The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Quality Control CEO Pierre 'P' Thomas Hospitalized After Suffering Heart Attack + Deon Cole Interview

Episode Date: August 24, 2026

Today on The Breakfast Club, Deon Cole Talks 'Average Joe' S3, Grown Ups 3, 'Michael' Biopic, Comedy, Acting, Backlash. Plus, Charlamagne The God Gives Donkey of The Day to Enes Kanter Freedom Who Was Ejected From WNBA Game After Confrontation With Natasha Cloud. Listen for more. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Charlamay. Good morning. Good morning. What am I supposed to say now? It's Monday Peace of the planet It's Monday How y'all feel out there

I'm blessed black and highly favorite Happy to be here Another day to serve our beautiful listeners Good morning See that's what happens When one person is not here One band, one sound Okay, he's on vacation this week

All right Yes and he is the anchor of the show I'm sorry they just I've been on here I wasn't even late I've been on here since 545 Y'all ain't talked to me until 30 seconds ago

So sorry And then you came with another rhythm For Good Morning USA They threw me off. Like, come on, one band, one time. All right? You know how this goes. I understand.

I can't wake that little no-limit soldier up. After her birthday weekend, I mean, Shane, she is, Shane Rusted. It's like, yo, I wake her up. Now I got her. Now it's going to be me, you, her, and Lauren on the show. Well, first of all, she wouldn't be so tired if she didn't have to do all her own work.

You know what I mean? I don't know why y'all working that poor little Mexican girl. She did it. She's the only two. She just turned two. And you got her cleaning the pool, cutting grass for our own party. She did not. I probably hung up for own pinata.

Shut up. And speaking of the party, it was canceled because we had 95% chance of rainstorms, which I saw Friday. So something told me I should have just, like, waited it out. But it was raining. We woke up Saturday morning. It felt like God had a picture of water. Like, listen, I'm just, I'm just drown y'all out. Like, it was coming down so hard.

So I had to cancel everything. But by 12 o'clock, sunny for the rest of the day, it looked like a total different day. I was so sad. I was so upset. But I got to spend the weekend with my baby girl. So I was happy about that. I'm sorry you'll did the party in the house, though, right? They did a little something?

No, the little kids was not coming to my house. So we rescheduled. And we took Marley to do things. Like, no, uh-uh. My house is like, what, 70% glass? Let another kid bring something in this house. Oh, it would be crazy. So no.

Nobody's allowed in my house. So you had a cool weekend is what you're saying. I had a cool weekend. Okay. Yeah, I spent some quality. time with my two-year-old. I kept it light. I went to go see the Liberty

played Indiana fever this weekend. I had to go support my girl Raven Johnson for the fever. Other than that, I kept it light. Did they win? No, the fever lost to the Liberty on Saturday. They said there was protests there. Did you see them? I wasn't paying no attention. I saw it on the news this morning.

I didn't come in that way anyway. I heard about it. Good morning, Jess. I'm sorry. I've been getting my life together over here. Y'all is a little early. I heard about it. the protest. I don't know. Honestly, them protests

don't never be as big as people. I feel like it was probably less than 200 people included in the full protest. What were they protesting for? The whole transgender and WMBA thing because Sophie Cunningham plays for one of the teams. Sophie Cunningham played for the Indiana Field. I mean, she had a lot of support in the building as well, though. There was a lot of people out there

supporting her and it was a few opposing people. I don't know. That's what the news said. Sofia, a trans woman? No, man. She's a biological woman, man. Oh, okay. That's amazing. That's great. Deanna Feevo. That's amazing.

Dionne Cole will be joining us this morning. Season 2 of Average Joe premiered on Wednesday, August 19th on Paramount Plus, Deion will be here to talk about that. Plus, a whole bunch of other things. He's in the new Adam Sandler movie, grown-ups three years. Michael Jackson movie?

Yeah, he played Don King of the Michael. Don King. Dionne Cole out here smoking stuff. So we'll talk to Deon Cole when he comes next hour. And Mimi Brown will be up next with Front Page News. But we're starting to show with, right? We got anything good? What's Chris Brown?

Which Chris Brown? I don't even care. I'm not even having this point more. I'm not the program director and music director. I don't even care. All right, we'll be back. It's the world's most dangerous morning show

The Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the World's Most Dangerous Morning Show the Breakfast Club. DJ Envi, Jolari, Shalameen, the God. Envy is off today. But Lauren LaRosa is here. I'm up.

I just woke up. She is. And her shoes are loud. Shut up. She was allowed, loud in color and loud and sound. Little pop of color. Let me see your shoes, low. I can't just see.

Oh. You should not be throwing that up without putting lotion on the parts that. I lotion very well this morning. And I did a little skin bronzer. Shout out to Fenty. I'm trying some new products. Okay. Me and me,

Brown. Time of my page. Good morning. Lo. Shard. Jess, how y'all doing this morning? Good morning.

Good morning. So we started this morning in Gary, Indiana, where 30,000 customers have been without power now for 13 days, probably 14 days, almost two weeks. after a deadly storm hit the area. So the storm brought tornadoes, flooding, and winds reaching 100 miles per hour.

Seven people were killed. Now, families, they say they still cannot keep food or medicine cold, power, medical equipment, or charge their phones. And some neighborhoods are still completely in the dark. Gary Mayor Eddie, Gary Mayor Eddie Melton, he says there is no excuse for this to be going on this long. Let's listen. Today I want the people of Gary to know this. I want you to know that I share that frustration. I've stated in strict communications with Nipsco that have made it very clear that the current pace of restoration is unacceptable.

While Nipsco has set a target date of August 25th for full restoration, power is still being restored as we speak right now. And I am still pressing them to fully restore Gary's power before the August 25th date, which is this. Tuesday. Hey man to me this is all one big social experiment because for years they've been telling us that it was going to be some type of national blackout. I don't think none of this is coincidence but don't listen to me. How are people

eating? Like how are they drinking eating? You know what I mean? Like that's not healthy because if the power is out, the refrigerators, the freezers and everything, all the food is spoiled and then if there's no power at all in the whole city, is it just the residence? Maybe I'm sure it's the whole city like no businesses, everything is shut down.

Businesses, school? everything shut down. So how were you eating? How were they even getting food? Well, several groups are stepping up to help. I know World Central Kitchen is serving meals. I know rapper Trey the Truth. He brought an 18-wheeler of supplies. Sheldon up to more than a thousand families. Today, food critic Keith Lee and NBA star, Tyrese Halliburton, they are there to distribute more supplies. You can check Keith Lee's Instagram for the location. And, you know, residents there, they are just basically, just as you said, just trying to feel.

figure out how to how to feed their families, how to get air condition, go to cooling centers and things like that. They meet a lot of the residents. They file class action lawsuits against the power company accusing them of failing to maintain the trees near those power lines. And this goes, they are denying any wrongdoing, but they said that they will fight that lawsuit if brought to them. And my full interview with Mayor Melton is available on my podcast. And he explains how to get, how to get assistance, where to find cooling and charging stations. How to apply for reimbursement if you need it for some of the things that you've had to come out of your pocket with and To remember to call two one one if you are any sort of emergency if you need anything you can always call 211

And now what's also making a lot of noise this morning is Memphis. They are dealing with the same type of crisis Oh my god Yes, it moved through the city on Saturday bringing winds up to 80 miles per hour now at the height of the storm more than a hundred and forty thousand thousand customers lost power. And as of last night, more than 80,000 were still in the dark. Schools are closed, businesses are closed, and tens of thousands of families there are also

without ear condition as temperatures are climbing into the 90s. They say crews are working to restore power but the utility company, Memphis light, gas, and water says damage is so widespread, it cannot tell every customer when the lights will be back on. Tennessee State Representative

Justin J. Pearson says AI data centers, share some the blame for what's going on. Let's listen to what he had to say. Memphis is a majority black city where a quarter of the population currently live underneath the poverty line, and this is the same place where Elon Musk chose to build the country's largest set of data centers which have the same electric grid as Memphis families now without power. Also left in the dark right now are tens of thousands of residents of Gary, Indiana, who've been without power for almost two weeks now. And Gary is a city where 75 to 80 percent of its residents are black,

and a third of the residents are living below the poverty line. And Indiana is home to 147, yes, 147 data centers. And Gary's electric grid powers eight of them. This energy demand calls residents' utility bills to skyrocket, and now we're dealing with what's going on right now. I told you all that last week. Listen, it's only going to get worse. It's a combination of extreme weather because of climate change,

the aging infrastructure, and yes, surging powers from AI data centers. It's going to continue to cause these things to happen. And y'all know it's crazy. I talked to the trade of truth yesterday about, the work that they were doing in Gary, Indiana. And he was saying a lot of the work that they did was just clearing the way for people to be able to even get. Some people were stuck in their homes, couldn't get to their homes.

So not only do you not have power, but like their, their, like, their residences. Like, people are, like, trapped. And people are just not coming to help them. So, like, they don't even know. They can't even get out to fight. Drop from war. Like, some trees falling in the house and flooding. And nobody's coming through the help.

And there's like, yeah, like, they were literally there for a long time, just getting trees. And speaking of Gary, Indiana. And that's why Michael Jackson made that song. They don't really care about us. All right, Mimi. What's the next? Gary, right? He's from Gary, Charlemagne. He is from Gary, Jess.

Coming up at 7, we're going to talk about it in the next hour. A major setback for Carmelo Anthony. His legal team is preparing for their next fight. But we're going to get into that in the next hour. All right. It's time for get it off your chest. You can reach out and touch us right now. 1-800-585-105.1.

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Everything with me is best. Call up next. 800-585-105-1. Not just me. I'm with the coach of feeling. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's this? Hey, what's this?

This is Sonia from Omaha. What are they doing? Peace, Sonia. How you feeling on this Monday morning? Hey, yo, I'm feeling blessed, black, and highly favored by the guy of the book. There you go. That's amazing. And, yo, I'm going on vacation.

Where are you going? You going to see Jeezzy? Vegas. Yeah, and you know what? I'm taking a different way we're driving from Omaha, and we're going to camp in Wyoming. Wow. And it's about to be, oh, we're about to see Utah, the freaking salt, desert, all that cool stuff. Utah is beautiful.

So it's a road trip. Oh, yeah. We're taking it with some other adults. You know, we're going, it's about to be a whole little thing. What that's all. You got an RV? Well, we're a tent camp, and we have a large inflatable tent. Right now, I'm that at work with my girl Christine.

I'm the manager at Anderson's Convenient Market. Give a little shout out. How many studs traveling? Damn, first of all. How many studs? To be so, man, that's what I'm talking about. See, somebody hurt you. I told you this before.

I just asked a question. I just asked a question. How many studs traveling? Some gay woman hurt him. Hey, it's just me. You the only one? My wife. Oh.

And her cousin and her husband. And how did you? It's like he got a stud radar, bitch. Like, he'd be known. Hey, yo, because a stud hurt him, somebody. Oh, we did it. All I did. I'm telling you all.

You know what? I went too deep. Too fast, too quick. I will never acknowledge your community ever again, then. Okay? You know what? I want to give a shout out for Christine husband real quick. Dustin, he's in a hospital.

Why? I don't know, but he in there. He were working, busting it out, making that money for a family still. Damn. That's what I'm saying. While y'all on your road trip, make sure you all subscribe to the No H***o podcast, okay, on the Black Effect I Heart Radio Podcast Network. Right. It's Britt and DJXL, man. Boss Britt and DJXL. They're two studs, you know, based out of Atlanta. I think you really enjoy it. I'm not even joking. I'm not trying to be, I'm not joking. I'm being honest with you.

He is joking. Hey, I ain't even going to catch. I'm going to check it out, but, yo, I want to give a shout out to, I don't know if I could real quick. Of course. To my wife, I love her. But I also want to shine a light on this thing called the Franklin Files. And it's happened here in Omaha. and it happened on 33rd and Decatur down the street from my house. And I'm going to tell y'all right now, it's some sick-ish going on in this world. And it happened here in Omaha. This was like the hub of it.

I believe you. You ain't got a deal with me. And when I tell y'all, they got National Parks named after one of the dudes who got fellatio from a 16-year-old kid in an adult video store in, like, 1980-something. And they named... They're a state park.

after him. We need to put light on this by KETB News Watch 7 who airs the victim's videos all that. And they killed a detective. Jesus Christ. That should be on somebody True Crimes podcast. Absolutely. They came out with a

they came out with a documentary about it, but they covered it up. That's why they call it the Franklin cover up. The Franklin cover up. I'm going to look that up. Well, thank you for calling. Enjoy your road trip, okay? Yes. Enjoy. Hey, we will. You already know how we get down in the O&E, baby.

And I love you, Jess. You are the funniest girl ever. Thank you, babe. I love you more. Actually, you're the funniest girl ever because you said you got a wife and a lover. Shut. No, I never said that our wife and a lover.

Don't put that out there. Don't you dare put that out there. I have put this place behind you. All right, all right. Thank you for calling. Okay, get it off your chest. You can call up and tell us why you're blessed. All you can call us and tell us why you're stressed.

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Call up now. 800-585-105-1. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Good morning. Who's this? Yo, this Sean from Minnesota. Peace, Sean. Get it off your chest, sir.

Yeah. First of all, good morning, Jess. Good morning, Shaulamaine. Peace, peace. Charlene, I'm just getting straight to it. I just want to, I want you to tell me if I should keep my day job or if I should pursue wrapping. Oh, God.

Keep your day job. Not on right. You can hear me out? Keep your day job. Listen to me. Listen to me. It is 168 hours in a week. That's more than enough time to deal with your reality and, you know, chase your dream of rapping.

But it's so funny you bringing this up. I was watching a video yesterday with all of these influences talking about how they all have had to go get nine to fives because they realized that whole influence the thing was just an illusion. And they're not making the money that they once made. So now they, you know, getting jobs. And one of the dude was working at FedEx. And he was like, man, I can't believe I ever told people not to get a job. Everybody is not good at it, though.

Yeah, I always had a job. But yeah, I do. Let me just rap for you real quick. Let me just hear something. Let me say that. Okay, go ahead. You can't even give it my advice until you hear his daughters. All right, look.

Yo, I'm a smooth criminal road. I'm too pivotal mood. This juice fill up a room. I use syllables too hit new pinnacles. You just do minimal food. That's too pitiful. I'll move mythical snooze and lose visual. You couldn't live in my shoes.

They too big for you. these days the truth seems too fictional news is too cynical schools need new principles forget all the rules they screw into you is true they do what they do to keep you miserable so loosen the noose and move sensible choose what you listen to do what you fin to do call me the glue i'm too integral i'm the dude i'm invincible nothing is too difficult yeah yeah i mean you listen you need to keep your job i mean it's not that you whack but it's just that you still should keep a job i think honestly you don't sound confident.

Yo, your rhymes would kill if you came with a little bit more bark behind it, like a little bit more force. Like, you believed it. I love the bars. It just don't seem like you believe it. So just believe it a little bit more before you quit your job.

I don't even think you should ever quit your job. Why would you quit your job? You still got to pay for studio time. You still got to pay producers for beats. Like, you still got to pay rent and eat. Like, why could you do that? Yes. It's okay, brother.

What's your job? I'll work at Amazon. Boy. Oh, yeah. you can work that. Oh yes. Keep that job. Keep your job, sir. Okay. And pursue your dream. Like I said, it's $168 in a week. I want you to put together like a time sheet schedule. And I want you to tell me all of the things that you're putting your time to. I mean, everything. Like, what are you spending 20 hours a week on? What are you spending 30 hours a week on?

What are you spending 40 hours a week on? And that includes sleep as well. So I want you to do that. I guarantee you've got more than enough time to chase your dreams and deal with your reality, sir, which is working at Amazon. I write my brother. Peace. Jesus Christ, man. What do you mean Jesus Christ? That was good. It wasn't good enough to, you know,

pursue a dream. Good morning. Who's this? Good morning, Sar. What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up?

Treff. Good morning, Treff. Oh, my, listen, this is a brown gay out here grinding. What's up, Lo? Okay. Oh, no, that's right. Big top in is you.

I just wanted to call and say, um, Shar, we look good again during our preseason game. We did, we did. We did. Our rookies looking good. People keep telling us like you excited about preseason. Yes, it shows us what our rookies are out here doing and who can make the team and might

make a difference for us. As long as Camden Brown make the team. I need Camden Brown to make the team. I think Camden look good out there. I think he looked good out there too. And I was going to talk about so on Friday I got donkey today. When I'm trying to say that, you know, the electric company doesn't charge C-P for being without power

and I'm calling back again to say I've been working there for five years we've had storms here in Philadelphia over the last five years and we do not charge customers when there's a storm and they don't have power. That's just how it works.

That's just the truth. I don't know, man. But look, shout out to everybody that's waking up this morning. I'm about to go clock into their career. That's right. You know, because it's nothing wrong with clocking into a career

because one, we have dental plans. And some of y'all who are bosses need a dental plan to get teeth messed up. Some of y'all be saying y'all bosses don't have no dental plan, no 401k, no pension, and y'all be needed a dental plan. Well, you know, they are... Yeah, all you have is muffins. Well, you know, they out there spending their money on veneers now, though, Trash.

Well, look, all people got... They're just going to sit on the side of the road and sell muffin. And sell dirty muffins. That's all they do. Dirty muffins. Who the hell selling dirty muffins? What's a dirty muffin? Talking about cupcakes.

I don't like all of this gay-on-gay, just gay-on-gay vibe. You know what? I was going to leave him alone, because he already said he got a sad life, but he's really the most positive person. Because he keeps tagging me all on his page. He said me go dig my little sister up.

But I don't, I don't speak when it did, though. No, I didn't. No, no, no, no, no. That's too far. That's way too far. If Stacy said that, I'm going to check Stacy myself. He ain't, tell you that. No, no, no, no. He definitely did. He definitely did. I'll never see you when

a day. Yeah, we don't do that. All it is over to call-ins to the radio station. Yeah, we don't do that. We don't do that. But he's the most positive person, so, I mean, I'm going to keep pushing positivity. Well, Travis, I'm sorry that you had to deal with that, sir. And Stacey's shame on you. Hey, hey, I'm healed. It's fine. Yes, sir, yes, sir. Well, have a great, well, have a great day. All right, so. You know, so you said you was healed. I was going to tell you put some niels pouring around your booty hole but i forgot you at top first of all he is not about him i'm a thought i'm not i'm not butt hurt i'm not butt hurt have a great day you're okay that's it forget it off your chest we do that every morning uh 1 800 585 105 105 1 you can call up

and tell us why you're stressed or tell us why you're blessed and Lauren you got the latest coming up we do uh jeezzie got some new keys got a key to a city we're going to talk about first of all don't do that to jizi jizi does not live their life anymore keys to the city. No. A Vegas. Like you're honoring him. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's a good key, okay. Okay, okay. Um, yeah, so

Lil Kim also might be coming on her own symphony, so we're going to get into that. And we have some really important updates on a major name in music business who suffered a heart attack over the weekend. We'll be updating you guys a baby. Okay. All that morning we come back is the world's most dangerous morning to show the Breakfast Club. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pesto survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all?

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You be putting stuff in names and things on people all the time So relax All right y'all let's get into the latest So we want to You know send some healing energy to PPR Thomas, who is the co-founder of quality control music. For those of you guys who anybody that might not be familiar with

quality control music, they are responsible for the careers of artists. Some of your favorites, Migos, little babies, city girls, you know, quality control had a huge, a yachti under quality control as well too. But over the weekend, Pierre Thomas, suffered a heart

attack in Vegas. Oh, that mercy. Now, when the news dropped, the reports were confusing. TMZ had did a report saying that he had suffered a heart attack and that he was in, you know, ICU care, which of course is really serious. There were other outlets that were pronouncing him as not alive anymore.

I don't understand how people just jump out there and say things. Yeah, God, damn. How do you just jump out there and say somebody pathway? Like, you don't even try to cite your sources. You don't try to check note, check and make sure that's correct before you just put that out there? I don't know where that came from. But when I saw TMZ story and then I saw the reports of him passing away,

because I've learned here to kind of like not jump into these type of things because they're so sensitive as urgently as I normally. family would, but I was confused and I wanted to make sure that I understood it best for when we talked about it. So I reached out to a rep that I knew for Quality Control, who sent over the statement that QC had also posted as well, too, just stating that they needed to make it clear that P was alive and that they were asking everybody to keep him in their prayers and their thoughts and give him and his family the privacy that they need during this time. And they said that, you know, they appreciate everybody's concern and support, but they're asking just for loving energy right now. And I did see a video that P's mom that was circulating that his mother had posted as well. She was pretty upset about the reports. Let's take a listen.

Let me strain y'all all out. First of all, my son is not dead. No matter what my son has done to me, no matter what he's done to you, he's still my child. Somebody did this to him, and I know it because there's neurologically no reason. The area is alive. Is he well known? Don't count nobody out. Think about life.

We read what we're showing. in this life. So me, I'm a child of God. So no matter what you did to me. I can't walk away from my child like that. I don't know who gave TMZ that story, but cut the life. He's healing. He's recovering. Yes, and I'm here. He's raising up like Lazarus, okay? No matter what my son has done to me, no matter what he has done to you, that's a pretty backhanded way to give some positive energy. Like, who's that about it? Yeah. Anyway, man. Unless she said it twice. Sending prayers up to P.

You know what I mean? Nothing but a positive energy to that brother. As soon as I heard that news, that's the first thing I did was get down on my knees to pray. Like, you know, people would be so quick to want to text and, you know, post and like, yo,

did you actually pray for the brother when you heard the news? Did you? Like, I really want you all to think about that. When y'all hear these type of things happen, do y'all really sit down and pray or do y'all just get on social media

and put thoughts and prayers? Did you really send up a prayer? I wonder. At least a dear Lord cover him. I don't need, like, just, just aligner, something, yes. He's a good guy. Yeah.

Me and P always been solid. He's a great brother, man. Yeah, so, you know, sending him a get well soon, and, you know, he's going to need some rest and some privacy. So, you know, how old is he did that? Like 45, 46, maybe? He's still, that's young. Yeah. Me and Jess were talking about earlier how heart attacks we used to think that they were like such an older person's thing.

And then now it's like it doesn't matter your age. That's what I always tell you all about it. The younger, we see people have heart attacks and strokes and things. And it's just said. That's why I'll be pushing Dr. Puma so heavy. I'll be telling you, I'll go get your cardiovascular, you know, health check. Yeah. Look to my guy, Pete.

I always said Pete was one of the only people that can call me and be like, yo, I got a new artist. And I'll be like, okay. And I'll interview him early because he's had such a great track record. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Yep. All right.

Well, still staying in Vegas, but shifting gears a bit to something a bit more positive that happened there over the weekend, GZ received a key to the city of Los Vegas. And it was presented to him by none other than LeBron. Let's take a listen. I want everybody to give a shout out to my fucking cheesy. He gets his own damn Las Vegas. I'm here to present you for the key to the city by the B. Oh, wow.

Wow. This is all your town. Oh, God. This is love, man. Sir. You got one up here, man. This is supposed to be the last show, right? Y'all since working out.

I heard you got announcement for the people. You want to tell them? Yes, yes, man. Y'all been so good to me. This is a soul that I cry. I don't want y'all to know. I don't want to stop doing this. I wanted to create a rule when we can couple like-minded people enjoy ourselves.

I do this for y'all, and I won't stop. I'm going to keep doing it if you, I ain't got no breath in my body. And with that being said, I'm going to do nine more dates in Los Vegas Nevada for y'all right now. I'm announcing them right now. The legend continues. Nine more dates. I got to go back. Period.

No, no, that's not the date that will be there. I was going to say the day that because we're going to Vegas for the IHeart Music Festival. So, yeah, he added the nine more dates. So it goes from November. way through New Year's Eve. Pre-sale is happening right now. He has a code that he posted on his Instagram, Snowman, and then actual tickets go on sale sale this Wednesday to 26 at 1 p.m.

So if you have not seen it already, I didn't get a chance to go see it yet. But my friends were actually there last weekend, and they had a ball. It's incredible, man. When you see all these beautiful black people dressed up in their tuxitos and women in their cocktail dresses, and, you know, you're just out there listening to Jeezzie, do classics from the recession to thug motivation, the trap would die with that orchestra. Oh my God.

You know what's, it's corporate thugging for real. You know what, though, these orchestra and symphonies because I know Gucci did one as well, too, are becoming like the, like this is brought back again how hip-hop artists are using this to honor their catalog. Little Kim, she's going to be celebrating 30 years of hardcore, the album. She's going to do a special night in Brooklyn

with an orchestra as well, too. So this is like a trend that it's like, it's been around, but it's back. And, you know, all the artists are doing. glad that our legends are doing it. You know what I mean? Like our, man, like the G. That's going to be hilarious to watch them 50-something-year-old women be out to talk about.

I used to be scared. They already on Instagram. Like a good bitch. I've been seeing them already on Instagram. Like, this time would be at hardcore. Getting dressed doing their makeup already. So, yeah, shout out to GZ. Yeah, that's the latest for the hour.

All right. We got front page news with Mimi Brown. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Yes. It's the World Most Dangerous Morning. Show the Breakfast Club, DJ Envi, J. N.V., Jaltolari, is Shalameen to God. Envi is on vacation, but right now it's time for front page news with Tamisha Brown.

Good morning, Tamisha. Hey, Mimi. Good morning. Thank you. Good morning, y'all. So we start this hour with a Texas judge denying Carmelo Anthony's request for a new trial. So Anthony is serving 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet. Anthony said he acted in self-defense, but a jury rejected that argument and

convicted him of murder. Now his new legal team, they argued that decisions made by his former trial attorneys prevented him from receiving a fair trial. Before that the trial, Anthony's former attorneys and prosecutors, they made this private unwritten agreement to keep damaging information from both teenagers away from the jury. Now, that included allegations of racist behavior, bullying involving Metcalfe and alleged threatening messages involving Anthony. Now, Anthony's former attorneys, they plan to have him testify. They said they wanted him to testify, but after a dispute over what prosecutors could ask him, he ended up staying off the witness stand. Now, his new legal team, they argued that that prevented Anthony from fully defending himself. And the new judge in the case, though, he rejected that argument and denied the request for a new trial. So now the fight moves to the appeals court where legal experts say his new legal team will continue searching for evidence to help overturn. turned his conviction. Let's listen. So when somebody sentenced to a sentence like that, which was 35 years in almost a life sentence,

there'll be plenty of time to relitigate this exact matter. Right away, they brought it up and said, you know, new lawyer said, hey, there was this gentleman's agreement. Much to our client's detriment shouldn't happen, you know, was bad practice on their part. So they wanted to get in there right away and get a new trial. Look, it's been denied. He's going to go up on appeal. But while that's pending, they can continue to gather evidence, do some research, investigate,

give more evidence about this gentleman's agreement. Kind of look at the record determine how it really prejudiced him. Refile a motion. You can file a new trial motion on new evidence just about any time. So this is not the end of this case. Not at all. A pill going to take years, though, right?

It is going to take years. It is going to take years. Anthony's attorneys and his families say the denial does not end the case, as we just said, though. And they will pursue every legal option available to them. But for now his murder conviction and his 35 year sentence remains in place.

So we'll continue to watch this as it plays out and bring you any new updates as they become available. I mean, nobody surprised by this though, right? Like my dad always said trouble is easy to get into and hard to get out of. I mean, somebody is dead in this situation. Yeah, I'm not surprised. I just never understand why people don't want folks to testify, especially if they have nothing to hide, you know? Yeah, yeah. Very, very hard to get out of once you've already been convicted.

Those are very slippery slopes there. And we have a sad update to a story we told you about last week. So you guys remember the grandmother that we spoke about that disappeared in Vegas? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So Alyssa Goods, the New York grandmother who disappeared during a Las Vegas trip, she has been found dead after missing for nearly two weeks, yes. Authorities say her body was discovered in a drainage ditch near the Las Vegas area.

airport. Police say surveillance video shows goods falling down an embankment, getting back up, and then collapsing, and then she did not move again. Now, when we spoke about this last week, you know, she left for CBS, maybe there was some foul play, was what was

being reported. Someone was calling from her cell phone asking her friends and family for money, but after that fall, authorities say that she wasn't seen from the street because she fell at the bottom of a slope. And her daughter now says that she had recently undergone several leg surgeries

and had difficulty walking. And we're waiting on police to release the official cause of death. So that's where we're... 63 years old. That's young, man. Yeah. You see her? She looks young. She looks young.

And she was walking? She was walking. She didn't drive. So she took the bus to CBS and then I guess on the, she ended up going to CBS because there is video of her in CBS. The store manager remembered her. But as she was leaving, She ended up falling or collapsing. It's still unsure exactly what happened to her.

And they said that she just wasn't seen again until two days later when she was found in that drainage ditch. Oh, it is. Yeah, this is a story you guys may remember. The former Illinois sheriff deputy who was convicted of killing Sonia Massey in her home, he has died in prison. So Sean Grayson, he was serving a 20-year-old. sentence for second degree murder Macy, she was a 36-year-old black mother of two. She was in Chicago.

She called 911 for help. This happened back in 2024. Is this ring a bell at all for you guys? Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely. Okay. Well, Grayson, he served only about six months of that sentence before his death. He ended up having stage three colon cancer, which spread

he was later diagnosed with stage four rectal cancer and cancer of his liver and lungs. So he had asked to be release early from prison under an Illinois law that lets people with terminal cancer and other serious medical conditions get out early. But the state denied his request in a unanimous vote just about three weeks ago. And his attorneys confirmed that he died yesterday and no other details have been given. So, yeah. Yeah, that happened.

I mean, there's a lot of heavy stories. So we're going to end with a little bit of good news because this is for college students and parents maybe as well. So before we go, the cost of tuition, textbooks, and everything else, of course, that comes with college can be expensive. So DoorDash says they are offering students one way to save. College parents and college students can now get one free year of student dash pass. So that includes no delivery costs and lower service fees on eligible orders. You must verify that you are a student and sign up by October 12. So they're urging college students to take advantage.

This could come in handy during those late night study sessions. but just remember that it will automatically renew at the student rate after a year unless you cancel. I mean, that's great, but what I really need is free food. I mean, what is like? Yeah, I didn't say free food. Free delivery. Right. The food is still expensive.

How much is Door Dash costs? Like, I mean, what do they wave your tip fees and your service fees? Like what? Yeah, that's what they're saying. So on some, it says eligible orders, whatever that means, right? But free delivery and some service fees on eligible orders. And you know, those fees add up, right? They got a fee for everything.

Exactly. I talked about this last week. I said that I already started seeing that. Like DoorDash, they are like $10, $20 cheaper right now because, like, they're slashing prices. And I see the eligible whatever thing. I'm on DoorDash right now actually getting something. That's how I'm actually able to see now too. But I don't know what makes you eligible or not because I'm not signed up with the rewards program,

but they're definitely cutting down on fees for right now. I mean, that'll be great in areas where, you know, these colleges have active meal plans with, like, the restaurants and fast food places around the area. Yeah. Yeah, and I just think college students in general, you know, if there's something you don't like or it was late at night in cafeteria's closed, you know, there you go. All right, y'all, well, that is your front page. Please check out my interview with Jasmine Crockett, actually, too. I was about to say, girl, saw y'all looking pretty in that studio. How you ain't playing no clue to your Jasmine Crockin interview this morning?

I was going to play them tomorrow because there was so much news that we really needed to get through today with the power outages. And all the sad stuff. All the sad stuff. Yeah. Self-promotion is always good. I know. I saw that interview going viral all week. Thank you.

Yeah. Y'all got good. She wanted to load us up with all the sad stuff on a Monday. I'm sorry. It's just so much happening this weekend. You're learning self-promotion. It's okay. It's a new thing.

Thank you, I understand. Thank you. Thank you. But I will be back tomorrow with all of it. Yes. And go listen to, like you just said, go listen to Mimi's interview with Jabner Crockin on her front page news podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network. But she'll play some clips of that tomorrow as well. Yes, I will.

Thank you, Meena. And when we come back, Dionne Cole will be joining us. He'll be here to talk season two of Average Joe, amongst other things. It's the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NVJ, J. Jolameenig. We are the Breakfast Club.

Lawler Rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. He has his fan on right now, ladies and gentlemen. His portable fan. Dionne Cole, welcome, brother. I'm good, man. How you doing, brother?

I don't think he would realize manapause is real. Man, it's real. I've never heard of it. I've never heard of it. Man, I'd be hot, bro. Yeah? Man, man. So what happens to y'all?

You get high and then what else? I don't know. I just get hot. Same thing. Sometimes fresh out to shower. Man. I just took a shot. Why am I?

I'm like, why am I hot? I don't know what's going on, but I keep my fan with me. How are you feeling, brother? I am good. I see your hat, man. You was at the concert. Were you there? I was there all four days.

Three days? Sunday was four. Sunday was four. I went on four days. Yesterday. Sunday, Monday. It's a long time. You know, Dan, I was interesting about you.

People know you funny, right? But I'm not sure people understand how serious you are about being an actor. Oh, yeah. You think being great. that comedy has made people slower to recognize you as a dramatic actor? Oh, man. The way that I look at acting, man,

it's like, if you're going to do it, you're going to do it. You know what I mean? I'm not going to just go be a comedic actor. Like, I just feel like if you're going to act, you're going to act. Like a beautician, right? If you do black hair, you left some money on the table.

If you're going to be a beautician, do hair. Do white hair. Do Hispanic. Do hair. See, I don't think like that. I feel like, yo, If I'm going to be a beautician, I'm going to be a beautician. I'm not going to be a black beautician or white beautician.

I'm going to be a beautician. And I'm going to learn how to go, how to do hair all across the table. Just like when they come to acting, I'm not just going to do comedy. I want to do drama. I want to be vulnerable. I want to be funny. I want to be ill. You know what I mean?

I want to play all these different characters and all these movies that I've done characters in or whatever, they all been different. Did I hear it in an MJ movie, you were Don King, of course. They said that you did it after it was already right? Yeah. So how did that happen? So I was in Cape Town, South Africa. Shooting, shooting, Shooting, Joe. And I heard that they were shooting the movie.

And I was just like, man, I was like, I want him being that so bad. You know, I was like, but, you know, Coleman Domingo, that's my guy. I was like, we're going to support this Antoine Fuquist. My guy, Graham King. All my people went in there. We're going to support it anyway. And when I came back from South Africa, I heard that they had to do the third act over.

And I was like, wow. And it was like for legal reasons, whatever. And I was like, oh, still not thinking of nothing. But then, man, I got a call that was like, yo, we need you. No, no, Antoine Foucaulte want you to come get down and play Don King. And I was like, what? Like, I couldn't believe it because I ain't ever heard of nothing like that. They had to gather up another $15 million to shoot that third act.

Really? You know what I mean? Yeah, and then everybody that was in the third act, they had to, they didn't make the movie. They might make the sequel. I mean, I don't know. But they didn't make, they didn't make this first one. You know what I mean?

And so to redo it and bring me in was like, that was like a power of God to me. You know what I mean? Like, how can you even fathom that happening? You know what I mean? When you wanted something so bad, not to the point where I was tripping. But you said it out loud and it didn't happen. You know what I mean?

And I was like, and that ain't even how. I manifest things. I manifest things backwards. You know, I say I'm not going to have nothing in it happens. Like, for real, though, if you, I manifest things like that. Like, you ever go, like, leave your phone out and you go to the bathroom and the ring? Yes. So you'll be in your mind, my mind, and I know this is going to sound weird, stick with me.

In the universe, I go like this. If I want my phone to ring, then I just won't bring it in the bathroom because I know it's going to ring, right? Same thing if I'm driving. Listen, if I'm driving and I drop my phone and I want to grab my phone, I'm going to catch every green light. Because the universe ain't going to let me grab my phone. You get what you're saying?

That's what you said. The second one got me there. The first one I was a little... So stick with me. So how about if I'm late somewhere? How about if I throw my phone down? Get all the green lights? I'm going to make all the green lights.

So I try to figure out how to make that work for me. Yeah, I get what you saying. You get what you said. You get it. You get it. If it was meant for you to grab your phone, University State Red Light. There we go.

So if I throw my phone down, I'm going to catch all the green lights, and then I'm going to make it to my place on time. You think God here you'd be like, I ain't going to do it. He'd be like, let me just show you. Yo, I just think that it'd go opposite. Like, if you're looking for a parking space, you ain't going to find one, right? But if you ride by your favorite store, it's going to be all the parking spaces in the world because you wasn't even looking for one.

You get what I mean? Got you. Just like when you find your boyfriend or whatever, you probably wouldn't even looking for him, right? You know that guy that told me, yeah, that the guy that cussed me out that day. He didn't even cuss. Which one? He didn't cuss, but he was mean.

What happened, Lo? It was after the Roots picnic. Dion DM'd me. It was very late. It was like 1 a.m. Right. So he DM me, hey you. My phone's playing the music in the car.

It's sitting up here on the, you know, the middle part. And I don't be hiding out because I ain't doing that. He sees the DM. He ain't really like that. Listen, I was responding to my mother. You left me a message first saying, Hey, you at the roof picnic and I said something about your mother. You left me a text message saying about your mother wanted to say something.

That was, I wasn't just hitting you up. I wasn't just hitting you up. Those DMs about my mom was up. It was like a month ago. That's what I saw. And that's why he was upset because the ones about my mom, he knows my mom is a finny. But why am I? I'm not hitting you up like, yo, what's up, girl?

What's happening? What are you on? What you doing? The DMs about my mom were April 26. second, the hey you was May 31st at 12.11 a.m. Yeah, I'm busy. Have we ever even had any kind of anything? At all? And I've said that

but I think he didn't like it. So what he said to you, Dio? He shouldn't have that kind of insecurity because of your line of work. I mean, yes and no. I think he understands my line of work but at 12. 1 a.m. Just saying, hey you with no context and I was like, but listen, we are out at the Roots

picnic. I didn't even know you saw me at the Roots Picnic and everybody out kicking it, everybody somewhere, everybody hanging out. See, I think, but if you had said, hey, where you had it after? But I didn't know your man was like, but you know I'm not on nothing. It's giving up.

But you know I'm not on nothing. I know that he don't know you. When I walked up to you, it was like, hey, what's going on, man? I said I was hitting you to find out what was going on. And he was like, yeah, I know you hit a something like that. And I was like this. No, I think I was like, no, I said, I said, I hit you.

And he was like, yeah, I know. It was like that. And I said, I don't think that that's corny. I think if everybody is, after 12 1 a.m., it's a little. But if we out at a Roots picnic and I don't know that you with your man and I'm going, and I know you know what's popping,

and I'm going, yo, what's up? But I think. So I shouldn't hit you at one. If we had the Red Roots picnic. I didn't even know you saw me, Deion. That's what I'm saying. You got to say. Hey you.

Hey you. I hate you. No. And then what you hit back? What in a hate of you going up? What did me? And also with your. let your guy know I like vintage pieces you know like I only mess with women that text me

good night at 6 o'clock okay them the women I mess with everybody notice this is what it is let your man know I think he's a great guy I just don't you know I don't I'll let him know I wasn't I wasn't on that dog and by what you're Lauren La Rosa you're the entertainment girl you know everything you know what going on you know a hundred percent but I do think that every now and then it's like because there have been circumstances where the hey you is not about where you headed it's like y'am what's up how are you have I ever came

off to you like I wanted to but there have been other people who have also never came off to me like that and now it's like hey like it's happening like those things do happen okay not I mean because he's seen that and experience but we just said he was going to my mom

the original conversation prior to that was about my mom so and what did you say about you was Like my mom wanted to say hey to you. My mom sent him a voice note. She loves the art. Thank you. But I do think here's what I'm going to say.

Then we should move on. I do think that what I learned from this situation is I need to immediately follow up like what's going on is news breaking basically. Bam, boom. Simple as that. I heard you say that the first season of average Joe was difficult because you've never been the lead before. Yeah. Yeah. I mean being number one on the call sheet, man, is it takes.

It takes everything. You can't DJ, you can't do comedy, you can't be hanging out. You can't do nothing. You gotta be there and you gotta not only perform, but you also have to make sure that everybody else is straight too. You know what I mean? So it was very difficult being number one on the sheet because I was still trying to do everything else

and I was coming in and sleep and tired. Yeah, to make those adjustments, it was something else. So as being the star more responsibility than privilege? Yeah, absolutely. It's way more responsibility because you ain't just dealing with your problems. You're doing with everybody's problems. You want to make sure everybody's cool. You want to make sure your cast is straight and that they, you know, are on all cylinders when they're performing or whatever.

You know, so you do what you can or whatever. And this season of Average Joe, I was able to, I was blessed to be executive producer on this. So now I'm even, I can help out even more with people in whatever issue. they have, you know, on the show when we was shooting that. That's even more responsibility, though. Because now you got ownership of what the show actually becomes. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So, yeah, it's just making shit.

If everybody comfortable, then we're going to get the best results. You know what I mean? Is carrying the whole show less fun? Because you're the guy that will come in, steal some scenes, and be out. Yeah, that's how I always did everything. But, yeah, now, but the beauty about the average, Joe is that it don't fall on me like that. You know, I got a wonderful cast,

Malcolm Barrett, who's funny as hell, Michael Trucoe, Cynthia, McKay Williams. They all are phenomenal actors, and, you know, all of that falls on them. I remember Tom Hanks saying this one time, and I added into my life. He was like, I just surround myself around amazing people and it make it look like I'm amazing.

So that was basically what the, you know, what the formula was, you know, to grab these people and be amazing and hopefully just hang in there with them or whatever. So, yeah, so and I appreciate everybody watching the show too, man. Thank you. What was the decision you made on average, Joe, that you was an actor wouldn't have made maybe, you know, 10 years ago? Learning that my problems, people watching the show don't know about my problems. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That role is your role. When that camera's on, don't nobody care about, nothing else you got going on. And the first season, I thought that, you know. I got fired the first season. The first day. First day on the set. For what? For not showing up.

On time? Yeah. I went to the wrong place. They gave me a rent-a-car, and I'm like, if you wanted me there. You had a car service. You had had a car service. So you shouldn't be able blaming me. So they was like, they was getting to know me, and they was like, we don't know if he

going to do this all the time. Is he on drugs, there's on alcohol? Let's just nip this in the bud right now and get rid of him. They did that to me. How late were you? I was like, probably like an hour late.

But I didn't know where I was going. I went to this other place rather than where they was having the table read. And I was like across town. So it took like another hour to get there and they had like the network on Zoom. And it was a whole bunch of people. So it made it a little crazy.

So it was crazy. But I thought I was going to the studio. I didn't know I was going to some hotel that they had. And so, you know, they was just like, yeah, no, I think we should replace them or whatever. So I was angry. The whole first five episodes, I was, like, I was like. How did you get it back?

They actually, I'm saying. They actually fired you and then you got it back. Man, so my people talk to their people and they was like, yo, everybody relaxes, talk. They was like, he know the lines. He know everything. Y'all might as would just use him. He's not like that.

They was like, we'll give him one more chance and all this. And I was like, all right, so now I'm not got an attitude because I'm like, how dare you get mad at me for not being here? And now you tell me I got one more chance. So every day on set, dog, I would do my scene and I would sit down and not speak to nobody, just chilling, arms folded, like, not worried about nobody's nothing. You know what I mean? And then around that fifth episode, that's when I got that information,

which is, you know, they don't care what you, how you feel. You know what I mean? You're doing your job. That's all they want. You do your job because that camera and people watching this don't care. And you're looking crazy right now. So like, yo, like buckle down. Stop being emotional and get to work.

So how did you get over it? How do you decide, I let me stop playing around? Man, I did just that. I just was like, man, I just sat back and was like, let me focus on this. Me being angry. I'm looking weird. I look like a princess and shit. Let me just chill.

Focus on this. And I did. and the rest of the season became what it was and then this season we just in the pocket we zoning out everybody comfortable

I'm not dealing with a whole bunch of this that and the third I'm not worried about getting fired and man we just all cylinders on this season and you ain't growing up three yeah we're filming right now

that's crazy filming right now out here yeah it's crazy how you become with Adam Sandler friends he only put his friends in movies sir I'm not his friend You know what Every time I saw Adam

I would see Adam Every time I seen him I would always go What's up Adam And he would always be like Man man man You're funny as hell man How you doing?

I'm like I'm good man And he always be like Man that's what's up man I'd be like man We're gonna work together one day He'd be like yeah I always say that to him for years Recently we was at the Netflix

They have this big comedian Oh yeah We see pictures all the time Yeah Yeah, so we had that. And I saw him. And I was just like, hey, man, what's up? And he was like, we did the same dance.

You know, man, we just worked together one day. But this day, he was just like, yeah, we should. And he just kind of looked. And then that was it. Next thing, I know I got this call. And it was like, man, he wants you to come rock with him. And I was like, where? He was like, yeah.

And I was just about to shoot my new special too. I was like gearing up, like about to shoot it. And I had to put it on the back burner to go get down. You know, with this legendary cast, man, and, you know, with Selma Hayek and Chris Rock and Maya Rudolph and Kevin James, Adam Sandler, just go over there and just, you know, pay ping pong with them. Just go over there, just go back and forth with them, man.

It's like, man, it's like a dream come true, man. And, you know, I've had the privilege of working with some legendary cast, you know, and this is just, you know, another testament to that. I wanted to ask you, you hosted the NAADP Awards. How bad did the Bob's get on? on your ass after you made up. They went at my ass. I'm sure they still coming at you.

Dog, they're not like they was, but they was like talking about my mama. And it's like, that dead bitch, da, da, da, da, da, the they was going crazy. No, they go crazy, dog. I was like, what is this? I could have told you that too. So as I heard you say that joke,

I said, oh, we're hearing for a long couple of weeks. I couldn't believe it. I was like, so I was like, man, let me get my vintage lady. and they're in my mrs asleep and I got my kids like we can't be fighting

and like I was like I got a good fan base like this though but no they was like I could not believe that and then other people were telling me

they was like no you never heard about how to do it with this you were hearing but you don't until you live it you go oh wow I went to a gas station

the next day after that and the chick wouldn't give me gas No way. I pulled up to the gas station. She said, we ain't got our delivery on gas yet. I was like, a dude just pumped gas and pulled off. She was like, yeah, we ain't got a more gas.

We're gonna Barbie, bitch. Don't. That's the only thing I can think of. I was like, yo, wait a minute. But yo, it was crazy. And the Tourette's people was after me. They were saying that, yeah, because the, what is it, the Michael B. Jordan thing at Baffa?

They never apologized to them. Oh, joke. Yeah, so I did a joke on him. And they was coming at me. Like, you said, if there are any white men in the room with Tourette, I advise you to tell them to read the room, it might not go the way they think it. I think that was good advice. Yo, great advice.

But they was like, yeah, Dion needs to apologize. And I was like, first of all, y'all apologize to your viewers. Y'all never apologize to Michael B. Jordan or Delroy Lindo. These are like our top shelf Negroes. You know what I mean? You can't just talk to them any kind of way. You know what I mean? This ain't like Soldier Boy or Ray J.

This is Delroy Lindo. You ain't never heard about Ray J. on, I mean, you're sorry. Not, not Soldier Boy. No, no. No, I think Ray J and Soldier Boy is a phenomenal. Too late, late. Too late, late.

You're about to get a Soldier Boy rent and a Ranger. No, I'm sorry, Soldier Boy and Rachel. You have the box rage in now. You got to go box. You got to go box radio now. Soldier Boy is going to be online screaming at you. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Sgtiboy.

No. You called the well, you got top shelf and in the well. Bottom shelf is crazy. That is wild. Bottom shelf is crazy. That is wild. No, I'm sorry. God, dang.

No, I'm sorry, y'all. Look, listen, listen, I'm trying to say something. They did not apologize to them. And I was like, yo, I'm not apologizing you until you apologize to them And they still haven't apologized to them So I stayed 10 toes down and it was like, you know, this is how I feel And you know, y'all got you guys especially being that they could have edited it out Dog they could have edited it out and they did not they let it ride and it's like I was shit you know

We're gonna stand on us too you know what I mean like f*** it like I say don't go over there no more I mean not go over there but the bad for shit like man until they apologize because they still have it. You know, that's weird. Have you not praying for Nikki no more? Do I pray for Nicky? You won't do it no more? Yeah, I'm done.

The Nicky. I don't, yeah, that was, that was crazy, dog. I was crazy. I was crazy. I was like, I can't. I'm leaving the phone. The only good thing about it now is you can trace those people now. Like, they used to could harass you and not deal with no consequences.

If you want to, you can find out who's behind them phone calls and them tweets and all of that. Really? Oh, yeah, absolutely. I came here. I don't even know where to begin to do that shit or whatever. Just find the worst one. Find the worst one and put some, put an investigation on. Da, they was on that.

My God, I was like, wow. They came at y'all, too, huh? Oh, yeah. Oh, of course. Over the years, absolutely. Damn, 100%. Has anybody ever scared y'all? No.

Be honest. No. Nobody. Once I do this, it don't even matter. You were scared? Somebody scared me for him. Who? Okay.

When the president mentioned his name? Oh. I was like, they're definitely going to random search and pat his ass down every time he goes through the airport. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that. You weren't scared of that? Oh, come on, man. I wasn't.

That's crazy. I'd have been a little nervous. And, you know, when you first read it, you're like, oh, but then it's just like, oh, shit. That's what he'd do. It's not like, he's a person that does that. It's like 50 cent getting at you. Like, you're like, oh, shit. They go 50 on my head, but that's what 50 does.

But government attacks from the president, though. That's different level. It's just a tweet. Yeah, I definitely thought it starts with a tweet, though, but then it's like a little stuff. I thought they were doing it last. I definitely did. It's a tweet.

I never had no problem. What? Let me knock on wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't have no problem. Did that have the one that scared you with the Nikki? I ain't ever witnessed nothing like that. I ain't never had nobody go. They used to attack being in him all the time.

Really? What? They used to go crazy. I was saying? Dead mama is. crazy. I mean, like, every day.

I remember that one dude was like, yeah, we're gonna dig her up, we're gonna fuck her up, and we're gonna, I was like this. Wow. Over a joke. It lasted for what,

like a week. Man, no, that f*** lasted. Like, three weeks. Like a month, that shit was going on. I was like, this is crazy. Like, over a joke.

And I can't get gas. Did you see if she blocked you? Are you blocked on her Instagram or Twitter? Did she block me? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I have no idea. I never even looked to even see it.

Whatever, you know. Yeah, do you ever laugh? This is my last question. Do you ever laugh when people describe you like you just got here? Like you ain't been out here working for 25 plus years? It's so crazy, dog. People, every, people be like, oh, who is that? Or they be like, oh, it's this guy.

Like, yeah, they actually don't be remembering anything that I probably did, you know? I'm like, I got like 10 NAACPA awards, two Emmy nominations. like all these things, you know, and I've been around for a while, I wrote for late night television. Yeah, calling them right, yeah, yeah. I'd been on three syndicated TV shows. It's still airing, you know what I mean?

Like, it's, and people still be like, oh, that's those spice dude, you know? But it's all love because everybody knows me for every, for different things. And, you know, it's just you, in this game, man, they never end. You just keep on throwing and keep it going, you know what I mean?

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L.L. Cool, babe. Talk to me. Oh, guys, we have some more sad news. Jesus. I know. Actor Michael Wright, who played Eddie King, Jr., or Eddie Kane, Jr. And the Five Heartbeats movie passed away over the weekend. Well, it was...

How old was Eddie Kane? He was 70 years old. Yeah. Well, we found out, because his family released the information over the weekend, but he had actually passed away in L.A. last Wednesday, according to his family. He suffered heart failure,

coupled with complications of a rare degenerative disease called Mark, I'm not going to get this right. Marchia Fia, Bignami, it's a... I don't know what that is.

Yeah, it's a very rare disease that deals with something with the brain and, like, things not forming well in the brain. It stems from other issues. Yeah, I don't know. But, yeah.

But he passed away over... He passed away in his family. that us know that over the weekend so people you know were pouring out tributes to him and I saw a lot of people reposting you know certain scenes from five heartbeats over the weekend I saw Robert Townsend also post about how great of a you know person and a friend he was as well too so rest in peace and I actually got to work with him when I did the sitcom REL he actually played well would always have like an OG come um and do each episode or whatever you know what I mean and so I got to work with him and he dropped some really really great jewels love love love love love

love him. I'll tell you something else. I don't think it was until we interviewed Robert Townsend years ago in the breakfast club. Did I realize the Five Heartbeats wasn't even a real group? A lot of people thought that they were real until I saw him in interviews saying that they weren't. I thought that I was watching a documentary about a group.

Like how they made. Not a documentary, but you know how they made the new edition movie? A biopic. Okay, yeah. Like the new edition movie. Like I thought it was like that until I saw them do interviews and I was like, wait, this wasn't even a real group. Yeah, because I was singing their song.

and everything. And I remember marching around the house, like, five hobbies better than the temptations. And my mother, like, shut up, because they're not even real. You know what I mean? Didn't know that. But Sugar Hill was also one of my favorite movies.

That's a black horror movie, too, because it was so sad. But I really, really enjoyed him in that role. Him and Wesley Snipes. Yeah. Rest and peace. Rest and peace to that, brother, man. Yes.

All right. Well, we're going to go to the West Coast to stay on the West Coast a bit because the game, he has been celebrating the documentary three album that we talk a little bit about on Friday. Great album. Great album. One thing about that guy the game, he can make some good-ass music, damn it. You're giving a 10 out of 10? You ready to review it yet? What, who said that? I'm asking you. How do we do that in America? Why do we do that? Why do we do that? Why do we do that? Why do we do that? Why do we do that? That's such a

good album. And she's like, is it a 10 out of 10? It's a lot of what you said. Well, there are I never here. That's the hell of the fact come from shows. That's how we get there. That's such a reflection of the world we live in. You are a commentator who reviews everything and talks about everything. Why do we have to go to such extreme? Because I know if anybody really listened to the album, you really listen.

I said it's a good album. All right. Well, the documentary three, according to a few hip-hop sites that I saw over the weekend, earned 1.61 million streams and it's opening day on Spotify. I got that from hip-hop all day. So it's doing well. All day. All day. But at the game,

he over the weekend had a He also gifted his daughter and Mayback for her birthday but he had a release party for the documentary three and he made some comments about some things that are going viral and we're going to talk about it a bit. So let's take a listen to the game talking about

Kendrick and Black Sam. I put Kendrick in places that I wanted to be able to wish to be able to be in a house with me and I didn't ask you know what time. Toprod wanted to give me half a TV. I told him that Glen Dawshree. He's still going to see the man.

He's doing me good thing bigger than other thing. And it did. So I got a love for When this fucking Drake came in the game, he adapted to me. How many, like, we got close. Drake is on my album's way back in. I'm not more type of, I'm on flip with my friends. I call Fais with my own homies to take Nipsey on tour, but I can't suddenly get in touch with Black Sam to howlady.

I don't understand him. I put Kendrick on his first mix tape. I show Kendrick number mud, but I can't get on the phone with that I'm gonna call that there ain't no hope. I'm just let you know that it ain't no static, so you hear it from my puts and in between this. Top dog, I can go out on the phone. And everybody know that I ain't holding my time for no problem.

What did I just hear? So we got a problem with Black Sam, Kendrick, and Top Dog, Law. Not Top Dog, Law. Top Dog from TDE. He was saying that. Oh, Top Dog Entertainment. Oh, Warren. I'm like, I know.

I kept hearing. My man, Top Dog. That isn't funny, though. They're probably like, why game beefing with Top Dog. Oh, damn. Cracking up. The game was saying that he can get Top Dog on the phone, and that dates back for some time.

But he's saying that, like, if he picks up the phone, and calls Black Sam, the brother of Nipsey Hustle, Black Sam went on the phone, and he can't call Kendrick Lamar on the phone. Because you know, when this project dropped, a lot of people were pointed to the fact that there were a couple songs on there where he is standing up for Drake essentially, and people feel like he should be drawn a line

in the sand because the whole West Coast and Kendrick Lamar. Yeah, but, you know, there's been, I don't know, there's been conversation around like what him and Kendrick Lamar's relationship is or is not for some time. I know a lot of people point to that the song that Drake in the game dropped 100. 100. Yes. and say that that was like the beginning of Kendrick Lamar distancing himself from the game as West Coast artist because Drake threw some shots at Kendrick Lamar on that song and they were in Compton film the video.

Yeah, Drake was in the video. Yeah. So he's talking about like, you know, people saying, I'm throwing shots or I got something to say, but I'm here speaking for myself. He was essentially, I think, trying to clear it up and say where things are, but it picked up as if like, okay, well, you guys just don't fool with each other. Remember we was having that conversation about the game and where the game stands and music and all of us were saying how great. great game raps. Yes. And that's true.

We know game wraps his ass off. We know game makes great music. But then it's always stuff like this. Yeah. That distracts from the actual art. You know what I mean? True. Like,

because he didn't have to tell us to that. For what? Yeah, I didn't. Just let the music speak and then maybe a month from now have a conversation. They don't answer. Just shoot a text. You're distracting from your own album. You know what?

They did. Shout out to, I think it was Blair from TMZ, did an interview with game outside of the documentary release party. and they asked him about were you throwing shots at Kendrick and he said, yo, just listen to the album. If you listen to the full album, you'll know where I stand with everything. I thought that was such a great response.

But then inside of the party, he gives us all this. Yeah, we're talking about everything but the music right now. Exactly. Had a few drinks. Had a few drinks. That's up. Yo, that video of the game at the verses where he's doing like the arm thing. I ain't see it.

Wrap it up, Lo. That's the latest for the hour, y'all. Yeah, that's it. Yes. When we come back, Donkey of the Day, and I need Enus Cantor Freedom to come the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him, please. It's the breakfast club.

It's time for donkey of the day. There's a bunch of donkeys out here. It really caught me off guard. We live a life where we fight our tongue based off who we may offend. We never would say anything. Charlemagne, give it to him. Give it to him. You are a donkey. That is why Charlemagne is here.

Some donkey todays just saw themselves. On the Breakfast Club. Okay, Charlemagne. giving donkey of the day to today. Well, donkey of the day for Monday, August 24th, goes the former NBA player, Enos Cantor Freedom. Oh, what a sucker he is. Okay, if you haven't heard, yesterday,

Enos Canter Freedom got escorted out of the Chicago Sky, Indiana Fever game after getting into a verbal confrontation with Chicago Sky Guard, Natasha Cloud, dropping a clues bonds on Natasha Cloud. If you haven't heard, Enis recently announced that he identifies as a woman and intended to enter the 2007 WNBA draft. Can we hear that?

Right. Right. After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I am officially declaring myself a WMBA prospect. If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WMBA. My team and I have carefully examined the WMB's eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WMBA draft in May 2020. I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or do suspect any community or personal choices. I am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone.

The rules that represent the very values many WMBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for. My team and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently, and without exception. And I look forward to the WMBA honoring its stated principles. So yesterday he was sitting courtside at the game. trolling, okay, the women playing, mocking the women playing, wearing a shirt that said, women, noun, adult, human, female.

Natasha Cloud apparently saw the shirt, had some words for Ennis. Ennis had some words back. And during the exchange, Ennis got up and briefly stepped on to the court before security intervened and eventually escorted him out of the building. Do we have some audio from that?

Yeah, go to CNN for the report, please. NBA Center, Ennis Cantor Freedom, was ejected from a WMBA game between the Indiana fever and the Chicago Sky after a confrontation with a player. Freedom was on the sidelines wearing a shirt that said, quote, woman noun, adult human female. Skyguard, Natasha Cloud, confronted Freedom late into the third quarter and he was then escorted from the arena. Freedom had a conversation with a group of police officers before leaving the stadium. Freedom had previously declared himself eligible for the WMBA this month, saying he identifies as a woman in a criticism of WMBA's eligibility criteria.

Now, before anybody starts screaming about politics, transgender rights, women's rights, whatever side of the culture war, you woke up ready to fight for on this Monday morning, understand something. I'm not giving Innscanter Freedom Donkey today because he believes biological males shouldn't compete against biological females in women's sports. I agree with him on that.

Okay, that's not even a debate for me. And I just think it's pointless to argue when you know it's only being used as a distraction because the midterms are right around the corner. And Republicans can't win on policy, so they would rather drag people into another stupid cultural to debate so they can claim to be the party of common sense and dems the party of people who don't know if men can have babies or not.

Okay? I'm giving Ennis donkey today because this guy has somehow decided that the best way to protect women's basketball is to disrupt women's basketball. Okay? You Ennis have become what you claim to hate because I haven't seen anyone threaten women's basketball more than you. Okay, do you think those women felt safe with your big 16 ass out there?

trolling them and then had the nerve to stand up and act like you was about to step to one of them. Make that make sense to me. Okay, see, this isn't just expressing an opinion anymore. This man declared himself eligible for the 2007 WNBA draft saying he identifies as a woman as part of his protest against the league's transgender eligibility rules. Meanwhile, in the WNBA, there are currently no immediate eligibility matters affecting their league. Okay, basically, ain't no transgender women trying to take your job. in the WNBA right now.

That is not happening. Okay, no transgenderes are out here, like, let me suit up. So people like Ennis are protesting a hypothetical. There are no biological males playing in the WNBA that we know of. Okay? There are no biological males trying to play in the WNBA except for you. So therefore, Ennis, you are actually the problem. But what you're protesting is a hypothetical.

Innes, you have called 911 screaming about a five alarm fire that isn't happening. Okay, and that's what is fake. Doing anything for attention, activism turns into something else because there's a difference between raising awareness about something you believe could become a problem and manufacturing a spectacle around a hypothetical problem because the spectacle gets you attention. Okay, and it's all you are doing is performance art and I need you to get off the stage because your show sucks. All right. First you declare yourself a woman, then you declare for the WMBA draft. Then you start talking about recruiting other men to declare for the WMBA draft. Then you show up court side at a WNBA game wearing a shirt you know is going to provoke a reaction.

Then you get into an argument with an actual WNBA player during the game. Take a step towards the court like you was going to do something to those ladies. And then you get escorted out. There should be a lifetime ban of all WNBA games issued today by Kathy Engelbert for Ennis. But she won't because she doesn't do many things that make sense. Okay. She's actually a trans commissioner because she's. She identifies as a commissioner, but clearly that's not what she was born to do.

Then Ennis had the nerve to say he got kicked out for supporting women. No, sir, you didn't get removed simply because you believe something. You got kicked out for intentionally disrupting a woman's basketball game. They didn't kick you out for your beliefs. They kicked you out after your protest turned into a confrontation. Those are not the same things. Okay, and Ennis can of freedom of all people should understand that because freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

I tell you all that all the time. Freedom means you're allowed to wear the shirt, but freedom also means Natasha Cloud is allowed to tell you exactly what she thinks about the shirt. Freedom means the WNBA is allowed to disagree with you. And freedom means arena security can tell your six foot 10 ass, sir, we're going to need you to leave because you don't know how to freaking act. All right? Freedom doesn't mean everybody has to tolerate whatever you decide to do.

And here's the part that really bothers me. Ennis Cantor Freedom has actually demonstrated real courage in his life. Okay, this is a man who spoke in public. against authoritarian governments. He's criticized the Turkish president. He's spoken about human rights abuses. He's dealt with consequences involving his ability to travel, okay, and his relationship with his home country.

So in his nose what actual political repression looks like, which means he should damn sure know the difference between government persecution and arena security, all right? Everything that happens to you, okay, because everything that happens to you often happens, doesn't just happen because somebody doesn't like you, okay? It happens because what you're doing is just wrong. All right? And sometimes you're just getting put out because your so-called activism becomes more about you than the people you're supposedly advocating for.

All right. You've lost the plot. All right. He says he's doing all of this because he wants to protect women. Yeah. So you go into a space built around women, a league played by women, a workplace where women are doing their jobs, and you create a situation where one of the women playing basketball ends up arguing with you. And now the headline coming out of the game isn't about.

the women's basketball game. It's about you, Innes Cantor Freedom. Okay, how did protecting women become making yourself the main character in women's spaces? That's what I don't understand. All right, you don't protect women's spaces by walking into women's spaces

and making the whole damn space about you. Okay? Please give Inus Cantor freedom the biggest he-ha. If you have to manufacture the crisis, you're warning everybody about, Okay, if your activism requires you to manufacture the very crisis you claim to be fighting against, then you're not raising awareness to a problem. You actually are the problem.

Yeah, he's stupid. He's the problem. That's dumb. Now, what y'all want to talk about? Y'all was talking about something earlier. Parents. Yeah, parents. And whether or not you are responsible or obligated, you know, to take care of them after having a, a tumultuous upbringing because of them or, you know, dysfunction and toxicity in the household.

And where did this come from? It was something in front page news, right? Lauren. What did you get this story from, Lauren? I just seen the conversation online. I think I saw the Jasmine brand posted, actually. Yeah, but I felt like me, me, I feel like somebody talked about something

today to kind of went into it. I don't know. And say it again now, it's the, are you obligated to take care of your parents? What? Yeah, like just in general, whether it's, you know. a bad upbringing.

Yeah, bad relationship with them. Yeah, if they're the reason for, you know, the toxic environment or the toxic tricks that you have, abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, whatever. Because they're your parents. Are you still obligated to take care of them when they can't do for themselves? Okay. So that's the question. 1-800-585-105-1.

Are you obligated to take care of your parents if your upbringing wasn't the best? Because of them, yes. Okay. It's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. Call us right now. It's topic time. Call 800-585-105-105-1

to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Jess, hilarious, Shalameen, the God. Envi is on vacation this week. L.L. Coobe is here, Lauren Larosa. Yes, sir. Lauren's talking about being lonely this morning.

No, I'm not talking about being lonely. No, she was in a morning. She was talking about parents. Yeah, we were. We were talking about taking responsibility for your parents and or not. Oh, no, I just, because you were talking about, you know, whenever you talk about your father, and I don't like to talk about your father no more because I know he doesn't like that. Yeah.

He don't like the jokes up there. And I don't think that you should be talking about him like that anymore. I think I can speak to my experience and I think I'm as respectful as I can be. Got you, got you. I'm very respectful to that situation. That's the only reason I bought up you being lonely because I know whenever you talk about it. But I wasn't lonely. My mother and my grandmother gay, I had an amazing childhood.

Yes, that's right. was supposed to be there. Got you. See what I'm saying? Yeah. Oh, my God. Sorry, Jess. Go ahead.

But the topic is, are you obligated to take care of your parents as they get older if your upbringing wasn't the best? And Lauren, you specifically earlier said abuse. That's what the... Yes. But people deem different things as abuse, right? Like, there is mental abuse, which could be, you know, whether it's like words or different actions or different things that you deem have, like, messed up your mental well-being,

physical abuse. or just like a toxic, unstable or inconsistent. Environment, yeah. I realized as I got older that, like, people not being consistent in your life could also have an effect on you as well, too. Like, I really put a lot of things to the back burner with my relationship with my dad because I just was like, you know, he's human. Like, things happen.

But when I got around people who were very consistent as fathers, I'm like, oh, you know what I mean? Yeah, like. Just what I didn't get. Because she never even seen it. to define what that is. Yeah, you don't know what it. You literally don't know because even having a stepdad is like, it's different because it's not my dad.

But you said you would take care of your father. If it was down to like he had nobody else, I would. But that's just because my heart wouldn't allow me to know that like this person is out there that don't have nobody. And even though he wasn't perfect, I mean, I probably wouldn't do it as much as I do for my mom and my grandma. But I would try and at least make sure that like I could sleep at night knowing like, well, I tried.

And that has nothing to do with him being your friend. father? You would just do that for a random person? No, I wouldn't do it for a random person. I think it does have a lot to do with him being my father. But I think that that was, I think it's a pro and a con. Like, my grandmother always says to me, you only get one mother, you only get my father. And I think that it is allow myself, like, I've subjected myself to a lot of, like, boy, if I'm being under. Can I say that? No, no, you can't. Say it. I don't believe it. I've subjected myself to a lot of, like, stuff that I feel like I shouldn't have had to just in conversation with my dad. And he probably

feel like vice versa because we've both been angry with each other but it's because it's my dad I'm always willing to like try right you know and that's why this conversation is it's not a one-size-fits-all conversation because everybody's experiences with their parents are different there's no rule that says you have to take care of a person because they were your parent I know the Bible says honor thy father and thy mother but what if that father and thy mother didn't honor you for whatever reason growing up so I don't know because they say do not provoke the child. For the parents, I think it's something like you don't provoke the child. Okay, quoting the Bible trust. Oh, listen, I grew up on a Bible. I wasn't Jehovah's

witness to 9th. Like, I was very much in the church. You can't even quote the scripture. You don't even know the real scripture. Shut up. You know, it's kind of like, yeah, it's kind of hard. It's giving. Don't provoke the parents or all that. Good morning. Who's this? Hi, this is Monica. Hey, Monica. How are you? I'm doing good. Salome. What's happening? We, we haven't. Yes. Let's talk about the topic this morning. The topic. All right. So short answer, right? It's a yes for me because of my story. I'm 43 years old, originally from San Antonio, Texas. I live in Fayetteville now due to the military. But my parents were junior high school, fleaards, and they had their first child at 17, still in high school. It was my

older sister, and then they had me 10 years later. But the marriage was like crazy. The whole My dad was an alcoholic, a depressed. He wouldn't get help. But, you know, he worked hard. My mom stepped by him until she passed away. But they ended up divorcing when I was 16. And my dad was like, he wasn't like a present dad. He was real standoffish, and, you know, he was around,

but he really wasn't like hands on with his daughters. And what I mean by that is like he, my parents divorced when I was 16. And when I graduated from high school, he had already remarried and he showed up. And, like, I saw him for, like, a split second and then he was, like, gone. And then when I joined the military, I had bought him a ticket to come out to, like, my first major promotion. And he didn't show up. Like, I called his wife, and she was, like, baby, he didn't get on the plane. And so, right then I had wanted to, like, write him off.

Me and my sister, we always send him cards for Father's Day, even though he wasn't. present, but he, like, he just didn't give us what we needed. And then I asked my pastor, I was like, hey, like, what are we supposed to do? And he was, like, just honor your father and mother, like, in a way that we were okay with and that would be, like, pleasing to God. So I kind of kept that, but I didn't talk to him, and, like, he got really, really sick. I mean, and he had me listed as an emergency point of contact. Mind you, I hadn't talked to this man in like five years.

Wow. And they called me. They called me and like, it was like without a question. I went and got him. I booked a flight. I like packed up his suitcase and I took him home with me. I didn't know what I was going to do with him, but I took him. And I kept him for three and a half years.

And then I had the PCS and then he had stage four cancer. We learned he had stage four cancer. My sister took over. and she kept him the last three years until he died in 2023. I'm so sorry. I mean, honestly, it just sounds like, you know, you treated him better than he ever treated you. Mm-hmm. In the whole life.

I could say that, and it was kind of crazy because my kids got to see him. I have three boys, and they got to see him, like, in his last stages, you know, they were a little scary because he was still trying to drink and stuff, but at least they got to live. know him. See, that's the thing I think about two all the time is like when I have kids, because I know even with Kelly Rowland, she talked about how like reconnecting with her father after

she had her son was like important to her. I always wonder too, like, am I going to want to wish I had done things differently with my dad once I have kids and like if something were to happen to him how do I talk to my kids about what I did or did not do like that whole thing. Like that's a whole another level of it. Absolutely. But that's all

that's up to your discretion. Like if you really want that, see. That's all it is. You see how to call her, like her father was not there. He was nonchalant, never really too interactive with his kids. He wasn't engaging at all. But she came running as soon as he still listed her, one of his kids. We ain't even have a good relationship with as one of his emergency contacts. And she came running because she's still long.

A part of her, she didn't say this, but a part of her still longed for that, that connection with her father. And he never gave her that. She's on the phone, right? You still on the phone? Oh, no, I agree. What you just said is the key. It's up to you. Regardless of how your parents treated you good or bad,

it's up to you as an adult to make the decision on whether or not you want to show up for them. That's why I said is this not a one-size-fits-all conversation. But 1-8005-1051, call us right now. Are you obligated to take care of your parents when they get older if they didn't treat you right growing up? We'll discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-105-1 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club.

Talk about it. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show to Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Jess, hilarious, Charlemagne, the God. Envy is on vacation right now. Lauren LaRosa is head, L.L. Kubei, and we're having a discussion. The topic is, are you obligated to take care of your parents, even if your upbringing as a child wasn't the best? Let's go to the phones. Good morning.

Who's this? Oh, my gosh, I'm losing it. Why are you losing it? I can't believe I made it to the show. Oh, my God. Oh, girl. I thought she was emotional about your parents. I was like, oh my God, what I'm going on.

I am emotional about that too because it hit. It resonates with me so much. But I have been listening to Brethren Club since I came back from deployment in Japan. And I have always tried to get on this show. I lived in Virginia. I'm now in Jacksonville, Florida, from Georgia. I can't believe I'm on here. Oh, my gosh.

We appreciate your listenership. Let's talk about the topic. Are you obligated to take care of your parents, even if you all bring it well than the best? I agree. I think you should. but it's at a certain level. And so what I mean by that is I was telling them that my grandmother raised me because my mom had me when she was 15.

My mom was very abusive and she had two younger children as well. So I have two younger siblings, right? And so I always had to care for them, take care of them. If they messed up, I was that child that got the worst, you know, punishment for it, right? My mom would leave us, go clubbing at night, and I think I was probably about six or eight. My brother and sister are four or five years younger than me, and I had to watch them. So my grandmother just, whenever my mom was abusive, she would pull me out of the house.

This was during the time where, you know, nobody called Child Protective Services. They would just take you, right? And my grandmother would just take me. And it would hurt me to take me away from my brother and sister because I knew I was protecting them as well, right? But as I got older and I became a teenager, I started working. It got worse with my mom. But I would talk back. And that's when my grandmother stepped in and said, look, I don't care what your mom did to you.

I don't care what has happened. She is still your mother. And you have to respect her. You still have to take care of her. and be respectful because God doesn't like that, right? And so even to this day, my kids are 19, 15, 9, and 8, right? And I tell my mom all the time, she's living with that burden of not being a great mom, that I tell her all the time, I am a reflection of that, but not in a bad way.

Like, I use the bad experiences that I have with her to be a better mom, if that makes sense. Okay. I get what you saying. You learned what not to do watching her. Exactly, watching her, like, with relationships with men, the type of men. Like, my mom would bring in dudes that we're riding the bus and the dude riding the bus with us. I'm like, what?

Why are we, can we at least get a guy that got a car? You know? He was there protecting y'all on the bus, though. You know what I mean? But I'm just saying, and that just taught me to kind of level up. also the pain, the tears that I felt with my, as a child, I just didn't want my kids to feel that, right? And so that's what I tell my mom all the time. I'm like, I'm not holding anything against you.

And the reputation that you need to build right now is with your grandchildren, not with me. Like, I've learned from those experiences. And to this day, I'm going to take care of my mom because I just feel like karma, God is going to continue to bless me with my kids. if I do right by my mom. No matter what she did to me. I always say that, you know, God doesn't judge you based off how people treat you. He judges you based off how people. Yes.

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Don't be all excited now the way you just moaned with like a disgust or something like that with them big stupid jeans on over there. All right y'all. Let's get into the latest with Lauren the Rose. I'd be trying to be so positive in here but man is some dark spirit.

So a new casting announcement came out over the weekend and we had talked about the Snoop Dog movie because remember they cast it Snoop Dog and we talked about that casting as well. Who's playing Snoop Dog? What's it? His name is...

Sorry, y'all. Hold on. Biopic. His name is Jonathan Davis. I wanted to make sure I got his last name, right. I didn't want to say the wrong last name. Jonathan Davis, best known for his role in Outer Banks will star as Snoop Dog and Snoop Dogg's movie about his life,

which is to release August 6, 2027. But we now know that Miles Bullock will play Dr. Dre. And you guys, Jess, you remember him because he's been in some of 50s stars presentation. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, so people were, I mean, We were discussed in the casting and how I feel like just off looks so far. Yeah, absolutely.

He can give Dr. Dre. And Jonathan Davis, right? That's who is playing Snoop? Yes. I think he's going to kill it. I think he's going to kill it. I know I didn't know if I was going to call him Jonathan Johnson. I don't know my bed.

For some reason, when I say Jonathan, I always want to say Jonathan Majors. That's always let me get his last name right. But, yeah. Yeah, I don't know if it's about the looks as much as it is about the performance. It is about the performance, but you do want to, you know, like people always look to see How much do they? Yeah, yeah.

How much does it look give? So, yes. I mean, I've only seen that work one time in a biopic. What, too, what? No, no, no, no, Jamie. When Jamie, like, Jamie really did look like that. Oh, yes. Oh, my God.

And embodied him, too, like, real big. I guess maybe Angela Bassett. I mean, you never can really look completely like the person. But it makes you feel like you're watching the person. It's the, it's the body movements and the way that you speak. It's a lot to it that you have to take on when you're, you know? And Jonathan don't look tall. Is he the tallest new?

I don't know how tall he is. I mean, but you can do things in the film to make him look. It's all about the angles and everything. Yes. Now, speaking of Dr. Dre, keeping it on the West Coast, over the weekend as well, there was a lot of conversation about AI and Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iveen. They sat down for an interview.

In this interview, they talked about AI being used in music. And now this was like a big conversation because, you know, Jimmy I. Veen, Dr. Dre, huge names of music. that Dr. Dre is one of the best producers of all time. And he's saying that, you know, AI isn't a threat. And that people that see it as a threat are only the people that are having trouble creating using it. Now, Dr. Dre says he's had discussions with a few people. He says as early as a few days ago prior to this interview.

And he says that they were against AI. He was like, okay, well, you sound like the person who was against the drum machine when it first came out or synthesizers. It's a new tool for creativity. Some people are afraid of learning new things. And he says that he's actually using AI technology in music as a tool to see what it can do with what he just did. And then they mentioned the fact that like Timberland has also talked about, spoke out about using AI as well too. But I was actually going to talk about that. I was, I mean, as to see that, I really would like to hear what Timberland, Swiss Beets, Dre, would all sit down and talk to each other about AI like and how it has worked for them.

And then what are the disadvantages? And also, how are they using it? I think that matters too. What are they using it for? You know, I think sometimes we see those headlines. Like Dr. Dre says he's okay with AI. We don't know what he's using it for. Yeah, but even when Timberlin talked about it,

he talked about using it as like a collaborator, but not as the creator. Like so, and Dr. Jay said, I want to see what it can do with what I've already done. Like I know some people who are in the animation game and, you know, they are amazing artists. And what they do is they'll draw their art and then put it in the AI to make it easier to, you know,

create cartoons. and things like that, but it's still their animation. They're just using the AI to bring it to life, I guess. So, I mean, I don't know. As I said, I would like to see what he's using the AI for. Yeah, yep. All right, well, in other good news, we've been doing a lot. We've had a lot of good news today, too.

Chris Brown and Usher, there is a new tourist that people are talking about because they have been able to gross a gazillion dollars. No. The most steps by any artists ever? I know they get day steps in, boy. because they're moving and dancing around? Easily. Easily $20.

Easy. Easy. All of it. Yeah, I had the old one. We talked about this one, the $100 million. But no. So Chris Brown and Usher, they are, people are celebrating the amount of money

that they've been able to make in a single night. I'm grabbing a number right now. But they're talking about the fact that of all the tours in their arena, the amount of money that they've been able to gross per tour night, has farly outnumbered any tours currently happening. I do not have this number. I am so upset. They need to stop putting numbers out because that woman with that dog by just waiting.

Yo, I was literally thinking, I was like, yo, see, this is the type of, this, this is the reason why they're leaving. I'm about $13 million. You got it. So cash at me right now, $13 million because you just made $80 gazillion last night. You know she used top dog love? No, she did not. She did not. No, she did not.

No, she did not. I am so mad at myself for not having that number. I will have it in an effort to overtalk because I have the $100 million, which we've already talked about, that first. tour set that they surpassed. But yeah, shout out to Chris Brown on it, Usher. I'm so sorry, y'all. None of your producers can text you the number really quick. I did. You just got everybody mouthwater and didn't even

deliver it. I'm sorry, y'all. I am so sorry about that. You can't do this by yourself. I mean, shut up. I don't do that to them, y'all. That is my responsibility. Here it goes. I thought it was 10. So they grossed over $10 million from a single concert.

And they're amongst the only black artists, according to some of the outlets that I read over the weekend in history to gross over that $10 million from a single concert. And so that's them splitting it down the middle, right? So Chris B. 5, I don't know how it splits, but I mean, these are just some of the chart data and post our sites that I saw posting this over the weekend. Well, salute to Usher and Chris Brown.

I want more people to go to Usher Chris Brown show, especially like program directors and music directors so they can hear that Chris Brown got other records other than the one. The two that we play every hour on the hour. I thought you was going to say you want them to go because of the performance and all that too. I want them to go for that. I want to go for that as well too. I'm going to go when they come back around the way.

They're going to be in Columbia so I can line it too. You can't. You got something to do that day. We can't announce it yet, but we got something to do that day. Let me look. What day to day? That is the Halloween weekend. It's the 30th.

I ain't got nothing doing Halloween weekend. I'm Joe. Yes, you do. Okay. That's the latest, y'all. It's brought to you by Top Dog Law. Top Dog has won over a billion dollars for their client. So if you get into accident, make the call because their bark is their bite.

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Whatever. It's the world's most dangerous morning to show the Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning and show the Breakfast Club. DJ, NV. Jets, Elirallari. Charlamagne the god. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. Thank you to Dionne Cole for pulling up, man.

Absolutely. Second season of average Joe is out. Right now, on Paramount Plus. He's working. He's at work. Dionne Cole's working. Andy, he's going to be in Adam Sandler, grown, what is it, grownups? Grownups three, shoddy.

The first two are funny, so I can't wait to see what he offers in here. Then he just played Don King in the Michael movie. He worked. He worked. Salute to Dionne Cole. Yep, yep. Anything else? What are you at this weekend, Jess?

Man, I'm in Indianapolis, Indiana this weekend at the Halium Comedy Club. So we're going to run it back like that. I'm in the Midwest. Make sure you get your tickets, just hilariousofficial.com. I've been in the Midwest a lot for the past three months. I went Detroit, Chicago, Ohio. I'm actually coming back to Ohio. But this weekend, Indianapolis, Indiana.

So get your tickets. We got two shows on Friday, two shows on Saturday. Me and my brother, Desi Alexander, will be there at the helium. So get your tickets if you haven't yet. Absolutely. And I want to tell everybody, too, man. and make sure you go to Mental Wealthexpo.com and register to be at my sixth annual.

Is it fifth or six, Eddie? Six. Sixth annual. Damn, we've been doing this for six years? Wow. Six annual Mental Wealth Expo. It's in Newark, New Jersey this year, on World Mental Health Day.

You know it's a free event. We'll be announcing the lineup real soon. Sluo to my good sister, Debbie Brown. She handled all the programming this year. She handled all the curation of the event. So this year we're focusing on nothing but solutions. Okay, that's it. Pathways to Healing. So we'll see you

World Mental Health Day in Newark, New Jersey at the Joel and Diane Bloom, Wellness and Events Center. Go to Mental Health Expo.com to register to be there. L.L. Kulbe is here. Yeah, I just want to say thank you. There was an organization

called Outlaw, Delaware, that invited me to speak at this brunch in Delaware. And I only, I just said yes to it because I saw that the girl who created the nonprofit was a Delaware State University grad. Her name is Jaylen Powell.

I went there. I didn't know what to expect. I got there. That room was like so amazing. So the organization that she created, she was in school to be an attorney. She actually graduated and then she decided to leave her job and create something that was more grassroots.

So she centers like wellness, advocacy and a bunch of other things for us, for black people, but also for like youth, right? So it was like my sister's keeper there. Like it was just a room full of like people that not even trying to figure it out but like knew where they were in life. And we're being honest about the fact that like

Like, it's okay to take a rest. And y'all, I don't know how y'all. What do you have you there for? Because where I'm at in my life right now, I was keynote speaker. Really? All right? But also, I think a lot of people see brown girl grinding and they're trying to figure out how I'm figuring it out day to day. We get up in the morning coming here so early.

And then, you know, I'm pretty sane having to do with you, you know, every single day. So they wanted to know where in there. I'm the best thing that happened. Where in there do I get rest. But we had an honest conversation about learning how to say okay to rest and learning how to say no to negative energy. like Charlamaine. I'm the best thing that I've happened to you. But shout out to Out Loud Delo.

And I tell you admit that your life is going to continue to. You are. Our life will continue to right. Like, what? You are definitely one of the things that happened to me, for sure. Yo, he's so stupid. Shut up. Your life will always continue.

So what? So what? You feeling the blank. So what? You're feeling the blank? You definitely happened to me, Charlemagne. You know, we'll never forget all the things that you do and you say. I know you won't.

But shout out to Outlaw, Delaware, though. It was an amazing event. I was so happy that I was invited to speak there. And just the work that they're doing, check them out on Instagram Out LoudD. They are a nonprofit organization. So go and support them and all the work that they're doing in the communities in Delaware. That's what's up. Sluid them.

And please, loosen up that bracelet on your arm. You look like you're about to get a shot. You look like you about to get a shot. And suppose it be like this on my own. Yes, no, it's not. No, it's not. Charlemagne. So why are they turning blue?

I ain't tied you to tighten them jeans all day. You've been in here. The positive note is this. The positive note is this. Be careful. Be careful, be careful. Because sometimes distractions can come into your life dressed as love and attention when it's in fact a distraction.

Some of y'all are doing so good in life. You are moving the way that you're supposed to be moving. But then here comes this distraction. All you know, dressed up in love and attention. And you know, next thing you know, Can't say. You distract it. Words to save life. They focused, y'all.

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