The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Keke Palmer Reflects On Emancipating From Parents & Opens Up About Co-Parenting, Keith Lee Review Causes Restaurant To Close, Ray J Backtracks His Knowledge of Diddy Parties + More

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

The Breakfast Club Dives Into Keke Palmer Reflecting On Emancipating From Parents & Opens Up About Co-Parenting, Keith Lee Review Causes Restaurant To Close, Ray J Backtracks His Knowledge of Diddy Parties, And Diddy's Sons Issue Cease and Desist Over Kim Porter Book. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So I'm happy. I'm sad I can't be with her. Nye is going to take her sick ass out of the country to get half of Jamaica sick. Excuse me? She don't care. Her girlfriend is living it up on the island, Montego Bay. So yeah, but I'm better now. Good, good, good.

Sleutha Nye, man. Yeah, Sleutha Nye. Nye got a super stud. Yes, she did. I used to go put her business out there like that. Your girlfriend looks like Ray Shye man. Yeah Lutha Nye. Nye got a super stud. Yeah she did. I just gonna put her business out there like that. Girlfriend looks like Ray Sherman. Yeah Swae Lee. She look like Swae Lee.

Really? Yes. She posting her. She out out with her now. At first she you know they do the close friends thing. She was like I'm about to pop out with her. I said okay pop out in Jamaica then. Wow.

Okay. And when she go in back, when she get back it's gonna be a bunch of studs mad though. Cause they be on I So she's a fishling cuz one time she was just Toin that's what I thought she was dipping our toe in but she was already a whole body under the water So she okay, okay? Okay? Okay the letter Feel blessed black and highly favored man another day to serve our beautiful listeners happy to be here. That's right. Yes All right. Well, we got a big show for you today. Got a bunch of people joining us Tesla and Figaro should be joining us Hey, you have to host this great shot

No chase the podcast on the black effect guy heart radio podcast networks. You'll be here to give her post election recap Yeah, her recap. Oh, I know that's right She has points with her today. So she'll be going through some of the things that's on her mind. Also rapper IDK will be joining us from the DMV area He has a new album bravado out right now and we're gonna be talking to him All right, so let's get the show cracking front page news Morgan. What's up next and it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning Everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious. Charlam the Guy, we are the Breakfast Club. It's almost 2025, we're still starting to show off with Snooze. Okay, that's not the song I want to hear when I'm tired in the morning, because that's exactly what I want to do, hit the snooze button.

Well today is Joe Biden's birthday, happy birthday to Joe Biden. So you're really trying to make me sleepy this morning. It's Future's birthday too. It's Future's birthday too. Okay, okay. Well that's still Cody, Cody will make you sleepy too. Damn it man. All right. Well, let's get in some front page news now We usually don't do NBA scores to later on in the season

But the Cleveland Cavaliers lost their first game to the Celtics last night now They were 15 and also now they're 15 in one I think they're the second team to go undefeated like that. The first of course was the Warriors a couple of years ago We all remember them when that team was crazy. So now is the Cleveland Cavalier. So congratulations. Well, they lost but congratulations for going that far. Still a great start. Absolutely. Great start.

Good morning, Morgan. Good morning. Good morning. Happy hump day. And the Prath Lane and Jess. How y'all feeling? Y'all good? Good morning. All right. Let's get into it. So as the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro wrapped up yesterday, President Biden spoke about the existential threat that is climate change, saying there's a lot more work that needs to be done. Let's hear from President Biden in Rio de Janeiro. This is the single greatest existential threat to humanity.

If we do not deal with climate change, our children, our great grandchildren, our great great grandchildren, their future is going to be determined by what we do in the next four to six years. When it comes to the adoption of clean energy, we've made remarkable progress together, but we all know we have so much more to do. We all know, we all know what it takes. I have absolutely no faith in the world to do anything to fix this. Okay. You know, there's a climate change clock and there's four years, 244 days left to limit

global warming. We're not going to buy in. Biden says he the US has fulfilled its pledge to contribute $11 billion a year in climate change financing to developing countries. And he promised another $4 billion over the next three years. So that's within your window Charlemagne to the World Bank International Development Association, an agency that assists the world's poorest nations. Can you help me on port to?

Meanwhile, more appointments and nominations are being made in the forthcoming Trump administration. Most recently, President-elect Donald Trump is nominating TV celebrity Dr. Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The CMS oversees Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance, and HealthCare.gov, which provide coverage to nearly half of all Americans. Dr. Oz posted on X that he looks forward to serving his country and to make America healthy again under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has also been nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Elsewhere Trump is reportedly set to name transition co-chair Linda McMahon as the Education Secretary. Now CNN reports that she was given the nod after Trump named his other transition co-chair Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department. Now McMahon directed the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term and is the former CEO of WWE. She founded with her husband, Vince McMahon, and she's also had two unsuccessful runs for U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut losing in 2010 and 2012. Linda McMahon for education secretary. Elsewhere, Vice President-elect JD Vance says the Trump team is interviewing prospective FBI directors.

That suggests plans to send current director Christopher Wray, excuse me, on his way. Vance faced criticism on X for missing a Senate vote that approved a judicial nominee of President Biden. He responded on social media that, writing that he missed the vote because he was meeting with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI director. Now the position has a 10 year term.

So Ray would typically be safe until 2027, but the president is able to remove the agency's head. So we'll see what happens with that. And lastly, the Senate majority leader is not giving president elect Trump any assurances about his cabinet picks a Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is once again raising the issue of the constitution's advice and consent clause.

Let's hear those comments from Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer. He doesn't have check Schumer audio. Okay. So basically Chuck Schumer's audio says that they're going to go and do their due diligence as Congress is supposed to do and there are no guarantees when it comes to any of these picks that Trump is putting forth. Now Trump has put forth some of those nominees that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are questioning.

McConnell said he expects the usual Senate confirmation process and strongly hinted that there will not be any recess appointments. So again, Congress is going to continue to do its due diligence on both sides of the aisle when it comes to making the selections and these nominations just because Trump puts them up doesn't mean that they will be confirmed is essentially what is happening in regards to that. We got time for one more? No? I can't wait to see who he picks for his FBI director.

That's gonna be amazing. What famous television cop is he gonna pick to be the head of the FBI? Magnum PI? Who is he gonna be? He might go left, he might go Hulk Hogan. Nah, it won't be Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan has no experience being a cop,

or playing a cop. What's the guy in Louisiana who always played a cop? Um, I cannot think of his name, but he's um, she said he actually was a cop in Louisiana He's an actor you guys can't you guys don't know Oh man, he had a show and everything is he blessed? No, he's a white guy has ponytail Hey, pick nobody black for his cabinet. J. No, that's that's a whole other thing. Oh man, well we'll get it to him. All right, well that is Front Page News. We'll see you next hour.

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We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's going on, Iggy? What's going on, Jess? What's going on, Sharla? Peace, peace, gang. What's up, brother? What's your name?

Yo, I'm Matt Farr, Sharla, North Carolina. I actually met you and Sharla a long, peace, game. What's up, brother? What's your name? Yo, man, so, Sharla, North Carolina. I actually met you and Sharla a long time ago back in the CIA day. Okay. 704, what's happening? Those were great days. I wish, sorry, Jess, but I wish they bring it back

to North Carolina. Sharla, you in there or you late again? Nah, he here. Hey, man, I don't be late as usual. Hey, man, let me ask actually answer you this though. Y'all do all these drops, right? Why we can't get the Wednesday one? Why you can't do a new one on the Wednesday one

so that's blocking it? What's the Wednesday? What you mean? Guess what day it is, guess what day it is, update? It sounds so static when you come home. Oh, that's, well, yeah. I know what he means. Hey, man, I know what he means

We try to fix that we try to fix that no, it's you mean we're trying to fix that one, but That's a good question the what the phone at on every year we usually do the uh, the phone at on I think we don't we did last year. I think Amazon just giving us a bunch of money and we giving stuff away. Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how my mentor group can get involved. If you wanted to be an officiator. You up? If we announced it, you got to fill out all the applications

and all that good stuff. That's right. And I just want to apologize to my man, bro. I wasn't trying to sleep with your wife, but like it's the topic yesterday, bro. Ain't nobody snitch on us. Nobody handle us. You slept with your wife, but like it's the topic yesterday, bro. Ain't nobody snitch on her, cause nobody handle her. You slept with your man's wife? No, it wasn't my man.

My man that called on Friday, dog that called on Friday. I mean on Monday. Man, what is you talking about? Yeah, I don't know, bro. Dog that called on Monday, and he said that he got to divorce his wife, she was sleeping around.

Yes. I wanna apologize, bro. That's not you, get out of here. Get it off your wife, she was sleeping around. Yes. I want to apologize, bro. That's not you. Get out of here. Get it off your chest, 800-585. Maybe he just saying he feel sorry for dudes. No, he was saying it was him. That was with dude's wife.

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We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This your brother Out of Sight. What's going on, Envy? Out of Sight, what's up, brother? Get it off your chest. There's a lot of brothers on social media. Be disrespectful. Single mothers are talking crazy about them. And I'm just sick of hearing it. I'm a product of a single mother. my mother wasn't a ratchet type of sister

and though some of them exist they need to tell the real story you know I'm saying and pick up the sisters that do the right thing so for sisters like just and the sisters that have children that are doing the right thing I did what I always do my video on YouTube is called baby mama salute I dedicate that to you judge and all of the sisters that got children as doing the right thing It's called baby mama salute. I came out of retirement to do this cuz Charlamagne said my boss was back back in the days So I'm tired. I'm back now. Thank you so much You heard the song to be saying thank you

Oh, thank you so much. You ain't heard the song to be saying. Thank you You know, it's not what he said before he might make the baby cry Appreciate that shout out the single mothers Hey Charlotte me Charlotte me you always used to go with normie man, but I'm telling you I'm better now Put some bars give us a verse from it right now. She a single baby mama. She ain't with the drama. She be getting it in order for her son and daughter. Keep the refrigerator full without a father. People try to put her down. That make her go harder.

It ain't that she don't want a man. She stick it to the plan. Get the money in her hands. Something you don't understand. Health, wealth, go get it yourself. Give it to your kids while they daddy do a bid, bid, bid. I ain't talking about stage. Shorty go to school?

Is she getting good grades? Plus she got the job and she work hard. Think the most high that she finally got a car. Maybe not a Benz, but it get her to the daycare in the hood. She ain't gonna stay there. No drugs. She don't do clubs. When she with her baby, only times she do love.

You can do lust. She don't do trust. Only thing she know to make a living is a must. If it ain't about that, nothing to discuss Hit the gas on the vroom vroom, nothing to discuss And it's like that Period, period I love that

That was dope man And I salute you out of psych See, I made them better Oh praises man, you know what I'm saying? And you my new crush Jess Thank you so much, I appreciate it Jess is taken That's right, go check out video while dope. Baby mama salute on YouTube.

Bye, brother. Baby mama salute. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, you can hit us up. Now we got Jess with the mess coming up. Kiki Palmer opens up about her and her baby daddy. Okay. All right. We'll get into that next. Don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. into that next don't go anywhere as the Breakfast Club good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning everybody it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess. News is real, whether it's Jess Hilarious, Jessica Robin Moore, Jess don't do no lying. Jess Hilarious! She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide mess. On the Breakfast Club. She's a coacheship. Alright so Kiki Palmer speaks on advice from Will Smith. Before we get to the stuff with our baby daddy, I wanted to shout out the fact that she was on the Toast podcast and during that episode she reflected on when

she considered emancipating from her parents. For those who don't know, emancipation is it ends the legal authority that a parent has over a child who is under 18. And this is what she said. I'm on the set of True Jackson VP and I get a call from this like really, really obscure number. This is weird. I'm not answering this. I go work and I get a call from this like really, really obscure number. This is weird. I'm not answering this. I go work.

I come back and I see there's a voicemail left from the same number and I'm okay. Let me play it. Hey, Kiki, it's Will. We're over here doing karate care with Jayden. I just want to let you know I talked to Ken. He let me know everything you're going through and I want you to know sometimes it's hard being the first, but you'll get through. Just keep staying focused, love on your family and y'all gonna be good. I gotta get that Will Smith

girl. That's so crazy. It was so insane. You didn't pick up. I did not pick up. I couldn't be like cause the number was like a Hong Kong number. I was like I ain't never seen no number like this before. I didn't know. Now Ken was Kiki's lawyer who also tried to convince her not to go through with the emancipation She was 17 at the time That was really dope that will Smith had caught her but on the other hand how you know my business Why is my lawyer discussing with you what I got going on? That's right. I love will I love this you know what I'm saying, but it's like who gave you authority to talk about business You're right. I'm Ken. What's up? You know what I'm saying but it's like who gave you authority to talk about business damn Ken what's up I don't know about y'all but I can't wait for the emancipation of all my children go out there and get your own money

please become financially independent and responsible for your own life you are lying take care of daddy and mommy while you're having to that's not gonna happen you have a fit your kids trying to emancipate from you or whatever you want that doesn't you would hope that they get to that level where they got their own money and they're responsible for their own life. And they care me and mommy too. Yeah, but that's when they get to the right age,

not at 17. Yeah, she was 17 years old. Oh, that's what I'm talking about. Not at 17. Emancipation out of age is income. Well, Kiki Palmer at 17, we see how rich and famous she was and how great she was.

And your son wanna be in tech. What if your son creates some app and become a billionaire by 17? Why would I come back to your little raggy house when I'm worth a couple billion dollars? I could still beat your ass It ain't gonna be no raggy house Yeah alright don't play with me Kiki also sat down with Gail King in a separate interview and while talking to Gail she spoke on Co-parenting with Darius who's her baby daddy after their public breakup. I gotta be honest. I

Would have never thought that I would be where I am now And so I just I'm very grateful that this has now been the outcome and you know We're able to coexist in this way and show up for our son and you know, just be in a different place It's a real blessing. That's the best way that I can explain it But how did you get to this place because you realize you said I don't want my son to dislike this father I don't want the public to dislike this father. Yeah, how did boundaries? I don't think I had I don't think I had enough of them think boundaries I talk about that a lot in the book people cannot respect boundaries

You don't have and sometimes it's hard to make boundaries with people that you love Yeah, well, that's good to hear that they are on better terms because we've seen that whole thing go wrong and it all started with an Usher show. But you know that the difficult thing about that is people already have their mindset or how they feel about them already. Yeah. So it's hard to change that because they already look at them a certain way. Yep and then Kiki had once an internet, then Kiki Mava jumped jumped on internet then it was it just became a whole messy situation.

All he wanted was to be emancipated from Kiki. He just wanted to be financially independent, responsible for his own life and his children's child's life. And wanted to know why his baby mama ain't had she had on the leotard that's for sure that's all he wanted to know. Why that's what he wanted to know why. All right Lisa Lisa Ray speaks on relationship with ex-husband. So she sat down with Carlos King and during the interview conversation, she opened up about how serious her ex-husband's infidelity was. Now, her husband was a seventh, he was the seventh

chief minister of Turks and Kicos. And she eventually opened up about one of her friends who slept with him and how she had found out and handled it. You alleged to that Nicole Murphy had relations with your ex husband. Were you two friends? I've been to her house. She was at my bachelorette party. How'd you find that out? I had checked the manifest of my plane to test all the people that have rolled on the plane and she didn't ride on it with me so if you had a girlfriend that has on island I would think that

you would call and say hey girl I'm coming because I was getting everybody to come so why you would accept an invitation from him and you don't even know him is unbeknownst to me and I tried to call her first she said no I haven't been to Turks and Caicos at the time she was dating when I found out right and I said, hey, do you know anything about this? And you know, we talked or whatever. And I said, well, you know, let me send you a tape. It was a tape of her and Michael, where she was dropping Michael off at the private airport in her car. And she gets out and he gets out and I go, oh, I didn't

know y'all knew each other. Damn. I'm surprised Lisa Rae didn't fight her. She got that energy in it. She she punched it. She just smacked it in the face. She said she wanted to. Yeah. I will say this though. I heard that story and I thought to myself that man Michael has excellent taste. Drop one of Clue's bombs for Michael. Okay. Lisa Rae, Nicole Murphy, that's top shelf right there. No, you mean the prime minister has Minister has excellent case his name Michael too? Yes, Michael. Yeah. Oh wow Michael you talk about she's a mic his name is also my Prime Minister. Yeah. Yeah, that was Mike Mike. Yeah, Lisa Ray Nicole Murphy. That's two of the best right there

I'm sure if you hear me both aging like wine and kind of a guy. They drop one of these little Lisa Ray Man, yeah, it killing these young girls out here. They ain't even close. That's right. At another point in the interview, she spoke on how her role as Diamond in the Players Club affected her career. Playing the role of Diamond, did that affect you from booking other roles because people didn't saw you as that? Sure it did. I was the pretty girl. I was the sex symbol, and so we just want her to be pretty. But because I… Skylight Frame is more than just a photo frame. It's the perfect way to keep loved ones close, no matter the distance.

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by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to historical records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Always had a lot of personality, even off screen people will go, well, you know what? She's so cool. It's something else to her, but they could not deny that everyone knew me from that role that way and that look so they

Wanted to still help and continue me in that way, but not in ways that I felt like I could stretch So that I that's actually my favorite movie from her I ain't even me I Shouldn't even have been watching that at the age that I was watching it But that was like one of my favorite movies players club and belly and I always loved Lisa Ray after saying that I'm saying when You play such an iconic role, right? Like everybody remember diving from players club, even though that's Lisa Ray don't get me wrong But when you see it you see Lisa Ray, but then you will think oh, that's diamond, too

Yep, I like diamond and I like that sneaky ass cousin. I'm still wild in that what age was that? Yeah, like 10. I was young. Yeah, I was like, yeah like 11 or 12. You was watching belly. Yes Straight up he wasn't 10 11 watching wild stuff and listening to wild stuff 10 years old watching a movie Who knows balling wild pork porkies revenge in the nerds? What you mean? Yeah, I watch avenge of the Nerds. In my mind, with Shane, you know, Shane, you know, I was watching it. That's when they was, they record stuff on the VCR tapes. Yep. Yep.

Mmm. Yeah, watch Revenge of the Nerds. I would pop that right in. Me and London would stay up all night watching Players Club and Belly on repeat. Wow. Yeah. Alright. That's just what it means.

Alright. Thank you, Jess. Now, when we come back, we got front page news and then rapper IDK will be joining us, so don't go anywhere as the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up Morgan? Good morning. All right. So yeah in the last segment really quickly I tried to toss to Mitch McConnell audio and mistakenly mentioned Chuck Schumer Not sure why I did that but I meant to say Mitch McConnell. So, you know, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean,

I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, higher US made missiles into Russia. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh was asked about the report where President Biden gave Ukraine the okay to use US weapons against Russia. And she also criticized Russia, its recent changes to its nuclear doctrine. Let's hear more from Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh. I don't have anything to announce or to confirm at this time. If we have more to share publicly, we will do so. It's the same irresponsible rhetoric that we've seen before and that we've seen frankly for the past two years. So Moscow said it shot down five US-made missiles on Tuesday. It's the first time Ukraine has

launched a strike on Russia since the US reported its change in policy. Now this comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin updated his country's nuclear doctrine. The Kremlin will now consider any aggression from a non-nuclear state that has help from a nuclear country as a joint attack. Let me ask you a question. I've also seen that they are given some other devices, I guess, where it doesn't destroy trucks and tanks, but it destroys people as they walk on to detonators. And I was just curious because they said the US had to sign off on using them.

Why are they so public with the things that have to be signed off on? Because it's going to tell Russia what they're using next on them, right? On my run. I mean, yeah, you're right. I mean, the fact that you're saying, hey, these are these are the next devices that we're essentially approving use for. Yes, it does give people essentially a heads up as to what's happening. I mean, I wanna say-

And that's why they're able to shoot down some of the missiles clearly. Like that's what Russia said yesterday. They shot down some of the missiles, the US missiles that came from Ukraine. I just, what I don't understand, Russia issued a nuclear threat. Why is that such a casual conversation?

Why is that- That's scary. Why is that not front page news everywhere? If a country issues a nuclear threat, you know, and that's not even the first time Putin has done that, how come it's not front page news everywhere? If a country issues a nuclear threat, and that's not even the first time Putin has done that, how come it's not more of a discussion? Have we become that numb to everything that we can just hear that and just brush by it and move on? Nah, we're just waiting for Charlemagne to talk about it

because once Charlemagne talk about it, then you know the time's up. No, that's not true. Nah, I'm scared. I ain't waiting for Charlemagne to be scared. I'm scared when they start talking nukes, there ain't nothing we can do about it. You can't hide from a nuke.

Oh, is that what it is? Is that people, you know, God grant me the serenity. They accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. So being that we know there's nothing we can do about it, we just choose not to talk about it? Yes.

That's stupid. Stupid as hell. Stupid as hell. Horrible. Very dumb. All right, so moving on. Moving on. Accusations that FEMA aid was politicized during the hurricane season is the focus of a House

hearing. The House Oversight Committee is listening to testimony from FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell as after a FEMA official claimed relief workers were told to avoid homes with Trump signs. Let's hear more from FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. I was very concerned when I learned a FEMA employee had given instructions to a disaster survivor assistance team that were completely at odds with FEMA's mission. This employee wrote to about 11 staff members under her supervision that

they should quote avoid homes advertising Trump and quote. So that worker said she's been being she's being made a scapegoat and was just following protocol the aid was related of course to Hurricane Helene so there is some truth to what you guys were saying when that whole situation was going down as to the fact that you know some people aren't receiving the aid that they need. That's insanity by the way. To keep the keep aid away from a person just because of you know who they choose to support politically that's ridiculous and I mean like it don't matter if that

person supported Trump or that person supported Kamala Harris at the end of the day if they needed aid after the hurricane they should have got that aid. Yes they're human. Humanity should come before any political party. Period, period. So LA is now a so-called sanctuary city. During Tuesday's vote, LA city councilman, Curren Price said it was not a difficult decision and he argued protecting illegal immigrants in the incoming Trump administration pays tribute to the city's very name. Let's hear more from LA city councilman, Kern Price. Given the reelection of Donald Trump and the consistent hate speech towards undocumented people and mixed status

families, I can't think of a more pressing issue than this one today. The city of angels must live up to his name. We must be angels to our undocumented neighbors, guaranteeing that they can live with stability and without the constant threat of deportation. So this formally establishes a policy preventing the city from helping federal immigration

officials with roundups or other actions aimed at illegal immigrants. It comes as, of course, the incoming Trump administration promises widespread roundups. The ordinance prevents LA from directly or indirectly sharing data, money or workers with federal immigration officials. Now the bill goes to Mayor Karen Bass for her expected signature. The Republican Party says the ordinance is not needed. They insist President-elect Trump will only go after dangerous illegal immigrants. New York is also putting its hat in the ring in regards to this.

Mayor Eric Adams says families with children in kindergarten through sixth grade can now stay in their original shelter past the 60 day notice, making it easier for kids to keep attending the same schools and saving hundreds of thousands that would be spent on housing them. Now the city also has established a centralized mail center to further ensure that migrants have access

to critical legal information like updates on their asylum status or work authorization papers. Mayor Adams says the city has helped 42% of migrant families leave shelter systems in the last year and also move on to create better lives for themselves. So we will continue to keep you posted on what's happening with the whole migrant immigration and mass deportation situation as the forthcoming Trump administration comes in. And lastly, speaking of New York and Trump, New York prosecutors are recommending pausing President-elect Trump's hush money case until he's out of office. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office has proposed that the proceedings, including the November 26th sentencing, be postponed until Trump's term is over in 2029 due to constitutional issues.

Prosecutors told Judge Juan Merchant that the sentencing of president-elect is unprecedented, noting the demands and obligations of a presidency. Merchant has the final say. Now Trump's team calls this a victory, but the DA's office says they will fight His efforts to get his conviction tossed now Trump was found guilty earlier this year of falsifying records to hide payments To adult film star Stormy Daniels. So yeah, hey, hey New York City. Just throw the whole thing away Who we fooling? Nothing's gonna happen to Trump. And nobody wants that retribution

that he made the liver hanging over their head. Just, he won the election, it is what it is. Cut ties, seven losses, throw the whole case away. Come on. I don't know why they playing with him. Who we fooling, y'all? Who we fooling? Like seriously.

And if you push it back four years, that might give him more reason to stay. Okay? Like all right. But for four years he gonna be on your ass for four years. Like why play with him? But it also might give him more reason to stay. That's true.

He is the same person who told his voting base, just vote one more time, you'll never have to vote again. All right, wink, wink. Okay? Come on. Yeah, y'all better listen, charlotte that's your front page news I'm working with follow me on social at work in media Morg y and me DIA and for more news coverage follow at black information network download the free I heart radio app and visit

Be in news comm thank y'all. Happy hump day. Thank you morning I said morning Now when we come back, rapper I.D. K will be joining us. He's from the DMV area. Dope, dope, dope, dope, dope, dope, kid. And we're going to talk to him next. Don't move.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess and also our nephew. I was going to say our nephew.

Our niece. Wow. That's wild. Our niece, Nala, with us today. Wow. We are the Breakfast Club. We got Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess, and also our nephew, I was gonna say our nephew, our niece. Wow. Our niece Nala with us today. Wow. Shut up.

You always gotta fight Dominicans. Why? Why you always gotta fight with a Dominican? That's crazy. Our niece Nala. I'm sorry Nala, I love you. Wow. And we got a special guest in the building. We got IDK. Welcome brother. What's up? what's up. How you feeling man?

I'm feeling good man, it's good to be here. Well happy to have you brother. That's right. You're hearing your name for a long, long, long time. How was the show with G-Eazy? How's the tour going? So far so good man, G been real cool and he actually brought me on my first run ever in my life like in like 2015 or something like that so it's like full circle you know. Lovely. So for people that don't know who IDK is, where you from, this

is the first time some people are hearing you, give them a breakdown of where you're from, what your name stands for and all that. Oh yeah so it's IDK from the DMV PG County Maryland specifically born in London but I came to America when I was like two years old so I grew up in a DMV PG County IDK stands for ignorantly delivering knowledge. I've always liked that acronym because I totally understand what you mean when you say that because I always say you got to be the perfect balance of ratchiness and righteousness. So ignorantly delivering knowledge is like saying I got to put the medicine in the can. Right right kind of like that yeah it was I was actually in prison when I came up with

that acronym and I was in state prison when I was younger and I came up with the acronym in literally delivering knowledge because I wanted people to be like, what is IDK stand for? Does that mean I don't know? And I always feel like if I prompt somebody to ask a question and I answer it, you're more likely to remember it than me just telling you. I was going to say you went to, you mentioned prison. You went to prison the same year that you went to college? Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of the times I went.

Because it was four, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So let's talk about the first time and then I want to know how the whole, I'm going to college but then I end up in prison. Like what's that story? How does that turn man? First of all, I come from like a West African background. So my mom some silly on my dad's from Ghana I'm literally the first person in my family to get locked up. But um, that's not a good thing. Yeah I mean but also

Prison is not a good thing fair, but you know, I turned it around So at the same time, that's true that kind of was thing. Fair, but you know I turned it around so at the same time. That's true. That kind of was like something like you know when I was 17 I got jammed up, had some charges you know stuff to do with you know robberies and guns things like that and then pretty much I went to prison of jail but the thing was I was on I got sentenced to 15 years suspended to three and they allowed me to do it on home detention but getting in trouble and violations and technical things what you made me yeah when did you start rapping what made you say you

know what I want to lead the streets alone and focus on this rap career I mean the first time I got locked up I realized it wasn't for me like right away like I was like no I can't do this but you went back three more times yeah but it was like violation technical stuff that's it was like I was like nah I can't do this. But you went back three more times. Yeah but it was like violation technical stuff. It was like. I'm not judging you. No no no. I've been several times.

I'm not judging you. I don't think I'm judging you. Okay. No no. It was technical though. It wasn't like I kept doing things. It was just violations and stuff like that. But basically the last time I was in,

before I went in I was listening to like Kendrick Lamar and like J Cole and you know where I'm from people don't really listen to That but I had a friend that went to like FAMU and he would come back with like more I would say eclectic rap and I was like, oh man people rap like this. That's that's interesting So I remember being in prison I was a tutor so I helped people get their GEDs and also was a barber and I just remember I would just write music and everybody would listen like see me like bobbing my head right and they'd be like yo spit rap like like I ain't know you rap like and so one day I just

did it and I was like man if I could make people that's pissed off in prison like music maybe maybe it'll work for me when I get out. For the first time that you went to jail, what would you attribute the why to? Would you say it was like the internet? Would you say it was just your environment? It was the want for love. Like my parents loved me, but I didn't know how to comprehend the way they gave me love.

So I never got great, great grades. I grew up middle class, but I was surrounded by the hood and I went to school in the hood. So I identify more with the people that also didn't get good grades. That comes with a lot of stuff because they coming from different backgrounds And they doing different things so I felt like whenever I would do something bad They would show me respect and that was the love that I wanted. I'm glad you guys had that explanation quick Cause saying you want to go to jail for love is crazy I'm glad that like like, you understand, though, like, this nuance that, though, you know what I mean?

So. You know, when you started rapping, what did your family say at first, right? Were they behind you the whole way? And it was like, oh, here you go. African parents, absolutely. You know what, though? It wasn't as bad as you would think.

Because he was in jail? Yeah, right. It was like, how much worse could this be? It couldn't get no worse than what I already did. So my mom was just happy I was doing something positive. Got you. You know but she passed away. She never got to listen.

Well she got to listen to my music. She heard it once and she was like, but she would brag about it but she would never listen to it. Like my mom, till she passed, never heard me curse. Like I never said a curse word around her. But in my music she would hear it. She would hear it in her music, yeah. What did the sound sound like at the time?

Cause you really dibble and dabble in all different genres, all different sounds, so what did she hear? A lot of cursing, a lot of bad words, like a lot of rap. I was just, you know, just. Eclectic rap. Yeah, for sure. Cause like again, the whole ignorantly delivering knowledge thing, depending on how you first hear me,

you'll think I'm one thing and it might not be that. And you're growing in real time, right? Cause it's like, it's your fifth studio album. Yeah, this will be my fifth one, yeah. What's the evolution of IDK been from that first project to now? It's like just this idea of like finding like what I actually want to

express sonically. So I feel like I've always been dibbling and dabbling in different types of music but this now is more like I'm creating a sound like a feeling you know. It's like taking like a certain melodic like element and then trying to put like different drums around it maybe to switch the genre up but the feeling is consistent That's probably the biggest thing that I've grown into now on is he real album Yeah, I'm looking at some of the features on it that people don't know you had DMX on that out Yeah, well that was actually it's so funny cuz I'm I have something with him that we're getting ready to put together

But on that album Specifically it was something that I sampled a prayer he did right but I had to chase him down like a South by Southwest and pull up on him to get it clear like yo yo I'm IDK like that so I had to find him. How was that conversation? How was it? He didn't know who I was at that time. Are you on the prayer album that he got dropping? No I'm not on that album. I did a feature for him after though, so he got to know who I was after that. I did a feature for him prior to him passing.

Did you have a relationship at all? Like small, like just kind of through like, you know, people that we knew and things like that. What was the conversation like when you ran up on him and was like, hey, I'm trying to get this cleared. He was like, it's done. Literally, just like that. Like, you thought he was bullsh** and he was like, alright, who I gotta go to?

And I was done. Yeah, basically, pretty much. And he got it done. Alright, we got more with IDK when we come back. Don't move, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Nyla is joining us on this interview, so is Lauren.

And we're still kicking it with IDK. Charlamagne? What does intimo, I knew I was called bravado and intimo. What does intimo mean? It's like Italian word for intimate. Okay. Okay. So bravado is like kind of like braggadocious, you know, talking about stuff but the intimo part is where it comes from. A lot of like why I care like I like, you know, wearing certain things and I like, you know, style things like that and it comes from like being made fun of when I was in the sixth grade for not having certain things. And I just remember being a kid going to school depressed because I know they're going to

make fun of me. So I remember ninth grade, that's before I started getting into trouble and getting money. I literally said to myself, I will never be made fun of for dressing bad ever again for the rest of my life. And that explains the bravado side because the bravado side is you just see it. You just see the flaws and all that. But the intimo side is where it comes from. And then you get money and realize you don't even care about coolers like that.

Right. That also starts to happen too. You know what I mean? Like it's like you like stuff but like people put me in a fashion world because I do a lot of stuff in that world. But it's not by choice. I just know people, they like what I do and then they just ask me to do things but I don't try to do that. If you get fired you can just do it. Yeah, exactly. Now another feature you had Kanye West on the song Selena No Trapi.

Well, nah. Winner house? Well, that was another sample situation where pretty much we got, that was a crazy one because it was a Jay-Z song initially so everybody had to kind of do that. What was that process like? Because Kanye is kind of hard to, it wasn't as fast as the DMX approval was. Well, maybe, yeah it took a little while actually. But I'll be real, like like yay has reached out to me And I've hung out with him multiple times like so you know it's not that that one is a little different That I remember when I dropped is he real

I was with 88 keys and 88 comes up to me and passes me the phone From my unknown number and I answered and it's like yo it's Ye and I'm like oh snap and he was just like I've been hearing about your album it wasn't out at the time he's like man at some point today I'd love to connect with you and next thing you know I was in Calabasas just hanging out at the crib you know so Ye had shown love and I've actually like linked up with him a couple of times I want to talk about the No Label Academy that you did at Harvard. So Charlamagne, I love this too,

because you did two lectures on mental health. Why did you feel like that was so important to do? Well, so the class is a 10-day experience that people from all around the world, students apply, and then we pick about 20 to 25 of them, and I teach the class and it goes from branding which I call story and vision to financial literacy to team building

and mental health is the last thing we taught that at the medical school at Harvard. I think mental health is really important because I always say this like as human beings we've evolved socially so many different times since, they say we're about 300,000, 75 to 300,000 years old, like where we are biologically.

We've evolved, I think, way too much socially to keep up with where we are biologically. So when you, fame is something we created, that's not something we were built for or made for. So a lot of times times people deal with fame in a way that could be detrimental. And I think that people don't teach the aspect and the importance of mental health

when they're actually pushing them to be famous. So for me, this class was supposed to prepare you from a business perspective for what you or the artist you're working with could be dealing with once they get in a game and I think a lot of the times labels will see like, oh this person is hot, they come from this neighborhood and all that, yeah that's cool and all that and then they not ready for the corporate, like they not understanding what that is. So now you're expecting somebody whose manager might be like just a homie to know how to

move within a corporate setting and be successful and then sustain that success. I think that creates a lot of problems for a lot of different people. How has your mental been? Because you talked about kids making fun of you back in the day. And now being on social media is times a thousand

is as far as the amount of comments. Sometimes people just say negative stuff just to try to get a reaction. So how you deal with social media now? I mean, look, I lost my mom. She died from HIV, complications from that. And I didn't know that until after she passed, when I found out.

So I never had that closure of being able to talk to her about it, right? So when you look at that kind of stuff, and then you look at what I've been through with prison and all this stuff, man, like I'm kind of primed for it's like it doesn't really get much worse. You've been through real s**t. Yeah. So for me, it's like second nature almost dealing with some of the stuff. That's nothing to me. When they like COVID, I'm like, I was actually on 23 lock, 23 hour lockdown at one point. Like this is nothing to me with a book. You know what I mean? For me, like, I was actually on 23 lock, 23 hour lockdown at one point. Like this is nothing to me with a book.

You know what I mean? For me, like, I love a good quarantine. Yeah. So to me, it don't really get much worse. So, you know, I just try to like figure out how to express that to people who haven't gone through those things. That's what my class is mainly for when it comes to that aspect. And that class at Harvard, that's the class that Virgil came to?

Yes. Virgil, before he passed, he was supposed to speak for 30 minutes. He spoke for an hour and 30 minutes. Wow. Shout out to V. So you saw when the Blue Star Alliance acquired Off-White LVMH. Okay, yeah. I saw that.

You saw that? And you saw people, I know you said you don't like being put in the fashion lane, but I just would love to get your opinion on that because people were upset about that because they felt like it was going to devalue the brand and what Virgilette worked for. How you feel about that? Well you know, whenever art meets commerce, it's always going to get watered down. If I sign to a record label, there's songs that are better singles than the song that I might believe because of the range of entry points people could have to that song. You make that decision once you decide to do art, because, bro, we could do whatever

art we want and be homeless. If we're okay with that, that's cool too. I say that to say with that particular situation, one, I don't know the details to it. I don't know too much of it. But the idea that something could be watered down, it depends on the details of the deal and what they got going on and who controls what. I think that came from Virgil's brain at the end of the day and Virgil is not here. So there's always going to be some type of difference, right?

But yeah, when art meets commerce, that's what happens. It's a battle. I always look at everything as, don't look at it as an on and off switch, look at it as a percentage. Knowing him personally, do you think that Virgil would be happy with like, just where Off-White is right now and today?

Because that's also been a conversation too. They've had like different leadership in and out and stuff like that. You know, there's people that are friends of mine who could answer that question far better than I could, I don't have enough of I didn't have that Relationship with him where I would know what happiness is actually to him when it comes to that brand I we got more with IDK when we come back don't go anywhere morning everybody. We are the breakfast club Naila is joining us on this So y'all this is quest love and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast

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and we're still kicking it with IDK. Of course, he's from the DMV area, so salute to the DMV. Now, how has the industry changed since you first came out and did your first mixtape? How have you seen how things changed? Because, you know, usually when artists first do the mixtape, it's their core. They only care about their core core but now it's something

different now you're looking for a radio record now you're looking for something that's gonna go on the charts now you're looking for those things so how has things changed for you? I mean look when I first started like streaming wasn't really a thing like that like it was still kind of iTunes and people reviewing the song or album or whatever things have changed a lot because people and the algorithm dictates a lot of the decisions you could potentially make. So now we in a place where we can think a song sounds like

a single, but that doesn't matter anymore. I can't rely on DJs to break the record the same way as before. It's kind of like, this is the record based off of the algorithm and streaming and the fans. So now we push it. I think in a lot of ways it's good, in a lot of ways it's not good.

Now coming up in the DMV area, were those artists having open arms for you? Like a Wale or Pusha? I know you got regular Pusha. Yeah, yeah. Wale, I got like two of Wale. Wale brought me out, like the first year I started popping,

he brought me out to do his Wale and Friends show. I remember that. He's one of the first to embrace me. I felt like following me on a gram and we just kind of was chopping it up and I asked him for a record and he's like, I got you and he sent it through. I definitely got embraced. I think that the thing is that again, it's kind of segregated in the sound. So certain people only listen to this sound and then certain people are more open to other sounds. I think as we start to progress that that'll change hopefully

but that's what I'd say. Absolutely. You said on this project, when you turn 40, you retire and you disappearing. Like is that really the end goal? I don't know if I'll disappear but I think that by retire people think I mean like stop rapping and I don't know if I'll disappear but I think that by retire people think I mean like stop rapping And I don't know if I mean that I mean right now

I'm constantly competing with myself to do better every time like to the point where like, you know Family may get neglected. I don't you know, I talked to my family on like like the holidays and stuff I don't like my grandma wants to hear from me more and things like that Yeah, every day? Nah, not every day. Nah. Like I'm not even in the mental space with how I view success to be able to tap into that every day. Every day is what can I do to make sure that when I'm 40, my family, I don't have kids or anything yet and I'm not in a relationship but one day I will be. You not dating Billy? No. Yo, everybody thinks y'all are dating. Family I don't have kids or anything yet and I'm not in a relationship but one day and Billy

No, you know everybody thinks y'all are dating They and Billy okay, I didn't see someone time about that, but I don't that was like a while back, okay, no Yeah, she's amazing amazing artists, but yeah like when I get oh You already talked about this so you knew people thought that I said that because they were trying to piece together like photos and I guess the way you're crazy I'm like I don't know what they talk about thanks yeah I think

she posted stuff you know me and things like that. Maybe just be wanting relationships to... That's interesting too. But no, I'm just trying to make sure that when I am 40 and I decide to, it's like everything is structured and laid out for me in a way where I can actually do that comfortably. So till then, you know, hustling. I mean Billie Eilish is single though. How about I say now I'm going down this rap road?

Is she? I will say time waits for no man when it comes to, like, yes, your career, but also your family too. So definitely call your grandma. No, for sure. No, I know, I'm not saying, I just sent the picture in the WhatsApp, like right before we got, I'm not saying I'm like, no, no, no.

So you're in contact, it's just, you also working a lot too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like not talking to your grandma, I'm like, dang. I didn't say I don't talk to my grandmother. I probably talked to her like a week ago, two weeks ago, something like that. Like, I talk to her every so often.

I have a big family too. So, when I talk to my grandma, now everybody, I gotta holla at someone so, it'd be like a three hour thing, you know what I mean? Like, so. I understand. Yeah. Well, we appreciate you for joining us today.

The new album, Bravado, is out right now. Yeah. Thank you so much. Yeah, we appreciate you for joining us today. The new album bravado is out right now. Yeah, thank you so much Yeah, for sure. You got me down this rabbit hole of the photos and all that. Oh She's setting you up with Billie Eilish right now. It's like a press outlet. What is what's going on? Oh, what am I reading? Yeah, pop DX, but if you just Google you and her it's it's a few outlets really Yeah, you thought I made that he's like that nobody Really? Yeah. You thought I made that. He's like, then nobody's there. No, no.

I really saw that. I was scared. I was scared. I was scared. Because of the age thing? Because you had said, like, yo, she was like 17. It was like the year 28, right? I mean, of course that has a lot to do with it.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I mean, yo, I mean, because the way you responded was like, what? Her? But I mean, the age thing, of course. But then it's like, y'all just really homies in real life. Like, is it really not that? Yeah.

Like, she pressed me out about something the other day was being funny about it I didn't do nothing she thought something happened like a song leaked or something like that And she's like who did that, but it was a funny press It wasn't a real press and like not full court half court You know so you're gonna retire at 40 right and this is nothing to do a Billie Eilish Okay, you're gonna retire at 40 at 40 then you're gonna start reconnecting more with your family for sure then you're gonna have it you want to you want to have a family as well yeah I would love to you know how old are you now 32 so are you like

taking are you dating somebody are you in a relationship I'm not in a relationship coming that's not a just a feeling saying, cause you gotta age for your retirement. You gotta age for when you plan on like, doing more than just dropping the photos into what's at, to Nana. Okay. So I'm just trying to see if there's like a timeline here that we can track.

Definitely not a timeline on something like love and connecting with the right person. It could happen right now. I don't care, ask her the same question now. Okay, yeah, same question, right back at ya. Which was, I asked you a couple questions. What's the age? Oh, what's my age? I'm actively, you know, trying to figure question's right back at ya. Which was, I asked you a couple questions. What's the age? Oh, what's my age?

I'm actively, you know, trying to figure it out right now. Okay, so you don't have nobody, just like you asked him? What age are you looking to find somebody to settle down? I ain't got no Billie Eilish on my line. Whoa, see now he's looking for more headlines. I mean, I ain't got no name where it's nothing worth bringing up. I'm asking you because you know that's a name, you know.

Oh man, you could get me in trouble, man. Well, I do, before we I kind of want to talk about Super Nova with the artist. Okay okay. The artist is so fire I'm glad that you guys collabed because you guys both are like very talented. Talk to me about just shooting Super Nova. For me that was like a risky song cuz I don't really go all the way I don't know if that's R&B I guess. It is R&B and I was gonna say like do you see yourself leaning more into that now? I like stuff like that man I like stuff I could play with. Nice I think you should lean into that. Okay yeah I'll take your advice.

Well thank you brother for joining us this morning. It's IDK, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Lord have mercy. Good morning everybody we are the Breakfast Club. You tired, I'm tired. I went out last night. Salute to Lauren, she was celebrating her birthday. Oh, Lauren LaRose's birthday? Yeah, so it was out last night with her. I know she had a flight to Turkey, but I don't think she can make that flight. I'm just tired, because I'm old.

That's all, no other reason. You said you wanted to sleep early and all that. Well, no, yeah, I mean, and I worked out three days in a row. Salute to my guy, Tony, my cousin Tony Perm. You know what I'm saying? So I had three workouts in a row. And then, yeah, I didn't sleep. I didn't get to sleep the time I wanted to last night

okay yeah that's what company come over dr. Natasha Sandy came over because you know Jess in here glowing so I want to glow too you had to fix real, all she did was ask me how you doing, and I was like, you ain't see? So, that was it. Yeah. Hang on. All right.

Well, let's get to Jess with the Mess. The news is real, whether it's the Nickelodeon, or the Jets, or the Rob and More, the Jets don't do no lying. She don't spell nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide messing. On the Breakfast Club. She's a culture shift. She was able to get y'all to the right place.

She was able to get y'all to the right place. She was able to get y'all to the right place. She was able to get y'all to the right place. She was able to get y'all to the right place. She was able to get y'all to the right place. She was able to get y'all to the right place. She was able to get y'all to the right place. She was able to get y'all to the right place. Okay, so Denzel Washington clarifies kiss scenes. So he was previously revealed, he previously revealed that he kissed a male co-star in a gladiator movie But the scene was cut because the creative team was too chicken to keep it in I don't know why everything gay now, so it's like why would they be scared?

Shortly after that the director be mad though if you did that scene and they didn't put in the movie Yeah, that's why I said didn't he kiss the nigga for nothing what? didn't see a gay name. Now he's Denzel. Kiss one little man in the movie, now he's Denzel. One little man, but I'll be pissed the hell out of him. I'll do it all out and you ain't gonna use it? I know, I know, but shortly after that, the director of the film, Ridley Scott, he claimed that what Denzel said was not true. And someone else on the sideline also reinforced what Ridley said.

It wasn't true because they checked the tapes and there was no kiss to cut. But at the LA premiere of Gladiator, Denzel Washington addressed the kiss and maintains that it did happen but it was blown out of proportion. Okay, we gotta talk about the kiss. It's much ado about nothing. It really is much ado about nothing. You know, they're making more of it than it was. I kissed him on his hands, I gave him a peck and I killed him. I have to tell you, us gay boys want to see Denzel kissing another man.

Well I don't have the part yet you gonna write it? All right. So hold on. It's okay. So nobody saw this except for Denzel. Denzel is the only person I can confirm or deny this story. Was it on set? That's what I'm starting to think. You sure the cameraman didn't yell in scene. He is 100% like okay, he's okay with the kiss scene whether it was in or whether it was out. All right, but they said it was no cut, no kiss, the cut. He said he kissed the guy on the hand, he ain't say the lips. No, he said hand and then he said lil peck. He said lil peck. What about that freaky ass reporter though? Talk about us gay boys wanna

see that freaky ass reporter. He said write me a script. He said you gon' write it? He said yeah listen he said he comfortable with himself he can do stuff like that it's all good. Restaurant shutdown after Keith Lee video so Keith Lee recently reviewed a restaurant called Fob Sushi in Seattle and in the clip of the review, he holds a piece of the sushi up to the camera and the viewers had pointed out that a piece of it was moving. What? Yes, a piece of it was moving. Like he actually ate it. Like it looked like something that was, it looked like a worm, honestly, on the tip of the video. They was, the restaurant was trying to say it was the way he was holding it with

the chopsticks, but yeah it with the chopsticks. But yeah, just listen. The video went viral causing the restaurant to make a statement. So basically they posted that they were grateful for the support of Keeflee and then they said the movement in the video was due to natural elasticity in the fish. It's not worms because everybody was saying, oh, it's worms, it's worms or whatever. Keeflee then shared a video addressing the comments about the sushi moving and the restaurant's claims.

We went to a place called 5 Sushi in Seattle the other day. Somebody slowed the video down and they did appear that something moved. I didn't see anything until somebody pointed it out. I can't confirm or deny what it was but I can confirm I am okay. I appreciate the people who actually did reach out and was worried about me. I'm alright. The only reason I'm making this video is because I just saw a video of somebody who went the day after us and now they hospitalized.

And I've already said a thousand times I don't believe in tearing down any business, but at the same time, people's health are on the line. So if somebody's standing in the hospital and there's something moving and food, I absolutely think there's accountability that should be taken. For the restaurant to post a statement

and indicate that me holding the sushi or me holding the chopsticks a certain way is why the sushi moved. I personally don't agree with it because I've had sushi a thousand times and I held sushi a thousand different ways and never once Have I seen sushi behave in that way sushi behaves in that way sounds crazy And they had to shut down two of their locations to investigate this situation a worm. Yep Allegedly, yep. Y'all go watch the video you can Yep, allegedly. Yeah, y'all go watch the video. You can you can see it You know a lawsuit is coming right? Absolutely. Yes, you know, the restaurant is absolutely positively probably about this Especially somebody got sick. Yeah, and they had to shut down. No, I'm not no no

I said the restaurant is going to sue Keith Lee For what if they had to shut down and they were their location and they're gonna say he probably made false claims or something Well, he didn't make any claims though. He was eating the food and people seen it. He didn't say He's gonna be the target though, but I can't sue the people and they already said we want to directly address a false statement about our Sashimi yeah, so they already you know you can't see that if you can't see that law school coming you Stevie one one. Oh no, not Stevie. Cause Stevie can see. Yeah, he can see it. Fetty Wap with one eye closed. Shut up man. But yeah, that is crazy. Ray J on Diddy allegations. So he appeared on News Nation with Chris Cuomo. Is this how you say his name? Chris Cuomo. Chris Cuomo. Okay. During the conversation, Ray J seems to be walking back all that energy that he

had for Diddy before. Do you still believe that we're going to see a lot of bold-faced names get pulled into this because of their knowledge or their participation in what Diddy is accused of? You know, I think that there might have been times where people have partied with a certain team of people and it might have been a freak-off at that party right but I can guarantee you most of the celebrities that's went to Diddy's parties never even heard of a freak-off but in this space now when you look back where were the freak-offs I've never seen a freak-off what does that really mean I mean is that really real was it really dope in the baby oil I mean what do you know what are what are we doing?

It's too late. I don't care how scared you are. That's right. It's too late, brother. The feds coming, Ray. The feds want to talk to you. Right. I don't know what made you the ditty expert or what made you want to jump out there and be the ditty expert. But boy, you're going to get us a peanut. You've been doing all this talking now. I don't even know where the freak off is. I never seen nothing.

That should have been your stance from the beginning. Additional information so speaking of Ray J it looks like Ray J teamed up with Pastor Jamal Brown who he was just beefing with last week for a movie called One Wish so they supposed to be doing a movie called One Wish. So this is all for promo? It could be. There's more Ray J Ray J'ing but that's that's a film in talks between him and pastor pastor I'm a pray for you because I don't know what you stepping into Ray J shared behind the scenes content from the classic project Jackie Long also

Appears in the images because it's just images of what may be forming right now and I'm assuming that a holy Trinity Jamal Bryant Jackie long and Ray J. No, please shut up. Shut up I'm assuming this was done before they fell out about their interview, but they were still talking about it Jimmy, Pastor Jamal, Brian, Jackie Long, and Ray J? No, please shut up. Shut up. I'm assuming this was done before they fell out about their interview, but they were still talking about it. So we just have to stay tuned to see what's going on. All right. That's Jess with the mess.

Thank you, Jess. Charlamagne, who you giving that down to? Could you? Man, four after the hour, I need a Baltimore man named Kevin Gross to come to. First of all, excuse me. And then why I think I be Kevin, because that's my father. I know, but it ain't your daddy oh okay you might

know him though your pops might know him his name is Kevin Gross he needs to come to the front of the congregation we like to have a word with him please all right we'll get to that Nexus the Breakfast Club good morning don't be out here acting like a donkey it's time for donkey of the day I'm a big boy I could take it. If you feel I deserve it, ain't no big deal. I know Charlamagne got some funny shit out of his mouth. If you say something you may not agree with,

doesn't mean I'm mean. Who's getting that donkey? That donkey, that donkey, that donkey, donkey, donkey. Donkey of the Day right here. Ha ha ha ha. The Breakfast Club, bitches. You can call me the Donkey of the Day, but like, I mean no harm.

Donkey of the Day for Wednesday, November 20th goes to a Baltimore man by the name of the day, but like, I mean no harm. Donkey of the day for Wednesday, November 20th goes to a Baltimore man by the name of Kevin Gross. Kevin is 46 years old, just like I am, but I clearly make better choices than Kevin. You know how sometimes people say, oh, you think you're better than me? The answer is yes. Yes, I do, because I make better choices.

Not judging you for anything you got going on, but you ask me a question. Oh, you think you're better than me better than me yes hell yes because I understand the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice and I make better choices than you and if you are currently enjoying this thing called freedom well you make better choices than Kevin as well because he's in jail currently facing charges for allegedly shooting a Okay and the way you continue to be better than Kevin is simply by making the choice not to shoot your co-worker. Let's go to WBAL TV for the report please. Bon denied for 46 year old Kevin Gross. He's facing charges for allegedly shooting a 28 year

old co-worker on the side of I-95 early Monday morning. According to charging documents the victim called 911. When state police arrived they found him walking along the shoulder of 95 with seven gunshot wounds to the arm and torso Court documents show he told police he was on his way into work and got a flat tire So he pulled over on the shoulder of 95 just north of the Howard County line When he got out to inspect the tire his co-worker Kevin gross pulled up behind him and got out wearing a mask covering his mouth. Quote, Gross told him he must have hit a pothole or something, but upon inspecting the tire, the victim could see the tire had been slashed. Gross then produced a firearm and began firing numerous shots.

End quote. Charging documents reveal the two were assistant managers at Planet Aid in Elkridge. Gross had recently been demoted and the victim told police Gross thought he had something to do with that demotion. Kevin you got the right last name because this was gross. What a diabolical plan. The victim was on his way to work and got a flat tire. He thought he hit a pothole but his tires had been slashed. Oh I wonder who slashed him? And then when he got out the inspector tire Kevin pulled up behind him with a mask and shot him several

times. All because he thought his co-worker got him demoted. Both of them were assistant managers at Planet Aid. Now y'all know what Planet Aid is right? No. Yeah they are the organizations that collect the clothing donations. They got the yellow bins all over the place where you can put the clothes and shoes in. Yeah. They accept clothing donations in 1,700 locations. Okay and the Elkridge can put the clothes and shoes in. Yeah. So I asked chat GPT how much does an assistant manager at Planet Aid make? I don't know if this is 100% correct but it says the average salary for a manager at Planet Aid might earn between 50,000 and 60,000 annually. Now I need y'all to always keep in mind that my education is limited to a high school degree from night school. Okay drop on the clues bomb for Berkeley High School in Moxcona South Carolina. But if it's one thing I understand

is prison math and by prison math I mean when you have to calculate in your mind whether or not the choice you make is going to be worth You going to prison. Okay. Now let's do the prison math. All right, i'm making 50 60 grand a year in baltimore As a 46 year old man, I don't know about y'all But if I can afford to put some food on my table and have a roof over my head i'm gonna be happy Okay, success is subjective and if you're a free man 46 years old you can come and go as you please, you got a job, you maintaining, that's a good life. If you don't think it's a good life,

go to a prison right now and talk to these brothers doing 15, doing 20, doing 25, some of them doing forever and ask them what they trade lives with the free man making 50 to 60 grand as an assistant manager at Planet Aid Hell. Even if he got demoted, okay, even if he got demoted, okay? Even if he got demoted, the warehouse lead role at Planet Aid

earns about 27.39 per hour, according to ChatGPT. That's almost 57 grand a year, if you work in 40 hours a week. All I'm saying is, no matter how much I calculate this prison math, okay? I've done addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. I tried to figure this out multiple ways. And guess what? It just don't compute. Okay, it just doesn't add up. The victim is in critical

condition. He got seven times he got shot seven times. Kevin Gross is charged with attempted first degree murder in Maryland. That's life in prison. First and second degree assault Kevin Gross is also charged with. First degree assault is 25 years in Maryland. Second degree assault is 10 years in Maryland. And he got other related charges. Moral of the story is,

Kevin is spending the rest of his natural born life in prison. Therefore, the prison math ain't adding up. It's just not worth it. You have to calculate it in your head. You got demoted. You don't even know if this person you shot had anything to do with it. But even if they did, as soon as you started formulating this plan in your head, just think about it. I'm going to cut his tires. I'm

going to shoot him a bunch of times. At some point your brain has to say, no, no, no, no, no. This prison math ain't mathin'. This is not a situation that's worth having to eat jail food for the rest of your life or having an inmate treat your bunkie like a bowl of cereal so please let Remy Ma give Kevin Gross the biggest hee-haw you stupid mother fucker are you dumb you got demoted take the L how do you get demoted from like a salvation army place? A goodwill place. And what could you do wrong? Yeah. I don't know but he didn't even ask no questions he just assumed it was just the other person and shot him seven times. Now he gonna spend the

rest of his life in prison for that? No add up. They don't need to play and you also Mean we can if you want to what you want to play a game He from Baltimore The white people in Baltimore, yes Come on in no Latinos in Baltimore. No, but something that petty like that like Like you got a point Clothes and store then it's not even like a regular clothing store. It's plan B. Yeah.

Like, nah. He black. Always do prison math though. Whenever you about to make a choice that you think is going to get you in some type of trouble especially if it's involving any type of crime, just calculate it in your head. Is this worth the time you're going to get for said situation? That's it. Alright.

Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now when we come back, Teslin Figaro will be joining us. We're gonna kick it with Tez. She's gonna give us a recap. She's a host of the Straight Shot No Chaser podcast. On the Black Effect Eye Heart Radio podcast network. That's right and we're gonna talk to her next. It don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Along the road, we're filling in for Jess.

We got a special guest in the building. Ladies and gentlemen, she's back, Ms. Teslin Figaro. Welcome back. Hello, hello, hello. How you feeling? What's happening, Tess? What's happening, Charlamagne the Guy? Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.

How you feeling this morning? I'm feeling good. I am. I'm really feeling good. It's good to be back, back with family, chop it up with y'all, drop some dimes, name some names. Okay. Yeah, here to get rid of them. We're dropping dimes on Taz. We're dropping dimes on everybody from top to bottom. Well, let's start right off with the presidential election. Why did VP Harris lose? Oh man, I should have brought my white board. That many?

Yeah, and the reason why this is important, I literally have brought my whiteboard. That many? Yeah. Is that many? Yeah. And the reason why this is important, I literally have my stuff in order because a lot of people, Envy said, you know, she lost because of this reason, she lost because of that. And it's really in the Midwest, a tornado requires water, humidity, wind, you know, multiple things. It's not one reason. It's not one reason. And when I hear people saying, you know, oh, if he just did better with the messaging,

or if they did better with the media, I've really kind of put together a list, a flow chart, on how basically a colossal from top to bottom. So you're doing the autopsy. Yeah, we're doing the autopsy. We're doing the full autopsy. So if we just really take it from the top, as we all said, Joe Biden should have never ran.

We have to first, you know, start there. Should have never ran. He said he was a one-time, was gonna be a one-term president. We talked about it multiple times. He actually volunteered that lie to say, hey, I'm only going to run one term. I'm coming in just to stop Trump. Immediately then, they should have started building a base.

Immediately, right out the gate. Trump was still campaigning this entire time. We talked about it. We talked about how it was constant rallies, constant organizing. You and I talked about it on the Van Jones Show. We're saying you guys really have to continue the organizing year round. And that's why I blame a lot of the people at the top who have the ear of the candidates and campaign consultants because they've been told this multiple, multiple times.

So we should have found a white man right then and there who was going to be next in line to build a nation. A white man. A white man. A young white man. Absolutely. Young white man right then and there and it's not gonna Newsome by the way a lot of people know saying that a governor newson will get swarmed So from the door you didn't think Kamala was gonna win No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no like them. So y'all this is Questlove and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the story pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records.

It's a family friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimny, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all, Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast

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Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Great debater, he would have got swamped. You have to remember, he literally passed the bill K-12 to have shared bathrooms with

gender. So imagine what conservatives would have dealt with that all over the nation, the homelessness and all of that. So then yes, number three, America was not going to vote for a woman of color, period. In the history of black women and white women allyship, alleged allyship, I have never known a white woman to give a job to a woman of color before they got it. That includes even McDonald's on fries. Just not going to happen.

Have you ever, have a white woman ever said, you know what, I think you're more qualified, go ahead and take it. They didn't give it to Hillary Clinton. They were not gonna give it to her I know there was hope I know you talked about you know believing in us, but it was never about us believing in us It was about us knowing them. It's not about being qualified This was when it came down to saying they didn't give it to Hillary Clinton. Why would they give it to Harris? So that was to me an error right out the gate, but we had no choice because by I think I think Kamala as a black woman is the only reason, first of all, two things.

The last two elections, the Democratic party need to be thinking black women, right? Because if it wasn't for Jim Clyburn telling Joe Biden, Hey, I'm not endorsing you unless you promise that you're going to put a black woman on the Supreme Court. I'm not endorsing you. So that's what made him endorse Joe Biden. He went South Carolina changes the complexion of his campaign. If it wasn't for Kamala Harris in 2020, I think a lot of us wouldn't have went out there and voted for president Biden.

I didn't vote for president Biden. I voted for vice president Kamala Harris. I also think in 2024, when you look at the fact that Joe Biden's presidency was dead, like completely dead in the water and Kamala Harris came to the top of the ticket, raised all of this money, ended up having the second most votes of any Democratic nominee ever with 74 million votes. I think that only happens because she's a black woman. Well, two things can be true at the same time.

There can be some positives that came with that, but there also can be some negatives where we look at the data, we don't have to guess. We looked at where white women aligned. We looked at where the Latino community aligned. We looked at the bottom line data that shows. Latino men, that was a surprise. Yeah, why was it a surprise?

You don't think so? No, no. Latinos have always split their vote. They did that before, right? 50-50. They've always, when you look at, you know I organized for the Bernie Sanders campaign in Michigan.

I was the only black woman on the ground in 2015 to help flip that state. Latino community has always been divided. When you look at Florida, and you look at the Cuban community, they've always went conservative. When you look at the Bernie Sanders, the left side, the California, they always go left. They have always strategically – and I ain't mad about it – they've always strategically been able to have leverage because they go

50-50. You remember when Joe Biden told black leaders when he won it, right after he said I owe you black people. Remember when they had the meeting and they leaked the tapes in front of Al Sharpton and all of them and, y'all need to go follow the Latino community because they're the ones that have the leverage. So I'm not mad at it, but we need to talk about it for what it is. There might be a black and brown coalition in New York. You know, I've talked about that all the time. That changed too. That changed too. They're moving over. When you talk about the South, when you talk about

the Midwest, and particularly when you talk about the West, there is no black-brown coalition, and it's okay for people to vote their interests. Also got news for you, black men are conservative, doing my Joe Biden whisper. Black people are conservative. I don't know why people wanna keep making that not an issue. So when you're talking about black men, and you're talking about other black people

with majority of the country in the South, majority are moderate. I know progressives wanna sell a different story, but black people for the most part are moderate and a lot of them lean conservative. We're gonna get into that when we get into the messaging. But let's just kind of go back a little bit. I agree that there was some positives to it.

But when it came down to it, when we looked at race, white women to me, just like they did in the midterm, just like they did when they were with Obama, then they went with Trump, and then they went back to Democrats in the midterms, and then they flipped back. When you're midterms, and then they flipped back. When you're talking about white supremacy and talking about positioning, like what they did with the women's suffrage movement, I just didn't see them doing it for a black

woman over them. They didn't do it with Hillary Clinton. The only person that ever beat Donald Trump is Joe Biden, and I agree it was dead. But 55% of white women voted for Trump over Biden. Right, to align with white supremacy. To align, because this is about white supremacy. This is about would they rather have their household ahead of you as a black man?

Or they vote their husbands. That's exactly it, and nothing's wrong. And people need to stop these punters getting them in there. They went against their own interests. No, their interests is their household. Your interest is your interest, my interest is my interest. When I keep hearing people say that, they went against their own interests.

No, they've actually aligned with their interest Which is white man, white woman, black man, black woman. That's the order. That's how it is. Black people are the side chick. Bottom line We need to just accept that. I know we want to say black girl magic. I know we want to say Oh, because blackness and that. Black women can't save this country. We need to stop selling that dream Let's get in position and understand what we can do Which is why I was talking about the local and state level, and stop trying to sell this timeshare scam. Because to me, it was a timeshare scam. I agree with you that there was really no other choice because Joe Biden was trash.

We get that he was trash. So once they said, okay, let's rally around Harris. Now she's a Democrat nominee. Okay, so cool. We with that. Black women raised $30 million after gate. Black men raised $30 million after gate. So now we're having to deal with who dropped this bag? Who dropped this billion dollar bag? And that's the issue

where we get into how they spent the money. I didn't think she had a chance in hell, but once you decided to move forward, okay, so what do we do with the money? Black voters, they lost black voters across the board. That one, two percent across the board makes a difference when you talk about Michigan, makes a difference in North Carolina. So that's where we get into your concern when you talk about messaging, where the messaging was all wrong. All right, we got more with Teslin Figaro when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Teslin Figaro. Lauren? So what you think about Trump's cabinet and like his choices for his cabinet right now?

Because I mean, these are the people that are going to have to be. Yeah, I don't think nothing. I think Republicans ran, Democrats ran is going to be a dictator. Guess what? They want a dictator. We've been saying this forever. We've been talking about this, this day of bipartisanship and let's just get it through Congress. We said, Charlotte, you know, I said it a million times, like with the George

Ford act, reducing college debt, doing executive order. Everybody said, you can't do executive order. Got to go through Congress. Republicans is going to change it back. If you get in, they're going to change it back. Guess what? Republicans don't give a damn about changing it back. They changed back Roe vs. Wade. They changed back a whole bunch of shit, Obamacare and everything else. Democrats refuse to work as a dictator. They want a dictator. Everybody's saying, oh man, he's going to be a dictator. Right. That's why they want it. Oh yes. He's

going to take migrants out. Yes. That's what they wanted people He stopped saying that online is driving me crazy old Latinos. Oh man. Oh man Y'all about to see they want the immigrant people who are legal who come out of this country legal They are literally telling you yes We do we don't support illegal immigration So people are thinking they saying something on social media. Oh y'all gonna see no they want a dictator We Democrats ran on democracy. They ran on dictators. Y'all be a dictator day one. That's exactly what they want. A dictator. Somebody's gonna push the line. Somebody's gonna get damn bad what Congress is talking about. Somebody that say I don't care what the rules are.

I'm gonna do what I want to do. They want a gangster. Period. Yeah, I agree with that. I wouldn't say dictator, but they want somebody that don't give a f***. Well, he said he was gonna be a dictator on day one. He said that on day one, but I think what people mean when they say they just want somebody that's gonna say you know what as long as things are getting done for the people I don't care how it gets done. Like John Stewart did a great monologue and he was just like Democrats always follow the norms and Republicans don't follow the norms. They gonna find those loopholes to break the... Which is kind of like dictatorship though. No I wouldn't call it dictatorship. He said he gonna. He said he's gonna do what he wanna do. That's what he's talking about.

He ain't gonna play the political game. He ain't gonna play the political game. So I mean that's saying I'm gonna do this and if you don't do it, it's gonna be hell to pay. If you don't do it, you know, I'm gonna make sure you don't win. If you don't do it, I'm gonna call you out. We talked about this with Joe Manchin. They let, they set up, now Joe Manchin cedars to a Republican.

We've been talking about this. This has been going on for the last 15 years. This loss was not just what happened in the last 100 days. This has been, at least from my experience, 2007. I can name year over year over year on what's going on, what happened, on how we got it. And then another thing I want to bring up on this messaging, abortion. Democrats ran on reproductive rights and democracy. Fell right out the gate. You had states like Arizona and Nevada that had abortion on the ballot. So Democrats mindset is, let's put abortion on the ballot and that's going to bring, you know, people so people know get out to vote.

Go TV. That's how you get out to vote. Oh, they're going to go to the polls now that abortions on the ballot. Well what you did meatball head, you actually allow Republican women who were pro-choice to actually vote for abortion and still vote for Trump. There's no rule that says if you support pro-choice that you won't vote for Trump. So Republican women in Nevada and in Arizona literally had the opportunity to bring abortion back and still vote for Trump.

So Democrats shot themselves even in the foot if you were expecting women to go vote for reproductive rights because you gave them an out. So the messaging was wrong out the gate. We talked about that, not running on the economy, not running, but I still think though, even if she would have ran on all those things, they still would have voted for Joe Biden half dead weekend at Bernie's. I don't think so, Ted. They didn't even win Scranton. Joe would have at least won Scranton. He would have won Scranton.

Harris lost Scranton. I think Joe would have got like 65 million votes. Okay so if what you're saying is true, what was all, because I felt how you feel now is how I felt in the beginning. And then when I saw the excitement and the money moving and all of that, I was like we got a chance. What was all of that then? Why was that then?

I didn't think Joe would win either. I didn't think he was going to win. But he should have held the L. When you got the doughnut saying we're not giving you no more money, Joe, you didn't have no choice. That's right. So let's be clear, they did not have a choice. Because George Clooney and them said, yeah, they said they didn't have no choice.

So two things be true at the same time. They had to put Harris in, no doubt about that. I'm not disagreeing with that, but I still don't think they would have voted for her. They just wouldn't, they're just not going to give something that they didn't give first. Did she do the best that she could? Yes. Did she do everything they told her to do? Yes. Did she have 100 days to do it? Yes.

This is not about shitting on her. This is about setting up a woman to fail in 100 days to do the damn near impossible. I think Joe Biden should have took that L. He's the one that said, you know, he was going to run. He's the one that set up there the entire time. Let him take the L. Can she run again? Would you advise her to run again?

No, I wouldn't. You think she should run again? No, because again, we got to stop with the... I don't know what this obsession we got with federal. Let them have it. Let's talk about, especially Republicans announcing, give it to the state. If you really want to make real change in your community, I know it's not as sexy, I know it's not as exciting, but it really is at the state level.

It really is at the local level. If you believe and you want to fund the public schools, you can do it at a local level. You say, you know what, I want charter schools. I want to be able to educate our own. You can do that at the local level. If you believe and you want to fund the public schools, you can do it at a local level. You say, you know what, I want charter schools. I want to be able to educate our own. You can do that at the local level. Why are we so infatuated with this White House? I don't get it. Why not be in Atlanta council with 16 other people, in Orlando with six other people? You'll be able to say, I'm going to write a check to the Black Business Investment Fund, you know, to be able to say, hey, here's some money to go start a business. You can pass reparations at the local level.

So I don't understand this obsession that we have with this federal thing. And I'm going to be honest with you, Lauren, black women, a lot of times we get caught up and it's wanting to be validated so damn bad. So when the excitement was there, when everybody's like, Oh man, we can do this. We can do this. Black girl, man, we do this. We do this. We do this. This validation of needing to be affirmed, needing to say, you are qualified enough. You are good enough. A lot of that played into it. A lot of that played into it. But let's not forget, 3,000 black women did a petition and said, Joe Biden, keep

your ass in. They ignored that and went with the money to Charlemagne's point. They didn't have a choice. I agree with you, especially about the state thing. You know there's something else Trump said that man landed and I was, I'm still trying to figure out how did he land this because it's so hard to get people to focus on this. The abortion thing, right? He told them I want it to be in the hands of the state. So whenever you would have conversations with people about, you know, abortions on

the ballot, they'd be like, no, Trump just wants it to be in the hands of the state. I've never seen a politician convince people on a national level. It's going to be local and that's fine. And they buy into it. Well, Trump can get anybody to buy in anything he say. I mean, he's a total, Democrats have never been equipped to run against Trump. Let's just name it. You know, let's just say they've never been equipped to run against him.

He's too petty, he goes too low, he don't give a damn what y'all talking about. And he's an entertainer first. He's an entertainer first. And so they've never been equipped to go against this man, never. But to your point Charlamagne, for those that understand the state's rights, and when you go back to Reagan, the reason why black people are against it is because what it does is it disenfranchises us even more. So if you're saying, okay, in Oklahoma, you can't get access to healthcare, but you can

get access to healthcare in California, very liberal, these are folks that can't just pick up and go to California to get what they need, don't have the money. So it affects poor people in a very bad way, the state's rights. But conservatives, they like states, give it to the states. Their mindset, if you don't like it, move somewhere else. But not enough of us have the resources to just move somewhere else, to just move where things may be favorable to you. So as black voters, we're always trying to carry the lease of these and everybody else

and think about everybody else. But the reality is, Charlamagne, people are only looking out what's in front of their doorstep. Remember when Governor DeSantis reduced the gas? When they was talking about, you can't do nothing about the gas when gas was so high. He said, oh no, I can do something about it. This is why I can talk about state. So when people remember that, even though there's more liberal, more Democrat voters

in Florida, people remember what affected their pocket. And that Republican governor made a difference. Kemp in Georgia made a difference, was passing out Kemp cards. He did the same thing Trump did when he signed his name. He gave him Kemp cards. People remember that. So even if they don't like Republicans, even if they don't like Trump, when you're looking at how that affects your money daily, it makes a difference. And that's where they lost as far as really trying to understand, you know,

the economic conversation, especially with black people. That's right. Thank you for having me, guys. We appreciate you for joining us. Thank you for letting me go through my list. That's all good. It's Tevin Figaro. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. I want to tell somebody something. Tell them. Monks Corner South Carolina, this Saturday, Berkeley High School student parking lot, my 11th annual Turkey giveaway is happening from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in Monks Corner, South Carolina

this Saturday. 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Yes, Berkeley High School Student Parking Lot. My 11th Annual Turkey Giveaway. So I'll see y'all there Saturday. I've been working with you what, 16, 15, 16 years? I've never been to Monks Corner. That's your fault.

You should take us. I ain't never been to Queens. Yes you have. Yes you have. I don't think I've ever been to Queens. You've been to Queens. I don't think so. Man, if your flight lands in LaGuardia, JFK, been to Queens. Yes you have. Yes you have. I don't think I ever been to Queens. You've been to Queens. I don't think so. Man, if your flight lands in LaGuardia,

JFK that's Queens. That don't count. No, you mean like in the hood, on the street. First of all, I wouldn't be in the hood. I have nothing to be there. Okay, I don't know why we would want to go to everybody's hoods. Okay.

That's why we want to go to Monk's Corner. Why you want to go down there? Monk's Corner is the next rural area. Oh, it was rural? Yes, rural. Oh, okay. Rural, rural. Is that where you brought Remy Moore that time? No I had Remy in Summerton South Carolina but that's also a rural area. It sounds very rural. Rural. Yeah. Let's get to Jess with the mess. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could

get you to see. It's time to set it on. Quincy and Christian Combs take legal action. So TMZ reported that Quincy and Christian sent the cease and desist letter to Courtney Burgess and his attorney. This story was covered over my maternity leave. Courtney Burgess is the man who alleged that he obtained a flash drive containing Kim Porter's personal writings from people close to her and used it to publish the Kim Porter Tell All book. Since the release of the book, family and friends of Kim Porter maintain that the information that he claims to have does not Since the release of the book, family and friends of Kim Porter maintain that the information

that he claims to have does not exist. According to the document, the kids are also denying the existence of a flash drive period, calling the claim patently false. They argue that if it was a flash drive that exists, then they would own it, like it would belong to them. They're giving Burgess five days to release Kim's possessions to them, stop all interviews, and stop selling the book. then they would own it like it would This is the calm before the storm. That's crazy. That's how much money they made off that book. Yeah, I mean Imagine they pulled it all right. They pulled it off the stores know what not a decent. No, no They got five days to do so. Wow. Yeah, but yeah, I know I know the sales went through the roof

You know what I mean? Cuz anybody you know That would especially all the stuff surrounding Diddy like if if if somebody is saying like oh there was a tell-all but you know before she passed away there people just speculating they wanting to see you know what I mean what's going on whether they K or not I know they want to buy it just to have it anyway. Davido on Ancestry Kits so he did an interview with Big Homies House and during the interview he questioned how accurate DNA ancestry tests actually are, which I've done my whole life as well.

I don't even believe that. You know when people go, they be like, oh, they want to check where they're from? How does that work with the blood? I don't know. That's another questionable part about it because what do you really, it's like you're trusting these people that you don't know who you've never met to give you an accurate description of your ancestry. I think everybody should just visit Africa and just choose the country they want to be from.

So that's what we should do. Yeah, just choose where you want to be from. All right then, so I'm going to adopt the Nigerian culture. Okay, that's exactly what I mean. I gotta find some good food though. I'm the boy, the president, so I'm taking. What? Oh, so I'm good.

Of course you're good. Was that Big Homie talking? That was Big Homie talking. Big Homie, stop it, you gotta find some good food. course you good with that big homie talking that was Big homie, he got a fine some good food clearly you ain't never been to happen. What are you talking about? Gone in Nigeria, they got great food. Joburg great food. I've always said that though I've always said that I don't trust the DNA kits the ancestry I mean like you you sending your blood into where was like cuz you got a prick yourself You got a senior blow you got a weight and then for everybody to get the same results Everybody I mean like I know a couple people who've done that and they all got the same the whole the same percentage

Same percentage of Congo, Nigeria like all of that like cuz for me I'm from I'm born in Charleston South Carolina Right, so that's a lot of like West, it's like a West African, right? So it's like for me, I'm Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and so a lot of people born, and at least people that I know that are born in Charleston that have done their African ancestry test, it comes back the same thing. Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone.

Like anywhere in the West African region. Yeah, I just still don't trust it. Just having to send your blood in like I just If I had to pick though, I'll probably pick Ghana love Nigeria though, but I would probably pick Ghana Yeah, sometimes it is a swat like this Some of them you have to prick like you it's like a finger prick and you send it out and yours was what like 50% Dominican 50% European, right? I'm not talking to him.

What did you do? I mean, what did it come back? I don't remember. There was a lot of Dominican in Europe. No, it wasn't. It was West African. He knows it was West African. I don't know about that.

Oh, West African? Yes, I'm not Dominican. You're Albino. I'm not Spanish. I'm not. I'm not. I'm an Albino. West African Albino.

Oh my goodness. Damn. Oh my God. It's a big deal. You know what? Forget you. Go ahead. That's so messed's why that's why your lashes are like light You die everything else, okay Anyway

Scarlet defense new freestyle. No, I like this freestyle. I don't I won't hear it I like the beginning and she went on and it was like, Oh, okay. But I feel like she talking to the Commonwealth folk. You know what I'm saying? But I love this, this play on backpack that she took from Dora the Explorer. That girl said you ain't fly unless you got a Puma backpack. You know what I'm saying? That's alright. I mean that's talking to the people who can, you know, like, want to be fly and they're

affordable stuff. You know what I'm saying? That's a dope freestyle. And if you shop like shop like a like Planet 8 yeah this song is for you it's just creative it feels like a mix it would have been on a mix a back in the day it's all it'd be scaring the host Okay, well she's scaring the kids We're saying this is the current state of female rap look we've been doomed By the way people just be having a problem with female rap because it don't matter who it is rapping as a woman. They'd be upset about it.

These days. No, because Glorilla be killing it. Cash Doll be killing it. Crazy. Crazy. I love it. Lado also. Lado. I love Scallop. I loved it from the beginning. But she said, you know, I just be having fun with music. I just save what's on my mind. I really enjoy creating and doing what I do. But hey, not everybody gonna like it. And I'm all right with music. I just say what's on my mind I really enjoy creating and doing what I do But hey not everybody gonna like it and I'm all right with that but don't give me forced hate and I understand it

That's just I just want to hear scallops say raw raw like a dungeon dragon All right, we got the people's choice mix is the breakfast local board morning everybody is DJ envy Jess Hilarious I'm in the guy. we are the Breakfast Club. Now we gotta salute IDK from joining us, DMV area, what up? Salute to IDK, man. Also, Tess and Figaro stop too. Hey, my girl. That's right, salute to Tess,

make sure you check out this great shot, No Chase podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. And I wanna tell everybody, man, in Mounts Corner and surrounding areas, everybody listening to us on Z93 Jams right right now this Saturday is my 11th annual turkey giveaway in Mount Corner South Carolina you know Thanksgiving is next week so from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. we will be at the Berkeley High School student parking lot in Mount

Corner South Carolina giving up giving away those free birds man so we'll see y'all this Saturday 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Berkeley High School Student Parking lot and that's not that's just like for families like you know who have less and all that I never understood when people say like yo we give them the way to you to the homeless is like where they gonna cook it at you know I'm always thought about that I just felt like that was always you know I don't like that you know if it was for homeless people I'd do the meal yeah like already cooked and yeah okay like the food bank in You know what I'm saying? If it was for homeless people, I'd do the meal. Yeah, like already cooked and okay. Like the food bank in Harlem, you know what I'm saying?

I do a lot of work with the food bank in Harlem. The food bank in Harlem, they'll have meals next week for people. Or like the Hope Center in Charleston, South Carolina, I do a lot of work with them too. They'll have meals for the people. Yes. Okay. But you know, we just putting turkeys in people's trunks. This is for people who have somewhere to cook them Jess. That's nice. Thank you. I wanted to make sure. Alright. When we come back positive note is the breakfast

club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. It's time to get up out of here. Now Charlamagne you got a positive note. I do and it's really just this simple man. Somebody once said no matter how good you are people will judge you according to their own Insecurity so remember that the next time you're being judged have a great day