The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Congressman Jamaal Bowman Interview, Jess Hilarious Cohosts, Keeping Relationship With Ex’s Child and More!

Episode Date: May 23, 2023

Today we are joined by Congressman Jamaal Bowman to discuss bail reform, Marjorie Taylor Green, The Rap Act and more.  We are also joined by our celebrity guest host Jess Hilarious. Finally we open up the phone lines to discuss a question that was sent in to Jess.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good morning, USA! co-hosts no more just a special co-host just a special co-host just remove guests okay alright yeah I like it it's groovy alright it's groovy it's groovy

you showing that head you know I love my Jess Hilarious yes I like it thank you I got a haircut that's why

yesterday I didn't have no haircut so that headline was right here yesterday you know what I mean but you look nice you look nice

thank you yes skin glowing you ain't saying nothing about the skin no I know your skin is mad glowing you know it's always pretty it's Vaseline that about the skin, though. No, your skin is mad glowing.

You know, it's always pretty. It's Vaseline. That is not no Vaseline. That is Vaseline. That is Dr. Natasha Sandy polished products, baby. It's Vaseline. You right. You right.

And look, I can only vouch for it because I just recently visited her. I got my chemical pill. I'm getting my skin done. But listen, you should have prepped me a little bit more. Why? Look, Natasha Sandy, she ain't to be played with. I walked in there, right? And she was like, you smoke?

And I was like, uh, yeah, what's up? And she was like, what do you smoke out of? I was like, backwoods. She was like, yup, I can see it all. I said, yeah, I'm going to go to somebody else. Wow. Wow. That's why you need to smoke joints.

Yes, she will look at you and she can pick apart your face literally and see what you're doing, what you're not doing. She said you eat way too much dairy. All this, I'm like, damn, she will look at you and she can pick apart your face literally and see what you're doing and what you're not doing. She said you eat way too much dairy. All of a sudden, I'm like, damn, she was reading my life and that's the first time

somebody ever read me and it was true. And it's dairy and backwards. Nah, that's not what it is. Yes, it is. I don't dare and no backwards. No, it's not.

Just say anything. Yes, it is. No, it's not, man. I just want you to stop smoking backwards with this dairy in it. I don't smoke them no more. Well, you smoke not papers. Yeah. Oh, you be lying. in it. I don't smoke them no more. What are you smoking now, Pabless?

Yeah. Boy, you be lying. I know. That's not what I'm saying. You're lying for no reason. You're lying. Talk about yeah, yeah. Well, she got a bag full of cannabis this morning.

Yeah, some good cannabis. That's right. So she's good this morning. Okay. All right. Now, who do we got joining us this morning? We have the brother Jamal Bowman joining us. Yes, Congressman Jamal Bowman.

You've probably seen Congressman Jamal Bowman lately in the news. He got into it with a congressman from Kentucky over guns. He got into it with Marjorie Taylor Greene last week over, I don't even remember what they was arguing over. But we'll talk to him about a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah, we got a lot to discuss. And then LeBron James. Lakers are out.

Did you watch the game? No, that game be on too late. I watched the first half. Yeah, I watched a lot to discuss. And then LeBron James. Lakers are out. Do you watch the game? No, that game be on too late. I watched the first half. Yeah, I watched the first half. And they were up by, what, 12 in the first half or something like that? LeBron had like 30 in the first half. 20-something in the first half. 31 in the first half.

Yeah. Yeah, so we'll discuss that as well. He said he might retire. I don't think so. He said that? That's what he said last night? He said. I don't think so, though.

I think he wants to play a year with his son. Yeah. His son ain't going to be in the league until 2024? Two years. That's a long time when you're 38. He's still dropping 48, though. That's a long time when you're 38. He's still dropping 48, though. He's been in the league 20 years.

All right, well, we'll get to all that when we come back. Front page news. And Teslin Figaro will be joining us. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. Jess Hilarious is here, of course. What's up? And let's get in some front page news. Now, I want to start off with the homie Carmelo Anthony. After 19 seasons, Carmelo Anthony has decided to retire from basketball. Six All-Star games, he averaged 24.7 points. He had a total point to 10,000. Just amazing. The only thing he was missing was a ring.

What happened, man? You got caught up in reading like Jess? No. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. I was just looking at all his accolades. I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything that he did from the Olympics to everything. But I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

But the only thing he didn't get was a ring. I mean, Mello wanted the best to ever do it. Absolutely. One of the greatest offensive players we've ever seen. Absolutely. Now, question. Who should retire his jersey? The Knicks and the Nuggets.

He was number 15 with the Nuggets, and Joker's number 15. Oh, that ain't happening. They just got to put something in the raffle that says Anthony. That ain't that number 15 that's only going up for the raffle that says Anthony. That ain't that number 15 that's only going up for the Joker. You ain't got to worry about that. Now, also, the LA Lakers was sent home yesterday. The Nuggets beat the Lakers 113-111.

They swept the Lakers, and this is what LeBron said after the game. I'd like to say it's a successful year because I don't play for anything besides winning championships at this point in my career. I don't i don't get a kick out of making a conference appearance i've done it a lot and and it's not fun to me to not be able to be able to be a part of uh you know getting to the finals but um but we'll see we'll

see we'll see what happens going forward but i don don't know. I don't know. I got a lot to think about, to be honest. I got a lot to think about, to be honest. And just for me personally, going forward with the game of basketball, I got a lot to think about. I don't think LeBron James is the greatest player of all time like some of y'all. But if you want to argue two on down, I'm fine with that. But the man is absolutely one of the best to ever do it. So, to me, this loss doesn't hurt his legacy.

Like he said, he's been to the Western Conference, Eastern Conference Finals a bunch of times, Conference Finals a bunch of times. So, you know, it don't help hurt his legacy to me. I do think he's going to stay two years. I think he wants to play with his son, and I think that's his goal. Well, he said he contemplated it. We cut it off, but he said he's contemplating it.

He said he has a lot to think about in regard to his future in basketball. And to all the kids out there that's listening, you know, Joker was second-round pick. He was picked 44th. So there was like 44 teams that had the option to pick him and pass, didn't think he had what it takes, and now he's probably one of the best in the league right now. And he's badly built.

You can drop on the clues bombs for all the badly built people out there, man. Badly built people don't get enough credit. You know what I mean? And Joker can represent for all the badly built humans on the planet. What you mean? Hold up. You need a BBL. A man? Yeah, he need a BBL.

But he's one of the best in the league by far. Probably the best player in the league. Now, Tez, good morning, Tez and Figaro. Good morning. Let's jump right into it. Senator Tim Scott. Yeah, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina announced Monday figaro good morning let's jump right into it senator tim scott yeah senator tim scott of south carolina announced monday that he is seeking the republican nomination for president in 2024 now before the senator pitched his vision to america his voice pitch was actually trending

on twitter about how he started the speech let's take a listen and listen to what he had to say about america and oppression and we'll talk about it on the other side But also in the words of Tim Scott or uncle Timmy He also gives us all for the great state of South Packet like it Living proof that America is the land of opportunity and not a land of oppression. Let's go South Carolina.

Charleston, 843, what we doing? Dropping a clues bar for South Carolina. That's South Carolina, sir. I don't say South Carolina. Does anybody say South Carolina? Back in the day, we might have used to say that. I don't say South Carolina. I don't like it. A couple of recaps of the speech just quickly uh he went on to say that america was not a racist country uh he said no crt more yeah more crts and uh more

abc no crts and more abcs uh he said refunding the police and also there was a moment where his mic went off he was about to tell another lie about what America was not. And the mic shut off for maybe close to a minute. So the speech was very interesting to watch. And regardless if I agree with his views or not, I'm just going to be honest with you guys. He is not an orator. I mean, it just it was just a lot of awkward moments. I don't know if they spent a lot of time rehearsing or not rehearsing or what, but it's going to be interesting to see how he proceeds during

this time. I already told Senator Tim Scott to bring his ass to the Breakfast Club. Is he going to come? Him and Marco Rubio, they was on Zoom with us one time. I think that was during COVID. They stopped during COVID. I told him, you're running for president. You need to come up here and talk to the people.

I'm sure he will. Well, that is front page news. Teslin, we'll see you in a couple of minutes. Absolutely. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are open again. 800-585-1051. Call us up right now. Get it off your chest.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. 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? Yo, Eddie. What up, man? What up, yo?

What up? Get it off your chest. What up? Yo, show me. What up? Yo, listen, man. I just thought of all these haters talking about LeBron. Like, yo. Yeah. Man, it's over. It's like what he used to do.

Of course, he ain't no Jordan or Kobe, but he changed the game, man. As long as he's not basketball players talking about this guy, like, he's black, yo. The man is older, bro. Like, he can do it by himself. Damn, like, he's kinda black. Hey, I love what you just older, bro. Like, he can do it by himself. Damn, like, you're turning black.

Hey, I love what you just said, though. He's no Michael Jordan or Kobe. As long as we can say that, then we can have any conversation. But he's still changed the game, though, bro. Like, of course he's not. He's his own entity, but he changed the game. He's got to get the man in touch, yo. But why do we act like somebody, like...

You want to kick him down? That's somebody like... But listen, I'm with you, but why do we act like somebody like LeBron not supposed to have haters? With all LeBron's success comes those critics. Yes. He's saying why it got to be you. I'm not a LeBron hater. Oh, okay. I just don't got him as my greatest of all time, but I acknowledge him as a top five great, all time great.

He's definitely one of the greatest. I mean, the fact that he's 38 years old, scored 48 last night, he leads the NBA in scoring. He has an amazing assist record, amazing rebound record. He's something that we haven't seen before.

But listen, here's the thing. Somebody like LeBron James is supposed to have haters. If you don't have no critics, you don't have no success. With all that ultimate success is going to come ultimate hate. That's just the way the game goes. I even like the Space Jam.

Everybody was like, but he ain't really do good. Well, Michael Jordan wasn't exactly Denzel Washington in the first one. So we're going to act like, what you mean? Space Jam was all right. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is LOS from Georgia. Good morning. I just want to follow up from yesterday.

Say, NBA, I appreciate everything you do. Rick Ross is a freaking fool. I don't like him for saying nothing about you. Oh. All right, well, thank you, brother. Thank you. I appreciate it. Be blessed.

All right, brother, you too. Let's talk about thank you. Hello, who's this yo what's up envy this your boy dingo bigo what up dingo dingo bluey brother hey what's good charlotte how you doing man i'm blessed black and holly favorite say what's up to jess hilarious jess how you doing i'm good baby thank you oh you are so beautiful. Thank you. Yes, I do. Thanks so much. That dude be thirsting over Jess.

I be seeing these comments. I'm like, y'all, y'all wilding on Jess. Why y'all love Jess so much? Hey, look, I can't help it. Jess is fine out here. Why you hating on Jess? She's the finest comedian I've ever seen. Thank you.

Why you hate on Jess? Stop blushing. Did you hear him? I don't know why he talks about Jess like that. Why? Because she's so, and then, when she gets to talking with, don't know why he talks about Jax like that and then when she gets to talking with

don't know how to say her P's and all that I'm telling you boy that's okay alright that's what you call for

what's up what you need it be it be it be bro first off I got a package that I sent to y'all

so y'all should have it in y'all mail please check for it I appreciate it also you gotta be i've got a relax with this bro i don't know what's going on with lost this actually i do know but it's getting out of hand for real like this dude wow this is going too much envy i understand you a burglar like me so we we gonna go in but i just need to maybe take a step back, be the bigger man, and just, you know, because Ross, you know some weird stuff, though. You're in a whole different level.

I don't want you to sit down with Ross no more. You just take it easy. How come when I say it, it's how you need to pick a side? It's the delivery. It's the delivery. When I say it, you need to pick a side. You know what I mean? Yes.

Take a step back, brothers. Breathe. You know what I mean? We don't need none of this no more. It's gone too far on both sides.

Good morning, Breakfast Club. How y'all doing? Hello. Good morning. Hello. I'm a Virgo. What did you say?

I'm a Virgo. That's what I'm going to say. I'm a Virgo. Get it off your chest, bro. This is Uber Mike. Hey, two things this morning, real quick. What's up, Uber Mike?

Can you make Jess Hilarious a part-time permanent guest host on the show? What do you mean a part-time permanent guest host? Because it's a treat when she keeps coming back. I don't want her to stay there and we get tired of her. I want her to come back off and on. You ain't got tired of me and Envy in 13 years. That is facts. Or maybe y'all have.

I don't know. Maybe a little bit. Don't speak too fast. But, okay. One more thing. That is facts. Or maybe y'all have. I don't know. Maybe a little bit. Don't speak too fast. But, okay. One more thing. Seth. Yes, what's up? What you got against the Prius?

I heard you talking about the Prius back in the day. What you got against my Prius? She can't pronounce peace. I'm sorry. Back in the day? You don't like Prius? Prius? Yeah.

It's a call. No, I know what it is. But, no. I didn't say I didn't like them. I said I wouldn't drive them. I said I seen a couple Mexicans hop out of like one and I was like, damn, how do y'all fit in? That's what I said. I ain't say I didn't like them.

I just like it was too many people in one. Before Priuses, though, Mexicans was jumping out of smaller cars even before the Prius. Y'all have to blackboard them, though. Definitely. Thank you so much. Yeah, but that's, yeah, they was. It was a bunch of Mexicans that jumped on the bridge. That's always been a thing, though.

What? Mexicans jumping out of prison. What are y'all talking about? A bunch of them in one small car. Yeah, that's why I love them. What do you mean that's always been a thing? What are y'all talking about? That's always been a thing.

Mexicans, they like to be around each other. A lot of them, they huddle. I hate y'all. Get it off your chest. Very community-based group. With all the Mexicans out there. 805-1051. If you need to hit us up now, it's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up and get something. Call up now.

800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Roy from the 901. What's up, brother? Get off your chest. Man, I just want to get off my chest, man. Last year,

I was fired by the South Bay Police Department for pulling over a girl he wrote. Somebody I went to school with, I mean, somebody I went to school with, somebody that grew up in the neighborhood with me.

Me and my partner was fired, man, just for pulling him over and it went viral on social media so you're a police officer you pulled somebody over and they fired you yeah i was a police officer i pulled somebody over and they fired you ain't telling us the whole story you ain't telling us the whole story you illegally pull them over yeah that don that don't say anything. No, no, no. My partner made the stop. He called me on the phone to pull up in the fifth house. He got out on social media and went viral. It wasn't a negative stop. It was positive.

And he got out on social media and got back to them. They fired us for it. Was your partner white? No, he was black. Oh, all right. Sounds like there's more to the story. I know it. That's why I'm not even paying him no attention, because you're not telling us the whole. Sound like there's more to the story. I know it. That's why I'm not even paying him no attention.

Because you're not telling us the whole story. There wasn't more to the story. You can check it out on pretty much all platforms. If you didn't do anything wrong, and you just pulled somebody over for doing something wrong, there's no way that they have legal rights to fire you. You would be in the union. Your union would be yelling, screaming, hollering, and all that.

Yeah, but see, we didn't have a union. We didn't have a union at all. I fought and fought and fought. I'm still fighting today. What police department don't have a union? We didn't have a union. It's Mississippi. It sounded to me like you was making a citizen's arrest, sir.

Are you really a cop? I don't think so. Sounds kind of crazy to me. Hello, who's this? This is wild. Hello? Yo! What's up? This is wild. Hello? Yo. What's up?

This is Terrence, man. What's up, Terrence? Get off your chest. Hey, man. First of all, man, shout out to the brotherhood. You know I love y'all, man. Hey, number one is, before I get into what I've got to say, man, shout out to Jess.

Jess be doing her thing. But I think y'all need to find a way to put her and Carla, you're both up there. Both on fire, and I respect it. So, shout out to y'all. I didn't want to get that off my chest, though. And then number two, man, I want to say, man, my girl broke up with me because, man, I don't, I never want to have sex when I'm period on.

And she, and I'm 34 years old, it's just not my thing. And I don't know why, it's like the second girl i don't have an issue with not once it upset they don't want to have sex with a period on jess well listen that must be some fine penis because for you to even want to be touched on your period is sick really like we don't i want you far away from me and then i thought not the whole time like everybody does not experience moves on their menstrual I want you far away from me. And then not the whole time. Like, everybody does not experience moods on their menstrual like that. Like, get away from me. But when you're like, sorry, bloody and you're cramping and you don't want a man to even be,

you don't even want to be exposed to a man. So, I don't know what you're doing. See, that's what I thought. What about on light days? That's what I thought. But this is only, not even a point. On light days, yeah, we can go. But, no, not even if she's spotting, not like, she ain't got to be bleeding, bleeding. What about on light days? That's what I thought, but this is only, not even a point. Yeah, we can go. But, no, not even if she's spotting, like, she ain't got to be bleeding, bleeding.

What about? Yeah, but I just think I can reach her right. You know what I mean? And I'm a grown man. And everybody say I'm being childish. It's just not my thing, you know? And it shouldn't be no one's thing. But we going through it now because I just don't like it.

Yeah, well, don't like it and don't do it. And then break up with her if she keep on asking you. Well, she broke up with him anyway. And the other thing is, a period fart is horrible and she doesn't... Like, she don't fart on a period in this man's home.

Like, I don't want to have sex with a period at all. What the hell is a period fart? That ain't a hard-to-hear period fart. Yeah, I don't know what that is. Don't look over here. Y'all looking over here like, yeah, what's up with you?

A period fart. I'm just saying regular fart and why she don't want a period. A period fart probably looks like a baby reveal. here like, yeah, what's up with you? I'm just saying regular fart and watch you on a period. A period fart probably looks like a baby reveal. You know, yeah. The red just flat off. Oh, God. Jesus.

A period don't stop nothing but a sentence, by the way. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got rumors on the way. Give us a little tease, Jess. Lance Unrivera confirms Jay-Z didn't stab him during the 1999 club altercation. He was supposed to stab someone. Oh, I remember that.

Oh, all right. So he didn't stab him. You were seven when that happened. I was seven and I remember Jay-Z was supposed to stab someone. Oh, my goodness. We'll get into that next. The next move is The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. See how they set you up? See how they set you up. Remember you made fun of me the other day because I didn't have my stuff in front of me? Why shall I do it? They just want to clown you for not knowing how to read. That's right. I don't like that.

I know you know how to read. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess. It's Jess with the mess. Am I new? Am I new? Am I new? Am I new?

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Am I new? Am I new? Am I new? Am I new? Am I new? This is the rumor report on The Breakfast Club. Honey, it's ghetto up in Breakfast Club Good luck Jess Alright so Before we get to Jay Z and Nam

Cause that's pretty juicy Oakland Street to be named after Tupac Now this is just personal for me Y'all gonna probably look at me like what I didn't know that he was not from Baltimore I thought he was from Baltimore Nah he was from He was I thought he wasn't Baltimore nah he was from he was born in New York Tupac oh yeah I didn't know he was from New York

yeah he was born I was born in New York yeah okay so he's born in New York and then he spent some time in Baltimore a lot of time in Baltimore yeah a lot of time formative years I think yeah so that's what I think cuz I never heard anything about that so growing up I just thought that he was straight from Baltimore so I've been like you know being like, yo, we got Tupac. Tupac. Yeah, we got Tupac. That's what I thought.

But he's getting his Oakland street named after him. You know, the street Tupac used to live on in Oakland is being given the honorary name Tupac Shakur Way. I'm shocked that it's not more streets on the West Coast named after Tupac. Named after him already. Yeah, I feel like Tupac should be competing with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when it comes to streets all across the country. Hold up. I don't know about that one.

I'm just saying, everywhere you go, there's a street named after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The way people love hip-hop culture, I would think there'd be a lot of Tupac ways. So why is it we got any streets named after Biggie? Like, we ain't got no Biggie Boulevard? No, I'm sure there's, in Brooklyn, I'm sure there's we ain't got No Biggie Boulevard No I'm sure In Brooklyn I'm sure there's a Biggie Street Or Biggie Boulevard

Notorious Way Or something like that Christopher Wallace Way Or something Yeah Christopher Wallace Way I think it is Okay alright True Tupac fans

Know that Pac was Actually born in Harlem See I just knew that You know I think Envy wrote this Then eventually moved To Baltimore Where he stayed

So he was a teenager And then moved to Marin City in California Alright cool That. That's what's up. I think that's dope. And Biggie does have a street named after him. Christopher Wallace Way, I think, right? Christopher Notorious Big Wallace Way.

Imagine living on that street. You can't even say it. It's so long. Alright. Former music executive Lance Unn Rivera insists that Jay-Z never stabbed him in 1999. So he said he never stabbed him. I think it's so funny because allegedly, I guess, Jay-Z said that he did or something.

Back in 1999, Lance Rivera, better known as Unn, which I don't know why that's his middle name. Why would you do that? Was stabbed at a party for Q-tip. Unn is a former music executive, whatever, whatever. Known mostly for his close association with Biggie. That's right. All right. For years, there have been several different stories about what happened that night at

the club, who stabbed Unn. You're just trying to prove you can read. Because we got audio. Absolutely, duh. That's what I'm saying. Because we got audio. But on paper, Jay-Z was believed to be... I don't want to listen because I don't understand what them niggas be talking about, so I ain't

really trying I mean I'll let y'all decipher but I'm going to read first Envy Jay-Z was believed to be the person that stabbed him at the time of the stabbing Jay-Z maintained

that his innocence we get it Jess you can read he said it in lyrics in Kill Jay-Z he said it in lyrics he said the actual lyric is

you got a knot in your chest imagine how a knife hurts you stabbed un-over some records your excuse was he was talking too reckless so he talks about that and kill bill uh kill jay-z oh wow he mentioned that a couple times yeah okay you want to throw to the audio now you want to keep the matter of fact how about you throw to the audio then y'all what you throw it to the audio okay go ahead throw it was jay-z the one that actually stabbed you no jay-z was not the guy who actually stabbed me that night but j Jay-Z was there when you got stabbed.

Was actually in front of you when you got stabbed. It was like, yeah. Me and Jay-Z had a conversation right before I got hit in the head with a champagne bottle. Well, what did he tell you? He just kept saying, you broke my heart. You broke my heart. And I'm like, talking about I don't know where people got Jay-z stabbed me from because if anybody knows Jay-z Jay-z's a nice guy

and it's never been his history hey man salute the DJ Vlad dropping a clues bombs bombs for Vlad cuz those that Lance on Rivera Vlad TV interview had me in a chokehold all weekend I feel like I watched all 73 clips of that interview. That is crazy. So he said he never did. But this the thing. Like, do you think something like that could be like paid off? I mean, I don't know.

It's been so long ago. I mean, I don't know what's true and what's not true. I just know it's a very fascinating conversation. But he did say we was talking and you broke my heart. Well, they all from brooklyn and they you know and lance used to run biggie's record label yeah so they i'm sure they were all a tight-knit community i mean he he was biggie's partner he was the one that you know had little kim and had caesar had junior mafia so they probably all knew each other so i'm sure it

was something different than just whatever it was it was over the boot it was he thought they said that un was bootlegging uh jay's album it was uh i, it was over the boot. He thought they said that Un was bootlegging Jay-Z's album. I think it was volume three. Another thing that Un said in there, too, he talked about how Nas told y'all what it was on Eater when he said, your man stabbed Dunne and made you take the blame. Wow, damn.

And they just talking about this all over lyrics. But I love that interview, man, because Un is in there talking about Biggie's creativity. Well, we have that, too. We have some of the clips, too, about something he talks about Biggie. I honestly, as much as I know and as many people as I speak to, I honestly don't know who killed Biggie. Do you feel like you know who killed Biggie? Yeah.

Can you say it? No. I'm going to tell it on the series. Okay. But you feel confident you know who did it? Absolutely. Okay. I did my mob research.

Okay. but you feel confident you know absolutely okay i did my mob research okay and stop blaming sure cause nowhere shook story shoes story has always been beat them up them up drag them in this story there's no kill him shoot him was shooting sure all these guys was puppets scapegoats bigger plays were involved with them when it came to this hundreds and billions of dollars in money man why are these conversations so fascinating to me it's like yeah it's like greek mythology at this point when you hear those because this is all real this is i know information that we don't even seem like we would ever find out that's why that's why when you meet people from that era, people that was actually there, you just find yourself going down a rabbit hole of conversation with them if they willing to talk.

Well, there was no social media back then. So the only time you got information was the news and Angie Martinez and Wendy Williams back then. So you never got the full story. So now that these brothers are telling the full story, you want to hear. You want to hear all that information. I tell Angie Martinez that all the time. People that have had conversations with Biggie and Tupac, like actually interviewed them, they're just like, that's beyond iconic to me.

Because they don't even seem like real people. But so many of our fallen soldiers, whether it was Big Pun, whether it was Old Dirty Bastard, whether it was Michael Jackson, those conversations are the ones we didn't get to hear because there was no social media. the internet just was started at that time guess what what ai about to make it i'm about to bring all of them back and something is and something as serious as this don't be keep putting in rumor report for me do this when y'all got another co-host or something like this because this is very serious stuff i thought we weren't having no more co-hosts. That's what you just said.

No, no. Y'all is. Y'all doing it to the end of the year. So until, you know, I make a choice. Just like I wasn't even born when all of this was happening. I didn't even get to meet Jay yet. Man, this is crazy. Alright. When we come back, we got front page news. Ceslyn Figueroa will be

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We are the Breakfast Club. We have Jess Hilarious here as our co-host. Thank you. And let's get into some front page news. Let's start off with Sports Right Fast. The Nuggets beat the Lakers 113-111. Now, LeBron said he doesn't know what his future looks like after he was swept. I'd like to say it's a successful year because I don't play for anything besides winning championships

at this point in my career. And I don't get a kick out of making a conference appearance. I've done it a lot. And it's not fun to me to not be able to be able to be a part of, you know, getting to the finals. But we'll see. We'll see what happens going forward. But I don't know.

I don't know. I got a lot to think about, to be honest. I got a lot to think about, to be honest. I got a lot to think about, to be honest. And just for me personally, going forward with the game of basketball, I got a lot to think about. I mean, I don't think last night helped or hurt LeBron's legacy. I think LeBron is already home. He's certified.

You know what I'm saying? And I know LeBron gets a lot of slander. I don't think it's warranted. If you want to debate him being number two on down after Michael Jordan, let's go at it. The only thing I push back against is that he's the greatest of all time. But he is still LeBron James at the end of the day. And with all of that success, we'll come a whole lot ahead.

That's right. And last night he scored 30 points in 48 minutes. He had 10 rebounds and 9 assists. Damn. At the age of 38, he's still busting ass. Yeah. Greatest of all times. No, he's not. He's one of them. He's one of the GOATs. He's one of the GOATs. It's fine.

They're the herd. You know what I mean? He just ain't the GOAT, but he's two on down. I'll debate. And we also got a salute to Carmelo Anthony. Yesterday, he announced that he's retiring from the game of basketball, so salute to him. Peace to the God, Melo. One of the greatest offensive players of all time.

Of course, we love him in Baltimore. Oh, yeah, he is from Baltimore. Baltimore and New York, he claims. Yep, yep, he claims us both. So, yeah, what's that? No worries. Now, let's get into some front page news. Tell us, figure out where you want to start.

Let's start with Twitter. Verified Twitter accounts shared a fake image of explosion near the Pentagon caused a lot of confusion. Thanks to Elon Musk for allowing everybody to buy a blue check on Twitter and new AI technology that we've been talking about consistently here. A major Indian television network, Republic TV

and a Russian news outlet called RT reported that an explosion had taken place near the Pentagon and showed the fake image on the air. Let's take a listen and talk about it on the other side. Somebody posted using an account that they claimed was linked to the Bloomberg news organization, posting that AI generated image and claiming there had been some kind of explosion at the pentagon that then got shared across multiple other verified accounts that we saw on other platforms too

it looked quite coordinated uh but we don't know right now who who pushed this this is only the beginning yeah that's gonna be a problem i've said it a million times y'all can't even handle fake tweets but y'all think y'all can handle ai and and fake misinformation like this wait till 2024 when the presidential election really kicking the high. This is going to be a problem because everybody's going to do things like this as a joke. Yeah. I can see you're going to see more shootings.

You're going to see like sports games. They're going to say it's explosion. It's school. So this is going to be a big problem. I don't know how they correct this problem because anybody can make a Twitter page. Anybody can post anything. And by the time they realize it's fake, the damage is already done. What do you do when you get AI?

Right. And let's talk about the damage quickly uh the stock market actually took a brief dip because of this yesterday so this was an actual real consequence uh that came came with this once they found out uh that it was fake they did go back and retract the story but again the stock market dipped as a result of a fake image and you know instagram also is following that trend of everybody buying a blue check and i know there's been a lot of talk out there oh you know celebrities are just mad because people can buy blue checks no it's bigger than that you know when you have an organization claiming to be a media outlet and they're sharing this and then

it got retweeted over and over and over by other media outlets it can be a real problem yeah and what are you doing is ai and a world leader says they just fired a nuclear weapon? You know what I'm saying? Them nuclear weapons can get over here in like 25, 30 minutes. You know what I mean? Like, you think

our elected officials have the smarts and the wherewithal to figure that out within 25, 30 minutes on whether something is real or not? Nah.

You just don't know. But not only that, you know, when you start playing with things like the stock market, think about it like this. If I know that I can do something fake, it'll dip the stock market and then I can buy that stock.

And then by the time people think about it's fake and the stock shoots back up, you're going to be making millionaires, billionaires and all types of things. So that's another game that people are going to be checking out. Let me write that down. I need to go ahead and do that. You should do it. Give us the game, Goose. My goodness. You got another one? We got time for one more. Okay, great. The game goes. My goodness. You got another one? We got time for one more.

Okay, great. South Carolina Governor McMaster, he looks forward to hunting down Democrats like dogs. Jesus. The Anderson County Democratic Party issued a statement Sunday, May 21st, following Governor McMaster's comments during Saturday's South Carolina Republican Party convention. He said, I look forward to the day the Democrats are so rare we have to hunt them with dogs. He also said the same thing in 2018. Now, in a response, his communications director said that Governor McMaster has been making this joke at GOP conventions for years, and everyday South Carolinians understand that it's a joke. And if South Carolina Democrats no longer can bear the lighthearted jokes made at their expense,

then maybe they should focus their energy on winning and not whining. Yeah, that is just some South Carolina country rhetoric. The people that really should be offended are not people, but the creatures, dogs. The dogs are always getting put in stuff like this. I'm going to hunt you down like a dog. A hit dog will holler. Every dog has its day. You know what I mean?

Why are dogs always getting put in situations like this, man? Men are compared to dogs. Dogs and witches. That's the worst animal ever. Men get compared to dogs. What if dogs are the most faithful creatures? What if dogs don't cheat? Right.

Exactly. You know what I'm saying? What if dogs don't cheat on their mate? Why y'all calling cheating ass men us? Right. Right. You a crazy, Charlamagne. Dogs crazy.

Poor dogs. They're offended by it. They don't want to be being hunt down like dogs. So they feel it was a racist trope. Do you have a dog? How can it be a racist trope

when it ain't just white Democrats? Well, because the majority of the Democrat Party is black and they The majority of the Democratic vote as you mean? The majority of the

Democrat Party. Even the party now is black? The majority? No, the majority. Key word, majority. I didn't know the Democrat Party. Even the party now is black? The majority? No, the majority. Key word, majority. Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know the majority of the Democratic Party was black. Yes, the majority of the Democrat Party is black.

The majority of Democrat voters in the Democrat Party is black. Oh, I know the voters. That's why Joe Biden told you if you don't vote for him, you ain't black. Oh, no, no, no. I know the voters, but I'm talking about the party, like the administration. The majority of the Democratic administration is black. Well, I I'm talking about the party, like the administration. The majority of the Democratic administration is black. Well, I'm not talking about the administration. I'm talking about the voters as a whole.

Oh, the voters. Okay, got you. Yeah, the voters as a whole. The majority is black. I mean, obviously, you know the words they like to use, people of color. I mean, so when you talk about hunting somebody down like a dog, particularly in the South, you know, you forgot how they would take dogs and hunt down, you know, black folks? Yeah, I just

took it as he was saying that he hopes, you know, Democrats, people stop being Democrats and it's just rare to find them. That's why I took it as. Well, you're from South Carolina, so I guess maybe you understand. You already know. Alright, well that is front page news. Now, when we come back, Jamal Bowman will be joining us.

He's a U.S. Representative for New York's 16th Congressional District. That's the Bronx. And, Tez, you're going to stay with us, right? Absolutely. All right, so we're going to kick it with Jamal Bowman when we come back. So don't move. It's the Congressman from the Bronx. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's D.J. Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Of course, we've got our guest co-host, Jess Alaris, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Of course, we've got our guest co-host, Jess Alaris, here. Yes, indeed. I'm not a guest no more.

I'm sorry. Okay. All right. We have Jess Alaris here. And, of course, Teslin Figueroa, who's with us each and every morning. And we've got a special guest in the building. He goes by the name of Jamal Bowman. Congressman Jamal Bowman.

Congressman Jamal Bowman. And I think you should start the show by really getting into Charlemagne. The way he talks about your district, which is the Bronx. You see that? I mean, he told me the craziest people come from Florida and the Bronx. And there's no way you should let him talk about your district like that because you represent the people. The congressman knows that. That's why he is in the position he's in to try to clean it up and try to make it less crazy.

But you also he also catered to the Bronx, too, because he a little person from the bronx in here with eight teeth yes he did the other days he found a stripper from the bronx a male stripper so he used y'all for what he want to use y'all i mean so real quick the 16th district yes includes the bronx the bronx created hip-hop so that's the reason why we all here so we gotta uplift the bron to uplift the Bronx there. Gotcha. All right, look, before running for Congress, I know you was a total different person. Who was Jamal? Just little Mal. Jamal from the Bronx.

And he got hit. Jamal, who was little Mal from the Bronx? You know what I'm saying? No, pretty much the same dude. I mean, prior to running, I was in education for 20 years. Okay. I started out teaching in the Bronx at an elementary school in the South Bronx off 166th and Sheridan Avenue.

Did that for about 6 or 7 years before becoming a high school dean and guidance counselor at the MLK campus near Lincoln Center. Did that for about 3 or 4 years and I realized that the education system wasn't really, in my opinion, unlocking the full potential of our kids.

So I wrote a proposal to open up my own school. And I submitted that to the city. And in 2009, we opened up our own school in the Northeast Bronx, right around the corner from Boston Seacorp, projects across the highway from Corp City. And I ran that school for 10

and a half years. And yeah, I just took my experiences as a student which were you know to your point you know a lot of trouble in school suspended multiple times all of that uh took those experiences as well as my professional experiences and just implemented it uh in my school as part of the curriculum like just rooting it rooting the curriculum and knowledge itself yeah making sure our kids learn their history and their culture and their creativity and express that through project-based learning. Because when I was in school, I didn't learn nothing about my history.

Everything I learned about my history came from the You Must Learn song by KRS-One. That one song was the whole curriculum. We learned in school that our history started with slavery and now our ancestors were traded for spices like that yeah but we don't learn about like you know democracy in africa and our contribution to building the pyramids and how europeans came to us to start their civilization like we don't we don't learn all of that i just took all that and that's how i i ran my school for 10 years and then after doing that it was like you know what you know i saw an increase in in self-harm with kids, an increase in a lot of mental health challenges

with kids in my school and in the community. And the year before I ran, 34 kids died within the K-12 school system in the Bronx, and 17 died by suicide. And many people saw when the kid junior got jumped. I don't know if y'all remember. Yeah, I do. So the kid junior, and that was mistaken identity on social media.

Jumped Junior, killed him. But right in Cobb City, 14-year-old girl was bullied in school. Right after school, she goes to the top of a building, jumps off, kills herself. Right after school, in front of everybody. And then right up the street in New Rochelle, two girls get into a fight. One pull out a knife, stab the other, kills her.

And no elected official was making the connection between the trauma that our kids go through and the policies that we pass it in Washington. Like if you historically underfund schools,

public schools, if you redline communities on purpose, if you don't provide job opportunities, entrepreneurship, don't invest in black business, if you don't provide job opportunities entrepreneurship don't invest in black but if you don't do those things and at the same time you bringing in crack you bringing in you know harm people are going to harm themselves in their community so for me that's why i ran i ran because of my students my kids and i wanted to bring just that voice

to congress and you know how do we clean that up we talked about all those things how do we clean up what's your plan to clean that up because we see that not just in the bronx we see it in every borough in new york city we see it all around the country every hood every hood one thing black people got in common is poverty right we got to invest we got to spend money not just on the not just in the public side but the private side so when i'm calling for rape reparations it's not just about repairing the harms of history. It's about repairing the harms of right now. Because when you look in poor communities,

especially poor black and brown communities, you look at life expectancy, you look at wealth inequality, when you look at education, every metric you use, we at the bottom. And that's because of the historical harm. So we got to spend money. Some have called for up to $16 trillion in reparations for black people because of what has happened.

So I support that. I support cash payments. I support other aspects of that, investments in housing, education. I mean, just take one policy. I'll just say one. Right after slavery, we're supposed to get 40 acres and a mule. Correct. We didn't.

Lincoln was killed. New president came in congress passed something called the homestead act so basically when we expanded out west most of that land went to white people native and foreign born you know land is the the foundation of wealth absolutely and they have been building that wealth ever since in addition to other policies that continue to support that while we have been underfunded so the short answer is money the the i guess more immediate answer for us is our own pursuit of knowledge of self and our own greatness and investing in each other and building our own power one other question that's a short thing you know a lot of people say that you know especially in new york city they say in bail reform is a good thing and it's a bad thing.

They're saying it's a good thing because people that, you know, do do low level crimes and don't have the money are getting the opportunity and a chance. But also they're saying that it's a bad thing because a lot of these people are repeat offenders and they keep doing the same thing and they know they can come right out. What's your thoughts on that? So that's exaggerated. Most of the people who have benefited from bail reform do not commit crime again. So that's very exaggerated. And that's media driven. We need criminal justice reform, right? Like we we got people in jail for very minor things and they are in freaking cages. And we need to understand that you put somebody in a cage, you animalize them.

Like I've never done a bid, but I went through the system. The minute you in a cage, you gotta shift to becoming, okay, let me you know what I'm saying? Like, let me make Sean protect, and it animalizes you. At the same time, there are no services in jail to help people struggling with mental health

challenges, substance abuse challenges, poverty, illiteracy. No systems in jail for that or very little. And there's nothing outside for that as well. So when I talk about the underinvestment in communities, that's part of it. So you want to talk to me about crime and public safety, talk to me about anti-poverty programs, talk to me about jobs, talk to me about education.

Most of the people locked up have been identified as having mental health challenge, substance abuse challenge, or learning disability. Most of the people locked up have been identified as having mental health challenge, substance abuse challenge, or learning disability. Right. Most of the people locked up. And we're not doing anything about that. And that's why, you know, I'm an educator and I'm biased in this way, but we need massively more investments in education. Yeah.

For smaller class size, better programs, whatever they do in the best private schools, our kids in public schools need to be getting that. All right. We got more with Jamal Bowman when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning everybody it's dj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we have jess hilarious and teslan figaro joining us for this interview we have u.s representative for new york 16th district jamal bowman tess you mentioned you called for reparations and a lot of people are confused on what that actually means explain the difference so people can understand the difference between a resolution and a bill and what you're actually calling for.

And in addition to that, how they can even help you on the local level, like when we see the reparations task force and so forth, in order to give you the muscle, if you will, to be able to push those things forward. Yes. So thank you for that question. Shout out to cory bush for introducing the resolution so a resolution is a vision statement it's a vision for what we want and where we need to go it's a vision statement what comes from that resolution are multiple pieces of legislation that will be introduced to support parts of the resolution does that make sense so initially resolution vision statement,

the vision is we need 14 trillion for reparations because of boom, boom, boom, boom. Now from that, okay, how do we get there? One piece of legislation could be something that focuses on housing and

land. Another piece could focus on universal healthcare. Another piece can focus on free college or whatever. Another piece could focus on cash payments. So that's what that is. So it's not a nothing burger. It's a vision statement just putting a line in the sand. H.R. 40 is a bill looking to form a task force to study the need for reparations.

I support H.R. 40, but I think it needs to evolve. The first time it was introduced, I think, was like 41 years ago, if I'm not mistaken, by Representative John Connors. Rest in peace. so 40 years ago maybe we needed to study but now we have a lot of data that already tells us right we got to do something about this right and so i support that but we need to evolution what's what my office is working on and other offices are working on our legislation related to reparations now to your point about local elections there are there have been counties and cities and even the state of california which is like probably the biggest one that formed a task force to study this in state and they have

come up with you know x amount of dollars that need to be paid to black residents of california due to reparations that would be dope if it was done in every state, in all 50 states and at the federal level. And to your last point, none of this happens if people don't get engaged in democracy and in a political process. Like, I understand

why people are disenchanted from politics because the shit never worked for us. But it's like a paradox. It ain't gonna work for us until we make it work for us. And I'm a living example of that.

I ran against someone who was there 31 years. He was chair of a powerful committee. No one thought we had money. No one thought we had a shot. But because we organized on the grassroots level and knocked on every door in my district multiple times for a year, people came out. We were able to win that election. Now you got someone who's the first person of color sitting in that seat. First black man ever sitting in that seat.

Speaking what I'm speaking. We need that in every corner of the country. Every district. Every state. Because the biggest issue is low voter turnout. So we could turn Texas blue quick. Easy. If we turn out.

We could do the same thing in Florida. We could do the same thing in Florida. We could do the same in a lot of red states. All the things we want, reparations, child care, universal pre-K, investments to educate health care. That only happened if you get the right people in office. If we don't get the right people in office, it's a wrap. And you'll have one senator, Joe Manchin, shut the whole thing down like if mansion went with biden's agenda last term and i'll stop on this we would have had we would have had universal child care it means free child care right now we would have universal pre-k we would have paid leave we're the only developed country in the

world without paid leave which is crazy right now affordable housing crazy you can't find affordable housing 400 billion was in this package last Congress. We couldn't pass because of Senator Manchin and Sinema. So, yes, you're right. Like, engagement, deep engagement in democracy, we need everybody on deck. Yeah, just follow. I agree that turnout is a problem. But the larger problem is who are they actually voting for?

And so when people are not turning out, I always try to make sure that I'm not blaming the voter. I blame the lack of bench. You've talked about this before on saying that Democrats haven't done a great job on actually having a bench. You're the only one that's bringing the smoke. Shout out to you for actually bringing the smoke like you've done with Green, like you've done with Thomas Macy, like you have really challenged people in a very loud way to make sure they understand your position. So one of those things is more just a statement on how, you know, can we get more people that they actually want to vote for? There always will be more people that do not vote than do vote.

But where are the candidates and how are those candidates being able to move forward and getting the support that they need in order to run? Can I say one thing to that? Absolutely right. Agree with that 100 percent. And what you what you highlight is a disconnect within the Democratic Party. You have the traditional Democrats who want to keep things traditional and only communicate to the people who vote all the time. And then you have people like me, Cori Bush, AOC, Ayanna Pressley, who want to transform the party and politics in our country.

And we know we got to engage in communities that y'all have ignored for decades. So you're absolutely right. If we do that, you find candidates who will rise up and be like, you know what? Let me let me give this a shot. And then you'll inspire people. One of the things I felt when I ran, I was like, yeah, I got a shot because i was a principal in this district for 10 years so i knew like 97 percent not 100 but 97 percent of the kids and their families like would would would big me up would have good things to say about me and would spread the word based on my

record in that district there are people that we're not even thinking about now nurses you know i'm saying uh other teachers and educators people in communities who may have thought about doing it but don't really know how and the more we organize the more we discover those people and find good candidates do you ever feel uh alone and what i mean by that is you're out there disrupting you know george santos yeah yeah i just hear you then when it's marjorie taylor green roll up on you it's just you i actually saw other people i thought aoc tell you she's not worth it yeah in that moment to me i'm like well damn it's a black man arguing with a woman i felt like aoc should have pushed you out

yeah so no i don't because you know the squad winning in 2018 and how they do their politics was very inspirational for me like because they created a footprint for me to come in and say what i need to say because they were i mean remember you had trump chanting they send them back to their countries and trump the president was going after them constantly for women of color and we know why he was doing that so they were a big inspiration for me even running and now that i'm in you know that i'm a part of that crew that that is trying to be disruptive in different ways even though that moment may have looked you know how it looked represented bowman it's okay i'll say it aoc should have jumped in and

you ain't gonna say it i going to say it. I'm going to say it. If a man is arguing with a woman. That's right. No, she pops that off on Twitter. It looks crazy. So AOC should step in. That's right. On Twitter, she's always saying, oh, I'm AOC. I'm from New York.

Next time, jump your ass in. I got this. That's right. That's right. You're not going to say it. That was a nice political answer. But I'll say it. AOC, bottom line, jump in.

And I got love for AOC. But she's both the same. I got love for AOC, too. Next time, jump in. You don't leave a black man after to argue with a white woman. That's right. It was her job to jump in. I got love for AOC too. Next time you don't leave a black man out there to argue with a white one. It was her job to jump in since she says she's from New York. And I just want to give a couple of receipts on Marjorie Greene. Number one, she screamed liar at President Biden during the State of Union.

She also followed David Hogg all throughout, you know, ran him down. And then she came to New York screaming and yelling. So she doesn't have the best record when it comes to the car she was a keynote speaker at a white nationalist uh convention like she she she i believe she visited uh insurrectionists in jail to make sure the prison conditions were good yes she did and she and she um she asked president trump for a pardon like potential partner just in case it went down that she was involved in January 6th. You know, so yeah, she's off the chain, but what I

always like to remind people, it ain't about her, it's about us. You know what I mean? So she gonna say and do what she gonna do. We have to continue to build our political power with conversations like this to continue to engage and inform and bring people in. One point that you made about about Biden's bully pulpit.

And again, I agree with all of that. What I'm learning is. So when we pass a bill, that money just leaves and goes to states and counties and cities. And if those states and counties and those states and counties and cities are responsive to the infrastructure that's already in place. So if you have a construction company that's been in place for 50 years doing business with the state based on federal contracts, you're more likely to get that money. Right. And most of those companies are white companies. So the bill is passed by the feds. The money comes to states and counties and cities, and then they decide on what to do with it what we've been trying to do is help to build the black and brown

infrastructure to go after those contracts and go after those grants because if it's not in place you're not going you're going to be less likely to receive those grants grants versus the building trades association that's been doing business in new york state um for for for decades sometimes even hundreds of years and again this is another manifestation of white supremacy and how it lives in in institutions not just with individual people right all right we got more with jamal bowman when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning everybody it's dj envy charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We have Jess Hilarious and Teslin Figaro joining us for this interview.

We have U.S. Representative for New York's 16th District, Jamal Bowman. How can people support you if they want to support you and follow what you're doing out there? Oh, damn. That's nice. Go to BowmanForCongress.com and please make a contribution to our re-election campaign. I mean, that's always something that is incredibly helpful. And go to Bowman.House.gov on the official side so you can learn what we're doing in Congress and how we could be helpful to you throughout the district. But again, the biggest thing, you know, the black community alone is a trillion dollar economy.

Hip hop community is even more than that if we start leveraging that money to help us win elections locally and nationally we change the game and pretty much overnight because we've been able to build capital because of our because of our greatness and creativity right we got to leverage that capital in the way other groups do it because i'll tell you right now fossil fuel companies uh um uh pharmaceutical companies pro-israel lobby they hit my office constantly telling me to do this or this or this on a particular bill i need that we need that same power for our community you know i'm saying we start using that it's over because big money controls politics and big corporations control politics and that's why we don't take corporate

money because we don't want to be beholden to big corporations. So it's usually individual contributions and support. I got a couple more questions. Tell me about the RAP Act. Yeah, so the RAP Act, RAP stands for Restoring Artist Protection. And it's just to make sure prosecutors don't seek to indict and convict only using rap lyrics. What about the people who are really rapping about crime?

Yeah, they off the chain. They should be held accountable. They should be held accountable but there are people who are in jail right now just for lyrics like there's a gentleman tommy kennedy i believe in wisconsin who was convicted at 17 to life in prison because of rap lyrics and no other evidence at all like if you got other evidence yeah bring the other evidence and if a lyric connect to the evidence we get that but if you're just going for for lyrics

and when we look at rap over the last decade 500 times lyrics have been used in court compared to other genres of music

only been 5 times and most of them been thrown out so it's once again targeting like they did with 2 Live Crew

and NWA and Ice-T so we just want to make sure at a federal level that doesn't happen but states have to do it as well. Shout out to Kevin Liles. He's been a huge champion of this

pushing this agenda. Did you used to rap? I know you from the Bronx. No, man. You sure you didn't rap? Because I've seen a video which you rapping with a live drummer at a conference. I can mimic. I could spit some Karis Wong bars to you. Do you remember the bars that you spit that day?

Which day? This was a video. It was a conference and it was a live drummer. You was hitting it with the drummer. I spit some of Inspector Dex Triumverse. Obama Tom and Green. I spit that. I spit Karis One. You must learn. I think I spit Nas.

I can. I think. There we go. So I can copy rap. But you don't have no bars. No. I was going to ask you if you want to be the next rapping congressman or what we talked a lot a lot about biden and grassroots organizing all that i really really i beg people i need y'all to begin to have faith and believe and what we're capable of doing, not just for 2024, but for 2028 and beyond. Because this thing don't work unless we stay in the game for the rest of our lives.

And again, I'm a manifestation of what I'm talking about. I am proof of concept. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for grassroots organizing, helping to push someone like me there. Now that I'm there, again, we're shifting the conversation. Please help me get 20 more of us in Congress, but also state houses, counties, and cities across the country because, again, the majority of my colleagues,

they just chilling, real comfortable, and they collecting their money from corporations, passing laws that benefit those corporations. We need us in there, and the only way to get us in there is those corporations we need us in there and the only way to get us in there is to have all of us in there yeah you know i've heard you say congressman it's my last question that you know i've heard you say that you're a part of a new wave of elected officials who are revolutionizing the way people look at politics and i do believe that but but what are some of the old political views that you believe need to be changed we need

to get big money out of politics. You know, big money. I mean, right now we have laws in place that pretty much say corporations are people and money is free speech. And when you look at the levels of inequality, that is going to disproportionately benefit white people and white men in particular, historically and continuing.

We got to get big money out of politics and have publicly financed elections. Secondly, we need to stop fighting harder for things outside of our own interests. I mentioned those lobbies before and it connects with the first piece. Again, fossil fuel, pharmaceutical, et fuel uh pharmaceutical etc etc because they got the money and the influence we usually rock with them uh as opposed to like beginning with okay

even wall projects hasn't received a dime in federal investment in over a decade and public and public housing has been disinvested in for 30, 40 years, whereas at the same time, they're not investing in the black developer or the black realtor or the black. They're not doing that. Right. So it's we got to take the baton it and by radical i just mean get to the core truth and tenets of the issue and be loud and outspoken and unapologetic about it because that's the only way things move like republicans with republicans don't win on nothing else but fear and being loud that's right they don't they don't have the moral argument that's right they don't have the intellectual argument they don don't have the intellectual argument. They don't inspire no one. They fear monger.

They're loud. And they voter suppress. That's it. Young people ain't rocking with them. People of color generally don't rock with them. Morally, they don't got the arguments. So we got to, to me, shit, if I'm here, like, this is the moment to, like, go for it all. Like, we just got to gotta do it i love how

the bronx comes out every now and then man he's not right are you gonna are you gonna run one day for a president rep uh i don't know you never know we'll see you said that you said it on my i did i did um that was you know we'll see It's possible. Can I say one thing you said about, you brought up Atlanta. There's a lot of opportunity in the South right now to do big things in politics. And if there's any New Yorkers who are not happy with New York, consider relocating to the South.

Cause the South got a lot happening and a lot of opportunity in terms of leveraging the black vote and black power to really do something big in the south so especially in hip-hop especially in atlanta you're absolutely right because now that now that georgia will be an early state one of the things that can't be in early state though no well no south carolina's first but what i'm saying is georgia has never been an early state so they're going to be number three. So now so all of the tenants, if you will, the power in South Carolina, you know, with the Jim Clyburn, it's still room to still grow there, but they've already been in place. The strategy is Georgia's now early state. So and it's a battleground state for the very first time. So now younger voters, particularly from the hip hop, particularly from Generation X, Generation Z, Y, whatever else in the alphabet. Now there's an opportunity where there can be more voice, particularly on the progressive side, because now it's an early state. So it's a lot of strategy.

Representative Bowman is actually absolutely right on that. A lot of strategy that can happen in Georgia and particularly as we move forward. All right. Well, the brother Jamal Bowman, we appreciate you. Thank you, Congressman. Thank you for stopping through. Thank you for having me. You know, this is an open house for you,

so anytime you need to come on, come on through. Let this be your bully pulpit. Absolutely. I appreciate you, man. Yes, sir. Thank you for everything you do, sir. This is Congressman.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. What? Jess Hilarious is our co-host.

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It's Jess with the mess. I'm on YouTube. Ciao. The ghetto. This is the rumor report. So my news is real. On The Breakfast Club. Woo.

Hi there. It's ghetto up in here. Okay. So Lil Durk accuses Gunna of snitching in YSL Rico trial. He said that man's ho. All right, so we got audio. We got audio from the first, from when the judge basically was, you know what I'm saying, Gunna was basically snitching.

And I want to hear that. Let's play that. YSL is a music label and a game. And you have personal knowledge that members or associates of YSL have committed crimes in burdens of the gang. Yes, ma'am. You were present when law enforcement officers stopped the vehicle in which you were present along with Jeffrey Williams, where in hydrocodone, methamphetamines and a firearm were recovered.

These items did not belong to you. Yes, ma'am. And do you acknowledge the following statement i recognize except and deeply regret that my talent and music indirectly furthered why i sell the game to the detriment of my community why i sell as a game must end is that your statement or acknowledgement yes it's crazy how we don't give gunny credit for being polite yes ma'am'am. Yes, man. People don't be saying that to elders no more. Well, anybody says that. So what are you supposed to say when you're snitching?

When you're talking to the judge, you say, yes, sir. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Ain't nobody saying no. Not to a judge. No, no, you do not. You are ready. You are ready.

Not to a judge. No. So by now, we're all familiar with what's going on with the YSL Rico case and all of that. And we know that there's been rumors swarming around whether gonna snitch tonight or whatever a lot of rappers feel like you did some rappers feel like he didn't Lord Dirk shared his opinion and he said this believe that gunner told I don't sit up and play games man man told you should have went in there I kept your mouth closed. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's what I was... I thought you were trying to reverse it. I'm like... Hell no. I'm like... I just said I don't...

I'm like, that wasn't scary as you. I'm like, how do you... Huh? I'm like, I don't even gonna like... Hell no.

I just never... I don't know. I never like... Why I didn't, I don't know. I just don't... And if you rewind this clip a little bit,

look into the camera. I told you, if you a rat, I f***ing hate you because I love to look. Dirk was talking to Academics on the Off the Record podcast.

You know what Gunna haven't done yet? Drop no damn music. Well, why would he? We see 6ix9ine more than we see him now. He could change the narrative of the conversation with a high record. Yeah, but he got to have a hit record. He has to have a record that people don't care about what he's saying or what he allegedly did. And he goes with it.

Because people still don't know because we haven't heard Thug side it like nobody from thug's camp said he snitched or he didn't snitch right yeah so we don't know if he got permission from thug or if this was something that they worked out together so we honestly don't know so that's right you know that's why he just dropped music you drop music you change you change the conversation because you know we live in a very d-riding uh culture but i think that thug would let somebody know if he gave a you know i'm saying i just don't know i think that we don would let somebody know if he gave a... You know what I'm saying? I just don't know. I think that we don't know things for a reason.

That's right. You know what I mean? And that's just what it is. I also want to say I do not like DJ Academics. Let's just get it. All right. Snoop Dogg is victorious. I understand what you're saying. I can't stand it.

I even see how you try to antagonize Lord Durga a little bit. Like, oh, I thought you got scared. I only scared one issue. I got to hear the whole context of the conversation. Yeah, I can't. Why you don't like academics? I don't like academics. I don't like the way he,

yeah, he do too much. He do too much and he's really girly. And we know Charlemagne is too, but at times, Charlemagne is a man. So we can't, you know, at least he has a good balance.

Like, academics always a B, so I can't. I can say that, right? Yeah. Yeah, academics always a bitch. So, yeah. You should act too hard. Act like a go-hunter. No, no, we good. I'm about to, right? Yeah. Yeah, the academic's always a bitch. So, yeah. You should act too hard. No, no, we good.

I'm about to give you five minutes on Twitch. Maybe ten. All right, listen. Snoop Dogg. I'm going to get a bottle of Henny and you're getting ten minutes. Yeah, all right.

Well, yeah, whatever. Snoop Dogg is victorious because he defeats sexual assault lawsuit. Now, since last year, Snoop Dogg has been battling against sexual assault against Selena Pau.

For y'all who don't know, that's the girl who looked like Michael Jackson right before he died. Now, she first opened up the case February 2022. She said she accused Snoop Dogg for forcing her to give him oral sex. Right. And then he said she only tried to do that to extort me for money. And so later on in July 2022, she submitted another, you know, she tried to open up another case and she added more charges, sexual assault, sexual battery and defamation. So then he's been going through this, fighting this for a long time. So and then she even tried to say that he intimidated her because he posted on Instagram one day.

Gold digger season is here. Be carefulhews keep your guards up so she she tried to to have all these cases built up against him but a california judge dismissed most of the lawsuit because i guess it was baseless or whatever but it's still they still made it okay for her like she's still in a position where she can refile right um but he hasn't said anything and she hasn't yet but i think i've heard of this story yeah yeah this was a long time ago you know selena powell's also the one that said that offset was pregnant at one time she's also the one that recently she was wearing a little meech's chain yeah they're saying that uh she did something else it was another someone a couple celebrities yeah but i wasn't soldier boy yeah it was a lot of guys not. It's a lot. And what I keep getting upset is these artists,

these rappers, like, why y'all keep sticking? I'm like, why do y'all keep trying to deal with this girl? Then like y'all keep, cause they're dealing with her. She just be lying,

exaggerating and stuff, but they are doing something with her. So it is what it is when you got, and she's a white woman too. She white. Yeah. She, I tell you,

she looked like Michael Jackson before he died. He looked like a white woman too before he died.? Yeah. I tell you, she looked like Michael Jackson before he died. Yo, you a stupid. He looked like a white woman, too, before he died. Come on, now. So, yeah, that's it. All right. And that is just what the mess. That's just what the mess.

And her news is real. Allegedly. Allegedly. All right. Solomon, who you giving your donkey to? Oh, man. Four after the hour, man. We need Daniel Penny to come to the front of the congregation.

We'd like to have a word with him, please. All right, we'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Our Audible pick of the day is In the Room with Peter Bergen. Go beyond the headlines in this weekly podcast and get the real story from people who were there.

Listen when you sign up for a free trial at audible.com slash breakfast club. I was donkey up to D-Town. Made it. Damn, the hee-haw again it's time for donkey of the day i'm not even trying to be donkey today no more they should be embarrassed by what they already did i'm not making these people do these things called donkey of the day and it really caught me off guard damn solomone who got the donkey of the day today? to Jordan Neely. Now, look, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Did Daniel Penny kill Jordan Neely? Yes, we saw that on video. It's up to a court of law to determine whether or not what he did was a criminal act.

Don't be mad at me. That's just the way the law works. So, in a situation like this, you know, I see it. I mind my business, wait for the facts to come out. But Daniel Penny gave his first interview with the New York Post, and I will never understand why it's so hard for people to just shut the F up. OK, maybe it's the carcassity. Maybe it's the unmelanated gall. I don't know what it is that makes someone who has just killed a man in front of the whole world on video feel like they have to have a conversation about it.

And if you're going to have a conversation about it, show some empathy for the family and the life you took. Show some remorse but nope nobody clearly prepped daniel penny on how to do any of those things and maybe they don't have to because in the eyes of america this might be an easy call daniel penny white male military veteran hero saving people from jordan neely black male threatening mental health issues yeah we see the narrative that's being painted and another narrative that's being painted. And another narrative that's being painted is that Daniel Penny is a racist. And in this interview with the New York Post,

he pushed back on the notion that he is indeed a white supremacist. Let's go to Fox News for the report, please. The Marine veteran accused in the chokehold death of a homeless subway rider breaks his silence. Daniel Penny addressing the incident on the subway that now has him facing second degree manslaughter charges, telling the New York Post, quote, This had nothing

to do with race. I judge a person based on their character. I'm not a white supremacist. I mean, it's it's a little bit comical. Everybody who's ever met me can tell you I love all people. I love all cultures. You can tell by my past and all of my travels and adventures around the world i was actually planning a road trip through africa before this happened daniel uh your penny got a hole in it okay you sound hopeless word to dion ferris all the uncles and aunties know who that is all you youngins google it uh here's some words you don't use to describe a murder okay when you are charged with manslaughter comical okay daniel penny said it's a little bit comical to call him a racist daniel i don't know

if you're racist or not but you have to overstand that some people are trying to figure out why you would just strangle a man on the subway okay and a white man doing that to a black man in america we are always going to go to race first so it's not comical to think you are racist it's context okay historical context at that blame your ancestors and racist peers for people jumping to that conclusion but that's not even the reason you're getting donkey today i mean personally you could have just left it at you know i'm not racist i love all people i love all coaches but no did y'all catch the reason why he couldn't be racist? Listen, listen to this one again. I'm not a white supremacist. I mean, it's it's a little bit comical. Everybody who's ever met me can tell you I love all people. I love all cultures.

You can tell by my past and all of my travels and adventures around the world. I was actually planning a road trip through Africa before this happened. I was actually planning a road trip through Africa before this happened. I was actually planning a road trip through Africa before this happened. Now that's comical. A road trip through Africa. White people going to Africa is what makes them less racist. Daniel Penny, do you know anything about the European colonization of Africa? I mean, what do you want to call it?

The scramble for Africa, the partition of Africa, the conquest of Africa, whatever you want to call it. It was the invasion and colonization of most of Africa by severing Western European powers. So a white man visiting Africa doesn't mean they have tolerance for black people. OK, planning to go to Africa doesn't in any way mean you don't suffer from white supremacy or racism. That's like saying a man isn't fat because he goes to Whole Foods. OK, fat people have access to Whole Foods okay fat people have access to Whole Foods like racists have access to Africa okay what's next Daniel Penny you're going to tell us that

some of your best friends are black you're going to tell us you voted for Barack Obama twice oh Black Panther is your favorite movie too Daniel Penny huh you cried went to Chala and Queen Ramonda died and for the record I'm not saying Daniel Penny is racist I have no idea what this man believes in his heart I just know that this is absolutely from the some of my best friends are black playbook and another example of how we can't have real conversations about race okay i think white people like daniel penny have superficial relationships with black people and he doesn't even understand how race plays out in a black person's daily life if he did he would probably understand why folks are calling him a racist for strangling a black man to death on a train.

I'm just here to tell y'all this morning that proximity to blackness does not stop white people from doing racist things. I repeat, proximity to blackness does not stop white people from doing racist things. I know New York Post y'all was trying to humanize Daniel Penny. I get it. But in humanizing him, how about keep him from sounding stupid? Please let Remy Ma give Daniel Penny the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw. You stupid mother f***er. You dumb.

Alright. Alright. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Yes, indeed. Shout out to everybody on BET. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Thank you, BET. Alright, now. Jess has a dilemma. Jess has a dilemma. Jess has some mess. Shout out to everybody on BET We'll see you guys tomorrow Thank you BET Alright now Jess has a dilemma Jess has a dilemma Jess has some mess

I don't know if this is a mess She's got a dilemma So what's the situation Jess? Okay so look right So I do this segment called Jess with a mess And somebody wrote in Where you do it at?

On Carefully Reckless my podcast Which is on the black effect Under iHeartRadio Thank you Charlamagne Y'all like that? You toss that over here Alright Carefully Reckless, my podcast, which is on the black effect under iHeartRadio. Thank you, Charlamagne. Y'all like that? You toss that over here. Now, I had somebody that wrote me that said they're in a relationship with someone.

And their current man had a previous relationship that he was in. He was attached to a child in that relationship. Now, the child... Is it his child or no? No, it's not not it's not his biological child and the child even knows her dad okay and her dad is in her life you know not the best dad but nevertheless still dad's in her life right now when he was with uh this girl he did a lot

for the girl he built a bond with the child they were only together for maybe like a year and a half or so but he was very drawn to this child and even with them breaking up he goes to like her graduations and stuff like that and and the girl that wrote me she has a problem with it because he has a problem with the bond that her and her baby father had and apparently her and her baby father are like me and jerome which is why she first wrote me gotcha yes and she wants to know is this a deal breaker because she felt like it's manipulative for him for her current boyfriend to use the situation oh well look well i ain't going to stop dealing with my my my and we can't even say my stepdaughter because

you're not you was never married to my mother how old is daughter the daughter is like eight or nine okay so she's young, you know. And she's graduating from, what's the name? I mean, from elementary school. Elementary school. And he told her, he was like, I want to go to the graduation. And me and her mother will be standing side by side saying, I'm like, whoa. So you basically like, you stopped being cool with your ex and your ex's family for your new man? Is that what you're saying?

I mean, it ain't even that. It's just like, because she's saying that he uses it in like a manipulative way. Just to stay next to her. Her and her, because he feels like, he feels like she can't talk to her baby father unless it's about the child.

Like they do business together. When I say they're like me and Rome, they're like me and Rome. So they do business together. They're friends. They do talk outside of their child. Rome is your brother, baby daddy. Your baby daddy brother. Yeah. That's what it is.

That's it. Her boyfriend has an issue with that. If it ain't about the child, it shouldn't be about nothing. Then he'll even go to Farah and say, look, I'm going to the graduation with my ex to support the daughter.

Let's open up the phone lines. She's so cool with your baby father. Why can't still be? let's open up the phone line cool with with your baby father you know i'm saying why i can't still be well let's open up the phone lines 800-585-1051 let's let's ask what what's your thought i see i feel like it's so if the relationship moved on and they only been in a in a relationship for a year he's gonna have to wean his all his wean himself off from that girl right because she's eight years old the mom is gonna date other men and she knows her father and not the dad but that's why i said wean off slowly but she has a dad right i mean she has a father that mom is gonna be dating other dudes that's gonna be in that relationship and that's gonna make his his new

situation feel a little funny and also in the in the other situation i feel the same way too like you can't have a ex that y'all so cool with. It would make me feel a way. That's not, I'm your man. That's not your man. That's your baby daddy. Y'all can talk about the kids. Y'all can be cool.

But it can't be a whole big happy family. Like, we all live in the same house. You trying to say Jeff ain't going to never find happiness? Because we're all? That is not what he said. That's probably what he thinks. But he is not. It's not true.

But let's open up the phone line and discuss 800-585-1051. There's a lot of moving parts in this, so we'll discuss when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club of course

jess hilarious is here now somebody emailed jess and wanted them to fix their mess now jess what was the uh the email what was the question so it was very broad but basically this girl has a boyfriend who uh uh she doesn't well she has a baby father and they are somewhat similar to me and rome's situation they're very very cool close they do business together and her boyfriend has a child that he is attached to uh from a previous relationship that's not his biological daughter but he still is very attached to her. They were only in a relationship for a year and he grew attached to this little girl.

And he kind of uses that as leverage for the girlfriend being cool with her baby daddy. And for people who just might be listening to the Breakfast Club Rome is just his baby's father, but they're like brother and sister. That's their baby daddy brother. So, I mean, I really would say once you break up with the mom especially that's not your child

you break up with that baby too they only been together one year yeah that's how i feel and the baby got a father yeah he has a father yes i'm sure the woman is dating somebody else yes so not all three of us gonna be at the uh no all three of us in the mom gonna be at the graduation so no once you break up with that mom you break up with the baby especially if it's only been a year like you you gotta let that baby go that's not your child yeah but also in the new situation i would look at that differently you gotta set boundaries you just can't absolutely you can't your baby you and your baby father can't be all cool and together and shop nah like this is a new relationship i respect what y'all have together yeah but this ain't this one

big family and it ain't even no time a year year? A year. Like, why? First of all, he shouldn't even be meeting your child after a year. And how you grow a bond with a whole child in a year? First of all, I can't hide no nigga from my child for a year. Asked you nosy for that. He grown though. So, you know, yeah. And then the little girl was like 9, 10. You know, she's older.

So it was like, yo, all right. Like, she already knows her father. She spent the last year with you. One year with you. And yeah, you Kids are very impressionable You're a good guy He's good with kids and stuff And that's cool

But Do you really know a person After a year though To have them around your chair Right And then why is your mom Trying to be the dad collector This is not what we're gonna do

The dad collector You know what I'm saying We're not gonna do that You know So Let's go to the phone line Hello who's this Hey this is Nardo

From FedOx in Georgia Hey what's up, brother? What's your thoughts? Man, I'll say, man, I don't feel like that's right because when you're in a relationship and you start something new,

you don't want to bring on luggage from the past. Yeah. That can tend to rekindle something, you know what I'm saying? So leave that baggage

in the past. I appreciate that. Well, y'all be out here breaking up with kids, boy. Y'all cold. Okay. Yeah, but she got a dad. And now she got a new dad

because the mom is dating a new guy. Dating someone else. I think Jess is right. Three dads? That's a dad collector. That is a dad collector. Instead of calling him horse,

let's just say dad collector from now on. I like that. Hello, who's this? This is Chelsea from Renrovis, Georgia. Hey, mama. What's your thoughts?

My thoughts are if she's entering a relationship, she does need to set some boundaries with her baby father. But it also sounds like he's just being petty. Yeah. And the only reason he only wants to be around the little girl is because she's around her baby father. That's what it sounds like, don't it, baby? Yeah.

It don't even sound like he care about the little girl. He just wants his girlfriend. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds like that. Cause she said he uses it as leverage. Yeah.

Cause if you love somebody, you accept everything that comes with them, right? Yeah. Like if you, if somebody loves Jess, you got to accept the child. They got to accept Rome.

They got to accept everybody. Why would they accept Rome? Yo, cause yo, you always make things, things sound wrong. You gotta do it. You gotta accept Rome, but also because you always make things sound wrong. You got to accept Rome, but also people got to understand, if somebody is dating somebody with a baby daddy and the baby daddy's cool,

a lot of times the baby daddy's cool because you want as close as normal for the child. That's right. And if my child is still underage, I'm going to be here, bro. That's right, because you want the child to feel comfortable and be like, no, I can call my mom, I can call my my dad my mom and dad are cool i should come to them now this new gentleman is here i got it that he's dating my mom and i respect him but you still want you know to feel as normal as possible yeah and telling you my my son loves me in his dad's relationship he loves that how did he feel when other guys come around he chill i mean i'll

introduce him to everybody you make it seem like guys be coming around all the time. She never said that. She never said that. Like, I'm a dad collector. You're funny. You a dad collector? No, dad was a guy coming around. Don't listen to him.

Don't listen to him. She didn't say that. Everybody don't meet ass. Shut up. Hello, who's this? Hi, my name is Tamara. Hey, Tamara. What's your thoughts, Tamara?

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. I said, what's your thoughts, mama? You a dad collector? Okay, so my thoughts are I definitely think that after only a year and a half of dating someone

that you shouldn't even have a bond with the child. I agree. I think a lot of problem with people that are dating that, you know, have children is they just introduce their kids to people too soon.

I agree. I mean, maybe like a high-end vibe, maybe pass-by, but an eight-year-old and a man, like, absolutely not. So he needs to wane his stuff off, and the mom really should think better next time. Like, you wouldn't have this problem

if you wouldn't have introduced your child to him before you really even knew the person. Period. See, but I kind of disagree, though. Like, if a woman is dating a man, and the woman has sole custody of that child, right? like if if if a woman is dating a man and the woman has sole custody of that child right so that means if a woman is dating you know how first it gets serious and then you start going out a lot so when i go out a lot what am i gonna leave my son at home i'm gonna leave myself no after a while six seven eight months you start taking

your child with you because you want to see how that man is with your child so that's too soon man six seven eight months i don't think that's too soon no you go you go out a lot and if that person if you're really into that person just think about when you started dating your wife i started dating my wife we were around each other a lot yeah and if you have a child a young child at the time that's eight nine you're gonna be taking that child to plays and games and this and that because this is not just somebody that you just hitting and missing you know i'm saying this is somebody that you you may not see yourself with them for the rest of your life but it's like oh all right i mean i'm feeling you like this is cool what you just said is the key though if you don't feel like you're gonna be with the president for the rest of your life you

gotta get this man from time that's why i said i don't introduce everybody ash but when i feel like there's and like okay this is like something and you give me butterflies and i'm actually talking to people about you. I do feel like there is something, you know. So when a girl gets that feeling, then she would, huh? When was the last time you felt like this? In a long time. So she feels like that, right?

And she's going to bring that. I don't think it's wrong with her introducing the. After, yeah, depending on how tight that relationship I'm with you. But it's up to the guy. Yo, if it's done. It's done. After a year or year and a half, wean yourself off the baby girl, I'm with you. But it's up to the guy. Yo, if it's done. It's done. After a year or a year and a half, wean yourself off the baby. I'm with you.

I'm not saying just completely cut yourself out, but wean yourself off. It didn't even explain. So if she, you that close with her, look, your mom collected me. And that's it. So that's, we done. You know, you gotta be real. 800-585-1051. The question is, what's the question?

Break it down again. There's a lot going on. Oh, my God. Should you stop being cool with your ex and your ex's family for your new man? There you go. Or is Jess ever going to be able to find true happiness because Rome's in her life? Yo, shut up, man. We'll take your calls when we come back.

It's not about me. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Jess Hilarious is here. Now, if you just joined us, we're asking 800-585-1051. What's the question? Okay.

It's a lot of moving parts. All right, Charlamagne, what is the question? What would you say? I thought it was, you know, basically, should you stop being cool with your ex and, you know, your ex's family for your new man. Do you cut off a child from a previous relationship going into a new relationship if it's not biologically yours? There you go. Boom. Yes.

I think you do depending on how close you and the child is. So if you raise that child, let's say you've been with that person for eight to ten years or a long time. That's different though. See how y'all be moving the goalposts?

But that's what I'm saying because you just can't ask a question. But if you ask a question, you got to have boundaries. You got to explain. If it's long time and that's different though see how y'all be moving to go home but that's what I'm saying because you just can't ask a question no but if you ask a question you gotta have boundaries you gotta explain if it's long time and you raised a child yes I think you should

still be in that child's life but if it's only a year like this situation that's what I said didn't I just say that last time and y'all disagreed with me you did

I didn't disagree Envy did what I didn't disagree yes you did no I didn't you actually did no you said a year was too soon

to introduce to the child I'm like a year might not be too soon, depending on how it was. Keep disagreeing with me. I'm going to throw a car show. I'm going to throw my own car show. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Is that what you're going to do?

I know. That's right. Y'all better stop with this. Is that what you're going to do? Well, my car show is this Sunday, by the way. Memphis, May 28th. Memphis, yes. Kids fine and under are free.

There's going to be cars from Young Dolph, Key Glock, 50 Cent, Bumpy, and myself. If you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets now. Can't wait to see you in Memphis. Yes. Alright, now let's get to the phone line. Hello, who's this? What's up, Envy? Good morning. This is Jay from Making Sorcerers. Hey, Jay. Talk to us. What's your thoughts? Okay, so I got two things. First thing is, Jessica,

I'm so glad you're on here this morning. Thank you, girl. Because you always give good insight. Thank you, baby. Because you always give good insight. Thank you, baby. So, number one, suggest, tell your friend that she is a placeholder for him. That dude is still trying to show up for the day and hope that she'll see, oh, he's this, he's that type of father to somebody that's not even his real child. Yep. And he's trying to take him back. He's going.

Number two, Indy, I know you was the one to answer the phone. The fact that you talked out and said the extremes are either they got to be beefing like crisp and blood as baby mama, baby daddy, or the opposite of that is big happy family and everybody living in the same house. There are so many levels between that when it comes to relationships between co-parents. And Jess told you that they have businesses together and things like that, so they can't communicate and have a healthy relationship. One of the biggest things about co-parenting is respect. Respect of the other parent, respect of their relationships, and all of that. There's levels to it.

It does not mean that they are intimately involved or there's anything going on under the table. There's levels to it. It does not mean that they are intimately involved or there's anything going on under the table. There are levels to it. And speaking from a space that you can't talk from because all your kids are with you. Correct. He just can't relate. We can't relate.

I can't relate. Right. Neither of y'all can't relate. But y'all also have both stepped out on your wives. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You bringing up old stuff. For no reason. Why you bringing up old stuff. For no reason. Why you bringing up old stuff?

Why? She came with the chopper today. Why on Tuesday? She came with the chopper. Why you bringing up old stuff, ma'am? Okay, continue. I'm just saying. Yes, ma'am.

What's your name? It's not me. I'm Jay. Jay? My daughter will be 17 this year. Yeah. Me and her dad do business together. We have not had any dealings since I was pregnant with her. That's right. It should be 17 this year. Me and her dad do business together. We have not had any dealings since I was pregnant with her.

That's right. But there's a mutual respect and understanding that I have for his relationship, the situations that he has for mine as well. But we do not argue. We don't fight. We don't do any of that. What does your new man think about it? He don't have a problem with it because they've been introduced. We spend time together on holidays.

It's no problem. If you create any man that is creating drama and bringing that into my space, my energy, my family, he wouldn't be there anyway. That's right. That's right. I agree with everything she said. I'm going to tell you something that's interesting. There's been such a negative narrative around baby mamas and baby daddies that we always expect it to be drama yeah so when i see situations like jess and rome and how they co-parent so well

i didn't know it was so many people out here co-parenting so well i'm not even lying to you see but co-parenting is not the problem i don't everybody you have to co-parent that's not the problem the problem is when cordial co-parenting like actually being friends that's that's not the problem the problem is when i feel like they cross the lines, right? And sometimes I feel like people cross the lines in that situation. Like with the individual that you said, I feel like he's crossing the lines, meaning they've only been together a short period of time. There's no reason to still be in that child's life.

I agree. That child has a father. That child has a new boyfriend that the mom has. So it's to the point now where there's no reason to be there. It's just what makes sense. Yeah. You know, in my opinion. And then also, we not talking about me, girl from Macon, Georgia.

I don't. You sure? Yeah, because you see how she personalized. She was like, Jess, so tell your friend that you and your baby father. Like, yo. It do sound personal. And when you were describing it, you were saying me. I told you people write me all the time.

You was slipping up there. You said, I wrote myself, and I told myself. Ain't no slipping up. First of all, I didn't know you stepped out. What's up? What happened with you and the merch? Okay, thank you. Moving on.

What's next? Yeah. Yeah, we know about one person allegations. What about yours? Did you write that in that little book? I did. Shooketh one. Okay.

Well, what's the moral of the story? The moral of the story? I don't know what the moral of the story is. Don'teth one. Okay. What's the moral of the story? The moral of the story? I don't know what the moral of the story is. Don't use no damn leverage. The moral of the story is, look, everything you do not bring, and then it's kind of hard to say, don't bring baggage from other relationships because I'm not trying to say anyone's child is baggage. My thing is, I would never say that.

The thing is, you have to, it to it's so it's because i'm so conflicted on it it's like you have to be open enough to bring all the facts before you get into another relationship this is what i had going on here it's gonna be hard breaking this bum with this little girl but you got to be willing to try to do that you know what i'm saying let's say that the situation was with you right and you met a new man you love but he just he felt uncomfortable he felt that you and rome were too close with each other y'all spoke too much because yeah y'all were in a relationship y'all did date y'all didn't cut rome off no i'm never gonna cut rome but let's say he wanted to set boundaries to make sure he was comfortable i do

get that look it happened it happened before rome used to call me any time of the night and i used to answer any time of the night you know i mean you used to have a real bad drinking problem you fall asleep behind the wheel this ain't nothing that everybody don't know but like you know what i mean so i would go get him i would send somebody to get just anything but i was also enabling him a lot and then just too accessible for him which also like spoiled them a lot so i did set boundaries myself. And even it was a guy that was like, yo, this nigga calling you

at one o'clock in the morning. I mean, I feel me and you in bed at one o'clock in the morning. Rome calling you and you go pick him up. I'm going to feel the way. No, I never did that. But that's when I did set the boundaries when this guy did say,

yo, this is a lie. And I'm like, all right, you're right. So no, Rome, don't call me at the nine. Don't call me after the nine don't call me after that uh even when you call me about advice i would say just kind of lay off i'm talking to this guy like it's like this we you do cross boundaries and i let you i allow you so it's not all your fault but we got we gotta chill i understand what the advice thing but if rome need help like you know he don't want to drink i have to. You can come with me if you want.

You know what I mean? But that's my friend. That's my family. Absolutely. It's different. If the new man don't understand that, you got to build a wall. You got to build a wall between the new man and the baby daddy. Don't do it, Jess.

Just let it go. Jess, let it go. That's second boundaries you built. What are y'all talking about? What's up with y'all, yo? Just let it go, Jess. Look at me. What?

Jess, what the mess is up next? We got some rumors? Yeah, we got some rumors, yo. We'll get to it next. Just look at me, Jess. Just let it go, Jess. Look at me. Jess with the mess is up next. We got some rumors? Yeah, we got some rumors, yo. We'll get to it next. Just look at me, Jess. Just look at me. We'll be back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

Let's get to the rumors. Let's get to Jess with the mess. Jess with the mess. Jess with the mess. This is the rumor report on the breakfast club so holly berry her and fantasia star and what the hell holly berry doing oh holly bailey i was gonna say holly berry can't be no damn color purple girl

uh yeah why couldn't holly be damn color purple girl. What is wrong with you? Why couldn't Halle Berry be in color purple? Yeah, she definitely could have. She could have been. It's just some things that, you know how you have those actors that you can see doing, you can't see doing certain things. Yeah. Halle Berry, who part would she play real quick, pop in your mind? Color purple Halle Berry.

Oh, that's my wife's favorite movie, but I can't think right now. Right, right. Ain't nobody losing no children in there. He was thinking. Look, so it's Halle Bailey. Oh, Bailey. Halle Bailey. Yes's Halle Bailey. Oh, Bailey. Halle Bailey. Yes.

Halle Bailey. Her. Fantasia. They star in a Color Purple trailer. Wow. Another Color Purple? They doing it? Another Color Purple.

That's exactly what my wife said yesterday. Why are they remaking Color Purple? They don't need to leave Color Purple alone. They really do. They really, really do. Yesterday, Warner Brothers released the trailer for the Color Purple musical film. Also, Ciara, Daniel Brooks, and Taraji P. Henson will also appear in the film Sierra where did you go?

There ain't nobody pop locking in no damn Color Purple Sierra's in the Color Purple Even singing Hello nasally boy she's so cute Like where'd you go? You're too cute to be a banana I mean hey you're too cute but this ain't a movie I haven't seen the trailer but Color Purple is one of those movies that I feel like in 2023, they would water it down a lot.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. You know what I mean? Listen, Sierra. I don't think they need to do that. I just think they would water it down. So I can't see a 2023. I don't want a woke version of Color Purple. Yeah, I don't.

I don't. You want to hear the trailer? Yeah, let's hear the trailer. Today, our teacher taught us about a place called Africa. She say our mamas come from Queens over there. That means that we royalty. Afternoon, I need me a wife. Even if we have to part, you and me, us have one heart.

Get off my life! I rat you every day! Daddy! All I had was my sister. It's time for you to see the world! There's gonna be some changes made. Put it on. This ain't me.

Hush. We need to look like we belong. Dear Ciri, we are more than just kings and queens. It's hard. We are at the center of the universe. Oh, yes, I am. It's hard. You don't want to knock something before you see it. But Color Purple is a classic film.

The bar is so high. It is. Like you said, you don't want to knock it. But I just don't feel the pain. I ain't feeling it. I feel the pain. I'll tell you that, Margie. I feel like Little Mermaid.

So I feel like I was hearing. I'm going to see Little Mermaid this weekend. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, for sure. But I feel like this gave us the Little Mermaid feel in the beginning. But I ain't going to lie. I'm excited to see Taraji P. Henson. Taraji plays show.

Taraji plays show. Gavry. Oh, I need to see that because she gives it every time. Absolutely. She's never disappointed for me. And then Fantasia as Celia. I can see Fantasia

in color. Oh, she's playing Celia? Yeah, she's playing Celia. She better give me a... She better give me one of those. She gonna scream

to the kingdom come. I love it. Alright, and then this version of the film seems to be focused more on the sisterhood aspect of the story. The film is produced

by Oprah Quincy Jones and Steven Spielberg. That's the original producers, I think. I don't know if Oprah was the original. I know she acted in it. I don't know if she was an original producer. She was. I thought it was. And Beloved. Yeah. Produced

by Oprah, for sure. So we're going to move on. I pray that that's great. No, you don't. Yes, I do. Can nobody sound fake concerned like Jess and Larry? Oh, my God. Please.

Don't do that. No, I do. I think it's so great. Jess be like, congratulations. Oh, my God. All right. Six, nine, immortal God. Oh, my God. All right. Six, nine immortalized. Wow.

With Mural in one of Mexico's most dangerous neighborhoods. Okay, so he had went to one of the most notorious cities in Mexico, right? And they call it the Barrio Brava. That's what they call it. I don't even know what you just said. Yeah, well, stay away. It's called Barrio Brava. Jesus.

All right. And that's like a real bad city. That's when it's given like real bad, right? And they have a mural of him. Like, they were celebrating him. Like, oh, my God. A what? A mural. Stop playing with her.

What is it called? What y'all say? A mural? A mural. A mural? A mural? It's spelled M-U-R, so it's a mural. All right, mural.

So they got this big mural up of him, right? And when 6ix9ine got there, he was mobbed by so many fans. They were showing love or whatever. I think that they were just so happy for him being Mexican that they forgot that he was a snitch. Nah, he gives money to the community. He goes out to Mexico. He gives thousands of dollars to the locals,

thousands of dollars to the kids. He gives them hundreds of dollars when he comes out there. But at the same time, you got the Mexican cartel, you got all these real notorious Mexicans who know, they know.

When he giving money, they probably like, all right, we ain't gonna snitch over here, so we cool. But I just didn't think that that would be something that they would be okay with.

Like, it's some serious gangsters over there, man. But moving on, Nick Cannon believes Bruno Mars. We gotta do that when we come back. We gotta do that when we come back. All right, let me, I's some serious gangsters over there, man. Yeah. But moving on, Nick Cannon believes Bruno Mars... We gotta do that when we come back. We gotta do that when we come back. All right, let me...

All right, go. I gotta tease it. All right, go. No, get it off, Jess. All right, Nick Cannon believes Bruno Mars has more hits than Beyonce. That's a joke in itself. That's a damn lie.

What the hell? By the way, I don't know if it's a lie or not, but I know it can be proven. I know Beyonce has 30 top 10 hits, 20 as a solo artist, seven number ones. Nick is the last person to be talking about a hit. Come on. And 4 number ones with Destiny's Child.

I'm sure that's something you can actually document. Nick don't know. Nick don't know. So what are you saying? You saying you're tired of Nick Cannon talking about music? Yes! I've always said that. You don't want him to do music? You don't want him to talk about music? You don't want Nick Cannon to have nothing to do with music? Just kids. That's what he's master at. We gotta go. We'll be back. It's the Breakfast Club.

Come on. Let's get to the mix. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Jess Hilarious is here. Jeff Bezos, the world's third richest man. Jess, you had a chance to hook up with him. Why are we telling this story now at 9 o'clock?

We need to wait and save this for tomorrow. Oh, my God. I didn't have to deal with no damn... Yo, y'all playing big games. What do you mean? You had a chance to hook up with the third richest man, and he just recently got engaged. Just based on trying to holler at you?

No, I didn't know. It's still a chance. He just got engaged. He ain't married yet. Where he at? Where he at? Oh, I need to hear about this tomorrow. Just going to be back here tomorrow.

I need to hear this story. He be watching this? We need to put this on prime time. All right. We can't do this at 9 o'clock. It's 140 billion. I need to hear this story. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, we got to do this tomorrow prime time. All right. We can't do this at 9 o'clock. It's 140 billion. I need to hear this story. Oh, my goodness.

Yeah, we got to do this tomorrow. Oh, my God. Oh, I missed the opportunity. When we come back, we got the positive note. You know, he put a statue of his fiancee on there like, I think it's like a $500 million yacht. He got it. A statue of a... Yeah, it's like a statue.

See, like a little statue on the front of the yacht. Oh, wow. Wow., it's like a statue. Is it like a little statue on the front of the yacht? Oh, wow. Wow. That ain't really a wow. No, that is a wow. That's a big flat. I'm going to tell you why that ain't really a wow. Why?

Because he's the third richest man in the world. That's a wow. He put a statue on the yacht. He's supposed to be doing stuff like that. That's Jeff Bezos. You always try to normalize everything somebody do. I'm just saying. That's not normal.

That's normal for him. Nobody has done that. Because he's Jeff Bezos. If Jeff Bezos isn't doing extravagant things like that, I'm going to think something wrong. You know what I mean? That ain't extravagant for Jeff Bezos. I mean, I've never even heard of anything like that before. He just got to seem like it's so beneath him, he don't care.

All right. When we come back, we got the positive note him, he don't care. All right. When we come back, we got the positive note. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Everybody, it's EJ, Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Jess Solaris, we appreciate you for joining us. You'll be back tomorrow.

You got shows this weekend, Rhode Island? Yes, I do. Providence, Rhode Island, Comedy Connection, Friday and Saturday. We got four shows all together. Get your tickets at JessSolarisOfficial.com. If you're not doing anything and you're looking for something positive to watch every monday night at 8 p.m just hilarious drops a youtube series it's called the more with my last name the more you don't know it's like a

docuseries of me documents in my life the other sides of just hilarious uh all except the love you're gonna be getting you might even get a little bit of that. Are you not going to show your love life? I might show it. I might not. We don't know. Y'all got to stay tuned to see. First season is already premiered last night at 8 p.m.

Y'all watch it. My YouTube channel, Jessalarius, it's in my link tree. It's attached to all of my socials. Y'all make sure YouTube, YouTube is the only place it lives. All right. And don't forget this weekend, of course,

I'm in Memphis for my car show. Kids 5 and under are free family fun day cars from Dolph, 50, Key, Glock, myself, and more. Yo, you said something earlier about South Carolina. I want to do a car show in South Carolina. So many people have been calling me about a car show. I just don't know a space. Say the word. You want to do Columbia?

You want to do Charleston? Probably Latchin' Fairgrounds. What's the biggest city? Because I would love to do one there. Big Fairgrounds. What's the biggest city? Because I would love to do one there. Biggest city? Charleston is the biggest city. Where would you do it?

Where is the car culture the biggest where people will come out? Oh, they'll come anywhere. You don't think Charlotte? Well, that's North Carolina. I mean, people have done car shows in Columbia. They've done car shows in Orangeburg. They've done car shows at Lassen Fairgrounds in Charleston. It doesn't matter where you want to do it. I got a lot of people from the carolinas that that reached out i mean you know it's crazy because i spoke to shout to the baby and the whole baby's camp and all them because

they even told me that the baby has a bunch of cars they don't have to drive down to south carolina we ship them down south carolina is a great place to do a car show people have done car shows historically south and north i don't know nothing about north carolina well the baby's from charlotte he's from charl He's from Charlotte. He just has a lot of cars. So, yeah, that would be dope. You got to figure out what you want to do. We set it up.

We set it up. All right, when we come back, we got... Oh, no, it's time for the positive note. You got one for us? Yes, the positive note is simple, man. It comes from one of my favorite Instagram pages, The Healing Guide. Your character will outweigh any lie told about you

because those that know you, know you. Breakfast Club, bitches! You all finished or you all done?