The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Misa Hylton’s Lawyer Explains $5M Mary J. Blige Lawsuit, Stephen A. Defends Shannon Sharpe + Bill Bellamy & Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon Interview

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Bill Bellamy stops by to talk about his comedy tour, Shannon Sharpe, Diddy’s rise and fall, and the legacy of hip-hop. Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon also joins us to discuss No One Is Self-Made, divine alignment, and the State of the People Power Tour. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives 'Donkey of the Day' to Tyrese Haliburton’s dad for getting into a heated exchange with Giannis Antetokounmpo. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What up Jess? What's up? How you doing, Envy? Good, good, good. Missed you yesterday. Yo, I missed y'all too. I was golfing. BS.

Golf tournament yesterday. What is the, what have you ever golfed? Never, yo. But listen, yo, my husband be golfing. So we was golfing and we, Ray Rice and his wife, they have a foundation that's called Prosperity, Pipeline of Prosperity, and they had a golfing tournament yesterday, man. We met a lot of dope people, a lot of former Ravens players, a lot of Ravens players. We had Zay Flowers out there, man.

So it was a really dope event and it was to raise money, you know what I mean? To go to underserved families and so shout out to Ray Rice and his wife. And my foundation that I have, Chris and I, we started a foundation called the More Love Foundation. We do the same thing. So we teamed up, a lot of investors came out. Man, them white people play golf early, early. I was like, yo.

Absolutely. Well, you know the funny thing, salute to Ray Rice Rice he's invited me to every Baltimore Ravens game yes but I'm not a Ravens fan so I feel like it'd be kind of odd so I've been waiting for the Ravens to play the Giants so I can go but salute to Ray Rice every time he always invites me to the game. Man he dope and he from New York too so that's probably why he always extends that invite to you because he from New York I thought he was in Baltimore the whole time but now he from New York. Yeah he from New York. I told him next year. Did Chris play?

Absolutely, he played and he looked real good. And listen, let me tell y'all right, so look, because he was so sexy playing on the course, right, when I got home I tried to do a little sexy, little striptease for him, right, yo, toe gave out. What you mean toe gave out? My toe gave out. Oh, you fell on him. I fell on the floor. Yes, my big toe, because I'm doing all that walking all day on the course, and I guess I ain't stretch.

You know what I'm saying? You didn't stretch. It was just a lot, yo. It's how I was stripping or whatever, and I walked up to him, you know what I'm saying? And then the toe gave out, hit the damn floor. Did you wash? Did I wash what?

Yourself after the, yes, I'm sure she did. We not going straight from the course to the bed. I'm just making sure you didn't. Mind your business, because no. You told us, I'm just making sure. No, but you have to know that I washed. Like, come on now. I'm just making sure. We're not going straight from the course of the show you mind your business You have to know that I was like You just came in sexy. Yeah, the little girl Like it but no we had to take a shot we was out there with all that piling I did not know Marilyn was number one for piling. I was I was

This pollen is different is pollen beyond people. Yeah Like y'all saw my son Elvis Durant yesterday and I gave him a pound and hugged him and I'm just like you what is that? He was like I could sniff this off my shirt What and then you know the kids at school like when they come in from recess they got a wash off like they got a wash Yes faces and stuff the pollen is so heavy. Absolutely I'm smelling more people smell like outside now. I don't know if it's just straw is the smell is stronger now I'm like you've been outside all day. You can smell that so strong. Absolutely What happened to your other nine toes though? What?

Like why couldn't you just stand on the other nine toes? No, the big toe the big toe controls all the other toes Listen when the big one gave out on the right foot. I was like, ah, that's it. I said I wasn't even feeling normal I'm sorry, baby. We're going to try and get them all. Because I've been walking all day. Oh, wow. That makes sense. And salute to everybody in Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta yesterday and today, of course.

We did nothing but the book tour schedule, so we did interviews and radio. And I just want to say thank you, everybody, for all the love. I was supposed to go to Kendrick's show last night, but I was tired. After everything, me and my wife looked at each other and was like, nah, B. Y'all big toes gave out? Y'all big toes gave out? Y'all big toes gave out. So we said F that. But all right, let's get the show cracking.

Bill Bellamy will be joining us this morning. Yes, Bill Bellamy is on his Top Billin' comedy tour. So he'll be here to talk about that this morning. And Dr. Lekesha and everything else that's going on and a pop coach of Bill Bellamy will be talking about. Did he ask about me? Yes, he did when he walked in. Absolutely love Bill Bellamy. Yeah of Bill Bellamy will be talking about. Did he ask about me? Yes, he did when you walked in. Absolutely love Bill Bellamy.

Yeah, Bill Bellamy, he's the homie. And also Dr. LaKesha Hammond. Yes, Dr. LaKesha Hallman. She has a new book out called No One Is Self-Made, a Motivational Self-Help Guide with a Community Oriented Approach. So we'll be talking to her.

And she's on the State of the People Tour with my good sister Angela Rice. So they got a lot going on, we'll discuss. Alright now when we come back we got some front page news, Morgan will be joining us and don't go anywhere it's the Breakfast Club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news.

Alright now some quick sports, last night the Knicks lost to the Pistons 103-106, the Knicks still lead the series 3-2 The Nuggets beat the Clippers 131 115 Denver leads that series 3-2 The Magic up out of here Celtics beat them 120 89 and the Bucks up out of here Paces beat them 119 118 All right, what up Morgan? You catch did you shut the Pistons up for beating the Knicks? I did say Detroit beat I heard Spent by that you heard me say it's real kind of sped by that one salute to Detroit. You know me what up though?

Giving them respect y'all can still win the series. I shouted them out already. Good morning Morgan respect. Y'all can still win the series. I shouted them out already. Good morning Morgan. Morgan! Yes, somebody got to do it. Front page news. Let's get into it. Okay, so President Trump marked his first 100 days in office yesterday with a rally at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, which is just north of Detroit. What up though? The president claimed his first 100 days are the most successful among any administration ever, adding that he's just getting started. Let's take a listen. This is the best, they say, 100-day start of any president in history.

And everyone is saying it. We've just gotten started. You haven't even seen anything yet. It's all just kicking in. In 100 days, we have delivered the most profound change in Washington in nearly 100 years. I read a editorial today that this is the most consequential presidency in history. How about that? I don't know who today is.

Like who's today that's saying that? Cause there's conservatives that aren't saying that. There's economists that aren't saying that. There's a lot of people that are saying that. The polls are not saying that. The polls aren't saying that. Like who's today? It's giving people pockets ain't saying that. Okay. Prices at the grocery stores ain't saying that. Who's they? It's giving. People's pockets ain't saying that.

Prices at the grocery stores ain't saying that. Speaking of which, he also spoke about lowering of inflation and ending what he called transgender insanity. Trump criticized new efforts by some Democrats to impeach him, saying judges ruling against his administration are obstructing the enforcement of US law. Now Trump went on to say that the Democratic Party has gone, quote, totally crazy and have lost their confidence while drawing chance

from the Michigan crowd supporting a third term. Now Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, he had a different take on Trump's first 100 days, saying that it's been a hundred days of hell, in fact. Meanwhile, switching gears, former first lady Michelle Obama says, fears for immigrants under Trump's administration keeps her up at night.

She made the comments on the On Purpose podcast with Jay Shetty, where she said his foreign policies frightened her. She worries for the people of color all over this country. Let's hear more from Michelle Obama. And now that we have leadership that is sort of indiscriminately determining who belongs and who doesn't. And we know that those decisions aren't being made with courts and with due process. And I don't know that we will have the advocates to protect everybody.

And that makes me, that frightens me. It keeps me up at night. It's your take. She says she drives around LA looking at the faces of folks who could be a victim and one It keeps me up at night. Sure. Take. She says she drives around LA looking at the faces of folks who could be a victim and wonders how they feel. First 100 days, which off how y'all feel? Well, first of all, Michelle ain't driving the wish you need to stop that. Okay.

Driven. That's what you're not driving around the way. But I will say this. It's funny that he's still leaning on the trans thing because the trans thing Don't matter no more that won you the election But now you have to govern and you have to keep promises and you know what people really don't like identifying ass broke I say folks need that paper you told him that you were make the economy better and you have done the exact opposite in 100 days

Yeah, well, we'll get into that more at 7 a.m As House Republicans are working on his quote big beautiful bill. So keep y'all stick around for front page news. All right, we'll see you next hour. Everybody else get it off your chest 800-585-1051. If you need to vent phone lines or wide open something going on in your life, you just need to say it, spend some sense of positivity, whatever it may be.

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Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We wanna hear from you on The Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now, we can tell you what it is. We live? Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Kemo. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club Hello, who's this? Yeah, this is keemo keemo. What up? Get it off your chest, brother

Hey, what's up? Y'all? What's up? Every morning, right? At any time shalem and the guys show up late you'll be doing this crazy impression for man I need shalem and the guys to be there early because i'm tired of you doing my impression wrong man. What he be doing? He be like, oh, oh, oh, oh, like the last of y'all times are crazy as f*** man Cuz I do guess what day it is, I don't do his laugh, you know Hey, Shalala, you need to be there on time man, cuz that's what start my morning off right now When you be doing all the things with me morning I was actually, I was here. I just didn't I wasn't in the studio yet. That's a's taught my morning off right now. When you be doing all the things with me. I was actually, I was here.

I just didn't, I wasn't in the studio yet. That's a big- Shut up. I need you to be in the studio and that. And then when you show up in the studio, the first thing to do is jump on Jess, man. You don't need Jess alone. How I jump on Jess? I heard her talking. Thank you.

And she was talking about golfing. And that's why I went live that time, because it's just so much. No, no, no. You act like you've never seen a black golfer before, man. We got VJC, we got Tiger Woods, we out there, man. First of all, Tiger Woods don't even claim us.

So what you claiming for? OK? And second of all, you talk about professionals. You late, man. You got to do our work on time, man. Get my thing started right. OK. You're right.

What you mean, period? I'm just saying come to work on Okay. Hello. Who's this? Yo, this is TJ. What's up, man? I just want to get this off my chest real quick. What's up, DJ? Good morning. Good morning, Jess.

Peace, TJ. Good morning. Good morning. Just wanted to say this real quick. So, Jess, you went to this golf tournament with Foray, right? Yes. All right. So, what's up, DJ?

What's up, DJ? What's up, DJ? What's up, DJ? What's up, DJ. Come on. Good morning, good morning. Just wanted to say this real quick. So Jess, you went to this golf tournament for Ray, right? Yes. All right, so real quick, Ray Rice is from New York, but you gotta put some respect on New Rochelle New York. We are from, he's from New Rochelle, New York, 108-01. Yes, sir.

Marcus Banks from there, Uber from there. You ain't really gotta do too much. She said New York, man. New Rochelle's in New York, man. He's in from New York. My bad. And Marcus and Marcus Banks, my man, too. You got to put some respect on New Ro, man.

You got to put some respect on New Ro. Salute to New Rochelle. All right. New Rochelle, New York. I'm sorry. New York don't even put respect on New Rochelle. You know what I mean? I never.

I never hear New Rochelle get shouted out. No, New Rochelle up there, like the Westchester area up there, is this little, little curve of north. I ain't never heard y'all shout out nothing up there but Yonkers Yeah you right You know what I mean Yeah You right But I am sorry about that sir you right

Hello who's this? What up though this Ray from Detroit What's up Ray What's up to Detroit everybody who listens to us on WJLB in Detroit Go ahead Ray hit me with the Detroit Pistons go ahead that's what I know you call them Yeah come on now DJ Envy it sound like you got some hate some animosity up in you this morning dog Go ahead Ray hit me with the Detroit Pistons. Go ahead. That's I know you call Now we three two we still good I did I'm gonna be honest. You hate me, dog. Pistons are seven, dog. Pistons are seven. Hey, and then look, I need to say this

real quick. Happy anniversary to my girl, man. It's hard, man. Six years, dog. She been holding it down. So happy anniversary. Everybody in Detroit, what up, dog? Y'all have a good morning, man. You too. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

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Man, look man, I gotta say something, I just gotta get it off my chest man. This Trump administration is really horrendous man. They don't get a hold on this thing man. It's gonna drive this whole country into World War III. It's self-evident. It's just, you know, we gotta grab our higher power and we gotta put our heads together

and remove this guy. That's all I'm to it. Yeah, I don't know about World War III, but I do know that we all headed to a recession this summer. That's a fact because of the tariffs. You know, they got this whole tariff to recession timeline I was reading about yesterday and they were talking about how the container ship departures from China started slowing after the tariffs were announced by early to mid May the container ships the US ports gonna come

to a stop completely by mid to late May the trucking demand comes to a halt so Chris will be home with Jess all the time and then that's gonna lead to empty shelves and lower sales for companies. Then they gonna have layoffs in the trucking and retail industries, and by summer, it's gonna be a recession. Yeah, it's gonna be crazy, man. It's gonna be crazy, it's gonna be real crazy.

And I'm gonna tell you something, we got, bless his soul, we got a new pope coming in, and so I had a vision long ago that the last pope's name gonna be Peter. So be careful of this guy's name, Peter, the next pope coming in. They're gonna vote for him in the upcoming weeks. I'm behind with you. I don't know what that means. Me neither. I don't know anything about the pope.

You know, God bless everybody out there who supports the pope. Yeah, I went to Catholic school, but I really don't know much about the pope. My mama's a Baptist. All right. Hello, who's this? It's Monique, how are you? Come on, mama. Get it off your chest. I should've said anonymous, but it's too late now.

Definitely too late. What's up? You noticed the radio, can't nobody see you. So you can call me and be like, my name's Sally. I get it, but what I'm about to say, everybody gonna know. Go ahead, just say it, go for it. I do it all the time. Gonna know But I need him to leave me alone now. Damn. Before you wanted him, now it's over. It's a wrap. You say what?

I said before you wanted him, now it's a wrap. It's a wrap. Like, leave it alone. Baltimore dudes are trash. You said Baltimore dudes? She sure did. Yeah. She did.

And for real? Mm-hmm. Yeah, for real, for real. You don't agree with her? Yeah, I agree with her. Damn. So I need Joseph to leave me alone. Don't text Carl.

Don't talk to me on social media. Don't leave me alone. Let it go. It's over. I would hope that y'all had this conversation before you called the radio. Damn. Say again? I said, I would hope that y'all would have this conversation before you called the radio. Damn. Say again?

I said I would hope that y'all had this conversation before he called the radio. Oh well, I told him. I had to tell him yesterday. I was like leave me alone dude. What happened? You got so many women. Oh, he was cheating. He just knocked.

Yeah, he done. Well listen, you can't be having unprotected sex with a person and you know. Yeah. Thank you! That's what I'm trying to tell him, he don't get it. Talk about you! It takes two to do that, man. No, no, he's the one that's having multiple.

Oh, gotcha. So he gave you a yeast infection or something? Oh, well, we don't want to go there, but. Damn, damn. I get it, all right. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, like, man. Oh, man. Damn. I get it, all right. You know what I'm saying?

Like, yeah, like, and I live in another state. Mm. Like, if you wanna go out and, man, she could smack somebody with a condom. That's cool, but I don't ever know. So we caught you just passing through, and that's how he got you. Damn.

What you get? Well, I'm supposed to pass this something. What did you wind up getting? I'm sorry? We ain't gonna'm sorry? Hello, Chlamydia. Hey, hello. Hello, Raps. That ain't funny. I'm sorry, mama.

I'm so sorry for you. I'm sorry, too. I got to laugh about it so I won't cry about it. I get it. A little common case of Chlamydia. I get it. Is it curable? Of course Chlamydia is curable.

I'm not talking about Chlamydia. I'm talking about what she got. Is it curable? She got Chlamydia. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. cry about it. I get it, a little common case of chlamydia. I get it. Is it curable?

Of course chlamydia is curable. I'm not talking about chlamydia, I'm talking about what she got is curable. She got chlamydia, she just told you. Is that the razzle dazzle? Oh, I don't know what the razzle dazzle, I don't know what it's like. I don't know what razzle dazzle means. It's definitely curable, you know, but you're throwing your stuff off. That's normally what it is, just throwing off it's cake.

I get it, I get it. Like, you're messing with some dirty girls. Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm sorry, mama. We wish you the best, and I hope that he does leave you alone. I hope he falls all the way back. You just put him on blast.

You put his whole name out there. Hopefully, he leaves you alone. And hopefully, the girls that he listen, that's listening, he leave him alone too, because they got the razzle-dazzle too then. Damn. Jesus. All right, get it off your chest.

800-585-1051. If you need the vent, you can hit us up. Now we got the latest with Lauren coming up. Yeah, we do. Sorry. to on the Breakfast Club. All righty y'all so yesterday in here we talked about the fact that stylist and mother of Diddy's son Justin Combs, Mesa Hilton, is suing Mary J. Blige for $5 million over rapper Vato, which is insane because as a lot of us know, for those who don't, they've been friends for decades. But this is called best friends, this is called everybody by surprise. So I reached out on all sides.

And I got a call back from Ysa Hilton's attorney yesterday when we were recording the podcast and he agreed to do a live conversation for the podcast, or recorded interview actually. And I wanna- I know Mary told you, leave her the hell alone. I didn't reach out to her directly. I reached out to her team. And surprisingly, the person I talked to hadn't even like they had been in a shuffle things didn't even know what was happening. So I just sent them some information I haven't heard back from them. The Mary seemed to know what was going on.

The person I spoke to didn't know at all. I actually sent over, you know, some background information, some articles for them so that if they wanted to, they could make a statement. That's crazy. Oh, they were just together at the heart of a woman's summit. I was just last year, like months ago. So Lisa Hilton's attorney, we get into that. We get into that. So let's talk about first, he spoke to me on the relationship and why all of this is happening. Lisa Hilton and Mary J. Blige, they're not just friends, they're non-biological family,

probably closer than blood family. And it's very unfortunate that this had to go down like this because Misa tried every possible avenue in terms of trying to amicably resolve this with Mary directly, with Mary's camp. But unfortunately, and it's unbeknownst to us, why Mary J. Blige and why her camp completely cut off. You know, Ms. Hilton, and I can tell you,

this Varo lawsuit isn't why their friendship died. Misa's confused, and we've tried, Misa's tried to reach out to Mary. We did not want this in the media. Misa just thought that Mary may have been busy, or when Misa stopped getting phone calls and text messages and not being included on the normal things that they do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis, her antennas went up and we try to figure out well, what's going on here?

And that's really when we started to figure out that the real the relationship was the same. Yeah. So from what he is explained to us, Misa Hilton was allegedly like blindsided by the father for the relationship, which is also very odd because they've been friends for decades. You said she so Misa was blindsided? She yes.

By what? By the way that the friendship fell off like according to Misa's attorney, she's alleging that at some point her and Mary just like stopped speaking like she was reaching out Mary wasn't responding to phone calls, wasn't writing or certain things. Well, We gotta get your attention somehow. I told you to call me back. So in the midst of that, what actually started happening was small things with Vato.

So he was being invited to, you know, like little private gatherings that were conversations that were being had with him about like, yo, if you leave her as management, allegedly, if you leave her as managing and come over here, we can get you more money. But until you do that we're not gonna do certain things for you allegedly and also he has this new album out or in this new album he's trying to release that they're alleging Mary will not let release because he won't leave me as management question when Misa is suing Mary for this money is she suing for what she thought the Vato album would make or that

what they spent on the project the five million dollars it's accumulation things. So it's what he would have made from appearances being, because he actually like does shows and stuff and opens up, I'm assuming for Mary, according to this attorney, what the music would have made, just anything, bookings, all of that. She also alleges in his lawsuit that there are certain bookings and things that he gets because he's Mary J. Blige's artist that- I had no idea he was Mary J. Blige's artist. Well- I had no idea. Anybody in here know?

Yeah, when I heard the music, I assumed because you started hearing Vato and a bunch of Mary joints and Mary and a bunch of Vato joints. So I assume they were working closely somehow, someway. Well, let's take a listen to more information on her trying to reach out before and the fact that he was signed to Mary. Before it got to this point where you're saying that this is happening how much correspondence and what what did you guys want out of that correspondence the first thing that we always do in situations like this is we'll send over a letter um what we call an LOI a letter of intent before we did that though what we did was we reached out personally i reached out to her legal

team we know who they are and we tried via email via text message, whatever phone numbers we can get from other people in our orbit in the industry. And we got absolutely zero response. And the way that we wanted to do this was yes, in terms of a settlement. I mean, let's be honest here. Varo, I understand that maybe in 2025, whatever day today is April 29 2025 that maybe he's not as relevant as he was prior. But God damn somebody telling the truth. He signed to Mary J Blige. See, I'm glad the lawyer said that because I'm just asking questions quickly from a business perspective. Right. Did Vato ever make cam $5 million?

I don't know. They did Vato ever make Khaled $5 million? I don't know. So I'm just like, where did they get this $5 million? Well,'t know. Did Vato ever make Khaled $5 million? I don't know. So I'm just like, where did they get this $5 million number? What would Misa and Mary, why would Misa and Mary think that a Vato album would make them $5 million? I'm just asking respectfully from a business perspective.

Well, you know, sometimes when they ask, they over-ask because usually it's a negotiation. So maybe that's what the over-ask is. But for somebody- Over-ask who? And they also include attorney fees and like all the fees of like of just having to bring this suit and all of that.

But also too, remember I told you yesterday, they were talking now in the lawsuit, Misa's also talking about the emotional distress and just different things that she's had to endure. And I'm assuming as a business person, she's taking a hit. Because you promising this artist to be there and do certain things.

So she's anticipating, I'm pretty sure. This is silly. I mean, for them to be such close friends, things. So she's anticipating numbers. This is, this, this is silly. I mean, for them to be so close friends, I guess you never have gotten to this point. Yeah. Okay. And I asked how was Misa doing now because of that. Let's take a listen. I mean, she's upset.

There's a lot going on. I mean, listen, at the end of the day, you know, Sean Combs and what's going on with him, it's unfortunate, but it affects everybody. You know, Misa's a wonderful woman. You know, Sean's kids are wonderful, wonderful kids. I can't say more about them. They really were raised as gentlemen

and I deal with them on a consistent basis. But she's upset. And again, she's more upset of the relationship. It's like all of a sudden you have a sister that you've been with forever and 40 years later all of a sudden your sister stopped. Hey my name is Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. I just had a great conversation with Michelle Obama.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Talk to me when you have no reason why. Yeah, but you don't escalate that with a lawsuit. Yeah, you can't be mad at somebody for not wanting to be a friend Like you can't sue me for that but now the business part you can I should even be a conversation Yes in my talking point. So I was gonna act y'all like when doing business with friends like a friend like this if it got to A point where she's not responding She's being told, you know me sis being told, you know, the albums not gonna come out allegedly

She got business lined up for vital no, no matter how big or small, and it's messing with her business because she has an entertainment company. Do you sue or do you just let it go because that's your friend of 30 plus years? There are no permanent friends or enemies when it comes to business, but I mean this respectfully.

I'm like, we really gonna fall out of a Vito album? Yeah. Wow. Like a Vito album? You don't know how that album sound though. I don't, but I know that, I'm just saying, I don't think it's gonna make you five million dollars That ain't no reason for y'all to fall out. This is clearly over something else the bottle is This is golden all this is clearly over something else

You even said like the friend part of it. She stopped talking to her and all that and then she in a feeling she heard Yeah, because they was just they did Super Bowl together you talk about something a shrink of a woman event They both were there. They were thinking a panel together. they was like together in VIP, you know what I'm saying? There's definitely more to it. This is clearly over something else, because Vito can rap, Vito's made some good records, but has he made some money? Has he made a company some money? I don't know.

I don't know if he's made Cam $5 million. I don't know if he's made Khaled $5 million. So I don't know how they get to this $5 million projection, that's all I'm saying. But not only that, how many units do you have to sell to make $5 million and is can vitalize the artists right now sell those my man. You know, that's all I'm saying This ain't nothing to be falling out over y'all been friends for 40 plus years But all I do know is if Charlamagne is not my friend anymore, I'm suing you Okay Okay

I'm sitting in a low. He's in a low offers. I'm gonna send that first and then I'll sue you the LOI That's what he said. He said he said it. Hello. I didn't Let him attend for suing no like it's kind of like sitting like a I know a lot I never heard of a low I before you sue somebody. That's what he said He said a letter of intent first and then they're never released No, cuz I'm still hung up that they fighting over a bottle album. Shut up man. This just makes no sense to me. That was the latest with Lauren.

Thank you Lauren. And we broke this down on the podcast, the latest with Lauren LaRosa everywhere you listen to your podcast. And the full interview is there and I am going to get to the bottom of this because hopefully this will spark some more conversation of what actually is going down. Yes, get to the bottom of it. All right. Lauren.

Yes. Call me. I got some news for you. Thank you. Hopefully it's someone I called that didn't answer. No. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Well, when we come back, we got front page news. Don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

Let's get back to some front page news. Now NBA playoffs last night, Pistons beat the Knicks 106-103. Knicks lead the series 3-2. Nuggets beat the Clippers 131-115. Denver leads that series 3-2. Celtics got the magic up out of there and the Pacers got the bucks up out of there last night. What up Morgan! Hey DJ NV, Charlamagne, Jess Hilarious and Lauren. How y'all feeling? We good? Hey girl, we good. All right, let's get back into it.

So House Republicans are working to craft what President Trump calls the big beautiful bill. Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson, he spoke more about the projected deadline and push back against Democrats claiming the bill cuts important social services. Let's take a listen to those comments from House Speaker Mike Johnson. We're going to get it done by Memorial Day. Senate over there. They take a couple few weeks to work through that. We merge this together. We get it to the president's desk quickly for signature and you will see the results. We are going to preserve the programs. We're not gutting Medicaid. We're going to reduce

fraud, waste and abuse, which every single American should be applauding. Yeah. So the budget reconciliation measure that would implement much of his spending agenda. The bill would extend 2017 tax cuts and keep Trump's promise to expand them. The tax plan also, the House Republicans are also pushing that tax plan with a five trillion trillion in breaks two trillion in cuts and five trillion and a five trillion Dollar debt ceiling hike so I'll keep you guys posted on what happens as a result of the that bill We'll see what happens with that spending bill in other news on Capitol Hill I actually actually really love this story the only black all-female unit that served in Europe World War II has been awarded with

a Congressional Gold Medal. Descendants from the family of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion were given the highest civilian honor Congress can bestow for their work processing some 17 million pieces of mail in three months during the war. Now House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries came together to deliver remarks yesterday. Let's take a listen to those comments. They didn't have all the high tech gadgets that we have today. They had to do it manually. Processing roughly 65,000 pieces of mail per shift, they cleared the entire backlog in no less than three months. That's right.

These fiercely passionate, patriotic, and persistent members of the Women's Army Corps deployed knowing that they would confront the dual challenges of racism and sexism at the hands of their own military. Yeah, so they had six months to do the job and they completed the job in three. The story of the 6888 was recently retold in a Tyler Perry Netflix film starring Kerry Washington as Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams, who's served as the highest ranking black woman officer at that time. And salute the legendary Nicole Avon, you know, for amplifying that story with that series that you just mentioned, Morgan, the six triple eight on Netflix.

Because I'm sure they would have been honored without that series. But I also know that that series, you know, helped, you know, amplify, amplify that story of those of those people. So salute to them. Absolutely. Long overdue. Can we get a Clues Bomb? Absolutely. All right. All right. And to wrap things up, speaking of women, send a woman to do it. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, she will be giving her first major speech today since

losing her White House bid. She'll be speaking at Emerge, an organization that works to put Democratic women in office in San Francisco on Wednesday. This is happening today. A person familiar with the event says Harris will take aim at President Trump's economic policies and his influence on American institutions. Harris is expected to decide on whether she will run for California governor by the end of this summer. So what do you guys think?

Harris back in the fold in the mix or, you know, take, take a little bit of a, an extended break. I think she back in the mix. Oh, you know, I honestly would like to see her take more of an extended break. Honestly, I think she deserves it, but I mean, she could do whatever she wants to do, but you know, I think after, after the exhausting 107 days, you know what I would really like to see her do? Sit back and get some money. Honestly, you know Put out a book, you know, I don't know maybe maybe start some type of podcast It's like I really like to see her sit back. Are you trying to know that's right plug that back black effect, but I saw Lomay you try no no no, I haven't done anything with her

But I would I would love to see her sit back and get some money that I really do I really do me I'm with you. All right. So I'm going to go ahead and wrap things up there. So that's your front page news. Follow me on social at Morgan Media and for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network, download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com. Thank y'all. Make an amazing Wednesday.

All right. Thank you, Morgan. Thanks, girl. Now when we come back, Bill Bellamy will be joining us. We're going to kick it with Bill Bellamy when we come back. So don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club.

The Breakfast Club. Good morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa's here with us as well, and we got a special guest in the building, Bill Bellamy. Bill Bellamy is in the building. I love it, I love it, I love it. The Breakfast Club, we here!

Bill, you are aging amazingly, my brother. Thank you, man. I'm only 73. And ain't nothing but coconut water, Lauren. You get coconut water, get a cup of strawberries, blueberries, and a little bit of shake butter. You look just like me. But you playing, or you just turned 60 a couple weeks ago?

That is an amazing 60, my brother. Thank you, man. But I don't know what 60's supposed to look like because I'm comparing it to what we grew up on. No, no, no, no, no, we didn't know. We didn't know, we didn't know. Because you know, back in the day, if you told somebody who's 60 years old,

they'd be like, man, I just got me some pancakes from IHOP, you know, for free. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, you know, we moving, grooving, we work out. You taking care of yourself, you know what I'm saying? We know what we eating. You know what I mean? You watch your diet and if you blessed to have good health,

you'll look good. Do you take advantage of that kind of stuff though? Like the free pancakes from IHOP and all of that? Man, I haven't really leaned into the citizen thing, but I really think I need to get some of them little benefits and stuff. You got the ARP card? Yeah, you get an ARP.

I don't have one, you think I should pull up? Yeah, I feel like that's the rite of passage. That's, you get an A. You do or you don't? I don't have one. You think I should pull up? Yeah, I feel like that's the right passage. That's the right passage. You go ahead on it. But I just don't want to be Unc everywhere. Like, you know what I'm saying? I'm getting Unc now.

I'm getting OG. OG is kind of cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Unc, like on the basketball court, be making me feel like I can't play no more. Yo, Unc, you want the ball? I'm like, yeah. That's not helping you up off the ground calling you Unc. No, no.

But it's a tricky thing. OG is cool. Unk just is surrogates. And I'll be honest with you, I was in a club. Where was I recently? And I felt like unk. Like you need to go home. Yeah.

You know, this music loud. What song was it? What song was it? Not this music loud. Because some of the music I just don't know. I feel like I just missed it. Like I love glow Rilla But she got this joint that's so fire, but all the girls know the words, and I ain't know nothing

That's when I felt like I gotta go home. What is it? How does it go tell me she got so much Is it with sexy red too yes, okay? Yes with sexy red too? Yes. Okay, it's the independent, the remake of Boosie over. Yes, every girl in there from 25 to 35 was going crazy and I'm at the bar like, man, I gotta go home, man. Y'all ain't playing no naughty by nature. Y'all the own no treads. Well, that's funny when you say it,

cause like when you get to a certain age, when you think about everybody who didn't make it from our culture, does that make you appreciate it most? Yo man, honestly, yes, yes. That's a very, very good thing you said, because you know what, to have a long career is a blessing you don't know. And then we lost so many people that came up with us.

Charlamagne, you've been my boy forever. We came up around the same time. We went to the same school kind of thing. You know what I mean? We seen you know from the little Kim days to let's say boys to men that 90 early 90s. I remember when Busta Rhymes and first got on with leaders of the new school. I remember like the Def Jam offices, like the Source magazine, like all that energy of the 90s. I remember when Q-tip went solo, you know what I'm saying? LL was the like ladies man of rap. Like there's so

many moments of hip hop that we experience and to think now I'm like man that's such a great time for us to be able to experience it. I mean I remember interviewing Michael Jackson like how many people did it? Let's think about that How many people interviewed Prince? Like they not even like if you would have told me 20 years ago Michael Jackson would not be allowed like that doesn't make sense Like I always thought like them dudes will live forever like Prince like he was so damn cool. Michael was so damn cool Whitney Jersey girl, like I have all these wonderful memories of these people Left-eye, you know, um, damn like I have all these wonderful memories of these people left eye, you know, damn, like we did all this stuff with MTV, when people were just coming up,

people getting on, people getting accepted, they starting to go platinum. So you young, you don't even know. I know it go platinum. You know platinum? Okay cool, I gotta make sure. I gotta make sure. But like, like I remember when Usher went Diamond. I remember when the Fuji's went Diamond, like Diamond was like way out there.

Like you told somebody you went Diamond, they're like, what? And that was real albums. I'm talking about hard. I was about to say, I think it's just different for y'all because people had to go and get the, you know what I mean? Like right now we're streaming, so it's like, okay, cool. People listening, it's different when all these people going to the store. Nobody is going to the record store like me and charlameh me and charlameh knew remember town records here in new york

We remember when it was the album release people was lined up to get your album We remember I remember taking the plastic off remember when you remember when you couldn't get the plastic you needed a razor What you had to take a key and get the damn album out and then you read then you did you ever get a thank you? Did you ever like I wasn't around I'm 46 so when I started getting thank yous later on like but that was my like early-2000s like when you would get the album you'd be like you want to shout out my man shawl I made for your support on my album or whatever and then I would read all the producers and stuff like that Those days are over you don't even get artwork. What thank yous did you get in artwork? No, we don't get. You don't get no artwork. You just get a song. Chris Brown got a new song? Yeah, it's like a special thing if they

release like artwork and images and normally it's like merch and like something swaggy. So you gotta buy a t-shirt to get artwork now? Yeah, unless people do um. She don't even know what you're talking about. That's why she said t-shirts though. She thought about in the album. even know what you're talking about. I do know... That's why she said t-shirts though. He's talking about in the album. I know what he's talking about. Oh, okay. I'm not that, oh, I mean that young. Yes you are. I had the Destiny Child Writings on the Wall two side album.

I had Michael Jackson. Did you ever go to a drive-in theater? No. I did, but it was like a cool vintage experience. You said it was vintage. We vlogged. You did not have Michael Jackson thriller. Why would you tell that lie?

I swear. What year was you born? 1991. My mom had it in my house. Michael Jackson thriller why would you tell that lie I swear was you born 1991 my mom had it in my house oh she had in the house yeah I remember going and buying that album and like you had it opened up like this like and it had all the writings on okay see them go ahead girl your writer passes oh my god you young oh now you know about a lot of this in top building but just talk to the people what was interviewing Michael like somebody literally asked me that this weekend. You ever interviewed Michael?

I'm like, nah. Michael, interviewing Michael Jackson was like talking to a prince, a king of some sort of, some royalty because of where he moved, you know what I'm saying? Like he was to me, the epitome of being a rock star, superstar. He had like, if he was in here right now,

it'd be 30 people in here that you don't know what they do, but they look like they kill people. Three, four publicists. You got the record label people. You got his personal people. And then everything is just like, oh my God, like you don't wanna make a mistake. And he comes in, everything's set up, the lighting.

You just like, I'd be sitting there like this. Well, we gonna do this? in his people be like no Michael's gonna do three five and nine He had his own lighting person like you ever heard a person having a cinematographer for an interview No, I carry that does right carry came in the studio And had them had her team set up lights. And I was like, Mariah, they only going to be able to see you. And she was like, that's the point, darling. That's the whole point, darling.

How early did the lighting people get there before Michael got there? Two hours. That same thing that he said is true because I interviewed Mariah Carey in Hawaii and Jermaine was there too. And I was like, JD, where's Mariah? He was like, yo, man, Mariah be down in about three hours we waiting on her man to get here DP I didn't know what that was at the time so I was like DP who's that? That's Daniel Pearl he'll be here he like all of Mariah's stuff right this dude comes he got like

ten people they like they doing a little thing turn that down to 30% put that up to 10.5 it looks looks like heaven, heaven, everybody heaven, bring Mariah out, because the lighting was heaven. Wow. Swear to God, I was sitting out there black, I got so black, I was sitting out there waiting, just like, man, she'll be here in another hour.

They didn't even give me no water, this is back in the day, MTV stuff. All right, we got more with Bill Bellamy when we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

We're still kicking it with Bill Bellamy. Charlamagne. Now you haven't done a special since 2022, right? So is Top Billing working towards that? Yeah. Okay. So I think right now I have an hour of comedy that is crazy funny. Like nobody's talking about what I'm talking about right now.

It's very relevant. I mean, it's so much stuff going on right now from Diddy to Shannon Sharpe to Shadoor. Like there's so many elements in the culture that everybody's thinking about. Like, oh my God. And I want wanna capture this moment because it's right now. So I'm really trying to tape soon so that everything that I'm talking about

will be indicative of this moment in the culture. I was gonna say, how are you, cause I know you got the podcast, but like you obviously, you're so aware of everything because of your background and like interviews and stuff. How do you bring the podcast to the stage? Like, are you shooting the podcast while you're in the city? I usually shoot the podcast in the studio.

I'm going to try to do the podcast live too because I think it would be kind of nice to be able to have the energy of the people there too. And then they could ask people questions during my interviews and then we could have some interaction and shoot it that way. I think that could bring some different energy in season two. I just think it's interesting because there's a lot of people who try to intertwine all of that but like they're not really as up-to-date and like current as you are. Like you just rattled off, I'm just sitting here listening, you just rattled off so much

and I'm like oh he's on the headlines. Oh yeah I have to. Because of your background, you know what you, you know what I mean? Well you have to be a student of the game as well. Like for me I have to read all student of the game as well like for me I have to read all the time. So like at night when in house is quiet. I'm reading every publication I'm listening to music. I have to stay in the culture because it's like there's stuff This is a language the culture is a language, right?

Right, and so if you get outside the language and then you kind of come back you gonna sound dated You're gonna sound like oh, they don't even talk like that no more or whatever. So for me, it's very important for me to stay very, very relevant and conscious of what's popping. I watch you, I watch you now. I watch jazz, I watch the new comedians, I watch the news, I watch the headlines that's popping off on social media like, oh, everybody's talking about this. What's the deal, you know what I'm saying?

Get in the trenches with it. Oh wow, this is a good angle. So what I do with comedies, I'll take like something that's a real subject matter and flip it. You know what I mean? And now you laughing, but you like, oh my God, that's crazy, what made him say that? Cause you gotta know it.

So how do you flip something like the Shannon Sharp situation? We just... Well, first of all Shannon Sharpe did not see how to be a player at all He 56 years old he should have seen it coming it was right on it. What's that sound your ass? It's coming What's that man? Shannon Sharpe should have known when when that first tape leaked that we got slowed down Yeah, it's a little bit. It's a little bit too much. Yeah, baby. What's I'll say now talk to it Even know I was laughing they tell me baby listen now now if you are going live and you don't know what you two are And you got a click-click to do it yeah, so he wanted to be live this is told to me baby

So Joe Joe daddy what it is don't get it with a deal, right? He full throttle got caught on that one. Everything should have been shut down. Went to some type of class. Can't talk nasty Shannon. Calm down. Get you a nice, nice solid woman over to the corner and just lay low for a minute. What is it? Not even eight, nine months later? I don't think it's that long. It is not even that long. He back in them streets. You mess up the bag. I'm telling you right now,

white girls can't even say nothing to me. I was at the door part of this where I said, oh nice dog, I took my dog and ran. I wasn't even trying to. I'm not. I'm like, I'm like Jonathan Mesh. I'm good, good. What about the age difference?

Because he was 54 when he met her, she was 19. Ah, thank God. her, she was 19. Ah, thank God. Thank God she was 19. It's too far. See, I got a young daughter, so I can't even process. How old is your daughter? My daughter's 21.

So I'm thinking that's... You know what I'm saying? I'm thinking like my daughter, me and Shannon in the alleyway scrapping. I can't wear that, you know? But, you know what I'm saying, these cats, I don't know. Athletes are different. I'll just be honest. I think it's a difference with these type of guys like they they get they get attracted to certain things that are different like like why do like most football players like

strip clubs I don't know they just like that I mean when I did any given Sunday that's what we was we's in strip club come on dog let go see the girl man real talk man blow off some stain drink a little bit get back to the hotel. But you said something that's important. Like you said after the first situation. You gotta slow down. But you said he should've went to like some type of class. Something!

That development isn't there no more for nobody. It's not there for musical artists, it's not there for personalities. Like you got people that literally going in their living room and becoming like these phenomenons overnight, cause of podcasts and YouTube and streaming. But Shannon Sharpe has been famous for a while. He comes overnight, because of podcasts and YouTube and streaming. But Shannon Sharpe has been famous for a while.

He's been famous for a while. But he comes from that time of y'all shit. Different level of fame. He was always dope, you know, football player, always Hall of Fame, da da da. But this is a wave. He got like, boom, you know, Cap Williams gave him that boom. You know, it's like, then you get on, you leave, skip, boom,

come to ESPN. That's like, that's a rockin' wave, right? So you know you rolling, you know the light on, you gotta kinda be careful. He needed an auntie, man. See, this is what's lost in the culture. Old school black auntie. An auntie be like, Shani, you can't do that, baby.

Uh-uh, now you done got too nasty. Monique tried to tell him. Yeah, Monique tried to tell him. Yeah Monique tried to tell him. Yeah Mo was trying to help him but you know he like what he like. What you gonna do now? Can you wear it? See what I'm saying? Can you wear it now? So what do we do from here? Like how do you Olivia Pope that? What would you do? Like what you do I mean I mean he killed nobody you know I'm saying he just mashed it. So this BDSM is like that's the bondage stuff is that what we talking about? You're 60 years old you know what BDSM is. I know I'm just saying

okay so so so I mean you know I don't. Act like you don't know that's the best thing to do Bill. Act like you don't know. No I'm just saying like that that that is a that's a lane so I mean that's a lane let's be like that's a lane. So, I mean, that's a lane. Let's be honest, that's a lane. What you say, he could come back with a B.L.L.? I know, I'm just saying, he might have to come out with some T-shirts. He's not-

I've got the funk. I don't know. I don't know, when you in that lane, that's a tricky lane. That's like driving your car 100 miles an hour with no seatbelt, what's gonna happen? You dig? Like, that's a tricky lane. That's like driving your car a hundred miles an hour with no seatbelt. It's gonna happen. You did like That's a tricky lane because it's edgy. That's what I think is the pull for people

It's so edgy, but it can always go left cuz where's the line? Yeah, where's the line you wiling? Where's the line where we could come back or like say this is thing that's tricky. You could be all good on Saturday. We go back to do it again Sunday, you might not be on that right now. So now it's a bad deal. I think at this point, at Shannon Sharpe's age, he needs to sit still with a person, like marriage, something.

I think he should do a turkey drive. What? That's a bad deal. Turkey drives are always fixed up. No, that is the pay book. That's the pay book. You've been seeing them like that. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

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I know. I know. I know. I know. I know! When somebody does something bad, they always do a turkey drop! And then they send me the photos exclusively. Yes, I know. Yo! You be seeing them! You be seeing them like, hey, thank you. It be a bunch of turkeys. It's got to be summertime though. You gotta give out turkeys, Shannon. That's the trick. Where's my camera? Right here. Hey look, Shannon, do a turkey drop. Just give out turkeys randomly. All over the country. Hey baby, get going little turkeys bro. Just give out turkeys randomly all over the country here baby

You go a little turkey for a little turkey by the time they get that 30 for a turkey. This would be over And they gotta be butterball All right, we got more with Bill Bellamy when we come back it's the Breakfast Club good morning Good morning, everybody is DJ envy justilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Marlon Roussel's here with us as well, and we're still kicking it with Bill Bellamy. Charlamagne.

Now you grew up in that era of the 90s. When you look at the Diddy situation, did you ever think the culture of hip hop would catch up with people the way that it did? Because a lot of this is lifestyle. Well, well, well, well. I'll be honest with you, man. The Diddy situation is just, it's going to hurt us all,

no matter how it comes out. But it's going to hurt the culture. Because to me, why I say that is because what he's done for the culture before all of this is phenomenal. Like, it never happened before. To come to this point, I didn't see that coming. You know what I'm saying? You didn't?

You've been around. I know, but I didn't know, like, know what I'm saying? You didn't? You've been around. I know but I didn't know like all the other stuff that people are saying like that's just like all this stuff is just so like oh my god oh it's so many oh my guys no turkey drive can fix you know I would never thought that he would have been in jail. Yeah I would never say. In jail it's crazy. For life? Yeah. Like that's what we looking at? That's crazy. I mean, God dang. You know what I'm saying? Because we came up, the 90s was really a fly 10 year run for everybody that was coming up through it.

You know, Cats is getting record deals of substantial money. I remember when Janet Jackson got her like 40 million dollar virgin deal or something crazy. Remember when they was giving out numbers for artists? 90 million, this, that, and the other, whatever, whatever. Puff got a hundred million dollar deal. I remember that. Like that was a big deal in New York. Like people was like, yo, Puff got his own label now. Boom, boom, boom. Like I came up with Mason, those guys and Cameron and guys. So just think about like, oh man, I just seen like these guys making money and I do that

look like me that came from situations like me we are here eating so to now like damn so let's say if he even if he were to get out of it his image is is smashed so it's like damn man you could do all this good and do one thing and no people never feel the same like you know saying like they'll never look at you the same so that's the part that gonna hurt the culture to me did you ever have to fight to get hip-hop on MTV back man yeah man Charlamagne come on let's you you know what we did okay so listen this is how it was so when I came on MTV it was mostly rock there was there was they was tiptoeing with hip-hop but we're gonna

play a little bit I'm gonna play a little bit over here with Yo. We got Yo MTV Raps. Those guys, Ed and Dre are doing a great job. Blah, blah, blah. I wasn't even on the channel yet. So now we're getting this hybrid show that's going to show you that hip-hop is crossing over a little bit. We're not only going to do Nas, but we're going to do Salt and Pepper. We're going to do LL.

We're going to do Leaders of the New School. We're going to do Domino. And we're gonna do Salt and Pepper. We're gonna do LL. We're gonna do Leaders of the New School. We're gonna do Domino and we're gonna do Coolio and we're gonna do this young dude named Snoop. So now you're getting all these new artists. You've got Ice Cube now. You got this. You got that. So now the plate got bigger. So I just happen to be the guy delivering the plate to the people. yo we got this we got this we got this. I just think it was really really a blessing for me at that time just to be in the right place. Hey my name is Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. I just had a great conversation with Michelle Obama. To whom much is given much is expected. The guilt comes from am I doing enough? Me, Michelle Obama, to say

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It's the right time time because I love the music and I love us, you know what I'm saying? I wanted you, if you was a new artist, I'm like, I'm trying to get you on. Like, yo, you gotta come on here. Make sure you fix her hair. Make sure she looks fly. Okay, cool, cool, cool.

All right, boom, boom. No, no, no, but what I'm saying, like, you know what I'm saying? Y'all, y'all, y'all can figure this out later. So real quick, anything goes wrong, turkey drive. Just do it. I already do one every year. Do you want to see it?

And you see how you ain't been in no truck? Them turkeys on the ground, they just forget. It just make people go, he ain't do nothing. He gave me a turkey. What was the biggest thing that MTV passed up on that you were like, you fought for and it was like, nah, we good. And then later, like now you're looking back like, man, that was iconic moment we could have had.

I can't remember that. I can remember what they almost blew on. There's a couple of things that happened like this. One I remember very, very vividly was H-Town. So H-Town was on Luke Records, right? So you got- Oh, the group the group That's the boots. Okay, not gonna boost. So I was in like in the south

I was doing a show or something. I heard knocking the boots. Mm-hmm. I said, oh What is that I go back to MTV I showed him the tape I said, yo, this is that any other blah blah blah They're like, oh my god, let's go to the billboard let's see what it is is it doing it is it a heat seeker what is it doing on the charts I was like it don't matter what the charts is I'm telling you this song right here is crazy we get the video they still on it we put it on the air oh my god you know music. I've been telling y'all, you see that's the thing when you live in the tower, you're not on the ground.

You don't know the people. Right. So that's why I never stay in the tower to this day. I never stay in the tower because you don't know what the going on. Did you ever get a chance to try to group that? Yeah, they know. Okay. I got the plaque.

Okay. That was a real risque song back then. Yeah, because it was knocking the boots and it was boom, boom. You know, it was a lot of grinding and you know. Interesting. I wonder if you remember that. We used to.

I wonder what the difference between knocking the boots and sex you up was. Nothing! That's what I'm saying. They white. They're multicultural. You're right. There you go.

You know, we nasty, they pleasant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sure them people didn't have no problem with sex you up. We did we did color me bad. I want to sex you up Yeah, so all them groups like now you don't even see groups no more. We had color me bad boys to men shy Jodeci Jodeci high five Stone we had Jade. 702. 702?

Mm-hmm. Damn. Total. There's so many, man. I love Total, though. Hell, yeah. That was just cool. Can't you see what you do to me?

I saw somewhere that you said you regret coining the term booty call. I regret that I didn't trademark it. Oh, got you, got you, got you. I would have had a lot of money. You know, you said you want to do another How to Be a Player. Are you really working on an updated version of that? What would that even look like in 2025? Oh, my God, the Wolf Auntie's gonna be pissed.

If Shani Sharpwood not be in it. Oh, you, oh, nobody, nobody that's messing up got anything to do with How to Be a Player 2. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Is it even worth being a player? Because Kendrick Lamar said, and I agree with him, on the new album, GNX, he says, you better off being with one woman,

everything tricky right now. Yeah, it's tricky right now. I think for the comedy of it, it would be really good for the culture. I feel like it would be good because it's nostalgic. Everybody's the right age now. Some cats was like in their teenage years, some cats was in their twenties, whatever. I think if we do it coming, like if it comes out next summer,

I think it would be perfect coming, like if it comes out next summer, I think it would be perfect because we can talk about certain things, you know, how technology is blowing cats up, you know what I'm saying, leaving your phone open, girl using your face while you sleep. I feel like we should have alarms on our phones. You know what I'm saying, you sleep and your girl try to go, bong, bong, bong, bong.

Or you could just not have nothing in the phone. That's true, too, Bill. We always got something in our phone. Now, what if you did an updated version of the Brothers? That's supposed to be happening, right? And you had Dr. Umar in it, mad at you and your girl. Because how much you like white women Dr. Umar would be bananas

he would just show up on my dates yes he's a cousin come on brother every time you are he just pops up for no reason don't let the bunnies get you brother boy if Dr. Umar have a mixed baby I'm a pass out it'll never happen no. No, I'm no I'm just joking Some things in life will never happen. I bet on that.

Dr. Umar he's staying on business with his stuff. He hit it so hard. He better not even drink white milk. You hear me? I am totally against it. He better have brown rice in his house. I don't want to hear it. He is over the top. Bill Bellamy, his top billin tour is going on right now. He's gonna be at the Improv Comedy Club, May 3rd and the 4th. Yeah, I'll be in Brayard, California. Yes, Brayard, California. Full Wayne, Indiana, May 9th and 11th

in the Summit City Comedy Club. He'll be at the Chicago Improv in Schomburg, Illinois, May 16th through the 18th. The Miami Improv in Miami, Florida, May 30th through the June 1st. And the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Cleveland, June 6th through the 8th. Let's go, man. Let's go man.

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Sometimes she has facts, sometimes she has details, sometimes she has a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest on the show. That's sound the things. The largest, the latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details, sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest. On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. It's so cold in here.

What? My bed. It's cold, it's cold Lauren. It's cold in the D. You see Jess got her blanket over there. Yes and Lauren got one of her shoulders out. One shoulder out. I know it's freezing. As she has helped, but it's okay. You look good. First of all, it's Shae better down, baby.

It is really nice. Yes it is. She looks real cute though. Thank you. She's in a fall. What? Nothing. All right, so right now,

tariffs are trending. Tariffs in Amazon are trending all over X and all over Google. And this is because for the last couple of days, Trump and Amazon, or Jeff Bezos have had a little tis tis, a little beef. So Amazon, there was a report that came out by a website called Punchbowl News at the top of the week that said that Amazon was going to show the actual prices of like, here's

how much this item costs, here's how much we have to add to it because of the tariffs, because they wanted their customers to know we're not just trying to run up the prices on y'all, right? Which I think is smart because you get to see taxes when you buy something, depending on where you're purchasing it from. So when that came out, Trump and his White House got upset. So the speaker for the White House came out and said that this was like a hostile political act and that it made no sense and that Amazon was doing this to protect their relationship

with China. Now all of this you probably are wondering why it is such a big deal. I mean, tariffs have been a conversation, but but to me I thought that this was kind of crazy to what it they were dragging Bezos and Amazon because Jeff Bezos and Trump were buddy-buddy. They were friends. They went out to dinner after Trump won the election. He was at the inauguration but the minute that he decided to protect his business and his customers or so it seemed Trump got upset. Well it's because Trump punked him and Trump has been punking Bezos for the longest.

I mean, Bezos also owns what is it? The Washington Post and he decided not to endorse a candidate for the first time ever. And after Trump called Bezos yesterday, Bezos bowed down. He said he never planned to put the price of the tariffs up there. Wow. Yeah, Jeff Bezos is the founder. He purchased the Washington Post in 2013, so that is correct, but yes, that happened.

Now when Trump called him, he said that Bezos did a good thing, and basically he's like, I'm glad he listened, and this is not gonna happen. Now Amazon had tried to walk it back after the White House got mad. They said, oh, it wasn't approved, we weren't really gonna do it, but then Trump came out and said,

I called him, and it didn't change, so it made Amazon going to do it. But then Trump came out and said, I called him and it didn't change. So it made Amazon look crazy. Like he can just call y'all and everything walks back. Which is insane to me because I feel like, and we've been seeing it. I know Charlamagne, you yell at us about this all the time. It is so, when I saw Trump just casually say, yeah, I called him and he changed his mind.

I'm like, man. Trump punked him. Trump called him a bitch ass billionaire. Yo. He said, you better move the way I want you to move, or else. Period. Seeing all them big tech companies at the inauguration was one thing, but watching Trump just call somebody and say,

you better not play with me, and he listen. Because Trump got all the power. It don't matter who got all the money, it matters who got all the power. Yeah. Well, yeah, that was pretty scary to me. I mean, at this point now, I guess they're in good standing because he walked it back, but a lot of conversation that's happening right now is, this makes no sense because I want to see how how the prices are moving because I want to make sure

you're not just throwing your extra on top on top of the tariffs, especially with everything about the change right now. So yeah. Yeah. Well, in other news, Shannon Sharp. So you guys remember that video that Shannon Sharp was saying was going to release? Yes, that did. No, no. So according to reports, that video will not be released. Attorney Tony Busby came out and said that they are not planning to release that video how they were dropping audio because it's a very strong point of their evidence in this case, and they're going to keep it and use it as such. In court.

Yeah. Now, that is interesting because Shannon Sharp, remember he kept saying he believes the video was going to come out. He believes the video was going to come out. So there's been a change there somehow. But Stephen A. Smith sat down with a big boy for a big boy, big boy in the neighborhood. And he talked about how people are switching sides on Shannon Sharp right now. Let's take a listen.

Can we help you get back past this? And I think that true friends conduct themselves that way they yes people to tell you Just what you want to hear they know people that's willing to vilify you to second something I mean I see cats talking about him and I can't even put in the words I've seen them do and then I see the zest with which people are willing to pounce on him People have been after him since he was doing, he did Cad Williams because of the numbers he produced and the success that it had and how he was able to ride that wave.

If I sit up there and I'm friends with Big Boy, I'm a contemporary and then Big Boy get in trouble, it's one thing for me to be on the air and going like this, yeah, you know, I mean, this is what happened to Big Boy. And it's another thing in time, you'd be like, yeah, you see what happened to Big Boy? Right, right.

And you see a joy that some people are having in going at him. So for me, it's just about making sure that he knows that he matters to me. Did he say he sees the zest in which people want to pounce on him? I knew you was going to say that whole sentence. If you zesty pounounce on him. I knew you was going to that whole sentence. If you zesty pouncing on somebody. I will say in a lot of ways I could say Stephen A set the tone for that comment commentary though. Because one of the first people who commented on Shannon Shaw was Stephen A. He put out a 20 minute video that night. Yeah. And then said basically this is my guy but I'm going where ESPN go. I mean I'm going where, yeah, I'm going where ESPN goes.

Which I get it, that's like, I mean that's where you work at and all that but now the tone is giving. We staying with Shannon Sharp regardless, whatever, whatever, or at least be careful how you talk about him. But when he talked about it that first night, I was like, are they friends? I was a little confused.

Yes, and you know, another interesting thing too, and this is why I said, you know, I've never seen anybody handle a situation worse than Shannon and his team after this came out. We would have never known about that so-called video if it wasn't for Shannon Sharp. Shannon jumped out there and revealed that that video existed. And he did that for no reason because they wasn't even planning on putting it up. Yeah. Like he revealed her name. The attorney Busby said that in a statement to TMZ.

He said, the only reason you know about the existence of a video recording is that Mr. Sharp specifically referenced it in his BS statement. That's true. The contents of the video was shared during a mediation process with Sharp's attorneys. Again, Sharp and his team disclosed that not us. Sharp himself was offered on more than one occasion to view it himself. He declined. We've never made any claims or threats about it and won't do so. Once again, I've never seen anybody handle a situation worse than Shannon and his team.

They just handled it wrong from the beginning, from the whole beginning. Yeah. Well, we'll see what comes of this because I think it's best that this video didn't hit social media. Yeah. BDSM, Shannon Sharp, and that little girl. Yeah. That would have been bad, bad visual. I just don't understand why they didn't settle. Especially being that the lawyers said that they offered the 10 million.

Not that they didn't settle because they were willing to settle. Why didn't they take the money? Yeah. Why didn't Buzzy and the girl take the money? Did they think that they could get more because of all the evidence they got? Probably so. That's probably what it is, right? Probably so, I've asked that multiple times. I'm sure that's what it is. Yeah, but I've asked, I don't know.

Well, happy birthday to Kirsten Dunst. It's her birthday. The girl from Bring It On. Jumanji? No, no, no, no, no, she's not Mexican, yo. She's from Jumanji, Spider-Man, but yeah, her most famous role, in my opinion, is Bring It On, so happy birthday to her. Bring It On was fire. It fire. It was phenomenal movie. Try to sell our bit, but you look like Ish and we're the ones her down with it

Thank you for the Lord Bring it on after oh never mind Sheldon man who you giving that donkey to you? Before after the hour we need John Halliburton to come to the front of the congregation We'd like to have a word with him, please You're checking out the Breakfast Club After the hour we need John Halliburton to come to the front of the Day. It's a read, but you're so good at it. You're trying to be a fake ass Charlamagne. You only want Charlamagne. Charlamagne.

Oh. Damn, Charlamagne. Who you give a ducky of the day to, man? Well, sexy red, Donkey of the Day for Wednesday, April 30, goes to John Halliburton. If you don't know who John Halliburton is, John is the father of Indiana Paces star Tyrese Halliburton. Now, last night, the Indiana Paces eliminated the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA playoffs,

strapped on the clues bounce from the Indiana Pacers. Epic collapse by the Milwaukee Bucks. The Pacers were down by seven points with 40 seconds left in overtime, and then the Bucks completely collapsed and Tyrese Halliburton supplied the game winner. Let's listen to how it went down. Here we go!

Halliburton! 5 seconds! 4 seconds! Halliburton for the lead! 1.3 to go! Pacers by 1! Here's Gary Trent Jr. Let's imply! And the Pacers are moving on. What a comeback in overtime. Now naturally after a win like that, emotions were hot. Okay, if you're a Pacers fan, you was on Cloud 9. If you're a fan of Tyrese Halliburton, oh, in that moment, you thought he was the greatest thing since the late great Kobe Bryant. And there's no bigger fan of you when it comes to sports than your parents, okay? Especially your father and Tyrese's dad, John, sits courtside at the games. Well, he got a little too excited because he decided to

taunt Yannis by coming on the floor and holding up a towel with his son's face on it and shouting variations of, this is what we effin' do! Let's go to Inside the NBA for the report, please. Let's listen to him. What was some talking after the game? No, that's Halliburton. And then it was... His dad. Yeah, then it looks like Halliburton and Yannis make nice and that everybody else does too. We love Mr. Halliburton. Come see the show, don't be the show. Oh.

Come see the show. Yeah, and I think I saw Tyrese is already apologized for his dad's actions. For what? Because he went to run on the court and talked to no player like, no you don't, no you don't. Come see the show, don't be a show. You ain't gonna love it. No, no, no. You can't run on the stage.

You cannot run on the court and do shit. Everybody on the court, get out. Everybody, he's not supposed to be on the court. He's not on the court. He's on the court. He's not supposed to be on the court. Stop it. No, you stop it.

He's not supposed to be on the court. Y'all just talk to him, forget all that. No, he was on the court. He was on the court. He was on the court. He was on the court. He was on the court. He's on the court. He's not supposed to be on the court. Stop it. No, you stop it. He's not supposed to be on the court. Y'all just talk to him. I don't matter. He's not supposed to be on the court. Y'all just talk to him. Forget all that.

No, he was on the court. So what? You think he said something. He probably know who his dad is. Come see the show. Don't be the show. I like that, Kenny. Listen, I could go either way on this.

It can be harmless or it can be harmful, but the NBA has to do a better job of protecting its stars. Okay. People think that just because these folks make hundreds of millions of dollars that they should be okay with fans talking crazy to them. Sure, heckling is one thing, but coming on the floor? No, do that from the stands. Okay, and furthermore, and the reason I'm giving John Donkey today is because it's not about you. As Kenny Swift said, it's not about you. Okay, people need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do

because it's not always just about you, John. I know that's your son. I know that you're excited, but you have to remember you represent your son in that moment. So don't do anything that embarrasses him or makes him look foolish. Also, where was the security? Why were Yannis and John allowed to get,

I was about to say face to face but it was more like you know face to waste. Okay, why were they allowed to get face to waste on each other like that? I mean Yannis towers over John but why did that exchange even happen? I know team staff was you know pulled Yannis away but why were they allowed to get that close to each other to begin with it? If Yannis saw John taunting him I'm sure others did too. So you had to know Yanis going over to him wasn't because they were about to exchange pleasantries. Okay, what if emotions and egos would have got the best of them and they ended

up scrapping right then and there? It's just stupid. And it's all over things that could be prevented. Now, would you like to hear what Yanis had to say about it? Let's listen. Losing a game, emotions run high, having a fan, which at the moment I thought he was a fan, but then I realized he was Tyrese's son, which I love Tyrese. I think he's a great competitor. He was his dad, sorry. Coming in the floor and showing me his son, a towel with his face, this is what we do, this is what we effing do, this is the eff we do. I feel like that's very very disrespectful I'm happy for him. He meant I'm happy for his son and I'm happy that he's happy for his son

that's how you supposed to feel but coming to me and disrespecting me and Cursing at me. I think it's totally unacceptable Totally unacceptable. I'm not the guy that points fingers because in my neighborhood Snitches get stitches. So I don't want to say say something you know for him to say to get find or anything but not respectful attack with him at the end and we are I Think we're in a good place. I'll tell you one thing the way Yana said coming on the floor with a towel sounded nasty But Yana's felt disrespected. Okay, who are we to tell him otherwise? Tyrese Halliburton said his father was wrong.

Let's listen. You know, as far as the incident between Giannis and my pops, I had no idea it happened till I got to the back and was showed the video. Me and my pops have talked about that and I don't agree with what transpired there from him. You know, I think basketball is basketball and let's keep it on the

court. And I think that he just, you know, got excited, saw the sun, make a game winner and came on the court. But I think we had a conversation and, you know, I think he just needs to just allow me to just play basketball, stay over there. I'll come to him to celebrate, but I'll talk with you on this eventually about it. Just, you know, I don't think that my pops was in the right at all there. And all of this taken away from the fact that they came back from behind and he scored a game winning. Now you got to sit up there and explain about his dad's actions. OK, his dad apologized.

He said, I sincerely apologize to Yonis, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Pacers organization for my actions following tonight's game. This was not a good reflection on our sport are my son, and I will not make that mistake again. What is the lesson to be learned here? It's simple for me. And we talked about this in another donkey earlier this week. And the lesson to be learned is our actions are guaranteed to affect others because we are not alone in this world. John made a moment that was about his son, about him. Your son hit the game winner. Salute. That has nothing to do with Giannis. They

lost. Giannis not even a player who taunts people. Very humble man. So what was the point? Once again, our actions are guaranteed to affect others. John, you represent more than yourself. You represent your son. You have to be that much more aware of how you present yourself because you are representing more than you. I know your last name is on the back of that Pacers jersey, but that's not you, bruh. You not out there getting buckets, your son is, and his game speaks for itself, okay? It doesn't need you speaking for it.

Parents should cheer from the stands, not confront players on the court. So for that lapse in judgment, please give John Halliburton the biggest he-haw. Me-haw! Me-haw! It's really that simple. Yeah, crazy.

I want to say I do, I am really, really proud of you for your segment. You've been giving people donkey fava and you read so eloquently every day. You shouldn't be impressed by people that know how to read good. First of all, that's why I never mind. I hate your segment and I don't even care about it anymore. It's crazy can't nobody even take compliments. Like damn, your childhood, no, no, no, no, your childhood was that rough. You don't even know how to say, oh my God, thank you so much sister.

You're absolutely right. Damn. Thank you very much my sister. I appreciate that. Thank you. But I ate that word eloquently though. I ate that word up. We shouldn't be applauding none of this.

Okay, now we're applauding literacy. Yeah. People are we applauding literacy? People are supposed to be literate. Now when we come back Dr. LaKesha Hallman will be here. She has a new book called No One is Self-Made, a Motivational Self-Help Guide with a Community-Oriented Approach. So when we come back we'll talk to Dr. LaKesha Hallman. Okay, it's The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club.

Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guide. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building Dr. LaKesha Harmon. She has a new book out now called No One Is Self-Made. Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life. Good morning how how are you, doctor? I am wonderful. I'm happy to be here for a second time. Yes. So thank you all for having me back.

I've been excited to have this conversation. I'm happy that you're here, and I love the title of your book. This is what I be trying to tell people, man. We live in this era right now where everybody's always talking about, you know, I'm self-made, you know what I mean? I did it myself.

Nobody put me on, nobody helped me. That's a lie. There's no such thing. That's why I wrote the book because it is profoundly untrue. All of us who are sitting here today, entrepreneurs across the country, anyone that we've lifted up, even the people that we don't know, there have been a village of people that's supporting them. And so it was critical for me to write this book. But for me, it's a love letter to our community that we must return to community and also have the true stories of what success is and how we got there. When you say return to community and have those stories, what do you mean by that?

Yeah, I mean, one of the things that I write about in the book, particularly in chapter one, I write about individualism. I think individualism have been propped up in this country, where we talk about the self-made woman, the self-made man, and the more that we lift up the individual, it takes us back from that collective, the group, the village that I write about and talk about, and my companies are built around.

It is time-sensitive that we return and get back to our togetherness and figure out how to work together, how to be tethered, and to the place where we say that no one is going to separate us from our bigger purpose in doing good work together. Now when you moved to Atlanta in 2011? Yes, I think it was 2011, 2010 or 2011. And I was going to ask you what brought you to Atlanta, but everything you're talking about Atlanta just feels like that the minute you land. Yes, Atlanta is so special.

You were there this past weekend. I was. Yes, Atlanta is incredibly special. I remember when I first visited, I believe I was undergrad when I visited Atlanta and I hadn't experienced anything like it. It was a sea of black excellence. You all have had Killer Mike on and you know and my brother loved him up and he often talks about the history of Atlanta. Coming there from Mississippi I was blown away. I knew that it was upon my

destiny to be in Atlanta to grow in Atlanta and it was that deep history but also that deep communal sense. Can we talk about the myth of being self-made Atlanta to grow in Atlanta and it was I am the product of my grandmother's prayers, their hard work, my grandfather's, my parents, the team that I have running my companies, my friend group, and my extended family. I'm a product of all these people. So if I sit here and you all ask me about how my companies have been successful, and if I'm only talking about myself, I'm lying to you. The true story is that we're village-made and if we accept this title we began to erase people that have been critical to us on our journeys. Even our first jobs, our first opportunities, they were building

us to be who we are today. I look at these first opportunities as divine assignments, That we were not we but there's a lot of people who have that issue. You know what I mean? Who just have that issue of not wanting to give people credit. Like they wanna just be the, nah, I did it myself, nobody helped me do it.

Like, huh, I love assistance, please help me. I do too. And I write about, you know, in the book that, I believe how we got here is because it's been propped up that anytime we've seen people reach a level of success, the first thing that the media calls them is self-made. And then we've also shunned people who've had support when they, you didn't work as hard because you're,

yeah, you didn't work as hard. Somebody gave you something. But the reality is we are, we should be proud that we have been able to attract people in our lives that want to assist us, that want to help us. And so it's just really training our mindsets to really look at success differently. But I think it has been sensationalized, this self-made notion, and what is deemed to be successful, this has been largely overplayed in the media.

Because if a person, I write about all the titans in the book, the Tyler Perrys of the world, but we often look at these people as self-made. They made it out of no way. But what I think is missing in the story is that what I believe the truth is that we are all self-determined people. Self-determination and self-made are different. Self-determination means all the work that you've done, Lauren,

to be where you are today, because I've been following your journey, you are divinely self-determined. You, Charlemagne, all the work that you've done to be who you are, you are self-determined. No one gave you that but God. And the stick to it-ness is the thing that I think lifts us up. But what really propels us forward is all the

people that saw something in you, saw something in me, saw something in you, and they said, oh, it's something about them. I'm going to do all that I can to make sure that they reach the pinnacle of their success. And why it was important for me to write about support in that way, because I think we always, and we can get to a place where we say, I don't have this, I don't have that. This person didn't look out for me. Hey, my name is Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. I just had a great conversation with Michelle Obama.

To whom much is given, much is expected. The guilt comes from, am I doing enough? Me, Michelle Obama to say that to a therapist. So let's unpack that. Former First Lady Michelle Obama and someone who knows her best, her big brother Craig, will be hosting a podcast called IMO. What have been your personal journeys with therapy? We need to be coached throughout our lives.

My mom wanted us to be independent children and she would always tell me, stop worrying about your sister. Having been the first lady of the entire country and representing the country and the world, I couldn't afford to have that kind of disdain. What would you say has been the most hardest recent test of fear?

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So you do have a village. You may not have the village where you can have everything that you need, but you do have a village of people pouring into you. And that is all that is what we need. You talked in this Essence article that I read about not saying yes to every invitation that you get as you're building community. For a lot of people, it's a spirit of discernment, but what's your breakdown of how you decide to say no to certain invitations?

Yeah, it is spiritual discernment, it's maturity. It's also me operating in abundance rather than scarcity. I think when we're in a scarcity mindset, we believe that we have to be in every single room, that we have to accept every invitation, that we must say yes to everything. Where I am in my life now and what I'm hoping to empower other people is that we don't want all the yeses, we want the right yeses. And how I discern when the yes is right is, is it aligned with my values? Is this opportunity aligned with the mission that I'm on? Will it take me off course?

Will I have to divorce things that I believe in? Will I have to contort and change myself? If I'm saying yes to all those things, it's not the yes that I should take. And now I haven't always been at this place. I've had to grow to get here. My deep relationship with God has helped me be here. But I remember, and I write about managing the hard stuff in the book. I remember saying yes because I was afraid that if I didn't say yes to this opportunity, that I won't get it again. But the timing of the opportunity was so wrong, and so I needed to say no. And so what I've learned about life is that sometimes the test and the assignment is will we say

no to things when it's out of alignment? Will we have the discipline, the spiritual discipline to know that, wow, this may sound good, but this is not what I should be doing. Will we be strong in our faith and our belief that our right yes is coming? And when I have done that, and again, it's very important for me to share because it's different when you've done the work and we can talk about these things. But I do remember what has awakened in me is more so a spirit of abundance, that I only want to be where I'm meant to grow. And I don't

want to be in every room. I only want to be in a room where I'm meant to be transformational, not just to sit at a table, just to sit there. All right. We have more with Dr. LaKeisha Harmon when we come back. She has a new book, No One is Self-Made, a motivational self-help guide with a community-oriented approach. Rewrite the rules of business and collective support. It's out right now.

We'll talk to her more. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne to her more. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRose is here as well. We're still kicking it with Dr. LaKesha Key-Harman.

Her new book, No One is Self-Made is out right now. Lauren. What do you tell people though, because you talk about the scarcity mindset and how you, it's hard for you to make those decisions. What do you tell people who are in that scarcity place that just need to eat real quick? They can't walk away from that deal. They can't afford to. That is a very, very, very good question.

Scarcity is a place of survival. So what I do have is a profound respect for people who are simply striving to survive. But the question would be, do you wanna eat something that's poisonous to you? Do you wanna accept things that it's going to actually change the makeup of who you are that may come that may compromise you from your greatest self where we know in our greatest selves and we operate in our higher selves more is there. And so this is a question that is less tangible, but it's truly operating in faith that if I just be consistent, I continue to work hard, I continue to show up for myself,

I continue to operate in with the spirit of discernment, then my opportunities are calm. Will calm, will you have moments, will you have moments where you may take a smaller contract because you need to eat? I don't have kids to take care of and so I would never be in a place of saying that I fully fully understand But I'm in a place where I have a level of empathy But I do know that we while in a in a space of striving to survive We can still be very selective with the things that we say yes to, right? I wanna talk about chapter eight, support is a verb.

And in that chapter, you got a bunch of village verbs. Explain what a village verb is. Yeah, this whole book is, and while I'm so excited about it, while I tell a bunch of entrepreneur stories, things that I've experienced, and I write about many luminaries from the past and people presently who's doing the work, the anchor piece of this book is all about the Village, all about community.

In the Village verbs, when people close this book, I want people to do something. So Village verbs is making sure that we participate in something. So Village Verbs is making sure that we participate in the voting process. Village Verbs is making sure that we're buying local that we're buying from black businesses. Village Verbs is making sure that we're showing up for one another. If we do not have action behind the things that we believe, then I always ask people are do you really love it? Because if you love it, your actions should follow. You have on a black brand today. Oh, this is my sister. I've been wearing her for years and years and years.

Yeah, but what you are doing today is love and action. You support her in a real way. You're on a syndicated radio show rocking her brand. That is what it's about. Charlamagne, I think about the number of things that I'm aware you probably do even more. But Black Effect podcast, your imprint, all these things, you are putting people in rooms and putting people in position. And it's because you want your actions to look like things that you care about.

You want people's lives to change. And not just for this generation, but next generation and next generation. But you're not just saying these things, you are doing these things. That final chapter of Village Verbs is all about us doing the things that we say and getting put our action and love behind it. I always challenge our community that you may not be able to participate in 10 different things, but you need to find something that you're passionate about and put your love and your action there and our communities will change.

I love it. The village verbs lock in, show up and connect, keep learning and hire, teach it, govern your words and listen intently, pivot, invest in your people and spend locally. Wow. Yeah. I love, we talking about village

and we're talking about community. I know that you're on the state of the people power talk with my good sister, Angela Rye. Can we talk about that a little bit? Oh my goodness. State of the people is powerful. And what's powerful about what Angela and team has done because she's adamant that this is just not about her. It's the village absolutely. It's the village and that's the way

that you know she she was raised in coalition building but in a few short week intentional people decided that they were going to do something. We're at a time where people feel hopeless, scared and a small but mighty group of people said, not on my watch, that I'm going to gather the people, that I'm going to make sure that a room is comprised of people that can give resources, people that can give hope, people that can give direction. And when you look left or right, you see people that look like you. And why I think, say to the people, it is so important as they go to other cities, because history is determined by what you do.

And when the history books are written, the history books are right, that a group of people decided to do something. And do I think people left state of the people feeling empowered? Absolutely. And when state of the people comes to other cities, I'm really encouraging people to make sure they attend because it is absolutely special. Absolutely.

Yeah. Well, keep doing the work, Dr. LaKeisha Hallman. We appreciate you. And your new book is out right now. Tell them where to find you, first of all. Yes, you can find me at Dr. Keith Hallman on social platforms. You can get the book and knowoneisselfmade.com,

but from all major retailers, entrepreneurs, you will most definitely love this book. Leaders in the communities, you will love this book. It is very practical and prescriptive. What I didn't say this, but what's special about the way the chapters end, I have reflection questions. And those reflection questions, by the time you finish the book, you have a whole plan on how to map out and build community. In true teacher format. In true teacher format, you're right, Lauren.

The funny thing is, I think that you'll also realize you already have that community. Yes. You just haven't acknowledged them as such. That's what I think. That's good. Dr. LaKeisha Hallman, her new book, Know When It Self Made, Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life. Go get that right that's what I that's good. Dr. LaKesha Hallman her new book knowing itself made build your

village to flourish in business and life. Go get that right now. Thank you for joining us. Thank you and thank you. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Happy Wednesday. It's the world's most dangerous morning show the Breakfast Club. Charlamagne the god Jess hilarious. Envy is out right now but we got the latest with Lauren Lauren be coming straight back Tell her, tell her, made it She gets it from somebody that knows somebody

She gets the details I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything She be having the latest on this The latest with Lauren LaRosa Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details Sometimes you have a little bit of everything Well what's the latest? On the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.

Lauren LaRosa, LL Coolbae. Gotta say your full name, you know what I mean? The radio consultants say you gotta say your full name. Familiarize you to the audience. Oh, Lauren LaRosa. Yeah, Lauren LaRosa. Can't just say Lauren. You know, people still ask me if I'm Dominican.

Don't nobody ask you. What? They do because they think... I really be defending you a lot of people. The La Rosa be really messing people up. Oh, you know what? No, now that is true. Not Dominican. No, I was like, which you know, one on four of us not when he fought like maybe you know, first of all, I do my own happy birthday dad. It was his birthday in a 27, which one I don't remember yours

No, which one you're really really good dad my um my biological dad Oh, not my brother's that you still say happy birthday Sam. Yes. I talked to my dad. Okay, and things better Me me and my dad talk. We have a good relationship Me and my dad talk, we have a good relationship. You know, it's just not strong. You pressing, you might cry. I do not cry. How did I become the damn news? All right, go get in my bed, do your thing. Do your thing.

It was you. The ladies. Them beads, it's not enough on them. These are prayer beads, man. Yeah, you need to pray some more. Your shoulder is ashy, because you just talked. Oh my God. I leave your lips alone.

If my lover came around, her shoulder wouldn't be ashy. Can't even offer your father a shoulder to lean on. It's just foggy. Alright, speaking of fathers, Diddy, he's a father. Okay, yes he is. Yes, that is true. What else? Okay, so I remember the other day we were talking about Diddy's new defenses and I was saying retarded

Don't use that word. Why how he was saying that he was incapable of So we were talking about his defenses and we were talking about how his attorneys are alleging in documents that because he might have been under the influence of drugs and or alcohol, he wasn't capable of cognitively thinking through anything so he shouldn't be responsible. And we were talking about how dumb of a defense that is because number one, that means something still possibly allegedly happened. Number two, that means that there were drugs and alcohol involved, which is what they were

claiming in the first place. Right? Now I actually was able to obtain the full document, which is the filing that this exclusive was broke from. And I read through the documents and my opinion has changed. I don't think it's as dumb as of a defense. Will it work? Okay. Because what the document and what the filing and what their ditties legal teams focus is, is intent. First of all, in a criminal case, the burden of proof is on the prosecutors, right? So they have to prove way more than Diddy has to prove. Secondly, when you talk about intent, intent means that there has to be like a specific

like malice or like, you know, I was doing this on purpose. I thought about it. I, all of that stuff. If he is under the influence allegedly, right. And they can prove at however way, which I think will be the issue that he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol because he was just partying and having a good time and whatever happened. But there was no like he he's in the space of this is just a good time. We're having we're drinking. We're doing this. We're doing that. I don't have an ill intent intent to do anything

It's something freaky person if something happened during that allegedly if something happened during that time it happened But my intent was it just to you know get allegedly high or drunk and have a good time That's interesting because I wonder what's more important in the situation like that the intention or the impact because even if your intention wasn't to Do some like say you're under the influence, but then you kill somebody right can I use that as an excuse? um well if your intention wasn't to do something, like say you're under the influence, but then you kill somebody. Can I use that as an excuse? Well, I mean. People try to do that. Yeah, like if you, like if you, like with car accidents, when people pass away,

like you don't intend to get in your car and kill anybody. So then it's manslaughter, as opposed to a homicide. Exactly, that's why I'm saying I don't know how well it'll work, but it's not as stupid as I thought that it was. But the issue will be, they have this doctor coming in who there's no way at the time he had examined Puff and was able to be like, up, you know what?

He's completely under the influence of whatever. So how do you prove that what they're saying actually- Because the doctor do rectal exams on all the male victims though. That's what people really need to see what the hell is going on. And I'm gonna tell you something else. I have no idea what the hell did he's even charged with anymore yeah exactly I thought I knew

they flooded the zone so much so much information I don't even know what he's being tried for he don't know Eva and that's that's the crazy thing that's crazy because even even Lord Dirk is about to go like to court to try to like come home why I'm just saying because diddy the only one that's staying inside. You know what I'm saying? He the only one that's staying. So it got to be something that they're not telling us or something that's not leaking or it's something.

Something was leaking. He's kidding. Yeah. But we haven't gotten to the nitty gritty of why he hasn't been able to come home. Like it's a rocketeer conspiracy. It's sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, transportation to engage in prostitution. Yeah, I forgot about all that. Yeah, but I know that there was a forced labor charge

that was added at one point. Forced labor, he had slaves? Ha ha ha ha. But they, the judge ruled that they can't, they can't use that, but they did rule that that Cassie video can be admitted as evidence But I did want to come back with that after I read it He's not he's not but they are they're asking if they can use that as evidence and what they'll probably try to do because

Cassie will have to take the stand Is they'll try to basically paint the picture of just how much of a I don't care about anything monster He is like they did my thought they alleged him to be like they tried what they did with the bell The bond which is why he still didn't say that video was edited? Maybe he said that, yeah, but his team tried to go that way with it, like, oh, that was edited. Yeah, and the prosecutors came out and said, no, we have a recorded version of the full video. But, yeah. Just tell me what happens. I got you. I'm going. You coming with me? I'm going to go with you. I'm going to go with you. I need to get to the bottom of this too. But listen, I have a story that I want to break too. Executive producer of baddies on wheels accuses Roland Ray of ghosting her after payment.

What the hell is baddies on wheels? Baddies on wheels. So you know, the wheelchair people, people that are in wheelchairs, right? And they can still be bad. So they're baddies on wheels and they have a show. On Zeus? No, no, I don't think this is on Zeus. I don't think. I don't know. I need you to reach out to see where it's at. Okay. But so it's handicapped people. Yeah, it's handicapped people. Yep. Handicapped hotties. Right. Now, Roland Ray, you don't know Roland Ray, do you? Yeah, I know Roland Ray. Roland Ray was supposed to be on. He's supposed to do somewhere. And after they sent him payment, he goes to them. Now Roland Ray

is known for doing this all around DC. Let me just say that right there, but he did this to an executive producer of Betty's on wheels. That is crazy He ran off with some of my money, but how can you not catch somebody in a wheelchair? No, he didn't. No he didn't stop. All right. Well, he rolled off with somebody money Okay, but how can't you just like run down on him? It's like why you act like it's so hard To go get your money from this man? All you gotta do is cut the break on a damn wheelchair. You know, it'd be right on the back. Was the other person in the wheelchair too?

The whole cast is in wheelchairs, but they not rolling off of people money. It's just right. But the producer, they're not. Is this an allegation or is this true? No, this is true. I don't wanna put this on Rollin' Ray if it's not true.

No, this girl, this is, this girl is for real. She's an executive producer. She is in shambles. She was so upset. She reached out to you? No, she didn't reach out to me. She reached out to somebody on my team. I met Roland Ray when I exec there was a catfish back in the day on MTV. Yes. Catfish spinoff called trolls. It was Roland rolling rain that's where he was first introduced was a I remember he was a Nikki fan or a Kim fan when he was going against somebody either a Nikki fan or Kim fan I forgot whose side was on them but yeah he was they were going back and forth and I remember he spit I don't know if he spit on me or spit he spit somewhere by? Because you know his list is way worse than yours.

No, he meant to do it. Oh my God. I don't remember the whole thing. I don't remember. I think it's on Pressure TV Network. Okay, yeah. I knew it wasn't on ZEUS, but yes, he rolled off with their money and I just feel like, how did y'all let this happen?

Y'all act like y'all can't just catch up with him. Is she going fast? Is she taking legal action? She is. She definitely is taking legal action, but I. Or dropping the clues bombs for the handicap hottest. What's yours? No it's not.

Baddie's on wheels. Oh, okay. Baddie's on wheels. All right. Okay. All right. Make sure you watch Baddie's on wheels, wherever you can watch Baddie's on wheels.

And Rollin' Right, give all that money back. Ride around it and give that money back. DJ Envy is coming up with the, thank you Lauren for the latest with Lauren. And thank you Jess for your message. Okay, and we'll be back. The People's Choice Fix is up next. Drive through South Texas.

We're gonna check out the Breakfast Club. Good morning, it is not DJ Envy, it's your girl Jess Hilarious. DJ Envy not here because he's selling his little book or whatever with his wife and Charlamagne over there. So, what's up? How are you Jess? You got shows this weekend?

Yeah, don't ever ask me how I am. I've been sitting here for three hours. You like? What's up Jess? I didn't know we were turning the mic on. I had to come warm it up. Yeah. Okay, you got shows this weekend?

No, I don't have shows this weekend, but next weekend for Mother's Day, I will be in Detroit. I will be at One Mic Comedy Club. We got three shows, one at 11 a.m., that's a brunch, one at 7 p.m., and the late night show at 9.30 p.m. Bring your moms, your aunts, your sisters, guys, treat them to some merch. We're going to have, I'm doing meet and greet after the late night show, so get your tickets

for that if you have not yet Jessel RS official comm And I will see you there Detroit listen. You know what I want to tell people too, and if you're looking for a good Mother's Day gift man Nicole Avon put out a book called think you'll be happy and It's move. It's about moving through grief with great great grace and gratitude, and it's literally about You know her mother, Queen Jackie, Jackie Avon, she was tragically taken away from us.

And I just think that's a good Mother's Day gift because it really just makes you appreciate if your mother is still here. Yeah, for sure. You know what I mean? Like it's a good tribute to a mother. And I think that is a good Mother's Day gift for folks to get. because I don't think people really know what to get their mom on Mother's Day They're gonna take them to Red Lobster. You know, I know golden crowd. Nope. Nope. I'm giving my mother a bridal shower Really? My mother actually is she's already married but she's having her wedding this year in June and she's having her dream wedding

And so I'm actually gifting her with a bridal shower Okay. Yeah, that's what you're doing this weekend. That's no no, I'm actually gifting her with a bridal shower. Okay. Yep. That's what you're doing this weekend? That's no, no, no. I'm not doing it this weekend. I'm actually doing it another week, but that's her Mother's Day gift. Dope.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Dope, dope, dope. And what's the positive note? I got a positive note, but I also want to tell people, make sure you go out there and pre-order Don Staley's book, okay? It is called Uncommon Favor. It will be out May 20th in bookstores everywhere, but you can pre-order the icon-living

Don Daly's book right now. It's coming out on my book imprint black privilege publishing with Simon and Schuster, okay? Okay, wait a minute, hold up. What is the name of her book? Uncommon Favor. She don't have no subtitle? Oh, she got a subtitle.

Oh, because I was ready to say, they didn't require her to have one? Huh, Jess, you're talking too much. All right, now what? Okay, you're telling things that you're not supposed to say yet, but Uncommon Favor, it's called Uncommon Favor, Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three.

See? No, it's the whole damn family content. Jess hates long subtitles, but I'm telling her you need the long subtitles because the long subtitles just tell people what the book is about. Okay. Yes, that's it. Thank you. That's it.

But the positive note is simply this. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable or happy and strong, but the amount of work is the same. So you might as well choose happiness. Have a great day. Breakfast Club, bitches! We gonna finish or y'all done? Yo, K-Pop fans, are you ready? It's your boy, Bum-Hun, and I'm bringing you the Cape actor. is the same. So you might as well choose happiness. Have a great day.

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