The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Claudia Jordan Cohosts, Dr. Cornel West Interview, Alabama Riverfront Brawl and More!

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

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

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, USA! What's up, Envy? How you doing? How you feeling? I am good. I've been up all night watching crazy videos from Alabama. I'm so proud. Oh, boy. We got to talk about that in front page news. Alabama was, I mean, if you don't know the story, you haven't seen it on social media. I'm going to let Teslin Figaro break it down. But, yes, I was proud. I was happy how we came together to whoop some ass. It's our own insurrection. Yeah.

They had January 6th. We got August 6th. And I'm so proud of that one brother who jumped off the boat, swam to the shore to whip ass. Who said black people can't swim? I know he was tired because when he swam over that shore and he had to pull himself up

and it was taking him a long time, but he got up and he got the power and he whooped some ass. We'll break all that down in front page news coming up in a little bit. What'd you do this weekend? What was I doing? I was outside

with my girls this weekend. I've been going out a lot lately, really. I have six months. I'm just like, no relationship. I'm just having fun. Hot girl summer.

Yeah, you know what? You should've hung out with me this weekend. First I went to Toronto. I was at Carabana. Drop a bomb for everybody. I went out to Carabana. That was this weekend? It has. It was a huge Caribbean festival. They do it every year in Toronto. I was at Carabana. Drop a bomb for everybody. Went out to Carabana. That was this weekend. Yes, it was a huge Caribbean festival.

They do it every year in Toronto. I haven't gone the last couple of years because of COVID. It usually gets about two million people to the city. And I had such a great time at Carabana. Just people out partying, representing their country. I mean, I did so many shows, so many festivals, so many parties over the weekend. And then I came back last night. Now, the mayor of New York City, of course, this is the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. It's actually this Friday is the day. He's doing these festivals and these block parties in every borough.

So Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island. And last night was Queens, and they've been trying to get me to DJ. I didn't know if I was going to make it happen, but I was able to DJ. And let me tell you, I haven't had so much fun in a long time. We was in Queensbridge. Now, if you know the legendary Queensbridge, that's where Mobb Deep is from. That's where Nas is from. Growing up in Queens, it was a place where you didn't go unless you were from there.

Really? Yeah, you would have got shot, stabbed, robbed absolutely positively. So when they asked me to do it, I was like, I'm not from that side of Queens. I'm from the north side. But I did it. And to see Mobb Deep perform Shook Ones in the middle of that crowd was something to see. All the old school. Turn it up a little bit. I wish I got into town early enough.

I love Mobb Deep. Love. Just to see them performing in their own backyard. It was a block party. It was close up. I'm sure 10,000 people out there. Big Daddy Kane performed. Now, shout out to all the old school heads

because it was Big Daddy Kane, Coogee Rap, Dead Prez, Onyx, Beanie Siegel came out, Roxanne Shante. It was so many people out there just celebrating Queens. And then after, they did like this huge drone show.

Now, the drone show consisted of maybe they had like 200 drones. They flew them up in the air and the drones did pictures of like just hip-hop figures it was just amazing uh the only thing that was missing was honestly naz because he's naz is from queensbridge i'd love to see naz out there and of course 50 because he's from south side uh run dmc ll cool j it was tribe called quest it was just so much happening man so salute to the mayor for putting all those shows on. I know he's going to be doing one in each borough. So if you get a chance to touch down in New York City, just check it out and see where it is.

Because it's a free show, so you can get to see it. And it was just amazing. So shout out to everybody I seen in Carabana. Shout out to everybody I seen in Queens last night. All right, and let's get the show cracking. Now, Dr. Cornel West, he'll be joining us this morning. Of course, he's running for president, so we'll talk to him. He's not Republican or Democrat. No. No, so we'll be joining us this morning. Of course, he's running for president, so we'll talk to him. He's not Republican or Democrat.

No. No, so we'll be chopping it up with him. And then, like I said, Teslin Figueroa is up next. We're going to be talking about what happened in Alabama. And I pray to God that some of those people don't get charged. I know a lot of people were arrested. I know the brother that was smacking people with chairs. I know people say it was a little too much, but I think they deserved it.

He hit the guys with a chair. That was cool. But what? But he did hit a chick. You don't know if that chick was hitting his wife? She was already down and a sister had already taken care of her. But they innocent. All of them. They started it. Oh, well, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got our guest co-host Claudia Claudia Jordan, here. And let's get in some front page news. Tesslyn Figueroa is here. Good morning, Tess. Good morning, DJ Envy. Good morning, Claudia.

Good morning. And let's jump right into it. Alabama. Yeah, y'all couldn't wait. We're chomping at the bit on this one. That's right. Black people are excited everywhere, I guess, to see black folks stand up. You know, I say all the time, it's a time to swing and it's a time to sing, using the words of Malcolm X.

Let's go straight to the report from WSFA. We'll talk about it on the other side. Tonight, we're following breaking news near Montgomery's Riverfront Park. A fight beside the river has led to multiple arrests. Welcome to the News at 10. I'm Brady Talbert. A viewer sent us this video which shows the fight just feet from the water. A witness claims it started because a pontoon boat was blocking the dock where a river boat was trying to park. You can see more people jumping in as that fight played out.

Well, soon after, Montgomery police arrived at the scene. They say a large group of people were involved in this brawl. Our crew saw people in handcuffs. MPD says several people have been detained and any charges are pending tonight. They deserved it. They deserved that ass whooping. I mean, so break down what happened. The gentleman was telling that the boat, he was a security guard working there, right? He was telling them that they couldn't park the boat there because the steamboat was coming in correct correct and uh you know obviously they didn't they didn't want to hear that and so uh we clearly saw you know they put hands on him first uh jumped the security

guard uh people were laughing at how he threw his hat up in there basically i don't know if y'all saw him throw his hat up there yeah so um you know and and folks started jumping in uh as claudia mentioned about i i made a post too saying you know who said black people can't swim i i they've been calling him aquaman i called him a little mermaid's brother uh black little mermaid's brother and so black folks just you know jumped in and assisted you did see others who were recording it you know from the side uh but certainly uh their brother needed some help and so as you mentioned uh folks have or as the report mentioned folks have been arrested and we put out a call i put out a call yesterday with a lot of attorneys

that we were talking to yesterday and they're looking to offer assistance uh to these folks to need help um please get at me at tesla Figaro on Instagram for those who need they're willing to help pro bono to make sure that they get adequate representation. Also, a lot of folks are trying to help sending money with cash out. And so we're just trying to make sure that we find the right people to get it to. We've made some contact with a lot of the leaders in Alabama, particularly, you know, calling for no charges to be filed. So this is something that organizers are working on, you know, try to see what we can do to offer assistance. You know what I don't like about the coverage outside of black media, right? The way the news report was a fight broke out.

No, it was not a fight. A group of white men attacked a black security guard doing his job. And if it was the opposite way around, race would definitely be talked about outside of us you know it wasn't a fight that broke out call it what it was he was assaulted he was assaulted by like six or seven people doing his job and i don't like that media is very slick with that yeah but you know you know what i do love about the whole thing a lot of times a lot of people especially in our community we mind our business right it doesn't have anything to do with us but the fact that i've never seen people get so ready so fast i mean because people were on the boat and that boat was coming in slowly and i know those people on that boat like as soon as this boat hits this dock we're gonna we're gonna whack some white people's asses but the thing that i like about it is they were on top of it there was no questions asked it

was like this gentleman is my father he's's my uncle. He's my brother. He's a family member and we're going to defend because it wasn't a one-on-one. It was five, six people and the fact that the women jumped out and when they seen them women jumping on that man, like I seen the fact that that brother think about it like this. That brother didn't know that man. He seen that man getting

beat up. He jumped in the water and swam to the shore to get his licks in. We should have been doing this actually because we've been witnessing way too many of us getting beat up he jumped in the water and swam to the shore to get his licks in we should have been doing this actually because we've been witnessing way too many of us getting beat down in front of a lot of us just filming so shout out to the people that got involved and got active i agree that's it and i said that as well i was saying you know i'm normally i i say you know why are you just filming instead of getting active but i am glad that they did film this one to put it on the record because i think you know we needed to see it people needed to see it they needed to know that everybody's not going to just sit around and sing songs and

pray and cry so uh we had enough jumping in and folks also you know recording it to put it on the record so now what do you think about the brother that uh picked up the chair was swinging at everybody on the chair hey when it's going down it's going down i'm picking up everything and that's my point that's my point if you ever get into a fight it is what it is you see red and and that lady was swinging on men she was swinging on people beforehand so like i said i'll say allegedly because i don't want to get sued but when it's when it's red when it's war time i'm picking up everything i'm swinging everything i don't know what you got nah it is what it is but i get the emotion but of course they're gonna he gonna get it the worst of course you know but i i get his mentality he wasn't wrong he wasn't wrong well that is front page news get it off your chest 800-585-1051 let's discuss what you did this weekend were you out and

about did you go to caribbean or did you go to some of the festivals maybe you're out in alabama it doesn't matter 800-585-1051 get it off your chest whatever you go to some of the festivals? Maybe you're out in Alabama. It doesn't matter. 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. Whatever you want to discuss, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.

Hello, who's this? Tony O. Hey, what's up, brother? Get it off your chest. I just want to say a you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Tony O. Hey, what's up, brother? Get it off your chest. Hold up. I just want to say about when it comes to the Alabama situation. Yep. When it comes to, like, fight determinants or, like, possible rapists, that lady deserves

what she gets. I don't see you as a woman. I see you as a threat. And he has that threat. This is how I see versus, like, you know, a woman, man, whatever it is. Yeah, I mean, people will say that, you know, he shouldn't have hit a woman. But, you know, the fact that they were fighting like that and he got red, I mean, I don't know.

She was swinging at dudes. I don't know. I'm not in that situation. But if I was ever in a situation like that where I'm trying to protect a brother and they are fighting, I'm swinging at everything moving. That's just me, honestly, you know? I think those rules go out the window when it's a white supremacist. I agree.

Hello, who's this? Good morning. It's your boy, Lovey from the floor. Good morning who's this? Good morning, it's your boy Lovey from the Bronx. Good morning, Breakfast Club. Lovey, what's up? Get it off your chest, brother. I want to talk about this Alabama. What we're missing from this MV is the origin of it. You know, this was over a Trump rally.

That's why they was all charged up like that. Oh, okay. Is that a fact? That's why. Yeah, that's why the Reds was all charged up like that. And I definitely want to shout out my boy Tyrone Phelps and the chair master doing jujitsu with the chair. Oh, hey, you stupid, man.

Tyrone Phelps. Tyrone Phelps. Goodbye, love you, man. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's up, DJ Envy? My name's Kasan Nick, calling from the west side of Detroit. Kasan, what up, though? Get it off your chest. What's up? I'm just getting off my chest. I'm starting a second full-time job today.

I just want to wish myself luck on that. All right. Good luck. What you doing? All right. My first job, I work at a factory full-time. My second job is at a warehouse. Okay. All right. Well, get that money, brother. Yes, sir. All right, DJ Envy. Good to talk to you. And don't be late. You're running late now, so don't be late. All right. We'll get that money, brother. Yes, sir. All right, DJ Envy. Good to talk to you. And don't be late. You're running late now, so don't be late. Hurry up. Never going to be late. Hey, DJ Envy, I want to shout out Petter and High School Class of 2011.

The class of all classes. Best class. Only class. This class, the only class that can be number one twice. All right. Well, thank you, brother. And have a good day at work. All right. You too. Bye. Hello. Who's this? Yo, what's going on, y'all? This your boy, Dingo. Dingo, what up?

Get it off your chest. Hey, what's up, y'all? How you doing? Y'all having a good weekend? Yes. Great weekend, brother. Hey, who's the guest today? It's Claudia Jordan.

How you doing? Uh-oh. Oh, boy. Claudia, how you doing? Why you say it like that? Nah, never mind. I'm not going to get into that today. Wait, wait, wait.

No, no, no. He tried to shoot a shot with you A couple of weeks ago When you were up here And it didn't really turn out too well Yeah but is that why you mad at me? Of course you don't remember Yeah of course you don't remember

Well listen In my defense I'm taking six months off Break out of dating So it has nothing to do with you It's me I'm trying to like Well that's good

That's good You should take some time for yourself Because like I think you gotta really Understand what you're missing out on in the world. That's why I'm taking my time? Yeah, the six months, maybe take a year because, like, you know, there's a lot of good men out here. I'm good with six months.

It expires August 16th, so I got, like, just one more week to go. So, yeah, it expires August 16th. Well, maybe I'll hit you up there, Miss Claudia. So, we'll see how you feel. See, I was started off kind of shitting on me a little bit, and now he came around. Like I said, I wasn't going to go there. I wasn't going to go there. But like I said, I wanted to spare you.

This is why I'm calling, guys. Did y'all see the full video, like the beforehand about what was going on and what led up to the altercation? We sure did. Crazy, right? This brother's doing his job, and out of nowhere, these people come out of nowhere and just start railing on the man

for doing his job. And that's, me, that's wrong. I saw nothing wrong with what was going down. I love that our people stepped in,

did what we had to do. And I love the brother that got in there and swam and protected his own because that's what's up. That's what I love to see. I love my people. I love us. I just wanted to let y'all know that I love us. We keep doing this. We got to keep protecting each other because we don't know what's going to happen in the next few months, even a couple of years. So let's take note of this situation, y'all, and let's get ready. You feel me?

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We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club Hello, who's this? Hey, yo, what up, what up, what up Man, this is Jay Jay, what up, get it off your chest Hey, listen, man, I just want to say, man DJ Envy You my guy Uncle Sharla, I just wanna say man DJ Envy You my guy

Uncle Sharla I just watched 88 And dog You enjoyed it? Man It like changed my whole perspective On politics and everything And the way that they be running everything

Going through there And it just It's something different. That was a good watch. Okay. And I salute both of y'all, you know what I'm saying? And y'all did y'all thing. Charlamagne the producer on that one.

He keep doing y'all thing. Yeah, he did. I feel like he had, like, a little snippet in there. Oh, okay. Well, salute to Charlamagne. He's out today. He'll be back tomorrow, though. That's what's up.

That's what's up, man. Hey, y'all. Y'all keep doing it'll be back tomorrow, though. That's what's up. That's what's up, man. Hey, y'all. Y'all keep doing it, man. And we love y'all in the land. Appreciate you, brother. Hello. Who's this? Yo, this is Josh.

Josh, what up? Get it off your chest. Yeah, man. I just want to let you know how that thing in Alabama moved me so much, man. I just want to say this, man. It was looking like it was black people that had sense. You know, it, sensible black folks. And when I seen them swinging, I knew they saw nothing but spirit.

Ladies, men, whatever it was, it was bad spirit. And it was go time. And I'm going to work this morning feeling like we up one. Yeah. I mean, to see even those black queens running around and getting their little two pieces in was amazing, too. They were holding down the men as well. I love to see us protecting us.

I mean, a lot of times we don't necessarily get to see that. So the fact that they protected that brother, didn't know that brother, but just wanted to make sure that brother was good. Man, that made me so happy to see that last night. It kind of brought me back to the 60s. It kind of brought me back to the 60s back in the day when we used to be more like that. Yeah. You know what I mean? Looking out for each other.

And I hope we go back to that. Because look how strong we are when we rock together. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And I thank God that there were black people around. Because, I mean, that man could have been there by himself. He could have been murdered.

And then he could have got his ass whooped and they would have changed the story so crazy. But the fact that, you know, like Teslin said that, you know that you know sometimes we gotta tape and sometimes we gotta whoop ass and sometimes we gotta do both and it was it felt so good to see both hello who's this hey hello what a piece of blessing show on stone what up man pick up the phone brother yeah i'm sorry i'm at work i'm out here driving a garbage truck shout out to all the sanitation workers out here. I feel bad for you today, bro. The rain is disgusting today. And you know what the crazy thing is, Envy? Oh, good morning, Claudio.

Hey, good morning. And you know what the crazy thing, Envy? I didn't bring my rain jacket, bro. Oh, my gosh. You're going to smell just like dirty dogs. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Envy, I drive a different type of garbage truck. I drive a front load of garbage trucks that only pick up dumpsters.

Oh, so you don't even get out the truck. The only time I hop out of my truck is just to open the gate or close it back. You know what I mean? Okay. Oh, so you ain't even got to get out the truck. So you ain't really going to get that wet today. Well, I'm just saying. You feel me?

I still got to get out of the truck and open up the gates. You know what I mean? Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I want to talk about that Alabama situation, man. It was going down. Was it? I don't condone violence or anything like gates. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I want to talk about that Alabama situation, man. It was going down. Wasn't it? I don't condone violence or anything like that,

but, you know, sometimes we got to stand up for each other as black people, you know? So, Sean, let me ask you a question. Since you're a sanitation driver, right, so you're out and about on the streets,

so I'm assuming you would see more things like this, like, you know, black people getting into incidents. Now, if you were, if you seen something like this, would you stop your truck and help somebody?

Yes, I would. Okay. I would, I'd jump in there. You see a lot of weird things out here, Envy. You know what I mean? I saw a lady on the block one time in North. She had on no brassiere, no top on. She was just outside. Guy said no brassiere, but go ahead. He fancy with it.

Fancy with it. Well, I'm Jamaican. I'm Jamaican. Okay. No brassiere, no bra, you know what I mean? But En Jamaican. I'm Jamaican. No Brazier, no pride. Envy, I just want to say you're a good dude, man. You know what I mean? I've been calling the Brazzers Club for 13 years and I love the way and how you are, brother. You know what I mean?

I've been seeing a lot of things online, negative things. I just want to say, Envy, continue to just keep your head up, man. There's a lot of people out here that love and respect you, brother. All right? Appreciate you. That's right. Yes, sir.

And Sean, you ever been to Toronto? Never been to Toronto before, man. But I love Draco. He loves Draco. You got to go to Toronto one time. It's very Caribbean influence. You would love the food. Yes.

You would love the music. You would have a great time out there in Toronto. If you ever get the opportunity opportunity definitely go check it out I appreciate it man and shout out to your Jamaican wife too man a lot of mercy I don't know why I said

a lot of mercy it just felt like I was like really it just felt like it was going anyway you're caught up in the moment get it off your chest

800-585-1051 now we got rumors on the way what we talking about oh we have a lot to talk about but Pop Smoke there's a link with the man that was found in a barrel in LA with the Pop smoke there's a link with the man that was found

in a barrel in la with the pop smoke murder so we're gonna get it all get into that all right we'll get into that next so don't move it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club charlamagne is out our guest co-host claudia jordan is here we got to get to the rumors let's talk out. Our guest co-host Claudia Jordan is here. We gotta get to the rumors. Let's talk about our starless co-host. Listen up, everyone. I mean, where did I really start?

This is the rumor report. They call me Soulja Boy sometimes because they say it sounds fake, but I swear they're all true. On the Breakfast Club. Your Jordan stories are great. If you live long enough, you gotta have stories. That're all true. On The Breakfast Club. Claudia Jordan stories are great. If you live long enough, you gotta have stories. That is very true. You know what I mean?

That is very true. Talk to them. Now, last week, as I was reporting the rumors, NeNe Leakes did an interview with Carlos King, and they mentioned our girl, Claudia Jordan, and this is what NeNe Leakes said. Claudia Jordan. Starless. to our girl claudia jordan and this is what nini league said claudia jordan starless who won between you and claudia and puerto rico i'm always the winner and uh so i obviously won

uh but i will give claudia this although she said the most nastiest things about me and she's been holding on to a grudge for a hundred thousand years I would have to give I'm gonna give her this I've read many of girls honey and I've been on this show with many girls I would have to say that she was probably my number one battle she was definitely right up there to battle with yeah I don't think that has not been one other girl that could probably battle the way she did because i took her through it and i feel like she took me through it and uh so i feel like we we gave each other a run i guess that was a compliment at the end it's like saying you know envy you're a good dj but you smell like onions like i give you a compliment but then i also tell you you you smell or whatever you know

i mean so what's your beef with Nene? I don't have a beef with Nene. And here's the problem. Whenever I have to report on her, people think it's a personal thing. I have a very good sense of humor. I work with comedians. I work with the greats like Jamie Foxx and them. We used to give it to each other so much harder.

Wait, hold on. Pause. Pause, yes. I mean on the air. Okay, there you go. We used to say the most personal, wild things to each other, and we would laugh about it. NeNe and me, that was light work to me on the show. It was funny to me. I never was mad mad.

It's the fans that elevate it on social media. So me and her, people don't know this. After the reunion, she texts me because I said some cool stuff to her at the reunion, too. And she's like, you know, I appreciate what you said i appreciate what you said blah blah and then we were good but when my name comes up and she says something slick i don't i'm like cardi b like when it's you get me it's like forever it's on yeah right right i don't it's not a it's not a grudge it's like just don't say negative things about me and i won't have to respond but i do appreciate her saying the truth i I did read her.

And they also cut like maybe 10 or 11 more things that I said. I wish one day they would release the unedited version. You got to hear the whole thing. But yeah, but she did call me starless. She did. Should I say anything about that? I mean, how does it make you feel? Well, how much does stardom pay these days?

Because I can't call Chase and say, hey, I'd like to pay my Bentley payment with my stardom. I would rather be starless than jobless. Because I don't, I'm not here for like the clout. I like money. I like working. I like, you know, being busy.

I like putting other people on. But I do think it's dope. And you know what, NeNe? I think one day, you and i need to have a conversation whether it's on camera or off camera because honestly i felt like we missed a really crazy opportunity because i think both of us have wicked senses of humor and she's real fast and funny and i know i am right i think we could have had some tv gold had we had not gone that direction because before I did Housewives her and I actually were cool like she called me to like she reached out to me in 2009 when I never even watched Housewives

to like take her place on this hosting job right so she knew who I was I was doing Celebrity Apprentice I hosted Miss Universe uh Dillon O'Day I was doing all that I didn't really I wasn't familiar with the show so when she did that we had no beef so when I went on the show I was surprised that she kind of came at my neck first. And so, I was just reacting in real time what y'all saw. Like,

I was like, damn, like, I thought we was good, you know? But then I also have a different attitude about reality TV.

To me, it's like, we should look at it like this is just work, like an acting job almost. Right. And then when we go off set, like,

go get a drink and be like, yo, we did that. Right. That's how you should treat reality TV. Not take it home and really be mad

so you're not taking it personal but you feel maybe she is well yeah and I do understand how she feels she was on that show from day one right it blew up

she was a huge part of it and then she feels discarded I know how that feels you know what I mean so she has a right to feel defensive but I'm not your enemy girlfriend I'm not

like cut it out just say the nice thing you know leave the starless thing alone but i do understand you was asked the question my thing is i'm not trying to be a star i'm trying to be rich okay that's it i'm sure nina come up here guess those before the year is over but nina i do appreciate you saying that thank you very much because um you know a lot of people still talk about it we did this in 2014 and it's 2023 and people are still talking about it and I still get asked every single day, would you go back? And I'm like, you know what? I'll go back.

Bring me and Nene back together. How about that? Okay. How about that, Nene? And that's my olive branch. There you go. All right. What else we got?

Damn. All right. Pop Smoke. There's an update here on July 31st. Police found the body of a man named Javante Murphy. He was 32 years old in a barrel that was seen floating in the water near the Pacific Coast Highway Bridge in L.A. He had one gunshot wound to the head. His body was not badly decomposed, so they don't believe his murder happened too long ago.

Police do see a link because he's the brother of one of the five people that were arrested in the pop smoke murder so they do believe it may be some kind of retaliation wow so yeah i have a friend that lives in malibu and she hit me up before the story came out and she's like yo claudia's getting crazy around here like they found a body in a barrel that washed up down the street from me and this is why what you think about this retaliation going after the relatives is crazy yeah well they said that the police the police don't 100% know what happened. If it's part of the Pop Smoke situation or if it's part of another situation, they believe it could be some gang activity from something else. They're trying to put two and two together to see if it is part of it.

But, I mean, it's like anything else. When it's wartime, everybody can get touched. Everybody's included, which is sad. The family friend said Javante was a good kid and was not involved in gang activity. So sad. Sad situation. Very much so. Alright, well that is your rumor report. Now when we come back, we got front page news. Teslin Figaro will be joining us

and Dr. Cornel West will be joining us. He's running for president for 2024 Independent. The People's Party. We're going to talk to him next. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Our Audible pick of the day is Snoop Dogg's From the Streets to the Suites. Here's Snoop's journey from the streets of Long Beach to hip-hop legend.

Listen when you sign up for a free trial at audible.com slash snoop. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne is out. We got our guest co-host, Claudia Jordan. And let's get in some front page news. Tessman Figueroa, welcome back. Yes, welcome back. Hello

DJ Envy, good morning. Beautiful Claudia and the Breakfast Club family. Good morning. And all the Laker fans out there, I just want to tell y'all that Anthony Davis agreed to NBA's richest annual extension. He has agreed to a three-year, $186 million maximum contract extension

jesus christ that's a lot of money all right well i'm gonna play the powerball today i think it's that 1.5 billion or mega millions 1.5 one of them is high but keep trying envy i'm all right i'm gonna try i'm gonna keep trying now let's talk about this goon squad yeah once again uh you know earlier we were talking about you know the brother that got jumped by the white men. And again, this happens in several different instances. This is one where the goon squad was white men, white police officers, who jumped or tortured two black men by a former ranking county Mississippian, one from Richland, Mississippi.

Deputies pled guilty to charges related to the torture of the two black men. Let's listen to the report, and I'm going to give you some more information on the other side. They became the criminals they swore to protect us from. They allegedly called themselves the Goon Squad, a group of six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers giving themselves that moniker because of their alleged willingness to use excessive force and not to report. Now they pleaded guilty to federal charges related to an assault that according to a charging document included nearly two hours of torture, physical racist and sexual abuse on two black men after a white neighbor complained. Several black males have been staying at the property and the neighbor had observed suspicious behavior.

The officer who received the complaint directed an investigator to take care of it. On January 24th, six law enforcement officers entered victims Eddie Parker and Michael Jekyll's home without a warrant. Now the lawsuit said that they entered without a warning and again the complaint

was about allegedly drug activity which they did not find and they were handcuffed kicked waterboard as you heard sexually assaulted one was actually shot in the mouth wow he said he will never be the same and so they have permanent physical damages long-term obviously psychological damage the sheriff says that he didn't know that this so-called goon squad exists do you guys believe that absolutely not yeah people talk i don't believe it he said he was embarrassed by it but uh i just you know for this to go on for so long and again this just points to again you know going back to the alabama story everybody's

not gonna sit around you know and allow you to do this so we have one story where we got folks jumping in to defend the black man we We got this story where, you know, two black men were assaulted. This is why you saw the energy that you saw in Alabama. I just want to put it out there. People are over it. You know, they're tired of it. They, we want our licks back and that's why people are, you know, motivated by us. Not us condoning violence. It just is what it is. We see too many of these stories happening over and over. Um, the officers were charged with with conspiracy against rights, deprivation of rights under the color of law, conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice.

And so, we'll see how that goes. What do you guys think? You know, for years, I would hear people say, oh, they want a race war. They want a race war. I'm like, nah, nah, nah. But it seems like it's unfolding right before our eyes in all areas. Like, a security guard doing his job at a dock. People in all areas like a security guard doing his his

his job at a dock people in our house that are not really doing drugs but they say in there and then using what's the obsession with like the sexual abuse too this is reminiscent of slavery when they brought us over here and the things they would do to black man buck breaking you know what i mean like why what is going on like what is the obsession like you said earlier we find our own business they are actively seeking out smoke with us i was gonna ask you with donald trump uh running for president everything going with him is is do we see things getting worse like are we seeing uh i don't know if it's white supremacy or white on black crimes or is it getting worse because donald trump is is putting more pressure on well i mean to me my personal opinion i mean this is america so it's always

been going on but he certainly you know uh when he started running certainly you know opened up i guess the floodgates if you will to make people very comfortable you know what they do and basically saying the quiet part out loud remember when he says stand back and stand by and remember we covered the story a few weeks ago on uh the country singer jason is it alden when he said you know don't try it in a small town remember when he made that tweet yeah well guess what they tried it in a small town in Alabama and guess what happened the small town fought back so it was those types of you know inciting that you see over and over and over and we heard the gentleman say that this had to do with a Trump rally I

didn't want to say that because it's not you know for fact right but you know there is conversation saying that because you know there was a trump rally i i assume somewhere in the area that people were a little bit more turned up but i i just think that our response to that and what you saw with our people is again people are tired of the constant you know stories like i just covered the constant george floyd the constant you know the constant getting beat up the constant you know crying on camera no it was time to do getting beat up, the constant, you know, crying on camera. No, it was time to do a little bit of swinging back. So, you know, that that's what it is.

I think this could be a pivotal moment for us because leading up to this, we we did stick around and just watch and film. Like, I think now with this context, the George Floyd thing, I don't think a lot of us will be sitting around like like I think I'm personally motivated myself. There's no more sitting around and filming. I think we're going to get more active. I think we get more involved now. I think this was a big, major moment for us as motivated myself. There's no more sitting around and filming. I think we're going to get more active. I think we're going to get more involved now. I think this was a big, major moment for us as black people. I really do. Now, let's talk about this Burger King worker who didn't miss a day of work in 27 years.

Yeah. Now, on a positive note, again, this is where, you know, folks came together. Now, this is, I would assume people donated from all over the country. But again, they took care of this brother named Kevin Kevin Ford who was a Burger King employee in Las Vegas he was surprised with four hundred thousand dollars from his co-workers and other supporters online after he worked for 27 years now he got after he got the gift from Burger King they gave him a small goodie bag that had Reese's Cup Starbucks cup two pins and one movie ticket it was embarrassing so he got it right he kind of expressed his disappointment so people said oh you know what let's do something

for his brother so they started a go fund me page and uh it within a year the campaign raised over 400 000 so it looks like you know he definitely got a retirement that's well worth it uh there was another story i was going to do we don't have time to do but it was about french fries being linked to depression so i thought that was interesting how is french fries french fries makes me happy i don't like how does it link to depression it makes me smile i know it i i brought this story because last week you were talking about you have to fight to get the french fries every now and then but uh i'll just roll into that uh speaking of french fries but yeah a research team from china uh said that uh 12 of anxiety and depression uh come from folks who eat fried food uh particularly french fries they

said they evaluated 140 000 people over 11 years and they found that people that ate the fried uh potatoes over uh other things had a two% increased risk of depression. So, Envy, there you go. I mean, I'm not going to front. I got some McDonald's french fries and I was a little depressed, not because I didn't eat them. I got a small thing of french fries. And everybody knows I got a 20-month-old baby, right? And the 20-month-old seen my french fries and I had one fry and she killed it.

And I was going to fight the 20-year-old because I was like, these are my fries, this is all I want. You got your oranges. You got your oranges. You got your fruit. You got yours. Let me just have my little french fry. And she ate my whole french fry. And I was like, you know what?

That's a sign from God telling me I ain't eating them french fries right there. Sounds like you're still mad at the baby. I am still mad a little bit. It's just a baby, Emmy. It's a baby. Give her the fry, Emmy. No babies yet.

Give her the fry. But I tried to hide it, right? So she took one and I tried to hide it. And then she looked at me and just started crying. Like, I know you got them fries behind you. And it was like either let her cry or give her the fries. But I tried to hide it, right? So she took one and I tried to hide it. And then she looked at me and just started crying. Like, I know you got them fries behind you. And it was like, either let her cry or give her the fries. So I gave her the fries. Well, good for you. Well, I saw this story and thought of you. So maybe this would

be motivation to stay away from the fries. So. Alright, Tess. And you got a shout out before we leave? Yeah, I want to give a shout out to our brother, Killer Mike. You know, I mentioned last week we were doing a Texas tour. He did two shows, one in Houston and one in Dallas. But we did conversations with Killer Mike at I mentioned last week we were doing a Texas tour. He did two shows, one in Houston and one in Dallas, but we did conversations with Killer Mike at two barbershops

in Dallas and Houston. I organized that and it was just an amazing conversation, particularly with him and DLC. So I'll have that this week on the Straight Shot No Chaser podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network. And if you want to hear what 50 Years of Hip Hop looks like, sounds like, check that podcast out out but i also had a chance to uh attend his tour his uh

concert and i was just in tears envy i'm telling you uh it the michael album i just can't stress enough it is definitely a classic for sure absolutely all right now when we come back dr cornell west will be joining us He's running for president for 2024. He's not Republican. He's not Democrat. He's running the People's Party. That's right. Independent.

So we'll talk to him when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club on BET. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We also have Teslin Figaro with us this morning. And we have a special guest, Dr. Cornel West.

Welcome, brother. Oh, y'all blessing me in this consecrated space. All this rich spirit and stories and narratives and laughter. And you all deal with some serious issues, too. And to have our dear sister here, though. Indeed, indeed. Sister Teslin, it's a blessing. How you feeling, brother?

It's a blessing feeling have you here brother how are you feeling today oh i'm still swinging man yes sir i'm still swinging don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing you know what i mean and you swing and swing because you are running for president so tell the people why did you decide to go through that strenuous and stressful thing well you know my brother i've been running for truth and justice all my life though man so this is just another context another moment we've got to be true to the best of all, the love and care and integrity that's been put inside of us, man. For me, that's Irene Clifton West.

That's mom and dad. That's Shiloh Baptist Church on the chocolate side of Sacramento. That's the Black Panther Party. We set the highest standards of integrity, honesty, decency but most importantly courage. It's got to break the back of fear. We got too many folks running around scared and intimidated and kowtowing you see. And that's what I've always tried

to do. So running for president is just a particular moment in a larger calling of running for truth and justice. So when I come into a space like this, I feel at home because you all have been wrestling with the same issues week in

and week out. And it's a beautiful thing to be here. I see that the Democrats and a lot of progressives are saying they wish you wouldn't run, saying that your presidential bid could cripple President Biden's potential run. How does that feel to be that kind of threat? To be that kind of disruptor?

Well, it's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. That's what it means to be a servant of the people. You see that Harriet Tubman was a threat to the white supremacist order. Frederick Douglass was a threat. That's why he put a bounty on his head. Ida B. Wells was a threat against lynching

and American terrorism, Jim and Jane Crow. That's why they put a bounty on his head. Martin King, Fannie Lou Hamer, they were threats. And what does it mean to be a threat? What it means to be a threat is you calling into question an order that's predicated on

too much suffering of precious everyday people. Now, the funny thing for me is, you know, here it is. I haven't had one public event. I haven't had one fundraiser. And they say I'm a threat and a menace to the constitutional order. I say, yeah, that's what I need to be doing. That's precisely what I need to be doing, you see. Because the Constitution

was pro-slavery in practice for 75 years. It's pro-Jim and Jane Crow in practice for 100 years. These days, the new Jim Crow. I always begin, as a Christian, I begin with the least of these. Which means I look at the world through the lens of my partners who incarcerated. I've been blessed to teach in prisons for 41 years. Now I asked the Democrats, what are you doing about mass incarceration?

Biden, you was an architect of it. Would a white supremacist named Thurman. That's right. Was strong. What are you doing about mass incarceration? I want to know if you're not doing about it, how am I spoiling your votes?

You're not speaking to the needs of my people. You're not speaking to the needs of those who are suffering. So I'm not a spoiler. I'm casting a spotlight on that which you don't want to come to terms with. If you were really concerned about the issues I'm concerned about, then steal my thunder. Be on the cutting edge of eliminating mass incarceration be on the cutting edge of abolishing slave of poverty abolishing homelessness and we were just talking my beloved wife and he to hear the uh the unhoused precious brothers and sisters if you really want to speak to the issues be on

the edge of trying to gain access to workers with a living wage then i wouldn't have no ground that's right you see so they think that they what but people they well it's just a personal thing it's just a vanity thing please i just turned 70 years old the last thing i want to do is be wrestling with the issues in the american empire that have to do with just how sick and indifferent and callous our elites are when it comes to poor people and working people but i gotta be true to one's calling i was gonna ask you know when you talk about biden and you see uh the amount of uh support that a lot of our community gives them uh what's your biggest hurdle with making sure that those people that supported biden and with all the effects that

he's done to us support you well one is that I do recognize that we black folk have always been between a rock and a hard place. Henry Holland Garnett gave that famous speech of 1837 in Philadelphia where he said, black people must never confuse our situation with that of the Israelites in the Hebrew scripture. For us, Pharaoh is on both sides of the bloody Red Sea. That's real. So that's the fear too. So Biden and the Democratic Party

can just say, if you don't opt for me and I ain't done nothing about mass incarceration, 39% of our black children still living in poverty. I ain't done that. I haven't focused on it but trump is worse trump is worse every four years republicans are worse republicans and it's true so you say between iraq and but wait a minute we got to reach the point where we say

we got to speak our truth and we got to understand we're between iraq and a hard place that's true and what happened in that convention 1837? We have no way out. Somebody sang a song. Somebody tell a story about the love of your child and the love of your loved one. That's the only thing keeps black folk going. Think about Jim Crow South Carolina where you've

come from. Is that right, Charles? That's right. Absolutely. That's James Brown. That's South Carolina. And what was it about South Carolina? Just like Mississippi, the only two states that had a majority of black people. What does that mean? That meant that the level of terror and trauma against this brother's family was even more intense. Why? Because they were scared.

They said these black folk get together, they might want to create a decent society for them. And a decent society for them means we're going to have to we're gonna have to give up some power give up some resources give up something and unfortunately you know we're living in such a moment of spiritual decay not just in the nation but in black america we just got too many black folk who are scared and fearful and intimidated and don't want to speak the truth you know when you when you hear allies well i guess allies of yours like aoc say cornell west is too big of a risk because of the electoral college and the fact you may take some of those votes what do you think of people like that because they're progressive shouldn't they want these issues on the ticket shouldn't they want somebody

like you on the ticket bringing up these issues right no no it's true and that's a wonderful question though because it's i mean you've got a progressive slice in the Democratic Party. I was with Brother Bernie, as my dear sister knows, twice. They treated him badly. They treated him unjustly. They rigged the whole thing. You had Hillary Clinton and the others were going to ensure that he did not win no matter what. So at the core of the Democratic Party is a rot.

And that rottenness is corporate greed. And they tied the big money, big donors, big benefactors. Can't be a member of the Democratic Party and win without access to big money. Now, I'm as broke as the Ten Commandments financially. Personally, collectively, and I don't mind because somewhere i read seek ye first yeah the kingdom of god and all the rest of the things will be added so when i hear aoc i say okay she's part of that progressive small slice of the democratic party but she's giving in to the perceptions of the corporate wing of that party.

And the corporate wing says over and over again, all we have is two parties. It's freaking frack. It's Tweedledee and Tweedledum. There is a difference domestically, but not a whole lot of difference in terms of foreign policy. U.S. Palestinian brothers on the West Bank, when they got the various bombs coming at them, when 550 Palestinian children are killed in 50 days. Somewhere I read or somewhere I heard, I heard in Vacation Bible School in Shiloh Baptist Church,

Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red or yellow, black or white, they are precious in his sight. So a Palestinian child has exactly the same value as a precious Jewish child. And you ask the black politician, how come you won't say a mumbling word

about the Palestinians undergoing that kind of suffering? They're on the gravy train. Alright, we got more with Dr. Cornel West when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Dr. Cornel West. And don't forget, Charlemagne is

out. So if you want to give somebody donkey of the day 800-585-1051 phone lines are wide open all right now let's get back to dr cornell west teslan figaro sat in with this interview with us dr west you you are right the progressive movement it started out you know what everybody excited it happened well before uh bernie sanders but everybody was feel the burn, feel the burn. And now that burn is kind of fizzled out because there is a current split. How do we hold people like AOC accountable that said, you know, and I'm just using her, for example, piggybacking off Charlamagne's question. But what do we do for those that said, no, we're going to push the line. We're going to go hard. And then they flip.

Yeah, we just got to tell the truth. Tell the truth in humility. And the truth is a jagged edge in Janet's face, which is to say it has a number of different dimensions to it. It comes back at us and it goes at others. No one of us have a monopoly on truth. Truth is bigger. Justice is bigger. Beauty is bigger.

Love is bigger. But we got to be honest. We got to be candid. Now, for example example if AOC was doing something important on the local level if she was dealing with housing evictions and I'm in solidarity with folk

dealing with all this gentrification all this land grab and power grab and they wanted to do something within the neighborhood I'd be there with her because it ain't about her it ain't about me it's about the people suffering but when it comes to presidential politics and people like so quick to endorse without leverage i mean it's amazing to me that people say you know brother west uh you have a chance of turning the whole election i told my wife in the world just three months ago I wake up and I'm listening to Aretha

ain't nobody thinking about me three months later I got the power to turn the whole election that means somebody's not doing something right you ain't lying that's right you got this black congressional caucus been in there all that time and I'm out there lecturing and writing and so forth and so on and then all of a sudden I got this leverage but i can tell you one thing they're gonna have to put me in the grave before i sell out black people because i ain't selling out my mama oh i'm not selling out my daddy no they were always greater than me greater in love greater in wisdom you see so when i have leverage i don't look at the black community the way my brother Tavis Smiley says so many other politicians do as some political calculation. No, not at all.

These are the people that love me into my sanity, into my dignity. It's like me giving up Curtis Mayfield and opting for the Beach Boys. I ain't got nothing against Beach Boys, but it ain't my thing. That's right. It ain't my thing. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to. I ain't got nothing against Beach Boys, but it ain't my thing. That's right. It ain't my thing. No, no, no, no, no. I'm down and out. I want to hear some Anita Baker.

You know what I mean? That's right. Oh, yeah. I love the disruption you're causing. And, you know, you know you're a threat when everybody is saying you're going to be a threat. But I also see the media,

they're not wasting no time attacking you because now they're saying you owe a half a million dollars in taxes and they're trying to say it's hypocrisy on your part because you spent so much of your life advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy i'm like i ain't never heard any of this about dr cornell west before but now all of a sudden he's running for president everything's coming out the world here it is go absolutely and the thing is i mean i told you before i got so much gangster in me i was a gangster before i met jesus and I ain't nothing but a redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities. So there's a whole lot of things.

Anytime you shine a flashlight under somebody's clothes, you're going to find all kinds of mess. Because that's what it is to be human. But the thing is, one, you don't want to lie about it. You want to tell the truth. I'd go to the grave for that and you already told him you broke and i've been broke and it's partly because you know i do like to give to loved ones and others too but i take responsibility for it too but it don't make no difference to me what's interesting is you want to use it as a distraction why don't you keep the focus on the

suffering that i'm highlighting that's right yep that's right go to harlem go to brooklyn go to south central la go to south side chicago that's what i'm talking about that's what i'm concerned about but they used to do the same thing you know know, the Supreme Court put Martin in jail for tax evasion. That's right. Now, Martin is a tax evader in the same way that I'm a Norwegian. And I ain't got nothing against the Norwegians, but I ain't no Norwegian. I can tell you that right now. So this is just a matter of trying to hit you below the belt and keep the distraction.

But the beautiful thing is Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest, all free black. I got to give Honorable Elijah Muhammad a tremendous present. Because he produced two of the freest black men, probably the two freest black men of the 20th century. Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. Three. Don't forget Mr. Farrakhan. Well, that's true, too. Mr. Farrakhan's a free. You're absolutely right. And he's very much tied to our honorable Elijah Muhammad.

That's right. Definitely. And in that sense, the Minister of the World of Farrakhan, he is a kind of son of Malcolm in that way, you see. But what Muhammad Ali do? Muhammad Ali, rope a dope. You got to get your timing right. That's what the jazz musicians say, right?

You got to time it in such a way that when it's time to swing make sure it's effective make sure it's got love in it and make sure it has impact that's who we are you mentioned in one of your interviews um how we should be taking notice to all of these strikes going on so a moment ago you said you know the democrats, the Democrats are saying, hey, all is well, the economy is well. Break down to the people how you talked about, you know, it can't be going too well because people are striking everywhere. Isn't that the truth? Thank God Almighty and Amazon, Brother Chris. I thought we were going to have a strike at UPS,

but they called it off to last minute and got a deal. But you've got to continually engage because C-class struggle is inescapable in the capitalist society. You have to be very honest about that and the end and aim is always to squeeze from the worker what you can to make the profits as high as you can you got banks right here in new york that's generating billions and billions and billions of dollars and stand in the pockets of the well to do what we got three individuals in the country that have wealth equivalent to 160 million citizens. Three people. Three people. That's a key sweat moment.

Something, something just ain't right. Same is true with Cop City. Who's supporting Cop City? Democrats and Republicans. Black politicians down in Atlanta, too. What's happening? is cop city the militarization of an already militarized police force to do what to make sure that on the chocolate side of town you're not engaging in the kind of protecting service that you ought to it's suppressed it's contained so it doesn't spill over to the other sections of town.

Treat them the way you want to. Look at our dear brethren. We're going to kick off the campaign in Mississippi with Emmett Till a day, August 25 and 26. And we've got Brother Jenkins and Brother Parker, Brother Michael and Brother Eddie. You heard about that case, the two who have been so brutalized and sexually assaulted down in Mississippi. And the officers just pleaded guilty. My dear brother Malik Shabazz just told me about it. They just pleaded guilty.

But we're going to be down there with those brothers. Why? Because that's where we begin. And it's just two hours from Delta, Mississippi. That's where the blues comes from. That's Robert Johnson, hellhound on my trail. That's where the blues comes from. That's Robert Johnson, Hellhound on my trail. That's Sunhouse.

That's the Smith and Ma Rainey. You see, that's the 20th century was the most barbaric century of recorded time. Over 160 million people killed in wars and things. And the greatest breakthrough of the 20th century was black music.

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All right? Now let's get back to Dr. Cornel West. Charlamagne? How do you feel? Did you hear Meek Mill say recently that record labels pay artists more to rap about negativity? Oh, there's no doubt. I mean, the three albums that I did,

I was blessed to work with Prince and Gerald LaVert and Talib Kweli and Jill Scott and Rod Digger and a whole host of KRS-One and so forth and my album Never Forget came out 2007. And we went to a variety of different labels and they said, we don't want this political crap, we want G-string music. G-string music, all right.

That's the language they use that's the late somebody from a label said that oh yeah what label do you remember the label clive davis and them wow that's who it was wow that's who it was and i said to myself i didn't say it because again i just listened it's taking it in well actually i said something like you know i don't have anything against G-string. I'm a Christian, but I'm not a Puritan. Orgasm has its role and has its place. I don't think we ought to just hook up with orgasm machines for the rest of our lives and just continually.

No, no. Stop and have a little conversation. Right. Stop and have some relation. But when you fetishize that in relation to black people, that's nothing but white supremacy in the musical context, you see. Because Gil Scott Hannon ain't crap. Curtis Mayfield ain't crap. Fight the power of both P.E., Public Enemy, and the Isley Brothers.

That's not crap at all. Now, Marvin Gaye is saying what's going on, let's get it on. That's part of life. Sometimes you need to get it on. Other times you got to find out what's going on. And you got to prepare yourself spiritually, politically, and so forth. But there's no doubt that the spiritual warfare against the younger generation that tries to dumb down the music you know you got

7-11 songs which is the songs with seven words you sing it 11 times titillation and stimulation it doesn't keep you keeping on if you do win if you do win what would that do for our community, you think? Well, the first thing I'm going to do is I told my blessed wife again, I said that I'm not going to the White House until everybody has a house. So we're going to be spiritual servant leadership. Meaning what? Then we're going to talk about abolition.

We're going to bring back troops, 800 military units around the world. America doesn't have to be an empire forcing every nation to succumb to its domination. America would be a nation among nations. We spend 57 cents for every dollar on military. We could be using that to wipe out poverty. We can be using that for jobs with a living wage.

We can be using that for Medicare, for all and so forth. So it's going to be a new day in that sense. Now, you can imagine that. I mean, you know, very realistically that, you know, when you bring that kind of black musical sensibility, concerned with catastrophe, swing, and improvisation, grounded with a courage and a love,

they're going to try to crush you like a cockroach. You ready for that? Oh, I've been ready for that all my life. That's right. Black love is a crime in a white supremacist world. Anybody who falls in love with black people will be criminalized in a white supremacist world. We've seen it happen so many times. Every major black leader we had who fell in love with us.

That's right. Criminalized, character assassination, litter assassination, marginalization, incarceration. Moumi Abu-Jamal, we can go on and on. Daruba, oh, so many of the political... Sister Shakur Asada and others. Kind of a two-part question. I want to know, what do you think Republicans are getting right

and what are they getting wrong? What do you think Democrats are getting right? what do you think republicans are getting right and what are they getting wrong what do you think democrats are getting right what do you think they're getting wrong yeah i think the republicans get one thing right they've had historically the last 50 years a certain fear of centralized government undermining liberties now they've given that up recently because the neo-fascists have taken over. Because for me, you see, I believe in workers' control. I have a suspicion of government, too, and it's partly because of the kind of surveillance in COINTELPRO and the ways in which government has access to powers of surveillance of each and every one of us.

So I'm deeply tied to personal liberty. I'm deeply tied to personal liberty. I'm deeply tied to individual rights. I think people ought to be able to make their own decisions. It could be women having control over their bodies. It could be gay brothers like James Baldwin or lesbian sisters like Audre Lorde or trans or anybody.

Individual liberties are important, but they are important alongside overcoming structures of domination in the economy, in discrimination, in the workplace. What do the Democrats get right? Democrats get right the defense of rights of women and gay brothers and lesbian sisters and trans. You know, they've been decent on that when pushed. When pushed. And you say black, though. Well, neither one of them are fundamentally committed to defending black folk. That ain't no accident.

That's white supremacy at work at its deepest level. It's inseparable from the economy. It's inseparable from education. It's inseparable from the spiritual condition of black people we don't love ourselves affirm ourselves and so forth but it means to me that uh neither one of these parties has ever ever made it a priority to empower black people and see with that said i don't understand how come the green party isn't able to make more of an impact. Because they are a viable, I would think a viable

alternative to this two-party system that people claim to be sick of. Well, part of it is the Green Party itself has never made it a major priority to empower black people either. Am I telling the truth? Absolutely. They're concerned about the environment?

Rightly so. They're concerned about the environment. Rightly so. They're concerned about capitalism. Rightly so. They're concerned about patriarchy. Rightly so. Patriarchy in relation to black sisters, brown sisters, indigenous sisters, Middle Eastern sisters, and so forth. Yes, in principle, but not a priority. Not a priority, you see. And so those of us who are improvisational and moving from one context to the next, you have to be true to what's inside of you.

That's all. You just have to be true. It would be like James Brown, you know, playing the funk in the Apollo and go to Carnegie Hall to start playing Lawrence Welk. He's not going to do that. He's true to himself. That's right. The funk is going to be as funky in Carnegie Hall as it's going to be in the Apollo. That's right. That's what we need. We need politicians. We need black professionals like that. Not just wearing the mask and trying to get through based on their careers and

the next opportunity they can seize how do they support your campaign brother so we uh we got the website make some donations cornellwest24.org.org yeah you can go there to donate to volunteer all of that cornellwest24.org and we appreciate you, brother, for joining us this morning. No, but you all stay strong, because as I said, this is consecrated space, though, man. People who come through here, the musicians, the artists, the leaders, yesterday you had the brothers

wrestling with the ghetto chef and the food, and the brothers from the prisons and things. This is the space. This is like the ring shout place. You know, and under slavery, it was against the law for us to read and write. It was against the law for us to worship God

without white supervision. We had to steal away and hold a hand in the ring shout and then just raise a beautiful song, Swing Low, Sweet Cherry. They consecrated that space where they could be free in their deep African

black cells. Well, so it is here on 55th Street. All right. 2023. We call this the Black Mothership. That's right. Black Mothership. That's right. Now, is that Sun Ra or is that George Clinton in there? George Clinton. Ladies and gentlemen,

it's Dr. Cornel West. And it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got our guest co-host, Claudia Jordan, here. And let's get to the rumors. Listen up, everyone. I mean, where did I really start?

This, this, this, this is The Rumor Report. They call me Soulja Boy sometimes because they say it sounds fake, but I swear they're all true. If you live long enough, you've got to have stories. That is very true. You know what I mean? That is very true. Talk to him. Okay, Taylor.

Taylor made it on another intro. I like that one. Yeah, that's all. That was cute. Okay. I'm not like Soulja Boy. My stories are true. He's a true too.

All right. Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Aniston. Listen, there's a whole bunch of backlash. He received backlash for a social media post that he shared regarding fake friends. The post said they killed this dude named Jesus. What do you think they'll do to you? Hashtag fake friends. Hashtag fake love.

Well, the post sparked a whole bunch of criticism of Fox's vague mentioning of the word, you know, they causing the Jewish community to feel targeted. A lot of people came to Jamie's offense, stating the post was a cultural thing. And most people knew that this was a reference to, you know, betrayal of Judas and not an attack of the Jews on the Jews. Jennifer Aniston received backlash because she liked the post. And people were like, hold the Jews, on the Jews. Jennifer Aniston received backlash because she liked the post and people were like, hold up now sis, relax. And she posted this story. She posted this to her story. This really makes me sick.

I did not like this post on purpose or by accident. And more importantly, I want to be clear to my friends and anyone hurt by this showing up on their feeds. I do not support any form of anti-semitism and i truly don't tolerate hate of any kind the only the only anti thing i got from that post was anti-friends and the post had less to do with that and more to his statement of fake friends i'm sure

with somebody in his life that was a fake friend and he was saying, and in our culture, we've said things like this before. I don't think he was attacking any group at all. You're like, come on. It's to the point where people are being too sensitive now. I guess people felt offended. So he decided to take it down and apologize. But he wasn't going at any any group. He was talking about a friend that I'm sure did him dirty.

And that's what he was trying to compare it to. White people. White people. White people. This is for you. Now, is this your black side or your white side? This is my black side speaking right now. Okay. I'm speaking to my mama and to all the white folks out there.

There's things in our community that we don't have to explain because it's understood. Correct. Whose grandmother did not tell them, baby, if they kill Jesus, what do you think they'll do to you? Correct. That's something that we say it means if the the most perfect human that we've ever heard of i've known a perfect being was murdered or killed and people betrayed him don't think you're better than that has nothing to do with anti-semitism it's unbelievable that and i honestly i don't feel that he should have apologized and jamie posted this apology i want to apologize to the jewish community and everyone that was offended by my

post I know my choice of words have caused offense and I'm sorry that was never my intent to clarify I was betrayed by a fake friend and that's what I meant by they not anything more I have love in my heart for everyone I love and support the Jewish community my deepest apologies to anyone that was offended nothing but love

always Jamie Foxx Jamie Foxx this is my black side speaking to you as well um you shouldn't apologize the more we uh tiptoe around things like this and it gives validity to people even thinking that was that was such a reach jennifer aniston and the community that thinks that they were coming for you he was coming for you he was not he wasn't right like we're getting to a point where we have to like backpedal everything we say to appease one group where's the apologies to us yeah everything is intention right and his intention wasn't to offend anybody i mean and that's clear the problem is is

people get offended by anything we've seen it happen when uh lizzo said something had to take something out of one of her records we've seen it with beyonce and beyonce had to take something out of her record that's culturally things that we've said now if it was an intention to offend somebody I completely understand but in this case there was there was no way no how not even a little bit of an offensive tone from Jamie Foxx the problem is everybody wants to be a victim and everyone's like I'm offended back in our day growing up we're close to the same age right that used to build character even if you were offended by something, you would learn how to rebound from that or have a clap back. And I feel like we've gotten so, I can't even say the word I want to use.

But we've become weakened and watered down. We just can't take anything. And being offended is the worst thing on earth. Right. Being offended when I was younger made me a savage and be able to respond quickly and come back with something. We need to bring back plenty of dozens and make people hard again. Yeah, but hard again yeah but hold up pause yeah i don't mean i know i know what you meant i know what you mean but don't be offended no no but i will also say this and i'm sure jamie probably have a lot of fans a lot of followers that are jewish and maybe they felt a way about

it and he wanted to be like you know what that wasn't my intention and if you felt that way i'm sorry but i don't think people took it like that i just think people took look for a story and took that story and ran with it and shame on you jennifer aniston because i like you and i feel like you put a battery in people's backs with that you really did all right moving on neo apologizes to the lbgtq community for recent remarks he recently did an interview with gloria velez on vlad tv now during his interview he gave his personal opinion on children and gender identity. Let's take a listen. I have no issue with the LBGT.

I have no problem with nobody. Right. Love who you love, do what you do. Exactly. I just personally come from an era where a man was a man and a woman was a woman, and it wasn't but two genders, and that's just how I rocked. I feel like parents have almost forgotten what the role of a parent is it's like okay if your little boy comes

to you and says daddy i want to be a girl and you just let him rock with that you just let he's five and where did he get that if you let this five-year-old boy decide to eat candy all day he's gonna do that exactly when when did it become a good idea to let a five-year-old let a six-year-old let a 12-year-old make a life-changing decision for they self where's the lie where's the lie but then he uh with much pressure he was forced into an apology he said after much reflection i like to express my deepest apologies to anyone i may have hurt with my comments on parenting and gender identity. I've always been an advocate for love and inclusivity in the LGBTQ community, so I understand how my comments may have been interpreted

as insensitive and offensive. It goes on and on and on. Once again, another black person having to apologize for having an opinion. Now listen, I understand it's tumultuous times and the community has definitely been under attack. 1,000%. So are black people, right?

I agree with comments about parents not really parenting anymore and kind of letting the children lead the way. And I think we need to get back to a place where, listen, I wanted to wear makeup when I was 12. I wasn't allowed to because my mom put her foot down and said, listen, that's something you do when you're older.

When you get too closer to an adult. We wouldn't let a kid eat whatever they want, play with fire. I think when you're young closer to be to an adult we wouldn't let a kid um eat whatever they want play with fire i think when you're young you go through phases and i think let kids be kids and just like live and just worry about kid things i think sexuality and sex is something that we five and six years old it shouldn't even be on on the radar at that point i think like i think we're just getting introducing sex and sexuality just so young and i know people might be mad at that comment but i'm standing by and i'm not apologizing yeah i mean i feel like as a parent you decide to parent your kid the way that you want to parent your kid um i'm with you i feel that at age five six i don't want my kids to be thinking about sex

not at all not not any type of sex right and it's not just an lbgt i think straight not straight sex not gay sex not any type of sex i don't want any type of sex references at the age of five and six and i and not even at the age of 10 i have a 10 year old a nine year old uh i had to start counting one is about to be seven and one's about to be two and that's not something that i even want on their mind i want them to be kids i want them to play outside i want them to play basketball and football and dance and my daughter's making movies at the house using iMovie now having a great time but I don't want sex to be a part of that and I don't make them or allow them to watch anything that has any type of any sexual you know innuendos at all so am I a

bad parent for that no but if Neil wants to raise his kids I think he has a lot of them he could raise them the way that he wants to be and I don't have a problem with that so emmy what do you say and there is an argument right to to the critics that will say hey but you know um i want to i want my kid to feel comfortable living in their truth correct at and and they say they recognize that at early age and i do believe that i do believe children some children are born they're born that way you know what i mean like i don't want to stifle them right i just think we should talk less about sex and more about kid things yeah i'm not i'm never going to stifle how my kid feels or what my kid wants or what my kid thinks that they him or her wants but i will

try to lead of a life as a kid when i was a kid i was a kid i played i i played video games i played baseball i did whatever i wanted to do my parents didn't stifle me uh but i also didn't have like i'm a grown-ass man and i still haven't had the conversation with the birds and bees with my mom and my dad yet me too i'm still waiting i'm still waiting for that conversation dad i know you're listening everyone we still didn't have that conversation but that's what it was we didn't have that conversation when we get to a little older age when they're teens and it's morning then we'll have that conversation but right now i just want my kids to be kids just play have fun enjoy life support them without stifling them but i don't encourage any kind of

sex talk until they're a little older maybe i feel the same way all right we on the same page all right y'all be mad if y'all want to but uh that's what we think and i think we got to get back to a point where we can have opinions on things without it being called a phobia correct and that is your rumor report now charlemagne is out if you want to give donkey of the day to anybody you want 800-585-1051 phone lines are wide open again 800-585-1051 give donkey the day to whoever you want it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club your mornings will never be the same. With audio titles on business, fitness, motivation, and more, Audible keeps your imagination pumped and ready to hit new goals. Check out all the audiobooks, podcasts, and originals you could want and sign up for 30 days free at audible.com slash breakfast club.

It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember now, that's just how they choose. Call in now, 800-585-1051. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlemagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Charlemagne is out, so we're opening up the phone lines to give donkey of the day to whoever you want. Claudia Jordan is here, our guest host.

So let's go right to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? My name is Jennifer. Hey, Jennifer. Who you want to give Donkey to? The people at Vassar's who got their ass whooped in Montgomery. They deserved it, though, didn't they? They did.

And they own a gas station in Selma, Alabama. And I work at the hospital. And they came in the hospital scared to death last night. Oh, you went over there last night? I actually work in Selma, Alabama. I'm a contract worker at the hospital. Oh, so you see some of the people come in there and they were scared to death? They were scared to death. They called the police. They said, oh, everybody's n**** is in here. They said what? Yeah, that's what they said.

They said everybody what? Are n****s in here. They said what? Yeah, that's what they said. They said everybody what? Are n****s in here. So you saw them at the hospital. Were they like a lot of injuries? Was anybody's teeth knocked out? Oh yeah. Like one lady, it was three men and one woman. The woman had a fist print

in her face, on the left side of her face and it was huge. Oh my God. Don't get me wrong, I was tickled, but I was thinking to myself, like, y'all deserved everything y'all got. You know, the messed up thing about it is, I mean, it is, I like that term,

you tickle me too, you got a footprint. But then they come to the hospital, now they coming to the black nurses to get some help? Exactly, and then they looking at everybody like, oh my God, everybody's black, everybody's a n***a. And then they call the everybody like, oh, my God, everybody's black. Everybody's a and then they call the police and the police told them, hey, you need to get treated. And they left. So you mess with black people. I found out you got a footprint in your forehead. Then you go to the hospital and you're like, oh, there's more of them here.

Footprint on your face is crazy. Hello. Who's this? This is Willie from Alabama. This is Willie from Alabama. Now, Willie, who you want to give Donkey to? I want to give Donkey today to the owner of Vestas Mini Mart. They came down here to Montgomery, Alabama and jumped on that dude who go by the name Dang Dang. Now, that's your friend, the security guard? Yeah, I know him personally.

How's he doing? He all right. He's having a good experience because guard? Yeah, I know him personally. How's he doing? He all right. He's having a good experience because everybody down here, we support him. We definitely support him, man. So he's a security guard. How old is the brother? He's going to be like 45 years old. So he's an older gentleman.

They try to whoop his ass. I'm so glad that people jumped on his ass so fast. Yeah, man. But we go through that all the time, man. Is he on social media? He don't have no social media, but I can get him to call you guys.

I need his info. What's his number? We're going to speak to him. Can you call him on three-way right fast? I can't call him on three-way real fast. He one of them

type of older dudes where you just got to pull up on him. He just always in the neighborhood. You got to pull up on him. Man, all right, Willie. We love him.

Can you tell him we love him and we salute him? And I think he just inspired a whole movement of us sticking together. Absolutely. Oh, yeah.

I got y'all on record, so as soon as I get off work, I'm going to go show it to him. Okay. All right. Well, we appreciate it. What's his name?

My name is Willie from Montgomery, Alabama. Not you, Willie. The man. The man that got... Oh, Day Day. Day Day. He's named me Day Day.

Day Day or Nay Nay? Day Day as in dog dog or Nay Nay as in... Not, Willie. The man. The man that got. Oh, Dang Dang. Dang Dang. He's not me. Dang Dang. Day Day or Nay Nay? Day Day as in dog dog or Nay Nay as in not not? Bang Bang. Bang Bang. Bang Bang. Bang Bang with a B like boy? No, Dang Bang. Like Dang Bang.

Dang Dang. Dang. D-A-N-G? Yeah. All right. Well, salute to Dang Dang. All right. Thank you, Willie.

The market owner trying to say that he had nothing to do with it He left He's like no no I walked away Alright well we'll see this video Hello who's this? It's Suge Who you wanna give donkey to? To them white people that jumped at security guard

And then tried to play the victim when the police came Right I'm just surprised more of them didn't get thrown into the water. Because I'd have been throwing them in the water like crazy. Hey, they was knocking them out, though. So it's good. It's good. You know what's funny?

They was real bold with it when it was six on one to the poor brother. The brother by himself. But then when we pulled up, they were like, they want to get the bag tight. They didn't want no smoke. And the gentleman. Yeah, now they scared. Now they scared. And we traumatizing them.

That's right. And the gentleman that picked up the chair, he wasn't a younger dude. He was an older man. He was getting busy with that chair, WWE style. Yeah, for real. It took me back to my childhood. I'm like, yeah, somebody get on the rope. You know, speaking of that chair, I have a fun fact.

On July 17, 1911, Nathaniel Alexander, a black man, patented the first folding chair. Yo, I found this fact last night on Black Twitter. I was dying laughing. So I'm going to post it on my IG. Lauren, good morning. Good morning. How you feeling, Lauren?

I'm good. I actually just got off work, y'all. Lauren, you're the woman that, you're from Alabama, correct? Correct. Now, you're the woman that filmed the whole thing. Right. So you were filming from the boat. So, break down what happened.

You guys are on that boat. The boat's coming in. And you're seeing this altercation happen on the dock. So, explain everything that happened. Okay. So, we were, like, on the dock. We were waiting to get on, like, the ferry boat. Because we had a little thing.

We had books for my cousin. A private party. We're shipping cycle. You know, where you cycle while the boat's going and the bigger boat the Harriet was trying to come in the smaller boats were in the way um they were trying to move the boat and the security they called security and basically they started unhunting the boat and moving it back. And the guy, the white guy, went down there, you know, with a lot of skin, pointing, stuff like that. And then the white guy just ended up hitting him.

And all of the people that was with him, I don't know if it was the white guy, the store, whatever. But all of them jumped on him. I knew that Harriet is now, like, coming closer to the dock. So, like, the crew members, everybody saw it. But instead of them folks starting up their something, going on about their business, some of them branched off, got back in their boat, and sat there. So that's why we see the gentlemen and everybody jumping off the boat.

It's because they saw them jump on this man and literally got on their boat like, boy, nothing's going to happen to them. And that's why when the boat got close and they were able to leap over, and one individual, I think he was 16 years old, he swam over while they were doing it. That's why they did that.

That's why they, because, yeah. It literally, all he, all the the guard asked him to do was to move his boat and it went from there was a 16 year old was he on your boat that you were on did he jump off the boat you were on no no he was on the harriet we were on the dock oh okay waiting to go on a smaller little like you know it's urgent where you kettle and you drink and, you know, party, that their boat couldn't come in either because their boats were in the way. So they asked them to

move their boat and for some reason, whatever the case may be, they had to swing on the security bar. Wow. Lauren, we lost you? Damn, we lost Lauren. Lauren was actually one of the people that actually filmed, well, one of the people that filmed the incident that happened in Alabama.

I witnessed. She's seen it all. Man, I wish I was there now. I want to open up the phone lines. I know we're supposed to talk about some other things. I want to open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. If you've seen something like this happening to a gentleman that you didn't know, a brother out there getting into an altercation with some white folks, and white folks were jumping him, would you help? If you've seen something like this happening to a gentleman that you didn't know,

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We were talking about what happened in Alabama, that Alabama brawl. If you're just waking up, there was a security guard at a boat dock. He was trying to get somebody to move their boat because the actual steamboat was coming in. They wouldn't move the boat and they jumped the brother. I was a black guy. It was a bunch of white dudes and a white and a couple of white women. And they jumped, jumped him crazy. The black people watching it on the boat that was coming in. Actually, one dude jumped in the water, started swimming. And when that boat got ashore, they whooped those white people's ass so we're asking 800-585-1051 if you've seen somebody in distress would you help let's go to the phone lines hello who's this

janae hey janae good morning morning now we're asking if you've seen something like this happen would you help absolutely not only because Only because I'm a female. I don't have much sense of weaknesses. But the nearest man is getting pushed off the boat. Because what are you doing? You have to go help. But when I saw the females jumping in, now the females, yeah, they would have got the one-on-one. I ain't going to get my ass knocked out.

I ain't going to lie to you. So, Jenea, you can't fight? I ain't playing. I'm getting hit. I would have got to go to the Lord. So, there's going to be people that are going to fight, and then we need some people on the film crew. So you be on the film crew. Yes, ma'am.

Okay. All right, well, that helps. Okay, thank you, mama. Hello, who's this? This is Trish from Florida. Hey, Trish, now we're asking, if you seen this happening, what would you do? I would jump in. I honestly would jump in. I'm not a person that likes injustice or violence,

but I also am a person that loves when our communities stand up for one another so yeah yeah i didn't even ask you claudia what would you do if you seen that situation happen what would you do man i've been waiting for a karen to try me really i have like i just have like i'm just so sick of you know the last few years have been really tough if you've been to be black in america is to be mad all the time because of what we see and we've seen all these people just getting like slowly killed right in front of us. And people are filming. I jump in.

I would jump in. I would jump in and try not to throw a hip out. See, I'm the gentleman with the chair. That is me. I'm not a fair fighter. I never know what somebody has in their back pocket. I'm not playing any games. I'm grabbing a chair, knocking you off.

And I am very surprised I didn't see more people in the water because I'm pushing everybody in the water. Everybody's going in the water. I'm just going to push you in the water, and I know for about the next five minutes, you got to swim back on the shore, and I'm good. I'm just going to be pushing mad people in the water. You know that dock water's mad filthy, too. Dirty, disgusting.

Itchy as hell getting out of there. The only thing I was fearful of, because a lot of times they say black people can't swim, right? So they push one of us in the water. We can't swim. Now they drowning. Now somebody got to go get them. But I can swim.

I'm pushing everybody in that water. I like it, man. I like the unity. I hope it starts a movement, like I said. Hello, who's this? Oh, who is this? KK from Brownsville. KK, what's up from Brownsville?

Talk to me. What you doing if you see something like this happening? I feel like I want to help anybody that's in a disadvantage. Plus, especially if you're from my city, because even when you went, Gunplay had it out, I said, yo, I would go in for envy. You know what I'm saying? I would go hard for people that's from the color of my skin. And if they're not from the color of my skin, I feel like I would break it up because I

don't like seeing people with disadvantages. You know what I'm saying And that's another thing too When it's our own people You want to help even more And this has nothing to do with it But if you ever go out of town And there's a bunch of New York dudes in the club

New York always stick together You might not know anybody at all But when it's New York we all stick together Like yeah what's up We don't know each other from nobody It seems like we're distant cousins When we're out of town and everything You know what I'm saying But that way we're back in New York, we all stick together like, yeah, what's up? We don't know each other from nobody. It seems like we're distant cousins when we're out of town and everything. You know what I'm saying? But that way, we're back in New York.

We're enemies. We hate each other. Oh, you're from the Bronx? I'm from Brooklyn. See, that's what we got to work on. Yeah, that's what we got to work on, that part. We got to work on the black part. We all black.

It don't matter where we from. Right. Thank you, KK. Yeah. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's up? This is Ace from Billy Rock and Quillen. Ace, what up

Talk to me Yes sir You know why I'm Jumping in though Why Because black people Don't just bother white people He was probably

Doing his job He was And they was entitled So now you're entitled To this ass whore I like that I like it a lot Yeah

What's up Claudia Hey how you doing I'm good I'm good You know not like Yo Evie we tried Guess who's up. What's up, Claudia? Hey, how you doing? I'm good. I'm good. You know, not like this. Yo, Evie, we trying to get a host up there. What's up, man? Ace, where you from? Yo.

What you mean, Brooklyn? Okay, you just want to just guest host because you just want to guest host. Here we go again with me and Slider. Does anyone just want to guest host? Daily Rap, I'm cool. I want to guest host on the practice club, man. What's up? How does that make you feel, Claudia?

You've been putting your chops in. You've been working for a long time. Ace is just from Brooklyn. He's like, yo, I can do that job. I feel like when y'all have... Nah,

nah, no disrespect to Claudia. She's doing an amazing job. I just think that we would be a good addition to the show. But Ace, I gotta speak on this.

Y'all, when Jess is on here, when Ebony is on here, when all these other fat la-la, y'all don't be like, y'all should let the average person come up here just because. I feel like when I is on here, when all these other fat la-la, y'all don't be like, y'all should let the average person come up here because just because

I feel like when I'm up here, I just, everybody be like, well, I'm just, everybody be like, well, she there. That's funny as hell. Y'all might as well

get me up there. Do I suck? No, no, not at all, Claudia. Like I said, it's not a shot at you. I'm just, I mean, I just need an opportunity

to show what I can do. This only happens when I'm here. Do they do this on it when everybody else is here? No, just you. This is me. Well, you know, I just need an opportunity to show what I can do. This only happens when I'm here. Do they do this when everybody else is here? No. This is me. Well, you know, I'm going to say I'm for the people. I'm the people.

There you go. 800-585-1051. We're talking that Alabama brawl that went down over the weekend. If you seen a brother in distress, would you jump in or would you mind your business? Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. That ain't calling my phone.

Tell her, tell her. Made good morning it's topic time call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now if you're just joining us we got claudia jordan here she's our guest host charlamagne is out he'll be back tomorrow. So we're asking, the Alabama brawler went down over the weekend. If you seen a brother in distress, what would you do? Would you help or would you mind your business? Now, I know a lot

of people said they would mind their business because we've heard of this before. People jump in and maybe, you know, somebody has a weapon and they wind up getting hurt or killed or shot. Or, you know, if it's a couple fight and you jump in and now they both turn and jump on your ass. And they stay together anyways.

And they stay together anyway. So that is the question. Let's go to the phone lines. Oh, who's this? Hey, what's up? Good morning. It's Takisa. Hey, Takisa.

What you doing? I'm rolling up right now listening to y'all. No, I mean, what would you do in that situation? I know you're listening to us, Takisa. Like, what would you do in a situation? You see a brother under distress. You helping him or you minding your business? Oh, I'm jumping in would you do in that situation? I know you're listening to us, Tequisa. Like, what would you do in a situation? You see a brother under distress. You helping him or you minding your business? Oh, I'm jumping in.

I'm jumping in. I'm whooping ass. I'm taking names. I'm getting some of the best shots. Do you feel like, especially the stuff we've been witnessing with, like, you know, seeing George Floyd and, like, all the other black men that we have all witnessed get snuffed out like do you think that that has a lot to do with it now people just sick and tired of seeing it like ain't gonna happen on our watch anymore yes that's exactly what I was just about to say that's part of the problem too many people standing around just watching it right

we watching women be disrespected we watch men get jumped come on now jump in and whip their heads and there's an argument on the other the other color, the other side. Oh, they jump in. They don't care if they know each other. Now, Tequisa, when's the last time you got into a fight? Man, I'm 47 years old. I ain't not fighting. Tequisa, you ain't whooping nobody.

You're going to get tied after you push the first person. Hey, DJ Envy. I'm dragging somebody. You're going to drag them for 10 seconds and then you're going to be tired. They're going to get in trouble. They're going to get some water. That's why I said I'm just going to push people in the water. Because I got about a good 60 seconds, and I'm going to be tired.

I'm going to be like, you know. Look at you. That's pretending to murder. You don't know some folks. That's true. You can't go push your folks in the water. But you're going to drag them, but I can't push them in the water, Tequisa? Now, Tequisa, we around the same age. I'm going to be with you with that. But we're going to drag them, but I can't push them in the water, Tequisa? Now, Tequisa,

we around the same age. I'm going to be with you with that, but we all going to get tired, but they're going to get 10, 15 seconds of hell from us before we get tired. 10, 15 seconds. 10, 15 seconds of hell. That's right. And I'm going to be tired. Hello, who's this? Good morning. This is Sean from Detroit. Hey, Sean. What up, though?

What's Detroit doing now? You see a brother in distress. What you doing, mama? Well, because I'm from Detroit, I'm from East 7th, I got to be careful. I don't want to just get the swinging on people, and I don't know who's right or who's wrong. I stand for my people 100%, but I go to smack Karen or Big Pitty and find out, you know, we wrong. You could have hit Baby Kid or something. Now we all in jail with the stupid. So you're gonna

analyze first. You're gonna sit back and say, alright, let me find out who's right and wrong first and then you're gonna start whooping ass. Exactly. I got white friends and black friends. So yeah, I get it, but I'm gonna always stand for my people first. Okay. I just gotta know what's going on. But the white side don't do that. Like, they all jumped on that guy without

even knowing he was just doing his job. You know what I'm saying? So we gotta return energy sometimes, I think. You know, damn, Claudia. I'm sorry. I can't confess. But yes, Claudia. Yes, you right. You so right. They did jump on their brother when he was just doing his job. That's right. So we give them more courtesy than they give us. So I think the days need to be over. Hello, who's

this? What up, though? This is Charlie from Detroit. Yo, Detroit on the line. When I start talking about a fighting topic, Detroit call is so crazy. You already know, bro. So, Charlie, what's up? You see a man in distress. What you doing? Man, ain't no way on earth I can't jump in there. The only

way I can't say it's not gonna happen, my wife probably will lose her marbles for fear of what could happen. But, man, ain't no way. It can't go down without like that. Yeah, I'm with you. Because when I look at that brother, I look at my father, my uncle, my brother. Like, you look at a family member, and especially if it's a black woman,

I'm looking at mama, grandmama, my sister, my daughter. You know what I mean? You're just looking to really just beat up anybody that messes with them. Hello, who's this? This is Eli from Detroit. What's up, though? Yo, Detroit. Yo, y'all are calling in.

Eli, when I saw you mention physical fighting, Detroit calling so crazy. Because niggas got us fucked up. I wish you was a boat car to hear you here. And niggas on there, they motherfuckers doing this. It's the board of chairs. I've been throwing people in the water. Elijah can't curse.

So imagine that party I did in Detroit two weeks ago, right? You know, right on the water side. And a brother was getting beat up by some white folks. What's happening? Man, the whole entire crowd was moving out there. The whole crowd would have whipped his ass? Yeah, he would have got thrown in the water, too. We got a boat like the Princess.

They probably would have put him up under it. Damn it, man. All right, thank you. Let me call one more caller. Hello, who's this? Yo, Envy, what's good? It's Mitch, man mitch where you calling from i'm calling from atlanta atlanta all right now you see a brother in distress mitch

mitch what you doing mitch oh yeah smoke it's going all the way up you already know it's 2023 you already know if it was the other way around we wouldn't hear the end of it so you know we gotta we gotta support our people we gotta fight people. Man, if we can keep this energy going and then start doing it with each other, like stop the nonsense between us, we can be so powerful. I'm with you. I am totally with you. Go to Twitter and look at Black Twitter. They are going in.

They had a meme of a Timberland pulled up to a dock and it had the SS deadass on it. There was so many funny memes all over social media. Go to Black Twitter and just Google it. It's so funny. Jesus Christ. I mean, I will say this. I love the fact that we all stood up and rolled with each other. I just pray to God that in other situations we could ride with each other more often.

There's so many times where a lot of times we go against each other and not even know anything. It was good to see that we supported that brother. We helped that brother and had that brother's back. But it doesn't stop there. We got to continue to support our own. We got to continue to support our own businesses.

We got to continue to support, support, support, support. And I don't think we should stop until we support each other. And there's an argument to be made that the brothers that did jump in and the sisters perhaps could have prevented a murder. That guy could have been murdered. Correct. It was was eight on one they could have stomped him out until he was done breathing you know what i mean and no one got killed so we can make light of the situation but i do like that you know the brother was protected all right now we got rumors on the way what we talking about yo big story with kai sanat and uh how they are coming for his neck

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Shout out to my brother, Rob. He's listening this morning. He was like, support, support, support. We have to support. But he was like, yo, E, I have a restaurant. You haven't came one time. All right, I'm going to come to your restaurant today. Oh, I forgot it's closed today. So I can't even come today, Rob. And you're going to pay for it, right?

You're going to pay. You're not going to ask for the hookup. You're going to support black businesses. What you talking about, Willis? The restaurant. No, no, no, I'm just joking. Come on, A.B. Yes, I am.

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Your Jordan stories are great. If you live long enough, you've got to have stories. That is very true. You know what I mean? That is very true. Talk know what I mean? That is very true. Talk to him. All right. Twitch star Kai Sanat is being charged with a felony and two misdemeanors after his free PlayStation giveaway in New York City went left.

Now, he collaborated with another influencer, Phenom, to give away five PlayStations in Union Square. Whatever could go wrong well the two invited their millions of followers to join them in new york city at 4 p.m for the giveaway now according to police the crowd grew around 3 p.m spilling into surrounding areas it was got really got crazy it's reported that most of the crowd was peaceful but a handful of attendees began throwing rocks bottles and building materials at others in the crowd. Police ended up detaining 65 people, including Kai Sanat. Nearly half of them were juveniles. And, uh, I don't want to call him a thot, but the mayor of New York had something to say.

He needs treats. He's outside. Eric Adams has this to say. Influencer Kai Sanat was released from police custody today after yesterday's chaos in Union Square. Police issued a desk appearance ticket to Sanat, which requires him to appear in court on August 18th. He faces charges of inciting a riot and promoting an unlawful gathering after Sanat's giveaway event turned violent. Today, Mayor Adams spoke about the investigation into the giveaway event, saying he believes other people could also be responsible for the riot. You don't come to get free Game Boys and bring smoke bombs and bring M-80s and bring other disruptive items. And so we believe there were some outside influencers that may have attempted to aggravate this situation. Now, as far as Kastanat's concerned, I mean, he's an influence.

He has a large influence. And with influence also comes responsibility. I don't think he wanted this. I don't think he intended for this to happen. I think he was just trying to do something nice for his followers and his fans. And it got out of control. But a lot of times we got to think, you know, he didn't think I'm sure he didn didn't think what 10,000 people are going to be there. Some people said 20,000, but if you really think about it, think about a festival with 10, 15, 20,000, no security, you know, think about a concert or a baseball game or a football game with no security.

That's what happened in union square. And it could have got a lot worse. Do I think he should get jail time or anything like that no i mean i think it was a learning lesson and i think hopefully he did learn that lesson something else that was very disturbing is uh when i seen one of the cars driving off there was like 10 kids on top of the car and the car was taken off one of them kids could have flew off and killed and died um but no i don't think he should get jail time if they want to charge him a fee a fine uh for whatever it may be maybe for what happened with Union Square and a couple of those businesses and cars that got destroyed, that's fine. But I don't think he should get any type of jail time.

He's a young kid. He was trying to do something nice for his followers and his fans. I know people saying, yeah, but he shouldn't have. But that wasn't his intention. He wasn't intending on waking up that day and say, you know what? I'm going to F New York City up. Right. That wasn't his intention.

Imagine, like, let me do something nice. Let me give away Playstations to people. And people love that, right? And you're giving, you're actually giving back. What's wrong with the people that showed up with smoke bombs and M&E's? What would y'all think? Why would you go to a giveaway with that? Like, what was, did y'all have a conversation, like a private conversation?

Like, let's go turn up on this. Right. Why would you do that? And now your boy that's trying to give y'all something is in trouble now. Correct. And Eric Adams, Mayor Adams, I'm not calling you a thot, but you are outside a lot. You did call him a thot. Well, he's thottish, adjacent.

He in them streets a lot. Is there a first lady here in New York? I don't think there's a first lady, but he wants to touch the soil. He wants to see what's going on. He wants to breathe the street. He wants to see the street. He's an ex-NYPD, so he's used to being out there in the street. So that's what he's doing.

He's definitely touching the soil, Eric. All right, y'all. Moving on. Speaking of touching, Usher comments on Keke Palmer's breakup. And now we all know about the infamous scene where Usher was singing to Keke Palmer and her baby daddy, Darius Jackson. He took to social media to share his disdain for how Keke was carrying herself as a mother in the footage, how it went viral. Usher has been called by uh lauren larosa who was here guest co-hosted the breakfast club uh she has some exclusive footage or audio

where he joked about his new name being a domestic terrorist like he messing up happy homes correct um what do you think about this i think usher's having fun i think people need to stop usher's performing and that's part of his performance he pulls people up he pulls up women that you know especially are famous that he knows

is going to go viral I don't have a problem with that people have done that all through the times I mean we've seen Janet Jackson pull people on stage Usher's having a good time and I can't wait to see Usher

in Vegas it's next a residency show I'm going to take the wife we're going to go how do I get tickets to this I want to go I want to go I want to go

I tried to reach out to my casino host because I'm a degenerate gambler and they said that is sold out they said it's so tough to get tickets to the show Usher if you're listening

stop the music stop the music go ahead Usher if you're listening I don't have a possessive baby daddy I don't have any babies I have two cats I don't have a man right now

I'm not trying to shoot my shot at you I just want to go to the show and appreciate a good song you can sing to me No one's going to get mad and it's going to be no issues. And Kiki Palmer, your baby daddy. I mean yeah.

I get you was feeling away but I don't know. I don't think it was worth either one of them losing their relationship over this. On either one of their parts. Alright. Alright. Well that is your rumor report. Usher if you are listening I'm taking my wife. If you grab my wife's hands,

like Charlamagne and I said earlier, I'm grabbing your hand too. I'm going to jump on your back. We're going to be all singing together. I just want you to know. It's going to go viral for real. We're going to be all singing together. I thought this was going to be the one show where y'all weren't being gay. We almost made it to the end and you just made, you threw

yourself in a threesome With Usher and Gia Like really, you're going to be holding Usher's hands While he's singing Whose eyes are he going to be singing to? Yours or hers? And that is your rumor report Up next is the People's Choice Mix Get your request in right now

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got Claudia Jordan here, our guest co-host. And I want to remind you guys, my car show happens the 26th and 27th of August. If you're looking for a family fun event, I'm talking about cars, celebrity cars, amusement rides, jumpies, so many dope activations. Monster Energy, salute to them. They're going to have a bike show where they're going to be doing flips and all that good stuff. And we turn it into like a huge party. I mean, kids will be doing dances. It's's gonna feel like a day party car show all right

and that's going down august 26th and 27th it's a two-day show shout out to pcny they're gonna be there giving backpacks to some of the kids because it's back to school right around the corner there's gonna be old cars courtesy of the bbs boys it's gonna be so many things i got so many dealerships in the local area that's gonna be there shout the wide world ferrari uh shout the mercedes-benz shout to uh bentley and rolls royce and lamborghini it's gonna be so fun where your kids are gonna be actually to sit in some of those cars and take pictures so if you haven't got your tickets get your tickets and kids five and under are free so we want you to bring your kids uh your parents your grandparents your aunties your uncles uncles. It's a family

fun day. We're going to have great food. So if you haven't got your tickets, click the link in my bio and definitely get your tickets. And I got to remind you, September 16th, shout out to all the HBCUs out there. We're doing the Classic in New York, HBCU NY Classic, which is a huge game. It's going to be Morehouse versus

Albany State. We don't really get a lot of these games on the East Coast. A lot of them is usually in the South, Orlando, Atlanta. But this is the one that's going to be Morehouse versus Albany State. We don't really get a lot of these games on the East Coast. A lot of them is usually in the South, Orlando, Atlanta. But this is the one that's going to happen here. And I can't wait to see you guys there. It's going to be performances, step shows, band performances, day parties, night parties. There's going to be a lot going on, career fairs. It's all about HBCUs and alumni.

And we want you to bring your kids so they can experience an HBCU close to home. Now, what are you working on? Watch me on Fox Soul every night at 8 o'clock Eastern Time. TGIF. That show is super funny. If you miss it, catch the replay the next day on YouTube. Also, I got my Tubi movie, Part 2, All I Want Is You, Part 2 dropped. Everyone's bugging out on the ending, because I get very,

very, very cray-cray at the end of the movie. I did some real disrespectful stuff. Did you? Tubi movies be funny as hell. Yo, I love Tubi movies, because you don't take yourself that seriously. Right. There'd be editing issues. On one scene, I have some black jeans on, then it went blue, then it went black again.

But the movie is still funny. It's still good. At the end, I'm a super, super savage. All I Want Is You, part two on Tubi. Check out part one and part two. Shout out to Silk White, Le Master, Crystal Nadal. Everybody that was in the movie.

They did a great job. Okay. Well, definitely check out the Tubi movie. When we come back, we got the positive notice to Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. And I want to salute to everybody I've seen in Carabana. I was in Toronto over the weekend. I had such an amazing time. I had

about four shows, and Carabana is a time where just everybody represents their island, represents where they're from. And we just had such a good time. There were so many parties and festivals and performances and everything was packed. It was all peaceful. And I just love Toronto. I haven't been able to go for the last couple of years because of uh the pandemic and covid but we had such a great time the food is always great if you ever get

an opportunity to go uh definitely go out there for caravan i had a great time and then last night shout to the mayor of new york he's doing these uh block parties for the 50th year of hip-hop and last night was in queens and i got a chance to actually dj for some of the legends that i actually grew up listening to like hoogie rap and big daddy kane and uh beanie seagull and mob deep uh royal flush it was just such an amazing event so positive so great it was like 10 000 people out there so i just want to say salute to the mayor salute to everybody that put that together yesterday. We had such a great time. And shout to Havoc, man.

Seeing him perform Shook Ones from Mobb Deep in Queensbridge, the fact that he's from Queensbridge was just a memory that I'll never forget. So salute to all the legends and OGs out there. We appreciate this thing that you've created called hip-hop. And the fact that we've been able to hold the torch and keep it going. We just want to say thank you to all those legends and djs and we appreciate you guys i know a lot of times people take this hip-hop thing for granted because you know we're working we're enjoying but if it wasn't for those originators and ogs and legends we wouldn't be where we are

today when it comes to this music thing so thank you, you got a positive note? Um, stop lying out these streets. That's it? Stop lying. Ladies and gentlemen, I had a deal with two people this week about lying. I know this isn't positive, but I'm going to tell you this. Your life will be positive if you stop the cap.

A lot of times your people will accept you as you are if they know what they're really dealing with. You don't got to front posting pictures on private jets from eight years ago and acting like it just happened yesterday. You don't gotta lie and say you did not sleep with your friend's ex or whatever. Just keep it a buck and you'll be surprised that most people will still

rock with you if they know you're honest. Even with your faults, they'll be like, man, you be on some BS. But I know you're gonna always keep it a buck with me. That's gonna be my message today. And real quick, birthday shout out to my girl Gwendolyn, Gifty, April, Chansey, and Portia. Love you, ladies, because y'all always keep it a buck and y'all never lie, like these other heifers. Damn.

What does that mean? Cody Jordan. Breakfast club, bitches! You all finished or y'all done? Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine.

I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that?

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