The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Ja Rule Exits Plane After Running Into Uncle Murda & Tony Yayo, + Teddy Riley And Mona Scott Young Interview

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

Today on The Breakfast Club, Teddy Riley talks his new memoir Remember The Times and reflects on his relationship with Michael Jackson. Mona Scott-Young also joins us to discuss Mary J. Blige Presents: Be Happy, Love & Hip Hop, and her legacy in music. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to Jesse Watters & Megyn Kelly after criticizing Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Good morning, how y'allel. there, I feel blessed black and highly favored. Happy to be here, another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning. Good morning. How you feeling, Shala? Man, I feel great. I'm still in a Super Bowl Sunday mode, and that's only because I, you know, still eating Super Bowl leftovers yesterday. I came to the conclusion that I really like Super Bowl Sunday

food, Joe. I like it. Yeah, wings, guacamole. The guacamole. Pizza for some. I make the nacho. My wife makes the nachos with the vegan cheese for me, and the shredded chicken, you know, The beef meat, I mean, not the turkey meatballs.

You should have had empanadas this year. No, I didn't have no. That's your household, sir. You're a Dominican. I'm not Dominican, but you didn't have it, but bad bunnies performing. We're supposed to have an antonas. First of all, nachos could be considered that as well. So what are you talking about?

And when I say, consider that as well, I mean, Latino culture. Culture, yeah. Latino culture. You know what I'm trying to say. Latino culinary food. Culinary food. What am I trying to say here? I don't know.

I don't remember. I don't know. But Teddy Riley will be joining us this morning. Yeah, Teddy Riley will be joining us this morning. You know, salute to Teddy Riley. You know, of course, he's from Harlem. I actually met Teddy Riley when I was in college. When I went to him to university, he opened up a studio out in Virginia, Virginia Beach.

And he had everything out there, Black Street. He had so many different artists stopping through. That's where he founded Farrell. And Farrell was his intern and started working with him. And he had Michael Jackson out there. He had so many people out there. He is from Harlem, but Teddy's also from Virginia, like you said. Teddy's also from South Carolina.

Okay. All his family is from South Carolina. His mom, God bless the dad. It's from South Carolina. And Teddy is just one of those people who randomly Like my life just had me meet years, years, years, years, years ago I'm talking about 20 plus years ago Randomly in L.A.

Me, Teddy Riley, Debbie Brown, Glasses Malone, and Vivica Fox. What? I don't know. I don't know how that happened. I still, to this day, every time I even ask Glasses and Debbie how that happened, Teddy, I don't even know how that happened. Nobody knows.

We just all ended up at a restaurant. And that's when Teddy empowered me in a way that he didn't even realize because he said that there's no tall superstars. He said, in order to be a superstar, you have to be, no, you have to be short. He said, there is no tall superstars. What do you mean? He said, look at the industry. Everybody in the industry is short. And then I said, at the time, I'm like, what about Snoop?

He was like, Snoop is an exception to the rule. Jay Z's tall. Snoop is tall. I'm not going to tell you what he said about that. Okay. All right, but he said Snoop is an exception to the rule. Michael Jackson was tall, wasn't he? I don't know.

I never met him. Chris Brown is tall? I don't know. I hear you running short on names. I know that much. Okay? This is a short king industry, sir. Short king industry.

Jesus Christ. All right. Well, let's get the show crack. Oh, he's got a bookout, though. Remember the Times. A memoir. That's why I tell you Riley is joining us this morning. You got a book out, call.

Remember the Times. And he'll be here to talk about that this morning. So, listen, since we're still in a Super Bowl mood, might as well keep some beneath him. going, okay? I don't know the name of this record, but I enjoy it. I wonder what Spanish people think, where black people just eff up the names.

Benito. What do they call us, Ray? That's called Reno. Morenos. No, what do they call us? Menanos. Moreanos. Moreanos.

Just remember, Barriqua, morano, Barrico, Morano from Big Pun. Yes, but I just liked this record. I don't know you, I had to ask Red. What the hell is he even saying this morning? But play the record, Red. All right. Morning, everybody, yes.

This is the Breakfast Club. You didn't listen to the Latin Station. So it's just the breakfast club. Let's get to Front Face School. What you mean, Babney is Universal. He is the highest streaming artist of the year last year. The album of the year at the Grammys just did the Super Bowl. But somebody tuning in there late just hear that.

They might think we're playing one of the biggest artists in the world. As a radio station should. Oh, yeah, I agree with that. But anyway. Taylor Swift. We don't do that. We don't do that. Biggest artist in the world.

Let's just Taylor Swift. Jesus Christ. All right, let's get in some front page news. Now, Steph Curry will not play in the 2026 NBA All-Star game due to his knee injury, so he will be out this Sunday. Hey, man, you get to that age. That's the first thing that goes, the knees, goddammit. They're calling it, quote, unquote, runner's knee. That's what he

has right now. That calls almost 40 knee. Is that correct 40 yet? No, no, he's not 40. Close to it. He's close to it. All right. What's up, Mimi? Good morning, NVA. Charlemagne, how you doing this morning? Good. Good. Good morning. So we start this morning with new developments in the Jeffrey

Epstein investigation. The lawmakers they questioned Jelaine Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend and longtime associate who was serving 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking minors. Now, she testified by video from a federal prison camp in Texas as Congress continues to examine how Epstein was able to abuse underage girls for years and whether others were involved. Now, when it came time for her testimony for her to answer key questions, Maxwell, she declined to respond. Let's listen to some of that. Have you ever coerced, directed, or otherwise instructed any young, woman or girl to provide sexual favors to Mr. Epstein or any other individual.

I invoke my Fifth Amendment right to silence. I would like to answer your question, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question and any related questions. So basically that's how that deposition went. Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, she was inside of that deposition. Now, afterward, she said she was disappointed with the testimony and suggested that the limited cooperation was intentional. Let's listen to some of that. It is very clear that she used this opportunity to not only campaign for clemency as she has been doing, but also to send a direct message that she is hoping that people who were sitting in the deposition will transmit to the president of the United States,

which is that her silence can be bought through clemency. Let us be clear that Donald Trump has not only named thousands of times in the latest release from the Department of Justice, He is named over 38,000 times in the files that were released two weeks ago alone. There are now at least nine or ten other countries across the world that have opened investigations or forced their leaders to step down because of their mere association with Jeffrey Epstein. And the United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United

States. Yeah, that's why I don't understand the whole, you know, are there others involved? It's clear they were others involved, but I guess they are talking about in regards to who was running the ring? I mean, so good question, because, well, Congresswoman, excuse me, congressman, or congressmen,

two of them, Rocana and Thomas Massey, they were also there. They also reviewed those files, and they said that they're seeing new names people they believe may have been involved. Let's listen to that. I'm very concerned. First of all, most of the unredacted files were redacted. 70, 80% of the documents the DOJ got were redacted from the FBI. The FBI didn't unredacted as the law was required.

The grand jury wasn't unredacted. So a lot of it was smoke and mirrors. Second, Massey and I saw that there are six men who were co-conspirators who were protected and whose names were blotted down. Those names need to be made public. DOJ needs to say who they are and we're pushing to have them made public. But there's no excuse for releasing survivors' names but protecting these six men. These men, US citizens, what fields do they work in?

Are these it finances, is it political? At least one is a US citizen, at least one is a foreigner, and the other three or four have names. I'm not sure if they're a foreigner US. And which field do they work in? One is pretty high up in a foreign government. and some are they're one of the others is a pretty prominent uh individual that's crazy like like who polices the police like it's amazing how the law can only be enforced if people choose to follow it because if the people who enforce it don't follow it nobody is there to check

them they can just redact the files because they they choose to and nobody can say hey y'all shouldn't do that who who holds them responsible for redacting files what is redact what is it meaning redacting files that redacting so that that that that's redacting so that that that black cover up that we saw basically the whole page was covered. Roe said the files that should be unredacted is still redacted. Right. Right. So basically they were hiding those six names. They were redacted. They shouldn't have been redacted. And so they were saying that everything was basically redacted. 70 to 80% of all those files were redacted. They shouldn't have been. According to the law

that they, uh, that Congress passed, they're supposed to be able to review these, these documents without a redaction. And that's not what happened. The grand jury testimony was redacted. That wasn't supposed to be redacted. So as they're going through this, they're finding that over 80% of those files, Charlo, were still redacted, which is against the law. And all these conversations are old conversations with Giselle Maxwell, right? These are all

conversations that they're all old conversations, but she's not saying anything. So she, her attorney, actually, good question, and because her attorney came out and said that she would be willing to testify that neither Trump nor former President Bill Clinton committed any wrongdoing in exchange for clemency. Of course, because she got

That's 20 years. So I wouldn't talk either. I'm going to keep my mouth shut unless you're going to give me something. You're going to give me something? You're going to take some time off my 20-year sentence? You're going to pardon me? I wonder why she even still a lot. Like, why haven't they marked her yet?

Would it be too obvious? But they got a camera on her 24-7. And they had a camera. Allegedly had a camera on Jeffrey Epstein, too, but that camera just mysteriously went off. Oh, damn. Yeah, so we will see what happens. It seems like it's heating up a little bit now.

We're getting a little bit more information as they're reviewing these files. That's crazy, though. The thing about what she said, that she was like, the lawyer said she will say Trump and Bill Clinton had nothing to do with it if you just let her go.

Jesus. I'm just trying to figure out who keeps the checks and balances. Like, that's what I wanted, though. Like, who do Roe Con and them go to at this point? That's the thing. Themselves. They're policing themselves right now.

All right, well, coming up at 7, that quick, affordable lunch spot and maybe shifting focus and your favorite order may soon cost you more will tell you what popular chain may be going up on its prices. All right.

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Whether you're mad or blast. It's time to get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-105-1. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yo, Lord, Tom, no-speak is mellow. M-Vee.

Mello show. You been mellow? What's the word? Life is amazing, man. Life and life and life in, but God been guarding. Can I tell you? That's right. Tell us.

As long as you good. Absolutely, man. First of all, I want to say, happy birthday to my mom. You feel me? I'm not about to air out her age because she's going to work my. Never mind. But also, it's black history months, and I got to double down on this. Yo, can we drop on the cruise bond for all the beautiful natural black women in this world?

Hey. Like, I see Uncle saw the poster flip the other day, and he had the ticker head to him playing. Like, Lauren, love me. Rosa did not have on that If you don't want me then don't talk to me hair cut That's what I'm looking good

Hey y'all You're looking amazing Stop doing that to her, bro No You told her let go A bad wig When she did it Rock and she got the

You told me Put your picture on the mirror And she's looking good Bro Diting part First of all, I liked the hair cut I was the person in the room saying how I loved the hair cut

I said I didn't like it And she took it out of me I loved it I loved that look That's crazy no That's all to believe She's soon as she walked in This nigga was like Chicken Little

That's all that don't mean, that just means she looked like chicken little, but it still look good. Nah, bro, come on, bro. You always like, don't hate on her because you can't pull it off, and I think you. You tried to on die code back in the day.

Hey, what are you talking about? He ain't never had no hair. You probably rock that same haircut, bro. You're not low. Mello, you're just talking. Melo, let me tell you something. I was watching Love Jones for the million time on Saturday night, man.

Yeah, man. There is nothing like 90s rom-com fine. Just that natural beauty. no surgeries, no nothing. Just fly. Beautiful. Oh. What you mean?

Thank you. Goodbye, Melo. I'm like referring with him. Thank you. Hello, who's this? This is Kea. I'm Boston. Hey, what's up, Kea?

Good morning. From where you said Boston? Good morning, DJ M. Solomon's desk. Good morning. You want to get off your chest. So I thought this morning. I wanted to talk about how

Solomon is always getting on DJ Envy about being Dominic. I've been listening to the breakfast club since my daughter was like one. She's now 16 now. And she said to me the other day was all like, oh, mommy, I looked at DJ Envy online because she's never seen

you. And she's like, he is a lot of skin. I didn't know even that light fit. So that's probably why DJ Envy, that's probably why Solomon always getting on him. So I thought it was funny and I wanted to call him. Well, please, let your daughter know the reason I get on him is because I want him to represent his heritage.

I'm not Dominican. I think representation is important. So the fact that he's Dominican, I don't see why he don't represent because other Dominicans would really appreciate it. I am not Dominican. If you're from Boston, where you Kay Verdean? I am not Cape Verdean. I'm black.

Thank you. Oh, no, you Cape Verde. If I'm Dominican, you can't. No, if you, if I'm Dominican, you Kay Verdian. She didn't call you Dominican. Don't get married to her. I don't call you Dominican. I don't think you're Dominican DJMV.

Okay, all right. I thought it was funny because my daughter, I mean, was too up. and thought if you were so licensed, now he knows why Salomey's always getting on you about being Dominican. That's right. So I just thought it was funny.

And I also, I want to shout out the breakfast club. I've been listening to y'all forever. And I also want to take the time to shout out the fact that I am an up-and-comer photographer. I do photography. And, listen, New Jersey, New York is a hop-in-jepin jump away. So that's Salomey, DJ NVie,

If y'all ever need photos, I do have been, include your photos, all of that. I'll pull up, just to hop, skip, and jump away. Well, what's your Instagram? Give out your website and Instagram or something? Yeah. Yeah, my Instagram is, I sign images. That's I, S, A, Y, and E, underscore images.

Okay. Yeah, Laura Lerosa's always in need of a photo shoot. Damn. She is. She is. Well, Jeff, I would definitely love to Sue Gorbitt, too. Yes, ma'am. Thank you very much.

All right. Well, you have a good one, Mama. Yeah, shout out the breakfast. I love you. Love you more. Shout out to all the Dominicans, all the Puerto Ricans, and all of K Verde. That shout out your people. Your shut up.

Every time, breakfast club been on forever, my back hurt. So, Cambodian. Every time, it's like clockwork. Every time somebody say, I was listening to y'all for ever, my little back, my little. Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-1. It's the Breakfast Club good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest.

800-585-10-1. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Zakea. Zika, good morning. Get it off your chest. Okay, first I want to say, Justin, Warren, the young people we love y'all. Like, I'm 23.

I've been watching Jess, probably six. I was like 12. I love you, girl. Lauren, I live for you. And I just want to shout out to my mom. Like, honestly, she's my superhero. She was adopted at 9. Didn't know her parents.

But she raised four children. three graduated college. I'm in, I'm her last child. I'm in college. And I just want to shout her out. She's in Atlanta area. She has three hair salons. And another one in Metro

Polyton area. And I just want to shout her out to her. I love her. What's her name? Maya Lake. What's the area? The head salon name, Mama. Assani J.

It's in Green Bayer. By the discount mall, it's in that area. Oh, Green Bay. It's literally in that. What it's called? That little complex. And first of all, Lauren and Jess say hello to the young lady. I say here, but I want to cut her off.

Thank you, girl. Oh, my bad, God. I'm so nervous. I said thank you when she was talking what we're supposed to do. Stop. I said thank you. You guys. In college for me, I'm excited.

I'm nervous. That's okay. A lot going on. Oh, no. You'll be fine, though. You'll be fine. We appreciate you. Thank you.

Thank you. Talk to her, Lauren. Good morning. Y'all have a good day. Okay, good day. You said, Lauren. No, you say what you guys say, Lauren. You said you was nervous because you went college?

It's a lot going on. No, it's a big week for me. Oh, okay. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, girl, pray about it. Pray about it, put on some of my worship music. I got a playlist, too, if you need it, DME. And one thing I would say, Charlemagne, I love you, I love you.

Can you give my girl a lawyer at least one day out of week just to tell her you love her? Just one day. You got to pick the day. All five days. Pick the day. It's crazy. It's crazy that you all the time. You think I don't tell her that all the time?

My part? No, I know you do, but sometimes. I don't give you on my girl like heavy like heavy I don't tell you that I'm like I'm like watching from the first day no first of all you told you told yes when every arguing you told just don't let up on her she's he's on her neck you could calm down a little bit you said she looked like chicken little yeah you said that how I'm herself yeah yeah I'm stupid and he reminds me I'm daddy list every day that is not true I I had to tell her yesterday, I am not your father.

Oh, my God. She hit me yesterday with some crazy stuff. I said this must be so crazy behind the seat. I'm like, I am not your father. You always say, I ain't even that. Don't try to make me that. I'm like, damn, yo, she's trying to bond. Hey, dad, good morning.

My dad been listening. Hey, good morning. I didn't understand that. Like, I'm just what it feels like to have a father. First of all, you don't know what that feels like. Damn. First of all I have a step dad. You do?

My brother's dad, yes. Oh, I didn't know that. All this time you ain't said. I feel. No. No. I've been said that. You ain't even shout him out.

I've been said that my brother's dad. I was straight. Say his name. Say his name. Hey, Kirkie. Good morning. Oh. That's so cute.

Slupta Kierke. Kierky, Kierke. You're a class. She's that Kerkie. That is his name. Salute Kerkie. All right. You got the latest with Lauren coming up.

Yes. We're going to get into the pillow fight that went down because 50 cent is now in the chat. Tony A.O. Uncle Murder. Then got into it with Jaru on the plane. And I had to call. call for murder this morning and wake him up. God. All right. We'll get it to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Talk your talk, L.L. Cool, babe. Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. Take me through that. I'm the homeguard that knows a little bit about everything and everything. The little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you. Take me through that. Take me through that. Where's you going? The latest with Lauren Lewis.

On the Breakfast Club. L.L. Coolbe. Talk to me. Well, good morning, guys. Good morning. So I called Uncle Murder this morning. He was up, of course. He was not up, but he woke up to talk. Did you tell people what happened first?

Yes, I'm about to explain why. So I called him this morning because there was a video yesterday that 50 Cent posted of Jarru on a flight from California back to New York. And Tony Ayo and Uncle Murder are sitting behind Jarrow and they get into it a bit. Let's take a listen to them going back and forth from the plane. So it's a very short clip So it's a very short clip that they posted That's Uncle Murder that you hear in Jaru

In the clip as well So I asked You know Uncle Murder like what happened Like why First of all y'all didn't see each other Before y'all got on the plane When y'all were boarding He said no they didn't see each other when they were boarding

They got on the plane and then Jaru got on the plane And he was like I think he's He's alleging that he thought Jirul was scared Because Jirul was by himself but they were not by themselves. So he says Jaroos started going off to the point where they removed Jauru from the plane. Let's take a listen to the video

because Uncle Murder posted a video of like the seat when Jarlowal got up. Let's take a listen. Okay, when they start deporting black people, I don't want to hang nothing. I don't want to hear nothing. Even the rich ones don't know how to act. Keep them on the plane.

Yale, you're going to Haiti. You're going to murder. You're going to Panama. Just stay on the plane. I don't care. That was so clowned out. I'm like, y'all. I'm so sorry.

And then, yeah, so they were just with each other, Uncle Murder and Yale. No, Uncle Murder, Yale. They had other people with them. Jirul was by himself. And I, go ahead. Why wouldn't you get off the plane? Like, I'm getting off the plane.

I'm not about to be kicking the back of my seat, playing into him. Then you're sitting behind me. Yeah, I'm not going to anybody sit behind me. I'm a grown-ass man. And y'all are grown-ass men, too, what we're playing for? Yeah, if I was, I would have got off the plane, too crazy-ass. I'm not standing behind me too, dude.

First of all, I'm not fighting on no plane. That's a federal offense. Let's be clear on that. I'm not getting put on no fly list because, you know, Uncle Murphy and, yeah, you're behind me throwing ice and doing who knows what I was. You know what they were doing the whole flight doing ice, pretzels.

They were talking about a fool fight they had up here, so I can't imagine if they're going to do that plane. And I had asked Uncle Murder, because in that video, you hear Tony Ayo joking like, oh, you told him SMD. 50 cents said in his capture when he posted this, he was by himself talking about Joe rule.

He had to make a scene so they could remove his scary ass. Laf out loud. Yeo said, S my D. Then the gay stewardess said, it's going down. Laugh out loud. And I'm like,

y'all are crazy. I'm like, you wasn't worried about getting put on a no-fly list. There's somebody through a pillow, right? Yes, there was a pillow fight that occurred briefly. So TMZ had reached out to Jarl. We found out some more about this because TMZ, Jamie, who's their news director, but they reached out to...

Jarlene, and... A pillow fight is when you hit somebody with a pillow and somebody hit you back in. It wasn't having no pillow fight on the plane. It was the start of one. So Jirul posted TMZ's message to him. He said, via TMZ, hi, Jai. Jamie here from TMZ, reaching out for a comment regarding the Delta flight

you were on a Sunday morning. Witnesses tell us that you got into an argument with Tony Ayo on the flight, that you were the aggressor talking about Jaru and you yell profanities. saying that he wanted to fight then throwing a pillow at Tony Yeo. The crew stepped in and pulled both

guys off the plane for a bit. Yeo yelled back that the planes are, anything on the plane is a federal offense and he did nothing wrong. Jaro said he popped up on the punks by himself on the plane. He called them the P-word and he says he threw a pillow at Yeo head

because he's soft. It knocked his hat off. It was hilarious and he called the whole team the P-word. All in first class, by the way. Yes. Risk getting put on the no-fly list. catching a federal offense for some foolishness.

I'm getting off the plane too. Okay. I'm talking about Yale or jump off the plane for 50s, so it don't even matter. Yeah. And let the record show 50 and Jai were on a plane together before. And 50 didn't even act like that. No.

Yeah, it was like they were kids. You can't risk getting put on the no-fly list catching a federal offense for some foolishness. Yeah, but you know Uncle Murdo and Tony Yeo. Would you let them sit behind you and throw pretzels? No, I would have got off the plane, too. I used to hold a flight. You're not doing.

You talk about SMD, that's going to go beyond pretzels. And these are grown-ass men and then what they expected. For Jada sit on the plane and just let them to a man the whole time, like, no. They would too. Someone from Jop. And they're off the murder and they're fighting in the first class. Yeah, until shots are thrown, you know, blows are thrown and then what? Now they all locked up.

Yeah. No more bison in the Scardinia. What is it? What do you say you'd be eating? In the Swiss out. Yeah. Someone from Jiro's team just got back to me and they said, for now, only one side. pulled out of phone, on the record

they wanted to mention, only one side put out of phone to record and conveniently edit their video. They mentioned at this point this person is getting up to take his kid to school. He said Jaru is about to be a grandfather. Tony Yeo, not sure if he has kids or not. Uncle Murder mentioned on the breakfast club, he brought a house once he started to have kids. With all

of that, we need to focus on love, not sure why we're inserting ourselves in beefs at this point, entertaining beefs, or keeping beefs going. Yeah, I'm sorry, I wouldn't even want that video out if I was any of them. You know what I mean? Because don't be surprised if somebody calls Delta just to report them just to see what you saw on that on that flight that's the type of world we live in and Delta don't play about the first

class I did reach out to Delta to see if there were any repercussions that were going to happen but Uncle Murder told me that they loved Delta there was no issue they flew without incident after this and yeah and murder y'all got sponsorships and stuff now you got the podcast the real report the first episode dropped yesterday yes it did I'm a surprised murder was up at 5 a.m. when you called him he wasn't up he woke up and he said good morning Lauren and I was like hey good morning and then after I was done he was like good job thanks for calling I was like thanks for waking up yeah I'm going but you can go back to sleep what did you said when he was on a plane with Jai said he just he said every now and

he would get up and just walk around to make him uncomfortable I got that audio I didn't make a scene oh you got the audio yeah let's take a listen to 50 on the breakfast club so do y'all see each other like I saw him yeah we sat right in first class like he sat on the other side like like like by the window see and I just I sat down and kept getting up and moving around the thing is he just making him uncomfortable because I knew that He was by himself. He was like him and another guy. How do you get the bully?

How you get a bully? I'm the victim. I've been victimized so many times. All they hear is the shot. They don't see the person get slapped before it gets to that point. They don't see what actually caused all of the things that happen. You know what I mean? So it's really, and Josh, because he wasn't involved with nothing.

It just was him taking credit. Do you ever see you and Jha like pictures together when we say instant vied? No, that won't happen. Some things don't just go away. Like, it just won't go away. when the weather's getting ready to change and I can feel it, it reminds me that I should have a problem. Well, that's how Yale and murder should end.

Just what I'm laughing for 50. Yeah, that's a federal offense. Not to mention you just got people that don't complain. People that are sending that video to Delta and just complain and say, look at this type of stuff you're having first class? Yeah, 100%. Like, why? Why bring those kind of issues on yourself?

I'm definitely not staying there. That's a flight from LA to me. I want to get my nap in. It's a four and a half, five-hour flight with the beds. That's just wild to me. I got to sleep with one hour. open because I know they're going to throw some pressure on me. Then you can put on another flight. You don't know if the first

class is even available so you've got to wait the next flight, Darrow. I wouldn't even, uh-uh. Mones out, y'all recording. They said that straight to 50. My lord, my lord, he's in front of us, my lord. Like, I don't, come on, man. What do you want us to do? My love, like, I don't got you. Well, in the next hour, we're going to talk

about 50s has inserted his beef in all the hours at the top of the show this morning because in the next hour we're going to talk about Cardi B and Stefan Diggs. And it's alleged breakup. I've been digging and I think I've figured out some things. but 50 cents comment on that as well too, so we'll get into it. Did you reach out to them as well, too? I have, but we're going to talk about that.

Jesus, Lauren. All right. When we come back, we got front page news, and then Teddy Riley will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jensselaeréry.

Sholamine the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's getting some front page news. Now, some quick sports. Steph Curry won't play in the 2026 NBA All-Star game due to Runner's Knee. So he is not playing this weekend. What's the All-Tay game this weekend, right? Yeah, this weekend.

Oh, no, it's on Sunday, so I'll be watching it. This weekend I will be watching LSU play my University of South Carolina Women's Gamecox 8.30 p.m. on ESPN. You heard me? Because that is going to be an incredible game. All right, Malaysia for Wiley is from South Carolina. Used to play for the University of South Carolina. Transferred to go to LSU, and this is the first time that they're meeting this season.

So I'll be watching that this weekend. Yeah, that's a big game. Yes, it is. Wow. Yes, it is. It was, like, 5 and 1 in South Carolina's 3 and 3? What are you talking about? What?

No, I guess not. No, no. That's men's football. We lost two games all year. That lost two games? Yeah. All right. Number three in the country.

All right. What's up, Mimi? Good morning, Envy. Jess. Charlemagne, how y'all doing this morning? Hey, girl. Hey. Good morning.

So the 2026 winter games are underway overseas. Have you guys been watching this or paying attention to it at all? No. I've been watching the Olympians say how they don't like America. Okay. I see one sport. I've seen the sport where they're on the ice and they throw like that little disc and the disc slides into the something I don't even know. with hockey?

No, it's not hockey, they're on ice skis. They throw some little funny discs. I don't know what it's called, but go ahead. I don't know what it's called either. But this morning, the spotlight is shifting off the games and into politics. So an American Olympic skier, Hunter Hess, he is defending himself after comments he made about representing Team USA sparked backlash. Let's listen to that. It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now, I think.

It's a little hard. There's obviously a lot going on that I'm not the biggest. fan of and I think a lot of people aren't. I just think if it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I'm representing it. Just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything

that's going on in the U.S. Yes, we are Americans. Americans have freedom of speech. We carry that everywhere we go. And if he's not happy with the American government, he has the right to express that, period. Yeah. Well, the comment drew sharp criticism from President Trump, who called him a real loser

and said he shouldn't have tried for the team then if he wasn't going to love the USA or support the USA, whatever he interpreted that comment to mean. But now Hess is responding in a social media post. He said that he loves his country. He's proud to compete, but also

believes that what you were saying, Charlotte, that America has the right to speak freely, right? That he shouldn't have to not hide how he feels. And other Olympians, they're also joining in. They're saying that they're proud to represent the U.S., but they believe that

athletes should be allowed to voice their opinions and say, said the same thing, basically. So you can still love your country and still want better for it. Now, the International Olympic Committee, they are aware of the political backlash or the political back and forth, and they have declined to comment. Yeah. America is raising some eyebrows overseas. And we've been talking about this landmark social media case that's happening here in California.

That's where the woman who was about 19 years old, she said that it damaged. for mental health. I think you and I were talking about this, right? Snapchat settled and then TikTok settled later. Well, now there is another major case underway, this time in New Mexico. So a high profile trial against META, it began this week. The state's attorney general, they are suing the company which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We're talking about meta. They're accusing it of failing to protect children from online predators. So prosecutors argue that Meta knowingly allowed young users to be exposed to sexual exploitation and inappropriate contact while continuing to design its platform in ways that attract and keep teens engaged.

Now, they claim that the company was aware of the risk, but they refused to fix it. Meta, they say that is not true. They say they have built-in protection for teen accounts. They limit who they can message. They block adults from directly being able to contact them. Since when? This is their teen accounts. Oh, okay.

Yeah, so if you have a teen account, they say that that gives parents more oversight so you can monitor what your teens do. Now, this trial is expected to last several weeks, and it's being closely watched nationwide because there are a lot of states planning to follow suit depending on the outcome of this. So we have this case at the heart. It's going to decide whether social media did enough to protect children from predators, and the one here in California is deciding whether it did enough to protect people from their mental health, for anxiety, from depression. and things like that. Even if it is a teen account, when you're signing up for an account like that, you can just lie and put your birthday in.

Like, it's not like that it has a feature where you have to, a requirement where you have to upload your ID or something like that. Like you can just lie. Because that's what I used to do on them porn sites when I was like underage. And they would say, oh, am I older than 8th?

I'm older, but I was like, they still ask you that on point out of, depending on what state you are. I know, because I still see it. Well, Instagram says that they have some software in place. I think it's some sort of AI that they're using now to detect based upon what you're scrolling, what you're looking at to determine your age for those teen accounts. So we'll see.

And this story is turning a lot of heads this morning. Chipotle may soon be leaning into a different kind of customer, and your burrito bowl could cost you a little bit more because of it. So during a recent earnings call, the company's interim CEO said Chipoli's core customer tends to be younger, digitally savvy, and have a higher income. Executives say about 60% of their customers have higher household incomes. Let's listen. We learn that 60% of our core users are over $100,000 a year in income, an average household income.

That gives us confidence that we can lean into that group in a more meaningful way, whether it's the solo occasion and or group occasions to really drive meaningful transaction performance in the year. Well, that comment is now sparking backlash with him. now coming back and saying that that's not exactly what he meant. He's kind of clarifying those remarks. So let's listen to that too. There's a bit of misinformation that's been communicated over the last few days.

What I said distinctly on the earnings call is that 60% of our consumers, average household income is over $100,000 a year. And they're still spending in this tough economy. So we're going to lean into those consumers with brand innovation, menu innovation, and really give them more compelling reasons to come in. But we, hey, we cater to everyone in all lifestyles. We have an offering for everyone no matter where you come from or your lifestyle or your household income. That is very interesting.

And that is such a, first of all, my daughter loves Chipotle. Yeah, my daughter's love it too. That's what I'm saying. So she eats a lot of Chipotle. I never thought about who the target demographic who Chipotle is. Because $100,000 is a lot of money. Like only like 18% of all, you know, American adults earn over $100,000 annually. So I know them kids ain't making that type of money.

No. No, but their parents are. But I would see. Like the way we look at Chipotle, I think a lot of people look at Chapoalate as it's better than fast food. You know, they don't look at it as the same as a McDonald's or Wendy's or this day, a Taco Bell. It looks like a little better.

I think that's what he was trying to say. But I just don't know why Chipotle is. No, that's not what he was trying to say. He was trying to sit your poor ass at home. Okay, all right. If you ain't making $100 or more, we don't want you here. That's what he was essentially saying. But why Chipotle ain't got shrimp, though.

I don't know. That's more money. That's a lot. Shrimp are high as hell. They got steak, they got chicken, they got beef, throw some shrimp in there. But why would you say that? I don't understand why as the head of a company you would say you're focusing on more high-income customers. Why would you say anything?

But that was an inside call, though. That was supposed to be an inside call. That was supposed to say. Did he know that? This is an inside call. Okay, I didn't know that. Now, this was an inside call. This wasn't supposed to go everywhere.

This was supposed to be, you know, that's, you know, playing for next year. Right, right. Somebody leaked it. We're taking the pole out Chipotle. I'm taking the P-H-I-T-L-L-E. It's going to be C-H-I-T-L-L-E. Chitlay. Chitlay.

All right. I need that chitlay. That's crazy. What if they have a chitlay menu when you walk? What if you walk in Chipotle from that morning? They got the chitlet menu. And the pole menu. Oh, just pome.

Damn. Just beans and right. No meat. No meat. Damn. Well, now he's clarifying those comments, y'all. He's basically saying he didn't mean it like that. And so he wanted to say that was some misinformation.

They have menu items on there for everybody, no matter what your salary maybe you can still go to Chipotle and find something that you can afford. All right. You said, okay, I don't know. All right, because it's too late. We already heard you. All right, y'all. Well, those prices are expected still to go up by 1 to 2%,

they said. So just look out for that. But that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown TV. For more stories, follow the black information network or visit B-I-N-News.com. Thank you, baby, girl.

All right. Now, when we come back, Teddy Riley will be joining us. And we're going to be kicking it with Teddy Riley. Yes, a new book called Remember the Times. We're going to talk to him next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ NV, Jess Hilarious.

Shalamey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. An icon of legend. Come on now. Ladies and gentlemen, Teddy Riley. Welcome back.

Thank you, man. How are you feeling? How are you feeling? You look good, Ken? Yes, you do. Thank you, man. You know, Teddy Riley has a new book coming out called Remember the Times, right? Man, you got a lot of, first of all, you have an amazing story.

But I was thinking when I saw the title, you got a lot of titles. You got a lot of titles. you probably could choose from, right? Like songs that you could choose titles. Why remember the time? Remember the time is truly the biggest R&B record I've ever made. Really? Yeah.

But it's really not about the song. It's really about people remembering where I came from. And it's, you know, you can say so many things behind that, you know, remembering when I first wanted to be in music, when I first wanted to be a star, when I got picked up on the stage by Gladys Knight. at five years old you know so remember in those times just made me say

it's a great title I didn't want to call it just Teddy Rowley you know I feel like it's bigger than me I mean with this this book is it's so hard to interview Teddy Riley because there's so many different lanes angles ways you can go and I know so much about them

I don't even know where to start so I guess we start with when did you know music was going to be your passion and it was going to be your love when I got busted. Talk about it. Bust the way of how? Very.

When I got busted by the police, I used to be a hustler first. And, you know, I used to go to the club, Harlem World to actually see all of my idols and people like Dougie Fresh who I went to school with. And I think it was around maybe a few weeks after that, I felt like the most I was like, I'm going to take you out of here.

And then the crew, my crew, Shaq crew, we all here it's about 17 of us left and they kicked me off the streets it's like no you can't come back on and I said okay but I gave them a fight and when I did that

I felt like that was the right thing for them to do and my guys always talk about it my guy's Supreme and Al Capone you know it's like man I wish they would have kicked us off the block too but yeah that's how what made me want to be

music and just that was my only choice because I went back to church to play for the church and did everything that I can to make ends meet for my family my mother single parent what was it they heard that made them kick you off the street like no they always knew I did music I used to carry my little cassio around and while hustling I used to carry my cassio and and they just they used to rap while I'm playing and actually supreme is the one who's the skinny kid that was battling um Biggie. He's the one who bought me to the crew. So yeah, we're well connected, you know, when it comes to music. All of us did music. It's just that we didn't have a way to get into it. When you moved to Virginia Beach, right, you know, we grew up in a Hollywood to Virginia Beach.

How did that shift, you know, how did that shift shape your, your worldview and your sound? It didn't shift. It wasn't even a shift. I just went to Virginia. The reason why I went to Virginia, We used to go to Virginia every summer. Fourth of July, Memorial Week, Memorial Week, the whole summer. You still go to King's Dominion, you know. So I would go there every summer with like my friends from school, D.Ferg, Alpo, Rich Porter. All of us, we chart a bus and we just go. So one day I went, actually the mother of my daughter's mother.

I went with her and we were at the hotel. It's at the holiday. It's not the holiday and it's called the holiday. And I told her, I said, man, I would want to move here. And next thing you know, about two years later, I did it. What did you see special in Virginia? The water. There was something in water.

Wow. And it just made me want to be there. You know, Coney Island wasn't it for me. No, Cooney Island wasn't it. But it was something in the water of Virginia that made me just. want to be there and that's why I did the first video there I'm shaker and it was history you know was was was it was Virginia accepting to you when you first moved in when you first went there I didn't really know anybody says because we came here we came there just solo we just came

there and moved there but we got a lot of people just you know police pulling up on us because we all had you know for our reason cars and all that stuff and they would just kind of pull up on us even at my house and then when we had to studio, that's when everything started evolving. And to us, uh, being able to do talent shows and do stuff for the community.

And, uh, basically what I did for the community was kind of kept the kids off the streets. I had basketball tournaments for the bitties. I had, uh, celebrity tournaments. Alan Iverson and all those guys used to play for my team. So, uh, Virginia became

just a, I mean, when I went there, there was no music. You know that. There was Jimmy Buffett. And then after that, you know, just getting acquainted with the radio stations. I got a couple of people's jobs like, uh,

um, was Shaggy. I got him his job at 104 and, 103. And, uh, uh, 103 jams. But he was at, uh, Z. What's that? Yeah, yeah, the other station at 4, yeah. So yeah, just being able to be connected and help people just get jobs and opportunities for kids

to play ball. and softball. We had softball team. We just had everything going. And that's what they recognized. But Virginia didn't recognize me. The people did. Do you remember meeting Pharrell?

The first time you met up, remember meeting Pharrell and Chad? And what was that like the first time you met them? And did you see the greatness at that time of them? Of course. When I gave the talent show, everybody was going for people who was saying, I will always love you and all of these high, long notes,

songs. And I said, no. they're not the winners. They're the winners. And they even have the concept. They just went in, just freestyle. And it was Chad. You know, switching instruments.

And that really intrigued me. I was, like, very impressed with what they can do. And that was my goal, just to find more creators, you know, and just take them to the next level. So I did that for a lot of people. Rodney Jerkins came down, you know. I just build it. synergy that brought everybody down. I even had executives. Russell Simmons, all of them. It came down

heavy D. So just that's what made it big for me. It made even more attractive. Now you brought the community and I remember going to that studio. You used to have these times where he would bring students, local people and everybody just to come listen to projects. Just to come listen to music. And I remember seeing, first time I ever seen it in my life and it's going to sound crazy now. I think you might have had the first plasma television in the world. It's like, no, you know that was a gift. From who? From who? From Michael Jackson.

Wow. Really? He used to always. What? What? Come on. You're like, you're like, you see this. I think it was like 40, 50,000 for that television.

Yeah, it was crazy. It was a lot. But I said, I wouldn't buy it. But he's just, you know, one thing I did with Michael, we built a brotherhood. You know, where this guy, anytime when I had my daughter, my second daughter, he just bought everything for it. I didn't have to buy nothing. So it was like that, you know, and when his kids, my kids used to babysit his kids, you know, when he came down to Virginia, you know. Where did he stay when he was in Virginia?

Did he rent him a house? Was it a hotel? Because it would have been crazy, the fact that Michael Jackson was in Virginia. He tried to stay in the hotel to Marriott. And that's the reason why I don't stay in that Marriott. I stay in a new hotel down the street, but they invaded his privacy, wavy TV. And they went in his room. An employee gave a key to the television station.

They walked into this room and he was like, no, get out. He was in the room. What was the security? No security. That's crazy. So I moved him out and put him in one of my places. And when I put him, it was so private because I had bought a place in, like, a senior citizen community.

And it was over, it had a golf course and everything. And I just said, you know what? Michael, would you like to stay in here? He'd say, I would love to say anywhere that's private. So I gave him the condo. It was brand new. And he bought the kids and everything.

And then you mostly stayed at the studio or on the bus. So I would give him the bus, him and the kids. And, you know, while we made music. How old, when you did the show, you was like, what, 17, 18? 17. Damn. When you were, when Michael Jackson made me think about it, because when you were producing those hits as a teenager,

who was protecting Teddy Riley, the kid? Like, you know, people might have been celebrating your genius at the time, but they might not have realized how young you were. So who was protecting you then? Nobody. Did you have protection? That's the reason why, you know, a lot of things back then I didn't know, and I sort of didn't have a concern,

because I just wanted my music on the radio. I just wanted my music out. there. And I blew a lot of opportunities. At the same time, a lot of my business wasn't done. You know, example, I did the key sweat album. I've only made $1,500 from that. To this day? To this day. Jesus. But I got the publishing, but I never got my royalties. No one never looked out for me. So now we're going through different channels because you can't, you know, have a person's name on the album. and as a producer

and not have a contract. Wow. You understand? So thank God I know the business now. Yeah. There wasn't times though when like even Michael himself

was kind of like trying to pour game into because I saw you say working with him around that time was like being in college. Like you weren't, you weren't asking him those questions. Oh yeah. I mean that's college. I learned a lot more than I'm supposed,

you know, than I know that then. Got you. I learned a lot more. And he just kind of schooled me on a lot of things, like things that I should be done. And then even Farrell, you know, for all noticed something that, like, when we did the Essence Festival, and Farrell was like, yo, your name is on that. You got to get paid from that.

I was like, so those are things that, you know, I feel like my friends, true friends would, you know, say, yo, you got paid on that, you got paid on that. So now, today is a whole total different day. It's a beautiful day. So you never made no money off the show either because you was uncredited on that too, right? Yeah. God, damn. I just wanted to hear my record on the radio.

You know, I just had stars in my eyes and not business. You know, when I went down to Virginia, I was even a little more established. You know, I had a cool team and, you know, actually the mother of my son was my manager, Maddie. And she helped me out a lot. You know, so my thing is I like to be creative. And most times, you know, you don't think about the business. business aspect. Whose job is it to correct that, though?

Like you said, Dougie fresh, y'all with the school together, y'all was cool, like... Well, with Dougie, um, that situation is a little different and, uh, I'm cool. I'm really cool. Just, my thing is,

if I'm just being mentioned, I'm good. It's not about the money. It's really about, you know, the legacy. Mm-hmm. So, that's a rich people say.

Yeah. I know, right. You don't want to do, was there ever a time where you lost it all? Yep. And what happened with that? Because, you know, and the reason I asked is I remember the studio, and then I remember it was like, Nateti got rid of the studio in the bus. And I'm like, that's Teddy's everything.

What happens? I always wanted to know what happened during that time. Well, on that time, I moved to California because the work wasn't coming to Virginia. So when I went to California, I just kind of just built myself back. And I actually filed bankruptcy there. And when I did that, it gave me a whole new. change. And so crazy, right after filing breakfast, I say about maybe four or five months later, I just, I was back to where I was financially, business-wise. I had built a new team. And then I wound

up coming back to Virginia, but I came back to Virginia to fight for my kids, get the house in order. The studio was actually stolen from me with a gentleman who, was actually serving about, I think he had a 33 years sentence. Troy Titus, the Titus family. And that happened because of Chanty and myself, we just say, you know what, we got to do something about this. So it wound up going on American Greed, and we had to testify. And there were so many other people.

For all of them, they were involved as well. He took money from a lot of people, and, you know, kind of fortunately got us all. But he's serving the time for it and, you know, we're good. And it's interesting, you know, when I think about like, you even talk about not being credited for certain records, like your mother told you early on, God's going to bless you, you just take what he gives you, and he's going to bless you much later on. So did that early lesson help you in those type of moment?

Yes. And that's the one thing I always feel. When I make a decision, I always think about God, you know, it's like, wow, what would he do? Then I think about my mom. That's like the, you know, that would be the closer. You know, for me, it's always about, you know, our parents. It's like, you know, if kids do not lean on their parents,

they're not going to be straight. They're going to fall short. That's right. So I always lean on my parents and, you know, my godparents, they're still here, she's still here, and I still call her. You know, she's the one who named, me Teddy instead of theater because she didn't like theater. She was like, I'm calling him Teddy.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Riley would have been kind of fired too, though. Yeah? Yeah. Too long. It's not prestigious. It is. Too long. Theodore Riley. Yeah, it do give majestic. Yeah. That's crazy. That's the only thing Michael called me. He would never call me Teddy. He called you Theodore? He calls me theater.

Oh, wow. And that wasn't even your name. What's that? That's not even in. Oh, his real name is Theodore. Oh, okay. Your godmother just was the first to call you Teddy. you, Teddy. I got you. I think about all the artists that you got a chance to work with and you created a sound. You created a project. I mean, from

I mean, sh-de- everybody from Bobby Brown to keep sweat to, you know, whatever. I always think about if you would have ran your own label like a Uptown, like a, they would have all been signed to you. It would have been your sound, but you created all these sounds for all these different labels.

That's very true. Was Little Man a production company? Little man was a label. It was a label. And in future, it was a label with MCA. And when I left MCA, I went to Interscope. So before that, I was with Uptown. You know what I'm saying?

So this is how the whole thing pretty much went. Andrew Horel came to the rooftop. You guys were familiar with the clubbed and roller skating ring. Well, that was a roller skating ring that we owned. My partner, Robert Wells, Gusto. We built the studio up there. We started a record label. So it's Gusto, myself.

At the Roller's camera. Yeah. Laveba and Greg G. And when we did that, Andre Horel came up there because he wanted me to work with a heavy D. I'll be sure in his artists. Before he came, like before he came, he, it wasn't called Uptown. When he came Uptown and he hung with us and he tried to, I guess, do a deal with my partners and I wasn't, you know, a factor to it.

I was just supposed to be the producer. And that's where everybody always see me as a producer instead of making me a partner. But my guys didn't do it, and they didn't fall for the deal because I wasn't implemented as a partner. So that's what I mean by being pimped. So that's, you know, I wasn't fortunate or wasn't in the right room to be that uptown.

but they always wanted to give me a label which is a high-furbish production company but now is a total different story I can pretty much do anything What artists did you get a chance to possibly sign and say you know what you let go or you didn't do that deal?

I had many opportunities to work with Missy used to always come to the studio the brat. Did you see the talent? Of course. I'm the one who basically basically said to Missy, you should be solo because she was with the group's sister. And she used to always come to the studio.

She bought the group and everybody's cool. But I said, you need to be solo. And she did it. Also, who else? Kid the brat? The brat. I've known the brat since she was 14.

And she used to come up with my best friend, Darn. And I didn't know what to do with her then. but when she went with JD I was like that's the perfect combination you know sometimes you gotta you know let things be because it's going to happen the way it's supposed to

you know so who else Chris Brown for real Chris Brown Allen Timmy Allen bought Chris Brown to Virginia to the studio to Virginia Beach and then he was very very young

and I didn't know what to do. I was so into Black Street, you know, and that's my group. I wasn't more like, you know, I was the creative one, working with my group, working with the groups, you know, when I had the time to work with groups outside of me and then work with Bobby Brown and all the different ones. So I was kind of spread then, you know, to have a record label and then have this and sign this person. So, you know, I signed as many as I could and, you know, just kept it. moving. What about Timberland? Timmerland was actually already signed

working with Devante and, you know, but we knew each other. Timberland used to always come to the studio as well. And we just built a friendship, you know, because we all from, you know, from Virginia. I moved to Virginia and, you know, became

from Virginia. So it was always a networking thing and we always got, had fun together. That's crazy. You didn't know what to do with Chris when you was a child pro. Protige yourself. Well, I'm different. Me, I was more of producer.

I was more of, let me work with somebody, you know. But at that point in time, I was so into, like, building Black Street. You know what I'm saying? Like, coming from Guy, I said, yeah, I got to build something else, another dynasty.

So I wasn't more into signing anybody at that time. So you were going for groups, like not just solo artists. You're looking for another group anyway, Yeah, because I signed 9-1-1. Used to be basic black. Today, work with High Five. I was like, I love working with groups.

So underrated group, man. Oh, High Five, so underrated. Yeah, I'm actually working with them now. Really? Wow. They got hits. You know, that's a very underrated group. Yeah.

So Tristan and I, the original members, they came back and we were coming together to do the New Jack Swing tour with Dougie and everybody. Oh, that's fine. my favorite performances is high five on Apollo when they did I like. And the reason I like that performance so much is the coordination. Yeah.

They all were dressed alike. The choreography was hitting. You can tell that they rehearsed and practiced. You don't see that in too much of any group now. That's true. So many groups. Well, you don't see no groups. Well, that's my goal.

You know, I'm looking at working with them and doing a partnership with them, Guy 2.0. And I say 2.0. I say 2.0 because I can't say guy because guy is guy. But guy 2.0 is the new guys and I can't wait for you out to hear them. You know, all I'm doing is just keeping it consistent. Is Aaron in it? No.

He said new guys. But it's going to be some of the old members I'm assuming no or no? No. I don't think they're ready for this. This is a whole other, whole other aspect of what music sound act and the consistency because people are looking for consistency. That's the reason why we don't have groups because everybody's breaking up.

And I'm really tired now of just making people wait, especially to hear my music. How are you going to let a song go number one and you're not standing behind it? I like one number one. Booty cards. These records have got line dances

and we sit and just dormant. It doesn't work that way. Are you doing them a disservice by calling them Guy 2.0? Because I know they got you, but God damn Teddy let's chill I like

prove me their beautiful song of course it is but ask them to sing it mm do you think you know

everybody always has the conversation to Aaron Hall and when they always talk about R. Kelly taking Aaron Hall's whole thing

do you think first of all for the new people that don't know what the hell you talk about spell that out that sounded crazy

people would always say that R. Kelly stole Aaron Hall style stole the whole concept of the look everything from Aaron Hall What were your thoughts on that? No, he was inspired You can't steal

You know what I'm saying It's like me giving you sounds And I'm giving you sounds I'm giving you sound the same R. Kelly does not sound like Aaron Hall And Aaron Hall does not sound like R. Kelly He has his own sound and he developed his signature.

Aaron developed his signature. He lost his signature. And I'm sad to say this, you know. We're on tour. And if you have to always do this to the crowd, it is what it is. And of course, I mean, you could say that Frankie Beverly. But at least Frankie Beverly went out there and gave it this awe.

When you go out there and don't give it your awe and then you're just going to pass the mic. It just doesn't work that way. People want to hear your music, and they want to hear your record. And that's what I've been really tired of, especially making the music and being an architect of my sound. I want my sound to show. And there's so much I can't wait for you all to hear that I'm doing.

I'm doing the symphony, New Jack Swing album with guest artists and people who come and sing my music with strings. And I just have a dream of just doing like the Carnegie halls and and something special for us as a people where we can be in tuxedos and be ghetto fabulous with this bed of music. Why? When the world was having all those other conversations about Michael Jackson, like the cases and all that stuff, right? You as a friend, like how did you, I guess, how was supporting him through that time? Because he had done, you know a whole different side of him, right? He had done so much for you as a friend.

Like how was that? always there. I think y'all saw that. I went up against Oprah. I was like, yo, this is not right. You know, the whole thing about all the lies about what they think he did and I'm so happy that

the actual evidence came up. You know, it was all a plan. That's why I stay private. Michael is the one person. You know how to end? Whenever celebrities getting stuff, they'd be like, they try to tear him down, the sister's trying to tame down. He was trying to buy NBC. He's the one

celebrity, I always say like, nah, they really was trying to get Michael. Michael had way too much power. And I really hope that in the movie, they explore, you know, what he did on the publishing side so people know how much power he actually had. I hope so as well.

I know that I have a few songs in there, but I'm hoping that, you know, they give that roadmap because most times they just make the film and make it look glorious or whatever it is. But I think the truth needs to come out down. I think so, too. Yeah.

Let you have it. Make sure you pick up the book. Remember the Times. February 10th, Teddy Riley. The icon. Teddy, we appreciate you so much. I appreciate y'all too. You know.

I've done for this communities, this culture, this music industry. Boy, because like I said, the inspiration you gave so many kids is just the reason why a lot of kids, I'm sure, are in this music industry right now. Just seeing the kids from Harlem that was able to make it. It means a lot to people, brother. I'm so grateful to even know that, you know. And kids come up to me. do like NAM and all of the different conference and shows. And when I appear, you know, it's like a magnet and I love it, you know, to be able to talk to them.

So I've never done a master class, you know, which will be coming up soon. But all of this stuff is starting now, which I'm happy being that I know my business. I know how to do it, you know, and get the right what I'm worth, you know, because I've never gotten what I've worth, what I'm worth. Well, there you have it, ladies in general. It's Teddy Riley. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Slude to Teddy Riley, man.

Make sure you go pick up his book. Remember the Times. The memoir's out today, especially. And he looks good still. Yeah, salute to Teddy's 60, right? Rather to be 60. Oh, I don't know. I think he said it about to be 60.

Well, let's get to the latest. Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. I'm the home guy that knows a little bit about everything. I'm the home guy that knows a little bit about everything. and everything. The little brown girls look at you

and go, I want to be like you. Take me through that, take me through that. Where she's going? The latest with Narra-N-Lose. On the breakfast club. L.L. Coolbe. Talk to me. Talk to me.

L.L. Culebigh, Big Lowe. Good morning, y'all. We are going back to the Super Bowl. Just real quick. Okay. So first up in Super Bowl news, so there has been these rumors circulating that Cardi B and Stefan Diggs have split.

Now this started. It does because it started during Super Bowl weekend. Tell us how. Yeah, so it started during Super Bowl weekend for several reasons. So number one, fans had noticed that they had unfollowed each other. Now, I can say that this happened before. The unfollowing and the photos being removed off the page. That has happened before.

We reported on that here. But then there was a moment when Cardi B was on, she was on a carpet for a celebrity game that she was hosting. And it asked her about any words she has to Stefan digs before the game. And she responded this way that got people going. Let's take a listen. Message for Stefan before the game. One inspired message.

Good luck. It was her body language with the good luck. She was talking to ESPN in that clip. Now, I reached out yesterday every place that I could. Of course you did. Yeah, I mean, because it's rumor right now and I was trying to get more clarity on what happened,

why, whatever, before I could report, but no one has responded back to me. Now, normally I would say... Good luck causes all of that? No, it's the removing of the photos on the page as well and them unfollowing each other. And that's all that she said. She didn't say, that's my name.

She'd be going off for him. She has turned into like the ultimate football girlfriend, like literally. And we have heard or seen nothing. There was supposed to be this huge million dollar party after the Super Bowl that did not happen. Of course, he didn't win, but I'm assuming they still would have celebrated the fact that he made it there. There's also been conversations about whether or not this has something to do with invites because there was, you know, one of his best friends that was in the audience with his family and also a mother. of one of his new children. So I'm...

The best friend, what the best friend got to do with it? Because it's a girl that allegedly used to deal with the offset. Oh, my goal. Yes. Now, I'm waiting for a response from any old body to please get back to anybody. Yeah, as of right now, that's all we have on that.

But if I get anything, hopefully after this, I'll be back. Nobody ever replied behind your business. No, because they know that if I'm reaching out, if they know that if I'm reaching out, I'm trying to make sure that we do our due diligence up here and not just lean into what it's being said. And normally, I will say,

my sources in this area give me something to make sure I'm able to speak clearly and give you nothing yet. Everybody backed off of this one. What's nothing to do with this one? Maybe they're figuring it out. It happens. That's all her baby daddy.

Yeah, we'll see what happens. Now 50 cent posted, can you imagine, he posted a photo of Cardi B and Stefan Diggs, can you imagine waking up this morning and you'd unlost your B and the Super Bowl? I would tell everybody, get away from me,

have a drink and go back to sleep. Now, in other Super Bowl news, speaking to people upset and going through some things, the people on the right are still really, really upset that bad bunny he got the chance to perform at the Super Bowl. Ain't they though?

No, it's like really, really bad. So Kid Rock was on Fox News yesterday with Laura Ingram and he shared his thoughts on Bad Bunny. Let's take a listen. What did you think of Bad Bunny? I know you didn't see all of it, but you saw some clips. Like most people, I didn't understand any of it.

I mean, I saw there's a lot of dancers and a lot of big to do stuff. And you know, he said he wanted to have a dance party. It looked like he had one. You know, not my cup of tea, but I don't fault that kid for, you know, doing the Super Bowl, getting in front of a global audience. I fault the NFL for putting them in that position, you know,

and turning point for having to come out and have an alternative for people to watch, you know. It's just poor kid. I don't understand y'all when y'all speak English, because I don't understand why you so upset at good business, because at this point you can't say Bad Bunny was anything but good business. You see the numbers. Well, they're going to stand on the fact that they're saying that it didn't speak English, and the majority of people that watched the Super Bowl or Americans and they speak English.

That's what they're leaning on. He's Puerto Rican. Puerto Rico on the U.S. territory. I agree. I agree. And I don't think you needed to understand what he was saying to feel a vibe. But I do, like we said yesterday, when Jamie Fox yesterday posted what he was saying, it meant a whole lot more to me. I can understand that.

Yeah. Now, speaking of the numbers yesterday, we talked when we had some callers calling about that viewership record that Bad Bunny it broke. I got a call yesterday, and I want to clarify that that number that is being reported, the 135 million to 142 million viewers, that record that he broke, that is not. true. The numbers have not come in yet Nilsen can't report that fast. So it's predicted that

he is going to break the records for sure, but I want to say that that number is not the number yet. When that number hits, I will be letting you guys know right here on the Breakfast Club. Now, one other thing I wanted to point out yesterday, there was a White House official, and I thought that this was crazy because the way that they're talking about this is insane, right?

So his name is Alex Brousette's, Alex Brouswitz. He's a political consultant and a former top advisor for President Trump's 2024 campaign. He tweeted yesterday calling Jay-Z and Rock Nation anti-American and anti-Trump. What he called Rock Nation, anti-Trump and anti-American. And he's mentioning this because they let people like,

he says people like Bad Bunny and Green Day, who both hate Trump in our country and law enforcement perform at the Super Bowl. Green Day ain't never performing on Rock Nation Super Bowl? They did like the little opening show part. They were a part of it. Yeah, they performed at the opening part. And Trump was upset about them as well too because they've come out and publicly like win against him.

Did they perform after Coco? Before Coco? It was before Coco. Yeah, it was before Coco. Before Coco said. Yeah. Bad Bunny really? I think it started with Kendrick last year.

That was too black. And then now Bad Bunny this year, it was way too brown. They couldn't take it. Yeah. This is like Barack being president and then Hillary being the nominee that after his ain't turned. Baby Lord, Ingram got on her show and called him everything but a child of God. Who, Bad Bunny? Yes.

Lord. It's really, really bad. I mean, I have the audio. I don't know if we have time to play it, but. And they were so happy to see all. them Latino people having fun. Yeah. And I saw an article yesterday,

a lot of the small businesses that he featured, their business is going crazy now. There was a top of stand. The line was wrapped around. They had like so much media outside of their businesses. What does Robblery should do next

for the halftime show? I've been thinking about this. What's it going to be next year? The electric slide. Chris Brown. Because we had Kendrick Lamar. Right. And after kindergarten,

I was like, okay, they definitely probably going back to Taylor. I thought he was going back to White. I thought they were going to have to go back to it. But then they went with bad bunny. which I didn't even think of, but when you hear it, you're like, oh, that makes a lot of sense. So who goes the next?

What could they do next? What can they do? The piss people are more? I don't think they're trying to fit people off. Think about it like this. They're only, they're putting on the biggest artists of the year. At that time, like Kendrick made sense. Kendrick made sense.

Bad Bunny won out for the year at the Grimmies. It got to be one of the Asians. It got to be that K-pop. There we go. Hello? K-pop. Y' got to be, y'all. And they got to bring Jackie Chan and Jetty out.

You know what I'm saying? What a kid. I think a big year in America. What's the demon hunters? Oh, K-pop D-Hunters. Are they American? I just know my kids like them. I don't know what-

You gotta bring a squid games. I don't think they're real either. They're not on the same. They're not the same. They're from different parts of Asian. They're real, though. They're not real people. K-pop?

Yes, they are. I think they are. No, they perform. I don't know. I don't know. I just know the name. Yeah, K-pop. They do K-pop and I don't want to see no K-P.

I don't want to see no K-pop. That's how they felt about bad. I just don't want to see no K-pop. That's how they felt about bad money. My kids listen to K-Bop all the time, and I can't get into K-pop. Well, they got these representatives out here trying to make legislation because of bad bunny. I just wonder what Rock Nation is going to do next for the halftime show. And that's probably why the White House is targeting them because they probably pissed the hell off.

How many more years, Jay got? How many more years, Jay got? I don't know. I don't know if they resigned. Didn't they resigned to do extra four or five years or something? I don't think they officially announced it. If it's my last year, I'm performing. I'm ending it on the main.

going to perform. Jay just going to perform. Jay's going to be Jay and others, though. Yeah, Jay put on the main information. If the White House is calling him anti-Trump and calling him anti-Maga, what is the anti-American, he would be the person

that could piss him off by performing. According to what I'm looking at here, they extended the partnership with Rock Nation for five years back in October 2020. So it's at least through 2029. So they got some time to make some people upset. All right. Well, that's the latest with Laura. Show them, who you giving that donkey to?

After the hour, let's continue this conversation. meet Megan Kelly and Jesse Waters to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him, please. All right. And then after that, Mona Scott Young will be joining us. We're going to kick it with Mona Scott, so don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning.

Made it. 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 to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage. And yesterday it was a really bad day for him.

And this is what he did. And so we. are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacist violence is, 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. All right, Shornene, please tell me why was I your donkey of the day?

Yes, donkey today for Tuesday, February, 10th goals DeMagan Kelly, Jesse Waters, and everyone who is highly, and I mean, highly upset over Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl. We knew there was going to be criticism. There is nothing in life that, doesn't receive criticism. Okay, I tell you all about the rule of 10 all the time.

My guy Cadillac Jack, drop on the clues bonds for Cadillac Jack. Cadillac and G-Spin, they put the Breakfast Club together. And Cadillac told me this years, years, years ago, man, three people going to lie. I mean, three people going to like it. Three people are not going to like it. And four people don't even know what the hell happened. Okay, and that applies to everything in life, including Super Bowl halftime performances. Personally, I'm one of the people who liked it.

I loved it. I don't have to know the words to know the vibes. All right. Positive energy is contagious, and there was a lot of positive energy coming from that stage. If you can find a way to be mad at a man for performing in front of hundreds of millions of people and saying the only thing more powerful than hate is love, if you can find a way to be mad at that, then I have to be the first to tell you that you probably missed a message.

Okay? Yesterday I saw Laura Luma tweet, The NFL should apologize to the American people for flooding the Super Bowl with foreign flags. Totally disgraceful. There's nothing American about this. President Donald Trump said the Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely terrible. One of the worst ever. It makes no sense is an affront to the greatness of America and doesn't represent our standards of success, creativity, or excellence.

Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching throughout the USA and all over the world. This show is just a slap in the face to our country, which is setting new standards and records every single day, including the best stock market and 401Ks in history. There is nothing inspirational about this mess of a halftime show and watch. It will get great reviews from the fake news media because they haven't got a clue of what is going on in the real world. And by the way, the NFL should immediately replace this ridiculous new kickoff rule, make America great again. Latinos for Trump, how do y'all feel? I really would like to know how do y'all feel? Trump said a Puerto Rican man.

Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, by the way. A Puerto Rican man, U.S. citizen, performing at the Super Bowl, is a slap in the face to our country, okay? As if that's not our country too, okay? My God. But then you have Megan Kelly and Jesse Waters, mad that the whole show was done in Spanish. Let's listen.

I like the Super Bowl not to be an international event. I like it when we kind of all come together as Americans, especially when it feels like the N. NFL is just using it as a marketing ploy to recruit Latin American audience on the heels of Latin America invading this country. 20 million pouring in. And that's what you see. You see all these foreigners speaking of foreign language with foreign flags marching into the camera like a caravan. Too soon.

This was an open borders moment. Everybody knows it. That's what's going on here. To get up there and perform the whole show. in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America. This is supposed to be a unifying event for the country, not for the Latinos, not for one small group, but for the country. We don't need a black national anthem.

We don't need a Spanish-speaking, non-English performing performer, and we don't need an ICE or America hater featured as our primetime entertainment. And the halftime show and everything around it needs to stay quintessentially American, Not Spanish, not Muslim, not anything other than good old fashion American apple pie. There should be a meatloaf, maybe some fried chicken, and an English-speaking performer. That's what the Super Bowl should be. Jesus. All right, you're black.

Yeah, the black side. It's the fried chicken. Red, you're Puerto Rican. I'm sorry that you got to go through this. Envy, you're Dominican. I'm sorry that you have to go to me. I'm black, sir. Jess, your in-laws of Mexican, I'm sorry that y'all have to go through this.

Okay. Megan Kelly said that we should keep it quintessential. American when it comes to the Super Bowl Halitau Performance. Jesse Waters said he doesn't like when the Super Bowl is an international event. America, I don't know if y'all know or not, but before this year, they have been 13 non-American

performers. So I'm trying to figure out is the issue that he wasn't performing in English because Puerto Rico is part of U.S. territory. Residents of Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens. So is it the language? Because you can't, you know, tell me that you want to keep it at an international event and it should be quintessential American when 13,

non-American performers have already performed, okay? Phil Collins, Enrique Iglesias, U-2, Shania Twain, Stained, Celine Dion, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Coldplay, Shakerara, the weekend, Rihanna, I don't remember y'all complaining about any of them, okay? I wonder if Enrique Iglesias, Shakira would upset this administration. And if so, why? If they were to perform now, would they upset this administration? And if so, why?

I think I know the answer, okay? And I have a question. what did Brown do to you? Jesse Waters, Megan Kelly. The way y'all acting over bad bunnies is how y'all should be acting over the Epstein list. Okay, yesterday lawmakers Roe Conner and Thomas Massey was supposed to be reviewing some of the Epstein files

under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Connor and Massey co-authed. And it requires federal agencies to provide unredacted records from the FBI and grand juries related to Epstein's criminal case. And guess what? They were still redacted. Okay. In fact, Roe Connie and Thomas Massey said the Justice Department redacted the names of at least six men who are likely incriminated by their inclusion in the Epstein files.

Why aren't you outraged about that, Megan Kelly and Jesse Waters? That's what people should be upset about. Okay, they should be upset about how the government is playing in our face and protecting powerful men who are potentially pedophiles. Okay? Listen, you know a bad money performance made me want to do? learn Spanish, okay, because I like the energy of his music, okay, and my kids, you know, learn Spanish in school, so I'm like, you know what, let me keep up, so they're not cursing me up behind my back, okay? And I want to know what the hell he is saying, okay? I'm not going to sit around and complain that it's not in English. I'm going to get on his level, and that is the beauty of America. Okay, America is the great American melting pot, a society where

immigrants from diverse cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds blend together to form a single harmonious and stronger unified culture. That is what makes America truly great and always has. Okay, America for a lot of people is one big teachable moment. And if you stop learning, you start dying. You know who said that? Albert Einstein. So guess what, Jesse and Megan?

You might be dead on the inside. Please give Jesse Waters and Megan Kelly the biggest he all. Jesus Christ. All right, well, thank you for that donkey of today. Yes, indeed. Morning, everybody, it's DJ NV, Just Hilarious. Charlemagne de Guy. We are the breakfast club.

La Rosa is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. Mona Scott Young. Welcome back. Thank you. How are you feeling? Good morning.

On fumes, exhausted. But I'm alive, so I'm happy. You're always working. Always working. I've seen a video yesterday, and I don't know how true it is, but they said love and hip-hop is over? No. Well, I don't know. Who knows? No. It's not. There's so many changes happening over there. I have no idea. Okay. Yes. And that was your baby. That's the reason I was asking. No, absolutely. But all babies grow up, they leave the nest. That's right. What you're doing? You're doing movies now, right? I am, yes. Concerts as well?

Concerts as well. I've started promoting tours. I got big by the bug when I did Missy's tour and the Queens of R&B. You know, so I've continued to do that. Yep, been doing some radio dates. So that's been fun. You know, before TV and like before movies, you were managing artists. Like, what skills from artist management translated most directly into building the entertainment empire you have now? I think, you know, the relationships of talent, being able to kind of bridge that gap and getting them to deliver on services and just relationship management overall. You know, that's probably the biggest skill set that I think I'd bring to production. You've been with Missy for so long. You know, most times you don't see a manager. doing it for that long.

Right. How has that relationship been so solid for that many years? I mean, I think it's because it's transcended work, right? We're friends as well and, you know, we really kind of appreciate each other on a level beyond the business. And so there's a respect level there that I think, you know, keeps the relationship going. Yeah, Buster too. I mean, exactly.

On Tyrese, right? He's going, yeah, and I just started working with Tyrese. Why such a headache just late in your career? Because I love it very. No, he's incredibly talented. And I always say that, you know, part of my primary directive as a manager is when I see talent and I know that I can do something to help bring it to fruition, you know, I want to be there.

I want to do that. No, that's how reason. And he's super, he's very creative. Yeah. He's incredibly creative, super talented, and he's a good person, right? So for me, that's important as well. Yeah, I put a lot in the life's too short bucket, but he's just a good person. So, yeah.

When it comes to Missing and Buffett, what did you record? recognizing them that the industry didn't, before everybody did. Just their sense of uniqueness, right? To have managed the two of them for so many years, they are like the yin and yang, you know, and incredibly unique, incredibly passionate, and have kind of that ability to transcend time, right?

Even taking Missy out on tour, people were so surprised that was the first time she had ever headlined a tour, because she feels so omnipresent. I was surprised, yeah. Exactly. People were like, wait, what? And I was like, no, trust me, I was there, I'd know.

But and Buster, you know, still doing it, still hands down the best, you know, to ever do it when he gets on that stage. So for me, I've had the incredible privilege of being part of two super unique, super special careers that are still going strong. That's what I'm saying. So when you see greatness like that, right, and see what they became, the longevity and everything. How do you even spot that now? Like, I don't even know if that's something that can be duplicates. It's so crazy you say that, right? Because my kids, I'm always like, what on earth are you all going to be listening to in 20 years?

Right? And there's something to be said for, you know, what they're enjoying now. But I do believe that the artist development, the art form of being an entertainer, right, has been lost. And that's what creates the longevity. Right now, what you're seeing is a lot of people who are as strong as their latest hit. Right? You got the hot record. You're popping right now.

You're on fire. But what is going to give you that staying power, right? Are you going to be around 20, 30 years from now? Do you ever feel like the success of reality TV? It boxed like a lot of black creatives in the one lane. Even though it was giving a lot of people an opportunity. It didn't necessarily give you a lane, I guess, to showcase talent. Well, it's hard, right?

Because I think the Internet, you know, had a lot to do with it as well because it leveled the playing field for artists, right? before where you had to have a major system to gain exposure. Now the exposure was literally at your fingertips. But I think what reality did was it again provided that same kind of wide exposure. It's all about how you positioned yourself and how you took advantage of that platform. Right. So like I said, it's a double-edged sword.

It had its good side and its bad side. But I think when you didn't understand how to, you know, use it to your benefit, you allowed yourself to be pigeonholed because we've seen people who were able to rock out and move into different directions, create and take advantage of opportunities that did not exist prior to them having that platform. So I think it's all about, you know,

understanding the business model and how to work it to your benefit. Do you miss it at all? I'm sorry. Do you miss that part of the game? I mean, I still do unscripted, right? But again, it's always about evolution. When you talk about staying power,

It's about being able to take an opportunity, utilize it to catapult you to the next level, right? So it doesn't just apply to what I say to the talent on the show. I've had to apply that to myself. They criticize you a lot for love and hip-hop and some of the things that they. How do you take that criticism? I mean, everybody's got an opinion, right? People criticize y'all. You guys know who you are.

You know what you're doing. I'm not, you know, I don't live my life based on what other people think. So it's, no. Is there any? You know, it's what Mona, long, long, long. time ago. She gave me a call one time, you know, because of my criticism of the show and her perspective made a lot of sense to me. Because, you know, I didn't realize, well, I'm not going to say I didn't realize, but

yes, some of these people had never been on television before and they got opportunities that they never would have gotten if they didn't get that, you know, platform. And then you see a lot of them now, like, elevating and doing things beyond, you know, listen, and, and you provided me a catalog growing up. That was my, I was, man, every franchise of Love and Hip Hop was, except Los Angeles, you know, was my content. Like, I,

I, um, that's when I started doing Jess with the mess. That was my first Jess with the mess. I used to do it on the episodes Love and Hip Hop New York. That is amazing. That was my old childhood. I still watch at the beginning.

New York, Atlanta, I still watch it. How do I deal with the criticism? It's stories like this, right? Everything has its good side and it's bad side. You have to be prepared to take it all. I can't enjoy the benefits of and not be prepared to deal with the, you know, perceived backlash. You ever wish you started your own network during that time? Because you had the shows.

You had everything like, because it could have been your own network. Listen, what I could have should have. I try not to live with regret, right? Everything I do, I do it with intentionality. And it's what's for me at that time. I mean, there's a lot on the horizon now that I would have never have contemplated way back then. But, you know, I take everything in stride. Really? Yeah. Are you still get surprised by things that come your way?

Absolutely. Absolutely. Every single day I get up, you know, what I love about living life every day is I never know what, you know, is around the corner. And so I'm still excited about the things that I'm doing now. I never thought I'd be producing tours as much as I, you know, represented talent and went out on tours with them. But who thought I would be putting it together soup to nuts, right?

So that allowed me to exercise another area that I'd never thought of before, directing. I never saw myself as a director, right? And now moving into, you know, live stage productions and features. Those are all, you know, I'm still excited. What's something people, the audience thinks they understand about love and hip hop that they completely get wrong? Listen, it has evolved tremendously. And I think there were times later on when people felt like they wanted to add water and stir it to the formula, right? So I'm just going to come in and do this thing that's going to, you know,

you know, make me a, the meme of the day, whatever. But in the beginning, what people didn't understand is that this, like we said, was really their lives and it was difficult for them. Like, there were so many hours spent after a difficult scene, like, you know, talking somebody through it and really helping them deal with whatever it is that they had just experienced for real on television, knowing that the whole world is going to see this thing that just happened to me. Oh, my God.

Is it true? I know I've heard Jim Jones talk about this. another love and hip hop myth that originally it was supposed to be about him and Chrissy's life and they developed the idea like he says like he created love and hip absolutely well listen I talk about it openly all the time right when Jim Ackerman who was the executive at VH1 came to me Yandy was managing Jim Jones at the time they had an idea that they had pitched which was centered around Jim that they were developing for I think two years and couldn't kind of figure out the right

formula and I think Jim was going through a lot of things at the time And when they turned the cameras on, he just was not in a space where he wanted to do it. And so there were a couple of iterations before we landed on what people came to know as love and hip hop. I mean, we tried to do something with Mama Jones and, you know, the dynamic between her and Chrissy. You know, so there were a couple of things that we tried. And then when it was more about these ensemble cast, it was like, well, let's spread it out. Let's look at the friends. Let's see who else is in the world.

And I've said also the person who came up with the name was Emily. You know, we were sitting there going through a bunch of different names, and Emily was like, love and hip hop. And we're all like, yeah, that sounds great, you know. Yep. Now they're going to say, well, why didn't they get equity in it then? Because if you understand the business of television, at that point in time, this was an unproven concept, right?

There was nothing like it on television. Everybody was kind of locking arms and trying something. It could have been an epic fail. And then you would have had 100% of zero. But when you do television, it's work for hire, right? They were not investing money, and this is the business side of things that people need to educate themselves on and understand.

Nobody came to the table and said, I want to fund this. I'm going to own this thing and license it, right? This was an idea that was purchased and paid for by a network, and everyone developed it for that network. When your legacy is discussed, right, like 20 years from now. What do you hope people say you changed about TV,

not just what you can profit it from? I don't know that I'm necessarily as interested in hearing what I changed about TV as much as I am, the impact that I had on people's lives. You know, think about the number of cast members that have come through just that franchise, never mind all the other things that I've produced and the other things that I've done in my career and in my lifetime, right?

And just knowing that in whatever shape or form, in whatever scope and scale that I had an impact on helping someone, you know, realize their dream, helping someone get one step closer to, you know, their full potential or understanding what their spaces in the world

and how to be in that and live it and live up to it. That's to me way more important. Yeah. And again, that's when, you know, talk about accolades or talk about criticisms. None of that, you know,

has any bearing for me because as long as I, every single day, understand what my intentions are, maintain my direct relationships, know the impact that I've had on their lives, whether it's been publicized or not. None of that stuff, you know, matters to me. Do you have any other movies that you're doing? Absolutely. We're developing a ton of stuff. Yes, some I can talk about. Very excited to be working with Suzanne DePas, the legend. Right, exactly. We have several projects that we're developing. Also, a project that I'm

I have been pursuing for a very long time. When I did my first TV show, one of the judges on the road to start with Missy Elliott was Tina Marie. And so I have been passionate about seeing Tina Marie's story come to life. So that is a project that I'm working on with her daughter, Alia Rose.

So, yeah, I'm very excited about that. But yeah, no, many, many more things to come in the pipeline, so. Well, if you need any more actresses. Of course, you are on my very short list. Absolutely. Very short list. And Charlamagne, I will be following up with you on my podcast. Absolutely. Beautiful. Oh, you know, I want to ask you too. You've always been proudly Haitian.

Yes. Right. Do you have anybody impacted by the ending of the TPS status? I mean, not directly. It's just a horrible, you know, thing that is, listen, the state of the world in general is crazy and chaotic right now. But, yeah, there's a lot of extended family, a lot of, you know, friends who have family that is. being impacted by this. But it is, you know, part and parcel with everything that's going on in its entirety in this world right now. Like, we can't just, you know, look at what's happening to Haitian Americans.

Look at what's happening to us in general. Like, it's crazy. Absolutely. Mona Scott, we appreciate you for joining us. Monoscott Young. Monos Scott Young. I don't forget. Mary J. Blas presents.

Be happy. Make sure you definitely check it out. And thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me, guys. It's the breakfast club. Let's get to the latest with all right. Lauren becoming a straight fat She gets them from somebody that knows somebody She gets the details

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Let's get into this latest So Glorilla has responded again To all of the family drama that is going down She was live on Facebook And she was explaining kind of her side of things Because you know her sister was accusing her Of not taking care for family Including her mom and her dad

And she actually brought her mom and her dad On the live Now let's take a listen to Gloria speaking To her mom on the live Mom you keep doing what you want to do You keep getting spoiled every month and you keep working because you want to work because you don't want to lay on your back and beg no matter for nothing the girl told where we worked the hours that we were going so we had to

resign but how many hours was you working there anyway two three so you're going to work for two three hours but she acting like you just need to go work there I'm pretty sure that's two hundred dollars a week she didn't know we were working at first and when I couldn't give her the money I did you know And I said, well, you know, I'm at work. And she said, you're working. So that made her think that I was struggling. It's cool, my, you're taking care of you know you can give whatever you want. You don't got to explain nothing.

I let you come on here on live on my live so they can hear your side of the story. I'm mad at the same. Because she don't have to do that. She don't at all. She also got her dad on the live as well, too. Let's take a listen to Gloria talking to her dad. Let me call my dad. Hold on.

Listen, baby. I don't get on now because I'm a dead. y'all my church. Victoria needs her motherfucking asshole. I'm the dad what Victoria's doing to my family name. I run it all. Tell the world how I treat you.

Man, my back. Oh, look, you have been outside. I could never pay you back for all the shit. I don't know. That's all that matter. You and my mom were taking curls and I'm happy. You don't tell me. Thank you, Dad. I know. You deserve it. You deserve it.

I can never pay you back for all these dollars. I'm gonna be called. You gave me pot. You gave me plenty of money. I don't travel down the United States with you. You have a shed my wildest dream. That's glory. You know I love all y'all.

Good bad news. I'm really sad Gloria had to do that. And I ain't hear mama or daddy say the three words that the sister needed here. And that's get a job. I think she has a job. Don't she have a job? Not no more, right? I don't know where she's working.

I saw that she's out like hosting events and doing skits and stuff now. I thought she had the FedEx job. I don't know if that was like a real uniform Or they just put her in that because she was talking about her mom was working at FedEx I don't know But I know she is hosting things now I saw a flyer the other day and it was like hosted by Gloria's sister Now Gloria did talk

That's great Yeah Come on you shouldn't even want by the way you shouldn't want to be known as that You shouldn't want to be known as Gloria sister Go figure something else out on your own I'm upset at Glow that even had to post that It's your family business you do what you want to do You work hard you keep making these hits

You're on tour you're working your ass off f everybody else. Your mom and daddy good. That's all that matters. That's all that matters. And the times I've seen, Glow, I've seen her with her family. I've seen her with her brothers.

You know, she introduced this with my brother, this is my sister. So I don't understand it. Well, Glor talked a bit about that herself, like when she was just on a lot by herself, about the siblings that she does deal with and what the situation is between her and this particular sister.

Let's take a listen to that. I ain't going to talk about how you got me sent to jail for a whole week. How you tried to shoot me and to send me up? You could have been saying my name of Dipa positive. You went to back the wrong way. Now you'll never get a penny out of me. I'm gonna leave you alone because the world don't know

that you are like literal mental patient. And they laugh and at you and not with you. I could have got on there and told them how you broke out of Lakeside, how you had to take an acute test and they determined that you had to go to the mental hospital. And how you broke out that,

the world is making fun of you and I hate that for you. But continue to get your money, continue to do whatever you do, but do it on your own of your own night. I don't f*** you. My feelings that I don't f*** with, they know why I don't f*** with them.

If I didn't f*** you seven years ago, I still don't f***. You don't matter that I got money, I don't owe you a fucking sign. Go live screaming at the phone with your goddamn schizophrenic and make you some money, and keep my name out of your mouth.

Keep my whole family name out of your mouth. She should have said, I hope you heal. And if I'm going to give you any money, it's going to pay for your therapist. I could have told them you only had nine fingers, but I ain't say that, though. And then you failed our curtest,

and that's why. She only got nine fingers? No, I don't know. I'm just saying. I'm about to say nine-finger stud can make some money. There's a circus iron for that right now. Come see the nine-finger stud. But didn't Torrey Lane's give a $2,500?

Yeah, the $2,500. Yeah, the Torrey Lane sent her $2,500. Victoria, Gloveral and sisters. Because she posted and talked about it and said she gave her mom had, but she said she owed her mom money, so she gave her mom half. But she also yesterday posted, it was like a text message that is allegedly from their mom. And I guess Gloverlla's mom, if this is real, sent it to a family group chat,

but meant to send it to Gloria separately. And in the text message, first of all, she shows the mom's number, which was crazy. and a lot of blogs blocked it out but she did show her mom's number but the text message basically saying like there were some times where the family did have feelings about certain things

like they wanted to go and celebrate glow during certain things and that didn't happen and you know needing clothes and just different things that's their family business sounds like it's a bunch of in-house things that should have never made it here all y'all keep showing me is exactly why Glorilla don't want to be around you

that's all she keeps showing me every single time she posts I'm like I get exactly why Gloria set a boundary with her yes right well in other music news, Jay Cole did an AMA yesterday. Y'all know what AMA said from? No. Asked me anything. Yeah, I didn't know that. Dinah. I thought it was American Music Awards.

Me too. I'm like, he's doing his own American Music Awards, but he didn't ask me anything yesterday on his website for the fans. And we found out some things. So we found out that Jay Cole, number one, does not want to do any more Jay Cole music. He says he has a genuine love for music. It's a blessing dropping his album. He was highly inspired by it, but he has

no interest in making any more Jay Cole albums. His passion and excitement right now is in producing. He says he will write, record, and when it's time, when it hits him, he might release new music if the spirit says to do so, but the falloff is a project that he will not try and stop. He's not, he's not retired, like he said. No, he's not retiring. He's just not doing his own album, he said. It's confusing. But everybody says that when they retire, right? We heard that from Jay. We heard that from T.I. We heard that from a bunch of people. And somehow, somewhere they still come on with music. Anybody asks him why he called himself to have Black

Messiah? That is crazy. Did anybody ask him why he said we gotta respect this mulatto? I didn't see. See those questions? All right. Well, that is the latest milaro.

That's what he addresses himself as in the music, Warren. I know, but I'm saying I didn't see a fan asked that question. I was in there, maybe I could have gotten there and asked some questions. Oh, I could have sent your link. Of course.

And he, yeah, he would have a straight block show. He would have said Charlamine. Like, your ID would probably, you would have made a big. I enjoyed the album. His questions. I think that I was good. Oh, so you actually, you have a taste now.

I listen to a lot of, I listen to a lot of, I listed a whole album a couple times. He said he was going to have to listen to it and let it digest. That's what you should do. Yeah. I don't think it needed to be a double album, though. I would have shortened it.

Hour and 41 minutes is a lot. Long time. I would have shortened it in probably about 11 or 12 songs. I can agree. But I think it's a good project. Well, the project, if these numbers are right according to chart that, it might be the second biggest album debut of 2026 so far. He'd be coming behind Don't Oliver.

I do, like I said before, though, I do want him to be more introspective because it feel like, you know, he's been rapping about the same things for a long time. Like, okay. Yeah. Like, I, you know, you had some issues with your wife, I guess. You know, we all deal with that, right? Like, wanting to be a better man. But we want to know more relationships.

Yeah, you're the first rapper to come out of Fayville. We know that's tough. Okay, you moved to New York to chase your dreams. Okay. Well, I feel like he's been rapping about those same things for a long time. I knew it was going to fail your substance test sort of. I told you that. Well, we'll talk about it when we come back.

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It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. It's Black History Month.

What we're doing today, Shalamey? Man, salute to my guy, B.D., you know, every day during Black History Month, B.D. Does a podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network called I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

where he tells you some things about black history that you may not have known. And today he's going to tell you about the Marching 100, how fam you turned discipline into dominance. The Marching 100, how fam you turned discipline into dominance. I didn't know. Welcome back, No-It-alls to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled, I didn't know.

Maybe you didn't either. And I'm B-DOT, the P.D. announcer, Fam U. Ratlis. Five home games a year, we got Club Bragg Rockin. And you can argue, a bigger draw on Saturdays than the football team is the band.

They march and play to the stadium. They do a 15-minute pre-game performance. They play in the stands during the game. They do they have time performance. They go back in the stands and play some more, and then they do a 15-minute fifth quarter if there was another band that was brave enough

to challenge them and come to Brad. And if it wasn't, they'll just play for 15 minutes for the fan, and then they marched back to the band room. It is phenomenal to see. Now, my homie, Trevor, he a fourth generation rattler, and he just sort of turned into a brother to me. But his blood brother is actually one of the drum majors for the Magnificent Seven. That what fam, you call their drum majors.

That's my boy, Ty Lloyd. So before we get into this episode, I'm going to give you three of the most useless facts you'll never need in life about black bands. Your first useless fact, the number 100 in the March and 100, it ain't about size, but they got over 300 instrumentalists. It's about standard. Your second useless fact, most modern halftime shows are built off systems created at an HBCU. And your third useless fact, Black Excellence didn't become influential by accident.

It was engineered. Now for today's episode, do you know how FamU's band came to be? Because I didn't. I didn't know maybe you didn't need. I didn't know maybe you didn't me. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.

In 1926, Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week, because he understood something most people still miss. If you don't build your own system, you'll always be begging to be remembered by somebody else. Now, fast forward 20 years. 1946. Florida A&M. University. A man named William P. Foster.

He took a position most people would have treated it as a job. But him, he treated it as his calling. He created the marching 100. Not just a band, an infrastructure of excellence. Every detail mattered. How you stood. How you marched. How you sounded.

How you held your instruments. The doctor foster's the new song. The way you practice when the stands are empty is the way you'll perform when they fool. The standard was the standard. And the standard didn't bend for crowds or cameras or comfort. Ain't none comfortable about being in the band. If you've ever seen them, you know, practice is not a suggestion. I still don't know how they be humping with them tubas.

But here's what made it revolutionary. See, before the March in 100, fans mostly walked in a straight line and played the notes. You've seen the bands. Show up. March, play. Go home. After the March in 100, precision became the performance. Discipline became the culture.

Presentation became power. The halftime show became. became the show. To this day, some folks just come to the game for the halftime show. Don't know what happened at the start of the third quarter. They already heading to the exits.

When Beyonce wanted to honor HBCU culture at Coachella, she didn't study USC or Ohio State. She studied the March in Wahana because they wrote the playbook. And here's the part that I didn't know. Ed Excellence wasn't about music. It was about building black systems

that could not be ignored. No one had to include the Marcia Marching 100. They set the bar so high, everybody else had to rise to it. That's what infrastructure looks like. You don't ask for a seat at the table. You build a table that's so impressive that everyone else asked the sit at yours. Like Charlemagne did with the Black Effect Podcast Network. You see the check our heart cut? Listen, a century after Carter G. Woods and carved space for black history, the March of 100 showed what happens when black institutions control the standard, not just the narrative. And that's why this fits our season.

and stained 100 years of knowing better. The Marching 100 didn't chase validation. They built something so excellent that the world recognized around it. And that's the hidden truth of black history. When we design the system, the system worked. And I didn't know.

Maybe you didn't either. Salute to B. Dot. Do you know why y'all have heat in your house? Because it's cold. Hmm. Because Alice Parker pioneered a modern central heating system in 1919 and that's why we all have heat in our homes thanks to a black woman her name is alice parker

so give it up make some noise y'all i'm gonna bring you this book right and it's called how uh it's called black people invented everything i'm gonna bring you that book okay she's right in there right there i mean like i mean like yeah right there alice parker 1919 okay natural gas fired furnaces But you know what? A lot of people did not know why they're warm. You know where she's from? Do I know where she from?

Yeah. No, no. Okay. Do you know? New Jersey. Oh, my God. That's great. You know your history.

But a lot of other people don't. Alice Parker, a New Jersey woman, she is the first person. Yeah. To create a heating system in 1919. That's right. So before then, people with sub-zero out this bitch. You know what college she went to?

Oh, exactly. I'm about to say that to. And I ain't even go to college. I know this. The real H.U. Amy, you're supposed to dispute that because you from him. I have disputed that. But she went to Howard University.

I didn't even go to college and I know stuff like this. That's what's up. I'm glad you're deep diving in my lesson here. Thank you so much. All right. It's time to get up out of here. Solomon, you got a positive note. Before we do, salute to Teddy Riley for joining us this morning.

Make sure you pick up his book. Remember the times. It's out today. It's actually out today. Today is February 10th. So it came out today. That's right. Okay.

Positive note. Yes, man. It is Black History Month. Let's have a positive note from Mr. Marcus Garvey. Mr. Marcus Garvey says a people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. So that's why Black History Month is important. So go learn something about yourself today. Okay?

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