe I'm saying his last name, right? and this was a fanatics class that Mike Rubin put together. Now, this was 2024, but he just posted these videos last night. And they're sharing some advice to this rookie class. Let's take a listen to Jay-Z speaking to the giving advice. I'm saying an album you may have had or a season where it didn't go as planned or you didn't meet your goal. How do you find small winnings within the overall big picture of a failure?

It's only learning experiences, you know? It's going to feel like a failure in the moment, right? No one can win the championship every year and no one can make the best album ever created every year. It's not going to happen. I made out of a kingdom coming. I was trying to grow. So the growing, I could hear, for me, I can hear the growing pains in the album. So it's hard for me to listen to.

You know what I'm saying? I can hear the mistakes like a bad game where you seem like, no, you know, you know, he was right there. I know I can do it. I've done. I made that through a thousand times. Like, why did not do it? You know what I'm saying?

So I felt the grown pains of the album And then I made an album called 4-4-4 Which was much better received Yeah, so people always say, you know, that meme that goes around $500 or dinner with Jay-Z What $500,000? Yeah, or dinner with Jay-Z So people always had that conversation

And in this conversation, J-Z is giving real advice So, I mean, people always say they would take the money Because they feel like his advice wouldn't be Deep-rooted anything But it's here and it's happening. Now, another thing that I thought was interesting. That wasn't worth $500,000. You could ask Chad GBT.

If I had to ask Jay-Z about blah, blah, blah, that probably would give you that. I mean, but to hear Jay-Z say that, I mean, not the mean. The kids, they never heard Kingdom Come. First of all, they're like, Kingdom Come. Which one is that? Even if you haven't heard it, if you go back and hear Jay-Z, who is like one of the greatest of all times, say, yo, it's kind of hard for me to even go back and listen to my own music. That's way better than, yo, keep your head up.

You'll be fine. Jay-Z, you tell everybody to take the $500,000 by it. That's true. He said, take the $500,000. That was his comeback album after retirement. So that's probably why he was a little shaky. Yeah. What would you do?

$500,000 to do? I would take the dinner with Jay-Z. For real? Yeah, I would take the dinner with Jay-Z. Only because I feel like I could make the $500,000 if I asked the right questions to Jay-Z. Then I get both. What would Jay-Z tell Lauren Lerosa in a dinner?

No, because I feel like you're Chad-G-P-T. It's skewed. Talk about ball spots and I don't have time. But you don't already feel like you got, I feel like you're already going to meet them. So you might as well take the $500,000. But she ain't got to have time to sit down and have a conversation with him. That's not true. I'm speaking that into my list of people I want to interview.

I will have a conversation with Jay-Z. So Jay-Z would tell Lauren Larosa, attention is rented, ownership is permanent. Don't confuse people knowing your name what people needing your voice. Love it. Says you don't have to respond to everything that mentions you. Scarcity creates value over-access cheapens it. It's the rock. Being loud, get you know.

$1,000. Because Charlaman yells this stuff at me every day, so maybe I take the 500. Just tell me what Jason says. Yo. All right. Listen, why my shirt looks like

still on a hanger? Just what? Somebody said to in the chat. Hold on. As we wrap up this hour, I do want to mention, I know we had Dionne Cole and the president of the NAACP

on in Lewis Carr from BT. I'm talking about the NWACP Image Awards. I want to remind people to go out and vote that you can go out and vote via their website for those awards and in certain categories. Okay. Yes. Thank you.

Please go vote. There's a lot of stuff in there that I want you all to vote for. I want you all to vote for Don Stanley. Uncommon Favor. I want you all to vote for Kingsland starring Winston Duke. I want you all to vote for the Money and Wealth podcast with John O'Brien.

I want you to vote for the Just Hill podcast with Dr. J. And vote for the Native Land podcast with Angela Rye and Andrew Gillum and Tiffany Cross and Bacari Sellers. That's right. Okay. All of those things are presented by, you know,

black effect and black privilege publishing and SBAH productions just a few companies That I'm part of anybody can vote for them But make sure you go salute and uh Everything black effect All right And black privilege publishing And SBAH productions

All right we know you got money They didn't got nothing to do with money This is about creating platforms Okay You are yes If what you build only benefits you is not big enough All right All right and I told you that without a half a million dollars

You did what I got to go for free. All right. Let's get to the mix. Now, also, salute to everybody at the American Dream. You know, next month is Black History Month. So, what I got to do with you?

I'm going to tell you. I'm black, you ask. You are? So I'm looking for all Black-owned businesses. If you're interested in being a vendor at the mall, we're trying to get some black vendors, some black-owned businesses out in front of people to sell some goods. So if you're selling books, if you're selling clothes,

if you're selling, it doesn't matter what you're selling it. If you're out there, we're trying to get more black-owned businesses at that mall, especially for Black History Month. So we do something called a village where we get, what's so funny? I was just thinking my grandma also asks, were you really black? And she asked why you were so. Because he's not. And it's so crazy.

And I'm like, Mama, my mom is like, too. The February 27th, are you going to do anything for them? An American Dream mom? My grandma really wants to come up here. So like I was saying, all the black-owned businesses out there, it doesn't matter where you're from. If you want to participate in Black History Month, Mom, you can email. you can email groups at American Dream.com.

That's groups at American Dream. com. Let's get your black on business in front of 10,000 to thousands of people. DJ and Day. January 21st to February 27th. Huh? You know, my friend's mom hit me the other day and was like, I thought you were black.

I met your mom and everything. I said, why wouldn't you think I'm black? She was like, Charlemagne said you're not black. I said, Shalaman's a liar. Charlemagne's a lie. I said I went to an HVCU. No, no, no. They're like, Asian person going to an HBCU right now.

Now I went to an HBCU. Yeah, they get federal funding. name is spelled R-A-A-A-C-T-A-U-N. They wouldn't have to fit in in school. There's no spanned. There's people named Roshone. Roshan. This guy.

I can't. I'm black. Do this, Amy, just do this. Roshan. Take that, you know. Roshan. You know what. Roshan.

Come on. I'm black. I'm black. Just one time. I'm black. I'm black. Do this. All right.

Mix us up next. Bye. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalamey and Guy. We are the breakfast club. Law.

Laura Rosa's here as well. Now, earlier during the latest with Lauren, Lauren played some positive clips from Hove, talking to the rookies in the NFL. I was so inspired. Charlamine was so mad. Why was I mad? Because I'm not gay enough.

That was dope, too. She missed one of the most important. There was a very motivational clip that she didn't play, man. Can we hear that clip right fast? That community you built is super important. True. The people that keep your real with you. And don't just kiss your ass and just tell you what you want to hear.

tell you know bro, it's been three days, man. You ain't hitting it hard anymore. You're not working out. You're not attacking it the same way, bro. Like, I get in there, man. I'll come with you. Whoa. What time is running?

That's run. Six o'clock. Let's get up. Let's run, man. Whoa. Listen, I don't care if y'all pay to a million dollars or not. At some point, you got to say pause. Jay was going crazy.

Just, you know. I'll be good. I'll be gay. I'll be gay. And you ain't hitting it like you used to, bro. You got to get it. in there, I'll come with you. Yo, I don't care how

much y'all paid to have dinner with Jay, you got to stay pause. He might tweet pause today. He might just put on Instagram today, pause. You paid for the pause, okay? No. He said he hit the table too. And then the great thing is a bunch of quarterbacks in there,

so you know how quarterback be behind the guy right there? Oh, my God. He's going to put pause today. He's going to say a quote from Jay today. You just say pause. I'm about to post that because I don't feel like y'all gave that. at the energy that is

Jesus Christ people really think you're gay Popol who you're gay Paul All right

salute to us Stop talking to us like that First of all You know that Jay Z off in my lifetime ball Yeah but you

looking after talking about quarterbacks and all of that age is not the same Well you need a helmet Okay because something need to cover that goddamn

Balls ball right I'm sick of this Leave me and my boss by alone Oh my God. Lauren got a Hall of Fame head cut. Don't you let you get into the Hall of Fame?

A balding wide receiver. At least I could get a haircut. What you got left? It's there, though. Where you were? Take the hat on. You know what? My grandma asked a really great question shop

of the week. Why he always wear that hat? I said, because that hair line be fighting back. Did you tell her that when you were a little flying saucer landed on your head and you've had a crop circle ever since? Now you went to go see Dr. Puma yesterday, right? Man, salute to the good brother, Dr. Puma, man. You know, I haven't gone to see Dr. Puma in a year and a half.

But, you know, we've gone to see Dr. go to Dr. Puma, we do our soaring heart scan and, you know, they look at all our cardiovascular and make sure our arteries aren't clogged and things like that. But yesterday when I went, Dr. Puma was like, okay, so what are you here for? Right? I told him, I said, no, he's going to

get this soaring heart scan, whatever, whatever. And then this is our doctor, Dr. Puma is a good doctor. He's a great doctor because he knew it was on my mind. And he was like aneurysms. And I was like, yeah, I've been hearing about a lot of people having, you know, aneurysms. And he was like, you know, we can do the top

the bottom, what do you call it? The top, the bottom scan. So they scan your brain and everything. So he can look inside your brain and, you know, make sure there's nothing there. That's dope. And there's nothing in mind. Okay. All right.

Literally nothing in mind. Nothing in mind. He said, I didn't even had no sinuses. Like that's, like you can see all of that. So how long is that scan? Same thing. It's the same as the, uh, like, five, ten minutes. Yeah.

I'll say several minutes to be saved. You know what? So several minutes can be, what? Anything from five to ten or something like that? I'm coming. Pause, pause. It is worth it. Like, so Dr. Puma yesterday, I got my cardiovascular check.

I got my lungs and everything check, my abs and everything check, and I got my brain checked. So I'm good. Dr. Puma, if you're listening, I am coming. You know, I'm bringing the family. We just got to check. I just want to make sure everything is okay. And I tell you with Dr. Puma, when my daughter was going through her thing, he, Dr. Puma called and made sure she was okay.

And he broke down all the readings for me, so I understood it in layman's terms. So, Dr. Puma, we appreciate you. No, it's really scary. Because, like, when you get out of the machine and Dr. Puma's showing your results, he's, like, the way they have, like, the AI graphics and everything now, you can really see your skeleton?

Yes. You're like, that's me. Like, it's wild, man. But Dr. Puma, you are a godsend, my brother. And this ain't even an ad. This is just me telling y'all that I went there yesterday. Oh, absolutely. And when the peace of mind I get,

when I leave Dr. Puma, man. Word. I am ready for the year. You hear me? So when you go into the machine, you go back up first, or you go, head first. What you mean? You know, you've been

in the machine. You know, you got to be face up and they put your feet in first. I got to say, you go. You might go face down. Well, yo, look, I'm going, so I got to go back. I got to get the fly. They'd be like, Dr. Puma, look at my butt without the machine. I don't want you, can you see inside me? Without the machine. And also, salute to Derek Johnson, president and CEO of NAACP.

Lewis Carl, president of BET and comedian Dion Cole. They came up here to talk about the 57th NAACP Image Awards on BET and CBS on February 20th, salute to those brothers for joy. And where do you go to vote? You go to NWACP, image awards.com or something like that? Yeah. I think so, yeah. That sounds about right. But go vote, man. Go vote for some of this good work

that is nominated. You know, salute to everybody at Black Effect, everybody at Black Privilege published, and everybody at SBH. You know, we got quite a few things nominated. Don Stanley, Uncommon favor, is nominated. Nativeland podcast is nominated. John Hope Bryant, Money and Wealth

Podcast is nominated. Jay Barnett Just Hill is nominated and Kingsland is an audio scripted that me and Kevin Hart executive produced for Audible That's nominated as well So go vote for all of those things, Mike That is a lot That is a lot

That is really, really good Congratulations to you for it Thank you. That is dope Thank you. I think you're on a positive note Is simply this man You build on failure You use it as a stepping stone Close the door on the past

You don't try to forget the mistakes But you don't dwell on it You don't let it have any of your energy Or any of your time Or any of your space Breakfast club, bitches. Do you're all finished or y'all done? A decade ago, I was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers.

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