The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Jeezy Addresses His Divorce, Trauma & More With Nia Long, Usher Reveals His 'R&B Mount Rushmore’ + More

Episode Date: November 8, 2023

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The Breakfast Club, Envy, and Charlamagne, the voice of the culture. You think I'm going to come here when this ain't hot? See, y'all are different. Y'all are the culture. It's different. You know what I'm saying? Like, y'all know what y'all talking about. This is probably becoming the most prominent forum for hip hop.

Being here next to all of you guys, it's really big. Perspective. The breakfast club, bitches. Wake up. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Charlemagne the God. Peace to the planet.

Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. Hump Day. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yes, today is Wednesday, Hump day, middle of the week. How you feeling out there? I am blessed, black, and highly favored. Thankful to be here with another day to serve.

Okay. Thankful to be here to have another day to serve the people. Yes. Yes, what's going on? Now, yesterday was election day, so a lot of kids didn't have school yesterday, or they had half day. My kids had half day yesterday. So about 11, 30, 12 o'clock I had to go pick them up. So

I took them bowling. I took the kids bowling yesterday. They had a great time. I put the little bumpers there so it made my score even higher too. So I did exceptionally well. I scored like a 220 bowling yesterday. So I was pretty happy. So you cheated the kids? I beat the kids. You cheated the kids? No, I put the bumpers for everybody.

Everybody used the bumpers. It was fair. You didn't say that. It was a fair game. You just said you. Nope, it was a fair bowling. You specifically just said you. Everybody had the bumpers. Everybody heard you. You just said you. Everybody had the bumpers. Okay. Yes, so we all had great scores, but they had a good time, so salute. Had an amazing time yesterday.

Alright, well today, Doug Melville will be joining us. My guy, Doug Melville. If you don't know, I have a book in print with Simon & Schuster called Black Privileged Publishing. And this is the latest book off the book in print. It is called Invisible Generals Rediscovering Family Legacy in a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals. You know, Veterans Day is right around the corner. 11-11, right? Veterans Day is 11-11. You already know how I feel about the veterans, man.

I feel like, you know, veterans get, veterans just aren't appreciated in this country the way that they should be. Like, there is nothing that pisses me off more than seeing, um... Absolutely. You know, veterans on the side of the street... Asking for money, change...

Asking for money. Food, clothes... You done fought for this country. I feel like at the bare minimum, you should get a free health insurance, room and board, and a stipend to take care of whatever your needs are every month. That's what I feel like the the bare minimum, you should get a free health insurance, room and board, and a stipend to take care of whatever your needs are every month. That's what I feel like the veterans should get, especially if you went to war and fought for this country.

So Invisible Generals, man, it tells the amazing true story of America's first black generals, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen. And my man Doug Melville will be here this morning to talk all about this amazing new book, Invisible Generals. That's out right now, by the way. That's right. So definitely go pick it up or download it if you're into the Audible thing. Also, I would say, you know, one thing about veterans, which a lot of people, I guess, forget sometimes, too. After they do serve and they come back home, it's really hard for them to find jobs. It's not as easy. You would think that you served in this country country it'd be easier for you to find a job but it was very difficult that's why my dad became a police officer because when he came back from the vietnam war

he couldn't find a job there was nothing available there was nobody trying to hire him so and that's why we should be taking care of them in this country they went to war and fought for this country man that's right that's the least we can do all right well let's get the show cracking when we come back we got front page news a lot to discuss like i said yesterday was election day so we'll give you some of those results so don't move it's the breakfast club good morning oh the scissor happy born day today is scissor's birthday this is born also it's poosh heisty's birthday tech nine's birthday and our very own sim sima today is sim sima's birthday too it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club good morning let's get in some front page news

good morning tiz good morning dj envy good morning charlamagne the guy let's jump right into it let's talk about this uh these election day results well before we talk about that i want to give some results on another winner and they go by the name of the breakfast club by earning the number one spot in New York in September and October. So congratulations, guys, on that. Can you drop a close round for yourself? Thank you, Ted. Thanks, T.S. So congratulations. And in Kentucky, Republican Daniel Cameron, who was endorsed by Donald Trump. And you guys may remember him. He is the one that did not prosecute the murderers of Breonna Taylor. Tamika Mallory came on the show about a month ago and talked about that.

He was running for governor and he was defeated last night by Democrat Andy Beshear. So he lost that race. A lot of folks are celebrating that. They did not want Daniel Cameron in office. So Kentucky came out. Ohio overwhelmingly decided to have abortion rights legalized and they legalized marijuana. So abortion is was definitely an issue on the ballot. They decided to say they do not want to be restricted from that. In Mississippi, Republican Tate Reeves beat Democrat Brandy Brandon Presley, did beat him by about 50000 votes in mayor races. A quick recap on that. Philadelphia, Cheryl Parker. She became the first female and the first black female mayor.

And then in Houston, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who was trying to also become the first black female mayor in Houston, went into a runoff. So she did not win that, but it would go into a runoff in Virginia. Another race of people were looking at Democrats now control the General Assembly. Folks may remember Virginia going back and forth. You know, they lose it, they get it back. But this was really important because Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, he had went around telling people, you know, really on the campaign trail, asking Republicans to give him control of the assembly. He was really looked as an upcoming star in the Republican Party. And so Democrats only needed 21 to win the House and they got 21.

They needed 51 to win the Senate, and they got 51. So they literally barely got it, but still a win is a win. And so folks are looking at that race as also what you can look at to expect as you move forward in 2024. A couple more races too, Tez.

Salute to everybody in North Charleston, South Carolina, man. Former North Charleston Police Chief Reggie Burgess. He's won the North Charleston male race. He's the first black person elected to lead the city of North Charleston. So salute to him. And in Charleston, South Carolina, Mayor John Tecklenburg and William Cogswell are going to a runoff on November 21st in Charleston, S.C. So I don't know why I don't want to keep me attacking that seat, but you need to. All right. Well, that is front page news quick quick just quick a reminder that tonight is the republican debate uh so folks who want to watch that uh there will be chris christie ronda santis nikki haley vivek ramasamy and tim scott they will be debating tonight and of course you

know donald trump is skipping this debate, but definitely look out for that. I'm interested to see what they have to say, what they have to say about the war. That has happened since they had the last debate, so we'll make sure to bring you that report on tomorrow. I don't even know why we keep saying Donald Trump is skipping the debates. He ain't coming. He done told y'all he ain't never coming.

He ain't doing the debate thing this year and still is wiping up all the other GOP nominees. God damn. Yep. All right. Now, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. We're taking your calls when we come back. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Joey, man. Joey, what up, man? Where you calling from? Hey, what up, though, man? You already know where I'm calling from, Joey, man. Joey, what up, man? Where you calling from? Hey, what up, though, man? You already know where I'm calling from, isn't it? Detroit, what up, though? Hey, man.

Hey, I just want to say that I'm fortunate that we are voting on this tentative agreement at 4-1-1 Company Tuesday. Okay. Voting for what? The tentative agreement. I just hear agreement, brother. Tentative agreement. Oh, tentative agreement.

Okay, okay. So you're getting a raise, it says, right? Yep. Well, congratulations, brother. Tentative. Oh, tentative agreement. Okay, okay. So you're getting a raise, it says, right? Yep. Well, congratulations, brother. Absolutely. I appreciate it, man. We need y'all to... What's the vote?

You need everybody to vote for the agreement, right? Yeah. Okay. So everybody's got to vote. Hopefully we get that. Yeah, everybody got to vote yes. Yeah, so can't tell you congratulations yet, but we're wishing you the best. We got a tentative vote, so we got a raise right now.

He got a tentative, so we got a little raise now. They gonna vote yes on it, man. Because everybody be getting that. We can't afford that strike money, man. Well, good luck, man. And also, you know, Jess Hilarious is out in Detroit, man. She's doing comedy for a couple of days, so if you can, check out. Alright, man.

Got it. Well, let me tell y'all where Jess gonna be at because I forget. Hold on. Jess is gonna be... I think she's gonna be at the soundboard. No on. Jess is going to be at the Sun Board. No, she's going to be at the Punchline. Okay. She's at the Punchline tonight and tomorrow. She got shows at 7 o'clock and 9.30. You can go to jessolarisofficial.com for more information on that. Hey, man, let me get her on our show, man.

Hey, everybody keeps saying that. Yeah. So, Detroit, if you're out there, please go check out Jess O'Leary. She's funny as is. It's a great date night event. So take your lady out or take your hubby out and definitely go check it out. Hello, who's this? This is **** Jones.

**** Jones. What's up, brother? What are you calling from? Man, I'm calling from Michigan, man. I'm calling from Michigan. Way out in Michigan, man. We look at you every day, man. We listen to you every day, man.

Boogie up to what y'all do. We definitely appreciate you, brother. We appreciate y'all, man. I'm trying to get it off my chest this morning, man. We listen to you every day, man. Boogie helps with what y'all do. We definitely appreciate you, brothers. We appreciate y'all, man. I'm trying to get it off my chest this morning, man. It says you locked up. You in prison right now? I am an incarcerated individual. Right now? Ain't the man just telling you he's an incarcerated individual? I was caught from jail.

And I get it off my chest this morning. Please. Alright, Jesus. Thank you, man. I'm calling on behalf of us, man. I'm trying to put on for us. We got big things going on, man. Listen, Michigan is one of only like three or four states with no form of good time, man. We're trying to get it there this time. We got opportunity.

We're trying to capitalize on. We are in need of signatures to get our good time ballot on November 2024. In order to make this happen, we need signatures from Michiganders. If you watch this or listen to this in Michigan, I'm in here with you, man. They over there. They up there. We pushing it. So if you are willing to sign our petition or even have several that will sign our petition,

please respond to this email or text. You can call representatives. They got a representative at gtballot2023.org. That's a representative that's pushing that ballot out there. They pulling up for that signature, man. Help them help you. You want to go home?

Shoot that shot, man. This our time, man. Man, you would make a, I know you make a great prison announcer. Like when you, a great prison announcer. Get over the microphone and tell everybody

what they need to be doing. We praying for you, man. We know what we going through. Yes, sir. A great prison announcer. Get over the microphone and tell everybody what they need to be doing. We praying for you, man. We know what we going through. Yes, sir. All right, well. All right, brother. Have a good one, brother. Thank you, man.

You too. All right. All right. That was lively. Very lively. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now.

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We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, DJ Envy, it's Rossi. Rossi, what up? Get it off your chest. Hey, I got a couple of things I want to get off my chest. First of all, I don't like how y'all don't ever show no respect on my 49ers. Why should we give a damn about the 49ers?

I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan. I'm a Giants fan. Because we spanked y'all this year, I mean. All the more reason that I don't give a damn about them. Hey, hey, hey. I don't understand all the hostility. It's not hostility. You just asked a question.

Touche. Touche. I just wanted to say I appreciate you guys. It's 3 o'clock in the morning where I'm at right now. I listen to y'all every morning. I wanted to see if I can get a birthday shout out to one of my kids.

Yeah, you do it. Happy birthday. I'm going to keep the name confidential, but happy birthday, son. I love you, and I miss you, and I hope it keeps giving you all the blessings you deserve.

That's amazing, my brother. All right. I was trying to see if I can get, like, what is it, the black effect hat? You want a black effect hat? Yes, sir. And a couple of, do you guys have, like, audio books? Because I'm blind. We can't send you audio books.

You got to download the audio book. I wish I could, but we. You got to download the audio book. It's not possible, but we It's not. You got to download the audio book. It's not possible. We can send you a hat. Okay, cool. Now, you put your hold. You hold on one second. Look at your information. I'll definitely get you a Black Effect hat. Hold on. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

Now, when we come back, Jeezy had a conversation with Nia Long, and they talked about a lot last night, from divorce to relationships to a safe place for black men to imagine your mom pulling a gun out on you we'll talk about it all when we come back it's the breakfast club on bet the breakfast club is your country falling apart feeling tired depressed a little bit revolutionary consider this start your own country i planted the flag

i just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia.

Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I create my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my god. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max.

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A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history.

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And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. It took drama and mayhem to an entirely new level.

We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, every backstab, blackmail, and explosion, and every single wig removal together. Secrets are revealed as we rewatch every moment with you. Special guests from back in the day will be dropping by. You know who they are. Sydney, Allison, and Joe are back together on Still the Place with a trip down memory lane and back to Melrose Place. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Cameron. Rumor has it.

Rumor has it. Call out a name or you gossiping or you chatty patting. I'm gossiping. This is the rumor report. I mean, I guess we on the Breakfast Club. This is where the tea spills, right? Right. Now, Cameron and Mace were, of course, doing their show.

It is what it is. And they were discussing Sukiana. And Cameron was saying, I think she was trying to throw some subliminals at me when she was in the car with me. I ain't no bitch was trying to be subliminal with me and shit. You know what I'm saying? So I'm sitting there driving.

You mind if I put my Bluetooth on? I guess I was playing too much Nas and Hov and all that too. Yeah. So then this song comes on. She says, I'm eating your ass. I'm in your ass. I'm in your ass.

Then we switch. Now I'm in his ass. And I said, are you trying to tell me something? Because look, let me tell you something about me real quick. I let you get in the gooch.

That's as far as you go. When I say the gooch, that's under the... Don't touch my ass, yo. Don't turn me on. And I know, listen, now, have I touch my ass don't turn me on and i don't listen now have i got my ass when i was a teenager and listen my ass my legs wasn't up and i was now on my knees well let's unpack this okay let's unpack this uh cam is a rapper so sukiyana probably just

wanted his opinion on her music. Maybe. Right? Maybe. And, you know, we all love Cam's honesty. He admitted to getting his salad tossed. Drop on the clues, Bumps. You can't run.

Nothing wrong with that. I don't even think that deserved a pause, Cam. No. I don't think that deserved a pause. No, it doesn't deserve a pause. Maybe she was playing his music or maybe she was, you know, shooting a shot. I doubt it. I think she probably just wanted his opinion on her on her music maybe yeah all right now let's jump to jay-z now jay-z had a

conversation with nia long they got candid they talk about everything love life legacy and also their relationships jay-z talked about his divorce and what got him to that point what happens when a man gets to the point where they're just like, okay, I'm filing for divorce? Integrity intact. I could never say anything that would not honor somebody. Absolutely. But I can tell you that this has not been an easy journey. I can tell you that I'm saddened. I can tell you that I'm disappointed. I can tell you that I'm uneasy. But again, God has put me in a different path. And that path is going to entail for me to take care of myself. And I can only do what I can do. And I can't expect someone else to

do what I'm doing. But did you go to therapy with her? Yeah. Okay, that's good right so you actually addressed it right tried to work through it tried to do the work and it just was like not happening well then you tried well that's some good therapy that fits you try and again that's Jeezy talking to Nia Long and then Nia Long discussed her breakup. You know, I had a really public breakup recently. It was a wake up call for me in the sense of like, OK, you're going to do this on your own and you're going to be fine because the relationship was rocky for a very long time. So because I don't believe another person can break anyone up. Like, I just don't. I don't buy that.

Right. can break anyone up. Like, I just don't, I don't buy that, right? To your point with your son, I think my older son saw me trying to keep the family together. But I had to come to a place where loving myself was bigger and more important than saving anybody. Well, if you can't, if you got to save your star player, if your star player's not doing good, the team is. Can we not talk players? Can we use a different?

Can we say, like, the best horse in the race? Right. Can we drop one of Clue's bombs for the magic? The magic that black women, especially black women stars from the 90s possess? It's unmatched. Because what reason would Jeezy have to be sitting in front of Nia Long spilling his guts like this

other than he's a fan of Love Jones? Yeah, but it's amazing. It is incredible. But what reason, other than you loved her and Boys in the Hood and Soul Food, would you have to be sitting in front of Nia Long spilling your guts the way that he did? As private as Jeezy is, and as much as jeezy don't like to

talk about nothing and you give your first statements on your divorce to uh the good sister near long not mad at it but drop on the clues bombs for the uh magic that black women especially from the 90s possess it is something about them isn't it right you got to check out the full interview and and he also talks about trauma and how he was molested as a child. What was the activation moment of trauma for you? The first was being left with a babysitter. There was a woman that was older than me and her, you know, touching and doing things to me that don't normally happen to kids. Like molesting.

Right. Basically. So I was introduced to sex at a very young age. Really young. Yeah. Second thing was that I had this lady that lived next door to us in an apartment. She was married to this guy. They had two kids.

They was around my age and I used to hang out with them. And I was there one day. They got into an argument and I heard them. And I heard that saying before, yeah, you wait till I get back. I'll be right back. And I heard him you know and i heard that saying before yeah you wait till i get back i'll be right back and i heard some yelling and all all right he killed his the wife he didn't kill her he shot her like four times oh my god right and eventually they found me under the sink when the police and everything was there but i just you know they just stuck with me. I love it, man. Brothers is having conversations that we don't normally have.

Okay, I've told you all I've got different scenarios. But the fact brothers are discussing these taboo things openly, we are healing. We are healing. You hear me? Yeah. You hear me? Like I said, you guys definitely need to check out the Jeezy and Nia Long conversation. I do want to play one more part. And this is a conversation that a call he received from Farrakhan.

When I got out of jail, I was at the lowest point in my life. I did everything right. And I got called up. I had Minister Farrakhan calling me every other day like, Jeezy, brother, the enemy is coming. I'm just like, what the hell is going on? Why was he calling you? He called me and said, brother, Jeezy, your message is changing. The enemy is coming. I'm just like, what the hell is going on? Why was he calling you? He called me and said, Brother Jeezy, your message is changing. The enemy is coming to get you.

I said, with all due respect, Mr. Farrakhan, all my enemies in my neighborhood, I'm not going back there no time soon. He said, no, the enemy. But what he was saying was that my message was changing and I was starting to educate my people. Oh, wow. And now here comes the enemy. And he was a lion. It was, when I got to that arena to do my show in front of 30,000 people, it was my time to go on stage.

It was maybe 70 police back there waiting to take me to jail. It was a span of my life, maybe like three years, probably shortly after my first album. Like, it was shootout after shootout. Like, I've been in shootouts with my dad being right there. And it's like a combo of everything. Well,

you always got to heed the minister's warnings. You got to heed the warnings from the minister, but also know you are divinely protected. So weapons may form, but they will not prosper.

You hear me? All right. You hear me? Well, that is your rumor report. All right. Now, when we come back,

we got front page news. Teslin Figaro will be joining us. And also, Doug Melville will be joining us. He has a new book called Invisible Generals. That's right, man. It tells the amazing true story of America's first black generals, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen. And it is the latest release of my book in print black

privilege publishing via simon and schuster so can't wait to sit and chop it up with doug i had doug on the daily show with me last week too so it's a pleasure to have him on breakfast club this morning as well all right well we'll get to front page news next don't move it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up, Tez? What's going on, DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God.

Peace, Tez. Now, let's talk about this gentleman that was arrested across Union Station. Now, is this the same guy that they crashed into the gate and when the cops pulled him out, they had guns on him? Is that the same story? I don't know. We have so many stories like that, so I don't know exactly which one you're referring to. But this was yesterday. It was trending yesterday about a guy who was at Union Station and had a AR-15.

He was arrested. Let's take a listen. We were briefed by U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, who identified the suspect as Amir LaVon Morrell from Atlanta, Georgia. Chief Manger says that Morrell was walking through this park carrying a weapon that resembled an AR-15 when someone spotted him and then alerted Capitol Police. Is that the one you were talking about? Because I want to make sure we're talking about the same one. But the officers on this one said that he appeared to be dealing with some mental health issues, but they can confirm that that was just based on their conversations they do not know

why he was in the park with a gun and it is an ongoing investigation so yeah they did arrest him but i'm not sure that's the the video you were referring to now i heard uh i guess i thought i heard another man i guess was around the same area had a gun as well and they said the gun was uh it was uh i guess a handgun but it was i guess some type of way it was armed where it could just be an automatic handgun and i guess he was arrested yesterday too but might be the same story they're saying this was ar-15 but in the report that i read it was pretty clear that it was uh an ar-15 so not not sure hopefully we didn't have two people going to the capitol uh So I'm pretty sure it's the same story.

Now, let's talk about the third officer charged in McLean's death found not guilty. Elijah. Yeah, we were cut. We covered this last week when we believe it was last week when one of the officers was found not guilty. So a jury found Colorado police officer Nathan Woodward not guilty again in the death. As a reminder, this is the case where the three police officers responded to a call about a suspicious person that was just walking. Elijah was just walking to the store. They restrained him in a chokehold and he passed away. So to recap, one officer was convicted of negligent homicide and third degree assault. But the other two officers were found not guilty. This is the second one.

And then there are still two paramedics who are waiting trial later this month yeah i don't i don't understand how that works ever like if you're going to charge one police officer you got to charge all of them because you know isn't our day accessories the murder if they just stood around and watched this young man you know die and they didn't intervene to stop this young man from getting killed shouldn't they be charged with murder too or some type of they should be charged with something well they were charged but they they were found not guilty how that's what i'm saying like how yeah it's unfortunate um especially again this is just it kind of reminds me again of trayvon martin you know he's just going to the store mind his business and just you know hey you look suspicious so really really unfortunate story

and prayers to his mother i wonder how officers like that live with themselves man like once you once they once they uh take a step back and they start this i'm sure they see the same videos we see of elijah mcclain and you started to hear what kind of kid he was how did they live with themselves knowing they killed this innocent young man yeah i don't know do they take a step back you know that's the question a lot of them step right in another position in another uh uh another police department, unfortunately, which is why we keep trying to push that as an issue, that it should have a database and these officers should not be able to be rehired.

If nothing else, you need to find another career. So hopefully they do take a step back. But I don't know, Charlamagne, I don't know if a lot of them do. I'm just talking about emotionally and mentally. I ain't talking about professionally, but at some point you take a life, you still got to reflect on that life at some point you start to realize who that person was you got to realize like damn i messed up yeah i hope so but want to end on a positive note i'd hate we have to end on a negative note uh jess hilarious desi and glenn tattoo man

page they held it down yesterday in detroit so i wanted to give them a shout out with that and then shout out to my team on tez on 10. We did premiere the show last night, had a premiere party at the Revolt Studios. I'm here now in Atlanta. So that was a really, really good time. So I wanted to just, great positive things going on as well, but still got a couple of the other stuff.

I wanted to end on a positive note. Well, congratulations again. Thank you. And make sure you subscribe to Tezlyn Figaro's podcast, The Scraped Shot, No Chase, the podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network and follow at Tezlyn Figaro again yeah all right make sure you uh subscribe to tesla figaro's podcast it's great shot no chaser podcast on the black effect iheart radio podcast network and follow at tesla figaro on all social media platforms all right now when we come back doug melville will be joining us he's an author he has a new book out yes charlemagne's imprint is called invisible generals that's right invisible generals tells the amazing true story of america's first black generals benjamin o davis

senior and junior father and son who helped integrate the american military and create the Visible Generals tells the amazing true story of America's first black generals, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and create the Tuskegee Airmen. 11-11 is Veterans Day. That's right around the corner. So this book is very timely, man, and this conversation will be very timely, too. So I can't wait to sit and talk to my guy, Doug Melville. All right, we'll get into that next. So don't move.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ En nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we got a special guest in the building yes indeed we have the brother doug melville welcome how you doing today gentlemen how's life today how's life today see you it is release week for us man this is generals is out uh it is the new uh release off my book in print, Black Privilege Publishing with Simon and Schuster, man. Happy to be able to put this into the world.

Tell them what Invisible Generals is. Yeah, so Invisible Generals is my family story of America's first two black generals. And these two gentlemen, a father and a son, were critical to the integration of the United States of America's military, which was 75 years ago this year, and also were the two men responsible for getting the legislation passed to create the Tuskegee Airmen, and then the son commanded the Tuskegee Airmen. So these two men did so much in history,

and out of the 335,000 people in the military at the start of World War II, there was only two black officers, a father and a son, and they were the invisible generals, treated as if they were invisible as a way to get them to resign, drop out, or get dishonorably discharged from the military. But they used it as a superpower to help change America. When did you know that was going to be the title of the book? Probably from the beginning. You know, my dad, that was kind of how he presented the story to me about Ben and his father as the Invisible Generals. And I just liked the way it sounded.

He said it kind of in passing to me, but it was something that, you know, stuck on. And the more I researched and the more I got involved in it, the more you realized they were really treated like they were invisible. No one talked to them. They were silent. So that was the title that I thought was fitting. Not only them, their contributions. We talked about this on The Daily Show a little bit, but it's so fascinating to me. Like, tell them what they helped create. Yeah, yeah.

So a lot of times, you know, when you talk about veterans or you talk about people in the military, you only talk about their military service. But the reality is there's so many more contributions. So Ben Davis Jr., the youngest of the two invisible generals, when he retired in 1970 from the military, he then went on to work at the Pentagon and he was responsible for leading the efforts to create what is now known as the TSA. So there was only two airports in the whole United States that had commercial security. And there was a lot of hijackings and skyjacking. So when he came from the military, he said, the first thing that I should do is try to clients were starting to feel really uneasy. And back then hijackers would board the airplane, take out weapons. They would run down the aisle,

take everybody's jewels, and then open the door and parachute out. What? So this happens 70, 80, 90 times a month. I mean, if you look at this, it's crazy. But airlines were just getting started at that level and scale that we know them today. So he said, we have to make sure that aviation is safe. And it was key to do the proper communication because he didn't want people to get scared and then not want to fly because you make everybody nervous to travel and things of that nature. So he said, there's two things that we have to do. Number one, we need to have people undercover and have them federally regulated to make sure like, you know, passenger 57, like Wesley Snipes, you know, he has to go

on here and like protect the plane. And he oversaw the training of 4 000 officers who ended up being the first federally funded air marshal or sky marshal program so that was one solution and the second solution was take the two airports in dc that had commercial security and see how he could replicate that using x-rays and using metal detectors for luggages and people to ensure that they were safe when they went in so this man did both of theseages and people to ensure that they were safe when they went in. So this man did both of these contributions and people never heard of him. Yeah, we use these things all day, every day.

We don't even think about it. Come on, man. I was going to ask, he did it so long ago. Why did it take so long for the whole world to jump? Was it the 9-11 fear? Yeah, 9-11 fear was when tsa you know kind of upped their game a little bit and became a little bit more of a federally funded and centralized because each airport was doing it somewhat individually they had the federal standards but each airport

had a little you remember before 9-11 you would kind of go to the gate one minute early you'd be like oh went off in your pocket they'd be like you're so crazy what's going on here so that was when it became what we most people know of it today but you know he did these uh under the guidance of the president at the time and it was important that he made aviation safe so that's one of the stories i share in the book is how can we not know these stories and then the speed limit like that's crazy to even think that there was a time where there was no speed. Yeah, yeah. And this was under the Carter administration. Those two were under the Nixon administration.

But under the Carter administration, he went and they brought him on in 1975 to be a special assistant to help create a national speed limit. So it was it served two different purposes part of the purposes was to uh ensure that maximize gas because there was a gas shortage and they wanted everybody to drive you know at a rate that would maximize the rpms of the car and then the second part of it was to federalize a national speed limit because there was a lot of confusion in the states truck drivers ticketing but people didn't want it you know and uh it was really his last assignment. And some would argue he got, you know, that was his last assignment because everybody was writing letters going, we hate the 55 mile an hour speed limit. It was 65. You lowered it. I bought this fast car. I hate it. So he was nicknamed Mr. 55, but it wasn't something at the time that was very complimentary.

People really thought it was more of a burden, but he was the one who made sure that was put into a federal law so so my question is is this is a lot right it's a lot so you talk about tsa you talk about you know what he did in the military and you know even the speed limit what made you want to share this story what was the point where you said i want to share this story yeah so um you know it came out in an unexpected way so i was invited to a screening of the movie red tails and um terrence howard in the movie uh was the commander of the red tails yeah and uh we're all there it's the red tails it's you know a bunch of you know actual tuskegee airmen on one side and then the actors on the other side and i'm in the middle and they they're like doug this is the screening of red tails and i I was like, oh, my gosh, I'm so excited.

And then we get down to the screening and he comes on the screen and his name was changed. Dang. And I was like, what? Colonel Bullard? Who is that? So I'm furious. And I leave and there's an after party and I start asking people at the party, who changed the names? And they're like, ohoug this is hollywood

this isn't a documentary this is this is a movie that fictionalizes the red tails and i go yeah but all the families are here and all the names are changed and i went home and i said dad this is you know outrageous and my dad laughed at me and goes doug if you think change in the names are bad let me tell you how i was raised and how ben and his father helped raise me and how they lived as if they were invisible because our lives were threatened and then he shared with me the story and that kind of sent me on a journey to start researching and going in because even my dad found out things during this process um that he didn't know about. And it was an incredible experience to go do that.

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It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Doug Melville. His book, Invisible Generals, is out right now. Charlamagne? Talk to us about why telling these stories is so important for the families to retain ownership. Yeah. So my biggest thing of my purpose was when I started finding out after Red Tails, the families of these movies that we watch don't necessarily get paid.

You know, the family of other movies, Devotion or Red Tail, sometimes the families are brought on as advisors, but there's not necessarily a name and likeness fee. There's no creative input from the families necessarily. So the more I started researching this, the more I realized is that the people who film the story or write the story, own the story because people in the military are public servants. So it's all public domain. So all these stories of congressmen, elected officials, military veterans, anyone in the public sector, anyone can tell your story and you don't have to get paid for it. So I said, there is no way that this story is going to survive and have someone else swoop in, tell the story,

how they want, own the rights to the story, and then here the family is, doesn't get any rights for the name or the story. It's crazy. I love the title of the chapter, Extraordinary Just to be Ordinary. Explain that. So Extraordinary Just to to be ordinary was kind of like

that rule that maybe your family gave you that you got to work twice as hard absolutely half as much that's right you know this is basic stuff black family by the way black family yes yeah yeah no it's it's uh it's it's a thing that you're raised with you know my dad would always say d Doug, C is for garbage man. And I would say, no, dad, Billy got a C or other people. And he's like, no, no, Doug, no, no. You can't get a C. So I think Extraordinary Just to Be Ordinary was really the plight of these two men graduate,

are the only two officers in the United States of America, and now they can't be in charge of anybody because the military segregated. So their job was to go to black colleges and teach ROTC. So for four years, they go to all these black colleges. And this is when the black graduation rate was under 10%. So the literacy rate was low. They go to all these black colleges,

two officers that should be in charge of people going into battle. And they're teaching military war college, but they didn't complain. They said, what we're going to do is we're going to tell these men, you're black men. Keep your chin up. Keep your head up. Focus on the dream. Write a goal on the wall. And one day this country is going to call you and need your service.

At the start of World War II, black pilots were needed. And all those men that they taught ended up being the 15,000 Tuskegee Airmen that went down to Alabama. And that was the creation of what the Tuskegee Airmen became. So when I said extraordinary, just to be ordinary, you have to sometimes be 10 times qualified just to get a job that you that someone else did right with a different background that you just you know they just walked right into it and you know crazy this is real life stuff i mean this is like all of us you know you see someone got 10 phds and then this guy's like oh yeah but my uncle did it yeah true right you know so what's your

thought on on military now and especially the way that they treated your family members and the way they've consistently treated black military men? What's your thoughts on it now? I think the military is evolving. You know, I kind of look at it as like a heartbeat. You know, it just goes in and out, in and out. I think the military now is in the best place it's ever been. There's more people looking at this subject than ever before. There's more people talking about it.

There's more eyeballs on it. But just like any big organization or institution you know more can always be done but i think if you look at our joint chiefs of staff general cq brown you know uh general austin you know the top generals in the whole united states of america are are black men or men of color so the military really has made a conscious effort to do better. And I think a lot of people are making an effort. I think the challenge is that the receiver of the effort, the people that benefit the most, always feel like everything's going too slow.

Oh, why is it not moving faster? Oh, by the time I do this, I'm going to be too old. So the military is trying to evolve. And I think that's all you could really ask but i think it's our responsibility to also evolve it by bringing facts and stories that change the narrative black people and the military their stories have been made invisible or have been erased just like with you know um redlining i mean there's so many stories of all these different black communities flooded to become lakes you know you look at central park i mean you look at all these different black communities flooded to become lakes you know you look at central park

i mean you look at all these different things and say what everything it keeps getting erased and deleted so if we don't go back and ask our fathers and grandfathers and uncles and aunts what happened back in the day we're never going to really get the real story and then we have to take everybody at their word and that word may have been skewed or biased based on the people who wrote the word based on historians based on what people chose to feel was valuable in writing you know what i love man i love the fact that you know when you look at all the books that are being banned and you look at things like critical race theory and how they're really trying to erase so many of black people's contributions this is why books like invisible general are so important

yeah yeah you know uh i i actually it's funny enough char i i asked if i could have a book band meeting because i wanted to understand what constitutes a band book hilarious and i asked i called everybody and i we had a zoom and i said excuse me can i have a can i request a band book meeting and they all get on the phone and they were explaining to me, if you bring up a side of alternative history, then that could be considered to be a banned book. Is this a thing of alternative history? It's either history or it's not. Well, that's right.

But it's alternative to what is the general understood history that came out. So it's very subjective. Don't present the truth about history. Don't be showing up here with a new story that no one ever heard of and then try to get it put into the schools. But the thing about the banned books is so wild. And think about it. We don't ban websites. We don't ban anything on streaming.

But there's something about the book and something about the written word that everything stems off of that people want to ban. And it's just really odd for me. But the result of that meeting was they said that in the state of Florida, in the state of Texas, public schools and universities, sometimes public libraries may not actually carry the book due to the book ban. And it may actually end up on a list. That's crazy. Wow. And in the book, you also say a father figure inspires his men to achieve. I love that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ben Davis Jr. was really the many of the Tuskegee Airmen, the ones that are still alive or you read stories. They looked at him as a father figure. And actually, Ben Davis Jr. had no biological kids of his own, but my dad was his oldest nephew.

And when he found out his wife couldn't bear children, he wanted the same relationship with a son that his dad had with him. And they went to Connecticut and got my dad at seven, brought him down to Tuskegee. And my dad was raised by him and his wife, Agatha. And I just look at that and say, you don't have to do that. You're fighting all these other people. You're doing all this work and you still want to go and be that extra father figure so that was really you know where he sat in my family but also for all the tuskegee airmen they always say if it wasn't for ben davis you know he would always say you have to use the system to defuse the system and that was his big line to the men don't stop the system i like that don't go out

here trying to do too much just use the system to diffuse the system first you got to get in the system then once you're in the system you got to have a voice then once you have a voice then you get a vote once you get a vote then you can make policy and that could take 20 30 years but if you want to change the way things are, I mean, it's our responsibility to do it. All right, we got more with Doug Melville when we come back. His book, Invisible Generals, is out right now.

So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlemagne the Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Doug Melville is here. He has a new book on Charlemagne's imprint.

It's called Invisible Generals. Charlemagne? Let's talk about the Million Dollar Star chapter, too, because you say sometimes you're tolerated but not celebrated. Other times you're celebrated but not compensated. So which is more important, being celebrated or compensated? Yeah, so the Million Dollar Star chapter I talk about. So Ben didn't get his fourth star in 1967 under LBJ. He retired in 1970.

He should have been a four-star general so 30 plus years go by luckily senator john mccain vouched after many many attempts to get him his fourth star that he rightly deserved so finally the bill passes uh it was actually written into a defense bill and part of the stipulation there was two stipulations number one was you're gonna retire under uh you're gonna get the four-star under retirement so not active duty which is standard but number two was the family would not get one penny of compensation for the 30 years past or the years forward and it caused a whole argument in the family. And his wife of over 60 years does not go to the ceremony. She says, we will not go.

All the things the United States did to us. And you don't want to pay us, but you want to give us the star. So when I say go where you're celebrated, not tolerated, I really mean that. But then don't go where you're not compensated. Because that happens every day. You know, people that are historically oppressed are paid with opportunity in lieu of money. And this is something that we have to make sure we tell our children, our family members.

When you don't have any money, people pay you with opportunity, which is good. And opportunity lead to money, though? It can, but you have to have that time. And when you need that hand-to-mouth situation where you don't have that money, rents due, car payment, etc., then you have to really do the best you can do and then you feel like

the opportunity is not confirmed. It's like the opportunity bank. Is it real? Some people that have money, you can buy time, but if you don't have any money, opportunity is great, but it doesn't you know some people that have money you could buy time but if you don't have any money opportunity is great but it doesn't really mean anything without that money but all these stories listening to your family members in the military did you ever want to go

into the military hell no yo mv listen i can't do all that i want to tell jokes and laugh and you know shuck it up and like hey what you guys doing when we going out tonight you know, shuck it up and like, hey, what you guys doing? When we going out tonight? You know, when we playing spades? I'm trying to do the like fun, cool thing. That military, when they said you got to get up, eat up, sit straight, iron, make your bed. I was like, whoa, take it easy. Take it easy. I'm trying to go to college and live my college experience. Right, right.

I'm not trying to go to the military. They never promoted it good or bad. And I think sometimes when we talk about Veterans Day, we forget. Sometimes people aren't in the military, but they still live a veteran family life. But I can tell you one thing. I think the military, it's a hard assignment. It's like West Point is like Harvard, but also with PT. You know, you still got to go through all the exercises and everything.

But I'm not really trying to do all that. I'm trying to laugh it up. Gotcha. Hang out with the fellas. You know what we're doing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. You know, military is I get one day off quick. Eat up, stand up, sit up. I'm like, oh, man, I can't do all that.

So what do you hope people take from reading Invisible Generals, man? I would like people to get from Invisible Generals. First off, we need to support our veterans and tell our stories of our veterans. That's right. And I think that's the main thing I want people to do is take a minute, love thy veteran. Veterans Day right around the corner. Veterans Day, that's what I'm saying.

We need to be out here loving the veterans, hyping them up, being positive, looking at them as not people running around in fatigues, but people all in the world ceos cfo ccoos i think that's so important and then the next thing i want people to take out this book is i want everybody to own their own story you have got to write your family story charlamagne envy everybody you know we write memoirs sometimes but sometimes you have to go

back two or three generations understand the jet fuel that your family worked for and that generational collateral and see can you actually continue something you're not lost you didn't just get dropped here but i want people to take that time to look on their couch before their family members pass away and say hey you know what i'm saying let's's go out here. Let's learn about our family because I switched my career to become a diversity officer in corporate America when I found out my family story. I was working in LA for Magic Johnson and he was teaching me what diversity was, but I wasn't doing a diversity in a corporate environment. But the second that I found out

my family story, I said, you know what? I'm going to make sure I make those who are invisible visible in corporate environments. And that was because I asked the people on my couch what they lived through. So if there's one thing to take out of it, that's what it would be. Absolutely.

Veterans Day is 11-11. That's right. 11-11 at 1-11. That's the time World War I ended. So make sure to do something great for a veteran this week you know i've said this a million times i hate how this country treats its veterans there's nothing i hate more than seeing somebody who's fought for this country on the side of the road with a sign begging for change like i feel like veterans should get

free room and board absolutely i think they should get free health care and i think they should get a stipend every month to you know take care of whatever they need to take care of. Yeah. And especially mental health. Absolutely. You know, the amount of veterans that commit suicide, the amount of veterans that are homeless and, you know, their benefits get cut off, their work skills may not be tight. So I think, you know, we could all just learn a lot and realize that, you know, their experience was just five minutes ago, but we do need to do something for the veterans. And today's election day, Veterans Day, is just coming up this weekend, so try to do something. There you go. Well, make sure y'all go pick up Invisible Generals.

It is available everywhere you buy books right now. You can go to Amazon. You can go to Barnes & Noble. You can go into the Barnes & Noble bookstore, local bookstores. Invisible Generals, man, the latest release off my book in print Black Privilege Publishing

with Simon & Schuster Atrius Simon & Schuster so Doug thank you brother Doug Melville thank you man I appreciate you thank you brother

and where can they find you and I want to just thank you Charlamagne for believing in the story absolutely it's just the beginning man we got documentaries books

movies yeah we got all that we getting paid what's up where's that cheese it's the breakfast club salute to my guy doug melville man make sure you go pick up invisible generals man it's in bookstores right now yes the amazing true story of america's first black generals benjamin o davis senior and junior man yeah it's the latest release off my book imprint black privilege published from via simon

and schuster so go get that right in time for veterans day yeah shout to the breakfast club producers uh the some of the women up here will put me on to some of the things that they are into like one you know one uh sydney one of the producers was talking about cats and how she has a cat and all of the stuff that she goes with cats. Sounds about right. I think they're all a bunch of future cat women if you ask me. You know what? You know what?

Okay. Yeah, that's Uncle Charlotte. I've been telling them that for the longest. I'm glad they're finally embracing it. Oh, boy. All right. You know what? Forget it.

Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk to Lori Harvey. Rumor has it. Rumor. Rumor has it. Call out her name or you gossiping or you chatty patty. I don't gossip. This is the rumor report.

I mean, I guess we on the breakfast club. This is where the tea spills, right? Right. All right. Now, Lori Harvey and Damson Idris, they're saying split after one year of dating. Yesterday, they put out a joint statement. They said, we are at a point in our lives where our individual paths require our full attention

and dedication. We part ways, remaining friends with nothing but love and respect for each other and the time we share together. They put out a statement? Yes.

Man, Lori must have liked him. Lori, you're usually going to be putting out no statement after she dumped these hoes. I'm going to close the round for Lori Harvey. Team Lori over here. Okay?

All right. Y'all ain't learned nothing from reading Steve Harvey's book, but Lori did for Lori Harvey. Team Lori over here. Okay. All right. Y'all ain't learned nothing from reading Steve Harvey's book, but Lori did. Lori did. All right. Lori read Pop's book. Okay. Lori applying the rules to that book correctly. All right.

Jesus. All right. Sorry for those fellas out there. Act like a lady. Think like a nigga. Drop on a Kuzma for Lori Harvey. A new book from Lori Harvey coming soon.

Okay? At least he got a press release. He did get a press release, yeah. Okay. Because I don't think Future didn't get one, Michael B. Jordan

didn't get one. Nothing. Nah. Lewis Hamilton didn't get one. I don't even know who that is. Oh, the race car driver?

Oh, okay. None of them got one. Damn it. All right, well, Timberland. People were mad at Timberland. That's because he was

doing an interview and he said that maybe Justin Timberlake should have put a muzzle on Britney Spears. The River is making headlines again because of Britney's memoir. She said, oh, crazy. I want to call the team and put a bubble. Well, people were upset about that. I want to call some JT, man. You got to put a buzzer on me, girl. Somebody said Timbaland who? Somebody else has said Timbaland is a waste of sperm for being disrespectful to Britney Spears. The loser can go to hell. Well, Timbo wasn't talking and that was not disrespectful. Timbo was from Virginia, man.

That's how country folk talk. He was even you could hear it was it was kind of in jest. You know what I'm saying? Like, come on. We know Timbaland as a person. So we know Timbaland is not that type of person. But Timbaland did apologize for hurting the fans' feelings and taking a quote-unquote shit. Hell yeah. To all the Britney fans out here, I'm wrong.

I'm wrong. Muzzle? You know, it's just certain words that don't like a dog. She's not no dog. What the freak am I saying? You know what I'm saying? It was just like, you know how you just got too comfortable just just just rambling at the mouth it's just don't know what you're talking about that's just intimidating you know but at the end of the day

it's just it's none of my business well we felt like he owed her an apology there's nothing wrong with that either you know apologizing but that is a moment where he was talking freely in front of people he probably wouldn't should have been talking freely in front of people he probably wouldn't, shouldn't have been talking freely in front of. That's all. Yeah. And Tyler Perry, he was on The View talking about a new project that's coming out that's dedicated to his late mother. He was talking to the host, Sarah Haynes,

and started tearing up a little bit when talking about his mom. It was so well done. Thank you. I'm very proud of them. They did a great job. When I met Maxine through all of it, I didn't know her. Yeah. But it shows just how much you endured as a child.

Okay, wait a minute. That one took me. But you met. Oh, that. Yeah. You met my mother through it. Man, that's wow. You really got me there.

I'm sorry. I need to get myself together. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. I'm sorry. We're talking about the yes yes i just imagine a woman who's lived her

entire life with so much pain and she was always worried about everybody else and i think i've watched her get sick i watch her get cancer i watch i have all these things because her intention was are you happy are you okay she never put herself on the list so to say that this documentary that galila and amani did about my life introduces her to the world that that that moves me let me tell you something man uh tyler perry documentary maxine's baby i had the pleasure of seeing that documentary uh some months ago and it is very very very very powerful one of the best documentaries i've seen in a long time. And, you know, it is, you know, when you watch the documentary, you realize it is the greatest honor a son could give his mother.

You know, because he was God's gift to her and she shared her gift with the world. It's a very inspiring documentary, man. Absolutely. Can't wait till people see it. It's called Maxine's Baby, the Tyler Perry story. That's right. And when you watch it, man, there's so many gems in it because, you know, you're going to feel, you know, I feel like watching it. When I watched it, you know, men, we don't really unpack a lot of issues with our fathers or father figures.

But, you know, Tyler Perry does that a lot in this documentary. And I think, you know, unpacking, you know, our issues with our fathers, our father figures is imperative to our healing. All right. So, yeah, I can't wait till everybody gets to see Maxine's Baby baby all right and salute to tyler perry and that is coming on amazon amazon yeah okay and that is your rumor report all right now charlamagne who you giving that donkey to man for after the hour okay i need who the hell am i giving donkey to so much going on this morning oh man a guy named marcus a stapleton he's actually from New Jersey, right over the bridge, man. He's 35 years old.

And it is a lesson to be learned in this. I don't know if it's a lesson that will ever be corrected because, you know, we're talking about systems here. And these systems are working the way that they're designed to work. But we'll discuss. All right, we'll get into that next. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. We'll be right back. and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Charlamagne. Who got the donkey of the day today? Well, Jetsularious, donkey of the day for Wednesday, November 8th goes to 35-year-old Marcus A. Stapleton. Now, I believe Marcus is from New Jersey. He was in prison in New Jersey, so I'm assuming he's from New Jersey. But according to police, he has a lengthy criminal record and he was just released from prison in New Jersey. Now, I don't know what he was in prison for and i know there are a lot of people right now listening to me in the county jail listening to me in prison and they are dreaming

of being released some of them have release dates some of them don't some are coming home sooner than others but the moral of the story is all of them are dreaming about coming home what are some of the first things folks want to do when they get out of prison number one is just simple socialization okay getting back acclimated with society small dinner you know meet up with some friends of course if you have a lady in your life connecting with her getting some cheeks okay if you got kids going to love on them finding a job most brothers when they get out of prison are simply trying to do everything they can to not go back well marcus a stapleton clearly is not like most brothers see marcus got released from prison and the first thing he did i'm talking the very first thing he did was find a way to go back in

fact he found a way to celebrate i don't know why he thought this was a celebration but let's go to q104 jim kerr for the report. A man just released from prison in New Jersey celebrated the accomplishment by stealing an ambulance, smashing into a convenience store, and hitting a state police cruiser. Marcus A. Stapleton, age 35, is accused of crashing the vehicle and then fleeing on foot before being captured inside a nearby factory. The incident occurred shortly after 1 a.m. Monday when Stapleton told the convenience store clerk he had a body in the ambulance and needed directions. The clerk gave the directions and then immediately called 911.

Stapleton then went back to the store asking for more directions. That's when the suspect hopped back into the ambulance and drove it into the front of the store before driving off. Two police officers then stopped their cruiser in the street, hoping to stop the ambulance. However, the vehicle did not stop, instead hitting the passenger side front fender of the cruiser. That's when Stapleton fled on foot and attempted to hide before cops busted him. Stapleton has been charged with theft, aggravated assault, and other related charges. Need I remind you,

he did all of this immediately after just being released from prison. Immediately, ASAP, okay? Now, they said he's a disabled veteran and was staying with his wife. Well, that's what he said. He said he's a disabled veteran and was staying with his wife

after getting out of jail in Bergen City, New Jersey. Marcus,cus if you got a wife you're not acting like it because after being in prison i would have been trying to do everything in my power to stay up under my wife's cheeks okay you sir acting like you left bay behind bars maybe all right the man must got a boyfriend in there only logical explanation okay he told boo i'll be back in time to spend thanksgiving with you and man is he keeping promises okay police said he has a lengthy criminal record. All right. This man is institutionalized. He has no idea how to operate outside of prison. All those things, you know, I described to you getting a job, getting acclimated to society.

That's too much for him. All right. See, he didn't even get out and commit a crime that had anything to do with trying to get some money. He wasn't even trying to get back on his feet. He got out, stole an ambulance, and drove into the wall of a convenience store and then hit a state police cruiser. That man was trying to get back to the boo, the boyfriend he left behind. All right? To quote a future NBA Hall of Famer, he was thinking about that meat. All right?

Marcus A. Stapleton had that meat on his mind and he wanted to get back to it because there ain't no way all right some people just career criminals man and if these prisons these jails were the correctional facilities they claim to be then maybe just maybe they could get this brother the mental and emotional help he needs to become a productive citizen in this society if this man could earn a trade in prison uh get a higher level of education get some mental health treatment then he would he would have some tools to help him land on his feet when he's released from prison i use the term get back on his feet earlier and we use that term a lot when we talk about uh brothers and sisters getting released from prison

i think we gotta erase that from our lexicon because that's not the way it should be if you spend all this time in a So-called correctional facility you should actually be released from prison on your feet You should actually be released standing on business Alright because if these facilities were actual correctional institutions folks would acquire a whole new set of skills that they could use in the real World okay, but all these places do is script you of dignity Folks can't even self-educate themselves anymore because they ban so many books in prison so if you don't let people

educate themselves you don't teach them a trade you don't get them the resources they need to take care of their mental and physical well-being if you don't give these individuals nothing but a hard time what do you think they are going to end up doing say it with me kids the word of the day is recidivism okay it's a cycle all right rearrest reconviction reincarnation no not reincarnation reincarnation would be good if you got a life sentence re-incarceration okay rearrangement all these things could be corrected if we wanted them to be all right this cycle could be broken if we wanted it to be but it won't be because the system is working exactly the way

it was designed to work please give marcus a stapleton the biggest hero all right well thank you for that donkey today. Yes, indeed. You want to play a game? Nope. No? Not in a little game? Oh, God. All right. All right.

I guess we'll play a game of Guess What Races! All right. DJ Envy, Marcus A. Stapleton, 35 years old, of New Jersey, was in prison. Had a lengthy criminal record. Was released from prison and immediately went to go steal an ambulance, ran it into a convenience store, then ran into some state troopers. DJ Envy, guess what race it is? This is not an easy one.

White. Why do you think he's white just ask him I don't think black people want to go back to prison once we out we not we not trying to go back but then again

if he had cheeks he might have been in love with his cheeks it was like I want to go back and say boo but I don't think that's the case

I like boo what the hell is boo but no I say boo but does anybody want to go see his boo that ain't what you said you said something about boo butt. I ain't never heard that.

We be unlocking new levels of gay every day on this radio. You be saying stuff. Gay people be looking at the radio like, what is a boo butt? What is a boo butt, Rashawn? You tell me right now. What is a boo butt? Damn. That sound like you're coming with some milk.

It's crunchy and sweet. Boo butt. Boo butt cereal. I like boo butt. Damn. Well, you're wrong. Okay. The man is... He's a negro. Damn. Damn. Damn.

Ah, he went to go see his boo butt. Oh, man. They need to make these correctional facilities Actual correctional facilities Okay Give these brothers some skills And some tools That when they get back into society

They can be productive citizens Okay Alright Well thank you for that donkey of the day B.E.T. we'll see y'all tomorrow Peace B.E.T. Everybody else let's open up the phone lines 800-585-1051

women how do you shoot your shot now this conversation comes from two different things all the single women up here at the goddamn breakfast club that too it's Sim's birthday they got Sim back there about to cry let me tell y'all what they got Sim they got Sim these blow up

dolls right yeah and these blow-up dolls, right? Yeah. And these blow-up dolls of men. Right. And they put pictures of all the men she like on the dolls. Right. So it's Kodak Black, Serge Ibaka. And Burner Boy.

And Burner Boy. That's right. And then they got her, I don't know what village this is. What village is this, Eddie, that y'all got? They got some village. It's an African village. They got some village on the continent to do a happy birthday thing to Sim,

and they holding up a picture and singing her happy birthday and all of that good stuff. So she ain't there about to cry. Right. You know what I'm saying? He got so scared. He thought Sim was coming here

to bust him in his head. They be jumping me, man. I got to make sure. That's Taylor. Taylor, show them. Show them. See, that's Kodak Black. So the question is,

okay, this is Serge Ibaka. Women, how do you shoot your shot? There was a video that went viral that's taylor taylor show him show him see that's kodak black so the question is okay this surgeon baka women how do you shoot your shot there was a video that went viral uh a couple of days ago there was a lady in the gym she was trying to shoot her shot at a man in the gym and she was throwing her hair back and working out next to him he didn't shoot his shot that's right uh sukiana allegedly tried to shoot her shot at cameron she jumped in the car with cameron and played eating your and i'm eating your and he's eating my and cameron was like was that a subliminal so ladies how do you shoot your shot i actually asked sim simma who was today's her birthday she said she stares at a man three times first of all she's four eyes she got glasses okay so that ain't gonna work all right

we gotta start putting things in proper context you don't be talking to i'll be talking to the nieces the way they need to be talked to. Okay? I can't see you through your glasses. You got big prescription glasses. Where's Sim at? Is Sim going to come here? Where's Sim at?

Jesus Christ. Don't come here without your glasses either, Sim, because you're going to bump into stuff. You keep your glasses on when you come in here. How you going to make eye contact with these? She look like sexy red around the eyes through the prescription glasses. Come on now. I don't even know when you're looking at me right now.

Sir, happy birthday, Sim. Happy birthday, Sim Seema. Women. Dropping the clues bombs to Sim Seema. How do you shoot your shot with men? Sim, get on the mic one time. I asked you earlier, how do you shoot your shot, and what did you say to me? First, I just want to say I don't have a crush on Kodak.

That was a complete joke, and I want to clear that immediately. Okay. And secondly. You do have one on Serge Ibaka, though. I introduced you to Serge Ibaka. And also Burner Boy. I never said I had a crush on Burneraka. I introduced you to Serge Ibaka. And also Burner Boy. I never said I had a crush on Burner Boy. I introduced her to Serge Ibaka

and she fumbled. No, you fumbled it, but that's not what we're talking about here. Bad. Look, he said we have to wrap. No, no, no. So just quickly... You know what?

We do got to wrap. Okay, we'll do it when we come back. Because we talk about women shooting their shot and we'll do it when we come back. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Enj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now if you're just joining us we're talking to women this morning asking women how do they shoot their shot now this conversation comes from all the single women here at the breakfast club one there was a video that was uh went virally up a day about this woman she was in the gym trying to shoot a shot with a guy in the gym and the guy paid her no mind the other was sukihana and cameron where cameron felt like sukihana was kind of throwing him subliminals let's hear it i ain't no bitch was trying to be subliminal with me and you know i'm saying so i'm sitting there driving you mind if i get if i put my bluetooth on i guess i was playing too much Nas and then Hov and all that too. Yeah.

Yeah, so then this song comes on, she says, I'm in your ass. I'm in your ass. Then we switch. Now I'm in his ass. And I said, are you trying to tell me something? Because look, let me tell you something about me real quick. I'll let you get in the gooch.

That's as far as you go. When I say the gooch, that's under the you go when i say the gooch that's under the don't touch my ass don't turn me on and i know listen now have i got my ass before pause when i was a teenager and listen my ass my legs wasn't up and i was now on my knees and then when i came to work this morning, I was talking to the birthday girl, some Simmer, and we were talking about how she shoots her shot.

And Sim, can you jump to the mic? Sim. Big Sim. I call her Sim Single. Sim Single. Sim Single. So Sim, how do you shoot your shot when it comes to a gentleman?

I mean, I just gave eye contact three times. You have glasses on, Sim. Big, big prescription glasses. So it draws attention to my eyes, no? You look like sexy right around the eyes. And then shut up. And then when I go out and I put on makeup and stuff,

I don't have my glasses on. You can't even see, so you're just squinting. So now you're scaring the hell out of the man. You're just squinting at the man. The man like, what is going on here? You make eye contact three times

because if you make eye contact once with somebody, that might just be an accident. Then if you look away, like if you're not interested in someone and you make eye contact once, you're going to make sure you never lock eyes again because that's just awkward. You do twice or three times, that means come over here. You know the problem with you women nowadays?

And this is coming from you, Uncle Sharla. First of all, black men don't cheat. Jeezy says real, just don't cheat. Whatever it is, black men don't. Whatever it is, we don't cheat. Y'all ain't even taking into consideration that woman in the gym what if that man was married what if that man was in a relationship that's why i've got no business looking at you making squinty eyes or googly eyes or whatever the hell it is you're doing he's not he's ignoring you correct because

he might be in a relationship did anybody ever think of that did that ever cross any of these women's minds or he might be gay or he might gay. The sense of entitlement that women have is crazy to me. That's not entitlement. That is very much entitlement. I feel like eye contact is very subtle. You might be making eye contact with a married man, Sim. But it's not lusty. It's just eye contact.

If you're available, you can come over here. If you're married and you mind your business, you made a great choice. Okay. So I feel like that's the most subtle way you can show it. Shouldn't you be looking for rings and stuff first before you start just looking at the man? I mean, if he's on the other side of the table, other side of the venue, you can't see that. She can't see anything, period. You see how thick her glasses are?

Touche. And also, I'll tell you another thing. The truth to the matter is, and y'all don't want to talk about this either, the Me Too movement ruined a lot of that. What you mean? Because we live in a world where no men are going to shoot their shot anymore because they don't want anything to be misconstrued. Nobody wants to be accused of sexual harassment. Nobody wants to be accused of sexual harassment. Nobody wants to be accused of making a woman feel uncomfortable. So if you are in a setting like the gym, if you are interested in the dude, maybe you should make the first move, ladies.

And keep it simple. Walk up to a person, you know, ask them if they're in a relationship. Ask them if they're available. If they are, give them your number. Y'all exchange numbers. Don't leave it up to the man. Because nowadays, man, men is taking extra precautions. That's right.

You're having a shindig tonight for your birthday. So what you should do, if you see a gentleman out there, Mercedes is coming too, so y'all both single. Y'all both can do this together. I'm going to let Mercedes get chose, but I'm going to just relax. Mercedes, my sister, if you see somebody out there that y'all like, you should approach them and say, hello, how you doing?

Mercedes is going to stand before you because she's 6'9". That's why I told MV, I said, Mercedes is going to stand out. So she's going to get to me tonight for sure. Mercedes is 6'9". We love you, Mercedes. We're size 11 shoe and ball. All right, let's go to the phone line. What's wrong with you, man?

Hello. She does not wear size 11. Hello, good morning. Hi, how are you? Hey, Jessica, good morning. So let me just get right into it. The way how I shoot my shot with dudes first and foremost side notes girls do way too much like a lot of dudes don't be having

self-awareness so i just go straight for it so i have keys i go up to a dude that i find out attracted and you know i act like i'm picking up the keys and i'm asking them asking him so are these your keys? And he looks at me and say no these are not my keys. And I'm like okay perfect. Now I have a reason to speak to you. Then he smiles and then I compliment his smile and we're going from there. Okay.

So you walk up to a man and you kick a little joke. This is her making the first move. This is what I think women should do in 2023. Women should make the first move. Alright well let me go to another line. Let's say Colette. her making the first move. This is what I think women should do in 2023. Women should make the first move. All right, well, let me go to another line. Let's say Colette. Hello, who's this? I think this is Colette.

Colette, this is you. Hi, my name is Colette. Okay, Colette, how do you shoot your shot with a dude? Well, I don't shoot my shot with dudes. I date women. I'm sorry.

Okay, okay. Well, WNBA exists too, ma'am. How do you shoot your shot? It's really not shooting my shot per se because I need a deep emotional connection, and it's got to be intellectual. And most women are in the head anyway. You know, for the men, it's in the penis.

Okay. So what do you do? Huh? So what do you do? How do you do it? Oh, usually it's just getting to know them. And usually they're ready a lot sooner before I am. But I just, you know, and sometimes it just comes over me and I look at the person.

I'm like, okay, I'm in love with you now. You just look at a person and say, I'm in love with you now? After knowing them for a long period of time. Oh, I was about to say, that's toxic as hell. No. Walking up on random people. No, no. What I'm saying is you want to have the relationship first.

But I need a deep emotional connection. So after having a wrong relationship with them platonic, I'll often look at them and say, okay, I'm in love with you now. We understand everything you're saying, Queen. But I'm talking about before we get to that. Yeah, you got to talk to them. What's their first initial status? Well, Collect, can I say stud?

You can use the word stud or no? Yeah, you can say stud. Collect, are you the stud? No, I don't male identify. I have a very masculine presentation, and I have always had that as a child. You can say stud to male? I ain't even trying to get into all this.

I just want to know, how do you shoot your shot, man? I'm not a stud. I didn't say you're not a stud, ma'am. She said she comes off as masculine. She said she comes off as a masculine. Okay, let me try to explain this. When you first meet a person. Correct.

You're in a club. Yes. How do you talk? How do you kick it to them? Got you. Usually, it's got to be a physical attraction at first. And you know, I usually shoot my shot with humor because women love humor. I wouldn't talk to you.

And intelligence. You take it too much time. Right. That's what I'm saying. I don't talk to dudes. Right. Colette, are you single? At the moment, yes.

Yep. Figured it. All right. Thank you, mama. Bam. No, I mean cause it's you just ask her how you shoot a shot

and she gonna tell you 13,000 things to do but nothing to shoot a shot she probably got ADD she sound like that little boy you showed me on that that meme yesterday

that little boy all he asked him was well you want bananas and chocolate he just start talking about all kinds of stuff that's what she sound like to me just now

alright well 800-585-1051 we just asking women how do you shoot your shot let's discuss it's the Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join us for the discussion with The Breakfast Club.

Let's talk about it. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're asking women, how do they shoot their shot? This conversation comes from a viral video I seen on social media yesterday. A woman was in the gym trying to shoot a shot with a guy she was working out with, and he paid her no mind. And then Sukiana, she said this when she was in the car with Cam'ron, and Cam'ron kind of feels like it was a subliminal. I ain't no bitch was trying to be subliminal with me and shit. You know what I'm saying?

So I'm sitting there driving. You mind if I get, if I put my Bluetooth on? I guess I was playing too much Nas and Hov and all that too. Yeah.

Yeah, so. Then this song comes on and she says, I'm eating your ass. I'm eating your ass. Then we switch. Now I'm eating his ass. And I said,

are you trying to tell me? So, we're asking 805-85-1051. Women, how do you shoot your shot? We got Sajada on there. Is that your name, Sajada? Yeah. Hey, Sajada. How do you shoot your shot, mama?

So, I don't shoot my shot. I'm a, you know, girl, girl. And I feel like the guys just shoot their shot. Because I don't chase. I'm a catch. You what? She says i don't chase i'm a bitch you what she doesn't chase she's the catch yeah but you know a lot of men don't feel comfortable you know making the first move nowadays because you know we live in this world you know where we're you know especially with the me too movement and things of that nature like you know nobody wants

to be accused of sexual harassment nobody wants to be accused of making a woman feel uncomfortable so a lot of guys are just minding their business. No, I mean, you know, it's nothing wrong with approaching a female just having a conversation with your name, how's your date going.

If she talks, then she's open to letting you shoot your shot. If not, keep going. So, Sajada, say you see a gentleman somewhere, wherever you go.

Let's say it's a hookah spot, a restaurant. Let's say it's a gym. You see a handsome young man. You're attracted to him, and you want to holler. So you're not going to holler at all. If he doesn't holler at you,

you're going to let him go. I might look his way, but if he don't catch the eye, then he just missed his shot. All right, so you give him the eye. Yeah. Okay, all right. Well, thank you, Sajada.

No problem. And I got one question for y'all. If someone is an upcoming artist, very talented, do y' you have any advice for them? Yeah, keep God first, stay humble, and keep working. All right. That was imaginary. That was like a douchey shot.

That's all you can do. Like, keep God first, stay humble, keep working. Tatiana. Yes. Good morning. Where you calling from? I'm calling from Jersey. Jersey.

All right. Now, how do Jersey women shoot their shot when it comes to men? When it comes to anybody? When it comes to me, if I see somebody I'm interested in or if I'm out at a restaurant, I'm going to send them a shot and give them a score and give them a look. So you're going to send them some liquor? Yes, sir. Okay. See, I like that.

I like any woman making the first move. I feel like nowadays women should make the first move because that keeps, you know, everything. That keeps things from being misconstrued. I think I said that right. That keeps situations from being misconstrued when a woman makes the first move. Hey, T. Hey. Good morning, T.

Do you shoot your shot when it comes to men? How do you shoot your shot? I just smile, you know, and then I'm just straight forward, you know, acting with that single and stuff. But I'm not going to act like off the first meet, you know, for a couple days. Even maybe a couple weeks I'll smile, you know, and then come and act. So let's say you meet this gentleman in the club. So it might not be a second date.

This is going to be the only time you see this gentleman. How are you going to shoot your shot, mama? Hey, what's going on? You know, I'm just asking how they doing and asking if they're single you know that's it so you're pulling straight up that's it it's no need to complicate any of this i am with you women go ahead and make the first move it's not hard find out if the guy's single find out if he's not in relationship give him your number exchange numbers go on about your day. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Crystal from South Carolina, 843 Charlemagne. 843, we out here.

What's happening? How you shooting your shot, Crystal? I think that the way that I shoot my shot is just by giving a guy a smile, maybe a little wink. You know, I think that should be enough to let a man know that you're interested and you want to come talk to them. Because I was always taught to never look too thirsty for a man you know i don't mind the smile and the wink man see this is dope this is we're getting back to old school ways of doing things you know i'm saying you let the woman make the first move a nice little smile a nice little wink i don't even got a problem with the woman walking up like yo let me get your number you single

you're in a relationship, let's exchange numbers. Yeah. That's my moral. The moral of the story is make the first move. Tell people how you feel. Stop being so scared of rejection. Stop feeling so engulfed with thoughts that aren't even yours. And stop wasting your damn time.

All right. Well, when we come back, we got your rumor report. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors.

Let's talk Usher. Rumor has it. Rumor has it. Call out a name or you gossiping or you chatty patty. I am gossiping. This is the rumor report. I mean, I guess we on the Breakfast Club. This is where the tea spills, right? Right. All right.

Now, Usher was recently doing an interview with our friend Carolina Bermudez. Dropping the coolest bombs for Carolina Bermudez on E! I Heart Radio is on Carolina Bermudez. Mm-hmm. And when she was doing the interview, she asked Usher about the R&B Mount Rushmore. And there's a lot of talk circulating right now about the Mount Rushmore of R&B, which you are clearly on it. But who would be on your Mount Rushmore? Ooh, I get to put myself up there.

Ronan Gay is going to be up there. Michael's going to be up there. Prince is going to be up there. You know, I put a few incredible female vocalists like Whitney Houston up there. It doesn't have to necessarily just be men. I want to talk about your Las Vegas show. It's a magnet you know i think that las vegas has always been a place where you know you go to you know one have fun but more than anything you go to celebrate well dropping the clues by carolina bermudez again i just want to tell e uh y'all need to be offering

uh carolina the max contract she does a phenomenal job on E. Mm-hmm. A phenomenal job. And I was thinking about this Mount Rushmore of R&B thing yesterday, right? Mm-hmm. I don't know if Michael Jackson and Prince should be on the Mount Rushmore of R&B. Michael Jackson could. Michael Jackson's done R&B projects, a lot of R&B hits.

But they kind of like their own genres, right? They incorporate so many different styles of music like off the wall to me is definitely an r&b that's r&b yeah i guess thriller thriller has certain elements of an r&b but would you call thriller an r&b record no that's what i'm saying like i don't i don't know there's r&b songs after off the wall michael's you know he's he's he's kind of all over the place as far as genre is concerned. Prince is always incorporated. I wouldn't put Prince in it.

I would put Michael Jackson. Prince is rock. Prince is R&B. Prince is pop. Like, there's a lot. I don't know. I would put Mary J. Blige. Oh, 100% Mary J. Blige is on my Mount Rushmore of R&B. My Mount Rushmore, it's only four, right? Four.

I would have Luther Vandross. Luther. Urscher. Urscher. Marvin Gaye and Mary J. Bligeige that would be my four mount rushmore of r&b that's just my personal opinion and i know objectively people would say hey r kelly should be on the mount rushmore of r&b i can't put r kelly over the people i just named i just can't just talking straight music luther usher marvin and m and Mary J. Those four got records I can't live without.

I can take a leave with a lot of Kelly records, personally. I would do Mary, Michael, Usher. Last one, I don't know. I don't know. Michael is fair. I think Michael and Prince need their own monument somewhere. I don't know if you can put them on just an R&B Mount Rushmore. I don't know.

He could be on a bunch of different Mount Rushmores. I would like to hear more of this conversation. I would love to hear Tank discuss this on the R&B Money Podcast shout out to the brother Tank Tank and Jay Valentine I'd love to hear them discuss this on the R&B Money Podcast also Jamie Foxx

is reportedly ready to have a baby with his girlfriend and they believe he will probably propose over the holiday season god damn you right what one of us i forget one of our producers just texted us stevie wonder oh stevie got stevie got come on let's see stevie's another one who need his own monument that's what i'm saying like am i rushing my r&b too hard i don't even want that problem i don't even want that problem even trying to figure that out i can't even believe i ain't even thinking stevie

stevie should have been top of the mind. But I put Stevie in that same category of MJ and Prince. Only difference is Stevie makes R&B. Stevie makes R&B. He is the R&B. Yes, he's the guy. He's the God. He's a God. Ain't none of them better than Stevie.

None of them. That's why I said I would do Stevie, Mary, Michael, and Usher. That would be mine. I can't put Michael on. This is tough. All right. Now, I'll tell you about Jamie Foxx. You act like you didn't care.

Now, also, Nelly, a fan told Nelly when Ashanti gave him Impala for his birthday, a fan said, Get her pregnant, Nelly, tonight. And he says, I'm on it. So, there he goes. Jamie Foxx trying to have a baby. She's like, Nelly trying and he says I'm on it so there he goes Jamie Foxx trying to have a baby he's like Nelly trying to have a baby dropping a clue bomb from black love Nelly and Ashanti I'm all for them having beautiful black babies let's go Nelly and Ashanti I would love to see them get married have beautiful black babies you didn't hear me say Jamie Foxx what happened forget it now uh I said Jamie Foxx said he's ready to have a baby and will probably be proposed over the holidays.

With who? Alice Huckstep. Let me Google. Oh, boy. Let me Google. A-L-Y-C-E Huck. H-U-C-K-S-T-E-P-P. H-U.

Oh, boy. H-U-C-K-S-T-E-P-P. Me and Dr. Umar don't approve. Oh, my goodness. I just Googled. Oh, my goodness. Me and Dr. Umar do't approve oh my goodness i just googled oh my goodness dr umar do not approve i hate you and lastly you know you know the other day we reported a story about brandy and uh ray jay and ray jay having to rush his mom to the hospital well ray jay's mom sonja know what she

actually spoke out she says i don't usually address stories about myself but i was quite surprised to wake up to a call from my longtime friend and publicist asking sonia are you in the hospital are you okay i said what where's this coming from she said there was a tmz story that i was not aware of she sent the link and when i looked at it i frowned and said that was weeks ago they could have at least gotten my age right then the floodgates of concerns just took over my phone and everybody started calling she says i'm not in the hospital i'm doing great. I did have a negative reaction to a vitamin therapy weeks ago.

It was not a big deal. I went to the hospital and got a big grade A on my medical report. She said she's doing fine. Y'all gonna get enough of putting all the black women's business on social media. Okay. Tyrese made this mistake with Kim Burrell. Now Ray J making this mistake with his mother. Y'all better send y'all thoughts

and prayers directly to them when they're in these situations and stop going to social media with it. All right. Okay? And that is your rumor report. And I also want to say, too, a salute to my good brother,

Andrew Schultz, man, my friend, my business partner, my partner on the Brilliant Ideas podcast. He announced yesterday that he was bringing his The Life Tour, the Madison Square Garden, on May 4th.

Tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. yesterday and sold out within 90 minutes. Wow. So dropping the cruise bombs for Andrew Schultz. Sold out the garden in 90 minutes. You got to pardon A for selling out the garden in a day. So he announced a second show and those tickets go on sale today at 9 a.m. Right now. Right now. They're tickets going on sale right now for the second

show of the Life Tour. Andrew Schultz at Madison Square Garden. First show sold out in 90 minutes. So, go get those tickets for the second show right now. Alright. Well, we'll get to People's Choice Mix. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same.

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. I just want to salute to New York City one time. Yesterday, they announced that The Breakfast Club, in the last couple of months, have been number one in New York. And I just want to say salute to everybody that listens to The Breakfast Club each and every morning.

We appreciate you. We're thankful for you. And thank you. Thank you, man. Gratitude is always our attitude. We were number one 18 to 49 in the month of September and number one 18 to 34 in the month of October. Correct.

So, you know, we're going to celebrate that because everybody flips to Christmas music next week. That's right. So we will not be number one. No. Okay. It will be Christmas music. I think they flipped to Christmas music already.

Next week. Next week. Next week. Next week, a lot of the stations start flipping to Christmas music. I think the light FM's of the world. And, you know, for everybody that's not listening to us in New York, they don't even know what the hell we're talking about. But you will know because even in your local markets, you're going to start hearing all the stations flip to Christmas music. And I'm sure you're already seeing it in the department stores already.

I've been seeing Christmas trees, lights, and all types of things before Thanksgiving. But yes. So the moral of the story is our job is done for the year. There's no need for us to be on the radio anymore for the rest of the year. But we will be here. That's right. But thank you all for making us number one, 18 to 49 in September and 18 to 34 in October. That is right.

All right. When we come back positive notice the breakfast club good morning morning everybody is dj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we have uh sanaya on the line sanaya hello good morning sanaya how are you good morning how are you i am blessed black and highly favored this is charlamagne the god dj envy is here the breakfast club what's happening i I'm calling you because we got your letter. All right? And we see everything that's going on with you.

Sorry about your mom. But, you know, I salute you for stepping up to the plate and holding it down for your 17-year-old brother who's dealing, who's autistic. Thank you. That's right. And we got your list. And we saw everything that you know you want so we're gonna take care of it thank you we're gonna take care of it sanaya we're

gonna take care of everything on your amazon wish list uh we appreciate you too because i see that you are uber eats driver and amazon driver man and you know we salute you for your service man thank you thank you thank you very much and uh it is a privilege and honor to be able to do this for you, okay? Thank you so much. All right, Sanaya, salute to our friends at Amazon. You can still upload your Amazon holiday wish list right now at breakfastclubonline.com. And we got another brother on the line. Quan's on the line.

Quan. Yup. Quan Washington. What up? It's Charlamagne? Yeah, it's Charlamagne. What's up, King? How you king how you doing brother that's crazy i'm well how are you you got a very black name i know it's been hard for you to get an apartment kwan washington yeah that's yeah that's true first of all man i want to send you healing energy and send you condolences man i know you just recently lost your mom to cancer

yeah it's been hard i miss her every day i'm sending you condolences man i know you just recently lost your mom to cancer yeah it's been hard i miss her every day i'm sending you condolences brother healing energy for sure um thank you i appreciate you but you know you you keeping your head up you're doing what you got to do man and we got your list and we saw that you know you have a lot of furniture and toys for your daughter on your wish list so i'm just calling you kwan to let you know my brother we're gonna handle that for you okay yeah thank you it's a blessing know, my brother, we're going to handle that for you, okay? Yeah, thank you. It's a blessing.

The Breakfast Club and Amazon, we're going to handle that for you, man. So you enjoy your holidays, my brother. Salute to you, man. And you keep God first. You stay humble and you keep working, okay? Mm-hmm. For sure, for sure. All right, my brother.

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season. Salute to our friends at Amazon. You can still upload your Amazon holiday wish list right now at BreakfastClubOnline.com. I really, really appreciate Amazon for doing this. That's right. I really, because, you know, we do Change for Change every year. And I, you know, that's what I, you know how they say that, you ever heard that saying, when people see you pushing the car, they'll get out and they'll stop and help you? Yep.

That's what this is. That's right. We've been doing Change for Change the last few years man and amazon decided the you know they saw us pushing the cost they decided to help us this year so thank you amazon that's what it is again you can hit up the website breakfastclubonline.com if you want to put your holiday wish list when we come back we got a positive notice the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we got to salute doug melville for joining us this morning man salute to my guy, Doug Melville.

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Okay. All right. You got a positive note? Yes, man. Gratitude. Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity. It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all and the reason i uh i have so much gratitude for life and the reason i have so much

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