The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Dawn Richard Resumes Testimony in Diddy Trial; Details Cassie Beatings, Megan Thee Stallion Blasts Tory Lanez, Skai Jackson Files Restraining Order Against Her Baby Daddy + Chuck D, Kurtis Blow & Ras Baraka Interview

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Chuck D and Kurtis Blow join us to talk Hip-Hop ethics, the problem with rap battles, and the state of radio in 'Radio Armageddon.' Newark Mayor Ras Baraka also stops by to address his recent arrest, Newark Airport controversy, and thoughts on the Trump administration. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a funeral home sued after a family discovered the wrong body in their uncle’s casket. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart podcast. Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes here. Diddy's former protege, television personality, Danity King alum Aubrey O'Day joins us to provide a unique perspective on the trial that has captivated the attention of the nation. It wasn't all bad, but I don't know that any of the good was real. I went through things there. Listen to Amy and TJ Presents, Aubrey O'Day,

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Nairobi style, that's what it is? Yeah, I mean, somebody called me that in a restaurant last night, it was like, you look like Nairobi, and I was like, who's it? They was like, nah, just seen it on a black hair product bottle, I was like, oh, all right. So how I look like Nairobi? I think they was trying to be funny,

but then I questioned more into it, but I like it. I like it. Okay, you like it, we love it. It's like, it's given. It's given. Yeah, okay, all right what up Shala how are you man everything is great feel good today is May 20th which means it is the release date for Don Staley's new book Uncommon Favor. Oh, drop a bomb for Don Staley. That's right. Salute to the icon living Don Staley her new book Uncommon Favor is out right now

make sure you go get that wherever you buy books. God damn it. That's right And today on the show we got a lot of people joining us this morning. Oh have mercy We have Chuck D from the legendary group Public Enemy. I don't like how you just said that we're just like that's just regular Okay, that's an icon flipping. Yes. Okay, we wouldn't be if it wasn't for people like Chuck D Oh come on. Who is we wouldn't be here? You either. You either. What did he do? Everything got to be done. Because I you're a ten. You neither. What did he do?

Everything I've talked about. Cause I'm here because of God. Thank you. Well, that's on you. Like I said, Chuck D. Chuck D from the legendary group Public Enemy. From the legendary Public Enemy icon, Livin' will be here, and he will be here

with the first rapper to ever go gold. So let me tell you something, if rappers didn't sell no records, they wouldn't have built things like hip hop radio stations and your ass wouldn't be here. Oh, you mean like for the job we gonna say because God is the reason why I'm here. Don't play with me. Talk that talk. Yes.

But Curtis Blow will be joining us as well. Absolutely. Y'all put a Clues bar for Curtis Blow. I know Curtis Blow, yo. You know Curtis Blow? Sing a Curtis Blow song. Yo, come on, come on, come on. It's not, it's not, my memory's not jogged right now. Y'all started, never finished it.

We're playing basketball. I thought that was Bow Wow. Oh my goodness. She probably know we are the bricks, but it don't matter. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I do know we are the bricks. But no, Bow Wow did say who that is. Bow Wow did it over.

He did it over. But like Mike, okay, my bad, my bad. Because he got through to Bow Wow. The beauty of life is what you don't know you can learn. That's right. And that's why Chuck D and Kurtis Lower here this morning. That's right, yes. And Chuck D also has a new project out

and we'll talk to him all about it. It's called Radio Armageddon. We'll talk about that. And then Raz Baraka will be joining us, the mayor of Newark. I thought it was Raz. I thought so too. Then I heard him on the news yesterday and he said,

Raz. Was it a white person that said it? No, it was himself. Oh, okay. It was himself. I've been calling him Raz all this time. I've been calling him Mayor Raz Baraka my full life. All this time.

He's never corrected me. Yesterday I heard him on the news. He was talking about himself. He said, Ras. I said, Ras? He corrected white people. He don't correct us, but he corrected white people. My bad, brother Ras.

Ras. All right. Brother, how about Mayor Baracka? Mayor Baracka will be joining us this morning. That's right. Of course, he's running for governor of New Jersey. He recently got arrested, so he'll break all that down, what happened, because they recently dropped those charges. All right

Well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news We joining us next it's the breakfast club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody is DJ envy Just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news Now the Western Conference final starts today, Minnesota Timberwolves taking on Oklahoma City at 832 tonight and congratulations in the NFL to Chidor Sanders he signed a four year 4.6 million dollar contract with the Browns. What does Chidor all you need is an opportunity man. It don't matter where you start all you need is an opportunity.

That's right. What's up Morgan? Hey y'all hey so good morning how y'all feeling good? Black and highly favored. Love to hear it. All right, first up on front page President Trump is speaking publicly for the first time after former President Biden's cancer diagnosis was announced yesterday He told reporters he was surprised at the delay in the public finding out referring to Biden stage 4 cancer as stage 9 And then he went on to say that he took part in a complete physical and cognitive

test recently, saying he aced them. Let's hear from President Trump. I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago, because to get to stage nine, that's a long time. I did a very complete physical, including cognitive tests. I'm proud to announce I aced it. I got them all right. I think frankly, anybody running for president should act you know take a cognitive test yeah so just so people know that cancer only reaches about stage four before it yes they for there is no stage nine I was listening to a doctor who was on morning Joe yesterday and he said either they didn't test President Biden

are they covered it up yeah I, you're not wrong about that. Oh no, that ain't me now. I'm quoting with the doctor from Morning Jones. And he said he was talking about his Gleason score was a level nine, which means it's very aggressive, his Gleason score, but there is no stage nine cancer. No, yes, yes. Okay. So Biden, he addressed his cancer diagnosis in a post on X yesterday saying cancer touches all of us

Of course, it's been ten years since Biden lost his son Bo to brain cancer He went on to say in the post that his first it's his first his first Since the news broke on Sunday that like many of you Jill in him He learned that they were the strongest in the broken places So the former president ended by thanking everyone for their well wishes and for lifting his family up with love and support. In other presidential type news, Trump is saying direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine will start immediately. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said his call with Russian President

Vladimir Putin about the war with Ukraine went very well. Now the two leaders spoke for almost two hours on Monday and Trump suggested the ceasefire talks take place at the Vatican. Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance is questioning whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has an exit strategy for the war in Ukraine. Let's take a listen to JD Vance's comments. Look, I think one open question is, is Vladimir Putin serious about negotiating peace, right? advances comments. So the Trump administration has recently expressed frustrations with both parties after they that President Putin, he doesn't quite know how to get out of the war. So the Trump administration has recently expressed frustrations with both parties after they failed to reach a consensus on a 30-day ceasefire proposal.

So to be clear, it's only talks about a ceasefire that's happening immediately, not so much this ceasefire itself. So I'll keep you guys posted on those talks. And today, President Trump will attend a House Republican conference meeting as lawmakers work to pass what he calls his big, beautiful bill. As previously reported, the bill cleared the GOP-led Budget Committee in the House on Sunday. Trump is expected to make a proposal pitch to the legislation at the meeting today. It includes a major spending increase for immigration enforcement and the military and of course extensions to Trump's 2017 tax cuts and cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding. Now GOP lawmakers are looking at

changes that could make house passage more difficult this week. I'm sure some of those cuts to programs like Medicaid and SNAP are going to be a little bit of a challenge for those house Republicans. But we will see. I'm actually going to head out to Capitol Hill after we get off air today and see if I can meet the president there as he arrives. So I will keep you guys posted tomorrow as to what all takes place on Capitol Hill today as a result of Trump's meeting. Yeah. So what do you guys think about what's happening with this so-called big beautiful bill? You gotta wait and see if it gets passed. Yeah, this is true.

All right, y'all. You're like, all right, y'all. I was thinking, I'm interested in the Biden stuff, because Jake Tapper's book, Original Sin, comes out today, which I'm looking forward to reading. And this book talks about his inner circle and how his inner circle kept his mental decline and health diagnosis from others. So I think they announced his president Biden's prostate diagnosis to get in front of that book. So many other stuff

that's coming out. And whatever may be in that book. And I'm looking forward to reading it because I want to see if people like Jake Tapper hold themselves and their networks like CNN accountable for how much they didn't report on because they're all complicit in not calling a thing a thing in regards to President Biden. I will go to the South with me regarding itself. Yes. All right. Well, stage four, you're not wrong about that to find out about stage four at this point.

Yeah, somebody somebody didn't say something before. So there's that. That's your front page news for 6am at this point. Yeah, somebody somebody didn't say something before. So there's that. That's your front page news for 6am at 7am. We're going to tap tap into what's going on in New Jersey and of course Louisiana with the escapee inmates. So we'll get into that later. All right, everybody else get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent phone lines wide open again. 800-585-1051. Call us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest.

800-585-1051, we wanna hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Envy! What's up, Trav? Hey Envy, brakes on the plane and brakes on the car. Brakes that'll make you a superstar. Okay. Envy, ah, the brakes.

Hey. Break them up, break them up, break them up, brakes down. Brakes down the cheeks, make them leak. What? That was not, what I'm saying. That, Sheldon May's braids was not. So if you're just joining us, yes, Curtis Below

and Chuck D will be joining us this morning, so. Yes, my father used to balk That song all the time when I was a kid man dropped one of whose bombs That's right, he'll be joining us. What up don't trap but what's up, Jess? What's up? How y'all hey, how are you? I'm doing good I'm calling to talk about this is discourse going on right now about DL rappers, right? I'm calling talk about this is discourse going on right now about DL rappers, right? And I saw this tweet that said I just wanna let y'all know all y'all favorite rappers is gay and I'm calling this thing Not cold bitch

First of all, you don't know what goes on in people bedroom leave people alone. Okay, it ain't any of business One of them he's one of my all time favorites. He might be a bottom, but not cold, baby. Ah! Wow. This is... Bye, y'all. Press the ball. Press the ball.

It's trap or die, not crack or die, okay? Oh my God. Jesus Christ. Coming from the person talking about break down your cheeks and make a leak, like what? Stupid. Hello, who's this? Good morning, my name is Tiana.

I'm calling from Pittsburgh. How are y'all? What up, Tiana? Hey, so, okay, I'm calling in to check in on my girl, Jess. Jess, first of all, you are so beautiful. Thank you. You came to Pittsburgh, you were dressed down like a boy.

I'm like, damn, why she look good like a man? Am I gay? How she look good like a man? Jesus, boy. What? I told her, you know how I dress like that. I probably, what's that, like I got on a day, I got on a sweatsuit, you know.

That's not man's clothing. Nope. You know, Tom Gurley, I would say. When I put two and two together, I think you were pregnant though, so I get it. Damn, so I look like a pregnant nigga? Like how you going? Jesus. You weren't pregnant, like you were just now.

Very progressive, very progressive of you. Very progressive. You weren't pregnant, like you were just now. Very progressive. Very progressive of you guys. Yes, very progressive. Okay. But back to what I'm calling out. Our man Chris is locked up and I wanted to check in on you. Girl, I know. You just reminded me and depressed me real quick again.

She said Chris is locked up. Yes. Chris Brown. Oh, what the hell? I'm like, they got him. I'm like, I just got him. Don't play with me. Don't even with him.

Don't even go there yet, because no. What? No, Chris Brown is locked up. And girl, he going to be in there for over a month, girl. So I think he got to miss some shows. I know. And the crazy part is, my husband mentioned that he has security. So these things that he's doing, that's what he pays security for.

So why did he knock him? Exactly. And why did nobody tell him? Because I don't think he would have went over there if he knew he had an open warrant And that they was gonna catch his ass they they should have his team wasn't on a job his lawyers his team Whoever I think I should go get him. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, I probably wanted over there, too We don't know if he hit somebody with a bottle so allegedly I'm not, I'm not. Also, we don't know if he hits somebody with a bottle. It's allegedly. Exactly.

That's what I'm saying. So. Allegedly. Okay, well I'll keep you on my thoughts. But I will be back. I'm coming to Homestead PA. I'm coming next month. So get your tickets.

That'll be, uh, that's, how far is Homestead from Pittsburgh? I think it's right there. It's not far. It's where you were at. That's actually right there at Homestead. Okay. All right, that's where I'm coming back to. So tell everybody I'm coming to the town. I will. I will. I love your books. Thank you. I repeat, read them all the time.

DJ and B, I love your family. Thank you. If your son is single, my daughter just finished her first semester at Ohio State. She's single as well. So just let me know. Nice. Okay. By the way, there's nothing wrong with that.

That's how, you know, like my seed, marry his seed, grow with his seed. You know, that's how you keep it. Yes. Were you Dominican? No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. Nice, okay. By the way, there's nothing wrong with that. That's how, you know, like my seed married his seed, grow with his seed, you know? That's how you keep it. Yes. Are you Dominican? No. No, okay.

Neither am I. I'm black as well. How do you feel about interracial relations? I'm black as well. Thank you, mama. Alright, y'all have a blessed day. You too. Thanks for having me. Hey, yo. He said, hey, got him.

That's what I thought. I was like, what? When did that Chris get locked up? No, but I don't. Damn it. But I don't. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

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This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now. We can tell you what we're doing. We're going to be on the phone. We're going to be on the phone. We're going to be on the phone. We're going to be on the phone. We're going to be on the phone. We're going to be on the phone. We're going to be on the phone. Man, Danzy, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool.

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Good morning, The Breakfast Club. Good morning. I just wanna, first of all, wish my beautiful sister Carmen Taylor a happy birthday. Second of all, wanna wish my beautiful aunt, Annette Jones, happy birthday second of all I want to wish my beautiful art I met Jones happy birthday and last but not least I want to wish my beautiful amazing sexy wife a happy birthday today love you baby have a great day today listen I want to give her a little shout out,

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I'm calling out at 8-0-3. Hey, Metro, what's happening? What's up, man? Man, it's South Carolina. Hey, one more thing, what's happening? What's up, man? Manning, South Carolina. Hey, one more thing guys. I want to ask you guys, you guys follow me on Instagram, underscore the mill experience and also when you to the middle experience. I know you ain't going to do it, but I'm just asking. Somebody will. What's on there though? I mean, what, what, what, what you, what you got on there? Man, I got the podcast, man. The mill experience. Okay.

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I'm ordering that right now. Get it off your chest, 800-585-1051. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. We do. Dawn Richard took the stand yesterday and it was a fumble. She was in and out. That was quick. Yeah, because they got her in and out.

They got the defense got her out of there and I don't think that it played well for the prosecution. This is just my opinion. I'm going to tell y'all what happened and how y'all can let me know how y'all feel. But also too, remember I told you about the freak off room? There's some photos. Are there freak off rooms? I'm gonna be at you. Jeshuah, you jumped. You can't, you wanna go so bad.

It's some photos of the freak. I did not wanna go to participate. Yeah, so they've been releasing on some of the evidence that they use in court. So since this was entered in as evidence, they have photos of the freak off room, some of the escorts, and also some of the communications that I've been telling you guys about like the text messages and stuff that I'm gonna let y'all see. Okay, we'll get to that when we come back. Now the escorts, there was no style, no shape, no reason. It was all over the place. It was like a bag of Skittles.

It was very diverse. You seen the photos? You ain't seen them yet? No, I ain't seen them yet. I'll show you. We'll get into it when we come back as the Breakfast Logo Morning. The Breakfast Club Morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren be coming with straight face. She gets in from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.

I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she has facts, sometimes she has details, sometimes she has a little bit of everything. But it's the latest. On The Breakfast Club. So yesterday in court with Diddy, Dawn Richard took the stand and was actually able to be on the stand for a bit longer than she was the Friday prior, even though it wasn't super long. So when she took the stand, they began the prosecution just let her run down the list of different incidences that she witnessed when it came to Diddy. One of the things that she talked about was an alleged incident in a LA home where Diddy

attempted or hit, allegedly, Cassie with a frying pan because Cassie was taking too long to fry some eggs. There was another incident that she talked about where she said she saw Diddy hit Cassie in the face, allegedly, when they were here in New York about to go to this festival in Central Park. Another incident she talked about was an incident in LA inside of a restaurant. She says that there were she alleged there was a ton of employees of Diddy's and different celebrities including Usher and a bunch of other people and she alleges that in that event, Diddy and Cassie got to arguing and he hit her and they then they left after that. So now these three incidents she's going down, like you know, here's everything that happened. She

also kind of went back into the whole at the frying pan incident when the next day he came in and said, basically, you can't say nothing about this because people go missing. So she D she's detailing all these things. And, and she's talking about, you know, how even for herself and for Kalina Harper, who was her other Dirty Money band member, they were scared, like scared, because he had threatened to do something to them. And she said that she'd seen all these acts of physical violence, so she basically knew to stay in her place, even though she said they used to come to Cassie and be like,

Cassie, you should leave him. And she said that, you know, they just had to silently sit back and support her because Cassie wasn't ready. Now, that was the prosecution side. When the defense got up there, which is Diddy's team, oh, they tore that testimony to shreds. They poked a lot of holes in it. When it came to the frying pan incident, they talked about the fact that that's why I said

attempted or actually did allegedly because according to what they're saying, she said one thing in her interview with prosecutors about whether he actually hit her or not. And then she said another thing on the stand and according to what they're saying, she said her story went from him actually allegedly hitting Cassie with this frying pan to him attempting to hit and her just hearing, Dawn just hearing the frying pan hit the wall because she was upstairs or downstairs in this LA home. They also poked holes in the fact that she did not tell the prosecutors who's the government that threat that happened the day after allegedly until about a week or two.

This is the defense claims about a week or two before trial. And they're like, if you were in fear for your life, if you thought that he was they clarified what did you think he was going to do to you? She said, I thought he was going to kill us. And they're like, if that was the truth, why did you wait? You met with the government at least four, three to four times before they actually found out that why did you wait so long? Like they were just poking, poking, poking, poking, man. What is the difference of the job though?

It is their job. But I think some of this stuff was so blatant that it's like, again, this is the same issue I had when it came to the prosecutors with Cassie. I didn't understand why they allowed these these star witnesses to be so like open out here with all these changes in this information Presented only one way but the prosecution did come back in and they you know, they tried to redirect it. They filled in They tried to fill in a lot of the bubble So like there was one time when she's gone talked about the incident in LA and she had answered the prosecution I'm sorry that if she answered the prosecution when they asked her who was there, but they asked her what employees were there. So she named employees.

Then the defense came in and said, well, why didn't you mention the celebrities that you mentioned prior to trying to like trip her up? But then the prosecution came back in and said, well, we only asked you about the employees, so please restate, you know, and then she talked a lot about the fact that these things were so long ago. She's remembering more things as they go. But it did get to a point on the stand wherene had to say, yes, my story is changing. And it's because it was so long ago. And they were pointing out that they also brought up

her civil lawsuit. There was a really huge misquote in her civil lawsuit that she had to admit to on the stand. She had said that in her civil lawsuit that she saw Diddy drag Cassie through a patch of grass by her hair allegedly. And the defense is like, well, when did this happen? And she's like, I told prosecutors that that was a misquote in my civil lawsuit. So it just made it look like shaky, like, okay, what happened? You're saying things are changing, but like, how do we know tomorrow this isn't going to change?

Like that type of thing. But she kept saying, I'm doing the best that I can do. Carrie Morgan, ex best friend of Cassie's for over like a decade also got on stand and she just corroborated a lot of the stories that Cassie told us about, you know, them being in Jamaica and puff getting physical with Cassie allegedly in Jamaica and them having to hide under a ditch to get away from him allegedly. And she talked about this hanger incident when Diddy allegedly hit her with a hanger coming into one of Cassie's apartments, hit the best friend with a hanger. Now the defense had tried to make that incident seem like this was Diddy coming to the home being upset that they were

allegedly using drugs and trying to save Cassie from that. Cassie and now her best friend or ex-best friend, Kerry Morgan, told the story about this happening because he was upset that he had found out or thought that Cassie was allegedly cheating with somebody. So there was like the whole jealousy conversation. He paid her off to her. Paid her allegedly. Allegedly. Well, she said she received 30 K right.

Cassie is saying that the $30,000 Cassie has said and so now has Kerry Morgan has said that that $30,000 allegedly came from Diddy because after that hanger incident where he you know, allegedly hit her with the hanger, he just they didn't want her to go nowhere and talk about it. They just wanted to be over. So Cassie showed up, pulled up with the NDA and offered the $30,000. She took the money, signed the NDA and moved on with her life allegedly. And they never spoke again since that day.

It's been like 17 years. Never spoke to Cassie again. Amy Robach and TJ Holmes here. Diddy's former protege, television personality, platinum selling artist, Denity King alum Aubrey O'Day joins us to provide a unique perspective on the trial that has captivated the attention of the nation. Aubrey O'Day is sitting next to us here. You are, as we sit here, right up the street

from where the trial is taking place. Some people saw that you were going to be in New York and they immediately started jumping to conclusions. So can you clear that up? First of all, are you here to testify in the Diddy Trial? Aubrey will offer her opinions and expertise based on her firsthand knowledge. From her days on Making the Band

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you understand why they are putting those witnesses on the stand. Because in the indictment, Diddy is being accused of abusing, threatening, and coercing women and others. And he led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice. So if Dawn has taken a stand saying she witnessed Diddy controlling Cassie through abuse and violence and that Diddy told her people go missing if they speak on it, then that's an

eyewitness directly giving credence to those charges. And especially because Dawn talked a lot about Cassie wanting to have this amazing, bright, beautiful career and being excited, but, you know, Puff allegedly controlling everything. The only reason why I said that about the testimony is like, I'm like, man, why did they do this with these two girls? Because both of them consistently kept saying, I don't know, because it was so long ago. I just, yeah, I feel like with the jurors, their everyday people, it's like they're seeing

that, but it's like, there's so much that is like, what the heck? But you got to think, right? The defense is the same people that are look at that tape that we all saw With blatant abuse and they'll poke holes in that yeah So if you put enough with the other woman named Carrie Morgan Carrie Morgan She got on the stand and said she was abused by Diddy and that he gave her $30,000 That's bribery to keep her quiet allegedly I would just encourage people to go read the indictment because when you see what the indictment is all about, those testimonies make perfect sense.

Yeah, they're slowly but surely building that case for sure. I know people though, day by day, like one day they'll be like, oh, the prosecution got it, next day, diddy. But like you said, we have about what, five, six weeks left? You'll go back and forth every time you hear it. Yeah, and they'd be mad at me because I will, I'll go back and forth. I tell y'all like today. But yesterday I was like, I don't really know because to your point, they did that and I was like, okay, the prosecution is getting busy. People just don't know.

Cause it's not as salacious as what the defense is throwing out. Um, I do have to say allegedly with that, but they're getting the headlines. The defense is getting a lot of the headlines right now. So people don't feel the prosecution, but they lining up their case slowly. Let me tell you something. Okay. So look, there are these escorts that they laid out throughout this whole

thing. Who was buying Buki? Okay, what so look there are these escorts that they laid out throughout this whole thing cat buying boogie Well allegedly Cassie I mean did he was doing this so that him and Cassie could do these freak-offs So they laid out the men not laid them out, but they showed us. Yo They showed us a lot of the men that they were dating and these are men of all colors. You have white You have white, you have black. He ain't got no type. Oh, here's them all together. This man right here, this beautiful black king right here is the man who was served

this subpoena. Oh my gosh, Rashawn? No. Rashawn, what? Prosecutors reveal photos of the sex workers involved in the Diddy and Cassidy rig. I'm not playing with y'all this morning. Let me show y'all my- They do look like MV, don't they?

Miguel? Oh, I was gonna say, now, hold up now, because he do look like Miguel. That's not how he gives Miguel. Where? That is Rashawn. Yeah, now, hold up now, because he do look like Miguel. That's not how he gives Miguel. Where? That is the show. Yeah, we all play too much. So if you're just joining us,

there's a bunch of pictures of the escorts, and they put me in this picture. No, we did not. Envy, I was in the court and I didn't see you. Yo, what? Hold on, am I tripping? Oh my God. Envy, who you paid to take you out of the evidence?

Envy, no, for real, what's going on? Who is this? This is like Baskin Robbins. Is this why they've been being so nice to me in court? Because I'm close to some. No. This is 31 flavors of that bootylicious bubble gum. Who is this?

Why y'all do that to me? Envy. That's Miguel. No, I'm just kidding. He looks like Miguel though. This is my favorite. Who is this? That's Cassie, crazy.

Oh. She just has brown hair. But wait, Envy, where did it happen to you? LA, Miami, and New York. I don't understand how y'all know who is doing this? That's Cassie, crazy. Oh. She just has brown hair. But wait, Envy, where did it happen to you? LA, Miami, and New York. I don't understand how y'all know who he's doing this. I am not in this picture. Yeah, he's an older gentleman.

He's just the older gentleman that they like. But you can see from these pictures, they're all like, there's white, there's black, there's short, there's old, there's young, there's white, there's... I don't know why y'all... They all look like they tried out for Tyler Perry shows and movies. Yes!

Look at him. I forget his name, but this one was my favorite. This guy's my favorite right here. What had he been on Sisters Sisters, man? I'm telling you right now. He on Sisters? One of them. As we wrap up, I would like to take you guys into the hotel room that Puff was in when he got arrested for this federal indictment.

The photos that they released from the hotel room include pictures of ketamine, MDMA. You'll notice that the prescription bottles have the name John Black on them because that is the name that Puff was being referred, I'm sorry, Frank Black. That is the name that Puff was being referred to very frequently throughout these freak-offs. And as they were picking up, you know,

all these different things allegedly that they were doing, there's cash, there's baby oil, there's a lot of things. Why the Jolly Rancher? Maybe just wanted to say I didn't see the Jolly Rancher. We gotta wrap up. Look it's a one pound. No stop. You know people put Jolly Ranchers like right in the crack. Like you know. I ain't never heard of that in my life. We gotta wrap up. Oh those are the honey packets? It's really good. What you mean they got a wrap up?

You ever suck a Jolly Rancher out of a hole? You ever see a condom in the room? You ever see that? Is that a honey pack? You know the honey pack they buy at the gas station? I didn't, I don't know. Oh yeah, that is, that is. But you never heard of nobody like sucking a Jolly Rancher out of a hole?

Ooh. Yes. We got a wrap up. All right. Eddie's gonna come and get me. This is a bag of 9K. How much did you get, Envy? Up next, we got front page news.

And then the legendary Chuck B and Curtis Blow will be joining us. What was the Rock Boys really? Don't say Blow so hard. Why are these the Rock Boys? Don't do that. Why are these the Rock Boys? Envy, you was a Rock Boy?

Oh my goodness. Who is this? It's the Breakfast, I was, but this is the Breakfast. When the white dot was out, you were original? Oh my goodness, it's the Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess DJ envy just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club Let's get back in some front page news now quick sports the Western Conference final starts today The timber was versed okc starts at 830 and salute to chador sanders

He signed a four-year contract worth 4.6 million million with the Browns. What's the next way tomorrow? On Wednesday. Okay, okay. What up Morgan? Hey y'all, hey, so let's get back into it. Louisiana leaders are pointing the finger at each other as the police hunt for seven of the ten inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail. Continues now, Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry claimed leaders and policies in

New Orleans, or progressive leaders and policies in New Orleans, progressive leaders and policies in New Orleans, aided the escaped, but he is confident that all the inmates will be recaptured. Let's take a listen to Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry. We have got hundreds of law enforcement agents that are working 24 and 7 around the clock hunting these folks down. This is what happens when those people promise that they keep criminals out of jail. Sadly, you get 10 of the most dangerous inmates that are in jail in Louisiana, they get to escape. Yeah, they say they believe it was an inside job.

If you've seen the pictures, the fact that the toilet was connected to the wall that was connected to the outside and you could just dig right through it. That just seems dumb as hell. Leaders are saying that there's obviously somebody dropped the ball on this. Now the Democratic Orleans Parish DA, District Attorney Jason Williams, he disputes what Governor Landry is saying and he details what was what he was doing while Governor Landry was basically saying this guy is being soft on crime. Let's take a listen to Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams. I was working, going through jail calls in an effort to try to figure out

who might have been involved and knew of this planned jailbreak. And it is frustrating that the governor would not have just simply called me over the weekend my phone was on. So Landry said the video of those prisoners escaping epitomizes a progressive criminal justice system. William says that's not the case and he was actively working on their capture. Now the inmates face various charges including murder,

domestic abuse, and felony firearm possession. Landry has ordered the Louisiana attorney general to investigate how the inmates escaped and who would be considered responsible as a result of their escape. Now all of them were, I heard all of them had murder charges too, is that true? Not all of them, but I don't know. Not all of them, no they range from murder to domestic abuse, felony, firearm possession, so there are a few different charges. But there is, yeah there's a murder amongst them.

I just wonder where you escaping, like where you going? Like you don't have no plan, you ain't got no money, but there is there. Yeah, there's a murderer amongst them You know, I wonder where you escaping like where you going? You don't have no plan you got no money. You got no resources Like what you doing just laying out in the woods and by the way, if you're facing like a life charge or something I mean I can see you probably trying to escape just to go get like no some gumbo a po boy You know some food They like they found I think one in the French quarter he was uh he was sleeping under a parked car. Nothing else to do. You left for jail with no money man. Did y'all see like the hole that they were supposedly like sneaking through? They don't even look like they could fit through that. And that big poles going down the middle. How they

get through that? That's what prison is all about about big polls going in the holes that you can barely fit It's the one that fell in the video for me I'm like how you gonna fall just as soon as you get out Thank girl. They were so excited to go. He know what to do Yeah, to your point envy one was also captured at an abandoned warehouse. So yeah, we'll see what happens this. Yeah Meanwhile interim US Attorney General for the District of New Jersey, Alina Habba is announcing charges against New Jersey Democrat LaMonica McIver over an incident at an ICE detention center this month. Now McIver is being charged with assaulting law enforcement while at the detention center in Newark, making the

first time President Trump's DOJ has criminally charged a sitting lawmaker during his second term. Now, Habba said MacGyver's conduct cannot be overlooked, accusing the Congresswoman of assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement. MacGyver said in a statement that she was performing her lawful oversight responsibilities. Now, this is in tandem with that issue that is going on with the Newark city mayor of Ras Baraka is his name. Yeah we've been calling I've been calling the mayor Ras Baraka for years. This morning is Ras. I heard it on the news and I heard him he called himself Ras so we're looking it up to get his proper pronunciation. But you know yeah you mentioned earlier that his charges has been dropped. Well, in tandem with that, she has now been charged in that situation.

So I'm going to continue to keep you guys posted as to what happens as a result of these charges being brought against this elected official, Lamonica McIver in New Jersey. That's your front page news. I'll continue to keep you guys updated. You guys can follow me on socials at Morgan Media. And for more news coverage, follow us at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com.

Thank y'all, have a great Tuesday. Thank you Morgan. Now when we come back, the legendary Chuck D and legendary Curtis Blow will be joining us. We'll talk to them next. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club.

We got some special icons and legends in the building. Come on now. We got the legendary Chuck D, of course, from Public Enemy. Hello, it's good seeing y'all. Now this is a great surprise. Yeah man, I had to roll up here with the Godfather. That's right, we have the Godfather Curtis Blow. Welcome brother, how you feeling?

I'm feeling mighty fine, thank you for having me. Great to see both of you, brothers. What does Curtis Blow mean to you, Chuck, but also the culture of hip-hop? He's number one. He is the pioneer because he is the first solo artist to record with a major record label of rap music and hip-hop and at the same time was the first to be on a major record label of rap music and hip-hop and at the same time was the first to be on a major record label.

So he left that indelible mark. 1979 and 1980 just at you know, and that was the junk and you're talking about a city that has had a million MCs and rappers and DJs. That's why it's important to be here. Just to say everybody else has been in this city that would have been born and have passed on since. This is the city that made it. Just like I had to represent, just for a quick second, the Knicks tonight. Knicks and 6. Let's go back to my man CP the Fanchise over there. But basically my talk today on the radio station I cannot you

know have the brand associated with all the things I say. I say the Godfathers right here and yeah I came up here to talk about you know a recording that was released on Def Jam called Radio Armageddon but I'm over at Def Jam sort of like a consigliere like the like the Tom and the Godfather, you know, like what Tungy Belongan has done. And anytime they run into a situation, I remind the major labels and Def Jam and everybody else you got accountability and responsibility. 1979 this man recorded with Mercury Records. And I benefited off of that, I did a solo record with Mercury in 1996.

Wow. Thank you Kurt. You're welcome man. I just want to shout out all the legends who have pioneered this thing before myself. Name them Kurt. And inspired me. Name them Kurt. People like B.J. Jones and Kool Herc, Apraga Bambada, Grandmaster Flash, Melly Mel, DJ Hollywood, Lovebug Starski, Eddie Chiba, The Furious Five, The Funky Four, The Fantasic Five, The Treacherous Three, The Fearless Four, so many groups man I love you all man thank you thank you thank you for inspiring me and we will move forward to the future and inspire the future generations to come. I want to ask you Mr. Blow, what do you think, I'm gonna ask both of y'all, what do you think the culture lost when hip-hop went corporate and what do you think it gained? Well number one, it grows big on the top heavy side but all the bottom and the middle started getting gutted out.

Don't you all get a little envious when you see every single NBA player? Well, 90% of them, they carry themselves on interviews. We learned in the beginning when Curtis Blow did an interview, he spoke for us on TV, whether it's Don, he's the first to get interviewed by Don Cornelis. He's the first to get interviewed by Dick Clark. So we come in front of rap circles, doing our DJs and MCing and all that. And here's this man being interviewed, he's speaking for all of us. Now he could go up there on some goon squad issue right but what would that do with that would that have elevated the art form

into an area where we start to discuss and what you know what we gained and what we lost. You know every time you look at an NBA player 85 well 95% of them NFL player or Major League Baseball player, even if they're doing English or Espanol and a lot of it's Espanol, they have to sell the game to the fans. And the thing that we've lost, back to your question to God, is that it's been piss poor in public relations and human resources. Every big business makes sure that they're tied in tight with their public relations and their human resource department.

If not, I mean this radio station probably doesn't. You know, a letter from an old lady probably still works in this building. A white lady. But it's hard to have that now because of social media, because you got human emotion and then an ability to be able to go directly to the consumer. Screen ages have never been taught netiquette.

Screen ages, wow. You don't have citizens today, you have netizens. They're not citizens anymore, they're netizens. They're screen ages, they're engaged by everything in and out of the screen, their life goes through a screen. But what has taught them how to engage on their devices? That's true. What has taught them how to engage on their gadgets?

At the end of the day, there's only's only two phone companies is Android and Apple right at the end of the day. They're the keeper elves Looking at everybody. It's like yeah, you know say and do whatever you want still gonna roll it down our river So when we start to understand, you know, what's behind what you know, we could okay. This is the way everybody lives Okay, how do we manage that same thing with life and you know, we could all, okay, this is the way everybody lives, okay, how do we manage that? Same thing with life, and you know, Curtis Blow is instrumental with Scott Exe, he'll tell you, he speaks for himself because he taught all us the first hip hop union.

So the whole thing is all the information that we say that we have in these gadgets and devices, oh, we could get it quick and all that, we are not equipped on how to navigate that information. Oh, yo, we need a union, I've heard, how many people information. Oh yo, we need a union. I've heard, I mean people we've heard talk about we need a union. Oh yeah.

When it's easy to go boop, boop, boop, hip hop union, hip hop alliance. So we have these things, we really don't know how to use them. When I came up with the Radio Armageddon, which is basically like the MC DJ aspect of Public Enemy works with that and it's a way of introducing people like from Daddy-O to Miranda

Wright so it's a quirky project it's like the weirdness in my head I don't make records or sell records I make records that almost like we're not too far from Momo right? It's gotta be an art and a craft somewhere. Look, I wanna say, I love the song New Generation. And you say on that song, I've been your age, you haven't been mine yet. But I wonder, even though we've been these kids' age, we didn't grow up in their generation,

didn't have access to the things that they have now. So how much can we truly relate, even though we have been there age? We just haven't been there age in this time frame. Gotta work on it, I mean, I don't know what it's like to pull an egg out a chicken's ass either. You know what I'm saying? I mean, to me, milk means go to the store, get a carton,

so that generation before me looked at me like, yo, you don't know what that is? So we have to do our best on logic and practical sense. We have to work on these things at all times, and we can't probably rely on systems and school systems. Before, we had an area of culture that snuck it in, covert. Hip hop was a covert operation, remember?

Because at the time, they totally gave up on school systems. They talk about, oh man, Columbine, but we had a 10 to 15 year period once guns and drugs came in our community where high school shootings in major urban cities, especially the United States, they became like a little bit of an epidemic before it became a national epidemic across the board. Very easy, it's all years to culture, you know they became like a little bit of an epidemic before it became a

national epidemic across the board very easy this oh yes the culture you know no but there's there's some lapses that no planet to seed so anyway bring it full circle the hip-hop Alliance I'm involved with Kurt reached out some years ago yeah but you can speak for the youth through our community. You know, we're out on a mission fighting for fair wages and fair royalties and strong health and retirement benefits for all of our people. You know, we specialize in IPs and publishing and trademarks and you can go to hiphopalliance.org and check us out. It's free to join, to support us.

We are out there fighting for you to make sure this journey that you are on in your career is successful. We're still kicking in with Chuck D and Curtis Blow. I want to ask with Def Jam, of course this project is under Def Jam, were you always signed to Def Jam or was it a re-sign? Have you been with Def Jam, of course this project is under Def Jam. Were you always signed to Def Jam or was it a re-sign?

Have you been with Def Jam that long? Break that down. I was the first rapper they had a bit more, no such thing. I turned Rick Rubin down for two years. Why? I didn't want to do records. My thing was radio. We felt, my guys, one of the first, and Kirk will tell you, I mean we broke so many records

in Long Island, WBAU. We did records right, we did hip-hop right, we were scientists, we were ESPN of hip-hop and rap music, we just ain't from the city. So we had the outside in, we promoted gigs, we've got concerts, we did it all. We used to compensate for the lack of rap records by making incredible tapes and promo tapes and Rick was starting Def Jam with you know Curtis bro's friend Russell For two years But he started out with

More trivia Kurt and Russell used to throw gigs in the 70s under and then Kurt's Russell's first artist. Yes. Yes. We had a club in Hollis Queens Hollis Queens called the Night Fever Disco back in 1977-78 I was a DJ playing every weekend and I used to stay at Russell's house over in Hollis, on 25th Street. And when I was there, I met his younger brother, and he used to beat him up all the time. I used to protect, why, my big brother used to beat me up all the time, so I was like, yo, leave him alone,

he's a good kid. You know, I took him under my wing and made him the son of Curtis Blow, and that was DJ Run. Of course. Told him how to DJ and he became incredible on the mic. He was my DJ when I released Christmas rap in 1979. And nasty too. We had eight million stories about that whole situation. Run was incredible. I love the family. Danny, Joey, Russell, his dad rest in peace, his mom rest in peace. And that was Night Fever Disco. I mean, I remember we brought

Flash out to the Night Fever Disco. The first time Flash ever played in Queens and that was incredible just to be that liaison to the Bronx and represent early hip-hop in Queens with that whole crew the Hollis crew I love you guys. I want to ask you Mr. Blow was there ever a time in the 80s where you knew hip-hop was about to explode but you didn't feel ready for what came next? Oh yeah I was definitely a visionary I hate to talk and brag about that. It was incredible and just the feeling. I remember Chuck D saying that whole energy, that spirit before records, between 1975 and 1979 was the most incredible spirit. I mean it had spread throughout the whole five boroughs from Harlem to the Bronx to Queens to Brooklyn and it was just an energy that everyone knew

that this was something special and we capitalized on it you know. Yeah you couldn't even describe it. It's hard to describe already that era before records because before that it was inconceivable to put rap on records. You know it's a three-hour thing and like got dancing it got all. Now how you put rap on records? Yeah you get on the mic but I mean how long the record got beat? Three hours, you know, like, but then in 79, King Tim III, Sugarhill Gang, which took two records, not just people who say, oh, it's good times. No, it's two records that made Sugarhill Gang,

Love Deluxe, and then yeah, Curtis Blow with Christmas Rap, which just took it into the stratosphere. And I can say back to your new gents thing. It's like, youth is an excuse that I don't let young people do. Because it's easy. You got it. You can't. I mean, I'm triple OG.

There's no way I'm going to convince a person, a teenager is like that communication got to come from the next step up that they want to get to. So all I do is just I weigh them against themselves somebody think oh, I'm too young for that they'd be 16 I'm like okay with your 12 year old brother is gonna actually get all your props and everything that you well I earn that you are so everybody in their life Wants to use tenure and then you know the drug game changed all that and flipped that up because they said overnight boom boom and we saw what happened to that

and when that was introduced. A lot of things came during the era of R&B. That's Reagan and Bush. And when that came in, we're still recovering off of that scar tissue. So did you approach Radio Armageddon like a broadcaster, a prophet or a rebel? All three man. All three. All three. All three.

So I mean dipped in acid with Wu-Tang axes in the back and hammer shoes and all that. It's like in my head, I mean my first record is Public Enemy No. 1 which is a tone which is blow your head by, you know, the JBs. You know, a very familiar break beat, but nobody could figure it out. I'm from skater culture and not the skater culture today. Roller skating culture. I believe that skating rinks can be a possibility for enjoyment of future music and future cardio. Because one thing being a screen-ager, you sedentary, you sit at that screen all day long,

and you'll, and trust me, I mean, a song that's on the album, I want to attack ageism in the sedentary life and all that is Black Don't Die. Because you hear the talk, we take for granted. You're from South Carolina, so you know a lot of talk of, yeah, yeah, black don't crack, yeah, but they could die. Yeah, for real. I'm glad you bought that record up,

because I listen to records like Black Don't Dead, and it makes me wonder, did making Radio Armageddon feel like a spiritual purge or a final warning? No, none of that. I say that for a public enemy record. This is taking a radio and throwing it down the flight of the stands and seeing it still work. It's not meant for people to like. Remember I made public enemy records man not for nobody to like. I told Rick Rubin

no. He's the greatest producer. Rick Rubin is the greatest one of the greatest producers of all time. Yes. Who ever told him no? You? I was wanted. There's certain qualities back in the day that Kurt also knows too. If you didn't have a voice that rocked the mic, I mean sounded good, you wasn't getting the mic. I don't care how many verses you got bars, if you sounded like you was 15 years old, you had to take up something else. You had to dance, maybe DJs and stuff like that. You had to command the crowd like Hollywood, Curtis Blow, Starsky, they command, well, Melly Mel.

When they grabbed the mic, people just sat down because I don't, I can't sound like that. Studios balanced that stuff out and this and all that, but I never ever ever made a song for somebody else to like. That's like asking somebody else how do I look after you went to the mirror, brush yourself up and asking somebody else how do I look after you went you went to the mirror brush yourself up and asking somebody else how do you look but being screen agents people listen with their eyes today a little bit too much with their eyes you could tell them they might listen but did they hear it so there's a lot of covert now happening when you could be told the truth but if you don't see it you know now it's it's the flip verse with that.

It's like, believe none of what you see and half of what you hear. Because people ain't listening. Believe at least half of what you hear and dissect that. But as far as seeing, especially with AI, and I've been dancing and boxing with AI for like the last five years, I'm trying to tell you, it don't go backwards, it ain't gonna get dumber.

Yes, there is an issue there in real life and regular life and in culture and music and art and all that, you're not gonna stop it, but you can dance with it and you can manipulate it, you can flip it, but you better know how to dance and you better know what it is. We're still kicking it with Chuck D and Curtis Blow. Charlamagne?

Is hip hop still the best weapon for revolution? No, everybody got a gadget. From your grandmother to the child being born. Something better come through that. We don't know what that is. Remember I said hip hop was covert, was. It ain't covert. That was dumb before Fight the Power, bro.

Fight the Power became, listen, Fight the Power became what it was because of Spike Lee. Okay. So I mean, who does that play, you know, plays a song in a movie 500 times? Nobody did that. Yeah. Spike made that record happen. What was your relationship with Spike for him to do that?

At that time in the 80s man, and like I said this comes from the seed of Curtis Blow, it was a renaissance period of filmmakers, artists, hip hop, that were all being independently creative and using those tools out of the ashes that you know was bestowed upon us Look at the key people talk about fight the power like cuz it's cuz it's the headline buzzword decades late Oh, yeah, yeah cool. Cool. You know we buy that they fail to realize or they wasn't taught I had to always tell people there was a first fight to power by the Isley brothers in 1975 that me and Kurt was influenced by Yeah by the Isley brothers in 1975 that me and Kurt was influenced by. What's the name of that? I don't know. Yeah, Fight the Power by the Isley Brothers. I thought it was called... Oh, I didn't even know that. Yeah, 1975. And remember I told you that the country is rocky, you know, and Isley came up with

tied to all that BS going down. First record I ever heard on pop radio with a black radio with a curse word in it. Wow. Really? Yeah, I was like, whoa, eee. Be on W, WWRL, Super 16. And then I'm gonna play some fight the power people like on the whole tap, Gary Bird. Here's another thing about OGs. This city right here, when you have a tenured lens of any place you go to, whether it's where you're from or whatever, Queens, you still see the old buildings

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I go around, walk down this street, I'm saying, oh, that place used to be there. Boom, boom, boom. The whole key is to keep your recognition or what they call your cognitive. Cognitive dissonance, right? Thank you, sir. Yeah. Keep that because that will help you. Kurt says, like I said, I'm not in the business of wellness.

You have people like Griff who taught wellness for years. Look at Flav, Flav has gone through his ninth life. You know what I'm saying? I went down to Penn Station the other day and ran into the, what's the, the Canes, I didn't even know what the Canes chicken was. Oh, Ray the Cane. Man, I ran to Penn Station, you go all over the place.

So the whole key is about work on your thing. Here's another thing, it's not talking about anybody, but rap battles and beefs, you don't wanna get into an area where you rhyming in circles, man. Rhyming in circles means like the dog chasing his tail. It's rhymes that go nowhere. You know, it's cool.

It's cool to get into like lyrical acrobatics and all that, but at the end you got to process something into something. And if the best processes is somebody just like seriously disrespecting you, how does that not leave a stain over decades? When the last time you said, I came from a hip hop song and this joint was refreshing. P-Rock, C.L. Smooth.

You throw a P-Rock, C.L. Smooth record on, they're like, yo man, this is like nutrition. Troy. Rakim. Rakim has never done a failing song, ever. I've never heard rock him do a song I say like that but with the support in it. Caris one is never ever lost But you know, it's very easy to excuse it because this is what's happening now and all that cool

But I feel like that with a lot of people though. Like I feel like that with Kendrick I feel like that well like rhapsody like this this week I was watching a Badass and Ab Soul and Big Sean do a cypher and I thought that was, I got, till you used the right word, I was like that was refreshing. That was dope. Like La Russell.

Promoters look back in the day and Kurtis tell you, promoters will tell you exactly how it rolls. They'll give you a top, let's say you got six rappers, six groups, what do promoter say, Kurt. The one that's closing out is the one. The one that closes out the building. Not just because people came to see, because there's a difference

between spectacle and spectacular. I tell people this all the time. There's big difference. Hopefully you could get people coming through there and stay in their seats. Get to that level. Yeah, you got somebody in the middle that can't hold it, they off the tour, they out of there. Forget how many records they in the middle that can't hold it, they off the tour, they outta there.

Forget how many records they sold. If they can't be better than they record, out of there. Chuck, you would like a Kendrick show. I would, I've been to Kendrick. He's an MC. He's an MC. And to see him perform in front of, in that arena, in that football stadium,

just rapping, no gimmicks, no nothing. This is the first man that came out as one man, and I thought being one man could never beat a group. And he came out as one man because back in the day it was like what? Cruz. And then this man begat the next solo MC who was a superstar as LL Cool J. Rap first superstar. Hunk rap first superstar.

Absolutely. You make Prince and Michael Jackson turn their head. Curtis made all the funk bands and all people recognize, yo, this thing is real. I mean, look, why am I talking for the man? He played with Bob Marley. He played with The Class and all that.

He dug tomatoes from rock groups. I wanted to ask Mr. Blow, because you spoke about the Ronald Isley fight to power, and my daddy used to always tell me James Brown was the first rapper, right? So I think about a song like, Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud. That was revolutionary for his time.

Stuff like that influenced you? 1968, oh yes, yes, yes. And that's straight out of the civil rights movement. That inspired all of us in many ways, multiple number of ways, not only the lyric, right? But the beat, that beat was what we call boom-bap today and dancing became a national craze, right? So then here comes a DJ Curse Blow. I'm hearing all this stuff and I got an opportunity to make a couple of records. Christmas rap in 1979, right?

So when I did that song, I was signed to a major label over in Chicago. So I went to Chicago, the first flight out of Harlem, and I was there, I was hanging out with the record company and I did a show, a couple of shows, and Jesse Jackson came to one of my shows, and he sat me down backstage. He said, Ben, I wanna talk to you.

I want you to, what I'm gonna say to you, I want you to go back and tell the rest of your whole crew and everybody. Now, this thing called rap, you guys are the new icons of our people, the new heroes of the civil rights movement wow and you need to keep it clean if you ever want to see it be successful on the pop market and be accepted by everyone so i was like oh wow okay and we would keep it clean and that was my sacrifice that was a sacrifice I made I made 240 rap song and never used profanity

Now I've learned so much from both of y'all today man. I just want to ask are we in an information war or a culture war? And in which one is radio Armageddon fighting you're in a disinformation blizzard of data coming at the human mind that might not be and has probably never been able to handle it. Now new people will be born and maybe they'll decipher and handle information that's coming like a blizzard but for people from the last century, last centurions, probably not. So the information and data and all that it's a non-stop blizzard and how to navigate that I think people have to be taught how to be netizens. But there's things that we're not going to be able to come up with answers for that

we got to go inside ourselves build a shell and build a tunnel into those with like-mindedness because you're not going to be able to those with like-mindedness. Because you're not gonna be able to have your like-mindedness get to somebody who's paying you no mind. Mind over matter is a terrible thing sometimes, you know? When they say you don't matter and they don't mind paying you no mind. Dang. Curtis Blow, Chuck D.

Man, I love you guys. And thank you, thank you. Thank you for the movement. Thank you for the support. I love you all. Let's continue the movement. Thank you for the support. I love you all. Let's continue this movement Hip-hop is the number one stream music around the globe right now We are the voice of the people and let's take it further

Let's leave them with these words of Martin Luther King that any time is the right time to do the right thing That's right. That's the breakfast. I love you all. Come on Let's get to the latest with Lauren The latest with Lauren La Rosa Sometimes you have details sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Who is the latest? On The Breakfast Club.

Y'all, Meg Thee Stallion is stressed out behind this Tory Lanez and this whole new, I guess it's not even new, but it has a new light, this free Tory movement. She posted the TikTok yesterday following everything, right? All of these people doing these change.org petitions and Tori should be free and he didn't shoot her. And she said at what point are y'all gonna stop making me have to relive being shot by Tori at what point are Tori and y'all fans gonna stop lying. Like how much is the check to keep harassing me why is this happening every day. One minute him and y'all said I was never shot now y'all letting him play in your face

again and say I was shot, but it wasn't him. Okay, I'm sick of this. Leave me alone. He ain't dare get on that stand and deny he shot me. That was his choice because he knows he did that. I don't give a F about a blog or a bot. Why in the F would me make the style you have to lie on this about someone shooting me? How y'all mad at the person that got shot?

Facts are facts. He did it. It was proven in court. Let the hate forget the hate campaign on the internet. Tori you shot me. Ain't no new evidence. Y'all been saying the same thing for years. Tori please leave me alone in all caps. If oh she called him a demon and she said I'm off this internet stuff. Bye. She posted that to our TikTok yesterday because there's been so much like you got different uh political pundits coming out now saying that they want um the DA's office in in LA to revisit the case because he was railroaded and there's a lot of conversation happening. Well I think his attorneys I mean they're his attorneys they were smart to use

you know him being stabbed as a hey his life is being stabbed as a hey, his life is in danger. And not only is his life is in danger, but we have new evidence down that shows he shouldn't even be there. So we need for you guys to listen to us because of what just happened to him. Everybody in prison, their life is in danger, pretty much. Well, you know what I mean? You get stabbed 14 times, of course your people going to say he's innocent and he shouldn't be there. So if he dies, his blood is on the hands of the people that wouldn't let him retry

I can understand Meg's frustration though because as I said, I think it's strange that a court case happened due process all the evidence That was presented in court weeks and weeks of testimony and evidence All that goes out the window because the driver allegedly overheard Kelsey say something Only that only makes sense on the internet by the way. Just wanted y'all to know. Well, yeah, she's asking to be left alone. So that's what that is about. It don't really got nothing to do with him being stabbed.

It's about the new piece of evidence that came forward, I guess, with Kelsey saying whatever. Yeah, I mean, heavily the new evidence that they're saying that they have, and that's what they're moving forward with in court. But they're also mentioning, his attorneys are also mentioning this stabbing just happened and you know It shows that there is you know, he's very dangerous He could die and they're also trying to pin it on like they're trying to you know, they're alleging that Meg's

You know once they reach out to mix teen certain things happen like it's a whole play that you put together as an attorney strategy But it's driving her insane according you put together as an attorney strategy uh but it's driving her insane according to what she's posting she has to relive everything that she went through you know the last what two three years so right and i just asked a simple question why would tory protect kelsey and the very body says oh because you don't want to snitch and all that okay cool but why would meg protect kelsey what reason would meg have to say you know what it was she didn't shoot me if she actually shot her. Wasn't they best friends?

Yes they were. They were. Oh but it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And some were saying that they were too intoxicated to remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Got you. And this is why Meg is pissed off. For sure. I get it.

Well, and other news, another court related news, sky Jackson from Disney Channel actor from the Disney Channel. Remember, she had a baby and everyone's like, Oh my gosh, he's having a baby. Well, now she's in court saying that the father of her child is terrorizing her and has been for more than a year now. And she says that she decided to come to a court after there was a mother's day assault that took place. I was the last straw. So she filed for restraining order in LA Superior Court. In the docs she says that her child's father attacked her early this month as she was holding their baby boy who was three months old and this happened on Mother's Day. She says that he grabbed the baby. I'm sorry, he grabbed what? What's funny? What'd you text?

That's crazy. Okay, don't finish your story. What's your story, Lauren? That is wild. Okay, don't finish this story. Do your story, Lauren. What is your story? What is your story? That is wild. What'd he say? Nothing. Say it.

Uh-uh. They're together. They want some couple-ish. Oh, it's couple stuff? Yes. Speaking of couple, her baby daddy is terrorizing her. Thank you, Jax. You always in my business.

Why are you so easily distracted? Because it's you. He came up and what'd he do? He yanked the baby out of hands. What happened? No, he grabbed her by her hair, slammed her head against a car window and punched her in the face allegedly. But Sky is claiming that this new type of violence, I mean this violence is nothing new and she says that she describes a six month period in 2024 where he would abuse her on a weekly

basis choking and scratching her, slamming her head into walls and she also alleges that he damaged a bunch of her personal property including her iPhone and a television and she also says that while she was pregnant He demanded that she drink bleach to kill the unborn child allegedly and held her at knife point as she walked to her car and Threatened to stab her in the stomach as she yelled for help There's a lot of different occasions that she alleges in here, but if y'all look at this boy He looks like he does all that like this is what I'm saying this boy, he looks like he does all that. Let me see him. This is what I'm saying. Yes.

He looks like he eats like bath salt. Like he look like that. He look like that. He look like he need to go back in the oven. Yes. That's pancake batter. He is crazy. Yes.

He just like, he looks crazy. He just put the pancake batter on the grill and it's starting to bubble. This is not the first time that we've heard that he's been this violent person toward her. That's crazy. You got to be careful. We procreate with the text. Charlamagne. What text? What'd you say? This has nothing to do with you, Lauren LaRosa. Prayers for her. Yes. That's unfortunate. But you all right though. You got to watch what you procreate with

That's the prior concept people be treating breeding like they in the back of a moving truck rolling dice Every birthday bust the rhymes We got some we pull it up a little bit. Okay, donkey today. We give that donkey to man for after the hour, man Let's talk about accountability people don't have none anymore, but there's a mortuary in California Harris and Ross mortuary They need to come to the front of the congregation. We would like to have a word with them All right, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on. Wake up. Wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club.

I've been wanting to know how you came up with the donkey of the day. Tell us! Because you're mean. I am not! What did I do? I made a donkey of day. There's a bunch of donkeys out here.

That is why y'all made a thing. We live a life where we fight our tongue based off who we made a thing. We never would say anything. We don't give a damn, don't throw it home. Hey! Give it to him! Give it to him!

On The Breakfast Club. In the words of Charlamagne the God, he's a donkey. He ain't mother******. Oh man, Charlamagne, you giving Donkey the day to who now? Happy Born Day, Bust the Bus. Donkey of the Day for for Tuesday May 20th goes to the Harrison Ross Mortuary in California now first of all I want to send condolences to Amintha hunt and the family of 80 year old Otis Atkinson, okay, you know, I'm not a funeral guy. Okay. I'm not going to my own funeral if I can help it But I understand the process of the service

It is very important to lay your people to rest with class and dignity but in order to do that you need a mortuary that moves with class and dignity. That's the scary thing right? You know how I talk to you all about schools and how we drop our kids off to schools and trust these teachers with our precious seeds, our souls outside of our bodies, our kids. It's the same thing with a mortuary, okay? I know the spirit has left the body, but the body is still precious. That's your loved one. You wanna make sure they are being treated correctly.

Well, the family of Otis Atkinson, they weren't treated correctly at all. They weren't treated with any respect by the Harrison Mortuary. Let's go to CBS3 for the report, please. I didn't make arrangements with her to see the wrong body. When Amita hunts, 80-year-old uncle passed away, she chose Harrison Ross Mortuary to

prepare him for burial. But when she went to view his body, she says it wasn't him. It was a guy laying there in my uncle's suit, but it wasn't my uncle. What did you think? I just kept looking at him. I didn't know. I was just kept looking at him and kept looking. I'm like, what?

I mean, he couldn't have got that dark. Hunt says she knew something was wrong and asked a worker at the mortuary for help. She was like no. Yes, that's your uncle I said that's not my uncle. My uncle wouldn't got that dark and I said here's a picture of him And I showed her a picture and she was like you're right Give us one minute one one minute hun says she and her family waited three hours while the mortuary fixed the mix up So they could finally bury her uncle She still doesn't know whose body was dressed in his suit and has filed a lawsuit against the mortuary fixed the mix-up so they could finally bury her uncle. She still doesn't know whose body was dressed in his suit and has filed a lawsuit against the mortuary over the whole ordeal.

Her attorney calls the mortuary's actions outrageous. For them to come in and see the wrong corpse and then for the mortuary to deny that it's the wrong corpse and then need proof that it's in fact the right person. So we think it's really just a basic standard of care that they messed it's in fact the right person so uh we think it's a really just the basic standard of care that they messed up on. Ain't nobody came to see you Otis. First of all that's not even Otis okay and we did come to see him but once again that's not him. I don't know the race of the people who run this funeral home but clearly they believe all black people look alike and what really grinds my gears about this story is the fact that when I'm telling you this is not my uncle,

you trying to tell me it is, okay? I ask a simple question often, okay? This is my question that I ask. What do people hate more in this era? Reading or accountability? I want you all to think about that for a second. What do people hate more? Reading or accountability? When the family asked the mortuary worker for help the employee

Insisted that the stranger in the casket was indeed their uncle And this is why sometimes you have to keep a lawyer on retainer because every now and then violence is justified Okay, I'm trying to explain to you this isn't my uncle but you insisting that it is and you have the nerve to put this person I don't know in my uncle's suit now I gotta make you explain to me why we shouldn't squabble okay I'm glad we already at the morgue because this was gonna be your next stop anyway all right this level of gaslighting people not being able to admit when they wrong making two plus two equal five you walk into the mortuary see a strange man in the casket wearing your uncle suit you tell the guy working at the morgue that's not

my uncle and they basically tell you well he's also dead so it's essentially the same thing. That is the era we are in folks. Okay people just make false equivalencies all the time. The funeral homes response was basically who are you gonna believe? Us are your own eyes. That is truly our corporate media landscape too. That's what they do to us every day. They tell the people, believe us not your own eyes. Imagine being in a funeral home and they say to you, we can't find your relative but we do have someone about the same vibe. I guarantee you they tried to blame this on deaf swelling. Deaf swelling will have you looking a little different but we all know our people. Okay how you gonna tell

me that's not my uncle? The man was 80 we know him our whole life. Sunday dinners, fish fries, Dan Kelly said they was playing dominoes. I know home team when I see it this man in the casket looks like he plays for a rival team in a different sport. You can't just put a whole stranger in my Uncle Steve Harvey suit and think we won't notice. What in the Freaky Friday? Listen, the moral of the story is in life, personal and business, you should be humble enough to see your mistakes, courageous enough to admit your mistakes and wise enough to correct them. Harrison Ross Mortuary in California was none of those things. So please give them the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's.

Oh now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yeehaw. And does the stranger that they had in Uncle Otis's suit, what about his family? Does his family know that they just had him in a whole other suit? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Who looking for him? That's what I mean. Come on man. It's the, yes this is your uncle.

This is him. That's him. And then she pulled the bitch out and he's, oh no one minute, one minute. Hold on, you fixed it. You This is him. That's him. And then she pulled the bitch out. Oh no one minute one minute Hold on, you fixed this guy like that dog. You are crazy Jesus. Alright well thank you for that donkey today Now when we come back the mayor of Newark Ross Baraka will be joining us and we're gonna talk to him next Don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning The Breakfast Club

Morning everybody it's DJvy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. We got Mayor Ross Baraka. Welcome, how you feeling brother? I'm good, I'm good, a little tired but I'm good. You can't get tired now?

I know that's right. You got a long way to go. I know that's right. How are you man? I'm good man, yeah, yeah. Had a rough couple of weeks, but I'm all right. You care to elaborate on that? Just like the specific circumstances that led to the arrest at Delaney Hall?

Yeah, you know, we've been going down there every day. In fact, my folks are down there now to do the inspections, uniform cold construction, you know, you have to get a certificate of occupancy, all these other things. But they came in and just was like, you know, we're going to do what we want to do. Our folks went down there, they wouldn't let them in. I was surprised. I had them go with y'all. I wasn't sure what was going on.

So they basically... So they wouldn't let y'all in to do the inspections. Yeah. So they basically was like, no, GEO, this is a private company. This is not the government. It's nobody, just these guys. So we took them to court and we're in the process of being in court. And they just start putting detainees in the building while we were in court, like just total disrespect.

So we go out every morning to serve them, like give them a citation because we just want to show a pattern that they have been disregarding the local law when we get in court. The congress people went down there to do a walkthrough and they called me and was like, yo, we having a press conference. We want you to be at the press conference. I said, cool. So I came down to the press conference. It was protesters outside. They out there every day, by the way, saying, let the mayor in. That's what they were saying when I was at the gate. So the guy lets me in. The guard, he was like, come on this side of the gate. So I did. I stood there about an hour and a half. And then the special agent in charge of Homeland Security came but ICE was already

there they didn't say anything to me. I was there for like an hour they just looked at me looking at them. He came approached me start talking crazy reckless the congresspeople got in it he said you know he's gonna arrest me then the congresswoman was like no I said you know what I'm leaving don't worry about it he said yeah get out so I left. I left and went on the other side of the fence he He got a phone call. They made a decision to leave the inside and come on the outside and arrest me on the city side, you know? And that's basically what happened. They took me to a real lockup somewhere and some place I didn't even know existed in Newark, by the way. In a cell, took pictures, fingerprints, charged me with federal

trespass, went to a hearing, the whole thing, you know, fingerprinted me again. I heard that. I heard you were subjected to like a second round of fingerprinting them mugshots. Yeah, it's crazy. Why? How do you interpret that? I have no idea, man. They was like, one agency has it, not the other agency. I was like, can't y'all get it from them? Like, it's technology. I mean, they did this in the

middle of the court. Like, we were leaving. The marshals came into the courtroom to escort me out and my lawyer started going back and forth with them. I just said, you know what, forget it. Just take me wherever y'all got to, wherever y'all going, I'm going, let's go. They took you to a place you didn't even know existed anymore. The first time. Yeah, absolutely.

Wow. Like some nondescript factory looking place. Took me down in the basement. There's like real cells in there. What? Yeah, it's crazy. And you didn't know it was there? No, not at all.

No, it's a Homeland Security spot that they have there. Wow. Did you see other people detained there as well? No, I didn't see anybody. They had me off somewhere. So I didn't know what was going on down there. Do you think any of your criticism of Trump caused them to act like that? Well, I just believe that they wanted to get the mayor of the city.

They want this, I'm going to arrest judges, mayors, whoever's there in charge. You just want to show that we have power and authority and you're not going to defy us and we're going to get whoever it is. You can get it too type of thing. I think that's what it was, and when they realized I was there, somebody sent them there to get me, you know? So that's basically what happened.

I don't even think it's directly about me, I think it's about them, and them trying to prove to everybody that they're untouchable, and they basically do what they wanna do. When they realized it was me, they sent a special agent in charge of the Homeland Security Investigation of that region

to come get me. That's like the police director going downtown and the rest is somebody for shoplifting. You know, so he comes by himself and does that. So what's inside this building? Has anybody seen what they're doing in this building? Nobody knows. I mean, CBS was granted entry and they gave him like a limited tour and they keep saying it's like these criminals in there, murderers, you know, the Republican talking point.

But nobody knows who's in there. You don't know what's going on, who they are, where they come from. We don't know anything. And the building was used as a halfway house in drug rehab 20 years ago. To change the use of the building. Now you're going to change it to a place with detainees. You have to get that checked, right? It has to be, you have to get a certificate of occupancy.

You have to apply for that. You have to get inspections. You may have to go to be, you have to get a certificate of occupancy. You have to apply for that. You have to get inspections. You may have to go to the planning board, zoning board, it depends. But you have to start that process. Anybody has to do that. It's not special. It's not like putting undue circumstances on these people.

This is what everybody goes through. That's how you say that you feel like these measures were an attempt to humiliate and degrade you. Absolutely. Once they cuffed me, threw me in a car, you know, the security that the police did was pretty decent but you know taking me through that process. They put me in a cell, you know, the whole fingerprint and the interrogation piece, you know, then doing it again. I just don't think it's

necessary. I mean the US Attorney came to my hearing. It's a class C misdemeanor, $400 fine, maximum 30 days of jail. She's at the hearing, the US attorney. I'm like, what's happening here? Have you gotten any messages behind the scenes on some like, all right, don't step out of line again, it can get worse or something, you know what I mean? Pretty much.

Okay, from who though? I mean, we were in the process of trying to figure out Don't step out of line again. It can get worse or something. You know to me pretty much I mean, you know, we were in the process of in the process of trying to figure out the charges and That you know and these people are you know, they serious now they committed to their foolishness You know, I mean they threatened to arrest the Congresswoman who was there and most of Congresswoman You know, they're threatened to take us through this all the way to the end But you know at the end of the, like we didn't do anything wrong. So, I mean, if they want to waste the taxpayers' money, the government's money to go through this, then let's go through it. We think we are correct and I don't think they have any ground to stand on. What do you say to people who say they don't care about fighting for the rights of immigrants?

say they don't care about fighting for the rights of immigrants? They're just misinformed and because we allow other people to kind of dictate or control the narrative. Honestly what we're fighting for is the due process for the 14th Amendment, the 4th and 5th Amendment to be securing your person, your papers, your property. People can't do anything to you, pull you over, throw you in jail without due process, without you going to court, without them having a warrant, all these specific things. And I think more than anybody, black people should be concerned about that because we are the number one victims of being searched without probable cause, of people coming to our property, our persons,

disregarding our constitutional rights, the bill of rights, the disregard for that. We should be the first ones concerned about it. So we should stand up for people who are getting their errors violated because we're next. And I see that you're also running for governor as well. Do you feel like this is a part of the plan to mess that up too? Well, I mean, I think it's the part of the plan to mess everything up, you know? So I think what they meant for evil, though,

always turns to good. I mean, these people are, they're not thinkin'. Amy Robach and TJ Holmes here. Diddy's former protege, television personality, platinum-selling artist, Danity King alum Aubrey O'Day joins us to provide a unique perspective on the trial that has captivated the attention of the nation. Aubrey O'Day is us to provide a unique perspective on the trial that has captivated the attention of the nation.

Aubrey O'Day is sitting next to us here. You are, as we sit here, right up the street from where the trial is taking place. Some people saw that you were going to be in New York, and they immediately started jumping to conclusions. So can you clear that up? First of all, are you here to testify in the Ditty Trial? Aubrey will offer her opinions and expertise based on her firsthand knowledge. From her days on Making the Band as she emerged as the breakout star,

the truth of the situation would be opposite of the glitz and glamor. It wasn't all bad, but I don't know that any of the good was real. I went through things there. Listen to Amy and TJ Presents, Aubrey O'Day, covering the Diddy Trial on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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saying we stormed the place. It was a bus of migrants going in there. We slammed ICE agents. All this was fabrication. Now they just put themselves in a bad situation because now you're saying things that are in there, you know, we slammed ICE agents, like all this was fabrication. Now they just put themselves in a bad situation, because now you're saying things that are not true, because we have the videos.

So I just start dropping the videos, so people can see that I walked in there with my hands in my pocket, you know, very calm, you know, because the guy opened the gate and let us in, there was no kicking, no shoving, no pushing. I mean, they're used to lying and controlling the narrative, but this is a time they made a very grave mistake. Do you think that this will impact your bid

for governor in any way? No, I don't think so. I mean, people who don't like what happened don't like what happened anyway. They don't like, they wouldn't vote for me anyway. So I don't think I'm gonna lose any votes based on what we did. I think what it does do though,

it tells people that we willing to go all the way, that we're not just talking about defending people's rights, that we're going to challenge these people at every turn. We're still kicking it with the mayor of Newark, Arash Baraka, Shalameh. Newark airport, man, what the hell is going on, Mayor Baraka, like what is the problem with Newark airport? How did they get here to where people are saying

it's unsafe to fly out of Newark Airport? They say don't fly out of Newark. Yeah, they say don't. I don't think it's unsafe because they keep delaying and canceling flights. If they weren't doing that, then it would be unsafe. The reality is there's too many planes in the airspace, air traffic controllers is not enough,

our air traffic controllers walked off because of stress. They don't want to, when they lose in contact with airplanes, they don't want to be the one responsible for 90 people, 150 people going down. So they're walking away. The radar system in that area doesn't work. The infrastructure is broke. So, but the Trump administration came in, got rid of 400 people, blamed DEI, and now they realize it's a real problem and none of that is gonna help it. So now they're trying to put money in infrastructure and hire more air traffic controllers, but they need to do that like rapidly, like in emergency. And in the meantime, we just need to slow

those flights down. We need to do the same kind of patterns that's happened out in LaGuardia. See, LaGuardia is in the same airspace but not having this problem. They're not having this problem because they have less flights and they have more time between flights. The flights coming in and the flights going, there's more space between those. Nor are we just flying places, flying in and out, in and out, in and out.

We acting like there is no problem, right? But there is a problem. And so as we act like there's no problem, they're canceling flights and delaying flights. And ultimately they just need to not have those flights until they get this in order. So you said people, they were walking off why? Because they just were stressed out?

Yeah, they- What were they stressed out about? I mean, to not have contact with an airplane for 30 seconds, for 60 seconds, for 90 seconds is a lot. I mean, if you're an air traffic controller and you can't control what's going on and somebody crashes and dies on your watch, I mean, obviously that's gonna air traffic controller and you can't control what's going on and somebody crashes and dies on your watch I mean obviously that's gonna cause a bit of stress folks walked off and and Newark is

Unfortunately at insult to injury there, you know fixing one of the runways at the same time So that should be done prayerfully by the end of June But we need more air traffic controllers and we need the infrastructure fixed immediately We need emergency spending emergency funding to get that stuff done like yesterday But nobody knew that about the infrastructure beforehand, of course, they did they knew they knew that Infrastructure was old. They also knew that we didn't have enough air traffic controllers. Not just newer but period That's why we were having incidents then when the Trump administration first came in you seen all these airline issues that were going on which signaled that there was a problem. And instead of dealing

with the problem, they began blaming DEI and continue to lay people off instead of hiring people, fixing the infrastructure. So we won't have this emergency situation where we are now. So finally, they've understood that this is a real problem. So now they're trying to address it, but it's not happening fast enough. But in the meantime, I would say they need to stop some of these planes from going off the ground. Yeah, you're going to be inconvenienced because you can't get as many flights as you could have got before, but safety is more important than anything else, I would say.

I wanted to ask about the congresswoman that is also going against you in this race. They said that she has supported a lot of the things that Donald Trump has as put to the table and you've been very vocal about that. What are your thoughts on some of the things that she's trying to follow up with and that she's campaigning for? Well you know everybody in the primary now is progressive right but all of the progressive leaning organizations endorse my candidacy. All the progressive unions,, all of the progressive organizations, for People's Organization of Progress, 32BJ, Working Families, because I'm a real progressive, I'm not just playing

one on TV. The reality is, here's a woman who supported the border wall, who supported $4 billion to go towards Trump's border wall. A person that voted against immigrants while she was the congressperson, right? Who is opposed to Immigrant Trust Act in New Jersey that says that we have to not ask people their status, that our police can't cooperate with ICE, that we have to make sure immigrants get the same services

as any other people or residents of the state of New Jersey. She voted, she is opposed to that and voted against things when she was the congressperson. So the reality is I don't think that she's progressive at all. So she's actually supposed to be coming up here I think this week. What's one question that you would think is the most important question that she should answer? That, what's her plan for black and brown people? But more importantly, black women, right? Black women are the most committed and dedicated constituent that the Democratic Party has and they're treated the

worst in New Jersey or in this country. I mean, she's endorsed by the mainstream Democratic Party, but they have no plan for black people. They never did. They have no plan for Latinos. They never did and they have no plan for working people. I mean the Democratic Party is in charge of the state and working people are struggling the most. We can't pay our bills, our child care is too high, right, insurance is too high. In fact if you got the wrong credit score you might not get no insurance, right. Your rent is too high, your mortgage is too high and we still giving tax breaks to billionaires in New Jersey and can't take care of working people and you're supposed to be the party of working families.

She should have an answer for those things. Is running for governor hard when you still gotta govern as mayor? And the reason I brought that up is because everybody, well not everybody, but there were people saying that this was a publicity stunt when you got arrested. Like you're just trying to drum up attention for your campaign for governor.

What do you say? I got a lot of ways to drum up attention. Going to jail ain't one of them. But ultimately, like, look, I just came from the gym that day, you know, I was going to get a shake to go back to the office. My policy advisor reminded me that they were having a press conference.

I went down there for that press conference to support my congresspeople, right? I didn't expect that they would do that. And honestly, you know, when they started threatening, I thought they was bluffing. Like when I left the property, if I wanted to get arrested, I would have stayed on the property.

I actually left, right? And 20 years ago, I would have took flight, you know, when they said they'd come and arrest you. I would have been fences, cars, everything, you know. The reality of the matter is nowhere for me to go. Like if they're gonna arrest you, where am I gonna go? They're gonna come.

Like, so if you're gonna do it, just do it now. And that's really what my sentiment was. Like, I don't believe you got it in you, that this is not gonna happen. This can't happen. When the congressmen told me they're coming to arrest you, I said, why? What did I do?

I didn't do anything. That's exactly what my response was. What did I do? I was like, oh, come arrest me. I was like, I didn't do anything. How are you gonna arrest me? I'm not even on your property anymore. And they came out and did it anyway.

At any point, were you like afraid for your life, the fact that you were taken to a offsite factory? That you ain't ever seen before? Yeah, like what was going through your mind? Absolutely, I mean, I guess when you, I'm a grown man now with family, so when you get arrested, all kinds of things going through your head, who picked my children

off from school, like I got a big all kind of stuff and you was hungry, you didn't even get to shake. Did I leave my house door open? All kind of stuff is going through your head like you know really fast and they taking you somewhere you don't know. Fear gets in your heart and you just pray that you know fear don't turn you into a coward. Well we appreciate you for joining us and I'm sure you'll be back up here before the race actually happens. What date is that?

June 10th. June 10th. That's right. Ladies and gentlemen, Mayor Ross Baraka. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody.

It's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren be coming in straight fast. Tell her, tell her. She gets into somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

She be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. But what's the latest? On The Breakfast Club. Okay guys, guess what? What? Sesame Street's coming to Netflix.

That's what's up. That's dope because they got all their funding cut, right? Didn't people get their funding cut? Who's in Netflix? That was smart. So Trump signed in. I thought you were going to say something else. What did you think I was going to say? I don't know. There's something other than Sesame Street's coming to Netflix. That was smart. Yep. So Trump signed in. I thought you were going to say something else. What you thought I was going to say? I don't know. Just something other than Sesame Street coming to Netflix. Go ahead.

That's a big deal though. People are excited and it is a big deal because of what Sesame Street represents and how you know the origin of Sesame Street and it being for underprivileged children for them to learn and explore things and Trump signed an executive order where he cut the funding for like the PBS's and things of that nature where Netflix is gonna have a mean Netflix Sesame Street wasn't going to be as supported to a certain extent because they're a percentage of their money comes from the federal funding but Netflix came in and said nope not happening so Sesame Street posted we are excited to announce that all that are all new Sesame Street is coming to

Netflix worldwide along with library episodes and new episodes and they'll also premiere the same day on PBS stations and PBS Kids platforms in the US. It's going to preserve a 50 plus year relationship. So the support with Netflix, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting serve as a unique public private partnership to enable Sesame Street to continue to help children everywhere. It's actually better for Sesame Street for them to be on Netflix. Yeah. Because you know, it's mad people that watch Netflix nowadays.

I mean, don't get me wrong, PBS is still PBS, but I don't think PBS got the power. Netflix. My kids don't be on PBS. My kids have their own Netflix account where they can watch, you know, Netflix kids. So, and a lot of people having dope guests on there that people don't even be paying attention to. Mm hmm. Chris Brown was on there.

Chris Brown was on there. Sizzle was on there. Yeah. I don't know if Chris Brown will be back on there, but yeah, he's. Not no time. He was on there that people don't even be paying attention to. Chris Brown was on there. Chris Brown was on there. Sizzle was on there. Yes. I don't know if Chris Brown will be back on there, but yeah, he was on there. But there were some people that brought up the fact that you do have to pay for Netflix

and some of the homes that Sesame Street targets may not be able to pay for that. They are still gonna be releasing some things on their YouTube channel as well, too, Sesame Street. But if you are watching the episodes on Netflix, you get to get an 11 minute story, which now allows for even more character driven humor and heart. So it makes it a bit longer. So yeah, shout out to Sesame Street. Elmo posted on LinkedIn when the executive order dropped that Trump sign that he was

looking for a new job. So he good now. Elmo was good for anybody that was wondering. That's what's up, Elmo. He was. He was looking for a new job. I know, that was good for anybody that was wondering. That's what's up, Elmo. He was. He was a convertible child. I know, that's right. In other news, the Cannes festival went down and a lot of people, a lot of people pulled up. I saw Denzel Washington, I saw Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, I saw Taraji P. Henson. A lot of people are there celebrating, you know, the new movies and films that are coming. But there was an incident on the carpet where, and there's no audio to it, so I'll just have to talk you guys through it. But Denzel Washington was on the carpet. It seems like, you know,

photographers, you know, are there like yelling your name, yelling your name. He's having a conversation with like a photog or a media outlet. And one of them goes to grab him and y'all know Denzel and go for none of that. Yeah, and they go to grab him and he like snatches his hand back. And- Hands off me? Yeah, and it just, you could tell that he was like, he wasn't going at all. Yeah, I heard him, he was yelling, stop, stop, stop.

It was a lot, it was a lot. But this happens all the time at the Cannes Festival. Is it Cannes or Cannes? Cannes. Cannes, at the Cannes Festival. I don't know, you know. Cannes. It's Cannes.

I don't know, I ain't in here, I'm on no Cannes. That festival that I will be invited to, that happens a lot. I know that's right. Manifestation? Period. That happens a lot. Why you looking at me like that? I don't know.

Anyway. You can't go. You don't have to be invited. No, I want to be invited to, you know, premiere and celebrate my film. Oh, you got your own film. Oh, see that's different. You got to say the whole manifesto. You only gave us a little bit.

Because I didn't want you to crush my dreams. I would never want you to crush my dreams. I would never want you to crush my dreams. I would never want you to crush my dreams. I would never want you to crush my dreams. I would never want you to crush my dreams. I would never want you to crush my dreams. I would never want invited to you know premiere and celebrate my film. Oh, yeah Because I didn't want you to crush my dream I would never crush your dream Well, you look down about when it comes to you is your wig because I want you to be better But you know what the Bob has been bobbing That little subtle thing that's The best the best hat I've been wearing. This is not a wig. This is not a wig.

This is a bitch. You're foul. You're foul. You're sitting over there built like a pencil sharpener so you need to relax. Leave me alone. I'll be letting you rock in here. You'll be thinking you working out for the summer. I'll say yeah about your body Go that ain't going When it was on that damn I'm just saying. Rehab arms. She do. You just mad because your arms do where the fans at. Don't be mad at me because your arms where the fans at. Leave me alone. I'm just saying. Ladies, ladies, ladies.

Continue on. Anyway, yes. What the f***? I've never heard of rehab arms in my life. Never. Now let's go. What else? Yeah, so he had a little incident on the carpet, but yeah, that's where Kelly Rowling had her incident too, so it seems like that

Somebody else had a problem with their outfit yesterday and they were trying to take a picture and the security was moving them out the way. I hate that. Can't remember who that was. What was the thing that I'm mad about though? We don't know. You can't hear it, but you see the guy grab him and he's like, get your hands off of him. You shouldn't be able to grab nobody. Yeah, he was on the red carpet for the May 19 premiere of his film, Highest, the Lowest. So that's what's up. All them brothers look good on that carpet yesterday.

They did. The Zell suit was tailored, Asap suit was tailored. Like they look very fly. I'd love to see it. Yes. I did want to say that I'm back in court today and today they're going to they're going to go back into a testimony by one of Diddy's previous personal assistants. It's a white guy, David.

And the minute he took the stand, he was very emotional. And I'm like, this is going to be a very compelling testimony because it seems like he feels like he got to get some things off of his chest. So I'm actually- He's a prosecution's witness, right? Yeah, he's a prosecution's witness. And they've already established a part of the Rico you keep mentioning with him where he talks about just how hard he was working.

He said that he was working almost seven days a week sometimes, six days a week, 20 plus hours a day was making 70K a year. And- Damn. Yeah. He said, everybody in the courtroom said that too, when they asked him how much he was making 70k a year. And yeah, he said, everybody in the courtroom said that too, when they asked him how much he was making. And he said that like he went through what his day was like, what he was like, the first part of his day was he has to wake up before Diddy. And he would have to like set the mood that Diddy wakes up to. So like what the food

is going to be like with music or what TV he's watching. And I'm like, dang, to have somebody check back and call like that all day long, up before you wake up to five o'clock in the morning. That's rich rich. Like that's insane. Crazy. Crazy part is this is just week two. Yeah.

Did he talk about, he had to set up the free golfs or no? He hasn't. So he did say that, he did say that he had to- I mean, setting the mood sounds very- But everything about Diddy is very like energy driven. So he, but he did say that he had to. I mean, setting the mood sounds very. But everything about Diddy is very like energy driven. So he but he did say that he had to go in advanced locations.

So like he would go to, you know, different shows and things of that nature to make sure that things were set the way that Diddy liked it. So he had a different a lot of different writers for different places. They did briefly mention hotel rooms, but they didn't get into that yet. But one of the things he also talked about too was he had had some conversations, he said he had two conversations with Cassie ever. One of them was about how crazy she thought the lifestyle was allegedly. And he was like, well, why don't you just get out?

And she, and she was telling him, you know, she alleged that like, did he controlled everything, pay for her apartment, her car, her everything. So she didn't really understand. So I think he's going to give a lot of insight into some things that we've been hearing as well too, from a person that's like completely unattached he wasn't making yeah completely unattached so yeah listen all right I just want to say but you know before you go cuz I know you got to get the court it is a video that I saw yesterday it was very disturbing I

know some people have may have seen it but it was a birthday video look like you know from a couple years ago and did he is like happy he's laying in a bed he's like happy birthday to me and a guy is in the back like and it's like Like four times and then did he look up like, oh, that's just, you know, whatever's happening. Like that's normal. He, these sounds are normal to him.

And he was just like, went on ahead with the video, like happy birthday to me. And the guy's in the back. Oh my gosh, being torn apart. And you hear it. And he's like, ah. So I don't know if that guy will be testified can we find out who that is? That's the crazy part man we only on week two we tell about week four or five that's

when all the booty gonna hit the goddamn stand. Why did I start thinking about booty got cut? I'm telling you that's when all the booty gonna start hitting the stand. If you were subpoena you would tell me don't don't embarrass me like that I need to know before you pull up That man was I'm concerned And that is the latest with Lauren I just wanna let you know that the shot the picture that shall we posted is a lie. It's a fake

Just so you know, it's a fake. It's not a real picture. They said you went for free, Envy. They said you went in exchange for a mix too. Just like R. Kelly. See the video is popping up on... alright, we'll be right back after this though. Alright, let's go to the People's Choice Mix at the Breakfast Club in the morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne N'Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now salute to Ross Baraka for joining us this morning. Salute to Mayor Ross Baraka, running for governor of New Jersey, man. Glad your charges got dropped brother.

And also the icons, Curtis Blow and Chuck D. Let me tell you something, I learned a lot from that conversation. The full conversation is like an hour and a half maybe? Yeah. Yeah, hour and a half. I mean I feel like that's appropriate when you got two icons like Chuck D and Curtis Blow. We would not be here. Hip-hop would not be what it is today if it wasn't for guys like Curtis Blow and Chuck D.

That's right. We'll salute to those brothers. And also salute to the icon living Don Staley, man. Her new book, her book Uncommon Favour is out today. Okay, basketball, North Philly, my mother and the life lessons I learned from all three, man. This has been a process, but I'm glad it got done. Everything happens when God wants it to happen. An uncommon favor is in bookstores today, everywhere you buy books today.

So go get your copy. Salute to the icon living Don Stanley. And y'all make sure y'all get your tickets for the two shows I got this weekend. I'll be in Mashantuckin, Connecticut at Foxwood's Casino this Friday. The show starts at 8 p.m. The doors open at 7 p.m. And then the next day I'm skipping over to Boston, Massachusetts. I'll be at the Wilbur Theater. Get your tickets at jessilariaofficial.com for both of those shows. Can't wait to get there, Connecticut and Massachusetts. That's right. There's no work on Monday, so make sure you get on out. It's a three-day

weekend, so get out there on Connecticut and Boston and go support. Oh, I'm happy, Mercy. make sure you get on out. It's a three-day weekend. So get out there on Connecticut and Boston and go support. What's that? I'm happy it's a three-day weekend. Yes, right. Yeah, I'm going to St. Martin actually. I'll be in St. Martin for the Soul Beach Festival. They usually do an Aruba with Sinbad and Sinbad's brother. They're doing each and every year I go out there with them and I think they have Coco Jones performing. A bunch of performers. Last year they had Mariah Carey, the year before that they had Mary, so we're gonna have a lot of fun. Did Mary sing?

Yeah. Amazing. Good. You think she did? Amazing. Hold her microphone to the crowd. Just let us sing. No, no, no. She said, she said. She let everybody else sing.

Alright, cool. But tell us in bed I love him, bro. I ain't seen him since I've been on the set with him, for real, so. Definitely. Yes. I let him know. Shalemane, you got a positive note? Yes, sir. I do, man. This one comes from the great Les Brown. Salute to Les Brown.

Les Brown once said, in every day there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities that make a positive impact. Have a blessed day. Breakfast club, bitches! You done finished or y'all done? Amy Robach and TJ Holmes here.

Diddy's former protege, television personality, Denity King alum, Aubrey O'Day, We don't finish or y'all done. I went through things there. Listen to Amy and TJ presents Aubrey O'Day, covering the Diddy Trial on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why is a soap opera western like Yellowstone so wildly successful? The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come

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