The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Jermaine Dupri & Currency Interview, Charlie Walk & Stefan Benz Interview, Amani Interview, Pass The Aux and More!

Episode Date: March 24, 2023

Today we are joined my Jermaine Dupri and Currency to discuss their collab album, Diddy Verzuz, Bow Wow, 106 & Park and more!  On today's show we also get to hear from Charlie Walk & Stefan Benz, as well as Amani. As usual, Nyla Symone joins us for her Pass The Aux segment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good morning, USA! Weekend is absolutely here, man. What's happening? How y'all feeling out there? Oh, man, pretty good. I'm excited about this weekend. I really don't have much to do this weekend. I ain't got nothing to do. I can relax at home and do absolutely positively nothing. My daughters don't have dance. Jackson doesn't have basketball. Logan doesn't have track. I'm just relaxing at the crib.

Yeah, that's not my life. Cheer, Dad, baby. No, you cheer this weekend. There's cheer competitions to attend this weekend, baby. You know? So, that's that's what i'll be doing all right well this morning i'm a little bit excited though because i'm gonna get a sneak peek this weekend uh at uh are you there god it's me margaret you know that's the um the the book the book that judy bloom created decades ago is finally coming out as a movie

and i'm gonna get a sneak peek of that this weekend. So I'm excited about that. Okay. That I'm excited about. All right. Well, today's show, Imani will be joining us. That's right. Salute to the homie, Imani, man. That's my peoples right there.

She's going to be up here to talk to us about not just Ramadan, because it is Ramadan, but also Muslim Women's Day, which is happening this March 27th, I believe. And it's an annual celebration to help elevate Muslim women's voices. And Armani has a big voice, not just for a Muslim woman, but a woman, period. So Armani will be here to talk to us about that later this

morning. That's right. And also, Jermaine Dupri and Currency will be joining us. They got a new project, so we'll get a chance to kick it with both of them. The legend Jermaine Dupri and Currency will be joining us. They got a new project, so we'll get a chance to kick him a bowl for them. The legend Jermaine Dupri, the young legend Currency. Can't wait to talk to both of them. I think their album is called For Motivational Purposes Only. Yes, or For Motivational Use Only.

One or the other. Motivational Use Only, yes. Yes, all right. All right, and get it off your chest. If you need to vent, 800-585-1051. It's a Friday, and you need to vent, call us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlemagne. Envy, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now.

He'll tell you what it is. We live? Hello, who's this? Yo, what up? What up, Envy? Charlemagne. It's Charles, man. Y'all might not remember I called last year.

I'm the guy that got fired from Club Live. I don't remember, but what's up? How are you, Charles? I don't remember, but what's happening? Well, anyway, anyway, I want to ask y'all something, man. I got a roommate that's a pathological liar. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to be his friend, but it seems like he'll tell me something,

and a few months later, he'll tell me something different, and he'll forget the lie he told. And he'll never admit to lying, and I want to be the guy's friend, but would you be a friend with somebody that you knew was lying to you? No. It depends what they're lying about. I mean, it's not even an important lie. It could be nonsense.

No. That's what I'm saying. I'm one of those people. I like to lie for stuff for no reason, but then I'll tell you I'm lying. You know what I'm saying. I'm one of those people. I like to lie for stuff, like, for no reason. But then I'll tell you I'm lying. You know what I mean? But it ain't nothing serious. For instance, he's got a really nice car, you know what I'm saying?

And he told me his car was paid off. So then a few weeks later, he told me, no, literally a few weeks later, he told me that he was still making payments on his car and it'll be finished, paid off in a few years. You know, but why would he lie to me about that, man, you know? Well, those lies don't affect you. Because you have to speak. That's right. And you got to speak things into existence.

But like they say, it's not the lie that necessarily offends me. It's the, he insults my intelligence. Because I know he's lying. Damn. You know what I'm saying? You know why you upset? I'm going to tell you why you upset. You upset because you ain't calling him on his lies.

See, you can be friends with anybody if you accept who they are. So whenever they do stuff like that, you got to be like, man, shut your lying ass up. I know you lying. You're just mad you ain't calling him on it. Well, you know what? I'll take your advice and I'll do that from now on. Yeah, call his ass out. I'll do that, man.

I'll do that. No, he's at work right now, actually. Damn, we should call him. He's at work. work right now, actually. Damn, we should call him. He's at work. You want to call him? No, don't call him. But anyway, I want to also say something.

See, I think you lying now. Don't call him. Don't call him. No, he's literally at work, man. It's early in the morning. He's going to work or whatever. I get off at midnight. I work at Wendy's.

I get off at midnight, you know what I'm saying? So I'm still up. I've been watching movies. All right, thank you, brother. You was about to ask me something. What you was saying? No, he said I'm upset

Oh, who? Him? The liar? Yeah, the guy that worked at Wendy's No, liar hung up Hello, who's this? It is Williams from 757 What's up, man?

Virginia Get it off your chest, brother Hey, what's happening, Envy? What's good, Charlamagne? Hey, I got a guest on the show How you doing, brother? I'm all right I'm all right, brother

Hey Oh, no guest host today We won't have guest hosts again Until next week Claudia Jordan was supposed to be here today But she got stuck in Miami, I'm all right, brother. Hey. Oh, no guest host today. We won't have guest host again until next week. Claudia Jordan was supposed to be here today, but she got stuck in Miami, I think. Yep. Okay, okay.

That's what's happening there. This is probably what y'all was saying about Trump and everything he got going on with the arrest. Charlamagne was saying that he should just drop out because it seemed like a witch hunt and everything would go away. But his ego getting in the way. But that don't really got nothing to do with ego, you know what I mean? But it's like, why would he drop out just because they come at him? If that's the case, you know what I'm saying? I would go harder, though.

That don't really got nothing to do with ego, you know? I mean, listen, if you believe in what you believe in, I can understand what you're saying. And you know what's crazy? It's going to make his followers turn up even more because they're going to feel like, oh, this is an attack on our guy. So they're going to rally around him even more. Yeah, yeah. So this is going to look good for him in the long run, for real.

You're not wrong. He's going to become a martyr. You're not wrong. And you know America loves a good martyr. Yes. Yes, indeed, man. Thank you, brother. Yeah, yes, man. Thank you, brother. Yeah, yes, sir.

Hello, who's this? Ray B from the Campbell Soup City. Hey. Campbell Soup City. What's up, brother? Get it off your chest. Man, right now I got to show some love to my homegirl Lisa. They found her in the apartment not alive.

I got to show some love to my little niece. They found her baby. She wasn't alive and my homeboy chris that live up here in warren the barber show some love to his family all this happened within a week and a half damn my brother i am sorry to hear that i'm sending healing energy to you and all of those families and uh i'm sorry that all y'all have to go through that, my brother. Damn. And God we trust. And God we trust over any living person alive. I respect that.

All right, brother. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest.

800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Good morning. What's going on with you? This is G. G, what's up? Get it off your chest, brother.

Oh, man. First of all, I just want to shout out both of my boys, Amari. I mean, Amani. I'm sorry. He's going to be mad at me. I miss his name. But Amani, he 8. JoJo, he's 11.

Boys, get up. Get yourselves together, man. Let's go learn something today. Let's go learn. Let's go learn. Yes, sir. You hung up on him? Here's the thing. Raiders are bored. Raiders learn from envy and regard as just go learn. Yes, sir. You hung up on him? Here's the thing.

Red is our boy. Red has learned from Envy in regards to just hanging up on people, yo. I know, I know. Envy, don't hang up on me. Don't hang up on me. They don't care if you complete your thoughts. They don't say peace. They just clip you.

Hello, who's this? Okay, what I want to get off my chest is actually two things. One is African parents making you their slave for life just because they brought you to America. And the second one is managers at work acting like, you know, they own the f***ing place when the whole time they getting paid

just like we are too. Okay. Well, the first one, African parents will bring you here and think you have to be working for them and work to your bones till the day you die.

Hopefully, there are Africans listening right now. You don't have to your bones till the day you die. Hopefully, there are Africans listening right now. You don't have to do it. Okay. Alright. Yeah, that's all I'm going to say. You don't have to be slaves, Africans. That's what she just said. Okay. Hello, who's this? This is Brandon.

Hey, Brandon. Get it off your chest, bro. That's what's up, man. I always listen to this show when I woke up in the morning from school and whatnot. Okay. Well, thank you for listening, brother. No problem, man. I want to give a shout out to my mom, my dad. My dad probably at work in the truck right now listening to it. What's up, pop?

All right, brother. Have a good one. Hey, I need y'all to remember one thing about this segment, all right? What's that? It's called Get It Off Your Chest, okay? So it's not a shout out segment, all right? This isn't a roll call. Call in and get something off

your chest if you want to vent if you want to tell us why you're blessed that's what this segment is for let's not forget that people okay listeners let's try one more time hello who's this daddy hey jody get it off your chest hey my boyfriend just left while i was at the hospital my son he grabbed all his left*** and left. We can't hear you. I don't know if you got us on Bluetooth. What a loser. What a clown he is.

Was that your baby? Yeah, but... No, we've been together for three years and, you know, he just... He wasn't ready for all this. Wow. He didn't give you no heads up, no nothing? Yeah, he gave me a little heads up.

I left him, you know, I left him the option and he just grabbed his stuff. I was at head drop. I left him, you know, I left him the option. And he just grabbed his stuff. I was at the hospital. I couldn't really do anything. So just get it off my chest because I need to start over. And his family doesn't even like me anyway. You still love him?

Of course I do. Oh, well. No, but it's nice talking to you guys. Oh, my goodness. I love you guys so much. I listen to you every day, and I'm here just to get motivated and get the day going. All right. Well, have a great one, Mama.

Yeah, don't let him back in the house too soon either now. All right. Well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests joining us today. Who we got? Who we got? We got Charlie Walk and Stephon Benz. Welcome. Thank you very much for having us. Now, Charlie Walk, if people don't know who you are, let's start off from there. Let's start off with this. Thank God you do.

Some of the history. That's all that really matters. And some of the things that you did in this thing we call the music industry. You know, I started off early. Like, when I was at Columbia Records at 18, my first job was to work with, like, LL Cool J into Slick Rick into New Kids on the Block. So I got the sense of, like, real artist development, real artists did the work. That's sort of been the way it was.

When we met Destiny's Child, Beyonce was 14. There were five girls in Destiny's Child. I don't know if you guys know that. There were five? At the beginning, and then there were three. Wow. So we got to see, when Beyonce walked in the room with her mom and dad at 14, you were in the presence of greatness.

You knew it then? Before, no, no, no, right? Before all the hits. Yeah, so I always say stars are born, not made. And I think one of the reasons why we're here today is we're talking about this crazy TikTok thing where everyone thinks they can cheat and cut the line, right? And go like this and pray to God something happens. But the real stars do the work. I mean, look at you.

How long did it take you, right? Yeah, I've been doing it 25 years. Okay. Right? Did you do the work? Absolutely. Did you just go on TikTok and say, hey, I'm the star? No, I started off as an intern.

So I was an intern at Kiss 108 in Boston. Wow. Back in the day, because I wanted to get in the business, and I started working with talent. The first thing was like, new kids. There was no MTV or YouTube or TikTok. It was like FM radio was your only narrow lane. If you couldn't get through that, no one heard you. So how do you break?

You've got to go through community. And the biggest star is actually broken regions, right? Community. Look at the biggest rappers. They did the work. So what's happening now is no one's developing talent. The labels are taking stuff off TikTok. You guys have to play a lot of crap, right?

If you really think about it, not sticky stuff. You play songs. But how many artists do you guys really get excited about in the course of a year? It's gotten down to very low numbers because of sort of that tiktok thing where people just going up and throwing you know hail marys so you know but back you know back in the day we did that and then in the last many years you know ariana grande the weekend weekend was a big part of my life at the beginning when we were trying to figure out how to take like the prince of darkness but have them play wide but still stay within brand and so we were part of like the transition of like kiss that album, to Can't Feel My Face.

And that was a really great thing to have someone that created his own brand, but how do you figure out how to get the stadiums and arenas? I think the biggest stars do that. And I think that's why we work with a guy like Stefan. We met him at 12. If you heard the audio that was sent to us at 12, you knew the kid had pitch perfect tone and then you have to sort of like imagine and manifest the future what's he going to look like at 15 or now

16 or 17 and if you get in early enough and you develop the talent and you don't chase the song you chase the artist you end up with you know a real career this is kind of like where i'm at today thinking about it takes longer you don't make money right away, but at the end of the day, you end up in a stadium and arena. Damn, so Stefan, that gotta be pressure for you, right? Right here and all that. I got this pressure. I mean, I'm from South Africa. My parents moved here just for me to do this,

so I got pressure from there. I got pressure from this, but I think that's what I do best, honestly. What made you come here? Because the South African music scene over the last 10 years is so huge, so big, so many stars. So what made you say, you know what, I'm gonna leave that scene and come opened the show. It just went crazy in South Africa. And I was like, you know what? Hollywood's the entertainment capital of the world. Let me and my whole family, my little sister, all just go over there and try it. Literally, let's just take a gamble. Let's go try.

And I'm so thankful for my parents for that. You know, my parents believed in me enough to just go gamble, like just go see if anything happens. And it did. What's the science behind real stars? Well, first of all, they have to want it more than you. Okay. They're the CEO of themselves. They have vision.

They're not puppets. And they have a work ethic like you've never seen. Taylor Swift is the most intense, incredible, focused artist I've ever seen in the world.

When I met Beyonce at 14, she, it was, it wasn't like fun. You don't go and have fun with the artist. It was serious art conversation about the music

and what it's going to be and what the brand's going to be. And they always always would say like the the general thesis is an artist is a brand a brand is a promise what's your promise and they knew their promise so many parents call me and hit me up and dm my kid tick tock tick tock's fine but tick tock is not the platform that's going to break you it's you and your art, right? TikToks, Reels, all these things come and go. It's the content that you're feeding into those platforms that's going to, the snackable

15 or 30 seconds of great that's going to maybe go viral if you did the work, right? It's not going to be TikTok. I try to preach that more than ever. He hates TikTok. He doesn't care about it because he's chasing his art, not the song in the moment, to be goofy. I'm far more interested in my craft and being better at what I do every single day.

And especially when I post to TikTok and it's like actual good stuff that I do and I take time to do a cover does worse than me doing some stupid lip sync trend or some stupid thing. You guys understand you have to be goofy on TikTok. It forces you. You have to be effing goofy. And this kid, I'm not being goofy. You have to do obscure, goofy things to get into the algorithm to possibly be in the For You page

to go viral, right? Goofy. He doesn't want to do goofy. I'm not going to get in a fight about it. So he's just going to stick to chasing the artist versus chasing the song and you know not being a one-hit wonder and those one-hit wonders are like cleaning our apartments not like what do we do like we're not doing that here all right well no move we got more with charlie walk and stefan benz when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club

we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with charlie walk and stefan benz welcome Good morning. The Breakfast Club. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Charlie Walk. Hey, guys. And Stefan Benz. Welcome. How much does it cost to break a great artist? It's still a cost, right? A lot of money.

And I'll tell you why. So it's years, number one, right? Do we agree it's years? Time is money. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. He's got to eat. He's got to travel.

He's got to have a crew. And I don't mean an entourage, but we have an amazing publicist. We have an amazing stylist. We have hair and makeup. We have studios. We have people that are betting on him, sharing in the future revenue of songwriting and production. But I would say it's hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of three or four years. Yikes.

And so what I do with our company is we deploy capital to fund and we become partners with the artists and we're making the bet. And by the way, we better be right. I apologize for the damage I've caused. Let's talk about American Idol. You were on American Idol, right? Oh man, I was so stressed out.

Apparently American Idol is 21, which is crazy. It's the 21st season. I was approached by American Idol to ask me to's the 21st season I went on I was um approached by American Idol to ask me to go on the show and I went on an audition you know it's Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and I usually don't get too nervous and if I get nervous it's super like internal I don't usually show it but I remember I was like no it's good like it's just me singing in front of three people in a room like I'm just gonna look at them usually that's right I feel like I thrive and I look at these I walk into this room and i'm like so nervous like i walk in and i like i have a water right now like i needed

water so badly i i was so scared that they were gonna pick up my mouth being dry on the mic like i wanted to ask right like if you're from a small town you don't got no connections you know no no real money to invest but you got a lot of talent yeah you're one of those what do you do to get an opportunity with somebody like you Charlie you mean how do you get someone's attention that actually could do it I think what stops me is talent you know it's like it's like how do you stop the scroll on Instagram what makes you and you're going you know you guys lying about it now you wake up in the morning you're going to get ready to do the big morning show here and you're scrolling through your stuff and you get producers and stuff but you're looking for something to inspire you what stops you to make yourself I'm

gonna talk about that it's the same exact thing. So if something stops me, I stop and really pay attention to. Why did that? If that stops me, I try to like be in the mindset of I represent everybody, right? It's not about like me having an ego.

It's like if I'm feeling it, my temperament for a hit record or stardom, I'm representing everybody. My mindset is how does it play wide so for me the way people like find me they hit me on dm and i look through every dm and i listen we pay attention you got to be in the culture right i try to be timeless about it like i'm an og but i try to be i try to be in the culture by listening to i don't want to say younger people but people that are in it that i respect if you said to me if you pull me aside

after you say char Charlie, I'm telling you, my cousin Janie just sent me some s*** that's amazing. I haven't seen this. I would stop what I was doing and maybe go see her right now. It's like, I'm like that. It's like, you're connected and you would not normally say that to me unless you felt it, right? You just never know

when great can happen at any time. So the idea is if there's greatness, it somehow finds its way. I see you got your guitar there. You're acting like you want to do something. What that guitar be about? You already know.

You're acting like you want to do something. You already know I want to. All right, well, let's do it. I'm going to play a song? Sure. You're not going to edit nothing now, so just make a break. Right?

Charlie's been talking a lot of talk. You were talking in the beginning about the pressure. He said, turn on the auto turn Flip the switch right now This is a song called Just Friends by Music Soulchild I actually sang this song on Idol but they cut it out and used another one So this is Music Soulchild Girl, I know this might seem strange

But let me know if I'm out of order For stepping to you this way See, I've been watching you for a while And I just gotta let you know that I'm really feeling your style Cause I had to know your name and leave you with my number And I hope that you would call me someday If you want, you can give me yours too And if you don't, well, I ain't mad at you

We can still be cool, I'm not trying to pressure you Just can't stop thinking about you You ain't even really gotta be my girlfriend I just gotta know your name And maybe sometime we can hook up, hang out, just chill Damn, I'm surprised that you called By the way that you walked away, I thought I won't go see you no more Since you didn't wanna give me your mind

I thought that you were digging me And wasn't digging me Yeah, hey yeah But anyway, what you doing tonight? I'll probably be with my peeps If it's cool with you, maybe we'll swing by And you can just chill with us Or you can just chill with me

As long as you're comfortable You feel secure when you're with me. I'm not trying to pressure you. Just can't stop thinking about you. You ain't even really got to be my girlfriend. I just got to know your name. And maybe it's our time. We can hook up, hang out, just chill Alright.

Okay. Where can people find you if they want to find you, follow you, download music, stream, and all that good stuff? Well, my name's Stephan Benz. Stephan with an F, not a PH, and Benz like Mercedes. So Stephan Benz everywhere. Stephan Benz official on Instagram. I'm Stephan Benz TikTok. Go follow my TikTok, please. That's what we're focusing on. Are you going to mess with Afrobeats?

You've got to do Afrobeats. Oh, I do Afrobeats all the time. Thank you guys for joining us. That's why I piss everybody off. Stephan Benz become the biggest voice in Afrobeats. And win a Grammy for it. Oh, my gosh. Well, Charlie Walk, Stephan Benz, thank you for joining us this morning.

We appreciate you guys, and good luck with everything. Best morning show in the country. Let's go. You said it, not us. It's funny. Well, Charlie Walker, Stephon Best, thank you for joining us this morning. We appreciate you guys, and good luck with everything. Best morning show. Thank you so much. Let's go. You said it, not us. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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Again, saluting everybody out in Memphis, Tennessee. I'm so excited that we linked up with Young Dolph's family and Paper Route, and we're doing this car show in Memphis. If you don't know about it, we're coming down in May 28th. And we're celebrating Dolph's life. So we're bringing Dolph's whole car fleet, which is like 20. We're bringing Key Glocks, which is his cousin and artist cars. We're bringing 50 Cent's cars, my cars.

And we're just going to celebrate for the city. So it's a car show. It's a Young Dolph Museum will be there. So you get to see all his artifacts, his clothes, his artwork and jewelry. Also, we're bringing rides for the kids and jumpies and face painting and music it's gonna be a day of celebration so if you haven't got your tickets click the link in my bio and get your tickets it's gonna be a lot of fun all right and when we come back we're gonna be kicking it with jermaine dupree and currency is the breakfast

club good morning the breakfast club the breakfast club your mornings will never be the same The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club Your mornings will never be the same Morning everybody It's DJ Envy Charlamagne Tha Guy We are The Breakfast Club We got some special guests in the building We got Currency and Jermaine Dupri

Yes indeed What's going on fellas How this collaboration came about I did a record on this Harris Rod album I did. I named the record Jermaine Dupri because it reminded me of when I've seen bro on MTV Cribs. So it made me speak on it, named the record after him and then he heard it. And he hit me and was like, just come to the studio, you should come through, let's do

a record. Well, what I thought was just come do a record. But then we jammed up, it felt right and we never stopped working man let's go back to that mtv cribs thing right because you know nowadays and you see rappers doing that it looked like just everybody flossing but back then it really used to inspire people so let's talk about that yes like dude had iceberg sweat on just all the stuff that was out of my reach at that time you know what i'm saying and like they always see like hot kids like saw black panthers like oh you look like us like this is it right here you know i'm saying so you could do it because the only people i ever seen on that was like i keep telling them with

hulk hogan like bringing spears his house and then bam here he come like so how was it working with jd it was like you know honestly it was like a dream bro because i've been in the game for a long time and just on the outside looking in that's one of the people that I figured that was like somewhere else. I want that's out of space. You know what I'm saying? So you speak on it. You know, I named the record Jermaine Dupri. I never thought I was going to meet Jermaine Dupri in anything. That's wild that y'all never met. That's wild. You know what I'm saying?

Because y'all both be outside. Yeah, but two different worlds. Completely. He's outside, and his group of people in the section may include, like, who? You want to just throw names around? Oh, shit. All right. And it's me and the homies. It's not going to happen, you know what I'm saying?

So it's just great that it did. And it's like when I thought I was going to go to the NFL or the NBA, I used to look on the back of the cards and look at people's birthdays and see who would be in the league when I got there. You know what I'm saying? And this is like that. This is exactly like that. How was working with Currency? It's dope.

You know, it's interesting because we never talked about songs. Usually, I talk about what we're going to do prior to even making a beat. He rolling up, I'm making a beat. I don't know what's going to happen. I don't even know if he know what's happening but it just happened we never made one record where we talked about what we were gonna do it just organically happened so i felt like you know the first five records that i saw this happen i'm like oh this is this is what organic i guess feels like or it means right by the time we got to 10. I'm like, oh, okay This is this is really something different than what than what I usually you know

Usually it's a process of like we gonna make a song like this and we need to make a record like this and we need to Do this and put this person on there. We had none of them conversations, but we got to that process at the end of the songs You know currency you've been out for so long You put up so many records and I feel like the world is is doesn't necessarily give you the songs you know currency you've been out for so long you put up so many records and i feel like the world is is doesn't necessarily give you the credit you deserve and the same thing with yourself jd do y'all have that those conversations yeah no we don't have the conversation like but but we just it's an understanding like you know that that's why we do what we do but we also know and notice what you did. We just keep putting

the numbers up that work. I feel like you have to do that when you're from the South, though. Yeah, if you want people to, if you want that, then you have to do that. You know what I'm saying? If you just want to take care of your family, pay the bills, and ball out on your own accord,

then you don't have to do it. Like, I always say, like, I still want to go to Walmart and look for Hot Wheels and shit, you know? But I want to go in a Ferrari or something, so I work hard enough to do that, you know what I'm saying? But I'm not worrying about the other shit that come with it.

Because all the guys I've known will always be like, oh, I'm the king of New York, oh, I'm the king of hip-hop. Wayne didn't get in the conversation until he said he's the best rapper. T.I. didn't get into the conversation until he said he's the best rapper. T.I. didn't get in the conversation

until he said he's the king of the South. I feel like when you're from the South, you have to say it. You have to. You have to. The South always gets slighted.

It just is what it is. It's not a, oh, no, we don't. It's a true fact. We get slighted. Not as much anymore. Nah, really, really. We just really got

dissed really bad recently at the Grammys. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, really. We just really got dissed really bad recently at the Grammys. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no limit. No, no two live crew. Listen, Luke Skywalker is the reason that the parental advisory sticker is on every rap record in the world.

You're right. How do you do a Hip Hop 50 and you do not put the person who put that sticker on these records on the show. That's right. If you're going to slight Luke, they're going to always slight Jermaine Dupri. Because I'm saying, I don't think I did the parental advisory thing. I haven't done anything that's that monumental to... This is forever in hip hop. This was on your mixtapes.

This is forever. This is something that everybody had to feel because of what they did in Miami. And you can't put that man on the show. Right. That's a fact. Yeah. But do you ever look back and think about, you know, some of the things that you've created, right? Like, because it's a lot of this stuff came from the tree of Jermaine Dupri and Social Death, right?

People that work for you, that was interned, people that you employed. Do you ever look back at that and be like, people people this is from my tree and most people don't know yeah we talked about yesterday he by the way yesterday we had a listening party last night but prior to that we was getting ready for the listening party was doing a photo shoot and they was playing never scared right and he was like why he's like why are they playing this song and i'm like that's my artist and he was like i was like This alright I was like What playlist is this And I was like So so deaf

I'm like alright So they played The ones you know for sure They're supposed to play Like after Bow Wow Bounce With Me went off Bone Crusher came on Right

So I was like Oh they just mixing it up Like playing some stuff Related to it I knew that I knew that He said Curse He didn't know that

I didn't know that Look I didn't know that And then when he was Talking to me about that, the Youngbloods record came on. Yeah. And Lil Jon. Yeah.

And I was like, so this one too, you know what I'm saying? That fucked me up. Like, I didn't even know. Like, he was like, yeah, now they will sign him. Yo, Lil Jon used to work for Jermaine Dupri. Yeah, this is the tree that you speak of. See, and that's what I'm saying. If he don't know this.

I don't even know. He was in the restaurant with Escaping Them in the video. That's all I knew. I was like, this shit what I'm saying. If he don't know this... I didn't know he was in the restaurant with Escape Nym in the video. That's all I knew. I was like, this shit did all that shit. You didn't know that Escape was JD artists. No, I knew that.

Oh, okay, okay, okay. I'm saying that's the ones I knew. Got you, got you. I didn't know that he did that album for Youngblood and I had no idea of Bone Crusher. You knew the Franchise Boys, right? I knew.

Yeah, I know all the people. If you see me, if you hear me, yeah, I saw it. You know what I'm saying but I didn't know I didn't know that so it's crazy

because they put this list out of executives I think yesterday or whatever the thing was like the top 10 CEOs and somebody was asking me do I think I should be higher on the list

and I'm you know I don't care about that list but I should be higher because I'm sure they did the exact same thing he's doing. They're not even factoring in half of the artists that come from this tree that you speak of. But history has to matter, right? Because you can't have a Mount Rushmore of Atlanta without Jermaine Dupri on it.

Yeah, but you know. So if Atlanta's, the way people revere New York, right? They're going to put the architects of New York on. So you got to put the architects of new york on so you gotta put the architects of atlanta on yeah i just think that you know modern day atlanta is so hip-hop and i was doing both you know i mean i got i'm responsible for a lot of r&b that comes from atlanta i'm responsible for a lot of hip-hop from atlanta and i feel like the mindset of now when they talk about it ceo today it's all hip-hop it's all hip-hop so even in that space people try to So even in that space, people try to like, I didn't know you did Anthony Hamilton. You know what I mean? It's like

you try to move out a lot of the things and it's just a... I think it's just people just not living in the eras or just not knowing. If you don't see me, because it's crazy because I'm the only person that I feel like if I put my tag on a record, they know. But if I don't say nothing, I just try to be straight CEO

and just like I'm putting out records. People don't say nothing i just try to be straight ceo and just like i'm putting out records people don't ever mention me doing them songs when you do projects like this is something are you feel like you got something to prove what this project yeah no no no i mean i feel like i feel like this this project is really who i am this record this project is really what where i actually come from this is rap this is what this is how started. It's a reminder to let people know that, though. Because I think, like I said, when people start talking about Jermaine Dupri, the first name that come out of people's mouths

is Mariah Carey or Usher. I'm a hip-hop guy. You know what I mean? I write songs, you know, with the gift that God gave me. But I'm from the hip-hop world. And that's what it is. All right, we got more with Jermaine Dupri and Currency,

so don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Currency and Jermaine Dupri. What's up?

All right. What makes you work with newer artists? Like we've seen you did Division's album. What makes you say, you know what, I'm going to dive into some of the new artists that are not mine as well? I mean, that's what, I'm going to dive into some of the new artists that are not mine as well? I mean, that's how I always I mean, that's always that's what I did always. I mean, I should became a staple of mine because I did the same thing that I did with Division. When I did Usher, nobody, you know, Usher face was going to drop Usher.

It was like Jermaine either works or all of y'all. It's out the door. Like, you know what I mean? So it's like I've always been that guy to just like, y'all believe in the artist. I like the artist. Let's go in the studio. I don't even look at it like that. And I had to do that at first. But then when I did Ari Lennox and her record went number one, I was like, why am I not doing this for all these other artists out here? They need it.

It ain't even like a thing that I'm doing for me. They need it. They need somebody in the studio with them that can help them take them to the next level. When you hear the conversations, like when you hear them say usher versus chris brown in the verses i think chris is dope but i think usher got nuclear weapons i just think it's a difference between the 20 usher would come with and the 20 chris would come with how do you feel about that i mean i think it's like hip-hop it's like currency right he got way more records than a bunch of people right i think that's where people look at it.

They think about how many records Chris has and how many times they hear him. You hear Chris a hundred million times more than you hear Usher. So I think that's where people start basing verses on. You're speaking on songs. People don't even listen to songs past 30 minutes, right? I be watching my daughter play a record and the verse don't even get done. She don't get through 16 bars.'s going to another song right they don't measure the songs like you're saying so i feel like the young generation they all gonna say chris brown because they're not measuring how big the songs are but if you're a song person you know for sure

what what's up yeah yeah yeah so you think usher was'm just saying, you know, if you're a song person, half of them songs is mine, so I'm going to fight for my records. Now, I want to ask Currency, too. You've been independent for a long time. Yeah, yeah. Now, break that down. The bulk of my success, like, really, everything that anybody really knows,

the bread, anytime I got picked up money, it was all through the independent thing. Now, you're independent. You have to do everything yourself. You to play pay producers pay clearances everything yeah does that get tiring no I got I got my homeboy you know what I'm saying most of the dudes you know we like split everything so it's easy as long as you get out your own way and handle it and stop comparing yourself to other people in these situations like just just do your work when you look up you know I'm saying you'll realize what you've done and where you're at.

I was going to ask you, what made you create Jet Life, the clothing brand? Well, I always was into, like, fashion. I always wanted to, like, put stuff on. And some s*** was not out. Some ideas that didn't s***, and I missed a lot of clothing. I stopped doing stuff that I liked,

and I was like, all right, I know what to do. We'll just do our own. And keep it in that vein of the stuff I missed and that's what works out for us are you ever surprised with the amount of support you get from the Cloverline

yeah I see it everywhere like I think I'm your biggest model I just saw you I'm calling yourself a model I am a model sir I am a model sir I am

I am sir I am nah bro you are a great spokesperson for the brand though I didn't say model You didn't say model Spokesperson

I am a model sorry I am a model You can call me model Alright so look man I am surprised I'm places where I don't expect to see it And you can tell like That they know that they have it on

It's not like some kid gave it to his mom And she's at the grocery store I'm talking about people in the know Such as yourself Who have it on Like Nas After he wins the Grammy He's got the Jet Life jacket on grocery store i'm talking about people in the know such as yourself who have it on like like nas after he wins the gram he's got the jet life jacket on and like a lotto had a freestyle that went everywhere and she had the jet life leatherman jacket on so it's like even though i'm not in those

rooms i'm still in those rooms it's tight because they know what i mean you know so they bring it everywhere where they they feel like i should be at anyway, so it's tight. So how'd you get a love for furniture? I like to chill, and it's all about finding, like, comfortable, chilling stuff, so we're going to make our own. Same reason, like, out of necessity, same reason we did Jet Life Clothing, you know what I'm saying? Like, we need better stuff to chill on, so I'm going to fill the void. So you'd be sitting in the couch like, I don't like this.

I'm like, I don't like this, mother. You got to be. Like, how y'all get them? Like, you know what? This not really the kick it on, so we're working on it you know what made y'all name the album i mean the record essence fest well it's a rivalry between the falcons and the saints this is a real thing right for the longest when we first started working i was like you know if we're gonna do an album once we got past the first 10 songs i kept thinking in my head if we're gonna do an

album we have to make something that speaks to that rivalry because we ain't supposed to be cool when that game come on right right so we can't act like we don't know this like this is something that you know if you're from atlanta you know that if you're from new orleans you know that right so then we we both start trying to find out why it's a rivalry but then it's also a love there it's a love that you know if you're a love there. It's a love that, you know, if you're from Atlanta, you talk about going to Essence Fest in January. It don't happen till July, right? This is something we prepare for the top of the year.

People like it. You know, they're getting their clothes ready in January to go to New Orleans. But I feel like it's vice versa. When people come to Atlanta for the games from New Orleans, they come out there and they have a good time. They love the city. So it's a love hate situation.

I think the one thing that brings that love and that hate together is the essence fest. Right. So it was just only right. And then once we got the bounce, the record, and it was the bounce and the vibe. And he had never rapped over a record like that. Now that he's a full fledged professional artist, it just made sense to bring all of that in and not leave one piece of that out. And I think the Essence Fest

brings every piece of it. The fact that the first time you heard Get the Gap was at a party at the Essence Fest. That's when you first heard it. So you know the way

my mind works. I'm like, no, that's it. The gavel dropped right then. That's the name of it. Get the Gap, that's a New Orleans classic, right? Yeah. I told him, it's in the fiber of all the music

that ever came out after it from New Orleans. Really? Everybody who rapped has rapped over that beat. Like, the first rap you ever wrote was over that, I promise. Like, any club you ever been to, you could have been 11 years old. If they knew you could rap, that was the beat they put on for you. They gave you the mic in front of everybody. No, you can rap.

And you had to rap over that straight up. Nowd did you create 106 apart yeah i mean you know see the funny part about this is that i mean i'm a ceo right so this this goes into the world of like what we was just talking about if you don't see jermaine dupree working you don't see me doing what we got to do you're not going to believe anything that happens right okay so when i brought the kids from the rap game here, remember this? He was like, nobody want to see no kids rap. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now Layla out of here. Yeah.

Because I'm saying that's what's happened, right? So that's the same thing that's happened here. If you... What I should say is, J.D., congratulations again. Nobody says that. Nobody's going to say that. Nobody's going to say congratulations. But I'm saying,

I say that to say that if I wouldn't have brought them here, y'all saw the kids. You've seen them from scratch before there was ever anybody, right? Absolutely. If you didn't see it and nobody else,

and people have forgot about that show at this point, and I said, I created a TV show that introduced you to Lotto. Somebody would challenge that and be like, Lotto's real? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Somebody would challenge you and say, no, you didn't.

So it's the same thing. I saw MTV TRL. I drive down the street. I see all these kids outside in Times Square. And I'm like, damn, why black kids don't have a show like this? Right? Meanwhile, I'm making the Bow Wow record. And I'm like, BET needs to do this.

Now, if they had this idea in their mind prior to me saying this, then God bless them. But I'm saying what artists was they going to launch that show with? Because I provided the artists that made that show what that show became. It wasn't no Chris Brown before Bow Wow. It wasn't a little Romeo before Bow Wow. It wasn't no littles. And I think somebody got mad at me for saying the Littles. I disagreed with that. It was a Lil' Kim. It was a Lil' Kim.

It was a Lil' John. It was a Lil' Wayne. Young generation, man. I'm clearing this up. I meant the Littles of his era. Not the Lil' Johns. Yeah, it's always been a Lil' person forever. I'm just saying, I'm talking about all of Lil' Romeo's, Zayn.

I don't know. These people that came in that Bow Wow lane, that's what I meant. But if people don't realize that, that's why people don't even understand that. I'm the one who gave Bow Wow the name Mr. 106 and Park. BET didn't give him that name. So why would I name him that? You know what I'm saying? Why would I put that in a verse to say I'm Mr. 106 and Park. BET didn't give him that name. So why would I name him that? You know what I'm saying? Like, why would I put that in a verse to say, I'm Mr. 106

and Park? I didn't want the credit for 106 and Park, right? I'm not even saying, I'm not speaking on it now about me wanting the credit, but I know that that's what happened. So people can take it however they want to take it. Alright, we got more with Jermaine Dupri and Currency, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ

Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with currency and jermaine dupree charlemagne i don't understand you and bye-bye relationship you yeah why don't you just grab him put him in the headlock give him a noogie and then y'all good it's just your family it's all good when he says things like he regrets signing to you it's like we your jd made you a superstar you know it's the same thing i said kids of today and this generation of hip-hop we have a lost appreciation for thing and that's why i said about being with currency everywhere i go i'm seeing people don't have appreciation for hip-hop and that has become a thing in hip-hop now to not appreciate the things that came and got you to

this space and I was the turn though cuz he was he was like his father figured him yeah but I know he was like his son I feel like the outside world makes you not appreciate that that's what I'm saying it's that's what it does it's just the hip-hop world are we living right now don't appreciate for real like when I wore the high top fade the other day in the video right it's people on there that's so much more concerned with me thinking that i want to wear this at my age and saying i'm going to a midlife crisis as opposed

to looking at it and saying that's what hip-hop did right hip-hop made do any and everything and we never had a problem we never questioned it it was because it was hip-hop now if you do something that hip-hop makes you do uh or if you even try to there's no appreciation for it and i think that's what that is and i feel like bow wow is in that space where he has to deal with you guys he has to deal with younger guys and the media definitely don't appreciate nothing until it's till it's over with but it's just certain people like i'm never gonna fight with right? And we can fight behind the scenes. I'm never going to fight with Klum, right?

That's my brother. I'm never going to fight with Fab. Even you. I'm not going to fight with you. You know, we can get into an argument, but it just seems something else was there, which is just hard to understand. Because I've been there. I'm not going to fight. I mean, I know that.

But, you know, fight and argue, you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, I don't even have no reason to argue. I mean, I feel like I understand it. I understand. I don't. That's what I'm saying. But you don't understand it because you haven't had to deal with a person that has to go through this. A rapper, right?

You're a rapper. You say this. You're a rapper. And people challenge you if you write your lyrics. People challenge you on this. People challenge you on that. It's hard for a person to actually deal with that if you're not prepared for it. Me, like, I don't give a when nobody don't

say about me because i know what i do and i know i'm out doing everything that damn near everybody else is doing so i'm not even paying no attention to it but the majority of people they can't deal with it that's why the instagram is where the instagram is because every time somebody says something people are right and that's i feel like that's where he is he gets caught up in that and he's got caught up in that a lot without me he is he gets caught up in that and he's got caught up in that a lot without me being around he got caught up in that they created what the bow wow challenge i wasn't a part of that right how do you deal with that as a person he had to deal with it and you killed him right and just listening to his you know i'm saying you part of it you know i mean

and and it's like when a person is dealing with that they become they just get tight and they want you know i mean so then you want to try to like make it seem like you a person is dealing with that, they become, they just get tight. You know what I mean? So then you want to try to like make it seem like you got it all. You got it all on you. You know, it's your thing. You got it. It's my thing. So it's like, it's just a situation where you got to know how to deal with it.

And you don't get coaching by this. And then teach them how to deal with that part of life. But he has to know somebody eventually is going to do that to him too. And they do do it. People will take away, act like Bow Wow has just always been on Instagram. It's like, nah, Bow Wow is a full-fledged superstar. Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying. There's no

appreciation for anything in hip-hop anymore. Damn, you feel that way, Currency, too? Nah, as he's saying it, I'm peeping around like, dad, that is insane. They just wiped that all out. You feel like people don't have appreciation for hip-hop? I feel like appreciation for what brought them into it. Like, what made you want to do it.

That's all. You know what I'm saying? It's not why you want to do it. Everybody's doing it now. The same reason everybody started selling Frenchie puppies. They just want to get money. It's just a flip. You know what I'm saying?

There's not no real love in it. Are you selling Frenchie puppies? No. Oh, he's recently said it. I thought you were no real love in it are you selling French puppies no yeah people see that that's the way like my new dope so they like let's just do this right quick now let me ask you question JD and puffs supposed to do versus who you got your money on I got a role with JD at basically based on all of this I'm finding out like oh you did this you did that like yesterday I had like a revelation I'm like I don't know how this would actually look when you're reigning these artists like people gonna be the same way I was shocked and I think I'm born in the game I know everything you know what I'm saying but I was like knocked on my ass

yesterday you know so that's what's gonna be a whole arena of people like, oh, you know, he did. Oh, wait. All right. Well, yeah, I don't know. God damn. You know, like that. That's what's going to happen. That's the way I see it.

Straight up. Like, I don't know. I don't know how many records Puff will bring out that I'm going to buy. I didn't know you did. I think I know. Every record. Most of the records he did. I think I know it, you know, so.

How you feel about it, JD? Because a lot of people don't think you can match up. I actually actually see it i see the chart right you know i mean it's like but like you said it's not only the records it's also the what that record did for the culture right and i mean i was like like i said about the chris brown thing i i believe that in versus world people won't give it to usher because of the way the mindset has been, you know, been treated. We've done that battle in here with kids, like with kids like 25, 26. Usher catalog still is timeless to them because their parents were listening to Usher. They're like, oh, I forgot about that.

Oh, I forgot about this. They know 7 o'clock in the drop top. They can't get around that. I mean, I'm the underdog. I'm not even tripping on that, though. I'm the underdog. That's not true eitherpping on that, though. I'm the underdog. That's not true either, though. I mean, I'm good.

He is. I'm not an underdog. I'm not the underdog. And that thing, you know, if it was a Vegas card, I think that, you know, everybody, like, the favorite would be, you know, he would be the underdog. I'm the underdog. To me, that's people who haven't paid attention to. No, they haven't, but that's what I'm saying.

I'm the underdog because it's like everybody, they sit around and say he can't match up. And they only talking about big. That's it. How long have I been saying that? That's all I'm saying. No, you just said big. You said rap. That's what I said.

It should be a R&B remix versus take out the rap. No, you can't do that. Because you can't beat big records. Not only because they're great records and nostalgia, big's immortal. You're not here no more. That's the only reason why people say he can't match up because they're talking about Big. Big is Big.

But I'm saying if it was a fight, I don't go into the fight thinking I'm not going to get punched. You know what I'm saying? It's just when I throw mine and when he throw his, that's what it is. It ain't about he got punches. I got punches too. You know what I'm saying?

It is what it is. Is it going to happen for real or is it just talk? No, it's going to happen. It's bigger than what people think. What we want to do is bigger than what everybody's thinking about. And we want to make sure that, you know, it come across the way it's supposed to come across. Y'all got to figure out how to do two. Because you can't just do one in Atlanta.

Atlanta and New York. Y'all need to pick a neutral location to be honest with you. I need to go to Charlotte or something. For real. You got to do Atlanta. You got to do Atlanta. You got to do New York. You got to do Apollo and you got to york gotta do apollo and you gotta do r&b and remixes do r&b in one city hip-hop in another city the problem with the remixes i saw somebody saying this the other day half of bad boy remixes i did them right so

the big papa remix i did it right right the total and keith murray i did it Right Right The total in Keith Murray I did it Right Total first record That ever came out Got Brad on it Right How do you score that How do you score that You gotta drop those out You can't drop them out

That's what I'm saying It's like You know So you do the remix But I saw somebody saying But in New York We ain't play that JD remix

And I was like Oh okay What remix Yes we did The Biggie remix The Big Papa remix You did I don't

i'm just saying i'm seeing people say that on twitter but either way you do it it's gonna be a fight whether we in new york or we in atlanta either way what came first was it do we invented the remix bad boy album or the definition of a remix so so def out i think mine was coming first and i don't know i don't know which one came out. I mean, the remix thing has always been a battle between us, but it's interesting, like I said, because Puff was using me for remixes. It's not like I was a challenge for him back then. It was like, go to JD and get a remix for Big Papa.

Go to JD and get a remix for Total. All right, we got more with Jermaine Dupri and Currency. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Currency and Jermaine Dupri. Currency. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Currency and Jermaine Dupree. Charlamagne? I always wondered

how much influence did you and Atlanta have on Big? Because, you know, we saw y'all in Big videos. Saw Big in y'all videos, and I remember hearing somebody said Big. I think it was J.S. Somebody said Big was going to move to Atlanta at one point. He was trying to get everybody to buy houses in Atlanta. I don't know about that, but he and I

spoke. Me and him talked all the time because we was on tour. It was me, Brat, and Craig Mack. We was all on tour, and we was doing like the Chitlin' Circuit, and in that Chitlin' Circuit run, Craig Mack was the hottest, then Brat, and then Big.

And Big was frustrated with the fact that his records weren't as popular, as functified, and flavoring your ear at the time. And that's actually how i got to do the remix because big felt like he needed me to get into that space where brad was what record was out during that time juicy in new york now i'm not chitlin circuit right chitlin circuit around where we live in atlanta it hadn't caught yet so like i said the flavor in your ear didn't functify and then juicy i mean people with it but they

weren't head over heels and it was driving him crazy and he he talked to me every day about doing a remix and i finally did big papa remix and then that's when we did the b-side with him and brat he came to atlanta and when he came to atlanta yeah he probably you know because i brought him to college park he came to my hood and did that song. So he probably soaked up, I need to move out here. That's basically the same thing that happens to everybody when they come out there. Just one last Diddy thing. You see what Young Jock said about you and Diddy? He said the difference between you and Diddy is that Diddy understands marketing.

And that's what he got over Jermaine Dupri. Well, I think he said that Diddy took his artistry, him as an artist, more serious than me. He's right. I'm all about making new artists. I'm all about putting, oh, I was all about putting out artists. You know, even like this album, Me and Currency got. I'm rapping on the record, but I'm not rapping all over the record. Because, you know what I mean?

That's who I am. I'm a producer first. And I've always been that way. And I think that that's, you know, that's one thing that he was saying. But even the Jock was signed to Social Death for one day before that bad boy deal and block day and block switched it and they went to bad boy i didn't do that that's not illegal yeah i thought he saw every sign no no i'm saying he was signed because the person who produced the record was signed to me as a producer nitty on the beat yeah nitty on the beats was signed to social death as a producer so

i wasn't even pressing because i'm like, I know this is my song. We was at Virgin at this time. I'm like, I know this song is coming over here. It's easy, right? And I had already had the franchise. We was having all the success. I'm like, there's no way possible you don't give us this record. If you find the first version of It's Going Down, it says So So Def at the beginning of the record.

So I was cool, like clearly like, oh, we got this. I went to sleep, woke up the next morning how did that happen i didn't actually sign him right it's like you signed to me i know you're gonna do the right thing for social oh got you got you got you got you got you and you already done said so so deaf at the beginning of the record so i'm like oh it's got my tag it's got a tag on it already we cool i'm gonna go to sleep we'll to go to sleep. Yeah, you should have stayed up. You know what I mean? You should have stayed up.

So, yeah, that was that situation when it's going down. But do you ever go back and think about the fight that you had to do that I think a lot of people don't know, which opened the doors for a lot of those Southern artists? No, that's one of the other statements I said in that interview that people was like, Jermaine, it's all cap. Jermaine, it's just cap. Jermaine, it's just cap. And I'm like, all right, listen. It was a time in New York when Southern rappers was not on the radio at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

Right. And I was frustrated. I'm like, you know what? We got to figure out how to get in. I hired Envy to introduce me to the streets of New York and move around so people would see my face and be more out here. Nobody from the South beat the streets like me. You know this, right?

Facts. And the way that we beat the streets and we made Never Scared, a permanent state record in New York. Oh, I think they like me. Then we put Cam'ron and Busta Rhymes and we did everything to make sure that the South was, you know,

represented well in this town. And then the Youngbloods record. And these two records became so popular in New York alone that you heard them like it was Atlanta. To me, that was the beginning of all of these other records being heard on the radio the way they heard today. I remember they told J.D., oh, I think they like me. Yeah.

They told J.D. to take the Franchise Boys off. Just leave it Jermaine Dupri, Bow Wow, and the Brack. That's the only way that they were going to spin it in New York. Yeah. They told JD to take the franchise boys off. Just leave it. Jermaine Dupri. Bow wow. That's the only way that they were going to spin it in New York. Wow. With everybody selling their catalogs,

you think y'all too would ever think about selling y'all's? I understand why people do it. You know what I'm saying? So, I don't know. They call me

with $400 million. Well, all right. Well, you know, how many generations of us are going to be okay off this 400 tickets? You know, maybe we'll do it. I don't know.

I'm waiting for all my reversions. Y'all don't hear people talk about that much, but I'm waiting on mine because everything that came out in 92 is coming back to me 100%. Everything that came back in 93, 94 is coming back to me 100%. I wrote 100% of all of X-Scape records. I wrote 100% of Criss Cross. I wrote 100% of Usher My Way.ate records. I wrote 100% of Criss Cross. I wrote 100% of Usher My Way. When they come back.

What do you mean when they come back? Because I have a deal with Sony as a publishing situation. But the reversions, it comes back to me and I don't have a deal with them. So when the reversions come back and somebody walk up and they got that ticket, he tell them, it might be a conversation. Explain explain that jd because you've always been the ceos i didn't like even with writers you have to give over some of the publishing or the math no you make you make a publishing deal when you're younger i made a publishing deal when i was like what 19 that's when that's when i got my money they gave me you know you give me a million dollars that's the

first million dollars i got from that sony it's like a 50 50 split publishing situation i've been over there since i was 19 which is a long time but you know they get all the songs so all the songs that you make they go into this thing and you and you know i've recouped two three times right i could have left a bunch of times but i stayed by the way when i start writing songs to hear that in 25 years you get your reversions or whatever i never even thought i'd make it that long so i'm saying i'm here i'm past that point at this point now so now i'm like come on oh last question swv escape who opens up oh we just heard that discussion this week yeah i heard that was pretty sticky i want to hear from both of y'all. Think about all the records they got. If I was still, if I was still like the front running mindset of Xscape, I would have Xscape open.

Why? Because the pain that they're going to put in before, you know, coming after Xscape is hard. They really can sing, right? So it's like, and I'm not saying SWV can't, but. Because Coco's otherworldly. Coco can sing. Oh yeah, no. I'm not saying they really can sing right so it's like and i'm not saying swv can't but because coco's otherworldly coco and can sing oh yeah no i'm not saying they can't sing i'm just saying i've always had that mindset i've always had that mindset about me as an entertainer like let me go first because i feel like it's harder for the person to figure out what they got to do afterwards i

remember seeing jay-z saying he went on after dmx one night and dmx took his shirt off and he stopped pouring water on him and he was backstage like man what the i'm gonna do when i come out there that is the mindset that you had right until you get out there and the crowd make it different but put that pressure on the person make them sit back there and try to figure out what they're gonna do when they come out that's what i would do see i think i think they should do different markets swv new york See, I think they should do different markets. SWV, New York, certain areas, I think they should close. But Atlanta, Escape got to close in Atlanta.

Yeah, like I said, I wouldn't even argue about it. I personally feel like that closing first thing, I feel like that's just all, it's mental. I remember going to the Triple Threat concert, and it was Al B. Shaw, bbd and i want to say bobby brown right i love all of them bbd was busting bobby brown ass you know for the time period that they came in bobby brought you know he did what he had to do in pulling up the rip but i'm just saying them being where they were it wasn't a bad slot it's not a thing that i was thinking about like damn bbd should have closed they was killing it i mean poison was at the height and poison at the time when i saw this it felt like they should have closed but you know when bobby came on and tenderoni and all these

records came on you realized why he was the closer right so i just feel like me personally i i look at that performance slot thing different all right, ladies and gentlemen, make sure you pick up the album, Jermaine Dupri, Currency. For motivational use only. Appreciate you guys for joining us. 4-4-4. Yeah, 4-4. All right. Well, it's The Breakfast Club.

It's J.D. and Currency, y'all. Yeah. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Our honorable pick of the day is the Life Podcast with Michelle Obama. In this uplifting new series, Michelle Obama discusses meeting life's challenges with Oprah, Tyler Perry, David Letterman, and others. Listen free at the home of storytelling. Audible.com slash The Light.

This gonna be a donkey, because right now you want some real donkey shit. It's time for Donkey of the Day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey man, hit me with the heel. Did she get donkey in the name, please, Deli? Absolutely. I have become Donkey of the day so if you ever feel i need to be a donkey man hit me with the heel did she get donkey in the name please absolutely i have become donkey of the day at the breakfast club bitches she's 26 years old and she's a canadian woman who in 2019 was convicted of impaired driving that led to a massive explosion in London. Y'all might have forgot or never heard of Daniela,

but she pled guilty to four counts of impaired driving, and she was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021. Can I refresh your memory? Let's go to CTV News for the report, please. 22-year-old Daniela Leis faces a dozen charges connected to the blast that rocked the Old East Village mid-August. Lees faces charges including impaired operation over 80 milligrams causing bodily harm and four counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.

On August 14th, emergency crews responded to the Woodman Avenue address for a collision. Once on scene, responders noticed the smell of gas and within minutes the house exploded. Police believe the vehicle hit a gas line when it collided with the home. Now roughly 100 homes had to be evacuated and seven people were injured including multiple first responders. Jesus Christ. Well you, we live in a world where nobody holds themselves accountable for nothing. OK, nothing is never the fault of the person. All right. Blame always has to go to someone else. So Daniela is blaming someone else for this. She's actually filing a lawsuit against Ovations Ontario Food Services, alleging that the company shares some of the liability for civil lawsuits filed by the victims of the blast because they served her alcohol. Yeah, she's blaming it on the alcohol.

I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go to CTV News for the report, please. The kitchener woman behind the wheel in an impaired driving crash that destroyed and damaged several homes in London is suing the company that served her at Budweiser Gardens that night. Daniela Lees is facing a number of civil lawsuits in relation to the August 2019 crash and says Ovations Ontario Food Services should share liability. Now, CTV's Krista Simpson is joining us now with more on this story. Krista, before the crash, Lees was at a concert.

Ricardo, the statement of claim says, among other things, the company served her alcohol, didn't monitor how much she was drinking, let her drink more than she should have, and ejected her from the venue without making sure she was not going to drive impaired. In October 2020, Lees pleaded guilty to four counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm, ultimately being sentenced to three years in prison. Lee's lawsuit against Ovations Ontario Food Services says the crash would not have happened if the company had not been negligent. You know, I came up in an era when drinking and driving was a choice. OK, you can drink or you can drive.

You can drive or you can drink, but you cannot do both. We had so many reminders not to drink and drive. South Carolina had the highways or dieaways commercials. I don't know if they were national. I think they might have been national. Virginia had to drive sober or get pulled over. Those might have been national too.

I don't remember, but remember the buzz driving is drunk driving campaigns. I know Texas had the faces of drunk driving ads i mean don't drink and drive was literally drilled into our brains since day one okay not to mention this happened in 2019 all right the ride share revolution has been happening for a long time okay the, the Ubers of the world. There was somebody you could have called, Daniela. Now, don't get me wrong. We know that some bars can be held liable when they know a person is intoxicated and they keep serving them. I don't know if this is one of those situations.

Okay, the lawsuit is saying that they knew she was intoxicated and did not train or supervise staff serving alcohol and put profit above safety. I don't know if all that is true. I don't know if all that is proven. All I know is that in a drunk driving case, the primary defendant is the drunk driver. Okay. We live in a society where nobody wants to be held accountable for their actions. It's always somebody else's fault. She's better off saying the devil made me do it. Okay.'re gonna blame somebody blame satan lucifer beezlebub trump whatever you call the devil she might as well have put the blame on that evil entity because all that is more believable and makes more sense but at the end of the day we are all accountable for ourselves simple as that accountability breeds responsibility so whenever you see someone doing something as

irresponsible as Daniela did, it's because she's probably a human who has never been held accountable for anything she's ever done in her life. Okay, that three years in prison she's serving right now is the first time she's probably ever been held accountable for her actions. And of course, she doesn't want to take full responsibility well kids always remember 99 of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses safe to say daniella falls under that 99 please let remy ma give daniella lease the biggest hee-haw hee-haw hee-haw you stupid mother are you dumb all right well thank you for the donkey of the day it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club

power 105.1 the breakfast club your mornings will never be the same an angry outburst or like lose your temper while you're fasting or it like spoils your fast you know it's really just about like going from the inside out and i do want to say that i think this year is also like really significant because yesterday we just commemorated the 20-year anniversary of the u.s invasion of iraq and having that also kind of come into this moment for muslim women's day i think is so powerful because, you know, the war on Iraq, I think, is like the biggest modern day example of how devastating media misrepresentation can be for communities like ours, like minorities that are underrepresented.

When we allow other people to tell our stories or speak on our behalf, like they did with Iraq, for example, you know, we were saying that they had these weapons of mass destruction that we had to go in and you know like save the world from and lo and behold obviously one of the biggest blunders in american history there were no weapons of mass destruction and we ended up going into iraq the home of one of the oldest modern civilizations and the history of mankind and completely obliterating the country based on total misinformation and a lot of that misinformation was representing muslim women as being oppressed and we had to go in there and rescue them we had to go in there and liberate them and save them and i started muslim girl because it's our way of talking back that we

show muslim women have a voice of our own there's no such thing as being a voice for the voiceless it's about empowering people to use their voices for themselves you know like who who gets to tell our stories who gets to who gets to hold the pen what about action though like you're the part you're the type of person you actually went out there ran for congress i feel like sometimes this generation only wants to be on social media and it's just words i don't think so you know i think i think especially when you're born into it it's really powerful to have that fluency you know like modern technology today is its own language and a lot of people talk about like armchair activism right you're like you're sitting at home you're tweeting about things whatever whatever but all those tweets

all all the shares all all the things that you really talk about online, that shifts public opinion and public opinion is powerful. You know, public opinion is what decides if we're going to do like publicly support going to war with a country that we've never even heard of before or people that we've never even met before. Public opinion is what decides if we're going to really give a damn about human rights. Public opinion is what's going on right now with what's happening with Trump. I mean, we're also talking about today, Trump may get indicted. He might become the first president in American history to get indicted.

I don't think that's happening. You don't think it's happening? No, I don't think this country will ever truly know how to punish that level of whiteness and that level of privilege. Yeah. And if he ever does get indicted, it won't be for these charges in New York. Maybe Georgia. Yeah. You know, I still think Merrick Garland should be first.

You know what I mean? But I don't see it. Maybe, though. You never know. Now, you talked about Islamophobia, right? Has it gotten better? Has it gotten worse from the last time we spoke to you? Good question.

I think that when you don't have a psycho like Trump in office, it kind of makes people feel like the urgency isn't there anymore. You know, when you have someone literally launching a Muslim ban and seeing an entire group of people can't enter the country, obviously it's going to, you know, flare off like the alarm bells. Right. And then when you have a president like Biden in office, it kind of makes people think like everything's cool again and all of that. But I think what trump taught us is that the hate is there minorities have been talking about this for generations that racism exists you know like we didn't need a racist to come into office to prove that to anybody but what he did was really let it come out in the open now it's just going back underground again

doesn't mean it's not there. Doesn't mean that it does not still need to be addressed. It absolutely does. It's making its way up to New York right now because they think that their guy's about to get indicted. What did they say they're having? A drive-thru? What's like a drive-thru? They're going to be driving from Long Island to MAGA cars.

No way, really? Hundreds of them are going to be driving from Long Island out to things. What made me think about it is every time I see a movie or they talk about 9-11, I just wonder how crazy does it get for you? Because I think TMZ is doing a fifth plane movie. And they talk about the fifth plane that was hijacked that nobody talks about. And I was wondering, damn, every time that comes up, is it, do you get stares? When you go to the airport, do you feel like they pull you to the side like does it get worse every time oh my god yeah especially like when you're

living in new york for me most of my life like the anniversary of 9-11 was like all right i gotta wrap my headscarf a different way so that people don't realize that it's like a muslim scarf i gotta like hot yeah of course like it's it's scary. It gets really scary. And, you know, even with, like, the group chat with my friends, like, guys, like, you know, be on alert. You know, every time there's, like, a mass shooting in the news, we all collectively hold our breath praying that it's not a Muslim because we know that we're all going to pay the price for it. Meanwhile, obviously, like, the number one, you know,

profile of, like, mass shooters are, like, White male. White male. Meanwhile, obviously the number one profile of mass shooters are white male. You don't see the collective paying the price for that. You don't even see the government making any moves to address that. Meanwhile, 9-11 happened and ever since, we have to take off our shoes when we walk into the airport.

And also, I think a huge part of it too is just the way that we're represented. When you think of the idea of who these hijackers are, what a terrorist is, they're men that look like my father, my brothers, my cousins, you know, like people that are just stereotyped and grouped into one huge monolith. And when you do that, that's how you can dehumanize an entire population of people. We're still kicking with Imani, so don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Everybody, it's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking with Imani. Charlamagne? We all get excited when we see ourselves represented in the arts, right? Like TV, film. I wonder, for you, did Ms. Marvel do anything for you, being set in Jersey, Muslim? First of all, I miss marvel brown jersey girl with superpowers okay um but yeah i mean it was really cool because muslim girl became the first muslim media to ever cover a marvel red carpet when we covered the premiere

of this marvel so it was like a really beautiful full circle moment and i think that those are the stories we need to see are you kidding me do you know what impact that would have had on me growing up if i saw a marvel superhero that i could resonate with and connect with actually there was this really interesting conversation that i had with shonda rhimes about gray's anatomy and she was talking about how that show showing these diverse women of color within the med field, it directly correlated with like a skyrocketing of women of color entering into medicine, you know, and like studying that.

So just think the effect it has when Muslim girls, for example, only ever see a reflection of themselves in the media as oppressed, as victims, as tortured, as angry, as terrorists, you know. Imagine what happens when you see a positive reflection of yourself in the media around you, what that can do as a society. Now, I see on the sheet it says,

you blame Charlemagne for the worst first date ever. Oh, God. What happened? What? That's what it says on the sheet. It says, why do you blame Charlemagne for the worst first date ever? This is going to take me out of my Ramadan vibes right now. What happened? What happened? I don't know ramadan vibes right now i don't know i don't know

yeah no i definitely blame you okay first date i've ever been on for sure what happened they gotta remind you shalami look like shalami like shalami i met i met this really nice you know nice muslim arab man want to take me out on a date okay had like a beautiful career and profession i'm like all right dope like this is gonna be good it's gonna he's gonna take me out on a date whatever first very first conversation he's like yo like you know i discovered what my calling is in life you know everyone has a calling and i discovered mine i'm like oh like you know that's amazing what is it he's like i'm gonna quit my job and become a rapper and this is his like next trajectory like he's like that's how i'm gonna make a million bucks that's like whatever proceeds to hold me

hostage in his car for 20 minutes that night so you can listen to his like crappy music are you with like the auto tune like super low like did not sound like him whatsoever i'm just like bro like do not quit your job please like jesus and then i'm not planning on like talking to him ever again because it's just like a miserable like whatever um and then he actually had the audacity to like dm me afterwards like yo so like um i know like you and charlamagne are cool you might send him my music i know he's gonna want to work with me this and that so i'm like like was that why you took me out on this like torturous date you know wow you might have missed your blessing listen muslim like finding a good muslim man today and like you know from my background from

whatever my age group like they are far and few between. So I felt like... So just tell him he sucks. I got robbed. That's it. I used to want to rap. And it took my man, Dr. Robert Evans, who's a mentor of mine. He told me I sucked as a rapper. And he said,

you should focus on radio and being an executive. That's literally what he told me 25 years ago. Charlamagne had a stupid rap name. Ask Charlamagne what his rap name was. That's how my rap name was Charlamagne. Before that, my rap name was Dizzy Van Winkle. What? Exactly. Could you imagine Dizzy Van Winkle. What? Exactly.

Can you imagine Dizzy Van Winkle? Wait, is this like on Wikipedia or something? I've never heard this. But all it takes is for somebody to say you suck.

All you had to do was tell that brother he sucks as a rapper. He'd have left it alone. Y'all be happily ever after right now. Are you kidding? Like, no.

I wonder what his rap name was. Yo, after he's already like quitting his job and changing his entire life for this dream of his, I'm not going to shatter a young man's aspirations

like that. What is he doing now? I mean, that's the thing. He was like a commercial pilot. No! I'm like, he's going to take me on some nice dates. It's going to be fun. No, man. No, man. Jesus. Wow. Man. I'm like, you're leaving that for this?

He probably went back. Disappoint for this he probably went back disappointing he probably went back to flying i i sure as hell hope so yo hit omani up king all right but but after 30 days you know like once ramadan once ramadan has passed now you usually went to the white house too to see uh. Jill Biden. Yeah. How was that? Yeah, no, it was really great. It was really awesome. She was delivering the International Women of Courage Awards. So we got to see some of the most influential women on the planet, you know, like all coming to D.C., to the White House to get these awards for exceptional things they've done. It was pretty cool to see, like, so many women from different backgrounds represented there.

There was one woman who gave a speech. She was actually a senator from Malaysia and she was the only awardee that was given the chance to share some remarks and to see her stand out of her wheelchair to speak in front of the

First Lady and the Secretary of State Blinken and start her speech with, As-salamu alaykum, peace be upon you. It was definitely a moment for me. Do you feel like that administration is doing enough for Muslims? Of course not. Definitely not. When I think about how the last administration did an all-out assault on Muslims,

I feel like that pushback against that should be just as loud from the new administration. I don't even think they do enough to protect the people who worship in Congress. Here's the thing. I mean, we're literally seeing attacks on Congress right now that really just parallel the silencing happening on a mass scale. I mean, look at what happened to Congresswoman Elhan Omar. That's right. First African-born congressperson, first Somali-born, and she was on the foreign affairs committee and the republicans removed her literally probably like the most useful voice that we have in the government to

sit on a committee like that and now like the entire committee looks like you know just like the same white man over and over again if you scroll their like committee page you know I think what what's really important is for our communities to come together you know like I'll never forget when the muslim started, right? I'm thinking about this a lot as we reflect on, like, the war in Iraq and how the cycle repeats itself. You know, how, like, how what happened

with George W. Bush repeated itself with Trump for my community. And I was in this group chat with, like, all the American Muslim leaders from, like, national organizations and stuff like that. And as soon as the Muslim ban happened, they're all, like, texting.

One of the first texts was, like, where are our Black brothers and sisters? We need them to, like, stand with us right now and stuff like that. And as soon as the Muslim ban happened, they're all like texting. One of the first texts was like, where are our black brothers and sisters? We need them to like stand with us right now and stuff like that. And, you know, my immediate thought was, well, Mike Brown just got shot a few years earlier. Like where was the Muslim community to stand with our black brothers and sisters

at that time, right? It's like for us, and especially when you think about, you know, like where non-black Muslims are and their disconnect with the Black community, it's so important because we inevitably need each other. You know, the weather always changes. And every time, they're coming for one of us. when that moment, that opportunity presents itself for us to step up, be an ally, have each other's backs. It's always on us to be the first ones to do it because it's going to come back around

and we're going to need that hand extended as well. Word. Well, we appreciate you for stopping by. And if they want to donate to Muslim girls, what do they do? Check out MuslimGirl.com. Follow Muslim Girl on all social medias. Follow me, Amani, on all social media

and keep updated about Muslim Women's Day next week. And of course, we got a lot of programs coming up for Ramadan. When you launch the beauty product line, you got to come back. Oh yeah, for sure. Would love to. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's Amani.

And we appreciate you for joining us and thank you for coming in person this time. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. person this time thank you thank you for having me it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club good morning everybody it's dj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now you know on fridays we do pass the aux that's where nala comes up and nala breaks down what

she's listening to what we should be listening to and she usually puts us on to some stuff that we honestly just don't know about so we have Nala with us this morning. Good morning, Nala. DJ Nala Simone. Hey, guys. What's going on? All right. So this week, I'm going to start off with this sexy red joint that's moving called Pound Town.

Now, when I first heard it. People love this record. Yeah. When I first heard it, I really didn't take it seriously. It feels like one of those like joking records, but it's actually really moving. My ass is brown. Yeah. I see you're already tapped in.

That would be your favorite line. Man, y'all making real hip hop heads drive off a bridge this morning. Let me tell you something. If you one of them hip hoppers that grew up wearing denim jean shorts with construction Timberlands and you was on Chew Stix listening to wu-tang you are mad as hell right now there is people in the car pulling out their dreads even though they already got a bald spot in the middle it is a 55 60 year old hip-hop head right now losing his it's just what hip-hop has come to it's just what hip-hop has come to well they love that song yeah it's hip-hop is in just different spaces we got a lot of pockets you got jingle raps you got catchy raps and you got rap rap and i'm gonna give you guys for the

real hip-hop fans let me give you guys one too this is actually an exclusive from wild great from earth gang um he sent me this record and it's really really tough so he gave me permission to link it and it's called avant-garde thatgarde i love earth gang um question because you know i really enjoy earth grant gang as a duo um but maybe i'm not tapped in enough are either one of them uh hot enough to go solo at this point hot enough to go solo i mean i guess it depends on your definition of hot i think they have like really strong and solid fan bases are they like are they like the blog era rapper level no but within their niche i think they're strong enough but i don't even think that they're going solo per se like i don't at least that i know if they haven't talked about anything like that. He's probably just exploring other ways to be creative.

That's all. Okay. I like it. I like it. I like it. And then lastly, I'm going to go with Mellow Bucks. She just did a remix of her record, Boom, that was moving. A lot of people were doing the boom dance. But now she just shot a remix with Lotto, which is going crazy.

I want my toes sucked. Slack. Groceries eaten from the back. Boom. You see me? Okay. All right. Okay.

Okay. You do the remix, Charlamagne. And who was that? Mellow Bucks? Yeah, that's Mellow Bucks and Big Lotto, which is just cool to see the girls collaborating. Like, I love that. And I know Lola and Young Miami lotto i just did the don't play with it remix too so it's just cool to see the girls having fun that is mellow racks is a

rapper too right mellow racks is also a rapper she signed with young money but this is mellow bucks right what's the mellow thing mean for y'all generation like what does that mean like what is that just like like they're actually like the word mellow, like just cool. Um, it's M-E-L-L-O. I don't know what it is. You might be short for her name or something. I don't know. We don't know.

Yo, we got a mellow bucks. We got a mellow racks. We need a mellow yellow. Where's mellow yellow? All right, Nala. Thank you so much.

Give him all your information. I don't want to highlight you. Uh, you know what? Maybe that could be MV's new nickname. your information, Naila. They want to holler at you. You know what? Maybe that could be Envy's new nickname. You know, you like color. Oh, you're going to join in with him, Naila? I thought you was on my side, Naila. You know what?

I'm sorry. I had to let that one out. I was like, who can be Naila Yellow? All right. Make sure you guys follow me on Instagram at Naila Simone. N-Y-L-A-S-Y-M-O-N-E-E-E. And then make sure you guys click the link in bio So you can tap into the Pass the Ox playlist

Which is updated with all the new music that comes out And tell them watch the Amazon show I was watching it Wednesday night Yes, definitely make sure you guys watch My new show on Amazon It's me, Rob Markman Gay P It's Speedy Norman

And we just We spin the block on hip hop topics. So it's just an hour of us debating. So if you guys are into hip hop as much as we are, definitely tap in. It's a vibe. It's called the Roundtable Rotation. It's nine o'clock every Wednesday night. I watched it this past Wednesday.

I thought I had to pay for it. I was so pleasantly surprised that I didn't. Oh yeah, it's free. Download the app. Just download the Twitch app. Type in rotation and you'll see it. I didn't even have to download the app. I just clicked the link and it took me right to it.

Oh, dope. Oh, really? Yep. Fire. Okay, good. Yep. All right. Well, thank you, Nyla.

Up next, we got the People's Choice Mix. It don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, we got a shout to Currency and Jermaine Dupri

For stopping through Also Amani for stopping through This morning That's right Salute to Currency and Jermaine Dupri Make sure you go grab that album For motivational use only And man put some respect

On the legend Jermaine Dupri's name I don't know what's going on In the media lately Where the South has been Getting slighted a lot But I don't like it Okay I don't like it at all

I don't even understand it anymore Because this isn't like it at all. I don't even understand it anymore because this isn't like some niche thing. Like, the South has been the most dominant region of hip-hop for the past, man, probably 21 years? Easily? Easily? I'm talking about easily. It's not even close.

So, stop it. Put some respect on Jermaine Dupri's name. You can't even talk about Atlanta without talking about Jermaine Dupri So stop it Shout out to JD Alright now Also let me shout out to everybody in Memphis Again

My car show is going down May 28th If you haven't got your tickets Get your tickets We're doing it for Young Dolls So we're doing it actually With Young Dolls Estate With Young Dolls Family We're going to have Young Dolls whole fleet there

Key Glock's going to have some cars there. Some of his celebrity friends are going to bring some cars. I'm bringing 50 Cent's cars. My cars. It's going to be a family fun day. The Dolph Museum will be there. So if you want to see some of his clothes and artifacts and art and jewelry. We'll have that on display.

Also we have kids games and rides and gaming trucks and face painting and food and all that. If you haven't got your tickets. Click the link in my bio. Get your tickets. We're going to have fun. That's May 28th, which closes out Memphis in May. So I can't wait to see you guys. And then I know we're also heading to Atlanta for Charlemagne's podcast.

That's right. We'll have the Black Effect Podcast Festival, the first ever Black Effect Podcast Festival. It's happening in Atlanta on April 22nd at Pullman Yards. Man, I want to thank everybody who's purchased their tickets already. Like I've been saying, if y'all keep buying tickets the way y'all buying tickets, we're going to sell out before April 22nd. And I couldn't be more grateful. We have live podcasts, 85 South Show, Reasonably Shady, Horrible Decisions.

They'll all be on the stage. Just to name a few of the podcasts that'll be there and we got food we got music we got the black effect marketplace which is going to be a lot of the local businesses in atlanta they're going to be there as well as merchandise from your favorite podcast and it's hosted by me and just hilarious so pull up on us man we'll see you uh april 22nd go to eventbrite for your tickets and go to black effect.com for more info all right when we come back we got the positive notice the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club it's time to get up out of here

charlamagne you got a positive note i do have a positive note uh but first i just want to remind everybody make sure you go get your tickets for the first ever black effect podcast festival happening april 22nd in Atlanta at Pullman Yards. I just want to thank everybody who's buying tickets, man. If y'all keep buying tickets the way y'all buying tickets, we are absolutely going to sell out before April 22nd. And I love that. The 85 South Show will be on that stage live. Horrible Decisions.

The Big Facts Podcast will be on that stage live. Just to name a few of the podcasts that'll be there it's hosted by me and Jess Hilarious we're going to have food my man Louis V is providing the soundtrack

we got the Black Effect Marketplace where we'll have local businesses from Atlanta there as well as merchandise from your favorite podcast so go to eventbrite.com right now and get your tickets

or go to blackeffect.com for more information okay thank you thank okay thank you thank you thank you and we'll see you april 22nd at the first ever black effect podcast festival now i want y'all to remember this going into the weekend uh the key to life is not to prioritize what's on your schedule but to schedule your priorities breakfast club bitches you're finished