The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Nicki Minaj Explodes on SZA & TDE’s Punch in X Rant, Feud Heats Up....Here’s Why + Abdul Karim Abdullah Interview

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Abdul Karim Abdullah joins us to discuss the evolution of the AfroFuture Festival, celebrating Black innovation, and building community. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a woman who plotted to kill her ex-husband with fentanyl-laced chocolates. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week, we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy's on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,

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It's not as much. You don't have to go as many days but it's just as intense. Yes. So I go with Jess each and every Wednesday we go to the gym and it's very painful. Like it's nothing easy. Right. So I told the doctor that by my birthday, that picture right there, whoever that is in that picture, I want to walk around, I want to come to the Breakfast Club with no shirt on, September, October, November, December. Okay. Without, you know, paying to sketch my abs. Yes you did. So, so the, he was like I'm gonna need a little more work.

So it's not gonna be one time, I gotta go three times a week. Oh, so you're going three times. I gotta go three times a week. Alright, but you're not going today. I can't go today, because I got car show stuff, my car show decided, so I gotta, I gotta drop off cars and things like that, but I really do want to go. Okay All right. I really do want to go you better be dropping off some cars I am I was there Monday. I go I get my workout in okay, cuz I'm going today. You're going today All right, well Charlamagne to be here in a second. I was like a minute late today

You know why why when you have a group of kids in your house that drive they take your car and don't put gas in it So when I get in the car this morning, I'm going to work and the cars then they're shaking because there's no gas So I had to get to a gas station and in Jersey You can't pump your own gas so you gotta wait for homey to come out just the whole thing It was a lot. It was a lot I wish I was somewhere with a camera recording you jumping up and down like you did when I was stuck behind them to track the trailer Well, let's get this show cracking.

Abdul Abdullah will be joining us. He is the CEO of Afrofuture, formerly of Afrochella. He's going to be joining us. You know they have this huge show in Ghana. They do each and every year and they're bringing it to the states this year. So we'll talk to him about that. Charlamagne just stepped in the building. We got front page news so don't go anywhere.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Alright, so quick sports sauce gardener. Cornerback for the Jets just signed a four year extension for $120.4 million. He becomes the highest paid cornerback of all time. So congratulations to that man, man. You get to that man, man. You get to get paid all of that money to suffer in New York playing for the Jets, man.

That's what's up. All right, what up, Morgan? He deserves that. That's compensation. Yeah, for the Jets. I agree. What's up, Morgan? Hey, y'all, hey.

How we feeling on a Wednesday? Good. Less black and highly favored. How you doing, Morgan? I'm doing good. Let's get into some of the news that's coming out of New Jersey Unfortunately following the aftermath of the flooding there at least two people are dead after heavy rains led to flash flooding on the East Coast Now New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy made a statement said his state was smacked by the rains and he also talked about

What how what that looked like? Let's take a listen to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's comments. Last night we got crushed, not just here in Berkeley Heights, but in this part of the state in particular, six inches of rain in under two and a half hours in two waves, importantly one wave sort of knocked a lot of these communities a little bit off kilter. The second one came in for the for the kill. Yeah, so the two people were killed in New Jersey after their car was swept away by high waters and that storm sent floodwaters rushing through New York subway stations, causing mass transit issues as well.

Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Rohee Aguila says the city sewer system was not meant to handle a storm so intense and a lot of work does need to be done to increase capacity. He also talked about the infrastructure. Let's take a listen to Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Rohee Agrawala. We're not talking about repairing a broken system. We're talking about expanding a system. Frankly, in most cases, if there's a quick fix, we've already done it, but we're going to keep looking for more. And then we have to think about how gonna keep looking for more and then we have to think about how to do things differently over the long term. The reality is that

the subways are underground they are where water will flow and so we do work very closely with the MTA to protect that underground infrastructure but it is a long-term effort. Like I said before with the infrastructure we've had these problems before this is not like this is the first time we've had a nasty weather and it caused disruptions it caused water in the subway it's caused flooding people have you know lost their houses or even lost their lives so if this has happened before and especially in the same areas we can send people a space but we can't fix the infrastructure when it comes to water flowing.

That seems weird to me. So that's happened here before, like it did before? Like the water in the subways and all that? Yes, absolutely. Yeah, but the crazy thing about New Jersey, they've always been actively working to improve its flood infrastructure. So I mean, that's the interesting thing about that flash flood. There were warnings about it all day long. Oh, yeah, I see warnings. Like all day long, they were telling us that it was supposed to flash flood, it was supposed to flash flood, it was supposed to flash flood. I just think man climate change has made these things a lot stronger and there's really nothing you can do when mother nature hits.

Well Aguivala went on to say that it will take decades and billions of dollars to expand the city's water system. Adding that DEP works closely with MTA to make necessary upgrades to prevent flooding in the subways. And of course in Texas, you know, we're talking about the aftermath and recovery efforts there. Rain continues to impact those recovery efforts as well. So we're gonna continue to, you know, just try to stay vigilant and heed to those warnings as they come. Still 130 people died in that flooding in Texas.

And 100, well, still missing. So, you know. And I wanted to, like, you know, even when you do make improvements to the infrastructure being that climate change is making flash floods worse, you know, I'm often Yeah, yeah. So it's like the worst climate change gets like you got to constantly keep updating, I guess. Yes, right. That's right.

That's right. You got to keep it up. Well, that's your front page news for 6am at 7am. We talking about these Epstein files because who child hold on to your week. All right. Everybody else get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent phone lines are wide open again. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up, wake your ass up. This is your time to get it off your chest. Damn, damn, damn.

Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Taterbug, aka Tom Boyk, Trunker, aka Shantae. What's going on, Breakfast Club? What's up, Shantae? What did your mama call you? What my mama? Listen, come on, Charlamagne. I up, Sean T? What did your mama call you? What my mama? Listen, come on, Charlamagne. I'm just asking a question.

I'm gonna call you Shontay. Okay, that's right, Shontay. You're gonna be getting a stud name, a nickname, a rap name. Listen, Taterbug is my trucker name because I'm out here swapping these gears, passing these squares, okay? Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

That's right. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, right. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm a part of the community. Okay. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Okay. How y'all doing? Jess. Hey, baby. What's up? What's up? You know, I met you when you came down here at the comedy zone. You remember in Charlotte? Yes, absolutely. I remember coming down there, but I don't know. I don't remember meeting you though. Yeah, you ain't meet me because you were still pregnant and I was the only lesbian in the group. Oh wow okay it ain't never just one of y'all that's what's up. You know what I'm saying but listen I called because listen I need them to put your sound

on the sound board when you hit that oh my god when you really really you really hit it they need to put that out on the board. Okay. Because it'd be a lot of them, oh my God, moments, especially when you ain't deaf. All right. Thank you. Charlamagne, I love you. You're my best friend in my head.

I love you too, man. I love Studs all across the world. Because I'm from the Carolinas. Oh, where we're part? That little small town called Jefferson, South Carolina. You know it. Yeah, I know where Jefferson is. Luther Jefferson. I'll be home tomorrow, actually. I'll be home tomorrow. I got a

grand opening of Crystal's in Walterboro. I'll be doing the ribbon cutting there from 11 to 12 tomorrow. Hello, who's this? Hi, my name is Cindy and I'm calling from Florida. What's up, Cindy? I called last week and I had told y'all about my dog, my Yorkie and Bear and Jess had asked me for, well, Salamaina asked me for my past app but I gave y'all the wrong name. It was Cynthia versus Brown. But anyway, I didn't get the $25. Salamaina said that he didn't sell lead to him and. I wanna know who led him because I remember when you said you was in pain and you let Blakely drink out of your $400 Don Therion

and then you got accepted to the hospital. He could have put anything in it. You didn't know him, but you didn't feel led. I'm a Christian, you said you're a Christian. So while we were connected, I remain Help me out all I'm trying to do is face and the barely so she's saying that you know Yeah, I heard everything she said you let that man drink out your bottle, but you won't know I didn't let him drink out my bottle that was the whole point man, but I just don't I'm not the spirit didn't move me

I don't know what to tell you poor Annabel man the dog man what spirit is there because you could have been sending history happy as on because when he grabbed your father the second time he could have put anything in your you were putting your family at risk come on now help us out that's right put some money for help out Annabel Charlem all I got my hands open right now in the spirit still ain't moving me To help them there now Try try Hey, yo, y'all But there's my catch Yes, I don't play with our but just my cat's epic

See why and THI a gosh Burgers Brown. C-Y-N-T-H-I-A. Oh gosh. B-U-R-G-E-S-S. That's you with the gray wig on? Brown. Yo. That's blonde hair, baby. That's blonde? That looks silver.

Hold on, now, let me make sure that's the right part. The Cynthia Burgers Brown? Yes, with the blue shirt on, that's me. You ain't no damn 71. You 71? She's finding ace. Let me see. You look good. watch your mouth now

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Howard, what up? Get it off your chest. Hey, I want to give a big shout out to Sean Lemaine. I can't be too salty that I was too late to grab a copy of Black Illuminae. It was the 15th yesterday. I finally got paid. I ran to the comic book store. They were sold out.

They were sold out? I got one in my bag. I'm going to send it to you right now, man. God bless.'t know how to find it. They were sold out? I got one in my bag. I'm gonna send it to you right now, man. God bless. Thank you so much. Can I get a sign too? It's his first copy, so can I get a sign?

Yeah, I don't have it. Yeah, I can sign it. I'm gonna send it to you right now. Eddie, can you- We're gonna get your information. Hold on one second. I literally got one in my bag right now. Awesome.

Thank you so much. My man. Now, people wanna pick up this comic. How can they pick it up? I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not sure Cuz we did we did the whole Kickstarter campaign and that's where everybody bought it and then we had the signing in Midtown comics Last week and mad people came out there. I know it's in Midtown comics in New York

I don't I don't I really don't know I have the website the website you can go to awa studios dot com The website you can go to awastudios.com slash series slash Illuminati. But if you go to awastudios.com, it'll come up and it's Illuminati and you can buy it there. All right, hello, who's this? Hello, who's this?

Oh my goodness, this is Tony from Philly. Oh my goodness, y'all never answer this join. We always answer this join. Oh my goodness. What's up, Tony? So, listen, why is it always the bums that be getting the praise? Why is it always the bums that work to be getting the praise? What happened Tony? Talk to us. I don't know, they don't be doing s*** yo. Like the s*** bums. Oh man. They get all the praise. I just, I'm over it. You gotta say some names man. You gotta say your job or something. I work at the post office.

Where at? In Philly? Yeah. Burms. Why don't you say something about it then? I do but they don't care. Who don't care? They don't want you to be Burms.

The people up top. They don't give a damn. You know what man, I hate to say it but I can relate. Who don't care? We still won't continue to be burbs. The people up top, they don't give a damn. Nah, you know what man, I hate to say it, but I can relate. Wait a minute, I got one more thing. I hate to say it. Benji. Yes ma'am.

A couple of weeks ago I was watching the Unfaithful Court in the Hague. How was you able to hold it together when big sexy Beijing was coming off? He did it, he was bricked up. That, no, was it? Yo, that was so funny because the Beijing started dripping down his head and it was all on me. I thought he was about to die

because he couldn't breathe. It dripped on you? Yeah, so Big Sexy, he was- That's why I thought you all was gay. No. You ain't tell me that part now. Big Sexy, Big Sexy almost passed out because he's big.

So he got mad and it all started hyperventilating. He was about to die. So they had to call the ambulance. He almost passed out cuz he can't you know, he's big so he got mad and also like hyperventilating He's about to die. So they had to call the ambulance. He almost passed out So I try to grab him and I couldn't hold him up all that cardio big sexy be doing He'd be running across the highway with people man. He do not ever run across Jumping and running. Yeah, I told me she was just for men, but as Beijing started running, it started dripping down and I was like, I gotta watch that episode. Oh my goodness. I was the grail, okay?

I didn't want to laugh, because I thought he might die, but after he didn't die, I laughed. I gotta watch that episode. You know that episode made Wendy Williams think that Envy was gay, because she saw Envy on this show telling this gay man, why would you do that? She was like, it was a cheating show. He called him cheating. He called his boyfriend cheating. And he said, why would you do that? Why would you do that? Oh, man. I'm glad you thought it was funny. I'm glad you thought it was funny.

Have a good day, y'all. I missed that show. That show was so much for me. I missed that show. That show was hilarious. That show was hilarious. That show was hilarious. Why you looking like that? Cause I just can't imagine you trying to grab and help Big Sexy. This is before I even knew who Big Sexy was. You gotta imagine it, it's on TV.

I gotta watch that. I need to see that. Yeah. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. Now we got the latest with Lauren coming up We do and the girls are arguing Nicki Minaj and SZA Nicki Minaj all night long

We're gonna get into what the beef is or isn't when we come back. All right, we'll get into all that It's the breakfast club. Good morning the breakfast club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamalime the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight face. Tell us, tell us, man. She gets into somebody that knows somebody. I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

She be having the latest on you. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. But we're still latest. On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. Well, this back and forth was not on my bingo card for 2025.

Nicki Minaj and SZA yesterday traded some words on X. So, Nicki Minaj, at first she was tweeting about one of the TDE execs punch who used to work with SZA. She basically felt like some of the tweets that he was tweeting while he was promoting a song were indirect shots at her. So she then- What was the song? It's a song called Broken Barbies,

but it's something that he had been promoting prior to this back and forth. But I got, Nicki Minaj felt like there were some shots being thrown her way in some of the tweets that he was tweeting about that song. But so she began then tweeting at him and just alleging a couple different things alleging that because she decided not to do business with him, that he had been trying to sabotage her career and different things of that nature.

So those tweets are happening. And then SZA tweets, not at Nicki Minaj, but she tweets randomly, Mercury retrograde, don't take the bait, laugh out loud, silly goose. So Nicki Minaj sees this and she responds directly to Ciza. And she tells Ciza to go draw her freckles back on Buki. And then she says, liar, liar, pants on fire, sounding like a effing dead dog. So Ciza responded and she says,

I don't give a eff about none of the weird stuff that you talk that you're popping So then Nicki Minaj continues to go like she goes. It sounds like they're in a third grade. It was very like I Why think we are sitting on a liar liar pants on fire what is happening right now? Yeah So Nicki Minaj then she she started to go off like some of the tweets were so long I couldn't even get through them here on the radio and we're like paragraphs But she basically was at that's like a listen cuz she went on station head after to talk more about what the tweets work Let's take a listen to Nicki Minaj shaming sissa

Listen miss a find you somebody to motherfucking play with miss a lay mizra You already played with your own we seen how that went And you know, I don't search for shame or body shame, you know I don't even do that. But I don't know if you fat, obese, chubby or skinny. The whole thing is, leave me alone. Now I don't know if this was before or after Freckles and Bumbleena came out. However, you took to your Twitter during those times to downgrade and downplay the top black women in their respective fields at the time. So that tells me a lot

about you. So instead of you comment on Twitter to give props to the top black women in your field at that time, to the women who you later worked with. So I guess they weren't that bad after all, huh? I want y'all to know, I have no idea what's going on right now. That's how we all felt yesterday. I'm trying to figure it out now. That's how we all felt yesterday. But I think I got some of it.

Yes, Nicki Minaj just felt like SZA and Punch from TDE were coming for her, so she started going off. She took it from X to then Station Hit. Why does she think that again? Because Punch tweeted, Broken Barbies. And that made her- And Broken Barbies. And that made her. Broken Barbies is a song title you said. Yes. For who?

For, it's a song that he's been pushing. I don't know whose song that song is. But it's a song that he's been pushing. But I didn't know that there was, I guess, like bad blood behind the scenes, according to Nicki Minaj. That's why she took it like it was something coming for her because she was alleging that they had had, I guess, words or dealings or something before that.

She felt like the TDE team was trying to not silence her, but just like sabotage her business. She says that they were trying to sabotage her business allegedly and come for her and silence her on a platform that she uses to do her job. And in 2011, I seen that SZA put out some tweets against Rihanna and some other people. Well, according to there's a Nicki Minaj fan that tweeted some old tweets that Nicki Minaj then retweeted. And these tweets talked about Beyonce. It talked about Rihanna, Ciara, and then also Nicki Minaj in response to Iggy Azalea. These are alleged old tweets from SZA that Nicki then retweeted.

SZA wasn't SZA in 2011? So Nicki Minaj gets into that as well too. Let's take a listen to Nicki Minaj saying SZA isn't an icon. You were just one of the kids that couldn't get in the crowd, the in-crowd, huh? You went and started drawing freckles on your motherf***ing face. But do these people not know my stats? Like does this woman think like on any day that if me and her walked in the room in any country in the world these bots done got to your mother f***ing fat heads I see. I don't even know who is a mother f***ing

superstar and icon anymore huh Mizza? Mizza you not an icon. You are a yodeling fool Who's new knees auto-tune who done this every female? Entertainer based off of you know the screenshots take yo yodel in the ass on somewhere else But ultimately this is not that serious you guys okay, and honestly, I hate having to speak like this to women. So you know, on our way to icon status, though. I mean, her trajectory is just going up, up, up. She's only on her second album. And Nicki Minaj, that part of station head and even the part on X where Nicki Minaj

was basically talking about SZA's numbers and, you know, whatever songs or whatever is because SZA basically say, look, I'm done with all this like I Didn't directly tweet at anybody. I was tweeting about something from a show. She came at me So of course I'm mad now and I responded but I'm off this she said I'm gonna go be meek in silent people thought that That was like a low-key shot too But they don't know they think the word meek means Meek means meek means. Oh baby, meek means meek.

I'm not even joking. How do y'all consume this? Y'all don't feel retarded after y'all just put this up all day? I'm listening now. This is funny. That's funny. Listen. That's a shock because y'all don't know what the word meek means.

SZA then decided to step out of the situation and started tweeting about, you know how like on X they'll tweet like, oh, you hit this number on your songs or like whatever. Like there were like some, um, some notable mentions that came across our timeline, timeline about herself and she retweeted them. So Nikki then basically took that as, is she trying to talk numbers? Like that type of energy. So yeah, and I'm trying to find the artist's name

because Punch also had tweeted out the actual video after he tweeted Broken Barbies, the song he was promoting, but I can't find the artist's name, but I'll mention it since it's such a topic of conversation now. It is? I mean, it was yesterday.

Oh, her name is I am Lyric and the song is called Broken Barbies. So it had nothing to do with SZA. It had nothing to do with Nicki Minaj. So Nicki's become that 42 year old rich auntie who don't like nobody, huh? Just show up at the family reunion complaining about everybody here.

I know SZA was like, the song is not even, I didn't even do the song. It had nothing to do with me. Listen, some people complain about everything, but never tolerate a single complaint about themselves. I don't even know if these complaints from Nikki are valid, because I still don't know what the hell is going on. I don't know if this is behind the scenes stuff that we don't know about.

And so Punch tweeting, Broken Barbie set her off. I have no idea. All I know is that complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day too. Because the more we complain, the more unhappy we get. Yeah, I was saying while I was doing my makeup, like are any of these complaints valid and how do I know? Because there's so much and it's been going on for like weeks with Nicki Minaj.

Like... Kelly Harnett spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit. I'm 100% innocent. While behind bars, she learned the law from scratch. Because oh God, Harnett, jailhouse lawyer. And as she fought for herself, she also became a lifeline for the women locked up alongside her. You're supposed to have faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her. So many of these women had lived the same stories.

I said, were you a victim of domestic violence? And she was like, yeah. But maybe Kelly could change the ending. I said, how many people have gotten other incarcerated individuals out of here? I'm going to be the first one to do that. This is the story of Kelly Harnett, a woman who spent 12 years fighting not just for her own freedom, but her girlfriends too. I think I have a mission from God to save souls by getting people out of prison.

The Girlfriends, Jailhouse Lawyer. Listen on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. There's a famous headline,

I think in the New York Daily News, it's Teddy escapes, lawn drowns. And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you. The story really became about Ted's political future, Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president? Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal. The Kennedys have lived through disgrace,

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And she said she get some right every time she draw them back on. Huh? What'd she say? Nikki Minaj said SZA gets them right every time she draws them back on. So that's a compliment actually. It's a talent. It's great

A lot of people want them. I know a lot of people that want freckles. I wanted freckles at one point What am I sage at? Do something. Jesus christ. All right. Well, thank you lauren. All right now I got some polisanto on it. Got no sage. Is the unks okay here? Y'all seem just don't be trying to confuse me I just don't know the hell y'all. I just sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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Club. Let's get back to some front page news. Now Quik Sports Sauce Gardner, cornerback for the Jets, he just signed an extension for four years for $120.4 million. He becomes the highest paid cornerback of all time. He deserve it man. Congratulations to him. Anybody that has to suffer playing for the Jets for the next four years deserves to get

paid all the money that they can get man Lute the sauce gardener. So they're not a good team. They suck Jesus Not a good team though Gary Vaynerchuk, but I don't know if Gary really liked him, but he just want to buy them either way they suck But I don't know if guy really liked him, but he just want to buy them either way. They suck. Yeah What's up Morgan? Hey, hey, all right, so let's get back into it Let's talk about the Epstein files or lack there of we trying to figure that part out, right? So president Trump says he doesn't understand why his supporters are so fascinated with the case of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein Trump told reporters as he left an event in Pennsylvania that Epstein

was never a big factor in terms of life, adding that credible information has been given. Now, Trump also went on to call the case boring. He spoke to reporters yesterday and insisted that the files were made up by former presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and other Democrats. He also said Attorney General Pam Bondi should release whatever she thinks is credible. Let's take a listen to President Trump. She's handled it very well and it's going to be up to her. Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release. Yeah. So this comes as the Justice Department and FBI issued a joint memo recently stating that Epstein did not have a client list and confirmed that he died by suicide in his New York city jail cell in 2019,

as opposed to other conspiracy theories that have been thrown out there. Now the Epstein files have been a source of controversy in Washington with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling for the release of case documents. Speaking of those lawmakers, House Republicans have blocked efforts from Democrats to force a vote on releasing files associated with Epstein's case. House Democrats unsuccessfully urged the chamber to oppose a routine procedural vote on an amendment requiring Attorney General Pam Bondi to preserve, compile, and publish the Epstein files. However, Republicans cleared the majority

threshold that Democrats were hoping to avoid and supported a procedural vote of 211 to 210 decision, a 211 to 210 decision along party lines. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi, she dodged questions recently about Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi spoke at a news conference yesterday saying the focus was on fentanyl overdoses and families who have lost loved ones to the drug. Let's take a listen to her comments. Nothing about Epstein. I'm not going to talk about Epstein.

This today is about fentanyl. This is about a wall of people right outside this room who have died from... I appreciate your question, but this today is about fentanyl. Of course, Bondi has been on the defensive since the Justice Department announced it would not release any more information in the case. Bondi also refused to answer questions about Deputy FBI Director Don Bongino's future, which seemingly remains uncertain. And Speaker Mike Johnson says Attorney General Pam Bondi needs to explain her statements regarding Epstein. His comment comes in response to the Justice Department, of course, announcing that they're

not going to release any of those files. Now, Johnson's remarks express a difference in rhetoric that breaks away from President Trump who has defended Bondi. Now Johnson also emphasized that his trust is in the president, but also noted that he supports transparency and said we should put everything out there and let the people decide. Now US Representative Thomas Massey, he says he plans to force a vote that would decide whether the Department of Justice has to release those files related to Jeffrey Epstein. On Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican said he's introducing a resolution that would require

Bondi to release all unclassified records regarding Epstein. The resolution says the files can't be withheld or redacted even if they cause reputational harm to government officials or public figures. This, of course, again, after that memo, came out last week that said Epstein does not have a client list and that he died by suicide. Do you guys have any thoughts on that? Yeah, once again, I've been saying this all week,

Democrats do not stop talking about the Epstein files. Okay, that is your transgenders and women's sports issue. That is the issue that builds a bridge between you and those MAGA supporters, those people who voted for Trump last election. Now I do have a couple other thoughts too. Trump keeps blaming Democrats, which we know is nonsense, but don't be surprised if a fake Epstein file

just all of a sudden appears on social media, okay? What if there's some powerful Democrats on this list though and they don't just don't be surprised if a fake Epstein file just all of a sudden appears on social media. Okay. What if there's some powerful Democrats on this list though and they don't just don't want to... Of course there's powerful Democrats on this list, but I'm just talking about in general, Trump keeps saying, hey, Democrats, the Democrats created this. If a fake Epstein file just pops up on social media implicating all Trump's enemies, don't be surprised by that.

And I also wonder if some Republicans are pushing to get the files out because they're actually tired of Trump and they want to finally get Trump out. I wonder. That's an interesting take right there. Because we all know, you know, releasing names connected to Epstein will implicate individuals from both parties, but maybe they're willing to implicate, you know, individuals in both parties. Maybe they're willing to implicate allies. Maybe they're willing to implicate, you know, individuals in both parties. Maybe they're willing to implicate allies. Maybe they're willing to implicate donors and high ranking diplomats to finally get rid of Trump and take back their party.

I don't know. I'm just throwing scenarios out there. But I just know that Democrats in particular should not stop talking about the F.C. Hey, all right. Well, there you go. That's your front page news, y'all. I'm Morgan Wood. Y'all can follow me on socials at Morgan Media.

And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network, download the free iHeart radio app and visit us at BINnews.com. And those who are getting those weather alerts, please again, take heed to those weather alerts. Don't just, you know, you know, just see the weather alerts, but also pay attention to what's going on around you and cross-reference that with other alerts and the weather on you the apps on your phone as well you know just pay attention and try to stay safe. All right thank you so much Morgan be safe out there. Thank you you too. All right well let's open up the phone lines 800-585-1051 we're asking do special moments need to be recorded now this comes from one of

our producers Nick. Yeah we was having a good conversation behind the scenes. He just recently got engaged and one of his family members was supposed to record the moment and didn't. Well, they got, they were enjoying the moment too. Got caught up in the moment. And it was in Paris. It was like a whole thing. He set it up. He had the conversations with them prior, like weeks prior. Okay. Her dad was supposed to take the pictures and her mom was supposed to record. During the whole thing, the mom got swept away in a moment and then boom, nobody was really upset, but he was just like, yo, you forgot. Yeah, and so what I was saying was like, you know, I think a lot of times those moments like engagements,

weddings, that's for you and yours, especially engagement. I don't even need an audience for the engagement. That's for you and the person that you propose into. But some people want those moments recorded. And they were upset, but would you be upset? Right. So that is the question.

800-585-1051. You know, we're talking special moments, engagement, the weddings. Me and my wife get in an argument about this all the time, right? So you know my daughter's dance, so she wants me to record it, but I want to be in the morning So I'm a performance So we always fight about what is your turn to record? That's why I got the meta glasses. I just click the meta glasses on and I can actually watch it But that is the question eight hundred five eight five one oh five one special moments do they have to be recorded now?

He doesn't have that moment. Nobody was upset. I'm sure he's still as happy as ever, but I'm sure he might maybe wanted to show it later on to his kids or later on they might want to go back and look at it. And then me as a woman, I'm like, yo, if that's in Paris, wow, I know the background, the landscape,

the whole view is amazing. I don't want to see that. But you know, white people different. White people different? Yeah, they'll be like, no, no, it's great. We can just go back next that but you know why people different why people different It's great. We can just go back next week. You know 800-585-1051 let's discuss this the Breakfast Club good morning Fall in right now Add your opinion to the Breakfast Club top break it down 800-585-1051. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with The Breakfast Club.

Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now if you're just joining us, we're talking about recording special moments. 800-585-1051, this comes from one of our producers. His name is Nick, he got engaged over the weekend. Congratulations to Nick too, man.

Great guy, been with us for a long time. He records all of the videos. That's right. Every piece of content you see from The Breakfast Club that's visual, Nick recorded. Which probably makes it even more the reason why he wanted video of it. So you know, he was getting engaged and he told one family member to take pictures, told another family member to videotape it, and the family member just didn't videotape it,

forgot because she was probably in the moment and we all understand that. So we're asking 800-585-1051, does everything have to be recorded? Me, no. My wife, she wants to record everything. She wants to have those memories, she wants to be able to look back at it, she wants to be able to play it for the kids when they get a little older,

she wants to record everything. We get into the biggest argument, because I'm like, I wanna live in a moment, I just wanna see it. But she wants to record it to break it back down, and we get in an argument all the time when we go to my girls' dance, that's why I got those meta glasses. So that way we ain't got a fight

I just click record. Yeah, you can watch keep it moving. She can watch for her angle I go watch from my angle good money. Is it good quality? It ain't the best yet. All right, it ain't the best yet All right. Yeah, and it can't zoom in so if you're sitting kind of far For nothing, but still it's better than than me having me record it But I get what you're saying because you want to live in the moment You want to actually see the performance when you're recording you have to look through a screen So it is the little it's a bit much but nah, I don't think at all like when Chris proposed to me It's recorded but it's not gonna be posted. You know what I mean? Because it was intimate

It was like it was small intimate even when we went and got married like this is it was intimate you know what I mean I didn't we took pictures and everything but the reason I feel like is not you don't got to do the big grandiose so recording and everything is because it's not for you when you doing it you're kind of still doing it for other people at the end of the day you know what I'm saying that's why I like people want everything recorded for the posting of it all Yeah, but I like the memories though. I get what you say. I got videotapes of me and my mom dancing I will always love my mom since a child. You can see us growing up and doing it

I love that like I posted one a couple of years ago But my kids get to see that and see grandma and and and me dancing You know, I mean things like that are just cool Those are memories that we we miss when they get older or when they pass away, so I love those. I think we're always in production mode, whether we realize it or not. Like we walk around,

like we're in our own little reality shows and we always wanna capture content, to post and show to people. I just think all of that is performative. I think things like weddings, things like engagements, that's for you and your significant other, you know? And even like, you know, for me, when I got married, everybody checked their phones,

because I wanted people just to enjoy the moment, and that was 2014. So imagine how it is in 2025 now. When I got married, I don't think everybody had cameras. I had no camera phones when you were a gay. They had them checking their phones. But I mean, listen, it's to each his own. Like, you know, everybody has their own reasons

as to why they want to record stuff. Personally, I don't care about any of that, man. I just like enjoying the moment that I'm in. And especially when it comes to like engagements, like, you know, I know certain people like to have engagement parties. And I'm like, you proposing to all of these niggas? Like, you know, cause the person,

the only person that should be there when you were getting engaged is you and the other individual especially when you have people that be like Damn, man, you know, I gotta get the right date so I can have everybody together That was the problem when Chris proposed to me like a lot of people like was upset that they were dang You couldn't did it on that. Why you why you doing? Why you doing on Christmas? I'm like damn that was the best, yeah, it's not about them.

But sometimes, you know, you should celebrate the wins. Life is so short, people are done with it so fast, you celebrate all the good things in your life. I'm not mad at people doing that in front of everybody. Hey, okay. Yeah, that's cool if it works for you. If it works for you, I'm not mad at that. You know what I've seen?

I've seen people make a whole big show, had a whole big engagement party, and they ain't never got married. Right, right. Engagement got broken off. Exactly. All they've been waiting seven, eight years to get married, people make a whole big show had a whole big engagement party and they never got married right? the engagement got broken off, all they been waiting 7-8 years to get married still ain't married right don't do that big show, no, propose to me marry me within a year

that's the conversation we need to have one day too there you go after you propose how long should you get married? that is a really good one how long should it take? well I'm just telling you I got 4 daughters if any of these got, when you sign the proposal any of my daughters I want to be there I'm just telling you I'm just telling you got four daughters if any of these got away when you sign the proposal in my daughters I want to be there. I'm just telling I'm telling right No, you call the father I called my wife's father and said hey may I propose to your daughter you asked for her

His hand in marriage you supposed to and then you go do that. I don't need the daddy standing over there You want to get down you want you want you love when a man get on these knees Anytime a man on they need them you want to be there Jerry from Ohio, what's up? Talk to us Yeah, I was just saying good morning to everybody. Hey, hey Man, hey, please brother. Hey, so I agree with you Like I got the letter glasses. I actually was only never the blue tooth So I I use the letter glasses for all that type of stuff I waited my hands free and everything so that way you can still live in the moment, right?

You can watch it through you. Yeah, I like to live in the moment. Yeah, I'm with you on that. All right, brother Thank you. Hello. Who's this? Hey, what's your name? I mean, hey, come on and talk to us mama. What's your thoughts? I'm with you. I like I like to live in a moment I don't want to be looking at their phone through the phone to try to catch it now. I capture it later You can't capture it later Hello Hello, who's this? Hello, family, what's up, y'all? Beez King. What's up, what up? It's Trav. Oh, what's up, Trav?

Oh, Snapp, what's up, Trav? I want to call in this talk about the question about the memories. And I used to feel like, no, we shouldn't be recording memories and you should live in the moment until my little sister passed away. And it's like so many memories that I have that I wish that I would have recorded and that way I can go back and actually like

go back and see them and you know, actually like live in that moment again but I don't have those memories anymore. So that's what I do for like now. I always try to capture the moment and you know, at least have like video or something that I can actually like maybe go back and look at in the future or something that happens like that again.

You know what I've been thinking about too is when you are recording the moment, when you do have a memory of that moment, do you remember yourself recording or do you remember the actual moment? The feeling of the moment. You know what I'm saying? Because I feel like if you're recording, you don't remember the actual feeling of the moment. You remember the feeling of recording the moment. Yeah.

I would just really determine what it is. Like, if I'm at a concert with my cousin or something, and I'm in the moment. Like the J. Cole concert. I have videos of me and my cousins at J. Cole concerts or something like that. And I can remember being in the moment and having fun and how I felt at that moment.

And then I can actually go back and still kind of relive that moment in my phone. I go back and watch it again. And sometimes I do wish I did certain things that happened in my life with my little sister that I wish I could have. Or here I go back and see. Thank you, man.

I certainly understand. I'm sorry for your loss, brother. 800-585-1051, we're talking about taking video in the moment, or, you know, one of our producers, his name is Nick, he got engaged over the weekend he asked two family members want to take photography one to video it and she didn't video it she got caught in the moment and we're asking a done by the way Nick Nick proposal fly Nick proposed

in Italy that's right that's fly beautiful that's right so we're asking you know do you like things to be recorded or are you cool with just living in a moment let Let's discuss. Hello. Who's this? Good morning talk to us. Good morning. So I got engaged in February Congrats and Thank you. And my mom was supposed to report it. What I upset No, cuz I was living in the moment. But if that was my wedding or something, there would be something different. But other than that, like, you know,

that wouldn't bother me. That's like going to a concert or something, you know, you just live in the moment. You can't really focus on like recording and stuff like that. You know what, that's why I think a lot of times when my kids have birthday parties or weddings or anything special, if I can, I hire somebody to do it. So that way I don't have to worry about anything. You capture everything. Let me just enjoy it and hopefully you capture me enjoying it if you can afford it.

Exactly. There was one time where I was surprising my fiance. I just set up the phone on my watch and just press record and it just recorded everything, you know Okay. Well, thank you mama. You're welcome. Have a good morning guys. You too Hello, who's this? You know you and you have to be getting through these phone because they go through the back door Tracy goes to the back door 50% of the time No, okay, yeah, no, no, no.

Listen, let's just, no, okay, yeah. Okay, whatever, I get it. No, I don't think you necessarily need to record, but I recently lost my dad, right? And I recorded like a lot of stuff. So that's all I have now, you understand? So I don't think you need to, but's good. Like I'm a yeah, so that is not all you have now Stacy, you have the memories

know exactly. And you and you have the experience of living with that person. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Sure. And um, yeah, okay, I guess that's it. I ain't gonna get into the rest. Okay. Um, bye. Love y'all. And um, yeah, okay, I guess that's it. I ain't even gonna get into the rest All you have like come on man, hello who's this Very difficult to hear you mama unless you in the gym or something. Okay, perfectly. Go ahead talk to us mama Yes, so to your topic a similar thing actually happened to me when I got engaged.

My husband now, we were purchasing a car and his auto broker friend was supposed to be recording the entire moment and come to find out he was taking random pictures. So, didn't get the moment captured, but honestly, it doesn't even matter now, because it was beautiful. So I kind of agree with what you said.

Those experiences are really for the couple and not everybody else. That's it. And really we got all the wedding photos and videos. So. And no disrespect to older people, but if you ask an older person to take video or pictures you get what you get because a lot of times you know this is so many times when you know people

have to take pictures and they take pictures of themselves instead of taking pictures of things like it it it bees like that yeah that's why that's why that's why Nick's family member didn't record it because Nick's family member wanted to enjoy the moment too that's right cut you know caught in the moment. It probably was mad like, oh man, I want to just watch and feel. That's right. Yeah. Hello, who's this?

Yeah, this is Ty here from Jersey City. What's going on? What's up, brother? Talk to us. What's your thoughts? What's your opinion? I believe special moments gotta be recorded because the special moments that we share, they are fleeting moments. So if we don't capture those moments, we will never remember those moments or see those moments again. So just like this conversation today, 30 years from now, this conversation will be forgotten or interviews you've done before will be forgotten and they weren't recorded. So you have to record those special moments in order to have those moments to go back on. It's the reason why some people have logged or they'll have like audio recording

to themselves to go on for years. So we can't not record special moments because we're worried about what people are saying about the moments that we hold dear to us. Should we compare entertainment to real life though? Like you're comparing it to interviews. Yeah, of course we're supposed to record interviews. Those are supposed to be documented. I don't know we should compare entertainment to real life. No, no, no, no, we definitely shouldn't compare it to real life.

But basically what I'm saying, I use that as an example. Basically like your child's first walk, your child's first words and different things that need to be captured or anniversaries, marriage, anything like that should be captured. The first time you propose, where you propose that, all of that should be captured because you want to look back on that one time, 50 years from now.

Your grandchildren might want to see you, great grandchildren, you know? Absolutely. Thank you for saying that. grandchildren you know absolutely pretty much thank you Sam I just you know and not to be a Debbie Downer mmm said everyone our family members are listening do not take a picture me in the casket I like people do take pictures of casket in a video I do not want that I don't want that video myself out there I know I won't be here but please don't take a picture me in the casket of it I won't do it to anybody why you even getting put in the casket?

Because people die. Get cremated. Get turned into a tree. Because here's the funny thing. Think about what that dude just said about albums. Well, you know how many graves we standing over right now? How many graves buildings are built on? 100 years from now, you think these graveyards and stuff

going to still be around? Please. There's going to be a Starbucks over them or whatever new franchise it is. Nah, you're right. But I think, I think, you know, still, right, not for nothing, right, if it's not recorded, imagine that story when Nick and his wife

actually tells their kids. That's the funniest story, yeah. Oh, your dad is gonna, you know what I mean? But even before it gets to the funny part, yo, your dad proposed to me in Italy, right? And you know, although whoever was supposed to record, like that's like a story that you wanna hear. Like it's romantic.

Oh, and the, what is it in Italy? Now I keep thinking about Paris because I'm about to say the Eiffel Tower. Oh, the mountains were in the back and blah, blah, blah. You just gotta paint that picture for the kids. And I think that's actually more valuable than just showing them. I mean, it's cool, but just to paint that picture

for the kids, I think that'd be dope. It's cool that they didn't record it. It's like, whatever. Kelly Harnett spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit. I'm 100% innocent. While behind bars, she learned the law from scratch. Because, oh, God, her and that jailhouse lawyer.

And as she fought for herself, she also became a lifeline for the women locked up alongside her. You're supposed to have faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her. So many of these women had lived the same stories. I said, were you a victim of domestic violence? And she was like, yeah. But maybe Kelly could change the ending.

I said, how many people have gotten other incarcerated individuals out of here? I'm gonna be the first one to do that. This is the story of Kelly Harnett, a woman who spent 12 years fighting not just for her own freedom, but her girlfriends too. I think I have a mission from God to save souls by getting people out of prison. The girlfriends, jailhouse lawyer.

Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. podcast. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. There's a famous headline, I think in the New York Daily News, it's, Teddy escapes, blonde drowns.

And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you. The story really became about Ted's political future, Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president? Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal.

The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, you name it. So is there a curse? Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedys on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. American history is full of wise people. Well, women said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is glory.

Those founding fathers were gossipy AF and they loved to cut each other down. I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions about American history, and I find the answers, including the nuggets of wisdom our history has to offer. Hamilton pauses and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said, it would have been harder to fake it than to do it. Listen to American History Hotline

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just like great shoes, great books take you places. Through unforgettable love stories, and into conversations with characters you'll never forget. I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies. I'm Danielle Robay, and this is Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from Hello Sunshine and iHeart Podcasts.

Every week I sit down with your favorite book lovers, authors, celebrities, book talkers, and more to explore the stories that shape us on the page and off. I've been reading every Reese's Book Club pick, deep diving book talk theories, and obsessing over book to screen casts for years. And now I get to talk to the people making the magic. So if you've ever fallen in love with a fictional character or cried at the last chapter or passed a book to a friend saying, you have to read this, this podcast is for you. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app. Apple podcasts are wherever you get your podcasts. Well, we got the latest with Lauren coming up, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast

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So last hour, we talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA. We talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA. We talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA. We talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA. We talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA. We talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA. We talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA. We talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA. We talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything. But we're still latest. On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. All right, y'all.

So last hour, we talked about Nicki Minaj and SZA and their beef that came out of nowhere, or so it seemed, on X yesterday. So I reached out to Punch from TDE, who I also talked about in the first hour, who was at one point managing SZA. And I asked him, how did we get here? Like, Nicki Minaj is alleging that y'all have had issues behind the scenes and because of that this is an alleged retaliation like you guys have been retaliating against her. And here's what he said to me.

So he said back in 2020 Nicki Minaj had reached out for a SZA feature on a song. He responded and told Nicki Minaj that Sle was an album mode heavy and that he would get it over to her and that was it. They never spoke again. Feature didn't happen, but he says he's lost after that as well. Like, so then I followed up and I said, okay, so there was no further issue. Like, I still don't understand from that. How did we get here? And he says, I'm lost after that that and the song he verified what I said the song that he had been tweeting about Broken Barbies was a song by artist that he is working with now I am lyric so he's confused he's confused as well did you ask punch why he ain't post the song

last night that was the time to post it he did I know you said that he posted it before and that's what made Nicki react, but in the midst of everything, he should have posted it and been like, oh, again. Broken Barbies, baby, this the song. It was so closely, like the time was so close that if you went and looked, it was right there.

He literally tweeted Broken Barbies, and then after that, he tweeted, there was like a trailer to I Am Lyric's video. Then he did the same thing. Is the song out? Is the song, I was, is it out? You did all this, we should at least play a snippet of the song and see if we liked the song.

I mean, yo, shout out to the Nicki Minaj promotion team. That's crazy. You should at least play it. That's what a nigga should do, start broken barbie promotions. Okay, I'll amplify your records. Yo, shet. I had no idea that Punch even posted about this.

I didn't either, I was confused as well, until I went and looked It is a good detail because I think a lot of people trying to figure out We didn't even know that there was an issue with punch put the link in his Instagram The song is out it's it was out a day ago Good job punch This is the video on her YouTube channel. Is it Lyric Michelle?

No, it's I am Lyric. It's spelled like this. I am altogether Lyric. Oh, okay. I Googled it, it came up Lyric Michelle, Broken Barbies. Oh, well maybe that's her full name, but her artist name has it on YouTube and everywhere else is I am Lyric.

Nice. Drop one of Clues Bones with Lyric Michelle. Let's play some of the rap. That's what I said, I wanna hear the record now. That's what I said, I want to hear the record now. We'll get that. Eddie, can you get that record in right fast? While we talking?

So, I mean, does that clear up anything for y'all? Because it didn't for me. No. But I think it adds a bit more. It adds a lot of context to it, to me. I still think, because Nicki Minaj posted that she has receipts of being bullied and the retaliation that she's alleging. So maybe now we'll see her side of it because yeah.

I love, I love Nikki the deaf, but Nikki can't talk about being bullied. Nikki has been bullying people for the last couple of years. Last couple of years? Like, let's be honest. Like, let's be honest. Not the last couple. Come on now, Nick.

But I will say this. I don't think Nikki is a bully per se. I think that Nikki believes people are always doing something to her and that's not the case. Her barbs are bullies. Yeah. No, no, no, no, baby. The barbs is on me right here. The barbs are bullies. So that's her community. That's her fans though, like her herself. But I will say, do y'all feel like, and y'all know Nicki Minaj a lot more closely than me

or Jess, right? Do you feel like because of the things Nicki Minaj had to deal with as she came up? So I mean, not to say that it's warranted but do we is there like empathy at all for how she be trying to, I guess protect herself? It just comes off a lot of the wrong way. I mean, you got to think Nicki came from a place from New York City where New York didn't really believe in her at first. She had to go out of town. You still not playing her music. I play Nicki music all the time. I play Nicki music all the first. She had to go out of town. And you're still not playing her music. I do play her music all the time. I play Nicki's music all the time. She went down to Atlanta, right? She went down to Atlanta, got caught in Atlanta and the world fell in love with her and they always doubted her. They doubted the way she rapped. They doubted her flow. They doubted her numbers. They doubted, they always doubted Nicki. So Nicki always feels like she has to

punch even harder and I understand that. I will say I've never doubted Nikki. I always thought Nikki was dope since she was on the dirty Money DVD. With Fendi. With Fendi back in the day. I always thought she was dope. But I do feel like she feels like everybody is always against her. I feel like that as well too. Or let's just say like a lot of things happen that we don't see and then when she come out online we only see her side and then a lot of people will go and say like

oh well she's always mad and she's always bitter and she's always this that and the other and she never happy but things happen in the background that we don't see and she don't she always say she got resistance but she I guess she wait for the right time to like I guess put it out there. And Nikki don't hold her tongue. But that's the thing she don't hold her tongue but all we see is her going out like lashing out. Correct. You know what I mean? She's the female version of 50 Cent. She does not hold her tongue. She will go at you. She does not care. She doesn't care about the backlash. Nikki goes hard. And if we don't know. And Nikki has always been that.

Right. And to Jess's point there is a lot of things that happen behind the scenes that people don't be knowing about because I'll never forget the time Nikki was on my head once about you know her and Remy. I didn't even I once about, you know, her and Remy. I didn't even, I promise you, I did not know her and Remy had an issue. I don't believe you. I did not know. What did she call you and say?

It wasn't a call, we were texting, it was a Saturday morning way, way back in the day, it was the end of the day weekend, and she was texting me about Remy and how we're fueling beef with Remy, and I'm like, I have no, I really had no idea what she was talking about. Guess what came out that day?

20 minutes later, Sheetha. Sheetha came out. Oh wow. All I could say was, hey man, my bad. You had not even a little tip that she was beefing with this girl. Not a clue. Damn.

Not one single solitary clue. What you text after you listen to Sheetha? My bad. And what she say? I don't remember. Blocks. I don't even remember what the blocks. What with your head? You're bad, you're fine. I'm going in. This. And what she say? I don't remember. Blocks. I don't even remember what the blocks. What's your head? Your bad, your fault. I'm going in. This was just like damn I didn't know. And don't get it twisted, Nicki will curse you

out in a minute. But as Nicki's, she's the female version of 50 Cent to me. She does not hold her tongue and she has a right to. She can go at whoever she wants. But her barbs? Baby. Different level. Different level. I'll say do we have the song yet or no? The barbs? No. What? They go hard. I turned my phone off. They was tuned in for my teasers morning. I'm like envy. You talk to me about the teasers. They couldn't wait. So as I teased it, they were in my mentions. I was like, Ooh, it's kind of funny though. Harmless kids. I'm telling you, they be leaving magically delicious unicorn emojis. And yeah, like you supposed to be Harmless kids, I'm telling you, they be leaving magically delicious unicorn emojis in ya.

Like you supposed to be scared honey. I'm like, oh this is the fruitiest welcome ever, thank you. I don't get that. One of the barbs told me the other day my face looked like a coffee table. Oh they got jokes. Damn. I used some of their jokes. I can see it now.

I was like, whoa. And I think she was about 40 Jess. She wasn't harmless and a kid. Damn. Yeah the barbs are older now. She wasn't harmless and a kid. Damn! Yeah, the barbs are old now. Yeah, the barbs are old now. Yeah, the barbs ain't kids no more. Yeah, she getting ready for AAA.

I mean AA. The ARP. Old people, 65 plus? Who doing, who getting ready for that? The lady that was telling me my face was like coffee table. Ha, jeez. Why, you thought she was? I thought you was talking about Nikki.

I was like, please Nikki. No, no, no, no. Let's expound on coffee table please. No. Lauren. I'm talking about the barbie. Lauren couldn't take that. Lauren will come in here with three new hairstyles in 24 hours.

You can't take them barbies. You know. You think you've been attacked? Wait till the barbs come at you. Well. Me and Charlotte may have been attacked. Long time for the barbs. Nikki Minaj says she has receipts.

Look, drop them, we'll report them, but the punch is saying it didn't happen. I want to hear broken Bobby's by Lyrical Soap. We ain't got it yet. No. No. He said one second. Oh, you got to clean this guy. Make sure it's clean and stuff. Louis V. Louis V. That's all we got is Nikki and. Y'all didn't talk forever. I had the Emmys, but we'll get to the Emmys. We ain't do Shaq. We're starting to punch someone in the face. We're going to do Shaq, Angel Reese conversation with RJ3. We're going to do the Emmys because Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce are going head to head now at the Emmys. Jordan and Lucas? We got a lot of good things, okay?

Oh my god. Alright. Donkia today! Who giving you a donk too? Man, for after the hour we are going to discuss why life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. Alright, we'll get to that next. Breakfast Club, good morning. That is why Charlamagne is here. We live a life where we bite our tongue based off who we make a thing. We never will say anything. We don't give a damn, don't throw it up. Hey! Charlamagne, give it to him.

Give it to him. On The Breakfast Club. In the words of Charlamagne the guy, he's a donkey, brother. He ain't my ****ing home. Don't throw it up. Oh man, Charlamagne, you giving Donkey the day to who now? Well, Busta Rhymes, Donkey the day for Wednesday, July 16th goes to 63 year old Pamela John Stanley.

Now Pamela hails from Texas and she is currently incarcerated after allegedly attempting to send her ex-husband fentanyl laced chocolates. Let's go to ABC News for the report, please. This is my little piece of paradise out here. But feeling safe here has been a thorn in Jeff Coth's side. And the lengths he's gone to. I went so far as I built a dummy.

May seem a bit paranoid. A mask on it and a hat and a jacket. But it's only paranoia if no one's after you. And Coth says his ex-wife, Pamela Stanley, was. I was hoping she would move on to find Stanley was, I was hoping to find happiness and I w all the same for me, but that way early last year

rumors. She talked about He even spoke to investig ever came of it. It didn' because she's kind of tha shock him the the recording. Investigators say they have of her latest plan. Get some fentanyl, inject them into a box of high-end chocolates that she was going to purchase

and have them mailed to me. It was just scary, what can I say? The Parker County Sheriff's Office says, in a sting last week, an undercover officer provided her with a clear plastic baggie containing what she believed to be fentanyl. Her attorneys declined to comment. Now kids I was born in 1978 okay so back in my day there was a classic film that came out in 1994 and it was called Far as Gump. Drop on the Clues bombs for Far as Gump. Run Far as Run!

It stars in my opinion one of if not the greatest actor of all time Tom Hanks and there's an iconic line from that film that Farz Gump mother said do we have the line? Let me hear it. My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get. That line made so much sense to me when I was younger But those I get the more experience I've had with boxes of chocolates I don't know what I'm gonna get in the box of chocolates Okay milk chocolate dark chocolate white chocolate a bunch of you know different fillings like caramel nuts fruit creams truffle centers if you've had enough You know boxes of chocolate you pretty much know what's in there

But that's why Pamela John Stanley came along and said said let me bring the razzle dazzle Okay, let me bring the razzle dazzle back to the box of chocolates by adding some of Rihanna's makeup to it Okay, some of that 50 beauty. All right Pamela. I'm gonna tell you something you have given new life to that line Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you gonna get Okay That line had started to lose its luster a long time ago until you decided you wanted to kill your ex-husband by putting powdered fentanyl into his box of chocolates. Now what's crazy is we just talked about recording special moments. The only reason she was caught is because she

told a friend in a conversation or an acquaintance in a conversation that she didn't know was being recorded that she planned on sending the fentanyl-laced chocolate to her ex-husband making it appear like the package was from a travel agency as a congratulations gift for his recent engagement with a honeymoon incentive offer. Her ex-husband said he wasn't surprised because she's kind of that way. What the hell does that mean? She's kind of that way. When did she get that way, sir? How long has she been that way sir? You was married to her for 14 years, sir Was she that way then listen? This is a prime example of why the best revenge is always success Pamela I understand you and your ex-husband didn't work out after 14 years, but this is not how you get your get back

Okay, your ex-husband said and I quote I was hoping she would move on to find happiness I was hoping she would hope the same for me but it just didn't work out that way Pamela after a divorce after a breakup you supposed to go get sexy on these hoes okay go get right all right get in the best shape of your life physically mentally spiritually and emotionally you're supposed to make your ex-husband regret the divorce not make him feel like he dodged a bullet literally okay Pamela if you can come up with a calculator strategy like lacing a box of chocolates with fentanyl to kill your ex-husband then you can do anything you put your mind to okay I don't

understand why folks want to become supervillains there is absolutely zero reason to resort to throwing your life away while the person you trying to hurt is out here living their best life. You became obsessed with your setback and you can't allow yourself to move forward if you are not willing to let go of your past. Please give Pamela John Stanley the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yeehaw. She's still in jail right now, too. She got a bond of $450,000.

That's good that she in jail, but like you said, if she can put her mind to doing that, like if she can do something like that, imagine what she can do, like great things in the world. Like what? Like what? Like yo, she laced a box of chocolates with fentanyl and almost like-

And then came up with this whole idea to send it through from a travel agency as a congratulations gift. She's clever as hell. She had a honeymoon incentive offer. Crazy. Crazy. She had a honeymoon incentive offer with a box of chocolates. All right.

Oh, these are the type of people that are supposed to be like, oh, hell no. Look how she look. God damn. That's Elizabeth or Methany. Jesus. Exactly. Jesus. All right. That's Elizabeth or Methany. Jesus, exactly. She put meth in her milk. What the hell? Everything comes with a side of meth in her life. Thank you for that donkey today.

Jesus Christ. Alright, well when we come back, the CEO of Afrofuture, formerly of Afrochella, Abdul Abdullah will be joining us. He's going to talk to us about Afrofuture, which they do every year in Ghana. He's bringing it to the state,

so we're gonna talk about that, so don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are The Breakfast Club, along with Rosas here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes sir. The founder and CEO of afro future Abdul Abdullah welcome, brother

How you feeling? Man tell people with that what afro future is yeah afro future is a cultural Immersion platform that we created in Ghana to celebrate African culture and also to just break it down To people in a way that's direct We celebrate food fashion art and obviously music as well in my opinion and our team opinion We feel like equal parts of all of this gives you a clear understanding of what it's like to visit the continent And that's what we've been doing for the past eight years inviting people back to Ghana and for the first time ever We're showing up in Detroit. So I was at the last Afro cello.

Yes, you was. You was at the last one. That's when y'all announced there was going to be Afrofuture the next year. That's correct. It was an opportunity for us to really kind of grow beyond what we've been. I mean, right now we know that one in 10 people by 2050 is going to be African. Africa is the youngest continent. There's just a lot of opportunity.

And there's been so much misinformation about Africa for so long. people by 2050 is going to be African. Africa is the youngest continent. There's just a lot of opportunity. And there's been so much misinformation about Africa for so long. I grew up here. I'm like, at my house, I'm the American kid. But when I went out to school, I was the African kid. So the best way I could do is just kind of bring the worlds together.

And that's what we've been trying to do with this festival. Why did y'all change the name from Afrocellular to Afrofuture? I mean, I think that obviously there was a lot of issues that we had. They sued you? Like they sued everybody who used the cellar? They did sue me. I mean beyond that it was just an opportunity for us to like kind of grow beyond where we were. This gives us an opportunity to let people know that there's a lot happening on the continent and you should be a part of that right as far as creativity, entertainment, as far as business, you know there's so much happening on the continent that everyone should be a part of that, right? As far as creativity, entertainment, as far as business,

there's so much happening on the continent that everyone should be a part of. And I have a future kind of speech to that journey. Well, people don't come for the name, they come for the event. That's exactly what it is. And the experience that we've been creating, you've done that without any corporate partners.

So that's just like a team of people who is really invested in seeing the entertainment business on the continent grow, for us to create opportunities for people on the ground, to change the economy in our own country, but also just to kind of showcase some of these talents. When we started in 2017, they weren't playing any Afro Beats music on the radio. Ten years later, you can't go to a party, you can't go to a spot in New York without it.

And for us, one of the best accomplishments is a lot of people were able to visit the continent because of our experience they started in Ghana but they've grown since to South Africa to Nigeria and Ghana was just that entryway. That's crazy. Why Detroit for the first stop in the US? Why not New York? I mean New York I feel like I'm from New York everyone that needs to know about what we're doing on the continent is aware this is like a culture melting pot we have a restaurant here. People know what's going on in this side of the city. But one of the things that we've learned is that there's an opportunity, Detroit being one of the most creative places, also one of the blackest

cities in America, and we could build that bridge between Detroit and the continent. Like there's no saying where things can go and that's the opportunity there. And then also we have an amazing partner in Bedrock that's promoting opportunities and business in the city so we're looking at it as an opportunity to kind of grow our audience and not just kind of speak to the same people. That's crazy to think that y'all don't have no sponsorships. No we have sponsorships. Oh now they started off without.

So when you were there a few years ago did y'all have them? When you were there a few years we had some sponsorships. What we don't have is a corporate sponsor. So we never had like a Live Nation or any of those brands behind us. We literally built this from the mud. And as far as sponsorships, we've had some of the first ever. So when Meta wanted to first come to the continent, they showed up to our festival. We were able to work with them.

When YouTube wanted to announce shorts, we were able to build the playground in our field. Audio Mac, we brought the CEO of Audio Mac to Ghana. We ran this program called the Rising Star Program. And now Audio Mac is now the number one downloader app in West Africa. So we were able to be that conduit for a lot of brands that want to come to the continent. And we've been doing business like that since. But those aren't considered corporate sponsors? They are corporate sponsors, but you can But those aren't considered corporate sponsors?

They are corporate sponsors, but you can't build an event with corporate sponsors because you're probably not going to get the money until after the event is over. But if you have a festival partner, we're still an independent festival in that we eat what we kill, basically. So you started off with 4,000 attendees. Did you expect it to be this big as a concert series or was it one of those things where it was more like a smaller... Well, I just wanted a place for us to connect.

There were so many people in the diaspora that were doing amazing things, whether it was in London or it was in America, but we just could never connect. We just came to Daddy December and we just partied and went away. So with the festival, it gives us the opportunity to really kind of showcase what the amazing people on the continent are doing, but also like how we can help and how we can add the sauce to it as well. But I did think we were gonna be big. I didn't think we were gonna be big as fast.

So we started in 2017. Year one, we did 4,000 people. Year two, we did 12,000. And then year three was a year of return. So it kind of forced us to scale faster than we were ready to. And then I think the rise of Afrobeats because the year I was there y'all had Burn a Boy headline. Yeah that was two years in the making. Yeah we've had almost we've had all of them perform for us so we've had Wizkid, we've had Davido, we've had a Shaqai,

we've even had Rema for like one of our side events that we did. You know, we did a fashion out experience with IG, Instagram and we had Rema there performing. So we've pretty much been the launching pad for a lot of people. Uncle Waffles, probably one of the biggest DJs right now. We were one of the first people to fly out of the Southern Africa to Ghana put on the billboard. She performed at our show. We've done that for a lot of artists.

I mean, a lot of them are piano artists through the pandemic we broke in Ghana 4,000 is still a lot for the first absolutely festival So yeah, that's amazing to go from 4,000 41,000 is I mean 4,000 Yeah, 4,000 41,000 is amazing. But for the first time 4,000 is still a lot. Yeah, we actually shut it down Yeah Yeah, we were afraid that it was like people were not going to be able to have as much fun or we weren't going to be able to control it. So we wanted to be able to still make sure people had a good time.

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Did you have any problems that first year? No, no. That first year was just, it was a learning experience. It was accomplishment. I remember like, you know, being very happy that we was able to kind of see our vision through, but we didn't really have that many experience issues that first year at all. I was going to ask, what's the hardest thing you faced doing these shows? Was it sponsorships?

Is it people? Is it employees? I think there's a combination of all of that. You know, our first time was just really just kind of understanding the business. We had no idea how to throw a festival. We knew how to do parties, but we didn't know how to do festivals. The second year was just more of our scale, right? Just understanding like logistics and how to deal with people moving from like what was a polo field to a stadium. The third year was just kind of scaling where our company wasn't just ready to kind of get all of those

people coming in for the year return. But also Ghana's tourism wasn't quite ready for the amount of people that came into that year of return. So yeah, there's a combination of money, there's a combination of just kind of learning opportunity capacity building in the space. Equipment is one of the things that we don't necessarily have much of in the continent, so the expense is high. Now we're dealing with cost of talent, right? So like all of those things are different.

At different points, there was this different heart thing. I don't even like going outside, but I remember when I first went to Ghana, everybody was like, yo, Ghana's nightlife is incredible. And I remember thinking Ghana's nightlife? And me and my wife and our team was outside every night. Yeah, very important. Like, people on the continent know how to have a good time. And in December, everybody's off.

It's like a vacation for everybody. So the reality is you can go out every night. The restaurants, the clubs, you was in Silver Fox. Yeah, you can have a vibe from morning to morning. Like, you know what I mean? And people do it. And I love that for people. And depending on the type of experience you want to have,

you can have that party track. You can have the tourist track. You can have the wrestling track. It's really your choice. I was still kicking with Abdul, Abdullah, the CEO of Afrofuture. It used to be called Afrochella, if you remember. They take it to Ghana each and every year

But this year they're bringing it to the states Charlamagne I was saying to myself I want to go to Ghana outside of this which I'm going to do But absolutely because I want it like how was it throughout the rest of the year? No, you can have what you see in December is not foreign to people people do this Weekly in Ghana if they want to like Like you know what we see in December. I know a lot of people is surprised at them, but some people do this weekly if they want to. But like you can have a great time during Easter,

you can have a great time in the summertime. It's just not as packed with foreigners, right? But the experience is still the same. You can still have fun at the restaurants, the clubs are still packed, people are still having a good time. And you know, we just had a change of government this year in Ghana as well. So that you know, the economy is coming back to where it's supposed to be. And I think people are getting more, there's more consumer confidence.

How do people reach out to you? Because we had the CEO and chairman of the festival. That was like, that would be dope to do a Friday night Afro future at Essence. You really wanna piss people off now. No, I mean. I don't understand the conversation, but people are mad about the whole Africans versus black American argument.

And black Americans have been complaining that African culture is different than black culture. And they felt like Essence was trying to force it on people. Yeah, I mean, I think at the core of it is all about misunderstanding and we just really are not speaking to each other we speaking past each other and the reason why our festival exists is really to just kind of demystify it really make you understand. If you're African-American and you've been to the continent you know that people love you right because this is all they consume

your content, the music, the art, everything. And then I'm also a child that's like was born here in America. So part of my life is an African American lifestyle with the high school here, I went to college here. So I think really is just kind of making sure we understand and respect each other at its core. On the continent, if you grow up there, all you see is black people. Versus where you grew up here in America, you to college you go to go to work there's these micro aggressions and things that you don't that you have to face is a very different understanding for

everyone right so on you know think about hierarchy of needs on the continent the need is just we need we need to eat so it doesn't matter if I'm dealing with a little bit of racism because at the end of the day, I gotta eat. Whereas here, I need to survive, I need to live. So that racism, that's oppressive, that takes away from my joy, you know what I mean? And I think that just really respecting everyone's perspective on their need at that point is really what I think needs to happen.

But I also think that we just need to learn about each other a little bit more and we can find those synergies Speaking of eating Joe off rice or jambalaya So we so we actually did that event my boys and I did that event, right? I don't think that they should be mad at us. I think that is really just understanding why we did it, right? so jambalaya is a Version of what jolof would be or like a rendition of it.

So I don't know if anybody here has seen High on the Hog, but talking about food origins, really we were just trying to connect people. Our goal is not to make it a competition and we didn't compete against the rice. It was really just kind of like, let you know if you're African, this is an opportunity for you to learn about jambalaya. If you're American, this is your opportunity to taste some Jalof rice. And that was just a way of us trying to connect the culture and connect people through basketball or sports that people love and then also through food and just kind of build that connection. I think we could probably could have did a better storytelling opportunity of just kind of the connectivity between Jambalaya and Jalofa and I think that's great feedback but I don't

think of it as a way for us to erase anybody's culture or like you know Africanize anybody's culture. Our goal is to be respectful. We should be respectful and I think that that's the that's the goal that I'm learning. Absolutely. If you show up and you hungry I want both. I don't give a damn where it's come from. I want both. Yeah my Yeah, my guy, Chef BJ Benjamin Dennis, he was on high on the hog. He's from Charleston, South Carolina. Exactly. So if you're from Charleston, South Carolina, where I'm from, I'm 97% West African. So it's like a lot of the things that we eat and stuff are rooted in West African culture.

Yeah, that's some of the things that we want to do. We want to tell more stories about food and the origins. Because if you look at a lot of food that people were eating here in America, across the Caribbean and across the continent, there's so many similarities, but there's barely any places that you can go and find that. If you were born here in America, like for instance, we know about, I know about Jay-Z's history from beginning to the end. And like I follow all of his albums.

And I know the next story is going to come on the next one. We don't necessarily have that about our Afrobeats artists. I think there's an opportunity there for us to tell those stories. And that happens for all categories. The same thing in art, same thing in fashion, same thing in food. We need to tell those stories. And that's why our platform exists, to be able to tell those stories and buy into that. Like, we all loved Black Panther when it came out, although it's not real.

We all loved Woman King when it came out. But we need more shows, more movies like that, because if somebody is sitting here in America and all they've been taught is that Africa is full of poverty, and as an African, I know a lot of young Africans that didn't want to associate with that either. So it kind of makes sense. But now if we can tell you, with the internet penetrating

at 40% or 50% in Africa right now, Africans are able to tell you in real life who they are and what they do and the type of lifestyle that they live and vice versa. Man, I've made it my business to take my family to somewhere on the continent at least once a year. Yeah. So I've been to Johannesburg, I've been to Zanzibar in Tanzania, I've been to Ghana,

I'm going to Cape Town this year. Amazing. When you see these places you you're like, wow. Yeah, very surprising. I say it all the time, they lied to us about Africa. The opportunity, yeah. Just beyond that, I was on Kamala's, the group that went to the concert when she went to Africa.

For me, it's very important for everybody to, if the whole world is fighting for a piece of Africa, why aren't you looking at that as an opportunity for yourself and our festival is a way to introduce it right you know something that you're familiar with come to the continent experience the food experience art experience fashion experience the music in real time with the people on the ground smell and feel the place and then you know use that as an opportunity the next time you come to see how you can help how you can work with somebody to make something really dope happen. That's our goal. I think what y'all doing is amazing.

Absolutely. Thank you so much. I really do. When is the show in Detroit? Detroit is August 16th and 17th. We have a lot of cool things planned in Detroit. So you put hip hop on there a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got to have a little bit of culture all over there, right? So there's a little hip hop, there's a little dance music, there's a little amapiano, and then Afrobeat. Our goal is to really introduce Afrobeat to people who have not really had an immersive experience, and also just to kind of give people some things that they're familiar with. But for us, our approach is really community.

So we're partnering with groups like Black Tech Saturdays, we're Venture 313, we're doing a pitch competition to give back to the community. We're talking to some of the business leaders, and bringing them into our community. We're running like a bar business crawl, just to kind of make sure when people come to Detroit, they know what business is to support

and how to support them. Is Detroit gonna be the city, whole city area? Right now, yes, yes. We're doing Detroit, we have a great partnership there. We love the community there. They're very, you know, their creativity and their welcoming attitude reminds me of what we were building when we started in Ghana, so we're very excited about that. But we do have smaller other activations around the US that we're looking to bring out. Houston would be another big one.

I want to go to Charleston, South Carolina. Yeah, invite us. We'd definitely love to do a dinner out there. Love to do some experiences out there. We're working with artists, people who, you know, painters. We're working with fashion designers. We have some cool one. This is a young designer called Ijabing.

We just brought him to Senegal. That is really nice. So we wanna continue to, you know, celebrate the culture and bring people together. That's where all my ancestry is. Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau. That whole Mali region. Yeah, that's a beautiful, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau, that whole Mali region.

Yeah, Senegal is very beautiful, the beach is a beach town. I encourage everyone to just visit, just go and experience it and I'm sure that you will love it and you'll see the vibe that we're talking about. Right, well there you have it, the founding CEO of Afrofuture, Abdul Abdullah, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club good morning the Breakfast Club morning everybody is DJ envy just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the

Breakfast Club let's get to the latest with Lauren Lauren becoming a straight face She gets in 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.

But it's the latest. On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. All right, y'all. So the Emmy nominations dropped yesterday in big talk of the town in Emmy noms. The fact that Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce are going to be going head to head. So Beyonce's Beyonce Bowl, the special that she did in Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show, are both nominated for outstanding choreography

and outstanding variety special. Other nominees in this category, I thought that this was fire for Dochi, Dochi's 2025 Grammy Awards performance, and then the Oscar, the 2025 Oscar tribute to Quincy Jones and SNL's SNL 50, the anniversary special that they did this past year. So big category. There's also a ton of other people that were nominated for big things.

Quinta Brunson nominated for best actress in a comedy series, best writing for a comedy series, Abbott Elementary, Ayo Etterberry for the Bear, best actress in a comedy the bear best actress in a comedy series best directing for a comedy series colman domingo also got a nom as well charlie ralph as well for best supporting actress in a comedy series with at the elementary so congratulations to everybody has been nominated um this year and yeah i do have to say events matter though because uh out of all of those events you named the only two i remember is the Beyonce Bowl and the Super Bowl halftime performance. Yeah, y'all didn't, I remember we did SNL 50 in here. Y'all didn't really care for that.

I don't even remember. I don't remember it too much. I remember talking about it. I was like, I shouldn't have did this on the radio. I don't remember it too much. No, it was a couple of them that I did. Like, it was like this guess with Dave Chappelle, Will Ferrell, like the funnier ones, yeah.

Not the whole thing overall, it wasn't as funny as I thought it should have been for it to be SNL 50. But yeah, it was some pretty cool moments. Yeah, but people are talking a lot about how these performances and these live moments now are becoming... It's not just a performance. It's like a historical event at this point because it lives on and gets awards and things of that nature.

So... Yeah, I want... Roc Nation has won a bunch of awards for the Super Bowl halftime performance. Yeah. I think everyone they've done pretty much has won something. They have, yeah, I know Dre. I know Dre and Snoop definitely won one. They didn't usher, or usher Rihanna.

It was one of those. I think Rihanna won. I feel like they have. Yeah, I think so. Yes, it's been a lot, but yes, congratulations to those people, to those guys. But in other Kendrick, I guess, related news, because remember we were having a conversation here

about UK rappers versus the US rappers? Yes. And Sharla, you mentioned you can't wait for Jonah Lucas to come and say what he needs to say So Jonah Lucas and septo were already have skeptics on set the skeptical We're already having this little back-and-forth about that Jonah Lucas finally dropped. Let's take a listen. He killed it He killed it Who in the I'm not even joking when I say this, I like UK rappers, but who in the UK can touch any American rapper, yo? Joyner not even considered, and Joyner's phenomenal,

but that wouldn't even be considered A-Team. So what you gonna do against the A-Team? I would put Joyner in the A-Team if things were just based off lyrics. Based off lyrics, but based off careers, yeah, Joyner, Lucas would be, yeah, exactly. But if it's- Joyner gets busy. Joyner gets busy. just based off lyrics based off lyrics but based off careers yeah join it gets busy

man like man we get busy over here would actually wash a lot of rappers in the UK you playing if you want man we got Vato we got so many Vato too! exactly Vato will wash it both of you Exactly. But I don't watch it. I'm not playing with y'all. It's true. I'm naming people that we got. Some great, great people, man. Now, Louis V is here. And Louis V just probably gave us where we would lose. What?

He said, safari. Oh, wow. Nah, I ain't going that far. That's right. That's right. Y'all might as well put me out there. That's right. Can I figure something out? I mean, I got words. I ain't going that far. That's right. Y'all might as well put me out there. I figured something out.

I got words. I ain't going that far. I said, look to Safare, but I ain't going that far. You know what's so foul? Louis V didn't even say Safare. He said Nicki Minaj's ex-boyfriend. He didn't even say her name. Say Safare name, man.

And look, I wouldn't even have thought Safare. You said Nicki Minaj ex. I thought Meek, I wouldn't even have thought Safaree. You said Nicki Minaj X. Oh yeah crazy. I thought Meek. Meek is watching UK rappers. Yeah he's watching. Man. Bow I'll watch him.

What? Bow definitely gonna go in. Depends who the person is. Yo shut up man. No no no, depends who the person is. Don't play with Bow. Don't play, I'm not gonna, UK rappers get busy, depends who the person is. Don't play with Bow.

Plus Bow don't even, Bow don't rap like that. Bow get busy too. But he don't rap like that. Bow get busy too. But he don't rap like that, like he don't rap like how, I don't know if he could make what Joyner Lucas just made. He can. Now if you talking about song writing,

yeah, Bow can make a song, a hit, but going at somebody? What about Soulja? Boy? Soulja, no, Soulja Man. Yeah, Soulja Boy, girl. It don't matter for Soulja either. What?

Soulja? I'll be here with it. Soulja? I'm so glad you guys are not picking the lineup Not soldier man. Yeah soldier boy. Yeah, that's what soldier evil So glad you guys are not picking the lineup of We were good Mercy real alright and wrapping up Rg3 angel Reese there's been this I wouldn't even say it was a back and forth but Shaquille O'Neal Shaq came out. He has some words for RG 3 taking up for Angel Reese. Let's take a listen. RG 3 tweet tweet another monkey post about my girl Angel Reese I'm punching your face.

It's enough like I don't usually do stuff like this but just stop it bro. You got your job you got your podcast leave my Angel Reese alone. I'm the one calling her and telling her not to respond. Stop it, that's the last time. First of all, let them girls leave him alone. It's a shame that all the stuff you did in your life, you're gonna be remembered for your podcasts. That should tell you you're not that great.

You already spoke on it. Let it go, so what? He hates us, so what? I hate you now for messing with her. Now what? Say something about me. Because she's not soft by any means. You're from the streets.

But I'm like, you're beautiful. Don't indulge with these fools, because he's a fool. I would respect it more if Lisa Leslie said it. Like, that's y'all category. Stay out of the people's category. I believe everywhere Shaq says. Listen, he crashed out about the women that he do love, yo, for real.

Like he really be threatening people over, you know, women that he take up for. I believe every word Shaq said. Shaq will punch you dead in his face. Yeah, but who? Is RG3 like white or something? He's black. He's a black. He's a black.

But what's up with the monkey thing? The red skits. Quarterbacks. I don't know no damn red skits. Well, so when Angel Reese's NBA 2K cover came out, people started having conversations about why Kaitlyn Clark didn't get the cover. And RG3 has been very, like he's been adding to that narrative of Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese.

But what's the monkey thing? So when the cover dropped and there was a monkey cover that people put, they made Angel Reese to be a monkey on the cover. RG3 reposted it and basically was trying to say, okay, y'all need to chill now. Dr. Martin Luther King's daughter, Bernice King, came out and said, this is exactly why we've been telling you, stop even entertaining that conversation.

And then Shaq jumped in. That's wild. Yeah, it's been a whole thing. I respect Shaq standing up for Angel Reese. If I'm RG3, I'm trying him though. Shaq worth $400 million, punch me, please. He'll do it, he'll do it. Punch me, please.

Get my Papa John's, I'm gonna get my Papa John's. Punch me, I'm falling out, I'm gonna act like I'm having a seizure, I'm peeing on myself, please, please, punch me. Shaq don't do it, and get my Papa John's, I'm telling you. Please, please. And it was a premeditated threat too? Oh Lord, man, why have you blessed me in this way God?

Jesus I just do be like, thank you white Jesus After this hit. That good boy gonna tell him to get punched too. Alright, well that's the latest with Lauren. Thank you Lauren. Now let's get to the people's choice mix. Get your request in. 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. Reminding you guys, four days left to my car show. Salute to everybody in the 757103ams you guys are show so much love the city has Showed so much love for this car show. I you of course I went to Hampton I was down there by what five six years my wife went to Old Dominion

I got so many roots out there salute to everybody out there from the clips push to who's been calling me Family and Tony everybody out there. I appreciate you DJ Vince the locals down there They love me so much. You show me so much love like that's really my home by the sea So I love you and I got so much love from Virginia We doing so much for junior coming up in the next couple of years So I just want Virginia to know I feel love. Thank you so much All right. Now all we also got to say salute to Abdul Abdullah for joining us this morning He's the CEO of Afro future and they're bringing it to the D.

Whoa, Detroit, bro. Come on, man. Yo, yo, relax. It's the D. What's wrong with you, man? What's wrong with you? We're getting on the edge. We're excited. You know, they bringing it to the D.

Bam. What y'all gonna do for it? Like, come on, calm down. Now, I didn't say what y'all gonna do. I just said bring it to the D. I don't even want Afro to have a future now after what I heard you just say, like why? You know what I'm saying?

Damn. Yes, but they are bringing it to Detroit and I love what Abdul, Abdul, a doula them is doing, man. Like, I don't know why we don't wanna get more connected to our African ancestry. It makes no sense to me. Even the conversation people be having now about getting mad because African

coach is represented at Essence Fest. Like what are we doing? It's just weird. It's definitely weird. Like what are we doing? And this weekend y'all, if y'all are out in Milwaukee, make sure y'all get your tickets for the Just Hilarious Desi Alexander Show. We on the Bad Parenting Tour.

We got two shows Friday at the Improv and then two shows Saturday at the Improv. I will be doing meet and greet at the late shows Friday and Saturday night. So get your tickets if you have not yet. And don't forget to get your tickets for Arlington, Texas next week as well. I'll be at the Improv Friday and Saturday y'all. Jess Hilarious, Official.com. See y'all next week. It's time to get up out of here.

All right, Charlamagne, you got a positive note? I do, but I just want to remind everybody that tomorrow, you know My wife and I we opened up some crystal franchises in south canton and tomorrow we're cutting the ribbon on the second one In walter borough, south canton, congratulations. Thank you very much 1222 bells highway in walter borough, south canton I'll be at crystal from 1045 to 1145 on the dot, okay? So yeah, I'll see y'all tomorrow, Waltherboro. But the positive note is simply this, healing makes you realize some people

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