The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Rich Homie Quan Dies At 34, Angel Reese Blames Fans For Caitlin Clark Rivalry + More

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

The Breakfast Club dives into Rich Homie Quan dying At 34 years old, Angel Reese blaming fans for Caitlin Clark rivalry. Listen for more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Say for me, I wasn't looking for your secret, say- Oh! Oh! Tell us, man! This was a morning show for the night, man. DJ Envy. Better known as the People's Choice. And salute to all my light-skinned brothers out there.

Jess Hilarious. Jess for the worldwide last. Jess don't do no lying. And Charlamagne Tha God. Don't get it, Jason! Everybody come to the Breakfast Club. I call this the hot seat. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

Breakfast Club. It's like being on America's front porch. Don't feel like my wrist touches. I never talk to me. Every time I go to the breakfast club, I know it's going to be like a good morning. I'm getting high. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,, of course, Fashion Week happens every year in New York, New Jersey area. And it's always a bunch of parties.

It's always a bunch of fashion. I don't really go like that anymore. Pop-up events. I know, but I figure I said Lauren's going to be going because Lauren's heavily into fashion. Yeah, I got to pace myself. It's a whole week. It's a whole week of stuff, yeah. I got to pace myself.

But I am going to be out and about. So, y'all got some stuff going on. Hit me. Let me know what's going on. All right, Charlamagne, I'll be here in a second. i'm sure he's running a little late i'm sure there's traffic something like that but we got a big show today we got a lot of people uh stepping up and joining us this morning ll cool j will be joining us his new album the force is out today queen's own so we're gonna be kicking with ll and then also kevin hart and will packer they have a a new uh i guess

it's a series it's called fight Fight Night, the Million Dollar Heist. Now, the first three episodes dropped yesterday. The remaining five will be released one at a time every Thursday. And Kevin was in here taking shots, y'all, so. Yeah. It's going to be a good time. Yeah, it's going to be a great time. It's going to be a great time.

So we're going to kick away both of those. Now, did you watch the episodes yet? Not yet. No, not yet. I haven't got a chance to watch it this i'm gonna watch everything this week i'm trying to figure out how y'all watch tv how y'all are parents how y'all run these businesses right yesterday i was so tired didn't want to make dinner y'all gotta do homework y'all gotta know what's going on like y'all are real grown-ups i'm not there yet well we also have spouses that help us out a lot okay true so that's the the most important thing um but i think it's time management you know you

got to figure everything out so like my daughter i know i got to pick her up at a certain time so i try to get as much as i can before i have to go pick her up and then once i pick up my kids i call it daddy daycare it's daddy let's do this daddy let's do that daddy let's do this daddy i want pizza daddy let's play this daddy let's get in the pool daddy i got practice daddy i need this daddy i need that then you know i got my older kids that one goes to college the other one's home daddy i need this daddy can you help me with that so it's daddy daycare yeah yesterday if i had a kid yesterday i was like man i might have to ship him somewhere jesus a week or two like i just need sleep and then nfl came. Did you watch the game last night?

No, you know I didn't watch the game. I saw some of the things, the points on Twitter. The points? Yeah, like... The score? Not the points, like the actual... I mean, like the things that people were talking about.

Got you. Okay, all right. Yeah, it was a great game. Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens. You watched the game, right? You watched it to the end? Did y'all see Taylor Swift? She was there.

That's all you cared about? I mean, y'all asked yesterday if she was coming. She was there. It was an amazing game. The first game of the season. And that's what you asked, if Taylor Swift. I'm sure everyone in the stands was thinking the same thing, too. Like, is she here?

I'm sure they weren't. I'm sure they were into the game. It's okay. Well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Morgan Wood will be joining us. There's a lot to discuss. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Morgan Wood will be joining us. There's a lot to discuss. Don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Oh, Rich Homie Kwan? Yes, man. Can we play some Rich Homie Kwan? We got to. On a Friday? Turn it up a little bit. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Rest in peace, fellas. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren's filling in for Jess. Rest in peace to Rich Homie Kwan. I'm sure we'll get into it

in the rumors in a little bit. But let's get in some front page news. Good morning, Morgan. Good morning. It could be a good morning, but that definitely makes me feel some type of way. That news for sure. RIP to Rich Homie Kwan. Huge fan. But

Election Day is less than two months away, so make sure you're registered to vote. Check out vote.gov for more information on how to register and where your polling locations are in your area. Vice President Kamala Harris, now she used her first visit to New Hampshire in years to make a promise to small business owners. During a campaign stop in Northampton yesterday, Harris said if elected president, she'll work to create an economy where everyone can succeed. Harris also said small business owners are some of the country's hardest workers, and she pledged to help more small businesses so they can be profitable for generations to come. Let's hear more from VP Harris in New Hampshire. And I've met so many entrepreneurs across the country who

take the incredible leap of faith that is required to start a small business. Folks who put their life savings on the line and work through the weekends and holidays, they aren't just building a business, they're pursuing a dream. Yeah, so Vice President Harris said, well, she will head to Pittsburgh to get ready for next week's debate. Her running mate, Tim Walls, will also be in Pennsylvania where he will speak in Erie tonight. So we'll hear from him. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump, he says his economic plan would bring down inflation. During a speech at the Economic Club in New York on Thursday, that was yesterday,

the Republican presidential candidate says domestic drilling will be the key. He also went after Vice President Kamala Harris's proposal to ban price gouging on groceries. Trump called the Democratic nominee a Marxist and comrade Kamala Harris. Let's hear more from former President Trump. That means we're going down and getting gasoline below two dollars a gallon. Bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries airfares and housing costs we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country including russia and saudi arabia kamala launched a war on american energy and orchestrated a nation wrecking border invasion during his speech he also endorsed the idea of forming a commission to

audit government spending that could include a role for billionaire Elon Musk. Let's hear those comments from Trump. It will create a government efficiency commission task with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government elon because he's not very busy has agreed to head that task force yeah so the proposed commission would be yeah so the proposed commission would be responsible for auditing federal government spending it would also recommend new reforms i'm not sure that elon's the man for that job but you know hey to each his own yeah i mean Elon's the man for that job, but, you know, hey, to each his own. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting, man.

This whole election is interesting because it's going to be close come November. I like how, you know, the vice president is hitting the ground and speaking to people in these battleground states. But I do feel like I think she does need to do more outreach in the press because I believe it's a lot of excitement within the party and in like that blue bubble, but she got to excite the folks outside of that bubble because I don't want this to be one of those elections where she wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college vote. Right, makes sense. Yeah, for sure. But she's starting to do interviews, right?

I've seen she's doing something with Ricky Smiley. I thought she was doing something else. I'll see her next week. So maybe she is getting out there. I'm going to come to the Breakfast Club. Hey, girl. Alright, well that is front page news. Now, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open.

Again, 800-585-1051. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?

What's up, DJ? Devontae. I just want to give a shout-out to my wife on her way to work this morning, Shabria. And I'm getting ready for my kids from school right now, so I just want to say shout-out to them. All right, man. You have a great day. You don't want to say their kids' names? DJ and Duke. And my wife's name is Shabria. Peace, Shabria. Peace, DJ. Peace, Duke. You have a great day. You don't want to say that? You don't want to say kids' names? DJ and Duke.

And my wife's name is Shabria. Peace, Shabria. Peace, DJ. Peace, Duke. Good morning. RIP Rich Homie Quan. Absolutely. Have a good one, brother.

Hello, who's this? Yo, what's good? It's Jonah from Indiana. Jonah, what up? Get it off your chest, Jonah. Yo, Breakfast Club, man. Go far. I appreciate y'all for having me on.

I just want to make sure everybody go out there and vote. You know, do y'all part when it comes to making sure that we have a democracy come 2028, man. I don't know if y'all remember. 2028? We just trying to make it to 2025. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You said 2028.

We trying to make it to 2025, brother. Sorry, 2025. If we make it happen in November, most definitely we going to make it to 2028. So I just want people to remember that in 2020, we had long lines for people to vote. People had to wear masks, social distancing, and all of that. We don't want to go back to that. So do your part. Make sure, you know, we got a picture to look forward to for our kids

and grandkids. Alright, brother. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is DJ. What's up, baby? DJ, what's up? Get it off your chest. Nothing. Charlamagne there? I'm right here, sir. How are you? I don't understand how you say you're 2A all day, but I have assault weapons. I have multiple AR-15s

and I think we need them. Tell me why you think we need AR-15s. Well, one, the sad reality of America is that they are here. And if you ban them, you're banning them from legally owned law-abiding citizens. Because we know criminals do not follow gun laws. So like I said yesterday, the only reason you would have a gun like that is because you ready for war. Yes, and criminals have them. So if a criminal has them, I have them.

He's saying the bad guys have those type of guns. So if I need to protect myself, I want to have the same type of guns the bad guys have. And to my neighbor, he was successfully able to throw a home invasion when three armed guys tried to invade his home. He picked up his AR-15 and was able to handle them when they all was armed on camera. So I'm not going to pick up

a handgun when three guys who are armed trying to break in my home. I just think AR-15 is too much power. I think that assault weapon is too much power for a civilian.

But everybody don't live behind a gated community like y'all do. I mean, gates don't matter nowadays. Hey, gates don't matter, especially if people got AR-15s. So I'm not against your point. But if you guys try to break in your house, you want to pick up a handgun? You're going to be outgunned.

If I pick up my AR, I have a level playing field. If I have the opportunity to protect my family with superior firepower, I'm going to have the superior firepower. That is the worst case scenario, and in that scenario I do wish, I'm glad that you got an AR-15, but you know, when those same guns are available for people to be

able to pick them up and take them into public places and kill multiple people, we got to figure something out. I think there need to be a hundred more charlamagnes who spread mental health awareness i think that's the mental health issue we have i agree with that too but i mean two things can be true right like i mean don't you think we need more mental health resources and some common sense gun reform yeah but sometimes at 18 do you think somebody at 18 right because you can get a rifle at 18 some places 16 you can

pick up an AR-15 at 16 years old. You think having that much power for a 16-year-old or 18-year-old is good? Yeah, but listen to what he's saying, Envy. What he's saying is true. We do need more mental health resources, but I also feel like we need some common sense gun reform. So what I would ask you, my brother, what...

Handguns account for most of the mass shootings in America. They're putting switches on themselves. They're all putting switches on. So what's the, what's the, what do we do? What's the answer here? Mental health. I mean, that's, that's what it has to be. The reality is, AR-15s are here in the United States of America.

If you ban them, you're only banning them from law-abiding citizens. I think it's a combo. Not follow gun laws. I don't disagree with you, but I think it's a combination of the two. But it is a complex issue. I mean, it really truly is. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlemagne. Izzy, what up? Are we live?

This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. Are we live? Hello, who's this? Hey, hello. Peace and blessings, man. Good morning, guys. What's up? Sean Stone, what's up? It's been a minute.

Yeah, man. It's been a minute. Charlemagne, good morning. Peace, Sean Stone. How's the baby? Baby's good man you know my son just went back to Maryland you know he was with me for three months

in Florida so he was able to bond with his sister you know love that for y'all he was just out here man but um wanna shout out

to Rich Homie Kwame rest in peace to him for him dying at 33 that's crazy you know what I mean 34 34 that's still crazy but you, that's crazy. You know what I mean? 34. 34, that's still crazy. Yeah.

You know, that's life. And also, I was watching some videos out there, man. I saw Fat Joe with a new video of Remy Ma. I love you, crack, but I just want to tell you to put on a sports bra. Yo. And also, A$AP Rocky. He came out with a new song, so I decided to check out his music video. I really don't understand why he got a white man in his video naked if he's straight.

I guess Rihanna is not enough for him. I don't know. You just woke up angry at all rapping. He wrote a list. He said, you know what? I'm going to get this off. Say something nice about somebody, Sean. Say something nice about Trav.

It's just weird to see these people. And then, also, it's crazy. Breakfast Club premiering Trav and Blind Beauty, We Outside. That's trash ass music, Sean, man. It's yours. It's not better than mine. It's better than anything I've ever heard you do. I'm being totally honest with you, Sean.

You could freestyle? No, I'm not going to freestyle, Lord. But I want you to just go to Sean Stone TV on IG and you can check out my song. And you can see that my song is called Vibe. It's way better than Trap. It is not. Not even close. Are you a rapper or what do you do?

I do music. I like to write music and I like to sing music. So I think my song is way better than his song. And it's crazy how Sean Mayne said it's not. And he never even listened to my song is way better than his song. And it's crazy how y'all may say it's not. And you never even listen to my song. Sure haven't, but I can guarantee it's better than yours. Goodbye, Sean Stone. I know that with a shadow of doubt.

I need nothing. I need no evidence to back that up. And I like the record to show. Nyla Simone, who is a DJ, she picked We Outside. Ain't nobody tell her to do that. Like, that wasn't no Breakfast Club thing. I was at a party and they dropped it. I thought it was like, I thought it was the city girls

Honestly I Sean is such a hater Could you just hear the hate Coming out his paws this morning And that's why you ain't Getting what you want Sean

What did I tell y'all the other day You gotta clap for other people If you can't clap for other people Nobody's gonna clap for you I know somebody who Wakes up like angry And just like spewing like hate Who's that

Bad vibes Who's that bad vibes who's that i think it's a common friend that we have envy yeah yeah like it felt very when i felt sean stone it felt very familiar to the room the energy was the same oh yes well tell your hairdresser stop texting you early in the morning all right not to get the hate text early in the morning hey boo hello who's this what's going on, man? Just giving a shout-out to all the teachers out there, man. First week back at school, sending lots of love to the kids. Man, we're sending them a positive, successful school year. And shout-out to the Pleasant Club family.

Thank you, King. All right, brother. Have a good one, man. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Now, we got Jess with the Mess with Lawn LaRosa coming up. Yes, we are going to take some time to pay tribute to Rich Romy Kwan, talk about his influence, but also we're going to get into,

I know a lot of people just want to know what happened and what's being reported around his passing. So we're going to get into all that this morning. All right, we'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess with Lauren LaRosa. News is real. Jess Hilarious, Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. She don't spell nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide mess. On The Breakfast Club

With Lauren, Lauren LaRosa I'm back And I got the mess Talk to me Alrighty guys, so yesterday News had begun to circulate I was getting calls, stuff was hitting Twitter That Rich Homie Quan, rapper Rich Homie Quan

Had passed away And it was later confirmed that this did happen. So I spoke to a source close to the family who said that, you know, his family was devastated. They were trying to figure out, you know, like what happened, why. And I know TMZ also confirmed the story with the same statement. And details later came out that basically he was home i guess he was asleep on the couch his girlfriend who was the one who called 9-1-1 said that uh he was asleep she put a blanket on him left took their kid to school

came back and realized that he had never moved from the couch which was kind of weird for him um so she went to check on him and when she went to check on him she didn't feel a heartbeat or anything like that so she turned him over and then he was foaming at the mouth um which is when she calls 9-1-1 um and there's a 9-1-1 call out there that i am not going to play um it was just hearing her in the call i just was like man i felt for her you know what i mean you hear people in the background kind of coming and they're trying to figure out what's happening but why do we need to hear those 911 calls? We don't need to.

Why are those released to the general public? What's the reason? We don't need to. I think it's an evasion of privacy. On the police side, when it's not a situation like this, I think it goes to the same thing that a body cam does. They want to make sure that there's a transparency in how things are handled from start to finish um that but also too you can even like there are programs out there where even if it's not released to you you can go and find a 911 call online anyone can go and do that yes um just saying yeah like whatever but um man i don't

know this is this one caught me off guard because i feel like rich homie kwan he's you know he's been out the way he says to himself uh but there was a lot of people um you know just sending their rest in pieces i know one of the first artists i saw post about it was bussy um he talked about how he had just spoken to him and you know can't believe what was happening a little kim posted about their relationship as well too like just you know them having like a really great friendship um quavo posted and there was a photo circulating of quavo, Kevin Lyles, Takeoff, Offset. And just looking at that photo, a lot of people were like, man, Atlanta, like we've lost so many good artists. And then Quavo and Offset are not even speaking to each other.

And, you know, these people are the sounds of Atlanta. Rich Homie Kwan was also in that photo as well, too. Oh, they're speaking now as of yesterday. Well, I was about to say and then after that happened, Quavo posted that him and Offset had a great conversation. He said it was, you know,

a good convo with his bro when he put the infinity chain symbol in the prayer hand. So, you know, I hate to see it happen through grief but just to see that they're talking

and they're there for each other because, you know, these guys all came up together. So I'm sure they have a relationship that none of us would ever understand

but there were also some things circulating online that I thought were pretty interesting. Just some conversations that Rich Homie Kwan had been having over the time. And he struggled with addiction for some time. And again, his cause of death had not been confirmed. But there was a big conversation yesterday around, you know, just some of the things that he battled with while he was here. Let's take a listen to him on my expert opinion. I can't drop no music my show money down man i got a dark cloud on my head bro probably i would definitely say i probably was the lowest i was in my life because you got

to think man i went from here to here fast i blame myself and i and it's growth and i know it wasn't my fault was it Was it drugs involved? Oh, yeah, yeah, man. I was on Miley every day. Geeked up. Bikes down. Listen, I'm talking, bro, I felt like I couldn't do a show or a song without being on Miley. But for some type of way, we was doing so many shows, I couldn't stay up. So I knew some people were like, bro, I got something to keep you up.

And my **** kept me up. It was a machine after that. Yeah, so he had machine after that. Yeah. So he, I mean, he had openly talked about his addiction, um, addictions and just the battle of being like,

you know, I feel like a lot of people felt like with, uh, Rich Homie Kwan, like his music was a soundtrack of a, of a part, certain part of your life. And then he kind of took a step back.

Like he was going through label stuff. He was going through stuff with like thug. And, you know, even to this day, they were still going through things.. He was going through stuff with like Thug. And, you know, even to this day, they were still going through things. And there was recently an interview that he did where he talked about reconciling with Young Thug. Let's take a listen to that.

And I heard you want to say screaming free Thugger, right? Is there any chance that at some point in the future, either be unreleased music or whatnot, that we'll hear y'all on a song together again? That I don't know, because we do have a lot of unreleased. We do have a'll hear y'all on a song together again um that i don't know because we do have a lot of unreleased we do have a lot of music that hasn't been released but who knows what the future holds first and foremost it's free thug let's free anybody let's free blue op luchi it's a it's a it's a touchy situation so i try not to talk about it a lot but i don't know what the future hold man you know i wouldn't have a conversation and then it'll start from there okay i like that answer just thinking about um thug just you know like a rich gang reunion potentially right and then now that not being able to happen um but you

know that's a it's like man well i will say this i i did listen to the to the 911 call and i mean it was just disheartening. One of the things that I want to tell everybody out there is during the call, the person on the call was trying to tell Rich Homie's girlfriend how to do CPR, right? And was asking about a defibrillator. And I was thinking to myself, damn, if something happened to one of my kids

and my family members, I don't know CPR. Like I wouldn't know what to do. And a normal person just doesn't have a defibrillator in their house. I know of it because I used to work on planes. And when I heard her ask that, I know what to do. And a normal person just doesn't have a defibrillator in their house. No. I know of it because I used to work on planes and when I heard her ask that, I'm like, that's like a normal question they ask. What does that mean? It's like a breathing device, right?

It's the thing that gives you the shock. It shocks your heart. So you're supposed to do chest compressions and then you hit with the defibrillator to kind of get the person back going if they don't have that just sitting around in their house. That's what I said. But it made me order one yesterday. I ordered one on Amazon. Me and my wife ordered one on Amazon, and we scheduled ourselves to take classes.

How much did that thing cost? Just in case. My wife ordered it. It wasn't that expensive. What do you call that expensive? Rich Dominican, man. I'm not Dominican. I'm black.

You can't deny being rich, though. You hear this thing? Go away. Big envy, not the little one. That's crazy. But it made me take. See, you're missing the point. It just made me and the family

schedule classes for CPR. So we would learn how to do it. I don't even know what that is. I didn't know that. I would have never guessed that was a thing to do the chest. I thought that was something to do with breathing. Oh, you've never been on a plane

when there's been a medical emergency? Nope, thank God. They got one up here. When you go to the bathroom, it's right on the right-hand side. Defibrillator. Yeah, normally it's on planes. I'm going to steal that one.

You want to steal? I got to stop thinking that a lot. You want to hand side defibrillator yeah normally it's on like planes it's you are still i gotta stop thinking about a lot still the defibrillator is crazy listen r.i.p to the young man rich homie kwan sending healing energy to his family 34 years old is way too young to pass uh when i tell y'all 30 at 34 your life is just getting started i pray all you young individuals get the opportunity to grow old, man. You know, and then you think about it, too many, to a lot of people, he's just an artist. But think about what, you know.

He's a dad. Exactly. What he means is family. That's what I'm saying, man. I was told by the person that I was speaking to that his dad is so hardworking. They had a really close relationship.

Yeah, his dad was his manager as well. I think. Yeah, very close. I'm just saying that to say people don't look at these artists as like human beings it's like you got they got family they got people that depend on them that's all i think about when i as soon as i hear situations like this i don't think about nothing else other than damn his family his kids his parents he's probably a human being who provides for a lot of folks yeah now he's gone his him

changing his life changed a lot of other people's lives yeah he's no longer here that's what i'll be thinking about and hey do y'all really gotta post text messages text messages and dms from people after they pass and it'd be messages don't that don't have nothing to do with nothing do i really need to know that rich homie kwan dm'd you back bet in 2015 like literally Literally. Why? Why do y'all do that? I just talked to him yesterday, Beck. Beck. I just talked to him August 17th, 2019. I seen that one too. I'm like, yeah. I'm like,

it's just, oh man. Well, yeah. Definitely rest in peace. I'll just make it stuff up. No, I seen that. I showed it to you. Please show me that one.

Yeah, yeah. It was like a message from 2020. Like, it just doesn't even make sense. It was a lot of little messages floating around yesterday for Richie. But why? Why do people make sense. It was a lot of little messages floating around yesterday for Richie. But why? Why do people do that?

Why you gotta repost text messages and DM for what? I don't know. I don't know either. Just to let people know you knew him? Alright. Well again,

sending healing energy to his family and rest in peace. And that is Just With The Mess with Lauren LaRosa. Alright, can we play

Richie on the corner joint? Yeah, we got some stuff. You got some lifestyle or I know we played type of way earlier lifestyle all right we'll get into that all right it's the breakfast club good morning wake up wake up you're locked into the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj nv jess hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club laura la rosa filling in for jess and let's get in some front-page news. What's up, Morgan? Yeah, so Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, he spoke in Arizona yesterday about how families can alleviate some of the pressures of child care costs.

Let's hear more from Vance on child care. So one of the ways that you might be able to relieve a little bit of pressure on people who are paying so much for daycare is make it so that maybe like grandma or grandpa wants to help out a little bit more, or maybe there's an aunt or uncle that wants to help out a little bit more. If that happens, you relieve some of the pressure on all the resources that we're spending in daycare. Now, you talk about just daycare. Let's say you don't have somebody who can provide that extra set of hands. What we've got to do is actually empower people to get trained in the skills that they need for the 21st century we've got a lot of people who love kids who would love to take care of kids but they can't either because they don't have access

to the education that they need who the hell is he talking to okay we've been doing that i've been alive since 1978 okay that was all that was always the way things were done. You know why? Because we couldn't afford child care. So if grandma was home or an aunt was home, please watch these kids. All right. Now it's grandma. I got to have a life, too.

Auntie need a life, too. That's right. But Vance, he did also address the school shooting. He called for tighter school security after the recent shooting in Georgia and said school shootings are a, quote, fact of life. Vance went on to say schools must be prepared for shooting scenarios, telling the crowd it is the reality that we live in. Let's hear more from Vance on the school shooting.

I don't like this. I don't like to admit this. I don't like that this is a fact of life. But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines you realize that our schools are soft targets and we have got to bolster security at our schools you've got some states with very strict gun laws and you've got some states that don't have strict gun laws at all and the states with strict gun laws they have a lot of school shootings and the states without strict gun laws some of them have school shootings too what some of that have school shootings, too

What some of that I agree with you know I'm saying even if there is some type of common sense gun reform path Which it won't be because too many of these senators are in the you know pockets that are in our a Even if there is some type of commons is gonna reform even if there is you know more mental health resources provided to people I still think that there should be tighter security at these schools like i i truly believe that but the only thing the other thing that only other thing they can really do is have metal detectors at every school right they should because they had two police officers there so it wasn't like there weren't no police officers there so the only thing that they could possibly do is have metal detectors i think they should have metal detectors and mental health professionals too to charlamagne's point you know mental health professionals could probably help if you know that somebody is going through something. And meanwhile, we knew that this kid was actually being investigated.

So if that's a thing, then maybe, you know, the school is looped in on those correspondence as well. Speaking of which, the father of the suspect in Wednesday's school shooting, he is being arrested and charged with murder. Let's hear from GBI. That's the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announcing those charges. In coordination with the district attorney, with district attorney Brad Smith, the GBI has arrested Colin Gray, age 54, in connection to the shooting here at Apalachee High School. These charges stem from Mr. Gray knowingly allowing his son, Colt, to possess a weapon. Colin Gray is the dad. He says he bought the gun as a gift for his son,

and he told investigators that he bought an AR-15 style rifle as a holiday present for his son back in December of 2023. Now, that is the same year the boy was investigated for making school threats online. That was May of 2023 when he made those threats. Now Colin Gray has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children. His son, 14-year-old Colt Gray, who carried out the shooting, was charged with four counts of felony murder and is set to appear in court this morning where he will be charged as an adult. He's accused of killing two students and two teachers at Appalachee High School

in Winder, which is located about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta, just west of Athens, Georgia. Nine others were also injured in that incident. Very, very sad. But if you said yesterday that the parents are going to be held responsible. But this is the problem, right? There is no minimum

age to possess a rifle in Georgia. There is no minimum age. That's insane. So is it against the law? Yeah, I want to see the parents be arrested because I feel like the parents should have made sure it was locked up. But if there is no minimum age to possess a rifle in Georgia, what's the real charge? Because the kid could have a rifle in that state, right? Maybe neglect.

I don't know but you know uh i'll say this man it's no one way that this problem will be corrected there's no one way the problem of mass shootings in america will be corrected it's going to take a lot of things over a long time and it's all of these things we're talking about yes you're going to need more mental health resources yes you need common sense gun reform yes in some cases you got to charge the parents you know when these kids get access to these weapons, you know, when they take them out the house, whatever it is. And you're going to need more security in schools. It's going to take all of that to stop this epidemic that is mass shootings in school.

And it's going to take all of those efforts over a long period of time. But when does this stuff like actually kick in? Because this is the conversation every single time. And then it's got to start. We haven't had all these things we're talking about haven't happened. There isn't common sense gun reform, right? There isn't more mental health resources being provided, right? So all these things, there is no security in schools like it should be.

So all of these, we got to get started. And then not only that, right? If the FBI was talking to this kid, right? And this kid was attending this school that my kid is attending. I think the parents should know. I think it's the parents' option to know and understand so they know what's going on.

And if this kid is talking so crazy that the FBI is talking to him, I should have the right to be like, you know what? I don't want my kid to go to this school. Did they not know? I have no idea if the parents knew or not, but the fact that that was happening

and then I don't even think he should have been allowed back into a regular school that fast. A year later after the FBI is in your home asking you about threats online, I don't think the parents knew. I read an article that said he was crying for help. So somebody knew something. Yeah. I just think all that happened too fast. It was like, oh, okay.

Made a little mistake on a video game. Send him back to school. No. Nah. like, oh, okay. Made a little mistake on a video game. Send them back to school. Like, no. Nah. Nah, baby. Definitely need to go to alternative school for a little bit of time. You know, rehab. Rehabilitate them or something to that effect.

I'm not sure. But, yeah. Like, to your point. Bring in all the resources. NFL kicked off yesterday. And, of course, you know, the Ravens lost to the Chiefs 27-20 at Arrowhead Stadium. How do you feel about that, Morgan? I'm a little salty, you know what I'm saying?

But, you know, they can't keep beating us. So I'm going to just put it to that. My home's completed 20 of 28 passes for 291 yards, one touchdown and one interception. And, of course, yeah, they took home it. But NFL continues week one. The Eagles are in Brazil tonight to play the Packers. And, of course, Sunday night football or Sunday football continues. I don't know.

Yeah. That's your front page news. So follow me on social at Morgan Media. And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit BINews.com. Happy Friday, y'all. You so flustered when your Ravens lost. You are so flustered.

Man, I'm telling you, I'm going to need this weekend to recover. We'll be back at it. All right. Now, when we come back, Kevin Hart and Will Packer will be joining us. Their new series, Fight Night, The Million Dollar Heist, is out right now. They dropped three episodes yesterday. And we're going to talk to them when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart. He's here. He's here. We have one left. It's Kevin Hart. Is that too loud for you? So Kevin was supposed to be here earlier. Can I tell you the irony of this, right? Kev's hungover right now. But if you read the first chapter in Will Packer's book, he has a chapter called,

We're Going to Die Tonight. Right? This is true. And it's essentially this story. This is what you were worried about, Will. No, no, seriously. So last night, you know, we're doing promo and everything for fight night we're rolling out all the carpet of the carpets so before the actual premiere premiere

we announced it but i had to leave because i had to do seth meyers and seth meyers has a segment called drinking with seth you go to a bar and seth makes these drinks or whatever and it's like you know for hour and a half to two hours you're drinking throughout the interview what could go wrong with that you know I don't drink anything outside of my tequila at this point in my life so you know

anything else I'm very unfamiliar with and Seth said let's close it out with your tequila but let's start it with everything so he threw it all at me. Like, I'm talking, it's Jagermeister and Wild Turkey. I mean, we were brown. We were dark.

Kevin, you too old to be mid-60s. But, but. No one's a complete sentence. You can, but you have to understand the beauty of good television. And it was a good conversation, great interview. And while we're drinking for good reason behind the answers, and we finished it with tequila. We went through a lot.

And I just don't remember the back half of the time. And that's why I didn't show up to the after party. I missed that. And this morning at 6 a.m., I would have been here, bro. Why couldn't you miss the after party after the garden that night so y'all could have just got back to Atlanta? Because we weren't drinking. That's why I don't want to say why he's been a b****. We couldn't you miss the after party after the garden that night so y'all could have just got back to Atlanta? Because we weren't drinking. That's why I don't want to say why he's been a b****.

Kevin, it was our movie. We weren't f***ed up like, oh, man, where's my jacket? We were just out at a show. Biggest movie of our career. Where's your tampon? And he leaves. He books a show at Madison Square Garden.

He tapes a comedy special in the middle of our movie. He booked it, right? And so he left the show in the middle of it, right? Biggest movie for Universal Studios, he leaves. But you know what he does? Because this is the evil genius of Kevin Hart. He goes, hey, man, I got to do this show. It's next week.

You know, he tells me a week before, he goes, hey, you know what You and Tim Story, the director Come, he's like, I got the jet You know what, bring the wives Bring the wives So, my dumb ass, I'm like, you know what And you know what he said, he said That way you can make sure that we get back on time

Because I knew we had to shoot the next day So we were shooting one day He's gonna go do the show that night And then we had to shoot the next day. So we were shooting one day, he's going to go do the show that night, and then we had to shoot the next morning on a location we could only get that day. You know what it's called? He's like, come with me. No, that's called an alibi.

So together. He's absolutely right. An alibi. He's absolutely right. Well, that's a lie. He's absolutely right. The studio can't think I'm a professional because the director and the producer are with me.

So you can't think I'm an asshole. They would be an asshole. Kevin has an amazing show at Madison Square Garden. All the celebs come out. Afterwards, we had an after party that he did not tell me about. I'm in there with Carmelo Anthony buying bottles going, oh, we dying tonight. We turning up tonight. Why?

Wars have power. Why are we going to die tonight? Well, we going to die tonight means we're having a good time. If you're choosing to die over life, how good of a time is that? Last night, I didn't say we were going to die tonight. I was like, oh, this is work. When I was in that club and I saw my career flash before my eyes because I realized there was no way we were going to be able to get back in time.

I had that moment because I'm sitting there looking at Kev. And I realized we're not going to make it. And Kev looks at me. He goes, well, we tried. We tried. That was it. I looked at Kevin Hart, and I realized that he had convinced me,

the producer and director of the movie, to get on a jet with him, so that when Universal called and said, why are y'all over budget and not able to finish the movie, and they say, well, Kevin Hart, Will Packer, and Tim Story were there, so the producer went with them,

it would be on me. I was complicit. I realized that was his evil plan all along. You called him a diabolical, rascal spawn of Satan. That's true. And he means that. That's exactly what he means. I love him, but that's

truer words never spoken, sir. I will ask you and your listeners what is a life without a great story? It's something that can't be talked about. It's untold. A life without stories is nothing. You need stories, good and the bad. He's talking about a great story.

And by the way, that story did what? Amplified our relationship. And look at where we are now. Fight night. We're talking about something else that we're yet in business and we produced and developed together. Do we get here without that moment? No, we do not. So why did you still want to be his friend after that?

After you figured that out, you could have said, you know what? This relationship no longer happens. See what I'm saying? But you decided to jump back in. You need to get to that edge. I'm so afraid that if I leave Kevin Hart's life, he'll just implode, right? He'll just burn up

on the spot. I just don't know what he'd do without me. I'll be honest with you, it's close to being over. It's close. What is it about you two that works so well?

Because even like just here with you guys in person, it's like, I could listen to this back and forth all day long. Real talk,

we're each other's most frequent collaborators. Kevin's done a ton of movies. I've done a ton of movies, TV projects. We haven't worked with anybody else more than we've worked with each other's most frequent collaborators kev done a ton of movies i've done a ton of movies tv projects we haven't worked with anybody else more than we work with each other i'll give you i'll give will this on air and half of it is because i'm still drunk um and drunk by the way offer some of the best tequila in the market but it's just a time to let people know when it comes to smooth taste and it comes to elegant product, you got to understand what and why. Grand Cormino is that and has been that, which is why I drink it at the level that I do.

But it's not about that right now. It's not about the product. It's about the passion. Let's get to that. And we'll toast to that after with Grand Cormino. I will say this is about will i don't get to where i got in career or business without the information and relationship of will packer you know i mean like when it came to producing and when it came to development or it came to packaging will packer

is the guy that was the definition of what that was so from the early days of think like a man he was the producer that came to me and said hey i got this thing i'm gonna do this thing and i think you're the guy and those are words words without action and just that he put action behind the words everything he said he would do he did he got the people he wrangled wrangled the directors the actors the actresses uh the producer partners writers etc he configured a way to formulate and activate and i was like god damn man like how do you do that and he taught me will taught me how to do it and as i progressed i never forgot who he was and what he was so our relationship today is based off of never forget like you don, you don't forget the real side of success attached to just care.

He gave a f*** about me then. He gives more f*** about me now. In return, I double down on my level of giving a f*** about him. So I don't want to win if I can't figure out a way to win with my brother. So the commitment that we made was, hey, man, let's figure out a way to continue. Although, Kev, you're doing and and you have but how do we still do and i love the fact that we still are and we're committed to figuring out more ways to do more and what you're seeing today is a definition of what we want people to follow through with like we are no egos we are help your brother so he can help you

we are that and i think it's the best story in story in Hollywood if people were more privy to how deep and in-depth it actually is. Facts. Right? Real talk. All right, we got more with Kevin Hart and Will Packer. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Hey, everybody. It's EJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren's filling in for Jess. And we're still kicking it with Kevin Hart and Willilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren's filling in for Jess. And we're still kicking it with Kevin Hart and Will Packer. Charlamagne? The Fight Night TV show, right, it shows these characters operating within a black world where they all hold power. So to your point, Kev, how effective has that concept been for you both in the world of Hollywood?

I think it hasn't been effective enough. And I think, you know, when you look at the Ice Cube and Kevin Hart of it all, the middle common denominator, Packer and, all right, guys, let's do this, but let's make it. And Cube come in and like, there's always a through line of connectivity. And that person has to be willing to go above and beyond. Fight night is the definition of going above and beyond. All right, Kev, I got this idea. The idea came after I was supposed to do

Uptown Saturday Night. Uptown Saturday Night was going to be me and Chadwick Boseman. Rest in peace to the legend himself. I had no idea. Well, I don't want to do this anymore. I can't do that without Chadwick.

That project is dead to me. Will had the actual rights, the original story, the true story. So Will came to me. I said, Will, I can't do a comedy because of this can it be serious can we do it in a way to where it's like a lot deeper raw real he said kevin absolutely hey the podcast was points me to the podcast that he was a part of that understood

etc all right this is like real information now real knowledge well i'm gonna with it because it's you but let's make sure that we try to go above and beyond to package it correctly how do we do a premium cultural like piece of ip that has the bandwidth to live forever and you can't do that without big stars to get big stars you need real relationships so the leverage of understanding that we both shared and that we had at the top of get the studio's commitment get the studio to back and support then go get the talent i gotta be honest with you my guy was a big part of all of that conversation and i followed the lead of most and i think where we were collaborative was dope and the outcome was amazing talent configuration and now an example of what the business should follow through with.

That part is true. I will tell you that. Kevin's definitely reached a part in his career, a moment in his career where you've had success. And it's like, how do you grow? How do you work with people that you respect? And how do you build a machine that then empowers others? It's interesting, Charlemagne, talked about like the world of fight night fight night is really about a group of hustlers dreamers entrepreneurs who are trying to take atlanta and turn it into something this is back in 1970 right martin luther king had just been

shot a couple years earlier atlanta was like seen as a small country town that you know had a couple civil rights folks like people didn't know if it was going to be the next charlotte or birmingham and nothing wrong with those cities but it definitely wasn't looked at on the level of like a global superpower or new york chicago la you know it was atlanta and it was not respected but you had a group of folks which is not unlike how black hollywood is right now where you got a group of dreamers trying to figure out how do we work together now of course in fight night you got you know a character who's kevin's character he's a hustler he's going yo give me a shot give me a chance i can just turn atlanta into something great chicken man chicken man weirdly sam jackson who plays the big gangster the black godfather in the show he actually has also got a

dream too right even though he's a big gangster he's running the black mafia his dream is saying you know what the white man's been holding me down for a very long time if y'all give me a shot and an opportunity I can take over Atlanta I can turn Atlanta into a black mecca oddly even though

like Kevin Sam's characters are at odds for most of the series the reality is that they have the same kind of a dream that's kind of how it is right now

in terms of like folks like us in Hollywood in real life who are all trying to work together is it true that Samuel L. Jackson

was really there in Atlanta during that time? right there dog he was at Morehouse yeah Sam old as **** Sam might hear this I remember we were on a call with Sam at the start of it Sam said like yo he liked it he would do it we were on a call we going through the material seeing what Sam said about the characters Sam was like yeah man y'all

gotta change a lot of this because more happened then. I was like, well, Sam, you know, I think we got the story because the podcast and everything, we got the real information. He was like,

mother f***er, I was there. He definitely did. What do you mean by that? Mother f***er, that happened. Sam was, he's very adamant

about telling you where he was, what he knows. So the story of Fight Night got better. It got so much better as we went on. How do you manage all these big-ass personalities, bro? Kevin Hart, Roger P. Henson, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle.

How do you do it? That is the hardest part of the job as a producer. You know what I mean? And in real talk, it's awesome when you got somebody like Kev who gets it, who understands at the end of the day what the bigger picture is. But a lot of times, I don't care if it's Hollywood, music, stock market, whatever it is. You say, Kev, I'm not going to talk to them. Can you talk to them for me?

That's what you say. How much do you argue with Kev, though? Because he seems like he's a lot. Oh, bro. Let me tell you something. I'm the least problem that you will ever have in any work environment. That's true. Unproblematic.

He's unproblematic. I mean, the challenge with Kevin is that he will overdo things, right? He will do things like have a show at Madison Square Garden at the same time that we have a big scene in our movie. Now, he's definitely, he's not a moderation guy. You know what I mean? That's part of the challenge. That's why I'm here on The Breakfast Club. He eating this turkey sandwich trying to get some grease in his gut.

It didn't burn you? You should at least let it cool a little bit. Come on, animal. This is what I need. Yeah. This is it. Now, what Hollywood does so much. He does a phenomenal job as Chicken Man, but I can't take him serious in dramas because

it just always seems like he's trying to make you laugh. It's always jokes. But can I tell you something? Real talk, Chicken Man's his best work yet. I'm telling you. You look at what he's doing with his eyes.

And you know, a lot of people, you know, it's known that comedians, they pull from pain, right? And that's how they deflect and that's where a lot of the comedy comes from.

Kevin, no exception. But the reality is that when he said, we got to do this as a drama, that was a big risk because people say, all right, Fight Night, Kevin Hart'svin hart's throwing it let's go i'm ready to laugh like you said charlamagne but the reality is that this is it's serious now you have moments of levity but the tone make no mistake is dramatic like it goes there you challenge yourself to do

things outside of this comedy say i just don't want this comedic role i want this serious role do you challenge yourself or do you just take roles that come none none of it is a challenge by the way i'm developing the things that i do nothing is coming to me i'm creating the things or i'm a part of the process of how it gets to the final stages i'm at that point but i have no desire for the star of kevin hart to get bigger that's so gone and done with i'm more about the success of others the success of the entity the success of the brand yeah and i'm more importantly the success of what we represent and what we can look back and say we did yeah that's bigger now than a conversation of myself i did it i'm done what else am i going to do at this point all right we got more with kevin hart and will

packer when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody we are the breakfast club laura rose is filling in for jess and we're still kicking it with kevin hart and Will Packer. When we come back, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. Laura LaRose is filling in for Jess, and we're still kicking it with Kevin Hart and Will Packer. Charlamagne? Was it hard to find someone to play Muhammad Ali, and did you ever consider Will Smith? We're kind of for Will Smith. Very, very challenging, right?

And I think that you gotta understand obviously that's an icon. He's been portrayed before. For us, it was about finding a newcomer that wouldn't pull you out because these other characters you didn't know. Nobody knew Chicken Man, Kevin Hart's character or Vivian Taraji's character or Frank Moten, you know, Sam's character. But, you know, everybody knows Muhammad Ali. So I think to have somebody in that role who you had some familiarity with and who you associated with something else would have pulled you out. And we really wanted to immerse you, even with these big stars.

We really want to take you to a time period right for the years ago and really drop you in and be as authentic as possible. And we've paid a lot of attention to the detail and the nuances to try to get this thing right. Boy, oh boy, did we choose right? Yeah. Come on, man. This cast. And by the way, not just the big names that you know. Like this.

Oh, Dexter. Dexter. Dexter. way, not just the big names that you know. There's some cats. Oh, Dexter Dard. Dexter Dard, you're going to be hearing a lot from him. There's some young gunners in this cast that you're going to be hearing that I predict you're going to look back and go, yo, remember when so-and-so went toe-to-toe with Kevin Hart and Sam Jackson? Dexter Dard. Yes. Melvin Gray.

Melvin Gray. Miles Bullock. Sinqua Walls. Chloe Bailey does her thing. Yep. Lori Harvey jumps in. I think you have the future of Hollywood. My wife said that and I was like, I don't think that's Lloyd because she looks so different. Layla Hathaway. No, Lola Fulana.

I think you're seeing an amazing example of baton passing. You're looking at people that are established, have been established for so long and sam and taraji and terrence and don yeah and then you also have the second tier of talent that is a valuable piece of this puzzle where they're toe-to-toe with the big names and you don't blink an eye you understand why everybody is there and you respect the talent on screen and you still respect the story.

You're never taken outside of the story. So for that younger generation that we were able to onboard. No question. It's a great example of what we want to do. No question. We want to be the example for the next generation, the bridge. We want to be the example for global success for or the new star that popped on. If we're part of those stories, how dope is that?

That's the bigger side of the conversation of what? Teresa Celeste, Jalen Hall. These are names you're going to know. I have a question. I was late here. I'll be late. Go ahead, Lauren. Monique and Lee Daniels just did the deliverance.

Yes. Are we ever going to see a reconciliation with you and her? Because she... I don't have a problem. I know that there's no problem. It's not a reconcile. No, but she has said that, like, I know when she was

doing Club Shay Shay and they talked about it and she was talking about the phone call that happened from your team or whatever, right? Is there ever going to be a conversation that we hear you talk about

where y'all two have another conversation about that and move forward? I'll challenge your question with a better question. Go ahead. You've been doing this for a long time. Do you ever hear me talk about anyone?

Do you ever hear anything bad come from me? No. There's no problem between me and Monique. There never will be. There's no problem between me and anybody else. There's nothing to reconcile. There's no problem. So all these problems that have been attached to Kevin Hart, they're one-sided.

I don't have a problem with anybody. I agree with that. It takes two people't have a problem with anybody i agree with that people right to have a comic flick that's what it has to be it's not social media has us up to the point of what you hear is what you're forced to believe you do not understand like the common ground for truth is always a conversation and if there ever is a conversation that you're not forward-facing in a public statement. Ever. I didn't say anything about what I did for Monique or my gestures.

You never would have heard it. It's a one-sided version or reason for. And by the way, I have no rebuttal to it. I stand on the side of I'm unproblematic. And if me and Mo want to do or could do or would do, we will. But that's a me and Mo thing. Like, this new thing that people are like, let me tell you something, world. Yeah.

That's a very, like, that's a, I want to be honest, I'm 45 years old. I'm 45 years old. And by the way, team or not, it's not hard to find me. Like, you know what, my schedule is online. So she hasn't hit you since Arla Dessa. Me and Monique have had conversations, and those are me and Monique's conversations. There you go. Before and after.

That's called adulting. There you go. I don't unadult. Yeah. So all of these new ways of conversation and finger pointing, it's very easy. But you know what? That's what I like about the movie Fight Night, right? Because it seems like they show each character in the movie as a hero in their own story but a villain in somebody

else's yes it's a super complicated narrative which are my favorite kinds because your protagonists right your quote-unquote heroes are very gray and are very flawed like in real life and your antagonists are people that you root for that's those are my favorite kinds of narratives i love that because we all know the world is not black and white right and so you're absolutely right it's about complex people at a complex time and that's really what the show was there's not a bigger supporter for the movement of people doing good and monique lee dan Reconciling that relationship. However it happened.

Great. Dope for them. Did a movie together after. Great story. Dope for them. I want to see more. Keep doing great s**t. The conversation of anything else negative attached to a person's and their reservations and feelings to me.

I want to see nothing but good for all. Like, I would love to see us all win. I would love to see us all at a table where we all can do. If it great if it doesn't i guess it wasn't meant to be but you can't have a stance of negativity also like a real initiative to move forward and like motivate inspire create or do whatever you can't be both so it's either like you're one or the other. And if you are part of creativity, inspiration, collaboration, motivation, connectivity, then that has to be it. And whatever you gather along the way and whoever you align yourself with along the way, well, y'all all a part of the same story. If things fall apart through the duration of, it wasn't meant to be on that train. Some people miss a train.

It's just life. Some people don't make it in time to catch the train and the train that's gonna go is going to go why do you think trains can't stop fast they're moving so either you're on the train or you're not and if you didn't catch the next train that's life what makes it successful because you know hollywood and change before was blockbuster movies but now i mean there's so many other platforms to put your movie on. So what is successful for you now? But, you know, there's still quantitative metrics that they use to determine.

Quantitative? I learned that at HBCU, brother. Just letting you know. He ain't never been. I'm just, well, why is it? Because the reality is that you still have ways that you can determine how, you know, how many people watched it. If the audience was into it,

if they were engaged and that stuff is important. And so that is definitely a part of what we do. Honestly, though, right now it's about, I just want people to feel stuff. You know what I mean? I want to feel like we touching the culture.

You know, I want to feel like whatever it is that we do, we don't have people feel like we wasted their time. That's, that's the point that we have. The the big takeaways for audience are very simple man uh the first one of course is fight night now now streaming on peacock do yourself a service and us a favor go watch it uh a very good show an amazing story that i think should have been told a long time ago but for the city of atlanta that we all know and love it's a great highlight of how atlanta got to be what it is now

fact understanding the early stages of it understanding the origin for us all especially people of color culture we need to know it's a great story eight parts eight part limit series three parts out right now, dropping one per week. If you're like a lot of us, you're looking for, what's that next series I can really get into and really get into the characters and follow it with,

we're challenging you, let this be your next series. Bam. Lastly, I want everybody to vote. That's the last thing I was saying. I'm going to tell you to vote for, but we would be remiss if we didn't get on this platform

and say that it's real. It's real, and these are challenging times. Make your voice heard one way or another. It matters. It affects you. Kamala Harris. I'm voting for Kamala Harris. No question. I appreciate that, black man, because we need more of us saying that. That's right. But that's

my choice. That's what I choose to do. I don't even saw my politics because I need everybody. Thank you, family. We appreciate y'all. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess Solaris. Charlemagne Degas. Where did Charlemagne go'all. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne Degas. Where did Charlamagne go that fast?

We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren is filling in for Jess. And let's get to Jess with the mess with Lauren LaRosa. News is real, brother. News is real. Lauren is Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. Don't do no lying.

She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jess. Worldwide mess. On The Breakfast Club. She's a coach of shit. With Lauren LaRosa. I'm back. And I got the mess.

Talk to me. Alrighty, y'all. So we had talked earlier about the NFL kickoff game. The Chiefs playing and all that good stuff. But on the back end, people got upset again at that game because the Black National Anthem was sung at the opening of the game in addition to the regular National Anthem, which happens. You know, they've been playing the Black National Anthem

with every voice and scene. Well, they had a, I'm about to say two black quarterbacks, but a black quarterback and a half. What? A black quarterback and a half. It's two black quarterbacks, man. He's saying he got to give. Why y'all don't ever want to acknowledge people's other side?

It's okay. Okay. Two black quarterbacks, man. I feel like if you mix you black. Lamar Jackson, black, and Patrick Mahomes is biracial. It's okay, guys. Depending on how you grew up, if you mix you black. And you can still celebrate that.

A black quarterback and a half starting the NFL game, that's big. Yeah, so 1.5. Black quarterback and a half. 1.5, so they brought out the national anthem you know what I mean so did they do the whole thing like sing it

yes I'm sure they did but they were supposed to do that 1.5 of the song just making sure so Tasha Cobbs Leonard

sung lift every voice and sing and then Coco Jones sung the national anthem and my whole thing with this is

is like people are online upset and even the conversation we were having in the room it um and my whole thing with this is it's like people are online upset and even the conversation we're having in the room it's like a normal thing for people to be upset about this but they've been doing this since 2020 after george floyd so at this point it's like why do people get so upset when things change but like on our side when things change for us we just got to like accept it and move on they just be mad mad. They don't know the words. That's all. Maybe that's it. Learn the song. You'll love it. They're calling it racist.

What? Because it's a black national anthem. Well, the reason we had to come up with a black national anthem because America was racist. Black people can't be racist. You only recognize this as three-fifths of a human at one point. Black people can't be racist. But yeah, so that happened there. Also, I mean, I mentioned earlier that taylor swift was there

she was in versace in case she got scared did you talk about travis kelsey looking like a whole cracker i've been told y'all i ain't never seen that no more times you look mega white no he been stopped all that he's been giving the cop who turned the body cam off i've been told y'all that like i don't know what it is not like that last night he looked capital riot white so you don't you don't have his screen save anymore he was never my screen saver i just thought the man was fine but then he had the tims on he went back to his native nature and i was like whoa when he was had his tims on with the booty fade he was your screen saver he was just no shirt on he was your screen saver no wasn't his tims tie all the way up to the top though i don't remember i think so so that would have

never been on the back of my screen don't do me like that money don't change you it just magnifies who you are he had money back when he was cute with Kayla yeah but now he got a hundred million dollar podcast deal now he's mega white

now he get the bone cuts alright y'all so Angel Reese speaking of podcasts Angel Reese just dropped a podcast it's called Unapologetically Angel

and this is something that she drops episodes on every single Thursday she built this podcast Angel Reese just dropped a podcast. It's called Unapologetically Angel. And this is something that she drops episodes on every single Thursday. She built this podcast because she just wanted to expand her business brand and let people get to know her more outside of being an athlete. So the first episode dropped this week and she got into some things that have been trending around her in the news. She talked about the G Herbo situation. People thought that her and G Herbo might have been dating each other let's take a listen when i tell you like i can call g herbo to this day like that somebody that i can like if i ever need anything in chicago he told me from when i got drafted if i ever need anything in chicago he'll make sure i'm straight and it wasn't even off no like flirting or anything it was literally straight off like i got you sis like

making sure that you straight because i'm new to the city like chill as always very wholesome woman I am 6 3 and I think he is 5 10. I mean you see me in the car kissing this man So where do I even get that from that's somebody I can literally call like anytime that's like bro The short-samming was unnecessary and Gio was not short, but he's short to injuries down the nest No shirt Kings over here, baby She put on her heels that's gonna look like her son But he's short to Andrew Reese. That was unnecessary. Andrew Reese said, no shirt kings over here, baby. He's a giant to you. No, because you got to think about it. When she put on her heels, that's going to look like her son.

Don't nobody want that? That's triggering to show. Very unnecessary. It's very triggering. Oh, is it triggering? Yes, he's short. He's a little guy. Is it?

But I do want everybody to grow up. My greatest relationship. Don't let her be sitting on the seat, any seat above him. Now she looking down on him. That's disrespectful. She's going to be looking down on him at least he we got jumped to get on the bed wow he's five ten cut it out my greatest relationship i'm talking about you huh you jumped to get on your bed it ain't got nothing to do with me on my back my greatest

relationship are your feet swinging all with women okay my best friends in life are women why do people believe that just because a person of the opposite sex is with another person of the opposite sex that they gotta be having something going on it's just the way this conversation last night i feel like it's a very immature way of thinking to think that just because a man and a woman are friends they have to have some sort of like attraction or whatever like i have friends like my brothers shout out to carmen and jordan literally they're my brothers like it that it's like oh i would never even they would never even like that's like always the thing but i mean a bunch of women friends that okay but we don't even care but yeah we hear that all the time g herbo though it kind of puts itself in situations sometimes where like people are questioning his relationship statuses

and then um angel reese we don't really always know her situation she's in and out a different situation she's new to the city so seeing them randomly at night in the car together it's like whoa like it wasn't no whoa it meant nothing it meant nothing but when I saw it I was like hold on what's going on yeah meanwhile two guys be together smelling like whole butt sex and y'all don't think nothing of it what they call me and you gay all the time that's cause the way you act no that's of the way you act. No, that's because of the way you act. It's the way you smell.

Why it can't be a we? See what I'm saying? We-we. We-we. We-we. Oh, my goodness. Y'all play too much. But she also got into conversations around Kaitlyn Clark.

And y'all know, anytime Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese are in the same conversation, people go crazy. But she addressed some of the, like, rah-rah around their whole situation. Let's a listen kaylin is an amazing player and i've always thought she was amazing but we've been playing each other since high school so i think it's really just the fans that are like they ride for her and i and i respect that respectfully

um i think there's a lot of racism when it comes to it and i don't believe she stands on any of that but when it comes to death threats like i'm talking about people have come down to my address no like it's come down to that multiple occasions people have made ai pictures of me like naked it sucks to see that and it's it's really hard that i have to go through that and now seeing other players even having to go through that but like at the end of the day it's a game that we do with love but there is no hate no hate we're gonna play on the same team one day i'm sure they can't play on the same team i don't think that they can play on the same team why does she say that i don't know because they they they don't need to play they're two big stars an olympic team or something like that i don't think they're playing the same spot in the

wmba that would make sense but not greatest coach of all going today by the way caitlyn clark versus andrew recent what people don't realize, and the homie Carrie Champion pointed this out because she has a great podcast coming out called The Making of a Rivalry, Caitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. It comes out September 9th

on the Black Effect iHeartRadio Podcast Network. But they need each other. That dynamic of Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese Yes, we just said that in the room. It's literally like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

Yes, sir. They came out of college the same year they had a rivalry in college. Angel Reese busted her ass in college. It came out of college the same year. They had a rivalry in college injuries. Busted her ass in college. It's made it to the pros. It's brought casuals to the game of the WNBA.

They need each other. Why did you say, why did she say that? What you mean? That they can be on the same team? Oh, they're playing on the same team. By the way,

is it because of all the back and forth they have? It just stirs things up. They need to battle each other. Yeah, I was about to say because I think all the back and forth is have it just stirs things up no it's like they need to battle each other yeah i was gonna say because i want to see that all the back and forth is it's just it's happy competition it's good it's the energy like you know i'm here for it but i want to say she needs to get like registered to carry because somebody pop up at your house is that's a crazy that's no you don't do that you don't go to people's houses that's insane i agree so stay safe but yeah check

her podcast out every Thursday. That's it. All right. Well, that's just with the mess with Lauren La Rosa. All right. Now, Charlemagne. Yes. Who are you giving that donkey to?

Four after the hour is donkey of the day. I might call an audible, though. Let me think about it. We'll come back in a second. All right. Give me one second to think about it. All right. It's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Some donkey of the day just saw themselves. I've been a fake ass Charlamagne Some donkey today just saw themselves I've been watching you Charlamagne, I was ready for you I never heard of a donkey the other day, what is it? Say it again Charlamagne Yes, you are a donkey Everything that Charlamagne is saying is true

Okay guys and gals, I apologize I don't. I'll show you how to act about it. Everything that Charlamagne's saying is true. Okay, guys and gals. I apologize. I want to call an audible today. I just want to tell y'all something real quick. LL Cool J. James Todd Smith. Yes.

Released his 14th album today. The Force. That's right. This man is celebrating. Wait, what's his name? James Todd Smith. I've never known that. I hate young people. I've never even thought about it.

Wow. Jesus Christ, Lauren. Wow. This man is celebrating 40 years in hip hop. Okay, he hasn't put out an album in 11 years. And I know I usually do Donkey of the Day here, but I feel like today I need to preempt Donkey of the Day to give us more time to celebrate and speak to the icon living LL Cool J because he is here this hour. That's right.

And we really have to start celebrating folks while they are alive. Correct. So let's get into our conversation with LL Cool J because he is here this hour. That's right. And we really have to start celebrating folks while they are alive. Correct. So let's get into our conversation with LL Cool J, the fourth album out now. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. Jess is on maternity leave. And we got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed.

The icon, the legend. Queens gets the money. LL Cool J. What's going on, baby? How you feeling? Feeling great, man. LL always got action hero, superhero energy when he walk in the room. Right? Yeah. Goodbye, yo.

I mean, I feel like right now, I mean, this is like the good energy. You know what I'm saying? Like the year 40. You know what I'm saying? And we having a conversation about my new album. That's a really unique position. You know what I'm saying? So it's like. Never been done before. Yeah, no, that's a really unique position. You know what I'm saying? Never been done before.

Yeah, no, that's never been done. And it shows us that it's possible, right? Even more importantly, it just shows younger generation and new artists as they, you know, are working on their careers and as they embark on what's possible. You know what I'm saying?

That we can continue to operate at a high level. You know what I'm saying? And do things that are important culturally. And I just, I'm glad that I can set that example. How has it been being back on the road on these promo tours doing interviews how does it feel just to be be out here because you're running like a new artist like you're doing everything I'm like you running I'm like you ain't tired no no I've been tired for 30 years

you kidding me I work hard but um you know what it feels like it feels like you know in a lot of ways I am a new artist you know because there's a day one audience that grew up with me and then there's an audience that knows me for all of the other things I've done but don't really aren't as familiar with my music when it comes to me like directly drop some records So it's it feels great man. It feels fun. I'm just having a good time with it You know I'm saying like it's exciting to me You know and I think you being back out here, it shows people the reverence individuals have for you. Because everybody got an LL story. Like, we had Ed Love up here.

Ed Love was like, he wanted to be a rapper until he heard you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's when he put the microphone down. That's funny. That's funny. Now, Ed, man, Ed, I remember he was at my high school, security. But I would say what it does for me is it gives me reverence for the culture. You know what I'm saying?

It makes me revere hip-hop. It makes me more excited about what's in store for hip-hop and what's possible for hip-hop. There's so many amazing artists out here doing so many great things, and it's wonderful to be able to show them what's possible. You know what I'm saying? That, for me, is the really exciting part of it because we're just so used to we've grown so accustomed to like writing people off after a certain right you know amount of time it's beautiful to be able to say no you can continue it doesn't and you don't have to pretend you're in year three when you're in year 40 you can actually be go ahead were you nervous about that

because you know in hip-hop it seems like definitely hip-hop they try to put you in a box right yeah what they're saying even though you got music now they'd be like oh well you can't play on this station because he's more of a urban ac artist but with you i don't i haven't seen that i've seen you you know you're on every station it's not just the the older quote-unquote older station yeah well you know what it is man is you know you have a responsibility as an artist sonically you know at the end of the day it's about what when they press play, what do they hear? Like, we could talk about Google. We could talk about Wikipedia.

We could talk about your resume and your plaques on the wall. Oh, that's great. Awards, Hall of Fame, sounds great. But when they press play, it's like when you're on the basketball court, can you deliver, right? You know, LeBron can still deliver. And yeah, he doesn't have to be in year five.

He can be in year 21 and deliver. So can LL sonically deliver? Like, it's the idea of LeBron can still deliver. And yeah, he doesn't have to be in year five. He can be in year 21 and deliver. So can LL sonically deliver? Like it's the idea of LeBron in sports, but it takes twice as long because it's art. So instead of 21 years, it's 40. But the reality is it's the same idea of can you deliver on the court? So to answer that question, that's about the sonics. It's about making joints that you love and people can appreciate. You know what I'm saying?

Everybody's not going to love everything. But if you can create stuff that people appreciate, you know what I mean? Go get it. This album is dropping on Def Jam, which is where everything started for you. A few years ago, I don't know where you were mentally about just making music and putting music out, but could you have planned this any better? What's that feeling like? Kind of like the full circle moment.

Well, it's more than a full circle moment, right? Because I was the first artist on Def Jam, and we launched the label together you know teela rockhead is yours yeah that's what i mean is like you can't predict stuff like that you know you can't you can't listen listen god is great and it's um that type of timing you know being on def jam seeing the excitement in the building seeing the excitement in all of the people's eyes that work at the company you know and even the support from Virgin and Republican the way they all are rallying behind this project to make sure that it's seen and heard and gets an opportunity to be listened to by people is amazing it feels like winning you know I'm saying in the best sense of the word does Ella know what losing is like because you said it feels like winning but

like I don't even have you ever lost a fistfight have you ever lost no way in life no i haven't but and i and i hopefully i'd like to i just want to keep getting my floyd on and for the record for the record i'm not trying to talk tough because i want to go through a walkthrough you can go outside let.A. real quick. I don't want no problem. They trying to TikTok viral you? Yeah, yeah. Because you know that's what they be on there. Well, be careful because it can go wrong for you, too. You know, you might go viral. You know what I'm saying?

Don't leave me alone. I ain't trying to play tough guy. Now, we're doing this project, right? It's been 11 years. How did you attack it, right? Because you got Eminem on it. You got Saweetie on it. How did you attack it to say, you know what? I want to stick to stick to to who LL is but I still want to keep it young dope and

feeling good as well you know you know that that what you just said I didn't really think about young dope and feeling I thought about feeling good what I more thought about was what do I love and getting with Q-Tip Q-Tip is brilliant and Q-Tip is a is a genius and he's very creative and so the idea was just sonically doing something that moved the world and just made me respond you know i'm saying and i didn't do like i didn't put saweetie on the song because she's younger or put m on the song i put them on it because sonically they i felt they would sound good we felt they would sound good on the songs you know i mean so it was about the music it wasn't about stunt casting and then you know like i said man like stunt cast yeah you know what i'm saying you know what i'm saying lots of stunt casting and all that you know that's

tv l.o. yeah yeah no question yeah well well you know it's tv experience for sure right so it's like i just wanted to do something that people would just vibe off of, man. You know, like when you listen to the whole record front to back, you know, as a body. And I know we're going to cherry pick. And I know people pick songs and they go through that process. I can't tell people how to consume the music. But, you know, when you listen to it, you realize like we did everything purposely. I really wanted to get some kids who had never had an opportunity an opportunity.

So I got this kid, Don Pablito from south side queens and um shout out to him and uh mad squabbles from philly and jay sand from lafayette louisiana and put them on the song so that they can have an opportunity you keep your ear to this i remember one time before i don't know how you found those guys i remember one time hearing you say your favorite rapper at the moment was like peewee longwood yeah yeah yeah he was funny he was fun but i like a lot of different artists. Like, I listen to everything. You know, I was listening to the Young Nudie today. Then I was checking out, I like the Lil Durk thing, but I like the Cordae. And then, you know, you could, you know, flip it all the way to, I like some of what Glow

Real is doing. And, you know, some of them, hey, all of some of them records. You know, and I'm actually paying attention. You know what I'm saying? A hundred percent. All right. We got more with LL Cool J when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. them records and you know and um i'm actually paying attention you know i'm saying 100 all right we got more with ll cool j when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy jess hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club

lauren larosa is filling in for jess and we're still kicking it with ll you know what i meant to ask i was watching i i guess it came back up on social media it was a interview with jamie foxx they were talking about you know y'all and and your situation when y'all were shooting that movie. I was just curious. He's laughing funny. But now you got to clear up what actually happened. Because he said it didn't happen that way, that you didn't knock him out. But I wanted to know, could that happen now?

Because back then, I feel like... Whatever Jamie says happened is what happened. That's not what you really want to say, because I saw your face. You digressed a bit. Yeah, I did. Whatever Jamie says happened is what happened. No's not what you really want to say because I saw your face. You digressed a bit. Yeah, I did. Whatever Jamie says happens is what happens. No disrespect to Jamie at all.

That's my dude. I'm just saying that when somebody says nah, he knocked me out, he beat the shit out of me. That means that means that's not what I really did.

I ain't got to prove nothing. Yo, yo. Whatever Jamie said happened, happened. That was a long time ago. Damn. It just came back up. I wanted to know

could that happen on movie sets now? Or is it too protective? Because now it seems like if any little thing happens, you're going to human resources. Well, you're going to human resources if you get a hangnail and you express it wrong. I mean, you triggered me. You know, so I mean, it's triggering. Everything's triggering. Back in the day, triggering was the trigger.

Now the trigger's like, you know. You're being hanged up. I'm triggering. Exactly. Cut it out. Exactly. You got blue on. Does that mean you hate red? You know, like, you know. How does that affect the industry? Outside of, of course, the Me Too movement, but how does that affect

because... Bro, you gotta mind your business. You can't get your creative juices, like... No, you get your creative juices, you better just keep, make sure they don't get on nobody else. Y'all better relax, fucking juices. Yeah, them juices. No, you get your creative juices. You better just keep making sure they don't get on nobody else. Y'all better relax on them juices. Yeah, them juices. You better be real easy

with them juices, bro. Be easy with them juices. You know what I mean? No doubt. You know, we had MC Lighthead. She said, you're the reason

she decided to put out a new album. Oh, word. Really? That's what she said when she was here. And you haven't put out an album in 10 years. But you out a new album. Oh, word. Yeah. Really? That's what she said when she was here. Huh. And you haven't put out an album in 10 years.

But you got a new album coming out called 101. Yeah. And why are you getting back into this crazy game? LL challenged me. Really? Yeah. We did a fireside chat with him. And in the midst of it, he says, I'm putting out new music.

I was like, oh, that's crazy. He said, when are you putting out music? And I was like, well, I don't know. He's like, stop being scared. I was like, scared? It's true's great he said when you putting out music and i was like well i i don't know he's like stop being scared i was like scared once he said that and i was like okay i gotta get to it i love that how did that feel to still be inspiring on i love it man listen you can't be scary man there's always gonna be great acts of course there's gonna be new artists of course times are gonna change of course there's gonna be generational changes that comes with the territory but that that's the opportunity for us to prove that we was born to do this.

You know what I'm saying? You don't stop doing it because times change. You know what I'm saying? You need your shorts to be a little longer on the court or a little shorter. They change the rules on the touch fouls. You learn the rules of the game and the new rules and then play better than everybody else. You know what I'm saying? It's simple in the thought process.

You know what I'm saying? Now, obviously, executing it is not as easy. but it's simple when you make the decision you dig you never got nervous because you were probably one of the first artists that say you know what i'm gonna be very emotional on the record right i'm gonna say i need love i want a roundaway girl at the time when hip-hop was so focused on i'm the best and i'm what made you say you know what nah i'm gonna go f with the chicks over here i'm gonna let y'all do this i'll be back but i'm gonna go f with the chicks right here well i'll put it to you like this it's like a guy you know showing up to the projects to see a girl what does that say about him he really wants to see you he would like to girl and he

could fight or he's he's willing to risk it regardless of whatever he's willing to risk it right so me doing i need love on me doing these romance records that's because i wasn't scared not because i was soft i wasn't scared. Not because I was soft. I wasn't scared. That's why I could do that. You understand what I'm saying? So, like, you got to, like, sometimes people, they misconstrue. It's like the guys that I meet, they'll be the nicest guys in the world.

The toughest guys I know and the toughest guys I've known growing up have been, like, some of the nicest guys. The most dangerous guys I've known have been some of the nicest guys. You came up with some killers. man absolutely so so it's like with with the with the with the music it was it wasn't about trying to have an image it was about what i want to do as an artist period what do you want to say as an artist what do you want to do as an artist that's what i'm going to do you know peer pressure makes me laugh he's like really, really? It's like, yo, you do what you want to do, man. Like, I do what I want to do creatively, not what people say I'm supposed to do. Right?

Because, you know, a lot of times what people want, like right now, they're like, oh, you're supposed to sit down. Like, you have people like they're on the Internet. Oh, how can you have the whips and chains and this and that in the video? Because people are freaks. And that really goes on. And I know you want to pretend that everybody's like having, you know, missionary with a sheep.

But I got news for you. There's some freaky stuff going on out there. And I'm rapping about it. I remember you pouring the chocolate syrup on the girls' kneecaps in broad daylight on Jamaica Avenue. Yo, he was a dude. On the hood of a car.

Absolutely, bro. Absolutely wilding out. all day in broad daylight on Jamaica Avenue on the hood of a car absolutely bro absolutely wilding out completely out of control who says like yo we need to sit right here

and pour the chocolate is that you he said me I said it got you okay heard you Lauren

put her in the car put her right here cross your legs yup you like that you like that don't you yeah

got you okay alright see no directors cut oh no no heard you that ain't even the wildest one You like that? You like that, don't you? Gotcha. Okay. All right. See? No director's cut. Oh, no, no. I heard you.

That ain't even the wildest one. One of the wildest ones is the most subtle one. Which one? In the doing it video. The way you bite the apple. We know that video. The girl was the best apple in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Show them that you really are auntie. Yo, but I love that, yo. You know what, man? I got to tell you, yo but I love that yo you know what man I gotta tell you man I love doing funny stuff like that and ridiculous like I had jeans on

in the Paradise video in the water I know that that's right like but what's funny is that what's funny is people will point it out

to you like I didn't know I did like you do know I filmed that right like you do know that I know what I'm

you know what I mean? Let's have some fun with it. But a lot of that stuff became fashion, like the one leg up. Yeah, I got that from the bike messengers in New York. Yeah, because the bike messengers be riding around. Think about it. They be in the city. They have their pants leg up because they don't want to get in the chain of the bike.

I saw that one day. I pulled my joint up. I'm like, yo, this is a vibe. I start wearing my joint like that. One leg. We all did. Everybody started wearing my joint like that. I said, yo, this is a vibe. I start wearing my joint like that. We all did. I start wearing my joint like that. I said, yo, this is cool.

You know what I'm saying? Like, I love the idea of just having fun, not taking it too serious. There's a time to be serious. The time to be serious is when you're going after your goals. The time to be serious is when you have dreams. The time to be serious is when you're dealing with frustration, but you want to take it to the next level and fight through it. Right. But the other side of it is when I'm making music, I want to be serious is when you're dealing with frustration, but you want to take it to the next level and fight through it. Right.

But the other side of it is, when I'm making music, I want to be silly. And I want to do stuff that's ridiculous. And I want to do stuff where we can laugh about it. You know what I'm saying? Like, let's have some fun with it. You just grabbed a woman's leg and started playing the guitar. Absolutely, bro. Absolutely.

Absolutely. That was on YouTube? Oh, on me, baby. all me baby all me all me you know all right we got more with ll when we come back let's get into a mini mix it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with ll what's going on baby how much did you lose to do this album because you had to put a lot of focus i'm sure you put acting stuff to the back i'm sure you put a lot of the other stuff to the back how much did you lose to actually i only only gained. I gained fulfillment, inspiration.

I was able to take time out of my life to focus on the thing that I love the most. And when you put your energy into what you love and you truly believe you was born to do it, you never lose. There's no way to lose. I already won. Like, you see what I'm saying?

Because I love it, dog. Okay, I'll give you an example. May he rest in power someone like fat man school rest in peace the joy that you bring to people through your music is incalculable and look I got money I'm a wealthy guy people really put a lot of emphasis on money money money money money and status status status status status and I get it image is important people I get it but what people don't put enough value on is the joy of life and living well and having a good time and enjoying what you're doing. And

that means something. That's a different type of wealth. If you can find that joy in your life, in your career, and you can find that joy in other areas of your life, that's a true, beautiful thing. So I didn't lose nothing. Like all of the money comes, all of the fame and the full, all that stuff comes. But you still got to enjoy the moment for the moment's sake. That's right. You know what I mean? Going back to the fashion stuff, the FUBU hat in the Gap commercial. Yeah.

What was your thought process behind that? Or was that even intentional? Like what was the... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so talk us through that decision to do that in that day. I felt like we needed that exposure. They needed that exposure. And you're a huge company, and it's not going to hurt you.

And I'm going to give you what you need, but you're going to give me what I need. And it's win-win. And nobody gets hurt. It ended up, at that time, taking FUBU to $400 million a year and... Increased the audience by 300%. I mean, and that's what i'm supposed to do you know when you roll with somebody you roll with people there was no push back on the set from the yeah there was there was they was like oh you know the hat and this i said no i'm an owner so i can clear

it oh you said nobody gets hurt and everybody was like okay absolutely yeah yeah yeah and i'm an owner and this is it and boom you were the owner of football ofUBU? Of course. I don't think I ever knew that. I thought you just did it because you rocked with them. I mean, of course you rocked with them but I didn't know. When you even just said that I thought that was just you like

they were going to listen to you anyway. I never thought you were holding me down because you was from Queens. I was. And they was holding me down because I was from Queens too. We was holding each other up. Are you kidding me?

Let's talk through that. So at what point did you become an owner of FUBU and why haven't we heard more? I never heard this. Because, well me let's talk through that so at what point did you become an owner of fubu and why why haven't we heard more i didn't i never heard because well what's funny is that i just didn't really talk about that because it wasn't important so i don't need to tell you about my business life in order to impress you yes i invest yes i have different things i've done but i like making music like i'm good with that i wanted to ask you about something you said on club shea shea because you got i don't know why but you got so much flack for your def jam mount rushmore

right yeah and i feel like nobody can debate you on that except for russell except for rick except for chuck d and maybe the other people on that you named yeah i just wanted to know why slick rick i love slick rick but i just want to know from you why did you put him on because they were mad at slick rick being on look they were just mad the whole list well they were mad because they don't they don't understand they they want me to talk about skin and and lips and hair but they want me to ignore the bones you know i'm saying i gave them the bones of the label they want to talk to me about cosmetics but guess what i don't care how you look you can get 14 bbls 35 lip injections but if you don't have no you look. You can get 14 BBLs, 35 lip injections, but if you don't have no bones,

you're going to be a pile of flesh over there on the floor. So that's the way I make, that's how I built my Mount Rushmore. So when I said Beastie Boys and myself and Public Enemy and Slick Rick, that's because that is the foundation and the bones of the company. I didn't say that they were the most famous. I didn't say they sold the most records.

I didn't say any of that. But you wouldn't have any of that if you didn't have these these people finally that was my point and when we talk about writing i wanted to ask how much how much do you think biggie and jay contributed to people not taking writing as serious because both of them said they didn't write and i saw you i saw you having a conversation on sway about big well look well big look biggie's my man and i love big you know sometimes and look everybody's different everybody's process is different right like some people they just you know got a bunch of rhymes that they wrote at home and they just remember them and then they just got something for the beat so you don't have to see me necessarily

see me right to me that doesn't mean i didn't write what i'm not gonna do is say anything that will go against with somebody how someone wanted their career to be laid out. But I'll say this. Ultimately, it's about the song. Period. Whether you write it in your mind, whether you memorize it. The skill is not in how you get there. The skill is in how the song affects the world.

So whether you write it on paper, a phone, in your head that it doesn't matter what how does it affect people did the ball go in the basket like i've seen dudes right and i've seen dudes you know come off the top i mean whatever you know i'm saying i don't i what i would say though is that these guys are legitimately talented enough some of them to do that that doesn't mean you necessarily need to be doing that. You might need a pen and pad. You might want a pen and pad and do some editing.

Ernest Hemingway editing, bro. Like, it's all right. And you was on the shop, and you was talking about Andre 3000 saying he didn't want to rap again because he said he didn't have anything to rap about. Yeah.

And so Andre responded to that and said, if you can, you should rap until you die of course he has things to say but if he can't say it in a fresh innovative way then it's not enough for him to do it and i respect that i respect that i respect that and you know in that in that sense i would agree that's what i look to do on my new record right like on the force like say it in a fresh innovative way he's talking about not repeating flow look he's one of the greats he's unbelievable. I'm thoroughly impressed

with Andre. And the only reason I even said anything is because I like him so much as an artist, I'd love to hear him again. I just miss hearing the guy. I want to hear Outkast. Personally, I would love to hear Outkast's album. I don't know about the world, but I would want to hear that. But I do respect

his feelings, and I cannot speak to his artistry. You know what to his artistry You know what I'm saying You know what I'm saying The album is out today It's called Force We appreciate you for joining us LL The Breakfast Club

Morning everybody It's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa's filling in for Jess. And it's time for Pass the Aux. What's up, Nyla? Big Nyla. Hello. NYLA, DJ, come spin, now come spin. What's up, Nyla? Big Nyla.

Hello. Good morning. Hi, guys. We were just out the country. We came back from all the travels. Yes. No. How was that?

Brazil was crazy. You loved it? Yes. Yo. Loved everything about it. Rhapsody is an amazing performer, by the way. So happy I got to tour her. I had a really great experience watching her

live. People definitely need to go and see that. Like if you're a real rap fan. Natalie Rafferty is a tour DJ. That's right.

Yeah if you really like rap music that's the type of show you want to be at. I love the fact that I can get off a good hip hop set. Dope.

Like it's hard to do sometimes but that was a demo. In other countries they love hip hop. I feel like and respect hip hop a lot more than we do here. They do. They've thrown up the woo. There other countries, they love hip-hop, I feel like, and respect hip-hop a lot more than we do here.

They do. They were throwing up the woo. They was mosh-pitting during her set. Like, it was phenomenal. I had a great time. Make sure you guys get tickets to go

see Rhapsody. Please don't cry to her. She's coming to America after Europe, but... Are you saying that you can't get your fire Bow Wow mix off here? It ain't a Bow Wow.

Don't play with me. Why are you doing that to me? What's wrong with Bow Wow? Which, by the way, no, I have a great... What have his do-rags ever done to you? That's what I'm saying.

So they appreciate Bow Wow more in Brazil than they do in Brazil. I'm not talking about Bow Wow. I'm talking about real hip-hop mixes. Wow. Bow Wow is not real hip-hop.

Wow. I meant, I meant, I meant, like, 90s hip-hop. Bow Wow is 90s hip-hop too? Well, 2000s hip-hop. I listened to him when I was six. He was my favorite rapper.

The screams all raised you. Yeah, it did. But that's not what I was playing. That's like a millennial warm up set. But this was like I played. Soulja Boy. What else? Yo, I can't stand this guy.

Let's get the pass on. Let's get the pass on. All right, yeah. Today what we're playing is Victoria Monet to drop the new record with Usher called SOS and it's definitely a certified vibe fire that's dope that's fire salute to victoria monet that was but it's gonna be a lot of women sing that song they don't need to okay oh well i mean that happens now already it does but shout out to victoria monet she's having an amazing year jaguar 2 is still in heavy rotation

for me so i'm a fan next i'm gonna get into this i know big sean's project dropped last week but i didn't get to mention anything um but my favorite record on there is who you are one of my favorite records off that album yo why i don't know i just always felt like big sean's stuff just doesn't get the uh that it needs like it just came and went i just think he came at a wrong time. But it did come out last week. Okay, so... I see what you're... I understand what you're saying.

It just came out last week. But there should be more conversation around it. The songs are great and it's not happening. She's right. That is the era that we live in. Don't blame that on just Big Sean. I didn't blame it on Big Sean. I asked the question to the right.

Everything comes and goes nowadays, sadly. Why? I do not know. Just the way this generation moves. News comes and goes. Music comes and goes. Y' I do not know just the way this generation moves news comes and goes music comes and goes y'all don't stick to nothing but artists like

Big Sean shouldn't come and go I agree with the other Big Sean what did he do first week I don't think he did that well I think like 20 something thousand

like yeah but that's like I mean a lot of people don't different when it comes to the Big Sean thing I just don't think he's a media darling

oh okay I think Rapsody's album was great. That shit wasn't talked about in the news. Still one of the best albums that dropped this year. Big Sean's album dropped. All right, it got talked about for a day and then it moved on. I think he's right. That's what happens with everything.

Unless you're a media darling. Unless you're just one of the things that the blogs likes to pick up and talk about. Yo, Travis Scott sold 361,000 records last week and y'all ain't talking about it yeah but like travis scott is like like what one of the biggest stars in the world yeah but i'm just he sold 361 000 copies it was number two by 600 albums i think it was right i heard you mentioned it all week la Lauren. I didn't. Exactly. Don't blame us on big shots. You're part of the problem. It's your generation.

I ain't gonna say it. Why you always blaming yourself on our generation? You so old and angry. Are your feet swinging right now? I'm just telling you the truth. You know why? Because be the change you want to see in the world. If you want things to last, if you want things to have staying power,

use your platform. Now I'm looking at the man in the mirror. If you want things to last, if you want things to have staying power, use your platform. Well, now I'm looking at the man in the back. Leave me alone. That's me. We're here on Pass the Ox talking about Big Sean's album because it's a great album.

Make sure you guys tap in. That's why we're here talking about Rafferty's album. That's right. Make sure you get tickets to the Please Don't Cry tour. That is a change I want to see. Yeah, period.

All right. And then, of course, the Victoria Monet. But I'm going to get into this new A$AP Rocky featuring J. Cole that everybody keeps talking about. Ruby Rosary. I don't know. I thought he was going to play the Drake diss part.

He diss Drake? Yeah. But that wasn't the part that he did. Are you making this up? No. That was the headline. What did he say about Drake? J. Cole better not be dissing nobody.

No, no, no. Not J. Cole. A$AP Rocky. It's Rocky's record. Okay, okay, no. Not J. Cole. ASAP Rocky. It's Rocky's record. Okay, okay. What'd he say, though? Even though y'all saw that Champagne Papi posted a picture of Cole. It was like, thank you for inspiring us for all these years.

I don't know what the subliminal is. That was after this record dropped. But cut the shit. Cut the lies. Words to the wise. Who's in top five? Ha ha. F*** your top five.

I don't get fresh step. F***, I'm buried alive. I heard dog talking funny like it's family guy. Caring for n***as like I'm Mary or Bob. Made a promise to God, gotta strive when you marry the mob. How's that a drink, this? F***, top five. F***, I'm buried alive.

You got a record called Buried Alive. Look, you thought you was about to eat that. I mean, it sound like he dissing the whole top five. But you said F your top five. But we know who he's shooting at. I mean, but Cole's on the record, too. So it's obviously not the whole top five. Yeah, we know who he's shooting at. do it all the time look i don't know i don't know either i think y'all just be making up generation i'm not just talking about y'all it's just a whole cycle of people like the way people's

minds work is just weird well he said f your top five so your top five must be drake drake drake drake and drake that's most people eli oh god we got him right here in the office look his hands up right now all right pass the aux come on yeah make sure you guys uh follow me on the gram at nyla simone n-y-l-a-s-y-m-o-n-e-e-e check out these brazil photos they're fire check out my playlist um by clicking the link in bio at it's a certified vibe and make sure you guys tap into my podcast we need to talk i got a really really dope episode dropping on sunday with victoria monet so tap in all right now when we come back are we gonna throw it back we throw it back each and and every Friday with the People's Choice Mix. And today we're going to get on your favorite Rich Homie Quan record, of course. Rest in peace. So we're going to kick off the mix like that. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, Laura LaRose is filling in for Jess. Now, we got a salute to LL Cool J for joining us this morning. Man, salute to the good brother, LL Cool J. Also, salute to Kevin Hart and Will Packer. That's right. You know, we didn't do Donkey at a Day to Day because I wanted to properly celebrate LL Cool J, man. His 14th album dropped today. The Force.

He's celebrating 40 years in hip-hop. 40 years of hip-hop 40 years of def jam and so you know you just gotta you gotta celebrate people while they still here man you know so we wanted to pay homage to the icon living in a real way so salute to the good brother ll cool jay that is right all right when we come back we got the positive hold on i gotta tell people about something man my my fourth annual mental wealth expo is happening october 12th at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. OK, man, it's going to be a day of mental health education and healing. If you've ever been to one of my mental wealth expos, you know, it's a free event.

We have some of your favorite psychiatrists and therapists and mental health experts will all be there. We got breakout rooms the way you can go learn about different things like black maternal health crisis. We actually have a breakout room called Me Eternal that's addressing the complexities of the black maternal health crisis. Dr. Alfie Breland Noble will be there. Dr. Rita Walker will be there. Dr. Jay Barnett will be there. My good sister Angela Rye will be there. My good brother, Jason Wilson, who wrote the fantastic book, Cry Like a Man, you know, he will be there as well. In fact, he will be there in conversation with Tyrese. You know, Tyrese was up here on Breakfast Club a couple of weeks ago, had a real vulnerable moment, and he expressed that black man cry. So I can't wait to see them together discussing just the

power of releasing. Dr. Sheyon Bryant, who you've been seeing go viral over the last couple of weeks for her interview with Cam Newton. She's on Basketball Wives. She'll be there as well, along with a whole host of other people. So MentalWealthExpo.com. The event is free and open to all ages. Discussing so many different topics. Anxiety, depression,tsd women's mental wellness men's mental wellness pull up man free event open to all ages october 12th go to mentalwealthexpo.com

for more details all right when we come back we got the positive notice the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy jess hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club lauren la rosa filling in for jess, a salute to one of our producers up here, Big Mac. Big Mac here. What up, Mac? You already know, for those of you that don't know, outside of Breakfast Club, I am on Wildin' Out. Yep.

And we got the tour right now. It's the last lap tour, so this might be the final Wildin' Out tour. Y'all say that every year, and then every year y'all go back on tour. Now, this is the real, you know, Nick got a lot of kids. Now, he got to be a father versus, you know, being on the road with us. So this might be the final lap. Okay. With the same.

So I just wanted to let everybody know you get your tickets at WildinOutLiveTour.com. We are in Orlando tomorrow. Okay, tomorrow. At the Kia Center. Okay. Nick got another baby on the way? No, no.

I said this is going to be the last tour because I think he might be done with having babies. So Orlando, WildinOut. Yep, WildinOut tomorrow, Kia Center. No, no. I said this is going to be the last tour because I think he might be done with having babies. Wilding out. Yep. Wilding out tomorrow. Kia Center. And then right after the tour is over, then I'm going to Disney and I'm getting on a small world because I feel like- You're not getting on nobody's small world.

I'm getting on a small world because I feel like it's super biased that it should be big and small world. I think that's like a felony or something. You should relax. Yeah, you're going to hurt everybody on there. They're not going to let you out. Don't take the joy away from them kids like that. We're going to figure that out. All my big bags, we're going to the Wild N Out tour,

and then we're going to It's a Small World together. And I hope the president of the Small World just stops all of y'all and says, hey, it's called It's a Small World. Emphasis on small. Well, we're going to change that. It's a new change. Big bag lives forever jesus fat lives matter well check out live tour.com check out big mac and orlando at the wild and out tour all right

now charlamagne you got a positive note i do and it comes from uh dr wayne w dyer man dr wayne w dyer i love him i love his books you should read the power and intention if you had haven't uh but dr wayne w dyer once said you may have convinced yourself that giving is impossible because you have too little for yourself if you are not generous when it is difficult you will not be generous when it is easy generosity is a function of the heart not the wallet remember that have a great day y'all breakfast club bitches you don't finish or y'all done