The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: R. Kelly Hospitalized After Prison Overdose, Diddy ‘Freak-Off’ Tapes Shown to Jury, Clipse Drop Worldwide Exclusive + Arnez J. & Michael Blake Interview

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Arnez J. stops by to talk about his special Not Gonna Stop, memories with Prince, the Katt Williams and Rickey Smiley 'beef,' and his thoughts on Donnell Rawlings. Also, Michael Blake joins us to discuss affordability in NYC, his housing justice plan, and addressing Cuomo’s corruption. Plus, we open the phone lines for listeners to give their own Donkey of the Day. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast. Today I'm thrilled to welcome back to On Purpose, Cynthia Erivo. A Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor and singer you know from the color purple, Harriet and Wicked. Cynthia Erivo. This may be a hard thing to say, but sometimes hurting someone actually aids the growth

of another person. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the podcast Betrayal. Police Lieutenant Joel Kern used his badge to fool everyone. Most of all, his wife, Caroline. He texted, I've ruined our lives.

You're going to want to divorce me. How far would he go to cover up what he'd done? The fact that you lied is absolutely horrific. And quite frankly, I question how many other women are out there that may bring forward allegations in the future. Listen to Betrayal on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Why is a soap opera western like Yellowstone so wildly successful? The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater podcast network. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Michael Kassin, founder and CEO of 3C Ventures and your guide on good

company. The podcast where I sit down with the boldest innovators shaping what's next. In this episode, I'm joined by Anjali Sood, CEO of 2B. We dive into the competitive world of streaming. What others dismiss as niche, we embrace as core. There are so many stories out there. And if you can find a way to curate and help the right person discover the right content, the term that we always hear from our audience is that they feel seen. Listen to Good Company on the iHeartRadio Apple podcast or ever you get your podcasts. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,

yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo How you feeling Laura? I feel good. I was out a little late last night so my morning got a little late start but it was for good reasoning. You didn't go to court though?

No, I went to check out the Clips new album yesterday. Oh, how was that? We're going to talk about it but I was really inspired. Do you got any joints? Did you take any joints? Did you record any joints? Did you secretly record? No, you cannot secretly record.

I did not take any music. That was a part of the deal and being there. Okay, because the album Let guys sort of mouth doesn't drop until July 11. Okay, but we were gonna talk about as much as I can talk about What I will tell you is that? Man, Def Jam. That's what who let them go. Yeah, definitely So stupid messed it up. That was why I don't understand how these label things work. Well, it's probably because they were being sued and didn't want more of the headache, but I mean, you got to let an artist be an artist and Eclipse is one of those groups that you don't let go.

If you're going to let an artist be an artist or artist, multiple be artist, that is one group that you leave alone and let do it. It was, when I tell you, I listened to a masterpiece, a work of art. I was so inspired and I'm not even a rapper. I was like, I gotta do better in life because I wanna affect people like this, this many years in. So you wanted to rap after this,

you thought about dropping to 16. You know what? I might've had it mixed tape ready last night. Oh my goodness. No, I just- Salute to the clips. Just in life in general, they just, it's just inspiring to see people who are so passionate

and are actually creators. Yes. And it come together. It always comes together for them but it was inspiring. I don't even know. I'll get my words together before we get there. And they're very artsy so it'll be the video, the outfits, the clothing. Everything will have a particular meeting.

And did you hit a record with Jay-Z? Did you? I'm just asking if you heard it. I don't know of no record with Jay-Z. Did you hit a record with Kendrick? I heard the record with Kendrick because we know that there's a record with Kendrick. Did you hit a'm just asking if you heard it. I don't know of no record with Jay-Z. Did you hear the record with Kendrick? I heard the record with Kendrick because we know that there's a record with Kendrick. Did you hear the record with Hov? I don't know about a record with Jay-Z.

Shut up, man. You're bad. I'll never use you as my poker player. First of all, I don't even play poker, so you're not worried about that. But we know about the record with Kendrick because of the conversations they've been having in GQ and all these other places, but I don't know of any other features. Okay. All right. Well, yep, exactly.

So, salute to all the people out there that have puppies, because I'm in this puppy phase and I didn't really want dogs, but the kids and my wife wanted dogs and these dogs are whooping my ass. I'm getting up at three o'clock in the morning to walk these dogs. It's crazy. And the rain is just disrespectful. Like, enough's enough. Like, when do they actually learn not to pee in the house?

That's the phase that I need Because getting on my knees paws and cleaning up this pee every morning is disrespectful at three in the morning You get on your knees is disrespectful don't act like you know I would do even you obviously walk yourself into things I know but that's how it is Do you people know you got to get in their crate and do it and anyway? Let's get this down and dirty on them knees shut up artists Jay artists Jay will be joining us this morning. RNSJ is a comedian.

He has a new special not gonna stop. It's streaming on YouTube right now so we'll be kicking it with RNSJ. Let's get this show cracking. We got front page news when we come back. Jess will be here in a second. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. And Charlamagne is off today, y'all.

Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lorne LaRose is here. Let's get in some front page news. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Lorne LaRose is here, let's get in some front page news. Happy birthday to Kendrick Lamar, today is actually Kendrick Lamar's birthday so drop a bomb for Kendrick Lamar. But let's get in some front page news. Last night in sports OKC beat the Pacers 120-109.

So they lead the series 3 to what's up Morgan? Hey, yeah, hey, how you feeling on a Tuesday? Good love to hear it. Okay first on front page president Trump says Iran wants to talk about the De-escalation with Israel now speaking at a g7 summit in Canada Trump said he gave Iran a 60-day window to bargain with the US over their nuclear capabilities and a Israel attacked on the last day that that deal or that window expired. President Trump says Iran is not in a strong position right now.

Let's take a listen to his comments on Iran. They'd like to talk, but they should have done that before. It's painful for both parties, but I'd say Iran is not winning this war. He added he's heard through in intermediators. Iran is interested in pulling back aggressions. The president also said he thinks Iran wants to talk because Israel's doing so well right now. Meanwhile, President Trump is back in the States this morning after leaving that G7

summit in Canada early and boarding Air Force One to return home. The president said his departure was due to the conflict between Israel and Iran and that he wanted to focus on the matter now that G7 summit was three days and it's supposed to end I believe tomorrow. Summit attendee French President Emmanuel Macron, he told reporters that he heard Trump was leaving to work on a ceasefire proposal, but Trump fired off on social media insisting that Macron had no idea why he was returning to Washington, but certainly said it has nothing to do with a ceasefire.

Trump did not take questions when he touched down at Joint Base Andrews this morning. Now Morgan, let me, quick question, and you took the one I ran in Israel. Do we know, I know they said about 250 to 300 people died so far. Are they civilians or is that military? Is it just, you know, okay. I do not have the exact numbers as to who. Cause I was just wondering if they were just aiming directly at military bases and places that they thought nuclear weapons were going to be made.

I do believe civilians are included in those numbers. Uh, envy. I was going to say it's not just one or the other. I believe that would be a joint number regarding both civilians and military, but I do not have exact. Um, I don't have the exact numbers to say to those fatalities and what's what it, but it, it is on the rise to your point. Elsewhere at the G7, President Trump says he saw he says the US has signed a trade deal with the United Kingdom.

Now Trump made those announcements with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the G7 summit in Canada. He called it a fair deal for both and the two celebrated the new trade agreement and showed the signed documents to reporters. Let's take a listen to their comments. We decided and it's done. And so we have our trade agreement. A very good day for both of our countries, a real sign strength. So thank you again, Donald. A really important day for both of us. Great people. Great people.

So the exact terms of that deal were not disclosed. And I also think it's important to also note that President Trump warned on social media, truth social, back to the original story of Iran and Israel, that there should be an immediate evacuation of Tehran. Israel has also issued an evacuation alert for residents northeast of Tehran. So just to keep you guys posted as to what happens on the presidential front and as far as international affairs go. And one more story really quickly before we go into the next hour. The army does not feel like Saturday's military parade did not provide much damage to DC streets. Now, army spokesperson says the assessment

following the parade is showing not is not showing any serious damage to the parade because nobody was there or the staging area. They're talking about the tanks on the streets, but the army credits the lack of damage due to protective steps taken before the parade, including rubber pads and tanks, rubber pads on tank tracks and steel plates in several areas. But the National Park Service and Federal Highway Administration says tests for those streets for underground damage is underway for the next few weeks. So they won't really truly know for a little while now, but I'll keep you posted on that. But the Army says, no, we ain't do it. Yeah, well, they were thinking military equipment and all the millions of people that was supposed

to be there, but just military equipment and two people, there ain't that much damage. No, I literally watched the street crumble under the tanks, you know, but I mean, you could see the cracks in the streets and it's really sad because, you know, DC streets is, we can't catch a break anyways. At the seven o'clock hour, we'll get into what's going on with ICE

because you already know there's the drama. So stick around. Let me find out Morgan was the only person there watching that in the parade. She was the only one out there watching it. We did a little drive-by, but we wasn't just sticking around. No, we're going to go in there. All right.

Well, that is front page news. Jess is here. What up, Jess? What's up? I'm good. How y'all doing? Good morning. Good morning.

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Hello. Hey Sonia. Good morning. It's Sonia. Hey Sonia, get off your chest. I just have a really big problem with, I guess I'm still sounding like I'm repeating myself, but

Jeff keeps calling that orange guy Donald Trump the President, and everybody else on the news channels are just calling up Donald Trump. Are y'all proud of him? Girl listen he the president of the United States. He is not the president. He is, I don't know who he is then. He's the president. You know what I mean? It ain't about riding with him. It ain't about none of that. It is what it is. You know what I mean? He is the president. He is what it is. He's told you two or three times that he's stolen the election.

Y'all got word ignorant. Baby, you just sound just like you don't want to face reality. He is the president. Have a good day, baby girl. Don't worry about what I call him. He is the president of the United States. If you don't like it, you got to move. You got to just move out the country.

I don't like it either, but I'm not running away from the fact that Donald Trump is our president That's what it is Should be mad at Morgan call back and be mad at Morgan we let you call back hello who's this This is your mouth Scott. Hey, Jamal get it off your chest, brother. How you doing? We're principle down a young at Barack Obama school for social justice. Okay, I want to give a shout out to all the educators All the students that's about to graduate my youngest is graduated from daycare. So now all my children are in Elementary school middle school and high school. They know it's just a blessing and I just want to say, enjoy y'all summer and we're almost there. Yeah. All right. Have a good one. I still got a pre-k.

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Get off your chest. Hey, I want to get off my chest to a certain demographic. If you were born in the 70s, raised in the 80s, hustled in the 90s, and bling blinged in the 2000s, you're part of the greatest generation of entrepreneurs alive today. I believe, I rock with you. There was no better time than, in my opinion,

in the 80s, the 90s, and 2000s. Absolutely. So we at that age now to where we to reach that 40 year old mark to where we know we got a president that's a businessman and one of the first rules of business is that if business it ain't personal. I think we need to get with Dr. John Hope Ryan, Dr. Claude Emerson,ude Anderson, Dr. Bryce Watkins, and Big Leach. And get everybody together, and let's hold up the Entrepreneurs Conference.

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We need to get all the hustlers that ain't nothing but entrepreneurs together. And we need to sit down and talk and figure this business out. Okay. He from Michigan too. So that's why he has to be in Michigan. Absolutely. Man from Michigan baby. Alright brother. Have a good one. Alright you too. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent you can hit us up now. We got the latest with Lauren coming up.

We're talking about R Kelly. His team has filed documents alleging that he overdosed while in solitary confinement. Is he alive? No. Yes. So what we know he is alive, but it's a lot to talk about because I know his team is also saying that prison officials are trying to take him out of here. This is their like, they're pointing to this to say here's another instance of what we were telling you about.

Wow. All right. We'll get to that next. Don go anywhere as the breakfast club. Good morning the breakfast club Morning everybody is DJ envy just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren She gets into somebody that knows To be having the latest on Okay, so this news is actually breaking right now. Shout out toler Alert, who was the first outlet that we saw actually posted it. But last night R. Kelly's team filed an emergency filing. I received the filing a little bit after midnight. So I believe that's why it's breaking right now is because outlets are waking up.

So in the emergency filing, they alleged that R. Kelly was giving an additional dose of medication by prison staff. And they're alleging that because of that additional medication that he was instructed to take and that he actually took, he suffered an overdose. So they say that he woke up, or Kelly woke up allegedly on June 13th and he felt faint. He was dizzy. He started to see black spots. He got up and he fell.

He crawled to the door of the cell and he lost consciousness then. At that point he was placed on a gurney. He was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital because they tried to take him to the door of the cell and he lost consciousness then at that point he was placed on a gurney. He was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital because they tried to take him to the hospital inside of or associated with the facility that he's in, but they couldn't help him. So they took him to an outside hospital in that outside hospital. Well, on the way to the outside hospital, his team alleges that it was overheard someone in the ambulance from the hospital say this is going to open a whole new can of worms.

R Kelly's legal team then alleges that once he got to the hospital, it was then revealed that he had been given an overdose quantity of medicine. He was in the hospital for some days and this was within two days of that original filing where his legal team is alleging that prison officials are trying to take him out of here. Now they say in addition to this incident, this overdose, right? They're also pointing to the fact that R Kelly allegedly has been asking for months to get some medical attention to a swollen leg.

R Kelly's legal team says that once he was taken to the hospital for this overdose situation, R Kelly brought up the swollen leg and they allege that doctors there then took a look at the swollen leg and they found blood clots in R. Kelly's right leg, allegedly, in his left leg, in his lungs, allegedly. And R. Kelly's legal team is saying that R. Kelly was then told he should stay seven days in that hospital for surgery and then it would be an additional two weeks because of whatever care they were going to need to give him. But his legal team alleges that once the prison was contacted, R. Kelly was then removed against

his will by by guards from the prison and was not allowed to be treated. And they are saying that basically this could kill him because of the blood clots and the care that they are alleging he is not receiving. Now they do say that all of this can be proven. They say that the things with him getting to solitary confinement and taking that additional medicine allegedly will be on prison cameras. They say on prison cameras you will see R Kelly arrived to solitary confinement. when you arrived there because he takes medicines already for anxiety And sleep and other things you have to show your medicine to guards Which they say is on camera and then they say you will see the additional medicine being brought to R Kelly on camera as well

and That the is the stuff at the hospital with the clots and not being treated all of those accusations They say can also be proven via hospital records. So they filed this emergency motion trying to bring light to this to the same court that they are saying, Hey, all this other stuff is happening. We're telling you he needs to be released because it is not. But why, why, why, why does R Kelly and his team feel like the feds are trying to kill him? Cause he's not coming out until what December 21st, 2045, he received 30 years of years federal prison so why does he think they're killing him? What does R Kelly know that makes the feds want to kill

him? So according to R Kelly's legal team in the first filing and they reiterated in this one that whole plot to uncover the fact that there were things that were done wrong when it came to remember I talked about like the flipping of the witnesses and all these things that they're alleging happened. Basically they're saying the government and the prison officials have been covering up the fact that they did whatever they needed to do to convict R. Kelly allegedly. And his new legal team and trying to file for other things discovered that and brought it in, planned to bring it to light and they found out.

So this is all a way to cover that up. That is what R. Kelly's team is alleging. Is it just me or wasn't it a videotape of R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl? Did we not all know that? They're not arguing that that did not happen. What they're arguing is that when Asriel Clary, who was one of the major witnesses in R. Kelly's cases, and there's another woman who was also another witness in the Chicago case that the way that they came about being those star witnesses was illegal. That's what R Kelly's team is alleging. Like they use an informant to flip these women

who were not going to be witnesses. They use emails and phone calls from R Kelly allegedly to another woman to then they gave it to this informant. The informant goes to these, you know, ex girlfriends or whatever they whatever they were at the time of R. Kelly's and gets them upset and makes them want to testify. And that is illegal. But our team does know that they were selling them R. Kelly porn tapes like the Nintendo Switch to like crazy outside of clubs back in the day. Our Kelly's all over the place on Canal Street. And yeah, like crazy.

Like we all seem to take it. Trying to figure out why he wasn't in jail sooner. It was illegal to see the tape but mad people seem to take it. R Kelly's legal team knows everything we know because we all watch that case play out in public and not public but like we followed it and they have still filed this and they also point to the fact that the government called the first filing because remember I was like yo this is like a movie they're saying that this man inside is supposed to take him out and they're like people call this theatrics and you know a fantasy but here is something that we can prove via hospital records in jail video allegedly so yeah yeah yeah so that is

what's happening right now with R Kelly and the news is breaking literally right now so I just have one last question how what's the probability that because of all this that they will get R Kelly out early because his date is December 21st, I think 2045. I can't I'm not a judge. I can't answer that. But I mean, if they can prove something like this with videos and things of that nature, a judge would have to consider some sort of like safety something because he's locked up and he's gonna do his time.

But like you can't if this is actually happening which it's very far fetched but if it is actually happening you do have to have a conversation about like safety in a way he's being treated right but he's not gonna come home no i don't know what will happen but there will have to be like there you can't ignore is what i'm saying so i don't know what will happen but obviously you won't be able to ignore something like this if it is proven to be true no he, he's not going to come home. I don't see that happening. Well, look, I I'm just telling you all what just happened. And the pedophile sign in front of his yard would be oh my goodness.

Oh, like how you have to let the people know in the community. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, his son would be crazy. Yeah, he got to get his own block, get his own community. He'd be banned from McDonald's. Yeah, all of that. Especially the Playhouse ones. All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren.

Now when we come back, we got front page news. And comedian Arness J.O.B. joining us at the Breakfast Club. What's that? Oh, and also Charlamagne is out today. So if you want to give somebody donkey of the day, you can get on them phone lines right now, 800585-1051 whoever it is it could be your boss your co-worker your neighbor somebody you've seen on the street it could be us it

could be the president it could be your congressman it doesn't matter who it is 800-585-1051 give whoever you want donkey today call us up now it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's DJ NV just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club along the roses here Let's get in some front page news now last night. Okay, see beat the pace is 120 to 109 Okay, see leads this there series 3 2 now I don't know if he was listening Morgan, but during get it off your chest somebody was mad that you called Donald J. Trump the president. Yeah, you know Donald J. Trump the president. Yeah, you know,

and then she tried to blame me. It was you. She tried to blame me. I guess it's the deal. Why would you call the president by his title? Oh man. I don't know. Right. Right. Whether we agree or not. Like what the hell? Yeah. Yeah. You know, I try not to get too much onto my personal, but you know, uh, yeah, that's, that's, that's the man's title. So that's what we're going to go with. I'm just joking. What are we talking about? Meanwhile, President Trump is ramping up ICE raids, which have sparked major protests in Los Angeles

and other major cities around the US. On Sunday, Trump announced that he is directing his administration to use every resource possible on mass deportation efforts. He mentioned increasing enforcement actions in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and other cities that he considers the quote, core of the Democrat power center. This comes as 38 people have been arrested in connection with the no Kings protests that

took place over the weekend on Saturday in downtown Los Angeles, California. LA Mayor Karen Bass has this message after more than a week of straight protests. Let's take a listen. My message to Angelino's is that we have to stand together. My message as mayor is that I respect and honor our tradition here, which is we are a city of immigrants. And I think frankly that that is our strength. So President Trump continues to defend his use of the military in LA saying if the National Guard wasn't on call and ready then the protest Hey I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast. Today I'm thrilled to welcome back to On Purpose

Cynthia Erivo. A Grammy, Emmy and Tony award-winning actor and singer you know from the color purple, Harriet and Wicked. Oscar-nominated, incredible actor, singer, author, and producer, Cynthia Erivo. What's the difference between achieving and overachieving? You've done something really amazing, but how can I be more than amazing? How can I push more? How can I do more? You always felt like you didn't fit in.

I had to come to terms with the fact that I don't think I'm ever going to fit in, and why would I want to? We don't want to let people down. We won't be able to be happy. We don't want to break someone's heart. But the reality is, that is how the way things go. I feel like a villain for doing it, for hurting someone.

And this may be a hard thing to say, but sometimes hurting someone actually aids the growth of another person. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the podcast Betrayal. Police Lieutenant Joel Kern used his badge to fool everyone.

Most of all, his wife, Caroline. He texted, I've ruined our lives. You're going to want to divorce me. Caroline's husband was living another life behind the scenes. He betrayed his oath to his family and to his community. She said you left bruises, pulled her hair, that type of thing. No. How far would Joel go to cover up what he'd done?

You're unable to keep track of all your lives, and quite frankly, I question how many other women may bring forward allegations in the future. This season of Betrayal investigates one officer's decades of deception, lies that left those closest to him questioning everything they thought they knew. Listen to Betrayal on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Listen to the American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Masters would rip LA apart. Now, 35 arrests on Sunday work for violating curfew. One person was arrested for failing to disperse, another for resisting arrest, another for resisting, obstructing, or delaying an officer. The LAPD says protests remain peaceful for most of the day. That was on Saturday. Since June 7th, the LAPD has arrested about 561 people in connection with ongoing protests against federal immigration raids. Now 12 officers have suffered injuries during that time as well.

So now I will continue. I do have a question. I see it says as of June 1st, they said they, ISIS picked up 51,000 people. I wonder how that affects the economy, right? Because they're not just picking up people from jail, they're picking up people from their jobs, they're picking up people that are working, they're people that have committed to the America. So I wonder how that affects economies in different places. We're definitely going to see how that tends to impact us economically probably over the course of the next few months.

But to your point, Envy, yeah, you're seeing a lot of people being picked up on their workplace and a lot of people who are not going to work because they're fearful or not going to schools or not even participating in extracurriculars with their kids. It's happening here in the DMV as well, football games and soccer games that, you know, parents are afraid to go to, extracurricular activities that parents are afraid to go to because of ice raids

and these ice raids and they're pulling up, not identifying themselves, which brings me to my next story. California lawmakers are introducing new legislation aimed at making law enforcement officials, including federal agents, provide better identification and not hide their faces with things like masks. US attorney for Massachusetts, Leah Foley,

has some comments on that. Let's take a listen. Federal agents and their children are being threatened, doxed, and assaulted. That is why they must hide their faces. So the decision by California lawmakers follows ongoing protests across the country, as previously mentioned. The bill aims for more transparency and public safety. Lawmakers also say it takes away the idea of what they call secret police. It may face an uphill battle as federal agents, including ICE agents, typically work under federal immigration law and not state law.

Which brings me to the next story. In New York, Mayor Eric Adams was asked about all of this. How do you feel about working with ICE on which type of matters are you working with ICE? And, you know, initially, when we started talking about these ICE raids, Eric Adams took the stance where he was like, I'm just, you know, we're not going to be involved. We're not going to work with ICE. But now he's saying that he will, in fact, in the city will work with ICE on criminal matters, criminal matters, not civil matters. Let's take a listen.

We do not in any way collaborate with civil enforcement. We're going to always collaborate with criminal actions. Of course, as previously mentioned, Trump announced he is directing his administration to use every resource possible on mass deportation efforts, and also mentioned New York, LA, and other cities in those comments. And if I can, before I go, Vance Bolter, the man who was on that killing spree, or to an extent, in Minnesota, he has officially been charged in federal and state court

over the murder of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband. Bolter appeared in federal court on Monday, charged with multiple crimes, including stalking, murder with a firearm, and fire offenses. He also faces multiple counts of second degree intentional murder and attempted murder in state court,

where a Minnesota judge ordered Vulture's bail to be set at $5 million. So that's your front page news. Continue to follow us on socials at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at BINnews.com. You can find me on social at Morgan Media. Thank you so much, y'all. All right, boo.

I do have one question, Morgan, before we go. Yeah, let's get to it. So the shooter that you just spoke about who killed two people and wounded two other people, shot two other people, right? Yes. How the hell do they give him a bond of $5 million? He killed two people and wounded two other people, shot two other people, right? Yes. How the hell do they give him a bond of five million dollars? He killed two people, right? And he shot two other people.

They gave him a bond of five million dollars, right? Not to compare left and right. Diddy is accused of doing a bunch of crazy-ish. Yes. They got no bond. This guy killed two people, dressed up as a police officer, shot two others and got a five million dollar bond. Right. Guess what?

Racist. I just want to say that. I just want to say that because that's wild. That is wild. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, it is. And that's your front page news.

This is American. Thank y'all. When we come back, Arnaz J will be joining us. Comedian Arnaz J. He has a new special, not gonna stop streaming on YouTube now and we're gonna kick it with the OG when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Good morning everybody, it's DJ, Envy, Jess, and Larry and Charlamagne. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building who's starting the issue already. A legend. Ladies and gentlemen, Arnaz J, comedian. What's up, brother? Thank you, man.

I'm Mr. Holly. I'm the man. I'm the man. I'm the man. I'm the man. I'm the man. I'm the man. guest in the building who's starting it already. A legend. Ladies and gentlemen, R.N.J., comedian. What's up, brother? Thank you, man.

I have a thing homage to all of y'all. God is great. I realize why you're such a good comedian. You are a very observant person. Soon as you came in the room, you observed the whole surrounding. You saw that? Absolutely.

That's right. I teach my crew, Team Nessie. I scan wherever I go. And maybe that was because I grew up fighting all my life. I scan. I mean, my first day of school, I'm thumping. And I'm out the Poker Bean Projects out of Florida. Oh man, wow.

I'm straight out of Poker Bean. And you was there when it was really the Poker Bean Project. See that right there? Yeah. That's the one here, the quitter right there. Damn. Yeah, I mean, I ain't a dick dude, but. You just came whoop my ass and

not see me the next day and say hey man you know about yesterday oh no. You're back ass. I lost. I gotta get even. That's right. I'm not that bad. I'm not that bad. But you grew up, I mean Pork and Bean Project is notorious and I mean that the era you grew up in was really really notorious. Yeah. I was, matter of fact, I was in between sister on me and and and oh always crossed the one my whole family I was 135th at 95th Avenue and all that. Yeah, we uh Yeah, wow, yeah, you seen some things. That's right Yeah, I could I I could have had a lot of hatred in my life, but I don't I'm not an evil person I'm not a mean person. I love life, whether you're light skinned or not. Puerto Rican or not, whatever.

Dominican. Damn, you looked at everybody and got it right. He Puerto Rican, he Dominican. I am not Dominican, I am black. I don't need to keep joking. I am fully black. Are you black now because of the election? Are you black?

Are you black? Come on now. Come on now. I'm always black. Come on now. Come on now. I'm always black. Come on now. C. Okay. C.

Okay. You know, I usually wear a jacket when I come to the studio because you never know how cold it is. Do you mind if I take off my jacket? Okay. Because I'm, you know. Stay for a while. It's 85 degrees in here.

Wait, hold on. Let me take it off sexy. Is this your mind? Wait, wait. Now, this is what, everybody in here was gay. Do you mind if I take my jacket off? I'm gonna take it off sexy. You don't mind? Wait, wait. Now this is what, everybody in here was gay, you mind if I take it off?

And don't go all the way, just stare at you for a minute. Look at me, child, man. Well, happy pride. Well, thank you. See, you walked right into that. You don't want some scrape,, happy pride man. You know what? Y'all are projecting good energy for me.

You're trying to get them handcuffs off man. You reminiscing about being in front of me. You know, I did see you get chased once. I advised. I definitely did. He did. He did. He did.

He did. He did. He did. He took off too. He fast. Man, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. When I saw him, this is the thing that came out my mind. This f***er, go!

And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that word, but I'm like, this, this, this, this. Observation. You're scaring the streets. You missed every car. You missed every car when you dipped and dabbed. You sure did.

You know, and see a lot of people, and it reminded me of me when I did, and a lot of people don't know this, when I did the Eazy E video. A lot of people thought- Which one? The Compton City G's. Wow, that's a, that's a diss record, the Dre. Exactly, but everybody thought that was AJ Johnson because he did the first one with Drake.

No, that was me that did that because you would have been able to tell the difference just by the speed that I was running. They told me to slow down. Remember the scene when it was running through the park and the dog was chasing me? They told me to slow down. I said, dude, I'm an athlete. I ran track. Y'all got your pants low. And you played baseball. And I played baseball. dude, I'm an athlete. I ran track. Y'all got your pants low.

And you play baseball. And I play baseball. I'm watching you running the ball. Oh, you running pretty fast now. I'm watching you running the ball. I tried to tell you. You never seen Come to the City G's video? I do, but I wanted to see it again.

You running pretty fast. I had to hold my hat. I seen you holding your hat. You know, just like a famous person in the hood said they were running the 4 240. I was like, if you don't stop, if you don't stop, if you don't stop. And I love both him, Kevin, myself and Kat had a race. For real? Real talk.

In real life? Real life. I think we were in Cleveland getting ready to do a show. How did this race happen? I'm just saying we had a race. Okay. I'm the oldest. Woo!

What year was this? It don't matter. It don't matter. It don't matter. This isn't Jesus's log book. It don't matter. And you won. I'm just letting you know.

They didn't. So you didn't see the 4244 is what you're telling us. I didn't say he couldn't run. Okay, okay. You know, anybody getting chased can run. That's right, that's right. But a 4-2-4, come on now. But I love and I want to clear some, I'm glad I brought his name up. And then can I get to this?

You can do it. I'm so amped right now. Yeah, for a while. We ain't even taking time, man. Thank you. Thank you. We ain't going nowhere. I want to clear something up with my fans and with the people that have seen this interview.

Someone was asking about Kat Williams and myself. And I said, Kat, there's something for my brother that I would never, no one can ever say nothing bad about Cat to me. And let me say good morning to all of America. Cat has a great heart. A lot of people just don't understand him sometimes, but there is a great heart and a great young man in there. And he helps people out without thought process, meaning I ain't got to know what your problem

is but I know this would help you Monetarily a lot of people say that by the way, too. Yeah, especially comedians cat there's something for me. Oh I'm trying not to get emotional Cat there's something for me that Had nothing to do with monetary value Has something to do with the way your heart has been built. My brother who was in the wheelchair, we were doing a show in Detroit and my brother, the way he was sitting, he couldn't come back to meet everybody and I

can't remember, because I didn't remember it at first. People think Cat gave some money to my brother. For what? I got money. Cat did something that most humans wouldn't do without thinking. He went and sat and talked to my brother while everybody else was backstage meeting everybody. He talked to him.

Wow. So he saw your brother. He saw him. He saw him physically, went out there and talked to this young man. That's why I can't nobody tell me nothing bad about Kat. No matter whatever other demons may be going on, you can't talk to me about it. That's not my my lane for that my lane is what he did for my brother without which money could never compare to you understand me absolutely so I just wanted to clear that up had nothing to do with money had every bit to do with this brother's heart his brother's heart was so I just wanted to salute the cat that means a lot it means more than a lot absolutely you said you want to clear up what the people think out you and can't have beef or you can't no no no no

Everybody like you said everybody especially committee think that everything is about monetary value that he's throwing out money No, he threw out his heart ain't throw out money. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. He threw out his heart to made It made my brother probably Thought he was standing up and walking again. You understand what I'm saying? That's why. That's. I know exactly what you mean.

I know people who've done that for other people. Didn't give them no money, didn't put them in a movie or anything like that, but just showed up for them. I say that about Issa Rae all the time. Issa Rae showed up for one of my homegirls when she was going through it. And my homegirl did ultimately take her life a couple years later, but when Issa Rae all the time. Issa Rae showed up for one of my homegirls when she was going through it. And my homegirl did ultimately take her life a couple years later,

but when Issa showed up for her, rest in peace Jazzfly, Jasmine Waters, when Issa showed up for her, I know what that did for her and her spirit. So for all we know, that might've kept her alive, you know, a couple years. Absolutely, absolutely. So I get exactly what you're saying.

We're still kicking in with comedian RNSJ. His new special not gonna stop. It's streaming on YouTube now. You've been compared to legends like Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. You heard that before I'm sure. Yeah and Flip Wilson. And Flip Wilson. Why do you think RNSJ hasn't, like he said, done the special in 10 years, took off the way that these comedians name that I said. Is it because you balance family life a lot better? That's an excellent question and also you just gave a great answer.

I was already into a family when I got into this. That couldn't stop. Did I want to be famous? Of course. That's why you get into this. But then I smartened up and realized, do I want the fame or do I want stability down the road? Give me the stability. You keep the fame. I know a whole bunch of famous broke people. But I got my fans who have never let me down. My special right now,

within five days it was at a million views. Five days. That don't happen. Two million views too much. We're at 27 days, we're at two million views. I can only thank God Almighty. And there's people out there that care about me. That's why I give every, when I'm on stage, I give everything that I have, whether it's one person on stage or it's 10,000 in the arena.

I give everything that I have. Cause I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to let my fans down. People work hard for their money. I'm your comic relief. They need that pressure taken off themselves. So when comedians beef with each other, some of it's legit, some of it's not. Anything that I do, I do it in front of your face

and then have you want to handle it after that. You know, it's an interesting question to be asked, but I think one thing people don't realize about comedians, guys like you make money. Like I done seen you a couple of times, you don't even know because I was a youngster back then. Like Columbia, South Carolina, Township Auditorium. Wow, what you doing in Columbia, South Carolina?

I'm from Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Charleston, raised in Montscona. You're from Gucci land? Yes sir, Gucci land, absolutely. I'm gonna tell you, Gucci my bad. I'm by my bad. That you would hear RNSJ name all the time. RNSJ gonna be at the Times of Auditorium.

RNSJ gonna be at the Gilead Auditorium. So I've personally seen you on stage years, years, years, years, years. So you think about, that's what, I've been doing radio 27 years. Yeah. So your career has been longer than that. Yeah. It's been almost 35.

That's what I'm saying. So guys like you been on the road, y'all on the road making tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars a weekend. Honest like, don't count my money now. No, no. Oh, but that is one thing I hate. Do not look in my pockets Mm-hmm, and that's anybody with me working with do not Look at my pocket

most Comedians are of certain status. I feel would rather have females working for him than men Mm-hmm. You know why why because we're men. We're alphas. You want to be the top dog. You want to be that alpha male. Why are you making all this money? I need to make more. Most of the time women they're not in competition with you. They're there to do a great job. So when they do their job, it makes it easier on you. A lot of comedians have a woman that will open up for them. It doesn't matter to me whether you're a woman or a man.

I've had both. But it's most... And if I'm wrong, you can tell me I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. I'm going to take that clip and put it out of context. I just want you to know that. You go do what you want. What the f*** you want. I don't care if it's a man or a woman. and put it out of context. I just want you to know that. You go do what you want. What the man and woman put. I don't care if it's a man and woman, I had both.

Yeah, yeah. No, you can do that. You can do that because I got contacts too. See, you see how I don't run away from that? You see how I don't run away from that? You in my lane. So I'm gonna put you back in your lane. So do whatever you want.

Because by the time I'm done, you and DJ Envy would have slept with each other. So now you do that if you want to. But you ain't the first to say that though. You ain't the first to say that. Yeah, but the way I'm gonna do it... The way I'm gonna do it... I said, why you think he's smiling his lip turn pink automatically?

That's blood rushing up in there. You crazy! You crazy! That's that cuda blood. That's that Cuda blood. Why you think Charlamagne looks like an Egyptian? With them eyebrows. Goddamn eyebrows. I know somebody that sprays Airmark up in there. Look like an Egyptian.

No, it's natural, man. Definitely not natural. You play with them eyebrows. Yeah, man, you go with that. Can I curse over here? Go with that, man. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that.

I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm. She played with the mob. Yeah, you go

That's when you know Cuz the dad doesn't say it is I don't wipe Natural around around here Natural how to have yeah How come you the only human that that's natural? And all the other gyms just had that done? Why don't my eyebrows look like that? And that ain't done?

You ain't get yours done? I know, you done shot some ink in there, you ain't slick. You done shot some ink or had it threaded, whatever that thing's got. Nah, I'm not gonna lie, when I was younger. Uh oh, uh oh, here it go. I'm not gonna lie when I was young I used to work in a telemarketing place. It was two girls and they told me that uh Tupac get his eyebrows arch near isamira. That's what they named and I got my eyebrows arch because they told me to fuck me Do you know when my mama used to know that I was lying what she would say?

I want to ask about his style of comedy, right? I wanted to stay in that room though but go ahead, we'll let you go. When you're on stage, you're very animated. Yes. Did you study like dances or like? Believe it or not, I modeled in jazz dance for three years. Wow. Cleo Parker Robinson and I've always, I was always a dancer. I've always been physical. I jumped off my mama's roof one time in a pair of Granimal underwear and a tie wrapped around my neck thinking I was Superman trying to grab a tree limb. Jumped.

Straight airborne. Did you make it? No. And then I got my behind-whipped. Damn. After she made sure I was OK. That's what black mamas do. Yeah.

She didn't even check to see if you were trying to kill yourself. Nah. Yeah. All that air left out of me though. All the wind left. She beat you immediately after? I'm just glad I wasn't hard cuz I would have broke that little thing. I was kind of high up in the air. See how I mess your mind up with that? You know in the new special, in the new special not gonna stop comedy you said that Prince called you. He did.

You said his voice sounded sexy. You said you would let him hit. Huh? No I'm just kidding. That's the heat. You know what DJ? He's playing with you out there. I know I know I know I'm gonna have to do you trying to be slick. Okay

Come on let him hit I don't even know you looking in his eyes. Oh you were locked. Oh Charlamagne met him You could not look him in his eyes and leave Unless his eyes released you he made me stutter and I don't even know why. I don't even get a good eye. I know why you're stuttering because your brain was saying, what's up, what we gonna do?

Yeah. Your brain said, okay, you gonna let him hit. Or you already looking at your eyes because you already look like an Egyptian. So what you wanna do? He had those too though. Prince had them eyes like that. Let me tell you something.

Stop. He did. Stop. He had Prince's Prince eyes. Prince eyes and Tupac eyebrows. Wait who did this on your show? Oh Darnell. I heard what you said about me fam. What did he say? What did he say? Well, he was, he was, Darnell, I like Darnell. But he was saying, I'm just going by what was told to me. He was like, I can't get a job at 1992 on SJ out there working every week Wow no man if I'm lying he'll let you know let me call You might answer let me see if I don't believe that else said that I'm from off on FaceTime. It must be something. What's up, son? Let's see. Let me see. I'm not calling him out I'm just telling you tell me you heard telling what I heard

Hey, he ain't picking up. Nope Why your phone sounds so sexy But what did Prince say when he called you? Why you slurring your assets? He wanted me, he wanted to meet me and I thought they were joking. I went to meet him and when I met him I was in Oakland California. When I went there, when we first met, he was in rehearsal. Larry Graham was just either getting ready to walk off or walking off.

And he saw me and he told me, come on in, cause I didn't want to disrespect. I'm up there watching this man in rehearsal and I'm the only one in the audience. That's dope. The only one in the audience. Then's dope. The only one in the audience. Then he told me to come on stage. Prince. Man Prince is a beast. When I looked in his eyes I looked in his eyes like you're not gonna let me leave are

you? Just gonna hold my heart. He... Dude I was in such amazement. Then when I saw her the wardrobe, the clothes that he was gonna wear, I didn't even want my clothes no more. It's my role manager laughing. So I- We know, we saw Prince float away. Dude, I went out and bought me a shirt

with the back cut out. Shut up, man. Rod, am I lying? I wouldn't tell the truth. I went out and, hey. You said you wouldn't tell the truth. I'm here to tell the truth. I went out, I don't lie in my interviews.

Where'd you find a shirt with the back cut out? It don't even matter, we was in San Francisco. Oh, okay, I got you. Easy to find. Yeah, yeah. Got you, got you, got you, got you, got you. My back was cut out. Think I didn't baby oil back there?

I wasn't even a comedian when I went on stage. I'm up here trying to shimmy. But the back cut out. You know what Charlamagne said? We see him and it was in the hallway. Charlamagne walks up to him and, I'm seven days after two. Well, shut up, that's not what happened.

He didn't say hello, how you doing? That's the first thing that was on Charlamagne's mind. Somebody said Prince was in the building. Ma, you were six in the morning, like Prince in the building, why would Prince just randomly be in the building? Did you do this before you went out? He did, he did. Charlemagne, did you do that before you went out? He licked his lips.

You could tell him, bro. He fixed his eyebrows. You get that, you licked your eyebrows. No, what happened was- Charlemagne, did you do this? When we walked out the studio and we went to the hall, he was already walking by and he saw us and he came walking towards, he actually came walking towards us.

Okay, but when he left, did you look at his little ass? Yes, and I took a picture of him. Yeah! He took a picture! I took a picture of him. Of his little ass. He was walking away. We asked him to take a picture.

Did it go knock knock? Do do do do do. Listen, in my line, he was floating. No, I'm glad you. He was floating off the ground. Yes! I'm not, and then when I went to go show everybody, I'm like, yo, look, he was floating.

The picture was black in my phone. It was just a black box with a picture of him. I'm not in my line. He was right there. We all saw it. He was walking away, cause we asked him to take a picture. He was like, nah, I don't wanna take a picture.

Cool. And as he was walking away, I took a picture of him from behind. And when we looked, he was levitating off the ground a little bit, and I showed him, we all looked at the picture once to see him levitating. I'm glad you said that. And that shit turned into a black square.

I'm glad you said that because when he was on stage, you know they called me, he called me up on stage to perform. I mean to sing with him. And Larry Graham and everybody was up there when he started doing that little move and I have never seen a pair of five instadellas move look like he wasn't touching the ground. I mean it was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. So you're not lying. No we said it.

Nobody believes it. I don't tell the story because nobody believes it but I had seen him take the picture. He showed us and it was gone. Gone. I said send me the picture. Send me the picture. Gone. Like what the f***? where the f*** the picture went? It's a black box where the picture was.

Spirits. That's all. Listen, why... Spirits. Why did you and Ricky Smiley have beef, man? Huh? I heard Ricky tell that story. I think he was up here and he told it and he told it.

Okay, tell me what he told you. He just said that y'all had beef for 20 years, never spoke, and then y'all randomly saw each other on a plane and ended up sitting next to each other and y'all squashed whatever issues y'all had. Well, that's what happened. That's what he told you, that's what happened. Yo, Arnaz is stupid, yo.

You know. You just did what your mama did, you said, mm-hmm. No, no. Once you squash or we talk like two grown men, once we do that, then whatever you say without demeaning me and getting away from all the truth, then that's what happened. We'll leave it at that. That's what happened. You're a good brother, man. Both of y'all are good brothers. Both of y'all are good brothers. I know he is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I reach out to him. Both of us have different places in life. I can get along with, believe it or not, I can get along with anybody if you will allow me to get along with you. Plain and simple. And if you want to go the other route and we don't want to get along, I get it. Plain and simple and if you want to go the other route and we don't want to get along I get it. I I wish nothing but success for yourself and or your family Period. Mm-hmm. This life is too short for us to carry malice in our heart about people

Yo, you are talking about OG comedians man being disrespectful. Who's the 1992 comedian? First off son, uncross your legs when you're doing them interviews son, don't do that son. First of all, recognize a pimp bitch. I know, I know because you had your pimp voice the other time. I was like this is about to traffic somebody son. That's okay as long as you don't snitch, we cool. Nah, yo and I'm gonna tell you, you knowS, you know I don't f*** with nobody. You're one of the ones I f*** with.

I know this sounds crazy, but when I see y'all, I'm like, I want this f***ing take me fishing one day. No kidding, sir. We were just talking about that. So why you sh***ing on him then? Why you telling other people? Why, Darnell? I ain't never f***ing on R&S.

No, no, what I said was, and I told him, I said it wasn't bad what Darnell said, it was just funny. When Darnell said, man funny when Donnell said man I can't get no damn work out here on 1992 on there's Jay working every week. Did you say that? When there's somebody like Okay I never said that. Oh, okay.

Especially with somebody that's not used to but to continue to crush it like you did. No way. And I have to take your word for that. Plain and simple. Stop lying on R-Nest J. Stop lying on Cory Holcomb, man. You need to leave that alone.

Peace, son. You need to leave that alone. Nah, fuck with Cory, man. I'm gonna tell you one thing about Cory that y'all might not know. What's that? That m*** can fight. I would hope so. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, let me get this straight now. Okay, okay. There's a whole bunch of people that run that yak and can't fight. Yeah. That's a legit strong man. I was with him in a gym when he sold called members of a gang or OGs or whatever were talking and Corey said,

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I jumped in and I said, no, all y'all ain't going to jump on him. And then there was some other comedians sat back like little bitches so let's just keep it keep this real okay I need course I need to confirm this on the 5150 show I want to hear I need to know who the comedians were that didn't jump in yeah Corey can thump I believe he's a real good dude if you don't want his type of truth, then don't ask his type of question. That's very true. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Man, watch how Nez Jacob you got your man. You know what? You know what? You know what? Oh, man. On YouTube right now. Oh, Nez, you got to come up here more, man.

No, y'all got to ask for me. I will come. 16 years, this the first time you've been up here? It's crazy on that. Because I never thought. I mean, if y'all call on me, I'm going to come. I'm going first time you've been up here is crazy on it because I never thought I mean if y'all call on me, I'm a come You entail stop through I will I will sit in will will will roast everybody out here In a good way or in a good way. Yeah, cuz I don't I don't want you getting yourself know

You don't get in trouble like that no more Shut up man, it's the breakfast club Let me cue out this way, mmm Let's get right to the latest with Lauren from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything. She'll be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren LaRosa.

Sometimes she has facts, sometimes she has details, sometimes she has a little bit of everything. But what's the latest? On The Breakfast Club. So the moment we have all been waiting for. What's that? People were wanting to see these freak off tapes in the Diddy trial. Well, did not happen because only the jurors got to see your claim. You're a clown.

Only the jurors got to see the tapes. Now, if y'all remember, because we've been talking about this for weeks in here, I told y'all in the beginning of this trial, when it first started, they made a rule on court that said when things like this, the tapes or the even remember when I talked about the screenshots, the photos from the tapes, we were not able to see them even the attorney gallery was not able to see them prosecution shown it right? Yes, this is the prosecution is still present in their case. But they're doing this because they want to make sure that nothing leaks out of court and nothing like it's just very sensitive stuff. So yesterday, I'll let you go.

So yesterday, the jury got to see some of the freak off tapes. And the way that they did it is they shut down all the monitors in the court. They give the jury headphones and everybody just sitting there. So there were some reports that in some of my friends that were in like the main courtroom area said to me that you could hear kind of like, you know how someone's listening to something in headphones and it's like loud? You can hear little things like little moans here and there. Like that.

But I don't know how in detail that hearing was. And you don't really know what you're hearing because you can't hear it. First of all, the way that you're seated in court versus where the jury is, it's not like you're next to them. So you can be hearing something and you don't know what you're hearing. So they didn't have a little screen in front of them to watch it? They just had to listen? The jury got a screen. They could also watch it. So there's men and women on the jury pool. A lot of people were asking questions about how did the jury look while they were watching it because it was played in a small doses. So they play three freak off videos. They play like 11

to 12 minutes of each video with the headphones on so that they can listen to the audio. But I mean, they're watching it. There was a report from TMZ and they do have shout out to Jacob Wasserman. They do have a reporter in the court as well too. And their reporter said that there was a giggle. I was not told about a giggle, but they reported that there was one witness that I mean one witness one juror that giggled during it, but that people were just watching it. And they need a break after like the jurors like I need a bathroom break after. No, they so they were they were they were adults on that tape.

This man is crazy. It's the truth. There were adults on the tape. Nobody man is crazy. It's the truth. There were adults on the tape and nobody was forced. This is where it was consensual. So the clips are 11 to 12 minutes, but they only watched about like 30 seconds of each one, right? So you're not, it's not like they're sitting there watching a whole. Well for sure.

I mean, cause they went on for days, apparently. So I know we wouldn't be able to see a whole one. Yeah, but it was enough to have impact. So I was also told that, well, first of all, I think that is really smart. And I talked about this on the podcast, the latest with Lauren and Rosa in detail. So make sure you guys go take a listen to today's episode. I thought that it was really smart that the prosecution waited to play the tapes now because you know that the prosecution is going to be ending their case by Friday.

Right. So we days out from the prosecution saying, yo, we good. We did enough. But my question to you is, right, if the freak also consensual, right, So we days out from the prosecution saying, yo, we good. We did it up. But my question to you is, right? Yes. If the freak offs were consensual, right? And hearing all these testimonies, we're hearing that it was consensual. How are they able to use them? Yeah. How are they able to use them? Because they're watching. It's like watching porn. They're watching consensual people have sex. It's not like they're saying that, you know, did he tied somebody up or he forced somebody on these tapes or he beat

somebody on these tapes? It were consensual sex. Yeah. Correct. Um, I mean, because you have to think about all the testimony that you've heard up until this, right? Up until this point, like even though, uh, Diddy's team is alleging that is consensual, you've heard from multiple women. You've heard from-

That said it was consensual. Well, Cassie said that she did it, but she was, she, she alleged she did it because she was under the coercion or the force of something that made her not like she was being blackmailed. There was there was different things that she alleges happened that made her do all these things. So technically, I don't know how you argue consent around that. But she's saying, okay, you might, it might come off or be said as if this was consensual. But you got to think about all the things that were up against me. I was I can't be proven in that tape because she also said that she set some of those freak

off. So yes, but think about it, right? Like, so even in the courtroom is quiet as a mouse. You can literally like it's so quiet because everybody's trying to hear something you hear a little noise is coming from the audio and you're actually now getting to it's just you're just putting color to everything that you've heard. They didn't need to show them freak off. I mean, you want to the only only reason why I think that it was...

If it was consensual, nothing was against the law, he's not being accused for beating anybody up on a freak off. They just did that to embarrass him. They just wanted to show Diddy's penis and Diddy's ass and everybody else's penis and ass. That's crazy. The only reason I disagree with that is because when you're in that courtroom and you're seeing these women on the stand crying, saying, yo, my life would have been over if I said no, I wouldn't have had a place to

live all these allegations I would have when it comes to Cassie we saw the physical violence that she endured where she said because of that physical violence she had no way out that's what she alleged right and then you see the actual like here's exactly what she was made to do so you've got all of the actual like, here's exactly what she was made to do. So you've got all of the why and then here's the what. You put it together and then boom, you have a, that's the case. But if he's not on a tape standing over and saying, do this or what are you seeing? But just, you just see a consensual sex.

They said most of the time Diddy was in the corner masturbating. Well listen, what I will argue is- You just wanted to see the tape. I didn't say, I don't want to see that. No, I'm just asking questions. I don't know want to see the tape. I didn't say I don't want to see that I will say please take a listen to the podcast elisa one of the roads because I get into this conversation because not everything was Presented by the government or by the prosecution the way that you want it what you're saying envy I'm just asking but I do believe that there is something there and that's why they show these tapes now before we get out Of here. I have an exclusive that I want to bring

Worldwide exclusive so we have a of here, I have an exclusive that I want to bring worldwide exclusive. So we have a clip showing, you know, their new album is coming out. Let God sort them out on July 11. So we have a worldwide exclusive. This is a new song off of the album is called So Be It that we're going to play. You went to that listening session last night. I went to the listening session last night. Where was it at?

I mean, what's up? It was at the Rock Nation offices. Super intimate. It was about a handful of us in there just listening with, you know, Pusha T and Malice and talking through some of the records and just their feeling. And when I tell y'all, I have never been so inspired by music. Like I left and I was like, man, like music, like I love the music. I love the full, of course, the full body of work. It's like a, it's like it starts you one place and it takes you along a ride and then it ends you another

place. We did get to hear the Kendrick Lamar verse. Did you hear the Jay-Z verse? I don't know nothing about no Jay-Z verse, but I heard the Kendrick Lamar verse. I just meant like just seeing them together. It's been 15 years. Who else is on the album? I don't know who else is on the album.

I know she trying to get all sentimental like who's on the album. I know we got Sobe and we gonna play that. I don't know who else is on the album. I know she's trying to get all sentimental like who's on the remix. I know we got so big we gonna play that I don't know who else is on the album. Yo they got Vato on the album? Who? Vato. I don't know about no Vato. Alright alright. So how'd you get this record?

Cause I called them for a record and they said no. So how did you get this record? How did you used to get the records? Back in the day? Yeah. I would take them. Okay wait. No DJ.

I'm not a DJ but we got that record don't we? Hurry and reach out. Embi mad, Embi sorry. Alright push. That is Lauren with the latest. Alright I'm free. I see how you doing this. Latest music, latest litigation, all that.

Alright, Donkey of the Day is up next. If you want to give somebody Donkey of the Day 800-585-105, what's the name of the record? The record is So Be It. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. 885 105 what's the name of the record the record is so be it It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own remember that is how they choose Call in now 800 585 105 1 Hello, who's this? Cook what's up, man? We won't give donkey to brother. I guess our so-called president for his birthday parade

Nobody showed up today was that he gets the donkey of the week donkey of the month don't be able to get it Okay, thank you, brother. That's new. Love y'all. Love you too. Hello. Who's this? What's up Shelby How much they took out your check $500 they not paying me for all the hours I work or my correct premium for overtime and what are they saying? They don't know what the issue is they trying to work on it. Thank you for being understanding They don't know what's happening. That's crazy cuz that's a whole bill. Yeah, we mean I know I'm sorry I'm sorry, mama. But they definitely need it.

I'm sorry, honey. I'm sorry, mama. It's OK. Thank God for letting me get you, because I've been trying to call y'all to get them donkeys for the past few days. You want to say your company's name? Uh, F**k Blue.

F**k Blue. Stop playing with this lady, check. Give her her money. Right. The hell? She mess around and get fired now. No, I was going to say, damn, they going to remove the whole thing.

I know that. Her check will be zero next time. Hello, who's gonna say damn they gonna remove the whole thing. I know that. She gonna be zero next time. Hello, who's this? D from Queens, what's going on guys? D from Queens, a part of Queens. I'm from Queens Village. Hey, Queens Village, Murdoch and Springfield, what's up?

Talk to us. Who you wanna give donkey to? I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- I We talked about it with the ICE raid. We want to talk about trannies and gays and all of that, especially people from New York. We've been around them our whole life, but for some reason now we want to act like they're the worst people on earth. So we either sat home for the election or voted against our entrance. We acted like stupid white people. And look at the result. I wouldn't say all black and Latino people, sir. There are some people that voted for Trump.

I said enough. Enough. Enough. I wouldn't even say enough. I mean, there's a lot of Latinos that voted for Trump. I said enough! Enough! Enough! I don't even say enough. I mean there's a lot of Latinos that voted for Trump. Yeah, yeah. But I wouldn't say enough people. Because the majority of people I know did not vote for Trump, sir. But I get what you're trying to say. That's what they said to you.

That's what they said to you. Yeah, I get what you're saying though. Alright, thank you. This is your donkey. Hello, who's this? Yo, this Juve is calling me from Jacksonville, Florida. Hey, what's up, bro? Get off your donkey. Hello. Who's this? Hey, what's up, bro? We'll get it off your chest. Hey yo, I'm getting DJ Evans and I'm giving Jesse, Oh, don't care today because y'all sitting over there asking those questions about R Kelly and this y'all don't want to see R Kelly come to home.

Man, R Kelly come come home. Free that man. They doing him home. Thank you for Lauren for doing a dog. I'm not spearheading a free R Kelly movie. I just want to make that very clear. Hey, hey, it ain't illicit. They let Bill Cosby come home, they know what they doing, man. They wasn't trying to hold that man. That man keeps a poly. Do not make me the face of that. No, hey man, if I was involved in anything you need, I wasn't the only one saying that

did it. But guess what, though? He a black man, y'all be free. He dead, he been rolled, done and rolled inside of the justice system. Then y'all be cool, baby. Get that ass over there looking like an old ass quarter, quarter lawyers don't wanna see a man

come home, man, he coming home, free that man. All right, Juvi, you got kids, you're gonna send them right to your house first. Yep, period. So I just found out that Juvi and our very own Lauren LaRosin are spearheading the free R Kelly movement. That's pretty good.

No, no, no, I am not. No, I am not. That's what he just said. No, no, no, that was. That's what he said. That's what he said. He gave us the dog head of day because he said, and you did your job. He thanks you so much for doing your job and putting it out there that this man needs to

come home today. That's right. For asking questions. All I did was ask questions to report information. I am not spearheaded. No movement I've got nothing to do with that little two step on out of that wherever you come from Hello, who's this? What's up, what's from Georgia? What's up? Who you want to give donkey to? I'm going to give a donkey today to people that use delivery apps and they don't be tipping the driver. Well, they can see it.

They guess and time. Because why are you doing it? You know what? I'll be honest with you Dreah. I got into it with somebody about a month ago about this, right? And this is the point that I'm confused. When you order an Uber Eats or DoorDash or any of those services, right? They put a delivery fee there, right?

Then they put a service fee. So the delivery fee sometimes be $4. The service fee is $2. That's $6. So now I got to pay for the food and tip and tax. And priority if you want your food before an hour $2.99 which is also yep and it's $4 don't be mad when people just throw a dollar tip because they think that you already got a $4 delivery fee exactly

a $2 service fee $2.99 priority and you want more money like that's a lot. Come on. Absolutely. Because you still using this app. This app gotta pay for itself and me. And you're going to eat it though, okay? You're still shipping service. Who gets the delivery fee? What do you mean? I'm already there sitting there. Nobody gotta, you know what I'm saying? Nobody gotta go out and drive my food to me. Well, see that she is in the food. Delivery fee is in the food? No, she said she's sitting down already. delivery freeze in the food Yeah, damn right you paying yours to ancient

Or you can just get another job because they ain't gonna pay you like you want to be paid They need to break y'all off. You can't get mad at us. They need to break y'all off some more money. I don't mind tipping for service, but I do mind when I order on those apps and then you look and your meal is $20. And then they charge you $4 delivery fee. $2 for service fee. $2.99 for priority. What are you paying for? Who gets that money? So when yours automatically selects a tip you change it you, you put a custom tip in. Yes, absolutely. Until I get my food, then you can add more. Oh, because you want to see how your service is. I don't ever get that. Man, I'm glad they got that now because I used to overtip before then I get my food and it's somebody else food or it came too late or it's something missing and I can't take the tip back. So

I tip a little bit in the beginning and then depending on the service, I tip you a lot more after. I could feel that as long as y'all tip. Hell yeah. Some people don't tip and I used to work a job where I only made money off tips so I feel the pain. Yeah, I never not tip. But I think people, I think servers need to really go with Uber Eats and Door Dash, right?

The fact that they charge $4 and y'all not getting that $4, that's disrespectful. That's crazy. That's disrespectful. That's crazy That's disrespectful. Yeah, but anyway donkey today eight hundred five eight five one oh five one Charlemagne was out So if you wanted to give donkey of the day you could have called us up now when we come back Running for the mayor of New York City is Michael Blake. He worked with Barack Obama And he's from the Bronx, and we're gonna talk to him next why he wants to jump into this crazy ass race in New York City So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning the Breakfast Club

Morning everybody is DJ envy just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Lorna Rosa is here as well We got a special guest in the building. He's running for mayor of New York City. Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Blake. Welcome brother What's good? Just going on y'all. How you feeling? feeling oh man another day above grounds of blessed day. We rockin right now That's right for people that don't know who you are in your background give them a quick rundown of who Michael Blake is Born and raised in the Bronx, New York mm-hmm public schools K through 12 PS 79 118 deal with Clinton mm-hmm They go step back full name is Michael Alexander Blake, so for the Jamaican massive. Soon as you said Alexander, they knew exactly who you were.

They ready to understand, bust the Monty Vibes, they ready to understand what's going on out here right now. Everybody has a Winston, Larrington, or Dexter in their family right here, or Donovan. Grew up here, left, went to Northwestern, studied journals, and my mom, blessings to my mom, 40 years, she worked at a manufacturing plant, raised four boys. My dad got rest his soul,

he was the janitor of St. Barnabas. And after Northwestern, life was changed forever when I was trained by this man named Barack Obama. It was one of ten in the Yes We Can program. They trained us on how to run races, went out to Michigan, we won races in Michigan, and then rocked with them. Life was changed from there. I always joke, I was the other black man in Iowa with him right there, right?

And then after Iowa, seven more states, went to the White House with him for two and a half years, ran all his black outreach, minority business outreach, and then I came back home, because I wanted to help my people. Quite frankly, I wanted to show these young cats on the block that you could grow up on the block and still make it, go to a White House and come home. Came back home, was elected to the assembly for six years. My brother's keep a program for boys and young men of color, prompt pay bill, raise the age, Khalif Browder was our constituent, but now it's about doing more. So I'm a husband,

I'm a bonus father, just having my first father's day as a bonus dad so that's been a blessing right there much love to the fathers are here I'm an alpha my Mason. I'm a reverend. We decided to hear do something special now. No watch putting your hat into this this This New York City race. I think I'm the best one prepared right now The biggest thing people are facing is affordability. You know, New York is just it's crazy expensive and at the end of the day gotta I got a full agreement right now. And if we want to be serious about changing the game when it comes to cost of living, then there's specific things we have to do.

We have to have ending credit scores. Credit scores are being used for housing applications, doesn't make sense. We need to increase income limits on these housing applications as well. We need a local median income because area median income is not working. It doesn't make any sense that you have Westchester, Suffolk, and Rockland County in the calculation that doesn't make sense at all. And then when we think about what's happening, I do believe you need to have someone who

has White House, State House, and local experience and I have all three because we're watching the foolishness of Trump and people are understandably scared every day whether it be in New York or LA or anywhere in between and so I jumped in because I want to show people yes you can have the next generation of black leadership, yes you can have someone who was qualified at all the levels, yes you can have someone who's actually focused on affordability in a very real way. And let's be clear, you gotta talk about how you're gonna pay for all this.

And I said, there should be a vacant apartment tax for people that are not living in New York City. We should focus on the NYPD excessive overtime. You got $1.4 billion in that. We can do things to actually pay the bills and actually make sure we change the game at the same time. And that's why I say to folks, if you're looking for the candidate who can do that,

you should be ranking Michael Blake first for mayor. How did you feel about how Mayor Eric Adams ran New York? Well, I mean, I wouldn't be running if I thought he was doing his job. I mean, he spent more time trying to stay out of jail than actually helping people, right? What do you think he did good, if anything,

and what would you change immediately that you didn't like what he did? Man, how much time we have? We got a little bit of time. Look, I think how many things can you change? I mean, you have a scenario where you had unconstitutional stop and frisk on the rise. You had a culture of corruption. You had a dynamic where they were trading dynamics when it comes to ICE raids for him

to stay out of jail. That's not me saying that, it's just the reality. You have one out of eight New York City public school students are homeless. Costs are going up. The list goes on and on. I think that you have a scenario where there was great talent hired in. I think sometimes what happens is that the very select few who made a lot of mistakes cast a shadow

on everything else, you know. But you can't ignore that when you have a dynamic where people were getting promotions because of sex deals at AYPD and people getting paid off, that's nonsense, right? And real talk, it makes it harder for all of us that are black that are trying to do some things Because you go in these conversations like well, I'm not sure if the city's ready for the next thing

No, it is we are not him And if we want to talk through how do we do this differently then you got to change the game on this I gotta ask you what the hell is cross endorsing right because it came out today that you are cross endorsing Zoran My Donnie. Yeah because it came out today that you are cross endorsing Zoran Mamdani. What the hell is that? It feels like, look, we're going to battle together, but we're going to be friends while we do it. What is cross endorsing? You break it down. That's the vibes right there. So, 11 of us are Democrats running the primary. Correct. Because we have ranked choice voting, which started four years ago. What is ranked choice voting for people that don't know? So in New York City you don't have to and you shouldn't just vote for one person.

You should actually rank five people. So whoever is your first choice when you go to vote, which if that means you vote in absentee or if you're voting early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early, vote in early,

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Because back in the day if you only voted for one person and that person doesn't make it through a runoff Then you pretty much you're done, right? So what we're saying right here for is in particular when it to Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast. Today I'm thrilled to welcome back to On Purpose, Cynthia Erivo. They grab me Emmy and Tony award winning actor and singer you know from the color purple, Harriet and Wicked. Oscar nominated incredible actor, singer, author, and producer. Cynthia Erivo What's the difference between achieving and overachieving? You've done something really amazing,

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Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple podcasts. Zoran and I talk about affordability the most, right? We're real clear on if we're serious about the number one issue that New York is talking about is that it is crazy expensive in the city. So who has the plans around that? And I've said, you know, I'm making it clear. I think Zoran is gonna be my number two. You know, I'm ranking him as my number two. You know grateful that he is cross endorsing us as well because he's also making it clear.

We got a break from the corruption of Cuomo and we got to make it clear that you can address affordability. You can do both, right? So we're gonna still figure out who's the rest of the ballot you know I think I'm pretty clear on the rest of that team because you have other great candidates you know Adrian Adams you know Zeldon Omari, Brad Lander they're out here you know doing their thing but I want to make it very clear in New York City you should rank Michael Blake first especially for all the folks out here are still trying to make their decisions but then the cross endorsement is saying I want you to know that there are other people on the team that I also want to make sure are on your ballot.

We're still kicking in with Michael Blake. He's running for mayor of New York City. Why don't you like Cuomo? I mean I've seen you taking shots at Cuomo in his past and all the things that he did. What's your major problem with Cuomo? I mean 15,000 people died in COVID nursing homes because of policies that he did for a book deal. You had 13 women who credibly said that he sexually assaulted them and had a toxic environment. You have a dynamic where

he said shuck and jive in 2008 and made it seem like it wasn't about Barack Obama. Barack Obama was the only black candidate that was real at that in that scenario. He consistently is laying out all the bad things about other people and is actually not talking through what is good right here. Closed hospitals when it comes to addressing the mental health crisis. So like we don't need to go back to a name just because you recognize the name. It's now time to change the game. And so I'm saying to folks, here's the difference you have. He's saying that when I talk about public safety,

I'm saying there should be a thousand mental health professionals instead of NYPD because NYPD will tell you they weren't trained on doing that. You want to help these kids? We should have civics, financial literacy and mental health for every student before they graduate. You actually want to help people with their housing? Let's talk about what's going on with credit scores and income limits. And at the end of the day, Andrew Cuomo, who, real talk, wasn't even living in New York City for a minute, I mean, pretty much was in Westchester the whole time, now is saying I should come back because he thinks he's the best option?

No. How can you eliminate credit scores for apartments and home ownership, right? Sounds amazing, but I think you and I both know that anytime you go to fill out a loan, whether it's a housing loan, a bank loan, an apartment loan, the number one thing they check is credit score. Number two is probably if you actually have a job and you pay stuff. And sometimes for good reasoning too just to see kind of like what your payment history is like and all of that stuff like as a like I get yeah you

answer the question first and then I'll come back because I'm thinking about it out loud. Go ahead. Credit scores is a recent thing that started in 1989 this is not something that was like back in the day. We had many ways to assess how someone was able to pay their rent and their mortgage. The notion that a credit score which could be impacted because you missed a phone bill, a credit card bill 20 years ago is more important than are you paying your rent consistently. Oh I agree with you. It doesn't make any logical sense. You could have one bad month. And then as an entrepreneur, one bad month. Somebody steals your... anything happened one bad month and your credit is down in the drain and I think that's right. Yes, and and the reality is

I'm actually go back to one of your earlier questions. This is one of the things that Eric has done Well, that needs to be expanded upon. We're not assessing these credit scores on some of these HPD units right now in New York City So it's not an argument that we can't do it. It's a choice. So you know, transparently, I'm on the board of Ready Life, which is where this is what I learned about it, chaired by, you know, Dr. Bernice King, led by Ashley Bell, where it was like, okay, let's use some common sense. What is the best way to determine if you could pay your rent or mortgage on time?

Have you paid your rent mortgage on time? That have you paid your rent or mortgage on time? That's more important than did I do something else. So to me, if we actually want to help more people have a chance, eliminate that completely across the board and then assess, okay, how do I help you? But then the second piece is you have to do, we got to increase the income limits on these housing applications.

Because what's happening right now is, you either have to be really rich or poor enough to get access to a home, and then people getting boxed out. The reason why so many people are leaving the city, because housing and childcare. So to me, if there's anything that someone's trying to think through, what is the main policy I want to make happen?

End credit scores when it comes to housing applications. Expand that out, you do that, which we know we can do, because the city is doing it to a limited degree. Increase the income limits. Do that and then have a local median income. That out the gate changes the game. And each of those three are happening in other places. The only reason why we're not doing it right now is lack of leadership. And if you're asking someone, yo, right now, I'm struggling to pay these bills. I'm trying to figure out how to make this all happen, but my life is gonna be impacted

by something I forgot to pay 20 years ago? That's crazy. What's your relationship with President Barack Obama now? How's your relationship? Still my dude. He consistently been a blessing to me. What's been his advice when he knows that you're running for this?

Because he's faced some of the things that you're it now that he's far behind at one time. So what is his opinion to you? Be very clear about why you're running and giving people choice and contrast, right? You know that you can't just talk through big ideas. You got to make it clear to folks that there's a difference, right? Thinking about this here, we were in Iowa, there was a point where he was down like 30. He flew in, got everybody together, and he told this story about how he was at the

St. Patrick's Day Parade running for US Senate, and he was the last entering the parade. And so what that meant was that everybody was saying Baraku, St. Osama, saying wild things, and they were a little drunk, so people were saying wild things. Year later, St. Parade, he was the grand marshal and he was like if you put in that work and you make a clear round choice in contrast then

people will remember and I always took that and he stays with that. It's like when people voted for him he said I'm gonna end the war I'm gonna get you healthcare. Make it real clear on your big ideas and everyone's can rock from that. And that's why I'm being consistent in the same way. When I talk through credit scores, we talked through a thousand mental health professionals, we talked through civics because when you have so many people in the race, if you don't give people that clear choice, then the easy thing is just pick a name you've seen before. Right? And it stays with me. I mean, the screensaver that I have

is when we brought him to the Bronx. We launched My Brother's Keep Alliance in the Bronx. And he would joke with me. He was trying to give me a shout out. I was trying to be cool. He said, yo, the president says your name, stand up, get TV time. He still is in that same zone of follow the vision,

make it clear, but make it clear about choice and contrast. Okay well get out there and vote for the last thing tell people why they should vote for Michael Blake. Michael Blake is the only candidate saying the truth around ending credit scores for housing applications. Michael Blake's the only one that is out here saying that we need a thousand mental health professionals instead of NYPD. Michael Blake's the only one that's saying civic financial literacy and mental health for these kids. I'm the only one that's saying civic financial literacy and mental health for these kids. I'm the only one that was that truth teller on that stage.

Not afraid of Trump, not afraid of Cuomo, not afraid to end the noise. If you want someone who has the ability to change the game at all levels, and you want the handsome Jamaican who actually comes from the Bronx right now, right? Who can talk about hip hop and talk about housing at the same time,

I wanna be your first choice. And if I housing at the same time, I want to be your first choice. And if I'm not your first choice, I want to be your second choice. But most importantly, I want to be on your ballot. That's why Michael Blake should be your mayor. All right. Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Michael Blake, do your research.

And if they want to donate to your campaign, how can they do that? Oh, man. Much love on that. Go to the website, Blake, F-O-R-Nfornyc.com. Blake for nyc.com. You can sign up to donate. You can sign up to volunteer. We have offices all across the city. Our headquarters in the Bronx at 1 Bruckner Boulevard.

But we have satellite offices on five boroughs. And just again, remember everybody, fill out the ballot. Don't just rank me first. Fill out all five spots of your five choices. That makes it a point that your candidate is going to win. It's Michael Blake. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good luck.

Appreciate you. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren be coming with straight face. Tell us, tell us, man. She gets into somebody that knows somebody. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on it.

The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details, sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me. So guys, The Breakfast Club has John B saying that he regrets for criticizing Chloe Bailey over that song that she did with Gunna when she remade, they don't know, with Gunna?

Okay. All right, so let's take a listen. John B sat down with my home girl, Shirley Jew. Shout out to Shirley for Shirley's temple. Yes, Shirley. Shirley Young? Oh, she young. Okay.

Okay. And I'm sure she don't look how you think but I'll show you. Okay. Because you think she older. Yeah, all I see is gray hair, big bifocal glasses. No, I'm gonna show you my homegirl, Shirley. She's a she be out here. You might have to explain to people who John B is. Yes. They don't know just in case y'all don't know y'all don't know who John B is. They don't know. Don't do that. Legendary R&B singer. Just make sure you tell me for just in case. Okay. Um, I'm so, that's crazy. His song, They Don't Know. Exactly.

Let's make a show. Wow, Envy. Okay. Let's make a show. Well, anyway, now that y'all know who John B is, I'm sorry I thought everyone knew. Yes. So he sat down with Shirley. Let's take a listen to what he said. It does get sampled every year, you know by someone last year was Gunna and Chloe Bailey That's right. They put that that ratchet record out. I couldn't stand

Oh, damn And I wish they never did actually never got my rights to do that record either So we got a gun and we got a holler about that. That's a business take care of that some business But yeah, I mean, you know what? It's all it's all a compliment to what we did. That's Tim and Bob compliment, that's me compliment. But at the same time, my lane is my lane and my area is my area. And I earned that. Just like if you made a hit in your area and you do your song, whatever it is, I'm not going to just come into your area, take your joint and make it mine.

So that was not the clip that we were supposed to play, but that was important because those were the original comments that John B made that pissed people off. Correct. People were upset. Yes. He was on an R&B podcast. He had sat down and talked about this song and people were mad. They felt like that he was dragging Chloe and Gunna.

So he- I haven't heard the song in a while though. Do we have it? We do have the song. Let's take a listen to the actual song that he is responding to. Listen to what people say. Oh, no. Yeah.

I mean, John B is a singer singer. So you understand why he's upset. Like he's a singer singer. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, John B is a singer singer. So you understand why he's upset. Like he's a singer singer. Oh, yeah. I get it. Maybe I'm just for the YNR&B because I maybe I'm just a Chloe part of it all because she's a singer. She's a vocalist. You know, maybe maybe Gunna shouldn't have been the one that did his rendition of John B. I don't know. I don't know. But I get why he's saying that. I get why he said it. How he said it after hearing it. Yeah. So after that song and after John B was on the Can know. I don't know. But I get why he's saying that. I get why he said it. How he said it after hearing it. Yeah. So after that song, after John B was on the Can We Talk R&B podcast and making

those comments, we had Chloe Bailey here on the Breakfast Club and she reacted to it. Let's take a listen to her reaction. How do you deal with critiques? Because I know John B came out and that was like a whole thing when he said that you've got a song that you remade of his. They don't know was ratchet. And people were upset at him for saying that. Like how did you feel about that? John B is an incredible artist if that song didn't exist we couldn't sample it so I love what Gunna and I did to it and you know I'm sad he feels that way but hey everyone has opinions. You also said he didn't it didn't get cleared I was like it had to get cleared.

Yeah that... We had to get cleared for that to be sold. Chloe, don't ask me, baby. That was just a feature. So that clip right there is what John B has now responded to. Let's take a listen to John B regrets criticizing the song. What was your reaction when you heard Chloe and Gunna's You and Me? I regretted how I spoke on it the first time because I wasn't used to being on podcasts first of all, I didn't do a lot of podcasts so I was sort of new to that whole thing of speaking my truths in

In a way. We like your truths. Yeah, but also I have a I'm really trying to represent myself in a way that I want to be Remembered you know recently. I was just on a podcast the lady that interviewed me played, her reaction to her being told that I didn't like their song, it hurt me because I was like, man, that's, that could be my daughter right there. It hit different because, you know, I never want to come off like a hater. I don't necessarily think it comes off as a hater. It's, he wrote the record, he's sang the record, if he feels a way about the record. I mean, you could talk about Keisha Cole. You remember for a long time, Keisha Cole would not clear love. She was like, no, I'm not clearing love. She was mad at OT Genesis

for re-singling it. But then when Glorilla did it over, she loved it. So it's, you know, if you wrote it, it's your property. You could have an opinion on people remaking your stuff. And then I feel like, you know, if you're going to sample something, do it right. That's a certain way. You know what I mean? You can't sample something do it right? That's a certain way you know I mean you can't sample something in it be trash And then you expect the originator to be like oh, yeah, I'm full and I love it You know what I mean like I don't know I just don't feel like y'all didn't like the song No, I'm be honest with you. No. I don't like Gunna's rendition of the chorus Well I do want to mention because Charlam May asked in our clip about the sampling.

So in this interview to John B does mention that he clear he said that they did reach out for the sample to be clear, but it was once it was already out. And he said that his issue with that was that he likes to like you said, he just likes to know what's happening. He likes to be in control of it. For sure. Rightfully so. But yeah, so you know, that's us getting some things going again, as always.

All right. Well, that is the latest with Laura. Now let's get to the mix 800 585-1051. We're going to start off with this Clips record. All right. This is a Lauren exclusive, not an MV exclusive, a Lauren exclusive. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake up, wake up, you're locked into the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast

Club. Now, I want to salute to everybody in Winnipeg. I'm going to be in Winnipeg on Friday. That's Canada, so I'm going to be DJing out there. I haven't been out there in a while, so I'm excited about that. And then I'm heading up to Albany on Saturday. So I'm all over the place this weekend. I'm back outside this summer.

Busy. I'm back outside. This shit season, the girls ain't got dance the kids ain't got I am I'll be in Buffalo, New York at the helium Comedy Club We got two shows on Friday and two shows on Saturday get your tickets if you have not yet William Comedy Club, we got two shows on Friday and two shows on Saturday. Get your tickets if you have not yet. VIP is almost sold out for both nights. I'm doing meet and greet at the late shows on each night. So that's the 9 o'clock show on Friday, 930 show on Saturday. Get your tickets if you haven't yet. And I want to give a big shout out to

my event I had yesterday, Dads on the Grain. It was a success. Shout out to Fulton Bank. They had a great team come out and educate and inform dads on financial literacy. Manner Dispensary was also another one of my sponsors. They're doing a lot of great things in the community. And Operation Hope, a team member from Operation Hope came to help entrepreneurs with business coaching and small business loans and things like that. And we had a lot of dads, man, a lot of dads who needed that. It was dope, man.

A lot of guys bought their dads and the older guys, man, they watched them dance. My dad, my husband's dad came out and I even had like a couple people share their stories, man. It's a lot of things that fathers are going through, man. So you know, just when you shouting out to moms, don't forget the dads, man. Yeah, definitely. All right. When we come back, pop. I'm places this weekend too. Yeah, definitely. All right Well, we come back this weekend to oh

Yeah, court No, I'm actually in the I'm in Queens, so I'm gonna be working with the Rockaway YMCA organization and this is organization and this is Saturday June 21st so Rockaway YMCA and Child Center of New York they're doing an HBCU homecoming like community day for all of the communities so I'll be there hosting that and then this weekend I'm excited about this HBCU week which is an organization that sends kids to colleges on full ride scholarships created by black women shout out to Ashley Christopher it's honoring me at the HBCU week award gala. Me, Anthony Anderson and a few other people as well will be there. So shout out to them and the gala raises money for the scholarships and organization itself. So we'll be there.

So I'm outside. I'm not in court. She's so happy. She's not in court. And salute to everybody that's celebrating Juneteenth. I know Lauren and I are hosting a panel at the American dream on Thursday for Juneteenth, so salute to the American Dream. Then I'm heading to Queens, a park that I grew up in, Roy Wilkins Park, they're doing like a whole huge celebration. It's free for everybody out there. They're gonna have jumpies, they're gonna have performances. I'm gonna DJ, and I'm bringing a bunch of special guests with me to perform out there

just for the kids. It's absolutely, positively free. So I know Basswag is one of the artists I'm gonna bring. It's a bunch of people in town. Luga Cat. I'm gonna bring a bunch of Queens artists and a bunch of people just from New York to come in and do something special for the kids. So I'm a DJ and we're gonna have a lot of fun. That's this Thursday out at Roy Wilkins Park. So I can't wait to see you guys going back home to my borough of Queens. Now you got a positive note?

I do. Let's stand together in solidarity. What they gonna do if we all stop paying our taxes y'all? You're bugging. You're bugging. I know they listen. That was just hilarious. What they gonna do?

That wasn't DJ MV Rashard Casey. I just got a job. I'm paying all my taxes. Every single cent. I'm sitting down on business on that one cent. But that was a quote. It wasn't mine. It came from somebody I know so. DJ MV, Rashad Kesey, whatever you want to call me. I just got a job, I'm paying all my taxes. Every single cent, I'm sitting down on business on that one cent.

But that was a quote, it wasn't mine, it came from somebody I know, so. Breakfast Club, bitches! You want to finish or y'all done? Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast. Today I'm thrilled to welcome back to On Purpose, Cynthia Erivo. A Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award winning actor and singer you know from the color purple, Harriet, and wicked, Cynthia Erivo.

This may be a hard thing to say, but sometimes hurting someone actually aids the growth of another person. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the podcast Betrayal. Police Lieutenant Joel Kern used his badge

to fool everyone. Most of all, his wife, Caroline. He texted, I've ruined our lives. You're going to want to divorce me. How far would he go to cover up what he'd done? The fact that you lied is absolutely horrific. And quite frankly, I question how many other women are out there that may bring forward allegations

in the future. Listen to Betrayal on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why is a soap opera Western like Yellowstone so wildly successful? The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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