The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Loren Lorosa Guest Hosts, Nicki Minaj’s Husband Under House Arrest After Threatening Offset On IG And More!

Episode Date: September 21, 2023

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Breakfast Club, bitches! I'm always nervous when I do the Breakfast Club because sometimes you say stuff and it's just gonna get you in trouble. I ain't got your body white, cook! Alright. 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, happy to have you back because this man over here, Rashawn, has been struggling all week reporting all these breakup stories. Even though he loves to do it. I don't.

I saw you pull out the fan. You got your fan today? Oh my God. No, I'm not. My fan's retired when you're here. Well, I mean, you can still fan because it's a lot going on today with some stuff. I'm glad you got it and not me. Yeah, it's a little heat today. You might need that fan. It was so difficult yesterday reporting that Kim came. When he called you Rashawn, I was

like, that's a little crazy. He called me, yeah. But it's the truth, though. And then when the mics go off, he goes, you don't think Odell and Kim is a good couple? I'm like, I don't care. Lauren, do you really think that? Do you think my head would move like that? No. Why do you think Jeezy and Jenny Ma broke up?

I don't know, and I don't care. No, it's not true. That's a lie. That is a lie. Is that what you said in the group chat? Like, you shot that out? Yes. No, that's a lie.

Yes. No, that's a lie. That is a lie. If you believe him. You really don't want to talk about this? No, I don't want to talk, no, that's a lie. No, that's a lie. That is, if you believe him. You really don't want to talk about this? No, I don't want to talk about this. Okay?

So I'm happy you're here, Lord. How do you feel about Genie and Jeezy, though? Like, were you rooting for them? Now you got somebody to talk to about it. Go ahead. Was I rooting for them?

Yes. Yeah, I like Jeezy. I love Jeezy. Jeezy's the homie. If he's in love, he's in love. I root for all my friends to love. I love love.

I'm so sorry. Ask all of them in there. I don't care. Oh, what do you mean? Jeezy. I'm so sorry. Ask y'all a minute. I don't care. Oh, what do you mean? Jeezy, were you rooting for Jeezy in Genuine? Rooting? Yeah. Like, did you want them to, you know, people were like, oh my God, we never seen him like.

Listen, man, I want everybody to be happy. See? So if you find somebody that you love and that person loves you, I want you to be happy. That doesn't sound genuine, but. You asked me a specific question. I answered it. Ask about black love. Oh, I love seeing black people with black people.

I love seeing a black man with a black woman, but that's a whole different conversation. Okay. All right. Well, I'm not rooting against you. If you're in there, I didn't start no trouble. I'm just look, I'm just back in, you know, Shauna. Uh-huh. Come on.

Get it going. What does it say? Is there breakups today? It's wrong with me? I just look like this. There's not breakups, but there are some like relationship-ish things that we're going to talk about. The world is talking about it, so we're going to talk about it.

And we can't wait. Nope. I'm minding my business. Well, Lauren LaRose is here, and she got the rumors this morning. I'm so grateful to see you. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. All right.

We got front page news when we come back. Teslin Figaro will be joining us at old move don't go anywhere it's the breakfast local morning let's let it breathe guys let's let it breathe this is a hostile and work environment Laura LaRosa you come up here with I came here with love peace and blessing that's how we should always lead don't put price tags on people don't judge I don't know people don't know what we're talking about guys you know how I get out of Charlotte alright let's start a Tesla lead. Don't put price tags on people. Don't judge people. I don't. No, people don't know what we're talking about, guys. Jesus. Yeah, I know. You know how I get at them, Charlamagne.

Alright, well, let's start it. Teslan Figueroa's here. Front page news. Good morning. Let me just start off with a little bit of sports. My Giants play tonight at 8.15 Eastern time. They play the 49ers. Saquon Barkley won't be playing today because of the ankle injury. Yeah, y'all getting washed tonight. Guaranteed.

You can put money on that one. Guaranteed. You can put money on that one guaranteed you can put what the what the what the number in vegas what's the over under i don't know what the over under is you look so hurt because he's just starting like this he loves to hurt me and you stick around for it you're right you're right well let's jump right into it um let's talk uh what's going on with the migrants tesla what's up but first of all good morning y'all started in high yes good morning yeah it's the behind the scene conversation with me good morning dcmv good morning lauren good morning charlamagne the god peace well yeah uh last night i stayed up late uh i wanted to make sure we got this story on the six o'clock. For a second night, dozens of protesters rallied

outside of Island Shores Senior Center on Staten Island, which is now housing about 15 asylum-seeking families, bringing signs that read, America First. Now, protesters said they did not want the city to send these families to the residential neighborhoods. They said that we should be helping

our own people first. But Wednesday's demonstration was tame compared to the night earlier when 10 people were arrested, including for insulting a police officer, assaulting a police officer. So let's listen to the story and what the Biden administration did about it last night. I think everyone's really angry. The migrant crisis has reached apocalyptic proportions financially for our city. Staten Island only has 2% of the asylum seekers. And as you can see, other boroughs are doing their best to ensure that they continue supporting and being a welcoming borough. As they rallied Wednesday, the Biden administration announced it will grant temporary protected status to Venezuelans who came to the U.S. before July 31st of this year. That will expedite work

authorization for about 472,000 Venezuelans seeking asylum in the U.S., including up to 60,000 Venezuelans who have come to New York in the past year. And the president is finally taking actions that should have been taken more than a year ago. Listen, man, these humans from Venezuela looking for a better life deserve that because they are god's children but if you don't understand americans looking around and saying wait a minute we got a homeless problem here in america we got veterans who fall for this country who are homeless and y'all doing this for them you know i mean doing this for the venezuelans but what about what about the homeless veterans well if you don't feel them if you don't understand and feeling a way about that then you don't understand life well not even that

they're cutting a lot of the programs to make sure that they can afford the housing and food for the migrants which is is hurting a lot of programs for people that live here and and the thing is if you look at the fact that they'll send 20 billion dollars and 20 million dollars to all these other countries but they have to cut programs here that we already don't have money for whether it's you know uh i think it was community programming it was uh programming to get people off the streets it was gun violence programs, whatever the programs are. They have to cut here. But you see the government sending billions and billions and billions of billions of dollars to help these other nations.

Yeah, I would feel the way as well. But hasn't that always been an issue for us, though? That's like taking care of outside first. Yeah, people be screaming America first. Yeah, it works. Exactly. And I'm glad you guys brought up that point. And Mayor Adams saying the opposite, because they're they're saying, you know, this is all about, hey, if they want to work, let them work.

But just like you guys mentioned, it's much deeper than that. It's not just about people just want to work. It's about taking, like you said, a lot of those benefits. So Mayor Adams is on board with this. He said that these folks want to contribute to the American dream and we need and they need to find a pathway to do so. So, you know, two things can be true at the same time, you know, give people that opportunity to work. And that's one of the arguments that they're saying, Charlemagne, they're saying that in order so they won't keep draining these programs. Let's give them a job. But how do we know, you know, that they'll get the job? Where are they going to get these jobs or is it just giving temporary status, you know for the sake of doing it so this temporary status is supposed to last for about 18 months allegedly we'll see if that happens and they can apply until march 2024 so let me toss that back

to you guys do you think that these these folks will be going straight into employment and getting out these programs or what yesterday i gave uh i had 21 in my pocket i gave it to a veteran his sign said he was a veteran and he was homeless. And his sign literally said looking for work. That veteran wants a job. He should get it first. Well, let me ask you that. Well, you know, and I hate to say this, you know, that's why a lot of people like Trump, because Trump was saying protect home first. America first. America first. And that's why a lot of people are like, OK, I'm arrived for Trump because he was saying America first. But you look at like you said, you look at our veterans and how we treat our veterans. You look at how we treat everybody else out there. And it's like this is pretty sad.

It feels like a lot of times we take care of other places faster and quicker than we take care of. This looks hypocritical. Simple as that. All right. Well, that is front page news. Tez, we'll see in a couple of minutes. Absolutely. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Lauren LaRosa's here. She's our special guest host. Again, 800-585-1051.

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It's time to get up and get something Call up now 800-585-1051 We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club Hello, who's this? Oh my gosh, I got through What's up DJ Envy? Hey, good morning, what's your name?

My name is Kia Cooper, what's up Charlamagne? I'm sorry, I don't know who y'all have on today or if it's just y'all. It's Kia. Lauren LaRosa is on. She's calling from Dubai. That's why she doesn't know. She just called me. Hey, I'm good.

But yeah, I've been listening, but I had to get off the phone or I listened in so I could call in. But what's up? What's going on, fam? How you feeling? What you doing in Dubai? I'm actually a teacher out here. I've been teaching here for nine years.

What? People go to school there? What do you mean they got a school there? teacher out here I've been teaching here for nine years okay all right that's how you know what what what what what do you teach gym yeah i do you ain't never had a gym teacher have you met like one of the rich guys there that like the flight attendants meet that's what you care about uh flight attendants no i'm actually married even though i do hang around different people here some of the locals and things but no you're good you're good i've been here nine years so i mingle with the locals and things like that but yeah survive out here for real i'm actually coming out there in the next couple of weeks to do a show out there.

Oh, DJ Envy, we should link. My husband is a DJ. Y'all should link up. DJ King Cooper. Let me go ahead and shout him out. Okay. Look to King Cooper. Hit me on the DM.

I'll hit King Cooper because I'm going. I think I'm coming out there. Yeah, in the next 30 days, I'll be out there. Fly in and out, do a show and come right back. Okay, well, we will be here. We will be here. But I'm so glad that I got through. I don't want y'all to cut me off. I wanted to um promote uh first of all my business if that's okay

um i'm a travel influence as well as a teacher my name on instagram is at p and takes the world if y'all want to follow me i share all of my travels since i've been living here for the past nine years i've been able to travel to 40 countries and i love to help other people travel and give insights and tips. So you can also follow my travel agency. It's at TakeTheWorldTravel underscore. And I help people book travel and things. And if anybody out there is looking to go to Dubai, I'm actually dropping a trip that I'm hosting next October.

So make sure you look me up. My website is TiaTakeTheWorld.com. But I really wanted to get on here because I have a scholarship program that i'm launching on october 1st and it's for anybody that hasn't had a passport any black american that hasn't had a passport i do it every year um for my birthday in october shout out october 20th leavers in the house um and you can apply for it and i give out free passports and if anyone has a passport and wants to donate to it, it's called the Miller-Morris Project. I have a GoFundMe. The first year that I did it, I was able to give out three passports. And then the next year, I had a grant from the Black Travel Alliance. I was able to give out six. And this year, I'm really trying to give out 10 passports. But if you all help donate,

then I can give out more. But it's really my mission to help spread travel to the Black community and help other people Be able to experience travel Like I have It's just really changed my life That's what I call An elevator pitch That's right

Get the information One more time Slow No That was long I'm sorry You got to rewind that I know CJ

It will hang up on somebody But it's called The Miller Morris Project The Miller Morris Project Okay That's all we need Miller Morris Project Yeah If you go to my Instagram You can check out The link in my bio You can donate And like I said Miller Morris Project. The Miller Morris Project. Okay. That's all we need. Miller Morris Project.

Yeah. If you go to my Instagram, you can check out the link in my bio. You can donate. And like I said, applications open up on the 1st of October, so you can apply also. All right. Well, thank you so much, mama.

All right. Appreciate y'all. Y'all have a good day. You too. All right. Get it off your chest. She was ready. She was prepared.

She was like, when I get through, I know exactly what I'm doing. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Jazz calling from Queens. What's up, Envy? Hey, what's up, Jazz? Get it off your chest. Good morning, Charlamagne.

Peace, Queen. So I was listening to you guys about allowing them in our country. I agree. I don't think that they should be able to come here. I think that they're taken away from us. I think that they left an eye value when it comes to the work. I think everybody hates Trump. I love Trump.

I want Trump back. And I'm black. I feel like Trump was for America. And I think other people seeing it different because they're not listening to what Trump's saying. They take the money out of our pockets. We can't get jobs with good pay and benefits because we have them coming here working for less pay and no benefits. And employers like that. Employers are going to take that. They can work under the table. We can't do none of that. And I feel like we have it more hard out here. And we're from America. we don't have the resources but other people get to

come here and build up we don't get to go to other countries and do that so i wish that we we would cut down on that yeah if america really was the the place that it proclaims to be and we had our stuff together as far as like you know the homeless in our streets and you know our veterans you know actually having stable incomes and not being homeless and having work then i wouldn't have no problem with them helping other people but our backyard is filthy that's right we gotta clean up our backyard right i don't feel like trump is the answer i just think that we need to just get better at what we do in the house in the crib first i agree but that's what i said earlier i said that's the reason why a lot of people like Trump because they felt like he took care of home first.

He screams America first. I don't believe that, though. I believe that he cares about Trump first. Yeah, absolutely. Hello, who's this? It's JMC, we're calling from Charleston, South Carolina, downtown, 843, baby. 843, you already know what's happening, my brother.

What's up, Big Charlotte from that corner? What's up, Big Monk? You already know. You said Big Munch? Big Monk. I won't tell you. I won't give up my chance today. I'm from downtown Charleston.

You know what I'm saying? 843 Medical University Hospital. Burke High School. You already know. I'm a Roper baby. You already know. I like the Big Munch. All right, Big Munch.

Big Monks. I like Big Munch. All right, James Sox. Monk's Corner. All right, I'm going to tell you what's going on. I'm going to give you guys my chance. The day, the new drivers. I had drivers there back in the day.

I can't stand the new drivers. Man, they stay at the green light for 20 minutes after the light turn green. When they say you can make a right turn, not from the center lane, nobody moves. I hate Charleston drivers. They need to get drivers there back in school. Earl Brown, my driver there teacher, get these drivers, these fools, get them out the doggone

cars. People need to go. People need to go to work. People need to get to the airport. People need to listen to Charlamagne. You know, we ain't got time for people sitting at the green light. Green means old. Bro, you gotta calm down. Why the green light 20 minutes? You gotta calm down, bro.

What's different down there? Let You got to calm down, bro. I was going to say, what's different down there? Let us know. I know, right? Calm down, bro. Man, the rush. The munch ain't going nowhere. I think about the South as like just, you know, relax and everybody. Yeah, you, this is different.

No, man, going to that airport. They're moving down there, but they ain't looking at the lights. Everybody on their phone. The Uber drivers, they're catching. They're like, you blowing your horn. Then they get mad. Everybody want to get out and start fighting because they're blowing the horn the light been green for 10 minutes i think you need to move to new york it sounds like that's the driving

energy no you don't no you don't you want no no you want people not stopping and honking and just not they're just walking when they want man you ain't never been on montague avenue trying to get to the airport to see charlotte. You must be running to the airport. International Boulevard is a mess. No, it is. Think about a big munch. Hey, peace, my brother. No, you the big munch.

South Carolina is the third fastest growing state, okay, in America. Well, it was in 2022. Just want to throw that out there. Well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got rumors on the way. Give us a little tease, Lauren. Yes, we are going to be talking about Kenneth Petty.

And there are reports out right now that he is going to have to serve house arrest following that video that he put out looking for Offset. All right, we'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

We got our guest co-host, Lauren LaRosa, with us this morning. And let's get to the rumors. Lauren LaRosa. I've been here for a little bit. I've been here for a minute. Move out the way. Move out the way. Tell her.

Tell her. Made it. This is The Rumor Report. I think a lot of people will recognize the voice and the name. On The Breakfast Club. Lauren came in hot. You know, I came in telling the truth. Y'all said I came in hot this morning, too. Yes, we did. You Lauren came in hot. You know, I came in telling the truth. Y'all said I came in hot this morning, too.

Yes, we did. You did come in hot. You came in spicy this morning. You a little spicy. I'm glad you're here, like I said earlier, because I was so sick of hearing Envy talk about all these relationship stories, and he wanted me to kiki with him. I didn't want to kiki with him.

Well, we about to kiki a little bit, y'all. Just a little bit, right? So, Kenneth Petty, who is the husband of Nicki Minaj, you guys remember the night of the VMAs, him and his friends got on Instagram and decided to call out Offset and said they were outside

looking for him. It was the night of the VMAs? It was, yeah, I think it was that. I think it was the day after. It was following the VMAs. Yeah, following the VMAs. Following the VMAs.

So, let's listen to that video first and then we'll get into what happened following that. Big Queen's... Yo, Sturdy nigga, what's poppin'? What's poppin'? Yo, what's poppin'? Yo, what's poppin'? Yo, what's poppin'? Yo, Queen. Yo, sturdy nigga, what's poppin'? What's poppin'? Yo, what's poppin'?

Money, man, what's up? Where the is that, man? Yeah. Huh? Yo, no. They said you don't know. Big Zoom. We're on vacation.

We're planning your funeral. . Let's play. What's up? We'll meet you there,. They wanted to come at me. I had to be amazed, man. I ain't even, we ain't even do nothing to nobody man that's just ignorant that's just niggas corny lame like there's nothing fly about that type

of behavior well i will say now kenneth petty is planning a little vacation of his own at home because uh the judge that uh originally sentenced him to probation in 2022 for failure to register as a sex offender saw this video and said you know what i think you need to do 120 days of home detention probation at home um house arrest because you were making threatening remarks toward a specific individual while in the company of someone with a criminal record reporters are pointing out the fact that that specific individual that he was making uh those threats at offset the husband of cardi b so this is a big lesson and stay off the internet i mean dumb is dumb but if you're gonna do it definitely stay off the internet because now he finds himself in a situation

reportedly where he is about to be looking at 120 days there's a lot of lessons in this and you know the reality is he earned every bit of this because you had the audacity to be acting like that on the fbi's internet you 45 years old you already on probation you have a crazy criminal record already and you telling somebody to plan their funeral online like you begging to go to prison and it's incredible to me that all these street dudes have let the internet make them forget street rules number one you should have been let go of all the childish ways of the street first and foremost that's number one but number two I remember a time when folks wouldn't talk about any dirt over the phone now y'all recording yourselves in 4k and posting it online listen and another thing too is is god forbid something were to go down right

and something happens to anybody they're going right this is all documented like this is all documented this is i i don't know i never understood the whole i'm going to talk online i'm going to talk on live. It makes no sense. You're doing the work for the police. But then you don't like snitches. But you self-incriminating yourself. And you're the husband of Nicki Minaj,

who is one of the biggest, that's not even talking about rap, one of the biggest celebrities in the world. If you don't have respect for yourself, at least have respect for your wife and who she is. Because you're an extension of her brand. At least don't make her look crazy. I really.

And you got a child. Like, come on, man. Grow up. And so cute. Papa Bear is so cute. I hate to see this, though. But. And what part of law enforcement has social media, too?

Don't y'all understand? What part of law enforcement has social media, too? Don't y'all understand? No. And they move fast. Dude, when I say everything, when you steal a car and then you post, hey, I'm driving in this car, they see all of it. They know when you post a gun, they see all of it.

They just jot it down and just patiently wait. I think I'm in the wrong field, man, because I like to laugh. I know law enforcement be having a ball looking at these niggas. Dying laughing. Got another one. Got another. Can you believe what they did? Can you believe this?

Look at this one. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. And we didn't have to run and chase him. Yes, I'm saying. Imagine being 70 years old in law enforcement, how hard they used to have to work. Now they probably just sitting there. They hate on the young boys.

Oh, y'all just get on that Instagram. All y'all do is get on that Instagram. Y'all never had to do no real detective work. We used to have to do real detective work. Like you said, they ain't got to chase him. They'll just pin the phone To see where you at Oh he at his mama house

We'll get him later on They don't even got to pin it Because you probably posted up At the mama house Like yeah And I'm still outside Acting all the homies Tagging the brain

That you wearing Cops out here Treating arrest warrants Like c-sections We'll go get them We know what time it is It'll be 3 o'clock Monday He gonna be at his mama house

We gonna pick him up Yeah we gonna be at his mama house He gotta pick up his child Oh him up. Yeah, he's going to be at mama's house. Don't worry about it. He's got to pick up his child later on. Oh, we got him. Yeah, we got him. Where's he at? He's at his girlfriend's house right now.

Don't worry. We got him. He's going to the gym. He's at the gym at 4 o'clock on Friday. 4 o'clock is the gym. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't worry about it. Okay.

Well, moving on. Oh, he just went live again. We got him. Oh, I thought he was going to go live again. Oh, really? Oh, my God. I was about to say, he about to come get us next. That's what we got?

No, no, no. We're going to move on. We got... Oh, you rapping already, right? Yeah. no, no. We're going to move on. We got... Were you rapping already, right? Yeah. I'm sorry. We spent too much time on camera. Because we were having a good time.

Like, the cops are on social media. Exactly. I hate... Man, I want to come do a ride-along with y'all, man. Or whatever they call it. I don't. It's a ride-along. I was about to say, I hate that I just paralleled us with the police.

I don't want a ride-along with no cops. Listen, police officers, bring me in. I just want to sit where y'all sit when y'all watching all this stuff online. When y'all watching all this foolishness online, I just want to be in there with y'all. Please, I won't tell nobody. I just want to see what it look like. I just want to chuckle with y'all. Don't you bring this guy.

I feel like the brands need to hit up the police officers. They know who really getting engagement on social. I'm with you. This is Charlamagne Tha God talking. Y'all probably got me pinned too bring me in man I want to see what y'all bring me in

I want to see what y'all doing I want to laugh too man bring him in he wants to sit he wants to go behind the bars he wants to have a bunkie don't bring me in I don't want to see

none of my exes Jesus Lauren it's okay let's just move on hey Lauren we got one here for you too you got one right here I'm stopping

I didn't change my life. Okay, so moving on. That's it. That's it. That's it. Until next hour. That's okay. Yeah, Eddie's cutting us off.

All right, when we come back, front page news, Tesla and Figaro will be back. Don't move. Lauren LaRosa's here. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got our guest co-host, Lauren LaRosa, here. All right. Andvy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got our guest co-host, Lauren LaRosa, here. And let's get in some front-page news. Just a little heads-up. Giants play the 49ers tonight at 8.15 p.m. Let's go, Giants. Let's go, let's go, let's go. I think Vegas said the 49ers, they got the 49ers winning by 10.

I think that's the spread. That's how you read those things? I'm going to bet on that game. I think they got the 49ers winning by 10. How much? I don't know. Not that much. Put it up. put it up no envy you said they on the winning streak but put your money where your mouth is i just want to put it on record i mean i'm gonna bet a little bit i ain't betting a lot that's gonna change my life now i'm just gonna bet a little bit to give me some drinks

and some food or something all right but let's jump right into it let's talk about these uh house republicans clash with attorney general garland? Yes, they clashed on yesterday, accusing him and the Justice Department of weaponizing work in favor of President Joe Biden's son, Hunter. Garland is overseeing two cases at the same time, which is historic. One with Donald Trump and the other against the sitting president's son. Republicans on the committee, which is led by Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, set the tone with accusations that the Justice Department is favoring the Biden family while targeting Trump. Let's take a listen to Attorney General Garland's response. Because I had promised that I would not interfere with this investigation. The way to not interfere is to not investigate an investigation. I don't understand what you just said. said yeah that last line kind of got me test what nope he's basically saying

anyone on to say that our job is not to take orders from the president from congress or anyone else about who or what to do with this investigation i am not the president's uh lawyer i am also he also wants to add that he is not the prosecutor for Congress. The justice department wants to work for the American people. So bottom line is he said he's not interfering. He's not investigating the investigation, which means, you know, he's not getting involved in the investigation. He kept on, uh, Weiss who was appointed by Trump, uh, which is the one that, uh, obviously brought the indictment against, um, Hunter Biden's son. So basically saying, Hey, you know, I'm, I'm not interfering. I'm letting was appointed by Trump, which is the one that obviously brought the indictment against Hunter

Biden's son. So basically saying, hey, you know, I'm not interfering. I'm letting it happen and play out in the courts as far as Trump is concerned and Hunter Biden. Let me ask you a question. Is Hunter Biden really suing the IRS? Uh, yeah. I mean, that doesn't...

That's some balls, boy. Well, yeah, anybody... Well, anybody can sue the IRS. Anybody can sue. The question is,, boy. Well, yeah, anybody. Well, anybody can sue the IRS. Anybody can sue. The question is, is it actually going to work? Yeah, you know, to go back to the original story, I wouldn't doubt if there is a favor towards Hunter Biden because personally, I feel like the DOJ

only bought charges against Hunter Biden because they bought charges against Trump. So they don't want to look like, you know, these things are political. Right. You know. So you're saying favor in a bad way? So what do you mean? Like, I wouldn't doubt if there's if there's a favor towards hunter

just period because i like i said i feel like they only bought charges against hunter because they don't want to make it seem like them going after trump it's political they want to look like they're you know uh equal and fair all across the board but i mean the reason i say i wouldn't doubt if there is favor because you can see just the way the media covers the biden's versus the trump's is totally different like if this is one of donald trump's kids oh oh come on man it'd be a reality show somebody would have created a series on tiktok what front page news every day all the news outlets discussing well not all of them cnn and msnbc but trump is just more like everything about that side is just a lot more entertaining. Like,

there's not a lot of entertainment with Biden and the Biden family. Eh. I'm just being honest. Hunter Biden is very entertaining. I mean, yes, he has a lot,

but it's just different. Like, Trump would play to it. The reason you don't know that they're so entertaining is because the media don't cover them like that. Correct.

If the media gave the Bidens and the Hunters and everybody else the same type of coverage and dug into them the way they dig into the trumps you see how entertaining they actually are hunter biden out here doing cocaine he's sleeping with hookers he's saying the n-word he's about to do a rap album wait i'm just gonna do a rap i was about to say nah he didn't hit you up for the dj mvxtape. All right, now let's talk about Amazon. We talked about workers getting jobs, but Amazon is looking to, what, hire 250,000 people?

Yeah, this is good for those who want to make a little extra Christmas cash. I wanted to make sure that you had this story. They said that they will hire 250,000 full-time and part-time workers for the holiday season. That's a 67% jump since last year. Target also announced that it will be adding 100,000 seasonal roles this holiday. Shout out to Target. That was one of my first jobs. But Amazon noted that more jobs are available because the company has opened 50 new fulfillment centers,

delivery stations, and same-day delivery sites in the U.S. this year. They said that this will contribute $1.3 billion towards hikes for warehouse and transportation employees, raising the average pay for those roles from $19 to $20.50 per hour. Oh, if you're looking to make some extra money during the holiday,

Amazon and Target got you. That's right. It's right there in your face. You see where they at? 100,000 jobs, Target wants to add. 250, Amazon wants to add. Go get you a little extra income for the holidays. There you go. Amazon jobs used to be clutch in college. Yeah?

On the breaks. Because you could go work and then go back to school. How do you, what do you do? You go work in the factory? Yeah, you go work on the, like, you know, packaging and stuff. You did? You could get ideas. You do seasonal work with them.

Dope. So you go, like, I would go on my breaks in college. Whenever I couldn't do, like, internships, you go work and then you just go back to school because it's just seasonal Is it hard to get or you do go to apply? It's not as long as you could pass the drug test It used to be as long as you could pass the drug test you was good you pass the drug test I don't do drugs They pay they pay for college tuition.

Did you take advantage of that benefit? No, I didn't know that. I'm still in debt. Can I get like my... It's too late now. My Amazon reparations? Can I get like the back pay? They do that for part-time employees? They do that for...

I was going to do it for part-time, but I know it's a benefit. It's the reason why a lot of people go do it. They go work at 4 a.m. and help unload those trucks. It's one of the benefits that they advertise. That's why I was asking. I also got fired. Probably not the season, but maybe the full time. We're missing the lead.

Because you had to hit certain numbers and I wasn't hitting them. It was tough. Those jobs are not as easy as you think. But I just wanted the money job it's not supposed to be easy how dare they want other words i don't want you to work do all that stuff with nails and like it y'all i just probably came to work like this you probably came to work makeup boy i needed the money that was the one year where i couldn't leave delaware

because i failed a class how to do a summer class. I couldn't do no internships. So I just had to figure it out, man. See what they be saying. Barclays saved me, though. Americans don't be wanting to work. They want to work. I just want to be cute, too. All right. Well, that is for Paige News. Thank you, Tez. And make sure you subscribe to

Tezlan Figueroa's podcast, The Scraped Shot, No Chaser podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network and follow at Tezlan Figueroa on all social media Scrape Shot, No Chaser podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. And follow at Teslin Figueroa on all social media platforms. All right. When we come back, Elaine Welteroth will be joining us. You know she's a journalist, editor, author, a television host, and so much more. And we're going to kick it with her when we come back.

All right. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club on BET. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building this morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building this morning.

Yes, indeed. We have Miss Elaine Walteroth. Welcome. Hi, guys. How are you feeling this morning? I'm good. How are you? Good, good, good. Less black and highly favored.

I love it. So now you're here for our Conversations Project? Yeah. I love that name. The Conversations Project. Yep. Now, what is the Conversations Project? So the Conversations Project, which is on Hulu, is basically inspired by the Harlem Renaissance Salon.

It's like, you know, think back to the era when, you know, black intellectuals, academics, entertainers would rub shoulders and break bread and share ideas in a safe space. And we wanted to recreate that on television. And it's really incredible. It's bringing together some of the greatest minds in our culture from every corner of the world. So you have artists, you have entertainers, we had a black astronaut, all coming together to really exchange ideas.

And you don't have anything like this on television, which is kind of crazy when you really think about it. It's like, how has it taken this long for a show like this to come about? But I'm so glad that it did. And we just talk about everything under the sun that affects our community. And we talk about it through a black lens. And we debate. We laugh. We, you know, we agree.

We challenge each other. And it's really intergenerational. It's just a really positive, nuanced place to have conversations that matter in our culture. I feel like it's very hard. I'm sorry. I feel like it's very hard for us to have conversations nowadays. I feel like we're all talking at each other instead of to and with each other. That part. And that's why I think a show like this is so important because it's modeling how to have productive, constructive dialogue, how to listen,

how to not react, you know, defensively. It's really important, I think, especially in these times that are so divided, it's so divisive, to really give people an example of how you can articulate your point of view and also appreciate and listen to somebody else's point of view and maybe even evolve, know maybe even maybe your maybe your perspective might evolve in the process so i think a show like this is so important and for me i always whether i'm writing books or on television i want to create what i think the world needs more of and i think the world needs more of hard converse examples of hard conversations that are being tackled in a really constructive way.

I love that because I feel like, you know, over the last several years, we've seen all of these, you know, topics that we never discussed come to the forefront, but we're still not having nuanced conversations about them. We're not peeling back layers. We're just telling you, you're trash if you believe this.

You're trash if you don't think like this. But it's just like, yo, where's the exchange of ideas ideas so those people that you may not like the way they think about a certain thing they might evolve on the subject if you just have a conversation exactly and you might evolve i think that's the that's the thing is to come to the table with an open mind and and be willing to listen i i learned i my mind was open you know i i came with an open mind and open heart i think everybody did. And you know what helped? I forgot to mention this.

I can't believe I forgot to mention this. It's a dinner party. So you have like Michelin star, you know, a Michelin star chef who is giving us incredible food and black owned wines. And we are just like, so I feel like everybody came in like maybe a little nervous, what's about to happen at the table they gonna are there's gonna be there gonna be some gotcha questions and then everyone just realized it's this is actually a safe space sip some wine you know you relax your nerves are you know settle a little and we really we we came to the table many of us strangers and we walked away feeling like we had extended community. Like a family, honestly. So it was beautiful. And I honestly hope that it inspires people

to have some of these conversations at their own dinner table, with their own friends, at their work, at their church, like whatever the community is that you are a part of, this is how you can have these conversations. And also invite people over to your house. Again, like we've all been in isolation for so long and we thrive in community, you know, but it takes somebody to be intentional about curating the right group, about sending that invitation,

bringing people there, creating a safe space and really guiding the conversation. So I really hope that like this is like the return of the dinner party you know who are some of the people that are i know every episode is a different cast who are some of the people that are at the table yeah we had a whole wide range of people like i said from black astronauts to entertainers to authors um athletes so we had a couple people we had that i really love phoebe robinson she's hilarious shine um jim jones ally love roy wood jr and tori notton the tori notton she was amazing

mark spears yes lena bloom and um so the hosts were there's three hosts one is the chef david lawrence um he has a restaurant in the bay area but he's originally from the uk and he's he's a little bit older we i call him uncle and then we have mark spears who is uh at espn and anscape he's a he's a hall of fame sports writer and they conceived of this show they pitched it they got it sold which is a miracle to me in this landscape absolutely especially for a black show bringing together black folks to have black conversations that are you know smart intellectual and not trash like we're not sitting there trying to trash each other which is usually what you see get sold um and then they brought me on.

They wanted to have a woman's perspective at the table, someone who could help bridge the generations. And I immediately, I mean, once I understood the concept of the show, the spirit of the show, the intention of the show, I was like, sign me up. This is a dinner party I feel like anybody would want to be invited to. So it was an honor to be a part of it. How did you pick the people you wanted to have a conversation with? Because, you know, when you talk about curating, even when you say, let's bring back the dinner party, I'm just not letting nobody in my house. Your energy got to be right. Your energy got to be right.

That's the part. I think we all just kind of agreed. We all brought our list. And we all kind of thought, we want to make sure every single table is really intergenerational. So that was a really important piece. We wanted to make sure that it was co-ed. So there was a nice mix of, you know, men, women, and, and that everyone was represented. So trans folks, queer folks, you know, I think the beauty of this show is that it showcases the

spectrum of blackness, right? Like we, we talk about what it means to be black and queer, black and trans to what it's like to, we talk about the biracial experience and everything in between. We got, you know, old elders in the room. We got the young folks in the room. We got the millennials. And what you see is that, which it just reminds you that blackness is not a monolith. We come from all different places, all over the world with different perspectives. And it really it shapes our worldview. But when we break bread with each other, when we break down these conversations together, we realize how much more we have in common than than what divides us. Yeah. What's one conversation that stood out the most to you that that you remember that something that you was like, wow, this is going to spark a lot of conversation and interest when this episode is released. So when people see this episode.

Yeah. So two come to mind. One is a conversation with Brett Gray, who's this Gen Z actor. And he brought such incredible energy to the table. And he got into a kind of a contentious conversation with the older gentleman at the table who we were calling them OGs. So David Lawrence, Mark Spears, they were talking about sort of how this older generation, we're talking about black manhood and toxic masculinity and how the older generation of black men in us with the intention of trying to protect and and and guide the next generation of black men sometimes their way can crush the spirit of

this this younger generation that aren't as oppressed that aren't as you know they aren't they aren't facing they're living in a completely different world. All right, we got more with Elaine Welteroth. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's D-E-J-N-V, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're still here with Miss Elaine Welteroth. Charlamagne. And you know what else, too? It's like it's not even about what we, it's about what we learn, but what we got to unlearn as we get older. Cause you know, I'll be the first to admit we were a whole generation that was raised wrong.

You know what I mean? A hundred percent. We were raised wrong in a lot of ways, you know? So it's like, yeah, it's about what you have to unlearn. Absolutely. As you get older too. Yeah. And you know, I'm, I'm a new mom.

I just had a baby 17 months ago. Thank you. new mom I just had a baby 17 months ago congratulations thank you so I felt like I was there listening more than I talked on topics around parenthood um you know Roxanne Shante came on and you know she was one of the sort of our elders we respect her and she was talking about um you know parenting as a black mom especially a single black mom how parenting a young black man is different from parenting a young woman you had your child at home right i think i read that i did yeah i had a home i had a home birth okay with a with a midwife were you was it because of all the things that are going on in the hospitals and the way the black maternal death rate is

you just didn't trust it it's also during the pandemic covid right 17 months ago right no no wasn't it i mean aren't we still independent i don't know i don't know what stage we are but i mean well listen i got married at home on my stoop during the pandemic and i had my baby at home i don't know what stage of the pandemic it was but yes it was because you know i went i went into pregnancy thinking that i was going to have a hospital birth just like you know my mother did and my grandmother did that's the norm in our country but and i i i sort of knew about the maternal mortality crisis and the black maternal mortality crisis like in a peripheral sense like it's something that happens out there in the world um but maybe not as much here i i think i bought into this myth that it also you know tends to happen only in

impoverished communities and so here i am as this you know as as black women go in this country i am i have all the privileges you could have. So I thought I wouldn't have a problem having my baby in the hospital, finding a great doctor, finding great care. And I was so shocked to learn how difficult it is to find a health care provider in our current medical system that makes you feel safe, that makes you feel like you know they there's a compassionate person that's going to make sure that you have the birth that you want so I went through from doctor to doctor to doctor and this is me I am like you know I'm I'm pretty well connected I got resources I could go to the best of the best. And I had bad experience after bad experience after bad experience. It was so incredibly humbling. And it was the first time where I had to really confront the fear that I could very well become another statistic. And what I learned as I went through this journey

is that this issue is so complex. It is this crisis, this maternal mortality crisis that, you know, overly impacts black women is very real. Unfortunately, the rates of deaths are actually surging. It's really scary. And I think when you talk about it with folks, I think people still have, there's this concept, this misconception that this isn't happening in this country, that this isn't happening to people who look like me or come from where I come from. You know, it's not happening to well-educated black women of means. It absolutely is. And as I've gotten deeper into this work and into the stats i i realized that black wealthy women are dying at higher rates than poor white women in this

country during and after childbirth so when you understand like truly where where what the picture is how how prevalent this issue is in our country in the richest country in the world you start to think about what informs your your point of view on what a safe where a safe birth happens and and and who's delivering your baby and and why these messages are what you believe you know and so i thought you know i always thought like oh to be safe i should have you know i've heard of home births i've heard of midwives sounds beautiful, oh, to be safe, I should have, you know, I've heard of home births. I've heard of midwives. Sounds beautiful. God bless.

But to be safe, air quotes, I'm going to have my baby in a hospital. But is it truly safer to have your baby in a hospital when you're a black woman in America? You have to really, you have to unpack that. Explain the process because we've had a doula. Latham Thomas. That's me and my wife. Several times. Latham Thomas.

Is your wife pregnant? Well, we had our last two. Latham was our doula for our last two. She what? Latham Thomas. That's me and my wife. Several times. Latham Thomas. Is your wife pregnant? Well, we had our last two. Latham was our doula for our last two. She what? Latham is incredible. Latham is like also another unsung hero. Oh, man. She's been with me several times.

She's the best. So explain the process. I'm so glad you asked this because we need to reframe pain for birthing people. I, too, was so incredibly scared of not having access to an epidural. Like even when I found my midwife, I fell in love with her. I was like, I would love for you to birth my baby,

but can we just have an epidural just in case? Could it just be there? And she's like, kind of like the whole thing. You can't have an epidural for a home birth. And that was the thing that made it, it was like the hardest part for me to overcome is like, what if I can't handle an epidural for a home birth and that was the thing that made it the it was like the hardest part for me to overcome is like what if i can't handle the pain correct and i actually did not decide to have a home birth until 36 36 or 37 weeks it was like go time and i still was like you know dating doctors and tiptoeing like that line. And

ultimately I made the call because I was able to shift my mindset around pain. And I did that with the support and the guidance of my midwife. She talks about pain, the pain of childbirth as purposeful, as directional. And she doesn't even use the word pain she used the word she uses the word waves she uses the word words like intensity and she made it clear to me that your body has been preparing for this since the day you started your period the those cramps that you feel that discomfort that you feel is the exact pain that you will feel as labor starts so it's not an unfamiliar pain like i thought i was going to be like like it's going to feel like knives in my the way the

movies make it seem like it is dying absolutely horror horrifying like the movies and everything we've ever seen about birth is all inspiring fear none of it is inspiring self-trust. And what a midwife does and what my midwife did is completely, she gave my power back to me. I feel like we have been trained as a culture, conditioned as a culture to give our power away as women, as black women, as birthing people. We give our power away to these authorities in white lab coats that often undermine our intelligence, that often gaslight us, that take advantage of the power that we give away. We're not taught about our bodies. We're not taught about what we were built to do. We're not taught about how babies have been getting here since the beginning of time, which was not in a hospital.

We're not taught about how the obst, you know, obstrenetics came about and that it was set up as a business that prioritizes profit over patients. We're not taught this. Once you learn just how systemic and complex this issue is, you start to realize that, like, you need to, there's a lot of unlearning that we have to do. All right, we got more with Elaine Welteroth. when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still here

with miss elaine welteroth so when you said data doctors don't most people use their gynecologist to deliver their baby so it's somebody that they see that knows them that they trust or is that not true no absolutely that's the ideal scenario right but you have to understand we were first of all in a pandemic i just moved to a new state in a pandemic i didn't have a general doctor you know i didn't have a regular physician let alone an ob-gyn i hadn't gone to the doctor since the beginning of the pandemic. I'm generally healthy. And so I wasn't thinking about seeking out a doctor or an OBGYN until I got pregnant. So once I got pregnant, I thought, okay, how hard is it to find a good doctor? Can't be hard.

I live in the Mecca of, you know, I live in, I live in LA. I did all the things you're supposed to do. I got referrals. I checked, you know, I checked everyone at all these doctors out on Google I went in prepared with questions and what I found is that I was met with resistance I would say at best it's like the most polite way I was I was met with resistance when I came in with questions when I came in sort of informed and when I had the audacity to, you know, ask what I thought were basic questions about how this would go to, and also just try to, when I tried to just form

some sort of, you know, connection to this person, it was like, I was rushed the in and out girl. I was literally told like a fast food service, a fast food i mean i mean i don't think people understand that when you when you are pregnant you are in your most vulnerable state right i didn't even know to expect that and i was very emotional and i came in and i was rushed people these doctors would not look at me in my face they just kind of toss medication my way without even asking me i mean it was just it was so inhumane i They just kind of toss medication my way without even asking me. I mean, it was just it was so inhumane. I had vials of blood, six vials of my blood taken on accident without apology.

They tried to excuse it and act like it didn't happen. Like so many things happen. I was like, I now see how this happens. I just don't like how they don't allow you to film. Right. You pay for a service. You're paying for that. film right you pay for a service you're paying for that It's not free right you're paying for that But they won't allow you to film your birth in most hospitals and they say it's to protect them

So if they do something wrong, you can't protect yourself. I just never understood that There's so much you can't do that. I didn't know you in most cases in many cases I should say you can't eat in the hospital once you're in labor. You have to have an IV in your system, which means you can't move around freely. That's right. You most of the time have to deliver on your back or in the bed, which let's just think about this for one moment. This completely changed my outlook on birth when one of my girlfriends was like, she had a home birth and she said, think about how gravity works. Yeah.

Right. If you had to like push a bowling ball outside out of your body, you would stand up a squat. Right. Does it make sense to lay on your back to push a bowling ball out of your body? Or does it make sense to be upright, to use gravity? Correct. When somebody said that, I was like, yo, that is the most basic thing. And how come we, why have we been trained to think that this is the only way birth should happen on your back

with a doctor seated at the, that's for the doctor's convenience. And I'm not saying this in all cases, for some cases you must be on your back. It's the safest thing. In some cases, you need medical interventions. In some cases you need a a C-section. Like, I am not anti-doctor, and I'm not anti-hospital. But what I am is pro-woman and pro-baby. And I think that our needs and our desires and our wishes should be honored. And I've had a doctor literally in the middle of asking questions stand up and walk out of the room and say, You have exceeded your two to three question max damn and i've given you some grace but i need to go two to three question max i'm

like i'm in my most vulnerable state and i am coming to you with legitimate questions with a polite attitude i'm friendly and you are just shutting me down and walking out on me and it just made me feel so small. And I think it's important for someone like me to talk openly about this. Because I think that people would assume that this couldn't happen to someone like me. Like, no way. You know, I'm outspoken. I'm a journalist.

I'm informed. I'm confident. But the experiences that I had with these doctors, you guys, broke me down. Wow. It made me question myself. It silenced me. It made me, I cried after every appointment. I started thinking some things may be wrong with me. Like, do I need to smile more?

What can I do to make myself seem worthy of good care in the presence of these doctors? That is not the way it should be. I'm paying for the service. I'm paying into. So the whole medical industrial complex is poisoned and there's so much change that needs to happen. There's so much reform that we need on every level within the hospital system, within the insurance system, you know, at the legislative level. We need to figure out how

to create pipelines for more midwives, more doulas. We have to figure out how to create pipelines for more midwives more doulas we have to figure out how to create more access so that underserved communities can have access to midwives and doulas if that's what they need and by the way the other thing that i learned which made me feel energized around this topic because this topic is depressing to a lot of people and they kind of like lean back they're like like, oof, I don't really want to talk about that. That's I'm just going to hope for the best with my with my birth. But I think we have to lean in to this conversation. What helped me lean in was understanding that this is solvable. Like there are solutions. And there's a stat that was really staggering to me that basically, if you have a midwife or a doula 70 of these deaths could be prevented 70

of these maternal health black maternal health deaths could be prevented with the intervention of a midwife and a doula that gives me hope that's like okay well if we if that's the way to solve this let's figure out how we can create a pipeline of more midwives more doulas let's figure out how we can create a system that's it's more of a hybrid model where doctors doulas and midwives can all coexist peacefully can work well together um and so that's i'm as you can see i'm just very fired up about this particular issue because i just think there's nothing more important than keeping mothers alive to raise these children that we are bringing into the world, especially at a time like this, where more women are being forced into motherhood before they're ready. If our government has the audacity

to force women into parenthood before they are ready, we need to create systems that will keep them alive to raise those children it it is as simple as that so i hope next season i don't bring it back to the show i hope next season this is something we can talk about and unpack definitely a conversation can i just tell you this is the first time i had this conversation with two men oh listen i swear by dudes you know i swear i have chills right now just just because of these experiences that me and my wife have had the best thing about these conversations you know char Charlamagne has four daughters with his wife. I have six kids with mine.

But more men want to know what's going on. Before, it was one of those things, you go to the hospital, tell us when we need to be there. But we want to be a part of it. We want to know what affects you, what makes you cry, what hurts, what your concerns are. Because now, situation, we can do it together. It's not just you on your own. And same thing with us and with the stuff that we go through. It's not just us on our own.

And well, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your story. Watch the conversation project on Hulu right now. Elaine Walter, thank you so much. Thank you guys. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy.

Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here. Yo, yo, yo., let's get to the rumors I think a lot of people will recognize the boys On the breakfast club Lauren came in hot. You know, I came in telling the truth. So Remy Ma and Papoose have been trending for some weeks now, actually for the last few months. So there have been rumors circulating

that Remy Ma cheated, allegedly, on Papoose with another battle rapper named Easy Da Block Captain. So there have been photos released of them sitting down there. They're not intimate or anything like that, any of the photos or the videos. It was also rumored that Papoose actually fought uh the battle rapper back in june because he just got a little bit too comfortable with remy where does this stuff come

from where do these rumors like this come from i'm about to break it all down so i think those photos those videos all that stuff but then there is a video that's going around right now um of easy to block captain and gichi gti who are two battle rappers getting into it on stage and they bring up the rumors so let's listen to that you know i had six chrome events papoose was at all of them how come he ain't at this one why we ain't in new york because the last time there your husband punched on him so you actually brung it to where he more comfortable ass so if he did decide to show up this weirdo can have an ups on him i hope she wouldn't do that because i love her too much but it just look away you didn't hear where it's more comfortable so if he do show up he can have an ups on him now you

fell for real i hope that awkwardness in your home your child don't feel how can you protect the that so he couldn't protect you is wild for real. This is a chump. You know, he ain't got the heartful But you ain't got hands ain't even a smart move But if I was him I would have been like vermin hitman and you would have been the one I talked to Like I don't give a fuck if you just tell him stop spewing the business if Felt out she was the help that could really ruin your image we talking barack and michelle pap and rim that's us y'all the poster child symbol for black love what the hell is happening here so basically i mean you know in the battle rap arena they use what's going on in the real world so these reports

have been circulating because there was a photo release of them sitting down at a restaurant remy um and the easy to block captain guy and then that report of the whole fight thing happened now people have been running with this because y'all know remi ma papoose their relationship we don't play about them so people have been really running with this it's literally been trending all week long like crazy remi finally addressed it how you feeling i'm good i feel good at the end i was like hold on hold on you don't want me to go and do a little spin back then. This is up there talking a smack then. I started out in better rap. I've been at it for years.

I don't recall Geechee being one of the Pat friends. Call me a one more time, might not have got his back in. They've been different though. They were like I was cheating. Actually fire off the top of the head. Now we gotta address the elephant in the room. Like Geechee went crazy.

You know the whole, can we even talk about the whole easy to Pat pooch now that he don't talk as much as they talked on the stage? His start was the blogs, the best people much. The blog, okay. That's where it's at. But he was, I don't know if you, how comfortable or uncomfortable you were with him standing there just saying all of this to you. Listen, it's that or that. You know, I love how Remy handled that and I tell you why because Remy understands nobody cares about the truth

when the lie is more entertaining right so at this point it doesn't matter what the actual truth is if the internet says it that's what the internet is gonna believe so you know Remy even if she says you know not sure it's not true yeah they don't want to hear that y'all when i say twitter yeah and also shout to i think is what is 15 seconds of fame the guy that did that the interview he was the one that uh reported a lot of that stuff right where he had a lot of that footage i don't know i just seen it because i was watching it but i will say this i just seen it like i said we don't know like we don't know what's going on in their relationship like you said who cares a lot

of people don't care about the truth and the lies more entertaining. But I just seen him, what, a week ago, two weeks ago at the White House together. I don't believe this stuff. I don't believe it. I don't want to. I don't even want to discuss it. But Twitter is going up. You definitely want to discuss it.

You got it on your laptop. No, I'm not. No, actually, I'm preparing for my next story. The only reason that we have to talk about it is because the world is talking about it. It's our job. The world ain't talking about it. YouTube's you're not on twitter that's true so you don't know that's facts that's factual because they are trending on black twitter and on twitter worldwide but i would i will say i do i do love rem you know rem is like a sister up here

and i do love pap so whatever's going on i hope everything is okay that's that's what i hear because we love black love and i like that her like the whole battle rap scene everything that remy is doing right now people are saying that this is just for clout i also don't think they need to do this for clout but i like the fact that now people are having a conversation about what remy is doing in the battle rap world because of this people are starting to watch we're talking about chrome 23 yeah yeah they they want to they want to know like what's going on what is this like those were some slick bars you know i'm saying i don't think remy deserved that now imagine what they would write she was standing in the middle deserved that. Now, imagine what they would write for Jenny Mott. She was standing in the middle of it, too. She was stupid.

Imagine what they would write for Jenny Mott. Did you see, you didn't see black Twitter when that happened? The day that all that happened? What happened? I'm not saying all that stuff. Look at that. Look at that. He turned it to, you see that?

What happened, girl? What happened, girl? Can you give him the fan? Yeah, he got his own fan over there. I'm just over here listening. And what people didn't talk about is Remy Ma's evolution. Right. Old Remy Ma.

I thought she was going to hit him. She still be swinging. I don't think Remy would have swung in that situation. You all effing crazy. I'll tell you why. This is evolution for Remy. Number one, Remy, that's her thing, right? That's her and Pap's thing.

Old Remy would have. But she understands battle rap. Right. And battle rap, you say anything. Don't matter. Old Remy would have been slapping stupid people today. I don't think she not in the battle remy ma would have looked like jocelyn and andy's in that situation i disagree with that not in the battle because she understands battle rap and she understands in battle rap they say that you're in battle they be like i blow your mama's head off

i kill your daddy i stick my foot in your grandma's ass yo you take it to my grandma's ass we got a problem. Why'd you go there? Why'd you go there? That's a grandma's ass. I wipe my ass with your kid. Then throw your kid in the trash. Then I tell your granddaddy kiss my ass. I'm not taking you anywhere.

I'm not taking you to no battle reps because I'm not fighting for you. Yeah, but you go to your ass. Okay, we're going to move on. We're going to move on. So, Tory Lanez. You guys know Tory Lanez sentenced to 10 years. So, he has now been moved to the prison where he will serve out his sentence uh for the next 10 years it's north

kern state prison in delano california they house about like 4 000 inmates and reports are stating right now that this is not going to be no walk in the park i mean i didn't think it was going to be but exactly but basically they're saying this because there have been a few recent killings there so there was a convicted serial killer who recently uh or allegedly killed his cellmate not too long ago there was also another killing uh on july 4th where a guy was found dead in his cell i'm sure they wouldn't have tory in general population he might want to be in general population because he was only out an hour a week Or something like that I have no clue I have no clue whatsoever

I just want to know how Tory got the Brazilian wet and wavy human hair Let me show y'all the evolution of the Brazilian wet and wavy He got the bundle snuck in already Listen his hair is so full right now Come on man This is the fullest I've ever seen his hair line When you get the hair transplant surgery Can you choose the greater hair you want

Because I know Brazilian wet and wavy when I see it He only got an inch or two, but come on. This is getting Cambodian. Come on, now. Cambodian, you think? All right. Well, that is your rumor report. You guys are crazy.

Charlamagne, leave that donkey to me. Before after the hour, I need Kenneth Petty to come to the front of the congregation. This is a teachable moment for all street niggas out there. Let's discuss. All right. We'll get to it next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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Charlamagne the devil. Possibly. The Breakfast Club. Yes. Don't get a day. For Thursday, September 21st goes to Kenneth Petty. Kenneth Petty is the husband of the icon known as Nicki Minaj. But this is not about Nicki, y'all.

This is us. This is about us, okay, as black men. And it's about us not wanting to let the childish ways of the streets go. Y'all do know right being a street nigga is not an actual occupation there is not one single benefit you receive by being a street nigga okay there's no 401k you don't get no health insurance i have never in my life seen anyone be able to buy a house on any form of property because of street cred but for some reason we just continue to see so many people so many men who have the opportunity and the access to

do other things crash out because they still want to be in the street. Now, if you haven't heard, if you wasn't listening to rumor report all week and paying attention to the blogs and the news, and you probably missed Kenneth Petty incriminating himself by making threatening remarks to a specific individual, that individual being the rapper known as Offset, also known as husband of Cardi B. Now, we're going to play this ignorant ass video clip that went viral this week this week in the video you see Kenneth Petty and his gang outside of a New York hotel allegedly where Offset was residing but I don't see how Offset was in this hotel when millions of people were watching him live streaming with uh Kai Sinat that's how you pronounce his name Kai Sinat right sounds right yes salute to Kai Sinat uh like that young man but Offset and

Kai had a sleepover in Atlanta. They were live streaming for 24 hours straight. They was having a grand old time smoking weed. I saw Offset making grilled cheese sandwiches. I think he was making grilled cheese. They was dancing, listening to music. They was doing what we all should be doing, and that's experiencing joy, having a good time, being happy. Meanwhile, Kenneth Petty and his crew were doing

the total opposite of that i refuse to believe that standing outside of a hotel in the middle of new york city mean mugging a camera sending death threats makes you guys happy in fact i actually think you have to be pretty miserable to even project that kind of behavior but let's listen to the video big queens sturdy nigga what's popping what's happening money man what's up Sturdy nigga was popping Money Yo, no, they said you know Vacation planning your funeral. Yeah, let's play. What's up? We're in They wanted to come at me at the real maze man. I mean we even do none to nobody man Guess what race it is well it's not fair we know niggas yeah yeah guys i was born in 1978 i remember a time when if you were doing dirt it

was a cardinal sin to speak on the phone about said dirt that was a complete and utter no-no kenneth i know you know this because we the same age age, 45. 45, Magnum, Colt, Trump, whatever, 45. So I know you know better. Maybe you don't because nowadays these individuals have let the Internet make them forget street rules. Because if you were still moving by the rules of the street, there would be no way in hell that you would be on the FBI's Internet recording yourself in 4K threatening to kill someone. You told that man to plan his funeral on the FBI's Internet and you thought there wouldn't be any consequences and repercussions do you know how many people probably sent that video to law enforcement why because you're high profile you're nikki minaj's husband and that's one thing i want to say even if you don't respect yourself respect your queen respect who she is

you may not care about how this video impacts you but you should care about how it impacts her but maybe none of y'all care professionally or personally i just know as a husband and father our job is to protect and provide we can't do either one of those things if we tricking ourselves off the street because that's what this is when you got on video and you incriminate yourself in this way you're tricking yourself off the street i don't want to hear none of y'all street dudes talk about how much y'all hate snitching because as soon as you or one of your partners pulls out these smartphones and decides to go live and record yourself saying these type of things and doing dirt you have become an informant and you're telling on yourself and that's exactly what happened because kenneth petty has been sentenced to 120 days of home

detention after violating the terms of his probation because of that video i got that right right one up to 120 up to 120 days okay well whatever it is kenna petty you've earned every bit of this simply because you cannot let the childish destructive ways of the street go first corinthians 13 11 says when i was a child i spoke as a child i understood as a child i thought as a child but when i became a man i put away childish things my brothers i cannot believe i'm saying this at 45 years old but there's so many of us who have not left the childish ways of the streets alone and i would love to know what do y'all know that i don't okay the streets have never done anything but led people to two places jail or the mortuary and my father always told me that if you don't change your lifestyle you're gonna end up in jail dead or broke sitting under the tree let's update my father's words in 2023 if you don't change your lifestyle you're

gonna end up in jail dead or broke on somebody's social media page recording yourself committing crimes and that recording of you committing crimes will lead you to be in somebody's prison kenneth he was already on probation what part of law enforcement has social media too do you not understand i said this earlier and i'm serious you know how they used to do ride-alongs with cops i want to do a sit-along with police officers and i want to sit and observe them observing this kind of stuff on social media there has to be old detectives who can't believe that there are actually individuals doing their jobs for them smartphones in the hands of dumb niggas make law enforcement's jobs so easy and i

know they be laughing their ass off at our stupidity i want to see it i want to see old officers telling young officers how easy they got it and they don't even have to do any real detective work because that is what i know is happening and we have nobody to blame but ourselves i can't believe i have to say this but for the record the streets are corny streets are lame. We have years and years of data and evidence that shows us that acting, like how Kenneth Petty is still acting at 45, will do nothing but lead us to jail of death. Who wants that? Kenneth, you are in a privileged position. You married a very successful woman.

You have access to resources that nobody you came up with probably got. Okay, the only op you should know at 45 is opportunity okay you and your family have the opportunity to break every single generational curse that has ever existed in your bloodline you have the opportunity to actually show the hood a different way if you can get dudes to stand out in the middle of New York with you looking for an op then you can take those same dudes and create some type of business that provides them an opportunity to not make the same mistakes that you have made in your life okay my brothers i don't know how many ways to tell you

there is nothing to be gained from the streets there is nothing to be gained from being hard being tough and when you know better you do better and we all have to know better because we have too many examples that show us where those streets lead so i'll leave you with this kenneth and not just kenneth all you street dudes smart people learn from their own mistakes wise people learn from the mistakes of others dumb niggas never learn at all which one do you choose to be let's all do better black men because i'm tired of this please let remi ma give kenneth petty the biggest hee-haw hee-haw hee-haw you stupid mother are you dumb? All right Did I say nigga too much? No

You did? A couple One or two was good But he did like seven, eight Tell BET peace And then we'll balance it out Oh boy BET

We'll see y'all tomorrow Peace How you wanna balance this out? Talk about white people Let's go so what you want to do I thought you had something over there I mean we did but you you told me we want to go white or relationship we want to go relationship don't worry about it never mind never mind mommy tell you about uh the love the love plane I don't want to know my no love I'll tell you about the love plane. I don't want to know about no love plane. I'll tell you about that later. I'll tell you about that.

Me and Lauren will talk about that. I'm cool. We think it'll be a great thing. I don't know. What y'all talking about? Y'all going to Vegas? Buzman's. This weekend.

Buzman's? What do we call it? Buzman's. I call it Buzman's. First of all, dude, you better not. That's like forgetting your anniversary. You're right. You're right.

You're right. Bromance. Don't worry about it. I'll tell you about it later. Love plane. Just keep that in your mind love plane no all right now let's talk about love is blind yes uh so two love is blind stars um are now separated and this is insane so jackie bonds and josh demas separated uh jackie posted this story and basically said

in the video that she was asked by josh to not speak to a certain ex she didn't understand why that was necessary like we're together we're in love we're making plans for our future what you got to be talking to your ex about y'all got kids together listen i don't know she didn't go into detail about what the conversation was about but she did say that josh had asked her to not speak to this ex if y'all ain't got no kids if y'all ain't got no business what y'all talking about? But let's open up the phone lines. Yeah, because she decided to do it, and he broke up with her,

and she said she'd back for him to come back and everything, and they were making plans for the future together. So 800-585-1051 is talking to your ex, disrespectful in your relationship. Should you talk about it, and if you do, does that mean terms of breakup? Let's discuss. I need to hear more about this king when we come back.

All right, we'll talk about it. 800-585-1051. Let's discuss. I need to hear more about this king when we come back. All right, we'll talk about it. 800-585-1051. Let's discuss. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Pick up the phone, baby.

Call 800-585-1051 to join in for the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Let's talk about it. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is our guest host today. And we were talking Love is Blind. Now, what were we discussing?

So, we were talking about the fact that two Love is Blind stars recently broke up, Jackie Bonds and Josh DeMoss. I don't know if I'm saying this last thing right but they broke up because jackie went and had a sit-down conversation with josh's ex-fiancee about what her name is monica Rodriguez and on the show basically they had a really bad like breakup like they were supposed to get married it didn't happen it was just it was just not good now she wanted to sit down with her to talk about it and of, he felt uncomfortable about that. And he told her not to do it. She did it anyway. So he said, I'm good.

You know what's interesting? That's actually not a bad idea in relationships. For her. Yeah, because it's like a reference, right? Like, if you're about to hire somebody for a job, you're going to go talk to their previous employer. I mean, that was good. To see what didn't work. What was wrong?

Did he cheat? Did he smell? Like, what's the problem for her but for him it's foul no i feel like because you're different and you're different with different people like what happened in their relationship and their engagement and why i didn't go forward might not happen in this one so it's kind of like now you got these preconceived like notions of like what may or may not happen because of what all right like what i went through in the past when if i'm you're dealing with me she don't owe you anything but and think about this say you're dating somebody and you got a chance to talk

to his ex and you found out that he was a cheater or a scammer or an abuser i wouldn't want to you know why because now i'm going into that relationship like well he cheated on the last one he abused the last one but maybe that's something you can look at and you don't have to deal with your hurt and the thing that he's going to put you through. You can pick up on certain red flags without having to know anything about an ex. That's why, honestly, like when people go and move to different states and go to college and meet people that's not where they're from, they enjoy it because you have no ties to any of the baggage before.

Like, why would you want that? If you happy, be happy. If I had an opportunity to talk to Charlamagne's previous employer, right? And he would tell me that Charlamagne always flirts with him. He flirts with his other co-workers. That's never happened. That, you know, he likes to hug them from the back. If I would have known that before, I don't know if I'd work with him.

First of all, that's never happened. Envy is projecting. Envy is talking about the things that he likes to do with me. Okay? That's never happened. Lies. But what I will say about this situation all i really do here is a king who set a boundary right yeah this woman didn't respect his boundary and since she

couldn't respect his boundary he bounced and my therapist would tell me to do the same thing to people if you set a boundary and that person does not want to respect your boundary you leave my boundary is i don't want you talking to my ex i just hope he wasn't hiding something that and that's why he don't want to talk into the ex or he could he could know and doesn't want you talking to my ex. I just hope he wasn't hiding something. And that's why he don't want her talking to the ex. Or he could know. And doesn't want to bad mouth the ex. He could know maybe the ex is bitter. But that's what I'm saying too.

On the other side of it. That's how I'm looking at it. Like I wouldn't want to go talk to your ex. Because if it didn't work out with y'all. And it's not 100% like a good vibe. That's just going to put a bad taste in my mouth. That's real. I don't want that.

I want the reposado and all the red flags in the beginning jesus christ if you happy be happy lauren loves reposado i see i see yeah i do what was it lobos lobos yeah shout out to the lobos team all right lobo that's the bronze right yes so what's the question we're asking if you had an ex and you said to your new person i don't want you communicating with that ex that ex has reached out one to sit down have a conversation clear the air especially if there's no kids involved would you allow your new significant other to sit down with your ex that is the question we're gonna we're gonna take some calls when we come back now that we cleared it up 800-585-1051 call us up right now it's the breakfast club come on morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club lauren la rosa is here

and if you're just joining us we're talking about love is blind what happened with love is blind let's break it down so love is blind um there is a couple so there's jackie and there's josh and they recently broke up because jackie decided that she wanted to go and have a conversation with josh's ex-fiancee who he was going to marry on the show but didn't air and it didn't happen of course because he ended up with jackie and he asked her not to she decided to go and do it anyway and he said nope I'm good so the question is 800-585-1051 how would you feel if your girl talked to your ex that's the question that we're asking we have somebody on line six that actually watches the show Courtney you watch the show Courtney I do and what's your thoughts Courtney? I believe that Jackie should have left Joshua alone from the beginning

because he was a hot mess during the pod, you know, part of their show. He was very childish, and I believe the ex that she's referring to is his ex, who was actually her friend at one point on the reunion. If it's the same girl that they're talking about, I think she was trying to tell her, like, girl, I don't even know why you bothered. Be childish. And I agree. It's Monica.

She should have accepted the proposal. Monica? Okay. Yeah, I don't think she should have accepted the proposal from the original person she did, but she shouldn't have tried to get into a relationship with old boy. Okay. Hello, who's this? Hey, how you doing? This is Pedro. Hey, what's up, how you doing this is pedro hey what's up pedro talk to us how do you say pedro like that hey what up what up what up i'm in new york now

how do you know your essay you might pay yourself like a black name pedro you black nah i'm puerto rican and trinidadian duh well trinidadian all right pedro come on what's your thoughts uh my thoughts right now let's see i've been married for 14 years you know and um the thing that i could say you know i would never let my wife, you know, speak to her ex, you know. I have custody of my first son now, you know, he's 19, and I don't even speak to his mother, you know, because I feel that is disrespectful, you know. You know, I guess y'all talking about, he's over 18, so I guess y'all don't really got to communicate like y'all probably did, right? No, well, we didn't communicate when he was young either, you know, I know i felt disrespectful you know if i'm talking to her about certain things that i'm

not talking to my wife about you know that's wrong you know i just showed that is wrong you know especially if you're having a dinner you know private dinner and all that talking about things you know if you don't respect what i'm saying about you know not talking to him that means that you don't respect our marriage or our relationship so you're raising your son now with your new wife right what if his mom reached out and said hey i want to sit down have a conversation with her because i just want to i don't know just figure out where she's coming from and how she's raising my son or just anything would you allow them to sit down oh yeah of course you know but it has to be a type of communication between both of us not just me

you know my wife is part of me. So that's my circle. So if you want part of me, you got to have the whole circle too. All I hear is people having, grown people having conversations, grown people setting boundaries. You either respect people's boundaries or you don't. You know what I'm saying here? I don't have a problem with the baby. I don't have a problem talking about the baby, but our relationship,

because like you said, if you talk to my ex, my my ex might be lying my ex might still want me back my ex might be putting things in your mind that's gonna hurt our relationship and not actually help so i would have a problem with that see i felt like that in the beginning but and i don't watch love is blind but i know that this is a big couple from the show because when she when um jackie did the tiktok video i saw the reports everywhere what is giving to me is like monica reached out on some like girl forget what we went through i just really want you i don't want to see you go through that and there might be some stuff that he might need to get it get together and he don't want that he he wants her to be able to just you know it's all butterflies and lies in the

beginning he wants to keep it there oh so they was cool the two girls i don't watch the show that's what the caller said i don't know but it just seems like if i know i do know from what i read that they're like whatever happened and the reason why they didn't get married it was a little bit messy right so if that is the case and then they sit down maybe it's not bitterness what if she's just like i'm trying to pull homegirl up like i want to whatever i still don't know if i would go down and go and have that sit down because if i made my decision especially if we're all on the same show or i've seen it i know what i'm walking into right all right well what's the moral of this story if there is a moral people on the black list then they can't call you you can't have a conversation with somebody they black by the way

that's a boundary all right so what if that if that person gets another phone and calls you after they know you blocked them if you get in your boundaries that is a crazy ex if she writes you on cash app to sit down talk to you about your man after she didn't block you i probably would have that conversation because something going on if she had to go all the way to cash yeah she gotta tell me something yeah i want to hear i want to hear that but that's a crazy there's a body in the basement somewhere all right well we got rumors on the way what we talking about in the rumors so coming up next in the rumors we are going to be talking about tim's and why the internet thinks she's pregnant by future

Okay, what? We'll get to that next The Breakfast Club Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy We are The Breakfast Club Lauren LaRosa is here Yes And let's get to the rumors

Lauren LaRosa I've been here for a little bit I've been here for a minute Move out the way Lauren La Rosa is here. Yes, and let's get to the rumors People will recognize the boys on the breakfast club Lauren came in hot So we're kicking off this set of rumors with a brown girl grinding exclusive So we dropped the podcast bronco grinding with lauren la rosa you can get it everywhere iheart apple spotify all that good stuff but i sat down with uh stephanie dunovan she is the vp of branded content and video at essence so essence magazine has a series on own it's called um the the time of essence this series is so fire, y'all. It takes you from the 70s to today and it breaks each episode of the series

down into different decades. And there's people from that decade that helped shape the magazine and create it. And they just talk about all of the history and just how Essence and black media was just thriving and just doing all this stuff. They talked about the Vanessa Williams time when they stood behind her with the cover.

Just all these things. And I i'm like to hear all this and know that people don't regard essence in the way they should it breaks my heart a little bit i feel like the time's changing a little bit but i asked stephanie hey after watching this series i feel like i need to correct people a little bit about essence magazines and the ebonies and everything that you guys how y'all held us down We wouldn't have a shade room. We wouldn't have a hollywood online We wouldn't have a lot of this media, right? But do you feel like because celebrities drive the culture? We're in the shade room comments because the celebrities are there things like that

Essence doesn't really get a lot of love from a lot of the celebrities. It's changing, but it's not as big as it should be Do you feel like I feel do you agree with that? So this is what Stephanie said. Tonya Michael. It's two fold, right? I know that there is an outcry, especially when we're covering red carpets, right? There was a whole movement that Jason Lee started from Hollywood Unlocked of like, people are black celebrities, not prioritizing essence or black owned media

when they're on the red carpets and they're like beelining to People Magazine or the other magazines because of the reach that they might have where these are the outlets that were supporting them whether they were hot or not um so that's one side of it but then there's also the side when we made the call to action for celebrities to come to the table to tell this story there was no shortage of people that jumped at it like we have holly berry we have cheryl lee ralph we have oprah we have whoopi like just sunny hostin such great names that came out and jumped at the chance to help tell the

story and the legacy of this um i think essence and well first of all salute to essence ebony and jet drop on the clues bombs for all three of them yeah yeah absolutely right they paved the way for everything that we see now but i think they're known for being print publications and i think that they may have still been holding on to being print publications when the digital publication was rising and i think a lot of these digital platforms just became what people go to now that's all so it's like essence and ebony and jet if they're still they're trying to get in the digital game now they're trying to catch up you know i'm not but the reason why x said is like so before i told you guys about this series had you heard about it no no when i say it is so good like I

Everybody needs to go watch this it will change your mind about the power that media has that we haven't like I just was like Why don't more people know about this? I think that's what's supposed to be happening, right? Like you you you need the platforms of today to pay homage to the platforms that came before them You know, they're like the essences the ebony's the jets you got to do documentaries and stuff on these publications to let folks know what was but you but you said it right it's it's times have changed right so a lot of people go to news in different places like you know a lot of younger individuals don't know what essence is or don't

know what jet magazine is or ebony magazine is because they go online and they follow the shade rooms the boiler alerts the hollywoodlocks, and that's their publication. Same thing with the older generation, like my mom and dad is just getting into Netflix the last couple of years. But what was their thing? Blockbuster, because that's what they were on, you know? Right. Well, yeah.

Make sure you guys go check out that. I would love to see that. It is called The Time of Essence on OWN. You can watch all the episodes. You can binge watch it if you want to. Hear our interview. Go and subscribe and download and rate the podcast bronco grinded with lauren la rosa the visual of that interview will be dropping later today but make sure you go check out the audio right now i can't think of too many print publications that transition to digital and

then people started following digital i can think of one what's that what i don't want to say it because they're not black but i can't oh well because they're not black. But I can't. Oh, well, if they're not black, it don't count. We talk about black. Because even like Source magazine, like like Source magazine is not one that went dead. I think People magazine did a good job. People magazine did a good job. Transition Digital. XXL did pretty good too with the XXL. XXL did an amazing job. XXL did good. Because if you think about Source, All Hip Hop, like some of the other hip hop related, Hip Hop DX. Source didn't do that well. No, they didn't.

XXL does a really good job of still trending. Yeah, but like they kind of, to me, they fall in that like era of like, you might not know them if you're not from a certain time. You know what I mean? Like, no, you don't just know of them unless you are reading certain things or care about certain things or from a certain generation that cared about them. You're right and i'll tell you another thing a lot of those dot coms you know making the transition to the social media pages because most of that stuff is instagram now right we just talk about social takes over so speaking of speaking of social media right now there is a rumor that is going around that tim's is allegedly pregnant by future this all started from tick tock y'all

there is no like i'm seeing no confirmed reports anything like that that started from a tick tock video and fans just went wild with it which is insane to me this is and this is why the essences and the ebony's and the jets and all the other print publications the peoples can't keep up no they can't keep up because by the time they print that story it's we're on to another story they probably not gonna print it because it's not real but tiktok don't care and social media don't care that's true too throw anything out i want to know though like why do women just get like pitted with these men like not not no shade the future but it's like why like how did that even come about just because they did a song together no clue you told me that's what you wanted you told me you wanted to be paired with somebody i didn't tell you i want to be there with somebody

see that's that's the problem with men in the world and in women especially black women y'all want to y'all want to figure things out let us figure it out i didn't tell you that i want to be seen with somebody and i wanted to be he is lying i did not say that that i did not say that how y'all know i don't got something going on and y'all messing it up right now i'm sorry homie i really i really i really don't y'all listen y'all got somebody outside the radio station i need to go out there and pose with that's exactly what she said to me earlier that's what she said no he i did not say that and if i did i would have stood on it right now because run it up so but i didn't say that all right well

that is your rumor report up next next is the People's Choice Mix. Lauren LaRosa is here at The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

Lauren LaRosa is here. Now, don't forget, this weekend is the iHeartRadio Music Festival. Yes, it is. I have a question. You know, usually every year when they do the iHeartRadio Music Festival, they have an outdoor event, and then they haveRadio Music Festival, they have an outdoor event and then they have the indoor event.

Are they doing an outdoor event this year? I don't know about the outdoor. Too hot for an outdoor. I don't know about no outdoor in Vegas. Just asking. I don't know nothing about that.

Lauren, what you doing this weekend? So I am going to be hanging out in Delaware at HBCU Week in Wilmington, Delaware, which I want everybody, you don't have to be

from Wilmington, Delaware to support it. Come on down, get some tickets. Shout out to HBCU Week on Wilmington, Delaware, which I want everybody, you don't have to be from Wilmington, Delaware to support it. Come on down, get some tickets. Shout out to HBCU Week on Instagram. You can check out all the events there.

They have a live conversation with Ben Crump happening today, a comedy show on Friday, but they raise so much money to send inner city students to college on full ride scholarships. Shout out to Ashley Christopher

in the mayor's office of Delaware. That's something I support wholeheartedly and I'll be podcasting. Check out Brown Girl Grindin' with Lauren La Rosa, the podcast. Everywhere you get your podcasts from. And listen, I want to salute Jess Hilarious, man. Jess will be in Cleveland, Ohio this Friday and Saturday at the Cleveland Improv.

She got two shows each night. So go to ClevelandImprov.com to go check out Jess Hilarious this weekend in Cleveland. She'll be there Friday and Saturday night at the Cleveland Improv, two shows each night. Go to ClevelandImprov.com to get your tickets. What up, Jess? All right, now when we come back, we got the positive notice to Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time to get up out of here. Charlamagne, you got a positive note? Yes, before we get into the positive note, two things. Make sure you go to MentalWealthExpo.com

and get more information on my third annual Mental Wealth Expo, which is happening October 7th at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. It is my third annual Mental Wealth Expo. It is a free event. It's from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. I bring together some of the best therapists and psychiatrists and mental health advocates and mental health experts just for a day of mental health education and healing. You know what I mean?

So anybody looking to get started on their healing journey, October 7th, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Marriott Marquis Times Square. Free event. Go to mentalwealthexpo.com for more information on that. And I got to salute Jess Hilarious. Make sure Cleveland, Ohio, we are on in Cleveland. Go check her out this Friday and Saturday at the Cleveland Improv. We got two shows each night at theclevelandimprov.com. Okay, Jess Hilarious will be in Cleveland, Ohio, this Friday and Saturday at the Cleveland Improv. We got two shows each night at the ClevelandImprov.com. Okay, just hilarious.

We'll be in Cleveland, Ohio this Friday and Saturday at the Cleveland Improv. Two shows each night. Go to ClevelandImprov.com for more info on that. Now, the positive note is this. And this positive note will bring you so much peace of mind for people out there who like to protect their peace and protect their energy.

I want you to start telling people as long as that makes sense to you, when they say stuff that don't make sense to you. Just simply say, as long as that makes sense to you, when they say stuff that don't make sense to you, I promise you, you'll protect your peace in a real way. Have a great day. Breakfast Club, bitches!

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