The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Jay-Z Calls Out Grammys, Killer Mike Sweeps Rap Categories, Drake Shades Rihanna During Recent Performance, Kandi Burruss Reveals She's Done With 'RHOA' + More

Episode Date: February 5, 2024

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everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You got a change changing the entire scene. They've got cultural. Well, y'all came a long way. They might not watch the news, but, you know, they're listening to The Breakfast Club. Who the go?

DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha God. Y'all are like a mega force. Breakfast Club. That's how we got these guys. Wake your ass up. It's morning time. The Breakfast Club is on. Good morning, USA. What is up, y'all? Big Jess, not the little one. The Jess Hilarious official era has started.

What's happening? I'm just trying to get my stuff together right now. You know, I come in. And what's up? What's up, y'all? Come on. They won't plug in? Hold on.

Drop on the Clues Bounce with Jess Hilarious. Can we get our headphones right? It's getting me all the way together. Our first day here. Yeah, because you know I can't wait to call y'all. I can't wait to hate something. What's up? You good?

Is it working? Yeah. Is it better? I don't know. Is it working? Let me hear you.? I don't know. Is it working? Let me hear you. Hello. Hello, can you hear me?

Well, don't turn it up too loud. You're deaf. That's all you had to do, right? Come on, don't tell me all I had to do. All I had to do was press on. How loud? Hello. See?

Can you hear me? You good? No, I can't hear you. It still won't hear? Oh, man. Oh, maybe they dead. Those yours? Who gave her those headphones? I don't know. These better be Raycons dying like this. They are, man. Oh, maybe they're dead. Those yours? Who gave her those headphones?

I don't know. These better not be Raycons dying like this. They are Raycons. Oh, my God, Ray. Oh, my God. They are Raycons. Oh, get Jeff some headphones. Yeah, could we get some headphones? Jesus Christ, y'all.

Oh, my God. This is our first day. That's the least y'all could have done. Get us some headphones and a microphone. Y'all so worried about balloons. Okay. But I do. So worried about balloons.

I do love my balloons though don't do that no they look beautiful you can't hear for real no i can't i'm not gonna lie oh no no we gotta get us some headphones i'm gonna get us some headphones today you about to give her the damn fisher price my first daughter kid headphones that's exactly what that is okay okay that's what i'm talking about for jess what's good there we go good morning jess how you feeling good morning i'm feeling good i am tired but i am i'm good you're good yeah i'm built for this what's I'm dropping a bomb for Jess. What's good? There we go. Good morning, Jess. How you feeling? Good morning. I'm feeling good. I am tired, but I'm good.

You're good? Yeah, I'm built for this. What's up? Happy to have you. Happy to be here. How was the weekend? The weekend was good. I got a lot done.

I actually just took all weekend and prepared for this. You know what I'm saying? Because, you know, I can read and everything now. I can read and everything now. Yeah. First day of the rest of your life, or at least for the next. First day. How many years of the contract?

Right. Right. But for however long it's going to be, this is the first day. That's right. All right. Yep. Well, let's get the show cracking. We got a lot to talk about today.

Yes. Tess and Figaro has front page news. Of course, the Grammys were last night. A lot to discuss. And can we, we got some Killer Mike? Man. Can we start the show with some Killer Mike? Yes. We're going to start the show with some Killer Mike. Killer Mike had a clean were last night. A lot to discuss. And can we, we got some Killer Mike? Can we start the show with some Killer Mike? Yes, we gonna start the show

with some Killer Mike. Killer Mike had a clean sweep last night at the Grammys. Killer Mike was nominated for Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best Rap of the Year. Yeah, Best Rap of the Year.

And he won every single one of them. They didn't televise not near one of them. Which is wild. I don't know how we got to that point, Grammys. We'll talk about that later. Yeah, absolutely.

I don't know how we got to the point where we don't televise the Hip Hophop awards no more. Oh, you got your fresh hairline painted off for Jess this morning? That's what I'm talking about. Don't blame nothing on me. You think I'm cute? He think I'm cute.

I had to say all that. It just looks very obvious. Yes, you do. That looks very obvious. Don't blame nothing on me. This guy think I'm cute. No. Let's get this show started.

Here's Killer Mike. This is new Killer Mike off the Michael Deluxe. It's called Get Some Money. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, J, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Yes, sir. Salute to Killer Mike.

Clean sweep of the Grammys last night. He won all three Grammys he was nominated for. Sure did. And then got arrested shortly after. That's the life of a black man in America. Highs and lows. Okay. Okay, but we're going to focus on the highs.

That's right. Good morning, Tez. Good America. Highs and lows. Okay. Okay. But we're going to focus on the highs. That's right. Good morning, Tess. Good morning. Good morning, Queen. Let me say good morning to the Queen of the Breakfast Club first. Just hilarious. DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. Thank you.

Thank you, girl. All right. Well, let's get in some front page news. I just want to tell everybody, all the soccer fans, that the FIFA World Cup will be in New York, New Jersey in 2026. Everybody thought it was going to Dallas, but New York, New Jersey in 2026. Everybody thought it was going to Dallas, but New York and New Jersey pulled it off. So 2026, the FIFA will

be played at MetLife Stadium, and that's super huge for the city. All right. Now what we got? Tiz, where we starting? Well, first, I just want to give my personal shout out to Killer Mike. I know we all doing that this morning, but I was there when he was interviewed for the Grammys when they came in Dallas and met with him.

So I'm very, very excited. I was in tears last night. So congratulations to him again. Nice. Now, President Joe Biden, he won 90 percent, 96 percent of the vote in South Carolina. Take a listen in the first official contest of the Democratic presidential primary season. President Biden getting his first victory in South Carolina. Biden posted a video Saturday night on X following his projected win, thanking voters for their support. South Carolina, we did it again. You did it for me again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 2020 and now again in 2024. Now let's go win the whole thing. Let's win it all. Now, Arthur Marianne Williamson, she came in second place with 2.1% of the vote.

U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips received 1.7% of the vote. Now, despite Phillips' loss, Dean Phillips did say he's not leaving the race. He said on Twitter, cracking four digits, never felt so good. Congratulations, Mr. President, on a good old-fashioned whooping. See you in Michigan. So, with that statement, it appears that Dean will be skipping Nevada because actually the next primary is February 6th in Nevada and then February 27th in Michigan. No surprise that President Biden won South Carolina. I mean, those OGs in my beautiful home state of South Carolina are going to always ride with Biden.

I wonder if that's a snapshot of things to come or will he go somewhere like Michigan and get a rude awakening? I think when he goes to Michigan, Charlamagne, it's a good point. Because of all of the activists that are actively running campaigns against Joe Biden due to everything that's happening in the Middle East, you will get a snapshot to see what it'll look like. But when nobody else is on the ballot and it's just one person, how can you really, you know, make that determination? But I do think Michigan is definitely going to show how people feel as far as the war is concerned. And we have to look at that and say, what is that going to look like in the general election when he's up against Trump? All right. We got time for another one. You want to talk about the gas prices? Yeah, just quickly, as the Midwest families, they're riding their cars this morning, want to give at least some good news on the economy. There is a quick update on gas according to the u.s energy information administration

uh regional prices fell this week so the average is $2.87 for regular fuel last week it was $2.89 so this tally is based upon uh illinois indiana iowa kansas kentucky michigan minnesota missouri nebraska north dakota oklahoma ohio south dakota tennessee and wisconsin so hopefully that can spread around the country you know a lot of us were concerned about how is the war going to affect gas prices so i thought this was some good news to see that the price of gas is going down hopefully to stay that way are they going in our reserves or are we still getting getting barrels from overseas do we know i don't know i don't want to guess and just

throw anything out there, but obviously, anytime there's a war going on in the Middle East, that's something to be looked at. That's why I thought this story was really interesting that the price of gas is going down. When you were born in the 1900s, like we were, 1978

for myself, gas always seemed too high. When you remember gas being a dollar yes you don't know nothing about that no okay i don't when gas was a dollar you always remember that so gas always seemed too high yeah but i thought they said that you know especially since biden is running you you take from the reserves to keep gas prices down so it looks like you know he's keeping the gas prices down so people you know put them in a positive light when it comes to gas prices so they usually go to the reserves to make sure the gas prices stay low during especially during the election yeah you know well that's smart if

they're doing that then good bring bring it on down then whatever whatever's gonna help the family uh try to reduce some of that price so thought that was just some good news all right well that is front page news what we talking next hour oh man come back and next time new new york police chief said it's time for officers to get back to being police officers and stop acting like the hip hop department. And then we're going to talk. What the hell I mean? Yeah. Talk about the dress code. Said y'all to hip hop.

These long nails. We'll talk about it. Also, I know Jess. I wonder what Jess is going to say about this. So he's going. He's coming after everybody with long nails. We'll talk about it. And also, we're going to talk about NYC launching the prepaid credit cards for migrant families.

There was a lot of talk about that over the weekend. I know 50 Cent made a post about it, so I'm going to run the details down on that as well. All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051. And Jess is here.

I am. Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up and get something.

Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Chris from Polk County, Florida. Chris from Florida. What up?

Get it off your chest, bro. Hey, man, I want to say congratulations to Jess. You know what I'm saying? Welcome to the club. Yes, indeed. Thank you, honey. Yeah, yeah.

I got to keep it real now. I wasn't going for you at first, but... We ain't ask you all that. ...you don't get to grow on me. I like you now. I like you now. You know what I'm saying? Y' for you at first, but... We ain't ask you all that. I like you now. I like you now. You know what I'm saying? Y'all good.

I like that. We ain't ask you all that. But I like what y'all got going, though. Thank you, Chris. I'm just keeping it real. You got to keep it real. Well, yeah, sometimes you do, but you know I don't give a damn what you didn't like before as long as you like me now.

And sometimes you just don't got to say how you felt before if you feel a different way now. Okay, okay. Thank you. Thank you. I respect that. Have a good one chris nope all right bye that's crazy chris is usually love you bye good morning breakfast club what's up dj mv charlamagne jazz what's going on hi honey how

are you good morning i'm good good morning it's Kasan from Detroit. Jess, I was just calling. I wanted to say to you my great grandma used to tell me you could be anything you want to be in life as long as you put your mind to it. And I want you to know that I see so much success for you, Jess Hilarious. I wish you the best. I'm glad I was able to talk to you on your birthday, Jess.

You really make me. I see so much more for you and God bless you, okay? Thank you so much, babe. I appreciate that. Oh, she just getting started. Have a good one, Cassandra. Big Jess Hilarious, superstar. Hello, who's this?

Oh, my gosh. Good morning. It's Jasmine. Good morning, Jasmine. Oh, my. I can't believe I'm talking to y'all. I've been listening forever. It's crazy.

Happy Black History Month. Hey. Okay, so I just wanted to tell you guys, this has been bothering me for a while. And congratulations, Jess. I'm so happy to have you. But I just wanted y'all to know, Jess, are you in that white chair that y'all had at the promo?

I am. Okay, that's lovely. We love to see the queen-ish. But are y'all familiar with ergonomically safe chairs? Y'all get those types of training? No. You mean our backs gonna be hurting too? Yes.

Yes, absolutely. So just because you guys are employees, they need to be giving you guys safe chairs for your backs. And Uncle Charlotte, I'm really worried about you because I know how your back and neck be you know, feeling real hot sometimes. Gotta get that icy hot.

So I just want you to know, yeah, I just want you to know that these chairs, yes, they look cute, but they're not gonna be good for the long run. And we want y'all to be in these chairs doing y'all thing, giving us the news, especially bringing that black light to the forefront. So yeah, I just want y'all to get giving us the news, especially bringing that black light to the forefront.

So, yeah, I just want y'all to get some good chairs for your back. Jazza, you a chair saleswoman or something? You know so much about chairs. What do you do? You sell chairs? No, well, I do.

I am the safety officer at my job, but it's just something to be concerned about. I be working at home a lot. My neck be all messed up. And they gotta get massages and they talk about how bad my neck is so I was just thinking about that for y'all it's been on my mind for a while thank you so much my neck been hurting a lot more the last few months yeah

I mean y'all get some Kevin Kevin Hart chairs those are some good better chairs okay okay well thank you, Mama. Love y'all. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest.

800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? It's your boy, Lovey, from the Bronx. Peace, morning, Breakfast Club. Lovey, what up? Get it off your chest. Yeah, I just want to officially welcome my girl, Jess, and tell her me and Tez are waiting to do a couple's dinner with her.

Oh. Bro, you don't really go out with Tez, bro. You know that, right? This Tez man right here. Yeah, we in an open relationship. I need you to respect that, baby. All right, you got it. Does she know that, though?

Yeah, yeah, she knows. She tapped in. She tapped in. She said the relationship closed. That what she said, lovey? Nah, nah, man. Nah, nah, Charlamagne. Let me talk to my Wizzy, man.

Let me handle this, B. Thank you, baby. She said, yo, what? His Wizzy. Oh, they say, yo, man. Nah, nah, Charlamagne. Let me talk to my Wizzy, man. Let me handle this, B. Thank you, baby. He said, yo, what? His Wizzy. His wife. Oh, they say, yo, Wendy. I'm like, what the hell? Jonathan wanted Coretta.

You wanted Wendy. Oh, my God. Goodbye. Yo. That's what I thought he said, my Wendy. Hello, who's this? Hello, Lawrence from New Jersey. Lawrence from New Jersey.

What up, bro? Get it off your chest, man. Yo, Killer Mike., album of the year. Yes, I've been telling y'all that since the album came out. I told y'all he was going to win rap album of the year at the Grammys. Yeah, but I didn't know an album came out. That's your fault. Yeah, but that's everybody's fault.

Everybody is shocked that he got album of the year. Everybody. I've been on his radio saying that for months since he came out. Why? Why would he get album of the year? Did you listen to his album, sir? I think what he's trying to say is the promotion wasn't really there for it. No, I'm not trying to say that.

I'm saying I heard the album and it sound like a bunch of preachers. And I don't like that. I don't want to be preaching. I want to dance. I want to have some fun. I don't want to hear all of that Martin Luther King stuff. It's not full of the Martin Luther King stuff. But listen, what album should have got Rap Album of the Year to you?

I can't think off my head, but I know that's a lot of rappers out there. Some young kids out there that should have got album of the year. That's why nobody takes **** serious. He's just following what people say online. No, I'm not. I'm not a follower. You never heard the album and you don't know any other album that should have

got album of the year. We love to talk about problems but never have solutions. Well, let me ask you a question. Why wasn't it televised? Now, that's a whole different conversation. That's a bad bit. Well, let me ask you a question. Yes, sir. Why wasn't it televised? Now, that's a whole different conversation. Now, see, that's a conspiracy we're not talking about. Not only was it not televised, he got arrested. Because if it was televised, people would be going, who's that?

That's not true. That's what they would be saying. Listen, because my son is 13. He was like, who's that? Your son is 13, though. That's 13. My son said, who's that, too? Like, what?

Exactly. See? See? Your kids. You don't know. Your son doesn't know Killer Mike. You have any white people performing at the Grammy that I said, who's that? And I'm a grown-ass man?

Like, what? Who's name? One white person that performed last night that you didn't know. Exactly. A lot of them. But I'll tell you one thing. I'll tell you some songs. That Miley Cyrus song that kept winning? I ain't never night that you didn't know. Exactly. A lot of them. But I'll tell you one thing. I'll tell you some songs. That Miley Cyrus song

that kept winning, I ain't never heard that song in my life. That's the flower song. I heard it this morning. I'm like, I never heard this song ever. In a year of Taylor Swift

and SZA, I ain't hear no conversations about no Miley Cyrus. But she won so many awards last night. The Billie Eilish song on the Barbie soundtrack I never heard.

So congrats to Killer Mike. Yes, absolutely. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Eilish song on the Barbie soundtrack I never heard. So congrats to Killer Mike. Yes, absolutely. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the rumors on the way. What are we talking about, Jess? Man, the Grammys. Okay.

We talking about the Grammys. Jess Hilarious is here. It's her first day. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Rumors up next. The Breakfast Club. All right.

Sisters just got out with a year last night. I agree. Morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Jess Hilarion, Charlamagne Tha God. And let's get to the rumors. Let's talk the Grammys. Let's do it. Baby, this is real.

This is real. Jess Hilarion, Jess Hilarion. Jess don't do no lying. Jess is going to bring numbers. Jess with the message. And this is real. On The Breakfast Club. I know they know the difference.

Who put a stop? Last night was the 60th, the 66th, 66th, see, y'all know what it is, Baltimore. See,

take a bump off and now you can't read again. Last night, right, right, right. Okay, I got the job, nigga, I'm good.

Last night was the 66th annual Grammy Awards in LA. Shout out to Trevor Noah, he hosted the ceremony. That was great. Killer Mike won all three of the awards he was nominated for. Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Album, and Best Rap Song. I love that he did his acceptance speech.

Play that for me, Red. I'm a black man in America, and as a kid, I had a dream to become a part of music and that nine year old is excitedly dancing in front inside of me right now I'm gonna thank Loma Vista Adam Tom Todd Ryan all of you guys want to thank my management company my manager will is active but thank my an our cuz lightyear I want to say everyone who dares to believe that art can change the world. So thank Dre, thank Future, thank Aaron, thank all the producers on here. But everyone in this room, it is our responsibility to keep using our imagination to shape and form the world.

Thank you, and I hope it's not the last time I see you tonight. Drop on the Clues Bump for Killer Mike. Don't tell me Killer Mike shouldn't have won Rap Album of the Year if you didn't hear it, because I've been telling y'all for months that he should win a Grammy for Rap Album of the Year. Dope, dope, dope, dope album. I really do believe that. I believe that he won. But that's good.

All three wins. All three. Like, you know, he showed up and did his big win. And before anybody says, like, Charlamagne said that he doesn't deserve it, you should listen to the album. Go listen to Michael. Go listen to the album. Or shut up to the album. Go listen to Michael. Go listen to the album. Shut up. Amazing album.

Something that happened interesting last night, the Recording Academy social media team mistakenly announced Barbie World by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice as the winner for the best rap song. That was crazy because they said that they won and then they took it back. The fans accused the Recording Academy of purposely targeting Nicki And believed the false announcement wasn't an accident at all. Nicki Minaj has been nominated for 12 Grammy Awards throughout her career. And she never won any. Ice Spice has been nominated for four. And she also never won. I think people who are in charge of the digital portions of these award shows.

I think they do stuff like that for engagement. You think so? Come on. That's too do stuff like that for engagement. You think so? Come on, that's too egregious of a mistake. Yeah, but that's so foul. You did that because you know everybody was going to start tweeting. You know everybody was going to start atting y'all. I really think they do that for engagement. Because when you look at these algorithms,

ain't nobody looking to see what is trending for or what the engagement is about. They just know that they got mad engagement. And then also, following just the beef between her and Megan last week, I think that they they waited for the right time to do something like this too like you know and then the fact that she's been talking about this for years like she she always talks about how she always feels snubbed by it or it's fixed or you know it's like it's rigged you know so that's why a lot of people

feel like they shouldn't even be validated by the grammys anyway you know that plays to what um i believe jay-z was speaking on as well. Jay-Z won the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, dropped one of the clues balls for Jay. And he also spoke on Beyonce never winning. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Best album along with a couple other things. Play that for me, Red. I don't want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never won album of the year. So even by your own metrics, that doesn't work. Think about that. The most Grammys, never won album of the year. That doesn't work.

Some of you are going to go home tonight and feel like you've been robbed. Some of you made it, Rob. Some of you don't belong in the category. No, when I get nervous, I tell the truth. But outside of that, outside of that, you know, we got to keep showing up. And forget the Grammys for a second. Just in life, you got to keep showing up. Until they give you all those accolades you feel you deserve.

Until they call you chairman. Until they call you a genius. Until they call you chairman until they call you a genius until they call you the greatest of all time you feel me that was a double entendre by the way when he said uh you may get robbed yeah because you may get robbed by the grammys but it's still la too you may get robbed later on right driving home yeah but what jay said is right a lot of people in the comments saying well you know beyonce could have amazing songs but maybe her body of work wasn't at par but her body of works were dope like her albums were dope and there's a couple of times i felt like she could have won but lemonade she should have definitely won over

adele that year yeah i think so and i also feel like she she should have won renaissance i mean like beyonce is one of the very few artists who still um puts up her her focus on creating bodies of work not just singles and not just something like she has no skip albums like for years so i mean like she definitely she works on her craft she loves what she does and i i like that he actually played to that too you know even somebody with the most grammys still didn't win the category that they thought that they should have won in and i wanted home to go further too but i feel like still didn't win the category that they thought that they should have won in. And I wanted Hov to go further, too. But I feel like Hov didn't go further because he realized in that moment, I'm accepting an award that's named after Dr. Dre, so I don't want to step on that.

Because he talked about how they didn't televise the Grammys with Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince back in the day. They didn't televise it in 98 when he won. Right. They didn't televise it this year either. Yeah. Like, they didn't telev about it this year when Killer Mike swept the Grammys. So how he made

all his progress over the years only to go back to doing what caused us to boycott y'all in the first place. But let me ask you a question. Maybe we can talk about this later. When do we stop showing up? Like, we say this

and we say it for so much, but we still showed up. Jay still, and Beyonce still showed up. Killer Mike still showed up. Dr. Dre still showed up. I still and beyonce still showed up killer mike still showed up dr drave still showed up i still think it's some type of hope even with that in the back of the mind it's still some type of hope for that um not even for the validation point but just to know that like i may get this i may get this you know i think that's that's even with even playing to

what he said still show up like look at killer at Killer Mike. Like, he never won. Like, you know, all of these years been doing his thing. I think he got a Grammy before, right? He won a Grammy back in the day with Outkast for the whole world. But here's the thing. Like, I agree with Jess and I agree with you, Envy. Like, you know, we don't need this validation. But the reason I'm happy for Killer Mike is because I know he wanted this.

Ever since he was working on this album and hitting us up like, yo, man, you need to come listen to this album. And we listened to it. He was saying, I want to win a Grammy for Rap Album of the Year. He was saying this way before y'all even heard this album, way before this album came out. So I'm happy for him because this is what he wanted.

But he won, right? He won. He swept the Grammys. Three Grammys. And he's got it right. And that's not easy, sweeping the Grammys. He's getting three Grammys, especially for Killer Mike, who's an artist that is not the

quote-unquote most popular artist in that category, but he won because he deserved it. They didn't air it. He got it. That's right. But that's why I said, that's why I wanted Jay-Z to go further, because he brought up the fact that they didn't air it with Jazzy, Jeff and Fresh Prince, didn't air it with him, and now we back in 2024, hip-hop as big as it is, and y'all not airing the best rap categories?

Why? Yeah. You can't tell me that's not a conspiracy. So that force us to create our own and i'm not talking about the bt what that is our own i'm saying but create our own awards bt awards right isn't that our own we and nobody goes i haven't seen jay but you said they got the grammys they got the emmys they got all that no we need more than the bt it was a shout out to the bt it was i mean yeah that's great but we need to create our own. Jay, let's get some of the most powerful black people in music and acting and whatever.

And create our own awards. And we have real criteria you need to meet. We have real standards. And we got real people getting awards, man. For their hard work and for who deserves it. We working. Let's do that. Hannah, salute to Hannah King. We working, man. But will they do that Hannah salute to Hannah Kang we working but will they show up though that's the

thing will they show up because when it's our wars we don't show up no they do Jay Z and Beyonce been to the NAACP awards yeah you just know why F what the BET Awards yo they definitely been to the BET Awards how many times Beyonce done performed at the BET Awards anyway listen long time ago long time ago SZA performed snooze and kill bill and listen she had one of the uh the best performances i think she did good i like how she did her whole like she reenacted her whole video killed it scissor yes she did she killed it when they first started with what she had head on she was giving me jeepers creepers vibes but she definitely killed it when she came out the hat

and then the girl came up there with the little knife i love that i love that she should have won best album to me and it's not even close she should have won best album to me. And it's not even close. She should have won best album. And nothing pisses me off more than when Taylor Swift acts fake surprise about winning awards. You know damn well Taylor Swift, you was going to win

that award. You done won four of them. I don't know if it was four years in a row, but she done won four of them before. Not four years in a row. Not in a row before?

No, not in a year. She's won four albums in a year, four times. Yes. Yeah. And stay acting fake surprise like she don't know she's going to win.

Well, now she got to suit up for the Super Bowl. So she's going to be out. You know? got to suit up for the Super Bowl. You know? All right. Well, that is your rumor report. Thank you, Jess with the mask. That's Jess with the mask. That's Jess with the mask.

Yes, I'm saying rumor report, please. 66th annual Grammy. I got it right now. We're back to it. I thought I spit on the mic. Shut up. Shut up. And let's have that conversation when we come back after front page news.

800-585-1051. Do you feel like, you know, we need to stop showing up for the Grammys? We show up and they keep disrespecting us. They keep spitting in our face, but we keep showing up. Let's discuss, all right? It's a disrespect. We'll talk about it. All right.

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Okay, he won Best Rap Album of the Year, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance for Michael. If you haven't heard Michael, go listen to it, okay? So we playing records off Michael all morning. What you want to hear? Let's play Talking Net for all the critics, okay? All the people that always want to critique Killer Mike. That's right. And as Killer Mike says, I married a black woman.

Most of my critics did not. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Don't ever forget my name.

Excuse me, this wing got toasted no more. You're right. I know that's right. It's not going to be too bad. Fix your mouth. Get your brain right, okay? Morning, everybody. It's DJMV, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. Thank you. Let's get in some front page news. What up, Tess? What's going on? Let me address Jess first. Good morning. The queen of The Breakfast Club, DJMV, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

Peace, Tess. Good morning. The queen of the Breakfast Club, DJ Amy Charlemagne-Nagai. Peace, Ted. Good morning. Let's jump right into it. Let's talk about these NYPD officers being a hip-hop department. Yeah, they're sick of being a hip-hop department. They said they're going back to old school uniforms. The chief of patrol, John Shell, said no more beards, no more open collars. He said we're going back to weather restrictions on knit caps.

He also said it is absolutely ludicrous to have an officer with pink hair and nails longer than their fingers. He said we are a police department, not a hip-hop department. It's time to get back to focusing on police. And so they're making sure that the old uniforms are back and we'll see how they roll. So I thought about Jess with this

because I know you have some long nails. I thought about that. What do you mean hip-hop though? I mean, I wouldn't label it hip-hop. White people got beds. White have some long nails. You know, but I ain't a cop. I thought about that. What do you mean hip-hop, though? I mean, yeah, I wouldn't label it hip-hop. White people got heads. White people got long nails. Yeah, I do. White people got pink hair. I definitely agree going back to, like, the, I mean, I don't, I agree with that, though.

Going back to the uniforms, I don't agree with the pink hair. I don't. I don't agree that somebody should come arrest me with the same nails I got. You stupid. I don't, you know, I don't agree with the pink hair. I don't. I don't agree that somebody should come arrest me with the same nails I got. You stupid. I don't. You know, I don't know. I just. My idea of a cop is uniformed.

Very. I don't know about the beards, though. Why they got to take the beards from the men? I mean, I don't know. Yeah, exactly. Bird game. That's the open commas and stuff. I don't know.

I don't know why a woman would want. I want to. So you guys know I was a security police. I in the military and having nails is painful you know when you're trying to take a man down or anything with that i don't know why somebody would want long nails because yes you know once you cut your nail in the middle breaking a long nail is extremely painful so i don't know why a police officer would want long nails but i just thought it was interesting that he called it hip-hop that he labeled it with hip that ain't hip-hop long nails pink hair that's lgbt nypd okay they ain't got nothing to do with hip-hop okay and i also want to say um i like i like the officers wearing

the uniforms though because i feel like you know if you go into a certain area and you see a bunch of people in uniform you straighten up a little bit yeah i mean if you if the cops are undercover you don't really know so you still might be on your rah-rah now they still they still wear uniforms but it's just a little looser with certain things like you know with like the dye in the hair I mean if you if the cops are undercover you don't really know so you still might be on your aura now They still they still wear uniforms But it's just a little looser with certain things like you know with like the dye in the hair or the bears they want to Cut off the beds keep it more clean cut to back in days when it was yeah, you know uniform police They still wear uniforms, but they just want to keep everything together And I understand that as a cop like as like police force. I understand that part of it

I the only problem I have is just the labeling it hip-hop yeah I don't know yeah but also they would they always want police officers to be part of the community and feel like it's an extension of the community right so that's why I think they opened it up to officers being able to have beards and dreads and braids and died in here so you can't have one time you couldn't but now you cans, but at one time you couldn't, but now you can. But that's why I think they opened it up so when you're out in the public,

you have an officer that looks like you. Yeah. I think that plays more than be a part of the community. You know what I mean? You don't have to look like a certain,

you don't have to look a certain part to just respect people. You know what I mean? That's all in your behavior, how you respect the community and still protect them. You don't have to,

you know, come out, you know, shirt unbuttoned, long nails, pink hair. You don't got to be wrapping ice spice

on a corner with us. Like, you don't have to do that. Hey, you're doing all that. You're definitely part of the community. You know what I'm saying?

It ain't the community you think you're part of. I'm just saying, they will have exceptions for religions. So, you know, some people's religions with beers and things like that, I think that'll be an exception.

But just thought it was interesting that he put it on hip hop. But let's go to the next story, because this is something that they've been talking about on social media, I think is a really big thing. The mayor's office said that they are partnering with Mobility Capital Finance to launch a new, more cost-effective technology pilot program to distribute immediate response cards to migrants. Take a listen. Some migrant families will soon be given prepaid credit cards to buy food and baby supplies. The mayor's office says the city is partnering with Mobility Capital Finance to launch a more cost-effective program. Right now, the city has contracts with food services who provide non-perishable food boxes to shelters. They will start with 500 migrant families with children in short-term hotel stays.

The cards can only be used at bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets, and convenience stores. We're just giving this migrant population more free stuff at the expense of New York City taxpayers. In a statement, the mayor's office says, in part, quote, not only will this provide families with the ability to purchase fresh food of their culturally relevant diets and the baby supplies of their choosing, but the pilot program is expected to save New York City more than $600,000 per month or more than $7.2 million annually. Yeah, so critics, as you heard, they said that they are upset that this is at the taxpayers' expense. As you just mentioned, they said it is going to save the city.

Because bottom line, these migrants are housed in city-operated shelters. So they're already giving the migrants free food. So what they're saying is that instead of just giving them free food that they're not eating because it's just going to waste, they feel this program will allow them to be able to buy the food that they want, you know, from their particular culture. So they're thinking that will save money. They're also using a black-owned firm. I just want to put that out there that this firm is also black-owned, Mobility Capital Finance.

Neither here nor there, I think people who are concerned about migrants getting free food or free money would have an issue with this. And so that's what they're saying. But want to give you those points on why people are saying, you know, the pros and cons. And a lot of folks are saying they're already getting it. So why not do it a better way? And obviously, Americans can qualify for food stamps as well. So this was just, you know, an issue I saw folks debating about on social media. I know 50 Cent put a post out there and some folks responded to him as well so this was just you know an issue i saw folks debating about on uh social media i know 50 cent put a post out there and some folks responded to him as well so i wanted to see

what you guys thought about it uh i think people are having the wrong conversation about this whole migrant issue like it's simply about resources if america was taking care of its own properly nobody would have a problem with what the migrants are getting like this isn't about people feeling those migrants are taking resources from them this is about people feeling they have never received resources at all yeah and and i'm torn right because you never want to see somebody without food or without housing or i mean migrants have babies and you want to make sure that they're okay that they can eat that their kids are taken care of but it's just always weird that you know we have so many homeless people in so many different places right in new york is full of homeless people jersey's full of homeless people and it

just feels crazy that we didn't take care of our own for years and and now it's like you you jump on on migrants to help them so fast and it's just like i see so many you go to any city no matter what city you go you see the homeless the homeless that's through the roof and it just seems like when do we help those people yeah yeah i'm not doing it all uh america first okay and i don't understand how nobody can understand why folks are upset about this if you have a bunch of people who can't afford food themselves like you just said and who are struggling to get food on the table they might even have a hard time accessing those benefits themselves they are going to be upset when they see someone getting those resources before them especially when those people aren't from here it's just that simple yeah that's the same by the way folks feel like

this about anything we feel like this about war it don't matter if it's israel ukraine migrants anytime folks see large amounts of money being spent on anyone but them they're gonna feel away yeah it's that simple well humanity wise you just you know regardless if they're a migrant or not you just don't want to see somebody starving of course i don't want to see somebody without housing especially when you just you see them kids you just don't want to see somebody starving. Of course. You don't want to see somebody without housing, especially when you see them kids. But don't cut the line. You're right.

I'm with you. If we got so many homeless people here, people here starving. Back in line. You got to get in line. That's all we saying. Get in line. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. I think you made an interesting point, Charlemagne, because the argument is, well, people qualify for those services, too. But you made an interesting point. A lot of people, although they qualify, the red tape is harder. It's harder for them. Everybody just don't get it because they qualify.

A lot of people get off these programs or they don't know how to get on it or there's a lot of red tape that can stop them from getting it. So it's not this, oh, well, you can just get it. And I think people understand that it's not that people are against it against helping but like you said get in line and i i just think it's disingenuous when i see people saying oh no you know what's the problem you can get it too everybody's not getting it that's the point you know so yeah topic that folks keep talking about well thank you tears absolutely and make sure you follow uh at tesla figaro on all social media platforms and subscribe to this great shot no chaser podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network.

All right. Thanks again, Tez. And let's open up the phone lines. Let's go back to that conversation we were having. 800-585-1051. Now, during Just With The Mess, we were talking about the Grammys. Oh, that sounds so good. During Just With The Mess.

I love that. And let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Do you think we should be still showing up to the Grammys? They've been disrespecting us since, what, 88? When DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince won and didn't want to air that. And then Jay, in 98, they didn't want to air. And last night, the Brother Killer Mike won three awards.

And they didn't air any of it. That's why I wanted Jay to acknowledge that during his speech. Because he brought up the fact that they didn't air it during those last times. So it's like, you should have brought that up again last night as well. You wanted them to go deeper, you said. You said that twice. I wanted them to go further. Further.

Oh, go further. Further, further. All right, well, let's discuss. 800-585-1051. Should we still be showing up to the Grammys? I know we joke about the BET Awards and that's an award

based on us. And we don't show up a lot of times. Like, I haven't seen Drake at the BET Awards three, four, five years. Yep. You know?

Well, Drake don't go to no award shows. I haven't seen a lot of our biggest artists at the award shows. Yeah. Not at all. Other than Drake,

you know, yeah. I'm happy for Killer Mike because Killer Mike wanted Rap Album of the Year at the Grammys. And he deserved it. You know, it's the highest honor in music, you know, i'm happy for killer mike because killer mike wanted rap album of the year and he deserves you know it's the highest honor in music you know until otherwise right but it's been the highest honor in music for years i'm happy that he won because he wanted to win yeah simple as that

800-585-1051 let's discuss this the breakfast club good morning call call call call tell her tell her made it if y'all talking about it you know we talking about it it's topic time call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with the breakfast club morning everybody it's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy

we are the breakfast club now if you're just joining us we were talking about the Grammys. And should we still be showing up to the Grammys? That is the question, 800-585-1051. Now, this conversation comes from our brother, Killer Mike, who won three Grammys last night. Dropping a clues bomb for Killer Mike, damn it. But it wasn't televised. Which brings us back to 88, when DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince, Will Smith, won a Grammy.

It wasn't televised. And 10 years after that, 98, when J-1 wasn't televised. And 10 years after that, 98 when Jay won, wasn't televised. And people have been boycotting the Grammys, but it's what? 20 years, 30 years later, and we still are not televised. You know?

No, we've been televised before. We've been televised. They've been started televised in the Red Bull Awards. How they pick and choose who they decide to televised. They televised Cardi when she won. But they didn't televised. They televised Drake. They might have won three awards.

I know. They televised Drake recently when he won. That's what I'm saying. I don't know how we got back to that this year. They just pick who they want. I mean, I think they just got

their, I don't know, their favorites. You know, they pick who they want. Yeah, I don't know how we got back to that this year. I don't know how in 2024 the rap categories

on televised rap. Yeah, I just feel like, all right, we're gay artists but y'all ain't getting too much. Like, it's like they, I don't know, they feed us what they want to feed us.

With three categories, I mean, at least the best rap album. That should have been televised. They want to do the other, I get it. But give Killer Mike one. He deserves it. So do we still continue to show up? That is the question. What do you think, Jess?

I mean, I feel like we need our own. I've been saying it. I feel like we, I mean, I just feel like, say if none of us go to the Grammys next year. Say if none of us even care, even if we're nominated, we don't go say we really, really stand ten toes down. I mean, because some people dream is to get a Grammy. You know what I mean? But say if we really like as a as like a whole be like, nah, we ain't going. We don't care.

Whatever. Even if we win, we're going to put our energy into creating our own award ceremony. And let's see how that work out. Like, I just feel like that. It's time to shift. Sometimes you got to shift. Right? Make a big shift.

I don't disagree with nothing Jess said. But I often feel like I'm not qualified to have this conversation because I'm not an artist. And so whenever I talk to music artists, they care about Grammys because it's the highest award in music. And professionally, when you win one, everything goes up. Everything. You know, your screams go up. You know, your status as an artist goes up. But I am a stern believer that, you know, you should only go where you're celebrated,

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So I can't tell you if that album is great. And if I do hear it, things don't connect with me. I don't connect to Taylor Swift. I've never heard a Taylor Swift song, but, like, that's my jam. It's not my thing. That's my jam. That's my jam, man. jam if you call the song your jam i can't believe you didn't you never heard taylor swift i don't know the people who listen to taylor swift say things like that's my jam but that's why i said it i never heard it tell who was the other people

that was nominated billy that's no no i don't listen to billy alice i do name three billy alice songs we're not doing that see i just like. I know when it comes on that I like it. Now, I can say my daughter's 15. She listens to all of that stuff. I do, too. But does she listen to Killer Mike? I mean, if she in the car with me. See?

I was riding to that live thing when I picked her up from practice. But that's what I'm saying. You need somebody that can really decide all this. And if we do our own show, is it just going to be just black music show? No. No. But it's going to be our house. It's going to be our judge. It's going to be our judge.

It's like judged off a real criteria. Who put in the work? Who really is like, come on, recognize. That's what I know is so funny, though. You get Taylor Swift and Beyonce, Jess. You on the board. Who you picking? Beyonce.

See? But you know what's funny? Imagine us doing our own award show, but trying to be fair across the board. Miley ain't coming. Taylor ain't coming. Phoebe Bridges ain't coming. Olivia Rodrigo ain't coming. Adele ain't coming. Miley ain't coming. Taylor ain't coming. Phoebe Bridges ain't coming. Olivia Rodrigo ain't coming. Adele ain't coming.

Adele better come. Adele might come. Adele might come. Rich Paul ain't coming. Rich Paul better bring her. Sure. Adele might come. Adele might come.

She might get up there and sing for us, too. Yeah. Well, let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? This is Brandi. Hey, Dana. Good morning. I'm Brandi.

I'm sorry, Brandi. I'm Brandi. Hi, Brandi. What you think, Brandi? First, I want to say congratulations, Jess. Thank you, Dana. Good morning. I'm Brandi. I'm sorry, Brandi. I'm Brandi. What you think, Brandi? First, I want to say congratulations, Jess. Thank you, baby. Good morning, BJ and Charlotte Mayne. Peace.

Good morning. And I believe Jess said it best. We need to come up with our own award platform because, you know, yeah, BET is cool, but as many artists, entrepreneurs, I mean, the list goes on with us. I mean, it should be no questions about it. We just have to stop talking and make things happen. Okay. Well, thank you, Mama. Hello,

who's this? Hey, this is Shemai calling back again from North Carolina University. How y'all doing? What's up, Shemai? Talk to Shemai. What's your thoughts? Listen, first of all, I want to shout out to Jess with the Mets. Jessica, I've been more for being on The Breakfast Club.

I'm glad that you guys are on there. Thank you. No problem, no problem. But to the Grammy, to the topic of the day, I feel like culture needs to be at a great, to force it on society because black content sells. And we need to force the culture on people because we are the ones shaping the music industry. So, and when it comes to, you know, not us getting the awards that we deserve, because definitely, like Solomon said earlier in the show, SZA is the one album of the year, no doubt about that.

She had better numbers, her tour was better, she had a better performance, better transitions. But when it comes to Us being represented At the Grammys And artists being At the Grammys We need to go Absolutely Well Siobhan

Let me ask you a question And I agree with you With SZA But my problem with that is The other albums In the category Did you listen to? The other album

For album of the year? Yes sir I've heard a lot of those albums I did I did I did To me Because you know why?

Because I talk about it on my show, on my radio show. You got a radio show? Yeah, I do. Remember I called earlier? Remember I was on Central University? Yeah, you called last week. Oh, College Radio. College Radio.

What's the name of the show? Yeah, College Radio. I have a show every Tuesday, 2 to 4, on NCCU AudioNet. So I did my homework and did my research and to me, SZA definitely deserved because she had better transitions,

better production when it comes to the story of the album. SZA definitely deserved that album. That album of the year. SZA, my whole thing is

I'm not listening to John, I'm not listening to John Batiste. What you mean John Batiste fire? I'm not listening to Molly Torres.

John Batiste, he's been on the air. That's what he has, but I'm not listening to that. John Batiste fire. I'm not listening to Molly Cyrus. John Matisse has been on the show. That's good. I'm not listening to that. John Matisse fire. I'm not listening to Lana Del Rey. He is. You're not listening to Lana Del Rey?

No, I listen to Janelle Monae and SZA. Janelle fire. Janelle, yeah. I'm not talking about you. Janelle was on the show, too. She was on your show. So I can't tell you because I didn't listen to Molly Cyrus. I didn't know Molly had an album.

I'm being honest with you. Molly had a good hit. She had a good hit last year. She's been on like a top ten record of the year. I never heard Flowers in my life. Me neither. I didn't hear Flowers. I heard Flowers for the first time last night.

I was sitting there thinking like, damn, all I heard about all year was Taylor and SZA. I didn't know Miley Cyrus. I didn't hear those albums. That's what I'm trying to say. I heard Janelle Monae and I heard SZA. I didn't listen to the rest of those albums. I want to shout out to Mara. You got to give us a shout out to Mara on your show. We got to stop doing those albums. That's what I'm trying to say. I heard Janelle Monae and I heard SZA. I didn't listen to the rest of those albums. I want a shout out to Mara. You got to give us a shout out to Mara on your show.

We got to stop doing that too though. We be watching these shows and we think just because we don't know something, it ain't possible. That's what I'm saying. I can't criticize the rest of these albums because I didn't listen to them. I'll say all day SZA 1, SZA 1 because I F with SZA. But the rest of these people might have had amazing albums.

I just didn't listen to them. Trust me, we sound very stupid when we say, who is Miley Cyrus? I ain't never heard from her. That's what they say to us.

Who is Killer Mike? Who is that? They say the same thing to us as we say to them. No, we say that to each other. Niggas are telling each other who is Killer Mike? Yeah, you're right.

It was just so stupid. You're right. Well, 800-585-1051 we're talking about the Grammys. Should we still show up the brother killer mike won three awards last night and uh was not televised so we should be showing up uh can we get another killer mike song on what we want here let's play uh uh get some money again man let's play get some money again you'll play

get some money again yes yes all right let's get it back on it's the breakfast club good morning it's topic time called abel's club that was killer mike who picked up three awards last night at the grammys but was not televised so we're asking 800-585-1051 do you think we should just stop not showing up to the grammys it seems like since 88 when they did it with will smith and 98 with hove and now 2020 what four with killer mike i don't think not showing up is the answer so what do you think is the answer i think that you gotta have more culturally clueless people on these boards at the grammys voting for these awards you need you need more culturally in tune people, I mean. I think you two have

a lot of people of one ilk. You probably got a lot of white people on these boards. I think that, you know, I know they're getting rid of DEI everywhere, but the Grammys is a place where you definitely have to have a lot of diversity

when it comes to voting in these categories. Yeah. Especially when it's the categories that, you know, represent us, right? Our culture. But it has to be difficult because you think about it there's things that we connect with more right like we're gonna connect with more

with killer mike because he's from where we're from yeah i just think it's the music i mean i listen to i'm that's the perfect example right because when i listen to the best rap album i heard every single one of those albums in that category for rap album yes and there was no question to me killer mike had the best rap album but, yes. And there was no question to me Killer Mike had the best rap album of the year. But now let's say album of the year. To me, it was SZA, S-O-S.

But did you listen to Olivia Rodrigo? My daughter does. You? And I can't get with it. All right, what about Layna Del Rey? My daughter does.

I can't get with it. What about Boy Genius? I don't even know who that is. See? Isn't that Batman sidekick? I don't know. Oh, wow. Isn't that Boy Wonder?

Anyway, and then what about Taylor Swift? Did you listen to that album? Never. See?'t know. Oh, wow. I think that boy won. Anyway. And then what about Taylor Swift? Did you listen to that album? Never. See? Not never. So how you going to say Scissors should win over Taylor?

You never heard Taylor. Nothing pisses me off more than Taylor Swift acting fake surprise at award shows. She been doing this for 17 years. How'd she do it?

She be like, oh my God. Last night, she really hammed it up. She had no idea. Really, Taylor? You sold more records than everybody. You sold albums like Bibles, and you were surprised.

But it's not about selling records. If it was about selling records, Drake would have won, because Drake sold more than Killer Mike. It's about the music and the content. That's why Killer Mike won. Yeah, I guess. I never listened to Taylor. You're right, though. Everything you're saying is absolutely right.

I have not listened to those albums. I haven't either. I mean, I guess. I never listened to Taylor Swift. You're right, though. I mean, everything you're saying is absolutely right. I have not listened to those albums. I haven't either. I mean, I know the artists. Like I said, I know who John Batiste is, but I didn't hear the album. John Batiste has actually won an album a year before. Yeah, he has. He has won an album a year before. Did you hear his new album, World?

Yes, I did. I rock with John Batiste. I didn't listen to this album. I don't know, man. I just would hope that the people who are voting for these projects are listening to these projects. And I'm sure they are, but just sometimes

they get it all the way wrong. Yeah, like you said, they're not culturally privy to it. They're not in tune with the culture. Yeah, they're really not. And it's a wide range

of music. Yep. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Crystal. What's up, y'all? What up, Crystal? Good morning. What's your thoughts, Crystal?

My thoughts is, oh, wait, I got to give everybody an individual shout-out. Jess Hilarious, I? My thoughts is, oh, wait, I got to give everybody an individual shout-out. Jess Hilarious, I love you. I love you, too, girl. Love you. Charlamagne.

You know I love you big. I'm checking in from Columbia, South Carolina. 803, you already know. Metro. Metro. Booming once a month, I know. But I think, you know what,

really, I said, and I thought, I was like, yeah, we shouldn't go. I watched a little bit last night.

But then I was like, no, hell no. Keep going. We need to keep going because what if we would've quit years ago, quit going to things

because people who didn't look like us didn't want us out in their spaces. I feel like keep going. Make them respect us. We fought for everything else, whether it was segregation at the lunch counters here in South Carolina or any other southern state. Keep going. Make them see our faces. And like Birdman said when he came up here some years ago, put some respect on them.

Put some respect on them and make them respect us. For real, for real. Because at the end of the day, you know what, too, and I love to say this when times are like what they are when it's a diversion of color. When young dogs say keep going up the ladder,

they mad, make them mad said, keep going up the ladder. They mad, make a matter. Keep going. We can't just say now, not go. We knew what it was when we signed up. We knew none of them would want us in their spaces. Keep going. I love... We are a great people.

And guess what? Jay-Z even said it too. We influence pop culture. That's right. We're supposed to be number one on everybody's list. We'll see what happens when we no longer exist. Exactly. But Chris, but you see what you said, Crystal? The thing, when you look at the Grammys,

if you look at all the majority of the news sources, it's our culture that pops up. Whatever, what we're wearing, our performances, Beyonce being there, hoes, like we give them so much energy and so much views and so much everything that you just said. And they don't give us the same respect. No. And guess what? What?

Respect is something that our ancestors fought for. Period. We got to keep showing up in spaces. It's nothing more pleasurable for me when I go into my job and I know somebody who doesn't look like me, doesn't want me to be there. Guess what? The ancestors on the wall let the bushes kick track. I'm gonna

always be number one. I'm gonna always excel. Nobody that's recessive is better than us. Period. And we know that. Thank you, Chris. I love that you called from the 803 with a civil rights speech that quoted Young Dolph Birdman and Jay-Z. Thank you, Chris. I love that you called from the 803 with a civil rights speech that quoted Young Dolph, Birdman, and Jay-Z.

And Black History Month. Boy, Black people know we special. Yes. What's the moral of the story? I don't know what the moral of the story is yet. I'm going to be honest with you.

I was about to say, you know, go where you're celebrated and not where you're tolerated, but I don't know if I believe that. I agree with her. I agree with everybody.

I feel like we should build our own, but we should keep showing up to this stuff too. Definitely. Yeah. Well, I everybody. I feel like we should build our own. I know. But we should keep showing up to this stuff, too. Definitely. Yeah. Well, I think the moral of the story should be, let's play another Killer Mike song. This is off the Michael Deluxe album, that one rap album of the year last night.

Don't debate me about if it should have won if you didn't listen to it. That's right. Well, he won three awards last night. And let's get into it. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Rumors on the way. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Jess O'Leary, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. morning rumors on the way everybody is DJ MV Jess I mean the guy we are the breakfast club whole look thank you I love the fact that Jess hilarious is officially a part of the Breakfast Club she's here all that melanin against that white see that backdrop of a chair look regal Donna look regal thank you so. Well, let's get to the rumors. Let's do it. It's not the rumors. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real.

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It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. hole it's all a blur till it kicked off in tampa on saturday during the concert work by rihanna came on and drake and rihanna collaborated on this record in 2016 when the song came on and he refused to sing it uh when it came on y'all might have seen the video uh like surfacing or whatever over the weekend he was like oh i don't play that no more and he said it in that voice he was like i

i don't think that no more y'all like he literally said it like a city girl. That's how he said it. Um, but people wonder why Drake would add the song to the set list if he didn't plan to sing it. Now, I even commented on this on my story. I was like, I reposted it and I said, isn't that something that you go over with,

which a DJ? Yes. Unless you did that on purpose to just with Rihanna. And it was just real sassy and salty to me um because she's with A$AP Rocky now is the only uh reason that fans could be you know thinking of that that's what they were hinting at and this isn't the first time he took a jab at Rihanna fans speculated that he dissed her on his most recent album the song is called Fair Heights and and we have the audio uh for what he said. Play number two.

Why they make it sound like I'm still hung up on you. That could never be. Y'all can't run me. Better him than me. Better it's not me. I'm anti-manty. Yeah, intersex was average with you. Yeah, I'm anti because I had it with you.

You sound like you still hung up on her to me. Yeah, I swear I did. And if you're still talking about her at concerts or playing the song and shutting it off. I ain't playing this. Imagine going to the DJ like, look, add this song in there and speed it up. Because I don't even know what they sped it up. It was like, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. Look, go ahead and play it. Number one.

Yeah. I don't sing this song anymore you can sing it then he sound like didn't he sound like carisha i don't sing this song no more period he sure did drake you better get it together that's his song too though didn't he write it i don't know what he wrote me i don't know they both want that song it's both of their songs but like don't ever tell them to play it and then when they play i don't know. They both on that song, right? It's both of their songs. Yeah, it's both of their songs. But like, don't ever tell them to play it and then when they play it, I don't be singing it. Like, stop.

That's so funny to me. Tyrese wishes he was born Latino. Tito Gibson. Huh? What you said? Tyrese, your brother, said he wishes that he was born Latino. Y'all gonna accept him over there?

I am not Latino. You better have it back. I'm not Dominican. You stop it. People better have it back. I'm not Dominican. You stop it. People don't believe. People believe you, yo. I'm not Dominican. So I re-posted a video on Instagram with a Latino man's kid surprising him with a truck.

The video explained that the kids chose to surprise their dad to thank him for all the sacrifices he made for them. For some reason, he took the opportunity to use that as the moment to critique the black family structure. Now, he wrote us a book. He wrote us a book. He did his post was long but i'm gonna just um read some of the stuff that stuck out sometimes i wish i was born latino i mean the latino i mean the latin community is grounded in family loyal entrepreneurs businessmen and women literally represent the dream uh the grind the hustle doing whatever it takes to stick together against all odds.

If us as black culture, because these are his mistakes, not mine, was more grounded in these. It was more and you won't catch hell trying to read. Y'all can literally see go on his post and read it. But he said, I have no idea how we lost our way. We can't get anything done and accomplished as a fragmented culture, insecure, threatened by each other. And then it went on and on and on. It's important to note that there are black Muslims, Latinos and Jews. OK, Taiwan.

Yeah. I like Thai manual. Yeah. I just don't know why he would say sometimes he wishes he was born Latino. I don't know. I'll call him Tito for the rest of his life if you want me to. Now, where is he from? He's from California, correct?

Watts. Because didn't he grow up with a lot of them too? Because that's over there. I don't know if it's Watts, but I'm sure there was a lot around because it's a heavily populated area. Yeah, okay. So that also could be why, too.

He probably played with a bunch of Latino kids, too. Why would you post that during Black History Month? Yeah. You can wait until March, Tyrese. You know, I know, I know. But there's a lot of black families that have a strong structure. There's a lot of black entrepreneurs. There's a lot of blacks that support other blacks.

Everything that he said. I don't know who he's dealing with and why he feels that way, but there are a lot of black people that support black people. Well, we're going to continue to pray for him because we want to give him grace every time. Who do we pray to? White Jesus? Latino Jesus?

Or Black Jesus? Latino Jesus. Latino Jesus? Jesus. Pray to Jesus. Pray to Jesus for Tito Gibson. Soulja Boy apologizes to Chris Sean Rock after saying her son has Down Syndrome. So Soulja Boy and Blueface Chris Sean Rock after saying her son

has Down Syndrome. So Soulja Boy and Blueface have been beefing for a few months. We see their beef. They beef on live all the time and he's still beefing with him even from jail.

Somehow the back and forth that turned into a real rap beef, it went further. During the beef, both of the rappers' baby mamas got dragged into it and Blueface tweeted some stuff. Soulja Boy couldn't mess jayden in the dark if she if if she thought it

was me whatever they're going back and forth but uh play the audio number three he he apologized and i thought this was big for soldier boy because he never does this little stinky booty oh wait your son oh i ain't gonna lie that look like he don't think i should apologize Oh Y'all let me know if my fans want me to work with so I'ma say like this Christian I want to apologize to you. But since Your homie was talking crazy about my home. I had to talk crazy about his son And I know he won't apologize to my baby mama for lying was talking crazy about my son i had to talk crazy about his son and i know he wouldn't apologize to my baby mama for lying and talking crazy so i would say i'm sorry that you got caught in the middle of it you should leave that between me and him i'm gonna be the bigger man because

i'm just too viral i'm too pretty say shout out to show soldier man being the first rapper to apologize about something that he said i really want to give him that like he didn't have to the first rapper to apologize i love how you aged him up and called him soldier man you said shout out to soldier man he is a soldier man now yeah i like that he apologized man he said he in and then he went in depth. He said, man, your homie is, he says some stuff about my son. And, you know, Blueface ain't apologizing.

We know that. But I like how he apologized to the mother of the kid. Because that little boy ain't got one parent. You know what I mean? And the baby does not have Down syndrome. So that's, I just think you don't bring nobody's kids into it. You know. So I want to give a shout out to Soulja Mae for that. And that is Jess with The Mess.

Alright. And her news is real, allegedly. Charlamagne, who you giving me a donk or two? Before after the hour, we need the LAPD to come to the front of the congregation for putting Killer Mike in handcuffs. We'll discuss. Alright, we'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Damn, the hee-haw again? It's time. Is your country falling apart?

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I'm not making these people do these things. Called Donkey of the Day and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Solomon. Who got the Donkey of the Day today? Well, just hilarious. Donkey of the Day for Monday, February 5th goes to the LAPD, who decided they needed to detain and then arrest my good brother, Michael Renda, a.k.a. Killer Mike.

Drop on the clues, Bumf, for Killer Mike. You know, we've been celebrating the good brother Killer Mike all morning because last night he swept the Grammys. He won all three categories. He was nominated in Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Album. He won all three. Drop on a Clues Bomb for Mike again. To all you naysayers out there, don't tell me Killer Mike shouldn't have won

Rap Album of the Year if you didn't listen to Michael. Because I've been telling y'all for months that he should win a Grammy for Rap Album of the Year, and and he did that but then we heard the news that he was detained and booked for battery just hours after winning three awards let's go to wsb tv channel to atlanta for the report please police detained rapper and atlanta native killer mike in the middle of the grammy award show it came moments after he swept all three rap categories his first grammy win in more than decades. Details on exactly what happened are still limited, but videos spreading online shows Killer Mike being escorted out of the arena in handcuffs.

The AP is reporting a police spokesperson said it stemmed from an altercation inside that arena around 4 p.m. local time. In a text to our partners at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he said it was, quote, an overzealous security guard, but I am good. A source told Channel 2 that he did confirm that he was held, but has since been released. Now, all you Negroes out there who be wearing tinfoil poosh-icey masks, all you folks who be on YouTube with every single conspiracy theory under the sun, where is the conspiracy theories about this? You can't tell me this is not a conspiracy. I don't know what the conspiracy is yet, but the fact that killer mike swept the grammy's last night every rap category and none of the rap categories was televised and then he got

detained and arrested killer mike was about to buy nbc okay or at least at the least bet all right now we we all know killer mike is a radical black man, great human being, one of my top five favorite rappers of all time, but an amazing human. OK, philanthropist, entrepreneur. Then they hear Killer Mike's acceptance speech live on TV. And I believe that the powers that be had to keep Killer Mike from that stage at all costs. OK, at least on the live television portion. I believe that as soon as they decided he was going to win those awards, then immediately they devised a plan to keep him from spreading his unapologetic blackness to the world first you know they just didn't televise the awards then he just mysteriously gets handcuffed and detained over an alleged physical altercation and then released you know right after the awards

over this is why i wanted jay-z to go further in his speech last night in light of those circumstances okay when he won the dr drake global icon award you know he did acknowledge that they didn't televise uh televised when the fresh prince and jazzy jeff won an award in the 80s they didn't televise when uh jay-z won a grammy in the 90s and now it's 2024 and y'all didn't televise any of the rap categories how did we make progress all these years only to go back to doing what caused us to boycott y'all in the first place? I would have liked for Jay-Z to make that statement and then call the good brother Killer Mike up on stage, you know, to give the acceptance speech live on TV

that he should have gotten to begin with. But we didn't get that opportunity because the LAPD decided to detain Michael Rinder for some BS. Okay, LAPD, when have y'all ever arrested an artist at the Grammys? Huh? Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars. Love Will Smith, but that's assault. He didn't get arrested.

They let him sit there for the rest of the show and accept his Oscar when he won. Killer Mike couldn't get that same type of courtesy in LA? Huh? I'm looking at the charge and it says a physical altercation inside the arena involving a third party. What does that even mean? Third party leads me to believe it wasn't even Mike who was involved in the physical altercation. And the LAPD says somebody, you know, complains. Obviously, we have to do something about it.

Really, LAPD? Really? You question him, book him, embarrass him by walking through the crypto.com arena, got him handcuffed like he just shot the place up for an unspecified misdemeanor? YouTube y'all know every damn thing but all of a sudden you don't want to speak to the injustice that happened to Adamsville's finest? Huh? LAPD y'all should be ashamed of yourselves. Show me a time when an artist gets arrested from an award show for a misdemeanor.

As much as y'all don't like doing extra paperwork, hell, it's understanding, as some of y'all officers are. You trying to tell me that a misdemeanor warranted the nonsense y'all put Michael Renda through last night? Nope. Nope. It was a conspiracy. I don't know what the conspiracy was,

but it was a conspiracy. Was it the white supremacist power structure keeping Mike from saying something that was going to shake up black America last night? Huh? Was it Democratic operatives mad at how Killer Mike spoke truth to power on Bill Maher Friday night about Joe Biden?

Huh? Was they upset about that? Huh? Was they upset? He might go up there and say something that could impact the upcoming election negatively. Or was it the Barb's who were mad that the Grammys announced Nicki Minaj and ice spice Barbie world is best rap song,

but they were wrong because killer Mike won. I don't know why y'all would get mad at Mike about that, but was it y'all? All I know is LAPD, y'all didn't have to do that. Okay? It could have waited. And I hope y'all don't arrest me for some nonsense next time I'm in LA because I just gave y'all the credit y'all deserve for being stupid. Please give the LAPD the biggest seahawks.

It was a conspiracy. That was well put, Charmaine. I like that. Thank you, Jessica. Yeah. It was a conspiracy. Thank you, Jessica.

I believe so as well. I believe so as well. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now, when we come back, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051.

Last week, Shannon Sharp was doing his podcast and he was talking about jess hilarious being the third announced that we just you know that you're the third co-host yes and when he announced that he had things to say about it that he said you were smart you were funny but he also talked about your looks as well oh joe we got to give a congratulations to uh jess hilarious she's the new co-host uh The Breakfast Club. She's J. Envy and Charlamagne Tha God. So congratulations to her.

Congratulations, Jess. Y'all bring me on. I'll tell you what I didn't look. I know she's a comedian. She's just funny now. Yeah. Her body ain't no laughing matter, though. I didn't know she was like that. What? Her body? Who?

Like me. Like me. Body. Yada, yada, yada. Yada, yada, yada, yada. Yada, yada, yada. Body on. Jess Hilarious? What? A body? Who? Like they body, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, body on. That's hilarious. What? You're not a side. Ain't nothing funny about that. Boy, I didn't know that.

I did not know, Ocho. I just thought, OK, let me see. You know? So I got two phones, Ocho. I pull up different sites. Right. I'm dropping down. Like that?

No, Uncle, you bull. Man, I'm saying like something too, hey, like Kyrie dribbling too basketball. That's when you got to tell your partners fall back, okay? Don't look at my sister like that. She's 31, you 55. You old enough to be her daddy and have grandkids. Sir, I was talking to Jess.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Oh. So, question 805851051. Ladies, when men comment on your looks and your body, is it flattering or is it a turn off? How did you feel about it? Honestly, I didn't add to me. It didn't insult me.

I just thought that, you know, like I said, it didn't compliment me at all. I shout out to Ocho Cinco, though. Absolutely. He he always been like a fan of mine and knows how smart and funny that I am. So, yeah, I think there's ways of complimenting a woman without doing it like that. I mean, I don't know. There's nothing wrong with just saying, oh, she's attractive. I didn't really ever look at her like that to know that she was attractive, you know, like that. But all the different sites and going to the basketballs and all that. I mean, sir, calm down. You know i i just i didn't know i i really didn't um i didn't take no type of way now i've seen that people like you know and i even seen

people that was like well what jesse looking at because she is not you know it's just like i take all of it the same it's like okay whatever just somebody else talking about jess all right well let's open up the phone lines ladies where men when men comment on your looks, is it a flattering or is it a turnoff? Let's discuss. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about Shannon Sharp. He was talking about Jess Hilarious being announced as the third co-host, and he was showing some love. Oh, Joe, we got to give a congratulations to Jess Hilarious.

She's the new co-host of The Breakfast Club. Hey. JNV and Charlamagne Tha God. Okay. So congratulations to her. Congratulations, Jess. Y'all bring me on i tell you what i didn't look i know she's a comedian yo she's just funny now yeah her body ain't no

laughing matter though i ain't know she was like that what oh her body who like me like my body yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada body oh body oh that's hilarious what ain't nothing funny about that boy i know that i did not know oh okay let me see you know so i you know i got two phones oh i pull up different site row five one ladies when men comment on your looks is it flattering or turn off now we just asked you jess and you said yeah i mean it depends on like sometimes they can get uncomfortable depending on how far in detail they going and if they that old it's like all right that like you know or like you know it's sometimes it's like okay like so the body body body body part didn't defend me yeah

i you know if he just stopped there that's cool you know but then talking about because i want to know what sites he was pulling up like it sounded like maybe was he talking about porn guy is like if it's a guy you like a guy you interested in yeah i mean yeah it matters i Because I want to know what sites he was pulling up. Like, it sounds like maybe, was he talking about porn? What guy he is? Like, if it's a guy you like or a guy you're interested in? Yeah, I mean, yeah, it matters. I mean, because still, if it's a guy that I like, I would hope he would have a little bit more respect for me than that. True.

You know, it definitely matters. I think age matters, too. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. If you 55, salute to Shannon Shaw. If you 55, just 31. So it just sounds crazy. Because when you're you old everything you say

sounds crazy that must be a jam don't shake like that you know what I'm saying us always come from a different era so everything we say

sounds nuts that ain't thangin' that ain't thangin' that ain't thangin' please don't tell me that thang thangin' that you 60 girl you don't know

you don't know what to do with all that you don't know what to do with all that like it ain't yours and you don't know what to do with all that you don't know what to do with all that. You don't know what to do with all that. Like an angel. Yeah, and you don't know what to do with all that. Joe, that's for sure. You don't know what to do with all that.

All right, well, let's go to the phone lines, 800-585-1051. We got Monica on the line. Monica, good morning. Yes, good morning. Monica, what's your thoughts? My thoughts is on being complimented. You know, it don't matter how the man compliments you. You know, he can say it vulgar.

He can say it with big energy, little energy. He still think about you. You feel me? So it's all to the good. That's how I feel about it. A compliment is a compliment no matter how it come out and about.

Where you calling from? Okay. From the Bronx. From the Bronx, New York. Shout out to my next mom, Prue, too. Yo, ma! Yo, ma! Yo, ma!

Where you going, ma? What you doing? Yo, ma! Where you going, ma? What the joke was you? What the joke was you, ma? I'm going to a pool shop with my kids right now. Look, look. She said, buddy, it's cool. Hey, Monica, listen. If you're walking down the street, right,

and they're going to be like, hey, Lil BBL. Lil BBL. I want that. Come sit them shot cheeks on me. You know what I'm saying? Hey, I tell them my grandmother said more than a mouthful is a waste. You feel me? Is she ready?

I feel you, baby. She ready. More than a mouthful is a waste. I ain't going to waste no food now. I ain't going to waste no food.. I ain't going to waste no food. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Jay. Jay, what's up, man?

Talk to us, bro. What's your thoughts? Man, I'm driving and I'm tripping because I cannot believe this is even a conversation. Okay. These ladies are out here every day, all day, trying to be pretty, trying to be sexy with the hair, the nails, the lips. And like I was telling your boy a few seconds ago, I just watched a video of a chick shooting fluid up her fingers so she could make her fingers fatter.

That is crazy. And so, yeah, it tripped me out too, right? Does it work for the penis? That's hilarious. All right, beautiful woman. I haven't seen your body body But you're a beautiful woman Thank you I appreciate you For you to be mad

At Uncle Shay Shay For saying that you were sexy and fine She said she was mad She said she was mad I don't need you to keep my name out your mouth I need you to watch it That's my new motto I need you to understand what I said

I didn't get mad Because he called me sexy and fine That's not what he called me I didn't you to understand what I said. I didn't get mad because he called me sexy and fine. I said they was trying to get mad. You said for you to get mad that he called you sexy and fine. I didn't get mad. When they go into specific detail

about things they don't know about, you just said I didn't see your body and you don't need to see it. What specific detail? Go back and listen to it. Goodbye, sir. Thank you. What are you talking about? Look, he sounds 65.

He probably was. Getting mad about it. Sasha, good morning. Good morning. Good morning, good morning. We were talking about ladies when men comment on your looks. Is it flattering or turn off, mama?

It's giving words sometimes. First of all, let me say congratulations to Jess. What up, Envy? Shout out to me. And Monday's a good day to start the week. Thank you. That's right. Yeah.

Monday's a great day to start the week. Monday seems like the best day to start the week to me. But yeah, as far as the topic goes, sometimes it can be flattering if you do it right. You know, you look real nice and all that. But what Uncle Shay Shay did is give him stalker to catch a predator. Damn. And it's just going in depth.

Like I said, you know, sometimes it can get weird. Sometimes. I'm not mad at him, but it's just sometimes it gets weird. Malaysia. Yeah. Hey, what's up good morning malaysia we're talking about when men comment on your looks is it flattering is it a turnoff what's your thoughts malaysia um i don't mind a compliment as long as the guy isn't being weird and he knows

when to compliment and just keep it moving because guys nowadays they don't know how to just compliment and keep it moving they want to try to go on and on. So a nice, good, simple compliment is okay. As long as it's respectful. Thank you. Okay. All right. Thank you, Malaysia. You look nice.

800. Even she said the body, body, body. She knows he's an entertainer, so he's entertainment. He's performing. He's performing. He's performing. But then it was just after that. It's just the fact he's 55.

He's 55, just 31. He could literally be just daddy. Just could have kids. He could be a granddaddy. That's literally all it is. It's the fact he's 55. He's 55, just 31. He could literally be just daddy. Jess could have kids. He could be a granddaddy. That's literally all it is. It's the fact he's 55. Yeah. In the mouth.

What? It's the way his mouth moves when he talks. I'm telling you, that's all it is. That's literally all it is. 585-1051. We're talking,

ladies, women, comment on your looks. Is it that flattering or a turn off? Let's discuss. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlam comment on your looks. Is it that flattering or a turn-off? Let's discuss. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we were talking. It started from a conversation of Shannon Sharp. He was talking about Jess Hilarious, congratulating her on being the third co-host. And then he said this. I know she's a comedian.

Yo, she's just funny now. Yeah. Her body ain't no laughing matter, though. I ain't know she was like that. What? Her body? Who? Like my body, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, body on.

Just hilarious? What? You're going to say, ain't nothing funny about that. Boy, I ain't know that. I did not know, Ocho. I was like, okay, let me see. So I got two phones, Ocho. I pull up different sites. Right. I was't know that. I did not know, Ocho. I was like, OK, let me see. You know? So you know, I got two phones, Ocho. I pull up different sites.

Right. I'm dropping down! Like that? No, Uncle Bull. Man, I'm saying like something too, hey, like Kyrie dribbling two basketballs. So we were asking, you know, ladies, is that a turn off? Or is it flattering?

Jess was like, for her, it was, you know, either here or there, right? Yeah. But sometimes it can get a little weird you know what i mean and we got tiffany on the line tiffany good morning tiffany good morning what's your thoughts tiffany well honestly i think it's a turn off you know we hear about it in the songs all the time and i think it's unpleasant you know um you can compliment us in a better manner without going straight for our bottom half, our rear ends, different things like that. I don't think men compliment other races in that manner.

And he could have just left it at, you know, Jeff Hilarious is a very attractive woman. I didn't know she looked like that. He's fabulous. And just look at that, you know? And that's my thoughts on it. Now, Tiffany, playing devil's advocate, let's say, Tiffany, you in the gym, and you working your body out, you working your glutes, and you're doing it because you want to look nice, and a man sees you. How could a man compliment you without being disrespectful?

He could say, oh, girl, I see you. Nice body. I see you keeping yourself up. I ain't saying no nice body. I am not saying no nice body. You keep your self up. Hell no. saying no nice body. I am not saying no nice body. You keep yourself up. Hell no. Nice body.

Nope. Hell no. Nope. I might say you look like you work out. That's better. You look like you work out. Well, when I work out, you know, men are in huddles. They're saying they're like, oh, she looks good.

She looks nice. They'll compliment my abs more so than my glutes. You know what I'm saying? Them glutes gluting in. Them glutes gluting. Them glutes gl You know what I'm saying? Him glutes gluten, man. Him glutes gluten now. Y'all is funny. Oh, that was a blush laugh.

She liked the glutes gluten. Don't do that. You do that laugh in the gym, they gonna keep going. Listen, my thing is, what if someone, oh, if a guy walking down the street and I'm just like, okay, what's up, decent penis?

What's up? You know what I mean? What's up, decent penis? I didn't go like that. I'm not saying it's small. I ain't saying it's big. I can just see your print from here and I like just like, okay, what's up, decent penis? What's up? You know what I mean? I didn't go like that. I'm not saying it's small. I ain't saying it's big. I can just see your print from here and I like what I see. If you got great sweatpants on, what's up, print? Yeah, yeah. What's up, little print?

Or if I don't see a print, but you're cute, I'm like, okay, what's up, little tucky? You ain't gonna like that. That's true. When they did that to you, Charlamagne, you felt the way at first. You tucked? What? Oh

Mm-mm Gotta swallow this I was leaving the Viacom building Yep Leaving the Viacom And there was a group of gay men Uh-huh And the group of gay men

I just was walking by And they was like Uh-uh Charlamagne You ain't gonna walk by here With all that ass And not say nothing How did you feel? What'd you say?

I got intimidated So I came back Cause I didn't know I didn't wanna to keep walking. They were talking to me kind of crazy. They called me hips. Uh-uh, hips. Did you like it?

No. They could have been more subtle about it. It was too aggressive for me. Don't just walk past with all that. That's what he said. Don't walk by me with all that after not saying nothing. Right. But you did come back.

Right. You ain't walk away. I didn't walk back to them. I just turned around. He didn't get the number. I just turned around like, damn, that's how you talk to a lady? Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning.

It's Ashley. How y'all doing today? Ashley, good morning. Now, when men give you a compliment and they compliment your body, is it a turn off or is it flattering? When they compliment my body, I'm really just kind of cringe a little bit because a lot of times it's somebody's great, great uncle who don't even need to be looking at me.

Great, great uncle. Great, great. Yes, and that is disgusting. To say what? Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, thank you, mama.

That's pretty good. I think that's what you got to do so you got to remind a man of the old you gotta be like relax grandpa yeah you know what i'm saying like because i think that's what makes it in that's what makes it super creepy to me yeah yeah all right well what's the moral of the story if there's a moral moral story some of y'all women ain't never had a man compliment on your body so you need to stop lying okay i can hear the badly builtness in some of y'all voices some of y'all lying all right that's that's that's the moral of the story but just brothers man just be cognizant of who you talking to because ladies

don't like that like y'all think they do no yeah not all the time no it's not not everybody likes that you know like for you to comment on the body parts like no you can just say oh you look good or you know or just you know i find you attractive you attractive. If that, even if that's not how you talk, if you a hood nigga, yo, it's better ways than just like, like, even though I was joking, but I've heard a guy say Lil BBL, you know what I mean? Like, I've heard a guy say that, and a girl

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All right, we'll get to it next. We'll get to it next. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. How long do you think it's going to take for Jess to start wearing sweatsuits and dressing regular? Make that a bet. I'd say about six weeks. Six weeks? I'd say six weeks. That's a lot of outfits, Jess.

Yeah, that is a lot. You'd be throwing on Every morning Don't act like I don't got no clothes I didn't say that Okay I didn't say that

I just said it's a lot I'd say six weeks Six weeks That's a lot of clothes I don't know if you got That many Like what? Don't play with me

Well let's get to Jess with the mess. Meg Thee Stallion signs deal with Warner Brothers. Well, Warner Music. Meg Thee Stallion and Warner Music Group agreed on a deal that allows Megan to remain independent, which I think is great. I think it's great for any artist to, you know, be independent and then she will own her masters and like like all her music and stuff like that. This deal will allow her to tap into Warner's resources, though.

So she basically has a distribution deal with them, the radio promotion and marketing and stuff like that. She'll release all her music independently through hot girl productions uh she'll retain ownership of her masters and publishing that's the word i was looking for any artist that is signed to her hot girl productions imprint will be uh become part of warner's ecosystem and she is still managed by rock nation i like that megan said this is the beginning of an exciting new chapter of my life and career i'm really focused on building an empire and growing as an entrepreneur i know we're going to create history together so drop a clues bomb for that that's really nice that's dope yeah i don't understand anything about the music industry i thought she was already with 300 she was and i thought 300 is

with warner they are music so she just started her own production they just shuffled it around she redid a contract but she's in the same system. But like Jess just said, now she's got a label. Yep, and the difference is now she'll retain ownership of her masters in publishing. Gotcha. So that's good. So it still allows her, like her music, she's still independent. She just has a distribution deal with them that just gets her music and stuff out there more. And whoever signed under her and you know they will yeah

this is number one on billboard yes yes it is true this is the number one song yes this is which is i don't want to say sad but this is the biggest record of a career so far yeah bigger than um body body yes no man what was the other one savage yeah yep it is oh yeah it's bigger than that it is i know that song ain't called body yadiachty, Yachty, too. No, it's not. What's it called? It's called Body. It is? Yeah. Oh, okay, okay, okay.

Yeah, Body. Body. I'm about to say, because once you get to a certain age, you just name things after the hook. Yeah. You know that song, Body, Yachty, Yachty, Yachty. You know that song. All right, Shannon. No, that's not what it's called.

That's not what it's called. It's just called Body. Kandi Burris makes it clear that she is leaving the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Kandi Burris has been a cast member of Real Housewives of Atlanta. Kandi Burruss has been a cast member of Real Housewives of Atlanta since season two, which aired in 2009. So she's been doing it for 14 years.

They asked her about this last night and she said she didn't want to do it because during the break of it, one of her friends had asked her, why are you still doing it? And she just was like, yeah, there's really had asked her why are you still doing it? And she just was like yeah, there's really no reason. Why are you still doing it? I mean, because it's just something that she can do.

But she has other things that she's focusing on. We have audio for it as well. So basically, you have to be on the Grammy board to get it. Stop that one. My bad. Listen, it's my first day. Keep giving them the numbers.

You see a number here? It ain't the number. They don. My bad. Listen, it's my first day. Y'all shut up. Just keep giving them the numbers, Jess. No, it ain't no number here. You see a number here? It ain't the number. They don't got it. Do number two. I want a number two, please. No, no, no. No, I'm sorry.

So basically, I thought it was going to be the audio when the guy had asked her on the red carpet last night. Like, basically, you know. What, with Jason Lee? Yeah, I think it was Jason Lee. Oh, it was Jason Lee. Okay, I'm sorry. Dang.

I don't think we have the audio for that, though. Yeah, but it's fine he had pretty much asked her like why and you know ran down her accolades and all this other stuff that she has going on and she just was like yeah she's focusing on other things and it's just kind of like a boring job for her at this moment I mean there's no drama that that we haven't heard it was audio for that it was audio for this right here but but let me but let me get to this so uh to our point earlier we was talking about grammy voting uh process and candy was actually on um

the board before a video a resurface of candy bears discussing the voting process for the grammy she spoke on it during an interview on big facts podcast uh hosted by big bank and dj scream um the interview took place in 2021 but this this is the audio that was for that. So basically, you have to be on the Grammy board to be able to vote. One year, I was actually on the board with the people who actually got to vote. So basically, everybody votes.

And then I think they narrow it down and then they have this this uh secret group of people who nominate on the top it's like you vote on the top five all the people that's in the grammy association or whatever obviously is way more others white it is white people right so when it gets the five people that we that the secret committee get to choose from is the ones that the masses got to get narrowed it down to the majority of the people in the Grammy Association are not people who actually listen to rap music so

basically what we said you need more black people on the board or whatever. Exactly. And shout to Baby Jade. I think Baby Jade asked that question. Shoot to Baby Jade, Big Bank, Scream, Baby Jade on the Black Effect

iHeartRadio Podcast Network. Big facts. But I just wanted to do that. I wanted to actually include that part of it because that was actually somebody who was in the room and who can actually attest to

and she was the only black person and they have to, like, it's a wide range of music that they all have to sit in and if they don't know it they just listen to it it's going to one end of the other the same way we don't know molly cyrus don't say because i know you do i'm not saying no don't say no way the same way a lot of us didn't know molly cyrus flowers people don't know the same that we listen to that's right yeah yeah uh nori consults jay-z when he buys watches now nori recently uh was a guest on risk risk check podcast yeah and i don't really understand why this was a conversation i think the

headline stuck out to me because i was like what kind of meat grinding crap is this but we got the audio real quick yo let me get i don't care no i watch unless i speak to certain people jay-z's top of the list okay does not answer me all the time. Well, I think that's respect. I think if he doesn't like the watch, he won't say, Nori, don't do that. He's too rich and too smart and too fly

to say, Nori, no. Don't do that. Because he knows he's one of them. When I got the two, when I got the anonymous and when I got the aquanaut, I sent them both pictures. And it's exact words, in my opinion, I'm paraphrasing. I believe this is what the exact words was. Get both the bitches.

It was an Audemars, Kevin Hart. I wait, I wait a week. He writes a week. Once he gets me back, we're going to have an Audemars talk and then Mark Wahlberg. Okay. Yeah. we were having Audemars Tull and then Mark Warburg okay yeah and like my thing is if you gotta consult

with somebody you know other than your parents to buy like watches you shouldn't buy them like Mark Warburg Kevin Hart and Jay Z

if you ain't got they money you shouldn't be you think I should get this like I don't they got good taste Jay Z is definitely a watch guy

but the thing is shout to Nori. I know what Nori meant. He just said it wrong. So when you buy that watch, that watch is an investment. It's not a $5,000 watch. This is $40,000, $50,000, $60,000 watches. I don't know how much these watches are, MVN.

Don't ever fool me. I ain't say you buying citizens and fossils. And brightness. But I'll say, some of those watches are investments, so you ask people who pay for it more. So, for instance, if I buy a car, I usually call Swiss. Because Swiss has the money to buy this type of cars. But it's the investment because they make money.

You can sell it in those ways that, just like people buy art. That's investments. What about the paint for your beard and the paint for your hairline? Who do you consult about that? Thank you, Jess. What artists do you reach out to and say, hey, man, what Beijing do you use? I? Rick Ross.

I don't want to talk about it. It's enough. That's enough. Which one you use, Rick? All right, y'all. I was going to start naming people that way, but I ain't going to do that to them. All right.

Up next is the People's Choice Mix. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. And let me salute to Hampton University. It was the big legacy classic over the weekend shout out to michael b jordan for putting it on and hampton beat howard university so again we are the real hu salute to all the hampton alumni salute to all the hbcus man it's a great game michael b jordan went to hbcu i don't know if he went to hbcu but he's you know he's from newark

so he brings the game to newark to support the HBCU. Which is good. You saw him? Yeah, I seen him. You had a white girl with him? No, he didn't have a white girl with him, man. What's wrong with you? I'm just asking. I'd be crazy if you bring a white girl to an HBCU event. Yo, shut up, man.

You got to really love white women to do some shit like that. He did not. He was with his homies. He was watching the game. Jesus Christ. All right, we come back. It is Black History Month. It is, yo.

Oh, it is Black History Month. I got to salute my guy, B-Dot. You know, every day during Black History Month, we do a segment called I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Neither. It comes out on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. But B-Dot today is talking about a black emoji creator whose goal was to create emoji diversity. We'll talk about it when we come back. Today, B-Dot is talking to us about a black emoji creator whose goal was to create emoji diversity and tackle digital non-exclusion. But he's been blocked at every turn during the patent process. Listen.

On today's episode of I Didn't Know, maybe you didn't either. I have a question. Did Katrina Parrott ever get her patent? The answer is no. If you're not familiar with Katrina Parrott, the year was 2013. And Katrina Parrott's daughter was trying to use her emojis, but she had a problem. And she ran to mommy and said, Mommy, none of my emojis look like me. And Katrina Parrott said, You know what, baby? Mama gonna fix that.

And mama fixed that. She diversified emojis. Before Katrina Parrott's inventions, everybody was out here looking like Simpson characters. I personally know people that did not use the emojis because they said they didn't look like no damn Bart Simpson. She created five different emojis. She created the fist pump.

She created the high five. Five months later, she had them joints in the app store ready for folks to download. And oh, we got to downloading them colorful emojis. And it only makes sense a last name as colorful as Parrot would create and diversify the emojis. And then

Big Tech stepped in. And Big Tech said, hey, we want to use these. And they took them. And they got a patent from the patent office before Katrina Parrott could get a patent for her own ideas I mean every single time she submits to the United States patent and trademark office she gets told no like if you ask somebody if they listen to a Nick Cannon mixtape she gets denied like Tory Lanez requesting a new trial man it happens far too often giant tech companies like apple they get

granted patent after patent after patent by the uspto at the united states patent and trademark office but women and entrepreneurs of color we always got to climb these steep hurdles to get credit for our ideas for our intellectual property way too often our patents get rejected. Why? It even happens in music. Google Rye Rye. R-Y-E-R-Y-E. She's an artist out of Baltimore. Drake sampled her voice on Honestly Nevermind along with other artists that have sampled her voice and she gets no credit for it. She complains about it constantly on her social media. Nobody cares. Imagine my dismay when i turned on beyonce's before i let go and heard my voice at the very beginning of the track i hadn't talked to anybody about putting my music on no beyonce album i mean my mama very happy about it but that's my intellectual property same as katrina perry

when the big tech companies come through and they take your ideas they take your intellectual property they get patents for it there's nothing you can do about it. And Katrina Parrott's done her due diligence. She's done the correct paperwork to get these patents for 11 years and counting. Still nothing. So to the original question, did Katrina Parrott ever get her patent? The answer is no. Not yet.

And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. All right. Well, salute to BDOT and thank you for those moments each and every day that's right make sure you subscribe to i didn't know maybe you didn't either on the black effect i heart radio podcast network every week i mean every day during black history month he puts out a new episode so go check him out all right when we come back we got the positive notice the breakfast club good morning morning morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. And today was Jess' first day.

How you feeling, Jess? I feel so good. You know, I thank you for my throne chair. Thank you for my gold balloons. I love that. Yeah, y'all some clowns. Like, if y'all can really see how they got you spelled in here, like Y-E-W-W-W-O. It's like four more W's that y'all need to add but whatever

but you know what was um interesting to see interesting uh it was interesting that when I first had um announced right like everybody who was like all for me right and then you know to hear everybody running their mouth like it was the same people that was like oh you know off on me i love that i love that and that's why i really liked like how um it was rolled out i liked how i because you know to hear people not apologize is great i don't really need no apologies but to hear people who to be like just to hear silence now it's just so i'd rather you shut up than for you to not say sorry because, you know,

you don't be sorry about it. And I love that Gary Owen, he said he was going to say something, but he didn't. I'm glad he didn't either. I'm glad he shut up. Yeah, you know,

I got something to hold somebody by. So, I'm glad that he didn't, you know. And then I need for y'all to know, I call these niggas trash all the time. This is how I talk to them.

That is a fact. So, that was, I'm going to be calling y'all trash all the time when y'all have trash opinions. You know what I'm saying? She called me trash all the time. This is how I talk to them. She told me to shut up. She told me to shut up so many times. They were like, she told Envy to shut up.

I'm like, she burning up her bridges. She told me to shut up all the time, guys. I don't know if you heard this. All the time. By the way, that's a Baltimore thing. Y'all call y'all grandma's dummies. Yeah, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah.

I make sure I'm far away from mine, but yeah, I kind of like, I'm a little dummy. She said the same thing. But it's all, it's all cultural for Baltimore. That's just how we are.

So I love my brothers, though. I love the fact that I'm up here finally, though. We love that you are here. Thank you. That's right. I just don't know how long these outfits gonna last I told you six weeks I give it six weeks yeah you start seeing sweats I ain't gonna lie I don't know but I'm still gonna be

coming in here looking fly like don't play with me I'm not gonna come here looking like y'all like no because I don't know why you got a scully on like yeah that made you shave that little bit of fuzz coming in I got a haircut two days ago oh okay yeah because sometimes you look like you can sometimes you don't with slippers on they said i've been doing we've been doing this for 13 years so we don't care oh man you got a positive no shalaman i do i just want to tell everybody out there man don't forget how badly you once wanted what you have now you are living in your blessing you are living something that you prayed for. So always remember, blessings are always coming to us, man.

Have a great day. Breakfast club, bitches! You all finished or you all done? Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this.

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