The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Lawsuit Against Diddy, Druski & Odell Beckham Jr. Dismissed, Maury Wants To Settle Rap Beefs, Wale On Solange And Run In With Kai Cenat + Jarrett Adams Interview

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Jarrett Adams joins us to talk about being wrongfully convicted, his work with Redeeming Justice, mental well-being, and prison reform. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a woman arrested for hiding razor blades in loaves of bread at Walmart stores. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Good morning, USA! Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, you. Good morning. Shalelman, the guy, he'll be here in the second, and it's Thursday. What the hell is wrong with Charlamagne the guy? I don't know. I don't know why. He don't know what the hell's going on in New York?

New York on the shopping block. He better get it together. Make sure you subscribe to his YouTube channel. That's YouTube.com, see the guide. And also, while you're doing that, make sure you subscribe to my only fans, my only fan's feet page, which is going to be DJMV's feet.

Just in case. What's up, Jess? How are you feeling? What's up? I'm good. I'm good. I know you was very comfortable. me like, uh-uh, what's going on?

Where you at? Yeah, I was, when I didn't see you in there, I said, Just better stop playing. I know, I know, I know. You getting ready for the holidays? What's going on? Yeah, yeah. I actually was trying to get my stamps back, man.

Food is high as hell. What? Yeah, I was trying to get my stamps back. You better stop. I know. You better stop. Yeah, I'm almost done a holiday shop and I have one more gift to get,

which is my son Jackson's gift. And he wants one of them electric bikes that, you know, you see people ride through the city in? So are you finally going to get him one? Because I know you was hating on the idea for me. No, I don't, I think the electric bikes are dangerous, right? And it's funny as a kid, I used to ride all types of bikes.

They used to ride through the street. It didn't matter. I don't care. You fall, you get up. But now it's like, I don't want to see my parents didn't care, but I think I care a little more. Like, I googled. I did the homework and I see the kids that fall off the bike. Usually have brain damage.

And I'm like, yeah, I don't think so. But all his friends got it. But I'm like, you know, it was like, you know, let a boy be a boy. But the electric bikes are dangerous, man. I know, they are. But you can, it's all types of, like, safety gear that you can get him, like, you know, helmets, knee pads, elbow pads. Yes.

All that. And I thought about that. But you still ain't. No, because he'll leave the house with that stuff. And then when he go hanging out with his friends, he'll take it right there for off. Because it don't look cool. Correct. Correct.

And he'll be the only one with the full elbow pads, the whole suit on. And his friends are like a little stunt man. Right. And then he's going to take it off. And I'm going to feel away. So, I don't know. That's the last gift I have to give. Everybody, I got everybody, moms.

Everybody's done, so he's the last one, and I've been going back and forth, so I'll figure it out today. Like I tell people, if you're looking forward for me to get you a gift, look backwards, nigga, because I can't, now, I can't. Oh, no, I only got the kids and my mom and my pops. That's it. That's all I'm doing. It is what it is. It's tough out here. It's hard out here.

It is. Well, today on the show, Jared Adams will be joining us. He's a civil rights attorney and justice reform advocate. He was wrongly convicted and spent 10 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He'll break down the story, and we'll chop it up with him in a little bit. A lot to talk about. And of course, Jess fixed my mess. So if you're having relationship issues, relationship problems,

if this thing's going on, the holidays are here, and you need some advice, a friend that is not connected to the situation anyway, anyhow, or Jess will be here to fix your mess. So she'll help you in the next of lones. And I also am charging, I'm charging now, so I'm going to drop my cash app and be going with the cash app out there because I'm charging $10 for advice. What?

No, you're not. She's not charging. She's calling up in a little bit. She'll help you out with all your stuff. And then let's start the show with DMX. Today is DMX's birthday What we got? What we got in there?

I think it's only right Hey there's Charlemagne I think it's only right to start With the dog Today is his birthday Today is the dog's born day Happy born day To the dog

He created the second greatest Christmas song of all time After Felice Navidat I don't know about that But let's play What's my name DMX wake your ass up It's the breakfast club

Good morning That is a one of one God created one of DMX What you really want And then shut the patent down after that. You've never met a person like DMX ever in your life. Oh my God.

Salute to, just rest in peace, DMX. Yeah. You know, I'm mad. I didn't get to meet him. I used to make beats, and DMX purchased three of my beats. He overpaid me, and then he put it in his movie, and every time the movie got released to every country, I got paid. And he told me to put it in my kid's name, so the kids get all the royalties for that.

To the dog, man. Salute to DMX. He was just a good dude. He was a spirit. Oh, my God. Gosh. It was a spirit. Not a ghost. All right. All right. Morning, everybody. We are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news.

Let's start off quickly with some sports. Thursday night football. The Rams take on the Seahawks at 815. What's up, Mimi? Good morning. Good morning. How are you doing this morning? He's Mimi Brown. Good morning. All right. So we start this morning at the White House where President Trump addressed the nation with a clear objective to set the narrative for his second term.

Now, in the 18-minute address, the president, he touched on. on a wide range of issues, including the economy, immigration, crime, conflict overseas. And early in his speech, he made it clear where he places the blame, opening with criticism of the Biden administration and the country that he says he inherited. Let's listen to what he had to say. 11 months ago, I inherited a mess and I'm fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. This happened during a Democrat administration, and it's when we first began hearing the word affordability.

Our border was open, and because of this, our country was being invaded by an army of 25 million people, many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members, and even 11,888 murderers. This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country. country. I cannot accept that. The reason I cannot accept that is because Donald Trump said on day one he was going to fix the economy.

Okay. He volunteered that lie. And since that hasn't happened, we got to hold him to that. Exactly. And speaking of that, Shalemay, much of his speech had focused on the economy, the president, he argued, that his administration, they've already made progress, bringing prices down, even though millions of Americans, they say they still continue to fill the squeeze by the

cost of everyday groceries, houses, houses. and utilities and other basic expenses. Let's listen to what he had to say about the economy. I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast. Under the Biden administration, car prices rose 22 percent and in many states, 30 percent or more. Gasoline rose 30 to 50 percent. Hotel rates rose 37 percent. Airfares rose 31 percent.

Now under our leadership, they are all coming down and coming down fast. Democrat politicians also sent the cost of grocery soaring, but we are solving that, too. The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was down 33% compared to the Biden last year. The price of eggs is down 82% since March and everything else is falling rapidly. He's making the same mistake the Biden administration did. Like, Biden tried to tell us the economy was good when it wasn't. You can't tell people they don't feel what they feel. Like what?

Exactly. And recent polling shows the majority of Americans say the economy is not working well for them personally. Seven and ten say the cost of living in their community is no longer affordable. And with the 26 midterm elections approaching, the economy is expected to be the central issue. One of the biggest moments of the night came when the president announced what he calls a warrior dividend. It's a 1776 bonus check that he is sending to 1.4 million service members. it's tied to the nation's 250th anniversary. He said those checks are already on the way,

and he said they have been funded by tariff revenue. Crazy thing is you can play with semantics, right? That's what he did, right? You talk about the car industry, right? When Biden was in, yes, the car industry was high, but it wasn't because of Biden. It was because of what happened with COVID, and everything was shut down,

so they couldn't build any cars. So because they couldn't build any cars, the demand was high, so people were paying overpriced to get the cars that they need. As soon as the world opened back up, and these car manufacturers were able to build again, and people were able to fly. Everything went right back down as, you know,

the country would. Had nothing to do with Trump. This was all with supply and demand. That don't mean people could afford the cars. No, they couldn't afford the cause. But that was the reason why the car prices was up, had nothing to do with government, had to do it because COVID shut the world down.

Yeah. And to your point, envy, now that they went down, they're back up because of tariffs. Correct. And now they're back up because of tariffs. And people still can't afford. Still can't afford them. Yeah, still can't afford them.

So turning now really quickly to Capitol Hill, House Speaker Mike Johnson, He is sending lawmakers home early for the holidays without a deal to stop health insurance premiums from rising. Now, House Republicans, they passed a health care bill yesterday, but it does not include those extended Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire in just 14 days. A GOP leaders say the bill lowers health care costs in other ways by expanding cheaper insurance options, lowering some premiums and targeting drug prices. But those missing subsidies, they sparked sort of a revolt on the House floor yesterday for House Republicans. they broke with their own party. They sided with Democrats using a procedural vote to force a vote on extending those subsidies for three years.

And Democrats say, Speaker Mike Johnson, he sent lawmakers home to avoid dealing with the issue. Let's hear what Jasmine Crockett had to say on that issue. You know, we are supposed to be in session until Friday. The speaker, he loves to run when things get tough. That's not leadership. That's cowardice. And so that is what he's decided to do. We saw this happen when it came down to the Epstein files.

He decided to send Congress out. Right now, we are supposed to be until Friday. He has decided that our last day is going to be tomorrow because he does not want to deal with the fact that we have a ripe discharge position that is sitting in front of him that could not only help our constituents, but help he is. Let me just tell you, when you talk about revolt, you're going to see that crazy.

I've been dealing with the health care system in the last couple of weeks. They're saying that the volume of people that go to the hospital has risen 40%. They said people are scared to go to the hospital now because they don't know if they can afford it, right? They're talking about the price of ambulance bills, the price of emergency room bills, the price of I have to decide if I'm going to take my child,

my mother, my father, my brother, my sister, my niece, my aunt, to the doctor because I can't afford it because the premiums are going to be too high or I can't afford to take them to the hospital. And they're talking about, but we'll figure it out later, it's going to be crazy.

And especially with the flu, the flu has been hitting the kids and old people like crazy. If they don't figure this out, it is going to be a nasty mess because if I go to the hospital and I got to figure out if I can afford it or take my kid or figure something out,

it's going to be disgusting. Well, get ready for a nasty mess, sir. It is going to be a nasty mess. Yeah, because with the house being sent home, that forced vote won't happen until January, which all but guarantees that premiums will rise on January 1st.

So, you know, it's going to be a big backlash. Yeah, for sure. All right, well, y'all, coming up at 7, Christmas stress might be doing more than draining your wallet. It could be draining the mood. too. So we'll explain what I mean You know what? Don't, I don't need them with bad news. It's not bad news. It's not bad news.

Draining the mood. No, intimacy, mood. All right. Oh, okay. Sex. Libito. Okay, drain. All right. Okay. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-105.1. If you need to vent phone lines to wide open, call us up right now. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest. She's calling

800585-105-1 We want to hear from you On the Breakfast Club Hello, who's this? Yeah, this is Trouble White AKA MAGA called in from Richmond, Virginia You said AKA what?

MAGA. A.k.a. Maga. Oh, Lord. I talked to y'all a few weeks ago. Talk to us. Yeah, but I just want to say this. You know, it's no doom and gloom out here.

Down here in Richmond, Virginia, plenty of money. Plenty of money being tricked. Grocer prices are down. Gas prices, we down to, what, a dollar, almost $99, $2. You know, it's no struggle out here. There's no struggle. And as far as like that, Obamacare, ObamaCare wasn't good from the get-go.

I'm a healthy individual. And that's because I didn't want to sign up for Obamacare way back then, they used to charge me $600 just because I didn't want to sign up for it. I think the health care and things like that, you know, the mom is and the dad is who's to put that heads together and, you know, develop their health care program for our kids and things like that. You know, we need to strip that Obamacare away. You can't keep subsidizing that and keep pumping money into it, but now at the top of the year, you're going to really see how Obamacare really was, you know, and what the prices was, because they're going to strip away the government funding towards it. But it's no dooming gloom out here. The economy is booming.

The economy. Trevor, I don't know what, with small block you live on or what bubble you live in. I'm living in Richmond, Virginia. But the gas prices are down a little bit. Yes, they are down about 50 cents to 75 cents. Gas prices are down. But grocery prices are down. Grocery prices are still high as giraffe panani.

Like, not down here. I'm living in Virginia. Well, listen, this is I want you to do. Open up that bubble some more people can come live in it. You got room in that bubble? Where a word? Right. You got room in that bubble you live in?

The project is booming. Ain't nobody struggling in the project. Yeah, you tripping. Yeah, you tripping. You're tripping. Now I know what he said. He said his name, Maga. I ain't know what he said.

He's going crazy. Then he said, you know, yeah, I pay $600 every time I went to the doctor. You think people can afford $600 when people are living check to check? Half of you as adults say it's difficult to avoid health care, afford health care costs my brother okay and three in ten say they have a family member in that household that has had problems paying for health care

in the last year so I don't know what he talking about By the way I don't even Yeah I don't even need the statistics I see it so I don't know what he's talking about Get it off your chest 800585 1051 if you need to vent hit us up now It's the breakfast club good morning Ray Ray Ray

Yo, Charlemagne envy what up Are we live This is your time to get it all your chest i got an indoor pool our outdoor pool we want to hear from you on the breakfast club we can get on the phone right now he'll tell you what it is we live it's janisa what's up dj mb good morning everybody what's up you said the other day that you never seen a female truck driver when i was a kid i didn't see too many female truck i see them now all the time but i when i was a kid

driving i didn't see none well i just let you know i want to come and i wanted to honk my horn for you real quick honk your horn for me go let's go Dang. Dang, girl. I know that's right. Carry me it. I wanted to shout out my company real quick, if you don't mind. Yeah, ma'am.

Listen, I worked for a company called Carteret Disposal Inc. That's CDI located in Abinnell, New Jersey. We are a roll-off company. We have all-sized containers, 30s, 20s, 15s, 10s, compactors, anything you need. We got competitive prices that we have one hell of a 15. I'm one of them. Check us out. I'm going to tell you, Janice, I, you know, I went through, I went through a deep rabbit holy

of a day of female truck drivers and what y'all have to deal with on the road, where it goes to changing tires and how the men try to pick on y'all and all that other stuff. Oh, your head, man, you're doing an amazing job. I didn't see how y'all shower at rest stops. Y'all really be doing your thing. Salute to you. Thank you. I appreciate it.

I'm definitely one of those females that actually messed with the guys back. I called not that long ago complaining about sensitive men. You remember that? Yes. That was me. You ever had a little lot lizard action? Damn. Oh, my God.

Oh, what? Don't let, no what? You ever had a little lot lizard action, pulled up to a truck stop, seen a little handsome something? You know what I mean? Decided the man in your trailer real quick. No, I'm no, I'm going to go. Oh, you got a wife.

Okay, never mind. All right. Look, all the men, what are the men called, though? They're not lot lizards, right? What are the men called? Lot Leon's, like, what are they? Disgusting? No, no.

Yeah, she don't know. Oh, no. Disgusting? You'd be safe out there in the Rose, all right? All right, take it easy, guys. Happy holiday. You too now. TDS, truck driving, stud.

Hey, go. Hello, who's this? Andy, you know who it is. Is Shereida again from New Jersey, returning the call? Shereida, what's up? You're the one that called the other day. You was mad that Trave kept getting through, right?

And I'm calling again for the same reason. Listen, I'm calling to tell Trav this time. We play the same field. I'm definitely never in his inbox. Ever. So we're right. Well, all I'm asking is, wait, wait, wait. All I'm asking is trap.

Just give it a break. Let other people get through. Hold on. When you say y'all play the same field, I mean, you like penis, too, is what you say. Nah. Basically, I don't want him. Got you.

Got you. Got you. But listen. Listen, let me tell you. I get to work at 630. I just, listen, my husband text me. He was like, I think that call was for you. When I got on, he was just finishing.

So you know, Jess know I'm definitely coming back She's no women We don't play We would go back Every other day if I have to But what about the people

That's going to get tired of you call What about the people That's getting tired of you calling Talking about TRAF calling too much I call twice Jess I call twice I know but you're going to get back through it

And complain about TRAB again I feel it No, I'm done I'm done I just had to come back one more time There you go What's up?

Wait, Izzy? What more thing? This is for all the people that be begging all year. Please don't call on holidays. Nah. Nah, the holidays is the time where they're going to really get it in. But I got a solution for that. Anybody who ask you for anything around this time of year,

just tell them you'll get back to them after next year. And if they trip on that. Because, you know, people will come to you with all type of stuff. Like, oh, you know, my roof need to get fixed. You know, my alternator, all types of stuff. You're like, okay, I'll get back to you after the new year. If they trip on that, they're just trying to get Christmas gifts for somebody. They just need a little extra money for Christmas gifts.

Y'all have a good day. Thank you. Yes, man. All right. Because the New Year is in a couple of weeks. Right. So it's just like, if I tell you, I'll get back to you, you know, top of the New Year and you get mad about that, that means that you really just want some extra money for Christmas gifts.

That's right. All right, well, get it off your chest. 800-585-105-1. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. L.L. Cool, babe. Good morning, y'all. Yes. Good morning.

So 21 Savage is on the quest to get Atlanta back together. He's calling out everybody. Young Thug. Future. I love it. Not only did 21 Savage drop a great album. I'm telling you that young man is probably one of the few, few young rappers with real live, common sense, and emotional intelligence.

And they respect them. And we'll talk about it next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Lauren becoming a straight fat. Tell up, man. She gets him to do somebody that knows somebody. She gets to details.

I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest. On the breakfast club. Talk to me! All right, guys.

So last night, there were a series of tweets that were posted to 21 Savage's ex-account. So he is attempting to get Atlanta back together with all the different beefs that's happening. So he tags Gunna and Young Thug, and he says, Y'all niggas figured this out. Y'all figured this ish out. Y'all love each other. Y'all knew Gunner wasn't no gangster when he told the first time

and we swept it under the rug for you. You know he wasn't trying to leave you to hang N-word. The streets. I can't, this is blocked out. You don't read N-word like you used to. No, the words are blocked out on the blog pages. Y'all N-W-N-Words, fix that. Y'all love each other N-word.

You knew Gunner wasn't no gangster when he told the first time and we swept it under the rug for you. You know he wasn't trying to leave you to hang. F-the-Streets. We ain't get S, but trauma from that S. Thank you. So then he continues, and he's, and he, this is now tagging the baby, or not the baby, baby.

He says, you one of the real baby, little baby, you one of the realest, young, in words, out this ish. At mid-slime was moving the goalpost and we were standing behind him because we love him, my brother. Being a parent is basically a juggling act. Dinner, hockey practice, homework, a last-minute science project, and someone's always, always shouting for you. you from another room. So yeah, I'll take any shortcuts that actually works. And that's why I'm all in on Hello Fresh. Fresh ingredients, super easy recipes and over 80 options every week so everyone eats. No one complains and I get to feel like I've got it all together, at least for dinner. And the best part, you're in total control. Skip a week, pause any time, pick what works for you.

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Tennessee's attorney general is suing a Nashville doctor. In April 2024, a fertility clinic in Nashville shut down overnight and trapped behind locked doors were more than a thousand frozen embryos. I was terrified. Out of all of our journey, that was the worst moment ever. At that point, it didn't occur to me what fight was going to come to follow. But this story isn't just about a few families' futures. It's about whether the promise of modern fertility care can be trusted at all.

It doesn't matter how much I fight. Doesn't matter how much I cry over all of this. It doesn't matter how much justice we get. None of it's going to get me pregnant. Listen to what happened in Nashville on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Stefan Curry, and this is gentleman's cut. I think what makes Gentleman's Cut different is me being a part of developing the profile of this beautiful finished product. With every sip, you get a little something different.

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I totally agree. Then he tagged Q from, Quality Control. Yeah, P from Quality Control. Who, you know, was the manager over the Migos and a bunch of other artists as well. He said, I told you to your face you did wrong at the party. but I never bashed you on the internet because it would have made me,

it would have made the city look bad because you was putting all the young N-words on and that would have effed the money up. So then after that, you know, the tweets are circulating and people are starting to respond to them and comment on them. There are some tweets that happened

from Futures account that he responded to. He says, bigger than the net, then he put us, and then he tags 21 Savage Future. He says, you my little brother for infinity, us. And then 21 Savage responds back and said, I apologize, my brother. I should have called you first us. And then 21 Savage continued to tweet.

I guess he was getting some pushback. Did anybody else respond? Did any of the artist respond? Besides future. I saw Thug respond. I didn't see. Oh, yes, I did. Yes.

So Thug responded, said, I love you, my brother. You always been with me. Thug also was talking on a stream just, you know, randomly. And it's kind of like coincidental for the timing. But he was talking about how the rap game is messed up right now. because of all of the beefs uh let's take a listen to that i feel like i always wanted to do this type music and then i feel like rap is in like weird weird like space like down because it's just saying like everybody beat from them and it's just like total big artists in the world like like glass

and a lot of rippling effect that's kind of weird i feel like it's time we got to like take it to the next level we got to level like AI just so much everything in the world level and up I think we're like three so he's just like comfortable comfortable even though we even when we feel like we're like personal and artists we can't we still it's still listen man salute to 21 Savage oh go ahead yeah I was saying I respect what 21 is trying to do um I don't know if I'm like I'm not upset that he did it online I just feel like all he's grown in and he seems like

he's cool all of him he could have type like he could have tried to arrange some type of a meet up for everybody. I don't have no problem with him doing it online because the drama be online, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And I drop on the clues bonds with 21 Savage. That brother is a real leader and I don't know anything about discrete politics of Atlanta, but when you got a brother trying to bring people together

like 21 is, you gotta say that he's right. And 21 speaks with a whole lot of common sense and if you young men would listen to him, your lives would probably be a whole lot better because we already know when it comes to the streets, you end up in jail, are dead, so it makes no sense to get the opportunity to be making so much legal money and still

being the streets and 21 is telling you that and that's why I love his new album what happened to the streets because he has those messages all throughout the album but also what he said was he did say he reached out to a lot of these people behind the scenes so he probably tried to do behind the scenes yeah so he probably like enough's enough let me do it in the public eye so people can see what I'm doing and I hope like they said I hope

they are able to get it together because music did sound so much better when they were all working with each other when you would hear Little Baby and Thug and Thug and Thug and Gunner and Offset with this one and Gunner with this one that's what made music sound amazing. That's what I loved about Atlanta, because it showed that they stuck together

until they didn't. So 21 Savage continued to tweet because I think some people were commenting on the, on the like his attempts to get people back together. He said for the ones that don't get it right now, it'll sink in later. I was lost too. He says the realest in it, the biggest change all the time. Last year, I was

the realest for trying to stop thug from exposing Gunna and now I'm fake, laugh out loud. Listen, man, we see all the drama in the public eye. Y'all can't wait to run out there and talk about folks when they beef So when you see a brother like 21 who's being a real leader Trying to bring people together Run out there and talk about that too

Absolutely Salute to that brother 21 I love what he's attempting to do I love how Gunna is now You know he's been consistent with music He's been in the gym He seemed like he seemed like he should have never been around street I guess anyway

I like where he at He probably like nah I'm good Y'all can go away and get together But I'm good That's right You sound like his auntie or his grandma or something I told you You shouldn't have been around them boys anyway.

Okay, I told you that from the beginning. But he's either of the reason. He's selling out concerts. He's selling out venues. He's doing his damn thing. He just sold out in Atlanta. He just sold out of Atlanta. Yeah, he's hanging with different people. You know, he got a new friend.

Shut up, Jasman. I can see that for real. And they're making really good music. I don't know why he running around here calling himself Gunna. Sergio, what? Sir, you got a nice name. Sergio Giovanni. And you want to be a gunner.

and be high here with these thugs I didn't told you see you you and Sergio and Jeffrey cut it up okay you know he went to street when he told the first time I'm like damn that's a good point though and why you want people to become rappers

and then follow street rules that makes no sense to me if the man wasn't in the street to begin with now he got the opportunity to make legal money why do you want him to resort back to streets why do any of y'all want to go revert back to the streets I don't understand it. Well, I hope we can get to see it.

I hope we can get to see, especially thug and gunner. Drop on a clues bond for 21, man, for being a real leader. Pull up some 21 Savage, man. What you want to hear? I want to hear Step Brothers. I want to hear Step Brothers featuring Young Nudy. He samples DMX, stop being greedy. Today is DMX born day.

Pull up that Step Brothers record, man. We got it right now. Go check out 21's album, what happened to the streets. The same things he, those same tweets that he's putting out, he got those messages all throughout the album, man. All right. Let's get it to the joint right now. The birthday was yesterday.

For real? Young nudie had a birthday yesterday. Oh, wow. Okay. All right, well, let's get to the joint. We got front page news next. It's the breakfast club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's E.J. NV. Just hilarious. Shalameen the guy. We are the breakfast club. Let's get back to some front page news. Now on Thursday night football, the Rams played at Cahawks at 815 on Prime video.

Also, the Knicks decide against hanging NBA Cup banner at Madison Square Garden. So they're not going to hang up that cup. They want a real chip. They said, we'll take it. but we want a real chip to hang up a band. Hey, speaking of the Knicks, they say that video of Josh Hart putting his thumb in Jalen Brunson, but was AI.

Was it? I don't, I don't, man, I'm telling you, I cannot live the rest of my life asking if something is real or not. I have no idea if it was real. It was on the NBA page. That was what I was thinking. I mean, I don't know.

That was real, man. Don't they do stuff like that all the time? No, they don't do stuff like that all the time. Yeah, that was crazy. It might slap you on the butt, good play, but that was wild. I don't know if it was, I don't know. I just saw somebody say it was AI.

I don't know if I was a, yeah. All right, but anyway, what's up, Mimi? Good morning, Envy. How are you doing this morning? Good morning. Good morning. So we start this hour at the White House, drawing attention this morning,

not for new policy, but for new plaques. So they're part of a recently added presidential walk of fame, mounted beneath portraits of past presidents, and several are taking sharp aim at President Trump's predecessors, including President Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Now, one plaque called, is President Biden, the worst president in American history. It repeats false claims about the 2020

election and blames him for inflation, immigration, the Afghanistan withdrawal, and global conflicts. Another targets former President Obama using his full name, calling him decisive, attacking the Affordable Care Act, and repeating debunk conspiracy theories about spying in Russia. Now, White House officials, they confirmed that President Trump, he personally wrote many of those plaques, calling them his version of history. And last night, former Vice President Kamala Harris, she weighed in on the frustration during an appearance on Jimmy Kim alive. Let's listen to what she had to say. The idea that those plaques would have been placed by a president of the United States to talk about former presidents of the United States, the American people deserve

better. And a lot of times, you can't help but laugh at it, but is this coordinated or is this just random chaos? It is not random chaos. First, of all, I know that it has felt chaotic, but what we are in fact witnessing is something that is a high velocity event. It is moving quickly, which is the swift implementation of a plan that has been, in a large part, decades in the making. And yes, part of the crazy is meant to distract from the fact. The guy said, and I believe there were a fair number of people who voted for him who believed him when he said on day one he was going to bring down prices. And look where we are. The price of food is up.

Unemployment is up. Inflation is up. And so what does he do? He keeps dropping bombs. That is because he wants to distract from the fact and have us talk full time about the crazy instead of the fact that people are being challenged right now about being able to pay their rent,

buy food, get Christmas gifts for their kids. And he doesn't want us talking about the fact that he has destroyed the economy in so many ways. She is absolutely correct. Like every single word. Yeah, that was last night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel.

It's really an interesting watch. So if you get a chance to watch the whole thing. But yeah, she definitely went in and explained a lot of things. You know, she talked about a project 2025 and how it's literally been in the making for decades and what we're seeing now. And this plan of, you know, how we talk about it never stops. It just keeps going. That is by design.

And so it was a really good list. Now, I will say this, Mimi, you know, me and me and the vice president had this conversation. Whenever they talk about Project 2025 being decades in the making, the question I have to ask is, then what was y'all defense? If y'all knew that this was decades in the making, why weren't y'all creating a defense for it for decades as well? Like, I don't, I don't, I understand her rhetoric, but I just was like, well, what were y'all doing while they was making Project 2025? Which is a very good question. But getting back to those plaques, the White House has not said, how they were funded or where the government resources were used to make them. Did you guys see the photos of those new plaques that are along the presidential wall?

I saw Obama and Trump. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's very interesting. You haven't seen it. Take a look. All right, y'all.

And lastly, here's something that might surprise a lot of couples. So Christmas might be actually killing the mood. So researchers say interest in sex goes up. up around the holidays, but for many couples, the stress of Christmas is getting in the way of intimacy. Psychologists say it's not about desire, it's about pressure. So Christmas for couples, it means travel, family obligations, hosting, shopping, financial stress and long days. So by the end of the night, most couples are just exhausted. And then they, here comes New Year's though, and then it flips, the pattern flips. Researchers say intimacy, it often rebounds for couples around New Year's because

the energy is different. It's a celebration. It's not. not an obligation. There's a countdown. There's champagne, music, staying up late, and a sense of starting fresh together. So that makes sense, right? What do you guys think?

Yeah, no, it does. It does. It makes sense. The pressure of it all definitely is a mood drainer, but, is it? Yeah. Especially if you isn't in my essential

a whole Christmas list. Yeah. Or your relationship is new. It could be stressful. Yeah, you know, right. You just got with somebody in lockdown in October. And Christmas is like the first.

official holiday that's going to spend together that's a lot of pressure because it's like damn it's our first Christmas I'm gonna be able to get you nothing yeah y'all should have

had that conversation in October because the reality is I don't think you deserve nothing if y'all jobs just got together in October it's like a 90 day probationary I'm not buying you nothing from Christmas

and I just met you in October no no no you didn't just meet this person but you locked in like you made it official in October I don't know what I'm gonna be honest I've been married so long I don't even know what making it

official means oh what Lauren just made an official going to Bahamas Oh, please. The girl got ringworm. Not listening to her. You are silly. But think about,

we just got through talking about affordability, right? So if families are going through a lot in Christmas stress, they may, couples may not, you know, they don't feel like getting it in.

But when the New Year's comes around, they made it through Christmas and so, you know, they feel better. That's true. But honestly, man, that's why you have to have more than material things

in a relationship, man. It should be mental. It should be spiritual. You know what I mean? it should be emotional. Like those three things were always keeping you

wanting to be physical with your significant other. I think so. Yeah, it has nothing to do with what you can buy somebody, right? Because times go up, things go up, things go down. You know, your paycheck goes up,

paycheck goes down. You have a lot of money, you have a little bit money. But that love you have, forget all that stuff. If your relationship is based over finances, it's not going to last long.

I want all y'all single people out there to remember that, you know, I'm telling you the spiritual connection, spiritual, mental, emotional. That's how you should be trying to connect with a person. Talk to that talk, babe.

First of all Hush you know Uh-uh He came back First of all Right He wanted to be my soulmate So bad

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Thank you All right When we come back We have Jared Adams Civil Rights Attorney In Justice Reform Advocate He was wrongly convicted and spent 10 years in prison for a crime

he didn't commit. He's going to break that all down when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. J. Jolari,

Sholomey and the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRose is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building. His name is Jared Adams, okay? He's got a book out called Redeeming Justice, but he is a civil rights attorney and justice reform advocate

with an amazing story. Good morning, my brother. Good morning, good morning. Thank you both for having me on here. Thank you for being here. Absolutely. You know, you were wrong. Fulngfully convicted and spent 10 years in prison for a crime you didn't commit.

Yeah. And then you got 17, I believe, right? 17 years old. 17. But you went on to become an attorney yourself. Yeah. Not the first to do it, but 17 years old, wrongfully convicted. My conviction being reversed after almost 10 years with the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.

And then it was what I saw inside the prison that really led me on the journey that I'm on right now. So when I get to this maximum security prison, you know, I'm one of the youngest, you know, inmates who's walking around this prison. By the time I'm on my way out, you know, of this prison, I'm looking at mainly 80, 90 percent of the prison is 17, 18-year-old men of color. So literally, the prison boom that we talk about right now, that was when I was doing my time. And it was just, it was a sight to see. So when I left up out of those doors, I told myself, Not only was I not going to go back, but I'm going to try to do something to keep people from going there

and pull out as many brothers and sisters now increasingly that I'm doing as I can. I was thinking, man, when you walk into a courtroom now as a lawyer, what part of that teenage version of you is still present in your mind? I would say it's two spirits when I go in there. Number one, I thank God that I'm able to walk in there now. You know, a champion of justice, you know, being able to pull people out. But then also when I go in there, there's a bit of, you know,

y'all try to murk me. You tried to take me out, you know what I mean? So I'm walking through swinging arms like George Jefferson and this boy, you know what I mean? Like, like, like legitly. So there's a, there's a moment of being proud, there's definitely being humble, but it's a reminder that man, look, this is all

I fight. You understand what I'm saying? There are more families affected now by our system, and we got to find a way to link arms and create a human chain. How do you identify, like, what clients you choose to take on? Well, that's an interesting question because

for a long time, Lauren, I was a sucker for all my son and, you know, my... It's tough. Yeah, because like, anybody behind bars is tough. It is, but then also like, going through my journey, I went through it with my mama. My mama's single black mother. I go through it

with her, and we became tighter. And so once I got my law degree, and this will help answer the question, too, you know how you got to wait in the mail for the law degree to actually get to the house? So when they get to the house, my mama tell me I come over there and I told I want her to keep it and so she started crying and I say well we ain't crying

no more man we're doing good she said no no I'm not crying because I'm sad I'm crying because I know you just ain't going to go try to make money you're going to realize that there are other black males with single parents and they're going to need your help and you're going to help them right so for a long time I was a sucker for that story and then I get down deep in these cases and realize

that it wasn't exactly what it was but it never disturbed me from from like perfecting the process of the intake unit that we have right now, right? I have an organization called Life After Justice where we review these cases and we try to select these cases on the cases that can do a couple different things, right?

We always want to see people get out, but also if we can get out and make a change legislatively or some rule that will prevent, those are the cases that we highlight and we want to put at the top of the list. I saw you working on the Bentz Brothers case. Yes, right?

So I know that there's no decision at this point. Well, it is one. Okay. They granted the decision. In the Ben's case that she saw them out, if you know or don't know, two white brothers from Wisconsin were wrongfully convicted and spent 27 years in prison for the rape and the murder and the kidnapping of a bar, you know, bartender, right? They ended up doing DNA testing, exhuming the body of the person who actually did it

and was a serial rapist, and they cleared these men. But when they came home, they came home past the age of retirement. And literally, there's a statute in Wisconsin that no matter how many years you've spent in prison, the maximum you will get is $25,000, right? So you have to petition the legislators and make an argument and say, look, this is why they deserve more money. They did not make a decision up until like a month ago, or about three weeks ago, and they agreed to pay these men a million dollars plus the $25,000. And it's something that they desperately need it. Yeah, that's amazing. But when you get involved in these cases like this, right,

even though you know that there's a wrong because of the way the system is set up. Yeah. How do you kind of save yourself from like if there is this appointment at the end? Because, you know, 50-50. It's continued therapy. Like I still go to therapy right now to this day. You know, because I have to balance my emotions. No matter what, the tentacles of, when you come in contact with this system that we have in the United States,

the tentacles of that contact will all. always reach you through life. And the only way you can maintain that balance is with constant therapy. And so I encourage therapy. I do it myself because there are, there are, we take it on the chin a lot. That's right. Lauren. And so we have to find a way to continue to get up off the mat.

And we who are off the mat need to find a way to keep extending our palm and pulling people up with us. And that was a historic amount that they were awarded in Wisconsin. Yeah. Yeah. It was. It was, it was an amount where it's been, it's been met before. but like only twice. Okay.

Right? So they don't, they don't necessarily give it out. And right now, there's a, there's a bill on the floor right now to make it, um,

you know, a law that you will get $50,000 a year, not having to go through what they went through and hold on and wait and hope. Yeah. I agree with you on therapy. You know, I'm a big, you know, proponent of therapy myself,

man. And I always say, you know, healed people, healed people will help heal people. No doubt. Hurt people will continue to hurt other people. Absolutely.

Um, and my journey from, listen, my journey through mental health wasn't easy, man, I thought I was going to a damn fish fry. My mom and aunties was like, man, baby look, we need you to like... You're going to see the lady. Yeah, we need you to let it out. You know, we're not

and I think that in our community, we are, we are, we reject it because we think it's a sign of weakness because you're like, oh man, it's crazy. You're going to see this and going to see that. But for me, I was on autopilot when I got out because all of my guys man, they wasn't turning up no more.

They had kids. They had careers. So I thought I could work 24 hours a day to catch up for almost a decade that was taking and it wasn't mentally healthy for me. So going through that, I'm understanding now that the real, how I look at this when

it comes to my mental health is these are moments of decompression. And sometimes, man, you have to go and decompress so that way you can have the right state of mind to respond to all the stresses that the world has to offer each and every day. I got to get you on my, you know, you know, I do the mental

welfare. I do. I do. Shaka was telling me about that. He was like, man, make sure you talk about that. You can get on with that, but I was like, for sure. No, I need you there. Next year, we're going to do, I want to do three or four cities next year. Okay. I definitely need you there. You got a memoir, redeeming justice, right?

And the subtitle is from defendant to defender. Yes. What was the hardest chapter to write emotionally? And what did you learn about yourself when you was putting your story on page? So it took me three years to write the book. And part of the reason why it took me those three years is because I wanted to read all of the books of people with stories of wrongful conviction. because I wanted it to be, honestly, I wanted it to be, and I wanted to be a salute to my mom and my aunts, man,

they didn't have to hold me down like that, but they did. So when I write it, and when you look at the book, you think it's a wrongful conviction book, but if you look at the first opening, it's a dedication to my aunts who, sugar, honey, and peaches. Look, I'm from Chicago. Don't, you know what I'm saying?

That's their nicknames, right? And so I sent a shout out to them because, man, they did stuff like keep me alive when I wanted to, die in that boy. I would get a letter with a verse every day from one of them because they told me, baby, look, we're going to acknowledge that they've incarcerated your

body, but we will never let them imprison your mind. And so I wrote this story from a perspective of not just what the person goes through while they're in prison. What does the family go through? Because my mama went from, man, look at this. My mother was a big hat wearing, peppermint passing front row church.

But when I went through this, she got tired of answering the question in Charlemagne, well, What happened to Jared? Where are he at? You know what I mean? It became hard for her. And so I wanted to send a shout out to her and then also continue the pages

about what I'm doing in life right now. When you talk about like your mom and your aunt, right, and you said that they was like, you got to go see the lady. When you're helping, because I mean, you get people, the justice that they deserve, right? But a lot of times they don't identify

that they have issues that they need to deal with. So now you're that person in their life. When you're doing that, like how easy or how hard is it to tell somebody, You need to go get some help. Like, we're going to figure out the job and the stay, but you need to go get some help because you're trying to live your life. It's a difficult conversation, but I can use a story that I just had.

So I got a client in Chicago, a guy by the name of Shaquille Williams. He was wrongfully arrested for a murder that they knew he didn't commit. So we are going through the suit, and one of the toughest things about a civil suit is a deposition. Because you get peppered with questions, and so he's being asked these questions that are emotionally triggering to him where you know he lost his mom while he was locked up he now has a wife and he i have to explain to him and encourage him that you have to keep going to therapy because there are situations

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A wife like you're selling. And that's a difficult thing to do, and you should never want to do it alone. So what I try to do is live my life and say, look, what I've done, what I've done to make it more easier for guys to be receptive. These are some hard dudes who think that, you know, they can't show a sign of weakness. So if I'm telling them that I don't went through and did this time and I don't walk the same hard tear as you have, but I still revert back to therapy because it is, it has helped me tie my shoes in a race that is life. Ooh, ooh, I've heard you say the criminal justice system is rigged.

Yeah. And that justice is for sale. So when you look at the current system, what are the top two or three pressure points that most clearly show you how, like money and race still determining these outcomes? Well, look at what we got going on right now, man. Like, just look at what we got going. We have, we have a system that it depends on who you know and what you have.

Right. And it will determine your result. We are seeing right now our Justice Department, you know, being used in such a way that is scary, but also being used in a way that we must ask ourselves, like, why they weren't doing this for us? You know what I mean? Like, why we wasn't getting this, right? So I think that the low-hanging fruit is this. We must find a way to step in where there are clear gaps in our system. and there are wealth gaps that determine a whole lot of the sentences and stuff like that.

We need to get as loud as we can for Lakeisha as we do for Bryant. You get what I'm saying? And I think that I really do believe that our way of fixing the system itself, and Angela Ryan, and a lot of other of my colleagues say the same thing. We have to focus in the individual states, right? That's what we have to focus at. But once we start to work together in these individual states, I think that we must then be able to link arms and start to petition the change that can make it up to the Supreme Court to make that governmental change that will affect the United States and it's all in its entirety. So in short, what we need to do is the people who are closest to the fire usually know how to put it out, but they're the furzes from the water holes.

We need to find a way to feed the water hose to the people who are on the ground, the active. this, the people who are going to the courtrooms, the people who can tell you, look, don't vote for this judge, vote for that judge because this judge will make the change. However, we can go back and make sure that our vote counts, we have to be educated in order

to do it, but that is what we have to do in order to start to tinker away at this mighty, mighty sister. I wanted to ask you about this, that's why I got about, because the track your own is I want to stay on this track. What did you think, man? Because this really, really disappointed me. When I saw our good brother My son,

On the front page of the New York Post labeled as a crime boss because Doron Madani is essentially doing what you're saying people should do. He's going to get somebody who's been through the system who's reformed, put them in place on the public safety committee. I don't think there's a better representative

to have than somebody like a MISON. And for him to be demonized like this, how did that make you feel? I mean, look, I felt the tack. I felt attack with that brother. And I know him. Like, you know what I'm saying? Me and, me and we just talked about a case

I have in New Jersey a few weeks ago the case is Rahim Brian you can look at it the kid was shot in the back of the neck we got an excessive force you going but I was just rotating with that brother so when I looked at that and I saw it

it came up on my timeline and I immediately felt attack you know what I'm saying like as if it was me and I think we all should have that type of response and I'll just say this for anyone who's questioning you know this move right when we just came through the pandemic

right and we got through the pandemic through vaccines, right? So the vaccines are actually what? The virus. That is turned into an antibody, right? And we injected in ourselves as a defense mechanism. If this brother, which I know he will

do, with his experience, being in his position, he is a voice that is the closest thing to the problems that we have to be able to provide us a solution. Why would we not want that? Word up. If we have a president right now who is the president, and he

been convicted of something, why can't we have a brother like this and more sisters like this in positions where they can say, look, I know what it's like, right, to be at home, not had child care and have to not be able to work so that way they can provide the solutions. You want us to all come off Medicaid and all these dumbass arguments that you hear about, well, black people on SNAP, they on this, they on that. Well, why don't you put the people who have had the experience and why they had to be on SNAP in position to be able to provide solutions so that we could snap, snap the fuck out of here, If that's what true, I want to do.

Right. Man, you said something earlier when you was talking about, like, the prosecutors, man, it made me think, like, you stood on both sides, right? And the defendant and a defense attorney. What's one thing you wish every prosecutor, judge, and cop had to experience or learn before they're allowed to hold that kind of power over somebody's life? I mean, I really wish they can experience a day in prison in a day with the family members at home who have their loved ones in prison.

Right? Because you're talking about astronomical phone calls. Prisons ain't placed in the city. They had Appalachia somewhere, right? You know what I'm saying? You got to drive out of Clinton correctional. You ever went to Clinton? I got a couple clients up there, man.

You might as well block out your calendar for that day, right? And hope everything work out. So it's like that part of it, in my opinion, is, again, they need to experience it just to have that sympathy and empathy, man. Everything doesn't require. hammer. You understand what I'm saying? And that just seems like what happens when you get us in front

of one of these systems, man. We all look like nails to them. For people listening, man, who will never see the inside of a courtroom beyond jury duty, what's one specific action they can take right now that actually moves the needle on wrongful convictions and criminal justice reform in their own city?

Pay attention, man. Like, legit man. If you're going to be there, you're going to show it. And also listen, in general, black folks show up the jury duty. Come on, y'all like legitimately man like we we we have to show up the jury duty like you just don't know how many jury pools in the northern district of illinois where i'm doing a wrongful conviction case and i ain't got not nothing but one or two of us in there and then we're trying to get about that like we need y'all man we listen look our turn up cannot outweigh our turn out like

legitimately so so for me and my perspective i like to have a good time too man but man when it's time to when it's time to turn out we got to turn out please show up the jury duty y'all y'all y'all you just don't know man if we get a jury pool that is that is diverse right we now control a lot of the outcomes man show up show up if you can be there be there right uh i'd be like man shaliman i be trying to get people our eye contact when they be on the jury pool like please don't make no it's go stand up and say you got a baby like that come on but that's that's what we need because we present the case but the jury makes a decision we need black and brown folk and let me make sure that i'm clarifying that not just black for black and brown folk because we ain't the minority if we link up. You know what I'm saying? So that's what we need. Show up the jury duty. That's it. And then pay attention in that. Take

notes and stuff like that. Be active in your participation because what your vote counts for right there in that moment is critical to the lives of a lot of my clients and a lot of lawyers' clients. What gives you hope that meaningful justice reform is actually possible?

I'm in the cases, man. I just look at the cases And I also am just a person who wants to be hopeful. I have to be, right? Going through what I went through, man, I'm a prayerful person. I'm a hopeful person. And I also get an opportunity to look at the babies that we have that are coming up right now, man. And I'm afraid, y'all. They don't even lie.

You know, when I'm looking to talk to these mothers and fathers in these courtrooms, I believe that it's desensitizing our babies to believe that the criminal system is just a part of our lives. And some kids never experienced that only in the movie. And I, you know, I give you another example of, of people ask me, man, what's the, what's the toughest thing you ever seen in prison? And they expect me to say a knife fight or something like that. I tell you the toughest thing that I've seen in this prison. So I'm playing ball on the first couple of years that I get to Green Bay Correctional. Green Bay Correctional in Wisconsin is, it's a tough place, okay?

And right now, they are stabbing each other up and there. And it doesn't make any sense what's going on with the violence. So I'm passing time I'm playing basketball And you know everybody picking their squad Everybody got a nickname And I'm hearing You know these guys on the other team

And they're like G pops Old man And um G son Right I'm just thinking like They're all from the same block You know what I'm saying

I ain't know I ain't know at all It wasn't until I got in the visiting room And I was visiting my mom I came up to see me from Chicago And I'm in a visiting room And I didn't realize Man This was three generations man

man this was a grandfather a father and his son but what really messed me up was two women came to see him with three kids and there was a little girl with him and man the little girl came through the medical detective

and raised the armor to be wanded because she was looking at her mama and grandma be wanded coming to the prison and you don't want the kids anything like that man like you know you this is a baby what was she doing at three, four years old

knowing that she's supposed to stick her arms up in the air. And so I said, man, look, we got to address this. We need to implement inside our schools of psychology sections that address specifically people who encounter the system,

whether it be family members or whether it be people who are there in order to make some real, real, real change. That is the thing that I will never forget and that happened almost 20-some years ago. But I never forget it. Listen, man, Jared Adams, his book, Redeeming Justice from Defendant to Defender. My fight for equity on both sides of a broken system is available everywhere.

You buy books now. Man, thank you, man. How can we continue to support your work? I know Life After Justice. What's the website? But also, the website is Jared Adamslaw.com. Lifeafterjustice.org is the website. And y'all can support by sharing the story, man.

Like, honestly, Charlemagne, listen, if we're going to have a donkey of the day, let's do a king or queen of the day. Word. You know what I'm saying? Straight up. Man, I love y'all. Thank y'all for having me on. This is us crowning you right now. I appreciate you, brother.

I really do, man. Yes, sir. I really do. It's Jared Adams. It's the Breakfast Club. Yep. Thank y'all. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalameen, the guy. We are the breakfast club. No, I was just thinking I haven't heard the artist the dream in a minute. You know what I was just thinking? How rich the weekend is right now.

Oh, yeah. You see that. He just did a billion dollar deal. Billion. Some of his catalog. But yeah, salute to the dream. Last time I saw the dream was at the Book of Hove event. At the museum in Brooklyn.

Whenever that was, that's the last time I saw it. Yeah, I've heard no music for the dream in a minute. But anyway, let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fat. Tell us, man. She gets them to somebody that knows somebody. She gets to detail. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything.

She'd be having the latest on this. She'd be having the latest with Lauren La Rosa. Sometimes she has facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. On the breakfast club. Talk to me. All right, guys, so real quick, before we get into our next story, I did want to add something on to the last hour when we were talking about 21 Savage. I saw that Big Bank had posted that Future 21 Savage and him were on FaceTime like a few hours ago.

Future 21 and Big Bank from perspectives with Big Bank, the interviews that we play out of Atlanta. Yeah, so just wanted to update there. They got on the phone. And listen, if you love Big Bank, like we love Big Bank, make sure you subscribe to the Big Facts podcast, as well as the Big Bank's prospective podcast, both on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Nope.

Period. Now, moving on in other news, so Marla Wayans is revealing what his family group chat looked like during his back and forth with 50 Cent. He was speaking to Melvin Robert and his team over at KTLA. Let's take a listen. You found time for a social media beef with 50 Cent. What was it like in the family chat?

Well, your brother's like egging you on or telling you quit it? I just said his name. I asked me about the documentary. I was like, I didn't see it. I was just like, I don't think brothers need to be quarreling in public like that. And then what I get into? A public quarrel with a brother. And I just think it was bad for the culture.

So I kind of backed out. So I don't even say that name anymore. If you ask me, hey, you got a change of a dollar. So you need a half a dollar. Got it. You come about five dimes. Two quarters. I'll sit two quarters.

How old are you? I'm 43 plus a dime. I will not longer say. Oh, my gosh. And my brother, they're funny. Dane was like, why you pick the biggest brother? He's on gamma rays. Stick to beefing with soldier boy.

Kevin Hart. People that we can beat. Good advice. He's a lot of all. I'm all that concerned everything to a joke. I mean, he's a comedian. He's one of those comedians. Better not a turn.

He's a joke at a comedian. Yes. Well, moving on So Wale Switching gears a bit Walee sat down with Shannon Sharp on Club Shethe And they talked a bit about

It was all over the place But they talked a bit about the rumors That have been longstanding That he dated Solange And that Lotus Flower Bomb was about Solange Let's take a listen to him denying those rumors Lotus Flower Bomb The rumors are it's about

You know No, we were just real good friends and um how good we was like she's she's got great it she's one of the first like super like celebrity people that like really with my music and i remember we performed together at uh the vmAs you know my band was the house band for that joint we performed together and um we just got cool i was still very very very like underground right and she put me on to a lot of stuff like back then like it was just cool like she put me on there like givanshi and she put me on the uh victor and ralph flower bomb you know what i'm saying and that's that's how that's how the opening lines go but

it ain't about nobody like it ain't so y'all ain't it was no no no she that's just that's my people okay if anybody know solo they know that she's always ahead she thinks ahead like she saw with a lot of people she saw with a lot of people seeing me now back then right that i there's always those kind of stories about salange though she always putting somebody on with something she did the same thing with JT, a couple other artists. Yeah, I know, though, for some time leading up to this, like, the reason why people stood ten toes down, the fact

that there had to be something going on is because back in 2018, there was a fan that tweeted while he does, like, where you can, like, talk to him on X, and they act, the fan said, I want to know who, who inspired Lotus Flower Bomb? And he responded, she's married now, and at the time, Solange was marrying the director, I believe his name is

Allen. So that kind of sparked it even more. So this is, his, like, putting his foot down on, like, no, we were just friends. She said that before, too, like, we were really good friends. He could have just, she could have just gave him, like, some inspiration for an idea to do the song. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yes.

You have to be about her. Now, he also got into the Kai Sinat. There's no way we're still talking about this. There's just no way. Yeah, we are. Shannon Sharp asked him about, you know, that whole running with Kai Sinai at the BT Awards. Let's take a listen. I was upset for, like, five days in a row.

So when he's talking about mental health at the stream awards, I'm like, Yes, yes, yes, mental health, you get it now Imagine giving your life to this game And then you go to the awards To just support the culture that you've been a part of For 13 years And then somebody who asked you to play a video Like, ask you, yeah, yeah, let's play one day

Because you saw them last year And then you go online and everybody's like, Yo, that's not, you didn't know who you was That was funny, da-da-da-da And you're in a room full of your peers Right And I was like, wait, let me go hollering real quick Through my vantage point

I'm just like, yo, that made me look crazy, bro But I think the way that people saw it is like, yo, cross it up. Fuck you. I'm 20-year-old. I'm just saying you made me look crazy. I don't, I'm, I feel like uncomfortable in this room. And then when they said I pressed them, I was like, oh. Oh, so that means I got to leave.

I don't expect nobody. I introduce myself to at my meeting greet sometimes. Like, that's how I move. Like, I don't be like, you got to know who I am. It just seemed like it was a little bit, like, downplaying a little bit. Right. Kai did not make Waile. Oh, my God.

Look crazy. Walee feels crazy because that. That's just how he feels. And Wale is my guy, but you got to let that go, man. Kai didn't know who he was. So what? Everybody not going to know who you are, my brother. But the way that it happened was so natural.

He didn't know who he was in the chat. Why? I can't believe we're still talking about this. It makes no sense. And we talked about this with Walee. That is a wounded ego. Okay, Walee feels hurt and inadequate because Kai gave him a blow to his self-esteem just because he didn't know who he was.

And we know Walee, Wale since his self is not that fragile. That brother knows he is enough. Most people react like that When they feel they are not enough Walee knows he's more than enough Come on Walee, let it go I don't know if Walee knows that though I think Wale's in a place

I feel like he feels he's underappreciated I feel like he feels like people don't respect him the way that he should be And that was just a blow in the face They'd be like maybe people feel that way But we do love him

We value him We know Wale We appreciate him Well with all that being true Charlotte Is there anything wrong with him Being vulnerable about how he felt in that moment

No there's nothing wrong With him being vulnerable You can feel any way you want to feel And you say there's no means It's a reason for it. I'm just saying, yeah. It's over. Now, what I didn't like about, you know, how he brought that conversation in with Shannon,

when he was saying that Kai just, he saw him at the Streamers Award opening up about, you know, mental health. And then he's like, oh, now you get it because I was going through the same thing. And I imagine showing up, like, the way he bought it in is still, it's like, ah, why we take that approach to it? I mean, you might not. Like I always say, nobody is responsible for how you feel about your. That's right. Like, when we say things like, oh, he made me feel crazy. Like, no, can't nobody make you feel anything that's not real about yourself?

He just didn't know who Wale was at that time. I mean, Jess, you've been there before, right? No. Everybody has. Say yo, say, y'all people don't know me. No, no, no, no. No, no. No.

Oh, oh, hell yeah, yeah. Hell yeah, all the time. Like, y'all be getting on me every day because I didn't know Arnold Schwarzenegger was the, uh, the governor of California. No, that's not the one we. talking about but don't worry about it. I don't know why you'd be bringing up old stuff. It's okay. So if you want to bring up old stuff about envy, that's fine. Let's move on. That's the latest with Lauren.

But Waleh told us, though, he told us everything is a lot. And clearly in the world of Waleh, everything is a lot. And it's out now. Which is also one of the best albums of the year, by the way. If I had to put together top five albums of the year right now, everything is a lot would probably be in there. You know, I know we're rapping, but one of the things he said about that project in this interview that

I thought was so brilliant and I love to hear him say is he realized with this album that he cannot, it doesn't matter what the number are, first week, whatever, he can't make people feel how he felt about what he put out. That's right. Say that again, not? Basically, it doesn't. He's happy about his project.

Yeah, he can't make people, and this is not verbatim, but the conversation was, he can't make people feel what he felt when he put out this album. Like, people are going to feel however they want. This is most critically claimed album, and people still got something to say. I love to hear him say that. Kyle's like, look, I cannot make you feel like, okay, I wasn't

sliding you if that's how you feel. I was not sliding you. But if you feel that, I was not sliding you. But if you feel that, That way, Walee, there's nothing I can do about it, no matter how much I apologize. I know how many interviews you do about it. I said sorry. I didn't know. Everything's a lot.

Everything is a lot. Wally? Out now. Shout out to Hale. Wally? Who are you giving you a dog to, man? Man, four after the hour, I need this woman name, what's her name? Camille Benson that come to the front of the congregation, man.

I don't hate people. Well, boy, I hate what this person did. All right. We'll get to that next. We got a Walee joint. Can we play a Wile joint? Play something off the new. We ain't got that off the new album.

We ain't got that's more disrespectful than people not knowing you. Radio station not having none of your new music. That's more disrespectful than Kai not knowing who you are, okay? You didn't have been up here plenty of times to do anything. You better have something off the new album. Play some old one. Tomorrow today, I'm singing it. I don't want to buy this.

No, play that until you find something new off the new album now. That's all we got for right now. That's all we got for right now. How are you going to blame it on me? I'm not the music director. You're the DJ. You know what? Okay, bitch.

Okay, bitch. Damn, the he-haw, did it? It's time for donkey today. I mean, ain't trying to be donkey today no more. They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm not making these people do these things. I'm not making the donkey of the day, and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Salome, who got the donkey of the day today?

Well, just hilarious. Donkey Today for Thursday, December 18th, the second to last donkey of 2025, because after tomorrow, we are taking a well-deserved vacation until the new year. Hopefully we'll be back. Okay, but it goes to a woman named Camille Benson. Okay, she has 33 inhales from Texas, but she has been charged with attempted mayhem. I have never even heard of that. Okay.

You've heard of attempted mayhem? No. Never heard of it. Now, what is attempted mayhem? Well, according to AI overview, it refers to the crime of trying to maliciously disfigure, or disable or destroy a part of someone's body like an eye or tongue or lips. but failing to complete the act, like such as trying to blind someone

but only causing serious injury. Okay, mayhem itself involves successfully causing disfigurement like blinding or cutting off your figure. I guess slashing of the face, I guess stuff like that, right? I swear, man, the more you learn about life, the more you wonder why certain people are living.

All right, your brain shouldn't even be allowed to work like this. God really needed to install a self-destruct button into some humans. Okay, I mean, as soon as a person is about to do something as heinous is mayhem to an individual. They should just cut off, all right? Just fade to black.

Go dark. Right there on the spot. Wake up, reincarnated, if the tuna fish is something. Okay, it don't make no sense. And this woman, Camille, absolutely needed to wake up as a tuna fish. Matter of fact, not even a tuna fish because my mouth started watering thinking about tuna. Tuna's are great.

Very tasty. Maybe she should come back as a worm or something, all right? Anything that can be put on a hook. I don't know. Coming back as a tuna fish just seems too good for her. even though she looks like she probably smells like one. But let's go to WXXV-25 News for the report, please. We begin with new details this evening on the case.

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Take a look at this. This is a TikTok sent to us by Mariah Watson showing some of the impacted bread she purchased at one of the stores. The investigation all began Monday when officers responded to the Walmarts on C.T. Switzer Road and Passroad for calls about tampered products. In both cases, customers reported discovering those razor blades inside loaves of bread. Jesus, this chick wanted people to eat razor blades on her eye with cheese! Peanut butter and razor blade sandwiches! I don't like to use the word hate, but I hate people like her, okay?

We love to say hurt people, hurt people, and that is true. In a lot of cases, unhealed pain and folks does cause harm, and it does cause unheeled people to cause harm. But some of y'all just evil. And you need an exorcism just as much as you need therapy, okay? I love home-cooked food over anything, but I also love eating out, all right? Everything from fast food restaurants to fine dining. That's why I don't like when fat people try to say I hate them, because I identify as a big back. But one of my greatest fears when eating from these places is stuff like this.

This is what I mean when I say every single day of our lives, all we are trying. trying to do is avoid other people's crazy. All it takes is one person committing one act of crazy to disrupt the multiverse. Okay, what's the point of putting razor blades in banana nut muffins? FYI, I love banana nut muffins, okay? Banana nut muffins is my go-to. Blueberry muffins is my number two, but I'm only doing these or all. But why I put razor blades in banana nut muffins?

Why I put razor blades in loaves of bread? By the grace of God, I'm glad no kids were injured. By the grace of God, I'm glad no elders were injured. By the grace of God, I'm glad nobody was injured. But just the mindset of a human to put multiple razor blades and loaves of bread and banana nut muffins in a couple of retail locations in the Biloxi area. Now, here's the thing.

Her bond was set at $100,000. That's it? That's it. $100,000 for attempted mayhem. Probably got to pay 10% like 10 grand, right? I don't see the reason for her to be out. Okay, people like this should not be allowed to come home until they spend

a lengthy amount of time in a psychiatric institution. This woman put razor blades and banana nut muffins and loaves of bread. This is an intentional, premeditated Batman-level villain attempted crime. Okay, you don't just let people like that back into society because

they can afford a bond? No, bro. You got to spend some extensive time trying to figure out what's wrong with this human that she would be willing to harm other humans on this level. The Grinch wasn't this diabolical. He just wanted folks to have a terrible Christmas, okay? He wasn't trying to disfigure them forever. Listen, all you hurt people, do yourself

a favor and get some healing. Okay, that's what I want you to get for Christmas some healing because not all hurt people hurt people. Some spend their lives making sure no one else feels what they did. Some break cycles. Some build same spaces. Some turn pain in the purpose. Hurt people don't just hurt people. Hurt people can heal people too. Camille, if you're If you get out on Bonn, try that. Please let Remmy Ma give Camille Benson the biggest he-ha. He-ha, he-ha! You stupid, motherfucker, are you dumb?

You can't just let somebody like her back into the street. She need to be sat down in somebody's psychiatric institution, and we need to figure out what's wrong. It's crazy. Yeah, I want to play a game. I'm not playing a game. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Crazy is crazy.

That's wild. It don't matter what color she would raise life. Surely is crazy. And you over there, chok, choking, dying over there, but you want to play a game. Spick with that's going to play a game. Yeah, you better go. Exactly. You better go get a drink of water.

That could have been a razor blade. That could have been a razor blade. Do you want to play a game? No, I don't want to play a game. Crazy is, as crazy does, this woman is just crazy. The chat wants to play a game. I just chat I always want to play a game. I don't care.

Let's play a game. No, go on. No. What is she? Crazy is crazy. It doesn't matter. She's crazy. All right.

But what is she? I'm just curious. She needs help. That's what she is. What is she? Okay. Is she black need help, white need help, Asian need help, Spanish help, Latina me help. You're Dominican. That is so much, sir.

What is she? Leave me alone. Move on. What is she? What is she? What is she? What is she? What are you?

I'm black. That's what everybody want to know. I'm black. Chat, let's play a game with DJ Envy. Guess what race he is. Don't nobody know because they'll show up to the Puerto Rican Day Parade with the Puerto Rican flag. Show up to the Dominican Day parade with a Dominican flag.

Show up to the Black stuff like he's black. And when he want to be a cracker, he can be a cracker too. I like that. I'm black. All the chat says I'm black. All the chats says I'm black. That's a lie. Y'all know better than that.

Well, what is she? I'm just scared. It don't matter. You're not fun today. That is so crazy. You know what? Yes. I'm going to show you.

I'm going to show you what. They play my theme music so I can just see. What is she? I'm going to be honest with you? What is she? I'm going to be honest with you. Okay. I'm really just looking at her picture for the first time.

All right. And she's what? I have no idea. Because she got nigger features, right? She got 21 Savage tattoos all over her face. She looked white. I don't know what this is. I'm going to be honest with my name.

Her name is Camille Benson. I have no idea what this is. I don't even know. Actually, this might be something that they created in the lab. Oh, wow. She looked like white. She looked like one of them. She looked like one of them, though.

What was the white lady that? Remember you were just saying, what is she? What is she? Yeah. What is it? What is it? I don't know what that is like Elon Musk made it. That's what, yeah, yeah.

She looked like, she looked creative. If I see her on the street, I'm running, though. This is a creative villain. Yeah, that's the creative player right there. Yeah, I don't know what, I really don't know what this is. I don't know. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today.

What is it? What is it? It's like they took the worst of all races and just put them all together. Just sprinkle the goal of one person. A little bit of a little bit of everything. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today.

When we come back, just fix my mess. mess. 800 585-105-105-1 relationship advice. Any type of advice you can call just right now should help you out with all your problems. 8005-8-5-105-1. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Tell us. Maybe. It's the real deal. Help me. Help me. Oh my God. I'm all up in your mess. I'm a fix it. Fix it. Fix it. Just going to fix your mess because my advice is real. Morning everybody is DJ NV. Just hilarious. Sholamine the guy. We are the breakfast club. It's for just fix my mess. Chris.

Chris, what's your question? Good morning. Morning, morning, everybody. What I'm calling about is, yes, I'm from the good state of Florida.

And my wife is basically having a psychological breakdown. And her job last week called me scared of her. So Friday, I want and got a court order to have her put in a psych ward. The hospital wasn't communicating. with me, so I went over their head and got them in trouble, the psych unit, and now they hate my guts, and they're telling my wife things that only I told them, making her hate me more. And then they went to court yesterday for an extension, and instead of them telling them

what they observed and what they know, everything was her husband said this, her husband said back. So the needless to say, this woman will probably never speak to me again. This is my wife of 34 years. And I don't know what to do. I'm saying she's not going to speak to you again because the psych ward is telling her things that you did or that you said that you didn't say. That I said. A confidentiality with them. And when they were to court yesterday for an extension, they did not say they have observed. They put everything on me, everything. Um, damn. Yeah, they're upset with me because I went over their head.

Okay, all right, all right. Which you should have done, it sounds like, because you only want the best for your wife, right? Correct. And like I told them, I don't know them to make an opinion, nor do I care about them. My objective is my wife. And maybe I shouldn't have told them that.

I don't know. Okay, so you want me to do what? I don't know what to do. That's why I'm calling you. Oh. Oh, no. I don't know no way in the circle. You probably got to call another one.

Like, call another. I mean, because I really don't understand what the problem is. It's like, so they won't let you come back in there? Did they ban you? Like, if they just... No, no, that's not the problem. My wife is upset with me because, yeah, they're telling her things that I'm telling them at confidentiality.

If they're claiming, they're not telling her. But how does she know if they're the only people I told? Also, in court yesterday, they blamed everything. everything on me of why she was there and why they needed an extension. Oh, yeah, well, you need a lawyer. That's what it is. Okay, you need a lawyer. Not me. You need a lawyer to figure that out because that's actually bad. But I mean, your wife is mad at you, but she's in a psych ward, though. You tell me? So she ain't got it on there now. Anyway, no disrespect. Yeah, you put her there for her. But you kind of had to, right? Because she got to get right. You know what I'm saying? So let I be mad at you. She should be right. You know what I mean? I mean, she'd be all right. If she's in there. I guess my question is, do you think that's a blow over?

Should I just sit back and relax? What should I do? Yeah, sit back and relax. She's going to be mad at you anyway because she's in a psych world. A lot of people in a psych world don't want to be in a psych world. So she's going to be mad at you anyway. You know, just sit back, pray, pray for, you know what I mean? Let's go see it on Christmas.

You know what I'm saying? You would be all right. Shake it over it. You think when she get out, everything will be fine? Yes, that's the whole reason why she is. She's getting her rehabilitation together. for her mind and all that. You know what I mean?

Don't mess your mental health up. You know what I mean? Over her being mad at you. She's going to. She's going to be mad at you, but she's going to be, she's going to forget all about it when she get home.

Boom. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. You're good. You're good. You're good. Good luck, brother.

Okay. You're in the middle of Jess fixed my mess. I don't hit or anything like that. And he's been showing out more in school than on the bus and bad temper, raising his voice at me and at his grandma and all that. So I was just wondering how I could go about that because weapons never worked for me.

I got my ass whipped all the time and it did nothing. So I don't really think, I don't really know what to do with it right now. Okay, how old is he's at? Eight. He's eight? Yeah. And what did you say he's doing to y'all?

No, he just like, when it comes to me, he just like to raise his voice and stuff like that when I'm trying to correct him on something he's doing. But at school, it's like he's hitting people on a bus and constantly getting into fights and all of that. So you, I mean, you said you don't physically discipline, like that's never been your way. No, because it never worked with me. I was like, at all my mom and kids, I was the most of my ass with it did nothing. And it did nothing. What kind of kid would you say you were? Why were you getting your ass with?

Were you worse than your ear, I did all of things that was, that was worth getting my ass with. Yeah, yeah. And it didn't work for you, so that's why you don't want to whip his, I mean, I'm saying, you can't, like, pat one time.

I didn't hear that? No, I'm saying, so you, you ain't never just pop his ass one good time, like just, you know, bow right in the chest real quick, like, it just once. No, no. Hell of. Damn.

Okay. Well, you're getting back what you did. I mean, usually they say that about girls with their moms, but, you know, it just seems like your son is walking in your footsteps. You know what I'm saying? I mean, he's eight. I thought you was telling me about a teenager. You know what I mean?

But he's eight. This behavior can be. No, it would be different if he was a teenager. Right. No, he ain't. He didn't get his little ass whip right now, but, you know, I respect your household. I respect your parents. you know, your views, like, you don't want to hit your chitch out.

That's cool, you know what I mean? But you're going to continue to have this problem if you haven't tried to sit them down. You know, you gentle parent, that's what you do? I mean, I guess you can call it that, but I like, I think communication and teaching them wrong from right helps more because I got my ass with this, like, just stop doing that. Don't do that. But you ain't telling me how to correct the problem, so it's going to take me a little

Well, I was longer to learn it on my own. So I just communicate and try to explain and help them correct it. Right. But it don't seem to be working. So now sometimes you got to try that. Because listen, gentle parenting, sir, that's cool. But when you got no limit soldiers that you're raising, you know what I mean? Sometimes they need that, that, that, uh, yoke his ass up.

Just yoke him up, yo. Like, you don't got to hit him. Yoke his little ass up. He's eight. You don't want him to, you know, get 10, 12, 14, 16. 16 and never experienced a yoking, a proper yoking before, you know what I mean? Because that's the problem with a lot of these adults and a lot of these kids now, they never had the ass whoop or even just, you know what I mean, just chastised, just a little bit.

They never had their father put them in a corner, shake them, yank their ass up, and, you know what I'm saying? Now get your is together. They haven't had that. I don't think that's abuse, you know what I'm saying? Do you think it could be like with a stability problem? him too because like he was in Michigan with his mom then she moved to Tennessee then they moved back to Michigan now he's down here with me hmm it absolutely could be that how long you had him um he's been down here with me for about five months six months oh yeah yeah so he's adjusting

that's what it is i mean all right so you can still yoke him up but you know what i mean you do have to teach him like look things that you i don't know you know like whatever the household you were in before you you can't do that here you know you know you can't do that here you know you know So really, really, if you don't want to yoke him up, you know what I'm saying? Just really, really put that in perspective for him. He ate, but these, Lord, he's mature enough to know what he's doing is wrong, you know, and he can distinguish the difference between right and wrong. And then also part of this is still just him growing up as well.

He is eight, but implement those rules right now, implement that structure because he can't do the same things he was doing with his mom at dad's house. And it's still all out of love, you know what I mean? It's a good way to, it's ways to discipline him and still showing him. that you love him. You get what I'm saying? Yes. But five months that gave me the context that I needed. He's just trying to

adjust and you can help him with that. That's not bad. That's not bad. All right. Thank you. And on the other spectrum, brother, I, you know, just remember all, sometimes physical doesn't have to, all discipline doesn't have to be physical, right? And the reason I say that is some kids don't react to a beating or anything like that. They feel like that's the way

that if something goes wrong, they're going to use that on other kids. I would say have those. conversations first you don't have to be physical you having a strong talking to your your son he should be able to fear and hearing your tone what's right and what's wrong my pops has never touched me in my life he has never put a hand at me at all yeah but then you grew up the like spankings from other men no but but on the real you don't necessarily have to now I did put hands on Logan but my other son I did not put hands on and and they were raised totally

different they it's still respect but you don't have to put a point where your kids are scared of you because you don't want your kids to be scared of you You want them to be able to feel comfortable to tell you everything And be able to tell dad whatever If there's a problem, if there's a situation And you know there's some trauma There's some stress because of what's going on with your family So I would just say keep them close to you

Keep having them conversations And really try to guide him that way Because sometimes you put hands on them It could go left and you don't want it to go left You don't want to lose your son's trust Yeah, that's the reason That's why I don't whip my kids Like I used to, the only child I ever whipped

Is my oldest daughter And she was about eight at the last time I whipped her So and I, it's just, I just think the tears and her eyes and the way she looked at me, it's like she was scared. So it was like, no, I'm never hitting my kids again. How was her behavior after that, if I just may ask? I mean, she's very respectful, and, you know, she's not like a bad kid, you know. But I just, it hurt me.

I can't do it. I feel you. I feel you. Appreciate that. Good love, brother. Thank you. Just Fix My Mess. 800-585-105-1.

We got the latest with Lauren coming up. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. She gets into somebody that knows somebody She gets to detail I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything She'd be having the latest on this The latest with Lauren La Rosa

Sometimes you have facts Sometimes you have details Sometimes you have a little bit of Talk to me So a real quick mention There was a filing that happened recently Diddy Drewski and Odell Buckham Jr. There was a sexual

assault lawsuit that was filed against them a while back. This was the lady that alleged that Diddy tried to sexual assault her with a TV remote and Drewski and Odell Beckham Jr. were there. That case was officially dismissed. It was dismissed because the judge is basically saying that the plaintiffs were told several times that the lawsuit

would be dismissed if they kept missing deadlines because people weren't served the way they were supposed to be. So it was dismissed without prejudice, which means that the plaintiffs could refile in the near future if they choose to. Well, wasn't that case dismissed against Drewski? Months ago? Yes. Yes, it was. no months ago

months ago what happened was druski provided evidence to show that he was nowhere near any of the things and all or whatever but now it has officially been thrown out of the court is what we reported I thought you said a couple of weeks ago was thrown out I guess what Drusky had been thrown out y'all can look it up I'm moving on to the next story

I just wanted to make sure that we mentioned it because I reported on the claims when they came talk low okay now and Drusky did give a statement on this as well he says the evidence I submitted overwhelmingly showed that I was innocent and proved I never knew this individual and was never in the same state at the time of the alleged incident. Through it all, I'm truly grateful for the

support of my family, friends, and fans and business partners who stood by my side, even as these individuals attempted to destroy my reputation for greed. I pray for the real victims of assault. Now, let's lock her ass up. Let's lock the woman who filed that for her case up. What consequences is she going to face?

No, no, you're right. You're absolutely right. You make those false claims, and he has to spend all that money on attorneys and all that other stuff, and he probably lost deals. That's right. And Lauren, can't Drewski sue her? If he chooses to, he can definitely come for her if he wants to. And he says he ends the statement by saying we can't allow these clout-chasing antics to deter true survivors from coming forward and speaking out against their abuses in the future.

That's right. Drusky should be allowed to sit on her for real. That's the start of a punishment. Well, he lost a lot of weight. It ain't going to do nothing now. You're right. I'm not even going to break it up. Back then, that could have been homicide, but go ahead.

Yes. No, in the beginning of, I'm going to be a big. Drewskiy is the modern day heavy big. No, but in the beginning of this, remember when the lawsuit first broke, people was like, ain't no way this really happened because she said that Drewski was oiled up and acted like it was slipping slide.

And people was like, what? Ain't no way that that happened. But I'll just decide she needs to have some type of consequences. Yes. Yeah. That's ridiculous. Yes. Now, in other news, bringing the move back up, the different world cast, it was announced

that they will be reprising their roles in the different world. new series that will be coming. So I know we've had, you know, Jasmine Guy here. We've had Ms. Debbie Allen here as well, too, and Kadeem Hardison, who've talked about this coming and trying to get it going. So it's, you know, over time, we've known that this is happening, but they are coming back to reprise their roles.

So in a joint statement, they said, A different world is back. Yay, we are over the moon to bring this much-anticipated sequel with our returning legacy stars, Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Creece Sumner, Daryl, and Bell. These beloved characters are returning in a major way. with that respects to their histories while engaging, exciting new storylines

that are relevant to the issues of today. So the log line for this is Dwayne Wayne and Whitney's daughter goes to college and she's like navigating things. So all of the OG characters will reprise their roles and it'll be reoccurring, so there'll be in a few episodes. Love it. I know, that's right.

Dope, dope. Yes. Now, as we end the hour, I know we were talking a lot of today about back and forth and I thought that this would be a good clip to play because Marri Polvich was on Sherry Shepard a few days ago and he talked about if he came out of retirement what he would want to do. Let's take a listen.

I would come out of retirement if I could get Nikki. Okay, Nikki Minaj and Cardi B settle their differences with lie detector tests. How about if Drake and Kendrick did this end? Same thing. So you would come, you'd want to. I'd come out of retirement. Come out of retirement to settle the beef.

Y'all, Mori Povich would come. Would y'all like to see Mori Povich settle those Vee? You would get such great ratings. If you could get Drake and Kendrick Lombardy. I put it out there. I put it out there.

All right, well, we'll putting it out there with you. Cardi B. Come on over with Mori Povish. We could do a primetime special. A whole prime time. You could be the host. I would love it. Yes. Well, happy retirement because he ain't,

No idea that it's 2025 about to be 2026 Okay Not one of them need that In no way Shape before I don't think he can handle the barbs And all of that

That's not even something They're considering Yeah Well that's the latest with Lauren Now up next in the mix Salute to DMX Happy birthday DMX It's all about DMX this morning

We're going to be playing DMX records all through the mix And also Also To DJ SNS Today is DJ SNS Birthday My guy SNS man

Legend of I He sent me, he called me last night, late last night. He sent me, he got a new record that he did. And he said, tell Charlemagne that he said, leave Envi alone. S&S is a great brother, man. First time I ever met S&S. I ain't even really know S&S like that, and we was in Puerto Rico and got into a little squabble. And I have dropped my wallet in the midst of the squabble, and he took my wallet and put it to the front desk.

What year was this? Oh, that's what I was trying to figure out like, we're going to put your money at. I was stuck in Puerto Rico because I had no ID, no nothing. so you're even about the money silly That's why you got ring one now Because your mind is too simple Your face is a wingworm You're born looking like a wingworm

You are a worm No I didn't say you look like one No, I said you're like one Go ahead guys All right All right All right It's also

Angie Stone's birthday today as well That's right Happy birthday Angie Stone That's right It's the breakfast club Good morning let's get to the mix Morning everybody It's DGNV

Just hilarious Shalamaine the guy We are the Breakfast Club Shout to everybody in Atlanta I'm actually headed to Atlanta right now for Atlanta's Jingle Ball That's the night? That's the night So I'm going to be hosting that

Salute to Jemaine Dupree and friends I did John and friends Nellie, Molly, Kaylani I'm gonna be working and I'm gonna come right back I'm gonna do some questions I'm going out there coming right back No seriously Amy Who do you want me talk to? Could you be asking some

What? It's not wild stuff You could ask me some wild questions No I would love to talk to Nellie about You know the Metro Booming and you know That whole collaboration And Jermaine DePree He just said that that people are going to rise,

the good singers going to rise to the top. I'm going to know which singers he think is going to come out of the AI era of the best. Like, I got some positive stuff. You don't want to have to fight. Well, some tickets are still available that it will sell out tonight. So if you haven't got your tickets,

get your tickets. It's going to be an amazing show. So I can't wait to see you guys tonight. That's our jingle ball in Atlanta. Salute to Jill. Salute to Louis V. Salute to everybody up there, Ferrari, BT, JoJo, scream.

Everybody on that station, man. Mono, what's up? We're going to have a lot of fun tonight. all right and also we got a salute to Jared Adams for joining us today salute to the good brother Jared Adams man he's got a new book out it's called redeeming justice

all right and I just like Jared his story is crazy he was wrongfully convicted and spent 10 years in prison for a crime he didn't convince learn the law while he was in prison and now he's a civil rights attorney man and justice reform advocate so salute to Jared Adams now Jess were you at this weekend I'm gonna be in D.C. My first show was tonight

We in D.C. for four days, me and my brother, Desi Alexander, get your tickets if you have not yet. Most of them are sold out. I'm looking to add more, y'all. So, like I said, we got five shows so far. I'm looking to do like six, seven, eight. I can stay in D.C. for as long as I please. I love D.C. Improv.

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