The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Diddy's Team Claims CNN 'Altered' Cassie Assault Video, Lizzo Opens Up About 'Dark Depression' Normani & DK Metcalf Engaged + More

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

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Alright. How was Atlanta last night? You was performing in Atlanta, Jess? How was that? Crazy, crazy. Listen, again, I wasn't able to do meet and greet, but yo, the city of Atlanta treats me so damn good for sure. So I had a lot of fun. Had a lot of fun. And shout out to restaurant Juvé. We went there. Louis V took me there, me and my team, and it was amazing. Food was good. Did you go to Shack's house again though yeah that's what I was talking about why man did you go to Shack's house? Did you get video of the white women? Mind your business just mind your business. Mind our business that you came to the radio and told everybody. Because that is my friend and I don't want to tell no more

business of his. Oh he screamed on. He screamed on you. Absolutely not Y'all just gonna pay me for my footage Okay, I know check love attention shut up with all that I just prefer to get paid for my footage. Oh We I don't want to see it that bad good. So let's move on Only you open the door and say hey guys look what's in here, and then we come peak You like nope come in no more. Yeah, we can't get a little guess like you know No, no y'all's the main ones hyping it up with are you sure you you will never be invited again and did it at a high cool So now is the last you know the better. I don't even believe you got invited again. I

You ain't go So why you ask about it all right well She's filling in for Morgan she's doing When we come back Bree was gonna be holding down front page news. Tank will be joining us this morning, R&B singer Tank. He's on Broadway. And we're going to be talking to Tank. He's in Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen.

That's right. Oh, nice. Yes. And also, comedian Bill Burr will be joining us this morning. Hey! Yeah, Bill got a new special out called Drop Dead Years that's actually out today on Hulu. And he's debuting in Glengarry, Glengarry Glen Ross, which is also a Broadway play.

Nice. All right, so we'll get to all that next. It don't go anywhere, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Oh, I forgot. Happy birthday. It's a Legends birthday. It's a Legends birthday.

Quincy Jones birthday. You know he produced a whole thriller. So let's get on a Michael Jackson joint. Rest in peace, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody, It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Now Morgan is on vacation. Brie Wood is filling in. Good morning Brie. Please Brie. Hey good morning. NB Charlemagne the God and Jess Hilarious. How are you guys? Happy Friday. Thank you. Happy Friday. Let's Black and Holly favorite. Awesome.

Here's what's trending in the news this morning for you. So Democrats Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says he will vote to advance the GOP's six month funding bill that passed the house in order to stop a government shutdown tonight. So let's take a listen to some of his commentary on that decision. There is nobody in the world, nobody who wants to shut the government down more than Donald Trump and more than Elon Musk.

While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse. Now Schumer said in a floor speech that there are no winners in a government shutdown, adding that the bill is a terrible option, but that he believes allowing Trump to take more power through a shutdown is a far worse option. So the comments from the Senate minority leader are a contrast from ones that were made just a day earlier when he said that Democrats would not let it pass. And so if the Senate passes the bill, it would then of course, go to a president Trump's desk for a signature.

What do you guys think about that? I mean, you know, per usual, the party of inaction, the Democrats have failed to protect the interest of the American people. And you know why, you know, Dems suck at messaging? Because they never talking about nothing. And they do nothing. So guess what?

To me, they all gotta go. Like Dems don't just have a messaging problem, they got a leadership problem. The Chuck Schummers of the world, the Hakeem Jeffries, they should all step down. And any Dem who isn't fighting for the people and standing with the party should be primaries. Like how can you say the bill sucks but you're passing it anyway? Like you're not going to even try to present something different? Try to negotiate nothing? It sucks but we're going to pass it anyway.

Yeah, that's been the commentary basically. I think a lot of the world agrees with you on that because it just seems as though the Democrats can't come together on anything. So ever. Yeah, nothing at all. No. So what's the point of voting for them? Well, all right. Well, a federal judge has ordered some fire federal employees to be reinstated. Now, a California federal judge is demanding that the Trump administration rehire some fired federal employees. U.S. District Judge William Alsup found the firing of probationary employees from six federal agencies last month

to be unlawful. He said the Office of Personnel Management and its acting director did not have the authority to issue the directive to fire the workers. The agency includes the Department of Veterans Affairs, Agricultural, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury. So the judge said it is a sad day when our government would fire some good employees and say it was based on performance when they know good and well, that's a lie. So the Justice Department indicated that it will appeal this ruling to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals Well salute to that man. What's that judge name again? His name is Judge William Alsip drop one of clues bonds with Judge William I said That's the man that cares about people now. He's fit on business with that one. That's right And we have a story on Trump threatening a 200% tariff on European Union alcohol products

Now my liquor! Yes the liquor he says that he will implement Trump threatening a 200% tariff on European Union alcohol products. Now, President Trump. Not my liquor! Yes, the liquor. He says that he will implement a 200% tariff on all alcoholic products from the European Union in a post on Truth Social. He said that it would be in response to the 50% tariff on whiskey implemented by the EU. And we have some commentary from the President during a recent White House press briefing on the US regaining its wealth. Let's take a listen. April 2nd is going to be a very big day for the United States of America.

The United States of America is going to take back a lot of what was stolen from it by other countries and by frankly incompetent US leadership, grossly incompetent. Well the president leadership. Grossly incompetent. Well, the president said the union was created, quote, for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the U.S. He added that the tariff will be great for champagne and wine businesses across the country. It all comes after both the EU and Canada

responded with tariffs of their own, after President Trump placed a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports. So, you know, the U. the US is the world's largest importer of wine and champagne, and we imported nearly $4.9 billion worth of wine each year. So, that's a big deal. I haven't had a drink since before Martin Luther King Jr. Day anyway. I think that's Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day. So, because I got too drunk on movie ice. Do you drink that will affect how often people drink if they got to pay

so much. Yeah. I mean, people are just going to drink cheap liquor. That's all. This is going to be cheap stuff. Yeah, it's inevitable. Yeah, they're going to find the cheapest option. I know that much.

Yeah. Right. Well, that's your front page news. I'm Brie Wood and coming up next hour, we'll talk about New York's Governor Kathy Holcomb. When you're back to the woods, she's headed to the White House this morning to meet with the president about New York's sanctuary city status. All right, everybody else get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open again. 800-585-1051 Stop yawning Jess Yeah alright

It's high It's the breakfast club come on The breakfast club Wake up wake up Wake your ass up This is your time to get it off your chest Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Whether you're mad or blessed we want to hear from you on the breakfast club

Hello who's this? Hey this is Zo how y'all doing? Good morning What's up Zo? We want to hear from you on the breakfast block. Hello, who's this? What's up, so Yes, sir Speaking a lot about Democrats and how they like They're not putting in the action the stuff that you want them to put into Why be feeling like the Democrats don't step up on a lot of stuff because they they be in like people be in a pocket You feel them saying like a lot of a lot of other entities or whatever be paying for stuff So they can't speak up and be themselves are

Represent what they want to represent like on the bills and stuff I agree with you 100% like, you know, everybody talking about Elon Musk and, you know, the oligarchy, like all of a sudden they wanna have these conversations as if that hasn't been happening forever in politics. So y'all think everybody has somebody in their pocket. And I think a big part of the reason, like Trump was able to come in

and change the stuff that he changed, like he backs a big part of his own campaign you know I'm saying like he didn't have to take money from a lot of people so he didn't have those restrictions on okay I'm gonna back you but don't do this or you know I'm saying like I'll give you this 100 mil but don't pass this bill like he got his own money so he kind of of get to do what he set forward to do. Well, no, not in this case, you know, I mean, Elon Musk donated over a couple hundred million dollars. You know, you clearly see how he's running the tables right now. No, I understand that. What I'm saying is those other people, whether it be pharmaceutical companies or you know how that the politics thing is like it's always somebody who has a big yeah like it's always somebody in the background who got an arterial motive and the representatives can't do what they're really supposed to do.

They're beholding the corporate interest because they're beholding the corporate dollars. Thank you Jack. Hello who's this? Hey good morning this is Eddie. Eddie what's up? Get it off your chest, bro. Good morning to everyone there. I'm old school and I was wanting to ask you young lady, what kind of, you know, what does she do? Stand up, can you give me a brief bio of what she does? Because I'm six years old, I don't do social media, I have no idea what she does. You know Jess hilarious? Yes. Yes, sir. Yes I'm a stand-up comedian from Baltimore City, Baltimore, Maryland. And yes, I'm also an actress

I have shows on TV and movies on couple streaming platforms and yeah Yeah, yeah, but I'll try to find some screaming things you know Appreciate you in the morning Maybe she'll be in your city soon. What city you would I live in Charlotte, North Carolina? But my native Brooklyn New York when you perform in Charlotte again, Jeff Actually got a deal on the table right now with Charlie, but I'm in Raleigh, but I'm gonna get I'm gonna get to Charlotte I just it's a lot of Now Jess if he streams one of those movies he gonna see a little too much

Yeah, just go to TV. You know if you like You know the next question gonna be explicit things that question will be what what's to be you know I'm saying I know Yeah, I'm down with you we have I've seen y'all on to be okay, okay Okay, all right y'all well appreciate you just in and I wish all y'all good fortune You brother yes, you can watch the breakfast club on to be Yeah, we on to be good. Say more. Okay, you can watch The Breakfast Club on Tubi. Yeah, we on Tubi. Say more. Say more. You don't know more.

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She done had a GoFundMe for the funeral. And I just want people to know this is why we don't take them GoFundMe seriously. People get the money and do all type of n***a s*** with it. You know what I'm saying? What you mean she was flexing? What she was doing? She had the money on her shoulder flexing at the little balloon release or whatever it was. Just being ghetto and ignorant. Just like this is what people get their hard-earned money for. You talking about the mother of the child that got killed too? That was her?

Yeah, the baby mama. Yeah. God damn. That was racist. Maybe she was doing that in remembrance of him is that something that he would have done He used to do with something. Yeah, good point. Oh, no, I just see him smoke a weed on there. I see no money You saw him smoking weed now before before on the internet Man that's why we'll take them go from me seriously man people be Be reluctant on giving a hard-earned money up because people be playing that's true. All right, brother Well, thank you for calling get it off your chest 800 585 105 1 if you need to vent hit us up

We got the latest with Lauren coming. Yes, we do Diddy is we back here with Diddy? He's now alleging that CNN destroyed that original video the Cassie video So that might have some um that might make some changes in court, but we'll talk about it. All right, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good 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. On the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.

LL Coolbae. Yes. So Diddy. Diddy and CNN are going at it right now. Diddy's legal team is claiming that CNN altered the video, that Cassie video that came out of him beating Cassie in the hotel, the 2016 video. They're saying that it was altered,

that CNN put it through this free editing app, and they sped it up so that the events that we saw happened faster than how they happened in real time. Why did that matter? Does that change anything? So this is the only thing that it can change. Normally in a court, anything that's altered video wise, a court is not going to allow a jury to watch that because they don't know how far they're like, they don't know how far the edits may have went.

They can't determine what was there, what wasn't there, whatever, right? So that would basically mean if this video doesn't make it into the court, the jury won't see it, but I mean, how do we know that those jurors hasn't seen it online? This feels like old school lawyers trying to navigate their way through a whole new world

because they're gonna be hard pressed to find a juror who hasn't seen that video. So they can keep that video out of the court, but they can't keep it out of people's minds. Exactly. The thing about that is what it probably strikes is the fact that if they say it's altered, part of the reason, I don't even think it matters anymore,

but part of the reason that they said they didn't give him bail was because of that video. So if that video is no longer being able to be used, he could probably have bailed, and he could probably get some of those other things that was the reason why he couldn't get bail and some of those other things before. Yeah, but people, you already saw the video.

It's in your mind. That's it. If your mind state is, hey, we're not getting bail. The jurors, but even with the jurors. But legally from the judge. But even with the judges, like if your mind state is, I can't give him, I don't want to give him bail because he might be violent, you already saw the video. And then, and if you remember, with the bail conversation, remember they also had like the phone records of him

like reaching out, allegedly like reaching out to the different witnesses. Like there was other things outside of the video that they could lean in on too as well. So, I mean, I feel like even if this video is, at first I was like, well, maybe that video being taken away can help him because of the bail situation. And I was like, nah, you saw what you saw.

Yeah. But also they said if it's altered and they said CNN destroyed the original, that doesn't seem strange at all. Well, OK. Why would you destroy it? CNN is claiming that they never destroyed anything. CNN says CNN never altered the video and did not destroy the original copy of the footage, which was retained by the source. CNN aired the story.

And they also say this. They're making it clear that they aired this video months before Diddy was even locked up or a federal indictment was announced because Diddy's team is also saying like, y'all altered this and y'all got rid of this original footage when y'all knew that there was an ongoing federal case and y'all reported about it. But they dropped this video in May

and then Diddy did his video apologizing. Diddy probably mad, they didn't destroy the whole thing. Why y'all didn't destroy the whole video. Why didn't they destroy the whole video? That's the only thing that could help him in a situation like this. Also, if you're trying to keep jurors from seeing this video, all this does is bring more attention to the video. Because if I'm a potential juror and I see these headlines,

I'm gonna go see what other video they talking about if I've never seen. Yeah, that's true. And then they also are going back and forth right now because speaking of jurors, they're trying to do, they're trying to get the, the prosecutors are like, yo, let's take this to court right now. Like, let's have a jury seated like in the next like month. Diddy's team is like, nah, we need until like April to go back through discovery and figure some things out. And diddy's team

wants to sit down. They want to sequester jurors. They want to give them questionnaires. They want to, I think what they really want to do is with this video and they want to make basically see how much these jurors have seen online and they're not going to, they they're gonna want to pick the people who don't really know nothing about nothing which is gonna be hard But he's not being charged for that video. He's being charged for totally something totally different video Like Charlamagne said really shouldn't matter Meaning if they seen it or not it really shouldn't matter because he's not being charged with that video. He's not. That would have been a state issue in the time limit for them to prosecute that has

already passed. But you seen it and he looks like a monster in that video. So it's going to be hard to say this man learned his lesson, let him free, don't charge him with all this stuff. He didn't do any of this stuff. You know what I mean? Like I said, they can keep the video out of court, but they can't keep it out of people's mind. Not just the video, the baby oil and every other crazy ass story that you've heard

over the last few months. You done heard some wild, ditty stories. We have. We definitely have. We definitely have heard some wild, ditty stories. Well, that's the update. I think yesterday when that broke, people was like, wait, what? But CNN is coming out swinging like, yo, we don't know what y'all talking about That is not true and in that video copy was the only copy the intercontinental where that video Was recorded is no longer open and it's been confirmed that that was the only copy of the video So we'll have to see what happens from here

Um, but in other news yesterday, we talked about tiana taylor and iman schumpert And we did get some updates. I told you guys that we were going to try and figure this out. So I just wanted to put this update out here. So yesterday, Nikki Taylor, who is Tiana Taylor's mom and manager spoke out. She said, it's awful strange that the case is sealed from a divorce that was finalized on July 1st, 2024. But all of this information as to what she allegedly got is public this week. What about what the other party received? Let's be crystal clear, both parties walked away with properties, vehicles,

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with what they came in with and then you know Not sure what situation yeah, then the child support stuff happens in the school stuff happens or whatever so Yeah, they wanted to make it make it crystal clear like this was a fair situation But why did that story drop yesterday if this was something that was done last July? Why did it come out yesterday of everything and why was only one side? I guess that's the question of the lower No, the latest with Laura no no no no that thing was had his legs before we brought it here we were clarifying but it had legs I can't answer that question and be but you know I can't answer that but that is that is one of the questions

that miss Nikki is asking as well too it's like well why all of a sudden is this so big why is it happening why is it moving that's the way the internet works though I mean you way the internet works though. I mean, you know, the internet finds things and then, you know, somebody puts a little flame to it, throws some gas on it, next thing you know it's viral and you wondering why. Yeah.

Nothing ever really dies on the internet. It's really like herpes. Every story is like herpes online. And at any point it can be an outbreak. It keeps coming back. Well, hopefully we, dang, I was gonna say, hopefully we got rid of the herpes, but you know, it's no cure for it Okay. Nope keeps coming back. Well, that is the latest and that is the update All right. Well, thank you Lauren. Now when we come back, we got front page news and then comedian Bill Burrow will be joining us

I'm DJ envy. We are the breakfast club You're like into the breakfast club We are the Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up, you're locked into the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back to some front page news. Morgan is out today, but Bre is filling in. Good morning, Bre Wood.

Hey, good morning, DJ Envy, Charlamagne the Guy, and Jess Hilarious. Happy Friday. How are you guys feeling? Good. No relation to Morgan, right? No, no. We just call each other play cousin now. Okay. Well let's jump right in. Yeah, here's what's trending in your news this morning.

So we begin with Governor Kathy Hochul. She is heading to the White House this morning to meet with President Trump about New York's sanctuary city status. The meeting comes after the Justice Department hits several city hotels and shelters with federal subpoenas seeking names, birth dates, and other information about immigrant asylum seekers. So here's some of what Governor Hockel had to say. We will not be

cooperating in terms of state police not assisting unless they have a warrant for someone's arrest or have proof that this person is a dangerous individual. It also comes two days after border czar Tom Homan was on Hogle's turf in Albany threatening to flood New York with ICE agents. Now Hogle says the state has always cooperated with ICE when it comes to removing dangerous criminals but she is vowing to hold the line on New York's sanctuary status. Has that been something that's been an issue for you guys? Have you noticed people feeling a certain type of way about being a sanctuary city?

I don't know if you're the way about sanctuary city. But I mean, you know, over the last couple of years here in New York, people have definitely felt the way about, you know, the illegal immigrants, you know what I mean? Like that, that is definitely been a thing. That's been a thing for a while. But I also don't believe anything Democrats say until I see it. So you know, Governor, the whole cool is talking all that tough talk until Trump applies pressure. You know what I mean? I need to see how people react

when Trump actually applies pressure and says, no, you're going to do this. And I don't know if you've seen it recently, but I guess since we've been talking about it more and more and more, I always feel like the phone listens. The site has been popping up, which is IceGov on Instagram,

and it tells you everybody that's been arrested, how they've been arrested, if they child molesters, if they sex offenders or what all that other stuff. It tells you and give pictures and where they picked them up from which is crazy. No, no, no. They popping up on your phone because I've been warning them. I've been telling them where to look. Okay?

Yo, shut up. You know, Ice can ask me to go on a ride along a couple of times. I told them exactly where I want to go. Nope. And you know where I want to go, your front gate. I ain't letting you in. Okay? Well, hopefully they have letting you in. Okay.

Well, hopefully they have a productive meeting this morning. I'm sure there will be updates on that come Monday. In other news, during a heated session of the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, Democratic Representative John Larson of Connecticut launched into a fiery rant against Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOJ. Take a listen to Democrat Representative John Larson. He was very upset at the absence of Elon Musk during this meeting. Where's Elon Musk?

I'm sure he's a genius. He's a very credible person because of the wealth he's accumulated. But that does not put him above the law or the responsibility to come before this committee in this Congress. If he's so great, if these plans and all the fraud and abuse that he found are so eminent, why isn't he here explaining it? Elon tweeted out, man, tell him to sit his poor ass down. Okay, we don't hear from his poor ass. Tell him to sit his poor ass down, okay? I understand House Dems doing that, but you

know what's more effective? Watching Trump and MAGA supporters go off about those Republican town halls. You know what I mean? Like people expect Dems to be mad, but when they watching people who voted for Trump be mad, it hits different. Yeah, it's definitely different. And he had a lot more to say than that. He went on to accuse Musk of attempting to privatize social security and criticized his absence from the committee meeting, questioning his accountability and his motives. The White House responded defending Musk's efforts to reduce waste and fraud in entitlement programs and accused Democrats of avoiding the issue altogether. So that's going to be an ongoing conversation and entitlement programs. Those are government programs providing benefits or services to individuals who meet specific eligibility requirements established by law,

ensuring that those benefits are provided regardless of budget constraints or appropriations. For example, that would be your Social Security, your Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP. And on Thursday, it was the fifth anniversary of Breonna Taylor's death. It marked five years since she was shot and killed after police performed a no-knock warrant at her apartment in Louisville. Democratic Representative Morgan McGarvey of Kentucky honored her on the House floor this week. Here's just some of what he had to say about Breonna.

Listen. Breonna loved her family, her community, and more than anything, she loved life. In the face of injustice, we cannot be silent. We must speak up. We must say her name, Breonna Taylor. Now, former Louisville Metro Police Department Officer Brett Hankison, he was convicted of violating Taylor's civil rights by shooting blindly into her apartment and the other officers who fired their guns at her apartment. They no longer work for LNPD, but they have not faced any criminal charges. And I know in Louisville, I was reading and watching,

they still protest every year around this time. The protest has never stopped, it's ongoing, but they're saying that there still really is no accountability for what happened five years ago. At all. Yeah. And finally, we do have one story involving an American Airlines plane. It caught fire at Denver International Airport after landing prompting the evacuation of 172 passengers and six crew members So the fire which originated from an engine related issue while the aircraft was taxiing to the gate resulted in thick black smoke and flames That were coming from the underside of the plane. So emergency slides were deployed and passengers, they safely de-planned onto the wing though. So they had to stand on the wing as emergency crews

worked to extinguish the flames. Fortunately, there are no injuries reported in this and the fire was extinguished within an hour. The Boeing 737 had taken off from Colorado Springs. It was headed to Dallas Fort Worth before being diverted to Denver. And we wanted to make sure we got that in because you guys are consistently traveling for work. And so you just want to get a hell out of us on No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, It's crazy. That was happening with these planes at these airports and you know, it's being reported

now more than ever. So why not? You know what, I'll be wanting just to know what happened. Like you know what I mean? Cause they report these stories to us, but then they don't tell us why. At least I don't see why these things happened. Well, that sounds like the plane was raggedy. Is that it?

Well, they said that the plane landed safely at the airport and that the engine trouble didn't start until afterwards. So there was no smoke billowing while they were that the plane landed safely at the airport and that the engine trouble didn't start until afterwards So there was no smoke billowing while they were in the air But when they got on the ground come into the gate, that's when all the smoke and fire started with the engine If there was engine trouble better to happen on the ground than in the air. Yeah for sure Absolutely. So happy everybody was safe in that instance. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, man So that's your front page of news. I am Bri Wood Happy everybody was safe in that instance. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Bri. So that's your front page of news.

I am Bri Wood. You can find me on X at Bri on air, B-R-I-O-N-A-I-R. Also check us out at BINnews.com and get BINnews on demand 24 seven on the free iHeartRadio app. You guys have a great weekend. Thank you. All right, YouTube now.

All right, now when we come back, comedian Bill Burr will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning everybody, it's DJ, MV, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne McGuire, we are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. Yes indeed.

And we got a special guest in the building. The legendary. Comedian Bill Burr, welcome. Hey, what's going on? How you feeling? What's up Bill? I'm alright. You made me think about something tonight. There is a risk in giving compliments.

Oh yeah, I came in and I was saying, I go, hey yeah, you lost some weight, you look good. And then he said, what were you saying, I was fat before? I was like, I guess I kind of was. I wasn't! And I was like, well what if he's sick, Bill? Yeah. And you said, that's the risk you take. That's the risk you take. That's the risk you take. But you know, they got AIDS under control.

Jesus. They do. Yes. They do. It's not like a big deal anymore. Remember when everybody used to be so scared of AIDS? It was terrifying. Right after the Magic Johnson press conference.

Just want to clear this, I don't have AIDS. That was a crazy transition. I looked at you like you're not going to take AIDS. That's what it was, our generation, if somebody got skinny. That's what it was. Before us, it was heroin. Oh crack.

And then after that, yeah. This is a nice way to start this interview, buddy. Good morning. Drug addiction, AIDS. By the way, Bill, you're 56. You are not in your drop dead years, man. Yeah, don't say that. Cut it out.

Well, yeah. No, people, yeah, I've had friends drop dead in these years, so I hope I'm not. I try, I mean, I'm an old dad. So that was sort of the, the thought that I started, you know, thinking like, I, how long do I have to live? So my kids will, you know, I, I, I raised them and I was starting to do the math and it was kind of scaring me.

So I've been, I don't know, but you know, you get to be 56, gonna be 57. You start thinking of those things. No, it don't know, but you know, you get to be 56, gonna be 57, you start thinking of those things. No, it isn't. Yes it is. 57 times two is 114. That's not young. How old are you? People are like, oh, you know, you're middle-aged.

It's like, no, I'm not. I'm 56, I'll be 57. So yeah, that's old. Now, how old are your kids? Oh, my kids. My daughter is eight and my son's gonna be five. Oh, yeah. So I started late. Yeah Yeah, but the average age of the most people die of men at least around 74 75. That's the average age in America

Oh, okay. That's good. So those are those are actually the dropped edges No, that's not dropping dead. That's that's dying of natural causes or whatever you were doing Dropping dead is you're out on a golf course, you know, limbering up doing this and then just faceplant into the tees. But you gotta take care of yourself. You go to the doctor, you do your cardiovascular tests. I'm not dying. I'm just doing like a health intervention here. It's it is a stand-up special. You're taking it very seriously here with the thing. It's just sort of making fun of the fact that

yeah, I'm not young anymore. I got to watch myself and whatnot. So you run around the park with your kids? Yes, I do all of that type of stuff. He's not that old. Why are you saying like that? Because he making himself seem so age. I'm like, well, what young stuff do you do that makes you feel like I can't do this anymore? Damn, it's just being 56 is like, is that a crazy thing to think that 56 is kind of old? I think so. The way that, I think because you put, you say 56 and you talk about all of the like, kind of like the up the hill battle stuff, like it's just, you wake up every day and you look fine. She's 33 but she's very young.

That's how you make it seem, you make it feel like you feel old. Like, so I'm like dang. We're ancient to her. What's happening with your kids? All right, listen. I'll call Hulu. I will rename the special. I'll see what I can do.

The pregame to Drop Dead Years. Yes, OK. It's the pregame. All right. Well, the special is out today. Yes. It is out today on Hulu, Drop Dead Years for everybody out there. Make sure you go stream it.

Make sure you go watch it. Absolutely. Can you tell us what... Well, I guess you just told us what inspired the name, but how does it reflect the material you're covering in the special? Well, I always have like a mix of like, I talk about current events, crazy thoughts, and then, you know, sort of analyzing my mistakes or whatever. So I'm not, because my earlier specials, I was just doing this.

So I like to try to point the finger at myself a little bit more, but I don't know. You know, when it comes to comedy though, are you trying to provide an escape for people? Or do you feel like you have to use comedy to make sense of the world that we live in? Definitely an escape. Okay. I'm big on that. Like my job is when you come, I'm going to make you laugh, forget about whatever you're going through or add to a good week if you had it.

But I don't put any sort of level of importance. People try to do that. Like there's this stupid thing out there. They're like the comedians. They're like the truth tellers of today. It's like, no, you journalists aren't doing your jobs anymore. You guys are all, you guys work for one or two channels and you know, you just sort of tow the company line.

So then they're, they're putting it on comedians. It's like, you know, that's not our job, our is to make you laugh and forget about your work week or whatever. So I don't put any sort of importance on anything that I'm doing. And how do you stay away from politics when I feel like politics is just funny nowadays? It's pop culture now. Everything is just... Everything you say has to do with political stuff. Not everything, but a lot of stuff you say has to do with political stuff.

You were trending all morning this morning. Did you know that? On Twitter? Yeah, but I guarantee you whatever they were saying. I was saying I wasn't what was it about? It was the Elon Musk a nice Nazi thing and how the media is scared Okay, but that's say what they need ridiculous there was a there was a time post me too and all that speaking to power Remember when someone's supposed to happen for you guys and it didn't because it was all of us just talking? I mean that's what ended up happening.

That's true. A lot of white people making a lot of promises that never happened. Was it during the Black Squares time or something? I don't remember. I just remember there was a time that you would be on stage going like, can I do this Caitlyn Jenner joke? Or am I is this gonna like am I gonna get cancelled like it was really a this crazy time now He then she was the one transgender you could always make jokes about and nobody would give that

Oh, I don't know I kind of did one on Conan and then those guys at Huffington Post tried to get something going But and okay, so there was that period and then like a few years later this guy's seagrass tiled twice. Once in the front, if you missed it in the back. And it's just like he still has a job. That guy still has a job. I don't understand those guys and this isn't politically it's just like I don't understand why they're so upset with this country. It's like you're billionaires. I think it's working for you. Like, you know, why are you going and telling everybody, you know, justify

what you do? It's like, justify what you do. That piece of car that you're making that the government financed. No, but you know, you just said you said that Elon still has a job. He's the richest man in the world. There's nothing they can do to him. And that's all he proved. There's nothing anybody can do to him by throwing up when he did that. What do you take from him? He's not Kyrie Irvin. He's not Kanye. Like, what do you do? Yeah but you keep, I don't know, I listen, I don't know how this works. I'm just saying that you know if you said the wrong thing as a comedian all of a sudden you lost your TV show. But you're not the

richest man in the world. You were the richest comedian in the world, ever. Imagine that. What I don't get is the amount of veterans that, people in the armed services that died trying to stop Hitler and then this guy comes in and does that while being an immigrant too which is kind of the whole thing just none of it like tracks how you could be to support the troops you know America love it or leave it and then this guy comes in and gives a shout out to Hitler. Makes no sense at all. Yeah it doesn't I don't know but then somehow that gets like politicized I'm not trashing Republicans all Republicans did not see Kyle that guy did and I was just amazed that all liberals had was one day of outrage and like alright

I guess that didn't work that we just kind of move on because they realize they can't do anything to them Like what do you do other than send out some angry tweets? Well the stock went down a little bit But then Trump tried to you know buy some some Tesla's on you know Live on television to show people that it's cool about it the company so the people online said Bill Burt is absolutely cooking he don't realize he's gonna lead a revolution and then make jokes and complain about it So they want you to tell them what to do. That's one comment There's multiple. If you go down this, they was giving it up for you this morning. If you are in this business, the last thing you want to do is read comments on the internet.

I tell her that every f***ing day. Whenever a person is trending, I have to go see why. It's just in my world of things. She lives in the comments. This is not the comments. This is like you were trending across the US on Twitter, so I clicked to see why because I knew you were coming today and then I saw the comment that you made which I saw the day before but people just started. Common sense comment that we shouldn't have a Nazi.

Yeah and people just started yelling about it today so that's why you were trending. Alright we got more with comedian Bill Burr when we come back. Don't move it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody it's E, J, N, V, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, The Guy, we are the Brent Fist Club. Lauren LaRosa is with us as well. We're still kicking with comedian Bill Burr. Charlamagne? You said you feel like Billionaire, the like rabbit dogs who deserve to be put down. Wow. Damn.

Why do you feel that way? Well, I mean, it's a podcast. I'm joking. I'm exaggerating. You can't do that in 2025, Bill. You just say anything, Bill? Yes, you can. And did it and it's fine You know what I hate I hate when somebody shows them a clip from a movie or a sketch and be like, oh you couldn't do that Today it's like you just did it. That's true. And we all watched it and everything was fine So like I so you don't really feel like billionaires are rabid dogs. We should be put down I I think that they should be regulatedism is great, but unregulated capitalism, I don't think the direction this is going in where now these guys, the thing

is, is they're all competing with each other. They don't hang out with regular people, they just hang out with other billionaires. So when somebody has an infinity pool overlooking an infinity pool, then that's what they want. And you know, I think they just go around looking at their net worth, and they're trying to be like the first trillionaire, but I don't know, I don't understand that, but this whole like heartless way that they treat workers is, it's gotta stop. It has to stop, and I don't, I do find it funny though that it's nerds that are ruining the world, because they used to always go after like frat boys and stuff and it's like well now look at it. It's all of these these I don't know. They're all getting like hair plugs and they get like face. I don't understand but the CEO they take jiu-jitsu and they eat raw almonds. But you know people feel like that about multimillionaires too though Bill and you are multimillionaire.

I hit the lottery. Yeah, I was I worked in a warehouse I did like that and then I tried like I you know, I went after something and it paid off like there's no way to win that conversation where it's just like, oh, you got money now. So shut the cup. And then but then if you act like you have money, it's like, oh, don't forget where you came from. So like, I don't know, I'm nobody's the same person that they were. I'd like to think I learned some along the way. But like, you know, people who work for me get Yeah. Yeah. I don't want them to go to bed terrified, wake up terrified, go to work terrified. Like that one psycho said that he wants his workers to do. Like I want people to be comfortable. Yeah. Like why wouldn't you want your employees to like when I was growing up, you know, the working class, it was like one week's pay should be your rent or your mortgage. And now I know people that work a whole month and have to get like a second job and that's just not good.

You know, you need to be home with your kids. If you have a second job, you can't do that. You can't raise them right. It causes more problems. I don't know. So you like compassionate capital. Yeah, I have no problem with people running stuff. I have no problem with people making a ton of money.

But like, you know, when your workers are wearing adult diapers because they don't have time to go to the bathroom. Damn! Is there driving your truck across the country like yeah that's what I've seen. Alright maybe maybe you're taking too much of the pie. That's all so I don't know. Random question did Billy Corgan get the DNA test to see if you and him are really half brothers? I don't want you know yeah I don't want to get into that. I don't want to get into that. That was just a you know I love Howie but we're still trying to work that out. Yeah, that he did that. Oh, so that was real

I wasn't a bit with it. I had going on. I don't want to I don't want to I'm just gonna leave that stuff alone I said a lot of people out there that aren't in this business that might be affected Okay, I need to ask you said you've been married 11 years Uh-huh, you said you finally got it right. Yeah wrong for so long. He didn't know happy wife was happy life Yeah, which sounds cute It's a threat with me happy wife happy life. What do I mean? What do you mean? You never been with a female? I've been married 20 years. Yeah, and you're smart enough to say what do you mean? So I say it so you don't walk home I'm trying that slick shit. You ain't see the alley you've been. What do you mean so I say it and so you don't walk home. I'm trying to slick.

What do you mean by that? I live on a different planet. Um, no, I, I kind of, uh, no silence. Silence is the key. When they get all going on about something, you don't have to take the bait. You just sit there. If you don't engage, like arguing with the, with the woman as an away game is what I've learned. And you're just gonna lose But if you just stay quiet not hostile quiet neutral quiet Yeah dies of its own weight and then you just if you just never get upset then they did say so look at her

You see the look on her face. They come around and they come around and then but then listen think too You can't ask them to apologize either. Damn. You can't you have to make it them Feel like it was their decision. You know what I say, and this might sound a little off I say sometimes winning is losing Yeah, well, I wouldn't go that negative That's a little hopeless you have your guy friends to say what you really feel in that moment What that you used to say to your wife? But like you just don't do it anymore. You just sit there and go like, you know, you just let him go But it's not a competition like

oh it's not a competition you are purposely trying to make her mad I think he was no I wasn't I accidentally did what she was doing to me because it was all of those times when I was like I'd be in an argument I would be right and then all of a sudden I would be arguing some other going like how did we get over here and then I would say something dumb and then I would end up having to apologize even though I was right and then I would go for a walk and then sort of like you know after you lose a game you're looking at the game film and I was ah she did it to me again so I don't know.

They always say went through your actions never through argument so I feel like that's what you mean when you say just be quiet. Yeah I mean that's whatever you just said is more evolved than I am I just try to, like that was like when I'm on Duolingo and I kind of know most of the words and I was like, wait, let me just hit pause and think what was just said. Just went through your action and never do argument. Like I don't need to argue with somebody. Just showing proof basically. I saw you say that one of the greatest things that ever happened to you is that you went

bald. You went bald for your acting career. Oh for acting. Yeah. Because before that when I had the red hair or whatever, they talk about all the stereotypes in Hollywood. It's not just with people of color. I was in the redhead drawer, and there's just certain roles

that you get. And I remember, I'm old enough that we had black and white head shots. So in the 90s, with the mousse and the hair, it kind of looked like brown hair. So a couple times in some smaller projects, independent things, they would bring me in for the lead. And I was thinking, oh my god, I'm finally getting to go in. I'm

finally gonna have like a big part. And I would come walking in, like you know, prepare three scenes, right? And I would come walking in and then they would see me. They'd be like, oh okay, we're just gonna do the first scene. And I knew what that was. It's like you're not gonna have... there was just this unwritten rule that if you were a redhead, you weren't gonna be the lead. A redheaded male was not gonna be the lead in a movie, so... Going bald and shaving my head, you know, I started looking more of like the a** than I am, so I got to play those kinds of guys.

You know, like this thing I'm... and Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross, this guy David Moss that I'm playing. Mm-hmm. You know, he sounds like all the guys that I grew up with, like, um... It was a different time, and people just yelled at each other and they said horrible to each other and there was like no Apology and you just kind of moved on so what made you want to do bro? I guess like that like you already do the hardest thing there is to do on stage I think comedians a maniac for you is one person to go on stage I would say editing a movie is way difficult than uh, really?

Oh my god first of all on your first movie if you don't know what you're doing if like you know when you see experienced directors they they'll have a guy they like starting to edit the stuff as they go so they almost have their first cut at the end your first time director it's like you took five jigsaw puzzles and just threw it in the air and it's on the floor and you have to look at every piece and try to figure out how it went together that's the hardest as far as in show business thing that I did and then before show business any construction

Landscaping roofing was brutal, but stand-up is not hard It's more humiliating in the beginning when you don't know what you're doing But once you know what you're doing It's one of the easiest jobs in entertainment because it's in real time We're like a movies an hour and a half and it takes like three months to shoot it 16 hour days, you know an hour stand-up takes an hour. So if you're funny, it's an easy job. Well, why Broadway now? Because I fell in love with acting.

And Broadway I never was into. You know, I just thought it was all like cats, Les Mis and all of that. I didn't understand any of that. But in the late 90s, 2000, I saw True West with John C. Reilly and rest his soul Philip Seymour Hoffman. And it wasn't a musical and I watched it and I was like, wow, it was electrifying. I was like, this is amazing. I would love to do that. And I had started to take some acting classes,

you know, for about five years at that point. I just sort of, you know, the way the business used to be was like stand up led to acting back when you got paid to be an actor As opposed to now, I don't know what's going on. Yeah, so I just started taking acting classes I don't know. I don't know how most of the stuff is after my career and somehow I I ended up on this thing Uh, which is crazy and we've done three preview shows, which is funny. They act like they don't count Until the premiere, but it's like people paid like these count But it's a great cast of people and everybody's been killing it. So been fun.

Hi, we got more with Bill Burr when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Bill Burr. Lauren. In the opening of your special, you're walking on a stage, you talk about how comedy is like kind of like your safe space or whatever because you've you didn't

I never said safe space. It's my estimation of What did you say because whatever it was I was surprised to hear you saying because you said something about like you didn't know How much you wanted people to like you? Oh, yeah, thought I did. And I was confused. I'm like, really? Yeah. Well, I thought I did stand up because I liked comedy. That's what I thought, but I didn't. And through taking mushrooms and figuring myself out, I realized that the reason why I did comedy, aside from I liked making people laugh and that's how I connected with them.

It wasn't this way to go on stage and make a room full of strangers like you. So they wouldn't hurt you. Yeah. So that was kind of like, you so they wouldn't hurt you. Yeah, and I was. So that was kind of like, you know. That's okay, I just was surprised that you said that because this other stuff you say, I'm like, you know people are gonna dislike you for that,

but you still say it, so. How does this? Well, that probably has to do with not getting love and then when you grow up, then you push it away or something, or not feeling worthy of it, low self-esteem. There's a lot of stuff in there. I gotta take some more mushrooms to figure that part of it out, but.

You do a lot of plant-based medicines? No, I just, I don't know what I do. I've only done mushrooms like three or four times. And what I like about it, it's the only drug I've ever done that didn't make me wanna do it again the next day. It made me wanna like work on myself and try to be not such an ass. And.

Has it worked? Yeah, it has. I'm not gonna get into it, but confronted a lot of stuff that happened to me that made me become a comedian or have the need to do it. And then it made me understand my wife more and what it was like to be with me. Because you know what I mean, if you grew up in a crazy environment, your idea of not crazy is just less crazy than the crazy you grew up with. But if everybody, if you get with somebody that had a regular happy childhood, whatever that is,

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Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. And then that becomes the most difficult thing I think as a human being is empathy. Get out of me and listen to you, what are you saying and then you know admitting you're wrong, okay you're right, that's hurting you, I'm acknowledging that, blah blah blah. Like that's the type of stuff I got out of taking mushrooms. Is figuring yourself out good for entertainment?

Meaning like when you are 100% one of the biggest f***ing myths as a comedian is if you get happy, you're not going to be funny anymore. It's it is it. It breathes all new life into you and you can re-examine all of these topics that you've talked coming from a different perspective, being happy. Also you can maybe do standup for the crowd instead of yourself because now you're happy. It's like, Hey, let me make them happy for an hour. Like they're, that man you makes you more empathetic. You can relate to people even if you haven't gone

through what they've gone through you understand that they're going through something. So if they do yell at you rather than taking it personal you can come at them from a different angle which is my favorite thing to do is to just just not take it personally and try to figure out where it came from and get them to laugh about themselves to realize that what they yelled at me had nothing to do with me, it had to do with what happened to them on Tuesday or when, I don't know, years ago or something like that. So when you look at your old stuff, do you feel like you was just projecting? Like you were just projecting your anger or whatever it was?

Yeah, I was a... I don't know, when I... Well, I don't watch my old stuff, but if I was to watch it, it would make me cringe or anything. I would just sort of look at it more like, you know, that's where I was. You know, a lot of the stuff that I said about women had really nothing to do with women. It had to do with the fact that I wanted to be married and wanted to have kids. I didn't know how to do it. I was too walled off. That's like a really heavy thing to try to figure out in your 20s.

I mean, I don't know. I didn't have the maturity to do that. So what I did was I lashed out at what I wanted instead and blamed them because that's way easier than trying to figure out yourself. Maybe I don't know. I would probably cringe at some of the s*** that I said. I've heard comedians say, I'm a big proponent of therapy, but I've heard a lot of comedians say, I'll never go to therapy because you know, I need this trauma. Like, do you? Well, that's just where they are. I hope they go to therapy because you know, I need this trauma like do you well, that's just where they are I hope they get to look because it's just like alright, so you want to be upset your whole life you get one life I don't believe in reincarnation you get one life. It's like you could be happy

You could make other people happy you could help them out you could do that or you could just go around You know taking out your childhood on other people which is what the fuck I was doing. Yeah Do you think about dying? You just said, uh, reincarnation. Yeah, but not in a bad way. I don't believe in an angry God and I don't believe that he's going to judge me. It's like you made me. Did I f*** up? Well, that's your mistake. Jesus. Well, I always equate it. If I built a car and it doesn't start up, I made him get mad at the engine.

Yeah, but if you tell him, we put this type of gas in it and somebody put something else in it and it f***s up, it's not the builders fault. Okay so that's the devil analogy. Is that the devil analogy? No I'm just talking. It's like my thing is... You just went reverse Henry Hill. I'm just listening. I'm just talking. I just want to hear the sound of my voice. It's soothing to me. It's soothing to me to present ideas. I do understand what you're saying though, because I think about that often. I don't believe in that devil s***. It's like, that's God's creation. You created that. Handle that. And there's a lot of things here that cause us to make poor choices.

God makes sociopaths. He makes horrible people also. But for some reason with religion religion that's not God's responsibility And then these horrible people do horrible to kids and stuff and it messes them up And then they got to go out in the world and then they start being toxic or whatever It's I believe in God, but I don't necessarily believe in a loving God Explain that well, then why would he make all these horrible people? People are saying the devil got a kingdom and it's the devil's work. What's your religious background? Like are you spiritual or are you like religious? The difference is like how you practice. Like are you in church often or you or you just have your own faith journey with whoever you preach?

I don't do any of that. Okay. I just try to be a good guy. I don't know. I don't understand like even if you look at the animal world, he created all the animals too. The fact that like there's just animals out there that their whole purpose is to be food to be eaten alive like rabbits it's just like the pathetic the patheticness of being a rabbit that means God was thinking about us are his other creatures that need to eat explain bears just like why would you make something like that and they have an inability to kill something without starting to eat it first? Like what I like about lions and tigers and s**t is they have the decency to kill you

before they start eating you. Whereas like a f**k bear just pounces on you and just starts ripping meat out of your back like Leonardo DiCaprio. But that's only if you're in their environment. I know but deer are. Why did deer have to go through that death? Why can't it just kill the thing because deers are those animals food like when you have me what they explained stand up Why do they have to have such an agonizing if there's a loving God?

Why would he make something that's so stupid? It has the ability to kill something. It just starts eating it You want a Bible answer for that or you or you y'all just discuss it? All right, I want to hear you. I'm open to this. So, okay, so the way that this story goes in the Bible is that... And Job said, the bareth shall molleth and start eatingeth. No. Especially if the deer is gayeth. You know that gay deer meat? It's sweet. How's it taste? You hear me? It's sweet. How's it taste?

I hate this place. Bill Burr, ladies and gentlemen. All right. You said you had one more question, I was just waiting for it. You said you want billionaires to be put down. Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Burr. Who would think that that would be a controversial take? Everybody.

I mean, put down? I like compassionate capitalism. If you're a piece of s*** person, period, regardless of what your financial status is, we probably can do without you. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Alright, this is my impression of Bill Gates eating an apple in his house. Wait a minute, is this one of mine? Bill Burr, ladies and gentlemen, drop dead years out now on Hulu.

I mean, you know what I mean? He's not gonna eat the food he's making us eat. I get it. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is this the one I'm giving out to babies? Or is this for my own orchard? Is this a billionaire apple or is this just for the common people? Yes, 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 becoming a straight face. Tell her, tell her, man!

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 you. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details, sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. On The Breakfast Club.

Talk to me. Well, y'all, Lizzo is back on stage. It has been years since she has performed. It's been two years and she hit the stage in Los Angeles and she talked about her mental health and not wanting to be here at one point. Let's take a listen. My album is called Love, and I named it that because about a year and a half ago, at one point. Let's take a listen. I was deeply afraid of people that I didn't want to be seen. Eventually I got over that fear and as I was walking through the crowd to get to my spot, somebody who I didn't know looked at me and said, Lizzo, I love you. And it was a thousand people and then it was ten thousand people showering me with love and support

and reaching out and it was f-saver. And after that experience, I was like, damn, you can't get this on the internet, bro. This is the kind of love you can only get in real life. Yeah. That's what's up. Yeah. So it's good to hear her feeling better. And she was in way too back, small neck slim. Just told you that. Lost a lot of weight. I really didn't stop paying attention until I saw her this uh I saw something she posted this week. She was in red? Yeah. Yes the one in red she posted this video on this red leather outfit and she was like it's giving bbl allegations. I was like go off Lizzo. And that's what I'm saying it was a color see sometimes they wear black because black will trick you you know what I'm saying but when you wear red, red pops

so you can really see the weight loss in the red I know she just she posted it like someone she was with she was in her underwear and a bra and she still look good Like she saw that one, but that was the black no shadow black underwear and a black Body like still yo, she lost a lot People always forget that these artists are regular people right? They put their art out there and they put their life out there and people joke, they laugh, make fun and people hurt. I'm glad she's getting the love that she needed to make sure she's about. No they wasn't joking her art, they were joking her weight. That was the joke about Lizzo. Okay maybe it was the weight. Yeah it was the weight thing, she also had the lawsuit stuff happening.

They saw her because they said she called her fat. She was fat too. That's what I'm saying. She was calling her fat back. And I'll come calling her fat back. That's what I'm saying. And I'll come back to the fact. You know what I'm saying? It was a big lawsuit. But that's what now, now she losing the weight. She can't nothing to talk about now.

Now what you gonna say? You want her back off the stage again obviously. Because leave her alone. She just got out of it. Here you go. This is support. What are you talking about? What you gonna say about her now?

Nothing. I ain't saying nothing before. We told you she looked good. You had to see it in red. But anyway, but anyway, um, switching gears, sending a congratulations to Normani and DK Metcalf who are now engaged. We're dropping a Clues bomb for them. I'm feeling Lauren. I never feel what happened to her. Don't say that. Don't say that. Lauren will feel that way.

Lauren, don't even feed into it. Get, keep going, Lauren. Don't feed into it. I'm staying focused, because I'm staying focused. That's right. All right? So they got engaged. He said that their families were together in Houston,

so he thought it was the perfect time. He actually said that he'd been trying to propose to her for over a year, but because of their schedules with her performing and him doing his thing, it didn't happen, and he wanted to sure the families together were together when he did it So the way he did it was he sent her like flowers like repeatedly and each time she received the flowers and had like a story In it and the last bouquet of the censor the card read will you marry me? She said yes, and now they are engaged which is so amazing. That's a good miss of any

I love a thoughtful engagement. So I'm telling you my brothers when you do your engagement You got to go all out because that's the story that she won't tell in the future for the rest of her life I mean good. Yeah, they're beautiful black couple. They just look good together. Normani is a smoke-shell herself, but like yo, she look good next to you, so that's what's up. Yeah and Russell Wilson who? Introduced them posted about it. They were on FaceTime Russell Sierra and look good next to y'all so that's what need to reboot love connection and let Russell Wilson host it then because you know Russell and Sierra got the relationship that everybody be liking right and now he could make it love connections like this yeah you should figure that out you like MTV and stuff no I want to do that but I just think

that's a good idea for somebody to do yes like him yes actually fire okay Russell hey you're gorgeous it'll gorgeous. It'll be easy. It'll be easy. Y'all gotta stop. Thank you, Jaz. He be in here hating, yo. I don't be hating. And the fact that you, you know, you give young Brandy with the pie face, young natural face. Here she go. I heard you say Monica too. I don't see no damn Monica. I don't see Brandy and I don't see Monica. I don't see Lauren London either. Can we talk about it please? Because that's what she said. No, I never said that. No, I did not. And I don't see Monica. I don't see Lauren London. Can we talk about it, please?

Lauren was in this room trying to convince me that she looked like Brandi Monica and Lauren London People used to call me Lauren London because my name was Lauren and she was- Oh, what people? And the LLs. A lot of people. Cause Lauren LaRosa, Lauren London. Come on, we're not doing this again. And how you look like Brandi and Monica? I don't know, ask the people. Jesus Christ. I don't speak, I'll do you on the side. Well look, if you say you look like Morris Chesna, she could look like whoever she wants to. No. No, cause we all know that that's- I don't say that. Other people say that.

You like the ash- Nobody says that but you- I was trying to figure out how she look- I don't say that. Other people say that. Nobody says that but you. I ain't never heard nobody say I look like Brandi and Monica. The boy is yours. Just yours or just yours? Yours alone. Stupid. Stupid. Well before we wrap up, I do want to mention, cuz we had broke the story about who would be there paying their condolences to Angie Stone. So her funeral today will take place in Atlanta and it will be live streamed so the word family the church they have a live stream there's

several live streams that are available for people who are not able to make it in person so I just wanted to make sure that people knew that that was happening today the home going services begin at 11 a.m. today in Atlanta. So sending you know her family her friends the fans that will come out with some comfort as well and another rest in peace to her. Rest in peace to Angie Stone, man. Sending healing energy to all her family. When's the fourth show on the 803, tomorrow?

Yeah. So today is Atlanta and then tomorrow is the private ceremony with her family and friends in South Carolina. South Carolina, yeah. All right. Well, that is the latest with Lauren. Thank you, Lauren. You're welcome. All right. Now, when we come back, Shlamagne. Oh, shut up. Charlamagne, we give that donkey

too. Hater. Release it. God do your thing. More after the owl is going to Chuck Schumer. We need him to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him, please. Okay. All right. Well, we do that when we come back. Don't go anywhere. Then Tank will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

You're checking out the Breakfast Club. This is a miracle. There is no question that there are problems in this country between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey. The latest on that police killing of a black man. Now the new developments in the deadly spot shooting rampage. Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did.

And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacy is violence. It always has been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white. The breakfast club, bitches! Please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? Yeah, it's donkey of the day for Friday, March 14th. Goes to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader who broke with his party,

the Democrats, on Thursday and signaled that he will clear the way for a Republican spending bill. Let's go to Fox 40 for the report, please. I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country to minimize the harms to the American people. Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.

Schumer is only the second Senate Democrat to state definitively his intention to vote to advance the GOP written spending bill, but it's likely he'll give the political cover to other Democrats. Still, Schumer admits he agrees on principle with his fellow Dems that the bill is far from ideal. While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much much worse. Schumer argued that a shutdown would leave veterans without critical services and could

empower Trump to lay off more staff at the Social Security Administration, hurting seniors and people with disabilities. It is not a clean CR. It is deeply partisan. It doesn't address far too many of this country's needs. But I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even more even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option. Now I don't know what happened between Wednesday and Thursday because on Wednesday Chuck Schumer said

he wouldn't do that he said Senate Democrats would not provide the votes needed for Republicans to advance the House approved deal to fund the government through September in fact Schumer proposed the one-month stopgap measure to allow time to negotiate. And that's what you should do if you think a bill is terrible. Negotiate. By the way, I'm not saying the Republican bill is bad. Chuck Schumer said that. Let's listen to him again. Say it. Listen. There is nobody in the world, nobody, who wants to shut the government down more than Donald Trump and more than Elon Musk. While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much much worse. Oh Chuck Schumer, oh Democrats

the party of inaction. But that's the difference between Democrats and Republicans. One party is about inaction and one party is about all action. Okay even if that action is harmful to the country doesn't matter they are always doing something. Republicans have an agenda they have a plan and they stick together all of them to execute that plan. It doesn't matter if Republicans go at each other in the media disagree with each other because when it comes time to vote they all fall in line. Okay they get things done. Democrats do not do this and this is just the latest example. Per usual the party of inaction the Democrats have failed to protect or even attempt to fight for the interests

of the American people. I know Dems don't have much leverage but damn it if you got some use it. Okay salute to the good sister, former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner. I saw her post something last night on Instagram that I completely agree with. She said, and I quote, As Republicans hold a trifecta, which means they control all branches of government, it was their party's responsibility to pass a budget and get the votes to keep government running, not the Democratic Party. End quote. Never mind that the bill is terrible.

Chuck Schumer, you said the bill is very bad. You said the Republican bill is a terrible option. You said it's not clean. You said it's deeply partisan. And the most important part, it doesn't address the country's needs. So on one hand, the government shuts down and the other hand, a terrible bill passes that doesn't address the country's needs.

So it sounds to me like regardless of how this goes, working class Americans get screwed. Typical. Okay. Democrats get pushed around and bullied into doing the Republicans bidding. Typical. So in the words of DMX, here we go again. Listen, since 2019, I've been getting on this radio and telling you that Democrats suck at messaging. I wrote about it in my third book, Get Honest or Die die lying. Okay, but the reason them suck at messaging is simply because they have nothing to talk about. Okay, they ain't talking about nothing. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? They ain't talking about nothing because they have nothing to talk about. No identity, no plan, no backbone. Republicans are the bullies, Democrats are the cowards, and

that's the story. Okay, but listen in order to change the messaging you got to change the people in the party They will always and forever continue to have a messaging problem because Democrats have a leadership problem And it's time for the Chuck Schumer's of the world the Hakeem Jeffries of the world to step down go away We need people in those positions willing to fight Not only should Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries step down, any Democrat who isn't fighting for the people and standing with the party should be primaried. Okay, we the people have zero confidence

in democratic leadership, all right? People will continue to have zero confidence in Democrats until we get some new Democrats, okay? Don't talk to me about midterms. Don't talk to me about 2028, because the reality is, what's the point of voting for the type of Democrats that will continue to do? Nothing. All right, we need to get rid of what we got and bring something new in I don't want any more cowardly Democrats who are beholden to the corporate dollar because when you are beholden to the corporate dollar

You are beholden the corporate interest and not the interests of the people Chuck Schumer If you know a bill is terrible, okay, if you know this bill doesn't serve the best interests of the people, what are you voting for it for? Okay, you're not even going to try to put up a fight. When it comes to budget negotiations, you're not even going to try to negotiate. Chuck Schumer thinks that by 2026, Republicans will be so unpopular because of the policies they've implemented and because the economy is so bad that people will just come running back to Democrats. But does he not realize that folks will remember that you too Chuck voted for these bills? Hey maybe that maybe Chuck Schumer

doesn't really think this bill is terrible maybe he likes the bill he just doesn't have the nuts to say hey I actually like the bill and I'm voting for it because it's good and I like it I would respect that because I don't care what party does what I just want things to get done So America can benefit but once again because since everyone is playing politics It simply looks like one party Republicans is about action and the other party Democrats is not So what reason do I have to continue to support the party of inaction? That narrative will not change for Democrats until the people in the Democratic Party are changed Please give Senator Chuck Schumer the biggest he-ho not change for Democrats until the people in the Democratic Party are changed.

Please give Senator Chuck Schumer the biggest he-ho. Hey, you gotta be, you have to be a Republican. When you gonna come out and just say, I'm a Republican? What that got to do with being a Republican? What the hell, everything I just said just had to do with being a Republican. You just stay-ishin' on Democrats. Like, earlier today you was like, what's the point of votin' for them?

Well, if I vote for a party, and I support a party, and I expect the party to go in there and fight for me, and I voted for them, and fight for the American people, you damn right I'ma be on their ass. You know what I'm sayin', like, you like, can't stand these people. Like, you literally hate these people. Like, this is crazy. Nah, he's by.

He going on Republicans and he going on Democrats. He by. He going on everybody. Equal opportunists. I do hate people who are not fighting for the American people but claim to be fighting for the American people. You're absolutely right. I know.

I'm telling you, you are a gay Republican. That is who you are. I'm not Republican or Democrat. I'm an American and I want the best for the American people. So if this man Chuck Schumer is telling me that this bill is terrible and just yesterday he said he wouldn't vote for it but the day he's flip-flopping, yes I'm on his ass. I will say yeah now you're on everybody's ass. You're right you You're a gay Republican you you stay on anybody Whether it's Republican whether it's Democrat, whether it's independent people always hear you talk about Democrats more I'm gonna tell you when you get equal opportunities when it comes to it I will say that. I'm gonna tell you when people think I'm really a Republican

When I take ice up on this awful and I go on this ride along with them and I show up to your house And I point to your house and I say that's where the illegals are sir. That's where the illegals are. By the way, you know what? I'm going to put cases on both of y'all mother f***ers. Okay? DJ KZ and Jess Hilarion. Yeah, I can see you right there now.

The sassy point too. Like yes, she said I'm a gay Republican. That's him. That's him. That's him. Her family is Mexican in there. That's right. That's crazy, that's him. That's him, that's him. Yes. Her family is Mexican and American. Yes, that's right.

That's right. Jesus Christ. Crazy. All right, all right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. When we come back, Tank will be joining us. R&B singer Tank, he's on Broadway. He's performing in Alicia Keys' Broadway play.

It's called Hell's Kitchen. We'll talk to him next. It don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's the EJNV Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the Guy. I don't go anywhere as the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody.

It's DEJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy we are, The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. Seemed like he trying to take our job doing all these interviews and stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, we have R&B singer Tank.

Tank. I'm not trying to take your job. You're doing a phenomenal job. Yes, you are. No. Yes, you are. I am just cater to take your job. You're doing a phenomenal job. Yes you are. I am just catering to my people. I'm making sure that my community has a place to go. That the conversation is bridged from the old to the new.

I love it. You know what I love about the R&B Money podcast? There's always so many hip-hop podcasts. The rappers got a place to go. The OG rappers got a place to go. R&B money has created that space for the R&B world and now the R&B music awards you guys have a dedicated hip-hop not you hip-hop has a dedicated award show right whereas the R&B dedicated award show so that we can cover the entire gambit of R&B. R&B is so many things.

It's so vast. You can't cover it in two to three categories at some award show and think that that's going to do it all justice. Oh, I want to hear about this now. So what might that be coming out? Are you creating this? I want to know the category. As an R&B icon like you are, what are the categories of R&B? Because all we think is R&B. Let's go soul.

You get into the songwriter aspect of it, the producer aspect of it, even the performance aspect of it. You know? Yes. All of these things are so different. Like a Jill Scott is way different from a Summer Walker. From a Summer Walker. You know what I mean? It is way different from... Summer Walker. From a Summer Walker.

You know what I mean? It's way different. Calvin Richardson is way different from Chris Brown. Right. You know what I mean? And so how do we create these tiers and levels to where all of the nuances of R&B can be recognized? Give me an example of progressive.

Oh, CB is progressive. Okay, okay. Completely. He's the current state of R&B music You know what I mean? Even if even if we want to say what what Drake and party just did you know I mean that's very progressive R&B You know I mean if you want to say what is more traditional I'm more in the middle of a traditional progressive R&B artists because I can do a record with Chris Brown

But you know I can also do a record with God rest her soul and Angie Stone. See I like the traditional and I said that when the party and Drake album dropped I was like that ain't for me and they was like well you know it's for the ladies because it's R&B. I'm like no guys like R&B I just don't like that type of R&B. Exactly, exactly there's a difference and so we have not had the conversation about all of these things together we just say best R&B album. And then you got Chris Brown in a same category with Robert Glassberg.

It's like, how do you do that? We're not all just one thing. So when, when are you doing this? Is it thought out to that where it's going to happen? Or it's been, it's, it's, it's been great conversations. You know what I mean? Me and my brother, Jay Valentine, we have, we've actually had this conversation with Jesse Collins. And so, you know, all of this, what I'm doing right now

is just kind of creating the anticipation and the desire and hopefully enough comments will come and people will see the value, because that's where it starts. People have to see the value in what we do in order to create this next level platform. Well don't leave Black Effect and I Heart out the conversation. You know, I Heart is known to put together a good award show.

Well what do you want to do? I want to help with the R&B Money Award Show. That would be fantastic. There you go. Done. I want to know how is it for you, right, knowing all these R&B stories, right, and I'm watching your podcast and I know you know the answers but some of these times it hasn't been put out there and you're just feeding the person right?

Like I look at um Stephen Hill mm-hmm with the Chris Brown situation Yeah, you're leading him because you knew what happened, but making him explain the story was amazing I didn't know what happened really I didn't even know he was part of it I knew from Chris's side that they had got him all the way to the point of where that they had got him all the way to the point of where it was about to happen and then pulled the rug out from under him. I didn't know the intimate details and who all was involved. And hearing Steve, like Steven is like you know he loves he loves that. He loves it. He felt like he was getting ready to create one of the most iconic moments of all time. And he was.

Looking for that rehearsal? Jesus. He was. He was. And it hurt him that now he, you know, has to go back and tell CB that it's not happening. You know what I mean? Like that, that crushed him more than anything. And he was like, man, if you could ever talk to him, just let him know I love him.

I want, you know, I wanted that for him for him I just they pulled it from me nothing I could do I was gonna ask did you put them on the phone after that cuz he said in your interview that they hadn't he hadn't gotten it well he wanted to see him in person to apologize and stuff like that so no we didn't get a chance to make that happen but but I'd love to make that happen another one of my favorite R&B money podcast recently was the LA Reid episode he really sparked a real conversation and it just had me thinking about, yes, you need black boutique everything.

You need that. We need to be able to operate the way we operate. Just let us do what we do. Even with what you guys do. You guys do what you do, which is why it is what it is. There's nobody micromanaging or policing you. You get your paycheck, whatever that is, but it's because of how you do your thing. Nobody's interrupting that, which is why it's what? How many years in the making? 15. 15. Jesus Christ. Imagine if you had no control of that.

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Word. I'ma go down with me. I'm gonna go down with me and that's what we've lost. We've lost the people that have done it from here. I just believe like think about the Angelos untitled. If somebody just doesn't say ah I just I just feel like this is different they never get to the third single, which is a life-changing record. We'll have that no more. Our analytics say, we're losing here, we're done. We're gonna move on.

Right? Well, how does it feel wasn't the third single, was it? How does it feel was the third single? The butt naked video was the third single? Wow. I did not know that. How do we not get to that? I did not know that.

One of the greatest songs of all times. I did not know that. How do we not get to that? I did not know that. One of the greatest songs of all time. I did not know that, wow. You know what I mean? Genuine so anxious if Joe Moore didn't say, we gotta get to this one, we gotta get to this one. This one right here is gonna change it, trust me. Maybe I Deserve was my second single. If we were just going off of first singles,

I'm not even gonna name the first song I had out there. I was dancing and flipping and blowing up. You was dancing? Yeah. Who would think first single? Yeah, I thought that was. I remember, cause I remember maybe I deserved. I shouldn't have brought that up.

I didn't, when you said it, I just heard the song. Freaky? No, maybe I heard. I'm just messing it up. Yeah, my first single was called Freaky. Oh, okay. And it almost destroyed my career before it even started. The label?

The label picked it but I was very excited about it as well. When I Googled it it said, a song many have missed. It's his actual first single Freaky which came out first and has pretty much become obscure today. When's the last time you performed that? I was performing the song, I was on promo tour, Fort Valley State, Homecoming. And I'm coming out, I got my freaky interlude,

they wanna get freaky, and then the song starts. And right in the middle of the first hook, these two little cute girls, and the first row was like, whack. I was like, and this was in the dat tape era so I couldn't stop it. You had the idea to let it go all the way through? I had to do the whole song. Damn.

And I sweated the rest of the song and I never sang that song again. Damn. I said don't put it on the album, erase it, get rid of this song. And we did a hard turn, cut the single, went to Maybe I Deserve, thank God. Wow. The rest is history is history rest is history. Alright we got more with Tink when we come back it's the Breakfast Club good morning. Good morning everybody it's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club we're still kicking in with Tink. Charlamagne why Broadway right now because you are featured in Alicia Keys Hell's Kitchen. And it's timing, bro, because for me,

2025 was the hard pivot into acting. The music thing has been so much of my bread and butter and so much of my focus for so long. I was like, I got to get to the other thing that I love. And Charlie Mack had always been telling me, bro, you're going to have to make a hard pivot in order to really do it the right way. And I was like, OK, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it.

And with 2025 coming in the way that it did and having a free moment and opportunity, I'd always heard horror stories about Broadway. You know what I mean? Just in terms of the workload. Yeah, and the pay. And the pay, the facility, all of that. And I was like, yeah, I probably never do Broadway.

And then I get, you know, we get this call from this call from Alicia like hey Alicia is looking for you to do Hell's Kitchen. I'm like what? And I'm like you know the name Alicia Keys is already like that's interesting gotta at least see what that's about right and so they sent some papers over for me to look at and I'm like okay I'm looking at it I'll go see. You know what I mean? Just out of respect for that name itself. So you were to go watch the play before you? Absolutely. Okay, so you saw when Brandon V. Dixon was playing? Well, he wasn't there. All right, all right. His sub was in. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Who's dope as well. And

I watched the play and I fell in love with it. And the next day was actually my walk-in audition and so I kind of knew where I needed to be and at that point it was just like, I think it's time. I think it has answered the question for me. You know what I mean? Me and Lulu, my manager Lulu was talking to me, he's like, it just does something different for you brother. It just does something really different. And in deliberating, I was just deliberating,

like, is this the time to just take a hard left and out of nowhere, Charlie Mack calls me, hadn't talked to in a minute. And he's like, what's going on, bro? I'm like, nothing, just chilling. He wanted to come to my Atlantic City show. I'm like, oh, I got you. Look, he said, I said, imagine question. I got this on the table right now. He said what are we talking about?

Well, I'm asking you you you don't need my opinion. You know what you're supposed to do. There was that and here I am And so, you know when I said I said what Alicia the other day Learn Adam Blackstone and she was like tank. I just felt like it was you hmm, like I didn't know why she's like it was it just to me it just felt like it was you and she's like I didn't even know if you could act and I was like wow you ain't you ain't seen me on lifetime or BT you know I'm saying a TV one I'm the Denzel of that space you know I'm saying I'm a Denzel of that space you ain't seen none of that but she had never seen me act and she was like and then when I saw you in the audition she was like I was just blown away and I was like

no that's what I do singing is that's whatever and so she and I went back and forth singing back and forth her you know singing her amazing catalog and I debuted on Tuesday and so now it's like now it's real. How tough is it the rehearsals and do you have to shut everything else off and? You get time for yourself now because it just seems like a doesn't stop. I'm a machine So I'm a routine guy you know what I mean, so I'm gonna get up help get the kids to school Do cardio eat go to the gym do the second go to the studio, either work on music or do pod, get back, eat dinner with the family, get some wife time in, and the next day do

the same thing. I'm a machine, I'm built like that. So Broadway schedule works perfect for who I am. Now eight shows a week, that's where it gets different. Because they call it, you have an A show, a B show, and a C show in terms of how you perform. I've never been able to do a B show and feel good about it. Because all of those people,

whether it's a Wednesday or a Saturday, they spent their money to see something great. They spent their money to see something great they spent their money to see somebody go all out so I'm doing a shows from Tuesday to Sunday and we got one day off that's Monday and right back to it Jesus what's your rest day like on a Monday like I don't know I just I just started so I'm gonna have my first Monday, next Monday. What's your plans?

Nothing. Go to the gym. You know what I'm saying? Eat some cool food somewhere. You know, maybe keep it Charlamagne and not heart and talk about this. Let's do it. R&B Awards. What about the family?

Like, because you... Family was just here. They came for the, for They came for the debut. My mom came up. Wife, Zoe and Zion came up. And it was really, really cool, man. The 13 weeks is a long time to be away from the family. Especially if you've got a routine, like you say.

It's tougher for them than it is for me. Because for me, I'm hyper-focused. I'm in it. And I have something to do every day, something to look forward to. And so the wife is at home doing the kid thing and all that. But that's why, it's a team. She holds that down, I'm gonna hold this down.

But this to me is like, was the opportunity for people in that space to understand that I'm serious about going here. Kevin was in town the other day, so I went in, saw him and chopped it up with him He was like, I'm really really proud of you for making this move. This says a lot about The next level of where you can go and who you can be and so that's what I'm looking forward to So you got shows tonight? Yeah. Oh

Check out tank at Hell's Kitchen. Hold on, one more thing too. Saturday, April 26th is the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. Can you make it? Yeah, it's a Saturday. Tank and Jay Valentine are gonna be there. I'll be there. I got one day off. That's right.

Oh, that's okay. Just making sure. One day. Have y'all thought about what that's gonna look like live? R&B Money podcast on stage? Nope. Nope. We're thinking about it though Yeah, cuz it's gotta be sexy. You know I'm saying um, you know If it moves me then I promise you Yeah, you know we got it we gotta we gotta figure out what that's gonna cause this

will be you know this would be our first time doing it like we do it. Oh it's your first time doing it live? Well we've done R&B live, R&B money live the event where it's been strictly catered where it's band DJ you know karaoke vibes like the really really dope we've done that up in Phoenix that stadium with one of my guys to spot So we've done that this is who liked the podcast and enjoyed a conversation exactly. So this is pod and conversation So in terms of make trying to figure out what makes ours a little different You know what I mean? We're still formulating that well Saturday April 26 26th, third annual Black Effect podcast festival. Go get your tickets, blackeffect.com slash podcast festival.

Make sure you check out Tank in Hell's Kitchen with Alicia Keys on Broadway right now. We appreciate you, brother. I'm reporting on y'all, man, if y'all don't show up. I'm pulling up, I'm pulling up. I'm putting up on Broadway all the time. That's one of my, I enjoy Broadway. Absolutely.

Okay, and when I'm not here, you know what I'm saying, I still wanna hear somebody say, have you seen Hell's Kitchen? Did you go, did you, you know, don't make me tell Alicia in Swiss. We'll meet there. Good job. And make sure you subscribe to the R&B Money podcast on the Black Effect iHeart Radio podcast network. That's right.

It's Tank, ladies and gentlemen. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Yep, welcome to the Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Yep, welcome to the Breakfast Club. Charlamagne the God. I don't know where the hell Embiid and Jess went, but Lauren LaRosa is here, and my niece, Naila Simone,

is here for Pastor Aux. Go, go, go. Go, go, go. DJ, could that be my DJ? Say go, DJ, could that be my DJ? Naila. Naila. Yeah, DJ, Girl, am I DJ? Yup. Naila. Naila.

Naila. Yeah, DJ come spin, I come spin. Big Naila. What's up guys? I'm glad you here, cause they been trolling me all morning, man. About? Well, it's a well calculated,

strategic thing they got going on. Taylor came in here and Taylor was like, just randomly, Lauren, you should start dressing like Brandi. Cause you look like Brandi. What did Brandi even dress like? Yo are you like slow or you just like this is how you are? She said for Halloween I should be Brandy.

But how is this trolling you? Because then she goes yeah people say I look like Brandy and then she goes and then people say I look like Monica. So I'm just sitting there trying to mind my business because I know they want me to say something so I had to say something. I was like you don't look like Brandi or Monica, you look like Ray J. Now what we got today for Pass the Off, Lila?

What we got? First off, shout out to St. Lounge. I've been doing Ladies Night every Thursday there and it really was a vibe. Last night I had Ken Da Man in there and Cali in there. So shout out to both of them. Those are my girls and Ken just dropped the album and my favorite record on there is called Big Talker.

Still in my corner like Gracie. I still in my corner like Gracie. She ate that. No, Ken the man hard. She dope. Why she ain't popping more? Well you know she just got out of a crazy situation so now she's independent and she's releasing music and this is her.

I thought, cause I remember she got signed I thought that was such a good thing for her no? Well it was a good thing but just music industry is shifting and sometimes people are casualties of that like that always happened to the people that can actually Do stuff like really rap really cuz she also like has a great aesthetic too She does but I think Ken has a like strong enough fan base that's following her So all she has to do is just keep going she's going there's this record on there with her and Cali They're like my favorite best friend rap girl duo called I Got Questions that I really really like. So make sure you guys definitely tune into that project. But next time we get into

Iceware Vizzle who dropped his album I want to say two weeks ago but he got this record on there with Big Sean and Skillababy called Wear Something and it's very fire. Salute the Vizzle. I should have put that on my picture. Just post it. Okay it okay, it's okay. I know you got more photos coming, so make sure you use it. I like that. It's like worth something. It's tight. Big Sean gave a really good verse. And Iceware verse, though, I feel like was just more better. But...

So why you ain't play Iceware verse then? Because Big Sean... It's his song. Yeah, but Big Sean has, you know, a bigger name. So I just wanted to get the album. It's my guy, Vezo. Salute to Vezo, man. Detroit, what up, though?

Yes. Shout out to Detroit. And last but not least, I'm gonna take it back home to New York City, I have Abbey Jasmine who just dropped the R&B project. Back home from New York, you from New York? I'm not from New York but. What do you mean back home? Home as in we're here.

Jesus Christ. Please, please, please. I'm sorry, I'm just saying you a little slow. Yo. And on top of this I asked you a question and I think you just skipped. Nobody here is from New York, you from Delaware, you from Germany, I'm from South Carolina. I'm not from, what makes you from somewhere? Wait, you from Germany? What makes you from somewhere?

Where you were born and raised? But what if those are two different places? I don't know. Anyway, or at least when I stay home, this artist is actually performing at the Next Certified Vibe. It's R&B Night next Friday. It's Abbey Jasmine, Journey Around Atlanta, but Abbey Abby got this dope record called uptown. What did those Latinos in the Bronx do to her that she don't want to go uptown No more what happened? Puerto Rican man You don't want to go uptown no Dope I don't blame her Puerto Rican he could just be from Harlem. I told you all the crazy people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida.

Felt that. Can we get a retweet over here? I felt that. Yeah. But nothing to do with that. But if you guys like that record, make sure you guys pull up to R&B Night next Friday. It's Abbey Jasmine, Journey Montana. You can definitely check them out on the Certified Vibe playlist. It's on the website, certifiedvibe.com. And then we actually are having a rap night that focuses specifically on rappers who rap. So this isn't like no

shade to anybody else, but we'll be playing like Outkast to Tribe to Ruben Vincent to J Cole to Kendrick. Lyrruses. Lyrruses. This is a night for lyricism. So pull up is going to be every other Wednesday at Dumballa in Bushwick So it's a super dope cute spot and it's brand new. So make sure you guys pull up on me every other Wednesday Okay, that's big Naila. Make sure you check out our podcast too. We need to talk and then We got the podcast festival going down April 21st in Atlanta. No, it's April 26

Okay, yes the third annual Black Effect podcast festival is happening. Peace to the planet. So go get your tickets at blackeffect.com slash podcast festival. Now Envy will be up next with the People's Choice mix. It's a pre-recorded mix so he's not actually mixing live. He's not even here anymore. You don't even gotta blow his spot up like that. No I do. I do. It's so stupid for him not to be here now but in five minutes he'll be yelling and screaming. This is true. It's the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody it's DJ, Envy, Jess, Larry and Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to Tank for joining us this morning. Man salute to Tank and make sure to go check Tank out on Broadway. He's in Alicia Keys Hell's Kitchen, which is inspired by Alicia Keys life and music. He's on, I think he's there for 13 weeks. I think it's 13 weeks. Yeah, so make sure you check Tank out there

and also make sure you check Tank and Jay Valentine out at the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival happening Saturday, April 26 in Atlanta, Georgia. They will be there doing their R&B Money Podcast live. So go get your tickets at blackeffect.com slash podcast festival. Also, tonight I'll be out in Milwaukee with Martin Lawrence. We're going to be performing at the Pfizer. It was, it was, yeah, Pfizer.

That's what that is. And you know, I'll be messing up the pronunciation of things, but, and then tomorrow we out in Chicago, me and Martin as well. So get your tickets for that also. No, I think they actually sold out. But next weekend I'm going to be in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Funny Bone, that's my own show. Me and my brother Desi Alexander will be hitting the stage, we got four shows and I will be doing meet and greet because I ain't got to wake up for radio Saturday or Sunday so get

your tickets at jessilaresofficial.com or funnybone.com. Cincinnati, I'll be there next week. So you're definitely going to be in Milwaukee, Chicago with Martin because you know last time I went to go see you and Martin you wasn't there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Last time I went to go see Martin he wasn't there. So that's the thing. Yes, but yes. Me and him will definitely be together tonight in Milwaukee and tomorrow in Chicago. All right. Well when we come back we got the positive news.

Oh and thank you to Bill Burr. Bill Burr came on the show. Oh, Bill Burr too, yep. Yes, make sure you check out his comedy special, Bill Burr, Drop Dead Years. So alright well when we come back Bill Burke came on the bird to yep Yes, make sure you to build birth make sure you check out his comedy special of bill bird drop dead years It's out today on Hulu and he's gonna be on Broadway to Starting on March 31st in a glen Gary Glen Ross. It's called. Yep. Yeah, I'm gonna go check my love Broadway So I'm gonna go check up bill brand tank out on bro sound like the new thing. I like that. That's what's up All right when we come back positive notice the Breakfast Club good morning morning everybody is DJ I'ma go check up Bill Beranty and got on Broadway. Sound like the new thing. I like that. That's what's up. All right, when we come back positive,

notice the Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. I got a salute to the 757. This week I'm actually being honored at Hampton University. Me and my wife, they're honoring a black family, so they are honoring us and all that we do.

Charlamagne, don't you laugh, don't you smile. I see it in your face right now. I see it. No, I'm just trying to see. Why you had to a black family, so they are honoring us and all that we do. Charlamagne, don't you laugh, don't you smile. I see it in your face right now. I see it. I'm just trying to see it. Why you had to say black family? Exactly. They're honoring a black family. They're honoring black families.

It's a black family conference, and they're honoring a black family. The black is the decafine. You are ice. Pull up. Who's a black family? I know Gia is black, but I mean... Yes, I'm black. All right, man.

Absolutely. You better stop, man, because I mean... Yes, I'm black. All right, man. Absolutely. You better stop, man, because people will be like, are you really black? Yes, I'm black. 100% black. You're Dominican, but okay. It's okay. Congratulations, though. Congratulations. I guess. Thanks, guys. Thanks after seeing you. Are you really black? Thanks. Thanks.

But yes, they're honoring... Congratulations to Gia. And the black family... Gia's so black that she make the rest of the family look black. Okay,, congratulations to Gia. And the Black Family Conference. Gia so black that she make the rest of the family look black, okay? So salute to Gia. Oh my goodness. Yes, so we will be in Hampton University, so salute to the 757. Don't say nothing to them. So salute to the 757. We appreciate you guys. Man, you've got a positive note. I do.

Give me some positivity. The positive note is simple, man. It's switching your mentality from why is this happening to me to what is this trying to teach me is a game changer. Remember that this weekend. Don't ask yourself why is this happening to me. Ask yourself what is this trying to teach me? It's a game changer. Have a great weekend.

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