The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Kendrick Sweeps The Grammys In All Categories Nominated, Beyonce Wins Album Of The Year, Doechii Puts Her Stamp On The Grammys + More

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

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You know how crazy it is. So her first performance was Friday at 7 a.m. So she was up at 4 a.m. getting ready because you know it's a whole routine, makeup and getting the hair right and costumes right. So it was pretty dope. So my one daughter won first and this is over like a thousand kids so she was first place. That was Little Brooklyn. And London was fifth and ninth because they performed two solo. One solo she was in ninth place, one solo was in fifth which is still great because it's like thousands of kids. So we were super duper excited. We spent Guia's birthday in dance mode. So it was fun, a lot of fun just with

the kids. It was a lot of fun. Do you know the choreography? Did you know? Do I know it? Yeah, of course. Of course. I know it. I'm like go! Hand, pointy toe, flip, turn around, out, out. What did Titi want? No, no, no, Titi, no, no, no. Doing it for fun in the mirror, for no reason. Not even with your baby. So? Just doing it because you like to do it. So?

Dang. What about you, what you did all weekend, Shana? I was in Houston for a little bit. I went to a wedding, sleut the Inyo and Derrick. They got married. Two, well, I'm saying that, black people know them, but those are my peoples. Okay.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Well, congratulations to them. I'm sure you cried. Congratulations, Inyo and Derrick. Nah, they cry, I like Wendz. I enjoy Wendz and Inyo is from Ghana. He would never cry on a bye Wendz. It's a very long, long ceremony. Actually a couple of them.

Really? Yeah, and then the food and then the dancing. Like nobody does anything like people from Ghana do. It's always high level. Always, dance, oh my God of dancing, music, high energy. Yes, everything. Don't come down to those. That's what's up.

I know some of the coaches, I don't know if it's the Ghana coaches, but when they get married, they throw money on the people getting married. They definitely did that, absolutely. Wow. How much did you throw? I don't know how much my wife threw,

she threw something. That's what's up. So you have to do that? Yeah, do they tell you beforehand to get ready? Like, hey, just That's what's up. Yeah. So you have to do that? Yeah, do they tell you beforehand to get ready? Like, hey, just know this is the coach's so make sure you have your money. Yeah, I know. That's a good question. That's what's up.

I just know that everybody had the ones and it was on. That is what's up. I can't wait to go to a, what is it, Ghanaian wedding? I don't know if that's what you call it. Oh, okay. But yes, she was definitely practicing her customs. That's what's up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's dope. That's dope. All right. Well, let's definitely practicing her customs. That's what's happening.

That's dope. That's dope. Alright, well let's get the show cracking. Jason Wilson will be joining us today. Man, Jason has a new book called Demand, the Moment Demands Out Right Now. Fantastic, fantastic read, man. Jason's one of my favorite people on the planet. You see him at the Mental Wealth Expo all the time.

You probably watched his documentary on ESPN called the cave of Adelam I know I'm pronouncing that wrong definitely sounds wrong, but Jesus I know I'm figuring out But jays is a great brother man. He'll be here this morning. All right Well, let's get to front page news when we come back and I mean, I know we're gonna talk Grammy's It's only right ahead. I mean Kendrick might have put life-skin people out forever Steph Curry I wouldn Curry at this point. And Chris Brown still, he did. But boy, man, I didn't think it could be lights out. Last night might've been lights out.

They're in the Zoom booth this weekend? Oh my God. Started over one more time. You're not supposed to do that as a base person. You are never supposed to restart this record, ever. You're supposed to act like this doesn't even happen. You gotta congratulate that, brother. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. Five Grammy wins last night for Kendrick.

Yes. Five. Yeah, congratulations to Kendrick. You think Drake cried himself to sleep last night? I don't think Drake turned around. He probably had his fist balled up like awesome. I think he knew. He already knew that. He knew it was gonna happen so he probably didn't even watch. He gonna sue the Grammys, man. He definitely gonna amend gonna happen. So he probably didn't watch you gonna sue the Grammys Let's get in some front page news Now over the weekend sports the Lakers traded Luca for Anthony Davis I don't even know what that was about. I am confused about that trade I mean if you really think about it, the Mavericks made it to the finals last year So why would you live your biggest piece?

Well after reason they saying he was 270 pounds You really think about it, the Mavericks made it to the finals last year, so why would you leave your biggest piece? Well, that's the reason. They say he was 270 pounds, but for me, you don't trade a generational franchise player just because they gain weight. You go get them a trainer and a nutritionist. Right. They just went to the finals last year. Since when has his weight been a problem? Yeah, yeah, that's my whole thing.

Some people are saying that this way they don't have to pay the max contract, but like you said, he was the face of the Mavericks. Man. Makes no sense. He's 25 years old. could knock off one of them top executives girl, man That ain't no way in hell. I guess what I think they know something about Luca We don't know but I don't understand this trade at all. But now the Lakers have a face to the Lakers for the next what? Ten years. He's only 25 years old. I'm sure LeBron to be retired in the next couple of years So now they got a new face. I mean that would be the good part of it

LeBron can teach him some discipline you know what I mean? LeBron can possibly teach him how to train and eat right and all of that good stuff. He'll be a good teacher for Duke Luca. It's not like Luca needs it other than you know learning how to be disciplined I guess. Right but you know the sad thing about it what people don't think about is they got to uproot their families like you know Luca's been in Dallas for the last six seven years. That man ain't even from here. That man is uprooted his family I mean from Russia so when he comes from wherever he come from is nothing is work way worse than

what he's doing now over the last seven years all his family's in a whole other country somewhere yes and also Clarissa Shields she won over the weekend I watched it last night yeah how was the fight? It was good. She cracked that chick so hard at the end. She was fighting Danielle Perkins. I think her name was.

Danielle Perkins looked big during the weigh-in. She did look big. I was like, Jesus. Clarissa was breaking it down. And at the end, she cracked it with her right hand to the jaw. Jesus. Dropped it to her knees. All right.

Well, good morning, ma again. Papoose was there, too. Good morning. Good morning, DJ Envy, Charlamagne the God, and Jess Hilarious. Y right. Well, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. DJ envy, Charlemagne, the God and Jess hilarious. Y'all doing good on Monday. All right. Well, let's get into it. First and foremost, happy black history month. I don't know if we mentioned that, but quick, yeah, quick history lesson. Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He is credited with bringing black history month to prominence in the 1920s. Woodson launched Negro history week in February to promote the diversity of black achievements in America.

He chose the month of February because it included the civil rights, the birthdays of civil rights activists, educator Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free black people from slavery. So you know how everybody be like, why is February the shortest month? Well, that's why and understand that we graduated from a week to a month. So in 1976, President Gerald Ford issued a proclamation to reflect on both the history of and teachings of African Americans whose contributions to society were left out of history books looks like we've come so far. And so yeah, we continue to celebrate Black History Month in schools, communities across the nation or do we? Meanwhile, President Trump, he also issued a proclamation that February 2025 is National

Black History Month. It reads in part that every year, National Black History Month is an occasion to celebrate the contributions of so many black Americans, patriots who have indelibly shaped our nation's history. You can read more of his proclamation at whitehouse.gov. And while we're here, did they cancel it or something? And we didn't know why did he have to do a proclamation and remind us that February.

Oh, so that's the part we don't necessarily know. But just a suggestion to the current administration, when you reference black people, make sure you use the big B, not the little B. And I know we love to add S on the black on the back of things, but you know, blacks, yeah, let's highly advise against them. I'm not going to get too much into that.

Let's get more into what is coming from the latest administration. President Trump, he's imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico. They went into effect on Saturday, but Trump made his case to reporters saying the U.S. is going to have nearly a $200 billion deficit with Canada and a $250 billion deficit with Mexico, not to mention he blamed them for sending illegal immigrants over the southern border. going to have nearly a $200 billion deficit with Canada and a $250 billion deficit with Mexico. Not to mention he blamed them for sending illegal immigrants over the southern border. Yesterday he was on boarding Marine One when he said he will be speaking with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today and Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum later today.

So let's hear those comments from President Trump. I'm speaking with Prime Minister Trudeau tomorrow morning and I'm also speaking with Mexico comments from President Trump. Canada. I disagree with the leadership of Canada and something's going to happen there. But if they want to play the game, I don't mind. We can play the game all they want. This is not why people voted for Trump. They voted for Trump because they want financial relief, not more financial hardship. Well, in reference to playing the game, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already announced retaliatory tariffs on US products in response to

Trump imposing tariffs on Canadian imports. And just to give you insight here some of the things you can expect to go up from Canada and Mexico. I'm just gonna group them all in maple syrup, beer, whiskey, lobster, eggs, beef, pork, salmon, wheat, cheese, and that's just to name a few on the Canadian side. Eggs, apples, beans, tequila, avocado, peppers, beans, limes, corn, mangoes, it's a lot. And then of course the auto industry, oil industry, and energy industry also stand to be impacted. Yeah, Kennedy, looks like we're running out of time.

Okay, so I'll get a little bit more into that in the next hour and we'll also talk about, we'll get caught up with what's going on with the plane crash. And it seems as though we've, tragedy has struck again in terms of the airlines or not so much the airlines but air traffic if you would. So we'll talk more about that in the next hour but these tariffs is, yeah, expect to see it in pocket. You're going to feel it at the grocery store. Yes, within the next few weeks, within a month they say we should see and feel it so we'll get more. Yeah in the next few weeks within them within a month

They say we should see and feel it so we'll get more into that in the next hour though All right everybody else get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one oh five one if you need to vent hit us Up right now again eight hundred five eight five one oh five one get it off your chest. It's the breakfast club Good morning the breakfast club This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, DJ and B. This is Devin from Sacramento, California.

Hey, what's up Devin? Good morning. Get it off your chest, mama. Good morning. I have a couple things to get off my chest. Oh, first of all, good morning. I have a couple things to drop my chest. Oh first of all good morning Uncle charla is just there. Yeah Are you good morning? Just maybe I am good. I have a few things to get on my chest one uncle charla. I wrote a poetry book that I want you to read um But second of all, I have a problem. I've been trying to get in for weeks since the fire started.

I live in Sacramento and I've worked for the government and water resources previously. And just what you, I feel like what you guys have been saying on the radio is not correct. I've heard a few listeners from SoCal saying that oh they restrict our water and da da da da da. California has been in a drought for years. We experience that in Northern California. I can't water my grass on certain days. I wasn't able to water my grass for years. And then let's talk about how Trump just ordered federally to release dam water without notifying the residents or the counties who would have

to be affected by that. And that creates extreme problems for those residents using those counties. Damn. That is wild. We listening? We don't know anything about this. We listening. extreme problems for those residences in those counties. Damn. That is wild. We listening? We don't know anything about this.

We're just, we're listening. Well, I'm telling you, this happened, I believe it was Thursday night of last week. He did an executive order to open the dams in three counties in California. And those counties were not ready. Homes and neighborhoods were flooded because of the uneducation and his whatever. You know, I don't understand about stuff like that.

I know. I can't even call it government. What I don't understand about stuff like that is where are the checks and balances like, cause even if the president orders, there was no checks and balances uncle Charlotte because he said, I'm the president, I'm doing a federal order, open the dam. Yeah, but my, my thing is, if you're, if you're somebody who actually Senator, but Padilla did say this, this is not okay. You did

not give accurate time for the residents or the counties to respond or for the residents or complicit in knowing that what he's doing is wrong. Like I don't that's what I heard is they got a two hours notice. Two hours off during not office time, you cannot alert everybody. That's crazy. That's why I'm saying. And I understand you blame Democrats for a lot of what's going on,

but a lot of what's going on is unprecedented. And you cannot blame the officials for wanting to go through the proper channels. Oh no I definitely blame Democrats for what's going on because it's Democrats cowardice that got us in this situation to begin with. No I understand that but it's now government officials who don't have the power that we're not in the presidency. Our Senate representatives who for example represent these counties they didn't have a response time. Senator Padilla was very vocal about

this. This is what I heard on my local news for the past four days. Absolutely. Well thank you for checking in and giving us a call mama and again you know we hope that you guys are getting the word and they can figure that situation out because it just seems nasty that you guys have not been able to water grass for over a year and you're having such a water problem. Get it off your chest 800-585-1051 if you need to vent hit us up now it's the Breakfast Club good morning. The Breakfast Club Ray Ray Ray

Yo Charlamagne Gizzy what up are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Shamai from North Carolina. How you doing? BJ Nipsey Shuller, this is Jess Hilarion. What's up, Shamai? Get it off your chest.

Today is my 21st birthday. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be back. What's up, Kamba? How you doing? BJ, NBA Shredder, this is Jess Hilarion. What's up, Shemar? Get off your chest. Today is my 21st birthday. Hey.

I'm glad to be in the number today. Congratulations, brother. A lot of people woke up dead, man, so I'm happy that you woke up 21. Yeah, I'm grateful to be in the number. You know, I'm a communications student at Fayetteville State University. That's right.

And, you know, I'm glad to see another year. Word, what you wanna do when you graduate? I wanna be a sports or entertainment reporter. Okay. That's my ultimate goal, yeah, either on radio or television. Charlotte, maybe you've met before. I met you over the summer.

I remember. I read your book signings in New York, yeah. I remember, cause you came up to me and you told me exactly what you just said on there. Every time he calls, he says it, so we know you are. That's what I remember. book signings in New York. Yeah, I remember cuz you came up to me and you told me exactly what you just said on there. Every time he calls he says it so we know you are. That's what I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I really appreciate it. Hi Jess, how you doing? How's your baby? I'm good. She's great. Thank you for asking. Happy birthday love. Thank you so much. I appreciate y'all. Alright, you keep working bro. Keep growing. Hello, who's this? Yeah. Hey, can you get it off your chest? Um, I'm just up calling and hi to you guys. I'm glad they found me giving Chris Brown his flowers

Yes, girl. Yeah, they're black falling for a long time. Yes They're happy about it, too. They're just But thank you Chris Chris won a Grammy. I think it's been 12 years. So congratulations. I'm happy Chris won a Grammy I'm sitting there trying to figure out, you know, where was Chris, you know, for that Quincy Jones performance? He should have been doing the Michael Jackson part. All love the Janelle Monae. But I ain't seen Michael Jackson do 90%

of that stuff she was doing. No. You know what I'm saying? And plus, my thing was, when I saw his documentary, I felt like if you pass a lick you get one back So a lot of people didn't get well with that, but you know a mom of four boys What'd you say? If she passed the lick she deserves one back? No No, if you pass the lick she did if she passed the lick then she deserved one back

Oh, no, I highly disagree with that if she passed the lick you should run as a man take off What the other direction go to opposite way? Well, what John is made just tried that that ain't me work You right, but I still would take that over those definitely alternative. Hello. Who's this? D from Charleston. What's up? D? What's going on in a four three this morning? Ain't that much to pick in my daughter ready for school by the ticket to the bus stop But I got a got something to say to America the left lane is the fast lane guys. Okay, okay Left lane is the fast lane. You had to blow them horn that you had to blow the horn at somebody this morning

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Now we got rumors on the way. Absolutely, yo. We got to talk about Kendrick Sweet. We got to talk about Taylor screaming a minor. We got to talk about Beyonce winning Kanye West. Wife was it's a lot. This is the best Grammys I've seen in a long time. It's very entertaining.

Yes. All right. We'll get into all that when we come back. Very DEI friendly. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club Alright, morning everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess. The news is real, whether it's the Hilarious, Jess, or Robby Moore, Jess don't do no lying. She don't do no lying. She don't spell nobody. Yes! News is real, whatever it is. The That nobody could get you to see this time to set it off So there's a lot going on last night, but the Grammys was like the biggest talk, right? And it was a lot you gonna break this down for us Lauren. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes

So, okay, we gonna start with the carpet first, right? So people started pulling up to the Grammys last night Kanye West and his wife Bianca made an appearance She was naked. She had on sheer but it was completely see-through with nothing under it whatsoever. He did not go into the show. There were reports that he went into the show and then because of her outfit they were escorted out but those reports were debunked. That is not true. He just walked the carpet, they got in their car and they dipped. You could see a snatch? The snatch is coming? She was naked. It was nothing there. Another moment that-

You know it's interesting. Kanye claims to be so anti industry But damn he loved to be around That was for a moment Plan even going he knew you want me get in she had on a fur coat and then she turned around dropped the coat It was like, oh, okay Another moment that happened on a carpet babyface. So Babyface was doing an interview. Oh, it's crazy. Babyface was doing an interview with the AP Associated Press and let's take a listen to the moment where they completely cut him off in the interview. Can you talk about just this new trend that we're seeing in R&B where we're seeing more

of a fusion, we're seeing people blend the genre with pop, blend the genre with hip hop and rock as well. Yes, I think it's interesting. Chapel! Chapel! You guys want to do that? Go do that. I'm so sorry baby. I'm so sorry. Jesus. Oh, he's still baby-faced. He still woke up baby-faced this morning.

Yeah, and she a kid. You feel me? Obviously, like, she's not a kid, but like, but like she's so disconnected like she's not connected to that culture Yeah, she she saw that that star cuz I think that started she called the what was the name of the chapel run Yeah, that person won a Grammy to Baby she know that person. Yeah, I know it's baby face Babyface like she's a baby face like that and even when she apologized she was like When she came back and she was like, I'm a fan of babyface. We got the audio I was trying to get that for you. I think she lied about that. Take a listen, we got the audio. First I wanted to say that I'm really sorry about Interrupting babyface earlier

Chapel ron had come up and there was a lot of commotion as there is on these carpets But I'm a big babyface fan and as our be all and so I just wanted to say that that I really apologize But thank you so much for having me you guys been great Another girl and it was the girl who cut off babyface the. The second girl in the midst of that apology was like, I'm so sorry I had to be a part of that, but yeah, things happen. Like basically, girl, I tried to tell you that was Babyface, like, and you were just so hype.

But someone whispered in her ear, she should have walked around Babyface and went and got. I will say this, when you do those red carpets, right? If a bigger artist does come up, or an artist that they think is bigger, they try to get that biggest artist in before they walk past you, it happens all the time. There was multiple people though. But as somebody doing the interview, you have

to know to wrap it up in close. So like, thank you so much, may it be good luck, and let them wrangle the other one. It happens all the time. But you don't disrespect nobody like that. And then know who you, I'm telling you, I just don't think that she knew how big he is. Because she's a DEI high. At least train these people on who was going to be at the carpet. But training these month. I mean, you know train these people Yeah, it was gonna be at the car, but she looked young she probably

The best part of the night was reconnected with old friends and meeting new artists and feeling all the love in a room That's what I remember That's what it's really about music is bigger than any moment much love to everyone who won and everyone out there making great music Basically, I'm still baby face at the end of the day, but can I just say Remember, that's what it's really about. Music is bigger than any moment. Much love to everyone who won and everyone out there making great music. Basically, I'm still Babyface at the end of the day. But can I just say one last thing? Come on, man, get to the things. I'm just gonna say one last thing.

Why are we drawing on this one? Just last thing. If I'm interviewing the Chappelle girl, whatever her name is, right, and I see Babyface walking, I'm gonna grab Babyface. Yeah. As you should, but culturally, it's different for you. That's true.

Yeah. I said from the jump. A'ight, Chappell, thank you so much. Babyface! I am. It is what it is. now moving on over to the show So big night Trevor Noah hosted the 67th annual Grammy Awards Billy Eilish opened the show Kendrick Lamar took it home when I say sweep

I mean sweep he even had Taylor Swift in there doing the sweep as well too. Like it was a huge night for him He took home five Grammys Song of the year record of the year, record of the year, best rap performance, best rap song, best music video. Let's take a listen to him accepting one of those words. Somebody get the broom out! Get the broom out! To Not Like Us, Whitney in the video, Crip Walkin'.

We're going to dedicate that one. That one, he's shooting it over. J like them walks. All the West Coast artists, man, early on. G Malone, Problem, Bad Luck, K-Boy, Daylight, Mike Strow, these the cats that inspired me to be the MC. I am today, schoolboy, J-Rock, Abso, this is what it's about man because at the end of the day, nothing more powerful than rap music.

I don't care what it is. We are the culture that's going to always stay here and live forever. And to the young artists, like my man Punch say, I just hope you respect the art form. I don't care what it is. We are the culture. It's gonna always stay here and live forever. And to the young artists, like my man Punch say, I just hope you respect the art form. That's all, respect the art form. Get you where you need to go. All right, salute, I appreciate y'all, love y'all.

Traveling to Clues Month with Kendrick Lamar. Absolutely. He shouted out, glasses Malone at the Grammys, problem at the Grammys. The thing I like about Kendrick in this moment, is like he's having a career year, but he's just brought it back to the soil. He just brought it back to the roots. That's it. To what inspired him.

Come on man. You get it. Come on man. Now another big part of the Kendrick Lamar acceptance speeches was the way that the crowd reacted. So when he won his first award and they dropped Not Like Us as he was walking up, there's a video and they pinned the crowd. You see Beyonce turning up, Blue Ivy, Taylor Swift, everybody. Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse and so many commercials about back pain. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly guys,

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Yes, they ran into Drake's dad. Let's take a listen. What do you think about Kendrick Lamar not like us getting record of the year i don't care nothing about that i think he's answering the question about the beef because he did say oh you know i ain't mad at him things like i told you I told you leave that below but a little little ball boy alone didn't I tell him little boy from Compton played different then I tell you that boy that's what you get you ain't damn living your day we got some more we got some more history and big moments we do got to get to Beyonce because she finally won her album of the year so

we'll bring that back at the top of the next and then Chris Brown won best R&B album 11 11 and then my girl Dochi won best rap album. Rapsody won a Grammy last night. We have a lot to talk about. We're going to come on back. We got some more stuff here for y'all. Alright, we'll get to that next. Now when we come back we got front page news and then Jason Wilson will be joining us.

He has a new book right Sharla? Yes he does. It's called The Man the Moment Demands. Master the 10 Characteristics of the Comprehensive Man. Alright we'll get to that next. It's called demand the moment demands master the ten characteristics of the comprehensive man. All right We'll get to that nexus the breakfast club. Come on You're checking out the breakfast club morning. Everybody is Nv just hilarious. I mean the guy we are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news I sort of some quick sports not a pro bowl NFL

7663 to NFC one also we got to congratulate Clarissa Shields she won over the weekend great fight I watch I love watching Clarissa get busy man she was fighting Danielle Perkins I think Daniel Perkins and Danielle is not no young no little girl and she's not no young woman she's like 42 years old he said she boy showed his one knees last minute yeah Danielle was braw. They was brawling. She looked like a big brawling. Diesel, diesel. And Clarissa broke her down. Cracked it at the end, bought it her and dropped it to her knees. Yeah. All right. And also, if you haven't heard, the Lakers and the Mavs did a deal, which put Luca on the Lakers and Anthony Davis to Dallas. I just want to know what do the Mavericks know about Luca that we have not found out yet? I don't know.

Like they know something about Luca that we don't know. Because there is no reason to trade a once in a lifetime generational talent like Luca. And he just took y'all to the finals last year. Just took it to the finals. It makes no sense. But I mean, we'll find out more. What's up Morgan? What's up Envy, Charlamagne and Jess.

You know there's a lot of things that don't make sense, but you know we're going to get into that. Speaking of which, Trump is putting tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. 25% on Canada and Mexico and 10% on China. Canada's ambassador to the US, Kirsten Hillman, she told ABC's this week, if the two countries are unable to reach an agreement, Canada will place a 25% tariff on US goods. She also expressed that the Canadian people are confused by President Trump's actions. Let's hear more from Canadian ambassador

to the US, Kirsten Hillman. This is not something that Canada wants to do. This is not a path that we are interested in going down. We are actually interested in being and continuing to be your best customer. We will be implementing 25% tariffs on US products. We will go up to a hundred billion US dollars worth of products.

Canadians are perplexed, I think disappointed. We view ourselves as your neighbor, your closest friend, your ally. You know, just from Canada alone, Morgan, you got your eggs, your beef, your pork, your salmon, your cheese, your potatoes, your syrup, your whiskey, your beer, canola oil. Yes lobsters. We love lobsters. We love salmon. And that's it because I eat that every day. You see what I'm saying? And all this stuff going up 25 percent in price. Effective immediately on those things. Everything

from China, Canada and Mexico already in effect with more tariffs on the way later this month. Keeping in mind that domestic and foreign automakers will also feel the impact. They're talking about that at the Detroit Regional Chamber and it's Mitch Otto affiliate saying tariffs will have a detrimental effect on our automotive industry in Michigan and the Great Lakes region. Moving on, we're learning more about the crash out of Washington, D.C. Federal officials say they're analyzing the black boxes recovered from the mid-air collision near D.C. last week.

Bryce Banning with the National Transportation Safety Board says they're working to transcribe the entirety of the data to get a clearer picture of the crash after hearing the audio from the black box. Now this comes as there was another plane crash that happened over the weekend in Philadelphia on Friday night. Seven people are dead and 19 others were injured after a medical transport jet plummeted to the ground shortly after takeoff. All of those on board the plane were Mexican nationals. Now Todd Inman with the NTSV says both black boxes were recovered from both of those accidents and they're working hard to find the cause of the DC crash in

addition to what happened in Philadelphia on Friday night. He went on to say the tower was well staffed as well at the time of the crash at Reagan National Airport. Let's hear more from Todd Inman with the NTSB. Know this, we will find out what happened in both of those accidents. We will make recommendations and we will attempt to never have to deal with those type of accidents again. At the time of the accident, there were five controllers in the air traffic control tower cab at DCA. So at last check, I believe 55 of the 67 victims have been recovered from the Potomac River.

Officials are confident they will be able to locate the remaining victims. Now the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, he's calling for changes in air traffic control following these disasters. Now speaking to CNN's State of the Union, Duffy said the country's air traffic control practices are outdated and need to be updated, saying they haven't been updated since World War II. Now he said officials haven't determined the causes of the Washington DC and Philadelphia plane crashes as of yet. But the FAA will work to see what's happening with those incidents. He also addressed the shortage of air traffic controllers that's plagued the country in recent years, pinning much of the blame on the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite all of that rhetoric though, he again admitted that we

won't know the full story until the National Transportation Safety Board finishes their investigation. He does want Americans to feel safe when flying and he also spoke to the family members of those who lost loved ones. Those family members also toured the wreckage, which is more than I can say for what our president has done. Moving on, I think this will be really interesting for you, Charlemagne, because you have been calling out the Democratic Party.

Well, the Democratic Party has a new leader. On Saturday, the party members elected Ken Martin as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. In his victory speech, Martin called for unity among Democrats in the fight against the other side of the aisle. In his victory speech, oh yeah, I just said that. So let's hear more from newly appointed DNC chair Ken Martin. To my fellow Democrats, we got punched in the mouth in November. There's no two ways about it.

I'm running for DNC chair because it's time to get off the mat, to dust ourselves off and to get back in this fight. A lot of people in this country right now are going to need us to walk and chew gum at the same time, meaning we're going to have to fight the extremes of Donald Trump while we make a sharp case to families in both red states and blue states about why they should trust us with their votes. The thing is this, when the Trump agenda fails Americans, which it most certainly will and already has, we have to be there with the legitimate alternative to this chaos. He's right. But you know, Republicans are going to fumble and Democrats don't have the

team to recover it. I read so many great articles yesterday. The New York Times had an article called, we have no coherent message. Democrats struggle to oppose Trump. There was another article in The Guardian called, why are the Democrats so spineless? There's a lot of great reads about the Democratic Party right now and their choice for the DNC leader doesn't make me confident that they're going to assemble the team that they need

to assemble to recover the inevitable fumble that Republicans are going to make. What would? What would what? Make you confident? Something outside of the party. Like, I don't feel like any of these establishment Democrats, I don't think neoliberalism is the answer to what we're seeing now. To me, neoliberalism.

You say we got to find our own. Well, we Democrats need to find their own Donald Trump of sorts. Someone outside. Our young Bernie Sanders or somebody that, you know, is delivering that type of energy that AOC is delivering. I think I like I like those kind. I like the messaging that both of them are delivering like right now. People like Nina Turner, you know, that's what that's what i'm that's what i'm interested in right now

Okay, okay interesting. All right. All right, you know, hey y'all have y'all start having the conversation. So we got four years I don't know. Well, that's your front page news. Morgan would follow me on social at morgan media and for more news coverage follow At black information network download the free iheart radio app and visit us atINnews.com. Have a wonderful week. Happy Monday. Thank you All right. Thank you. Now when we come back Jason Wilson will be joining us. He has a new book, right Charlotte? Yes, he does. It's called The Man, The Moment Demands, Master the Ten Characteristics of the Comprehensive Man I think every brother out there should go buy it. If you got a man in your life that you love you need to buy For him so he can read it. It is a fantastic, fantastic book, man. All, and we'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Good morning everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. One of my favorite brothers on the planet, man. The brother, Jason Wilson. Welcome, brother. What's up, brother? Hey, hey. Welcome back, I should say. How you doing? Pleasure to meet you. I'm doing well. I bought the flu and sinus infection. I was bedridden like for six or seven days. Oh, Rob. Welcome back, I should say. Hey, hey. Pleasure to meet you. How you doing? I'm doing well. I fought the flu and sinus infection.

I was bedridden like for six or seven days at the beginning of the year. Couldn't work out, couldn't do anything, and just had to allow my body to heal and practice what I preach and just rest and stop allowing my life to be centered around what I gotta do, you know? Well, that's interesting.

Your new book is called Demand the Moment Demands, Master the 10 Characteristics of the Comprehensive Man. So, the start of the year, right? The start of the year, you know, that's a reset for a lot of people, but you started the year sick. You had six, seven days. So in that moment- It's kind of a reset.

Yeah, you had to be completely still. What did you realize in that moment? I realized, you know, that, you know, as men, you know, we can't keep our foot to the throttle. You know, we stay in first gear of manhood, which I call just the masculine mode, which gets us from stop to start. But if we stay in that gear, we're gonna burn the clutch out. And in the process, I believe, I was burning my life clutch out,

just working really hard on this book and other things. And so, it gave me a lot of time to sit with the most high and just meditate on allowing myself to just be instead of performing. And that's what so many men struggle with, just living performance based lives and it's taken us out, you know. But they gave me time to reflect and then, you know, what's crazy, I had to beat Sister B Simone, which I call like my daughter now, I had to do her podcast and the Holy Spirit

was like, I need you, you're going to be weak, but you got to go, I got something you got to tell her. And so I barely could make the flight, I wanted to make sure I wasn't contagious. Went down to the podcast, brother and sister, within a matter of maybe 20 minutes, the interview shifted from that to her. And I was able to answer one of her prayers. But if I wasn't weak, because I'm like, man, why would I get sick in this time when I need to promote this message? Most I was like I needed you weak for my daughter Because if you're strong you may not be broken enough for me to speak to you and to speak the words

I need to say to her the episode ended with us praying and it was very powerful But that weakness allowed me to be the man in that moment for her you know and a lot of times as men we miss those moments because we feel we have to be perpetually strong which we know by now with research that is killing us and so that weakness in that moment was needed and I'm thankful that I surrendered to that so I can be the man in the moment for a decent. Simone. You got the book broken down into three parts, dynamic, deeper, and devotion. Can you explain the difference?

For sure, the dynamic is what we as men are used to fighting. Of course, we're used to that. An Atheist in us to protect. The problem is many of us are fighting the wrong way. I mean, think of how many intellectually gifted men who are incarcerated because they couldn't rule their emotions in the moment. The next one, of course, is number two, which we tend to just gravitate to, is the provider. Providing for our families, making sure they have the care they need, not just the money because as we know, once you get it, it's not really fulfilling. It's what you do. What is your presence?

Is your presence really present? Are you really active with your children, your wife, and your family, and your presence really present, you know, are you really active with your children, your wife and your family and your community? Then I go to the leader, like many of us want to be leaders, alright, but a lot of us don't lead by example, we lead by intimidation, so I unpack that. And then we go to the deeper, which is the lover, I start with the lover characteristic because many men we believe love is sex only and I share an intimate moment with my wife when she had we actually my wife had five

miscarriages and as a result of our last one they had to make an incision vertically on her stomach and she you know as a woman you become self-conscious of that scar. So one evening while we were intimate, the Holy Spirit said, I want you to kiss that scar from the top of it to the bottom. And I allowed myself, because I'm emotionally intelligent

and I'm a comprehensive man, sex to me isn't, a lot of men we think about the ground and pound, like MMA, like it's about force, but it's not always about that. It's about sensitivity and connecting. And so when I started kissing the scar, my wife started weeping and crying.

And in that moment, I was able to allow her to release this self-consciousness, well, self-conscious feeling about this scar. And I just share where she's always beautiful, but those kisses confirmed that. You know, it wasn't just words in that moment. Then I moved from the lover characteristic to the nurturer. Many of us as men we believe that being a nurturer is a feminine attribute. First and foremost, we're supposed to be

human. Masculine and feminine are just adjectives, alright? Being masculine means you exude strength, boldness, and aggression which we have to have. And so if I'm a nurturer does that mean I'm feminine? No. The goal for us as humans is to be human, to exercise humanity. Many of the greatest coaches are nurturers, cattle herders, farmers are nurturers. Any teacher, mentor, you're a nurturer. You have to nurture to develop anything.

And then from the nurturer, I go to the gentleman. When I discovered I unpacked chivalry, we have been misled to believe that that's a system to pander to women. It's not. It was actually a code of honor for medieval knights, warriors. And so how do we relinquish that? Then I go to unpack the alpha male myth. Like there is no battle between two wolves to see who will lead the wolf pack. First and foremost, that study was done on wolves in captivity. What they come to realize is that the leaders or the alphas in this pack were the male and female wolf. So in essence in a human sense the alphas are the husband and wife leading a family. So I

tell my brothers look if you really want to be an alpha get married lead your family build a community and that's what it's about. So from the gentleman, I go to the friend. Many of us, we say we're friends but we don't understand really what that means. Like you say, I'll be Simone, she sacrifices her life for you guys, you know, her time and I give an example of the Winnie the Pooh series, you know, where you'll see Eeyore clearly depressed or always in a bad mood or in a funk sad. Did his friends say you toxic, I'm gonna put up a boundary here, you're ruining my energy. No, they always accepted him for who he was because they knew he was their friend and that's what we need

now in times like this is a friend who will endure all adversity and challenge. So from those characteristics I go to the devotion. The first is the husband. What does it look like to sacrificially love your wife and honor her the way that you wanna be honored? And that's where I really take time to help men unpack their emotions and how we allow the way we were raised to prevent us from truly living from our hearts and giving it our all to our wives.

You know, we stay guarded and often say, brothers, there is no freedom in the facade. And as a man been married 26 years because of the way I grew up I still have to fight to hold my wife's hand in public or to be romantic because it was like I'm dropping my guard. And so that's something I'm still working to improve on and the last two of course is the father. I can't tell you how many times as a father I passed down the harshness of my dad onto my own daughter. And as a result of that, you know, we had to go through a lot of therapy,

prayer, and a lot of I'm sorry's for me to say, hey Lex, I apologize for passing on to you what I got from my dad and I'll make it better. And so the father is helping men learn how to parent, not from what we didn't get from my father but give our children what we long for. And the last one I close with the son characteristic because that's the one that made me into a comprehensive man. I tell men all the time if you want to become comprehensive run to the areas in your life that make you feel what they would say is our unmasculine emotions. This world, this society is in dire need

of a man's nurturing love, our patience. What does long suffering look like from a man? So when I had to care for my mother, she needed more than a protective provider. She needed someone who would nurture her, who would file her nails when the caregiver couldn't. Paint her nails, wash her hair, wash her. And I couldn't do that the way I was.

And so I end with that one because it puts men in positions where we have to be transparent. All right, we got more with Jason Wilson when we come back. His new book, The Man, The Moment, Demands Out Right Now is The Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are The Breakfast Club.

We're still kicking it with Jason Wilson, author. He has a new book, The Man, The Moment Demands, out right now. Jess. You're very intentional, like a very intentional person about what you wrote. I imagine that a lot of this was written from your personal experience. Absolutely. Right. Okay.

And would you feel like the husband part, did all of that transpire within like the 26 years or were you ever married before or? That's a good question. I wasn't married before thankfully but 2015 I think we got married in 1998. So in 2015 my wife and I were considering separation because I was only a masculine male I could only express my emotions through hitting the table, hitting the refrigerator, raising my voice, lacking the control needed to really communicate with her.

And so that's when I realized that I needed some help, that I was holding on to a lot of trauma, unresolved anger from my father wound, the death of both of my brothers, my best friend, I could go down the line and I got tired of allowing that trauma to time travel and ruin my present blessings. And so the husband chapter basically it shares how I evolved but even who I am now that it's constantly a fight. We married, you know what I mean? You got to make sure your heart is there.

I keep a picture of my wife on my phone when she was young during a time when she was very vulnerable when she didn't feel things were stable in her own life and that keeps my heart tender towards her in the moments when we may not get along and so I also share an analogy of the crayons For men so we can be practical have a practical understanding of how so we're so limited in who we are as men. We've allowed society to define us. So I use a 64 box of crayons as the amount of emotions women have access to or actually choose to express because we both have access to both of them. But we as men, we lock ourselves in the eight box of crayons and we probably only express

four. So we get frustrated when we're communicating with our women like why don't you understand me? Well my brother she's expressing violet all you got is purple. She's expressing lime now you got to grab a green and a yellow to try to meet the moment and so I'm encouraging me and like look I'm not telling you to relinquish your masculine attributes because then now you'll be deficient in that area. You got to be the lion and the lamb. And so what I'm telling men is to be human, express what you feel. All of us as men want to be more available, want to be more transparent, want to be more

emotionally open, but we fear being admonished or impassively dismissed by those that we love. So then we go into suffering and silence and then that leads to emotional incarceration, then that leads to suicidal ideations and then our wives don't even know what we were dealing with until they plan in our funerals. And so that's why I pour my heart into this book because I mean, just recently brother, my best close friend called me and said, you know, for the first time he looked at his gun and thought about it. And so this is what a lot of men are going through, but when you meet him, he's smiling, he's jovial, he's happy. And so it's, what's the saying? Don't miss the forest for the trees. I'm telling people, not just our wives, but the brothers

who have friends, don't miss the struggle for the smile. Just because a brother says I'm good, I'm alright doesn't mean that he's good and we should check on each other. I do have two questions on something you said. One was you talked about your relationship with your daughter and you said, I'm not sure the term you used, I guess you had to apologize or change because what you learned from your father, you were teaching your daughter and you realized it was wrong. What was that? My father, I had no idea at the time that he had a lot of unresolved anger from the way he was raised in the South, had to deal with a lot of racism. And he carried that back to Detroit. And I remember one time, brother, he ran a barbershop. He asked me just simply to cut the air on her. I accidentally cut the heat on. I think I may have been 10 years old. He cursed me out in front of everybody

in the barbershop. That right there shattered my confidence as a man. It demeaned me and it didn't stop there. He loved me, but he thought giving me gifts would suffice and it didn't. I needed him to be active in my life, but he couldn't because of all the pain that he'd been through. And so, it's called intergenerational trauma where you pass down what you've received. So before I knew it, this anger that he even had toward my mother, he told my mother one day they had gotten divorced and she accidentally opened one of his letters where mail came to the house. And here it is, I'm going to middle school and my mother shows me her gun in her purse and she says your father just

called and said he's gonna do something to me because I opened his letter. So here it is as a young boy trying to focus in class I got to think about my mother's life but that's how much anger my father had and brother I hope my transparency frees some brothers listening or watching it's like you know you don't want to create a legacy of wounds. You want to fight and do whatever you can to get healed because if not, now you're going to see that same behavior in your children, then you're mad at them and all they did was become who you were.

That's why I think apologizing to your kids is so important because that's something that, you know, I feel like I never got from my father and I always say my father raised me out of fear and not love and I think that's what we I feel like I never got from my father. And I always say my father raised me out of fear and not love. And I think that's what we gotta avoid doing. We gotta raise our kids out of love and not fear. The fear that they might end up falling victim to the street. Or end up, if we were in the street doing the same things that we were doing, we gotta relinquish that.

That's true. I call it fear-based parenting. My mother was that way, which is, I understand why she was, because she just lost her son. and then my other brother from my father he was murdered so she was terrified that I would die the same way and because of that fear she had checked out, you know, meaning the affirmation that you typically get from your mother, the nurturing, I didn't get that. My mother loved me, like everyone who knew my mother knew she loved me but I realized in therapy one session when the therapist asked me who would get the Band-Aid when you

got hurt and I said I would my mother would just tell me where it was and in that moment I realized man this is why I'm misusing women because I never understood the importance of having my mother the understanding of what nurturing is, the value with the affirmation and I unpacked the mother wound as well in that book because many of us what we're seeking is the love for my mothers and women and they'll never be able to match what we didn't get and it's unfair to them. And so I had to unpack all of that brother because I didn't want to transfer that on to my children and so I've allowed myself to be more tender in that area. My son by far has the best father because I've become

the embodiment of what I teach and so to your point, it's absolutely important for us as parents to not be fear-based, especially my son's, he's driving now. Why do I have to teach him how to get pulled over by the police? Why am I focused on that? What is that teaching him? Is that really making it better or is it making it worse when he gets pulled over? But those are the things you know we have to teach in our community but at the end of the day making sure you balance that with some positive reinforcement and to teach them how to live in the moment

because when we teach our children, we gotta understand we're also teaching them how to miss the moment because they're programming themselves. Like, okay, if this happened, this probably gonna happen because that happened to dad, that happened to mom, this probably gonna happen to me. And so in that moment, if they're not open

to be able to meet the moment, to do what's necessary, they may fail in that moment. Alright, we got more with Jason Wilson when we come back. His new book, The Man, The Moment, Demands, out right now is The Breakfast Club. Good morning everybody. It's T.J., Envy, Jess, Hilarie, Charlamagne, Mcguy, we are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Jason Wilson. His new book, The Man, The Moment, Demands, is out right now. Earlier we were talking about how much we work, but how do you turn it off? For me, you me, I remember the concept of balanced life. We hear that a lot. For me, Envy, I live an imbalanced life. So the things that hold the greatest importance must always tip the scale.

So we live a balanced life, nothing truly claims priority. So for me, it's my, of course, the most high, my family, my calling, my health. See when it's leveled, everything gets the same attention. So I tell people, make sure that scale always tips in favor of what matters the most. When I started living that way and stopped living from what I do, stopped living from fear of getting not having, I understand that brother. I stopped worrying about those things and realizing I can only do so much man and then what's most important is to ask yourself why am I doing this you know so many of us especially in the

era of social media and how everything is broadcast and content creation it's like our lives are becoming that instead of you know really being authentic and it's like no I'm pregnant I don't have time to do this and just let people know that but when we allow society to say hey Envy I need you to do this you demand you got to do this and promote this can you go here man your life feels like it's not worth living you know and often tell me you're not tired of living you're tired of not living and the same thing with our women. So many of our sisters have to be so strong that they can't even be human either.

They can't cry, they gotta work, am I right? And so as, even for them, I'm like, man, I hope we never lose a woman's empathy and love. This world is over. When she has to become stoic and hide behind a facade, we can forget about it. And so, you know, my freedom started when I started prioritizing what mattered the most.

Everything else, I let it, you know, end where it may. But my identity is first and the most high in Christ. After that, man, my affirmation come from my home, man. And so if I could shut down now, I'm cool. I was sad when COVID was over because that meant I had to go back to the norm. I couldn't be with my family all day. You see what I'm saying? And so I just tell people to live from that.

Make sure that don't live a balanced life. Make sure the skill always tips in favor of what you love and matters the most. You seem like you've done the self-work to play all of these roles, the husband, the son, the father but you're still not perfect and you still can fall short at times as well What happens when if you're mad as a dad one day and you react the wrong way is it ever a point where the husband has to talk to the husband you are have to speak to the father or you have to relate to your

kids on a son level because you're somebody's son do you ever merge the roles so you know what I'm saying like pull from different places yeah I agree with you no absolutely I morph between all of them again I remember the mental wealth expo when the brother asked me how do you define a man I say you can't and so I have to be anything and everything at any given moment. And so to your point, Charlamagne, you know, I always reconcile, I tell brothers,

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want to talk, he's a teenager and I'm concerned. I don't want to invade his space because he has his own life, but I want to let him know that I'm here for him. So some days I just walk to his room door and I see him laying there maybe on his phone and I say son do you mind if I just lay down in the room and read. Ask for his permission he typically always say sure dad and I lay down and that opens the door to a conversation and lets him know that he's very important to me. Not what I do, not who I am in society, but who I am in that home. And I prioritize that and being the son in that moment to him is giving him what I wanted

as a son. If my father would have gave me that attention, that affirmation, I probably would be even further in life than I am now. And so I make sure I'm there for him in all aspects that I can. You removed the word vulnerable from the book completely. Yes. What words can we use? Number one, why did you do that? What words can we use instead of vulnerable? When I discovered that, when I read the dictionary, the word itself means susceptible to harm, danger, or even death. And so when you think about being in a vulnerable situation or you hear it on the news,

vulnerable citizens were defenseless against a gunman. No good man ever wants to be vulnerable. I don't want my wife, my children, anyone I love in a vulnerable position. So we're trying to tell men is to be emotionally open, to be transparent with how you feel. And in that way, it's a doorway to you becoming more human, becoming more of a verbal process or emotionally intelligent. And that's why I took the word out.

That's why it's so hard for us as brothers to say it because it goes against the way we were created as men. We don't want anyone that we love to be in a vulnerable position. However, what is hindering us as men is that we're not emotionally open with those who love us. And so as a result of that, the suffering and silence piece is really taking us down. And so I just encourage by being the example

of being transparent and emotionally open and showing my men that just because you can express how you feel doesn't mean you'll be taken advantage of and if someone misuses your emotions be thankful now you know who's in front of you and you got a decision to make. My last question because I love when you talk about your relationship with your wife and I saw a video where you said happy wife happy life isn't about love. What is it about? Well you know it never was a term of endearment. We know that as men. It was a way, you know, what was it saying, you know, give her what she want, keep her mouth shut so you can have peace, alright? And now women are realizing this is not a

happy life for neither of us. And so call it a misleading mantra, brother. And there's another one too. If you're out with your wife, this happened to me a few times. I'm addressed as the lesser half and she's the better half. So I had no idea until I was meeting with psychologists, well, no, a psychotherapist of what that does to a man's mind that you are the lesser half and the resentment that silently builds within your heart. And so I, my wife and I vowed not to use that mantra ever. So instead Nicole and I sayed not to use that mantra ever. So instead Nicole

and I say happy houses, happy spouses. And it takes for both of us to meet the moment in marriage together every moment. We're always willing to cross the line. If she's not doing well mentally and emotionally, I have to cross the line. If I'm falling short, like you were saying Jess, she crosses the line. And that's why our marriage is, we call it a beautiful struggle. We're pushing through. We won't give up on each other. And the biggest game changer was when we both decided that we know we're not intentionally hurting each other.

There has to be just some miscommunication and let's be patient and work through it. And we're going on 27 years this year and 33 years together. Wow. Thank you, brother. Well, there you have it. communication and let's be patient and N.V. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. 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 this time to set it off So it was a lot of things that we didn't get to because this is this was the most entertaining Grammys that I've seen What didn't you get to Beyonce number one? It was a lot but Beyonce number one. I was so happy for her Yeah, she finally took home album of the year for cowboy Carter She's the first black woman to win that in the 20th century. The last person was Lauryn Hill 26 years ago and you know she's been up for album of the year four times and didn't win this category so it

was like a big deal and she thanked Linda Martell. Let's take a listen to Beyonce. Wow I really was not expecting this. I want to thank God, oh my God, that I'm able to still do what I love after so many years. I'd like to thank all of the incredible country artists that accepted this album. We worked so hard on it. I think sometimes genre is a cold word to keep us in our place as artists best country album of the year and album of the year? Yes, twice. Yes, twice. Anti-DEI is hilarious.

She just announced her Cowboy Card Tour, too. Yep, Cowboy Card Tour, she announced it prior to the show so people been getting their coins ready. But she was genuinely shocked. You said she's so graceful. Honestly, last night, I felt like she, cause you know people say, oh, they know, that's why they go.

I don't think she knew. Even Blue Ivy in the video when she won the first award, she was like up get up like me. I said she didn't even know what to do Yeah, so I think look real surprised not fake surprised like Taylor Swift you looking and I love the fact that Taylor Swift had to Give her the award. That was amazing Also last night dochi won best rap album She's a third woman ever to win behind Lauryn Hill and Cardi B Let's take a listen to Dochi. This category was introduced in 1989, and two women have won, three women have won.

Lauryn Hill, Cardi B, and Dochi. I put my heart and my soul into this mix tape. I went through so much, I dedicated myself to sobriety and God told me that I would be rewarded and that he would show me just how good it can get. Thank you so much to my label, TDE, and everybody that helped put this together, all the producers on the project. I thank you. I know that there is some black girl out there so many black women out there that are watching me right now And I want to tell you you can do it anything is possible Tde is the best West Coast record label of all time

Who want to argue I'm down for the debate Who wanna argue? I'm down for the debate. I don't think nobody can argue with that right now. I know folks will wanna say Def-Roe, but TDE is more diverse than Def-Roe. And you think about the artist, J-Rock, he's been platinum a few times and he got a Grammy. Kendrick Lamar's a superstar and at this point,

you got him in the greatest rap of all time conversation. Sizzle's a bonafide superstar. SOS was number one for 10 weeks, grossed over 100 million on her tour, multiple Grammys, hit movie. Then you got the gold artists like Schoolboy Q and Sir. You got artists like Ab Sol and Isaiah Rashad and they 20 years in still creating new stars like Dochi.

Y'all, you better notice that. Okay, I love that. They had to take a moment just to pin to the crowd to see people's reactions to her performance. Billie Eilish couldn't believe it. She was like, oh my gosh, so good. She killed it. And TDE's run has been longer. Def Rilish couldn't believe it. She was like, oh my gosh. She killed it. So good. Yeah.

And TDE's run has been longer. Def Rowe's run was only four years. Really? Yeah. It was just very impactful. With Drake's new year. 1992 and 96. It was just very impactful.

TDE just celebrated 20 last year. Greatest West Coast record label of all time. Who would argue? That's what's up though. I mean, that's a win for them. Well next, Chris Brown. Period. Talk that talk. Chris Brown, period. Talk that talk.

Chris Brown won best R&B album. This is his second Grammy win in 20 years. He took that home for 11. Damn, 11, 11. Yep, shouldn't be more, shouldn't it? But, you know. We happy with what we got. There were some people excited.

There were some people that, you know, whatever, he won the Grammy. Yeah, he won it. Rapsody also took home a Grammy for the best melodic rap performance for 3am with Erykah Badu. Big rap. I was so excited to see that for her. I was excited to see her on the carpet as well. So she looked amazing. Alicia Keys accepted the Dr. J Global Impact Award presented by Queen Latifah and

she actually talked about DEI on the stage. Let's take a listen to Alicia Keys. This is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices. We've seen on this stage, talented, hardworking people from different backgrounds with different points of view, and it changes the game. DEI is not a threat, it's a gift. And the more voices, the more powerful the sound. When destructive forces try to burn us down, we rise from the ashes like a phoenix.

And as you see tonight, music is the unstoppable language that connects us all. It's so beautiful. And then speaking of like diversity and you know, the the Grimmins has had some issues in the past and one of them being the Weeknd. Remember, the Weeknd called out the Grammys back in 2021 because he said that like the voting process and things like that don't make any sense and don't represent real artists. Well, last night, the Weeknd made his return to the Grammy stage after saying he was boycotted and he performed. They actually introed him and addressed the beef and said, look, we figured it out. So they trying to move forward

now. And they also did a tribute to Quincy Jones, hosted by Will Smith last night. And the whole show itself was dedicated to the LA fires, of course, because they had to make that shift after everything happened. So where was it? It was in LA at the crypto arena. And they raised money in real time. Like corporations were giving money, the people that were attending the celebrities you watch

and could give money. They also took some commercial space, which is very expensive to buy during something like the Grammys and gave time to local LA businesses to showcase their businesses. And they put them with celebrities so like Dolce was lined up with like a floral company. Charlie Puth was lined up with a black martial arts company. It was dope, it was fire, it was a great night. That was a good Grammys. Good way to get back. That muster commercial was fire too.

Hinds and Ways, no time. Yo, I didn't know. Very smart. I was like, yo, is this new or did he have this? Cause they should have been did this, but the timing was epic. You mean Ben did this, the album just came out in December? Yeah, but muster, Dijon, like the branding should have

been there, but I get it, now's the time. Takes time, yeah. When did that one, the Kendrick album come out? November, December? No. Then we'll pricey some models I think what we learned from the Grammys this year is just do you like truly do you don't do what's popular don't do what? People think you should be doing don't make the art the label wants you to make don't do things for radio

Just do what you want to do. That's it Yeah, and you will be rewarded for it. Everybody you saw did only does them. 100%. GNX came out on my birthday, November 22nd. Yeah, it was a great show. The first time I enjoyed a Grammy Award show in a long time. Me too. I watched it to the end. I've been watching people I know. I still enjoy it. I fell asleep close to the end, but I did enjoy it. I enjoyed all the artists too. The pop artists and the new artists I love seeing.

Of course our artists, but Teddy Swims killed it last night. I loved Teddy Swims. Dochi killed it last night. Shaboozy killed it last night. Bruno Mars. It was just a dope award show. And usually the Grammys are boring. Yes. Very boring. So you'll tune in and then you find yourself doing something else.

You know what I mean? But it was entertaining. From the rear carpet it was entertaining. You know why it was so good? Because of us. DEI! All of the diversity! All of the inclusion! You're right, South Trump is going to sign something where they can't do the Grammys anymore. Alright, well that was Jess with The Mess. If you've seen the Grammys last night, let's discuss. 800-585-1051. Let's talk about it, what you thought. But we got Donkey today coming up next. Yes, and this is the reason Trump might use this as a reason why DEI is terrible. We need Nico Harrison, the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks, to come in front

of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him, please. All right, and when we come back, like I said, we're going to open up the phone lines. You've seen the Grammys last night. What were your thoughts? The performances? The winners? Let's discuss.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning You're checking out the breakfast club Don't be out here acting like a donkey. Hi, bitch. Hi 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 sweet Something you may not agree with doesn't mean I mean who's getting that donkey that donkey that don't don't don't don't don't don't Don't hear the day right here. Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha. It's at the breakfast club, bitches.

You can call me the donkey of the day, but like, I mean no harm. Yes, donkey of the day for Monday, February 3rd goes the Dallas Mavericks general manager, Nico Harrison. Now if you haven't heard, the Dallas Mavericks traded Luca Donchix. How you pronounce his name? Donkich?

Donchic. Donchic? Luca? Okay. Luca is 25 years old. He was rookie of the year. He's been to the All-Star Game five times. He led the league in scoring last year averaging over 33 a game and he took the map to the NBA Finals last year. He's a franchise player. Okay. The type of player you build around. But Nico Harrison doesn't seem to think so. So Luca was traded to the Dallas Mavericks, I mean to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, who's no slouch his damn self. Okay, he's got a career average of 24 and 10, nine time All-Star, four time All-NBA first team, two time All-NBA defensive team, but he just hurts a lot and he's 31 years old. Okay. Look, I

can be totally premature with this hee haw because I believe Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irvin are going to be great in Dallas, but some things make sense and some things don't make sense to me and Luca being traded from Dallas to the Lakers doesn't make sense to me. Let's go to ESPN News for the report please. This is maybe the most stunning trade definitely that I've been a part of in recent NBA history as far as it was never clearly out there and I'm told Luca Doncic, Anthony Davis, LeBron James, the players, coaches, a lot of people on both sides with the Mavericks and Lakers had no idea.

I can assuredly tell you it's a fact. LeBron James had no idea this was coming. Anthony Davis had no idea this was coming. I'm told Luca Doncic is still stunned about this trade. But when you look at the totality of what just occurred, Luka Dantic is a 25-year-old, like you said, megastar, perennial all-NBA player. He's someone that you think of as untouchable, as a guy that's never going to be traded. I'm told that the Mavericks actually approached the Lakers and offered Luka Dantic a few days

ago in a trade. Very recently, the Mavericks went out. They knew exactly who they wanted. They wanted Anthony Davis. That's the player that if they were ever going to trade Luka Dantic, if this was even a thought that was going to cross their mind, it was 4AD. Just when I thought no sports organization in Dallas could make worse decisions than my cowboys, here come the math.

Okay, now Dallas must know something about Luca that we don't. Reports are that Luca's weight went up to 270 pounds. So you mean to tell me that Luca got traded because he gained too much weight, but Zion Van Drost is still a Pelican? Now I got nothing but love for Zion Williamson. South Carolina all day, but nobody's weight has fluctuated more since the architect of Never Too Much. So you're not going to make me believe that Luca got traded because of his

weight. When a generational player like Luca games weight, you don't trade them. You get him a trainer and a nutritionist. Simple. How do you go from 33 a game and an NBA finals appearance last year to 28, eight and seven this year, the all of a sudden your team saying they don't want you because you're fat. In fact, Nico Harrison said the reason they made the trade was because they want to win now and weren't thinking about 10 years from now. Listen. I think the long term is the time frame. I think he fits our time frame. If you pair him with Kyrie and the rest of the guys, he fits right along with our time frame to win now and win in the future.

And the future to me is three, four years from now. The future, 10 years from now, I don't know. I don't think I, they probably bury me and J.Buddy. Or we bury ourselves. Yes. I think you might have buried yourself. Nico, he went to the NBA finals last year. Okay. He's 25.

Give him and Kyrie some time to cook. Surround them with more talent. Okay, how is the GM? Are you not thinking 10 years down the road? This guy, is going to be a superstar for a long, long time unless you know something we don't. Okay, Nico said the contract was a factor too. Let's listen. Yeah, I think it wasn't really like a point. I think it was how do we make our team better? You know, there's some unique things about his contract that we had to pay attention to. You know, there's other we had to pay attention to you know

There's there's other teams that were loading up You know that he was gonna have he was gonna be able to decide is make his own decision at some point of whether he Wants to be here or not whether we want to super max him or not or whether he wants to opt out so I think we had to take all that into consideration and Feel like we got out in front of what could have been a tumultuous summer So you're telling me joking not gonna get a super max when it's his time. Jason Tatum signed the super max. Okay.

You surround Luca with the right talent so he doesn't want to leave. I don't know man. I think that this brought to this story. Okay. Who's lady in the Mavericks organization did Luca knock off? All right. Did you find out he's a serial killer in Slovenia? All right. Somebody tell me something that makes sense because I refuse to believe the basketball

gods love the Lakers this much. Okay. Or maybe they do. I've been alive a long, a long time, long enough to see the Lakers do this quite a few times from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Shaquille O'Neal to Paul Gasol to LeBron James, the trades that have been vetoed like Chris Paul. They always tend to get one that makes you scratch your head. Like, how they pull that off? And really, I would like to know, how did they pull that off? Okay, Nico, you got a piece like Luca,

and you didn't even think to shop it. You want us to buy it. You were thinking about winning a championship in the next three to four years, but you didn't even put Luca on the open market to see what other deals were available. I'm sure there were better deals out there. I'm telling you right now if this don't work Donald Trump is going to use you as an example

as to why DEI is ruining corporate America. I've never seen anything like this and now because Luka has been trading he is ineligible for the $345 million supermax contract that he was sure to sign. By the way, I don't think that's fair because it's not performance based. Luca earned that money because of what he does on the basketball court. He shouldn't have to leave hundreds of millions of dollars on the table because executives made what I believe to be a poor decision. But I only feel as poor because I don't have all the information.

If it is because of his weight then Luca needs to sue for weight discrimination. Okay if Big Dank can sue Lift then Big Dunk should be able to sue the Mavs. That's all I got. Please give general manager Nico Harrison the biggest he-ha. It's not playing with Big Dank. It's Big Dink can sue lift for weight discrimination. How come Big Dunk can't sue the Mats? Gotta be more to that story. It's gotta be more to that story. The man knocked off somebody girl or something in the organization.

He was acting frustrated like he didn't want to re-sign so they figured they'd trade him before he just opt out. It's gotta be more to that situation. Who's he trading? A year from now, right? Next year, I thought, right? Gotta be more to that story. It's got to be. You just don't get rid of no Luka Donkish like that. And people always ask about the no trade clause.

I think there's only 10 NBA players with a no trade clause ever in their contract. And just to name a few, it was David Robinson, John Stockton, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett Dirk Dwayne Wade LeBron Carmelo and Bradley Kevin still ended up getting traded Who? Got me going that Kevin gonna get traded a few times. Yeah, but he had to approve it

You get traded, but you just got approved the charges refused to believe that they got rid of Luca because he like chocolate cupcakes And oatmeal cream pies. I just don't, I don't believe that. So you can do that, you can, like, you can go against them if they try, you just gotta be trading. You can sign a new trade clause where you won't get traded unless you have to approve the trade. So if you don't wanna leave, you ain't gotta leave, but they don't get that to too many plays.

Oh, okay, wow, so it's just like sleeves. Like, you take this nigga, you take this nigga. The fact that they come together and pick their own teams and people are like, like what it's not fair Well, the coaches and management could trade him at any any given point and they have to go where they and the fact that Hundreds of millions of dollars he's gonna lose now because Ineligible for the supermax cuz he got traded as if it's his fault his fault. That's right All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now when we come back, let's open up the phone lines

Right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now when we come back, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Last night was the Grammys. Did you see it? This was the first time I was entertaining. I really enjoyed it in years. What were your thoughts about performances? What were you? What? Top to bottom. I enjoyed it. You gotta stop this. 800-585-1051. Trump signed an executive order about this.

But why would you? What do you mean top to bottom? Top to bottom. I enjoyed it from the pre-show to the end when Beyonce won album of the year I enjoyed the pre-show watching the homie Zuri Hall on the red carpet We'll say the people right okay beginning to end Talk about from the router to the to Kinky bro, you can't get all right. Call us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with the Breakfast Club.

Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club if you're just joining us we're talking about the Grammys last night, the 2025 Grammys. We're asking what were your thoughts? Did you see it? Did you see the clips? Did you see any of it? I seen it yeah.

What were your thoughts? I like that. I honestly, I ain't gonna lie, it was emotional, do-chi. Like, cause yo, when somebody tell you like, they give their testimony, like, yo, she quit her job, she did, like, and she been grinding. I know she won, like, then she went best new artist, too. No, no, no, she was nominated for best new artist. She won best wrap up.

Yeah. But like, I know some people look at her as a new artist, but like, she already really been grinding and doing this for years and years you feel me so it was just good to see her. Of course Chris Brown was like the highlight because I feel like he needs so much more he's owed so much more Grammys but it's like at the end of the day that can't measure your amount of success you know what I mean how many Grammys you got but he's definitely he should have been got that I was so happy for him.

And the thing I love about artists like Dochi winning those awards, I hope now everything else catches up. Cause radio don't play Dochi like they should play Dochi. You know what I mean? I feel like Dochi should be celebrated at a much higher level. She's like, I think I checked last night,

the alligator bites, what's it called? Alligator bites don't heal. I think it's only sold like over 100,000 copies Hmm, you know, I mean she sold 11,000 the first week. So to just this point she's been around for a while She's gonna represent on breakfast club three years ago. Yeah, right. So it's like I hope now Everything catches up. I hope a day like today black radio says, you know what we should be playing that little black girl Right or in a heavy rotation. Yeah, right. I don't remember the last couple of Grammys I just don't I just don't I remember not enjoying them. Yeah, I love the fact that our artists are there

I love to see Beyonce there. I love to see Kendrick there I love to see Teddy swim Shaboosie and those artists dochi there and performing It's just it was just a dope event It happened fast and the reason they did it and the fact that they they put so much effort into giving back to LA After dealing with the fires the fact that they gave a lot of commercial time to local businesses to get back on their feet. I just thought the whole Grammy Awards was pretty dope. It was dope.

I thought it was a good show. And this is going to be for sure memorable. Because like you said, I don't even remember it. Like none of that. I don't. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? The last couple of Grammys, yeah I don't. Rapsody won a Grammy.

Rapsody won a Grammy. My Carolina breath turned. I love Rapsody. Rapsody has been the best lyricist of the last decade whose name is not Kendrick Lamar, to me. And for her to see her win a Grammy, she's been nominated before for Rap Album of the Year, she didn't win, but to see her win last night for that 3AM record with Erykah Badu, come on man.

And I love the fact that they broke down the Grammys last night and explained how the Grammys are picked and how people win. And they talked about how the weekend said he wasn't doing the Grammys no more and it made him change the way they did the Grammys. They got more people, more women, more black women to pick the winners and more black people. And before it was just like, I think like 8% and now it's like 40%. So I love the way that was done as well. I also wonder how much Jay-Z's speech last year influenced him this year to give Beyonce that award. You know what I mean? Cause what he said is true.

How you got the most Grammys in history but never won an album of the year, that makes no logical sense. You got the most Grammys ever but have never won an album of the year. And I thought she got Rob De an album of the year. Yeah. And I thought she got Rob De'Aer of Lemonade. And Beyonce is known for her body of work.

Absolutely. Her bodies of work. And nobody, I'm not saying nobody's really doing it, but you find that artists, it's very, very seldom that you'll see somebody work hard to produce a body of work versus just hits and just dope visuals. But yeah, so yeah that I think what you said to your point Jay-Z definitely hit something when he said that. Absolutely let's go to the phone lines. Hello who's this?

Hi this is Jasmine. Alright man what you thought about the Grammys last night brother? Is this DJ Self? No this is DJ Envy what do you think about the Grammys last night brother? DJ Envy first time a big fan of you and I watched you and your wife's podcast on Facebook. Thank you. What I thought about the Grammys was, I like Chris Brown winning R&B album of the year, and it was kind of surprising about Beyonce winning the country album of the year,

because it's never been done over like 50 years. So I was happy that it was given to Queen B. Yes sir. Thank you brother. Hello who's this? Good morning good morning this is Porsche G from 803. Hey Porsche. That's true. What you think about the Grammys? So first I just want to say I love you Berks Club is amazing today to get into this line. Charlamagne you know you are such a king of media since South Carolina folks so we love you. Thank you. Love y'all back. But I, thank you.

But what I wanted to say is that I really would have loved to see Shabudi take home something. I wasn't really had high expectations that he was gonna take home the best new artist, but even if it was like the best country song, cause white people bumped that song just as hard as they bumped Darius Rooker's Wagon Wheels. Right. You know that's interesting when Kendrick was in the category for record of the year and song of the year I actually thought Shaboos I

think it was song or record I forgot which category was Shaboos he was in with him I thought Shaboos he was actually gonna be Kendrick's only close competition Yeah cause remember Shaboos he was on the charts they said what 19 weeks? Yeah. He was on the charts and that was a song that transcended because country people sang it Pop people sang it regular people sang it like you just know that song You know what I do like though last last night and maybe I never noticed but they kept saying as voted by the 13,000 whatever whatever whatever so people were voting. Yeah on who they wanted to win

But that's what I said, he broke it down I don't know if you see anybody there was a part where they broke it down They said they added more people to it and then and then you know the ethnic group of the people that actually voted So in real time that was happening in a real time Hello, who's this? Good morning, what's that DMV? What's up, brother? Good morning, Envy. You know what I'm saying?

Life can be brotherhood. Good brother. Salute. And I want to say good morning to Charlamagne. I ain't into the losing a cowboy fan. But I want to say about the Grammys, I do feel a little bit that I'm not taking nothing away from Kendrick, but I think Glo should have got something.

You know what I'm saying? Like, Glo had an, but I think Blow should have got something. You know what I'm saying? Like, Blow had an amazing gig. Charlamagne, he says himself he's feeling that he damn near had one of the best albums out. So I just, you know, they're not taking nothing away from Kendrick. Kendrick had a great gig, whatever. But I do feel that Blow should have got something.

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You know what I'm saying? What was she nominated for? Best rap song? She had two, right? Best rap song and what else? Yeah, she was nominated for best rap song and best rap performance, and Kendrick got both those. Right, I do security.

You know what I'm saying? I work for UCS and I do security on the side So when I'm in the club, but they bumming glow all night all night So I'm just I just was a glow to the guy something again not taking that away from Kendrick I had a great year, you know saying but I do sort of this you don't think most of the guys down Well, I think glow is a phenomenal artist and I'll thank you bro. Her time is coming. You know, yeah Yeah, eight hundred five eight five one. Oh five one. Did you see the Grammys last night? What was your thoughts? was a phenomenal artist and her time is coming you know yeah yeah 800-585-1051 did you see the Grammys last night what was your thoughts let's discuss it's the Breakfast Club good morning

if y'all talking about it you know we talking about it it's topic time call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. Now if you're just joining us, we're talking about the Grammy Awards last night. I think it was one of the most entertaining Grammys that I've seen in a long time. I loved everything that I've seen from artists. You know what, usually when I watch the Grammys, I've seen in a long time. I loved everything that I've seen from artists. You know what, usually when I watch the Grammys, I only watch the genres that I know

and I turn for anything else, but last night I actually watched all the performances, even like, I don't know her name, sorry if you're listening, but like the Pink Pony Lady, right? The performance was dope with them clowns, it was just a dope performance. That was the first time I ever seen the clowns though, but a lot of people know who they are, especially younger kids. Yeah, that's that's something. Yo, look the uh, y'all think Kanye about to drop something

Yeah, he's dropping Bully He's dropping what? Album called Bully. Oh, are you dropping that? Oh, okay, okay Just just him showing up like that cuz you knew you wasn't able to make it inside of there, but it had to be something. He calculated, so he do stuff like that to distract people and get, I don't know. I just think it's Cody that he acts so anti-industry, but then he be loving to be at these industry events.

You know what I'm saying? Well, he preached that he anti-industry. He don't act anti-industry at all. Exactly, exactly. He just hit it on there. He preaches that he anti-industry, but he don't act anti-industry at all. Exactly. Exactly. Just hit it on there. He preaches that he anti-industry, but he don't act anti-industry. I like seeing Kastanat, too, on the red carpet.

He was having the time of his life all night, yo. He met Kanye West last night. Kanye act like he didn't know who he was at first, which was stupid. Clown. Kastanat is on the front of Billboard magazine this month. OK, drop one of Clues Bound for Kastanat. I'm telling you, Kastanat is on the front of Billboard magazine this month. Okay, drop one of your clues about Kastanat.

I'm telling you, Kastanat is everything that is right with hip hop. Like literally, all he's doing is having fun. His show is like, when you watch his show on YouTube, that's what it is, it's a show. It's just like a variety show. It's like watching Soul Train back in the day. They dancing, they having a good time,

listening to music. You find yourself smiling, just watching them have fun. Yes, man. Yes, yes. Salute to Kassanat. I don't know how anybody can hate on Kassanat. Yeah. Not at all.

Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Dominique from 757 Virginia. Hey, 757. What up, Dominique? What you think of the awards? Man, it was amazing. I was so happy for Dochi. I've been following her

for years but I have to give my biggest up to Chris Brown. I'm from Virginia so I might be a little biased but I love him. It's been long overdue and so well deserved. I'm so happy. I agree. I wish you would have been there though. I wish you would have been there to get that award though. He probably didn't think he was going to get it because you know what he been playing with him for years. I wish he would have been there to do that damn Michael Jackson tribute. I love Janelle Monae but I ain't never seen Michael Jackson do 95% of them dance moves Janelle Monae was doing. Okay, I was like Michael ain't did none of that. I was watching that like Michael did none of that.

Okay? That should have been Chris Brown. Now they gotta give Chris Brown that one time because Chris Brown been practicing. There was a couple times he was supposed to do it. He already had a whole choreo, like a whole 10 minute performance that he was rehearsing for. They could have called Chris Brown Saturday night,

say, hey man, we need you Sunday to do this Michael Jackson performance. He'd have been ready. Excuse me. Come on, man. I got mad love for Janelle Monae, but Michael Jackson didn't do none of those moves. The moonwalk, she did the moonwalk.

She did the moonwalk. Yeah, she did the moonwalk. All did? Yeah, she did the moonwalk. Alright, well what's the moral of the story guys? The moral of the story is man, like I said earlier, do you. You know what I mean? Everybody that had super success last night at the Grammys is somebody that is really in their own lane. And ain't no traffic in none of their lanes, okay? Don't do what's popular, don't do what people think you should be doing, don't make the art the label wants you to make don't make things for radio just do what you want to do yeah when you are in your own lane there's no traffic I don't care

this Beyonce, Dochi, Kendrick, Rapsody who else had a big night last night? Beyonce, Chris Brown, all of these people are in their own lane definitely yo and Diana Ross presented Kendrick with the song that he had. She's so fun. Yeah she is. At 80 years old still. To this day. You like them old ones y'all.

Yes I do. Ah old boney you like. Boney? I'm just saying you like the old boney. And then you gotta relax because you also like Stephanie Mills and you know them two ain't wild. But you know it's okay. Diana Ross is so much Stephanie Mills and you know them too ain't So much Stephanie Mills senior Diana Ross 80 Stephanie Mills is like her 60s Yeah, you mix it up there. My bad, my bad. All right. I mean, they ain't listening right now. They don't know. What you mean?

You think they not up? Oh yeah, we'll be up. They've been up since 6 this morning. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? We got Jess with the Mess coming up. What we talk about? Yes, Wendy is able to go see her father.

Okay. All right. Well, we'll talk about that when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club of the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get. 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, brother. Hilarious, Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. Don't do no lying. Get out of my way. She don't scare nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide mess.

On The Breakfast Club. She's a coacheship. 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. So Lauren, it is true that Wendy can see her pops before he leaves this earth. Yes.

Okay. What? What you mean? No, the man is, I'm sorry, no, no, that man is 94 and that's what she wanted to go do because it's like, that's how she put it 100% Yeah, she did put it like that. I wanted to see my father before he dies

Yeah, that's what so What voice was that? That was Wendy she said before he dies So she gonna go get the thing Yeah, so officially Wendy Williams is allowed to fly to Miami for her dad's 94th birthday What you were referencing was actually what she talked about when she was here on the Breakfast Club. She wanted to go see her dad.

She didn't know if the conservatorship situation would allow her to do so. And she's gotten the yes. So TMZ was actually told that Wendy's going to go with private security from New York to Miami. She'll be there for two days. And at this point now, Wendy can have no contact with media. And they've actually been talking to her because they have a doc coming out on February 12th

on Tubi called Saving Wendy. And they posted a clip of her. I was gonna print out just a photo. I didn't even wanna show it though. I hate the way she looked. She was in the window. Remember I told y'all when I went to go see her, she could see me from the window.

She's literally crying on the window. But she- I like it because it shows that she's actually trapped in a good place. Yes, like a prisoner. It hurt my heart to see it But basically she talked about the same thing and I have our clip from when she was up here about not being able to See her dad and why the sick listen your dad's gonna be 94 next week. I mean next month, right?

Listen my god, that's a whole nother conversation 94 that that's a whole nother thing Like I don't know whether I'm allowed to fly to Miami to say happy birthday to my dad. I want to get him. Look, look, look, look. Well, well, that person that you talk about who's holding me hostage. Sabrina Morrissey, your guardian. We got to say her name. We got to put her name out there. I don't know that she's going to let me because she already said to see my dad for his birthday. I'm exhausted thinking about what if I can't see my dad for his birthday. Like I'm exhausted thinking about what if I can't see my dad for his birthday, you know?

At 94, you know, the day after that is not promised. It's not promised. So to Jess, to your point. The day before that is. Yeah, yeah. Well, she will get to see her dad. And she did mention that she wants her family to be all on one of course.

So I guess in this documentary, they're gonna be talking about like the family situation as well, too They kind of alluded to that um, but yeah, so congratulations I mean I was told that when she got the news of course she was so happy so excited And she just can't wait to shop She said she wanted to go shop as before and get her things to be able to go see her dad and buy him gifts And stuff like that so yeah, no Clarissa shields. Yes, yo she's Pat walked out and he was rapping, he was like, any me, any mine, any mine.

You said any me, any mine, any mine. And she was sitting there rocking her bag full of like, any me, any mine, any mine, any heel. So what Jess is talking about is Clarissa Shields, she actually won last night. She was crowned the first undisputed women's heavyweight champion. And yes, Pat Poose, her man, her man, her man, walked her out. They were arm in arm. And on top of him walking her out, he also was performing.

Let's drop one of the coolest bombs for Pat, man. That's real love and hip hop right there. What song was the first one? That was the remix to the Busta Rhymes joint. No, that was the second one. I feel like the first song was like a freestyle or something. That was the freestyle. That's what I said.

But he does the... I don't know. Oh, he started off with the whole, whatchamacallit. He started off with the style. And she knew the words. I was like, that was a freestyle. How she know that? I don't know if that was a freestyle. I don't know what it was, but he was doing,

he was rapping, okay? Yes, a lot. Yeah, Papoose does his thing. I'm gonna watch the replay. I watched it last night. I didn't see that when he walked out. I watched the replay. Watch the replay and put it on closed caption.

See what the TV do. They not gonna tell. You can tell when they love each other. She love her, man. No, for real. He loved her too. He walked her into the way into, and like, lacing up her Tim's cuz her Tim's wasn't laced

You know the way that guess they were supposed to be laced But let's get to the fight because you know, she actually was injured going into this fight Yeah, she had a shoulder injury. She but she still was able to drop Perkins five to one two KOs with the right hook in the final seconds of the tenth round Clarissa actually talked about the shoulder Injury and the fact that this Fight almost didn't happen. I actually have to I think I may have to have surgery on my on my left arm I tore my leg from last week. So the fight almost didn't didn't happen. So shout out to Denise Paulina Heather and Jenny at the UFC Saturday. Listen, they did me all this shot treatment

I wasn't able to lift my arm for two or three days so For this fight to even be able to happen, I always give my highest praise and my highest thanks to God because I didn't want to let Flint down. I've been a fan of Clarisha Shields for a long time. So she's had a lot of good momentum going into this fight because her movie came out, The Fire Inside.

And then she had all of this drama going on with Pap and Remy and everything else. So I was just like, it's going to be a lot of eyes on her on sunday night Deliver like you always do and she absolutely did because perkins was not a little woman You hear me? Oh, listen and and claresta actually connected 29 of her punches Uh 36 of her power punches perkins only connected 19 of her punches So yo, I was scared at the other way and I was like you seen it right? Who was this? She's big. Yeah, and was scared at the win. You seen it, right? Dang, who was this?

She's big. Yeah. And she was strong. You could tell she was strong. It wasn't like she was moving Clarissa around the ring, but Clarissa was backing her off at that right jab. Now ladies, let me ask you a question. Now if your man got in a beef with one of those women, would y'all fight?

What are you talking about? No. What's up about no? Shorty, they built like gladiators. Like no. Oh, Perkins or Clarissa? Yes. Oh no, baby, you got him to that on your own. You got him in your own? I'm glad I'm gone. Oh Quick I did grab the photo Wendy for you guys to see I hate to see it like this though Thank you Lauren, of course, all right, that was just with the mess now, let's get to the people's choice mix Of course, we got to start the mix off with Kendrick. Congratulations to Kendrick last night. How many Grammys won four or five?

Congratulations to Kendrick last night. How many Grammys? He won four or five? Five. Listen, he won five and look, I ain't even, look for the record, I ain't even realize how sexy Kendrick was until like, you know what I'm saying, he walked up there in that all denim.

What you had to say about the denim, y'all? It was a Canadian suit. We had a little conspiracy weapon. It's like the all denim. I felt like he was throwing shots. Like, Canada, what's up? I'm here. You know what's interesting?

Kendrick did look good last night. Okay, okay, okay. He did. He did. Y'all relax a little bit. Okay, okay. He was definitely, can tell he's been doing the internal work on himself and he just had that glow. His aura was like man that's a brother right there that you can tell has been doing the work. So when I say he looked good

Yes, he was glowing last Be glowing like that It's the breakfast club Let's get to the mix. You still look better than you. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody.

It's the EJNV Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's Black History Month. What we doing Charlamagne? Man, Black History Month. Salute to my guy B.Dot. You know every February for Black History Month, my guy B.Dot does a podcast called

I Didn't Know Maybe You Didn't Neither on the Black Effect I Heart Radio podcast network. Well he just tells you some things about Black History, some black facts that you may or may not know about. He's a black guy. He's a black guy. He's a black guy. He's a black guy. He's a black guy.

He's a black guy. He's a black guy. He's a black guy. He's a black guy. He's a black guy. He's a black guy. He's a black guy. does a podcast called I Didn't Know Maybe You Didn't Neither on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network where he just tells you some things about black history, some black facts that you may or may not have known. Today B.Dot deep dives into the NFL's not so subtle plantation vibes. He flips the script on football, slavery, and why the combine feels like an auction block with better lighting. Let's listen. On today's episode of I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either, I have a question. You ever notice how football feel like slavery but with a halftime show? I mean think about it. The NFL combine, that's just a fancy slave auction with WIFI. They measuring wingspans, 40 yard dash times, hand sizes, like yep, this one here can carry

a whole plantation's worth of footballs down the field in 4.3 seconds. Bruh, they got grown men in spandex doing shuttle drills while old white dudes whisper, they look strong doesn't he? I'm like where's Django when you need him? and let's not even start on college football before NIL these kids are out there getting hit like they owe somebody money bringing in billions for universities and what'd they get? A cafeteria meal plan and a good luck handshake. There was no paychecks, no health benefits just a coach yelling, you gotta play for the

love of the game. Meanwhile, that coach driving a Lamborghini and wearing a visor in the winter. Bruh, if this ain't modern sharecropping, I don't know what is. And what about the NFL owners? I mean, let's just start right there. You notice how we have to call them owners? Not managers, not CEOs, owners. Just something about that word don't sit right in my spirit.

They up in luxury boxes like, yeah, run faster, my boy. And the players, 75% black. Coaches, mostly white. Owners, whiter than unseasoned chicken. I'm just saying, how you gonna have a league full of black folks and not one team called the Atlanta Wakandas? Where's the representation?

And don't get me started on the physical toll. They out there breaking their bodies up, getting concussions, and then the leagues like, here's a $50 gift card to Applebee's, thanks for your service. They even added an extra game this year for the NFL. I'm telling you, the NFL treats players like old cell phones.

Oh, it's broken? Trade it in for a newer model. Only difference is the NFL don't charge a restocking fee. But here's the twist. Players starting to fight back. Colin Kaepernick kneeled and the world lost his damn mind. Like y'all cool with the injuries, the exploitation, the CTE, and the fact that my Dallas Cowboys ain't won a Super Bowl since the Clinton administration, but a brother taking a knee? Oh, that's where we draw the line.

I mean, slavery had rebellions too. Nat Turner in cleats, y'all. We out here flipping the system one touchdown at a time. Here's what I'm proposing. NFL players need reparations. Forget Super Bowl rings, start handing out 40 acres on a Bentley, and let's diversify ownership.

I wanna see Jay-Z and Snoop running teams. Imagine the halftime shows then. Hell, put me in charge of the Panthers. First move, we changing the name to the Carolina Black Panthers. Huey Newton jerseys for everybody. So yeah, football and slavery, not the same, but let's be real. They could be second cousins. Now if you excuse me, I got to go submit my 40 yard dash to the NFL combine trying to pay off these student loans. Okay, bye. I salute to B.Dot.

Salute to my guy B.Dot, man. And make sure you subscribe to I Didn't Know Maybe You Didn't Neither on the Black Effect iHeartRadio Podcast Network. Alright, when we come back we got the positive note and more. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarion, Charlamagne the Guy. We's the Breakfast Club good morning. Good morning everybody it's DJ Envy, Judd Salarian, Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast

Club salute to all our dance dads and all the parents I've seen out there this weekend my daughter had a three day competition where they started early in the morning Friday she had to be on that stage at 7 a.m. so salute to all the parents out there and the dance dads and I mean it's just it's just crazy running from room to room and and this to this and man saluteut all y'all I know the pain. I know the struggle, but you love it though I do know am to talk about it what if we talk about anything like congestion pricing and you'd be like So my daughters are in dance, right and we'd be like, how is that connected? But we know that you are a proud dance

Dad. Yes, I am no matter what you gonna take the opportunity I'm there I'll be the only dad there sometime, but I'll be there like, go baby, you gotta put your hip a little more, punch your toe. Anything. He really just wants an excuse to be able to do those dances, Jess. That's what this is about. You don't know your daughter's chairs?

No, but I act like I do though. How do you act like you do? In the mirror. Just name, not in the mirror, but I just name a couple of them, you know what I mean, like a couple of the chants, stuff like that. Okay.

The other day I was explaining to her because one of the other dance teams had make it rain as their song yeah you heard the fat joe to make it rain and I was explaining to her what that was she had no idea and you were happy about that? Of course not. Of course. No. Absolutely. His daughter don't even know what sprite is. He's telling me, they be like, you don't drink sprite, not mineral water? Like, no, I don't drink mineral water. The hell? Yo. Well, leave us with a positive note.

Listen, the positive note is simple. It comes from the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Martin Luther King Jr. once said, the time is always right to do what is right. Oh my god. Anyway, y'all. How many seasons take seat at table, this is about to be... Breakfast club, bitches! You want to finish or y'all done?

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